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The county record KjAGOT.EE, S. C. 11 l lb J. ERlfclOW, Ed. & Prop'r. . FIF1Y-FIFTII CONGRESS. Report of the Proceedings from Day to Day. SENATE. Monday. ?The Senate met at noon, for the first time since the death of exSenator Voorhees, who, until a recent day, was a conspicuous member of that body. The opening prayer of Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain, made eloquent reference to Mr. Voorhees?his brilliant talents, impassioned ardor, kindling eloquence, genuine patriotism and the unselfish dedication of his great powers to every cause, human and divine, when entrusted to his care. Consolation was invoked for the family of the man who had inscribed his name on the tablets which perj>etuate the great orators and statesmen of the generation, immediately following the prayer, the benato adjourned. Tuesday.? In the Senate Morgan, of Alabama, concluded his long speech on the resolution declaring that a state of war ousts in Cuba He did not ask for ? vote on the resolution, bat announced that he hoped to secure a nnal vote at an early date. The bankruptcy bi 1 vk taken up at o'clock, Lindsay, of Kentucky, defending the measure against criticisms made against it. During the day Daris, of Minnesota, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, gave notice that he would endeavor, on Thursday, to proceed with the arbitration treaty in executive session. At , 4:45 the Senate went into executive session and soon afterwards adjourned. Wkdnesday.? In the Senate the first skirmish on the tariff question occurred. Gage's order, relative to goods imported after April 1st, according to the retractive clause of the pending Diuglev bill, was declared illegal by a vote of | 84 to 38. The Democrats, Silver republicans and Populists voted solidly * against it. Morgan gave notice that he would call up his Cubau resolution dbily until a vote was reachi ed. At 5 p. m. the Senate went into J -/t? executive session ?uu ?uuu uiu adjourned. Thtjjhdat.? In accordance with his Eious notice, Senator Davis promptoved an executive session of the te after the disposal of the routine morning business today, for the purpose of taking up the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. Senator Davis endeavored to secure a unanimous agreement upon a time to take a vote upon the treaty as a whole, but in this he did not succeed, owing to objections from several Senators, including Messrs. Carter. Morgan and Mills. The Senate spent today on the Indian appropriation bill, but did not complete it Some time was also consumed in executive session on the arbitration ' treaty. At the olose of the day's proceedings, the Senate adjonrned until Monday. The committee amendment to the Indian appropriation bill, opening the UucompahgTe Indian reservation in Utah to pnblic entry was agreed to. The reservation is said to contain some of the richest deposits of asphalt in existence. c H uuod. WantHBDAT.?The House was in sesriot* but ten minutes and then ad Journed until Saturday, without transacting any business." Saturday.?In the House the dissensions of the recent Democratic caucus were threshed over again to the evident edification of the Republicans. The Presidents message, urging v/uogmso to take action for representing the UnitedHtates in the forthcoming international exposition at Paris, was read, and the House at 1 o'clock adjourned until Wednesday. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. rue Action of the Commission as to the Phosphate Royalty. The following official promulgation sftbe action of the State phosphate 9QBHm)6sion in the matter of the reduction of the phosphate royaltv has been ade: "At a meeting of the phosphate commissioners of bouth Carolina held at Beaufort, S. C., on the 1st day April, 18V7, the following resolution was adopted: "ite6olved, That on and after April 1st, l&>7t the royaltv to be paid to the State of Sonth (. arolina by all persons, corporations or companies mining phosphate rock or phosphate deposits from the beds of navigable streams and waters of the State aDd the marshes theivoi, shall be, and the same is hereby, fixed at the rate nai- tnn rtf (lriml rock. SO I V* *?