Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Page 7

GARRETT A. HOBART.

Vice 'Fresidfential jNonjtincc.

Garrett A. Hobart, of Paterson, N. J., the Republican candidate for Vice President, is the'son of a farmer. As a business miin he has worked himself up from a penniless law student to a millionaire. Between the time of his graduation from Rutgers College at the age of and his admission to the bar he taught school and kept bank books after - hours to make a bare living. lie has never held an office since 1881, when he left the president’s chair iff the Senate of his State. He has been a hustling political manager all these years, and they say in Patersori that there never lived a man more devoted to his home nnd family or who manages to spare more time from a multiplicity of grave

GAŔETT A. HOBART.

business duties to enjoy a life of domesticity with wife and children. Hobart is a native JerSeyman. He •was born near Long Branch, June 3, 1844. His ancestors on his father's side •were English and on his mother's side Dutch. It was possible for him to enter college under the average age and before lie was 20 he had earned a de--aree at Rutgers. From college he went to Paterson and started in the law as a penniless boy. His tutor was Socrates Tuttle. IJe was determined to,.succeed and at tlie end of two years of Hard work he was admitted to Hie bar in 1866, There"were times atthis period when it was necessary for him to teach school and keep books in the evening to make his expenses. It is even said that he knew,what it was to go to lied without supper and trust to some friend' for his breakfast. This struggle. lasted for about three years, after which he became a full fledged •counselor and clients became plentyi He began to dabble' in, small polities And for many years held unimportant places. He was once clerk to the grand juries, and about this time lost the political favor of his ancestors for deserting their Democratic traditions and becoming a Republican. This was a for- 4 tunate move, both ar that time and this, for in April, 1871. he was elected city counsel. Here was the real beginning of his public life and he.has riot been out of it since. The next year he became counsef to -the board of free and was elected to the State Assembly from the Third .Passaic District by the largest vote the district had ever given. , Mr. Hobart’s record was that of an active, aggressive legislator. He was so able in this position that he was elect-

HOBART JR.

■and was dufing his term in the lower bouse chairman of several important ■committees. He is the author of some .•pt’ Die most important measures now upon the New .Jersey books. It was his Idea that the law was enacted which provides for the summary judicial investigation of the affairs of any county •upon rhe application of twenty-live freeholders. an net which has been used many times with splendid results. Another measure of his was the statute •charging the sinking fund of the State with the payment of all interest and part of the State debt yearly, reducing the ordinary expenditures some SIOO.<*oo annually, which was the cause of the removal of th*' State tax—one of the facts upon whlf li New Jersey prides Itself more than tiny other. He also drafted and secured the passage of the bill calling for the arbitration of strikes .and troubles between labor and capital. There was a disposition to, give him more honor, and in 1884 he was the ■choice of the joint caucus for the United States Senate. The assembly was largely Democratic, and he was naturaily •defeated by John R. McPherson, who was a life-long Democrat, 'ftiis was the end of his otticeholding. and he began a most remarkable business career, lie made ifioney rapidly, and he next appears.in polities as one of the managers and directors of the campaign of Mr. Blaine. Law was his profession. He was ■wanted in the business world, and in a few years he was so deeply In commerce tlmt he had uo time for the practice. His first place of importance was ■the receivership of the New Jersey Railroad. This place called for the .greatest financial tact. He so managed the affairs of the corporation that the Toad was soon upon a substantial latsis and started on the way to subsequent success. He next was placed in control ■of the Montclair Railroad and the Jersey. City and Albany line, and he repeated his successes. The First National Bank’of Newark Milled. Mr. Hobart was asked to settle .up the nflalrs,.. This he did so skillfully that within six months lie paid all the dej'osltors in full. His reputation as a financial manager luivtng been established, he was offered many places and his advice was held at a premium all •over tli<! State. He accepted many of them, amJ at present the top of hia desk in his oilice has a letter file with twenty compartments in It, each devoted to some corporation In which be is very largely interested. All this, however, does not keep him busy. Be sought a wider field of poilttai than distriuti in 1881. He was

ed a. .second time in 1813 and chosen speaker. His constituency promoted him at the next opportunity and he wont back to the capital to be chosen president of State Senate. He introduced more bills than anybody else,

