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the brooklyn divine's sun
day sermon.
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Subject: "The Greatest Name of AIL"
/ Tzxt. "77ie noma which is above every
name."?Philippians il.t 9.
IPauJ is here making; rapturous and enthusiastic
description of the name of Christ.
There are merely worldly names that sometimes
thrill you through and through. Such
was the name of Henry Clay to a Kentuck1
-?l * TCNli:?TO Wi.f frw a Virgin
anil, iuc uaiuu vi ?? moui ??**v w ? - ? q?.
Ian, the name of Daniel Webster to a New
England er.
By common proverb we have come to believe
that "there is nothing in a name:" and
o parents sometimes at the baptismal altar
gives titles to their children reckless of the
fact that that title, that name, will be a lifetime
hindrance or a lifetime help. You
have no right to give your child a name
lacking either in euphony or moral meaning
It is a sin to call a child Jehoiakim or
Tiglath-pileser?or by anything that is disagreeable.
Because you have had an exasperating
name yourself is no reason why
you should inflict it upon your progeny.
And yet bow often it is that we see a name
full of jarjjon rattling down from generation
to generation simply because a long while
ago some one happened to be afflicted with
it. Institutions and great enterprises sometimes
without sufficient deliberation take ,
nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been
. decided by a name. While we may by a
long course of Christian behavior get oyer
the misfortune of having been baptized with
the name of a despot or a cheat, now much
tetter it would have been if we could have
all started life without any such incumbrance!
When Paul, in my text and in other passages
of Scripture, burst forth in aspirations
of admiration for the name of Christ, I want
to innuire what are the characteristics of
that appellation, ''The name which is above
every Dame." In the first place, speaking to
you in regard to the Dame of Christ. I want
to tell ycu it is an easy name. You are
sometimes introduced to people with long
and unpronounceable names, and you have
to listen cautiously to get the names, and
you have to hear them pronounced two or
three times before you risk trying to utter
them, bu; within the firdt two years the little
child folds its hands and looks upward
and says "Jesus."
Can it be tbatin all this church this more*
fng there are representatives of any household
where the children are familiar with the
names ot the father and mother and brother
and sister, yet know nothing about "that I
same which is above every name*" Sometimes
you forget the name of a quits familiar
friend, and you have to think and think be- |
fore you get it, but can you imagine any
freak of intellect by which you should forget
the name of Jesus? That word seems to
fit the tongue in every dialect. Down to old
age, when the voice is tremulous and uncertain
and indistinct, even then this regal
word finds potent utterance.
When an aged father was dying one of
the children came and said, "Father, do
you know me?" and in the delirium of the
last sickness he said, "No, I aon't know
you." Another child came and said,
"Father, do you know me?" "No," he said,
"I don't know vou." Then the village pastor
came in and said, "Dou you know me?"
He said, "No; I don't think lever saw you."
Then said the minister, "Do you know
Jesus?' "Oh, ves!" said the dying man, "I
know Jesus; Chief among ten thousand is
fie. and the One altogether lovely." Yes,
for ail ages and for all languages, and for all
conditions is an easy name.
Jeeus, I love Thy charming name,
'lie music to my ear;
Faiu would I sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
But I remark further in regard to this
Dame of Christ, that it is a baauti.ul name.
Now you have noticed that you cannot disI
associate a name from the caaracter of the
person who has it. There are some names,
for instance, that are repulsive to my ear.
Those names are attractive to your ear.
"What is the difference? Why, I happened
to know some persons of that name who
were cross or sour, or queer oruosympathetic,
and the persons you have happened
\ to know of that name were kind and genlaL
Since, then, we cannot disassociate a name
I from the character of the person who has
\ the name, that consideration makes the
> name of Jtsus unspeakably beautiful.
I cannot pronounce the name in your
presence, but you think of Bethlehem and
( Oetbsemane and Golgotha, and you see His
loving face, and you near His tender voice,
Iand you feel His gentle touch. As soon as
1 pronounce His name in your presence you
thinu of Him who banqueted with heavenly
hierarchy yet came down aud breakfasted
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OH IUB USU vvuitu tun luugu uinu uiuisu uu>
of Genesaret;you think of Him who, though
the clouds are the dust of Bis feet; walked
footsore on the road to Emmaus.
I cannot speak His name in your hearing
this moring, but you think right away of
the shining one who restored the centurion's
daughter, and who helped the blind man to
sunlight, and who made the cripple's crutch
useless, and who looked down into the laughing
eyes of the babe UDtil it struggled to go
to Him; then, flinging His arms around it,
' and impressing a kiss upon its beautiful
brow, said: ''Of such is the kingdom of
heaven."
Oh, beautiful name, the name of Jesus,
which stands for love, for patience, for self
sacrifice, for magnanimity, for everything
that is good and glorious and tender and
sympathetic and .land! it is aromatic with
I all odors. It ii accordant with all harmonies.
Sometimes when I look at that name of
Jesus Christ it seems as if the letters were
made of tears, and then they seem to \>e
gleaming crowns. Sometimes that name
seems to be twisted out of the straw on
which He lay, and then it seems to be built
\ out ot tbe tnrones on wmcn nu peopie are
( to reign. Sometimes I sound that word
I Jesus, and I hear in it the sob of Gethsemane
\ and the groan of Calvary, and then I speak
\ His name and it is all a ripple with gladness
, \ and a ring with bosanna. Glorious name]
\ Take all the glories of bookbindery and
\ put them around the page on which that
\name is printed. On Christmas morning
yreatheiton tbe walL Let it drip from
harp's string and let it thunder out in organ's
diapason. Son ad it often, sound it well, until
every star shall seem to shine it, and every
flower shall seem to breathe it, and mountain
and sea, and day and night, and earth
and heaven acclaim in full chant, "Blessed
be His glorious name forever." "The name
which is above every name."
Have you ever heard in a Methodist
church, during a time of revival, a score of
I souls come to the aitar and cry out for mercy
under tbe power of just two lines of glorious
old John Wesley?
IJesn*, tho name high oyer all.
In heaven, or earth, or skjr.
To the repenting soul, to the exhausted ipI
valid, to the Sunday-school girl, to the snow
wbite octogenarian it is beautiful. Tbe
aged man comes in from a long walk, and he
tremulously opens the door of nis home, and
he hangs his hat on the old nail, and he puts
his cane in the usual place, and he lies on his
couch, and he says to his children and his
grandchildren, "My dears, I a ongoing away
from you ." Ana tney say, wuuro
are you going, grandfather?" "Ota, he says,
"I am going to Jesus;" and so the old man
faints away into heaven.
