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YOUR CONDITION.
The Bible Account is Not Exag
gerated
When It Says You Are Miserable, Blind and
Naked-Sermon by llev. T. Be Witt Tal
inage, 1). I>.
Bhookltx, -'Hie subject of Dr.
Talmage’s discourse this morning was
“(Salutation Front the Chariot,” and his
text, 11. Kings, x., 15 : “Is thine heart
right!”
With mettled horses at full speed, for he
was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu, the
warrior and King, returns from battle.
But seeing Jehonadab, an acquaintance,
by the wayside he shouts, “Whoa! whoa!”
to the lathered span. Then leaning over
to Jehonadab Jehu saluted him in the
wortls of the text—words not more appro
priate for that hour and that place than
for this hour and place.
Is thine Ueart right! I should like to
hear of your physical health. Well, my
self, 1 like to have every body else welt,
and so might ask, is your eyesight right,
your hparing right, your nerves right,your
mugs right, your entire body right! But
1 an! busy to-day taking diagnosis of the
more important spiritual conditions.
I should like to hear of your financial
welfare. 1 want every body to have plea-,
ty or money, ample apparel, large store
house and comfortable residence; and 1
might ask: “Is your business right, your
income right, your worldly surroundings
right!” But what are these financial ques
tions compared with the inquiry as to
whether you have been able to pay your
debts to Cod; as to whether you are in
sured for eternity; as to whether you are
ruinjng yours ;lf by the long credit system
of the soul! 1 have known men to|liave no
more than one loaf of bread at a time, and
yet to own a government bond of Heaven
woiffh more than the whole material uni
verse.
The question I ask you to-day is not in
regard to your habits. I make no inquiry
about your integrity, or your chastity, or
your sobriety. Ido not mean to stand on
the outside of tlie gate and ring the bell;
but coming up the steps I open the door
and come to the private apartment of the
soul, and, with the earnestness of a man
that must give an account for this day’s
Work, I cry out, ‘ Oh, man! Oh, woman
immortal! Is thine heart right
I will not insult you by an argumeut to
prove that we are by nature all wrong. If
there be a factory explosion, and the
smokestack be upset, and the wheels be
broken in two, and the engine unjointed,
and the ponderous bars be twisted, and a
man should look in and say that nothing
was the matter, you would pronounce him
a fool. Well, it needs no acumen to dis
cover that our nature is all atwist and
askew and unjointed. The tiding doesn’t
work right. The biggest trouble wo have
in the world is with our souls.
Men sometimes say that though their
not be just right, their heart is
nil right. Impossible! A farmer never
puts the poorest apples ou top of his bar
rel, nor does the merchant place the mean
est goods in his show window. The best
part of us is our outward life. Ido not
stop to discuss whether we all fell in
Adam, for we have been our own Adam,
and have all eaten of the forbidden fruit,
and have bean turat'd out of the paradise
of holiness and peace; and though the
flaming sword that stood at the gate
to keep us out has changed position and
comes behind to drive us in, we will not
Tiie Bible account of us is not exagger
ated when it says that we arc poor and
wretched and miserable and blind and
naked. Poor: the wretch that stands
shivering on our doorstep on a cold day is
not so much in need of bread as we are of
spiritual help. Blind : why.the man whose
eyes perished in the powder blast, and
who for these ten years lias gone feeling
his way from street to street, is not in
such utter darkness as we. Naked: why,
there is not one rag of holiness left to
bide the shame of our sin. Sick: why, the
leprosy has eaten into the bend and the
heart and the hands and the feet, and the
marasmus of an everlasting wasting
away has already seized on some of us.
But the meanest thing for a man to do is
to discourse about an evil without pointing
a way to have it remedied. Ispeak of the
thirst of your hot tongue only, that I may
show you the living stream that drops
crystalline and sparkling from the Rock
of Agps, and pours a river of gladness at
you v feet. If I show you the rents in
your coat, it is only because the door of
God’s wardrobe now swings open; and
here is a robe, white with the fleece
of the Lamb of God, and of a cut and
tnqke that an angel would not be ashamed
to wear. If I snatch from you the black,
moldy bread that you are munching, it is
only to give yon the bread made out of the
finest wheat that grows on the celestial
hills, and baked in the fires of the Cross,
one crumb of which would bo enough to
ninke all Heaven a banquet. Hear it, one
and all. and tell it to your friends when
you go. home, that the Lord Jesus Christ
cau make the heart right.