•made chairptan of the New Jersey State Republican Committee. He held this place, for a year, resigning to accept an election tp the National Committee. This honor he has held without interruption He was one of the managers of the Blffine campaign, and worked with Elkins and B. F. Jones. He has been on the executive committee and in the State ranked as a leader in the class with Platt, Quay, Manley, Clarkson, Fessenden and the others who know the game of politics as other people do not. Mr. Hobart married the beautiful daughter of his legal mentor, Miss Jennie Tuttle. He did this in 1869, when she was a mere girl, but he was 25. There were two children, Fannie and Garrett. Last June, while the family was'in Italy, the daughter died. Mrs. Hobart is still in mourning, and has not recovered from the terrible shock. Garrett is a fine, manly chap, 12 yearßojd, and spent more hours Of worry ot4r’ the outcome of the convention than has his father. Mrs. Hobart has lost none of the beauty of her young days, and Is regarded as one of the most charming women in the country. She is the closest confidant of her husband in all his affairs, and Sits with him in the office at the home during deliberations over great financial transactions. She is absolutely without affectation, a trart’ which is characteristic of every member of the household. They live in a three-story frame house at Paterson. There is an artistic hall, several pretty drawing-rooms and a spacious library, "which isAMrrTtobart’s den. The house Is one mass of pictures of merit, in addit ion to the treasures In the art galleryIt is the verdict of the women who know her, that were Mrs. Hobarf compelled to pass a civil service examination to become the leader of Washington society she would get 100 per cent.

HOBART IS NOTIFIED.

"C. W. Fairbanks aira~Mis Cottjrhltfce Visit Paterson. The committee appointed by'the national Republican convention at St. Louis to notify Garret A. Hobart of his nomination for Vice-President of the- United States, .performed its duty Tuesday at Paterson, N. J. Chas. W. Fairbanks,

MR. HOBART'S RESIDENCE IN PATERSON

chairman of the committee, made the announcement in fitting terms, nnd in reply Mr. Hofeart spoke in past as follows: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: I beg to extend to you my grateful acknowledgments for the very kind and flattering terms in which you convey the formal announcement of my nomination for Vice-President of the United States by the Republican national convention at St. Louis. lam profoundly sensible of the honor which has been done me and through me to the State in which all my life has been spent, in my selection as a candidate for this high office. "It is sufficient for me to say at this Time tlraf. concurring without other -service in all the declarations of principle and policy embodied in the St. Louis form, I accept the nomination tendered to me with a fu|l appreciation of its responsibilities and with an honest purpose, in the event that the people shall ratify the choices made by the national conveji; tion, to discharge any duties which may devolve upon me with sole reference to the public good. , "Let me add; that it. will be my earnest effort in the coming campaign to contribute in every way possible to the success

MRS. GARRETT A. HOBART.

of. the party which we represent and which to the important issues of the'time stands for the best interests of the people.' Uncertainty or instability ns to the money question involves most serious consequences to every interest and to every citizen of the country. Gold is the on" standard of value among all enlightened commercial nntjons. All financial transactions of whatever character, all business enterprises, all individual or corporate investments are adjusted to it. "An honest dollar, worth 100 cents everywhere, cannot be coined out of 53 cents’ worth of silver, plus a legislative fiat. Great and self-reliant ns our country is, it is great not alone within ifs own borders nnd upon its own resources, but because it also reaches out etuis of the earth in nil manifold departments of business, exchange nnd commerce, nnd must maintain with honor its standing nnd credit among the nations of the earth. • "My,estimate of the value of a protective policy hns been formed by the study of the object lessons of n great industrial state extending oyer a period of thirty years. It is that protection not only builds up important industries from small beginnings, but that those nnd all other industries flourish or languish tion ns protection is maintained or with drawn. I hnve seen it indisputably proved that the prosperity of the farmer.

merchant nnd all other classes of citizens goes hhmj in of Y the mmjufacturer and mechanic. lam firmly qjersuaded that; what we need most of all to remove the business paralysis that afflicts this country is the restoration of a policy : which, while affording ample revenue to meet, the expenses of the Government, will reopen American workshops on full time and full haitded, with their operatives paid good Wages in honest dollars. And this-can ottlj’ come under a tariff which will, hold-the interests of our own people paramount in our political and coipmercial’systems. "The.opposite policy, which discourages American enterprises,' reduces American labor to idleness, diminishes thc‘earnings of American workingmen, opens out markets to commodities from abroad which we should produce at home, while closing foreign markets against our products,, and which.- at the same time, steariily augments the public debt, increasing the public burdens, w.hile diminishing the ability of the people to meet them, is a policy which must find its chief popularity elsewhere than among Anierican citizens.” Fully three thousand people were gathered in the vicinity of Mr. Hobart's hoitse.

Famous Candy of New England.

