Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 December 1891 — Page 1

“Ouis. Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles .of Righ t. J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Pronrietor. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1391 NUMBER 31

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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. T. sms, M. D, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. . (FOfJct Id Bank building, first floor. Will o« lou-id at ofllco day or night. fBsxcu B. rowy^, Dasyrr Q. osimu POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practiee In all tbs conrts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In tbs office. WOfflco— On first floor Bank Bonding, B. A. Alt. 8. G. davsnfort, ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. SB-Ofllcc over J. R. Adams A Son’s drag store. Prompt attention given to all bullX. F. Richardson. A. H. Tatu» RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In tho office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth aud Main. DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentistj PETERSBURG, IND. Offlee over J. B. Young’s Store, Main Street WOflleo hours from 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. E. J. HARRIS,

Resident Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. W. H. STONEC1PHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms 6 and 7 tn Carpenter Buildln«. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Amnsthetlc* used tor painless extraction ot teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. „ Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night (^Diseases ot Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

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THIS PAPER IS OR FILE IN QHICMO IND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF k. I. KEU.0M MEWSPAPER CO. mSTEES' NOTICKS OF OFFICE DAY. F ones la hereby given that I will attend to the duties ot the offloe of trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persons who have buslneas with the office will take notice that I will attend to bostqeas on no other day. In Blanil.l M. U. GOWEN, Trustee. In Stendal, r given to all parties In. . will attend at my office EVEKY STAUEDAY, * To transact business connected with the offloe of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said offloe will please take notice. J. 8. BARRETT, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties con* earned that I will beatmyresidence. EVERY TUE8DAY, To attend to business connected with tbs office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEOBUE GRIM, Trustee. NOnCS la hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the offloe of Trustee of Logan township. MpFositlvely no business transacted except on office days MLAS KIRK, Trustee. XTOnCB Is hereby given to all parties eonll corned that I wf-1 ---- bat I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee ot Madison township. JVPosItlvely no bnslneas transacted ax* eept office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. XTC JNt TOnCE Is hereby given to all persons ln> I forested that I will attend In my office In velpea, _ EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persons having buslneas with said effloS Will please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. N OT1CS Is hereby given to all persona concerned that 1 will attend at my offloe mmm every day To transact business connected with tlx office of Trustee of Jefferson township. --\ K. W. HARRIS. Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LABOR Summary of the Dally Now* CONGRESSIONAL No business sms transacted by the senate on tbe 11th and tbs house was not In session. Senate caucuses were Busy arranging committees. Thu senate held a brlel session on the 1Mb. A few bills were Introduced and ^resolution adopted In regard to filling vacancies In the board of regents of tbe Smithsonian institute. A'Journod.....The house was notln session. WsiJ tbe senate met on the 16th many petitions were presented against the opening of the world's fair on Sunday. Bills were presented, and after an executive session the senate adjourned....The house was only In see-Ion as a matter of form, no business be'ng transacted except the appointment of the committee on rules, Messrs. Me >llllin (Tenu) and Oatchings (Miss )-< being the democratic members Adjourned until Saturday. Mb. MiNDBRSOU presided when the senate met on the 17th. On motion of Mr. Oullom the rule for the appointment of committees by ballot was suspended and a resolution appointing the committees was adopted and the committees announced. The credentials of Senator Hill, of New York, were presented and filed. Senator Turple addressed the senate on hisResolution for the ehoostng of United States senators by the people, and Mr. Stewart spoke on that partof tbe president's messatce relating to free coinage and the senato adjourned until Monday....The house was not In session. WASHINGTON MOTES. Senator Felton, of California, has introduced a bill appropriating $3,000,000 for a public building in San Francisco. Tbe attorney-general has advised against the acceptance by the treasury of the offer of Newberger, Weiss & Co., of San Franoisoo, to compromise the government's claim against them on account of the alleged fraudulent entries of merchandise. Criminal proceedings will be instituted against ttje offending persons. The president has sent to the senate the entire list of recess appointments, additional to the names submitted last week. The list includes 281 postmasters and a large number of army and navy appointments and promotions in the revenue marine service. Representative Eni.oe, of Tennessee, has decided to offer a resolution looking to the further investigation of Commissioner Baum’s administration of the pension bureau and will seek the appointment of a special oommittee of inquiry. Congressman Mills was lying seriously ill at Washington. It was reported that ho was suffering from pneumonia, insomnia and nervous prostration. . The postmaster-general has executed contracts with the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for mail service on the routes between New York and Colon, San Francisco and Panama and Hong' ICong, to begin on February 1, and with the Red D line for service between New York and Laguayra, Venezuela. Representative Mansur, of Missouri, while descending the stairway leading from his rooms at Willard’s hotel, Washington, slipped and sustained a severe strain of the right hip. The mishap will probably confine him to his room for some days. Congressman Culberson, of Texas, declares that hei will not accept an inter-state commerce commissionership. Tbe president has nominated six of the nine United States circuit judges. Two of them are democrats. Speaker Crisp has appointed as democratic members of the committee on rules Messrs. McMillin and Catchings. This is a departure from the precedent; The secretary of state announces this conclusion of a reciprocity treaty with the British West Indies. There was considerable talk recently in Washington of republican contests of the seats of Senators Hill, of New York; Brice, of Ohio, and White, of Louisiana. Iq the first case the ground will be abandonment of the office. The president has sent to the senate the nomination qf Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, to he secretary of war.

