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Jj, H. ESTJLL, Editor and Proprietor.\
BELGIUM’S BLOODY RIOT.
troops again kill rioters
AT CHARLEROI.
Striker* at .Jnnet Put 800 IT ornsn Be
tween the Soldiery nnd Themselves,
bnt the Latter Open Fire Nevertheless
—J’owderlv and Gould Consent to Ar
bitration on the Southwestern System.
Brussels, Msrch 28.-Diepatchee from
Charleroi say there has been further riot
ing in that town resulting in the killing
of several persons and the wounding of
many others. The rioters at Juuet, upon
the approach of the troops sent to disperse
teem, placed 200 women in front of the
ranks. The troops opened fire aud many
women were wounded.
The strike is extending to Namur. Ad
ditional troops have been called from
Brussels to quell the disorders.
Later advices from Charleroi report
that the town is calmer there will
probably be no further riotous demonstra
tions by the strikers as the body
of the strikers are destitute
and compelled to beg lor food.
The men are desperate aud threat
en personal violence if tbeir wants are
not supplied. A number of men will go
to work to-morrow. They will be sup
pled with revolvers with which to defend
themselves in case of attack by the strik
ers.
The authorities have prohibited the sale
of the newspaper Im Deuple of this city.
A circular signed by Gov. Hainaunt has
been placarded throughout Charleroi, pro
claiming a state oi siege throughout the
district of the strikes, and authorizing
troops to cut down and fire upon all riot
ers that refuse to disperse. The strikers
are threatening at Flenu and Quaregnoe,
and troops have been sent to those places,
ltis asserted that a German organized
•he present labor movement.
THE SITUATION M(SHK SERIOUS.
Chari.eroi. March 28.—The situation
is assuming a serious aspect. Appeals
for troops have been received from Chate
let, Chatettneau,-La Lonriere, Geliy and
l/'oiuliet, where several factories and
mines have been wrecked aud many per
sons killed and wounded in collisions with
the troops. Only the civic guards remain
here, and they are exhausted from inces
sant vigilance. The burgomaster has
been compelled to call (or volunteers to
defend the streets.
News of disorders comes from all di
rections. There was a sharp encounter
last evening at Sebastopol. Frenob. with
a crowd ot rioters, who were trying to
enter Charleroi, two rioters were killed
aud several wounded. Tu# others fled.
The strikers defy the troops at Cbatelet,
oiullet and Chatelinean, and serious
lighting is expected. Detachments of
avalrv are scouring the country to sup
•ress armed beggars who have been ter
-orizing and extorting money from the
villagers.
A RESORT TO ARBITRATION.
Powderly and Gould Order Work Ite-
Humed on the Southwestern Roads.
New York, March 28.—A conference
between Jay Gould and T.V. Powderly
to-day and this evening resulted in or
ders from each of them to the parties to
the Bouthwestern strike that work and
traffic be immediately resumed pending
arbitration.
Jay Gould will te-morrow morning
send the following telegraphic instruc
tions to Mr. Hoxie, General Manager
of the Missouri Pacific railroad at Bt.
Louis:
“In resuming the movement of trains
on the Missouri Pacific, and in employ,
ing laborers in tbe several departments
of this company, give preference to our
late employes, whether they are Knights
of Labor or not, except that you will not
employ any person who has Injured the
company’s property during the late
strike, nor will we discharge any person
who has taken service with the company
during said strike. We see no objection
to the arbitration of any differences be
tween the employes and company, past
or future. Jay Gould, President.”
AN ORDER TO IRONS.
The Executive Board of the Knights of
Labor have sent out the following tele
grams:
"Martin Irons, Chairman of the Executive
Hoard, District Assembly .Vo. 101, St.
Jjouis :
“President Jay Gould has consented to
cur proposition for arbitration, aud so
telegraphs Vice President Hoxie. Order
the men to resume work at once.
“By order of tbe Executive Board.
“T. V. PovyDEKLY, G. M.”
THE ORDER TO THE MEN.
The Executive Board also sent out the
following telegram:
"To the Knights of Labor now on a Strike
in the Southwest:
“President Jay Gould has consented to
our proposition for arbitration, and so
telegraphs Vice President Hoxie. Pur
suant to telegraphic instructions sen* to
the Chairman of tbe Executive Board Dis
trict Assembly No. 101 you are directed
to resume work at once.
“Per order Executive Board.
“T. V. Powderi.y, O. m.”
READING THE RIOT ACT.
An Expectancy that the Striker* will
Soon Field at Texarkana.
Texarkana, March 28.—Upon the order
of the Governor of the Slate, the City
Billes have been assigned to duty in tbe
railway yards. Yesterday afternoon
'udge Byrne appeared, and, in the pres
enceof the military and civil officers ami
lead the not aot ot the State
or Arkansas, ami thereupon requested
•“very one not directly concerned with
'he railroad to leave the premises, aud
I'oninisnding tbe Sheriff and his support
ers to see tbo order obeyed and exhaust
'•d means to proteol the course of com
tierce when necessary. It is thought tbe
text effort to move trains will be effectual,
•reat dissatisfaction exists among the
'mights of Labor, aud many leading
combers signify an Intention ol abandon-
I'k the strike as public sentiment s en
tirely with tbe railroad.
leaves under guard.
The freight blockade in thia oitf was
Broken this morning and a freight train
sent north with freight lor bt. Ijonis nndsr
a strong guard of militia. Great excite
ment prevailed and 400 strikers assembled
in the Missouri Pacific yards. Tbe militia
i„ V f? r * Wet * however, and the train
{tut without opposition. At Mandeville.
