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THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

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GEKMANY has the costliest army in the world It is estimated that to keep the army in the field one week, would cost f80(00u,000.

THB imports of dutiable goods during October were worth $6,500,000 more than in October, 1893. This was the second •loath under the new tariff.

AT a meeting of the flint glass manulii^urers at Pittsburg last week, it was decided not to sell glas3 to the "middleman." By adopting this rule it will save hie profit, tbereoy making cheaper ware.

THE express charges on bread to this ei trom Indianapolis are 40 cents a hunpounds, while on beer it is 80 cents lor the same weight. Why favor the to*- series more than the bread-makers and bread eaters?

THERE IS a la?? requiring a minority representation and one Michigan mau will have his everlasting fill of it. He is th" only Democrat elected to the legislature of that State and will have to serve ©u seventy-six committees. Ob, what a

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DURING the Protection Administration President P'/»ri i«on the National debt WHM decreased by $244,816,890. During twenty-one months of the Free-Trade Ad ministration of President Cleveland the Ka« ionnl debt has been increased by fn 00,000,000.

.Jo32i BURNS, the great leader of Engl»a .ii^a a member of parliament arrived in bis country Sunday. He will attend tfce \vond's labor Congress which soon Meets at Denver. He is a true friend of la .or and proposes studying labor conditions and the institutions of this country. •Tt n. teetotaller himself and ur*es all wuur workmen to waste no money on *rmk.

HK 54i Congress began its start on fecsicn y.'iSDcraay. Tuero w-oie of a Congressional opening, how-•evt-r, and nobody seemed to care or take jcuch interest. Cleveland sent in his »rHHage but be is practically powerless an:l his recommendations not likely to be herded. The Democrats will go out bout struggling much. They are too badiy torn up. They had no great Na ti.-Hial policy but attempted a lot of patch work policies as to the tariff, finance, etc. ..7e.wd in on«. It illustrates the •M auage "A house divided against it:s."iiOt stav-'

THR fee and salary law for court offletols passed by the late Democratic legislature has been declared unconstitutf by the Supreme Court iu a case token up by the Recorder of Lake county, lis also declared unconstitutional sol far ast Treasurers and Auditors are •oucit ned and those elected in 92 and recently will probably serve under the old law which was passed previous to the ««e just declared void. It now behooves -Hie Republican legislature to pass a fee jMd salary law that will stick, one that will not enable officers to make from four to ten times as much as these same offieers or mea of similar capacity, or in aaany ewes incapacity can make in some private business. Let only fair and just salaries be paid.

'l ©NB of the most unique Thanksgiving dinners we have seen illustrated was that mt Uncle 3am and Miss Columbia. They wen, sitting one on each side of the table

Vucie Sam In a big chair made from Michigan lumber and just as happy as lappy could be. The table was covered with a snowy white American cloth and fee delicacies of all the land were there. TVennes3ee turkey, Maryland chicken, West Virginia cranberry sauce, Missouri yune pie, Delaware bread, Jersey celery, 1

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pickles, Illinois potatoes, Louisi-

X,/ aaa sugar,Connecticut crullers, Ohio jam, ^Wisconsin pudding, Pennsylvania pump'Itn pie, Massachusetts mince pie, Cali*#rnia claret, Kentucky whiskey, New flowers labeled pure politics. It was indeed a glorious feast and thorwghly American.

THERE is considerable talk about when terms of the township trustees {should The t4m» was fixed so that it "would expire the first Monday in August .after a report of the year's business bad °Y,fcten made to the Commissioners. Now -m the Supreme Court has decided that £/'when a trustee's term of office expires, ."V'all

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contracts die, the in-coming trus-

„„taa may or may not sanction his contracts, u* T\ -"ay the law id now all thu present *vttees would elect a, county superin«ent and he would have charge of the aahools for practically two years after a mm and entirely diflejenfc set of trusteed were in office. There is talk of exfceiullag the terms of the county snierinteEd-

OB*S from June until September, and -'ten the new tru-tees all over the niM elect the taperiaten:le ts Ibis **y be done unless tlie MuLluga law is mfeaied which would cau^e tUs terms of fe present trustees to expire the first of

MKt April or at the time it w.is to have «apired wheri they were first tlecteci. Viat would enable the trustees elec ed |i November who would taka thedr pltices £srl\ tO elect the Cou itf Bupei intqua

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A NET FULL OF FISH.

