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m ELECTRIC STOCK. j Three Reports by the House Committee of Investigation, The Majority Uphold and the Mi- i nority Condemn Garland. The minority, or Republican, report of the special oommittee which conducted th3 Fao Electric telephone investigation, prepared by Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, was made public on the 29th,ready for submission to the House as soon as the Democratic members reached an agreement upon their report. Mr. Ranncy's report is indorsed by the four Republican mem Ders or tue committee, aau iaairmaa Boyle's report, which represents the views of the majority, is indorsed by four Democratic members, Mr. Hale of Missouri, the fifth Democratic member of the committee, having decided to submit his individual views independently of his colleagues. The Ranney report reviews the testimony of the principal witnesses examined before the committee, and criticises the methods of the projectors of the Pan Electric enterprise and the conduct of Attorney-General Garland and Solicitor-General Goode in connection with granting the government suit against the Sell company. Referring to the efforts of the Pan Electric people to bring about a government suit, the re;jort says: "They determined to have the department ; of justice bring a suit against the Bell company, but which would remain under their control. They did not want to have the Bell patent vacatetl, but they hoped they could fright, n the Bell company into the b3lief that they could do so. They thoughr, moreover, that the mere institution of siuh a suit would doter the United States courts from granti?g any injunction 1 favor of the Bell patent" Ui Attorney-General Garland's action, or non-action, in connection with bringing the government suit, the 1-eport says that he knew the Bell patent had been repeatedly sustained, and so it concerned the honor of the department that such a patent should not be attacked without serious inquiry, and the duty of the AttorneyGeneral to seo to it that it received such inquiry, they say, was increased by the fa.-t that he knew an" application was going to be made, and that the parties pressing action wanted it passe 1 upon without reference to the Patent Office, and that he had a great pei soual interest that it should be so passed, and should meat with no delay. The report says further: "There" a*-e a number of facts and circumstances. however, which leave it beyond doubt t hat Mr. Goode's recollection is so seriously at fault as to a large part of what took place that it cannot be safely relied upon in any portion. He became Solicitor-General in May by au appointment made by the President but not yet confirmed by the Seu?te. On June 20 he went to British Columbia on a mission for the department And appeared at his office again August 20. Mr. Garland testifies that he was then expecting to go away for his vacation, which would occupy about 3ix weets, ana ne aia go away on tne:j<tnor August. Mr. Goode testifies that during the I week that intervened he hardly spoke to Mr. Garland, except for the ordinary interchange of coui t.^sies, and did not talk with him about business wliatever. Mr. Goode must be mistaken about it He must have had consultations and forgotten all about them." The minority reach the conclusion that the Solicitor General was led to grant the application for a government suit without the usual reference or inquiry, without competent examination, with a speed unexampled in the history of the flepa-tment, and in violation of the established rules and practice of the office. "In ordinary cases," they add, "such action would be held to be positive proof of fraud, at lea it proof of gross negligence, which in a person in his position is equivalent to fraud. The Republican minority follow up this severe criticism of the Solicitor General with an arraignment of Attorney-General Garland. They say: "The best that can be said of him is that he lent himself to this scheme, because ho got stock for nothing. If he was not active init himself, he>u'lered his name and influence to be used by others. He was then only a Senator of the" United States. He was naxt placed at the head of the Department of Justice. The man from whom he had received the half million of stock wanted now to borrow the name of that department and {jet it? indorsement; then an ally asked for it; then the official repre-entative of bis company asked for it. His intelligence told him there were things he should not permit, and th?u his will le: liim argue that be might stand aside and see his office do them."' Mr. Hale's report takes the ground that the whole matter was purely a specu'ative j venture. He does not believe there is auy- i thing in the great ma-is of testimony which will show that the Pan Electric projectors saw anything in the eaterprise which was in any sen e immoral, dishonest or inconsistent with the duty of public men or citizens. The Majority Report. In the House on the 30tta Mr. Boyle (Penn.) from the Fan-Electric Committee, submitted a report signxl by four members of the committee upon the subject of its investigation. Mr. Halo (Mo.), who concurred in this report, also submitted his individual viflws. Mr. Rannev I Mass. 1. submittal th? minority report sign al by four members. The majority report was accompanied by the following resolution: "Resolved, That a full, fair and exhaustive invest'gatiou has failei to adduce any evidence which tends to show that AtterneyGeneral Garland, S >licitor General Ciocde, Secretary Lamar, Indian Commissioner Atkins, Railroad Commissioner Johnston or Senator Harris?they being the officers named in the Pan-Electric publications of the newspaper press, which gave rise to this investigation?did any act, offic'al or otherwise, connected with the matter investigate ! which was dishonorable or censurable." The report ami the resolution (which is concurred in by M. Halei was referred to the House calendar. 1 * After a referent to the comparisons that ] have been made between the conduct of Mr. j Gar laud and his associates and Messrs. Car- | lisle. Ran-lull and others, the majority report "^Vhat Dr. Rogai-s ofTer.xl to Massrs. Carlisle and others was stook in in?orjK)rated and organized comuauies. What he transferred to Garland, Harris and others was an interest in inventions, in there t hen condition j of no value whatever, and only to be made , valuable by the joint efforts of the Rogers' ' and those who joinei them in the undertaking. That the capital of the telephone company was fixed at $5,U0i),UJ0 is wholly immaterial. Had it been fixed at $ >,0J0, the tiling they owned and their proportionate A interests in it would have bem the sa lie The property itself might turn outtj be worth > ;? ?