Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 December 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XXII. PETEESBUEG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEE 30, 1891. - __,_ . NUMBER 32.

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FKMIONAl. CARDS. Dn sician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. *■Offlee In Bulk built'Ing. Urn Hour. Will louud at offlee day or .nlflil Oumu PI ‘ELL, Attorneys a.t Law, *v Pbtjcrsbubu, Ind. Ill practice In silt be Courts. Special attention given to all bittiness. A Notary Public constantly In t be offlee. WOfflco— On first floor Bank ButlnUng. 8.0. DavawrokT. B. A. KitEL < ^DA'rENPOET, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. woffle* over J. R. Adams A 8on’s store. Prompt attention given to alibi ness. E. P. BlCHASBSOK. A. H. TATLOa RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. I Prompt attention given to ell business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Offlee In Carpenter Bu ildlng, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

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■erf by ylven to all parties con■Vat I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, Read to business connected with tha of Truite* of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. OTICE is hereby given tbnt I will be at nay residence <, __ EVERY THURSDAY attend to bntiness connected with the te of Trustee of Logan township, •■positively no business tranasetsd u- , on office daya OTICE Is hereby given to all parties eon' coi ned that I will attend at my resident EVERY MONDAY transact business connected with tb< ce of Trustee of Madison township. •-Positively no business transacted ax i* office daya JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee.

THE WOjiLD AT LABGE. of the Dally New* CONGRESSIONAL. na senate met on ttw morning of the list * '***» Senator Prtter araouneed tbe sudden ' MUi of his co)leguo,ll£n. Preston B. Plumb, snfl ottered resolutions ot respect, trbloh were srf.optcd. The vice-pros! Jent appointed Senators Potter. Dolph, Paddock. Ransom stud Palmer as a committee to attend tbe 'funeral and the senate took a recess until 1 o’clock. At that hour the senate convened tor tbe funeral ceremonies. Tbe house ot representatives, tbe Judiciary, repress 4# foreign governments, the depffkmenta, cabinet ofll'ers, lend* ot the deceased senator it Tbe funeral ceremonies apresslve, at the conclusion ot which tbe thody was conveyed to the depot for ceavayunco to Kansas and the senate adjourned—The bouse was not In session, but the speaker appointed Messrs Fuoston «u0 Broderick, of Kansas:' Cate and Peet-Wt Ark tunas; Yotunans, of Michigan: P»d» of Illinois, and Cogswell, ot MassaobuH*B, a committee to aooompauy the reMaths of S< nator Plumb to Kanaaa ■Beveeal petitions were presented wben tttie senate met on tbe lid and Mr. Stanford, eit California w.ts - sworn In (or bis new term. The bouse concurrent resolutions tor the payment ot tbs December salaries Vo employes and for a holiday recess to Tuesday, January 5, were presented and concurred In end then, after a short ekeonttve session and as a mark ot respee: to the memory ot tbe late Representative Ford, of Michigan, the senate adjourned, [in tbe executive session Stephen B. Kleins was eonttrmod as secretary of war]....The housf was not In session. The senatu hold only a brie’ session on tile 2 d and adjourned until Ja'auarys.... The house mat and after the sp eaker pr sented the Hat ot committees adjourned until January’. _ _ WASHINGTON BOTES. Fran k Flbnniken, the private secretary of the late Senator Plumb, hat been retained clerk ot the committee on public lands by the action of Senator Dolpb. Maj. Eugene Weigi.e, specie.1 agent of the interior department, in the settlement of Indian Territory matters, was in Washington consulting with Secretary Noble. Congressman Crisp was reported seriously ill from insor.mia and neurat* gia of the heart. No one was allowed to see him. Thb senate has *confirmed the nomination of Stephen, ~B. Elkins as secretary of war. The president has telegraphed the fact to official. The Rus Alan charge d’affaires in Washingto n declares that twenty millions in Russia are in actual need and that Ri'asia will be glad to receive assistar ce from America. T'ak controversy with Chili was reported rather serious at Washington on *«he asd. The Chilians resolutely refused to Mubmi* t° the propositions of the AmeWea** governmental Th* resident has issued an 6rder re-mo-’JT Samuel D. Warmcastle from jje collectorship at Pittsburgh, Pa Right of the thirteen memF- rsaf tim -o« wkj Ow jSeare on XT or of free silver, ed that the United Stat&s is buy an island off Ecuador for American coaling station.