And the little child comes in from play
and she flings herself in your lap, and she
says, "Mamma, I'm bo sick, I'm so very
sick;" and you put her to bed, and the fever
is worse and worse, and 3ome midnight,
while you are shaking up the pillow and giving
the medicine, she looks up in your face
and says, "Mamma, I'm goin? away from
J on." You say, "5Vhy, where are you go
ig, my darling?' Aud she says, "I am going
to Jesus." And the red chees that you
take to be the mark of the fever turns out
to be enlv the carnation bloom of heaven.
Oh, was it not' beautitul when a little
en lid beard that her playmate was dying,
and she went to the bouse, and she clambered
upon the bed of her dying playmate.
"Where are you going to?" and the dying
k girl said, "I'm going to Jesus." Then said
the little girl that was well as she bent over
to give the parting kiss to her dying 'playmate,
"WeTJ,then,if you are going to Jesus,
give my love to Him." It is a beautiful
same, whether on the lips of childhood or
on the lips of the old man .When my father
was dying the village minister said to him.
quoting over hi* pillow this passage, "This
is a faithful saying and worthy of all act
ceptation?that Christ Jesus cams into the
world to save sinners,"and there he stopped.
Then my father finished the quotation by
aaying. "of whom I am chief."
Bat I remark again, in regard to this
same of Christ, that it is a mighty nam*.
Rothschild it ft name mighty m-tb* com
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mercial world, Silliman Is a name mighty in
the scientific world, Irving is a name mighty
in the literary world, Washington is a name
mighty in the political world, Wellington is
a name mighty in the military world, but
where in all the earth is a name so potent to
lift and thrill and arouse and rally and bless
as the name Jesus? Why, the sound of that
odo name uahorsed Saul and threw Newton
on his face on ship's deck, and that one name
to-day, while I speak, holds a hundred million
souls under omnipotent spell. That
name in England to,day means more than
Victoria. In Germany that name to-day
means more than Emperor William. Oh,
mighty name!
I have seen a man bound hand and foot
of the devil and captive of all evil habits, at
the sound of that name dash down his
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seen a man overcome of misfortune and
trial, every kind of trouble bad he; but at
the sound of that name the sea dropped,
and the clouds parted, and the sunburst of
eternal gladness poured upon his souL I
have seen a man hardened in infidelity, defiant
of God, full of Jeer and scoff, jocase of
the judgment day, recti e*3 of eternity, at
the sound of that name blanch and cower
and groan and kneel and weep and rep9nt
and pray and believe and rejoice and triumph.
Oh, it is a mighty name. Under its power
the last temple of superstition will come
down and the last Juggernaut of iniquity
will be shattered to pieces. The red horse of
carnage, spoken of in apocalyptic vision, and
the black horse of death must come back on
their haunches, while the white horse of
victory goes forth mounted of Him who hath
the moon under His feet and the stars of
heaven for His tiara. Mighty name! It will
make the whole earth tremble, and then it
will make all the nations sing. Mighty
name!
Other dominions seem to be giving way;
France had to give up some of her favorite
provinces; Spain has lost a great deal of her
power; many of the thrones of the world
are being lowered, many of the scepters of
the world are being shortened, but every
tract distributer, every Bible printer, every
Christian institution esta bushel spreads
abroa l the mighty name of Christ. It has
already been heard under the Chinese wall,
I and in the Siberian snow castle, and in the
I Brazilian grove and in the eastern pagoaa.
That name will swallow up all other names.
I That crown will yet cover up all other
crowns. That empire will yet compass all
I dominations.
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall fall,
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;
| Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend.
And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
But I remark again, taking a step forward
in this subject, that the name of Christ ia
an enduring name. You get over the fence
of the graveyard and you pull the weeds
back from the name that ha* nearly faded
from the tombstone, 'and you wish that
Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" would come
along and rechisel it so that you might really!
find out what the name is. Why, that was the
name of the greatest man in all the town, in
all the country, in all the State, now almost
faded from the tombstone.
And so the greatest names of this world
either have perished or are perishing^
Gregory VI., Sancho of Spain, Conrad I. of
Germany, Ricoard I. of England. Catherine
of Russia. Those names were onc9 mighty,
and they made the earth tremble. Who
cares for them now? None so poor as to do
them reverence. But the name of Christ is
enduring forever. It will be preserved io
the world's fine art. There will be other
BelUnis to aketch the Madonna, and other
Ghirlandaajos to present the baptism of
Christ, and other Bronzinos to show Christ
visiting the spirits in prison, and other
Giottos to appal the vision with the Crucifixion.
It will be preserved in the world's
literature.
There will be other Alexander Popes to
write the "Messiah," and other Dr. Youngs
to celebrate His triumph, and other Cowpers
to sing His love. It will be preserved
in the world's grand and elaborate architecture,
and Protestanism shall yet have it3
St . Mark's and its St. Peter's. It shall be
preserved in the world's literature, for there
will be other Paleys to write the "Evidences
of Christianity.'' More than all, it will be
embalmed in the hearts of all the good of
earth and all the great ones of heaven.
Shall the emancipated bondsman ever forget
who set him free? Shall the blind man
ever forget the Divine Physician who gave
him sight? Shall the lost and wandering
ever forget who brought them home*
Why, to make the world forget that name
would be to burn up all the Bible3 and burn
down all the churches, and then in the spirit
of universal arson go through the gate of
heaven and put the torch to all the temples
and mansions and palaces until in the awful
conflagration all heaven went down and the
people come out to look upon the charred
ruins; but even then they would hear the
name of Christ in the thunder of falling
towers and in the crash of temple walls, and
see it interwoven into the flying banners of
flame, and the redeemed of heaven would
say, "Let the temples an i the palaces burn;
let them burn; we have Jesus left." Blessed
be His glorious name forever. "The name
which is above every name."
fTMonrio h?v? vnu mads uo Your mind
by what name you will accost Christ when
you seo Him in heaven? Now that is a practical
question. For you will see Him, child
of God, just as certainly as you sit there and
I stand here. By what name have you made
up your mind to call Christ when you first
meet Him in heaven? Will you call Him
" Anointed One," or "Messiah?" or will you
take some one of the symbolic terms which
you read in your Bible on earth?terms by
which Christ was designated?
