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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S.C. i TpST Published every Wednesday at $2 a year iu advance. Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1890. Twelve l?a.ges. The city of Atlanta, Ga., has passed & law requiring all telephone wires to he placed underground by 1S03. London, Sept. 19.?Advice3 from Hiogo state that the Turkish man-ofwar Krtogroul has foundered at sea aud that 5U0 of her crew were drowned. .Dr. jveuey, wuu is uiuyuram^ nessee as a Prohibition candidate for Governor, is meeting with enthusiastic receptions. Belgium has a wise law which our cities would do well to copy. Any man who is found drunk on the streets is compelled to sweep the streets for two hours after he gets sober. It is stated, we presume upon jrood authority, that terms of settlement of theBehring Sea fishery difficulty between this country and Great Britain have been agreed upon between Secretary Blaine and Sir Julian Paunceforte. Theamonnt of damages to be paid is to be determined by arbitrators. This is the sensible way to settle difficulties. "The early Methodist ministers went forth to sacrifice and suffer for Christ. They sought not places of ease and affluence, but of privation and suffering. They gloried not in tneir Dig salaries, ime pursuijufccs, auu refined congregations, but in the souls tbat bad been won for Jesus." We are glad tbat tbere is some of tbis spirit in our cburch yet. May it never grow less ! Tbe Postoftice Department issued 011 Tuesday an order discontinuing tbe postoftice at Bisliopville. The oflice pays a salary of $200 per year. Tbe Postmaster General says tbat if the people of Bishopville will not stand a negro postmaster, they will have to do without a postoftice. Spanish ladies suffer considerably from irritation of the throat caused not by tbe habit of smoking themselves, but by the constant fumes of tobacco which is indulged in so freely by their male relatives. Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock Light-house, who has saved the lives of so many persons, receives from the Government a salary of $750 a year and two tons of coal. When her father became paralytic she wa? made custodian of the light for life. In appreciation of her heroic efforts in saving lives she has a gold medal from the United States Treasury Department, three silver medals from the State of Rhode Island, and from tbe Humane Societj' of Massachusetts, aud another from the New York Lifesaving Association. Twenty or more persons were killed aud fifty injured September 19, by an accident to a passenger train on tbe Reading railroad by which the train w?a thrown into the Schuvlkill River. John D. Rock feller has added a round million of dollars to the $000,000 before given to the Baptist University in Chicago. Floods are reported from France. Factories, bridges, and railroads have been swept away or damaged to a large extent. Edward Tryan and George Bernard, Winchendon, Mass., September 2G, were instantly killed by accidental contact with an electric wire. By an overwhelming vote the Mississippi Constitutional Convention has refused to declare saloons a public nuisance. ?4TX> The Southwestern Methodist, Kansas City, Mo., has been merged into the St. Louis Christian Advocate. Thomas Lewis, an electric light employee in Omaha, Neb;, was killed there by a live wire September 24. Oor. Macon Advocatc. 1 Why Come Down ??Why does any one in our Church wish to join any other Church anyway ? Is it worldlymi ndedness he is in search of? We have an overplus of this. Is it genuine piety he is hunting? Thank (Jod, we have a portion of this. Is he seeking poor people to associate with ? The poor we have with us always. Does he strive to find the wealthiest Church of the continent? We are worth nine millions of money more than the Romish Church, and this comes next to us in riches. Is it numbers that he is in search of? We have a million more members than the Baptist unurcn, ana tney come next u> u? m numbers. Is he inquiring after the* lowly and ignorant ? We have them by the thousand. Is he looking for the wise and the learned? We are side by side of the loftiest iu wisdom and learning; our universities, colleges and other institutions of learning outnumber those of any other Church of the land. The Ram's Horn says it takes more religion to hold a man level in a horse trade than it does to make him shout at a camp meeting. Selections from flu Christian Neighbor j Condescending to Men of Low Estate. | Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist is a man much talked of. "Practical j Christian," "crank," "fool," "mad-| man," are a few of the varied and con-, trary terms applied to him. The re-i cent exclusion from the mails