Newspaper Page Text
JOHN R. HANCOCK, Publisher.
REFORMATION*
Tendency of Human Ns dure To
ward Evil Things.
Alleged Christians Too Fond of Sp irning
the Prodigal, Driving Him A tajr
From That Which He S« ekf
Taliuage’s Sermon,
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, I>. D., pastor of
the Tabernacle, Brooklyn, N. Y., preached
in Chicago last Sunday evening. His
subject was “Reformation from Evil
Habits,” and his text Provrbs xxiii., 35
“When shall I awake? I will seek it yet
again.” He said :j
With an insight into human nature such
as no other man ever readied, Bolomon in
my text sketches the mental operations
of one who, having stepped aside from the
path of rectitude, desires to return. With
a wish for something better, ho says:
“When shall 1 awake? When shall I come
outof this horrible nightmare of iniquity?”
But seizod upon by uneradieated habit,
and forced down-hill by his passions, ho
cries out: I will seek it yet again. I will
try it once more.”
Our libraries are adorned with an ele
gant literature addressed to young men,
pointing out to them all the dangers and
perils of life—complete maps of the voy
age, showing nil the rocks, the quick
sands, the shoals. But suppose a man
has already made shipwreck; suppose
he is already off the track; suppose
he has already gono astray, how is
he to get back? That i 3 a held compara
tively untouched. I propose to address
myself this evoning to such. There are
those in this audienco who, with every
passion of thoir agonized soul, are ready
to hoar this discussion. They compare
themselves with what they were teu years
ago, and cry out from the bondage in
which they are incarcerated. Now, if
there bo any in this house, come with an
earnest purpose, yet feel thoy are beyond
the pale of Christian sympathy, and that
the sermon can hardly be expected to ad
dress them, then, at this moment, I give
them my right hand aud call them brother.
Look up. There is glorious and triumphant
hope for you yet. I sound the trumpet of
Gospel deliverance. Tlio church is ready
to spread a banquet at your return, aud
the hierarchs of Heaven to fall into line
of bannered procession at. the nows of
your emancipation. Bo far as God may
help me, l propose to show what are the
obstacles ot your return, and then how
you are to surmount those obstacles.
The first diftl'Tiicy in the way of your re
turn is tlio fordo of moral gravitation.
Just as there is a natural law that brings
down to the earth any thing which you
throw into the air, so there is a corres
ponding moral gravitation. Ip other
words, it is easier to go down than it is to
go up; it is easier to do wrong than it is to
do right. Call to mind the comrades of
your boyhood days —some of them good,
Bomo of them bad. Which most affected
you? Call to mind tho anecdotes that you
have heard in tho last five or ten years—
some of them are pure, and some of them
impuro. Which the moro easily sticks
to your memory? During tho years
of your life you have formed cer
tain courses of conduct —some of
them good, some of them bad. To which
style of habit did you more easily yield?
Ah! my friends, wo have to take but a mo
ment of self-inspection to find out that
thero is in all our souls a force of moral
gravitation, lint that gravitation may bo
resisted. Just ns you may pick up from
the earth nn ! hold it in your hand toward
Heaven, just so by the power of God’s
grace n soul fallen may be lifted toward
peace, toward pardon, toward Heaven.
Force of moral gravitation in every one of
us, but power in God’s grace to overcome
that force of moral gravitation.
The next thing in the way of your re
turn is the power of evil habit. I know
there are those who say it is very easy for
them to give up ovil habits. Ido not be
lieve them. Hero is a man given to intoxi
cation. Ho knows it is disgracing his fam
ily, destroying his property, ruining him,
body, mind and soul. If that man, being
an intelligent man and loviug his family,
could easily give up that habit, would he not
do so? The fact that he does not give it up
proves that it is hard to give it up. It is a
very easy thing to sail down stream, the
tide carrying you with great force; but
suppose you turn the boat up stream, is it
bo easy then to row it? As long as we
yield to tho evil inclinations in our hearts
and our bad habits, wo are sailing down
stream; but tho moment we try to turn, wo
put our b;>at in the rapids just above Niug
ra and try to row upstream. Take a man
given to the habit of using tobacco, as
mostof you do, and let him rosolve to stop,
an Ihe finds it very difficult. Twenty-one
years ago I quit that habit, ami I would as
soon dare to put. my right hand in the fire
as once to indulge in it. Why? Because
*t was such a terrible struggle
to get over it. Now, let a mail be advised
by his physician to give up the use of to
bacco. Ho goes around not knowing what
to do with himself. He can not add up a
line of figures. He can not sleep nights.
