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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. •Subject: “The Pulpit and Press Mad 3 Allies.” Text: “ The children of this icorld art in their generation wiser than the children of light." —Luke xvi., 8. Sacred stupidity and solemn ineompeteney and sanctified laziness are here rebuked by Christ. He says worldings are wider awake for opportunities than are Christians. Men of the world grab occasions while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved. That is the meaning of our Lord when he says: “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the -children of light.” A marked illustration of tho truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian re ligion to take possession of the secular print ing press. The opportunity is open, and has for some time been open, but the ecclesiasti cal courts and the churches and the ministers of religion are for the most part allowing the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportunity is open I declare from the fact that the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you present them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print. They thank you for any information in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Christian church or Christian institution you could go into any newspaper of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedica tion services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, corner stone laying of a church, anniversary of a c’naritabb society will have reasonable space in any secular iournal, if it have previous notice given. If had some great injustice done ms there it not an editorial or a reportorial room in the United States into which I could not go and get myself set right, and that is true of any well knawn Christian. Already the daily aecnlnr press during the course of each week publishes as much religious information and high moral sentiment as does the weekly re ligious press. Why then does not our glori ous Christianity embrace these magnificent opportunities? I have before me a subject of first and last importance. How shall we se cure the secular press as a mightier re-en forcement to religion and the pulpit. The first thing toward this result is cessa tion of indiscriminate hostility against news paperdom. You might as well denounce the legal profession because of the shysters, or the medical profession because of the quacks, or merchandise because of the swindling bar gain makers, as to slambang newspapers be cause there are recreant editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Guttenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish the art because it was suggested to him that print ing might be suborned into the service of the devil, but afterward he bethought himself that the right pse of the art might more than overcome the evil use of it, and so he spared the type and the intelligence of all fol lowing ages. But there are many to-day in the depressed mood of Guttenberg with uplifted hammer, wanting to pound to pieces tbß type, who have not reached his better mood in which he saw the art of printing to be the rising sun of the world's illumination. If in stead of fighting newspapers we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence in marshaling their help in religious direc tions, we would be as much wiser as the man who gets consent of the railroad superin tendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train, shows better sense than he who runs his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and drive back the Chicago limited express. The silliest thing that a man ever does is to fight a newspaper, for you may have the floor for utterance perhaps one day in the week, while the newspaper has the floor ever v day of the week. Napoleon, though a mighty man. had many weaknesses, and one of the weakest things he ever did was to threaten that if the English newspapers d'J not stop their ad verse criticism of himself he would with four hundred thousand bayonets cross the channel for their chastisement. Don't fight newspapers. Attack provokes attack. Better wait till the excitement blows over and then go in and get justice, for get It you will if you have patience and common sense and equipoise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedative that there is an enormous amount of common smse in the world, and you will eventually be taken for what you are really worth, and you cannot be puffed up and you cannot be written down, and if you are the enemy of good so ciety that fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good society that fact will be established. I know what lam talking about, for I can draw on my own experience. All the responsible newspapers as far as I know are my friends now. But many of you remember the time when I was the most continuously and meanly at tacked man in this country. God gave me grace not to answer back, and I kept silence for ten years, and much grace is required. What I said was perverted and twisted into just the opposite of what I did say. My person was maligned, and I was presented as a gorgon, and I was maliciously described by pei-sons who had never seen me as a monstrosity in body, mind and soul. There were millions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in this pulpit, al