-tx_ r> u i mucn or uuliuu^. as ui. xwjjcj 3 aaj-t, ?t um no commercial value. Eviden e does not show that these peutle nen were admitted by the Messrs. Rogers with any expe tatiou of profiting by their offie al positions or official action. "At that time Mr. Garland was not thought of for Attorney General. He was suggested by Atkins, and it need hardly be said, in view of his previous life and character, that it was not thought he would use his official power to forward a private enterprise in which he was interested. Casey Young was named by Rogers. He was not to - appear in Congress until nearly a year after. General Johnston was not in office and dil not expect to be. If official influence was the consideration for the interests transferred to Harris and Garland, what was the consideration for those transferred to Atkins and to Johnston? The committee has failed to find that any legislation was contemplatid at the t ma this company was formed, or during its existIicj up to the present time by which it or its embers could have profited. The only matr spjken of was in relation to the estabtislient of a postal telegraph by the governent. This had been agitated for S'jme krs. When mentioned Senator Harris fcei to his associates that if it came Fin the Senate ha could mako known C n.ottrtv on 1 rlaolina tn (3 1111*54 cau ill IUO iiiavivi * ?vvn?.w >te, so that nothing was expected from him. nd according to the testimony of all the irties nothing was expected from any one the members. There is no evideuce that r. Garland ever heard of it. The question >ver did get before either body of Congress, id it is not pretended that any member of 3 company di 1 anything to aid it or that ly member favored the project. f'lt is in evidence that the Bell patents were Bposed of and the Bell company wa; organpa just as the Pan-El"ctric was. Out of Us Bell organization, thus commenced, has own in the course of a few years oue of the most stupendous monopolies in the world." Tho report maintain* that no stock was over issue 1 by th > Pan-Electric Company,and in con tie tion with Senator Vest's purchase of | an "interest,' says that tha propriety aud fi>of frotihlainfinV t.rAYis&gptfntis nrA unquestioned. Tiie history of th> proceedings at the conf??-.?nce is given in detail aud the report says: .\ow, up to thi> time, what had the Attorney General lone, per nittod or advise 1 in relation to a government suit' He had received Dr. Rogers letter of May 34th and pigeon holed it. He hai received Mr. Van Bentbuysen's letter of July l'.'th and referred it to the Department of the Interior wit'iout ro oinmeiidation. A delegaton had <al!od oa him and he had absolutely refuse:! ti hi talked to on the subject on the ground that he was interested in a teleplion) comjany. It is not pretended that he dil anyth:u< more. What more could have been re juired of him or of any one? No Judge of a court ever behaved more discreet'y or circumspectly or honorably." Of S >licitor General Goode's treatment of the application to bring tha Memj his suit,the report says: "There is no reason to question tbe correctness o; Mr. Goode's statement. It is not only un-ontrail cte 1, but is fully supported by all the witnesses who testified about the same matter?. He was - not connected with auy ti-le-. hone company: had no interest of any kind to ba effects J by tha suit and had no knowledge of any previous application He had not bren informed of Mr. Garland's conue:ti<n with a telephono company, and had ' he been that should have "made no difference in his conduct. In the viow of the committee, while it would doubtless have been better to have referred the application to the Department of the Interior (as such had been the practice) notwithstanding he already had all the information attainable there, his failure to do so was, at most, only a mistake. The committee fiuds nothing whatever in the con duet ot Mr. uoouo deserving cousuro. In conclusion the report says: "Tho committee does find that there was sufficient "reason and authority" for bringing the suits, but it expressly refrains from attempting to find whether the Bell patents were obtained fraudulently or whether Boll was the invcn'or of the speaking telephone. THE NATIONAL GAME. Pittsburg is the first Association club to be whitewashed twice in succession this season. ' Radbourn is pitching a strong game for Boston, but he has bean given poor field support. The pitchers who were batted the hardest early in the seasen are now becoming very effective. No pitcher has as yet this season disposed of a team without a base hit in a championship game. I California has the base ball fever so bad that there is not a town or village, however small, but has a club. Joe Gerhardt, second baseman of the New Yorks, made but one hit in eight games, and but one error in twelve games. The Detroite to re ^ent date had made fourteen home runs, twenty-one three-basa hits and fifty-eight two-base hits. Less home runs have been made on the Charleston grounds than in any other city in the Southern League?only three. Kelly, of the Chic agos, has made more runs than any other player in the League. He earned the re.ord by tine base running." Bufki.vtov, of Boston, is certainly ona of the steadiest batting pit?hers in the League, as he hits the ball in nearly every game he plays. Until Detroit ran into Chicaeo and stopped short the nine had nut been defeated on the home grounds this year?eighteen games in a'L President Wyckoff, of the American Assoc iation, has is-ued an order tbat missel third strikes should not be placed in the error column, but must be 3corerl as passed balls. O'Rourke and Connor, of the New Yorks: Brouthers, Thompson, and Richardson, of Detroit; Hines, of Wa-hin^ton, and An3->u, e r\\-i i ?. ?31 Ol UllluagU, uavo im'u muuo uvw uibj uaau hits this season. Chicago has made 14 home runs this season, Phi'aielphia 11, St. Loais 8, Washington 6, Detroit 14, Boston G, New York 'J, and Kansas City 3. Of this numbor Thompson, of Detroit, has made 5, and Hines, of Washing, ton, 3. Latham is the first player in the American Association who has scored fifty runs this season. He did this by excellent base running, and not so much by hard hitting, as he does not rank among the first twenty leading batters. Dcnlap, second baseman of the St. Louis Maroons, made in cni game the following unexcelled record: Three runs; four base hits, one a three-bass drive aud another a home run; eight put outs, seven assists and one error. Never was there such an even race a? the present one of the American Association. In marked contract the League fight has already settled down to four clubs, and the third club has a higher percentage than the leader in the Association. Luther M. Frank, the thirteen-year-old son of Judge J. L. Frank, of Dayton, O., was instantly killed one day recently by being hit with a baseball. He was engaged in a game and was at the bat. Herman Seible, the pitcher, throw the ball, which struck him in tne region