The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 29, 1891, Image 1
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LESSON OF T1lE PYRAMID
"WHAT I SAW C .NFIRMATORY OF THE
SCRIPTURES."
Dr. Talmage Beginis a Merich of Seranoi
on IiM 01mervatiom in the Eanters
Landls-Tho a:e;f;fg ...g
Gizoh and the Ltnmin It Teaches.
BJ3oocT;N, Oct. 18.-The vast con
gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was delihted by an ex.
quisito rendering, by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, on the new organ, ol
Denier's second sonata in G. Dr. Tal.
mage's sermon was the first of a series
he intends preaching on his eastern tour,
entitled, "From the lyramids to the
Acropolis. or What I Saw in Egypt and
Greece Confirmator'y of the Scriptures."
I1is text was 11mah xix, 19, 20: "In
that day shall I here be an altar to the
Lord in the midst of' the land of Egypt,
and a pillar -it If-e border thereof to the
Lord. And it -hall be for a sign and
for a wit,ness."
Isaiah ne doubt hare refers to the
great pyramid at (;zh, the chief pyra
mid of' Egypt. The text speaks of a
pillar in E,.!) pt. mil this is the greatest
pillar ever It te0; and the text says it is
to be at the border of' the land, atnd this
pyramid is at the bordler of tihe land;
and the text sa.NS it shall he N), a wit.
ness, and tih. object of this sermon is
to tell wht th p1ramid witnesses.
This sermiot, is the first of a course of
sermons i'titled, "From the Pyramid
to the Acropcli-, or What 1 Saw in
Egypt and (reece Confirmatory of the
Scri pturik,."I
We hed, on a morning of December,
1889, landed in. Africa. Amid the howl
ing boatman at Alexandria we had come
ashore and taken the rail train for Cairo,
Egypt, along tle banks of' the most
thorougely harli-ssed river of all the
world-the river Nile. We had at even
tide entered the city of Cairo, the city
where Christ dwelt while staying in
Egypt duriig the IIerodic persecution,
It was our first night, in Egypt. No des
troyIng angel sweepitg through as on6e,
but all the stars were out, and the skie@
were filled with angels ot beauty and
angels of ligit, and the air was baim
as an American ,une. The next morn.
ing we were early awakeand at the win.
dow, looking upon palm trees in full
glory of' leatfage, an( upon gardfens o:
friiis and thwers at th( very seasor
when our hones far away ire caiople
by bleak skI-s fi-d the last leaf of th
forest has gone down in the cquinoctials
But how -.an I ('escribe the thrill o
expectation. for today we are to set
what all the world has seen or wants t(
see-the py-amt ds. We are mountec
for an hour a1nd -L hall's ride. We past
on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs an
carpets, and curious fabrics of all sort
from Smyria, fiom Algier4, from Per.
sia, t, -1m Turk(ty. We meet cameli
gruntTng under their loads, and see buf
faloes on either side browsing in pastur(
fields.
The road we travel is for part of the
way under clumps of acacia and by long
rows of sycaiior- and tamerisk, but af.
ter awhile it is a path of' rock and sand,
and we ind %ve have reached the mar.
gin of the desert, tho great Sahara des
ert, and wc cry out, to the dragoman as
we see a huge pile of' rock looming in
sight, "Dragonian, what Is that,'' liE
answer is, "The pyramid,'' and then if
seemed as if we were living a century
every minute. Our thoughts and emo
tions were too rnpid an(] intence for ut
tcirance, andl we ridle on in silence until
we conme to the foot of' the pyramid
spoken of' in the text, the oldest struc.
turce in all the ear't h, four t,housand yeairs
old at least. Uerie it is. We stand tin
dier the idbadow of a stiructure that shute
out all t,be ear'th and all the sky, and we
look up and str'am our vision to appre
ciate the distant, top, and are over.
whelmed while we ciry, "The pyramid!
The p)yramid!"
Each personi ini our party had t,wo oi
three guides o' hielpeis. One of' then
uinrolled his turban and1( tied it arouni
miy waist andl he held the other end o:
the uin ban as a matter of' safety. Mans
of' the blocks (f stone are four or fiv<
feet, high aind beyond any ordmuary hui
main stridle unlhas iissistedl. But, twa
.Arabs to putll and two A rabs to putshi, J
found imys'I i rpidly aiscending fronr
height to bie ilit. and on to altit.udes ter'
rific. andl at 'aist at. the ftiptop we Ioma
ourselves ot a level space of' abiont, thir
ty feet squarle. TIhroughi clearest att
mosphlere weolotked oiff upon the dIeserf,
andW oflf upon the windmuug Nile, and of
uponi the Spuhinix, with its features o
verlasting stoi,e, and S ondr upo'n thu
irmycets o~ Cua g'ittering in the sun
d volhie qibr Memphis in ruins, an<
upon the wireck of empires a nd thi
battlefields of ages, a ra<ius of' viev
enough t,o fill the mind and shock thi
nerves andi oveirwhelm one's ent,iire lbe
ing. Affeir lookimg arotind for awhile
and a kodak had picture'd the group, wi
descended.
P. I satid the dominant coloir of tli
pyraid was gray, hut, in certain light.
it seems to shake ofl'f lie gray of eeni
furies andh become a blondi, andi the sil
ver turns to fthe golden. 1I, covers t,bi
teen acies of 'roiund. What an anti
quityl it was at least t,wo thiousaun
years old1 "hen the baby Chirist wias car
riedi within sight, of it by his fugitivi
parents, Joneph and Mary. The storm
of forty centuries have drenched it, born
harded it, shadowed it. flashed upon It
iut there it stands, readly to take anot,he
forty centures oh aitmiosphieric attacki
the world should coatinuie to exist
The oldest buildIngs of' the earth ari
juniors to this great sonior of t,he een
turies.