/ WUVU WW v? - ? ? ?, long as the price of said phosphate rock freight on board to said miners, at there several mines, shall be $3 per ton or under; bnt in case there shall be any increase in such price over and above $3 per ton, then and m every ancb oase there shall be paid to the State an additional royalty per ton to one-half of such increased price over and above S3 i>er ton. ^ Provided, 'ihat all phosphate rock dog, mined and unsl .ipped, on hand on the 1st day of Aprr ISjJT, shall first be aooonnted* for at t ;e royalty fixed by the act of the General Assembly entitled 4An Aot relating to the phosphate industry of the State" approved December 2^'d, 1883. Provided, further. That all companies ahall pay into the State treasury the royalty upon all shipments prior to the 1st day of April, 1897. Old Corka. ? Cork has become one of the most valliable components of a city's refuse. Great quantities of discarded corks are now used again in the manufacture of Insulating covers of steam pipes and boilers, points to be protected from the influence of boat. Powdered cork is very useful In filling in horse collars, and the very latest application of this material is the filling in of pneumatic tires with cork shavings. Mats for bathrooms are made of cork exclusively, and it also goes into the composition of linoleum. Cheap life preservers are now filled exclusively with bottle stoppers, cut into little pieces Across the' hoard she winked at mc? Nay?do not deem her conduct free: That wink was in its proper place. For then I knew she bold the ace. ?Chicago liecord. i w -AW, v .!<.' > . . . : i > . r . ~m; ^ NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED, j Southern Pencil Pointers. Harris Brauilett, the most noted mooushiner in Georgia, has been captured aud jailed ut Atlanta. The Kentucky Building and Loan Association law has been declared eon- ' stitutional by Judge Scott at Winchester. Ninety-eight cases of liquor bought in S an Francisco for personal use by citizens who clubbed together, was seized immediately upon its arrival in Charleston, ?>. C. * Saturday in the Criminal Court at Charlotte, N. C., L. J. Kirk was found guilty of shooting Lake and sentenced to two years on the chain gang. An appeal was entered upon the ground of excessive punishment for a new trial. i Tn/lnrfl Rorlon allAirorl a writ, of [error in the case of Elizabeth Nobles, of Georgia, who is under sentence of death on the charge of murder, and who was to have been hanged Friday. It was represented by Mrs. Nobles' counsel that she is insane. The dead body of Charles Hoffman, a j well known and respected citizen, was found in a chapel, about four miles I from Brunswick, Ga. He had shot himself through the head. He had evidently gone into the building for the purpose of committing suicide. Governor Bloxliam, of Florida, has . issued a call to a national fisheries congress to be held at Tampa in January, 18j8. Forty-five thousand acres of the most valuable coal and oil lauds iu West Virginia have been purchased bj* a company of New l'ork and 1 ittsburg capitalists. The price paid aggregates $-OU,UtX). ^ Up to the present the effort to elect a United Stales Senator in Kentucky has cost about ^To.OuO. At Houston, Tex., the cylindrical process of baling cotton is again cxcitl'ninlic/iiiuoinn in nnftnn froiln I'irclfi.S. *"Q V?*UVUk>04VM AM vvvtvu V.. ..... The losses of insurance companies at Knoxyille, Tenn., foot up $o.">u,200. In the case of "Cap" Hatfield a jury at Williamson, W. Va., has returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter for the killing of Ivan Rutherford. The latest developments in the Knoxville, Tenn., fire are that at least six persons lost their lives in the Hotel K nox. The hotel register has not been found. Suit has been brought against the co-operative town company of Elizabethton, Tenn , asking for a receiver, that the property of the company shall be subjected to the payment of the company's indebtedness, amounting to 31,000,000. It is charged that the comI>any was insolvent when its property was transferred to the Wautauga Land oompany, more than a year ago. Clinton R. Woodruff, secretary of the National Municipal League, has prepared a program for the confereece to be held in Louisville on May th, 6th th. Among the speakers will be exMayor John F. Ficken, of Charleston, 3. U. In the Criminal Court at Charlotte, N. C., Friday, Chas. Blackburn, charged with originating the fire which partially destroyed the Charlotte Observer burning on January 2d last, was acquitted. All About tbe North. Elizabeth R. Tilton, the wife of Henry Ward Beocher's accuser, died . ?m Tuesday last at her home in Brooklyn. A party of 91 chinamen have arrived in Montreal by the Canadian Pacific Railroad, from China via Vancouver. They are to work on the sugar plantations of Cuba, so sadly neglected during the past two years. The surgeons at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York are bending all thoir unArrnAR to save the life of Frank Hastings, a newspaper man, who for eight days has hicoonghed at the rate of 8,640 times a day. Ice cream is being used to cure him. At Chicago, 111., Matthias Guster, 22 years old, was shot and instantly killed by John Formiller, his father-in-law, at the breakfast table. A company capitalized at $2,000,000 has been formed at Minneapolis, Minn., to manufacture sugar from beets and fight the Sugar Trust. The largest flag that ever flew from a pole will be flung to the breeze on the 2Jth from a staff near the Grant Monument, in New York. Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has called an extra session of the Legislature to meet on the 28th. A cyclone destroyed the town of Chandler, Okla., east of Guthrie. A dozen or more people were killed and probably 150 were injured. Miscellaneous. The King of Siam will v'. It this country next September. Carter H. Harrison was formally installed as mayor of Chicago Thur day evening. He delivered a short inaugural address. While mass was being said in a church near Castres, France, the roof collapsed, killing seven women and one man, and injuring 80 persons seriously. A Pniifnn aneeiAl RAvs ''Under fav orable conditions and to the satisfaction of all concerned, the United States battleship Iowto Las been given her official trial over the Cape Anne course, and under the inspection of the naval taard appointed for that purpose. On the trial she made an average speed of 17 knots over the 06 mile course, exceeding lier contract speed by one knot, winning $200,00 bonus for her builders. Washington. I-'residcut McKinley has decided that he would be unable to attend the Nashville exposition on the oj>eniug day, May 1, but will visit the exposition after the adjournment of Congress. The President will recommend to Congress an appropriation to pay indemnity for the lynching of three Italians in Louisana last August. A delegation called at the White House and invited the President to the Tennessee Centennial ; if he cannot go he will start the machinery from Washington. THE FIELD OF ADV ENTURE. THRILLING INCIDENT3 AND DARING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A 31Iner's Ilerolc Deed?Under an Avalanche In Idaho?Hen. Grant's Coolness When a Lleuteuant. 71 S bravo as the noble Sparta- ' / \ cus himself is ntiner Jim /^\ Hemswortb, of Rossland, I British Colombia, was the de-1 claration ot those who stood by while a corps of physicians amputated his arm at the shoulder to save him from the fearful possibility of blood puis- I oning as a result of his terrible injuries, sustained m his heroic rescue Irom certain death of two fellow-miners. That he still lives is tbe marvel of all Rosslaud, for few have ever been wrenched, mangled and bruised as Hemsworth was and lived through his injuries as this hardy sufferer bids fair to do. The doctors declared their belief that he would survive in very hopeful tones. Jem Smith and Frank Conpon were working at the bottom of a narrow shait of the Yonug America mine at Bossland at a depth 01 nearly 150 feet, engaged in loading ore into an ironbound bucket, while Jim Hernsworth's dnty con-isted in hauling the bucket to tbe surface by means of a windlass. The heavy bucket filled with ore bad almost reached the top of the shaft when tbe ironorank ol the windlass suddenly snapped in two like a bit of pine, hurling Hemsworth to the ground. Springing to his feet, halfdazed by the blow, Hemsworth saw ih? windlass whirling around at a frightful rate of speed as the loaded backet ebot down the shaft upon the men below. He had not a second to lose. There was ju-t one chance to save them, and he took that chance. damping forward, he threw bis body upon the cogs ot the whirling wiudliss, thrusting his arm and shoulder between the swiftly revolviug wheels. Tbrir iron jaw? cruuched- and tore the herb, crushed nerve', bone and smews, tore ghastly wounds from fiuger tip to shoulder, but the windlass stood still. With an awfnl jerk the loaded bncket stopped just above the heads of the two terrified miners far down in the shaft. Pale as death, and with the blood flowing from him in streams and suffering intense agony, he never uttered a cry nor even a sound as the jaws of the wheels pinioned him fast as in a vise. Superintendent Shields witnessed the accident irom a short di-tance awav, bat so horrified was he at the 6igbt that lor a moment ha stood as if paralyzed. Quickly recovering his faculties, he rashed to Hemsworih's aid, and in u twinkling had blocked the machinery and c ?n-ed Hemsworth to be released from his perilous position. As Hemsworth staggerel back and was about to lall, Shields caught him in bis arms, at the tame time exclaiming, "My God, Jim; this is awful 1" ' 'Oh, what's the differenc?," answered the plncKy iellow, "so long as I saved the boys?" It was not long, however, before the intense pain he suffered, together with tlia loss of biood. becran to have their effect on Heinsworth's powerful constitution. nnd he became too weak to stand. A litter waa hastily formed bv men who had by this ti me arrived Tendeily the wonnded man was placed upon it, and with the utmost care Hems wot th waa carried to Kossland, a mile away, nnd placed or a cot in the hospital. JEie was unoon scions then, but Dr. Bowers, who had been hastily summoned in advance of i;he arrival of the litter, was at his 1 de, and with restoratives Hemswortt was soon bronght to consciousness His wounds were dretsed and the injured man made as comfortable as could be under the circa instances. .