of hisj latest book (I know nothing as yet of any of them save through criticisms) by Postinaster-(Jeneral Wannamaker : has brought the author and his works into a prominence highly pleasing to his publishers beyond doubt. Count Tolstoi as his title indicates is a man of rank. J le has thrown aside the traditions and customs of that station, 1 and labors at a trade, the shoemakers, we think, showing his disregard for ' artificial distinctions between man , and man, and his active sympathy with the toilers of his country and the world. Very lately the papers have stated that, he wished to dispense his fortune to the poor, but was restrained , by his wife who succeeded in having herself and children placed by law be- 1 yond the vagaries of a "madman" in \ the matter of bread for all and eduea- 1 tion for the latter. Such at least is the story as I understand it. Perhaps the man is mad?who can say? Perhaps the thought of all the world's misery, ( the sight of his oppressed and sutler- ( lllg CUU111I} UXt'U lias luiuui 1II.-5 Uiuiii. ( Perlmps he has looked upon it all and has not been able straightway to forget j the manner of picture he looked upon. | Perhaps his inability to relieve to any j great extent the horrible suffering around hiin has turned his brain, and } I in his frenzy he would give his all to j relieve it. , [En passant, Sam Jones says that , when a man begins to give largely ( people say he is crazy.) Hut there ( I must be intelligent giving. Children | (should not be beggared, nor women ( nor invalid persons thrust by their , natural protectors upon the bounty of others in order that one man may make an offering of himself and his fortune for public good, if such a thing could be called good, be the manner of ( offering ever so private. The test is j this : Thy need is greater than mine, j This applied, few indeed would there ] be who could not find place for offer- , ing time, energy, money. Let our Count Tolstoi have the bene- , fit of a doubt as to his sanity?perhaps at least his madness has a method. ( L.C. , ? <3t* ? j Guilt and Gloom. I Frank W. McCounico, of Texas, i and W. T. Taliaferro, of Virginia, two ? cadets of the Virginia Military Institute, eu gaged September 25, in a personal encounter, in which lifteen , rounds were fought. Two hours after- 1 wards Taliaferro died from injuries re- r ceived in the light. "The altair has i cast a gloom over the entire connnuni- r ty" of Lexington, Va., the seat of the \ Institute. ( While this sickening exhibition of i savagery and brutalism is doubtless j condennied by some of the teachings u in that Institute, yet is not the horr:- { ble allair a manifestation of-the princi- t pies which inhere, more or less, in all ti military schools? Is not the "code" observed by those cadets the same as that adopted by duelists and by the It rulers of nations when engaging in f war? Civilized hua.auity and the Christian religion condemn alike these manifestations of the one and the same principle for they are the most t flagrant violations of the law of love? ( the law of the .Sou whom we are com- \] manded to hear and obey. ^ Would that a "gloom" (one without r the cost of human life) might settle 1 over all military schools and there ? abide until driven away by "the Light c, of the world." Men will not cease to r learn war as long as they are taught it. g s u M During a theatrical performance in I' the Spartanburg Opera House, Septem- ' ber 24, nisrht, the crowded house was j thrown into a surging and screamingL panic by the burst ing forth of a blaze j a of fire from the stage. The fire was if-' quickly discovered and extinguished I, which prevented what might have [ been a great sacrifice of life. >] If, proportionately, as many people 0 had lost their lives in God's houses of j worship as there have been lives lost 10 in theatres, would there not be a great it niauy of the present opera-house- 1 church people who would not risk ( their lives by going into a place as dan- v gerous as the house of CJcd ? A thea- < tre is a poor place from which to start to heaven, and it is not a good plaec to * stop at for any one who would not lose t his way to a better world. About Malcliiii;; IIoi-non. Some one makes the sensible sugges- ^ tion that such horses on the farm as, are to be worked together nearly every day during the season should be match-, etl'in gait ami strength. These items are of much more importance than!, size, color, and other things that arej, often looked after instead. If uneven-!1 ly matched give the weakest animal I the benefit of a little advantage with; the double-tree. p "Arrows of wit should he shot fromji a bow of good sense." :* ?? ? "Show ine What I have to tin; [ ^ Every hour my .strength renew; !; Let ine live u life of faith. Let iue die thy people'* death." ' t What Others Say. London Daily Newt, July Kith. The Universal Peace Congress held] the second meeting of its second year! yesterday afternoon in the Westminster Town Hall. Sir Wilfrid Lawson was the chairman at yesterday's proceedings, and we observe that he has followed a line of argument already * i It'- I indicated in mese coiuiims \veiun>said that arbitration lias won the day , among the States of the t.