REV, DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON OBJECTIONS TO REVIVALS.

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BKOOKLTK, Dec. 8.—Dr. Talmngn chose

for the subject of his sermon through the

press today ''The Objections to P^liglors Revivals," from the text Luke v, 6, "They inclosed a great multitude of fishes, and tiiuir net braku."

Simon and his comrades had experienced the night before what fishermen call

In other words, I believe in revivals. The grc*M work saving xneji Lbg&u v* ilh 3,000jwople joining the churoh in on a day, uail i" ttv: w'-C '.3,000,*}30 or l&C,000,000 people saved in S4 boars, when nations shall be bora in a day. But there are objections to revivals. People are opposed to them because the net might get broken, and if by the pressure of souls !t does not get broken then they take their own penknives and slit the net. "They inclosed a greut multitude oI fishes, and the net brake."

It is sometimes opposed to revivals of religion that those who come into tLe church at suoh times do not bold out. As long as there Is a gale of blessing they have their sails up, but as soon as efong wluds stop blowing tii^u they 4rop a dead calm. But what are the fa tbe casef In ail cur churches the vast majority of the useful people are those who are brought in under great awakenings, and tbey holdout. Who ere the pxoaainent men In the United States in ehurohea, in prayer meetings, in Sabbath schools? For the moss part they are the product of great awakenings. 1 have notioed that those who are brought into the kingdom of God through revival* have move persistence and more determination in the Christian life than those who oome in under a low state of religion. People barn in an icehouse may live, but tbey will never get over the oold they eangbt in the ieebonse. A- oanncn ball upon the impulse witVwhlJb it star* far how far it shall go aod bow swiftly, and the greater the revival force with wttleb a eeul Is started tbe woe* farreaching and far reeeundiag will be the execution.

But It ie eometiraee objected to revivals that thero Is so much excitement that people Bststshe hysteria tag religion.

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smack and tells the sailors to pull away from the beach and directs them again to sink the net. Sure enough, very soon tho net is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. So large a school of fish was taken that the hardy men begin to look red in the faue as they pull, and hardly have they began tr rrioico at their succcss when snap goes a thread of the net, and snap goes another thread, so there is danger not only of losing the fish, but of losing the net.

Without much care as to how much the boat tilts ci how much water is splashed on deck, the fishermen rush about, gathering up the broken meshes of the net. Out yonder there is a ship dancing on the wave, and they hall Jt, "Ship ahoy, bear aiid

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with the floundering treasures. "Ah," saye some one, how much better it would have been If they had staid on shore, and fished with a book and line, and taken ono at a time, instead of having this gnat excitement, and the boat almost uprtet, and trie net ui-oxen, ana ixving to a«ill for help, and getting sopping wet with the seal" The churoh is the boat, the gospel Is the net, society is the ssa, and a great revival is a whole school brought in at one 6weep of the net. I have admiration for that man who goes out with a hook and line to fish. I admire the way he unwinds the reel and adjusts the bait and diops th? hook In a quiet plaoe on a •till afternoon, and here catches one and there one, but I like aleo a big boat, and a large erew, and a net a mile long, and swift CMS, and stent sails, and stiff breezy and a great multitude of sculs brought, so zi ai a multitude that /-u have to get help to draw It ashore, straining the net to the utmost until it breaks here and there, letting a few esoape, but bringing Hie great multitude Into eternal srtfotyv "v

Objections to Bevlvala.

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We must admit that in every revival of religion there Is either a suppressed or a demonstrated excitement. Indeed If a man oan go out of a state ef condemnation into a state of aocpptanoe with God, or see others go, without any agitation of soul, he Is in an unhealthy, morbid state and is as repulsive and absurd as a man who should boast be saw a child snatched out from under a horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or saw a man rescued from tbe fourth story of a house on fire and felt no acceleration of tbe pulses.