Some day perhaps you will be wandering
among the gardens of God on higb, the place
abloom with eternal springtime, infinite lux*
ury of lily an'l rose ana amarath, and perhaps
you will look up into the face of Christ '
and say, "My Lord, Thou art the Rose of
Sharon and the Lily of the Valley." Some
time there will be a new soul come into
heaven to take its place in the firmament
and shine as the stars forever and ever, and
the luster of a useful life will shine lorth
tremulous and beautiful, anl you will look
up into the face of Christ and sav, "My
Lord, Thou art a brighter star, the Morning
Star, the Star of Jacob, the Star of the Redeemer."
Wrt.no von will bfl walkine anion? the
fountains that toss in the sunlight, falling
in crash of pearl and amethjst' into golden
and crystalline urn, and wandering up the
round banked river to the place where the
water first tinkles in silver on the rock, and
from chalices of love you will be drinking
to honor and everlasting joy. and you will
look up into the face of Christ and say, "My
Lord. myLord, Thou art the Fountain of
Living Water." Some day you will be
wandering among tbe lambs and sheep of
heaven feeding by the rock, rejoicing in the
care of Him who brought you out of the
I wilderness world into the sheepfold, and you
will look up lhto His face and say, "My
Lorn, my Lord, Thou art the Shepherd of
I the Evsnasting Hills."
But there is another name by which yon
can call Him. Perhaps that will be the
name 1 have not mentioned yet. I imagine
that heaven is all full. Every throne has
its king. Every harp has its harper. All
the wealth of the universe has come into
heaven. There is nothing to be added*
The s-owr r'ilL The rants full. Tha mw*
sions all full Heaven full. The sun will
set afire with its splepdor the domes of the
temple, and burnisn the golden streets into
a blaze, and be reflected back from the
solid pearl of the twelve gates, and it will be
noon in heaven. Noon on the river. Noon
on the hills. Noon in the valleys. High
noon. And then you will look up, gradually
accustoming your vision to tbe sight,
shading your eyes at the first leet they be
extinguished with the insufferable splendor,
until after awhile you can look upon the full
irradiation, and you will cry out, "My Lord,
my Lord, Thou art the Sua that Never
Sets."
But at this point I am staggered with the
thought that there may be persons in this
house for whom this name has no charm,
though it is so easy, though it is so beautiful,
though it is so potent, though it is so enduring.
Oh, come to-day and see whether
there is anything in Christ 1 I challenge you
to test with me this morning whether Goi is
good, and whether Christ is precious, and
whether the Boly Ghost is omnipotent.
Come, my brother, I challenge you.
Come, an 1 we will "kneel at the altar of
mercv. You kneel on the one side of the altar
and I will kneel on the other side of the altar
of mercy, and we will not get up from our
knees until our sins are pardoned and wa
are able to ascribe all honor to the name?
you pronouncing it and I pronouncing it?
"the name which is above every nams."
His worth If all the nations knew.
Sure the whoie earth would lovo him too.
I pray God that He may move upon this
assemblage now, that we may see Him walking
through all these aisles, that the Holy
Spirit may spread His wings over this auditory.
Now is your time for heavan.,, Qbr
my friends 1 meeting once, perhaps never
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again until the books are opened, what shall
we say of this morning's service? Have I
told you the whole truth! Have you listened
to the whole truth? Now i* your time for
heaven. Come into the king lom. If you
never had an invitation before, I give it to
you now.
I do not ask what your sin has been or
what your wandering. That is not pertinent
to the question. The only thing is
' ?u?r.?t Phrlafc Oom? in. the
wuobucl jwu nauif ??.
farthest off. Come, the nearest by. "Where
sin abounded, grace shall much more
abound." Is there in all this augu9t assemblage
a man who feels he is too wicked to
come? You are mistaken. Come now.
"Now Is the accepted time; now is the day
of salvation."
O ye who are young, come now I It Is no
gloomy religion that I preach. It will take
no lustre from your eye. It will)take no
color from your cheek. It will take no
spring from your step. I know what I am
talking about. I have felt the consolation
of this grace in my own heart. It is not a
theory with me. I know in whom I believe,
and He has been so good a friend to me, I
have a right this morning to oommend His
friendship to all the people.
Oh, come into the Kingdom! Do not say
you are too bad. "Let the wicked forsake
nia way and the unrighteous man his
thoughts." "Look unto Me, all ye ends of
the earth." How is He going to do?drive
you into the kingdom? fie will not do It.
If you get in at all it will be because yon
are drawn in by His love. What does He
say? "Look unto Me, all ye ends of the
earth." He was lifted up. What for? To
drive? No I lifted up to draw. Oh, come
now, come now into the kingdom of our
Lord Jeeus!.
*ou uave heard of that warrior ot ancient
times who went into battle against Christ.
He hated Christ and he went into battle
knf in fha knft: 1a hft ffOt
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wounded, be was struck by tbe arrow and
fell, and as be lay with his face up to the
sun and tbe life blood was oozing away, he
put his band to his heart and toolc a handful
of blood from the wound and held it up to
the sun and cried out, "Ob, Jesus! Thou hast
conquered."
And if to-day, my hearer, struck through
by the arrow of God's gracious Spirit, you
realize the truth of what I hare been saying,
you would surrender yourself to the Lord
who bought you, you would say: "I will no
longer battle against Christ's mercy. Lord
Jesus, Thou hast conquered." Glorious
name. I know not what you will do with
it; but I will tell you one thing before I
stop?I must tell it. I will tell you one thing
here and now, that I take Him to be my
juora, my vruu, my im uuu, mj ?j
cOmfort, my salvation, my heaven. Blessed
be His glorious name forever. "Ihe name
which is above every name."
Cta Plants See?
The candid observer cannot help admitting,
if he wishes to be fair in the
base degree,that a greao many plants and
creeping vines act as though they had
the faculty of sight. This may sound
queer to botanists and scientists who
have made the study of plant structure a
specialty, but to "Ye Notes for the
Curious Man," whose time and taste limit
his studies to odd, peculiar things only,
there is nothing incongruous in the question
used as a headline to this "note."
Even the botanist, as well as the other
"scientific feller," must acknowledge
that they manage to find food and support
(this latter remark refers to vines
only) by aid of some special sense, which
to the unscientific mind is sight and
nothing less. I find support of this
somewhat novel theory in several works
at hand, most notably in the writings of
Mrs. L. T. King, who has resided several
years in India, "the land of plants and
serpents." In describing a very curious
instance of a vine looking out for support,
she says:
"My husband has broached a remarkable
theory, one I cannot remember having
met with before, namely That
Creeping plants can see! He may not
have described their curious faculty as
real sight; at any rate, he says that they
have a sense that no other term but a
umII fit-. ftriM mnrnincr
(oguoo v/i otj^uv n ?? v >? ? 9
he was sitting in the veranda with one
foot against a large pillar, near to which
grows a species of creeping vine, a convolvus.
