Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 June 1895 — Page 3

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Numerous Excursions the Cowing Summer at Reasonable lint«4. Whether thj tourist's lancy directs i, him to the New England Stares or the

Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mouutains and the wouderlaud beyond the Mississippi, he will be f?iven opportunity to indulge his tastes at. a small cos: for railroad fare this yenr. There will be low rates to Baltimore ovrT the Pennsylvani^i Lin^s in May, account the American Medical Association to Decatur, 111., accouut the German Baptist (Dunkard) meeting, and to Pittsburg for the Presbyterian Genetal Assembly. There will also be low rates over those l.ut-s to Me ridian, Miss account the General Assembly Cumberland Presbyterian church the same month. In June excursion tickets will be sold over the Pennsylvania Lines to Omaha account the National Jr. O. U. A. M.: to Chattanooga, Tenn, for the International Convention of Epwortli League to Cleveland, Ohio, account the National Republican League Meeting, and to Roanoke, Va for the German Baptist meeting. Excursions for July include low rates over the Pennsylvania to Baltimore for the Bantist Y. Union Meeting to Asbury Park for the L. A. W. meeting, and to Boston for the Christian Endeavor Convention, and to Denver Col., accouut the National Educational Association meeting. In August excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Linos to Boston, acc-unt the Knights Templar Conclave The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful oce.in resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirab opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thine for a sigh -seeing jaunt thro* the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic sc-mery beyond the Mississippi aud Missouri rivers. "triable route privileges will al-=o bd accorded Boston excursionist. fu -ibling t.hem to visit Niagara Falls, Monuval, Thousand Tsiau'ls aud St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and to return bv steimer on Long Island Sound, after slght-setiug at Newport. Narmgansett PUT, intuckec and the Cap^ Cod resorts to Nav York and thence tnrough the agri'ult:u".al paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers. over the Allegheuies, around fain us Horse S:ioe Curve, through historic John-i'o vii aud the coke and iron regions of Wes' em Pennsylvania. It is also expected that Bostou excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

Inaidition to the ab ve, there will be plenty of other cheao excursions over th? Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certaiu that no railway will otter better inducements ihvn the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that, may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressiog F. VAX DUSEN*, Chief Assistant Gen. Pa=s. Agt,., Pittsburg, Pa. apr6\vd-t-s tf

REDUCED KATES.

Excursions over Pennsyliiauia Lines During Season of 18!).». Liberal concessions iuj! fare] over *the Pennsylvania lines have been granted for numerous events to take^plice this summer in various parts of thej United States. In addition to local excursions tiokets it reduced rates will be.soldjover these lines as given in the folioviug] paragraphs. Excursion tickets may be obtained at ticket offices on the Pennsylvania System and will also be sold.jover this route by connecting railroads. ™Some of the points to which tickets will ba sold and dates of sile as follows:

To Chattanooga, Tenn., June 25 and 26 and 27 inclusive, account Ep worth League International Conference good returning fifteen days from date of sale. By special arrangements return limit may be extended an additional fifteen days.

To Denver, Colorado Springs, Maniton or Pueblo, Col., July 3, 4 and 5 account National Educational Association Meeting. The return trip must be commenced July 12th 13th, 14th or 15th unless by special arrangement the return limit is extended to Sept. 1.

To Baltimore July 16 th and 17th good returning until August 5 inclusive account the Convention of Baptist Young People's Union of A.merica.

To Boston, July 5sh to 9th, inclusive for tbe National Christian Endeavor Meeting. Return limit may be extended by special arranzement to August 3d.

To Boston August 19th to 25th inclusive accouut Triennial Conclave Knights Templar. Return limit extended to October 3d by special arrangemsnt.

To Louisville, Ky., in September, for National Encampment, G. A. R. One cent per mile. Reasonable return limit.

The reduced rates over the Pennsylvania lines will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but may be taken advantage of by the public generally. Any Pennsylvania Line Ticket or Passenger Agent will furnish desired information concerning rates, time of trains and other details to applicants, or the same may be obtained by addressing W. H. Scott, ticket agent, Greenfield, Ind., or F. Van Dusen, Chief Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt Pittsburg, Pa. may21dwtf

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THE GLORIOUS RIGHTS SHE ALREADY POSSESSES.