THE EAST. Iassachusetts executive council >m mended the pardop of James the notorious Northampton bber, who has already served years in prison. rd M. Field has been declared o before the commissioner of rsey. ecutive committee of the proparty of Pennsylvania has sliminary steps' to test the conality of the Baker ballot bill, lster county savings institution ton. N. Y., has been permitted ourts to resume business, ibilitlesof the Bank of Tyrone, 980,000 and the assets virtually The stockholders are not to 1 and the depositors are wild he cashier. hiladelphia grand jury has igle bill of indictment charging Clendenning and George A. irokers, with aiding ex-Clty John Bardsley in the emnt of 91,7.50,000 from the city, innsylvania Railroad Oo. is alwork laying an extra track sburgh to Chicago for world's I* H, Page, lessee of the Langil, 1097 Washington street, s assigned. Liabilities, 975,re was substantially nothing nsecured creditors. im Dbknnan, an old recluse livmtside of Huntington. Pa., was lsenslble by unknown men and bed of 91,000. *ippe is becoming epidemic in rk. Four of .the city officials up with it. ...j ‘ . tllision between a beer wagon able car at Pittsburgh, Pa., Wise and Abner Edwards, were fatally injured and _ were njpre or leas hurt reportaJthow that eleven per.kllV® four badly inle telescoping of the sleeper at Bastings, N. Y. Only >uts of the ear escaped. dhr missing heir to Cortland, N. Y., was found W. Va., and taken home, ing for two years, the Boston Chamber ms were adopted rpsaawlai nf '

^^ranafer the revenue cuttevASHice of the United States from the treasury department to the naval establishment. While the steamer Westeoast was hauling1 alongside the wharf at Point Arena. Cal., the other day her mooring parted and her storm lines fouled the propeller. The captain ordered the sails hoisted immediately.and the eteamer had just gained headway when heavy seas struck her, sending her on the south reef. Ten of the crew took the ship's boat and the boat capsized and nine men were drowned. She will be n total loss. At the annual meeting of the state board of agriculture at Topeka, Kan., January 18, 14, 15 and 10, Chief jhlmon, of file national bureau of anipal Industry, will read a paper bn Amirican meats and European markets, And Kansas agricultural college professors will deliver addresses, while Chancellor Snow, of the state university, will discuss ehiueh bug information. J. 1 Cass, the noted trotting horse owner and-manufacturer of Baoiue, Win. is dead. A hbavy wind and rain storm prevailed on the sound at Seattle, Wfcsb., on the USA It was reported at San Francisco that Adm. Brown had secured options on several vessels to be used in earn of trouble with ChUL One will be used ae a torpedo bopt gad four as transport* A PIS* »t B«|‘

It b reported that the tin plate manufacturers of the country will meet in 8t Louis next month and prepare a hill to'increase the present duties. John Mranyan, a college graduate from HontingMrg, lad., supposed to hare been murdered at Goldendale, Wash., has turned up alive and well St. Louis it to hare union depot covered sheds of iron occupying nine Md three-quarter acres and costing tsdp 000. They will be the largest in the world. F. L. Kidder A. Co.’a mills, Detroit, Mich., were destroyed by fire, Loss. •100,000; insurance, $3,090. The alien land law passed by the Illinois legislature In 18St has been declared unconstitutional by Judge Collins, of Chicago. President Gags, of the First National bank of Chicago, who has been dangerously 111 in New York, is now out of danger. Patrick Egan, nephew of the minister to Chili, was arrested at Spokane Falls, Wash., when about to be married. Egan was a cattle king and was about to wed Mrs. Matilda Wilder, widow of the late auditor of the Spokane & Kootenai Reservation Navigation Co. He was charged with seducing Mrs. Wilder’s daughter. An attachment for $10,000 has been levied on Lowenthal, Livingston & Co., shipping and commission merchants of San Francisco, precipitating the failure of the firm. The liabilities are about •200,000, mostly due to English firms Nearly ail the space allotted to Germany at the Chicago world’s fair has been taken and mope than the allowance wiil be needed. A sanitarium for the cure of the liquor, opium and. tobacco habits was opened by the Women's Christian temperanoe alliance in Chiago. > Physicians estimate that there are upward of 3,000 cases of grippe in Dubuque, la. Th“re have been very few fatal cases. G ,T. Harris has been elected principal chief of the Cherokee nation to succeed J. B. Mayes, who died recently. Harris has been prominent in Cherokee politics for the past twelve years. The Indiana coal miners’ strike has ended in the complete defeat of the men, who will return to work at the old wages. Gov. Francis, of Missouri, has published an opinion of James O. Broadheai concerning the convening of the legislature, who says that it is optional with the governor whether he shall redistrict tie state or call the legislature to do so, but that it must be done. The Chicago grand jury has indicted Thomas J. Elderkin, Thomas Nelson and Rrkert Lindholtz, officers and mcml’ers ot- she* seamen's union, for tons^iraoy. r THE SOUTH. The famous “Block 97” ease, the state of Texas vs. Bacon and Graves, which involves the title to. a whole block of land in Scurry county, over 874,000 acres, was recent-y decided in the district court at Colorado, Tex., in favor of the state. The defendants gave notice of appeal United States troops had two skirmishes the other night in Texas with Garza’s rebel band. The result was not fcnawn definitely. It was rumored that the outlaws had fede al troops bejdeged. . Billy Meyers, “Streator Cyclone,” defeated Carroll of Australia in a fortythree round fight in New Orleans the other night Trk Bank of Greenville, Miss., heretofore regarded as one of the richest in the state, has suspended, with •1,000,000 assets and liabilities. John A. CikewiiL ex-postmaster-general, died at Elkfjrtdo, Md., on the 33d. ; Da. R. A. Kinloch, ja noted surgeon of Charleston, S. G, isi dead. The notorious Bob aims' band of outlaws in Choctaw county, Alabama, shot three people dead, mortally wounded two others, wounded I three more and burned the house. They proposed to burn other houses. ^ Ex-United States Senator Hereford, of West Virginia, died at his home in Monroe ounty, that state, of oneumoniv -a- '

