The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 04, 1897, Image 2
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Heat in the Body.
An Important source of heat in the
body is due to the friction of the blood
as it circulates in its vessels. All of
this resistance, which is overcome by
the heart, is transformed directly into
heat. We may calculate the amount
approximately. If we suppose that JSC
ccs. of blood are expelled from the left
ventricle at each stroke, under a pressure
of one third of an atmosphere, this
would correspond to .6192 kilogrammemetres
at each stroke, and at 72 strokes
a minrte, this would give 44..1124 kilogramiheiuetres
per minute. If we suppose
that the right heart does one-quarter
the work of the left, or about 10
kilogramme-metres per minute, wt
have for the total work per minute
54.312 kilogramme-metres. which cor
responds to 128 calories i?er minute.
This is perhaps a rather high estimate
for ordinary conditions, but
where the heart is forced to puinp a
much larger quantity of blood in order
to maintain the normal temperature,
this estimate is probably much exceeded
at times. Since this friction takes
place largely in the most constricted
portions of the circulation, it would be
natural to expect that the blood which
had been driven through the capillary
system of a gland would issue much
warmer than It entered, and such we
find to be the case. Thus the blood of
the hepatic vein has been observed to
be 40.73. while that in the right heart
was 37.7. In the muscles no contrac
tion can take place without an increased
flow of blood through them
with a simultaneous constriction of the
capillaries, which would naturally give
rise to a considerable production of
heat?a fact constautiy observed.?San.
itarian.
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' The cold truth is that no amount of
polish will make a man an agreeable
jpon versa tionalist unless be sandwiches
in some gossip.
A Virtue and a Vice.
Vanity and anroper regard for the feelings
?f others should both urge you to get rid of
Chat disgusting skin disease. Whether it be
a simple abrasion, a chap or a burn, or
Whether itis a chronic case of Eczema, Tetmtor
Ringworm. Tetterine will positively,
fcfallibly cure it Cure it so it will stay
cured, too. 50 cents a box at drugstores, or
by mail tor 60 cents in cash or stamps from J.
^ T. Shuptrine, Carannah, Oa.
TO CCRE A COLD CT 0\E DAY.
y Take Laxative 3romo Quinine Tablet*. all
Droggteta refund the money If It falls to Cure. Sc.
How's Thl* !
weogftrcme Hundred uou-r- Kewaiti r r
Mg ca?eo? Catarrh that cannot b.- cared by
V.J. Cnmft Co., Pi ops.. Toledo, O.
mod, hare known I*. J. Cheney
tor tht T|*t 13y?ars, and believe b m per*
feafl* MUShlo In fill business tan-actions
aeeewHetiJtir able to carry oat any obllfaWSn
A T*UAJOVbo2esa> Drucgis.s, Toledo.
? Wuaqre, Kb/BAS A Mabvix, Wholesale
DmUl, Toledo. Ohio.
Hall's Qpar^h Core ia taken ia ern-illy, r-ctlncIbiomatathe
blood nod mm oas sur>aeee
ot flfnoB. Pric-. 75c. pe - bo tic. SqIs!
by all OMOUta Testimonials tree.
HallVfamfly Pills are the be-t.
The Watte Official Guide of the
Booth for November i^apt It is a valuable
aqd correct SotJg^rK&ilroad Guide?the
ah one ftjjflPBRiveriiu: the field. Issued
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NK*.'IS
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Attar six yearn' suffering I was cared by PisBsSSsSKr&i"*0iio
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Mrs. WUvAow's Soothing Syrup for children
teen Ifi Softens the rami reducing lnflamation.allays
paln,curee wind colic, 35c. a bottle.
^CATARRH
BtMw Health ttaee Taking Hood's Thai
Hver Before.
**I rap sainted with eatarrh and was in
l>A a ooadltion that every little draught
wenld cause me to take ooid. After having
taken a tew bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla
I have beam strengthened and I am in better
health than I have ever been before." John
Albert, 19 James St., Hew York, H. Y.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
a Is the beet?la fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Jl, BHU tb?best family c*th*rtic,
VVI m mut to opprate. Scents.
