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THE WAR ON THE SABRATII. Pr. Ta Image Talks of the Wisdom of Ceasing Labor One Pay in Seven. fhysieal. Religions and Political Aspects of the Question—The Day Must Be Preserved if the Nation Would Live. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 22. —Dr. Talmago preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day on the subject: “The War on the Sabbath.” The ©pening hymn was: “Ann of the Lord! awake! awake! But on Thy strength, the nations shake!" Tho text was taken from Exodus, xxxi, 13: “Verily, ray Sabbaths ye shall keep.” Following 4s Dr. Talmage’s sermon in full: The wisdom of cessation from hard labor one dny'out of tbe seven is almost universally acknowledged. The world has found out that it can do less work in seven days than in six, and .that the fifty-two days of the year devoted to , rest are an addition rathor than a subtraction. ►Experiments havo been made in all departments. The great Castlercagh thought he could work his brain 365 days in tho year, but, aftor awhile, broke down and committed suicide; and Wilberforce said of him: “Poor Castlcreagls! This is the result of the non-observ-ance of tho Sabbath.” A celebrated merchant declared: “I should have been a maniac long ago but for the Sabbath.” The nerves, the brain, the muscles, the bones. 4he entire physical, intellectual and moral nature, cry out for the Sabbatic rest. What is srue of man is, for the most part, true of the brute. Travelers have found out that they come to their place of destination sooner when they let their horses rest by the way on the Sabbath. What is the matter with those forlorn creatures harnessed to some of our city cars? Why do they stumble, and stagger, and fall? It is for the lack of tbe Sabbatic rest. In other days, when tho herdsmen drove their sheep and cattle Irom the far West down to the seaboard, it was found out, by experiment, that those herdsmen And drovers who halted over tho seventh day got down sooner to the seaboard than those who passed on without tho observance of the holy Sabbath. The fishermen off tho coast of Newfoundland declare that those men during tho year catch the most fish who stop during the Lord’s day. When I asked tho Rocky mountain locomotive engineer why ho changed locomotives when it seemed to be a straight route, he said: “We bave to let the locomotive stop and cool off or ihe machinery would soon break down.” Men ■who made laree quantities of salt were told that if they allowed their kettles to cool over Sunday shey would submit themselves to a great deal rjf damage. Tho experiment was made, pome observing the Sabbath and some not observing the Sabbath. Those who allowed the fires to go {flown and the kettles to cool once a week, were compelled to spend only a small sum for repairs, 'While in tho cases where no Sabbath was obijervod many dollars were demanded for repairs.

A CRY FOR REST. In other words, intelligent man and dumb B>east and dead machinery cry out for the Lord's H&y. A prominent manufacturer told me that lie could see a difference between the goods KUTgrr went out of his establishment on Saturday from the go'ods that went out on Monday. He said: “They were very different indeod. Thoso that were made in the former part of the week, because of the rest that had been previously given, were better than those that were the latter part of the week, when the men were tired out.” The Sabbath comes and it bathes the soreness from the limbs, quiets the agitated brain, and puts out the fires of anxiety <that have been burning all the week. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, and unless on the seventh day they are wound up, they run down into tho grave. The Sabbath was intended as a savings bank; into it wo are to gather the resources upon which wo are to draw all the week. That man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own nerve, his own muscle, his own brain, his own bones. He dips up the wiuo of his own life and throws it away. Ho who breaks .the Lord's day gives a mortgage to disease and death upon his entire physical estate, and at tho most unexpected moment that mortgage wlll be foreclosed, and the soul ejected from the premises. Every gland, and pore, and cell, and finger-nail demands tho seventh day for repose. The respiration of the lungs, the throb of the pulse in the wrist, the motion of the bone in its socket declare “Remember tho Sabbath day to keep it holy.” There are thousands of men who have had their lives dashed out against the gulden gates of the Sabbath. A prominent London merchant testified that thirty years ago he went to London. Ho says: “I have during that time watched minutely and 1 have noticed that tho men who went to business on the Lord's ?4ay or opened their corn ting-houses, have without a single exception, come to failure.’’ A prominent Christian merchant in Boston says: *T find it don’t pay to work on Sunday. When 1 was a boy I noticed out on Long Wharf there were merchants who loaded their vessels on the Sabbath day, keeping their men busy from .jnoroing till night, and it is my observation that they themselves came to nothing—these merchants—and their children, came to nothing.” It rloosn’t pay, he says, to work on tho Sabbath. Wkilo the attempt to kill the Sabbath by the etroko of ax, and flail and the yardstick, lias beautifullv failed, it is proposed in our day to drown tho Sabbath, by opening all the grog shops. An organized movement is on foot to get the New York Legislature to repeal the present law which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquor on the Sabbath. It is said that this law Is not executed. Ten thousand men in the oity of Brooklyn, in behalf of law and order, are about to see that the law is executed. Tho Sabbath has been sacrificed to the rum traffic. To many of our people the best day of the week is the worst. Bakers must keep their Shops closed on the Sabbath. It is dangerous to have loaves of bread going out on Sunday. Tho shoe store is closed; severe penalty will attack tho man who sells boots on the Sabbath. But down with the window shutters of the grogshops. Our laws shall confer particular honors upon tho turn traffickers. All other traders must stand aside for these. Let our citizens who have disgraced themselves by trading in clothing, and hosiery, and hardware, and lumber, and coal, fake off their hats to the rum seller, elected to particular honor. It is nnsafe for any other Class of men to bo allowed license for Sunday Work. But swing out your signs, O u ye traffickers in the peace of families and the 60uls of imV&ortal men. Let the corks fly and the beer foam, and the rum go tearing down the half-con - Burned throat of the inebriate. God does not pee, does He? Judgment will never come, will it? They would bury the Sabbath very decently the wreath of the target company, and

to tho music of all Strakoscli’s brazen instruments. There are to-day in tho different cities 10,000 hands and 10.000 pens busy in attemnting to cut out the heart of our Christian Sabbath and leave it a mere skeleton of what it once was. The effort is organized and tremendous; and unless the friends of Christ and the lovers of good order shall rouse up right speedily, their sermons and their protests will bo uttered after the castlo is taken. There are cities in tho land where the Sabbath has almost perished: and every Sabbath night thoso cities are in full blaze of theatric and operatic entertainment, and it is becoming a practical question whether we who received a pure Sabbath from the hands of our fathers shall havo piety and pluck enough to give to our children the same blessed inheritance. The eternal God helping us, we will! A WAR AGAINST DIVINE LAWS. I protest against these invasions of the Holy Sabbath, in the first place, because it is a war on divine enactment God says, in Isaiah: “If thou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, thou slialt walk upon the high places.” What did he mean by “doing thy pleasure?” He referred to secular and worldly amusements. A man told me he was never so much frightened as in the midst of an earthquake, when the beasts of the field bellowed in fear and even the barnyard fowels screamed in terror. Well, it was when the earth was shaking and the sky was all full of fire that God made the great announcement: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Go along through the streets where the theaters are open on a Sabbath night; go up tbe steps; enter the boxes of those places of entertainment, and tell mo if that is keeping the Sabbath holy. “Oh,” says some one. “God won't be displeased with a grand sacred concert.” A gentleman who was present at a “grand sacred concert” said that during the exercises there were comic and sentimental songs, interspersed with coarse jokes; and there were dances, and a farce, and tightrope walking, and a trapeze performance. I suppose it was a holy dance and a consecrated tight rope. lam not certain, however, about that; but this I know, it was a “grand sacred concert.” Wo hear a great deal of talk about “the rights of the people” to have just such amusements on Sunday as they want to have. I wonder if the Lord has any rights? You rule your family, the Governoi rules the State, tho President rules the whole land; I wonder if the Lord has a right to rule the nations and make the enactment: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” and if there is any appeal to a higher court from that decision, and if tho men who aro warring against that enactment are not guilty of high treason against the Maker of heaven and earth. They have in our cities put God on trial. It lias been the theaters and tho opera houses of the land, plaintiffs, versus the Lord Almighty, defendant, and the suit has been begun, and who shall come out ahead you know. Whether it be popular or unpopular, I now announce it as my opinion that the people havo no rights save those which the Great Jehovak gives them. He has never given tho right to man to break His holy Sabbath, and as long as His tlirouo stands lie will never give that right. The prophet asks a question which I can easily answer—“ Will a man rob God?” Yes- They robbed him last Sunday night at tho theaters and the opera-houses, and I charge upon them the infamous and high handed larceny. I believe with