Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 December 1892 — Page 1

E ieS. STWrs, fiUfetor. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1892. VOL. XXIII .-NO. 33.

dufikti JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS ‘ NEATLY EXEOUTEI ■A'-s HBA80NABLBS4TBS. NOTICE!

fROt ESfilONAI. CARD*. J. T. KIMS. 1C IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IS®. if «T Office in Hank building, first floor. Will bo found at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. frcmpt Attention Given .0 all Bneinea. WOffloe over Barrett A Son', atom. nuKCK B. roaar. Dewitt Q. oiurrau. POSEY & CHAPPELL Attorneys at Lawf Petersburg, Isd. Will prartloe In all the courts. Special at* lentlon given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In tba office. ggrOfflee— Oa first floor Bank Building. E. A. Kit. 8. G. Davwront ELY A DAVENPORT, tAWYERS, Petersburg, Ini>. WOfflee over J. R. Adams A Sue« drag store. Prompt attention given to all bualu ear. K. 1». Richardsoe. A. H. Tatlo* RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all bnstnea*. A Notary Public censtuntlv In tbo office, uffioa In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. ST0NEG1PHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, INP, Office in roomsfi and 7 la Carpenter BuildInst. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor paluleas extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, ! Physician and Surgeon PHTEHSliUHG, ISD. Will practice In Bike and adjoining counties. Office In Montgomery Building. OlUoa hours day and ntirht. •^Diseases ot Women and Children a specialty- Chronic and difficult cases soltolted. NELSON STONE, D. V. $., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long praotioo and the possession ot a Ana library and ease ot instmments, Ur. Stone ia wall prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle 8UOCK8SFUU,Y. Be alao keepa on hand a stock ot Condition Powders and Liniment, which bo sella at reasonable price. Office Onr J. B. Young & Co.'s Store.

VttOM.OOft year la being made by John It ^ Goodwin,1'r«y ,X.Y.,al w«k for ut. header, you m»y not make •• much, but wo ran teach you quickly how to raru from#* to ■ fltf • ilar at (h« nan, and more a* you go ■ on. Doth eeaee, all agea. In any |>art of "^■America. you can eonuurnr* at luana, glr^Diug all your lime,or aj are momenta only to the work. All U new. Gkeat j ay M Kk f«# W every worker. We atari you, furnishing ' ax ary thing. KA8II.V, KlhVllUhY learned. ii'VLAHB yut.a. everything. KAI11Y, BIT L1\AK1KTI.A1:8 FKK*. Addraaa at one* httMtUH * to., tumUMl,

THU PATER IS ON FILE IN f H CHICAGO AND NEW YORK ALT THE OFFICES OF I. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUSTEES' NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. \ NOTICE l. hereby siren met 1 will attend to tbe duties of the offloe of trustee of Olay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. AH persons who hare business with tbe office will take notloe that 1 will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby siren to nil parties Interested that I will attend at my offloe In Btendal, EVERY 6TAURDAY. To transact business connected with the cfllee of trustee of Lockhart township. AH persons haring^bualaesi with said ofllee will please take notl J. 8. B ARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby *leon to all parties con • earned that I will be nt my residence. EVERY TUESDAY To attend to business connected wltb tbs »of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GKU1. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby siren that I will be at my residence _ EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Los an township. Positively no bus'ness transacted e» sept on ofllee days SILAS EUUC. Trustee. OTICK Is hereby siren to all portlet eon- ‘ " III attend at my residence sensed ** jjovday To transact buelness connected m„ .. -- - _’lth the otflee of Trustee of Madison township. MTPosItleely no business transacted SR* sept office days james Tn|>tM XTOTICK la hereby siren to all persons Infr teres tea that I will attend In my office la fdJU". EVERY FRIDAY. To tmnssot business oonaected with tbs 1 — . I..’ ___Ill effiea of Trustee of Msrloa township. All nersohs bavins business with said offies Will please take notice^ . Jlren to all persons Ms^atbsliii ar my offloe business connected with the •tee or Jeftereon township. R W. HARRIS, Tru .tee.

What is Castori* la Dr. Samuel Pitcher's proscription for Infests and Children. It contains neither Opium* Morphine nor othor Narcotic substance. It is n harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its gtmranteo Is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Card, cures Dlarrhcoa and Wlud Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tho food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas« toria 1s tho Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend.