THE EAST. Samuel K. Murdock,formerly a-well-known actor, but for a number of years past a teacher of elocution, died at Philadelphia on the 15th, aged 75 years. The large mill and plant of the Paterson (N. J.) sanitary company was totally destroyed by fire. Loss between <50,000 and <70,000. Insurance of not over <15,000. Thk will of W. J. Florence, the actor, has been filed in New York. It makes the widow, Teresa Florence, sole executrix and legatee. Many towns of Massachusetts are afflicted with la grippe. Thk head of the dynamiter has been fully identified as that of Henry L. Norcross by the parents of the young man, who came on from Boston for that purpose. TKe Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry was dedicated at Philadelphia on the 17th. Many distinguished men were present A meeting of representatives of several Christian sects of the United States in the interest of international arbitration rTas held in New York the other day. Hoit Josiah Mihot, onee the law partner of President Franklin Pierce, died at Concord, & H., aged 73 Thk Boston shoe and leather exchange has become somewhat disgusted at the aetlon of the Chicago world’s fair board in twice changing the location of their building. « By the explosion of a lamp in the parlor of William Kunkle’s house in Knoxville, Pa, Gertrude Kunkle, aged 18, was burned to death. Four Italians have been arrested in Philadelphia charged with wholesale counterfeiting. Officer Griffin, of New York, caused the arrests. Thk extensive plant of the Watkins Wire Spring Co. in Loekport, 111., was burned, causing a loss of <80,000. The company is the successor of the Chicago Wire A Spring Co., in operation since last April Thk village of Vermillion, O., has been visited by a disastrous fire. Rkv. Father Swkbach, of Prairie du Chien, Win, has received a cablegram from Borne notifying him of his appointment of bishop of the La Crosse diocese to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bishop Flasche. Maj. McKinley wan no better at Canton, O., on the 15th. His physician positively refused to permit anybody to see him. He said, however, that no serious results were apprehended. Thk charter of the Kansas Alliance Co-operative Mortgage association has been filed with the secretary of state. This is Frank McGrath’s pet scheme. Chief Joel B. Mates and Second Chief Henry Chambers, of the Cherokee nation, have both died of la grippe. Tbs successors will he Downing*, _

Fibs at Oakes, N. D., caused a loss of $30,000 and the death of Dr. Schmidt Nelson. Aw enthusiastic Oklahoma statehood convention was held at Oklahoma City on the 16th. The convention to consider the Improvement of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers met at Kansas City, Mo., on ihe 15th. Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska, was chairman. Ait extensive strike of Gain dispatchers and operators commenced recently on the Atlantic A Pacific. It was thought it would involve the entire southwest Five men robbed a United States mail wagon at Chicago on the night of the 15th in a very bold manner. It was thought 50,000 was secured. Trumpeter Dixon, of the Sixth cavalry, U. S. A., was found guilty of murder im.the first degree in the United States^district,-court at Omaha, Neb., for the killing of Corporal Carter at Fort Niobrara last September. Commissioner Pbatt rendered his decision in the case of United States Marshal Parsons at Salt Lake City and held that the testimony of Annie Prlndle was not entitled to credence. He therefore dismissed the defendant. Paul Gbebser, who was murdered in a Chicago saloon the other night, was the son of a wealthy French family of Grandvillars, France. The North Dakota Millers’ association has subscribed 50,000 pounds of flour, subject to increase to a shipload, for ltussian sufferers. A broken rail caused the wrecking of a mixed train near Park Elver, Minn. Three passengers were badly Injured. The Atlantic & Pacific telegraphers’ strike has ended, President Manvel conceding the principal demands of the men.. A frightful wreck occurred on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne A Chicfijjto two miles east of Lima, 0. One man was killed and many injured. The passenger train was running to make up for lost time when a rail broke. The resolutions adopted by the river improvement convention at Kansas City, Mo., called for an annual appropriation of $5,000,000 for the improvement of the Missouri and $7,000,000 annually for the improvement of the Mississippi A passenger train on the Gulf road was wrecked two miles north of Cherryvale, Kan., on the 17th by the displacement of a rail, owing to decayed ties. Twenty-six persons were injured, three of whom will probably die. John L. Ferguson, bookkeeper for the National Bank of Kansas City has been arrested for embezzling $30,000 freftn the bank. He confessed. Secretary of State Soper, of Michigan, has resigned because of various charges of grave character. He confessed his misdeeds. The national prohibition convention has been set for St L.uis June 39 and 30 next The saw-mill of A Collett at Ridgevi le, Ind., was wrecked by the explosion of a boiler the other morning. William Wise, the engineer, William Collett a son' of the proprietor, and James Clawson were killed outright and several badly injured. A San Francisco dispatch says that the steamer Roseville, which had gone to tow the wrecked brig Lahito to port returned unsuccessful, the tow lines not being strong enough. The Lahito is bottom up. She had 300 persons o^ board, all of whom were probably lost. The coal miners’ strike at Crested Butte, Col., was virtually ended on the 17th by forty Austrian miners going to work loading coke on the cars. The men were protected by an armed posse of fifty men. Ex-Gov. Smallwood, of the Choctaw nation, died recently of pneumonia. The Iowa world’s fair board proposes to ask the legislature for an opp>opriation of $389,U00. The world’s fair auxiliary has sent invitations to famous mon of letters of the world asking for a contribution for use during the great fair. Many favorable responses have been received. There was much improvement in the condition of Governor-elect McKinley, of Ohio, on tbe 18th. He was not able to see callers however.