We the ish OISHEHU. Euokne d'Albkrt, the pianist, having obtained a divorce, is about to marry Mine. Teressa Carreno, the American pianist, who has ato succeeded in scouring a decree of divorce in a suit brought ngainajt her husband. A correspOStoent at Shanghai says: “The chief acting general of the imperial army baa been thrown fronrhis horse and his neck was broken. He was the finest commander in the Chinese army and was greatly admired. China will find it difficult to Replace him.” , A violent earthquake followed by a general undulatory movement of the earth occurred the other day at Corle00e, a town of Sieily. An ex-Clilnese official is scattered 800,000 copies of m __ _ _ _ lous attack on the Christiaan ' The Cairo Short line has become a convert to profit sharing. Dense fog and severe cold have suc"oeeded recent Btorms in England. In London business was reported almost suspended. The Chinese got u. uui.... envoy to the United world’s fair prospe —-*v "jessel believed ir have o«bn->leU<d trp — — It coast. It is thought everyone abfafrd was lost. -fiW* The Roumanian, minlslrghas resigned as the result of a defeat in parliament The Onion line steamer Abyssinia, with a rich cargo, has been burned at sea. The North Oermau Lloyd steamer Spree rescued the passengers and crew just in timeEnormous decrease in Russia’s revenues from the * famine provinces are reported The military is in almost constant use and the knout is beingapplled with deadly effect The rich 1 merchants of St Petersburg have refused to subscribe to' relief funds. CorFurther disorders have broken out in Rio Grande do Sal. The London Lancet’s Italian correspoadent says the pope’s health was precarious and that the event of his death would be kept secret until certain farrealities were concluded. As the result of the inquiry by Judge of Crimes Foster, of Valparaiso, Chili, four men have been held for the outrage on the tailors of -the United States ship Baltimore The report is very much in favor of the prisoners. The ravages of yellow fever in Brasil are growing heavier dally. A widespread janlc lias seised upon the people and alWho are able are fleeing ?gi°' lit*

Numerous arrests of alleged nihilists have been made in St Petersburg and Warsaw. Plans of the osar's palace were found on many of them. Advices have been received in Lisbon from South Af ica to the effeet that while the Cortinhos expedition was en route frem Qtiilllmhue to Mabhamby an explosion of gunpowder occured by Which sixty persons were killed and 110 wounded. BV an explosion of dynamite on a French lugger off Antwerp two vessels were blown to atoms and two men killed. fait entire Chilian cabinet resigned Whew President Montt Was formally installed. Senor Karros Luca will be the premier in the new cabinet DubInD a dense fog in Leeds, Englahd, two men walked into the river and were drowned The various commercial treaties passed their third reading in the lower house of the Hungarian diet VladisUW Smolensk*-, the Polish .historian, has been arrested in Warsaw charged with plotting against the caaft Six harbor patrol steamers to be equipped with rapid firing Hotchkiss guns and each to have a crew of sixty are to be built as scon as possible for use on the great lakes. The emperor of Mpfmany has con» ferred the star of theerder of Hohen* zollern upon Prof. Ernst Curtius, the distinguished Ho^leuist, in honor of his jubilee as a professor. A dispatch says that the steamship Island, of the Danish or Thingvala line, Cop. Laub, from Stettin, December 4, bound for New York, was ashore at Nidtngeh. The St, Petersburg correspondent ft the London Times saysi “The Russian TOsacves have received sealed instructions whV&t are not to be opened until: a certain signal Is given from headquarters. The greatest' activity prevails in all the Russian armamsat works and dock yards ” Some relief has come to the sufferers of Russia by the arrival of grain. Gross frauds involving millions are said to have been unearthed already in the province of Quebec by the ministry which succeeded that of Mercier. Gen. Booth, the head of the Salvation army, arrived at Madras from Australia and was given a grand welcome by both Hindoos and Christians and escorted to his hotel by an imposing procession. Li Hung Chang, the Chinese viceroy, is recovering from his attack of la grippe and has renewed operations against Ihe rebels. The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway Co. for the third week of December were $077,714, an increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of $115,873. Letters from Samoa report a critical situation. The chiefs are ta'king of rebellion. The London Times correspondent at Singapore telcgrapha news of a Malay rising tn Pahang, a stats of the Malay peninsula. He states that an English magistrate has been fired at and also that a body of armed policghas been dispatched from Selangor ts^tiall the revolt Michaei. Davitt was -defeate I at Waterford, Ireland, for parliament by John Redmond, Parnellite, by 548. Dun & Co.’s trade review reports the business situation as good as ever and the great industries more than usua’fy active. . A hot conflict between Catholics and police and soldiers occurred in Puebla, Mexico, as a result of the closing of four monasteries. One man was killed and others wounded. It is reported hi Valparaiso that the "two men who confessed to participation in the Baltimore outrage will be punished and that Ohili Will settle with the United States. Herb Janssen, the eminent historian and member of the center party in the German reichstag, is dead. The attack of influenza from which the king of Sweden is suffering is a severe type. The czarina of Russia la expected to visit France next lUoh h and the people are already preparlUg fetes for her. \ ThE Canadian government hat decided to continue the payment of a bonus to each new settler in Manitoba

