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THE PATIENT MAN. A Pr.ACTiCAL LESSON TAUGHT BY THE STORY OF JOB. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage on the Christian Religion--Is it to be Coademned Because Some of Its Professors are Not 01 What They Should Be? On Sunday Dr. Talmage preachedt( on "Narrow Escapes," talug as his il text Job xiv, 20: "I am escaped with i! the skin of my teeth." Following is r his sermon in full: t Job had it hard. When with boils , and bereavement and bankruptcy, tJ and a fool of a wife, he wished he p was dead; and I do not blame him. 0 His flesh was gnne, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away I until nothing but the enamel seemed o left. He cries out, "I am escaped a with the skin of my teeth." There s has been some difference of opinion A abous this passage. St. Jerome and I Schultens, and Doctors Good and t lool and Barnes, have zdl tried their a forceps on Job's teeth. You deny 5 my interpretation, and say, "What did Job know about enamel of the t teeth?" He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, f thousands of years old, are found to day with gold-filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon aad Moses wrote about those important fae.ors of the body. To other pro ioling complaints, Job, I think: has adted an exasperating toothache, an I putting his head against the in fLmed face, he says, -I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul, but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition be tween them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel; but as Job finally escaped, so have they. Thank God! thank God! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are "saved as by fire." A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shovedoff. The flames advance; you can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fimgers, until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you you drop into it-you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation ,-, until they are partially consumed, but, after all, get off-"saved as by fire." But I like the figure of Job a httle better than that of .eaul, because the pulpit has not worn it out; and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souls, and are saved as "with the skin of their teeth." It is as easy for, some people to look to the Cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tract able, loving, you expect them to be come Christians. You go over to the store and say, "Grandon joined the church yesterday." Your business comrades say: -That is just what might have been expected; he always was of that turn of mind." In youth this person whom I describe was al ways good. He never broke things. sit an hour in church perfectly quiet,f looking nieither to the right-hand nor the left, bus straight into the eyes of the minister, as thoughhe understood the whole discussion about the eter sal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom'of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here is another one, who started ilife with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house-roof to see ifhe could balance himself. There was no horse that he dared not ride-no tree he ceuld not climb. His 'oyhood a long series of predicaments; his manhood was reckless; his mid-life 'very wayward. But now he is con 'verted, and you go over to the store and say, "Arkwright joined the church yesterday." Your friends say: "It is not possible! You must be joking." You say: "No; I tell you the truth. He joined the Church." Then they reply, "There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Chris tian!" In other words, we will admit that it is more difficult for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. I may be preaching to some who have cut loose from churches and Bibles and Sundays, and who have come in here with no intention of be coming Christians themselves, but just to see what is going on; and yet: you may find yourself escaping, be fore you leave this house, as "with: the skin of your teeth. I do not ex poet to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch, and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore, pulling the nets. without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not their ghtkind of a net. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The water is full of fish, the wind is in the: right direction, the Gospel net is strong. Oh thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us to-day how to cast the net on the right side of the ship! Some of you, in comning to God., will have to run against sceptical no tion. It is useless for people to sayt sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Chrnstian religion. I s cannot say such things. By what r process of temptation or trial or be- z trayal you have come to your '] present state. I know not. There di are two gates to your nature. The di gate of the head, and the gate of the t: heart. The gate of your head is t] locked with the bolts and bars that t: an archangel could not break, but the n gate ofyour heartis swinging easily b upon its hinges. If I assaulted your a~ body with weapons, you would meet -b me with weapons, and it would be a h swerd-stroke for sword-stroke, and ai wound for wound and blood for blood; but iflIcome and knock at it . the door of your house, you open i+, ts and give me the best seat in your p] parlor. If I should come at you now n< with an argument, you would answer at me with an argument; if with sar- af casin, y'ou answer me with sarcasm; lig blow for blow, stroke for stroke, but fo when I come and knock at the door ar of your heart, you open it say, "Come ai in, my brother, and tell me all you hi know about Christ and heaven." di Listen to two or three questions: n< Are you as happy as you used to be mn when you believed in the ar truth of the Christian religion! m Wolud you like to have your cili- ce now travelinlg? You had a rla- 1 -e who pr1.fesed to be a Christiau,'1 I was thoroahly consistent, living 1 . dying in the faith of the Gospel. t ould you not like to live the same ( Liet life, and the same peaceful f ath? I h ive a letter sent me by a