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1 ' . ' y 1 *" AT THE BARRACKS. j? A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A UNITED STATES SOLDIER. Visit to an Artillery Post ? From First Call lor Reveille to Lights and Taps?Tour of Duty. ~TC SOLDIER in the array of /\ Uncle Sam, be he "buck" private or colonel of a regi? ment, is obliged to soldier up to the handle wherever he may bo stationed. The daily routine as praohv thp fhrpA main arms ol the service?artillery, cavalry and in. j A VIEW OF THE QUABTBBS. fantry?is precisely the same in the obain of posts around New York Harbor as it is in Fort Yuma -or in Vancouver barracks, Oregon. For each arm, ia every post, the military day is essentially the same from reveille to taps. In one post as well as tbe other the soldier has to have his ears cocked for the calls of the trampeter, has to do his share of fatigne duty, has to "hump" his post when on guard and has exactly the game intervals of rest in which to "hit his bunk"?the passive act of reclining known in the army vernacular as "bunk fatigue." A Washington Star reporter recently spent an entire military day at the barracks, under .the protecting guardianship of the soldierly looking adju, jt, - i* r*"- s> LIGHT BAT tant of the Fourth Artillery,Lieutenant J 8. Strong. The reporter was on a PP^*quest for information, gained at first hand though actual observation, as to how soldiers soldiered. He saw and heard the whole grind. from first call in the morning to "lights out" at t night. It was a rovelation in haman alertness, discipline, order and organization. First call for reveille is sounded ..-during autumn and winter mouths ?just when the Eastern sky begins to flame with orange. It is a signal to the men sleeping in the long rows of comfortable bunks in the second-story barrack rooms of the "double-decker" quarters that they have got to get up. Assembly goes within five minutes after first call, and the men of each battery fall in in front of their respective quarters and answer to their name as called by the first sergeant who, at the conclusion of the roll call, reports to the officer of the day, who olanks along the lines, "Battery E present or accounted for," or "Privates Soand-Soabsent from reveille," as the case may be. If it is the latter case there is an immediate investigation as to what has prevented the absentees from standing reveille?an investigation which very frequently lands the laggards in the "Clink." While the men are yet standing in line the bang of the morning snnrise gun comes thundering over the parade ground, the stars and stripes, uuuer frjue mnuipuiaviuu ui uuo kjl mxs corporals of the gaard, flattered from the top of the flagstaff, and the mili tary day is begun. The men barely have time to get their heads under the oold water spig gotsinthe wash rooms, and 1o dry themselves with orash towels before the flitting will-o'-the-wisp of a trumpeter of the guard blares ont the mess call It should be explained that at Washington barracks there are batter^ messes?that is, the batteries have each a separate dining room and kitchen, presided oyer by a permanent cook ohosen from each outfit. The Cook of eaoh battery, together with ^ the two men detailed each day to I assist him?they are known as '.'kitchen police"-?is awakened every .< morning about an hour before the . reveille by one of the members of the guard, in order to give him plfnty of time to prepare the battery's breakfast V. ' Ip the. battery messes the men are fea with good, substantial food' served onswhite pine tables and without any frills. The, most common breakfast dish of the army, next to beans is a not unappetizing compound, like Irish stew, briefly called "alum" by the soldiers. The men drink two or three big bowls of good coffee without milk, and eat several slabs of nnbuttered bread, moistened by the "slum" gravy, and they get through the meal with phenomenal quickness. They do not bolt their breakfasts from preference, but because the coot, if they appear to linger a tilde over the meal, glares in from the kitchen and tells them that "there's going to be a dinner in this ^ shack to-day, as usual." Thus adjured, they do" not waste much time in showing the cook their backs. Anyhow, there are duties to be performed immediately after breakfast. The mattresses on the bunks and the blankets must be rolled up aud the quarters arranged for he inspection of the battery commander, who, in the detection of dirt- or slovenliness, has eyes of the strength of a hawk's, jteaidev fatigue call is sounded by the unrelenting "wind pnsher" about hal an hour after breakfast. A large por tion of each battery reports to th< provost sergeant at fatigue call. Ther< is "old guard" fatigue for men wh< have come oif guard on the day pre vioue, "quartermaster's" fatigue anc "commissary's" fatigue for all hands and there is never any laok of work ii a militft-rir nnst trt bA?n the faticU( parties busy. Provost sergeants, who, are th< directors of military chores, like tc stand well with their commanding officers, and they have an unerring instinct in picking out jobs for the men, the successful performance o; which is likely to catch the eye of th< post commander. No chicken ooop that needs a coat of whitewash wil escape the provost sergeant's eye, nc brush wood that needs olearing away, no Hewers to be flushed, no coal to be carted, no wood to be sawfid and split, no roads to be patched, no weeds to be picked, that he does not see. For ob< vious reasons, provost servants are not popular with the "buck" privates, the only men who do any actual work in these fatigue parties, the non-oommiciuirvna/3 nffinfir/J. down to thfcl aOtinS "lance jaoke," only doing the greeting and the heavy standing around. Immediately after breakfast the met whose names have been read out al retreat the previous night for a toui of guard duty begin their elaborate preparations for going on guard. It is necessary that they should make elaborate preparations, for woe botide the soldier who mounts guard with 6 pinhead of dirt, dust, rust or tarnish on the most trilling item of his trap< pings. As guard duty is the most inv portant duty of the soldier, he ii expected to get ready for each tour o1 it with about the same amount of cart and attention to detail that he might be supposed to exert in preparing foi his wedding. 