Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — Page 7

HOMESICK SOUL.

Young Men, Listen to the Monitor's Voice. Work Yonr Way Out of Sin and Iniquity and Beturn to the Pure Scenes of Childhood* The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: “The Homesick Soul. ” Text from the parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke xv, 18: “I will arise and go to my father.” He said: There is nothing like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot. There has been many an army defeated not so much for lack of ammunition as for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out any man’s life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. This young man of my text couldn’t get even the food fed to the swine without stealing it. So one day amid the swine troughs he begins to soliloquize. He says: £ ‘These are not the clothes for a rich man’s son to wear; this is no kind of a business for a Jew to be engaged in—feeding hogs; I’ll go home. I’ll go home; I will arise and go to my father.” I know there are a great many people who try to throw a fascination, a romance, a halo about sin; but notwithstanding all that Lord Byron and George Sand have said in regard to it. it is a mean, low, contemptible business, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the *oul of a man is a very poor business for men and women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this young, man resolved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises big wages if we will serve him; but he clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the bloodhounds of perdition. Satan comes to us to-day and he promises all luxuries, all emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! “The wages of sin is death.” Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution, “I will arise and go to my father.” The resolution of this text was formed in disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man had been by his employer set to cultivating flowers, or training vines over an arbor, or keeping account of the pork market, oi overseeing other laborers, he would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say, ‘‘l have SI,OOO now of my own; what’s the use of my going back to my father’s house? Do you think I am going back to apologize to the old man? Why, he would put me on the limits; he would not have going on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged in. I won’t go home; there is no reason why I should go home; I have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings; why should I go home?” Ah! it was his pauperism; it was his beggary. He had to go home. Some man comes and says to me: “Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul? Why don’t you speak about the progress of the nineteenth century, and talk about something more exhilarating?” Itis_ for this reason; a man never wants the Gospel until he realizes that he is in a famine-stricken state. Sup--pose-Lshmild come to you in your home and you are in good, robusthealth, and I should bogin to talk about medicines, and- about how much better this medicine is than that, and some other medicine than some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician. After awhile you would get tired, and you would say: “I don’t want to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians? I never have a doctor.” But suppose I come into your house and 1 find you severely sick, and I know the medicine that will cure you, and I know the physician who is skillful. enough to meet your case. You say: “Bring on that medicine, bring on that physician. lam terribly sick and I want help.” If I came to you and you feel you are all right in body and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have need of nothing; but suppose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness. Oh! then you say: “Bring me that balm of the Gospel, bring me that divine medicament, bring me Jesus Christ.” But says some on in the audience: “How do you prove that we are in a ruined condition by sin?" Well, I can prove it in two ways and you may naVe your choice. I can prove it either by the statements of men or by the statement of God, . Which shall it be? You all say: “Let us have the statement of God.” Well, He says in ote place: “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.’’ He Says in another place: “What is man that he should be clean, and he which is born of a woman thae he should be righteous?” He sa; siu another place: it “There is none* that doeth good, not one,” He says in another place, “As-by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” “Well,” you say, “I am willing to acknowledge that, but why

should I take the particular rescue that you propose?” This is the reason: “Except that a man be bom again he cannot see the kingdom of God. ” This is the reason: “There is one name given under heaven men. Thereby they may be saved. ” Then there are a thousand voices here ready to say: “Well, I am ready to accept this help of the gospel; I would like to have this divme cure, how shall I go to work?” Let me say that a mere whim, an undefined longing amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, tremendous resolution like this young man of the text when he said: “I will arise and go to my father,” “Oh” says some man, “how do I know my father wants me? how do I knovT if 1 go back I would be received?” “Oh, says some man,you don’t know where I have been; you don’t know how far I have wandered; you wouldn’t talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have com* mitted." Then I see Christ waving His hand toward the mountains; I hear Him say: ‘‘l will come over the mountains of thy sins and the hills of thy iniquity.” There shall be no Pyrenese; there shall be no Alps. Again, Notice that the resolution of the young man of the text was founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that he had so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child be ungrateful. •■How sharper than a serpent’s tooth It is To have a thankless child.” That is Shakespere. “A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ” That is the Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? ■Have we n6t maltreated our Father?' And such a Father! So loving, so kind. If he had been a stranger, if he had forsaken us, if he had flagedated us, if he had bounded us and turned us out of doors on the commons, it would not have been so wonderful —our treatment of Him; but He is a Father so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderings have never apologized for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us, perhaps, have committed 10,000 times 10,000 wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark still further that this resolution of the text was founded on a feeling of homesickness. I don t know how long this young man. How many months, how many years, he had been away from his father’s house; but there is something in the reading of my text that makes me think he was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by every thing bright and pleasant, plenty of friends, you have said: “I would give the world to be home to-night.” Well this young man was homesick for his father's house. I have no doubt when he thought of his father’s house, he said “Now, perhaps, fatheT may not be living.”

