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®!i.e itfamitor.
D. C. SUTI ON, Editor and Frop’r.
M. TALMADGES SERMON
SHALL WE HAVE ANARCHY AND
REBELION IN AMERICA?
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Text: "Tha earth was witlio.it form nnd
xrid, hikl darkness was lpm th> face of tlie
deep, and the spirit of God movid upon the
face of the Waters.”—Genesis i.
Out in space there hung a great chunk of
roolt,and jpjid sand and shell, thousands
of hiiles in diameter; more thousands of miles
in circumference, h great mass of ugliness,
confusion, distortion, uselessness, ghastliness
sc i herror. It seemed like sime great "om
nmns on which mash d up worlds had been
uigrpfff. Foetiy and ,prosc % sc out st and
Clnistvm. all agree iti calling it chaos. .That
was tl ( ugly, unshapely egg out of which
our 1 tautilul world was hatched. God
heut r fer thatangor and turmoil of elements
sud h4said: “Atlantic Ocean, vou go away
and m down there. Pacific Ocean, you go
and sleep there. Mount Washington, you
stand sentinel here. Mont Plane, you put
ou yorr coronet of crystal there. Mississippi,
yen mart h there, aud Missouri, you marry it
There." God look up. in 11 is almighty items
thl rbcit ah 1 the mild and thd saud pud the
shell &'iil He l&t'e lit, find Ho rolled it, ivid
He indented it and . lie divided it. and He
cßmpresse.l it into shape, hud 1 he a He dropped
it in four different places, aud the one de
posit was Europe, aud another deposit was
Asia, and another deposit was Afii a, and
the fourth deposit was Ameri a, North
and Sou h. In other words, “the spirit of
God moved upon tho face of the waters.”
Well; now that Original chUgs was a typo of
(lie anarchy into which <0 ielte is OverJiud
align temp,ted to plunge. Gcd'saiu: “Let
there he light of order, light of law, light of
sympathy, light of justice, light of love.” An
anarchical voice said: “No, no; let there be
darkness, let the: e be cutthroatery, let there,
be eternal imbroglio, let there bo chaos.”
That social confusion, that moral chaos is the
condition into which a great many supposed
our laud was to ho plunged be at;se of tho
ovm hanging contest between Capi al and
Labor. During the past throe mouths, aye
during tho last live years, tho in
telligent people of this country have been
asking: “Are we goin" to have ana:* hy an l
bloouy revolution in Ameli a?” Thousands
of voices have answered in Iha nflirmative.
I answer this morning in the negative. There
may be, as there have been, outbursts of pop
ular frenzy, but there w ill be no anarchy, lor
the Church of Christ, tho grandest and
mightiest institution on earth, will come out
in the name of the Eternal God, and putting
jue hand on the shoulder of Capital and
he olher hand oh the shoulder of Labor,
will say: “1 come out in the name of the
God who turned chaos into order to settle
this dispulO by the principle of jus
tice aud kindness. Now, I com
mand that you take your hands off of
each other's throats.” The Church of God is
tho only Impartial institution on this subject,
for it has within its borders capitalists and
laborers,aud it was founded hy the Christ who
was a carpenter, and therefore has a right to
speak for all laborers; anl who owns this
w orld and the solar system and the universe
and has, therefore, a l ight to speak for capi
talists. As an individual I have a right to
be h ard on the labor question. My father
was a farmer and mv grandfather was a
farmer ami they toilej for a living. I have
not a dollar in tho world that I did
not earn by the sweat of my
brow and I owe do man anything.
If I have forgotten any obligation, and you
will meet me at the foot of the pulpit when I
come down,l will settle it on the spot. I pur
pose to say all I have thought or felt on this
subject, and without any reservation, and I
only ask of you that you pray God that I
may be divinely directed in this impartial
series of Sabbath morning discourses; and I
also ask that you receive what I have to say
in silence, and without either approval or
disapprobation in sound. When I say thero
will bo no anarchy in this country I
do not want you to think that I under
estimate the awful peril cf this hour. The
tendency has been toward chaos anl toward
anarchy. Excited throngs causing disturb
ances in nearly all our great cities; rail
trains hurled over the rocks; workmen
beaten to death in the presence of their wives
Sind (hi Mm faithful policemen exhausted
l>y vigifaucie by day and vigilan eby night;
in some cities the military called cut; thou
sands of po >ple ask ing: “What next:”
A groat earthquaiie with one hand lias
taken hold of this continent at tho Pa
cific beach, and with the other band lias
taken ho d of the continent at tho At
lantic beich, and ha; shaken it, and
all agricultural an l manufacturing and com
mercial aud *lito’ ary aud artistic and moral
and religious interests hive been might ly
shnkin. I look ai ro. s the water cn l I find
j art cf Iced in u cue gr.at, mob. Kuss a and
Germany an l Austria keeping the people
cuict by stand ug armies that are eating tho
life of those lint/ons. Ireland at pca o
to dav< nl v beea i < i auticipa'e II -me liule
an ith - triumph of 1 dr. Ist -iicism The quar
rel Ictne n t a: ival and f al or if hemispbo ic,
nve, if is world-wiri;*. anl overy nan must
admit that tho t nden-y has bee i to
wn d Anarch-. Now, my friends,
on ■ way in w lie h we a e to avoid anarchy is
toft the people 1-now win* anarchy is.
