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Bv JBBBB W MMHBBMBBBBBBMB'IBSraBBWBMMBBBBB M PASSED THE SENATE. B * THE IMMIGRATION MEASURE H GOES THROUGH. Bj B Illiterate * linrrrri Out Excludes For- B filgnerit Over 1(1 Who Cannot Itcnil unci B Write Some Lungting * The Hill Now Bk CJoes to Conference Cuban * Fleeing B From Ksviupted. BVAwBVV Immigration PS Washixotox , Dec. 10. The scnato BB yesterday passed tlic immigration bill , B Itnown us the Lodge bill , with a new ft section , providing- that the exclusion B * shall not apply to persons arriving HBBBpA from Cuba during the continuance of J B the present disorder * there. The B strength of the bill was greater than H > liad been expected , the linal vote bc- B As passed , the bill amends the innni- B. gration laws so as to exclude from adV - V mission to the United States all per- B sous over 10 years of age , who cannot B l-cad and write the language of their B native country or some other language , H but an admissible immigrant , over the BSVAwAV age of 10 , may bring in with him , or kag scnd for , his wife or parent or grand- B parent or minor children or grandchild - B -child , notwithstanding their inability B to H [ For the purpose of testing the abil- B it3 * of the immigrant to read and write , H 4is required by the foregoing section , B B the inspection oiliccr shall be furnished H B copies of the constitution of the United B' States , printed on numbered uniform m pastboard slips , eaeh containing live H lines of tlu constitution , printed in the H various languages of the immigrants in B double small pica type. These slips HBBBY shall be kept in boxes made for that a purpose , and so constructed as to con- B * ccl the slips from view , each box to B contain slips of but one language , and B the immigrant may designate the lanK - K gaage in which he prefers the test to B be made. Each immigrant shall be B required to draw one of these slips B from the bo : : and read , and afterward B -write out in full view of the immigra- K tion ofiicers , the five lines printed R thereon. Each slip shall be returned H | to the box immediately after the test is M finished , and the contents of the box V shill be taken up by an inspector be- K fore another drawing is made. K No immigrant failing to read and Kt write out the slip thus drawn by him B .shall be admitted ; but he shall be re- B\ turned to the countrj- whence he came B -at the expense of the steamship or rail- A road company which brought him , as B now provided by law. The inspection B -oflicer shall keep in each box at all K times , a full number of these printed B\ \ pasteboard slips , and in the case of B ea-jh excluded immigrant , shall keep a B certified memorandum of the number K of the slip which the immigrant failed B to read or copy out in writing. * B The Cuban section added to the bill L > provides that the action shall not Bv apply to persons arriving in the United BB Stales from any port or place in the B B Island of Cuba during the continuance B of the present disorders there , proj K vided that such persons have hereto- B fore been inhabitants of that island. B An amendment by Mi * . Elkins pro- B posing a § 10 a head tax on immigrants B coming in other than American ships. P % occasioned considerable debate , and Bl B "vvas nnaUy tabled , as were several B < other amendments. BBP The immigrant measure now goes B _ to conference , the bill passed yester- B dav being a siir. 'tituto for the Corliss- B Mc-Call bil Mouse. B B B Bfl H GOV. Dhrt\t , dUriPRISED. B BV IJauglitpr oT town 's Executive Secrety H BM Slurried Xcarly Two Months Afro. B Des Moixns. Iowa , Dec. l'J. Miss B [ Mary Lord Drake , daughter of the gov- K crnor of Iowa , and George Sturdivant K of Centcrville were secretly married at r .Denver October 2S and the governor L < lid not learn of it until he went to F\- Denver about ten days ago to rest a B little and to visit with his daughter , B expecting to bring her and his niece , B Miss Mary Carpenter , home with him & after the summer and fall sojourn at B\ the Colorado reports. He was first met B B ' l > y liss Carpenter , who proceeded as B Bft' gently as possible to break the news of v his daughter ' s marriage. He would B Tiot believe it until he had been shown Bb the cerliiicate of marriage , duly H signed. H , "LIL'S" PLOTTING. P U.T.vaUans Xot Worrying About the Es- B Bft Queen's American Trio. H | Sax FitAxcisco. Dec. 19. According Vy to steamship advices from Honolulu. B no importance Avas attached there to B the visit of ex-Queen Liliuokalani to B the United States. She went , it was BJ declared , simply for a change , hoping Bk lo tetter her health and her final des- P * ? A tination was Europe. B It was reported that Liliuokalani B -would go to Washington to meet her F Tiiece , Kaiulani , and that both would | B KV seek an audience with President Cleve- B1 land , but , in view of the