Castoria. “Castoria lean exoellent medicine for ehfldnn. Mothers have repeatedly told nut of iU good effect upon their children." Da. Q. C. Osooon, Jewell, llsw. * CSstoria la the best rented; for children c( srhich I am acquainted. I hope the day Is rot far distant when mothers will consider (he real Interest of their children, and use Cash aria Instead of theenriousquack nostrums which am destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup dnd other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sanding them to premature graves." Da. J. r. Kiscsislos, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. “Castortals bo wi ll adapted to children that t recommend It as superior toany prescriptici koonutome." H. A. Aaoma, K. D„ tit So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N.», “Our physicians in ths ehjldran's department have spoken higldjy^SF their expert ence In their outside practice with Castorta, aud although sro only hare among cur medical supplies what Js known as regular products, yet we ere free to coufeea that the merits of Castoria has won us to look Witt favor upon It." UsiTxn Haemal, am Hismnm, Haas kum C. Surra, /Yes.,

The Ontanr Company, TI Murray Street,- Now Turk City. JOHN HA.MMO:NT>. i*TEFJ7mqtocoos OF BVEB’T ZECXXTXD To which ho directs Attention. Ills DRY COQDSare flrst-clnss, and the stock Is very lari Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions. Give him a coll, and yon will be convtnecQ Hint he is giving BARGAINS onhto entire etac) • SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. , O. A. BURGER &.BRO, THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Petersburg, Indiana, Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods Consist I hk of the very beat Butting nod Piece Good* . Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

, OHIO* MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. TUB VAST ZAXTB EAST & WEST. « Solid, Dally Tmiss to Cleetuinsttl, 4 Solid Dally Tralna to St, l.tala. • Solid Dally Trains to Loutsillle. Connecting In Union Depots, with Uwl.i*. of all llnosPor the East, West, North and South. Through Vestibule nay Coaches, Pullman Parlor Cars and Sliepers on all Train*. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. Pullman Vestibule Buffet Sleepers fro* St. Louis and Statioua ou Main Liue ffashington.Baltimore.Philadelpba and New York, without change, BASTWAItU F«0* WASHINGTON No .S Accommodation 12 87 P, M. No. a. Day Express 4 1# P. M. No. 4. Nlgh» U xpi ess 125J A. M. No. 6 Fast Express 2.1)5. a. M. Westwakp Foum Washington No. 7 Accommodation 1243 P. M. No. 1 Pay Express 12 W P. M No. 8 N lyrist Express 12 88 A M. No. 6 Fast Express 2 US Am. Home Seekers MovinG WesT Should take this line as It boa less changes nf cares and better accommodations than “tour Vestibule care are a luxury, which may bewdoyed by all. without extra charges, and tS - - -.. vrtJSaHentlon Is given our |«a*sengers to mkMhelrJourney pleasant and comfortable. Our agents will take pleasure in answering Inquiries In restart) to rates for both passenRsre nnl freight, time, routes and conneoons; call at yonr home if desired and attend to shipping freight by the most direct routes and eheecklng baggage.wlthoutcharge for any assistance they may be ablo to ren*leN. B.—Passenger* should purchase ticket* before entering the cars, as the ticket .rate 1 ten cents less than the train rate, mb Communications addressed lo the under signed will reeeve prompt attention, THOMAS HONAHUB, Ticket Agent O. * M. R’y_Washington Ind C. O. J ones, District Passenger Agt. Vincennes Ind. J. F. BARNARD, W B. BHATTUO Pres, end M'gr. Qe’n. Fa*» Agt \ OINOINNATTI OHIO. Ashby & Chappell,

F. 7L SHANDY. FAMILY GROUP AND RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY. All kinds of out-door work, por> traits, copying and enlarglngf rora old* pictures &c. Birthday and Surprise party groups a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Give me a call, or address F. A. SHANDY, Petersburg Indiana. ItJ. BRADY, Petersburg, Indiana, Will make yon Photos In any number at most reasonable rates. m^-Kemem'a.- that my work la war* ranted. If »o j want PORTRAITS enlarged call and '.ave the work done right. All work guaranteed to stand the tost ol ages and still bo as bright aa when taken from the gallery. Studio equipments of standard modern makes. Our motto—“The Best la As Good As Any,and Always the Cheapest." M. J. BRADY. Gallery in Kisert’s Building, upstairs, on Main, between Sixth and Seventh Monuments Best materlsl, most reasonable prices, satisfaction guaranteed at 1‘eierMburn IHsr bln Work* J. A B. YOUNG, Proprietors. • IttfCDTKEDC or others, who with to exams* HU VEIl I Iwtlld this papw.cr obtain Mtioutaa on arbartblng apace whan In Chicago, will find it on float LORD & THOMAS. -5T-1-«——— Machinist AND Blacksmith. smithing. Alar Moving and MM Mtcblats

SEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of important Events. PiPTY-SEOONO CONGRESS. Is ths senate, oil lbs 30th, several blU» VrsrS (ntiodnSei, ah'] two suttiiriiiun tbs sale Of the Ln<ls Of the Brooklyn havj Jfard, aha of ladle lu Ute Vioinitr of Fort Mifflo, fid., wefe jtaaeed. the shti-optlou bt'l Was then takes tip and whs trader Consideration tiotil the tinie of hdjottrhtasht when it west ovor withddt action..Id the hodee the senate bill authorising the sale Of land In the vicinity of Fort MifBii, Del, was P'seed. A resolution was adopted calling on tho secretary of the Interior for Information relating to the action taken in the matter of the chartor of the Bastings. & Dakota Railroad bo. Fnrthef business Was blocked tdr Want of kqnorhtd; lit the senatSi Od the Slst, thrash fourths of the aeesiou whs devoted to epeeSh-idatiiag. Tbe concurrent resolution for the holiday reCess was agreed id. A Joint resolution Was In1 trodnced by Mr, McPherson (dem., N. Y.)i dii foot ink the secretary df ths treasury td suspen 1 dll pdrchsssa df iilver bullion under the Sherman act or July 14, 1893. Several bllla of minor importance were taken from the calendar an 1 passed......Iu tho house, there being no quorum present, no business was tran3 acted. In tbe senate, on the Ml. a number of petitions were presented asking postponement of tho anti-option bill. The bill to snppresn and prohibit immigration for ode year from the 1st of March, 1893, Was reported back With amend* tnsnta. Senate bill to amend existing laws relating to mineral lands and mining resources was passed. The McOarrabdn bill teas again taken dp, but went over without action, and ths anti-option bill was taken up, Mr. Petfer Con* ttnuiug his speech. After a short executive session tbe senate adjourned to January 4.... In tbe bouse, there being no quorum present, adjournment until January 4 was taken. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ths people are not losing much sleep over tip threat of the foreign steamship companies to boycott tho country In ease of the passage of a measure suspending immigration. In fact, nobody Is thinking of the interests of those Corporations in the matter at all. Some measure covering the gToundis reasonably sure of enaotmeut this Printer, and in view of the dangerof a reappearance of cholera in the spring there is need of some intelligent and prompt action. Undoubtedly if tho republic were overthrown in France the Bourbons would have a far better ehance than the Bonapartlsts to come to the front. They are much stronger in the chamber of deputies and with the people than ake their rivals, and they hav$ looked after their interests with considerable ablUty and tact However, it is to be hopfd the republic is not in serious peril* Thr probate of Lord Tennyson’s will wai granted on the noth. The gross personal estate amounts to £vr,?io. The entailed estates descend from Hal* lam Tennyson to tho succeeding male heirs. The will was executed in 1884. Paris witnessed, ott the 2i)th, the most eliciting scenes since the Panama canal scandal investigation begun. Many deputies and senators were named as bribe-takers, and many dnels will result from the charges made. The popular vote in the late election was as follows: Cleveland, 8,567,990: Harrison, 5,176,611; Weaver, 1,025,090; Bid well, 258,847. Cleveland’s plurality, 891,879. E. B. Shearer, a stonemason, died at his home in Mason City, la., on the 20th, from an overdrink of alcohol. His sufferings were terrible. Before his death he told from whom he purchased the liquor, and a suit for damages will be instituted. / John F. Durham, minister to Haytl, now in this country on leave of absence, was instructed by the secretary of state, on tho 20th, to return without delay to Port au Prince and investigate the facts attending the arrest and imprisonment of Frederick Mevs, a respectable American merchant of that city. Alexander Bussell Webb, who recently resigned his office as United States consul at Manilla to preaeh Islamism, is now at Hyder A bad, India, soliciting contributions to a fund which is to be spent in sending Islamite missionaries to the United States. He la having immense succefe It was definitely settled, on the 20th, that Dr. Frank Gunsaulus, of Plymouth Congregational church, Chicago, is to be at tho head the great Armour training school. Dr. Gunsaulus has for five years been Mr. Armour’s paster. The doctor went tc Chicago from Baltimore, and, though very young, qulokly took rank as one of the foremost clergymen of the city. The house committee on inter-state and foreign commerce, on the 20th, made a favorable report upon the bill to amend the act to promote the construction of a deep water harbor on the coast of Texas. The amendment extends the time for the commencement of the work five years ,rom February 9, 1898.

