Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1893 — Page 5

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-7 j OFFICERS. , President-Tnil E. Strawn. Mnntpeller, Ind. , , First Vie-Presidnt Torrence M. Jackson. New Lancaster. Ini. Second Vice-President Miss Sue C. Tarker, Kalona, la. . Recording Secretary Mi? Pora Wenner. Pleasant-ave., Indianapolis, Infi. Corresponding Secretary Mis Emma I. Merker, Emery, 111. Treasurer Miss Mary J. Kelly, ampbellstown. O. , , Executive Cotnmfttee-Alonjn Finley Jacobs, Oreencastle. Ind.: William A. 'lark. Anthony. Ind.; W. 8. Kokendafter. Montevallo, .Mo.; J. C. McDonald, Medina. Tenn.; Mrs. J. P. Barne. Bruceton Mills vT. a. OBJECTS. Paction 2 of Article 1 of Constitution The object of the Howard Literary flub is to encourage pure literature, strengthen morality, establish sociability. Increase desire for mind Improvement and literary attainment and to extend the work of reformation. MEMBERS. Section 1 of Article Z of Constitution All persons of pood moral character who are interested In the objects of this organization and are willing to work in accordance therewith are eliKirle to membership. We most cordiflly invite every one truly and uncompromisingly interested in our objects to Join our club. Letters of inquiry should be Hfldressert to the Corresponding Secretary with ftamp. The Howard Literary has neither salaried officers nor contributors, and depends wholly upon Its merits an1 principles for success. Members only are entitled to the rare benefits of our book catalogue. All letters for publication must be carefully written on one sii of the paper only, accompanied by the writer's real name and address as w ell as the rom do plume, and platnlv addressed to the editor. C. O. Stewart, Sentinel office. Indianapolis. Ind. Members in renewing subscription for The Sentinel will ploase be sure to send Ji to the Howard Literary Treasurer, as the club is allowed a small commission. Ptie credit aal prompt action guaranteed. Members, on sending their photos to the editor for reproduction on this page, must Fend nom de plume and also real name and address. The latter will not he published except by request of the sender. OTH'K. The eighth annual reunion of the lnw- j rd Library Club will be held at Michigan City, Aug. 1 to V-, inclusive. All mmters are earnestly reauested to b present end all friends of the club are cordially invited to be present. DOHA DICKENS. Secretary. THE MARRIAGE QlKvriOV. Miou I 1 nn Kdueatcrf Lady titrr- im Inrdamlrd eatlemnnf Dear H. L. C. My time's here again to write, and as "Sunset" wishes us to discuss her question, 1 will comply and ee what I can say on the subject to please her. She Is one of my favorites. 'Should an educated lady marry an uneducated gentleman or vice versa? No, decidedly no; If she does, very likely she will regret her folly as long as she lives and pronounce marriage a failure bitter as wormwood and sigh for the good old days when she was free and did not understand the world and its occupants as she does now. She has no affinity and no teste in common with her chosen companion; there is always an unfulfilled desire In her life.an unatlsfledMonging, that her husband knows nothing of. He has no aspirations beyond rnedioerity, though he may be a kind. Indulgent husband and try to make life s happy and bright as much as In his power lies; yet there, is tometnrng lacking that money nor power cainot purchase. And unless she is one of those happy constituted persons wh accept life as it comes and makes t)e most of it under all circumstances ne will lad a disappointed life. And ho- sad it s-to see a young wife dragged down (if she marry an inferior) to her ( husband's level. A wife never raises aer husband (if be is unworthy) to heretandirs in life. She either rises or slnls to his station. To Jlflstrate, some years ago the belle-f our village, a wealthy, lovely and tell educated young lady moving in thi cream of the social world had nunwws eligible suitors, and to still farthfr enhance their daughter's matrimonii opportunities royal entertainment were given and education, wealth k and beauty gathered at her home and she Ka the bright star sought after. E what was her parents' bitter anguin one morning to find their lovely chil had flown in the dark hours of the niat with a noted cambler of the hlarkestdye, beneath her in every uuality of I row ana nean, as weu as in education. IL was an outcast in society, but thU folish young girl likely imagined as her hsband he would be welcomed where af! formerly was queen; if he was a ombler and a drunkard she would eleate him to her social scale; certainly Jt friends would not slight her husband! Jut no; society Judged him by the light ff his misdeeds and could not tolerate hat type of a swindler. Gradually she fank to his level and to drown the bitter dregs of the thought, I am a scoundrel's 'wife, and so looked upon by the world, the became addicted to the flowing bowl ana ail its accompaniments of horror. Her parent tried to reclaim her and gave her a home and their Influence to shield and help her begin life over again. However, it was of no avail, thougn she had left her husband years, she could not live without something to intoxicate. And now she, that once was so lovely and fair and educated, the idol -of loving parents, and the envied because she was blessed seemingly with the choicest gifts nature bestows to make life an ideal summer dream, so fallen and degraded, beyond all power to turn back, and all through" marrying an unprincipled, uneducated and evil-minded man,, with tne idea of elevating him and having the world look upon him in the light they would look upon any man who became the husband of the petted child of fortune "that she wai. In thia Instance evil habits did a much a non-education to wreck this young lady's Ufa; yet I repeat an educated person should not marry an entirely un-