1??am Akft /> { 1\ i'o t AVA fVA O T\ 4*/" i iuui iuu uiunu wi uio w?p wv the soles of his "Governmenl straight" shoes, he has got to .look ai if he had jast sprung from a bandboj or else be "turned down" by the in specting adjutant by being displaced by one of the snpernnmaries of the guard, a number of whom are alwayi mounted with the regular guard de tail for just such cases. It is exceed ingly rare, however, that the super numaries are called upon, for it is i matter of pride with the men to go 01 - ? ' . N. rERI DRILL. guard in good shape. Indeed, ther< in an incentive for them to do all o the buckle shining and ride barre cleaning that they labor over, for the adjutant, in mounting the new guard, selects tbe "cleanest man?tnat is, the soldier whose uniform fits hin best, and whose acoouterments are o the-most dazzling glisten?to act ai orderly tor the commanding officer. The orderly for the commanding of ficer simply follows that dignified gen tleman around during office hours and does not, like the other men o ik A r?n V* n n r\ ^ r\ iw aIIt Vtlfl ' TTT rt Vl AllVi luc Kuaiuy uavo uc waiA uio uitu uvu&i on and foar off" post dnring the wearj length of twenty-four hours. He geti the night in his bunk. The struggle for the prize of orderly is a fierce con test between the men known as "or derly buckets," on accouat of th< frantic desperation with which thej begin days in advance of going 01 guard to clean up in order to captar< the plum. Each battery has one oj two conspicuously successful "orderlj buclcers," and when one of these goei upon guard, pitted against the "buck crs" of the other batteries, all handi take a tremendous interest in the out come of the battle of cleanliness, and around pay days, bets are often mad< as to who is to bo the winner. The whole battery will often helf to "work up" the kit?belt, cartridge box and rifle?of the "orderly buok' er" in whom it takes the most pride, and when, after all these voluntary eflorts, tboir man loses, the adjutant is prononnoed "partial" and "unfair.' The adjutant is himself often at a loss as to which man oa the guard to piol for orderly, for it occasionally hap pens that several men are equally wel gotten up. In such ca3ee, these fev bast men are drilled for the prize. I this manner of seleotion only narrows the thiDg down to two men, who de cline to obey wrong "triok" com mands given by the adjutwit in drill ing them, and are both equally profi cient in the manual of arms, then the two draw straws for the orderly'< billet. Meanwhile, bj the time the guarc has been mounted, recall from fatigue is sounded, in order to give the men of the working parties time to shifl their uniforms for drill with their respective batteries. It is a laborious drill that calls foi the donning of the brown oanvaa fatigue uniforms. There are also separate days for "instrumentation,' learning the uses of the numerous in' strumente employed in range-finding, "charting," gauging the strength ol the wind and the density of the at mosphere, etc. A eoldier must possess a well-developed scientific tempera ment, in order to enter understand ingly into "instrument drill.' "Cordage drill" is another bete noil of artillerymen. Here is where tht soldier who has been to sea either as e marine or a bluejacket gets in hi: strong work. "Cordage drill" is for the purpose of teaching the men proficienoy in the tieing of the innumerable knots used in the moving of pieces of heavy and siege ordnance. It looks simple enough to see another man tie a "tim ber hitch," a "figure-of-eight knot," t "sheep's shank" or a "granny," butil is not easy by a whole lot. The sol dier who has had experience as ? "deep-water man," however, regardi it as ohild'p play. All of the soldieri of the heavy batteries are given an ex' animation every year as to theii mastery of these various drills, and for respective degrees of profioiency - . ::i V j : - f are given first, second and third gun* - ners' medals, not unlike those worn 3 by the "distinguished marksmen" of 2 the infantry. > The heavy artilleryman has to mas ter more different kinds of drill than 1 the soldiers of any other arm of the , service. Besides the drill on the big l guns he must be quite as proficient in ) infantry tactics as the "doughboy." tt _ .i a _ ri6 carries tue sume rme ana is re3 quired to learn the same evolutions as > the infantryman, in order to prepare j himself for field and riot service at r any time. There is any amount of 5 battery and battalion drill in infantry f movements at the barracks. Then there 3 are certain days set aside for drilling i in the hated "meohanioal maneuvers," I which consists in the mounting and > dismounting the heavy old Runs by , means of hydrrmlio jacks, "gins," gari rison slings and other appliances. , The light battery at the barraoka, ) like light batteries everywhere, with their "Napoleon" brass pieces of ordi nance, hauled by horses, has a dis, tinct drill of its own, not unlike that a f f K n Aotrnlntr an/1 nna ?! rr nil A f fKft post calls for tho light battery are ' different from those to which the heavy batteries respond. It wonld require a separate