Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 May 1887 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PL'HUSHED EVERY THURSDAY. tram or siBscmmimi foriiMjw.H rfcr •! j month*.;. TS For three month*.... 14 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCBAPTEKTKim BATESi One arjaare (S ll.ieai,one insertion.no B»<-n additional insertion ... 60 A lllxnul reduction made on advertisements ninninf thri-e. fix. and twelve months, lawaland transient adrcitisemcuu must be Beat too, to advance.

J. L. MOOTffT, Proprietor. VOLUME XVIII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. 19, 1887. OFFICE, oTor 0. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles Right.”

PIKE COUNTY D JOB ■WORKS or ALL KINDS Neatly Boceouted REASONABLE HATES. NOTICK! S’eraona rcoeirlnp a copy of this paper irttfe ihl* notice created in lead pencil arc nod lad that the Ume of their aubacnption has dipt c4

nwrEniovAl utn. w.a. nun. A. i aorarctm. POhET ft HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW P*Unku(, lad. Win practice in all the court*. All fcuatneaa promj'JUjr aitaiKtod to. A Notary Public cen* •ttntiy In the office Office over Frank M Horn brook** drug *tore. M. r. ftlCflABDftOS. A. I. TATLA^ RICHARDSON ft TAYLOR,

Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG. DTD. Prompt attention given to all baatnett- A Notary Public *on»t a ntly in tbeofflee. OJlco In rarpcnter Building, stli and Main. £. Jl KLY. J. W. WIL90X. ELY & WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, END. **■( tfliup in Iho'Hank Huililing.H T. S. & E.SMITH, , ‘»urc*»»or» to Do>4. & Thomp»on) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loas & Insarance Aits. second floor Hank Building, P®tet*» burg. lod The b'**t Fire ami l.lfe Insurance Companies r»pn-iHintH. Money, to loan on flrat m origin* a at »t*v>u and rurflt per ^nt PYffltpl attenll n to ooIImiUqmL- and all twain **« Intrusted to u* XV. t'f itjiw iskm> , Makt Fleksibb. ** Cdvik StIIIIU TOWNSEND, FLEENEE 4 SMITH, Attorneys at Law AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS. FETEKSBr Kir. 1ND1AKAnflice, over Ua« Kr:(lik n atnre Special atl* nrson given toCollection#, Buying and sailln»f i.and*.-K\amiuin^ Title* and hiroivblng ,\f ►tract?*. It It KIME, M. I>.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. TWD. iHi'.ce, over Barrett A S* -n** Ntore, real«1. mre on >ot entu Mteet. tinw > |umrr* #outh ot Mam. < alia promptly attendad to, day or J. 1L DUKCAX. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG * - ISO. .tJWloe on tlrat floor < arpenter Building. C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., KCLKCTIC Physician and Surgeon, ,aXXfoe*, -Main *.treot. between flth and 7th Model Brtig More. TXIUAX.L rpTKaHiihiG, Vk if| prarileo Medicine, Mlrg»*rr and Dtwtet ••«'!* n town and country, aid will vlalt hhj !• d < f ttr country m «• >n*u!tatioii. t hronit jf-•uiw-a fully treated. 33. T.

. Resident Dentist, ’ 1‘KTEHSm Uii, ISD. - ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER. Proprietor. • PETERSBURG, IND. 11‘mri^P wishing work <*onr at th^ir nrtwill Icavr order* at the >hop, m Dr nrw \ uM.nx, rear of Adims i Soo t 4ni«r >ton CITY HOTEL Under New Management. IjHWIS ICAIXj, Prop. titu. Kishth and Main sta .opp.Court-Uouae. 1'ETERSRURa, JNI». The rtlj Hotel i« centrally located, llr»t .‘1 Us appointment*, and the best an ■ cheapest hotel In the city. Sherwood House, t'nder New Manair, m-ot BISS ELL & TOWNSEND. Prop’m. Ftnt and Wocurt MiwH, , EViinavlHo, : : Indiana. RATES. $2 PER DAT. Sample Rooms for Commercial Mon. 11YATT HOUSE, WaahU(toa. lad. Centrally Located. and Accommodation, Mrat-ciaaa , HENRY HYATT. Proprietor. PIKE HOTEL, 'PETEUdhim. - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. located In the bualnes* part of town. Term* reasonable A itood Bar. eboico Ltquora. Tobacco and t'Sgara Corner Sot. eatli and Walnut »irecta. When at Washington Stop nt tho MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mu. Urn llABnta and Albion Hobbau. Proprietor*. t.Btv K. KoaaBTtia. Jfc**K J Mobgan. late of ClnclnnatL late of Washington. Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER & MORGAN, Lessees. Indianapoll.H, Ind. Ilonae tie*ant. Table, Serctee and Uenara Keep buperior. Location beat la the citron tbs Cirri*. Great * Reduction a tbaprioeef FRED REU8S, fSTBRSBUm « UiDUKA SADDLES. EABN1SS, ETC, ITC. Tba wablic a beraOy ta ’ormed tbat I win aril ay lane atask of SMdlaa aad Hartaaa. and •rorytaint kept by Me lowte than arer aoM la UM place before If yoo want anything m my tea don't faUto call oa mb as am I oftor