Salvation from sin and death and bell iito life and peace and heaven forever is such a tremendous thing that If a man tells n?o be ctn look on it. without any agitation I doubt his Christianity. Tho faot Is that sometimes exeltement is the most important possible thing. In case of resuscitation from drowning or freezing tbe one idea is to excite animation. Before conversion we are dead. It is tbe business of the ohuvoh to revive, arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle into life. Excitement is bad or good acoording to what it makes us do. If it makes us do that whioh Is bad, it is bad excitement but 11 it make us agitated about our eternal welfare, if it make us pfti^j If it make us attend upon Christian service if it make us otf unto God for mercy, then it is a good exoltement.

It Is sometimes said that during revivals of religion great multitudes of children and young people are brought Into the church, and tbey do not know what they are about. It has beon my observation that the earlier people come into the kingdom of God the more useful they are.

Robert Hall, the prince of Baptist preachers, was converted at 154 yeara of age. It is supposed he Knew what he was about. Matthew Henry, tho commentator, who did more than any man of his century for increasing the interest in the study of tho Scriptures, was converted at 11 years of age Isabella Graham, immortal in the Christian churchj was converted at 10 years of age Dr. Watts, whose hymns will be sung all down the a$es, was converted at 0 years of age Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that tho American pulpit ever produced, was converted at 7 years of ago, and that father and mother take an awful responsibility when they tell their ohild at 7 years oif age, "You are too young to bo a Christian," or "You are too .young to connect yourself with the church." That la a mistake as kng as eternity.

If^ilng a revival two persons present .thdMjbhres as candidates fqr the churoli,

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er is 40 years of age, I will have more confidence In the profession of religion of the one 10 years of age than the one 40 years of age. Whyf The one who professes at 40 years of age has 40 years of impulse in the wrong direction to correct the child has only 10 years in the wrong direction to correct. Four times 10 are 40. Four times the' religious 'prospect for the lad that comes iuto tiie kingdom of God and into the church at 10 years of age than the man at 40.

I apt to look Upon tevivals as

connected with certain men who fostered

them. People who in this day do not like revivuls nevertheless have not words to express their admiration for the revivalists of the past, for they were revivalists— Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, George Whitofield, Fletcher, Griffin, Daviea, Ostium, Knapp, Nettleton and many others whose names oome to my mind. The strength of their intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have anything to do with that which was ephemeral. Oh, it is easy to talk against revivals.

A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I like your sermons very much, but the after meetings 1 despise. When the prayer meeting begins, I always go up into the gallery and look down, and I am disgusted." "Well," said Mr. Dawson,

Do know wbereA&reji Burr started on the downward road? It was when he W-v* in CCIIIpgq. ri'irt b') h^^rc

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you goon the top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney to examine his fire, and of course you only get smoke in your eyes. Why don't you come in the door and sit down and warm?"

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that looks like them, because I think it may be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and you know the Bible says that a sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor tbe world to oome! Now, if you are a painter, and I sptfbk a^uinst your picturae, do I not speak against you? If you are an architect, and I speak against a building you put up, do I not speak against you? If a revival be the work of the Holy Ghost, and I speak against that revival, do I not Bpeak against tho Holy Ghost? And whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible, bo shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor In tbe world to oome. I think sometimes people have made a fatal mistake In this direotion.

Many of you know the history of Aaron Burr. He was one of the most brilliant men of bis day. I suppose this country I never produced a stronger intellect. He was capable of doing anything good and neat for his country or for the ohureh of

God had he been rightly disposed, but bis name is associated with treason against the United States government, whinh he tried to overthrow, and vrith libertinism and public Immorality.

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about his soul and was about to put himself under the influences of a revival, and a minister of religion said: "Don't go there, Aaron don't go there. That's a plaoe of wildfire and great exoltement. No religion about that. Don't go there." He tarried away. His serious impressions departed. He started on the downward road. And who is responsible for his ruin? Was it tbe minister who warned him against that revival?

The Real Dlfflcultj.