tho sailor. The crew had been discharged from the vessel because they would not work while in port on the Lord’s day. The captain went out to get sailors. He found one man, and he said to him: “Will you serve me on the Sabbath?” “No.” “Why not?” “Well,” replied the old sailor, “a man who would rob God Almighty of llis Sabbath would rob mo of my wages if he got a chance.” Oh, it is dastardly mean when wo break the Sabbath. Suppose you had seven oranges, and you gave to your child six of them, putting the other orange in your pocket for yourself, and you should find that the child had not been satisfied with the six oi-anges, and had come and stolen your seventh. That is precisely what men do when they break the Sabbath. Suppose you were poor, and you came to a dry goods merchant and asked for some cloth for garments, and he should say: ‘Til give you six yards,” and while he was o*ff from the counter binding up the six yards you should go behind the counter and steal one additional yard. That is what every man does when ho breaks the Lord's Sabbath. God gives us six days out of seven, reserving one for himself, and you will not' let Him have it. It is mean beyond all computation. I am opposed to this desecration of the Sabbath by secular entertainments because it is a war on the statutes of our State. The law says: “It shall not be lawful to exhibit on the first day of tho week, commonly called Sunday, to tho public, in any building, garden, grounds, concert room or other room or place within the city and county of New York, any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro or other dancing, or any other entertainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein, or any equestrian, circus or dramatic performances or any performance of jugglers, acrobats or rope dancing.” Was there ever a plainer enactment than that? Who made the law? You, who, at the ballotbox, decided who should go to Albany and sit in the Legislature. They made the law for you and for your families; and now I say that any man who attempts to override that law insults you, and me, and every man who has the right of suffrage in the State of New York. Still further, I protest against this invasion of the Sabbath because it is a foreign war. Now, if you heard at this moment the booming of a gun in tho harbor, or a shell from some foreign frigate should drop in our streets, how long would you keep your seats in the Tabernacle? You would want to face the foe, and every gun that could bo managed would bo brought in use, and every ship that could bo brought out of the nnvy-vard would swing from her anchorage, and tho question would be decided. You do not want a foregn war, and yet I have to tell you that this invasion of God's holy day is a foreign war. As among our own native-born population there are tsvo classes, tho good and the bad, so it is with tho peoplo who come from tho other shores: there are the lawabiding and the lawless. The former are welcome here. Themoro of them tho better welike it. In this particular church there are representatives of all lands. I believe God intended our national heart to throb with the blood of all people! But let not the lawless come from other shores expecting to break down our Sabbath and institute in the place a foreign Sabbath. How do you feel, ye who have been brought up amidst the hills of New England, about giving up the American Sabbath? Ye you have spent your childhood under the shadow of the Adiror.acks or the Catskills; yo who were born on tho banks of tho Tennessee, or the Savannah, how do you feel about giving up tho American Sabbath? You say. “We shall not give it up. We mean to defend it as long as there is any strength left in our arm or any blood in our heart” Do not bring your Spanish Sabbath here: do not bring your French Sabbath here; do not bring your German Sabbath hero. It shall be for us and our children forever a pure, consecrated, Christian, American Sabbath. A CONTRAST OF SABBATHS. I will make a comparison between the Sabbath, as somo of you have known it, and the Sabbath of Paris. I speak from observation. One Sabbath morning I was aroused in Paris by a great sound in the street. I said: “What is thi3?” “Oh,” they said, “this is Sunday.” An unusual rattle of vehicles of all sorts. The voices seemed more boisterous than on other days. It seemed as if all the vehicles of Paris had turned out for the holiday. Tho Champs Elysees otio groat mob of pleasure seeking people. Balloons flying, parrots chattering." footballs rolling, peddlers hawking their knickknacks through the streets; hand-organs and every kind of racket, musical and unmusical. When the evening came down all the theaters were, in full blare of music, and full blaze of light. The wine-stores and saloons were thronged with an unusual number of customers. At even-tide I stood and watched the excursionists coming home, fagged-out men, women and children, a Gulf stream of fatigue, irritability and wretchedness; for I should think it would take tiiree or four days to get over that miserable way of Sundaying. It seemed inoro like an American Fourth of July than a Christian Sabbath. Now. in contrast I present one of tho Sabbaths in one of our best American cities. Holy silence coming down with the day dawn. Business men more deliberately locking into the faces of their children, and talking to them about their present and future welfare. Men sit longer at the table in the morning because the stores are uo% to be opeued and tho median-

