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?? V " - ;?2r;v":\ - " TALMAGE AT HOME. A GREAT CONGREGATION AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. He Preaches an Eornest aud Eloquent | Seraion on "The Hoono on tbe Wail"? How eke Ssi'ject was Treated. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., having returacd from his visit to the Holy Land, resumed preaching in Brook- J lyn on Sunday. The Academy of Music * temporarily used instead of the destroy-1 ed Tabernacle, was crowded to its ut I most. Thousands of people were not able to get into the building. The sub- j -? 1-!- -3 = Illtl.. 17>..nn i jecc oi his discourse was .me auuac vu ( the Wall." Dr. Talmage took for bis text Joshua vi, 23: "And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Kahab, her father, and her mother, and her bretberen and all that she had." He said: Wnen, only a few weeks ago, I visited Jericho, I said: Can it be possible that this dilapidated place is the Jericho that Mark Antony gave as a wedding present to Cleopatra? Where are the grov?3 of palm treesf v> nere is me great meant from the stage of which Salome told the people that Herod was dead ? Where is the syca*ore tree, on the limb of which Zacchea3 sat when Jesus passed this place? Where is the wreck of the wall* that fell at the blowing of the ram's horn? But the fsct that all the?e have disappeared did not hinder me from seeing in imagination the smash ol everything on the fated day, save out house on the wall. That scene centuries ago comes back to me as though it were yesterday. There is a very sick and sad house in the city of Jericho. What is the matter? It is Dovertv? No. Worse than that. If it leprosy? No. "Worse than that. la it. s death? No. Worse than that. A daugb-. ter has forsaken her home. Br what infernal plot she was induced to leave Ikn^w not: but they look in vain for he: return. Sometimes they hear a footstep very much like her?, and they start up and say: "She comes!" but only to siDk back again into disappointment. AJas! Alas! The father sits by the hour, with his face in his hands, saying not one word. Toe mocner s nair is ueuuaimg gray too fast, and she begins to stoop so ' that those who saw her only a little while ago in the streets know her not now as she passes. The brothers clinch their fists, sweariog vengeance against the despoiler of their home. Alas! will, the poor soul never come back? There is a long deep, shadow overall, the household. Added to this there is anTnYading army six miles away, just over the river, J coming on to destroy the city, and what with the loss of their child and the coming on of that destructive army, I think the old people wished that they could die. That is the first scene in the drama of the Bible. In the house on the wall of the city is that daughter. That 1:3 her home now. Two spies have come from the invading army to look around through Jericho and see how best it may be taken. Yonder is the lost child, in that dwelling on the wall of the city. The police hear of it, and soon there is the shuffling of feet all arouad aboui the doorf and the city government demands the surrender of those two spies. First, Kahab?for that was the name of the lost child?first, R&hab secretes the two spies and gets their pursuers off the track; but after awhile she says to tbem: "I will make a bargain with you. 1 will save your life if you will save my life, and the life of my father, and my mothA mi? V>ore mr QiQl*prc ' ci j auu uij 1/ivnuwtoj wj i when the victorious army comes upon the city." 0, she had not forgotten her j home yet, you see. The wanderer never forgets home. Her heart breaks now as she thinks of how she has maltreated her parents, and she wishes she were back with them again, and she wishes she ^ could get away from her sinful enthrallment; and sometimes she looks up in the face of the midnight, bursting into agonizing tears. No sooner have these two spies promised to save her life, and the life of her father and the life of her mother, and brother, aad sister, than Bahab takes a scarlet cord and ties it around the body of ' one of the spies, hrinors him tr? thft window, and as he " 7 ? clambers out?Derrous lest she have not strength to hold him?with muscular arms such as woman seldom has, she lets him down, hand over haod, in safety to tbew>und. Not being exhausted, she ^?^g|rtE|??ord around *u" ~Vo HT and'just sr successfully lets him down to the ground. No sooner have these men untied the scarlet cord from their bodies than they look up and they say: "You had better get; ail your friends in this house--your father, your mother, your brothers and your sisters; you had better get them in this >>/Mioa inH thAn vnn bavp thftfn here, take this red cord which you have put around our bodies and tie it across the window, and when our victorious army comes up and sees that scarlet thread in the window, they will spare this house; and all who are in it. ISball it be so? cried the spies. "Aye, aye," said Rahab, from the window , "it shall be so." That is the second scene in this Bible drama. There is a knock at the door of the old man. He looks up and says: "Come in," and lo! there is Rahab, the lost child; but she has no time to talk. They gather in excitement around her, and she ?ays to them: "Get ready quickly, and go with' me to my house. The army is coining! The trumpet! Make haste! Fly I The enemy F7 That is the third scene in this Bible drama. The hosts of Israel are all around about the doomed city of Jericho. Crash goes the great metropolis, heaps on heaps. The air suffocating with dust, and horrible with the screams of a dying city. All the the houses fiat down. All the people dead. Ah no, no. On a crag of the wail ?there, is a house which we must enter. There is a family there that have been spared. Who are they? Let us go and see. Rahab, her father, her mother, * i?