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IN THE D41!K. ' a I met a child. at close of day, at Grouping along a duisky way, w And, pleadingly, I heard him say: T "Father, the path is dark and drear, Li But, If I knew that thou wort near, i I could walk on without a fear "But when I cannot see thy face, (I Nor in the gIoon the p)thway trace, C) Nor know amid the crossing ways, "Which one thou wertest, !oro afraid tf 'tremble In the deep'ning shade; a Without thy voice or hand to aid. ci " f thou woildst only speak to me W But in a whisper, I would be al Comforted, though I cold not see y "A stop before me; I would know a1 That thou art here, and I eutulti go tlI Straight through the dark to find thee so? 1] "If thou for me this way hast planned. Let me but touch thino outstretced hand. n And. Father I will understand." ti As thus the little strayling pled, "Just so, O troubled soull" I said I stumble 'mi i the gloom disut.yed. "Speak but one word my heart to cheer, And it will banish all imy fear, If 1 but know that thou at t here. n "And I will dare the dreariest strand. It I may only touch thy hand, t My listening heart will understand. "Then cheered and comforted. I'll know Thou art somewhere near, and so htralght onward, through the dark, I'll go." AT THE lABERNACLE. Rt.v. Dr. Tditugo I'retlit at Euoqtxent 1 Antilvrsav y Sermon . IRooKicLYN, May 6.-This wits a great day in the history of the Brooklyn I Tabernacle. The figures in Ilowers brack I of the platform, 1869 and 1894, indicated 1 Rev. Dr. Talmage's time (.i coming to 1 Brooklyn and the present celer.i.ion,1 and were introductory to tie great meet. j ings in honor of Dr. Taloiaigo's ito- I rate to take place on the followg, Thurs- I day and Friday, presided over by the I mayor of the city and Ex.S'cr(titry o)I the Navy General Tracy, aid to be par- I ticipated in by senators and governoir and prominent men fromu north, south, I east aud west. The ubiceut of the ser mon today was "The Generauins,'' the text being Ecclesiastes i, 1, '-0.o gen.-t eration passeth away, ano ittiolher urn-, eration comch."' : According to the lon!evvity o) peoplo ii in their particu!ar century hap, a iencra- c tion been called 100 jea, or 50 . ''at s, e or 30 years. I.y ('omiI.ii en01 ''IRCIlt, i our nine teenth century a gererat ion ; d Axed at 25 years. 11 Time largesi, procesain that c ver - moved is the prociCon o% eats, a(I h the greartest arnmry 1hat Cveri ntr'rITed is a the nny of' en eiera'tiu:-. In each ri generation there art. ab!t. niine p till regiments - I I d ' N! . TI ' e , 9,125 days in each ven ratmu', tarzrr'Oh h with woudti ril p-recision. The.y iever I break ranka. The cyor vround arms it Tie.y never pitcb tents. Thu-y net.ver halt. m They are ievr -'i on ltirlonttl. Thy o came out eI tihe e'ti iity past, auh , move oi toward the ci eirnityi tuire, i. Thiey cross rivera witoti, anV hrieen -it I boats. Tie 600 ionttorti -( the Uneni t dashing into Ihenu cith o ito cmmti- ittn. 1. They move ias raiodly itt noidime.to a i, midooon. Their 1aversaick ri ao lull wl r good bread antd hit ter abili avtiseu ers or richesi, yhntuge and -ottith u1 ati i-st)J tears. With it r-enular tread that no or i der of "doublo qik"' can harten, or obstacle cant s!acrern, their tranmp is onit and onl antd on rand on while tiountinsm . , crumble anid pyamiiiidai die. '' ine r:en r eration pissetht, and1( atrrhert genetion ri' cometh." .Lhis is my twciv~ Vlifth imniirii.ia.r'y sermon, IM ni1td I1894. .1 ia 25 yer e Bruce I assume dI t BLroklynI ilasi orate. A whiolo ieerann has le parsued. T-n iee e generations we hatve knmowi- hart which a preceded our own, that, wich i no0w at a~ tire front and1( thme one comumitt on. W'e u are at the heels 'i cur predeccsors, and n~ our successors aire ait our heels. Whart u a genoertien it was tht prceededl us! ti We whoiro nt' ow ini the ltront regnimet a are the only onries cimpetent to tell thze ii newv genvsrat ion just now commti im sight b who ri .predecessmors were. .Iliography n cannot, tell it. Autobiographies 0 muorit, w tell it. Biographiea ar'e generailly wtit~- nii ten by special friends cf trie departed, a perhaps by wile or s um or daughter, and1( C they only tell the good tihings T1he bio- i graphers of onue of the hirst presidents eir it the IUited States make no recotrd of' the bi presidet4's accoti-it l)ooks, now ini tire y archives at tie catpitol, which I have seen u telling how much -he lot or ginned (daily at the gammig. The biograrphers of' one re of the early secrettaries ct thre Umited States never described tire scene thrat day t witnessed wheni the secretary was car- t riedl deadl drtunk from' thre slito apart.. e mentsato his owinhome. Auitobiog ramphy c is written by tire man hiseli, and( [it (I one would record for futrure times hris un own weaknesses andl mor-al dellcits.