\vo Ameri- . cas, Id-cause sixty millions of people in J the great liepuhlic have lieen educated j up to the idea. The substitution of ar- | (titration for the stupid crime (as it or- \ iliuarily is) of war will take place in 10urope when the idea of it takes hold ' r>f the European mind. In the old world democracy is only now becom- | ing a fact, and democracy makes for J peace as an essential condition of the moral and material elevation of the race. Government of ti?e people, for the people, by the people, is incompatible with all methods of settling international agreements by hiring men to shoot each other for a wage of a shilling a day. tvHilhwrslcM Citrr.tian Ail corn tn. Making a Xoi.sk in the Would. ?Miss Frances E. Willard was born September -S, 1S.'{9. Of her babyhood lays it is related : Her father used to say when walking to and fro with her it night, her vigorous lungs in full ac- . lion, sending forth screams that could < be heard in the remotest part of the t liouse, "I declare, this young one >ught to amount to something; she { jives trouble enough." These are stili | her characteristics. For her voice is 1 still heard in the remotest parts of her . ? ' !t- el-Sit mnL-ilifr U lUfl llUJJiUf aiiu r*tic in nun 2 trouble enough for evil-doers. One uan hardly imagine that she was in Iter girlhood the butt of poor and c-rusljokos about her "homeliness" and "red head." Kashrillc Christina Advocate. The tendency of human nature is to put religion ou the outside as we put ihe veneering or paint on. (jod's plan s to hide it away in the heart and let it work there as a mighty force till it lias transformed heart and life. We noticed in a city that the black letters >n a saloon sign were printed over ivilh white paint. We hoard the noise >f drinking within, and on inquiry round that the keeper had professed religion at a revival then in progress, painted over his sign and kept on at ;he business. This is too often done >y a fancied conversion, paint over the 1 sign, but follow the same old business. c Dnowxs Mkx in* PKitnrnox.?The Rrliyious Herald says : "lie was the jest raoniber wc had until he got rich, md now he is the worst." That is the iccount one of our pastors gives of one >f his (lock. Jf you will notice, you vill see thut too often the acquisition >f wealth ruins forever the Christian nflueuce of a man or woman who was >reviously very useful. Many will idmit this and yet toil and sweat and ret in the effort to get rich, just ns if lie liilile had never warned its reader.-' igainst the love of money. A woman of large experience says hat a little hoy's lirst trousers always it if the pockets are deep cnouglu Xuuic of The Saiiini tun. Oberlin, the well-known philaiihropist of Steinthal, while yet a candilate tor the ministry, was traveling on ?ne occasion from iStrasburg. It was 11 the winter time. The ground was leeply covered with snow, and (lie oads were almost impassable, lie lad reached the middle of his journey, ,ud was among the mountains, and >y that time was so exhausted that he ould stand up no longer. He was apidly freezing to death. Sleep be;an to overcome him; all power to reist it left him. He commended liimelftoGod, and yielded to what he elt to be the sleep of death. He knew lot how long he slept, but suddenly lecame conscious of sonic one rousing lim and waking him up. Before him tood a wagon-driver in iiis blue blouse, ,nd the wagon not far away. He uve him a little wine and food, and he spirit of life returned. He then lelped him on the wagon, and brought lim to the next village. The rescued nan was profuse in his thanks, and fie red money, which his benefactor efused. "It is only a duty to help one anther," said the wagoner. "Ami it is he next thing to an insult to oiler a eward for such a service." "Then," replied Oberlin, "at least ell me your name, that I may have ou in thankful remembrance* beforej jiod." "1 see," said the wagoner, "that you j re a minister of the gospel. Please ell me the name of the Good Samari-i an?" r "That," said Oberline, "1 cannot <lo:;' or it was not put on record." "Then," replied the wagoner, "until ? /hi /..in t<.ll inn hi< n.'imn nurinit mo o withhold mine." [ < 'hrkttan Leader, i T * -c? j r ; f? Failures as well as successes teach r essons. lie is wise who learns from 0 will. t Vou haven't <rot much religion if c ou'don't prai.