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KEV. DK. TALMAGK
('THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
[Sabject: "The Sleepers Awakened."
Text: "Now ts Christ risen from, the dead
and become the first fruits of them that
9lept."?l Corinthians xv., 30.
On this glorious Easter morning, amid the
music and the flowers, I give you a Chris*
tian salutation. This rnornin; Russian
mP*?Hnrr Rnccifln on rtP PafAPC
bur# hails him with the salutation, "Christ
is risen!" and is answerei by his friend in
'salutation, "He is riien indead!" In soma
.parts of Eatjland and Ireland, to this very
'day, there is the superstition that on Eister
mom i up: the sun dances in the heaven?. and
well tnny we forg.ve such a superstition
,"which illustrates tbe fact that the natural
world seems to sympathize with the spiritual.
Hail, Easter morning! Flowers! Flowers!
All of them a-voice, all of them
a-tongue, all of them full of speech to-day.
I ben i over one of the lilies anil hear it say:
("Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow, th?y toil uot, neither do they spiD,
yet Solomon in all nis glory was not arrayed
[like one of these." I bend over a rose, and
it seems to whisper: "I am the rose of ShajroD."
And then I stand and listen. From
[all sides there comes the chorus of flowers,
sayio?: "If God so clothed the gra^sof the
;fleld. which to-day is and to-morrow is case
linto the oven, snail He not much more
cloth*? you, (J ye of little faita?"
Flowers I Flowers! Brai l them into the
-bride's ii&ir. Flowers! Flowers! Strew
f.Yiam Atrar t'ha rr *? n r? ao r\ F fha rloa^ CITOAt!
VUViii VT V? l/uo ^,tu < ( >) V/k bUO UVU J" WW
fropbecy of the resurrection. Flowers!
'lowers 1 Twist them into a garland lor my
Lord Jesus on Easter morning. "CJ-Iory be
to the Father, and to the 6oa, and to the
Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning. Is
now and ever shall be."
Ob, how bright and how beautiful the
flower?, and how much they make me think:
of Christ and His religion .that brightens our
character, brightens society, brightens the
churcb, brightens evejrything! You who go
with gloomy countenance pretending you
are bitter than I am because of your luguibriousness,
you cannot cheat me. Pretty
case you are for a man that professes to be
more' than a conqueror. It is not religion
that makes you gioomy, it is the lac'; or it.
There i3 just as much religion in a wedding
as in a burial, just as much religion in a
smile as in a tear.
1 These gloomy Christians wj sometimes
see are the people to whoin I like to lend
r money, ior i never see tnem again. i ne
women came to the Savior's tomb, and they
dropped spices all around the tomb, and
those spices were the seed that began to
grow, and from them came ail the flowers of
,this Kaster morn. Tiie two anjels robed ia
white took hold uf the stone at the Savior's
tomb, and th>y hurled it with such fore a
down the hill that it crashed in the door of
the world's sepulchre, and tho stark and the
dead must come torch.
' I care not how labyrinthine the mausoleum
or how costlv the sarcophagus or however
beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we want tnem all broken up by the
liord of the resurrection. They must come
out. Father and mother?they must come
out. Husband and wife?they must come
out. Brother and sister?thay must come
out. Our darling children?they must come
out. The eyes that we close with such
trembling fingers must open again in the
radiance of that morn. 1 ae Arms we foldel
in dust must join ours ia an embrace of reunion.
The voice that was hus'aed in our
dwelling must be returned. Oh, how long
aoma of you seem to be waiting?waiting
for the resurrection, waiting! And for
these broken hearts to-day I make a soft,
oool bandage out of Easter flowers.
My friends, I find in the risen Christ a
propbefy of our own resurrection, my text
?ettmg forth the idea that as Christ nas arisen
jo His Deople will rise. He?the first sheaf of
the resurrection harvest. He?'the first
fin fo t-xf + Krtm fXuf T >.*4
ItUlM V/fc kUOlU vuab OIU^/U. DOtUVO 1 j^CV
through this morning X will walk through
all the cemeteries of the dead, through all
the country graveyards, where your beloved
ones are buried, and I will pluck off these
flower?, and I will drop a sweat promise of
the gospel? a rose of hope, a lily of joy on
every tomb?the child's tomb, the husoand's
tomb, the wife's tomb, tbe father's grave,
the mother's grave, and while we celebrate
the resurrection of Christ we will at the
arae time celebrate the resurrection of all
the good. "Christ the first fruits of them
that slept."
It 1 snould come to you this morning and
ask you tor the names of the great conquer- I
ors of the world, you would pay Alexander,
Caesar, Philip, Napoieon I. Ah! my friends,
you bare forgotten to mentioa the name of
a greater conqueror than all of these?a
cruel, a ghastly conqueror. He who rode on
ft black horse across \Vaterloo and Atlanta
aiid Chalons, the bloody hoots crushing the
hearts of nations. It is the conqueror Death.
Agaiu and again has ha done chi3 worK
with all generations. He is a moaarch as
well as a conqueror; his palace a sepulcher;
his touatains the tailing tears of a world.
Blessed be God, in the light of this Eister
morning I see tne prophecy th*t his scepter
shall be broken an<l his palace shall be demolished.
Tne hour is coming when all wno
are in their graves shall coma torch. Christ
risen, we shall rise. Jesus "tbe first fruits
of thdm that slept." Now, around tnis doc- '
trine ot the resurrection taerj are a great
many mysteries.
jluu uuluo tu iiitj tins morula^ aoi say,
'it the bodies of the dead are to be raisid,
how is this and how is thit?" Anl yoa ask
' uvea tliousana questions 1 aoi incompetent
to answer, but tnere are a great many
i things you believe that you are not able to
explain. You would be a very foolish man
to say, "I won't believe anything I can't
understand."
i find my strength in this passage. "All
who are in their graves shall come forth."
I co not pretend to make the explanation.
You can goon and say: ".Supposea returned
missionary dies in Brooklyn. When
he was in China, bis foot was amputated,
j He lived years after in Eagland. and there
ihe bad an arm amputated. Hi is buried
' to-day in Green woo J. In th9 resurrection
will tab foot come from China, will the arm
come from England, and will the different
parts of the body be reconstructed in the
resurrection? How is that possible?'
You say that "the human body changes
every seven year?, and t.y seventy years of
age a man has had teu bodies. In the
remirrection which will come up?" You say.
"A man will die and his body crumble into
d?st and that dust be taken up iuto tne lif)
of the vegetable. An animal may eat the
vegetable; men eat the animai. In the
resurrection that body, distributed in so
many directions, how shall it be gathered
upr Have you any mora questions of this
style to ask? Come on and ask them. I do
not pretend to answer them. I tall back
upon the announcement of Gol's word. "All
Who are in their graves shall cjme forth."