IIerodoftus saisa that foir ten year
pre parations were being umade for th
4 building of' this pyramid. It has eighty
two million onie hundired and elevei
thousand cub!c feet of' masonry. Oni
bundred thousand workmen at one tim<
toiled ini its tweet.ion. TIo birinig the ston<
from the quarries a causeway sixty fee
wide was l-uilt. The top stones weri
lifted by machinery such as the worl
knows nothing of todlav. It Is sevei
h igdre an forty-six feet each sute C
tesquare base. The structure In fou
'hundred andl litty feet high; higher that
the cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg
Rlonen. St. Peter's and St. PanP's. Ne
surprise to me that It was put at the
head of the seven wonders of the world.
It has a subterraneous room of red
granite called the "king's chamber,"
and another room called the "queen's
chamber," and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
For three thousand years this sep
ulchral room was unopened, and would
have been until today probably unopened
II ;16ht -uperstiL[ous impression got
abroad that the heart of the pyramid
was filled with silver and gold and dia
monds, and under Al Mamoun an ex
cavating party went to work, and hay
in)g bored and blasted through a hun
dred feet of rock, they found no opening
ahead, and were about to give up the at
tempt when the workmen heard a stone
roll down into a seemingly hollow place,
an( encouraged by that they resumed
their work and came into the under
ground rooms.
The disappoint nent of the workmen
in liading the sarcphazus empty of all
silver and gold and -precious st,ones was I
so great that they would have assas- 1
siated Al Mamoun, who employed
them, had he not hid in another part of
the pyramid as much silver and gold
as would pay them for their work at
ordinary rates of wages and induced them
there to dig till they to their surprise
came upou a0equate compensation.
I wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fa.-cination of scholars, ol scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
John Herschel, the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical significance.
The wise men who accompanied Napo
leon's array into Egypt went into pro
found study of the pyiamild. In 1865
Professor Smyth and his wife lived in the
empty tombs near by the pyramid that
they might be as continuously as possi
ble close to the pyramid which they were
investigating. The pyramid, built more
than four thousand years ago, being a
complete geometrical figure, wise men
have concluded it must have been div.
inely constructed. Man came through
thousands of years to fine architecture,
to music, to painting, but this was per
fect at the world's start, and God must
have directed it.
All astronomers and geometricians
and scientists say that it was scientifical
ly and mathematically constructed be
tore science and mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions, from the points of
the compass recognized in its structure,
flom the direction In which its tunuels
run, from the relative position of the
blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris
tians and infidels have demonstrate(d
that the being who planned this pyramid
must have known the world's sphericity,
and that its motion was rotary, and how
many miles it was in diameter and cir
cumference, and how many tons the
world weighs, and knew at whai point
in the heavens certain stars would ap
pear at certain periods of time.
Not in the four thousand years since
the putting up of that pyramid has a
single fact in astronomy or mathe
matics been found to contradict the
wisdom of that structure. Yet they
had not at the age when the pyramid
was started an astronomer or an archi
tect or a mathematician worth men
tioning. Who then planned the pyra
mid? Who superintended its erection?
Who from its first foundation stone to
its capstone erected everything? It
must have been God. Isaiah was right
when lie said in my text "A pillar shall
be at the border of the land of Egypt
and it shall be for a sign and a witness."
The pyramid is God's first Bible. Hun
Ireds, if not tnousands, of years before
the first line of the Book of Genesis
was written, the lesson of the pyramid
was written.
WVell, of what is this Cyclopean ma
sonry a sign and a witness? Among1
other things-of the prolongation of
human work compared with the brnwity
of human life.
So men die but their work lives on.
We are all building pyramids not to1
last four thousand years, buit forty
thiousand, forty million, forty trillion,
forty quadrillion, forty quintillion.1
For It while wve wield the trowel, or
pound wvith the hammer, or measure
with the yard stick, or write with the
pen,-or experiment with the scientific
battery, or plan with the brain, and for
a while the foot walks, and the eye sees,
nd the ear hears, and t,he tonguei
speaks. All the good words or bad
words we speak are spread out Into one
Iayer for a pyramid. All the kindI
d (eeds or malevolent dleeds we do are
spreadl out into another layer. All the
Christian or uin-Christian example we
set is spread out in another layer. All
the indirect inluences of our lives are
sp)read out in another layer. Then the
titue soon comes when we put down the
implemIent of toil and pas~s away, but
the pyramid stands.
If one of those granite blocks that I
just touch with my feet on this Decem
ber morn in g in l889D as the two Arabs
pull ine and the two other Arabs push
me, could speak out and tell its history
it wotuld say: "The place of my nativ
ity was (downi in the great stone quarry
of Mokattain or Asswan. TIhen they
began to bore att my sides, and then to
drive down great iron wedges, crushing
aga' smt me till the whole quarry quaked
and tbundered. Then I was pried out
-wit.h crow bars and levers, scores of men
- putting their weight on the leverage
T hen chalins were put around me and I
Iwas hoisted with wheels that groaned
-under the weight, and many workmen
lahd their hands on the cranks and
a turned until the muscles on their arms
- stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled
,from their dusk y foreheads.
1. "i'hen I was drawn by long t eams of
r oxen, yoke atter yoke, yoke after yoke.