THE LATEST. The Rome Diretto says it is the in* tention of the pope to confer the Grand Order of the Cross of Christ upon the archbishop of Aix as a token of the sympathy of hts holiness With the arch- . bishop in the latter's recent trial, conviction and tine for writing a letter, classed as insulting, to M. Fallieries, the French minister of public worship. The revolutionary movement in Mexico under the leadership of Catrina Garza has assumed such serious proportions during the past few days that President Dias views the situation with great alarm. It is a noticeable tact Garza is becoming more popular among the masses in the northern states of Mexico every day A frightful panic, causing the loss of ten lives and the serious wounding of a large number of persons, was caused, on the night of the 20th, by the cry of fire in a Gateshead (England) theater. The fire was extinguished with a couple of buckets of water. In two or three weeks, perhaps sooner, Die Minneapolis (Minn.) fiour mills will have to shut down on account of the scarcity of freight cars, and the inability of the trunk-lines east of Chicago to handle seaboard business. The Northumberland (England) miners have rejected, by a vote of 8,720 against 2,880, the. proposition to advocate the passage of a measure providing for a legal day's work of eight hours per day for boys It is announced in Berlin that the committee of the German commercial diet, appointed especially to consider the subject, has declared itself in favor of holding an international exhibition in Berlin. It is said in Paris that the czarina will visit that city in February and proceed thence to England for the purpose of attending the wedding Of the Duke of Clarence and Princess Victoria of Teck. The laying of the corner-stone of the first battle monument in New Jersey, on the 98th, the anniversary of the battle of Trenton, was observed with imposing ceremonies. The Carpenter steel works, located in the northern limits of Reading, Pa., were destroyed by fire on the 98th. Several men were badly injured. George E. Caddk*. a Navy Yorlf actor, aged MS years, died, Oh the 88th, ■ — MfiMigSjtaam taken with f i tj-1 *-a_nr*