William Moreland, an attorney of Portland, Ore., Is looking for the memten of John Brendle's family. In I860 this family was prominent in Illinois affairs, residing at White flail. The father went to California during the gold excitement and was supposed to hare died. As a matter of fact he accumulated a large fortune and did no« die until several weeks ago. The Wabash car inspector at Toledo, 0., on the night of the 80th, found the murdered body of an unknown man on a pile of corn in a newly received car. It had been shipped from Saronville, Neb., and received by the Wabash at Chapin, 111., December IT. The body was covered with boards, every pocket was turned inside out, and a blow on the head had caused death. President Elliot of Harvard university has informed Mrs. Agassis, the head of the Harvard Annex (Society of the College for the Education of Women), that if the annex could bring to Harvard, in addition to its plant and what it already has, the sum of 8850,000, he would use his influence to have the annex accepted as part of the university. The big dress goods and clothing mills of F. A. Bachman & Co.,at Second and Cambria streets, Philadelphia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, on the 81st, which originated in the basement from spontaneous combustion. Loss, ♦235,000, covered by insurance. A party composed of about ninety prominent merchante,from all over the country, together with several newspaper men from New York, Chicago ana Washington, is being organised for the purpose of making n tour, this winter, through Mexico. Ox the 22d the president recognised Frank 8. Pratt as consul from Hawaii for (he states of Nevada, Oregon and Washington • E. N. Mellob, of the late Wisconsin lumber Arm of Hoxle * Mellor, which failed two year* ago for $500,000 and eSroles, eom^Lrsulcide*at^he Vivian hotel, Antigo, Wis., on the 38d, by blowing out hie brains

CiAi’Di! Wuin. one of the ain.t i>op* nlat young business men of Brazil, Ind., committed suicide, on the 21st, discharging the contents of an old shot* gun into his body. The badly decomposed body of a day* old infant was found in a black satchel Under one of the seats In the New York Central depot at Schenectady, N. Y., on the 224 'Tute entire plant of the Borne bleach and dye works at Valley Falls, R. t, was destroyed by fire on the 22d| loss, about *70,000. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone and the members of their party arrived at Biarritz, France, on the 23d. THE commercial convention between France and the United States was ratified hy the French chamber of deputiee on the 23d. ftEtiAhtE persons who have examined the diamond basin, in Owyhee connty, Idaho, tlertounoe the reported find of diamonds in that region as a Crttel hoax. • Herbert Tufts AiLen, Harvard *80, died in New York, on the evening oi the 81st, of peritonitis He was sick only a few days. “Bert” Allen was a famous Harvard base-ball player. “Nicholas and Allen,” the famous Harvard battery, were known all over the country in 1886 and 1886. The joint congressional committee on Immigration, not satisfied with collecting huge volumes of matter relating to immigration and preventing the predicted introduction of cholera next year, has decided to Send a joint subcommittee to Cuba during the holiday recess to gather additional information. Secretary of State Foster lias been Informed of the appointment of Senor Caisar Carevo as Peruvian minister al Washington. The post has been vacant some time. Gen. Carevo was one of the leading military spiritsain the last war between Peru and Chili, and made n gallant record. RoCHA, the Mexican agent who is reported to have left the City of Mexico to join the revolutionists on the Hie Grande border, is a famous character. He is known to all the Mexican array as “The Tiger.” When Maximilian was fighting to establish an empire in Mexico Rocha was one of his favorite generals. The continued prevalence of cholera in Europe exeites apprehension in administration circles. The hope entertained that the dread disease had been extinguished is dissipated in the face of reports of new cases, and the conviction Is forced upon government officials that, as predicted by many scientists, the disease Will reappear With increased violence In the spring, The fly-wheel at the White River iron and steel works at Muncte, Ind., butst, on the 22d, tearing the bnilding to pieces. Head Roller Ed Perkins, of Joliet, 111., was inskuitly killed, Engineer Dave Collier Is fatally injured and Heater Lige Ward was badly cut. Throe hundred men are out of work pending repairs. Inquiries of members of the Italian legation in Washington elicit the reply that there is no truth in the statement published in one of the Italian newspapers in New York that Baron Fava, the Italian minister to the United States, had been transferred to Lisbou. Secretary of the Treasury Foster said, on the 33d, that the financial flurry seemed to have passed. Out of the *11,000,000 gold exported the treasury had sustained a net loss of *8,000,000, which would be, he thought, replaced before the first of the now year. Thk renewal of an old fend over the location of a country road near Snohomish, Wash., resulted, on the 82d, In the murder of two well-to-do farmers named Foulks and Smith, by two boys, 14 and 16 years of age, named John Langston and Robinson. . J. M. Fisk, a director of the American exchange bank of New York, died suddenly at the office of the president of that institution on the 9Sd. The Delaware canal was officially closed on the 23d. The last boat out was the barge William R. Hammersly, for Philadelphia. ' _ It was reported from London, on the 23d, that Mrs. Langtry had suffered a relapse and was again seriously ill. 0