ex-queen ' s h . abdication and Kaiulani's acceptance BK of a pension from the republican gov- H ernment of Hawaii , the announcement B ivas discredited. f Gompers Ksimcrateil. l Cixcixxatl Ohio , Dec. 19. President B # .Samuel Gompers was given complete Vl -exoneration of the charges preferred B against him by the Federation of Labor B last night. Some of the Republican B -delegates had charged that he prosti- B tuted his office by being active in Mr. B lirvan ' s behalf during the campaign. B After an investigation the Federation H voted Mr. Gcmpers a resolution of un- m > ' qualified indorsement. B BV Canada Prepared for Defense. B Loxnox. Dec 19. The Daily Graphic F publishes an interview with Sir Charles B Tupper , the Canadian high commissioner - & sioner , in which he says : "Canada is B quite prepared to take her part in the K admiralty scheme for imperial defense fc outlined by the Duke of Devonshire. B In the event of war between the United B States and Great Britain , Canada B -would be invaded by land. That is B B " why , during the recent difficulties , BBS Canada voted a large sum to equip the B militia. There is no fear that a hos- B tile army could be landed in Canada by FOR CUBAN INDEPENDENCE Senate Foreign Committee Act * Itadlc&l 1'oiitlou Taken. Washington ; Dec. 19. All of the members of the Senate committee on foreign relations except Messrs. Gray and Daniel were present when the committee met this morning for the express purpose of continuing the dis cussion of the policy on the Cuban question to be commended by the com mittee. Secretary Olney was present for the purpose of giving advice and placing before the committee informa tion in his possession bearing upon the question. i The meeting was strictly private , Mr. Olney being the only per son i not a member of the committee who attended the conference. It was early < understood , however , that the secretary's advice was against precipi tate action by the . committee. Soon after Mr. Olney had left the room the committee , without division , agreed to report the Cameron Cuban resolution as follows , after amending its title to read : "A joint resolution acknowledging the independence of the rcpublie of Cuba : VVJ.U KKCOGNITION FOIt CUBA. "Resolved , liy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America , in Congress assem bled , that the independence of the re public of Cuba be and the same is hereby acknowledged by the United States of America. "Sections. . That the United States will use its friendly offices with the government of Spain to close the war between Spain and Cuba. " The only division was as to the time the resolution should be reported to the Senate. Mr. Cameron moved its report Monday and Mr. Sherman sug gested j that the report should not be put in until after the holidaj's. When the question was put to the committee the Cameron motion prevailed by a large majority. Secretary Olnej' , it is claimed by the members of the committee who fa vored action on Cuba did not have any new information to present , and they saj * the committee knew as much about the condition of affairs in Cuba as was known by the state department. Mr. Olney urged that no action be taken j at present and pointed out that there was no real government to recognize. He confined himself main ly to a statement of facts in possession of the state department regarding the condition in the island and what this government had done. These included information j furnished by the American consuls and agents , also information furnished by the • Spanish authorities. MIL OI.XEY TKEDICTED WAR. Members of the committee are very reticent i as to what Secretary Olney said or what advice he gave , but it is very certain that he advised against any action , erpecially such as that con templated ' , as no doubt was expressed that such action would involve war with Spain. One member of the committee said : "Of course Spain will fight. The Span iards j do not know any better. But there , is no danger of other countries getting in our way. No other Euro pean nation wants to fight us , and we would , wind up a war with Spain in short order. * ' The opinion was also expressed that President Cleveland would veto the joint resolution when it should come j to him , which is taken to mean that Secretary Olney took emphatic grounds against action by Congress. A mem ber of the committee said he believed in case the President should veto the resolution that it would pass over the ; veto , as he believed there were more than two-thirds of both Senate and t House in favor of it. Some point was ! undoubtedly made that the present administration did not feel like leaving a war legacy to the incoming adminis tration , but this point was not made prominent. Senator Cameron ' s report will deal at length with the question of prece dents in the matter of the recognition of the republic and intervention of whatever nature by