First, we need a repenting heart, If for
the last ten, twenty or forty years of life
we have been going on in the wrong way
it is time that we turn around and start in
the opposite direction. If we offend our
friends, we are glad to apologize. God is
cur best/' friend, and yet how many of us
have never apologized for the wrongs we
have done Him.
There is nothing that we so much need
to got rid of as sin. It is a horri
ble black monster. it. polluted Eden. It
killed Christ. It lias blasted the world.
Men keep dogs in kennels, and rabbits in
a warren, end cattle in a pen. What a
man that would be who would shut them
up in his parlor! But this foul dog of sin
and these herds of transgression we have
entertained for many a long year in our
heart, which should bo the cleanest, bright
est loom in all our nature. Out with the
vile herd! Be gone, ye befoulers of an
immortal nature! Turn out the beasts and
let Christ v.owc in 1
-A heathen came to an arly Christian
who had the reputation of cur.tig diseases.
Ihe Christian said: “You must have all
your idols destroyed.” The heathen gave
to the Christian the key to his house, that
he might go in and desti oy the idols. Ho
battered to pieces all ho saw. but still the
man did not get well. The Christian said
to him: “There must be some idol in your
bouse not yet destroyed.” The heathen
confessed that there was one idol of beaten
gold that he could not bear to give up.
After a while, when that was destroyed,in
answer to the prayer of the Christian the
sick man got well. > ,
Many a man has awakened in his dying
hour to find his sins all about him. They
clambered up on the right side of the bed,
and on the left side, and over the head
board, and over the footboard, and hor
ribly devoured the soul.
‘Repent; the voice celestial cries.
Nor longer dare delay;
The wretch that scorns the mandate dies,
And meets a fiery day."
Again, we need a believing heart. A
good many years ago a weary one went up
ohe of the hills of Asia Minor, and with
two logs on his back cried out to all the
world, offering to carry their sins and sor
rows. They pursued Him. They slapped
Him in the face. They mocked Him. When
He groaned they groaned. They shook
their fists at Him. They spit on Him.
They hounded Him as though He were a
wild beast. His healing of the sick, His
sight-giving to the btind, His mercy to the
outcast silenced not the revenge of the
world. His prayers and benedictions were
lost in that whirlwind of execration.
Away with Him ! Away with Him!
Ah! it was not merely the two pieces of
wood that He carried; it was the trans
gressions of the race, the anguish of* the
ages, the wrath of God, the sorrows of
hell, the stupendous interests of an unend
ing eternity. No wonder His back bent.
No wonder the blood started from every
pore. No wonder that he crouched under
a torture that made the sun faiut and the
everlasting hills tremble, and the dead
rush up in their winding-sheets as He cried:
“If it be possible, let this cup pass from
me.” But the cup did not pass. None to
comfort. gusts
There He hangs! What has'that hand
done that it should be thus crushed in the
palm! It has been healing the lame and
wiping away tears. YYhat has that foot
been doing that it should be so lacerated !
It has been going about doing good. Of
what has the victim been guilt. ! Guilty
of saving a world. Tell me, ye Heavens
and earth, was there ever such another
crimiual! Was there ever such a crime!
On that hill of carnage, that sunless day,
amid those howling rioters, may not your
sins and mine have perished ? 1 believe it.
Oli, the ransom has been paid. Those
arms of Jesus were stretched out so wide
that when He brought them together again
they might embrace the world. Oh, that
I might, out of the blossoms of the spring
or the flaming foliage of autumn, make
one wreath for my Lord! Oh, that all the
triumphal arches of the world could be
swung in one gateway, where the King of
Glory might come in! Oh, that all the
harps and trumpets and organs of earthly
music might, in one anthem, speak His
praise!
