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THE INDIANA -STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1893 TAVELYE PAGES.

AT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

DIU TALMAGK FIXDS JIATERIAL FOR MASY LESOXS IS THE FHOST. The First Jn1ba1 of Winter The MarvfU o fFront lmarrr Testlfr of (ol Striking Illustration la Job Frost as an Emblrm of Adversity. ' BROOKLYN. Dec. 3. Before the usual throngs that for nearly twenty-five years have gathered In the first, second and third Brooklyn tabernacles successively, Dr. Talmag-e this forenoon preached this gospel sermon, after commenting upon an appropriate scripture lesson and giving out the mcwt inspiriting hymns. Tho subject was, "The Mission of the Frost." Text Job xxxvil, 10, "By the breath of God froet Is given." Nothing is more embarrassing1 toi an organist or pianist than to- put his ringer on a key of the instrument and have it make no response. Though all the other keys are In full play, that one silence destroys the music. So in the great cathedral of nature. If one part fails to praise the Lord the harmony 1 halted and lost. While fire and hall, enow and vapor, respond to the touch of inspiration, if the frost made no utterance the orchestral rendering would be hopelessly damaged and the harmony forever incomplete. I am more glad than I can tell that the white key of the frost sounds forth as mightily as any of the other keys, and wht-n David touches it in the psalms it sounds forth the words, "He scattereth the hoar frost like ahes," and When Job touches it in my text it resounds with the words, "By the breath of God frost is given." As no one seems disposed to discuss the mission of frost, depending on divine help I undertake it. This is the first Sabbath of Minter. The leaves are down. The warmth has gone out of the air. The birds have made their winged march southward. The landscape has been scarred by the autumnal equinox. The huskers have rifled the cornshocks. The night sky ha shown the usual meteoric restlessness of November. Three seasons of the year are past, and the fourth and last has entered. Another element now comes in to bless and adorn and instruct the world. It Is the frost. The palaces of this king are far up In the arctic. Their walls are glittering congelation. "U'indsrr castles and Tuileries and winter palaces and Kenilworths and Alhambras of Ice, temples with pendant chandeliers of ice, thrones of Iceberg on which eternal filence reigns, theaters on whose stage eternal cold dramatizes eternal winter, pillars of ice, arches of Ice, crowns of ice, chariots of ice, sepulchers of ice, mountains of ice, dominions of ioe eternal frigidity! From those hard, white, burnished portals King Frost descends and waves his silvery scepter over our temperate zone. You will soon hear his heel on the skating pond. You already feel hi3 breath in the night wind. By most considered an enemy coming here to benumb and hinder and slay, I shall show you that the frost is a friend, with benediction divinely pronounced, and charged and surcharged with lessons potent, beneficent and tremendous. The bible seven tims alludes to the frost, and we must not Ignore it. "By the breath of God frost Is iven." tttnre'n Marvel In Art. First I think of frost as a painter, lie begins his work on the leaves and continues it on the window panes. With palette covered with all manner of colors in his left hand and pencil of crystal in his right hand, he sits down before the humblest bush In the latter part of September and begins the sketching of the leaves. Now he puts upon the foliage a faint pallor, and then a touch of brown, and then a hue of orange, and last a flame of fire. The beech and ash and oak are turned first into sunrises and then into sunsets of vividness and splendor. All the leaves are penciled one by one, but sometimes a whole forest in the course of a few days shows great velocity of work. AVeenix, the Dutch painter, could make in a summer day three portraits of life size, but the frost in ten days can paint ten mountains in life size. It makes the last days of an autumnal wood the days of Its chiefest glory Luxemburgers In the Adirondacks, Louvres in the Sierra Nevadas, Vaticans in the White mountains. The work of other painters you must see in the right light to fully appreciate, but the paintings of the frost in all lights are enchanting from the time when the curtain, of the morning lifts to the time when the curtain of the night drops. Michael Angelo put upon one ceiling his representation of the last judgement but the frost represents universal conflagration upon 3,000 miles of stretched out grandeur. Leonardo de Vinci put ujon a few feet of canvas our Lord's Ifhst supper for all ages to admire, but the frost puts the gleaming chalices of the imperial glories of the last supper of the dying year in the hights and lengths and breadths of the Alleghanles. When Titian first gazed upon a sketch of Correggio. he was wrought up Into such ecstacy that he cried out. "If I were not Titian. I would be Correggio." and so great and overpowering aire the autumnal scenes of our American forests that one forco of nature might well exclaim to another. "If I were not the sunlight. I would be the frost." Iturendas, the German painter, suffering from weakness in his right hand, laboriously learned to paint with his left hand, but the frost paints with both hands, and has In them more skill than all the Hembrandts and Rubens and Wests and Pousins and Albert Durers and Paul Veroneses and Claudes gathered in one long art gallery. But the door of that great museum of autumnal coloring is now closed for a twelvemonth, and another spectacle Just as wonderful is now open. I put you on the alert and ask you to put your children on the alert. Tired of working on the leaves the -frost will soon turn to- the window panes. You will soon waken on a cold morning and find that the windows of yoar home have during the night been adorned with curves, with coronets, with exqulsltenesw, with pomp, with almost supernatural spectacle. Then you will appreciate what my text says as it declares, "By the breath of God frost is given." You will see on the window pane, traced there by the frost, whole gardens of beauty ferns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes, china asters, fountains, statues, hounds on the chase, roebucks plunglns Into the stream, battle scenes with dying and dead, catafalques of kings, triumphal processions and as the morning sun breaks through you will Be cities on fire and bombardment with bursting she)!, and Illuminations as for some great victory, coronations and angels on the wing. All night long while you were sleeping the frost was working, and you ought not let the warmth obliterate che scene until you have admired It, studied It, absorbed It, set it up in your ory for perpetual refreshment and realized the force and magnitude und Intensity of my text. "By the breath of God frost is given." Oh, what a GM we have! AVhat resources are Implied by the fact that He Is able to do that by the fhijer of the- frost fifty times tu