the United States , j beginning with the Greek revolution and coming down to the present time. Senators who heard the report say it is very thorough in this respect and irees over the entire around. ONLY BRYAN MEN WANTED Governor-Elect Stephens Declares Him self as to His Appointments. St. Louis. Mo. , Dec. 19. Governor- elect Lon V. Stephens , accompanied by his wife , arrived this morning from Hot Springs. His purpose here is to look over the local political situation with a view to making his St. Louis appointments. With him is Ed Orear. "My time. " said Mr. Stevens , "will be occupied in advising with men in St. Louis , who I think will be able to " help me in making appointments. My desire with reference to this city is to appoint men who will advance the in terest of the party. This will be my chief aim. I am a Democrat above all else , , but I shall also remember that I am a business man , and in makiug se lections will keep in view the wishes of the business men of the community. One thing , however , I wish distinctly understood , and that is that I will ap point no man to office who did not vote the Democratic ticket straight from Rryan on down. " Bryan Lecture Contract Sold. Raleigh , X. C , Dec. 19. Anthony Comstock , manager of the MclJee- i . Bryan lecture combination , stated thai I the contract with Mr. Br3an had been J sold by Mr. McBee at an advance of S2o,000. Mr. McBee refused either to confirm or deny the story. The pur chasers are said to be an Atlanta syn dicate. dicate.A A Railroad Official Mangled. Ekie , Pa. . Dec. 19. John S. Hammond mend , formerly general freight super intendent of the Erie railway , with I headquarters at Buffalo , attempted to ' crawl tinder a Lake Shore freight train which blocked the crossing at Xorthwesa , Pa. , yesterday and the , train started up and he was killed. Two "Women Killed on a Trestle. CKAWFOBDSYII.LE , Ind. , Dec. 19. Mrs. Martha McGill and her 16-year- I old daughter , Esther , were killed last J evening while crossing a trestle on the Midland railroad by the east bound mail train. 1 ' "to - - * - _ < M - HERMANN IS DEAD. The Noted Magician Carried Off by Hear ; DUcnKe. Rochester , N. Y. , Dec. 18. Herr mann , the famous magician , died to-day in his private car at Grain Vallcj' , near Salamanca , while on his way to Bradford. He completed an engagement at the Lyceum theater here last night and had later been en tertained at the Genesee Valley club by a number of his friends. Death was caused by heart disease. Alexander Herrmann was born of German parentage in France. Aban doning his profession of medicine , liis father became one of the foremost prestigiditateurs in the world and Alexander ' s elder brother , C. Herrraan , afterward eclipsed the father 's fame Alexander , greatest of the three , was born in 1S44 and made his first appear ance upon the stage with his brother in St. Petersburg when he was 8. He remained with his brother six years , when his parents placed him at college in Vienna. College routine proved too irksome and at the end of a year he left and began his career as a "ma gician" in Spain , in 1839. He made his first appearance in America in lSGlbut returned to Europe a year later to fill important engagements there. In 1874 he returned to America , marrying on his arrival a woman he had met on the voyage. Herrmann spokeseven languages flu ently andfrom the necessity of his pro fession , was an adept at chemistry and physics. Herrmann made a number of _ _ tours in this country and was generally * pop ular , no less with adults , to whom his ingenuity appealed , than with chil dren , who believed in what they saw. He usually had a company , but his own efforts attracted most attention. Mme. Herrmann made a hit as a dancer , but her efforts tended rather to foil the mysteries dealt in by her husband , and to relieve the excited tension which his trickeries induced in an audience. When relieved from the cares of a tour , he found ease and happiness in a fine old manor house on the tip of Long Island Sound. On the spacious , verandahs of this residence the magician every summer smoked his cigarettes and dreamily watched the sails while he devised new material for public wonder. MACEO REPORTED ALIVE. Humor Brought to Key " \Vc3t by Ha vana I'assengers. Kev West , Fla. , Dec. 18. Passen gers arriving here last night from Ha vana report that Antonio Maceo is alive and well , and is in the province of Matanzas. The passengers say that all of the festivities that were going on in Ha vana to celebrate his death have been ordered stopped since it has become known that he is alive. Helena Bankers Arrested. Helena , Mont. , Dec. 18. The United States grand jury has returned indictments against Erastus Edgerton , George H. Hill and T. D. Beattie. The first named was vice president and general manager , and the others as sistant cashier and director of the de funct First National