NEWS IN BRIEF. « •*« OMdM from Various Sources, f PERSONAE. AND POUTECAD r ®*R. Stockslabrr. aettttg Commissioner it the General Land Office at Washington, argfis a reargument of the Maxwell land grant ease in the Supreme Court. Editor O'Britx got into Sew York after a rather stormy experience, and announces his Intention to Wettirfi In the United States after hi* Canadian visit. Rioharb fUxtiAsR, of Shelby County, 01, Who Was recently released from a Herman prison on request from the American Government, has arrived home. Lieutbxaxt JouxJ. Shaw, Sixth United States infantry, has boon dropped from the roUs of the army for desertion. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Thomas M. D. Tate as National hank examiner for North Carolina and Virginia. Mr. Tate is a member of the North Carolina legislature. GeXzraL Boulaxceb’s mobilization bill causes much uneasiness in Berlin. The .VortJk frisw, (herttt eayl it is of much greater Importance than appears at first sight A romantic scene occurred in the Probale Court at Minneapolis, Mina, on the 10th, in the settlement of the Stephen Pratt estate, worth 170,000, when a pretty miss of sixteen t ears unexpectedly turned up, and’to the consternation of Mrs. Pratt and Henry C. Pratt, proved '-hat she was Dellie Pratt, a hitherto unknown daughter of Stephen Pratt by a former wife, and entitled to about $.’3,000 of the estate. Ox tha 10th Brevet Major-General Henry F. Clarke, United States army, retired, died In tVushington. in the sixty-seventh year of bis age. Ox the 10th Aaron F. Fletcher Stevens died at his bopni in Nashua, N. H.. from kidney difficulty arising from wounds received In battle 'before Petersburg. Tux President has appointed James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, United States Treasurer, vjee Jordan, resigned. Griat excitement was created in London on the 11th by an unfounded report that Mr Parnell was dead. On the lltit.Kcv. Timothy C. Pit kins, an eminent Epi sropalian divine, died at Detroit, Mich. Ox the llth. Editor O'Brien arrived in Canada and opened his campaign in Man•real against Lord Lansdownc. The Pacific Railway Investigation Commission has called on Senator McPherson to unbosom himScif. HbcrbtarT Bayard sent a telegram to Minister Manning at theCity of Mexico on the llth asking of Mexico mercy for the condemned Nogales officers. Tug President and Mra Cleveland will spend two months or more at Oak View before going on their early autumn jaunts. PRixex Bismarck wlR go to Varzin at Whitsuntide, as he feels assured of the passage of the Spirit bill, the section of the Centre promising to support the measure, besides alt Nationals and Conservatives. J. B. Pdrcaieit. a naturalized American, citizen, who left San Kgancisco last October, to visit France, was seized on his arrival .there. Imprisoned, denied counsel atsii forced to serve in the French army. He is ruiw in the Seventh regiment of the line in the garrison of Cal lore Secretary Lamar has directed the Commissioner of the Gederal Land Office to appraise and dispose of at public auc g^iou the land of the abandoned military 'reservation of Fort Brooke, Ft a., except the tract, of 160 acres settled upon prior to January 1, hq. Jt sTicg Woods, of the United States Supreme Court, has net only grown worse since bis return to Washington, but is in ImmiDCut danger of death He is said to be quite critically lit jat his residence in that city, and intimate friends admit that his death at any moment will not be a sur

prise. On the tlth Queen Victoria, sccompauied by the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise, attended a special performance of Buffalo iBiil's Wild We.t show Her Maj sir was delighted with the exhibition, and expressed her pleasure bv frequent applause After the performance Buffalo Bill. Re l Shirt and a number of the squaws attached to the show were presented to ier Majesty. It is given ont in London that Balfoar will resign as Chief Secretary for Ireland immediately upon the passage of the Irish Crimes biii * Mayoh Parsons of Rochester, N. Y., has instructed the chief of policy to prohibit the John L Sullivan combination from giving an exhibition there on the 10th. M Jxas Baptist! ^osep.i DiBirnoxNt BoCHisstmT, a learned French chemist and scientific agriculturist, and a member of tbe Institute, is dead. He was eighty-Are years old. It is stated that Mr Hyatt, the new Cnlied States Treasurer, waa one of the original mugwumps He,left the Republican party with the UreelW movement in ltui but novr regards himself as a true and stalwart Democrat. \, Qvbkn Kariotsvi chanced her imperial miud about sailing for Viet iria’s jubilee on the 14 h. and will graciously bestow her sovereign presence upon New York for two weeks instesid. Uoso Lex Cuano. Abe only Chinese lawyer in America, made his first appearance before Judge Brown in the Brooklyn 8upreme Court on the 12th.' Chang was admitted to practice by an act of the Legialatnre passed !Jay 2 CaaniNAL Gibbons arrived at London on the 13th. Mbs V. 8 Grant has been seriously ill the past weex with diphtheria. Mr Powdbiii.t has issued a circular calling on the Km.-h'.s of Labor to celebrate the Fourth of July. Thb Pope will try oooe more to “disci pline" Dr. McOlynn, and it he docs not obey the summons to appear at Rome withiu forty days the rebellious priest is to be excommunicated. The President has appointed.Byron L. Smith, of Chicago, to be a commissioner to examine it portion of the Northern Pacific railroad in the placiof J. W.Doao, declined. At the meeting of the trustees of the Illinois Soldier*-' Orphans' Home at Bloomington, on the 13th, Dr. H. C. Demotte, president of Chaddock College, Quincy, was elected to tbe snperintendency of the Soldiers' Orphans’ Home at Normal, and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Demotte, to the office of matron. They thus fill the position formerly held by Mrs. Vv C. Ohr, removed. f Joseph Loiibl, one of the most prominent Bohemian cituens of the West,died at hit residence in Cedar Rapids, la., on the 13th. aged seventy years. He graduated from the University at Prague, and taking an active part against Austria in the 1848 war, came to America and located, being obliged to flee. He practiced law in Cedar Rapids thirty years, until ill-health caused bis retirement. CRIMES AND CASTA LTIKS. Thibtt-htii bodies were recovered from the wrecked mine at Nanaimo, B. C.. on the 9th. A shovel was found on, which waa written with chalk: “Thirteen hoars and now dyiug in misery. John Evans." Posesv fires are raging in Galicia and Transylvania, devastating large tracts of land and destroying villages. The military and the fire brigade are doing all in their power to arrest the progress of the tames, but are meeting with little saernns In Trsesyivauia more than four hundred houses were burned in the town of Csikosinas and thirty-three ip the vie lags of Janosla ixa. On the lOit- two convicts, John Devine and George Barton, Jumped off a Baltimore * Ohio train, near Zanesville, O and escaped, the officers beinv impeded With other prisoners.

