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TA LAGE ON GRADY. THE BROOKLYN PREACHER EULO. GIZES THE DEAD EDITOR. Mr. Gradr's Triumph Over Adversity and Mes Deep Eeligious Nature-An Inci dent of the Piedmont Chautauuma. The subject of Dr. Talmago's Sunday sermon was: "The Life and Death of Henry W. Grady, the Editor and Orator." He took for his text Isaiah viii, 1: "Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen." The preacher said: - To Isaiah, with loyal blood in his veins and a habitant of palaces, daes this divine order come. He is to take a roll a large roll, and write on it with a pen; not an angel's gen, but a man's pen. So God honored the pen and so He hon ored manuscript. In our day the -mightiest roll is the religious and secular newspaper, and the mightiest pen is the editor's pen; whether for good or evil. And God says now to every literary man, and especially to every journalist: "Take t-c-t roll and _write in it wi an a pen." Witnin ew weeks one of the strong eat, mo ivid and most brilliant of a was laid down on the editor Wal desk In Atlanta, never again to be reumed. I was far away at the time. We had been sailing up from the Medi tersanean sea through the Dardacelles, which region is unlike aoy thing I ever saw for beauty. There is not any other water sceaery on earth where God has dons so many picturesque things with Islands. They are somewhat like the Thousand Islands of our American St. Lawrence, but more like heaven. Indeed we had just passed Patmos, the place from which John had his apocalypic vision. Constantinople had seemed to come out to greet us, for your approach to that city is different from any other sity. Other cities, as you approached them, seem to retire, but this city, with its glittering minarets and pinnacles, seems almost to step into the water to greet you. But my landing there, that would have been to me an exhilaration, wassuddenly stunned with the tidinge af the death of my intimate friend, Hen i W. Grady. I could hardly believe th. tidings, for I had left on my study table at home letters and telegrams from iun-those letters and telegrams having - warmth and geniality, and a wit such s he only could express. The de pature of no public man for many years hasso affected me. For days I walked about as in a dream, and I resolved that, ettahome, I would, for the sake of bib bereaved profession, and for the sake of what he had been to me and shall con tinue to be as long as memory lasts, I would speak a word in appreciation of him, the most promising of Americans. and learn some of the salient lessons of his departure. I have no doubt that he had enemies. for no man can live such an active life as he lived, or be so far in advance of his time, without making enemies, some because he defeated their projects, and some because he outshone them. Owls and bats never did like the rising sun. But I shall tell you how he ap peared to me, and I am glad glad that I told him while he was in full - ~th what I thought of him. Memorial orations and gravestone epitaphs are of -Amn mean enough, for they say of a man after he is dead that which ought to have been said of him while living. One garland for a living brow is worth more than a mountain of japonicas and calla lilies heaped en a funeral casket. By a littleblack volume of fifty pages con taining the eulogiums and poems utter ed and written at the demise of Clay and Webster and Calhoun and Lincoln and Sumner, the world tried to pay for the forty years of obloquy it heaped upon those living giants. If I say nothing in '9~ras of a man while he lives I will T'~p-ihutwhen he is dead. Myrtle anweeping willow can never do what ought to ha ben done by amaranth adpalm brac;-N smountf "_Dead March Saul" rumbling from big ergsns at the obsequies can atone for non-ap preem'ation of the man before he fell on s leip. The hearse cannot do what ought to have been done by chariot. But there are important things that need to be said about our friend, who was a prophet in American journalism and who oily a few years ago heard the command of my text: 'Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen." His father dead, Henry W. Grady, a -cby 14.years of age, took up the battle -of life. It would require a long chapter to record the names of orphans who have come to the top. When God takes away >thehead of the hiousehold be very often gives to some lad in that household a Kspecialiqualilcation. Christ remembers , how that his ewn father died early, leav n zg him to support himself and his moth eand his brothers in the carpenter's C7 shop at Nazareth, and he is in sympathy with all boys and all young men in the s truggle. You say: "Oh, if my father bad only lived I would have bad a bet ter education and I would have had a t ~more promising start, and there are some wrinkTes on my brow that would not have been there." But I have noticed that God makes a'special way for orphans. You. would not have been half thte man you are if you had not been obliged from -your early days to fight your own bat ties. Whab other boys got out of Yale orgarvard you got in the university of SHard Knocks. Go among successful merchants, lawyers, physicians and men of all occupations and professions, and there are many ofthem who will tel you: - "At ten, or twelve, or fifteen years of age I started for myself ; father was sick, or father was dead." But some -hbow they got through and got up. I account for it by the fact that there is a special dispensation of God for orphans All hail, thefatherless and the mother les The Lord Almighty will see you through. Early obstacles for Mr. Grad! were only the means for development of his intellect and heart. And lo!I whan at 39 years of age he put down his pe and closed his lips for the perpetual si. lence, he had dlone a work which many -a man who lives on to sixty and seventy ad eighty years never accomplishes. There is a great deal of senseless praise of lon'gevity, as though it were a w on derful achievement to live a good while. Ah, my friends, it is not how long we live, but how well we live, and how use -fully we live. A man who lives to S0 years and accomplishes nothing for God or humanity might better nave never lived at alL Methusaleh lived 969 years and what did it amount to? In all those more than nine centuries he did not ac complish anything which seemed worth record. Paul lived only a little more than 60, but how many Methusalebs would it take to make one Paul? Who would not rather have Paul's 60 years than Methusaleh's 969? Robert Mc Cheynej died at 89 years of age and John Sammerfield at 27 years of age, but nei ther earth nor heaven will ever hear the -end of their .usefulness. Longevity I Why, an elephant can beat you at that, for ist lives 150 and 200 years. Gray hairs are the blossoms of the tree of life --if found in the frosts of the second death, if found in the way of sin. * One of our able New York journals last spring printed a question and sent it to many people, and among others to myself. "Can the editor of a secular journal be a Christian?" Some