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.A S TO THE CIJItItENOY. "I HE MATTER STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION. J 'What ' .Expert Financiers have to Say Upon the subject-President Warner of time Bimetallic League Declares that nn Eiastlc Policy Such as Secretary Carlisle Suggests is an Imposslbillty- A General Currency Discussion. C WASHINGTON , Dec. 17.-Ex Reprc- sentative Warner of Ohio , president of the Bimetallic league , addressed the house banking and currency com- rnittee yesterday on the currency , going into the principles of the entire currency question. He urged that an elastic currency , such as Secretary , a Carlisle suggests , was an impossibili ty , and that prices rose as fast as cur- .rency increased. Mr. Warner said the history of the world proved that tlue gold standard could not be maintained - tained by giving to the banks the power of expanding the currency. lie was amazed that this proposition should be made in this enlightened age , in the face of the financial ex- Smerienees of the world. A long discussion arose between General Warner and Mr. Sperry over : a question by the latter as to the 'effect that an increase of the circulation - tion would have upon the price of labor. Mr. Sperry called attention to a statement by the treasury de- 1)u tmetlt showing that the circulation - tion in 1673 had been $771,000,000 , whereas , in 1303 it was over $2200- , , anti asked him how how he reconciled the facts with the decrease in wages. Mr. Warner replied challenging - lenging the treasurer's report of the g0(1 in circulation at the present time twhicli he said was $200.000,000 beyond the facts , and by referring to the in- erense of population and wealth , Mr. Sperry did not consider the reply as , ; ulequate and intimated that if Mr. Warner's theory had nothing more to stand on. it must fall. Eiioeh Platt , president of the Baltimore - more clearing house , was next heard. 1Ic said t.'ith regard to the Baltimore plan that it embodied his views. pciml.ing of tic fifth section of the Carlisle bill , providing for a guaran- tlre fund , he said it would be safe if time strong banks could be got into it , wliclt he consideredtloubtful. 't'he hearing was resumed in the : afternoon with A. L. Ripley , vice president of the Natiunal hide and J Leather bank of Boston on the stand. lie characterized the scheme of issuing - ing demand notes rcleemable in gold a , thorougiily vicious. { Colonel Jackson of Jackson , C Curl - l t.is , brckcrs , of Boston , followed Mr. itipley. He urged a provision in any bill that niight b supported by the secretary to begin in January , 1895 , tocaneel $1,000,000 worth of United States notes each month until the entire - tire outstanding imountsliould be disposed - _ , posed of and to sell bonds if necessary - sary to accomplish this result. To pass the Carlisle bill without any addition would , he thought , fall far short of restoring the confidence 5- ° of the world. , l tVI11 Report the Carlisle Lill. WAslliNGTox , Dec. 17.-The Democratic - cratic members of the banking and currency committee held an executive - tive meeting immediately after the adjournment of the regular hearing , and after an hour's discussion decided to report the Carlisle bill without amendment. S It is understood that Representative - tive Bland has given up all hope of getting his free coinage bill out of his committee , and has determined to offer - fer his bill as an amendment to the Carlisle bill in the house. If it is de- Glared not to be germane , he will appeal - peal from the decision , giving the house an opportunity to vote on the proposition.- - HER LOVE HAS COOLED , illrs. Branlt , tylmo Eloped With Preacher - er Ianry , I.caves himu In Anger. CiIicico , Dcc. 17.-A morning paper says that the Rev. Conrad Haney of the Lake Avenue church , who deserted - serted his wife and children and fled with Mrs. George 11' . Brandt , has in turn beep deserted by the woman , the pair separating in Cincinnati after - ter a stormy interview between the guilty couple and a Mr. Huttig of Muscatine , a brother of Mrs. Brandt. The paper continues : "Mrs. Brandt returned to Chicago last Thursday night for a final leave taking of her children and last night left the city alone. She was accompanied to the train by Mr. Brandt , who purchased her a ticket to an Eastern seaport , front where. it is said , she will take a steamer to Europe. Those who saw the parting say it was a tears : ; s one. " Where Mr. Haney has gone : s beyond - yond the knowledge of his friends in tills city. r'iADELINE POLLARD. Leeks Empoymeut as a Child's Nurse , but Fails-No One Will llave Hcr. . NEW Yens , Dec. 17.