educated person. Education creates desires and longings never thought of by the uneducated. Likely there are exceptions to this rule as In ' every case. I may as well add, lest I should not be so understood, an . educated man should never take for a life companion an uneducated lady, It may bring him ruin and disaster or a dissatisfied life, and he will tee.k to forget himself in ways not calculated to improve his morals. Thus many a man has started on the downward course, when if he had had a. congenial, happy home he would not have looked elsewhere for pleasure. Sunset" and "Winnie "Weste" will write to you soon. '"Sunset," what do you think of my views on your question. HPd. pteas. what are your own cn the same? You members, plense. that are at Chicago and those that have been at the Columbian exposition, will you not tell hs of the wonders to be seen there? "Harper Livings, if it could he arranged for the club to camp out at ihe reunion. I am sure the lady members would try their skill in the culinary line. I would don my apron and do my part for the success of the enterprise. Fraternally, ' "WYANDOT PKWDHOP." TAKK r:KHY OPPORTIMTT. In TlmeVe May Rirh the Top and Wear the Lnnrrl 'Wreath. DKAR HOWARDS The members of the Howard literary club are many, but the contributions are so few. And why is this? It is evident that the majority of the members, of this club hope to sometime lwunc the author of some great and noble work. Perhaps some of us expect to'begin a literary career by doing something great at first, but if we are waiting for such a chance as this we may be disappointed, for ihe road to fame is a very rough one, and M pursued t.nly under great difficulties. Some of us may-think it is of no use to write for this page because they receive no compensation for it. ' But it Is .of much use to us. for even if w e do., not receive any eompensation for our work, it cultivates our minds and prepares us for something higher. He who would climb a ladder must step on the bottom step first and then go gradually upward until the tp is reached. So it is with us. We are all trying to climb the "ladder of fame," and Tei haps contributing to this page may be the first step toward it.and if we persevere and patiently take one step at a time we will some time reach the top and wear the laurel wreath. And now. in conclusion. I shall say, I let us take every opportunity, however I small, to Improve and cultivate our 1 minds, and let us remember that It takes M O UNT A IN PIN HI." MKS In Renlv to the "Vlbea of Friend. "1 wish thee well from year to year. And may thy stay upon this sphere. Be like a song sung o'er and o'er, Extending on forever more." Thanks, thanks, my friend, and may thy road Lead onward, upward round the dome. Until before the bar of God. You find eternal rest at home. I've listened to my pleading-heart. I've sought to guard these scalding tear. Yet every ech whispers, "Part With mortal life in early years." Along the path my hopes deeajr. And friends have followed cne by one. While I am left alone to pray . To eod that- my short life were dona. Last nhtht;upon a rocky bank. In silence all alone I lay And watched the moon . until it sank Behind a forest far away. At length the mighty sun arose And pushed the curtains from the skies. The many birds left their repose. And sang the songs of paradise. At last me thought, that life, is night. Soon, soon all hopes will reappear And from the dome a joyful flight Will mark the end of this career. "ALZINA EME WINTON." June 29. 1893. A Message In Rhyme. To the Howard Literary: . Here in the quiet of my chamber, While my friends, are wrapt In slumber. Dreaming perchance of fairy things. E'en of mortals having wings. Ah, poor heart, what a gift. That through hope you will lift, " To the holy realms above, . Some poor mortal you may. love. Ah. lest Jn the relms of thought, I come back to where I ought Have stayed. But where is he That follows one path to eternity? No. I, I'm sure, tis a rugged road. Very narrow and with a load, One will vary. Yet I think. One may gain ii near the brink, " Life, ah, what a boon to some, ' To w hom gxd fortune will naturally come. But there's bitterness with all sweetI have perfect happiness yet to meet. And. why. some one stops to ask. Ah, there's the rub. And quite a taak For me on paper to portray. The faults of men and their way. Why, I'm a man myself, and who. Wants the world to view Ills shortcomings, yet for one, I confess the wrong is dofte. Mainly from man's will, and oh? The heartaches, the world can't know. I sometimes think that one's adversity Comes from one's own perversity; Yet that is harsh, though experience teaches He Is most hurt who overreaches. Of many modes of reforming man I give to Bellamy the best plan. And to 'Ella Wheeler" one step farther To reform the boys reform the grand father. Thia is practical and I think wise, Instead of searching mid the skies Come to earth and search the files. Look up "Grandy" and his wiles. Reasoning thus how Indiscreet Our forefathers were sot to meet

The emergency years agone, When men were scarce on nature's lawn. These are questions and so terse. Too much for me to put in verse. I've found in life best not to mind it. Just take the world as we find It. "ALLEGRO." Deeta. Col., July 2.