chapter to treat bfthe i 6uperbiy organized light artillery of k the United States army?indubitably the best in the world. > Recall from drill is blared ont in time to give the men a chance to olean up for dinner. Dinner mess call is > sounded at noon. After dinner the i "one soldier, one bunk" idea predom. inates. Except the men comprising - the afternoon fatigue parties, and the few detailed from eaoh battery to bind i the red crosses upon their arms and ! take part in the hospital corps' drill, > under the direction of one of the army surgeons or a hospital steward, all : hands are permitted to indulge after dinner in a general loaf. The oinjo, ists, the violinists, the gaitarhta and t the mandolinists get oat their instruj ments. Many of them play welL c Nearly all of the soldiers sing well. Sweetly, pathetically, humorously [ and martially the majority of them ? take part in this midday mnsioale. In 5 every outfit there are always two or . three jig dancers of eminonoe. These . are dragged to the center of the quar. tera to contribute their little act to i the entertainment. The fun of this j kind is a good deal more hilarious than ordinarily, ft few.days after pay J 1 Al. - A 1 I ? uay, wuau mo uauieou utjut uioa iui a time a veritable mint. About a week after pay day the quarters began to take on a gloomy atmosphere, and there is a general complaint of "heads." A good many of the soldiers devote a large portion of their afternoons to letter writing. Amerioan soldiers are inveterate letter writers, and they are exceedingly fond of receiving letters. In the afternoons, also, the "barrack lawyer" gets in his fine work. He knows more anont the regulations than the major-general commanding the army, and, in bis estime.tion, the army is going headlong to the dogs. 'He gathers a knot of recruits around his bunk and expiates vociferously upon the rapid degeneration of the ^ service. I The dolce far niente period draws to } a close about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the men of the batteries ' begin to prepare for dress parade. ' The men have to jump into their Jull j dress clothes for this evening parade and look their best. The inspiration of the band's music as they march in review gives an additional squareness to their shoulders and a dragoonish swing to their movements. American j soldiers are good to look upon. They must be perfect men physically to get into the service at all, and as reoruits g they are given much athletio training. " During the autumn and winter, first can lor retreat is soanaea during sue progress of dress parade, and assembly 3 for retreat goes at the conclusion of . the march in review. Then the men ^ answer to their names for the last 3 time of the military day, the echoes r of the evening gun reverberate through the post, the colors, while 3 the band solemnly plays "The Star Spangled Banner,"-nre struck, and the 3 men of each battery are inarched to their quarters and dismissed, to resume their everyday uniforms for ' supper.. There is nothing in the way of duty > to be performed bj the soldiers after i supper. If their names are not on the "black list," such of them as wish to visit the city may di9oard their uni^ forms, don mufti, oV civilian dress, , and go?having handed in their names l . ( CLRASTXQ THE PXECEfi. . for leave to the "top," or first ser, geant, daring the' afternoon.- There 1 is a fine post library for the readers. Then, there is always the canteen. It is not neglected. The oard and cheokar players are numerous in the quarters during the long, cool evenings. At 9.3(J the flourish of the trumpeter's tattoo warns the men to prepare for bed, for tho lights go out ten minutes later. When the blast is given for the extinguishing of the lights there must be perfect silence in the quarters. Those of the soldiers whose consciences are good are sound asleep by the time the sorrowful taps, the last call of the military day, is wailed by the "wind pusher." The deep silence of the post is then unbroken for the remainder of the night, except for the hourly oalls of the sentries on guard?"Number five 12 o'clock, and all-1-1'8 well-1"?that tell of the eternal vigilance of the soldier. Schooima9ter?"Ten cents * on? dime; now go on. What do ten dimei make?" Boy?"They make one verj glad these times."?BoBton Traveler, . ... ./ ???4 A ROGUE PLANT. J It Lies la AValt lor Flies aad Other Insects. Here's the piofcure of a rogue of a plnnt that lies in wait like a highway robber for unwary flies and other in- Su eects and when they appear it swallows , ??- J r. m | MaTJU. f 2 A BANDIT. PLANT. y0 them up and their friends never hear gu of them again. It has been given the tic botanical name of sarracenia, bat it is commonly called the pitoher plant, ^ from the faot that its leaves are rolled: cti into the form of pitchbrs, in which many a poor fly is caught. The flies are attraoted to the plant by a sweef; ' ea( liquid which it gives off, i.nd in their fro greediness they go a little too far and are killed. Botanists do n>t know ex- w? actly why the plant should wish a dm- fri< * * fka*A miiaf Ka ofimc, Sill lier ui uxrd) moio ui^dii mu bvimw ? good reason for it, else its pitchera ^ would not be so attractive. By ex- <j0 pediment thoy have found that the mc plant will live just as well where tho4 wh flies oannot get at it at all. So all the ?ol evidence would indioate that it is just rig a rogue, killing flies because i( really gn enjoys the sport. ? Ch ODD AND MARYEL0U9. be' ; blj The Colossal Recumbent Hock Fig- we ure on Kaster Island. otl . The accompanying picture is-from a lot photograph of a recumbent rook figure found on Easter Island, in the South m[, Paoiflo. This island is about 2000 of miles from the coadt of Chile. Au