,Tlhen I was put on an inclined plane
and~ luau led up ward and how many
rntools, and how many human arms,
and how many beasts of burden were
employed to get me to this place no one
Scan tell. Then 1 had to be measured
a and squared and compassed and fitted
- in bel ore [ was left here to do my silent
a work of thousands of years. God only
a kn Qwe how many bands were busiedi in
a getting me from may geological cradle
in the quarry to this enthronement of
i nnumerale ages." Pd hearers, that
is the autobiography o din't blo'ck of
th pyramid. Chep. id' build the
i pyramid. Some boss mason in the
world's twi light didn't build the pra
fmid. One hundred thousand men built
e it and perhaps from first to la.t two
i hundred thousand men.
8o with the pyramids now rising
a pyramids of evin n' pyramids o. good
The pyramid of drunkenness, rising
ever since the time when Noah got
drunk on wine, although there was at
his time such a superabundance of
water. All the saloonists of the ages
adding their layers of ale casks and
wine pitchers and rum jugg until the
pyramid overshadows the GreatSahara
desert of desolated homes and broken
hearts and destroyed eternities. And
ig the widiu -Liifse,1 erioT
luman skulls piled on top of human
ikulls and other mountains of human
ones to whiten the peaks reaching ur
to the heavens, hundreds of thousands
f people are building that pyramid.
So with the pyramid of righteousness.
.lultitudes of hands are toiling on the
iteeps, hands infantile, hands octogen
irian, masculine hands, female hands,
itrong hands, weak hands. Some clang
ng a trowel, some pulling a rope, some
neasuring the sides. Layers of psalm
wooks on top of )ayers of sermons.
iayers of prayers on top of layers of
ioly sacrifice. And bundreds of thous
tuds coming down to sleep their last
leep, but other hundreds of thousands
;oing up to take their places, and the
yramids will continue to rise until the
nillennial morning gilds the completed
York, and the toilers on these heights
ihall take off their aprons and throw
lown their trowels, crying, "It is fin
shed!"
Your business and mine is not to
mild a pyramid but to be one of the
mndreds of thousands who shall ring a
,rowel or pull a r:pe or turn the crank,
)f a derrick, or cry, "Yo, heave!" while
ifting another block to its elevation.
'hough it be seemingly a small work
ind a brief work, it is~a work that shall
ast forever. In the last day many a
nan and woman whose work has never
been recognized on earth will come to
i special honor. The Ecumenical
,ouucil, now in session at Washington,
.ts delegates the honored representa
ives of lifty million Methodists in all
parts ot the earth, will at every session
lo honor to the memory of John Wes
ey, but I won:Jer if any of them will
;hink to twist a garland for the mem
)ry of humble Peter .Bohler, the Mo
avian, who brought John Wesley into
1he kingdom of God.
I rejoice that all the thousands who
iave been toiling on the pyramid of
'ghteousness will at last be recognized
md rewarded-the mother who brought
ier children to Christ, the Sabbath
.eacher who brought her class to the
inowledge of the truth, the unpretend
og man who saved a soul. Then the
;rowel will be more honored than the
cepter. As a great battle was going
:n the soldiers were ordered to the
front and a sick man jumped out of an
Ambulance in which he was being car
ried to the hospital. The surgeon asked
Min what he meant by getting out of
the ambulance when he was sick and
lmost ready to die. The soldier an
iwered: "Doctor, I am going to the
Front. I had rather (lie on the field than
lie in an ambnlance." Thank God; if
we cannot do much we can do little.
This pyramid of rock seven hundred
md forty feet ea-h side of the square
Jase and four hundred and fifty feet
iigh which was the tomb of Cheops
wins for him no respect. If a bone
)f his arm or foot had been found in
;he sarcophagus beneath the pyramid,
t would have excited no more venera
ion than the skeleton of a camel
)leaching on the Libyan desert; yea,
ess veneration, for when I saw the car
ass of a camel by the roadside on the
way to Memphis, I said to myself, "Poor
'hing, I wonder of what it died." We
lay nothing against the marble or the
)ronze of the necropolis. Let all that
culpture and florescence and arbore
icence can do for the places of the dead
)e done, if means will allow it. But if
tfter one is dead there is nothing left
o remind the worl of hIm but some
)ieces of stone, there is but little left.
All around Cairo and Memphis there
ire the remains of pyramids that have
lone down under the wearing away of
,ine, and this great pyramid of which
[saiah in the text speaks will vanish
f the world lasts long enough;
and if the world does not last, then
with the earth's dissolution the py'ramid
will so diseolve. But the memories of
hose with whom we associate are lnde
tructible. They will be more vivid
he other side of the grave than this
ide. It is possible for me to (10 you a
rood and for you to do me a good that
,wIll be vivid in memory as many years
ifter the world is burned up as all the
iands of the seashore, and all the leaves
)f the forest, andl all the grass blades of
,he ild, andl all the stars of heaven
idded together, andl that aggregate
nultiplied by all the figures that all the
Jookkeepers of all time ever wrote.
That (lesire to be remembered after
we are gone is a dlivinely implanted de
mire and not to be crushed out, but, I
mplore you, seek something better
~han the immortalization of rock or
bronze or 3)ook. -Put yourself into the
sternity of those whom you help for
Dothi worlds, this and the next. Com-.
fort a hundred souls and there will be
through all the cycles of eternity at
east a hiundrea souls that will be your
monuments. A prominent member of
this church was brought to God by
some one saying to her at the church
leer at the close of the servIce, "Come
:again!" Will it be possible for that one
mo invitedl to forget the invite?
