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FOWL FATTING. MAKING POULTRY PLUMP BY MACHINERY. Food Pumped Into Lire Birds to Prepare Them Quickly for Market?A Unique Industry In England. ^ 1 THE first thing that strikes a ] stranger on entering the disJ trict of Heatbfield, Sussex, f saysthe London StrandMaga zine, is the number of chickens. In Heathfield itself anil around, in WarbletoE, Shoreham Road and Cross-inHand, the domestic fowl is ubiquitous. I CBAMMIXO MACHINE. He roams the lanes and the dusty sides of the high roads are diapered with a pattern of chickens' feet; fields, com- ; mons, gardens, and not seldom the : cottages themselves are pervaded by j him. Coops, knocked up of any possi- j ble pieces of wood, stand on any possi- : ble patch of green by the wayside, and, in the less frequented lanes, in ] the roadway itself. ] A Heathfieldite once, asked by a < t A _ -*i .f iL, , Jiuniing man n auy ui tuo laxmcra j around rode to honnds, made answer : ? { "We preserve chiokene, not foxes." i j Heatbfield and the adjoining parishes | j form one vast preserve for poultry, i _ ?- / FATTING Bat except the respectable matrons who brood ana guard tne young families, and here and there in the yard a strutting rooster with a few wives in hie train, the fowls are all under full maturity. At all times of the year, from the little puff-balls that have just broken shell to the hobbydehoy state of chicken youth, they are visible in their thousands. Past this stage they enter the manufacturing yards?the fatting farms. But, as from Heathfield Station alone, in specially constructed poul> :?73? IJ ?iHrrr""" ~ <r*? m "stubbing" poultry. try vans, an average of between thirty oy>f3 tt 4nna r\f /^nn/1 Hutt a?/% ivj. wj iuuo vi utuu ^/vuibi v aic dispatched weekly, eo the everywhere present fowls can supply but a small part of the raw materials needed by the fatters for manufacture. The deficit is supplied in two ways. Large numbers of Irish chickens are imported?especially from November to May. They come over many hundreds of dozens at a time, and at short intervals, mostly from the western parts of the Emerald Isle. The higglers supply the rest. These men drive through the country round, and far into Kent and Surrey?thirty-five or forty miles in a day?picking up a j few birds at this farm, a few at that) cottage, and bring them to the fattening farms. Fattening is the staple industry of the place, and the exact process of the manufacture is to be seen nowhere else. Tradition says that a man once came to Heath field who had been engaged in the Norfolk turkey breeding business, and experimented with chickens, so founding the trade. Be this as it may, chicken fattening has gone on in the district for some fifty years, growing into the prosperous inauBiry n uow is. adu it is lime likely that it coulcl be carried on in the same way in many other places. High up on the Sussex hills, Heathfield enjoys a strong, healthy atmos phere that seems to suit the cbicket race admirably, so that they hatofc out with impunity and run strongly at all seasons*. Nearer to town it would be impossi ble to let the birds rnn free as they dt here?certain light-fingered gentry o pedestrian habits would be too numer ous?and in most other part of South era England foxes are too plentiful Then, again, the markets are handy it is not a far cry to London, and tb< big Sussex watering-places are all within easy reach. And, as with al developing industries, as the businesi has grown among the people, so th< people hare grown into the business acquiring the skill and rapidity thai can only come of long usage anc which helps so greatly to make th< trade profitable. The people ar< brought up to the management anc handling of chickens from childhood for every cottager rears a iew birds and the majority of the laboring nnrmlnt.inn Rrp in soma wav connected with the trade as killers, stubbers, oi the like. The birds, once taken ii hand by the fatter, are shut up ir coops, six birds to the pen, and arf crammed twice daily for about thre< weeks. . The fatting coops are ranged ii alleys or, perhaps, in small businesses, round gardens?some under cover, some not?on posts three feet front the ground. The small man has hi* ten dozen or so of fowls undergoing process, some of the largest several thousand dozen. Only the largei ones deal in duoks, geese and turkeys, the others confining themselves entirely to chickens. At feeding time the fatter wheels his cramming machine among the pens, takes out each bird in turn, fits the feeding-tube some eight inches dowr its throat and, with his foot, pumps the crop full, disengages the tube, and puts the bird back in the pen. The rapidity with which this is done by a good workman is astonishing, the knack of handling the birds wonder ful. In spring, chickens are taken in hand at about thirteen weeks old, later in the year a bit older, and are jrammed for about three weeks with f mixture of ground oats, fat and milk. \.s running birds, picking by the way side with but small allowance o: ground oats, they are muscular anc athletic; in the course of two or thref ir "'ii || y PEXS. weeks' fatting they put on flesh at a great rate, and it is this rapidly manufactured flesh that gives its delicacy to the "Surrey" fowl. One of the peculiarities of the trade is that khnnorh tVio lvirdk Anmn nrinmrmllv ~ " r r J from Kent and Ireland, and are of Sussex manufacture, they are known is.' 