|o Those who keep dliaries putt down only d thing that read well. No manr or we. ni man that ever lived wourld (lire to make y full record of all the thoughts anid words is of a lifeotiime. We who saw an~d heard hi much of the generation marchmng just he ahead of us are far more ablo than anoy 11: -'book to describe accurately to our sue. or cessors who errltprodcessors wvere. Very w .much like ouraelves, thank yon. IIi'- th man nature ini them very much~i like hiu-- in man natuire in urs. At ourr lime oi' life er they'wcre very much like we nownrro., ed -At tire time they were in their teens ia they were very much like you who are in your teens, and at the time they were lhe in their twenties they were veiry mutch con hrke~you who are in yourr twenties, lIIu. "'j man nature got an awful twist runder a thi truit tree m Eden, and though tire grace sol of God does. much to straighten things ye every new generation has timesamie twist to and tire same work of straighrtening~ out an has to be done over again, pa -A mother in tire coumntry districts ex- sol pecting the neighbors at lien table on ruo Borme gala night had with tier cown hands th arranged everything in tarste, Cl .and as she was about to toum from Ti it to receive hien guests saw her little child d y by accident upset a pitchrcr till over tee lII white cloth and soil everythin, and thei ac mother lifted her hand to slap tihe child, hai but she stmddenly riremmbered thre timn ye when, a little child herseii','n her fathier's thr house, where they liad always helore Lri -been ursed to candles, on the purchanse ot ml a lamp, which was a matter of rarity lit .and prude, she took it ini her hands anrd blt dlroppedl it, crasilng into pieces. and fr< looking tup In her father's face, expect, to mag chiastiseemt, heard onlry time words: am It is a sad loss, hurt nrever mind. You or did not mean to do It." 11istory r-epeats Itself Generations wonderiully alike. ti Among that, generatIon that is past, as () in our own anti as It will be in t~he uen- N erationg following us tihoin who succeed - af ed became the t'arget, shot at by those w who did not succeed. In those times, so as in ours, a man's bitterest enemies wv were thiose whom he had befi'cenderd andl fol helped. Hates, jealousies and revenues is, were just as lively in 1869 as In 1894. iso Hypocrisy aniffled anid looked solemn thm then as now. There was just as much.) pr Parlee among the apple barrels as now < nong the cotton bales, aud amou the e heolbarrows as among the locomotives. < he tallow candles saw the same 'ns I att are now found under the electric s lits. 11omespun was just as proud as I thetmodern fasion' plate. Twenty- d re earis-yea, 25 centuris-bave not i tanged human nature a particle. I say e is for the encourgement of those who r ink that our times monopolze till the r >eminations of the ages. One minute e icer Adam cot out tide ot paradise he i as juit like you, (O man! One step t wtr Eve lett the uate she was just like a W, 0 'Votunol All the faults tnd vices r -o many times centenurfans. Yel, C ie onues Sodom. Gornorrah, l'ompe(i, t .trculaueum, IIchopolis a1nd ancient, [emphi. were asi much w6rse than our t iodern cities as you inight expect from v le fact fthat tb noderti cities have e )mewhnt yielded to the restraints of I hristiensity, while those ancient cities v ,ere not limited in their abominations, Yea, that generation which passed oft I 'ithin the Ist 25 years had their bereav incts. their temptations, their struggles i icir dis appoinmnents, their seccesses, ewr fijures, their gladnesses and their riefn, like these two generations now in 1 iht, that in advance and that following. 4 ', the 25 years between 1869 and 1994 1 -how, mnch they saw! How much they incovercl low much they felt. Within hat time they have poiformed the mira les of the telephone and the phonograph. Pron the observaLories other worlds inve been seen to heave in eight. Six >resideuts of the United States have br en naugurated. Transitlantic voyage ab >roviated fron 10 days to 5*. Chicago aid New York, once three days apart, low only 24 houra by the vestibule imited. Two additional railroads havc )een built to the t'uilfl. France has )ijaled from moit'archy to rel)ublicanism. iany of the cities have tinarly doubled 4 heir populations. Luring that genera ion the chief Burviving heroes ol the civ I war have gonie Into the encampmetlnt f the gravo. The chief physiciatns, at orneyi, oratore, tmerchants, hava lniP.od f1 the earth or are in rotirement waiting -r transItion. Other Ren in eClitorili hairs, in pulpits, in governt-' mani ions, in legislative, seiaoriiii and con TepsionaT halls. There are not 10 1111 or women on lieerih now promitiwti . ho were prom x' tt 25 yars ago . Tbc crew of thii Id hip f'a worl! is all chatiged. O0h m- It the leli, oflh. n the "lookoi' "1 thers thtmbNinglL the 1t,a1)i8. Time is a "tor who with pot.ent, iodyne has V tit an entire generation into sound a vep. Tine, like another Gromwell, si is roighlv prorogued pai iinnent an11d n1 ith IeonMociJasmi (rivn nearly ill tei b iers ex-(ept on1e (qIueen froi their h Ci ( eI 1C'ee. So tar as I observed that gen ", a11'110n, for the most, pait they did their " "st. Ghistly exceptions, but. so far as know thmn they did quite well, anI kny of them uiloriuidy well. Thev - 'ereP, h11n at the riaht tiia and tll(Yi ied at the ight time. They litt the t mr1-1d hotlter than they found it. We re I i i t) to tem for the itel thiti. thmes y repar-d thn wiy Ior our clmling. Einh- 13 ! n huidred and ninetv-1-taur reverent r iud grticl'illv enlutes 1869. 