Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1889 — Page 3

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DR. TADIAGE. IN INDIANA.

HIS SERMON AT LAKE MAX1NKUCKEE. Some Words of Comfort and Advice oa 'How to Conquer" the Various Pet Vices to Which Most Men Are Unalaved. The Eev. T. Ie Witt Talmage preached et Culver park assembly, on Lake Maxinkuckee, last Sunday, great crowds of people being present from Chicago, Indianapolis and the surrounding regions. His subject was "How to Conquer." The text was "When shall I awake? I will Beek it yet again." rrov., xxiii, 53. The eloquent preacher said: With an insight into human nature such B3 no other man ever reached Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who, having stepped aside from the path of rectitude, desires to return. With a wish for something better, he paid: " When ehall I awake? When shall I come out of this horrid nightmare of iniquity?" But, seized upon by uneradicated habit and forced down hill by his paspiona, he cries out: "I will peek it yet again. I will try it once more." Our libraries are adorned with an elegant literature addressed to young men, pointing out to them all the dangers and perils ot life complete maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the quicksands, the shoals. Hut suppose a man has already made shipwreck; suppose he is already off the track; suppose he has already cone estray. How is ho to get back? This is a field comparatively untouched. I propose to address myself to such. There are thoj-e in this audience who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hear such a discussion. They compare themselves with what they were ten years ago, and cry out from the bondage m which they are incarcerated. Xow, if there be any here, come with an earnest purpose, yet feeling thev are beyond the pale of Christian sympathy, and that the sermon can hardlv be expected to address them, then, at this moment, I give them my right hand and call them brother. Look up. There is glorious and triumphant hope for you yet. I sound the trumpet of gospel deliverance. The church is ready to spread a banquet at your return and the hierarchs of heaven to fall into line of bannered procession at the news of vour emancipation. o far as God may help me I propose to show w hat are the obstacles of your return, and then how you are to surmount those obstacles. The first difficulty in the way of your return iä the force of moral gravitation. Just as there is a natural law which brings down to the earth anything you throw into the sir, so there is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other words, it is easier to go dow n than it is to go up ; it is easier to do "rong than it is to do right. Call to mind the comrades of your bo v hood days some of them good, some of them bad which mcst affected you? Call to mind the anecdotes that you have heard in the last tive or ten years some of them ar pure and seme of them impure. Which the more easily sticks to your memory? During the j ears of your life you have formed certain courses of conduct some of them good, forae of them bad. To which style of habit did you the more easily yield? Ah, my friends, we have to take "but a moment of seli-inspection to find out that there is in all our souls a force of moral gravitation ! But that gravitation may le resisted. Just as you may pick up from the earth something and hold it in your hand toward heaven, juit so, by "the power of God's grace, a soul fallen may be lifted toward peace, toward pardon, toward heaven. Force of moral cravitation in pvery one of us, but power in God's grace to overcome that force of moral gravitation. The next thing in the way of your return is the power of evil habit. I know there are those who say it is very easy for them to give up evil habits. I do not believe them. Here is a man given to intoxication. He knows it is disgracing his family, destroying Iiis property, ruining him, body, mind and soul. If that man, being an intelligent man, and loving his family, could easily give up that habit, would he not do so? The fact that he rices not give it up proves that it is hard to give it up. It is a very easy thing to sail down stream, the tide carrying you with great force ; but suppose you turn the boat up stream, is it so easy then to row it? As long as we yield to the evil inclinations in our hearts and our bad habits, we are sailing down stream: but the moment we try to turn we put our boat in the rapids jast above Niagara and try to row up stream. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him resolve to stop, and he finds it very difficult. Twenty-v?ven years aco I quit that habit, and I would as soon dare to put my right band in the fire as once to mdulze in it. Why? Because it was such n terriSc struggle to get over it. Xow, let a man be advised by his physician to give up the use of tobacco. He goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He cannot add up a line of figure?. He cannot sleep nights. It seems as if the world had turned upside down. He feels his business is going to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging he is scolding and fretful. The composure that characterized him has given way to a fretful restlessness and he has become a complete fidget. What power is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent in the heavens? He has tried to ?op Emoking or chewing! After awhile he says: "1 am goine to do as I please. The doctor doesn't understand ray case. Yux jroing back to my old habit.7'" Ami he returns. Everything assumes its usual composure. His business seems to brighten. jThe world becomes an attractive place to live in. Iiis children seeiDg the difference hail the return of