Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 December 1890 — Page 1

“Our Motto is Honest VOLUME XXL INDIANA, WEffiEgDXY, DECEMBER 31, 1890

I» city and adjacent coittiy M given to Chronic Diseases. *sea successfully treated ec. WOffleeiu second story Iding, Main street, between ’KTERSBURU, ISD. n. in all the courts. Special at n to all business. A Notarj intiy in the office. a^-Offiee-IIauk Building. Attorney at Law, Petersburg, Ikd. . asroaice over J. B. Adams 4 Son’s Drug Store. He is also a member of the United States Collection Association, and gives prompt attention to every matter in which *• P. KmatRDSon. A. H. Tatloh. Rl^jgARDSON <fc TAYLOR, Attorneys at Lawf Petersburg, Ikd. ’ , Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary I’ablic constantly In tbo office. Office in Carpeuter Building, Eighth and Slain. . EDWIN SMITH, Attorney at Law AMD | Real Estate Agent, I Petersburg, Ind. I as-Oflice over Gua Frank's store. Special Ptb-ntint given to Collections, Buying snd Belling I. inds, Examining Titles, Furnishing ■bstracts, etc. cian and Surgton Petersburg, Ikd. KFOffice in Bank Building. Residence or venth street,Ahrec squares south or Main, ills proiupt.y attended day or night. Petersburg, Ind. tract Ice In Pike and adjoining eoun* ■Ice in Montgomery Building. Office ■ y und night. PBHsf.-s of Women and Children aspeChronic and difficult cases solicited.

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Ion Dentist, pEKSBURO, IND. woe 6 ami 7 in Carpenter Buildoil* first-class. All wort »»rutbetics used tor painless calces are all new, and in direct wiUi the latest Improvements itlstry. , I have located permaP. C- Hammond fcSon's, where I re and Crown work a specialty. Mr D. LOETZERICH, bENTIST. RISER SHOP Satisfaction guaranteed. Ity of children’s and also log. ■ Dyeing done to the CALL. JOHN LEE. f given that I will attend if the office of troatee of lies on ' SATURDAY, have business with the lice that ! will attend to r^^OWES. Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LARGE, Summary of the D*ay News. WH»» the Senate met »>h the»d no quorum *** present, and It Was,. tolly half an hoar before one Was secured. The bill tt> establish a record and pension office of the War Department was reported and passed. The conference report on the. Mods ivservatipa bill was agreed to, end the House . amendments to the ItEeiency hill (strik ing out the pay of SChate elerks) was disagreed to. The elections bill was then taken up and Mr. Higgins favored and- Mr. Voorhees opposed it in lengthy speeches. Adjourned.The prpeeedings «t the House were unimportant, District of Colombia business being Under consideration. At the expiration of the morning hour in the Senate on the 23d Mr. Sherman reported the caucus bill to provide against the contraction of the currency. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Call then addressed che Senate In opposition to the elections bill, speaking tear four hours. Mr. McPherson took tile floor, but yielded to Mr. Ahlrteh, Who gave notice of hit intention to Mote an amendoientdo the rule# to close debate on any bill. Laid over. Pending Mr. MePbcfcon’s speech against the elections bill the Semite adjourned until next day....Soon after the House met the Speaker announced appointments to vacancies on several committees and the House adjourned until Friday. lx the Senate on the Mth Mr. Kdmniids offered s resolution extending the lavs of Kebraika over the Territory of Oklahoma until July 1,1891, the Legislature of the Territory having failed to enact a code of taws. Objections were made and the resolution went over. Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate In opposition to the elections bill, and the Senate then adjourned until noon Saturday with the understanding that at that hour the Presiding Officer should declare the Sebute adjourned until Monday. The Senate was not in session on the Kth. —The House only met according to adjournment, wijh only a few members present, and adjourned until Monday. WASHINGTON NOTES. This Comptroller of the Currency has called on all the National hanks for a report of their condition at the close of Friday, December 19. The President has nominated Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice Samuel Milder, deceased. -N The President has issued the World’s Fair proclamation. The President has vetoed a bill for the erection of a public building at Bar Harbor, Me. Snow was ten inches deep at Washington'as a result of the recent storm. United States Tkeasvbeb Huston has reconsidered his resignation and agreed to remain in his present position until the end of Mr. Harrison’s term. The fourth annual meeting of the American Economic Association commenced at Washington on the 3iith.