of the newspapers answered no, No. I an swered yes; and lest you may not under stand me, I say, ye., again. Summer before last, riding with Mr. Grady from a religious mneeeting in Georgia on Bunday night, he aid to me .same things which I now reveal for the first time because it is approprate now thes I reveal them. He expressed bla comn pnete faith in the gospel - and expnrossed tis astonishment and his grief that in oF ur day so many young men were re- mi ecting Christianity. From the earnest- tic iese and the tenderness and the confi lence with which he spoke on these st< hings I concluded that when Henry W. iv, )rady made public profession of his of! aith in Chri-it, and took his place at go ho holy communion in the Metbodist co hburch he was honestly and truly a Chris- 8t ian. That conversation that Sunday p1 light, first in the carriage, and then or esumed in the hotel, impressed me in th iuch a way that when I simply heard of or iis departure without any of the par- ge icalars, I concluded tha he was ready to wj o. I warrant there was no fright in w! he last exigency, but that he found til what is commonly called "the last ene th ny" a good friend, and from his home in >n earth he went to a home in heaven. g, es, Mr. Grady not 'only demonstrated 0 .hat an editor may be a Christian, but d4 that a very great intellect may be gos- fn pelized. His mental capacity was so ri wonderful it was almost startling. I C! bive been wita him in active conversa- m tion while at the time he was dictating ol to a stenogra.pber edicorials for the At- t !..nta Constitution. But that intellect re was not ashamed to bow to Christ. t Among his last dying utterances was a p, request for the prayers of the churches R in his behalf. it There was that particular quality in a4 him that you do not find in more than o one person out of hundreds of thou- ti sands, nameiy, personal magnetism. It People hove tried to defne that quality, fr and always failed, yet we have all felt G its power. There are some persons wno have only to enter a room, or step upon 8 a platfnrm, or into a pulpit, and you are jr thrilled by their preserice, and when -I they speak your nature responds and you a can not help it. What is the peculiar b influence with which such a magnetic o person takes ho)ld of social groups and a audiences? Without eattempting to de- a fine this, wbih is indefinable, I will say b it seems to correspond to the waves -of o air set in motion by the voice or the d movements of the body. Just like that t atmospheric vibration is t.e moral or e spiritual vibration which rolls out from i the soul of what we call a magnetic per- t son. As there may be a cord or rope binding bodies together, there may be an invisible cord binding souls. A. mag netic mas throws it over others as a I hunter throws a lasso. Mr. Grady was I urcharged with this influence and it was employed for patriotism and Chris tianity and elevated purposes. You may not know why, in the con versation which I had with Mr Glastone a few weeks ago, he uttered these mem orable words about Christianity, some of which were cabled to America. He was speaking in reply to this remark: I said "Mr. Gladstone, we are told in 3 America by some people that Christian ity does very well for weakminded men and children in the infant class, but it I was not fit for stronger minded men, but when we mention you, such a large intel ectuallity, as being a pronounced friend of religion. we silence the batteries." Then Mr. Gladstone stopoed on the bill side, where we were exercising, and said: "The older I grow the more con firmed I am in my faith in religion." I"Sir," said he, with flashing eye and up lifted hand, "talk about the question of 1 the day, there is but one question, and < that is the Gospel. That can and will correct everything. Do you have any of that dreadful agnosticism in America?" I Having told him that we had, he went I on to say: "I am profoundly thankful i that none of my chil4ren or kindred have been blasted by it. I am glad to say that ab->ut all the men at the top in< Great Britain are Christians. Why, sir," he said, "I have been in public position ffty-eight years, and forty-seven years in the Cabinet of the British govern ment, and during those forty-seven years I have been associated with sixty of the master minds of the century, and all but five of the sixty were Christians." He then namned jbefour leading physi cians and- surgeons of his country, calling them by name and remarking upon the high qualities of each of them and adde3: "They are all thoroughly Christian." My friends, I think it will be quite respectable for a little longer to be the friends of religion. William E. Gladstone, a Christian; Henry W. Gra dy, a Christian. What the greatest of Englishmen said of England, is true of America and of all Christendom. The men at the top are the friends of God and believers of the sanctities of religion, the most eminent of the lawyers, the most eminent of the doctors, the most eminent of the merchants, "and there are no better men in all our land than'soms of those who sit in editorial chairs. And if it does not correspond with your acquaintanceship, I am sorry that you have fallen into bad company. In an swer to the question put last spring, "Can a secular journalhst be a Christian?" I not only answer in the affirmative, butlassert so great are the responsibilities of tbat profession, so infinite and eter nal the consequences of their obedience or disobedience of the words of my text, "Take thee a great roll, and write on it with a man's pea," and so many are the surrounding temptations,that the men of no other profession more deeply need the defences and the re-enfcrcements of the grace of God. And then look at the opportunities. of journalism. I1 praise the pulpit and magnify my offce, but I state a fact which you all know when I say that where the pulpit touches one person the press touches 500. The vast majori ty of people do not go to church, hut all intelligent people read the newspapers. While, therefore, the responsibility of the ministers is great, the reponsibility of edityrs and reporters is greater. Come, brother journalists, and get your ordiation, not by the laying on of hu man hands, but by the laying on of the hands of the Almighty. To you is com mitted the precious reputation of wom en. Spread before our children an ele vated literatute. Make sin appear dis gusting and virtue admirable. Believe good rather than evil. While you show the hypocrisies of the church, show up the stupendous hypocrisies outside of the church. Be not, as some you are, the mere echoes of public opinion; make public opinion. Let the great roll on which you write with a man's pen be a mesae of light and liberty and kind ness and awakening of moral power. But who is sufficient for these thinge? Not one of you without divine help. But get that influence and the editors and reporters can go up and take this world for God and the truth. The mightiest opportunity in all the werld] for usefulness today is open before edi-) tors and