Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1893 — Page 2

I — ©he JMnorrat DECATUR, IND. a. BLACKBURN, ... Ptwir.ißHnn l Tim adding pig has been outdone by a B]>elling bee. If King Kalakaua were alive ho would call for another stack of chips and endeavor to regain his lost ground. When you are buying high-priced carpets do not forget that a combination of weaver and jacquard loom can turn out a flfty-yard roll of Brussels In one day. ! 1 ' A Texas editor wants a law passed compelling actors to wear clothes on the stage. It will be necessary first to provide against the numerous stage robberies for which the Lone Star State is notorious. An opera house and a church were destroyed on the same night by a fire at Purcell, in the Indian Territory. Those who are accustomed to draw morals from calamities of whatever kind will find an interesting puzzler In this one. Sixteen rebellious Indians captured by Mexican troops are to be subjected to rigid questioning and then shot. If the Indian character south of the Rio Grande is the same as on this side, time and annoyance ■would be saved by shooting the prisoners first. A tribe in Africa requires its public speakers to stand on one leg while engaged in discussion. Thus is our boasted civilization put to the blush by the savages of the dark continent. Their plan would spare the American people a vast amount of oratorical bloviating and buncombe. Most people think they should pay a good deal of attention to love as a sort of sacred thing. Bacon dismisses it with half a page, and says i| is a weak passion which no man of sense can afford to acknowledge; and one of the. most successful family magazines in the world will not allow the subject to be mentioned in its columns. Every breach of faith, every broken promise, every mean advantage taken, however small anti trifling each may appear, helps to build up the dishonesty which at some time, and by,some one, wrecks the happiness of multitudes and drags down the sinning one to degradation and sin. The honor of the country and • the integrity of the nation are in the bands of every citizen; each is responsible for his share in making or. in marring them. ... . ’ ' •: . / — In 1892 the raisin crop ofCalifoynia aßaouhted to 4?, 000,000 pounds, was about- equal to the consumption of the United States four or five years ago. The first 1,000 carloads sent East realized the raisers cents per pound. But, says the; San Francisco Examiner, owing to an overstock of the market and “insane competition” in November several hundred carloads of tile remainder were consigned to Eastern brokers, who in many cases loaned money thereon, and were sold at prices that would bring the grower about 1 cent per pound. A police judge of San Ffancisco has stipulated that in his court a woman must always be spoken of as a lady. A point in etiquette, backed by the dignity, of the bench, can ■only be ignored by those willing to run the risk of being in contempt. The saleslady has already won her place, with the kitchen lady a. good second and the scrublady a likely < candidate. To demand that a pofiefe- * man shall say, “Yer honer, I arrested this lady in Tar Flat howling drunk, f , and the court responds, “The lady fined $6,” does seem at first to W stretching politeness, but doubtless* ; the public can be educated up to it. „i AV hat in the mischief are we to eat nowadays? After listening to the Vegetarians, who say we shouldn’t eat meats, and to the sun ripeners, • who warn us against eating underground growths like potatoes and turnips, we hear the voice of another food reformer who says we mustn’t eat anything made of grain, such as wheat bread, corn dodgers, flapjacks, oat cak%s, peas-meal bannocks, or macaroni, all of which are hard of digestion and bad for the health. Go to grass, ye humbugs al], and herd with Nebuchadnezzar. Give us all things that are good, 1 wholesome, nourishing; tasteful, and' high-toned —such things as make a person feel happy and brave. 0 Give us a show. Let folks loose in the animal, vegetable, graminivorous, cocoanut, chest.nut, and apple-sass kingdoms. Poor old De Lesseps. That will be the verdict of the world. The feeble octogenarian was sentenced to be imprisoned five years and pay a fine of tl,ooo. His son was sentenced for the same term and his fine placed at <750. M. Fontaine and M. Cotter*received the same' penalties as the younger IBe Eesseps, an d~MTETffeI7*6T Eiffel tower fame, twq years and a fine of $4,000. It is almost to be hoped that M. de Lesseps’ mental condition is as feeble as has been reported, that he may not realize the disgrace that has clouded his brilliant career. Few will believe that he was crimipally guilty in the Panama scandal and all generous pereons will hope that the President of the republic may see bis way to the of executive clemency. As

