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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? ?V ' < f, 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.”