Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1893 — Page 3

■ The Artor Place Biota. gl The trouble arose because of what believed jQ.huve been the ill-treat-■nent receivetFiiy Edwin Forrest, the ■ragedian, while in England. When ■W. 0. Macready, the English tragedian, Kame to thia country and his appearKiearanoe at the Astor Place Opera Kfouse was announced, an immense sacKion declared he should never be alKowed to play. True to their word, on Khe night of his first perforinanc a wild Ktiob filled the theater and surrounded KKJtally 20,000 strong. I was then in KobVnand of the Seventh Regiment, ■and at 8 o’clock in the afternoon I ro■ocived orders to be ready to quell the ■expected riot at the evening performHance. By 6 o’clock the regiment had ■assembled in the Armory. I personally ■superintended the distribution of amHmnnition to the men, and I would like HUKake occasion now to settle a transition in dispute in this respect There Iwu not a man in the regiment in posHsession of blank cartridge on that ■Bight, and any story to the effect that ■blank cartridge was used is purely sicItitious. We fired to hurt. Toward 9 ■ o’clock we received orders to disperse I the mob, and by the time we reached I Astor Place it was fully that hour. The ■ regiment was as yet with empty guns. I but when I saw what I had to deal B with, the instant order was close col- ■ umns en masse and load at will. Had Bit not been for this I verily believe the B mob would have massacred the whole B regiment. Their attack upon us was I at once furious and determined, but we I responded in like measure. Os the I rioters 134 were killed outright and I over 100 wounded. Several of our I boys received pistol shots and 143 were I wounded with stones and other misI ailes. Thirty-two stand of arms were I broken in the hands of our men, but I the State replaced them. I have alI ways believed the firing on that night I was a salutary lesson to the mob spirit I in this city.— Gen. Abram Duryea. I Eye Memory. Look steadily at a bright object, keep the eyes immovable on it for a short time, and then close them. An image of the object remains; it becomes, in fact, visible to the closed eyes. The vividness and duration of such impression vary considerably with ffifferent individuals, and the power of retaining them may be cultivated. An eccentricold «nan, the once celebrated but now forgotten “Memory Thompson,” trained , himself to the performance of wonderful feats of eye memory. He could close his eyes and picture within himself a panorama of Oxford street and other parts of London, in which picture every inscription over every shop was so perfect and reliable that he could describe and certify to the names and occupations of the shop-keeping inhabitants of all the houses of these streets at certain dates, when postoffice directories were not as they now are. Although Memory Thompson is forgotten, his special faculty is just now receiving some attention, and it is proposed to specially cultivate it in elementary schools by placing objects before the pupils for a given time, then taking them away and requiring the pupil to draw them. That such a faculty exists and may be of great service is . unquestionable.— Gentleman’s Magatine. Coma to the Heieue. As surely as any known effect follows a jause, just so surely will disease of the kidneys succeed their Inactivity, If that Inaction bo not promptly remedied. 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' •«#•*•>-< »ul • TALMAGE’S SERMON. A LESSON IS FOUND IN THE SUBJUGATED ISRAELITE. Che Church of To-day Ila. Allowed the Infldels to Assume Too Much In Science and Literature—Wo Need More Men Like Agassis, HUltman and Hitchcock. A Disarmed People. The great throng of many thousands from all parts of tne North and West were gathered last Sunday at the Monona Lake assembly, a Chautauqua held near Madison Wis., and Rev. Dr. Talmage in the forenoon preached to the great multitude on “Sharpened Axes," the text being I. Samuel xiii. 19-21, “Now, there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel,* etc. My loving and glad salutation to this uncounted host, Chautauquans, Christian Endeavorers, gospel workers and their fr|ends from all parts of Wisconsin and America, saints and sinners! My text is gloriously appropriate. What a galling subjugation the Israelites were suffering! The Philistines had carried off all the blacksmiths and torn down the blacksmiths' shops, and abolished the trade in the land ofIsrael. These Philistines had a particular grudge against blacksmiths, although I have always admired them and have sometimes thought I ought to have been one myself. The Philistines would not even allow these parties to work their valuable mines of brass and iron, nor might they make any swords or spears. ' There were only two swords left in all the land. Yea, these Philistines went on until they had all the grindstones from the land of Israel, so that if an Israolitish farmer wanted to sharpen his plow or his ax ho had to go over to the garrison of the Philistines to get it done. There was only one sharpening instrument left in the land, and that was a file. The farmers and the mechanics having nothing to whet up the coulter, and the goad, and the pickax save a simple file, industry was hindered and work practically disgraced. The great idea of those Philistines was to keep the Israelites disarmed. They might get iron out of the hills to make swjirda of, but they would not have any blacksmiths to weld this iron. If they got the iron welded they would have no grindstones on which to bring the instruments of agriculture or the military weapons up to an edge. Oh. you poor, weaponless