Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1893 — Page 6

She gemocrat DECATUR, IND. g. MLACKBITRN. • ■ ■ ITtblisw*. The business world has uo use for a man with n sweet face. ' The professional politician never lives long enough to witness ids declining years. Don’t all speak at once! There’s a 103-year-old gentleman in Atchison who wants a wife. When a resident of the Arctic region takes a night off in winter he is away for about twenty-one weeks. says an occasional scolding is all right in its place, but he lias noticed that it never does a toiler any good to blow it up In spite of the hard times women are not wearing their dresses any longer this winter than usual—in fact, the new styles are shorter. It took Rome over two thousand years to reach a pcpulation of 200,000: but since 1870, she has practically doubled her population and now numbers about 400,000. Chicago Times: A wealthy citizen of Quincy has toen suffocated by a folding bed closing up on him. Well, any man of money who will sleep in a folding bed deserves just -such fate. Hr. Gard of Colorado, has arranged, In consideration of a reward of MO,OOO, to arrest Apache Kid, who has a man for breakfast every morning, which recalls the remark of the late H. Plantagenet (Na 5), that The mm that ouoe did sell t he lion's skin While the boast lived, was killed with hunting him. A mother should have tender and loving but flrm control of her child from its first breath. She should as carefully shield it from self consciousness, conceit, and wilfulness as she does from scarlet-fever and whoop-ing-cough. She should, above all things, set it a daily example of justice and t ruthfulness in the smallest affairs. The latest news from Robert Louis Stevenson, brought to San Francisco by a reporter who interviewed him in his Samoan home, is that the novelist is wofully thin and pale. His face is gaunt and haggard and wears an expression of continual weariness. In fact, he is ill most of the time, tout uniformly good natured in spite •of bis afflictions. The fact is stated by this same reporter that Mrs. Stevenson smokes cigarettes, of which her busband is so fond. With the return of Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton to America the old question arises as to whether her mother, Mrs. Astor, will try to reinstate her In society. It is probable that some effort will be made in this direction. Os all the people concerned in the miserable Drayton-Milbank-Borrowe scandal, Mrs. Drayton alone bore herself with dignity. Her husband acted like a fool, and that young milksop Barrowe, conducted himself idiotically. During the recent trip in which she broke the translantic record, the Lucania’s longest run from noon to noon, the longest, ever made, was 560 miles. Allowing the time actually elapsed in thus chasing the sun westward to have been twenty-four hoiirs and fifty minutes, a lit tie figuring, credits the ship with the speed of nearly twenty-three knots an hour—says, twenty-two and threequarters, or, as we would say when ashore, nearly twenty-seven miles, such as measure the speed of express trains The death of a man nearly two hundred years old in Mexico, whose age is said to be amply attested by documents, is a remarkable eventless so, however, than that centennial of the wedding of a couple in Hungary, which was attended by the Arch-Duke and rightly made an affair of national festivity. We wonder if the States can produce anything to match these examples of prolonged vigor. Such lives, as a rule, are not restlessly productive, but they have an abiding interest as showing how long the vital process can be kept up. —a subject that Is, not without its personal fascination for all of us. The crank who attempted to extort money from Edwin Gould is now posing as a martyr because he was •confined for a short time in a cell

-which was not to his liking, and i ■claims that he had no thought of in-1 juring Mr. Gould. This is a very natural statement since the fellow i had no chance to carry out whatever i designs he may have had: but there ' are few who will take stock in what | he has to say after the affair is over with. There is a sure cure for dan-1 gefons cranks and that is to put i them where they can do no harm. It is also noticed that this salutary I treatment has a remarkable tendency to keep other men out of the busind&s. __________ The official investigation of the recent railway disaster in Michigan calls to mind similar casualties that happened thirty or forty years ago. The cats caught Are either from the stove or from the lamps. That much is admitted, and the only question is '' |T ,