A minister passing along the street
everv day looked up and smiled to a
baby in the window. Tile father and
mother wondered who it was that thus
pleasantly greeted their child. TIhey
round out that he was the pastor of a
ehurch. They said, 'We must go and
hear him preach." They went. and
both were con verted to God. Will there
be any power in fIfty million years to
erase from the souls of those parents
the memory of that man who by his
friendliness brought them to God?y
Matthew Cranswick, an evangelist, said
that he had the names of two hundred
souls saved through his singing the
hymn, "Arise, my soul, arise," WVill
any of those two hundred souls in all
eternity forget Matthew Crans wick?
WVill any of the four hundred and sev
enty-nine women and children impris
onedl at Lucknow, India, waiting for
massacre by the Sepoys, forget Iilaye
lock and Outram and Sir D)avid heard,
who broke in and effected their rescue.
To some of you who have loved and
served the Lord heaven will be a great
picture gallery of remembrance. 11osts
of the glorilled will never forget you.
Ah, that is the way of building menu
mnents that shall never feel the touch of
decay. I do not ask you to suppress
this natural desire of being remember
ed after you are gone, but I only w ant
you to put your mnemorials into a shape
thatshall never weaken or fade. Dur
lur the 00nne.0 2 my ministr avm
been intimately associated in Chris' ian
work with hundreds of good men and
women.
As in Egypt that December afternoon,
1889, exhausted in body, mind and soul,
we mounted to return to Cairo, we took
our last look of the pyramid at Gizeh.
And you know there is something in the
air toward evening that seems produc
tive of solemn and tender emotion, and
blt great uvranid seemed to be hu
greau ~ ~ ~ r . ..11 tolle it
manized and with LIU JI t
seemed to speak and cry out:
"Iear me, man, mortal and immortal!
My voice is the voice of God. i1e design
ed me. Isaiah said I would we be a
sign and a witness. I saw Moses when
lie was a lad. I witnessed the long pro
cession of the Israelites as they started
to cross the Red sea and Pharaoh's host
in pursuit of them. The falcons and
the eagles of many centuries hvive
brushed my brow. I stood hero when
Cleopatra's barge landed withi her sor
ceries, and Hypatia for her virtues was
slain in yonder streets. Alexander tho
Great, 8eostris and Ptolemy admired
my proportions. llerodotus and Pflny
sounded my praise. I am old, IL am very
old. For thousands of years I have
watched the coming and going of gen
erations. They tarry on a little while,
but they make everlasting impression.
I bear on my side the mark of the trow
el and chisel of those who more than
four thousand years ago expired. Be
ware what you do, oh, man! for what
you do will last lofg years after you are
dead! If you would be affectionately
remembered after you are gone, trust
not to any commemoration. I have
not one word to say about any astrono.
mers who studied( the heavens from my
heights, or any king who was sepulcher
ed inl my bosom. I am slowly passing
away. I am a dying pyraimid. I shall
yet lie down in the (lust of the plain, and
the sands of the desert shall cover me,
or when the earth goes I will go. 1ut
you are immortal. The feet with which
you climbed my sides today will turn
to dust, but you have a soul that
will outlast Inc and all mily brotherhood
of pyramids. Live for eternity! Live
for God! With the shadows of evening
now falling from my side, I pronounce
upon you a benediction. Take it with
you across the Mediterranean. Take
it with you across the Atlantic. (od
only is great. Let all the earth keep
silence before himi. Amen'"
And then tihe lips of granite hushed,
and the great giant of masonry wrap
ped himself again in the silence of ages,
and as I rode away in the gathering
twilight, this course of sernions was
projected.
Wondrous Egypt: Land of anciett polip
and pride,
Wlhere Beauty walks by ho.ry luin's side,g
Where plenty reigns and still the seasons
smile,
And rolls-rich gift of ((Il -vxha,ustless
Nile.
DOth of I Iaby.
The following fromi the pen of Bill
Arp is as good as anything 1w tver
wrote:
"The baby is dead."
That was the sad telegram th:at caine
to us from far away whero one of ouir
b:ys is living.
It saddened the household. for we
had never seen the child nor the Imother,
and they w ere to come and visit lis
next month, and expected to Me so hap
py. There is trouble that is trouble
grief that is grief. The first child, and
Old enough to have twined arotnd her
mother's heart and absorbed her very
life. Tie father can love, too, and ea
ress and feel a father's pride, and he
can weep and feel desolate. Time will
temper hi grief', but a mother never
ceases to lament the death of her lirst
born child.
It has been more than thirty years
since we lost one, but the little gar
ments that he wore were hidden away
somewhere, and somietimes I see thue
mother fondling them as they lie in tIhe
01(1 trunk-the trunk that hols her
heart's best treasures. It was Sterne
who said: "God tempers the winid to
the shorn lamb," and so in time the
young mother's grief will be sweeter
than it is sad, and she will rise from it
wilth a hope and a trust that she never
knew before. A child in heavenm is a
bond that cannot be taken-it is not
lost-it is savedl. liut still the pang of
saperation is very crushing to thei pa
rents heart. llow *.he world shrinks
up; how mnean and insigniuicant are all
its pleasures. I have felt that way, and
been comfortedl with t,he feelinmg, and( so)
I know has every parent who has lost
a child.
A (Generai IHangmna,,.
Wash ix('O, C. I1.,. ( ., Oct. 19.
