North Carolina Newspapers

SANFORD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1891 Emperor William ol Germany Is sad to to working on a project to secure (tie disarmament of all the nations ol Europe. __ Ohio oleomargarine men want natural butter inspected, claiming that three fourths ol it isn’t as good as oleomar garine. __ A significant educational tendency of the day, thinks the- Chicago Pott, is the Increased interest in the study ol history tnd politics, at Johns Hopkins University. •’Montana claims by analysis that her •ugar beets are the sweetest in the wide, •wide world,” observes the Washington Star, “and that enterprising young State tpropoeerto gointo the sugar industry and eclipse creation.” ? A wealthy Canadian is traveling about )he country with a mission. That mis sion is to save shoe leather to the world. He insists that if everybody would cover three inches more at every step the sav ing in boots and shoes in America alone would be $27,000,000 per year* 1 At the recent convention of street-oai men in St. Louis, Mo., it was shown by statistics, avers the Mew York World, that after fifteen f*,res have been rung up on an ordinary horse car all the re mainder of the money taken in for that trip is profit for the company. I ‘. ._ - The New York Mail and Kxprm al leges that one of the great railroad cor porations paid $800,800 last year for towing car floats around the harbor. The amount paid by the five great trunk linea would equal the interest on $30,900,000 —enough to construct two or three bridges and tunnels. V.’ - _— ( Over 961,000, the largest earn on record, was paid as duty on oleomar garine manufactured in Chicago during December. Said Deputy Collector Lan dergren recently: 1 ‘Ever since the pas sage of the oleomargarine bill the output has been steadily and rapidly increasing. [When that bill became a law the expec tation, particularly among the farmers, wan that the industry would languish and in a few years cease altogether. Ex actly the contrary is whathas happened." The mystery is, comments the New Or leans Picayatie, where does it all go toi tNo hotel or boarding house uses oleomar garine. According to the Philadelphia Retard -In 1888 there were 4,000,000, bushels of oysters received at Baltimore from the Chesapeake Bay beds, but this season tho 'receipts to the same date have fallen be llow 8,000,000 bushels, while packing. Ihouses throughout the State are closed, land from all parts of-the bay comes tht -story of exhausted beds. The violation jof the culling law, and the consequent destruction of the young oyster, is re -sponsible for this.condition of things. The law is a dead letter, and a great in dustry is being rained. Nearly ten yean ago Professor Brooks, of Johns Hopkins University, uttered -a warning against the wholesale depletion of the oyster - beds; but the work has continued, and even now the oystermen do not seem to realize the gravity of the situation. Germany will yet regret, predicts the Chicago Post, that It ever showed a dis , courteous spirit toward the American hog. This want of civility to our grace ful porker will hardly plunge the two nations into a bloody Btrife. But it may strain the diplomatic relations for a time, because the hog is a universal favorite in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The Swedish hog, the Norwegian hog and the Denmark hog all enjoy the freedom of the Kaiser Empire. The prohibitions against them have been raised and they can oome and go aocord^ ing to their pleasure. The Amedoau hog alone has besn singled out fox this ungentlemanly treatment. But time evens all things, and the day will coma when the now despised hog will make a triumphal entry in Berlin amidst the ■aiutes of the German artillery and the huzzas of the German poppluoe. , Statistics show,alleges tho Indianapolis [(Ind.) Newt, that during the past ono ‘hundred years the expenses of the Gov ernment on account of the Indians ap -proxiinate $1,000,000,000. Of thia 'enormous amount $200,000,000 are said to have been expended inhostilities with 1 different tribes between 1870 and 1882. We might treat with some decree of in difference the protests of various relig ious and humane organizations, and be lieve that they were moved by sentimen tal rather than praotioal considerations. But we cannot ignore the testimony of such witnesses as General Harney, Gen eral Pope, General Carrington, General Miles and General Schofield, Who, from the evidence of penonal investigation, are. united in their statements as to the specific cause of the dissatisfaction and revolt of the Indians. The foundation of the trouble lies in repeated breaches of contracts by tbe Government, SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Happenings of Importance For A Week. Dwellers la City and Country Get a Write-Up Hare Tree of Charge; and No Questions Asked. VIRGINIA. Lexington has secured a large plant for the manufacture of edge tools. The plant to be erected witl cost (240,000, and will give employment to 800 men. Everyone in business circles is predict ing an unprecedented “boom” for Staun ton as soon as the weather will permit the building of factories, shops, houses for hands, etc. Colonel 'Llewellyn Hoxton, associate prinCIpaPof the Diocesan High School for boys, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia, at Alexandria, fell dead at the breakfast table Thursday. The Hon. A. H. H. Stewart, ex-secre tary of the inteqjpr in President Filmore’s cabinet, and a member of the Peabody educational board, is critically ill at Staunton and is expected to die at any time. Col. Richard F. Beirne, formerly edit or of the Richmond State, died at