'Surrey chicken." When they are [atted enough for the market they arc intended for?what is called "half fat" for some of the watering-places, ar "full fat" for London, then comes the process of killing, plucking, etc. rhis was formerly done by "chicken butchers," men who went from farm to farm for that only?but now it is generally done by the farmer himself ar his men. A shed is set apart for the purpose, ind so many men and girls, according :o the amount to be killed, assemble. crate of live fowls is brought in. The nen take each a bird and kill it. Pickng then commences. With the bird >n the knees the feathers are allowed ;o fall in a large basket, to be afterwards packed and sent to some of the arge furnishing firms of London?all ixcept the flights and stiff plumes, which are thrown apart. In ten minltes the bird is handed to a girl who, with a blunt knife, takes out the imnature "stubs" of feathers that ar? uissed in the picking. The "tlub? jing" takes another ten minutes or so ind tho bird is handed to the "dresser," who, with sundry pushes against a post, and little skillful rats, ;ets it into marketable shape, dusts it with, flour and puts it in the "press"? Vr-shaped trough with a board on the top laden with stones. There now remains but the packing?one or more iozen to a crate?and they are ready for the carrier. The carrier is one of the powers of the neighborhood. All day and every lay his carts are passing along the :oad3, now with full crates to the sta;ion, back again with returned empties; now piled up with Irish im i)orts, then with consignments of jround oats, new coops, cramming nachines, and the various necessaiies >f the trade. He collects and sends to London the dead poultry at so much i bird, paying carriage at so much a ton, and making a profit on the transiction. As much as eighty toDs of lead poultry have been sent to market in a week from Heathfield, which, reckoning between four and live pounds to a bird, means some 500 to the ton, or 40,000 birds. Such a trade naturally calls other trades to its aid. Millers become purveyors of ground oats, carpenters turn coop and pen makers, butchers deal in fat by the bushel, and large quantities of milk are supplied by the sur ruufuuug iuriuere. Heathfield is beautifully situated; wide views of hill and dale, of wood and down, and the sea away in the distance. The neighborhood has interest for many. It is the site of one of the principal iron workings ia the i south of England. The first cannon t was bored there; and place-names and r quaint old fire-backs still testify to j the old industry. The memory of j - Richard Woodman, iron-founder and , 5 PRESSING. 3 1 martyr, of Mary's time, is still kept , alive in Warbleton. Historic remains , are numerous; a stone marking the ? place where Jack Cade was killed by 1 Iden is in tho village. Pevensey and : Hurstmonceaux are within easy drivi ing distance. Botanists may find rare i flowers here, notably the little blue , i gentian (Gentiana verna). Many fre3 quent the place as an invigorating health resort in summer. But all ini terests are subservient to the chicken , trade. The whole place is pervaded by poultry, and there are but few of t the inhabitants who are not connected i in some way with its staple industry. i Pope Leo at Eiglity.flre. The Pope of Rome recently celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday. Ho POPE LEO xni. has been at the head of the Catholic Church for seventeen years. A "White Buzzard." 1 The "white buzzard" has been cap- . tured. The "beautiful snow" beats ( traps. For a series of years the , "white buzzard" has been as familiar j in western Stewart County as the ^ water gourd, and perhaps the expres- ( sion: "Tonder the white buzzard," ^ has been pronounced a thousand times more or less in that latitude. The bird being heavily laden with snow and chilled, was captured on the 15th f - ~ liiil- ?1 J T i.L?i instant oy a nine coiuruu uuj mut waits about the Stewart County Hopper office. This remarkable bird, as ( white as a gander, is on exhibition in j the aforesaid sanctum. ?Atlanta Con- , stitution. ( Getting Even. The Mendooino County ranchers complain of a new sort of caterpillar which amuses itself by crawling up the logs of roosting "broilers," and l biting them,the chickens immediately \ 1 becoming defunct and of no farther { , use except for tamales. Time briDgs strange revenges. Now it is the early worm that catohes the bird.?San i ; Francisco Examiner. e AMERICA'S RI John D. Rockefeller, the Standard ] Oil king, is the richest man in America, i His fortune, says the Detroit Free i Press, has now reached the gigantic 1 figures of $145,000,000. Before the e ; end of the year it will have reached i l.i * f ? /-?i en Aftn nnn -r?