Its tendrils were leaning^ over
into the veranda, and to Robert's surprise
he presently noticed that they were
visibly turning toward his leg, and in
A very short time they had actually
entwined it. At breakfast he told rae of
his interesting discovery, and we determined
to make further experiment;.
When we went out to the veranda the
tendrils had turned back to the railing
in disgust. Then we commenced our
experiments. First, we got a pole and
fKfl rvillflr a fllll
icauou lb up Q^aiuob ? *???
twelve inches from the nearest spray of
the viae. la a few moments they had
began to curve towards the pole, acting
exactly as you might fancy a very slow
snake would do. Soon the upper tendrils
had beut down and the side ones had
curved themselves until they had touched
the pole, and within a few hours they
had entirely entwined it. The support
we had put up was on the side away
from the light, and, excepting the faculty
of sight, we can think of no other i
means by which the tendrils could be
aware that the polo had been placed
there. Thev had to turn away from the
light to reach it, and they set themselves
in motion visibly within a few seconds
after the object was put 'in sight.' "?
St. Louis Republic.
The Beal Importer of Sparrows.
A number of old-time residents of
Germantown deny that the sparrows
were brought into this country from
England by ex-City Treasurer John
Bardsley. It was a John Bardsley,however,
that introduced these pests into
this country, through the instrumentality
of William F. Smith, at that time a
Councilman from Germantown, to destroy
the multitudes of measuring worms
that covered the trees in Philadelphia ana
suburbs. The original John Bardsley
was a well-known resident of Germantown,
living at Upsal and Main streets,
and was familiarly known as ''Sparrow
{Jack." He was a native of England and
was selected by Councils to secure these
birds. He was a great spiritualist, and,
in fact, wa3 a leader nmong that sect,
and had a summer d(veiling at Parkland,
where spiritualistic meeting were held.
There are families in Germantown that
have sparrow potpie frequently. They
don't shoot the birds aad till them with
shot, but trap them instead.?PhiUdelDhia
Record.
One of the questions which are agitating
Paris at present is whether a
druggist is justified in declining to
fill the prescription of a physician
which he believes to have been made
tn ignorance of the dangerous char
cter of the drug prescribed, or in
which a mistake has been made as to
i the proper dose. The doctors hold
that it is the druggist's duty to All
the prescription and permit the patient
to be killed, secundum artem,
j leaving the responsibility with the
prescribing physician. The druggists
are in doubt.
According to a recent estimate there
are uodej ditch in the West 18,533,107
i tcxeir Of this Colorado has 3,009,050.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THY WILL BE DONE.
Not in dumb resignation
We lift our hand9 on high;
Nor like the nerveless fatalist.
Content to trust and die.
Our faith spriugs like the eagle
Who soars to meet the sun,
And cries exulting unto Thee,
O Lord, Thy will be done!
When tyrant feet are trampling
Upon the common weal,
Thou dost not bid us bend and writhe
Beneath the iron heel.
In Thy name we assert our right,
By sword or tongue or pen,
And even the headsman's axe may flasl
Thy message unto men.
Thy will! It bids the weak be strong;
It bids the strong be just;
No lip to fawu, no hand to beg.
No brow to seek the dust.
\y ntrevtr uiau upyresnco mm
Beneath Thy liberal sun,
0 Lord, be there thine arm made bare,
Thy righteous will be done!
?[John Hay, in Harper's \fagazina
" HABIT IN RELIGION.
1 remember visiting the Grotto del Cane
near Naples, a natuial cavern, which is
partly charged with a highly poisonous atmosphere.
The carbonic acia gas, however,
being heavier than common air, rests upon
the ground, reaching only to a height of
about three or four feet; the consequence
being, that whilst a man may walk upright
through the cave uninjured, yet if he stoops
or lies down in it, a few seconds will prove
fatal. So, if you keep your head up toward
heaven, and above the poisonous miasma
that surrounds you, vou may walk uninjured
through the world; but if you rest in
it, and breathe in it, your very life is in
peril. I do not say that tbere is no
nope for your aoul, unless you read a chapter,
and kneei down to prayer every morning
at six or seven, and every eveuirig about
ten?no; but I do say that it is most im
* * ?Uaii1/1 V? nwo i f if r ? nf
punum iUBi yun ruuuiu
daily devotion, and not allow anything to
interfere with the due culture of your
spiritual life. Come, now, he honest; are
not some of you prepared to confess that,
from the date of your giving up regular seasons
of private devotion, you have gone back
spiritually, and have lo9t the inward joy and
glowing hope you once possessed? I am not
surprised you "do not come to communion.
Young man! to-night, it may be, at
your bedroom door, on the third
floor, you will think you hear
a gentle knock. "Come in!" Ah ! there is
no one there but He who knocked at
Samuel's door, and would not let him sleep;
it Is Jesus, the young man's friend, saying,
"Wilt though forget me? Wilt thou cast off
thy Saviour?' Else, brother, and take your
Bible out of the trunk, if it is still stowed
away. Down upon your knees and say,
'Mv father's God, my mother's God, thou |
shalt be my God, too"; henceforth I will live
for thee, and openly confess tbee. What
dotb hinder me to join myself unto thy
people?"?[J. Thain Davidson, D. D., in
"Sure to Succeed."
"AMONG WHOM YE SHI5E AS LIGHTS."
Holiness is self-demonstrative. He whose
heart is pure surrounds himself with a
spiritual atmosphere, and adorns his life
with a constant succession of godly and
benevolent actions. As a man travelling to
a distant country thinks, reads and talks of
the land he longs to see, so the holy man
thinks, reads and speaks of the city of God
whither be is journeying, hoping to receive
an inheritance in that dwelling-place of sinless
souls, "he purifieth himself as be is pure."
The strongest desire of his soul is expressed
in these lines of St. Ambrose:
"Meet for thy realm in heaven,
Make me, 0 holy King!
That through the ages be it given
To me thy praise to sing."
When visitine a gentleman in England,
I observed a fine canary. Admiring bis
beauty, the gentleman replied: "Yes. he is
beautiful, but he bas lost nis voice. He used
to be a fine siDger; but I was in the liablt of
hanging bis cage oat of the window; the
spnrro <V8 came around with their incessant
chirping; gradually he ceased to sing and
learned their twitter, and now all he can do
is to twitter, twitter." Oh, how truly does
this represent the case of many Christians!