THE EAST. The Government experts at Sandy Hook recently tested a new 30-foot rifled gun. Shells were thrown fifteen miles out to sea. During the operations Private Adley was badly injured, his head being struck by a steel bar which was knocked off the gun carriage by the recoil. The Tariff Reform Club had a great banquet at Madison Square Garden, . New Y ork, on the night of the 33d, the principal speaker being Ex-President Cleveland. * / - ' There was a bad accident on the Western, N. Y. A Pa. railway at Watsonville* near Bradford, Pa., caused by spreading rails. Twenty-one passengers were more or lejss hurt. ; At a test of steel manufactured at the Carpenter steel works, Reading, Pa., a one-inch bar broke *he strain of 233< 833 pounds, being __, 20,000 pounds in excess of the highest record authoritatively known. The test was made under the supervision of Government officers. The trial of John Reed, one of the. three men charged with train wrecking during the New York Central strike, has commenced in Troy, X*¥. The miners of-the Central Pennsylvania coal regions have served notice on the coal operators demanding a change in thfc price of mining from 50 cents gross ton to 50 cents net ton. and a new working scale of prices. If the demands are not granted,' the men to the number of 16,000 will quit work. A wobax was killed in New York the other day by a hat pin entering her brain when she fell on the sidewalk. Isaac B. Sawtelle has been convicted at Dover, N- H., of the murder of his brother Hiram. He was sentenced to be hanged July 1. Some of the leading Philadelphia manufacturers refuse information to census officers, Mbs. Ellen Gibbons, aged 80 years, was .burned to death in, her home in Saratoga, N- Y.' The Erie railroad depot at Port Jervis, N. Y., was totally destroyed by ttrp. Loss. $80,000. The temperature at Lyndonville, Vt., Christmas night was as low as forty .degrees below aero. Several, vessels went ashore off Rhode Island during the storm of the 26th. Three seamen were drowned. The abandoned farms in the State of Maine number 3,310. .Mrs. John Dieorich and her three children perished in a fire at Rochester, N.Y., recently. ~ The Westinghonse embarrassment at Pittsburgh. Pn., was tided over by bankers advancing the firm $500,000. THE 1 The newly o;iened lands about Wausan, Wis., are certain to produce endless. litigation, each claim having several claimants. Sitting Bcij/8 band of 150 warriors, ltd by Bi~ Foot, has surrendered to Colonel Sumner, who with 200 soldiers succeeded in surrounding them in the viein-. tty of Standing Rock while they were making for the Bad Lands. Since the arrival of troops, so a dispatch states, the cowboys have become very daring In the Northwest, not being afraid to take the lives of straggling Indians. Before the arrival of troops this was not manifested. l>oard of education has Bi ble reading in the pubTwo workmen were killed and mven*l jthers badly injured in Chicago .by the fall of ?n old building of the Amour which was being torn by an aceiGrinnell. at Portersleaving

ted. The fight sprang up in the rear of ttl© room while the programme of the Sunday school was being carried oat. Frank E. Dickinson and Minnie Brundago fell through the lee while skating an a mill pond near Ann Arbor, Midi. Both were students at the Michigan University. At East Chicago, lad., Christmas morning, while a masquerade party was in full blast at the Tod Opera House, a fire broke out, creating a terrible panic. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. The large dry goods firm of Henry E. Hemun & Co,, Council Bluffs, Iowa,lias suspended. The assets are reported at 8300,000; liabilities, $300,000. The wife of General Fremont was presented with a Christmas gift in the shape of the lovely cot tage in which she: lives., as a token of affection from a number of women of California, bended by Mrs. Senator Hearst, who raised $10,000 purchase money. Lihdemakn’s building with other property at Viroqua, Wis., was consumed by fire, involving a lfiss of $150,000; insurance only $16,090. The Sanborn County Bank at Woonsocket, S. D., has suspended because of poor business. Leon L. Stevens, the city treasurer, was the owner. The county had $8,000 in the bank. The Ohio Oil Company, a branch of the Standard Oil Company, has increased its capital stock from $3,500,000 to $8,000,090. A report from Pine Ridge Agency says that after a council in the Bad Lands the Indians had resolved to surrender. The 660 employes of the Pnllman works of, Chicago have been notified of a reduction of ten per cent, in wages. Gustav Larson, a laborer, lost himself in one of the big sewers of Minneapolis and wandered three miles before he could get out. He was badly poisoned. Fire in Weyaumega, Wis., the other morning caused the death of Orrin Ennis and did much damage. THE SOUTH. The. sugar house on Cartwright Eustis’ fusilier plantation in Louisiana burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $50,000. Generai, Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the United States, is slowly dying at Jacksonville, Fla. The schooner Mary Ellen, from Salisbury, Md.. for Baltimore, is reported lost, together with her crew of fife men —Captain Henry Wheatley and son, William Abbott and son and Saul Gale. ChattanooOTl, Term., iron men claim that good tin-plate has been made from basic steel made in Chattanooga. A special from Petersburg, Va., says fyjs reported that the five negroes who were arrested for the murder of Dr. E. H. Biggin, in Mecklenbourg County, and committed, were taken from jail and lynched. San Augustine, Tex., has been seriously damaged by fire. In a row at Chilesburg, Ky., a tough named James Purlin from Jacks creek was killed. Two or three others were injured during the fusilade of over 100 shots. , Forepaugh's Theater and"the Masonic Temple, Baltimore, were destroyed by fire Christmas day. The loss was heavy. The Savannah (Ga.) Fire & Marine Insurance Company has w&undT up its affairs. Threatened adverse legislation was the principal capse of closing up the business. ' The Ed is to phosphate and fertilizer works about three miles from Charleston, S. C., were burned the other night. The loss was about $3(^000, fully covered by insurance. \ The Maverick bank, of San Antopio, Tex., closed its doors after a heavy run that lasted three weeks. Sam Maverick, sole owner of the bank and its business, has made an assignment of all his property, real and personal, to Reagan Houston. The liabilities amount to $844,161. and the assets are estimated at $1,780,015. In a saloon row in Birmingham. Ala., George KeUy and Jack Lynch, railroad men, were fatally stabbed. W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, is dead. By an explosion of a boiler at Kelly & Wells’ lumber mill on Blpck river, forty nifties from Newport, Ark., two men were killed. Another man and a woman were severely injured.