^mith and Conson, a bo were healed up lrom the shaft and assisted in carrying their brave comrade to the hospital, stood with eyes dimmed with tears as they witnessed 113 sufferings of the man who had made snoh a heroio sacrifice to save them from death. Smith said, in describing their sensations at the bottom of tha shaft: "When I heard the bucket falling I expected nothing bat death, as there "">? nn (nr na In avoid thn hnivv load dropping upon us with suob frightful rapidity. I'll admit that I was paralyzed and fully expected that my hour had come. When the bucket stopped bat a few feet above as, Coason and J, iu awful suupense, stood with heads bowed, awaiting to he crushed to a pulp. I". was several minutes alter the bucket stopped before we recovered ourselvta sufficiently to realize that m some manner we had been saved." Superintendent Shields said that in all his mining experience of twentyfive years he had never witnessed a more heroic effort to save the lives of fellow workmen than that of Jim Hemsworth.?San Francisco Examiner. Under an Avalanche. An extraordinary escape from death was lately recorded by a newspaper of Mountain Home, Idaho, a mining town high ap among the mountains, where avalanches of the mo6t fearf ul description are not infrequent. On the first day of last December u citizen of Munnlain Home, Frank Andreas by I name, started at an early hour iu the f,i crr? from a mine to a black vvr .. _ smith shop, some distance away on the side of the mountain. With him were his two big dogs, which are in part of St. Bernard blood. The dogs were gambolling about in the snow some distance lrom their master when a great snewslide, which the warmth of the sun had di.-lodged some two hundred feet np the mountain, descended upon A n Ireos with suoh velocity that thsje wan no escaping from it. * *it -Vv;difcSLft. .vu.; . ' J; He wse borne along with and undei I the snow, and lodged against the side I of the gulch much farther down, Above hire the snow was packed hard. Andreas did not know hov deep it was ?in reality it was about four feel; deep abo\e his head?bul he did not know that it was so hard 'hat he coulcl j scarcely move a muscle. Andreas quicklv began o experience dillicnlty iu breathing. Luckily he had been carried along by tho aval- ! ancho in t.n upright position ; he had thrown up his hands in an effort to save himself, and his left arm had remained ia that position?thrust upward. By working it from side to side in the hard packed snow, he made 1 a small opening up into looser snow j in which 'ihere semed to be some air; at any rate, he conld breath enough j to save himself from siffocation at , present. He knew, however, that he could ' not live in such a pla ie loug. He ! struggled and pushed, and tried to enlarge the opening mad; by bis left arm, piolcing pieces of snow from abont hitt body with his right hand and working them into the opening. Bnt he would certainly have grown discouraged, after he had worked [ vainly thus for half an hour or more, | if he had not heard a scratching and borrowing sound above bis bead. He kDew by this that his faithful dogs had escaped the avalanche, had found the place where be was overwhelmed, and were digging him out. This gave him strength for new efforts. Now he bent all his own endeavors, not to getting out?he ltdt the dogs to uncover him?but to getting air enongb to keep him alive until the dogs should succeed in digging down through the hard snow. He worked his lett arm upward and about, and as the dogs dng downward, he soon succeeded in getting a little hole through :o the air. For an hour and a half he and the dogs were at work, and at the end of that time he succeeded in dragging l: It _ ~ A 1U. Il,/, UlUlMfU uav ujjdu tuo oiuc ui iuo ?un"ii' i tion the (log* bud made. There, more ' detd thai a.ive, be took deep draught* of the mountain air till these revivsd him, and he was able to go on his way. Grant's Coolness. While General Grant, then a Iiintenant, was courting the lady whom lie married, there occurred an event to which hB never reverted without a shudder. A writer in the Midland Monthly, describing an adventure which the young lieutenant and Miss D.nt me; with, says: While the water is high in the M ississippi the swift current abrades uhe banks, a id they frequently "cave in" for several yards or rods at a time. In-ear y spring, in one of their afternoon explorations,Lieutenant Gnu! and the young lady were riding alcug the banc of