-e the Lord ouiy when L on feel like it. It is with (lowers as with moral qual- c ties: the bright are sometimes poison- 0 his; but, I believe, never the sweet. ; Never suppose* tluit in any possible ^ iluaiioii, or uiulor any cir<*unistuiu*(s e t is best for you to ilo a dishonorable a hiug. ' h HIS GREATEST WORK. | A GLIMPSE AT THE PROOF SHEETS OF TALMAGE'S LIFE OF CHRIST. A Striking Title, "From Manger to Throne"?Graphic Description of His Visit to the Christ Land?The Most Ambitious Literary Effort of His Life. [Copyright by American Press Association.] Few persons possess Dr. T. De Witt Tal- J mage's most distinguishing characteristic ?c-Amnf Kiiwf env niifl fli/i nKilihv tnf'lnh1u? ; the thought in language fresh and strik- ; ing. The great Brooklyn divine has given j us another example of his tireless energy, his great study and his matchless word j paintings in his life of Christ?''From Manger to Throne"?to be issued in a few | lays from the press of the Historical | Publishing company, of Philadelphia, j Through the courtesy of Mr. H. S. Smith, i president of the company, 1 am enabled to tell something about the work in advance, | for I have seen the proof sheets. ARAB INHABITANTS. The book differs from all other lives of j ;he Christ in this, that it is a simple narra- j ;ive irt which no theological questions are j propounded, no "views" extolled, and ! ;here is no straining after effect. It is made up of 600 pages, with over 400 mgravings, copies of famous paintings by ;he old masters illustrating scenes in the ife of Christ and portraits of the Saviour jy many famous painters. In addition ;here is a splendid panorama of the cruciIxion in colors, ten feet in length, which is i great achievement of the publishers. As a literary effort the book is the most imbitious of the great preacher's life. It 'ulfills all the requirements of literary ityle and finish. Each fact was carefully veighed and scrutinized before put on mper. Nothing was taken for granted. It s not t he work of an idle hour, but rather ;he life work of a strong man still in his prime. It should meet with a cordial wel;ome. It is not written above the head of ;he average reader. On the contrary, it is i series of magnificent word pictures, so iimple that a child would be interested in ,hem. The reader is taken to every spot nade remarkable in the Holy Land, and ;he guide is like a delightful elder brother litting in the twilight rehearsing the old. /.U v.v. ..V,.., "I have been writing that book for thirtyive years," Dr. Talmage told me recently, tnd he supplements this in his preface by saving: "In my American home, on the Atlan iic.on the Mediterranean, 011 camel's back, >n r.inle's back, on horseback, under chanlelier, by dim candle in tent, on Lake Gallee, in convent, at Bethel, where Jacob's pilow was stuffed with dreams and the angels j )f the ladder landed; at the brook Elah, | rom which little David picked up the am- j Munition of five smooth stones, four more ,han were needed for crushing like an egg- ! [hell the skull of Goliath; in the valley of Vjalon, over which, at Joshua's command, \strononiy halted; on the plain of Esdraeon, the battlefield of ages, its long red lowers suggestive of the blood dashed to j he bits of the horses' bridles; amid the I ihattered masonry of Jericho, in Jerusa- I em, that overshadows all other cities in i eminisccnce; at Cana, where plain water j jecame festal beverage; on Calvary, whose I islant and ruptured rocks still show the j iffectsof the earthquake at the awful hern>rrhage of the five wounds that purchased I he world's rescue, and with my hand mit- | ened from the storm, or wet from the Jor- I lan, or bared to the snn, or gliding over ;mooth table, this book has been written." Dr. Talmage is the only author of a life if the Christ who visited the Holy Land or the purpose of seeing for himself the j cenes made famous by the birth and cru- | "* r *1-- o_. 1 <!,!.. I :iuxiuri ui tut: chuuui, auu vm* i^uiu v/x , lis life is one of the most interesting porions of the book. The writer vividly por- j rays the visit of M;iry and Joseph in Sgypt: "Over the hills and down through the leep por^'o they urge their way. By Heiron, by Gaza, through hot sand, under a ilistering sun, the babe crying, the mother aint, the father exhausted. How slowly he days and weeks pass. Will the weary hrceever reach the banks of the Nile? >Vill they ever see Cairo? Will the desert ver end? When at hist they cross the ine beyond which old Herod has no right o pursue their joy is unbounded. Free at ast! 1 jCt them dismount and rest. Now hey resume their way with less anxiety. ?hey will find a place somewhere for shel Dlt. TAI.MAGE BAPTIZING A CANDIDATE, er