UENKH.iL. A dispatch from Pernambuco says that the Hamburg ship Libussa eame into collision with and sunk the British ship Talooltdar, bound from Calcutta for London. The captain and twentytwo members of the Talookdar were drowned. The Gaulois announces that Emperor William has decided to visit Paris. He will travel in strict incognito. The Frt jeh Government has asked the Chamber to vote 2,890,000 francs for the encouragement of the silk-worm raising industry in France. Pbof. Koch has left-Berlin ot enjoy A ten days’ rest. <pMas. Nellie Pearcy was hanged in London for the murder of a Mrs. Hogg and baby. The cVime occurred in a quarrel between the two women, Mrs. Pearcy being the paramour of Mrs. Hogg’s husband. Hrnnessy defeated Scully, Parnell’s candidate, at Kilkenny, by a majority of 901. Thk Malagasies of Madagascar have attacked the French Catholic missions, wounding Father Moutant. The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies have reported against the consideration of the Mareau hill for the abolition of the taxation of titles. Revolutionary movements are reported in Pern. UbuouaY is about to impose higher duties on imports. The Russian Government has ordered the construction at Fedorolfs shipyard at Nioolaieff of a gigantic ironclad of 19,480 tons for the Black Sea fleet, which is being strengthened in every waf. • The abnormally cold, foggy and wet season hats increased London’s annual death rate from eighteen to twenty-six per thousand the past week. M:. Paul we Roulkdk has succeeded

i one. Etn^ianc4 ■ will not f6= is noW Work. sod k ail author. It Is reported that many persons hard Joerished in Russia owing to the extreme cold, and that a party of thirty were frozen to death while crossing a bleak steppe: Kmpkbob William states that the report that, he contemplated a visit to Paris was ineorrectTto! theater at Portsmouth, England, kas been destroyed by fire. Diphtheria is seohfging Croatia, Austria. The Spanish Minister of Finance has issued a decree declaring that Spain must follow the protection movement of America and Europe, and repeal portions of the existing tariffs, and largely increase the duties on horses, mules and cattle, preserved and all salted* meats, flour and cereals. It is announced in Berlin that the dp-1 wee which w as- issued hgf FHftSrittSr march prohibiting the admission of Bus-' sian and Polish laborers into Posen, is | shortly to be rescinded. The reason assigned for this action is the scarcity of laborers in Posen. A dispatch from Shanghai states that Die savage tribes of Formosa have again broken ont in rebellion against the Chinese authority on .the island and gained advantages over the imperial troops. A Chinese captain and soldiers captured by the savages were afterward found impaled and beheaded, near the scene of their capture. The garrison oil the island is being strengthened.. The Powers, replying to Die note of Senator Bocaghp, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which he complained of the action of the BriDsh South AflSca Company In. Manicaland,, expresses sympathy and advises Portugal to avoid collision with-the British Company. The Archbishop at York, England, is dead. . • Railway strikers in Scotland are accused of attempting to wreck a train between Glasgow and Kilbride. There is a split in the English Salvation Army over “Darkest England,” which, it appears, was not the conception or the writing of -Genewtl Booth, bnt was the scheme of his right hand man, Commissioner Smith, who has resigned. The steamer Cnrier from Heligoland went aground near Helsinger, great belt, Denmark. Six men were drowned. The Louisville-Cincinnati tobacco trust has fallen through and all the property has lieen conveyed back to its original owners. The capital stock of the corporation was 85,000,000. The Bureau of the American Republics has received a dispatch from the Argentine Republic giving a brief summary of the commerce of that country for Die year ended June 30 last. Notwithstanding the revolution, the imports for the year amounted to $175,976,000 and the exports to $159,$37,000. Is a collision between freight trains near St. Thomas, Ont., one man was killed and several injured. JEAPbEsroiq, t^e notorious NiWJfet murderer of Paris, is believed fo be biding in Bulgaria. Three locomotives have arrived at Matadi, the terminus of the Congo railway. The interference of the priests in tt a North Kilkenny election has greatly disturbed English Nonconformist Libends. The Canadian Customs Department has imposed a fine of $90 pn theCerman sealing schooner Adele, which wr.8 seized at Victoria, B. C. The vessel was charged with making a false clearance. Heinrich Schlikman, the noted disr-. coverer of ancient Troy, is dead, aged 68. The great National Indian Congress met in Calcutta on the 96th. Two persons suffering from leprosy have been inoculated at Madrid with lymph according to the method of Dr. Koch. Tim doctors of the hospital where the lepers are being treated report that the patients have apparently been rapidly improving since the new remedy was applied. ^ Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended December 35 numbered 333, compared with 404 the previous week and 388 the corresponding week of last year.