the river, passing frim oue cov 3 or valley to the mouth of another. Miss Dent was nearest i he water. The laud was but a few f set above the surface of tne tur Daunt stream. Suddenly Miss Dent's horse bej an to sink. The earth had given way inder his hind feet. Grant's horse vas close beside hers. In an instant he saw that her horse was sinking into the awfo I abyss! .Grant's cool head and splendid horsemanship here had opportunity to display themselves. Quick i.s a flash he lekned over, threw his rijjht arm around Miss Dent's waist, and drew her to him as her horse disappeared in the seething and mitrky eddy that a moment later boiled and anrged in angry tamnlt over the place where bank and horse had vanished from sip ht. It wait a frightful moment. Fortunately the earth parted between the two animals, leaving Gra at'i horse on solid gronnd. Lifting and firmly iolding Misi Dent, and applyin!? tbe spar to his horse, he was on 6afe ground in a moment; then he gently lowered he/ to tbe earth?all this without a word from "the silent man," cr a scream or murmur from her. As he hastened bad: to rescne her horse she stood folding the bridle* of his, outwardly as composed as if nothing had happened. Her horse had disappeared. Giant followed down stream and bailed a boatman in a skiff, who fonud tbe horse swimming several hundred ynrdt below, amid driftwood and debris. He landed the animal c.t a plaee where it conld climb the ba:ak, and it wai soon on safe ground, none the worse for the fright and the bath. Wedded to a Tree. A carious custom pravails in certain parts of India, whioh may be call 3d e symbolical marriage. In families where there are several daughter? the sisters may only marry after the eldei sister 18 married, xnt.i, 01 cuume, ? not always the case, bat the obstacle can easily be snrmonnted if the eldei sister declares herself ready to marry some tree or large dower or some oth* j er lifeless object. Tie elder sister, | mast, however,take care not to choose a poplar tree, an elm tree or a pine; if she cbooces a plum, apple or apricol tiee, she may get a divorce?that is tc say, shake it off as soon as a real mao will ask for her hand, while if she marries one of the first three namec trees she cannot easily shake her marital bonds, for these trees are st.crec and mast not be trifled with. Expensive Obituaries. The obituary addresses delivered upon the occasion of the death of a member of Congress cost the Govern ment a good deal of money. Ueualli 12,000 copies are printed, with a steel plate portrait of the deceased, fi.ty o whiob, bonnd in fall morocco, witl gilt edges, are for the family of th* dead Congressman. The cost of obit nary volumes m the Fifty*drat Con gresa was c?er $50,000, IIHIII The Noted Washington Divine's ' Sunday Subject, Subject: AX EVKRY DAY CHRIST. Text: ".She, supposing Him to bo the gardener."?John xx.. 15 Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ, just after His resurrection. For 40 0 years a grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing peonle and dragging them into his cold palace. He had a pass on for tinman skulls. For torty centuries ho had been unhindered in hi9 work. He had taken down kings and queens and conquerors and those without fame. In that cold palace there were shelves of skulls and pillars of skulls and altars of skulls and even the obalices at the tnble were made of bleached skulls. To the skeleton of Abel be bad oddest the ske.etons of all the ages, and no ono bad disputed bis right until one Good Friday, about 1867 VftHis acm fl4 npnr as T enn cnlnnlarA it n Mighty Stranger came to the door of that awful place, rolled back the door, and went In, and seizing the tyrant, threw him to the pavement an t pot upon the tyrant's neck the heel of triumph. Then the Might v Stranger. exploring all the gha-tly furniture 01 the place and walkin? through the labyrinths, and opening the dark cellars of mystery and tarrying under a roof the ribs of wnich were made ol human bonen?tarrying for two nights and a day, the nights very dark and the day very dismal. He seized tho two chief pillars of that uwful palace and rocked them until it began to fall, nn?l th-n, laying hoi 1 of the ponderous front gate. hoisted it from its hinges and marched forth crying, "I am the resurrection." That event we celebrate this Easter mom, Handdllan and Beethov^an miracles of sound ad led to this floral decoration which has set the place abloom. There are thro t or four things which the worl i an i the church have nor noticed in regard to the resurrection of Christ. First, our Lord in gardener's a'.tire. Mary Magdalene. grief struck, stands by (he rifled sarcophagus of Christ an I turns around, hoping she can And the tracks of the sacrilegious resurrectionist who has despoiled the grave, and she