Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889.

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THE TABERNACLE PULPIT.!

TALMAGE ON "RUINOUS COMPANY." Bad Charaetei Should Not Be Cultivated EvIdenceaThat 'e Companion of Fools Shall Bo Destroyed" Dally la the Court. After expounding the scriptures Dr. Talmage last Sunday morning gave out that popular hymn by A. M. Toplady, beginning: Your barns, trembling saints, Vow a from the willows take. lie took for his text Proverbs xiii, 20: "A companion of fools shall be destroyed." Following is a verbatim report of the sermon: "May it please the court," eaid a convicted criminal when asked if he had anything to say before sentence of death was passed upon him, "may it please the court, bad company has been my ruin. I received the blessings of good parents and, in return, promised to avoid all evil associations. Had I kept my promise I should have been paved this shame and been freo from the load of guilt that hangs round me like a vulture, threatening to drag me to justice for crimes yet unrevealed. I, who once moved in the first circles of society and have been the guest of distinguished public men, am lost, and all through bad company." This is but one of the thousand proofs that the companion of fools shall be destroyed. It is the invariable rule. There is a Veil man in the wards of a hospital where there are a hundred people sick with ship fever, and he will not be so apt to take the disease as a good man would be apt to be smitten with moral distemper if fihut up with iniquitous companions. In olden times prisoners were herded together in the same cell, but each one learned the vices of all the culprits, so that instead of being reformed by incarceration the day of liberation tamed them out upon society beasts, not men. We mar, in our places of business, bo compelled to talk to and mingle with bad men ; but he who deliberately chooses to associate himself with vicious people is engaged in carrying on a courtship with a Delilah whose shears will clip on all the locks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Sin is catching, is infectious, is epidemic. I will let you look over the millions of people now inhabiting the earth, and I challenge you to show me a good man who, after one year, has made choice and consorted with the wicked. A thousand dollars reward for one such instance. I care not how strong your character may be. Associate with gamblers, vou will become a gambler. Clan with burglars and you will become a burglar. Go among the unclean and you will becomeundean. Not appreciating the truth of my text, many a young man has been destroyed. He wakes up some morning in the great city and knows no one except tae persons into whose employ he has entered. As he goes into the store all the clerks mark him, measure him, and discuss him. The upright young men of the store wish him well, but perhaps wait for a formal introduction, and even then have some delicacy about inviting him into their aF.ociations. But the bad young men of tho store at the first opportunity approach and nfjer their services. They patronize him. They profess to know all about the town. Tbey will take him anywhere that he wishes to go if he will pay the expenses. Tor if a good young man and a bad young man go to some place where they ought not, the good young man has invariably to pay the charges. At the moment "the t.cket is to bo paid for or the champagne settled for the bad young man feels around in his pockets and'eays: "I have forgotten my pocket-book." In forty-eight hours after the young man has entered the store the bad fellows of the establbhment slap him on the shoulder familiarly, and, at his stupidity in taking certain allusions, say: 4'My young friend, you must bo broken in;'1 and thev immediately proceed to break him in. Young man, in the name of God, I warn you to beware how you let a bad man talk familiarly w ith you. If such an one slap you on the shoulder familiarly turn round and give him a withering" look, until the wretch crouches in your presence. There is no monstrosity of wickedness that can stand unabashed under the glance of purity and honor. God keeps the lightnings of heaven in Hisown scabbard and no human firm can wield them; but God gives to very young man a lightning that ho may use, and that lightning is an honest eye. Those who have been close observers will not wonder why I give warning to young mnandpay: "Beware of bad company." First, I warn you to phun the skeptic the young man who puts his fingers in his vest and laughs at your old-fashioned religion and turns over to some mvstery of the bible and says: "Explain that, my rions friend; explain that." And who says; "Nobody shall scare me; I am not afraid of the future; I used to believe in such things and eo did my father and mother, but I have got over it." Yes, lie has got over it, and it" you fit in his company a little longer you will get over it, too. Without predentin? one argument againßt the Christian religion such men will, by their jeers and scolls and caricatures, destroy your respect for the religion which was the strength of your father in his declining years and the pillow of your old mother when sho lay a-dying. Alas! a time will come when that blustering young infidel will have to die, and then his diamond rinjr will Hash no plendor in the eyes of Death as he etands over the much waiting for his soul. Those beautiful lock will h uncombed upon the pillow and the dying man will say: "I cannot die I cannot dio." D-ath, standing r ady beside tho couch, says: "Vou muht die; you have only half a minute to live; let me have It right awav your soul." "No," says the young infidel, "hero art! my gold rings, and those pictures; take them all." "No," says Death, "what do I rare for piciures! your soul." "Stand back " says tho dyinp infidel. "I will not stand back," says Death, "for you havo only ten seconds now to livo; I want your soul." Tho dying man says: VDon't breathe that cold air into my face. You crowd mo too hard. It is getting dark in the room. OC.od!" "Hush." savs Death ; "yon paid there was no God." "Tray for me," cxdabri tho expiring infidel. "Too Ute to pray," wiv Death; "but three morn secondi to live, nnd I will count them ofT one -two three." Ho has gone! Where? Where? Carry him out out, and bury him beide his father nnd mother, who die 1 whlMhoMing fattotho Christian religion. Thry died nintrinur; but tho young infidel only said: "Don't bre.itho that cold air into my furo. You crowd me too hard. It is getting dark in the room." Again I urge you to ihun tho rompan ionahii of idlers. There aro men hanging round every store und oflice nnd shop who have nothing to do, or act as if they ha1 not. They are apt to come in when the firm aro away and wih to engage you in conversation while you are engaged in your regular employment'' I'olitely suggest to such persons that you have no time to give them during business hours. Nothing would please them ho well as to have you renounce yonr occupation and Mochte with them. Much of the time they loungs around the club-rooms or tho loore of engine-Looses, or after the dining

