The Chinese exclusion act has a
last been before the United States Su
preme Court, and is affirmed as con-etitntional.
The New York Sun remarks : .While
Tegetarians urge their theories "with
all the force at command, we find that
the earlier Nations of which we have
any information were great meat eat
ers, especially those inhabiting cool
climates, and simply because the na
ture of their surroundings demanded
Buch substantial and heat-producing
food.
The canal which will connect Mar
Beilles, France, with the River Rhone
will run four and a half miles of its
length through a tunnel. Some idea
of the engineering required for this
Work may be had when it is realized
that the canal will be made wide,
enough for two boats, each of forty
Bix feet beam, to pass each other. The
total length of the canal will be thirty
five mile3. Its co3t is estimated at
80, 000, 000.
It seems strange to the New York
Advertiser to think of the ubiquitous
bicycle extending its progress over the
classic grounds of Greece and Mace
donia, made sacred to the student by
the writings of Homer and the con
quests of Xerxes, but it seems still
more strange and incongruous to think
of it intruding in places made dear to
our iecollections through New Testa
ment association ; and yet the bicycle
is in these countries.
La-Crosse, "Wis., has an Indian
Chief for a Mayor. Dr. D. Frank
Powell has only a slight tinge of Indian
blood in his veins, but that is of royal
BtraiD,and he has been for many years
Chief of the 8000 Winnebago es yet
remaining, by whom he is greatly be
loved and implicitly obeyed under the
name of "White Beaver." Dr. Powell
is an old army surgeon, and spent
many years on the plains with William
F. Cody. He has been four times
elected Mayor of La Crosse.
The Boston Herald says : A Port
land business man has hit on a new
csheme for being awakened at the
proper time in the morning, which he
declares beats any alarm clock that
eveT was invented. He has his tele
phone in his bedroom, and each night
when about to retire he calls up the
central office and requests the opera
tor to call him up at a designated hour,
in order to find if the "phone" works
properly. Promptly at that hour the
bell rings loudly, and he is awakened
with neatness and dispatch. He claims
that the service thus rendered is alone
worth the annual rental of the telephone.
The Railroad Gazette announces
that railroad companies have ordered
this year 22,029 freight cars, and have
bids out for 3000 more. The passen
ger cars ordered amount to seventy
two, with thirteen more to come. This
represents an expenditure of over
$10,000,000, which is worth consider
ing among the influences working to
make times better. The Railroad
Gazette says it is unlooked-for im
provement in car building. The rec
ord for less than five months exceeds
that of the entire year of 1894 by over
5000 freight cars. The passenger car
output makes a very different com
parison", 500 cars having been built
in 1894. In 1893, the car companies
built 51,000 cars, and in 1892 the out
let Tras 93A000 freight car
REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent New York Divine's Sua
day Sermon.
Subject: "Business Troubles."
in all
Text: "These were thy merchants
sorts of things." Ezekief xxv 21.
"We are at the opening door of returning
National prosperitjr. The coming Crops, the
re-establishment of public confidence and,
above all, the blessing of God will turn in
upon all section.? of America the widest,
greatest prosperity this country has ever
seen. But that door of Success is not yet
fully open, and thousand of business men
are yet suffering from the distressing times
through which we have been passing.
Some of the best men in the laud have
faltered, men whose hearts are enlisted in
every good work and whose hands have
blessed every great charity. The church of
God can afford to extend to them her sym
pathies and plead beforo heaven with ail
availing prayer. The schools such men have
established, the churches they have built,
the asylums and beneficent institutions they
have fostered will be their eulogy long after
their banking institutions, are forgotten.
Such men can never fail. They have their
treasures in banks that never break and will
be millionaires forever. But I thought it
would be appropriate to-day and useful for
me to talk about the trials "and temptations
of our business men and try to offer seme
curative prescriptions.