reporters and publishers,1 whether of knowledge on foot, as in thei book, or knowledge on the wing, as in1 the newspaper. I pray God, men of thei newspaper press, whether you hear or1 read this sermon, that you may rise up to your full opportunity and that you may be divinely helped and rescued and i 'blessed.1 Some one might say ico me: "How can you talk thus of the newspaperi press, when you yourself have sometimes 1 been unfairly treated aud misrepresent- 1 d" I answer that in the opportunity 1 the newspaper press of this country and other countries have given me week by week to preach the Gospel to the na- 1 tions, Ilam put under so much obliga- I tion that I defy all editors and reporters, the world over, to write any thing that shall call forth from me one word of bitter retort from now tiflithe day of myr death. My opinion is. that all reform C era and religious teachers, instead of spending so much time and energy i' 1 denouncing the press, had better spendi more time in thanking them for what 1 they have done for the world's inttlii portunity, and urging their employ- I ,at of it all for the beneficent and t ;hteous purposes. t Again, I remark that Henry W. Grady K i>d for Christian patriotism irrespect-! ) of political spoils. He declined all icial reward. lie could have been I vernor of Georgia, but refused it. He i uld have been senator of the United stes. but declined it. He remained kin Mr. Grady. Nearly all the other stors of the political arena, as soon as e election is over, go to Washington, Albany, or Harrisburg, or Atlanta, to t in city or State or national office re Lrd for their services, and not getting ] aat they want spend the rest of the I ne of that admiration in pouring about ] e management of public affairs or curs g Harrison or Cleveland. When the eat political campaigns were over Mr -ady went home to his newspapers. He monstrated that it is possible to toi) r principles which he ihought to be tht, simply because they were right. >ristian patriotism is too rare a coin odity in this country. Surely the j-y living under such free institutions as ose established here ought to be enough ward for political fidelity. Among: all e great writers that stood at the la't -esidential election on Democratic and epublican platforms you cannot recall your mind ten who were not them Ives looking for remunerative appoint ents. Aye, you can count them all on e fingers of one hand. The most il strious specimen of that style of man r the last ten years was Henry W. rady. Again, Mr. Grady stood for the new >uth and was jutt what we want to eet three other men, one to speak for ie new North, another for the new East 3d another for the new West. The ravest speech made for the last quarter f a century was that made by Mr. Grady t the New England dinner in New York bout two or three years ago. I sat with im that eveniug, and know something f his anxieties, for he was to tread on angerous ground, and might by one iissnoken word have antagonized fot ver both sections. His speeeb was a ictory that thrilled all of us who heard im and all who read him. That speedh, reat for wisdom, great for kindness, reat for pacification, great for bravery, till go down to the generations with Vebter's speech as Bunker Hill, William Virt's speech at the arraignment of aron Burr, Edmund Burke's speech on Varren Hastings, Robert Emmet'sjspeech or his own vindietion. Who will in conspicuous acion repre ent the new .North as be did the new outb? Who shall come forth for the tew East and who for the new West? 'et old political issues be buried, let old rudges die. Let new theories be launch d. With the coming in of a new nation t the gates of Castle Garden every year, nd the wheat bin and corn crib of our and enlarged with every harvest, and a ant multitude of our population still >lunged in illiteracy to ie educated, and oral questicne abroad involving the rery existence of our republic, let the 4d political platforms that are worm aten be dropped and platforms that hall be made of two planks, the one the ['en Commandments and the other the ;ermen on %he Mount, lifted for all of is to stand on. But there are a lot of >d politieans grumbling all erund the ky who don't want a new South, a new Sorth, a new East or a new West. They ave some old war speecl'es that the; 3repared in 1861, that in all our autum sal elections they feel called upon to in lict upon the country. They grow louder und louder in proportion as they are ushed back further and further, and the lenry WV. Gradys come to the front But the mandate, I think, has gone forth rom the throne of God that a new american nation shall take the place of .e old, and the new has been baptized or God, and liberty, and justice, and peace, and morality, and religion. And now our much -lamented friend as gone to give account. Suddenly the facile and potent pen is laid down and he eloquent tongue is silent. What? Is there no safeguard against fatal disease? rh impersonation of st:>ut health was Mr. Grady. What compactness of inus ele 1 What ruddy complexion! What lshing eyes! Standing with him in a group of twenty or thirty persons at Piedmont, he looked the healthiest, as is spirits were the blithest. Shall we never feel again the hearty grasp of his hand or be magnetined with his elo quence? Men of the great roll, men of the pen, men of wit. men of power, if our friend had to go when the call came. so must you when your call comes. When God asks you what have you done with your pen or your eloquence or your wealth or your social position, will you be able to give a satisfactory answer? What have we been writing all these yearn? If mirth, has it beer. innocent mirth or that which lacerates? From our pen have tbere come forth-productions healthy or poisonous? In the last great day when the warrior must give account of what he has done with his sword, and the merchant what be has done with his yard stick, and the mason what he has done with his trowel, and the artist what he has done with his pencil, we shall have to give account of what we have done with our pen. There are gold pens. and diamond pens and pens of exquisite manufacture, and every few weeks I see a new kind of pen, each aid to be better than the other; but in the great day of our arraignment before the judge of quick and dead that will bc the most beautiful pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which never wrote a pro. an. or unclean or cruel word, or which from the day it was carved, or split at the nib, dr pped from its point kindness snd encouragement and help and grati ude to God and benediction for man. May God comfort that torn up South ma home and all the homnes of this coun :ry and of all the world which have been wept by this plague of influenza, which :ass deepened sometimes into pneumonia td sometimes into typhus, and the vic ;ims of which are counted by the ten housand I Satan, who is the "Prince of he Pewer of the Air," has been poison. g the atmosphere in ail nations. Though t is the first time in our remembrance, ae has done the same thing before. In 696 the unwholesome air of Cairo, Egypt, destroyed the life of 10,000 in >ne day, and in Constantinople, in 1714, 00,000 people died of it. I am glad that y the better sanitation -. our cities and wider understandinst oi hygienic laws and the greater skill of hyaicians these apollyouic assaults upon the human race tre being resisted, bub pestilential atmos ahere is still abroad. Hardly a family ere but has felt its lighter or heavier ouch. Some of the best of my flock fell inder its power, and many homes here -epresented have been crushed. The fact s, the biggest failure in the universe is :his world if there .