My Responsibility. ''Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to b what no ether is. do what no other can do." Chan-, ning.' - Opportunities come to me. That oMy I may grasp; Wesry hands are out-stretched to me. That only I may clasp. Grief-burdened ones appeal to me. With yearning wstful eyes; For words of cheer and helpfulness, . . Before their faint hope dies, On every side of me I see. Anguish, and want, and woe; Andbnoken hearts that love can heal ' Wherever I may go. But what if I wraped up in self. Let all such chances go? Kefuse to see the hand stretched out Because I will It so. Withhold the words that I might speak Some sad hours to beguile? ' Keep back the pity from my eyes And from my lips the smile? Close my heart to the pleading poor? Victims avarice has made. Round me view the oppressed and wronged. Nor care their cause to aid? Ah! when life's harrest time should come. And I would reap full shares, I'd find the seed that I had sown Could naught produce but leaves. Condemned at the bar of my own soul. I'd stand with grief and pain; I'd see my life as it "might have been," And know I'd lived in vain '. Sunflower State. "IT. PH RATES." To Ihe Falthfnl. "O ye followers prove true to your cause. For you there is a rest. When, the bright and glowing sun, Has sank in the golden west. Christ said "Blessed are the poor," For they shall see their God In tha great judgment morning When they arise from neath the sod. Who said "Risset! are they that walk In unity and love for Mr sake. And never from the way be called," These are the words our Savior Fpoke. But alas. He has also said If you do not obey My commands You cannot enter the heaven of rest Which lias been prepared without hands. Blessed promise is this we have In a bible so full of truth Which was spoken by our loving Savior And needs no other proof. "StrafKht and narrow Is th way And few there be that find it." And let us strive to follow it night and day That we may at our Father's hight hand s!t. "BROWN EYE." Only rtoy. Only a boy with briKht blue eyes. Hair lik the gold of summer skies, Overflowing with childish glee. Smile like sunshine to you and me. From the nest that swung on the old elra tree. To her richest treasure, broad and free, Dame Nature lavished with queenly grace, Won by the smile on his fair young face. But where is the boy with his frolic and fun? The day seems drear and but ill begun, We miss the whistle loud and clear. The ringing laugh and words of cheer. The stern, cold man that now we greet With studied phrase and courtesy meet, We would fain pass by for the winsome face Of the boy as he springs to our fond embrace. MRS. R. E. SMITH. A Lamentation. The sun in the western sky. As the cow slowly wends her way To the farm house on the knoll so high. Which seems to say, "Done is the day.' Steadily and slowly the plowman goes To his home so cheery and bright, With the bloom of the fragrant rose. This seems to say. '"Done is the day." So it is with my soul. Which is sad with grief untold. It yearns for the peaceful way Which seems to say, "Done is the day." "BROWN-EYE." A UrSRASD'S RLOODY DEED. Batchers His Wife and Then Hills Himself. WAUSEON, O., July 9. The most horrible murder and suicide that has ever shocked the people of this section was committed this morning at the home of Frank Bayes, a well-known young farmer, living about four miles southwest of Wauseon. The victims of the deed were the husband. Frank Bayes. and his twenty-six year-old wife. Their four-year-old daughter narrowly escaped the ire of the murderous father. Mrs. liayes was - butchered In a horrible manner, her throat being cut from ear to ear, her arms and face fearfuly hacked, and her right le almost severed from her body. The neighbors arrived in time to see the murderer shoot himself. Insanity la the supposed cause. WASHINGTON NOTES. The gold reserve at the close of bus! ness yesterday was $96.943,821. Mr. Charles W. Knapp of the St. Louis Republic arrived In Washington. The director of the mint has accepted offers of the sale of 538,000 ounces of sil ver. Secretary Hoke Smith has affirmed the decision heretofore rendered in the Guil ford-Miller case. . Edward M. Gadsden of Georgia has been appointed superintendent of the money order service, postofflce depart ment. Frank II. Jones, the first assistant postmaster-general, has decided to have the world's fair station of the Chicago postofflce open part or;each Sunday. There were 4,264 more fourth-class postmasters appointed on removals dur ing the first four months of the last ad ministration tnaryuuring tne correspond lng period in this. Secretary. Hoke Smith and Postmaster General Blssell left Washington on their summer vacations. Secretaries Gresham and Morton are now the only cabinet Ulcers left In the city. Gen. Schofield sent telegraphic instructions to Oen. Miles, commanding the department of the .Missouri,. directing that the recent order withdrawing the troops from Antlers, Okla., be revoked. - . -Comptroller Eckels has received Information that the Northern national bank of Big Rapids. Mich., has closed Its doors. Examiner Caldwell has been ordered to examine the condition of the bank. Acting Secretary Hamlin has instructed collectors of customs to prepare and forward to the department a statement showing the number of Chinese persons admitted by them from Jan. 1 to June 30, 18D3, and the reasons for such admission. The- gold reserve yesterday was J3,983,117. being tsn Increase during the week of nearly a million dollars. . It is ex-, pected at the treasury that the low rate of exchange MM today will soon result In an influx of gold from Europo that will restore the reserve to its full figure Of 5100,000,000. For health and happiness, the boon of all mankind, take Simmons Liver Regulator. -, . .

