AHBWEOLB Dr. Talmnge Acts as a Footman tKD CLEARS THE WAY TOWARD SALVATION. th Ehqaeut Brooulyi Divine PrHCu.8 of Those Jlistorls Day When the Jw w.is Oppressed in Kgypt. The vast throng which assembled to ear Dr. Tri-lmago, the famous Brooklyn .readier, filled , the tabornacle to " an verflowlng point and many were turned .way. The subject of tho sermon was , 'Bricks without straw," it being a on Inuation of the series on the confirma- ion of Holy Scripture which Dr. Tal- - jiadge found in his journey from the 'yramlds to the Acropolis. IItoxt vas Isaiah .xlx, 1. "The Harden of 4gypt ' The eloquent preacher said: What is all this excitement about in .he streets of Cairo, Egypt, this Decom lor morning In 1889? Stand back. We tear loud voices and see the crowds of people retreating to the sides of 'the .treot The excitement of , others bo tome our own excitement. Footmen -.orae in sight They have a rod In the land and tasseled cap on head, and tlioir ' trnis and feet aro bare. Their garb is ilack to the waist, oxcept as threaded vlth gold, and the rc?t is white. They jre clearing the way for an official di mili ary in a chariot or carriage. They are wlft, and sometimes run thirty or forty lilies at a stretch in front of an equip. ,ge. ' Make way! They aro tho fleet est men on earth, but soon die, for tho , luman-rraine was not maae ior sucn en durance. .... I asked all around me who tho man n the carriage was, but no one seemed " k know. Yet as I fell back with tho rest iO tho wall I said, This is the old custom found all up and down tho Bible, foot non running beforo the rulers, Cemand ng obeisance, as in Geucsis before Jo leph's char'ot the people were com-nauded,- "Bow the knee," and as I see tho swift '.feet of the men followed by ho swift fftet of the horses, how thoso ' .ld words of Jeremiah rushed through iy mind, "If thou bast run with the 'oottnon and they have wearied thee, how tanst thou contend with horses?" UK 8EI1VE3 AS A FOOTMAN. Iow, my hearers, in this course of . sermons I am only serving you as foot- nan, and eleariug the way for your :oming Into the wonders of Egyptology, i subject that I would have you study ' !ar beyond anything that can be said In ihe brevity of - pulpit utterance. Two iiiudrod and eighty-uino times docs tho lilblo refer to Egypt and Egyptians. N'o wonder,! for Egypt was tho mother f nations. Egypt, tho mother of Greece; ircocethe mother of Romo; Roino, tho notbor of England; Eugiand, the mother f our own land. According to that, Sgypt is our great-grcat-grandmother. On other Sabbaths I left you studying . vhat thoy must have boon Jn tlioir glory; .he Hypostyle hall of Karnactno archi- ctural miracles at Luxor, the Colonnade f Horemheb, the cemeteries of Mem phis, the aJue . of a kingdom in one udnument, the Sphinx, which with lips if atone speaks loud enough to be heard icross the centuries, Ileliopolis and to&a, tho conundrum of archaeologists, iiut all that extravagance, of palaco nd temple and monument was the cause )f an oppression high as heaven and . laep as hell. Tho weight of those blocks f . stone, heavier than any modern ' Machinery could lift, camo down upo he IJebrow slaves, and their blood " nixed tho mortar for tho trowels. " -Wo saw again and again on and along tho Nile a boss workman roughly smite a "a no rare occurrence to see long lines of non under heavy burdens passing by taskmasters at short distances, lashing " ihem as they go by into greater speed, ind then these workmen, exhausted with jho Masting heats of the day, lying down ; aron tho baro ground, suddenly chilled with the night air, crying out in prayer: "Ya, Allah!" "Ya, Allah!" which means 0 -God! O Uod! But what must havo "jocn the olden times cruelty shown by the Egyptians toward their .Israeli tish ilaves is indicated by a picture in tho Itnni-lfassan tombs, whom n man l lmM lown on his face by two men and an Jthor holds up the victim's font while the sfficlals beat tho bare back of the victim, ivery stroke, I hare no doubt, fetching -.tho blood. , BOW THEY COUU) AFFORD IT. Now you see how the Pharaohs could ifford to build such costly works. It Vj ntn "r. rit ) I n fF fni" tr o rraa nAiliintt 50 1 the tears and blood of the toilers, and tears and blood aro a cheap drinlc tor devils. "Bricks without straw" may -not suggest so much hardship until you know that tho bricks were usually made