of the heart. Notwithstanding that there are more professional ball clubs and associations this year than ever before known since the National game jumped into popular favor,there : has so tar been only two disbandments?the Lanmsters, of the Pennsylvania Stita League, and the Long Islands of the Eastern League. The Little Nicols, of St. Louis, are going on a tour to Indiana, playing at Mar.nont, Peru, Argus, Princeton. South Bend and other places. They are the youngest team that ever took the road, the oldest member being barely sixteen yeare old. They are said to be fine players, despite their youth, and capable of easily beating teams of much more mature material A party, under direction of officer of the Qnited States Geological Survey, is about to make an extended exploration of Crater Lake [n National Park. It will be necessary to lower them 1,CM)0 feet down the stony crags La order to reach water. THE MARKETS. new york. 26 Beef cattle, good to prime 1 w 7 @ 8X Calves, com'n to prime veals 5 % Sheep 4%(g| 5>6 Lambs 7% Hogs?Live 4>| Dresed, city 4%<$ 5 Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 00 ($ 4 00 West, good to choice 4 00 @ 4 80 Whoat?No. 2, Rei 85 Rye?State GO @ 62 Barley?Four-rowed State... (aj Corn?Uugrad. Mixed 43 @ 50 Oats?White State 38 @ 3? Mixed Westeru....... 84 @ 35 Hay?Mod. to pr. limotny.. ou (ig 0*711 Straw?No. 1, Rye 85 (1$ 90 Lard?City Steam 6 50 @ 6 GO Butter?State Creamery.... 18 (t$ 19 Dairy 13 (g 17 Wtst. Im. Creamery 11 (<| 13 Factory 10 % 12 Cheese?State Factory 5 (<$ 7% Skims 2 @ Western. 5}^(g) 7 Eggs?State and Penn 14 @ 15 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 4 45 (Si 4 60 Lambs?Western 4 40 @ G 20 Steers?Western 5 00 (# G 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 15 (<C 4 (50 Flour?C'y ground n. process 5 25 (ti> G 50 Wheat?No. 1. Hard Duluth. ? (<3 84 Corn?No. 2, Mixed Now ? (4! 4'% Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western 36)?(<$ ;J7 Barley?Two-rowed State... BOSTON. Beef?Ex plate and famly. 10 50 (5:11 00 Hogs?L.ive a Northern Dressed... 6 (c? G)^ Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...l2 50 (<?13 33 Flour?Winter Wheat pat's. 5 20 @ 5 35 Corn?High Mixed 4<>X@ 47% Oats?Extra White 45 @ 47 Rye?State 70 (d> 75 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 5 75 0 12>? Sheop?Live weight 45 Lambs 8% Hogs?Northern, d. w ? @ 5 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. ex family, good 3 75 @4 00 Wheat?No. '2, Rod ? @ 87 Rye?State @ 75 Corn?State Yellow @ 41 OatsMue.1 37 @ 39 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 15 @ 16 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 11#? 14 t . -vl.'L;<,4.;syu JUDGE DAVE DiVIS. Death of the Distinguished Jurist and Ex-Senator. His Career on the Bench and in the United States Senate. Judge David Davis died on the 2tith at his homo in Bloomiugton, 111. He had suffered for some time from a malignant carbuncle; but the immediate cause of Judge Davis's death was Bright's disease of the kidneys, aggravated by a weakened condition of the ; 3ystom dating from the time when he became afflicted with the carbuncle. Hi3 last hours ! were calm and peaceful. ( i David Davis, formerly an Associate Jus- < tice of the United States Supreme Court,and s a Senator from Illinois, was a native of i Maryland. He was born in 1815, and at the ? date of his death was in the seventy-second i year of his ago. His father was a wealthy 1 farmer. Mr. Davis received an academical e education, and graduated from the well- i known Episcopal college of Kenyon. He then t studied law, and after his admission to i the bar, moved to Bloomington, III, t where he has ever since resided. Mr. Davis 1 entered on practi.e, and early obtained, for i the times, a lucrative professional success. g He devoted himself very largely to real es- i tato law, in which he was always esteemed a 1 great authority. Like most young and ca- ] pable attorneys of the period and region, he i soon entered on public life. He identified 1 himself with the Whig party, and s served several terms in the State Leg- c islature. He was an early friend and 8 associate of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Davis was t elected to the State Constitutional Conven- t tion of 1847,and therein held a leading place. ? Shortly after, he wa< elected Distric; Judge I and retired from active politics, though dur- t ing the early years of the Republican l organisation he became identified there- 1 with. Judge Davis was a good busi- i ness man, and from his early < f settlement at Bloomington became a large f owner of land. His real possessions have 1 been estimated at 300,000 acres. He owned | r a considerable amount oi property in tue en- e terprising city where he lived and in Chi- I cago. He was always known as apublicsnirited citizen, as well 83 a man of kindly t disposition. a one or Mr. Lincoln's earlier appointments li was of Judge Davis, who, in 186:4, was nom- c inated and confirmed as Associate Justice of 1 the Supreme Court Justice Davis served t fourteen years, or until J87C, when he re- * signed his seat on the bench to take the posi- c tion of Senator from Illinois in the United t States Senate. He was elected as an Inde- t pendent through the votes of the Dem- li ocrats and a number of anti-Logan Republi- y can In 1872 Judge Davis was nominated at g Columbus as the Greenback Labor Reform e candidate for President. It will te remem- t bered that though Judge Davis had expressed p dec ided Greenback views, he never definitely s accepted or declined the nomination tendered ii him. h On March 4, 18S3, Judge Davis was sue- a ceeded in the Senate by ex-Governor Shelby b VV". Cullom. Judge Davis's appearance in o the Senate has been thus desrrioed: a He weighs about 270 pounds. He usually u walks to and from the Capitol, aud moves I around the Senate chamber like an over- g grown schoolboy. He has a Romau cast a of features. His eyes are blue, and are n shaded by bushy iron-grey evebrows. ti ills CIieeKS are jnujjtm wim %itxy rruis&ers, and his lip is cleau shaven. His i head is thatched with straight gray hair. Ho * smokes a meerschaum pij;e with a long 5 cherry stem aud an ambar mouthpiece. J He is courteom in manuer and a gonial i convei-sationalist. No man is surrounded I by more attached friends. He is plainly dressed, and has the appearance of . a well-to-do farmer. His favorite novel is * "David Copperfield," though ho has a great * fondness for Thackeray and Walter Scott. He is not a church member, but he usually attends Presbyterian services. Asa United States Senator his position ? was an anomaly. During a portion of his J1 term hB held the balance of power. He was *" elected President pro tern of the Senate, and J1 served as such for about four years. Mr. "" Davis did not take a very active part as a debater, but was vigilant in watching legislation. He ' endeavored to secure a reorganization of the 0 federal judiciary, and his plan is still being P considered. The Senator was a ?iau of strik- ?! ing physique, being tall of stature, large 4 frame and very corpulent. ? After his retirement to private life in 1881 * Mr. Davis devoted himself 13 the care of his e large estate. In 18S2 he surprised the country, ? as well as his friends, by marrying again, he jj having been for a number of years a ? widower. After his marriage the ex-Senator * and bride traveled extensively, visiting 4 Europe and the Orient. Judge Davis, as 8 a jurisprudent, was well read and scholarly J with a wide grasp of legal principles and a J. keen, logical, judicial power of statement. As a Senator he showod the same traits. Per- ? sonally, he was a man of attractive disposi- * A! ? ? AAMT.ai.unfirvnftlipf O rlrtr Wlf 0 HUIlj UU CAIU1ICI1I; tvuiQioauvuuiiov,Hui; aud, like most Western lawyers of promi- S nence, an excellent story teller. 