It seems as if tho world had turned up
side down. He feels his business is going
to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging
ho is scolding and fretful. Tho composure
that characterized him has given away to
fretful restfulness, and he has become a
complete fidget. What power is it that
has rolled a wave of woo over the earth
and shaken a portent in the Usavcns! Ho
has tried to stop smoking After a whilo
he says: “I am going to do as I please.
The doctor doesn’t undet stand my case.
I’m going buck to the old habit.” And ho
returns; every thing resumes its usual
composure: his business seems to bright
on. Tlio world becomes an attractive
place to livo in. His children, see<«g tho
difference, tr.aii the return of their father’s
genial disposition. What wave of color
has dashed blue into the sky, and green
ness into the mountain foliage, and tho
glow of sapphire into the sunset? What
enchantment has lifted a world of beauty
and joy on his soul? Be has gone back to
smoking. Oh, the fact is, as we all know
lo our qwu experience, that habit Is a task- i
master ; as long as we obey it, it does not
chastise us; but let us resist, and we find
wo are to bo lashed with scorpion whips,
and bound with ship cable and thrown
into tho track of bone-breaking Jugger
nauts. Duriug the war of 1813 there was
a ship set on fire just above Niagara Falls,
and then, cut loose from its moorings, it
came on down through the uightnnd tossed
over
scene brilliant beyond all description.
Well, thero are thousands of men on fire
of evil habit, coming down through
tho awful night of temptation toward tho
eternal plungo. Oh, how hard it is to ar
rest them, God only can arrest them.
Suppose a man after five, or ten, or twenty
years of evil doing resolves to do right.
Wbj - , all the forces of darkness are allied
against him. He can not sleep nights. Ho
gets down oil his kn69s in the midnight
anuerios: “God help me!” He bites his
lip. He grinds his teeth. He clenches his
fist in a determination to keep his purpose.
He dare not look at the bottles in tlio win
dows of a vrino store. It is one long, bit
ter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight with
inflamed, tantalizing merciless habit.
When ho thinks ho is entirely free the old
inclinations pounce upon him like a pack
of hounds with their muzz'es, tearing
away at tho flank of one poor reindeer.
In Paris there is a sculptured representa
tion of Bacchus, tho God of revelry. He
is riding a panther at full leap. Oh! how
suggestive. Let every one who is speed
ing on bad ways understand lie is not rid
ing a docile and well broken ste?d, hut ho
is riding a monster wild and bloodthirsty,
going at a death leap. llow many there
are who resolve on a bettor life,
and say: “When shall I awake?”
but, seized on by their old hub ts,
cry: “I will try it once more; 1 will seek it
yet again 1” Years ago there were some
Princeton students skating, and the ice
was very thin, and some one warned tile
company back from the air-hole, and
finally warned them entirely to leave the
place; but one young man, with bravado,
after all th«v rest had stopped, cried out:
“One round more !”. He swept around nnd
went down, and was brought out a corpse.
My friends, there are thousands and tens
of thousands of men losing their souls in
that way. It is the one round more.
I have also to say that if a man wants to
return from ovil practices, society re
pulses him. Desiring to reform, he says:
“Now I will shako off my old associates,
and I will find Christian companionship.”
Aud he appears at tho church door some
Sabbath day, and the usher greets him
with a look as much as to say: “Why, you
here? You arc the last man 1 ever ex
pected to see at church! Come, take this
s at rigbfi -do vn by tile-door,” instead of
saying: “Good morning! I am glad yon
are here. Come, I will give you a liist
rate seat, right up by the pulpit.” Well,
tho prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters a
prayer-meeting, and some Christian man,
with more zeal than common sense, says:
“Glad to see you; the dying thief was
3aved, and 1 suppose there is mercy for
you.” The young man, disgusted, chilled,
throws himself on his dignity, resolved he
will never enter into the house of God
again. Perhaps nit fully discouraged
about reformation, he sides up by some
highly respectable man he used to
' know, going down the street, and
immediately the respectable man has
an errand down some other street.