Da many as 500 figures, mainly busts,. ^ have been counted on the island. j They differ considerably in size, from the the pigmy of three feet to those ol! lav giant proportions, the largest measured being seventy feet long, 14j ,noi ________ left " lni A MTSTERT OF THE PACIFIC. ato feet across the back and six l'eet tlv through tha body, ite computed weight of i amounting to 238,000 tons. The usual height of these wonderful busts is j)eij about twenty feet, having & weight of wh soventy-Bix tons eaoh, by far the great- spr er poition being about thie size. Yet these huae masses of stone were not en? only moved considerable distances wh from the still- existing quarries where they were sculptured, but were placed wo( in an upright position on vast plat- f feci forms of stone prepared for their re- ha\ ception, and were finally decorated by ^ having the hnge cylinders of stone fat placed on their heads, the whole in- the dioating a surprising engineering 1 knowledge and skill, recalling that ex- ?ee hibited by the ancient Peruviana in hto their mighty undertakings. The tha origin of these interesting antiquities lb unknown.?Philadelphia Record. ^ qui The Pious Robiu. Here is a story of an orthodox robin. ^ Some time ago I attended morning am' service in Ely Cathedral, where, dur- anc ing the prayers, a robin kept flitting faIt about the building, joining occasion* ally in the service with a modest role "chirrup." When the clergyman as- I bended the pulpit and began to upeak, * the robin deliberately perohed himself [ha on one of the pinnacles of the chancel- 3ny screen, quite close to the orator, and St c the louder did the robin sing, much to ^ the amusement of the congregation. 1?fin I have no recollection of what the ser- of t mon was about, but the robin's sing- l,0D , , . . ? uari ing made a deep impression upon me. ,BHr1 ?London Telegraph. den mui r feme Wallpapering by Machinery. -M Paper can now be hung by inachin- ^ ery. The devioe has a rod on which a rea roll of paper is placed, and a paste ^ eservoir with a feeder placed so as to Br^ agagft the wrong side of. the paper.. m?j The end of the paper is fastened to the .new bottom of the wall and the machine 3^:j. started up the wa1!, being hiild in place rom by the operator. A roller ioliows the nnc paper as it unwinds and presses it cb.nt against the wall. When ihe top of the ^av wall is reached- the operator pulls a 0rpi string, which cuts the paper off lrom say the roll. Presence of Mind. ^ alt i ^^ faea Irate Father?"Didn't I tell you not thro to go skating ?" Quick-Witted Son?"Stay where you be. Pop. The ioe ia awful thin." th? ?Truth. _ < BH, 2^... r-yjfi j ?;/ \V. y^'. ;>"5w"^Y-'* r REV. DR. TALMlGir JNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. I ibject: "Occupation After Death." rEXT: "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth ir, in the fourth month, in the fifth day o1 ) month, as I was among the captives bj j river of Chebar, that the heavens were ened."?Ezekiel L, 1. S Szekiel, with others, had been expatrl?a, and while in foreign 'slavery, standj on the banks of the royal cAtial which and other serfs had been condemned dig by the order or Nebuohadnezzars royal canal in the text called the Rlvei Chebar?the illustrious exile ha>l lions of heaven. Indeed it is almost altys eo?that the brightest visions ol aven come not to those who are on mntaln top of prosperity, but to some hn on desolate Patmos, or to some Paul Mamertlne dungeon, or to* some Ezekjel ndtng on the banks of a ditoh he had 5n compelled to dig?yea. to the weary, to ) heartbroken, to those whom sorrow has 4? -a? * ? ' lilOUUWU 1UD ICAl 19 vorjr (Jtkruuu itir LVJ re us the exact time of the vision. It was the thirteenth yoar and in the fourth inth and in the fifth day of the month; you. had visions of eartn you shall never Ret. You remember the year, you remem: the month, you rememberjhe day, yon nember the hour. Why may we not have ne such vision now and: it he * in the alfth month and in sixth day of the inth? Che question is often silently aakod,though rhaps never audibly * propounded, "What ) our departed Christian friends dolus wY". The question is mqre easily answered in you might perhaps suppose. Though *re has come no , recent intelligence from s heavenly city, and we seem dependent on the story of eighteen centuries ago, 111 think we may from strongest inference side what are the present occupations ol r transferred kinsfolk. After Qod has ide a nature He never eradicates the ohiel :iracterii>tic of its temperament. You never raw a man phlegmatlo in temperament to :ome sanguine in. temperament, u never knew a man sanint in temperament to beoome phlegmain temperament. Conversion plants new nclples In the soul, but Paul and John are it as different from each other after conrslon as they were different from each lor before conversion. If conversion does t eradicate the prominent characteristics temperament, neither will death eradicate sm. Paul and John are as different from :h other in heaven as they wore different m each other in Asia Minor. Con hhve, then, only by a sum In subctlon and u sum in addition to decide at are tne employments or your aepartea 3nds in the better world. Yoa are to Jtnvct from them all earthly grossnass d Idd All earthly goodness, and then yoa ) to come to the conclusion that they are lag now In heaven what tn tholr best iment they did on earth. The reason y so u..my people never start for heaven because they could not staild It if thev : there It it should tnrn oat to be the Id and formal place some people photoiph it. We like to come to ohnrch, bat would not want to stay hire till next omer. We lilce to hear the "Halleluiah orus," but we would, not want to hear ill tho time for fifty