one winter and on a hundred thousand window panes for thousands of winters! The great art galleries of Venice and Naples and Dresden are carefully guarded, and governments protect them, for, once lost, they can never be reproduced, but God sets up in the royal galleries of the frost pictures such as no human art could ever produce, hundreds of thousands of them, only for four or five hours, and then rubs them out. making the place clear for a display Just as magnificent the next morning. No one but a Ood could afford to do that. It would bankrupt everything but Infinity and omnipotence. God's Infinite Magic. Standing here between the closed doors of the pictured woods and the opening doors of the transfigured window glass, I want to cure my folly and your folly of longing for glorious things in the distance, while we neglect appreciation of glorious things near by. "Oh, if I could Only go and see the factories of lace at Brussels!" says some one. Why, within twenty feet of where you awaken some December morning you will see richer lace interwoven for your window panes by divine fingers. "Oh, if I could see the factories of silk at Lyons!" says some one. Why, without leaving your home on the north side Of your own house on Christmas morning you may see. where the Lord has spun silken threads about your windows this way and that embroideries such as no one but God can work. Alas, for this glorification of the distant and this belittling of the close by! This crossing or oceans and paying a high admission in expenses to look at that which is not half as well done as something we can see by crossing our own room, and free of charge! This praising of Raphaels hundreds of years pone, when the greater Raphael, the frost, will soon be busy at the entrances to your own home! Next I speak of the truet as a physician. Standing at the gates of New York harbor autumn before last, the frost drove back the cholera, paying, "Thus far shalt thou come and no farther." From Memphis and New Orleans and Jacksonville he smote the fever plague till It reeled back and departed. The frost is a physician that doctors cities, nations and continents. He medicines the world. Quinine for malaria, anti-febrile for typhoids, sulphonal for sleeplessness, antispasmodic for disturbed nerves, but in all therapeutics there is no remedy like the small pellets piepared by the cold, and no physician so skillful or so mighty as the frost. Scotland has had great physicians, but her greatest doctors have been the Abcrnethies and Abercrombis that have come down over the highlands horsed on the north wind. England ha had her great physicians, but her greatest doctors have beer the Andrew Clarkes and the Mackenzies who appeared the first night the fields of England were rimmed with white. America has had its great physicians, but her greatest doctors have been the Williard Parkers and Valentine Motts who landed from bleak skies while our lingers were benumbed and our ears tingled with the cold. Oh, it is high time that you add another line to your liturgy! It is high time that you make an addendum to your prayers. It is high time that you enlarge the catalogue of your blessings. Thank God for frost! It is the best of all germicides. It is the only hope in bacteriology. It is the medicament of continents. It is the salvation of our temperate zone. It Is the best tonic that God ever gave the human race. It is the only strong stimulant which has no reaction. The best commentary on it I had while walking near here one cool morning with my brother John, who spent the most of his life as a missionary In China, and in that part of it where there are no frosts. He said there was a tingling gladness in his nerves indescribable, and an almost intoxication of delight from the fact that It was the first time for years he had felt the sensation of frost. We complain of it, we scold it, we frown upon It. when we ought to be stirred by It to gratitude