-A Boston lady a few weeks ago advertised for a French maid to take charge of her .child and accompany her abroad. Among those who answered the advertisement - vertisement was Miss Madeline Pollard - lard , who achieved notoriety by suing Congressman Breckinridge of Ken- tacky , for breach of promise. Referring - ring to the matter Miss Pollard said Jas' , night : "I can't see anything wrong in answering the advertise- ment. I don't know who got the let- ter. I thought that was an opportunity - tunity for my doing something , but I .never received a reply. I have answer - swer ed a number of advertisements in the hope of securing employment , but everyone has been a failure. " CAPT. CREEDEN REINSTATED. Time New York Police Board Eovokes Its Suspension. 1 NEWYofK Dec. 17.-When the per - r lice commissioners met to-day two resolutions were offered by Ccmmis- sioner Murray , one providing for the " ; 1 , release from suspension of Captain Creeden and the other called for a .conference between the police board and Chairman Lexow of the senate committee concerning Creeden's case and other matters. Commissioner Sheehan cast the only vote against the first resolution , the second being 'carried unanimously : . - s LO HAS HIS TROUBLES. The Hot Winds and Absence of Moisture Lessen Ills Crops. WASHINGTON , Dec. 17.-Many of the Indians , the agents report , encouraged - aged by fair spring weather , made preparations for large crops , but the hot winds and drouth caused small harvests and on some reservations total failure of the crops. At the Crow Creek and Lower Brule agency in South Dakota , not a bushel of grain was harvested nor any vegetables etables gathered. The old brutal method of slaughtering beef cattle for issue has been abandoned and the construction of the new slaughter house is , considered of great impor- tance. Among the Crow Creeks the customary weekly dances have been stopped and dancing allowed only twice a month with an enforced abandonment of exciting citing speeches and the custom of throwing away property during the dancing. For the first time in their history the Crows are supplying the beef cattle for the ration issue. The disaffected element of the Lower Brules who have been living south of White river on the Rosebud reservation - tion have , with the exception of ten families , gone on their reservation and are fast becommg settled. Tae I handling of these Indians , who are enrolled at the Lower L'rulc agency and draw rations there , has been a diflicult undertaking owing to the opposition among the Indians and solve of the whites. Whole fields of grain were destroyed - ed by the gophers at the Devil's Lake agency , Fort Trotten , N. D. , and this is held largely responsible for the great misfortune of the Indians daring the year. These Indians are poor and the loss of a horse or ox means the abandonment of a farm. Sharp disciplinary atment has stopped the heretofore frequent Unauthorized - authorized killing of stool : and horned I stock is rapidly increasing. Drouths and blighting hot winds have made the Standing flock agency unadapted to agriculture , and this year many crops were total failures. ' 1'lais uncertainty of raising crops has made stock raising the leading industry - dustry , and in this considerable progress - gress has been made. The Indians at the Forest City agency , S. D. , with time exception of the settlement of 950 at Cherry creek , favor taking allotments in severalty. The Indians on the Uintah and Ouray reservation in Utah arc still far from the high road to prosperity and civilization , according to the annual - nual report of Major 1"randlett , the agent. They look upon efforts made in their behalf with distrust , and as endangering their own rights in the reservation. They are slow to appreciate - preciate school privileges , and cling to the idea that sending children to school is a favor conferred on the agent. The Uintahs have doubled their farming acreage and have evinced great interest in crop clltita- tion. The Uncomphagres have given little encouragement or assistance to farming. The allotments in severalty of the lands of the Coeur d'Alene Indians , who were using valuable lands for mere grazing purposes , ms related by Captain Biidd of the Colville agency in Washington. The work of removing - ing the Upper and Middle Spokane from the vicinity of Spokane Falls has proved a slow , tedious process , necessitating considerable work for the agent during the year. DUN'S BUSINESS REVIEW. , Pay Rolls for ovember Show an Increase - crease of Earntng { of 15 L'er Ccut. NEW Yolmx , flee. 17.