his home in Ashland Monday night. During the flr«t five weeks of its opera tion -the Buena Vista iron furnace has .shipped 1,500 tons of pig iron to-various Northern points. A temperance crusade has started at South Boston. The pastors of the Bap tist, Methodist and Presbyterian church es are at the head of the movement. - NORTH CAROLINA. Teh weeks free tuition, beginning March 15th, wili be given by the State University to teachers. Write to Presi dent Battie for particulars. The directors of t he Atlantic and North Carolina railroad have applied to the leg islature to so amend the charter as to ex? tend from Goldsboro to Charlotte. Raleigh has raised $16,000 for the In tor-State Exposition, and it will be held in that city next fall. Every county in the State should help Raleigh to make this an affair worthy the State. Capt. T. T. Smith, agent" at the Rich mond and Danville freight depot iu Charlotte, says that three times as much cotton has been handled at the depot, up to the present time, this season, as was Handled during all of last season. One of the Charlotte compresses has com pressed so far 88,800 bales, against 59, 000 tho same date of last year. Thfj Mc Faddcn press at the junction has handled about 60,0-0. Everyone connected with aw star Department of Agriculture ie very busy just now sonding out tags for fertilizer bags; 100,000 tags have been shipped during the week. It will take 600,000 tags to supply the demand this season. The house of representative* passed the railroad commission bill. It is the bill with a few slight amendments, that passed the senate. It provides for three commissioners to be elected by the Gen eral Assembly, and they are given the power to fix and regulate freight and passenger rates, to regulate telegraph and express companies, and to prevent all discriminations. SOUTH CAROLINA. The South-Bound railroad is being graded from Columbia to Grahams, 47 miles. C. H.- Blanken, of Charleston, has se cured a patent and is now having his “Improved removable sidings for beds” manufactured. J. B. Williams, who murdered Major W. A. Williams at Greenville on Friday night, and has since been a fugitive from justice, was captured near Waynesviile, N. C., and brought back to Greenville. A reward of $800 was offered for hiis capture. J. Ti. Withers has resigned his place ir the agricultural' department of South Carolina. He did not (jgsire to work un der the Tillman administration, by which' he has been retained as clerk of the board of trustees of the department of agricul ture. ‘ At the last session pf the Legislature the Kansas City, Birmingham, Macon, Foot Point Railway system obtained per mission to enter this State. The road is an air line from Kansas City to Foot Point. A construction compauy, with John Temple Graves as general man ager, has already, it is said, began opera tions on the South Carolina section of the road, which will run through Colleton and Hampton counties. The company, it is reported, has bought largely of land near Foot Point. GEORGIA. There is no abatement to the building boom in southwest Georgia. And every day ushers in new enterprises in the progressive towns. In the oyster-opening contest in Bruns wick recently, Editor Whitmire came within six oysters of winning the first prise. He has since decided that the pen is mightier than the oyster knife. A special from Savannah says that the steamer .Katie, plying between Augusta and Savannah on the Savannah River, sank about fifteen miles above the latter city. The cargo was mostly fertilizers. ..The. ripping of a seam was the,cause. The Augusta bureau of the Southern Inter-States’ Immigration Bureau was or ganized Thursday. All the money need ed to procure a ♦500 charter for a city with a population of 50,000 has been raised and the local bureau will com mence work at once. Hilton is decided the beat county in the Blue Ridge circuit, in many respects. Court remained in session, last weak, on ly two and a half days, and only ono man was convicted of crime. The coun ty is out of debt, its bridges and public buildings are all in very good condition, and there is about (9,000 in the treasury. Mercer University is fortunate. A west Georgia gentleman promises to give the university (75,000, a lady adds (25,000, so rumor bss it, and other ample dona tidns are said to be In sight. TENNESSEE. Two sons of Circuit Court Clerk Pel Ion, of Smith county, were drowned near Carthage Monday while riding in the hack waters. Their bodies were recov ered. That E. A. Collins, of Milan, has sold to Eastern parties since Jan. 1, $10,000 worth of horses born and bred oil his farm carries a .lesson to West Tennessee farmers. The Rev. S. W. Kramer, that boy preacher, is reported critically ill at Bris tol, and it is thought by those near him that bis mind is affected—probably a ease of softening of the brain. ' A peculiar discovery was made at Stone ‘Ort, near Chattanooga, just as men were hewing asunder a large piece of rock. It was found that a crevice divid ed it, the aperture, however, narrowed down until it became solid toward the bottom. Wlifn the men broke it asun der, within the bosom of the rock was found a petrified reptile resembling very much the shape and build of alligator. A special election for mayor of Nash ville to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of C. P. McCarver, was held Tuesday. A little over three thousand voters, or loss thau one-third of the vot ing population, were registered, and of these only 543 voted. Wm. Litterer, the Democratic nominee, had. no opposition, and received 528 votes. Contract for the construction of the - Danville and East Tennessee Railroad has been awarded to the Interstate Cou struction Co., of New York, which has sublet the first division of 26 miles to James F. Edwards & Co., of New York, FLORIDA. De Land will begin the erection of a handsome public school building in a few days. The Jacksonville Street, Railway Co., has applied to the city council for au thority to operate its lines by electricity. The United States census bureau an nounces the population of Florida by counties and races as follows: Whites. 