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F MOST WONDERFU i AUTOMATIC ORE UNLOAD Tbe most wonderful machine on tb atiou tbe coming season on tbe Carneg introduction at all lake ports there wiil Tbe ehovelers at C'onneaut, realizing t awe and displeasure. During its cons guard it at night for a time under the g completion. With the new machine si time that it requires a force of 100 to c / new machine is 400 tons. Its height with many 9wivel ana mnge joims us j I same period of time that one laborer ci / vessel's hol<l and lift a few pounds, the aOOOOOOOOOOOCOCOOOOOOOOOO^ I California's [Jiant s 10 frEES j|rB SaYBl 1 ? The United State* Government Has q j Acquired the Famous lCcdwood*. Q I oooooooooooocooooooooooooS ALIFORXIA'S grove of the [ / Calaveras mammoth redwood trees has been saved from the hands of the vandal. At the opening of the United States Senate's session, on March G, Mr. Hansbroagh, of North Dakota, reI ported the House joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to place under bond the "iuainaioin i Tree Grow" and the "South Park | Grove of Big Trees/' in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties', Califor THE ,:GP.!ZZLV GIANT"?93 F5F.T CIKCTMFEBENCB. nia, and the resolution was adopted, and the Government acquires the ! groves. Some months ago a lumberman bought ah option on tlie ground for the purpose of cutting down the big trees and sawiag them into lumber. A cry went up in Califonia from the ! snows of Mount Shasta to the orange groves of Los Angelea, to save these mammoths of the forest. By the efforts of the women of California the matter was brought betore congress with the above result. These are the 4'sequoia giganteas," or redwoods that first gave California her reputation for having the biggest trees on earth. Through one of them a Concord stage coach may be driven. The stump of another, thirty feet in diameter, is used as a dancing Redwoods like these tower uj^QP feet without a limb, and theabnrst out into a crown of foliage, riaingJOO to 200 feet higher. Some soientiats ear they are 1800 ] years old. Others insist that they mu;it be 6000 y'ears ofcl?^otder than Christianity, older than the Mosaic law. ' jjsjgjfc* These trees have dtitlired the natu ral age or cycle in which they belonged. The climate and vwjqrronnding9 of fo-day arg not congenfal _ jind tboy are 9]owly\. opping';meir liml)8 and wearing avfciy with :^ge andweather. ' Some of these p^ooves of trees were offered for sale recently at ridiononsly low prices?$20 an acre for large tracts that have in some plaoea six or ff- _ i *=r~ GOVERNMENT GUARDIAN'S seven of the great trees upon each acre. It ie difficult to reaiize that but for the prompt action of Congress, for a few dollars one could have bought a tree so old that our entire civilization Las lasted for a time which is only the L . IL OF MACHINES. ER AT CONNEAUT, OHIO. e cbaia of great lakes will be in operie docks at Conneaufc, Ohio. With its : be little demand for unskilled labor, hia fact, recard. the new machine with jtruction it was deemed prudent to ;lare of several arc lights'to insure its x men cau unload a vessel in the same lo the 6ame work. The weight of the is more than fifty feet. Equipped movements are almost human. In the an sink his shovel into the ore in a i scoop of this machine grasps ten ton9. | fraction of its age. People of CaliI fornia have been accustomed to look ! upon them as the deities of that land. No wonder a summer day spent in the Sierra Nevadas under the redwoods is one never to be forgotten. The winl may blow if it will, but so faintly does sound descend that it seem more like the rolling of a dis- j Sap!# YOSEMITE STAGE COACH 0 tant ocean. Sound and sil'ence alike are majestic and impressive in those surroundings. ? Here Bret Hart located one of his most fascinating stories, with an Indian lover living .in a spacious hall within a hollow tree. Here he hides and shields from danger of outlaws his paWace Bweetheart. What more i romantic plaoe in whieh to unfold the | love of a wild, passionate ohild of nature? Many of the hollow trees in the grove have served the more prosaic' purpose of homea formers and,pros? pectors. In 1853 onej&J^the largest trees in the CalaveriMwjfre was out down and tlia trttiu^^tyoothed off. Five men were busy oveR^kree weirks fpllinc it hv means' of bdrsififf 4&d - -? CABIN, MARIPOSA. GttOY'fc. Upon the fallen tree itself was maintained a tenpin alley aud a reception room. The Baptist Church in Santa JEiosa was, with the exception of the arches, built entirely of lumber secured from one redwood, and but half of the tree ? A was used at that. The age of this giant was estimated at 1200 years. When one of these big trees gi7ea np the ghost and falls under a stress of wind, it goes down like an avalanche of the Sierras. The ground trembles