and the earning of their bread. Here , hey are at Cairo, Egypt. They wind | hrough the crooked streets, which are | bout ten feet wide, and enter the humble iouse where I have been today. It is nine , teps uown irom uie ievei cu me suruuu u, ] 3 such a place as no reader of this book , rould like to dwell in. I measured the oom, and found it 20 feet long and 7)4 eet high. There are three shtslvings of ock, one of which I think was the cradle f our Lord. There is no window, and all lie light must have come from lantern or andle. What a place for the king of leaven to live in!" As he approaches Jerusalem the doctor j an hardly contain himself. He is sitting , n a patient camel's batiK writing tneso { rords: "Along the route I atu amazed be- { oinl expression at the boldness a ml jagged iess of the scenery of the Holy Land. I ( xpected to see it rough, but not Alpinian ; nd Sierra Nevadian in grandeur. The ' tills ai*e amphitheatres, piled up galleries j of gray rock, -with.intervals of soil, brown j and maroon, until the eye and head and heart surrender, and the lips that for a long while were exclamatory become speechless. Before sundown we will see Jerusalem. I never had such high expectations of seeing any place as of seeing the holy city. I found myself singing, '.Teru-1 salem, My Happy Home,' while dressing: myself this morning. I think my feelings may be slightly akin to that of the Chris-1 tian just about to enter the heavenly Jeru- , salem." Then follows a graphic picture of the j great city, and the visitor's thoughts as his eyes beheld it for the first time. ur. iaiinaj40 gives a description ol a uiiy , tisra in the Jordan. He says: "Yesterday on horseback we left Jericho,; and having dipped in the Dead sea we came with a feeling that we cannot de- j scribe upon the Jordan, a river which more people have desired to see than any other. On our way we overtook an American, who requested me to baptize him by immersion ! in the river Jordan. We dismounted at the place were Joshua and his host once j crossed the river dry shod. We were near; a turn in the river, and not far off from1 where rocks and sand are piled up in shape of cathedrals, domes and battle-1 mcnts. We pitched our tent, and after 1 proper examination of the candidate for baptism I selected portions of Scripture ap-' propriatc. One of our Arab attendants I liad a garment not unlike a baptismal robe. With that garment girdled around me I led the candidate down under the | trees on the bank, while near by were! groups of friends and some strangers who j happened to be there. After a prayer I! read of Christ's baptism in the Jordan and [ the commission, 'Go, teach all nations, baptizing them.' The people on the bank j then joined in singing to the familiar tune j that soul stirring song, 'On Jordan's j Stormy Bank I Stand.' With the candi- j date's hands in mine we waded deep info i the Jordan, and I then declared, 'In this historical river, where the Israelites crossed, j aiid .\aaman piungeu seven times ior me cure of his leprosy, and Christ was baptized, j and which has been used in all ages as a symbol of the dividing line between earth j and heaven, I baptize theo in the name of j the Father and of the Son and of the Holy J Ghost. Amen.' As the candidate went down under the waves and then rose I felt a solemnity that no other scene could have inspired. As the ordinance was observed under the direction of no particular denomination of Christians, and 110 particu- [ lar church could be responsible for it, I j feel it my duty to report what I did to the j church universal." Dr. Talmage's description of his depart-, ure from Jerusalem is characteristic: "Now we leave Jerusalem for the long j journey north through Palestine. A little j way out we got on a hill and took the last look at Jerusalem, and I felt and remarked j it was the last look at that sacred city on i earth, and the next Jerusalem we shall see j will be the heavenly. We went on within j sight of Mizpahand Gibeon, where Joshua j commanded the sun to stand still; on by j Rama, connected with Samuel's history; on by the traditional village where the' parents of Christ missed their boy, about three and a half miles from Jerusalem, j This is the road over which Jesus came and! went from Jerusalem to Nazareth. To- j night we encamp at Bethel, where was once J a school of the prophets, a theological seminary. Elijah and Elisha were here, j Near this Abraham and Lot divided the; GROUP OF MODERN GALILEANS. land. Here Jacob, pillowed on a stone, saw the ladder used by angels' feet, and he set up a stone and consecrated it. To-night the heavens were full of ladders?first a ladder of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and all up and do.vn the heavens arc the