Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — Page 7

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

EvanoVille needs more hotels. John Latex, of Portland, is insane from relations excitement. Col. Samuel Merrill was on the 10th appointed Consul to Calcutta. Jacob Williams, of Washington county, is seven feet two inches in height. Robert Baker, of Martinsville, was killed by the kick of a horse on the 11th. Eight business houses at Elwood were burned Saturday, causing a loss of $35,000. Kokomo has organized a driving park association, *ith a capital stock of $15,000 A colored man was admitted to practice law at the bar of Knox county oh the 11th < Citizens blew a saloon, at Fairland, to pieces by dynamite on the evening of the 10th. There are now thirty.one natural gas wells in Blackford county, and six in Hartord City. The Irendale rolling mills, employing two hundred men, began operation at An-derson-Monday. Captain W. R. Myers has been edected Chairman of the Madison County Democratic Central Committee. The gas well drilled in Grant county by the-Kiley syndicate is claimed te have a daily output of 15,000,000 feet. Two and one-half ounces of arsenio were found in the stomaoh of Jacob Eberle, of vPeru, Ind., who had been dead'two years. Jacob Heim, a manufacturer of Laporte, fhas disappeared. He collected up his book aocounts closely and left his debts un paid. The farm-house of Louis Weitsel, south of Lebanon, burned early Monday morning. The family* narrowly esoaped with their lives. Loss, $30,000.

Quite recently a bundle of switches, with the usual “White Caps” notice, was found tacked to the office door of the Jasper Times, a Republican paper. Michael Kelly, employed in the Jdffer sonviLle Car Works, was caught by a switching train Wednesday, and fatally crushed. -His people reside in Springfield, Ohio. Miss Rosanna Mclntyre, one of the well known dwarf sisters, -of Wells county, died this week. She was aged forty-four years, and was three feet three inches in bight. Bowen, of Delphi,, diad Monday night, aged seventy-five years. He was one of the wealthiest men in Indiana, bis possessions being estimated as high as .$4,000,000. The Han Handle Road is introducing mew coaches on its through trains, which •are lighted by gas from reservoie under the floors. The improvement over-the old oil lamp.is very noticeable. Thomaa Hutsell, of Warren, while working in, his flour mill, Monday, Was caught by the shafting and his neck broken. The body clogged and stopped the machinery, . and he was dead when found. While Clyde Trindle and .'other boys, j near South Milford, were hunting last - Saturday , one of his companions acciden-tally-discharged his gun, and the load took effect in Trindle?* -side, instantly killing him. -The Richmond Natural Gas Company Wednesday developed another powerful well in the Chesterfield district. This makes eleven walls the company owns, more than enough do supply the 7,000 fires burning. Richard Mann’s barn, - near Farmland was-destroyed by fire Wednesday, and it is thought to have .been burned in reprisal for destruction of a saloon.at Farmland by dynamite. Mr. Mann is prominent in tern peranee Work. H. S. Groober, of Logansport, employed in a planing mill, lost his thumb by contact with a circular saw. Stepping to one side, he trimmed the ragged edges with a pair of. scissors, applied a quid of tobacoo as a poitice, and resumed his work. Dr. Samuel Salisbury,.a local Methodist preacher at St. Paul, Shelby county, has brought a $5,000 slander suit in the Circuit Court against Robert Phair, because the defendant is reported to have said that Salisbury burned a barn,years ago. Orner. aged ten, son of Merrit Ardery, »f Clifty .township, Bartholomew county Is dead, of trichinosis. He ate a small amount of uncooked pork sausage, and five lays later he was taken ill, dying in Vwenty days, after terrible suffering. Mrs. Louisa Eglin, of Seymour, boru in March, 1780, died on the 13th. She married the late William Eglin ninety-one years tgo, and her oldest child, if living, would be eighty-nine years old. She was in full possession of her mental faculties until a short time ago. Orth Stein, once of Lafayette, but now • fugitive from Justice on innumerable charges, is heard of at Colorado Springs and-Seattle. He was in England for a while, and poses now as one nf the British nobility, lie leaves forgeries behind him <every place he visits. The report reaches Terre Haute that on last Saturday uight White Capa, near Lanyas .r, took Charles Clemana, a halfwit d man, and after giving him a terrible whipping, warned him to leave the -country before daylight. The charge . against him is ill treatment of his mother. Mr. Conn, of Elkhart, of whom able has been said in months past, and who established the Daily and Weekly Truth, in .order to strike baok at bis assailants, has purchased the the Elkhart .Sentinel, And W. H. Norton, editor of the Sentinel, will have charge of the new Truth.