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Th* statement of th& commissioner of the general land office. In his annual report, to the effect that the work of that office is up to date is regarded as a gratifying indication of the industry with which the business of the office had been attended to. The current work is not sufficient to occupy the force employed, and it is possible that a large number of clerks will be discharged or transferred to other work. JUDGE Ross, of Bismarck, N. D., decided, on the 28th, the famous Sels precinct controversy ease against the board of canvassers, who refused to canvass the returns. It is held that the board has no Judicial authority, and must simply canvass all returns on their face. This gives the fusionists all three electors in North Dakota. Thebe is a large oolony of American farmers in the vicinity of Montemorelos, in the state of Nuevo Leon. Mexico, and along the line of the Monterey A Mexico Gulf railway, engaged in the profitable culture of oranges and other fruits. Large shipments of Mexican oranges and limes are being made to the United States. Th* Anaconda Copper Mining Co., of Anaconda, Mont., has laid off 800 men, the entire force that had been working in the Anaconda and St Lawrence mines at Butte. The suspension is only temporary, and has nothing to do with the prevailing price of copper. Jacob Hknrici, senior trustee of the Bconomite society of Economy, Pa., died on the 28th, aged 83 years. The society of which he was leader is composed of about 8,000 people, all celibates, and is worth between 85,000,000 and 810,000,000. Mbs. Maria Willis, an aged lady living alone at Zanesville, a, was found dead in bed, on the morning of the 20th, having frosen to death. She had not been seen for two days, and the neighbors became uneasy and broke open the door. H. Stanley Goodwin, burgess of South Bethlehem, Pa., for eighteen terms, and general eastern superintendent of the Philadelphia As Beading railroad, died, on the 25th, of heart disease, aged 00 years An explosion of dynamite in the cabin of two miners south of Albuquerque took place on the 85th. Fred Bailey had his lags blown off and William Black was dangerously out and John Purdy was burned to death in the Wilmurdiag (Pa.) lookup at S' o’clock on the morning of the flfith, He

A HOLY HAY. An Interesting Sermon Appropriate to the Holiday Season. Christina* Commemorates the Birth of the Greatest Heine That Ever Walked the Earth-Dr. Talmage’s Discourse. The text selected by Dr. Talmage Sunday was Colossians ii, 10: "Istrespect of a holy day.” *■ \ What the Bible here and elsewhere calls a holy day We, by change of one letter and change of pronunciation, call holiday. But by change of spelling and accentuation we can not change the fact that holidays hare great significance. As long as the world stands Christmas day and New Year’s day and Easter day will be charged and surcharged with solemn suggestiveness and holy mirth. Whether yon take the old style of my text and call them holy days, or the modern style and call them holidays, they somehow set all my nerves a-tingle and my deeper emotions into profoundest agitation. I am glad that this season we have holidays completely bounded. For years Christmas day. starting in the midst of one week, and New Year’s day, starting in the midst of another week, we have been perplexed to know When the holidays began and when they ended, and perhaps we may have begun t hem too soon or con tinned them too long. But this year they are bounded by two beaches of gold—Sabbath, December 25, 1822, and Sabbath, January 1, 1898. The one Sabbath this year commemorates the birth of the greatest being that ever walked the earth) the other celebrates the birth of that which is to be one of the greatest years of all time, the one day supernatural because of an unhinged star and angelic doxology, and the other day natural, but part of a procession that started with the world’s existence and will go on until the world is burned up; both the first and the last days of these holidays coming in with Sabbatical splendor and solemnity, and girdling all the days between with thoughts that have all time and all eternity in their emphasis. How shall we spend them? At haphazard and without special direction, and they leaving, as they go awsy from us, physical fatigue . and mental exhaustion, the effect of late hours and recklessness of diet, adding another chapter to the moral and spiritual and eternal disasters which have resulted from misspent holidays? Oh, no! A Stout and resounding ho) for all the eight days, I propose that we divide this holiday Season, the two Sabbaths of the holiday and the six days between, Into three chapters—the first part a chapter of illustrious birthday; the second part a chapter of annual decadence; the third part -a chapter of the chronological introduction. First, then, a chapter of illustrious birthday. Not a day of any year but has been marked by the nativity of some good or great soul. Among discoverers the birthday of Humboldt was September 14, and of David Livingston, March 19. Among astronomers the birthday of Isaac Newton was December 85, and of Herschel, November 17. Among orators the birthday of Cicero was January 3, and of Chrysostom, January 14. Among prison reformers the birthday of John Howard was September iand of Elizabeth Fry, May 1. Among painters the birthday of Raphael was March 98, and of Michael Angelo, March 6. Among statesmen the birthday of Washington was February 89; of Hamilton, May“8, and of Jefferson, April 8 Among consecrated souls the birthday of Mrs. llemans was September 85; of Lucretia Mott, January 8, and of Isabella Graham, July 29. But what are all those birthdays compared with December 95, for on or about that day was born one Who eclipsed all the great names of all the centuries—Jesus of Bethlehem, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus of Golgotha, Jesus of Olivet, J$§ps of the Heavenly throne.