Dhow us the ho'e that we ma rs‘ e• < leer of
it. Aua-chy is the nb< Ith n o all rip IT sos
pro! o-tv. It is every mans band a anst
e*er , oilier mm. It is making vour ho io,
your : t re. vour h most e late, your home,
your fain ly iu re -ard mine y >u’s It s
arion, rapin •, nn rder, lust mil dca'h tri
iinihiut. It shelli t l icsi on cnrih. anl
mi irt • ■ a combination of devils in a mite.
H is th • overthrew of every ih’ng go al, an 1
it is tl;o m-omtion « f everything infamous.
It, m an-, no Jaw, no right!, no de
fence. no family, no chu r ch, no peace, n •
happiness a d no God. That is anarchy.
Now. who wants it i:i this country* let ns
look at (he old dragon. let rue tike ore
squarennd sc r.ilini, ing look at him bes rs we
allow rim to | lit his fort in this continent.
The p o le want t > know what anarchy is,
and then they will rise up. all the good ieo
ple of the I ti tea Slates, and in c injunction
with Hie off;- or. of the ic w, city officers,m
officer-, national o li- c. s, we -hall rom
manl pei-e. nM | ba e p a e uaivc s -l. and
p.ae ail tt e time. VVnbn si mo iths
there will in dm country he n* 1 e tar
state cf feeling between Capital i; d Lab r
(ban there ever has lie,.n, be-au-e t,. _. ..».■■*
learned a* per. r before, they have ha t it
demonstrated ibat they are ab-o!utcly de
pendent ou ca li ether. Meanwhile I give
thtce words of advice to the laboring < li-ses
of America so far as my words may reac h
them. My first word cf brotherly counsel
to laborers is to those who have work now.
S irk to it. Do not under the turmoil
of the present excirement give up
your emj loyment with the idea that
something letter will turn up. Because
you do not like the line of steamers cn which
you ; a ; l, do not jump overboard in the mid
dle of the Atlantic Ocean. Those railroad
jnen, those mechanics, tho e carpenters,
those mas ns. tho*e clerks in store*, those
employes in al! styles of business who give
up their work, probably giro it up for star
vation. 1 would -ay t, tVis class of laborers
who have work, not only stick to it in these
times of excitement, but make this c hange:
Go a little earlier to your place of
work and do yonr work better than
you ever have done it before,
with more Intensity nnd moro earnestness.
Let- fldditj“uul Assiduity ciiurn t.'iice you.
That l- m first. ~or'* r>f ad-ifo to tdu'sc who
have w,nk. My second word If rffvlc* Is to
those who hav e' had work but have resigned
it. The best thing for you, and the best tiling
for everybody is to go back immediately. Do
not wait to see w hat others will do. You
get on board the train of rational prosperity
bcfore.lt starts, for start it will, and start
£oon, and still t mightily. .tYe Have a report
of ill < .strikes of last year,' which
says there ryero , fgrty-five general
strikes in the State, ot. New Yoqk; 177.5h0p
strikes; successful strikes, ■ ninety-seven j
strikes last, thirty-four; strikes ponding h„
the time the statistics were made, fifty-nine;
strikes compromised, thirty-two. So that
we have enough facts before us to philoso
phize a little and to make up a good opinion.
No-.r, do foil walit. if). 1-now. who of all the
laborers will make ilio most orit of tlieso
strikes? I,can toll you, and Iwi 1 toll you.
The laborers who will make tho most out of
these strikes will lie the laborers who go to
work.first. Mv third word of brotherly
coil urn] for ' tho laboring men of
this eountfy is to that, class ot
men who have for months and perhaps for
years beeu unable to get work. Before this
great trouble began there were nearly 3,0
000 out of employment iu the Unite d States
I have been busy much of (ho tmo during
tho past ten years in trying to get p opli
work, and so have men in a 1 to limmiit cs
find professions. Ihe one business has 1 ecu
to h chi 01 her peopth get w rjrk AP I you a d I
c an hardly t 11 howl many Liters of commen
dation. we have written Such ns; “Give
this man work in your s'< re.
in your factory, In ymr foundry;
I know him, I know him 10l e an industrious
man; his family are starving to death; givo
him a place; I’ll take it as a personal favor
if you will help this mau into some kind of
business where he can suopoi t his family.”