Mrs. Thomas Merritt, of Laporte, whoso maiden name was Annie Sesaler, was married in December last, and it is reported that she now makes the pitiful discovery that her husband has figured in three previous marriages, with the records of the court failing to show judicial separation. J. C. Williams, of the Muncle Leather Manufacturing Company, has been doing •business on wind, and that commodity has - ceased to be a legal tender. As a result , Mr. Williams is in bad financial straits, jHe was given three acres of ground and 'free gas to locate and erect a large building. He put up a building and employed 125 girls. His manner of hiring bands was peculiar, and at one time terminated in a strike. He would employ them on trial of two weeks, and at the end of that tim« 1 wwnid rirtiimr rHittl persons in their places, thereby getting his *

labor for nothing. Some Mancie money was advanced as a loan to the firm, and it is believed to be lost. The Republican primary of Howard bounty was held Wednesday, and Luther McDowell was nominated for Representative, Milton Garrigus auditor, Dr. A. A. Covault treasurer, Ed. A. Simmons sheriff, and Charles B. F. Clarke for recorder. Charles Conner, of Jeffersonville, has been arrested, charged with swindling pensioners. It is alleged that he operated principally among the oolored people in the Three Falls cities, and his patrons were required to pay fees in advance before he would undertake their claims. Some days ago R. N. Wooster, of Jackson township, Blackford oounty, was attacked by a large Berkshire boar, and, although he defended himself with a club, he was badly worsted in the fight, and would have been killed but for the timely arrival of neighbors. His legs were terribly torn by the animal’s tusks, and he is still disabled.

Washington Kern, of Decatur county, has a peculiar freak of nature. The animal is a two-year-old dog, perfectly formed, excepting that it has no fore legs, the condition being oongenital. In moving aboutii straightens itself erect upon its legs, and walks off with a grace which would do credit to most human beings. The dog is of Fulton county origin. It has become known that Andrew Gottschack, ax Treasurer of Adams county, is a defaulter for from $6,000 to SIO,OOO. The condition of the books has been kept from Xhe public until now. Gottschack engaged in speculation with public funds, and found himself enable to replace the money at the close of his term.

A woman named Steig died at Crawfordsville, last week, upon whom the sun had not shone for twenty-five years. At the beginning of this period she grew gloomy, finally went to bed, and made a vow that the sun should never again shine upon her. Her husband did the housework and waited upon her, and never uttered a word of complaint or censure. She recently became blind. [This story is presumed te be true. We doubt it] John Rewords, a farmer of Bartholomew county, lost a calf and a valuable mule from hydrophobia on the 10th. The mule was enclosedin a tight box stall, and, while it was being treated for the disease, made a lunge at a bystander, seizing him by the lapel of the ooat, tearing the garment from his body as though U was paper. The animal died in great agony, after ten hours of suffering. Two dogs in the neighborhood that were supposed to be mad-were killed Sunday.