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ical tools are not to be taken up. There are congratulation and good cheer all through the house. Houses of God vocal with thanksgivings for mercies received, with prayers for comfort, with charities for the poor. Rest for the body. Rest for the soul. The nerves quieted, the temples cooled, the mind cleared, the soul strengthened, and our entire population turned out on Monday ten years younger, better prepared for tho duties of this life, better prepared for tho life that is to come. Which do you like best, the American Sabbath or the Parisian Sabbath? Do you know in what boat the Sabbath came across tho seas and landed on our Shores? It was in the Mayflower. Do you know in what boat the Sabbath will leave us if it ever goes? It will ho in the ark that floats over a deluge of national iniquity. Still further, I protest against this invasion of the Lord’s Day because it wrongs a vast multitude of emp!o3*es of their rest. The bartenders, in case of the grog-shop, and in the case of tho theater, ihe scene-shifters, the ballet dancers, the call boys, the innumerable attendants and supernumeraries. They are paid small salaries at tho best. You see them on tho stage in tinsel and tassel, or you see them in gauzo whirling in toetortures and you mistako them for faries or queens; but after 12 o'clock at night you may see them trudging through the streets in fufled dress, shivering and tired, seeking their homes in the garrets and cellars of the city. Now’ you propose to take from thousands of these employes throughout this country, not only all opportunity of moral culture, but all opportunity of physical rest. Let the crushing Juggernaut stop one day in seveu! I opuose (his invasion of the Christian Sabbath because it is a war on the spiritual welfare of the people. You have a soul. Yes. Which of the saloons or theaters on the Sabbath day will give that soul any culture? If you gentlemen of the restaurant and tho opera have sjx days in the week in which to exercise your evangelical and heavenly influence, ought you not to allow’ Christian institutions to have twenty-four hours? Is it unreasonable todemand that if you liavesix days for the body and the intellect, we have one day at least, for our immortal soul? Or. to put it in another shape, do you not really think that our imperishable soul is worth at least one seventh as much as our perishable body? You must not forget that ninety-nine one hundredths of all tho Christian effort of this country aro put forth on the Lord’s day. That is the day in which the asylums, and the hospitals, and the prisons are visited by Christian men. That is the day when the youth of our country get their chief religious information. That is the day when the most of the charities are collected. * That is the day w’hen, under the blast of 50,000 American pulpits, the sin of tho land is assaulted and men are summoned to repent. Wiien you make war upon any part of God's day you make war upon the asylums, and the penitentiaries, and the hospitals, and the reform associations, and the homes of the destitute, and the church of tho living God, which is the pillar and the ground of the truth. POLITICAL rriASE OF THE QUESTION. I am opposed to the invasion of .the Sabbath because it is a war upon our political institutions. When the Sabbath goes down the Republic goes down. Men who are not willing to obey God’s law in regard to Sabbath observance aro not fit to govern themselves. Sabbath breaking mean3 dissoluteness, and dissoluteness is incompatible with self-government. What is the matter with republicanism in Italy and Spain? No Sabbath. Franco never will have a permanent republic until she quits her roystering Sabbaths. Let the had work go on, and you have “the commune,” and you havo “the revolution,” and you have the suu of national prosperity going down in darknoss and blood. From that reign of terror may the God of Lexington and Gettysburg deliver us. Still further, I am opposed to this invasion of the Sabbath because it is unfair nnd it is partial. Why has it been during the past few w’eelcs that some of the theaters liavo been allowed to he open, and others not? Why not. have all open? Go further, and see how unfair it is. While operas and theaters in different cities are allowed to bo open on tho Sabbath day, dry goods establishments must bo closed, and plumbing establishments, and the butchers and bakers, and tho shoemakers, and tho hardware stores. Tell me by what law of justice you compel mo to shut the door of my store, while you keep open the door of your theater? May it please your honors, judges of tho Supreme Court, when you give to the opera and the theater the right to bo open on the Sabbath day, you ought to give, at the same time, the right to all commercial establishments to be open, and to all