Well, the prodigal wishing to return takes
some member of a Christian association
by the hand, or tries to. The Christian
young man looks at him, looks at the faded
apparel and the marks of dissipation, in
stead of giving him the warm grip of the
hand offers him the tip ends of the long
fingers of the left hand, which is equal to
striking a man in tho face! Oh, how few
Christian people understand how much
force and gospel there is in a good, honest
handshaking! Somotimes, when you have
felt tho need of enconragement, and some
Christian man has taken you heartily by
fhe hand, have you not felt thrilling
through every fiber of your body, mind nnd
soul an encouragement that was just what
you needed? You do not know anything
at all about this unless you know when
a man tries to return from ovil courses of
conduct he runs against repulsions innu
merable. We say of some man, he lives a
block or two from the church, or half a
mile from the church. There aro people
in our crowded cities who live a thousand
miles from church. Vast deserts of indif
ference between them and the house of
God. Tho fact ; s, we must keep our re
spectability, though thousands and tens
of thousands persons perish. Christ sat
with publicans and sinners. But if there
came to Hie house of God a man with
marks of dissipation upon him, people al
most thrciv up thoir hands in horror, as
much as to say: ■ Isn’t it shocking!”
How these dainty, fastidious Christians
in all our churches aro going to get into
Heaven, I dou’t know, unless they have an
especial train of cars, cushioned and up
holstered, each one a car to himself. They
can not go with the great horde of publi
cans and sinners. O! yo who curl your
lip of scorn at the fallen, I tell you plainly
if you had been surrounded by the same
influences, instead of sitting to-day amid
the cultured, and the refined, *nd the
Christian, you would have been a crouch
ing wretch in stable or ditch, covered
with filth and abomination. It is not be
cause you are naturally any better, but
because tho mercy of God has protected
you. Who aro you that, brought up in
Christian circles and watched by Christian
parentage, you should bo so hard on the
fallen!
I think men also are often hindered from
return by the fact that the churches are
too anxious about their membership, and
too anxious about their denomination, and
they rush out when they see a man nbout
to give up his sin and return to God, and
ask him -how he is going to be baptizod,
whether by sprinkling or immersion, and
what kind of a church he is going to join.
Oh! my friends, it is a poor time to talk
about Presbyterian catechisms, and Epis
copal liturgies, and Methodist lovefeasts,
and baptistries to a man that is coming out
of the dat >ncss of sin into glorious light
of tho Gospol. Why, it reminds me of a man
drowning in the sea, and a life-boat put
out for him, and the man in too boat says
tv the wan out of the boat; 1 Now, if 1 get
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1888.
you ns lore, are you going to live on my
street?” First get him ashore, and then
talk about the non-essentials of religion.
Who cares what church he joins, if he
only joins Christ nnd start for Heaven?
Oh ! you ought to have, my brother, au il
luminated face and hearty grip for every
one that trys to turn from his evil way.
Take hold of the same book with him,
though his dissipations shake the book, re
membering that “ho that eon verteth a sin
ner from the errors of his ways shall save
a soul from death and hide a multitude of
sins.”
Now I havo shown you those obstacles
because I want you to understand I know
all tho difficulties in the way. Butl am
now to toll you how Hannibal may scale
tho Alps, and how the shackles may be un
riveted, nnd how the paths of virtue for
saken may be regained. First of all, my
brother, throw yourself on God. Goto
Him frankly and earnestly, and toll Him
these habits you have, and ask Hm, if
thero is any help in nil the resources of
omnipotent love, to give it to you. Do not
go with a long rigmarolo people call pray
or, made up of “ohs” and “alls” and “for
ever and ever, amens !” Go to God and
cry for help! help! help! and, if you can
not cry for help, just look and live. Ire
member in the late war, 1 was at Antie
tain, and 1 wont into the hospitals after tho
battle, and said lo a man: “Where aro you
hurt?” Ho made no answer, but held up
his arms, swollen and splintered, I saw
where he was hurt. The simple fact is,
when a man has a wounded soul, all ho
has to do is to hold it up before a sympa
thetic Lord and get it healed. It does not
take any long prayer. Just holduptne
wound.
