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, ESTABLISHED 1850. I 1 j. H. EbTILL, Editor aud Proprietor. ( LONDON'S MOB IN A RIOT. OVER TWO HUNDRED CITIZENS AND FORTY POLICEMEN INJURED. Four Thousand Blue-Coats Hold the Approaches to Trafalgar Square With Re-Enforcements of Cavalry and Infantry Drawn Up in the Cen tre- Fifty Arrests Made. London, Nov. lo. —The scene in Trafalgar square today has not been equalled since •jsf.fi, when people, asserting the right of public meeting, destroyed the railing around Hyde Park. Four thousand police men took possession of the approaches to Trafalgar square at an early hour. They bad been on the ground but a short time when various societies of Socialists, Radi cals a nd Irish approached the square from every direction. The paraders were headed l,y bands of music, and carried banners and mottoes. The police attacked and dispersed each group as it arrived near the square. Fierce fights took place on the Strand, Northumberland avenue, Whitehall, Pall Mall and other adjacent streets. TUB LINES BROKEN ONCE. One of the societies succeeded in entering Ihe square, but was repulsed after a bloody tight, in which Commoner Graham was seriously injured. Mr. Graham was subse quently arrested for attacking the police. At 4:30 o’clock the crowd in the vicinity of the square numbered 100.000 and the police were powerless to thoroughly dis perse them. Cavalry and infantry were summoned to the assistance of the police, but no charge was made, as the people of their own accord began to disperse at dusk. . OVER 200 INJURED. About 200 citizens and forty policemen were injured. Fifty persons were arrested, among them being the Socialist Burns. Snme°ofthe injured were well enough to leave the hospiuUs after treatment. One patient was dreadfully burned with vitriol squirted from a syringe. Another declares that he was bayonetted. Two policemen were stabbed with knives. It was notice aide that the crowd, while hooting the police, cheered the cavalry and infantry posted in the square ready for action in case the crowd broke the police line. If the crowd had succeeded in breaking the line it is believed that the riot act would have been read and the infantry would have been ordered to fire. THE PROCLAMATION POSTED BY SIGHT. The proclamation of Sir Charles Warren, bead of the London police, forbidding the holding of a meeting in Trafalgar square to-day, was placarded throughout London last night. At 8 o’clock this morning Tra falgar square presented an animated ap pearance, owing to the continual arrival of bodies of police, small drafts having been made from every district in the metropolis. Three hundred grenadiers were sta (ioned in the barracks in the rear of the National armory. Police to the number of 1,500 formed a hollow square four deep on the southern side for I he purpose of protecting Trafalgar square. Two thousand five hundred more were held in reserve. Until l o’clock there were no signs of apr session. At that hour groups, mainly of :g-t-seers or roughs, began lo assemble ii; vicinity of the square, lull a squad of mounted police kept traffic moving and dispersed each group as it formed. AX IMMENSE CROWD. By 8 o’clock there was an immense con course of people packed on the steps of St. ''lari in's church und Morley’s Hotel and on l lie roofs of houses in adjacent streets. The majority scorned to l>e respectable persons attracted by curiosity. The remainder were loafers of the worst class. A bout 4 o'clock, Graham and Burns at the head of about 400 men, made a determined attempt to break the police lines and enter the square from the Strand side. The police, however, beat them back and captured both leaders. Graham was bleeding freely from a wound in bis head made by a policeman’s club. In the meantime bodie of paraders had arrived by every debouching avenue, but they were dispersed and compelled to surrender tneir flags and banners before arriving at the square. Numbers crowded the omnibuses and harangued the people from the knife hoards, while the vehicles slowly traversed the front of the square and Charring Cross, the crowd cheering wildly. ARRIVAL OF THE CAVALRY. At 4:15 o’clock loud cheers heralded the arrival of the cavalry force with Col. Tolbat at its head from Whitehall, and Magistrate Marshpm to read the riot act in case that such a warning should become necessary. While the Guards trotted eight abreast around the square, cheers went up, accompanied by shouts of ‘ brave Marsham we want free speech. We are all true Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotchmen. We only want our legal rights as citizens of London.” A Second circuit of the square by tlis> Guards elicited opposition from a mob of roughs in the crowd, who shouted: “Britons shall not be ruled by lead and bayonets I” Three groans were given for the Home Secretary. The guards patrolerl the square several tunes and then turned into the adjacent streets. They succeeded ill awing the roughs and in gr*itly thinning out the crowd. At 5 o’clock the Grenadiers wheeled into the square with bayonets lixed and with twenty rou and of ball cartridges in their pouches. Tlu j were accompanied by an ambulance. They halted in front of the National Gallery and opened into lines. THE MOB IN A TRAP. The mob was thus caught between the lines of police anil military, and the roughs were compelled to run the gauntlet. Some of them showed a disposition to maintain their ground, but the soldiers brought tneir bayonent'i to the charge position, and the sight, of the cold steel quickly caused them to retreat. Soon after 5 o’clock the police made a scries of violent 'barges with their batons, iit a de termined effort to clear the whole vicinity, many points of which hud been crowded all 'the afternoon. During one marge the whole window of an electrical "hop fell with a erasn. The crowd asserted that the window was broken by the hoofs of some of the policemen’s horses. The Police, however, assert that bricks were t hrown at the window. Loafers made, for the contents of the window, but the police captured many articles and arrested the thieves. By (1 o'clock there was no fear of further trouble. At 6:30 o’clock the whole force of the Life Guards again patrolled tho squarn, and finally the crowd dispersed com pletely. EMBLEMS OK VICTORY. •Some excitement was caused at Whitehall oy the victorious police marching with captured flags and banners. The mounted police and Life Guards were now ordered in •he direction of the Parliament building s ide, the streets being cordoned with con stables to prevent rushes. This move eared Whitehall and Parliament street, n Rad the Guards, with the exception of one b' dy retained in Trafalgar square, were en ,,!'