>cn mii eH north of Texarkana, uciowd of
nrlkors tried to side-track and wreck the
~1 . • niMHia scattered them and
"I’tured It strikers, who were brought
I!. 1 ??. ® re * nd Put * n JHI. 'The running
2, this train ia regarded by the people of
1 “xarkanaas tbe breaking ot the baok
bone of the strike at this point.
Knights Indorse Powderly.
/’ALVeston, March 28. —The Knights
'* Labor hold an outdoor mass meeting
last night. It was attended by 2.000
Knights and citizens. Resolutions were
adopted heartily Indorsing the circulars
issued by Grand Master Workman Pow
derly in bis efforts to secure a settlement
of the existing labor troubles, and pledg
ing him aid in his laudable purpose. The
resolutions, however, condemn the action
of Vice President Hoxie and justify the
strikers.
THE TRAFFIC IN RABIES.
Women who make a Practice nr Adopt
ing Them for bpsculatlve Purposes.
Pittsburg. March 28.—1d conversation
about the Meyers-Bauer baby case, which
on Wednesday resulted in the conviction
of Mrs. Meyers fer perjury. Agent
O’Brien, of the Humane Society, Saturday
said:
“1 know of one woman out Penn avenue wlio
makes* business of going to the poor farms
and other institutions aud securing babies.
Ttie law will not allow one person to have
more Ilian two ol' these babie- at once, so
they get their quota and proceed to rear them
in the way they should go. Tbe child insur
ance man is hunted up and an insurance that
would yield about *7O in case of death and call
for a premium of about five cento a week is
taken out upon the child’s life. I have givon
this matter very careful attention and find
that none of these ofaildren taken away
from the poor farm ever live more than abont
five months. It is a very remarkable thing.
No doctor is called until after the child is
dead. The doctor knows nothing of the
child’s illness and after looking at the comeo
and hearing the statements of its adopted
mother in regard to tbe Byinptoms gives her a
certificate to the effect that tlie child died
from spasms (natural causes). With this cer
tificate in hand the broken-hearted foster
mother bastens at once to the insurance office
to get her *7O. No sooner is that safely dc
positedtu her exchequer than she i again won
at the poor farm, begging for another child.
It is almost impossible to obtain evidence to
nonvlet in acase like this. If I were to at
tempt a prosecution without the most positive
proof of guilt, or reasonably well-founded
grounds for the same, I would be held to an
swer both civilly aud criminally. I hove
tried very hard to get some evuleu'eeon two
*or three women that I have been watching,
but without very good results. I do not mean
to say that the poor farm authorities arc in
any way responsible for giving out these chil
dren. Many poor, unfortunate girls in shame
and poverty go there and, being unable to
support a child, give it away to the first
woman that cmnoi after a baby, and this tbe
farm management cannot stop.
Subsequently these statements were
corroborated by Aldermau Shaffer, of the
South Side, who said it was his impres
sion that a number of such cases had oc
curred on that side of the river. One wo
man particularly is frequently men
tioned in this connection, several infants
obtained by her from public institutions
having mysteriously disappeared.
RIPE FOR A LYNCHING.
Augusta Greatly Aroused by the Ar
rival of Valentine.
Augusta, Ga., March 28.—Detective E.
B. Pursell arrived hejre to-night from
Covingtoß, Va., with Preston Valentine,
charged with the murder of William
Vales, in this city, a year and a half ago.
On account of the diabolical murder a
bitter feeling exists against the accused,
who has eluded arrest up to this time.
Large crowds were waiting tbe arrival ol
the prisoner, who was taken from the
train at Hamburg by the police officers
and saleiy lodged m jail. A erowd as
sembled at the jail, bnt were dispersed by
the police. The authorities will not per
mit any violence to tbe prisoner.
Tlie Ben Hill Monument.
Atlanta, March 28.—The monument
to the late Senator Benjamin H. Hill is
now in place and ready for unveiling. In
view ol ex-President Jefferson Davis’
coming visit to Montgomery, the commit
tee has decided to postpone tbe unveiling
ceremonies to aflord Mr. Davis an oppor
tunity of being present. In replv to an
invitation Mr. Davis has promised to
come.
Mails for Cuba.
Tampa, Fla., March 28.—The Senato
rial party, which passtd through Tampa
some days ago, en route to Havana, re
turned os tne steamship Mascotte, of the
Plant steamship line to-day, and Left vi a
tbe South Florida railroad for Jackson
ville. They expressed themselves in fa
vor of tri-weekly mail service to Havana
via the Atlantic Coast Line and the steam
ship Mascotte.
Bhotin the Thigh.
Jesup, Ga., March 28.—Conductor .J.
W. Goodwin aud SuperinteiHient John
Gorey, both employes of the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia road, bad an
altercation here last night. Goodwin
tired three shots at Gwey,one ball taking
effect in bis thigh. Inflicting a painful
flesh wound. Goodwin was arrested and
gave bonds.
El ROPE’S DANGERS.
A Speech by Prince Bismarck Creates a
Sensation In Sermany.
Berlin, March 28.—Prince Bismarck,
in bis recent speech in tbe Reichstag
alluding to the growth of socialism, said
that at the time of the French revolution
socialism proved a powerful spiritual
lever of French victories, and that history
might be repealed, though bo thought tee
present French army wife opposed
to workingmen’s movements. “It
is impossible,” he continued, “to
tell which psrty would be vic
tsrious If great European troubles
should again arise. They would be tar
more complicated than those we have
already passed through, because they
would be partly of an international na
ture. When these movements come 1
would bave Germauy oppose them to her
utmost.”