A halo of romance hangs around the yweet flag beds, with their long, graceful, sword-like blades of pale; tender green. Tis is the “calamus” of the ■shapes hallowed by the traditions Of manty fair maidens who yearly ej’ed its sweet rootstalk and from them the excellent “meeting” candy—a bonbon that whiled away the tediousness of those long sermons of generations ago. There are many families that, still prepare this sweet flag candy in the old New England way. The sweet flag must not be confounded with the blue-flower, which blooms in every marshy place at this season of the year.- The blue flag is an iris, with a much shorter and darker bluegreen leaf: the sweet flag is an arum. Its miniature green flowers are easily found in June, and this is the proper season to gather the root. Scrape the earth from the long root-stalks, a.'d, with a sharp knife, cut them out of the ground, to whitjh they are held by numerous root fibers. Bring large roots home and scrape them thorouglvly. as you would a parsnip or other root, to' remove the skin. Cut the roots in the thinnest slices possible, and boil them in water for an hour or more. Remove them from this water, then boil them in another water. Throw off this brackish water and repeat the process a third time, when the sweet flag is ready to candy. Prepare a sirup

of a cup of water with a pound of sugar. Flit in the cooked slices of sweet flag, and boil them down until tlie sirup candies around them? Stir them, and when the sugar becomes white and the sirup seems to be absorbed, take up the candied slices with a skimmer, So as to drain them, and cool them a little in the air. Tut them in a large pan and stir them repeated? ly while drying. In a day or two the confection will be ready. It is a dry, snowy white candy, delicious in flavor, and was supposed by our ancestors to possess powers of healing “vague humors of the blood." No more picturesque receptacle for this candy could be imagined than a covered bonbonniere, painted with the swordlike leaves and pale green spadix of calamus, with perhaps also a spray of the water arum or American calla, which is of the same family and habit as the.calamus, arid one which often grows near it.

Miss Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale was 76 years old on May 15. Born in Florence, she was named after her birth place. Her father was William Nightingale of Ernbly Park, Hampshire, and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire; and Florence, the younger daughter, was, with her sister, Frances Parthenhope, who married Sir Harry A’i'rnoy and died in 1890, his co-heiress. Besides the historic part Florence Nightingale played in the war, she will always be known as the and supporter of the Governesses' Institution in Harley street, London, and as the jvriter of many valuable books on nursing. The testimonial fund of £50,000 contributed by a grateful country' after the Crimean campaign in honor of the “Lady with the Lamp." Miss Nightingale handed over to the foundation of a nurses’ training and employment institution. Delicate health has made Miss Nightingale live quietly for many years, but she has ever been at work for the good of ■others.—Chicago Tribune.

Leaks.

An ingenious method of Indicating nnd stopping a leak by the use es pressed air, has been devised by an inventor. By this method the ship is divided into airtight compartmonta, fitted with* doors provided wltff packing material and connected by tubes with a room on deck called the “switch room." There is a junction client In this room supplied with compressed air from fixed or portable compressors, and so arranged that the air can be delivered to any of the compartment-s. Other tubes had from the compartment, from which water can be forced out when requirwl, nd for the purpose of indicating the accumulation of ri’ater in any' of the compartments electric indicators are also connected with the switch room.

The Saxon village of Elsleben, fa-mous-an the birthplace of Luther, is falling into decay as the result of continued earthquake slioeks, which began InISXL "X. .