You have noticei, I suppose, in reading
the story of th? resurrection that almost
every ac^ouut of the Bible gives th3 idea that
the characteristic of that day will be a great
sound. I do not know that it will be very
loud, but I know it will be very penetrating.
in the mausoleum, where silence has reigned
a thousand years, thit voici must psn^
trate. In the coral cava of the deep that
voice must penetrate.
All along the sea route from New York to
Liverpool at every few miles whsre a steamer
went down departed spirits corniui back
hovering over the wave. There is where
the City of Boston perished. Found at last.
' There is where the President perished.
Steamer found at last. Thare is where the
Ceutral America went down. Spirits
hovering?hundreds of spirits hoverinz,
waiting for the reunion of body and soul.
Out on the prairie a spirit alights. There is
where a traveler died in the snow. Crash!
goes Westminster Abbey, aud the poeti and
, ' orators coma forth; wonderful min^ ling oi!
goo I and bad. Crash! go thj pyramids of
and the monarcoa come torch.
? W to can sketch the aiene? I supp ose that
one mo nent before that general rising there
will be an entire silence save as you hear the
grinding of a wheel or a clatter of the hoof-i
of a procession passing intj the cemetery.
Silence in all the caves of the earth. Silence
on the side of tbe mountain. Silence down
in the valleys anl far out in:o the sea.
PUODVU*
But in a moment in the twinkling of an
eye, as the archangel's trumpet comes psalinz,
roll in?, crashing across mountain and
ocean, the earth will give one terrific shudder.
and the graves of the dead will heave
like th) waves of the sen, and Ostend and
Sebaswpol and Chalons will 6talk forth in
the lurid air, an 1 the drowned will come up
and wring out their wet locks above the billow,
and all the land and all the sea become
one moving mass of life?ali faces, all aaa?.
[ all conditions, sarin; la one direction aaa |
upon one throne?the throne of resurrection. I J
"All who are ia their graves shall come I
| forth."
"But," you say, "if this doctrine of the
resurrection is true as prefigured by this
Easter morning. Christ, the first fruits of
them that slept,' Christ rising a promise and
a prophecy of the rising of all His people,
can you tell us something about the resurrected
body?" I can. There are mysteries
about that, but I shall tell you three or four
things in regard to the resurrected body
that are beyond guessing and beyond mistake.
In the first place, I remark, In regard to
vour resurrected body, it will be a glorious
oody. The body we have now is a mere
skeleton of what it would have been if sin
had not marred and defaced it. Take the
Rfjtfcna that was ever made bv
an artist and chip it herd and chip it there
with a chisel ana batter and braise it here
and there and then stand it out in the storms w
of a hundreQ years, and the beauty would w
be cone. ?.<
Weil, the human body has been chipped 8j
and battered and bruised and damaged with ja
the storms of thousands of years?the phys- a|
ical defects of other generations coming (c
down from generation to generation, we inheriting
the infelicities of past generations, cj
but in the morning of the resurrection the w.
body will be adorned and beautified accord- jj
ing to the original model. And there 18 no w
such difference between a ^gymnast and an .
emaciated wretch in a laziretto as there will
be a difference between our bodies as they .
are now and our resurrected forms.
There you will see the perfect eye after
the waters of death have washed out the [j
stains of tears and study. Thara you will
see the perfect hand after the knots of toil
have been untied from the knuckles. There
you will see the form erect and elastic after ,
the burdens have gone off the shoulder?the PJ
very life of God in the body. "j
In this world the most impressive thing,
the most expressive thing, is the human ;
face, but that face is veiled with the griefs "
of a thousand years, but in the resurrection
morn that veil will be taken away from the 5
face, and the noonday sun is dull and dim ?'.!
and stupid compared with the outflaming .
glories of the countenances of the saved.
When those faces of the righteous, those re- ..
surrected face?, turn toward the gate or , ,
look up toward the thron?, it will be like [ '
the dawning of a new morning on the bosom .
of everlastiag day! Oo, glorious resurrected
body I I
But I remark also, in regard to that body
which you are to get in the resurrection, it
will be an immortal body. These bodies are
wasting away. Somebody ha3 a<>ii as soon aE
as we begin to live we begin to die. Unless ar
we keep putting the fuel into the furnaca bi
the furnace dies out. The b'ood vessels are [I
canals taking the breadstuff3 to all parts of
the system. We must be reconstructed hour
by hour, day by day. Sicimess and death
are all the time trying to get their prey under
the tenement, or to push us off the em- is
bankment of the grave; but, blessed be God, in
in the resurrection we will get a body im- m
mortal. gi:
No malaria in the air, no cough, no neu- ap
ralgic twinge, no rheumatic pang, no flut- \v<
tering of the hearr, no shortness of pa
breath, no ambulance, no dispjnsary, no be
hospital, no invalid's chair, no spectacles to w<
improve the dim vision, but health, im- pi
mortal health I Oh ye who have aches and tic
pains indescribable this morning:?Oh ye w<
who are never well?Oh ye who are lacerated do
with physical distresses, let me tell you of sp
the resurrected body, free from all disease, in
Immortal! Immortal! w<
I will go further and say, in regard to that m
body which you are to get in the resurrec- to
tion, it will be a powerful bodv. We. walk rei
now eight or ten miles, and we are fatigued; de
we lift a few hundred pounds, and we are ex- he
hausted. unarmed, we meet a wild beast, ha
' and we must run or fly or climb or dodge, ve
becaus9 we are incompetent to meet it; w? w<
toil eight or ten hours vigorously, and then or
we are weary, but in the resurrection we are j j
to have a body that never gets tired. Is it m
not a glorious thought? Ai
Plenty of occupation in heaven. I suppose Sei
Broadway, New York, in the busiest sea3on jn
of the year at noonday is not so busy as gi(
heaven is all the time. Grand projects of ou
mercy for other worlds. Victories to be otl
celebrated. The downfall of despotisms on to
earth to be announced. Great songs to be
learned and sun?. Great exoedicions on
which God shall send forth His children.
Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If you are
Mated under the trees of life, it will npt be
to rest, but to talk over with some old com- im
rade old times?the battles where you fought t"i
shonlder to shoulder. nn
Sometimes in this world we feel we would njj
like to have such a body as that There is j8
so much work to be done for Chrift, there js
are so many tears to be wiped away, there Ag
are so many burdens to lift, there is so much AD
to be achieved for Christ, we sometimes wish j0,
that from the first of January to the last of
December we could toil on without stopping ou
to sleep, or take any recreation, or to rest, ?>,
or even to take food?that we could toil th
right on without stopping a moment ia our 0f
work of commending Cnrist and heaven to hi
all thu people. But we ail get tired. th
It is characteristic of the human body ge
in this condition. We must get tired, is ^
it not a glorious thought thac after a while ^
we are going to have a body that will never je|
get weary? Oh, glorious resurrection day. rj.
Gladly will I fling aside this poor body of
sin and fling it into the tomb, if at Thy bidding
I shall have a body that never wearies.
