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England and France want to be con¬
nected by a tunnel, and jot arc afraid c.
ml it. _
The number of visitors to New York
City every month is said to be greater
than the total number of its fixed resi¬
dents.
_
A President’s expenses amount in four
years to about SSO.OU'). His income for
the sa.ne period being §200,000 it is not
difficult to see that he ha* an excellent
chance to start a bank account.
Among . those .i ..... who ca J coti
plain of hard times is the Government of
Pomiif.il, .McS. with . popuLtioi of
g 000 000 is about §700,000,000 in
’ ,..’nich
debt.witb an annual , . interest . , charge which
is considerably more than half of tho
J
revenue. _
A significant development of the Cen
•*’ ’
1890, notes the , ,,, Washington , . , nun,
•us of
ls 1 he fact that the increase of wealth
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tho South _ ,,
aud manufacturing in was
grctc, d» the lucre.,, of popul.tiou.
In the decade from lboO to 1800 the
Southern Slates gained in population
19.9; in actual wealth, <12.5, and ol
capital invested in manufacture, 20.7
per cent.
The canned fruits and meats exported
by the United States have improved
thirty per cent, in tho last two years,and
are again being largely purchased in
countries which had almost outlawed
them, announces tho Detroit Free Fries.
Packers found that adulterating their
goods, in haste to get rich, simply
killed a market in ono season, and only
first-class goods are now shipped.
Professor Bickmore, says the New
York Sun, is not alarmed by the live
earthquakes, two of them in this country,
that have been recently reported. Yet
he holds that thcro is always danger of
these convulsions of nature iu tho United
8tates, as well as in South America. He
•ays that the workings of tho forces of
the under world have been extensive
during , , this century, . aud i that the .■ time ol ,
movement iu tho rocks of the earth’s
crust is by no means at an end. But the
discoveries of the age have not enabled
man to do anything to prevent earth
quakes.
The discovory J of tin oro in large quin- 1
tities oa the Colorado River, Texas, is
a moat important industrial event, avers
tho Washington Star. It naturally cx
v
cites intense iutorest. Heretofore there
have been few deposits of tin out ol
Cornwall, _ „ England, ,, , , „ tho mines . of _ which, ...
baving been worked, since earlv ‘ Garths
- .
genian , tunes, are becoming unproductive, .
There aro deposits r in tho Black Hills, ’
North Dakota. Tho tremendous devel
opment of the canning industry in the
United States has, however, required tho
use use of ot more more tin tin than man waa was roadilv readily sun- sup
plied, and the discovory of large addi
tional deposits „ - fa will ... still furtuer Stmiu
late tho business.
Oeor^o William Warren, the well
known organist and composer, says that
the writing of church music is largely a
labor of love. lie began composing ovci
forty j ears ago, a , rn and onrl l„, has 0 miKlial.n published I over
one hundred works, but the royalties he
from . them , form comparatively . ,
receives a
•mall part * of his income. Dr Warren ’
born . Albany, N. and his
was in l.,
father lamer tried tncu to to make maae a a hardware narunaro dealer dea.er
of him till the musical instinct in the lad
asserted itself. Besides playing the or
pan iu St. Thomas's Church in New
.York City, and directing tho music of
tho parish, Dr. Warrtu lectures at
Columbia _ , , . Cohcge, „ „ and ... has enough . pupils
to keep 1 him busy tho rest of the time. ’
~
Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, wife of the
explorer, gave an iuterview at Minne¬
apolis, Minn., to a reporter. Sho said
it was the first interview she has granted
in this country. Asked as to her idea of
tho United States, Mrs. Stanley said:
“Oh, it is very great, aud I canuot find
words to express my admiration of the
many things I have seen. There are such
magnificent buildings and luxurious
homes; 6uca straight, broad and well
planned streets—in fact, everything is
on such a huge scale.” She thinks New
York City lacking in finish, its streets
beastly dirty and kept in wretched re
pair; the Elevated , UtaroaJ, .. although
a
ca>tal method of locomotion, very ugly.
The American peoplo sue considers ex¬
tremely hospitable, and the American re
porter came in for his share of atten¬
tion on accouut of the numerous inter
views written by him which have no
-basis in fact-
REV. DR. TALMAGfi.