!ed to return to their barracks by 7 o clock. Quiet wa.s now somewhat restored, though the square was still cordoned by b <iip 8 of police, which alternately relieved other in order to obtain much needed She Jttofltin® refreshment after standing in the same posi tion ten hours. At 7:80 o’clock the remain ing Life Guards returned to their barracks. More or less serious skirmishes between the police and Radicals occurred in various other parts of the city, especially at the foot of Wellington street and Broad street, Bloomsbury. Clubs, sticks and stones were freely used, and many persons were hurt. The police were everywhere victorious, and captured many Socialist flags and banners. Between 4 and 6 o’clock seventy injured persons were treated at the Gearing Cross Hospital. A BATTLE AT THE BRIDGE. The police had a severe fight about 4 o’clock near Westminster bridge with a strong procession of Soeialis s from South London, consisting of about 8,000 men under a single leader. This procession had been organized as the principal one to move in solid phalanx upon Trafalgar square, and while tire police were engaged in the scuffle with Graham it was hoped that it would be able to carry the object ive point. The police got an intimation of this pro gramme, and Sir Charles Warren ordered Supt. Dunlap to hold his position at West minster bridge at all cost. Supt. Dunlap had a division of police under his command, noted for their tactics in clearing race courses. The paraders from Beckham, Bornardsey and Deptford, joined forces at Westminister, at 4 o’clock, and occupied Parliament square; when Supt. Dunlap or dered them to disperse, a tremendous struggle occurred. The flags carried by the paraders were made the rallying points for the mob and around them a fear ful struggle took place. Eventually, how ever, the procession was completely dis persed, tiie police capturing ten flags. Twenty-six peivons taking part in the pro cession received club wounds on the head and fifteen constable- were more or less seriously injured. The Executive Comrait teo of the Radical Federation hel t a meet ing to-night and resolved to hold a meet ing of delegates on Wednesday evoning at the London Patriotic Club to decide upon measures for repeating the attempt to hold a meeting on Sunday next. At midnight to-night ail is quiet. VIRGINIA’S RIOTOUS MINERS. The Colored Men Bound to Keep the Huns From Working. Pocahontas, Va., Nov. 18.— Intense ex citement has prevailed in the coal mines at this place for a week between the colored ami Hungarian miners, which as heretofore stated, culminated in a riot. The negroes drove the Hungarians out of the mines and took possession. There were some forty or fifty shots firod during the fight, but no lives were lost. Gov. Lee ordered three companies of military from Lynchburg to be sent here. They arrived to-night, and now hold popession of the town. All is quiet, but further trouble is expected. The town is quiet, and no disturbance oc curred last night or to-day. Niue of the ringleaders, five colored and four white, were taken from this place to Tazewell Court House to-day under escort of the Fitz Lee troop of cavalry. The Hungarians will go to work to-morrow morning, and it is thought that the negroes will try to stop them. The military lias lieen ordered to protect the mine property at all hazards. SPARKS WON’T RESIGN. The President to be Forced to Make a Formal Request. Washington, Nov. 13. —Commissioner Sparks cannot take a hint. His friends say that he will not act upon the intimation he has received that the President would like to appoint his successor until his resignation is formally demanded. Then he will write a letter to the President setting forth his side of the matter. He feels keenly the stinging sarcasm of Secretary Lamar’s let ter, and will probably venture on something of the same sort in the letter ho will write by way of reply. His feelings may be too much for him, and he may make a public statement to the press to-morrow. In the technical difference between Secretary Lamar and Commissioner Sparks involved in the correspondence, the latter seems to hav e the popular side. Secretary Lamar maintains that a liberal construc tion should be given the laws entitling land grant railroads to indemnity lands to make up any deficiency in the grant, and Com missioner Sparks insists on a strict con struction. But this is but one of a long series of differences between them, as the insubordinate criticisms made upon the Sec retary by the Commissioner in this case have been preceded by similar comments in other cases. It had corno to be, just as Secretary Lamar said in his letter to Mr. Sparks, that either the Secretary or the Commissioner had to go, and it did not take the President long to choose. Commissioner Sparks means well, but he has more zeal than discretion. Ex-Representative Cobb, of Indiana, chaiwnan ol the Committee on Public Lands in the last Congress,and man ager of most of the land grant forfeiture bills, is the man latest mentioned for the Commissionership of the General Land Office. Who ever succeeds Mr. Sparks will lie in harmony with the Secretary of the Interior. Burglary at West Point. Wert Point, Ga., Nov. 13. —Burglars en tered the residence of Dr. J. S. Horsley, of this place, this morning between 1 and 4 o’clock, and as far as can be ieurned went through every room in the house, but only a silver watch and about $47 in bills ancl coin have 1 ven missed from the doctor’s pockets. They made their entrance bv rais ing the dining-room window, and there helped themselves to a gallon of sweet milk, two loaves of bread and a pound of Jersey butter. They are supposed to have been tramps, whovisited flic premises on yester day morning, and were seen loitering around late in the afternoon. They wore arrested this morning on suspicion, and placed under lock and key. A Crazy Negro Obstructs the Tracks. Columbus. Ga., Not. 18.