That was a splendid resurrection hymn thac
was sung at my father's burial Vi
80 Jesus jlept Goa'3 dying Son's j
Passed through toe grave and blessed the bed. j tb
Rest here, blest saint, till from Ills throne su
The morning breaks to pierce ttie shade. de
0 blessed resurrection! Speak out, sweet th
flowers, beautiful flowers, waile you tell of
a risen Christ and tell of the righteous who ou
shall rise. May God fill you this morning
wita anticipation f di
1 hear 1 of a father and son win among Bi
others were shipwrecked at sea. The father 00
and the son climbed into the rigging. The -A.
father held on, but the son after a while lost di
bis hold in the rigging and was dashed down. bs
Tne father.supposed be had gone hopelessly be
under the wave. The next day the father
was brought asoore from the rigging in an lei
exhausted state and laid in a bed in a fisher- 191
man's hut, and after many hours had passed tic
he,came to consciousness and saw lying be- th
aide him on the same bed his boy. th
Ob, my friends, what a glorious thing it co
will be when we wake up at last to flud our , n:
loved ones beside us. Coming up from the to
same plot in the graveyard, coming up in a I
Via c>arnn mrtminff lifrht'.?r.hft fflfchAP flTVi
alive lorever, al? the loved ones alive for- in
ever, nevermore to weep, nevermore to it!
parr, nevermore to die. th
May the God of peaca that brought aijain w
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of sa
toe everlasting covenant, make you perfect a!
in every good work, to do His will and let or
this brilliant scene of the morning transport He
our thoughts to the granler assemblage be- th
fore the throne. ctl
1 his august assemblage is nothing com- ev
pared with it. The one hundred and forty tu
and four thousand, and the "great multitude hi
that no man can rMimber," some of our best
triends amoug tnem, we after awhile to
join the multitude. Blessed anticipation! 0j
My soul anticipates the day. aN
W ould atre'.ch her wuizs and soar away i,To
aid (ha cone, l&e pilm co bear p.
And bow. the cruet of tuaers, there.
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POPULAR SCIENCE. ?
bt
About tbe a?e of thirty-aix tlie lean ilt
men generally become fatter and the fat
men leaner. il.
tu
Tbe fecundity of fish is indicated by hs
the fact that the flounder lays 7,000,00'J *<
eggs a year.
A microscopic examination of a dia- st
mond frequently discloses minute plaat3
and vegetable fibres in its substacc?.
A Canadian has invented a contrivance { ?r
to do away with holding a telephone re- J
ceiver to the ear while talking over the
wire.
Female fish of all specie* are considerably
more numerous than male*, with
two single exceptions, the angler aud tlia at
catfish. jn
The Carnegie Steel Company has or- so
dered, in England, a press for its armor pj
plate works at Homestead, Penn., which ^
will cost $1,000,000 and have a capacity a
of 1600 tous.
W(
th
"Jack Pendleton must have pot p(
married." "What makes you think
so?" "He has quit wearing creases
In his trousers."?Exchange.
RELIGIOUS READING.
. ~ I
a child 8 prayer.
Night is over, heavenly Father,
I would bend my knees and pray;
Help my weakness, guide me safely,
Watch and help rue all the day; *
Take away ray love for sin,
Let Thv spirit rule within.
Night is over; some poor children
Have been homeless, sleepless, ill;
God has let me rest so sweetly
In my chamber warm and still;
Lord, I thank Thee for Thy love, 8:
liaise my morning thoughts above. a
o
G
' standing wrnroi't." ?
"Father, may I go out to play?" The
ords were spoken in a loud whisper, ( >
msuing inrougn rne Keyooie 01 ine nour.
Come in," saia tbe father; "wby stand out- ai
de and speak through the door?" It was fl
te in the afternoon of a dnrnp, foggy day, J*
id the company into which tbe boy wanted
i go was uusafe. It was hardly likely that
le father's consent would be given. The
lild felt this and hence his reluctance to 13
alk straight in and speak face to face,
ow many a child of God stands without, JjJ
bile between him and the Father there is a *
irrier Jess penetrable than a wooden door!
he child cannot see the Father's face, nor
there any effort so to do; for there's more 11
lan half a suspicion that the petition to be
esented. or tbe request to be made, is conary
to his will.
When God the Father is approached in a
jmble. dependent spirit, for the purpose ot *
certaining his will, the hand of faith will
)en the door, and in the "secret place of j*
le Most High" the child of the king will
iter, and God wills|eak to him. as with
oses, "face to face." Oh, the privilege of
ying with Elijah, "God, before whom I tl
and''; or to do so as David did, when he {
lat before the Lord!" If the heart is sub- J(
issive, there is no reason why you should,
cc Christ's mother and brethren stand out- *
ie desiring to speak with him. They could M
>t come at him for the press (and some- (
mes today "the press" is a hindrance): but
s desire toward you is expressed thus, u
2ome in, thou blessed of the LorJ, where- tJ
re standest thou without?" Respond, and 8f
>u will fully understand the following ,j
ief conversation.
Minister: "You seem to have done worry- j
sr. ray friend, about that trouble of yours, re
id yet it is not settled." $
"No," wa3 the reply; "for I have gone in w
id settled the matter with God, and my a(
irden of trouble 1 have cast upon him."? ~
^ B. 5
a
gpeCial work. n
There is a work for all of us. And there n
a work for each, work which I cannot do j
a crowd, or as one of a mass, but as one i,
(in, acting singly, according to my own Q
fts, ai d under a sense of my personal reonsibility.
There is, no donbt, associated
ork for me to do: I must do my work as tj
irt of the world's great whole,, or as a mem- >,
r of some great body. But I have a special ^
Drk to do, as one individual who by God's j,(
an and appointment has a separate posi- se
in, separate responsibilities and a separate
irk; if I do not do it, it must be left un- ?
me. No one of my fellows can do thnt
ecial work for me which 1 have come ^
to the world to do; he may do a higher ,jj
ork, a greater work, but he cannot do ^
y work. I cannot band my work over j,
him, any more tbau I can hand over my ''
Bponsibiiities or my gifts. Nor can I
legate my work to any association of men,
>wever well ordered or power.'ul. They
ve their own work to do, and it may be a ^
ry noble one. But they cannot do any j,
>rk for me. I must do it with these hands m
with these lips which God has giveD me. fc
nay do little or I may do much. That j)
?"4, m.taf kn mn AtUTl WAflf A
niters IIVU XL iuuoi UI* V?U
tid by doing my own work, "poor as it mav
em, to some, I 9hall better fulfil God's will yj
making rae what I am, and more truly c
5rify his name, than either if I were going -fl]
t of my own sphere to do the work of an- ti
her, or calling in another into my sphere ^
do my work forme.?fRuskin. tt
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0OOD COL'KKIX. I,
Look within. Keep the internal fires burn
g. Build the home altars. Add to the g
ne in the closet. Heat and efficiency do g
it so much depend up6n external as inter- &
Js. It is well to have combined effort; it
well to have bands and straps cut; but it ^
of vast importance to have the inward life M
low with personal contact with the tinseen
d eternal. Perhaps there is over-much fr
?king at outside measures, and too little ^
iention to the internal flres that feed the ?
