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IHE DAILY JOURNAL. IST JNO. C. NEW & SOW. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1885. TOE INDIANAPOLIS JOUHNAL Can be found at the following places; LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Canucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. HI Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. IT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. Election; Tuesday, October 13, 1885. For Matob— CALEB S. DENNY. Fob CIeek— GEORGE T. BREUNIG. The Platform. The Republicans of Indianapolis accept the issue nade in the platform and nominations of the Democratic city convention, and in the pending canvass and approaching election invite the co-operation and supsort. not only of the members of their own party, irnt of all citizens, of whatever political affiliations, who favor— First—The enforcement of law in the interest of public order and for the preservation of private rights. Second —TL e strictest economy in the administration f the affairs >f the city government within the revenue raised from the present rate of taxation, and of the refunding of the existing city debt at a lower rate of interest. Third-The levy of a tax of SIOO per year upon :ach saloon in the city, the proceeds whereof sbaii be placed in the general fund of the city treasury. Fourth—The overthrow of the arrogant domination >£ the Liquor League in the politics of the city and Jtate. Fifth—A rebuke to the Democratic officers of State yho have prostituted the metrop litan police system jo the basest partisan ends, whereby the city s good tame has been scandalized, its peace and good order m periled, and the oilorts of honorable public officers iO vindicate the law paralyzed. “I want to say, In the first place, that I plant myself squarely, flat-footed, with both feet upon the platform you have adopted.’ —Mb. Dennys Acceptance Speech. Get at work in every precinct. Enroll your challenging and rallying committees in every precinct. See to it that you have good and trusty men pledged to stay and Work at the polls all day. The condition of things in Center township finder Trustee Kitz will put many men to sober thinking. Is it best to give the saloons the entire control of our municipal affairs? Let this week be one of aggressive work. Throw off all apathy and timidity, and make the whole city blaze with the fire and enthusiasm of solid, earnest, intelligent work. Wno will start, the proposition to suspend business, and work for at least two hours on flection day? Are not the merchants as much interested in the result as the saloon-keepers? Let us give one week to the work of throwing “Sim Coy ism" and “Sam Dinninism” neck and heels out of our municipal administration, if it can be done, the result will be worth the effort.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, takes Occasion to repeat his statement that the Democrats of North Carolina are not favorably impressed with President Cleveland, and that they are against even so little of so-called civil-service reform as there is in this “reform” administration. If tax payers want no more of such management as that displayed by Trustee Kitz in township affairs they should vote to put the best possible men into municipal administration, and to keep out, as far as possible, such a demoralizing influence as the saloon interest in our local and State politics. Ben Butler says that a Greenback was the original medium of exchange, and that it will become such again. He defines a greenback to be a medium for the interchange of commodities between men which has no inti*insic value in itself, but gets all its value from the stamp of the government. The deaf mutes of New .Jersey are protesting against the employment of speaking teachers in tbeir schools. They claim that, bo far from association with speaking in structoi's being an advantage, it is a positive injury, since the children are taught much more readily by those to whom sign language is in a sense natural than by those who have acquired it. Their arguments have the same basis as that used in favor of native teachers of foreign tongues, and, though the idea seems rather peculiar, as applied to the deaf-mute language, it may be equally correct. Are not the business men of Indianapolis as much interested in the result of the city election nert week os the saloon-keepers? Every saloon in Indianapolis will be closed next Tuesday; for once law and interest will harmonize in their case. Every saloon-keeper, every bartender, every man undsr saloon influence, every wagon, and every horse in the liquor business, will be earnestly employed to defeat the propositions enunciated in the platform on which Mr. Caleb S. Denny is running for mayor. How mrny business men and tax-payers will be at the polls? How many will close up their stores, and shops, and factories for even one hour, and devote that much time to the work of the day f election? This is the sort of perlonal work that will determine the election.