whether the oil or the coal is to ’ blame It is a useless inquiry. So long as cars are heated by blaring coals and lighted by kerosene a repetition of the Hattie Creek horror is ' liable to occur at any time. If railway companies are too parsimonious ■or too indifferent about the safety of passengers to abandon the primitive methods of heating and lighting cars, ' then the law should intervene with a compulsory measure. Coal and kerosene are utterly out of place in modern railway transit. A i.aw practically nullifying ecclesiastic marriages is likely to be adopted In Austria. A bill, prepared by tho Perniier with that object in view lias been indorsed by the Emperor and the Cabinet. It makes the civil service compulsory in all marriages. The measure is bitterly opposed by the clergy, and is sure to meet with disfavor by a large class of people. What the Government hopes to accomplish by the innovation is thus far only a matter of surmise. It cannot make the matrimonial obligation any more binding. A wedding under the impressive forms of the church certainly makes a more lasting itnpression than the brief formality of civil marriage. It is the strength of the silken cord, not the style of knot, that must be relied upon in a matrimonial union. Terre Haute is about the only American city in which the anti-vac-cinationists have been able to gain adherents. There have Deen antivaccination troubles in London and ia the foreign quarters of New York City, but in both cities the compulsory vaccination law has eventually been enforced. In Terre Haute, however, the courts have decided that the Board of Health cannot compel compliance with the local ordinance requiring all school children to be vaccinated, and certain pig-headed persons have taken advantage of the ruling. The prospect is that the enlightened portion of the citizens will have to keep their children away from school or subject them to the risk of infection. It is evident that Terre Haute is much in need of enlightenment They will be burning witches down there presently. “If we were disposed to moralize," says William Waldorf Astor in his toad-eating Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the assassination of Mayor Harrison, “we might see in this lamentable affair an object lesson against the methods of municipal government that obtain throughout the United States.” Os course he might Sycophant and renegade, he can always find an excuse for abusing his native country. His subserviency to English masters is too well known to require any admission of the fact from him. It is to be hoped, however, that the foreign correspondents will cease to cable his utterances to this country.. No one here carts what he says or thinks. The less he is heard of the less shame will be felt by Americans that such a pitiful ob,ect should be entitled to call America his birthplace. Running for millionaires in San Francisco bids fair to become a leading pastime if not indeed an established pot-hunt’.ng industry. The court fixed the penalty for the shooting of bonanza king Mackey by old man Rippey at $250 or 125 days in jaiL This scarcely exceeds the penalty for hunting quail out of season, and gunners “out” for big game can find more and better sport right in that city, and without the trouble of climbing over rugged hills. One wonders if Rippey had taken in a job Jot of say half a dozen bonanza kings instead of one, whether it might not have come even cheaper; perhaps to $25 or 50 days in retirement. The friends of the poor old man, however, must rejoice that he chose that mode of self indulgence in a little frolic, rather than to have stolen a pair of toots, for instance. Bull’s hide has apparently become so much more precious than human blood that for ! such an offense the sportive old chap ' would probably have been consigned ito the penitentiary for practically a life period. The Bengal Boar. Possibly in moments of enthusiasm ■ and wassail the Bengal boar may : have been overpraised. He has not ,! a pleasant temper, his habits are i open to unfavorable criticism, he . may fail in his family relations—but ,he has plenty of pluck. He wifi I tight anything that comes in his way; ; not even a tiger daunts him. and, ’ ! what is more, the tiger sometimes v' succumbs to the terrible tushes of sI the boar. "* 1 i I have seen a boar bearing away

I from such heroic battle the marks— I deep and frequent marks—of a tiger’s i claws, and that boar swam the I Ganges in flood—a sufficient feat for lan unwounded animal, and one that I should set at rest the question i whether pigs can swim. A dangerous brute is that Bengal J boar. Throughout the whole of my sporting career only two of my beatI eis were killed, and one of these was I cut to death by a boar; a leopard killed the others not one was either, i killed or mauled by tigers. But my first experiences in this . line were. I regret to say, less connected with the mighty boar than I with the saw, which, though it can- | not rip up a horse’s flanks or belly as 1 J can the boar, can gallop a little, and, i instead of ripping, can bite. -Blackwood’s Magifeine. When a man makes up a trouble with his wife, he doesn’t seek to re--1 move She cause of the offense, but to i her she is unreasonable. A ‘

AN OLD IMPOSITION-. I ni ll® — fi[ pr' l \ I Joi a \\ Lj i. '| ■ Conductor CLEVELAND—That fellow can't ride free any longer, ma’am— he's big enough to pay for hitns-elf!—Puck.