The greatest pictures hare been maae about scenes in his lifetime. The greatest sacrifices on field of battle or in hospital or on long inarch or in martyrdom have been Inspired by his self abnegation. The finest words of eloquence ever spoken have been uttered in the proclamation of His Gospel. Tho grandest oratorios that have ever rolled from orchestras were descriptive of his life and death. There have been other orators. but none like Him who “spake as never man spake.” There have been other reformers, but nonelike Him who Will not have completed His mission until the last prison is ventilated, and the last blind eye opened, and tho lost deaf ear unstopped, and the last lame foot bounds like a roe, and the last case of dementia shall come to its right mind. There have been other discoverers, but none like Him, able to find how man may be just with God. There have been other deliverers, but none like Him, the rescuer of nations. There have been other painters, but none like Him who put the image of God on a lost soul. No wonder we celebrate His birth—Protestant church, Catholic church, Greek church, St. Isaac’s of St. Petersburg, St Peter’s at Home, the Madeline at Paris, St Paul’s in London, joining all onr American cathedrals and churches and log cabin meeting houses and homes in keeping this pre-eminent birth festival. Elaborate and prolonged efforts have been made to show that the star that pointed to tbe manger in which Christ was born was not what it appeared to be, but a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Onr wise men of the west say that the wise men of the east were mistaken. Astronomers, you know, can calculate backward as well as forward, and as they can tell what will occur a hundred years from now among the heavenly bodies, so they can accurately calculate backward and tell what occurred eighteen or nineteen hundred years ago. And it is true that before Christ in Chaldea, about three hours before day dawn, there waa a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Standing in Jerusalem and looking over toward Bethlehem those two stars would have seemed to hang over that village, and it is suggested by a learned professor that the magi may have bad weak eyes so that the two start may have looked lik« one. In order to take everything supernatural out of the story w< have to blind the eyes of the magi and introduce a second star to help out th* idea of the one star. But I preferthe simple story of the Bible, that a lighl of some kind—ttellar or meteoricpointed from the sky to the straw era die. ■ When it is so eaay for God to make i