Tbev used to delight in the songs of Zion,
but tbry come iuto close association with
those whose notes never rise so high, until,
at la?t, like the canary, they do nothing but
twitter, twitter.[?D. L. Moody.
OCR ECHO.
Yon remember the story of the toy who
went out into the woods ana cnea oui
"Hello!" and echo said "Hello!" The boy
got mad, thought he was being made fun or.
andbesnid, "I hate you!" Echo said, "I
hate you!" His anger increased, and he
cried "out, "I'll bit you!" Again Echo says,
"I'll hit you!" The little fellow, indignant,
went into the house and told his mother
that a boy out in the woods was going to hit
bim, and that he hated him, and so on.
The motoersaw the secret and said to him,
"Now, my son, if you will go out
into the woods and cry out, 'I
love you,' you will find that the boy will say
he loves you." So out he went and said. "I
love you!" and Echo immediately replied,
'Ilove you!" When we go out into tbe
church, into tbe world,* with this life of love
in us producing harmony of all our faculties,
we can project into our environments or circumstances
this life of love, and by it make
men love us. and beget in the lives of
men this life of love.
EXPECTATION.
The less we expect from this world, the
better for us. The less we expect from our
fellow-men, whether of Mpiritual belp or of
inspiring example, the smaller will be our
disappointment. He that leans on his own
strength leans on a broken reed. We are always
going to be something stronger, purer
and holier. Somewhere in the future thero
alwars bangs in the air a golden ideal of a
higher life that we are going to reach; but aa
we move on the dream of better things
moves on before us also. It is like the child's
running over behind the hill to catch the
rainbow. When be gets on the hilltop the
rainbow is as far off as ever. Thus does our
day-dream of a higher Christian life keep
floating away from usand we are left to
realize what" frail, unreliable creatures we
are, when we rest our expectations of growth
and victory over evil in ourselves. "My
soul, wait thou only upon God! Mv expectation
is only from Him."?[Dr. T. L.
Cuyler.
Tinskin savs of Darwinism: "We may
sufficiently represent the general manner of
conclusion in the Darwinian system by the
statement, that if you fasten a hair brush to
a mill-wheel, with the handle of the brush
forward, so as to develop itself into a neck
by moving always in the same direction, and
within continual hearing of a steam whistle,
after a certain number of revolutions the
hair brush will fall in love with the whistle
and they will marry and lay an egg, which
will hatch out into a nightingale!"
Rev. Dr. A. had preached in the college
chapel one'Sunday morning, and though his
discourse was good it had little or no connection
with the text with which he introduced
it. When Professor B. was asked his opinion
of the sermon, the answer was, "It wastruJy
Apostolic, for he took a text aud then went
everywhere spreading the gospel." On a
similar occasion, when Dr. Azel Backus was
asked what he thought of ju*t such a discourse,
his reply was : ''Well, I thought if
the text bad the small pox the sermou would
never catch it!"
now to see Cutler Trator.
A lens for seeing under water is described
as produciug an effect which is
both astonishing and delightful. It gives
distinct vision to objects from twenty to
thirty feet below the surface, and which
arc usuany uut ui uiuiumjr c^o-taugv.
The eye's loss of extended vision when
under water is owing to the fact that an
entirely different focus i* required. The
spectacles which can adjust this focus
are made by putting two watoh crystals
back to back or with the concavities outward.
Try it and be surprised.?8t.
Louis Republic.
1 V * A-.v : . ' L.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
MAY 22.
Lesson Text: "Daniel and His Companions,"
Daniel t., 8-21?Golden
Text: Daniel 8?
Commentary.
8. "Bat Daniel purposed in bis heart that
he would not deflfe himself with the portion
of the king's meat, nor with the wine which
he drank." This portion of the first Terse of
nnr lA&onn ic f.ha flnlHon #ai?
we therefore give a little extra space to it.
We see Daniel, one of a company of young
Jews, carried .captive in the third year ot
Jehoiakim,in the palace of the kin? of Babylon,
in training to stand in due time before
the king as one of his wise men. While being
taught the wisdom of the Chaldeans
they are to be nourished with food and wine
from the king's table. Daniel determines
that he and his companions will not detile
themselves with food which has been offered
to idols, for they are true worshipers of the
only living and true God, and understand
that whatever is not offered to Him is
offered to devils (Lev. xvii., 7; Deut xxxii.,
17; I Cor. x., 20). All true believers are
commanded to do all things, even their
eating and drinking, to the glory of God (I
Cor. x., 31), and this one command covers
the whole temperance question for the Chri?tian.
9. "Now God had brought Daniel into
favor and tender love with the prince of the
eunuchs." When any one determines to
glorify God and serve Him only, the way
will be prepared. When a man's ways please
the Lord He maketh even bis enemies to be
at peace with him (Prov. xvi, 7). See the
story of Joseph, Gen. xxxix.. 21; Acts vii..
9, 10. and remember that the eyes of the
Lord ran to and fro throughout the whole
earth to show Himself strong on behalf of
all who trost in Him (II Chron. xvi., 9).
10. "And the prince of the eunuchs Mid
unto Daniel, I fear my lord, the king."
Daniel feared no man, neither did he fear
death, but he did fear to offend his God. The
fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso
putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe
(Prov. xrix., 25). How often the fear of
man or the disire to please man leads people
into sin; the only remedy is to know the living
God and live only to please Him.
11,12. "Prove Thy servants, I beseech
Thee, ten days, and let them sire us pulse
to eat and water to drink." A.simple vegetable
fare which they could be sure had not
come-from the king's table, nor been dedicated
to devils. On such food Daniel felt he
could ask the blessing of his God and expect
it. Let Christians test all tbeir eating and
drinking, all their home entertainments and
church entertainments, by t he honest question
from the heart, Can I conscientiously
ask the blessing of God upon this* Ana it
will tend to make oil these more simple and
for the glory of God. Daniel's conduct made
him seem very peculiar in the eyes of some
others, but he remembered that Israel was
to be a peculiar treasure unto God above all
people (Ex. xix., 5). And he sought above
all things to piease God
13. "Then let our countenances be looked
upon before Thee, and as Thou seest, deal
with Thy servant." The child of God may
be sure that the blessing of God shall be
made manifest, so that others shall be compelled
to behold it. As surelr as the work
of the devil is manifest in those who are
given to strong drink, so surely shall the
work of God be manifest in those who honor
Him even in their eating and drinking. The
testimony of Jeeus is, ''If any man serve
Me, him will My Father honor" (John xii.,
26).