THE PARTY ON TRIAL. Ail Impartial Revision of the Tariff Democracy •» Only Salvation. The Democratic party is now on trial for its life. It has been commissioned by the people to make a tariff for revenue law and, in doing so, abolish tho “fraud” protection. Twice have the people spoken with their mighty voice. Once negatively, in 1890, to condemn MeKinleyism; once positively, in 1892, to approve the Democratic program laid out at Chicago. Since 1892 there has been no national issue voted ujx>n by the people and there is now but little reason to believe that the cool, deliberate judgment has changed on the tariff question: though if they had a chance to express themselves, they might raise a vigorous protest against the tardiness and timidity of the Democrats in beginning action against the tariff robber. If, however, the Ways and Means Committee reports a radical and reasonably just tariff bill, and the House and Senate pass it promptly, there is every reason to believe that the people will not withdraw the confidence they have placed in the Democratic party. The result of the recent election, in so far as it had a national meaning, was intended only as a reprimand to tho Democrats for their slowness in getting rid of the obnoxious and panic-producing silver law and as a warning against similar delay in dealing with the tariff. There is rough sailing ahead for the Democratic party if it not only does not turn out any*tariff bill before next summer, but if that bill shall be, as the McKinley bill is, a composite of selfish interests. If every Tom, Dick and Harry who are interested in protected industries and who pretend to be Democrats, are to be allowed to dictate the next tariff and to defeat an honest, impartial and radical revision, Democratic representatives should make ready their life-preservers, for their ship will go down when it is struck by the next wave of popular indignation. If it were possible to please all of the people by giving sectional and selfish interests full play, then the McKinley bill should have been approved by all States: for if any State was slighted it was not McKinley’s fault He gave to all who asked if they asked tor any particular industry and locality, and not simply for that indefinite something—the welfare of all in the country. The people at large, or at least a sufficient number to sway elections, are quick to distinguish between an honest broad-guage tariff and a truckling miserable makeshift; and they have the patriotism to support such a measure even if the special interest of their own locality ba denied further governmental aid. They realize the justice of impartiality and of leaving each industry to shift for itself. They have more courage than some of the so-called representatives in Congress who are afraid to say nay to the selfish clamor of a few of their wealthy constituents. Let a Congressman rise above sectionalism, vote for the good of the whole country, have faith in the patriotism of his constituents, and he will not only benefit his party, but probably also himself. Patriotism is far more likely to bring success than demagogism. If the Democratic party at the critical time shrinks from action, or shirks its duty to fulfill its promises, it need not trouble itself about ite future—it will have none. Quick, sharp, decisive action, which shall wipe out the last vestige of MeKinleyism, give us free raw materials and lower the cost of living will receive the plaudits and votes of millions of people. Trvthem! —Byron W. Holt. _____ / A Precedent. If it is seriously urged that the course of Congress in revising the tariff should be affected by the late vote of the North, we think it will be easily found that the high tariff men have furnished themselves a precedent which fully justifies tariff reformers in disregarding it. The McKinley tariff was passed under conditions when -it was really condemned by the people in advance. In the first place, It was a fraud in the way the sense of the people was tested with regard to it m the campaign that elected President Harrison and gave it a majority in Congress. The impression generally prevailed all through the election of 1888 that duties were to be equalized, not raised. But accepting that as a verdict for raising them, and what followed? The McKinley tariff was not passed till 1890. In the meantime another election had been held, and in it the supporters of high protection had been routed all through the North. In New York, in Ohio, in lowa, and almost even in Massachusetts, all of which states had voted for Harrison, and (according to Republican claims) for high protection, there had been revolutions at the polls which had given tariff reform great gains and reversed the verdict. What did the Republicans do in Ktx:h a contingency? Accept tho popular verdict as against them, as they •Ere now asking to do? As far from it as possible. 'They went at once to work and passed the McKinley tariff in its most odious features, entirely ignoring the decision or the country, which had declared against MeKinleyism, precisely as they would have the people believe it has declared against tariff reduction now. They thus set an example which they are the last men in the world who have a right to complain of the Democrats for following. What would be more inconsistent than for them to claim a different course on the part of their opponents? Boston Herald. No Backward Step. Tire Democratic party cannot afford to purchase the “six votes of Louisiana, "as Congressman Blanchard puts it, by reimposing the tariff on sugar