BUY TOUR nn IF THE MAKERS.
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E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS,
Who ReslEned a Univert'ty Presi"
dency Rather than Hide His Views. j
Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, nwntly j
resigned the presidency of Brown I'niversity
at Providence rather than surrender
the liberty of expressing the
opinions he entertains on a great public
question. Dr. Andrews is one of
the most ardent, able and conscientious
advocates of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and has promulgated
his views whenever the occasion offered.
The directors of the university (
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were displeased \rith his conduct and
virtnolJv rtpm.in<tpri <H1pd<? r.r resisma
tion. He chose the latter alternative.
Dr. Andrews Is 53 years of age and
is the son of a Baptist clergyman, who
lived at Montague, Mass., but preached
In the town of North Sunderland.
The father's salary was $200 a year.
The son aided in the support of the
family by working Saturdays and holidays
in a mill. He also bent his energies
and his back to the care of a garden
patch near the family residence.
He had a great fondness for reading
from his earliest youth. He was in
school when the civil war broke out.
He enlisted and served until 1864,
when, after having been severely
wounded at Petersburg, he returned to
New England and finished his education
at Brown University. Then he
| taught in various academies and earned
money enough to further educate
himself in Germany. He has been president
of Brown eight years.
FRENCHMAN WHO FOUGHT.
I
I Ca tulle Mendes One of the Foremost
Literary Men of Paria.
Catulle Mendes, the French poet,
whose duel with Lugue Poe, the actor,
was the talk of all Paris, is one of the
foremost literary men of the French
capital. Mendes was born fifty-four
years ago In Bordeaux and went to
Paris at 19 to make his fortune. He
made It rapidly and surely. He started
a paper, which he called I .a Revue
Fantastique. In Its first Issue he publiahed
a drama in verse, "Le Roman
d'Une Nuit," for which he was punished
by two months' imprisonment
and a fine of -00 francs. This was the
! abort road to success. He became fai
mous at once and was a prominent
' leader in the group of poets who called
1 themselves the "Parnassians." In 1SCS
Mcodes married Judith Gautier, the
daughter of Theophlle Gautier, but the
marriage did not prove happv or permanent
His other ventures matrl
mony were equally disappointing. MenCATU1.L*UKXVZB.
des has been a success In everything
be has undertaken. He has written
poems, romance and plays, and all of
them have won favor with the public.
He is a contributor to the press, a dramatic
critic, and well known about
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THE BUSINESS WORLD. j
Bradstreet Says V* heat is Again
Above a Dollar a Bushel.
Br&dstreet's commercial review for
the past week says: General trade retains
most of the features of & week ;
ago, with a continued cheek to the ;
movement of staple merchandise. At i
larger Eastern and central "Western '
cities, sales of seasouao.e goods have
not equalled expectations and at noue of
those points has the volume of business
increased. At Chicago. ~t. Louis,
Baltimore, Xew York and Brovideuce,
there has been a decreasein the volnme
has been in some lines, due in part
tf> the unseasonable weather and in
instances to the continued quarantine
of yellow fever districts. .so:ne
; jobbers at cities which supply Southern |
! merchants have delayed sending out j
1 travelers and in inrtanccs have called
| travelers heme. Mercantile collections
are slower, filling in orders are smaller
| and more infrequent, cud business in
staple for the latter bal. of October,
: aside from that in wool and met!
als has been somewhat disappoint- j
I inS;
The Northwest continues to make '
I relatively more iavorahle reports as to |
| trade, although at Milwaukee aud Minneapolis,
mild weather has checked !
distribution. Nearly ail .-outbern cities j
ixcept a few in Texas. w.:ansasand !
Georgia, continue to feel t le influence j
of the yellow fever quarantine, the ex- '
tremCly low pries of cotton aud delayed I
collections.