THE PORTALS OF HEAVEN.

BEHELD BY THE FAITHFUL IS THE EVENING OF LIFE. Dr. Talmas; Discourses on the Text, "At Eventn Time It Shall be Light Death Has No Terrors for the Christian. BROOKLYN', July" The Rev. Dr. Talmage has chosen as ""his subject for today the text, "At Evening. Time It Shall Be Lifht," Zechariah xlv.'Tr, While "night!' In all languages. Is the symbol for gloom and suffering, it is ften really, cheerful, bright and im-'" pressive. I speak not ef auch nights as come down'Vith no ftar pouring: light from above r silvered ' wave tossing uplight from beneath murky, hurtling, nor-.. Vntlous but such as you often see when the pomp and magniflence of heaven turn out on night parade and it seems as though the song which themorning stars began so long ago were chiming yet amotyr the constellations and the sons of Gm were shouting for Joy. Such nights the sailor blesses from the forecastle and the trapper on the vast prairie, and the belated traveler by the roadside, and the soldier from the tent, earthly hosts rasing upon heaven ly, and shepherds guarding their flocks afield, while angel hands above them set the silver bells a-ringing, MGlory to God in the highest' and on earth peace; good will toward men. What a solemn and glorious thing is night in the wilderness! Night among the mountains! Night on the ocean! Fra grant night among tropical groves! Flashing night 'amid Arctic severities! Calm night on Roman campagna! Awful night among the Cordilleras! Glorious night 'mid sea after a tempeet! Thank God for the night! The moon and . the stars which rule it are lighthouses on the coast toward which, I hope, we are all sailing, and blind mariners are we if. with so many beaming, burning, flaming glories to guide us, we cannot find our way Into the harbor. My text may well suggest that as the natural evening is often luminous, so It shall be light in the evening of our sorrows-f old age of the worlds history of the Christian life. "At the eventlme it shall b light." Fulfillment of the Tropheey. The prophecy will be fulfilled in the evening of Christian sorrow. For a long time it is broad daylight. The sun rides high. Innumerable activities go ahead with a thousand feet and work with a thousand arms, and the pickax struck a mine, and the battery made a discovery, and the investment, yielded its 20 per cent., and the book came to its twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden fortune hoisted to high position, and children were praised, and friends without number swarmed into the family hive, and prosperity sang in the music and stepped in the dance and glowed in the wine and ate at the banquet, and all the gods of music and ease and gratification gathered around this Jupiter holding in his hands so many thunderbolts of power. But every sun must set, and the brightest day must have its twilight. Suddenly the sky was overcast. The fountain dried up. The song hushed. The wolf broke into the family fold and carried off the best lamb. A deep howl of woe came crashing down through the joyous symphonies. At one rough twang of the hand of disaster the harp strings all broke. Down went the strong business firm! Away went long stablished credit! Up flew a flock ofAilumnie?! The new book would not sec: A patent could not be secured for the invention. Stocks sank like lead. The insurance company exploded. "How much," says the sheriff, "will you bid for this piano?" "How much for this library?" "How much for this family picture?" Will the grace of God hold one up in such circumstances? What have become of the great multitude of God's children who have been pounded of the flail and crushed under the wheel and trampled under the hoof? Did they lie down in the dust weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth? When the rod of fatherly chastisement struck then?, did they strike back? Because they found one bitter cup on the table of God's sup ply, did they upset the whole table? Did they kneel down at their empty money vault and say, "All my treasures are gone?" Did they stand by the grave of their dead 'saying, "There never will be a resurrection? Did they bemoan their thwarted plans and say: "The stocks are down. Would God I were dead?" Did the night of their disaster come upon them moonless, star less, dank and howling, smothering and choking their life out? No! No! No! . At eventlme it was light. The swrift pronv ises overtook them. The' eternal constellations, from their circuit about God's throne, poured down an infinite luster. Under their shining the billows of trouble took on crests and plumes of gold and jar per and amethyst und flame All the trees of life rustled In the. mid summer air of God's love. The . night blooming assurances of Christ's sym pathy filled all the atmosphere, with heaven. The aoul at every step seemed to start up from its feet bright winged joys warbling heavenward. "It is good that I have been afflicted. cries David. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away," exclaims Job. "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, says St. Paul. "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes," exclaims John in apocalyptic vision. At eventime it was light. Light from the cross! Light from the promises! Light from the throne! Streaming, Joyous, outguahlng. everlasting light! . The Evenlogr f Life. The text shall also find fulfillment in the time of old age. It is a grand thing to be young to have the sight clear and the hearing acute, and the step elastic. and all our pulses marching ou to the drumming of a stout heart. Midlife and old age will be denied many of us. but youth we all know what-that is Those wrinkles were not always on your brow; that snow was not always on your head; that brawny muscle did not al ways bunch your arm; you have not al ways worn spectacles. Grave and dig nified as you are now, you once went coasting down the hillside or threw off your hat for a race or sent the ball fly ing sky high. Rut youtn win not always last. It stays only long enough to give us exuberant spirits and broad shoul ders for burden carrying und an arm with which to battle our way through difficulties. Life's path, if you follow it long enough, will come under frowning crag and across trembling causeway, messed old age, if you let It come naturally. You cannot hide it. You may try to cov er the wrinkles; but you cannot cover the wrinkles. If the time has come for you to be old. be not ashamed to be old. The grandest things in al the universe are old. Old mountains, old rivers, old seas, old stars and an old eternity. Then do not be ashamed to be old unless you are older than the mountains and old er than the stars. How men and women will lie! They say they are forty, but they are sixty. They say they are twenty, but they are thirty. They say they are sixty, but they are eighty. How some people will He! Glorious old age, if found in the way of righteousness. How beautiful the old age of Jacob, leaning on the top. of his staff, of John Qulncy Adams fall Ing with the harness on, of Washington Irving, sitting pen la band amid the

scenes himself had made classical; of

John An gell James, to the last proclaiming the gospel to the masses of Birming ham; of Theodore FTellnghuysen . down to feebleness and emaciation devoting his illustrious faculties to the kingdom of (Jod. At eventide it was light. . See that you do honor to the aged. A philosopher stood at the corner of the street day after day. saying to the passersby: "You will be an old man; you will be an old man." "You will be an old woman: you will be an old woman." People thought he was crazy. 1 do not think that he was. Smooth the way for that mother's feet; they have not many more steps to 'take. Steady those totlerng iimos; they will soon be at rest. Plow not up that face with any more wrinkles; trouble and care have marked it full, enough. Thrust no thorn into that old heart; it will soon cease to beat. The eye that mocketh its father and refuseth to obey its mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young. eagles shall eat it." . The bright-morning and hot noondav of life have passed with manv. It Is 4 tVdook! 5 o'clock! 6 o'clock! The shad ows tan longer and thicker and faster. Seven o'clock! S o'clock! The Fun has dipped below the horizon; the warmth nas gone out of the air. Nine o'clock! 10 o'clock! The heavy dews are falling; the activities of life's day are all hushed: it Is time to go to bed. Eleven o'cloek! 12 o'clock! The patriarch sleeps the blessed sleep, the cool ; sleep, the long sleep. Heaven's messengers of light have kindled bonfires Of VietorV all over the heavens. At eventime it is ngni ugnt: Latter Days of the Choreh. My text shall also find fulfillment in the latter days of the church. Only a few missionaries, a few churches, a few good men, compared with the" institutions leprous and putrefied. It is early yet in the history of everything good. Civilization and Christianity are just getting out of the cradle. The light of martyr stakes, flashing all up and down the sky, is but the flaming of the mon.ing, but when the evening of the world shall come, glory to God's conquering truth, it shall be light. WTar's sword clanging back in the scabbard; intemperance buried under 10.000 broken decanters; the world's impurity turning Its brow heavenward for the benediction. "Blessed are the pure in heart;" the last vestige of selfishness submerged in heaven descending charities; all China worshiping Dr. Abeel's Saviour; all India believing in Henry Martyn's bible; aboriginal superstition acknowledging David Drainerd's piety; human bondage delivered through Thomas Clarkson's Christianity; vagrancy coming back from its pollution at the call of Elizabeth Fry'8 Redeemer; the mountains coming down the valleys: the valleys going up: "holiness" inscribed on horse's bell and silkworm's thread and brown thrasher's wing and shell's tinge and manufacturer's shuttle and chemist's laboratory and king's scepter and nation's Magna Charta. Not a hoFpital, for there are no wounds; not an asylum, for there are no orphans; not a prison, for there are no criminal?; not an almshouse, for there are no paupers; not a tear, for there are no sorrows. The long dirge of earth's lamentation has ended In the triumphal march, of redeemed empires, the forests harping it on vine-strung branches, the water chanting it among the gorges, the thunders drumming it among the hills, the ocean giving it forth with its organs, trade winds touching the keys, and euroclydon's foot on the pedal. I want to see John Howard when the last prisoner is reformed; I want to see Florence Nightingale when the last saber wound has stopped hurting; I want to see Williaro-J'enn when the last In dian has been civilized; I want to see John IIuss when- the last flame of perse cution has been extinguished; I want to see John Runyan after the last pilgrim has come to the gate of the Celestial City. Above all. 1 want to see Jesus after the last saint has his throne and begun to sing halleluiah! (lory of the Kvenlnc You have watched the calmness and the glory of the evening hour. The la borers have come from the field. The heavens are glowing with an indescrib able effulgence, as though the sun in de parting had forgotten to shut the gate after it. All the beauty of cloud and leaf swims in the lake. For a star in the sky, a star in the water heaven above and heaven beneath. Not a leaf rustling or a bee humming or a grasshopjer chirping. Silence in the meadow, silence among the hills. Thus bright 'and beautiful shall be the evening