Os the loth Mire. Sujett* McWu end her dsughter, Mrs. Blue Baker, were found murdered in their home at Holiday's Cove, W. Va. Two soldleri; foe Adams and J. B. Glidder., Were drowned in the Grand riser on the evening of the 9th, at Fort Gibson, L T. They were out seining for fish and got caught In a swift current and were swept under. Only one of the bodies has been recovered. Ort the 10th Colonel W. H. Bolton, who did gallant service as commander of Bolton’s Battery in the civil war, was finally removed from Chicago to the Joliet penitentiary. He has f<jr some time been under sentence for two years for embeszling large sums collected by him as chief of the mailing division in the Chicago postoffice. C»mts Williams of the American ship Occidental Is reported killed at se t by a sailor, whom he assaulted with a belaying pin, and was in return stabbed to the heart. Hac.oshtt. the second of the Pan-Rgn- , die, brakemen tried at Pittsburgh, Pa., for robbing freight cars, waa convicted on the 11th. J. F. Wright, another brakeman, entered a pleacif guilty and was remanded for sentence: Os the llth fire at New Boston, If. R,, destroyed the town house, one church, two chapels, one store and shop and seven dwellings; Loss, $40,000; insurance, $15,000. V ■ ■ Knew Bros.* tannery at Grand Lake Stream. Me., also saw-mill, dry-house, roll loft, an immense building that cpvered the vats,-knit 10.003 sides of leather were burned oh the llth. Loss, $125,000. Ox the llth Calvin Graves, who was convicted at Chiias. Me., for shooting and killing Game-Wardens Nile? and Hill, was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life. The verdict was murder lu the second degree: While plowing on hi* fsrm near Michigan City. Ind,. on the llth, Martin Bout exploded a dynamite bomb which had been placed t|gro by unknown parties. His arm was blown off and he was otherwise terribly mangled. He will lordly recover. f At Carey, .0., on the 12th, Stephan Slough was decapitated by the cays. HarbT Go*wax, a sailor, was killed at Cleveland, O., on the 12th. by a desperate character named Higgins. Particilam reached San Francisco on the 12th of the sinking of the steamer Benton, Marco, off Malacca, by which one hundred and fifty persons lost their lives , Tits schooner Laura Hudson. which arrived at Umpqua, Ore., May 10, reports seeing the ship Ocean King on May A thirty five miles west of Cape Arago, on fire and abandoned. Andrew MIaloxet, employed on the new court-house at Pittsburgh. Pa., carelessly stepped from a stone elevator, on the 13th, whe» 156 feet from the ground. When picked; -up there was scarcely a whole bone in his body. He was conscious, however, andisont a message to his wife and family. Shortly after removal to the hospital he die 1. Jim Joxxs, a negro murderer, was executed at Texarkana. Tex., on the 13th. Albert Tikner. one of Jennie Bowman's murderers at Louisville, Ky.. pleaded guilty on the 18th, and was sentenced to be hanged July 1. Ax encounter with pistol and hatchet took place aiSenola, Ov, on the 18th, between T. N. Burdette and L. W. Couch. The latter was instantly killed and the former will die;" A ctcloxr swept over Gage County, Neb., on the 18th. striking the town of Blue Springs, All telegraph wires were down, and only meager particulars arc at hand. Several houses were leveled and a church unroofed. One man, at least, was fatally injuro.1. and a woman was struck by lightning and instantly killed.

MISCELLANEOUS. Os the 11th the tenth annual convention of the National Association of Lumber Dealers assembled in 8L Louis. Kipohts received «l th-' Treasury ^Department show that 6.500,4M trade dollars were redeemed ut> to the 10th. The principal redemption was in Philadelphia. The law authorising the redeption of trade dollars has already been in operation over two months, and has nearly four months to run. Tna American residents of Mexico think the United States Government should request the Mexican .-Government to commute the death sentences of the officers who crossed into Arizona to imprisonment for life. Di king tike search for bodies in tbe wrecked mine at Nanaimo. B. C., some Chinese writing was discovered on a door, but no Chinaman could be induced to go down to. translate iL It is doubtless sn account of the accident or a last message by some of the Chinese victims. On the lith the Maryland Masonic centennial began at Baltimore. MoNTaosBj won the Kentucky Derby race at Louisville on the Uth, Jim Gore second. Tax Illinois House of Representatives, on the lllh,jkill»d the proposed constitutional convention CoNTiNENtaL Europe is said to be much exercised oyer the proposed German increase of tariff duties on grain. On the 11th the eighteenth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland began at Washington. Tub international horticultural exhibition at Dresden has proved a splendid and successful show. No official.information had reached the Department of State up to the Uth respecting the reported refusal of the Halifax authorities to permit an American schooner to procure provisions. It is thought that the report must be .inaccurate. Tiie health officers seised two car-loads of Western beef at Bb John’s Park (New York) freight depot of the New York Central railroad on the 11th, and took the meat to the dump It was badly tainted, though it had made the tr.p from the West in refrigerator cars. Ttir United States revenue cutter Richard Rush, has been ordered to proceed to Sitka, Alaska, where she will take the United Stales marshal aboard and convev him to Oonalaska, for the purpose of selling at aurtijon two British schooners seited in the Behrings sea last year for illegal seal Ashing. Tub sheep-shearing contest was the leading feature of the wool-growers’ convention in Sl Louis on the 13th. On the 11th both houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature passed the High License bill. Tub lumbermen closed thelrconvention at St. Louis on tbe 13th, and followed it with a river excursion. On the Uth the members of the Hotel Men’s Association called at the White House and were received by the President ■n the Easti room. The introductions were made by Hr. Garrison, the president of the association. They subsequently called at the Treasury Department and paid their respects to Secretary Fairchild. A visit was made to Mount Vernon in the afternoon. Tas Missouri Legislature convened in extra session oa the 11th. The trouble between England and Hayti has been adjusted, and Hsyti retains Tortugas aland. Ir is denied at the White Honse that an extra session of Congress has been determined upon. Tax repotted execution of the Mexican officers condemned for the Nogales tadJent is officially denied. Tax convention of Western gas men in Sl Louis was closed on the 13th with the mnnal elesion of officers, and was followed by a banquet in the evening. Rorurr received some hard seeto in tbs British Honse of Commons on the I2tb in the discussion of a motion to grant he Duke of Conn tught a furiouyh to Mvcnd the Queen s jubilee.

