Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-10

served in the Seventh Royal English FusiIeers and he was born and served in the same regi
 ment His grandfather, then holding lieu tenants position, was killed at the battle o1 Vittoria in Spain, and his father, bugler, saw his own father fall. MT. McKenzie's ser.
 vices in the British army have been recognized
 by several handsome medals, among which the most honorable decoration is the Crimean
 medal, bearing the names of the battle of Bal aklava, Sebastopol Inkermann, and the Alma,
 which was pinned to his coat by the hands of Queen Victoria herself. He was at the Relief of Lucknow and served in India in the Sepoy
 mutiny war. Soon after the war of the Crimea he came to this country, and has been on the New York police for the past sixteen years. Although he has been in the wars of three continents, the only wound he ever received
 while in the army was at Balaklava-a gash on the side of his head from Cossack sabre. Since he has been policeman, however, he
 has been wounded five times. But he has not
 been without his righteous revenge, for he has
 been the means of sending seventeen men to State prison, whose terms amounted in the aggregate to 102 years. In person MT. Mc- Kenzie is admirably fitted to be "a guardian of the peace," being tall and at the same time stoutly and solidly built He is man supe- rior in intelligence as well as physique, but although his career has been 8 remarkable one his pride does not seem to have been puffed up thereby. It is 8 treat to hear him relate his exploits and adventures, which he does with much dramatic ability of voice and ges- ture; but simply a4d with no discoverable vanity.
 Some time ago one of our New York papers likened the activity of the elevated railroad companies in avaiIing themselves of their charter rights and building track with all their might while there were no injunctions to hin der, to the cheekiness of the Arabs camel, which, having been permitted by it's master to repose it's head inside the tent by dint of edg- ing it's way, got it's whole ungainly body under the canvas. The aptness of the simile has just been newly illustrated by the opening of the new road through the Second avenue. The beauty of four avenues, the Second, Third. Sixth and Ninth, is now marred by these thousandlegged monsters, and the fair est streets in the city are in danger. Perhaps, to escape the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, the next generation will raise new city high in the air, building on the present city as a foundation, and abandon the lower regions to the elevated railroads. But, as in the case of the Hull murder, there is an ''inside" and an ''outside" theory concerning these elevated roads. When one as passenger is on the in side he quickly forgets. in the luxury of this mode of motion, the disgust that consumed him when he was on the outside on the side walk below, cinders raining down on his head
  him. The traffic is enormous. According to the Sun, 180 trains arrive and depart from the Chatham Square station between the hours of and z p. m., carrying about 32, 900 passen- gers. At this rate the horse cars will soon be starved out.
 Mrs. Tom Ri-jon, who haunts the neigh borhood of the Herald building, and practices what she breaches in female dress reform, is out in 8 new costume. Perhaps she calls it her spring suit It is plain habit of black. The pantaloons are of the ordinary cut and hang smoothly down over the tops of we'll blacked shoes. Her coat is of the frock pat tern, with two brass buttons behind. With @ modest young Quaker. Ladies turn around and stare at her, seemingly fascinated by the spectacle.
 Yesterday Talmage preached the eleventh anniversary sermon of his ministry in Brook lyn. Back of his chair were the figures in flowers, on one side ''69" and on the other ''8O." Before the sermon he gave the right hand of fellowship to about twenty applicants for admission to the church. He went along the line, giving each hand cordial shake and speaking words of welcome. The subject of his sermon was Mortgages" According to custom, he said many notable things, among them the following which jotted down yer batim: eff were to give the history of the mortgage, I should give the social political, financial, ecclesiastical history of tine world If should ask all those in this congregation to rise who had never borrowed any money, not one would getup, unless it was somebody who had always been so bad that nobody would give him any credit. Audible smiling. The mortgage built the railroads, purchased the farms, bridged the rivers, built the cities, and set our world centuries further on in civiliza, tion than it would have been without it. Pull the mortgage out from under the nations and Europe and America would topple over into anarchy and barbarism. If money had not been borrowed to build the churches, thousands of churches would not have been built, and hundreds of thousands of souls in glory would not have been converted. I have been eleven years in Brooklyn and have only seen two churches die, while hundreds of commercial establish ments have died. The hardest thing in the universe to kill is 8 church. The churches stand because God stands with them. A man had better brace himself and get good and ready before he tries to throw the Al mighty. This whole slang about churches in debt had better cease until business men give no more notes. When the world pays cash down the church of God will pay cash down." In referring to the mortgage on his own church, he said: My clerical enemies have made it the chief cudgel with which to pound me. It is the egg over which Satan spreads his wings and hatches out Presbyterial quar- rel" He said that he had plan which he believed was an inspiration of God. By the aid of the gentlemen of the press and by a personal card which he intended to putin many of the journals, he was going to ask for one dollar from all the readers of his sermons and all his friends new and old. He would ac knowledge every dollar with his own hand and preserve the names of the givers on scroll which he would hang up before him in his study. He said that he had been called poor beggar, but he believed that after this solici tation of a dollar from everybody they would give him- credit for being the prince of beg gars. w. E. D.