and the crash and ruin in its path mark a tragedy of nature. The ''Father of the Forest" in the Calaveras grove, which fell not long ago, had seen a thousand years when the great majority of its present associates were either non-existent or literally but little larger than mustard seeds. Its first limbs are 100 feet from the base, and, with a diameter of 3ix feet, compare favorably with the largest trees of the country east of the Rockies. There are 125 trees iu the lower and upper groves ever forty feet In circumference. In the Yosemite National Park, in a belt about two and a half miles long by two miles wide is the next largest grove of redwood trees. Here are some 600 trees which would be considered too large a3 shade trees for the broadest aveDue. The largest has a circumference of eighty-one feet three feet above the earth. It is in many ways the greatest and grandest forest on the globe. The big trees are generally wearing away with time and weather, and seem to have outlived the age in which they belonged, so that they will drop their limbs and topple themselves all too soon without the vandal's axe to bring them down. Many of them show signs of decay, and some are hollow at the base, though still living, with the heart cone. In the hollows of those woodland giants there is fre quently plenty of space for a comfortable house of three or four rooms, and in one of them seventeen horses have been sheltered at the same timp from a storm. ' The gigantea is wont to play joke? on travelers, and they are elephantine enough to be serious. The camper is never tempted to seek rest in the gras sea and ferns and shrubs at its base, i N THE "FALLEN MONARCH." for he is liable to be bombarded with cones, and as they are about the size and weight of eggs, a drop of several hundred feet gives them surprising force. But the real danger lies in the limbs, which frequently fall, though the tree may apparently have none to spare. In the Mariposa grove there are standing 335 large sequoias?one for every day in the year. This grove was donated by Congress to California in trust at the same time (1864) and by the same aot as the Yosemito Valley, and is managed by the same board of commissioners. A troop ef cavalry guards the domain. TFhlAll?<l as Tlioy DieJ. It was the fourth day after the late General Lawton's force had left Manila on its dash into Laguua. They flrejre approaching the town of Paete, [jfiiji** squad'of five of Weissenberger's sharpshooters, men from the North Dakota regiment, were workiug their WAV throucrh the bamboo thicket. It ? ? U - - ^ b'id been the boast of the North Dako* tans that'they had not as jet lost no ?in action. lddenly the squad received a volof fifty shots from an insurgent trench fifteen yards in front. Two men were killed, one mortally wounded, one slightly wounded, and the Lflfth unhurt. He was Slutland, big land red-oheeked. He does not think We did anything remarkable; but in;M|of running he droppedbehind a iijJflgK?elled for assistance and emptied of his rifle" into the JpB^^|'1|t(|vheld bis ground till asjg?St(aQoe caok$; and then be joined in Cittecharge m>ipur line, which emptied !'- Tiiat two North Dakota meu 1 who kneife^iiat their wounds were mortal Wflire lying ou cots side by "uets 'SWIO IIQU uie ^uiue, uue ; said. ; "We might as well whistle, too," was the.reply. They whiatfod nntil their breatji pave oat. and then ""they died smiling, an il Superior to Man. [ g&.Ia^three.things only are women ^ijlperior to men; .they are superior to |$eaaa nurses,-aa teachers of young "children, and so man can trim a hat to a woman. In all other re~ '8giefct?; men are. the superiors of fr&itien.- . The beat-cook's are men; the ^e^t'horisrekeepersare men. Although Hplrlyevery girl takqs piano lessons ijji?d atudieB musio, aU of the great piano-players and musicians are men. These, facts hare been. demonstrated ?>j thaqsanda of years' of experience. who art . trying to become lawyers, and who imagine that they can divide up the world's material reWards with men, should remember that they "carry a serious handicap; 'nature intended that .women should travel it! certain path3, and will not reward 'them in other directions -Women are natural nurses and natural tfeachers. . They should be natnral honfcekedpera.and coofca; they would be if thfey dj.dn't fritter away so much of their time-in runniug after loolisb things.^Atchison Globe. ;' . . ' ' B?l>I?l-FIr? Com of Old. As far baqk as 1770, on a royal visit to Woolwioh, a twelve-powider bras? gan was filled twenty-three times with shot in a minute, sponging between eaoh fire and loading with great safety This surprised every spectator. The tramways, omnibuses and underground railway in and aroundL^^ don, within a radius .of fl carry each year, it is calcal^d^HHH 453,000,000 passengers^^m^^H TROLLEY AND AUTOMOBILE. The Features of Both Combined in Oue Vehicle. r=aiFFORTS to com ;/gv Diae iub uriuci</i08 of the sato ?ij mobile and the trolley have resuited ia an exWgmy/hm periment being made by a French ^^aTW Lombard - Gerin, V V/%.)