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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA, GA-, ???TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 1885. TALMAGE IN THE WEST, sermon preached in cglumbus, OHIO, YESTERDAY. On the Bntd??et- H Oriaw tin Lifo,- to an Overnowlog Eoute-Some Good Advice to Young Hen-Sow TMy mould ??tirt In Lll??. and wait to Do Alter SUrtlna-otRer Holnta. Columbus, O., December 5.???[Special.]??? Bev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., arrived in this city yesterday afternoon. The news that the celebrated Brooklyn preacher would deliv cr a sermon in the First Congregational church, Bev. Washington Gladden, pastor, drew a crowd numbering seyeral thousand to the doors this morning. Many were turned away unable to find seats. Dr. TalmAge read and expounded the parablo of the Prodigal Son, and then announced the subject 6f his dis course, ???Crises in Life,??? and the text, 11 Sam uel, xviil, 32: ???Is the young man Absalom safe???? Dr. Talmage, said: Two great characteristics of Absalom were worldly ambition and splendid hair. By the one he was debased,by- the other hung. Ho was a bad boy and broke his' father???s heart. He wanted to get his father???s throne before the decease of tlio father. Ho wanted to get it Immediately. He got an army. He started out in a great insurrection. David, tho father, sits at tho palace waiting for tho new3 of tho battle to come, not so anxious about whether Absalom's hosts won the day, or whether hla own hosts won the day, as he is anxious about the safety of his boy. The father in him mightier than the king. While he sits there watching and waiting for the coming of a messenger from the battle field, he secs the dust rising in the highway, and long before tho messenger comes up, bring* ing the swift dispatch,.David cries out to him: ???14 Absolom alive? Is Absolcm dead/ Is the boy wounded? Tell me quickly???is the???young man, Alfiolom, safe???? But as tho messenger had no-very decisive intelligence to give, bo ctood{ aside. There David sat waiting for au- ??tlur messenger, and after n while he saw tho dust rising ou tho highway and long before tho tncfmiger had come up, David shouted to him again???shouts to this oxto ns he had to tho other: ??????Have you heard anything from my boy? Is he wounded? Is he alive? Is he dead? Is tho young man Absolom safe???? Alas! he was not safe. Absalom, riding on ?? mule, the meanest animal in all the world on which to ride, the hardest at the bit and the stiffest at the neck???Absalom, riding on a mule, had gone under a tree branch, and his hair had caught on the tree branch: and tho mule, true to its characteristics, had gone on, he not able to stop it, ahd Absalom was sus* pended, and so he died. With an awful nega* tire the words of my text were answered: ???Is the young man, Absalom, safe???? No. ho Was not safe. Destroyed for this life???destroyed for the life to come. I Want to utter a few words this morning in regard to tho safety of young men, indeed, of allmen. While men may get along tolerably well without the religion of Christ, in somo circumstances of life, there are three or four turning points wheroaman must have God or perish, or if ho does not come to such a cri sis asthat???to such an extremo as that, he must have God or make a raistako that will last forever. I propose this morning to speak to you of three or four of these turning points to you in life. occupation or profession. It is a very serious time when a young man comes from the school or the college, and has completed his educa tion, or has received all tho education from the school ho will_ receive, and says: ???But ation, rofession, am I prepared???? 1??? J spread before him a hundred d! cupatlons. Professional life IwIU spread be fore him soven or eight callings. Indeed, per haps in all there may bo five hundred differ ent callings and occupations. For qnly one of these five hundred is he fitted and prepared. If he docs not have divine direction. 