Israelites, reduced to a file, how I pity you! But these Philistines were not forever to keep their heel on the neck of God’s children. Jonathan, on his hands and knees, climbs up a great rock beyond which were the Philistines, and his armor bearer, on his hands and knees, climbs up the same reck, and these two men, with their two swords, hew to pieces the Philistines, the Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So it was then; so it is now. The two men of God on their knees mightier than a Philistine host on their feet. A Church Without Weapons. I learn first from this subject how dafigerous it is for the church of God to allow its weapons to stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites might again and again have obtained a supply of swords and weapons, as. for instance, when they took the spoils of the Ammonites, but these Israelites seemed content to have no swords, no spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron mines, until it was too late for them to make any resistance. I see the farmers tugging along with their pickaxes‘and plows, and I say, “Where are you going with those things?” They say, “Oh, we are going over to the garrison of the Philistines to get these things sharpened.” I say, “You foolish men; why don't you sharpen them at home?" “Oh, they say, “the shops are all torn down, and we have nothing left us but a file.” So it is in the church of Christ today. We are too willing to give up our weapons to the enemy. The world boasts that it has gobbled up the schools, and the colleges, and the arts, and the sciences, and the literature, and the press. ’ Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to get all our weapons in its hand and then to keep them. You know it is making this boast all the time, and after awhile, when the great battle between sin and righteousness has opened, if we do not look out we will be as badly off as these Israel--1 ites, without any swords to fight with and without any sharpening instruments. I call upon the superintendents of literary institutions to see to it that the men who go into the classrooms to stand beside the Leyden jars and the electric batteries, and the microscopes or telescopes be children of God, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers of this day arc trying to get all the intellectual weapons of this century in their own grasp. What we want is scientific Christians to capture the science, and scholastic Christians to capture the scholarship, and philosophic Christians to capture the philosophy, and lecturing Christians to take back the lecturing platform. The Weapons of Science. We syant to send out against Schenkel and Strauss and Renan of the past men like the late Theodore Christleib of Bonn, and against the infidel scientists a God-worshiping Silliman and Hitchcock and Agassiz. We want to capture all the philosophical apparatus and swing aroung the telescopes on the swivel until through them wc can see the morning star of the Redeemer, and with mineralogical hammer discover the “Rock of Ages,” and amid the flora of the realms find the “Rose of Sharon and. the Lily of the Valley.” We want a clergy learned enough to discourse of the human eye, showing it to be a microscope and telescope in one instruihent, with 800 wonderful contrivances and lids closing 30.000 or 40,000 times a day, all its muscles and nerves and bones showing the infinite skill of an infinite God, and then winding up with the peroration, “He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” And then we want to discourse abeut the human ear; its wonderful integuments, membranes and vibration, and its chain of small bones, and its auditory nerves, closing with the question, “He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?” And we want some one able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing it to the geology and the astronomy of the world, until, as Job suggested, “the stones of the field shall bo in league" with the truth, and “the stars in their courses shall fight against Slsera.” Oh, church of God. go out and recapture these weapons! Let men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Let all the printing presses of this country speak out for Christ, and tho reporters, and the typsetters, and tho editors and publishers swear allegiance to the Lord .God of truth. Ah, my friend, that day must come, and if the great body of Christian men have not the faith, or the courage, or , the consecration to do it, then let some Jonathan on his busy hands and on his praying knees climb up on the rock of hindrance, and in the name of tho Lord God of Israel slash to pieces those literary Philistines. If these men will

not bo convtrted to God, then they must bo" destroyed. Moro Christian Energy Needed. Again I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church’s resources is actually hidden and buried and undeveloped. The Bible intimates that that was u very rich land—this land of Israel. It says, “Tho stones are iron and out of the hills thou shalt dig brass,” and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of this metal wat kept under the hills. Well, that is the difficulty with tho church of God at this day. Its talent Is not developed. If one-half of Its energy could bo brought out, It might take the public iniquities of tho day by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Josus Christ, it could in a few years persuade this whole earth to surrender to God. There Is enough undeveloped Christian energy in tho United States to bring the whole world to Christ, but it is buried under strata of Indifference and under whole mountains of sloth. Now, is It not time