though we never had anything but a chair, and that during the singing by the congrega tion I was accustomed to lie down on that sofa and dangle my feet over the end. Lying New York correspondents for ten years misrepresented our church services, but we waited, and people from every neighbor hood of Christendom came here to find the magnitude ol the falsehoods concerning the church and . concerning myself. A reaction set in and now we have justice, full justice, more than justice and as much overpraise as once we had under appreciation, and no man that ever lived was so much indebted to the newspaper press for opportunity to preach the Gospel as I am. Young men in the min istry, young men in all professions and occu pations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rough misrepresentation as a Turkish towel to start up your languid circulation, or a system of massage or Swedish move ment, whose pokes and pulls aud twists and thrusts are salutary treatment. There is one person you need to manage and that is yourself. Veep your disposition sweet by communion with the Christ who answered not again, the society of genial people, and walk in the sunshine with your hat off and you will come out all right. And don't join the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers. Again, in this effort to secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement flf religion and the pulpit, let us make it the avenue of religiou- information. If you put the facts of churches and denominations of Christians only into the coll nans of religious papers, which do not in this country have an aver age of more than ten thousand subscribers, what have you done as compared with what you do if you put these facts through the daily papers which have hundreds of thou sands of readers? Every little denomination must have its little organ, supported at great expense,when, with one-half the outlay.a col umn or half a column of room might be rented in some semi-omnipotent secular pub lication, and so the religious information would be sent round and round the world. The world moves so swiftly to-day that news m week old is stale. Give us all the great Chmrch facts and all the revival tidings the next morning or the same evening. My ad vice, often given to friends who propose to start a newspaper, is: “Don’t! Don’t! Em ploy the papers already started ■” The big gest financial hole ever dug in this American continent is the hole in which good people throw their money when they start a news paper. It is almost as good and as quick a way of getting rid of money as buying stock in a gold mine in Colorado. Not more print ing presses, but the right use of those already established. All their cylinders, all their ■team power, all their pens, ail their types, all their editorial chairs and reportorial rooms are available if you would engage them in behalf of civilization and Chris tianity. Again: If you would secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit, extend widest and highest courtesies to the representatives of journal ism Give them easy chairs and plenty of room when th<*v come to report occasions. For the most pa ,- t they are gentlemen of ed ucation and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of them weary with the push of a business that is precarious and fluctuating, each one of them the avenue of information to thousands of readers, their impression of the services to ba the impression adopted by multitudes. They are connecting links between a sermon or p song or a prayer and this great popula tion that tramp up and down the streets day j by day and year by year with their sorrows ! mcomforted and their sins unpardoned. More than eight hundred thousand people in Brooklyn,and less than seventv-five thousand in churches so that our cities are not- so muffi preached to by ministers of religion as bv reporters. Put all journalists into our prayers and sermons. Of ail the hundred ; thousand sermons preached to day. there will I not be three preached to journalists, and probably not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men innumerable the prayers offered for this most potential class will be so few and rare that they will be thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. This world will never be brought to God until some revival of religion sweeps over the land and takes into the kingdom of God editors and re porters, compositors, pressmen and news boys. And if you have not faith enough to pray for that and toil for that, you had V tetter get out of our ranks and join the other side, for you are the un belfevers who make the wheels of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. The great final battle between truth and error, the Armageddon, I think will not be fought with swords and shells and guns, hut with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and, be fore that, the pens must be converted. The most divinely honored weapon of the past has been the pen. and the most divinely hon ored weapon of the future will be the pen; prophet's pen and evangelist’s pen and apos tle's pen followed by editor’s pen and re porter's pen and author’s pen. God save the pen! The wing of the Apocalyptic angel will be the printed page. The printing press will roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way. “But.” S-irue nno might ask “would VOU make