224,610; colored, 166,678; Indians, 108; Chinese, 101; Japanese, 14; total, 391, 422. The Florida Sugar Manufacturing Co. ■ works at St. Cloud, has amended its charter increasing its capital stoek from $275,000 to $1,000,000. Juno Beach, a considerable sketch of land in Florida, bounded on the east by he ocean and on the west by Lakp Vorth, has been purchased by a syndi cate of New Yorkers consisting of Samuel Sarton, a cousin of the Vanderbilts, and • well-known metropolitan broker, Fred eric W. Vanderbilt, Commodore Van Santvoord, H. Walter Webb and Chaun coy M. Depew. who are to build a hotel osting several hundred thousand dollars, - instruct an iron pier and make other improvements. To a reporter Mr. Depew —‘1 J hare Jint-SAen-- 14, 'tufc (mo ib, Hartons and Commodore Van Sant vqord’s description it is the one ideal spot on this globe.” OTHER STATES; At Montgomery the Senate hss passed i bill appropriating $30,000 to represent Alabama at the World’s fair. James 8. Richardson, the great cotton planter, denies the report that he is en gaged to \Miss Winnie Davis. He says that he has not seen her in three months and that ho is not correspondence with her. He is a great friend of the Davis family, and is much annoyed that such a report should get into circulation. The Troy Fertilizer Manufacturing Co., of Troy, Ala., has declared; an 18 percent, dividend on its capital of $150, 000. A LIFE RACE FOR A TROPHY. den. Jackson’s Oup Will Qo to the Iiast Survivor of the Old Pal metto Guard. Col. J. J. Martin is one of the twenty survivors of the old Palmetto Regiment, South Carolina, who are running a lift race for a historic trophy. Just after the war of 1812 the ladies of South Carolina presented Gen. Jackson with a beautiful and co3tly cup indicative of their appre ciation of the bravery and gallantry dis {ilayed by him at the battle of New Or eans. When General Jackson died his will ordered the cup to be given to the "Bravest soldier from South Carolina in the next war which should occur. The cup was carefully put away in the State archives at Columbia to await the out come of the next war. The next war was the Mexican war. South Carolina sent out the Palmetto Regiment, 1,100 strong. It fought in many battles, and only 300 of the 1,100 came back. Then the question as to who should have Jackson’s cup arose. The Legislature appointed a commission to decide the matter. The commission could reach no conclusion. Every mem ber of the regiment had fought well. No one had run away or showed the slight est cowardice, and it was impossible to award the trophy. Thereupon tha Leg islature decided that the cup should go to the last survivor of 809. There are only 20 left, and it is the especial ara fbition of each to outlive the others so as to possess the trophy. JERRY SIMPSON NOT SOCKLESS. The Alliance Statesman Denounces the Accusation as a Vile Slander. Congressman-elect Jerry Simpson ar rived in Kansas City yesterday. “They say that I don't wear any socks,” said tho new Congressman. “That is a big lie and a vile slander. T wear as good socks as any other gentleman in Kansas. My wife is a careful little body, and she in sists upon keeping me supplied with •ocks that would do even for a ‘Prince Hal,’ and she don’t let any holes, get in 'em, either. She knits tho ‘hoses' her self, and when the holes come out she darns ’em in a fashion that would do credit to the first lady in the land: If you don’t believe that I wear socks just look here." And pulling mV a trouser leg of coarse brown stuff, similar to thatworn bv nine ty-nine farmers out of a hundred, he dis played a calf of genuine proportions and a pair of stockings made out of common yarn, the regular blue and gray, the fa vorite with tho farmers’ wives, who have discovered that the coarser the yarn the fewer the atitches.—Kansas City Times. FARMERS AN® SILVER. — A Detewfnftd Effort to Influence > Congress. The Counei of State Preeidenta of the National Farmers Alliance Adopts a Resolution Demanding the prompt Report of the Silver Bill. WAaHJHOTOif.D. 0. Feb. 16,-The pree ldente of the State organisations of the National Farmers?Alliance met here, the purpose being to'formulute bertain meas ures to be presented to Congress and to map out some feasible plan for dissemi nating the literature of the council for educational purposes. The meeting was called to order with President Polk in the chair,, representatives of the following States being present: Virginia, Man" land, South Carolina, North Carolina Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas and Penn sylvania and several other States. The only business transacted in the morning was the appointment of a com mittee on silvei legislation. At the even ing session thii committee submitted the following report: ivcau.vKu, mat we regard it as a high duty enjoined upon Congress by the Con stitution to provide for the unlimited coinage of both the precious metals, golu and silver, to tie end tfint the people vl the several States may be provided with a circulating midium. We express om surprise and indignation that this dutv has been so long delayed and neglected' contrary, as we believe, not only to the duty we have mentioned, but the best