The speech has created a great sensa
tion in connection with tbe great Bocial
ist troubles In llslglum aud other coun
tries.
French Free Traders.
Paris, March 28.—A free trade party is
being termed in tbe Chamber of Deputies.
The leaders ol the movement are M. Pussv,
M.Guyot, M. Latitude, M. Arc bard, M.
Fuure and M. Duval. They have issued
a manifesto calling for tbo abolition of
protective duties, which they say oppress
the working man and hinder tbe develop
ment ot trade.
Alaxander's Ambition.
Vienna, Marob 28.—1 t is rumored that
Prince Alexander is about to make his
army proclaim him King of united Bui-
Rrla.
Deserting Gladstone.
London, March 28.—1 t is expected that
there will be six secessions from Premier
Uladetoue’e party outside tbe Cabinet.
A Fight With Hmugglnrs.
Tombstone, Akl, March 28— Frank
and Thomas Green, two mounted
United States custom inspectors, while
•tcarobing for smuggler* on tho boundary
line were attacked by Mexicans. The In
spectors promptly rocroased the line and
(ireen opened lire on the Mexlcen* and
wounded one of them. Tho Mexicans
then retired-
SAVANNAH. MONDAY, MARCH 20. 1880.
LANDLORDISM AT HOME.
How the Schenley Estate In Pittsburg Is
Managed
Pittsburg, March 28.—Under the cap
tion, “Landlordism at Home,” this week’s
Labor Tribune says: “The Schenley estate
is similar in essential respects to the
large estates in Ireland, and the effect oi
it is very much like the effect of the land
lordism which exists and is so objection
able there. This estate covers probably
2,000 acres within the city limits of Pitts
burg and Allegheny. Tbe land was
grauted to Col. Croghan, an army officer,
tor military services against the" Indians
of the Northwest. ills daughter and
heiress eloped while a mere child from a
Long island boarding-school with ('apt.
Schenley, a British officer and relative of
the principal of the school. The Captain
is now dead, but his tamily lives in Eng
land and the heirs to tbe estate are all
subjects of the British Queen. The
system of management ot the estate
has always been to lease va
cant ground and let the tenants make
the Improvements and pay all taxes and
assessments for paving, sewerage, etc.
The leases usually have called lor read
justment of rent at stated intervals. By
this means the estate has been enabled to
charge tenants an increase for every addi
tion to the value tbeir enterprise may
have put on tbe land. The estate has
done nothing to increase the vakie of this
immense bolding. It has remained con
tent to collect an immense annual rental
from tbe thousands of oitizons whose en
terprise has brought the Schenley acres
up from a wilderness to a value of SB,OOO
to probably SIOO,OOO an acre, from, sav, $1
an aere to an average ot 20,000 times that
small figure, and while this has been go
ing on tbe holders of the estate have with
marked regularity, at least during the
last 20 years, taken from this city to spend
in Europe an average of SIOO,OOO yearly as
rentui paid by industry and enterprise
and thrift to idleness aud luxury. Not
satisfied with the immense rental now
collected, the Schenley heirs demand an
increase of 25 per cent, from tbe 150 ten
ants in the First ward, and naturally
they protest. Old Fort Duquesne was
built upon tbe site of this estate. A block
house still remains.”
THE INSURANCE HELD GOOD.
Ad Accident Policy Not Folded by the
Suicide of th Holder.
CHICAGO, March 26.—United States
Judge Dyer, of Wisconsin, to-day decid
ed the case of Loretta M. Crandal against
the Accident Insurance Company of
North America, which was heard by him
several weeks ago. This was a suit to
recover a SIO,OOO accident policy on tbe
life of the plaintiff's husband, Edward M.
Crandal. who committed suicide in
June, 1884, by hanging himself. He
had insured his lile for SIO,OOO iu
the May previous against injuries
effected by “external, accidental or
violent means,” but the policy was not
to apply if death was caused wholly or in
part by bodily infirmities or disease of the
insured, and suicide was also expressly
excepted. The case was tried before a
jury, which returned a special verdict
finding that Crandal was insured, that he
committed suicide, and that ho was in
sane when be banged himself. Tbe main
question, however, was one of law, as to
whether ou such facts tbe company was
liable. The Judge rendered an opinion,
holding that the company was liable.
Two questions were discussed by tbe
Judge in bis decision, which is regarded
as a very important one. The first was
whether the tact that tbe insured was in
sane when he committed suicide may have
rendered it a ileath caused by bodily in
juries effected through accidental means,
and taken tbe case out of tba special ex
ception in tbe policy, and, second, whether
the death was dne wholly or in part to
“bodily infirmities,” so as to exempt the
companv. As to tbe question of in
sanity, it was clearly proved. In
such a case the act of suicide was
no more the man's aot in tbe
sense of tbe law than if be had been im
pelled by an irresistible physical power.
When the insured, then, took his own life,
it was not bis voluntary, rational act.
Tho physical violence, therefore, which
terminated his life was tbe same as if it
bad come upon him from sources outside
of himself, and for which he was not re
sponsible. It must be held, therefore,
that Craudal’s death resulted from “bod
ily injuries effected through external, ac
cidental and violent” means within the
meaning of the policy in suit.
Concerning tne second question it was
contended that insanity was a disease,
that tbe death was caused by the disease,
and hence tbe company was not liable.
That was the law in cases where the in
surance was general, not special, or life
policies, but did not apply to accident
policies. Although it might be said that
Crandal would not have committed sui
cide if be bad not been insane and so that
insanity was a promoting cause of death,
yet, on tbe strength of numerous authori
ties on similar cases, it must be held that
the act of self-destruction must be re
garded within the meaning of the policy
as the true and proximate cause of death,
and that bis widow was entitled to re
cover the amount of the policy with in
terest.