the Sunday newspapers also a re-en forcement?” Yes, I would. I have learned to take things as they are. 1 would like to see the much scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths come back again. Ido not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old-fashioned Sun day. To say nothing of other results, Sun day newspapers are killing editors, reporters, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to twenty-four hours of nothing to do. If the newspapers put on another set of hands that does not relieve the editorial and reportorial room of its cares and responsibilities. Our literary men die fast enough without killing them with Sunday work. But the Sunday news paper has come to stay. It will stay a good deal longer than any of us stav. What, then, shall we do? Implore all those who have anything to do with issuing it to fill it with moral or religious information; live sermons and facts elevating. Urge them that all divorce cases be dropped, and in stead thereof have good advice as to how husbands and wives ought to live lovingly together. Put in small type the behavior of the swindling church member, and in large type ttie contribution of some Christian man toward an asylum for feeble minded children or a seaside sanitarium. Urge all managing editors to put meanness and impurity- in type pearl or agate, and charity and fidelity and Christian consistency in* brevier or bour- geois. If we cannot drive out the Sunday newspaper let us have the Sunday newspaper converted. The fact is that the modern Sun day newspaper is a great improvement on the old Sunday newspaper. What a beastly thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years ago! It was enough to destroy a man's re spectability to leave the tip end of it stick ing out of his coat pocket. What editorials! What advertisements! What pictures! The modern Sunday newspaper is as much an improvement oh the old time Sunday news paper as one hundred 'is more than twenty five; in othsr words, about To per cent, im provement. Who knows that by prayer and Kindly consultation with our literary friends we may have it lifted into a positively re ligious sheet, printed on Saturday night and only distributed, like the American Messen ger, or the Missionary Journal, or the Sun day School Advocate, on Sabbath mornings? All things are possible with God, and my faith is up until nothing in the way of religious victory would sur prise me. All the newspaper printing Presses of the earth are going to be the .lord's, and telegraph and telephone and type will yet announce nations born in a day. 'The first book ever printed was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoeffer, in 1400, and that consecration of type to the Holy Scriptures was a prophecy of the great mis sion of printing for the evangelization of all the nations. The father of the American printing press was a clergyman. Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was a prophecy of the re ligious use that the Gospel ministry in this country were to mak« of the types. Again, we shall secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit by making our religious utterances more interesting and spirited, and then the press will reproduce them. On the way to church some fifteen years ago, a journalist said a thing that has kept me ever since thinking. “Are you going to give us any points to-day?” “What do you mean?” 1 asked. He said: “I mean by that anything that will be striking enough to be remem bered.” Then I said to myself: What right have we in our pulpits and Sunday-schools to take the time of people if we have nothing to say that is memorable? David did not have any difficulty in remembering Nathan's thrust: “ Thou art the man;” nor Felix in remembering Paul’s point blank utter ance on righteousness, temperance and judgment to come: nor the English King any difficulty in remembering what the court preacher said, when during the ser mon against sin the preacher threw his hand kerchief into the king’s pew to indicate whom he meant. The tendency of criticism in the theological seminaries is to file off from our young men all the sharp points and make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we want, all of us, is more point, less humdrum. If we say the right thing in the right way the press will be glad to echo and re-echo it. Sabbath s hool teachers, reform ers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want if we are to make the printing press an ally in Christian work i; that which the reporter spoken of suggest:'., —points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing lie dead when n*t refi hv living voice, it will be a hundredfold mori dead when it is laid out in cold type. Now, as you all have something to do with the newspaper press either in issuing a paper or in reading it. either as producers or pa trons, either as sellers or purchaser* of the printed sheet, I propose on this Sabbath morning, June IT, 1888, a treaty to be signed between the church and the printing press, a treaty to be ratified by millions of good peo ple if we rightly fashion it, a treaty promis ing that we will help each other in our work of trying to illumine and felicitate the world, we by voice, you by pen, we by speaking only that winch is worth print ing, you by printing only that which is fit to speak. Aou help us and we will help