*1 i ~ xier urutuers, ucr si?i.cis, >u oaic, auu the only house left standing in all the city. What saved them? Was the bouse more firmly built? O, no; it was built in the most perilous place?on the wall; and the wall was the first thing that fell. Was it because her character was any better than any of the other population of the city? 0, no. Why, then, was she soared, and all her household? Can you tell me why? 0, it was the scarlet line in the window. That is the fourth scene in the Bible drama. When the destroying angel went through Egypt. It was the blood of the lamb on the door posts that saved the Israelites; and now that vengeance has come upon Jericho it is the same color that asures the safety of Riheb aad all her household. My friends, there are foes coming upon us, more deadly and more tremendous, to overthrow our immortal interests. They will trample us down and crush us out forever unless there be some skillful mode of rescue open. The police of death already begin to clamor for our surrender, but, blessed be God, there is a way out. It is through the window, and by a rope so saturated with blood of the cross, that it is as red at that with which the spies were lowered; and i? oace cur souls shall be delivered, then, the scarlet color streched across the window of our escape, we defy all bombardment, earthly and Satanic. In the fcrst place, carrying er.t the idea of my tex:, we must stretch this scarlet cord across the window of our rescue. There comes a time when a man is surrounded. What is that, in the front door of my soul? It is threatenings of the future. "What is that in the back door of e bbmhhhbbi^bhhki^bbbbbbbhmsbhw my soul? It is the sins of Che p?t. He caacot get out of either of tbo?e doorwsys. If he attempts it he will be cut to pieces. Whas snail he do? E-cape th-ough tbe window of God's mercy, j j i'hafc suoshins ha- beea pourtD2 in for i I m*nv a div. God's invitiap mcr^v. God'a ! pardoning mcrcy, God'a all conquering j mercy, God't> everlasting mercy. But, say, the window 13 so high. Ah, there is a rope, the very one with which the cros* and its victims were lifted. That was strong enough to hold Christ, and it is strong enough to hold you. Btar all j your weight upon it, all your hopes for this life, all your hopes for the life that i? to come. Escape now through the window. "But," you say, "that cord i# email tn a?ifl rr.A- that talvation will never do at all for such a sinner as I hare been." I suppose that the rope with which Rahab let the two spies to the ground was thick enough, but they took that or nothing. And, my dear brother,tbat is your alternative. There ts only one scarlet line that can save you. There hare been hundreds and thousands who har# beea borne away in safety by that scarlet line, and it will bear you away in safety. Do you notice what very narrow escape those spies had? I suppose they came with the flush cheek, and "?itb excited heart. iney weut w mc i broad door of sin; but how did they come out? They came out out of tbe window. They vrenf. up by the stairs of stone; They came down on a slender thread. And so, my friends, we go easily and unabashedly iut9 ain, and all the doors are open; bu: if we get out at aU it will be by beiag let down over precipioes, wriggling and helpless, the strong grip above keeping us from being dashed on the rocks beneath. It is easy to get into sin, young man. It is not s* easy to get out ?f it. A youug mid gops to #the marble coun er of a hotel. He asks for a brandy smash?called ao, I tuppose, because it smashes the man that takes it. There is qo intoxication in it. As the young man receives it he does not seem to be at all excited. It does not give any glcsiineas to the eye. He walk# home in beautiful apparel, and all his prospects are brilliant. That drink is not going to destroy him, but is the first step on a bad ro&d. Years have passed on, and I see that u tsKAIP joung man aitcr u? um guus buv >.4.v>? . ieogth of dissipation. It is midnight, and be is in & hotel?perhaps the very one where he took the first drink. A delirium is oa him. He arises fro? the bed and comes to tbe window, and it is easily lifted; so he lifts it. Then he pushes back the blinds and puts his foot on the window sill. Then hs gives oae spring, and the watchman finds bis disfigured body, unrecognizable, on the pavement. 0, if he hr.d only waited a little?ifhehad come down on the scarlet adder that Jesus holds from the wall for him, and for you, and forme; but no, he made one jump, and was gone. A minister of Christ was not long ago dismissed from his diocese for intoxica ?J *? - ?u.1 wAAtinff V?A era TP I LlOO, SQU 111 & puui*u abviiug MV ihi* account of bis sorrow. He said: "I i a4 a beautiful bome once, but strong ariut shattered it. I had beautiful children; but this fiend of run took their dimpled hands ia his and led them . to the grave. I had a wife?to kn< w her was to love her -but she sits in wretchedness tonight while I wander over the earth. I bad a mother, and th? pride of her life was I; but a thunder bolt struck her. I now have scarcely a friend in the world. Taste of the bitter cap I hare tasted, and then answer me as to whether I hare a?y hatred for the agency of mj ruin. Hate it! I bate the whole damning traffic. I would to God tonight that every distillery was in flames, for then in the glowing ?ky I would write in the smoke of the ruins: 'Wo to him that putteth the b?ttle to his neighbor's lips' " mac minister ui the gospel went in through the broad door of temptation: he came out at the window. And when I see the temptations tha' are about us in all countries, and when I know the proclivities to sin in every man's heart, I see that if any of us escape it will be#a very narrow escape. O, if we have my friends, got off from our sii, let us tie the scarlet thread by which we have been saved across tht | window. Let us do it in praise of him whose blood dyed it that color. Let it be in announcement of the fact that we shall no more be fatally assaulted. "There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." Then let all the forces of this world come up in cavalry charge, aDd let spirits of darkness come on an infernal storming party attemptio0^ tak?