- _ ine lerrmc sum oj oiuu,uuu,wu, jreu' pie who claim to know say that his 1 JOHN D. ROC wealth is growing at the rato of $15,- t 000,000 a year. He is not an extrava- C gant man ; his family are even more I modest in their tastes than he is, and t that he does not spend one-twentieth t of his annual income is generally be- I lieved by his friends, t Mr. Rockefeller's income is unques- 1: tionably somewhere in the neighbor- i > hood of 815,000,000 a year. The s i Standard Oil Company pays immense e Costly C'rowus. The value of the crown jewelry of the potentates of the Old World reaches into almost incredible bums, St says the Bach fuer Alle. The crown of the King of Portugal, une of the most precious of Europe, is worth six and a half million dollnrs. rho one worn by the Czar at special ceremonies of state is not worth any < less. The cross on top of the crown Ps is shaped of four immense diamonds | Df the first water, resting on a large to 1. thi L1UUUI/, Ullt UI^JLllY (JU119UCU, luujr, nulled at over ?30,000. A great number Df valuable getas cover the crown. At Wj the recent obsequies of the late Czar an rSn ha l,k S|3 g y mi '>C\0?J*o'|l|11N> 5 Jfj'*SrC*^,x a C r 5 XVfe^.-V S? cS'-N tir dj fo' flp CROWN OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. ' 8U one of these gems disappeared mys- T1 teriously from its setting during the se transfer of the body from the railToad ^ station to the fortress of St. Peter and Paul, and in spite of a most searching ec investigation no trace of the gem has ot been discovered. The small crown diadem of the im Czarina contains the finest diamonds ta ever set, and it took many years to be bollect these exquisitely rratched erems. va The crown of Queen Victoria is val- er ued at nearly two million dollars, ^ and contains one large ruby, one large ta sapphire, sixteen smaller sapphires, Di eight emeralds, four smaller rubies, g* 1360 white and 1273 rose-colored diamonds, four large pear-shaped pearls fa and 269 other pearls. an The robes and jewelry worn by the Sultan of Lahore at state functions are adorned with diamonds worth ten ar million dollars. His collar, epau- P1 lettes, belt, bracelets, anklets, buckles ^ and headgear are sparkling with the f0 shining pebbles. ex mi i : ? 1 -11 tei xue LUUbl (jruuiuun on uiuvru JCIT elry is owned by a potentate inferior iA rank to the last-named, the Maharajah te: of Baroda. He possesses a necklace to of five rows of diamonds, increasing in size from a pea to a walnut. There po are 500 diamonds in this necklace, mi <vhose brilliancy is farther increased fle by two rows of emeralds above and jVj below the diamonds and of the same th size. This necklace is thought to be so vorth over 31.000,000, while the other ^ ewelry owned by this Croesus is esti- f0i nated at more than $20,000,000. bii ^ he ce Good Wishes ot No Avail. su pjq Conan Doyle, the English novelist, tii :ame to America on tbe Elbe. Dur- ell ing the voyage he wrote these verses 'jj n Captain Yon Qoessel's autograph ^ ilbum: ba Hi Luck to tho Elbe in every weather, ^ May her fortune never fall her; aD Boat and master match together, ^ Gallant ship and gallant sailor. a . Now the ship, the sailor and the al- ha )um are all deep in the North Sea. 8U rhe verses were written September "I 17, 1894. fo: i "1 The latest idea of French physicians ^ a to cure colds by applying ice to the spine. _ lo CHEST MAX. , bli ' T1 ^ Aj jrofi ts to its owners, and Mr. Rockefeller Lf s the principal owner. Based upon an "I innual income of $15,000,000 a year, J'jj ;he oil king has $1,250,000 a month to cu ipend, 0^841,666 every day in a week, ki; ncluding Sundays and holidays. wl It is not without the pale of possiaility that Mr, Rockefeller will live ~~ \ mi ^ ^ ^ 08 ' ' OH hr KEFELLER. o see his daily income reach the $100- ce 100 figure. Thirty-five years ago Mr. Rockefeller was worth 82000. In *? hat time, practically starting on h? lothing, be has made $145,000,000. bo le is fifty-five years old, vigorous and lealthy, and in all probability will ive twenty years more, in which time th t would not be unreasonable to su uppose that he could double his mormoua wealth. p( ea REV. DR. TALMAGE. JNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Snbject: "A Scraphlc Diet." rETT: "Man did eat angels' food."