THE SOUTH. C. C Buss, who was a prominent leader in Arkansas during the reconstruction era, was found dead in bed at Little Bock. Cause, heart disease. The annual convention of the Amer- - ican federation of labdl began at Birmingham, Ala., on the 14th. President Gompers spoke briefly and General Secretary Evans presented his annual report. The Thomas party has secured control of the Kichmond Terminal Railroad Co., and President Inman's retirement is certain. The Virginia legislature has re-elect-ed John W. Daniel United States senator. At Noldosta, Ga., Dr. Benton Strange was taken from his rooms by a mob, and after being flogged was given a coat of ink. The citizens objected to Strange’s conduct while on sprees. He was not seriously hurt and left town. Ex-Gov. A. P.SAFFOM>,of Florida,died at his home at Tarpon Springs the other morning after an illness of over a year. The lottery question caused a split in the Louisiana democratic party convention which met at Baton Rouge on the 10th. Congressman William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, has been elected president of Richmond (Va.) college by the trustees of that institution. The southwest miners’ congress at El Paso, Tex., on the 17th, adopted free coinage resolutions prepared by exUnited States Senator Reagan. ¥he nuti-lottery democratic convention of Louisiana has nominated a full ticket wiU» Murphy J. Foster as the candidat/ior governor. Four men were lynched the other night—two in Florida, one in Arkansas and one in Mississippi. The lottery democrats of Louisiana have nominated Gov. McEnery and exGov. Wiekliffe for the head of their ticket. The German minister of marine has resigned because he is not allowed to build several man-of-war. Advices have been received at Brussels that Emin and Stnhlman have discovered a river, the most southerly branch of the Kile, rising north of Ujijt and flowing into the Albert Edward Nyanza on the southeast shore. Small-pox has been added to the horrors of famine in Russia. Whole provinces were being devastated. M. Patenotbk, the successor to M. Roustan as French minister to the United States, has started for Washington. He bears special instructions in regard to France’s attitude toward the Chicago world’s fair, pggs

