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7 V. THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, SUNDAY, JONE-27, 18 6 clety. Alas! for the revelries, and the worse that Belshazzar, feasts and the more than Herodian dances, and the scenes f roiri which the veil must not be lifted. You need, however, in order to appreciate the. purity and virtuous splendor of Victoria's reign to contrast It somewhat with the; gehen- rias "and the pandemoniums of many of. the throne rooms of the past and some of the throne-rooms or the pres ent. I call the roll of the queens of the earth, hot that I would have them This is Dr. Talmage's third annual ! come up or come back, but that I'may make them the background or a pic- GOD SAVE THE QDEE1I.. 1 '; " VICTORIA'S JUBILEE IS THE THEME OF DK. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE. The Eloquent Preacher Pays a Fine Trib ute to England's Beloved Ruler and En forces the Lesson of Her Life The Great eat Coronation. visits to the Chautauqua at Beatrice, one of the greatest throngs ever as sembled on this continent. He lectured) yesterday; he preached today. Tfxt, Esther v,?3, "What with thou Queen Esther?" '. This question, which was asked of a queen thousands of years ago, all civi lized nations are this day asking of Queen Victoria'What wilt thou have of honor, of reward or reverence or ser vice, of national or international ture in (which I can better present the -present septuagenarian, so soon to be an octogenarian, now on the throne of England, her example so thoroughly on the Tight side that all the scandal mongers in air the nation in six de cades have not been able to manufac ture an evil suspicion in regard to her that could be made to stick: Maria of Portugal, Isabella and Eleanor and Jo anna, of Spain, Catherine of Russia, Mary of Scotland, Maria Theresa of Germany, Marie Antoinette of France and all the queens of England, as Miss -nrv I Strickland has put them before us in I Viw fharmsn? twwve volumes, ana queen of the nineteenth century?" The I whjle some queen may surpass our seven miles of procession through the I modern queen in learning, and anoth- sfreets of London day after tomorrow I er in attractiveness of feature, and an- Twill be a small nart of the congratuia- I , . . .. . i oiner in romance ol -iiiaixiiy, v iiui ia. 'torv nti-pifi)rtin -whose multitudinous I , r f I - yrcx ro c.. iivwtiivj tian character. I hail her the AJhns- tinn rlans-htr. th Christian wife, the irom Westminster aooey ana ot.ram s I Christian mother, the Christian queen, cathedral in London will be less than J and let the church of God and all he- and gracious institutions the tramp will encircle the earth. The cel- ebrative anthems that will sound up the vibration of one harp string as compared with the- doxologies which this hour roll up from all nations in praise to'God for the beautiful life and the glorious reign of this oldest queen amid many centuries. From 5 o'clock of the morning of 1837, when arch bishop of Canterbury addressed the embarrassed and weeping and almost mgn world over cry out, as they come with music and bannered host, and million .voiced huzza, and the benedictions of earth and heaven, ''What wilt thou, Queen Esther?"' if A NOBLE LIFE. Another thing I call to your atten tion 'in this illustrious woman's career affrighted girt of 18 years with the I js that she is a specimen of high life startling words, "your majesty,", until I uncorrupted. Would .she had lived to this sixtieth anniversary of her en-I celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of thronement, the prayer of all good peo- I her coronation and "the seventy-eighth pie on all sides of the seas, whether I anniversary of her birthday, had she that prayer be offered by the 300,000,000 1 not been an example of good principles of her subjects or the larger number of I 4 good habits? While there have millions Who are not her subjects, I been bad men and women in exalted whether that prayer be solemnized in I station and humble station who have church or rolled from great orchestras I carried their vices on into the seven- or poured forth by military bands from I ties and eighties and even the nineties forts and battlements and in front or I 0f their lifetime, such persons are very triumphant -armies all around the world, has been and is now, "God save the queen." Amid the innumerable columns that have been printed in eulogy of this rare. The majority of the vicious die in their thirties and, fewer reach the forties, and., they are exceedingly scarce in the fifties. Longevity has not been the characteristic of the most queen at the approaching anniversary I of those who have reached high places V-eolumns which, put together, would I ,in ,tnat or this country. In many cases . be literallv miles long it seems to me I wjeiHh iaria tim infA inriiilap.nir or V n tVirt It i P t c 1 1 1- , 1 sP Af-n crTd f n;Tn t" l"n I . .-. . ' . ... i - ; ' uiiaL urc v-""i -au.ic w. i.