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

a r . A M, . ° THEORIES of ruin and restoration ARE PRESENTED. A Dramatic Bible Scene— The Disabled Human Soul Humbled and Restored—The Important Part of Every Prayer—Glories of the Gospel. ■ . . ~ \ For Another’s Sake. 1 Dr. Talmage’s sermon of< last Sunday is a viviii arid .novel presentation of the theories Of riiin and ffetongion. Ttfe Bible scene described is dramatic. His text was 11. Samuel ix.. 1 and 1.3; “Is there yet any that is left of the house of .Saul, that 1 may show him kindness for Jriaathnu's sake?' * * * So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for'he did eat continually nt the king’s table and was lame on both his feet/’ Was there ever anything more romantic and chivalrous than the love of David and Jonathan? At one time Jonathan was up and*David whs down. Now David is up ami.'Jonathan s family is down. As you 1 l»#Ve- often heard of two soldiers before going into battle makifig a covenant that if one is shot the survivor will take charge of the body, the watch, the mementos and ' perhaps of the bereft family »f the one that dies, so David and Jppathnn have made covenant, and now that Jonathan is delta David Tis inquiring about liis family, that he ma.v show kindness unto them for their father Jonathan’s sake. Careful search is made; and a son of Jonathan of the dreadfully homely name of Mephibosheth is found. His nurse, in his infancy, had lejt him fall, and the fall had put bbth his ankles out of place, and they had never been set. This decrepit, poor man is brought into the palace of King David. David looks upon him with melting tenderness, no doubt Seeing in his face a resemblance to his old friend, the deceased Jonathan. Th<; whole bearing of King David toward him seems to say: “Hou glad I am to sec yon, Mtphibosheth! How you remind me of your father, my old friend and benefactor! I made a bargain with your father a good many years ago, and I am going to keep it with you. What can Ido for you, Mephibosheth? I am resolved what to do — I will make you a rich man. I will restore to you the confiscated property of your grandfather Saul, and you shall be a guest of mine as long as you live, and you shall be seated at my table among the princM.” I* <r:ts too mtirt hr Mqwibosheth, and he cried out against it. calling himself a dead dog. “Be still,” says David. “I.don’t do this on your own account. I do this for your father, Jonathan’s sake. I can never forget his kindness. I remember when I was hounded from place to place how he befriended me. Can I ever forget how ho stripped himself of his courtier apparcl and gave it to me instead of my shepherd's coat, and how ho took off his.own sword and;belt and gave them to me instead of myrslipg? Oh, I can never forget him! I fVel as it I couldn’t do enough for you, his son. I don’t do it for your sake: I dp it for your father Jonathan’s sake/’ “So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for ho did eat continually at the king’s table and wa,s lame on both his feet.” A Disabled Soul. There is so much gospel in this quaint incident that I am embarrassed to know where to begin. Whom do Mephibosheth and David and Jonathan make you think Mephibosheth, in the first place, stands for the disabled human soul. Lord Byron describes sin as a charming recklessness, as a gallantry, as a Don Juan. George Sand describes sin as triumphant in many intricate plots. Gavarni, with his engraver’s knife, always shows sin as a great jocularity. But the Bible presents it as a Mephibosheth. lame on both feet. Sin, like the nurse in the context, attempt,r etl to carry ns and let us fall, and we have been disabled, nnd in our whole moral nature we are decrepit. Sometimes theologians baggie about a technicality. They use the words “total depravity.’’ and some people l>e!ieve in the doctrine, and some reject it. What do you mean b.v total depravity? Do you’mean that every man is ns bad as he can be? Then I do not believe it either. But do you mean that sin has let us tall; that it has sacrificed and disabled and crippled our entire moral nature until we cannot walk straight and are lame in both feet? Then I admit your proposition. There is not so much difference in an African jungle, with barking, howling, hissing, fighting quadruiKKl and and paradise, with its animals coming before Adam, when he patted them and stroked them and gave tl]£m mimes, so that the panther was as tame as the cow. and the condor as tame as the dove, as there -is between the human soiil disabled and that soul as G.od original!;,- constructed it. I do not c;ire what the sentimentalists or the poefs say in regard to Kin. In the name of God, I declare to yon to-day that siu is disorganization. disintegration, ghastly disfiguration, hobbling deformity. Your modern theologian tolls you that man is a little out of sorts. He sometimes thinks wrong. He sometimes does wrong—indeed, his nature needs a little moral surgery, an outside splint, n slight compress, a little rectification. Religion is a good thing to have, it might’some day come into use. Man is partially wrong, not all wrong. He is lame in one foot. Bring the salve of divitie grace, and the ointment, and the pain extractor, and we will have his one foot cured. Man is only half wrong, not altogether wrong. In what is man’s nature right? In bis will, his affections, his judgment? No. There is an old book that says. “The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.” Mephibosheth lame in both feet! Our belief of the fact that sin has sacrificed and deformed our souls increases qs we go on in’ years. When you started life, you thought that man was a little marred by sin, and he was about one-tenth wrong. By tn.? time you had gone through the early experience of your trade or occupation or profession you believed that man was about half wrong. By the time you came to midlife you believed that man was three-fourths wrong. But within these past few' years, since you have been so lied about and swindled and cheated, you have come to the conclusion that man is altogether wrong, and now you can say with the prayer book and with,-the Bible, “The heart is deceitful above all things nnd desperately Wicked.” Whatever you may have believed before, now you believe that Mephibosheth ,is lame on both feet. Htvmbled, but Restored. Again, Mephibosheth in the text stapils for the disabled human soul humbled and restored. When this invalid of n>y text got a command to come to King David's palace, he trembled. The fact was that the grandfather of Mephibosheth had treated David most shockingly, ami now Mephibosheth says to himself: “What does the king want of me? Isn't it enough that 1 am iame,? Is he going jo' destroy my life? Is he going to wreak on me- the vengeance which he holds toward my grandfather Saul? It's too bad.” , But go to the palape Mephibosheth must, since the king nas commanded it. With staff and crutches and, helpbd by bis friends, I see Mephibosheth, going up the stairs of th? palace. I hear his staff and crutches rattling on rhe ieqsellaied floor of the throne room. No sooner have these two persons confronted eatl\ other, Mephlboaheth and David, the king, than

