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i ESTABLISHED 1850 I
J. H. EHTILL, Editor and Proprietor. I
AUSTRIA ON THE ALERT.
SHE WILL WATCH RUSSIA AND
WAIT FOR THE PRESENT.
The Emperor and Herr Tisza Presided
at the Military Council at Vienna
Yesterday - More Huts to be Erected
on the Frontier—Pacific Utterances.
Vienna, Dec. 18.—Tho Military Council
in this city to-day was presided over be Em
peror Francis Joseph and Hen- Vou Tisza,
the Hungarian Prime Minister; Count Kal
noky, and the chiefs of the military and
finance departments of the empire
were present. The council re
solved that the unexpended portion
of the credit of 52,000,000 florins
voted last spring shall be applied to the
purchase of equipments and the construc
tion of huts for troops in Galicia. No in
crease of the forces in Galicia has yet been
decided upon, and if there is no further
augmentation of Russian troops on the fron
tier Austria will adhere to the policy of ob
servation. Another Military Council has
been summoned for to-morrow.
PEACE EXPECTED.
It is semi-officially stated that the Cabinet
shares in the belief that good relations with
Russia will lie maintained. No difference
exists except with respect to Bulgaria.
Austria is ready to assist in a pacific solu
tion of the question, but the announcement
in the Invalid* Russe that Russia projects
a whole series of military measures, of
which the recent increase of forces in Poland
is only part, enjoins increased military
vigilance. Austria must keep pace with the
Russian plans. Coun Von Taafe and Herr
Von Tiszar agree that the summoning of the
delegations in the meantime would be inop
portune.
On Saturday the evening Bourse
wound up in a perfect riot. Se
curities of all kinds were recklessly thrown
ou the market. It is estimated that on Fri
day and Saturday 200,000,000 florins were
lost. It is stated that at. Monday’s council
resolutions will be proposed to place 25,000,-
000 florins at the disposal of the War Minis
ter to build 200,000 huts in Galicia, and for
t’oe immediate purchase of uniforms and ac
coutrements for the landwebr and the last
class of the Reserves.
A widespread outbreak of cattle disease
is reported in Poland. This is regarded as a
sure sign of large arrivals of beasts from
the interior for military provisioning.
EDITORS WARNED.
The editors of the newspapers were sum
moned to the police bureau to-day and re
minded of the law prohibiting the publica
tion of movements of troops and other
military preparations.
A telegram to the Presse from Belgrade
reports that Russian agitators are extremely
active in Servia.
The rifle factory at Steyer is turning out
4,000 repeating rifles every week.
CONCILIATORY INSTRUCTIONS.
Berlin, Pec. IR.—The Katwnal Zeitung
says that Gen. Von Schweinitz, the German
ambassador to Russia, returns to St. Peters
burg with conciliatory instructions. Prince
Bismarck, the paper says, counsels Austria,
while strengthening her military position, to
avoid giving provocation to Russia.
RUSSIA FAILS TO BORROW.
Brussels, Dec. 18. —Russia’s endeavors
to raise a loan here and at Amsterdam have
failed.
ACTING TIKE ONE NATION.
London, Dec. 18. —The Vienna corrc
soondent of the Daily Seivs says: “Austria
and Germany are acting like one nation
with regal’d to the war scare. Austria
takes no step without Germany’s approval.”
The Xorth German Gazette says: “Aus
tria evidently expected a more honest
answer than that of the Invalide. Russe. If
re-enforciug in Prussia continues we would
not be surprised to see Austria-Hungary
doing likewise.”
A HUMAN SACRIFICE.
Crazed by Religion, a Negress Allows
a Faith Doctor to Kill Her.
Selma, Ala., Dec. 18—A horrible mur
der was committed here to-day. William
W. Jordan, a faith doctor, has been living
in Selma for the past twelve months, and
has in that time acquired great influence
over the negroes, whom be told that ho had
come to redeem the Jews. He arranged for
a passover feast at the house
of two negro women in the
outskirts of the city this morning, and
told them that a sacrifice was necessary.
Fiances Driver said she was willing to offer
herself as a sacrifice, and laid her head on a
table. Jordan thereupon took a sword and
struck her several blows on the neck and
stabbed her a number of times, killing her
instantly.
DRAGGED INTO THE STREET.
The body was then dragged out into the
street by two other women. A white woman
witnessed the affair and gave the alarm.
Police Officer Payne, afier a terrible strug
gle, succeeded in overpowering Jordan and,
w ith the aid of sev nil other officers, con
veyed him to the city prison. Two negro
men who were present at the feast have
also been arrested. The negroes are greatly
exeited over the murder, and there are
threats of lynching, but the police have a
strong guard at the city prison, and #ay
t bat they will be able to prevent mob I*lo
- Chief of Police Rosser says that Jor
dan is unquestionably crazy. The murderer
has a brother living in Shruveport, J.a.
LinnelTa Funeral.
London, Dec. 18.— The funeral of Lin
nell. who died in a hospital from injuries
said to have been received in the rioting in
Trafalgar square, took place to-day. Dense
crowds headed by bands and banners, as
sembled in the east end and accompanied
the remains to tho cemetery, which was
packed with people, Bey. ml a few isolated
conflicts with the police the affair passed off
quietly.
Rioting in Catalonia.
Madrid, Dec. 18. —Serious disturbances
have occurred iu Catalonia, requiring the
presence troops to preserve order. The
trouble originated in the closing of fac
tories, caused by depression in trade.
Bedouins and Druses Fight.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 18.—The official
Mtssenqer says there has been a conflict in
Syria between Bedouins and Druses in
which the latter hud 160 killed and 300
wounded.
Becomes a Oladstonlan.
London, Doe. 18.—Sir T. F. Grove, Mem
ber of Parliament for Wilton Division of
Wiltshire, who was elected as a Unionist
Liberal lias tiecome a Gladstonian.
England's Parliament.
London, Dec. 18.—Parliament will moot
on Feb. A.
Dllstngulshed Honorary Members.
Philadelphia, Dec. 18.—At a quarterly
meeting of the Hibernian Society last even
lnE, President Cleveland, William E. Glad
e*°ne, Gov. Biggs, of Delaware, Gov.