tto the others, they harp made their beds and must lie tn them. A Michigan young woman was about to elope w'th a man whose u family could not afford to lose him. The woman was the ward of a trust • company, a dignified and responsible concern, that realized the necessity for prompt action. The woman > would not listen to reason, so the i trust company, with laudable zeal, hired a pugilist to waylay the man and beat into him a sense of his own un worth. The plan succeeded. The fellow got the best licking that muscular minion, anxious to earn his ; money, could devise. The scales fell from the woman’s eyes. She refused to fly with a battered cripple whose optics were blackened and nose awry. A trust that makes a specialty of moral reform deserves frequent dividends. The passage of a law last year in Massachusetts restricting the working hours of women and minors in manufacturing establishments to fifty-eight hours a week would, it was feared, place the manufacturers of that State at a disadvantage with those of other States. The apprehension was increased when the same wages were given for fifty-eight as for sixty hours of labor. But as it turned out this move on the part of Massachusetts has been an incentive to other States to take like action. The New Hampshire Legislature has just passed a law exactly similar in its terms, and the large Lewiston Mills in Maine.have ipereased wages to a point where the cost of production will be equal to the short hour production in Massachusetts. This result is encouraging, as it shows that efforts to Improve the condition of the workingman in one State are pretty sure to be seconded elsewhere. The frequency with which the courts set aside the wßls made by lawyers of repute disposing of their own property suggests to laymen the expediency of having their testaments drawn by those who are not l members of the legal profession. Samuel J. Tilden was regarded in /life as the most astute lawyer in New York, but he was unable to draw a will for himself that would stand the scrutiny of the courts. The late Senator McDonald was also one of the foremost men in his profession, but it seems from the pending contention that he too was incapable of framing a valid will. As a shoemaker's children are always the worst shod of their companions, so a lawyer’s heirs are always most perplexed and in contention over his work. Wealthy lawyers will hereafter, if they are wise, hesitate to undertake the task of apportioning their property amony their legal heirs. There will be less trouble in disposing of their possessions if they die intestate than if they leave a will lacking in the perspicuity which should characterize aH'iestafments. A favorite drink in Hawaii is known as ,the “poi cocktail.” It is • made by stirring poi into a glass of milk. An American who has tried it says there is nothing like a poi cocktail for the “head” that follows a prolonged spree. “When the stomach absolutely refuses anything known to civilization,” he writes, glowingly, “when the throat is dry ■ and burning, the voice husky, the ■ temple throbbing and the hands shaking,” the cocktail is swallowed and is “almost instantly assimilated.” “A-ddiciotis feeling of calm and rest steals over the patient. * * * The , throat becomes once more of flesh instead of fire and the head ceases to ache. In fifteen minutes he is ready , for another spree.” With the aid of the poi cocktail, then, a man of average capacity, with free access to spreeproducing beverages of the necessary strength, and the disposition to imbibe them, can indulge in thirteen and one-third separate* and distinct jags every working day of ten hours. This computation allows him thirty minutes for getting drunk and fifteen . minutes for sobering off. An experienced rounder will testify that in many cases a quarter of an hour’s indulgence in whisky and beer or whisky and hard cider will develop a fullgrown drunk, but with a view to greater scientific exactness we hqve made half an hour the basis of calculation. The result is simply appalling. By devoting eight hours of the twenty-four to sleep a determined debauchee can' crowd twenty-one sprees into one day and still have fifteen minutes left-for indulging in free lunches. The poi cocktail is the worst enemy to sobriety ever discovered.' It is the most potent jag-pro-moter yet devised by the ingenuity of man. Away with it! JA ' 1 • ' A Dog Story. John Christ, of Shamokin, Pa., owned a dog which was getting old and had outlived its usefulness. In order to rid the animal of its suffering without much pain he bethought himself of dynamite. He bound the dog to a tree in the, yard, the dynamite was attached, and, after applying a match to the fuse, the owner made haste to get out of the way. He started for the kitchen, but the dog broke loose and started in pursuit. Both crossed the- threshold of the door when an explosion occurred. The dog was blown to fragments, ; while Christ, strange to say, escaped without a scratch. 1— —■ > Mutton and Beef. 1 It has sometimes been argued that . mutton is not as apt to induce flesh , as beef, while it contributes equally toward making muscle, and for this ' reason some professional trainers pre--1 fer it for diet. Certain it is that the e Scotch, who are a nation of muttoneaters, are famous for their brawn f and muscle, while the English, who e are beef-eaters, are apt, while muss cular, to lie rotund in figure. I