14. "So he consented to them in this matter
and proved, them ten days." The
church at Smyrna was to be tried ten days
(Rev. JL, 10), signifying a perfect trial. The
ten plagues upon Egypt, the parables of the
ten pounds and the tea virgins seem to indicate
responsibilty, and judgment in proportion
to responsibility. As the nuqsber seven
indicates perfection iq reference to God, it
may be that the numbers fonr, ten, twelve
refer to perfect dealing with man in various
ways. ?
15. 16. "And at the end of tan days their
countenances appeared fairer and fatter in
flesh than all the children." The blessing of
God will be manifest even in our bodies. It
is marvelously manifest in the appearance
of those whose bodies were onoe given to
strong drink and sin in the service of the
devil, but who have been rescued by the
grace of God and made servants of Christ.
Being made free from sin and become servants
to God, they now bear rrnit unto holiness
and are ashamed of the former things,
the end of which was death (Rom. vi.,21, '22).
Aa to tha manifestation of Christ in such as
are possessed by Him, see bow they glorified
God in Paul iGal. J., 16, 24) and how they
took knowledge of the apostles that they had
been with Jesus ( Acta iv., 13).
17. "As for these four children, God gave
them knowledge and skill in all learning and
wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in
all visions and dreams." No doubt they
studied, but He that is perfect in kno wledge
was with them (Job zxzvi,, 4) and helped
them and taught them many things not to be
found in any Books of the Chaldeans. Gcd
is no, respecter of persons. He still giveth
wisdom to all who sincerely ask Him (Jas.
i, 5;. There is no capital that can compare
with a heart and head right with God, a
pure heart and a clear head sanctified and
enlightened by the Holy Spirit through the
merits of the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest
of blessings. But this no one can have
who is given to much win? (Eph. v., IS; I
Cor. vi., 19).
18, 19. "Now at the end of the days, the
{irince of the eunuchs brought them in beore
Nebuchadnezzar, and among them all
was found none like Daniel. Hananiah,
Michael and Azoriah; therefore stood they
before the king." The food and wine from
"> WnnJo f-ahln and all the wisdom of Babv
Ion, could not do for the others vrhat the
God of Daniel could and did do for those
who relied upon Him and yielded their bodies
to Him. Happy are those who can truly
say, "My soul, wait thou only upon God,
for my expectation is from Him (Ps. lxii.,
5). Then as to standing before the king of
Babylon, they were conscious thit they,
stood also before the Kino: of Kinjre, and.
could say. with Elijah, "The Lord God of
Israel iiveth before whom I stand" (1 Kings
xvii., 1. See also Lute L, 19).
20. "And in all matters of wisdom he '
found them ten times better than all the ma- j
gicians and astrologers that were in all bis
realm." In reference to the dreams on the!
wall of chapters ii.. iv.,v., there was no comparison,
for all the magicians failed, and,
1? Al? UfViA irtfarnrotq
oaiy IQO WlUUt uca>cu uuu
tian through His servant Daniel. There are
those who think that a little stimulant in j
the form of strong drink does help a man's i
mind and brain; but the only stimulant that;
Daniel knew or used was "The power ofi
God and tbe wisdom of God" (I Cor. i., 24). |
All who seek Him shall excel now as then.?1
Lesson Helper. i
Almost everybody eats too much
ond is the better for a little absti- I
nence. Men have lived healthy lives
on one-half what our idlers consume. |
Soldiers have made long marches and
fought desperate battles on a regimen
which a dry goods clerk would con- '
sider inadequate. The stomach can
handle so much nitrogenous matter,
10 much fat and so much of one of
the various carbohydrates. More is
m?.ninanTn r?lA<ra t.h? machine anrl
OUl^lUOU^Vf vtvgv/ V? ? ? I
embarrasses the excretory organs.
The electric-light trust, that demanded
$33.50 per arc lamp for illuminating
the World's Fair grounds,
admits that it made a mistake. What
It meant to demand was $20. There
Is a general suspicion that all It could
get was about the size of the figure
that the trust was after.
The idea of Yale authorities In
admitting women to postgraduate
courses only is probably founded upo
rloairo t.n lf?t. t.hf? vniincr cpnMfi
UU at UV/OH \y wv v.-w ^ ? ?'"O O
tnen who knocked down an actress
with a hard snowball finish their
course before ladies are invited to
enter. I
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, TEMPERANCE.
TO THX B1 SCOTS.
Dark is the sky of midnight,
Calmly night's hours have sped;
But, lo! mad shouts are ringing,
And flames burst forth o'er head;
There's a tramp of gathering thousands,
And hot ana stifling air,
And ghastly are the faces
That gleam amid the glare.
0 grief to see the spoilage
The Fire Fiend strives to take,
But deeper now the wailing.
For human life's at stake;
Yet still the sturdy fireman
Seeks peril not to shun,
Again he's sought the conflict
And fought with death, and won
Reformers to the Rescue!
Ob, hear that cry so dire,
"IntemDerance is rarinc
A wild consuming fire."
Oh, bear tbe shrieks of victims;
Haste at that anguish cry;
For wrecks of love and virtue,
In ashes soon may lie.
Reformers to the Rescue.
And shall the rallying cry
Ring vainly through oar army,
Nor temperance men reply?
O hand, ye are not weary?
Nor plighted lips grow dumb;
For a thousand lives re-echo,
"In God's great name we come."
Then on, ye rescuing army,
True blows each sword must smite:
Till earth one field of triumph)
No foe is left to fight;
Then, when o'er each endeavor
Success complete we see.
Blessed in the land forever,
Our righteous cause shall be.
?Harriet Glazebrook, in Advocate.
GOOD EXAMPLE.
We are all liable to mingle with those who
have inherited or have acquired a diseased
appetite lor alcohol, though we may not
know it. The influence of our example may
strengthen or may destroy them. Sometime
ago a company of travelers were journeying
in a Pullman car over the mountains
to San Francisco. The heat and the dust of
the alkali plains almost overcome them. At
last, as the train stopped at a station, several
bottles of chamoagn* were brought in
which the thirsty excursionists felt unable
to decline, in the car were a stranger and
his wife, and not long after the latter was
observed trying in vain to restrain her tears.
On being asked the cause, she said that her
husband had fallen into intemperance but
after terrible experiences had recovered. He
might have overcome the special temptation,
she thought, but seeing men of Chris
tian character take the wine, he had said:
"If they do it, I will," and she had been unable
to prevent him. She expected that he
would fall again into his former habit. One
of the party who heard it, who was not accustomed
to drink; said if he bad known the
stranger's condition he would rather have
paid the entire expenses of the journey for
the party than to have touched the wins.