with 'crushed straw," straw crushed by the feet of the oxen in the threshing, and, this crushod straw denied to the workmen, they had to pick up here and there a piece ot stubble or gather rushes from theNratersido. This story of the Bible is confirmed by the fact that many of tho brick walls of Ejpt have on the lower layers brick made with straw, but tho higher layers of brick made out of rough straw or rushes from tho river ' bank, the truth of the book of Exodus thus written In tho brick walls discov ered by tho modern explorers. That governmental outrage has al ways beens characteristic of Egyptian rulers. Taxation to the point of starva tion was tho Egyptian rule in tho Biblo times as well as it Is in our own tlmo. A modern traveler gives tho figures con scrniug the cultivation of seventeen acres, the value of the yield of the field stated In plasters: Produce ...... ,...1,909 LvpeiibCS 4, W.i) Clear produce fcusjj I'.txes .491 Amnitit cleared by tbe farmer.... SI", Or, a-) my authority declares, setH per cent of what the Egyptian farmei makes is paid for taxes to the govern ment. Now, that Is not so much taxa tion as assassination. What think yon of that, you who groan under heavy taxes in America? I have heard that ir Egypt the working people have a song like this, "They starve us, they marvt us, they beat us, they beat us; but there Js so mo one above, there's sorao on .above, who will punish them we,l, whe will punish them well." But seventy per cent of government-tax In Egypt li a mercy as. com pared to what the He brew slaves suffered there fn Blble limes. They got nothing but food hardly fit foi a dog, and their clothing was of one rag. and their roof a burniufr sky by day and the stars of heaven by night v You say, "Why did they stand it?'' Boca use they had to stand it You ec along back In the world's twilight tber was a famine In Canaan, and old Jacob and his sons came into Egypt for bread. The old man's boy, "Joseph, was prim minister, aud Joseph I suppose th father and tho brothers called him Joe, for It does not make any difference how much a boy is advanced In worldly suc cess, his father and brothers and sistert always call him by the same name iha', ho was called by when two years 1d Joseph, by Pharaoh's permission gave It his family, who bad Just arrived. th richest part of Egypt, the Westchcstet farms or the. Lancaster farms of the an cients. Jacob's descendants rapidly mul tiplied. After awhile Egypt took a turn a famine, and those descendants of Jccob, the Israelites, came to a great storehous which Joseph had "provided, and pale in money for corn. But after awhile th money gave out and then they paid ir cattle. After awhile the cattle were al in possession of the government and ihet the Hebrews bought corn from tho"g"irv eminent by surrendering themselves at slaves. BEOrNNINQ OF SLAVERY I3T KOYPT. Then began slavery in Egypt - Th government owned all the Hebrew And let modern lunatics who, in Amor ica, proposo handing over telegrapt companies and railroads and other thingi to be run by government see the folly o: letting government get its hand on every thing. I would rather trust the people than any government the United State.1 ever had or will 1 have. Woe worth tin day when legislators and-congresses anc administrations get possession of- any thing more than it is necessary for then .to have. That would be the revival in this land of that old Egyptian tyranny for whicr God has never had anything but red ho' thunderbolts. But through such un wise processes Israel was enslaved it Egypt, and the long lino of agonies bo gan all up and down the Nile. Heavloi and sharper fell the lash, hungrier anc gastlier grew the workmen, louder an( longer went up the prayer, until tjirei millions of tho enslaved were crying "Ya, Allah! Ya, Allah!" O God! C God! Where was help to come from? Not tho throne, Pharaoh sat upon that No' the army, Pharaoh's officers coinmaudcc that Not surrounding stations. Pharaoh's threat made them all tremble Noj, the gdds Ammon and Ostris or th goddess Isis,for Pharaoh built their tem ples out of the groans of this diabolica servitude. But one hot day the ptln-esi Thonoris, the daughter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing house on the banki of the Nile, lias word brought her tha there is a baby afloat on tho rlvor in t cradle made out of big loaves. Of