409 chances to ono he will get in the Svrong busi ness. In other words, the most tremendous crisis perhaps In a man???s life, or ono of tho most tremendous, is the time when ho chooses his occupation or profess! ??? ??? " ??? to tell him bow to choose. I knew a man who started in commercial life with bright prospects. Ho crossed over from commercial lifo into tho medical pro fession. Ho went from tho general medical profession into spcclfio surgery. Ho wont from surgery into the ministry. Then ho passed from the ministry into surgery, and so ills life has been a complete vacillation. How much better ii would have been tf that man could have got the right profession or occu pation at tho start! He was particularly qualified for surgery, aud I bclievo if ho had ?? onc before God and asked for His direction o would have received it, aud instead of go ing rrom ono occupation to another, making bis life a mistake, he would have gone on to great usefulness and success. You ask your father what yon liad better do. Ho will give one kind of ad vice, he will tioin doubt as to whether yon have physical endurance for this, or mental acumen for that, or tact for same other business. At such* time one needs to go to God. God built your body, aud he knows what is your physical en durance. God constructed your mind, and ho knfcws for what occupation you have particu lar adaptation. Go to Him and ask the ques tion: ???Lord, what wilt Thou have mo to do???? I meet many young men in this house this morning, who have not perhaps thoroughly de cided upon the work or occupation for which th6 Lord has fitted thexp. Before you leave the house to-day ask God???s direction, that yon may moke no mistake. Blander here and you blunder forever. You know a great many men whe have been ruined for two worlds bc- caure they are in tho wrong business. Another important jiass in one???s life, a turn ing point in one???s history, is tho time when lie establishes his own home. When a man builds his home he builds for eternity. Is it not amazing that affiancing in lifo is so often a matter of merriment and of joke, when it depidcs so much for this world and tho world to come. I do not put the case too strongly when 1 say, that when a man marries he mar ries for heaven or for hell. Oh, build not jrour home on earth upon tho sparkle of ??? bright eye or the colur of a fair cheek. The time will come in your history when you will want in your homo, not a pet or a toy, but a heroine, and you will find that life is not a gay romance but a tremendous reality; ??nd coming homo from your store or office, or ???hop, or factory, or studio, most of all you will need somo one in your home with a Dice checrihl but sympathetic. There is an aged man- who looks back to a crisis in life when his fortune went away and reason almost left the throne. He knew not what to do. Ho remembers a particular even ing when he came home from the store. He hardly dared break the news to the wife. He could not bear to tell he had suspended In business, that be had stopped payment, that bis fortune had gone. He went into the house, he closed the door upon the world, and In domestic peace found a foretaste of that heaven where panics never come. Ah 1 If it had not been for that help that you had, what would have been the result when yon told her of ycur financial embarrassment and mis fortune? She was cheerftil, she was sympa thetic, she was helpful. She helped too all through those dark days of trial, and after the piano went she could sing without t he accom pan- iment jUst as well as she ever sang with the accompaniment. There have been Christian wcr.cn who have so had their domestic troubles sanctified that they could get more music cut of ??? Wheeler A Wilson sewing machine than ever In the days of tbelr prosperity they got out of a Chickcring grand , or a Steinway. A Christian minister in England called upon a here of great destitution. There were the hnshond, the wife and there were the children. No comfort in the household. Everything in dicative of want and straggle. The minister of jtklfindBii totbii young man: ???Your mistake was in marrying so early. Do yoa not think that was the mistake of your life???? The mail had becu told that that had been tho mistake of his life before. The minister said: ???Jt would have been a great deal better tor yoa to have gone on and got something of a proper ty .before you entered into the marrlago estate. Don???-t you think it would have been better???? And then the young man looked around and his eyes filled with tears as ho looked to his poorly clad wife and said: ???No, sir; she???s been the same to me all through!??? ??? Ah, there ore some of you who would never have known what your homes were worth if troublo had not come. Perhaps your compan ion in life may have been too fond of tho world aud its gayetics; but one touch of misfortune turned her into a Miriam shouting the triumph en the banks of the Bed Sea. If you have spoken of frivolity and fondness of display as the chief characteristic of woman, you may have to correct your mistake in some bitter pass in life, when, all other resources having failed, you are upheld by a wife???s hand, sud denly armed of the Lord God Almighty for that emergency. Oh, in this tremendous pass of your earthly existence, cry unto God, and gsk hto direction. Make