-,. .t v...... . neir opporiuniues 01 aoing wixm.g tuts to her and of praise of God has not I multiplied into the overwhelming, and yet 'been properly -emphasized; ana in 1 it is as true now 'as when the Bible many cases the chief key note has not I -,. ITrestntfl it. "The wicked live not been struck at all. We have been told I out half their days." Longevity is not over and over again what 'nas occurrea 1 a positive proof of goodness, but it is in the Victorian era. ine Tnigniiest i orima facie evidence in that direction thing she has done has been almost I A loos life ha.4 killed hundreds of em- ignored, while she has been honored by I j n en t Americans and Euro Deans. The having her. name attached to maiviau- 1 doctors are very kind and the certifl- alsand events fori whom and for which I t- ,0-5 ven after the distinguished man she had no responsibility. We have I of dissipation is dead, says, "Died of put before us the names or poienx ami 1 congestion of the brain," although it grandly useful men and women who I iuniim tremens, or 'Iied of cir- have lived during her reign, but I do I rnosis cf the liver," although it was a not suppose that sne at an neipea 1 mnn1 of libertinism, or "Died of heart Thomas Cariyie in 'twisting nis invoiv- 1 fanure." although it was the vengeance ed and mighty satires, or helped Dis- I of outraged law that slew him; Thanks, raeli in issuance of his epigrammatic I fwf0r f0r von are rie-ht in saving the wit, or helped Cardinal Newman in his I feeiings of the bereft household by not crossing over from religion to religion, I yeing more specific. Look; all ye who or helped to inspire the encnantea sen- 1 are ln lniffh Diaces f the earth, and see timents of George Eliot and Harriet I ore who has been Dlied bv all the Martineau- and Mrs. Browning, or I temptations which wealth and honor heloed to Invent any of George Cruik- I nia tK(i art nia nf nalfl.es r?ould shank's healthful cartoons, or helped I produce, and yet next Tuesday she will George Grey in founding a British I rid alonr in the nresence of 7.000.000 South African empire, or Kind'iea tne 1 peo5le if 'they can get within sight of patriotic fervor with which John I her chariot,, in a vigorous old age, no Bright stirred tne masses, or maa any- 1 more hurt by the splendors that have thing to do wirn tne invention 01 ;ine 1 surroUnded her for seventy-eight yeiars telephone, or photograph, or the build- I fs ,the rln!in miintrv woman come ing up ox tne science or oacienmogy, 01 1 down from .her mountain home in an the directing or tne noemgen rays 1 oxcart to attend the Saturday market- which have revolutionized surgery, or helped in the inventions for facilitating printing and railroading and L ocean voyaging. One is not to be credited or ing. The temptations of social life among the successful classes have been so great that every winter is a holocaust discredited for the Virtue Or the Vlce I nf Hnmnn neives and rtie foeanhei of Che brilliance or tne stupiauy oi nis or 4ier contemporaries. While f Queen "Victoria has been the friend of all art, all literature, all science, all invention, all reform, her reign will be most re membered for all time and all eternity as the reign of Christianity. Beginning with that scene at 5 o'clock in the morning in Kensington palace, where she asked the archbishop of Canterbury to pray for her, ana the knelt down. Imploring divine this tossing sea of high life 'are con stantly strewn with physical and mor al shipwreck. Beware, all ye success ful ones. Take a good look at the ven. erable queen as she rides through Re gent street, and along the Strand, and through Trafalgar square, and by the Nelson monument. What is the use of your dying at forty when you may just as well live to be eighty? If you are doing nothing for God or for the race, the sooner you quit the better, but if eruidance Until this hOUri not Only in I vml wnrth nnvthinf fnr the wnrld'a the sublime liturgy of her established I betterment, in the strength of God and church, but on all occasions, she has I trough good habits, lay out a plan for directly or indirectly declared, "I be- I a life that will reach through most of a lieve In God the Father Almighty, 1 century. How many people are practi maker of heaven and earth, and in I cally suicides from, the fact -that their esus wnnsi,: ms oniy ucguuLcn kjh. gormandizing or their . recklessness or I declare it, fearless of contradiction, their defiance of dietetics and plain that the mightiest champion of Chris- sanitary laws cut - short their days, tianity today is the throne of England. TmipPn. so erpat is the temntation of The queen's book, so much criticised at I those who have bountiful tables and the time of its appearance, some saying 1 full ciosets that Solomon suggests It was not sKinruiiy aone ana some that instead of putting the knife into saying that the private affairs of a the meat on their plate th4y direct the household ought not so to have been eg-e of it across their threat. Proverbs exposedwas nevertheless a book of xynt t "When thou sittest to eat vast usefulness from the fact that U a ruler insider dill e-entlv what showed that God was acKnowieagea m 1 ?s before thee and nut a. knife to thv all her life and that "Rock of AgesM I throat of thou he a man 'riven tn an- was not an unusual song in Windsor I petite . r believe more people die of castle, was ner