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Consumption 01 iron ami sxcei continues
heavy, but mills refuse orders
(or 1^97 delivery, iu the belief that the
cost of making iron and steel will be
higher. Woolen goods continue rirra ;
and in fair demand, witu an upward
tendency, but cotton fabric-, are wenk
and the market is heavily stocked.
Wheat is again above a dollar, on ,
| continued heavy exports. Our wheat j
export movement, a^gresatiug mere J
than 70,0CO,lKX) bushels within thirteen .
weeks, is unprecedented and points to I
a keener appreciation of the statis- [
tical strength of wheat by Euro, ean :
Importers than by ma:iy American ,
traders. Exports of whe.it wlour in- |
eluded as wheat from both coasts of i
tlie Cnited States and from .'.lentreal j
this week, amount 5,911,391 bushels, i
against 5,552,000 bushels lust week; |
628,000 bushela in the last week of October,
1896; 2,748,000 bushels iu 1895; 2,984,000
bushels in 1894, and as compar- !
ed with 2,860,000 bushels in the like
/.t 10(10 Tnf liijlim, pnTn 1
ncc& Ui lUPU. IKfUl V4 AUU?*?u vv*M I
amoant to 1,589, lt$ bushel" this week,
compared with 1,177,000 bushels last !
week; 3,649,000 bushels in the corresponding
week of 1896; 1,070,000 bushels
in 1895; 146,000 bushels iu 1894, and
as contrasted with 846,000 bushels in
1898. The total number of business
failures reported throughout the Cnit dStates
tbis week is 318, compare t
with 205 last week. There are bU business
failures reported from the Dominion
of Canada this week, compared
with 37 last week.
THE EXPOSITION CLOSED.
Fireworks, Sixteen Guns a ad a Love
Feast Marked Its Last Hours.
October 30th, the last day and night '
of the Tennessee Centennial Exposi- I
tion, which oped its gates May 1st, was ;
well attended, about 30,0./J people, j
many of them visitors, being present ;
There were no npecial features during j.
the day, bul at night there was I,
a magnificent display of fire vforks
and concert, there was held
the closing meeting iu the auditorium,
which was packed, main floor and galleries.
It was the love foast held in i j
commemoration of the closing hours of;
the exposition, in which all the people ,
of Tennessee evinced the greatest and (
most loyal pride. Numerous addresses
were delivered, sixteen guus were fired,
and then with the Doxology, in which
the audlenoe joined in singiug, the ex- ;
position was declared closed.
COTTON MILL STKIKK.
It Will Affect 200,000 People and 1
Will Almost Ruin the Industry. 1
The London, Eng., Pall Mall Gazette,
commenting upon the threatened ,
strike of cotton operatives throughout
North England, says the lookont will
effect two hundred thousand people, !
adding that the strike will nrohahlv last
for months. It will entail a loss o.' i
seventy million pounds, and means tbt i
ruin of the cotton industry, that panel
says.
A Work of Art.
An evidence of genuine enterprise anc
liberality is shown by the publishers o:
The Youths' Companion, Boston, Mnss.,
in giving all new subscribers to theii
publication an art calendar for 1896
?a gem of beautiful color-work fai
in advance of anything of the
kind previously produced. Also i
magnificent illustrated Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year's
double number of the magazine?each
a prize?which will be preserved bj
thousands of art lovers. By sending a
coupon cut from the advertising columns
of the local paper of this week or
last weak, and following its insb*notions,
these artistic ana valuable productions
can be secured.
Plowing Over Graves.
, Land is evidently getting to be a
scarce article around Pineviile, N. C.,
says the Charlotte Observer. Mr. John
A. Younts has plowed up a colored
grave yard, and has grown a crop ol
cotton where Jtbe tombstones once
stood. Une tomostome is now standing
in the field. He has flowed all aronna
it Other tombstones are lying about
in the field. The cotton field was used
as the burying ground of the old colored
slaves during re-o'.utionary times.