mechanical establishments to be open. What is right in the one case, is right in all the cases. But, come now and be honest, you men who manage theaters and operas, aud confess that you do not care anything at all about tho moral welfare of the people, but you only want moro dollars. Indeed, the leader of ono of tho operas says in the public prints that unless ho can have the thater open on the Lord's day he cannot afford to keep it running. We are told by tho operatic aud theatrical leaders that they must get money on Sabbath nights in order to pay tho deficits of tho other nights of the week. Now, in answer to that I say that if men can not manage our theaters without breaking the Lord’s day, thoy had better all go into bankruptcy together. We will never surrender the Christian Sabbath for the purpose of helping these violators pay their expenses. While there may be a difference of opinion among some people about the propriety of having theatricals during the week, I think all lovers of good order must unite in ono solid, unanimous resistance to the infernal attempt to massacre the Christian Sabbath. I congratulate our city that so far wo have almost entirely escaped tho invasion, and my confidence is in our mayor, and our judges, and our police officers, that the laws of the State of New York will bo executed. Above all, my confidence is in the good hand of God that has been over this city since its foundation. But I call this day upon all those who befriend Christian principles, and those who love our political freedom to stand in solid phalanx in this Thermopyhe of American history; for 1 believe as certainly as I stand hero that the triumph or overthrow of American institutions depends upon this Sabbatic contest Bring your voices, your pens, your printing presses, and your pulpits into the Lord’s artillery corps for tho defense ot our holiday. Decree" before high heaven that this war on your religious rights and the cradles of your children shall bring ignominious defeat to the enemies of God and the public weal. For those who die in the contest, battling for the right, we shall chisel the epitaph: “These are they who came out of great tribulation, and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.” But for that ono who shall prove in this moral crisis recreant to God and the church there shall be no honorable epitaph. He shall not be worthy even of a burial place in all this free land; but perhaps some steam tug at. midnight may carryout his poor remains and drop them in the sea, where the lawless winds which keep no Sunday will gallop over the grave of him who lived and died a traitor to God, the church and the free institutions of America. Long live tho Christian Sabbath! Perish forever all attempts to overthrow it!

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A FREEZING JOURNEY. The Trip of Three Men Who Abandoned an Ice-Bound Lake Steamer. Chicago, Feb. 21.—The passenger steamer Michigan, which was reported lost with all hands, is fast in tho ice between South Haven and Milwaukee, and will probably bo brought safely into port within a few days. The first tidings of the steamer’s whereabouts were received when three of her crew made a perilous journey across the vast fields of ice that lay between the steamer and the mainland. They reached South Haven, on the east shore of Lake Michigan, and at onco communicated with their friends by telegraph. Those three men were W. P. Kinney, clerk; Daniel Martin, steward, nnd Joseph Russell, mate. All throe arrived in Chicago yesterday, the mate and steward having the care of the clerk, who was on his way home to Milwaukee. Mr. Kinney is in a critical condition, his right leg having been frozen below the knee. It is feared that the leg wi 11 have to be amputated, although the physicians in Soutli Haven expressed hopes that it might be saved. Mr. Russell, the mate, gave the following account of the cruise of the Michigan: “We left Grand Haven for Milwaukee two weeks ago next Monday morning, with a cargo of general merchandise and a few passengers. There were twenty one persons aboard, including the crew. We did not take a direct course for Milwaukee, as we had been instructed to make a careful search for the propeller Oneida, which was considerably overdue at Grand Haven. The weather was very cold when we loft port, and it was pretty thick outside, but the indication were favorable for the weather clearing up. Soon after we left the piers the wind suddenly canted to the northwest and commenced to blow a terrible gale. It was ono of the wickedest blows I ever encountered. Then a blinding snowstorm set in, and the temperature fell to 26 J below zero. It was so thick that the wheelsman could not see half a length ahead. Tho storm raged with unabated fury throughout the day. It blew harder and harder every minute. The lake was lashed into foam, and tremendous waves swept over our decks at every plunge. From stem to stern tho Michigan was a perfect skating rink, and it was perilous to attempt crossing her decks. Creaking and groan ing, we urged her through the fields of floating ice, and worked down the lake until we got abreast of Point Au