Le who has rejected the Christian I ligion. It says: -I am old enough I know that the joys and pleasures I life are evanescent and to realize j e fact that it must be camfortable 1 old age to believe in something lative to the future. and to have a ith in some system that proposes > save. I am free to confess that I ould be happ'er if I could exercise le simple and beautiful faith that is assessed by many whom I know. I n not willingly out of the church or at of the faith. My state of uncer tinty is one of unrest. Sometimes doubt my immortality, and look up a the death-bed as the closing scene, fter wh.ch there is nothing. What bdlI do that I have not done?" 11 scepticism is a dark.doleful land: jet me say that this Bible is e.ther ue or false. If it be false. we are s well off as you; if it be true, then -lich of us is safer? Let me also ask whether your rouble has not beeD that you con junded Christianity with the incon istent character of some who pro ess it? You are a lawyer. In your rofession there are mean and dishon st men. Is that anything against he law? You are a doctor. There xe unskilled and contemptible men a your profession. Is that anything .gainst medicine? You are a mer 'hant. There are thieves and defraud rs in your business. Is that any hing against merchandise? Behol, hen, the unfairnessof charging upon hristianity the wickedness of its lisciples. We admit that some of ,he charges against those who pro !ess religion are true.Some of the most igantic swindles of the present day lave been carried on by members of he church. There are men standing n the Lont rank in the churches who ivould not be trusted with $5 with ut good collateral security. They eave their business dishonesties in he vestibule of the church as they oin and sis at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament. dey get up and wipe the wine from their lips, go out, and take up their ins where they left off. To serve the devil is their regular work; to serve God. a sort of play spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect to wipe ff from their business slate all the past week's inconsistencies. You have no more right to take such a man's life as a specimen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbersthat lie on the beach at Coney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It is time that we draw a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it. Do you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world has over seen? Do you know any book that has as much in it! Do you not think, upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficent? I come toyou with both hands extended toward you. In one hand I have the Bible, and in the other I have nothing. This Bible in one hand I will surrender for ever ust as soon as in my other hand you an put a book that is better. Today I invite you back into the good old fashioned religion of your fathers to the God whom they worshiped, to the Bible they read, to the promises on wheathey-leaned, to the cross on pich they hung thereral expec tations. You have not been happy a day since you swung off; you will not be happy a minute until you swing back There is a large class of persons in mid-life who have still in them appe tites that were aroused in early man hood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a -little fast," "high livers," "free and eday," "hail fellows well met." They are now pay ing. in compound interest, for trou bles they collected twenty years ago. Some of you are trying to escape, and you will-yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your teeth." God nd your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul. that was deeper in the mire than you are. They line the beach of heaven-the multitude whom God has rescued !rom the thrall of suicidal habits. If 'ou this day turn your back on the wrong and start anew God help !Ou. Oh the weakness of human 'nelp! Men will sympathize for a while and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon,they will give it, md say they will try you again; but, alling away again under the power ,f temptation, they cast you eff for. iver. But God forgives seventy imes seven: yea seven hundred times; rea, though this be the ten-thou cndth time, He is more earnest, more ympathetic, more helpful this ast time than when you took your irst misstep. If, with all the influences favorable or a right life, men make so many nistakes, how much harder it is hen, for instance, some appetite hrusts its iron grapple into theroota >f the tongue, and pulls a man down writh hands of destruction! If,under mch circumstances, he breaks away, ;here will be no sport in the under aking, no holiday enjoyment, but a ,truggle in which the wrestlers move 'rom side to side, and bend and twist, td watch for an opportunity to get n heavier strokes,until with one final ifort in which the muscles are dis ended and ths veins stand out, and he blood starts, the swarthy habit als under the knee of the victr caped at last as "with the skin ofj he teeth." There are men who have been cap ized of evil passions, and capsized' aid-ocean, and they are a thousand iiles away from any shore of help. hey have for years been trying to ig their way out. They have been igging away, and digging away, but aey can never be delivered unless iey wdll hoist some signal of dis -ess However weak and feeble it tay be, Christ will never see it, and ear down upon the helpless craft, ad take them on board: and it will e known in earth and in heaven w narrowly they escaped-"escaped ;wi~ the skin of their teeth." There are others who, in attempt g to come to God, must run be r'een a great many business per exities. If a man goes over to busi mss at 10 o'clock in the morning, td comes away at 3 o'clock in the ternoon he has some time for re aion: but how shall you find time; r religious contemplation when you e driven from sunrise to sunset, ed have been for five years going be-< ad in business, and are frequently t mned by creditors whom you can it pay, and when, from MondayC arning until Saturday night, you e dodging bills that you cannot set? You walk day by day in un- 2 rtainties that have kept your brain f itl1 less business