course there is excitement all torr up and down the banks, for an ordinar; baby in an ordinary cradle attract) smiling attention, but an infant in 1 cradle of papyrus rocking on a rive arouses not only admiration, bu' curiosity. Who made' that boat? Wh made it water tight with bltument? Whc launched it? Reckless of the croqpdiles who lay .basking themselves in the sun. tho maidens wade in and snatch up th child, and first one carries him aud tliot another carries him. and all the way uj the bank he runs a gauntlet of caresses till Thonoris rushes out of the bathlnf house and says! ''Beautiful foundling, 1 will adopt you as my own. You shai yet wear the Fgvptlan crown r.nd sit or the Egyptian throne." " No! No! No! He is to be the emanci pator of the Hebrews. Tell It in all th brick kilns. Tell it among all thost who are writhing under tho iash. tell li among all the castles of Memphis and Ileliopolis and Zoan and Thebes. Before him a sea will part On a mountain top. alone, this ono will receive from th Almighty a law that is to be the founda tion of all good law while the world lasts. JWlien he is dead, God will com -down on Nebo and alone bury him, no manor women or angel worthy to at- tend the obsequies. The child grows np and goes out and studies the horrors of Egyptian oppres sion and suppresses his indignation, fot the right time has not como, although once for a minute he let fly, and when he saw a taskmaster put the whip on the back of a workman who was doing his best, and heard the poor follow cry and saw the blood spurt, Moses doublec up his fist and struck htm on the tem ple till tho cruel villain rollod over ir' the sand exanimate ana never swun the lash again.' Served blm right! OOD WA8 OX HIS SIDE." But, Moses, are you going to under take tho impossibilities? You feel' thai, you are going to free the Hebrews from bondage. But whore .is your army; Where Is your navy? Not a sword have yon, not a spear, not a chariot, not a horse. Ah! God was on his side, and he has an army of his own. The snow-, storms are on God's side; witness the snowbanks in which the French army o. invasion were boried on their way bai.-V from Moscow. Tho rain (sou his side: -witness the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tempest so saturated the road that the attack could not be -made 011 Wellington's forces until eleven o'clock, and he was strong enough to hold ou until re-enforcements arrived. Had, that battle been opened at flvt I .0' click iu tho morning instead of al : ! tand miles wide. But ail those lcs"rli will yet be flooded, and so made fertile De Lesseps says it can bo done, and h who planned the Sues canal, which mar, rles tho Red Sea and tho Mediterranean, konws what he Is talking about. The human race is so multiplied that it must havo more cultivated laud, nnj the world must abolish Its 'desnrta.' Eight hundred millions of the human race are now living on lands not Mo six.' ' wlty rains, bul depeudout on irriga tion,' but wo want by tirigatior, to mafio room for eight hundred mil'luiu' more. By Irrigation the prophecy will be fulfilled, and "ttfe dosort will blotiso n as the rose." So from Egypt tho burton of sand will be lifted. illR BVRPKV OF MOIIAMMKDAKIf M. Another burden of Egypt tobo lifto? Is the burdon, of Mohammedanism, al though there aro some good things about that religion. Its disciples must al.vr.yf, wash before thoy pray, and that is live times a day. A comtnondable grace li cleanliness. Strong driuk Is positively forbidden , by Mohammedanism, ami. though some may have seen a drunki-i: Mohammedan, I never saw one.. It i : religion (.f sobriety. - Then .they aro no; ashamed of their devotions. When th call for prayers is sounded from th minarets the Mohammedan Immediate!; anrolls the rug on the ground and fall n his knees, and crowds of spectator. are to him -no embarrassment reproot to many a Christian who omits his pray srs if people are looking. .. But Mohammedanism, with its polyg- ' amy, blights everything it touches. Mo hammed, its founder, had four wives ' ind his followers are the enemies of goo-: wemanhood. Mohammedanism puts 't; cures on all Egypt, and by setting up iluful Arab higher than the ,immacuiat Cairist is an overwhelming blasplievny May God help the brave and consetratec missionaries who aro spending their livei In combating It But bffore I forget it I must