Franz .Phrala, a Laporte couaty farmer, married a widow with children. He ordered his atepson to make a maul, with which to drive wedges, and, the work not being satisfactory, he abused him. Mrs. Phrala interfered, and he used a rawhide upon the woman until she fell unconscious. Afterward he attempted to repeat the whipping, and she was sheltered by a neighbor. The South Bend Times claims ibis cases like this whioh call for .the Dela ware whipping post in Indiana. Peru jollified on the 13th over the signing of-a contract by which the division headquarters, yards, shops and general centralization of the eastern division of the Wabash Railway is secured for that city, with the assurance that a connecting link will -be built to the Detroit Division, and it will also run in connection with the main line. The consideration to the Wabash is the building of Ahis additional roadway, >the same estimated to cost $25,000, and the donation of thirty acres of ground. .Patents to lndianians: C. A. Bertsoh, .Cambridge City, shearing machine; C. T Bqyer, Franklin, churn; W. M. Britton, Crawfordsville, fences; L, fi. Calder, Terre Haute, vapor burner.; A. Hardy. .Mishawaka, machine for forming felt-boot •blanks; J. A. Hilistrom, Chesterton, .atop .action for organs ;J. P. Karr, Monticello, apparatus for removing incrustation from boiler tubes; J., D. MoAnnally. Waterloo, haine tugs; K. Stiller, Evansville, adjusta .blechair; R. Taggart, Terre Haute, fan attachment for chairs—two patents. The north hound morning passenger .train on the Moaon route collided .with a freight train twe miles north of Mitchell, on.the 14th. W. J 3. Dillard, of Louisville, engineer, and JL B. Godinger, of Hew Albany, fireman, of the passenger engine, were instantly killed, and Charles Wright, mail agent, of Orleans, was fatally injured, dying in a short .time. The wreck was caused by wrong orders from the train dispatcher, who ordered the freight train south.on the time of .the north bound passenger. Miss Amanda Hall, of Jeffersonville, seven .years ago was given a small land tortoise, and she made a pet of the little creature, and it was kept about her home and permitted to roam at will. Soon after another tortoise was given her, which also became greatly attached to its mistress. Every fall the little creatures disappeared and though search was made high and low, their hiding place could not be discovered for several years, and then it was found they had dug below the frost line in a corner of the woodshed, where they hibernated until spring. The Coroner’B inquiry relative to the shooting at Blountsvilie, which resulted in the killingof Eli Ladd, colored, is developing into a serious affair for the principals in that tragedy. Evidenoo was had snowing that Ladd made no defense beyond rapid flight, and that he was j pursued into the country, and fully 100 shots were fired before he was stricken down. Three shots struck him. from ono of whioh, finding lodgment in the thigh, he j

bled 4e death-.- - deck Davis, one of the pursuers, was wounded, but it is alleged this was done by a shot fired by William Rozell which was intended for Lsdd. Under warrants issued by the Coroner, William and Henry Koseii, John P. Smitd, Charles Smeltzer and Cassius M. Lake have been arrested. Several of tho defendants are men of high standing, and Mr. Lake is a Justice of the Peace. THB LINCOLN LKA.OCB. The state ooavenuon of thp Lincoln League was held at Indianapolis on the 12th. William L. Taylor, the President, delivered bis annual address. The following officers were elected: L. President—William L. Taylor. ~ Seoretajy— Otto Gresham.

Treasurer—Norman S. Byram. Chairman Michner and Mr. Coekmua, Assistant U. S. District Attorney, made brief speeches. Resolutions were adopted as follows: We, the delegates to the State convention of the Lincoln League, do hereby reaffirm our loyalty to the Republican party and declare our devotion to the principles enunciated in the last National and State platforms, and we do hereby pledge ourselves' and the respective organizations represented by us to use our best efforts to maintain the ascendency of these principles and the supremacy of the Republican party. Resolved, That tne administration of Benjamin Harrison as president of the United States has been wise, just and patriotic; that under it all sections' of the country have been treated impartially; that the State of Indiana has been greatly honored in the selection of one of her sons as the chief executive of the Nation, and we hereby heartily indorse his administration, and affirm that it has met our highest expectations. Resolved, That we indorse the administration of the Hon, Alvin P. Hovey, Gov ernor of Indiana; that his voluntary effort to secure a service pension for the soldiers of the Union and his untiring efforts in their behalf merit the commendation of every loyal citizen. Resolved, The unflinching courage, the matchless self-poise, the fearless patriotism of Hou. Thomas B. Reed, plaoe him in a position high in the illustrious list of Speakers of the National House of Representatives. We send greeting to him. with the assurance that the great State of Indiana indorses to the fullest extent, his action as Speaker, and the wise policy and statesmanship which has actuated him In his recent conflict with the late enemies of the Union.

Distriot managers were then elected as follows: First District—James A Hemenway, Boonville. Second—Charles G Sefrit, Washington. Thir .—Ernest Tripp, North Vernon. Fourth—C F Jones, Brookville. Fifth -W C Banta, Martinsville. Sixth—C S Henley, New Castle. Seventh—R A Black, Green «*eld. Eighth—N Fiibeck, Terre Haute. Ninth—Howard Henderson, Lebanon. Tenth—Andrew Hall, Kentland. Eleventh—W S Silver, Bluffton. Twelfth—James S Drake, Lagrange. Thirteenth—J W Crumpacker, Laporte. Delegates and alternates to the National Convention of Republican clubs,to be held at Nashville, Tenn., March 4, were chosen as follows, each district making its own selection: First District-Delegates: James B Gamble, Princeton; Walter Viele, Evansville. Alternates: John L Dunlap, Princeton ; C C Mason, Rockport. Second District—Delegates: Dr Joseph Gardner, Bedford; Jonathan Keith, Vincennes. Alternates: Hilary O Houghton, Shoals; James H Herrold, Bloomfield. Third District—Delegates: Jesse J Brown, New Albany; Harvey Morris, Salem. Alternates; James Kemp, Salem; George W Belt, Corydon. Fourth District—Delegates: M R Sulzer, Madison; Albert Davis, Liberty. Alternates: LE Smith, Vevay; Captain A D Vanosdol. Madison. Fifth District—Delegates: Charles S Baker, Columbus; R H Richards,Patricks 'burg. Alternates: Jesse W Weik, Green--eastle; Julian D Hogate, Danville. Sixth District —Delegate J R Bell, Union City; Frank Roots, Connersville. Alternates: Richmond; C F Neely, Muncie.

