Pike County Democrat, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 March 1886 — Page 1

PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 1886. NUMBER 43. OFFICIAL PAPER OFFICE, onr 0. E. MOKTGOMEEY'S Store, Main Street. PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS Neatly SIxeoutetl SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Persona receiving • eopy of this paper with this notice crossed in lead pencil are notlOed that the nine of their subscription has expired. /

Abbott Lawrefice was danr Geo. A. Wardner at Milan -axplos ion of dynamite ) works of the Clinton Powfr, two miles from Plattsburg, building was demolished. Wilsuperintendent, was injured, Austin, seventeen years of age, is feared, fatally. gate, of Thornton, Ind., com* tide on the 25th. cGriw, a bank cashier of Ot- , is under arrest on a charge of entries. SR Boss, an employe of the ic Light Company at Detroit, lie Axing the carbons on the lOratiot street on the 25th, fell & distance of 113 feet, being horled by the fall. He lived for ih e accident, of a well-dressed man about years old was found in the river •k on the 25th. In his pockets ards bearing the name of W. H. as of the New York Clipper, the correspondent of the Cinirting Journal. 26th Wiebren War tens was t Rensselaer, Ind., for murder, crowd gathered in the town to ie execution, and it was conductiresence of over a thousand peo23th the Vallambrosia Skatingwo or three other buildings at Y., were burned. Loss, $45,000; $25,000. Owing to the fierce lorthern part olf the city narrowly estruction. -m h, Of Stone City, near Ana- , was arrested on the 26th on sushaving murdered his wife, who id dead in bed the day previous Anamosa jail. _ estroyed Mit^dil'Swells’planin thp^goutheim part of Kansas T"and eight tenement houses adon the 26th. Loss estimated at The mill was the only property IU. Cannon and Angus Cannon en held in $1,000 bail each at Salt Ity for assault on United States Atf Dickson. S. A. Kenner was dlsH. I. Gowans, W. H. Lee, H. j. |r, all defiant, unlawful cohabitdrs, sentenced on the 26th each to six 1 imprisonment and $300 fine. |e case of Fred Foote, charged with der of Andrew J. Brink, saloonlat Fenton, Mich., on the evening pmber 29 last, on trial at Flint on h, the jury brought in a verdict of ' in the first, degree. The prisoner 1 coolly to the verdict and was reI to jail to await sentence. 26th Charles Boulen, who was t trial in New York for the murder Fife, committed suicide by cutting at with a pocket knife in his cell in ubs. be 26th John Schlaesman, sixty-five [Id, committed suicide in West HamHe tried to shoot himself with a first, but the cartridge failed to |e. He then cut the artery of his left vith a pocket knife, and gashed him[various places in the arm and in one feet, and bled to death. ISCELLANEOUS. niners of the Kanawha and New district of West Virginia held a meetilburg on the 21th to formulate i to be laid before the Legislae 24th the strike inaugurated by the oom ingrain carpet weavers of Ken- , Pa., January 34, practically ended ctory for the workingmen, who sett advance of one and a half cents rd for weaving. he 23d at Zoschen, a village in Saxpiece of land twenty acres in area, ich were several, houses, suddenly ed, leaving a large lake. Three men irowned. Most of the dwellers in uses were absent at the time. French Minister of Commerce, has trged to continue' the prohibition of ican hog products, but has decided to for the hygienic committee’s report he alleged presence of trichina in ican pork. the 24th the Virginia Legislature 1 a bill which provides that a majorvoters, and not simply a majority of voting at previous elections, shall dele whether liqueur shall be sold or This practically defeats local option

state. Sweden the commercial depression •ached a crisis. The number of fail* n Stockholm is steadily increasing, rarity of the financial situation has sen paralleled sin ce the panic of 1837. charges of mismanagement of the s-’ Orphans’ schools in Pennsylvania e to excite much interest. GovPattison will, it is expected, an* his intentions as to an investigate Grand Army of the Republic inaid in sifting the facts to the bot-iervo-Bulgariau armistice has been sd to March 10. iowd of Socialistic Hungarians d through the Pennsylvania coke on the 23th and forced the coke s to quit work. RTS declare that there are autoletters of Mahomet among the acquired in Kgypt by Archduke .L will be introduced in the British >f Commons to compensate sufferthe recent London riots, ihree cigar firms, Brown & Earle, 3ros. and McCoy & Co., of New have concluded to accept the » of Labor label. The rates paid by on shops are accepted, and all the in the shop began work on the 26th. conference of nail manufacturers rikers at Wheeling, W. Va., ad1 on the 25th without coming to an ent. Iritish Government has approved ufferin’s request that a strong force against the Shaune of Burmah. e British House of Commons on the jrant of $1,200 was made for medals anteers who took part in the cam«aiu*t Riel. i If ary subaltern in one of the galf the French Chamber of Deputies I a sensation oai the XHh by firing a amottht of standard dollars in the try, after deducting silver certlfiin circulation, February 20, was 5,548, as compared with $67,627,842 Treasury July 81,1885. srs. Crofts ifc Co. and- Dingtey, ■t tt Co-, iargeoihoe manufacturers of