hour stand upon the steps of a fashionable hotel or an elegant restaurant, wishing to give you the idea that that is the place where they dine. But they do not dine there. They are sinking down lower and lower day by day. Neither bv dav nor bv night have anything to do with the idlers. Before you admit a man into vour acquaintance ask him politely; "What do you do for a living?" If he 6ays "Nothing; I am a gentleman," look out for him. He may have a very soft hand and very' faultless apparel, and have a high-sounding family name, but his touch is death. Before you know it you will in his presence be ashamed of your work-dress. Business will become to you drudgery, sn J after awhile you will lose your place, and afterward your respectability, and last of all your soul. Idleness is next door to villainy. Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shop-lifters, and assassins aro made from the class who have nothing to do. When the police go to hunt up and arrest a culprit they seldom go to look in among busy clerks or in the busy carriage factory,' but they go among the groups of idlers. The play is going on at the theater, when suddenly there is a scuffle in the top gallery. What is it? A policeman has come in, and leaning over has tapped on the 6houlderof a young man, saying: "I want you, sir. ' He Las not worked during the day, but somehow has raked together a shilling or two to get into the top gallery. He is an idler. The man on his right hand is an idler and the man on his left hand is an idler. Shrink back from idleness in yourself and in others if you would maintain a right position. Good old Ashbel Green, at more than eighty years of age, was found busy writing, and some young man said to him: "Why do you keep busy? It is time for you to rest. He answered : "I keep busy to keep out of mischief." No man is strong enough to bo idle. Are you fond of pictures? If so, I will show you one of the works of an old master. Hero it is: "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and lo! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered well. I looked upon it and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth and thy want as an armed man." I don't know of another sentence in the bible more explosive than that It first hisses softly, like the fuse of a cannon, and at last bursts like a fifty-four-pounder. The old proverb was rieht: "The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil. A young man came to a man of ninety years of age and said to him : "How have you made out to live eo long and be so well?" The old man took the youngster to an orchard and, pointing to some large trees full of apples, said: "I planted thesa trees when I was a boy and do you wonder that now I am permitted to gather the fruit of them?" We gather in old age what we plant in our youth. Sow the wind and we reap the whirlwind. Plant in early life the right kind of a Christian character and you will eat luscious fruit in old age and gather these harvest apples in eternity. Again I urge you to avoid the perpetual pleasure-seeker. I believe in recreation and amusement I need it as much as I need bread and go to my daily exercise with as conscientious a purpose as I go to tho Iord's eupper, and all persons of sanguine temperament must havo amusement and recreation. God would not have made us with the capacity to laugh if He had not intended us sometimes to indulge it. (rod hath hung in sky and set in wave nnd printed on grass many a roundelay; but ho who chooses pleasure-seeking for his life work does not understand for what God made him. Our amusements are intended to help us in some earnest mission. The thunder cloud hath an edge exquisitely purpled, but, with voice that jars the earth, it declares: "I go to water the green fields." The wild flowers under the fence aro gay, but they say: "Wo stand here to made a beautiful edge for tho wheat field, ami to refresh tho husbandmen in their nooning." Tho stream sparkles and foams and frolics and says: "I go to baptize the moss. I lave the spots on the trout. I slake the thirst of the bird. I turn the wheel of tho mill. I rock in my crystal cradle nmckshaw and water lily."" And so while tho world plays it works. Lookout for tho man who always plays and never works. You will do well to avoid those whose regular business it is to play ball, skate, or go a-boating, All these sports aro grand in their places. I never derived so much advantage from any ministerial association os from a ministerial club that went out to play ball every Saturday afternoon in the outskirts of Philadelphia. These recreations aro grand to give us muscle and spirit for our regular toil. I believe in muscular Chrislinnity. A man is often not so near God with a weak stomach as when he has a strong digestion. But shun thoso who make it their life occupation to sport. There are younjt men whose industry and usefulness havo fallen overboard from the yacht on the Hudson or the Schuylkill. There are men whoso business fell through the ice of the skating pond and have never since been heard of. There is a beauty in tho gliding of a boat, in the song of skates, in tho soaring of a well struck ball, and I never see one fly but I involuntarily throw up my hands to catch it; and, so far from laying an injunction upon ball playing or any other innocent sport, I claim them all as belongirg of rieht to those of us who toil in tho grand industries of church and ßtate. But the life business of pleasure-seeking always makes in the end a criminal sot. George Brummell was smiled upon by nil Kngland and his life was given to pleasure. Ho danred w ith peeresses and swung a round of mirth, and wealth, and applause, until exhausted of puree, aud worn out of lody, nnd bankrupt of reputation, and ruined of soul, he begged a biscuit from a grocer and declared that he thought a dog's lifu was hotter than a man's. Such men will crowd around your desk or counter or work-bench or seek to decoy you of!. They will want you to break out in the mittat of your busy day to take a ride with them to Coney inland or to Central park. They will tell you of some people you must fee; of some excursion that you must take; of soino Sabbath day that you ouxht to dishonor. They will tell you of exquisito wines that you lutisttnko; of costly opera that you must hear; of wonderful dancers that you must see ; but bofore you accept their convoy or their companionship remember that, while at tho end of a uful lifo you may 1h able to look buck to kindnc.HMi'g done, to honorable work itccouiplimhed, to joortv helped, to a Kood name earned, to Christum iulhienco exerted, to a Savior's caiimo advanced these pleasure-seckiTH on their deathbed have nothing better to review than a torn play-lmll, a ticket for tho mees, nn empty tankard, and tho cast-out rinds of a carousal, and as in tho delirium of their awful death they clutch tho goblet nnd press it to their lips, the dregs of tho cup falling upon their tongue will begin to hisi and uncoil with the adders of an eternal poison. Cost out these men from vour company, Do not be intimate with them. Always le polite. There is no demand that you over sacrifice politeness. A young woman accosted a Christian qnaker with: "Old chsp, how did you make all your money ?" Tho qvaker replied: "I'.y dealing in an article that thou mayent deal in if thou wilt civility.' Always !e courteous, but at the lamo titno firm. Say no as if you meant it. Havo it understood in yutir