world that he put eighteen millions of them within one sweep of the telescoV t, he could certainly afford one silvery r fiery signal of some kind to point the world to the place where the sovereign of the universe lay incarnated and infantile. If God could afford to make an especial earthquake at the crucifixion, the aslant rocks on Mt Calvary still showing that there was a convulsion of nature at that particular spot which was felt in none of the surroundings, then he could afford something unusual, something brilliant, something positive, something tremendous at the nativity. If a king at the birth of a son can have the palace illumined and couriers sent with swift dispatch to announce the gladness at the gates and wake up an empire with cannonade, I am not surprised that at the birth of the Son of God there was celestial agitation, and my only wonder is that, instead of one star or one meteor giving signal, all worlds did not make demonstration. Why not other worlds take interest in the event when Christ came from another world and another world was to get the souls that would be saved by this celestial descent? It would have been a stellar disgrace, an astronomical scandal, if, when the Godhead lay compressed in the form of an infant, something from above bad not pointed down, as much as to say: “There he is!” Look, all earth and heavenl Look, all time and all eternity!” You see, the birth at Bethlehem must have been more novel and startling to the heavens than the crucifixion on Calvary. It was expected that Christ would be maltreated. The world always had maltreated its good and great friends Joseph hurled into the pit, Shadrach put into the fire, Jeremiah lowered into a dungeon, David hounded from the throne, Elijah compelled to starve or take his food from the beak of a filthy raven, Socrates condemned to death, so that the Calvarian massacre was In the same old line of maltreatment. But the novelty of all ages was the conjunction of divinity and humanity. Invisible deity, muscled and nerved and fleshed in masculine physique. A child and yet a God! Why; if the meteor had not pointed down that night some angel would have rushed down and pointed with his glittering scepter.. Isaiah and David and Ezekiel, who foretold the coming, would have descended from their thrones and stood on the roof of the barn or in some way designated the honored locality. As the finger of light that December 25 pointed to the straw cradle, now all the fingers of Christendom this moment, fingers of childhood sod old age, fingers of'sermon and song and decoration and festivity, point to the, great straw cradle. Am I not right in saying that the first of the throe ohapters of the holidays should be devoted to the illustrious birthday? By song and prayer and solemn reflection and charities to-day, and by gifts and trees that hear fruit in an hour after they are planted, and family gathering and hilarities sounding from cellar to garret to-morrow, keep Christmas. As far as possible gather the children and the grandchildren, but put no estoppel on racket whether of laughter or swift feet or toys in shape of rail trains or trumpets or infant effigy. Let the old folks for one day at least say nothing about rheumatism, or prospect of early demise, or the degeneracy of modern times, or the poison in confectionery. If you can not stand the noise, retire from it for a little while into some other room and stop your ears. Christmas for children without plenty of noise is no Christmas at all. If children and grandchildren can not have full swing during the holidays, when will they have it? They will be still soon enough, and their feet will slacken their pace, and the burdens of life will bear them down. Houses get awfully still when the children are gone. While they stay let them fill the room with sueh resounding mirth that you can hear the echoes twenty years after they are dead. By religions celebration to-day and by domestic celebration to-morrow keep Christmas,. As for oqr beloved church, we to-mor-row night mean to set the children of our Sabbath school wild with delight, and in The Christian Herald, with which I am connected, we are celebrating the holidays by sending out two to four thousand Bibles a day, and they will continue to go out by express, by messengers and by mail until we have distributed at least 100,000 copies of the good old Book on which Christmas is built, and which gives the only healthful interpretation of these swift flying years.

X UC DCWmu vuapvv. W* --*r - must speak of annual decadence This is the last Sabbath of the year. The steps of the year are (retting short, for it is old. When it waved the spring time blossoms the year was young, and when it swung the scythe and cradle through the summer harvest fields the year was strong, but it is getting out of breath now, and after six more throbs of the pulse will be dead. We can not stop this annual decadence. Set all the clocks back, set all the watches back, set all chronometers baok, but you can not set time back. \ , .. For the old family clock you might suppose that time would have especial respect, and that if you took hold of those old hands on the face of that centenarian of a time-piece and pushed them back you might expect that time would stop or retreat for at least a few minutes “No, no!" says the old family clock. “I must go on. I 6aw your father and mother on their wedding day. I struck the hour of your nativity. I counted the festal houra of the day in which you brought home a bride. I sounded the knell at your father's death. 1 tolled at your mother’s depar! ure. Yea, 1 must sound your own going out of life. I must go on. I must go on. Tick, took! Tick, tockl" But there 5a a great city clock high up in the tower. There are. so many wrongs in all our cities to be righted, so many evils to be extirpated, so man; prisons to be sanitaried—stop the city clock until all these things are done. Let common council and all the people of the great town decree that the citj hall click shall stop. We do not wan! the sin# of 1893 to be handed over tc 1893. Wo do not want the young year to inherit the misfortunes of the old year. By ladders lifted to the tower and by strong hands take hold and half that city elocla ••No, no!* says the city clock. *T oar not wait until you correct all evils or soothe all sorrow or drive out all sin. 1 have been counting the steps of your progress as a city. I have seen your opportunities I have deplored your neglects: but time wasted is wasted for ever. I must go on. I must go on Tick, todkl Tick, took! But .n th< tower oFthe capital* at Washington