of the world. The heats of earthly conflict are cooled. The glory of heaven filln all the scene with love and Joy and peace. At eventime it is light light! Finally, my text shall find fulfillment at the end of the Christian life. You know how a short winter's day is, ami how little work you can do. Now, my friends, lie is a short winter's day. The sun rises at 8 and sets at 4. The birth angel and death angel fly only a little way apart. Baptism and burial are near together. With one hand the mother rocks the cradle and with the other she touches the grave. I went into the house of one of my parishioners on Thanksgiving day. The little child of the household was bright and glad, and with it I bounded up and down the hall. Christmas day came, and the light of that household had perished. We stood with black book reading over the grave, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." But I hurl away this darkness! I canjiot ihave -you weep. Thanks be unto God! Who giveth us the victory, at eveivtlme it should be light! I have seen .many Christians die. I never saw any of them die In darkness. What If the Mllows of death do rise above our girdle, who- does not love. to bathe? What though other ights do go out in the blast, what do we want of them when .all the gates of glory swing open before us and from a myriad voices, a myriad harps, a myriad thrones, a myriad palaces there dash upon us, "Hosanna! Hosanna!" "Throw back the shutters and let the sun come In." said dying Scovllle McCollum, one of my Sabbath school boys. You can see Paul putting on robes and wings of ascension as he exclaims, "1 have fought the good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith." Hugh McKail went to one side of the scaffold of martyrdom and cried: "Farewell, sun, moon, and stars! Farewell, all earthly delights!" Then went to the other side of the scaffold and cried: "Welcome God and Father! Welcome, sweet Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the covenant. Welcome, death! Welcome, glory!" A minister of Christ In Philadelphia, dying, said in his last moments, "I move into the light!" They did not go down doubting and fearing and shivering, but their battle ry rang through all the caverns of the sepuh her and was echoed back from all the thrones of heaven: "O death! where Is thy sting? O grave! where Is thy victory?" Sing, my soul, of joys to corne! I saw a beautiful being wandering up and down the earth. She touched the aged, "and they became young. She touched the poor, and they became rich. I said, "Who la this beautiful being wandering up and down the earth?" They told me that her name was Death.. What a strange thrill of Joy when the palsied Christian begins to use his arm again! When the blind Christian begins to see again! When the deaf Christian begins to hear again! When the poor pilgrim puts his feet on such pavement and joins In such company and has a free seat in such a great temple! Hungry men no more to hunger; thirsty men no more, to thirst; weeping men no more to weep; dying men no more to die. Gather up all sweet words, all Jubilant expressions, all rapturous exclamations. Bring them to me. and I will pour them upon the stupendous theme of the soul's disenthrallmentj Oh, the Joy of the spirit as it shall mount up toward the throne of God. shouting: knFree!. Free!" Your eye has gazed upon the garniture of earth and heaven, but the eye hath not seen it. Your ear has caught harmonies uncounted and indescribablecaught them from the

harp's trill and bird's carol, and waterfall's dash and ocean's doxology, but the ear hath not heard it. How did those blessed ones get up Into the light? What hammer knocked off their . chains 3 What loom wove their j robes of Kght? Who gave them wings? Ah, eternity is not long enough to uU it, seraphim have not capacity enough ( to realize it the marvels of redeeming love! Let the palms wave; let the crowns glitter; let the anthems ascend; let the trees of Lebanon clap their

hands they cannot tell the half of it. Archangel before the throne, thou fallest! Sing on, praise on, ye hosts of the glorified, and if with your scepters you cannot reach it and with 3'our songs you cannot express it, then let all the myriads of the saved unite in the exclamation, "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!" Heaven's Password. There will be a password at the gate oftheaven. A great multitude come "up and knock at the gate. The gatekeeper cays, "The passsword." They say: "We have no password. We were great on earth, and now come up. to be great in heaven." A voice from within answers, "I never knew you." Another group come up to the gate of heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says, "The password." They say: "We have no password. We did a great many noble things on earth. We endowed colleges and took care of the poor." A voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another group come up' to the gate of heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says, "The password. They answer, "We were wanderers from God and deserved to die, but we heard the voice of Jesus." "Aye, aye," says the gatekeeper, "that is the password! Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let these people come in." They go in and surround the throne, jubilant forever. Ah, do you wonder that the last hours of the Christian on earth are illuminated by thoughts of coming glory? Light in the evening. The medicines may be bitter. The pain may- be sharp. The parting may be heartrending. Yet light In the evening. As all the stars of night sink their anchors of pearl In lake and river and sea, so the waves of Jordan will be illuminated with the down-flashing of the glory to come. The dying soul looks up at the constellations. "The Lord is my light and salvation. Whom" shall I fear?" "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Close the eyes of the departed one; earth would seem tame to its enchanted vision. Fold the hands; life's work is ended. Veil the face; It has been transfigured. --Mr. Toplady in his dying hour said, "Light." Coming nearer the expiring moment, he exclaimed, with illuminated countenance. "Light." In the last Instant of his breathing he lifted up his hands and cried: "Light! Light!" Thank God for light in the evening. POISON IN HISTORYSixteen Chinese emperors are reported to have died by poison. Nearly forty Turkish sultans and Arabian caliphs died by poison. Nero tried to poison himself to escape execution, but the dose was not sufficient. Nearly 2X) Greek generals and statesmen are named who committed suicide with poison. Veronese, the painter, was poisoned br an angry mistress of noble birth, whose name he had clouded by boasting of his familiarity with her. Messalina was an adapt in removing her enemies by secret poiscn. She poisoned over 100 persons before she was herself put to death. A wholesale poisoner was Mary Ann Cotton of Durham, Eng., who in 1&72 poisoned sixteen persons, mostly children. She was tried and executed. The most noted female poisoners, Cleopatra, Lucrezea Borgia and Mme. UrlnvtllerK, were blondes, with fair complexions, yellow or tawny hair and eyes gray or blue. , The names of seventeen Roman emperors of the West and twenty-two emperors of the Kast are preserved who are supposed to have died at the hands of the secret poisoner. For nearly twenty years Hannibal anticipating defeat and capture, carried poison concealed in a finger ring. He finally took it to avoid falling into the hands of the Romans. Mlthridates took antidotes as regularly as he did food, and so efficient were they in protecting him that it was said he had, in the course of his life swallowed enough poison to kill a hundred men. Of the sixty-four popes who met violent death In one form or another, no less than eighteen died by secret poisoning; two of them by accidentally taking poson they had Intended for others. One of the most remarkable poisoners of our own times was Sarah Chesham, who murdered her husband, her children and several relatives and other persons in 1851. She was executed after a three weeks trial. Mohammed was always on his guard against poison, but in spite of all his precautions was once poisoned by a Jewish mistress, Zainb. She administered the poison in a leg of mutton, and although it did not kill the prophet, he for many years suffered from Its effects. The Roman empresses and princesses. Theodosla, Julia Donna, and Sabina and Agripplna, were the most accomplished poioners of their respective times. The last named was the first tutor of Nero in the art. and made him acquainted with not a few of its mysteries before he secured the services of Locusta. After the death of James I. of Bnglaad. the populace took the notion tht he had been poisoned bv a jealous woman at the instigation of Villiers. A quack doctor named Lamb was suepected of having furnished the fatal dose, and was literally torn to pieces by a mob in ChespsiU in broad daylight before the police could Interfere. In 1648. duke of Guts, wished to ret rid of an enemy named Annese. He offered a soldier a rich reward if he would lie in wait and stab Annese in the back. With horror, the soldier refused. That would be assassination, and he was a soldier, not an assassin. A compromise was affected. He was willing to take the money and have Annese poisoned, but not to assassinate him. Th money was paid and Annese was poisoned. Both the Faustinas, Annia Galeria Faustina, and the wife of Antonio Plus, and Annia Faustina, the wife of Marcus Aurelius, added poisoning to their vices, and many were the murders they committed in this manner. Kach after death was made a goddess by her bereaved husband, and the Roman empire was ordered to worship two of the most skillful adepts in the poisoner's arts. The greatest Roman poisoner was Locusta. Her chief patron was Nero, but she had also as customers most of the leading families in Rome, and so prosperous was her business that her wealth became a proverb, l'rofigate sons were poisoned by their fathers, wealthy fathers by their sons, old wives by their young husbands, old husbands by their young wives. Nero and Locusta often tried the effects of a new poison on slaves provided by the emperor. Jt was Iocusta who furnished the poison that ridded Nero of his teacher, Hurrhus. In 1331 the discovery was made in England that Richard Coke, the cook of the bishop of Rochester, had poisoned seventeen persons, designing, at one stroke, to rid himself of a number of personal enemies. Two of his victims died, the others recovered. The crime was so novel In England, and deemed so horrible, that all existing punishments were considered inadequate, and the punishment of boiling to death was imported from the continent to meet the emergency. The cook was bolh"d; so, also, was Margaret Davy, who. in attempted in a similar way to dispose of her rival In love. Tne law was repealed in Ü47. The beginning of the eighteenth century witnessed an epidemic of oisoninK In France as weil as Italy. The business was begun in France by two Italian poisoners named Kxlli and Glaser. The ioisonera were discovered by the aid of thj clergv. Exlll and Glaser were sent to the bastife, where they both died. The latter lived Ion if enough, however, to communicate the secrets of his business to the Infamous St. Croix, who became the teacher of the equally infamous Mme. Brinvilliers. 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5ECKKTAKY CARLISLE SAID TO IIB CONSIDERING XEW. PLAN'S. Oae of NVhleh Is to Redeem All the Various Forms f .Meney ow In Circulation d Issue Treasury Note With Always a Fixed Value. WASHINGTON. July 7. The Evening Star has this: - ..