1 (0.10 en- c ration) passitletll away 11 antuother gene ktilln C01mn0,b.12 t, There are fitthers and mothers here '1om I b,,tized it their ittancy. Thiere i not one ierson in this cliucchl's ioird V easion 01 tius een who were here h nx 1 ctae. 1loe and there in this ast, assemblfy is one ilarson who hiear~i Iv openmiig eermon ini Broolyn , nu,' lot miore t han <-ne person ini every 500) y O'v fpresent.. Of the 17 persons whoe a1ve me1 a unani~jimous call whien I came a Giv thriee, I belie ut-c living, I But thihi sermon is inot, a dlix e. It is ani hiem~ Whife this world is appropri - y4 .a as a temporary stay, or an etornal 0o isidence it wVould be0 a dfeadl failure 1t n" ould be a dIreadfl sentence if our rico ci ere (loomed to remain here 1 000 wvin_ - its5 and1 1,.000 summaers. Gohd keepi 1 s here just long enoughi to give us an II Plpetite for henaven. IlIti we beeni ban o I celestial retalms we would not have g en able to aplpreciate the blies. It a 5Ceds a good nmany rough blasts in this U orld to qualllify us to properly estimate n im supr-b climateo of that goodl land ii here it. is never too coldl or too hot, too t< oudy~ or too glaring. Iletaven will be0 k ore to 11s than to those supernal be. E is wvho were niever tempulted or sick or er-eavedl or triedl or disappointed, 53 ai oui may wvell take my text out of thie g unlor key and set it to a tune in the ma-v >r key. * One generation pa~ssetih awaya nd another geneoration conmeth.'' s Nothing can rob us of the satisfaction e hat uncounted thousands of the genera- e Lton juist passed wvere cotnvertedl comfort- It (11and1 harvested for heaven by this v~ hurch, wvhether in the present huilchng S r the three proeceditig buil dings in a 'ich they worshipped. The two great C rgtans of the previous churches went >wn in tile memorable fIcs, but the iltiltdinouts songs they led year after - lar wecre not. recalled or injuiredl. There uh no power in earth or hell to kill a mleiuiah. 1t is imiposarble to arrest aa >sauna. What a satisfactIon to know at there are many thoutsatnds in glory a[ whose eternal welfare this church a roughtI mig~h'iIlal Nothing can undo in at work. TIhey hatve ascended, thle tc ultitudes wao served1 God in that gen. Bi ritiotn. Th'iat chapitor is gloriouisly ens!- tr .Bt. that generation has left its as~ pressioni on this generation, to A sailor was d ying on shipboard, atnd te stid to his mates: "Mty lads, I ,nnti ly think of one passage of Scripture, tk( hie sotlti that sinneth, i, shall (lie,' andl~ t it keeps ringing ini my ears. 'Tife t ii that sinnieth, it shall die.' Can 't 1think of something else injthe BIble i cheer me uip?" WVel, sailor's are kind rI' :1 they triedh to thinik of some) othber but uitige oif Scripture with which to coan- mr e their dying comrade, t'ut they could wv l. One of them said: "Let tun call w~il 3 cahim boy. Ihis mother was a an ristian, andi 1 guess hie has a Bible.'' ag. I) cabim bo, v wa called upi, andl( the WU irg sailor asked him if he-had a Bible. n saidl, "'Yes." But he could not ex- wi ly 111nd it, amnd tihe dIyipg sailor scolded th n and said, "'Ain't you ashamed of pri urself not1 to read your Bible." O ' boy explored the bottom of h-is ti ink and brouight out, the Bibl)1, and his an >ther had arked a passage that just foa ted the. dl)lng sailor's caso, "The rei >od of ,Jesus Christ, his Sn, cleanseth rie mr all sin." Th'iat helped the sailor .thu (he in pea1ce. So one generation tnelps ret other, and good things writtenl or said thi done are reproduced long afterward to) D~uring the passing of the last genera- an mn SOme l)euliar events have unfoldedl ie day while reating at Sharon Sprmngs (1 - .-I thlink it was in 1870, the year her my settlement I Brooklyn--amld V '1110 walking in tile park of that place ~ I and myself asking the question' "I mlder if there Is alny special missiot n me to execute t.n tils world? If there ii Dmdy God show It to me." Therero n camue to lme a gretat desire to preach pa gospel through ttie secular p~rinting COo Fuse. .1 realbzed that t~he vnat majm~ori, an I people, even In Christian.lands, never e nter a church, and that It would be an a pportunitv of usefulness Inflnite it that oor of publication were opened. And 0 1 recorded tbat prayer in a blank ( ,ook and offered the prayer day in and ay Out until the answer caine, though I * way difl'erent from that which I had xpected, for it catme through the mis epreseitationl and persecution of ene 3its, and I have to record it for the acouragement of all minister- of the L ospel who are misrepresented that if t he misrepresentation be virulent enough I ud bitter enough, and continuous I nough, there is not.bln that so widens 1 ni1e's Ilid of usefulness as hostile at- E tick, if you are really doing the Lqrt's I vork, The bigger the lie told about me he bigger the demand to see and hear vhat 1. really was doing. From one tage oi sernionic publication to another he work has vone on until week by week und for about 23 yeara I have had the vorld for my audience as no man ever ind, and today more so than at any I >ther tine. The syndicates inform c no that, my sermons go now to I Lbout 25,000,000 people in all lands. t . mention this not in vain boast, )ut asi a testimoDy