\ au<^ a te8t 'ine> V}/ one-half mile long, haa , been laid down along the Seine just outside of Paris. This inventor's scheme is to equip the "trolley," that ia. the j rapport which runs on the trolley wire, with an individual motor, in addition to the motor driving the vehicles, so that it is self-propelling and bas an independent movement of its own, irrespective of the movement of the vehicle on the ground, though dependent upon and proportional to the speed Of such movement. Briefly the outfit consists of a IX' -' ; ArTTOMOBIIiE AND TBOLLEY COMBINED. double trolley wire, suspended about twelve inches apart, on brackets supported on polos along the sifie of the roadway; a "trolley," consisting of two bearing wheels, an electric motor for their operation; a long flexible cable connecting the trolley with the I vehicle running on the stroet, by means of which current is supplied to [ the series motor which propels it. This unique arrangement gives great freedom in the operation of the vehicle. as it can be operated on the side close to, or away from, the trolley wires. The wagon 6an turn out for teams without interfering with its operation or plaoing undue strain on the trolley wires, and go backward or forward at will, ascend or-descend hills or steep grade, and, in fact, execute any manoeuvre that would- be expected of a vehicle pulled by - horses along a thoroughfare. The flexible cable, twenty-five or thirty feet long, which, does duty for the ordinary trolley pole, is connected to the vehicle at the top of a standard some thirteen feet above the level of 1 ^ *1 ? 1 I. 1 . T * ttte grouua, aacuuonai caoie nemg wound on a drum, if it is required. While the trolley wires may make sharp turns, following curves or bends in the roadway, it is evident that two vehicles operated from the same trolley wires could not pass each other going in opposite direction. This is overcome, however, by arranging the connections of the flexible cables so that they cau insfcautly be transferred from one vehicle to another, all the fittings being interchangeable. Thus, if two automobiles met while going in opposite directions, it would only be necessary for them to exchange trolleys, by exchanging cable connections, when they could continue ou their respective ways. Slaughter ot Heron*. The battle waged by the Audubou a train fit the fashion of wearinz I bird's feathers and particularly the egret has been so effective as to seri- 1 Dusly influence the sale of these bits of millinery. With a view of meeting the objection of -women to purchasing these plumes those interested in their sale have been very successful in their efforts in circulating the story that the herons, from which the egrets are taken, are no longer slaughtered, but they are regularly farmed for the purpose and the egret gathered up when cast by the birds. In all cases which have been investigated by the Americau Ornithologists' Union Committee on Bird Protection there is absolutely no truth in the reports. m 3CA.TiP OF HEF.O.V CONTAINING EGRET, The latest advices from collecting grounds in tropical America state positively that the birds are being shot wherever found. The accompanying cut shows the scalp of a heron killed for the purpose of securing the bird's head feathers Rnih Fit-on in New Zealand. V.' T'.. ;vrst bush fires experienced in-*; Australia for fifty years have jnsi <fe vastated the "Warrnambool" district, in Victoria. A million acres of grass ( were destroyed and 20,000 sheep, be- i sideB hundreds of cattle, pefished. TIja damorrp ia estimated at 8500,000. The inhabitants fought the flames he- j roically, and many narrow escapes are reported. Bush fires have also been playing havoo in New Zealand, ; but no lives have been lost, although the damage to property is considera ble. > ^ S red writing hie trea* and ripusement in )iA led Cilealat. >reet waa.doe bim- , DR. TALMAGE'S; SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. All Xatiir* Join* in Singing Hit rraUes? liTerythlnc Brlfht aud Beautiful Suu(tents Him?Power of the Hymn * u Cradle Sons: is Kemarkable, [Copyright IH00.1 Washinoton, D. C.?In tbls discourse Dr. Talmuge shows bow Cbriat brings harmony and melody into every life that He-enters; text, Psalm cxviU., 14. "Tbe Lord Is my strength and song." TUft most fascinating theme for a heart properly attuned is tbetSavlour. There Is something in the morning light to suggest EL11U ttUU SOUlUtUllJg IU IUU ovwuiuk bijiuiuw to speak His praise. Tho flower breathes Him, tbe stars shine Him, the cascade proclaims Him, all the voices of nature chant Him. Whatever is grand, bright and beautilul, If