? alms Ixxviii., 25. Somewhat risky would be the undertaking tell just what was the manna that foil to e Israelites in the wilderness, of what it is made and who made it. The manna is called angels' food, but why so called? as it because it came from the place where gels live, or because angels compounded or because angels did eat it. or because was Rood enough for angels? On what ystal platter was it carried to the door of aven ana tnen mrown out/ now aia 11 ste? We are told there was in it something :e honey, but if the saccharine taste in it d been too strong many would not have ;ed it, and so it may have had a commin[n&r of flavors, this delicacy of the skies. It list have been nutritious, for a Nation lived . it for forty years. It must have been althful. for it is so inspiringly applauded, must have been abundant, because it "disused the necessity of a sutler lor a great my. Each person had a ration of three quarts lay allowed to him. and so 15,000 pounds ire necessary every week. Those were the nes of which my text speaks, when "man i eat angels' food." If the good Lord, 10 has helped me so often, will help me w, I will first tell you wuat is angels' 3d, and then how we may get some of it r ourselves. In our moral state we must ,ve for mastication and digestion and similation the products of the earth. >rporeity, as well as mentality and irituality, characterizes us. The style ol at has muoh to do with our well being, ght and frothy food taken exclusively reIts in weak muscle and seml-lndividualism. le taking of too much animal food produces tifiuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reasonilo selection of the farinaceous and the lid ordinarily produces physical stamina. But we have all occasionally been in an static state where we forgot the necessity earthly food. We were fed by joys, by iticipations, by discoveries, by companionips that dwindled the dining hour into significance and made the pleasures of the ble stupid and uninviting. There have en cases where from seemingly invisible urces the human body has been mainined, as in the remarkable case of our inlid and Christian neighbor, Mollie Fanch, known throughout the medical and iristian world for that she was seven seks without earthly food, fed and susIned on heavenly visions. Our beloved >. lrenceus Prime, editor and theologian, corded the wonders concerning this girl, ofessor West, the great scientist, marveled er it, and Willard Parker of worldwide me in surgery threw up his hands in aazement at it. There are times in all our res when the soul asserts itself and says to e body: ''Hush, stand back! Stand down!" T an, of n hnnnnot- whnrn no chfl.Hf.ftS cleam id no viands smoke and no culinary imemenls clatter. I am feeding on that lich no human hand has mixed and no rthly oven baked. I am eating "angels' od." If you have never been in such an alted state, I commiserate your leaden mpertment and dismiss you from this rvice as incompetent to understand the rilling and glorious suggestiveness of my rt when it says, "Man did eat angels' od." Now, what do the ffiipernaturals live on? ley experience none of the demands of corriety and have no hindrance or environsnt in the shape of bone and muscle and >sh, and hence that which may delectate ir palate or invigorate our poor, dying imes would be of no use to them. But ey have a food of their own. My text says . There may be other courses of food in e heavenly menu that I am not aware , Dili J. KUOW Ul II YD UI B1A aijrico Vi od always on celestial tables when cherum and seraphim and archangel gather for avenly repast?the mystery of redemption, lestialized music, the heavenly picturesque, blime colloquy, eternal enterprises, saintly 3oclation, divine companionship, celebrare jubilance. There is one subject that ex:?s the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all ose angels. St. Peter says, "Which fnj? the ansrels desire to look into"?that why did Christ exchange a palace for a ra? Whyj did He drop a scepter from Is right hand to take a spear to His left side? Whf quit the them of the worshiping heavens to hear e crooning of a weary mother's voice? Was itraw better than a garland? "Could it not ,ve been done in some other way?" says if?el the first. "Was the human race worth ch a sacrifice?" says angel the second, low could heaven get along without Him* r thirty-three years?" says angel the third, through that assassination may sinful man le into our eternal companionship," says gel the fourth. A.nd then they all bend toward eaoh other d talk about it and guess about it and try fathom it and prophesy concerning it it the subject is too big. and they