If the business men and manufacturers of Indianapolis would agree to close their places of business and industry, say from 4to 6 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon next, for the purpose of devoting that time to the election, the result would be determined. That very thing would settle the question. Asa mere business proposition, we submit it to intelligent men that it would pay. In dollars and cents it would pay an immediate return, to say nothing of the salutary influence upon business, and industry, and taxation in the future. The overthrow of the domination of the saloon influence in the city government is well worth that much of a contribution from the citizens of Indianapolis. Shall it be made? THE LAST WEEK. To-day we enter upon the last week of the city campaign. Next Monday it will be too late to do anything more than to gather up and put into shape for thenxetday the results of what is done during the ensuing six days. The battle will be gained or lost this week. To gain it will require the utmost individual work—earnest, aggressive and unceasing. The party of law and order, as against that of lawlessness, is in danger of defeat from three causes—apathy, cowardice and treacheiy. The result will depend almost entirely upon whether the votes of business men, of workingmen, of tax-payers and prudent, frugal householders, who are interested in an economical administration of municipal affairs, and who know that such cannot, in the nature of things, result from a government put in power by the influences that are backing Mr. Cottrell’s candidacy, shall be deposited in the ballot-box. When the Republican party was defeated in the township election of 1882 it was because there were 5,000 voters north of Washington street who remained at home on election day. There is the same danger now. It is monstrous, it is criminal, that men entitled to the suffrage will not use it in the interests of good government, when they know that every man with selfish or corrupt interest in the result of the election will not only vote himself, but will see that every other man does whom he can influence to vote his way.

Then there are cowards. There are men who shiver with fear at the insolence of the Liquor League. Men in business of various kinds, which are related more or less directly with the liquor traffic, have been and are being bulldozed and intimidated by the liquor lords. In the Ninth ward, for instance, Mr. Waterman, Democratic candidate for councilman, threatened a cigar dealer with the “boycott" if he dared to vote against him. It is amazing that there are such people; but there are. Why, the very first principles of cowardly self-protection demand that this insolent defiance be met and overcome. If it is succumbed to now, who shall tell to what lengths it will not go in the future? If all men in terror of these bulldozers would unite with those courageous enough to openly defy them, and would help to grind them under the heel of of a majority of 2,000 or 3,000, we should hear no more of the scoundrelly “boycotter" in politics; and men in all kinds of business could feel that there was a permanent divorce for the future of politics from business. Then there are those who bark with the hounds but run with the hare. They want to be on the wining side, whichever it may be. They talk one way in certain circles, and another way in others. There are some of these; fortunately the number of them is growing small by degrees and beautifully less> Nothing will diminish their numbers and influence so much as a good, sweeping victory next week. The se are the three dangers that imperil success. How they can be best overcome seems to be answered in their very statement. What is needed is the stirring up of all men of all classes to the importance and value of the issue. The point to be decided by the election needs to be talked, openly and aboveboard, earnestly, aggressively, in every ward and precinct of the city. The wards, if any there be, where they don’t want to discuss the issue at hand are the very wards where the greatest danger lies. The cowardly can be imbued with courage by seeing that the best men of the city are awake and aggressive. The treacherous can be forced to show their hands by an array and organization of those citizens in each precinct and ward who stand for law, for public order, for economic administration, for low taxes, for business and industrial prosperity, for the security of person and the protection of property. These are the influences that must be organized and arrayed this week, if Indianapolis is to be saved from the shame and disgrace of passing under the control of “Sim" Coy and “Sam" Dinnin, and their like, by electing to office a man controlled by their., and whose nomination was given to him by them as a premium for his record in favor of the non-enforcement of law. Is it not worth a week’s srrong, earnest and united effort to prevent such a consummation? The New York Commercial Advertiser thinks that the returning mugwumps “will be judicious if they resist, and pointedly resist, every temptation to make themselves conspicuous." We have never specially admired the character of the elder brother in the tale of the Prodigal Son; but still we cannot believe that the fatted calf treatment was the best and most judicious for the returning husk eater. And, besides, we do not understand that the mugwumps are in a repentant frame of mind. Indeed, it is not at all clear that the parable applies very closely. The mugwumps themselves claim to be an