itward movement Build up home altar. h<
ill in patient Bible study. Studv, not only i
e external raovings of boliness.bat the life
it in t.liy soul. Learn, if possible, all that w
irt8 thv soul. Learn, so far as possible, t?
e kind of climate that best suits its life, it
ek continually the richer spiritual pastur- pj
e which best feeds thy soul's wants. If
ou wouldst be of the highest service to ex- Ji
rnal conquest of holiness, look within.?
lighway Almanac. bi
v<
oi
Heine, ti e infidel, said: "What a book! y'
ast and. wiile as the world, rooted in the
y&ses of creation, and towering up behind
e blue secrets of heaven. Sunrise and "
nset. promise and fuifillment, birth and "
ath, the whole drama of humanity, all iu P'
is book." 8(
Prof. Huxley writes: "I have been seriislv
perplexed to how how the religious _
- .1.1 i ?r ?An_ W
eling, woicQ 13 toe essenum uuw vi w?- .
ict, can be kept up without the use of the J*
ble. The pagan moralists lack life and* fV
lor. and even the noble Stoic, Marcus
urelius, is too high and refined for an or- PJ
nary child. For three centurics this book ?
ir been woven into the life of all tliat is
st and noble in English history.
"It foibid* the veriest hind, who never ?*
ft bis village, to be ignorant of the ex;ence
of other countries and other civiliza>n*.
a"d of a great past stretching back to ?
e farthest limits of the oldest nations in ?'
e world. By the study of what other book ,
uld children be so much humanized and
ade to feel that each figure in tiiat vast his- ,
rical procession tills, like themselves, but '
temporary, interspace in the interval bereen
the two eternities, and earns the blesses
or the curses of all tirae, according tc
i efforts to do good and hate evil, even as t,
ey also are earning the payment for their h
ork?" ?
Canon Farrarsays: "After all these thou- q
nds ot yearn of the world's existence, after
I the splendors of literature in all nations n
id all ages, there is no book that enn super- w
de it as an instrument for the education of ^
e young. Alone of all the books it is cir- e,
llated in hundreds of millions of copies in ^
ery tongue. Its eclipse would be there- ,
rn of chaos; its extinction the epitaph of
3tory-" bi
ti
The empire of Caesar is gone; the legions h
Home are mouldering in the dust; the
blanches tbat Napoleon hurled upon
urope have melted away; the pride of the
Jarnohs is fallen ;tbe pyramids they raised,
be their tombs, are sinking everv day in tt
e destrt sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching rc
ihermen's nets; Sidon has scarcely a rock pj
thind, but the Word of God still survives.
II things that threatened to extinguish it th
ive only aided it; and it proves every day b<
>w transient is the noblest monument that g(
man can build. God ha* spoken. Tradi- rfi
jn has dug for it many a grave; intolerai ce tc
is lighted for it many a fa.'ot; rnanv a jc
jdas has betrayed it with a ki?s: many a ln
gter has denied il. with an oath; many s m
emas has forsaken if, but the Word of God th
ill endures.?[Dr. John Cummmgs. cl
w
cc
Wouldst thou have thy flesh obey thy ra
lirit? Then let thy spirit obey thy God. in
hou mu*t be uoverned that thou mayest tfc
>vcrn.? [Augustine. tc
, io
urr. TALStAOE nas been preaching
>out fishes, and is most enthusiastic p
his praise of a flsh diet, on which C(
many statesmen have grown great. w
e tmnKS tnaii it every naru-wui twng jy
mericaa could eat a few pounds of n
h daily bis stock of phosphorus
}i)ld be so huge that he would thrill
e world with his genius. The
octor is careful not to tell the pub- 8(
; what particular kind of flsh he u,
mself eats. It must be a unusu- h
1/ frisky oca g
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
APRIL 23.
wesson Text;. "Job's Confession anil
Restoration," Job xlll., 1-10?
Golden Text. James v., 11
?Commentary.
1. "Then Job answered the Lord anl
lid." After a time the three men cease a to
nswer Job, because he was righteous in his
wn eyes and justified himself rather than
k)d (chapter xxxii., 1, 2). Then to the end
C chapter xxxvii we have the wise and
'eighty words of Elihu (the name signifies
God Himself") speaking on God's behalf
cxxvi., 2), to which Job makes no reply
rom xxxviii., 1, to xli.. 31, Jehovah speaks,
ad now for tne first time sir.c; the three
iends stopped, with the exception of chapsr
xl., 3-5. Job makes reoly, but we shall
&ar him as an entirely different man from
le one who made reply to Eliphaz and the
thers, giving them as good as they gave
im.
2. "I know Thou canst do everything, and
latno thought can be withholden from
hee." It is a good and helpful thing to
slieve that God can do everything, and that
sthing is too hard or wonderful for
lim (Jer. xxxii., 17). Sarah stumbled here
id so did Mo3es and the ten spies and hosts
f others (Gen. xviii.. 13. 14; Nam. xi.. 215).
Let us also believe that no purpose of
od can be frustrated (Ps. xxxili., It; Isa.
vi., 24),and since His ways and thought are
3 far above ours as heaven is above the
irth (Isa. lv? 8, 9) let us away with ours.
Dwever attractive to ourselves, and be filled
ith His. which are sure of accomolishment.
3. "Who is he that hideth counsel with- (
it knowledge? Therefore have I uttered 1
iat I understood not; things too wonderful
>r me that I knew not." The words of (
ehovah had taken hold of him (chapter ,
ssviii., 2, 3) and laid him low, exposing uis
)lly. Elihu haii spoken wisely when he .
lid, "We cannot order our speech by rea- ?j
>n of darkness" (chapter xxxvii, 19). And j
le Holy Spirit through Paul assures us that (
in us?that is, our flesh?iwelletb no good
ling," and "wt are not sufficient of our>lves
to think anything as of ourselves"
lom. vli., 18; II Cor. iii., 5|.
4. "Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak.
will demand of Thee and declare Thou unto
ie." Job had talked thus foolishly (xiii., 1
I), and God had given him back his own 1
ords (xxxviii., 3; xl., 7), and it would
>em that Job now quotes them in deep hulility
and self condemnation. for he had 1
[ready said: "I will lay mine hand upon 1
ly mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will I
ot answer. Yea, twice, but I will proceed '
o further" (x!., 4. 5).
5. "I have heard of Thee by the hearing
t the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee." '
t is to be feared that much hearing of the 1
ospel is merelv a bearing by tie ear. In
ict. He who is perfect in knowledge
:xxvi., 4) told U3 in the parable ot the sower
iat it would be so. The question for U3 is, 1
How do I hear?" For the Saviour teaches <
*tn "take heed how we hear and what we i
sar" (Mark iv., 24; Luke vili., 18). As to
?ing God, it is written, "Blessed are ths
are In heart, for they snail see Goi" (Math.