Acquitted of Murder,
n the circuit court the jury, at
Asheville, N. C., in tho case ol
George Hall and Abe Davidson,
two negroes, charged with the murder
of Harry Slagle, returned a verdict
of acquittal, after being out eight minutes.
Single was found dead beside
the railroad track near Swannanoa Station
July last, and the State's theory
was that Hall and Davidson murdered
and robbed him and placed the body on
t-ie track to divert suspicion.
ONLY ONF. SALARY." I
Mr. Norton Say* Hf Will Not Draw
Two. j
Comptroller-General Norton has re-;
turned to Columbia, so says the Regis- j
ter, from a tour of settlement, with th?.
treasurers aud auditors in the countiei
of \bbeville, Anderson Oconee, Green-!
viile, where be found everything all;
right. The oniy counties in the 8tat< J
with which settlements have not beermade
are Charleston, Colleton, Berke I
ley and Orangeburg, aud Mr. Nortor
will go down in a few days for that pur
pose.
Being asked about his resignation h<'
said that as soon as he received his certificate
of electiou he would draw nc
more salary from the State as comptrol
ler general, bat that be had some detaili
of his office he wished to finish up before
tendering his resignation. This if
highly patriotic in Mr. Norton, but th<
"boys" who a-e hungering and thirst !
ini? for his iob are not verv enthusiastic i
over it.
He will not resign until Congreei;
meets and cites as a precedent the late i
Senator Earle, who continued to tx !
judge up to his election by the legisla '
tuve. )
During his trip Mr. Norton visitecj
O cmson and was greatly pleased wit!
what he saw and va- ileiighted witi
President Hartzog.
Mr. Norton is making his last tri|
among county officials and heezpressei j
deep regret that such pleasant relationi
must be severed.
PALMKTO PICKI'PS.
Pe*. Sam P. Jones lectures in Marion
on the JOtb.
At the recent term of the court for
Marion county there were eight murder
ber.
Snmter's city council ha? decided to
increase thje pay af the police force $ >
per month to each member during the
time from November 1 to April 1.
At. Mauning Charles Harper was sentenced
to the penitentiary for six years
at hard labor for an attempt to ravish
Mrs. Ellen Richbourg, of the Foreston
vicinity, last August.
At Barnwell Mr. Sanders found a
rather rare Spanish silver coin a few
days ago, a 2-real piece, dated 1712,
with the face and bust of Charles III,
at that time King of Spain and the Indies,
with the inscription "Carolus III,
De; gratia Hispan et lud, ReT, 2 R. F.
M.," and the royil arms of Spain.
In York conuty a primary election to
nominate a successor to Mr. L. K.
Armstrong, deceased, in the Legislature,
has been ordered by the conuty
]>emoeratic executive committee to be
held ou November 15?, between the
lmnra nf 12 m and .r> n. m. Three can
didates have been announced so far:
\V. J. Cherry, of Bock Hill, H. E.
Johnson, of Bethel township, and cxEenresentative
R. M. Carroll, of Eullock's
Creek town-hip.
A PROSPEROUS FARMER.
He Raises Practically Everything
He Needs Himself at Home.
The Greenville Newt says there is
one farmer in Greenville Connty (and
doubtless many more) who has never
bought Western meat and Western
flour. There is little that this farmer
and his family consume that is not
raised at home. Not even does his
fable rice come from Georgetown or
Beaufort It is a Greenville county
product, and it is said that the lowcountry
rice is not superior to it
This gentleman makes his own syrup.
He makes his ow n oats and barley,
aud be prodncen a large number of
ba'es of cotton. The horses and males
that he works are natives to his farm.
He has been known to saw timber from
his own forest and send it to a factory,
getting a part of it back in the form of
furniture. This farmer is not a great
|K>htician. He is not even a free silver
man. He reads the newspapers carefully.
He is not dependent, bat he is
a very busy man. He is so poor
that he rarely has a day to spend
away from his own large plantation
uf plantations. He is on his farm with
tbe regularity that a cashier is at his
desk in a bank and as many days in
the year and as miny hours in the day.