only nibi at it. They only break oft a piece of it. ley only taste it. They just dip Into It. id then one angel cries, "Worthy is the imb that was slain!" And another says, Jnsearchable!" And another says, >ast finding out!" And another says, illelui!" And then they all fill their ps of gold with the "new wine of the ngdom." Unlike the beakers of earth, lich poison, these glow with immortal alth, the wine pressed from the grapes of a heavenly Eshcol, and they all drink to e memory of manger and cross, shattered pulcher and Olivette ascension. Oh, that pturou3. inspiring, transporting theme of e world's ransom! That makes angels' od. The taking of that food gives stronger ilse to their gladness, adds several morals of radiance to their foreheads, ves vaster circle to the sweep their wings on mission interconellalion. 8ome of the crumbs of at angels' food fall all around our wilderss camp to-day, and we feel like crying th Paul: "Oh, the depth of the riches, both the wisdom and knowledge of Goa!" or th expiring Stephen: "Lord Jesus, receive y spirit!" or with many an enraptured soul: tone but Christ! None but Christ!" Pass ound this angels' food. Carry it through I these aisles. Climb with it through all ese sralleries. Take it among all the hovels well as among all the palaces of the great wn. Give all Nations a taste of this angels' od. Now, in the emerald palace of heaven let e cupbearers and servants of the King reDve this course from the banquet and bring i another course of angels' food, which is lestial music. You and I have seen at m? concert or oratorio a whole assemblage whom the mu*ic was a feast. Never anying that they took in at the lips of the outh was so delightful to their ta3te that which they took in at the lips of e ear. I have seen and you nave seen ople actually intoxicatod with sweet unds. Oratorios which aro always too proicted for those of us who have not had our eulties cultivated in that direction were ver long enough for them. As at 11 o'clock night the leader of the orchestra gave the ree taps of his baton to again start the usic they were as fresh and alert as when, ree hours before and at 8 o'clock, the curia f.rst lifted. Music to them is food r body, food for mind and food r soul. From what I read in my ble I think celestialized music will ake up a large part of angels' food, hy do I say "eelestialized music?" Beuse though music may have been born in mven it had not all its charms until it came earth and took a baptism of tears. Since en it has had a pathos and a tendorness at it could not otherwise have possessed, had to pass under the shadows and over 3rmy seas and weop at sepulchers and to hummed as lullaby over the cradle of :k children before it could, mount to u present altitudes of heavenly power. organ on earth would be complete withit the stop "tremolo" anil the stop "vox imana." Ami no music of heaven would complete without the "tremolo" of earthly rrow comforted and the "vox humana" of rthly sympathies glorified. Just take up e New Testament and find it a notebook of lestialized music. It says Jesus sang a hymn before He went the Mount of Olives, and if Ho could sing i earth with Bethlehem humiliation close hind Him. and sworn enemies close on th sides of Him. aad tne torments of Goltha just before Him. do you not suppose He iRS in heaven? Paul and Silas sang in [dnight dungeon, and do you not suppose at now they sing on the delectable mm Its? What do harps and trumpets id choirs of revelation suggest if not music? bat would the millions of good singers and ayers upon Instruments who took part in jthly worehlp do in heaven without musio? Why, the mansions ring with it The great halls of eternity echo with it. The worship of unnumbered hosts Is lnwrapped with it. It will be the only art of earth that will have enough elasticity and strength to leap the grave and take possession of heaven. Sculpture will halt this side the grave because It chiefly commemorates the forms of those who in heaven will be reconstructed, and what would we want of the sculptured imitation when we stand In the presence of the resurrected original? Painting will halt this side the grave because the colors of earth would be too tame for heaven, and what use to have pictured on canvas the scenes which shall be described to us by those who were the participants'? One of the disciples will tall ii? fihmit thft "T.ait Snnnor" +V>an Titian with mighty touch setup in art gallery. The plainest saint by tonpruewill describe the "Last Judgment" better than Michael Angelo with his pencil put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Architecture will halt this side the grave, for what use would there be for architect's compass and design in that city which is already built and garnished until nothing can