There is lintdly a respectable man in Ibis
house who .has not written such a letter ns
that. Nigh two (billion. Now, my advice
ti those ivgh (wo million is tint f r tho str
(xirt of themselves and their families they
go up and take the vacated places. N ear ly
two million strong. That is my sentiment.
Full liberty for all men to strike w ho want to
strike, mil full liberty for al who
want to take tlieir pla- es. (App'anse.) Husli!
You will be green hands for a w-ITI ■, tut you
will not begreon hands long. For those who
have res*gne 1 their pin es perhaps other o -
cupations w ill open, for we are just opening
the outside doar of this continent. This con
tinent can supporteight hundred million peo
ple, and there is room in this country so that
overy man shall have a livelihood, a home
and a God. So you sc e, while some
are iu depair about tho timer, 1 am
Hot scared a bit. This tempo t is
going to be hushed ami Christ is going
to pint His foot on it as He did on agitated
Galilee. As at the beginning, eba is is going
to turn into beautiful order as tho spirit of
God moves upon the face of tho waters. But
here is a word that I would like to ray in the
hearing of the American peop’e. especially in
the hearing Os those who toil with hand ar.d
foot. Your first step toward light, nnd to
ward the betterment of your condition, oh,
workmen of America, is m your assertion of
your personal independence from all dicta
tion of other workmen. You ore free
men. We fought to get our froedom
here in America. You are fine men,. Let
uo man or organization come between you
and your personal rights. leb no organ na
tion tell you where you sliail work, where
you shall not work ; when you shall work,
when you shall not work. If a man wants to
belong to a labor organization let him have
full liberty to do so. If a man wants to ;tay
out of a labor organization let him be just as
free to stay out. You aro your own master.
Let no man put a manacle cn your wrist,
or on your heart. 1 belong to a labor or
ganization, a ministerial association, that
meets once a week. I love all tho members.
We can help each other in a hundred ways.
But when that ministerial association shall
come and tell me to quit work here because
some brother minister has b en badly treated
in Texas (Laughter), J will tell that, minis
terinl association-.“ Got thee behind me,Satan.’
(Laughter). 1 may have a right to leave my
work here; for some reason I may say to
this people: “1 am done, I will work for you
uo longer; good bye, lam going.’ But I
have no right [Sunday mornings and
Sunday nights to linger around the
door of this church with a shotgun
to intimidate the man who comes to take niv
place. I may leave my work here and still
be a gentleman; but when 1 attempt to inter
fere with the man who comes to take my
place then I become a criminal,and I deserve
nothing better than the thin soup in a tin
bowl in Sing Sing Penitont ary. There is one
thought that 1 wish every newspaper man in
America would put at the head of a column,
and which every laborer would put in his
memorandum bimk and paste in his hat —
the fact that there aro in the United
States 12,000,000 earners of wages.
There‘are about 600,000 of them that belong
to labor organizations of various style;. My
theory is, let the 000,000 who belong to the
organizations do as they please. Let the 11,-
400,000, who do not belong to labor organiza
tions, cio as they please. But there is no law
of God or man, or common sense, or common
justice that will allow 600,000 men, who do
belong to labor organizations, to dictate to
11,400.000 men who do not belong to them.
Freedom for those inside organizations.
Freedom for those outside. Now, when
wo shall emerge from this present unhappi
ness, as wo shall emerge, Labor and Capital
will mar. h shoulder to sh< ulder, nn l they
will have broken some tyrannies that, nee l
to be broken. Lab-or in this country has two
tyrannies to break—the capitalistic: tyranny
and the tyranny of fellow workman; and
when American labor can do that it will be
free. Mr. l'owderly is right and Mr. Irons
is wrong. The old tent maker had it right
—I mean Paul —when he .said: “The eye
cannot ;ay to tho hand, I have no need
of the-’.” That is one of the most skillfully
put things I ever real, by the old tent
maker. “The eye cannot sav to the hand, 1
have no need of the:-.” What if tho eye should
say: “If there is aught I despise, it is those
four fingers and a thumb; I can't liear 11,e
sight ot you; you are of no use anyhow; get
out of my way:” Suppose tho hand shoal I
say to the eye: “I am boss workman; you
couldn't get along without me; if there is
anything I despise, it is the eye seated under
th - dome of the forehead doing nothing but
look. ’ Oh. you silly eye, bow soon you
wou'd rwin in death if the hand did
not support you. Oh, you silly hand, how
soon you would lie fumbling round in the
darkness if the eye did not give you a lantern.
That is the first 1 liiug to tie understood in
this country—that Labor and Capital are ale
rol tcly, entirely dependent on c-a-li other.