- our_ so'^l?: -n.r^ | j twisted from theje words, "The blood ' "f T" /""'kw.Je* r?1 zaoicofK frnm &]] in*' VJL UCOUO VUII9U vivauewu ??vu* w?* v?M will hurl them back defeated forever. Now, as I stand here, you do not see any bauds outstretched towards me, and yet there are hands on my brow?hands on ooth my shoulders. They are hands of parental benediction. It is quite a good many years ago now since we folded those hands as they began the last sleep on the banks of the Raritan in the village cemetery, bat those hands are stretched out towards me to-day, and they are just as warm aad they are just as gentle as when I sat on her knee at five years of age. And I shall never shake off those hands. I do not want to. They have helped me so much a thous and <lme3 already, and l do not expect to have a trouble or a trial between this and my grave where those hands will not help me. It was not a very splendid home, as the world calls it; but we had a family Bible there, well worn by tender perusal; and there was a family altar there, where we knelt morning and night; and there was a holy Sabbath there, and stretched in a straight line or hung in loops or featoons there was a scarlet line in the window. 0 the tender, precious, blessed memory of a Christian home I Is that the impression you are making upon your children? When you are dead?and it will not be long before you are?when you are dead, will your child say: "If there ever wa9 a good Christian father, nine was one. If there ever wa9 a good Christian mother, mine was one?" Still further: We want this scarlet line of the text drawn across the window of oar prospects. I see Rahab, at)d her father, and her mother, and her brothers aad sisters looking out over Jericho, the city of plam trees, and across the river, and over at the army invading, and then up to the msuntaina and the sky. Mind you, this house was on the wall, and I suppose the prospect from the wiadow must have b?en very wide. Besides that, I do not think tnat the scarlet line at all inter1 fered with the view of the landscape. The assurance it gave of safety must havt added to the beauty of the country. To-day, my friends, we sit in the wiudow of earthly prospects, and we look off towards the kills of heaven and the landscape of eternal beauty. God has opened the window for us, and we look out. We now only get a dim outline of the inhabitants. We now only here and there catch a note of th? ex quibii? uuiuuuuj* But blessed be God for thia scarlet iiae in the window. That tells me that the blood of Christ bought that home for my soul, and I shall go there when mj work it done. And as I put my hand on that scarlet line, everything iu the future brightens. My eyesight gets better, and the robes of the victors are more lustrous, and our loved ones who went away some time ago?they do not stand any more with their backs to us, but their faces are this way and their voices drop through this Sabbath air, saying with ail tenderness and sweetness: ' Come! Come! Come!" And the child that jou think of only is buried? why, there she is, and it is May day in heaven ard they gather the amaranth, and thfcj pluck the lilies, aDd they twist them inio a. garlaod for her bro*\ aaa gbe is one of the May qoeeos of heaven. 0. do }ou think they could see our wiving to-daj? It quite a pleasant rUy, nrctty clear, aod u <t many clouis ia tJ>e f-kjr I wonder if tbey c^-ti 8<?e us trum ?? *r -1 ? -? .. r c that good iannf a. minis ioey c-tu. n from this window of earthly prospects we can almost see them, from tbeir towers of light I think they can fully see us. And sol wave them the glory, and I wave them the joy, and I saj: "Have you got through with all your troubles?7 and their voices answer: "God hath wiped away all tears from our eyes." I ?ay: "Is it as grand up there as you thought it would be?'' an.; tbe voices answer: "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, ueither hath it eDteicd into the heart of csaD, the things which God hath prepared for those who lovn him." I say: "Do you have any more struggle for bread?" and they answer: "We bungar no more, we thirst no more." And I say: "Have you beeu out to tbe cemetery of the golden city?" and they an Kora " A nH SWeri A liCi C i? Liu utaiu uviv. I look out through the heavens, and I aaj: "Where do you get Jour light for eights, and what do you burn in the temple?" *od they answer: "There ia 09 night here, and we have no need of candle or of stars." And I ?ay: "What book do you sing out of?" and they 50swer: "The Hallelujah Choru?." And I say: "la the splendor and magnificence of the city, don't you ever get lost?" and tbey answer: "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne leadetb u< to living fountains of water." 0, how near they s#em. Their wings? do you not fael them? Their harps?do you not hear them? And all that through the window of our earthly prostwot.a o<*rn?? wiiir;h st.retcheth the scar let line. Be that my choice color fore?er. Is it too glaring for you? Do you like the blue because it rem;nd?you of the sky, or the green becauie it makes you think of the foliage, or the black because it has in it the shadow of the night? I take the scarlet b?cau?e it shall make me think of the price that was paid for my soul. O the bl*od! the blood! the blood of the Lamb of God th?t taketh away the sin of the world. I see where you are. You are at the cross roads. The Dext steps decides everything. Pause before you take it: but do not pause too long. I hear the bhst of the trumpet that wakea the dead. Look out! Look out! For in that day, and in our closing moment on earth, better than any other defense or barricade, k;??k r\r Kp.