Oh, it is no small thing when a man is
nervous and weak and exhausted, coming
from his evil ways, to feel that God puts
two omnipotent arms around him and
says: “Young man, I will stand by you.
Tho mountains may depart and the hills
he removed, but I will never fail you.”
And then as the soul thinks the news is
too good to bo true, nnd can not believe it,
and looks up in God's face, God lifts His
right hand and takes an oath, an affidavit,
saying: “As 1 live, saith the Lord God, I
have no pleasure in the death of him that
dieth.” Blessed be God for such a Gospel
ns this. “Cut the slices thin, said the
wife to tlio husband, “or there will not
be enougli to go all around for the chil
dren; cut tho slices thin.” Blessed be
God (here is a full loaf for every one that
wants it! Bread enough nnd to sparo.
No thin slices at tho Lord’s table. Ire
member when tho Master street Hospital,
in Philadelphia, was open during tho war,
a telegram came, saying:. “There will bo
throe hundred wounded men to-night; bo
ready to take care of them;” and from my
church thero went in some twenty or
thirty men and women to look after these
poor wounded fellows. As they came,
somo from one part of the laud, some from
auother, no one asked whether this man
was from Oregon, or from Massachu
setts, or from Minnesota, or from New
Yv,rk. There was a wounded soldier, and
the only question was how to tako off tho
rags the most gently and put on the band
age and administer tho cordial And when
a soul comes to God Ho does not ask where
you came from or what your ancestry was.
Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for
all your guilt. Comfort for all your
troubles.
Then, also, I counsel you, if you want to
get back, to quit all your bad associations.
Ouo unholy intimacy will fill your soul
with moral distemper.
In all tho ages of the church thero has
not been nn instance whore a man kept one
ovil associate and was reformed. Go nome
to-day, open your desk, take out letter-pa
per, stamp and envelope and then write a
letter something like this:
“My Old Companions: “I start this day
for Heaven. Until 1 am persuaded you will
join me in this, farewell.”
Then sign your name, and send the let
ter by the first post. Give up your bad
companions or give up Heaven. It is not
ten bad companions that destroy a man,
nor thres bad companions, nor two bad
companions, but ouo. What chanco is
there for that young man I saw along the
street, four or five young men with him,
halting in front of a grogshop, urging him
to go in, ho resisting, violently resisting,
until after awhile tHey forced him to go
in! It was a summer night, and the door
was left open, and I saw tho process.
They held him fast, and they put tho cup
to h.'s lips, and thoy fore.d down the
strong drink. What chanco is there for
such a young man!
I counsel you, also, seek Christian ad
vice. Every Christian man is bound ft.
help you. If you find no ot her human car
willing to listen to your story of struggle,
come to me, and I will by every sympathy
of my heart, and every prayer, and every
toil of my hand, stand licside you in tho
struggle for reformation; and as I hope
to havo my own sins forgiven and hope
to l>o acquitted at the Judgment Beat
of Christ., I will not betray you. First
of all seek God, then seek Christian
counsel. "Gather up all tho energies of
body, mind and soul, and, appealing to
God for suewss, dec'are this day everlast
ing war against all drinking habits, all
gaming practices, all houses of sin. Half
and-half work will amount to nothing; it
must be a Waterloo. Dhrink back now
and you are lost. Push oa and you are
saved. A Spartan generally fell at the
very moment of victory, but he dipped his
finger in his own blood and wrote on a
rock near which lie was dying: ‘Uparta
has conquered.”