put tnois emphasis upon tho fact that the list out rage that resulted In the liberation 0: the Hebrews was their being coin pollei to make -bricks without straw. Tha' was the last straw that broke the camel' back. God would allow the despotism against his people to go no farther. MaU lng bricks without straw! THE OPPIIESSION BTILI. GOES OX. That oppression still goes on. Demanc , of your wife appropriate wardrobe anc bountiful table without providing tlx means necessary bricks without straw Cities demanding In the public schoo faithful and successful instruction wl;h nnt giving the teachers competent liveli hood bricks without straw. -.United States -government demanding of sen ators and congressmen at Washingtor. full attendance to the interest of the peoplo, but on compensation which niaj have done well enough when twenty-tm ennts went as far as a dollar now, but it theso times not sufficient to preservi their influence and respectability brlcici without straw. In many parts of the land churches de manding of pastors vigorous sbrmoni and sympathetic service on starvation' salary; sanctified Ciceros ou four hun dred dollars a year. Bricks without straw. That Is one reason why there are so many poor bricks.- In all de partments, bricks not even or bricks that crumble or bricks that aro not bricks at all. Work adequately pal I fui is worth more than work not paid for. More straw and then better bricks. But in all departments there are Pharaoh's; sometimes Capital a Pharaot nnd sometimes Labor a Pharaoh. Then Capital prospers, apd makes7 large per centage on its fn vestment, and decline to consider the needs of the 'epratives and treats them as so many bumanyrn.v chines their nerves no more than th. bands on the factory wheel then Capi tal is a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when workmen, not regarding thi anxieties and business struggles of tb firm employing them, and at a time when the firm are doing their best to moot at Important contract and need all hncU busy to accomplish it, at such a time U have his' employees make a strike ami put their employers inter extromo per plexity and severe loss thou labor be comes a Pharaoh of -tho worst oppres sion, and must look out for tho juJg ment of God. TlifcKK ABK STILT. riTARAOIIS. When in December of 1833, at th Museum of Boulac, Egypt. I looked &t the mummies of tho old Pharaohi, tht very miscreants who diaboli.ed centuries, and I saw their teeth and hair and Hiia ' nails and the flesh drawn tlghtover tin! cheek bones, the sarcophagi of th?M dead monarchs side by side, aud 1 wn c fascinated I could only with difficulty g ' away from the spot, I was not I00M1.9 upon the last of the Pharaohs. A!) ovr 'ho world old merchants playing tl Pharaoh over young merchants, old law yors playing tne rnaraoh over younv lawyera, old doctors playing the Pharaol. over young doctors, old artists pjayinjt tho Pharaoh over young artists, old min isters playing the Pharaoh over your. ministers. s Let all rppressors whether In hornet-, In churches, in offices, in" factories, it social life or political life, In private lift or public life know that God hates op pressors, and they will alt come to gri. t . here or hereafter. Pharaoh thought ( did a fine thing, a cunning thing, a de cisive thing whon for tho complete ex Unction of the Hebrews In Egypt ho 01 Jerod all tho Hebrew boys massacre:', but he did not find it so fine a th!:- when his own first born that uight of thi destroying angel dropped dead on the mosaic floor at the foot of tho porphyt y . pillar of tho palace. Let al! the I'ha-.v ohs take warning. Some of tha , worst of them are on a small scale in houu holds, as when a man, because his am is strong and his voice loud, doml'niu.i bis poor wife Into domestic slavery. There are thousands of such cajet where the 'wife is a lifetime serf, t u opinion disregarded, her tastes Insult 0. and her existence a wretchedness, though tho world may not know it It J Pharaoh that sits at tho hoad of t 'j at table, and a Pharaoh that tyrannize that home. There Is no more sbhorri-ni Pharaoh thau a domestic l'ha:a.h. Ieven the destiny of Europe would have been turned the wrong way. Tho heavy rain decided everything. So also are Uie winds and waves on God's side. . Witness the Armada with one hundred and lifty ships and twenty-six "hundred auJtirvy ituns and eight thousand