to thefact that 'od answers prayer. Would God I had i )etter occupied the Hield and been more ,oisecrated to the work! May God for- I cive me for lack of service in the past t md double and quadruple and quint.itu- t .Le my work in the future. t in this my quarter century sermon I I ,ecord the fact that side by side with I Ahe procession of blessings has gone a i )rocossion of disasters. I am preaching Loday in% the fourth church building I mice I began in this city. My lrat ser- 0 non was in the old church on Scher- t -oarhorn street to an adlience chielly 1 )f empty seats, for tihe church was al- L rnost extiiguished. Thiat church filled t mid overllowinif, we builti a larger ' ,lirch, which after two or three years lisappeared in flame. Then we built f mother church, which also in a line of Y lery succession disappeared in the N ame way. Then we put up this build- h ig, and may it stand for many years a V ortress of righteotsness and a light- a ouse for the storm tossed, its gates a rowded '. 1ih vast assemblages long g iter w% hamve ceased to frequent them. P Ve have raised in this church over al 1,(:030,000 for church chmritat)le purpo-. ta es duringr tho present pastorate, while -it 1( have given,, free of all expense, thie b ospel to hundreds ot thousanas of m Lrangers year by year. I reoord with 9 ratitude to God that during thhi gen- 13 ration of 25 years I remember but w' vo 8abbaths that .1 have misser ser lec throigh anything like ph. sical in- an Isposit ion- Almost a fanatic on the YC i1)jtect of physieal exercise I have to aue the parks with which our city is ca essed the macns or good physical 81) mdition. A daily walk and run in er ie open air have kept me ready for :Vw ork and ill good humor with nil the erid. I Bay to all young ministers ot ht1 io gospe-l it ii easier to keep good th ni lt h than to regain it when once lost Ila he reason so many good men think g m world Is going to ruin is because th meir own physieal cnd ititon is on the s9: own grade. No man ought to f reach tit 'hio has a diseased liver or an enlarged rh pieen. tere are two things ahead of W s that ought to keep us cheerful in g0 ur work-heaven ana the millennium. A And now, having come up to trie ge wvent.y lifi milestone in lmy pastorate, gr wonder how many more miles I am til a travel? Your company has bten gr xCeedingly pleasant,( mily dear peo)lO, id I would like to march by your side a ntil thme generation wvith wvhom wo are owV moving at'reastm anri step) to Step ari hull hiave stacked( arms after the last attie. Bt te Lord knows best, and -o ought to be willing to stay or go. Most. of you tare aware that I propose r thus time, bletweeni the close of my vents -l th year of pastorate, and be re the hb-ginning of my twenty sixth ar, to be absent for a fewv months in -der to lake a journey around the loi orld. I exp~ect to sail from San .Fran sco in the steamer Alameda May 21. .y place here on Sabbaths will be fuil occupied, wvhile on Mondays and 'ery Monday,f wvill continue to speak i urough the printing press in thin and nc her lands as heretofore. Why (do I )? To make pastoral visitation -hc nong people whomn I have never seen, to it to whom I have never been per- or itted( a long while to administ~er. I ba ant to see them in their own cities, re >wns and neighborhoods. I want to fa now what are their prosperities,what fri eir adversaries and what their op- mr ortunities, and so enlarge my work uid get more adaptedness. Why do 1 o? For educational purposes. 1 le 'mant to freshen my mind and heart by Ao ows scenes, new faces, new manners ndt cust oms. I want bettor to under- Cor Land what are the wrongs to be right- ar [I and thio wastn places to be rec'laitm- "'] :1. 1 wvill (ut all I learn inl sermons to 9 e preached to you when I return. I ur ant to see the Sandwich Islands, not aa > much ini the light of modern p~olitics thl 3 in the light ol the gospel of Jesus ti, hrist,which has transformied them,and ati mmoa arnd those vast realms of New umaland and Australia and Ceylon and idila. I want to see what Christanity is accomplished. I want to see how ni. te missiontaries have beeni lied about living In luxul'y and idleness, ho 1 want to know whether the heath- be religions are really as tolerable andl 3 commendable as they wvero repro- tiB ntedl by their adherents in the parlia- orl ent of religions at Chicago. I want fai see wvhiether Mohamnmedaism and wi .ddhismn wotuld be a good thinig for his Enshmatting In Amenrica, as it has mi 'aln and again been argued.. I want toer heair thei Brah mans pray. I want to . an< it whether the P'acic ocoani treats its pa ests any better than (does the Atlan- ini . I want to see thme wondrousn archi- iu :ture of lnia~tm, and the IDhi and wnpore whore Christ was crucilledkn the massacre of his modern disciptesb . the dlisabled Juggernaut unwheei- caU by C'hristianity, and to see if the 011 which tihe Emperor Shah Jehan wvat Lit In honor of his empress really atil anis any more than the plain slab wif put above our dear departedl. I abc nt to see thme Jieldts where Ilavelock ite I Sir Colin Campbell won the day Kn dinst the sepoys. -I want to see theu hiet rld from all side-4, how much of It~ls darkness, how much of it is