>e no heaven beyond. But there is! and the friends who have one there are many and very dear. 0 earful eyes, look up to the hills crimson ng with eterna morn! That re-union tiss will more than make up for the part ng kiss, and the welcome will obliterate he good-bye. "The lamb which is in he midst of the throne shall lead them o living f-ountains of water, and God hall wipe away all tears from their eyes." ill then, 0 departed loved ones, promise is that you will remember us, as we romise to remember you. And some of -ou gone up from this City by the Sea, nd others from under Southern skies, .nd others from the homes of the more igorous North; and some from the cabine in great Western farms, we shall meet gain when our pen has written its last ord, and our arm has done its last ay's work, and our lips ht:, spcken the ast adieu. And now, thou great and magni~cent ou1t fditor nd oator! under brighter kies we sball menat again. Frm God hou camest. and to God thou mst re urned. Not broken down, but ascended ,ot collapccd, but irradiated. Eothroned mel Coroneted onel Sceptered one! Em >a:adited one! Hail and Farewei! GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. -acts of Interest Gathered from Vari ous tSources. -Coumbia is to have a new ice fac ory with a cApacity of ten tous &iV. -The equestrian statue of Robert E see, by Mercie, the French scu:ptor, ha yeen completed. It will be placed in .ichmond. -The recent dood near Phoenix, Ari rona, destroyeri nenrly a ilhon dollars north of property, and cost wbe ives of ibout forty people. -A cyclone near Brownsvile, Tenn., >nWednesday unroofed half the bouses in be place, killed! one woman, and woun 1-d several other persons. -The Secretaiy of the Treasury has just ;paid $57,800 to the Richmond, Va., Locomotive Works, for work done for the battle ship Texan now building at Norfolk. -The last time Stanley lectured at Birmingham, England, he received fifteen guineas for his fee. This time the Birmingham lecture manager of fers 300 guineas, and is afraid he can't get him at that. -Fred A.Walton, who stole $35,000 from the Express Company at Dallas, Texas, has been captured at St. John, N. B. He had but $10,000 left, bunco men having robbed bun of the other part of his stealage. -The Congressional redistricting bill to make five out of six of the dis tricts of Maryland solidly Democratic, which at first failed for want of one vote, was passed by a vote of 17 yeas to 5 nays. The Governor's signature has been attached. -A cioud-burct Mond &y night caused artindale Creek Ind., to rise so quickly that the women and tbree children of the Hall family were drowned. They be longed to a party of gypsies encamped ne r the stream. The bodies have not yet been recovered. -President Day, of the New York League clu, vainly offered Buck Ew ing, who caught for the club last year, $38,000 for a three years' engagement. Buck sticks to the brotherhood. Ward Richardson, Gore and Slattery also declined big offers. -A committee of the Texas Legis lature is hard at work on the accounts of ex-Treasurer Hemingway, who is apparently $250,000 short. It is 'de veloped, however, that he is entitled to a credit of $105,550 which he erro neously had charged against himself -It appears from the two hundred and forty or more petitions sent in by the good people of Massachusetts and presented in the Senate by Senator Dawes, that 800,090 gallons of intoxi cants are shipped annually from thi country to Africa. The petitioner pray that this very wicked traffic be stopped. -A fatal shooting occurred Tues. day, seven miles fromHillsboro, N. C. during a raid on a distillery by reve nue officers. Revenue Agent Kirk patrick, who was in charge of the raiding party, was shot in the face and received a dangerous wound. The shot was fired by a negro who was shot and killed by a member of the raiding party. -The Rev. Dr. Lorimer, of the Baptist Church at Holyoke, Mass. caused a sensation on Friday by mak ing a violent and indecent attack fron his pulpit on the Catholic Church. On Sunday he tearfully explained tc his congregation that he was druni at the time from an overdose of qui nine and unconscious of what he said: ad he publicly retracted and apolo gized. -Senator Voorhees is out in a lon; address urgIng harmony in the Demo cratic party of Indiana in the nomina tion of legislative and county can Ii dates. Mr. Voorhees says he wit support ex-Governor Gray for th VicePresidency in 1892. as he did a the St Louis convention t wo year ago. It is understood that Mr. G~ray will use his be--t efforts to securea Democratic Legislature and the rc election of Mr. Voorhees to the Ben ate. -Chicago has woa the fight for the location of the Exposition in 1892 There were eight ballolts in the Housi -the vote finally standing thus: Chi c go, 157; New York, 107; St. Louis 25; Was.hin gton, 18. Whole numbe of votes, 307; necessary to a choice 154 When the Speaker announced the re suit of the eighth ballot the supporter of Chicago on the floor burst into shout of triumph, which found a: echo in the galleries. Speaker Ree< hammered away with his gavel te quell the confusion, but was unable t< obtain anything like order. Half th< mmbers rushed i elI mell for the exts, and amid this disorder thi Speaker, on motion, declared thi House adjourned. The Women of New York. In many respects this fair army dif fered in appearance from the line o fair, purchasers to be seen in Balti more. The New York woman is, think, a trifle stouter and a degre more gross of figure than the averag Baltimore woman. She has, too, ruddier complcxion, owing. I am tok to the prevalence of the fad for gym nastics atnd a love of wines and beer Her cheeks are usually rosy, her figur< round, and her feet large and unshape ly. And, besides that, the New Yorl womau has a weakness for paint an< powder that is seldom met with else where. She dresses, too,in loud colors and if you concluded that the half o these ~gailv-dressed women of the streets of 9ew York were actresses yot would be greatly in error. The stag< is mtrmerously represented in th< throng and the stage has left its marl on the street costume of the Gothan fashion'bles. But don't fancy that al of these fancy colors are worn by stag< celebrities. Indeed, it is a surprise t< the stage beauties of the other side tha: the fashionable women of New YorI are so fond of decking themselves ou1 with gaudy colors and diamonds, whici attract so inuch comment.