THE BROOKLYN' DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Ijes*sons of ’Winter.”
Text: "Haul thou entered into the treas
tires of the snowt”—Jo j xzxviii., 22.
Grossly maligned is the season of winter.
The spring and summer and autumn have
had rnanv admirers, but winter, hoary
headed and white bearded winter, bath had
more enemies than iri^nds. Yet without
winter the human race wou <1 Vie inane and
effortless. You might speaK ot the winter as
the mot er of tempests, I take it as the
father of n whole family of physical, mental
and spiritual energies. The most people that
1 know are strong in prooortion bad climb to the nuru
ber of suow hanks they to over or
p U:s j, throuch in childhood, while their
fathers drove the sled loaded with logs
•*• o™u, •» t.a
At this season of tb" year, when we are
so familiar with the snow, those fmzen vap
^ thog0 faHiu; , blossoms of the sky, those
white the angels of the atmosphere, Iliads and Odysseys those poems of
of storm, those
the win ter y tempest, i turnover the leaves
of my Biole and— thoug i most of it was
written in a dime where snow seldom or
never fell—I find rnanv of these beautiful
crjn jT e !ations. Tnough the writers may sel¬
fiotnor nev.r have felt the old touch of the
snowflake on their cue?k, they had in sight
two mountains, the SZJ^SZJtaS tops of wnich were sug
mou ail tiie year round and through the
ages never lift the coronets of crystal from
their foreheads.
The first time we find a deeo fall of snow
in the Bible is where Samuel describes a
fight between Benairh anl a lion in a pit.
under and though wounds the snow may have crimsoned brute,
the of both man and
the shaggy monster roiled over dead, and
the giant was victor. But the snow is not
fully recognized in the Bible until Gol in¬
terrogates Job, the scientist, concerning its
wonders, saying, “Hast thou entered into
tho treasures of the snow?”
1 rather think that Job may have exam¬
ined tho snowflake with a microscope; for,
although it is supposed that the microscope
was invented long alter Job’s time, there
had been wonders of glass long before the
microscope and telescope of later dav were
thought of. So long ago as when the Col¬
iseum was in its full splendor, Nero sat in
the which emperor’s box of that great theatre,
held a hundred thousan i people, and
looked at the combatants through a gem in
b's finger ring which brought everything
close up to his eye.
Four hundred years before Christ, In the
stores at Athens, were sold powerful glasses
called “burning spheres,” and Layard, the
explorer, of Nineveh found a and magnifying in the palace glass amid of Nim- tho
rums
rod. Whether through magnifying instru¬
ment or with unaided eye I cannot say, but
I am sure that Job somehow went through
the galieriesof the snowflake and counted its
pillars teries, theo'ogies, and found wonders, raptures, mys¬
down majestie*, infinities walk
in2 U P an( i its corridors, as a result o£
the “Hast question which the Lord had asked hi n,
thou entered into the treasures of the
cuow>”
Oh, it is a wonflerous meteor! Memboldt
studied it in the Andes, twelve thousand feet
above ihe level of the sea. De Saussure re¬
veled among these meteors in the Alps, and
Dr. Seoresby counted ninety-six varieties of
snowflake amid the arctics. Tney are in
shape of stars, in shaoe of coronets, in shape
of cylinders; are globular, are hexagonal.
“ r fj Py ramiQ *h are castellated. After a fresh
fad of snow, in one walk you crush under
your feet, Tuilleries, Windsor castles. St.
Hauls St. Peters, St. Marks, cathedrals,
Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumer
able. I know it deyends much on our own
condition what impression these flying
meteors of the snow make.
I shall not forget two rough and unpre
tending wood cuts which I saw iu my boy
fiood side by side; one a pictureof aprosper
ous and farmhouse, lad warmly with clothed all signs looking of comfort, of the
a out
door upon the first flurry of snow, and his
inind no doubt filled with the sound of jin
gling sleigh bells and the frolic with playtel
lows in the deep l anks, an! he, clapping his
hands and shouting, “It snows! it snows!”