angels of beauty, angH-s of consolation, angel-s of God ascending and descending. "Surely | God is in this place,' said Jacob, 'and I knew it not.' But to-night God is in this] place, anil I know it!" The doctor has this to say about tradition, history aud fact before beginning the real work of the book: "Are the places that I seo in Palestine and Syria and the Mediterranean isles the genuine placcs of Christly, patriarchal i and apostolic association? Many of them ! are not, and many of them are. We have ! no sympathy with the bedwarfiug of tradition. There are traditions contra- j dieted by their absurdity, but if for; several generations a sensible tradition' goes on in rogard to events connected with j certain places, I am as certain of the loeali- j ties as though pen and document had fixed j them. Iudeed, sometimes tradition is more to fce depended on than written communi- j cation. A writer may, for bail purposes, I misrepresent, misconstrue, misstate; but j reasonable traditions conct .-uing places | connected with great events are apt to be ' true. 1 have no more doubt concerning l the place or. which Christ was crucified! or in which Christ was buried than I have < about the fact that our Lord was slain and ; intombed. l?ut suppose traditions contra- j diet each other? Then try them, test them, ' compare tliem as you do documents. It is < no more difficult to separate traditions, , irue and false, than apocrypha! books from j? Inspired books. Do not use the word tra- 11 tlition us a synonym for delusion. There, is a surplus of Christian iniidels traveling 11 the Holy Band who are from scalp to heel ! surcharged with unbeliefs. A tradition |j may be as much divinely inspired as a ,; book. The scenery of Palestine is inter- j joined, intertwisted, interlocked with the i Scriptural occurrences. The learned Hit- ' r ter, who has never been charged with any ^ weakness of incredulity, writes: 'No one ( can trace without joy and wonder the vcri- j lication which geography pays to the his- ] tory of the Holy Land.' "When the brilliant Iteuau went to Pal- . istine lie was st ull'ed with enough incredulity to make a dozen Thomas Paines, and j yet he gives the following experience: 'The s marvelous harmony of the evangelical pict- t ire, with the country which serves :is its j ,rame, was 10 me a ruvuiauuii. 1 u.ui ^ 'ore my wyes a fifth gosjMil, mutilated but a still legible; and ever afterward in t lie re:itaLs of Matthew and Mark, instead of an " ibstract being that one would say has never sxisted, I saw a wonderful human figure y ive and move.' So said an unbeliever. In t ;bis my visit to Palestine, in the year of Hit*Lord ISJiSMK), I also find the landscape a ^ lommentary. Tlie rivers, the mountains, ' ;he valleys, the. lak^s, the rooks, i he trees, he costumes of the lloly Land, agree with Matthew and Mark and Luke and John. L'he geography and topography are the. ^ mckgrouud of the U-ospel pictures. They carry a different part of the same song. Admit Palestine Und you admit the New Testament. A distinguished man years ago came here, and returned and wrote, 'I weut to Palestine an infidel and came home a Christian.' My testimony will be that I came to Palestine a firm believer in the Bible, and return a thousand fold more confirmed in the divinity of the Holy Scriptures." Quite as interesting as anything else in the book is this announcement: "Wandering up and down the chief art galleries of Europe I have looked for a face of the Saviour which I would like to have in my life of Christ. The one I have chosen in preference to all is that executed by a modern artist already widely honored. "I have no idea that the Fourteenth century, or the Fifteenth century, or the Sixteenth century monopolized all the brain. I think the best music is yet to be composed, the best sculpture yet to be chiseled, the best paintings are yet to be presented to the world. We are almost always disappointed with a picture of Christ. It is the universal criticism of such pictures, 'While I admire the artistic merit of the production, the picture is not my idea of the Saviour.' The picture is .apt to represent Christ either as effeminate or severe, weak or awful. To commingle in one picture strength and humility, suffering and triumph, the lionlike and the lamblike, the face that frowned the bestormed lake into a calm, and yet was such an invitation to babyhood that children tumbled from their mothers' arms into his bosom?that was what I was looking for, and that I have found, and that we present to our readers. "I think it will satisfy more people than any other face that has ever been put on canvas. The cranial development of this picture of Christ is marvelous, and different from anything previously produced. We must not