troubles than you ave gone crazy. The clerk has ieard a noise inthe back counting oom, n:1d gone in and found the hivf man of the firm a raving mam-i ,e: or the wife has heard the bang ef t pistol in the back parlor, and gone '# n, stumnbling over the dead body of P ier husband-a suicide. There are t k this house to-day 300 men pursued, V iarassed, trodden down and scalped 0 >y business perplexities, and which 0 xvay to turn next they do not know. 1 Now God will not be hard on you. 1 He knows what obstacles are in the P way of your being a Christian, and t vour fir st effort in the right direc- t tion He will crown with success. Do not let Satan, with cotton bales and kegs and hogsheads and counters and stocks of unsalable goods, block 1 up your way to heaven. Gather up I all your energies. Tighten the girdle t about your loins. Take an agomz ing look into the face of God, and then say, "here goes one grand effort for life vternal!" and then bound away for heaven; escaping "as with the skin of your teeth." In the last day it will be found that Hugh Latimer and John Knox and Huss and Ridley were not the great est martyrs, but Christian men who went up incorrapt from the contamin ations and perplexities of Wall Street, Water Street, Pear Street, Broad Street, State Street and Third Street. On earth they were called brokers, or stock-jobbers, or retailers, or im porters; but in heaven Christian he roes. No fagots were heaped about their feet, no inquisition demanded from them recantation; no soldier aimed a spike at their heart; but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physical consum ing is as the breath of a spring morn mng. I find in the community a large class of men who have been so cheat ed, so lied about, so outrageously wronged, that they have lost their faith n everything. In a world wthere everything seems so topsy-turvy, they do not see how there can be any God. They are confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elabor ate argamenLs to prove to them the truth of Christianity, or the truth of anything else, touch them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. I preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamen tal discourse; but put my hand on your shoulder, and invite you into the peace of the Gospel. Here is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Ltlantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddystone light house. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God. God stuck to the world; but the earth seceded from His government, and hence all these outrages, and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of yvars He has been coaxing the world to come back to Him; but the more He has coaxed, the more violent have men been in theirresistance.and they have stepped back and step ped back until they have dropped into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you, and who have thought tnat God had forgot ten you. Try Him, and see if He will not help. Try Him, and see if He will not pardon. Try Him, and see if He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of His heart. The wa ters have no refreshment lhke the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the rein deer stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool mountain torrent the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without~cracking astick under his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its death agony and falls backward, its antlers ciahig on the rocks; but the panting heart that drinks from the water brook of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded, and shall never die. This world is a poor portion for your soul; oh business man! An East ern king had graven on his tomb two figers, represented a. sounding upon each other with a snap, and under them the motto, "All is not worth that." Apicius Ccelius hanged him self because his steward informed him that he had only eightythousand pounds sterling left. All the world's riches make but a small inheritance for a soul.; Robespierre attempted to win the applause of the world; but when he was dying a woman came rushing through the crowd, crying to him, "Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in France!" Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under its An thema Maranatha Oh, find your peace in God. Make one strong pull for heaven. No half way work will do it. There some times comes a time on shipboard when everything must be sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, the rigging is nothing. The captain puts the trumpet to his lips and shouts, "Cut away the mast!' Some of you have been tossed and driven, and you have, in your effort to keep the word, well-nigh lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter, let everything else go. Over board with allthose other anxieties and burdens! You will have to drop the sails of your pride, and cut away: the mast. With one earnest cry for; help, put your cause into the hand of Him who helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest temp- I et that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest imploration for mercy. I shall go home to- day feeling that some of you, who have considered 2 your case as hopeless, will take hea-t] again, and that, with blood-red ear-t nestness, such as you have never ex-( perienced before, you will start for t the good land of the Gospel-at last c to look back saying: "What a great a risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! '] Just got through, and no more! Es- l1 aped by the skin of my teeth." C 14 -Herr Bethel, the German social ist, is a genuine workingman. He o tarted as an ivory turner, and even g 2w when something displeases himi n the establishment of Freslich &i Bebel at Leipzig, of whiehi he is a b artner, he tucks up his sleeves and hows the ignorant and obstinate y, rorkman "how it should be dune." a -Gary Pittman, the treasurer of " lbany, Ga., fleeced that city out of Lout $8,000. He was also cashier >f the bank of Nottingham. one or e he new mushroom towns of North h tlabamna. He got away with $1,800Jj f the bank's money in addition. HeL peculated in Nottingham town lots b ad got in on