that was taken off by the McKinley bill. Apart from the principle involved, the torgain would be a bad one, for it would cost the party in the next Congress at least thrice six votes from the West and Northwest The placing of sugar on the free list was the greatest blunder the Protectionists have made in the long battle over the tariff. It is carried into every household in the land demonstrative proof that the tariff is a tax; that our own people pay it; that it raises the price of the commodity on which it is imposed, and that prices can be cheapened by taking it off. Every householder who learned that tire sugar duty had been removed, and then found by experience that as a consequence he oould buy twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar where he had previously got only twelve pounds, had received au object-lesson that no argument could discredit. In the light of this practical experience the preposterous plea that cheapness is degrading—that “a cheap coat makes a cheap man”—was simply laughed at. The West and the Northwest were won for tariff reform by the adroit use of this conclusive object-lession, and throughout the country cheapened sugar was pointed to as an indication of what a Democratic triumph would mean for the consumer. If the duty is reimposed and millions of voters are thus taught that tariff reform means a higher price for the necessaries of life, the result cannot fail to be disastrous. The Democratic motto should be “Once on the free list always on the free list." There must be no backward step.—New York World. Carlisle** Opportunity. The report of Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, which dealt with the revenue question and preceded the passage of the tariff act of 1846, was a state paper of such merit as to command the attention of the civilized world. It was a blow, at the right time, on the right side of a question which engaged the earnest attention of statesmen in Europe as well as in America, and it was instrumental in bringing about a proper determination. Secretary Carlisle has the incentive and the opportunity for a state paper of like tenor with the Walker report He is a great master of lucid statement. The country may expect from him an equally clear and candid exposition of Democratic doctrine on the subject of taxation that will compel the conviction of impartial- minds.—Philadelphia Record. Urgency of Tariff Reform. Let tariff reform go on as demanded by the best interests of the country.— Lynchburg (Va.) News. The necessity of tariff reform and reduction is as fully understood as ever before. —Buffalo Courier. There is danger in every step that leads us away from the platform, and safety in every effort that we make to carry it into effect.—Atlanta Constitution. Obstruction of the tariff bill, like opposition to the repeal of the Sherman act, will but delay the revival of business, which the country ardently desires.—Baltimore Sim The duty of the hour for the Democratic Congress is the revision of the tariff. It was this to which the party was pledged. Upon this pledge it was restored to power. —Kansas City Times. It is important that tariff reform be enacted as speedily as possible in order that the people may, discover by experience that it is not the fearful thing of their imaginings.—Elmira Gazette. Prompt, decisive action by Congress on the tariff question is imperatively demanded; not only for the best interests of the country, but for the good of the Democratic party. —Newport Herald. Tariff reform must be pushed with all possible expedition. Such a course is demanded alike by the interests of the country and by considerations of party expediency. —Louisville CourierJournal. It the Democratic majority to proceed with all possible expedition to put upon the statute books its policy of tariff reform, so that industry may know what to expect. —Springfield Republican. IT is scarcely i-easonable to suppose that President Cleveland will accept the vote of the 7th inst. as a revision of public judgment upon the questions of tariff reform and silver coinage.— Chicago Record. The Democrats should as speedily as

possible give the country the law which it is their intention to enact, so that any element of doubt may be removed from the situation.—Cedar Kapids (lowa. Gazette. Congress would be especially derelict if it failed in this [revision of the tariff], for no Congress ever was elected with clearer instructions, repeated after two years of deliberation- and discussion.—Philadelphia Times. THE lesson to the Democratic party of the election is that the pledges of the pjatfbrm upon which it was intrusted with power must be kept, and that tariff revision must be effected as speedily as possible. — Bridgeport Parmer. / The extra session of Congress has 1 cleared the way, by the repeal of the* silver-purchase law, for the other and more important work of tariff reform. In regard to that reform, there must be no hesitation, no delay.—Grand Rapids Democrat. THE people voted for tariff reform. They desire nothing radical or unreasonable. They do not wish manufacturers ruined or Western farmers driven to the woods. Reform, moderate, just to i all, they are go ng to have.—Provi- | dance Telegram I I\. Lijk- 1 .-- ‘ t,— . — 4.--<