and hoist It on a doxology. The Front of Heaven. But I must go farther and speak of the frost as a jeweler. As the snow is frozen rain, so the frost Is frozen dew. God transforms it from a liquid into a crystal. It is the dew glorified. In the thirty-eighth chapter of that inspired drama, the book of Job, G-d says to the Inspired dramatist with ecstatic interrogation. "The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered It?" God there asks Job if he knows the parentage of the frost. He Inquires about its pedigree. He suggests that Job study up the frost's genealogical line. A minute before God had asked about the parentage of a raindrop in words that years ago gave me a suggestive text for a sermon, "Hath the rain a father?" But now the Lord Almighty is catechising Job about the frost. He practically says: "Do you know its father? Do you know its mother? In what cradle of the leaves did the wind rock it? 'The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered It?'" He is a stupid Christian who thinks so much of the printed and bound bible that he neglects the old testament of the fields, nor reads the wisdom and kindness and beauty of God wrltfen in blossoms on the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in stars on the sky, In frost on the meadows. The greatest jeweler of all the earth Is the frost. There is nothing: more wonderful in all crystallography. Some morning In December a whale continent is found besprent with diamonds, the result of one night's work by this jeweler. Do you make the depreciatory remark that the frost Is Impermanent and will last only two or three hours? AVhat of that? AVe go into London tower and look at the crown jewels of England, but we are in a procession that the guards keep moving on. and five minutes or less are your only opportunity cf looking at those crown jewels, but at the crown jewels bestarred of the frost in parks and fields you may stand to look deliberately and for hours, and no one to tell you to. move on. .Nature's Diadem of llenut)-. Oh. these regalias and diadems of beauty flung out of heaven! Kings and queens on celebrative days have come riding through the streets throwing handfuls of silver and gold among the people, but the queen of the winter morning Is the only queen rich enough to throw pearls, and the king of frost the only king rich enough to. throw opals and sapphires and diamonds. Homer describes a necklace of amber given to Penelope, but the frost necklaces a continent The carcanet of precious stones given to Harmorda had pinions of orange jasper and white moonstones and Indian agate, but it was a misfortune to any one who owned or inherited it, and its history, generation after generation, was a history of disaster, but the regalia of frost is the good fortune of every morning that owns it.' The Imperial household of Louis XVI could not afford the diamond necklace which had been ordered for Queen Mari Antoinette, and it was stolen and taken apart and lost, but the necklace that the frost put on the wintry morning, though made of as many brilliants as the withered glass blades. Is easily afforded by divine opulence and Is never lost, but after Its use In the coronation of the fields is taken back to heaven. O men and women, accustomed to go Into ecstasy when In foreign travel you come upon the historical gems of nat'.cns. whether the jewel bo called the Mountain of Glory, or the Sea of Light, or the Crown of the Moon, or the Eye of Allah, or the Star of Sarawak, or the Koh-l-noor, I Implead you to study the Jewel strewn all around your wintry home and realize that "by the breath of God frost Is given." But I go a step farther and peak of the frost as an evangelist, and a text of scripture Is not of much use to me unless I can find the gospel In It. The Israelites In the wlldernes breakfasted on something that looked like frozen dew. The manna fell on the dew and the dew evaporated and left a pulverized