Prayer,of Pennsylvania; Gov. Fitzliugh Lee,
°f Virginia, and Gov. Gordon, of Georgia,
"ere elected honorary member.!.
She Moaning
CONGRESS WILL GO SLOW.
The Cabinet Nominations and the
Committee on Rules.
Washington, Dec. 18.—There is no joint
purpose on the part of the Senators either
to do or abstain from doing any given thing
during the coming week, unless indeed
unanimity of opinion in favor of beginning
the holiday recess on Thursday or earlier lie
accounted a purpose. The Senate calendar
contains only three bills which can be taken
up for action, one of which provides for re
funding to the States the direct tax of 1861.
A dozen measures lie on the table, some of
which will doubtless be called up during the
week by their originators as texts for set
speeches, and will then be referred to the
proper committees.
CABINET NOMINATIONS.
The matters of greatest general interest
before the Senate in executive session are
the Cabinet nominations, and these seem to
be waiting tho motion of the Judiciary Com
mittee, to which the nominations of Secre
taries Lamar and Vilas were sent. The be
lief is general among the Senators that no
action will be taken upon these nominations
until after the holiday recess. The total
number of nominations before the Senate is
429, not more than a dozen of which have
yet been reported back from the com
mittees.
In the House.
The few days in which the House will be
in session during the coming week will in all
probability be devoted to discussion of the
rules which are to govern the proceedings
of the House for the present Congress. The
Committee on Rules, which it is learned
on authority will be the only important
committee appointed before tho recess,
will be announced to-morrow, and
an early adjournment will be
had in order to enable that
committee to formally organize and
proceed to consideration of the proposed
changes of the rules which have already
been referred to it. The committee will
endeavor to submit its report Tuesday or
Wednesday, thus making it possible for the
House to consider, debate and adopt the re
port before the adjournment on Thursday.
A SHEET WITH SCALES ON IT.
The National Fisheries Association
Starts an Absurd Periodical.
Washington, Dec. 18.—Simultaneously
with the opening of a Washington bureau
by the National Fisheries Association ap
pears the first number of a periodical de
voted to the exposition of that association's
ideas. It is a well printed publication of
nineteen double column pages with striking
but simple illustrations. Its title “No Sur
render,” runs across the folds of an Ameri
can flag suspended over a picture of a har
bor filled with fishing smacks with a rail
road train standing on the shore. Its motto
underneath this scene is, ‘‘The destiny of
every nation is in its own keeping.”
Its first number is dated yes
terday, but was sent to the Senators
and 'Represmtatives in Congress to-day.
Its first and longest article is by Luther
Haddocks, Secretary of the National Fish
ery Association, and in charge of its Wash
ing bureau. He takes four pages to set
forth the association’s well known views.
It is illustrated with a cut of a fishing
smack, with “Don’t give up the ship” un
derneath. Then comes the resolutions
adopted at Gloucester Dec. 1). An extract
from tho Century describing the perils of a
fisherman’s life on the banks, with
appropriate illustrations, is sandwiched be
tween highly colored accounts of the
social festivities in Washington during the
negotiation of the treaty of 1854 and the
treaty of 1871 with England. These are
illustrated with ridiculous pictures. The
rest of the paper is filled with republished
interviews with Senator Frye and Repre
sentative Cogswell on the fisheries question,
an article on the Behring seal industry rep
resenting England trying to destroy the ex
tracts from the Canadian Pacific articles
which have been appearing this fall with
comments and an absurd cartoon, and
finally an article urging mail subsidies to a
South American steamship line.
A PLUNGE FROM A BRIDGE.
Eight Men on an Engine Lose Their
Lives in New Brunswick.
Bathurst, N. 8., Dec. 18.—A terrible
accident occurred yesterday afternoon near
Caraquette, a station on the northern di
vision of tho International railroad. When
a train, which left Caraquette at 2 o’clock
for Gloucester Junction, was near McKin
tohe’s Cave bridge, three miles west of Cara
quette, the train men noticed a heavy drift
of snow on the west side of the bridge. The
train consisted of one passener car, the en
gine and a slow plow. Eight section men
were aboard for the purpose of assisting in
clearing tho road of the snow which fell in
Friday’s storm. The passenger car was left
on the cast side of the bridge.
a plunge from the bridge.
Thirteen persons were on the engine, and
when on the bridge the plow and engine left
the track and fell over into the river. Only
five nien could be found. The rest, eight in
number, were pinned down tinder the en
gine, which was lying bottom up in the
river. The train was running slowly at the.
time, as thev had plenty of time when they
got over the"bridge to get a run at the drift.
' THE KILLED.
Following is a list of the killed: Conductor
Kearney, of Douglastown: Driver Lanegan,
of Bathurst; Felix Boucher, fireman, of
Bathurst; Joseph Viencan, section man, of
Bathurst; John i’oulin, section man, of
Caraquette: John Carney, of Bathurst;
Frank Miller, of Bathurst; Octava Hinit, of
Caraquette.
Section man D. Patterson, Cormier Ful
lam and E. Hackey escaped, as did also
brakeman Loudon, who jumped through a
cab window. They are all more or less in
jured, but not fatally.
Mr. Norwood and the Rules.
Washington, Dec. 18.— Representative
Norwood, of Georgia, will offer in the
House to-morrow a resolution proposing to
change the rules so that when consideration
is asked for a proposition it shall be had un
less one-tenth of the members present object
in a rising vote. This is designed to do
away with the power one man has now to
prevent consideration of measures out of
order. It will probably therefore not be
adopted.
Butterworth’s Illness.
Washington, Dec. 18. —Representative
Butterworth is worse. Last night ho was
delirious, Hml in spite of his brave words to
the committee of invitation when they call
ed on him Thursday, it seems very unlikely
that he will be able to attend the dinner of
the Boston Merchants’ Association Dec. 28,
to talk about commercial union. Erastus
Wi man will speak for it.
Punishing Prohibition States.
Chicago, Dec. 18.—The Keeloy Brewing
Company has instructed its brokers to buy
no barley shipped from or grown in Kansas
or lowa. The brewers do not admit that it
is to punish those States for their prohibi
tion principles, but some big brewers say
they don’t believe in buying barley to make
beer from States which prohibit the sale of
beer.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1887.