in terests of the misses of our people, who are suffering the pangs of poverty and stagnation of nuiness caused by the want of a sufficient circulating medium We believe a»d charge that such delay and neglect has been occasioned by an undue lufluenccin our governmental pol icies by those wiose interests it is to con tract the currency and snbserve the mo nopolies and moiey lenders. We therefore rt-ge upon Congress the demand heretofore made by the National Farmers' Alliance apd Industrial Union for free and unli upon the same tc.. gold is now coined nest condemnation bitrary power wth ted coinage of silver ]s and conditions tbai We express our ear tf the exercise of aK ■ s -n* Rrevented the fair consideration of die free coinage bill at the last session oi Congress, and in this ——c— -- -1-1 expression to the connection we glvt hope that the ffee\coi passed the Senate *. --- '*»—sJg tuvjJi COCUb Bes siou and is now being considered in the committee on coinage, weights and meas ures of the House, shall *0t be suppressed but shall be speedily reported back to the Spsisfsr1; sentatives on thecomaiitteo in the House we say that any efforts to unduly delay the report on that HI so as to prevent action thereon by tin House in the few remaining days of tHs Congress will mcr it, and will receive, dill further condem bill which represent ses “i ‘ww.c, a1**1 tuixuci uuuucui nation by the fanned and laborers of this country. We hike waited fnany years for the simple 31 tic* of having both pre cious metals rest red to free coinage, and hereby declare ojr determination to press the fight on this ine until this relief is ac corded to the 1 boring and producing masses of our na ion, and to hold respon sible the men, ir espective of pariy, who obstruct in any ' ay the legislative enact ment of this ju3t measure so strongly de manded by the iboring classes of all : TA i x m ; t, e ! d mi parties. The report is aid, Tennessee. M. D.; Frank Adams, Louismi i ia; W. ». McAH it The Council hearing before coinage, aud, if report of the co tion will be pr< on lcgistative c eratiou the sub the land loan p, sentiment in tn< committee on port, to the Houj i so that there ma; provisions. Th members of the are opposed to The press co] McDowell, Sna^fcl’ The Council the i i w y! i yned by J. H. McDou lairman; U. S. Hill, iGrath, Kansas; T. S. ; Marlin Page, Yirgin ;er, Mississippi. ’ eudeavor to obtain r House committee on his is accorded it, the imittec on silver legisla Rented. The committee ands has under consicl ■easury proposition and There is a strong cpouncil that the House 's and means should re the sub-treasury bill, be a discussion of its tfre are a numbers of Council however, wLo tfe -idea; ittee consists of Messrs, ly, Hall and Kenmore. adjourned. pita n n Heretofore it. las seemed an impossi- , bility to get stunted cotton white without injuring it. A process lo accomplish this has recently been discovered by J. J. Williams, a successful farmer at Ellenton, S. C. He packs his'seed cotton in. lay ers. Over each layer he sprinkles water with a pine top, and after doing this leaves it for nearly three days. The stained and blue cotton, when taken out is clean and white and the staple as good as ever. The cotton When packed in this man ner generates heat, which removes the stains, and the farmer is saved the differ ence in price between tUe stained and white cotton, besides gaining one pound in eight in ginnjpg. The heat generated in the packing kills the germ in the seed, but the oil in them is not injured, and they are saleable to the oil mills. Jlr. Williams has found this process Bpccessful, and he will be glad to answer any inquiries concerning it. As the best evidences of its value it may be stated that this year he sold his entire crop as firit-elass cotton. Appropriation For the World's Fair. A Raleigh correspondent writes: Col. Thos. Keogh, of the World’s Fair com mission, is here and is devoting himself to the work of securing a complete rep reutation of North Carolina at the groat exposition. The legislature is disposed to act liberally in the matter and to avail itself of what is undoubtedly North Car olina’s greatest opportunity. It will be ' asked to appropriate $50,000. It is thought this sum is reasonable and prop er. One of the plans is to have a North Carolina building at Chicago, in which the materials wiu be the beautiful build ing stones and the choice woods of the State and in this to place every article " which is enumerated in the census re turns. North Carolina is the only Stata Jn all the Ujmou whiob can do tbi#* REV. DR. TALMAGE Tie Brooklyn Diviiui’i fStmdav Sermon! Jssffl1:ao^“<<A is dead."— eh^J^" ?Sth0i‘0 Church has been putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith. I Protestantism with* putting not ^ith "P?1 gtlod work* » connected Good works 1,111 never save e„?.P“n£•"• not e°«d works be StL?”falth mut no genuine religion. thU fWth089 Tih2, Aep1nd upon the fact ttat they are all right inside, while their S”*"4 u WZ°?e oateide- Then- religion for the most part is made up of tolk-v^orous JS'.*’ !