the ground floor. Both, Llbany and the bank are on the ground da loor at present, and Pittmnan has fc FIXINGTHF BT RDEN TIGHTER. i -narkoble Ui-wlti and Vrobal,y Dnva tion o0 the ' ision Li-t. The increase of pension expendi res in recent years is sonethUaig I onderful. The proper maxiuni ?nsion expenditure oi account of ie civil war-on the basis of rcal isability ineurred in military ser ce-wae reached in 1874. when the uitgo for pensions was :t:')53.749. b decreased froim that year until 378, when it was $26.844.415. The ension agent, however, about that .me captured the demagogu, with Lie result that new legi:da.uion was evised to shower the pull- mioley pon persons not previousiy deemed rorthy of pensions. Their objects ave been greatly favored by the ,rotectionists, whose interest it is o keep tariff taxes at the highest otch. The consequence is seen in a ension expenditure in 1889 of $95, 24,779. In the present fiscal year lie expenditure is to be from *105. '00,000 to $125,000,000. Next year f the service pension bill just passed >y the House become a law, the nual expenditure will be from 150,000,000 to $160000. If the 'prisoners' bill" also becomes a law goodly number of millions will be Ldded to this figure. The amount lisbursed on accouant of pensions iince 1861 has been $1,150,318.423, ,xclusive of the $600,000,000 given in :ounties to volunteers. There is a :urious relation between the de :rease of the interest of the publie lebt and the increase of pensions, ,vhich indicates a tendency of the 6var burden to become peipetual. On August 31, 1865, when the debt was Largest, the principal was 82.391,630, 204 and the interest charge 6150.977, 397. At present the inten. st bearing ebt is about $750.000,000. and the interest charge about $35.000,000. The saving in interest from debt paid goes, it is evident, into pelnsions, so that there is to be no relief from war burdens. If any one cherishes the belief tbat the new pension laws are of triflin g importance for the reason that the large expenditure thr au thorize is to last only a few years, he will perhaps change his mind when he learns from the report of the com missioner of pensions that there are still 37 persons drawing pensions on account of the Revolutionary war, which ended nearly 110 years agG and that there are 11,593 pensioner. of the war of 1812. If our past ex perience teaches anything, we shal] still be paying millions for pensions in far off 1985. There is something very magnificent, doubtless, in thE amount we are giving the survivors ol the 2,500,000 patriots who, after fou years of desperate fighting, overcamt the 600,000 Confederates. This bounteous stream of federal gratuity brings cheer and ease to countles happy homes. In 1888 the averag annual value of each pension wat $131.18-an amount of cash suffloieni to relieve the average recipient fro= the need of working for a living. Al: through the North, West and North west this money comes in a bounte ous and gladdening stream, winniug votes and support for the party thai orens the treasury gates for its out flow. But arc the other homes miadt happy by it? Are the taxpayers o0 the country prospering in spite of th<t drain upon their resources caused by our persion generosity? It is a mat tV r worth considering. Ther e ar< signs that some of them' are beuing ruined by it. Although the Wets1 and Northwest receive the gr1eatel part of the golden stream, itis among the farmers of those very sections o. the country that the cry of distress it loudest. Letter from MrM. .Jem-rsonx J~avi.. The following letter has been re ceived by the clerk of the city counci of Richmond, Va., which explainm itself: "Ba.uvout, Miss., April 23, 1890. To the Honorable City Council an( Board of Aldermen of Richmuond Gentlemen-I have received yom resolutions, and thank you for the handsome dress in which you have embodied them, and most sincerel> for the noble tribute you have paid tc my husband. These are the muor4 gratifying because some of yomn members were our neighbors wher we hoped everything and feared nothing, and the reverses and disap pointments we sustained drew un loser together. Believe me the af fection you express for him whic served you gladly while he could and loved your State and city sincere ly while life lasted, brings such com fort as is now possible to me and mine. I note your resolutions as tc the disposal of the revered rema~ins. My friends, do not press me for an answer now. I cannot decide the question yet, but can only say I will do what seems to our family and friends best when we coe to deter mine the final place of iterment. One f my dead rests with you. anid most tenderly have yon cared fo and tended the little grave. and the grate ful memory is ever presnnt with mue. "Please aecept singly and collee ively for yourselves and the beloved eity you represent the best wishes' md sincere thanks of yours faithfully, "V. JEFrEP:SON D)Avs. A Gseoritia Rtomance. It is better to be burn plucky thaui ueky. Four yearsi ago ai young &eorgian asked a charmig belle of he pretty town of Thonmsville to) narry him. 'I will,' she said. -when ro are an oflicerin the United States iy.' Too oldd to get an appoin~ut nont to West Point, thus young Geor ~ian enlisted as a private in ani artil ery battery~his purpose beinig to rise rom the ranks to a lieutenaney. He complished his purp~ose in . ist two ears; for in IDecember last he passedi successful examination at Fortress tonroe and was assigned to duty at ort Wingate, New Mexico. as lien enant of a coimanly of the Sixth Javlry. He got a furlough and re urned to Georgia on a visit. Of ourse, the greater part of the time llotted to this visit was spent i ~homasville. Tho result was as fol >ws: At 6:30 o'clock on the~ evening f the 23d inst., Lieut. Lunsford Dan 1 of the Sixth Cavalry, great-grand on of John C. Forsyth and grandson f Alfred Iverson. both distinguished >r their services to Georgia anid the inited States, was united in narrige >Miss Bettie Bruce. one of the most eauful and most highly accom ished young ladies of the lovely and Linens town of Thomuasville. They :e now at Fort Wingate"-Bruns ick Times. -The late Duke of Manchester's lebrated herd of -short-horns at ioublehton is to be sold off'in July.; his large herd is one of the finest in ngand, and was founded with the' st blood. ar.d has always been, ost carefully muaintained. The| ike gave 1,900 guineas for an Ox rd cow at the Dunmore sale in FIRE AT ITS WORST. FA m:.!i iv. rtt ion of a canadian Lunatic ( A.