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. “AS a hen cathereth her CHICKENS.” Text of Dr. Talmage's Sunday Morning Discourse—lie Complaint That Certain Advertisers Have Been Using HU Name Without Authority. At the Taborhbole. Previous to the sermon in the ’Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday morning Rev. Dr. lalmagc, in giving out a number of notices, dwelt upon the fact that.certain picture makers of Brooklyn had used his name as a reference In their advertisements and circulars without his authority. Thousands of letters of complaint have come to hi in in this respect, and he wanted it distinctly understood tnat he know nothing of those people or their business methods. The text selected for the morning sermon was Matthew xxili, 37, “As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and yet ye would not.” Why Tills Simile? Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 700 feet. The splendors of the religious • capital of the whole earth irradiated the landscape. There Is the temple. Yonder Is the king’s palace. Spread out before his eyes are the pomp, the wealth, , the wickedness, and the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and he burst into tears at the thought of the obduracy of a place that he would gladly have saved, and apostrophizes, saying, “O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would 1 have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and yp would noli” Why did Christ se ect hen and chickens as a simile? Next to the appositeness of the comparison I think it was to help alt public teachers in the matter of illustration to get down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can understand.’ The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only adornments are the red comb in its headdress and the wattles under the throat. It has no gran-' deur of genealogy. All we know is that its ancestors came from India, some ot them from a height of 4,000 feet on the sides of the Himalayas. It has no pretension of nest like the eagle’s eyrie. It has no luster of plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing anatomy that allows flight, vet about the last thing it wants to do is to fly, and in retreat uses foot' almost as much as wing. Musicians have written ont in musical scale the song of lark and robin redbreast and nightingale, yet the hen of my text hath nothing that could be taken for a Song, but only cluck and cackle. Yet Christ in the text, uttered whije looking at doomed Jerusalem, declares that what He had wished for that city was like what the hen does for her chickens. Christ was thus simple in His teachings, and yet how hard it is for us, who are Sunday-school instructors and editors and preachers and reformers and those who would gain the ears Os audiences, to attain that heavenly and divine art of simplicity. We have to run a course of literary dlsrorders as children a course of physical disorders. We come out of school and college loaded down with Greek mythologies, and out of the theological seminaries weighed down with what the learuep fathers said, and we fly with wings of eaglesand flamingoes and albatrosses, and it takes a good while before we cab comedown to Christ’s similitudes, the canale under the bushel, the salt thait' has lost its savor, the net thrown into' the sea, the spittle on the eyes of > the blind man and the hen and chickens. 1 There is not much poetry about th|s winged creature of God mentioned in my text, but she is more practical and mofd motherly and more suggestive of godd things than many that fly higher and’ wear brighter colors. She is not a prlma 1 ‘donna of the sides nor a strut of beauty in the aisles of the forest She does not cut a circle under the sun like the Rocky Mountain eagle, but stays at home to look after family affairs. She does not swoop like the condor of the Cordilleras to transport a ranbit frogn the valley to the top of the crags, but just scratches for a living. How vigorously with her claws she pulls away the ground to bring up what is hidden beneath! When the breakfast or dining hour arrives, she begins to prepare the repast and .calls all her young to partake. The Hen as a Type. lam in sympathy with the unpretentious, bld fashioned hen, because, like most of us, she has to scratch for a living. She knows at the start the lesson which most people of good sense are slow to learn—that the gaining of a livelihood implies work, and that successes do not lie upon the surface, but are to be upturned by positive anfi continuous effort. The reason that society, and the church and the world ' are so full of failures, so full of loafers, so full of dead beats, is because •people are not wise enough to take ‘ the lesson which any hen would teach them —that if they would find for themselves and for those dependent upon them anything worth having they must scratch for it Solomon said, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard.” I say, Go to the hen, thou sluggard. In the Old Testament God compares Himself to an eagle stirring up her nest, and in the New Testament the Holy Spirit'is compared to a descending dove, but Christ in a sermon that begins with biting sarcasm for hypocrites and ends with the paroxysm of pathoi in the text, compares Himself to a hen. One day in the country we saw sudden consternation in the behavior of old Dominick. Why the hen should be so disturbed we could not understand. We looked about to see if a neighbor’s dog were Invading the farm. We looked up to see if a stormcloud were hoverinc. We could see nothing on the ground that equid terrorize, and we could see nothing in the air to ruffle the feathers of the hen, but the loud, wild, affrighted chuck which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers made us look again around us and above us, when wo saw that high up and far away there was a rapacious bird wheeling around and around, and down and down, and not seeing us as we stood in the shadow it came nearer and lower until we saw its beak was curved from base to tip, and it had two flames of fire for eyes, and it was a bawg. But all the chickens were under old Dominick’s wings, and either the