--N. Y'. Let Fired by Lightning. CoLDIBIA,jS. C., Feb. 27.-During a thunderstorm this afternnon, the sta be on the premises of Capt. R. S. Des portes was struck by lightning and was soon in flames. The fire-engine had a poor chance for water, bnt their efforts coupled with a drenching rain prevented great damage. One cf the featu:es of our World's Fair will be an educational exhibit. It will iLe a designed to illtustrate the means employed in this country for the educa tion of children of different ages, the provsions for their bealth, comfort and exercse. The department of Zuperin tedence of the National E.iucati-nal Association at its recen: medy.a in New York heartily commretdtd the project and expres:ed 'he co)nvctie -.at could b~e madec --f gput practical Evry farwe-r who us.. his o.- gruh is pry.:rmrg. It a. no use to; waste ink telling what the other fellows are doing: LOUISJANA'S LOTTERY. FIVE YEMltS YET SECURE FOR THE INIQUITY. Th- Great DilMenitlI will be Maid in Me carinzi a New I.ease of latie--Tbh Moral KlerneUts Againbt the Lottery, but the Peoplewill Decide. Letter to the New York Heraid. The recent effort to secure a lottery charter in North Dakota has had the ef fect of liliiug the press of this country with much mioinformation. Among other thigs it has been said that . the Louisint-a Lottery, knowing that it was impusible to secure an extension of Its carter in L-,uisiaua, had determined to make preparations to withdraw from the S:ate, and for that reason had sought to secure a charter elsewhere. Few peo hle in Louisians who have watched the current of events thought for a moment that the Lottery company had the slight es' idea of abaudoning the State. They regarded the attempt to secnre a charter in Dakota only as a means to get better terms at home mud a provision against a possible failure to secure a renewal of the fr-snchise. It has also been charged khat the Lou isiana Lottery Company w.l now try to buy an extension of its charter through thi Suate Legislature, and will offer to retire the State debt of $12,000,000 for a twenty liv yeazs' lease of corporate life. There is, as far as I can learn, so such proposition to be made, The Legisla turs is absolutely powerless in the mat ter. The people of Louisiana and they alone can extend the charter. The lot tery was chartered in 1868 and its fran ehise does net expire until 1895 In 1879 the Legislature,in the exercise oi its police power, abolished the lottery, but before the legislative Act went into effect a constitutional convention met. The lottery question was taken up in * that body,and a majority of the members held that the legislatiye Act was unconstitu tional, inasmuch as it violated a con tract. A paragraph was, therefore, inserted in the new constitution continuing the lottery until its chatter expired, and giv ing the Legislature power to establish other lotteries, none of them to extend beyond the time of the expiration of the Louisiana State Lottery Company's fran chise, and after January 1, 1895, no lot teries were permitted to exist in the State. There was an acrimonious debate on this proposition and recrimination among delegates to the Convention, but it was finally embodied in the Constitu tion of the State, voted on by the peo ple and adopted. So the Legislature is Dowerless in the matter further than to submit a constitutional amendment to the people. It will require a two-thirds vote to do this. The next session of the Legislature, which must act upon the matter if a re newal of the charter is secured, will meet in May. It is unders ood that the lottery company will go before that body and ask that the proposition be submitted to the people in the form of a conatitutioual amendment to extend its charter for a period of twenty five years. The lottery now pays an annual licease into the State treasury of $40,000. This is set apart for the maintenance of a char ity hospital in the city. WILLING TO PAY. I am reliably informed that the lottery will propose for an extension of its char ter to pay an annual license ranging from $2g0,000 to $500,000, the sum thus raised to be devoted to the charitable institu tions of the State and to educa':ionai purposes. There will be a hard fight over the proposed amendment in the -Legislature, but the indicatiors are that the necessary two-thirds will be secured and the amendment submitted to the people. The argument th~at will be used by those who will favor the amendment will be that in a matter of such importance, involving the payment of $12,000,000, the people should haye the rivght to de cine upon the matter. Those who op. pose the lottery will do so upon purely Smoral grounds, holding that all lotteries -are pernicious and demoralizing and ,should be prohibited, and the people - have virtually passed upon the question .by declaritng ten years ago that no lottery should be established in the State after S1895. The moral advocates are, as fax .as my observation goes, in a minority, Sbut will make a most determined fight. - They will have Governor Nichols with ,them. The Executive declared himself r within a week as against an extension ol .tde lottery charter. The Methodist Con -ference has also declared against it. Sc a has the Presbytery of Louisiana and the e Farmers' Alliance. On the other hand 1the lottery people will be backed by many I of the largest financiers of the city, a most of the influential politicians. y and by the great bulk of those who see a no harm in buying a lottery ticket, a These latter, it is safe to say, judging e from the evidence one sees around him, s constitute a large majority of the popr. lation. So in spite of the Governor and the moral farce of the religious element I see no reason to doubt that the propo sition of lottery, with some modificationt in favor of the State, will be submitted to the people. The diaposition of the amendment is more proolematical. The question, if ii 3 is snbmitted, will not be voted upon un a til 1892. In the meantime a great deal 'of missionary work can be done on both sides. Nothing is more certain than that the opposition will not cease with the action of the Legislature, provided, of course, it is favorable to toe lottery company. In fact, such action will only Sintensif; it. This ...mpaign is certain to be one of the hottent ever fought in the State. An attempt will be maade made to get one or both of the political parties to declare against the lottery in the party plat form, but it is not likely that either will inject the question into its declaration of purposes. The Republican party chartered the lottery and its representa tives have always voted for it, both in the Legislature and Convention. The Dem~crats have always divided upon the question, the majority hein6 opposed to the lottery, formerly on the ground that t was a faction in politics. The lottery has so shrewdly conducted ite affairs in late years as to disarm this opposition. TRIMMING ITs SAILS. 