—At Hurtslmro a crazy negro yesterday created a great deal of excitement by placing obstructions across the Mobile ami Girard railroad track in three places. The up freight struck them, but fortunately uo damage was done. He stood on the track in front of a passenger train, but was rescued by friends. He tli n threw a rock at the engineer. He was chased and captured later in the day and was so violent that he had to be handcuffed, and is now in jail at Seale. Muscogee Superior Court will convene at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. Arrested for Incest. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 13.—R. W. Cone, a surveyor and a widower with mar ried daughters, was caught to-day in tho act of committing incest with his daughter Lizzie, twelve y ars old. Ho was arrested, placed in the county jail, and tho matter will lie brought to the attention of the grand jury, now in session. Great indignation at this most unnatural conduct of a father firevnils in the community in which Cone ives. Dillon To Be Arrested. Dublin, Nov. 13.—A rumor is current that the Council, at a meeting last night, decided to order the arrest of Mr. Dillon. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER H, 1887. BLUNDERS OP PARENTS. ELI'S MISTAKE IN NOT RESTRAIN ING HIS SONS. Rev. Talmagre Tries to Arouse the People to the Defense of the Youth of the Country- Errors of Some Fa mous Men in Rearing: Their Children. Brooklyn, Nov. 18. —The weekly publica tion of Dr. Tal mage’s sermons is beyond par allel. Beside the English-speaking nations, including Australia aud New Zealand, the sermons are regularly translated into the languages of Germany, France, Italy, Den mark, Norway, Russia and India. The gentlemen having in charge the publication of these sermons inform us that in this coun try, every week, thirteen million six hun dred thousand copies of the entire sermon are printed, and about four million in other lands, making over seventeen million per week. A similar arrangement is now being made for the publication of Dr. Talniage's Friday evening talks. The subject of the sermon to-day was “Parental Blunders,” and the text was I. Samuel iv.. 18: “He fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and be died; for he was an old man, and heavy.” Dr. Talmage said: This is the end of a long story of parental neglect. Judge Eli was a goon man. buthe let his two boys, Hophni and Phinehas, do as they pleased, and through over-indul gence they went to ruin. The blind old judge, ninety-eight years of age, is seated at tiie gate waiting for the news of an im portant battle in which his two sons were at the front. An express is coining with tidings from the battle. This blind nonage narian puts his hand behind his ear, and listens, and cries: “What meaueth the noise of this tumult!” An excited messen ger, all out of breath with the speed, said to him: “Our army is defeated. The sacred chest, called the ark, is captured, and your sons are dead on the field.” No wonder tiie father fainted and expired. The domestic tragedy in which these two son.' were the tragedians had finished its fifth and last act. “He fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and lie died; for ho was an old man, and heavy.” Eli had made an awful mistake in regard to his children. The Bible distinctly says: “His sons made themselves vile and he re strained them not.” Oh, tiie ten thousand mistakes in rearing children—mistakes of parents, mistakes of teachers in day school and Sablwith classes, mistakes which we all make. Will it not lie useful to consider them? This country is going to be conquered by a great army, compared w ith which that of Baldwin the Fust, and Xerxes, and Alexan der, and Grant, and Lee, all put together, were in numbers insignificant. They will capture all our pulpits, storehouses, facto ries, and balls of legislation, all our ship ping, all our wealth, mid all our honors. They will take possession of all authority, from the United States Presidency down to the humblest constabulary—of everything between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They are on the march now, and they halt neither day nor night. They will soon be here, and all the present active population of this country must surrender and give way. I refer to the great army of children. Whether they shall take possession of every thing for good or for bad depends upon the style of preparation through which they pass on their way from cradle to throne. Cicero acknowledges lie kept in his desk a collection of prefaces for books, wdiich pre faces he could at any time attach to any thing he wanted to publish for himself or others; and all parents and teachers have all prepared the preface of every young life under their charge, and not only the preface, but the appendix, whether the volume be a poem or a farce. Families, and schools, and legisla tures are hi our day busily engaged in dis cussing what is the best mode of educating children. Before this question almost every other dwindles into insignificance, while de pendent upon its proper solution is the wel fare of governments and ages eternal. Macaulay tells of the war which Frederick the Second, made against Queen Maria Theresa. And one day she appeared before tiie august Diet, wearing mourning for her father, and held up in her anus before them her child, tiie Archduke. This so wrought upon the officers and deputies of the people, that with half drawn swords they broke forth in the war cry; “Let us die for our Queen, Maria Theresa!” So, this morning, realizing that the boy of to-day is to be the ruler of the future, t he popular sovereign, I hold him before the American people to arouse their enthusiasm in his behalf, aud to evoke their oath for bis defense, his edu cation, and his sublime destiny. If a parent, you will remember when you were aroused to these great responsibilities, and when you found that you had not done all required after you had admired the tiny hands, and the glossy hair, and the bright eyes that lay in the cradle. Yon suddenly re membered that that hand would yet be raised to bless the world with its benediction, or to smite it with a curse. In Ariosto’s great poem there is a character called Ruggierd, who has a shield of insufferable splendor, but it is kept veiled, save on certain occa sions, and when uncovered it startled and overwhelmed its beholder, who before had no suspicion of its brightness. My hope to day is to recover the destiny of your child or student, about which you may have no especial