You go into a large factory. A thousand
wheels, a thousand b ands, a thousand levers,
ath usand pulleys, and all controlled hy cine
great water wheel, but all tho paits
of the machinery in come way re
lated to all the other parts. That is
human society. A thousand wheels, a thou
sand levers, a thousand pulliei, all controlled
by the wheel of divine providence, but all
the parts related to each other. Dives can
not ki-k Lazarus without hurting his own
foot. They cannot throw Hbadra h into a
furnace without getting their own faces
scorched and bia- kened. That which smites
Capital smites Lal>or, anil vice versa. Point
back into history and wherever you find
Capital largely prosperous you find wages
large: wherever you find wages large you
find Capital prosperous. When Capital de
nounces Labor it is the eye cursing the
hand. When Labor denounces Capital it is
MT. VERNON. MONTGOMERY CO., OA . THURSDAY.,
the hand cursing th' eve. 'The i apittliists
of this co ;ntry are for the most
ful laborers, rind among *.ll the styles of
work ftnd in all tßesholN you W ill find nion
w h'c wS d rtt; ita i ts, Jti othtU' Words, they
are nil tie time t i\--t :.g "' >•(• M•« w li» in u
capitali tc aie becoming labarers, ami mtu
who arc laborers nro booming capitalists.
It is not any g>‘> -at Niagara suspension bridge
over the chasm: it is only a stop. Would
God they would -hako linn Is while they pass.
If the fiuiitftlist ill this bouse would draw his
glove yon would sib -d hrptto linger nail,
the scar of an old blister, a slillotel
I finger joint. Nearly rill tho .capitalists of
’ t -day are sijreqsstul, lalipfops- Nearly nil
the great jmh.isit i’g hou.-i's of Amefica are
conducted by men who set tjpeov ■■'■ore en
gaged in book binding. Neai ly all tlio ivea
who own carriage fa torias u-ed tosandpa
per ti e wagon w heel to get it ready for the
painte \ Peter C o per was a gluemaker mid
! he went cn until he glued together an ini
mense fortune, .pint lie . A.tahllsbed that
princely institution, flie M Opbper Institute,
which has mothered .700 .->> h philanthropies
in tho United States, aim l never
pu-s it without saving within myself:
“What a magnificent monument that man
built, to himself anl to Christian charity.”
The laborers ft this tnunlr.v have uo greater
friend, because Peter L'cßprTi practically said
to every laboring man iu thii country: “Do
you want your boy to have a splendid educa
tion? If you do send him up to my Institute;
it will cost you nothing.” An elder of t iis
church was some time ago walking ill Green
wood and saw two young men putting
lb wors oil Peter Cooper* grave. He
thought: “Why they iliust be frioudi
or nilativeS of tho did lniiii.”
But after a while lie got into conversation
with them, aud they said; “No, iVo are riot
relatives, but wo were poor boys, and,We got
our edueatiou from Peter Cc op r, and that
is tho reason we put flowers on his grave.”
If tho people who were hie sod by that glo
riousold man should put flowers on his grave,
they would bo mountain high. Abram Van
Nest was ?l harness maker in New York.
Year after year he stood at the bench, lie
had large success. He tp'd mo liiaup times
he thought ho made the best harness in
Now York. Ho went on rtml gathered a
large fortune, and ho distributed hundreds of
thousands of dollars to tho poor, to Bible
so iof.ies, tract societies, humautorian so
cieties. No poor man ever nskod help ot
Abram Van Nest but he gave it. 1 never
sha:l forget one night when I, a green
country lad, called ou him, arid after spend
ing the evening lie accompanied mo to the
do, r and said: “l>o Witt, here is fort to buy
boots with, but don't hiv anything about
it.” And I never did until the old man was
dead. Bo they are all the timo crossing
over. Do you know who will ho tho million
aires of tho twentieth ceutury? They are, in
this last fourteen years of the nineteenth
century,with footou the sliutt’o, hand on the
pickaxe, or doing some kind of hard manual
work. Do you know out of that class are
coming the poets, the ot afore, the phitan
throphists of tho world? Henry Clay, the
Demosthenes of the American iisuato, was
the mill boy of tho Slasher; llugh Mliter, a
quarryman at Cromartic. Scotland; Colum
bus, a weaver: Arkwright, a barber; Haw
ley, a soap bailor; Bloomfield, tires glorious
theologian, a shoemaker: and Horace Greely
started life in New York with *10.75 in hi*
pocket. They are crossing over—
the laborer to become tho capitalist’
and the capitalist to become the,
laborer, nnd I this day wave a Hag of truce bo
tw'een them. There is going to tie vast im
provement in affairs when wo shall realize
that tho old tent maker was right when lie
said: “The eye cannot say to the hand i have
no need of thee. ”
There is also going to come a great allevia
tion on this subject by co-operative institu
tions. lam not referring now to labor or
ganizations, I am not referring to trades
unions, but to that plan by which laborers
put what money they ran save in an
enterprise and conduct it themselves.
It has passed beyond experiment.