Tm Moscow Gcaetia dtabcnsneet the acceptance of foreign aki kxr the distressed people of Husain, sod eepecually Engli-h aid. It declares the. Great Britain wants to torn Russia into another Egypt, and warns the people against the duplicity of philanthropy. In his allocation to the papal consistory the pope^palnted his situation and that of the Roman church in the darkest of colors. The priests and nuns made captive by the followers of El Mahdi and held as slaves in the Soudan for six years have escaped and are safe in Egypt. Arris seven hours’debate the reichstag passed the German-Austrian-Hun-garlan treaty of commerce a large majority of the members voting for the measure. Frightful barbarities to captives intended for slaves in central Africa are reported by missionaries. The magistrates of Vienna have ordered the closing of the Methodist church. It is reported that a state of siege has been declared in many of the faminestricken districts of Russia owing to the prevalence of brigandage and anarchy among the starving peasants. According to a Paris paper the pope desires a policy of conciliation in the dealings of the Catholie church with France. The national federation of labor has voted $3,000 to aid the Pittsburgh printers in appealing the injunctions obtained by the employers. Thousands were recently reported on the verge of starvation in the various states of Mexico. John Hosy, ex-president of the Adams Express Co., removed because of alleged fraud involving $103,030, has settled the suits begun against him out of court. It is said that the settlement involves the return of about half a million dollars. The dowager Lady Deros is dead in London. She danced at the famous ball given in Brussels on the eve of the battle of Waterloo, and was the lost survivor of that ball. The French institute has granted the Cuvier prise of $300 to the United States geological survey for the excellence of its work. Canadian bank managers were recently in consultation in regard to means to check the circulation of United States coins. The new Spanish tariff greatly reduces the duties on exports conveyed in Spanish vessels The congress of Bolivia has rejected the treaty made by the executive of that country with that of Chili. Both the king and queen of Denmark are suffering from influenza. The British holders of Virginia bonds voted, 89 to 15, to accept the compromise arranged for the debt Advices from Russ’a toll of five sleeping men being murdered near Chelabinsk by a peasant for the purpose of robbery to got a small sum of money ho knew to be ia their possession. Thebe vessels of Adm. Walker’s squadron, the Chicago, Atlanta and Bennington, have arrived at St Lucia, West Indies, and will proceed without delay to Brazil and thence to Montevideo. Clearing house returns for the week ended December 17 showed an average increase of IOlS compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the increase was 12 3. The first issue of the new Dublin newspaper, the Irish Independent, has appeared. It had a dynamite story as its initial feature. Gen. John CL New, (he United States consul-general at London, presided at the annual banquet of the association of foreign consuls. , President Gompers and the other officers of the national federation of labor have been re-elected. It is denied from Mexico that starvation is carrying off people in several states. The consolidation of the National league and American association of baseball clubs has been completed. A ten years’ contract hes been signed for twelve clubs. Dun & Co.’s weekly trade review is very satisfactory. The cities ail report good business, with a belief that the coming season will be unusually profit able._:•

THE LATEST. The senate was not in session on the 19th.In the house, after an earnest prayer by Chaplain Milburn, Mr. MeMillin offered a concurrent resolution providing for adjournment from December 94 to January 5, which was adopted. Mr. McMillin, from the committee on rules, submitted a resolution confirming the appointments of committees of the Fifty-second congress, which was adopted. A joint resolution by Mr. Springer, providing for the payment of the month's salaries to employes of congress on the 84th. was passed. Mr. Chipman (Mich.) announced the death of his colleague, Hon. M- Hoard, and in pursuance of the usual resolution, the house adjourned. Babon Fejervaby de Komlos-Ke-kezzet es, a member of the Hungarian cabinet as minister of national defense, fought a dnel, on the 90th, with Herr Ugron,a member of the reichsrath, who bad uttered language in criticism of his course as minister which the baron considered personally insulting. After each had fired two shots, all wide of the mark, they drew their swords and attacked each other in deadly combat until,each having drawn blood, the seconds interfered to stop the fight. Senator Preston B. Plumb, of Kansas, died suddenly of apoplexy at his apartments in Washington on the 80th, No member of his family was present at his bedside, but kind friends ministered to his wants. His illness was the resnlt of overwork in the last campaign in Kansas. He bad just determined to give up his labors in the senate temporarily, and place himself in the hands of eminent physicians for a course of treatment The bottom of the Gaylord mine, located at Plymouth, Pa., caved in on the 90th. The Gaylord is one of the largest mines in the anthracite region. The damage incurred hr the cave-in will exceed $30,000, and 9,000 men are thereby thrown out of work. William H. Blakenxy, one of Rockland county’s wealthiest citizens, died at his home in Orangeburg, N. f., on the 19th. He was 54 years old and a brother Madame Mu sard, a former wife of the late king of Holland. A dog fight in which $40,000 changed hands and which resulted in a free-for-all fight among the spectators in which 150 men engaged, took plaee in Cleveland, O., on the90th. The grip prevails in Wilkesbarae, pa., to an alarming extent Ont of e population of 40,000 persons it Is saW that fully 9A0W m W # til*