WVm. A. IBunett, of thiis city, is downm
in Fort Sumithm, Aruk., and ini a personai
letter recently receiv~edl by a f rienud he(re
Mr. Ihiirnett says: "'-'ort Sum ithc is qu'it e
an historic la~ce. Thew old tori- sill
stands, or at least part~ of it . 'Thc wvalls
were twelve feet high wheni tir'st bu lIt.
and they enclose about ine[I acr(es. 'The
Uniitedl St ates jail is in thbe center mcd
to the south is the gallows. Thecre are
at the p)resent time 110 priisonmers Coin
flnedl in this jail, wvhich is a I rge and
substantial structura, and, whcen once
behind these bars, it,'s dollars to dougni
nuts a fellow will not esc'ape. A rrange
meats are being made for another hang
ing; but the people don't pay any mciore
attention to a haowinrg luere t han they
would to a dog light at bouie. 'The
hanging is all (lone by one muan named
Mailadon, about 65>aears of' age. lIe
has broken ninmety-sevenm necks on tihe
same scaffold, and has swung off as
many as six at one ti me. Alallaidon
gets $25 for every man he hangs. Some
times the hangsncan gets to talking
about the men he has executedl -and
cries like a child."
lie Cut. Oil ie,r IEarg,
CoLUinIA, S. C., October 15.-- Fred
Kempson, an escaped convict, went to
the homuse of a wvomani ini Lexington
county who had bceen instrumental In
securiing his pros'cuitionm andl counvic
tion for assault and battery with intenit
to kill, tied her up and tol her that lie
would either cut her throat, or chop off
her ears, and that she mcight choose.
The woman dlecidedh to lose her ears,
and the scoundrel hacked them off with
a dull knife, Hie then untied time wo
man andi left the neighbliorhood.
The D)reade(l Mali.~
NEiW OItLEANS, Oct. 1i.-G(aAano
Barregona, an [talianm luier' ownsr, was
assassinated last night. The nahir hears
all the marke of tIme Maria. Tlheire was
a jolly game of cards at an Italiacn a
loon near the French mar'ket. a quafrel,
a stampede, and -'as the vict.im reachedl
the door lhe was riddled with bullets,
The pollee have arrested thle proprietor
of the place anid several others, but there
ia no poet a to who ,di1 the shoaing,
JlS SHIP AGAINST SEV EN.
CAPr. INGRAHAM DEMANDED JUSTICE
FOR AN AMERICAN. |
1Its Batt eries Twice Trained en the Arch
ditho's Siip--A Story of the Early3 monym
of our Navy Itecialled by Capt lag; a
I ' sLW 1jeadSLa.
Ew YoRK, Oct. 2.-In these days
of tie rehabilitation of i he l'nited Stn.es
navy we may recall with pride unalloye(d t
with regret the good old days of yovr
when all the world knew and respectc<
tho prowess of Am2rican war vessels. 6
And the death of Dunlcaln Nathaniol hii i
graham in Charleston. S. C., on Friday
gives a )rOper Oppo um)01tllnty to IecL1
those days. For, as wag stwosted in
the obiLuary notic published in the Sun 11
of' Saturday llorlinlg, this Duncan Na .h1
anel InuralinN was the hero of ont of
thosc remarkab!e episodets wliell ill e I
oter nations understani that the tai of L
thie American bird could not he pull .d, s
phicked, twisted, trodI upon, or oth r- I
wiie disrespet,luilly us-;ed under the gu.n. I
of' vn American war vessel.
There had buen Ca 'pt a Jones 1nd I
C-1mm1odore l'err". and old Afihnt l
l,'rter, who brA fou'hlt, En:h1sh4 1 .ll I
Fi oech and lPort'1ucue ald tho Barb.ry h
States, and all nlt 1iwr o1 uraft Iiy n
Ilhs's legmitimatoe and ll s
of them hild come toff k.<ItlerCr. *
Those were the days 4t wo->e filh ji r
and sailng craft, viin tho eli'm en4
romance was enliancil by tie big sis t
and the swarming over the sides withi
cutlasses and lialburds and all that sort 1
of' thing. A go"d 1turt of the oflic.rs
Ihen were of' Sout,irn failitje-sei< 114 o
of houses that unelid thicniselves in l
sotnet.hing like feudal state. h'llese ]
Young Inenl Came of (xcullant, anices"r.y
of Which t.h(y Were exceedingly prokd. ,
Of these Duncan Nathianicd 1111ali ll
Was one of' the hest xailiple.
flis fither had been a naval ollicer, a
friend of Paul J ones and one of' Ihi.i co:n,
panlions in that jamioulS Jllh bi-tween'.l
thue Sera)pis and the Ion Ilonmllie I" .,I
ard., It, was qu11natural thakt the, I onl
should enter the navy. Ile was b-'rn
in 1802, and when Io yeair: ohd was al
ready a m-idshipmilite. rinotion ill
those das Was s1" Slow 1s low, 1perihu.s
a little slower. S,) alithouli this 01..ig
inn lou.t, through he war ol I 1 '. ht
wi ,till a1 mi)ds,liIi,mank. Inll I:- r - r
Llereabout 1V4Whenl ti:e ori,,inal I)hl td
Port.er went, down to !.he S-.luthrn v, ..t- r
el--i of the nite,d State-, to atteid o t
plirattui who inlfeFtel thle s:ali.;a., Is
i 1 h myl' Ster'iosl 1 iniletA o1 theL' (i It
Il tie Caribian Svit, yoin., In-ral im
wv A vb-ard his Nessel, :Ulld saw ltira:es
inlged at the yard arm, and learclne to
be vigilant, <lick iresohite andn lie -
in-: in tile best schorl cver naval ofi, r
had-,1 t
Iingrithaml, iisen to a commandcl, f
served ill the Mexican war, andit a w
vcars after its close was sent to join he i
suadron oftie Mediterraiwan. 'Ie e .is c
inl coimmiid of tile St. Louis, whici is
sa I to have been the Iide of I hIe .\ m ..r- t
ic..n1 navy and which was ctin!-, a h1
formlable ship for those dys. It i as m
a -loop ot war triled with two 50 L'm- I
ers. On June 22, 1>31, lie sailed i"to v
the harbor of Sillyria, in Asiatic T;er- 'I
key. lie found that he was it4 ill I.h l
nick o' timc to take advanhuta oI t n o1f a
hose chances for fam Whiecbiome to1
every mllan, so it is 4ai.d.- 0
Ini tile relt4ion.ifl of l i:marzv agai;1t 1.