| Thrm thousand strikers at Llanberls, have resumed work on the employers’ terms.' They had been idle nine, teen weeks and were in terrible distress. Th* Bayview (Wis.) Nail Company has signed the nailers’ compromise scale, and propose to start up full in all departments otonee. The mill has a capacity for eat* ting about one thousand kegs of nails per day and employs 330 men. Air Adelaide dispatch says that the losses of the Commercial Bank of Sooth Australia, which recently suspended payment, amount to $1,300,000. The manager of the bank will probably be arrested. A DttUli dispatch of the 36th reporta gfeat distress from famine and fever in the villages of Caslecka, Mulvany and Doobeg. The reports are confirmed by the parish priest. One death has already occurred from want of food and many are ill froui the same cause. Ok the 26th a furious blizxard prevailed in the vicinity of Boston and for a long distance down the eastern coast. At Portland twenty inches of snow had fallen, and ice was still forming. Business was at n standstill. Dukikg the seven days ended the 26th there were 248 failures in the United States and Canada reported, as against 286 for the week before. Th* trouble with coke drawers in Pennsylvania is practically ended and the men have returned to work. A north-bound freight train on the Grand Trunk railway jumped the track dbout two miles south of Fergus, Ont., on the 26th. The engine and thirteen cars went over an embankment of twenty-five feet. The cars and engine were completely wrecked. One man was injured. The cause is supposed to have been ice on the rails.' Th* aggregate value of merchandise and gold and silver exported from the United States daring January past amounted to $37,959,562, against $80-532,582 in January, 1885. The total value of imports for January last was $47,398,490, against $42,221,« 171 in January, 1883. CONGBESSIONAX PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 2Sd a bill to confirm entries of public lands was favorably reported. Mr. Edmunds Introduced a bill to facilitate the administration ot law in Alaska. Resolutions were introduced Instructing the Judiciary committee to inquire whether the refusal of the AttorneyGeneral to send oertaln papers to the Senate Is an offense tor whleh he can be Impeaohed After considerable debate the bill appropriating ftso.ono to bntld a Grant monnment passed. Then followed a lengthy debate on the Education bill.In the Houee the appropriation committee was given permission to sit during the sessions of the House. A resolution was reported for the payment ot the public debt with surplus funds In the Treasury. Bills were reported tor Improvement of the Erie and Oswego canals; also a bill amending the pension laws. A bill authorising executive departments to have exhibits at New Orleans was tabled. The bill forfeiting the unearned portion ot the land grant of the Atlantic A Pacific railroad passed. In the Senate on the Stth the bill permitting National Banks to change tnelr names passed; also the bill appropriating $250,000 for relief of purchasers ot public lands lu Nebraska and Kansas; also bill allowing army officers to take temporary service in Cores The education bill was debated at length.In the House the bill passed Suletlng titles ot settlers on Des Moines Iver lands In Iowa. The bill forfeiting lands granted the Southern Pacific railroad was reported. The bill passed to annex the northern portion, ot Idaho to Washington Territory. The Hennepin canal bill was called up and Mr. Murphy (la.) made a speech. A resolution tor free coin* age of sliver was objected to and the House proceeded to discuss the halt-gallon tax-bill, which was finally passed. IN the Senate on the 23th the bill for a bridge across Staten Island Sound was re. ported favorably. Hr. Edmunds Introduced a bill for Inspection of meats for exportation. The bill for allotment Of lands (d severalty to Indians was farther debated and passed. A Joint resolution concerning Hot Springs leases passed. The Education hill was then taken np and debated ......In the House a memorial ot savings banks for repeal of the Bland Silver act was presented. A bill was Introduced for incorporation of the Atlantic A Pacific Shin Railway Company. The Military Approprlatlon bill was reported: also the Postoffice Appropriation bill. The Hennepin Canal blU was taken up and debated. The House again went Into committee of tha whole on the Pension Appropriation bill, and a lengthy.politlcal debate ensued. In the Senate on the 26th Mr. Mitchell made a speech on the Chinese question, advocating the abrogation of all treaties with China. Debate on the Education bill took up the rest of the day—..In the House Mr. Morrison (111.) offered a substitute for all other resolutions for an Investigation ot the telephone scandals.