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entirely independent body of men, following their personal likes and dislikes. This year they don’t vote for Jones because they dislike him; next year they vote for Smith because theydolike him. They are not the sort of people out of which any kind of an organization can be made. They will do as they please, and should be permitted to do so without let or hindrance. There is no necessity for getting into a stew either because they are for or against us at any particular time. The President’s friends are likely to involve him in a moral tangle unless their anxiety to bolster up the New York ticket is modified a little. In order to force him into committing himself, one of the New York Democratic journals intimated that he was conniving to get Mayor Grace to run as an independent candidate for Governor, the plan being to thus divert votes from Hill, for whom, personally, Mr. Cleveland is supposed to entertain no great degree of admiration. This uncovered the bull in the office of the Washington Post, the official organ of the administration, and it was officially announced that Mr. Cleveland was really anxious for the success of the Democratic ticket in New York. Thereupon the good news was scattered broadcast, with the evident intention of rallying the faithful and holding the uncertain mugwump. But what becomes of that lofty patriotism that places country above party, and that divorces officers from active politics? What are the people to do for an example, now that the apostle of reform has fallen? For what more could the President do than to announce his sympathy for the ticket? He cannot put aside his dignity and rush into the fray, for even his wicked and unregenerate predecessors, “offensive partisans" every one, never did that, if we except that eminent reformer, Andy Johnson, when he “swung around the circle." If the President has been correctly reported, he has killed the spirit of civil-serv-ice reform, so far as his administration is concerned. If he has not been, he can easily set himself right by denying that he has indorsed a partisan ticket. Such an indorsement, under existing circumstances, would do more than a hundred clerks could do in going home from Washington, and taking an active part in the campaign. Shall we have a government of the people, for the people and by the people, or shall we have a government of the Baloons, for the saloons and by the saloons?—Dr. McLeod, at Roberts Park Church. The issue was never mere tersely and pithily stated than in the above words. The Sentinel may squirm and wriggle as much as it pleases, but it knows that Dr. McLeod put the truth in a nutshell in the words quoted. The Sentinel may attempt to tie the Democratic party to the saloon-keepers if it pleases; but we believe there are many honorable, high-minded, respectable, taxpaying, business Democrats who will resent the effort to crowd them into the vest-pockets of Sim Coy and Sam Dinnin. The Sentinel knows that Mr. Cottrell was nominated by the saloon influence in the Democratic party, and solely because, as police commissioner, he had placed himself on their side as against the law. But for this, he would never have been thought of for mayor. Very many Democrats, who were represented by those who voted for Mr. Byfield and Mr. Schmuck, know this as well as the Sentinel does, and they will resent the insult to their party when the opportunity is offered on election day.

At the Springfield convention Senator Hoar, replying to the letter about the “Bourbonism” of the Republican party, said: “The Bourbonism that demands only that the wiil of the whole people shall have its rightful expression; the bigotry that condemns only the men who rob Americans of their citizenship; the sectionalism that would tax and burden itself to the utmost to bestow education, freedom, justice, manufactures, commerce, prosperity, honor on the South; these, and these alone are the Bourbonism, the bigotry and the sectionalism of Massachusetts Republicanism. Its life is in the future. When it ceases to advance it dies. Its steadiness is but the steadiness of a march. Its discipline is the discipline of an advancing army. Its constancy is the constancy to an object not yet accomplished.” To that “Bourbonism” and “bigotry” the Republican party is religiously devoted—we may almost say, consecrated. By that “Bourbonism” and “bigotry” it stands or falls. It fell last year because it fell below the just and high standard of its convictions, and listened to those who affected to be tired of principles, and feared that defeat might come with “damnable iteration.” It will rise into public respect and power again whenever it has the courage of its principles, fealty to its high faith and mission. The saloon influence can raise all the money it needs, and will raise it. Those in favor of law and order, and against the saloons controlling the city government, can do better than raise a large sum of money. Let the corruption fund be met by a cordon of determined men. Let an organization be effected in every precinct of the city, whereby, all day long, at least a dozen of the best known and most reputable men shall be at the polls, openly working to influence, by proper methods, as many voters as possible, and to see that the schemes of the corruptionists are met and thwarted. This will be better and more effectual than all the money the saloon influence can contribute. The devil trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees; and the saloon influence will cower and be driven back if they see the poll of every precinct guarded by a dozen well known, prominent, reputable, determined citizens. If in every precinct of the city there shall be an organization that will bring to the polls, and