store and shop and street that you will not stand in the companionship of the skeptic, the idler, the pleasure-seeker. Bather than enter the companionship of such accept the invitation to a better feast. The promises of God are the fruits. The harps of heaven are the music. Clusters from the vineyards of God have been pressed into tho tankards. The sons and daughters of tho Lord Almighty are the guests. While standing at the banquet to fill the cups and divide the clusters and command tho harps and welcomo the guests is a daughter of God on whose brow are the blossoms of paradise and in whose cheek is the flush of celestial summer. Her name is lteligion.' "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace." Decide this soon, oh, young man, what direction you will take. There comes such a moment of final decision why not this? One night I saw a young man at the street corner evidently doubting an to which direction he had better take, his hat lifted high eaough so you could see ho had an intellectual forehead, and he had a stout chest and a robust development Splendid young man! Cultured young man! Honored young man! Why did he stop there while so many were going up and down ? The fact is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mastery of his spirit, and there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of the street. "Come with me," said the goodaugel; "I will take you home; I will spread my wing over your pillow; I will lovingly escort you all through life under supernatural protection; I will bless every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you "enter; I will consecrate your tears when you weep, vour sweat when you toil, and at the last I will hand over your grave to the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. In answer to your father's petition and your mother's prayer, I have been sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your guardian spirit. Come with me," said the good angel in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of heaven when a seraph breathes on it. "No, no." said the bad angel, "come with me; I have something better to öfter; the wines I potxr are from chalices of bewitching carousal; the dance I lead is over floor tessellated with unrestrained indulgences; there is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I woiship. The skies are Italian. The paths 1 tread are through meadows, daisied and primrosed. Como with me." The young man hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away, until a door flashed open in the 6ky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man's history, for the good angel flown, he hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the opening but blasted at the last. The bad angel, leading tho way, opened gate after gate, and at each gate the road became rougher and tho sky more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it would never open. Passed each portal, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of bolts; and the scenery on either side the road changed from gardens to deserts, and the Juno air became a cutting December blast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of light becamo hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the start had tossed with wine, poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on tho right side of the road thero was a serpent, end the man said to the bad angel: "What is that serpent?" and the answer was: "That is the serpent of stinging remorse." On tho left side the road there was a lion, and tho man asked tho bad angel: "What is that lion?" and the answer was : "That is the lion of all devouring despair." A vulture flow through tho skv, and tho man asked tho bad angel: "What is that vulture?" and tho answer was: "That is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of tho slain." And then the man began to try to pull ofT of him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and he said to tho bad angel: "What is it that twists me in this awful convolution?" and the answer was: "That is the worm that never dies." And then the man said to the bad angel: "What does all this mean? I trusted in what vou said at the corner of tho street last night; I trusted all, and why have you thus deceived me?" Then tho last deception fell out of the charmer, and it said : "I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your soul ; I watched my chance for many a long year ; when you hesitated that night on tho street I gained mv triumph; now you are here. IIa! ha! You are here. Come, now, let us fill these two chalices of fire, and drink together to darkness and woeanddeath. Hail! Hail!" Oh! young man, with tho good angel sent forth by Christ or the bad angel sent forth by sin get the victory over your soul! Their wings aro interlocked this moment above you, contending for your destiny, as above the Appenincs eagle and condor fight midsky. This hour mav decide your destiny, God help you. To hesitate- is to die. TALMAGE ON JOHNSTOWN.

Fie Know the People of the Valley and They VTere tTlood Not i Judgment. The Kev. Dr. Talmage wrote as follows last Tuesday concerning the recent Pennsylvania horror: Tho woes aggregate. The flames embrace the floods. The doomed valley becomes an uncovered sepulchcr on which tho filthy vultures swoop. The five hundred lives lost at Johnstown become tho five thousand, and the five thousand have become ten thousand, and the ten thousand have become fifteen thousand, and the horror rises with every day and hour until tho nation is In an agony of sympathy. Tho two elements of water and 11 ro aro in contention ns to which shall do the worst Though water to put out the fire, and enough fire to lick up the water, they interlock their forces to ductroy. In tho mountain of debris are many of the dead. Surgeons and health ollicers ry: "Let tho fires burn until tho bodies are cremated, aud so the valley be kept freo from tho pestilence that mmst come if these bodies aro left to dissolution in tho open air." "No, no," cry out husbands and wives, fathers and mothers and children, "let tho engines play upon the Hume and tho (ires bo put out, ami wo get back the forms of our loved ones for ono more look beforo they go out of sight forever. Let our w bite hands of grief bury them, nnd riot tho red hands of conflagration." If I were a phvsician in thnt stricken vnllv, I wouM sny, "Lctrremittion goon." If I liad ono of my household in the ruin, 1 would sav, "Put out the lire." 1 will toll you w hat wo will havo to do nnd that is, h avo all to God. This is a calamity too big for human management. The angels ol dchtriietinn aro presiding at thoso obsequies. Thank God, the souls havo gono free and tho water can not drown them and the fires cannot burn them. Hut while water ahd Uro are in rnginx controversy as to which shall make the blackest tho wretchtxlness, another combat moro astounding goes on between heaveu-descended charity and diabolism. While Christian relief, with foot and medicine, comes upon tho scene it is confronted with demons who aro robbing the dead, from tho swollen fingers of beauty nnd lovothe rings are torn and th pockets of tho dea l aro rilled. May thro be shot and rope, enough on tho ground to hang or shout them all. No jude or jury or trial aro appropriate for such mcarnato