^ A debate ensued. In which Mr. Gibson handled Mr. Pulitzer without gloves. The substitute was adopted. Mr. Dockery reported a resolution for a thorough Inquiry Into the telegraph business of the country, to correct the evils ot the existing monopiy. The Immediate Deficiency bill was reported and referred.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Tbs Senate was not in session on toe 27th.In the House the day was given to speech-making. Mr. Candler (Ga.) spoke aigainstthe suspension of silver coinage. Mr. Weaver (Neb.) also discussed the silver question, as did Mr. Clements (Ga.), Mr. Perkins (Kas.), and Mr. Evans (Pa.) Colonel Thomas J. Wilson, a wellknown journalist, died at Baltimore, Md., on the 28th. Gottlieb Lents killed his wife and then himself at Philadelphia, on the 28th. Mr. Winston, United States Minister to Persia, has reached Constantinople, on his way to Teheran. Edward O. Oliver, of Evansville, Ind., lost his life on the 28th by an electric shock. An unknown man went over the falls at Suspension Bridge, H. T., on the 28th, and was lost. Frank Burgbl, who shot his wife at Massillon, O., on the 27th, afterward committed suicide. Fred Plaibted claims that he and Boss will undoubtedly attempt to row over Niagara rapids next summer. President Cleveland is said to be very much overworked, and his friend are suggesting methods of relieving him of the heavy strain. At Vienna on the 28th the Archduchess Maria of Tuscany was married to .the Archduke Carl Stephen, brother of the Queen-Regent of Spain. Br'KAXER Carlisle will appoint a co.mittee of nine under the Han back resolution to investigate the Pan-Electric Tele - phone matter. The February dinner of the Gridiron Club at Washington was given at Welker’s • on the night of the 27th. A number of j prominent public men were among the ; guests. The date of the forthcoming billiard match between Sbaefer and Vignaux has beau fixed for March 9 to 18 at Cosmopolitan Hall, New York. -A female six-days’ type-setting match, two hours and twenty minutes each day, placed a> Boston on the 27th. The final scare was: Miss Eennin, 24,496 ems; Mias &&£&&&" Fr*n,r”aM“! I It is estimated that there has been a de- ’ crease of $2,506,000 in the public debt during the month of February. The pension payments during the month were $11,000,000. > " r i Secretary Lamar has requested the | Attorney-General to institute suite against parties for timber trespass upon lands reserved fori hool purposes In Washington Territory./ Smith testified before the on accounts on the 27th ipse paid fifty cents a dosen for its towels, whereas the Treasury it gets the same work done fof PW.hundred,

STATE INTELLIGENCE. liAPORTE’s mayor gave the boss gambler •20 and costs, and his cappers $10 and costs. Indianapolis M. £. ministers, pronunciamento gone out against progressive euchre. Hakri Bannister, one of the oldest rest dents of W abash, and for many years landlord of the.La Fountain House, dropped dead of heart disease a few days ago. He had been apparently in excellent health, and bis demise was wholly unexpected. Mr. Bannister was sixty-fire years of age. Tub case of Joshua Rhodes Vs. the Pennsylvania Company for $1,000 was tried in the Circuit Court at Columbus a few days ago. The complaint alleged that Rhodes purchased a ticket at Amity, d flag-station on the J., M. and I., in September last, and that notwithstanding the train was flagged, they ran by the station refusing or neglecting to stop the train; that he being sick and failing to meet an important business engagement, suffered badly and financially by having to walk, and further, that the railroad company refused to redeem the ticket. The jury awarded him a verdict of $100. Elkhart Sulky now Works lost $7,000 by fire. Columbus M. E. revival procured 176 :on versions. C. Crane, Cincinnati, paid $6,000 for 120 walnut trees near Delphi, Andy Bryant, indicted murderer, of Eminence, jumped his $0,000 bond, Wji. Kreinhaoen, Ex-County Commit sioner of Bartholomew County, died near Jonesville, aged eighty-eight. The jury in the $5,000 slander suit brought by Mrs. Sarah Johnson against Monroe Dritt, a prominent farmer of Shelby County, came in the other morning with a verdict awarding Mrs. Johnson $1,000. An appeal will be taken by the defendant. Mus. John Rhinkhart, wife of one the most prominent farmers of Shelby County, who lives several miles west of Shelby* ville, was kicked and badly Injured by a Jersey cow. W. 1. Howard, editor of the Rochester Tribune, was assaulted a few days ago by Ed. Bibler, a quack doctor, who struck thi newspaper man a violent blow in the right temple with a loaded cane. Howard’s injury is serious, but the physicians think he will recover. Bibler was angered by a fancied injury. He gave bond to appear in the Circuit