keep there all day—by relays or otherwise—a dozen of the most prominent and honorable citizens, the contest will be over before it is fairly begun. Such an organization would result in bringing out the full legal vote of the city, and in keeping out ail the proposed illegal voters, upon which the corruptionists rely. If a full, and fair, and honest legal vote is polled, no sensible man can doubt the result. The plan of the Democratic campaign in Virginia has developed within the past few days. Evidently anxious to keep the Old Dominion an integral part of the solid South, the old spirit of bullying and bloodshed is asserting itself, and it is plain that a personal attack was planned to be made on the Republican candidate for Governor, the evident intention being to lower him in the esteem of bullies, if not actually drive him out of the canvass. He appears to have enough personal courage to face these fellows, and it may be that their scheme will prove a boomerang. For if it be made plain that an attempt to bulldoze him has been made, and it should fail, the hoped-for contempt that was to be brought upon him may change to admiration. The Democrats have resorted to every possible device to rally the Bourbons, even to the absurdity of parading Gen. R. E. Lee’s saddle, for the purpose of reawakening a dying enthusiasm, and it is not surprising that desperate and violent measures should again be attempted. In England the government supplies all the tickets. The voter is not obliged to approach the polls through a crowd of ticket peddlers. No man can watch and detect for what candidates he votes in order to “spot” him. The names of the candidates of both parties are printed on a single ballot. A clerk hands one of these to the voter, who passes into a little stall where he cannot be watched, makes a mark with a pencil against the names of the candidate for whom he votes, and then deposits his ballot. There may be some features of this system better than the American, but the plan does not have in it that which tends to develop manhood and self-reliance. We believe that with all the manifest weaknesses about the American system, it is still much the better. Really the greatest safeguard of the suffrage is the manliness and independence its exercise must necessarily develop.

Nothing is so deadly in this world as cowardice. If the party of lawlessness triumphs in this city next week, it will be because of the cowardice of its opponents. We put that prediction on record now, and will undertake to prove it by the figures of the vote, should that be the result. If the party of law and order succeeds, it will be because of the courage of their position and the manhood with which it is maintained; and that will be demonstrated by the figures of the ballot. Victory is certain with courage and manliness; defeat is almost equally certain with cowardice and contemptible truckling to an insolent and de fiant enemy. There are very many decent Democrats who cannot be delivered over t£ Sim Coy and Sam Dinnin in the interests of the saloons, the Sentinel to the contrary notwithstanding. A decent, reputable Democrat could do nothing better for the future of his party than to do his utmost now to break down the force of “Covism,” “Dinninism” auu “Cottrellism’’ in the organization. That New Yorkers are interested occasionally in other than commercial pursuits, yacht races, or similar sports was indicated by the interest taken last week in the sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's collection of orchids. The collection cost about $200,000, and included about 1,200 varieties, gathered from all parts of the world. While some varieties of this plant are common enough, the rarer kinds are, like costly paintimrs, usually the property of the wealthy. Like many of the pictures, too. they are often valuable more on account of their rarity than for their beauty, though there are, of course, many beautiful orchids. While there was a demand for the plants placed on sale, the prices paid for them indicate that not half the original cost will be realized. The heirs will regret this, but, if they do not value orchids for themselves, they will probably look with some wonder, notunmixed with a mild contempt, upon the enthusiastic florist who paid $750 for one unattractive-looking little plant. Other plants went at lower rates, some not bringing over ten dollars. If any Southern planter should take the silver equivalent of his cotton sales and reduce it to a molten mass, he would find his metal to he worth about 2 per cent, less than his cotton. —Louisville Gourier-Journal. And if any Southern planter should take the paper-money equivalent of his cotton sales and reduce it to pulp, ho would find his money to be worth not one-ten-milliouth part of his cotton. The argument against paper money is conclusive. The Portland Oregonian throws a damper over the desire of Eastern maids and maidens to fly to the West by solemnly stating that the crop of girls is as abundant there as anywhere else, and that there is absolutely no demand for more. The Oregonian is very unwise. The