We read nothing in this story — this parable founded on everyday life—we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing ! said about her here. But he is homesick for his father’s house. He, thought he would just like to go and walk around the place. He thought he would just like to go and see if things were as they used to be. Many , a man, after having been off a long while, has gone’home and knocked at the door, and a stranger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stanger comes to the door. He finds outfattrerisgonea&dmotherls.gone and brothers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to himself: “Perhaps father may be dead.” Still he starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any here to-day homesick for God. Homesick for heaven? Olmy friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down into sin r Have you waded from the shore Will you come back? When you come back will you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed in the Savior's righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He is waiting for you. Go home. But I remark concerning this resolution, it was immediately put into execution. The context says “he arose and came to his family." The trouble in ninety-nine times out of a hundred is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some distant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next vear, thut amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve to become a Christian tomorrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If T resolve at the service tonight to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go home to-day to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of resothat amounts to anything is the resolution that is immediately put into execution. There is a man who had the typhoid -fever. He said: “Oh, if I could get over this terrible distress! jf this fever should depart, if I could be restored to health, I would all the rest of my life, serve God. ” The fever departed. He got well enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to go over to New York and attend to business. He is well today—as well as he ever was. Where is the broken vow? There is a matt who said long ago: “If I could live to the year end, by that time I will

have my business matters arranged, anj. I will have time to attend to religion, and I will be a thorough consecrated Christiah. ” The year 1891 has come. January,February, March, April, May, June—almost half of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? O, says some man, “I’ll attend to that when I can get my character fixed up: when I can get over mv evil habits: I am now given to strong drink. ” Or, says the man “I am given to uncleanliness:” or says the man, “I am’ given to dishonesty. < When I get over my S resent ha6its,then I'll be a thorough hristian.” u, My brother, you will get worse and worse until Christ takes you in hand. “Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call.”’ O! but you say; “I agree with you on all that, but I must put it off a little longer. ” Do you know there were many who came just as near to the kingdom of God and never entered it. “To-day I offer you the pardon of the Gospel—full pardon; free pardon. I do not care what your sin has been. * Though you say you have committed a crime against God, against your own soul, against your fellow man, against your family, against the day of judgment, agairst the cross of Christ —whatever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pardon, and the very moment you take that pardon your heavenly father throws his arms around about you and says: “My'son, I forgive you. It is all right. You are as much in my favor now as though you had never sinned.” Oh! there is joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who wIIITake the father’s, embrace? . • There was a gentleman in a rail car who saw in that same car three-pas-sengers of very different circumstances. The first was a maniac. He was carefully guarded by his attendants; his mind, like a ship dismantled, was beating againt a dark, desolate coast from which no help could come. The train stopped and the man was taken out into the asylum to waste away, perhaps, through years of gloom. The second passenger was a culprit The outraged law had seized on him. As the cars jolted the chains rattled. On his face were crime, depravity and despair. The train halted and he was taken out to the penitentiary, to which he had been condemned. There was the third passenger, under far different circumstances. She was a bride. Every hour was gay as a marriage bell. Life glittered and beckoned. Her companion was taking her to his father’s house. The train halted. The old man was there to welcome her to her new home, and his white locks snowed down upon her as he sealed his words with a father’s'kiss. Quickly we fly toward eternity. We will soon be there. Some leave this life condemned. Oh. may it be with us that, leaving this fleeting life for the next, we may find our Father ready to greet us to our new home with Him forever. There will be a marriage banquet! Father’s welcome! Father's bosom! Father's kiss! Heaven! Heaven!

