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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN BIVINE'S SUN¬ DAY SERMON* Subject ; "Among the Bedoins.’’ Text: “Forasmuch as thou knottiest, how ■weave to encamp in the wilderness” —^um. 3., 31. Palestine. Night after night we have slept in tent in There are large villages of Badou ins without a house, and for three thousand T&ack wears the people of those nlaces ha ve lived in tents, made out of dyed skins, and when the winds and storms wore out and tore loose those coverings others of the same kind *°ok their places. Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent, Jacob pitched his tent on the mountain. Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot pitched the his tout toward Sodom. In a tent woman Jac-1 nailed Sisera. the general, to the ground, first having given him sour milk ‘-ailed “leben" as a soporific to make him «ieep soundly, that being the effect of such nutrition. as modern travelers can testify. The Syrian army in a tent. The ancient, Iiattle shout was “To your tents, O Israeli” Paul was a tent maker. Indeed,Isaiah,mp.g wificentlv poetic, indicates tliatail the human race live' under a blue tent when he says God “stretebeth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth Hezekiah them out as a t -nt to dwell in,’’and compares death to the striking of a tent, saving, “My age is removed from me an ashepherd’stent.” In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear something I never beard before and hope never to hear again. It is the voice of a hyena amid the rocks near by. When you may have - on this monster putting his month between the iron bars of a menagerie he is a captive, and he gives a humiliated and suppressed cry. But yonder in the raid night on a throne of rocks he has nothing to fear, and he utters himself in a loud, re sounding, terriffic, almost supernatural sound, splitting uo the darkness into a deeper midnight. It begins with a howl and ends with a sound something like a horse's and whining. strength In the hyena’s voice are defiance and bloodthirstiness and crunch of broken bones and death. I am glad to say that for the most part Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The ■change leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot thoir spots, have all disappeared, and the lions that once were common all through this land, and used bv all the prophets for illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have re treated before the discharges of gunpowder, ■of which they have an indescribable fear. But for the most part Palestine is what it origi Rally was. With the one exception of a wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jeru tslem and from Jerusalom to Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Ti nation, foerias to the Damascus, that cne nerve of eivili ourselves only telegraphic minutes wive (for we found a few off from Brook <5alilee), lyn and New York while standing by Lake with that one exception Palestine is just ft always * as was. Nothing surprised me so much as tho per sistcnco of everything. A sheep or horse falls dead, and though the sky may one min C plunging; lie? Stingir cawing, screaming, M&s& room, contending for largest morsels of the carcass?s K said: ‘‘Wheresoever the there wffi flu; eagles be gathered together.” The long ^ se ^ a ^ es LS ^ onderful. I liey live fifty and , sixty Explains and . sometimes a hundred years h Ab, that what David meant ^g 6 £l r hy she°pherd wTthThe M^coat le’s ” l saw a outward*,* 'aml^l'^vondered folds of far bant what was contained in that draJman: amplitude ‘‘WhSt of ap Parol and I said to the .tne the dr aragoman a “ o in a n sakf° said. “It it 'is is ^-1 a very vervvoun^lamb youn fe latnD and^oo^ol'i'to keep up with th^ flocP ’^^t that moment I saw the lamb nut its head out Sfeno^ from the shenherd’s iSs^^StioJI bo om and I said • tender" “d'here of the ness of God-lie shall gather the lambs with Iiis arm and carry them in his bosom.” XanTahoul Passing by a villa''e fatfa home in the Holv noon I m-eat crowd in .and around a private house, an.11 said to the dragoman: “J^avicI, what is coinff on there?” He sfcid: ‘‘Somebody has recently died there, and their neighbors go in for several days After to sit down and weep with the be reaved ” There it is I said, the old scrip tura 1 custom, “And many of the Jews came to Martha and Maw, to comfort them con ■eerning their brother ” Early in tho morn ing passing bv a ccmetorv in the Holy Land 1 saw among the graves about fifty women dressed in black.and they were crying: “Oh, “Oh, inv child!” “Ob, my husband!” my father!” “Oh my mother!” Our dragoman told us that everv morning, very early for three mornings alter a burial, the women go to the sepulcher n’year. and after that every week very early for As f saw this group just after daybreak I said: “There it is again, the same old custom referred to in Luke, the evangelist, where he says, ‘Certain women which were early found in the ourselves sepulcher.”’ Jacob's But here we at well, the most famous well in history, most distinguished for two patriarch things, because whom it be- it longed to the old after was named, and for tho wonderful things which Christ said, seated cn this well curb, to tho Samaritan woman. Wo dismount from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our dragoman, climbing up to the well over the slippery stones, stumbles and fright ensus all by nearly falling into it. I meas tired the well at the top and found it six feet from edge to edge. £ome grass and weeds «nd thornv growths overhang it. In one place the roof is broken through. Large stones embank the wall on all sides. Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped left his them in, and from the time they hand to the instant they clicked on the hot tom you could hear it was deep, though not ns deep as once, for every day travelers are apnlving the same test, and though well in tho time of Maundroil, the traveler, the was a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is oulv seventy-live. So great is the curiosity of the world to know about that well that during the dry season well, a Captain Anderson place the descended into this atone sidesso close ho had to put. his hands over his liead in order to get through, and then lie fainted a wav and lay at the bottom of the well as though dead, until hours after recov , r „ canl( > t 0 the surface wells' ‘It is not like other digged down to a fountain that fills it. hut a reservoir to catch ■the falling rains, and to that Christ refers when speaking to the Samaritan woman about a spiritual supply He said He wonld.if asked, Have triven her spring’sin “living water ” that is water from a flowing distinction from the water of the well which was rain water. But whv did Jacob make a reservoir there when there is plenty of water all around aud abundance of springs and fountains and seem insrlv S uo need of that reservoir? Why did go to the vast expense of boring deep aud digging a well perhaps two hundred feet as first completed, when, bv going a little wav off he could have water from other fountains at little or no expense? Ah, Jacob was wise. He wanted his own well. Quarrels and wars might arise with other tribes and the supply of water might be cut instruments off, so the shovels and pickaxes and boring were ordered, and the well of nearly four the Shdloc/* 111 ' 3 aS ° WaS £UUkthr ° Ugh When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having hisown well he taught us not to be unneces sarily dependent on others. Independence moral of business character, independence independence leligious of character, of char acter. Have your own well of grace, your own well of courage, your own well of divine supply. If you are an invalid you ButifGod have a right to be dependent on others. has given you good health, common sense and two eyes and two ears and two hands two feet, He equipped you Himself for independ- If enceof all the universe except H e had meant you to be dependent on others you would have been built with a cord around your waist to tie fast to somebody else. No; you are built with common sense to fashion your own opinions, with eyes to find your own way. with ears to select your own music, with hands to fight vour own battles. There is only one being in the uni verse whose advice you need and that is God. Have your own well and the Lord will fill it. Dig it if need be through two hundred feet of solid rock. yardstick, Dig it with vour pen, or dig it with your or dig it with your shovel, or dig it with vour Bible. In my small way I never accomplished anything for God or the church.or incontradic- the world. or tion my lamiiy, or myself, except to human advice and in obedience to divine counsel. God knows everything, and what is the use