Sable, thinking that wo might fetch Ludington. But the gale became even more furious, and it was an utter impossibility to keep her head up into tlio.wind. “The engineer pushed her as hard as possible, but she continually swung broadside to the gale and buried herself in the trough of the sea. It began to look as if it was all up with us. I don’t think thero are many boats on the lake that could stand what tho Michigan did. She is built of iron, and, I am told, cost $200,000, but she was a mere cockle-shell in that storm. Finding that we could do nothing with her, we came about and let the storm drive astern. Tuesday morning the gale abated, and we hove to off South Haven, where we woro packed in a solid mass of ice The northwester had driven all the ice up the lake, and open water could not be seen in any direction, even with the aid of a poworful glass. Making ourselves as comfortable as possible under tho circumstances, wo settled down in our prison to wait a change of wind, hoping the ice would soon be broken up. But the ice has continued to make every night, and it may boa month before the steamer gets into port. “After remaining there for over a week, we three determined to get ashore, if possible, and let our friends know that we were still alive. Wo bundled up as best we could and started to walk across eighteen miles of solid ice, leaving the boat at 7 o’clock last Tuesday morning. You can imagine what kind of a journey we had when I tell you that tho thermometer registered considerably below zero, aid a bitter westerly wind swept, across the lake and cut like a knife. Then, again, we would strike places where the iee was piled up in huge kaffi-mqck.B. Wo had to climb over thmi as best we could, picking our way carefully, to avoid tho many air-holes. We had nothing to guide us but our compass, but at noon our efforts were rewarded by a sight of land. We gave one rousing cheer and pushed on with fresh energy About this time, though. Kinney broke through an air hole and buried his leg in the water up to the knee. It was most unfortunate, as wo had no means of drying his clothing, which became as stiff as iron. Then his leg grew numb and. although we gave him liquor and did everything in our power to help him, he succumbed to the cold and asked us to go on and leave him to his fate. We wero five miles off shore \vhon the accident happened, but between us we succeeded in getting our friend on land. “Five times he lay down to die, and implored us to look out for ourselves. It was 5 o’clock in tho afternoon when we reached the shore, bringing up at a small farm house, eight miles north of South Haven. We were kindly cared for and taken to South Haven, where wo secured medical attendance for Kinney. The Michigan had about eighty tons of coal aboard when wo left and provisions enough to last about two weeks. Assistance will be sent her from Graud Haven.”

SOME OFFICIAL FACTS As to How tho Prohibition Law Kcally Works in the State of Maine. Bangor Correspondence New York Evening Post. These statistics have been obtained from tho United States revenue collector at Portland, and from the annual report of tho Prison Inspectors in Maine. Theoretically, Maine ha3 no places where liquor is sold, except the city and State agencies, which are provided for under the statutes. But last year tho United States sold 1,016 stamps to retail liquor dealers. Os tho sixteen counties in Maine, if we select the four containing the largest cities, we find the stamps divided as follows: Cumberland county, in which is Portland, bought 258; Penobscot, in .which Bangor is located, purchased IS9; Keunebec, which includes Augusta, took 90, and Androscoggin, which includes Lewistoq, paid for 92. All the other counties are credited with having bought some of the stamps, even agricultural Aroostook having 19. This by no means includes all the numberof liquor dealers. The number of committals to jails for drunkenness in the State in 1884 was 1216. Os these Cumberland county made 386; Penobscot, 167; Kennebec, 280; Androscoggin. 107, and Waldo, 284. Looking over the committals to jail for drunkenness, and using the census of 1880 as a basis of populatiop, Waldo had Ito every 138 of the population; Kennebec 1 to every 189; Cumberland, in which is Portlaud, the home of Neal Dow, 1 to 223; Androscoggin, 1 to 420, and Penobscot 1 to 422. O? the counties containing the four largest cities, Penobscot made the fewest committals in proportion to its population, and Kennebec the most Bang or is in Penobscot county, and the prohibitory law has not been enforced in this city. The sentiment, however, is strong against drunkenness, and arrests have been made strictly for that offense. Besides, the municipal law has beeu strictly enforced, which requires all tippling places to 'be closed on Sundays and at 10 i*. m. on week days. There were 818 prosecutions for violations of tho liquor laws in 1884 in-the whole State. The Prison Inspectors say in their report, that intemperance is not tho cause of a majority of State prison crimes, although it is the cause of about threefourths of the sentences to jails. Intemperance, they say, is not the great cause of crime in the State, but a lack of good homes and education. The lack of these often causes intemperance, as well as other vices and crimes. Oue of these Prison Inspectors, by tho way, a man who has traveled all over the State for years, says that he does not believe there is a village or town in the State where liquor cannot be obtained, although outside the larger towns and j cities it might be difficult for a stranger to find any. TVre were !