When I am speaking of exoltement in revivals, of course I do not mean tempo* rary derangement c.2 tho norves. I do not mean the absurd things of which we have renti as transpiring sometimes in the obuich of Christ, but I mean an intelligent, Intense, all absorbing agitation of body, mind and soul in tbe work of spiritual escape and spiritual rescue.

Now I come to the real, genuine cause cf objection to revivals. That is the coldness of the objector. It is the secret and hidden but unmistakable cause in every ease, a low s«ate of religion in the heart. Wideawake, consecrated,useful Christians are never afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead who are afraid of having their •epulcher molested. The chief agents of the devil during a great awakening are always unconverted professors of religion. As soon as Christ's work begins they begin to gossip against it and take a pail of water and try to put out this spark of religious influence, and they try to put out another spark. Do they succeed? As well when Chtoago was on fire might some one have gone out with a garden water pot trying to extinguish it.

Tbe difficulty is that when a revival begins In a church it begins at so many point* that while you have doused one anxtons soul with a pall of oold water there are 000 other anxious souls on fire. Oh, bow much better it would be to lay bold of the chariot of Christ's gospel and help pull it on- rather than to fling ourselves in front of the wheels, trying to blook their progress I We will not stop the chariot, but we ourselves will be ground to powder.

Did you ever hear that there was a convention once held among the icebergs in tbe Arctic? It seems that the summer was coming on, and tbe sun was getting hotter and hotter, and there was danger that the whole ioefleld would break up and flow away. So tbe tallest, and tbe coldest, and tbe broadest of all the icebergs, tbe very king of the arctics, stood at the bead of the convention, and with a gavel of ice smote on a table of ice calling the convenI tion to order. But the sun kept growing in intensity of heat, and tbe south wind blew stronger and stronger, and soon all tbe ioefleld began to grind up, iceberg against iceberg, and to flow away. The first resolution passed by the convention was, "Resolved, that we abolish the sun."

But tbe sun would not be abolished. The beat of the sun grew greater and greater until after awbilo the very king of the icebergs began to perspire under the glow, and the smaller Icebergs fell over, and the cry was: "Too much excitement. Order! Order!" Then the whole body, the whole field, of ice began to flow out, and a thousand voices began to ask: "Where are we going to now? Where are we floating to? We will all break to pieces." By this time the Icebergs had reached tbe gulf stream, and they wbitj meiuxi into tho bosom of the Atlantic Ocoan. The warm sun is the eternal spirit. The icebergs are frigid Christians. The warm gulf stream is a great revival. The ocean into whioh everything melted is the great, wide heart of the pardoning and sympathizing God.

Am Unconverted Ministry.

But I think, after all, the greatest obstacle to revivals throughout Christendom today is an unconverted ministry. We must believe that tho vast majority of those who officiate at sacred altars are'regenerated, but I suppose there may float into tbe ministry of all the denominations of Christians men whose hearts have never been ohanged by the grace of God. Of course tbey are all antagonistic to revivals.

How did tbey get Into tbe ministry? Perfiops some of tb$n chose tt as a respectable psofeeelon. Perhapsjsomo chose jt as a ntfeafts-Of livelihood. Perbapa eome of

than were sincere, bat were mistaken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he had been many years preaching the gospel before, bis heart bad been ohanged, and, as many ministers of the gospel declare, they were preaching and had been ordained to saered orders years and years before their hearts were regenerated. Gracious God, what a solemn thought for those of us who minister at the altar! With the present iuinlftry In the present temperature of piety the world will never be enveloped with revlvcLs.. While the pews on one side the altar cry for mercy the pulpits on the other side the altar must cry for mercy. Ministers quarreling, ministers trying to pull each other down, ministers struggling f. ."l" ministers lethargic With whole congregation's dying on their bands. What a spectacle!

Arou6od pulpits will make aroused pews. Pulpits aflame will make pews aflame. Everybody believes in a revival in trade, everybody likes a revival in literature, everybody likes a revival in art, yet a great multitude cannot understand a revival in matters of religion. Depend upon it, where you find a man antagonistic to rbvivals, whether he be in pulpit or pew, he needs to bo regenerated by the grace of God.