their father's genial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue into the sky and greenness into the mountain foliage and the glow of fapphire into the sunset? What enchantment has lifted a world of beauty and joy on his soul ? He has gone back tö tobacco ! I have also to say that if a man wants to return from evil practices, society repulses him. Desiring to reform, he says: "Now I will shake off myoid associates, snd I will find Christian companionship." And be appears at the church door some Sabbath day r.nd the usher greets him with a look, as much as to say: "Why, you here? You are the last man I ever expected to see at church! Come, take this seat right down by the door!" instead of saying: "Good morning: I am glad yon are here. Come, I will give you a first-rate seat right up by the pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters the prayer-meeting and some Christian man, with more zeal than common sense, says: "Glad to see ' you. The dying thief was saved and I suppose there is mercy for you!" The voung man, disgnsted, chilled, throws himself back on his dignity, resolved never to enter the house of God again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he sides up by some highly respectable man he u-ed to know going down the street and immediately the respectable man has an errand down some other street! Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes pome member of a Christiaa association by the hand or tries to. The Christian young roan looks at the faded apparel and the marks of dissipation, and instead of giving bka a warm grip of the hand offers him tie tip end of the long fingers of the

left hand, which is equal to striking a man in the face. Oh, how few Christian people understand how much force and gospel there is in a good, honest handshaking! Sometimes, when you have felt the need of encouragement and some Christian man has taken you heartily by the hand, have you not felt that thrilling through every fiber of your body, mind and soul, an encouragement that was just what you needed? You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to return from evil courses of conduct he runs against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man, ho lives a block or two from the church or half a mile from the church. There aro people in our crowded cities who live a thousand miles from the church. Vast deserts of indiflercr.ee between them and the house of God. The fact is, we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if there comes to the house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon bira people throw up their hands with horror, as much as to sav: "Isn't it shocking?" How these dainty, fastidious Christians in all our churches are going to get into heaven I don't know, unless they Lave an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself. They cannot go with the great herd of publicans and sinners. Oh, ye who curl your lip of scorn at the fallen, I tell you plainly if you had been surrounded by the same inliuences instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured and refined and the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretch in 6table or ditch, covered with filth and abomination! It is not because you are naturally any better, but because the mercy of God has protected you. Who are you, that brought up in Christian circles and watched by Christian parentage, you should be so hard on the fallen? I think men also are often hindered from return by the fact that churches are too anxious about their membership and too anxious about their denomination, and they rush out when they see a man about to give up his sin and return to God and ask him how he is going to be baptized, whether by sprinkling or by immersion, and what kind of a church he is going to join. Oh, my friends! It is a poor time to talk about presbyterian catechisms and episcopal liturgies and methodist love-feasts and baptisteries to a man that is coming out of the darkness of sin into the glorious light of the gospel. Why, it reminds U3 of a man drowning in the sea and s. life-boat puts out for him, and the man in the boat say? to the man out of the boat: "Now if I get yon ashore are you going to live in my street ?" First get him ashore and then talk about the non-essentials of religion. Who cares what church he joins if he only joins Christ and starts for heaven? Oh, you ought to have, my brother, an illuminated face and a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from hi3 evil way! Take hold of the same book with him, though his dissipation shake the book, remembering that he that converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. Now, 1 have shown you these obstacles, lecause I want you to understand I know all the difficulties in the way; but I am now to tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps, aud how the shackles may be tin riveted, and how the paths of virtue forsaken may be regained. First of all, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to Him frankly and earnestly and tell Him these habits you have and ask Him, if there is any help in all the resources of Omnipotent love, to give it to you. Ho not go w ith a long rigmarole people call prayer, made up of "ohs" and "ahs" and ' forever and forever, amens." Go to God and cry for "help!', "help!" "help!" and if you cannot cry for help just look and live. I remember in the war I was at Antietam, and I went into the hospitals after the battle and I said to a man: "Where are you hurt?" He made no answer, but held up bis arm, swollen and splintered. I saw w here he was hurt. The simple fact is when a man has a wounded soul all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh, it is no