the latest. Wuhj: several thousand skaters weie disporting themselves on the river at Warwick-on-Avon, England, on tie 27th, the ice suddenly and without -w arning cracked in the middle of the river. An immense fissure opened through which some five hundred of the' Skaters were plunged into the icy waters. When the first shock was over a number of people hurried to the rescue of the drowning skaters and a number of them were pulled out, but it is feared that many were drowned, as a large number are missing. It is thought that a San Francisco -physician has discovered a genuine remedy for cancer.. The testimony of a number of peifeons who have been treated and cured has been tak<?n, and three pronounced cases* of cancer from the New York Cancer Hospital, have gone West, in charge of a prominent surgeon from New York, to beoperated upon to decide whether the treatment shall be' introduced into theNew York hospital. A sleighing carnival took place on Pennsylvania avenne, Washington City, on the afternoon of the 27th, and “speeding” was allowed between 4:80 and 5:30 pv m. There was much merriment and few accidents. The .sidewalks of the famous thoroughfare were crowded with spectators, who cheered the drivers. * The preliminary statement of the Union Pacific, issued on the 27th, shows gross earnings of 118,908,124; increase, 8270,613; net, 81,170,332; decrease, $164,340. For eleven months to November 80, gross, $89,852,907; increase, *8,756,116; net, *13,189,626; decrease, $947,836. Comparative examinations of the sputa of patients in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, inoculated for phthisis with Prof. Xoch’s lymph, together with their generally improved c strong premonition of the entire s of the treatmen t for phthisis. At Scottdale, Pa., on the 37th, ( Plntar invited a young man Planter up-stairs from the roc boarding house where both v addresses to the same young shot him through the heart derer was arrested. At a meeting in » the 37th, of the We undesirable | SBL—.. Parisi, I lgives

JlSTATE INTELLIGENCE, INDIANA’S INSANE. the Trnstem »Hhe Central IIos= The trustees for the C^ptral Hospital fpr the Insane made their report to the D&vernor a few days ago. The property a#, the institution is valued at $1,633,$0.75, For maintenance during the ptet year $351,037.44 was expended, ytich was about $0,000 less than the appropriaiion. The number of patients admitted during the year was 684; number discharged 568. The average nnm» bar of patients under treanibat eras 1JH0. Since this hospital VaS established 16,454 patients have Men admithation. It' ia interesting to note the ejwmos that drive people to insanity. |Mring tbo year the number of persons admitted who'were made insane by la gidpee was 13; by epilepsy, 43; jealousy, ifegntompmanoe. 31; deaths husband,. .«; disappointed m love, 6; domestic ^fouhfe, 9; financial trouble 8; fright, 4; heredity, 19; .opium habit. 6; overstndy, 3; religious excitement, 30; sunstroke, A Of the patients admitted during the year 23 had collegiate educations and 57 had no education the three-year-old son of irt, of Brazil, died the other Thanksgiving Day the child ig with a hatehet, when, in ‘around, he struck himself with the shafti edge just over the left ear. The sknl was fractured, but the lad lingereAftn agony until his death a few nights atev J amesTL'-McUregob. o£ Tejre Haute, was killed by the accidental discharge of hisgunt 15rat,Eun4SK8, of Mitchell, who beat his sister m death with a club, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Bekj. Franklin, colored, collided with an electric car and was killed, at Indianapolis, the other night. He was a lawyer bn profession, mud blind. Geo. Ma&hali, a prominent fanner, living near Washington, was killed .the otherdny^by a falling tree. Over a' year ago the seven-year-old daughter of John Faulkner, of Brazil, swallowed a two-inch needle. The child suffered no pain and nothing was thought of ,the occurrence. The other day the ehild complained that she felt a pricking sensation in the left ankle. Dr. Smith was summoned and found the point of the long-lost needle protruding through the skin. He Amoved it without pain__ Seyks for conviction and five for quittal, caused the jury in the murder trial of Harry Trodgen, at Terre Haute, to be excused from duty. '■ - j?f Mrs. Eiaia -C. Whitehead, suspected of being accessory to the murder of Mrs. Fred Pettit at Shawnee Mound, will be re indicted by the next grand jury. Mrs. Ei.iza Meyers, aged thirty-six, one of tfce most pronynent^womeiT'in a neighborhood of Seymour, commitsuicide by taking poison. —"™ A C9MPAST has been organhjdTm bgom Jonesboro, after fife w*od, hoxibg seedbed nption^Sli * about Geor John S1 night, was pli