'It is understocd tnat it has subscribed impartially to the esmpaign fund of all parties and thus relieved itself of the Criticism that it has favored one at the expense of the other. Thus political op position has been disarmed, and it has only the moral issue to meet. This issue will niot down nor can it be waved aside, and so a royal battle will be the result. Wouldi the readers of the Herald like to know how it will end, le oking at the opposing forces at the present time? I should say that the lottery will se cure a renewal of its charter at the hands of the people. Why? Well, for one reason, the Republicans are likely to favor it for the reason that it brings money and business into the State. Again, a large percentage of the people are lottery players. The moral argu ment has but little inience with them. If they do not buy Louisiana lottery tick ets their money will go to Havana or Mexico, and they prefer to place it where, although the chances are so largely against winning, they knew that if the ticket draws a prize they will have no difficulty in getting their money, iledging themselves to cash all prizes >ver their counters. Again, a msjority of those interested n the chariteble institutious In tne State ire likely to stand by the lottery. These Latitutione, with toe siugie exception >f the Charity Hospital, are Dot proper y sustained, or rather are out iarge nough for the unfortunates who should :e within their walls, and the lottery proposes to provide amply for them. Then the taxpayers will be relieved of L p rtion of this burden if the amend nent .s adopted. These are some cf the influences the tati-lottery people will have to meet, ,he moral arguulent being their only weapon of offense agaist an institution io well entrenched. They know the adds against them, and although not iarguine of success, are frr from being dismayed. They propose to make the ight a warm one, and may be relied on to do it. A Lawyer Out...itted. SENECA, S. C., Feb. 27.-Sheriff Moss came down last Saturday, at the request of R. T. James, Esq., attor ney for the creditors of Goldsmith, and closed up the livery stable of W. M. Kirksey. It seems he proceeded with. out due process of law and laid him self liable for damages. Mr. Kirksey employed N. B. Cary, Esq., who forced Mr. Jaynes to compromise the case by the payment of $125. so Mr. Kirksey still holds the fort and has the funds to provision it for a good many days to come. Wanamaker to be Boycotted. ATLANTA, Gr.., Feb. 27.-The mer chants of Athens have sigueJ a boycott against trms with whom P.,stmaster General Waamnaksr does b isiness, be cause of the appointment of Mlatt Davis, colored, as pobtajimster. A Sensation in Atlanta. ATLANTA. Feb. 27.-Thomas H. Mc Kinnon, the largest real estAme agent here. has disappeared, leaving his wife and family and a number of creditors to mouro. His books show a shortage of several thousand dollars. A Terrible Dilemma. ERIE, Pa., Feb. 25 -When the west bound Nickel Plate passenger train reached the 150 feet hign bridge over Walnut creek, near Swantown, Pa., Monday afternoon, the engineer saw a man in the middle of the bridge. The train was running at the rate of forty miles an hour, and to reverse the lever on the bridge would have imperilled the train's 100 passengero. Although the poor fellow wrung his hands is agony, ind looked pleadingly at the engineer, the latter stood at the lever, kept on, and sent one man down 150 feet into eternity, rather than imperil the lives in his keeping. The man was unknows. Seed Corn 4,000 Years Old. During the season of 1889 a most remarkable crop was raised by David Drew, at Plymouth, N. H. In 1888 Mr. Drew came into possession of some corn grains wrapped with a mummy in Egypt, supposed to be 4,000 years old. These were planted and grew. It had many of the characteristics of real corn; the leaves were alternate; it gi em to be over six feet high; the mid-rils were white; but the product of the stock, there is where the curious part comes in. Instead of growing in an ear like modern maize, it hung in heavy clusters at the top, on spikelets; there was no tassel; no silk; each sprig was thickly studded with grains, each pro vided with a separate husk, like wheai grains. ________ Caught by a Marked Bill. On Tuiesday, in Savannah, A. S Bet hea, a young white man fromnMarior S. C , was broughit before the Unitec States Commissioner to answer to th< charge of robbing the United States malls. It seems that the complaints concernisg packages lost in the mai between Charleston and Jacksonvillt have been numerous of late, and Inspec tor Wilde, Bethea's accu'er, put a mark ed $1 bil la a package addr'ssed to W 11. Tatum, Orange Park. FIl, Subse quent inquiries revealed the fact tha the packet had disappeared. The in spector then approached Mr. Bethea, railway mail clerk, in the the presenc of another postal inspector and a thir party, and af ter showing his commission requested Iethea to hand over any mon ey lhe had upon his person to the thirc party ; and Bethea handed over the marl $1 bill. When cornered, Bethea saii that he merely put tbe money in hi pocket for safe keeping, intending t. register it and send it to Superintenden TerrilLl He will be held for trial. Chinamen Go Overaboard. The special correspondent of th Cincinnati Enquirer, who has just ar rived from Yokohama at San Francis co, sends his paper a sensational ac count of his trip -from this countr3 with a number of Chinese, who wern homeward bound for the New Years festivities in their native land. En voy age, the Chinamen, inveterate games tens, spent theirtime gambling. Incas< one of them lost all his money in mid. ocean his companions would not at tempt to stay him, they believing thal should they rescue a man in imminen1 peril his rescuer would have to sup' port him. Several are known to have leaped oves board, and there is reasos to believe that many mere are at thi bottom of the sea who got broke. Quite a number, too, died of sickness and were buried at sea. Bitter Partisanship. Walter, the clerk of the United States Court in Florida. who sends the telegram te Senator Chandler, is one of the bitterest partisianr in Florida. During the life of the late Judge Set tle he had to check his propensities, for Judge Settle, although an unflinch ing Republican, was a man of too mucd honor and integrity to permit anything but the most impartial justice in his court. Now that Walter has a judge after his own heart he can let loose his inclinations. The very fact thai the unscrupulous partisanship of the newly appointed Ulnited States Judge and District Attorney has been made apparent to the Senate judiciary com~ mittee will do more to help their con firmation than any other cause. The Longest Ride on Record. A Cossack officer named Pyevtzoff is taking a horseback ride from Blelovet cbensk, on the river Amoor, in Eastern Siberia, to St. Petersburg, a distance of 5.300 miles. He goes quite alone on an ordinary cavalry horse and carrying his provisions with him. He started in No. vember, and when last seen by a party near Irkutsk was in good health and spirits, and had travelled about a quar ter of the distance. He expects to