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Hann. of Washington, D. C., has given SBO,000 toward a cathedral for the Protestant Episcopal Church in that city. It is stated that the most-holy governing synod of Russia has issued orders to the effect that students of all religious denominations must attend lessons in the orthodox catechism, and that all Industrial establishments must have an orthodox church within a distance of twenty kilometers. According to the statisticsjyibli&lr ert r»y the French Cultus~Miniktry, the status of Protestantism France is at present the following: Reformed Church, 540,000: Lutheran church 75,000; the United Church of Algiers 9,733; free churches, 6,000; various sects. 4,000; not on the official list, 15,000. A summer convocation of Christian workers, under the auspices of the Christian alliance, is to be held at Western Springs, near Chicago. June 19-28. Among the prominent workers from abroad are Revs. A.B. Simpson.of New York; Dr.F.L.Chappell, of Boston, and John Morrow, of Pittsburg. Pa. Miss F. L. Shepard, of New York, will have charge of the music. The recent census of Ireland shows that the Roman Catholics number 3,547,745, a decrease of 411,146 during the last decade- The number of Protestant Episcopalians is 600,830, a decrease of 38,744; of Presbyterian 446,687, decrease of 24,047; of Methodists, 55,232, an increase of 6,396. The decrease of population in Ire land during the decade has been nearly half a million, r A remarkable movement has been started in Madras, India, by twe Mohammedans, which has for its object the preaching of Hindoos and, if possible, Christians to Mohammed anism. * The young men who go out preaching are free from the preju dices of the old fashioned Moham medans, try to live true and claim to be at one with the Unitarians of America and England. The result is an increase in the spirit of inquiry that is abroad. , The leaders adopt English at the medium of preaching Islam and acknowledge the fatherhood of God, and thus over throw the old fashioned prejudice against the Christian expression “Son of God," “God’s children,” which many Mohammedans consider blasphemous. '

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Delphi wants waterworks. Gas has been struck at Dana. Frankfort heeds a sewer system. Richmond wants a new opera house. The cow question agitates Nashville. Laporte will erect a new court house. Goshen is agitating the park question. These are buSTf days on Hoosier farms. Washington wants drinking fountains. Jeffersonville people enjoy frog-catch-ing. Maple tree lice have appeared at South Bend. Eight counties in Indiana have no negro voters. At Washington there is a three-eyed turkey, x • A gang of boy burglars were corralled at Newton. Shelby county has nearly 9,000 school children. Dogs have been killing sheep around Flatrock. Columbus Odd Fellows will erect a three story building. The Ohio river peaches will be ripe in about two weeks. There will be aQO floats in the 4th parade at Michigan City* Wheat harvesting in Harrison county began on the 15th. __ Brick manufacture is an important industry at Seymour. • The State Legion encampment begins at Fort Wayne July 36. A Cambridge man will have 1,000 bushels of cherries to 3ell. An Angola cat h%s just died at the age of twenty-one years. A fine peach crop is reported to be a certainty in Southern Indiana. A popular dog of Warsaw enjoyed a funeral attended.by fifty people. William Cushing of Kendal ville has 110,000 celery plants under cultivation. Three Clay county men were divorced in one day and immediately married. A cavern miles in extent has been discovered in Morgan county, Kentucky. The center of the snake belt this season is in the neighborhood of Crawfordsville. Three thousand men signed the pledge at Lebanon, and are now “Murphy men.’ A deposit of granite has been discovered on J. M. Garlock’s farm near Brownstown. Frank Slavin, of Australia, knocked out Jake Kilrain in nine rounds at Now York on the 16th. Albert Louis, a Chicago traveling man, about 62 years old, died on the train near Logansport. The farmers of Washington township, Clinton county, will have a parade of farm wagons on July 4. Col. John Lee, the oldest native inhabitant of Montgomery county, died at Craw-, fordsville on the 18th. The coroner at New Albany holds Stokes Brown accountable for causing the death of his son by beating him. The Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows at Connersville decorated the graves of dead comrades Sunday. Twenty head of valuable imported cattle were killed in a Wreck on the Chicago & Erie road, near Disko, Wabash county. Amos Stephenson beat his horse to death with a club because it couldn’t pull a load up a hill near Crawfordsville. Officers are after him. Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison, who are now in Europe, are to receive high honors in France next week, and afterward in Germany. While lingering near the banks of the Muscattaluck river, Henry Turmail, of Brownstown, was suddenly stricken with paralysis, fell into the river and was drowned. Some time ago a playmate struck a daughter of John Athert, of New Albany, across the eyes with a switch. She has become blind, the result of paralysis of the optic nerve. “ - William Irvine, a chicken thief, was shot by Grant Hendricks at 2 o’clock Monday morning, while robbing a hen-roost. He will loose an eye, and possibly his life. At least a dozen shot struck him in the face. He is in jail and in a precarious condition. Two brothers, Glen n'andW i 1 Ham Ives, "Sged nine and thirteen, were drowned on the 15th while bathing in the Mississinewa at Marion. A dozen boys were with the bathers, but none were strong enough to rescue the unfortunates. The elder of the two victims lost his life trying to save his brother.