of going tor advice to humau beings who know so little That no one but the all seeing God can realize how little it is? I suppose that when Jacob began to dig this well on which we are sitting this noontide people gathered around and said, “What a useless expense you are going to, when roll ing down from yonder Mount Gerizim and down from yonder Mount Ebal and out yonder in the valley is plenty of water!” “Oh,’ replied Jacob, “that is all true, but suppose my neighbors off should supply get of angered against ain beverage, me and what cut would my Ido, and mount- what would my 'amilv do? do, and what would my hocks pickaxes ana and neras crowbars, Forward, and down yo brigade into of go the depths of these rocks and make ms independ ent of all except Him who fills the bottles of the clouds! I must have my own well!” Young wine man, drop the cigars and cigarettes and cups and Sunday excursions, and build your own house, and have your own wardrobe, and nve be vour Hundred own dollars capitalist! in VVIi y, inavoomy come a year, says some one. Then spend lour hundred dollars of it in living, and ten P 3r cent, of it, or fifty dollars, in benevo " JUC -, ail “ too other fifty in beginning to dl S I 0 * 1 ’ own well. Or If you have a thou *ond dollars a year spend eight hundred dollars of it in Jiving, ten per cent., or one hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the re maming one hundred iu beginning to dig-ymir own well. The largest bird that ever flew through the air was hatched out of one egg, and the greatest estate was brooded out of one dollar. -* suppose when Jacob began to dig _ this well, ° n whose curb we are now seated this December noon,it was a dry season then as 110w > and some one comes up and says: “Now Jacob, suppose you get the well fifty feet deep or two hundred feet deep and there should be no water to fill it, would you not ^ S “That is Jacob’s well, a great hole in the ^plied- “‘There S never has been ^ i«in Palestine or any other country that once thoroughly dug was not sooner or !ater filled cIouds ’ a “ d tais be no excen ^ ,? r months mo ntns after a ™ 1 Jac Taooh ^ bnaa had pnmnlprfwl cam Pieted th* the 1 tiantnTtheir Sd° over their mout ’h to hide a smeker, and tho well remained „ dry as the bottom of a kettle * hat had been hanging over the fire for three hours, ' ^utmie^day the alul i ic ij began j to drizzle, and then great drops SD as e< a ji over the well curb and’the and the heavens opened their reservoir rainy season poured its floods for six weeks, and there came maidens to the well with emntv pans and carried them away full, and the camels thrust their mouths into the troughs ami were satisfied, and the water was in the well three feet deep, and fifty feet deep, and two hundred feet deep, and all the Bedouins of the neighborhood and all the passersby realized that Jacob was wise 121 having his own well. My hearer, it is your part to dig your own well, and and it is He God’s will part His to fill it. l ou do vour part do part. Much is said about “good luck,’ 7 but peo plo who always are industrious good luck. and self You denying al most have can at ford to be laughed at because of your appli cation and economy, for when you got your well dug and filled it will be your turn to laugh. But look up from this tamous well and see two mountains and the plain between them, on which was gathered the largest religious audience hundred that ever thousand assembled ou earth, about live people, Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred feet high, Ebal, on tho one side, called and on the Mount other Mount Bless former the of ing and the latter called ths Mount of Cursing. A t Joshua's Gerizim command six tribes stood on Mount aud read the blessings for keeping Mount the Ebal law, and the six tribes stood on reading curses for breaking the law, while the five hundred thousand people on the plain cried Amen with an emphasis that must have made the earth tremble. “1 do not believe that,” says some one, “for those mountain tops are two miles apart, and how could a voice be heard from top to top?” My answer is that while the tops are two miles apart, the bases of the mountains are only half a mile apart, and the tribes stood 011 the sides of the mountains, aud the air is so cleai* and the acoustic qualities of this great natural amphitheatre distinctly heard so perfect that voices can be from mountain to mount ain, as