SUING FOR HEAVY DAMAGES.
The New York “Tribune” Asked to Pay
Sioo,ooo After Five Years.
New York, March 24.—More than five
years ago William Keating waa confined
in tbe Ward’s Island Lunatic Asylum on
the testimony of Drs. Hardy and Jack
son, who declared that he was insane, and
a few days after he was discharged. On
Oct. 16, 1882, tho Tribune printed an arti
cle headed “Turning Lunatics Loose,” in
which an interview with tbe Superintend
ent ol the Ward’s Island Asylum was
given, and in wnich he said that one ol
Mr. Keating’s delusions was concerning
the issuance of banknotes and boude,
which be manufactured and took to the
office at the asylum, and that Keating had
endeavored to pay the lawyer who se
cured bis release In manufactured bank
notes, or be would not pay him at all.
Keating declares that this article re
flected upon his character and branded
him as a criminal, lie baa brought suit
against the Tribune Association in tbe
Supreme Court, and asks for SIOO,OOO
damages. The Jnbune , he save, refused
topublish a denial ot tbe libel. The plain
tiff was examined to-day and told tbe
story ot his arrest and subsequent incar
ceration in the asylum. He declared that
be was never insane, but that his troubles
were brought about by maliolous prose
cution on tbe part of hi* father, who re
sorted to tricks to have him arrested and
adjudged insane. He said that be is also
suing Dr*. Ilsrdy and Jackson and Drs.
McDonald and Kagan to recover SKH>,-
000 damages, the former for having placed
him in the asylum aud tbe latter fer keep
iug him there when they knew he wae
not insane.
Death of a Dramatist.
London, March 38.—Sir Henry Taylor,
the dramatist, is dead. Me was 86 years
old.
CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD.
I THE LESSON TAUGHT BY THE
LIFE OF HANNAH.
Itev. Dr. Talmsge Preaches the Twelfth
of his Sermons on “The Marriage
ltlng” at St. Louis— The Making of the
Coat—Boueflt to Mother* of Fraying.
St. Louis, Mo., March 28.—Rev. T. De.
Witt Tulinage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached in this city tbis morning, on his
way horns lrom his Western trip, the
twelfth of bis series of sermons ou “The
Marriage Ring.” Its subject was “Moth
erhood.”
The eloquent preacher took for his text,
1 Samuel H:lt>: “Moreover his mother
made him a little ooat and brought it
to him from year to year, when sho
came up with her husband to offer the
yearly sacrifice.”
Tbe stories of Deborah and Abigail are
vety apt to discourage a woman’s soul.
She says within herself, “B is impossible
that I ever can achieve any such grandeur
of character, and 1 don't mean to try;”
as though a child should n-fuse to play
tbe eight notes because be cannot exe
cute a “William Tell.” This Hannah of
the text differs from the persons 1 just
now named. She wae an ordinary woman,
with ordinary intellectual capacity,
placed in the ordinary circumstances,
and yet, by extraordinary piety, standing
out before all tbe ages to come, the model
Christian mother.
Hannah was the wife of Elkanah, who
was a pjerson very much like hereeM —an.
romantic aud plain, never having loughs,
a battle or been the subject of a marvel
ous escape. Neither ol them would have
been called a genius. Just what you and I
might be, that was Kikanab and Han
nah.
The brightest time in all the history of
that family was the birth of Samuel. Al
though no star ran along tbe heavens
pointing down to his birthplace, 1 think
the angeisof God stooped at the coming
of so wonderful a prophet.
As Samuel had been given in answer to
prayer, Elkanah and ail bis family, save
I lamiaii, started up to Shiloh to offer sac
rifices of thanksgiving. The cradle where
the child slept was altar enough for Han
nah’s greatful heart, but when the boy
was old enough she took him to Shiloh
and took three bullocks and an eimah of
flour anil a bottle of wine, and made offer
ing ot sacrifice unto tbe Lord, aud there,
according to a previous vow, she left him,
for there be was to slay all toe days of his
life and minister in tbe Temple.
Years rolled on, and every year Han
nah made, with her own hand, a garment
for Samuel, and took it over to him. The
lad would have got along well without
that garment, for I suppose he was well
clad by the ministry oi tho Temple, but
Hannah could not be contented unless
sbe was all the timedoing something for
her darling boy. “Moreover, bis mother
made him a little coat, and brought it to
him from year to year, when she came up
with her'husband to offer the yearly sac
rifice.”
1. Hannah stands before you, then, in
the first place, as an industrious mother.
There was no need for her to work. Elk
anan, her husband, was far from poor.
He belonged to a distinguished family;
for the Bible tells us that he was the son
oi Jeroboam, the son of the son of
John, thaeon oiEuph. “Whowere they?”
you say, Ido not know, but tney were
distinguished people, no doubt, or their
names would not have been mentioned.
Hannah might bave seated berselt with
her family, and, with folded arms awl dis
heveled hair, read novels from year to
year, if there had been aiiy to read; but
when I see her making that garment, and
taking it over to Samuel, 1 know she is
industrious from principle as well as from
pleasure. God would not bave a mother
become a drudge or a slave; He would
bave her employ ail tbe help* possible in
this day in the rearing of her children.
But Hannah ought never to be ashamed
to be found making a coat for Samuel.