sai'ors and twenty thousand soldiers Sent, out by Philip II of Spain to conquer Eugiand. What became of those men ard that chipping? Ask the wind and the waves all along the English and Irish coasts. Tho men and the .ships all wrecked or Jrowncd or scattered. So I "expect that Moses will bo helped In rescuing tho Israelites by a ffpeclal weaponry. To tho Egyptians tho Nile was a deity. It was the finest ttatural beverage of all "the M.rth. . Wo have no such love for the Hudson, and Germans have no such love : for the Rhine, and Russians havo no ! iiich lovofor the Volga as the Egyptians have lovo for the Nile. But one day, when Pharaoh comes ; jown to this river, Moses takes a stick and whips the waters, and thoy turn luto . Ihe gore of a slaughter house, aud .through the sluices and fish ponds 4h Incarnadined liquid backs up into the land and the malador whelms everything from mud hovel to throne room. Then came tho frogs, with horrible croak, al! ever everything. Thon this people, cleanly almost to fastidiousness, were in- fostod with insects that belong to the filthy and unkempt, and the air buzzed and buzzed with lliei, and then the dis temper started cows to bellowing and 'horses to neighing, and canaels to groan ing, as they rolled over and expired. Aud then boilsTono of which will put : a man lrvwrctchedness, canie lri clusters from tho lop of tho head to the sqIo of tho foot And then the clouds droppc.l hail and lightnirg.V -And then locusts came in, swarms of them, worse than tho grasshoppers ever were in Kansas, and then .darkness dropped for three dajs so that tho people could not see their hand beforo their face, great surges of mid-" night covering them. And last of all, on the night of the 18th of April, about eighteen hundred years before Christ, theDestroying Angel sweeps past and hear It "all night long, the flap! flap! flap! of his wings until Egypt rolled on a great hearse, tho eldest child dead it. every Egyptian homo. The eldest son r of Pharaoh expired that night in tha palace and all along the8treol3 of Mera vphis and Ileliopolis, and all up and dow n the Nile there was a funeral wall that i would have rent the fold of tho un natural darkness If it had not been im penetrable. . " .. I ' now is Israel's wiajth. j " The Israelitlsh homes, however, were untouched. But these homes were full of preparation, for now is your chance, 'O jo wronged Hebrows! Snatch up 'what pieces of food you can and. to the desert! Its simoons are better than the bondage you have suffered. Its scor- plons will' not sting so sharply as tho wrongs that have stung you all your lives. Away! Tho man who was cra dled In the basket of papyrus on the NHo will lead you. Up! Up! This is 'ho night of your rescue. They gathor igether at a. signal Alexander's armies and all tho armies of olden time - were led by torches on high poles, great crosts of fire; and , tho Lord Almighty kindles a torch not held . by human- , hands but by omnipotent hand. Not made out of straw or oil, bul kindled out off the atmosphere, mob a torch as Ihe world never saw before and never, wiir see again, It reacheJ from the earth unto the heaven, a pillar of fire, that-pillar practically saying "This way! March this way!" Ou that supernatural flambeau more than a mil . Hon refugees set their eyes. .. - Mose and Aaron lead on. Then come tin families of Israel. : Then come th herds and flocks moviug on across the sands to what Is the beach of waters now called Bahr-el-Kulzum, but called in the Bible the Red sea. And when . dipped my hands in its blue waters, th heroics, of the Mosiac passage rolled ovui me. ; ' . ' CM Thic 11KD SEA'S SHORE. After three days' march tlie Israelitis-rs refugees encamped for the night on the banks of the Red sea. As the shadow begin to fall, in tho distance is seen the host of Pharabh In pursuit. There wor- six hundred finest war chariots, followed by common chariots, rolling at full spooc. And the gljttcrin of the wheels and the curse of Infuriated Egyptians" came down with tho darkness. ' But the lord : openod the crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kul- zum and the enslaved Israelites passed into liberty, and then the crystal gates ol mo sea ronea buus againsi ine ligyptlau' pursuers. . It was about two o'clock in the morn, ; ing when the interlocked axle trees of tae .Egyptian chariots could not