fiends. They ought not be allowed to live an hour. Away with them from the face of the earth the quicker the better. Did ever such opposites meet on any scene of calamity charity and ruffianism, angel and devil, rescue and loathsomeness? Why is it multitudes are crying? Why is it that all this has come upon those beautiful valleys and that these multitudes are so awfully alain? Let no one say, "It was a judgment of God upon that people," as so often it is said in regard to Buch disasters. No. There are no better people under tho sun than those last Friday slain. I have been in their homes and I knew them well. Besides that there are hundreds ot towns and cities bv their iniquities inviting the divine judgment who were never struck with lightning or washed under inexorable wyes. If Brooklyn or New York had been punished for all their sins, the Hudson and East rivers would now stand higher than the piers of the East river, bridge and the blue fish would be holding high carnival in our dining halls and pantries. Be careful how you try to handle the thunderbolts of the Almighty. God spare our homes, our cities, our nation, from any repetition of such horrors. Can that Conemaugh river 1e the one I have seen pronouncing its gentle benediction upon the farms and the homes on either side of it? Some demon of tho pit must have seized upon it. With hands bespoiled and wrathful it has clutched for all it could reach. "Come with me," it cried to the homes, the churches, the villages, the cities. "Come with mein my midnight revels and dance with death and darkness and woe." The Johnstown disaster will bo set down in history besido the three or four greatest disasters" of the nineteenth century. Since the chaotic flood that stood fifteen cubits above the highest mountains there have been very few deluges to equal it. Now upon this modern deluge let the ark of our nation's sympathy sail. Religions Notes. At the world's quadrennial conference of the nnited brethren church, recently held at York, Ts., the opening address of Senior Bishop Weaver showed an increase in the past quadreonial of 40,010 members, 143 organized societies, nearly $23000 in benevolent interests, over $500,000 in church property valuation, and a pain in the Sunday-school attendance of 57,000. The statistics read at the recent conference in the tabernacle. Salt Lake City, rerort that the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day 6aints has at present twelva apostles, seventy patriarchs, 8,919 high priests, 11,805 elders, 2,(t! priests, 2,292 teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,809 families, 11,915 ollicers and members, 49,303 children under eicht years of age, a total mormon population of 103,911. And now the experience of traffic and trade and commerce is reaching the reluctant conviction that it pays for the body's sake to remember the Sabbath. The railroads one by one are coming to it. The Vanderbilt system has led the way, although some smaller roads hate heretofore observed it. Other large roads will follow in the line of freight. Public opinion is crystalizing around the wisdom of the fourth commandment. This at least was not one of the mistakes of Moses. The Zlid-Continent. Miss Kate A. Brexel, one of the three daughters of the late F. A. Brexel of Philadelphia, has entered, as a "postulate" or "earnest seeker," the mother-house of the order of the sisters of mercy at Pittsburg, Pa. Miss Brexel has $7,000.000 inherited from her father, besides a large fortune left her by her mother, all of which will go to the church, if she remains in the order. If the Brexel sisters leave no heirs, the entire estate, valued at $2 1,000,000, will also go to the church, of which these young ladies are devout members. The annual report ot the American seamen's friend society, just issued, contains many interesting facts about the work of this ancicut and excellent association among the sailors. About $.'15,000 has been spent in the pant year in missionary work, publications, loan libraries, and other aids. Altogether 9,321 new libraries havo been given out to vessels; over 10,000 have been reshipped, making in all nearly 500,000 books, which have been put within reach of about 3"0,000 men. Church of To-Day. In 1S23 the First presbyterian church, Washington City, removed to the present site on i'our-and-a-IIalf-.st. In 1S39 the church was remodeled to its present form. In this church four presidents and a large number of the most distinguished men of the country, in the earlier councils of the republic, hare regularly worshiped. The church has had only seven pastori. The last and the present one, the Kev. I?yron Sunderland, B. I)., is now in the thirtyseventh year of his pastorate. Tho Roman catholic church has secured another great pulpit orator, Father Augustino. lie was the lenten preacher in Home, nnd gathered great multitudes to hear him. lie is one of those eloquent priests who have risen nt times to conspicuity because of their splendid power of speech, and who havo been used by that most keen-sighted church for iU purposes. No talent is allowed to be wnsted in that hod v. Whenever a man can do anything surpassingly well, he is set to do that thing, and that only. I' mbyte rinn Obnrrrer. The plane of life on which we move and have our being is, to a greater or less extent, a matter of our own choosing. If a man will strive to acend to the loftier levels of the intellectual life he will probably be found there by-and-hy. Any plane, almost, whether bp or down, in m arly every department of individual life, is accessible and can be renchod by proper sets of choices and efforts, or fail to be reached by the lack of these. Let us realize that the altitude of our personal life in the various spheres of existence is, in genera!, the result of our own choosing. Whero we desire, deiid, and strive to rear our intellectual, moral, religious, social, esthetic home, whether upon the bracing mountain or down by the sluggish pool, there it will be. Sitnilai-!;ool Jinxtr. The Cowboy's Ticket. Sun Francisco Chrorrtct. They were telling experience s the other night and Col. tlranniis told one of his. He mid the trip through th onthern country here Just after the road had been opened. The festive cowboy had jut begun to enjoy the sport of running the train in the rouh region, and at one of the stations a formidable specimen of that tough human boarded the cars. The conductor came along punching the tickets, and this cowboy did not pay any attention to him. At last the conductor laid his hand on the corboy's shoulder and said, "Ticket, plesse." The cowboy turned in true row hoy style, pulled out his revolver and pointed it at the conductor. "Here's my ticket." The conductor walked on and punched everybody else's coupon. Then he disappeared. The little incident had here forgotten by almost everybody in the car. The eowboy was in a auiescent state and the car wa quit a till when e conductor came in. lie walked leisurely up the aisle and suddenly stopped before the. cowboy, placed a great bi knife dangerously contiguous to his vital part and said, quietly: "Umme sre that ticket again." The row boy paid his fare. The I'arson's Thrilling (,'llmas. Lewliiton Journsl. The Her. (I. IL Tahner of Augusta, one of the members of the conference, told while in town a story of a brother whose rloquonce was of tho soaring style, lie was accustomed to attempt the tnoht ambitious rhetorical flights; somelimns he coinplet' d them all right and sometimes lie didn't. Not infrequently he lost command of his vocabulary at a critical moment and the result was ilUastro'i to his metaphor. Ono Sunday ha was pronouncing n glowing eulogy on a departed saint, lie raised hint in a stately and rispUnilent progress step by atop to the puuly gates, lie almost nnd him sfi in ji. svrn when ho liesltsted und st'diied nt ft n. 'And brethren," said he "and brethren, he went in as sliek as a roouKr

A Vtl Hneiit lUy. (NWnitiint Trvnlrr.) "How hare you been getting along to-day?" Asked Willlrtin's father. "Very well, sir." "Vou should never pass a dny withont adding to your More of Imming, without llndlnif soinetlilng out." "Weif, I found I people nut apftlnat where I had bills to collect," replied William in a sntislied tone A Tn1T-llerted Cook, (Chrlstlsn AilToct Udy "Why did you not sens the sardlnfi as I told you?" - " UldIy"I oonldn't folnd the srterct spring to owpen the tiu box, and I had to break it with tho hatchet, ind wheu J lifted the lid, mtiiu, the poor thiugs were all fast asleep, iver so close to one another, and I hadn't the bearrct to roast M wu ray Intention."