a mistake hero and you make it forever. Walter Scott wrote something, half of which I do not like, for it is sarcastic, but the other half I do like, for it is so true: ???O woman! In our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please: When pain and anguish wrini ??? V ministering angel tin ...ing tho brow, itcring angelthou.??? Blessed that home in which the newly mar ried couple dedicate their souls to Christ. Blessed the family Bible In which their names have just been written. Blessed tho hour of morning and evening prayer. Blessed the an gels of God, who join wing tip to wing tip over that home, making a canopy of light and love and blessedness. It may be only yesterday that they clasped hands forever. Tno orange blossoms may fail and the fragranco may die on the air, hut they who marry in Christ shall walk together on tho day when tho church, which is the Lamb's wife, shall take the hand of her Lord and King amid the swinging of tho golden censers. Again, I remark: It is a tremendous pass in life when a man comes to his first great sue- You get in tho cars some evening. Everybody that looks at you knows there has something glad happened. You sit down in the car, your face illuminated, and a lady comes in. There is no place for her to sit, and you get up in great cheer and insist on her taking your place, and with great courtesy slio says, ???Thank you,??? and aits down. You say nothing to anybody, but it is evident from your manner and appearance that great good fox tune has happened uuto you. Now, that is a crisis in your life. At such a time tho ucstions will arise: ???In what enterprise shall invest ? What shall bo the house I will live in? What shall bo the library? What shall be my ward-ro-be? What shall I do with my money ???? At that point hundreds of men make a fatal mistake. Some go into dissipation. Some take on great arroganco, try to make everybody feel how small they are; wholti caravans of camels going through tho noedle's cyo of their mean* ness. They walk through tho street with an air, ns much ns to say: ???Get out of tho way! Hero comes three hundred thousand dollars!??? That is.tho crisis in life where so many fail, because they have no God to direct tho. There are men who before their success, are kind and amiable, and genial and useful, who, after their success, aro arrogant anil unbeara ble and unchristian. Here is a man who was onco very useful in society, but great success comes and ho gets in his cquipogo and he drives i: bedashes the fiery steeds; ho goes faster ??ud faster, eight miles the hour, twenty miles the hour, one hundred miles the hour, faster and faster, until in his last moments ho rouses up to find that ho is drawn by tho fiery hoofs of eternal disaster ns they come racketting down on tho pavement of hell. O, young man, or man In mid-life! yon want God in your great success, your first great success. Another tremendous pass in our lifo is when we get our first sorrow. It would bo foolish for me to talk to tho young men of this day as though their life Was going to be smooth all the way. You might os well start a sea captain in a vessel without a carpenter, and without any tools, and without any cordage. That would do very well while the sea was smooth, but when the ship gets caught in the teeth of a north easter, and the waves dash clear over tho hur- icano deck, then tho 'Where???s the carpenter? Where are the ropes ???? The young meu of this day would understand that I misrepresented the matter, if I told them their life was always to bo egiooth. They know better. They know from what they sec of tho life of others, that life cannot always bo smooth. Many men came home from the lato war without a scratch or a bruise, but in the conflict of life it Is not so; wc all get wounded???wounded in tho head, in the hands, in the feet, in the heart, Lifo is a conflict. Tho Bible over and over again states that. Haul states it, and he writes h Jin- seif ns in a war with the world, a war with tho flesh and a war with tho dovll, and war all tho w are you going to That is the question. Show me how yon nro to moot your first trou ble, and I will show yon how you meet all tho other troubles. It is tho first blow that sends man to drinking to drown his troubles, that knocks the fire out of him so he spends tho rest of his life cowed down. Who is that weigher In that largo commer cial establishment? He once ojvpnd the store. Who is that underling in a largo manufiictur- ing establishment, getting one or two thousand n year? Ho once owned the thetory. but mis fortune came, the first blow brought him to the dust and he never had the courage to rise. O, how important is