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says : Dun's review is enabled , by the kindness of several thousand manufacturers - facturers who have forwarded statements - ments of their pay rolls of November , this year , in 1S93 and in 1692 , to make a very encouraging comparison of earnings for that month , which shows an increase in total payments of 15.2 per cent over last year , but a decrease of 1S.3 per cent in comparison - ison with 1S92' . A statement of hands employed shows that in the same establishments - tablishments 10.2 per cent more persons - sons were employed than a year ago , but 8.0 per cent less than 1892. The average of earnings for over 50,000 hands is 4 per cent larger than in IS93 , but 13.5 per cent less than in 1892 , and this statement takes no account of hours of work in the months compared - pared , or of the establishments now working at all this year. In some of the industries more hands are at work than in 1592 , but in others the decrease - crease is large. Contradictory changes in business are quite in order at this season. Neither the larger orders in some branches nor the depression of prices in others afford a safe indication - tion of the general movement. But the working force does not lessen more than usual for the time of a year and the demand for goods does not seem to diminish , though in some departments it is considerably below the capacity of works in operation and the volume of business transacted is a little larger in comparison with last year than in November. The speculative markets have advanced - vanced a little , through reasons hard to find. Wheatisunchanged in price , although Western receipts are as large as they were last year and Atlantic - lantic exports are 831,05 bushels , against 1,029,000 a'year ago. Corn is a fraction weaker without any important - portant change in movement though the receipts continue remarkably large. The heavy receipts of cotton have broken down the price to $5.75 in spite of a strong speculative interest - terest looking for some r2eovery from the lowest point on record. Suicides in New York city average seven a day. - BERraN , Dec. 17.-The Reichstag , by a vote of 1GS to 53 , adopted the report - port of the committee which recoin- mended that permission be not granted - ed to the public prosecutor to take action against the Socialist members who refused to'rise and cheer for the emperor. Van Leaven Found Guilty. DUBUQUE , Iowa , Dec. 17.-After an hour's deliberation the jury in the case against Pension Agent Van Leuven.for conspiracy Rita John Rankin - kin to bribe the Cresco board of examining - ining surgeons returned a verdict of guilty. V : V - A PUGILIST KILLED. Injurles in the Prize Ring that Result In IIis Death. NEW ORldiANS , La. , Dec. 17.-Andy Bowen , the lightweight champion pugilist of time South , died at 7 o'clock this morning from the effects of the punishment received in his fight with George Lavigne of Saginaw , Mich. , before the Auditorium Athletic club last night. The fight was a most desperate one , in which Lavigne had all he best of it after the first round and made a chopping block out of the game but outclassed Crescent city fighter. In the first round Lavigne slipped - ped to the floor twice in his frantic rushes after the Southerner. Ile continued to right on the aggres sive and soon demonstrated that lie outclassed Bowen , and he gradually cut hisopponentdotvn. In the fourth round he had all the best of it , landing - ing ; several stinging right handers on llowen's face. The latter was groggy when the gong sounded. The rest freshened him , but he continued to be the receiver general of the punishment - ment , and in the seventh round Lavigne landed heavily , cutting a gash over Botvcn's eye. In the ninth round Powen had bellows to mend while Lavigne was fresh and full of fight. After this Lavigne made a punching - ing bag out of Bowen , knocking him all over the ring. In the fifteenth he went downfrom a heatyriglit hander on the jaw and was again sated by the gong. In the seventeenth he was knocked down again and was badly punished. lie was game , ho vevrr , and came back again on the call of time. It was apparent that the end was near , as Bowen had received such a severe smashing by right handers over the heart that he was weakened and groggy. lie walked mechanically towards his strong , young adversary. Lavigne opened with a left jab on the neck and , though the blow was not a particularly - ticularly hard one , it brought a look of anguish to the face of the thoroughly oughly beaten little jean. Ills mouth was partly open , while his eves wore a wild , frightened look. his cheeks were bruised and stroller and ] min lips week puffed out. 'Tie cut over the left eye was the only color in his pallid face. his breath was coming in cohort ; asps and after breathing for a moment , he would catch his breath. 1Vith wonderfnl gameness lie would not flinch from time shower of blows rained on him by Laving , and although - though his strength was gone , he tried bravely to fight back every time the visitor was close enough. Lavingc would dodge the blows thus attnnpt- ed or let them land harmlessly on him. He was landing on the local man at will , and Bowen staggered to the ropes at the onslaught of his powerful foe. Whale there in a helpless - less condition and trying to clinch , Lavingc planted his left over the heart , and crossing savagely with his right , landed a terrible blow on time angle of the jaw. Bowen fell back like a felled tree and his head struck the floor heavily. Lavigne valked to his corner , while Referee Duffy counted - ed time ten seconds. The beaten man was picked up limp and to all appearances lifeless , by h' , handlers