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATION.
The Phosphate Question—The Confed
erate Pension Bill.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 18.—The session of
the General Assembly of South Carolina is
drawing to a close, and everybody in the
State is glad. Somehow, of late years, tho
people of the State have cause to dread
theso annual sessions. The Tillinan agita
tion, of which the readers of the Mobnino
News have been advised, suggested fears of
revolutionary and reactionary legislation.
The Tillman movement, however, has died
a natural death, and conservative people
breathe easier.
The phosphate problem has been left un
solved. Both branches of the Legislature
refused to indorse the scheme proposed by
the special coinmi-sion to limit the produc
tion of phosphates. The meas
ure (the scope of which has
already been published in the Morning
News,) raised the cry of “monopoly” amt it
was signally and emphatically defeated.
What will be the result no man can fore
tell. The phosphate men both land and
river say that the business has gone to the
demnitioc bow wows, and that everybody
will go under. The State’s interest iu the
business amounts to about ♦200,000 per an
num, which is just so much saved to tho tax
payers. There is talk now of a pool between
the land and river companies—a plan that
was suggested some months ago, but was
abandoned in the hope of a remedy b/ leg
islation in the direction of the scheme that
has just been defeated.
In this connection it may be mentioned
that the supply and appropriation bills are
now under discussion. The appropriations
aggregate in round! numbers, $1,000,000 in
cluding the Confederate pensions. The levy
for State purposes recommended by the
Committee of W ays and Means is s}£ mills
on the dollar, an increase of 1% mills on
last year’s levy.
The Confederate pension bill will become
a law. It gives 85 a month to all disabled
Confederate soldiers, and to their widows
with a limit of $250 as to the income of the
applicant. The Soldier’s Home bill has been
defeated.
THE CHARLESTON COTTON MILL.
The Colored Folks May Have a Chance
to Spin and Weave.
Charleston, Dec. 18. —The failure of the
Charleston Cotton Mill promises to work a
revolution in the manufacture of cotton
goods. A good many years before the war
a cotton mill was started in Charleston. It
cost a good many hundred thousand dollars,
but it taught that generation that Charles
ton couldn’t run a cotton mill. The build
ing was converted into an alms house and
was used as such until the earthquake
destroyed it. In 1880 a cotton mill boom
struck Charleston; a company was formed
and several thousand people put up $500,000
to start a big mill, which was to
give employment to 500 or 600 poor
men, women and children (whites).
By a strange fatality the sits selected for
the new mill was within a stone’s throw of
the aims house nee the old cotton mill. A
gigantic building was put up and before
the machinery was all paid for the $500,000
capital had been exhausted. The usual re
sult followed The mill was bonded for
$250,000. The stock went down, and hun
dreds of poor people who had invested their
savings in it either sold out at’fifty cents on
the dollar or held on until now. when they
can’t get five cents on the dollar. The
directors say the failure is due to their in
ability to get labor. The poor whites of
Charleston don’t seem to take to mill
work. The mill is to be sold. It will
probably be purchased by the wealthy stock
holders who have been able to protect them
selves in a measure by taking bonds, and
who will doubtless get it for a mere song.
It is not improbable that they will try the
experiment of running it with negro labor,
and this opens up an interesting field of in
vestigation. Many cotton mills have been
builtln the South within the past decade;
the negro has never yet been called upon to
spin and weave; he has never yet had the
opportunity of trying his hand at that kind
of work. It is probable that the opportu
nity will be offered him in Charleston, and
the experiment will have an important
bearing on the future of the race in the
South.
LYNCHED AT QUITMAN.
The Sheriff Wounded for Defending
the Black Ravlsher.
Quitman, Ga., Dec. 18.—A negro named
John Porter, committed a criminal assault
on a respectable white lady living about
three miles east of town Friday night. He
was arrested by Sheriff McNeil yesterday,
and lodged in jail. Mr. McNeil appre
hended trouble last night, and he and his
deputy remained at his office in the jail.
About 9 o’clock a large crowd called
at the jail for the prisoner, and was refused
possession of him by the Sheriff Someone
then shot at the Sheriff through the window
in the office and wouuiled him painfully in
iiis arm and side, and the Deputy was then
forced to open the jail, and the prisoner
taken out by the crowd and carried
near the scene of his crime and hung to a tree
where he was found this morning. It is
said he was taken before the lady and
identified by her, and that he also confessed
the crime before be was hung.
Home of the Hebrew Orphans.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 18.—At a meeting of
Jewish citizens held at. the synagogue at 4
o’clock this afternoon S6OO was subscribed
to wards built ling the Jewish Orphan Asy I uni
in Atlanta. The meeting was addressed by
Hon. Adolph Brandt, of Atlanta, who
made an eloquent speech appealing to r e
Israelites for their ai l in erecting a house
for the Jewish orphans. The at end&uce
was rather small, but the list will bo cir
culated among the Jewish merchants to
morrow and it thought the amount will be
Bwelled to $1,500.
’ Negro Gamblers in a Row.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 18.—Andrew
Jones (colored) became involved in a dispute
this evening in Tom Baxter’s bar-room, on
Bridge street, Isa Villa, with JamesCashen,
a negro gambler, when the latter drew a
pistol and fired four shots at Jones. Ono of
the shots took effect, in the right arm, in
flicting a verv painful wound. Cashen es
caped, but was afterward capture! and
locked up. The trouble grew cut ol au old
feud between the two men.
A Bark Leaking.
Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 18.—Tne Ameri
can bark Ada Carter, Capt. East is, bound
from Mobile to Aspinwall with a cargo of
lumber, put into this jiort, to-day in distress.
She is leaking at the rate of twelve inches
per hour. The vessel will have to be dis
charged and the leak stopped before sho
can proceed. _
Death of a Moravian Blfbop.
South Bethlehem, Pa., Dec. 18.—
Bishop Edmund DeSchweiuitz, President of
the Executive Board of the Moravian
church of the American Province, died sud
denly of apoplexy to day in the 6-kl year of
his age. Bishop DeSrliwornitz by virtue
of his office, was also PresiUeht of the
Moravian Theological .Seminary and Mora
vian Female Seminary at this place.