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I could prove to a demonstration that without revivals this world will never be converted, and that in 100 or 200 years without revivals Christianity will be practically extinct. It is a matter of astounding arithmetic. In each of our modern generations thero are at least 32,000,000

re N ad 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 to he I world's population, and then have only 100,000 or 200,000 converted every ye

and how long before the world will be saved? Never—absolutely never I During our war tlie president of tho UnitvO Sti.XLr, ir.adc proclamation for 75,000 troops. Some of you remember tbe big ntir Bn tbe King of tho univrrse today asks for 800,000,000 more troops than are enlisted, and we want it done softly, imperceptibly, gently, no excitement, one by one!

You area dry goods merchant on a large scale, and I a merchant on a small scale, and I come to you and want to buy 1,000 yards of cloth. Do you say: "Thank you. I'll sell you 1,000 yards of cloth, •but I'll sell you 20 yards today, and 20 tomorrow, and 20 tbe next day, and if it takes me six months I'll sell 'you the whole 1.000 yards. You will want as long as that to examine tbe goods, and I'll want ns long as that to examine the credit, and, besides that, 1,000

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too much to sell all at onoe?" No you do net say that. You take me into the counting room, and in ten minutes the whole transaction is crnsuTrwuited. The fact is we a£oil uo IUOIS IN any tiling bat religion I

That very merchant who on Saturday afternoon sold -me the 1,000 yards of cloth at ore etroko th* in wiii stiroke iiifc eeaid wonder who^ac: it would not be better for 1,000 souls to come straggling along for ten years, instead of bolting in st una service.

We talk a good deal about the &ood times that are coming and about the world's redemption. How long before they will come? There is a man who says 500 years. Here ia a man who says 200 years. Here is some one more confident who says in 60 years. What, 50 years? Do you propose to let two generations pass off the stage before the world is converted?

A Tast Enterprise.

Suppose by some ^cti-a ioiongaiion o£ human life at the next 50 years you should walk around the world, you would not in all that walk flnd one person that you recognize. Why? All dead or so changed you would not know them. In other words, if you postpone the redemption of this world for 60 years, you admit that tho majority of the two whole generations Bhall go ofi the stage unblessed and unsaved. I tell you tho church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to it. We muet pray and toil and have the revival spirit, and we must struggle to have the whole world saved before the men and women now in middle life pass off. "Oh," you say, "it is too vast an enterprise to be conducted in so short a time!" Do you know hov.r long it would take to save the whole world if eacb man would bring another? It would take ten years. By a calculation in oompound interest, eacb man bringing another, and that ono another, and that one another, in ten years the whole world would be saved. If the world is not saved.in the next ten years, it will be the fault of tbe churoh of Christ.

Is it too much to expect each ono te bring one? Some of us must bring more than one, for some will not do their duty. 1 want to bring 10,000 souls.. I should be sshamed to meet my God in judgment if, with all my opportunities ofcommending Christ to the people, I could not bring 10,000 souls. But it will all depend upon tbe revival spirit. The hook and line fishing will not do it.

It seems to me as if God is preparing the world for some quick and universal movenSent. A celebrated electrician gave me a telegraph chart of the world. On that cbaat the wires crossing the continents and tho cables under the sea looked like veins red with blood. On that chart I see that tbe headquarters of the lightnings are in Great Britain and the United States. In London and New York the lightnings are stabled, waiting to be harnessed tor some quick dispatch. That shows yeu that the telegraph is in possession of Christianity.

An Old Fashioned Christian.

It is a significant fact that the man who invented tbe telegraph was an old fashioned Christian—Professor Morse—and that the man who put the telegraph under the sea was an old fashioned Christian —Cyrus W. Field—and that the president of the most famous of the telegraph bompanies of this country Was an old fashioned Christian—William Ortou—going from the communion table on earth straight to his home in heaven. What does all that mean?

I do not suppose that tbe telegraph was invented merely to lot us know whether flour is up or down, or which filly won the race at tho Derby, or whioh marksman beat at Dollymount. I suppose the telegraph was -invented and built to eall tbe world to God.