for. the mining to begin, and the pickaxes to plunge, and for this burled metal to no brought out and put Into the fui nacos and be turned into howitzers and carbines for the Lord's host? The vast majority of Christians in this day are useless. The most of the Lord's battalion belong to the reserve corps. The most of the crew aro asleep in the hammocks. Tho most of the metal is under the hills. Oh, is it not time for the church of God to rouse up and understand that w© want all the energies, all the talents (and’ all the wealth enlisted for Christ’s sake? I like the nickname that the English soldiers gave to Blucher, the commander. They called him “Old' Forwards.” We have had enough retreats in the church of Christ; lot us have a glorious advance. And I say to ?ou now as the general said when his roops were affrighted. Rising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind, he lifted his voice until 20,000 troops heard him, crying out, “Forward, the whole line!" The Logicians of the Church. Again, I learn from this subject that we sometimes do well to take advantage of the world’s sharpening instruments. These Israelites were reduced to a file, and so they went over to the garrison of the Philistines to get their axes, and their goads, and their plows sharpened. The Bible distinctly states in the context that they had no other instruments now with which to do this work, and the Israelites did right when they went over to the Philistines to use their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ the world's grindstones? If there be art, 1 if there be logic, if there be business faculty on the other side, let us go over and employ it for Christ's sake. The fact is we fight with too dull 1 weapons, and we work with too dull implements. We hack and maul when we ought to make a clean stroke. Let us go over among sharp business men and among sharp literary men and find out what their tact is, and then transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they have science and art, it will do us good to rub against it. In other words, let us employ the world's grindstones. We will listen to their music, and will watch their acumen, and we will use their grindstones, and we will borrow their philosophical apparatus to make our eX- , periments, and we will borrow their printing presses to publish our Bibles, and we will borrow their rail trains to carry our Christian literature, and we i will borrow their ships to transport our missionaries. . That was what made Paul such a master in his day. He net only got all the learning he could get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward standing on Mars Hill and in crowded thoroughfare quoted their poetry and grasped their logic and wielded their eloquence and employed their mythology until Dionysius, tho Areopagite, learned in the schools of Athens and Heliopolis, went down under his tremendous powers. That was wha't gave Thomas Chalmers his power in his day. He conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for the second time the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. This was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his influence in his day. He conquered the world's metaphysics and forced it into the service of Gcd, until not only the old meeting house in Northampton, Mass., but all Christendom, folt thrilled by his v Christian power. Well, now, my friends, we all have tools of Christian usefulness. Do not let them lose their edges. We want no rusty blades in this tight: We want no colter that cannot rip up the glebe. We want no ax that cannot fell the trees. We want no goad *that cannot start the lazy team. Let us get the very best grindstones we can find, though they be in the possession of the Philistines, compelling them to turn the crank, while we boar down with all our might on the swift revolving wheel until all our energies and faculties shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge. Again, my subject teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took tho spears and the swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then they took the grindstones, and they took everything bat a file. Oh, that is the way sin works. It grabs everything. It "begins with robbery, and it ends with robbery. It despoils this faculty and that faculty and keeps on until the whole nature is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it generally thickens his tongue. Was he fine in personal appearance, it mars his visage. Was he affluent, it sends the sheriff to sell him out. Was ho influential, it destroys his popularity. Was he placid and genial and loving, it makes him splenetic and cross, and so utterly is he changed that you can see he is sarcastic and rasping, and that the Philistines have loft him nothing but a Ale. Oh, “the way of the transgressor is hard.” His cup is bitter. His night is dark. His pangs are deep. His end is terrific. Philistine iniquity says I to that man, “Now, surrender to mo, and I will give you all you want -music .for tho dance, swift steeds for the race, , imperial couch to slumber > on. and you shall be refreshed with the rarest fruits in baskets of golden filigree!" He lies. The music turns out to be a groan. The fruits burst the rind with rank poison. The filigree is made up of twisted snakes. The couch is the grave. Small allowance of rest, small allowance of peace, small allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough—nothing but a file. So it was with Voltaire, the most applauded man of his day : The bcrlpturo was his jest book, whence'he drew Bonmoi* to gall. the Christian and the « —-— —-c ■ —u™.,-.™™,—.. An InHdel when well, but what when sick? Oh, then a text would touch him to the - quick. Seized with hemorrhage of tho lungs in Paris, where he had gone to be crowned in the theater as an idol of all Franco, he sends a messenger to get a priest, that he mav bo reconciled to the church-before he ales. A terror falls upon him. He makes the place all round about him so dismal that the nurse declares that she would not for all the wealth of Europe see another infidel die. Philistines iniquity had - ■.. -. | . ■