you. Bide by side be these two potent agencies until the Judgment Day, when we must both be scrutinized for our work, healthful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day will be the minister of religion and the editor if they wasted their opportunity. Both of us are the engineers of long express trains of influence, and we will run into a depot of light or tumble them off tlie em bankment. What a useful life and what a glorious de parture was that of the most famous of all American printers. Benjamin Franklin, whom infidels in the penury of their re sources have often fraudulently claimed for their own, but the printer who moved that the Philadelphia convention be opened with prayer, the resolution lost because a ma jority thought prayer unnecessary, and who Wrote at the time he was viciously attacked: il My ru eisto go straight forward in doing what apjiears to me to be right, leaving the consequences to Providence,” and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of res urrection, an epitaph that I hundreds of times read while living in Philadelphia: The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Like the cover of ail old book, Its contents torn out. And stript of its lettering and gilding), Lies here food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost. For it will (as he be ieved. appear once more In a new' And more lieantitul edition, Corrected and Amended By The Author. That Providence intends the profession of reporters to have a mighty share in the world’s redemption is suggested ty the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he reported their addresses and reported their acts. Luke was a re porter, and he wrote not only the book of Luke, but the Acts of the Apostles, and w ithout that reporter's work we would ha l '* known nothing of the Pentecost, and noth ing of Stephen's martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha's resurrect on, and nothing of the jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, and nothing of the'shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter’s work from the Bible and you kill a large part of the New Testament. It makes nw think that in the future of the kingdom of God the reporters are to bear a mighty part. About thirteen years ago a representative of an important newspaper took his seat in this church, one Sabbath night, about five pews from the front of this pulpit. He took out pencil and reporter's pad,resolved to cari cature me whole scene. When the music began he began, and with his pencil he derided that, and then derided the prayer, and then derided the reading of the Scriptures,and then began to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason his hand began (to tremble, and he, rallying himself, sharpened his pencil anil started again, but broke down again, and then put pencil and paper iu his pocket and his head down on the front of the pew and began to pray. At the close of the service he came up and asked for the prayers of others and gave his heart to God: although still engaged in news paper work, he is an evangelist, and hires a hall at his own expense and every Sabbath afternoon pre*ches -Jesus Christ to the peo ple. Aud the men of that profession are*go ing to come in a body throughout the coun try. I know hundreds of them, and a more genial or highly educated class of men it would be hard to find, and, though the tendency of their profession may be toward skepticism, an organized, common sense Gospel invitation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor. Men of the pencil and pen, in all departments, you need the help of the Christian religion.* In the day when people want to get their news papers at three cents, and are hoping for the time when they can get any of them at one cent, and, as a conse quence, the attaches of the printing press are by the thousand ground under the cylindt rs, you want God to take care of you and your families. Some of your best work is as much unappreciated as was Mi ton's “Paradise Lost,” for which the author received s2l, and 1 the immortal poam. “Hohonliiulen,” of . Thomas Campbell when he first offered it i for publication, and in the column called i “Nottces to correspondent’s” appeared the ( words: “To T. C.—The lines commencing ‘On Linden when the sun was low' are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s forte.” Omen of the pencil * and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need encouragement and you can have it.* Printers of all Chris tendom, editors, reporters,compositors,press men. publishers and readers of that which is printed, resolve tiiat you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases body, mind or soul. In the name of God, by the laying on of the hands of faith and prayer, ordain the printing press for right eousness and liberty and salvation. All of us with some influence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work imploring God to hasten the consum mation. A ship with hundreds of passengers approaching the South American coast, the man on the lookout neglected his work nnil in a few- minntes the ship would, i— .v" been ibuuvi to rimi o-! tJ--» tifcS. But a cricket on board the vessel, that had made no sound all the voyage, set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the Captain, knowing that babit of the insect, the vessel was stopped