appreciation, and flash upon you the splendors of its immortal nature. Behold the shield and the sword of its comirfg con flict I propose in this discourse to set forth what 1 consider to bo some of the errors prevalent in the training of children. First —I remark that many err in foo great severity or too great leniency of fam ily government. Between parental tyranny and ruinous laxativeness of discipline there is a medium. Sometimes the father errs on one side, and the mother on the other side. Good family government is all important. Anarchy aiiil misrule in the domestic circle is the forerunner of anarchy aud misrule in the state. What, a repulsive spectacle is a home without order or discipline, disobedi ence and impudence, and anger and false hood lifting their horrid front in the place which should lie consecrated to all that is holy, and peaceful ami beautiful. In the attempt to avoid all this, and bring the children under proper laws end regulations, parents have sometimes carried themselves with great rigor. John Howard, who was merciful to the prisons an 1 lazarettos, was merciless to the treatment of his children, John Milton knew everything, but how to train his family. Severe and unreasonable was he in liis carriage toward them. He made them read to him in four or live languages, but would not allow t hem to learn any of them, for he said that one tongue was enough for a woman. Their reading was mechanical drudgery, when, if they had understood the languages they read, the employment of reading might have been a luxury. No wonder his children despised him, and stealthily sold his books, and hoped for his death. In all ages there has been need of a society for prevention of cruelty to children. When Barbara was put to death by her father because she had countermanded his order, and had throe windows put in a room instead of two. this cruel parent was a type of many who have acted the Nero and the Robespierre in the home circle. The heart siekensat what you sometimes see, even in families that pretend to lie Christians—per petual scolding, and hair-pulling, and eur rxixing, and thumping, and stamping, and fault-finding, and teasing, until the children are vexed beyond bounds and growl in tiie sleeve, and pout, and rebel, ana vow within themselves that in alter days they will re taliate for the cruelties practiced. Many a home has become as full of dispute as was the home of John O’Groat, who built his house at the most northerly point in Great Britain. And tradition says that the house had eight windows, and eight doors and a table of eight* sides, because ho had eight children, and the only way to keep them out of bitter quarrel was to have a separate appointment for each one of them. That child’s nature is too delicate to be worked upon by sledge-hammer, and gouge, and pile-uriver. Such fierce lashing, in stead of breaking the high mettle to Git. and trace, will make it dash off the more uncon trollable. Many seem to think that chil dren are flax—not fit for use till they have lieen hatcheled and swingled. Someone talking to a child said: “I wonder what makes that tree out there so crooked.” The child replied: “I suppose it was trod on while it was young.” In some families all the discipline is concentrated on one child's head. If anything is done wrong, the sup position is that George did it. He broke the latch. He left open the gate. Ho hacked the banisters. He whittled sticks on the carpets. And George shall be the scape groat for all domestic misunderstandings and suspicions. If things get wrong in the culinary department, in comes the mother and says, angrily: “Where is George?” If business matters are perplexing at the store, in comes the father at night and says, angrily*: “Where is George?” In many u household there is such a one singled out for suspicion and castigation. Ail tiie sweet flowers of his soul blasted under this perpetual north east storm, he curses the day in which he was born. Safer the child in an ark of bul rushes on the Nile, among crocotiles, than in an elegant mansion, amid such domestic gorgons. A mother was passing along the street one day, and came up to her little child, who did not see her approach, and her child was saying to her playmate: “You good-for-nothing little scamp, you come right into the house this minute, or 1 will beat you till the skin comes off.” The mother broke in, saying: “Why. Lizzie, I am surprised to hear you talk like that to anyone!” “Oh,” ‘■aid the child, “1 was only playing, and he is my little boy, and I am'scolding him, as you did me this morn ing.” Children are apt to be echoes of their parents. Safer in a Bethlehem manger, among cattle and camels, with gentle Mary to watch the little innocent, than the most ex travagant nursery over which God's star of jieace never stood. The trapper extinguishes the flames on the prairie by fighting fire with fire, but you cannot, with the fire of your own disposition, put out the fire of a child’s disposition. Yet we may rush to the other extreme, and l-ule children with too great lenienev. The surgeon is not unkind because, not with standing the resistance of his patient, he goes straight on, witli firm hand and unfaltering heart, to take off the gangrene. Nor is the parent less affectionate and faithful because, notwithstanding all violent remonstrances on the part of the child, he,with the firmest discipline, advances to the cutting off of its evil inclinations. The Bible says: "Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.” Childish rage unchecked will, after a while, become a hurricane. Childish petu lance will grow up into misanthropy. Child ish rebellion will develop into the lawless ness of riot and sedition. If you would ruin the child, dance to his every caprice and stuff him with confect)ouery. Before vou are aware of it that boy of six years will go down the street, a cigar in his mouth, and ready on any corner with his comrades to coiiqm re pugilistic attainments. Tiie parent who allows the child to grow up without ever having learned the great duty of obedience and submission has prepared a cup of burn ing gall for bis own lips and appalling de struction for his descendant. Remember Eli and his two son*. Hophni and Phinehas. A second error prevalent in the training of children is a laying out of a theory, and following it without arranging it to varie ties of dis])osition. in every* family