small thing when a man is nervous and weak and exhausted, coming from his evil ways, to feel that God puts two omnipotent arms around about him and says: "oung man, I will stand by you! The mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but I will never fail you." And then, as the soul thinks the news is too good to be true and cannot believe it and looks up in God's face, God lifts his right hand and takes an oath, an affidavit, saying: "As I live, saith the Ixrd God," I have no pleasure in the death of him that dietb." Blessed be God for euch a gospel as this! "Cut the slices thin," eaid the wife to the husband, "or there will not be enough to 20 all round for the children; cut the slices thin." Blessed be God, there is a full loaf for every one that wants it, bread enough and to spare. No thin slices at the Lord's table. I remember when the Master-st. hospital in Philadelphia was opened during the war a telegram came saying: "There will be 300 wounded men to-night; be ready to take care of them," and from ray church there went in some twenty or thirty men and women to look after these poor fellows. As they came, some from one part of the land, some from another, no one asked whether this man was from Oregon or from Massachusetts, or from Minnesota or New York. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was how to take olT the rags most gently and put on the bandage and administer the cordial. And when a soul comes to God He doea not ask where you came from or what your ancestry was. Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for all your guilt. Comfort for all your troubles. Then, also, I counsel you if you want to get back to quit all your bad associations. One unholy intimacy will fill your soul with moral distemper. In all the ages of the church there ha3 not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and waa reformed. Among the 1,400,000,000 of the race not one instance. Go home today, open your desk, take out your letterpaper, stamp and envelope," and then write a letter something like this: "My Old Companions I start this day for heaven. Until am persuaded you will join me in this, farewell." Then you sign your name and send the letter with the first post, (live up your bad companions or give up heaven. It is not ten bad comganions that destroy a man, nor five bad companions, nor three bad companions, but one. What chance is there for that young man I saw along the street, four or five young men with him, halting in front of a grog-shop, urging him to go in, he resisting violently resisting until after awhile they forced him to go in? It was a euramer night and the door was left open and I saw the process. They held hiin fast and they put the cup to his lips and they forced down the strong drink. What chance is there for euch a young man ? I counsel vou also seek Christian advice. Every Christian man is bound to help you. First of all, seek God; then seek Christian counsel. Gather up -all the energies of body, mind and eoul, and, appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gambling practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing; it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are lost. Push on and you are saved. A Spartan general fell at

ithe very moment of victory, but he dipped bis finger in his own blood and wrote

on a rock near which he was dying: "s'parta has conquered." Though your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death struggle, you can dip your finger in your own blood" and write on the Kock of Ages: "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

THE ELECTION OF A POPE. It Rett With the Cardinals Alone Aiembl ed in a. Cooclare The Manner, Etc. The manner of electing a pope of the Iloman church, says tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, is not an uninteresting subject at the present time, iu view of the feeble health of the reigning pontiff, Leo XIII, and the probable necessity for the naming of his successor at no distant day. The immediate body or convention which chooses the head of the church is called a conclave; tho building or hall in which such convention is held is also designated by the same conclave. The election of a pope must begin ten days after the death of the last incumbent. It is provided that the election shall neither be delayed nor precipitated; that the electors should bo in no fear for their personal safety, and that they must not be subjected to any external persuasion in casting their vote. Immediately upon the death of a pope ono of the secretaries of the Sacred college notifies each cardinal of the pontill'a demise and summons them to the city in which the popo breathed his last. The election must take place in tho same city where the death occurs. .Should Leo XIII go to Madrid for an asylum, as has been mooted during the last few days, and die there, the conclavo to elect his successor would therefore be held in Madrid. Within the ten days the conclave must be constructed in the Vatican at Borne, or in some other suitable building if it be held in another city. On the tenth day solemn mass is said, at the conclusion of which the cardinals form in procession and march to the conclave. The conclave is open to the public during the whole of the first da3 and friends ot the electors are permitted to visit them. At 9 o'clock that evening the conclave is closed; everybody is turned out except the cardinals and their immediate attendants, and no visitors are allowed to enter tho portals again until the election of a pope has been declared. The conclave is under the absolute charge of two guardians. One of these is a prelate of high standing, previously selected by the Sacrc'd college, and is called the