*5s,:ful *«lk. pwpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour m telling you how good they are. Tii.iv come up to such a higher life that we have no patience with ordinary Christians in the tl*;k»rKe of then* duty. As near as I verJu«.th;8 ooea“ “If4 is mostly sail and very httle tonnage. Foretopmast staysails, foretopmast studding sail, maintouaii, mix sen topsail everything from flying jib to fjfZei3*P^ker> b“‘making no useful voy age. Now the world has got tired of this, and it wants a religion that will work into all the mrcumstances of life. We do not want a new P«stibledirectkm8>ld reIlgion m all «ka nyet wibU j_ ___T banks, an£ it roars like a young Niagara as II11*,0” °TeTi4a rough bed. It doesnoth Ing but talk about itself aiithe way from ite sourra in the mountain to the place where it 2“Ptaf* int2, the sea- The banks are so steep the cattle cannot come down to drink It does not run one fertilizing rill into the adjoining field. It has not one grist mill or faotory on either side. It sulks in wet weather with chilling fogs. No one cares when that river is born among the rocks, and no one cares when it dies into the sea. Nut yonder is another river, and it mosses —Si warm tides, and it rocks with floral lullaby the water liUies asleep on its bosom. It invites herds of cattle, and nocks of Sheep, and coveys of birds to come there and drink It has three grist mills on one side and six ootton factories on the other. It is the wealth of two hundred milea of luxuriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted when it was born in the mountains, and the ocean shipping will press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down to the Atlantic coast. The one river is a man who lives for himself, the other river is a man who lives for others. uo you Know bow the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, the other had no family. The brother with a large family said, “There is my brother with no family; he must be lonely, and I will try to cheer him, up, and I will take some of the sheaves from my field in the night time and set them over on his farm and say nothing about it.” The other brother said, “My brother has a large family, and it is very dif ficult for him to support them, and I will help him along, and I will take some of the sheaves from my own farm in the night time and set them over on his farm and say noth ing about it.” So the work of transference went on night after night, and night after 2i2:j^&cWtfiey*wcre, for though sheaves had been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had also been added, and the brothers were per plexed and could not nnderstand. Bnt one night the brothers happened to meet while making this generous transference, and the spot where they met was so sacred that it was chosen as the site of the city of Jerusa lem. If that tradition should prove un founded it will nevertheless stand as a beau tiful allegory setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed that is the spot fit for some temple of commemoration. I have often spoken to you about faith, but now I speak to you about works, for “faith without works is dead.” I think you will agree with me in the statement that the great want of this world is more practical religion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will supervise the labeling oi: goods. It will not allow a man to say a thing was made in one factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that watch was manu factured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it vras manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say that wine came from Madeira when it came from California. Practical religion will walk along by the store shelves ^and tear off all the tags that make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant to say that is pure coffee when dandelion root and chicory and other in gredients go into it. It will not allow him to say that is pure sugar when there are in it sand and ground glass. When practical religion gets its full swing in the world it will go down the streets, and it will come to that shoe store and rip off the fictitious soles of many a fine looking pair of shoes, and show that it is pasteboard sandwiched between the sound leathor. And this practical religion win go ngnt into a grocery store, and it will pull out the plug of all the adulterated sirups, and it will dump into the ash barrel in front of the store the cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon and the brick dust that is sold for cayenne pepper, and it will shake out the Prussian blues from the tea leaves, and it will sift from the flour plaster of Paris and bone dust and soapstone, and it will by chemical analysis separate the one quart of Kidge wood water from the few honest drops of eow’s milk, and it will throw out the Hve animalcules from the brown sugar. There has been so much adulteration of articles of food that it is an amazement to me that there is a healthy man or woman in * America. Heaven only knows what they put into the spices, and into the sugars, and into the butter, and into the apothecary drugs. But chemical analysis and the microscope have made wonderful revela tions . The board of health in Massachu setts analyzed a great amoimt of what was called pure coffee and found in it not one particle of coffee. In England there is a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The public authorities examined fifty-one pack ages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician, writing a prescrip tion, does not know but that it may bring death instead of health to his patient, be cause there may be one of the drugs weak ened by a cheaper article, and another drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. | Oil of wormwood, warranted pure, from Boston, was found to have forty-one per cent, of resin and alcohol and chloroform, i Scammony is one of the most valuable medi cinal-drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It is the sap or the gum of a tree or bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision is made into the root, and then shells are placed at this incision to catch the sap or the gum as it exudes. It is very precious, this scammony. But the