,, 8). Hut Go J said to Moses. "There shall
5 man see Me and live" (Ex. xxxiiL, 30).
nd yet again it is said, "They saw Goa and
id eat and drink" (Ex. xxiv., 11). The key
> these sayiog3 is probably found in John
, 18.
6. "Wherefore I abhor myself and rapant
i dust and ashes." Taia is a wondrous
lange from chapter xxix., where in replyig
to Bildad anl singin; his own praises ha
ies the pronouns I. Me, My about 50 timss.
i the presence of Goi the holiest men are
a tie to feel ashamed. Isaiah slid, "Woa is
?r me, for I am a man of unclean lips."
aniel said, "All my comeliness was turn id
t corruption in m&" And even John fell on
is face as one dead (Isa. vi? 5; Dan. x.,
iii.; R?v. i., xvii.). The riguteousnesi of
hrisc makjs ours to appear as dross an i
ithy rags (PniL iii., 8; lsa. xliv., fli, while
le serving of Christ makes ours to appear
I not worthy of mention. The lansjuu^e of |
te self emptied man will be in tha line of ,
lis verse, or that of Paul, when he says: .
Jfot I, but Chrut, wholiveth in me." "Nod
but the grace of God, which was with !
ie" (Gal. ii., 20; I Cor. xv., 10;. It is God j
ho worketn in us both to will an 1 to do of ,
.is good pleasure, and it is oar place to let ,
lm, yielding ourselves luliy to Hirn(Pail. .
? 13; Heb.xiii., 20, 21). |
7. "And it was so that, after the Lord ,
id spoken these words unto Job. the Lord ,
id to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is J
ndled against thee and againsc thy two .
iends, for ye have not spoken of Me right, (
i Mv servant Job." We are to give an ac
>unt of our worda, and if by our wor.ia we
>nor God He will honor us (Mata. xiL, 33;
Sam. ii.f 30). What a word is hare for
rery teacher and preacher?do we say
bat is right of God? Do we honor Him,
lling of dis solvation from da/ to day? Is
Hia righteousness and this only that we .
reach? Do we magnify His gracs and in !
rery way by word and deei ex lit the Lord ,
>sus Christ. ,
8. "Therefore take unto you now seven
lllocks and seven rams, and go to My serin
t Job and offar up for yourselves a burnt
leiing, and My servant Job shall pray for
ju." There is no forgiveness of sin with- 1
it the shedding of blood, for it is the biood i
iat maketh atonem9nt tor the soul (Heb. 1
22; Lav. xvii, 11). But, blessed be God, '
lere is forgiveness for all who co.-ue in true ]
jniteuce. Not by the blood of bulls and i
aats, but by His own blood. He hath ob- t
lined eternal redemption for m (Heb. ix., <
!). Observe also how Hs deals with those {
ho touch His servants?they must obtain i
>rgiveness from Hod, and they must also be <
nun bled before those servants of God whom t
T A* flin <? ffl /tf'Ar) rt nrl 1
ivy UtlVO bUUUUCU? XJOV tun a LAk 'UTOU auu
arsecuted rejoice in Isa. liv., 17, and in
reat quietness and confidence commit their
isa to God and let Him see to it.
'J. "So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad
le Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite
ent and did according as the Lord comlanded
them. The Lord also accepted Job."
ote the grace of God to these men and
ow He made known to them the way of the
jrgiveness of sins. But it would have
vailed nothing if they nad not don) as com*
landed. Many know the way of life who
0 not accept that life, and many more who
re true servants of Go J, as Job was, waste
tuch precious time in fruitless talk.
10. "And tne Lord turned the captivity
f Job when he prayed for his friends; also
ie Lord gave Jos twice as much as he had
efore." 1 he rest of the chapter is the deliled
statement of which this is a summary:
me hundred and forty years of life, twice
le abutted span (Ps. xc., 10), the sam9
umber of sons and daughters (cnapttr i, 2),
oich, those gone before, would mase the
aubit? As to all his cattle, they were lit ally
doubltd. Then see in verse 11 how all
is relations and acquaintances brought him,
resents and comforted him. So bsing tried
? came forth as gold. His latter end being
leased more than his beginning is suggesveoi'
lsrae.'s latter day glory.?Lesson
elper.
SOCIETY IMPROV7KG.
The London Queen has fouau out that
le rensjn the heroines of the old-fashioned j
tmances used to faint upon every slightest
rovocatiou was because lanes in real I'fe
shaved in the same way; and the reason
lat they so behaved was toat in tnese ti nes
>th m?n and women were muca more un- I
jverned than they are now. In a bur.t of
ige "men used to kic* toeir vale:?, Indies |
beat tiieir mai is; bu: now one cannot eniy
that luxury." Another reason is found f
1 the fact taat people in good society driuk (
uch less wine aud oear aud other liquors
lan they used to, and ari consequently
earer-beadeJ and less pmosioaal than tney
ero then. In snore, " wj havj learned to 1
mtr.il our ta;np2rs am to r?irain ? sua
en troni rages, aad the wooien fro u faint- 1
l?," and our stories t:ow-a-Jays so ritt cc 1
lis improve.! temper, rhat is is a rare toiiii 1
ir the hero o! one o. thoui t > KU'i:^ down
mother ruau, or for ta; h.vj.uj to (all ov.-r ]
l a swoon.
TnE people who reside on the Rue \
anama, a street in Paris which re- 1
;ived that name several years ago,
ant to have its name changed,
[any of them have good reason to
le Panama.
Jewelek?-You don't need a key
>r that watch. Just turn the crown,
), and it will go." Farmer Field?
Just like a duru caow, ain't it? Give
er tall a twist an' she gits up and
its!"?Jeweler's Weekly.
TEMPERANCE.
THE DRINKER'S ALPHABET.
A ts for Alcohol?curse of mankind;
B is its Bars, with th' Arch Tempter behind.
C ia tbe Crimes that its victims commit*
D is its Drunkards that die ia a fit.
? is the Ease which the stuff may be had;
F is its Families, starving: and sad.
G is the Graves an ! the Gutters it Si's;
H is the Homes that are wrecked by its
ills.
I is the Ignorance caused by its use;
J is the Jim-Jams it's sure to induce.
K is the Kicks that a drinker must take;
L is the Loafers it's certain to make.
M is the Money it robs from the poor;
IPs the red Noses that nothing can cure.
jO is the Offsprings it throws on the street;
P is its Prisons and Poorhouse complete.
Q is its Quarrels that murders produce;
R's tbe Remorse in tbe hangman's hard
noose.
S is tbe Shame, Sin and Sorrow it makes;
x ia its xmrst tuau, oaua lormuu, uo*er
slakes.
IPs the Unfortunates?trying "Gold
Cures;"
V is the Vilenoss a drinker endures.
W's the Wives that it causes to weeps,
X their Xcess is of misery deep.
Y is the Youth who begins on "just ale!"
Z Is his Zebra-striped suit when in. jail.