son, me rnnce ol 1 improper eating than die of strong Wales, down Wltn an Illness xnai oai- 1 Hnv rThp. former nausea no delirium fled the greatest doctors of England? or violence and works more gradually. Then she proclaimed a day of prayer bllt none the less fatally. Queen Vie to Almighty God, and in answer to the toria's habits, self denying and almost prayers or tne wnoie civmzeu wmm under a good Providence, ac- the Prince got well. Was Sevastopol I to be taken and thousands of bereaved I mav p hometv lescon for se-raeresi- homes of soldiers to be comforted, she mal anniversary in British palaces, but caned ner nation to its Knees, aim lu i it is wort:h ,all the millions of dollars prayer was answered, bee her waiK-1 the celebration will oost: and the la ing through the hospitals like an an- I borious convocation of representatives gel of mercy. Was there ever an ex- I from an the zones of the planet. If the plosion of tire damp in tne mines 01 1 nations will learn the anitarv iless?on Sheffield or Wales and her telegram I of good hours, plain food; outdoor ex was not the first to arrive with help I - .... t A IT T"k - -3 - . X. I " nd unnstian sympatnyf is rnsmeiu mon seT1Se habits. That which Paul pjoniciu jiu6 "- "'- " saia iu ine jaaior is just as appropna.Le 'not the cable under the sea reaching I ror yon and for me "Do thyself no to Balmoral castle Kept Dusy in an- 1 harm." And here let me say no people nouncing the symptoms of the suffer- I outside of -Great Britain ought to be er? I more interested in this aueen's lubilee THE CHKlbTlAJN yu. 1 than eur nation. The cradles of -most T ielieve that no throne since the 1 of our-ancestors were rocked in Great throne of David and the throne of Hez- I Britain. They played in childhood on ekiah and the throne of Esther has I the banks of the Thames or the Clyde been of heaven as the throne of vie- I or the bhannon. Take from my. veins the welsn blood and the Scotch blood, and the streams of my life would foe shallow. Great Britain is our grand mother. We have read in the family records that without our grandmother's con sent, her daughter, our -mother, left home and married the genius of Amer ican independence, and for awhile there was; bitter estrangement, but the family quarrel has ended and all has been forgiven, and we shake hands ev ery day I across the seas. At this queenly anniversary our authorized representatives will offer greeting in Buckingham palace and our warships will thunder congratulation In English waters. They are, over there, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. It is our John Bunjan, our Wilberforce, our ; torla. From what I know of .her habits she reads; the Bible more than . she does Shakespeare. She admires the hymns of Horatio Bonar more than she does Byron's "Corsair." She has not knowingly admitted into her pres ence a corrupt man or dissolute woman To very distinguished novelists and' very celebrated prima donnas, she has declined Teception 'because they were Immoral. All the coming centuries of time cannot revoke the advantages of 'having had sixty years of Christian .womanhood enthroned in the palaces of England. Compare her court sur roundings with what were the court surroundings in the time of Napoleon, ln the time of Louis XVI, In the times of men and women whose names may not be mentioned In decent bo- Coleridge, our De Qulncey, our John Milton, pur John, Wesley, our John Knox, our Thomas Charmers, -our Bish op Chamock, our Latimer, lour Ridley, our Walter Scott, our Donlel O'Connell, our Robert Emmet,, our Havelock, our Henry Lawrence, , our William E. Glad stone, our Queen Victoria. Dong live the daughter of the Duchess of Kent! A LONG REIGN. Again, this international occasion impresses me with the fact that wo man is competent for political govern ment when God calls her to It. Great fears have been experienced in this country that woman would get the right of suffrage, and as a consequence after awhile woman might get into congressional chair and perhaps "after awhile reach the chief magistracy. Awful! Well, better quiet your per turbations, as you look across the sea, in this anniversary time, and behold a woman who for sixty years has ruled oyer the mightiest empire of all tfme and ruled well. In approval of her government the hands of all nations are clapping, the flags of -all nations waving, the batteries of all nations booming. Look here! Men have riot made such a wonderful success of gov ernment that they need be afraid that woman should ever take a turn at power. The fact is that men have made a bad mess of it. The most damnably corrupt thing on earth is American politics after men hare had at all their own way in this country for 121 years. Other things foeing equal for there are fools among women as well as among men I say other things 'being equal, woman has generally a keener sense of what Is right" and what is wrong than has man has naturally more faith in God and knows better how (to make self sacrifices and would more boldly act against intemperance and the so cial evil, and worse things might come to this country than -a supreme court room and a senate chamber and a house of