reach St. Petersburg in April. It will he the longest ride on record. Left his Fortune to his Workmen. Mr. Chantelop the brass fousder, who died at Montreal last week, left his entire fortune to his employes, except a few thousand dollars, which were bequeathed to charity. .The estate is valued at $500,000. Each of the workmen receives $400, and the balance is left to the three foremeri, who are to canny on the business with it. Mr. Chanteloup was a Frenchman, and had to flee from Paris during the riot there. He settled in Canada and ICE 80,000 YEARS OLD. A Mine In CaUfornia in Which There Is Perpetual Frost. The -lti:n ide of the Stevens mine on Mount 1eCiellan (California) is 2,500 feet. At the depth of from 60 to 200 feet the crevice matter, consisting of silica, calcite, and ore, together with the surrounding wall rock, is a solid frozen mass, says an exchange. Mc Clellan is one of the highest eastern spurs of the snowy range. It has the form of a horse-shoe, with a bold es carpment of feldsparic rock nearly 2,000 feet high, which, in some places, is nearly perpendicular. In descending into the mine nothing unusual occurs until a depth of eighty or ninety feet is reached, when the frozen territory begins and continues for over 200 feet. 'here are no indi cations of a thaw summer or winter. The whole of the 200 feet of frozen walls is surrounded by massive rocks. The miners, being unable to excavate the frozen material with pick and drill in the usual way, found that the only way to mine in this peculiar lode was to kindle a huge fire against the -face' of the tunnel and in the mornin take out the ore that had been thawe' loose during the night. In fact, this was the only mode of mining used while going through the frozen belt some ten or tifteen years since. The tunnel is noX;ma13y hun dred feet deep, and still tb is no diminution of the frost. There is, so for as can be seen, no opening or chan nel through which the fost could pos sibly have reached such a depth from the surface. Besides this ther' are many other mines in the same vicity in a like frozen state. The theory is that the rock was de posited in glacial times, when there was cold enough to freeze the very earth's heart. In that case the mine is an ice-house whose stores have remain ed unthawed for at least 80,000 years. The phenomeno iii not uncommon or inexplicable wh7 openings can be found through which a current of air can pass; but cases which, like the Stevens mine, show no opening for air-currents must be referred to im bedded icebergs of the glacial period. SUBSTANTIAL HANDSHAKINCS. A Preacher's Parishioners Play an Enjoy. able Little Joke on ELIm. It was years since, in the Ozark region, where I was riding a circuit, that I saw a minister enjoy a most substantial handshaking. says a writer in the Globe-Democrat. Shakino hands was his peculiarity. He believedin the potency of a cordial grasp to win men to the church, and though successful in winning souls he was very unfortunate in the matter of getting dollars.- In fact poverty continually stared him in the face. -e owned a little farm and mort aoed it as long as it would vield a dol ar, The mortgages were fallnig due, but there was no prospect of pay ing them. But it did not bother him a bir. He shook hands more heartily than ever. "I have unbounded faith in hand shaking to bring everything out right." he often said, until his penchant came to be the talk of the town. At last came the day when the mortgages must be foreclosed that would deprive him of the little home that sheltered his family. On the eve of that day a knock at the door of his house, which was a little way from town, called him. When he opened the door a whole crowd rushed in, and, without saying a word, com menced shaking hands. He felt some thing cold in the palm of the first man, and when the hand was withdrawn it stuck to his own. "That is the most substantial shake I ever experienced." he said, as he held up a $5 gold piece. But the next man stepped up and a silver dollar was left in -the preacher's palm. No one would say a word in explanation, but pressed in on .him as fast as he could stick the metal and bills into his pockets. The house was not large enough for the visitors, each one of whom deposited from $1 to $10 in the outstretched hand. Each left -the moment his little errand was ac complished. and not a word could be -had in explanation, except the last one, Iwho, as he turned to go, remarked: "We wanted to play a little joke on you, and we have." The several "jokes" netted just $8-71. His home -was saved and a neat balance was left I besides. The minister maintained that She had contracted a habit that night that for a year afterward, when he sshook a hand, prompted him to look into his own palm, half expecting to see a piece of metal there. A Great Scheme. JA brig'ht little fellow living on Madison avenue went to the theater Slast w ek,says the Woman About Town in the New York Evening ,Sun, saw the play a-id the people, and deduced there from some original ideas of his own. "I've a great scheme," said he, for doing away with the big hat nuisance at the theaters, and I thmnk of having it patented." "What is it?" "Well. I propose to suspend a heavy weight from the ceiling just inside the door and at such a height that when a woman enters with a hat tall enough to strike the weight it will fall upon her and smash the hat flat." "But that will smash the woman,too, won't it?" '-Oh, yes, very likely." responded the youngster, with an adorable shrug; "but any woman who will wear such a hat to the theater ought to be killed. Besides, there are too many women on the face of the earth now." tSpeed and Power of Birds. The vulture is said to fly, at times, at the rate of about 100 miles an hour; the wild goose and the swallow, in their migrations, make 90 miles an hour, and the carrier pigeon has cer tainly flown long distances at rates of speed ranging from 60 to 80 miles an hour, and for many hours together. -The common crow ordinarily lounges across country at the rate of twenty five miles an hour, the speed of a rail way train. Professor Langley finds that the power exerted by the eagle in full flight is but a fraction of one horse-power. Mr. Chanute computes the power exerted by a pigeon fiying 2,200 feet per minute, twenty-five miles| per hour nearly, at 1-200 of a horse power per pound, or nine and one-third horse-power for a flying-madhine of equally good form, weighing one ton, at twenty-five miles an hour, or about fifty horse-power per ton weight at fifty miles. Mr. Wenhamn, a member o~f the British Aeronautical Society, iads, in the pelican, an expenditure of one-eleventh horse-power by twenty one pounds of bird, and this is one horse-power to 231 pounds. or about a horse-power for the weight of a man, allowing ample margin fpr surplus power. The birds are found to have a surplus lifting power of about one-half. Professor Langley has purchased re cently for the Smithsonian Institution the prize steam engine of the Aeronau tical Society of 1868, which. with car and