material, white and looking like frost, but it was manna, and of that they ate. So now this morning, mixed with the frozen dew of my text, there la manna on ' which we can breakfast our souls. You say the frost kills. Yes, it kills some things, but we have already seen that it gives health and life to others. This gospel is the savor of life unto life or of death unto death. As the frost Is mighty, the gospel Is mighty. As the frost descends from heaven, the gospel descends from heaven. By the breath of God frost Is given. By the breath of God the gospel is given. As the frost purifies, so the grafe of God purifies. As the frost bestars the earth, so grace bejewels the soul. As the frost prepares for food many things that otherwise would be inedible, bo the frost of trial ripens and prepares food for the soul. In the tight grip of the frost the hard shells of Tvalnul and chestnut and hickory open, and the luxuries of the woods come Into our laps or upon our tables; so the frost of trial takes many a hard and prickly shell and crushes it until that which stung the soul now feeds it. Purified by Suffei-in?. There are passages of scripture that once were enigmas, puzzles, riddles and Impossibilities for you to understand, but the frosts of trouble after awhile exposed the full meaning to your soul. You said, "I do not see why David keeps rolling over in hi3 psalm the story of how lie was pursued and persecuted." He describes himself as surrounded by bees. He says, "They compassed me about like bees; yea, they compassed me about like bees." You think, what an exaggerating thing for him to exclaim, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto thee, O Lord!" And there is so much of that style of lamentation In his writings you think he overdoes It, but after awhile the frost comes upon you in the shape of persecution, and you are struck with this censure, and struck with that defamation, and struck with some falsehood, and lies in swarms are buzzing, buzzing about your ears, and at last you understand what David meant when he said, "They compassed me about like bees; yea, they compassed me about like bees," and you go down under nervous prostration and feel that you-are as far down as David when he cried, "Out of the depths of hell!" AVhat opened all those chapters that hitherto had no appropriateness? Frosts! For a long while the bible seemed lopsided and a disproportionate amount of it given up to the consolatory. Why page after page and chapter after chapter and book after book in the bible taken up with alleviations, with judications, with condolences? The book seemed like an apothecary store with one-half of the shelves occupied with balsams. Why such a superfluity of balsams? But after awhile the membraneous croup carries off your child, or your health gives way under the grip, or your property is swept off by a bad Investment, or perhaps all three troubles come at once bankruptcy, sickness and bereavement. Now the consolatory parts of the bible do not seem to be disproportionate. You want something off almost all the shelves of that sacred dispensary. AVhat has uncovered and exposed to you the usefulness of so much of the bible that was' before hidden? The frosts have been fulfilling their mission. Put down all the promises of the bible on a table for study, and put on one side the table a man who has never had any trouble, or very little of it, but pile upon the table beside him all encyclopedias, and all dictionaries, and all archaeologies, and all commentaries, and on the other side of the table put a man who has had trial upon trial, disaster upon disaster, and let him begin t:. study of the promises without lexlc r, without commentary, without any book to explain or help, and this latter man will understand far more of the hight and depth and length and breadth of those promises than the learned exegete opposite, almost submerged in sacred literature. The one has the advantage over the other because he has felt the mission of the frosts. O take the consolation of this theme, ye to whom life is a struggle, and a disappointment, and a gantlet, and a pang. That is a beautiful proverb. among the HebrewB which says, "When the tale of bricks is doubled, then Moses comes." The Itlnsis of Adversity. Mild doses of medicine will do for mild sickness, but violent pains need strong doses, and so I stand over you and count some drops that will alleviate your worst troubles If you will only take the medicine, and here It is: "In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." "Weeping may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning." Thank God for frosts! AVhat helped make Washington the greatest of generals? The frosts of Valley Forget AVhat made It appropriate for tne passing John Bunyan's grave to exclaim. "Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers?" The frosts of Imprisonment. The greatest college from which we can graduate is the college of frosts. Especial trial fits for especial work. Just now watch and you will see that trouble is preparative and educational. That Is the grindstone on which battle axes are sharpened. I have always noticed In my own case that when the Lord had some special work for me to do It was preceded by especial attack upon me. This Is so proverbial In my own house that If for something I say or do I get poured upon me a volley of censure and anathema, my wife always asks: "I wonder what new opportunity of usefulness is about to open? Something good and grand is surely coming!" AA'hat is true in my case Is true An a larger or smaller scale la the history of every man and woman who wants to serve the Lord. Without complaint take the hard knocks. You will see after awhile, though you may not appreciate it now, that by the breath of a good and loving God frost Is given. Let the corners of your mouth, so long drawn down In complaint, be drawn up In smiles of content. For many years poets and essayists have celebrated the grace and swiftness of the Arabian horses. The most wonderful exhibition of horsemanship that I ever witnessed was Just outside of the city of Jerusalem an Arabian steed mounted by an Arab. Do you know where these Arabian horses got their fleetness and poetry of motion? Long centuries ago Mohammed, with 30.0O0 cavalry on the march, could find for them not a drop of water for three days. Coming to the top of a hill, a river was In sight. AVIth wild dash the 30.000 horse started for the stream. A minute after an armed host was seen advancing, and at Mohammed's command 100 bugles blew for the horses to fall in line, but ail the 20.000 continued the wild gallop to the river except five, and they, almost dad with thirst, wheeled Into line of battle. Nothing In human bravery and selfsacrifice excels that bravery and selfsacrifice of those five Arabian war horses. Those five splendid steeds Mohammed chose for his own use, and from those five came that race of Arabian horses for ages the glory of the equestrian world. And let me say that In this great war of truth against error, of holiness against sin and heaven against hell, the bent war !x-rses are descended from thote who, under pang and self-denial and trouble, answered the gospel trumpet and wheeled into line. Out of great tribulation, out of great fires, out of great frosts, they came. Itetrnrd After SnfTerlnsr. And let me say it will not take long for God to make up to you In the next world for all you have suffered In thl. As you enter heaven He may say: "Give this man one of those towered and colonnaded palaces on that ridge of gold overlooking the sea of glass. Give this woman a home among those amaranthine blooma and between