representatives in Which womanly voices were sometimes heard. We men had better drop some tof the strut out of our pompous gait and with a little less of superciliousness ithrusx tne thumbs into the sleeves of our vests and be less apprehensive of the other sex, who seem to foe the Lord's favor ites from the fact that he has made more of them. If woman had 'possess ed an influential and controlling: , vote on Capitol hill at Washington and in the English parliament, do you think that the two ruffian and -murderous na tions of the earth could have gone on until this time with the butcheries in Armenia and Cuba? No, the Christian nations would have gone forth with bread and medicine and bandages and military relief until Abdul Hamid would have had no (throne to sit on, and Weyler, the commanding assassin in Cuba, would have been 'thrust into a prison as dark as that In which they murdered Dr. Ruiz. I am no advocate for female suffrage,, and I do not know whether it would be best to have nt, but I point you to the queen of Great Britain and the nation over which she rules as proof that woman may be pol itically dominant and prosperity reign God save the queen, whether now on the throne in Buckingham palace or in some time to come in American White House. "And now T pray God that day after tomorrow the uncertain skies of Eng land, so economic or sunshine, may pour golden light upon all the scene, and that since the-iday when in West minster abbey the girlish queen took in-one hand the scepter and in the other the orb of empire there may have been no day so happy as that one in wh'icfo she shall this week receive the plaudits of Christendom. May she be strength ened in her aged body to ride the whirlwind of national excitement, and her falling vision 'be illumined with bright "memories of the past and brightier visions of the future, alnd when she quits the throne of earth may she have a throne in heaven, and as the doors of the eternal palace are swung open may the question of the text sound in her enraptured ears, "What wilt thou. Queen Esther? ANOTHER CORONATION. But as all of us will be denied attend ance on that sixtieth anniversary coro nation I invite you not to the anniver sary of a coronation,- "out 'to a. corona tion itself aye, to two coronations. Brought up as we are, to love as no other form of government that which is republican and democratic, we, liv ing on this side of the sea, cannot so easily as those living on the other side of the -sea appreciate the two corona tions to. which all up and down the Bi ble you and I are urgently Invited. Some of you haVe such morbid Ideas of religion that you think of it ais going down Into a dark cellar, or out on a barren common, or as a flagellation, when, so far from a dark cellar, it is a palace, and instead of a barren com mon it is a garden, atoss with the brightest fountains that were ever rain bowed, and instead of flagellation It is coronation, but a coronation utterly eclipsing the one whose sixtieth anni versary is now being celebrated. It was a great day when David, the little king who was large enough to thrash Go liath, took the crown ati Rabbath a crown weighing a talent of gold and encircled with precious stones and the people shouted, "Long live the king!" It was a great day when Petrarch, sur rounded by twelve patrician youths clothed in scarlet, received from a sen ator the laurel crown, and the people shouted, "Long live 'the poet!" It was a great day when Mark An tony put upon Caesar the mightiest tiara of all the earth, and Jn honor of divine authority Caesar had it placed afterward on the head of the statue of Jupiter Olympus. It was a great day which the greatest of Frenchmen took the diadem of Charlmagne and put it on his own brow. It . was a great day when, abkut an eighth of a mile from a gate of Jerusalem, under a sky pallid with thickest darkness and on a mountain trammeled of eartihquake.aind the air on fire with the blasphemies of a mob, a crown of spikes was put upon the pallid and agonized brow of Jesus But that particular, coronation, amid tears and blood and groans and shiver ing cataclysms, made your own coro nation possible. Paul was not a man to lose his equilibrium," but when that old missionary, with crooked back and in flamed -eyes, got a glimpse of the crown coming- to him, and coming to you, if you will by repentance and faith ac cept it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor eyete flashed and his crooked hack straightened as he cried to Timothy, "There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness," and to the Corinthians, "These athletes run to 'obtain a corruptible,- we an incorruptible,' crown." And to the Thessalonians he speaks of "the crown of glory," and to the Philippians he says, "My joy and crown." The apostle Peter catches the inspiration and crys out, 'Te shall re ceive a crown of glory that fadeth not away," and St.John joins in the rapture and savs, "Faithful to death, and I will give thee a crown of life." and elsewhere' exclaims, "Hold fast that no man take thy crown." Crowns, crowns. crowns! You did not expect In coming here today to be invited to a corona tion. You can scarcely