-.aH i\p etiinerxinus. UVYVCICl UlgU V? v. f will be the ooe little, thiD scarlet thread ia the window. BREVITIES. Arthur (just beginning his French) ?"Papa, is the French word for money of the feminine or masculine gender?" Father?"Feminine,of course." "Why, papa?" "Because, haven't you heard that money talks?"?Lowell Citizen. Mother?"You don't seem tired, Jennie, for a young lady who attended a dancing party last night?" Jennie? "It was a plumbers1 ball,you know,and ? ?~ fUof rvr>i3 CVtX'J lUlLlg VY CUli OV &1\J rr xj tuuu vuv could not get tired.1'?Boston Herald. Inquisitive Citizen ? "What's the matter with the man? Been run over by a railroad train?" Ambulance Surgeon? "Worse than that He was caught among the women in a bargain rush at Seller's." ? Philadelphia Inquirer. Belinda?"Dearest,what was the real reason of your marrying me?" Alphonzo?"1* think it was because I understood you. And what was the reason of your marrying me?" Belinda? "I think it was because I did not understand you."?America. Physician (to Mrs. Col. Blood of Kentucky)?"How did your husband pass the" night. Mrs. Blood?" Mrs. Y^1 - ?' ?1J ? ^ ' Mif a Vvla D100U. "JDlV secmcu Ijuiic wuiiui tauiv, sir, and asked for water several times." Physician (with a grave look)?"H'm ?still flisrhtv."?Boston Bear.nn. How to Sharpen a Pencil. - "It really makes me tired to see the average man sharpen a pencil," said an old newspaper man in a stationary store to a Washington Star reporter. "He will cut his fingers, cover them with dirt and blacken them with lead dust, and still will not sharpen the pencil. ' 'There is buto sharpen a lead pencil and that is to grasp it firmly with the point from and not toward you. Take your knife in the other hand and whittle away as though you had lots of pencils to waste. 1' wing these directions and turnin. > pencil nvAr vmi will snon have it : !r and regularly sharpened, and yc >: In gen will he unsoiled and you will :.o need any court plaster to put on the wounds because you cannot cut your lingers when whittling from them. "This method is the best, whether the knife is dull or sharp. If the pencil is a soft one there is no sense in sharpening the lead. Simply cut away the wood, and in writing turn the pencil over, thus writing with the sides of the lead. "Another disgusting and senseless habit is in placing the pencil in the mouth when writing. This is a relic of the da}*s when pencils were as hard as flint and before the manufacturers were able to produce the smooth, soft pencils that are used to-day. The continual dampening of the lead will harden even a ?"ood sranhite pencil and make it hard and gritty. It is simply a habit, any way, and most habits are bad ones." A Tall Throne. The King of Italy has sent to King Menelik a carved wooden throne twenty-four feet high. Don't Pnll Out Superfluous Hair. Young Padelford of Philadelphia, who was at Newport last summer, has met with a curious and perhaps fatal experience. Some time a fro he dis covered a small tuft of hair growing on his neck which seemed to have no relation with the hair of his head. Last week a barber whom he patronized suggested that he should take the tuft of hair out by the roots, and Pad elford told him to go ahead. The barber performed the operation, and Padelford is said to be lying now at the point of death from an attack of blood poisoning which the operation has induced.?2f. T. World. ssdJj -Cfli. 'ansiStdo ub oj qonra j.usi aisrp ?osn^oDq .'scaBjihda rnsq? nro aq* la-rnon eq p[no.u. tt-sxn??u -J9d? st: sassaapB 8ino9 jo S9SS9jp aq; 0} SJ9J9J gSn^qoxa oijsrtsnq?TO ny The statement is made that more than 65,000 elephants are killed in Africa every year. Their ivory in the raw state is worth ?4,000,000. * Ex-Gov. D. H. Chamberlain made a speech before the Boston Reform Club last Saturday in which ho denounced the wholesale robbery of the Treasury going on under the name of pension bills. Concerning the negro question, Mr. Chamberlain said the negroes were getting along ery well under the control of the white people of the South, and special Federal legislation intended to interfere with their control can do nothing but harm. "tr1 A ~ DEE!). HOW TEE TOWN OF ST, ALBAl'o WAS lAiih.N. Twenty-six Confcdernin E?cnpe f.'cm prison and Cnptureit a Vermont Tcwn?Thc Banks locked?Trial in Canndr. Atlanta Constitution. Sketches innumerable, have appeared in newspapers and magazines, on both sides of JIason and Dixon's life purporting to be "the most daring exploit of he war." I have, however, seen no allusion to what I claim, was the most daring, viz. the capture of St. Albans, vermont, by twenty-six confederates in ne latter days of December 'G4, or early in January '65. Thi3 audacious episode is so lit'l j known in Atlanta, that a brief account by one who was almost (not quite) a part of the capturing force, may not be uninteresting. In the summer of 18G4 about 120 confederate prisoners of war. who had contrived to escape from different northern prisons made their way to Canada in preference to taking the risk of re-capture in the endeavor to pierce the military lines, and perhaps have to answer the charge, so freely made against suspicious strangers, of being spies, liock Island, Camp Chase, Camp Douglas, Camp Morton and other prisons of lesser note each furnished its quota of this contingent. Now, such a body of men, who had the shrewdness and energy to effect their es cape, were not