peasant mixes it with cheaper material; then it is taken to Aleppo, and the merchant there mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes on to the wholesale druggist in Lon don or New York, and he mixes it with n cheaper material; then it comes to the re tail druggist, and he mixes it with a cheaper material, and by the time the poor sick man gets it into his b&ttlfe'TT is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been called pore scammony after analysis has been found to be no scammony utall. Now, practical religion will yet rectify all this. It will go to those hypocritical profes sors of religion who got a “corner” in corn and wheat in Chicago and New York, send ing prices upland up until they were beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these bread stuffs in their own hands, or controlling them until, the prices going up ^nd up and up, they were after awhile ready to sell, and they sold out, making themselves millionaires in one or two years —trying to fix the mat ter up with the Lord by building a church, or a university, or a hospital—deluding them selves with the idea that the Lord would be so pleased with the gift He would forget the swindle. Now, as such a man may not have any liturgy in which to say his prayers, I will compose for,him one which he practi cally is making: “O Lord, we, by getting a uuiu, wo, «jy ({OHIULf a corner* in breadstuff?, swindled the people Tnited States out of ten million dol of the United w uimwu Uoi lar^ and made snffering all up and down the land, and we would like to compromise this matter with Thee. Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart. Now, here we compromise it. Take one per cent. 01 the profits, and with that one per cent, you can build an asylum for these poor miserable ragamuffins of the street, and I will take a yacht and go to Europe, for ever and ever, amen!” Ab, my friends, if a man hath gotten his estate wrongfully, and he build a line of hos pitals an* uni versities Zrom here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After a while this man who has been getting a “corner” in wheat dies, and then Satan gets a “comer” on him. He goes into a great, long Black Friday. There- is a “break” in the market. According to Wall street parlance, he wiped others out, and now he is himself wiped out. No collaterals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eternal defalcation I but this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise, it will also rectify all mechanism and all toil. A time will come when a man will work as faithfully by the job os he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightingly done, “Oh, that wa» done by the job!” You can tell by the swift* ness or slowness with which a haokman drives whether he is hired by the hour or by the excursion. If he is hired by the excur sion he whips up the horses, so as to get around ana get another customer. All styles of work have to be inspected. Ships inspected, horses inspected, machinery in spected. Bom to watch the journeyman. Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to watch the boss. Conductor of a city car sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty as a passenger hands to him a clipped nickel. All things must be watched and inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with putty. Garments warranted to last until you put them on the third time. Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds for a dollar and a half. Book bindery that holds on until you read the third chapter. Spavined horses by skillful dose of jockos for several days made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks without any provocation and falls off. Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. Im perfect car wheel that halts the whole train with a hot box. So little practical religion in the mechanism of the world. I tell you, my friends, the law of man will never rectify these things. It will be the all per vading Influence of the practical religion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better. * «*» raiB practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbially honest, but needs to be rectified, and it will keep the farmer from sending to the New York mar ket veal that is too young to kill, and when the farmer farms on shares it will keep the man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and It will keep the farmer from building his posts and rail fence on h{* neighbor’s premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it will keep the old elder from working on Sun day afternoon in the new ground when no body sees him. And this practical religion will hover over the house, and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard. Yes, this practical religion of which I speak iug innocence, and arraigning evil, and ex pounding the law, and it will keep him from charging for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percentages he neverearned, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are defenseless. Yes, this practical religion will come into the physician’s life, and he will feel the responsi bility as the conservator of the public health, a profession honored by the fact that Christ Himself was a physician. And it will make him honest, and when he does not understand a case he will say so, not trying to cover- lip lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicali ties, or send the patient to a reckless drug store because the apothecary happens to pay a percentage on the prescriptions sent. And this practical religion will come to the school teacher, making her feel her re sponsibility in-preparing our