you will find striking differences of tempera ment. This child is too timid, and that too bold, and this too miserly and that too wasteful; this too inactive, and that too boisterous. Now, the farmer who should plaut earn, and wheat and turnips in just the same way, then put them through one hopper and griud thorn in the same mill, would not lie as much of a fool as the par ents who should attempt to discipline and educate all their children in tha same man ner. It needs a skillful hand to adjust these checks and balances. The rigidity of gov eminent which is necessary to hold in this impetuous nature would utterly crush that flexile disposition, while tiie gentle reproof that would suffice for the latter would, when used on the former, be like attempting to bold a champing Bucephalus with reins of gossamer. God gives us in the disposition of each child a hint as to how we ought to train him, and, as God in tiie mental structure of our chil dren indicates what mode of training is the best, He also indicates In the disposition their future occupation. Do not write down that child as dull because it may not now be as brilliant as your other children or as those of your neighbor. Some of the mightiest men and women of the centuries had a stupid childhood. Thomas Aquinas was called at school “the dumb ox, bill: afterward demonstrated his sanctified genius and was called "the angel of tiie schools” and “the eagle of Brittany.” Kind ness and patience with a child will conquer almost anything, and ibev are virtues so Ohristlike that they are inspiring to look at . John Wesley’s kiss of a child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a profli gate into a flaming evangel. The third error prevalent in the training of children is the one-sided development of either the physical, intellectual or moral nature at the expense of the others. Those, for instance, greatly mistake who, while they are faithful in the intellectual aid moral culture of children, forget the phys ical. The bright eyes half quenched by night study, the cramped chest that comes from too much bending over school desk.), the weak ride resulting from sedentariness of habit, jiale cheess and tiie gaunt bodies of multitudes of children attest that phys ical development doe* not always go along with intellectual and moral. How do you suppose all those treasures of knowledge the child gets will look in ashattered eaakstf And how much will you give for the wealthiest cargo when it is put into a leaky ship! How can that bright, sharp blade of a child's attainments lie wielded without any handle! What are brains worth with out shoulders to carry thjgn! Wliat is a child with magnificent mind but an ex liaustisl body ! Better that a young man of twenty-one go forth into the world without knowing A from Z if he have health of body und energy to push his way through the world than at twenty-one to enter upon active life, his head stuffed with Socrates, and Herodotus, and Bacon, and lot Place, but no physical force to sustain him in the shock of earthly conflicts. Krorn this infinite blutuler of parents, how many have come out in life with a genius that could have piled Ossa upon relion and mounted upon them to scale tho heavens, and have laid down pnut ing with physical exhaustion before a mole hill. They who might have shrilled Senates and marshalled armies, and startled the world with tilt' shock of their scientific bat teries, have passed their lives in picking up prescriptions for indigestion. They owned all the thunderbolts of Jupiter, out could not get out of their rocking-chair to use them. George Washington, in early life, was a poor speller, and spelled hat h-a-doub!e-t, and a ream of paper, he soolled “rheam,” but he knew enough to spell out tho independence of this country from for eign oppression. The knowledge of the schools is important, hut there are other things quite as important. Just 'as great is the wrong done when tho mind is cultivated and the heart neglected. The youth of this day aro seldom denied any scholarly attainments. Our schools and seminaries ye ever growing in efficiency, and the students are conducted through all the realms of philosophy, and art, and lan guage, and mathematics. The most hered itary obtuseness gives way before the on slaught of adroit instructors. But there is a development of infinite importance which mathematics and the dead languages can not affect. The more mental power the more capacity for evil unless coupled with religious restraint. You discover what ter rible power for evil unsanetiffed genius pos sesses when you see Kcaliger with his scathing denunciations assaulting the best men of his time, and Blount and Spinoza and Bolingbroke lead ing their hosts of followers into the ail-consuming fires of skepticism aud infidelity. Whether knowledge is a mighty good or an unmitigated evil depends entire ly upon which course it takes. The river rolling on between round hanks makes all the valley laugh with golden wheat and rank grass, and catching hold the wheel of mill and factory, whirls it with great indus tries. But, breaking away from restraints, and dashing over banks in red wrath, it washes away harvests from their moorings and makes the valleys shrink with the ca tastrophe. Fire in the furnace heats the house or drivas the steamer; but, uncon trolled, warehouses go down in awful crash before it, and in a few hours half a city will lie in black ruin, walls and towers and churches and monuments. You must ac company the education of the intellect with the education of the heart, or you are rous ing up within your child an energy which will be blasting and terrific. Better a wicked dunce than a wicked philosopher. Tho fourth error often committed in the training of children is the suppression of childish sportfulness. The most, triumphant death of any child that I ever knew was that of Scoviile Haynes McCollum. A few days before that, he w r as at my house in Syracuse, and he ran like a doer and his halloo, made the woods echo. You could hear him coming a block off, so full was ho of romp and laughter and whistle. Don't put religion on your child as a straight jacket. Parents after having for a good many years been jostled about in the rough world often lose their vivacity, and are as tonished to sea how their children can act so thoughtlessly of the earnest world all about them. That is a cruel parent