in time to avoid an awful wreck. And so, insignificant means nov may do wonders and the scratch of a pel may save the shipwreck of a soul. Are you all ready for the sigting of the contract, the league! the solemn reaty pro posed between journalism and eangelism? Aye, let it be a Christian marrige of the pulpit anil the printing press. Tie ordina tion of the former on my head, he pen of the latter in my hand, it is appreciate that I publish the banns of such a manage. Let j them from this day be one in the mgnificent work of the world’s redemption. Let thrones and powers andkingoms be Obedient, mighty God, to Thee; And over land and strean and mu Now wave the scepter o Thy rein. O, let that glorious an he u swell Let host to host the tr umph tel Till not one rebel heart remains But over all the S>v nr -<»igns. A Western Ex-Mayor in hssia. Ex-Mayor John Black was a ’Change for the first time since his rurn from Europe, and was the centre • a group of acquaintances most of theicon hour as he told of his travels iithe Holy Land. “We had a nice triji said he, “and everything went smoolv except an incident at Moscow. Meow is "a fine city, with 500 Catholic caches and not a scliooihouse. I wen out one Monday morning, and notid in the principal streets a number of-irls and women lying drunk. I did r like it, and audibly expressed the opon that such a thing would not be Gated in any other city on the face of e globe, and that a nation that would.ow such a disgraceful exhibition out to be swept from the face of the ear Some- body explained to me that t day be fore was a great feast day an- holiday, and that in the eye of law wen might get drunk on these oecash without falling under royal displeire. The next morning the Chief of Ice came to my room, aud said that had been instructed by the Govemmeto arrest me for seditious utterances, told him that he couldn’t arrest me; 11 was an American citizen, and coushow my passport. As he seemed tppreciate the force of my reasoning, ‘dered up a bottle of champagne, while and his men drank. When he wasing away he asked me what repore should make to the government the case, and when I told him to tellrato go to blazes, he went away appttly pleas ed.” Mr. Black says thie saw no country in his travels »1 to the United States. — Miltcaukexontin. Kind to His LittlOy. “Mother writes that shed be here to-morrow for a short visif dear.” “Very well,” he replied! as he left the house he patted his litfoy on the head kindly and said : “Bobby, didn’t you rtn to buy you a tin whi-tle and a d the other day ?” “Yes pa.” “We i, I will bring tlito you to niirlit. ” — New York Sun. Customer (to barber)- here, my friend, you are shavinbes of mv face. Barber—Yes, sir; but slices are ' very thin. ' A VENETIAN IDYL. BT PKRTINAX, Miss Julin whtl# at homo and tn her teens Was aefltir in a lot of curious scenes. Her fifteenth uutal morn had scarcely fled Ere she did love a man she oould not wed. He was an Abbe who taught her to sing. Formed like an athlete, gentle as a king. Julia admired him; the yam, wayward child Thought he would love her if on him she smiled; But all her arts were exercised in vain. She stamped her feet when he tried to explain. Her mother came unto the pair in haste. Scolded Miss Julia, but admired her taste, Dismissed the Abbe with a simpering frown. And talked to Julia, while she smoothed hei gown: “Know you, Miss Julta, this man is a Priest? You should respect our honored church at least) Priests cumiot marry, for the church allows No lax observance in her votaries' vows." But Julia cried, and begged, and called him boy. And like a child, would have no other toy. The Abbe's share in the aflfalr was learned, And by decree in cloister was interned. Miss Julia's moral nature took a spurt— She for three weeks was scarcely known to flirt, But ere a month had journeyed o'er her head With the gav lion Falvio she was wed. W ho pins his faith to a coquette’s conceit Hath for his pains regrets and her deceit. LILLIE EDDLES; OB, ABDUCTED BY TIE BUSH TO A Story of the War in the Southwest. BY ARV’DE 0. BALDWIN, CHAPTER V. — f Continued. J This news was startling. Then they had | already been planning to rob him. He could almost have shot the scoundrel that stood before him for his impudence, but his better judgment prevailed and he answered him quietly but grimly: “I’ll try and be there when you come.” “Well, well,” thought our young friend, “the fellow is pretty well mixed. He seems to think I am an old man—lggles, or some thing else. They want my property and money, do they? Perhaps they will get it, perhaps not We will see. "If you are going to the river you had better go with me. I'll show you the way.” And he turned his horses up the road again in the direction from whence he came. 1 “Aint yer gwine ter take yer hoss hum?” asked the stranger suspiciously. “If Woodsiey isn’t there it is hardly worth while to take his horse there to-day. When he wants it he can come for it. ” “Whar does yer live, stranger?” ‘'Ou the Wire Road, a few miles north.” “What’s yer name?” “Inquire for Tom Jones,” said John, evasively. Then, seeing they had reached Cross Hollows, he told the stranger to take the right-hand road leading directly down the hollow aud he would! in a reasonable time, reach the river. The prospective bushwhacker took the road designated, and without a parting word, or a look