screws, weighs only sixteen pounds, and but thirteen with out these essentials. To the engineer these acts certainly look encouraging. -Forun. The Fnture Man-of-War. The Italian Admiral Albini thinks that the future man-of-war will have double screws and a helm at each end, s that in battle it. need waste no time i turning~ a round. Its sides will be COOKING IN BRAZIL 'he Cogee Is DOUOIOUS-The oteA A" Wretehed Places. The domestic cooking of urban Bra :llians, as a ruis, is exquisite. says the iew York Tim s. There is a very arge French population in Ro, and French customs, styles, and cuisine are n vogue. The wines are superb and ,heap. The Oporto claret, which !omes from old estates in Portugal to relatives in Rio de Janeiro, is deli :iously mellow,and unrivaled in flavor. Sher - and Madeira are likewise fine, but ocourse Oporto is a specialty. The red wines are always good, even rin ordinaire. Fruits form a principal art of the dessert, and such fruits! Eruit of Conde, Pernambuco pineap ples, Bahia oranges, grapes of Petro polis-ah! the memory thereof will last always. and tantalize one in dreams! And the coffee! It is elixir-fit for the gods! But when one leaves the cities one bids farewell to palatable cooking. Black beans, charqui, and fariuha form the staple of edibles. unless,indeed, one is 'ven 'toncinho," greasy pork, with black beans and farinha. The raandioca root supplies the "staff of life" to the Brazilians of the interior. Farinha is the coarse meal-the grated juice-ex pressed, oven-dried mandioca. The raw mandioca is poisonous, but the poison, being very volatile, is driven off by heat. Occasionally one finds a fair bottle of claret or some rare old port, but usually the wine is sour villainous stuff. The coffee is always good. I' speak now of the vendas-the common, the only country ians. If one is thrown upon the hospitality of priests, as often happens, or the doors of a coffee planter's "bazenda" is open by letters of introduction, the traveler fairs sumptuously. But hospitality is always the rule, and not the exception. Everywhere one is made welcome, even by the poorest. Even the vendas -not often clean or comfortable-have a hespitable air until one comes to pay the reckoning. The hotels throughout Brazil, even in Rio de Janeiro, are wretched affairs. The Hotel Estrangeiro is the best, the rooms being large and airy and the beds clean and comfortable. The restaurants, as a rule, are Poor, even in Rio. The Globo is fairly good:~ Butter comes in from the United States and Sweden and is to be avoided. Milk, save for cafe au lait in the morn ing, is not in demand. Families are served directly from the cow driven, with calf at heels, to the door, and the modicum milked while- the black ser 'vant waits and gossips with the milk man. STORIES TOLD ABOUT SHEEP. What Came of Two Bands That Persisted in "Following the Leader." Several "sheep men" from the Inland Empire were gathered around the stove at one of the hotels recently dis cussing the prospects for mutton this winter -and at last they got to telling stories about sheep, says the Portland Oregonian. One told about the captain of a schooner who had a band of sheep on the deck of his vessel. As he was turn ing and twisting the wheel to keep the schooner on her course, the old ram who headed the flock, taking umbrage at his motions, came up behind him and at one full swoop butted him over the wheel. The enraged captain seized his woolly assailant and threw him over board, when, presto! away went the whole fiock, popping over the rail, one after another, into the sea. Boats were lowered, and with much labor a portion of the flock was saved. Another told a story which illus trated the same follow-my-leader trait in the character of sheep. At a porton the sound one evening just after the deck hands had got all the freight stowed away there came down 500 sheep to be put on board. All hands were vexed because of the delay and trouble connected with shipping them, but finally a pe'n was made of hurdles between decks and aga'g yTfE and in the dusk all was ready to take the sheep on board and they were started down the gangway. The first one, as he struck the deck, saw ao opening in the other side of the boat across which a hurdle had been placed. Instead of going along to the corral prepared this sheep made a unnmng jump, cleared the hurdle and landed in the salt chuck alongside. Every one of the band followed suit and in a short time 500 sheep were struggling in the water. The captain, having seen the last one go down the plank. yelled out, "All right down there?" An answer came back. "All right, sir; send 'em down." "Send 'em down,' roared the captain; "haven't you the sheep down there?" "Not a sheep, sir," was the reply, and investigation showed that there was not a sheep on the boat. The captain could not delay any longer and so steamed away, and only a small number of the sheep ever got ashore. Sam Jones As a Peace-Xaker. A good story is told on Rev. Sam Jones, an inci'dent that happened when the well-known preacher first started in evangelistic work. He went to a small town and was told that he would have a hard time in the church, as there were numerous feuds existing be tween the members. and two brothers, who both belonged to the church,never spoke to each other, nor did their families. The night for opening the meeting arrived. Mr. Jones entered the churca while the choir and cong-regation were siging: Come, angel band: Come, and around me stand. 0, bear me away on your snowy wings To my immortal home. When the center of the church was reached Mr. Jones stopped in the aisle, waved his hat at the choir and shonted: "Stop! stop that singing!" The music ceased at once, and Mr. Jones continued: -"That's not a fit song to be singing in this church. I am told there are brothers and cousins who belong here and yet don'tspeak to each other. Now do you think there is any danger of hearingr the rustling of angels' wings beneath~ the roof with such a state of affairs? You won't hear any kind of wings rustle so long as that sort of thing keeps up, unless it's a bunzad's wings.". The two brothers made friends be fore the meeting broke up.-Alasta Jrournal. A Hand Expedition. The Lewiston Journal says a Maine constable had a hard experience the other day. He went out after a gang of poachers, and was not only cor dially received by them but was in viteJf to accompany them on a hunting0 expedition. The reason for so much cordiality was not apparent until the officer found that his late companions had managed to leave him alone on an uninhabited island. where they kept him for two daiys and nights. Postal Wa -;oas in Berlin. Berlin now hats a system of large postal, wagons-with sorting tables, stampig arrangements, and every thing else used in preparing mail for transportation-which operate on all the city mail routes. About two hours is thus saved in prepaLring the city mails for the teams, as the clerks do all the sorting, stamping, and bundling while the wagons roll swiftly along. This would not be practicable in