-yluu->iore than a Hundred of the In mates Kiled. The irisane asylum at Longue sa Pointe. nine miles from Montreal So caurght fire at eleven o'clock on Tues- C day moriig :and was soon a mass of m, 11ales. wvith no hope of saving the tr< building from utter destruction. As R] inear as can be calculated from 100 to pl 150 insane inmate's were caught in the so building with no chanee of escape. st The 'ire apparatus of the asylum was a utterly inadequate to control the ki flilaes and several steamers were oi forwarded froim Montreal on a special G train. The sights in the grounds ye surrounding the asylum were horri- 01 ble beyond description. Hundreds ar of lunatics, male and female, were oi groupedtogether in a frienzied condi- ti tion. The nurses made every effort C to allay their fears and as rapidly as M possible th poor creatures were re- w imoved to places of shelter in the tc neighborhood. R At a few minutes past two o'clock h, a detachnent of the Montreal fire le brigade arrived on the scene. The aj excitement among the lunatics in the C grounds finally became so great that h a detachment of the Montreal police 1 force were hurried out to assist the a guards. There were 1,300 persons in h the asylum when the fire broke out. s I Cowhided by a Woman. SAVANNAH, Ga., May .-This after- A noon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, Mrs. 8 John F. Cullum cowhided Alfred 0 Fantel, a clerk in A. K. Altmayer & d Co.'s dry goods store.corner Bull and i Broughton streets. The cowhiding was very deliberate- i ly planned. Mr. Cullum, the husband, 3 purchased the weapon this morning and accompanied his wife to the c store. Approaching Mr. Fantel, with c her husband at her side, Mrs. Cullum t began to use the cowhide vigorously. r Great excitement and confusion pro- C I vailed. Mr. Altmayer rushed up to Fantel's rescue and Cullum dealthim several blows, so Altmayer says. Cul lum says he only observed: "Touch i I my wife and I will split you wide C open." Cullum is suprintendent of E the fire alarm, and is a man of im- c mense strength. As far as can be t learned, the trouble arose ox Mrs. Cullum returning a purchase, which I Fantel said was not bought at Alt- I mayers., and he declined to receive I it or exchange. Mrs. Cullum says he called her a liar. Fantel has borne a good reputation, and has been known as a polite young gentleman. Mr. I Aitmayer had Mr. Cullum arrested i for assault and battery. He gave bond. 3frs. Cullum was not arrested I though her arrest was asked for. Mrs. Cullum struck Fantel about a I dozen blows. Has the Alliance Been Swindled? The Farmers' Alliance Exchange at Dallas, Tex., has squandered nearly a million and a nalf of doilars of the farmers' money during the past three weeks. There is widespread discon tent in the subordinate Alliances. It is alleged that an investigation has been demanded and prominent Alli ance men promise some sensational developments. They claim that a coterie of politicians at Dallas and: elsew~here are running the order for self-inteest.-New York Wold. Thme Attempt Abandoned. It doesn't take a great wvhie stand ing behind a pretty girl to get her cloak on-that is, not necessarily. But we have kno)wn of young men, stalwart, active young men, any one of whom could occupy five minutes in extending this little necessary courtesy- There are so many styles Iof occurrence in this world the secret of which lies concealed beneath a Imountaia of analysis that itis useless to pursue this subjiect further in a single volume.-Merchant TJraveler. cehools int Texas. Texas is expending about $3,000, 000 annually on her public schools, andl half a million more on the State University, Agricultnral College and schools for the deaf and dumb and blind. The school fund is growing from the sale of pulic lands and other sourci s at the rate of more than $1,000,000 yearly. To the in Icome from the school fund is added the proceeds of local taxes levied for this purpose. The State nas a school population of some half a million, about one-fourthi colored. Normal schools for both white and colored1 pupils are supported by the State,1 and there are some 3000 colored teach ers employed in the colored schools. Texas does much better so far as length of term and salaries of teach ers go than the other Southern States. Teachers there earn forty five dlollars per month on an average, which is above the average for thei whole country-they teach about six months in the year. The number of teachters employed is annually in-i creasing, and the expenditures on ac-i count of schools will be $500,000i arger thi,; yeaLr than last. -Obstinate nose bleeding is fre I uenftly one of the difficult things to cheek. Several aggt.ravated cases have I tely ovcwmr.d at the hospital of ti~e University of Pennsylvania. As a la.st resort Dr. D. Hayes Agnew tried hamu fat with greait rcsult.s Two large cylindei s of bacon were forced well into the nostrils and the hemorrhbage ceased( at enee. --Mayor Grant. ofNewYork, is in anfa awkward position. having been comi pelled to admit that he gave Flossi. the eight-year-old dug~ihter of Rich- v ard Croker, ~ .000 in bills at a time a Iwhen there was an acequoduct con traci on hand, in which Croker could officially help the Mayor. --In the State insane asylunm of Massachiusetts four women and three v men suffering from forms of dementia h nearly resembling each other tnd t] supposed to be hopeless c .ses sud denly and comipletely recovered af ter having had la grippe. The fact el is interesting and puzeling the doe I --The most feariul rumaor yet startedn in reference to this pious administra' d< tion is that the private secretary of sa Postmaster General Wanamaker fc plays poker on Sunday with the pri- a vate secretary of BosM Quay. It is said that they try to atone for the original sin of the act by chipping out' H for the Republican campaign fund. or jfa: -Chaplain Milbrn's