INDIANA STATE NEWS. BtmiABt entered the djrug store ot Norman Wheeler, the butehsr shop of Wm. Havfkins and the saloon of Wm. Kilbourne, Marlon, blew the safes and took money and other articles amounting to *m Adam Conrad was run down by a through freight on a bridge About a half mile east of Russiavllle, on the T., 81 L. & K. CL railroad, and Instantly killed. He was nearly eighty years old. and fery deaf. Ft. Wayne wants a *3,000 court house. Skunk Hollow is the name of a Tillage in Wayne county. Some 890 men and 600 women want the screens removed from Goshen gin mills. Ah unknown man committed suicide at Richmond, by throwing himself before a freight train. - Mbs; Dr. Vincent, of Guilford, was persuaded Into adopting May Southerland, aged fourteen, to protect her, as was claimed, from the brutalities of a step-father. Within a few days the girl flef, carrying away with her *500 and ▼eiuable papers. She was pursued and *180 was recovered. "The take Shore Co., for several months past, has been trying the plan adopted by other large corporations, o4 employing cheap labor on its lines For that purpose a number of Italians were employed; but the experiment was a failure, and the company has discharged them. Fish Commission** Dennis wants *1,000 with which to mpke an Indiana fish exhibit at the World's fair. The residence of Nicholas Druley, Anderson, was burglarised the other night of *3,500. The house was entered while the family were at the Snow fire. A draft on the Richmond National hank for 81,000 was also taken. There is no clew. M. W. Bruner has been appointed receiver of the Crawfords ville Waterworks Co., to colleot all, if any, of unpaid subscribed stock and pay debts of the original company. Mayor Scott, of Laporte, reports that the first frame house in Indiana north of the Wabash river was built by Judge Polk about the year 1828, and it is standing to-day, and it is used as a dwelling on Mr. Scott's farm, a half mile north of the Tippecanoe river, on the Michigan road. The forgeries charged to young Charles Samuels, of Tipton county, aggregate nearly *4,000, and his father, who is a wealthy farmer, is lifting the fraudulent papers wherever found. The boy is still a fugitive. Thieves stole a brace, bit and saw from a hardware store in Petersburg, then broke in the post office, craoked the safe and secured $3.95 in stamps and cash. A ten-yeab-old boy near Hartford City goes into spasms and acts like a cat Well diggers at Lagrange unearthed six silver counterfeit dollars. John Loveless, a traveling salesman for Merrill <k Soule, condensed minee meat manufacturers, of Syracuse, N. Y., shot himself with suicidal intent at the Park hotel. Decatur. The ball entered his right side and passed into the lung. Loveless courted Maggie Ryan, a young widow, but was rejected, and his desperation made him insane. He will die. While machinery in the factory of the Muncie Pulp Co. was chopping up timber received from the south, there was a sudden crash and stoppage, and investigation disclosed a grape shot, which had been fired during the war of the rebellion, and which had imbedded itself in a tree. Robert Ballinger, who died recently in the Eastern Indiana Insane asylum, for many years was a trusted engineer on the Lake Shore railway. So long as he was upon his engine he was apparently sane, but the moment he left the throttle his malady asserted itself. Mbs. Amanda Coloan, aged seventy, living at Eokerty, fell in the fire, and her arm burned nearly oft before she was found.

realized from the penny collections in public schools taken in aid oil the educational exposition fund. Another penny collection, the last one, wQl be taken up on Washington's birth-day. The Echo Music Co., of Lafayette, has brought suit against Dun's Mercantile Agency, claiming §10,000 damages, because J. H. Muller, local agent of Dun’s, in March of this year, rated the company as dou- tful. Plaintiffs claim a shrink ag" in business of $433,383 as resultin'- i.. re from. Abi'i . lab pried open a window of Joseph Bills ACa’i store, at Eortville, vnd stole a complete suit of clothes, including underwear, shoes, stockings, . hat and linen collar, leaving his old clothes on the floor. Qoshbn thinks that it needs a new opera house and will have one ih ’92. The republican state central committee has issued a call for township or ward mass convention to be held January 9, for the election of township committeemen for the several voting precincts In each ward or township William Mason and Laura Crawley, of Muncie, were to have been married, but Mason got the young woman's watoh and' suddenly departed. She followed him as far as Anderson, and then gave up the ohase. A love affair led Ed Hilligoss, of Anderson, to commit suicide by sending a bullet through his heart Scott County is entirely free from debt Lapobte will build a $183,000 .courthouse. A foub-foot vein of coal has been discovered at Charlestown. Quail shooting is illegal in this state now. Daniel Chappell, a young man of Fartville, while hunting, had a hand torn off by the accidental discharge of his gun. A short time ago five of the boys at the Knightstown orphans’ home ran away. They were captured near Anderson by an officer of the home, the other night and returned to the homo DOINGS OF THE UNKNOWN. A Birmingham (Eng.) man collected 640,000 pennies during his lifetime. An Eastport fisherman captured a lobster that measured forty inches in length and nearly the same distance across the claws. In the pockets of clothing discarded by a burglar in Indiana were found a translation of "Cesar’s Commentaries'* and a problem in aty vbra. A lake of ink, a mountain of snl