HOLIDAY RECREATIONS.
SOME OF THEM FULL OF GOOD
AND OTHERS FULL OF EVIL.
Rev. Talmage Takes the Subject For
His Text—Some Men Master the
World While Others Are Mastered
By It—The Pleasure of Doing Good a
Recreation.
Brooklyn, Dec. 18. —At the Tabernacle
this morning the whole congregation sang
the hymn beginning:
“The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk the golden streets.”
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.,
preached on “ Recreations Good and Bad,”
taking two texts: I. Corinthians, vii.,Bl:
“ They that use this world, as not abusing
it:” and Judges, xvi., 35: “ And itcaine to
pass, when their hearts were merry, that
they said, Call for Samson, that he may
make us sport. And they called for Sam
son out of the prison house; and he made
them sport,” Dr. Talmage said:
We are entering the gayest seast >n of the year.
The winter opens In-fore us the gates of a thou
sand amusements, some ot them good and some
bad. One of my texts will show you that
amusements may lie destructive, my other text
will show you that amusements may be under
the Divine blessing and direction.
There were 8.000 people assembled in the tem
pie of Pagon. They had come to make sport of
eyeless Sampson. They were all ready for the
entertainment. They began to clap and pound,
impatient for the amusement to liegin, and they
cried, “Fetch him out! Fet eh him out!” Yonder
I see the blind old giant coming, led by the
hand of a child into the very midst of the tem
pie. At his first appearance there gops up a
shout of laughter and derision. The blind old
giant pretends he is tired, and wants to
rest himself against the pillars of the
house; so he says to the lad who leads him,
“Show me where the main pillars are." The
lad does so. Tbeu the strong man pul s his right
hand on one pillar and his left hand on another
pillar, and, with the mightiest push that mortal
ever made, throws himself forward until the
whole house conies down in thunderous crash,
grinding the audience like grapes In a wine
press. “And so it came to pa s, when their
hearts were merry, that theysald, Call for Sam
son, that he may make us sport. Aud they
called for Samson out of the prison-house; and
he made them sport.”
In other words: There are amusements that
are destructive, and bring down disaster and
death upon the heads of those who practice
them. Whiie they laugh aud cheer, they die.
The three thousandswho perished that day iu
Gaza are us nothing compared with the tons of
thousands who have been destroyed by sinful
amusements.
But the other text I have read implies that
there is a lawful use of the world as well as an
unlawful abuse of it, and the difference between
the man Christian and the man un-C'hrist iau is,
that in the former case the man masters the
world, w-hile in the latter case the world masters
him. For whom did Ood make this grand and
beautiful world ? For whom this wonderful ex
penditure of color, this gracefulness of line, this
mosaic of the ground, this fresco of the sky,
this glowing fruitage of orchard and vineyard,
this full orchestra of the tempest, in wbicu the
tree blanches flute, and the winds trumpet, and
the thunders drum, and all the splendors of
earth and sky come clashing their cymbals :•
For whom did God spring the arched bridge of
colors resting upon buttresses of broken storm
cloud ? For whom did he gather the upholstery
of fire around the window of the setting sun?
For all men; but more especially for His own
dear children
If you build a large mansion,and spread agreat
feast after it to celebrate the completion of the
structure, do you allow strangers to come in and
occupy the place while you thrust your own
children in the kitchen or the barn or the fields?
Oh, no. You say, “I am very glad to see
strangers in my mansion, but my own sons and
daughters shall have the first right there. ”
Now God has built this grand mansion of a
world, and lie has spread a glorious feast in it;
and while those who are strangers to his grace
may come in, 1 think that God especially in
tends to give the advantage to his own chil
dren. those who are the sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty, those who through grace
can look up and say, “Abba, Father.” You
cannot make me believe that God gives mere
advantages to the world than he gives to the
church bought by his own blood. If. therefore,
people of Hie world have looked with dolorous
sympathy upon those who make profession of
religion, and nave said, "Those new converts
are going down into privation and into
hardship Why did not they tarry a little
longer in the world, and have some of its enjoy
ments and amusementsaud recreations?" I tay
to such men of the world: "You ure greatly
mistaken,” and before I get through I will show
that those people who stay out of tho kingdom
of God have the hardships and self-denials,
while those who come in have the joys and the
satisfactions. V
This morning, in the name of the King of
heaven and earth, I serve a writ of ejec tmeut
upon all the sinful and polluted who have
squatted on the domain of earthly pleasure as
though it lielonged to them, while I claim, in
behalf of the good and the pure and the true,
the eternal inheritance which God has given
them.
Hitherto, Christian philanthropists, clerical
and lay, have busied themselves chiefly in de
nouncing sinful recreations; but I feel we have
no right to .stand before men and women in
whose hearts there is a desire for recreation
amounting to positive necessity, denouncing
this anti that and the other thing, when we do
not propose to give them something better.
God helping me tlds morning, ami with refer
ence to my last account, 1 shall enter upon a
sphere not usual in sermonizing, but a subject
which 1 think ought to be presented at. this
time. 1 pro|>ose now to lay before you some of
the recreations which are not oDly innocent, but
positively helpful and advantageous.
In the first place, I commend, among indoor
recreations, music, vocal aud instrumental.
Among the first tilings created was the bir l, so
that the earth might have music nt the start.
This world, w hich began with so sweet a sere
nade, is finally to be demolished amidst the
ringing blast of the archangel s trumpet, so
that as there was music at the start, there shall
be music at the close. While this heavenly art
has often been dragged Into the uses of super
stition arid dissipation, we all know it may be
the means of high moral culture. Oh. it'is a
- grand thing to have our children brought up
amidst the sound of cultured voices and amidst
the melody of musical instruments. There is
in th.s art an indescribable fasi'inallon for the
bouscnold. Ic■ t all those families who have the
means to afford it, have flute or harp, or piano
or organ. A soon as the band is large enough
to compass the keys, teach it how to pick out
the melody. I-el all our young men try
tills heavenly art upon their nature. Those
who have gone Into it fully, have found in it
illimitable recreation and amusement. Dark
days, stormy nights, seasons of sickness, bttsi
riess disasters, will do little tow ard depressing
the soul which can gallop off over musical
keys t n soar in jubilant lay. It will cure pain.