and carried to his dressing room. lie remained unconscious - scious front the time he received the blow and was conveyed from his dressing room at the club to his home on Thalia street near Magnine. Time scene at the house this in rn- lug was a most pathetic one. Dr. Ed. Martin was called in at an early hour and did all that human skill could do to save time lifa that hung in the balance , but to no avail. Time mother of the pugilist , when he was carried into time house , predicted that lie would never recover , while his young wife grew hysterical in her agony. They sat beside the unconscious man and wept and prayed as only women can , but of no avail. His eyes had looked on them for the last time anti he never opened his lips. THE YELLOW EAGLES. Cbc Gold Reserve is ioing Dtpletcd at a Very i apid latc. WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.-The gold reserve - serve yesterday took another downward - ward plunge by the withdrawal of $4S75,000 , leaving time net reserve at the close of business $90,3 [ 1,834 , or 3G5S,11G below the $100,009,000 limit. Of this amount withdrawn , : 1,550,000 went from the sub-treasury at New York and $325,000 from Boston. Mr. larrlsomi lt'ill Not' Run dalu. BIFFAL0 , N. Y. , Dec. 17.-Colonel D. S. Alexander , who was United States district attorney for Northern New York under President harrison. returned from the West yesterday. he stopped for two days in Indianan- oils and spent some time with a-- President Harrison. lIe said that General farrison assured him that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for th m presidency again. Cook Outlaws Safe in Prison. DETROIT , Mich. , Dee. 17.-UnitcC States Marshal Crump of Arkansas and deputies arrived last night with the thirty-two Federal prisoners from Arkansas and time Indian territory who were recently sentenced to various - ous long terms in the Detroit house of correction. Three of the prisoners - ers are ex niembers of the Cook gang. Pawnbrokers DofrafJed. Sr. JosEt'tr , Mo. , lc. 1'-The man known as J. M. Black of Atchison , 1 as. . who defrauded liansas City pawnbrokers with a duplicated watch , worked time same trick on a number of St. Joseph pawnbrokers , secured several huudre-J dollars- and then disappeared. dll l.oiea4c11. Niw Orr.E.txs , La. , Dcc : 17.-This afternoon all the participants in the Bowen-Lavigne fight were releasedd on bail , after they had , spent some' hours in jail. A Deaver liiliouatre at Best. DENVER , , Col. , Dec. l7-Dr. 02eaL ! 'ass , a mnillionaire , , died. yesterday , . used 71 years. , I Tlmc lowest order of ani-tai r life is found in the microscopic jellyfislm ; It ? is sftWl'y ' mn-utcdrop'of' gelatinous natter : , V 7 t RELIGION OF JESUS. IT IS LICH.TING UP' DARKEST LNDIA. . Alndoolsnt Going Down Before the Truths of the Iiumblo Nazarene-Dr. Talmage Pralses the Salt Sacrifice of Christ's Missionaries. L'IooIiLTN , N. Y. , Dec. 10.-Rev. Dr Talmage to-day deliverdd the third of his series of 'round the world sermons through the press , the subject being the "Burning of the Dead , " and the text : "They have hands but they handle not , feet have they but they walk not , neither speak they through their throat. 't'hey that make them are like unto them. " Psalm 115vii-viii. The life of the missionary is a luxurious - urious and indolent life ; Ilindooismn is a life that ought not to be interfered witlm ; Christianity is guilty of an impertinence - pertinence when it invades heathendom - dom ; you must put in the same line of reverence Brahma , Buddha , Mohammed - med and Christ. To refute these slanders and blasphemies now so prevalent - valent , and to spread out before time Christian world the contrast between idolatrous and Christian countries , I preach this third sermon in my " 'round the world" series. In thin discourse I take you to the very headquarters of heathendom , to time very capital of Ilindooism : for what Mecca is to the Mohammedan , and what Jerusalem is to the Cl nis- tian , Benares , India , is to the Ilindoo. We arrived there in the evening , and the next morning We started out early , among other timings to see the burning of the dead. We saw it , cremation not as many good people in America and England are now advocating it , namely , the burning of the dead in clean , and orderly , and refined crematory - tory , the hot furnace soon reducing the human form to a powder to be carefully - fully preserved in an urn ; but cremna- ticn as the Iiindoos practice it. We got into a boat and were rowed dpwn the river Ganges until we came opposite - posite to where fire dead bodies lay , four of them women wrapped in red garments , and a man wrapped in white. Our boat fastened , we waited and watched , high piles of wood were on the bank , and this wood is carefully weighed on large scales , ac cording as the friends of time deceased can afford to pay for it. In many cases only a few sticks can be afforded- and the dead body is burned only a littleand then thrown into the Ganges. But where