8 Messegesof condolence were received at A Bloomington from ex-President Arthur,Senators Sherman, Edmunds and Logan, ex- 1 Senator Coukliug, Attorney General Garland and others, ell speaking in the highest terms of the ability and honesty of the dead jurist, g a MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Sionor Sa.lvi.ni'3 fortune ia aet down at a no less than 1000,000. js Lawrexce Barrett declares that he re- P gards Edwin Booth as the grandest figure on rr th? ?f.nfA fco-fiav. a It is said that Rubinstein is so popular in tl London that a premium of 100 per cent, is 01 paid for seats at nis piano recitals. P Thomas "VV. Keene, the American actor. 01 ba3 so far recovered his health that he will ?. be able to resume the stage next season. J Another English professional beauty, Mrs. Mcintosh, has gone on the stage with y the intention of raking in the American dollars in the near future. a Ix John S. Clarke's new comedy of "The a Alps" that eminent actor Alls the congenial tl part of an elderly English tourist among r those historic mountains. d A new comic opera is announced, with the k title of "A Thousand Ems." It will present ii scenes and incidents of life in a newspaper t office and a printer's composing room. si Mmk. Nevada-Palmer has disappeared f; for a time from the lyric firmament and is J living quietly with her husbaud in Paris. I She sang at a recent soiree before Liszt and 0 Rubinstein. u Before leaving London, Sarasate, the Spanish violinist, refused $500 which was offered him to accompany Patti in a single . ' ? ? * i-? 1-.-.*. />AnnA?4 KafAPa Vint* mnirin MJUg tit liUI Itt^w wuuvvi u uviviv ?v.. - ?0-. He demanded $1,000. Miss Lulu Ratiibone, the daughter of jJustus H. Rathbone, the founder of the ( Knights of Pythias in Washington, has made t a successful debut in comic opera. She has ,3 adopted the stage as a profession. t A coming American comic opera is ^ "Bounced," the libretto of which is the work t of H. C. Bunner, editor of Pack, and Julian t Magnus. Louis Lombard of Utica, N. Y., is s composing the music. Tho characters,scenes ? and incidents of tho opera are essentially < American. . _ t - V - 1 TULIAGE'S SERMON,; AN ISLAND VISION. Dr. ^almage preached bel'ore an over flowincr mirlipni^o ??t f.ho TTimiinnrl TsIbtiiIs t.hi o _ ?" ? ? ? ? ? 1 peoplei flocking from all the surrounding country. Fully 7,000 persons were present and likened with rapt attention to the reverend gentleman. Texts: "I, John, was in the isle that is called Patmos.?Rev. i., 5). "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls."?Rev. xxi., 21. "Sal bath finds us among the Thousand Islanli of the St. Lawrence," began the preach jr. "Amid ths enchantment ol! the scenenr some of us are like Paul when he said:'Whether in the body or outof the body I cannot tell.' Not having road the geologist's j accouat of how this region was formed, I may surmise that after thu St Lawreace began its majestic roll these is anils were aropped into it out of the< -heavenly land>:ape. Islands above us, islands below us, islands all arounl us. I am reminded how mucn me ismnus 01 ine wo. la nave naa 10 ao with s acre:! and pofane h'story. Elba, from which Napoleon started for his last struggle; and St. He'eDa, where be ended it; Island of Guernsey, where the great 3cul of Victor Hugo chafed in exilo until republicanism in France drove back ' despotism; Isle of Borneo, where Adonirani Jud on stood, a flaming evangel; the island of Caprera, where Garibaldi rested after the emancipation of Italy; island jf Cypress where Barnabas preached; L-land >f Meli.ta, on which Paul was shipwrecked, md, lest of all, but mightier than all and more impressive than all, the island of Patmos, of which my text speaks, and from which St. John, the exiled Ephosian Gospeller, saw the twelve pearline gates. If God will help us we can, from the?e Thousand [sles on this Sabbath morning, see the same flittering porta s. "Our subject speaks of a great metropolis, :he existence of which mauy have doubted, rhere has bcon a vast emigration into that :ity, but no emigration from it, so far as our iatura.l vision can desc ry. "There i3 no such ;ity,' says the undevout astronomer. 'I have itood in high towers with a mighty telescope ind have swept the heavens, and I have teen spots on the sun and caverns in the noon, but no towers ha- e ever risen on ay vision, no palaces, no temples, no ihining streets, n> massive wait. There a no such city.' Even very goxl people all me that Heaven is not a material organ sjuy uub u ^iauu s^Ji ltutti iu;i, auu iuai ;he Bible descriptions of it are ia all casei tc )6 taken figuratively. I bring in reply to tbii vbat Christ said, and Ho ought to know: '1 jo to prepare,' not a theory, not a principle, lot a sentiment, but 'I go to prepare a place 'or you.' The resurrected body implies this, [f mj* foot is to bo reformed from the dust il. nust have something to tread on. If mjland is to ba reconstructed it must hav< omething to ha .idle. If my eye, having gone >ut in death, is to be rekindled, I must hav< omething to gaze on. Your adverse hjory seems to imply that the resurrected x>dy is to be hung on nothing, or to work it. lir, or to float amid the intangibles. You nay say: If there bj material organisms, hen a soul in heaven will be cramped anc lindored in its enjoyments; but I answer: )jd not Adam and Eve have plenty of room a the garden of Eden? Although only ..r ew miles woul 1 have described the circum ereuce of that place, they had ample room Ind do you uot suppose that God in the im nennties c aa build a pla?e large enough to jive the whole race room, even though then>e material organisms? "Aa a conquering army, marching on to ake a city, comes at nightfall to the crest o;! l mountain from which in the midst of th> andiieape they see tie castles they are to apture, and rein in their war chargers and lalt and take a good look before they pitch heir tents