Tbi statue of Junes A. Garfield wit uncalled, with appropriate ceremonies, at<3 Washington on the 13th by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Tbi: value of exports of breadstuff* for April past aggregated *12,534,439, against *11.959.948 in April, 188A Tun Comptroler of Currency has authorised the First National Bank of Morrell, Wis.. to begin business, with a capital of" *53,400. Ox« hundred AND rottrt thousand Austrian soldiers are nnder arms in Dalmatia, prepared for a campaign. The Montenegr.n srmy is reported ready for action also. DaiLLEBsat the Ballard well, southwest of Findlay, O., on the 12th. drilled in a gasscir with a capacity of 20,003.000 cubic feet dally—the largest in the world. Twixtt-onb lodges of the Washington Masons, about twelve hundred in numbers left the city on the 13th by apecial trains over the Baltimore A Ohio railroad for Baltimore, where they participated in the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the Grand Lodge of Maryland. Tun sale of the French crown jewels began on the 12th. About two hundred and fifty French and foreign jewelers were in attendance. Ten lots were disposed of, realising 505,700 francs. Among the articles sold were a diamond necklace for 181.2SO franca, and a pair of diamond epaulettes for $4,030.franos. This Southern Society of New York, at a welt-attended meeting on the night of the 12th, voted to erect a tablet to mark the spot on the Battery where General Washington bade farewell to his ofilcers on leaving for Annapolis to resign bis command of the army. A tablet to the mem.ory of General Sedgwick, who fell at Spottsylvan ia, May 12,1954, was dedicated on the 12th by a large concourse of his old comrades, who visited Spottsylvama Court House for the purpose, and who were warmly welcomed by a large gathering of Virginians. The address was delivered by General H. C. W right. Disastrous forest fires were reported in Massachusetts and Michigan on the 18th. England has appropriated another portion of Southwest Africa as a British possession. _ The United States has entered the “International Union for the Protection of Industrial Properly." The London rmw* has renewed the publication of articles on “Parnellism and Crime," and is making fresh “revelations." Russia is treating the British repro* sentntiVes on the Afghan question with much courtesy, but remains unyielding id her boundary attitude. The Washington P«*t says the hotelkeepers are beginning to fear that the National drill is not going to be a great success, as very few persons up to the present time have applied for apartments. Thl “Lohengrin” affair' in Paris has made irrevocable the German Government’s decision not to take part, in the Paris Exposition. Some German tralers, however, are to be represented in the exhibition. '1 There were five earthquake shocks at Nogales, Arix. during the 131 h. The heaviest was at 8:33 a. m., and caused many clocks in the town to stop. The New York health authorities were notified on the 13th that nineteen persons had been poisoned by impure milk which was oreoeived from Brewster's station, N. Y. Only one of the parties—a woman —was seriouslv affected.

There was a slight shock of earthquake at Somerville and slight rumbling at Charleston, S. C-, on the night of the 12th. The vibration was cot greater than would be caused by a loaded wagon passing along the street. A macker\i. fl at is beginning to arrive on the western coast of Nora Scotia The American seiners—Howard, Holbrook, Pendragon and Senator Morgan—report no mackeral south, and say there will be a large fleet of American seiners on the coast. - The first train from the United States for twelve davs reached St. John, N. B., on the 12th. The Intercolonial railway at Rothesay was still flooded and night trains were canceled. The suffering and loss throughout Sunbury and Queen's counties hare been intensified by a terrific gale which lasted tweetv-four hours. The chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the total values of the exports from the United States of the undermentioned articles as follows: Beef and pork products—Six months ended April 30, 18S7, M1.H3.3S6, m t37.8M.7M. Dairy products—Twelve months ended April 3>, 1887, $9,051,284: 1836 19.939.166. Cattle-Ten months ended April 30, 1887, 87,317 307; 1SS6,18,949.386. Hogs—Ten months ended April 30. 1887, 8418,877; 1886. 499 460 CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Jcsticb Wm. B. Woods, of the United States Supreme Court, died at Washington on the-14' h. Piiixce Leopold of Geimany sailed from New York for Europe on the 14th. Charley Bobtail, an Indian, hac been arrested for the murder of Marshal Maple in the Indian Territory. Qpeix Victoria visited; the Peoplb’n paiure at London on the 14*h. The pageant through the city was on a grand scale and the demonstrations were very enthusiastic. Adelina Patti and party sailed from New York for Europe on the 14th. Among the passengers on the same steamer was George Slosson, the erlebrated b liiardist. There seems to be a tacit understanding at Washington that Justice Woods’ successor on the Supreme* Court bench will bea Southerner. Skcertakt and Mrs Lamar have both recovered from tbeir recent indisposition, aid were outdriving on the 14th. On the invitation of Mrs. General Logan, regent of the Mt. Vernon Association, tha President and Mrs. Cleveland and a few invited guests went to ML V ernou on the steamer Corcoran o n the 14th. Jcpge Cooley, ch-ii rinim of the InterState Commerce Comrainaion, has returned to Washington, aud the regular sessions will be resumed on the iSd. Tan Government receipts for the first halt of the preseat month were 817.811.114, and the expenditures 85.1315.165, a net gain of 312641,949 The available surplus In the treasury is 841030.000, an increase of 3M.iWQ.000 since May 1. A ©oxflaoratioxoccurred in Quebec on the 14tb, involving n loss of upward of $13-030 with only about $5,000 insurance. Wm. H. Sanford, of Washington. ln<L, shot his son Hamlet, aged, sixteen years, on the night of the 18th, killing him instantly, mistaking him for a burglar. At the close of the week: ended the 14th the BL Louis Browns ha d a substantial lead in the American Association base ball championship series, and Detroit stood at the head of the league list, with Chicago sixth. The announcement is made that the Northwestern and the 8t. Paul & Omaha roads have contracted to build a million dollar bridge at SJoux City, la., in the name of the Sioux City Bridge Company. Tax family of the late Henry Ward Beecher received information recently of a plot to steal the body from the receiving vault at Greenwood Cemetery, aud new two policemen are kept on guard at (ho vavlt. The remains wills Don receive final interment The jury before whom Morris Max was tried in New York for the murder of his landlady, Mrs. Annie Jaltowski, returned a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree. Mas. Cleveland has delighted the hearts of Washington holies whose engagements have been recently announced, by promptly sending them pretty notp* of ogratulntioo.