Court. Dr. E. R. Myrtle who eloped some weeks ago from Clay County with his step-daugh-ter, Pearl Burke, was caught near Patoka working as a farm hand and passing the girl as his wife. The child is heart-broken now realising her complete downfall, but still shields Myrtle. W. K. and Cornelius Vanderbilt gave $500 to Elkhart Y. M. C. A. for their new building, which is incomplete from poverty. Marshal Gorrell, near Danville, crippled and caught a bald eagle seven feet six inches across the wings. Been laying for it seven years. Joseph Harman, aged fifty, near Lexington, gave his wife $150, of $200 realized on real estate and vanished. No explanation. The suit of Oscar Baldwin against the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company, in the Gibson County Court at Princeton, for $10,000 damages from injuries received while employed on the defendant’s road, ended the other evening by the jury returning a verdict awarding the plaintiff $9,906. Baldwin was employed as brakeman on the road, and on September 5,1884, while engaged in switching cars in the company’s yard he fell from a moving train, the cars passing over both feet, crushing them in a frightful manner, necessitating the amputation of one foot. The defendant will file a motion for a new trial. Half a hundred and more of monument and granite dealers throughout Indiana met in Indianapolis, a few days ago, and organised a State association for mutual protection, with A. A. McKain president, H. G. Wright, secretary, W. C. Whitehead treasurer, all of Indianapolis, and a vicepresident from each district, as follows: First District, W. F. Schultz; Second, W. F. Wagoner; Third, F. J. Schools; Fifth, Mr. McCullough, Sixth, C.B. Mooney; Seventh, J. P. LePage; Eighth, J. J. Little; Ninth, W. E. O’Haven; Tenth, John W. McGillicuddy; Twelfth, O. C. Wycoff; Thirteenth, J. B. Slaughter. In the main

tne proceedings oi the convention were ns secret as the grave, but it seems the movement is to weed out the shoddy dealers by forming a monopoly of reputable firms and practically ‘“boycotting” granite dealers who sell to unreliable dealers. The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Jasper Circuit Court in sentencing Weibern Wartena to be hanged tor murder. The case has been up once before, as on the original trial he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by the judge without the intervention of a jury. The Supreme Court held that a person accused of a capital offense could not waive his constitutional right to a trial by jury, and the cane was remanded to the lower court for trial, and this time there was another death sentence. It was appealed the last time on an objection to one of the court’s instructions, and this was overruled. Governor Gray has already stated that he will not interfe:e in the case. Benjamin Miller, of Evansville, taken to Indianapolis to answer a charge of passing counterfeit money, and who has lain in the City Hospital for several days dangerously ill with consumption, was found dead on his cot in that institution on the morning of the 19th. The evening before the Court granted permission tor bis removal home, but the order came too late. Miller was aged forty, unmarried, and of good repute previous to his arrest as an alleged counterfeiter. W. C. Ds Pac w,"of New AJbany,is sinking a gas-well in Taylor Township, Harrison County. At a depth of 380 feet a flow of gas was reached heavier than any 'ever heretofore developed in the State. The gas will be utilised in the manufacture of salt Elmer Michals, New Albany, got seven yean for killing James Brady in August —Mr. Bonner’s Maud S-, as an admirer tells, stands in her box as modestly as if she was not the wonder of the* world. Her disposition, too, unlike most fast horses, is perfect. Gentle and playful as a kitten, «aiid affectionate as a dog, she is beloved of more ’ men than any woman in the world. When her glossy neck is stroked she Wbs her pretty face against your sleeve Jmd acknowledges the attention with gratitude.—N. fj Tribune. —Almost every mother would cheerfully face death to save her children, but not one in a thousand could display trtp Spartan endurance iff Mrs. _-_ oho upheld a flam tog can of gasoline until her arm yras roasted to the bone, and by this sroie sacrifice saved her two ebfldren, ring on the floor.—CMtread come politely TO him half d«bg tin *#>?»•”- seen to