you-only listen to It, will speak His praise. So, when In the summer time I pluck a flower, I think of Him who Is "the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley." When I see In the fields a lamb, I say, "Behold the Lamb ot Qod thaC taketh away the siu ot the world." Whon, In very hot weather, I come under a projecting clifif, I say: Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself In Thee! Over the old fashioned pulpits there was ; a sounding board. The voice o( the minis[ ter rose to the sounding board and th?u was struck back again r?pon the ears of the people. And so the 10,000 voices- of aartli rising up flud the neavens a sourfdlng board which strikes back to the ear ot alftbe nations the praises of Christ. The heavens tell bis glory, and the earth shows his handiwork. The Bible thrills with one great story of redemption. Upon a blasted and faded paradise It poured the light ot glorious restoration. It looked upon Abraham from the ram caught In the thloket. It spoke In the bleating of tbe herds driven down to Jerusalem tor sacrlflce. It put infinite pathos into the speech of uncouth fishermen. It lifted Paul into the third heaven, and it broke upon the ear of St. John with the brazen-trumpets and the ?t .n/T vnaliinr. <u\j AUIU^J VJL IUO CUIAU&9 UUU bUO A uuutujj Wi ngs of the seraphim. Iustead of waiting until yon get sick and worn out before you sing the praise ot Christ, while your heart Is happiest and yonr step is lightest and your fortunes smile and your pathway blossoms and the overarchiug heavens drop upon'you their beaedictiOQ, speak the praises of Jesus. The old Grnek crators, ?vhen they saw their audiences inattentive and slumbering, had oue word with which they would reuse them up to the greatest enthusiasm. In the midst of their orations they would stop and cry out "Marathon!" and the people's enthusiasm would be unbounded. My hearers, though you may have been borne down with sin and though trouble and trials and temptation may have come upon you and you feel to-duy hardly like looking up, methlnks there Is one grand, royal, imperial word that ought to rouse your soui to infinite rojolclug, and that word is "Jesus!" Taking the suggestion of the text, I shall speak to you of Christ onr Song. I remark, In the first place, that Christ ought to be the cradle song. What our mothers san* to us when they par us to sleep Is singlag yet. We may have forgotten the words, t tl. a.. ma?>fr 1m)-/v hio m hrt?? r\9 aii f a/mi 1 ntiil UUl CllOJT W out IJilU bUO liuut VI VUk ovui mum will forever be a piirt of It. It is nofso much what you formally teach your children ns' what you slog to thorn. A hymn has wings and chu 3y everywhither. One hundred and fifty years after you are dead and "pid Mortality" has woru out his chisel recuttlng your name on the tombstone your great-grandchildren will <vbe sluglog the song which last ulght you sang to your little ones gathered about your knee. There Is n place in Switzerland where, If you distinctly utter your voice, there come back ten or fifteen distinct echoes, and every Christian song sung by t. > mother in the car of her child shall have 10,000 echoes coming back from aUi^the gates of heaven. Ob, if mothers only knew the power of this sacred spell bow much oftener the little ones would be gathered 1 aid nil our homes would chime with t|a songs of Josusl f. We want some counteracting^ influei&e upon our childreu. The very momeat yonr child steps Into the street he steps into path of temptatiop. There are' fdbl mouthed children who would like to besoil your little ones. It will not do^o. keep your boys aud girls in the bouse and make them bouse plants. They must have " fresh air and recreation. God save yoar children from the scathing, blasting,, i damning influence of the street! X know i of no counteracting Influence' buf the power of Ctirl^tlaa culture and example. Hold before your little ones tbe pure life of Jesus. Let that namo be the word that shall exorcise evil from their hearts. , Give to your Instruction all the fascluatlon ot music morning, nooa and nlgbt. Let it be' Jesus, the cradle soog. Thic is impor- 1 tant If your children grow up, but perhaps they may not. Their pathway ir?ay be short. Jesus may be wanting that child. Then there will be a soundless step Id the dwelling, and the youthful pulse will begin to flatter, and the little bands will be lifted for belp. You cnnnot help. And a great agony will pinch utyour heart, and the cradle will be empty, and the nursery will be empty, and the world will be empty, and your soul will be empty. No little feet standing on the stairs. No toys scattered on the carpet. No quick following from room to room. No strange and wondering questions. No upturned face, with laughing blue eyes, oome f^r a kiss, but only a grave and a wreath of white blossom." on the