Most mothers need no counsel in this
direction. Tbe wriukies on tbeir brow,
tbe pallor on tbeir cbeek, tbe thimble
mark on their finger attest that they are
faithful in their maternal duties. Tbe
bloom aud tbe brightness and tbe vivacity
of girlhood have given place for the
grander dignity and usefulness and indus
try of motherhood. But there is a heath
enish idea getting abroad in some of tbe
families of Americans; there are mothers
who banish tbomsei ves lrom tbe home cir
cle. For three-fourths ot tbeir maternal
duties they prove themselves incompe
tent. They are ignorant of what tbeir
children wear and wbat their children eat
and what tbeir obiidren read. They in
trust to irresponsible persons these young
immortals, and allow teem to be undur
influences which may cripple their bodies
or taint tbeir purity or spoil their man
ners or destroy their souls.
From tbe awkward uutof Samuel's coat
you know that bis mother, ilannah, did
not make It. Out lrom under flaming
chandeliers and off from imported car
pets and down the granite stairs there
has come a great crowd of onildren in
tbis day untrained, saucy, incompetent
for all practical duties of iiie, ready to be
caught in the first whirl of crime and
sensuality. Indolent and unfaithtul
mothers will make indolent and unfaith
ful children. You cannot expect neat
ness and order in any house where the
daughters see nothing but aUtternlinee*
aud upside-dowuativenss* In their par
ents. l/et Hannah be idle, and most cer
tainly Bamuel will grow up idle.
Who aie the industrious men In all our
occupations and profession*!' Who are
they managing tbe merchandise of the
world, building tbe walls, tinning tbe
roofs, weaving tbe carpets, making the
laws, governing the nation, making tbe
earth to quake, and heave, and roar, aud
rattle with tbe tread of gigantic enter
prises? Who are they? For the most
part they descended from industrious
mothers who, in the old homestead, used
to spin their own yarn and weave tbeir
own carpets, and plait their own door
mats, and flag their own chairs, nnd do
their own work. The stalwart men and
tbe influential women of this day, ninety
nine out of a hundred of them, came from
such an illustrious ancestry of hard
knuckles and homespun.
And who are these people in society,
light as froth, blown every whither of
temptation and lashion—ihe peddlers or
filthy stories, the dancing-jacks of politi
cal parties, tbe soura of society, tbe
tavern-lounging, the store-infesting, tbe
men of low wink, and filthy chuckle, and
brass breastpins, and rotten associations?
For tbe most pari, they came from
mothers idle and disgusting—tbe scandal
mongers oi society, going from house to
house, attending to everybody’s busi
ness but. their own, believing in
witches, and ghosts, and horseshoes to
keep tbs devil out of tbe churn, and by a
godless life setting tbeir children on the
very verge of bell. The mothers of Satauel
Jsbnson. and of Allred the Great, and of
Isaac Newton, and of At. Augustine, and
-of Richard Cedi, and of President Ed
wards, fer the most part, were indtistri
one. hard-working mothers
Now, while I congratulate all Christian
mothers upon the wealth and the modern
science winch may afford them all kinds
of help, let me say that every mother
ought to be observant of her children’s
walk, her children’s behavior, her chil
dren's food, hor children's looks, her chil
dren's companionships. However much
help Hannah may have, 1 think she ought
every year, at least, make one garment
for Samuel. The Lord have mercy on a
man who is so unfortunate as to have had
a lazv mother!
2. Attain, Hannah stands before you as
an intelligent mother. From the wav in
which sbe talked lit this chapter, and
from tho way she managed this boy, you
know she was intelligent. There are no
persons hi a communiry who need to bb
so wise and well-lntormed as mothers.
Ob I tins work of culture in obiidren for
this world and the next! This ohlld l
timid, aud it must ho roused up and
pushed out Into activity. This child is
forward, and he must bo held back and
tinned down into modesty and politeness.
Rewards for one, punisbment for anoth
er. That wnich will make George will
ruin John. The rod is necessary in one
cage, while a Irown of displeasure is more
thau enough in another. Whipping and
a dark closet do not exhaust all tbe
rounds of domestic discipline. There
Pave been children who bave grown up
and gone to glory without ever having
had their ears boxed.
Oh! how much care and intelligence
are necessary in the rearing of obiidren 1
But iu tbis duy, when there are so many
bocks on tbe subject, no parent is ex
cusable iu being ignorant oi the best
mode of bringing up a child. If parents
knew more of dietetics there would not
he so many dyspeptic stomachs, ami
weak narves, aud incompetent livers
among children. If parents knew more
of physiology there would not be so
many curved spiues, aud cramped chests,
and inflamed throats, and diseased lungs
as there are among children. If parents
knew more of art, and were in syaqialhy
with all that Is beautiful, there would not
lie so many children coming out in the
world with boorish proclivities. If
parents knew more ot Christ, and prac
ticed more of His religion, there would
not be so many little feet already starting
on tbe wrong road, and ail around us
voices of riot and blasphemy would uot
come up with such ecstasy of infernal
triumph.
The eaglets in the eyrie have no advan
tages over tbe eaglets of a thousand years
ago; tbe kids bave no superior way of
climbing up the rocks than the old goats
taught hundreds oi years ago; the whelps
kuow no more now than did the whelps of
ages ago—they are taught no more by tho
lions of tbe desert; but it is a shame that
in this day, when there are so many op
portunities of improving ourselves in tho
best manner of cultivating children, that
so often there is no more advancement in
tbis respect tbun there has been among
tbe kids and the eaglets aud the whelps.