bird of prey caught a glimpse of us, or not able to find the brood huddled under wing darted back into the clouds. So Christ calls with all earnestness to all ■ the young. Why, what is the matter? It is bright sunlight, and there can be ho danger. Health Is theirs. A good home is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Prospect of long life is theirs. But Christ continues to call, calls with more etriphasis and urges haste and says not a I second ought to-be lost. Oh, do tell us’ what is the matter! Ah, now I see; there are hawks of temptation in the air; there are vultures wheeling for their prey; there are beaks of death ready toplunge; there are (flaws of allurement ready to clutch. Now I see,the peril. Now I understand the urgency. Now I see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters into his shelteb, ; “as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wingl” The fact is that the most of them will never find the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is a simple 'matter of inexorable statistics that most

of those who do not come to Christ In south never come at all. ' | , Human Birds or Prey. # ■ What chance la there for the young fllhout divine protection? There are the. grog shops. There are the gambling hells. There are the infidelities and immoralities of spiritualism. There are iho bad books. There are the Impurities. Tjiero are the business rascalities. And So"putperous are these assailments that It Is a wonder that honesty and virtue .rft not lost arts. The birds of prey, djprnal and nocturnal, of the natural toijld are over on the alert. They are assasslnsof the sky. They have variolios of taste. The eagle prefers the flash of the living animal. The vulture brofprs the carcass. The falcon kills wj(th one stroke, while other styles of beak give prolongation of torture. And so the temptations of this life are various. Some make quick work of death, and others agonize the mind and body tor many years, and some like the living blood of great souls, and others prefer those already gangrened. But for every style of youth there is swooping wing, and a sharp beak, and a cruel ,’cjaw, and what the rising generation ,ne;ods is a wing of protection. Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters, and Sabbath School teachers, bo quick and earnest and prayerful and importunate, and get the chickens under wing. May the Sabbath Schools of America and Great Brttian within the next three months sweep all their scholars into the kingdom! Whom they have now under charge is uncertain. Concerning that Scrawny, puny child that lay in the cradle many vears ago, the father dead, many remarked, “What a mercy if the Lord would take the child!” and the mother really thought so too. But what a good thing that God spared that child, for it became world renowned In Christian literature and one of God’s most illustrious servants—John Todd, Remember, your children will remain children only a little while. What you do for them as children you must do quickly or never do at al). “Why have you never written a book?” said some one to a talented woman. She replied: “1 am writing two and have been engaged on one work ten vears and on the other five years—my two children. They are my life work.” When the house ot John Wesley’s father burned, and they got the eight children out—John Wesley the last—before the roof fell in the father said: “Let us kneel dovyn and thank God. The children are all saved; let the rest of the place go.” My hearers, if we secure the present and everlasting welfare of our children, most other things belonging to us are of but little comparative importance. Alexander the Great allowed his soldiers to take their families with them to war, and he accounted for the bravery ot his men by the fact that many of them were born in camp and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the children of our day might be born Into the army of the Lord! No need ot jetting them go a long way on the wrong road before they turn around and go on the right road. The only time to get qhlckens under wing is while they are chickens. Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist, took her little child at 2 years of age when ill out of the crib and told her ‘plainly of Christ, and the child believed and gave evidence of joyful trust which grew with her growth into womanhood. Two years are not too young. The time ,WIU come when by the faith of parents . children will be born into this world and born into the bosom of Christ at the time., Soon we parents will have lo go and leave our children. We fight tiiefr battles now, and we stand between them and harm, but our arm will after jiwhlle get weak, and we cannot fight fqf them, and our tongue will be palsied, and we cannot speak for them. Are we going to leave them out In the cold world to take their chances, or ire we doing all We can to get them tinder the wing of, eternal safety? We Want Warmth. The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want. The fact is that this is a cold world, whether you take it literally or figuratively, We have a big fireplace called the sun, and it has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well stirred up, but much of the year we canuot get near enough to this fireplace to get warmed. The world’s extremities are cold all the time. Forget not that it is colder at the South Pole than at tne North Pole, and that the Arctic is not so destructive as the Antarctic. Once