move, ac inch either way. But the Red sea un hitched tho horses and unhclmeted tl. warriors, and left the proud host, a wreck . on the Arabian sands. Then two choruses arose and Mososlodthe men in one, and Miriam led tho women In the other, and the women beat tlmo " with their feet Tho record says: A11 the women wen! -out after her willi timbrels and will, daneos. And Miriam answered them. SIng ye to tho Lord, for bo halt triumphed gloriously; tho horo and hit -rider . hath he thrown Into the sea.' What a thrilling story of endurance am! victory. v The greatest triumph of IlandcPi genius was shown in his immortal dra matie oratorio, "Israel Jn Egypt." II had given to the world the oratorio rj 'Esther "and Deborah," and Atheliah but reserved for his mightiest exertlu:, at the full height of his powers tho m.ir tshaling of all musical instruments to the description in harmony of the scene? ) which we this morning dwell. lie gav twenty-seven days to this production with its twenty-eight choruses, enthrall ing his own time and all aftortimo witt his "Israel in Egypt" So the burden of oppression was lifted but another burden of Egypt is made n't of deserts. Indeed, Africa is 'a gr'oa continent for" dc-scrts, Libyan desert Sahara desert, deserts here aud then . and yonder, condemning vast regions o . Africa to barrenness, one of the desert thico thousand miles long and a thuu 1 There aro thousands of women to whom daath .Is passage from Egypt to Canaan, bocauso thoy get rid of a cruel task master. Whatiwr-accused ' monster Is that man who' koops his wlfo In-dread about family, expenses,; and . must be cautious, bow Ishe introduces an article of mfllinery 'or womanly wardrobe with- out humiliating consultation or aputegr. Who Is that mad acting so?.' For sli mouths In order to win that woman' ..heart hOa sent her every few days a7 bouquet wound with whito ribbon and an endearing couplet, aud : took her ia concerts and theatres, and helped her into carriages as though she were . a princess, aud ran across tho room to.plck up her pocket handkerchief with the ' spoed of an antelope. aud on the marri age day promised all that the Uturgy re quired, saying "I will!" with an emphasis . that excited the admiration of ail specta tors. But now he bogrndgos her twe cents for a postage stamp, and wonders why, she rides across' Brooklyn bridge when the foot passage costs nothing. Ito thinks now sho is awful plain, and ho acts like the devil, while ho thunder out: "Whore did you get that hat from? That's where my monoy goes. Where's J wi wwfiiaev. ; ; u;i vu-a oww x,vmv. ,. . A lllliurrilllll-., rtVUVMivrUUt agUlUlUUU Didn't I tell you to bow on that button? tions are lamentably deficient.' '' ' Want to eo your mother, do you? You Columbia College is trie richest institu aro always going to see your mother! tlonof the kind in existencee.V" Its landed hat aro you whimpering about? Hurry up now and get my sllppors? : Whero'a tho newspaper?" The tone, the look, tho Impatience tho cruelty of a Pha raoh. That is what glvos so many women' a cowed 'down 1 iok. Pharaoh! yon had better take your Iron hoel oil that woman's neck or God will help you remove your heel. . v ' She says nothing. For tho Bake of avoiding a scandal she keeps silent, but her tears and wrongs have gone into a, record that you will havo to meet as cer tainly as Pharaoh had to meet hail aud lightning and darkness aud the death angel. God never yet gave to any man the right to tyrannize a woman, and what a sneak you are to take advantuge of the marriage vow, and .' bocttnxo she cannot holp herself, aud under, the shel ter of your own home out-Pharaoluthe Egyptian oppressor. There is something awfully wrong in a household where the woman is not considered of as 'much im portance as the man. No room in lit b world for any more Pharaohs! ' 'ail IIAn'hKEM OVU TASK..! STKR. .. But it rolls ovt-r on mo with great power tho thought that, we have all beet, (.laves down iu Egypt, aiyl sin has leet our task 111 aster, and again and atralu wi have seen its lash. But Christ has beet: o ur Moses to JeTtd us out of bondage., nd we are forever freer The Hod; sea an or a Saviour s sacrilico rolls ueep ane wide botwecn us and our aforetime bond age,iiud though thero may b deserts yc for us to cross, we aro on the way to the. Promised Land. Thanks be ualo God - for this emancipating