Night policeman Morris and his dog surprised two burglars who were breaking into the Providence Jewelry Company’s store at Peru, Monday morning. The deg had better luck than the officer, holding on to Joseph Wcidener, who will have an opportunity to explain the unseasonable ness of his shopping expedition. As a man was driving across a field near Crawfordsville, last Saturday, a blacksnake over five feet in length suddenly coiled around one of the horse’s legs. The animal ran over a mile before it could be stopped, when the man got out and killed the snake, which was still hanging on and showing a disposition to fight. The mothers of Greencastle who are enlisted in the crusade against social impurity have issued an appeal to parents with a view to securing their co-operation in the movement. The appeal is in the form of a leaflet for public distribution. It calls attention to the snares which beset the feet of the young, and appeals to all mothers and fathers to unite for their suppression. Last summer, while James Stiiebel was engaged in stacking oats near Brownstown, a bright bolt of lightning shivered a tree less than five hundred yards away. Striebel cursed the elements and was himself stricken Instantly. The friends of the deceased erected a nine-foot monument to his memory, and Monday evening light, ning struck the monument and shivered it to the ground. Last week, at Muncie, William Barnhouse, aged eighty-one, was granted a divorce from his aged wife on a plea charging her with abandonment. Sunday the oldman was married to Mias Mary E. Dille, a blushing country lassie aged about twenty-five. The peculiarity of the affair Is thatßarnhouse never saw his young bride, he being blind, and draws SIOO per month pension money. E. T. Jordon, of Portland, Natural-gas

Inspector Of Indiana, who is better posted than any man in Indiana as to the natural gas fields, has just returned from Findlay > 0., and reports a heavy loss of both pressure and volume of gas in all wells there. Several factories have been burned and none of them will rebuild. He predicts that in two years there will be no gas in Findlay for manufacturing, and, also, speaks discouraging of the prospect in the Indiana field. ■■ ■ Score another victory for the Farmers’ Alliance. The largest strawberries grown in St. Joseph county this season, and exhibited in the South Bend markets, are from the Peffer farm in Penn township. Miss Abbie Peffer has named them “Senator Peffer,” in honor of her uncle, who was elected to the United Stages Senate to succeed Senator Ingalls. The “Senator Peffers” are rarifluent, palatable, ponderous and prolific.--South Bend Tribune. The assessment of Wabash county under the new jaw shows that there are in' the county 739 taxpayers who will pay taxes on property assessed at 96,000 or over. The grand total of property assessed, not including railroad stock and bank stock, is 915,411,526, against 910,572,325 for 1690. This is an increase in yalua tion of 94,639,201. The vast majority of this wealth is assessed against farmers thus showing that the agricultural property is far more valuable than the dty and town property in the county. The assessor’s books also shows that 4,640 polls have been listed, and taxes are to be paid on 1,296 dogs. Monday afternoon Stokes Brown, colored, claiming to be blind, living on the Michigan road near Marion, undertook, in a fit of anger, to punish his little eight-year-old stepson for some trivial offense. It is charged that he beat and choked and stamped on the child in suen a manner that it died in a half hour after its inhuman father had ceased his work. The mother of the boy reported the matter to some of the neighbors, who were shocked •by the occurrence, and at once sent for Sheriff Hoagland, who arrested the brute and placed him in jail. Brown claims that the child was subject to epileptic fits, and that the punishment did not cause his, death. A coroner’s inquest, however demonstrated that death was due to the fearful beating received at the hands of the father. Public indignation is great against him. Morelan 8. Seller, who lives ersville, had a terrible fight with lSF:son on the 18th. The women about the house went away after dinner, leaving Seller and his son at home sitting in the room talking. A large dog belonging to the old gentleman was also in the room, and after awhile the two men became angry over some business matters they had under discussion, Finally Seller, Sr., called his son a vile name, whereupon the son rushed at his father, and gathering him around the head with one arm, he commenced to pound him in the face. The father was getting the worst of it, when his large dog, hearing the noise, rushed into the house and attacked the son. The dog flew at his arm and tore the flesh from the bones in a fearful manner. The old man then escaped from his son, and rushing into a room returned with a revolver. He was raving mad, and, pointing the revolver at his son, fired. The ball bored a hole through the boy’s ear, and the latter, seeing that his father was about to shoot again, closed in on him and wrenched the pistol away. This act brought the dog into the fight again. With a bound he fastened his teeth in the boy’s hip, tearing the flesh away in large pieces. Young Sellers at this point shot the dog. The death of the dog ended the fight, as the son was about exhausted. A doctor was summoned and pronounced the wounds very serious. The arm and hip are literally torn to pieces. He is not expected to recover. The father may be arrested.