who quenches any of the light in a child’s soul. Instead of arresting its sportfulness, go forth anil help him trundle the hoop, and tty the kite, and build the snow castle. Those shoulders are too little to carry a burden, that brow is too young to bo wrinkled. those feet are too sprightly to go along at a funeral pace. God bless their young hearts! Now is the time for them to "be sportful. Let them romp and sing aud laugh, and go with a rush and a hurrah. In this way they gal her up a surplus of energy for future life. For the child that walks around with a scowl, dragging his feet as t hough they w ere weights and sitting down by tho hour in moping and grumbling I prophesy a life of utter inanition and dis content. Sooner hush the robins in the air until they are silent as a bat. and lecture the frisking lambs on the hillside until they walk like old sheep, rather than put exhila rant childhood in the stocks. The fifth error in the training of childhood is the postponement of its moral culture until too late. Multitudes of children be cause of their precocity have been urged into depths of study where they ought not to go, and their intellects have lieeii over burdened, and overstrained and battered to pieces against, Latin grammars anil algebras, and coming forth iuto practical lifo they will hardlv rise to mediocrity, and there is now a stuffing and cramming system of educa tion in the schools of our country that is deathful to the teacher who liuvo to en force it, and destructive to the children who must submit to the process. You find children at nine ami ten years of age with school lessons only appropriate for children of fifteen. If children are kept in school and studying from nine to throe o’clock, no home study except music ought to be re quired of them. Six hours of study is enokgb for any child. The rest of the day ought to be devoted to recreation aud pure fun. But you cannot begin too early tho moral culture of a child, or on too complete a scale. You can look back upon your own life and remember what mighty impressions were made upon you at five or six years of age. Oh, that child does not sit so silent during vonr conversation to lie influenced by it. You say he does not understand. Although much of your phraseology is beyond his grasp, he is gathering up from your talk in fluences which will affect his immortal des tiny. From the question ho asks you long afterward you find that he understood all about what you were saying. You think the child does not appreciate that beautiful cloud, but ils most iHicato lines are re flected into the very depths of the youthful nature, and a score of years from now you will see the shadow of that cloud in the tastes and refinements developed. The song with which you slug that child to sleep will echothrougn all its life, and ring back from the very arches of heaven. 1 think that often the first seven years of a child’s life decides wuether it shall be irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypocritical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient, honest and Christian. The present generations of men will pass off very much as they are now. Although the gospel is offered them, the gen eral rule Is that drunkards die drunkards, thieves die thieves, liliertines die libertines. Therefore to tin- youth we turn. Before they sow wild oats get them to sow wheat and barley. You fill the bushel measure with good corn, and there will be no room for husks. Glorious Alfred Cookman was converted at ten years of age. At Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the progress of u re ligious mooting in the Methodist church, while many wore l.nooiingat the foot of the altar, this boy knelt in a corner of the church all by himself and said: “precious Saviour, thou art saving others, G. wilt thou not sare me?” A Presbyterian elder knelt beside him and led him " into the light. Enthroned Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the skies, were you converted too early! But 1 cannot hear his answer. It is overpow ered by the huzza i of tiie tens of thousands who were brought to Gcd through his min istry. Isaac Watts, the groat Christian poet, was converted at nine yours of age. Robert Hail, tiie groat Baptist evangelist, was con verted at twelve years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the greatest of American logi cians, was converted at seven years of age. Oh for one generation of holy men and woman. Bhall it be the next? Fathers and mothers, you under God are to decide whether from your families shall go forth cowards, inebriates, counterfeiter*, bias- phemers, and whether there shall be those bearing your image and carrying your name festering in the low haunts of vice, and floundering in dissipation, and making tiie midnight of their lives horrid witii a long howl of ruin, or whether from your family altars shall come the Christians, the reformers, the teachers, the mtnistors of Christ, the comforters of the troubled, the healers of the sick, the eimeters of good laws, the founders of charitable institutions, aud a great many who shall in the humbler spheres of toil and usefulness serve God aud the best interests of the human race. You cannot as parents shirk the responsi bility. God has charged you with a mission, and all the thrones of heaven are waiting to see whether you will do your duty. We must not forget that it is not so much what we teach our children ns what we are in their presence. Wo wish them to Vie better thou we are, but the probability is ttiat they will only be n productions of our own character. German literature has much to say of the “sjioctre of Brocken.” Among those mountains travelers in certain condi tions of the atmosphere see them selves copied on a gigantic scale in the clouds. At first the travelers do not realize that it is themselves on a larger scale. When they lift a hand or move the head this monster spectre does the same, and with such en largement of proportions that the scene is most exciting, ami thousands have gone to t hat place iust to behold the spectre of Brocken. The probability is that some of our faults w hich we consider small and in significant, if we do not put an end to them, will be copied on a larger scale in the lives of our children, and perhaps dilated and exaggerated into siiectral proportions. You need not go as far as the Brocken to seo that process. The first