centdfies. It might on some great occasion it'irpald possi comfortable to wear a orbwn of gold IgMng several pounds, but It-would be an iction to wear suoh a crown forever. In ter words, we run?he descriptions of heaven 0 the ground while we moke that which s intended as special and celebrative to the exclusive employment in beavoa/You ?bt as well, if asked to describe the habits American society, describe n *9edMatlon y or a Fourth of July, or an autumnal anksglving, a? ihougu It ware all the time it way. am not going to speculate in regard to 1 future world, but I must, by inevitable rs of inference and deduction : ndconmon iso, conclude that m heaven we will be ta; different from eaoh other as we are iv different, and hence that there will be at 3t ns many different employments in the ajtial world a3 there are employments e. Christ Is to be the great love, the great , the great rapture, the great worship ol iven, but will that abolish employments? more than love on earth?paternal, filial, temal, conjugal love?abolishes earthly tUpntion. n the first place, I remark that all those our departed ChriB'.ian friends who on th found great joy in the fine arts arenow lulging their tastes in the same direction, earth they had their gladdest pleasures id pictures and statuary and in tbe study the laws ot light and shade and perspec9. Have you any iden that that affluence faculty at death collapsed and perished? ly so, when there is more for them to look find they have keener appreciation of the dutiful and they stand amid the vary looms ere the sunsets and the rainbows and the lag mornings are woven? Are you so obe as to suppose, because the painter drops easel and the sculptor his chisel and the paver his knife, that therefore that tast? ich he whs enlarging and intensifying for ty or fifty years is entirely obliterated? ?ie artists, or these friends ot art on earth, rlted in coarse muterial and with impert brain and with frail hand. Now they re carried their art into larger liberties 1 into wider olr/uraference. They are at ilr old business yet. but without the Itfues, without the limitations, without i hindrances of the terrestrial studio.. Laphael couid improve upon his mastered of "Michael the Archangel" now that has seen him, and could improve upon masterpieces of the ''Holy Trinity" now f haa iHeltAri thorn Minimal Anrrnln ild better present the "Last Judgment" 9r he had seen lis flash and heard the abling battering rams of its thunder. Exsi to colors here graceful lines here, powal chiaroscuro here, but I am persuaded t the grander studies and the brighter leries are higher up by the winding marstairs of the sepuleher, an t that Turner I Holraan Hunt and Rembrandt and Titian 1 Paul Veronese, if they exercised savins? h in the Christ whom they portrayed >n the canvas, are painting yet, but their sngth of faculty multiplied ten thousandL ... remark again that all our departed Istian friends who in this world were slonately fond of music are still regaling t taste in the world celesiial. The Bible sso much about the musio of heaven that annot all be figurative. Why all this talk !ut hallelujahs and choirs on the glass and mpets and harps and oratorios and oris? The Bible over nnd over again speaks he songs of heaven. If boaven had no gs of its own. a vast number of those on tli would have been taken up t>y the ihly emigrants. Surely the Christian at th does not lose his memory. Then there st be millions of tonls in heaven who >w "Coronation" and "Antioch" and oiiut Fisgah" and "Old Hundred." The ler of the eternal orchestra need only e tap bis baton, and all heaven will be dy for the halleluiah. '.<? ' heaven shoula ever get out of musio, imus Hastings and Lowed Mason and dbury would start us a hundred old rnifioeut chorals. But what with the ' song that John mentions, and the varidoxologies alluded to, and the importai of sublunar -harmonies, a Christian I of music./dyldg, will ha,ve ah abundb of regalement. You must remember ; they have better instruments, of music re they are. You ask me. "Do thev h real harps and real trumpets and real ansV" I do not know. Soma wiseacres |V03ltively thero arc no such things in ver. I do not know, but I should not im-priaed if the God who made all tho' iDUiins and all the hills, and a 1 the sis and all the mines of the oarih, and iho growths of th** universe?I should be surprised if He could, it He had n d t?. make a few harps and trumpets organs. Grand oi l Haydn, sick ;ind nout, was enrried for tho last time > the music hall; there he heard his orio of the "Oruation." History savs : as tho orchestra came to that famous "Let thore be light!" tho whole icnco rose and cheored, and Haydn od his hand toward heaven nnd said, comes from there!" Overwhelmed i his own music, he was carried out in chair, and as he came to the door ha ad his hand toward tho orchestra as in idiction. Haydn was right when he ed his hand toward heaven and said, "It es from there." Music was born in ven, and it will over have its highest >ne in heaven, and I want you to underid that our doparted friends who were sionately foud of music hero are now at lieadquartors of harmony. I think that grand old ohurch tunes that diod when your srrandfatbora died have gone with them tta to heaven. Wnen those tones died, they did if not stay on earth, and they could not have w! been banished to perdition, aUd so I think an i they must be in the corridors of alabaster oa and Lebanon oadar. > th Aeain, I remark that those of our de- Be carted Christian frl?nd? who In thin world m, , had very strong military spirit nre now la th at rales celestial and oat ia bloodless battle. 