youth for use fulness, and for happiness, and for ( honor, and will keep her from giving a sly bo£ to a dull head, chastising him for what he cannot help, and sending discourgement all through the after years of a lifetime. This practical religion will also come to the newspaper men, and it will help them in the gathering of the news, and it will help them in setting forth the best interests of society, and it will keep .them from putting the sins of the world in larger type than its virtues, and its mistakes than its achievements. Yes, this religion, this practical religion, will come and put its hand on what is called good society, elevated society, successful so ciety, so that people will have their expendi tures within their income, and they will ex change the hypocritical “not at home” for the honest explanation “too tired” or “too busy to see you,” and will keep innocent re ception from becoming intoxicating convivi ality. x es, mere is a great; opportunity tor mis sionary work in what are called the success- I ful classes of society. It is no rare thing ' now to see a fashionable woman intoxicated ! in the street, or the rail oar, or the reetau- j rant. • The number of fine ladies who drink too much is increasing. Perhaps you may find her at the reception in moat exalted company, but she has made too many visits to the wine room, and now her eye is glassy and after a while her cheek is unnatural!; flushed, and then she falls into fits c* excruciating laughter about nothing, an* then 6he offers sickening flatteries, telling some homely man how well he looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and by the time the carriage get to her home it takes the husband ana coachman to get her up the stairs. The report is, She was taken suddenly ill at a german. Ah! no. She took too much champagne, and mixed liquors, and got drunk. That was all. Yes. this practical religion -will have to "come in and fix up the marriage relation in America. There are members of churches who have too many wives and too many hus bands. Society needs to be expurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized. We have missionary societies to reform Elm street, in New York, Bedford street, Phila delphia, and Shoreditch, London, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is need of an or ganization to reform much thatds going on m Beacon street and Madison square atid Rittfenhouse square and West End and Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We want this practical religion not. only to take hold of what are called the lower classes, but to take hold of what are called the higher classes. The trouble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion oh Sunday wfth hymn book and prayer book and liturgy, and some of them sit in church rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life, and while you are expecting to come out from under their arms the wings of an angel,there come out from their forehead the horns of a beast. There has got to be a new departure Id religion. I do not say a new religon. Ob, no: but the old brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype, and the ambrotype, and the photograph, but it is the same old sun, and these arts are only new appliances of the old suulight. So this glorious Gospel is just what we want to pnotograph the image of God on one soul, daguerreotype it on another soul. Not a new Gospel, but the old Gospel • put to new work. In our time we have had the telegraphic invention, and the telephonic invention, and the electric light invention, but they are all the children of old elec tricity, an element that the philosophers . have a long while known much about. So , this electric Gospel needs to flash its light ;on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and became a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear, a telegraphic medium to dart in vitation and warning to all nations; an elec* trio light to illuminate the eastern and watt era hemispheres. No* e new Ooepel, 1 old Gospel doing a new work. Now you say “That is a very ' theory, hut Is It possible to take one’s 1 ion into all the avocations and bnslne iifer Tea and I will give yon a few s mens. Medical doctors who took the ligion into everyday life: Dr. John j crombie, of Aberdeen, the greatest physician of the day, hia book on "Diseases of the Brain and Hpinal Cord,” ho more won derful than his book on "The Philosophy of JJ* FeeUnga” and often kneefing " the bedside of hia patients to commend th toGodin,prayer. Dr.John Brown, of ] inburgh, immortal as an author, dying und the benediction of the sick of Edimmri myself remembering him as he sat in study m Edinburgh talking to Christ and his hope of heaven. of Christian famUypfiQw8a**i»s tel just as good as they were. Lawyers who carried their religion into their profession: The late Ix>rd Cairns, the Queen’s adviser for many years, the highest legal authority in . Great Britain—-Lord Cairns,every summer in his vacation, preach- „ ing as an Evangelist among the poor of his i country. John McLean, Judge of the Su preme Court of the United States and Presi dent of the American Sunday School Union, feeling more satisfaction in the latter office than in the former. And scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in the church of Ood as they are eminent at the bar. Merchants who took their religion into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in his day because he established that system by which we come to find out the commer cial standing of business men, starting that entire system, derided for it then, himself, as I knew him well, in moral character Al. Monday mornings