TALMAGE’S SERMON. The Relations of the Business Mon to Christianity. Business Life a School of Useful Know!* edge, Energy, Integrity and Patience, and Does Not Antagonise Religion. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following1 sermon, especially to business men, in the Brooklyn tabernacle, taking for his text: In ah thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.—Proverbs ill., S. -— “A promise good enough for many kinds of life, but not for my kind of life,” says some business men; “the law of supply and demand controls tho business of,the world.” But I have reason to say that it is a promise to all persons In any *kind of honest business, There is no war between religion and business, between ledgers and Bibles, between, ch urches and counting houses. On the contrary, religion. accelerates business, sharpens men’s wits, sweetens acerbity of disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmatics and throws more velocity into the wheels of hard work. It gives better balancing to the judgment, more strength to the will, more muscle to industry, and throws into enthusiam a more consecrated fire. Ton can not in all the round of the world show me a man whose honest business has been despoiled by religion. The industrial classes are divided into three groops; producers, manufacturers, traders. Producers, such as farmers and miners. Manufacturers, such as those who turn corn into food, and wool and flax into apparel. Traders, such as make profit out of the transfer and exchange of all that which is produced and manufactured. A business man may belong to any one or all of these classes, and not one is independent of any other. When the prince imperial of France fell on the Zulu battlefield 'because the strap fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke as he dung to it, his comrades all escaping, but he falling under the lances cf the savages, a great many people blamed the empress for allowing her Bon to go forth into that battle-field, and others blamed the English government for. accepting tho sacrifice, and others® blamed the Zulus for their barbarism. The one most to blame was the harness-maker who fashioned that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy and imperfect material, as it was found to have been afterward. If the strap had held, the prince imperial would probably have been alive to-day. But the strap broke. No prince independent of a harness-maker! High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupation, I in another, all bound together. So that there must be one continuous line of sympathy with each other’s work. But your vocation, if you have of engagements, if into your life there'come losses and annoyances and perturbations, as well as percentages and dividends, if you are p^flld from Monday morning until Saturday night, and from January to January by inexorable obligation and duty, then you are a business man, or you are a business woman, and my subject is appropriate to your case. We are under the impression that the moil and tug of business are a prison into which a man is thrust, or that^it is an unequal strife where, unarmed, a man goes forth to contend. 1 shall show you that business life was intended of God for grand and glorious education and discipline, and if I shall be helped to say what I want to say, I shall rub some of the wrinkles of care out of your brow, and unstrap some of the burdens from your back. I am not talking to an abstraction. Though never having been in business life, I know all about business men. In my fit st parish at Belleville, N. J., ten miles from New York, a large portion of my audience was made up of New York merchants. Then I went to Syracuse, a place of intense commercial activity, and then 1 went to Philadelphia, and lived long among the merchants, of that city, than whom there are no better men on earth, and for more than twenty-two years. I have stood in this presence. Sabbath by Sabbath, preaching to audiences, the majority of whom are business men and business women. It is not an abstraction to which I speak, but a reality with which I am well acquainted.

in tile nrSfc place* 1 remans tuat uusiness life was intended as a school of energy. God gives ns a certain amount of raw material out of which we are to hew our character. Our faculties are to he reset, rounded and sharpened tip. Our young folks having graduated from school'or college need a higher education, that which the rasping and collision of every-day life alone can effect Energy is wrought out only in a fire. After a man has been in business activity ten, twenty, thirty years his energy is not to be measured by weights or plummets or ladders. There is no height it can not scale, and there is no depth it can not fathom, and there is no obstacle it ean not thrash. Now, my brother, why did God put yduin that school of ^-energy? Was it merely that you might' be a yardstick to measure cloth, or a steelyard to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualified to chaffer and higgle? No, God placed you in that 'school of energy that you might be developed for Christian work. If the undeveloped talents in the Christian churches of to-day were brought out and thoroughly harnessed I believe the whole world would be converted to God in a short time. There are so many deep streams that are turning no mill wheels and that are harnessed to no factory bauds. Now, God demands the best lamb (At of every flock. He demands the richest sheaf of every harvest He demands the best man of every generation. A cause in which Newton and Locke and Mansfield toiled you andJ can afford to toil in. Oh, for fewer idlgrs in the cause of Christ and for more Christiag/workers, men who shall take the same energy that from Monday morning to Saturday night they put forth for the achievement of a livelihood or the gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath days put it forth to the advantage of Christ’s Kingdom and the bringing of men to the Lord. Dr. Duff, in South Wales, saw a who had inherited a great fortune. The man said to him: ‘‘I had to be very busy for many vears of my life getting my livelihood. After (awhile this fortune came to me, and there has been ao necessity that I toil since. There came a time when I said to myself: “Shall I now retire from business, or shall I go on and serve the Irtrd in my worldly occupation?* ’> He