0f There are hundreds of people bora soldiers, an They cannot help It. They belong to rearl- wl ; ments in time of peace. They oannot hear he : a dram or flfe witnout trying to keep step to ta ' the mosic. They are Christians, and when 8u I they fight they fight on the right side. Now. ha when these our Christian'- friends who had vl , natural and powerful military spirit entered ol . heaven they entered the celestial army. The to t door of heaven scarcely op$ns bat yoa hear 'to i' a military demonstration. David cried out, . "The chariots of God are 20,0001" Ellsha fr] . saw the mountains Oiled with celestial cay* w< [ airy. 8t John said, "The armies which are gc . In heaven followed Hitn on white horses." f Now. when those who had the military spirit itl , on earth sunotified entered glory, I suppose an , they right away eallsted on some heavenly fQ, campaign; they volunteered right away, wt I Thera must uends be in heaven soldiers with i0( a soldierly spirit There are grand parade di I days. when the Kin? reviews the troons-'There h? , must be aa armed escort sent oat to bring ap gtt , from earth to heaven those who were more tit , than conquerors. There most be torusades a*, ever being fitted out for some part of God's ye dominion?battles, bloodless, groanless, bli painless?angels of,evil to be fought down ca . anil fought out, other rebellious worlds to joj , be conquered, worlds t<x be put to the torch, v i worlds to be saved, worlds to be demolished, it , worlds ta be sunk, worlds to bj hoisted. Be; j stdes that, In our own world there are bat- ^ . ties for th? right and against the wrong iei ! where we must have the heavenly military, en . That Is what keeps us Christian reformers so ie] ; buoyant, 80 few good men against so many mi bad m?n; so few churches against so many an grogshops; so many pure printing Dresses th against so many polluted printing presses, rfi ' and yet we are buoyant and courageous, th because, while we know that the armies of he , evil In tne world are larger In numbers t>e than the army of truth, there are celestial co- fl , borts in the air fighting on our side. I have te; r not bo mnch faith in the army on the ground -'ajj . as I have In the army in the air. O God, ?ti ' open our eyes that we mpy see them?the jQ military spirits that went up from earth to t|1 , join the mllitaryspirits before the throne? xi Joshua and Caleb and Gideon and David and I Samson and the hundreds of Christian war- to , riors who on earth fought with fleshly arm, w . and now, having gone up on high, are com- u ing down the hills pf heaven ready to flght of among the invisibles. dp But what are our mathematical friends to 8r do in the next world? They found their Joy ta and delight In mathematics. There was Cc more poetry to them in Euclid than in John m Milton. They were passionately fond of th mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his ^ door, "Let no one enter here who is not ac- Wj quninted with geometry." What are thoy <j| doing now?, They are busy with figures yet re No place in all the universe like heaven for oi figures. Numbers infiiite, distances infinite,' gj calculations infinite. If th9y want them. Hi arithmetics and algebras and geometries and .trigonometries for all eternity. What fields UI of space to i>o surveyed! What magnitudes ttj to measure! What diameters, what drcum- ai ferenoes, whit triangles, what quaternions,' what eplcvclolds, what parallelograms, what m conic sections! he What are oar departed Christian friends vi who are explorers doing now? Exploring pr yet, but with lightning locomotion, with vision microscopic and telescoDio at the same time. A. continent at a glance,-a world In a. second, .a planetary system In a day. Chtis. tian John Franklin, no more in disabled R isreon* pnsaing rownra ia? nurui roibj Christina Da 'Long, no more tryln? to free blootouied Jedfanette from the ice; Christian . . Livingstone, no more amid African malarias, trying to make revelation of a dark con- D? tlnent, bat all of them in the twinkling of an 71 eye taking in that whioh was once unap* proaohable. Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock, the coral depths of the ocean explored without a diving bell, the mountains ^ rnbarred and opened without Sir Humphrey f Davy's safety lamp. }n What are our departed friends who found ln their chief joy ln study doing now? Study- . , ing yet, but, instead of a few thousand vol- ;D umes on a few shelves, all the yolumes of the ai . universe open before them?geologio, oral- P.r : thologlo, conohologic, botanic, astronomic, pnilosophlo. No more need of Leyden Jars M ox voltaic piles or electric batteries, standing or as they do face to face with the facte of the Pa universe. What are the .historians doing now? i Studying history yet, but hot the history of u few centuries of our planet only, but the historv of the eternities?whole mlllen niums, before Xenophen or Herodotus or Moses or Adam was bora. History of one ? world, history of alt world?. What are oar . depnrtei astronomers doing? Studying aatronomy yet, bat not through the dull leas of earthly observatory, but with one stroke of wing going right oat to Japi- h. tor and Mars and Mercury and Satnrn and Orion and the Pleiades, overtaking and passing the swiftest comet in their . flight. Hersohel died a Christian. Have eh vou any donbt about what Hersohel is doing? M< Isaac Newton died a Christian. Have yon sp any doubt about what Isaac Newton is doing? Joseph Henry died a Christian. Have you < any doubt about what Joseph Henry is do- flu lug? They were in discussion, all these as- In; tronomers of earth, about what the aurora pi< borealls was, and none o^them could guess. ' toj They know now; they have been out there th< to see for themselves. .' yei Wnat are our departed Christian chemists in doing? Following out their own science, fol- J