& let us remark that the only sure way
Of escaping the death of & drunkard some
day
.Mter shariDg his life of shame, sorrow and
sin
Is not "leaving off." It is?NEVER BEGIN.
?H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Sun.
CONSIDER THE CHILD HEX.
Have we no pity for the poor, miserable
children? Is there no voice strong euough
to plead "like angels, trumpet-tongued,
against the deep damnation ol! th9ir taking
off1?of these children who, in the language
af Southey, are not so much born into the
world as damned into thf> world; damned,
predestined, as it were, to live lives of disease
and degradation, oecause of the drink ,
in the midst of which they are brought up,
and of which they have tbe hereiitary taint
in their very veini??Canon Farrar.
GAINING GROUND.
Terence V. Powderly, who as the official
tiead of the Knights of Labor, has done muca
bo interest ^orkingmen in the temperance
reform, says:
"Ten years ago the cause of temperance
was not as respectable as it is to-day, because
there were not so many respectable
men and women advocating it. It has gained
ground, it is gaining ground, and all because
men and women wbo believe in it could not
be browbeaten or frightened. Neither the
hissing of geese nor tbe throwing o? rotten
3ggs has stopped or even delayed the march
af temperance among the wo^kera."
A DOCTOR ON DRDNKENNES3.
ur. is.err, iQ9 x-resiaenc or me society ror i
ihe Study of Inebrity, who is also medical
>fficer of the Marylebone, in giving evidence
egarding the death of a charwoman recenty,
made some valuable observations.
Svory organ of the charwoman's body was
liseased through drink,[and the poor woman
iied of alcoholic poisoning. Upon the other
land, the laundry matron of the Cripple's
Some bore witness that the woman had
worked for her during the last fourteen
rears, and never in that long space of time
lad she betrayed a sign of drunkenness.
Dr. Kerr adduced a fetjr of his experiences.
'Some people get drank in the legs, others
n the tongue, and other?, again, in the
Drain." Publicans are rebuked occasionally
tor serving intoxicated persons, where no
loctors could recogniz) their condition.
Dr. Kerr is acquainted with a Canadian
lAtescnan, "who, the more drunk be is, the
setter and more eloquently he sp9aks; but
;hen he has to be held up on each side, lest
ie should fall." *
A SEARCHING QUESTION.
Here is a searching question recently put
by the Rev. J. H. Ecob, of Albany, N. Y.,
to his people: "When I gaj that the churca
should consider temperance as one of her
proper missions, do 1 mean that she should
sxtend to her ministers the privilege of treeing
their minds on the subject onoe or twici
% year, while a long-suffariag congregation
5its patiently through the' operation and
Eoes OUC saying, vur miumuir la i;ubi.iu? w
e quite a temperance crank?* No, I do not
mean any such thing. But that word temperance
covers a certain territory in human
life where certain conditions exist. Where
temperance reigns we find homes, schools,
churches, cleanliness, order, peace, rightsousness.
Where intemperance reigns wa
find saloon?, tilth, blasphemy, vice, crime,
misery. How, 1 am not asking so feeble
and sacriligious a question as, 'Shall the
:hurch allow her minister once or twice a
year to speak on such matters?* but, 'Shall
the church, with a direct and persistent j
purpose, give her time, her money, her 1
votes, her social power, to the righting of j
these irightiul and destructive conditions of j
uumau life?''
ALCOHOLIC DELUSIONS.
Dr. N. 8. Davis, Chicago, says: "I was
taught, like all others to use aicohol as a
tonic when patients were sick, to hasten
their recovery and promote their strength,
(ret it did not take ma very long to find out
3ere and there one already a teetotaler, wao
would not take wine Jon?, nor any kind of
alcoholic drink, unless prescribed just as
:astor oil?dose by dose?and who, when he
?ot beyond the necessity of having it as a
redicine, took no more. What was the
:ompariaon? My patients who refused, or
iid not take alcohol, got strong quicker and
iiad less tendency to relapse than those who
:ontinued its use. Hera was the first step;
jousequently I catre soon to cease the
recommending it merely to hasten the re:orery
of strength.
'*As a tonic I lound it of no value. While
the patients took it, tor the first tew days
>r nights, generally not more than a weetc,
the antithetic effect diminished tneir feeling
of weakness; out there lies the great deusiou.
One of the curiosities in alcohol is
the delusion it has upon the world. The
good old Book did not say in vain that
wine is a mocker,strong drink is racing, and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.'
(V'hen a little alcohol is given, just such as
would be considered a tonic, what does it
lof Ju3t like ether or chloroform, or any
ither anaesthetic, it dulls the cerebral hemspheres,
and so removes for the time beiojs
:he consciousness of aches and pains and
weariness, aad leaves the individual at ease.
"A little further and it diminishes these
sensations still more, and the body be^ius to I
feel light, and hardly conscious "of its own
weight. In this stage'there frequently comes
;he disposition to dance and sing and the
;ongue gats loose. It is only the transition
"rom the first beginning of diminisaed coniciouaness;
next he bagms to lose his sense
>f propriety, and talk as ne would uot talk
vera he free xrom that infljeuce."
TE - PERAJfCE NKYV3 AXD NOTES.
For missions, $10,030,003; for saloons ?!,200,000,000.
The war against the saloon is another irrepressible
conflict.
A saloon keeper's bondsman is a silent
partner in his business.
Forty-five hundred jails am required td
aarveas the saloon crop.
J ia o frttAl
Tbe COWil 01 UTOJUIIlra 1U -j V. ?? .
ibatinence place, an i it is said that eaca |
louse has a motto on the door: "'Frugal in
ill things; liquor* prohibited."
What shall we call the business of drunkird-maicing?
"L:quor traffic doesn't quite
at, for in tlia Tr_~.* liquor applies to distilled
driuks only. ".Sa o >:i?' cuesu't cover
tbe whole case. L?t's call it thj Una.'; business.
It is sai 1 that ona of tha sjverest liquor
laws ever pa?ei is that of the Oram anop
Act in Mississipoi. A liquor uealer can only
do businois in tha from, part of the shop,
and it is counted a misdemeanor to put up a
screen. There are many and heavy liaes for j
any infringement of the law.
The far and "frontier" We3t doss not appear
to be peopled exclusively by toujh
citizsns. At Wmnemucca, Nev., a jury
was formed of man waosa average a^e wa*
twenty-s.'ven, who were all total abstainers
from drink, Done smote id cigarettes uud
none had ever chewed toaicca
The Belgian Consul at Yokohama call? attention
to tbe notab.o iucrea*e in tue
Jaoauese importation of aloiol. At flrsc
this remarkable importation wan ere lite I to
tae rapid development of chemistry in
Japan, but uow it appears that fcue alcohol,
imporcei mostly irom Germany, is us.-J for
Imitating foreign liqjeurs.
LAMS IM ~IN STRIKES.
Judges Taft and Ricks on the
Ann Arbor Cases.
Engineers May Strike bnfc Mnat
Not Desert a Train.