for the night; so now, coming ai re do on this mountain top of prospect, I ominand this reginunt of God to rein in heir thoughts and halt,and before they pitcli heir tents for the night take one good, lonj; ' ook at the gat<s of the great city. I want I 'ou to examine xne arcniieciure 01 moss ;ate:t. Proprietors of large estates are very ,pt to have an ornamented gateway. Someone; they spring an arch of masonry; thu Kjstsi of the gate flanked with lion* in tatuary; the bronze gate a representation o' Dtertwining foliage, bird-haunted, until tin iand. of architectural genius drops exhausted, 11 its life frozen into the stone. B-ibylou ad a hundred gates, so had Thebes. Gate 3 fwood and iron and stone guarded nearl 7 11 the old cities. Mo3lemshave inscribe I Sri their gateways inscriptions from ths nn. There hive been a great n any fin 3 ate ways, but Christset hishand to the work, nd for the uppar city swung a gate such as io eyes over ea^ed on untouched of insDiraion. "With the nail of his own cross he cut utoitswon lerful traceries stories of pa tsufering ai:d of gladness to come. There is io wood or stone or bronze in that gat?, but rom top to base and from side to side it 3 all of pearl. Not one piece picked up rom Ceylon banks and another piece from be Persian Gulf and another from the island f Mtffgarette; but one solid pea l picked up rom the beach of everlasting light by heav- j nly ha? ds, and hoisted and swung amid the hooting of angeli. The glories of a abaster ase and porphyry pillar lade out before this i ;atcway. It puts out the spark of feldspar i nd Bulie i:ian diamond. You know how one i ittlo precious stone on your finger will flash nd<5r the gaslight. But, oh, tha brightness 1 rhen rlin creat cita of henvfin swings, strunk hroughaud dripping with the light of eter- j al noonday. ; "Julius Cusrr paid 125,000 crowns for one : earl. The government of l'oi tu;.al boasted j r having a pearl larger than a p?ar. Cle<> atra and Philip IL dazzled the world's ision with precious stones. But gather all hese together and lift them and add to them 11 the wealth of the pearl fisheries and set hem in the panel of one do ;r and it does not qual this magnificent gateway. An A1 aighty handhewei this, strung this, polished his. Against this gateway on the one side lash all the splendors of earthly beauty. Against this gate on the other side beat he surges of eternal glory. Oh, the lata! the gate! It strikes an infinite charm hrough every one that passes it. One stop I his; side of that gate and we are paupers. )ne step the other side of that gate and we re kings. The pilgrim of earth, go;ng hrough, sees in the one huge p?>arl all his arthlv tears in crystal. O gato of light, ;ate of pearl, gate of Heaven, for our weary ouls at last swing open. Vhen shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And pearly gates behold, 'hy bulwarks with salvation strong And streets of shining gold? ' I want you to count the number of those at?s. Imperial parks and lordly manors (ire pt to have one expensive gateway and the thers are ordinary; but look around at those utrances to heaven and count them. One, wo, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ;n, eleven, twelve. Hear it all the earth and 11 the heavens! Twelve gates! I admit this i rather hurrl on sharn stseiarianisms. II' a resbyteriau is bigoted lie brings his Westlinster Assembly cath.chism and he makes gateway out of that, and be says to le world: "You go through there or stay at." If a Methodist minister is bigoted he lants two posts and says: 'Now you must rowd in between those two posts or stay lit' O.- perhaps an Episcopalian may stiy: Sere is liturgy out of which I mean to ma ke gate; go through it or stay out.' Or a BapLst; may fay: 'Hure is a water-gate; you go luoujh that or you must stay out' And so 1 all our churches and denominations there rti men who make one gate for themselves nd then demand that tho whole world go lirough it. I abhor this contractednesi in eligious views. Oh. sm&.ll-souled man, when id God give you the contract for making ates? I tell you plain'y I will not go i that gate. I will go in .it any one of the welve gates I choose. Here is a man who ivs: 'I can more easily and moro closely pproach God through a prayer-book. I say: \Iy brother, then use the prayer-book.' [ere is a man who says: 'I believe there is nly one mode of baptism, and that is imlcrsion.' Then I sav: 'Let m-j pluuge you.' Lnyhow I say: Away with the gatj of ough panel and rotten posts and rusted latch eh en there are twelve gates and they are wolve pearls. "A great many of the churches in this day ,re being doctrined to death. They hive >?E>n trying to find out all about God's derr?s nnd thav want to know who are elected o bo saved and who are reprobated to be [tunned, and they are keeping on discussing hat subject when there are millions of souls vt.o need to have the truth nut straight at bora. They sit counting the number of tcth in the jawbone with which Samson law the Philistines. They sit on the beach uid B2e a vessel going to pieces in the >Hlng, and instead of getting into a boat md pulling for the wreck they sit discussing i i t? -- the different styles of oarlocks. God Intended us to know some things and intended us not to know others. I have heard scores of sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but came away more perplexed then I went. The only result of such discussion is a great fog. Here are two truth? which are to conquer the world: man, a sinner; Christ, a savior. Any man who adopts these two theories in his religious belief shall have my right hand in warm grip ot Christian brotherhood. A man comes aown to a river in Time 01 freshet. He wants to get across. He has to swim. What does he a a? The first thing is to put off his heavy apparel and drop everything he ha? iu hands. He must go empty-handed if he is going to the other bank. And I tell youj when we have come down to the river of death and find it swift and raging we will have to put off all our sectarianism and lay down our cumbersome creed, and emptyhanded put out for the other shore. 