lowing out aid following out forever. Since tw they died they have solved 10,000 questions da which puzzled the earthly laboratory. They die stand on the other side of the thin wall of thj el60trlcity?the thin wall that seems to dl- soj vide the physical from the spiritual world; on the thin wall of elestrioity, so thin the wall that ever and anon it seems to be almost broken through?broken through fiom one side by telephonic and telegraphic apparatus, broken through from the other W side by strange influences which men in their. Ignorance call spirit- . uahstio manifestations, All' that matter . cleared up. They laughing at ns as older ^ brothers will laugh at inexperienced broth- *e/ ers, as they see U3 with contracted brows ex- j?D perimenting and experimenting, only wish-. nn ing they could show us the way to open all imioak atanriinf? Amid his * mo uijokWi IMJI student explorers down in Brazil, coming ou across some great novelty in the rocks, tat- ?tr ing off his hat and saying: "Gentlemen, let Dr< us pray. We must have dlvioe illumination. ?ec We want wisdom from the Creator to study ?a iheserooks. He made them. Let us pray/' Agassiz going right on with his studies for- c ever and forever. anc But what are the men of the law, who in , this world found their chief joy in the legal a 1,1 profession?what are they doing now? Study- a?1 ing law in a universe where everything Is ?lv controlled by law from the flight of hummi ng birds to flight of world?law not dry A 1 and hard and drudging, but righteous and magnificent law. before which man and ^ cherub and seraph and arohangei and God Himself bow; the chain of law long enough to wind around the'lihmensities and infinity i and eternity. Chain of law. What a place &rx to study law, where all the linksof the chain atn are in the band! on What are our departed Christian friends fro who in this world had their joy in the heal- ha< ing art doing now? Busy at their old busl- \ nesj. No sickness in heaven, bat plenty of thr sickness on earth, plenty of. wounds in the the different p^rts of .God's domlaton to be bri healed and to be medicated: thpse glorified out sou I? coming, down not In lazy doctor's gig, Ac< but with lightning locomotion. You cannot oer understand why that patient got well after reg all the skillful dootors had said he most die. tra Perhaps Abercrombie, who, after many years inti doctoring the bodies and the souls of cm pnople in Scotland, went * up to flft God in 1844. Perhaps Abercrombie the touched him. I should not wonder if my old friend, Dr. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh?Jonn Brown, the author of "Bab and His Friend^" John Brown, who was as a humble a Cdrlstian as he was a skillful phy- in ] sician and world renowned author?I bhould thu not wonder if he had been back ajrain and to! again to see some of his old patients. Those de? who had their joy in healing the sickness the and the woes of earth, gone up to heaven, teri are come forth again for benignant medi- are camenr. of I But what are our friends who found ibeir *he chiof joy in conversation and in sociality do- *he ing now? In brighter conversation there and *n 1 in grander sociality. What a place to visit 9UC in when your next door neighbors are kinas andjqueens, you yourselves kingly and queenly! If they want to know more particularly j about the first paradise, they have only to go over and ask Adam. If they want to know how coc the sun and the moon halted, they have only to go over and ask Joshua. If they want to know how tne storm pelted 3odom, they have only to go over and ask Lot. If they want . 1 to know mcrre about the arrogance of ifaman, pro . ', ? ' 'V '* ' -"V '? ?y haye only to go over and ask Mordeeatl they want to know bow the Red Sea boiled ben it was Gloved,they have only to go oved id ask Moses. If they want to know thar .rticulara abont the Bethlehem advent, bt Hat A onlr to aft ovar nnrl Mir the renadlng angels who stood that Christ# is night in the baloonles of crystal. If ey want to know more of the particular* the crucifixion, they have only to go ove< id ask those who were personal spectators iile the mountains crouched and the ia7ens got black in the face a; the speo"le. If they want to know more abont the Seringa ot the Scotch Covenanters, they ire only to go oyer and ask Andrew Mel* lie. If they want to know more abont the d time revivals, thoy/have only to go over ask Whitefletd. and Wesley, and Living n, andFletcher, and Nettletoo, and Finnfc Bnt what are oar departed ChristiSor [ends who in all departments of usefulness are bnsy finding their. chief Joy la doing od?what are they doing now? Going ?ht on with the work. John Howard vis* ng dungeons; the dead woman of northern d southern battlefleldssttll abroad looking r the wounded.- George Feabody still : : ^ itching the poor; Thomas Clarkson Btill oking After the enslaved?all ot those wto ^H9| d good on earth hosier slnoe death than fore; the tombstone not the terminos.bntthe .