In some of tbe attributes of the Lord we seem to sharo on a smallscale—for instanoe, in his lovo and in bis kindness. But until of late foreknowledge, omniseieneo, oinnipresenoe, omnipotence, seem to bave been exclusively'God's possession. God, desiring to make tbe race like himself,

I will tell you wbat next. Next, a stupendous religious movement. Next, the end of war. Next, the. crash of despotisms. Next, the world's elptfMattott Next, the ,Ciirl«tllke dominion. Next, the jud«***fc

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gives us a species-of foreknowledge in tlfts jfe apt to notioe that the dressed earoasses weather probabilities, gives us a speeles of omniscience in telegraphy,, gives us a epocies of omnipresence in the telephone, gives us a species of omnipotence In the steam power. Discoveries and inventions all around about us, people are asking, What next?

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What become* of the world after tbatl care not. It will have suffered and achieved enough for one world. Lay it up in the dry dooks of eternity, like an old man-of-war gone out of service, or fit it up like a ship of relief to carry bread to some other suffering planet, or let it be demolished. Farewell, deer old world, that began with pamdloe and ended with judgment conflagration 1

The Ocean of Life,

One summer I stood on tbe isle of Wight, and I had pointed out «u ine the place where the Eurydice sank with S00 or 900 young men who were in training for the British navy. You remember when the training ship went down there was a thrill of horror all over the world. Oh, my friends, this world is only a training ship. On it we are training for heaven. The old ship sails up and down the ooean of immensity, now through the dark wave of the midnight, now through the golden crested wave of the morn, but sails on and sails on. After awhile her work will be done, and the inhabitants of heaven will lookout and flnd a worid missing. The cry will be: "Where is that earth where Christ died and the human race were einancipubed? Send out fleets of angela to find the missing craft." Let them sail np and down, cruise up and down the ocean of eternity, and they will catch not one glimpse*of her mountain masts or her topgallants of floating cloud. Gone downl The training ship of a world perished in the last tornado. Oh, let it not be that she goes down with all on board, but rather may it be said of her passengers as it was said of tho drenched passengers of the Alexandrian corn ship that crashed Into tho breakers of Melita, "They all escaped safe to land."

Chinese Signboards.

Celestials appear to understand the value of advertising quite as well a* Yankees, tLacgitiut the statement may sound to the latter, who sometimes talk as if they bad a monopoly of business shrewdness. Chinese biscuits bear the imprint of the baker, and if you buy a duck in tbe market it will very likely have on Its back a big red stamp, on which, if you could ocly read It, 1* the name of the marketman.

Large and attractive signboards area great feature of Chinese shops and present a strange mixture of the flowery litesaSore of the land and the advertising instinc* of a commercial people. A few snropte* will illustrate tbeir general cfearaotax. "Shop of Heaven Sent Luck," "Teaahop ef Celestial l?rixsoiple^ "l^e 2flne JPelioUi£s Prolonged," "Mutton Shop of Morning Twilight," "The Ten Virtues All Complete," "Flowers filse to the Milky Way." In these eigns we see that the Chinamen can combine tho eoul at a poet with the pocket of a showman.

Oferlyle euotee a Chinese signboard, "No Cheating Here," but I could cot find anything like 1%. Good and Just, Aocordlng tc ousLi i: &\is3ity the. !ih! rations of the author of "Sartor Reeartus." "The Honest Penshop of Li" implies that other penshops are not honest. "The Steel Shop of the* Pockmarked Wang" suggests that any peculiarity of a shopman may be seed to Impress the memory of customers. Snub noses, squint eyes, lame legs and bumped backs might all be put to service in this way.

A charcoal shop calls itself the "Fountain of Beauty," and a plaoe for the sale ef coals indulges in the title of "Heavenly Embroidery." An oil and wine establishment lathe "Neighborhoodof Chtef Beauty," a dto«crij »ivn uie rc+uiiz&fckiii of which It is hard to imagine as existing anywhere ia PsiisS- "The Thric-o Righteous*' is a pretension one would scarcely expect from an opium Bhop.—Youth's Companion.