has ft singing' ; Grant Layton had hels and sl;cty-eight les Parker, 149 buahit pounds. Layton also > ears of corn in one J threw thirty in a EdwaUd farmer, ai New Waal the barrel breech-pln destroying Monos, cured a dir Mrs. TE NEWS. «t grip in the employes of works has been Conhob. the first under state day at Pern, aged well known nr, living at ont hunting, d and the ft Me eye, t Goshen, sefirst husband, as married to Elkhart, in the died a flw to be lot W, P. urer of W MeMeans, Miaa bia City, s' 000 for ‘ Levi u. a. StSO, Th* bank business MAJ. Coirtt, rooster. *. Thkre was an bid-fashioned end efib mated corn husking bee, hear ftoWUCy, the other day, and the excitement ran so high that' 3800 was wagered oh who should husk the most corh ill twelve hours At the close of the contest it was found that 151 and httsked pounds els and husked thirty* minute, wagon. At Cohimbu*. Wm. Miller Was shhtenced to prison krone year for larceny. * The Indiana supreme court has decided that the metropolitan j>olice bill Is applicable to Terrh Haute. A si achhx* for husking corn his been invented and is in successful operation by 1 H. Hardy, at Hardy. N. A. Krkmer, of Canaan, won a prise of 335 for the best sample of Russian sunflower grown in the United States in 1891. The large barn near Evansville, owned by Isaac Odell, was destroyed by fire, caused by an exploding lamp. Loss 37,000. ' ~ . Lafayette is now stricken with the dreaded grip. . Charles Stockwell* of Rushville, a former patient at the Keeley institute at Plainfield, died frhin a dbse of thorphihe which he had secretly Obtained. Benjamin 8Cudder, a school teachdf of Tiptoh, yanked Frederick Oglebay out Of his seht for Creating a disturbance, breaking the boy's leg. He is the son of a prominent attorney. He and other bright urchins have been trying to run the school. The toll pikes in Delaware county are having a tough time of it, and recently several of them have been presented to the county commissioners by dissatisfied stockholders. The farmers in many instances refuse to pay the fee, and several lawsuits have ensued. The other evening four farmers, John and Samuel Baell, Nelson Adams and John McClean, were coming to Muncie on the Granville pike. A toll-gate was pulled down and looked on them for refusing to pay the three*cent f&fe. Samuel Baell hitched his team to the gate, pulled it down and proceeded to Muncie. Wm. C. Cook has been appointed county treasurer at Richmond, to fill the unexpired term of A. S. MeMeans, deceased. The saloonista of Portland have organised foV mutttal protection agftihst Hie temperance league. A camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of America have been organized at Darlington. Mrs. Sarah Hill, of Danville, aged seventy, fell down her cellar stairs and received, perhaps, fatal injuries A panther has been seen four miles east of Washington. It is supposed that the., animal has. Mapcd frfiifi a circus Whoopin® coush and the grip have both broken out in Bowling Green, and 85 ont of 150 pupils in schoo l are down with one or the other. Twenty New Albany people were poisoned by eating headcheese that had been cooked in an unclean copper vessel. They will recover. Oh December 18 Mr. A sail 'Chornburg celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday anniversary at his home near Deset* Mr. Thornburg is the oldest mad fit Delaware cottflty, add among the oldest ia the state. Qntte a number of his friends and relatives were With the old gentleman that day. He ia well and hearty, and should he live until Christmas he will have passed his on* hundredth Christmas His mi&fi is as clear as that of a man of 40, and he give* promise of not only seeing his one-hun-dredth Christmas bnt passing into the next centmry. Mr. Thornburg has ft son, Jacob, who is 78 years old, who has a son- Elihu, with whom they both live. Elihu is 48 years old, was in the late war in the Nineteenth Indiana, and has a married daughter. His first vote was for John Quincy Adams for president

oiikjr xictvc au owoncui uur atrical elnb. Incersiabibs are com pi Xined of by New Albany. False fire alarms annoy the Lafayette department The L E. A St L. railway ha* been sued at English for 9800 for killing James L. Jor^eo’ two setter dogs. Gov. Chase has appointed an Ohio river commission to look after the river interests in IndHlbn ■ JSFsjtkttUttstt year. A hew industry at Mancie is a cornice works While the little foor-year-cM daughter of E. Myers, of Brazil, was playing around a stove its dress caught fire. The child was burned to a crisp, but is yet alive The mother was also badly burned, as was another lady. White Caps beat young Earns into marrying a young girl whom “bad betrayed, in flubois county. , A COMPART is being organized atr