The other sketch was of a boy, haggard and
hollow eyed with hunger, looking from the
broken ooor of a wretched home and seeing
in tho falling flakes prophecy of more cold
and less bread and greater privation, wring
ing his hands aud with tears rolling down
his wan cheoks crying, “Oh, my God! it
mows! it snows!" Out of the abundance
that characterizes mo t of our homes may
there be speedy relief to all whom this win
ter finds iu want and exposure.
everlasting And now I propose, for your spiritual guid and
profit, if you will accept my
auce, ders of to crystallization. take you through And some notice ot these first won- God
in the littles. You may take alpenstock and
cross the Mei* de Glace, the sea of ice, and
aS cond Mont Blanc, which ris e into the
clouds like a pillar of the great white Thron?,
or with arctic explorer ascend the mountains
around the nor.h pole, and see glaciers a
thousand feet high grinding against glaciers
three thousand feet high. But I wilt taka
you on a leas pretentious journey and show
y° u ^°d in the snowflake. There is room
enou?h between its pillars for the great Je
liovuh to stand. In that one Dozen drop on
the tip of your Almighty. finger you 1 may find the throne
room of the take up the snow
in my hand and see tho coursers of celestial
The I pavements.
1 telescope is grand, but interested must confess in the
that am quite as much
microscope. The one reveals the universe
shove us; tho other just a? great a universe
beneath us. But the telese pa overwhelms
me, while tbe microscope comforts me. What
you want and 1 want especially is a God in
litt.es. If we were seraphic or arehanjeiic
in our natures we would want to study God
in the preal; but such small, weak, short
lived beings as you and I are want to find
God in the littles.
AVlien 1 see the Maker of the universe civ
ing tiimsetf to the architecture of a snow
finke, and making its shafts, its domes, its
curves, its walls, its irradiations s > perfect I
conciuda He will ioou alter our insignificant
affairs. And if we are of more ro ue than
a vs’.n? sparrow, than most certainly we are of more
nn inanimate snowflake. So the
Bible would chiefly imprest us with God in
the dtt es. It does not sav, “Consider the
clouds,” but st says, “Consider too lilies.” It
does not say, “Behold The tempests'.” but
“Behold the fowls?'and it applauds a cup of
cold water and the widow's two mitss, and
tars tho hairs ot your bead areall numbered
Do not fear, t erefore, that you are going to
be lost in the crowd. Do not tainu that o?
cause snowflake you estimate yourself days' Jauuary as only oue
among a three snow
storm that you will be forgotten. The birth
and death of a drop ot chilled vapor is as
certainly tion regarded by the ln>r as toe crea
big to ana Got! * erudition and nothing of a is planet. nail. Nothing is
s
vY hat am*es tae honey industries of South
Carolina such a source ot' livelihood aud
weaith? It is beeau-e Go l teac les The la ly
lug to mak-an op ning in the rind ol tue
apricot for the bes, who cauuo; otherwise
tbe juices of ti e iruit. So God sen is
tae lady bug ahead to prepare tte way for
bc». h, *»*» a.
each grain of corn order that rna/
ground for winter food in u.
not take root and so rum the little granai .V ■
He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw
pebbles into a hollow tree, that the wat-r f at
down and out of reach may come up within
the reach of the bird’s littles! beat. Wj The liat eaiper a com¬ 01
fort that He is a God in !oo.-nnq
of all the Russias in olden time was
at a map that spread before him his vast
dominions, and ne court not fin l G-ieat but
ain on the map, and he called in hissecretai v
and said: “Where is Great Britain, um
hear so much about?’ “It is under youi
thumb,” said the secretary; an l tus em
peroi ■ raise i his hau 1 from the map an l saw
the country be was looking tor.
time that »vc find th ._
And it is high and under >
mighty reaim of God close by out
own little finger. To drop yon out of His
memory would be to resign His omniscience.
To refuse you His protection^ would be to ab¬
dicate His omnipotence. When von tell me
that He is the God of Juniter.and the God of
Mercury, and the God of Satura, you tell me
something so vast that I cannot comprehend
it. But if you tell me He is the God of the
snowflake, you tell me something I can hold
and measure and realiz'*. Thus the snaadest
snowflake contains a jewel case of conuorh
Fere is an opal, an smethyist, a diamond.