in litght, thme at the Blible means by the "ends of earth," andi get myself ready to ap.V Mr ~cate the extent of the present to be Tr do to Christ as spoken of in the dine, "Ask fomr me, and I shall give "10 e the heathen for thine Inheritance, o 1 the uttermost parts of the eath nel thy possession," and~ so) I shall (10 dre dy to celebrate in heaven thn victo- lia a of Christ in more rapturous song clo mn I could himve rendered had'I never tihe a time heathen abominations before wh y were conuilere-d. And so I hope ing come back ref reshied, re-eniforced a A better e'quippied and to dlo In 10 ML irs more eff. cmual work t,han I have h111 e in the hist 25. i ind nowv in this twenty-fifth anni- the -sary sermon I propose to (10 two ci ngs-firat, to put a garland on thie he 1,vo of the generation that has juist sh ' ised off and then -to put a palm ti mnch in the hand or theu generaltionth t now coming on the field of action, i~e my- text is trute, "One generation str teeth away, and another generation thc neth." Oh, how many we revered pai I honored and loved *in the-last gen- Co ration that quit the earth! Tears fell ,t the time of their going, and dirges vere sounded, and signals of mourn og were pat on,'but neither tears nor irge nor somber veil told the half we elt. Their going left a vacancy in our ouIls that has never lilled up. We ever get used to their absence. There re times when the sight of something rith which they were associated-a Picture, or a book, or a garment, or a taff-breaks us down with emotion ut we bear it simply because we have o bear it. Oh, how snowy white their air got, and how the wrinkles multi lied, and the sight grew more dim, nd the hearing leas alert, and the tep more frail, and one day they were ,onte out of tie chair by the (Ireside, nd from the plate at the meal, and rom the end of the church pew,where hey worshipped with usl 0 my soul, tow we missed them! But let us con ole each other with the thought that ve shall meet them again in the land f salutation and reunion. And now I twist a garland tor that leparted generation. It need not be o3tly, perhaps just a handful of clover Plossoms from the field through which hey used to walk, or its many violets a you could hold between the thumb ud the forefinger, plucked out 6f the arden where they used to walk in the he cool of the day. Put these old fash oned flowers right down over the heart hat never again will ache, and the feet hat will never again be weary, and he arm that has forever ceased to toll. 'eace, father ! Peace, mother! Everlast ag peacel All that for the generation ole. But what shall we do with the palm ranch? That wo will put in the hand f the generation coining on. Yotura is D be tie genoration for victories. The ist and the present generations have een perfecting the steam power, and ie electric light, and the electic forces 'o these will be added transportation. t will be your miesion to use all these )rces. Everything is ready now for au to march right up and take this 'orld for God and heaven. Get your Part right by repentance and the irdoing grace of tihe Lord Jesus )d your mind right by elevating book' id pictures, and your body right by ymnasium and field exercise and enty of ozone, and by looking is often you can upon the face of the imun in and of sea. Then start! In God's tine start! And here is the palm anch. From conquest to conquest ova right on and right up. You will on have the whole field for yourself. Mtore another 25 years have gone, we i be out of the pulpits, and the of es, and the stores, and the factories, d the benevolent institutions, and ii will he at the front. Forward in. the battlel If God be for you who n be afrinst you? "lie ,hat ared not his own 6on, but deliv )d him up for tis all, how shall he not th him also freely give us all things ? fnd for us who are now at the front, ving put the garland on the grave of. a last generation and having put the Im branch in the hand of the coming neration, we will cheer each other in 1 remainingonsets and Ro int- the ining gate somewnere about the same ne, and greeted by the generation at has pieceded us we will have to Alt onl. a little While to greet the neration that will come after us. id will not that be glorious ? Tlhree ierat~ions in heaven together-the antdfather, the son and the grandson, e gritndnother, the daughter and the auddaughter. And so with wider uge and keener faculty we shall re bze tihe full signilicance of the text, )ne gener'atimn pisseth away, anti tother generation comothi." AFFAIRS IN AUGUtSTA. AUUUSTrA, May 6.