governor. The other is a prominent layman, whose official appellation is marshal. Each cardinal is allowed to have two menihers of his resident household in personal attendance upon him. A number of other attendants and minor officials are also there in the common service of the conclave, including a sacrist, a monk or friar to hear confessions, two or three barbers, eight or ten porters, and a number of messengers. But one entrance to the building is allowed to remain open, and that is in charge of prelatic oliicials. They must exercise a strict surveillance over everybody going in or out, and prevent the entrance of unauthorized persons. They must also examine the food brought for the cardinals, for the purpose of preventing outside communication with them through this channel. Three days after the commencement of the conclave, if no result has been obtained, the supply of food is restricted. The rule used to prevail thatjif at the end of five days no election had been made tho cardinals were compelled to subsist on bread, wine and water, but during the last half centurv, the rigor of this rule has been much abated and modified. Lvery morning and evening the cardinals meet in the chapel and a secret scrutiny bv means of voting papers is instituted, so as to ascertain if auy candidate has obtained the required majority of twothirds. There are three valid modes of election. The first of these, and the ordinary method, is by scrutiny ; the second compromise, and the third by what is known as quasi inspiration. By compromise is meant when all the cardinals, finding that it is an impossibility for any candidate to be elected under the method of scrutiny, agree to intrust the election to a committee of three or five of their number. The last time that compromise was resorted to was in 1T01, w hen the conclave, after six months of scrutiny, appointed a committee of three cardinals, who elected Pope Pius VII. It will be readily seen how difficult, under the ten-day law and ordinary circumstances, it would be for an American cardinal to participate in the election of a pope. Kelijinvn Thought and Note. There are 1,0 K) Christian Chinamen connected with tlie congregational missions in California ami Oregon. Spirit of Mission. It is estimated the Methodist episcopal church now has 2,1"4,237 communicants, against 2,093,935 last year, indicating a net gain in InüS of over 0QW. Chan Chu Sing, a converted Chinaman, has been licensed as aloral rrencherin the methoilist episcopal church, and will engage iu mission work among his own people ia Lob Angeles, Cal. At the dedication of the catholic cathedral at Sacramento on June .SO, a check for $178 was received irom the B'nai Israel synagogue, as an offering to the catholic poor. And here is a sermon for Saturday and Sunday. Jewish Messcngcr. A lunatic claiming to be Jesus Christ, promising to take the negroes to the promised land by means of a "car-load of angels' wings," is working great evil long the Savannah river. The people aro leaving everything they have and are flocking to him. They are not rauch more deluded, however, than many Bupersitious white people who follow "the neweat fad." Christian Advocate. The world's Sunday-school convention opened very auspiciously in London. Among the interesting facts brought out in reports are the following: Ten million people weekly study the international lessons; out of fO.OOO.OOO children in India, only 100.0K are in Sundayschool, and 217.0(H) in mission day schools. France and Switzerland do not use these lessons, thinking the cycle seven years too long and the subjects too difficult for children. Union Signal. Cardinal Gibbons has received from Pope Leo XIII a large golden and richly-jeweled ostensorium, which is sent to the cardinal as a souvenir of the pope's jubilee. It will be used especially On the occasions Cf great Celebrations and splendid ceremonies. One of these events will occur the coming fall, when the centennial of the catholic hierarchy of the I'nited States will be celebrated". The ostensolium sent by Leo XIII is twice the usual size of those in daily use upon the altars of catholic churches, and ia about three feet from pedestal to apex. The Roman catholic plenary council of 1884 authorized a revision and rearrangement of the catholic prayer.book. This work has just been finished, and will shortly take the place of the books which have been in use hitherto. It is so arranged that the entire service of the mass for every Sunday in the year can be followed by the congregation just as it is said by the clergyman. Every page in proof-sheets wa sent to every catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States, and, as issued, it will have the unanimous indorsement of the hierarchy. The JnJejrndenL Scripture is the interpreter of scripture; and just as one divine perfection may set limits to another, as God's wisdom may be the limit of Hit power, as Ilia truth or holiness may be the limit of His benevolence, so. in scripture, on truth may be the limit of another, or a precept may be the limit of a promise. It is true, God gives his angels a charge concerning bis saints; but then he gives his saints a charge concerning themselves. As if the angels are not to forget the sainu, neither are the aint to tempt the Lord tßeir God. Observe the condition, nd the result is infallible. Fulfill you the precept, and God will fulfill the promise. But to leap from this pinnacle, where there is no end to be answered to spring Into the air, when it is not God, but Saun, who gives the command this is to tempt Jehovah; and God's will must be done, even though the doing of it should look so pusillanimous as to provoke a sneer from the devil. Aeto York Obtentr,

GRAY'S HARBOR COUNTRY.