bank of this city. Edgerton is at present receiver of the bank. The charges are misdirection of credits , misappropriation of funds , false entries in the books and false re ports to the comptroller of the curren cy. The bond was fixed at $5,000. Portfolio for Horace D3vls. Washington , Dec. 18. Monday Ma jor McKinley told a delegation of Californians - fornians that he would give the Pacific coast a place in his cabinet if the Cali- fornia congressional delegation could agree upon a man. Yesterday the Californians held a caucus. After a protracted session they agreed upon Horace Davis for secretary of the in terior. Jack JtlcAullffo to Retire. Portlaxd , Ore. , Dec. IS. Jack Mc- Auliffe , the lightweight champion , has announced his intention of retiring from the prize ring. He states he will * o into business in > .ew York city. Valuable Information Free. The patent laws are probably the least understood by the public than any other portion of our statutes , and questions of general interest addressed to the managers of the Iowa Patent Office will be answered in their weekly reports. The patent , law makes no distinction between men and women , boys or girls , citizens or aliens. The inventor of anything new or useful in the mechanic arts is entitled to a pat ent therefor. J. E. Allen of Des Moines has been allowed a copyright for the "American Plumbers Estimate Book. " Patents have been allowed to our patrons as follows but not yet issued : To D. H. Whiteside of Middletown. Ma. for a device adapted for adjustably connecting driving reins therewith and governing horses advantageously thereby - by with one hand. To J. W. Keller of Lorimer , Iowa.for a machine mounted on wheels to be operated by hand for reeling and stretching fence wire , carrying boxes or barrels , rotating a barrel for churn ing or mixing matter placed therein , and for various other purposes. To O. Volkerts of Sac City. Iowa , for shelving for windows that can be read ily detachably connected with a win dow , by means of two screw eyes , to support a collection of potted plants in artistic order and in convenient po sition for attention. It is really a thing of beauty and may be made a household joy. Valuable information about obtaining - ing , valuing and selling patents sent free to any address. Thomas G. & J. Ralph Orwig , Solicitors of Patents. Des Moines. Iowa , Dec 1G. 1S96. The Philippines * Sitcatlon Hark. London , Dec IS. The Times' dis patch from Singapore says that the Spanish troops in the Philippines have been withdrawn to Manilla and that there are 50,000 rebels at Cavite. The situation is serious , and a European protection committee has been formed at Manilla. S-vitzerland's Xevr Chief Magistrate. Berne , Dec IS. M. Deuscher of Turgau has been elected president and M. Euffy of Lausanne vice president of the Swiss republic Both president and vice president-elect are radicals. ' The federal councilors were re-elected. i BB B BBBBB ? r < Dr. Talmage's iSerrnon- > v 1 * r" " % < ; on < - i $7 $ PRACTICAL 4 RELIGION. 4 Washington , Dec. 20. This subject of Dr. Talmage cuts through the con ventionalities , and spares nothing of that make-believe religion which Is all talk and no practice. The text chosen was James , 2:20 : : "Faith without works is dead. " The Reman Catholic church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith. I charge Protestantism with putting not enough stress upon good worku as connected with salva tion. Good works will never save a man , but if a man have not good works he has no real faith and no genuine religion. There are those who depend upon the fact that they are all right inside , while their conduct is wrong outside. Their religion , for the most part , is made up of talk vigorous talk , fluent talk , boastful talk , perpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour in telling you how good you are. They come up to such a higher life that they have no patience with ordi nary Christians in the plain discharge of their duty. As near as I can tell , this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little tonnage. Foretopmast stay-sail , foretopmast studding sail , maintopsail , mizzentopsail everything from fly ing-jib to mizzen-spanker , but making no useful voyage. Now , the world has got tired of this , and it wants a relig ion that will work into all the circum stances of life. We do not want a new religion , but the old religion applied in all possible directions. Yonder is a river with steep and rocky banks , and it roars like a young Niagara as it rolls on over its rough bed. It does nothing but talk about itself all the way from its source in the mountain to the place where it empties into the sea. The banks are so steep that the cattle cannot come down to drink. It does not run one fertilizing rill into the adjoining field. It has not one grist mill or factory on either side. It sulks in wet weather with