The Unmarried Woman.

These are toying times for the young woman. 8he is apt, in tbe midst of agitation ecficerning the advanced woman, to lose sight of eomo of the blessings which fall to the lot of the unadvanced. There is a possibility that in the enjoyncnt of* new powers and possibilities she will overlook certain old ones which were not to be despised. In har lately acquired independence she may forget that dependence had Its compensations. In her ability to "live her own life," as progressive persons put it, there ie danger of ignoring Uze fact that there is a good deal to be said In favor of linking her 111B with another's. Briefly, there is danger that tkm y*»ung wpman of tho present day may seorn matdaie^iy er may defer matrimony until bhe is no longer fitted for that honeeable —tele. "ORB wM)s«n be as happy unmarried as married?" said a prominent physio^n, who bas bad opportunity to study tbe eacstion, tbe other day. "No I do not think so. In the first place, an unmarried woman has not the same sort of youth yeeeerving interests that a married ono bNl. Moreover, tualesM she Is a woman of tsaearkable character, she cannot fail to grow fOOfS or less 'set* and selfish, acid it Is surprising to know bow much mental states affeet the health. Why," continued the ie«tor, warming up to her subject, "I believe that half the cases of eneurestbenla and nervous depression in my practioe arc caused, not by overwork, but' by the need ei sins absorbing interest. Tbe average westaa must have a place Where she is SQpreme, not only over the Inanimate objects, but over live beings. Sbe must bave Intense personal interests. It is not enough ftr bet to be apart of the big machine." —Chicago Tribune.

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The late Oliver Wendell Holmes preIIITII

hi* mental faculties so remarkably up to the day of his death that it was not generally known how feeble bis body had bteoHni*- About ten years ago a visitor to Beverly Farms during the suiainer sp-anfc some days in a cottage adjoining that of the Holmes family. On her return home •tie spoke of seeing Dr. Holmes every fine dsf seated on the piazza of his home. "He had a peculiar sort of chair," she said, "with a top like that of a chaise. 10n4erneath this he would sit by the hour Is the sunshine. He is a little, thin, shriveled —who totters when bo walks and teembles like a leaf." H«r listener, who was—and who is nut.—an ardent admirei* ef fee autocrat, exclaimed: "I can't bear te hear you say that word. It sounds so dfcwepit!" To which she replied quickly: "Well, that is the truth. He is decrepit." —•WUdelphia Press.

The Real Thins.

In the meatal^ops of towns in New Mexico a»d Ariauna tho visitor from the east

beve a tuft of wool still attached

te tjke bead and tho tail. This is left by t&e hutcher to assure the oustomer that it jputtan, and not goat flesh, that ho is ittytng, for in these territories many th*n irf goats are reared and pastured by fe|tp tMMti Mexican ranchmen to be killed mf faod for tbe poorer natives. Boost or lie wed kid, with Chile pepper sauce, Is an esteemed dinner jlish at the tables of many wpi to do Amerloan .and Spanish-Ame*-tMi #*•*•«.—Philadelphia Lsdgot.

President Cleveland's

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CONGRESS COHYESES.

Both Branches Again Begin Business in Washington*

THE USUAL OPENING EVENT8.

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A committee to notify the president? of the assembling of the senate was appointed and a recess taken until 12:30 p. m.

On the reassembling of the senate at 1:30 Messrs. Harris and Manderson reported that the president would communicate with the senate by one of his seoretorio8. Executive Clerk Prudegi* immediately appeared and presented the president's message, which was read by Seoretary Cox.

The reading of the message closed at 3:40 o'olook, haviug just taken two hours and 10 minutes. The vice president announced that in accordance with: the usual custom the president's message would lay on the tablo and be printed.

Mr. George (Dem., Miss.) presented a resolatien directing the committee on* rlues to a I'e'tjusiion of the rules with a view to expediting business and compelling a vote. The resolution was referred to the committee on rales.

Mr Hear (Rep., Mass.) offered a resolution, which was adopted requesting the president for information not incompatible with the public servioe concerning the recent massacres of Armenians in Turkey and as to what protest, memorials, etc., had been presented by American eitisens.