top of it nnd bitter desolation and a sighing at nightfall, with no one to put to bed. The heavenly Shepherd will take that lamb safely, anyhow, whether yoa have been faithful or unfaithful. Bat would It not have been pleasanter if you could have heard from those lips the praises of Christ? I never read anything more beautiful than this4 about a child's departure. The aooount . said, "She folded her hauds, kissed her mother good-by, sang her hymn, tUrned I her face to the wall, suii her little prayer and theu died." ' / I speak to you again ot Jesus as the i nlglit song. Job speaks of Him who glveth songs In the night. John Welch, the old Scotch minister used to put a piaia across bis bed on cold uights, and some one asked him why be put It Uiere. He said: "Oh, sometimes in the night I want to sing the praise of Jesus and to get down and pray; tbon I just take that plaid and wrap it i around me to keep me from the cold." i Songs in the night! Night of trouble has1 < come down upon many of you. Coramer* ciul losses put out one star, slanderous I abuse puts out another star. Domostic bereavement has put out n thousand lights, and gloom has been added to gloom uud i chill to chill and sting to sting, and one < midnight has seemed to borrow the fold from another midnight to wrap itself in | more unbearable darkness, but Christ ftas | spokeu peace to your heart, and you slug. ( Jesus, lover of my soul, j Lot me to Thy bosom fly, While tbe billows near me roil, WhllA the tflmnest still Is liiirh. Hide me, 0 my Saviour! Hide Till tin? atorin of life is past, Safe into the h&ven guide; Oh, receive my soul at lust. 8oags in the ulghtt Song? in the night! For the sick, who have no one to turn the : bot pillow, no one to pat the taper on the stand, no one to pat ice on the temples or pour oat the soothing anodyne or utter i one oheerful wor?l?yet sougs in the night! i For tli* poor, who freeze in the winter's jffoid und sweiter ia the summer's heat and jliltuich the hard crusts that bleed the sore gums and shiver under blankets that any longer be patched and tr enable because rent day Is oosiie W&they m:ty be set out on the side- i Trent Hud looking into tbe starvHd faco af-^he child and seeing famine thorn aud death there, coining home from the bakery j Hud saying ia tli? presence of the Uttlo famished one?. "Oh, my God, flour has i gono up!" Y*t arings in tho night! Songs i In the night! tfor the widow who coed to i get the baok pay of her husband, slain by i the "sharpshooters," and known it ia the I laat help she will have, moving out of a i comfortable home In desolatiou, death 1 turning baok from the exhausting cough < and the pale oheek and tbe lusterloss eve i and refusing all relief, Y*tsongs In the ; night! Songs tn the night! For the ?oldier In the.fleld hospital,' no surgeon to bind | jp the gunshot fracture, no water for tly?^ botllps. no kind hand to brush H3if "the j flies from tbe fresti wound, no^^ft0 tnke , the loving farewell, the others ] poured Into his owuJt^^^^^^Lheiny ; , ?? of others plowing up Ills own spirit, the condensed bitterness of dying away from home among Btrangers. Yet songs In tbe night! Songs In the nlghtl "Ah," said one dying soldier, "tell my mother that last night there was not one olourt between my soul and Jesus!" Songs la the nlsbtl Songs In the night! This Sabbatn day came. From the altars of 10,000 churches has smoked up tbe savor j of sacrifice. Ministers of the Oospol preached in plain English, in broad Scotch, ! in flowlngltallan, in harsh Choctaw. God's j people assembled in Hindoo temple and ' Moravian church attd Quaker meeting house and sailors' bethel and king's ohapel and high towered cathedral. They sang, and tbe song floated oil amid the spice' groves or struck tuo Icebergs or Coated oCf? the clamor of tlao great oitiei. Lumbermen sang it nod tbe factory girls niul the children In tho Sabbath class and the trained choirs ia great assemblages. Trappers with tlit* same voice with which they shouted yesterday in the stag hunt and mariners with throats that ?nly r few days ago souuded in the hoarse blast of the sea hurricane, they sang it. One theme for the sermons. One burden for the song. Jesus for tho invocationJesus for the Scripture lesson. Jesus fot the baptismal font. Jesus for the sacramental cup. Jesus for the benediction. ! But the day has goue. It rolled away on j swift wheflls of light and love. Again the ! churches are lighted. Tides of , people again sotting down the streets. Whole , families coming up the church aisle. We must have one more service. What sball we -preach? What shall w* read? Let it bo Josus, everybody says: lot it b<r-J?sus. Wo must have ouo more song. What shall li uo, uuiiureu; A^OU UIUU uuu wuiuou, what shall it bo? Young men and maidens, what shall it be? If you dared to break tbe sileace of thin