TALMAGE’S SEKMON, The Nativity t'of Jesus and Soma Overlooked Lessons, God Honored the Hrtate CFeatloii, Atiidtig Whom Jean* net Sew Light— 'to Animals A Her. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following- Christmastidc sermon in the Brooklyn tabei nacle, taking the Nativity of Jesus for his subject. The text And they came with haste, and 1 and Joseph and the Babe lying in the! links it. IS. The black tvindow shutters of a December night were thrown open, and some of the best singers of a world where they all sing stood there, hud putting back the drapery of blonde chanted a peace anthem, Until all the echoes of hill and valley applauded and encored the Hallelujah chorus, dome, let us go into that Christmas scene as though we had never before worst the manger. Here is a Mana worth looking At I wonder not At the most frequent fcaihe in ail and in all Christian Centuries is And thei-e are Marys in palaces Marys in cabins, and though Gerund French and Italian and Spanish and English pronounce it differently, they Are all nainesakfeS of the One whoilt we find on A bed of strkwi with her phle fhfcfe ngainst the soft cheek of Christ in the night of the nativity. All the great painters have tried, on canvas, to present Mary and her child, and the incidents of that most famous night Of the World's history. Raphael, in three different masterpieces, celebrated them, Tintoretto and Ghirlandajo surpassed themselves in the adoration of the Magi. Correggio needed to do nothing more than his Madonna to become immortal. The Madonna Of the Lily, by Leonardo da Vinci, Will kindle the admiration of all ages. But all the galleries of Dresden are forgotten when I think of the sma'ft worn of that gallery containing th« Sistine Ifadonna. Yet all of them were copies of St. Matthew's Madonna, and Luke's Madonna, the inspired Madonna of the Old Book, whi&we had pnt into our hands when we wen infm^^and that we hope to have uudei we die. Behold, in the first place, that on the first night of Christ's life God honored the brute creation. You can not get at Bethlehem barn without goit the camels, the mules, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes of that Rtable heard the first cry of the infant Lord. Some of the old painters represent the oxen and camels kneeling that night before the hew-bofn babe. And Weil might they kneel! nave yon ever thought that Christ came, among othei things, to alleviate the Sufferings bf the brute ereatktti’ Was it riot Appropriate that He should, during the first few days and nights of His life on earth, be surrounded by the dumb beasts, whose moan arid plaint and bellowing have , for ages been a prayer to God for the -arresting of their thrtnrers and' the fighting of their wrongs? It did not merely “happen so” that the unintelligent creatures of God should have been that night in close neighborhood. Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a bird’s nest, not a worn-out house on tow-path, not a herd freeaing in the poorly-built cow-pen, not a freight car in snmmer time bringing the beeves to market without water through a thousand miles of agony, not a surgeon’s foom witnessing the struggles of fox, or rabbit, or pigeon, or dog, iu the horrors of vivisection, hut has an interest in the fact that Christ was born in a stable, surrounded by brutes. He remembers that night, and the prayers He heard in their pitiful moan He will answer in the punishment of those win maltreat the dumb brutes. They surely have as raueh right in this world as we have. In the first chapter fit Genesis you may see that they were placed on the earth before man was. the fish, and fowl created on the fifth day, and the quadrupeds the morning of the sixth day, and man not until the afternoon of that day. The whale, the eagle, the. lion and all the lesser creatures of their kind were predecessors of the human family. They have the world by <right of possession. They have also paid rent for the placet they occupied. What an army of defense all over the land are the-faithful watch-dogs. And who can tell what the world owes to the horse, and camel, and ox, for transportation? And robin and lark have, by the cantatas with which they have filled orchard and forest, more than paid for the few grains they have picked up for their sustenance. When you abuse any creature oJ God’s you Strike Its Creator; and jthti insult the Christ who, thdugh tie' might have Vefiri Welcomed iritd life i>y princes, and taken His first irifaiitUe slumber auiid Tyrian plrisH rind Canopied couches, AUd rippling waters from royal aqueducts dripping into basins of ivory and pearl, chose to be born on the level with a cow's horn, or a camel’s hoof, or A dog’s Hostril, that He might be the alleviation of animal suffering as well as the Redeemer of man. Standing then, as I imagine now i do, in that Bethlehem night with an infant Christ on the one side and the

■peeumesH ureaiurcH ui uou ou umvuivr, I cry, look oat how you strike the rowel into that horse’s side. Take off that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth. Remove that saddle from that raw back. Shoot not for fun that bird that is too small for food, forget not to put water in A* the cage of that canary. Throw but some crumbs to those birds caught too far north in the winter’s inclemency. Arrest that man who is making, that one horse draw a load heavy enough for three. Rush in upon that scene where boys are torturing a eat, Or transfixing butterfly and grasshopper. Drive not off that old robin, for her nest is a mother’s cradle, and under her wing them may be three or four musicians of the ’ sky in training. In your families and in your schools, teach the coming generation more mercy than the present generation has ever shown, and in this ; marvelous Bible picture of the nativity, while you point out to them the angel, show them also the camel, and while they hear the celestial chant, let them also hear the cow’s moan.« No more did Christ show interest in the botanical world, when he said. “Consider the lilies,” than He showed sympathy for the ornithological when he said: “Behold the fowlsof the atr,” and the quadrupedal world when Re allowed Himself t? he called in one place a lion, another place a lamb, may the Christ of tUe-pea have merer <mt •took rwd*. tt*I f ' ■