in awhile the Arctic will let explorers come back, but the Antarctic hardly over. When at the ■South Pole a ship sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be closed against its return. So life to many millions of people at the South and mtny millions of people at the North is a prolonged shiver. But when I say that this is a cold world I chiefly mean figuratively. If you want to know what is the moaning of the ordinary term of receiving the ".cold shoulder,” get out of money and try to borrow. The conversation may have been almost tropical forluxiirianceof thought and speech, but suggest your necessities and see the thermometer drop to 50 degrees below zero, and in that which till a moment before hal been a warm room. Take what is an unpqpuiar position on some public question and see your friehds fly as chaff before a windmill. As far as myself is Concerned, I have no word of com plaint;! but I look off day by dav and see communities freezing out men and women of whom the world is n.ot worthy. Now it takes after one and now alter another. It becomes popular to depreciate and defime and execrate and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got Bite, but it is the meanest world that some pepple ever got into. The worst thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thine that will evdr happen to them will be their grave. What people want is warmth. Many years ago a mAh was floating down on the ice qf the Merrimac, and great efforts were made to rescue him. TWice ho got hold of a plank thrown to him, and twice he slipped away from it because that end of the plank was covered with ice, and he cried out, “For God’s sake, give mo the wooden end of the plank this lime,” and this done he was hauled to shore. The trouble is that in our efforts to save the soul there is too much coldness and icy formality, and so the Imperiled one slips off and floats down. Give it the other end of the plank—warmth of sympathy, warmth of kindly association, warmth of genial surroundings. But notice that some one must take the storm for the chickens. Ah, the hen takes the storm. 1 havo watched her under the pelting rain. I have seen her in the pinching frosts almost frozen to death or almost strangled to death in the waters, and what a fight she makes for the young under wing if adog.or a hawk, l or a man come too near! And so the I brooding Christ takes the storm for us. What flood of anguishand tears that did apt dash upon His holy soul! What beak of torture did not pierce His vitals! What barking Cerberus of hell-was not let out upon Him from the kennels! * What He endured, oil, . To save our souls from death and hell I Christ Takes the Storm for Us. Yes, the hen took the storm for the Chickens, and Christ takes the storm for us. Once the tempest rose so suddenly the hen could not get with her younj; back from the new ground to the barn, and there she is under the fence half dead. And now the rain turns to snow, and it is an awful night, and in the

morning the whiteness about the gills and the beak down in the mud show that the mother is dead, and the young ones come out and cannot understand why the mother does not scratcAfor them something to eat, and they walk over her wings and call with their tiuy voices, but there is no answering cluck. (She took the storm for others and perished. Poor thing! Self sacrificing oven unto death. Aud does It not make you think of him who endured all for us? So the wings under which we come for spiritual safety are blood-spattered wings, are night-shadowed wings, are tempest-torn wings. In the Islo of Wight 1 saw the grave of Princess Elizabeth, who died while a prisoner at Carlsbrook Castle, her finger on an open Bible and pointing to the words, •■Como unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Oh, come under the wings! But now the summer dav is almost past, and the shadows of the house and barn and wagon-shed havo lengthened. The farmer, with scytho or hoe on shoulder, is returning from the fields. The oxeh, are unyoked. Tho horses are crunching the oats at the full bin. The air is bewitched of honeysuckle and wild brier. Tho milkman, pail in hand, is approaching the barn-yard. The fowls, keeping early hours, are collecting their young. “Cluck!" ‘Gluck!” “Cluck!” and soon ail the eyes of that feathered nursery are closed. The bachelors of the winged trlbehave ascended to their perch, but the hens, tn a motherhood divinely appointed, take all the risk of a slumber ou the ground, ana all night long the wingswill stay outspread and the little oues will not utter a sound. Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, completely, the hen broods her young. So, if we are tho Lord’s the evening of our life will come. The heats of the day will have passed. There will be shadows, and we canuot see as far. The work of life will be about ended. The hawks of temptation that hovered in the sky will have gone to the woods and folded their wings. Sweet silences will come down. The air will be redolent with the breath of whole arbors of promises sweeter than jasmine or evening primrose. The air may be a little chill, but Christ will call us, and we will know the voice and heed the Jcali, and we will come under the wings for the night, the strong wings, the soft wings, the warm wings, and without fear, and in full sense of safety, and then we will rest from suWdown to sunrise, “as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.” Dear me! How many