auditory, there would come up thousands of quick aud jubllaut voices, crying out: "Let it be Jeaus! Jesu3i Jesusl" We slug His birth?the barn that sheltered Him, the mother that nursed Him the cattle thnt Ted beside Htm, the angels that woke up the shepherds, shaking light over the midnight hills. We sing His ministry?the tears He wiped away from th? eye3 of tbe orphans, the lame men that forgot their crutches, the damsel whofrom the bier bounded'out into the sunlight, hei looks shaking down over the flushod cheek the hungry thousands who broke the broad ; as it blossomed into larger loaves, that I miracle by which a boy with live loaves aud 1 two fishes became the sutler of a whole army. We elng His sorrows?His stone bjruised feet, His aching heart, His mountain loneliness, His desert hunger, HU storm pelted body, the eternity of anguish that shot through His last momentf and the immeasurable ocean of torment that heaved up against tils cross ir one foaming, wrathful, oinnipotsnt surge, the sun dashed out and the dead, shroud wrapped, breaking open their sepulchers 1 and rushing out to see what was the mat- j ter. We sing His, .resurreotion?the guard | that could not keep Him, the sorrow of His [ disciples, the clouds piling up on either j side in 'pillared splendors as He went j through, treadlug the pathless air, higher j and higher, until He came to the foot of ; the throne, and all heaven kept jubilee at [ the return of the conqueror. Oh, is there ' any song more appropriate for a Sabbath ; night than this song of Jesus? Let the j passereby in the street hear it; let the J angels of God carry lt amld.it the thrones. Sound It out through the darkness: Jesus < the night, song, appropriate for any hour j but especially sweet and beautiful aud ! blessed oa a Sabbath night. i I say odo9 more Christ la the everlasting ; song. The very best singers sometimes ' get tired; the strongest throats sometimes i get weary, And many who saug very sweet- : ly do not sing now, but I hope by the grace j of God we will nicer a whiltf go .up ud<1 sing/the praises of Christ where we will nefqir b^weary. You know there are some Bongs that are espeoially appropriate for the home circle; They stir the soul, thoy stnrt the tears, they turn the heart in on Itself and keep sounding after the tune has stopped, like some cathedral bell whloh, long after the tap of the braeen tongue has ceased, keeps throbbing ou the air. Well, it will be a home song la j heaven, all the sweeter because those who sang with us in the domestlo circle on ! earth shall join that great harmony; ? ! I Jerusalem, my,happy home, Name ever dear.to me; . When shall my labors have an end .. In joy and peace In thee? : On earth we sang harvest songs as tbe , wheat came into the barn and the barraolcs { were filled. You know there is no such time on'a farm as when they got the crops In and so in heaven it will be a harvest 1 anno nn thn n.irfc of thru A who on anrth ' sowed la tears and reaped ia joy. Lirt up your heads, ye everlasting gates, aud let the sheaves come let Angels shout all through the heavens, and multitudes come down the hills crying: "Harvest home! Harvest home!" The Christian singers ana composers of ! all ages will be there to join in that song. Thomas Hastings will be there. Lowell Mason will be there. Be?thoven and Mo? zart will be there. They who sounded the cymbals and the trumpets la tho.ancient i temples will be there. The 10,000 harpers that stood at the anoient dedication will be there. The 200 singers that assisted on that day will be there. Patriarchs who lived amid thrashing floors, shepherds who watched amid Chaldean hills, prophets who walked, with long beards and coarse apparel, pronouncing woe against ancient abominations, will meet the more recent martryrs who went up with leaping oohorts of flre, and some will speak of the Jesus of whom they prophesied and othors of the Je3U.i for whom they died. Oh, what a song! It came to John upon Patmos.'it came to Calvin In the prison, it dropped to P.ldley in the flre, aud sometimes that song has come to your oar pur LIHD3, ior x reaiiy uu tuiuu. n ouuicuuius I breaks over the battlements of heaven. A Christian woman, the wlf-e of a minister of the Gospel,was dv'/ng- In tbe parsonARB near the old chuC<)h, where on Saturday night tbe choir used to assemble and i rehearse for the followlug Siibbatb, and I sbftsatd: "flow strangely sweet the choir rehearses to-night. They have been re* hearsing there for an hour," "Np," said j some one about hor, "the choir Is not re- : hearsfc? to-night." "Yes," she said, "I know they are. I hear them sing. How verysweetly they sing." | Now, it was not a choir of earth that she. heard, but tho choir of heaven. I think that Jesus sometimes sets ajar the door of . heaven, and a passage of that rapture ( greets our ears. The minstrels