Autia in 18418 49., wvhichl I.u'i:2 N 45su1h1a
Iled, Mar't,in Koszta was acopenu
hi'e. When111~. the reion w 11 Iis pSIut a
down, Kossuth.I, Kosztaiiil and(sveral o(,h1
na. .Aller long negotiations the~ 1Turk- e
ishi Governnmenlt retfuised( to give them up, o
ThenCf Kossuth and1 Kz.a wtent t,o the h~
Uniited States. whero't i\o'zta.i dlecided to r'
settle. He enlgaged ill business inl New
York, andi in JIul y, 18~52, declare1'd unfderi'
011t,h 11us in)tenitIion of bet'ominig a eitizen(
of the United StaLes,. Th1e neCxt, year, I
haiving buIsiness illn1 Styriia, Noszlat ent, w.
ther31c iand r'emained34 Itor 011 111ne tim 11 uni.(
tur betd, as indeed I ii hel migh) hav e 11 x metf
ed, sin1ce Simyrna was nIot. 44n A 1ustiant n
so1,i l. Bu i%o)zla ihadee soi0 ilamed4 .he r4
a plot 'vats hat.ched41I toi caturef him. ( )n
June14. 21, 185.3, a bandi It (4 ireek imre 3n..
artes43 il Smiyria, hired3( by the3 Austir ian a
t'onsul, overp'iowered K 4..zi 3, hiust f <3
himl init.) a boat aindl took him abhoardI aii (
was5 ingii! ml the harb'o:'. I L is said fiamt i'
tls his wasil W5inl (coimand11, (4 no les i ae
perIsonl than11 thie A rchduIikte .lohni, brow.er l
A\t anly ra1tte, Mtatin h0osz.la was lit v
:n ir'ons and( Iotl.ierwlis e t retewd as it er' mi
iiil 1and4 danger'.31ous person0. 'iThe n3xt I
daiy, when3I all Siny'ia wa'is talking aboutlw
mandfer I ngr'ahaml. sail ed4 into4 the (barti- c'
bierI. ( 'at. In griha h1ea1rs114i the storiIy
of the kidlnaiping, 11114 tIhe itt thait the
k id nappedCt manl was iani Amer('1ican <i- eIt~
z/enI, ftom K'..oszta 's Iris m141. Capt Ia- ,I
gr'taam, whiohiad been31 il a wiar ill wicha
the Un~iitedi State.' had autght, Gri at w.
I iitain ia fe3w lesson of1 reIspectL for
A mer'ican ci tiz.ens. was up ill arm a'~lt I
on1ce. Hie wenft abodthe'u Llzari an/.1 ~ld a
very courmteously atsked( l)er-n)issionl 1.o Mee
Ko.szta. '1Te Austrho11 connaander,1431' a41- .
ter some1 hlesitamtion, 3.ran1ited thle rluest.
Commillander' Inigraham1i) assured1.( him:self3 i:
that KszAta was tt!f24d to thei pro'ttc- .9
11i)n1 of the American flag, lie demand-ti(l I
ed his release of theac A ustian1 coil)m11,n- t
der', atnd, when it wias re(fused34, cent a
note to the nearest 1 mletd States elli- v
(cial, Consul i$rown), at, (Conistimt.inople. i
Whbile hie was awvaitinig an answer six
Austrian warl shlips sai ed init' theC bar'- a
her anid took up positions near the( IIluz- e~
zar. On .June 29, belor'e any answer
had come from Consul il'rown, tile St.. (
Louis nloticed( unusual signs of aictiity I
oin board the Hfuzzar, andt pretty soo 441
site began to get untder wily.a
Capt. Ing)rtaam sti'aightway puit the e
St. Louis ini Suh a positionI that theO
1!uzzar ::ould not pass5., 1and4 cleared his 1
decks b r actmilt. ThaIi Iluzzar haOve. to,
and then Capt,. Ingrahiam went aboard I
and( staidi to tihe Austrian commander,
who1 received1 him with) great court,esy:
"Whlat is tile meanling of' t,is move
on yonr nnrL?''
We prolose to sail for home," replied
lie Austrian. "The consul has ordered
a to take our prisoner to Austria."
"You will pardon me," said Capt In
rahaim very calmly. "But I hope you
fill not leave this harbor with the Am
rican gentleman you have kidnapped.
f you do I shall be compelled to resort
o extremo mesures."
The Austrian looked around the har
>or at the lino of friendly war ships and
hen looked at the St. Louis, with her
*lsiroll civid then smiled pleasant
-"1said that lie
y at Capt Ingraliaayad t L e
bouglit such remarks were e Ko .ely
itsh and that the Iluzzar would do a
lie pleased.
Capt lu%raham bowed and betook him
elf to the st. Louis. Ile had no sooner
ot aboard than he said:
"Clear the guns for action!"
And the Archduke had the ploasure
I seeing Lhe batteries of kt. Louts turned
pon lim. Ile realized that having the
rrong side of the matter, he had put
imself in a very bad position. The
Iuzzar was put about and mailed back
> her old anchorase. The Archduke
mnt word to Capt Ingraham that he
rould await the arrival of the note from
Ir. Brown.