diseased and fevered Meat for cor American households. Behold, also, in this Bible scene, how. on that Christmas Bight. Cod honored childhood, Christ might hare mode His first visit to our work! in a cloud, as Ue will ascend On His next Visit in a cloud. In what a chariot of illumined Vapor Ue might have rolled down the sky, escorted fey mounted cavalry, with lighting for1 drawn sword. Elijah had a carriage «rf fire to ! take him np; why not Jesus a carriage of fire to fetch Him down, Or, .over the arched bridge of a rainbow the Lord might have descended. Or Christ might hark had His mortality bnilt np on earth ont Of thd dust of the garden* as was Adam, ifi full manhood at the start, without the introductory feebleness of infancy. No, No! Childhood Was to; be honored by that advent. He must have a child’s light limbs, and a Child’s dimpled hand, ami b child’s beaming eye, and a chad’s Essen hair; and babyhood was to be honored for Sit time to come, and a cradle Wat to mean more than A gTave. Mighty Hod! May the j reflection of that One child’s face be seen in all infantile feces. Enough have all thoea fathers-had mothers on hand if they b&ve a child in the house. A throne, a crown, a seep* ter, A kingdom under charge. Be careful how you strike him across the head, jarring the brain. Whist you say to him will be centennial and mill-social, and a hundred years aiitl a thousand years will not stop the echo and the re-echo, ik) not say: “It is only a child.” Bather say: "It is Only an ist»ptortal.to It Is only a masterpiece of Jehovch. It Is only a being that shall outlive Shit and moon and star, and ages quaurillettnial. God has infinite resources, And He Can give presents of great value,- hht when He wants to give the richest possible gift to a household, He looks around all the world and all the universe and then gives a child. The greatest present that God ever gave our world. He' gave about eighteen hundred and ninety-one years ago, and He gave it on a Christmas night, and it was of such value that Heaven adjourned for A recess and broke through the clouds to lock at it' Yea, id all ages God has honored child-:1 hood. He makes almost every picture a failure unless there fee a child either playing on the floor, or looking through the window, or seated on the lap, git«vhto the lace of the mother. f^was«. child in Nanican’s kito*-~“ that told agaasn- wfirrior where he might go and get cured of the leprosy, which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan, was left at the bottom of the'river. It was to the cradle of leaves, in which a child was laid, rocked by the Nile, that God called the attention of, history. It was a sick child that evoked Christ s curative sympathies. 1few as fi child that Christ set in the midst of the squabbling disciples to teach the lesson Of humility. We are informed. that wolf and leopard atk! lion shall he yet so domesticated that a little child shall lead them. A child decided Waterloo', showing the army of Bluchor how they could take a short cut through Use fields, wbe'rt, if the old road had been, followed, the Prussian general would ihave come up too late to save the destinies of Europe. It was a child that decided Gettysburg, he having overheard two confederate generals in a conversation, in which they decided to march for Gettysburg instead of Iiarrisburg^and this, reported to Gov. Curtin, the .federal forces started to meet their opponents at Gettysburg. And to-day the child is to decide all the great battles, make ail the laws, settle all the destinies and usher in the world's salvation or destruction. Men, women, nations, all earth and HeaVCn, behold the child! Is there any velvet so soft as a child’s cheek? Is there any sky so blue 86 a child’s eye? Is there any music so. sweet as the ehild’s voice? Is there any plume so wavy 53 a child’s hair? Notice also that in this Bible night scene God honored science.. Who ate li}« three wise saen kneeling before the Divine infant? Not boors, jjftit ignoramuses, but Caspar, BfiliKiSAr find Hitchoir, men who knew all that was to be known. They were the Isaac flew tods and Herschels and Faradays of their time. Their alchemy was the forerunner of onr sublime chemistry, their astrology the mother of onr magnificent astronomy. They had studied stars, studied metals, studied physiology, studied everything. And when I see these scientists bowing before the be&ntiful babe I see the prophesy of the time when all .the telescopes and microscopes, and all the Leyden jars, and all the electric batteries, and all the observatories, and all the universities shall bow to Jesus It is much that way already. Where is the college that does not have morning prayers, thus bowing at the manger? Who have been the greatest physieians? Omitting the names of the living lest fee should Ue invidious, have we not had fintottg them Christian men like (Mr own Jos. fe hntdtttaM Sod Rush and Valentine Mott afid AoefdfOlutrie and Abernethy? Who have been our greatest scientists? Joseph Henry j who lived and died in the faith of the Gospels, and Agassi*, who, standing with bis students among the hills, took off his hat and saidi “toting gentlemen, before we study these rdeks. let us pray for wisdom to the Hod 'Who made the rocks.” To-day the greatest doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and New York and of this land and of all lands, revere the Christian religion, and are not ashamed to say so before juries and legislatures and senates. All geology will yet bow before the Bock of Ages. All botany will yet worship the Bose of Sharoa. AH astronomy W1U yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem. And physiology and anatomy will join hands and say: "We must, by the help of God, get the human race up to the perfect nerve, and perfect muscle, and perfect brain, and perfect form of that perfect child, before whom, nigh twenty hundred years ago, the wise men bent their tired knees in wor

Behold also ia that first Christmas night that Ood honored the fields. Come in, shepherd boys, to BetMehei^ and see the child. “No,” they ssy, *‘v»# are not dressed good enough to come In.'” Sure enough, the storms and the night clew and the branches have made rough work with their apparel, but none h^ve a better right to come in, They were the first to hear the music of that Christmas night. The first announcement of a Saviour’s birth was made to those men in the field*. There were yriteacres that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem saortttg in deep slew* and there were salaried ofite-e?* of government who, hearing of H afterward, may have thought thm they ought t?» hate hea ths first w>y**cf 6«fls a grsat bv«t* mm aes iilwa jiinUat inm * at tm mi

