Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 August 1897 — Page 2

QUITS COMMERCIAL REVIEW. —t Am iacffird DwiiHil with IWi| Jhrtmm AM AJmuc Um Ub» U«m4 bj KaewPonifa »f Aawton Miv York An?. 11-E Q. Dan A Co.Si weekly review of trade says: Every city reporting this week note* increase in trade and nearly all bright crop prospects. The great change in business u emphasised by the presence of a multitude of buyers from ail parts of the country, by their statements of the situation at their homes, and more forcibly yet by the heavy purchases they are making. Rmt the customary signs of prosperity are not lacking. The strong rise In stocks, the growth of bank clearings and railroad earnings, the heavy speculation in many products, but moat of all in wheat, have made the Mjuek one of surpassing interest even to those who best remember the upward rush in 1871). At the principal clearing houses throughout the country payments in July were for the first time slightly larger than in lSVi. and 11.0 percent, larger than last year; in the first week of August 7.7 icr cent, iarger than in l&te, and 28.4 per cent larger than last year, and in the second week of August they are 17.0 per eeut- iarger than in lasa. and S8.1 per cent, larger than last year. The great crops and the haste of foreigners to buy and ship wheat in view of shortage elsewhere, have made the week memorable. 'faking ol profits by a pool lowered the price three cents on Saturday, but it has since risen five cents. The urgency of French buying of wheat; reports that Russia will stop exports in order to keep supplies for itscif. and continuous shipments from the Pacific to countries usually haring a surplus make even the largest estimates of p»»»»ible supplies not too great for the possible demaud.

lu all the great industries a large demand for products appears with strong speculation in materials and intcruiplmW products. In the iron and steel branch the starting of many .work * after settlement of wages keeps prices low anti even depresses some. : but the fact that the demand is growing, leads to heavy purchases of iron ore, SOJ.IKW tous at Cleveland in a week, amf of billets. 4 0,0 JO tous, while oooeessioas recently reported in pig iron have ceased. The output of fur naees, August l. was S tous. again -t lGl.utt 1 .Inly Land decrease in known stocks unsold indicates a eonsu nptiOu for two mouths {vast averaging lt*l.<K)i tons weekly, which i- more than in the.same month of 1M»- though below the greatly increased capacity of works noiv. Sales of tin are moderate, of copper to American consumers large, it is said, at 11 cents for lake, ami of lead at X»2’s with speculative real zing. but heavy sales of tin plates are bringing slightly better prices. AH textile industries are encouraged by a greatly improved and really large demand for goods, which causes many to advance in price. With production much curtailed, stocks of cotton goods ure ra.-idly decreasing, aud in woolens advances have been made in clay worsted* and mixtures, flannels and Middlesex suitings. Speculation in wool continues, with prices alsmt I cent, higher, but sales of Si.4 b.Wl {sounds iu t.vo weeks show the willmguesx of some holders to realize Failures for the week have been 239 iu the United Slates agaiost 2:.s last year, and 30 in Canada against 33 last year A GRAND SCHEME To Irrlcal* and IHIlii* tbs Valley of th« (..-•ml for Heel Sugar Culture, Uknvku. CoL. Aug. 14. — lion. Janie* Wilson, secretary of agriculture, and C. F. Saylor, government expert on beet su.'ar culture, leftUeuver yesterday to “investigate the possibilities for beet sugar culture in Grand valley. At Grand Juuctxu t i.-y will meet t’oi. Italeom. of New York, who will explain to them the Fiateau-Grand irrigation project and show them a tract f 36,000 acres on which it is proposed erect a beet sugar factory at a cos! ♦300,000. It is intended to colonize the laud ndcr the desert act of the state ol Uolorado. The factory will be built mnltaneousiy with the Plateaullrand canal, which will take sufficient ater from the Grand river to irrigate *0,000 acres in Mesa countv. Col., and 000 acres iu Grand county. Utah, t is claimed that the climate in the rand valley is better adapted to the making of beet sugar than in auy other of the United States. GRAIN AT SAN FRANCISCO. bailee Wall Blocked with Wheal Pourtag la Prua All Paris of the State. Kan Faxxciscxi, Aug. 14.