likely to be inactive in the stirring events which so much concerned them. Consequently a movement was set on foot looking to tbe liberation of the prisoners on Johnsou's Inland. This ended in tbe capture and execution of Major Beal, of Buffalo, N. Y. Following on the heels of tneir bei.oved leader's death, it scon became apparent that Sherman was about to aoandon tbe sword of the soldier for the torch of the incendiary. As the mothers, wives and and sisters of these exiled patiots were exposed to insult and pillage, naturally their rage knew no bounds. Said Captain , of Alabama, to the writer: ''There are enough of us here to draw off 10,000 cutthroats form our beloved homes, if we but hang together and strike in the roost tender SDot. as these vandals have been striking us." As a result of mature deliberation like a clap of thunder in a clear sk? news flashed over the wires that "arebe! horde had captured St. Albans, Vt., Subsequent events developed the fact that "the horde" consisted of twenty-six men, who quietly entered the town and throwing off their outer wraps, appearaa in the garb of confederate soldiers, arm ed to the teeth, and enforced an immedisurrender. Although the place con tained 5,000 inhabitants, the mayor ana city officers counseled submission. The entire male population was corraled in the public square and held for hours, twenty UtiUg uciancu clo a ^u>iu 1U1 them, while the other six went through the public buildiDgs, both local and federal, and the national banks. Five millions in greenbacks, bonds and securities compensated the captors. On returning to Canada, a demand was made from Washington for their extradition, The case was taken before a a judge in Toronto on a writ of habeas corpus, and postponed for ten days to enable the prisoners to procure evidence. Now, as much courage and greater shrewdness was necessary to prove these men were soldiers? not mere robbers. Five scouts were immediately dispatched for Richmond, each commissioned on the same errand, so if one or more fell into the hands of the enemy some of them might get through. On the night one of the couriers returned, ana on the tenth morning, just before court convened, two others came in with a certified copy of Lieutenant Young's commission, and certiied copies of the enlistment papers of each and every one of the other twenty-five. The trial proceeded; the court decided the parties were beligerents, and they were acquitted accordingly. S"> strong a presiure, howtver, was brought to bear on the Dominion government that parliament was convened in session extraordinary, and the allien sedition act passed under the government whip and spur. This act may be briefly jepitomized as follows: "lb* governai general is empowered io suspend the habeas ccipus by proclamation in the dominion within forty-eight hours." ? . . t i" But little remains to be told. Ai | though only twentj-six took part iu th St. Albans raid there were about on hundred and twenty distributed througl the cities of Montreal, Toromo, St Catherines and Hamilton. A portio. conceived the idea of going to Europe [ offering their services on a blockad ( runner, and gaining entrance to som southern port, 'ibis was deemed th ? Aaf -r\\ a r\ o a wAnlfl Kq rrv q ; lliuai icaoiuiu ao ji ?r vu iu v/v uiuu i ness to attempt returning through th northern states. We'll, they fount > themselves, in course of time, in Edin burgb, Scotlard, with all arrangement made to mao a vessel, prepared lor th ; purpose on the Clyde, about forty mile distant, -when news came of Lee's sur render and as a consequence they fur rendered theii blockade runDirg re solves. How mauy of these ex-escaped priso ners are left in twenty-years? As I writi a coincidence presents itself to me? twenty-six men participated in the St Albans raid, and it is just twenty-si: years since it occured. If this should catch the eve of an] one who was iD Canada at that ticii will be confer with the writer ?.'f tnii through the Constitution. Ex-Coxfederate . General lion ti am'* Narrow Eaeapc. On the 5th instant Adjutant Genera! M. L. Bonham, Jr., of this cily had z narrow,escape /torn death by asphyxiation at Washington, where he was ic attendance on the meetings of the Na tional Guard Association of the United States. He was stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, and when he retired thought he had turned out the gas The fixtures, however, beicg very old. it is probable that the weight of his hand, as he withdrew it, opened the stopcock and th? gas escaped. General Bonham went to sleep almost imrnedi ately, and had it not been for the night watchman, who detected the odor in the hall and forced his nay into the room, it is probable the effect of the gas would have been fatal. As it was he had only been asleep a short while, and when the windows were thrown open he soon became all right. A doctor was called in, but his services were not needed.?Cohimbja Register. Against 'taking OffHnts. Vienna Dispatch to the London News. A movement is cn foot in Austria and Hungary just now to do away with the form of salutation customary among men?that of taking oft the bat. At Graz a committee has been formed which passed a resolution and calied upon the civil and millitary Governors, Baron, Kuebeck and Count Wurmbrand, as also on the mayor of the city, begging them to sanction the resolution by accepting the millitary salute from their inferiors. The three gentlemen gladly gave their conseDt. The wish has also been ex pressed that the dangerous custom of uncovering the bead for a length of time at furnerais snouia oe dODe avcay with. It is pointed out that the military salute must necessarily imply at least as much respect as lifting the hat, lince a common soldier thus .saluates tbe highest command in the army. In tbe Miadl ages the hat or cap was not doffed. V" | PIBRCED BY RED HOT WIRE. ! Tl'en Awfcl Fate of a Workman ia n Trenton .Hill. "The Haunted Mill" is t :e title aiv | on QV WOrKin??liea ;? :::t* I1?