{The bank at Odin, in the northern part of Davies County, was victimized oat of $300 on a forged note, purporting tei be signed by two wealthy farmers. Phipps, who presented Jhe note far discount, was apprehended by c-ffi*. ! bams of the Ft, Wayne Street Cur Company were entirely destroyed the other: evening. Cause unby fire kpown. Loss $8,000; no insurance. Nine horses perished in the flames. While H. C. Baker was attem pting to arrest John Welch, a crazy ona at Cope, the other day, he was hit squarely on .the forehead with a bowlder thrown by the infuriated man and rendered unconscious While in this condition Welch got into Baker's buggy and took'the pike road toward Indianapolis, and on the 22d was still at large. Mr. Welch was formerly a promising young attorney of Martinsville. . At a depth of 223 feet, Paoli has secured a strong flow of sulphur water, equal to any thing aff the famous French Lick or West Baden springs. The water is now flowing out several inches ajbove the easing. When the fresh water is cased out, the sulphur is expected ttf be not less efficacious than the renowned Pluto. > A laborer at the Bonney vine works, at Marion, had an arm tom from the socket, recently and otherwise seriously by being caught in the machinThe Monon railway has contracted with the Crawfordsviile water works to famish water at that place for their endues. Charles Ennibe. of Mnneie, was aeaitted of the charge of criminal assault quitted of t on Myrtle Leslie, aged nine. Morgan county is to have a workhouse. Arthur Sturgeon was sand-bagged robbed at Logansport S THE_Western Association of Spiritualists has purchased “The Mounds,” three miles east of Anderson, for a permanent camp ground. Jesse Austin was killed while coupling cars on the Clover Leaf road at Frankfort. John Crosspkr, while hunting near Horace, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. . -v, John Hamlet, of Valparaiso, who became insane from ’grief over the burning of his wife and .four cbildren,-has been discharged from the asylum. The lost.heiress to $l,000,000,.Grace R Stark, was found in the Indianapolis Homo for Friendless Women. ~ TgE organization of a newStato bank was effected at North Verhon. The capital'stock is *80,0*1 The bar of Newton County adopted appropriate resolutions on the death of Judge Mitchell 'George Blazier, of Anderson, was crushed and fatally mangled by a 3,400pound safe. s A deer was captured in one of tho streets of Thornton. 4 A gray wolf was scared up in a big “wolf drive” in Putnam County a few days ago, but he got away. AH unknown tho cattle in ity Bead in