In the first place, I have to remark that a
great many of .our business men feel ruinous
trials and temptations coming to them from
small and limitod capital in business. It is
everywhere understood that it now takes
three or four times as much to do business
well than it once did. Onee a few hundred
dollars were turned intc goods. The mer
chant would be his own storekeeper. hi3 own
salesman, his. own bookkeei-er. He would
manage all the affairs himself, and every
thing would be net profit.. Wonderful
changes have come. Cosily apparatus, extensive-
advertising, exorbitant store rents,
heavy taxation, expensive agencies are only
parts of the demand made upon our com
mercial men, and when they h;;ve found
themselves in such circumstances with small
capital they have fomeihnes been tempted to
run against, the reeks :i moral and financial
destruction. This temptation of limited
capital has ruined men in two ways. Some
times they have shrunk down under the
temptation. They have yielded the battle
before fie first shot was fired. At the first
hard.dun they surrendered. Thar knees
knocked together "at the fall of the auction
eer's hammer. They blanched at the 'financial-peril.
They did not understand that
there is such a thing as heroism in merchan
dise and that there are Waterloos of the
counter and that a man can fight no braver
battle with the sword than he" can with the
yardstick. Their souls melted in them be
cause sugars were up when they wanted to
buy and down when they wanted to sell, and
unsalable goods were on the shelf and
bad debts in their ledger. The gloom ot
their countenances overshadowed even tneir
dry goods and groceries. Despondencv,
coming from limited capital, blasted them.
Others have felt it in a different way. They
have said: "Here I have been trudging
along. I have been trying to be honest all
these years. I. find it is of no use. Now it'
is make or break." Tho small craft that
could have stood the stream is put out be
yond the lighthouse on the great sea of spec
ulation. He borrows a few thousand dollars
from friends who dare not refuse him, and he
goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons
in this way: "Perhaps I may succeed, and if
I don't I will bo no worse off than I am now,
for $100,000 taken from nothing, nothing re
mains." Stocks nre the dice with which he gam
bles. He bought for a few dollars vast tracts
of Western land. Some man at the East, liv
ing on a fat homestead, meets this gambler
of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his
estate for lots in a Western city, with large
avenues, and costly, palaces, and lake stenm
ers smoking at the wharves, and rail trains
coming down with lightning speed from
every direction. There it is all on paper!
The city has never been built nor the rail
roads constructed, but everything points that
way. and the thing will be done as sure as
you live. Well, the man goe3 on, stopping
at no fraud or outrage. In his splendid
equipage he dashes past, while the honest
laborer looks up and "wipes the sweat from
his brow and says, -"I wonder where that
man got all his money V" After a while the
bubble bursts. Creditors rush in. The law
clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. Tho
:ien who were swindled say, "Iilon'tknow
how I could have evar been deceived by that
man," find the pictorials, in handsome wood
cuts, set forth the hero who in ten years had
genius enough to fail for 8150,000!
And that is the process by which many
have been tempted through limitation of
capital to rush into labyrinths from which
they could not be extricated. I would not
want to chain honest enterprise. I would
not want to block up any of the avenues for
honest accumulation that open before young
men. On the contrary, I would like to cheer
them on and rejoice when they reach the
goal, but when there are such multitudes of
men going to ruin for this life and the life
that is to come . through wrong notions of
what are lawful spheres of enterprise it is
the duty of the Church of God, and the minis
ters of religion, ana the friends of all young
men, to utter a plain, emphatic, unmis-.
takable protest. These are the influences
that drown men in destruction and per-,
dition.
Again, a great many of our business men
1 know that nearly all commercial businesses
are overdone in this day. Smitten with the
love of quick gain, our cities are crowded
with men resolved to be rich at all hazards.
They do not care how money come3 if it
only comes. Our best merchants are thrown
into competition with men of more means
and less conscience, and it an opportunity
of accumulation be neglected one hour
some one else picks it up. From
January to December the struggle goes
on. Night give3 no quiet to limbs toss
ing in restlessness nor to a brain that
will not stop thinking. The dreams are
harrowed by imaginary loss and flashed
with imaginary gains. Even the Sab
bath cannot dam back the tide of anxiety,
for this wave of woridliness dashe3 clear
over the churches and leaves its foam on
Bibles and prayer books. Men who are
living on salaries or by the cultivation of the
soil cannot understand the wear and tear of
the body and mind to which our merchants
are subjected when they do not know but
that their livelihood an I their business
honor are denendent upon, the uncertainties
: of the next hour. This excitement of tho
brain, this corroding care of the heart, this
strain of effort that exhausts the spirit, ,
sends a great many of our best men in mid
dle life into the grave, their life dashed out
against money safes. They go with their
store on their backs. They trudge like cam
els, sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus.