said: “I resolved on the latter, and 1 hare been snore industrious In commercial circles than 1 ever was before, and since that hour I have never kept a farthing for myself. I have thought it to be a great shame if 1 couldn’t toil os hard for the Lord as 1 had toiled for myself, and all the products of my factories and my commercial establishments to the last farthing have gone for the building of Christian institutions and supporting the Church of God." Oh. if a thousand men in these great cities who have achieved a fortune could sec it their unty to do all business for Christ and the alleviation of the world’s suffering. Again, ‘ I- remark that business life is a school of psttiCnoe. In yonr every-day life how many things to annoy .ana to disquiet! Bargains will rnb. Commercial men will sometimes fail to meet their engagements. Cash books and m mey drawer will sometimes quarrel. Goods ordered for a special emergency will come too late, or be damaged m the traasportatiou. People intending no harm will go shopping without any intention of purchase, overturning great stocks of goods and insisting that you break the dozen. More bad debts on the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More debts to pay for other people. More meannesses on the part pf partners in business. Annoyance after annoyance, vexation after vexation, and loss after loss. -All that proeess will either break yon down or brighten you up. It is a school of patience. You have known men under the process to become petulant, and choleric, and angry, and pugnacious, and cross, and sour, and queer, and they lost their customers, and their nAae became a detestation. Other men hare: been brightened up under the process. They were toughened by the exposure. They were like rocks, all the more valuable for being blasted. At first they bad to choke down their wrath, at first they had to bite their lips, at first they thought of some stinging retort they would like to make; but they conquered their impatience. They have kind words now for sarcastic flings. Thoy hove gentle behavior now for unmannerly customers. They are patient now with unfortunate debtors. They have Christian reflections now for sudden reverses. Where did they get that patience'/ By hearing a minister, preach concerning it on Sabbath? Oh, no. They got it just where yon will get it—if you ever get it at all—selling hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, plowing corn, tinning roofs, pleading causes. Oh, that amid the turmoil and anxiety and exasperation of everyday life you might hear the voice of God saying: “In patience possess yonr soul. Let patience have her perfect work.” I remark again, that business life is a school of useful knowledge. Merchants do not read many books and do not study lexicons. They do not dive into profounds of learning, aud yet nearly all through their occupations come to understand questions of finance^md politics, and geography, and ju^flsrndenee, and ethics. Business is a severe schoolmistress. If pupils will not learn, she strikes them over the head and the heart with severe losses. You put five thousand dollars into an enterprise. It is all gone. You say: “That is a dead loss.” Oh, no. You are paying the schooling. That was only tdition, very large tuition—I told yon it was a severe schoolmistress —but it was worth it Yon learned things under that process you would not have learned in any other way. ^Traders in grain come to know something about foreign harvests; traders in fruit come to know something about the prospects of tropical production; manufacturers of Amercan goods come to understand the tariff on imported articles; publishers of books must come to understand the new law of copyright; owners of ships must come to know winds and shoals and navigation, and every bale of cotton, and every raisin cask, aud every teabox, and every cluster of bananas is so much literature for a business man. Now, my brother, what are you going to do with the intelligence? Do yon suppose God put you in this school of information merely that you might be sharper in a trade, that you might be more successful as a worldling? Oh,no; it waS thought that yon might take that useful information and use iWor Jesus Christ. Can it be chat yon have been dealing wifh foreign lands and never had the missionary spirit, wishing the salvation of foreign people? Can it be that you have become acquainted with all the outrages inflicted in business

life, and that you have never tried to bring' to bear that Gospel which is to extirpate all evil and correct all wrongs and illumine all darkness and lift up ttll wretchedness and save men for this world and the world to come? Can it he that, understanding all the intricacies of business, you know nothing about those things which will last after all bills of exchange and consignments aud invoioes and rent-rolls shall have crumbled up and been consumed in the fires of the last great day? Can it be that a man will be wise for a time and a fool for eternity? 1 remark, also, that business life is a school for integrity. Ko man knows what he will do when he is tempted. There are thousands of men who have kept their integrity merely because they, never have been tested. A man ■was elected treasurer of the state of Maine some years ago. He was distinguished for his honesty, usefulness and uprightness, but, before one year bad passed he had taken of the public funds for his own private use, ar.d was hurled out of office in disgrace. Distinguished for virtue before. Distinguished for crime after. Yon can coll over the names of men just like that, in wuosc honesty you had complete confidence, but placed in certain crises of temptations they went overboard. Never so many temptations to seoundrelism as now. Not a law on the statute book but has some back door through which a miscreant can escape. Ah: how many deceptions in the fabric of goods; so much plundering in commercial life that if a man talk about living a life of complete commercial accuracy there are those who ascribe it to greenness and lack of tact. More need of honesty now than ever before, tried honesty, complete honesty, more than in those times when business was a plain affair, and "woolens were woolens and silks were silks and men were men, Slow many men do you suppose there are in commercial life who could say truthfully: “Its all the sales I have ever made t hare never overstated the value of goods; in all the sales I hare ever made I have sever covered up an imperfection in the fabric; of ail the thousands of dollars I have ever made I have not taken one dishonest farthing?" There are mm, however, who can sa? it, l»5»adr*<l» who saa say it, mm