believe your own ears, but in the, name of a par doning God and a sacrificing Christ and an omnipotent Holy Spirit and a triumphant heaven I offer each one a crown for .the asking. Crowns, crowns! How to get the crown? The way Vic toria got her crown, on her knees. Although eight duchesses and mar quises, all in cloth of silver, carried her train, and the Windows and arches and roof of the abbey shook with tne "Te Deum" of the organ in full diapason, she had to kneel, she had to come down. To get the crown of pardon and eternal life, you will have to kneel, you will have to come down. Yea. History says that at her coronation not ony the entire assembly wept with profound emotion, but .Victoria was in tears. So you wilL have to have your dry eyes moistened with tears, in your case tears of repentance, tears of joy, tears coronation, and you will feel like crying out with Jeremiah, "Oh, that my head were waters ana mine eyes fountains of tears." Yes. she was during the ceremony seated for awhile on, a lowly stone call ed the Lia Fail, which, as I remember it, as I have seen it again ana again, was rough and noi a foot high, a lowly and humble place in which to be seat ed, and if youare to be crowned king or queen to God forever you must be seated on the Lia Fail of prorouna humiliation. After all that she was ready for the throne, and let me say that God is not going to leave your ex altation half done. There are thrones as well as crowns awaiting you. St. John shouted, "I saw thrones," and again he said, "They shall. reign for ever and ever." Thrones! Thrones Get ready for the coronation. But I invite you not only to your own coro nation, but to a mightier and the mightiest. In all the ages of time no one ever had such a hard' time as Vlil lk7L T ,J.V, WW - bles for his ( brow, expectoration for his cheek, whips for his back, spears for his 7 side, I spikes for his feet con tumely for his name, and even in our time how many say he is no Christ at all, and there are tens of thousands of hands trying to push him back and keep him down. But, oh, the human and satanic impotency! Can a spider stop an albatross? Can the hole which the toy shovel of a child digs in the sand at Cape May swallow the Atlan tic? Can the breath of a summer fan drive back the 1 Mediteraneari euro clydon? Yes, when all the combined forces of earth and hell can keep Christ from ascer ding the throne of universal dpminiorL David the psalm ist foresaw that coronation and cried out in regard to the Messiah, "Upon himself shall his crown flourish." From the cave of black basalt St. John foresaw it and cried, "On his head were many crowns." Now do not miss the beauty of that figure. There is no room on any head for more than one crown of silver, gold or diamond. Then what does the book mean when it says, "On his head were many crowns?" Well, it means twisted and enwreathed flowers. To prepare a crown for your child and make her" the "queen of the May," you might take the white flowers out of one parterre and the crimson flowers out of another parterre and the blue flowers out of another parterre and the pink flowers out of another parterre and gracefully and , skillfully work these four or five crowns into one crown of beauty. So all the splendors of earth and heaven are to be en wreathed into one coronal for our. Lord's forehead one blazing glory, one dazzling brightness, one overpowering perfume, one down flashing, up rolling, outspreading magnificence, and so on his head shall be many crowns. THE GREATEST CROWN, . The world's best music will yet be sounded in his praise, the world's best architecture built for his worship, the world's best paintings descriptive of his triumphs, the world's best sculp ture perpetuate the memory of his he roes and heroines. Already the crown woven out of many crowns is being put upon his brow. His scarred feet are already ascending the throne. A careful statistician estimates that in 1950 there will be 174,000,000 people in the United States, and by the present ratio of uniting with the church 100, 000,000 of them will be ehurch members. What think 'ye of that, ye pessimists, inspired by the devil? The deadest failure in the universe is the kingdom of satan. The grandest throne of all time and all eternity is the one that Christ-is now mounting. The most of us will not see the consummation in this world, but we will gaze upon it from the high heavens. The morning of that consummation will arrive, and what a stir in the holy city! -.All the towers of gold will ring its arrival. All the chariots will roll into line. The armies of heaven : which John saw seated on white horses passing in infi nite calvacade. - The inhabitants of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and of all islands of the sea, and perhaps of other worlds, will join in a procession compared with which that of next Tuesday will, not make one battalion. The conqueror ahead, having .on his vesture and on his thigh written "King of kings and Lord of lords," and when he passes through the chief of the twelve uplifted gates, all nations following, may you and I be there to hear the combined shout of church and militant and church trium phant. Until the choirs standing on "the sea of glass mingled with fire" shall sound in triumph in more jubi lant strains, accompanied by harpers with their harps and trumpeters with their trumpets, the hundred and forty and four thousand coming into the chorus, I think we will stick to Isaac Watts old hymn, which the 5,000 na tives of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa sang when they gave up their idolatries for Christianity, and I would not be sur prised to see some of you old heroes of the cross, who for a lifetime have been tolling in the service, beating time with your right handalittle trem ulous with many years: 1 " . Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more. Peculiar honors to our king; Peculiar honors to our Kink; ' Angels descend with songs again, And earth repeat the loud amen. MOj War Noi r7 Comp campa ing met tietam Konig war; Franc the Pi total out of 40,000 . or, re Eylau men o of 85,0' palling Wagr; 25,000 out oil where on Ma wras 35,000 numb S0.0O0 pales Mosco Frenc out of 45,000 men s Now of thfj compq that o which Out ot K as ag: The Ameri tietairi lan an after compe Out oA left 01 12,469, 14,000; the ei bur but tl nearly theref Antiet Tak and c Sedan 000 m:' 42,000 tol Of tio of losses "out of to up other N that f or woi ftwful the-Fi fore propor Germa killed 250,000 Thes prove so mui in tactl attack rior p firearri effect J 01 ine um, vancing azine riftq curacy a old Brow- effect; for the woiind: jectile :are pling as tt Jet, which glances off! EEKN LOSSES IS BATTLE onger So llurderous'ag It "Was In . Napoleon lime om Chambers's Journal.) re the slaughter in Napoleon's ns with the worst within liv- Jory with Gettysburg and An the American civil war; with atz, in - the Austro-Prussian th Sedan and Metz, in the German war. At Jena, in 1S06, ssian loss was 21.000 out of a 105,000, and the French 19,000 total of 90,000 that is to say. tsualties out of 195,000 engaged, ,rhly speaking, one in five. At n 1807, the Russians lost 25,000 of 73,000; tne French 30,000 out that is, for both sides, the ap proportion of onein three! At ,1, in 1809, the Austrian loss was it of 100,000; the French 23,000 he same number. At Aspern, apoleon suffered his first defeat 21st and 22nd, 1809, the carnage 1 greater, for the French lost en out of 70,000 one-half their -and the Austrians 20,000 out of 3ut even this awful butchery fore that" of Borodino in the mpaign, for on that field the off 50.000 dead and wounded 2,00(1 engaged, and the Russians t of the same number 95,000 n or mutilated out of 264,000! he only battle in the latter half lineteenth century which can with Borodino in slaughter is Coniggratiz, or Sadowa, in 1866, ;ided the Austro-Prussian war. 1 '0,000 men engaged, 50,000 were wounded 40,000 Austrians Prussians one in eight only, st one in three. . ost sanguinary battle in the 1 civil war was that - of An reek,, fought between McClel ee on September 17, 1862, when r-patod rniilsps. thf federals ),000 men engaged, 26,469 were e field the federal loss being I that of the '"confederates d that, remember, was before f. breechloaders.; At Gettys combined losses1 were 43,000; lumber of men engaged was iouble, and the proportion, was not quite so great as at igain, Leipzig and Waterlo ast them with Sadowa and i Leipzig the French lost 60,- !ut of 160,000, and the Allies of 288,000102,000 out of a to-. i'00 more than double the ra- owa. Then at Waterloo the the Allies amounted to .22,976 )00, and those of the French piof 30,000 out of 73,000 in rii H8' one man oui 01 every tnree ri ft The Negro in Cities Bulletin No. 10 of the department of labor contains a curious study of the "Condition of the Negro in Various Cities." based on data collected by col ored persons in seventeen soutnerji cities and in one city in Massachusetts. Groups of from ten to twenty houses In Atlanta, Nashville and other cities were taken under observation, and the tables of the bulletin indicate the cir cumstances of the negroes included in these representative groups. There were 4.742 Dersons fn all thA .errnM-wi M " uvrm i.ili ncic 1UUI1U IV 'WJ 'IMfiUlS OTf families and 2,167 were children. th - f JiiiUliUUl Willis VI VlUl A LiUllIl l .1 - a r aA. iitLs uetfn suppers eu. oome au per cei of the families consisted of but and 17 per cent, of? four persons, 14fc per cent of five persons and hut 3 per cent, of eight persons. The average size of the colored family in Atlanta is four persons; in Nashville, 4.43 persona; in Cambridge, Mass., 3.73 persons. The census of 1890 showed a higher aver age. For Atlanta it was 4.91; for Nash ville, 4.92; for Cambridge, 4.95. Of the total number of persons, 4.15 per cent. -were "60 ye'ars or over," the percentage under ten years being 21.32; from 10 to 19 years, 23.37; from 20 to 29 years, 19.40 The great majority of families were in houses 'having from two to four rooms, most being in houses of three rooms. The total number of families was 1,733 and the average numfoer of persons 1V a sleep ing "room was 2.17. The bread winner of 304 families was. the father, of 89 the mother, and of 255 the father and mother. . The tables of occupations show very varying