those fountains tossing in the everlasting sunlight. Give 1 er a couch can- j

opled with rainbows to pay her for all the fatigues of wifehood and motherhood and housekeeping, from which she had no rest for forty years. "Cupbearers of heaven, give these newly arrived souls from earth the costliest beverages and roll to their door the grandest chariots and hang on their walls the sweetest harps that ever thrummed to fingers seraphic. Give to them rapture on rapture, celebration on celebration, jubilee on jubilee, heaven on heaven. They had a hard time on earth earning a livelihood, or . nursing sick children, or waiting on querulous old age, or battling falsehoods that were told about them, .or were compelled to work after they got shortbreathed and rheumatic and dimsighted. "Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers of the King's robes! Banqueters of eternal royalty! Make up to them a hundredfold, a thousandfold, a mlllionfold for all they suffered from swaddling clothes to shroud, and let all those who, whether on the hills, or in the temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wall, were helped and sanctified and prepared for this heavenly realm by the mission of the frosts stand up and wave their scepters!" And I looked, and behold! nine-tenths of the ransomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenths of the scepters swayed to and fro in the light of the sun that never sets, and then I understood far better than I ever did before that trouble comes for beneficent purposes, and that on the coldest nights the aurora Is brightest in the northern heavens, and that "by the breath of God frost Is given."