TALMAGE’S SERMON. HE AGAIN DISCUSSES A SEASONABLE TOPIC. Th* Cnsek ot lb* Sportsman’s Gan—limiting the Gains ot tho World-Religion I* Dividinc the MpoU-A Besting Plitoo— KoUglon UoUiind. Th* Art of Hunting. Ln the forenoon service at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday Bov. Dr. Talmage took for his subject a most seasonable one, “A Hunting Scene,” the text being Genesis xlix, 27, “In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.’* A few nights ago 800 men encamped along the Long Island Railroad so as to be ready lor the next morning, which was the first "open day” for deer hunting. Between sunrise and 2 o’clock in the afternoon of that day fifteen door were shot. On the 20th of October our woods and forests resound with a shock of firearms and are tracked of pointers and setters, because the quail are then a lawful prize for tho sportsman. On a certain dav in all Englana you can hoar the crack of tho sportsman’s gun, because grouse hunting has begun, and every man that can afford tho time and ammunition and can draw a bead starts for the fields. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard to tho art of hunting. In the far East people, elephant mounted, cnase the tiger. The American Indian darts his arrow at the buffalo until the frightened herd tumble over the rocks. European nobles are often found in the fox chase and at the stag hunt. Francis I. was called the father of hunting. Moees declares of Nimrod, “He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.” Therefore, in all ages of the world, the imagery of my text ought to be sug gesuve, whether it means a wolf after a fox or a man after a lion. Old Jacob, dying, is telling tne for'tunes of his children. He prophesies the devouring propensities ot Benjamin and his descendants. With his dim old eyes he looks off and sees the hunters going out to the fields, ranging them all day, and at nightfall coming home, the game slung over the shoulder, and reaching the door of the tent the hunters begin to distribute the game, and one takes a coney, and another a rabbit, and another a roe. “In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.” Or it may be a reference to the habits of wild beasts that slay their prey, and then drag it back to the cave or lair, and divide it among the young. The World'* Gain. I take my text, in the first place, as descriptive of those people who in the morning of their life give themselves up to hunting the world, but afterward, by the grace of God, in the evening of their life divide among themselves the spoil of Christian character. There are aged Christian men and women in this house who, if they gave testimony, would tell you that in the morning of their life they were after the world as intense as a hound after a hare, or as a falcon swoops upon a gazelle. They wanted the world’s plaudits and the world’s gains. They felt that if they could get this world they would have everything. Some of them started out for the pleasures of the world. They thought that the man who laughed loudest was hapSiest. They tried repartee and conunrum and burlesque and madrigal. They thought they would like to be Tom Hoods or Charles Lambs or Edgar A. Poes. They mingled wine and music and the spectacular. They were worshipers of the harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and the buffoon, and the jester. Life was to them foam and bubble and cachinnation and roystering and grimace. The were so full of glee they could hardly repress their mirth even on solemn occasions, and they came near bursting out hilariously even at the burial because there was something so dolorous in the countenance of the undertaker. After awhile misfortune struck them hard on the back. They found there was something they could not laugh at. Under their late hours their health gave way, or there was a death in the house. Os every green thing their soul was exfoliated. They found out that life was more than a joke. From the heart of God there blazed into their soul an earnestness they had

never felt before. They awoke to their sinfulness and their immortality, and here they sit at sixty or seventy years of age, as appreciative of all innocent mirth as they ever were, but they are bent on a style of satisfaction which in early life they never hunted —the evening of their days brighter than tho morning. In the morning they devoured the prey, but at night they divided the spoil. Then there are others who started out for financial success. Thdy see how limber the rim of man’s hat is when he bows down before some one transpicuous. They felt they would like to see how the world looked from the window of a 84,000 turnout. They thought they would like to have the morning sunlight tangled in the headgear of a dashing span. They wanted the bridges in the park to resound under the rataplan of their swif% hoofs. They wanted a gilded baldric, and so they started on the dollar hunt. They chased it up one street and chased ft down another. They followed it when it burrowed in the cellar. They treed it in the roof. Wherever a dollar was expected to be, they were. They chased it across the ocean. They chased it across the land. They stopped not for the night. Heating that dollar even in the darkness thrilled them as an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled at midnight by a loon’s laugh. They chased that dollar to the money vault. They chased it to