■.I —Ithousands who can say it more honest than when they first tierce of rice, or their first butter, because their honesty and tej, . ity hare been tested, tried and < out triumphant But they remem' lime when they could hare robbed a partner, or hare absconded with the funds of judgment ment, or a bank, or sprung or . made a false borrowed inimitably out any effort at paymeut or man into a sharp corner him. But they never took one i that pathway of hell fire, say their prayers without chink of dishonest dollars. They can read their Bible without thinking of the time when with a lie on their soul, in the custom house they kissed the book. They can think of death and the judgment that comes after it without any flinching—that day when all ehariaTans and choats and jockeys and frauds , shall be doubly damned. It does not make their knees kuock together, and it dees not make their teeth chatter to read “as the partridge sitteth ora eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be » fool.” Oh, what a school of Integrity busi^ ness life is! If yon have ever been tempted to let your integrity cringe before present advantage, if yon have ever wakened up, in some embarrassment, and said: "Now, I’ll step a little aside from the right path and no one will know it, and I’ll eome all right again; it is only once.” Oh, that only once has ruined tens of thousands of men for this life and blasted their souls for eternity. It is a tremendous schcn&l, business life, a school of integrity. A merchant in Liverpool got a five-pound bank of England note, and, holding it toward the light, he saw some interlineations in what seemed red ink. He finally deciphered the letters and found out that the writing had been made by a slave in Algiers, saying in substance: “Whoever gets this bank note will brother. please to inform my John Dean, living near Carlisle, that I am a slave of the bey of Algiers.” The merchant sent word,employed government officers and found who t’lis man was, spoken of in this bank bill. After awhile the man was resened, who for eleven years had been a Blave to the bey of Algiers. He was immediately emancipated, but was so worn out by hardship and exposure he soon after died. Oh if some of the bank bills that come through your hands could tell all the scenes through which they have passed, it would be a tragedy eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare, mightier tha n King Lear or Macbeth. As I go on in this subject, I am impressed with the importance of our having more sympathy with business men. Is it not a shame that we4n our pulpits do not often preach about their struggles, their trials and their temptations? Men who toil with their hands are not to be very sympathetic with those who toil with their brain. The farmers who raise the corn, and the{ oats, and the wheat, sometimes are' tempted tor think that grain, meri chants have an easy time, and get their profits without giving any equivalent. Plato and Aristotle were so opposed to merchandise that they declared commerce to be the curse of the cations, and they advised that cities be built at least ten miles from the sea coast. But you and I know that there are no more industrious or high-minded men than those who move in the world of traffic. Some of them carry burdens heavier than hods of brick, and posed to sharper things than the east wind, and climb mountains higher than the Alps or Himalayas, and if they are faithful Christ will at last say to them: “Well done, good and faithful servant; thon hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thon into the joy of the Lord.” A man arose in Fulton street prayermeeting, and said: “I wish publicly to acknowledge the goodness of God. I was in business trouble. I had money to pay, and I had no means to pay it, and I was in utter despair of all human help, and I laid this matter before the Lord, and this morning I went down among some old business friends I had not seen in many year^, just to make a call, and one said to me: ‘Why, I am so glad to see you; walk in. We have some money on our books due you good while, but we didn’t know where you were, and therefore not bOTing your send it. address We are “we very could glad not yon

have come. Amt toe men standing in Fulton street' prayer-meeting said: ''The amount they paid me was •six times what 1 owed.” Yon say it only happened so? You are an infidel. God answered that man’s prayer. Oh, yen want business grace. Commercial ethics, business honors, laws of trade, are all very good in their place, hut there are times when you want something more than this world will give yon. You want God. For the lack of Him some that you have known have consented to forge, and to maltreat their friends, and’ to curse their enemies, end their names have been bulletined among scoundrels, and they have been ground to powder, while other men you have known have gone through the very same stress of circumstances triumphant. There are men here to-day who fought the battle and gained the victory. People come out of that man s store, and they say: "Well, U there ever was a Christian trader, that is one.” Integrity kept the books and waited on the customers. Light from the eternal world dished through the show windows. Love to God and love to man presided in that storehouse. Some day people going through the street notice that the shutters of the windows are not down. The bar of that store door has not been removed. People say: “What is the matter ?” Yon go up a little closer, and you see written on the caid of that window: • •Closed on account of the death of one of the firm.” That day all through the circles of business there is talk about how a good man has gone. Boards of trade pass resolutions of sympathy and churches of Christ pray: "Help, Lord, for the godly man ceasetb. ” He has made hia last bargain, he has suffered his last loss, and has ached with the last fatigue. His children will get the result at his industry, or, if through misfortune there be no dollars left, they will have an estate of prayer and aad Christian example which will he everlasting. Heavenly rewards for earthly discipline. There “the wicked, cease from trofl.hlibg.and the wcaryfiSo at rest,” - ■'.V;':