It will rest fatigue. It will quell passion.
It will revive health. It will reclaim
dlss pation It will strengthen the im
mortal soul. In the battle of Waterloo, Welling
ton saw i hat the Highlanders were falling hack.
He said. “What Is the matter there?" He was
told that the hand of music had ceased playing,
and he called nit the pipers and ordered I hem to
strike up an Inspiriting air, and no sooner did
they strike the Oir than the Highlanders were
rallied, and heljx-d to win the day. Oh, yo who
• have been routed id the conflicts of life, try by
the force of mueic to rally your scattered battal
ions.
1 am glad to know that iu our great cities
there is hardly a night in which there are not
concerts, where with the best musical instru
ments and the sweetest voices, people may find
entertair.me it. Patronise such entertainments
when they are afforded you. Buy season tickets,
if vou can, for the ••Philharmonic" and the
"llundel and Haydn" societies. Feel that the,
dollar and a half or two dollars that you spend
for the purpose of hearing an artist play or
slug is a profitable Invest meat. Let your
Hteinway hah* and your academies of music
roar with the acclamation of appreciative
audiences assembled at the concert or the
oratorio.
Still further: 1 commend, a* worthy of their
support, the gymnasium This institution Is
gaining in fav:r every year, end I know of
nothing more free from dissipation,
or more calculated to recuperate
the physical and mental energies.
While there ere a good many people who have
employed this institution, there is s vast num
ber who are ignorant of its excellences. There
are men with cramped chests, and weak sides,
and despondent spirits, who through the gym
nasium might Ihi reu-ed up to exuberance and
exhilaration of life. There are many Christian
people despondent from year to year, who
niigr.t. through such an Institution, lie benefited
in their spiritual relations; There are Christ iau
people who seem to think that it Is a good sign
to lie poorlv; and because Kichnnl Baxter and
Robert Hall were invalids, they think by the
same sickliness they may conic to the same
grandeur of character. 1 want to tell th
Christ inn people of my congregation that God
will hold .t on responsible for your invalidism if
it is your fault, and wheu through right exercise
and prudence you might be athletic and well.
The effect of the Indy upon the soul you
acknowledge. Put a min of mild disposition
upon the animal diet of which the Indian par
takes, and In a little while his blood will change
its chemical proportion It will become like
unto the blood of the lion, or the tiger, or the
bear, while his disposition will change and
become fierce, cruel and unrelenting. The body
has a powerful rfTs:t upon the soul.
There are good people whose ideas of heaven
are nil shut out with clouds of tobacco-smoke.
There are people who dare to shatter the phi s
ioal vase In which God has put the jewel of eter
nity. There are men with great hearts nn I in
teileets in bodies worn out by their own neglects
—magnificent machinery capable of propelling
a Great Eastern across the Atlantic, yet fast
ened in a rickety North river propeller. Martin
Luther w as so mighty for God, first, because i e
had a noble soul, ami secondly, lieeause he ha l
a muscular development which would have ena
bled him to thrash auy five of his persecutors,
if it had beertUhris iau so to do. Physical de
velopment which merely shows itself in fabu
lous lifting, or in perilous rope-walking, or in
pugilistic encounter, excites only our contempt;
but we confess to great admiration for the
man who has a great soul in an
athletic body, every nerve, muscle and
bone of which is consecrated to right
uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that
men. through neglect, should allow their phys
ical health to go down beyond repair. A ship
which ought, with all sail set aud every man at
his poßt, to be carrying a rich cargo for eter
nity, employing all its men in stopping up leak
ages! When you may, through the gymna
sium, work off your spleen and your querulous
ness anil one-naif of your physical and mental
ailments, do not turn your buck upon such a
gram! medicament.
Still lurther: I commend to you a large class
of parlor games and recreations. There is a
way of making our homes a hundred fold more
attractive than they are uow. Those parents
cannot expect to keep their children away from
outside dissipations unless they make the do
mestic circle brighter than anything they can
find outside of It. Do not, then, sit in vour
home Burly and unsympathetic, and witli a half
condemnatory look, because of the sportful
uess of your children. You wore young
once yourself; let your children be
young. Because your eyes are dim and your
ankics are stiff, do not denounce spurt fulness iu
those upon whose eyes there is the first lustre,
and In whose foot there is the bounding joy of
robust health. I thank God that iu our draw
ingrooms aud In our parlors there are innumer
able games anti sports which have not upon
them the least taint of iniquity. Light up all
your homes with innocent hilarities. Do not
sit down with the rheumatism, wondering how
children can go on so. Rather thank Got’that
their hearts are so light, and their laughter is so
free, and that their cheeks are so ruddy, and
that their expectations are so radiant? The
night w ill come soon enough, and the heart
break, anil the pang, and the desolation
it will come soon enough for the dear
children. But when tho Btorm actually
clouds the sky, it will be time enough
for you to haul out vour reef tackles.
Carry, then, into your homos not only the in
nocent sports and games which are the inven
tions of our own day, but the games which
conte down with the sport.fulneas of nil the past
ages—chess anil charades and tableaux and bat
tledore and calisthenics and lawn tennis, and all
those amusements which the young people of
our homes know so well how to contrive. Then
there will be tho parlor socialities - groups of
peoples assembled in your homes, with wit and
mimicry and joviality, filling the room with joy
from the door to the mantel, and from the car
pet to the ceiling. Oh, is there any exhilira
tion like u score of genial souls in one room,
each one adding a contribution of his own indi
vidual merriment to the aggregation of general
hilarity?
Suppose yon want to go abroad in the city,
then you will find the panorama and the art
gallerv "and exquisite collections of pictures.
You will find the Metropolitan museum and the
Historical Society rooms full of rare curiosi
ties, and scores of places which can stand
plainly the test of what is right and wrong in
amusements. You will find Ihe lecturing hull,
which has been honored by the names of Agas
siz in natural history, Doremus in chemistry,
Boynton in geology, Mitchell in astronomy,
John B. Gough in moral reform, and scores and
hundreds of men who have poured their wit and
genius and ingenuity through that particular
channel upon the hearts aud consciences mi l
imaginations of men. setting this country fifty
years further in advance than It would have
been without the lecture platform.