--Prof. W. B. Dil h, principal of the Centrail Gram ir School, died this mornmng at 5 lock uinder singular circumstances. of. Dillon wvent fIshing on May Day, being a holiday in the schools, anti has t been very well since. He missed o days at school, but yesterday left me in apparently gocd condition, ie *d his wife he Was going to see a friend t on the Sand Hills, and if he came ck at all it would be late, ie didl not tur home last nmght, and when his her-in-law, Mr.'B. 1B. Lester, returned m church today and still there was no ws lhe went out to look for him. About 2 o'clock he looked in the bool building andl found Prof. Dillon ining ba~ck ini his chair unconscioua. t 5 o'clock he (died, having spoken but cc. There was evidence of a tempor y resuscitation andl Dr'. Doughty askdad: Iow do you feel, Ben? ie replied: ever better,'' and then relapsed into consciousness, from which lhe oid not am recover. At the coroner's inqfuest a phy1 sicians dleclined 1.o give any posi e theory ot thme cause of (loath and an topsy was ordered, but the result has I. yet been reached. The autopsy. as far as carried on to ~ht, (did not show any gross lesion or ease of any of the organs of' the dy. The doctors who were with him lore death say the symptoms pro ited were not r uch as would lit any Jal dliise or comm ton poison. The rans were all found normal an~ mn a cl y healthy condhiti~n. Dr. Ilolliday, o performed the autopisy, gave it as evidence that he was unable to deter io the cause of 'deathi, b~ut the con, ts of the stomach had been taken out I lproservedl for examination by a com ent chemist, which may reveul the 3 cause of death. T1he verdict of the jwas that the cause of (death was uin iwn until the stomach was examined! a chemist. Failure so foir to find thme so of Prof. Dillon's death makes it a sational mystery. Professor Dillon very cimable, a fine disciplinarin beloved by his schiool.ie leaves a 3 and~ no children, ie was married uit a year ago, and was 341 years old. was a Mason, an ) 1(d Fellow, a ght of Phmythias and junior second tenant, o1 the Clinch l16113s. tnother deplorable occurrence was burmg this alteriioon oh little Annie IHenry, the oight-year-old ster < Joe llenry, of Savannah, and Mr. r ntas P. llenry, the newspaper mat', y of New York. This little daughter dIra. Mary llenry was playing int a zhmbor's yard with several other chin! n. They had matches andi were light a lightwood torch whon Annie's thing caught,. Her screams attracted wife of' l'olicemian . Trommerhmauser, 0 ran to the child's assistance and es.' her in her aris, tried to smother the nies by holdiug the cuild close to her. .HIenry Kennedy followed close be d Mrs. l'rommnerhauser. and jIust as late' clot~hes were catching seized child from her, tearing' the id's clothes open in the back stripped them from her, but was already so r.adly burned t the akin came off with the clothing.1 r iuternal burns seemed to have (de >yed or benumbed her nerves, and ugh conscioua she seems to sufl'er no n. Shes will probably die.-News and rrr POSING AS MARTYRS. A Wasilaton Judge and jury Play to Coxeyas nand. WAstrINGTON, May 9.--.The tl.ree leaders of the commonweal, Gon. Jacob Schlier Coxey, Marshal Carl Browne and Christopher Columbus 'Jones, were fiund guilty yesterday of violating the laws-by a jury of their peers, and will have to submit to a sentence hereat ter to be imposed by the court for their recent demonstration on tho Capitol. All three " the accused were convicted on the ' count of the indictment, which ch . .ed them with displaying In the Capitol groiunds the banner of' the Coxey Good roads Associatioin. Jones of Philadelphlia was aaquitted ol the aee ond count which accused him ot tread Ing on the grass, but CQxcy and] Browno were convicted. The jury retired at live minutes be fore 1 o'clock, alter hearing a lon chargo from Jadge Miller, which lelt them little alternative but to convict if tbey followed his leadings. About half past 3 o'clock the jurors sent for the in structions given for the defense, but the government objected and they flied into the court room while the judge read the instructions. Young Attorney IFyman endeavored, excitedly, to hav 3 the fact. that the objection came from thc pro secution laid before the jmty, but he was suppreoed. Judge Miller stated that no would Lot have handed over the written instructions under any cir zumalances, as that would have been irregular. Only five minutes after this c)isode the jury returneded with the indictment. "deneral Coxoy had been visiting with his wife and his daughter, the "Goddess of peace"' of the May day procession, but took his seat within the bar andt all of the party received the re ,sult smillingly, except Mr. 1 vman, who was on his foot With someo obj-ection to the form on which LtIo vordict was pro sented, but lie was sat upon by his col leagues, Attorney 12 pscomnbu, iWmmedi ately entered a motion for new trial and another in arrest of judgment. Judge Miller gave him four days to file the for mal paper, tben the judge made inquiries about bail and Frauk IHumo, a well known wholesnle grocer, who several times has been a candidato for the 1)em. ocratic nomination to Conzgress from the Virginia district across Ih, Potomac river. signed a bond in $500 for elch of' .tho three convicted commonwealers. Gen. C, xe v lf. the court room on the arm of his wite, pushing through a curl ois crowt which made ro demonstra tion. The conviction of himself and Jones was a iurprise to the common weal sympathizrs. Coxmy said that. it was evident that his )roaccutioa was not on account, of what he had (one, but because oi the principles in behalf of which lo had acted. Carl Browue re marked: "I was surprised at the con. viction of1 Brother Coxey,, because lie was plainly acquitted by the evidence ot any technical violation of, the statutes. For my own part. I expected to be