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Seventh Sermon of the Series On “ The Marriage Ring." The Wife’s Duty to Her Husband—To Remember His Struggle In the Daily Bottle of life, and Keep Herse lf At-tractive—Ante-Natal Murderers. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage took tor the subject of the seTenth discourse of his series on “The Marriage Ring” “The Duties of Wires to Husbands." His text was: The name ot his Wife, Abigail; and she was a woman of good understanding, and ot a beautiful countenance.—I. Samuel, Qtcl. The ground in Carmel is white, not with fallen snow, but the wool from t he backs of three thousand sheep, for they are being sheared. And I hear the grinding of the iron hlades together, and the bleating of the flocks, held between the knees of the shearers while the clipping goes on, and the rustic laughter of the workmen. Nabal and his wife Abigail preside over this homestead. David, the warrior, sends a delegation to apply for aid at this prosperous time of sheep-shearing, and Nabal peremptorily declines his request. Revenge is the cry. Yonder over the rocks come David and four hundred angry men with otte stroke to demolish Nabal and his sheepfolds and vineyards. The regiment march in double-quick, and the stones of the mountain loosen and roll down as the soldiers strike them with their swift feet, and thq cry of the commander is, “Forward! Forward!’* Abigail, to save her husband and his property, hastens to the foot of the hill. She is armed, not with sword or spear, but with her own beauty and self-sacrifice, and when David sees her kneeling at the foot of Hie crag he cries: “Hold! Hold!" Abigail is the conqueress! One woman in the right mightier than four hundred men in the wrong! A hurricane stopped at the sight of a Water-lily! A dew-drop dashed back Niagara! By her prowess and tact she has saved her husband and saved her home, and put before all ages an illustrious specimen of what a wife can clo if she be godly and prudent, and self-sacrificing and vigilant, and devoted to the interests of her husband, and attractive.. As, Sabbath before last, I took the responsibility of telling husbands how they ought to treat their wives—and, though 1 noticed that some of them squirmed in their pews, they endured it well—I now take the responsibility of telling how wives ought to treat their husbands. I hope your domestic alliance was so happily formed that while married life may have revealed in him some frailties that you did not suspect, it has also displayed excellences that more than overbalanced them. I suppose that if I could look into the hcart of a hundred wives here present dad ask them where is the kindest and best man they know of, and they dared speak out, ninety-nine out of a hundred of them would say: “At the other end of this pew.” Though sometimes you may have snapped each other up a little quick, I think the most of you are as well paired as a couple of whom I have read. The wife said to her husband: “I have made up my mind to be submissive notwithstanding all the misfortunes that have come upon us.” They had lost their children, he had lost his health, and hence, the income of his profession, and the wife had temporarily lost her eyesight. “Yes,” said the husband, “we ought to be submissive. Let me see what we have to submit to. First, we have a home; we can submit to that. Then we have food andraiment; we can submit to that. Then We have a great many friends; we can submit to that. We have a Heavenly Father to provide for us. —” “Stop! Stop!” said the wife, “I will talk no more about submission.” I hope, my sister, you have married a man as Christian and as well-balanced as that. But even if you were worsted in the conjugal bargain, you can not be worse off than this Abigail in my text. Her hus - band was coarse and ungrateful, an inebriate, for on the very evening after her heroic achievement at the foot of the hill, where she captured a whole regiment with her genial and strategic behavior, she returned home and found her husband so drunk that she could not tell hiim the story, buthad to postpone it until the next day. So, my sister, I do not want you to keep saying within yourself as 1 proceed: “That is the way to treat a perfect husband;” for

you are to remember that no wife was ever worse swindled than this Abigail of my text. At the other end of her table sat a mean, selfish, snarling, contemptible sot, and if she could do so well for a dastard, how ought you to do with that princely and splendid man with whom you are to walk the path of life? I counsel the wife to remember in what a severe and terrific battle of life her husband it engaged. Whether in professional or commercial or artistic or mechanical life, your husband from morning to night is in a 8olferino if not a Sedan. It is a wonder that yyur husband has any nerves or patience or |uavityleft. To get a living in this next vo the last decade of the nineteenth century is > a struggle. If he come home and sit down preoccupied, y°u °hght to excuse him. If he do not feel like feoing out tliet night for a walk or entert**?5eent, remember ke has been out all dajb/ You say be oug|it to leave at his place of business his annoyanoe and come home cheery. But if a man has been betrayed by a business partner, or a customer has jockeyed him out of e large bill of goods, or a protes ted note has been flung on his desk, or somebody has called him a liar, and everything has gone wrong from morning to night, he must have great genius and forgetfulness if he do not bring some of the perplexity home with