Do not sny it is experiment. 11l England
and Wales there are now 705 co-operative in
stitutions, with 1)00,00,1 members, with a cap
ital of *14,000,000, doing a business ono year
of *57,000,000. The first experiment in this
country was the Troy Co-operativo Foundry
which hod large success ami went on long
enough to demonstrate possibilities. But
there are scores and hundreds of these co-op
erative institutions, anil they aro going to do
vast improvement. They hive ceased
to he an experiment or a
mere theory. Thomas Hughes, tho most
brilliant friend of tho laboring mon in Eng
land, says the co-operative institution is tho
path out of those trouble*. Lord Derby and
John -Stuart Mill gave half their live* to the
discussion of those subjects. Sir Thomas
Brassoy said in tho English Parliament co
operation is tho one aud only solution of this
question. It is tho sole path by which the
laboring classes as a whole, or any largo
number of them, will over emerge from the
hand-to-mouth mode of living and get their
share of the rewards and honors of our ad
vanced civilization. Tho principle was
illustrated in Ireland, where atravelorleft the
mail coach and Raw a workman standing up
to his wuist in the water repairing a darn, a
mill dam. He said to this workman: “Why,
you seem to be alone nobody to watch you."
Tiio workman replied: “X am all alone, I
watch myself.” “Where is your steward?”
“Wo have no steward.” “Where is your
mastof?” “We have no master.” “why,
who sent you?” “The committee.” “Whoso
committee.'” “Well, I belong to an
association and we elet t certain
morn tiers as a committee and they
regulate this whole thing. We belong to the
new system of labor, the new system of as
sociation, tho co-o|ierative method." But
you ask mo if sometimes these efforts have
not been a failure? <)b, yes: all great move
ments have been a failure at the start. The
application of steam power a failure, electric
telegraphing a failure, railroading a failure
at first; but afterward the chief success of
the century. Co-operative) institutions will
go on to larger success. You say—some one
says to me: “ Why it is absurd to talk about
laborers who cannot get enough wages
to support themselves and their families,
putting their surpius into an institution of
this kind.” My reply is, that if you will put
int i my hand the money which during the
la-t five years has by the laboring classes of
America been spent for rum and tobacco, I
will establish a eo-operati ve institution might
ier than any monetary institution in A inenca.
There will aLxo be alleviation of this whole
subject when employers find the importance
of telling their employes just low matters
stand. You know ai well as I do
that here is the difficulty in a great
many establishments—while the laborers are
at their wits’ ends tho capitalist isaDo. How
be shad pay the rent, how he shall meet the
taxes, and how he shall keep the machinery
going. Meanwhile the laborer thinks this
man is rolling up a large fortune. It cannot
be so at all in that ' as:. The vast majority
of the capitalists of today are not making
out of their investment 10 per cent.,nor 0 per
eeut., nor 8 per cent., nor 7 per cent., nor *’>
tier cent., nor 4 per cent., nor 8 per cent.
Labor at if a wits’ ends because of small wages
Capital at its wits’ ends. 1 know I here are ex
ceptions. There are great, anacondos that are
swallowing down everything. I ain not re
ferring to them. lam referring to the great
mass of capitalist*. Now do you not think it
would alleviate this matter If the capitalist
should ray: “I'll explain this whole matter
to m y men. ” There is an immense amount of
common sen e abroad in the work!. Thero
is an immense amount of good, kindly feel
ing. I do not believe there would f-e one
Strike, where there are ten strike*, it it were
“ SUB DEO FACIO FOHTItER."
the iiniljeffat plan that capitalists sliou Id Ict
their ialtolei .’ kiwnV iusj hew matters s' and.
I hftri .. friend who liau a 'to-u-and men in
his employ. rv>..: 4 ’ years ago wliefl there
ware strikes often f soldi "How do you get
ah utr/'* He snidi “Very wcH, 1 ’ “! suppose
♦on nad strikes? - ’“Oil. no; l never have any. |
“Nevei 1 c.vc *'nf ? i What do you meats”
“Well.” he said, ' i <■Al Wy liien together
every littlo while and say: ‘Boys, Bt fißiAl
how matters stand. Last year 1 made So
much. This year you seo tvp are making
less. I want to know wliat you thing
about it. what you think your wages ought
to be nfvl Mini I ought to get on my invest
ment; for, I; ys, loss lari.ov I have got every
thing in till* tiling atla I turtc got f > keep it
going. .1 want you to tell me, IBokiMti .over'
11; - whole , nffiiir; what your wages oil Hit hi
bo, and xvlmt '"v oilcrest, <Vn the ini 6-tiiiriit
ou >ht to he. U'o are .?! “ays wrimfipoige, and
my m n would die for mo.” But s**ppi «'•
a "capilali.it net* with supercilious in’,
aud drives up to his factory in though he
wore (Re, autocrat of the universe, tho
sun mill tliA moon in his vest
tdiiylly anxious led sniff" greasy or
siimel/eil ’inis( should touch It'S F?<ii*h
broadcloth. Thai mrii* will find his awful
mistake. Iu the vast majority “'f c.'fso I Do
lie ve there would bo but lil tie or no I I'olibh)
if the nmn who own immense establishments
CMrly ond frankly told their employes all
about it
Then there is gobif* to yoine great ultc n
tiou of Ibis through tho n ilgWi iiilluen o
which is to be brought upon tho i iMiitryi
Why is it that in this country we have m l!i
ing less than a penny, while in China they
have tho money they cnll cash out. ou threads
and put around tho lioek, and this cash - it
takog ten, iifteen, twenty of them to make a
pemiy? Tin? only difference is that which is
made by (jlirislirtiilty. Heathenism di pie ses
everything; keeps everything dow n. Clii is
tianfty enlarges everything; lifts people up.