the relatives of the deceased - ceased are well to do , an abundance of wood in pieces four or five feet long is purchased. Two or three layers of sticks are then put on the ground to receive the ( lead form. Small pieces of sandalwood arc inserted to produce fragrance. The deceased is lifted from the resting place and put upon this wood. Then the cover is removed from the face of the corpse and it is bathed with water of the Ganges. Then several more lavers of wood are put upon the body , and other sticks are placed on both sides of it , but the heats and acct are ] left . . , . . . Then i a ( luailtity of greaai sulllclellt to make everything inflammable is rut on the wood , and into time mouth of time dead. Then one of the riclm men in Benares , his fortune made in this wayfurnishes the fire , and , after the priest Imas mumbled a few words , the eldest son walks three times around the sacred pile , and then applies the torch , and the fire blazes up , and in a short time the body has become the ashes which I relatives throw into the Ganges. Benares is imposing in the distance as you look at it from the oilier sick of the Ganges. The forty-seven ghats , or flights 0 of stone stepsreaching a from time water's edcge to the building , high up on time banks , mark a place for the ascent - I cent and descent of the sublimnities. Time eye is lost in the bewilderment of tombs , shrines , minarets , palaces and temples. It 15t le glorificatiol of steps , the triumph of stairways. But loDk2J I t clove by , the temple , tlmoagh large ! aanti expensive , arc anything but ati i tractive. The seeming gold in many j cases turns out to be brass. The precious - cious stones in time trail turn out to be , paint. Time marble is stucco. The slippery and disgusting steps lead you I to images of horrible visage , and the flowers put upon the altar have their fragrance submerged by that which is the opposite to aromatics. j After you have seen time ghats , time two great things in Benares that you must see are the Golden and Monkey temples. About the vast Golden temple - ple there is not as much gold as would make an English sovereign. Time air itself is asphyxiated. Isere we see men making gods out of mud and then putting - ting their hands together in worship ' of that which themselves have made. Sacred cows w .lk up and down time temple. Here stocd a Fakir with a right arm uplifted , and for so long a } tine , that lie could not take it down , , and the nails of the hand had grown until they looked like serpents winding - ing in and around the palm. We- took a carriage and went still further on to see the Monkey temple , so called because in and around the building monkeys abound and arc kept as sacred. All evolutionists should visit this temple devoted to the family from which their ancestors' came. These monkeys chatter and wink , and climb , and look wise , and look silly , and have full possession of the place. i We were asked at the entrance of the Monkey temple to take off our shoes because of the sacredness of the place , but a small contribution- placed in the lm ands of an attendant resulted in a permission to enter with our shoes on. As the golden temple is dedicated to Siva ; the poison god , this Monkey temple : is dedicated to Sivas wife , a deitess , that must be propitiated , or she , will disease , and blast , and de- stroy. For centuries this spitfire has worshiped. She is the goddess Of scold , and slap ; and termagancy. She is supposed to be a supernatural \antippe , hence to her are brought flowers and rice , and here and there , the flowers are spattered with the blood of goats slain in sacrifice. As we walk to-daythrough this Mo n key temple we must not hit , or tease , or hurt one of them. Two Englislnnen years ago lost their lives by time maltreatment - treatment of a monkey. Parsing along one of these Indian streets , a monkey did not soon enough get out of the way and one of these Englishmen struck it with his cane. Immediately the people and the priests gathered ' -ound these strangers , and the public wrath increased until the two Englishmen - men were pounded to death for having struck a monkey. No land in all the world so reveres the monkey as India , as no other land has a temple called after it. One of the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. A nuptial procession teas formed in which moved camels , clepliauts , tigers , cattleaud palanquins of richly dressed pcople. Bands of music sounded time wedding march. Dancing parties kept the night sleepless. It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their round , of gay attentions. In no place but India - dia could such a carnival have oc- curred. But , after all , while we can not approve of the monkey temple , the monkey is sacred to hilarity. I defy any one to watch a Monkey one minute - ute without laughter. 