souls the Lord hath thus brooded! Mothers, after watching over sick cradles and then watching aiterward over wayward sons and daughters, at last themselves taken care of by a motherly God. Business men, after a lifetime struggling with the uncertainties of money markets, and the change of tariffs, and the underselling of men who because ot their dishonesties can afford to undersell, and years of disappointment and struggle, at last under wings where nothing can perturb them any more than a bird of prey which is ten miles off disturbs a chick at midnight brooding in a barnyard. My text has its strongest application for people who were born in the country, wherever you may now live, and that is the majority of you. You cannot hear my text without having all the rustic scenes of the old farmhouse come back to you. Good .old days they were. You knew nothing much of the world, for you had not seen the world. By law of association you cannot recall the broading hen and hey chickens without seeing also the barn, and the haymow, and the wagon shed, and the house, and the room where you played, and the fireside with the big black log before which you sat, and the neighbors, and the burial, and the wedding, and the deep snow-banks, and hear the village bell that called you to worship, and seeing the horses which, after pulling you to church, stood around the old clapboarded meeting house, and those who sat at either end of the church pew, and indeed all the scenes of your first fourteen years, and you think of what you were then and of what you are now, and all these thoughts are aroused by the sight of the old hencoop. Gome of you bad better go back and start again. In thought return to that place and hear the cluck and see the outspread feathers and come under the wipg and make the Lord your portion and 'shelter and warmth, preparing for everything that may come, and so avoid being classed among those described by the closing words of my text, “as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not” Ah. that throws ths responsibility upon us! • “Ye, would not” Alas, for the “would notsl” If the wandering broods of the farm heed not tneir mother’s call and risk the hawk and dare the freshet and expose themselves to the first frost and storm, surely their calamities are not tho mother’s fault “Ye would not!” God wou|d\ but how many would not? When a good man asked a young woman who had abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretchedness why she did not return, the reply was: “1 dare hot go home. My father is so provoked he would not receive me home.” “Then," said the Christian man, “I will test this,” and so he wrote to the'father, and the reply came back and in a letter marked outside “Immediate,” and inside saying, “Let her come at once; all Is forgiven.” So God’s invitation for you is marked “Immediate” on the outside, and Tnside it is written, “He will abundantly pardon. ” Oh, ye wanderers from God and happiness and home and Heaven, come under the sheltering wing! Under this call I see you turning from your old way tn the new way, the living way, the gospel way. A vessel in the Bristol Channel was nearing the rocks called the “Steep Holmes.” Under the tempest the vessel was unmanageable, and tho only hope was that the tide would change before she struck the rocks and went down, and so the captain stood oh the deck, watch in hand. Captain and crew and passengers were- pallid with terror. Taking another look at his watch and another look at tlfe sea, he shouted: “Thank Gpd, we are saved! The tide has turned! One minute more and we would have struck the rocks.” Some of you have been a long while drifting in the tempest of sin and sorrow and have ■ been making for the breakers. Thank God, the tide has turned! Do you not feel the lift of tho billow? The grace of God that brlngeth salvation has appeared to your soul, and, In the words of Boaz to Ruth, I commened you to "the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to trust.” Something New In Woman Suffrage. Senator Vest, of Missouri, a' redfaced, wise and witty old boy, who hates frauds as much as any man I ever saw, and loves a drink, was approached by suffrage-begging females. They contended, in the usual style, that the woman was the equal of the man, and ought to hold' office—any office, Senator, Governor, Postmaster, Justice of the Peace or constable, anything, in* deed. “Great heavens!’’ said Vest, “do you mean that?” “Yes," they answered. “Now, just think of it. Think of a man going home and kissing a Justice of the Peace; or telling a friend that he was in love with a constable. It is dreadful I"—Philadelphia Preaa. , . .X . ■ ’ .a