be added? All theTuileries and Windsor Castles and St. Clouds of the earth piled up not equaling its humblest residences; all the St. Pauls and St. Peters and St. Izaaks and St. 8ophias of the earth built into one cathedral not equaling the heavenly temple. But music will pass right on, right up and right in, and millions In heaven will acknowledge that, under God, she was the chief cause of their salvatiOD. Ob, I would like to be present when all the great Christian singers and the groat Christian players of all the ages shall congregate in heaven. Of course they must, like all the rest of us, be cleansed and ransomed by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the great artists of sweet sound have been as distinguished for profligacy as for the 'way they warbled or sang or fingered the keyboard or trod the organ pedal. Some who have been distinguished basso3 and sopranos and prima donnas on earth, I feel will never sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, or put the lips to the trumpet with sounds of victory before the throng. Bnt many of the masters who charmed us on earth will more mightily charm us in heaven. Great music hall of eternity! May you and I be there some day to acclaim when the "Halleluiah Chorus" is awakened As on earth there have been harmonies made up of other harmonies, a strain of music from this cantata, and a strain of music from that overture and a bar from this and a bar from that, but one great tune or theme, into which all the others were poured aa rivers into a sea, so it may be given to the mightiest soul in the heavenly world to gather something from all the sacred songs we have sung on earth, or which have been sung in all the ages, and roll them on in eternal symphony, but the one great thenie and the one overmastering tone that shall carry all before it and uplift all heaven from central throne to farthest gate of pearl and to highest capstone of amethyst will be, "Unto Him who loved us and washed ua from our sins in His own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to Him be glory!" That will be manna enough for all heaven to feed on. That will be a Danqnet for immortals. That will be angels' food. Now. In the emerald palace of heaven, let the cupbearers and servants of the King re move this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels' food, which Is laying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible lets us know positively that the angels have our world's affairs on their hearts. They afford the rapid transit from world to world. Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defending spirits, guardian spirits^-yea, they Have all worlds on their. thought, we are told they sang together at the creation,andthat implied not only the creation of our world, bnt of other worlds. Shall they plan only for our little planet and be unconcerned for a planet 800 times larger? No. They have all the galaxies under their observation. Mighty schemes of helpfulness to be laid out ana executed, shipwrecked worlds to be towed in, planetary fires to be put out, demoniao hosts riding up to be hurled back and down. These angels of light unhorse an Apollvon with one stroke of battleax cele3tiaL They talk these matters all over. They bend toward each other in sublime colloquy. They have cabinet meetings of winged immortals. They assemble the mightiest of them in holy con sultation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar, constellated achievement, Tney vie with each other as to who shall do the grandest thing for the eternals. They compose doxologies for the temple of the sun. They preside over coronations. If In the great organ of the universe one key gets out of tune, they plan for its retuning. No undertaking Is so difficult, no post of duty is so distant, * no mission is so stupendous but at God's command they are gladly obtained. Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, let the cupbearers and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels' food?the last course aind the best, the dessert, the culmination of the feast, which is celebrative jubilance. You and I have known people who prided themselves on never getting excited. They have cultivated the phlegmatic. You never saw them cry; you never heard them In a burst of laughter. They are monotonous and to me Intolerable. I am afraid of a man or a woman that cannot cry; I am afraid of a man or a woman who cannot langh. Christ says In the book of Revelation that such people are to Him nauseating and cause regurgitation ?