thing in im portance in the education of our children is to make ourselves, by the grace of God, fit. examples to be copied. The day will come when you must confront that child, not in the church pew on a calm Habbath, but amid the consternation of the rising dead, and the flying heavens, and a burning world. From your side that son or daughter, bone of your Done, heart of your heart, the father's brow his brow, the mother’s eye his eye, shall go forth to an eternal destiny. What, will be your joy if at last you hear their feet in the same golden highway, and hear their voices in the same rapturous song, illustrations, while the eternal ages last, of what a faithful parent could, uuder God, accomplish. I was read ing ot a mother who dying hail all her children about her, and took each one of them by the band, and asked them to meet her in heaven, and with tears and sobs such as those only know who have stood by the deathbed of a good old mother. They all promised. But there was a young man of nineteen who had been very wild and reckless, and hard, and proud, and when she took his hand she said: “Now, my boy, I want you to promise me before I die, that you will become a Christian and meet me in heaven." The young man made no answer, for there was so much for him to give up, if lie made and kept such a promise. But the aged mother persisted in saying: “You won’t deny me that before I go, will you# This parting must not be forever. Tell ine how you will serve God and meet me in the land where there is no parting.” Quaking with emotion be stood, making up his mind and halting aud hesitating, but at last his stubbornness yielded and he threw his arms around his mother’s neck and said: “Yes, mother; I will, I will.” And as he finished the last word of his promise, her spirit ascended. I thank God the young mau kept bis promise. Yes, he kept it. May God give all mothers and lathers the glad ness of their children’s salvation. For all who are trying to do their duty as parents I quote the tremendous passage: “Train up a child in the way in which lie should go, and when he is old he will not do;lart from it." If through good discipline and prayer and golly example you are act ing upon that child you have the right to expect him to grow up virtuous. And how many tears of joy you will shed when you see your child honorable and just and truth ful and Christian and successful—a holy man amid a world of dishonesty, a godly woman in a world of frivolous pretension. When you come to die they will gather to bless your last hours. They will push back the white locks on your cold forehead and say: “What a good father lie always was to me!" They will fold your hands peace fully and say: “Dear mother! She is gone, Her troubles are all over. Don’t she look beautiful f" GUARDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Surgeon General Hamilton Submits Hla Annual Report. Washington, Nov. 13.—Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital Service, has submitted bis annual refiort to the Sec retary of the Treasury. The report covers the operations of the last fiscal year, and the sanitary operations for the year up to the outbreak of yellow fever at Tampa. The hospitals and service generally are reported to be in satisfactory condition. In accord ance with the provision contained ir> the sundry civil appropriation act the method practiced in Mexico and Brazil for inoculation as a preventive against yellow fever is now lining investi gated by Major George M. Sternberg, a surgeon who has been detailed by the President for that investigation. The gen eral opinion of sanitarians, however, lias not yet crystallized in favor of inoculation as a preventive of yellow fever. Tho ex periments made on subject in Havana in 1855, were seemingly as conclusive as those to-day, but they did not succeed in securing general adop tion, and Dr. Sternberg’s report will doubt |esi provide the necessary data for passing judgment upon the efficacy of tho system. A full report is given of the operations of the service at Key West, Fla., and in re gard to the origin of the epidemic of yellow fever at that place. Kegrot is expressed that the bill introduced In Congress at its last session to establish a national quaran tine station near Key West did not become a law. Had this bill become a law, he says, it is strongly probable that the calamitous epidemic might hove been prevented, for the first case, witli ail its belongings, would have been promptly sent to quarantine. Tampa’s Fever Record. Tampa, Fla., Nov. 13.—Throe new rases of yellow fever were reported to-dav fall white) and one death, that of Miss Eddy, aged 13 years. Thirty-five patients are under treatment. Sixteen are in the hos pital and nineteen in the city. There are four wises in the country. The existence of yellow fever at Manatee, on lower Tampa bay, is doubted. There were three suspicious deaths there last week, but an epidemic is not feared, owing to its lieiniz a healthy pine section. The end of tlio Tampa epidemic is expected this week, and there Is no fear any where else. All trains and steamers from the North are coming here crowded with tourists and others. Ex-Minister Foster’s Mission. Washington, Nov. 18.—The Department of Btate did not send ex-Minister John W. Foster to Mexico to negot’nto a treaty, or investigate claims or do anything nor has he been thought of in connection with the vacant Mexican mission. Mr. Foster is American counsel for the Mexican legation in this city, and presumably is in Mexico on the business of the Mexican Govern ment. ( PRICEgtO A YEAR ) ) A CE.MS A COPY, j NO ROW ATTHE FUNERAL CURSES LOUD AND DEEP AT THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD. “ Throttle the I jaw,” the Cry That Fol lowed the Speaker’s Closing Words —The Coffins Covered With Flowers and Red Silk Scarfs--Two Assem blies of Women In Line. Chicago, Nov. 13.