Mr, Turpi* (Dem., Ind.) offered a resolution reciting that the time had now com# Jar the election ef "0 senator* by direct rote of the people. He announced that on Friday, next, ho would submit some remarks on the resolution, and in th* meantime the resolution went ever.

Mr. Lodge (Rep., Mass.) offered a resolution calling on the secretary of sta'-e for particulars coucercujijj the execution of two Japanese students by thf C- ae-e f..""": c* "hw^hfti wb:r tne students had been given the pso ,/ tection of the United States. At tht request of Mr. Gorman the resolution went over under the rules.

Mr. Blanchard (Dem., La.) presence a resolution protesting against there cent Turkish atrocities against Arm* nians and directing that the remon strance of this government be comnumi cated to Turkey. The resolution went to the committee on foreign relations.

Mr. Peffer (Pop., Kan.) offered twos resolutions. Th* first directs the judiciary committee of the senate to iavestig^fct the cLeuoJibtsuieoa and legal~ authority under whioh the secretory of the traascry made tke last twe issues of bonds. The second resolution calls on the presi&wnt for information concerning the eircumstanoes and necessity for sending United States troops to Cnicar go during the pendency of the Pullman strike. Btrth resolutions went over under the rules.

The annual reports of the various departments and bureaus were received. Then, at 4 o'clock, on motion ©i Mr. Gorman, the senate adjourned.

•ding* in tho Home.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The opening of the short session in the house was picturesque in away but devoid of interesting feature*. Th* vioterious Hepublicans and the defeated Democrats exchanged greetings and gave and took thrusts on th* result of the recent political battl* with much animation but thorough seed nature. Tho galleries were crowded and half the desks on the ground floor were smothered with flowers. Tho leaden en both sides got enthusiastic receptions from their respective partisan", the appearanee of Bpeakor Orise, ex-Speaker Reed, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Burrows being the signal for long and loud outbursts. There was no chanoe in the first day's proceedings for any public referenoe to the election so that the actual proceedings were dull and uninteresting. Seven new members were sworn in, and after a long wait tho president's message was read.

The reading of the message occupied an hour and 45 minutes. It was listened to with eareful attention, especially the portions relating to the tariff and the banking scheme, but there was no demonstration when it was concluded. Several routine reports were presented, after which Mr. Scranton (Rep., Pa.) announced the death of Mr. P. Wright, late a representative from the Fifteenth district of Pennsylvania. The usual resolutions were presented and adopted, and theu, as a further mark of respect, the house, at 3:20 p. m., adjourned.

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and Bead in Both Senate and Home—A Few Resolutions Introduced and Reports Made, and Then Both Branches Adjonrned For the Day.

WASHINGTON, Deo. 4.—The last sea-? sion of the Fifty-third congress was opened in the senate chamber at noon. On the desks of several senators were flowers. The proceedings were opened with prayer from, the chaplain, Mr. Milburn.

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FORTY FEET. Arttatft and

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Colored Assistants.

MEMPHIS, Deo. 4.—Seven men, four white scenic artists and three colored assistants were hurled through a crashing scaffold and fell W feet to the floor of the new Lyceum theater yesterday evening. The injured are:

Al Morris, scenic artist from Chicago, arm broken. Charle.i Wallace, scenic arl'st from Des Moines, head gashed and arm broken. .loseph WyJiupt, stage carpenter, Chicago, cut on head and ankle sprained.

John Voorhees, scenic painter, Chicago, severely bruised. A. E. 'Well, colored, Memphis, leg fractured.

Horace Posey, colored, Memphis, arm broken and ankle sprained. ,lolm Wiley, colored, Memphis, leg broken.

The victims of the accident were re-. moved at onco in an ambulance to St. A Joseph's hospital. The collapse of the s«aft'old was due to defective timbers in the frame work.

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v.' Ives Leads.

CHICAGO, Deo. 4.—Ives won the first night's billiard tournament in Central Music Hall, defeating Sqhaefer by score of 6W to 413 in 24 inhing^rfev^f^|