£3 Convicts Tn the State's prison at tho close of the year. Twenty four were in for murder, six for murder in the second degree, and three for manslaughter. Five aro waiting to be hanged, having been sentenced under the re-established law of capital punishment. The greatest number of convicts carno from Cumberland county, the number being thirty seven; the next greatest from Ponobseok twenty; and Androscoggin has sent eighteen. Some of the worst crimes have, however, been committed in couutry villages or absolutely

in the country. The most of tbo State's prison convicts aro from Maine; tho most of the convicts in county jails aro from outside the State. Fifty-two of the 103 State’s prison convicts were admitted during the past year. The Inspectors close their report with tho remark that, aside from drunkenness and the violation of the liquor laws, crime does not seem to be on the increase in the State. In considering the temperance problem in Maine, too, it must l>e remembered that tho large Aroostook county borders on New Brunswick, and a considerable amount of smuggling is done, at least for private purposes. For example, two miles from Houlton, Me., is a large store, part of which is built across into New Brunswick. In tho New Brunswick portion of the building are largo quantities of liquors. It is not necessary to describe the possibilities of such a situation for Maine citizens on the border. THE LOCAL CHURCH. Howto Develop Its Moral Power—The “Evangelist” and the “Delirium Tremens.” New York Advocate, Editorial. The one great need of Christianity now is moral power in the local church —power over its youth and irreligious adherents, and over the community in which it stands. That there is a direful want of it in many places is evident. A church is without moral power when many of its members, or few of them, if conspicuous, disregard common honesty or truth in the business of life, or when disreputable feuds exist, involving bitterness, slander and malicious opposition, ft lacks moral power when its youth are given up to social dissipation, and their parents arc willing to have it so, opeuing their houses aud freely giving their money for its promotion. A church shows its debility when the prayer and other devotional meetings are poorly attended by it3 members, or when, if numerously attended, the pastor does all the work, or only a few ancient men assist him, and that in a prolix and monotonous way. Tho same state is indicated when none of tho unconverted attend the prayer meetings. Another symptom, which is also a result, is where tliero are few or no converts, or where all, or nearly all, are children. We do not diparage the conversion of children, but tho church that can lead to Christ children only is weak, and the future, even of those children, if they remain in that church, is to inlieiit its feebleness. When a church has a good congregation on Sabbath morning, and but few at other times, its heart is sick. When its otficial members do not attend the prayer-meetings, whatever attention they may give to the Sabbath-school —which, in such a church, is liable to be a social rather than a religious institution —it is spiritually apathetic. To conceal tho lack of moral power, attractions other that the preaching of the gospel may be employed. Socials, literary unions and “musicals" may be given unusual prominence. “At ease in Zion" is the condition then reached. “We are having a good time.” “Any conversions?" Not many, but “wo are meeting all our expenses and have a crowd at every social." But. ail these expedients after a time fail to hide the sjunploms of decline. Then the “evangelist" is sent for. The church having no power to move the community, an outside force must be imported, a kind of brandy in such a case, sure to be followed by exhaustion and low spirits, and sometimes by spiritual delirium tremens. The Rev. William Taylor, addressing tho New York preachers’ meeting, about a year since, said: “I am an evangelist myself. I bolieve that they have an important sphere, but tho great need of the church in this land is revivals under the pastorate. The churches have, to a great extent, lost confidence in the ability of the pastors to have a revival. So they send for an evangelist, which often means that, pastors and people will lie on their oars and sec him scull the craft." This witness is true. Moral power is the result of consistent living, earnest prayer, clear and fervent preaching, personal persuasion and a deep conviction that congregations drawn merely by social forces, or esthetic tastes, or music, or interest in the preacher as an orator or a genial companion, are but clubs—not churches of the living God which arc tho pillar and ground of tho earth.