behind, went on out of sight, down the valley. John Eddies thought the gang would hardly welcome such a specimen as this to their ranks. It was true he was a back no doubt would do any deviltry they im s in require of him, and he might be of some use about camp; but his mind was dull and not capable of planning the schemes that would bring success, nor had he secretiveness enough to keep silence when it seemed necessary. After the stranger had left his company and before he had traveled a mile, he was startled by the sharp report of a gun and the whistle of a bullet past hi'«ead in too close prox imity to be pleasafPor desirable. A small puff of smoke rose siow’y from a clump of brush about a hundred vurds to the left. The distance was too great for him to use his weapons with any degree of accuracy, even if he could have seen the would-be assassin who tired the shot, which he could not, so he continued on more rapidly. Per haps another hundred yards was gone over when again the crack of a rifle was hoa:d, and the animal he was riding lunged wildly forward. ° I ~ Tbe frightened animals did not need fur ther urging, but instantly broke into a mad run which they kept up until the Eddies plantation was reached. ■ < T k e Paating foam-coverdd animals were taken to the stables, and then, for the first time J obn saw that his animal had been struck by the last shot. Blood was trickling down his leg from two holes in the flank—the entrance and exit of tne deadly missile. The wound was but a deep flesh one, but it was painful nevertheless, for the suffering animal was yet restiess and trembling from its effect. — ..uuura oueci, M hen evening came “the horses were driven into the corral, and the more valu able ones taken from there to the large burn, which was well secured. 1 he negroes were assigned quarters. Some were gloomy and morose over the mystery that surrounded them, while others were enjoying themselves with their ulmost un lun.ted freedom. When everything was complete for the warm reception of the bushwhackers it was late. The lights were extinguished and Biienee stole over the huge mansion, and everything seemed at peace and rest. It was the calm that precedes the storm. • siorin. 1 he night wore away, and when morning came the inmates were thankful that they had been unmolested. The watchman re ported i hat nothing unusual had occurred during his watch. Some of the household built up nopes on the report, but were soon doomed to disappointment. Early in the day another visitor stopped at the plantation. He rode dheetlv to the stables and dismounted. John Eddies watched the rider from the time he entered the grounds until he disappeared within the barn. In a few minutes he appeared again, and with him one of the stable nanus .ending the horse that Eddies had started to deliver to Woodsley, ou the pre vious day, but failed to do so. He tied the animal near the one on which he came, and proceeded to the house. John met him on the porch. He had the oily smile of the educated scoundrel, and saluted Eddies with that courtesy possessed by the polished people of the South. F “Good morning, Mr. Eddies; a fine morn ing, sir.'’ “Good morning, sir.” said John, coldly. I trust I find you well, sir?” “Quite well.” And the ladies?” he inquired. .“ l do,l t kn °w thr.t their welfare need interest you, sir. ” The soon come when the friendship of Edom Woodsley will be de sired, even by the Eddleses. ” And he still smiled. CHAPTER YL A SHOT IN season; “I trust we shall never need such friend ship. “When you do need my friendship and assistance, please remember that that friendship has been spurned.” “How does it happen that you do not come here of late without insinuating trouble, and that you have great influence when such trouble comes? Now I demand of you an explanation. ” “It is strange, indeed, that a man of the intelligence of John Eddies cannot see the turmoil in our land! Does it not seem to you that the sincere friendship of any man, under such circumstances, is desirable?” “Y T ou will please answer me one question ‘Do you know of any danger imminent to myself, family or property?’ ” “How cau I tell when any one person is likely to suffer more than any other?” “Have you any cause to believe that we are likely to be raided soon?” John eyed the man before him to note the expression of his face, but he could see no trace of the villainy within. A tran quil look of innocence overspread his coun- Umance. “It would be surprising if yon were not visited in a short time," was the evasive answer. “I asked you a question.” “And I answered it ” “I want no evasions now; answer me di rectly; do you know that we will be raided?” “How could 1 know?” “Answer me!” “Well, then, I do not.” The two men’s attention was now called to a lone horseman riding slowly up the carriage-way. When ho came opposite them he stopped. He carried a gun, and the butt of a pistol showed beneath his coat. He reversed the position of his gun, so that the muzzle was directed townrd the men, but he did it in such a careless man ner that at anv other time it would have been unuOuecu. “Morning, gentlemen.” “Good morning,” was the ready response of the two men in unison. “Does a man by the name of Eddies live here?” the new-comer asked. "That is my name,” John replied, xnen I want you. I have authority ic take you. ” “What authority?” “ The authority