WONDERS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON. A Magnificent and Promising Section Soil Prod acts Fabulous Lumber Talk The Towns New Industries Wanted Hallway Enterprises, Etc. Moxtesaxo, W. T., July 20. Special. There seems to bo a general inquiry regarding Washington territory, as it seema to offer the best opportunities for industry, business or investments in the western world. As I have an extensive personal acquaintance in several 6tates, many of whom have learned of my whereabouts through the preea, I am receiving so many letters regarding; this country, its climate, resources, and future possibilities, that I feel constrained to ask some of your "valuable space," through which I may talk to your readers about this part of " Uncle Sam's" domain. I have traveled in every state, and territory in the Union, and I consider Western Washington, in many respects, the most wonderful country in America. For the present, and in obedience to many requests, I will confine my observation to Gray's harbor, and the Gray's harbor basin, the most promising and least known country west of the Cascades, save an unexplored belt west of the Olympic range. An examination of the map of Washington territory Bhows the entrance to Gray's harbor to be about forty miles north of the mouth of the Columbia. A casual examination will show, further, that this body of water is really an arm of the sea, extending directly inland for 6ome fifteen miles, with a large river, the Chehalis, reaching on east, affording ocean-ship navigation to Montesano, within about forty miles, on a direct line, from an easily accessible point on the great U. P. railroad, the said point being but little further from Montesano, on Gray's harbor tide waters, than from Tacoma on Puget 6ound. A little closer observation will show that freight at Montesano is about three hundred and fifty miles nearer the southern coast markets than freight on the lower sound, with the saving in time of from two to three davs, and in towage from $300 to $500 per vessel. The water at the mouth of the harbor has twenty-two feet in depth at low tide. Vessels of a thousand tons may now come to Montesano on the tide; the bars are ßhort and may be easily,removed ; the harbor is safe from winds and waves, thus making it the ehortest, cheapest, safest and easiest channeled to the coast cities north of San Francisco. But five or six years ago this Gray's harbor country was unknown save to the few that had settled alone the fertile bottoms at the mouth of the Iloouim, the Wishkah and the Chehalis rivers, and who themselves were lost to civilization, except as they appeared twice a year, at Olympia, whither they went by skiff up the Chehalis for the season's" supplies. Some five years ago a few enterprising gentlemen, with experience in the lumber business, came to test the practicability of the seeming advantages. They found here the best and most accessible timber belt in America, a fertile 6oil,-a safe harbor, a near cut to the sea, and water free from the dread toredo or other destructive elements. The preterit vast industries, beautiful towns and thrifty population of several thousand, attest the wisdom of the experiment. The climate, soil and productions of this part of the country differ quite materially from those of the sound. Owing to the proximity of the evenly tempered Pacific on the immediate west, and the highlands on the east, which are the southern extension of the Olympic range, the atmosphere is more damp and less variable than on th sound. Practically, there is no winter here, as understood by the people in the East. So little ia the ground frozen that potatoes and other root crops lie in the ground without spoiling, and often grow throughout the winter. There is little snow, which rarely lays on the surface more than a day or two; ice a half an inch thick is uncommon; there are no hieb, winds, no lightning Hashes, and but occasional rumbles of thunder. The absence of hot, sultry weather is as marked as that of severe cold. Nearly the same clothing for the bed and the person is needed tho year round. Of course the climate ha3 some drawbacks, as there is over much rain in the winter and considerable fog and gloomy weather in spring, but the summer is delightful, save occasionally not enough rain. There are numerous springs and streams of pure water which is as 60ft as falls from the clouds, and the air ia so little tainted that flesh, fruits and veeetables retain their freshness here longer than in almost any other country. Of course where people live people die, but I believe the common ills to which flesh is heir, have a smaller hold here. Throat and lung trouble are but little known Lnd the damp air from the salt water checks the grip of that national malady, the distrusting catarrh. The Gray's harbor basin comprises about two tbousand square miles of territory and its products are timber, fruits, hops, hay and vegetables, with abundance of coal and iron undeveloped and but little prospected. This is not what the people of the Mississippi valley would regard as a ereat agricultural country. Corn will not grow here, rye and barley does but indifferently and wheat, I am satisfied, can never be profitably raised anywhere in the Grav'a harbor basin. The arable lands consist in tide lands, some natural prairies, broad, fertile bottom lands and deep, rich clayey soils reaching far up the sides of hills and mountains. The tide lands are those occasionally submerged by salt water, and usually need to be cleared of a small but often dense growth of timber, and improved by dyking. These lands are mostly taken up, though little has been done to improve them. The