CHILDREN'S ROUND TABLE.

KITTY CLOVER AND KITTY WINKS. Other Stories For the Little Folks Two of a Kind Polly's New Shoe At the Starting Post Among the Kids Problems. "ice, grandma! Isa't my new bat. beautiful? Papa said I must have a real nice one, as I've been an extra pood girl," said Kittio Clover, holding close up to grandma's djm eyes tho dainty plush bonnet trimmed with three real humming birds and knots of cream-colored ribbon. (.irandma said nothing and a pained look came into the dear old eyes. "I I thought you'd like it, grandma; papa paid ever eo much for it," said Kitty, disappointedly. "Dearie, I was only thinking of these dear little dead birds that are now wired and perched on this bonnet. They can't ieel pain now, and I'm glad they can not, but I've heard that the poor little bright plumaged birda are cruelly tortured before death, that their beauty may not be marred, as the ladies and little girls who wear them want them beautiful. How happy these tiny creatures were in ther leafy home, and they harmed nobody. Perhaps some sick and lonesome little girl delightedly watched their flittings in and out the flower-laden vine and shrubs as they gathered food and their bright beauty cheered her dull hours. Perhaps she wonders sadly, 'what has become of my feathered friends?' If so, I am glad that she doesn't know they were killed to trim our Kitty Clover s bonnet." "Oh, grandma, I'm po sorry I asked papa to get tho bonnet for me. I wish I could bring the dear birds back to life, but I can't," said Kitty, sadlv. "You cannot do that, darling, but hereafter you can refuse to buy or wear as an ornament a dead bird. If nobody buys dead birds the dealers will soon cease hunting and mounting them, as, if there is no demand there need be no suppl)'." "Kitty, I want you," called Mamma Clover from her room ; and laying the couch near to grandma, the little girl left the room and then two things happened. Grandma, feeling drowsy, settled back in her arm-chair to take a nap. and "Kitty Winks," the especial pet of Kitty Clover, a plump, white, mischievous kitten, came nosing around into grandma's room, and proceeded to tangle balls of worsted, skeins of cotton and spools of sewing silk in the work-basket, which sat upon the floor this one time. After doing all the mischief possible to the contents of the basket, Kitty Winks' pharp eyes spied tho birds on the bonnet. With a bound she attacked them, and oh! what a wreck that bonnet was, in a short time, and grandma never knew about it until mamma and Kitty Clover came in and caught Kitty Winks at her work. "Never mind, mamma, she's only a kitten, and doesn't know any better than to want to catch birds. I didn't want to wear three dead birds on my hat after grandma told me what ehe did about them. Papa didn't think or he wouldn't havo bought them for me ; for he doesn't want to be cruel to any created thiny. I'd rather w ear my old bonnet. Kitty Winks needn't be scolded for tearing up the birds' said Kittly Clover, as she captured Kitty Winks. Two of a Kind. f Buffalo Express. A bright little girl was taken by her father out into tho country to visit an uncle whom she called Walsh. As the two drove along the country road, the little one spied a scarecrow in ft field, and exclaimed: "Oh, papa, there'e Uncle Walsh." Papa laughed hugely at the joke, but told her that she was mistaken; that what she saw was only a scarecrow. A little further along and Undo Walsh's farm was reached, and way out in tho field was Uncle Walsh at work. The little firl's eyes were tho first to catch sight ot dm, but sho wasn't to bo fooled so easily this time. "Oh, papt," she cried, "look at that scarecrow!" i'apa did look, and has not got through laughing yet. Psnjrroui Ground. San Kranolsoo Chronicle.! They were getting a kindergarten lesson. The teacher took them as very simple subjects, ho touched a table, "What is this?" "Wood." "What is this?" she asked, . as she touched tho fonder. "Iron." "What is this?" and she took up an acid bottle. "Ola'is." "What is this?" and she touched her watch chain. "Bras," said one small boy, and she changed tho subject. Merle's Memory. I Harper's Yom reople The verso that Sundav was: "The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,'' and Merlo knew it perfectly oh, yes, indeed! 'Well, Merle," the teacher said, "do you know the text to-day?" "Yes, 'ra," w.i3 tho prompt answer. Put thero was a long silence, until the teacher began, gently, "The Lord " "Th-e Jord," eaid Merle, slowly. Another silence. "Loveth," prompted the teacher. "Lov-eth," chimed in Merlo "the Lo-rd loveth Well, tho Lord loveth sumpin; I don't 'member what." Polly's Xw Mioas. You'd know ty the wsr she pcs rresVlnj shout, lvrln ilnw n frotn nil ponslhlrt ie Atihelwolittl fi-et ihrunt complacently out. That Polly lias on her nrw shoe. Thy srs nest, they sro Rsy, thoy ar buttoned op IHkIi. And iney'n hnd io s brilliant blue tlDt, T)i")''re luljlit ss Ihn stsrs twinkling up lnthsikj, Or s penny Just out of tho mint. Put It in't for thst ho' so hjppy sn! pronl Thnt she' Inirxt iinalile to rnk ; It's bm-iiM Ihr (rl out uoli charmingly loud, buch s perfectly twautlful sipipak. I New York World. luat at tho Stnrt Ing-Toat. tlrunawlck (Me.) Telegraph. A little fellow h)Q fifth birthday is at hand heard the nuestion nuked of a new comer, "Jlow old in that infant?" llinroly win: "Mionin't old at all; sho has ust Ix-gun.'' After ho had seen tho iniint ho aid to hin mother: "Mamma, that buhy had her haircut in heaven; I mippoMtt they thought hha would not bo Ktrong enough to walk to tho barber'." t-'.rTrtrtually Closed, IPntrolt Tribune. A man Iaht .Sunday was about to lay his hand upon tho loor of a church when it little girl In tho street snid: "You can't get in there, tnlMtcr." "Why," bo nald, "isn't tlii a church?" "Yes," said tho littlo girl, "but tho preacher has pono to Uiiropo for six months and taken Uod with him." Among the Kids. When ths announcement wns nu1 in a csrtnln household located not for from Auburn that the seventh heir hud mmln his Appearance on tho scene, thst oldest member nt tho (lock, a Ind of nine summers, shouted, "Che stnutsl'1 Aiihurn (labile. A littl three-year-old, whoia father was a rhurrh trustee, was icreatly puzrled in his fforts to ftrrnnjro a tiny set of toy blocks in the form of a meeting house, Atter laborious n desTor, in which he failed to accomplish his task. h looked uo ,UU father with a comical