con. victed." Just nf'er the closhig plea0 for the de fenso, Browne'a It% vyer had asked per mission to read to the jury a statement written by his client, but; Jud.e. Miller declined 'o admit it sa ing that Browne had been given all his rights In being de fended by able attorneys. The paper was written In Browne's usual grandilo. quent 5'le and averred that he dlahredi icom his lawyera regarding~ theo line of' diefense, that, he would have admlii.tedl the technicail violations of the law and have askedi the jury to acquit him on tihe ground( that he was merely exercising hmi constitutional rights. Two weeks may elapse, during which tihe trio will be free on bail, beo the motion for a new trial Is argued andl do. cided. The penalty p~rovidedl by law is the same for each eflense, viz: A line not to exceed $100 or imprisonment in jail for not more thani thirty (lays, or both within the discretion of the court. Accordingly, the maximum punishment which may be meted out to Coxoy and Browne is $200 and 120 days, while Christopher Columbus Jones is subject to $100 and sixty days.' By a curIous Congraslonal error in a recent bill which reorganized the D)is trict courts, there is no appellate court, to which a polic case can he0 carried. The only meth cd of appealing from Judge Mi Iler's sentence will be by an applica tion to a higher court for writs of habeas corpus andl certiorari. Attorney Lips comb has announced that lie will take this step if Judige Miller overrules the motion for a new trial. llowever, euch a petition will not operate as a stay of judgment to keep thme defedants from serving their sentences while it is pend A Terribio Leaj,. NEW YOnKc, May .-Mtax Meyer, a wealthy dry goods merchant of Selma, Ala., jumped from a fourth story win dhow of the fashionable Graham apart-I meat house at Eighty-Ninth street andh Madison avenue, early this mlorning andI received injuries from which he dlied two hours later. Mr. Meyer had been suifering from insomnia aind tem porary aberratifon for some time p)ast andl came to Now York recently to be t treated by a specialist in niervous die 3ases. At 3 o'clock this morning while ; ois nurse was temporarily absent, he ; irose from his bed, wvent to the window t and jumpedl to the side8 walk, sixty r feot below. He struck a bronzem railing m wvhich surroundse the house, bending iti 15 if it was so much lead. WVhen picked a ip fis chest was crushedl in aiid lis t lead terribly mangled. ibia attendant r was immediately summoned, but (les- e )ite the doctor's efrorts Mr. Meyer (I lied in two hours without regaining r :onsciousness. Mr. Meyer wes accom aniled to thie city by lilas(daughter. is wife is at their home in Selma, A (Orowninug Urimor,j Lanma 11001K, Ark., May 5.-teli. d ble information reaches here of the a urning of a negr-o in Otichila supposed e ') have had small pox. TIhe teloeurramr ')mveying the mntelligence says hast Mon-. ray a negra) at Miles station, in Ouchita ~ ounty, was takeni sick with some kind t, I a breaking cut whuh was thought to a asmall Pox anid i doctor was sent for o at for some Ieason) he did not, attend q b0 case. The negro was p~ut in a cabIn '.1 :) which sorne one set tIre and ha being nable to escape, perished in the tilnmes. )ne report says he was shot and then 1 murned while another report says lhe wvas 4nly burned. One thing is sure and thatt i the house occupied by the negro was )urne~d to the ground and lie can not ho r bnd now. The identity cf the cuilty ii >artics is not konwn. WVndereut Away amt Dimmi CLMFIERLAND, 1M11., May '.--S0arch a rs have found the dead body of Julian ii sibley, a well known carpenter of t.his ity, who wandered from his homes on ast Sunday morning while suff'oring fr-oni emporary aberration of mini, IHe was a ound on the cli of the well known a WVills mountains, about one mIle froma his city, and it is generally thought hie t lied from avn)naur.. INDIAN WAR AT ROCK'HILL, Vatawybi itraves at Oidd--The Who'le Tribe May lec-no luvoived, 1100K HilLL, S. C., May ?.-War has i been declared among tho Catawba barvea, with a probability that the whole tribe will hecome involved. Each sear the State of South Carolina appropriates $800 to the remnant of the Catawba Judians in this county. This money is distributed among the mem, bers' of the tribe by Capt. A. E. Smith, the agent. The tribe now numbers six, ty-eigit Indianis and hal f-breeds, and the custom tas been to distribute the fund among the pure bloods an(d such ot the half-brceda as have Indian mothers never f :mong the half-breeds whose flathers only are Indians. Under the rules of the tribe as they have existed for genera. tions, so we are informed, children only v inherit from their mothers, never from their fthers. This fact is the cause of the present trouble. Jell' Davis Ayers is a member of the tribe. About seven Yeats ago he was lawfully married to a white woman, who has borne three chil. dren by her husband. Of these children one is six years old, another four years and the youngest one year. Thursday all the Indiana came to town to draw tho.money uppropriate'f by the State, but before the distribution could be effected Ayers learned that the agent would observe the ruleS of the tribe and not apportion