11'hi was this creature made ? For time world's amusement. Time mission of some nnf- mals is left doubtful and we can not see time use of this or that quadruped , or this or that insect , but the mission of time ape is certain ; all around the world it entertains. Whether seated at the top of tills temple in India , or cutting up its antics on the top of a hand organ , it stirs the sense of time ludicrous ; tickles the diaphragm into cachinnation : topples gravity into play , and acconiplislmcs that for which it was created. The eagle , and the lion , and time gazelle , and time robin no more certainly - tainly have their mission than has time monkey. But it implies a low forum of Ilindooism when this embodied nifam- icrv of the human race is lifted into worship. In one of the cities for the first time in my life I had an opportunity - tunity of talking with a F aldr , or a llindoo who has renounced the world and lives on alms. Ile sat under a rough covering on a platform of brick. lie was covered with the ashes of the dead , and was at the time rubbing more of those ashes upon his arms and legs. He understood and spoke English. I said to kiln , "lion' long have you been seated here ? " lie replied - plied , "Fifteen years. " "have those idols which I see power to help or dc stroyT' Ile said , "No : they only represent God. There is but one God. " Question-When people die where do they go to ? Answer-That depends upon what they have been doing. If they have been doing good , to heaven ; if they have been doing evil , to hell. Question-But do you not believe in time transmigration of souls , and that after death we go into birds or annuals of some sort. Ai ver-Ycs ; the last creature a man is thinking of while dying is the one into which he will go. if he is thinking of a bird he will go into a bird ; and if he is thinking , of a cow he will go into a cow. Question-I thought you said that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell ? Answer-Ile goes there by a gradual process. It may , take him years and years. - Question-Can anyone become a llin , dee ? Could I become a Ilindoo ? Answer-Yes , you could. Question-how could I become a ' Ilindoo ? L Answer-By doing as time hindoos i do. But as I looked upon the poor , filthy wretch , bedaubing himself with the I ashes of the dead , I thought the last { thing on earthm I would want to become - come would be a hindoo. I expressed to a rniseionary who overheard the conversation between time fakir and myself my amazement at some of the doctrines time Fakir announced. The ' missionary said : "Tile Fakirs are very ' accommodating a , and suP.n osing o you to be a friend of Christianity. lie announced - nounced the theory of one God , and that of rewards and punishments. " Anil now as to time industrious , malignnent of missionaries : It has been said by some travelers after their return to America or England that the missionaries are living a life full of indolence - dolence and luxury. That is a falsehood - hood tlmat I would say is as high as heaven if it did not go down in the opposite - posite direction. When strangers come into these tropical climates , the I missionaries do their best to entertain them , making sacrifices for that par- pose. In time city of Benares a missionary - sionary toll me that a gentleman coming - ing from England into one of the mission - sion stations o. India , the missionaries banded together to entertain him. Among other things ; they had w ham boiled , prepared. and beautifully decorated - rated , and the same-ham was passed around from house to house as this stranger' appeared , andin other respects - spects a conspiracy' of kindness was effected. The visitor went back to i England and wrote and spoke of i the luxury in which the missionaries - aries of India were living. Americans and Englishmen come to these l tropical regions and find a missionary living under palms and with different styles of fruits on lmis table , and forget i that palms are here as- cheap as hickory or pine in America , and rich fruits as cheap as plain apples. They find here missionaries sleeping under punkas , these fans swung day and nigh by coolies ; and forget that four cents a day is good. wages here , and the-man finds himself. Four cents a day fora coachman ; a missionary can afford to ride. There have been missionaries - sionaries who have 'come to these hot olimates resolving'to' live' as- the natives - tives live , and one-.or two years have finished their worm ; , their chief use on missionary ground being that of furnishing - nishing for a large funeral the chief object of interest. So far from living in idleness , no men on earth work so hard as.the missionaries now in the foreign field. Against fearful odds , and with three millions of Christians opposed to two hundred and fifty millions of Iiindoos , Moham- medans and other false religions , these missionaries are trying to take India for God. Let the good peo- pie of America , and England , and Scotland , and of all Christendom add 90i per cent to their appreciation of the fidelity and consecration of foreign missionaries. Far away from home , in an