--.v V/Ii'ii^u street at;?ex t<? Roebbng's wiro ;??: ! rolling null in Trenton, New .Jersey. The men have some cause for the name, too, for, although the mill h*s been operation but a few months, nearly a dozea of of their fellow workmen have been stricken there with death in the mrist shocking manner possible. Indeed, so super-ukious are the men becoming that they go to their labor very reluctantly. ' THE PERILOUS PROCESS. The drawing of wire uoder the processes used at Iioeblicg's is extremely dangerous, although the firm is rapidly replacing the old machioeiy hy the pipe guide system. A number of large bars of hsavy iron several inches in diameter are now placed in a furnace, aad when at ?rhite beat tbey are rushed over to the chain of twe.ve rollers with grooves, aud it is *\aca t^rAiiftK tVioo* rAllArfl ?? U11U I kJS^J U'iCO l,utvu^u VUV?V . V..V.W that the danger arises. Two men on either side of the rollers take charge of the iron in its heaviest state, and from then on to the finisher, who is stationed at the end of the long line of rollers, are boys. DAXGEROUS "WORK. The iron passes through the first groove in the heavy state very rapidly, and at the opposite side of the rolls stands a hoy with a pair of tongs, who must catch this rod of red hot iroa, going at a rate of about a rod a mioute, twist it about his head in a snake like wriggle aDd pass the end into another groove or a bole smaller than tlie one tnrougn which it has just passed. If the boy misses the hole or guide into which he shoald pass the hot iron in an instant theiion bends, the end shoots up and if the lad is not nimble enough to get out of its way it goes through his body. This was the position held by Charles Cheattle,and, although he was considered a first class workman, he was not quick enough to escape the swiftly rolling iron and it pierced his body through and through. HOTCHKISS' AWFUL FATE. A few days ago Thomas Hotcbkiss, one of the most expert "roughers," or men who handle the hot iron when it nrst passes through the rollers, was Killed iD this mill in aD even more horrible manner than was young Cheattle. Hotcbkiss was standing before tbe furnace with his tongs when an accident happened. A fellow workman stooped over to repair the damage, and at the same instant a large square rod of iron c^me rushing from tbe furnace and owing to the disarrangement of the furnace Hotchkis codld neither stop tbe iron nor turn it from its course. Nor could be move out of his tracks. He bent over, thinking it might pasa over bis bead, but in this he was mistaken. CLEAR THROTGH HIM. be end of tbe red hot rod entered tbe 1 /s m A , ? U 1 n rtU/1 Arvi An ? ?nOOCfl/^ lUWtJi pcil b UJL UIO auui/iiiuu auu ^uocvu through the body, coming out at the neck and burning out hi3 entrails. Not one drop of blood was abed, but Elotcbkiss was dead before the iron could be extricated. The Hungarian who was injured in 'i'ie*wire department on Tuesday night nes ,n a precarious condition. The Roeblings employ about 8,000 men. GRIEVANCES OF THE NEGRO. An Address Issued From Washington by the Colored Cocxentloo. The colored convention, in session ' * -X _ J* T> T> at Washington, eiectea ei-vxov jr. Pinceback, president of the national organization, and issued an address, which, after reheasing in the usual manner the grievances of the race, 1 closes as follow :: "The propositions now pending in Congress looking to the deportation of ; or emmigration of colored American citizens of this country to any other country, or even to any other part of our own country, tnrougn government, aia, also meet with our most emphatic : condemnation and disapproval; for we cannot exile ourselves from this country as a neutralizing movement against our growing numbers as an the nation doing its duty Ajjjy^pan citizens. -j nize the nghtorcoTorecI^mencancitie zens to go to any country they may t desire or to any part of our own counb rry, y*t we do not believe that it is any ? part of the duty of the General Gov d ernment to render aia or assistance Irorn the Federal treasury for that e purpose, and we do not ask it. a1) p we ask is justice, equal rights and fair c play. If under such circumstances, we cannot survive we will have none e to blame but ourselves. We recomend i the adoption of the following resolu^ tions: s ".Resolved. That the national ort ganization created by this convention s be authorized and instructed to - upon the President of the United - States and present bim with a copy oi . this address, and also to thank him in the name of the convention for his . kind allusions to colored Americans in t his address to congress; also to appear . before the diflerent committees of Congress haviDg jurisdiction of the I ^u UJ C * OIC/A A t-VA tV c*v*dress for the purpose of urging upon i the said committees the necessity for L the said proposed legislation and to give the reason in detail for the same." Kepntatioc. I The reputation of a man is made up L of what people say of him. In like manner the reputation of a medicine , depends on what they who have used . it say. No remedy in existence has ? ? * 1-1.