the manner in which wo re ceive the first sorrow! Perhaps tho first trouble is bereavement. I suppose you know???I suppose you have recog nized the fact, that so often tho first born is taken. I have seven brothers and sisters. Each one lost the first born, and I suppose that in hundreds of coses In this house, it was tho first born that was taken. Some peoplo give what to me a very absurd reason for that. They ~f it is because the * io not think that any father or mother loved a child too much. You cannot love your child too much. God did not take your child because you loved it too much. I think this is the reason why God so often takes tho first born: It is to transfer your affections to heaven, and make that place more grand and beared. At tho beginning of your lifo nuking heaven blessed, so that you . Igof that nlnco and no beelov ??? * and lifted on toward reason. Perhaps I am wrong. I am sore the other reason is wrong, that so many people give when they say it is because you love your child too much. Now suppose the first trial comes and yon have no God. What then? Have you ever tried to see one go through bereavement with out God? I have witnessed that sad spectacle. But we want grace, we want Divino grace, when bereavement cornea into the house which once, of which dous crisis, when we will want God. I say that not more to you than I do to myself. We will want ged in that crisis, And that pass is the last hour. I supposes we all would like to expire at home. Wc want our friends in tho room, somo to recite the promise, some to sing, one to hold the hand. We want to look up in faces that have been familiar to us a good while, and wo will have messages to give.. If we are parents, we will want to tell our children how tlio' cught to act when we are gone, what princi pies they ought to adopt, how near thoy ough to live to God. And if wc have aged parents living, wo will want to tell our children liow they ought to act toward the old people, how they ought to caro for them after wo aro gono. I think when we leave this world wo will all have a message to give to somebody. Whou. that hour comes we will want Christ. Wo will want a divine friend to stand by us, and to say thAt all shall bo well in tho future. ???When thou pnssest through the waters I will bo with thee, and through the rivers; they shall not overflow tliec.??? But you know very well that if wc go out of this world, my brother, without Christ, wc take a leap into tho dark. Who w ould want to go out of tho world like that when ho can go in triumph inde scribable? Like Paul saying: ???I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, 1 have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for mo a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, tho righteous Judge will give me.??? Or that other battle shout: ???0 death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks he unto God who piveth mo tho victory through my Lord Jesus Christ. ??? Well, there aro a good many men in tho house who say: ???What you have declared this morning is the truth, but 1 am so far gono in sin that there is no hopo for me.??? Oh, my brothers! There you mako a great mistake. 1 stand here this morning to declare there is hope for any man who WAnta to come to God. ???Let the wicked forsake his wav and the un righteous man his thoughts, and lot him re turn unto tlio Lord whopvill have mercy, and unto cur God, who will abundantly pardon.??? Come this morning. ???O,??? ye say, ???Jf you knew my history you wouldn???t invite ine.??? I do not core what your history is; como to God today. ???Whosoever will.??? That word ???who soever??? covers all cases of wandorings, of iniq uity. ???Whosoever will let him come,??? ???But,??? soys somo one in the house, ???I havo * in the line of iniquity, and I am going * ~ * ??? icfi started _ ??? on; I will risk the future; I haven???t mud faith in Christianity; I am going to havo an OUR COAST DEFENSES. A REMARKABLE LETTER FROM HON, SAMUEL J. TILDEN, in Which Ha Urges the Necessity of as Immediate Improvement or Our Coeat Defenaes-A Re markable Letter from the Oreat States man of Orammevey Perk, Etc. the door, and biases flung by little hands from ??? ??? * - - * ep., tho the window as you went down the front >te| and the doves in the nest cry because hawk swoops, and the cheek pales, and eyes close, and the heart stops. Oh, to put away garments that never be worn again, to gather up from the floor the tors that never again will * strew tho carpet and to go with a sense sf suffocation through the desolated household that once rang with childish merriment! Ob, my God! who can stand that without Thy grime to help, without Thy