Kev. Dr. Talmage Favors Woman Suffrage, but He Sees Higher Rights For Women Than This—The Realm of Home—An

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ST. LOTTIS **.—In his serruon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who has reached this city on his western tour, discusses a subject of universal interest— viz, "Woman's Opportunity"—his text being, "She shall be called woman," Genesis ii, 23.

God, who can make no mistake, made man and woman for a specific work and to move in particular spheres—man to be regnant iu his realm woman to be dominant in hers. The boundary line between Italy and Switzerland, between England and Scotland, is not more thoroughly marked than this distinction between the empire masculine and the empire feminine. So entirely dissimilar are the fields to which God called them that you can no more compare them than you can oxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and stars. All this talk about the superiority of one sex to the other sex is an everlasting waste of ink and speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that he can weigh the dust of diamonds, but where are the scales so delicate that you can weigh in them affection against affection, sentiment against sentiment, thought against thought, soul against soul, a man's world against a woman's world? You come out with your stereotyped remark that man is superior to woman in intellect, and then I open on my desk the swarthy, iron typed, thunderbolted writings of Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot. You come on with your stereotyped remark about woman's superiority to man in the item of affection, but I ask you where was there more capacity to love than in John, the disciple, and Matthew Simpson, the bishop, and Henry Martyn, the missionary?

The heart of those men was so large that after you had rolled into it two hemispheres there was room still left to marshal the hosts of heaven and set up the throne of the eternal Jehovah. I deny to man the throne intellectual I deny to woman the throne affectional. No human phraseology will ever define the spheres, while there is an intuition by which we know when a man is in his realm, and when a woman is in her realm, and when either of them is out of it. No bungling legislature ought to attempt to make a definition or to say, "This is tho lino and that is the line." My theory is that if a woman wants to vote she ought to vote, and that if a man wants to embroider and keep house he ought to be allowed to embroider aud keep house. There are masculine women and there are effeminate men. My theory is that you have no right to interfere with any one's doing anything that is righteous. Albany and Washington might as well decree by legislation how high a brown thrasher should fly or how deep a trout should plunge as to try to seek out the height and depth of woman's duty. The question of capacity will settle finally the whole question, the whole subject. When a woman is prepared to preach, she will preach, and neither conference nor presbytery can hinder her. When a woman is prepared to move in highest commercial spheres, she will have great influence on the exchange, and no boards of trade can hinder her. I want woman to understand that heart and brain can overfly any barrier that politicians may set up, and that nothing can keep her back or keep her down but the question of incapacity.

Wemen and the Ballot.

I was in New Zealand hist year just after the opportunity of suffrage had been conferred upon women. The plan worked well. There had never been such good order at the polls, and righteousness triumphed. Men have not made such a wonderful moral success of the ballot box that they need fear women will corrupt it In all our cities man has so nearly made the ballot box a failure, suppose we let women try. But there are some women, I know, of most undesirable nature, who wander up and down the country—having no homes of their own or forsaking their own homes —talking about their rights, and we know very well that they themselves are fit neither to vote nor to keep house. Their mission seems merely to humiliate the two sexes at the thought of what any one of us might become. No one would want to live under the laws that such women would enact or to have cast upon society the children that such women would raise. But I shall show you that the best rights that woman can own she already has in her possession that her position in this country at this time is not one of commiseration, but one of congratulation that the grandeur and power of her realm have never yet been appreciated that she sits today on a throne so high that all the thrones of earth piled on top of each other would not make for her a footstool Here is the platform on which she stands. Away down below it are the ballot box and the congressional assemblage and the legislative halL Woman always has voted and always will vote. Our great-grandfathers thought they were by their votes putting Washington into the presidential chair. No. His mother, by the principles she taught him, and by the habits she inculcated, made him president. It was a Christian mother's hand dropping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote and Newton philosophized and Alfred the Great governed and Jonathan Edwards thundered of judgment to coma

How many men there have been in high political station who would have been insufficient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put had it not been for a wife's voice that sncouraged them to do right and a

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wife's prayer that sounded louder than the clamor of partisanship? The right of suffrage as we men exercise it seems to be a feeble thing. You, a Christian .man, come up to the ballot box and you drop you.r vote. Right after you comes a libertine or a sot—tbe offscouring of the street—and he drops his vote, and his vote counteracts yours. But if in the quiet of home life a daughter by her Christian demeanor, a wife by her industry, a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote in the right direction, then nothing can resist it, and the influence of that vote will throb through the eternities.