In an opinion handed down by Judga
Ricks in the United States Circuit Court,
in Toledo, Ohio, it is held that the United
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers were
conspirators in their refusal to handle Ann
Arbor freight. Judge Tafft decides that
the whole Brotherhood is a conspiracy
against the law of the country, and that, in*
asmuch as Arthur gave the orders that precipitated
the boycott, an order for a temporary
injunction against Arthur as prayed
for should be allowed.
The court room -was crowded. Judge
Ricks's decision in the cases of the eight engineers
and firemen arrainjed for contempt
of court waa first delivered amid breathless
attention. It was not as radical as the men
feared, and does not assume to compel men
to work against their will.
The second decision which was written by
Judge Taft, grants the injunction prayed
I or, anu aeuiares luat u tut? uiouuna vi cuo
Brotherhood, in obedience to rale 18, boycott
freight, they "become guilty of criminal
conspiracy against their country."
This decision is regarded by all leaden of
organized Labor as the most important ever
rendered. They nay that if sustained it will
choke all such bodies to death, and regard
this as a crisis involving the existence of Labor
organizations.
The substance of the decision of Judge
Taft in the injunction case is as follows:
A temporary restraining order was issued
by me against Arthur. A hearing has since
been bad, and the question now is whether
on the evidence produced the order shall be
continued In force until the final decision in
the case.
The original bill was filed against eight
railway companies. An amendmeat was
afterward filed making two new defendants,
P. M. Arthur and F. P. Sargent. Sargent
was subsequently discharged as be was
a non-resident of the district. As to
Arthur, the amendment charges that he,
as Chief of the Brotnerhooo, exercises
a controlling influence upon its members
in all matters, and that one of Its rules
requires all of its members in the employ
of any railway company whenever an
order to that effect shall be given by its
said chief officer, to refuse to receive, handle
or carry cars of freight from any other
railway company whose employes are members
of said association, and who have
engaged in a strike, such as the strike which
has Men declared against the complainant
by tbe members of the Brotherhood
with Arthur's consent and approval;
that Arthur now publicly announces
that unless complainant shall submit to the
demands of its striking employes, he will
order the rule above stated enrorcea; tn&c
the rule is in direct contravention of the Interstate
Commerce law, and is intended to
induce the employes of the different companies
to violet a that lav? and the previous
order of this court; and that Arthur, with
other?, is conspiring to that end.
The jurisdiction of this caiurt to hear and
decide the case made by the bill cannot be
maintained on the ground of the diverse
citizenship of parties. If it exist* it mast
arise from the subject matter of the suit.
The bill invokes the chancery powers of
this court to protect the complainant
in rights which it claims under
the act of Congress passed February 4,
1887, known as the Interstate Commerce
act, and an act amending ic pissed March
2, 1889. These acts were passed by Congress
in the exercise of power conferred on it by
tne Federal Constitution "to regulats commerce
with foreign Nations, among the
several States, and with the Indian tribe?."
Counsel for defendant, Arthur, contend
that the Interstate Commerce law and Its
amendments are only declaratory of the
common law which gave the same rights to
complainant, and that therefore this is not
a case of Federal jurisdiction. The original
jurisdiction of this court extends by act of
Congress, passed August 12, 1838, to "all
suits of a civil nature, at common law or in
equity, where the matter in dispute eae#eds,
exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or
value of $2000 and arising under the Constitution
or Jaws of the United States."
The bill makes the necessary averment as
to the amount in dispute. It is immaterial
what rights the complainant would have
had before the passage of the Interstate
Commerce law. It is sufficient that Congree?,
in the constitutional exercise of
power, has given the positive sanction of
the Federal law to the rights.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.
Good Showing for the First Quarter
of the Present Year.
The quarterly statement of Southern industries
prepared by the Tradesman of
Chattanooga, Tenn., shows that for the first
quarter of 1S93 the new industries established
exceed those of the first quarter of
1892 by 198. W hile for the first quarter of
this year only 8 development companies
have been incoporated, during the 6ame
period of last year 27 were formed. The
quarter just ended also shows 76 cotton and
woolen mills established, 39 flour and grist
mills, 29 canning factories, 40 oil mills, and
the building of 32 waterworks plants.
That the extensive timber interests of the
South are not only attracting attention but
capital Is shown by the fact that 195 new
wood-working plants have been established
during the oast quarter, as against 122 in
1393 and 141 in tne first quarter of 1891.
Tennessee heads the list with 33 new industries
in this line to her credit; Georgia aad
North Carolina are close rivals, with 24 and
23 respectively. All of the Southern States,
however, are well represented in thi'j development,
Mississippi, with?, being the small
est number.
Seventy-six taxtilo industries were established
in the quarter, as against 28 in the
first quarter 01 1802, and 43 iu the same period
of1S91. Alabama leads the list with
22, North Carolina 16, Georgia 13, South
Carolina 8, Virginia5, Mississippi 4, Tennessee
and Texas 3 each, and Florida ani Louisiana
1 eacb.
This quarter shows 5S flour and grist
mills established, as against for th9 same
quarter of 1892. The increasing demand for
cottonseed oil and its products, together
with the advance in price which lias recently
taken place, accounts for the large
number of new oil mills during the quarter;
a total of 40 is shown, as against 10 in 1893
and 8 in the same quarter of 1891, over half
of the total numoer baing located in Texas
and the remainder scattered throughout the
other cotton-growing States.
Twelve brick and tile plants are reported,
22 cotton compresses, 21 electric light plants,
'si foundries and machine shops, 7 ice factories.
32 water works plants, with 93 other
miscellaneous industries.
A DEADLY BLAST.
I( Hurled a Torrent of Water on tlia
Miners Below.
A disaster both appalling aud singular,
which placed the lives of forty men in j
jeopardy and in which three were killed an i
ten more seriously iujured, occurred in the
laurel Hill Mine, operated by Pardee
Brothers, on the outskirts of Hazieton,
Penn., at 9:30 o'c.ock a few moraines since.
At about 'J:io jjavia nuuama Jib a iu?
preparatory to firing lift No. 5. Five minutes
later the exoiosion occurred. Immediately
a terrifying roar was heard an 1 an
immense body o? water rusaed down breast
No. 19, tilling it to the roo .
The men tied to places oi safety, an 1 later
all but three were rescued and urou?ht to
the surface. The three men who could not
be rescued were Thos. Hudson, John Treaibath
and Kichard Williams, They were
drowned. It was thought that some of
those rescued might die from injuries sustained
in being washed against tne roc^s
The Woodstock Guirip.a militia company
at A:iniSi.on, Aia., propose a paetio.nenal
march for time* >' peas.?, nothin? lass than
to co7er the d'stauce on foot from their
ho-ne to the World's Fair grounds, about
600 miles. Tjey exaect to be six or seven
weeks on th9 road'and will go ia heavy
marching order, each man carrying hi* arms
en l knapsack. A wagon train in charge of
the Quarter/naater will carry camp equipaze
mi
Ten Men Suffocated bj Smoke
in a Shamokin Sine.