But what were earthly flowers to Him
who walketh amid the snow of the white
lilies of Heaven 1 What were arches of
earthly masonry to Him who hath about
His throne a rainbow spun out of everlast
ing sunshine! What were all earthly mu
sic to Him wheu the three hundred and
forty and four thousand on one side and
the cherubim and seraphim and archan
gels stand on the other side, and all the
space between is filled with the doxologies
of eternal jubilee—the hosannah of a re
deemed earth, the hallelujah of unfallen
angels, song after song rising about the
throne of God and of the Lamb! In that
pure, high place let Him hear us. Stop!
harps of Heaven, that our poor cry maybe
heard. •
Oh, my Lord Jesus, it will not hurt Thee
for one hour to step out from the shining
throng. They will make it all up when
Thou goest back again. Como hither, O
blessed one, that we may kiss Thy feet.
Our hearts, too long withheld, we now sur
render into Thy keeping. When Thou
goest back, tell it to all the immortals that
the lost are found, and let Thy Father’s
house ring with the music and the dance.
They have some old wine in Heaven, not
used except in rare festivities. In this
world, those who are accustomed to use
wine on groat occasions bring out the bev
erage aud say “This wine is thirty years
old,” or‘‘forty years old.” But the wine
of Heaven is more than eighteen centuries
old. It was prepared at the time
when Christ trod the wine
press alone. When such grievous sin
ners as we come back, inethinks the cham
berlain of Heaven cries out to the serv
ants, ‘‘This is unusual joy! Bringup from
the vaults of Heaven that old wine. Fill
all the tankards. Let all the white-robed
guests drink to the immortal health of
those new-born sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty.” There is joy in Heaven
among the angels of God over one sinner
that repentoth, and God grant that that
one may be you!
Again, in order to have a right heart it
must he a forgiving heart. An old writer
says: ‘‘To render good for evil is God
like: good for good, man like; evil for
good devil-like.” Which of these natures
have wet Christ will have nothing to do
with us as long as we keep any old grudge.
AVe have all been cheated and lied ifbouf.
There are people who dislike us so much
that if we should civile down to poverty
and disgrace they would say: ‘‘Good
for him! t Didn’t I tell you soi”
Tbev never have understood us. and never
will. They do not understand us. Un
sanctificd human nature says: ‘ Wait till
you get a good crack at him, aud when at
last you find him in a tight place give it to
him. Flay him alive. No quarter. Leave
not a rag of reputation. Jump on him with
both feet, Pay him in liis own coin—sar
casm for sarcasm, scorn for scooii, abuse
for abuse.” But, my friends, that is not
the right kind of heart. No man ever did
so mean a thing toward us as we have done
toward Cod. And if we can not forgive
otbQl‘3, bow can we expect Cod to forgive
TJiENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER lb. 1887.
us! Thousands of men have been kept out
of Heaven by an unforgiving heart.
Here is one who gays: “I will forgive
that man the wrong he did me about that
house and lot: 1 will forgive that man who
overreached me in a bargain; I will for
give that man who sold me a shoddy
overcoat: 1 forgive them—all but one.
That man I can not forgive. The villain
—I can hardly keep my hands off him.
If my going to Heaven depends on my
forgiving him, then I will stay out.”
Wrong feeling! If a man lie to
me once I am not called to trust him
again. If a man betray me once 1 am not
called to put confidence in him again. But
1 would have no rest if I could not offer a
sincere prayer for the temporal and ever
lasting welfare of all men, whatever
meanness and outrage they have in
flicted upon me. If you want to got your
heart right strike a match and burn up
all your old grudges, and blow the ashes
away.
“If yon forgive not men their trespasses,
neither will your Heavenly Father forgive
you your trespasses.” An old Christian
black woman was going along the streets
of New York with a basket of apples that
she had for sale. A rough sailor ran against
her and upset the basket, and stood back
expecting to hear her scold frightfully;
but she stooped down and picked up the
apples, and said, God forgive
•you, my sou, las I do.” The
sailor saw the meanness of what he had
done, and felt in his pocket for his money,
and insisted that she should take it all.
Though she was black, he called her
mother, and said : “Forgive me, mother; I
will never do any thing so mean again.”
Ah! there is a power in a forgiving spirit
to overcome all hardness. There is no way
of conquering men like that of bestowing
upon them your pardon, whether they will
accept it or not.