prairies are also mostly taken up when surveyed and being put under cultivation. The bottom lands are heavily covered with cottonwood, vine, maple, alder, small cedar and spruce. These are, by far, the best lands" for agriculture and, though it requires considerable labor and perseverance to clear them, ten or twenty acres make a pood farm, as the soil is exceedingly productive. On the tide and bottom lands hay is by far the most profitable crop, as it yields an average of from three to four tons per acre, and brings an average of $15 per ton. The drier portions of the bottom land, reaching up the foot hills, are well adapted to hop-raising, this crop yielding about two thousand pounds per acre, with an average price of 15 cents a pound. On the hill and mountain sides nearly all kinds and varieties of fruits and berries grow to perfection, while all of these soils produce enormous crops of nearly all kinds of vegetables. While fruit and hops find a market the world over, there will always be an excellent home market for hay and vegetables, as the development of the great lumber industry, with its thousands of men and teams to feed, will more than keep pace with the productive capacity of the soil. Blue grass and clover grows to the very tops of the hills and far up the raountain aides, wherever the sun can reach the ground, eo that stock-raising and general

sericulture will develop with the clearing of the land through the lumber industry. There are not many "cheap farms for sale)" though there are good opportunities to take land by pre-emption and homestead, and when the Northern Pacific railroad lands are thrown on the market there will be cheap homes for the thousands in this rapidly-growing country. Lumbering is yet the chief industry, as the profits in this business have largely monopolized public attention. The amout of caw timber in Gray's harbor basin seems fabulous. An old-timer, who has "figgered" carefully on those things, claims that of the 2,000 square miles in the Gray's harbor basin, half or 1,000 square miles is good timber, with an average of 5,000,000 to the "claim" or 20,000,000 to the square mile. This would make a total of 20,000,000,000 feet an amount that would equal the entire consumption of the United States for two and a half years. There are several great mills on the harbor with an aggregate capacity of half a million feet per day. Now, ßhould these mills run steadily GÖ0 days in the year, at full capacity, it would take 133 years to convert this timber into lumber. Punning as they do now, under a tariff-pro-iection combination, it would take them 2-30 years. Owing to many rivers, creeks, brooks and draws that penetrate nearly every section of timber in the basin which, during freshet, will float logs to the harbor, logging can be done here cheaper than in any other belt in the West. Then the logs are secure from toredo or other destroying elements. This, with cheaper towage and the difference in the nearness to markets on the harbor gives the mills on the harbor a great advantage in competition for the trade, and will aid materially in the development of the lumber interests in this section of country. There are excellent sites for a hundred mills on the Chehalis river and on the harbor, where lumber can be made so as to compete in the coast or foreign trade, with about SI per thousand advantages over any other region. The fish industry of the harbor promises to become one of great importance. Already there are salmon canneries at Aberdeen, Cosmosolis and Montesano, which turn out 50,000 cases per year. For halibut and cod, there is hardly a better fishing ground than off the mouth of Gray's harbor. There are now four active and prosperous towns on the harbor and its tide waters. Hoquiam is located at the mouth of the river of that name on the north side and some eight miles from the harbor's entrance. It is an active town of four or five hundred population, has a fine sawmill, a large wholesale establishment, carrying dry goods, groceries, hardware, etc. ; a limited ship-building industry, and in general a promising future. Based upon the hope of a railroad in the near future there is considerable activity m real estate business. This town has one of the best local newspapers in the territory. About four miles east on the same siae of the harbor and at the mouth of the Wishkah is the town of Aberdeen, prettily built on the tide lands, with four largo saw-mills, a salmon cannery and a foundry. It has water works and is lighted by electricity, and is in every way a vtry prosperous and enterprising town. It has two newspapers, and, of course, expects a railroad. Cosruopolis is three miles above Aberdeen on the south side of the harbor. It has a pretty town site, a very fine sawmill, a good hotel and the best wharfs in the state of Washington. It has a population of about two hundred souls. Montesano is the county seat and chief town of Chehalis county, and is situated on the north bank of the Chehalis river, at the head of tide water navigation on Gray's harbor. No city in the West has a more beautiful location. The site is on an open prairie laying back of the river front, fringed by a giant forest ascending by gentle declivities to a bight of several hundred feet. It is beautifully built with plenty of room for expansion. It has five good hotels, a strong bank, an academy, churches, schools, factories, a tannery, restaurants, saloons and other western "conveniences." From twenty-five to forty houses are being built, but more are needed. Almost within the city limits there are millions of feet of cedar and hemlock being destroyed, which has great value if utilized, so a shingle