What Resulted From Trving to
Fill a Lighted Lamp;
A miner's lamp caused an explosion io tha
Neiison Shaft, Shamokin, Pen a., at seven
o'clock a few mornings ago. Many miners
escaped, bat ten were killed. Owing to tha
day being a holiday, there were not as many
men at work as usuaL The mine is operated
by Langdon & Co. The bodies hare been
recovered.
The killed were: John Roble, James Bran*
nan, Michael Brennan, John Ryan, Fred- % .4
sricsGinter, John Bartt. John Garry, Joseph
Borteax. Nicholas Dolton, Frank Shupis.
The fire started about twenty feet from
the bottom of the slope, where there was an
oilhouse used by the men to change their '
working clothes for others before leaving
the minee.
About 6:50 a. m. a Hungarian was filling
his lamp, and it exploded, igniting the oil
ibout It. He rushed from the oilhouse, and
the flames spread with rapidity.
Attempts were made to flghtf the fire, but
thoee who started to do so were compelled to
See for their Uvea. They succeeded in reaob
lag the bottom of the shaft, and were hanlea
to the surface along with some belated miners,
who owe their lives to the fact that they
did not go to work at the usual time.
The ten men wuo lost their lives war* at
work nearly 100 feet above where the flro
broke out. Through an airway from the
lower vein to the red ash vein the smok*
poured, suffocating the unfortunates like
rate in a trap.
Almost the entire town gathered in the
vicinity of the burning mine, from the air
passages of which great volumes of smoke
were issuing. The scenes were most distressing.
The wives and children of the impris oned
men uttered agonizing cries ana implored
the men in the crowd to rescue loved
oues. ,,
About midday a rescuing party of six
brave men went down theshafc and entered
the burning vein. The smoka was so dense
that they were compelled to lie down oa
their stoinaohs and keep wet sponges to
their nostrils to avoid suffocation. When
they had proceeded a short distance they
came across the bodies of two men locked is
each other's arms. They were the firennaa
brothers, James and Michael.
Further on the bodies of eight men war* .
found, making ten dead in all. The bodies
were removed to the surface with mtloh difficulty.
They were taljan to the blacksmith's
shop, where most pathetic scenes were witnessed.
Three of the men ware married mad
had larrc families. The others were young;
averaging less than twenty-five years.
Only two males weru gotten oat allveu
Five were found witn their neck* resting
over each other's bodies. How they got in
this position is a mystery. There were altogether
thirty dead mules in the mine.
THE THBEATEW&PLA&TC
Filty-one Deaths From Cholera at
L'Orient, France.
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The British Government has sent a circular
io the Postofflce officials in Great Britain
and Ireland notifying them that; since
March 22, there have been fifty-one deaths
from cholera in L'Orient, in the Department
of Morbihao, France.
There is now scarcely a doubt that JEto*
sia is again to suffer from the ravages of
cholera. Concurrent with the setting in at
slightly warmer weather, ths official report*,
incomplete as they are, show the re?
cruleecence of the disease in nearly all the
Elaces in which it wrought such frightful
avoc last summer and autumn.
Official returns have been made public
shewing that there were sixty-five cases at
cholera and nineteen deaths from the disease
in the town of Orel, the entrepot of commerce
between north and south Russia.
With its trade with the various sections oC
the country Orel is particularly liable to ,
suffer from epidemic diseases, more partica
larly cboiera, ana ic u aiso a pwoi. iw mm
dissemination of the disease.
In addition to the bad showln? of tba
a bo re otBcial figures, it is a matter of common
knowledge that the number of cholera
cases and deaths from tha scourge arefar
more numerous in the Governments that
are not included in the returns.
BICH f OBESTS BUBNED.
Many Turpentine Orchard* Destroyed
In North Carolina.
The greatest forest fires ever known la
Moore and Richmond Counties, North Carolina,
raged a few dayj ago, in the heart of
the long leaf pine district. The trees had
just been bored and thousands of them were
destroyed. Many people owning turpentine <
orchards are ruined.
One man lost 2000 acres of trees. The fire
swept upon the town of West Ead and
nearly wiped it out Thres large stores with
the entire stocks, the poetofBca and several
dwellings were buraaa.
At least twelve turpentine distilleries and
scores of dwellings scattered throughout tbe
woods were burned and the roadbed of the
Aberdeen and West ?i)d Railway was an
badly injured that trains could not run.
Oreat quantities of resin we? burned,
1000 barrels at West End alone.
WHISKY BURNED.
Nearly 12,000 Barrel? of Liquor Dfr.
stroyed in a Louisrille Warehouse.
While four workmen were moving whisky
in warehouse of the Allen-Bradley distillery
at Louisville, Ky., a barrel began to leak.
They set down their lanterns, and while putting
tha barrel on an upper tier it burst.
The whisky spattered on the lanterns and
at once c night Are. The men had barely
time to escape before otber barrels began to
explode, ana in fire minutes the warehouse
was in flame?. v
The whisky made a tremendous blaze, aoi
the fumes were so intense that many persons
were intoxicated. Nearly 12,001 barrels
of whisky wera stored in the warehouse,
and it was only by tremendous exertions
that the fire was confined to one
Ti??kii!..?ii.jOiin am .TV} own
UUKUIU^. AUV nuig?f u?a w- v*
ers. The loss is about (3.0,0JO.
FIVE TEAMP3_ BURNED.
Caught in a Blazing Barn in WhUh
They Were Sleeping. '
A barn on the old Voorhis estate at Maywood
, near Hackeniac*, N. J.f wa< burned
a few mornings ago. The prop*rt/ was recently
bought by G. L. Jaegar, a wealthy
paper manufacturer.
While the Ore was at its height Mr. Toplia
saw a human race appear in one of the windows
of the barn and s touted an alarm.
Before the words were ouc of uis moattk
the flames burst from tha winaow,
and notning more wa3 seen of the face.
An hour's work resulted in disclosing tn?
charred body of a man. The lower parts of
the limbs aud the faca were burned off.
Searcn was continued, and be. ore 11
o'cioclc the bodies of tour other men were
found, in eacu ease the Dociies nad been mcineratea.
it is supposed that tUey wera
tramps.
ALL BUT FOUtl D30MED.
The Fate That Orerlook Twelve Castaways
at Sea.
The mystery that surroun iad tha fat? of
Captain Drum mond anl lKtian mea wh>
were in one of the two boats that escipai
from the burning British ship King Jane*
was cleare i up waen th j steamar L? A-igetes
arnvdi at RsdoaJo, Ual.. with to a.'
survivors, She piclcjd up the v.'a?taia'<
boat, which coataiue.t Uiipc*m Dru muou I
and three men?all who ward left out oZ sixteen
mea.
The boat containing th?ss men was oaf?aiaxl
five days ago in a storm 'iV) miles out.
and all the man except four were swaps
away and drowned.
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