promised him all the world’s garlands, but in-th* last hour of his Ufa, when ho needed solacing, sent tearing ac*Ms his conscience and his nerves a file, a silo. So It was with Lord Byron, his uncleanness In England only surpassed by his uncleanness in Venice, then going on to his brilliant misery at Missolonghi, and fretting at his nurse, Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting st the world, fretting at God, and he who gave to the world “Chllde Harold," and “Sardanapahis,” and “The Prisoner of Chilion,” and “The Siege of Corinth,’ reduced to nothing but a file! The Wages of Sl“Oh, sin has great facility for making promises, but it has just as great facility for breaking them. A Christian life is the only cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender is remorse, ruin, and death. Its painted glee is sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest days of the Mexican empire Montezuma said he felt gnawing at his heart something like a canker. Sin, like a monster wild beast in the forest, sometimes licks all over its victim in order that the victim may be more easily swallowed; but generally sin rasps and galls and tears and upbraids and files? Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hildebrand? Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye! aye! it is so; it is bo. “The way of of the wicked he turneth upside down." History tells us that when Rome was founded, on that day there were twelve vulturCs flying through the air, but when a transgressor dies the sky is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures! When I see sin robbing so many people, and I see them going day by day and week by week, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it back lest I risk the’salvation of my own soul. Rover, the pirate, pulled down the warning bell on Inchcape rock, thinking that he would have a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rock, but one night his own ship crashed down on this very rock, and he went, down with all his cargo. God declares, “When I say to the wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that same man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hands.” I learn frqm this subject what a sad thing it is when the church of God loses its metal. These Philistines saw i that if they could only get all the metallic weapons out of the hands of the Israelites all would be well, and therefore they took the swords and the spears. They did not want them to have a single metallic weapon. When the metal of the Israelites was gone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble with the church of God to-day. It is surrendering its courage. It has not got enough metal. How seldom it is that you see a man taking his position in pew, or in pulpit, or in a religious society, aud holding that position against all oppression, and all trial, and all persecution, and all criticism. The church of God to-day wants more backbone, more defiance, more consecrated bravery, more metal. How often you see a man start out in some good enterprise, and at the first blast of newspaperdom he has collapsed, and all his courage gone, forgetful of the fact that if a man be right all the newspapers of the earth, with all their columns pounding away at him, cannot do him any permanent damage. It is only When a man is wrong that he can be damaged. Why, God is going tc vindicate his truth, and he is going to stand by you, my friends, in every effort you make for Christ's cause and the salvation of men. I sometimes say to my wife: “There is something wrong; the newspapers have not assaulted me for three months! I have not done my duty against public iniquities, and I will stir them up again next Sunday.” Then I stir them up, and all the following week the devil howls and howls, showing that I have hit him very hard. Go forth in the service of Christ and do your whole duty. You have one sphere. I have another sphere. “The Lord of Hosts is with us, and the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.” We want more of the determination of Jonathan. . I do not suppose he was a very wonderful man, but he got on his knees and clambered up the rock, and with the help of his armor bearer he hewed down the Philistines, and a man of very ordinary intellectual attainments. on his knees, can storm anything for God and for the truth. We want something of the determination of the general who went into the war, and as he entered his first battle his knees knocked together, his physical courage not quite up to his moral courrage, and he looked d >wn at his knees and said, “Ah, if you knew where I , was going to take you, you would shake worse than that!” There is only ono question for you to ask and for me to ask. What does Grxl want me to do? Where is the field? Where is the work? Where is the anvil? Where is the prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? And finding out what God wants us to do go ahead and do it—all the energies of our body, mind and soul enlisted in the undertaking. Oh. my brethren, we have but little time in which to fight for God. You will bo dead soon. Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you. “What thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is neither wisdom nor device in the grave whither we are all hastening.” Oh, is it not high timo that we wake out of Church of God, lift up your head at the coming victory! The Philistines will go down, and the Israelites will go up. We are on tho winning side. Hear that —ou tho winning side! I think just now the King's horses are being hooked up to the Chariot, and when he does ride down the sky there will bo such a hosanna among his friends and such a wailing among his enemies as will make the earth tremble and tho heavens sing. I see now the plumes of the Lord's cavalrymen tossing in the air. The archangel before the throne has already burnished his trumpet, and then he will put its golden lips to his own, and ho wib blow ' the long, loud blast that will make all i nations free. Clap your hands, all ye people! Hark! I hear the falling , thrones and the dashing down of demolished iniquities. Watch the Children’s Ears. The hideous out-flapping ears which we often see can be so easily prevented in childhood, that it is a wonder mothers do not give more thought to the matter. Children should be carefully watched and never allowed to sleep without having the ears closely pressed to the head. Babies should always wear caps—sheerest lawn or lace will do—then it will be impossisible for their qars to assume such alarming and unbecoming shapes as frequently alarm us. A little, care and attention will remedy thtsdisdgurement with children or even grown persons. The worst deformities wi«l yield to persistent effort. Before retiring. rub the back of. the ears thoroughly with some soft, penetrating oil or glycerine; then tie a bit of lace or thin muslin around the head, to keep the bandage on during the day, when possible. '

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Making the Beat of It. A German girl who recently came to America to marry a man who had been hdre for some years.and who had made himself so indispensable to his employers that he could not even be spared long enough to go to Germany to fetch his bride, tells some amusing experiences in her new home. “The thing which vexed me most,” she said, after relating all sorts of queer mistakes which she naturally made, “was about my sheets. I had a beautiful set, all linen, and all embroidered and worked with initials by my own hands. When I got here the American beds were all so big that not one of my sheets could be used.” “What* a shame!” exclaimed her sympathetic listener. “What did you do?” “Well, you see,” the bride answered with a smile, “of course they were as much too large for handkerchiefs as they were too small for sheets: and so I took them for towels. And everybody thinks they are lovely.” Sheep a» Beasts of Burden. In the northern part of India sheep are put to a use unthought of in European countries. They are made to serve as beasts of burden. The mountain paths among the foothills of the Himalayas are so, precipitous that the sheep, more sure-footed than larger beasts, are preferred as burden carriers. The load for each sheep is from sixteen to twenty pounds. The sheep are driven from village to village, with the wool still growing, and in each town the farmer shears as much wool as he can sell there, and loads the sheep with the grain which he receives in exchange. After his flock has been sheared he returns it homeward, each sheep having on its back a small bag containing the purchased grain. Reviving: the Wayside Inn. The bicycle has produced some queer changes. 'lt is restoring the wayside inn, among other things. Along certain country roads not far from Boston, which are much frequented by wheelmen. and especially along those in the direction of the beaches, there are little summer restaurants or cases which derive the largest part of their income from passing riders of bicycles. Ice cream, chowder, coffee, cakes, and that sort of thing find a ready sale to parties of heated wheelmen, who sit upon open platforms and gossip with the waiter girls, who are generally of a nice sort of country persons: and presently they fare along the road again, quite like cavaliers of old. — Boston Transcript. Lubeck. The city of Lubeek, Germany, which will shortly celebrate its seven hundred and fifty third anniversary, has rather an interesting history. The city was founded in 1140, was ceded to the Dukes of Saxony eighteen years later, and in 1201 was taken by the Danes. It was made a free imperial city in 1226. when the Danish garrison was expelled, and in 1241 it became the head of the Hanseatic league. Blucher took refuge in Lubeck to avoid the French army, when it was carried by assault and suffered a three days' pillage, in November, 1806. Nov. 12. 1810, the city was annexed to the French .Empire, and regained its freedom in 1813. after the battle of Leipsic. Frank. Some ladies never, never can understand that a rpan of letters should sometimes be left alone in his den. Byron himself says that, however much in love he might be at any mohient, hh always felt, even when with the fair, a hankering to be back in his untidy library. There is a story of Lady Byron's entering the den and asking: “Do I disturb ybu. Byron?" "Yes: damnably.” answered Childe Harold, in an intelligible, if not a pardonable irritation. Aycsha. Miss Twitter—Mr. Enpec has a habit of referring to his wife as "She." Mrs. Dogood—Only an abbreviation. Mrs. Twitter—For what? Mrs. Dbgoixi — She-who-must-be-obeyed.—Truth. The honest man who dies poor is rich if he only holds his own. .* Only the sublimity of cheek can rise I to the graadeut* Os luck.

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