inviting” to a roofajn the top of his storehouse the clerks of his estab lishuieut, asking them about their worldly interests and their spiritual interests, then giving out a hymn, leading in prayer, giv ing them a few words of good advice, asking them what church they attended on the Sab bath, what the text was. whether they had any especial troubles of their own. Arthur Tappan. I never heard his eulogy pro nounced. I pronounce it now. And other merchants just as good. William E. Dodge, in the iron business; Moses H. Grinnell, in the shipping business; Peter CooDer, in the glue business. Scores of men just as good as they were. fj r anners w»o wise tneir religion into their occupation: Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. They begad this day by a prayer to God, and when they get home at noon, after they have put their horses up, will offer prayer to God at the table, seeking a blessing, and this summer there will be in their fields not one dishonest head of rye* not one dishonest ear of corn, not one dis honest apple. Worshiping God to-day away up among the Berkshire Hills,or away down amid the lagoons of Florida, or away out amid the mines of Colorado, or along the banks of the Passaic and the Raritan, where I knew them better because I went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion into their occupations: James Brihdley, the fa mous millwright; Nathaniel Bowditch, the famous ship chandler; Elihu Burritt, the fa mous blacksmith, and hundreds and thou sands of strong arms which have made the hammer, and the saw, and the adze, and the drill, and the ax sound in the grand march of our national industries. Give your heart to God and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to mm your store, your shop,jgour talking hone®, »SigRvia>«->. m.+r«» ■«, at —,, i. Younardly know of any one else than‘Wellington as connected with " enough. You na_ „ than Wellington as connected with the vic tory at Waterloo; but he did not do the hard fighting. The hard fighting was done by the Somerset cavalry, and the Ryland regiments, and Kempt’s infantry, and the Scots Grays and the Life Guards. Who cares, if only the day was won! In the latter part of the last century a girl in England became a kitchen maid in a farm house. She had many styles of work, and much hard work. Time rolled on, and she married the son of a weaver of Halifax. They were industrious; they saved money enough after a while to build them a home. On the morning of the day when they were to enter that home the young wife rose at 4 o’clock, entered the front door yard, knelt down, consecrated the place to God, and there made this solemn vow: “O Lord, if Thou will bless me in this place, the poor shall have a share of it. ” Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. Children grew up around them, and they all became affluent; one, a member of parliament, in a public place declared that liis success came from that prayer of his mother in the door yard. All of them were aflluent. Four thousand hands in their factories. They built dwell ing houses for laborers at cheap rents, and when they were invalid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing. One of these sons came to this country, ad mired our parks, went back, bought land, opened a great public park, and made. it a present to the city of Halifax, England. They endowed an orphanage, they endowed two almshouses. All England has heard of the generosity and the good works of the Crossleys. Moral—Cousecrate to God your small means and your humble surroundings, and you will have larger means and grander surroundings. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise ot the life that now is and of that which is *to come.” Have faith in God by all means, but remember that faith without works is dead.” % EX-GOVERNOR GORDON ROBBED. Pickpockets Relieve Him of a Roll of Money and His Railroad Ticket. When cx-Governor Gordon, of Georgia, arrived at the Pennsylvania railroad sta tion, in Jersey City, bound south, Wed nesday afternoon, he found that his pock et had been picked, and he had neither railroad ticket nor money to buy an/ with. Besides his ticket* he had lost £148. liis grand hailing sign of distress nought hina relief at the tkiket- offir.^, - uttl after putting the matter in the hands >f detectives, the governor continued on ids journey without delay._ Cut Off His Quene For a Bride. A Lansing, Mich., special says: A marriage license was issued to-day to Sam Lee, a Chinaman and proprietor of a laundry here, and Maggie Koehler, an Irish maiden, young and pretty. The marriage ceremony performed was with the full consent of the bride's narenta and-friends, and the brother of the bride 3tood up with her. A large crowd stood about the pride’s home, where the mar riage look place, invited guests to the jaumfjer of 150 being present. Sam is a popular fellow, has a snug sum in the bauk, aud runjj the biggest laundry itr the capital city. The pair did not go on a bridal trip, but set up housekeeping in a house Sain had bought and furnish ed. The e was nothing peculiar about the courtship, except that Sam had to cut off his queue in obedience to his bride's wishes. Impetus to Sugar Growing-. The financial success of the sugar fun- . tory at Franklin, JLa., has encouraged oth er communities in that Btotc to consider the expediency of organizing similar en terprises. ’fhe New Orleans Tiroes-Idem Jcrat says: “It has-been clearly den« nonstraled that the manufacture of sug.ir iu Louisiana can be extended and ear- - tied ou most successfully with these irai factories; and it is to be ' .hereiore, that the State will it needs fot this industry,”