forget that he was not only a Christ of great heart, but also of great head. Most other paintings of our Lord .1. r J.U mu: were maue irum uiuueia. imo auwi uau no model. He feels that it was an inspiration, and I believe it was. The German is apt to paint a German Christ, the Italian an Italian Christ, the Frenchman a French Christ, the Spaniard a Spanish Christ. But it was left for our artist, in whose veins commingle the blood of many nationalities, to paint for us 'The World's Christi' Blessed be his glorious name forever!" The public will be curious to see the work of this artist. Perhaps the good doctor has found a new Correggio! There are a great many other features too numerous to even mention, in a newspaper article. The readers will find these for themselves, and will probably lay down the hook, as I did the proof sheets, with a new knowledge of the Christ, and a higher appreciation of Dr. Talmage's splendid ability. Foster Coates. English Clothiers and Customer*. One of the best reasons why London business houses become so ancient is because it is so hard to wind up their affairs. Hundreds of pounds must go out in credit before the first shilling can be said to be earned. As long as the business lasts new credits take the place of old ones, and the importance of a concern is determined by the number of people able to pay when they get good and ready whose names appear on its credit books. A British tradesman will fail with triple the assets in outstanding accounts required to liberate his indebtedness, because he considers it little short of a crime to bother Sir Clarence or to dun Lord Charles. Accounts of this kind are sought after and encouraged, while those who run them up know full well that the fact of their patronage is being laid great stress on in dazzling plebeian patrons with the importance of their co-customers. The one saving Wature of the system is that the aristocratic patron never deserts his appointed tradesman except for good cause, and never fails to recommend him on every occasion.?Cor. Clothier and Furnisher. Ho Saved Something. We meet many peculiar characters in this world. I ran across a man once?and he was a man of intelligence and a man of splendid family, wealthy and all that? who lost his wife, and who, in telling me of his bereavement, said: "Well, I will save something out of the wreck. I can wear her stockings. See here," and he rolled up his pantaloons. Sure enough, there were women's stockings of fine texture and reaching away above the kuec. He proceeded to explain that he had bought her several pairs at $2 each just a week before she died, but she had never had any use of thom, and he would have to wear them out, though he was sorry he hail bought them. The idea was so funny that it was all I could do to keep from laughing right out, as the saying is, but the man was so very serious that I repressed the inclination to do so. I told him it was sad, but as long as he could save something out of tho wreck by wearing his dead wife's hosiery he was not in such a bad fix, but still he could not see the ludicrous side of his narl-ative.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Story of an Intelligent Cat. A New Hampshire physician sends me the following cat story, for which he vouches: "Among other queer tricks Dick will take off my glasses very carefully with his paw, hold them with one claw and survey them with great apparent interest. "The first time he did this was one night when he had been napping and I reading. FJe is a great pet, and going to him I bent jver, without indicating by any motion my meaning, and said gently: " 'Dick, if you want to go to bed take off my glasses.' "lie immediately reached up a paw and :ook them off- as defty as though it were in old habit. Thinking this a 'happen so' I jut them on and made the same request n different words, with precisely the same esult. After one more repetition he rawued and plainly intimated that was ;nough."?Philadelphia Times. Still Hustllvg* An energetic young man with a taste for lewspaper work succeeded in obtaining miploytneut on one or the JNew iorJc daiies. He had said that all he wanted was a tart, and he was as busy as a biucz saw hereafter. One day a friend stopped him ii his impetuous chase after fame long nough to ask him how he was getting lonjc. "Oh, I am doing splendidly," tho onng man answered with enthusiasm. "Have you written anything yet?" "Yes, indeed I have. I wrote ten colirans and a half last week; all good stuff, oo." "That is good. I am glad to know that ?.u are doing so well. Your last week's fork must have naid von nrettv well." 4*Xo, not si) very well," said the young writer hesitatingly; "you see they have iot printed any of my matter yet."?New fork Times. ' s