Mephibosbeth throws himsblf flat on his face b-fore the king and St/les himself a dead dog. In the east when n man styles himself a dog he utters the .utmost feri'n of self abnegation. I¥ is-not a' term so strong in this country, where,' if -H' dog has -a fair Chante. lie sometimes -Shows mor> 'nobility of character than some huwiati- Specimens that we’ wot of. blit the mangy-curs 'of 't he oriental cities, as I ktiow by my own- biiservdtton. tire utterly detestable. Mophiboshothi gives -the Ut-most-term of self loathing when hc-com-pares himself to a dog, and dead at-.t-hat. -Consider the analogy. ■ When the. command is. given from the-palace of hen von to the human soul tocomq, the.Etoul begins ■ to tremble,; It says: “What id Gbd going to.do.with ,me now-? - Is he going -to destroy me? Is ho going to wreak hi-s-ven-geance upon me?" There is more than one Mephibosheth trembling now because God has summoned him to the palace of divine grace? What are you trembling about? God has no.pleasure in the death of s a sinner; He doos not send .for.you to hurt you. He sends for you to -do yon good. A Scotch preacher .had. the following Circumstances-brought under his observation: There-was a poor woman in the parish who was about to be turned out because she could not pay her rent. One night she heard a loud knocking at the door, and she made no answer and hid herself. The rapping continued louder, louder, louder but she made no answer and continued to hide herself. She was almost frightened unto death. She said, “That’s the officer of the law come’to throw me out of my home.” A few days after a Christian philanthropist met her in the street and said: “My' poor woman, whpre were yon the other night? 1 came round to your house to pay your rent. Why didn’t you let me in? Were you at home?” Why,” she replied, “was that you?” “Yes. that was me. I came to pay your' rent.” “Why,” she said, “if I had had any idea it was - you, I Would have let you in. I thought it was an officer come to cast me out. of my home.” D soul, that loud knocking at thy gate is not the sheriff come to put you in jail. It is the best fEiend_you ever had come to be your security. You shiver with terror because you think it'is ‘wrath. It is merey. Why, then, tremble before the King of heaven nnd earth calls you to his palace? Stop trembling and start right away. "Oh,” you say, “I can’t start. I have been so lamed by sin and so lamed by evil habit I can’t start. I am lame in both feet.” My friend, we come out with'our prayers and sympathies to help you up to the palace. It you want -to get to tbe palaee. you may get there. Start now» The Holy Spirit will help you. All you have to do is just to throw yourself on your face at the feet of the King, as Mephiboshetn did. The Sinner’s Cry. Mepbibosheth’s caninal comparison seems extravagant to the world, but when a man has seen himself as he really is and seen how he has been treating the Lord there is no term vehement enough to express his self condemnation.. The dead dog of Mepbibosheth’s comparison fails to describe the man’s utter loathing of himself. Mephibosheth’s pos(urirfg'does not seem too prostrate. When a soul is convicted, first he prays upright. Then