—The aea all is blocked with wheat which has een pouring into this city for some sya past from all sections of the state, in steamers are alongside dischargwheat, and the htqgc sheds, which 1.000 feet long by 300 feet wide, are to their utmost capacity. The City of Puebla arrived yesterday lOrntog with 40,000 sacks of grain Port llarford. aud all the river ih and scows that ply daily at river nta are bringing in more. Orders re been issued to clean np vacant • la the vicinity of the aea wall to eaaodate the grain shippers and » Lombard-street wharf is also be- [ cleared for the same purpose. FOR UNION LABOR. KalUatvd as tha Chicago Schaul liullUluga. Chicago. Aug. 14.—Union workmen > the number of 3.500 initiated a strike u the public school buildings of this ity, and work cn 35 buildings dll come to a standstill. The irike, which was inaugurated by the adding Trades council, is the online of the refusal of the board of edto place a clause iu all confer school building work bindthe contractor to employ none bat

DANGEROUS SPORT. Two Bather* at Atbuitk City Dwwwd »w» a Great Moor Jtarvowly E«oopo~A Bo mark la Jwt that Protwl Tragically to Karantt. Atlaxtic ClTT. N. J.. Atlg-. 1ft-—Two resture&ome bathers were drowned in the surf here yesterday. They were Thomas C. Laswell, aged 91. of Princeton, lnd., and an unknown man, supposed to be an excursionist from Philadelphia. Young- Laswell came here yesterday morning with his friend, P. M. Perrott, also from Princeton, on his first visit to the seashore. The young men went into the surf shortly before noon, and Laswell, wh- seemed to be unaware of the dangerous undertow. ! was soon beyond his depth and calling for help. The life guards made a brave j effort to save him, but the surf was so heavy that they were unable to reach the drowning man. Laswell struggled in the water for about 15 minutes in full view of about i 10.000 people gathered on the pier, board walk and beach. Perrott nearlylost his own life in attempting to save that of his friend, and was taken from the water in an exhausted condition. One of the lifeguards named Keed was also overcome iu the water and was rescued in an unconscious condition. Late in the afternoon the body of Laswell came ashore. It was turned over to a local undertake^, who prepared it for shipment to Indiana. When Laswell checked his valuables at the hath house, where he obtained his bathing suit, he laughingly remarked to the clerk: “1 will leave my address so that in case l am drowned you can send my valuables home.” The second drowning occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the body of the drowned man had not come ashore up to a late hour. The surf yesterday was the heaviest of the season, owiug to a heavy gale which prevailed, and between 35 aud SO persous were rescued, many of them women.

PRESSING NORTHWARD. Stramrr* Urpar(lu( from Victoria Loailrvl with Tio»p«clon ami Their Outfits. Victoria, B. C.. Aug. 15.—Therewere ia Victoria this morning close upon 1.000 men of evert’ class and from every part of the world who were just crazy to get started on the long trip to the netv Eldorado. These meu had tickets which \\iil carry them to Skaguay bay on the big collier Bristol, or on the steamer Islander, both of which sailed to-day. The Bristol has been fitted with bunks, and stalls for horses from the bottom of her hold to the top of her cabin deck, and every bunk aud stall is occupied, close upon 500 meu going on the Bristol, and just as many horses and mules. Even the big collier is tilled up, the feed for these animals and the outtits of the men taking up an immense amount of space. The Islander has just as big a crowd, but much of the space ou her is taken up by a contingent of mounted police, their horses, dogs aud outfits. They realize that they have a winter’s trip before them before they reach Dawson City, and are taking dogs aud sleighs. Horses will be lakeu as far as possible. aud when they are of no more use will be killed aud used as food for t he dogs. A few of the men are going up with the idea of purchasing cheap outfits from men who became discoaraged and are turning back; but most of them are well provided for and all are taking pack animals, they haring in in this respect taken the advice of men who went before, and have written of the difficulty of securing animals or Indians to pack goods across the pass. \V. E. Cauovau. of Ottawa, who was a member of the Canadian boundary survey, in which capacity he learned much about Alaska, leftou the Islander. Mr. Canovan is going to look over the ground for the Klondike Placer Mining and Prospecting Co., of Brautlonl and Paris. One This company will seud out a large party in the spring tc prospect aud work claims. DUST TO DUST. ASHES TO ASHES Cremation of the Remains of Pom Hwang Sob, Former Curran Minister. Washington. Aug. 15.