Though your struggle to get rid of sin
may seem to l>e almost a death struggle,
you can dip your fingor in your own blood
and write on the Uock of Ages: “Victory
through the Lord Jesus Christ.” Oh ! what
glorious news it would bo for some of
those young men to send homo to thoir
parents in tho country. They go to the
post-office every day or two to see if there
are any letters from you. How anxious
are they to hear! Noth ng would please
them half so much as the news you might
send homo to-morrow that you Usd given
your heart to God. 1 know how it is m the
country'. Night comes on. The cattle
stand under tho rack through which
burst" tho trusses of nay. The horses just
having frisked up through the meadow at
the nightfall, stand knoe-deep in the
bright straw that invitos. them to lie down
and rest. Tho perch of the hovel is full of
fowl : their feet, warm under tho feathers.
In the old farm-house at night no candle is
lighted, for the flames clap their hands
around Hie great black log, and shake the
shadow of the group up and down tho
wall. Father and mother sit there for
half an hour saying nothing. I wonder
what they are thinking of. After a while
the father breaks tho silence, and
say's: “Well. I wonder where our
boy is in town to-night?” Aud tho
:nother answers: “In no bad place,
I warrant you. We always could
trust him when he was at home, and
since he has been away there havo been so
many prayers offered for him we can
trust him still.” Then, at eight o’clock—
for thoy retire early in the country—at
eight o’clock they kneel down and com
mend you to that God who watches in
country and in town, on the land and on
the sea. Seine one said to a Grecian Gen
eral: “What was the proudest moment of
your life!” He thoughts moinentand said:
“The proudest moment of my life was
when I sent word homo to my f arentsthnt
I had gained tho victory.” And the proud
est nnd most brilliant moment in
your life will he the moment when you
can send word to your parents in the coun
try that you havo conquered your evil
habits by tho grace of God, and become
eternal victor. Ob! despise not parental
anxiety. The time will com 6 when you
will havo neither father or mother, and
you will go around the placo whore they
used to watch you, and find them gone
from the house, nnd gone from the field,
and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as
loud for forgiveness as you may over the
mound in tho church-yard, they will not
answer. Dead! dead!
AN HEROIC FIGURE.
Sorgemit .Ja«prr anti Some of the Grand
Deeds I’crforinml by Him.
In the History of the Stnto of Georgia
one of the most heroic figures ts that of a
berg cant Jasper, who served in the war of
the revolution in the Becond South Caro
lina It girnent, under General Moultrie.
Jasper was a freckled, red-haired, unedu
cit id country lad of singulnriy-quiet but
firm bearing. In the attack made on Sulli
van’s Island by the British, a fl ig-stnff, cut
by a ball, fell outside ot tho works. Jasper
sprang forward, ami, under a shower of
bullets, nailed his own colors to the parapet
For this act of gull an ry he was offered pro
motion, but he doclined it, saying: “I have
not the education nor manners befitting an.
oflic.r.*
, O rvral Mo.r.lirle then granted him xror
nig commission ana placed six men under
him who were known during the war as
“Jasper’s command.” Scarcely a week
passed that this troop did not bring in pris
oners captured by tho most reckless daring.
On one occasion, Jasper, with one com
rade, Newton, entered the British lines in
disguise. In Savannah he overheard a wom
an, American, with a child in her arms, bit
terly lamenting the condition of her hus
band who was held a p«“ioner in irons for
desertion of the royal et.ise. He was deep
ly touched with her distress and with Ilia
comrade resolved to free her husband. They
lay in wait near a spring about two miles
from the town, which the guard who had
t’o« prisoners in charge must pnsa Tho
guard, cons sting of two oflicws and eight
private**, arrive 1 about neon, with live
prisoners in irons. The day being hot,
tiny left the prisoners, as Jasper had ex
pected they would, and hurried to tho
spring for water, having previously stacked
their gnus by the roadside. Jasper and New
ton crept out from the thickcd, adzed their
arris, knocked the irons from the prison
ers, and 1 rought the guard into the Amer
ican camp.
A few months after this feat, during tho
attack on Savannah, the country lad fell,
mortally wounded, while trying to place his
colors on a redoubt. For one of his many
bold exp’oits a sword had been given to Jas
per by Governor Rutledge. He now un
buckle l thisswerd and gave it to Newton,
saying: “Take it to my father, and. tell him
I have not dishonored it.” A county in
Georgia is named for this hero.— Youth's
Companion.