of my superior. ” “ Who is your superior and what is the charge?” “Captain Inglers; and the charge is horse stealing. ” “Is Captain Inglers a militarv on mm an der?” “Yes; headquarters on the river.” John now knew who the man before hint represented, and he knew that once in the hands of the bushwhackers his life would be jeopardized. His mind was made up. “You report to Captain Inglers that I do not recognize military authority, and that the charge is false.” “You don’t deny the charge, do you?” “I certainly do.” • “But there is the horse now, in vender yard!” “The owners of that animal are the thieves who stole two negroes from me a few days ago, and that is one of the horses that they rode home upon,” This explanation did not appear to have much effect on the horseman. He ap peared more interested in the capture of John Eddies thin in the recovery of the animal. “I was ordered to take you, and I propose to do it—dead or alive!” “You propose doing more than you are able to perform. ” ‘ You 11 see!” And the stranger grasped his gun more firmly, and quickly raised it to his face. As quick as he was John was yet quicker. Ho quickly sprang aside and it was well he did so, for that instant he saw a blaze of fire stream from one of the barrels and felt a puff of air against his fece. The echo of the report had hardly died away before auuther one, quick and frp, ia the direction of the stables, again ke the stillness, and the strange man’s i tievv into ihe air as his hands went up He reeled a moment in the saddle, then tumbled headlong to the ground! The man lay gasping for breath, with one hand held again; t his side. «rhe men on the porch looked in amaze nt at each other, for the shot and its effect was utterly unexpected by them. In a moment the remainder of the house hold appeared upon the scene, and the pale faces of the ladies told of the terrible fright they had experienced. Woodsley’s face was ashy-white. His bravado had deserted him. His politeness had vanished. Crestfallen, he dropped his head and tried to sneak a wav. “Halt.' fc!top there!” It Was John who spoke, and he quickly stepped in front of :ne departing man. “You dost intend to detain me, sir?" \v oodsley anxiously asked. “Yes. You will ’remain here the rest of the day, at any rate. ” Woodsley reached for his pistol Eddies drew his, “Betterlet that be.” Woodsley glared ferociously at his enemy. “Why ain I thus forcibly detained here?” he demanded. “A day of reckoning will avenged 0 ’^ 0 ’ thi3 iu3nlt wiU be Hold up your hands. Hold them up'” Henry, said John, after Woodslev had su lenly complied with his command, please relieve Mr. W oodsley of any arms he may possess. ” J Henry Arno, who had stepped from tho house, came briskly forward and soon m possession of a heavy seven-Shot revol ver one of the latest pattern. The arm was untarnished showing that it had been a recent purchase. • r * goes finely armed, it seems, ” trouble” 110 ’ appears he anticipated M oodsley’s teeth ground together and a curse escaped his lips. Jeff now put iu an appearance. He came almost unnoticed. A broad grin of inno- Edom Woodsy “ h 9 ap P roached “Yer hoss am done ready. Marse Woods ley. And be took off his hat and bowed low his wooly head. repffedL Way ’ CUrßed “***“•" he angrily (TO EE CONTINUED.) STANLEY BROUGHT DOWN. The Great Explorer Fatally Wounded and by 'l6siil6 A despatch from St. Paul de Loando, Afri ca. says: “Several deserters from Stanley's expedition of relief to Emin Pacha, have reached Camp Yambunga. They state that ]*/v er tn l^t er - Si l ,g the Upper Aruwhimi Stan trV int ?. a rough mountainous eoun wno d w - th . ,i . ens 6 forests. The natives. I™?? reports spread bv the dlsputed the passage of the expedition, an . there was continuous fighting: Stanlrv y W T ,ded b - T an He -- compelled several times to construct camps in order to repel attacks, and was obliged tons a l mfn S p r ' h P ro L‘sions that were intended for thT or n 3, ,T b< ? attached to the force had all died or disappeared. The onnhir S i eS r lrnatetbatthe caravan had lost one-third of its men, and they sav that many Europeans. UliUUing "'" e deluding the „,'' Staale 3 r was encamped nursing his wound ,t n deserters left. /Ie was suiTounded uy hostiles and was unable to send news to Emm or directly to Yambunga Major Barttelot had returned to Yambunsra, where lie was awaiting the men that Mr. Ward was ™ U £ C ?n ng a powerful expedition tc go to the relief of Stanley.” SOME MODERN WONDERS. THE FINANCIAL MARVELS OF THE LATTER DAY WORLD TJ*e Rothschild Family—The Rank of England—The American Treas ury Surplus, Railroads, etc. The financial wonders of the modern world, immeasurably greater than the vaunted engineering marvels of the ancients, may be classified as follows: 1. Raising the American civil-wai funds: In five years’ time the United States government raised a grand total of |5,011,818,908. The largest idebted ness at any one time was in August, 18(55, when the national debt was $2,- 845,907,626. These great war loans were obtained by a nation hitherto known only a peaceable people, and one unfamiiiar with the science of finance on a grand scale. The loans were mainly taken at home—that is, in that part of the nation not in a state of armed insur rection—and their prompt subscription and subsequent liquidation; as far as it progressed, form one of the most re markable chapters in the monetary his tory of the world. 