prayer that ' lol mlembilers of Congress might be cured -fr< of the~ habit of using profane lan,. Sa guiage has called forth some angry i11 protests from the statesmen in Wash- Iloi ington. The chaplain in bis prayer 'b indicated the only particular in which to some of these gentlemen resemble be OTTON STALK BAGGING 1 q H!CMI PROMISES TO BECCME THE SUCCESSFUL RIVAL OF JUTE. si r. W. E. Jackson solves theCo ton Bag Siung ue-~in-A Maeline to Decorticate te Cutton Stalk-saniple of Bagging wuven From the Fiber. iuumv chiroicle. b Ctotn bagging from the cotton e lulks. It has been the dream of theoriz ig economists. t L:ke maIIV theories its waslistened u > U:mied at. UI ti i .rd Atkinson, of Boston, the iocat American statistician, was r liou-git to be phrase-making when at a tlauta he predicted that the prod- b ets of the cotton plant would urove nre valuable than its fleecy e int. t Was he the mouthpiece of nature's lecree that the cotton stalk should ( tseli cover, as it has fructified, the nowy burden? Let it suffice that the jute problem hat has stared every cotton planter u the face, is now at an end. THE MAN AT THE wHERL. Mr. Wm. E. Jackson, a young Au casta lawyer, is the man who offers lie solution of the question to the South in his bagging manufactured rom old field cotton stalks. It was o theory there on his office floor resterday. but a roll of bagging, and gray-headed cotton factors and mer hants wanted to cheer as they fin gered the new fiber in the yanks and woven in warp and woof. Very few of Mr Jackson's friends had any idea that matters other than those of a legal nature were occupying his tima: and this announcement m the Chronicle of the success of his ef forts will be the first intimation that he has been busy in experimental fields. A Chronicle reporter has Imowx of his labors and with their w> ncess the ban of secrecy is removed. DEMONSTRATING ITS UTILITY. The Col. Sellers element was not desirable. This theory must be de monstrated as practicable, and not only this. but the sentiment against the jute bagging trust was not desir ed as capital. The new enterprise must be demonstrated as fully cap ble of coping with as strong a ri val as the jute bagging t':ust before the arena of competition was eater ed. Besides the roll of bagging on the floor there were bunches of the cotton stalk fiber in various stages of its preparation: jute butts. bear grass and other fibers to make comparisons. Callers had already gotten windof the new bagging and gathered in Mr. Jackson's law office. There were many cotton men in the number and their questions elicited the informa tion that every intclligentreader would ask for. SOME FACTS ABOUT IT. Mr. Jackson had his thoughts turn ed totheutilization of some one of our many native fibrous plants as a c'om petitor of the jute article. He rigged up crud~e machinery at his home in Harrisonville and for the past six months has been experimenting. The colton stalk rewarded his efforts by being found susceptible of treatment in his machine which separated a fine fiber, resembling jute in every respect, from the gum and skim of the stalk. He grew sanguine as this fiber was subjected to iirst one and then an other test and holding his counsel went diligently to work preparing a quantity of this. About two weeks ago the Chronicle printed a personal mention of his departure for New York. With him he took his new found fiber. At the jute bagging factory of Mr. J. C. Todd at Patter oon, N. J., Mr. Jackson spent several days preparing for THE FI NAL TEsT. He was kindly assisted by the pro prietor, Mr. Todd, who turned over his factory and help to him, and at the end of three days the jute ma chinery turned out a roll of cotton stalk bagging that was pronounced by Mr. Todd equal in every respect to the demands af the cottonplanters and the trade for cotton covering. It is some of this roll that is now creating such a profound sensation in cotton circles here. Mr. Jackson separates the fiber on a machine which was patented and perfected for South Amirica fiber ex periments. He found it the same thing as his experimental apparatus and secured it. He holds letters patent on the apparatus, which i covered by letters patent in United States, Canada, Mexico,Sothe America, France, Germany, uth land, Spain and Belgium. Eng $35,0. It cost HOW THE MACHINE woRKs. The principle consists in rnning the stalks between a corrugated drum revolved by an eccentric attachment on a similar corrugated concave bed, and the charge between is wash-1 ed by a flowing stream of water io wash away the residue of gum and bark. Mr. J. J. Doughty was among those who saw the new cotton stalk bag ging and he says not one man in a 1000 who handles cotton, unless he ad been advised previously, would know the new candidate for favor rom jute bagging. It may be a ~hade darker, but it takes marking easily and is soft and pliable. The ample was made from stalks that id been exposed for two months, avingbeen gathered only late in Eebruary. When the stalk is har ored, as it will be now that it has commercial value, its elasticitya nd enacity will increase at least 25 per VLALUE 07 THE STALEs. Figures have been amassed and hese show that there need be no ear of a lack of stalks to mnanufac ure bagging to cover the entire crop ach year, as an annual yield of talks covers three yearly crops. hese stalks will now represent a omce of revenue to the planter, ay Lhe Cotton Stalk Bagging Compan -ill pay about $'2 per tcn for the It is estimated that the develop-1 ient of this new industry will put svo million of dollars in the farmers' ockets and represent a gross saving >this country of about three nil ons.Invetwve genius seems to be 1 smiling'agent that is to reward 1 i planter and end the bitter fight ainst jute bagging, which has rompted him, whether an Alliance an or not, to send his cotton to A BLAS7 OF DEATH. tal and Destructive Work of a Southern ;yclone...Many Iuildin, Destroyed and lerslna Kiled. A special from (ranburg. Texas, vs: "A destructive cyclone visited It Creek in the oa-tcrn portion of )ok County a 1er ui o'C0'ca:Sunday >rning. The beginnimg of serious 3uble was at the residence of Lee aodes, twelve miles east of that