Seventh District—Delegates; William A Wilkins, Indianapolis; John W Lovett, Anderson. Alternates: W Montgomery, Greenfield; S J Carpenter, Shelby ville. Eighth District—Delegates: E H Ne beker, Covington; David Streuse. Rockville, Alternates: R H Crowder, Sullivan; R B Sears, Newport. Ninth District- Delegates: Harry McGrath, Noblesville; John W Loop,Kokomo. Alternates: John A Swoveiahu, Tipton; Marcellus Bristow, Frankfort. Tenth District—Delegates: Maj J M Watts, Delphi; John Brown, Crown Point. Alternates; SP Thompson, Rensselaer; A R Shroyec, Logansport. Eleventh District—Delegates; J J M LaFollette, Portland: Levi Scoti, Fairmount Twelfth District—Delegates: J B Kimball, KendalLville; William Wilson, Fort Wayne. Alternates; P V Huffman, Ligonier: W F Pten field, Auburn. Thirteenth District—Delegates: H G Thayer, Plymouth; J D Oliver, South Bend. Alternates; L W Royse, Warsaw; O Z Hubbell, Elkhart. To this list was added the names of Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville, and George W. Patchell, of Union City, as delegates at large, with Thomas Hanna, of Greencastle. and Charles F. Griffin, of Crown Point, as alternates.

THE MONTANA SENATORSHIPS.

Montana, after all, is going to have two Republican United States Senators. There have been some informal talks and confer ences among the leading Republican Sen* ators the past week, in whioh Messrs Sanders and Powers, the Pepublican Senators-elect have participated, and the result is an understanding that the majority of the committee on privileges and elections will report in favor of seating the two Republican Senators elect, unless the investigation and hearings, which the committee will make, during the next few days, shall develop some new and strong .evidence going to show that the Republicans have no rights to the seats they claim. The recent action of the Democratic members of the upper branch of the Montana 1 Legislature in running away to break a quorum has been very damaging to the Democratic side of the contest. It has impressed the Republicans in Washington with the fact that the Democratic members of the Legislature have used every conceivable method to defeat a fair action upon the election of United States Senators and proposed measures affecting State interests.

About two weeks ago an understanding was thought to exist whereby no Senator from Montana would be seated, and the whole election would be relegated back to | the people and settled by the next Legislature. Since no one has ooouf ied a seat from Montana in the United States Senate, a failure to seat any one at this time would not make a vaoaucy, and therefore Governor Toote would not Have the authority to appoint Senators during a recess of the Legislature. Considering the irregularities in election precinots throughout Montana where Democrats are charged with improperly influencing voters, the unusual canvassing board returns; certification of local and State officers; the filibustering of Democratic Senators to prevent the election, and their final running out of thtf State to break a quorum, the conclusion has been reached that the two Republicans j&aiming to have been elected shall receive a favorable report from the committee on privileges and elections and be seated. Little dope bark the most because

THE FIVE FINGERS.

Ist. T. Dewitt T&lmaga Discourses on “The Glorious Christ.” Jhrist, the Over-Topping Figure of All Time—Beautiful Significance of Words— The Love of Christ Set Forth in the Tendered Phraseology.