Here is one of the treasures of snow. Take
it for vour present and everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of
accumulate! power. During a snow weigh storm
let an apotheoarv, accustomed to most
deiica-e quantit es, hold his weighing scales
out of the window and let one flake fail oil
the surface of the scales, and it will not even
make it tremble. When you want to ex¬
press extreme triviality of weight you sav,
“Light as a feather.”, hut a snowflake is
much lighter. It is just twenty-four times
lighter than water. And yet the accumula¬
tion of these flakes broke down, a few days
ago. in sight of my house, six telegraph noles,
made helpless nolica an! fire deoartments
and halted rail trains with two thundering
locomotives.
We have already learned so much of the
power of electricity that we have become
careful how we touch the electric wire, and
in many a oa^e n touch has b ;en death. But
a few days ago the snow put its hand on most
of these wires, and tore them down as though
they werecobweb3. The snow said: “You
fieem afrai 1 of the thunderbolt; I wid catch
it and hurl it to the ground. Your boosted
electric lights adorning your cities with bub¬
bles of fire, I will put out as eisilv as vour
ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle.” The
snow put its finger on the lip of our cities
that were talking with each other and they
went into silence, uttering not a word. The
6now mightier than the lightning. stopped Amer¬
In March, 188S. the snow
ica. It said to Brooklyn, “.itav home!” to
New York, “Stay to’Washington, home!" to Philadelphia,
“Stay home!” “Stay home!”
to Richmond, “Stay home!" It put into a
white sepulcher most of this nation. Com¬
merce, whose wheels never stopped before,
stopped then. What was the matter? Power
of accumulated snowflakes. On the top of
the Apennines one flake falls, and others fall,
and they pile up, and they make a mountain
of fleece on the top of a mountain of rock,
until one day a gust of win!, or even tne
voice of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors
into action, and by awful descent they sweep
everything in their course—frees, roeks,
villages—as when in 1827 the town of Bnel,
in land, Valais, three was buried, soldiers and in 1621,in Switzer¬
hundre! were entombed.
These avalanches were made up of single
snowflakes.
Whit tragedies of the snow have been
witnessed by tbe monks of St. Bernard, who
for ag's have with the dogs been busy in ex¬
tricating bewildered and overwhelmed
travelers in Aloine storms, the dogs witii
blankets fastened to their backs and flasks of
spirits helpless fastened travelers, to their necks these to resuscitate
one of dogs decorated
with a medal for haring saved the lives of
twenty-two persons, the brave beast himself
slain of the snow on that day when accom¬
panying a Piedmontese courier on the way to
his anxious household down the mountain,
tbe wife and children of the Piedmontese
courier coming up the mountain in search of
him, au avalanche covered all under pyra*
higher than those under which the
Egyptian monarch? sleep their sleep of the
ages! of the tragedies of
what an illustration
the 8U0W i s found in that scene between
Glencoe and Gleucreran one February in
Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes
forth to bring to his father’s house his
cousin Flora McDonald for the celebration
of a birthdav, and the calm day turns into a
hurricane ol white fury that leaves Ronald
nn< i Flora es dead, to be resuscitate! by
the shepherds! What an exciting struggle
had Bayard Taylor among the wintry
Apennines! by similar force,
i n the winter of 1812, a
the destiny of Europe was decided. The
French army m-rebe l up toward Moscow
five hundred thousand men. What can re
g j s t them? Not bavonets, but the dumb de
menu overwhelm that host. Napoleon hundred re
t.-oats from Moscow with about two
thousand men, a mighty nucleus for another
campaign after he gets back to Paris. The
morning of October 19, when they start for
home, is bright and beautiful. The air is
tonic, and although this Russian will campaign again
has been a failure Napoleon his host try brave m
some other direction with of
surviving Frenchmen,
B ut a cloud comes on the sky and the air
gets chill, aud one of the sol iiers feels on his
cheek a snowflake, and then there is a multi
plication of these wintry messages, an! soon
the plumes of the officers are deckel with an
other style of plume, and then all the skies
] e t loose upon the warriors a hurricane of
snow, and the march becomes difficult, ani
the horses find it hard to puU fail the suoply
train, ant the men begin to under the
fatigue, and many not able to take another
step lie down in the drifts never to rise, an t
the cavalry horses stumble and fall, a id one
thousand of the army fall, and ten thousand
perish, and twenty thousand go down, and
fifty thousand, and a hundred thousand, and
a hundred and twenty thousand and a nun
fired au 1 thirty-tv/o thousand die, and tue
victor of Jena and bridle of Lodi aud Eyiau
an! Austeratz, where tore3 great armies,
commanded by thr*e emperors, surrendered
to him; now himself surrenders to tae snow
flakes.