2. The Bank of England: This famous institution, founded in the year 1694, grew in time to be the governmental agent of the British nation, and the chief financial power of the world. Its pres ent total capital is something over SBO,- 000,000 and its deposits are more than $150,000,000, Its notes are current in every civilized country, and whenever the Bank of England changes its rate of interest quotations are effected at every financial centre of the world. The bank practically manages the entire public debt of Great Britain, and though it has occasionally suspended specie payment is regarded as an impregnable institution, beyond the serious effect of all mortal vicissitudes. o a ; „ __; i j _ _ oi ii rt . 3. American railroads: Since the first railroad was built in the United States there has been a total investment up to the end of the year 1887 of over $8,600,- 000,000, and the earnings for last year were about $900,000,000. During the year new lines costing about $300,090,000 were constructed. The total length of lines now finished is something more than 145,000 miles, or nearly one-half of all the entire world. The total capital stock of all the roads is over $4,000,000,- 000 and the furfded debt about $3,830,- 000,000. Evidently the American rail way system is entitled to a place among the financial marvels of the age. 4. Paying the German war indemnity: The German government early in 1871 exacted from Prance an indemnity of five milliards of francs, or about one billion dollars, as a penalty for having precipitated and having been defeated in the war then just closed. Five years, with interest at 5 per cent, annually until it was paid, was allowed for its settle ment. But French patriotism responded so thoroughly that the whole vast sum,' amounting, principal and interest, to nearly $1,130,000,000, was raised by popular subscription and paid in little over two and a half years. 5. The American treasury surplus: The United States government is unique among nations in that its present legal income is some $50,000,000 more than is j required for all its expenses, including interest on the public debt aud the requi site contributiou to the sinking fund. The excess of receipts over all expendi tures has gone on uutil there is now a surplus of almost $200,000,000. the dis bursing of which and the correct check ing of further additions thereto create a problem in governmental finance as im portant a 9 it is unprecedented. 6. The Rothschild family: Thehistory and status of this family must be in cluded among the financial wonders of the world. Early in the present century Anself Rothschild was a fidrly prosper ous banker in-Frankfort. He had the confidence of William, elector of Hesse- Cassel, to such aD extent that when the latter was driven from his principality by Napoleon he intrusted some $5,000,- 000 with Rothschild. The latter in vested this honorably and wisely, turn-”* mg it over in trust in due time to his children, who seventeen years later paid it back with yearly interest at 2lj per CCffh to the elector when he returned. The five children managed great bauk> l£‘ h p US .- 8 in Frankfort, Vienna, Lon : , ’ a , ns Naples, and became so rich and influential that a European gov ernment could hardly venture to engage m a war if the Rothschilds were be lieved to be unfriendly. The combined wealth of the family has never been known, but recent imperfect estimates place it at something like $800,000,000. Ibis 18but an approximation, however, die only thing known for certain being that the Rothschilds are the richest family that ever existed. Chicago Times infective Vision in Iromvorkers. . bas bee “ discovered by investiga tion that a large percentage of the men employed as heaters in the iron mills of I ittsburg are more or less troubled with defective vision, the nature of their wo--k compelling them to gaze for protracted periods upon the intensely dazzling 2i°-ht of metal at white heat. The meiTinter viewed had worked in the iron mills for periods ranging from three to twenty years, and with very slight differences their powers of vision had all been af fected in the same manner. They are unable to distinguish small ob eets at any considerable distance. One was en tirely unable to read the print in any or dinary newspaper, another pointed out a clock with a dial a toot in diameter, and said he could noc see the hands ten feet away. With one the trouble was perma nent and unvarying, while others’ eyes were restored to their normal condition if they stopped work a month. The reporter, on looking into one of their blazing heaters, could distinguish only a blinding glare, scarcely inferior to the dazzling light of the sun itself; yet these men must be able to see clearly the white, hot masses of metal through the flames of the gas that is burnin <y all around them. The difficulty of doing this may be compared to that which would be experienced in trying to per ceive one light through another, yet the experienced heater dees it with as much ease as if the hot iron were so much wood floating in water. They say that no de gree of proficiency can be “acquired in less than three months’ time, and that since the employment of natural gas the difficulty has become mu h greater, and the effect upon the eye more pronounced Philadelphia Prise.