twinkle aoont his eyes and said: 'Tm never can build a church 'leu board trustees help rae." Detroit Tribun. Son Ta. why does God make it rain?" Fa "My dear little boy, God makes it rain that the corn and fruit will ripen." "Well, what does he make it rain on the water for where there is no corn or fruit?" "Go to bed or I'll turn you orer my knee, you little scamp." Tertu injs. Sell was in the middle of a wild bed-time frolic, capering around the room like a little will-'o-the-wisp, when mamma reminded her of her prayer. Without ado, down dropped the wee woman on her knees, just lone enough to say, breathlessly: "O, Lord-make-me-good-little-girl-fast's-ever-you-can-amen." -Yifie York Tribune. The other afternoon, after a school in Dooly county had been dismissed, two of the little boys had a row over a knife that each wanted, to make a whistle with. After a considerable race the boy with the knife escaped. The disappointed boy met a stranger in the road and accosted him thus: "Say, ruiiter, yer an't seen nary boy down the road there with my knife, and looks like his name is Bob, is yer" 6a annah Awv. Two children were recently overheard discoursing tocether concerning their feelings about being alone in the dark. "I am afraid to be alone," one said. "It makes me all sort of creepy; doesn't it yon?" "But you know." responded the other child, who had enjoyed the advantage of an orthodox education, ' that Jesus is with you when you are alone." "Yes, I know," replied the first speaker doubtfully, "but I'd rather have some of my own folks." Host on Courier. A little boy belonging to a neighbor of mine lias just blossomed out in his first pairof pants. "Where's Georcie?" I asked, pretending not to know him. "Why, that's Georgie," said his father, polntin? to his little boy. "Well, well, well, and so this is Georgie: dressed up like a man instead of a girl." "Yes, and I'se pot garters on my shoulders just like iapa!" Detroit Free Prets.

KNOTTY PROBLEMS. Our readers are inritod it furnish original nl--mas, charades, rid Jle, rebusei, and other "Knotty Problems," addressing all communications relative to this department to K. K. ChaJboura, Lewiston, H-ti. o. 2773 A Queer Name. I heard Iod asro of gnod old dam Who bestowed on her do' a queer bible name. A bibliebt erudite sonant with much care -And deep Felf-abasetue nt to think that so rare A litterateur as himself mut so look Yot what one ?o dimple bad found in tbe book. It coes without saylnj; he met with sm-r-es, Aud 'twould please mfe immensely if you would all fruess The narua of the doer, who performed a kind ded Tor a bettsar of old in his hour of sora need. It consist of two parts two halves one mijht ssy, Put that halves inu?t of coure be equal alway. Each part has four letters, thrt ih same 'in both cases, Except in each half tbey bold different placs. What'a left oer in on is etill mora In tue other, Each rying to hold bisher plaoe than his brother. Btti4' he-r idea was truly unique, So tbe name of the dog I" hope yoa will seek. Happy Thought. Xo. 2774 Triple Acrostic. 1. Fleshy. 2. The title of a lady in Ppain. 3. To enroll. 4. A boy's name. 5. To let. 6. fcoli J bodies baring circles for their base. T. A kind of boat- 8. The bst part of a thing. 9. A place of restraint, in. The thin oily parts of fats. U. Tüe present call or occasion. 12. Intfre Primal A fictitious name of a well-known puzzler. CtntTiüt state of trance or ecstasy. Finnit Paid as a pledge. Jessie. No. 2775 Anagram. I find "rich taints" upon the earth, IHrh taints they are indeed; For from the throne of plenty they Get evervthing they need; liisfi tviuis they are O: rich indeed, And theirs ts a noble creed. ABT1BU3 LaCEESTICS. No. 2776 Progressive naif-Square. 1. A letter. 2. An abbreviation. 8. An m4. 4. To terminate, i- An isolated peak in central and western parts of North America, too fatcrh to be called a hill, and not bih enouch to be called a mountain. 6. An unctuous substance used as food. 7. An apartment in a house where provisions and utensils are kept. CL A5D0. No. 2777 Riddles. I. A friend to all the bnman race, From emperor to peasant; There's none more missed when not in rlsce, Or of more use when present; Obedience to tor patron's will, I yield to their control, Yet every one is trying still To "put me in a bole." N. Klsrk and down -trod den Is my line, Yot you may not deplse. For surely I was made to hin JWot ädinirin eyes. Of all tar wandrlns o'er the earth, 1 hous'h lightly you my talk, Your undorstandine om ns my worth And blameless daily wa!k. III. tVitb thieves 1 consort, With the vilest. In short; 1'iu quiU) at eae in depraTity, Yet all divines use me, And snvants can't lose me, For I am the center of gravitr. M. C 5. No. 277S-I)iainond. 1. A Wter. 2. Totnrf. X A small number. 4. Volte cloefly, and a letter In Christian, ft. (O Fntr. Uw.l Th county court. 6. That which I of pr-t important or indispensable. 