Gospel.!. , Come up out of Eirypt all who aro yot enslaved. What Christ did for ns he will do for you. " "Exodus !" is the , word. Exodus! Instead of tho brick kilns ot Egypt comelnto thcemourpled vineyards of God, where one cluster of grapess bigger than the one that the spies brought lo-tho Israelites by the Brook. Eschol, though that cluster was so large that it was borne "between two upon a staff." Welcome a'l by a n oppre ,sel, Welcome to bissa-Tei rest; No hing bro'.ight him from above, Nothing but rodeeuiing love. ; The Toledo Commercial says: ' "Xhe Farmors Alliance has adopted the plan of excluding all newspaper ; reporters from Its tnoutinps. That means death to any organization of a .political : nature." In the first place, the Farmers' Alliauco is not a political organization, thoiuli it is frequently confounded with the Peo ple's party movement The Commercial would lead readers to belie vo that no-vs-papers always attack and try to ruin Association organizations that refuse to admit reporters to their meetlngsr-As a rule, wb believe that the newspaper) aro perfectly willing to concedo'to privato DrganiV.atlons tho right to hold secret meotingj.; . They do, -however unani mously oppose star chamber sessions of government ofiicials, whother miini('lial, county, state or national. Ther bolii-ve, and so do m.'.ny others not engaged in the ncs business, that tho people ought to know wbataltd how the public officers, their servants, are doing. ! The defense which Senator Quay has made to the charge of complication with Defaulter Bardsley, is rather peculiar lie admits tuat the flac simile certiflcito ivhlch has boon published, Is correct ex jept as to 'the date. . This he charges is 1 forgery. It would soera to mako very ilttlo difference whether tha cimcir. u atod October or November. . The time tt tho commission of a criirrs has littie to lo with the crime. What the peoplo rould like to know Is what business ro iation existed botweon Bardsley: and Quay about the time this certificate pass- d botweon them. . Bardsley was in vury tittd business at that timo. This' has ouen proved in a court of justice. Tho lucstion is, what business was Mr. Quay lu at that time?. The. East street ronpor shops in Springfield have boon purchased by. a Cincinnati syndicate for 200,000, and It will begin at onco a general manufac turing business," About tho first thing the new company does will bo probably to take down tho opprobrious notlco that has hung over the big door for a number of years, to the effoct" that no uulon labor shal be employed In that shop. " - v. ' If Iho governors of other states ap point farmors of intelligence to tho Far mers' National convention next month, as Governor Campbell has dono. thero will bo no ridiculously absurd resolutions sdoptod by that body. Tho farmers have little to fear more than bad leadership tn their present battle. The Cleveland Press says: "A dollar that will buy asmuch'as any other dollar s not; 'short,., nor 'degraded,' nor 'dis honest,' nor 'inflated.' " That itrue, hut a dollar that is likely at any time to become any or all of these cannot bo laid lo bo above suspicion. EDUCATIONAL.. - It costs the teachers of Kansas (200,000 ft year to attend the normal institutes. There are 230 normal schools, with an nttondance of . 60,000 students, in the United States. . , " : '. The Kansas Agricultural College library contains 11,000 volumes. For lack, of room about 2,000 volumes are practically inaccessible to the students. , In the past 12 years the number of stu dents in Chicago Theological .Seminary (Congregational) has increased from 4) to 107 ; and tfie faculty from six to 14. , In America we have 12,000,000 children enrolled in the public shools alone. - Our publio schools require 347,292 teachers, and cost annually $122,455,252 or did two years ago. ' There is a falling off in the number of young men entering the ministry of Eng land, and it is said in explanation J.hat the intellectual movement in the uni- Tersities is unfriendly to the clerical pro- fession.