1 rejoice in the popularization of outdoor
sports. I hail the croquet ground, and the fish
erman’s rod and the sportsman's gun. In our
cities life is so unhealthy and unnatural that
when the census-taker represents a city as
having 400,000 Inhabitants, there are only 200,000,
since it takes at least two men to amount to one
man, so depleting and unnerving and exhaust
ing is this metropolitan life We want more
fresh air, more sunlight, more of the abandon
of field sports. 1 cry out for it in behalf of the
church or God as well as in behalf of secular in
terests. I wish that this winter our ponds
and our rivers and our capitoline
grounds might be all aquake with
the heel and the shout of the swift
skater. I wish that when the warm weather
comes, the graceful oar might dip tb* stream,
and the evening-tide be resonant with boatman’*
song, the bright prow splitting tho crystal line
billow. We shall have the smooth and grassy
lawn, and we will call out people of all occupa
tions and professions, and ask them to join in
the ball-player’s sport. You will come hack
from these outdoor exercises ami recreations
w ith strength in your arm, color in your cheek,
and a flash in vour eye, and courage in your
heart. In this great battle that is opening
against the kingdom of darkness we want not
only a consecrated soul, but a strong arm and
stout lungs and a mighty muscle. 1 bless Owl
that there are so many recreations that have
not ou them any taint of iniquity; recreations In
which we may engage for the strengthening of
tne body.'for tho clearing of the intellect, for
the illumination of the soul.
There is still another form of re- reation which
I commend to you, and that Is tin pleasure of
uolnggood. I have seen young me. l , weak and
cross and sour and repelling In t heir disposition,
who by one heavenly touch have wakened up
and become blessed and buoyant, the ground
under tlieir feel and the sky over their heads
breaking forth into music. “ Oh," says some
young man in the house to day, "i should like
I hat recreation above all others, hut I have not
the means." My dear brother, let us take an
account of stock this morning. You bate a
large estate, if you only realize it. Two hands.
Two feet. You will have, perhaps, during tho
next year at h ast ten dollars for charitable ron
trlbutlon. You will have twenty-five hundred
cheerful looks, if you want to employ them.
You will have five thousand pleasant words, if
you want to si enk them Now what an amount
(bat is to start with!
You go out to-morrow morning and you see n
case or real destitution by the wayside. Yon
give him two cents, The blind tnan hoars the
pennies rattle in his hat. and he sny, "Thank
you, sit ; God bless yon." You UMS down the
street, trying to look indifferent; but you feel
from the veiy depth of your scad a profound
satisfaction that you made that man happy.
You go on still further, and find a poor lioy w-r h
a wheellsiiTow. trying to get it up ou the curb
slone, H- i'ujls In the attempt. You say,
“Stand back, my lad: let me try. You push it
up on the curbstone for him. and pass on. He
wonders who that well-dressed man was that
helped hint. You did a kindness to the boy, but
you did a great joy to your own soul. You will
not get over it all the week.
On the streets* to-morrow morning, you will
see a sick man passing along. “An,” you say.
“what cau Ido to make Ibis man happy? He
certainly does not want money; lie is not poor,
but be is sick." Give him .me of those twenty five
hundred cheerful looks that you have garnered
up for the whole year. Ixxik Joy and hopeful
ness Into his soul. It wjli thrill him through,
and there will tie a reaction upon vour own soul.
Going a little farther <m, you will conte to the
store of a friend who is embarrassed iu business
matters. You will go in and say, "What a fine
store yon have: 1 think buoineaa will brighten
up. and vou will have more custom after a
wniie. I think there iseotnlng a great prosperity
to oil the country. Good morning." You pass out.
You have balped that young man, and you have
helped yourself. And that night vou go home;
ton sit by (he fire, you talk a little, you sine a
little, you laugh a liotle; you say, "I t>“*lly don't
know what is the matter with me. 1 never felt
so s len liiiiy in my life.” I will tell what is the
matter with you You spent only two cents
out of the ten dollars; you have contributed ono
out of twenty -five hundred cheerful looks; you
have (riven ten, fifteen or twenty of the five
thousand pleasant words you are going to
speak during the year; you have with your
own bands helped the boy with the wheel!wr
row. and you teel in body, mind and soul the
thrill of that recreation. Which do you think
was the happier Col. Gardiner, who sa 1 „ith
his elbow on a table spread with all extravaganf
viands, looking off at a dog on the rug. saying.
"How 1 would like to eharige places with him; 1
be the dog and he ho 001. Gardiner;" or those
two Moravian missionaries who wanted to go
into the la/aretto for t lie sake of attending the
siek. and they were told, "If you go in there,
you will never come out. We never allow any
one to eome out, for he would briug the com.i
giou." Then t hey made their wills and went in,
first to help the siek, and I hen to die. Which
was the happier-Colonel Gardiner, or the Mo
ravian missionaries dying for others* Was it
all sacrifice when the missionaries wanted to
bring the Gospel to the negroes at tbe llnrlwt
does, and. being denied the privilege, sold them
selves into slavery, utnmliug side by side, and
lying side by side down in the very ditch of stif
faring, in order that they might bring those
men up lo life and God and heaven? On. there
is a thrill in the joy of doing good! It is the
most magnificent recreation to which a man
ever puts bis hand or Iris head or his heart.
But. liefore closing, I want to impress upon
you that mere secular entertainments are not a
fit foundation for your soul to build on.
I was reading of a woman who had gone all
the rounds of sinful amusement, and she came
to die. She said, “I will die to-night at tl
o'clock." "Oh," they said, "1 guess not, you
don't seem to l>e siek." *‘l shall die at 8 o'clock,
and my soul will be lost. I know it will lie lost
I have sinned away my day of grace." The
noon came. They desired to seek religious
counsel.