Again, a right heart is an expectant
heart. It is a poor business to be building
castles in the air. Enjoy wliat you have
now. Don't spoil your comfort in the small
house because you expect a larger one.
Don’t fret about your income when it is $3
or 14 per day because you expect to have
after a while $lO per day, or SIO,OOO a year
because you expect it to be $20,000 a year.
But about heavenly things, the more we
think the better. Those castles are not in
the air, but on the hills, and
we have a deed to them in our
possession. I like to see a man all
full of Heaven. He talks Heaven. He sings
Heaven. He prays Heaven, de dreams
Heaven. Bonis of us in our sleep have
had Ihe good place opened to us. Wc saw
the pinnacles in the sky. He heard the
clicks of the hoofs of the white horses on
which victory rode, and the clapping of
the cymbals of eternal triumph. And
while in our sleep wo were glad that all
our sorrows were over and burdens done
with, the Throne of God grew whiter,
whiter and whiter, till we opened our eyes
and say that it was only the sun of the
earthly morning shining oil our pillow.
To have a right heart you need to be filled
with this expectancy. It would make
your privations and annoyances more bear
able.
In the midst of the City of Paris stands,
or did stand, a statue of the good, but
broken-hearted, Josephine. I never im
agined that marble could be smitten into
such tenderness. It seems not lifeless.
If the spirit of Josephine be disentaber
naeled the soul of the Empress has taken
possession of this figure. I am not yet
satisfied that it is stone. The puff of the
dress on the arm seems to need but the
pressure of the finger to indent it. The
figure at the bottom of the robe, the
ruffle at the neck, the fur lining on the
dress, the embroidery of the satin, the
cluster of lily and" leaf and rose in her
hand, the poise of her body as she seems
to come sailing out of the sky, her face
calm, humble, beautiful, but yet sad, attest
the genius of the sculptor and the beauty
of biie heroine lie celebrates. Looking up
through the rifts of the coronet that encir
cles her brow, I could see the sky beyond,
the great heavens.
Where all woman’s wrongs shall be
righted, and the story of endurance and
resignation shall be told to all the ages.
The rose and the lily in the hand of Joseph
ine will never drop their petals. The chil
dren of God, whether they suffer on earth,
in palaces or in hovels, shall come to that
glorious rest, oh, Heaven! sweet Heaven!
at thy gate we set down all our burdens
and griefs. The place will be full. Here
there are vacant chairs at the hearth and
at the table, but there are no vacant chairs
in Heaven. The crowns all worn; the
thrones all mounted.
Some talk of Heaven as though it were
a very handsome church, where a few fa
vored spirits would come in and sit down
on finely cushioned scats all by themselves,
and sing psalms to all eternity. No, no.
“1 saw a great multitude that no man
could number standing before the throne.
He that talked wdth me had
a golden reed to measure the
city, audit was twelve thousand furlongs”
—that is fifteen hundred miles in circum
ference. All! Heaven is not a little colony
at one corner of God's dominion, where a
man's entrance dependsupc u what kind of
clothes he has on tiis back, and how much
money he has in his purse, but a vast em
pire. God grant that the light of that
blessed wdrld may shine upon us in our
last moment.
The roughest time we had in crossing
the ocean was at the mouth of Liverpool
harbor. We arrived a" nightfall, and
were obliged to lie there till the morning,
waiting for the rising of the tide, before
we could go up to the city. How the vessel
pitched and writhed in the water! So
sometimes the last illness of the Christian
is a struggle. He is almost-hi ougli the
voyage. The waves of tempts Don toss his
soul, but he waits for the morning. At
last the light dawns, and the tides of joy
rise in his son!, and lie sails up and casts
anchor within the veil.
Is tliy heart right 1 What question can
compare wit'll this in importancel
It is a business question. l)o you not
realize that you wilt soon have to go out of
that store: that you will soon have tc -e
--sign partnership; tin,t soon among All
the Billions of dollars’ worth of goods
that ate #oid in New York you wjlj upt
have the handling of a yard of cloth, or
a pound of sugar, or a penny worth of
any thing; that soon, if a conflagration
should start at Central Park aud sweep
every thing to the Battery, it would
not disturb you: that soon, if every
cashier should abscond and every insur
ance company should fail, it would not
affect you! What are the questions that
stop this side the grave compared with the
questions that reach beyond it! Are you
making losses that are to be everlasting?