7. Judos in th Il of Man. 8. Mystery. (Rare. 9. A statement. 10. Certain printers' measures. 11.. A letmr. Cat A sro. No. 2770 Decapitation. You see me in the wavinn trees, A feather floating on the hree.e. My substance is. I am more rare Than beautv, and its worship share. Take off ray ba I, a linear find, A contet swift, of varied kind. Fehsad acain. Alas! you see A single one is left of me. Again, a country's name I bear; And when scam my head ( spar, I'll point you to the compass true With bold Atlantic's waves in view, TEasriA. Answers. 2.76.v-Vinty-tiin not of a hundred esses of cholera trraluatd tatally. 2t:r,'w-rsr. i.Tt7 Triple letter eni?roa. a,70 I. Great Britain. 2. United futes. 3. Australia. 4. Scotland. . Minnesota, s. Philadelphia. 7. Sorntes. . Lonldss. 9. Piopene. M. ArlxtioVs. II. Cleopatra. 12. Denominations. 18. Astonishment. 14. MysMficaUon. IS. IVliTerance. 1. Missionary. 17. Mlcapprebenslon. 2,7 Almost. 2,77il Mnew, sine. sin. 2,771-0 ASTRA LOTA ATTRITION STRUTTED TRUST V. D RITTER ATTER 1. 1 K D O p I N A 2,773 Fire-damp. Ho Did Not Marry Glotes, (Abbeville (GO Times The Hev. C. II. Irwin told ns of the following a few days nijo: When he was married it was tho custom lor the ladies to wear cloves thst reached to the elbows, and it was some trouble to put them on and takfl the m ofU Both he and the lady that he wedded had on cloves of this style, and were standing before the preacher. Jesso Mereer. whose services had been secured for the occasion. When the time came to Join hands, as there appeared to Dr. Mercer's eyes more gloves thau hands, he calmly snid,"I don't xnnrry gloves." Then followed on th part of esch candidate an etlort to displace the gloves as soon as possible. Au Inquiry. IMrrrhsnt Traveler 1 "Mamma," snH Freddie, "what's the matter with my ff ft?" "I don't know; perhaps yoa are petting corn." l'rcddie was silent for a time end then remarked: Mamma." 'Well, dear." "Aftfr I am d'l'l n'' burie! do you think they will grow?" found Living- Cave.I'wellera. I).M!n, K. M., June Ment. Pchaatka arrlrel heretOHlsy. Ill party hae tiei sno is.ful bcyi n I II ei't tatlnns In tlielr es ploritfoii, end especially In I 'ilU"TH Chihuahua llem IivIi k clllt ami candaUs wer found in rnst sImiikIi.u t, wild a i n ot tim Mevlistn ttlb ' limn (Vrii 's rnnutiwst. Tho hd- they live In art tly s Btllsr to tht 1 1 ahAin1 n'd clllt dwellings Arlsoua nd New Mosten, shout which Ihcrn hs been so tum h ps-u atl. n and so muih money spmt In Investigation. Ilesult of Fend., jArKsoüvu.tx, Fla., June J. 11. Injnmln, editor of the Ivland shot sod Instantly killed Capt. J. W. Doniilaas, at New Hioyrn.t last tit?M. Iniiplssa was a promtnnut cltlten of Psyion, tu I weli-inown democrstlc polttlrlsn. The shooting was the result of an old feud, re ns1 by recent attacks by lei0amia la tbe columns ot his ntwspiper.

COMMENCEMENT DAY AT PURDUE,

A Largo Graduating Clatt-Gev. Bevty aad tho Military Display. Lafatktte, June 5. Special. To-day" has been one of pre at moment in the history of Turdue university. It waa the fifteenth anneal commencement of the institution, aad twenty-five graduates left college for actiTe) work in life. The corameneetnent eierciae began at 0:30 a. m., and from a class of twenty, five eleven were chosen to represent the university on the rostrum. A lare audienoe waa present and the graduates, each and all, made, a creditable shou-in. The following are tha names of the graduates and their themes: The&L "Anatomy of the F.nsllsh &prrow. Handler Caraway (B. 8.) Thesis "A lViign for a Draw pau" Faul Henry Cbapin tB. C. C.) Thesis "The t.tüoieucv of the Electric Motor" Clarence L:nus Cory (B. M. Ml Thesis "Tha Cantilever Hrik-e Clia.jrd CrowclliB. C E.) Oration '-The Kace Trot, If m" JVrnhardt Herman liorner (B. 8.) Oration "L:fe Without. Literature is Ieath" ...William Lauacu Hora (B. fc.) Thesis "A IVsicn for a Twenty-Ton Locomotive ?tcaui Crane" Winthrop Keith Hos (B. M. E.) Thesis "Tbe Link Mothm of Locomotives ' - .lames Francis Hutckixon (B. M. E. Oration "The Licrnity of Law" Uiivur ilrtn Jones (B. S.) Thesis-" A l:n lor a pension Bridge." Frank. Fuenie Kitig (B. C E.) Thesis "Roads and raremcnts.''. Morris Leristela (B. C. E.) Oration "The Future of E ussia." Dumont Lou (B. S.) Oration "Caricature.'' John Tinney McCutchen (B. 6-? Oration "Aesthti Art." tanni 'e'Tjiscna MGrath (B. 8.) Thesis "Economic l!ai!na t t intruction." - Charles Edward Middleton (B. C. E.) Thesis "Sewers and lra;ns." Charies Warner Titer (B. C E.) Oration "Colloee Lihies." - Frank Lewis Faipey (B. 8.) Thesis "IipKit-n for th Iw l'rsrre Cylinder of a .om; ound Kn;ine "U. Koyse (B.M.E.) Oration "The Mortised Kanu" .". .aiiin-l Monroe 5aitTuarsl (B. Thesis "Fermentation" J hn Frederick .-hnalble (B. P. Oration "Our Future Social Stnte" ieorse Harrey Seary (B. . Thesis "Mudy of the Marble Faun"..". .. James B.nney Shaw, jr., (B. S.) Thesis "A Pesijn for the H:h Treasure Cylin'Vr of a Compound Kneine" I Jacob Maune Sholl (B. L E.) i Thesis "A Insin ior aa Automatic Engine for Electric Liehtini" .' William Hsih Wells tB. M. E. One of the important event was the visit of Gov. Jlovey. wiih his staff and visiting military com-'-jy. Ha arrived at 1:S0 a. m., and was accompanied by the governor's pnards, Capt. Tarletou, and the l:rht infantry, Capt. Scott, of Indianapolis. They were met at the depot by the reception committee and military escort composed of Fnrdne cadets, Pehart light infantry and company D First regiment, Capt. West, of Crawiordsville. After the atret parade the column marched to Purdue. Aa they crossed the levee en artillery salute was fired by Purdue artillery. .Gov. Hover and 6taS" entered