factory, a sash, door and molding factory, another tannery to use tlie hemlock bark, would be a pood investment. There is also a great demand for a good saw-mill at this point, with an excellent site on the water iront just above the wharf. A good mill here would find a good local market for its products and would save 50 cents per thousand which the boomine company below charges on all logs passing to the harbor. Iarce inducements are now being offered for the establishment of the industries above mentioned, so that Montesano promises to be an industrial center of 110 6mall pretentions. There is cash in the county treasury to pay for the erection of a fine court house, the contract for which islet; a ßtronfr company for putting in water works has been organized; and inside of another month the town will be well lighted with electricity. I cannot now express more clearly my opinions as to the merits of Montesano. as a commercial and industrial center, than I did some weeks ago in a leading journal, to-wit: It is suggested by the critics and croakers that Montesano is "too far up the river," "too far from the broad waters of the harbor." But ships that come to other points in the harbor can come to Montesano. While the river is not very broad, it is deep and the channel changes very little. The distance to the mouth of the harbor is short and vessels go out on a single tide. The wealth that goes out for the world's trade comes from the interior. Water is cheaper than land transportation. The laws of trade place commercial towns as near the interior as can be reached by the cheaper method of transportation. London, the mightiest city ever erected by the genius or toil of man, is away uu the Thames, a river but little broader than the Chehalis and which requires constant dredging. Glasgow, one of the world's great commercial centers, is twenty miles up the narrow Clyde. Cork is twenty-five miles up the river Lee; Antwerp over thirty miles up the narrow Scheldt; Philadelphia is up the Delaware; Uangor is up the narrow Penobscot and New Orleans seventy miles up the Mississippi. Almost constant dredging is necessary to enable the world's commerce to reach the world's commercial centers, and ships in the most of these waters are turned by the aid of tups. Ot course this reasoning is weakened when we remember that those cities were founded before the heavy draft vessels; but the Chehalis may be dredged and made navigable for any ship that now enters Puget sound for a small fraction of what it would cost to build a railroad down the harbor to deep water. These fears for the future of Montesano may dissolve like the mist wheu weighed by the test of commercial experience. I might have added, too, that the revolution in dredging machinery strengthened the argument. As before remarked, a few years ago Gray's harbor was unknown, because of its almost inaccessibility by modern methods of travel. However, when prices were pushed out of the reach of the people with moderate means, in other localities, an earnest inquiry was mado for a place where the "ground floor" micht be tenanted by that class, and thus the move to Gray's harbor. Here prices are yet low, as there has been no boom and no effort to make one. But things have changed greatly in tho last few months. Six months ago a fifty-mile ride over a bad road by staare was the only war to reach this point. Then, lots near business were worth $50 or 60. 4 Then came a little change, a steamer ride of twenty miles to Kamilcbe, a railroad twelve miles to Summit and a stage ride, the rest of the way, twenty miles, with a "talk" of extending the road to Montesano, and the same lots were sold for f 150. Thea came a survey

of the road to our city, a bonus asked for a depot and terminal grounds, and the road located.'and the same lot could be resold for $300. Now 1,000 men are busily at work on the grade pushing to conpletion the last twenty miles, that in three months will let the first screaming locomotive to the Gray's harbor basin, with depot located, and grounds on water front prepared for wharf, and the same lots are worth S"00. But the Puget Sound & Chehalis Valley railroad, giving Gray's harbor, with Montesano as the terminus, a direct connection with the great North Pacific road, is believed to be a fixed fact, and with the building of that road between now and New Years, and tho coming of the thousands that the trains will bring by Sept 20, what may not the same property be worth? It is said, also, that the contract for building at least one section of the Centralia and Gray's Harbor railroad has been let to Krickson, a well-known and responsible contractor. With these enterpriser on foot and the certaintv that the Port Towns & Southern railroad will pass through Montesano when built, nothing can hinder a great movement to Montesano and the Gray's Harbor country tho coming fall and winter, and that will hinder prices from going sky high, as they have in other places. The Northern Pacific railroad company has the most implicit confidence of our people, and a connection at Tenino with that system would mean that Montesano was practically to be the terruinu3 of a great trans-continental line, a line which does more for the interests of its patrons than any other railroad corporation in the country. With this short and cheap cut to the sea, with this safe and easily improved harbor, with the agricultural value of the soil, and with all the other natural resources of the Gray's harbor basin and the early consummation of the vast enterprises now on foot, the next point to be most rapidly developed, it seems to me, will bo Montesano and the Gray's harbor country. George W. Bell."