-3 | so good a reputation as a Diooa remeay . as B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). It I is a successful physicians' prescription and quickly cures both mild and terrible cases of bad blood. | Dr. L. A. Guild, Atlanta, Ga.; writes: . "Wm. Sealock, living on my place, [ had an ugly running ulcer on his arm which 01 dinary remedies failed to cou trol. As a last resort I placed him o a use of B. B. B. and the ulcer began , to heal at once, and effected an entire , cure. It *s a remedy well wortny ot i confidence." Dr. J. E. Hall, Druggist at Americus, Ga., writes. "A planter near this place had several of his best laborers fflTppfpH with Svnhilis TTa frnt them B. B. B. and pronounces them all well. A gang of A. P. & L. Railroad hands useB. B. B. with great benefit to counteract the effects of swamp malaria. An uncanny, ghastly trade was recently consummated in Charlotte. Mandy Pankey was condemned to be nanged last Friday. About a month ago Pankey bargained with the doc ? -11 it A wts lu sluow lueui uj ta&c uuatgo ui his body after his execution, if they would give him twenty pounds of candy. The physicians agreed and j the candy was delivered to the condemned in his cell. For the]last ten days of his life he feasted on the price of his body. Bradfield's Female Regulator will cure all irregularities or derangements peculiar to women. Those suffering el-irmM nsa it SnlrJ hv all dmceist.a SBBBHMBBBMHWBWMi ITEMS OF ALL SORTSAs <i new industry, Scotland i3 tdOaca to gather ice. A shoemaker at St. Joseph, Mo., 5:3.3 constructed a "cold air motor,"' whicli be claims will run all kinds of street vehicles. The Mormons Lave recently sent a missionary from Salt Lake to theSamoaii Islands to preach the Gospel and drum up recruits among the natives. At the moment when the war ship Warrior rescued a party of French balloon ists they were casting lots as to who ehould throw himself out to lighten the I balloon. The Medical and Surgical Reporter announces that it will publish the names of religious papers which print improper i J:?i _ j i_\,???,i,,? Ziieuiu<ii tuiveiu^cu-iriJio n, unci uuu warning, they persist in printing them. People on Pall Mall were recently woaderstruck to see the coots, kitchenmaids, waiters, and all the employes of the Army and Navy club, to the number of 100 or more, pour out on the steps and pavement. They were photographed. Leading English gunmakers report ! that they have had a remarkably large , number of orders from ladies for fine ; guns. Shooting during the season is said to be the latest notion of the English womon nf nnaJitv. aJthonch some nrefer fishing. Mr. H. G. Yogt said that if ships could be towed instead of propelled by the propeller, an average of 40 per cent, in coal and power could be saved. The propeller at the stem sucks the sustaining water from the ship, causing resistance to be increased in that proportion. Engine 810; of the Union Pacific road, that is now employed in transferring cars across the Omaha bridge, has a record of having run 1,140,625 miles. It has been in use for twenty-five years, nnrl was one of the first locomotives used west of the Missouri river. The agricultural department is organizing five new experimental stations for the study of sorghum and its manipulation ?three in Kansas, one in New Jersey and one in Louisiana. The appropriation for tliis work this year is $100,000 larger than it has ever been before. Jerusalem is rapidly growing as a trade center. One hundred thousand dollars' worth of objects of devotion in motherof-pearl and olive wood are exported to America ana n,ursjpu every y t -i . v mo cultivation is being extended, and the price of land has risen six fold within a few years. Since the receiving ship "Wabash has been lying off Boston there have been several curious applications from men who wanted to enlist. One man said he'd enlist if he could do work to which he was accustomed. He wasn't enlisted, for he was a paper hanger. Another wanted to enlist to take care of the captain's horse. A gardener would enlist if if h? could find work, and another candidate? wanted to' be the ship's roofer. A zfem near EayettetiH*, Tenn., bciJt a frre co<6 mwmtig -Etcsotiy and in a lit'tle tfifile sasw a pair of b1*ck feet drop down the chimney. A search revealed a colored neighbor of bad reputation stuck fast in it Upon being released the negro said that, owing the householder 10 cents, he had come to pay it, and finding the doors and windows fast chose this mode of entrance. But as his shoes and an-ax were left outside his tah was not credited A few days ago a large hog belonging to Le Koy Hardy, of Stark, Ga., while the family were all out of the house, went into the house, and after climbing upon a feather bed proceeded /vlAfV?inrt? * ***+ > Anil IAJ tear l-u.c ucu auu v/xvi/uzux juiipv rags. His hogship thought he had found a beautiful plaj house, and in his dclightand playfulness tore things up generally. When the inmates of Cne house came in the floors were literally covered with feathers, and the festive brute ran from the house looking more like one of the feathered tribe than a fat porker. Mr. Andrew Carnegie will establish in Pittsburg one of the finest public libraries in the country. It will be a very comprehensive institution, including what will be known as the Academy flaa t*owaiic /lononfrnflnf; KJX OV/lCIIVt, Hit YUiiVUO UV/Jk/Ui VLUVUM of which will be under the charge oi the different scientific and investigation societies of western Pennsylvania. The cost of the building was originally placed at $500,000, but Mr. Car I negie now states that he will give $750,fc thejjurpose. and that nothing shall be lackinglifitir^SISe^ , ful to secure the most complete sue CASfi M. Nantet reached the Paris exposi tion from Brussels, after a seven days journey, in a phaeton drawn by a pai: of dogs. He is a humane man, an( I when his dogs were tired he went be . tween the shafts while theymountec the box. I To cut an apple into quarters pass i string by means of a needle across th< . apple, which is divided by pulling th( two ends of the string:, crossing nndei . the peel. Operate in the same mareuei on the opposite side of the apple, so a< to divide it into a second half, and ii win oe periecuy uiviueu ru to quyruers, although enveloped by the peeL i ODDS AND ENDS. The German military estimates foi 1891 call for 120,000,000 marks foi > munitions of war. A citizen of Wells ville, 0., now 74 years old, boasts that he has never paid a cent to a lawyer or doctor. All the tamers of Great Britain have decided to go on strike if the demand for an eight hours working day is not conceded by Jan. 1st. Give me the liberty to know, to tViinl- ir\ V\?