They make their life a crucifixion. Stand
ing behind desks and counters, banished
from the fresh air, weighed down by cark
ing cares, they are so many suicides. Oh, I
wish I could to-day rub out soma of these
lines of care; that I could lift soma cf the
burdens from the heart; that i could. give
relaxation to some of these worn muscles.
It is time for you to begin to take it a little
easier. Do your best and. then trust God
for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all
the affairs cf your life, and Ho manages
them for the best. Consider the lilies. They
always have robe-?.
Behold the fowls of the air! They always
have nests. Take a long breath. Bethink
betimes that God did not make you for a
pack horse. Dig yourselves out from among
tho hogsheads and the shelves, and in the
light of tho holy Sabbath -day resolve that
you will give to the winds your fears, and
your fretfulness, and your distresses.' You
brought nothing into the world, and it is
very certain you can carry nothing out.
Having food and raiment, be therewith con
tent. The merchant came home from the
store. There had been a great disaster there.
He opene I the fronf door and said in the
mifls'i; of his family circle: "I am ruined.
Everything is gone. I am all ruined." . His
wife said, "I am left," and the little child
threw up its hands and said, "Papa, I am
here." The aged grandmother, seated in
the room, said, "Then you have all the prom
ises cl God beside, John." And he burst in
to tsara and said: "Gol forgiva me that I
have been so ungrateful! I -find I have a
great many things left. God forgive me!"
Again, I remark that many of our business
men ara tempted . to neglect their home
duties. How often it is that the store and
home clash, but there ought not to be any
collision. It is often the easo that the father
isthe mere treasurer of the family, a sort of
agent to see that they have dry goods and
groceries. The work of family government
he does not touch. Once or twice in a year
he calls the children up On a Sabbath after
noon, when he has a half hour he does not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
half hour be disciplines the children aad
chides them and corrects their faults and
gives them a great deal of good advice, and
then wonders all the rest of the year that his
children do not do better when they have
the wonderful advantage of that semi-annual
castigation.
Tho family table, which ought to be the
place for pleasant discussion and cheerful
ness, often becomes the place of perilous
expedition. If there be any blessing asked
at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the
hand on the carving knife. He counts on
hi3 fingers, making estimates in the inter
stices of the repast. The work done, the hat
goe3 to the head, and he starts down the
street, and before the family have arisen
from the table he has bound up another
bundle of goods and say3 to the customer,
"Anything more I can do for you to-Jay,
sir?" A man has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by putting com
petent instructors over his children and giv
ing them a drawing master and a music
teacher. The physical culture of the child
will not be attended to unless the
father looks to it. He must some
times lose his dignity.. He must unlim
ber his joints. He must sometimes lead
them out to their sports and game?. Tae
parent who cannot forget the severe duties
of life sometimes, to fly the kite and trundle
the hoop and chase the ball and jump the
rope with his children, ought never to have
been tempted out of a crusty and unredeem
able solitariness. If you want to keep your
children away from places of sin you can
only do it by making your home attractive.
i"ou may preach sermons and advocate re
forms and denounce wickedness, and yet
your children will be captivated by the glit
tering saloon of sin unless you can make
your home a brighter place than. any.
other place on earth to them. Oh.
gather all charms ' into your house. If
you can afford it. bring books and pic
tures and cheerful entertainments to the
household. But above all teach those
children, not by half an hour twice a
year on the Sftbbath day, but day after Say
and every day teach them that religion la a
great gladness; that it throw3 chains of gold
about tho neck: that it takes no soring from
the foot, no blitheness from the heart, no
sparkle from the eye, no ring fom the laugh
ter, but that "her ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and nil herpaths are peace." I sympa-
inize with the work being done in manv of
It takes a rich man to draw a check;
a protty girl to draw attention, a n'ors
to draw a cart, a porous plaster to dra
the skin, a toper to draw a cor, a frce
our cities by which beautiful rooms are st IT " . '
c; ' Cj Ziz;-.- tlsesnent In a newspaper to draw trac
tions, and I pray God to prospsx the-i u ;i
things. But I tell I you there is som-thi-back
of that and before that. We n ' J
happy, consecrated, cheerful ChWn
homes everywhere.: "" 4
Again I remark that a great macv of 0T
busines3 men are tempted to put the attain
raent of money above the value of tho s0n
It is a grand thing to have Dlenty of raone-'
The more you get of it the better, if it Com
honesty and go usefully. For the lak of it
sickness dies without medicine, an I hun-v-flnd3
it coffin in the empty bread trav Hal
nakednes3 shivers for lack of clothes aai flr .