RESOLUTIONS i Adopted br the National Convent!** of Wool-Growers St Its Annas! Session to St Louis—Important LegUlalon Cnllnd For. At the closing session of the National Wool-Growers1 Convention in 8t Louis, the following preamble and resolutions were presented by the committee on resolutions, and unanimously adopted: WTherkas. The Wool and Cotton Exchange of S*. Louis invited wool-growers, wool merchants and manufacturers o! woolens I front all parts of the United States to meet in National convention in this city on the 11th. l*th and lSth dayattf May, 1887, for the purpose of consultation as to the common interests of the three clasats named; and WBhaEAS. Numerous wool-growers, wool merchants and manufacturers of woolens hare accordingly assembled in the ■ said city In National convention, being the second National convention of persons representing the three interests mentioned, and have deliberated upon subjects in which they have a common interest and deter* tajdPMepregsion to some of their opinio3KM|nrposes; therefore, J7rtof*r,t First. That this National Convention cordially invites the wool-growers, wool merchants and manufa turers of woolens in the United States to co-operate with, encourage and aid the National Wool-Growers' Association, the State and Territorial Wool-Growers’ associations of the United, States, the several wool-merchants’ associations of the cities of the United States, the National Association of Woolen Manufacturers, and all similar organizations, in securing such administration of the laws, such legislation and such action as may be appropriate and necessary to promote their Joint and common interests, havl ng due regard to the interests of those engaged in all other Industries. Second. That while the Wool Tariff act of March a. 1883. continues in force, we request the Administration of the National Government to construe its provisions liberally, with a view to secure -he beneficial effects of protection to the wool and woolen industries of the United States, deciding all doubtful questions in such maimer ,as to give American wooWgrowers and woolen manufacturers the firivilege of supplying the American market, nsteaa of giving it to foreigners: and we ask that so-called "ring waste," "gameted waste’ and all similar scoured products be classed, in the language of the said act of 1883, as "wool imported in any other than ordinary condition." and be charged as such with the duty of sixty cents per pound. Weaslithat worsted cloths known as "coatings” and "suitings" for, the purposes of paying duties, be classed as woolen cloths, and we request that prompt and efficient measures be taken to prevent undervaluations of wool, woolen and worsted goods, and to detect and punish all such undervaluations and other frauds upon the law. Third. That the TariB act of 1883, even when it is not evaded by undervaluations and other frauds, has failed to give protection to woolgrowers to the extent intended in good faith by its framers. They intended to give all clothing wool as specified in the act, protective duties higher than on carpel wools. But more than half of all so-called carpet wools, now imported at a low rate of duty, are used in the manufacture of clothing goods, thus defeating to that extent the purpose of the act of 1883. And to add to the evil the act imposes no higher duty on these carpet wools washed than unwashed. The result is that such wools are generally imported washed, thus paying a duty of but little more than one-half the rate specified for unwashed wool, equal only to about about fourteen and one-half cents per pound, and so increasing their importation supplanting to a large extent American clothing wool, and depriving it of the protection intended to he afforded to it by the act of 1888, towit; A duty of at least twenty cents per pound on washed clothine wool. In like manner the act of 1(83 imposes no higher duty on washed than on unwashed combing wools. Importers have taken advantage of this to generally import such w ols washed, thus giving to our American long wools but litt le over half the protection specified in the act of 1883 on unwashed wools. Then, again, foreign clothing wools are imported unwashed, but so fully divested of leg, belly and b-itch portion of fleeces, and so selected from the lightest and' best grades, that in practical eflect the duty Actually paid is but little over half the rate tixed by the act of 1883 as applied to such wools. If in the condition in which American unwashed wools are generally sold in market. In these forms the protection which the framers of the act of 1883 intended should be afiorded thereby to American wool-growers is in a large measure defeated. These facts call for a change i in the execution of the law and a speedy modification of it by Congress, so thatjt shall give/ the full measure of protection intended by ity

immcrs. - / Fourth. That experience under the act of March 8, 1888, has demonstrated that it has k> reduced the precious rates of duty on wools that the annuahwnports of foreign wools of all , classes have largely increased, thereby deI pricing American wool-growers of the privilege I of supplying our market with American wool; that its effect has been to il scourage American wool production, to reduce the number of American flocks and sheepand our annual wool product; that It has cnrifBraged foreign woolgrowing to the prejudice of 0Ar own to such an extent as to threaten the s]>eedy destruction of wool-growing in most, if not all, of tho States, and hence publio policy, good faith and justioe require an increase of duties, to save from rain this industry in which citizens of the United States were, by the act of March a. 1887, incited to, and did invest their capital and employ their skill and labor. Having thus acted on the faith of a policy established by Congress, its overthrow is an act of spoliation and wrong. Fifth. That this convention request Congress to so amend the existing tariff law as in due time to secure to American wool-growers and to American manufacturers of woolens tho American market for their products. Sixth. That the continuance of the act of March 8.1888, will be unjust to the American wool-growers and manufacturers. The im mens* frauds which have been perpetrated by * evasions, snow the necesundervaluations and i sity tor an immediate amendment, impos-ng the penalty of forfeiture for undervaluations sad evasions and providing indtu ■ inents for informers to detect all frauds and evasions.’ Seventh. That the associations of wool-grow-ers, wool ip-'rvtianis and woollen manufacturers be, ana are requested to act in concert, in tending delegates to Washington City, to remain during the next session of Congress to urge upon the proper committees and upon Congress the necessity of legislation in accordance with these resolutions. Eighth. That the wool-growers organizations of the country are requested to secure the services of at least one able expert, whose duty it shall be to argue before the Treasury Department and the courts, all ques tions as to the construction and enforcement of the Tariff law, and bifore the proper committees of Congress tho necessity for additional leglalatton. Xinth. Thgt the associations of woolen manufacturers be requested to retain and keep in their employ at least one ab e expert to render such services as may be essential to their interests. Tenth. That the wool-growers, wool merchants and woolen manufact urers of the United States are urged to attend the conventions of the political parties with w iieh they may respectively oo-operate and, i-o fag as possible, aid in seehring the nominal < a of candidate* pledged to the reforms and le.’ -tatton desire<L Eleventh. That the assoc tlons of woolgrowers, of wool merchants n .d woolen manufacturers be, and are. requested to take the necessary measures to secure the establishment of an ably-conducted weekly newspaper dented to the advocacy of their just and joint Twelfth. Thai ibis convec tion earnestly requests the Wool-Growers’ associations and Wool Merchants' associations of the country to unite in demanding from tho railroads proper freight classification of wools in transit. Thirteenth. That the thanks of this National convention be tendered to the merchants' ea»cutive oommiWee and the various subcommittees of the same; to the Cotton and Wool Exchange; to the St. Louis Cotton Compress Company;to the mayor and citizens of St. Louis, to the railroads and express companies centering here, for. favors extended that have contributed so much to the success of the convention. and to the press of the city for their courteous reporting of the proceedings of the convention. [Signed] I. S. BOMSSOW. President ConvenUoa Hr. W. TOE KQ, Secretary —The French Ambassador to the English Coart paid a neat compliment a little while back to a peeress, who had been talking to him for an hoar. The lady said: “You must think I am very fond of the sound of my own voice." The Frenchman replied: “I knew you liked music ” —An English “advertising contractor" is said to be on the way to this country, but we do nott know of any paper that wishes its advertising contracted.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. —Saleswomen in a great many shoos a Philadelphia are prohibited from ine dressing. In one establishment be girls are required to dress in black, n another dark colors, bine, brown or lack, an requested, and rich jewelry t not permitted.—Chicago Times. —An Albany (N. Y.) girl threatened to go to work as a clerk in a dry goods store if her pa didn’t make her a handsome present, and she is now wearing an elegant pair of bruoelets sptjje remit.