—The body of Pom Kwang Sob. the former Corean minister to this country,whoaedeath occurred last Friday, was yesterday, cremated, according to the expressed wish of the deceased,aud his ashes placed in the keeping of the present minister, Mr. Chiu Pom Ye. Later they may be returned to Corea. Ad 3:30 oclock yesterday afternoon the T>ody was taken from the Fourteenth-street residence, where it had laid in state.'and conveyed to Lee's crematory, on Pennsylvania avenue, followed by a long line of carriages containing personal friends and prominent members of the Blaratsky branch of the Theosophieal society, of which Mr. Sob was a member. The brief and simple funeral services were conducted by Mr. George M. Coffin, present of the society. The casket was ^draped with a silk Ameri- | can .fiag. aim ou it also had been placed the robes of state worn by Mr. 2soh j during his official career here. At either end of’the coffin were crosses of white and pink- rosea, which had been sent by Prince Min and Mr. Pek. Among those admitted to the chapel were Prince Min. Prince Evi W ha, the second son of the present king of Corea, in full coart uniforms; Mr. Pek. Mr. Suoh. a number of Corean students and a number of the members of the Theosophieal society. THE PRESIDENT AT CHURCH. 8—sed to Enjoy tho Service and the Senes. Btxrr PotXT. X. Y., Ang. lft.—President McKinley, Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart. Mrs. Alger and Master Hobart comprised the presidential party which attended the Trinity Episcopal church yesterday morning. The party was slightly delayed on their way from Hotel Champlain to town, to that church services had begun when the carriage arrived. The president seemed to enjoy the service and •snoot ell V the music.

GREATLY DEPRESSED. Ml—— la Camp and a Dumber m> tlrr*k the Spirits of Mrlkea-So X’srchlne r.rmlltrd and No Attempt M*ile at Mimlunary Wort Amonx the Working Miners—fence*ble Entry of Meeator. Pittsburgh. Pa.. Aug. 1A—* leaden iky and fitful showers contributed to the feeling of depression which existed at the miners' camps at Turtle and Plum creeks yesterday. The men huddled together for shelter under the commissary tents, and having nothing else to do put in the time sfnoking and discussing the strike in all its phases. The spirit of aggressiveness, however, has largely died out. The same grim determination to stick it out until stari ration brings defeat, or their efforts | victory, is apparent, but there are no propositions to attain their end by force, or to go contrary to the sheriff’s orders. The men all realize that in opposing the law as represented by the sheriff and his deputies, they would have about the same success as in butting their heads against a stoiie wall. They have no particular love for the deputies, al- | though there is absence of that caustic ! repartee between the factions that has | characterized former strikes. There were no marches yesterday. This has been the usual Sunday custom at ali camps, but even if it had been otherwise the strict orders of ail ; strike leaders to wait quietly until ; after Monday would ] have prevented them. Sunday has usually been used by the men to do missionary work among the working miners. None of them attempt, d to sC*? any workmen, however, and kept severely away from the company houses. The march into Westmoreland County w Hi bc l*egun as soou as the injunction is settled in court. Much anxiety is expressed as to the outcome. The men stake everything on their ability to show the right to assemble au i march on the public road. Yesterday afternoon there was a large mass-meeting at Plum creek. About 1.000 strikers and -0J miners from the Plum creek mine were present. Speeches were inn le by President Uatehfor l, Samuel t.ompers and James I R. Sovereign and the local leaders.