>-e you making purchases for eternity!
Are you jobbing for time when you might
be wholesaling for eternity! What ques
tion is so broad at the base, and so altitu
dinous, and so overwhelming, as the ques
tion : “Is thy heart right!”
Or is it a domestic question! Is it some
thing about father, or ’mother, or compan
ion, or son, or daughter that you think is
comparable with this question in import
ance! Do you not realize that by univer
sal and inexorable law all these relations
will be broken up! Your father will be
gone, your mother will be gone, your com
panion will be gone, your child will be
gone, £ou will be gone, and then this su
pernal question will begin to harvest
its chief gains, or deplore its worst losses,
roll up into its mightiest magnitude, or
sweep its vast circles. What difference
now does it make to Napoleon 111,
whether he triumphed or surrendered at
Redan! Whether he lived at the Tuileries
or at Chiselhurst? Whether ho was Em
peror or exile? They laid him out in his
coffin in the dress of a field marsha’. Did
that give him any batter chance for the
next world than if he had been laid out in
a plain shroud! And soon to us what will be
the differencs whether in this world we
rode or walked, were bowed to or mal
treated, were applauded or hissed at,
were welcomed in or kicked out,
while laying hold of every mo
ment of the great future, and burning in
all tho splendor of grief, and over
arching and undergoing all the time and
all eternity, is the plain, simple, practical,
thrilling, agonizing, overwhelming ques
tion. “Is thy heart right!” Have you with
in you a repenting heart, and expectant
heart! If not I must write upon your soul
what George Wnitefield wrote upon the
window-pane with hrs diamond ring. He
tarried in an elegant house over night, but
found that there was no God recognized in
that house. Before he left his room in the
morning, with his ring he wrote upon the
window-paue, “One thing thou lacliest.”
After the guests .were gone tho
housewife came up and looked at the win
daw and saw the inscription, and called
her husband and children: and God,
through that ministry of the window
glass, brought them all to Jesus. Though
you may be to-day surrounded with com
forts and luxuries and feel that you have
need of nothing, if you are not the chiJdreu
of God, with the signet-ring of (Jurist’s
love, let me inscribe upon your souls:
“One thing thou lackest.” I pray you that,
whatever else you i ’fv miss, you may not
miss Heaven. bri home to
lose. Your soul has been bought at too
dear a price. I preach to you of the blood
that cleansoth from all sin. Casting your
sius behind you, I beg of you to start this
moiling for the Kingdom. “Yes,” you say,
“I will start, but not now.” William 111.
proclamation when there was a rev
olutigb in the north of Scotland that all
who e\ue and took the oath of allegiance
by the of December should be par
doned. JLwlan, a chieftain of a promi
ncr| clan, resolved to return with Hie rest
of lio rebels, but had some pride in
boif|f tho very last one that should take
the oath. He postponed starting for this
purpose until two days before the expira
tion of the term. A snow-storm impeded
his way. and before lie got up to take the
oath and receive a pardon from the throne
the time was up and passed. While the
others were set free, Maclan was inisei
ably put to death. He started too lute and
arrived too late. In like manner some of
you are in prospect of losing forever the
amnesty of the Gospel. Many of you are
going to bo forever too late. Remember
the irrepart-ble mistake of Maclau !
Drinking tVlillo Kitting.
Nature never intended people to wash
down their food while eating. Nature wise
ly placed salivary glands in various places
in our months; they secrete a fluid for
moistening, besides n chemical action of the
food after mastication. This gets the food in
a suitable condition for swallowing. Prink
ing every few moments while eating pre
vents the usual flow of saliva; also, it
washes it down before it can have a chemi
cal action on certain portions of the food.
One of the most pernicious habits to health
is drinking several glasses of water while
eating; better drink warm drinks. The
stomach will not digest one particle of food
when it has a temperature below one hun
dred degrees Fahrenheit; neither will it di
gest one atom of food until all the fluid is
first absorbed. No healthy person should
drink more than a half pint of some mild
fluid while taking food, and dyspeptics
should not drink a drop while eating, nor
for three or four hours afterward.— it tali -
»,i./ vnCi'Uic.