GIVING DINNERS.
An Art That Deserves to Do Retter Cul
tivated in Tills Country.
Americans are hospitable, in a certain
way, that approaches lavishnoss. Whenever
they give dinners at clubs or at home they
display their hospitality by elaborate menus
which comprise too many dishes for a man’s
taste or digestion. This is not the epicurean
idoa. Th re is more merit in a d liner where
the quality of food, ts cookery and service
am attended to, ini the most enjoyable
banquet is that where five courses ora not
ozreeded. Look at the menus of some
largo banquets and you will find that they
average ten courses, and it is not uncom
mon to see a dinner at a club or bouse ex
cexl twelve courses, with every procurable
fish in the market The American is not a
heavy eater, and his digest on is more fre
quently than not imperfect. Ho can con
sequenriy but simply taste the various
diFhos, or else gorge himself l:ke a child at
Chrisinrvt. buoh elaborate dinners are
often cons'dercd bores,because one can not
leave tho table with sat'sfaclion.
It is no little art to give n real enjoyable
dinner. The people here are too busy
to betorae good dinner-givers, for it re
quires nn idler to be successful at this. Our
wealthy men do not entertain at homo, and
at the clubs they era often lavish without
appro; ching epicureanism. More uttentioa
is now paid than formerly to menu cards and
service. A menn-e.rd should be original,
shnpl-' m l elegant So many of them are
gaudy and over-ambitious that they destroy
the effect desired. It is plcrsant to begin
dinner after glancing at a refreshing menu
card. It should always be typica’, if possi
ble. of the object of a dinner, .and then a
diuaer should, never bo served without flow
ers, which aro imjortant features of table
arrangements—-At. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Thts approaches of sin arc like the con
l-.ctoi Jael; it brings butter in a lordly
dish. It bids high for the soul, but w r her. it
has fascinated and lulled the victim, the
nail and hammer are behind. —Cecil.
To thins we are able is almost to he bo.
To determine upon attainment is frequently
attainment itself. Thus eerneso resolution
has often seemed to h ive about it almost t
savor ol omnipotyuce. damuel UmiUt,
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, March 21.— Senate— Mr. Blair
asked a postponement till Tuesday next of tho
consideration of his hill to give preference for
civil service appointments to wounded ex-Cor.-
federates as between men who had been dis
loyal. The bill was laid over. The calendar
was then taken up and a number of bills pass
ed, ..icluding one for the inspection or meats
for exportation; also to allow soldiers and sail
ors who have lost both hands, or the use of both
hands, a pension of lICO a month; also for the
construction of a $160,00) public building at
Springfield, Mo. The House bill authorizing
the President to arrange a conference for arbi
tration and reciprocal commercial relations
1 with Mexico, Central and South America, was
reported back. At 5:10 p. in. Senate adjourned.
House. —The Senate hill was passed appro
priating SIO,OOO for t lie construction of a road
from Corinth, Miss., to the National Cemetery
near that place. Tnriff resolutions were pro
sented from the Philadelphia board of trade,
protesting against the passage of the Mills bill.
The eight hours law claims bill was considered
and laid over without action. A hill was passed
to prevent the product of convict labor being
used by Ihe Government, or in public works;
also to prevent the employment of alien labor
on Government works. The bill to establish a
Department of Labor was taken up, and pend
ing action upon an amendment proposed, the
House at 6:15 p. m. adjourned.
Washington, March 22.—senate. —Several
unimportant bills were reported. The confer
ence report on the urgency deficiency bill was
presented. Mr. Saulsbury addressed the Sen--
ate on the President's tariff message. Mr.
Teller offered a resolution for the consideration
of the Fisheries treaty in open session. Mr.
Cockrell objected. Bills on the calendar were
passed authorizing the construction of bridges
in various places; providing for a commission
on the alcoholic truffle; authorizing a confer
ence with Mexico. South and Central American
Governments at Washington in April, 1880, and
to reduce postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs,
roots, etr, to one cent per four ounces. At
5:20 p m. the Senate adjourned.