Trouble Expected.

Chicago Tribune. Mayor (of Missouri town)—Jones, where are all the police? City Marshai—Keepingorderata sparring-match. I don’t expect any of them back before midnight. Mayor—Then tell those folks down at the red-brick church they’ll haw to put off that debate on infant baptism till to-morrow night. That’s aU there i* about it. ’

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, June 18, 1891. GRAIN. Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye. Indianapolis.. 8 r'd 103 1 wSO t wK) 8 r’d 93 lye 63 48 Chicago 2 r’d 103 68 Cincinnati.... 2r'd 10ft 67 49 90 St Louis 2 r’d 103 86 44 83 New York.... 8 r’d III' 97 61*4 95 Baltimore.... 113 W 6ft 95 Philadelphia. 2 r'd 110 06 63 clover Toledo 103 to 49 425 Detroit 1 wh 110 K 48 Minneapolis. ■ 1 05 ' CATTLE. Export steers $5 25<g)5 75 Good to choice shippers 4 70®5 IP Fair to medium shippers 4 oo®4 35 Common shippers 3 35(33 75 Stockers 2 75®3 45 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 75054 25 Fair to medium heifers 3 (Jo®3 oo Light, thin heifer 5............. 2 50(33 00 Good to choice cow*,.3 50(34 00 Fair to medium cows 2 50®3 25 Common old cows 1 23;<j2 25 Veals, common to choice 3 00(35 oo Bulls, common to choice. 2 50®4 00 Milkers, good to choice. 15 00:335 00 HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping...s4 5504 6> Mixed packing 4 40(34 55 Light 4 20®4 55 Heavy roughs 3 so<«4 25 SHEET. Good to choice clipped... $4 25®4 75 Fair to medium clipped.. 3 75(34 10 Common clipped 3 0033 50 Bucks, V head 2 50®i oo MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs,l3 c; butter, creamery, 21@30c; dairy, SSOc; good country, 140; feathers, 35c j beeswax, 18® 20c; wool, 30(g35c, an washed j 20c: hens. Oc; turkeys, 10c,toms, Bc;cluvei eed, 4.75® 5.00,1

A HUNDRED KILLED.