- . . -. . ', ' ; Pennsylvania is to have a compulsory educational law, but difficulty will be ex perienced inputting it into full effect, for in various parts of, the State, especially cstate'includes about 20 acres of the' best part of New York city the value being now $10,000,000, with a prospect of doubling during the next decade. " - Coeducation has been in Jerce -at tha Knn.uis TJniveraity for 25 years, and there has never lwen"even a suspicion of scan dal among the students. As for hazing nud other forms of college ruffianism, it in absolutely unknown. Kansas City Star, The Oxford Un; versity infcome Amount ed to 65,000 last year, of which 30,000 came from fees and other internal eerviees, degree fees alone coming to just 10,000. The university draws about 10,000 from various external sources, 13,000 from trust funds. 0,000 from the c olleges, ami the profit from the Claren- tlou press was 3,000.: It speaks well for the administration of the university property that," agency and management' cost only; 250. Professors take about rClO.CaO, university officers 5,000, ex miners .",000, and readers 2,500.. Tho Bodleian cost ,5i , the museum 4,300, the Taylor institution 2,000, and the bo tanical gardtMis, 1,100, while 6,000 vent in varhftis intt-rnal expenses, and interest and sinking funds in loans ac counted for .i00. The university in-t-oma does not now vary from-yearto j ear, except-in quite small amounts, yiis Taluo f lUo; kindergarten 1 as. a means of prepa ra tiou to schools Of manual training has received interesting recog nition in the recently announced bequest the lato'.Erboklyn - philanthropist, Charles Pratt. L Among schools of ia c'astiial training the Pratt Institute in . Krooklyn has long been renowned -for its manual features, pursued in connection witlj, the studies ordinarily earned on in e-hoolsr Its agricultural department, unique in city institutions, has been a jwculiar characteristic, and this will bo r.trengthened by a bequest for large green houses and for flower gardens, to pe cul tivated by institute students. Ojher courses have An equally practical bearing. Recognizing that the principle which governs the institute is the application to the pupils of mora advanced years of the -ideas on which the kindergarten i3 based , the- founder deterni ined upon a logical development of bjs system and left a bequest fur JJie purchase aud im provement of the FroebeL Academy. The kindergarten will be a "feeder" to tho institute, and will .prepare pupils, by a ystematic course of study and niunual training in the Froebel. , , ':' CURIOSITIES OF THE NEWS. A hog recen tly killed in ; Perry, Ga. ; . had three complete sets of lungs. Two Manitoba catfish have been caught, each with"a child's hand in its stomach. An Englishman has invented an appa ratus through which, he declares, he can see the soul leave the body; v; " - A 40 year old peacock struts proudly on the farm -of Adam Bohn, in Penn township, Berks county. Pa. A Newark museum manager adver tises a four armed man. This must bo the one-lhat was forewarned. . ; A fine pussy cat in a Chester, Pa., fam ily jumped for a rat, caught its neck rib bon on a nail, and strangled to death. ' Thero i3 now a character known "as Jack the dude kicker who inhabits St. IjOuis. lie assaulted a dozen fancifully dressed young men during a recent week. -A cow at Petersburg, Va., while in ecarch of her 'calf , entered a house and climbed a flight of 16 stairs. Hearing her . calf outside, she descended without tix)uble. An oak log that was. recently sawed in Henry Maley's mill, near, Franklin, Ind., had a hollow in which 127 blacksnakea had nested. The largest is said to- .have measured 78 inches in length, s2 '' An artesian well near Albert Lea, Minn., which spouts both oil and water, often changes the program, and "sends out a Etream of small minnows, which are wholly unlike any known species of fish found in that vicinity. " The proportions of the human figuro nre six times the leuyhof the right foot; the face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to tha end of the chin is one-tenth of the' whole Btature; Jho hand, 'from the wrist to the end of the middle finger, is. also one tenth of the total leight ; from the crown to the nape of thq neck is"bne-tsvelf th of thestatui. ; "v. ' . . The step recently taken' by the crown priucess of Greece of uniting-with th Greek Church has received the sanction of the Empress' Frederick and,,; Queen Victoria, the mother and grandmother of the princess. They hold that she should belong to the chureh in -yhich her chil dren will be reared. . Black Hawk's tomahawk is in the pos-. reawion of a scientific society at Lewiston. III.