grace to smootbe, without Thy grace to comfort? Oh, you will want Christ in your first trouble, and so I beg of you this morning to take Him as yours. You say you are strong and well. So am I. You say that life is buoyant and beautiful. So it is to me. But sickness will come to you and it will come to me. We shall be told we can not go out, tho door will be closed against the world, there will be two watches, and some wUI order silence on the ttairs^aying: ???Hush, buab!??? and in yonr dream you will hear the dash of water, which you will take to be the beating of the ware of Jordan against your pillow, and you will hear a sound at the which you will take to be ??? pale bone. Oh! then you physician; we will want Christ to come iuand tut his arm around us and say: ???Fear not; all is well, all is well??? Bnt there is one more pass of great import- iture.??? Oh, will you *not bo diverted from that course? Will you not now realiao the fact that you want God ? Oh, hew much you need him! It may take a great struggle to bring you back; bnt come back you may and you will; this morning somo of you will. May God by IDs holy spirit movo upon your heart! 1 have sometimes heard people say it is as easy for them to become Christians as to turn their hands. Ob, what a misrepresentation that is! It takes the blood. It Is tho mightiest struggle in all tho world when a man, who kgs been doing unong, tries to do right. It is a mightier struggle than ItVould ask any man to go into, unless ho lays hold of.tho strong arm of God, who will help him, and who will de liver him. Eomc years ago there was an excursion steamer somo miles nbovo Niagara Falls. There were many on the excursion, many passengers, and tho boat floated on down towards tho rapids; but the captain cxpcctod to return in time to avoid all danger, and they wore laugh ing on tho deck, when somo ono said to tlio captain: ???Aro yon not going too far down???? He said; ???No: I know what I am about.??? After a while he told tho engineer to turn and go up stream; hut Id I tho captain found thoy were farther down towards the rapids than he thought for. Ho cried to the enginoor: ???Put on more steam!??? More steam was applied. But still t^f*|(Suner with Its freight of life kept-going on towards tho rapids. Tlio captain . cried out to tho enginoor: ???Put on more steam.??? More steam was applied, but still tho vessel made no headway up stream. Tho captain cried out: ???Put on more steam, or we are all lost!??? Tho engineer said: ???We can???t put on any more steam, if wo do, we???ll blow tho boat to atoms.??? ???rut on more steam,??? cried tho captain. Mora steam was applied, and tho vessel floated un and out .into'safety, and somo fainted and all were thankful that God had rescued them from so great,peril. Oh, are there not somo here to-day who are floating on down towards tho rapids, aye, they are in tho molds going on towards tho eternal plunge? Pul hack! In God???s namo put back, You say it takes a greater strugglo, Lay hold tho oars with both hands, and pull, null, If need bo until tho blood starts. Pull for heaven. Now or qevor! The Ilrolcrn Battalions. BY PAUL If. ItAYNB. The rounds of tupiult have ceased to ring And the Hattie???s suu has set, ??? And here in the peace of the new-born spring, Wo would faiu forgive and forget. Forget the rage of the hostile years, And the scars Of a wrong unshrtven, Forgive the torture that thrilled to tears The angels calm hi heaven. Forgive and forget! Yea, be it aol From the hlU* to the broad sea-wares, But mournfol and low are the winds that blow, By the slopes of A thousand graves! We may scourge from the spirit all thought of 111 In the midnightof ictorn held fast, And yet O brothers, bo loyal still To the sacred and stainless Post. 8hc is glancing now from the vapor and cloud From the waning mansion of Mars, And the pride of her beauty is wanly bowed, And her eyes are misted stars. fispci There Is duty still to be done, And she points with a tremulous hand below To the wasted and worn array Of the heroes who strbve In the morning glow. Of the grandeur that crowned ???the Gray." 0 Gcd, they come not as once they came, In the magical years of yore, For the trenchant sword and the soul of flamo Shall quiver ard flash no moro.J Alas! for the broken and battered hosts, ???Frail wrecks from a gory sea, Though pale as a band^tom the realm of ghosts Salute them! they fought with Lee. And gloried when dauntless Rtonowall marched, Like a giant o???er held and flood, Where the bow of his splendid victories arched Tlio tempest whose rain is???blood! Fabric them! Those wlrtftxl and sunken eyes, Flashed lightning of sacred Ire, When the laughing