has been demonstrated by travelers lifty times in the last fifty years. thrilling Can you imagine anything more md sublime a 2 id overwhelming than what transpired on those two mountain sides, and in the plain between, when the responsive service went on and thousands of voices on Mount Gerizim cried, '‘Blessed shalfc thou be in fields, the blessed city, and shall blessed shalt basket thou be in thy the be thy and More,” and then from Mount Ebal, thousands if voices responded, crying: “Cursed be he !hat removeth his neighbor’s landmark! Cursed be ha. that maketn the blind to wan ier out of the way,” and then there rolled up from all the spaces between the mountains Hiatone word with which the devout of earth dose their prayers and the glorified of heaven finish their doxologies, “Amen! Amen:”— that scene only to be surpassed by the times which are coming, when the churches and tha academies of music and the audi toriums hold the of worshipers earth, no longer of God; large the enough parks, the to mountain sides, the great natural amphithe atresof the valleys, shall be filled with the outpouring shall populations of the earth Mount and mountain reply to mountain, as Gerizim to Mount Ebal, and all the people between shall ascribe riches and honor and glory Lamb, and dominion and victory to God the and there shall arise au amen like the booming of the heavens mingling with the thunder of the seas. On and on we ride, until now we have come to Shiloh, a dead city on a hill sur rounded by rocks, sheep, coats, olive gardens and vineyards. Here good Eli fell backward ^^^“b^PUnSSfHS,hni: children n « a id } ife is not worth living after one’s nave turned , out badly, and more fortunate was ®>i instantly expiring under suchttd “>S 3 . than those parents who, their children recreant and profligate, live on with broken hearts to see tnem going down into^deeper and a » d de ®P er P lu “g«-, There mottiers heie to-day to whom death happy release because of their reel ea t s •. there be recreanu sons here pre&ei, and your parents be far away, why not bow ^servtee ™ °™ so to th^teWanh^ffic! tht li^tnln^that and put o* of tv!l Janother vouhave turned from your evil wa ways. vs? Betore Retor anotner twenty-four h° a ]?haveP assed '^“ r "*0 t „ ad Home to thv God nrortDal' in MaDv 1 many letters ® do cit!«• I get w^have purport say vo-ir not h card from iTmldniitm him forsome time-wa fear some thtoV andsav a eood isTcbdZf^mlnv him mntWk almost pavers r-razv ‘But about he ' th£audb how “It V ha be in ®““ f “ y On ? J?w the main fioor " r on thl l pl ^ f °I^L» 0r n „f h ^ s - or in ohese gTeat sallerifo. 1 w Y h h re ar e y ■ Lift your right hand. I ha ea. g home, l our father is anxious abou y, y°ur i s mother i vT T° is U praying for 7°“- Wa 'v,ct .’y.... ‘ tails back lifeless, and the i heart against which whmh y°’’ ,a J f c .® as< ;? bf ‘ at -. story to tell m eternity that you kiJJeci Jly God. Avert t-i&t catastrophe. But I turn from this Shiloh of Eli’s Sud¬ den decease under bad news from his boys and find close by what is called the “Meadow of the Feast.” While this ancient, city was in the height of its prosperity on this “Mea dow of the Feast” there was an annual ball, where the maidens of the city amid clapping cymbals and a blare thousands'of of trumpets danced in glee, upon which spectators gazed. But no dance since the world stood ever broke up in such a strange wav as the one the Bible describes. One night while by the light of the lamps and torches these gayieties went on. two hundred Benjamites, who had been hidden behind theroeks and among the trees, dashed upon the scene. They came not household to injure or destroy, but wishing to set up of their own, the women of their own land having been slain in battle, by preconcerted arrangement each one of the two hundred Benjamites seized the one whom he chose for the queen of his home and carried her away to large estate and beautiful residence, for these two hundred Benjamites had inherited tne wealth of a nation. As to-day near Shiloh wo look at the “Meadow of the Feast,” where the maidens danced that, night, and at the mountain gorge up which tha Benjamites carried their brides, we bethink ourselves of the better land and the better times in which we live, when such scenes are an impossibility, and amid orderly groups and with prayer and benediction, and breath of orange blossoms, and the roil of the wedding