Her Most Glorious Rights. My chief anxiety then is not that woman have other rights accorded her, but that she, by the grace of God, rise up to the appreciation of the glorious rights she already possesses. First, she has the right to make hfcnie happy. That realm no one has ever disputed with her. Men may come home at noon or at night, and then tarry a comparatively little while, but she, all day long, governs it, beautifies it, sanctifies it. It is within her power to make it the most attractive place oil earth. It is the only calm harbor in this world. You know as well as I do that this outside world and the business world are a long scene of jostle and contention. The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it the man who has it not struggles to get it. Prices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains. Misrepresentations. Underselling. Buyers depreciating salesmen exaggerating. Tenants seeking less rent landlords demanding mora Struggles about office. Men who are in trying to keep in men out trying to get in. Slips. Tumbles. Defalcations. Panics. Catastrophes. O woman, thank God you have a home, and that you may be queen in it. Better be there than wear Victoria's coronet. Better be there than cai-ry the purse of a princess.

Yoiu* abode may be humble, but you can, by your faith in God and your cheerfulness of demeanor, gild it with splendors such as an upholsterer's hand never yet kindled. There are abodes in every city—-humble, two stories, four plain, unpapered rooms, undesirable neighborhood, and yet there is a man who would die on the threshold rather than surrender. Why? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it he sees angels of God hovering around it. The ladders of heaven are let down to that house. Over the child's rough crib there are the chantings of angels as those that broke over Bethlehem. It is home. These children may come up after awhile, and they may win high position, and they may have an affluent residence, but they will not until their dying day forget that humble roof, under which their father rested and their mother sang and their sisters played. Oh, if you would gather up all tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banquetings and reunions, all filial, fraternal, paternal and conjugal affections, and you had only just four letters with which to spell out that height and depth and length and breadth and magnitude and eternity of ing, you would, with streaming eyes and trembling voice and agitated hand, write it out in thoso four living capitals, H-O-M-E.

The Kenlm of Home.

What rkrhfc does woman want that is grander than to be queen in such a realm? Why, the eagles of heaven cannot fly across that dominion. Horses, panting and with lathered flanks, are not swift enough to run to the outpost of that realm. They say that the sun never sets upon the English empire, but I have to tell you that on this realm of woman's influence eternity never marks any bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by the nation's anathema, but she who is queen in a home will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly principalities.

When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you do not think of Catherine of Russia or of Anne of England or Marie Theresa of Germany, but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you think of the plain woman who sat opposite your father at the table or walked with him arm in arm down life's pathway sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always together— soothing your petty griefs, correcting your childish waywardness, joining in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at the spinning wheel, and on cold nights wrapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying, and you saw her take those thin hands with whi^h she had toiled for you so long, and put them together in a dying prayer that commended you to the God whom she had taught you to trust—oh, she was the queen! The chariots of God came down to feteh her, and as she went in all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep foundations of your soul, and you feel as much a child again as when you cried on her lap, and if you could bring her back again to speak just once more your name as tenderly as she used to speak it you would be willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her, crying, "Mother! mother!" Ah! she was the queen—-she was the queen. Now, can you tell me how many thousand miles a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot box? Compared with this work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, how insignificant seems all this work of voting for aldermen and common councilmen and sheriffs and constables and mayors and presidents To make one such grand woman as I have described how many thousands would you want of those people who go in the round of fashion and dissipation, going as far toward disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so as not to be arrested by the police—their behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature of the vicious and an iusult to that God who made them women and notgorgons, and tramping on, down through