111. Again, Hannah stands before you
as a Cbristiau mother. From her prayers
and from the way she consecated her
boy to God I know that she was good. A
mother may have the finest culture, the
most brilliant surroundings; but sbe is
not fit for her duties unless she be aChris
tian mother. There may be well-read 11-
biaries in the bouse; aud exquisite music
in the parlor; aad the oauvas ol tne best
artists adorning the walls; and tbe ward
robe be crowded with tasteful apparel;
and the children be wonderlul for their
attainments, and make the house ring
with laughter and innocent mirth; hut
there is something woeful-looking in that
house if it be not also tbe residence of a
Christian mother.
I bless God that there are not many
prayertess mothers—not many of them.
Tbe weight of responsibility is so great
that they feel tbe need of a Divine hand
to help, and a Divine voice to comfort,
and a Divine heart to sympathise. Thou
sands of mothers bave been led into tbe
kingdom of God by the bunds of tbeir little
obiidren. There were hundreds of moth
er* who would not have been Christians
had It not been lor the prattle of their lit
tle ones. standing some day in the nur
sery, they bethought tnemselves: “This
child God has given me to raise for eter
nity. What is my influence upon it? Not
being a Christian myself, how can I ever
expect btra to become a Christian? Lord
help me!”
Are there auxious mothers, who know
notbiugof the infinite help of religion?
Then I commend to them Haunab, the
pious mother of Samuel. l>o not think It
isahsolutely impossible that your oUiidreu
come up iniquitous. Out of just such
fair brows, and bright eyes, aud soft
bands, and innocent hearts, crime gets Its
victims—extirpating purity lrom tbe
heart, and rubbing out the smoothness
from the brow, and quenching the lustre
of the eye, aud shrivelling up, and poison
iug, and putrefying, and scathing, aud
scalding, and blasting, aud burning witb
shame and woe.
Every child is a bundle of tremendous
possibilities; and whether that child shall
come forth to life, its heart attuned to the
eternal harmonies, and after a lite of use
fulness oil earth go to a life of joy in
heaven; or whether across it sbail jar
eternal disoords, and alter a lifeol wrong
doing on carte it shall go to a home of
impenetrable darkness and an abyss of
Immeasurable plunge, Is being decided
by nursery song and .Sabbatb lesson, and
evening prayer, and walk, and ride, aud
look, and frown, and smile. Oh! bow
mauy children in glory, crowding all tbe
battlements, and lifting a million-voiced
hosanna, brought to God through Chris
tian parentage!
Due hundred and twenty clergymen
were together, aud they were telling
their experience and their ancestry; and
uf the 120 clergymen, how many of them,
do you suppose, assigned as the means ot
their conversion tbe Influence of a Chris
tian mother? One hundred out of the
120! Phillip Doddridge waa brought to
God by the scripture lesson on lbs Dutch
tiles of a chimney fireplace. Tbe motner
thinks sbv is only rocking a child, but at
the same lime sho may he rooking tbe
fate of nations, rocking the glories of
heaven. The same maternal power that
may lift tbe child up may press a child
down.
A daughter came to a worldly mother
aud said she was anxious about her sins,
and she bad been praying all night. The
mother said: “Ob, stop praying! 1 don’t
believe In praying! Get over all these re
ligious notions and i’ll give yon a dress
that will cost SSOO, and you may wear it
next weak to that party.” The daughter
took the dress, and sbe moved in tbe gay
circle, tbe gayest of ail tbe gay, that
night: and sure enough, all religious Im
pressions were gone, and she stopped
praying. A few months after sbe came to
die, and in her closing moments said:
“Mother, I wish you would bring me
that dress that cost $600.” The mother
thought it a very strange request, but she
brought It to please tbe dying ohild.
“Now,” said the daughter, “mother, hang
that drees on the foot of my bed,” and the
dress waa Dung there, on ihe toot of the
bed. Then the dying girl got up on oue
elbow and looked at her mother, and thin
pointed to the dress, and said: “Mother,
that dress Is the prioe of my soul!” Oh,
what a momentous thing it Is to he a
mother 1
IV. Again, and lastly, Hannah stands
before you the rewarded mother. For all
tho coats she made ior Samuel, for all the
prayers she offered for him, for the disci
pline exerted over him, she got abundant
compensation in the piety, and the useful
ness and the popularity of her son Sam
uel; and that is true In all aire*. Every
mother gets lull pay for all the prayers
and tears In behalf of her children. That
mini useful in commercial life; that man
prominent in a profession; that master
luv' liunic—why, every step ho take* in
life has mi echo of glad ik sh in the old
heart that long ago taught him to boa
Christian, aud hiroiu und earnest.
The story of what you have done or
what you have written of tho influence
yon have exerted has gone back to tbe old
homestead, for there is someone always
ready to carry good tidings and that sto
ry makes tho needle in the old mother's
tremulous band fly quicker and the flail
lit the laiher’s hand come down upon the
barn floor with a vigorous thump. Bar
ents love.to hear good news from their
children. Do you send them good news
always?
Look out ior the young man who speaks
of his tatiicr as “the governor,” the
“’squire” or the “old chap.” Look out
for the young woman who owl Is her moth
er hor “maternal ancestor” or the “old
woman. ey that mocketb at nis
father and reluseth to obey his mother Ui
ravens of the valley shall pick It out aud
the young eagles shall vat it.”
God Grant that all these parents may
bave the great satisfaction of seeing their
obiidren grow up Christians. But oh!
tbe pang of that mother who. alter a life
of street-gadding aud gossip-retailing,
hanging on the children the fripperies aud
follies ot this world, sens those children
tossed out on tho sen of life like foam ou
the wave, or nonentities In a world where
only bravery and stalwart character can
stand the shock! But blessed he tbe
mother who looks upon her children as
sons and daughters of the Lord Almightv.