the muscles of his neck relax, and he is able to bow his head. After awhile, by an almost superhuman effort, he kneels down to pray. After awhile, when he has seen. and seen himself,", he throws- himself flat on his face at the feet of the King, just like Mephibosheth. The fact is if we could see ourselves as God sees us we would perish at the spectacle. You would have no time to overhaul other people. Your ery would be, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” And, again, Mephibosheth in my text stands for the sake of another. Mephibosheth would never have got into the palace on his own account. Why did David ransack the realm to find that poor man and then bestow upon him a great fortune land edtmnand a farmer of the name of Ziba to culture the estate and give to this invalid - Mephibosheth half the proceeds .every year? l Why did King David make is-neh a mighty stir about a poor fellow who would never be of any use to the throne of Israel? It was for Jonathan’s sake. It was what Robert Burns calls fpr "anld lang syne,” David eould not forget what Jonathan .bad done for him in other days. Three times this chapter has it that all this kindness on the part of David to Mephibosheth was for his father Jonathan’s sake. The daughter of Peter Martyr, through the vice of her husband, came down to penury, and the senate of Zurich took care of her foroher father’s sake. Sometimes a. person has applied (o you for help, and you have refused him. but .when you found lie -wus the son or brother of some one who had; been your former days and by a glance you saw the resemblance otyour old friend in the face of the applicant you relented and yoq said, “Oh. I will do this for your father's sake.” You know by yoiir experiir.ee what my text means. Nov.-, my friends, it is on that principle that you and 1 are to get into the King’s palace. In His Name. The most important every prayer is the last three or four words of It—“ For Christ’s Sake.' Do not rattle off those words ns though they were merely the finishing stroke of the prayer. They are the most important part of the prayer. When in earnestness you go-before God and say "for Christ's sake” it rolls in, as it were, upon God's, mind all the memories of Bethlehem and Gennesaret and Golgotha. When you ray before God “for Christ's sake” you hold before God's mind every groan, every tear, every crimson drop of his only begotten Son. If there is anything in nil tpo universe that will move, God to an act of royal benefaction, it is to say “For Christ’s sake.” God is omnipotent, but he is not strong enough to resist that cry, “For Christ's sake.” It a little, child should kneel behind God's throne and should say “For Christ’s sake,” Die great Jehovah would turn anoiind on his throne to look at her and listen. No prayer ever gets to heaven but for Christ’s sake. No soul is ever comforted but for Christ’s sake. The world will never be redeemed but tow Christ’s sake. Our name, however illustrious it may be nmong men, before God stands only for inconsistency and sin. But there is a name, a potent name, a blessed name, a glorious name, an everlasting name, that we may put upon our lips as a sacrament and upon our forehead as a crown, and that is the name of Jesus, our divine Jonathan, Who stripped himself of his robe nnd pift tin our rage and gave us h!s sword and took our broken reed; so that now. whether we are well or sick, whether we are living or dying, if we speak that napie it moves heaven to the center, and God says: "Let the poor soul come iriT’X"arry him up into the throne room of the palace. Though he mny have been in exile, though sin may have crippled him on this side, nnd sorrow may have crippled him on the other side, and he is lame in both his feet, bring him up itito the palacd. for 1 want to show him everlasting.kindness for Jonathan’s sake." Again. Mephibosheth in' my'text stands for the disabled human soul lifted to thY King's table. It was more difficult rn. those times even than it is now for cofflimon men to get into a royal dining rootn. The subjects might have come around the rail of the palace and might have seen the lights kindled, and might have heard the clash of the knives and the rattle of the golden goblets, but not get in. Stout men with stout feet could not get in once in

all their Ilves to one banquet, yet poo» Mophi'boshetli goes in, lives there'and is every day at the table, Oh. what a get ting up in the-world if was for poor Mepbibosheth! Well, though you and I may be woefully lamed with sin, for our divine .Jonathan’s sake I hope we will all get in Ip dine with the King. A Before dining we miist be introduced. It you are to a company of persons whore there are distinguished people present, you’are introduced: “This is the Senator." “This' is the Governor?” “This is thi»’President.” . Before sit down at the King’s table in heaven I will want so be introduced. Oh. what a time that win.be when you apd I, by the grace of God, get into heaven and nfelntroduced to the mighty spirits there, and some one wilT say. “This is Joshua,” “This is Pqul," “Thik is Moses,” “This is John Jynpx,” “This is John Milton,” “This is Martin Luther," .“This is George Whitefield." Oh, shglt we. have any afrength jef| ii,Jte r stfch a round of celestial introductions? Yea; we shall be poourselves.. Then we .shall sit down, at the King’s table with the sons and daughters of God, and one will whisper acr'ess the table to us and say, “Be-, hold what manner of love the Father hath, bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God!” And some one at the tabld-Will say: “How- long will it last? All other-banquets at which I sat ended. How long will this last?” And Paul will answer, “Forever!” and Joshua will say, “Forever!" and- John Knox will say, “Forever!” and George Whitefield will say, “Forever!” A Glorious Gospel. And the wine at that banquet will be Skfwine; it will be very old wine; it will be the oldest wine of heaven;' it will be the wine that was trodden out from the red clusters on the day when Jesus trod the wine press alone. Wine already more than eighteen centuries old. All our earthly imperfections completely covered up and hidden. Mephibosheth’s feet under the table. Kingly fare. Kingly vesture. Kingly companionship. We shall reign for ever and ever. I think that banquet will mean=more tw those- who-had it hard in this world than to those who had it easy. That banquet in David’s palace' meant more to Mephibosheth than to any one else, because he had been poor and crippled and despised and rejected. And that man who in this world is blind will better appreciate the light of heaven than' we who in this world had good eyesight. And that man who in this world was deaf, will better appreciate the music pf heaven than we who in this world had good hearing. And those will have a higher appro-. oiation of the easy loco,motion of that land who in thia world were Mephibosheths. O my soul, what a magnificent gospel! It takes a man so low down and raises him so high ! What a gospel! Come now, who wants to be banqueted and irnpalaced? As when Wilberforce was trying to get the emancipation bill through the British Parliament and all the British Isles were anxious to hear of the passage of that emancipation bill, when a vessel was coming into port and the captain of the vessel knew that the people were so anxious to get the tidings, he stepped out. on the prow of the ship and shouted to the