House— Bills were passed to divide me
Northern Judicial District of Georgia into two
divisions, and for several other legal changes
and reforms. The conference report on the ur
gent deficiency bill was agreed to, the hill ap
propriating $6,876,500, and at 5:10 p. m. the
House adjourned.
Washington, March 28.—Senate.—The pre
siding officer laid before 'he Senate a communi
cation from Mr. Justice Miller notifying the
Senate (by direction of the Supreme Court) of
the death of the Chief Justice at 6:80 this
morning. Senator Edmunds paid a tribute to
the worth and great career of the deceased,
and moved the appointment of a committee of
five Senators to attend tho funeral. This was
agreed to. As a further mark of respect the
Senate adjourned until Monday.
House.—The Speaker laid before the House
the announcement from the Supreme Count of
the death <rf tne i *uaiic*. is. HP Ti!.?;V,r.
nrier a brief eulogy, offered appropriate resolu
tions, which were adopted, and at 12:25 the
House adjourned until to-morrow as an addi
tional mark of respect.
Wa.’mington, March 24.—Senate.—No ses
ion. *
House—A number of Senate bills were laid
before the House. The select committee was
announced to make arrangements for the
the late Chief Justice. Resolutions
were adopted calling for certain information in
regard to legislation needed for the protection
of public lands, and in regard to alleged frauds
by the California Redwood Company." A fa
vorable repjrt was made on the bill providing
for the promotion of army officers after twenty
one years’ service in one grade. The House
went into committee of the whole on busi
ness from the Judiciary Committee. The
bill to regulate the jurisdiction of U. S. Courts
was considered until adjournment, at 4:35 p. m.
Washington, March 20 —Senate— A hill was
Passed appropriating $5 OX) for the funeral ex
penses of the late Chief Justice. Two resolu
tions were offered to establish underground
wires for Government and District service in
the District. Resolutions on the Utah constitu
tion were read and ordered printed. A bill was
reported for the admission of Montana as a
State. Riddleherger s resolution to suspend
the rules for executive session on the fisheries
treaty was called up. but allowed to go over.
■?he House bill for the purchase of U. S. bonds
by the Secretary of the Treasury was consid
ered. An amendment providing that U. S.
notes shall be issued for all the National hank
circulation retired by the act was agreed to.
House—A resolution was adopted directing
that the funeral ceremonies of the late Chief
Justice Waite shall be held in the hall of the
House at noon Wednesday next. Under the
call of States, hills were introduced. The Sen
ate bill appropriating $5,000 for the funeral ex
penses of the late Chief,rustics was passed. A
bill was reported for the organization of the
Territory of Alaska. District business was then
considered, the pending bill being for the pro
tection of graves from desecration.
Washington. March 87.— Senate.- -The.invl
tation of the Supreme Court to attend the
funeral of the late Chief Justice to-morrow was
received and accepted. Bills were reported
and others introduced. Blair called up his
bill to require that when ex Confederates are
appointed to office preference shall be given
wounded or disabled sold'crs. Mr. Riddle
berger spoke in favor of the measure and Mr.
Edmunds opposed it. At 2 o'clock the hill
went over without action, and the bill to au
thorize the purchase of U. S. bonds was taken
up. the question being on Mr. Stewart's amend
ment authorizing the issue of gold and silver
certificates for bullion. Messrs. Sherman, Al
lison, E\ arts, George and Gray were appointed
a committee to attend the funeral of the late
Chief Justice at Toledo. Executive business
was considered until 4 : 15 p. m., when the Sen
ate adjourned.
House. —A communication was presented
from the marshal of the Supreme Court invit.
lng the House, by d.rection of the Court, to at
tend the funeral of the late Chief Justice at
noon to-morrow. The House adopted the reso
lution of the Committee on Elections in the
contested election case of Worthington vs. Dost
from the Tenth Illinois District, confirming the
right of Dost, the sitting member. Bills were
reported for the erection of public buildings at
Lynn, Mass., Staunton, Va., and York, Da.;
also increasing the iippropriation for Los Ange
ies, Cal.; also, to adjust the claims of States’for
expenses incurred in defense of the United
States: also, to provide clerks for Senators and
Representatives not Chairmen of committees:
also, for the election of Senators by legal voters
of the States; also, fixing the salaries of U. S.