Historians c!o not seem to recognize that
the tide in that man’s life tur.ie l tro n Dec.
16,1809, when Josephine he banished by hideous divorce
his wife train the pa ace, an d so
caalienged tas Almigaty, an l the Lord
charged upon him from tae fortress of the
sky with ammunition of crystal. Saowe.l
under! Billions, trillions, quidriliious,quin
trillions of flares did toe work. Aniwuata
suggest on of accumulative power, and what
a rebuke to all of us who get discouraged be
cause we cuuaot do much, aud therefore do
nomine!
“Oo,” swssorne nae, “I would like to stop
the forces ox sm and crime that are marching
for the conquests of the nations, but I aa
nobody; J have nei.her wealth nor eloquence
nor social power. VVhat caa l do?" My
brother, hiw much do you weigh? As muea
es a snow It flare! aggregation -Oil. yes.” Then do your
s.iare. is aa of small infiu
enees that will yet put this lost wor d back
into the beso o of a oarionng Gol. Alas taat
there are so many men and wo nea wao will
not use rhe one laio it bectusj they have nos
tea. aud wfll no: give a penny became tney
cannot qive a dollar, and will not speak elo as
well as they can because they are not
iiiiiSi Victory unfai in-'.
aTa^toTre-I , ,
God may we do not think
& h?re- j£££SE£sffiB And tue answer will t: “Yes I
muen applause;
he took most of his pay in earthly
he had enough grace to gat through the gate, Be
but just where he lives I know not.
squeezed through somehow, although I
taink ti!9 patcS took the skirts of his gar
meats, i thins he lives in one of those back
streets in one of the plainer residences.”
“IsiSliii and shall “U hat of
the steps, we sav, one
the hierarchs lives here?” That must be the
residence of a Paul or a Miiton, or some one
whose name rebounds through all the planet
from which we have just ascended.” “No,
no,” says our celestial dragoman; “that is
the residence of a soul whom you never heard
“When she gave her charity her left hand
knew not what her right hand did. She was
mighty in secret prater, and no one hut
God and her own soul knew it. She had
more trouble than anybody in all the land
where she lived, anl without comoiaining
she bore it, and though her talents were
never great, what she had was alt conse¬
crated to God and heloing others, and the
Lord is making up for her earthly privation
by especial raptures here, and the King of
this country had that place built especially
for her. The walls began to go up waen her
trouhles and privations and consecration
began on earth, and it so happened—what a
of heavenly the coincidence!—this iheiast stroke
trowel of amethyst on those walls was
given “You the hour she entered heaven.
know notning of her. On earth her
name was only once in the newspaoers, and
that among the column of the dead, but
she is mighty uo here. There she comes now
out of her palace grounds in her coariot be¬
hind those two white horses for a ride on the
banks of the river that flows from under th3
throne of God. Let me see. Did you not
have in your world below an old classic
which says something about ‘these are they
who como out of great tribulation, and they
shall reign for ever and ever?’ ”
As we pass up the street I find a good many
on foot, and I say to the dragoman: “Who
are these?” And when their name is an¬
nounced T recognize that some of them were
on earth great poets, and great orators, and
great I merchants, and great warriors, and
when express my surprise about their going
afoot the dragoman says: “In this country
people ore rewarded not according to the
number of their earthly talents, hut accord¬
ing to tae use they made of what they had.”
And then I thought to myself: “Whv, That
theory would make a snowflake that fal’s
cheerfully and in tho right place, and does
all the work assignel it. as honorable as a
whole Mont Blanc of snowflakes.”
“Yes. ye ; ,” says the celestial dragoman,
“maDy of these pearls that you find on the
foreheads of the righteous, and many of the
gems in the jewel case of prince and princess,
are only the petrified snowflakes of earthly
tempest, for God does not forget the promise
made in regard to them, ‘They shall be Mine, I
said tbe Lord of hosts, in the day when
make up My jewels.’ ” Accumulated power!