fin is some one in working apparel come forth a3 if to water the flow rs or uproot the weeds from the garden or set to reclimbing the falling vine?some one in working apparel. His garments, perhaps, having the sign of tho dust and the dirt of the occupation. Mary Magdalen*, on her face the rain of a fresh shower of weeping, turns to this workmm and charges him with the desecration or the tom*>, when, lol the stranger responds, flinging His whole sonl into one word wnioo trembles with all the sweetest rhythm of earth and h *aven. sayiug, "Mary!" In that peculiarity of acceutuatioo all the in-ognito fell off, and she found that instead of talking with an humble gardener of Asia Minor, she was talking with Him who owns all the hanging gardens of h'-aveu. Constellations the clusters of forgetmenots, the sunflower the chief of all, the morning sky and midnight nnrorn, flaring terraces of beanty, blazing like a summer wall with coronation roses and giants of battle. Blessed and glorious mist ike of Mary Magdalene! "She, supposing Him to be trie gardener." What docs that mean? It means that we hare an everyday Christ for everyday work in everyday apparpL Not on Sabbath morning in our iuv.-ii oruiuijr no no UJUIU aiuuuuvn t. Christ than we are in our every Jay work dress, managing our merchandise, smiting our aavi1, plowing oar Held, tending the flying shuttles, menlingthe garments for oar household, providing food for oar families or tolling with weary pen or weary pencil or weary chisel. A working day Christ in working day apparel for us in our everyday toil. Put it into the highest strain of this Easter antbera,"Supposiog Him to be the gardener." If Christ had appeared at daybreak with a crown upon His head, that would have seemed to suggest espec al sympathy for munarcbs. If Christ had np[>e.-ired in chain of gol l and with robe diamonds I, that would have seemed to be especial sympathy for the affluent. If Christ ha l appeared with soldier's sash and sword dangling at His side, that would have seemed to imply especinl sympathy for warriors. But when I find Christ in gardener's habit, With perhaps the flakes of the earth and of the upturned soil upon His garments, then I spell it oat that He has hearty and pathetic understanding with everyday work and everyday anxiety and everyday fatigue. Roll it down in comfort all through these aisles. A working d iy Christ in working day apparel. Tell it in the darkest corridor of the mountain to the poor miner. Tell it to the factory maid in most unventilated est a ligbment at Lowtll or Lancaster. Tetl it to the clearer cf roughest new ground in western wilderness. Tell it to the sewing wo > an, a stiich in the side for every stitch in the garment, some of their cruel employers having no right to think that they will get through the door of heaven,any more than they could through the eye of a broken needle which has just dropped on the bare floor from the pricked and bleeding fingers of the consumptive sewing girl. A way with your talk about hypostatic uulon and soieriology of the council of Trent and fhfl mpmnhvaiflfi nf rMliifinn vchlfth vnnlrl freeze practical Christianity out of the world, but pass along this gardener's coat to all nations that thev may touch the horn of It and foel the thrill of the Cbrisiiy brothorbood. Not supposing the man to be Cawar, not supposing Him to be Socnves, but "supposing Him to l>e the gardener." Ob, that is what helped Joseph Wedgwood, toiling amid the heat and the dust of .the potteries, until he could wake for Queen Charlotte the llrst royal table service of English manufacture. That was what heiped James Watt, scoffed at and caricatured u'util be could put on wheels the thunderbolt of power which roars by day and by night in every furnace of the locomotive engine ot Ainer ca. That is wh it heiped Hugh Miller, toiling amid the quarries of Cromarty, until every rock, became to him a volume of the world's biography, and be found tbe footsteps of the Creator in the old red sandstone. Oh, the world wantn a Christ for the ofllee, a Christ for the kitchen.a Christ fortneshop, a Christ for the banking house, a Christ lor the garden, while spading and irrigating the territory! 