Yet we are liable to be often in the company
of those who may be upheld or cast down by
our example.
DRINK A!?D HTRXDITT.
From a recent address of 0. C. Smith, A.
M., M. D., President of the Indiana State
Medical Society, we ciip the following quotations
"That the abuse of alcohol has grown to
be one of the most gigantic evils of the age
no longer can be denied. The damaging influence
on tutu re generations is more farreaching
and deleterious than we have heretofore
been willing to concede To arrest
tbis evil, or to reduce it to a minimum, even,
will require a most heroic effort?the combined
labor, in fact? of ail good people.
"We cannot escape individual responsibility
when the public health, the general
welfare, and the future happiness of our
race are at stake. We cannot fold our own
clean hands about us and say that as for me
and mine we have no responsibility. The
individual who can do this and shirk the
responsibilities of life, who is not willing to
lend a heiping hand to sinking humanity,
and labor for it so that the world may be
better for his havine lived in it is a misan
thrope and bad bettir naver have been born.
But there is probably no man so far debased
that he does not love his own flesh and
blood, if he hare no interest in humanity in
general, his single aim in life being to pro*
vide for his own descendants and make tnem
happy. Bat he cannot accomplish this with
certainty, for his neighbor may be an inebriate
whose descendants may marry his
children and his grandchildren may be epileptic
or insane, his great-grandchildren
criminals or paupers and die upon the scaffold,
be inmates of the penitentiary or almshouse,
and Anally be buried in the potter's
field. Truly, he that does not provide for
his own household Is worse than an infidel.
"The time has come when this question
muse meet its solution. With the knowledge
which the medical profession possesses
upon me 3uujocu uiiuw uuuukuuu, no v?unot
occupy a neutral poeition. We cannot
do so ana discharge our duty to ourselves
our immediate descendants or humanity in
general. Our voices must be heard in the
land, giving forth no uncertain sound. W<
know that the improper use or abuse of alcohol
is a frequent and fruitful source of insanity.
We know that inebriety, epilepsy,
crime and pauperism, and a host of other
diseases too numerous to mention individually,
can be traced directly or Indirectly to
its door. We know that all these conditions
when once acquired are transmitted by
heredity to future generations. We know
that when a man is simply drunk he is temporarily
insane, and that it may be dangerous
to the community for him to be at large.
We know that when the State furnishes tnr
means which makes this individual crazy;
or, what is practically the same thing,
makes it legally practicable for him to
obtain it, she makes herself particeps criminis,
and is an accessory before the fact ia
any crime which may be committed, aijd
when she punishes the criminal, she is p4ftishing
a part of herself for her own crimfe
and is occupying a position so absurd that 10
cannot be explained by any process of logic
lrnnnrr> f/v fKtt ?M>AOAnf (TAriKTViHnn ^
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
There are 32.000 families homeless in London
through intemperauca.
Forty-one out of the seventy-four counties
in the State of Mississippi are under prohibition.
Five hundred children under ten years of
age were arrested in London last year for
drunkenness
The saloon-keepers of St. Josaph, Mo.,
have formed an organization for the promotion
of temperance.
The juvenile branches of the Church of
England Temperance Society number 3469,
with 416,280 members.
It is computed that no less a sum than
?15,000,000 is annually spant on Sunday
drinking alone in the United Kingdom.
Twenty-eight of the large breweries of
Chicago, representing a capital or fsu.uuu,000,
have combined against the English
breweries' syndicate.
One of the most active and best-informed
Glasgow ministers has given it as his solid
conviction that some thirty thousand men
and women go to bed drunk in Glasgow
every Saturday night.
The quiet little town of Hennepin, HI., ha?
had an awakening in the temperance cause.
James M. Dunn,of! Milwaukee, has been holding
meetings crowded to overflowing. More
than three hundred men and women signed
the pledge.
The Central Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of MinneiDolis has just opened a
lunch room in the midst of a nest o? saloons.
It keeps open from 1'3 to 12 o'clock, and its
coffee cart furnishes coffee free. So the
liquor traffic has its own weapons turned
against it.
The two causes which are credited with
awakening the G-ermau people to the necessity
of the temperance reform are, first, the
conviction that beer drinking is weakening
the moral and obysicial qualities of the
Nation, and, second, the necessity of turning
the beer material into bread. Statistics
show that Germany devotes about a quarter
of her productive energy to the liquof traffic
and that tbe "demand tor bread can only be
met by the denial of beer."
n i_ u,ii??nn. I
OlLKJNUJi. ia uuii aivtaya luuikdui'i
of wisdom. Many a maD keeps hii
mouth closed for fear his breath wiU
give him away.
' WOBLD'8 FAIB NOTES.
The woolen manufacturer* hare revived ' MM
to make a- united exhibit at the Fair.
Chauicciy m. Dzpkw has bees elected V'v$
President ol New York7* vVorid'l Fair Board. _
A Racixx (Wis.) firm is planning to haro
B WU^WW MUUIOIJ |/UMIV "4 uywawwu WV VI"
It is reported that one hundrad tons of
exhibits for the Exposition hare already
been collected and are awaiting shipment a* , . .3
Lima and Callaa
A company from the National Military
Institute of Columbia, South America,wants
to attend the Exposition and camp on the
World's Fair grounds.
A monster panorama, 445 feet Ions and 51 :!???
feet high, representing the JBaroeM Alps, with ,;-$Sj
the Jungfrau in the background, has beat
painted for exhibition at the Fair.
Bavaria, will send to the World's Fair
two profeaeors from its institute of tech- - ^
nology to report on the progress of the --a?
United States in technical matters.
Owing to the recent increase of Great
Britain's World's Fair appropriation to
9300,000, British exhibitors will not ba ' -?3
charged for space, as at first determined.
Leioh S. Lynch, World's Fair Commis- 1' ;.v%
sionar to the South Sea Islands, has cabled
that he has completed arrangements for an
exhibit from the Phillipine Islands, and is . .-.v ?J
now devoting his attantion to Java.
The lofty stone monolith, which Wisconsin
will exhibit at the Fair, will remain at '**
Jackson Park permanently, the park oomr 1 -l>ia
missioners having given their consent. The r
monolith is 107 feet high and cut from*
solid block of stone.
Baron dx jrcni's valuable collection of *.
prehistoric relics, it is believed, will be se- : ;
cured for exhibition at the Fa'r. It comprises
many rare specimens from caves in
France. DeMaret, who made the collection, f.i??
spent twenty-five years in the work. - "
Mr. Rorert S. McCormick, Resident 4*
Commissioner for the World's Fair. at Lou- .
don, has received word that an influential
committee in Geneva is actively promoting
the formation of a creditable timaa section
at the Fair, and is meeting with gratifying --JgjM
success.