SMART IIOISES IV III UAL. ENGLAND. Free und Easy Life AA'here Hostesses Are Inclined to Be "Fust." A prominent feature in modern English life Is the free-and-easy character of what are known as "smart" hours', where the hostesses are young, with lots of "go" and inclined to be a little fast. Names had better not be mentioned. Only those who thoroughly appreciate "sport" are invited, and there is a sort of "honor among thieves" to be discreet; but these things do leak out sometimes. These are the houses where husband and wife are never invited together, but where every opportunity is given for either of them to meet cornpar ions of the opposite sex who are thoroughly interesting to them. The hostess of course has to put up with her lord and master's presence in the house, but that does not interfere with her enjoyment, as she has her own suite of apartments. Including a diningroom, where she and her chosen male guest occasionally dine en tete a tete, their absence scarcely being noticed by the Jolly party in the family dining-room. Girls are never invited to these merry houses, for that would involve mammas or chaperons: horrible thought! The young married woman is the predominating element. She Is the rival even of her own sisters and sometimes of her own daughter, monopolizing the attentions of the eligible young men, just as If she could get married again and again. The men like her; she has no mother bothering about; she will talk on any subject; she Is pretty and better dreised than a girl; she pets her adorers, calling them by their Christian name; she is altogether irresistible 'and deluged with invitations; her luggage takes a van to bring from the station, for she Is expected to wear a different dinner and teadress every day, besides afternoon costumes, tailor-made dresses, skirts, Jackets, cloaks of every kind, riding habits, shooting dresses, boating, tennis, golf costumes, bonnets, hats and above all, suitable dresses for skirt and serpentine dancing. The men also do not go unprovided with the means of making themselves attractive dinner jackets In different shades of velvet are much worn instead of the drtfs coat, and silk sashes of pale hue are taking the place of walätcoats. The tips which are expected by servants in houses of this class are nornu us 5 to the keeier, a couple of sovereigns to the butler, with lesser sums to the coachmen, footmen and housemaids make a visit almost as expensive as a hotel bill. Very late hours are the rule. I wasebing taken over a very smart house not long ago, this time as a tourist, when, on asking the housekeeper if her master and his guests did not greatly enjoy living and roaming about in the garden and halls of such a beautiful old place, he replied: "Well, they don't see much of the place by daylight, they have got to sleep some time, and they sit up nearly all night playing cards, so don't come out of their looms until nearly tea time." Nap, poker, baccarat and sometimes rouelette are Indulged In, large sums are lost and won, and rather unseemly differences of opinion are expressed. A'alses and polkas are voted slow, skirt-dancing, with a get-up of white lace petticoats, accordian-pleated silk skirts and black silk stocking having taken their place. On moonlight nights a pillow fight through the passageways, in light and airy costumes, is a "lark" in great favor. The playing of a fire hose on an unwary newcomer is voted "rare fun." Dressing-up as ghosts or other monsters, so as to give a fright, are also much In vogue. At any rate, there is no dullness at these sort of houses. The fun may be In questionable taste, but taste, like everything else nowadays, is a matter of opinion. London correspondent N. Y. Herald. The Moon's Mistake. As Tom and Mollie watched the sky One lovely morn In June They saw among the fleecy c'ouda A faintly showing moon. -s - 3M AA'ee Mollie spied the curious thing AA'ith look of grave surprise. A puzzled wonder creeping up Into her big blue eyes. "Tommle. I think the moon don't know It's daytime." Mollie paid. 'I Just believe that little moon Forgot to go to bed!" Eva Lovett in N. Y. AVorM. Trlbnte to Gladstone's Eloquence. For one good speech Mr. Chnmberlaln or Mr. Balfour may make, Mr. Gladstone makes twenty. He Is versed in every artifice of oratory; he Is practised in every mood and method of debate. He has the temperament and the equipment of a great orator, though Mr. Hayward made a komI point when he wrote the words, "a shade more '.maginatlon." A'et, before admitting Mr. Hiyward's qualification, I would pretix th- 'adjective "poetic" to the noun "Imwl lation," for Air. Gladstone's Imagination Is most active. As a man of business he Is Inspired. Let his theme be a great trade or Industry; let the subject of his voluminous discourse be railway rates, bimetallism, the opium traffic; let him unfold his mind and unroll his memory before his audience do but hearken to his illustrations and follow his discurMons, and when, to your sorrow, he sits down, you will observe with amazement the fingers of tha clock. From "The House of Commons," by Augrustlne Ulrreil, M. I., In the November number of Scrlbner's Magazine. K 1 rri ro t y i I n k. A trade Journal states that electrotyping was first successfully practiced In 1S37 and was considered a triumph of chemical and mechanical skill, requiring the utmost nicety for its execution.