On the afternoon of July 1 Capt In
rahain got his reply. The consul at
.:01nstalltilo)le commended his course,
nd told him to do whatever he thought
est to prevent an outrage to an Ameri
kii. Lato that evening Capt Ingraham
nt an oflicer aboard tho Iluzzar with a
ote, The note formaily demanded the
leae ol Mr. Koszta, and said that un
,ss thc prisoner was delivered aboard
ie S,. 1luis by 4 o'clock the next after
OI Citit It-raiani would take him
-mn the Austrians by force. The Arch
uikt sent, back n. formal refusal. At 8
'lock on the next morning, July 2,
'apt Ingrahan once more cleared his
ecks for action antd trained his batteries
:) that the I[uzzar would get their full
irce at the first disAharge. The seven
Lustr ian war vessels cleared their decks
nml iut their men at the guns.
All this while great excitement had
revailed im Smyrna, and when the cit
:ciis saw these last hostile demonstra
ons they croNwded the shores, eager to
'0 this oneside battle, which all knew
'-ld not end so long as the American
iwe tloate1 above water.
, \, iIn o'clock the Austrian sent an
tlicer to Capt Ingraham. This oflIcer
Ned to temp irize, but Capt Ingrahamn
elused to listen to him. lie said: "To
NOhd the worst, I will agree to let the
AMi ht delivered to the French consul
a Sa rna until your (overnment has a
1um1iCeO to act. .1,ui, he must be delivered
here or I will take him. I cannot. fail.
Iy cause is.jiuft. I have stated the
lie.''
Aga;n the Austrian sent a man to
'alit i,raha. But this time Capt
nirahaii refused to receive him. Then
he A ustrian consul general came out
'omi Symrvnnna and tried his diplonmacy.
'apt Ingraliam simply reveated that the
Irench consul nust have Koszta by 4
'clock or there would be trouble.
At, 12 o'clock a boat left the side of
lie 1luzzar with Koszta on it, and one
our alterward the French consul sent
Ff)rd l(l Koszta was in his keeping.
,ater ;i the (lay several of the Austrian
'air vessels sailed out of the harbor.
'hlen came long netrotiations between
ecretary of State William L. Marcy
ud the Austrian charge d'afl'aires at
Vashington, M. Iulsemann, at the end
f which Austria admitted that the
:iited States was right, apologized,
nd r'eleasedlall claim upon Mr. Koszta.
C'apt In'zrahiam got a gold medal and
vote of' thanks from Congress, a gold
edal from the cit,izeas of' New York,
iedals and other testimonials from soy
rali A mericani cit,izens, and a present
I a fine chronometer and an engrossed
~tter from the workingmen of England,
used b)y penny subscription.
As a sort of' addition to this incident
then st.ory of how J. Clavcy Jones used
ommanider langrahanm's name in a sumi
r' eplisode in 1859. Mr. ,Jones was
bien minister to Austria. The Austrian
;>ver'hn('mnt was mlost anxious that nio
las of the fo'rtlfications of Vienna be
mde1(. A younig American studying
ta'dicinie ini Viennia, was making s~ome
ketches of' these fortifieations one day
:uanile spirit and in uitter ignorance
I thec law agamnst it-. Hie was arrestedl
nd lockedh up
MaI lOnes' iujiredl into it andl found
uti the truitht, and( explained it, fully to
bie A uistian miisiiter, at the same tIme
'(ieLuin.g the release of the young Am
rhiin. Th'le prime minister refused to
stenu, aind said th'at the young man
houbl h anda wouIld be punished.
Wlh cn M r. .Jones saw that, the A ustrian
'as 1et lie siaub:
'"Thfen 1 rgr'et, very much that I shall
ave to bid you f'arewell.'"
"'A re you going?'' said the Austrian.
111am indeed sorry, and hope that your
oiintryv will heC as ably agreeab)ly repre
ntiaed byv your successor."
"I tear' that t.here will not be a suc
esRsor to mue very soon." said Mr.
onies. "I amn compelled to demand
ni aitence with the Emperor. I wish
) eet my passports."
'"What!" said the Austrian, ''your
asspoirta? You do not Int,end to make
I thais episode 5o sie[ious a mate?
"'It is a serious matter," saidl Mr.
onies, "and remInds me of the Koszta
mase. C:apt Ingrahami is st,ill cruising
mte Mediterrancan, by the way, and I
hall lbe able to p)ut, him in immediate
niowitdge of this affair also. I have
bie honor(iL to bid you farewell.''
TheIa Austrian minister did inot know
hlat;to make of this. But he felt that
tonericans were not proper persons to
iinish as examples, and, after delaying
hay or two, released t,he young inedi
ali student.
Withu the outbreak of the civil war
;apt .Ingraham resigned, and in March,
861, enteredl the Confederate service.
Ic was then 59 years old, and was
ssigned first to the navy yard at, Pensa
ola and then to Charleston, whore he
istinguishedl himself by breaking the
>lockade. Since the war he had lived
'ery (quietly in his birth-Dlace, Charles.
on. Hie was marriedl to a granddaugh
er of Henry Laurens and John Randolph
mnd through his wife was connected with
iome of the greatest officers in the British
laVy,-New Yor Sn.
A TALE OF LOVE.
TEN HOURS THE BRIDE OF A ROMAN
TIC MARRIAGE.
A Hardware Salesman Rescues a Pretty
Girl from Drowning-Love at First Sight
-Marriare at Midnight on Her Death
Bed.