the chapel where commencement exercises were held at intermission, and were given seats on the rostrum, remainintr to tho close of exercise. Pinner was served at tho collece, and then the military drills followed by the companies present. In this the light infantry carried o9 the palm. Dress parad closed the exercises, which were witnessed br thousands of people. The alumni banquet and reception followed these exercises, and the L'ovcrnor responded to the toast "The State." He was then diiven to the city and dined with Senator Dresser. This evening the governor attended the public reception tendered the students by President Smart, and then was present at the Hen lerson-Griflithe nuptials. Gov. Ilovey will return home tomurrow morning. It was a busy day for him and taxed his energies. He was jriven a hearty welcome at every turn as the chief executive of 6tate. The commencement exercises at Purdue this week have been nnusnally elaborate, and the faculty and students hare been very buy day and nipht. The public interest shown in thcfe matters has been great, aad pires much encouragement to the institution. The contract for an elaborate electrical Laboratory was awarded this week, and Purdue continues to ascend the plane of success and educational greatness. TROUBLE IN THEIR RANKS. Chief Arthur TosUiTely Declares That He Will Ter Sanction Another strike. Chicago, June o. There is trouble in tha ranka of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers. Chief Arthur is a candidate for re-election, and as such has been making a quiet canvass of the various lodges of the brotherhood, list week a 6ecrct meetin? for this purpose was held in this city. There were upward of two hundred members present, representing lodges in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Iowi and Wisconsin, and w ith their defeat by the "Q," tne momentarily expected reduction of wagea on the Santa Te and the the recent discharge by the Alton of a lare number of brotherhood men fresh in their minds, they were not at all satisfied with the chief's optimistic speech. A member of the general prieraace committee got the floor, nnd, addressing Chief Arthur, said: "Your speech this morninc pictured our orfaniration as impregnable and resistless. And, eins so, it had nothing to fear from any misfortune that micht threaten, but no misfortune did threaten. Now, sir, if yon believe such a state of thing exist you hare been incorrectly informed of affairs. The truth is a reduction of wares is expected to be mode before long on a number of western roads. .ucb action wa do not propose to accept, because we do not believe it to be justified. AVe, therefore, desira to know whether, in the event of a reduction brio? ordered, despite our opposition, you would sanction a Urike?"' Chief Arthur did not like the Question, but there was no help for it. He had to answer. With compressed lips he rose to his feet, looked at the determined faces betöre hin, and said: "Under no conditions or circumstances of which I can conceire shall I ever aanetioa another strike." A murmur of surprise, tinged with Indiana tion, arose, bot ceased e tho chief continued: "My reason for this decision is two-fold. In the first place. I am opposed to strikes eo gcueral principles. In the second place, to strike would be practically suicide, for win to the inexorable laws of supply and demand and the larpe number of unemployed engineer in the country, it would take but an exceedingly short space of time to fill your place." "l.ut, sir," broke in the questioner, "suppos a reduction of wages should occur on the Union Pacinc system, where the brotherhood is so thoroughly equipped as to obtain tha grastin? of everything they ak. would cot to authorize a strike to resist it?" Withont a moment's hesitation the chief replied: "No, sir; I would not I believe that uo reduction of waccs is to he made; but should there be, and the men follow my aJrioe. they will accept the reduction. I shall never sanction another strike." Chirf Arthur stopped and the meeting adjourned. .... Murmurs of discontent have been beard ever since. It was known that the chief had a strong dislike to strikes, but that bis conservatism waj so extrem as his speech showed it to be it was never dreamed. HAVE MADE IT A DESERT. Thousand of Christians Thrown Into Slavery or Unlettered Ky the Mandls. LONPOf, June 5. Missionary letters to tha antl slavery society say that ti e mahdis hsva made western Abyssinia a desert Whole flock ami herds have been destroyed. Thousands of Chrisvlsns have been thrown Intoslavery. thousands of others have been butchered and hundreds of the noblest inhabitant have been taken to Mecca as slavri in violation of trea tic. m To Defeat Prohibition. Nu Kau. N. Y Jun At the sioa af the National b re wert' convention, nommanoad tbl tiiorntn,1M,tv0M si'projulaUd th publlsblrj committee: t x to presrnt fre'ght rtU"rlmlns!ln. 1 hit committee on rUictiona ot lejUlatloo rcoinirndcit tlx loll. .win t..rnjiristtons: 1 thousand d illirs for ltot, .'..VtU for Conneeileol nd M,'.o"f r Eh..! Mstid to te nsod la defsetlng ceotlluMotial rolillltlou. On Year Vor Perjury. IUNV1M.K, PI., Jun &-.rHn-Char!i Yotinif, Ulity year old nd th or cl a, 000 ftrs .f the rh heal Und ' lo this county, waa tried In th tri nil court to-day for e rjury, eninniliuwl la an (.-tmciit suit KlHi'ut a er tfO. llwa(!uu& until, an 1 awarded m )esr in ih penitentiary. New Hampshire's lornor. ciik.! K. H., Jun ft In Joint eslAii, tbis afternoon, tbe baliot s taken for aovwroor, thnr baring t een no rholc br the r-eoi.le. Pa! 1 H. f.oiliill, republican, oWlsred i let ted. 7 ha 10 uguratioo ertuoiiU- will occur lo-uiorrow.