^HH| irting post.' What an our departed Chrie- HH in friends who iou'nd their ohtef Joy te i^B| idying God doing now? Studying God t No need ot revelation now. lor uninched, they are face to faoe: Now they n handle the omnipotent fchunderlxmf V| a as a child handles the sword ot a,fatjicome back from victorious hatt^lMH tey have no'sin; no fear. consequraHB* adying Christ, not through a invwIal^h^MflMj ve the revelation of the> soars-ihattJiSM^^'^l tering which brings it all up dutpk m ough. Studying, the Christ of the Beflt lem caravansary; the .Christ of tfce awfoD sssaore, with its hemorrhage of head W id hand and foot and aide; the Christ oC- I e shattered mausoloom; Christ the saoi 9 Ice, the Star, the Son. the Han, the God, ,v '. ' ' v'fl e God-Stan, the Man-God. Bat bark! 11 of the cathedral rings -*he cathedra* wMHB u ot heaven. What Is the matter now? \ iere Is going to be a great meeting in thef UE mple; worshipers all coming through the ilea. Make room tor the Conqueror, Christ} indlng in the temple. All teaven gather*} s around Hlm.1 Those who loved the beau!al come to look at the Bote of 8haroru.; lose who lovedj maslo oome to listen toTHs dee. Those whd were mathematicians come; count the years of His reign. Those who^ Bre explorers oome to discover the height! id the depth and the length and breadth His love. Those Who had "the military lrit on earth sanctified, and tbe military ilrit in heaven, como to look at the Gap? in of their salvation. The astronomer# ime to look at the Morning Stat The . en of the Jaw cometofrook at Him who is e judge of quiok and dead. The meit who ?aled the sick came to look at Him who* is wounded for our transgfrerfWns. AIL fferent and different forpver In many spects, yet ail alike In admtcatiaft for xrist. in worship for Christ,1 and I.-alike in joining in the doxoioifcy, "Unto Lm who washed as from oar sins in HI* m blood, ana made as kings, and priests ito God; to Him be glory in the ehurek roughoutall ages, world without Bin..' nan. U^. To show yon that ottr departed friends are * . ore alive than they ever were, to make yoo. vimesiok for heaven, to give yon an enlaqced ew of the glories to be. revealed, I (hare cached tHIs sermon. * tt> FIX UNIFORM WHEAT PRlfcES. ostla Said to Fbtot an International Con?~ iterance to That Bad. I f v A. conference of Nations on the subjeot ?*! eWorld's wheat market is understood to desired by at least one of the great forolg? " leat-Tro wlncr F,mnir?fi. It is stated in official circles at Washington at Russia is particularly friendly to auoh l idea and la believed to be making overres not only to the United 8tates bnt to jgland. the Argentine Republic add Awk ilia, which are the principal'wheat-grow*- v;& k Nations of the world. The idea suggested, as outlined, Is that esa Nations, should they see fit to uMte fa. i agreement upon the subject, oould fix a Ice for wheat to be maintained uniformly rough various seasons pf overproduction ;d unsatisfactory crops caused by drought continual zaln, and thus make the prindk _? ,1 grain staple, upon which millions of eon-; mar? depend for food, almort as unohangele Jn value as gold itself ha9 become. This would enable the producer, in the ent of an unusually large crop, to store s wheat and obtain thereon a loan that ~ ; )uld tide him oyer until the wheat was la mand in the world's market, when he >uld receive a full and fair prioe for it. t FANATIC'S END THE GALLOWS. inning of Fred Bohme for Killing Wife and Child Over BellgloD. Fred Bohme, who murdered bis wife and lid' on Easter Su'nB&y, was executed at Leansboro. DL.on Friday:' The trap was rung at 12.30, and his uqofc was broken. , \ tnoilA nn. ofotAmonf An fnfl OAAffnld. Dne Sunday morning Bohme and ^biswifa arreled oyer religion. After horribly beat- 1 i ; her with an axe, Bohme threw an old jce or carpet oyer blswfe*s.body and o& > of that piled a load of corn fodder. H9 ' ;n took his little son, aged about? three 1 in, and with a rope hanged him to a uO I the old stable. - J Bohme was oaptnred the next day about enty miles from bis home. He mads na " j alal of his guilt, and when asked why h* 1 it, pointed to his head and said some* Ing there told him to do It By many per* is Bohme was regarded as a monomaniac the subject of religion. SKUNKS STOP A BALL CAME. ben They Made a Buh for the Cantaa the Flayers Decamped. Daring a football game at Osgood, Ind.. tere the Hartesyilie and Uootsklll College ims were playing, the first half being fin- I ied, some boys and dogs just outside th? e, in the edge of a wood, vera haying >rt with tome skunks Id a hollow log. Finally the skunks Were induoed to come" /* . t of their hiding plaoe, some half dozen > ong, and t hey made a "rush" for the field, taking the lines jus: being formed Wr th? ;ond half. Long-haired skunks and !on'ger4 ^ [red football players were mixed up fo? if a minute, when they were separated . i boys rushed wild'? and furiously, sniffing JL i yelping ofT the field. _ . Several hundred visitors were present, and | urge number lost all interest In tne game, J ? ? **??#? naufnma MmlnHom I JL LLltXLiy Ul 1UOIU uau &whmhuvwt ren them by the kindly visitors. r? . i? WONDERFUL METEOR SEEN AT SEA. tcr It D1mpp?mM in the Ocean a Tidal1 Wave Arote. 1 . s , The German oil-tank steamer Wi)fcoauBest Ived at New York, bringing a story of ange happenings at sea. 8he left Dannie November 4, and from the time she passed;r C m the North Sea into the Atlantic, gbai % I continuous gales to contend with. 1 7hen thirteen days out, while plunging^ .. J ough heavy seas. Captain Sohaffer and! i second officer were standing on th? ' ] dgo at midnight, when suddenly, from. ' :<of thesoutheaat,?baU of flr^^peared. :ording to the tale told by the second offl- J recently) this meteor was huge and lr- M ularin shape..it-had a phosphorescent II of fire, was four feat wide ana plungedj 5 the sea at the end of a great ?araboiio ve, hissing like a monster serpent, y minutes Afterward a tidal wave swept^^Wj vessel from stem to stern. J/Bk Novel Swindling Device. IHj windlers hare been operating extensively ^H| Northern Indiana counties, and the useot United States-mails will causu complaint' t>? made to the Federal authorities. The iths of heads ot families are followed by i rec?ipv of notices, couchei in ms, that sums ranging from^B|A^U|^B^^H due on insurance policies deceased, musi polioy will be paid. swindlers are believed^H^^^^^M|^^HHH a number of cases icessfully udge Wmdc^HMBSBSGRK^HHi ' biackiistij^HH^HH^^HB^m^^BHH opany 'he^HHHBBI