(Revelation ill., 16) "Because thou art lukewarm and neither cold not hot I will spew thee out of My mouth." But the angels in heaven have no stolidity or unresponsiveness. There is one thing that agitates them into holy warmth. We know that absolutely. If their harp be hung up on the panels of amethyst, thev take it down and with deft fingers pull from among the strings a cantiole. They run in to their neighbors on the same golden street and tell fVm nn/iH nawa Tf ATiriam has there cvmbals anything like those with which she per-' formed on the banks of the Bed Sea, sha claps them in triumph, and there is a festal table spread, and the best of the angels' food is set on it. When is it? It is when a man 01 woman down in the world who was aL' wrong by the grace of God is made all righi '?(Luke rv., 10) "There is joy in th? presence of the angels of God over one sinnea that repenteth. Why are they so happilj agitated? Because they know what a tremendous thing it is to turn clear around from the wrong and take the right road. It is because they know the difference between swines' trough with nothing but husks and a King's banquet with angels' food. It is because they know the infinite, the everlasting difference between down aud up. And then their festivity is catching. If we hear the bells of a city ring, wo say, "What is that for?" If we hear rolling out from an auditorium the sound of a full orchestra, wa say, "What is happening here?" And when the angels of Goa take on jubliance over a case of earthly repentance your friends in heaven will say: "What new thing has happened? Why full diapason? Whj the chime from the oldest towers of eternity?" The fact is, my hearers, there are people in heaven who would llketc ' vnn Vnn- nhilrirnn thore arf uuai iiu in ;vu. ? wonderiug when father and mother will come Into the kingdom, and with more glee <han they ever danced in haljway at youi coming home at eventide they will dance the floor of the heavenly mansion at the tiding? of father and mother saved. Beside that the old folks wont to hear from you. They-are standing at the head of the celestial stairs waiting for the news that their prayers have been answered, uud that you are coming on to take from their lips a kiss better than that which now they throw you. Calling you by your first name, as they always did, "they are talking about you and saying, "There is our son," or "There Is our daughter down ;n that world of struggle battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why can they uot see that Christ is the only one who can help and comfort and save?" That is what they are saying about you. And if you will this hour i>% ono prayor of surrender that will not take tnore than a second to mak* decide this theu swifter than telegraphic dispatch the news would reach them, aud angels of God who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterers of heaven would do thoir best, aud suints and seraphs side by side would tak? angels' food. Glory to God for such a possibility! Oh, that this moment there mtglit oe a rusn lor neayuai The Spirit ami the Bride say. Come. Rejoicing saints re-echo. Come. Who faints, who thirsts, who will may come. Thy Saviour bids thee come. A Laborer's Daughter Inherits 8100,000. By the death In New York recently of the' Rev. R. B. Crystal, of Atlanta. Ga.. Miss Blanche Chapman, of Jacksonville, Fl<i., the daughter of a laborer, inherits 3100,000. Sha is about seventeen years old. The property is iu real estate in New York and Atlanta. . More Philadelphia vessel* Ui"?c loe< this season than ever before. i- ' ' , ' -.7 ' . :;*p ' 3 FOREIGN BELIGEREMi % i The Wars and Rumors of War That; Crowd the Cables. THE COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION.! . % General Nodza Crosses the Llao Ho andp Defeats an Army of Ten Thousand Men, * ' '<% ?Colombian Insurgents Repulsed St' Boco Del Toro and the Bandit Gsas ir Killed?France and Venezuela. Advices were received at Panama of the landing of an armed expedition and desperate.' battle at Boco del Toro, Colombia. Tliei rebel expedition came from Port Limon,: Costa Rica, and was led by the notorious! Mexican revolutionary Inciter, Catarina Garza. He had with him Lieutenants Peroira Castro. Sifonor More and others. An attack was made on the ouartel at four o'clock in the morning, and the fighting was continued until six o'olock. It is reported! that Garza was killed by Lieutenant Lopex,, who in turn was killed by the rebels. The j CATABINO QABZA. reports Indicated that many were Jdlled oa both sides. Reinforcements were sent from Panama at* . 'pi midnight on an express train. They left the train at Colon and there embarked on & steamer and were hurried to Boco del Toro. It was also reported that fifty men werelanded at Boco del Toro from the United; States cruiser Atlanta. Governor Arango Issued a decree declaring the department of Panama in a state ot: siege. The functions of the Civil Courts have been suspended. The steamer Premier, whioh arrived afc Colon from Cartagena, brought many political prisoners, who have been lodged in jalL A further consignment of arms and ammunW Hon has been received from New York. CHINESE ROUTED. Th? Japanese Cross Into Mancharl* matt im Win a Great Victory. ' , , " ' ' jft The Central News correspondent In Tokto / A3 Kotee this dispatch, which was sent by th? .