There are farmers who are able to indulge
in more leisure than is this
Irreenville farmer, bat in other respects
they are poorer than he is.
WANT PROHIBITION.
Governor Ellerbe's Ballot of tht
Ministers.
Since Governor Ellerbe issued his circular
to the preachers, asking theii
views as to what was best to b<
done with the liquor problem, his mail
has been quite heavy with replies.
Up to date he has gotten something
over 600.
From a cursory examination of on<
hundred replies a majority favor prohibition,
while the rest think the dispensary
the best solution.
Rev. James Heatherly, of Greeenville,
writes that in that county it is
hard to hold church meetings on aecount
of the number of stills, and close*
by emphatically saying "I say prohibition."
He estimates the increase in
drunkenness, since the beginning of
the dispensary, rt 100 per cent
Another one writes: "For the Lord's
sake, Governor, don't give us no high
license nor dispensary; give us prohibition.
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It was a foregone conclusion when
the circnlars were issued that prohibition
wonld receive the majority, bnt
no doubt the Governor got some valuable
ideas from the views of the ministers.
D. A. R. Convention.
The State regent of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, Mrs. Bacon,
of Edgefield, has called a State convention
of the order to meet in Columbia
on Wednesday, November 10, Fair
Week. Among the many important
matters to be discussed at the State convention
will be the erection of a monument
to Generals Marion, Sumter and
Pickens. This matter has been under
consideration for some time, but is now
taking definite shape. It is probable
that plans will be formulated at tbe
State convention for the consummation
ol the idea.
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Duties of lien Toward Their SalTerlng
Drethren of the Present Generation? j
Clnthin; n: the Soul Should Keep Pace
With That of the Physical Wants of Man
Text: "David, after he ha-1 served his :
own eeneration by the will of God, fell on '
sleep," Acts xin., -ti.
"That is a text which has for a long time !
been running through my mind. Sermons j
have a time to bo bom, as well as a time to j
die; a cradle as well as a grave. David,
eowboy and stone-slinger. and fighter and
czar, and dramatist and blank verse writer,
and prophet, did his best for the people of
his time, aud theu went and lay down on
the southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound
slumber which nothing but an archangelie
blast can startle. There are about four )
generations to a century, now: but in oldentime
life was longer, and there was, per- j
haps, only one generation to a century, i
Taking these facts into the calculation, I j
make a rough guess and say that there ;
have been at least ISO generations of the
human family. With reference to them we 1
have no responsibility. We cannot teach j
them, we cannot correct their mistakes, we
cannot soothe theirsorrows, we cannot heal
their wounds.
"I admit that I am in sympathy wltk the
child whose father ha l suddenly died, and j
who. in her little evening prayer, wanted
to continue to pray for her father, although 1
he had gone into heaven and no more
needed her prayers, and looking up into j
i her another's face, said: 'Oh, mother, I
enaait Inva him all out. Lot me say, j
"Thank Go 1 that I had a good father once, i
sol can keep him in my prayers."' But |
the ISO generations have pa-se~d off. Passed :
j u;>. Passed down. Gone forever. Then !
I there are generations to come after our i
earthly existence has cease J; we shall not
see them; w.> shall not hear any of their
va!c we will take no part in their convocations,
their elections, their revolutions, |
their catastrophes, their triumphs, We
will in nowise affect the 180 generations
gone or the 130 generations to come. But
! our business is, like David, to servo our
own generation; the people now living,
those whose lungs now breathe and whose
hearts now beat. And, mark you, It Is not
I a silent procession, but moving. It is a
'for'el march," at twenty-four miles a day,
each hour being a milo." Going with that
celerity, it has got to be a quick service on 1
our pari or no service at all.
"Well. now. let us look around earnestly,
prayerfully, in a common-senss way,
and see what we can do for our generation.