him. When yon Ml me he ought to leave it all at' the store or bank or shop, yon might as well tell a storm on the Atlantic to stay out there and not touch the coast or ripple the harbor. Remember, he is not over-working so much for himself as he is over-working for yon and the childran. It is the effect of his success or defeat on the homestead that causes him the agitation The most of men after forty - five years of age live not for themselves, but for their families. They begin to ask themselves anxiously the question: “How if 1 should give out? what would become of the folks at home? Would my wife have to go out into the world to earn bread for herself and our little ones* Hy eyesight troubles me; how if my eyes should fail? Hy head gets dissy; how If 1 should drop under apoplexy?" The high pressure of business life hnd mechanical life and agricultural life is home pressure. Some time ago a large London firm decided that if any of their clerks married on a salary less than seven hundred and fifty dollars a year, he should be discharged, the supposition being that the temptstkm might be too great for misappropriation. The large majority of families lit America live hy utmost dint St economy, and to be holiest and yet meet one’s ‘ expenses is the appalling question the lift of tens of thonsu lartyrdom. Let the wife apd exhausted *nd do not ni

when the (act is he is dying by laches that the home may be kept up. I charge also the wife to keep herself as attractive after marriage as she was before marriage. The reason that so often a man ceases to lore his.wife is' because the wife ceases to be lovable. In many cases what elaboration of toilet before marriage and what reck* leesness of appearance after. The most disgusting thing on earth is a slatternly woman. I mean a woman who never combs her hair until she goes out or looks like a fright until somebody calls. That a man married to one of these creatures stays at home as little as possible is no wonder. It is a wonder that such a man does not go on a whaling voyage of three years and in a leaky ship. Costly wardrobe is not required; but, O woman, if you are not willing, by all that ingenuity of r efinement can effect, to make yourself attractive to your husband, you ought not to complain if he seek in other society those pleasant surroundings which you deny him. Again, I charge you, never talk to others about the frailties of your husband. Some people have a way, in banter, of elaborately describing to others the shortcomings or unhappy eccentricities of a husband or wife. Ah, the world will find out soon enough all the defects of your companion. No need of your advertising them. Better imitate those women who, having made mistakes in affiance, always have a veil to hide imperfections and alleviations of conduct to mention. We must admit that there are rare cases where a wife can not live longer with her husband, and his cruelties and outrages are the precursor of divorcement or separation. But until that day comes keep the awful secret to yourself. Keep it from every being in the universe,'except the God to whom you do well to tell your trouble. Trouble only a few years at most, and then you can go up on the other side of the grave and say: uO, Lord, I kept the marital secret. Thou knowest how well I kept it, and I thank thee that the release has come at last. Give me some place where I can sit down and rest awhile from the horrors of an embruted earthly alliance, before I begin the full raptures of Heaven.” And orders will be sent out to the usher angels, saying: “Take this Abigail right up to the softest seat in the best room of the palace, and let twenty of the brightest angels wait on her for the next thousand years.” Further, I charge you let there be no outside interference with the conjugal relation. Neither neighbor nor confidential friend, nor brother, nor sister, nor father, nor mother, have a right to come in here. The married gossip will come around and by the hour tell you how she manages her husband. You tell her plainly that if she will attend to the affairs of her household you will attend to yours. What damage some people do with their tougues! Nature indicates that the tongue is a dangerous thing by the fact that it is shut in, first by a barricade of- teeth and then by, the door of the lips. One insidious talker can keep a whole neighborhood badly stirred up. The Apostle Peter excoriated these busybodies in other people’s matters, and Bt. Paul, in his letter to the Thessalonians and to Timothy, gives them a sharp dig, and the good housewife will be on the lookout for them and never return their calls and treat them with coldest frigidty. For this reason better keep house as soon as possible. Some people are opposed to them, but I thank God for what are called flats in these cities. They put up a separate home within the means of nearly all the population. In your married relations you do not need any advice. If / you and your husband have not skill enough