incomes. There were 1665 sick during the year, mala rial fever, consumption and pneumonia being the chief ailments. In the past five years there were 92 deaths . f rtm consumption, 57 from pneumonia, 68 from infantile disorders and 47 -from 0 of th r 9 it that dav was either killed id. Now, at Sedan, under the -Ihing fire of the German guns, "li lost 30,000 out of 150,000 be- surrendered a far smaller than at Waterloo; while the tated their losses at 3,022 5,909 wounded, out of the ight into adtion. ; ts and figures seem to us to usively that war is no longer us as it was. The alteration -Jfnd in the formation of troops -has counteracted the supe 5lon and range of modern L4riia,shell, though its moral " heater, is. not so destructive ays playing upon troops ad- (line or column. The mag- incalculably superior in ac- ' Tv c n ia v -w4 o 1 vn 1 1 5 v. ' i- r coo, io uui aucaui ill m lb hen it fails to kill outright, it inflicts with its tiny pro- lot nearly so ugly and crip- se of the old spherical bul smashed. where the other fevers. In Atlanta ne-fif th deaths in the sixteen groups there were from consumption and pnei monia. In 1895 the number of deaths whites per 1,000 persons was 17.74; co ored, 32.76. In Baltimore, according to local."- sta H.cHm .U Inn 11, r.Tr.Uto. tn IOC were 17.70 per 1,000; or colored 30.53. The death rate per 1,000 in Baltimoire -in 1892 from consumption among the whites was 20.10; colored, -49.41. From, pneumonia the rate was: Whites, 15.26 colored, 32.18. From fa vers, including -diphtheria, the mortality -among the whites was 22.53 per. cent., as ag'ains't 14.67 among the colored. Scarlet fever was -three, times as ilpstniotiWA amnrier the white" .population of Baltimore as among the colored. In 1893 the num ber of j births of children per 1,000 of white population was 19.84; of colored, 17 Tn fha rl Aatirtn St C arA '"SX onmrrA !o lenn. and presumaoly in other cities mcic uas ie-t;n a. -iiiittt?ria.i uuiiinuxion of the death rate of tboth white ant colored since. 1881. Baltimore Sun. 1 l Kentucky Widow Weller was far in -advance of ien he strenoucly advised his are of the widows. Many tiings have been credited to and they continue to deserve iracter for finesse which has rsally awarded them. The garded as a manipulator of tmost unapproachable ability i extremely difficult piece of iin airecting the movements J human is in order, the ser- I vere and certain, but by all means "abide 1 " c ucLCBBai Jf IU u:uill- I ian., HOI, V II gllllU. X1LS IVtMl Not only can she execute I the advice of Ohio, and now returns it I others, but . she can do some I to her with a sting and bitterness thai I execution on her own hook. I makes Ohians? 'wince, and rightly so. ing on outsiders for help, fitucky, is what is known as fiak neighborhood, there re- Iw of about forty summers, Vith a daughter of eierhteen. her of thirty, a widower, was tne enarms of the daughter, tnat tne wiaow was attrac- young widower.. While the not consent to the marriage uter wun the young farmer, 1 his visits, and althbuerh he uently with her for the refused to allow the mar- iV the young people decided lent, ana made all the ar Jfor it, but the widow dis liilan and tnnlr Hen Too Many Murderers Escaping In 1896 there wrere 10,652 murders com mitted in the United States, but there wero only 122 legal executions. Only one murderer in eighty-seven paid the penalty for his crime. With such a great disparity between crime and its punishment is it any wonder that the public took vengeance into its own hands and lynched in the same year 131 persons? There-is no excuse for mob law. It is better to endure many miscarriages of justice than to permit a mob under the sway of brutal pas sion, to mete out even a just punish ment. "'But for helping to create the sentiment which calls a mob into being the courts with their delays cannot be held blameless. The eltler his time wll son to Ve wonderful the widows, the high-h been un widowpn men of& When engineering of the W vices ofI plete saw? the plans ol Vila rnin all: without caft Out in the White sided a or winters, A young H smitten 11 and it seei ted by thjt widow couh of her dau( she permit pleaded J1i dausrhter riaere. Fin on an elol raneement covered 11 tlons 1 On the n widow bound her took her i and tied which she and awaitq and withoy the youn surprised the huggy leaned coil apparently attempted her mothe' kept up was not 'JH was perforj porrh and' that the ti married he ter. He a marked, dead in 1 -A 1 Z. 1 B? W K great deal or her mother. Ma tilda, :Tter being released and made ac Qntia with what had happened, said oiic-'.inniErht sne aeariy loved the wMnirr now convinced she was mistaken! y easygoing single gentleman en. I the l.iea tnat widows have de fed sinte the day of n Mr. Weller, per ne-gei iiu oi it, the safer he unere are widows prowling ow. just as there' were then, but .uuuii uiure dexterous to-day the , olden time. Washington .The Mote and the Beam. (Sacramento Daily Union.) What now shall the people of the north portion of our country reply to the peo ple of the south, whom theyMiave so long reproached for lynching disgraces? With two monstrous cases 6t , lynch law