chilling Togs. No one cares when that river is born among the rocks , and no one cares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another river , and it mosses its banks with the warm tides , and it rocks with floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on its bosom. It invites herds of cattle and flocks of shee pand coveys of birds to come there and drink. It has three grist mills on one side and six cotton fac tories on the other. It is the wealth of two hunJred miles of luxuriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted when it was born in the mountains , and the ocean shipping will press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down from the Atlantic coast. The one river is a man who li.es for himself. The other river is a man who lives for others. Do you know how the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem was chosen ? There were two brothers who had ad joining farms. The one brother had a large family , the other had no family. The brother with a large family said : "There is my brother with no family ; he must be lonely , and I will try to cheer him up , and I will take some of the sheaves from my field in the night time and set them over on his farm , and say nothing about it. " The other brother said : "My brother has a large family and it is very difficult for him to support them , and I will help him along , and I will take some of the sheaves from my farm in the night time and set them over on his farm , and say nothing about it. " So the work of transference went on night after night , but every morning things seemed to be just as they were , for though sheaves had been subtracted from each farm , sheaves had also been added , and the brothers were perplexed and could not understand. But one night the brothers happened to meet while making this generous transfer ence , and the spot where they met was so sacred that it was chosen as the site of the city of Jerusalem. If that tradition should prove unfounded , it will nevertheless stand as a beautiful allegory setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed , that is the spot fit for some temple of commem oration. I have often spoken to you about faith , but this morning I speak to you about works , for "faith * without works is dead. " I think you will agree with me in the statement that the great want of this world is more practical religion. We want practical religion tc go into all merchandise. It will supervise the labeling of goods. It will not allow a man to say that a thing was made in one factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that watch was manufactured in Geneva , Switzer land , when it was manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say that wine came from Madeira when it came from California. Practical religion will walk along by the store shelves and tear off all the tags that make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant to say that is pure coffee , when dandelion root and chiccory and other ingredients j go into it. It will not allow him to say that is pure sugar when there are in it sand and ground glass. When practical religion gets its full swing in the world it will go down the street , and it will come to that shoe store and rip off the fictitious soles of manv a fine-looking pair of shoes , and show that it is pasteboard sandwiched between the sound leather. And this practical religion will go right Into a grocery store and It will pull out { he plug of air the adulterated 3yrups , and it will dump into the ash barrel In front of the store the cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon and the brick dust that is sold for cayenne pepper ; and it will shake out the Prussian blue from the tea leaves , and It will sift ' from the flour plaster of parls and bone dust and soapstone , and It will by chemical analysis separate the one quart of water from the few honest drops of cow's milk , and It will throw out the live animalcules from the brown sugar , 'lhere nus uccn so much adulteration of articles of food that it is an amaze ment to me that there is a healthy man or woman in America. Heaven only knows what they put Into the spices and into the sugars and into the butter and Into the apothecary drug. But chemical analysis and the microscopic have made wonderful revelations. The board of health in Massachusetts ana lyzed a great amount of what was called pure coffee and found in it not one particle of coffee. In England there is a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The public author ities examined fifty-one packages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician , writing a prescrip tion , does not know but that it may bring death instead of health to his patient , because there may be one of the drugs weakened by a cheaper ar ticle , and another drug may be in full force , and so the prescription may have just the