to get along well alone, with all the advice you can import you will get along worse. What yon want for your craft on this voyage is pl^frty of sea-room. I charge you, also, make yourself the intelligent companion of your husband. What with these floods of newspapers and books, there is no excuse tar the wife’s ignorance either about the present or the past. If you ha£» no more than a half hour every daj to yourself you may fill your mind with entertaining and useful knowledge. Let the merchant’s wife read up on all mercantile questions, and the mechanic’s wife on all that pertains to his style of work, and the professional man’s wife on all the legal or medical or theological or political discussions of the day. It is very stupid for a man, after having been amid active minds all day, to find his wife without information or opinions on anything. If the wife knows nothing about what is going on in the world, after the tea hour has passed, and the husband has read his newspaper, he will have an engagement, and must go and see a man. In nine cases

oat of ten, when a man doe* not stay at home in the evening, unless positive duty calls him away, it is because there is nothing to stay for. He would rather talk with his wife than any one else if she could tak as well. ' t.. I charge you, my sister, in every way to make your home attractive. I have not enough of practical knowledge about house adornment to know just what makes the difference; but here is an opulent house, containing all wealth of bric-a-brac, and of musical instrument, and of painting, and of upholstery, amd yet there is in it a chill like Nova Zembla. Another home, with one-twentieth part of the outlay, and small supply of art, and cheapest piano purchasable, and yet, as you enter it, there comes upon body; mind and soul, a glow of welcome and satisfied and happy domesticity. The holy art of making the most comfort and brightness means afforded At the siege of killed by the tile of a woman, and Abimelach stone that a woman of Thebes, and stroyed by a woman from the walls without any weapon save that of her own odd, cheerless household arrangement, any wife may slay all the attractions of a home circle. A wife and mother in prop - pored circumstances and greatly admired was giving her ohief time to social life. The husband spent his evenings away. The son, fifteen years of age, got the same habit, and there was a prospect that the other ehil dren as they got old enough would take the same turn. One day the wife aroused to the consideration that she had better save her husband and her boy. Interesting and stirring games were introduced into the house. The mother studied up in • teresting things to tell her children. One morning the son said: “Father, you ought to have been home last night. We had a gron^l time. Such jolly games and such interesting stories. This went on ‘ J night to night, and after awhile bandistaid in to see what and IA finally got something of his own to the evaaii tertainidenta; and the wife an(imo|ber saved her saved helLhay and saved not that ar£r*srorise worth the

tar appearance a confused result of oall*. donna, bleached hair, antimony and mineral acids, until one is compelled to disease her character and wonder whether the line between a decent and indecent life is, Uke the equator, an imaginary line. What the world wants now is about fifty old-fashioned mothers, woman who shall realise that the highest, grandest, mightiest institution on earth is the home. It it not necessary that they should hare the same old-time manners of the country farm-house, or wear the old-fashioned cap or spectacles and apron that her glorified ancestry wore; but I mean the old spirit which began with the Hannahs and the Mother Lois and the Abigails of Scripture days, and was demonstrated on the homestead where eome of ns were reared, though the old house long ago was pulled down and its occupants scattered never to meet until in the higher home that awaits the families of the righteous. While there are more good and faithful wives and mothers now than thdre ever were, society has got a wrong twist on this subject, and there are influences abroad that would make women believe that their chief sphere is outside instead of inside the home. Hence in many households children, instead of a blessing, are a nuisance. It to m card case versus child’s primer, carriage versus cradle, social popularity versus domestic felicity. Hence infanticide and and ante-natal murder are so common that all the pathic, hydropathic, eclectic, are crying time that the pulpits leal profession the thunder of Mount Sinai, which says: “Thou shalt not kill,” and the Book of -Revelation, which says, “All murderer* shall have their place in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” And the man or the woman who takes life a minute old will as certainly go straight to hell as the man or woman who destroys life forty years old. And the wilds t loudest shriek of judgment day will be