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a frivolous and dissipated life, to temporaJ and eternal damnation, Dissipations of Fashions. I O woman, with the lightning of I your soul, strike dead at your feet all these allurements to dissipation and to fashion! Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon such garbaga God calls you up to empire and dominion. Will you I have it? Oh, give to God your heart

give to God all your best energies give to God all your culture give to God all your refinement give yourself to him, for this world and the next. Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched and these voices will be hushed. For the last time you will look upon this fair earth. Father's hand, mother's hand, sister's hand, child's hand will no more be in yours. It will be night, and there will come up a cold wind from the Jordan aud you must start. Will it be a lone woman on a trackless moor? Ah, no! Jesus will come up in that hour and offer his hand, and he will say, "You stood by me when you were well now I will not desert you when you are sick.'' One wave of his hand and the storm will drop, and another wave of his hand and midnight shall break into midnoon, and another wave of his hand and the chamberlains of God will come down from the treasure houses of heaven with robes lustrous, blood washed and heaven glinted, in which you will array yourself for the marriage supper of the Lamb. And then with Miriam, who struck the timbrel of the Red sea, and with Deborah, who led the Lord's host into the fight, and with Hannah, who gave her Samuel to the Lord, and with Mary, who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were angel.'? singing in the air, and with sisters of charity, who bound up the battle wounds of the Crimea, you will, from the chalice of God, drink to the soul's eternal rescua

Your dominion is home, O woman What a brave fight for home the women of Ohio made some 10 or 15 years ago, when they banded together and in many of the towns and cities of that state marched in procession, and by prayer and Christian songs shut up more places of dissipation than were ever counted! Were they opened again? Oh, yes. But is it not a good tiling to shut up the gates of hell for two or three months? It seemed that men engaged in the business of destroying others did not know how to cope with this kind of Wiirfare. They knew how to fight the Maine liquor law, and they knew how to fight the National Temperance society, and they knew how to fight tho Sons of Temperance and Good Samaritans, but when Deborah appeared upon the scene Sisera took to his feet and got to the mountains. It seems that they did not know how to contend against "Coronation" and "Old Hundred" and "Brattle Street" and "Bethany," they were so very intangible. These men found that they could not accomplish much against that kind of warfare, and in one of the cities a regimqpt was brought out all armed to disperse the women. They came down in

mean- battle array, but, oh, what poor success! for that regiment was made up of gentlemen, and gentlemen do not like to shoot women with hymnbooks in their hands. Oh, they found that gunning for female prayer meetings was a very poor business. No real damage was done, although there was threat of violence after threat of violence all over the land. I really think if the women of tho east had as much faith in God as their sisters of the west had and the same recklessness of human criticism, I really believo that in one month threefourths of the grogshops of our cities would be closed, and there would be running through the gutters of the streets burgundy and cognac and heidsick and old port and schiedam schnapps and lager beer, and you would save your fathers and your husbands and

and secondly from a drunkard's hell. To this battle for home let all women rouse themselves. Thank God for our early home. Thank God for our present home. Thank God for the coming home in heaven.

An Allegory.

One twilight, after I had been playing with the children for some time, I lay down on the lounge to rest. The children said play more. Children always want to play mora And, half asleep and half awake, I seemed to dream this dream: It seemed to me that I was in a far distant land—not Persia, although more than oriental luxuriance crowned the cities nor the tropics, although more than tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens nor Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wandered around looking for thorns and nettles, but I found none of them grew there. And I walked forth, and I saw the sun rise, and I said, "When will it set again?" and the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday apparel, and I said, "When do they put on workingman's garb again and delve in the mine and swelter at the forge?" But neither the garments nor the robes did they put off. And I wandered in the suburbs, and I said, "Where do they bury the dead of this great city?" And I looked along by the hills where it would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towns and battlements, but not a mausoleum nor monument nor white slab could I see. And I went into the great chapel of the town, and I said: "Where do the poor worship? Where are the benches on which they sit?'' And a voice answered, "We have no poor in this great city."

And I wandered out, seeking to find the place where were the hovels of the destitute, anfl I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but no tear did I see or sigh hear. was bewildered, and I sat under the shadow of a great tree and I said, "What am I and whence comes all this?" And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the flowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group, and when I saw their step I knew it, and when I heard their voices I thought I knew them, but their

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apparel was so different from anything I had eve* seen I bowed a stranger to strangers. But after awhile, when they clapped their hands and shouted, "Welcome! welcome!" the mystery was solved, and I saw that time had passed and that eternity had come, and that God had gathered us up into a higher home, and I said, "Arc we all here?" and the voices of innumerable generations answered, "All here," and while tears of gladness were raining down our cheeks, and the branches of Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, we began to laugh and sing and leap and shout,'' Home! home I home!"