“Oh," Rhe said, "it is of no use. My day is
gone. I have been all the rounds of worldly
pleasure, and It Is too late. I shall die to-night
at 6 o'clock." The day wore away, and it came
to 4 o'clock, and to 5 o'clock, and she cried out
at 5 o.clock, "Destroyed spirits, ye shall not
have me vet; itis not 6! it Is not 8!” The mo
ments went by and the shadows began to
gather, and the clock struck 8; and while It was
striking her soul went. What hour God will
call for us I do not know—whether 8 o’clock to
ulght or 3 o’clock this afternoon, or at 1 o'clock,
or at this moment. Sitting where you are, fall
ing forward, or standing where you are, drap
ing down. where would you go to?
But our hour for adjourning has already
come, and the last hour of our life will soon bo
here, and from that hour we will review this
day s proceedings. It will lie a solemn hour
If front our death-pillow we have to look back
and see a life spent in sinful amusement, there
will be a dart that will strike through our soul
sharper than tbe dagger with which Virginius
slew his child The memory of Ibe post w ill
make us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities
and rioting through which we have passed will
come upon us. weird and skeleton as Meg Mer
rilies. Death, the old Shylock, will demand,
and take, the remaining pound of flesh and the
remaining drop of blood: and upon our last op
portunlty for repentauce, and our laat chance
for heaven, the curtain will forever drop.
NOVELTIES FOR CHRISTMAS.
The Boomirsr Holiday Trade In New
York.
New York. Dee. 17.—Tbe great shops
and bazars of New York are now busy night
and day with the holiday trade. There is a
I>erfect boom in lanterns for Christmas
presents. Those that I admired most were
of bronze and held inside a fairy lamp. The
effect of a lantern is enhanced if it bang
from an iron or bronze “lantern arm,” ns
they are called, which are securely fastened
to the wall. Another very pretty and novel
article for a present is a tall wrought iron
stand upon which rests a copper oil lamp.
Over the lamp, suspended by an iron chain
or arm, hangs a copper tea kettle. These
are used by ladies who tliemtelves serve the
tea to their guests on their “afternoons” at
home. There is a craze for iron in every
form for decoration; the tall iron lamps are
now considered in better taste than the brass
• mes. Very handsome wrought iron wood
boxes come that remind one of the fatuous
iron chest of “Sir Edward Mortimer.” It
is these things that help to make up the
individuality of a home. I cannot help con
trasting the stiff-looking parlors of my girl
hood with the pleasant drawing rooms of
to-day. The former were usua.ly furnished
with red or gold, sometimes both, brocatelle,
every piece of furniture covered exactly
alike, and all set squarely against the wall,
with a huge carved table in the centre or
the room. The window draperies were
looped up stiffly with cords and l assets, and
the part of the drapery that touched the
floor was laid out upon the carpet in stiff
folds. No one dare go to tl.e window for
fear of disarraugi :g some of these wonder
ful folds. A similar lambrequin orna
mented the mantelpiece, and heavy gilt
cornices ran over the top of pier glass an i
curtains. Parlors were seldom used, and I.
for one child, was glad they were not used
any oftener, they were alwuysso depressing.
How different is the studied disorder of to
day! We hare gone back to the colouial
days, and all that was good then we have
allied with modern invention. Tbe hearth
blazes with bright andirons and a cheerful
fire. Tbe rugs look warm and luxurious,
tbe chairs and tables are at right augles,
sofas are drawn up in front of the Are, and
to take a cup of tea at a three-cornered
table in such a room, with good company,
is positively fascinating.
Thermometers are all the rage, and range
all the way from 25c. to several hundred
dollars. That seems a largo price to pay for
a thermometer, doesn't it? The man in the
store showed me one the cost of which was
#4OO. He had sold one just like it for a wed
ding present. It. was tno entire tusk of an
elephant—a largo one, too. It was beauti
fully carved and polished. A slice of the
ivory was cut off to make a flat foundation
on which to place the mercurial tube. The
figures to indicate the degree of heat were
of silver, set down into the ivory. The tusk
was further ornamented by a silver ring by
which it was to be hung up. Gold bronze
thermometers in the form of a sword, and
ns large as a regular sword, are a novelty.
The hilts aro of the finest cloisonne enamel.
All the new designs aro very large. A gilt
truncheon with a vine in cloisonne is a very
beautiful and expensive design. Another,
like the pendulum of a clock, as lore; as an
ordinary walking stick, is of silver: the bell
at the end of the |iendulum is a liny lan
tern of silver with colored glass sides. In
this is placed a tiny candle at night, ami the
effect is very pretty.
Evelyn Baker Harvier.
He Hasn't Found the Ghost Yot.
Prom the New York Sun.
Hermann, the magician, says he has been
around the world threo times looking for a
ghost. He doesn't believe in any super
natural rnanifestatious of any kirni. He
says the best sleight of-hand tricks or mind
reading exhibitions are accomplished by the
aid of accomplices. It is surprising to see
how it pleases most people to bt asked confi
dentially to co-operate with a performer of
note. The iate Alfonso of .Spain and Louis
Napoleon both assisted Hermann on more
than one occasion to dupe an uudience, and
they always kept the secret. The King of
Spain was'his accomplice in this: Alfonso
wrote on apiece of paper and sealed it in an
envelope; Hermann tore thajenvelope in two,
burned one-half publicly and sent the otter
to the other end of the salon in a hat. A
sealed double slate was then given him, in
which he reproduced tbe writing on the
paper, which, when removed from the hat.
was found to be intact. Hermann has just
left for St. Louis, where he own* property.
Dak Lamont Uan ardent turfman, and now
and then stakes a bit of his salary on the result
of a race in which one of hi* favorite* partici
pate*.
I r'UICFgtIO \ YEAR )
\ AGENT* A COPY f
A PICNIC OF A FUNERAL.
THE BURIAL OF THE ANARCHISTS
FAR FROM IMPRESSIVE.
No Sorrow Manifested by Those In the
Funeral Train—Mrs. Parsons Fainted
at the Grave -- A Motley and Far
From Moral Lot of Mourners.
Chicago, Dec. 18. —The bodiesof the four
Anarchists who were hanged Nov. 11, as
well ns that of Lingg, were placed in their
final resting placo in Waldheim Cemetery
to-day. There was no disorder. Mrs. Par
sons fainted at the grave. The special
funeral train contained not over 800 people.