-. "While members of congress and leaders in financial matters are discussing the various plans by which tbe present situation can be relieved, the officials of the treasury department are quietly preparing statistics and histories of financial transactions for the benefit of the administration to guide it in its own viefs on Xhls vital subject.' In many of ther bureaus the chiefs are devoting their spare time to the collection of this information so that it may be in the hands of the president and Secretary Carlisle at the earliest possible moment. "Several plans have been suggested to Secretary Carlisle, and he has them under consideration. Among them is ons which will create considerable of a stir in financial circles, as it contemplates an entire change in the money system of the United States. In short the plan is to pass a specie resumption act redeeming all of the various forms of money now used in this country and issuing instead a U. S. treasury note, whose value shall always be fixed. "There are at present nine different forms of money in cii culation. These are gold coin, standard silver dollars, subsidiary silver, gold certificates, silver certificates, treasury notes of the act of July 14. 1890, U. S. notes, currency certificates and national bank notes. The fact of the wide difference between the value of the gold and silver coins while they are theoretically of a parity, is of the causes which suggested the plan proposed. The plan under consideration, is to redeem all the present paper currency just as the fractional currency was redeemed by the Sherman act of 1S7-1 and instead issue what shall be known as the IT. S. treasury note. It shall be redeemable in 'coin,' but in the act the delinition of this word is to be plainly stated. The Bank of Frame has a law by which notes are redeemed partially in gold and partially in silver, and such a method has been suggested for this country. In connection with this the advisability of passing a bill authorizing an issue of notes redeemable in silver alone has been talked cf." Hank Dividends Declared. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of Insolvent national banks as follows, viz: - A second dividend of 15 per rent. In' favor of the creditors of the First national bank of Kansas City. Kas., making in all 40 per cent, on .claims proved, amounting to 1101,704. A first dividend of 30 per cent. In favor of the creditors cf the Newton national bank, Newton. Kas., on claims proved. amounting to JS6.309. A. second dividend of 25 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the First national bank of Cold Water. Kas.. making in all Z0 per cent, on claims proved, amounting to J34.C13. A first dividend of 30 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the Commercial national bank of Nashville, Tenn., on claims proved, amounting to $154,4". Comptroller Eckels is informed that the First national bank of Hot Springs, S. D.. and the Livingston national bank of Livingston, Mont.,have closed their doors to business. Bank Examiner Diamond has been ordered to take charge of the Hot Springs bank and Bank Examiner Flynn of the Livingston bank. National banks during the past two months have increased their circulation nearly $7.000,000, orders for new circulation to the amount of J2,277,0i0 having been received so far this month by Comptroller Eckels. Sliver nought at O.T2. The treasury department resumed the purchase of sliver bullion today, buying 100,000 ounces at 0.72. The offers aggregated 1,278,(K'0 ounces at the same price as that paid, but all offers beyond the 100,000 ounces purchased were declined. The price of silver bullion in London today was 34 and a fraction pence, whicb at the exchange rates made the New York price about 0.72, but the tendency was downward, and it is believed at the treasury that the price of silver next Monday in London will be lower than it was today. This is the explanation' why so little of the amount offered will be purchased. TLEÄSHHT THE NEXT M0RN1N3 I FEEL BRIGHT AND Li fill a kl aW i SJks s w k r ri e-uss s n. nt nu mi tuwrLCAiun 13 CLI 1 CK. tfy doctor wfi It sot frmtlr on the t'misrh, Mir nd kidner, fciid in pljit This drtr.k la iiumJ from herbs, mini t LrvirMl tot TT TT lij it LÜHE'S EIEDIGIHE AU4nif;Elal4seIlitstf0c.anl flilOspsckara. If foueinnot ice' It. tend T'ouraddrsMforrresftample. illr Medliloe riih Ike Lwrlatwk 4SI, In irtier to he h-ith. thi i. iwftrr. OUlTl) F.HWlitl'. CB, Lrlior, . Y. CARTER'S rirrTu: IW.ER Pit', 5. BekBjsdsxtoaoa feUereall tbatsoaUes fcufr ft out to shUloss asteof tb syetntn, suob us JkMuas. Drowsiness. DUtross aner fating Pain In lbs rl.l. Ava. fco. Wlula ' ysmacxaUe suoomi hs beau sbavn ia curt:g riosÄAObA, yet Osrtuc's Iittla Uror TOM ass equally TftI sable ia OonsUpUtoa, truing sod ps Tan Un UiUsnaojina aonrpUtnivtilla tttej ai9 oorreei mil fliurdoro?Uaiiiii li. lumlais tM a yer snd ssgniau) toe txrtnU. 8mUt!wObl "HEA tAtherwrwbefcnostprloaltelhjisawtkj muüut fröm tlua dlt atalng eouipUlnt; batforttsIXisaaly thatr grtoAnem does notod bere,aod thciau .whooooeu-y theniw.Ujfind Cmap li tfia pllla nl U In so zosii jr way. that they will not b rü8IC todovu&oatUuxn. Bet sftur silsidt bs4 fis the bau of so many Urea that hens surtwre jwsmtJtsonrgrsUboasC OorpUisoarsltvMls) .Others do not. Carter's Li Mia XJrcr TVia are very snail ma& rtrj emrj to fcJts. One or two villM maie doea. The are strioüy vegetable sod do not grips or rrr. bot br their gantle mrOao pVaaaa sU who UM tbara. 1 rials at 35 cants t Cratae tU fey druggists reryvhara, or mot br mad. CAKTCR MEOtOINH CO Hew York: SMALL FILL .LULL DCSL SLÜLL PEItf

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