of heaven strike such a tremendous straiu tbe waiis of jasper cannot hold it. I wonder?ana tins is a question i nnve been asking myself all the .service?will ' you sing that song? Will I si.ig it? Not unless our slus are pardoned and we learn I now to sing the praise of Christ will w< I aver sing it there. I Tlio first great concert that I ever attouded was in New York, when Julian iu I tue Crystal palace stood before hundreds i of singers aud hundreds of players upon Instruments. Some ot you may remember ^ that oecusloa. It was the first oue of the [ kiud at*which I was present, and I shall , never forgot it. I saw that one maa standing and with the hand aud foot wield that great harmony, beating the time. It was < to me overwhelming. < Dut, oh, the grander scene when they i ?hall come from the East and from the i West and from the North and from the South, "a great multitude that no mau can ' i number," into the temple ot'the skies, host I ( lieyond host, rank beyond rauk, gallery j above gallery, ana Justus win stand petore that great host to conduct the barmouv . with His wonnded hands and His wouuded feet: Like the voice of mauy waters, like ; the voice of mighty thundering, they shall cry: "Worthy is the Lamb that was ?!aiu to receive blessing aud riches and ' honor and glory and power, world without ' end. Ameu and amen!" 1 Oh.ifaiy ear shall hear no other .iweel ;ouuds ruay I hear that! If I join no other i Ejl.nl assemblage, may I join that. ] I was reading of the battle of Aglncourt In which Henry V. Iletured, and it is said N tfter the battle was won, gloriously won, , the king wanted to acknowledge the dlvin* iuterpifcltlon, and ho ordered the chaplain , to read the Psalm of IJavld. and when he :ame to the words, ">J)bt unto as, O Lord, ' 1 Imt to Thy name be the praise." the klup; 1 iumouuted, and all the cavalry dis- | mounted, and all the great host, officers t ind men, threw thBtn^tiUi?ii on their faces. I Oh, atthg^t^fyTTfthe Saviour's love ami h'l ciavioar's deliverance .shall we not , ( prostrate ourselves before Hl.-u to-day. j iiosts of earth ?ind hosts of heaven, falling ' . upon our fanes and cryiusr, "Not uuto ua, j not uuto us, but uuto Thy nam* be the , Slory"' * I ' 'r " " ME' NEWS EPITOMIZED.. . Washington Item*. The resignation of Webster Dovla as k?* Jlstaut Secretary of the Interior was ao:epted by Secretary Hitchcook. He in:euds to lecture on behalf of the Boers. Secretary Koot said that it had been desided by I lie War Department not to establish n regular transport service between Sow York City aud Manila. The President seat to the Sonato tho ao-ntuatlon of Smith McPherson, of Iowa, :o be United States P istrict .Judge for the 3outhern District ot Iowa. Secretary of War Boot bns decided that no franchises ahatt be prauted tn Porto Rico until a civil government liasbeen established. Governor Hteunenberp: presented to Secretary Root a big petltiou from citizens of Idaho, urcinpf tbat Federal troops be retained in the Ccrjur d'Alene district. Roar-Admiral Sampson said the preliminary test of tho Knarsarge .proves, her double turrets to bo mighty,englpesi of war, and that no ship afloat can withstand them! '' ; Secretary Gage hnft submitted to "the House a request for $200,000 additional to the fund to preveut the . introduction and. spread of epidomic diseases. The Secretary ot War'transmitted to, the Senate a statement ot 'tll& expenditures of the army transport service dufttng wild since the war with Spain, showing that the total disbursements aggregated $25,789,409. The Shah of Persia has appointed Mofalcham Ed Dowloh Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. The Persian mission has been vacant for several years. Senator Pettus's motion to strike out the tariff feature of the Porto Rican bill was defeated bv r vote of 16 tn 33. The President Dominated Captain Charlos S. Cotton to be a Rear-Admiral. Our Adopted lalnnrtii. The receipts of Cuba (or January and' Febraary, 1900, amouuted to 82,772,619, an increase for the two month* of 1903 over the same period of 1899 of <757,635. General Otis has approved a system of autonomous municipal government for the Philippine Islands under a native board to be provided over by Cayotano Arellano, President of the Audencia. The Supreme Court of Honolulu, Hawaii,, cannot legally alt without a Chief Justice and, as Ciller Justice Judd has resigned,th? administration of justice is tied up. The Supreme Court of PortO Rico has confirmed the sentences of death Imposed on five natives for murder. A new Cuban political party, combining the conservative elements in one organization, has been formed at Havuna. The Philippines Commission ha3 agreed to remain la Manila instead of sending a member to study conditions in each' of the military departments. The military forces are assisting in th? capture of the