First of all, let us see to it that, as far as
we can, they have enough to eat. The
human body is so constituted that three
times a day a body needs food as much as
a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive
needs fael. To meet this want God has
girdled the earth with apple orchards,
orange groves, wheat fields, and oceans full
of Ash, and prairies full of cattle. And
notwithstanding this, I will undertake to
say that the vast majority of the human
family are suffering either"for lack of food
or the right kind of food. Our civilization
is all askew, and God only can set it
right. Many of the greatest estates of today
have been built out of the blood and
bones of uniequited toil.
"Don't sit down at your table with Ave or j
six courses of abundant supply and think
nothing of that family in the next street |
who would take any one of these five
courses between soup and almond nuts and
feel they were in heaven. The lack of the
right kind of food is the cause of much of
the drunkenness. After drinking what
many of our grocers call coffee, sweetened
with what many cail sugar, and eating
what many of our butchers call meat, and
chowiug what many of our bakers call
bread, many of the laboring classes feel so
miserable they are tempted to put into their
nasty pipes what the tobacconist calls tobacco,
or go into the drinking saloons for
what the rumsellers call beer. Good coffee
would do much in driving out rum.
"How can we serve our generation with
enough to eat?" By sitting down in embroidered
slippers and lonnging back in an |
arm chair, our mouth puckered up around
a Havana of the best brand, and through
cionds of luxuriant smoke reading about
political economy and the philosophy of
strikes? No! No! By flnding oat who in j
this city bas been living on gristle, and
sending them a tenderloin beefsteak." Seek
out some family who, through sickness or
conjunction of misfortune, have not enough
to cat, and do for them what Christ did for
the hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, multiplying
the loaves and the flshes. Let us
u -??!??/ r\9 Aitpcalvoa until nra
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cannot choke down another crumb of cake,
and begin the supply of others' necessities.
"It is an awful thing to be hungry," said
the preacher. "It is an easy thing for us
to be in good humor with all the world
when we have no lack. But let banger
take full possession of us, and we would all
turn into barbarians and cannibals and
llends. Suppose that some of the energy
we are expending in useless and unavailing
talk about the bread question should be expended
in merciful alleviations. I have
read that the battlefield on which more
troops met than on any other in the
world's history was the battlefield of Leipsic?160,000
men under Napoleon; 230.000
men under 8chwarzeberg. No! No! The
greatest and most terriflc battle Is now being
fought all the world over. It is the
struggle tor food. The ground tone of the
finest passage in one of the great musical
masterpieces, the arti3t says, was suggested
to him by the cry of the hungry populace
of Vienna, as the King rode through
and they shouted: 'Bread! Give us bread!'
And all through the great harmonies of
musical academy and cathedral I hear tho
the pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy
of unconnted multitudes, who, with streaming
eyes and wan cheeks and broken hearts,
in behalf of themselves and their families,
are pleading for bread.
"Let us take another look around to see
how we may serve our generation. Let us
see, as lar as possiDie, mat ucy uaia
enough to wear."
The preacher dilated upon the corse of
drunkenness and idleness, causing the
maelstrom that has swallowed down the
livelihood of those who are in rage. Bat
things will change, and by generosity on
the part of the crowded wardrobes, and in*
dnstry and sobriety on the party of the
empty wardrobes, there will be enough for
all to wear.
"God has done His part toward the dressing
of the human race. He grows a surplus
of wool on the sheep's back, and flocks
roam the mountains and valleys with a
burden of warmth, intended for transference
to human comfort when the shuttles
of the factories reaching all the way from
Chattahoochee to the Merrimac, shall have
spun and woven it. In white letters of
snowy fleece God has been writing for a
thousand years His wish that there might
be warmth for all nations. While others
are discussing the effect of higfl or low tariff,
or no tariff at all on wool, you and I had
better see if in our wardrobo we have nothing
that we can spare for the shivering, or
pick out some poor lad of the street and
take him down to a clothing store and lit
him ont for the winter.