All the prayers and charities and kindnesses
and talents of all the good concentered and
compacted will be the world’s evangelization.
This thought of the aggregation of the many
smalls into that one mighty is another treas¬
ure of the snow.
Another treasure of the snow is the sug¬
gestion of the winter usefulness made of sorrow. all nations Absence sick.
of snow last
That snowless winter has not yet ended its
disasters. Within a few weeks it put tens
of thousands into the grave, an l left others
in homes and hospitals gradually to go
down. Called by a trivial name, the Rus¬
sian “grio,” it was an international plague.
Plenty of snow means public health. world’s There
is no medicine that so soon cures the
malarias as these white pellets that the
clouds homeopathic, administer—pellets but small enough to be
in such large doses as to
be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be
hydropathic. Like a sponge, every flake ab¬
sorbs unhealthy gases. The tables of mor¬
tality in New York and Brooklyn imme¬
diately lessened when the snows of last De¬
cember began to fall. The snow is one of
the grandest and best of the world’s doctors.
Yes, it is necessary for the land’s produc¬
tiveness. Great snows in winter are general¬
ly followed by great harvests next summer.
Scientific analysis has shown that snow con¬
tains a larger percentage of ammonia than
the ram. and hence its greater power of en¬
richment. And besides that, it is a white
blanket to keep the earth warm. An ex¬
amination of snow in Siberia showed that it
was a hundred degrees warmer under the
snow than above the snow. Alpine plants
perished in the mild winter of England for
lack of enough snow to rich keep them warm.
Snow strikes back the gases which other¬
wise would escape in the air and be lost.
Tbank God for the snows, and may those of
February ber January he as plentiful as those of Decern
and have been, high and deep
and wide and enriching; then tne harvests
next July will embroider with gold this en¬
tire American continent.
What mellowed and glorified Wilberforce’s
Christian character? A financial misfortune
that led him to write, “I know not why my
life is spared so long, except it be to show
LneaswithoftTe” 9 John Milton
such keen spiritual eyesi/ht that he could
see the battle of the angeis? Extinguishment
of physical eyesight. What is the highest
observator.v for studying the stars of hope
and KaSSliS golden harvests
most that wave on all
the hills of heavenly rapture? The snows,
the f’een snows, the awtul snows of earthly
Z°o(Ze trt^ure^of totm? 18
Another treasure of the snow is the sngges
tion that this mantle covering the earth Is
like the soul after it is forgiven. “Wash
me,” said the Psalmist, “aud I shall be
whiter than snow." My d?ar friend Gasfc
erie Da Witt went over to Geneva, Switzer¬
land. for tiie recovery of It s healto, but the
Lord had sometcinq better for bim than
earthly recovery. Little fii 1 I think when I
bade him goo I-by one lovely afternoon ou
the other side of the sea to return to Amerlco.
that we would not meet aram till we meet
in heaven. As ne lav one Sa’obath morning
on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the win
do w open, he was looking cut tr.ori Kont
Blanc. The air was clear. That great
mountain stood in its robe of sno v, glitter
ing in the morning and my friend said
to dis wile: “Jennie, do you know what tuat
snow on Mount Btanc makes me think
It makes me think that the righteousness of
Christ anl the pardon of God cover all tb»
sins aud imperfections of my life, as that
snow covers up that mountain, for the ,
promise is that though our sins bo as scarlet, V
thsy shall be as white as snow.” Was not
llSSSsSa the tenet of obsolete theology
take it as an Wemust
that our nature £ conmp^ be
soul in melted snow he would still be cov
water, “ ,d ^“® be ftn^tiie ditofc
yet amt snalt mine thou t own c r otaos | ,e ,h;i iw*l abio- abac.me iS
pods e „ mus me.cy L be we can be "id whiw
-
t han snow. holiness „ft’ man
shad see the Lord.” On, for . tae cleansing
Ip|ppili§l Int the right hand. No- one All we, like
sheep, -And yet have we gone may be astry. made Unclean v.n.Lei t ! lan unclean! snow
whiter thanthat which, on a coid niters
morning, arter a night ol Suurm, e.^tnes the
tree from bottom oi trunk to top of highest
branen, whiter than that wn ch this hour
makes the Adirondack?, and the Sierra
Nevada and Mount Washington heights of
pomp aud splendor fit to enthrone an arch¬
angel. the time of Graham, the essayist,
m m one
mountain district of Scotian;! an average of
ten shepherds perished every winter in the
snow drifts, an i so he proposed that at the
distance of every mile a pole fifteen feet high
and with two cross pieces be erectel, show¬
ing the points of the compass, and a bell
hung at the top, so that every breeze would
ring it. and so tbe lost one on the mountains
would hear the sound and take the direction}
given by this pole with the cross that pieces proposed and
get safely home. Whether
plan was adopted or not I do not know, but
1 declare to all you who are in the heavy anr)
blinding drifts of sin and sorrow that ther{
is a cross near by that can direct you to horns
and peace and God; and hear you not thi
ringing of the gospel bell hanging to that
cross, saying, “Tnis is the way; walk ye l i
it?”