more girls to pick from the better chance of getting a good one. “Col.” Will S. Hays, the sweet singer of Kentucky, ha3 “signed” with Haverly for a three-years’ engagement as end-man in his famed minstrel troupe. “Colonel” Hays commanded a locomotive during the war. Dr. Lansdell, the famous missionary, was warned when entering Bokhara that his conventional clerical garb would not impress the natives with a proper sense of the wearer’s importance. “I had,” he related, “the red hood I wear as a doctor of divinity and my square college cap. I also had a very elaborate example of a sort of Persian' waistcoat, which I had purchased as a curiosity. I had also, as a Freemason, my Royal Arch collar and apron, and several Masonic jewels. Before entering Bokhara I put on my doctor of divinity’s hood, my Persian waistcoat, my Royal Arch collar and apron, all the Masonic jewels which I am entitled to wear, and, fastening my little traveling Bible to my Royal Arch collar, was

presented to the deputation sent out to receive me. They were a very dazzling crowd, in gorgeous attire. They received me with great distinction, and I rode in at the head of a very gallant procession, one of the wonders of Bokhara; and I think I smiled frequently as I thought of the appearance I male, and contemplated the evident sensation I created." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A Watkrbury man lias just built a railway locomotive so small as to stand upon the disc of a gold dollar. PHILADELPHIA has about 400 building and loan societies, doing an annual business of about $16,000,000. In IBS3 over 13,000 horses, mules and donkeys were slaughtered for food in Paris, and sold for about half the prioo of beef. Beaconsfield talked in a soft, low voice. Gladstone talks distinctly in medium tones, and Lord Salisbury loudly, often boisterously. Professor Nichols, editor of the Boston Journal of Chemistry, has declared that alcohol is no longer a necessity in any of the arts or sciences. A Denver Chinaman, who stumbled over a nest of hornets, was seen the next moment flying down the street yelling: “Joss!" “Dam!" “Melllean helleo, firee birds!" Said an lowa judge the other day: “But for housej wives of the United States there could be no tramps, and any woman who feeds one ought to be sent to jail for thirty days." She thought the blind was down: “How does the new pastor impress you, Miss Spinster?" “Law sakes, how did you know he impressed me at all? I didn't suppose anybody saw us."—Chicago News. The old “city" of London has an area of one square mile, while the metropolis of London has an area of 120 square miles. In the city proper land is vory dear, having been sold at the rate of $15,000,000 an acre. Miss Clara Barton, the heroine of three wars and president of the Red Cross International Association, one of the most practical and influential women in the world, has recently declared for woman suffrage. There are still newspapers in the country bearing the name of Whig. There is one in Bangor, Me., which is Republican in politics, and one in Richmond, Va., which supports the Mahoneites, audone in Eutaw, Ala., which is Democratic. The Queen of Italy is having a magnificent fan painled for her by an Italian artist. It is painted on kid leather, and represents the Queen surrounded by the Graces and other allegorical figures,with the genius Italy in the aot of crowning her. In order to gain a coveted prize a young couple residing near Syracuse, N. Y., were recently married upon the Onondaga fair grounds, with 30,000 peoDle to witness the ceremony. Nearly every exhibiter on the ground gave the pair a present. The venerable A. Bronson Alcott, whose obituary has been in typo those thirty years, and who has been too feeble to take personal part in the recent congresses of the Concord School of Philosophy, has gone to Boston for the winter, to participate in the fashionable dissipations of that fascinating city. The volume of James Russell Lowell's poems—the duodecimo edition of 1869—from which Thomas Hughes read his selections in his lectures was a prosent from the author, and is well-thumbed and worn. The fly-leaf bears the lines in Mr. Lowell's hand, “To Thomas Hughes, with all possible everything, from' , the author." “I see," said the reporter, “that you are trying to get rid of the female employes in your office." “yes," said Mr. Higgins; “the poor things are not happy hero. Sometimes naughty men come into the office and swear real hard, and lam afraid the ladies, God bless ’em, may overhear them. Besides, I want to give their places to voting Democrats." A LETTER from Minister Cox, at Constantinople, received in Syracuse, dated Sept. 12, gives a pleasant picture,of that gentleman's life on tho Bosphorus. “I have had my harness on here for a month or more," he writes. “I like it. It is a rest. It is good to be here—where tho thermometer is generally at 70 3 —on the Bosphorus, and where live Americans who serve the government are not grilled at 100° in the shade." Queen Victoria was much annoyed because heir loyal subjects of Edinburg and Glasgow omitted to call Prince Henry “Royal Highness" in their addresses on the wedding. Glasgow even emphasized the neglect by calling Beatrice “Her Royal Highness" and Henry “His Serene Highness" in the same sentence. The Queen was so angry that she at first thought of returning the addresses “for correction, "but finally contented herself with calling attention in her replies to Henry’s real style.