the Government Treasury. They routed it from under the counter. All tho hounds were out -all the pointers and the setters. They leaped the hedges for that dollar, and they cried: “Hark away! A dollar! A dollar!” And when at last they came upon j,it and had actually captured it their excitement was like that of a falconer who had successfully flung his first hawk. In the morning of their life, oh, how thev devoured the prey! But there came a better time to their soul. They found out that an immortal nature cannot live on bank stock. They took up a Northern Pacific bond, and there was a hole in it through which they could look into the uncertainty of all earthly treasures. Thev saw some Ralston, living at the rate ot $25,000 a month, leaping from San Francisco wharf because he could not continue to live at the same ratio. They saw the wizen and paralytic bankers who had changed :i helr souls into molten gold stamped with the image of the earth, earthy. They saw some groat souls by avarice turned into homunculi, and they said to themselves, “I will seek after higher treasure. ” A Poor Thing to Dant. From that time they did not caro whether they walked or rode, if Christ . walked with them; nor whether they i lived in a mansion or in a hut. if thev ’ dwelt wnder the shadow ot the Ab ■ <- ' ■

mighty: nor whether they were robed ’ in Fronqh broadcloth or in homespun, if they had tho robe of the Saviour’s righteousness; nor if they were san- • dalod with inoroooo or calfskin, if they wore shot) with tho preparation of tho Gospel. Now you see ixiuoe ou their countenance. Now that man says: . “What a fool I was to to enchanted , with this worldl Why, 1 have more satisfaction in five minutes In the service of God than I had in all the first years of my life while I was gaingetting. I like this evening of my day a Gat deal totter than f djithc morn- . In the morning greedily de- . vourod the prey, but how it is even- • Ing and I am gloriously dividing the i spoiL” i My friends, this world is a poor thing . to hunt It Is healthful to go out in the woods and hunk It rekindles the luster of the eye. It strikoe the i brown of the autumnal leaf into tho cheek. It gives to the rheumatic • limbs the strength to leap like a roe. Christopher North’s pet gun, the muckle-mou’d Mog, going off in the ' summer in the forests, had its echo in the winter time in the eloquence that rang through the university halls of Edinburgh. It is healthy to go hunting in the fields, but I tell you it is belittling and bedwarfing and belaming for a man to hunt this world. The hammer comes down on the gun cap, and the barrel explodes and kills you instead ot that which you are pursuing. When you turn out to hunt the world, tho world turns to hunt you, and as many a sportsman aiming his Sun at a panther's heart has gone own under the striped claws, so while you have been attempting to devour this world the world has toen devouring you. So it was with Lord Byron. So it was with Coleridge. So it was with Catherine of Russia Henry II went out hunting for thia world, and its lances struck through his heart. Francis I aimed at the world, but the assassin's dagger put an end to his ambition and his life with one atroke. Mary Queen of Scots wrote on the window of her castle: From the top of all mjr trust Mishap hath laid me In the dust The Queen Dowager of Navarre wae offered for her wedding day a costly and beautiful pair of gloves, and she put them on, but they were poisoned gloves, and they took her life. Better a bare hand of cold privation than a warm and poisoned glove of ruinous success. “Oh,” says some young man in the audience, “I believe what you are preaching. lam going to do that very thing. In the morning of my life I am going to devour the prey, and in the evening I shall divide the spoil of Christian character. I only want a little while to sow my wild oats, and then I will be good.” Young man, did you ever take the census of all the old people? How many old people are there in your house? One. twoor none? Howmany in a vast assemblage like this? Only here and there a gray head, like the patches of snow here and there in the fields on a late April day. The fact is that the tides of the years are so strong that men go down under them before they get to be 60, before they get to be 50, before they get to be 40, before they get to be 30. And if you, my young brother, resolve now ;that you will spend the morning of your days in devouring the prey the probability is that you will never divide the spoil in the evening hour. He who postpones until old age the religion of Jesus Christ postpones it forever. Where are the men who 30 years ago resolved to become Christians in old age, putting it off a certain number of years? They never got to be old. The railroad coHision ? or the steamboat explosion, or the slip on the ice, or the falling ladder, or thesudden cold, put an end to their opportunities. They have never had an topportunity since, and they never will have an opportunity again. They locked the door of heaven against their soul, and they threw away the keys. They chased the world, and they died in the chase. The wounded tiger turned on them. They failed to take the game they pursued. Mounted on a swift courser, they leaped the hedge, but the courser fell on them and crushed them. Proposing to barter their soul for the world, they lost both and got neither. Dividing the Spoil.