Von go t hrough a community whore’ iiilldelity
;s abroad ami controlling everything; wages
lire down, and cinployors are hard on their
laborers, l/t the religion of Jesus Chi it—
-ho old fashioned religion—dominate a com
nuniity. and you will find the employers
kind arid tile wages good,comparatively. Tho
religion Os .Jesus Christ is u democratic re
ligion. It teaches the employer (hat. In is
brother to till the operators in his mill, lioru
of the same Heavenly Father: red erne l by
the same supernal ( heist, to lie down in Ibo
tame dust. Not much chance to put on airs
iu the s epulchre, or at the judgment. The
engineer in n New England factory go’-s
sleepy, lie does not watch th) steam gnilge.
Tce i there is a wild thunder of explosion,in
whi li t lie owner of the mill is killed and
one of the iioor workmen in some part
of tho sac oiy. Hit two slain men
come up toward the gate of ll'liven.
Tho owner of tho mill knocks at tin?
gale. The eel, glial gatekeeper says: “Who is
there?’ lie says; “l owned a mill at Fall
Fiver; time Ims been n great explosion
theionud I lost my life; I came up hero and
I export to ent -r heaven.” “VVlint right
have you to outer heaven?” says tho celost al
gatekeeper. Tho other says: “I wai a great
man down there and I omployed 200 baud*.”
“Employed two hundred hands, did you?
How much of the grace of God did you em
ploy?” “Nothing.” “rftaud back, you can
not enter here.” Right after him
comes this poor laborer who was slain
by the same tt<- idont. He knocks lit
the gate. Th' gatekeeper sayi: “Who is
there?” Hosiiys; “I am a workimm; Ii 'ime
up from Fall liivor; I was poor there; there
xva- a great accident there: 1 lo t my lilo; 1
wanttoentor heaven.” What right lutvo
you to come hue to the gate of heaven? ’
“Well, I have no right iu myself; l was a
bad man once; 1 diol a thousand things I
ought not to have done: I ttsod to curso ami
swear who i i h irt my hand or foot at tho
mill, but 1 beard a shining messenger <o no
from this gate to our world to help and save
it, and 1 found him and told him ail about
it.: I confessed tho whole thin r, and ho
told mo to come up hero, and ho told me also
that if I was halted at the gat i I uoo I only
show his name written on my hand or written
on my forehead.” Then there is a great rat
tling of pulleys, the gate* hoist, nml ho on
tors into coronation. iu tho ono case tho
man hud a great, funeral; in the other case tho
man had a small funeral. Tho man who had
a largo funeral, however, had mi Christ with
him. 'J lisother man had accepted 1 (hriot as
his Haviour. Tho religion of Jesus Gbristis
n democratic religion. You cannot buy your
way into heavon, and you cannot be so poor
that anybody wißdure to shut you out. If
tho gatekeeper, smitten with a sense of injus
tice,should halt and stop and try to keep you,
all Heavon would fly from their thrones
crying: “Let him in.” I have the host au
thority for saying that Godliness is profitable
for tho life that, now is. it pays employer
and it pays employe, this religion of Jesus
Christ, and it is going to settle forever and
forever this dispute. Tho time is going to
como when the hard hand of toil and th* soft
hand of tho counting room will clasp.
They will clasp iu congratulation,
and they will clasp iu tlie glorious
millennial hour. In that glorious millennial
hour the haixl hand of toil will say: “I plowed
the desert into a garden;’ and the soft hand of
the counting room will say: “1 furnishod the
seed wilh which tho ground was sown;’’ and
the hard hand of toil will say: “I threshed
tho mountains;” and the sift linn I of the
counting room will say: “I paid for tho flail;”
and th'* hard hand of toil will say: “I
pounded the spear into a pruning-hook;”
and the soft hand of (he counting room:
“I signed the treaty that male the tiling
possible. ’ Then Capital and Isibor shall he
drawn together—“the lion and tho lamb, tho
leopard and the kid, and there will be nothing
tonurtor destroy in all God's holy mount,
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”
Ho Let Ilia Own Medicine Alone.
“Gough drops, five oeds a backidge!
Greatest t.liig id the world fer a gold id
tho ’ed! Odely five cods a backidge!”