A Chicago Grand Jury. Chicago Special. Jasper E. Sweet, who assassinated Dr. Waugh on Saturday night, Sept. 12. was released from the Cook county iail to-day. The grand jury refused to indict him. The release of this murderer is the most extraordinary that ever has occurred in Chicago. He shot Waugh in the back, and freely acknowledged his guilt. Ho charged his victim with having betrayed his wife. When asked why he quietly witnessed his own dishonesty, and had only sought revenge in the dark, after weeks had claused, he replied: “The doctor was a larger tnan than I, and I had no arms.” Before his death, Dr. Waugh made a statement that has never yet been made public, but in which, it is now said, he admitted the truth of Sweet’s accusation, and this is said to have determined the jury not to indict. One of the jurors is reported to have said in reference to the matter: “These d —d doctors must leave their female patieuts alone, or expect to be shot." The Indiana Yearly Meeting, Richmond Telegram. ,It may not be known to everybody even in Richmond that the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends is of all the Yearly Meetings much the largest. The following table gives the membership of the various Yearly Meetings in the world in round numbers: Indiana, 21.000; Western. 14.000; Philadelphia, 7.000; New England. 5,000: New York, 4.500: North Carolina, 5.500; Canada, 4,000; Ohio, 3,800; lowa, 9.000; Kansas. 7.000; Baltimore, 1,500; London. England, 10,000; Dublin, Ireland, 4.000; Norway, 800. These are all the Yearly Meetings there are. It will bo seen from the foregoing that the Indiana Yearly Meeting not only outnumbers each of the others, but no other comes within several thousand of it. The Norway meeting is the smallest of them all. In the far off region of Asmania there is a very considerable halfyearly meeting. It numbers some two or three thousand. About Appointments. Washington Special. Colouel lvieting, editor of the Memphis Appeal, is strongly urged for the position of Public Printer. The report that Mr. E. O. Graves, chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has been offered a position on the Civil-service Commission is believed to be incorrect The President has intimated to those interested in the reform movement that he shall take ample time to secure proper persons to fill the vacancies. Colonel Lamont again denies that he is to be appointed United States marshal of this District Black Voters Not Wanted. Indianapolis Colored World. At the Democratic Drimarv in the Fourteenth ward to nominate a candidate for alderman Joseph Broyles and Robert James, two colored mugwumps, offered their votes, when one of the candidates, in stentorian tones, informed them that “non© but white Democratic votes are wanted here.” An Uufortuuate Speech. Boston Journal. The lowa Democratic editor wdm wrote that the “copperhead party is now on top in this country’’ is dubbed the Burchard of the Democracy by the Democrats of that State. Good Pay for Loafing. New fork Tribuna. Why did not the President suspend Sterling’s salary when he suspended the mau? Sixty dollars a week would pay any man to remain idle while Rule 19 was being investigated.

DANIEL’S OPEN WINDOWS. Dr. Talmage Talks of the Prophet and the Lessons of His Career. Men and Women Mast Learn the Great Secret of Uonrage and Deliverance by Looking Toward the New Jemsalem. Special to the IndianapoHs Journal. Brooklyn, Oct. 4.—The Rev. T. DeWitt Tat mage preached this morning in the Brooklyn: Tabernacle on the subject, “Windows Toward Jerusalem." Before the sermon ho expounded the parable of Luke, concerning the widow** plea before the unjust judge, and showed how God honored prayer. To-day was communion Sabbath, and numbers were added to the church membership, which now reaches considerably beyond three thousand. The opening hyma was: Nearer nay God to thee; E’en though it. be A cross that raiseth me. Still all my song shall be, Nearer my God to thes, Nearer to thee. The text of the sermon was from Daniel vl, 10: “His windows being open and his chamber toward Jerusalem.” Dr. Talmage said: The scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged on by political jealousy against Daniel, having succeeded in getting a law passed that whosoever prays to God shall be put under the paw and teeth of the lions, who are lashing themselves in rage and hunger up and down the stone cage, or, putting their lower jaw on the ground, bellowing till the earth trembles. But the leoniot threat did not hinder the devotions of Daniel, the coour de lion. These enemies might as well have a law that the sun should not draw water, or that the south wind should not sweep across a garden of magnolias, or that God should be abolished. They could not scare him with the red hot furnaces, and they cannot now scare him. with the lions. As soon as Daniel liearß of this enactment he leaves his office of Secretary of ‘State, with its upholstery