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Value of a Kind Voice.
There is no power of love so hard to set
and keep as a kind voice A kind hand is
deaf and dumb. It maybe rough in flesh
and blood, yet do the work of a soft henrt
and do it with a soft touch. But there is
no one thing that love so much needs as a
sweet voice to tell what it means and feels;
and it is hard to get and keep it in the rigit
tone. One must start in youth, and he on
the watch night and day, at work and play,
to get aud keep a voice that shall speak at
all times the thoughts of a kind heart. It ia
often in youth that one gets a voice or a
tone that is sharp, and sticks to him through
life, and stirs up ill will and grief, auu falls
like a drop of gall on the sweet joys of
home. Watch it day by day as a pearl of
great price, for it will be worth more to you
in days to come than the best pearl hid in
the sea. A kind voice is to heart wh it light
is to the eye. Itisalight tha7 slugs as well
as shines. —Elihu Lurrtlt.
The: man who Epeiflls his entire ' jne in
criticism, snapping, clawing and biting at
all who come in his way, does very litti*
harm, perhaps, but what a very miserable
time he has of it! If he could but sweeten
himself up so that grace wouid flow from his
lips, he would find life full of a new biussed*
— UnUfd
IN A FELON’S CELL.
Edward L. Harper in the Ohio
Penitentiary.
The Trip From the County ,I»U to Colum
bus—Will Not be I*ut at Menial I.ahor at
Present.
Columbus, (.)., Dec. 12.—'The ride to this
city was none too long for E. L. Harper,
the bank-wrecker, who spent mest of the
time in conversation with members of his
family. He must have been disturbed by
the crowds of people who tried to catch
a glimpse of him, but, with his usual
nonchalance, ho evinced no sign of dis
comfiture. At Cummiusville and Bond Hill,
a large number of persons assembled at
the depots to catch a sight of the train and
the ex banker as it passed. At Loveland,
when the train slowed up. some fifteen
hundred people had gathered. They
pushed and dragged and climbed all
over the coach endeavoring to satisfy
their curiosity, but like all others
were unsuccessful. At almost every sta
tion crowds were assembled. Wiien with
in about ten miles of Columbus, Harper
remarked: “We are nearly there.” Being
answered in the affirmative he said:
“Well, I will celebrate my birthday in the
penitentiary to-morrow. lam thirty-nine
years old.” The depot at Columbus was
crowded and it was with difficulty that the
party could approach the lunch stand,
where they had supper. Harper was then
taken to the penitentiary. Mrs. Harper and
her sister for the first time broke down and
cried. Mrs. Harper put her arms around
her husband's neck and kissed and kissed
him. Miss Mathews kissed him. His
father-in-law shook him warmly by the
hand and they departed, leaving Harper to
spend his first night in the penitentiary.
He was now taken to the guard
room. As he entered the corridor
he suddenly stopped. He had seen a
prisoner standing at the door in his suit of
stripes. Harper had an orange in his
hand. “Thro.w up your hands,” said Cap
tain Confoy. Harper did so, and for the
first time lie seemed affected. Ho
grew suddenly serious, and his hand
trembled like a leaf. Every thing
was taken from him. His band
some gold watch and chain and all
his papers and letters were handed to Cap
tain Henry. “Have you any change!”
asked Warden “Yes a little.”
“You had better give it to me. as every
one in there is not honest.” Harper went
down in his pocket and pulled out $152 75,
which he handed to the Warden,
who locked it up. Shortly afterward ho
was taken to his cell, seven by mine feet.
He will be treated just the same as any
other ordinary prisoner. His serial num
ber will be 1D,217. Warden Coffin has de
cided not to put Harper at any menial la
bor, but will put him at work in the library
or secretary’s office. To-morrow morn
ing he will be awakened at six o'clock.
At seven o’clock he will bo
marched out with the rest of
the prisoners, and will be made to take
a bath. After that he will be inarched to
the dining-room, where he will be given
his first prison breakfast, which will con
sist of black coffee and dry bread. He will
then be taken to the barber shop, where
his handsome mustache will be shaved off
and bis coal-black hair will be cut off close
to the scalp. From there he goes to tho
State room, where ho will be furnished
with a suit of stripes.