At the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the 9th nsk, Rev. Talmage preached from the text: ‘He that- cometb from above is above all,” -John iii-3L Dr. Talmage said: The boat conspicuous character of history steps >ut upon the platform. The finger which, llamonded with light, pointed down to lim from the Bethlehem sky, was only a •atification of the finger of prophecy, the lnger of genealogy, the finger of chronoogy, the finger of events—all five fingers jointing in one direction. Christ is the jvertopping figure of all time, lie is the rox humana in all music, the gracefulest ine in all sculpture, the most exquisite singling of lights and shades in all paintng, the acme of ail climaxes, the dome of *ll cathedraled grandeur, and the perora;ion of all spendid language. The Greek alphabet is made up of twen-iy-four letters, and when Christ compared limself to the first letter and the last letter ;he alpha and the omega, he appropriated >0 himself all the splendors that you can ipell out either with those two letters, and *ll the letters between them. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and ;he end, the first and the last.” Or, if you prefer the words of the text, ‘"above aIL” What does it mean! It means, after you lave piled up all Alpine and Himalayan iltltudes, the glory of Christ would have ;o spread its wings and descend a thousand eagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a ligh mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high nountain, and Olympus, a high mountain; out mythology tells us when the giants warred against the gods they piled up ;hese three mountains, and from the top of ihem proposed to scale the heavens; but ihe height was not great enough, and there was a complete failure. Aud after all the jiants—lsaiah and Paul, prohetio and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo, irtistic giants; cherubim and seraphim *nd archangel, celestial giants—have failed X) climb to the top of Christ’s glory they alight all well unite in the words of the oext and say: “He that cometh from above is above aIL” _ ii—. . .

First, Christ must be above all else in >ur preaching. There ares© many books du homiletics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have mado up their minds what sermons ought to be. That sermon is most affectual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of aIL siu and the correction of all evil—individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, that therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth, but under different phraseology. Now, I say there is nothing in all the opulent realm of AngloSaxonism, of all the word treasures that we inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-European, but we have aright J» marshal it in religious discussion. Christ sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barn yard fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars; and we do not propose in our Sunday school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits. I know that there is a great deal said in our day against words, as thougti they were nothing. They may be misused, but they have an imperial power. They are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. V\ hat

did God write upon the tables of stones? Words. U hat did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out or words. “Let there be light,” and light was. Of course, thought is the cargo and words are only the ship; but how fast would your cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sabbath school class, in the reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge our vacabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ and heaven. We - ride a few old wards to death when there is such illimitable resources Shakespeare employed fifteen thousand different woras for dramatic purposes; Milton employed eight thousand different words for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over eleven thousand different words for legal purposes; but the most of us have loss than a thousand words that we can manage, less than five hundred, and that makes us so stupid. W hen we come to set forth the love of (Christ we are going to take tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before, all the more shall we use it When we come to speak of tbe glory of Christ, the Conqueror, we are going to draw our similies from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy have eighteen fl.igs by which they give signal, but those eighteen flags they can put into sixty-six thousand different combinations. And I have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted into combinations infinite and varieties everlasting. And let me say to these young men who came from the theological seminaries into our services every Sabbath, and are after a while going to preach Jesus Christ, you will have the largest liberty and unlimited resources. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in tho severest argument ever penned, and John Bunyan preached Christ in the sublimest allegory ever composed. Edward Fa.vson, sick and exhausted, leaned up uguinst the side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whitefield, with the manner and tbe voice and the start of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would have been a different thing if Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrim's progress to the celestial city, or John Hunyun had attempted an essay on the hunmrwttt.

Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper tban the seas, are all these Gospel themes. Song has no melody, flowers have no sweetness, sunset sky hus no color compared with these glorious themes. These harvests of grace spring u|l quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their lire, and producing r volutions with their power, light ng up dying beds with their glory, thev are the sweetest thought for the poet, and they are the most thrilliug Illustration for the orator, and they o.Ter the most intense scene for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the skv all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweetest . dmtort for ghastliest agonies Brightest hope for grimmest death. Gran lest resurrection for darkest sepulchers. Oh, what a Gospel to pro.ich! ng, his miracles, his parables, his sweat,

his tears, Ms blood, his atonement, bis intercession—what glorious themes I Do we exercise faith? Christ is its object Do we have love? It fastens on Jesus. Hava we a fondness for the church? It is because Christ died for it Have we a hope of heaven 1 It is because Jesus went ahead, the herald and the forerunner. The royal robe of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that after be had put it off no one ever dared put it on; but this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the wannest and the worst may wear. “Where sin abounded grace may much more abound.”