$8 panese commander from Yin-Kao, China, '' the port of Niuchwang: "The first division reports that the forta. south and west of Yin-Eao, on the left bank.' - ' :. ~jk of the river, have been taken to the last ditoh and redoubt Two soldiers were blown up ..<> by the explosion of a mine in the Chinese ' >' line of defence. The Liao Biver is still frozen." & ' General Nodzu reported that his amy, with the aid of the first division, had attacked the Chinese at Tenchantai (on th? west bank of the Llao Ho. fifteen miles weat of old Niuchwang). The Japanese advanced from three directions, one force coming from. the east, one from the northeast and the third from the northwest A hot artillery fire was nnanM af ??wn ?. m. and under its covet the three bodies ot troops stormed the town. shortly before half-past ten. The Chinese numbered 10,000 or more. At first they fought stubbornly, but eventually they broke and ran, throwing down their arms au4 making no effort to save standards or baggage. Most of the Chinese fled to the northwest Although the Japanese loss was but 100 filled, the Chinese left more than 2000 dead and dying in and around the town. All the enemy's war material was captured. The town caught Are during the fight and before night was burned to the ground. General Nodzu hasbeen promoted to the rank of MsrshaL Japan has told China, through the Vnited States Ministers, her terms of peace. Chins has accepted them. The Caban Revolution. Reports from Cuba indicate that the revoelution is practically at an end. News has been received from Marganillo of > the surrender of Joaquin Pedroso, Carlos and Joque Aguirre, with nearly all the members of the band under Matagas. The capture of Matagas and Matos will, it is believed, completely disrupt the Insurgents in the central . uotl ul luo uiouu? , ... ' France Threatens Venezuela. The French Government has instructed the commander of the cruiser Boland, stationed in Guiana waters, to proceed at onoe to La Guayra, Venezuela. / The commander of the Bolaud is to place . ?? his vessel at the disposal of the Marquis da Bipert Monclar, the French Minister, who received his passports from President Crespo. Dr. J. Gill Fortoul, the Venezuelan representative in Paris, ha3 received his passf orts. The Madagaxcar Expedition. virc It hac been found that fully fifteen per ? ;' y cent, of the men drafted in France for the Madagascar expedition are physically unfit for the arduous service, and their places are being filled. Already it is apparent that the . ,7 campaign will cost $25,000,000 instead of 113,000,000. t > ':?i% Cartridge* for Chins. ? The Winchester Repeating Arms Company.' . ' ; New Haven, Conn., shipped 2,000,000 carI i.^?.. > fVia Orivfirnment. Since iw buv the beginning of the hostilities the company has shipped 20,000 stand of arms to China. ~ ' 1 An American Wina the Bessemer Medal. Henry IT. Howe, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ia 1871, has received a letter of congratulation from Sir Lowthian Bell, of Engiand, with the information that the Bessemer medal for the year 1895 has been awarded to him. This medal, given by Sir Henry Bassemer. the noted inventor, for those who have most benefited the metallurgy of iron and steel, is conferred once a year by the British Iron and Steel Institute upon that man most noted for his investigations or inventions. To Lay a Pacific Ocean Cable. It has been learned that the International Paciflo Cable Company, which failed to get a National charter from Congress, will go ahead with its project of connecting San Franeisco, Honolulu and Yokohama by cable, and will act under a California charter. A Cyclone In Alabam.-i. A cvclone three miles north of Brewton, Ala., cut a swath a half a mile wide through the country, damaging several dwelling houses and tearing to pieces a school and church building. Prominent People. Ham. Caine is forty years oi age, and till he began to write had never read ft novel in his life. Sib HEVsr C. Rawlixsox. known as the "father of Assyriology," died in London a few days since. Oscaii Wilde is fond of jewels. The little finger of his left hand is covered nearly to the nail with rings. Richard O'Gobman, the Irish Nationalist^ scholar and orator, died at his home in Neir York City, aged seventy-live years. Th* Rev. Moses D. Hoge, the distinguished Southern Presbyterian minister, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his pastorate Ua Blahmond, Va. M -