bluc^of the southland's skies, Was blasted with cloud and fire! Falutctbcm! Their voices so fklnt today Were once the thunders of strife, In the rtorm of the hottest and wildest fray That ever has mocked at life. Not vanquished, bnt crushed by a mystic Fate, Blind nations against them hurled, By the selfish might and the causeless bate Of the banded and brutal world. Enough! All fates are the servants of God, And they follow Ilia guiding hand, We shall rise some day from the Chastener'a rod, Khali waken and understand. But hark! To the Past she murmurs ???come, The re???s a duty rtlU to be done. Though mu*e Is the drum and the bugle dumb, And the battle U lost and wont??? ???No palace is here for the heroes??? needs. With Its shining portals apart Shall they find peace of their ???Invalided??? O couth, in your grateful Heart. A Refbge of welcome, with living walls And Love for Its radiant dome, Till the music of Death???s revieiie calls The Knls of the warrior???Rome.??? Cough Hjxvpi Posture chick; comparative hen; super!at!re New Torn, December 4.???Hon. Samuel Tildenhas sent the following letter to Hon, JohnG. Carlisle: Gbkystoke, Yonkers, N. Y., December L???Dear Mr. Carlisle: As public opinion points to you as speaker of tho next house of representatives, I desire to submit a suggestion as to ono of tho public ob jects for which on appropriation ought to be prompt and liberal. In.considering the state and manage ment of public revenues, tho subject 'In volves the question, whether wo shall tingulsh tho surplus by reducing the rov< enuc, or whether we shall apply tho surplus to the payments on public debts; or whether we shall seize tho occasion to provide for ottr seacoast defenses, which have been long neglected, lam of the opinion that the latter is a paramount neces sity which ought to rrccode tho reduction of reve nue, and ought to precede excessive rapidity In tho payment of the public debt. The property exposed to destruction In twelvo seaports???Portland, Portsmouth, Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Galveston and 8an Fran cisco???cannot be lea in value than flvo thousand million dollars. To this must be added tho vast amount of property dependent for its use on theso seaports. Nor docs this statement afford a truo measure of the damage which might l>c caused to the property and business of tho country by failure to protect these seaports from hostilo naval attacks. They are centers, ifot only of foreign commerce, but of most of the internal trade and exchanges of domestic productions. To this stato of things tho machinery of the transportation whole country has become adapted. The interruption of the currents of traffic by the occupation of ono or more of our principal seaports by a foreign enemy, or tho destruction of them by bombardment, or the holding over them the menace of destruction for the purpose of exact ing contribution or ransom, would inflict upon the property and business of the country Injury which can neither bo foreseen or measured. Elaborate and costly fortifications which were constructed with the greatest engineering skill, aro now practically useless. They are not capable of resisting tho attacks of modem artillery. 8tlll tho greater defect exists in our coast defenses. Tho range of the best modern artillery hu become so extended that our present fortifications designed to protect the hariwr of Now York, where two-thirds of the Import trade, and more than half of the export trade of the wholo United States la carried on, are too near the great populatlonsof Now York city, Jersey City and Brooklyn, to be of any value as protection. To provldo effectual defenses would be the work of years. It would take much time to construct permanent fortifications. A small provision of the best modem guns would tako sev eral years. Neither of these works !can bo extem porized !h thc.prcscnco of emergent danger. A million soldiers, with tho best equipments, on tho heights surrounding tlio harbor of New York, in ottr present stato of preparation, or rather in our total want of preparation, (would be powerless to resist a small squadron of war steamers. Tills state of things is discreditable to our fore sight and prudence. The best guarantee against aggression, and the best assurance that our diplomacy Will bo successful and pacific, and that our rights and honor will be respected by other nations, is in their knowlcdgo that wo are in the situation to vindicate our reputation and inter ests. While we may afford to bo deficient ixx the means of offonse, we can???t afford to be defenaeloa. The notoriety of the fact that wo ??? have neglected the ordinary precautions of defense