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THE VATICAN REVENUES.

IIOAA THEY ARE (1ATHEIIKD AND HOW THEY ARE STENT. Receipts nnd Expenses La rjfe Sams Invested Abroad Peter's Pence Forms the Greatest Part and Maintains the Free Schools tn the Great City of Rome Interesting and Instructive Information. It may be Interesting to know Just what the receipts and expenses of the Vatican are and how the pope provides for the administration of the church and the papacy. It is well known that there is a committee on Peter's pence, composed of several prelates and cardinals, whose business It Is to regulate the use of money at the disposal of the Vatican. I sought one of the most prominent members of the committee and he gave me the following details: "The wealth of the Vatican," he told me, "comes from two principal sources. First, the revenues of the invested sums that the Vatican possesses and secondly the offerings of the faithful known under the name of Peter's pence. The Invested funds of the Vatican are of different kinds; the greater part Is placed in French or English banks. The largest amount Is in the Rothschild banks of Paris. "The Peter's pence Is an annual revenue, which is far more regular. In good years the total of the sums received throughout the world may reach eight millions. Sometimes it is only five or six millions or even less. Such has been the case in the last few years. This decrease is due largely to the discontent of catholics and French royalists on account of the pope's republican policy. France alone sends two-thirds and often three-fourths of the Feter's pence. And in France it 13 the royalists who show themselves most devoted and most generous. Since the adherence of Leo XIII to the republic many royalists more royalists than catholic have closed their purses. Hence the decrease that has occurred in the Peter's pence collections during the past two years. "Nevertheless, in spite of everything. It is the French bishops who bring the pope the largest amounts. Thus, only the day before yesterday, the bishop of Nantes sent the pope 100,000 francs in the name of the diocese. "Italy only contributes a very small sum some hundreds of thousands of francs. The Romans are even less generous than the Italians. On certain festivals collections are taken In all the large churches In Rome for the Peter's Pnce, and there are churches where the collectors only receive a few sous. "On the other hand, the Anglo-Saxon countries England, Ireland, Australia and, above all, the United States are beginning to send Important amounts. If Catholicism continues to develop In those countries, it is easy to see that the Vatican will draw from them considerable revenues, because the English or American catholics are as rich as they are generous. "There are also royal courts, such as that of Austria, who send annually to the pope very rich offerings. Likewise the old Italian princes, who have been deposed, such as Francis II, the ex-king of Naples, and Maria Theresa, the former gTand duchess of Tuscany, never fail to send to the pope their gifts, which consist almost always of several thousand francs. The Comte de Chambord used to send every 50,000 francs and the Comte de Paris does the same. "The total budget of the Vatican can be estimated at about seven millions. This is the way it is spent: Francs. 1. At the disposal of the pope.. F00,000 2. For the cardinals 700,000 3. For poor dioceses 460,000 4. Prefecture (or administration) of the Vatican 1.800,000 f. Secretary of state l.OOO.OOv 6. Employes and officials 1,500,000 7. Free schools in Rome and alms for the poor of the city 1,200,000 Total 7,160,000 "The 500,000 francs placed at the disposal of the pope serve to maintain the pope's household and other expenses not Included in the other budget; such as decorations, gifts to princes and purchases of objects of art. "The cardinals who live In Rome are THE BEST Your wife will Anticipating the demand, special arrangements to supply OUR