from Bethlehem to Egypt toescape the massacre of Herod, All tradition as well as all history point out this house in Cairo as the one in which these three fugitives lived while in Africa. The room is nine steps down from the level of the street. I measured Hie room, and found it twenty feet long and seven and one-half feet high- There are three shelving® of rock, one of which I think was the cradle of our Lord. There is no window, and allthe light must have come from lantern or candle. The three arrived here from Bethlehem, having crossed the desert. On the Mediterranean steamer going from Athens to Alexandria T met the eminent scholar and theologian, Dr. Lansing, who for thirty-five years has been a resident of Gairo, and he told me that< he had /been all over the road that the three fugitivestook from. Bethlehein to Egypt. , He says it is a desert way, and that the forced journey, of the infant Christ must have been a terrible journey. Going up from Egypt, Hr. Lansyig, met people from Bethlehem; dreadful Joseph and Mary stasteffTo* this lapd of BgJ&t, No JfifhCtO make much preparation. HerOfC ^feVter them, and what were these peasants before an irate King. Joseph, the husband and father, one flight sprang up from his mattress in great alarm, the beads of sweat on his forehead and his whole frame quaking. He bad dreamed of massacres of his wife and babe. They must be off, that night, right away. Maty put up a few bte ^He MtTchM to mohht “why, these loaves of bread are not enough; those bottles of water will not last for such a long Way. But there is no time to get any thing more. Out and on. Good-bye to the dear home they expect never again to see. Their hearts break. It does not need that onrs' be a big house in order to made us sorry to leave Over the hills and down through the deep gorge they urge their way. By Hebron, by Gazd, through hot sand, under a blistering sun, the babe trying, the mother faint, the father exhausted. How slowly the days and w^e&a pass. Will the weary three ever reach the banksof the Nile? Will they ever see Cairo? Will the desert ever end? When at last they cross the line beyond which old Herod has no right to pursue, their joy is unbounded. Free at last. Let them dismount and rest Now they resume’ their way with leas anxiety. They will find a place Somewhere for shelter and toe earning of their bread. Here they are at Cairo, Egypt. They wind through toe crooked streets, which are about ten feet wide, and enter the humble house where I have been to-day, dint, the terminus of the journey of these three fugitives was not as humble as toak-Atartfpg point at Bethlehem. If that journey' across the desert ended in a cellar, it started from a barn. In and around tost ham in Bethleham we tarry to

5 bairn, thing glorious Christ’s advent was in the l' the House of Chim Ham; t diamonded finger pointing down to place; the door of Heaven set wide open to look opt;, from orchestral batons of -light dripping the oratorios of the “Messiah;” on lowest doorstep of Heaven the minstrels of God discoursing of glory and good will. Soon after the whiteists kneel, and from chink the sheckels, and from open sacks exhale the frankincense and ™stle ont the bundles at myrrh. The loosened star; the ped ogy May mom; our world a lost star, another star rushing down the sky v._,— the wanderer home i all nations keep