; THE SENATE AND HOUSE. I ———. * WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. r ' Proovadlngs of the Sannta and Houaa ot Boproiontatlvoa 4 Important Moaauroi l Diaouaaad and Acted Upon—Gilt of tho Busluoaa , ( The National Soloni. I Senator Gorman in some retuarka wnlch be mndo in the Senate Monday In opuoeltlon to appropriation for public buildings 1 spoke ot the serious and alurmlna condition 1 which confronted the country, expreaseu I the belief that only the borders ot the trouble had been touched, and said that . extraordinary action would have to be taken by tho Treaaury Department, or else ’ Congress would havo to reassemble before 1 next July to meet the condition. Mr. • Quay moved amendments, which wore agreed to, fixing tho limit of cuet of the . public buildings at Allegheny, Pa., at 1 *535,000; of tho public building at San Francisco, Cal., nt 53,000,000, and of tho public building at Portland, Ora, at ■ *1.000,000, and ayproprlatlug *6,000 1 fur an additional story to the public 1 building at Sheboygan. Wla Mjr. Allison , offered amendments, which were agreed to. appropriating *25,000 tor the completion ot ‘ the postoffleo building at Clarksville,Tenn., 1 and 185,000 for the completion of the pub-| 11c building at Sioux Falls. N. 11 After an 1 executive session the Senate adjourned. Filibustering against the New York and Now Jersey bridge bill proved Ineffectual in the Bouse. It was led by Messrs W. A. Stone and Dalzell, both of Pennsylvania, but they were never able to muster more than seven mon to their support and the 1 bill was passed practically without oppo--1 sltlon. In the House. Tuesday, the hours were mostly employed lu filibustering agalustj the car-coupler bill. Day and night worq devoted to the consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill, the debate on. which was confined to tho special service provision. But the car-coupler measure was the one which met with determined apposition. Mr. Richardson led the opposing party and, by parliamentary maneuvers, prevented any action being taken on it.. t The first of what is said to be a daily series of contllcte between the appropriation bills and the anti-options bill until the latter is acted on was the feature of Wednesday's session of the House. The members were worn out from Tuesday night’s session, wfllcb lasted until morning. and the day passed tamely. Mr. Hatch had grown tired of the delay to which tho anti-options bill is being subjected, And when It was moved to take up the poatoffice appropriation bill he antagonized the motion with the measure of which he is champion. Being defeated he made the same fight aiso unsuccessfully when the poetofflee bill was passed with the special mall facility appropriation included in it. and again when the Indian appropriation bill was called up, Members were thus put on rcc.ird. and then the Indian question was discussed languidly for three hours. In the Senate Senator Chandler, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted a report on his bill establishing additional regulations concerning immigration in tho United States by increasing by three the number of excluded classes of aliens Tho consular and diplomatic appropriation was next brought before the Senate, but the consideration of executive bhslness was resumed instead. Good progress was made in the Senate 'Jhursday in disposing of the absolutely necessary work of Congress Witbin less than an hour two of the general appropriation bills—the diplomatic and consular and the military academy—were road, considered and passed. Then the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, which appropriates about *22.000,000, was taken up and considered up till the time 10 adjournment. Without disposing ot the legls atlvo bill, the Senate adjourned. On motion of Mr. Hitt in the House, a bill was passed for the relief of George W. Jones, late United States Minister to the United States of Colombia. Mr. Joues. who was the first United States Senator from the State of lowa, was present, and when the Speaker announce! that jt had been agreed to he arose and returned his hearty thanks to Mr. Hitt for his t successful effort The sundry civil appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, bafdre the House and referred to the Com mi'tee on Approprlatlqpa Mr. Peel (Ark.) moved that the House go Into committee ot the whole for the consideration of general appropriation bills This motion was antagonized by Mr., Hatch (Ma), who wished the consideration! of the anti-option bill Mr. Peel’s motion, prevailed—yeas, 152; nays, 75—and the consideration of tho Indian appropriationbill was resumed. Without disposing of the bill the committee rose and the House adjourned. Mr. Hatch received another reverse Friday In his efforts to secure consideration of the anti-option bill. It was his third reverse within twenty-four hours, and iti caused much alarm in the anti-option ranks There was a disposition to criticise Mr. Hatch for lack ot judgment lai bringing tne bill forward in antagonlzm to! the appropriation bill. Mr. Hatch, who was presiding over the committee of the whole, left tbe chair and addressing his successor said that for three legislative days the Indian bill bad been under consideration. There was not, he continued, an intelligent member of the House who did not absolutely know that at this honr of the session the appropriation bill was being used as a means of obstructing tbe consideration of the anti-option bill, and that the opponents of tbe latter measure, the friends of the demonetization of silver and tho friends of the Senate rider to an appropriation bill were in an absolute agreement and conspiracy, and no gentleman from this time until 12 o'clock March 4 could shield himself under any sort of subterfuge unless he was willing to go on record not only ns opposed to tbe antfoptlon bill, but as tbe opponent ot silver and the friend of the 3 per cent amendment The House was brought face to face with this issue, and be gave notice that he would continue this struggle In the interest of the people as against tbe interest of Lombard street and Wall street until the people's rights were preserved. The House then took a reccss until the evening session, which was to be devoted to the consideration of private