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POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL SEWING MHCHINE s Has the Utewt deslpn of bnt woodwork, with keleton drawer caseg, made io both walnut and oak, highly finished and ih moet durable made. The attnd is rijrid and strong, having brace from over each nd of treadle rod to table, has a larg balance wheel with belt replace, a very easy motion of treadle. The head ia free of plate tenMons, the machine Is ao set that withont any change of nprer or lower tension you can tew from No. 40 ?-o No. 150 thread, and a very slight change of disc tension ou face plate, you can eew from the coarneet to the tinest thread. It baa a self-setting needle and loose pulley device on hand wheel for winding bobbins without running tbe machine. It is adjustable in all its bearines and has less springs than any other eewinp machine on the market. It is the quickest to thread, beiug eel threading, except tne eyr of needle. It is the easiest nwbins in changing length of stitch, and is Tery quiet and easy runnUjr.

Address all orders to THE SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. P. S. This Machine is shipped direct from the manufactory to the purchaser, saving all Cuddle men's rrotita. (

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all kept at the pope's expense; the minimum salary of each one Is 22,000 francs. "The secretary of state corresponds to what is called among povernments the minister of foreign affairs. He loks out for the maintenance of all the nunciatures. The four jrreat nunciatures (those of Taris, A'ienna, Madrid and Lisbon) have each a fixed appropriation of CO.000 francs. "The pope spends also 1,200,000 francs for the maintenance of free schools of Rome. These schools are in a very flourishing condition, and the appropriation for this pupose is one of those which the pope has most at heart. "As you can see. In this budget there Is nothing superfluous. But although the pope's revenues are rather small, they are sufficient to assure the carrying on of the principal functions of the pontifical and ecclesiastical government." To this information, which Tvas given me by one who has the best means of knowing. I can add that the last episcopal jubilee of Ieo XIII produced 3,000,000 francs. The fire-t Jubilee that which was celebrated five years ago brought In twelve millions. Leo XIII in the past few years has brought about many economies in the service of the Vatican. Many people accuse him of avarice, but it must be remembered that economies are necessary because of the decrease of revenue. Rome Correspondent N. Y. Herald. A Domestic Llepliant. The elephant plays an Important role among the domestic animals of Ceylon, says the St. Louis Post-D;spateh. He Ls found in great numbers In the southwest part of the Island, and while not very large he is very tractable and docile. The natives use them for riding about the country and teach them to perform all kinds of laborious tasks. The accompanying sketch made from a p. photograph shows one of them in the act of rolling a section of sewer pipe through the streets of Candy, which it does with its trunk, accompanied by a guard armed with an Iron goad. The elephants of Ceylon are very Btroug, and combining with their strength an amount of cleverness and docility which is astonishing they make the most valuable "domestic" animals of the Cingalese. MACHINE be in want of a THE SENTINEL has made your Avants. two drawers instead of four, will $16.00, One One One One One One One One One One One One

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying Each Fvlachino ARE AS FOLLOWS:

lIUAmitnd tn K..Ael Bra all intrfhantr-able into hub oa presser bJ. Fix Bobbins, Feveti Net-dlea, One Ijtrire !ntpw Driver, One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book. VARRANTY.

Every Machine is fullv warranted for five years. Any part proving defective will be replaced fro of charge, except, ing needles, bobbins and shuttles.