appenssaaee that night r. ftxrisg* coajnetlcn of The- wBssaaal may have «•*•* worlds. Am the iraiM'isaf Venus in owr time was- fiies^S SHM*f years ago by astronomer*, ml aisiroafcraeri; can tell What will bts#m wnjmsn&ou of worlds a thousand, y«M» sriiai now, so they can calculate hack** a-d; and even infidel aatnxwrielt have &e8n o»is*ps4«d to testier that about the ye*r r*W JB*w was a very unusual appearance »i the heaven* The Chinese tssemti, of <***«* entirely independent «af the word of God, gives *s a nuttier of hiFtoty that about the year one th*ve was * strange and unan countable aj^seausnec fe* the heavens. But it may hove V**a a meteor sateh ! as you and 1 have «ce» Bash to the horiaoa. 1 saw a fawyaas* ago in the north- ' era sky a star shoo, and full with such brilliancy asd prsefaion that if I had been on a MU as high at* that of Bethlehem on which ih-e- shepherds stood I could have marked 'srfthiit * short dhr taaee the piece of the alighting. The j University of J«w» tu«’ tbo British Muams® as off from other wceiia, leaving a fiery trail on the sky. So that it is not to me at ail improbable Gw* sriaiiar or the i teorfc appearance otttiHR (right of y* we speak. 1 only cum fi; know t Was bright, that it was silvery. that it flashed, and swayed, and swung, and halted with joy celestial, as though Christ, in haste to save var world, had rushed down without ilia coronet, and the angels of Owl had hurled it after Him! Not a Mach cloud of threat, but a ’gleaming r-tnr of hap© fe oar glorious Christianity. One glimpse of that stellar appearance kindled up the soul of the sick apd dying college student until the words flashed ft»j* his pale fingers and the star seemed to now its light from his white Kpts g#i Kirk White Wrote these immortal words: . ' -. . WUen mersHklmt aajls*: ■ The glitterteg-iSosta One star atone of sefetKe Can tlx the sinner’s vrautterijia eye. h4- nightly *!.«•««;’ the kiss- mM plain ■ the sky, Hark, bark to Sad, the ehsw breaks. From every host, irons every aesc ' speaks-, Bat one alone, the asi tour It la the Star of Bethi».l?<SBl Once on the ragtag seas f rod* The storm «u Io«rf,tae nljrUt was dark. And rudely bkiW the-wind that lossed u»y foaniiiymtf ; # Deep horror then tty vtssif- from. Death stfnek, 1 eepsed the tide to etens; When suddenly a star croafi, It was the Star of ^Klileheis*. Notice 'also in (bis "scone that other worlds seemed to tono? our Lord and Master. Bright star sit the -night, wheel on in thine orbit. * ■iio,K said the star, “I must eome cearei- and 1 must bend andlmrisl watch aad see what you do with my cssso-s."’ Another world that Milft-•HIV obeisance. I somf-times ‘ talk of Christ's dominion <*» tabus* It were to W tswtety the few thousand miles of the wsb'ha>.efe^uwifwiease: bujr' I believe the,,*jfcffioias and the billions mid the.gdadriTikm of worldaare *11 inhabited--#**# by sack creatures a* <a-vxs nit)? fetui'h •RWcT'Cii-.rfaftVSt SkR C*nfi 'gftfblo with s&y JxsaA. a. earner wos*« night joined o# world hi *or That® awr made a Nfww of sauce. I eesaefcimes hear ">ea©fe we are, still such creatures. as God ;'deIsaac Newton, end Ceirinr, aud Hersehel only went on Crifaunb# voyage to&id these eontinentri of bar King's I think all worlds*ware lojcLbut 1 The great organ oi,-«*e askask pedals and its pipes a ad its keys i great.harmony saves®* injured save cue broken stop-thc vox of the human race, .#&. disloyal Now yon know thaf. biFsvv gra instrument raay be, if tiiers be one key out of order, it i^dis the harmony, And Christ must mend this key. He mast restore this broken stop. You known with what. bfofdief hand, and With what pfereed side, and with what erushed foot He did the Fork But the world shall be attsaed end all world's will yet be ace^griimt. late ol Wight larger in comparison with the British Empire than our island of a world as compared with OfcrikTs vari domain. If not, why that celestial efteovt? If not, why that sentiael vdth blazing badge over the caravansary? H iwt, why that midnight g»fchm«-n balcony of Hea ven? Astronomy surrenHBgUgHMM risi;. TMs'planet dered that night to Christ, for Christ. The solar system i6r Christ. Worlds ablaze and teamed out—all worlds for ChrisV laWasest microscope can got see the «me side of that domain. Furthest rekfhiag tok^aope can not find the other -hie Of that doiosin. Bnt I will tell ytm how the universe is bounded. It w boanded on the north and. south and east and west,. and above and beneath byorot: and that that Christ ie (lodj God is Christ, amd and that God is owr. Gh, does it enlarge your ideas of a Sari'-mr^ d<y ion when I tell you that all i tare only sparks strds^c from His anvil ? that all the worlds aW, only the fleecy flocks following the one Shepherdf that all the islands of light is immensity ere one great arclipsiegc belonging to our

4 4i -V ' • But this scene also i» presses me with the fact that the vete «aen of the East came to Christ They were not iVvtfs, they were not i&ibeeitfs. Th® record distinctly says that the wist; men came to Christ. We say they were the magi, or they were the alchemists, or they were the astrologists, ai*l we say it with depreciating’ aeceatnstioa. Why. they were the most splendid‘and raagasfic-ent men of the century, They were the naturalists and tlie s«feMs%te. They knew all that was known, '/on nv»st remember that astawlegy wt* tine mother irf astronomy, and that ftlehlicy was the mother of chemistry, pppleWase children are brighter IhifK the mother you So it has htwafh bc-en^thc wisest men coma to Christ, the VsWvwt men eowe to the manger. Who «*? the greatest metaphysician this country av«r Sms produced? Jaasth*n EfivoariIs, the Christian. Who was tii® {creates! astronomer of the world? itenssshei, the Chfetian. Who was the ^i^alest poet eri» produced? ,Tohh l($tteus. the -Ghriati&n. Who was the wisest wrflisff. on xaw? Black stone, the Chr istian. Why is it that every college sad untesrAty in the li&dhasa chapel? They oust have a place for im-.frfee n«n te worship. Come «ovt,» let na understand in ounces ancl by tee whole matter. In post mortem steaffip®a the ter*hi of4teti(n5,-n-rBl eii wki tens'Seen examined, and I will ‘hhil’13te largest, the heaviest, th- Kr.;’y.;. produced in Anw.-h-a, what that brain t it is, the t rain wv jjjgfglSiMBI ? Tt ■ ounces, the largesi , m Anien brain tfei moment