pension bills, . the debate in the Senate was over the question presented in the, legislative appropriation bill, whether the' Utah Commlss’on, which has been Inf existence for the last ten years, should be abolished. as proposed by the House, or continued in office. as recommended by (he Fen ate Committee on Appropriations. Tbe question was decided in favor of continuing the commission. A tight was Inaugurated in the House Saturday. It was over tho sundry civil appropriation bill which contains tho Sherman bond amendment. There are in all 207 amendments to tho bilL Mr. Holman desired that ull--except the Sherman amendment, upon which there was to be debate—be nonconcurred in. Mr. Bland, as leader of the opposition to the Sherman amendment, objected unless it was agreed that that amendment should be, after debate, also nonconcurred in. This suggestion of Mn Bland’s raised the antagonism of Mr. Cockran, and no agreement was arrived at. The silver men then resorted to filibustering tactics, which were effectual. aud after a speech by Mr. Bland the bill went over without action. After four hours passed in discussing various amendments (of little importance) to the legislative appropriation bill tbe Senate passed the bill, insisted on its amendments, and requested a conference with tbe House on the disagreeing votes. Fought Without Firearms. Gideon defeated the Mldianltes B. O. 1245 through fright at the sound of crashing earthenware and the flash of lamps during a night attack. At 200 feet only the best Spanish armor could resist the English arrow. Many museums havo steel corselets pierced through by an arrow. At the coming of the Spaniards, 1492, the most effective weapon among the Caribbean Indians was a wooden lance, the point hardened in the fire. In the fourteenth century armor became so heavy that many soldiers only 30 years old were deformed or permanently disabled by its weight The Gauls, to make handles for theli stone axes, cleft the branch of a tree, placed the ax In it and Jett it till the wound in the wood had been oampletely healed. ■ ' ■ • •

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BAIK. Capital. WO,OOO. Burplux, •10.K* j Orlganlxad Auguat 15,1888. Offioara—T. T. Dorwln, I’rexldent; P. W. Floa-Praaldant; B. B. Patarxon Cashier; T. T. Dorwln. P. W. Smith, Henry Derkee, J. H. Holbrook. B. J. Terveer, J. D. Bale and & A Paterson, Directors. We are prepared to make Loans on good security, receive Deposits, furnish' Domestic and Foreign Exchange, buy and salt Go.vmman* and Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letters ot Credit available in any of tho principal oitiM of Europe. Also Passage Ticket to and from the Old World. iiuJuding transportation to Decatur. _____________ Adams County Bank Offlaon—D. Htudabaker, President: Robk B. Allison, Vioe-Presldent; W. tt Nlbllok, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. ' _ County. City aud Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Lntasest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attox»xiey at Isaw Decatur, - - rtwHawe. Ek EC. XaOBU.TTJN’. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully treats all diseases of Honea and Cattle. Will respond to calls st any time. Prices resonable. nnvnr, a. x. stum. x. m ERWIN Jb MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Penaion Claimi Proaecuted. Office in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IRANCE A MRRBYMAN. j. T. rBAKCU. J? J. T. MSBBVHAM -A.ttox*xs.ey« at Isaw, DKCATUR, INDIANA. Office Noe. L * and 8, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A. e. IOLLOWAY, FHyalolaxi <A> ■Kxx‘*«on. Office over Burna’ harness shop, reeldenoo one door north of M. E. church. AU calls promptly attended to in city or country night or day. K. Is HOLLOWAY, M. B. Office and residence one door north of Y. H church. Diseases of women and children apoolalUoa. •.T. Hay.M.», Vll.3rdßiolMa.aO ■•sura*, - Indiana AB calle promptly attended to day or alg*A Ofloe at raaldanoa. X B. 8080, B. T. 8080. Maater Commissioner. 8080 At SON, .ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Beal Xstato toA Collection, Decatur, Ind. O.P. M. ANOBEWB, * MONROB. INDIANA Office and residence Sndsnd Brd doors west of M. E. church. X M* Prof. L H. Zeigler, VetirHiry Surgeon, Modus Operandl, Oroho ’ *£ Zj tomy. Overotomy, Castrating, Rldg Ung, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn Ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone's hardware store. Decatur Indiana. J. 8. Coverdale. M. D. P. B. Thomas, M O. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce's Drug store. Decatur, Ind H. F. COSTELLO, Z*lxyßaiolM3. * oiu**»oz>« Office over Terveer's hardware store. Residenoe on Third street, in the otd Derkes All calls promptly attended to tN ' or country, day or night Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. JQ. NEPTUNE, . DENTHT. Now located over Holthouse's shoe store, and la prepared to do all work pertaining to tho dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo's Vapor ha is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEYTOLOAN On Pana Property on Long Ttasa, Wo OoxxxmadLsßaßloxha Low Bate of Intaraat. JPortlnl F*3rxax*3a.t* la any amounts eaa be made at any tlaae and stop interest. Call on, or addraaa, A. K. GRUBB, or J. F, MANN, ‘ Offiea: Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, I.—— ..IS. I I \ wp ‘ ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING MTU EIECIIEO AT THIS OFFICE.. ■