NEw YORK, Oct. 18.--Louis 1'. Rol
lins,a hardware salesman of 113 Colum
bia Heights at Brooklyn, has just fal
ir to $250,000 through a romantic
HIis bride was taken away
marn Aeath ten hours after the
from him bj -:LL=aJ.Lbeen1 performed.
marriage ceremon et n perW to
rwo years ago Mr. Roliiii ....
Charleston, Me., to spend his vacatuv
While out rowing in a lake one day he
rescued a beautiful young girl, the
daughter of a wealthy Boston lumber
dealer, William Narcross. Kate E.
Narcross was 11), and the belle of the
Summer resort. She lived with her
widower father at the old Maine town
during the summer months and at
somerville, Mass., during the winter.
It was a iase of love at first sight be
tween the salesman and Kate Narcross.
When Mr. Rollins left Charleston he
secured a promise fM hi3 weetheart
that she would be his bride. Mr. Rtol
lins went to Somervile at every oppor
tuialty, and the marriage was put oif
from Lime to time till Mr. Itollins could
secure a permanent situation in New
York which would not require him to
travel.
Two weeks ago Kate's father died,
leaving the bulk of his fortune to his
only child, who had nursed him tender
ly through a long fit of sickness. The
strain of attending to her father night
and day was too great for the dutiful
daughter. She was taken ill the day of
her fatter's funeral and never left her
room. Pneumonia set in and the phy
sicians told Aliss Narcross that she
must die. "Send for Louis, we must
wed before I die," was Mliss Narcross'
request. Air. Rollins was on a long
business trip through the west for a
Chambers street hardware firm. iIe
hastened to the bedside of his intended
wife and arrived on the eve of the day
before she died.
At Miss Narcross' request the Itev.
A. It. Winship was called in at mid
night. The physicians did not believe
Mliss Narcross could iive till morning.
"This is a very different marriage to
what I had hoped for." was the dying
woman's greeting to the clergyman.
Between midnight and 1 o'clock of the
next morning the ceremony was per
formed. Immediately after the ser
vices Miss Narcross had a notary suni
moned and she made her will, the wit
nesses being her husband, the clergy
man and friends in the house. The
newly made wife signed the document
that gave nearly all of her property to
her husband in a clear broad hand. She
seemed to have gained new strength
by the marriage and the physicians
thought they saw signs of a change for
the better in Mrs. Itollins' condition.
Bit It was too late, for a relapse fol
lowed and the bride sank into a peace
ful sleep from which she never awoke.
"Good-bye, Louis, my darling hus
band," were her last words. The heart
broken husband followed his wife's re
mains to the grave, and then returned
to Chicago to settle tip his business trip.
IIe vill return to Somerville at once
and settle up his wife's estate. The
Charleston (Me.,) academy was alse re
membered by Miss Narcross. She had
been a pupil of the academy. When a
reporter called at Mr. Itollins's Brook
lyn residence, he learned a rather pecu
liar story about another girl. It was
said without names being given, that
Mr. Rollins had been engaged to an
other Brooklyn girl for several years.
It was said she was the daughter of a
lirooklyn clothier, and that an explana
tion of the queer midnight marriage
might be asked for on Mr. Rollins's re
turn to Brooklyn. When Mr. Rollins
was in Brooklyn lie was quite a favorite
in a large circle of friends. iIe was an
excellent conversationalist andl of good
address, and he made acquaintance
qluickly. iIe has been drawing a salary
of $2,000, but may now go into busi
ness for himself.
Their Last Assignm,ent.
CiiuCAco, Oct. 15.-A (dispatch fromn
Crete, Ill., says that two reporters of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, named Wash
burne and IIenry, and McCafferty, the
special artist of that paper, were in
stantly killed last unight at that place
The two latter had been assigned1 to
write an article upon a midnight rail- ,
road ride on the (1hicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad. Washiburne was re
turning from his vacation tb act as
best man at the wedding of another
member of the Inter-Ocean staff, The
three men, with General Passenger
Agent Stone, were riding upon the lo
comnotive. Stone left them to go into
the (dining car, and a moment later the
train struck a misplaced switch, and
the locomotive plunged through an en- / -
gine house. The engineer andl fireman
jumiped and saved themselves, but the
three newspaper men were killed.
3111ll)Disaster at Manchester.
MANCHIESTiER, N. II., Oct. 15.-The
fly wheel of No.7 miii of the Armoskeag
corporation burst about 9.30 A. M, tear
ing through the floor of the first and
second stories. Two persons are be
lieved to have been killed outright and
a dozen badly wounded. The excite
ment about the mill gates is very great.
Eleven girls were employed in the draw
ing room over the steam pumping room
ad joining the engine house. When the
wheel burst they were carried to the
basement in the debris. Seven of them
were caught in the heavy timbers anid
Iron beams and badly in.jured. One
died three hours later. An engineer
named Bunker was taken out of the
ruins dead. Eleven persons were in
jutred and one girl is missing. Proba
bly two or three more deaths will result.
The. Cotton Suippy.
NEw YORK, Oct. 17.-The total vis
ible supply of cotton for the world is -
2,595,402 bales of which 2 216 802 baleg
are American, against 1,i19373 and 1,..
428,978 respectively last year. Receipts
at all interior towns, 25'7,681; receipts
on jatations, 442,814; crop insight,
Lest, With All on Board.
BOSTON, Oct. 16.--The schooner Re
becca A. Tiaulane, Capt. Nickersoni, of
South Chathamn, carrying a crew of
seven men is no doubt lost, with all on
board. She left Newport News, Va,
August28, for Galveston with a carg -
Of coal, and has nio been ie.ad of sice