— 1 The wise men of the Bast foIlowM the wise men of the West. • "' .5, ^ Know* also, in this scene that it a winter month that God chose for Hit Son's nativity. Had it been the montt of May—that is the season of bio* some. Had He been bom in the month of -lime—that is the season of roses. Had He been horn in the month of jidj —that is the season of great harrests Had He been horn in the month of Sep tember—that is the season of irlpe % eh&rds. Had He been bom in the month of. October—that is the season of uf* bolstered funds. Bat He was bom ha a wtotermonth. It vfM in closing December that He was bom to &how that this is a Chris! for people in sharp blast, for people under clouded sky, for people with frosty hopes, for people with thermometei [ below zero. That is the reason He Wso often found among the destitute. Too can find Him on any night coining of! the moors. Yon can see Him any night coming thronght the dark lanes of the city. YoooanseeHimpnttmgHishaud n^rt^mifiSg'bSrkfBr tatpifii cabin. He remembers how the wind around the eararansay in that December night, and in sympathy with all those wbc in iheSrpovarty hear thejshttttera ciattoi oa a sola night. : Hat notice also in this account the three Christmas presents that are brought to the manger. Gold, frankincense and myrrh. Gold to Christ—that ■means all the affluenee oi the world surrendered to Him. For lack of money no more asylums limping on their Way ! like the cripples whom they helped, | feeling Iheir slow way like the blind ! people whom they sheltered. Millions ! of dollars for Christ where there are [ sow thousands for Christ. Railroad? owned by Christum stockholders and ! governed by Christian . directors and carrying passengers and freight at i Christian prices. George Peabody’s load Abbott Lawrences, and James | Leabaes no rarity, Bank of England. ! Hoarse of France, United States Treasury. all the moneyed institutions of thi: world for Christ. The gold for Christ. | Gold not merely paid the way of Josapli and Mary and the Divine fugitive ime Egypt, hut it was typical of the feet that Christ’s way shallbe paid all around the world. The gold for Christ, the silver tor Christ, the jewels for'CSrist. Australia. Nevada and Golconda lot Christ. The bright, round, beautiful ; jewel of a world set like a, solitaire on the boooin of Christ. But notice that there wisp men also | shook out from their sacks the myrrh. ; The cattle came and they sniffed at it. They did not cat it, because it was hitter. The pungent gum resin of Abyssinia, Called myrrh, brought. to the feet, of Christ That means bitterness. Bitter ietoaval. bitter persecution, bitter days ’iff suffering, bitter nights of woe. Myrrh.^jhat is what they put into Hte «up when He waariying. Myrrh. TSty is what they pat under His head inl^'’ wiidi.*moss- "Myrrh. That iswh»t*h? 1 strewed His path with all th<r way frona the cattle pen in Bethlehem to the mausoleum at Joseph’s country seat. . ilyx;}*.- Yea, ages the psalmisk, | Thy garmeh© "smell of myrrh.’’^ is what ibe wise men wrapped .in the ; swaddling clothes of the babe. That is

.what- the Marys wrapped in the shxotui |j§£ a crucified Christ. The myrrh. Oh, She height, the depth, the length, the ! tweiath 6f the Saviour’s sorrow. Well . might tbs wise men shake out the Bat I notice also from another' sack ! they shake out the frankincense. Clear op to the rafters of the barn the air is filled With perfume, and the hostlers and the camel drivers in the farthest ! part of the budding* inhale it, and it floats out upon the mar hntil passers-by wonder who in thaferougli place could have by accident droned a bos at alabaster. Frankincense! That is what they homed in the censer in the ancient temple. Frankincense! That means Worship. Frankincense! That is to fill all the decoration. Praise l^nai mountains, an*ihii!s, valleys and seasjnt^ skies, and eiprth. am Heaven—cyclone' with your trumpets, northern lights with youi •feaming ewaam morning with your castles afa&pfc. and evening withdraw billowing clouds of sunset. DoryBu know how they used to hold the censei in the olden time^ndwhatit was made of? Utim is s metal pan, and the handle by of? is & metal pan, 8Jjd' wh&eh it was held. In he inside of this iaet*l pan were put living coals, on the top of them a perforated cover. In a square box the frankincense was brought to the temple. This frankincense was;taken ont and aprinkledovei the living coals, and then the perforated wwer was put on, and when they were all ready for worship, then tb< all ready for worship, .then th* cover was lifted from this censer and from ail the other censers, and the perfumed smoke arose until it-hung amid all the folds and dropped amid all the altars, and then rose in great columns of |uaise outside or above the temples, rising clear up toward the throne gj God. So. we have two censeys today of Christmas frankincense. Here is the one censer of earthly frankincense. Oa that we put our thanks tot the mercies at the past year, and mercies of all our past lives, individual merest*’, family mercies, social mercies, nafioniil mercies, and our hearts burniug with. ■ gratitude send aloft the ineenve of. praise toward .the throne oi Christ. Bring on more incense, and bring ther-is theirs and th« forty aid ig all the etaM