ace. There were about twenty per ns in ths house when the cyclone ruck it. Miss Cella Carmichael, :ed seventeen years. was instantly hi Iled, also Mwu y Carmichael, aged Le year, anl a little baby of Mrs. ibbs. Mrs. iaLjdi and her twelve lar old (laugter, Nora, were seri isly hurt and masy die. Mrs. Gibbes id her oldest daughter are al:;o seri isly injured. Other children in ie house were bruised. At Fall reek, a little farther south, John .anley's house was wrecked and he I as seriously injured. Charles Hous- 1 in's house was demolished and Mrs. ushing was hurt. Mrs. Campbell's >use was blown away. Mrs. Zerk y's house was demolished and her :m was broken in two places. Mr. lung's house was blown down and is wife and child were hurt. Mr. kobertson's house was demolished ad,Mrs Payne was hurt. Other ouses wrecked are those f Alf. Mas ay, L. McPeron, Woolcliffe and 31. orooks. The damage to outhouses, mces, crops and timber is very great. t the little town of Octon four per ons were killed and a number sen usly injured. Many houses were emolished in that vicinity. At tobinseek, in Hood county, eight ersons were killed, five of whom be )ng to the family of George Griffin. Lheavy hailstorm fell throughout this ection doing immense damage to rops. News from Graham, in Young ounty, says a heavy hailstorm fell here on Sunday. The hail comlpletely uined crops and vegetation, wheat, orn and oats beiag ruined." The Approaching Nuptials Miss Winie Davis is really to be aarried to Mr. Alfred Wilkinson. of yracuse. Mrs. Davis has so inform d Colonel William H. Ross, of Ma on, in a letter received by that gen leman which reads as follows: Dear Colonel Ross: Not that you Tave not probably heard it, but my dnd regard for you causes me to an louice my daughter's engagement to ffr. Alfred Wakinson, of Syracuse, i. Y. I think the young couple have very chance of happ:ness together. ffy husband knew and liked him and 6ppreciated that a regard which had misted nearly four years could not >e uprooted. Send your good wishes or her as she sails on her return xome on the 10th of May. I hoped ;o join her there, but find I cannot do ;0. With kind regards to Mrs. Ross tnd a largo portion for yourself, I un, faithfully yours, V. Jrwasox D.mis. Beauvoir House, May 1, 1890. Southerners to Honor Union Graves Hon. Hugh N. Washington, a prominent Democratic lawyer of 51acon, Ga., has accepted an invita ion from the Grand Army of the Republic post of that city to make the annual memorial address at the lecoration of the Union soldiers' graves at Hendersonvalle, this month. The post has also invited the South ern Cadets, a Democratic organiza tion, to attend and fire a salute over the graves of the men who wore the blue. The colored military companies of Macon have usually performed this service. Catarrh. Catarrh is a most disgusting ail ment and yet many unnecessarily suffer with the disease. They will try local applications, which do no good whatever, but fail to try such constitutonal treatment as is afforded by a use of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which removes the mucous poison in the blood and thus eradi eates the cause of the disease. N. C. Edwards, Tampassas Springs, Tex., writes: "I was greatly annoyed with eatarrh which impaired my general health. The discharge from my nose was very offensive, and I used various advertised remedies without benefit until finally the use of B. B. B. entirely cured me. I am proud to recommend a blood reme 1y with such powerful curative vir tues" B. C. Kinard & Son, Towaliga, Ga., write: "We induced a neighbor to try B. B. B. for catarrh, which he thought incurable as it had resisted 11l treatment. It delighted him and ~ontinuingits use he was cured sound id well." The Singer Factory Burnt. ELuz.&rr', N. Y., May 8.-The en ire western front of the Singer Sew ng Machine factory, on First street, our stories high, was gutted by last ight's fire. The flames worked :heir way to the main building, ex ending along Trumbull street. elean ng out the stock, needle, finishing, djusting, and milling rooms. The >attern department was also destroy d, with the patterns therein. Fifty housand finished machines and 18, 00,000 needles wore consumed. The oss is estmnated at $2,000,000, fully nsure~d by the Singer Company. All york is suspended, and over 3,000 >peratives are listlessly gazing upon he burned building. Work cannot >e resumed under two months. -Mr. John C. Mims, a resident of )arlington county, S. C., committed icide on Tuesday by shooting him elf in the left side so that the ball ierced his heart. A common revol er was the weapon used. Mr.MXims ras a married man, with several Iildren. No reason can be given for is deed. -GeorgeZimmer,a farmer ofMays ile, Ind., saturated the hides of his] vo cows with kerosene oil to kill 1 rm, and afterwards took a red. at iron and started to b)rand one oft le cows, when in an instant the ani alwas enveloped in flames. A ampede followed. The burning w mingled with the rest of the herd itil all eight of them were a mass flames. They rushed into a barn tting fire to it. A hay stack was ~xt ignited and consumed, and pan muonium reigned. The barn was ved. When all was over it was und that the vermin were dead d so were the cows. -The grounds on which the White 8 ouse now stanas were once the chard of David Burns. an old Scotch n rmer, whose cabin still stands in t Lely obscurity a few squares back p~ m the Executive Ma.nsion. It is i' id that Washington, when engaged l lay' ing out, the city. had many a t] ig and bitter quarrel with Burns t] foro he could pecrsua~de the old man a, sell his land, even though it would P used in future for the home of the m pine straw covering at an actual aSs of something like a dollar and a arter a bale. soME OF tTS BEAUTIEs. It will not stain cotton as the pine ;raw did, and from tests has been )und les3 inflammable than the jute. One of the spectators put in when ;s various favorable features were eing commented on that the great it had not been mentioned-it is iade at home of home products. It does sound too good to be true hat the cotton stalk which has had :be removed either by burning, pul ig up or beating down and plough ig wider is