I ne meeting Has order;y. There is a po»ibiiity o: ihe customary march tuUia x piuee this mornn:ng. in suite of t ,n* strict orders issued by President i> dan against such a course. Some of the men are fretting’ under the restraint.’ hud Cant. Ihuingmim, who is in charge of the map, said last night that be hail not decidedwhether to allow the march or not. The deputies are oa the alert, and say they w ill arrest any who may participate. Evictions from company houses have begun. One family has already been evicted and their household goods are on the roadside near Center. It is probable other evictions will take place to-day. I Traceable Entry of Decatur by a Marchiu Column of Strikers. Decatur, III., Aug. 16.—At the request of a committee of miners .Mayor j Taylor yesterday allowed a body of 400 Springfield and Puna men to march , into the city to attend a mass meeting in the interest of the strike, stipulating that they should leave the city last uight. The ii«Ie army quietly marched to Miners' hall, where pacitie speeches were made. Another meeting was held last night, at which protest was entered against the employment of deputy sheriffs at heavy expense to the county. There was no disturbance of auy kind. THE GROWING COTTON CROP, Vs Kstimntnl by the Well-Known Cotton Statistician. H. M. Nelli. New Ori.eaxs. Aug. 16.—Mr. II. M. Neill, the well-known cotton statistician. has issued a circular ou the growing erop. After referring to. the correctness of his estimate made in July, 1664. of the crop of that season, Mr. Neill says: “At this moment for this year the promise is equal to any previous year | in every state but Texas, and on the present acreage, even allowing that i Texas should fall short of her maxi•u uni product per acre by 1,000.00C kales, the outlook now is for a crop of at least 9,700,000 with 500.000 to 1.000.000 more within the rauge of possibilities. This figure of 9,750,009 is really very conservative, for a pisKiuct per acre outside of Texas equal to 1694-95 would give 7.350,000 bales, aud a maximum for Texas would be 3,950.000 bales, from which allowing 1.000.000 off you would have a crop of 10.300.000 bales. The crop is now so far advance i from recent rains and heat that it wiil reach maturity aud be independent of frost at au unusually early date and should we soon have good rains in Texas her crop also would be ueai perfection and the possibilities for total crop would j then be something enormous. Bald Oa aa Illicit Distillery 3y Internal Rrvenae Officers. Chicago, Aug. 15.—Detectives and internal revenue officers raided a little frame house ia Twenty-sixth plaee and found an illicit distillery capable of i turning out 52 gallons of “moonshine* whisky a day. Samuel Marlow, a Kus si an Jew. and his son were taken in as proprietors of the place. Several illicit distilleries hare been located almost in the heart of the city, and other arrest! will probably follow. ADULTERATED TEA. Forty Cheats of the Article Horned at 8a* Fnarkca Sax Francisco, Aug. 15. — Forty chests of adulterated tea, which had been condemned by Inspector Toohey, were burned in a large furnace in the basement of the appraiser’s building, the importer haring failed to either appeal from the inspector’s finding or export the stuff at his own expense, aa required by the new law passed by congress and approved March 2. 1897. Thu is the first destruction of tea on 4tf tka curoviaiona of the now .

TALMAGE'S SERMON. — A. Discourse to Young- Men on the Despotism of Debt. Ubm of Conduct Wkkh Lod to Certain Bocc— Dnntwn of Borrowing— Bow to Keep on the Bight Side of the Ledger. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in the following sermon, shows how runuing into hopeless debt has undone young men. The text is: As aa ox to the slaughter.—Prorerbs. Til., B. There is nothing in the voice or manner of the butcher to indicate to the ox that there is death ahead. The ox thiuks he is going on to a rich pasture field of clover where all day long he will revel herbaceous luxuriance; but after awhile the men and the boys close iu upon hitn with sticks and stones and shouting, and drive him through bars and into a doorway, where he is fastened, and with wellaimed stroke the ax fells him; and so the auticipatiou of the redolent pasture field is completely disappointed. So many a young mau has been driven on by temptation to what he thought would be paradisiacal enjoyment; but after awhile influences with darker hue aud swarthier arm close in upou him, and he tiuds that iustead of making an excursion into a garden lie has been driveu “as an ox to the slaughte." We are apt to blame young men for being destroyed when we ought to blame the influences that destroy them. Society slaughters a great mauv young men by theibehest; “You must keep up appearance; whatever be your salary, you must dress as well as others, you must give >viue aud brandy to as many friends, you must smoke as costly cigars. you must give as expensive enters tainmeuts, aud you must live in as fashionable a boarding house. If you haven't the money, borrow. If you can't borrow, make a false eutry, or subtract here and there u bill from a bundle of bank bills; you will only have to make the deception a little while; in a few months, or iu a year or two, you can make all right. Nobody will be hurt by it, nobody will be the wiser. You yourself will not be damaged." By that awful process a hundred thousand men have been slaughtered for time aud slaughtered for eteruitv.