TALMAGE’S SERMON. A Discourse Upon Things Done Under the Mantle of Night. The Dark Deed* that Are Continually BeIn* Enacted in the Third 'Watch In the Great ClUm-Dtrknm. and Crime Hand in Hand. On ■ recent Sabbath Rev X. DeWitt Talmage took his audience at Brooklyn Tabernacle on a hasty trip behind the night scenes in the groat cities, picturing the crimes and po verty existing and the many dangers and pitfalls to be shunned. His text was: Watchman, what of the night! Isaiah xxi. 11. When night/ came down oa Babylon, Nine yah and Jeru salem, they needed careful watching, otherwise the incendiary’s torch might have been thrust into the very heart of the metropolitan splendor; or enemies, marching from the hills, might hare forced the gates. AU night long, on top of the wall and in front of the gates might be heard the measured step of the watchman on hia solitary beat; silence hung in the. air, save as soma passer-by raised the question: “Watchman, what of the night I” It is to tae a deeply suggestive and solemn thing to see a man standing guard by night. It thrilled through me, as at the gato of an arsenal at Charleston, the question once smote me: “Who comas there!” followed by the sharp command: “Advance and give the countersign.” Every moral teacher stands on p c'< et, or patrols the walls as watchman. His work Is to sound the alarm: and whether it be in the first watch, in the second watch, in the third watch, or in the fourth watch, to be vigilant until the daybreak flings its “morning glories” of blooming cloud across the arching trellis of the sky. The ancients divided their night intp four parts—the first watch, from six to nine; the second, from nine to twelve; the third, from twelve to thi’ee; and the fot rtb, from three to six. I speak now of the city in the third watch,,or from twelve to th -ee o’clock. I never weary of looking upon the life and brilliancy of the city in the first watch. That is the hour when the stores are closing. The laboring men, having quitted the scaffolding and the shop, are on their way home. It rejoices me to give them my seat in the city ear. They have stcod and hammered away nll day. Their feet are wears’. They are exhausted with the tug of work. They are most cheerful. With appetites sharpened on the swift turner’s wheel and the carpenter’s whetstone, they seek the evening meal. The clerks, too, have broken away from the counter, and with brain weary of the long line of figures and the whims of those who go a-shopping, seek the face of mother or wifo and child. The merchants are unharnessing themselves from their anxieties on thsir way up the Street The boys that loch up are heaving away at the shutters, shoving the heavy bolts and taking a last look at the lire to see that all is safe. The streets are, thronged with young men, setting out from the great centers of bargainmaking. Lot idlers clear the street, and give right of way to the beswijatel artisans and merchants’ They have earned their bread and are now on their way home toi get it. _ 1 The lights in full jet hang over 10.000; evening repasts—the parents at either •'ead of the table, the children between. Thank God, “who setteth the solitary in families.”

A few hours later, and all the places or amusement, good and bad, are in full tile. Lovers qf art, catalogue in hand, stroll through galleries and discuss the pictj ures. The ball room is resplendent with . the rich apparel or those who, on either side of the white, glistening boards, await the signal from the orchestra. The footlights of toe theater flash up; the bell rings, and the curtain rises: and out from the gorgeous scenery glide the actors, greeted with the vociferation of the expectant multitudes. Concert hails are lifted into enchantment with the warble of one songstress, or swept out on a sea of tumultuous feeling by the blast of brazeu instruments. Drawing-' rooms are filled with all gracefulness olf apparel, with all sweetness of sound, with all splendor of manner; mirrors are ratching up and multiplying the scene, in til it seems as if in infinite corridors here were garlanded groups advancing and retreating. .The outdoor air rings with laughter, and with the moving Jo and fro of thousands on the great promenades. The ’ dashing span ; id rip with the foam of the long country ride, rushes past as you halt at the curbstone. 1 . Mirth, reveliry, beauty fashion, magnificence mingle in the great metropolitan picture until the thinking man goes home to think more seriously, and the proving man to pray more earnestly. A beautiful and overwbalming thing is the city in the first and second watches Of the night. But the clock strikes twelve and the third watch has begun. The thunder of the city has rolled out of the air. The slightest sounds cut the night with such distinctness as to attract your attention. The tinkling of the bel’. of the street car in the d istance, and the having of the dog. The stamp of a horse , in the next street; the slumming of a thloon door; the hiccough cf the drunkai the shriek of the steam whistle five ml m s away. O, how suggestive, my friends, the third watch of the night There are honest men passing up and down the street Here in.a city missionary who has been carrying a scuttle of coal to that poor family in that dark place. Here is an undertaker going up he steps of li building from which comes a bitter cry which indicates that the destroying angel has smitten the firstborn. Hero is a minister of religion who has been giving the sacrameot to a dying Christian. Here is a physician passing along in great baste, the messenger a few steps ahead hurrying on to the household. Nearly all Idle light* have gone out in the dwellings, for it is the third watch of the night. That light in the window is the light of the watcher, for the medicines must be administered, and the fever must be watched, and. the restless tossing off of the covelicl must be resisted, and the ice must be kept on hot temples, and tlhe perpetual prayer must go up from hearts soon to be broken. Oh, the third watch of the night! What a stupendous thought—a whole city at rest. Weary arm preparing for to-morrow’s toil. Hot brain being cooled oft. Rigid muscles relaxed. Excited nerves soothed. The white hair of the octogenarian in thin drifts across the pillow, fresh fall of Hakes on snow already 1 alien. Childhood with its dimpled hands thrown out on the pillow and with every breath taking in a mew store of fun and frolic. Third watch of the night! God’s slumberless eye will look. Let one greet wave of refreshing slumber roll oyer the heart of a great town, submerging care, and anxiety, and womment and pain. let the dty sleep. Bat, my friends, be not deceived. There will be thousands to-night who will not sleep at all. Go inp that dark alley, and he cautious where yon tread, lost yon full over the prostrate form of a dr unkard lying on his own doorstep. Look about yon, lest yon feel the garroter** hug. Look through the broken window-pane, and see what yon can see. Ton say: “Nothing.” Then listen. What is itt "God help us I” No footlights, hut tragedy ghastlier and nughtier than Bistort or Edwin Booth ever enacted. No light, no fire, no bread, no hope- Shivering in the old, they ham had no food for twenty-four boor*. Y«>aay; “Why <fou'.