"Again, let us look around and sec how
we may serve our generation. What shortsighted
mortals we would be if we were
anxious to clothe and feed only the most
insignificant part of a man, namely, his
body, while we put forth no effort to
clothe and feed and save his soul.
"We pat a halo about the people of the
past, but I think if the times demanded
them it would be found we have now living
in this year,'1897, fifty Martin Lathers,
fifty George Washington, fifty Lady Huntingdon,
fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our
Civil War more splendid warriors in North
and 8outh were developed in four years
than the whole world developed in the previous
twenty years. I challenge the four
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thousand years before the flood and tho
eighteen centuries after the flood to show
me the equal of charity, on a large scale,
of George Peabody. Thi < generation of
men and women Is more worth saving than *
any one of the one hundred and eighty
generations that have passed off. - V^B
"How to get saved? Be willing to accept
Christ, and then accept Him instantaneously
and forever. Get on the rock first,
and then you will be able to help others
upon the same rock.
"I confess to you that my one wish is to
se.rve this generation, not to antagonize it,
not to damage it, not to rule it, but to serve
it. I would like to do something toward
helping unstrap its load, to stop its tears,
to balsam its wounds, and to induce it to
put foot on the upward road that has at its
terminus acclamation rapturous, and gates
pearly, and garlands amaranthine, and *
fountains rainbowed, and dominions enthroned
and coroneted. for I cannot forget
that lullaby in the closing words of my
text: 'David, after he had served his own
generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.*
What a lovely sleep It was! Unflllal AbasIrtm
nAf trAiiKln It imMtfono % /I Aniiah
(lid not worry it. Persecuting Saul ilid not
harrow it. Exile did not fill it with nightmare.
Since a red-headed boy, anid his
father's flocks at night, he had not had
snch a good sleep. At seventy years of ago
he lay down to it. He had had many a
troubled sleep, as in his caverns of Adullam.
or in the palace at the time bis enemies
were attempting uis capture. But this was
a peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a restful
sleep, a glorious sleep. 'After he had
served his generation by the will of God, he
fell on sleep.' '
"Oh. what a good thing is sleep after a
hard day's work! It takes all the aching
out of the head, and all the weariness out
of the limbs, and all the smarting out of the
eyes. From It we rise in the morning, and
it is a new world. And if we, like David,
serve our generation, we will at life's close
have most desirable and refreshing sleep.
In it will vanish our last fatigue of body,
our last worrimcnt of mind, our last sorrow
of soul. To the Christian's body that wis
hot with raging fevers, so that the attendants
must by sheer force keep on the blankets,
it will be the cool sleep. To those who J
are thin-blooded and shivering with agues,
it will be the warm sleep. To those who,
because of physical disorders, wore terrified
with night visions, it will be to the dream- '
less sleep. To nurses and doctors and
IDOltierS WHO were ?a?uci aiuiV3i oici; P
hour of the night by those to whom they
ministered, or over whom they watohed, it v
will be the undisturbed sleep. To those
who could not get to bed till late at night,
and must rise early in the morning, and before
getting rested, it will be the long
sleep.
"Away with all your gloomy talk about V''
departing from this world! If we have
served our generation it will not be putting
out into the breakers; it will not be 4
the light with the King of Terrors; it will
be going to sleep. A friend, writing me >
from Illinois, says that Rev. Dr. Wingate,
President of Wake Forest College, North "<
Carolina, after a most useful life, found
his last day on earth his happiest day, and
that in his last moments be eemed to be
personally talking with Christ, as friend
with friend, saying: 'Oh, how delightful *
it is! I knew you would be with me when |
the time came, and I knew it would be
sweet, but I did not know it would be as ?
sweet as it is.' The fact was, he had ?
served his generation in the gospel mln- Ay
istry, and by the will of Ood he fell asleep. A
When in Africa, Majwara, the servant, ^
looked into the tent of David Livingstone, ^
and found him on his knees, be stepped
hi*'.- not vrlshlnir to disturb him in nraver.