—An attempt was made to-day to assassinate a soldier of the Second regiment who was on duty outside the armory on Washington Boulevard. A shot was fired at him by a man supposed lo bo an Anarchist, but it did not take effect. The assassin fled or hid and was not cap tured. The funeral procession of the dead Au archists began to move between 1 and 2 o’clock this afternoon. It was beaded by Chief Marshal Happ with two aids and a band of musicians in the uniform of the German army. Immediately afterward eame the members of the defence commit tee, headed by George Schilling, wbocarried ill his hand a floral tribute. Following them inarched, eight abreast, nearly 200 member* of the Aurora Turn Verein, of which August. Spies was a member. The whole society was not out, as many members are not in sympathy with Anarchy. Four hundred of the Vorwarts Turner Society came next, wearing red badges on their breasts. This branch of the Turners is more strongly tinctured with Socialism than any in the city. One hundred of the Fortscbiett branch came next, and then followed the hearse of August Spies, the ton of which was so covered with floral tributes that nothing else could be seen. Inside was a richly covered casket, over the black cloth of which was thrown a sash of red silk. THE BEST OF THE HEARSES. Then another band wheeled into Lake street playing a dirge, followed by many hundred members of the Central Labor Union, which comprises some of the most extreme Socialists in the city. Next eame the hearse in which lay the coffin of Adolph Fischer. It was also decorated with flowers, but not so profusely as that of Bpies. Next came the hearse containing the remains of Parsons. On the lix by the driver fiat a mau holding in his hand a Federal emblem of such immense size that the inscription of the flowei-s, “From K. of L Assembly No. 1307,” could be seen a hundred feet away. This is the assembly to which Parsons be longed until it was expelled from the order on account of its adherence to the cause of anarchy. Across Parsons’ coffin was thrown a simple strip of red silk ribbon. Then came another cohort of the Central Labor Union, composed of representatives of all sorts of trades. Behind these were the hearses of Engel and Lingg, over whose black coffins were the red banners under which they had fought. Several florol pieces were carried behind. The hearses were followed by carriages containing rela tives of the dead men and by various labor organizations and great numbers of men, women and children on foot. WOMEN OF THE ORDER. Particular attention was attracted by two local assemblies of Knights of Labor com posed wholly of women, who were aflame with red, in the shape of scarlet ribbons in their hats, bows of crimson at their throats, aud long streamers of crimson hanging front t heir shoulders. In front of them marched Miss Mary McCormick, Masterworkman of the organization known as the “Lucy Par sons Assembly Knights of Labor. ” £?he wax attended by three others, and the trio car ried a huge wreath surmounted by a snow white dove, an emblem of peace. The wreath and dove were sent by the Ladies Defense Fund Committee of Cincinnati. BY TRAIN TO THE CEMETERY. The procession, whic 1 * contained twelve or fifteen bauds of rnuwe, proceeded to the Wisconsin Central dejiot, where the oofiins of the Anarchists wore transferred from hearses to the baggage car. and the friends and relatives of the dead men took a special train for AValdeheim Cemetery, where the interments took place. The funeral train consisted of seventeen coaches. Three other trains were made up and all were crowded. Upon the arrival at the cemetery, which is situated on a desolate stretch of prairie in the outskirts of the city, the coffins were laid upon a rude platform iu front of a gloomy vault and In the presence of several thousand persons. capt. black’s oration. Capt. Black delivered a funeral oration, in the course of which he said: T am not hero this afternoon to speak to you any sjioclal words concerning the eause for which these men lived, nor concerning the man ner of their taking off. but to speak to you like friends to tell you that that cause shk-h com manded their services was s-alel at last by their lives with unstinted measure for the sake of those they loved You know how grandiy l hey j Missed out of tills life into the perfect, and glorious life that is beyond tho reach of misjadgment. Wo are not here beside the caskets of felons consigned to an ignominio ,s death. We are here beside the bodies of those who wereaubHmo In tbelr self-sacrifice, and for whom the gibbet a glorious cross. They have been painted and presented to the world as men lov ing violence, and riot and bloodshed for its own sake. Nothing could be further from the truth. They were men who loved ponco, whose hearts were full of tenderness, who wore loved by tho* who knew them, trusted by' those who came to understand tho glory nnd power of their lives. And Anarchy, of which they spoke and taught, what was It hm an attempt to an swer the question: After the revolution, what? They believed that there was that of wTong and harilstiip In the existing order which pointed loaconflict, because (hey believed that selfishness would not surrender jx-oeeably and of its own motion to righteousness, and the whole of their thought, of theii philosophy us Anarrbh ts.was tho establishment of an order of society that should be symbolizes in the words: “Order without force.” Is it practical? I know not. They thought tt was. 1 know that It is practical now, but 1 know also, as a philosopher and Christian. under the in spiration of love, that the day will come when righteousness will reign in this earth and when sin and selfishness will end. Capt. Block ended his address by reading a poem, routing tho virtues of the deceased aud lauding anarchy. A FIKK-EATKTI. Capt. Black was followed by Robert Reitzel, of Detroit, who made' a floret s]ieech in German condemning the working men of Chicago for having allowed five of their liest men to be murdered, declaring that they died for justice, and denouncing a society “based upon robbery and sustained by murder.” His remarks were welcomed with applause, cries of “Biavo!” and floret yells. T. J. Morgan, a local •’oeiaßst leader, o' English bir'b, then erpr *sed his contempt for the I wsbi'hl aged he Anarchists is voice “ hrott! the law’ i and sneered at “the tp eud ng'i is n of the American Fourth o J 1 w hich obscured the minds of the reo le. The las speech was in German, by At bert C urrL lormerly of the Arbeiter Zti hmg. He scarcely got started when Capt. Black stcpjatd to tne front and hud his hand on the speaker’s arm. It was now pitch dark in the grave yard, and the people were being wrought up to a high pitch of excitement bv the the oratory and surroundings. Capt. Black gave word that the ceremonies would be considered closed. The coffins of tho five Anarchiato