given at the overthrow erf those Who moved in the high and respectable circle* of earthly society, yet decreed by their own act as far as they could privately effect it, the extermination of the advancing generations, abetted in the horrid crime by a lot of infernal qaaoks with which modern medicine is infested. Whan, on the Last Day, the criers of the Court * Shall,with resounding “Oyes,” “Oyes!” declare the "Oyer and Terminer" of the universe opened, and the fudge, with gavel of thunderbolt, shall smite the nation* into silence, and the trial of all the fratricides, and parricides, and matricides, and patricides, and uxoricides, and regicides, and deicides, and infanticides of the earth shall proceed none of my hearers or readers can say that they knew not what they were doing Mighty God I Arrest the evil that is shadowing this century. I charge you, my sister, that you taka your husband along with you to Heaven. Of course, this implies that you yourself are a Christian. I must take that for granted. It can not be possible that after what Christianity Jtas done for women, and after taking the infinitely responsible position you have assumed at the head of the household, that you should be in a position antagonistic to Christ. It was not a slip of the tongue when I spoke of you as being at the head of the household. Wc men rather pride ourselves as being at the head of the household, but it is only • pleasant delusion. To whom do the children go when they have trouble! When there is a sore finger to be bound op or one of the first teeth that needs to be removed >_ to mn’te way for one that is crowding ill out, to whom does the child go? For whom do children cry out in the night when they get frightened at a bad dream? Aye, to whom does the husband go when he ham a business trouble too great or too delicate for outside ears. We, the men are heads of the household in name, but you, O wives! are heads of the household in tact, and it is your business to take your husband with you into the Kingdom of God and see that house prepared for Heaven.

You can do it! Of course, God's almighty grace alone can convert him, but yon art to be the instrument. Some wives keep their husbands out of Heaven, and others garner them for it If your religion, O, wife, is simply the joke of tho household, if yon would rather go to the theater than the prayer-meeting, if you can beat all the neighborhood in progressive euchre, if your husband never sees you kneel at the bedside in prayer before retiring, if the> only thing that reminds the family of your church relations is that on communion day you get home late to dinner, yon will not be able to take yonr husband to Heaven for the simple reason that yon will not get there yourself. Bat I suppose your religion is genuine, and the husband realises there is in your soul a divine principle, and that though you may be naturally quicker tempered than he is, and have many imperfections that distress you more u»e" they can any one else, stilt yon are destined for the skies when the brief scenes of this life are over. How will you take hint with you? There are two oars to that boat —prayer and holy example. But you say he belongs to a wordly club, or he does not helieve a word of the Bible, or he if an inebriate and vary loose in hit habits? What you tell me shows that you don’t understand that while you are at the one and of a prayer, the omnipotent God is at the other end, and it is simply a question whether Almightiness is strong raongh to keep His word. I have no doubt there will be great conventions in Heaven celled for ceiebrative purposes, end when in some Celestial assemblage th« saints shall be telling what brought them to God, I believe that ten thousand times ten thousand will say, “My wife." I put beside each other two testimonies of men concerning their wives, and let you see the contrast. An aged man was asked the reason of his salvation. With tearful emotion he said: “My wife was brought to God some years before my self. I persecuted and abused her because of her re ligion. She, however, returned nothing bat kindness constantly, maintaining an anxiety to promote my comfort and happiness, and it was her amiable conduct, when suffering ill-treatment from me that first sent the arrows of conviction to my soul.” ' The other testimony was from a dying man: “Harriet, ! am a lost man; you opposed cur family worship sad my secret prayer; you drew me away into temptation and to neglect everi religious duty. I belies a my fate is sealed. Her- , riet, you are the cause of my everlasting ruin.” How many married coupkaMm he*ve«—Adam and Kve, Abraham , and Sarah, Lapidoth and Deborah, SadMries and Elisa beta, Joseph And Maryland many whom we hare known as geoffus the most of Stem. As once you stood in the village or city ebftohockry^ar father’s house, perhaps i«tder'^ wedding bell of lowers, to-day up, husband and wife, beneath toe of e pardoning Redeemer, while 1 toe baas of an eternal^ your right hands. Il <