01), of course we waut to see Christ at last In royal robe and bediamonded, u celestial equestrian m ounting the white horse, but from this Easter of 1897 to our last Easter on earth we most need to see Christ as Mary Magdalene saw Him nt the daybreak, "supposing mm 10 oe mc gardener." Ano.ber thing which the churcli nnd the world have not noticed in regard to the resurrection of Christ is that He made His first post mortem appearance to oue who had been the seren deviled Mary Magdalene. One would have supposed He would have made His first posthumous appearance to a woman who had always been illustrious for goodne-s. There are Siiintly women who have always been saintly?saintly in girlhood, saintly in J infancy, always saintly, in nearly all our ' families there have been sa;ntly aunts. In my family circle it was saintly aunt Phebe; ' in yours saintly aunt Martha or saintly aunt j Ruth. Oue always saintly. But not so was ' the onespoken of in the text. While you are not to confound her with > the repentant courtesan who had made her Jong locks do the work of towel at Christ's foot washing, you are not to forget that she was exorcised of seven devils. What .a capital 01 demouologyshe must have beeti! What a cborns of all diaDolism! Seven devils? two for the eyt s and i wo for the hands and , two for the feet and one for the tongue. Seven devils; yet all these are extirpated, and now she is as good as once she was bad. and Christ honors her with the first posthumous appearance. What does I hat mean? Why, it means for worst sinner greatest grace; it means those lowest dowu shall come, perhaps, highest up; it means that the clock that strikes 12 at midnight may strike 12 at midnoon; it means that the grace of God is seven times stronger than sin, Mary Magdalene the seven deviled Mary i*i?k VT I '4 a I Magdalene the seven angeled. It mendm that when the Lord meets us at las' He will not throw up to us what we have been. All He said to her was, ".Mary!" Many people hnving met her under such circumstances would have said: "Let me see, how many 5 devils did you fcuve? One, two, tnr e, four, five, six, seven. What a ternbl" piece yon were when I first met you!" The most of the Christian women in our day would have nothing to <lo with M iry Msg-ialene even I after her conversion, lest somehow they be J compromised. The only thing I have to say acalnst women is that they hnv not enough mercy for Mary Magdalene. Christ put all piuhos and ail remlnNcenc* and all anticipation and all pardon and all comfort and all heaven into one word of four letters, "Mary!" Mark you. Christ did not appear to some Bible Eizobetb or Bible Hmnab or Bible Esther or Bible Debor.11 or Bible Vashti. bnt to Mary; not to Mary a??inst whom nothing was said; not to Mary the mother of Jesus; not to Mary the mother of James; not to Mary the sister of Lazarus, bat to seven devi ed Mary. There is a man seven deviled?devil of avarioe, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil of indolence, devil of falsehood, devil of strong drink, devil of im itritr. God ?*n take them all nway, seven or seventy. Irode over the new cantilever bridge that spans Niagara?a bridge 9? feet long. 850 feet of chasm from blaff to bluff. I passed over it without any anxiety. Why? Bec ause twenty-two locomotives and twenty-two cars laden with gravel had teste I the bridge^ thousan Is of people standing on the Canadian side, thousands staudingonthe American side to app anl the achievement. And however long Iho train of our Immortal interests may be, we nre to remember that God's bridge of mercy spanning the ehasm of sin has been filly te9te<l by the awful tonnage of all tho pardone I sin or all the ages, ' * church rail tant stnnllng on on? bank, church triumphant stanling on tho other bauk. Oh, it was ro the seven deviled Mary that Christ male Bis first post mortem ap- , pearance. There is another thing that tho world and the church have not observed in regard to this resurrection, ani that is, it was the morning twilight If the ohronometer ha 1 boon invented and Mary had as good a watch as some o' the Marys of our tim? have, she wonld have < found it was about half past 5 o'clock a. m. Matthew say* it was io the .>awu; dark says it was very early in th- morning; John says it was while it .was yet d irk. In other words, it was twilight That was the o'elo k at which Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for the gar ien"r. Waat do-s that no ?n? It mpnnq thnro nrn sha >nsN over the grave un? J HftoJ?shadows of mystery that ^r? hoverlnir. Mary stoojel down an I tried to look to the other end of the cryp . She gave hysteric ontcry. 8he <-o?l I not see to the other j en 1 of the crypt. Neither can you see to the other end of the grave of your dead. Neither can we see lothe other > o t ofourown grave. Oh, if th re were shadows over the family |j plot belonging to Jos -ph of Anmat'nea, is it strange that there shonll be some shadows over oar family lot? Easter dawn, not Easter noon. Shadow of unanswered question! Why were they tnkeu away from ns? Wny were a th?y ever given to us If they were to bo taken s > soon? Why were they tak?n so mddenly? * Why could they not have nttere 1 some farowcll words? Why? A short question, but a d whole craeiflxion of agony In it. Why? ! Shadow on the grave-of good men and women who seemed to die * efore their work was done. 8hndow on nil the graves ot