There wr.s no sorrow displayed by the occu
pants, in fact the demeanor of the people
was that of a picnic party. Smoking was
indulged in by nearly all of the men, aud
the women displayed only curiosity.
the mourners.
When the train arrived at Waldheim sta
tion a stampede wa< made for the cemetery.
The undertakers removed the lids from tie
coffins at the same time that the chief
mourners took their places. Among the
latter were Chris and Ferdinand Spies w ith
their sister Gretchenand their aged mother,
Nina Yau Zanflt with her lather, Elsa
Preidel, Lingg’* girl, Mrs. Fischer with her
(laughters, Mrs. Engel, aud close to her was
Mrs. Schwab, whoso husband is in the peni
tentiary. All of the women were dressed
iu heavy mourning.
life-like features.
The features'of *ll the dead were life like—’
not a trace of decomposition was to lie
seen. Before the addresses began a memo
rial hymn was sung bv a Milwaukee
nmenttercbor. Then Capt. Black spoke.
After Capt. Black, came i’atil Grottkan, of
Milwaukee, who was followed by Albert
Gurrlin, of St. Louis The speakers were
frequently applauded.
Mrs. Fischer laid a cabinet photograph of
her 2-year o;d daughter on the glass of her
husband’s coffin, and simultaneously a matt
placed in Engel's coflln several copies of the
Arbeite.r Zething.
a wreath for lingg.
.Just as the word was given to the under
takers to remove the caskets, a representa
tive of the Cleveland Brewers’ Union stepped
to the front and laid a wreath on the casket
of Lingg. The bodies were then lowered
into tbe grave and placed in position. The
bottom of the grave is of granite blocks, aa
are the sides, aud the top is of two blocks of
granite a foot thick, thus forming a com
plete stone encased receiptacle,
A GREAT FUNERAL IN JAPAN.
A Buddhist High Priest Cremated and
Inurned.
Prom the St. Louie Globe-Democrat.
Yokohama, Oct., 23. — A mouth ago the
high priest of the temple across tbe creek
from the foroigu settlement of Yokohama
died and his body was cremated. Hisasl.es
were placed in au urn and then in a pine
box in tbe shape of a miniature temple, and
the priests from all tbe diocese were sum
moned to take part in the funeral servioes.
The long interval between the death and
final rites robbed the affair of any exhibi
tions of poignant grief, and everything
was given up to the exact forms and elabo
rate ceremonies of the Buddhist funeral
ritual. The son of the high priest succeed
ed to his father's office by nneritance, and
lie prepared himself for the services by day#
of tasting and prayer, and at the ceremo
nies knelt below the officiating prieet and
wore the plain white robes of a mourner.
He had no part in the service, and was like
a statue until he rose an/ taking the mor
tuary tablet from the altar, walked behind
the casket from the temple to the grave
yard.
The priests came from near and from far,
some arriving by train on tuo (lay and at
the hour of the funeral, and, hurrying to
the temple with servants carrying bags full
of ceremonial robes at their heels, slipped
their brocades on in tbe ante-room and
joined the Holemn company sitting in rows
like so many images. The huudred and odd
priests sat at cither side of the altar with
tlm casket liefore it, and for general effect
nothing was ever more dazziing than that
row ot sim .otb-faced, shaven-headed priests
iu superb brocade garments that glowed
with all the richest colors and glistened with
gold thread. The services consisted of
chant iug by all the priests in chorus, and
in responses to the intoned readings ct the
high priest. The big temple drum was
struck at stag* of the chanting, and tbe
priests played on ail instrument that resem
bled the bundle of reeds or pipe* that the
god Tan played in Greek mythology. The
r.oise was a harsh, shrill wail, combining the
worst of bagpipe und (lute melody. They
chanted from open Ixxiks, and, standing,
held plates of pierced brass work, from which
they sifted the leaves of the iebo tree at
regular intervals, these leaves l/eing prayer
symbols in the Buddhist service. While
the chanting and pq>e playiug was going
on, the friends of tue deceased came for ward
one by one, and. kneeling at tlio edge of the
mats, prostrated themselves in prayer and
sprinkled incense in the large bronze burn
er. later tho incense buruei and the box in
cense was pass'd before the prieste, each one
muttering a prayer and dropping a pinch of
fragrant powder on the ooois.
As the procesßion of priests wound out
through the crowded court yard, passed un
der the heavy gabled gateway and down
tnc loug terrace steps to the st reet, it wa* a
brilliant and dazzling spectacle. Their rich
brocaded robes shoue with gold thread, and
many of them were 50, 00 aud more years
old, heirlooms handed down from one priest
to another, and now priceless and impossi
ble to duplicate. The rich, soft old color*,
toned by age. are as different from the
garish colors of the modern dye pots as pos
sible, and except in temple services and at
the great theatres one seldom tees these old
brocades now. An attendant carried a
large red umbrella over the head of each
priest, anti as the line of rainbow color and
f [listening bullion threads came down tha
oug terrace steps, it was a flue picture. As
the procession went out tne long street
crowded solidly with Japanese, everything
was swallowed up and hidden but the red um
brellas, and these ilamigo signals alone
marked the line of the funeral train. At the
graveyard there was more chanting, in- ,
cense iood and flowers were laid at the
tomb, aqd the ashes of the high prieet were
finally at rest.
Convicted ot Murder.
Cleveland, 0., Dec. 18.—James Robin
son, the third and last of the murderers of
| Detective Huiligau, of this city, was to-day
found guilty at Ravenna, 0., of murder iu
I the first degree.
A Bridge Repaired.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 17.—The dam
age to the bridge of the Louisville and
Nashville road over the Alabama river has
1 lieen luliy repaired, and trains are crossing
as usual.
I VzjtY considekxti iNDEXo—She—I hope. Mr.
Flunk, we will have the pleasure of your com
pany at our reception? He (with seif abnega
i t,ion>— Aw—weally—my life is devoted to the
geutle sex. of course I'll he there -I—aw—never
I consult my own happiness on such occasions.-*
I Judge.