they beg!” They d<. bat they get nothing. You say: “Why don’t they deliver themselves over to i he ximshouso 1" Ifli 1 you would not ask that if you ever heard the bitter cry of u K an or child when told he must go to the almshouse “Or* you say, “they are vicious poor, and, therefore, they do not deserve our sympathy." Are they vicious! Bo much more need they yourjjfty. The Christian poor, God helps them' Through their night there twinkles the round, merry star of hope, and through the broken window-pane they see the crystals of heaven; hut the vicious poor, they are more to be pitied. Their last light has gone out. You excuse yourself from helping them by saying they are so bad, they brought this trouble on themselves. I reply, where I give ton prayers for the innocent who are suffering I will give twenty prayers lor the guilty who are suffering. j Pass on through the alley. Open the door. “Oh,” you say, “it is locked.” Ho, It is not locke.1. It h as never been locked. No burglar would to tempted to go in there to steal any thing. The door is never locked. Only a'broken chair stands against the door. Shove it back. Go in. Strike a match. Now, look. Beastliness and rags. See those glaring eyeballs. Be careful now what you say. Do not utter any insult, do not utter any suspicion, if you value your life. * What is that red mark on the wall! It is the mark of a murderer’s hand! Look at those two eyes rising up out of the darkness and out from the straw in the corner, coming toward you, and as they come near you, your light goes out. Strike another match. Ah! this is a babe, not like those beautiful children presented in baptism. This little one never smiled; it never will smile. A flower flung on an awfully barren beach. Oh, Heavenly Shepherd, fold that little one in thy arms. Wrap around you your shawl or your coat tighter, for the cold wind sweeps through. Strike another match. Ah! is it possible that that young woman’s scarred and bruised face ever was looked into by maternal tenderness? Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh wont No ray of hope has dawned on that brow for many a year. No ray of hope ever will dawn on that brow. But the light has gone out. Do not strike another light It would be a mockery to kindle another light in such a place as that Pass out ami pass down the street. Our cities of Brooklyn and New York and all our great cities are full of such homes, and the worst time the third, watch of the night Do you know at is in this third watch of the night that criminals do their worst work? It is the crimJinaTs watch. At haltpast eight o’clock you will fled them in the drinking saloon, but toward twelve o’clock they go to their garrets, they get out their tools, then they start on the street Watching on either side for the police, they go to their work of darkness. This is a burglar, and the false kcT will soon touch the store lock. Th is is an inc.mdiary, and before morning theire will be a light on the sky, and a cry of “fire! fire!” This is an assassin, and to-morrow morning there will bo a dead body in one of the vacant lots. Duriilig the daytime these villains in our cities lounge about, some asleep and seme avrake, but when the third watch of the night arrives, their eyes are keen, their brain cool, their arm strong, their foot fleet to fly or pursue, they are rcadv.

illauy or these Boor creatures were bro ught up in that way. They were born in a thieves’ garret. Their childish Toy was a burglar’s dark lantern. The first thing they remember was their mother bandaging the brow of their father, struck by the police club. They began by robbing boys’ pockets, ami now they have come to dig the underground passage to .the cellar of the bank, and are preparing to blast the gold vault Just so long as tbaere are neglected children on the street, just so long we will have these desperadoes. Some one, wishing to make a good Christian point and to quote a passage of Scripture, expect iug to get a Scriptural passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads, cast out and wretched: “When your- father and your mother forsake, vou, who, then, will take you upanti the boy said: “The pcrlice, the per lice!” la the third watch of the sight gambling does its worst work. What though the hours be slipping away, and though the wife be waiting :«i the cheerless home! Stir up the fire. BriDg on more drinks. Put up more stakes. That commercial house that only a, little while ago put out a sign of copartnership will this winter be wrecked on a gambler’s table. There will be many a money-tiil that will spring a leak. A member of Congress gambled with a ni'mba' elect and won 9130,000. The old way of getting a living is so slow. The oi l way of getting a fortune is so st upid. Come, -let us toss up and see who shall have iL And so the work goes on, from the wheezing wretches pitching pennies in a rum grocery up to the millionaire gambler in the stock market In the third watch of the night, pass down the streets of these cities, and you hoar the click of the dice, and the sharp, keen stroke of tile ball on the billiard table. At these places merchant princes dismount, and legislator*, tired of making laws, take ai respite in breaking them. All classes of peo ple are robbed by this crime—the if pejrter of foreign silks and the 1 .,;sr t Chatham street pooketh aer.chiels. The clerks of the store .ice a h ind after the shutters are put up, and the officers of the court while away their tirbe- Whilp the jury is out. In one year, «. 'the city of New fork, there were sauritfeed at the gaming table. Perhaps soma of your ; friends have been smitten by it. Perhaps there may bo a stranger in the house this morning come from some of the hotels Look out for those agents of iniquity who tarry around about the hotels, andhsk you: “Would you like to see the city!’’ , - Yes.’’ “Have you ever seen that splendid building uptown!”“No.” Then the: villain will undertake to show you what lie calls Hie • lions” and the “elephants,” and after ayouagman, through morbid curiosity or through badness of soul, has seen the “lions” and the “elephants,”he will be on enchanted ground. Look out fer these men who movw: around the hotels with j.leck hats—and patronizing air, and unaccountable interest about your welfare and entertainment. Ton are a fool if you can not see through it. They want your money. In Chestnut street. Philadelphia, while ][ was living in s hat city, an incident occured which was familiar to us there. In Chestnut street a young man went into a gambling saloon, lost all his property, (then blew his brains out, and before the blood was washed from the fioor by the maid the comrades were shuffling cards again. You see there is more mercy in the highwayman for the belated traveler ou whose body he heaps the stones, there is more mercy in the frost for the flower that it kills, there is more mercy in the hurricane that shivers the steamer on the Long Island coast, than there is mercy in the heart of a gambler for his victim. In the third watch of the night, also, drunkenness does its worst Title drinking will be reiipectable at eight o’clock in the evening, a little flushed at nine, talkative and garrulous at ten, at eleven blasphemous, at twelve the hat falls off, at one the mb0 to the fioor asking for more drink- Strewn through the drinking saloons of the city, fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, as good as you are by nature, perhaps better. Oh! when ram touches Hie brain yon can not hush it up. My friends, you aeeall around about you the need that something radical bo done. Yon do not eee the worst I* the midnight meetings at London a great multit ude have been saved, i We w*ntm lew iiundrel Cfer$atiM pen