>1 ri rl ir% lift at* LU WVliVT V C4.UU tV UkiVVi * J> VV/4J ^ according to conscience, shave all Ctker ftbfrfties. ?Milton. Upwards of 2,300 miles of main for canopying natural gss have been laid in the United States, and the total capital invested in the business cxceeos $50,000j000. For the year euded March 31, 1889, the net profits of the English postoffice and telegraph office, exclusive of the packet service, weue within a fraction. of ?4.000.000. Postmaster General "Wanamaker has submitted to the Congressional committee on Postoffices the draft of a bill proyiding for the establishment of postal telegraph offices at every free delivery office in the country. Under Via Kill if ia tliof graph tolls in any one State shall not. exceed ten cents for messages of 20 words or less, counting address and signature, nor over 25 cents for any distance under 150 miles, nor over 50 cents for any greater distance; the rates and rules to be prescribed by the Postmaster General. When Nellie B!v started on her ton arouod the world, the New Yurk World opened a guessing department aDd offer ed atrip to Europe, with all expeD&es paid, and $250 in pocket money to toe person making tbe closest guess as to the time that would be consumed by Mellie Bly's trip. F. W. Stevens, cf New York, was the winoer of tbe prize. rrU n i >vi o ort Ki n 1 1 ft rt/Mici O o nn c X -Lie blUiC a^tuaiij V/UU?La;gy ao auuuuttu by the timekeepers, was 72 day?, 6 hours, 11 minutes aDd 14 seconds. Mr. Stevens1 guess was 72 day?, ti hour?, 11 minutes and 14 2 5 seconds. There is a deaf aod dumb man iD Kansas oeven feet tall. This is what we call a lon^ silence.?Kearney Enterprise. - " '' ^ mammemmmmKBSBsmmmmm a ?rn O undrfd na<3 N-n? J!u?li? I* c-f Cor to an Acre?How It is made Iti TLe following is tas mo<ie in wbich aa Indiana farmi-r made the zho'f heavy _:.iJ _f . ~ .i-? A <- _ ?; tuiu io luc IB called particularly to tbe value to rye plowed in green in tbe spring, Js a manure for com. He plowed it ufidex in May. which, in Indiana, is the planting time. xU the South"" "* d be done a full month earlir from the Farmers' Review: PRFPAKATIOiC OF THfc" Lli. If you have sod ground, en . ;r o. ver red top or timothy, you need not com mence in our latitude (Southern Indianauntil tbe first of May, but if on whet*) or oat stubble, or on ground that is in corn, you should commence in August in the vear orevious to that in which you expect to grow the crop, by preparing your groUDd well and sowing k to rye at the rate of two bushels per acre. Green manure is the cheapest manure that we can get for corn, and I know of none so good as rye. A heavy crop of clover turned under the first of May is perhaps a little superior to rye. but you cannot have it as readily as rye. Plow under your green crop the first of May, using a chain or other device for putting the green matter well under." Break your ground not less than ten inches deep, follow with an under breaking, but do not throw the subsoil on top, but stir it up from four to six inches more. Follow with a drag and make the surface smooth; always drag before noon 1 -1 O ** nuat juu uave uiowcu ID Ifle momiDg: you may plow all afternoon until eight or ten o'clock in tbe morning, but stop and drag your ground before you go to dinner; if you don't yoa will fail to make a good connection, if you allow tbe sun aDd wind to have one day at your clods before tbey are?crushed. PLANTING. Take a medium-sized old fasbion?d shovel plow and trench off your land in trenches three and one-half feet apart, follow with a one-horse drill; be sure that your drill discharges one grain at every point required. It you fail in this there is no remedy but to plant again, because re-plant never does any good. When your corn is fairly up take a small harrow, one that you can make wide or narrow at pleasure, and go twice in a row. You should do this ao you can give your whole attention to one sice; by so doing you can throw a little fine of earth down about the coin when it is only four or five inches high After this you can set your harrow so that ycu need not go but once in a row. Go through every week or ten days for four or five times, always setting your harrow so that it will throw a little more earth to the plant until the trench is full. You need not stir the ground more than two inche? deep. You need not give yourself any uneasiness about weed3. They won't trouble you if you uave prepared me ground as aoove described. By following the plan of sowing rye in your corn you can grow five or six consecutive crops without ary bad effects on your lands, when, without it you would nearly or quite exhaust it. About the Size of It.?Tommy?Paw, what is "senatorial courtesy?" Mr. Figg ?It mesr.s that so senator is expected to ask another one what h* paid for his eif.?TVrre Hau e Esprets. The newspapers report that the war between Tbcmas. the defeated, and Brice. the successful candidate for the Senate is ever. Brice bavin ' promised to arrange a district and a deal to get Thomas' son in Congress HiNSSRCOKNS. mo onjy wire ui ?ior uorns. dvope an pain. Knmm Mm fort to thefcet 15c. at Drcg^rirfa. Hxscox&Co.tN.X, ^BttC^^SUWPTIVP Flare von Consrh. 1'ronchltis, Indigestion! Use PARKER'S CjpICSR TONIC. It baa cm? the >xorM eases an<MUieo?*t remedy for ?11 IUx artMat; "roaa defectire nut *Jqu. 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