of crimson and gold, and comes down the white marble steps and goes to his own house. He opens his window and puts the shutters back, and pulls the curtain* aside, so that he can look toward the sacred city of Jerusalem, and then prays. I suppose the people in the street gathered under and before his window and said: “Just see that man defying the law. He ought to be arrested.” And the constabulary of the city rush to the police headquarters and report that Daniel is on his knees at the wide-open window. “You are my prisoner," said the officer of the law, dropping a heavy hand on the shoulder of the kneeling Daniel. As the constables open the door of tho cavern to thrust in their prisoner they see the glaring eyes of the monsters. But Daniel becomes the first lion-tamer, and they lisk his hand and fawn at his feet, and that night he sleeps with the shaggy mane of a wild beast for his pillow, while the King that night, sleepless in the palace, has on him the paw and teeth of a lion he cannot tame—the lion of a remorseful conscience. What a picture it would be for some artist Darius, in the early dusk of morning, not waiting for footman or chariot, hastening to the den, all flushed, and nervous, and in deshabille, and looking through the crevices of the cage to see what had become of his prime minister. “What no sound?" he says. “Daniel is surely devoured, and the lions are sleeping after their horrid meal, the bones of the poor man scattered across the floor of the cavern.” With trembling voice, Darius caiLa out, “Daniel!" No auswer, for the prophet is yet in profound slumber. But a lion, more easily awakened, advances, and. with hot breath blown through the crevice, seems angrily to demand the cause of this interruption, and then another wild beast lifts his mane from under Daniel’s head, and the prophet, waking up, comes forth to report himself unhurt and welL

LOVE FOK NATIVfI LAND. But our text stands us at Daniel's window, open towards Jerusalem. Why in that direction open? Jerusalem was his native land, and all the pomp of his Babylonish successes could not make him forget it. He came there from Jerusalem at eighteen years of age, and he nevec visited it, though he lived to be eighty five years. Yet when he wanted to arouse the deepest emotions and grandest aspirations of his heart, he had his window open toward his native Jerusalem. There are many of you to day who understand that without exposition. This is getting to be a nation of foreigners. They have come into all occupations and professions. They sit in all churches. It may be twenty years age since you got your naturalization papers, and you may be thoroughly Americanized, but you can’t forget tho land of your birth, and you* warmest sympathies go out toward it. You windows are open toward Jerusalem. You* father and mother are buried there. It may have been a very humble home in which you were born, but your memory often plays around it, and you hope some day to go and see it; the hill, the tree, the brook, the house, the place so sacred, the door from which you started off, with parental blessing, to make your own way tu the world; and God only knows how sometimes you have longed to see the familiar places of your childhood, and how, in awful crises of your life, you would like to have caught a glimpse of the old, wrinkled face that bent over you as you lay on the geutle lap, twenty, or forty, or fifty years ago. You may have on this side the sea risen in fortune, and like Daniel have become great and may have come into prosperities which you never could have reached if you had staved there, and you may have many windows of conservatory and windows on all sides, but you have at least one window open toward Jerusalem. When the foreign steamer comes to the wharf you see the long line of sailors with shouldered mail-bags coming down the planks, carrying af many letters as you might suppose would be enough for a year's correspondence, and this repeated again and again during the week. Multitudes of them are letters from home, and at all the postoffices of the land people will go to the window and anxiously ask for them, hundreds of thousands of persons finding that window of foreign mails the open window toward Jerusalem. Messages that say: “When are you coming home home to see us? Brother has gone Into the army. Sister is dead. Father and mother are getting very feeble. We are having a great struggle to get on here. Would you advise ua to come to you or will you come to us/ All join in love and hope to meet you, if not in thia world, then in a better. Good bye?” Yes, yes; in all these cities and amid the flowering Western prairies, and the slopes of the Pacific, and amid the Sierras, and on the banka of the lagoon, and on the ranches of Texas there hi an uncounted multitude who, this hoar, stand and sit, and kneel with their windows open toward Jerusalem. Some of them played on th heather of the Scottish hills. Soma c* the*