people long before he got up to the dock, “Free!” and they. cried it, nnd they shouted it. and they sang it all through the land, “Free, free!” So to-day I would like to sound the news -of your present and your eternal emancipation until the angels of God hovering in the air and watchmen on the battlements and bellmen in the town cry it. shout it, sing it, ring it. “Free, free!” 1 come out now as the messenger of the palace to invite Mephibosheth to come up lam here to-day to tell you that God has a wealth of kindness to bestow upon you for his Son’s sake. The doors of tho palace are open to receive you. The cupbearers have ttl(rea<ly put the chalices on the table, and the great, loving, tender, sympathetic heart of God bends over you this moment, saving. “Is there any, that is yet left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

Nearly as Bad.

Teiling what we have heard to another's disadvantage is not so bad us starting a slander without provocation, but it is next to It. Slanders do more harm through being repeated by“those Who just tell what they have heard than through being first told by the one who invented them. If a slanderer eould find no one to pass along his slanders without being sure as to their truth, or falsity, he would have no success in his occupation. “Where no wood is, there the 01*6 goeth out; so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.” Before yYe tell anything to another's dUereiiit ive, should first know (not merely' think It) Is true, and then we should be 3,pre, that good is tp come of its repeating. “Evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart.”

comforting Thoughts.

Christian brother, is the way dark and rugged? Have you lost heart aud hope because of the disappointments and sorrows that like poisoned arrows wound and distress you? Renieinlmf that He'who gave His life for you trod every step of life's toilful road and remember that He caretb for you; that not an event occurs in your life without His knowledge that there can come to you no sorrow that may not help to round and polish and perfect your character and more abundantly qualify you for citizenship in that city whose builder and maker is God, and where no earthly 111 win ever come. Comfort yourself with such thoughts as these, but more, especially covet the epnstaut companionship of the Spirit that bringeth peace. The Rev. Dr. A. J. Diaz, who was recently expelled from Cuba by General Weyler. preached on a recent Sunday in the Mount Auburn jlaptist Church of Cincinnati. In the course of his sermon he said “What the Insurgents most need is ammunition. The filibustering expeditions that have already landed have done a world of good for Cuba's cause. Gen. Gomez is not 111, as reported. Though 73 years of age. he is robust, and will see the end of this fearful war and Cuba free at last. Upon Cuevita Mountain an Insurgent government has been formed. A system of letter-currying has been established. Other departments will be framed as soon as possible. The army is made up two-thirds of doctors arid Inw/erx, and the other pne-thlrd of negroes. They are all fearles men and will uhfe ■ piately be victorious.” The moisture of the eye is a genuine solvent. Many persons have gone to bed troubled with a foreign substance In the eye; and have waked up in the morning to find it gone. In many cases of this kind the foreign matter h*s Iwen dissolved by the moisture of the eye. The bones of the skull arc arched be-: cause in that form the greatest strength is combined with least weight and quantity of material. ~»

ENDEA VOREKS MEEK

MAMMOTH CONVENTION ASSEMBLED AT WASHINGTON. Railroads Swa'tnped in Hauling; the Crowds—Rain Storms Wreck'One of the Bis Tents—President Clarke .and Secretary Baer Make Reports. The Work Commenced. Washington was captured by the national convention of Christian Endeavorers Wednesday,;.and t,liey held the town until the following Tuesday. The railroads had ftf.led to make, adequate arrangements’for transportation, and Were swamped. Thousands of delegates and visitors were late in arriving. Of delegates there were 50,000, and of visitors as many more. The exercises were in progress in nine different places at.oncev Three tents, seating 13,000 people l each, were erected near the Washington monument. Central Hall and five of the largest churches were also used. Wednesday night a’storm blew down one of the largest tents, and exercises were in consequence delayed Thursday morning. ' . Notwithstanding discouraging weather, the Endcavorers were early astir, mak-

ing their way to the many churches set apart for the sunrise services which begin the exercises of each day. The tdpUce at these sunrise services was “Prayer of the Convention," aud in each •.case the meetings were led by members of the visiting organizations. These special Services last-