When I hear a man in canting tirade against
money a Christian man as though it hal
no possible use on earth and he had no ia
terest in it at all,'! come almost to thin
that the heaven that would be appropriate
forhiniwould.be an everlasting poorhou??
While, my friends, we do admit there
such a thing as the lawful use of money
a profitable use j of money-Met us rVs
ognize also the fact; that money cannot i" satis
fy a man's soul; that it cannot glitter iu tho
dark valley; that it cannot pay our fare
across the Jordan of death; that it cannot
unlock the gate of heaven. There are m?a
in all occupations who seem to act as though
they thought that a pack of bonds and mort
gages could be traded off for a title tj
heaven and as though gold would be a law
f ul tender in that place where it is so com.
monthat they make pavements out of it
Salvation, by Christ is the only salvation.
Treasures in heaven are the only incorrupti
ble treasures.. . i
Have you ever ciphered out in the rule of
loss aad gain the sum, "What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole world aad losahia
own soul?" However fine your apparel, tha
winds of death will flutter it like rag?. Home
spun and a threadbare coat have sometimes
been the shadow of doming robes made white
in the blood of the Lamb. The pearl of great
price is worth more than any gem you can
bring from the ocean, than Australian or
Brazilian mines strung in one earcauet. Seek
after God, find Hid righteousness, anl all
shall ba well here all shall bo well here
after. -'-"I
Some of you remember tho shipwreck of
the Central America. That noble ship hal,
I think, about 503 passengers aboard. Sud
denly tho storm came, and the surges
tramped the deck$ and swung into the
hatches, and there went up a hundred voieel
death shriek. The j foam on the jaw of the
wave. The pitching: of tho steamer as though
it were leaping a mountain. The dismal
flare of the signal rockets. The long cou,'h
of the steam pipes. The hiss of extinguish!
furnaces. The walking of God on the wave!
Tho steamer went not down without a strag
gle. As the passengers stationed themselves
in rows to bail out j the vessel, hark to the
thump of the buckets; as men unused to toil,
with blistered hands and strained muscle,
tug for their livesl There is 'a' sail seen
against the sky. The flash of the distress
gun is noticed;-its yoica heard not, for it is
choked in the louder booming of the sea.
A few passengers escaped, .but the steamer
gave one great lufch an l was gone! So
there ara some men who sail on prosperously
in life. All's well, jail's well. Bat at last
some financial disaster comes a eurolydon.
Down they go' The bottom of the commer
cial sea is strewn with shattered hulks. Bit
becausa your property goe3 do not let vour
soul go. Though all else perish, sava that,
for I have to tell you of a more stupendous
shipwreck than that which I just mentioned.
God launched this world 6003 years a-'o. It
has been going on
tains and immorta
under freight of moun-
s, but ona day it will-
tha cry of fire. Tha timbors of
tha mountains flame
clouds, like sails in the
Then God shall take
stagger at
rock will burn,
like masts, and- the
judgment hurricane.
the passengera off tha deck, and from the
berths those who have long been asleep in
Jesus, and Ha will set them far b?youd the
reach Of storm aad j peril. But how many
shall go down will naver ba known until it
shall be announced jone day in heaven. The
shipwreck of a world! So many millions
saved! So many millions drowned! Oh, my
dear hearers, whatever you lose, though
your houses go, though your lands go,
though all your earthly possessions parish,
may God Almighty,; through the blood of the
everlasting covenant, save all your souls!
To Relieve that Cough.
One's doctor will encouragingly h
form one, when struggling back to
strength from an attack of grippe:
"That cough of yours will have to wear
out. You can scarcely expect to rid
yourself of it before warmer weather."
If this is true, the! least that one can do
is to mitigate, so jfar as Is possible, the
violence of the throat affection. Glp
cerine is excellent; as part of a mixture
for moistening, the dry feeling there.
Either with water or with whisky it is
beneficial, but the latter dose is rather
sicklshly sweet for one already, nause
ated by the influenza. Equal parts of
glycerine and lemon juice make a coin
pound which is not unlike strong lem
onade in taste, Is refreshing to take
ifter severe coughing and Is highly rec
ommended by physicians.