in Ohio, boastful of its high state of civili zation, what can we say to the fact that at; just about the same time a man is ex ecuted in Virginia by the orderly pro cesses of the law for the same crime that the laws of Ohio refuse to make capital, and thus incite, the Ohio mob to do by violence what in Virginia was done by the order of the courts. Here is a contrast that is not at all to the credit of Ohio. Virginia reads the Buckeye State j a lesson. It escapes lynch law by making its statutes suffi ciently broad to respond to the demand of humanity, that such fiends "Jas Mitchell shall be visited with the extreme penalty.. At the North moralists have preached' and some have raved of the! laxity at the South that permitted. Judge Lynch-to hold court so openly, -and that treated human life as a thing of so little .value. But what shall be said now to the South by the North when one of its model states twice within a year sets up the lawless tribunal, and proves In the cases of two communities that life is placed far below the plane of honor and the sanctity of woman's virtue when it comes to a question of values. The simple truth is that Virginia has taught Ohio a lesson and Ohio has taught herself and all her' neighbors. She has all these years been beseeching Virgin ians to abide by the law. and if it was not rigorous enough to make it more se- 8 it set for the elopment, the to ner daughters room, md and foot, gagged her. ier own (the widow's) room securely to the bed, after nt to her daughter's room he summons. It soon came, peaking a word she joined i in tne yard. He, although er'Silence, assisted her. into had in waiting, while she ingly on his shoulder and bbed. He caressed hpr and 4 feheer her up, by telling her ) Vould forgive her, but she nence ana the sabs, and -it aner me ceremony, which 1 by a Justice on his front had taken her to a hotel, egroom discovered he had other instead of the dauerh. pieu ine situation and re- The New Bicycle Game A new Bicycle game; or rather a game which can be pjayed on wheels, has " lately been evolved . by a cycling genius, says The London Cycle. It is called the royal game, and requires a court or field divided into alleys. Two teams of nine riders each take part, and the field is divided into a right and left field, with the courses' chalke out plainly. An alleyway constructed of ropes or cables, extends from the up per; to the lower field on the division line between right and left field. Ca bles also form two upright sides be tween which the play-wheel rolls and is driven backward of forward by the riders In passing at any point betvspen the lower and upper field. The play- wheel is a single bicycle rim, having a four and one-hilf inch pneumatic tire.; The idea of the game is to. drive this playwheel from the center field.through attack of opponents, to a goal ahead, the riders using sticks especially made for th game. The ends of the, alley ways are the goals for the respective teams. Players ride in single file and always circle to the left. Thus the two trains are constantly meeting and pass ing each other Jn opposite drections on t while he thoueht hp was I thP upper sides of the alleyway. Royal le with Matilda he always did I Is a game requiring swift riding and much skill, and a novice would scarce ly venture to form one of the team. but wd If an tertairi teriora the so will 1 arounc they : than Post. "Wh ness young f procee nrst n landloi next i whippt went i the tc Wanted His Discount 1 5ls out west," savs a busi- V-ta' quoted in Hardmware. "a registered at the hotel and to make things livelv. ThP ht he; played poker with the anai cleaned him nut thP ht hej came home drunk and tne cabman, the third night he anq qown tne halls singing at oi ius voice ana riar ntr ho Andrew Jackson and the British. s (Kansas City -Times.) Would the conqueror of the British have sent a lantern-jawed, spider-legged editor tp England as special ambassador to cavort in powdered wig, knee breeches, silk stockings, and a sword before a queen whose sixty years reign has wit nessed more robbery and human slaught er, both by the sword and by starvation, .trickery, double dealing, and rapacity on. the part of. the, government of which she is. the figure head, than has been accom plished by any other nation during any period of equal length in the course of the last three centuries of the world's his tory? . . It Takes TVIngg. (Chauncey M. Depew in an interview.) "I knew Daniel Drew when he had $19. 000.000. and he died In debt. I knew a gen tleman who at one time had $3,000,000 in the bank who is now earning about $1,200 rt ir.n -w r v w'j mui ivyi ttto a tn nci c n in mii t thJim rn tne mornlng' they asked I dition to his investments of various kin cnamtrmairtai to come out and his bi said, you m key of his room and- gave him He looked it over and then ith surprised pathos: "nnn't fke any discpunt to ministers?" There are a dozen men in New York who ask me for occasional loans or irom cents to $5 who, when I first came to New York; were among the rich, men of tM town." - v-
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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