A Good, Cheap Mucilage. Allow ono part of white cine (or gelatine) and two parts of gum arabic to swell in ten parts of water; then dissolve, after having added onefourth part of white sugar, at a gentle heat; and strain if necessary. To prevent this mucilage from spoiling, add a few drops of carbolic acid or oil of cloves. Also tho t'avass. Boston Evening Record. The ‘‘intelligent contraband.'’ who used to furnish so much news in our civil war, is outdone by the “reliable Arab,” who has already given a dozen different accounts of Gordon’s (loath. v ' Thirteen Good Reasons, Thirteen good reasons are given why housekeepers should use the Acme Renovator, a wonderful invention for cleansing carpets and for household work in general. Not. to entor into detail, it may bo said that the Renovator cleans the carpet, warp, chain and nap. on the floor, removing ail grease and dirt. The carpet is not injured by wetting it, the fabric is in no way injured, and the colors are made to show up in their original brilliancy. Taking up, beating and replacing a carpet injures it more than three years' wear upon tho floor, if cleaned by tho Acme Renovator. Call upon the State agents, Messick & Child, 20 Kentucky avenue, and see what it does. Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow’s .Soothing Syrup should always bo used when children are cutting tecwi. it relieves tho little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as “bright as a button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes tho child, softens the gums, allays all pain, re lieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty-five cents a bottle. _ Dakk you hesitate, when a frightful cough is sowing tho seeds of consumption or bronchitis in your lungs or throat, to send for the only remedy? Never was there a cough or cold that could resist the healing operation of Hale's Honey of Horeliound and Tar. Sold by all druggists. Pike's Toothache Drops cure in 1 minute. Dukkee's Salad Dressing and Cold Meat Sauce for all kinds of salads, fish, vegetables and cold meats. Cheaper and better than home made. No sauce equal to it was ever offered. Pavson's is the best ink for family marking. Used with a common pen. Sold by all druggists.

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Combines, in a proportion peculiar to itself, the active medicinal properties of tho best blood-purifying and strengthening remedies of the vegetable kingdom. It will positively cure when in the power of medicine Spring Debility, Headache, Dyspepsia, Catarrh, Salt llheum, Scrofula, and all Diseases caused by a low state of the blood. “ I suffered three years with blood poison. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla, and think I am cured.” Mbs. M. J. Davis, Brockport, N. Y. “ Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all others, and is worth its weight in gold.” I. Barrington, 130 Bank Street, New York City.^

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“I tried a dozen articles to cleanse my blood, but never found anything that did me any good till I began usiu£ Jlood’s Sarsaparilla.” W. 11. Peer, ltocliestor, N. Y. I ‘‘My wife was troubled with dizziness and constipation, and her blood has been in a bad order —in fact she has been'all run down. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is doing her a wonderful amount of good.” F. M. Pai.dwjn\ druggist, Manchester, Ohio. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar.

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Is so vastly superior to any other sarsa* parilla or blood purifier, that one has woll said: “Its health-giving effects upon the blood and entire human organism, aro a much more positive than the remedies of a quarter of a century ago, as the steampower of to-day is in advance of the slow and laborious drudgery of years ago.” ‘‘While suffering from a severe bilious attack in March, 18S3, a friend In Peoria, 111., recommended Hood's Sarsaparilla. I tried the remedy, and was permanently cured.” J. A. Shepard, travelling agent for , Devoe & Cos., Fulton Street, N. Y. v

“I was for five years a sufferer with bolls, all run down, and was at one time obliged to givo up work. Before taking all of two bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, was entirely cured.” E. M. Lane, Pittsburgh, Pa. “I was severely afflicted with scrofula, and for over a year had two running sores on my neck. Took five bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and consider myself entirely cured.” C. 12. Loyejoy, Lowell, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ! Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made only by O. I. HOOI)}& CO., Lowell, Mass. 4 100 Doses One Dollar. J

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