Suppose you borrow. There is nothin jj wrong about borrowing money. 1'here is hardiv a man who has not some times'borrowed money. Vast estates have been built on a borrowed dollar. But there are two kinds of borrowed money: Money borrowed for the purpose of startiug or keeping up legitimate enterprise or expense, and money borrowed to get that which you can do without. The first is right, the other is wrong. If you have money enough of your own to buy a coat, however plain, and then you borrow money for a dandy's outfit, you have taken the tirst revolution of the wheel down grade. Borrow for the necessities; that may be well. Borrow for the luxuries; that tips your prospects over iu the wrong direction. The Bible distinctly says the borrower is servaut of the lender. It is a bad state of things when you have to go down some other street to escape meeting some one you owe. If youug meu knew what is the despotism of being in debt, more of them would keep out of it. What did debt do for Lord Bacon, with a mind towering above the centuries? It induced him to take bribes aud eouviet himself as a criminal before all ages. What did debt dp for Walter Scott? Brokeu-hearted at Abbotsford. Kept writing until his hand gave out iu paralysis to keep the sheriff away from his pictures and statuary. Better for him if he had miuded the maxim which he had chiseled over the fireplace at Abbotsford, “Waste not, want not.” The trouble is, my friends, that people do not understand the etuies of going in debt, aud that if you purchase goods with no expectation of paying for them, or go into debts which you can not meet, you steal just so much money. If I go into a grocer's store and 1 bay sugars and coffees aud meats with no capacity to pay for them, and no intention of paying for them. 1 am i more dishonest thau if 1 go into the store, and when the grocer's’ face is turned the other way 1 fill my pockets ! with the articles of merchandise aud carry off a ham! Iu the one ease 1 i take the merchant's time, and 1 take ! the time of his messenger to transfer the goods to my house, while in the other case 1 take none of the time of the inerehaut, and I wait upon myself, and I transfer the goods without any trouble to him! In other words, a sneak thief is not so bad as a man who contracts debts he never expects to pay. Yet, in all our cities there are families who move every May-day to get into proximity to other grocers and meat shops and apothecaries. They owe everybody within half a mile of where the; now liTe, and next May they will move into a distant part of ; the city, finding a uew lot of victims. ! Meanwhile you, the honest family in I the new house, are bothered day by 1 day by the knocking at the door of 1 disappointed bakers and butchers, and 1 dry goods dealers, and newspaper carI riera, and you are asked where your predecessor is. You do not l^now. It was arranged you should not know. Meanwhile your predecessor has gone to some distant part of the city, and the people who have anything to sell have sent their wagons and stopped there to solicit the “valuable'* custom of the new neighbor, and he, the new neighbor, with great oomplaceny and an air of affluence, orders the finest steaks and the highestpriced sugars, and thv best of the canned fruits, and perhaps all the newspapers. And the debts will keep on accumulating until he gets his goods on the 30th of next April in the furiture cart. So wonder that so many of onr merchants fail in business. They are swindled into bankruptcy bj theee

wandering Arabs, these nomads of citj life. They cheat the grocer out of the green apples which make them sick, the physician who attends them dor* mg their distress, and the undertaker who fits them out for their departure from the neighborhood where they owe everybody when they pay the debt of nature, the only debt they ever do pay. Now our young men are coming up in this depraved state of commercial ethics, and 1 am solicitous about them. I I want to warn them against being j slaughtered on the sharp edges of debt. You waut many things you have not, my young friends. You shall have | them if you have patience and lion- j esty and industry. Certain lines of conduct always lead ont to certain sue- [ cesses. There is a law which controls | even those things that seem haphazard, j I have been told by those who have j observed, that it is possible to cal- j culate just how many letters will be j sent to the dead letter office every j year through misdirection; that it is j possible to calculate just how many j { letters will be detained for lack of postage stamps through the forgetfulness of the senders, and that it is possi- j ble to tell just how many people will j I fall in the streets by slipping on an ! orauge peel. In other words, there are j no accidents. The most iusigniiicant ; event you every heard of is the link | between two eternities—the eternity I of the past and the eternity of the fu- j ture. Head the right way. young man. | and you will come out at the right goal. When a young man willfully and of choice, having the comforts of life, I goes into the coutraetiou of unpayable i debts, he knows not iuto what he goes, j The creditors get after the debtor, the pack of hounds in full” cry. and alas! j for the reindeer. They jtugle his door | bell before he gets up in the morning, j they jingle his door bell after he has j gone to bed at night. They meet him j as he comes off his front steps. They j send him a postal card, or a letter, in cur test style, telling him to pay up. i They attach his goods. They want j casn. or a note at oi) days, or.a note on j