'What,' say you, 'would you resolve all the Christian Church into one kind of church? Would you make alt Christendom worship in the same way. Ijyths same forms?' Oh, no! You might a? well decide that all people shall eat the sama kind of food without reference to appetite, or wear the same kind of apparel Without reference to the shape of their body. Your ancestry, your temperament, your surroundings, will decide whether you go to this or that chnrch and adopt this or that policy. "Notice th3 points of the compass toward whhh these gates look. They are not on one side or on two sides or on three sides, but on four sides. This is no fancy of mine, but a distinct announcement. On the north three gates, on the south' three gates, ou the east three gates, on the west threa gate3. What dooj that mean? Why, it means that all nationalities are included and it does nol make any difference from what quarter ol the earth a man comes up; if nis heart is right tnere is a gate o-rea befora him. On the north three gates. That means mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south three gate?. That means pardon for Hindostan and Algiers and Ethiopia. On the cast three gates. That means salvation for China and Japan and Borneo. On the west three gates. That means redemption for America. It does not make any difference how dark-skinned or how pale fa?ed men may be, th y will find a gate right before them. These plucked bananas under a tropical sun. These shot across Rusan snows behind reindeers. From Mexican plateaus, from Roman canpana, from Chines3 tea-fields, from Holland dike, from Scotch Highlands, they come, they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for a few precious souls. It is not a Windsor Castle for royaL families. It is not a small town with small population, but John saw it and he noticed that an angel was measuring it, nnrt hp mpA^nrarl if. inthivi wav ami Iia measure i that, and whichever way he measured it was 1,500 miles, so that Babylon and Thete3, and Tvre and Nineveh, ani St. Petersburg and Canton, and Pekin and Paris, and London and New York, and all the dead citie3 of th 3 past and all the living cities of the present added together, would not equal the census of that great metropolis. "While I speak an ever-increasing throng is passing through the gates. They are going up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hong Kong. 'WhatP you say, 'do you introdnce all the heathen into glory f I tell you, the fait is that the majority of the people in those climes die in infancy and the infants all go straight into eternal life, and 10 the vast majority of those who die in China and India, the vast majority of those who die in Africa, go straight into the skie3?they die in infancy. One hundred and sixty " generations have been born since the world was created, and so I estimate that there must be 15,000,000,000 children in glory. If at a concert 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured within you. Oh, tha transport when d.5,000,O.X),O M) little one* stand up in white before the throne of Go 1, their chanting drawing out all the s'upendous harmonies of Dusseldorf and Leipsic and Boston! Pour in through th3 twelve gates, O ye redeemei, banner-lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved batalion, until all tin city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all the twelve gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones, room in the mansions, room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all earth's mountains hear the 3hrill blast and the glens e.-ho it Let missionaries tell it in pagoda, aud colporteurs sound it across the Western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo it to the Bedouin careering across the desert. News! news! a glorious heaven and twelve gates to get into it! Hear it, O you thinoloodei nations of eternal winter!?on the north three gates. Hear it, O you bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats? on the south three gates. "And heaven beiu<* made up, of course the gates will be shut. Austria in and the first gate shut; Russia in and the second gate shut; Italy in and the third gate shut; Egrypt in and the fourth gate shut; Spain in ana the fifth gate shut; France in and the sixth gate shut; England in and the seventh gate shut: Norway in and the eighth gate shut: Switzerland in and the ninth gate shut; Hinlostan in in 1 the tenth gate shut; Siberia in and the eleventh gate shut. All the gates are closed but one. Now let America go in, with all the islands of the sea and all the other nations that have called on God. The captives all freed; the harvests all gathered; the nations ail saved?the Hashing splendor of this last peari logins to iihjvb on il? ujugos. the mighty angels put their shoulders to the pate and heave it to with silvery clang. 'Tis ione! It thunders! The twelfth gate shut! "I want to show you the gate-kaeper. There is one angel at each one of these gates. You say that is right. Of course it is. You know that no earthly palace or castle or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing op and down by ni?bt and by"day, and if there were no defenses before heaven and the doors set wide open with no ona to guard them, a'l the vicious of earth would go up after awhile and all the abandoned of hell would go up after awhile, and heaven instead of bein^ a worll of light and joy and peaco and blessedness would be a world of darkness aud horror. So I am glad fco toll you that while these twelve gates stand open to let a great multitude in there are twelve auge.'s to keep some people out. Roljospierre cannot go through there, nor Nero, nor anv of the debauched of earth who nave not repented of their wickedness. If one of the;e nefarious men who despised God should come to the gate, one of the keepers would put his hand on his shoulder and push him into outer darkness. There is no place in that land for thieves and liars, ana defrauders, and all those who disgraced their - 1 i-L.:.. n.J Te - race aua rougac ugiuu.su msir uuu. xi a miser should get in there be would pull up the golden pavement. If a house-burner should get in there he would set fire to the man-ion. If a libertine should get in there, he would whisper his abominations standing on the white oral of thu sea-beach. Only those who are blood-washed and prayerlipped will get through. O my brother, if you should at last come up to one of the gates and try to get through, and you had not a pass written by the c rushed hand of the Son of God, tho gate-keeper wjuld, with one glance, wither you forever. ' There will be a password at the gate of heaveu. Do you know what that password is? Here comes a crowd of souls up to the gate and they say: 'Let me in; let me in. I was very useful on earih. I endowed colleges, I built churihss and was famous for my charities, and, having done so many wonderful things for the world, now I come up to get my reward. A voice from w.thin says: 'I never knaw you.' Another great crowd comes up aud they try to get through. They say: 'We were highly honorable on earth aud the earth varv lmv! v h?fr>r? 11-4 Wo Were hOU- 1 '~'J J ? ored on earth, and now we come to get our < honors in heaven.' And a voice from within siys: '1 never know you.' Another crowd advances an?l s-ajS; '\Vre were very moral people on earth?very moral indeed, an 1 we come up to get appropriate recognition.' A voice answers: 'I nevorknewyou.' "After a while I soe another throng approach the gate and ODe seems to be spokesmau for all the re<t, although their voices ever and anon cry amen! amen! This one stands at tho gate and says: 'Let me in. I was a