the money among the children of any white woman iho was the wile of anl Indian, inas much as no part ot the fund was appro praited for a whie woman, and under the tribal regulation children could only inherit from their mother. It'she had no claims upon the fund, the children would have none. This rogulatizn deprived Ayers's children of any part in the dis tribution. Finding this was the condi tion of' n r .iirs;Thursday uornin , Avers mada demnand upon the Iniian Agent through his attorney, W. B. Wilson, E;q., for his children's par of the fund, bui the agent has not yet made the (ie. tribution, as the Indians threaten to hold his bondsmen responsible if lie pays any money to the Ayers childron. Thus matters stood Thursday morn ing when Ayers approached a number ot his comrades who where standing on Main street. They denounced him for A de0lalyiig the payment of the money. One a burly felio y, John Brown became furi ouisly mad and assatulted Aycrs, when Lhe woiiii interfercd and a general fight was iniinent. The chief of police hap peted to be on hand and nabbed Brown, 1 but lie resisted and jerking the ciefl's * walking stick out of his had, threw It 91 uto the si ret. About this time Police man Carroll reinforced the chief and the ,vo hurried Brown cil'to the guard house. [-lo was eubsequenily taken before the mavor and lined $15 or thirty days. i1e ailed to pay up and is now in the jug.-. J'olunmbia RL8ikter. Hay Goud Worim. The teacher vho educates. your chil Iren toils on year after year doing her 4 luty and often more than her duty. She ' iity train them in the perfect way, making them grow to noble manhood i ind womanhood, but never a word of ippreciation does sh.e hear. Let her miake a mistake, however; let some ,hing go wrong, and you denounce her n terms of the severest blame. The newspaper writer gives his life imo 1.0 writing things that will be ielpiul to his readlers. It is his daily mud nightly thought howv he will inter *st them, instruct them an11d give them wew courage when they are weary and lishieartenedh. Never a word 'of praise ho yon give him, if lie says anything ou (10 not like, however, like-lightning lescend the bolts of your wrath, .lie iears from you then-lie does Indeed. Thue oflice boy and the little errand ilrl,-mere children, ignorant, blunder ng and timid-come into your employ 0i vhen they ought to be playing out loors. They do their poor best and row pale and nervous, like over vorked grown people, while yet they ire children. You score them for their nistakes and shortcomings; y ou threat mn them with discharge; you talk to - hem cruelly. D~o ypu ever praise them vlhea they (10 well ? Do you ever say me kind, appreciative word t'o those vhose task it is to please you? Such a vordi would sweeten life to them for A 1ays. It would be like manna In the vilderness. It might inspire their vhole future lives. Do you ever say it ? ce it is a cruel, heedless world. id Not Expces 1t. The Charleston Snn records rather mn amusing incident in connection is nith the recent letter of Congressman 's tlcurin. According to the Sun's' tory 'Professor Marchant (querled the Jongressman as to whether lie, Mar. ~hant,.was the object of the former's lescripition in lisa letter of 'one of their Ittle creatures, a peripatetic school oeacher, who want~s to be superintend. ut of education.' Mcbaurin frankly -eplied that Marchant was the person me meant. Whereupon Marchahit says ifs friends advss'l hum to 'hit' back, ut lie was 'afraid' of a man who would ay to his face what he had intended or him in print. That such a man alust be 'mad'-meaning crazy. Tihis ndicates the curious 3tate of mind that le customary equivocation and dodg- ~ ng of public men hats given rise to. larch ant knew, as others knew, thatE Icbaurin referred to film. Biut ho fiought on putting the question di cely to him that McIaurin would, as snual in such cases, find a way out of by evasion. To the P.rofessor's blank maizement McIaurin simply replied iat lie did mean him. Such cirect ess left the Professor without a word I reply. In these equivocating and emagogueic tim es such an Incident is 31 resning." llE RILIN, May t' -A dispatch from 'iema this evening says that six of the iuigoch' tourists hauve been taken ouit end. The younger of the party, a shool boy, is reported to have been res *iedl alive. These tourists were explo rig a cave near L~ugloch, near Zurich. ILysia, several daysi,and by the fall of a >ck became imprisoned in the cave., fforts were made to rescue them, but 1n relief partIes were compelled to b~andon wvork at the mouth of the cave ri account of' rising waters. Suubse nently three divers were sent from 'rieste to assist the relief party. A Mhvntery . MlInnoEvuLLE, Ga., May 9.-Mil- A 'dgevillt, fuas a first class mystery in me shape of a woma n dressed 'In black h ho is piromenading I lie streets between me hours of 10 and 2 o'clock at night, annring~ into people's houses and scar ug the ladles generally. Every one is 'ying to fInd out. who the mysterious erson is. Many of our prominent po. le have' run across this strange being, ndl when they had c10osed in on her she uvariably gives then the dodge. 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