demand, xney call nun a Knave. l ney say he lies. They want him disciplined in the church. They want him turned out of the bank. They come at him from this side and from that side, and from before, and from behind, and from above, and from beneath, and he is insulted, and gibbeted, and sued, and dunned, and sworn at, until he gets nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint, gets heart disease, gets convulsive disorder, gets consumption. Now he is dead, and you say: “Of course you will let him alone.” Oh, no! Now they are watchful to see whether there are any unnecessary expenses at the obsequies, to see whether there is any useless handle on the casket, to see whether there is any surplus plait on the shroud, to see whether the hearse is costly or cheap, to see whether the flowers sent to the casket have been bought by the family or donated. See in whose name the deed to grave is made out. Theu they ransack the bereft household, the books, the pictuies. the carpets, the chairs, the sofa, the piano, the mattresses, the pillow on which he died. Cursed be debt! For the sake of your own happiness, for the sake of your good morals, for the sake of your immortal soul, for God's sake, young man, as far as possible, keep out of debt. liut I think more young men are slaughtered through irreligion. Take away a young man's religion and you make him the prey' of evil. We all know' that the Bible is the only perfect system of morals. Now, if you want to destroy the young man’s morals, take his Bible away, llow will you do that? Well, you will caricature his reverence for the Scriptures, you will take all those incidents of the Bible which can be made mirth of —Jonah's wuale. Samson's foxes, Adam's rib—then you will caricature eccentric Christians, or inconsistent Christians; then you will pass off as your own all those hackneyed arguments against Christianity, w hich are as old as Tom Paine, as old as Voltaire, as old as sin. Now. you have captured his Bible, and you have taken his strongest fortress; the way is comparatively clear, and all the gates of his soul are set open in invitation to the sins of earth and the sorrows of death, that they may come in and drive the stake for their encampment. A steamer 1,500 miles from shore with broken rudder and lost compass, and hulk leaking 50 gallons the hour, is Setter off than a young man when you have robbed him of his Bible. Have you ever noticed how despicably mean it is to take away the world's Bible without proposing a substitute. It is meaner than to come to a sick man and steal his medicine, meaner than to come to a cripple and steal his cratch, meaner than to come to a pauper aud steal his crust, meaner than to come to a poor man and burn his house down. It is the worst of all larceaies to steal the Bible, which has been cratch and mediciue and food and eternal home to so ;many. What a generous and magnanimous business infidelity has gone into! This splitting up of lifeboats and taking away of fire escapes, and extinguishing of lighthouses. 1 come out and say to such people: “What are you doing all this for?” “Oh.” they say, “just for fun.” It is such fun to see Christians try to hold on to their Bibles! Many of them have lost loved ones, and have been told that there is a resurrection! Many of them have believed that Christ came to carry the burdens and to heal the wounds of the world, and it is such fun to tell them they will have to be their own savior! Think of the meanest thing you ever heard of; then go down 1,000 feet underneath it, and you will find yourself at the top of a stairs 100 miles long; go to the bottom of the stairs, and you will find a ladder 1,000 miles long; then go the foot of the ladder, and look off a precipice half as far as from here to China, and yon will find the headquarters of the meanness that would rob thia world of its only comfort la life, its only peace in death,

uid its only hope for immortality. Slaughter a young man’s faith in God, and there is not much more left to slaughter. Now, what has become of the slaughtered? Well, some of them are in their father's or mother's * house, broken down in health, waiting to die; others are in the hospital, others are in the cemetery, or, rather, their bodies are, for their souls hare gone on to retribution. Not much prospect for a young man who started life with good health, and good education, and a Christian example set him, and opportunity of usefulness, who gathered all his treasures and put them in one box. and then dropped it into the sea. Now, how isthis wholesale slaughter to be stopped? There is not a person who is not interested in that question. The object of my sermon is to put a weapon in each of your hands for your own defense. Wait not for young men's Christian associations to protect you, or churches to protect you. Appealing to God for help, take care of yourself. First, have a room somewhere that you ean call your own. Whether it bo the back parlor of a fashiouabie board-iug-house, or a room in the fourth story of a eheap lodging, 1 care not. Only have that one room your fortress. Let not the dissipater or unclean step over the threshold. If they come up the long flight of stairs and kuock at the door, meet them face to face and kindly yet firmly refuse them admittance. Have a few family portraits on the wall, ,if you brought them with you fboin your country home. Have a Itible on the stand. If you eau afford it and can play one, have au instrument of rhusic —harp, or flute, or cornet, or melodeou, or violin, or piano. Every morning before yo\i leave that room pray. Every night after you come home iu that room pray. Make that room your Gibraltar, your Sebastopol, your Mount Zion. Let no bad book4>Or newspaper come into that room at^y more than you would allow a cobra to coil on your table.