opposite eifect intended. Oil of wormwood warranted pure from Boston was found to have 41 per cent of resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable medical drugs. It is very rare , very precious. It is the sap or gum of a tree or a bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed , an incision is made into the root and then shells are placed at this incision to catch the sap or the gum as it exudes. It is very pre cious , this scammony. But the peas ant mixes it with a cheaper material ; then it is taken to Aleppo , and the merchant there mixes it with a cheaper material ; then it comes on to the wholesale druggist -London or New York , and he mixes it with a cheaper material ; then it comes to the retail druggist and he mixes it with a cheaper material , and by the time the poor sick man gets it into his bottle it is ashes and chalk and sand , and some of what has been called pure scammony after analj-sis has been found to be no scam mony at all. Nov/ , practical religion will yet rec tify all this. It will go to those hypo critical professors of religion who got a "corner" in corn and wheat in Chicago cage and New York , sending prices up and up until they were beyond the reach of the poor , keeping these breadstuffs - stuffs in their own hands , or control ling them until the prices going up and up and up , they were , after awhile , ready to sell , and they sold out , mak ing themselves millionaires in one or two years tiying to fix the matter up with the Lord by building a church era a university or a hospital deluding themselves with the idea that the Lord would be sc pleased with the gift he would forget the swindle. Now , as such a man may not have any liturgy in which to say his prayers , I will compose for him one which he prac tically is making : "Oh , Lord , we , by getting a 'corner' in breadstuffs , swin dled the people of the United States out of ten million dollars , and made suffering all up and down the land , and we would like to compromise this matter with thee. Thou knowest it was a scaly job , but then it was smart. Now , here we compromise it. Take 1 per cent of the profits and with that 1 per cent you can build an asylum for these poor , miserable ragmuffins of the street , and I will take a yacht and go to Europe , forever and ever. Amen ! " Ah , my friends , if a man hath gotten his estate wrongfully and he build a line of hospitals and universities from here to Alaska , he cannot atone for it. After awhile , this man who has been getting a "corner" in wheat , dies , and then Satan gets a "corner" in him. He goes into a great , long Black Friday. There is a "break" in the market. Ac cording to Wall street parlance , he wiped others out , and now he is him self wiped out. No collaterals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eter nal defalcation. But this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise ; it will also rectify all mechanism , and all toil. A time will come when a man will work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightingly done , "Oh , that was done by the iob. " You can tell hv the swiftness or slowness with which & hackman drives whether he is hired by the hour or by the excursion. If he is hired by the hour he drives very slowly , so as to make as many hours as possible. If he is hired by the ex cursion , he whips up the horses so as to get around and get another cus tomer. All styles of work have to be inspected. Ships inspected , horses in spected , machinery inspected. Boss to watch the journeyman. Capitalist com ing down unexpectedly to watch the boss. Conductor of a city car sound ing the punch bell to prove his honesty as a passenger hands to him a clipped nickel. All things must be watched and inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with putty. Garments warranted to last until you put them on the third time. Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds for a dollar and a half. Bookbindery that holds on until you read the third chapter. Spavined horses , by skillful dose of jockeys , for several days made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on. Horses poorlr shod. Plastering that cracks witi-jut any provocation and falls off. Plumb ing thai- needs to be plumbed. Imper fect car vvhel that halts the whole train with a hot box. So little prac tical religion in the mechanism of the world. I tell you , my friends , the law of man will never rectify these things. It will bo the all-nervadlig influence of the practical religion of Jcaus Christ I that will make the change for the bct- , ter. j Yea , this practical religion will "hdva to come in and fix up the marriage re lation In America. There are members of churchcc who have too many wlvca ! ! and too many husbands. Society needs } to be expurgated , and washed , and fumigated , and Christianized. Wo want this practical religion not only to take * hold of what are