“Oh, my sins, my sins,” said Martin Luther to Staupitz, “my sins, my sins 1” The fact is, that the brawny German student had found a Latin Bible that made him quake, ana nothing else ever made him quake; and when be fouhd how, through Christ, he was pardoned and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying: “Come over and ; oin us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of God. Yon seem to be only a slender siuner, and yon don’t much extol the mercy of God; but we that have been such very awful sinners praise his grace the more now that we have boon redeemed.” Can it be that you are so desperately egotistical that you feel yourself in first rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you are scarless and immaculate? What you need is a looking glass, and here It is in the Bible. Poor, and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. Aud then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and paid them, and then offered us the receipt.

And how much we need him in our sorrows I We are independent of circumstances if we have his grace. Why, be made Paul slog in the dungeon, and under that grace St. John from desolate Patinos heard the blast of the apocalyptic trumpets. After all other candles have been snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect day; and after, under the hard hdofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoyments have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite lily rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of his souL Again, I remark, that Christ is above all in dying alleviations. I have not any sympathy - with the morbidity abroad about our demise. The emperor of Constantinople arranged that on the day of his coronation the stone mason should come and consult him about the tombstone that after a while he would need. Aud there are men who are monomaniacal on the subject of departure from this life by death, aud the more they think of it the less they are prepared "to go. This is an unmanliness not worthy of you, not worthy of mo.

Salad In, the greatest conqueror of his day, while dying, ordered that the tunic he had on him he carried after his deatltbit his spear at the head of his army, and that then the soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say: “Behold, all that is left of Salad in, the emperor and conqueror! Of all the states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated, nothing did he retain but this shroud.” 1 have no sympathy with such behavior, or such absurd demonstration, or with much that we hear uttered in regard to departure from this life to the next. There is a com (nonsensical idea on this subject that you and I need to consider —that there are only two styles of departure. A thousand feet underground, by light of torch toiling in a miner's shaft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us, and we may die a miner’s death. Far out at sea, falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the halyards, we may die a sailor’s death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and raging fevers, we may die a philanthropist’s death. On the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the gun carriage may roll over us, and we may die

a patriot’s death. But, after all, there are only two styles of departure—the death of the righteous and the death of the wicked and we all want to die the former. God grant that when that ho at- ]comes you may be home. You want the hajnd of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. Yon want the light on your pillow from eye 3 that have long reflected your love. You want the room still. You do not want any curious strangers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer. I think (hat is the wish of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us up when the billows of death come up to the girdle? Can human voice charm open beaven?* gate? Can human hand pilot us through the narrows of death into heaven's harbor? Can any earthly friendship shield us from the arrows of death, and in the hour when Satan shall practice upon us his infernal archery? No, no, no, no! Alas 1 Poor soul, if that is aIL Better die in the wilderness, far from tree shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures circling through the air waiting for body, unknown to men, and to have no burial, if only Christ could say through the solitudes : “1 will never leave thee, I will never forsake thee," From that pillow of stone a ladder would soar heavenward, angels coming and going; and across the solitude and the barrenness would come the sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in the door of a heathen temple, said: “Glory to thee, O God!” What did dying Wilbert force say to his wife? “Come and sit beside me, and let us talk of heaven. I never knew what hppplness was until 1 found Christ.” What did dying Hannah More say ? “To go to heaven, think what that is! To go to Christ, who died that I might live! Oh, glorious gravel Ob, what e glorious thing it is to die! Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Christ?" ’ What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymnmaker, say in his last hour? “Who can measure the depths of the third beaven ? Oh, the sunshine that fills my soull I shall soon be gone, for surely no one can live in this world after such glories as God has manifested to my soul”

, What did the dying Jauoway say 1 “1 can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in Bleep. Before a few hours have passed 1 shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand and with the just men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches, and honor; and glory,- and majesty, and-domin-ion unto God and the Lamb.” Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on his way thither broke away from the men and went bounding and leap inr and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for him. Sir Charles Hare, in last moment, had such rapturous vision that he cried: “Upw ird, upward, upward!” And so great was the peace of oue of Christ’s disciples that he put his fingers upon the pulse in his wrist and counted it and observed it; and so great was bis placidity that after a while be said : "Stoppsdf” and bis life hadended here to begin in heaven. But grander than that was the testimony of the worn out first missionary, when, in the Mamirtine dungeon, he cried: “I am now ready to be off jred, and the time of my departure is at baad; I Bare Tonzitt ine gDua n 'rit, I ii ivvj nmsnea my course; I have kept the faith; hence-

forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that d *y, and not to me only, bat to all thorn that love his appearing!” Do yon not see that Christ is above all in dying alleviations? Toward the last hour of our earthly residence we are speeding. When I see the sunset, I say, “One day less to live." W hen I see the spring blossoms scattered, I say, “Another season gone forever.” When I close this Bible on Sabbath night, 1 say, “Another Sabbath departed." When 1 bury a friend, I say, “Another earthly at* traction gone forever." What nimble feet the years have! The roebucks aud the lightnings run not so fast. From dreads to decade, from sky to sky, thej go at a bound. There is a place for os, whether marked or not, where you and I trill sleep the last sleep, and the men are now living who will, with solemn tread, carry us to our resting place. Ay, it is known in heaven whether our departure will be a coronation or a banishment. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be tne sepulcher through whose rifts the holy light of heaven stre&meth. God will watch you. He will .Mod his angels to guard your slumbering ground, until, at Christ’s behest, they shall roll away the stone. So, also, Christ Is above all in beaven. Th * Bible distinctly says that Christ is. tile chief theme of the celestial ascription, all the thrones facing his throne, all the palms waved before his face, all the crowns down at his feet Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the Sav.or’s earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scars of his suffering, in silence first

Afterward-breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, all the purer for the flame through which they passed, will say: “This is Jesus, for whom we died.” The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went will say: “This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Little children clad in white will say: “This is the Jesus who took us in his arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the wo id were too cold and loud, brought us into this beautiful place.” The multitudes of the bereft will say: “This is the Jesus who comforted us when our heart broke.” Many who wandered olear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: “This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were loston the mountains, and he brought us home. We were guilty, and he has made us white as sno w. ” Mercy boundless, grace unparallelei. And then, after each one.has recited his peculiar mercies, reoited them as by solo, all the voices will come together into a great chorus, which will make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal .reverberation of gladness and peace and triumph. Edward 1 was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire be bequeathed siflo,<XW to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Laud in Asia Minor, and bis request was complied with. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are already in the Holy Land of heaven. Where your treasures are, there are your hearts also. Qcains John Bunyan, of whom I spoke at the opening of the discourse, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: “And I heard in my dre-un; and 10l the bells of the city rang again for joyr and as they opened the gates to let in men I looked in after them, and i o j tlx city shone like the sun, aq<J there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their hands, to ring praises withal; and after that they shut up the gates, which when I had seen I wished myself among them!”

HIS GREAT INVENTION.

There Was Millions In It, but He Needed a Little Capital. About six weeks ago a man wb« claimed to be in hard luck entered *- Detroit stove-store aud asked for ey. The proprietor gave him a dime and a blowing up at the same time, and asked him why he did not brace us and do something. ••Say! I’ll do it!” was the reply. “I m already working a big thing. It is a coal stove and a refrigerator combined—one side to cool your provisions in summer, and. tbe other to beat youi bodies in winter.” He was encouraged to go on, and in about two weeks he returned to inquire: - —™__ “Do you think it will make any difference which side is the stove and which the refrigerator?” He was told that it would not, and he went away to b<3 gone another fort night, and then to return and ask: "Wouldn’t it be a good thing to arrange to save the heat of the stove to run a washing-machine?’' He was warmly complimented on th« idea, and was not seen again until yesterday, when he returned with enthusiastic step to ask for a private interview and to say: “Got another idea! I’m going tc make the cold air which passes off the ice and escapes by the ventilator rus at least six fly-fans in the dining-room. What I want just now is a capital a $1,000,000 to enable me to experiment) and I shall writ? to parties in New York to-day. Meanwhile could vov advance me 27 cents and take a firm mortgage bearing 12 per cent In teres in gold?”—Detroit Free Press

The Duke of Suffolk's flood.

In the Holly Trinity Churoh, in the Minories, is preserved in a glass case beneath the pulpit a human head. The vicar, Rev. Samuel Kinna, has m cetttly issued a book containing details about this caput mortuum. It is supposed to be that of the duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Gray, who was beheaded in 1554, shortly after the ex& cution of his daughter. There is a tradition that the executioner did not, at was usual in such cases, bold upthi bead of the duke to the people, but let it simply drop into the basket,the supposition being that he was bribed tt bring it secretly to the church anl place it in the vault, where it wat found by the earl of Dartmouth. Thl* story is doubted by a former vicar, who writes to say that it is more pro bable that "the head belongs to boom unknown person of later times.**

“A Naughty” Q uery.

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