Then I felt a child's hand on my face, and it woke me. TL£ children wanted to play mora Children always want to play more.

Old Samoan Ways.

The Samoans are physically a splendidly made race of a deep bronze color~ Their hair is naturally black, but i» converted by frequent dressings of lime, which have a bleaching effect, to a dull reddish tint. This custom obtains both with the men and the women. Their arms and chests are specially well developed from their habit of paddling long* distances in their canoes from island to island—in fact, at so great distances from the mainland were these nativesseen by early travelers, that this group was christened the Navigator islands. At this time, too, travelers reported that the Samoans wore fine black skeins reaching from the waist to a short distance above tho knee. This report, though without foundation in fact, waff due to the custom possessed by these people of tattooing themselves after that fashion, covering about the same part of the body as would a pair of our bathing drawers.

All the men are thus tattooed on arriving at maturity, and are not allowed to take unto themselves wives before the painful process is complete. Regular professional tattooers are found among the people, and tho tattooing often occupies some months, as tbe patient only undergoes as much as he can bear at each operation. The designs tattooed are very ancient, and the present generations are entirely ignorant of their signification. This latter fact applies also1 to the words of their rowing songs, which they sing in perfect harmony and in time to their oars or paddles the words sung are now obsolete, and, like the tattooed designs, are not understood by the people.—Westminster Review.

4 Campflre of Fossil Wood. Our fire was made of fossil wood gathered on the beach. This wood is found scattered or in wave washed windrows all about the bay where the shores are low enough for it to rest. It also occurs in abundance in many of the ravines and gorges, and in roughly stratified beds of moraine material, some of which are more than 1,000 feet in thickness. The bed rocks on which those deposits rest are scored and polished by glacial action, like all the rocks hereabouts up to at least 3,000 feet above the sea. The timber is mostly iu tho torm of broken trunks of the Merten, Pa ton and Menzies spruce, the largest sections being 20 to 30 feet long, and from 1 to 3 feet in diameter, some of them with the bark on, sound and tough.

It appears thercforo that these shores were, a century or so ago, as generously forested as those of the adjacent bays and inlets are today though, strange to say, not one tree is left standing, with the exception of a few on mountain tops near the mouth of the bay and on the east side of the Muir glacier. How this deforestment was effected I have not space to tell here. I will only say that all I have seen goes to show that the moraine soil on which the forests were growing was held in place on the steep

glacier that recently filled the entire bay as its channel, and that when it melted the soil and forests were sloughed off together.—"The Discovery of Glacier Bay. by John Muir in Tho Century.

A Playground Made a Lake. One of the features of the Berlin Industrial exposition of next year will be the beauty of the grounds. One of the most interesting changes now taking' place is the transformation of tho great playgrounds in Treptow park into a laka About 48,000 cubic meters of earth will have to be removed, and workmen are now engaged in building the embankment. A promenade, shaded by four rows of plantain trees, already encircles the proposed lake. Powerful engines will supply the water, which will fall in great cascades into the lake, and then flow into the river Sprea Gon-k dolas will ply in the basin and thei neighboring waterways. Artistic restaurants and music halls will border the boulevard, the whole making a scene which, it is expected, will rival in beauty anything ever offered for public enjoyment at any World's fair.

One curious feature of this improvement is found in the fact that Treptow park must be rostored to its original condition when the exposition is over. In order to do this 24,000 square meters of sod must be stored, and the contractors find difficulty in obtaining a place to put it.—New York Times.

Absentininded.

A learned gentleman told the boots

the hotel where he was staying to call him next morning at 4, as he wanted to leave by the 6 o'clock steamer. The man did so, but by mistake hung up the uniform of a lieutenant who occupied the next room on tho door of the professor'* apartment. The latter did not notice the oversight until he was on board the vessel, when he exclaimed: "I declare if that stupid fellow hasn't wakened the lieutenant instead of me!" —Zondagsblad. "j

The proportion of foreigners and their children to natives is greatest in North Dakota, where over four-fifths of thff entire population are either foreigners of native born children of foreign parental