wanderer from Goa. I desorve to die. I have come up to this place not because I deserve it, but because I nave heard that thero is a saving power in the blood of Jesus.' The gatekeeper says: 'That is the password, Jesus! Jesus!' and they pass in and they surround the throne and the cry is: 'Worthy is the 1 anib that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.' Oh, when heaven is all done and the troops of God shout: 'The castle is taken!' how grand it will be if you and I are among them! Blessed are all they who enter in through the gates into the city.u During 1885 Colorado produced $4,660,899 in gold and $15,427,073 in silver, a total decreaae of $202,125 aa compared with 1884. -- AGRICULTURAL ~ TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Big Root in Cabbages. There are two kinds of bisj root, or club foot, common to both cabbages and turnips. One is the result of the attacks of insects and the other of a fungus. TCnth hnwdtop mair Vif? r>rpv#mt.p<l hv thfc , ? V- " W'VI) "-?J free use of lime, salt, ashes and soot. The lime and salt should be applied to the land where the cabbages are to be grown, and the ashes and soot to the seed bed at the time of sowing the seed. The simplest way to secure the direct effect of ashes is to prepare the seed bed earl)' in spring; then cover it with straw, brush, or any similar m .terial that will burn readily; then set it on fire, and when it is all consumed rake over'the surface, mixing the ashe3 and coal with the soil, and sow the seed even while the bed is still warm. Plants raised under such conditions will generally be free from disenso and the eggs of insects. Apply twenty-five bushels of lime and six bushels of salt per acre to tho land where the cabbages are to be grown, and this will usually prevent club loot or big root, provided toe plants nave oeen raised in beds prepared as directed.? New York Sun. Potato Beetles. A thirfty growth of vine is much protection against the ravages of the potato beetle. Other things being equal the beetle will lay her eggs on the weekeat, feeblest-growing potato hill in the field. Instinct teaches her to avoid thirfty vines full of sap and which also hold the dew a loug time in the morning. Heavy dews and rains prevent many potato bugs' eggs from hatching. The use of gypsum with Paris green on potatoes has thus a double advantage. The poison destroys the bugs already hatched, and the gypsum makes the vine more thirfty, holds dew on it longer and thus addles-many of the eggs. Frequent cultivation of the soil is also helpful in keeping the potato bugs in check. The cultivator should be drawn as closely to the row as possible, and no matter if some dirt is thrown on the vines. It will not Viiirt ITip -nnt-nf/ipa nnil priinr norfciple nf A*-. y ~ j r ? ? soil on a bunch of potato bugs' eggs destroys the vitality of all it touches. In a cold, wet time there is little to fear from the potato bug. The egga will be addled, or the young destroyed as soon as hatched. But one or two days of hot, dry weather will bring the enemy out in force, and prompt application of poison will be needed to save the crop. The larva; eat most in the heat of the day. The poison should be applied in the morning and as much as possible while the dew is on the leaves, as the plaster will then adhere better.?Cultivator. Chicken Cholera. Inexpert poultry keepers often wonder how it is that their young chicks die off so rapidly with the prevalent supposed diarrhea, by which they pine away from birth and parish miserably by whole b:oods. Frequent complaints and inquiries are made by readers as to the cause of this prevailing disorder, by which the chicks seem to be covered with an adherent yellow excrement which closes the bowels. This disease i9 no more or less than common poultry cholera, which i3 inherited. That this is the causc has been often proved by careful observation by the writer for a few years past. The present season the proof has been verified by the strictest tests. Eggs laid by hens having all the symptoms of cholera, and kept by themselves, have been set under healthy hens. From the first '.he chicks have been subject to the yellow adherent discharge, and have all died withiu a week or ten days. Moreover, such eggs swallowed raw or lightly cooked have produced diarrhea. This fact has been carefully noted by repeated experiments. It is by no means stretching an inference to be sure that these eggs are diseased. A specific cure?if there is any such thing?seems to be available for poultry cholera in the use of hypo-sulphite of soda. This i3 a most active antiseptic and quickly destroys germs of septic vims and fermentation. Mixed with yeast it kills the plants, whose growth in starchy or nitrogenous solutions produce fermentation and putrefaction. It arrests the fermentation of saccharine solutions and prevents the formation of acid in such liquids as cider or in preserved fruits. It destroys bacteria, and is therefore a useful remedy in all those diseases of which the virus consists of these low but active organisms. When given in three-drop doses three or four times daily of a saturated solution to chicks suffering from inherited disease through the eggs of diseased hens it leads to recovery in a few days. One teaspoonful of the solution given as often to a diseased hen in the first stages of the disorder, and when the green and yellow discharge and yellow checks first appear, leads to a cure in almost every case.?Neto York Times. Farm and pardon Notes. Watermelons thrive best on r'.c\ w.irja, sandy loams. Sorghum for fodder needs to be planted and cultivated the same a3 corn. Encourage toads in your hotbed and garden. They will destroy more than their weight in insect pests. Drilled wheat requires much less seed than when sown broadcast, and the seed arc planted at a more uniform depth. Corn sown for fodder as a second crop will prove of value on any farm. Let the rows run north and south when practicable. Dust melon vines with paris green or London purple to keep off the bug. Dust with one part of the powder to twenty live parts oi nour. A stick flattened at Ihe end will be found a help in planting flower seeds. Make a shallow hole with the Jat end of a stick and scatter the seeds into it, covering lightly. Clean out all the rose bushes by taking away the old wood and then shortening the stronger shoots one third. The growth and appearance will be greatly improved thereby. Watch for the currant worm, and as soon as the leaves appear ragged apply white hellebore?a tablespoonful to a pail of water?by means of a syringe. Repeat in about a week. An enterprising New Englander, Mr. Colcord, has invented a ' governor" for ? - 1 * io no o rnnrnI ofnr U1C SHU, WUJVU IO ViOlUiWU no ? '^umLv/1 of the temperature, fermentation, and quality of the ensilage stored. Horses are uot fully matured until six years of age, nor do they arrive at their full strength until eight years old. Immature animals are often overtaxed and their future usefulness injured. To have a beautiful bed of Cowers try Chinese pinks. They are of all colors, and when a bed of such pinks i3 made by sowing seeds of all the varieties the contrast of colore is very striking. 