exhausting climate , and compelled - pelled to send their children to England - land , Scotland or America so as to escape - cape the corrupt conversation and behavior - havior of the natives , these men and women of God toil on until they drop into their graves. But they will get their chief appreciation when their work is over and the day is won , as it will be won. No place in heaven will be too good for them. Some of the ministers at home who live on salaries of $4,000 or $5,000 a year , preaching the g tspel of him who had not where to lay his head , will enter heaven and be welcomed and while , looking for a place to sit down , timey trill be told : "Yonder in that lower line of thrones you will take your places. Not on time thrones nearest the king ; they are reserved - served for the missionaries ! " Meanwhile let all C'iristendomn ] be thrilled with gladness. About ; , ; ,000 converts in Inm'ia every year under the Methodist missions , amid about 25,000 converts under the Baptist missions , and about 75,000 converts ntuler all nissions every year. Ilut more than that , Ciristiaaity is undermining heath- ellismu , and not a city , or town , or neighborhood of India. but directly , or I imlircctly , feels the influence ; and the day speeds on when Ilindooismn will a go down with a crash. There are whole villages which have given up their gods ; , and tvhcre not an idol is left. ITime serfdom of tvonianhood in mane places is being unloosened , and the .i-on grip Of caste is being relaxed. human sacrifices have ceased , and the last spark of time funeral pyre on which the widow trust leap has been extinguished , and time juggernaut - gernaut , stopped , now stands as a curiosity for travelers to look at. All India will be taken lotChrit - 1 f any one has any dmslmeartemunents let ] mint keep them as iris own private property - erty ; he is welcome to all of them. But if any man has any encouragement to utter , let him utter them.Vhat we avant in the church and the world is less . croaking owls of the night and more morning larks tvitll spread wing ready to meet the advancing day. 1"old up Naomi and Windham , and give us Arid1 or Mount I'isgali , or Cor ; onation. I had the joy of preaching in many of the cities of India , and seeing - ing the dusky faces of the natives illuminated with heavenly anticipa- tions. In Calcutta while the congregation - gation were yet seated I took my de- parturc for a railroad train. I preached by the watch up to the last minute. A swift carriage brought arc to the station - tion not more than half a minute before - fore starting. I came nearer to nmiss- ing the train than I hope any one of us will come to missing heaven. , . - - FROM } OT3irlGt4 LAND'S. Tea drinking is rapidly becoming a vice among British workingmen. Charged with drunkenness 333 times before a single policy judge is the record of one Liverpool woman. 'l'ank car , ar.i now being used for time transportation of wine in bulk by ; ' , - ' - rcil- tie - . - : - road in lri - . , Mali a pound of dried curramits , in lirtl of oats , is said to be fed to the sultans lioes2s in Egypt , and this is claimed to be the secret of the animals' great endurance. Berlin naturalists arc irtarestctl over time arrival in the Zoological garden of time three Damara ostriches from South Africa , a species said to have never Lcf-mrc bscn seen is ii rope. Stations where bicyclists in trouble may find help and tools , air pumps , liquid and solid rubber for their pneumatic - matic tires , and springs for their saddles - dles have been set up by the Touring club of Fraii e. The sending of a message and reply - ply between Manchester. England , and Victoria , British Columbia , i-c- cently , occupied only ninety seconds- 'he total distance Ly wire , out and return. is IS,000miles. A white panther from the Pamirs 3 has been pr2scnted to time Jardin des Plantcs by the ; governor of 'Turkestan and Prince Gargarinc. It is an animal - mal which has never been seen in any zoological collectiun of 1Vcstera Europe. On the field of ' .Waterloo a topaz seal set in gold was recently found. bearing the arms amid motto of Viscount - count Barrington. It. belonged to Ensign Barrington , who ryas killed at Quatre lra : , June 16 , 1915 , and had lain unF-.covercd for eight' , years. Messrs. lloughton , Mifflin d ; Co. . of lkston , New i ork , and Chicago , will publish during December a valuable addition to the Riverside Literature Series. This Is ( No. Gtr ) Nathaniel Ilawthornes "Tile Old Manse and A Few Mosses' ( Paper , 15 cents ) . This book contains fourskc tehes from "Mos- ses from an C.ld Manse Drown&s Wooden Image : Featlmertop : A Moral ized Legend : and The Old Apple-Dealer besides the title sketch. 'r here is also a very interesting Introductory Sketch. This number is also published with No. ( Hawthorne's'l'ales of time White hills , and Sketches ) in linen covers at . cents. In the Unite } States twenty-eight states and territories have given women some form of suffrage. i k