A red-nosed, watery-eyed man, with a
flannel muffler around his neck, stood on
the corner of Eighth nod Chestnut streets
this morning offering cough drops for
sale.
“Why don’t you take some yourself?”
asked the News man. “You seem to he
pretty well stopped up in the head,”
“The bad I worg for wode led me,”
was the reply.
“What, won’t let you take the medi
cine you sell to others?”
4 Doe , sir. He pays me eggstra not
to take ady.”
“What for?”
“Oh,” was the answer, with a sniffle,
“so I cad stad oud hero as a horrible egg
sable!”
A Brief Acquaintance.
Bank Cashier (to fellow passenger)-v
“Professional man, sir?”
Feilow Passenger —“Yes, sir.”
Bank Cashier—“ Thanks. I’m the
cashier of the fliteenth National bank, of
New York. My card, sir. A lawyer?”
Fellow Pas eager—“No, sir. I’m a
mird reader.”
Bank Cashier (Turning pale)—“Oh, I
guess I’ll go forward andsrnoke a cigar.*
— Neio York Bun.
UNK 24, 1886.
STRUCK BYA WHALE.
A Little Schooner Gets in Ilia
Way 6f r* Monster
Anil is Overturned and Dragged Out (if
Sight by tlie Leviathan.
“What do I know ftbou! whales, sharks,
squids, and other animals of tile sea?”
echoed Capt. Carter of the brig Mary
Jane, “Wait till 1 light my pipe ond
I’ll tee 1 you off a yarn which 1 can bring
Witnesses to nWmsr to,”
">u t 879,” he continued, after getting
lu’s pipe ribtdif, “1 owned o snirtllschoon
er culled tho Fly, nifd I lmd her in the shell
trade. I used to gather Misri? on Bnutu
Rosa Islam 1, and from thence uioffg Dm
Coast clear nrounil to Cape St. Bins. My
fcrriw was composed of n negro, who act
ed as unite, ftM two boys, Being a wee
bit of a craft, nnd dodging among the
islands most of the time, wo did not
head much of a crow nor any great
amount <’f (wautanship. It was in August
of the year I lnivt? named that ono after
noon we were about midway bet ween
Santa Rosa and the capo, and about
fifteen miles nt the land. Wo
were headed for the cape, nnd milk
ing about three knots uii hour, the wind
being light itnd the weather line. One
of the boys was at Hie Wheal, tlie other
asleep, and tho mate was splicing a rope.
I stood on the port bow looking at ft
broken spnr (louting a few hundred feet
off. There was no sea on, nnd the Fly
was ou an even keel. Suddenly, and
without a breath of warning, the
schooner was lifted clear of the water
with a great crash nnd flung on her beam
ends. It so happened that no one was
thrown overboard, but before we could
exactly understand whnt had happened
the craft turned turtle.
“The first thing 1 luiowod I was on
her bottom, with one of tlie hoys along
side o’ me. I had a small keg o’ powder
in the cabin, and my lirat thought xvus
that xvc were blown up. I didn’t ding
to this idea more’ii a minute, however;
for, as I got the water out o’ iny eyes, I
caught sight of a grout black mass along
side, and in a second more made out tho
great square head of a whale. The water
jist there was at least ninety feet deep,
but it had been roiled up until it looked
like a mud hole for an acre or two around
us. I got it through my wool pretty soon
that wo had been struck hy a wlmle,
and that tlie old leviathan of the deep
was still alongside. In fact, I could
have touched his nose with u twenty-foot
pole.
“Now, one of the singular things is
Hint we hadn't seen the spout of a whale
thut afternoon. Indeed, it is rare for
one to run in so nigh that const. Os
course, there might have been a whale
sporting around and we not see him, but
tho chances are that that fellow had made
a run of several miles under water.
When ho came up to blow lie fouiud tho
Fly in his way, and hu throw her off his
nose as a bull would toss a gadfly. The
blow must have dazed him, however, for
it was a good three minutes before he
moved a fin. I could look into one of his
eyes, and by and by I noticed it take on
a malicious twinkle, and he gave his
flukes a flirt and backed off about a hun
dred feet. He was mad. He thought
ho had been attacked by some enemy,
and he wanted revenge.
“Well, sir, that consamed critter was
coming for us. Being light, the Fly
was high and dry out of water, and
offered a pretty fair target. Ho uttered
a snort, swung his flukes about, and came
head on, striking the schooner fair amid
ships. lie knocked the two of us twenty
feet into the water, arid he made a hole
in her sine through which you could have
flung a water butt. Tho blow broke her
all up, but as tho water poured in she
only settled down until her bottom was a
wash. When tlie hoy ami I got our eyes
clear we noticed that tho yawl, nigh full
of water, was floating a little way off,
and wo made for it. While I hung on to
the bow lie climbed in and bailed her out,
and iu about ton minutes we were afloat
again. Meanwhile the whale bad his
nose agin the upset schooner, as if smell
ing of her. She was between us and him,
and it was a lucky thing for us. We
hadn’t so much as a splinter to paddle
with, and the breeze seemed to have died
away about the time the Fly went over.