“Who tilt, at some sentinel’s question, comes there?” tbc great ones of the palace might have been told of the celestial arrival. No; the shepherds heard the first two; bars of the music, the first to the major key and the last to the subdued minor: “Glory to Gqfi in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.” Ah, yes; the fields were honored. The old shepherds with plaid and eroolc have tor tha most pa rt vanished, but vre bars gracing on onr United States pastern fields and prairie about fortyfive million sheep, and all their keepers ought to follow the shepherds of my text, and all those who tofl is fields, all vine dressers, all orchanllsta, all husbandmen. Not only tpat Christmas night, hot all up and down the world's history God hss been honoring the fields. Nearly all the messiahs of reform and literature and eloquence and law and benevolence have come from the fields. Washington from the fields. Jefferson from the fields. Hie presidential martyrs, Garfield and Lincoln, from the fields. Henry Clay from tha' fields Daniel Webster from the fields: Martin Luther from the fields Before this world is right, the overflowing population of onr crowded cities wffii ' “ -- have to take to the field. Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to who shall sell that one apple, we want at least eight of them to go oat and raise apples. Instead of ten merchants desiring to sell that one bushel of wheat. We want at least eight of them to go Out and raise wheat The world wants how more hard hands,more bronzed » cheeks, more muscular arms To tike fields! God honored them when He woke tip the shepherds by the midnight anthem, and He will, while the world lasts, continue to honor the fields. When the shepherd’s crook was that famous night stood against the wall of the Bethlehem khan, it was a prophecy of the time when thresher’s flail, and farmer's plow, and woodman’s air, and ox’s yoke, and sheaf-binder’s rake shall surrender to the God who made the country, as man made the town. Behold, also, that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Two angels on their wings might have brought an infant Saviour to Bethlehem without Mary’s being there at all. When the villagers, on the morning of December Sfi. awoke, by Divine arrangement, and. in some unexplained way, the child- Jesus might have been to some e“"“t'vt»ble ~n»dle of tfie But no, not Motheraooa for all time was to Ibe consecrated, and one of the tendered relations was to bo the maternkl relation, and one of the sweetest words, “mother.” In all ages God has honored good motherhood. John Wesley had a good mother, St. Bernard had a good mother, Doddridge a good mother, Walter Scott a good mother, Benjamin West a good mother. In a great andienoe, most of whom were Christians, 1 asked . that all those who had been blessed of Christian mothers arise, and almost the entire assembly stood up.’ Don’t you see boW important it is that all motherhood be consecrated? Why did Titian, the Italian artist, when he sketehed the Madonna, make it an Italian faee? Why did Rubens, the German artist, in his Madonna, make It a German face? Why did Joshua Reynolds, the English artist, in his Madonna, make it an English fa«e? Why did Mnrillo,. the Spanish artist, to his Madonna, make it a Spanish face? 1 never heard, but 1 think they took their own mothers as the type of Mary, the mother of Christ. When yon hear some one, in sermon or oration, speak to the abstract pf a good, faithful, honest mother, your eyes fill up with tears, while yon say to yourself: “That was my mother.” The first word a child utters is apt to be “Mother," and the old man, in his dying dream, calls: “Mother! mother!” It matters not whether she was brought up in the surroundings of a city, and a affluent home, and was dressed appropriately with reference to the demands of modern life, or whether site wore the old-time cap, and great round spectacles, and apron of her own make, and knit yonr socks with her own needles, seated by the brokd fire-place, with great black log ablaze, on a whiter night. It matters not how many wrinkles crossed and recrossed her face, or how much her shoulders stooped with the burdens of a long life. If yon painted a Madonna, here would be the face. What a ghntle band she had when we were sick, and what a voice to soothe pain, and was there anyone who could so fill up a room with peace, and purity, and light? And what a sad d%y that was when we eotae home and Bhe could greet us not, for her lips were forever' still. Come back, mother, this Christmas day, and take yonr old place, and as ten, or twenty, or fifty years ago, come and open the old Bible as you used to; read and kneel in the same place where you used to pray, and look upon ns as of old when yon wished ns a Merry Christman or a Happy New Tear. Bat not That would pot be fair to call yon back. Ton had troubles enough, and aches enough, and bereavements enough while yon were here. Tarry by the throne, mother, till we join you there, yonr prayers all answered, and to the eternal homestead of onr God we shall again keep Christmas jubilee together. But speak from yonr thrones, all you glorified mothers, and say to all them, your eons and daughters, words of love, words of warning, words of cheer. They need yonr voice, for they have traveled far and with many a heart-break since you left them, and 1 you do well to call from the heights of Heaven to the valleys of earth. Hall, enthroned ancestry! We are coming. Keep a place right beside you at the \

The oldest libraries of which we have any certain knowledge an thoae recently brought to light by excavations among the ruins of the east Among these are the Babylonish books inscribed on clay tablets, supposed to have been prepared for public instruction about 650 B. C. It is said by Aristotle that Strabo war the first known collector cfObooks end manuscripts— 1 about the year !W0 B. C. -Mac and women whose hearts an fountains of pity, whose ayes run down with tears, whoso throats get hoarse with crying, these an mighty before God. The spring and fountain of many