march, marriage i s solemnized and with oath recorded in heaven, two immortals start arm in arm on a journey to last until death do them part. Upon every such marriage altar may there Xtmwin bGssi.w famihesf- of Him “who side“ someth f-e Side bv on the by side in'their graves! & tut^“ Stornoon our last day before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent on the most famous battlefield of all time-the ofthe MncToflS Jeimsalem as He NaSrcto? cros cd way from to a ^ower blooms there but has in its veins inherited blood of flow-rs tlmt drank afoot" the Wood eround that has not at some time been gul- tb ° “ oL ^ ^ r h Moditer . , a the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and Car meJ - Through its rages at certain seasons ths rlver Kishou, which swept down the armies of Sisera, the battle occurring in No vember when thsreis almost always a shower of meteors,so that the “stars in thuircmirses” «8 said to have fou^at against Su.e ; a. through this plain drove Jeau, scythed and then at the on chariots of t ne l.anaanites, hubs of the wheels, hewing down their awful swathes of death thousands in a minute, ine by nan armies, the Turkish armies, the Egyptian armies again and again trampled it. There they career across it. David and Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Goeur de ' non and Baldwin and Salaam—a plain not oulv famous for the past but famous because the Bible says the great decisive baUe o, tho world will be fought there—Hie bat^eOi Ar mageddon To . because me of the the plain desperate was the battles more here absorbing and i» regions round in which tiie holy cross—the very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was supposed to have been crucified—was carried ns a standard at the head of the Christian host, and that night closing my eves in my tent on the plain of Esdraelon—for there are some things we can see better with eyes shut than open—the scenes twelfth of that ancient war coma before me. The century was closing and Saladin at the head of eighty thousand mounted troops was crying: “Ho! for Jerusalem!” “Ho! for all Palestine!” and before them everything went down, but not without unparalleled resistance. In one place one hundred and thirty Christians were surrounded by many thousands of fun ous Mohammedans, ror one whole day the one hundred and thirty held out against these thousands. Tennvsoivs “six hundred, ’ when ‘some one had blundered,” were eclipsed by these one hundred and took thirty lighting for the holy cross. 1 hey hold lances which had pierced them with death wounds, and pulling them out of their breasts and sides hurled them back again at the enemy. On went the until ....... all but Chns- . ngm one tian had fallen and he, mounted on the last horse, wielded his battle ax right and left till his horse tell under the plunge of the Rave¬ uns, and the ridei% making the sign ot tne cross toward the sky, gave up his life on tli9 point of a score oi spears, but soon alter the * asfc battle came. History portrays it, poetry chants it, pamtmg colors it, ana all ages ad mire that last struggle to keep Jesus in possession the wooden cross on which was said to have expired, It was a battle in which min g^d the fury of devils and the grandeur of angels. Thousands of dead Christians on this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedans on the other side. The baAle was ho, test close around Ptolemais tee wooden cross upheld wounded by the bishop of himself and dying. And when the lushop oi Ptol emais dropped dead, the bisuop of Lydda seized the cross and again lifted it, carrying it onward into a wilder and hercer fight, and sword against jaie.m, and battle ax upon helmet and piercing spear against splinter mg shield. Horses and men tumb.ed into heterogeneous death. Now the wooded cross on which the armies of Cnnstians had kept their eye begins to waver, begins to descend. It falls! and the wailing of the Christian host at its disappearance Mos,ems. drowns the huzza of the vimorious But that stondani of tne cross only seemed tofaU. It rides the sky to-day in triumph Five hundred million souls, the mightiest army of the ages, are following it, and where that goes they will go, across the earth and «P themighty steeps of the heavens. In the t weltth century it seemed to go down, but in the nineteenth century it is the mightiest symbol of glory and triumph, and means more scribed than wiih