THE TRADES UNIONS
To Demand the Work on the
World’s Fair Building’s.
The organized labor of Chicago hotly
asserted itself Sunday regarding the
world’s fair. It was ft regular meeting
of the trade and labor assembly body,
said to represent 47,000 workmen, and
one of whose membeis was given recogni¬ a seat
in the worid’s fair directory in
tion of §800,000 subscribed by workiug
men to the guarantee fund of ihe fair,
James O'Connell, president of the assem¬
bly, ■ ilered the following:
Whereas, The present directory of said
exposition indicate their intention of re¬
fusing to recognize union labor, but
threaten to - emply indiscriminately non¬
union labor, thereby flooding the labor
market of Chicago wi h the ultim de de¬
sign of destroying the trades unions;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, as union men,
protest against this treacherous action of
the directors of the World’s Columbian
exposition, and unless immediate action
is taken by that body to redeem their
implied pledges given in regard to union
labor, we will deem it our duty to op¬
pose iu every way any further legislation,
either municipal, state or national, in fa¬
vor of said World’s Columbian exposi¬ alt
tion, and we hereby recommend
workingmen who have subscribed for
said stock to decline to pay any further
assessments until proper assurances are
given by the directors that the said im
pli>d pledges will be kept; and be it
further
Resolved, That unless satisfactory as¬
surances are given by the directors that
their indicated action will be changed,
we shall deem it our duty to ask ihe co¬
operation of every body of organized
labor throughout the country to assist us
in making our protest emphatic.
Tbe resolution was carried without op¬
posite n. The men will go before the
world’s fair direntorv with the above res¬
olution and ask further that eight hours
be made a day’s in the constitution of the
world’s fair buildings.
FOR THE TONNAGE BILL.
Business Men of Richmond Urge
Its Passage.
The board of diri ctors of the Chamber
of Commerce of Ri< imond, Va., held a
special meeting Saturday night to con¬
sider what is commouly known as tho
tonnage bill now pending in congress,
which provides for a per; entage allowance
by the government to a l American ves
sels, steame s or otherwise, which go to
foreign ports. A delegation from Nor
of ^ the appeared measure, before which, the it board is agieed, in behalf will
be of vast benefit to all ports of the
United States, especially m view r of re
ciprocitv treaty with Brazil. Res dutions
uu .uimouslv Hiiopted ,ha
kill, ask ids the Virginia represent auves
to vote in favor of it, aud appointing a
committee of two to go at once to Wash
in « t0D to advocat e the passage of the bill.
ad w con « ress
MAYOR WORD’S VERSION
Regarding His Attack on Rev.
Sara Jones.
Mayor J. J. Wo a, of Pales'inc, Texas,
published a card Fridiy, in which and he
says the trouble between Sam Jones
himself «as on account of pel’s c al mat¬
ters. and not because the evang -list crit
j t j 8ed his offic]a i act ; 0 ns. The mayor
s-«ys: .eyi’u-i hile p-Ir. i* Jo t es \ras , here he
took it upon himself to refer in the most
ins dting language to mv private life and
habits before my wife and children;
lienee my attack upon him. As for my
official conduct, that is open to the scru
tiny of right-minded men."