“By and by old leviathan backed off
for another round. This time he went
further, and he came faster, but as the
schooner had settled down he slid up on
her bottom until his weight settled her
down and let him pass over. As he
floundered over she rolled heavily to star
board and his flukes were no sooner clear
of her than she righted herself. Iu so
doing both masts snapped off, and a tan
gle of cordage covered the water. The
Fly hadn’i ballast enough to sink her,
but she was down until her rail was al
most awash. Tlie yawl was too small
VOL I. NO. IC.
potatoes for the whale, or - ho reckoned
on finishing the schooner flint. He lay
quiet for a short time mid made another
dash at her. He was kicking up such a J
sea that we couldn’t exnotly make out
how he got fast in the wreckage; hut fast
ho got. There was such a tangle of ropes
that Improbably drew some of them into
his mouth. Thou the fun came to n cli
max. We had drifted away Until well
clear of him, and apprehending no im
mediate danger. What a commotion
that old chop kicked up when lie found
himself toggled I Ho rapped the water
with his flukes until the sound could bo
heard a mile away, and he rolled his huge
hull; to starboard and port until lie raised
a sea heavy enough for a ton-knot breeze.
Hy and by lie seemed to get rattled, and
oil' lie went, towing wreckage, schooner,
and all. lie made the most tremendous
efforts to get clear, but ns this was im
possible, lie headed right out to sea, and
at length was lost to sight. About mid
night that night we were picked up by a
coaster. The mate and one of the boys
Were clean gpuc, probably drowned undo!
the Fly as she! Went over, but the other
boy now a limn -ss living in New Or
leans, and can back livery statement I
have made.”- Nac York Null.
Ancient Writing Material.
When the Prophet Ezekiel was com
manded to write about the city of Jeru
salem, ho was compelled to write his ac
count on smooth t iles, and wo find frag
ments of mch tiles to this day. Th*
heaps of broken pots and crockery of nil
sorts, which are now so abundant in all
Eastern towns, prove that bits of smooth
stone or tiles were constantly used for
this purpose. The Island of Elephantine,
on tlie Nile, is said to have furnished
more than a hundred such specimens.
Olio of these is a soldier’s leave of ab
sence, scribbled on a fragment of an old
vase. How little those scribes and ac
countants imagined the interest with
which their descendants would one day
treasure their rough notes I Still quaint
er were the writing materials of those an
cient Arabs who, beforo the time of
Molmmmed, used to curve their annals
on the shoulder-blades of aheap. Thu
“slicep-chronioles” were strung together,
and thus preserved. After awhile sheep’s
bones were replaced by sheep’s skin, anil
the manufacture of parchment was
brought, to such perfection ns to place it
among the refinements of art. Wo hear
of vellums that were tinted yellow, others
white. Others were dyed of a rich pur
ple; and the writing thereon was in gold
en ink, with gold borders and many
colored decorations. These precious
manuscripts were anointed with the oil of
cedar to preserve them from moths. We
hear of one such in which tho name of
Mohammed is adorned with garlands of
tulips and carnation* painted in vived
colors. Btill more precious was the silky
paper of the Persians, powdered with
gold and silver dust, whereon wore
painted rare illuminations; while tha
book was perfumed with utter of roses ov
i iseiice of sandalwood. Os the demand
for writing materials, one may form some
faint notion from the vast manuscript
libraries of which records have been pre
served, as having been collected by tho
Caliphs both of the East and the West,
the former in Bagdad, the latter in An
dalusia, where there were eighty great
public libraries, besides that vast one at
Cordova. We also hear of private libra
ries, such as that of a physician who de
clined an invitation from the Hultan of
Bokhara, because tin- carriage of bis
books would have required 400 camels.
The Eight-Hoar System.
“Papa," said the daughter of a largo
employer of labor, “arc you in favor of
the eight-hour system I”
“Well, daughter,” he answered, “un
der certain circumstances, I am.
“Oir, I’m so glad,” she rapturously ex
claimed.
“Why, my dear, why arc you so inter
ested?”
“Because, papa, George has been only
staying four hours every evening, and he
told me last night if you favored the
eight-hour system he needn’t go home
nearly so early. You dear old papa, I’m
so glad you are in favor of it," and she
threw her soft white arms about his nock
and choked off all explanations. — Wash
ington Critic.
Another Care for Htammering.
A writer in the Pojiular Science News
gives the following as a method for tho
cure of stammering: “Qo into a room
where you will be quiet and alone, get
some book that will interest but not ex
cite you, sit down and and read two
hours aloud to yourself, keeping the
teeth closed. Do the same thing every
two or three days or once a week if very
tiresome, always takiDg care to read
slowly and distinctly, moving the lips
but not the teeth.”