While this is an encouragement to old people who are still unpardoned, it is nQ encouragement to the young who are putting off the day of grace. This doctrine that the old may be repentant is to be taken cautiously. It is medicine that kills or cures. The same medicine given to different patients, in one case it saves life and in the other it destroys it. This possibility of repentance at the close of life may cure | the old man while it kills the young. ; Be cautious in taking it. Again, my subject is descriptive of those who come to a sudden and a radical change. You have noticed how short a time it is from morning to night—only seven or eight hours. You know that the day has a very brief life. Its heart beats twenty-four times and then it is dead. How quick this transition in the character of these Beniamites! “In the mrrning they shall devour the prey, and at night they shall divide the spoil.” Is it possible that there shall be such a transformation in any of our characters? Yes. A man may be at 7 o’clock in the'morning an all devouring worldling,and at 7 o’clock at night he may be a peaceful, distributive Christian. Conversion is instantaneous. A man passes into the kingdom of God quicker than down the sky runs zigzag lightning. A man may be anxious about his soul for a great many years; that does not make him a Christian. A man may pray a great while; that does not make him a Christian.-' A man may resolve on the reformation of his character and have that resolution going on a great while; that does not make him a Christian. But the very instant when he ilipgs his soul on the mercy of Jesus Christ, that instant is lustration, emancipation, resurrection. Up to that point he is going in the wrong direction: after that point he is going in the right direction. Before that mojnent he is a child of sin: after that moment he is a child of God. Before that moment devouring the prey; after that moment dividing the spoil. Five minutes is as good as five years. My hearer, you know very well that the best things you have done you have done in a flash. You have made up your mind in an instant to buy, or to sell, or to invest, or to stop, or to start. If you had missed that one chance, you would have missed it forever. Now, Et as precipitate and quick and sponeous will bo the ransom of your soul. Some morning you were making a calculation. You got on the track of some financial or social game. With your pen or your pencil you were pursuing it. That very morning you were devouring the prey, but that very night you were in a different mood. You found that all Heaven was offered you. You wondered how you could get it tor yourself and for your family. You wondered what resources it would give you now and hereafter. You are dividing peace and oomfort and satisfaction and Christian reward in your eoul. You. are dividing the spoil. One Sabbath night at the close of the sermon I said to some persons, “When your soul? And they toia ,

night." And I said to others, “When did you give your heart to God?’’ And they said, “Tonight.” And I seta to still others, “When did you resolve to serve the Ixird all tho days of yoer life?" Anti they said, * To-night* I saw by tho gayoty of their apparel that when the grace of God strusk: them they wore devouring the prey; but I saw also in the flood of joyful tears, and in the kindling rapturee m their brow, and in their oxhilarantasd, transporting utterances that they dividing tho spoil. W ’ If you have toon in this bullaMMy’ when the lights are struck at night, you know that with one touon of electricity they ore ail blazed. Oh, I would to God that tho darkness of yoar souls might be broken up, and that by one quick, overwhelming, instantaneous flash of Illumination you migt be brought into tho light and the liberty 1 of the sons of God! , Religion Defined. You see that religion Is a different thing from what some of you people supposed. You thought it was a decadence. You thought religion was maceration. You thought it was highway robbery: that it struck one down and loft him half dead; that it plucked out the eyes; that it plucked out the plumes of the soul; that it broke the wing and crushed the beak as it came clawing with Its black talons through the air. No, that is not religion. What is religion? It is dividing the spoil it is taking a defenseless soul and panoplying it for eternal conquest It is the distribution of prizes, by the king’s hand — every medal stamped with a coronation. It Is an exhilarar tlon, an expansion. It is imparadiaatlon. It is enthronement. Iteligioa makes a man master of earth, of death and hell. It goes forth to gather the medals of victory won by Prince Emanuel, and