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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.