and Women to come down from the hi ?«■ est circles of society to toll amid th ssc wandering and destitute ones, ami kin lie up a light in the dark alley, ereu the gl tdness of heaven. Do not go wrapped in your fine furs i nd from your well-filled tables with the it lea that pious talk is going to stop the gniiw- - ing of an empty stomach, or to wira stockingless feet Take bread, tike . raiment, take medicine as well as t ske prayer. There is a great deal of common sense in what the poor woman said to the city missionary, when he was telling her how she onght to love God and serve him. ‘•Oh,” she said, “if you were as >oor and cold as I am, and as hungry, you could think of nothing else.” A great deal of what is called Chrh tian work goes for nothing, for the simple reason it is'not practical, as after the batt le of Antietam a man got out of an ambul uice with a bag of tracts, and he went distributing the tracts, and George Stiart, . . one of the best Uhistian men in ‘this c ountry, said to him: “What are you distributing tracts for now! There ate 3,003 men bleeding to death. Bind up their wounds, and then distribute the tracts.” We want more common sense in Christian work, taking the bread of this life in one hand and the bread of the next life in the other hand. Mo such inapt wcrk as that done by the Christian man who, during the last war, went into a hospital with tracts, and coming to the bed of a man whose legs had been amputated, gave him a tract on the sin of danc ng I 1 rejoice before God that never are i.ympathetic words uttered, never a prayer Offered, never a Christian almsgiving indulged iu but it is blessed. There is a place in Switaerland I have been told, where the utteaance of one word will bring back a score or echoes; and I have to tell you this morning that a sympathetic word, a kind word, a generous word, a helpful word, uttered in the dark places of the town, will bring back 10,000 echoes from the thrones of Heaven. 1 could give you the history in * minute of one of the best friends I ever had. Out side of mv own family I never hid a bet ter friend. He welcomed me to my home at the West. He wps of splendid persona) appearance, and he had an ardor of soul and a warmth of atlection that made me love him like a brother. I saw men. coming ont of the saldcns and gambling bells, and they surrounded my friend and they took him at the weak point, his social nature, and I saw him going down, and 1 had a fair talk with him—for I never yet saw a man you could not talk with on the subject of his habits, if yon talked with him in the right way. I said to him; “Why don’t you give up your bad habits and become a Christian!” I remember now justhow he looked, leaning over his counter, as be replied: “I wish I could. „ Oh, sir, I should like to be a Christian, but I have gone s( far astray I can’t get back.” So the time went on. After awhifr titc sickness came. I was summoned tiVhif sick bed. I hastened. It took me but a very few moments to get there. I was surprised as I went in. I saw him in hit ordinary dress, fully dressed lying on toy of the bed. I give him my hand, and he seised it convulsively and said: “Oh, how glad I am to see you! Sit down there.” I sat down and he said: “Mr. Talmage, just where you sit now mi mother sat last night. She has been dead -twentv Tears. Mow. I don't want you tc

think I am out of my mind, or that I am superstitions; bat, air, she sat (here last night just as certainly as yon sil there now—the same cap and apron and spectacles. It was my old mother—sh« sat there.” Then he tamed to his wif« and said: “1 wish you would take thes< strings off the bed; somebody is wrapping strings around me all the time. I wist you would stop that annoyance.” She said: “There is nothing here.” Then 1 saw it was delirium. He s%id: “Just where you sit now my mother sat, and she said: 'Boswell, 1 wish you would do better—I wish yon would do better.’ I said: 'Mother, I wist I could do better; I try to do better, but J can’t. Mother, you used to help me; why can’t you help me now?’ And, sir, 1 got ont of bed. for it was a reality, and I '-«nt to her, and threw my arms around hei nock, and 1 said: 'Mother 1 will do better, but you must help; I can’t do this aioue.’ ” I knelt down and prayed. That night his soul went to the Lord that made it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. The question was raised whether they should bring him to the church. Somebody said: “You can not bring sneb a dissolute man as that into the Church." Isaid: “Ton will bring hiip in church; he stood by me when he was alive, and I will stand by him whan he is dead. Bring him.” As I stood in the pulpit and saw them carrying the body np the aisle, I felt as If I could weep tears of blood. On one side of the pnlpit sat his little child of eight years, a sweet, beautiful little girl that t hare seen him hug convulsively in his better momenta. He pnt on her ail jewels, all diamonds, and gave her all pictures and toys, and then he would go away as if hounded by an evil spirit, to bis cups and the house of shame —a fool to the correction of the stocks. Sho looked up wonderingly. She knew not what it all meant. Bhe was not old enough to understand the sorrow of an orphan child. On the other side of the pulpit sat the men who had ruined him; they were the men who had poured the wormwood into the orphan’s cup; they were the men who had bound him hand and foot 1 knew them. How did they seem to feell Did they weep? No. Did they say: “What t pity that so generous a man should be de--’’•oyed?” No. Did they sigh repentingly ever it hc they had done? No; they sat there, looking as vultures look at- the carcass of a lame whose heart they had ripped out. So they sat and looked at the eofflo lid. and 1 told them the judgment of God upon those who had destroyed their fellows. Did they reform? I was told they were in th« places of iniquity that night after my friend was laid in Oak wood Cemetery, and they blasphemed, and they drank. Oh, how merciless men are, especially aftei they have destroyed von. Do not look U men for help. Look to God. Bat there In a man who will not reform. He says: “I won’t reform.” Well, then, how many acts are there in a tragedy? 1 believe five. Act the first of the tragedy: A young man starting off from home. Parents end sisters weeping to have him go. Wagon rising over the hilL Farewell kiss flung beck. Ring the bell and tot the curtain fall. Act the second: The marriage altar. Fall organ. Bright lights. Long whit* vail trailing through the aisle. Prayei and congratulation, and exlamation of “How well sho looks!” Act the third: A woman waiting foi staggering steps. Old garments stuch into the broken windowpane. Marks ol hardship on the fees. The biting of th« nail of bloodless Angers. Neglect, end cruelty and despair. Ring the hell end let the curtain drop. : Act the fourth: Three grave# in a dark place—grave ot Hie child that died foi lack of modic.no, grave of the wife thef died of e broken heart, grave of the man that died of dissipation. Oht what a blasted heath with three graves! Plenty of weeds, lmt no flowers. Ring the bell and tot the curtain drop. Act the lifts: A destroyed soul’s eter nity. No lizht; no music; no anguish ooiliii* its serpents the heart; blackness of « _ S=T wool rSWB fi&WKKa around