children because we ask onrselves why so i beautiful a craft was launched at all If it was to be wrecked one mile outside of I he harbor? Hut what did Mary Magdalene have to do la # or ter to get more light on that griTe? She i had only to wait After awhile the Easter 1 snn rolled up, and the whole place was flooded with light What have you and I to ? do In order to get more light on our own A graves and light upon the graves of oar ' m d? ar lov-d ones? Only to wait Charles T. of Soaln, with hi- servants'and torch s, went down into the vault of the t necropolis where his ancest rs were burled, fj and went dwper, farther on until he camato . i across aronnd which were arranged the caskets of his ancestors. He al-o foood a ' casket containing tho boily of one or his owa a family. He had that casket opened, and there by em' a mor'sart he found that the body waa , as perfect as eighteen years before when It was emtotnbed. But under the exploration his body and mind penrhed.. Oh, my friends, do not let ns morbidly straggle with the shadows of the sepal- > cher. What are we to do? Wa t. . It fa i not the evening twilight that gets darker tnd darker. It Is the morning twilight that ' gets brighter and brighter into the perfect day. I preach it to-d iy. Sunrise over Pwre le Chaise, sunrise over Oreyfriats churbyard, sunrise over Ore nwood, over V Woodlawn, over Lanrel HIH, over Mount Anbara, over Congressional burying ground, i t i-unrlse over ?T-ry country graveyard, sunrise over the catacombs, suurse over the sarcophagi where the ships lie burled. Half past 5 o'clock among ihe tombs now, bat soon to be the noonday of explanation and . J iieatitu le. It wa? in the morning twilight that Mary Magdalene mistook Ohrlst for a gardener. Another thing the world nnd the church I have not observed?that Is, Christ's pathetic credentials. How do you know it was not a gardener? H>s garm-nts said He was a gardener. The flakes of Ihe upturned earth scattered upon His garments said He was a gardener. How do you know He wae not a gardener? An! Before Easter bad gone by X He gnve to some of His disciples His three credentials. He showed them His hands and His Hide. Throe paragraphs written in rigid loitArn A scar In the riirht I aim, a sear in rbe left oalm, a near amid the nbs?scars. scars. That is the way they knew Him. That is the way you and I will know Him. After Christ's interment every eeihilar tissue broke down, and nerve and artery and brain were a physiological wreck, and yet Hh comes np swarthy, rubicund and well. When 1 see alter ?uch mortuary silence such radiant appearance, that settles it that whatever should be-ome of the bodies of our Christian dead, they are going to come up. the uerves resrrung, the optio nerve rail* . lumined. the ear drum a-vibrate. the whole * body iifte t up, without Its weaknesses aad worldly uses lor wbleh there Is do reeurreotion. Come, is It not almost time for ns to go out to meet our reanimated dead? Can you not hear the lifting of iho rusted latch? Ob. the glorious thought, the glorious consolation of this snbject wh?n I find Christ coming up without any of the lacenu ': tlons?for you must temember He was lac- ^ ended and woun led fearfully In the crucifixion?coming up without one! What dose j that make me think? That tbe grave will v get nothing of us except our wounds and imperfections. Christ went into the grave exh&us.ed and bloodless. Ail the current of His lire bad poured out from His wounds. He had lived a life of trouble, sorrow and privation, and then He dial a lingering death. His entire bo y hung on four spikes. No invalid of twenty years' sufferi... .... n,.ni inin ornvn so white and ghastly and broken dowu as Christy and yet here He comes np so rubicun I an I robust she supposed Hlin to be the gardener. Ah. all th? si.tenches, and the headaches, aud tlie backaches, and the leg aches, and the heart aches we will leave where Christ left His! The ear will come up without its heaviness, the eye will come up v:?thout its dimness, the lungs will come up without oppressed respiration. Ob, what races we will ruu when we become Immortal athletes! Oh, what c.remits we will take when. ail earthly imperfections substracted and all celrstlal velocities add. d, we shall set up our residence in that city which, though vaster than all the cities of this world, shall never have one obsequy! Standing this morning round the shattered masonry of our Lord's tomb, I point yon to. a world without hearse, without muffled ' drum, without tumulus, without catafalque and without a tear. Amid all the carhedvala of the blessed no longer :he "Dead Xarcfe in Saul," but whole libretti of ''HnlMolah Chorus." Oh, pat trumpet to Up finger to key and loving forehead auninst tho bosom of n, risen ChlW Hallelnvtb, U&eal Halleluiah, amen'. ?