SHIVERING SETTLERS.
A Lamentable State of Affairs tn Western
Kansas.
Lkavexwoutu, Kax., Dec. 12.—Deputy
United States Marshal Charles Currier,
who has traveled much about the western
part of the State during the last two weeks,
says that the condition of the people, so
far as fuel is concerned, is truly pitiable.
Coal is not to be obtained at any price,
and many cases of actual suffering are re
ported everywhere he went. The last cold
wave exhausted what little supply they
had, aud should another follow soon, none
can esf imatc the misery that will ensue
and possibly d«'ath. In a majority of
cases where there is such a scarcity of coal
it is partially jhe fault of the railroad
companies andjie dealers. The latter did
not order ecSSmntil late in the fall. Then
the mines were not of sufficient capacity
to supply the orders. The railroad com
panies saw that they would be cut short
if all the dealers were supplied, and by
one pretext or another failed to deliver
coal to the dealers, but put such restric
tions and rates upon it that the mines wore
compelled to furnish them in advance. Their
supply is not limited but they have hoard
ed it up to the detriment and suffering of
thousands of people who have settled on
the prairies of Western and Southern
Kansas.
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Three Million to Employes.
Daws, Dec. 12.—The fuueral of Madame
Bouccieault was attended by all tl e em
ployes of the Bon Marche. Her will de
votes 13,000,000 in legacies of from t'*o to
$2,000 to those employes who have been in
her service ten years, $200,000 to associa
tions for young workmen, $200,000 to Die
Home for Convalescent Employes, $20,000
to M. Pasteur, and numerous other large
bequests for charitable purposes,including
$50,000 for the poor of Paris.
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Elopes With an Indian.
Niagara Falls. Dec. 12. —Pauline Swit
zer, the pretty 17-year-old daughter of a
minister near Swarmsvilie, has eloped
with Dave Littlejohn, a full-boodeJTusca
rora Indian, who made the girl believe he
was a Spaniard. He is a worthless fellow,
liie giri’s relatives are hunting for him,
and will make things unpleasant for him
if they catch him.
Death ot Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
Nfw York, Dec. 12. —Mrs. .John Jacob
Astor died this evening. There were
present at the time of her death Wm. Wal
dorf Astor and \v ife and John Jacob Astor,
' bus! and of the deceased.
VOL. I V.—NO. 43.
fiftieth congress.
First Session.
Washington, Dec. 7.—Senate.— The am"al
reports of the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Attorney General were received; also the
annual reports of the Court of Claims and the
First Comptroller. A resolution was adopted
inquiring whether any person experimenting in
the manufacture of sorghum under appropria
tions made by the Government have taken
out patents. At 12.30 the Senate adjourned.
House.—Not in session.
Washington, Dee. B.— Senate.— After read
ing of the journal and the pres: ntation of a few
department communications, the Senate ad
journed until Monday.
House.—The Speaker laid before the House
the annual reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Attorney General aud the Clerk
•f the House. A few resolutions relating to the
amendments of the rules were introduced and
the House adjourned until Monday.
Washington, Dec. 12.—Senate—A resolu
tion was adopted naming the Senators to con
stitute the standing committees for the Fiftieth
Congress. Also, a resolution naming the se
lect committees. A large number of communi
cations and petitions were presented and re
ferred. Bills were then introduced and resolu
tions offered. Among the latter was one bv Mr.
Hale providing for the appointment of a select
committee of seven to examine fully into the
present condition of the civil service in all Its
branches.
House.—Executive communications, princi
pally relative to private land claims in New
Mexico, were laid before the House and re
ferred. A resolution referring the petition of
Owing Chase, the delegate from the “publio
land strip’’ adjoining Indian Territory, to the
Committee on Territories, was laid on the table.
Speaker Carlisle took the floor, and asked
the House to appoint a Committee on
Elections, on account of the pending coni -st
for his seat, which made it improper for him to
act. A resolution was adopted for the election
of the committee to-morrow at Ip. m. A reso
lution was laid on the table calling on the Sec
retary of tho Treasury for information about
the need of the Government for the tax on oleo
margarine. Propositions were submitted to
amend the rules.