and some time after went in and fonnd :i
him in theaame posture, and stopped baok
again; hut after awhile, went in and
touched him, and, lo! the great traveler
had finished his last journey, and he had
died in the grandest and mightiest posture
a man ever takes?on his knees. He had
served his generation by unrolling the - ^
scroll of a continent, and by the will of
God fell on sleep. In the museum of
Greenwich, England, there is a fragment . J
of a book that was found on the arctto
regions, amid the relics of Sir John Frank- g
1 in, who bad perished amid the snow and
ice, and the leaf of that piece of a book
was turned down at the words: "When
thou passest through the waters I will be
with thee.' Having served his generation . *.
in the cause of science and discovery, by .Sgj
the will of God ho fell on sleep.
' Why will you keep us all so nervons
talking about that which is only a dormitory
and a pillowed slumber, cunopled by
angels' wings? Sleep. Transporting
sleep! And what a glorious awakening? t
You and I hare sometimes been thoroughly
bewildered after a long and fatiguing
journey; we have stopped at a friend's
house "for the niarht. and after hours of . v
complete unconsciousness we have opened
our eyes, the high-risen sun full in oar
faces, and before we could fully collect our
faculties, have said: 'Where am I; whose ' V*2
house is this, and whose are these gardens?'
And, then, it has flashed upon as da
in glad reality.
' And I should not wonder if, after we ?
have served our generation, and. by the
will of God, have fallen on sleep, the deep
sleep, the restful sleep, we should awaken
in blissful bewilderment, and for a little ' J
while say: 'Where nm I? What palaoe is
this? Why, this looks like heaven! It is;
it is. Why, there is a building grander than
all the castles of earth heaved into amoun- .
tain of splendor?that roust be the palace 4
of Jesus. And look there; at those walls , ,
lined with foliage more beautiful than anything
I ever saw before, and see those who *
are walking down those aisles of verdure.
From what I have heard of them those two
walking arm in arm must be M< a -s and >
Joshua, him of Mount Sinai and he of the
halting sun over Gibeon. And those two
walking arm in arm must be John and
Paul, the one so gentle and the other so
mighty.
" 'But I must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine thit
building in which I have just awakened.
I look out of the window this way aud
that, and up and down, and I And it is a 1
mansion of immense size in which I am
stopping. All its windows of agate and
its colonnades of porphyry and alabaster. J
Why, I wonder if this is not the "House of
many Mansions" of which I used to read?
It is; it is. There must bo many of my
kindred aud friends in this very mansion.
Hark! Whose are those voices? Whose are
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see, and lo! they ore coming through all
the corridors and up and down all the ?
stairs, our long-absent kindred. Why, i
there is father, there is mother, there are
the children. All well again. All young .i,
again. All of us together again. And as we
embrace each other with the cry, "Never
more to part; never more to part," the V |
arches, the alcoves, the hallways, echo and ,
re-echo the words, "Never more to part; f
never more to part!" Then our glorified
friends say: "Come out with us and see
heaven." And, some of them bounding
ahead of us and some of them skipping beside
us, we start down the ivory stairway.
And we meet, coming up, one of the Kings
of ancient Israel, somewhat small of
stature, but having a countenance radiant
with a thousand victories. And as all ire
making obeisance to this groat one of
heaven, I cry out, "Who is lie?" and the
answer comes: "This is the greatest of all
the Kings; it is David, who, after he haA *
served his generation by the will of God,
fell on sleep.'""
Electrocuted by a Telephone Wire.
A rope with a loop In the free end left
dangling over the street from a telephone
wire in Easton, Md., caught a button on a
carriage which was being driven up the
street and, wrenching the top from the 1
vehicle, threw out a woman who was riding
in it. She was severely injured and died in
the house to which she was taken.
Horse Market Improving.
The horse market is improving by expor*
t at ions to Europe at the rate of 9000 horses
a month. England and France take most
of thorn. m
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