Phillppiuo bandits, who are turned over to the local authorities for trial and punishment. Domestic. There is much excitement at Jerome, A.riz., over a strike of gold-hearing quartz, Bight miles out, on United Verde and PadHe Road. A hole four feet deep hu3 been made, and a sample assay is said to show i22.000 per ton. Allen Brooks, the nineteen-year-old negro who assaulted Mrs. F.W. Hart near Bloomtngdale, On., was taken to the scene of his crime, identiflod and lynched. The Nebraska courts have just held that a condemned prisoner who escapes from custody before being landed in the penitentiary cannot, if recaptured, be compelled to serve time oqua! to that spent at The lynchers ot Brandt O'Grady and Walter Cotton at Emporia, Va., will remain unpunished. The Grand Jury, alter spending two any? in examining witnesses, reportod that no indictments could be found. A Federal Gr;md Jury in Savannah, Ga.? sharped that delays in New York City will probably prevent the prosecution of Gayuor, Greene and others accused of defrauding the Government of millions. Mary Jane Deroman, aged twenty-three, was arrested at I'rovldouco, B. I., charged with the murder of iter infant son. D. L. Bander, heir to a $100,000 estate at Cortland, N. Y., threw himself la front of a train at Chicago, III., and was killed, Kansas will have an exposition in 1901 In celebration of the fiftieth anuiversary Df the organization of the Territory of Kanjas. Sidney A.. K*at, a well-known Chicago wheat operator, died at his home la SufQeld, Coaa. * James Chapman has tiled a suit for $40,COO damages at King Fisher, Okla., against Oklahoma Graud Lodge and King Fisher Lodge, Ancient uruor 01 umceu wur&uieu, for injuries Inflicted daring his initla tlon Several stations near the mouth of the Yukon River are suffering from serious food shortage, aocordlug to advices just received from the Klondike. The spring time rush of immigrants to thls.country has commenced, every steam* jbfp arriving at New York City being crowded with them. Tbree children were burned to death la a Are which destroyed tbe farm-houiie of John Brasslll, in East Providence, li. I. The new schooner. Helen Miller Gould, the most costly Ashing vessel ever built at Gloucester, Mass., was launched in the presence of 3500 people. Former United States Senator Philetas Sawyer died at hU home, at Oshlcosh, Wis., aged elghty-tbrte. The Nebraska Populists have decided to hold their State convention on June 11. Candidates will be nominated for all State offloes. Fred, iiejnoias, lorty-two yeiica wiu. * woodcbopper of Red Beacb. Me., killed ais wife and one son with aa axe, seriously injured another son, and burned the iouse to the ground. Reynolds wa3 arrested. He is believed to bo in3;*ne, Kor?l?n. Count Mouravleff, Foreign Minister at 3t. Petersburg, denies that Ku96iu'? relations with Japan are other than friendly, iud that war is imminent or expected. It is announced that all the Hand mines iiave closed down, and the Brltbh are bong expelled by the wholesale from the Transvaal. The Queen's visit to Ireland has created i "boom" io Irish fabrics, and the demand 'or them Is unprecedented. One of the best-known lawyers in France, Haitre des Essatts, has been arrested at Paris, for embezzling $347,000, nud has confessed his guilt. The Chamber of Representatives at The Hague, Holland, decided by a vote of 65 to 30 to approve the Arbitration Convention. The Italian Government has approved :he reciprocity treaty with the United states arranged by B.iron Fuva and Coaaaissloner Kasson. Enel Chung and Kuan Chang, members >f the Tsung-ll-Yamen, the Chinese Foreign Office at Pekln, have been nominated is Ministers to Londou andat. Petersburg, respectively. < The boiler of a French torpedo boat ex>loded off Cherbourg, Franoe,during forced irauglit trials, and live of the crew were erribly burned, two of them dylug. f I, no IUO 3UiOl| VI mo 1LVUV.I1 umuiom; j?en assured until after the Exposition by m agreement not to Interpellate the Government farther In the Chambers. Russia Is said to have demanded permission to land troops in Korea, and a conflict s possible as the result between Japan and Russia. Socialist obstruotienists forced the reeiglatlon of SIgnor Colombo, President of the ttallan Chamber of Deputies. A son was born to the Duchess of York at lantlringham Talace, London. Mother and :bild are doing wellv LI Hung Chang reports that Kang Yu (Vei, the reformer, h?ls organised a band of 100.) Chinamen sworn to remove the Dowiger Empress from power. Eleven fresh cases of bubonic plague and :wo deaths from the disease have beeu reported at Sydney, New South Wales. The "Boxer" rebellion In tho nortii of 2liiua ban bsoncrualiod by imperial troops. Tho Maroons in Jamaica are a^;:ln hreateninpr dlsturbauoa. Armod pollca u?vrt he?n SHut to nulet t lie in. _ 1 'Hj* . 4 _ _ _ * .