A SERIOUS MATTER. An Illinois Jude Who Regarded a Bansins; In That Light. Luck's Eighty Years of Illinois Politic. The judiciary of Illinois has ever been held in high esteem. Nowhere is its history marred with the charge of corruption, and this has given it the universal respect and confidence of the people. A great many anecdotes are related regarding the early courts, but the following, from "Ford's History," will serve to amuse the reader, and at the same time show the wide contrast between the practice of the courts then and now: "The judges in early times in Illinois were gentlemen of considerable learning. In general, they were adverse to deciding questions of law. They never gave instructions to a jury unless expressly called for, and then only on the points'of law raised by counsel asking for them. I knew one judge who, when asked for instructions, would rub his head and the side of his face with his hand, as if perplexed, and say to the lawyers: 'Why, gentlemen, the jury understand the case ; they need no instructions; no doubt they will do justice between the parties.' This same judge presided at a court in which a man named Green was convicted of murder, and it became his unpleasant duty to pronounce sentence of death upon him. He called the prisoner before him and said to him : 'Mr. Green, the jury in their verdict say you are guilty of murder, and the law says you arc to be hung. Now, I want you and all your friends down on Indian creek to know that it is not I who condemns you, but it is the jury and the law. Mr. Green, the law allows you time for preparation, and so the court wants to know what time j ou would like to be hung?' To this the prisoner replied: 'May it please the court, I am ready at any time ; those who kill the body have no power to kill the soul; my preparation is made and I am ready to suffer at any time the court may appoint.' The judge then said: 'Mr. Green, you must know that it is a very serious matter to be hung; it cannot happen to a man more than once in his life, and you had better take all the time you can get; the court will cive you until this day four weeks. Mr. Clerk, look at the almanac and 6ee whether this day four weeks comes on Sunday.' The clerk looked at the almanac, as directed, and reported that that day four weeks came on Thürs lay. The judge then said: Mr. Green, the court gives you until this day four weeks, at which time you are to be hung.' The case was prosecuted by James Tnrney, the attorney-general of the states who here interposed and said: 'May it please the court, on solemn occasions like tho present, when the life of a human being is to be sentenced away for crime by an earthly tribunal it is usual and proper for courts to pronounce a formal sentence, in which the leading features of the crime shall be brought to the recoilection of the prisoner, a sense of his guilt impressed upon his conscience, and in which the prisoner should be duly exhorted to repentance and warned against the judgment in the world to come.' To this the judge replied: 'O, Mr. Turney, Mr. Green understands the whole matter as well as if I had preached to him a month. He knows be has got to be hung this day four weeks. You understand it in that way, Mr. Green, do you not?' 'Yes,' said the prisoner, upon which the jud?e ordered him to be remanded to jail, and the court then adjourned." THE HOUSE OF DREXEL The Founder of the ltankfng Firm Originally a Portrait Painter. To-day Drexel fc Co. can raise more money in twenty-four hours than any financial institution in the United States, says George Kerry, in the St, Louis Globe-DemocraL Yet it is not a great while asro that old Farn eis Drexel was a poor portrait painter. Somehow or other the old man about üfty years ago got an order to paint a picture for a Brazilian grandee, and went down to that country to do the work. The Brazilian took a fancy to the poor portrait painter, and not only paid him a good price for the picture, but let him in on some moneymaking scheme out of which Drexel realized quite a sum. He returned to Philadelphia and went into the money-lending business. I5y careful investments he amassed a big fortune, and bis three sons Francis, Anthony and Joseph increased it. When the old man died he was worth about $5,000,000. When Franci, the oldest boy, died he left ?25,000,Oi0. Joseph left about $H,000,KK), being less of a moneymaker than the others, and Anthony, the only one left, is estimated to be worth anywhere from fi'0,000,000 to $"i0,000,0o0. Nobody really knows bow much be is worth, but the house can raise $00,000,000 or more in twenty-four hours, if necessary, which is something no other institution in the country can do. When Frank died he left three daughters. All are under twentyfive, one only is married, and they each have an income of about $1,000 a day. The fellow who married one of them was a young lawyer without a dollar. Reckless Shooting-. Memphis Avalanche. A funny thing that happened in Greenville for some time past was the shooting of a nearro the other night by a policeman. The cop blazed away at the man tnd shot him in the elbow, the ball glancing and striking the neero in the cheek. As he spit the ball out he said: "Look heah, white man, you quit dat shootin' at me; fus' thins; yuh knows yuh gwinter brake some 'epectable pusson'a winder glars." In the Country. (Clothier and Furnisher.) Young Badger, from New York, on the first morning of his visit to his Uncle Abner's farm appears bright and early in a pair of white flannel trousers. Uncle Abner (taking him aside) "Gee-whitaker, nephew, why in blazes didn't you tell me you was so poor? Here, boy, take this $3 and run down street to the store and buy jou a pair of panU before the women folks xet ud."

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