invites the went of consideration in our diplomacy, Injustice, arrogance and insult at tho hands of foreign na tions. It is no more than sixty ycoraslnco we announced to the world that wo should resist any attempts, from whatover quarter they might come, to mako any new colonisation on any part of tho American coptlncnt; that while we would respect tho status quo, we should protect the people of different na tions Inhabiting thlsleontlnent from every attempt to subject them to tho domination of any foreign power ortOixfierfere with their undJitartied.exerctso of tlio rights or self-government. This announce ment was formally made by President lfonroo, after consultation with lfr. Madison and Mr. Jeffer son. It was formulated by John Quincy Adams. Our government has firmly adhered to the Monroo doctrine, and-evon so late as 18G5 it warned Napol eon out of Mexico. It Is Impoalblo to forcsoo in tho recent scramble of European powers for acquisi tion of colonies, bow soon occasion may arise for our putting In practice the Monroo doctrine. It is clear there ought to bo some relation between our assertion of that doctrino and our preparation to maintain it. It Is not intended to recommend any attempt to rival the great European poworslu tho creation of powcrftil navies. The changes which havo rapidly occurred by tho diminu tion of the relative resisting power of Iron clads and by the increased efficiency of mod cm artillery, which on tho wholo has gained in competition, suggest that we should not at present enter largely into the creation of armored vessels. In questions that beset this subjs havo reached a solution, wo can??? with adding but sparingly to our nary. But what we do add should be the very best that science and experience can indicate. This prudential view is reinforced by the consideration that tho annual charge of maintaining a war vessel bears an lm- poxlant proportion to the original cost of construc tion. In the constructing of permanent fortifica tions and in providing an ample supply of the modern artillery, the annual cost oft maintenance Is Inconsiderable Nearly the wholo expenditure is In the origins! outlsy for the construction. If we don???t make the expenditure neemory to provide for our sea coast defenses when we have a sin plus and have no need to levy new taxes, we certainly will not make these r **??? wc have no longer a surplus In have our vast interests defenseless In order to re duce the cost of wliliktfo .Its consumcrs.would be a solecism. The present timo is peculiarly favor able for providing for this great national necessity too long neglected. Not only docs the surplus in the treasury supply ample means to meet this groat public want without laying new burdens on the people, but the work can now bo done at a much ower cost than lias ever before been possible. De fensive works would consist almost entirely of steel and iron. These materials can now be bad at unprccedently low prices. The vast supply of machinery and labor called Intojcxlstcnce J*y the great vicissitude in steel andiron Industries offers itself to our service. We should have the satisfac tion of knowing that while we were availing our selves of the supplies which would preraarily be unattainable, we were setting In motion impor tant endustrice and giving employment to labor In a period of depression, with encouragement by the guarantee of work, or.'perhaps by tho govom- incut itself furnishing the plant. If the???In veil tire genius of our people would be applied to the crea tion of new means and improved machinery and cftablhhments would spring Into existence capa ble of supplying all national wants, rendering uv completely Independent of all other countries in respect to the means of nstf onsljrlefense, I endeavored to Impress these ideas upon Mr. Rsndall the lest time I had tho pleasure of seeing him. With my highest regards to Mrs. Carlisle and yourself, I remain, 8. J. Tildes. Very truly yours, LKUON ELIXIR. An Old CUItin of Atlanta, Os. By the recommendation of Rev. C. C. Davis I used Dr. Mosley???s Lemon Elixir for a severe case of Indi- gettion, palpitation of the heart, constipation and biliousness. 1 also suffered greatly with gravel and great pains In the back end kidneys, unable to standalone. I was treated by many physicians and used many remedies, but got no relief Dr. Mosley's Lnoon Elixir alone has made a perfect cure of all these diseases. My, wife has suflfered greatly with constipation and sick beadachesjrom which she could get no relief. The Lemon Elixir has peimanently cured her. A. C. Asxold, 22 Ella street. Atlanta, Ga. Lemon Ifot Drops. Da. R. 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