the diadems of Heaven, and the glories of realms terrestrixd and celestial, and then, after ranging all worlds for everything that is resplendent, it divides the spoil. What was it that James Turner, the famous English evangelist wae doing when in his dying momenta he said: "Christ is all! Christ is all!” Why, he was entering into light. He was rounding the Cape of Good Hope. He was dividing the spoil. What was the aged Christian Quakeress doing when at 80 years of age she arose In the meeting one day and said: “The time of my departure is come. My grave clothes are falling off." She was dirid ing the spoil. She longed with wings to fir awag And mix with that eternal day. What is Daniel now doing, the lion tamer? And Elijah, who was drawn by the flaming coursers? And Paul, the rattling of whose chains made kings quake? And [all the other victims of flood and wreck.and guillotine—where are they? Dividing the spoiL Ten thousand times ten thousand. In sparkling raiment bright. The armies of the ransomed saint* Throng up the steep* ot light. Ti* finished, all is finished. Their fight with death and sin. Lift high yodr golden gates And let the victors. Oh, what a grand thing it is to be a Christian! We begin now to divide the spoil, but the distribution will not be completed to all eternity. There is a poverty struck soul, there is a bqtiness despoiled soul, there isasin etrafik soul, there is a bereaved .soul— why do you not come and get the spoil of Christian character, the oomfort, the joy, the peace, the salvation that I am sent to offer to you in my Master’s name? Though your knees knock together in weakness, though your hands tremble in fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncontrollable weeping—coma and get the spoil. Rest for ail the weary. Pardon for all the guilty. Rescue for all the bestormed. for all the dead. I verily believe that there are some who have come Ln here downcast because tho world is against them, and because they feel God is against them, who will go away saying, I came to Jesus as I was. Weary and worn and sad; I found in him a resting place. And he has made me glad. Though you came in children of the world, you may go away heirs of Heaven. Though this very autumnal morning you were devouring the prey., now, all worlds witnessing, you may divide the spoil. Latest in English Slang. There are fashions in speech as well as fashions in clothes, says the Pall Mall Budget Everything la society just now is either “awfully ghastly” or "awfully charming, don’t you know." If your new bonnet isn’t awfully ghastly it must be awfully I charming, and if Miss Fourstarsf i singing at the local concert the other evening t wasn’t awfully charming, then it must certainly have been awfully ghastly. Pretty is no longer pretty, but pooty. Y—, the famous man milliner, hM caught the trick from his duchess customers. You hear him talk glibly of pooty gowns and pooty galls. Gorgeous or deadly are the correct adjectives to use when speaking of the weather. Nowadays it Is quits customary for educated people to talk of the dook. In quite circles the final gis dropped in many words. They talk of ridin\ shootin*, talkin’, singin’. I suppose the next thing we shall hear will be chat they have ceased to aspirate their hs for the excellent reason that Lt has be- i. come so common for ordinary folks to do sa But, after all, these examples of affectation, ridiculous though they sound, are not quite so bod as the mincing style of affectation fashionable in days gone by. Mincing ii now chiefly confined to old maids or young gins under 2a Other folks don’t seem to get time for IL la these days ot push “side” seems to gv further than mincing mannera Some Familiar Names. Siberia signifies "thirsty.” Sicily is "the country of grapes.” Caledonla means "a high hilt” 40la signifies "in the middle,” from the fact that ancient geographers thought It between Europe and Africa. Italy signifies "a country of pitch," from its yielding great quantities of black pitch. Hibernia is "utmost” or “last habitation,’’for beyond this to the westward the Phoenicians never e»^ — tended their voyages. Brita n is*‘the country of tin,” great quantities being round in it The Greeks call it > Albion, which s’gnifles either“wh'te" or "h'gh," from the whiteness ot ita shores or the high rocks ou the wosti ern coast There is a false economy which costs more than it returns, such as ; saving old medicine bottles, partially used prescriptions, the tacks taken from the carpet or working days to 1 save' or make that which can be ; bought for a few cents. An exchange contains an artuMe ' entitled: "Why do people have poor . toeth?" It is probably because they