Judges. The Union Daeillc railroad funding
bill was discussed until the expiration of the
morning hour. The Military Academy bill was
passed
Miss Clara Bakton, prosident of the Rod
Cross, reports that tho relief fund for tho
Mt. Vernon (111.) sufferers by tho tornado,
which was fIJ.OOO when she reached there,
has by her report aud appeals becoxu:
1100,000.
VOL. V.-NO. 5.
Food and Morality.
Prof. F. T. Miles, of the faculty ol
the University of Maryland, delivered
a lecture to u huge audienco of young
men recently, on “Food and Diges
tion.'’ In the course of his lecture
Prof. Miles, in speaking of the effects
of an insufficient quantity of food,
said: “The fat disappears first, then
die muscles waste away, and finally
tho bones come through the skin. Tha
brain, the spinal cord and the nerves
are nourished to the last Like a king
in a beleaguered city to whom his loyal
subjects give up their food, the nobler
organs are longest nourished. In
starvation there is not simple hunger
of the stomach, but hunger of the
whole body. It is not strange that
when hunger presses on people they
will do strange things. It produces
insanity, and they have been driven to
eating what has been called ‘strange
flesh;’ that is to cannibalism. There
are millions of people who have not
enough to eat. It is at the bottom of
anarchy. Tho police may give them a
loaf of bread, but the whole body is ill- 1
nourished, and a restless feeling re
sults. Not much can be done with the
grown-up pcoplo of the criminal
classes, but the child criminal come 3
first. The criminal classes are called
dirty, lazy and ugly. Of course they
arc. They are dirty because they have
no spare heat to let go; lazy, because
the muscles are weak and nature tells
them to keep still when hungry.
You would be a-donished to know how
much of the beauty of the fairest
ivoinf* is made up of fat. The crim
inal classes are ugly becaugo thoy have
no fat. llow coukl a child whose mus
cles and nervous system have been
partly starved be expected to have all
•he sympathies and instincts of ahigh
r class of society? An overy-day Sab
bath-school with a breakfast before tho
lesson would be a capital thing for
poor children. Some say tho poor
themselves are to blame for thoir con
dition by living too luxuriously. One
of the most intense cravings of the
Greely Arctic party was for sweet
meats. Tea anti coflbo do more, good
than harm. They stimulate not only the
brain, but the activities of the whole
b?flTy. TiiflWtTWni be a great mission
to the poor some tlay to see that they
get enough good food. — Baltimore Sun.
A Famous Indian, and a Still More
Famous Indian Fighter.
Wo giro below :t picture of KttCar
son, tie famous scout and Indian
lighter, whose thrilling exploits sur
passed in interest mid adventure those
of till other frontier heroes. Kit’s
portrait shows that he was a very lion
in courage and stern determination,
and also a man of fine intellect. He
was, in truth, the idea! American hero
of the wild Western border.
COLONEL KIT CARSON.
Kit’s last great contest with the
Indians occurred in 1867, the year be
fore his death, when ItED Knife, a
perfect Indian fiend, suddenly attacked ■
iho defenseless settlers of the remote
frontiers. A most graphic, spirited
and thrilling account of that most des
perate struggle is now being published
in the New York Ledger , under the
title of “Red Knife; or Kit Carson’s
Last Trail.” Red Knife, as will be
seen by the picture of him which wa
give below,
HKD KNIFE
was a typical Indian warr or and cut
throat. The history of his raid, and
of Kit Carson’ > skill and heroism in
meeting the perils of the occasion, is
begun in No. 7 of the New York
Ledger. Robert Bonner’s Sons have
issued millions of samplo copies of
this number of the J.eilger, but there
are, probably, persons who havo not
yet had a copy, ami we are informed
that any one who has not had one of
these sample copies can get one free
of expense by simply sending his
name and address to the Ledger office,
at the corner of William and Spruce
streets, New York. This is eerisiuly
an easy and cheap way to get a speci
men number of the greatest ImUai>
story ever published.