REV. DR. CLARKE.

ed from (5:30 to 7:10 o’clock. Then came a short adjournment for breakfast and a walk about town. The great meetings in the big tents were originally fixed for 0-50 a. in. They were crowded eveu before the services began. In tent Washington, I’resfdent Francis ' Clark of BostUn, Mass., presided and Percy I. Foster of Washington acted as director of the vast chorus of singers. The services in tent Endeavor were conducted by the Rev. Howard B. Grose of Boston, with O. E. Excell of Chicago in charge of the music. The address of welcome to the vtshors oir behalf of the District of Columbia was delivered by Commissioner John W. Ross, and was responded to by Prof. W. W. Andrew- of Sackville, N. B. Otherivi-.' the services were similar in every respect to those conducted in tent Washiugton, the annual reporta and addresses being duplicated fpr the benefit of the thousands unable to secure admission to the first-named tent. , President Clarks chose for his text: “What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." He said the platform of the Christian Endeavor was tor Christ pnd independence of the individual and of each society in this work. In fifteed

years on this platform 4,(XX> societies' had been formed, 5,200,000 Endeavorers had been enrolled, of whom 2,700,000 arp today menjbera, and 2JJ00.000 Others, Ervdeavorers in all but mime, had been enrolled in purely denominational societies. Ten million Endeavorer meetings had been held and over $2;000,000 given In benevolence through denominational and chureh channels. He urge 4 Christian Endeavorers to continue the good work, and especially organizemyangelistic work as Christian duties of Endeavorers. General Secretary Baer took his text from Luke xiii.. 111. lie said t’ennsylvania still heads the list of Christian Endeavor societies with 3,273. The next In order wns New York. 2,071; Ohio. 2.311; Ontario, 1.517; Illinois. l.'700; Indiana, 1,372, and Iowa; 1,302.- These figures, he said, did not include numerous other kinds of Christian Endeavor societies that are fast becoming sturdy"' branches of the mother tree—such as the Junior, Intermediate, the Mothers’ and the Senior. Pennsylvania led In junior societies. He spoke of the good these societies had accomplished behalf of morality. Sunday observance, saloon warfare. Christianity aid mission work, for which $154,022 had been given the past year.

GATHERING OF TEACHERS.

Annual Convention of the National Educational Association at Buffalo. The annua! convention of the National Educational Association was held in Buffalo. It was the greatest gathering of

public school teachers in the history of the association, the attendance being nearly 10,000, N. Dougherty, of Peori*, 111., i* president of the National Association, and Irwin Shepard,-, of Winona, Minn., secretary. Nearly all of the leading ed-

PRES. DOUGHERTY.

ucators were present and read papers on various subjects. The delegates to the convention heard, among other notables,

Booker T. Washington. Bishop Vincent of the M. E. Church, Bishop Spaulding of the Catholic Church, and President Andrew B. Draper, of the Chicago University, formerly super.intendent of public instruction of New ’York State. Twe 1v e distinguished citizens of

SEC’Y SHEPARD.

Buffalo had in hMifl rim entertainment of ,the delegates. The Buffalo reception committee, ■'t which Mayor Jewett was chairman, consisted of 300 members, mostly principals and school teachers. •

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Frank Rowr.n was probably fatally hurt at Napoleon, 0., by the accidental discharge of a pistol. Bar op Louis de Levay of. Hungary married Miss Blanche de Wolfe of Bristol. Conn., at Newport. Ex-Gov. Waite was shut out of the Republican State convention at Dehven He was heading a contesting delegattion. - F. E. Storm, clerk of the-Uriited States Railroad Commission of Washington, died suddenly at a private hotel at San Francisco. The 9-yean-old son of Charles D. Hen* |ry, of Chillicoihe. Mo., went to sleep on the railroad track in a short curve and was killed by a passenger train. Joseph Hediift arid Matthew Wheat, of Campbellsburg, Ind., were fun down aijd killed by a fast train. Thet had been drinking and went to sleep on the track. . In tbeq|WS( Elio mine iq Nevada gulch, S. D., Andrew Hanapn, tlie,j>wner number of valuable claipw on the silicon* ore belt, while loading a number of hole* in the face of the tunuel, was instantly killed by a premature explosion of a quantity of dynamite.