? mhc< tiawa Kami !*f frt* +1?4? AMI. _ J
^ Uiy 1 tiALAD UU V U uttu 1UU ii*?IIUU IWU1 "
struction of tbe Casino, Music Hall tod v raffia
connecting peristyle, which together will be
a conspicuous feature in the foreground of :
tbe Administration building and near the
shore end of the lake pier. The contract* , ,
aggregate $279,73^.
Costa Rica has one of the largest and :-r^
finest archaeological collections in tbe world. >/WaaS
showing many Columbian relics and hie- "
toric data relating to the difcorery of Amer- ,
lea. This collection goes to Madrid this year Tfv?|
for tbe Spanish Exposition, and will- after*.
wards go to Chicago.
Ah effort is being made to ooQect 828,000 '
with which to build at the Exposition a
headquarters for tbe Sunday-schools of the ?
United States. The scheme contemplate?
asking each school to contribute an amount
equal to ten cents for each officer and teach* ;
ec, and one cent for each pupil.
Karl Haginbick, famous for his ability
in taming wild animals, is devoting his time . -ft
In Hamburg to a group of lions, tigara,
jaguars and hyenas that he expects to bring - ,'V
to the Fair. This group consists of fifty 4^9
animals, all to be kept in one big cage. 'raa
Hagenbeck has already spent a fortune oo
Thx scene which the Exposition grounds . ''jgaB'
now afford, with most of the buildings near-".: V.
ing completion and the construction bet^g
pushed forward by more than 6000 workmen.
is accounted so interesting and wonderful 'I'M
that from 1000 to 5000 visitors a day' will- ' .'.'y/jB
lnglypay the admission fee of twenty-fire
^ . 1^ ; - ..- ' iilaBi
ueuu> iu nivuwBib,
Bishop J. L. Spauldhtg, of Peoria, PreaIdent
of the Catholic educational axhibit,announcas
that Cardinal Gibbons tad the arch- : jgSM
bishops of the United State* have requested
Brother Maurelian, President of the Chris- ~ * J
tian Brothers' College, Memphis, Teon., to x'
act as Secretary ana Manager of the Cath- -."'ft
olJc educational exhibit.
Thz contract for the erection of the Texas : - r4S
building has been let to a Waco oontractor
tor $100,000. The building will be In Spanish V' yjfflfl
renaissance style, will measora eighty-lira ; : V?ff
by 250 feet, and have four towers. The ex- terior
will be covered with staff and rendered
very ornamental. The interior will ?.
be handsomely tlmshed with native Texas .
A ctBCTTLAB has been inued by the Expo- ':' ^
sition authorities to all the railway passdn- .'/' M
ger associations of the TJoited States and
individal roads, asking that a materially r?- . gw
daced rate be made by the railroads on the
occasion of the dedicatory osremonles ;vs?
' October. It is believed that 500,000 visitor*
will be in Chicago from different parts of
tae country.
President Diaz has recommended to the ,\:Jm
Mexican Congress that October 12th of this
year be made a National holiday in commemoration
of the landing of Columbus in
the New World. He says in his message that
the work of collecting the Mexican ex dibit is
progressing rapidly, and that a display of .. &
Mexican troops will be made at tha dedica- .
, tory exercises.
As an illustration of the rapidity with i :.$M
which the work of erecting the Exposition
buildings is being pushed at Jackaon Park it ,/S|
may be stated that on March L, sketches
were made for a building to serve a* perma- jga
neat accommodations for the Construction
Bureau, the Columbian guards, emergency
hospital, central fire alarm service, etc. Tha
contract was let on April 2. and on April ~ ?
SO the building was finished and occupied.
The structure measures 200 by 300 feet, is
covered and ornamented with ataff, and is k '';3?j
substantially put up.
Thi women of North Carolina art organ- . 3
Izlng throughout the State for tba purpose \
of raising $10,000 with which to erect that ?/i
State's buildlnjj at the Exposition. Tha
building will be a reproduction of tha iJE
"Tryon Palace," a celebrated structure
which was the home of the Governors in
colonial days. The women also contemplate , - ."ir?
placing in the Women's building a memorial
of Virginia Dare, claimed to be the first white
female cbua Dora in Amervca, mum nu|iiiar ?
ing the fact that the first American woman :,%
was born on North Carolina soil.
Thx construction of the Exposition build- , ;r^
ings is progressing in the most satisfactory
manner, and there is no .reason for doubt
that all will be completed in time for dedication.
The rough carpentry work is practically
llnished on all or the large" structures %
except Machinery Hall and the Manufacturers'
building, and on these it is in an advanced
stage. Six or seven of the buildings
hare the interior appearance almost of
finished structures, and look like imposing
marble palaces. Tbe erection of a number
of the Stats buildings is now progressing.
Landscape gardening and other worlc of
beautifying tbe grounds is being pushed by
a large force of men, and sodding, walkmaking
and the planting of thousands of
trees, 3hrubs, etc., is in progress. *f|
WATEB TBANSPOBTATIOH.
Statistics Regarding Che Freight
Fleet ot tbe United State*.
The Census Office issued a bulletin on tfa?
water transportation in the United States -?
during the census year 1890. This is the first
census that has undertaken to gather, compile
and furnish full statistics concerning all
classes of transportation bj water. Tho ?.
transportation fleet numbered 25,540 steamers,
sailing vessels and unrigged craft, whose
gross tonnage was 7,638,676 tons, the estimated
commercial value oeing 1215,069.306.
Other figures show that during the preceding
year the freight movement by the whole
operating American fleet amounted to 172,110,423
ton8 of all commodities. Exclusive
of pleasure craft on the Atlantic coast and
Gulf of Mexico, 1C4.436 persons were employed
as complementary crqws, the amount
paid out in salaries being 136,667,305.
LOCUSTS IN AFEI0A.
v*>ivAK An> Veiutimr on thn
Pests.
V
Advices from South Africa show that
: locusts are ravaging the country. A swarm
of the insects six miles wide recently passed
over the country near Graham's Town, Cape
Colony. They were flying seaward.
The mealie crop in the Orange Free State
has been destroyed by the locusts.
The natives in a wide section, including a
part of the Orange Free State, are feasting
- on the locusts, which have destroyed the
crops. The locusts are pounded into a sort
of meal and cooked.
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