and Loiqjon and Berlin and all the great national capitals clocks Suppose that by presidential . mation and resolution of senato and house of representatives onr national nock in the capitol turret be ordered to stop. “Stop, O clock, until sectional animosities are cooled off, until onr Sabbaths are better kept and drunkenness turns to sobriety and bribery, fraud and dissipation quit the land! Stop, O clock in the tower of the great United States eapitol!” “No, no!" says the clock, “1 have been' going on so long I can not afford to stop. X sounded the birthday of American Independence. I rang out tha return of peace in 188A I have seen many presidents inaugurated I struck the hour of Lincoln’s assassination. I have beat time for emancipation proclamation, and Chicago fire, and Charleston earthquake, and epidemics of fever and cholera. Nations never stop. They march on toward salvation or demolition. And why should they stop? I chime for the national holiday* I toll for the mighty dead, I must goon. I must go on. Tick, took! Tick, took! There may be a difference of a few seconds or a few minutes in the time pieces, but it will be a serious occasion when nest Saturday night about the same hour the family clocks, and the city clocks, and the national clooks strike one! two! three! four! five! six! seven! eight! nine! ten! eleven! twelvel Sorry am I to have 1893 depart thia life. It has been a good year. What bright days! Whati starry nights! What harvests! What religious convocations! What triumphs of art and science and invention and enterpriae and religion! But, alas, how sacred it has been with sorrows! What pillows hot with fever that could not be cooled! What graves opening wide enough to take down beauty and strength and usefulness! What' octogenariahs putting down the staff of earthly pilgrimage and taking the crown of heavenly reward! What children, as in Bible tim* crying: “My head, my head! And they carried him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon and then died.” This year went the chief poet of England and the chief poet of America. Our John G. Whittier—great in literature and simple as a child—for did I not spend an afternoon with him in s barn in the Adirondack* and in the evening we played blind man’s buff, he < tying over my eyes the handkerchief, while the hotel parlors rang with the merrymaking? And Tennyaou, thin year gone—he who for this particular season of the year wrote: Ring oat, wild bells, to the wild sky, 'lhe Dying cloud, the frosty light The year is dying in the night. ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. What mingling of emotions ii 1 ing year! What orange the marrtago altar, add -what myrtle for the tombs of dead! Hosannas and lamentations in collision. Anthem and dead march mounting from the same ivory keys Before this yeer quite leaves the earth let it hear our repentance for opportunities that can never return} kind words spoken too late, or not spoken at all; means of getting good or doing good so completely gone by that the archangel’s voice could not recatt them. Can it be that this year is closing and our sins are unforgiven, and wo have no certainty that when our last December 81 has sped away we shall enter a blissful eternity? The most overwhelmingly solemn week of all the year is the last week of December. But on opening this subject, “In respect of a holy day,” as my text p»t it, me*holiday, as we moderns wri' pronounce it, I advised that you this season into three chapters—the chapter of illustrious birthday, the second a chapter of annual decadence, and the third a chapter of chronological introduction, and this last chapter we^ have reached. In olden times there was a style of closing an old year and opening a new one that waa very suggest i ive.

ine any nuuw wuw* o’clock at night, and when the clocVj struck twelve the family would »U g<fl to the front door of the house, take! down the bar and turn baok the lock1 and swing the door wide open to let i the old year out and the new year in. i And that is what we are going to.dpJ With the same measured step that timJ has kept since it started, it will come tel our door in the closing night of thifl week. With what spirit shall we M the new year in? I have already ilidfl cated that it is to be one of the greateB of all chronology. “Why?” you ask. “Have you >■ forebodings or premonitions?” IS “Are you expecting the milienniuH this year?” Not “Why, then, say tS about the coming year?” For the siS pie reason that I find as the years J by they become more and more evei^B ful. Compare the nineteenth centum with the eighteenth century.^ CompM the first half of this century last half. The surges of this ocean of time are rolling higher and higher. The forces of right and wrong are rapidly multiplying, and their straggles must be intensified. It is a chronological fact that we arc* all the time coming nearer to the world’s edenization first and then to its incineration, to its redemption and its demolition. And so I expect that 18*8 will be a greater year than 1891. Ih* wedding bells will be merrier. Its obsequies wUi be sadder, its scientific discoveries more brilliant Its prosperities more significant Its opening sudden paragraph. List tne couser tories have pjfofuslon of flowers 1 can be twisted into garlands. 1 churches have plentv of room fca| creased assemblages Let men ^ women have more religion to meet, vacillations, and the exigencies, and demands, and the raptures, ib^ woes of this coming 1893. —Since March 1 the misM the American Sunday-schoo® boring in the Rocky mountal^^^ have established 80 new schools in i settlements and neglected communit induced 970 teachers and 9,839 echo to connect themselves therewith, n ganised 44 Sunday-schools having 1, members, aided 135 other schools, dressed 701 meetings, made 9,4f<<h distributed «8# Bibles and traveled 173 miles __ —A report reaches us that one of World’s fair lady managers for m land, Mrs. Reed, has adopted a pleas awakening Interest in national aCt which is worthy of imitatWn in ev state of the union. She has eat lished a system of classes to Ameti history in the schools of her statM offers as a prise for thetjgfo free trip to the fah^^