Oh! the satisfaction of Uanuah in
seeing Samuel serving at the altar;
of Mother Eunice in seeing
her Timothy learned in the Scrip
tures! That is the mother’s recompense,
to see children coming up useful in the
world, reclaiming the lost, healing the
sick, pitying the ignorant, earnest and
useful in every sphere. That throws a
new light back on the old family Hihlo
whenever she reads It, and that will be
ointment to soothe the aching limbs of de
crepit ude and light up the closing hours
of lite’s day with the glories of an
autumnal sunset.
There she stts, the old Christian mother,
rl|>e for heaven. Her eyesight i* almost
gone, bnt tbe splendors ol the Celestial
City kindle up her vision. The gray light
of tieuven’s morn has struck through the
gray locks which are folded back over
the wrinkled temples. Stic stoops very
much now under the burden of oars she
used to carry for her children. Hbe sits
at home, too old to find her way to the
house of God; but while she sits there, all
the past comes back, and the children
that forty years ago tripped around bar
arm-chair with their griefs, and joys, and
sorrows—those children are gone now.
Some caught up into a better realm,
where they shall never die, and others
out in the broad world, tsstmg the ex
cellency ol a Christian mother’s discip
line. Her last days are full of pence; and
calmer and sweeter will her spirit be
come, until tbe gates of IM* shall lift and
let in tbe worn-out pilgrim Into eternal
spring-tide and youth, where tbe limbs
never ache, and the eves never grow diui,
and the staff of tbe exhausted ami decre
pit pilgrim shall become tbe palm of the
immortal athlete.
ANOTHER KEKLY MOTOR TEST.
Practical DtmuiiitrtUniii of Btberic
Korea WlUemd by New York Kngl
ueert.
Philadelphia, March 28.—A. tost was
made Friday by Mr. Keely before a com
mittee of scientists and mechanical engi
neer!* from New York, and a pressure of
‘2,700 pounds to the square Inch was ob
tained by the use of one pint of water.
More water was added and the pressure
was almost doubled. Mr. Keety claims
that the etbenc force by which theso re
sults were obtained will lie utilized to the
fullest possible extent in the 2fj,tMio borse-
Dower engine on which be is now work
ing.
“This engine,” said Secretary Schuler
mann, “will perhaps be finished early
next month, and It will then be fully cov
ered by patents and made known to the
public, who will he worse dumbfounded
than the oommitlee who just came here
skeptics and went away convinced. When
this engine Is done the long labors of Mr.
Keely will be over and the world will
know more about molecular and atomic
divisions of mutter than ever before. Mr.
Keely has long been master of this subtle
etberic force aDd It will goon be the
world’s secret. Mr. Keely is engaged on
the new engineat his shop. Twentieth and
Master streets.”
A OIIHiTY COCPIiIFM SCIOIDK.
Tk Tr>(lo Sequel to on Blepement and
Dltmm.
Indianapolis, Ind., March 20.—Some
time last tall Mrs. Kate Dawson, wbo
bad been a domestic in tbe family ot
Tbomas Dawson, an elderly and wealthy
farmer ot this county, and by bim mar
ried. eloped with ber stepson Oscar, a
mau 30 years old, who lived with her
father, The couple were found living to
gether In this olty and were ar
rested lor adultery. The old man at
tempted to force a divorce, but the wife
wanted alimony. The bnsbaud and wife
were reunited and went back to the I aim,
but after a little time the wife again dis
appeared, It was supposed with the sou.
The husband was granted a divorce last
week, but the court gave Mrs. Dawson
alimony of SI,OOO. Upon obtaining this
money sbe deposited it in Fletcher &
Churchman’s bank, and it was reported
that she and her stepson, with whom eho
bad eloped, would go to California. The
money was garnisheed on last Monday,
however, by W, F. A. Hernhatner, her
lawyer, to- secure a olalm for legal ser
vices which be placed ut SSX3.
Mrs. Dawson ielt that her money would
lie all f r ittered away, and sbe bocunievery
dsspoudsnt. In despair on Wednesday
even inn she went to the home ol her former
husband, four miles from the city, and be
forooaterlng the house swallowed a quan
tity ot arssnlo. Whan it waa discovered
that sbe had taken arsenic a physician
waa summoned, but he came too'late to
relieve bsr, and sbe died shortly alter
midnight. This afternoon at 1 o’clock the
son, Oscar, wbo had been mlsaed for some
time, was found lu bis room uuoonsclous
from tbe use of morphine, and bodied tbla
evening.
AaaaaslnaAeit Ivy Meiiosn Outlaws.
Bam Antonio, March an.—Lewis Kelt
nor. at use time a wealthy and prominent
citizen ot Chicago, has been assassinated
by Mexican outlaws.
Tus tody who nailed bsr boisterous broth
er-in-tnw her “perpniusl hub-bub" got It
about right.—V’AWsdDMLi BulUttn,
J FRlCFfil IaTIIK,|
I &GENTSAOOPF. {
WORK BEFORE CONGRESS.
LOGAN’S ARMY BILL BEFORE
THE SENATE.
Washington Territory's Application for
Ailmisston to be Debated To-day—Thw
Friends or the lllatr Bill to Attempt
'I heir Coup d'Ktat To-day—The Pen
sion Hills.
Washington, March 28 Tbe unfln.
Ished business in the Senaje for the morn
ing hours is Senator Logon's bill to in*
crease the efficiency of the army. At 2(
o’clock to-morrow Senator Platt will ealtt
up the bill to admit Washington Territory
t<> the family of states. Next to the two
measures mentioned the inter-State com
merce oil) ami the bankruptcy bill are
booked for consideration. Senator Wil
son will continue bis watches for an op
portunity to try to pass the lies Moines
river settlers’ bill ovrr tho .President's
veto.