l arvu vatc ui juuiwu. ^uuuu\ will take care of you. Your help will not come up two, or three, or four flights of stairs; your help will come through the roof, down from Heaven, from that God who in 6,000 years oi the world's history never betrayed a young man who tried to be good and a Christian. Let me say* in regard to your adverse worldly circumstances. in passing, that you are on ,a level now with those who are finally to succeed. Mark my words, vouug man. and think of it thirty years from now. You will find that those who thirty years from now are the millionaires of this country, who are the orators of the country, who are the poets of the country, who are the strong merchants of the country. who are the great philanthropists of the country—mightiest iu church and state—are this morning on a level with you, not kn inch above, and you in straightened circumstances now. Ah! when 1 told you to take care of yourself, you misunderstood me if you thought 1 meant you are to depeud upou human resolution, which may be dissolved iu the foam of the wine cup, or may be blown out with the first gust of temptation. Here is the helmet, the sword of the Lord God Almighty. Clothe yourself in that panoply, and you shall not be put to confusion. Sin pays well neither in this world nor the next, but right thinking, and right believing*, and right acting will take you in safety through this life and in transport through the next. 1 shall never forget a prayer I heard a young man make some 15 years ago. it was a very short prayer, but was a tremendous prayer: “Oh, Lord, help us. We find it very easy to do wrong and so hard to do right, Lord help usr That prayer. 1 warrant you. reached the ear of God; and reached His heart. And there are a hundred men whe have found out—a thousand young men, perhaps, who have found out that very thiug. It is so very easy to do wrong, and so hard to do right. I got a letter one day. only one paragraph, which 1 shail read: “Having moved around somewhat, 1 have run across many young men of intelligence. ardent strivers after that will-o’-the-wisp—fortune—and of one of these I would speak. He was a young Englishman of 23 or 24 years, who came to New York, where he had no acquaintances, with barely sufficient to keep him a couple of weeks. He had been tenderly reared, perhaps I should say too tenderly, and was not used U earning his living, and found it ex tremely difficult to get any position that he was capable of filling. Aftei many vain efforts in this direction he found himseif on a Sunday evening in Brooklyn near your church with about S3 left of his small capital. Providence seemed to lead him to yonr door, and he determined to go in and hear {you. “He told me his going to hear yon that night was undoubtedly the turning point in his life, for when he went into your church he felt desperate, bat while listening to yonr discourse hi} better nature got the mastery. I truly believe from what this young man told me that your sounding the depths of his heart that night alone brought him back to his God whom he was ac near leaving.” That is the echo of multitudes. 1 am not preaching an abstraction, but a great reality. 0! friendless yonng man. O! prodigal young man. O! broken-hearted yonng man, 1 commend to you Christ this day, the best friend a man ever had. He meets you this morning. Despise not that emotion rising in jour soul; it is divinely lifted. Look into '.he face of Christ. Lift one prayer to yonr father's God, to your mothers God, and this morning get the pardoning blessing. Now, while 1 speak, yon are at the forks of the road, and this is the right road, and that is the wrong road, and I see yon start on the right road. “His vaiet rot even with Reginald for discharging him, ’ said one young man. “How? inquired the other. “Set his watch ahead* so that Reginald got his evening clothes os at half-past fiv>P—Washington Star.