9 Celery plants should be pricked out .1. 1 no oArtn na thav ttUUUL 9(A lututo apaib ao owu ua are large enough to handle with the fingers. When six or seven inches high transplant a foot apart in the rows. Short hay crops mean cheap cattlc in autumn. But the farmer who makes full provision for keeping can buy and turn his fodder to good account not only in sales but in added value to the manure pile. In tests at the Ohio station there appeared to be no relation whatever between the"weights of seed and the vitality, for among the heavy and the light seeds there were about equally good and poor germinations. Time intelligently given to bees will pay equally well with that given to any other kind of farm work; and wh're too many are kept it may be done at such times as not to interfere with other im pui taut n via* When a hoe becomes dull it retards work because of the increasjd tax it imposes on strength. Sharpen it by filing to a chisel edge. When sharp it works much more effectively, especially when there are weeds to be cut. In selecting a sow for breeding choore one that is quiet and mild in disposition. She may be the one that will lay on fat most easily, and it will therefore be necessary to feed sparingly, but she will be all the better as a breeder for this. Corn and potatoes may often be topdressed to advantage after planting, providing fine manure is used. The cultivation of these crops during the season will mix the manure with the soil much more perfectly than it could be plowed under. One of the advantages from harrowing corn 13 tnat a man wirn a smart team will run over fifteen acre3 or more per-* day. The smoothing harrow takes a width of eleven feet, and as only scratching the surface is desired no lapping ifl needed. A. G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, Wia., says he traps moths by placing shallow pans of vinegar among the branches of the trees', which attract the moths and drown them. His method is contrary to the rule that sweet substance should be used for such purposes. Fresh, cut-green grass makes ihe best mulch for either currants or gooseberries. It lies close to the ground and will keep down weeds better than anything diy or coarse like straw. Gooseberry bushes need to be on moist ground and have their roots kept cool as possible by heavy mulching. There is very little gained by turning under a crop of timothy as green manure. Its roots do not run so deeply as those of clover, and the crop, even when used as green manure, does not ameliorate the subsoil. It is, beside.?, more valuable for a hay crop for market than either clover or any other grass. The nneven depth at which drills deposit seeds on hillsides sometimes shows curious results. The lower side of the drill weighs down the tubes, and on mellow soil carries the seed three or four inches deep. Going down a hill has the same effect. In going up hill the seed is drilled shallower, ana traveling in tou direction th? grain always, comes up Suicker and stronger. Altogether the rill is not a satisfactory implement for seeding hillsides. . -The experience of Dr. Hcxamer is greatly in favor of sawdust before any other material as litter for pigs and sows, particularly for those with very young litters. They will keep their nest entirely clean and dry for a long time. The little pigs cannot hide themselves in it as they will in straw, and thus the danger of the sow lying on them and killing them is removed, a casualty which happens very ofteu, particularly with heedless sows, which arc often the best breeders. The apple orchard should never be cropped after it comes into bearing, for nothing should prevent its being used as a pasture for hogs in summer. The value of fallen fruit for swine is considerable. With this and the skim milk which every farm should supply during the summer hogs may be kept in growing condition with very little grain. But the greatest of all advantages from pasturing orchards lies in the fact that by destroying fallen fruit as quick as it drops, the worm which causes the fall will be also destroyed. ^ Many farmers with the best of motives, but usually mingled with a desire to economize, seriously injure tueif teams by turning them out to pasture during the summer. If the horses arc not hard at work the heavy feeding kept up while spring work was being done may be moderated; but the horses will be in better order kept in the stable on dry feed, with a small quantity of grain daily. Horses need grain even more on pasture than with hay, and are less likely to get it. The green feed, if given alone, sours and weakens them so as to entirely unfit them for subsequent hard wcrk. A Jockey's Life. There are people who imagine that a jockey's life is a joyous life; that earth Mn nffcr fpw pToater delisrhts than to V,*M v"w* ~ ~ * o " ride the winner of a great race and to be led back to the scales by an ecstatic crowd, and that the sole drawback to the profession, is the chance of being asked to pay income tax on ?10,000 a year. But how utterly untrue is such an opinion is well known by the racing correspondent of the New South Wales Echo, who saw Archer's face at the Derby, and thus describes it: "It was like that of a man about to be hanged?a duelist fighting with a foe at once feared and hated?a man, in short, in any position of awful strain, with the complex emotions of terror, hope and resolve. It was all the observation of a sccond; but it brought home to the mind the abysmal depths of life and death, exultant joy or horrible despair that underlie the gayety and the blare, the bright dresses, the smiling women, the popping of champagne bottles, and the vacuous noise ol Epsom race course." After this there would seem to be nothing for it but, ta start a jockey's rescue society.?Lyndon Pall Mall Gazette. summer signs. "When mammoth posters paint the town An interesting red, When dreams of chariot and clown Hun through the urchin's head, When children cry 'cause pap said "no," And look exceeding glum, When circus tents loom up, we know That summer time has come. When spring time poets sadly cease To paralyze the muse, Wheu tales of fi*h and snakes increase, And take the p'ace of news, When all the parks to which we go Contain the festive bum, In postures picturesque, we know That summer time has coma When soda fountains gaily sound Their thirst creating "fizz," When ants have sought the picnic ground Aud fettled down to biz, When bills for cake and ice cream grow Into a mighty sum, Whrn all these thing? occur, wo know That summer tiruj ba: come. ?Merchant Traveler* ,