An Appalling Railroad Disaster in Europe. A Heavily Laden Train Goes Through f Bridge Near Bale, Switzerland— A City of Mourning. A fearful accident is reported iron Switzerland. A railroad bridge across th« Moenichen, a small affluent of the Rhine, at Stein, in the canton of Basel, not fa> from Germany, gave way on the 14th under the weight of an Excursion train, crowded with throngs of people who were on their way to a musical fete, Two engines and the first car, with all its passengers, first plunged into the river, while th« rest of the ears remained suspended ovei the stream. All the trainmen were killed, and every passenger in the submerged cat was drowned. Thirteen cars were saved. The number of cars was at least sixty, and of those injured not less than one hundred. The fearful calamity has caused a terrible shock in Switzerland and South Germany. Rescuers hastened to the scene and the injured were taken care of. Latbk—The number of people who losl their lives on the 14th by the collapse of J* railroad bridge on the Moenchenstein & hundreds more or less injured. Anothei account of the disaster says that fiftyseven bodies have been recovered and that forty persons are severely wounded. It is feared that many others are dead whose bodies have not been found. Scenes which were ?#nly heartrending were witnessed In Bale on Monday when the bodies of a large number of the victims of the Moenichenstein railroad disaster were bronght there from the place where the accident occurred, by sorrowing relatives who had gone in search of missing husbands, fathers or brothers, wives mothers or sisters, as the case might be, for representatives of a majority of the .best families of Bale left there to attend the music festival. Wives brought home the bodies of their husbands, and husbands brought home the bodies of their wives and of their children. Several families were practically wiped out of existence by the disaster, the full extent oi which is not known even at this hour. Bale is now truly a city of mourning. Nearly every family In thecity may be said to have been touched by the calamity, foe those families who have not actually lost one of their members, have dear friends or acquaintances, either among the dead on among those who are mourning the loss relatives. Those who are not afflicted in the manner described are either nursing wounded relatives or sympathizing those who have friends among the woundi ed. Almost each hour records a death, on a case in which the physicians give up all hope of saving the patient’s life. Everything that the local or municipal authorities can do to help the wqpndefl, recoveij the dead, or assist those who have been plunged into distress by the fearful railroad wreck, is being done. Clergymen, priests and physicians, a large force oj troops, firemen and scores of vehicles tq be used as ambulances, have been die-* patched to the scene of the wreck. Th«j troops and the firemen are busily engaged in removing the wreckage, recovering thej bodies of tbe dead and transporting the wounded to their homes in the city or tq the hospitals. The physicians and minls-i ters of the gospel of all denominations are doing noble work in ministering to thq wounded and in comforting the bereaved. The neighborhood of the collapsed bridge as this dispatch is sent resembleq in many features the after-episode of ai battle—the closing acts in some warlikq struggle. Still more so was this so in the past night,with the river banks illuminated in a ghastly manner by huge fires built of fir trees, and the troops and flremeq working unceasingly dragging the riveij for the bodies of the dead. Other detachments of troops were attending the bivouacs of their comrades, as if in actual war time, cooks and camp-fires not being wanting to complete a scene which most sadly picturesque. The flitting here and.there of soldiers, holding torches oq the river banks' and in boats or rafts, the warning cries exchanged, the sharp word of command, the moaning and groaning of the wounded, the horrible pile of wrecks age about which the soldiers and firemen were working, the blazing fires here, there and everywhere, the working railroad men on the redly lighted track above, the arrival and departure of friends of the excursionists, all of which was kept up during the night hours and throughout Monday morning, furnished material for a most realistic battle picture. The work of tbe soldiers dragging the river was greatly impeded by the fact that the steam was considerably swollen by reccnl rains. This carried the bodies a long way down the river, so much so that It is expected several days of such dragging work will be required before the soldiers’ work will be completed.

Well Water.

The common well is the most na desirable source of all. If it is dee) enough to strike a living spring ai water, and removed from all sources oi contamination, it may be unobjectionable. but these conditions are rarely met with in the country, and, we maj say, never in large towns or cities. 4 well is usually-placed near thebousei for the same reason that the barnyard, privy and sink drain are, but theii existence in the same vicinity is ii» compatible with a pure and wholeaomt water supply. Some even go so far at to dig the well in the cellar, and wi recall the case of a refined and cultured family who actually had both well an< cesspool underneath, their dwelling, and only a short distance apart. Sue! a barbarous practice is unworthy of I civilized race, but it is to be fearec that a large proportion of wells an not much belter situated.—Populal Science News. Nina Van Zant, the widow of Angus Spies, hanged in Chicago for anarchism Is to marry G. 8. Malato, an Italian news paper man.