any other standard, whether in¬ eagle, or lion, or bear, or star or crescent. That which Saladin trampled ou the plain of Esdraelon I'lift to day for 'The vour foot marshaling. The cross! The cross! of it planted in the earth it saves the top of it pointing to the heavens to which it will take you, and the outspread beams of it like outstretched arms of invitation to all nations. Kneel at its foot. Lift your eve to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance to its power. Ar.d as that mighty symbol of pain and triumph is kept before us, we will realize how insignificant are the little crosses we are called to bear, and will more cheer¬ fully carry them. Must .leans bear the cross alone, And the world go free? No. there’s » cross for every one, And there’s a cross for me. As I fall asleep to-night on my pillow in the tent on the plain of Esdraelon reaching from the Mediterranean to tne Jordan, the waters of the river Kishon soothing me as by a lul¬ laby, I hear the gathering earth. of the hosts for the last battle of all the And by their representatives America is here and Europe is here and Asia is here aud Afriea is here, nnd all heaven is here and all hell is here, and Apollyon on the black horse leads the armies of darkness, and Jesus on the white horse leads the armies and of the light, and I hear the roll of the drums clear callof the clarions and the thunder of the cannonades. And then I hear the wild rush as of million of troops in retreat, and then the shout of victory*as from fourteen hundred though million all throats, and then a song as the armies of earth and heaven were joifaing it, clapping cymbals, beating the time—“The kingdoms of this world are become the king¬ doms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reig n for ever and ever.” Laces of England. In England peasant women still go about peddling the lace which they make as they walk along the road. A Buckinghamshire woman was, when I saw her, working along the road, and when she applied to me I set her at work in the kitchen, where in two days she made me twelve yards of some pretty two-inch lace. She told me some of her knowledge of “Catteru’s day,” and how they have as in Northampton, a custom of sending and giving “ Cattern’s cakes” in honor of the Queen, and that in places, too, where the lace making is nearly extinct. When Katharine of Arragon burned her laces to give an order for new to the poor, all the fadiesof the court followed her exam¬ ple, and the lace trade revived the hojies and the hearts of the humble pupils. A lady writes:—“In the palmy days of trade ”—this was in Bedfordshire— “both old aud young subscribed to as um of money to buy calces, and all after their repast danced and made merry, and at night they had a supper of boiled stuffed rabbits, smothered in onions.” In Buckinghamshire children were put to the lace school at the ago of five years, at the age of eleven were self-support¬ ing, and old men—even young men when they could get no other trade—made their existence by it. The lace made at Newport Pagnal has received the highest praises of any Buck¬ inghamshire lace and in the eighteenth century was said to be wrought Flanders.. to as great perfection as the lacc of These English laces are very much ad¬ mired by French women, who at the present day wear more English thread lace than the English themselves. This fact has been observed by many travel¬ lers, and I know of my own experience that the shops in French Canada keep a good assortment of real English laces, and that one in particular in Notre Dame street. Montreal, has a larger array than any I have seen in much larger London shops. I got some beautiful English thread lage there—a lace much liked by the French gentlewoman of Canada— that I have not been able to match in London. It is not expensive; it is very desirable, and I hope that some one with influence may revive the taste for it to be a fashion. The narrow lace in line linen makes the most recherche ruffling one could desire.—fNcw York Herald. Iteligion by Telsphone. The New York Herald’s European edition publishes the following: Going to church by telephone was tried yester¬ day at Christ church, Birmingham. A correspondent in that city describes the experiment thus: “ When the morning service began, there was what appeared to be au unseemly clamor to hear the service, and the opening prayer was in¬ terrupted by cries of “Hello, there! Are you there? Put me on to Christ church!’ •No, I don’t want the church,’ etc. But presintly quiet was obtained, and by the time the psalms were reached we got almost unbroken connection and could follow the course of the service. We could hear very little of the prayers, probably from the fault that the officia¬ ting minister was not within voice-reach of the transmitter. The organ had a faint, far-away sound, but the singing aud sy.-rmon were a distinct success. “Different parts of the evening service were put through successfully to Lon¬ don, Manchester, Derby, Coventry, Kid¬ derminster and Hanley. In every place the greatest satisfaction was expressed. “The electrical appliances in tho church were scarcely visible, nor in any way calculated to disturb the worshipers. Attached to the lectern was au arrange¬ ment like a small American circular clock. A similar disc was suspended by a cord to a gas bracket behind the communion rails, and on the edge of the pulpit there was a small brass frame with two more discs. “In the choir stalls there were alto¬ gether four transmitters affixed, two on each side, to the woodwork. In every ease the transmitter was of nickel and ebonite, three inches in diameter. Switch¬ es were provided, by which the choir leaders could, unseen, turn the choir off or ou. as one would do the gas: and the lectern was also controlled from the choir. A switchboard was concealed back of the pulpit, and a handle turned on by the verger when the sermon be¬ gan.” --———— --------- temperance. The swing. ng cinstsrs 8 ***& Across the greenwarri’c rild( ^ e - 1 nan any I have he And soon the the^f^ Dismantled on 6 CrUel s£ilJ not so lair Where crushed and ' blewl'n graced, weedin & sore pleasant for the PASSIM (that is, the rim J kat “ 8d « oji adorns the base of mv skuhft gr . owt M ssnaSfjSKars sswsRs&rg c uotor was a new man on the ^to°get aboar!, ^ rm, hr viduai 6 " ^ iDt0 sooty specimen wei’uoget oT^You’J drunken fellow. ' •’ stutte H “Then you can’t get on.” > esh of 1 inn; this you can’t stop m» engineer train. There ain’t no conductor can pur me o XJ-Uilwi Lvemnr/ \\ isconsin. “P 30 FIT AND LOSS” DP.IXK Accorx The following significant statistic nrink, crime, disease, paaosrism and i tion are from official sources, anil sliou! carefully studied: LICENSES—NEW YORK CITT. Whole number of liquor licenses ..ssued by the Commissioners of Excise during tha year 1889...... Total amount of license less re¬ Total ceived, 1SS9.................... si, a number of licensed places in existence, January 1, 1S90...... timate _ Expenditures, and allowed by the board oi ] Apportionment, for 1S90: POLICE—CHARITIES AND COREECTIOl Tile Police Department....... .. v4,G4',r Department of Public Charities and Correction.............. 1.0-19,1 Other Charitable Institutions.. 1,215,3 Salaries, Judiciary............ 1,068, 382,S Salaries, City Courts............ Coroners, salaries aud other ex¬ 53,SI penses ......................... S9,ai:,;5 PAUPERISM. TThole number of paupers sup¬ ported or relieved, year end¬ ing December 1, 1888, in Xetr York city.............. ......... S1,S3S,8 At a cost of.................... Whole number of paupers sup¬ ported or relieved, in the. sev¬ eral counties in the State of New York, year ending Dec. 1, 1888..................... 1! Total cost to the State....... . $1,659,1 $3,838,1 County Poorhouse supplies. and medi- . Medical attendance ..... ............................ and Superintendents, keepers, sala officers of Pool-houses, $525,1 Constabies and other officers. $23,j $5, Transportation of paupers..... Children born in Pool-houses, the year........................ CRIME AND CORRECTIONS. Convictions ill Courts of Special Arrests for Th“’ license revenue for New Y°rii d -«arJsss? 5 jfK SBsiffissx TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES The Good MJg “ JffAp $10,0 the total abstinence soeieJ England and Ireland. wealthy ilrs. Annie WilmartMh^ ^ ^ vis Ravmond Street Ja , Brooklyn, Bran* war, first commuted lormw^ street. An unhappy drink. Clares Y0idable.and thatonlyfwemt thatt^ - ^ w una r druaken2 result of gross of der disobedience °‘ ;; ^ es thj Atlanta Constn ^ ma spring?-] ^ntthatthei-eisat^^ The soring whose water, there ? n m asylum It is proposed andt to b ' Tempa®** - cara 0l theJ la Womans Christ* ( - 3 , a pany, SSSte**! Sei above par. , Lincoln isaife^ssg temperance BuY-y ues their proper^-