Washington, Dec. 13.— Senate.— After the
presentation of a large number of petitions,
Mr. Morrill, from the Committee oil Finance,
reported back Senate bill to credit and pay to
the several States and Territories and to the
District of Columbia all moneys collected nil
der the Direct %ax act, of sth of August, ISil.
Calendar. Mr. Ingalls, introduced bills to re
move the limitation in the payment of arrears
of pensions, granting arrears in certain dascs
to those pensioned Wy special acts of Congress.
Other bills were introduced, among them
the following: For the preservation of the
woods and forests adjacent to the sources of
navigable rivers and their affluents. Constitu
tional amendment for the extension of the Con
gressional term till the last, Tuesday in Apriu
To amend the Inter-State Commerce act; also
for the establishment and operation of a
United States postal telegraph.
House.— A large number of Executive com
munications were laid before the House by the
Speaker and appropriately referred: and then,
at 12:10, the House took a fuco»a.
After recess Speaker Carlisle hav
ing called Mr. Mills, of Texas, to the
chair. Mr. Cannon, ot Illinois, offered a resolu
tion declaring that the following named gentle
men shall constitute the Committee on E ec
tions: Messrs. Crisp. Chairman; O'Farrell,
Outhwaite, Barry, Maisb. Hoard, Johnson iN.
C.);C)’Neii. (Ind.l; Moore, Rowell, Houk, Coop
er, Lyman, Johnson, (Ind.); and Lodge. The
resolution was unanimously adopted. The
Speaker, haring resumed the chair, directed
all papers in the various contested election
cases to be referred to the Commit tee just elcet
ed, and then the House at 1:10 adjourned until
Friday.
A Curious Suit for Damages.
Memphis, Texx., Dec. 13. — Mom Plum
mer, a colored policemen of this city, is
about to bring suit against persons in Cal
houn County, Hi., for abducting Him when
a child and selling him into slavery. Plum
mer has but lately learned the facts on
which the suit is based. His father was a
freedman, living in the county named, aud
the abduction occurred in 1853.
Great Haul by Post-Office Burglars.
Toroxto, Dee. 13.—A daring burglary
was committed at the post-office in the vil
lage of Norwood early Saturday morning,
by which a loss of sli.<X)o in cash, SSOO in
stamps and over SIO,OOO in notes and secur
ities was sustained. Tho registered letters
were also taken. Tho burglars blew off
the door of the post-office safe to get their
plunder.
Official from Dakota.
St. Paul, Mix.n., Dec. 13. — The I‘ionrrr
Prtxs has from Bismarck the official
statement of the vote of Dakota on divis
ion. In North Dakota the majority
against division is exactly ten thousand ;
in South Dakota the majority for division
is 13,038.
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The Dempsey and Regan Fight.
Nun Yokk. Doc. 13.—Jack Dempsey and
Johnny Reagan fought forty five rounds,
under London Prize Ring Rules, up the
Hudson this morning for $2,000 and mid
dle-weight championship. Dempsey was
given the right after a hard-fought bat
tle.
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Tramps Held for Murder.
Cleveland, 0., Dec. 13.-Frank Ander
son and John Clark, tramps, were held for
trial at Steubenville, 0., to-day, for killing
Michael McGinness, an old man, whom
they assaulted last Saturday evening.
Atlanta's High License.
Atlanta. Dec. 13.—The city council to
day fixed $1,500 as the cost of a retail
liquor seller’s license. The ordinance re
stricts saloons to certain streets and pro
vides for strict regulation.
A Ton of Powder Explodes.
Wilkesbarke, Pa.. Dec 13.—The corning
and packing mills of the Lafiin Powder
Works, at Lafiin, containing a ton of pow
der, exploded this afternoon. Louis Larch,
the only employe about the premises, w i
blown fifty feet and killed. Loss, $3 003.
A Miner’s Horrible Fate.
Cali mei. Mi< h.. Deo 13.—Nat Krusk. a
miner, was caught in a limestone crushing
machine at the Calumet and Hecla Mina
to day and completely torn to pieces. Both
legs were torn off and lie was beheaded
and disemboweled.