IN THU HOUSK.
In the House the friends of the educa,
tion bill will seek to open an issue wita
Its opponent*. Mr. Wiitis will report that
new education bill araler the caN of States*
and move Its reference to some other than
the Education Committee. This commit*
tee has indefinitely piceou-boled the Hen
ate bill and all similar measures now be
fore It, and Its members are expected to
resist the effort to toko this subject from,
Its jurisdiction. Tbe retuK of to-moto
row’s move is looked forward to as a test
of the strength ot the measure in that
House.
THE PENSION BILLS.
Of the fourteen regular appropriation
bills, throe bave passed the House, name
ly: tho pension, urgent deficiency aud In
dian bills.
The Committee on Ways and Means'
will probably call up for cotMikleratioa,
during tbe morning hours this week tbe
bill relating to the establishment of ex
port tobacco factories, and the Comroittea
on Banking and Currency will endeavor
to perfect and secure consideration for!
some measure to guard against contrac
tion of the currency.
EXPOSITION FUNDS.
The Management to Ask Hie Govern
ment to Wipe Out the Concerns Debts/
WASHINGTON, March 28.—A resot Ut
tion has been prepared for fnlrodoottoa
in the House to-morrow catting upon
tbe New Orleans Exposition to retnra
the loan of $1,600,000 made to It by tba
United States. It is expected that M
the resolution Is adopted the New Or
leans Exposition will plead it#poverty and
Us national character as reasons why it
does uot, comply with tbe request. Thia
plea will bo used liy the gentlemen who
are here to auk that Ccngreaa restore to
the managers of the Centennial Exposi
tion the money loaned it and returned by
it to tbe government. Thu gentlemen
representing this Interest will ask Con
gress to appropriate SLO,OOO to it to
cover not only the amount of the loan but
the whole amount of the deficit.
MILBUKN’B PRAYERS.
It U understood that one of tbe Demo
cratiu leaders in the House of Represent
atives, who is an twtknate friend ot Rev-
Dr. W. 11. Mllburn, hast intimated to him
as delicately as possible Must it would b*
well for him to make his prayers In the
House more general in then- terms. He
told Dr. Mllburn that his prayers would'
be turned into a reflection upon toe
House, and that there was alreefdy some
uneasiness in the Hoote on that account.
Dr. M illxirn said that he meantno reflec
tion oil any one Ml particular.
SENATOR BttOWN’B SCRAP
BOOKS.
In Which the Optubm of His Friends,
and Koemlet nre Preserved.
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, has thai
most complete coUeotiou of newspaper
dippings in Washington. They are ail
about himself and bis sayings and doings,
and about nothing else, to be sore. BuC
everybody who has ever attempted to col
lect newspaper scraps, even in a veryt
modest way, knows that the only poeel-l
bility of oompletem-se lice Ml collecting
scrape of only one sort. A complete col
lection comprehending everything of in
terest that appears in the newspapers la
so nearly impossible as to be iinpraotiea-i
ble. A gentleman in this city has a cel-j
lection of soraps which be has limited t
subject*or national Importance, He baa.
spent at least 10 years of time and;
SIO,OOO in the collection, and colla
tion of bis scrape, and yet, al
though he has tens of thousands of them
stowed away In cases of his own contri
vance, bis collection is far from being;
complete. But there Is nothing to pre*
vent a diligent collector from having at
nearly complete collection of one aortot
scraps. Most of the men in Congress have,
attempted such a collection, alway* con
fining their energies to paragraphs about
themselves. But I know of no collection!
which equals that of the Senator from
Georgia. He does not depend, as many
pnblie men now de, upon that company
in New York which furnishes you with!
everything said about you in the city
press for an annual foe of $lO or S2O. He
depends upon hi* wife, who Isuraa hts-001.
lection of scrape twenty-five years
ago, wben Brown’s reputation first
began to spread outside of Geor
gia. Mrs. Brown has become exceed
ingly expert in handling her newspaper
shears. No exchange editor in America
could excell her in the rapidity and ac
curacy with which she reeds the numer
ous newspapers, including the entire
daily press oi Georgia, taken by her has
band. Mr*. Brown is no longer young,
but her eyes are as bright and keen ss
ever, aad she sees the word “Brown” in
an instant, though it be in tbe smallest
type. Than her sharp shears go clipping
through tbe paper, and soon it i* in one or
other of her current scrap-books, for she,
keeps two sets, one for the good thing*!
and tbe other for tbe bnd things said abouti
her husband. This paragraph, I bave noi
doubt, will go Into the good book.
Mr. Manning’s Condition.
Washington, March 2.—The phyal,
clans attending Secretary Manning re
port hi* condition to-night unchanged.
The members of tbe Secretary’s family
and his attendants say be appears some
what better.
Cumberland Sound Appropriation.
W ashington, March 28.—The appro
priation fur Cumberland sound la tho
river and harbor bill 1* SBW,OOO, and noF
SIB,OOO.
Late Marine New*.
New York, March 38.—Arrived,eteam
ehlps Wyenotc from Richmond, City of
Savannah lrom Havanaah, and Seneca
from Newport News. Arrived out, steam
ship I-easing.
It is said the BaiUmore sad Ohio rail
road has deeld—J iu make Spartanburg the
terminus of an ■ xieusion of tMetr road
front Itoseoko. Va., through Wiastotyaud
M<<re*vlUe, N. C.