to be a source of income i the planter. He will harvest his talks and cart them to the railroad, eceiving in return funds or bagging, nd at a time when his teams and ands are idle. "I would rather have perfected that >rocess than be President," was the nthusiastie remark of another spec ator. Mr. Jackson was sought by a hronicle reporter for some inside lata, but found. that, beyond the act of feeling assured of the suc ,ess of his work, he had no schedule >f procedure mapped out. AUGUSTA WILL BEAP BENEFIT. Augusta would be the headquar ;ers of the new company, and the ffices and main fastory would be ere. The decorticating machines will be placed in sections of the :ountry convenient to the mill, and the Aber will be there prepared, baled and shipped to the looms for weaving. The ordinary water or steam power used to our gins will operate the fibermachine. The roots of the plant are used along with the stalk. When the fiber comes out it is a bright russit color. The jute people he saw in the North said nothing to him further than one par ty asking him to bring his sample around and exhibit it to some of the officers. He will, in his plans, lool: to keeping it a free Southern indus try, untrammeled by pools, and let the farmers look on it as it really is, the one thing desired to make them independent. He trusts to having each section interested in the near est mill and the fiber preparing sta tions. AUGUSTA THE FAMMn R RIEND. Augusta is getting to be the Mecca of the farmer. It was Augusta that first took a decisive stand in regard to the bagging qestion, and Augus ta mill men and cotton men placed themselves on record as friends of the cotton planter by agreeing to the 10 cents reduction when the cotto? eloth bagging was decided on to meet the autocratic position of the juto trust. Now somes Augusta with tbe cotton stalk bagging. Through the industry and persE verance of Mr. Jackson, Augusta has certainly been placed in a favorable light as a. claimant for the cotton planters'favor, and when she pushes to the front still further-probably as the frst inland cotton market J the United States-to Mr. Jackson in a large measure the advancement of her cotton interest will be due. He is being congratulated on all sides. The Author of M'Ginty. The man who envolved from his teeming brain the ballad which nar rates the tumbles taken by Dan Mo Ginty is probably at the present me ment the most talked about of the minor poets of America, says the Ro chester Democrat end Chronicle. "Down Went McGinty" has arrived at the du' - nity of being "the" gag of the day. S whon the reporter was informed th.b' Joe Flynn, the undoubted autho. o the miost popular song of the se.ason was singing it daily and nightJy at a local theater, down went the: wniter to the bottom of the hall that i connects the upper tier of dressing-ropmis at the operi-house and found himself in the awful presence of the origina; McGinty, who was engaged in extri bting hima self from~ his .grease .pa'~t prepara tory to donning "his ~et suit of clothes." Mr. Flynn a a good-loking, clack haired anid b.ack-eyed young fellow. who tiAes the success of7 his muse in the most philosophic and. modest mans ner. Of the origin of the famous son:g he said: "If you ever lyeard the story of the Irishman who was successfidy carried in ahod to the' to p of a seveui story building' by afriend, as the re sult of a bet that the feat could not bea successfully accomplished, and who re marked on paying over the money. 'Well, Pat, ye won faii-ly, but when yrfoot slip at the sixth fioar, be jabers, I hope!' yous know what suggested the first verse of the song. If you ever heard the air of, the old song about the old man who had a wooden leg, and who 'had no to~bacey in his old tobaccy box,' you can 'guess where the suggestion for the tune came from. I wrote the song some tune last Apr0J and did not think very much of it. while my partner, Mr. Sheridan here, thought nothing of it at all, We tried it on for the first time at .the Provi dence opera-house. That important event took place on the evening of May * last. The song caught on at once. and we, and, as far as I can see, every song-and-dance man, have been sing Ing it ever since. I suppose it took me about half an hour to write the song after I had got the chorus in my head Copper Brads in Shoes. 'Do you see these large copper bradi in the sole of my shoe?" aske a g'en tleman of the St. Louis Republic's Man~ About Town. as he held up to view t:he sole of one of his shoes. On being answered in the affirmative he said: "To these simple brads alone I attri bute my present good health. For years I was an invalhd, subject to dys popsia, neuralgia, headache, and othez innumerable pains, and traveled the country over in search of health. In traveling out west among the Indian tribes I was struck with their remark-. able health, and expecially their ex emption from the maladies that afflict d me and also with the fact that the strongest and healthiest went bare footed altogether. I soughbt an expla nation of the matter and by coatinued abservation and study was~ finally led to the eonclusion that the achos and pains to which civilized nian is heir are awing to the manner in which we in ulato our bodies from Mother Earth. Sience is every day more clearly de monstrating that electricity is the vitaizing constituent of our* bodies and that this globe of ours is a mig~hty bat tery, continually generating' and dis sharging electricity. Now, 'i reasoned, i this was corrs.-t the secret of the In ian's health was in his Lbar,. feet,which Ixposed his whole body to the vitalia ig ininenoc of the electrical earth cur rnts; while my ill health was attribut, ible to my feet being insulated fLe:n ;hese currents. Acting on this hypothe d I sought to restore the broken coa. section by inserting these hra~ds in the oles of my shoes.and the result.I mumi ay, was astonishing. My feet, wvhiet ormerly were neaTy, always cold. sont ecame warm and moist; my heal t sommenced shortly to imiprove, and in Sfew months I was entireiy relieved us hll my pains, and hiate ever since en Sed good health. It is a very simple and easily tested, and I feel sure v benefit any one afilicted as.