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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.