called the lowe * classes , but to take hold of what are called the higher classes. The trou ble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion on Sunday with hymn-book , and prayer-book , and liturgy , and some Of them sit In church , rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation , when their Sabbath Is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life , and while you are ex pecting to come out from under their arm3 the wings of an angel , there come out from their forehead the horns of a beast. There has got to be a new departure In religion. I do not say a new re ligion. Oh , no ; but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype , and the ambrotype , and the photograph ; but it Is the same old sun , and these arts are only new appliances of the old sun light. So this glorious Gospel is just what we want to photograph the Imago of God on one soul , and daguerreotype it on another soul. Not a new Gospel , but the old Gospel put to new work. In our time we have had the telegraphic invention and the telephonic invention , and the electric light invention ; but they are all children of old electricity , an element that the philosophers have a long while known much about. So this electric Gospel needs to flash Its light on the eyes and ears , and souls of men , and to become a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear ; a tele graphic medium to dart invitation and warning to all nations ; an electric light to illumine the eastern and western hemispheres. Not a new Gospel , but the old Gospel doing a new work. Farmers who take their religion into their occupation : Why , this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. They began this day by a prayer to God , and when they get home at noon , after they have put their horses up , will offer a prayer to God at the table , seeking a blessing , and next summer there will be in their fields not one dishonest head of rye , not one dishon est ear of corn , not one dishonest ap ple. Worshiping God to-day away up among the Berkshire Hills , or away down amid the lagoons of Florida , or away out amid the mines of Colorado , or along the banks of the Potomac , and the Raritan , where I knew them better because I went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion in to their occupations : James Brindley , the famous millwright , Nathaniel Bow- ditch , the famous ship-chandler , Elihu Burritt , the famous blacksmith , and hundreds and thousands of strong arms which have made the hammer and the saw and the adze and the drill szd the axe sound in the grand march of our national industries. Give your heart to God and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to him your store , your shop , your banking house , your factory , and your home. They say no one will hear it. God will hear it. That is enough. You hardly know of anyone else than Well ington as connected with the victory at Waterloo ; but he did not do the hard fighting. The hard fighting was done by the Somerset cavalry and the Ry- land regiments , and Kemp's infantry , and the Scotch Grays , and the Life Guards. Who cares , if only the day was won ? FLOATING FACTS. The czarina of Russia has 257 cos tumes in her wardrobe. Moles are expert swimmers. Their broad paws operate as paddles. The new harbor at Galveston , Tex. , is now completed , and is an entire suc cess. cess.As As low as 17 cents a barrel has been offered for No. 1 Baldwin apples at Ex eter , N. H. A Belfast ( Me. ) man has played 2C.400 games of cribbage with his wife , and now they are only six games apart. A well-known restaurant manager in London eays the supply of barmaids is enormously in excess of the demand. Miss Younger , of Perry , O. T. , says that if Bryan is elected she will marry T. J. Stanton. If McKinley is elected she will not. Old Gotrox ( savagely ) So you want to marry my daughter , do you ? Do you think two can live as cheaply as one ? Young Softly ( slightly embar rassed ) I I hardly think you will no tice any difference , sir. Puck. "Here , waiter ! " roared th ? long- whiskered customer , pushing the plate from him. "Take this punkin pie away and bring me a glass o' milk. Darn a silver man that ain't true to his col ors ! " Chicago Tribune. As the result of an election wager a man in Ripley county , Ohio , is going to shave his head , gild it , and walk a mile without his hat if McKinley is elected. His opponent will silver hi ? head if Bryan carries off the prize. Among the more sober physicists of old it was believed that in some man ner the sun was conveyed by nighx. across the northern regions , and that darkness was due to lofty mountains , which screened off the sunbeams during - : ing the voyage. The Parsees of India have a strange funeral custom. They expose their dead to the fowls of the air , on the Towers of Silence , at Bombay. 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