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and fiery: the seventh, enrysote golden-hued: the eight, beryl;a bluish green: the ninth. topnaz-a pale green mie wii!1th y w he tenth, cry the tweclth. ant hy-,. *ut thes precious stones are only the founda tion of the wall of heaven-the most inferior part of it. On the top oftliis foundation there rises a inighitV wN!l 9f jasperof brilliantt yellow :1nd gorgeous crim.Isol. Stupendous cata ract of color: Throne of splendor and sublimity. You see that the beautiful colors which are the robes of glory to our earth are to be forever preserved in this wall of heaven. Our skies of blue, which sometimes seem alnost to drop with rihness of eolor. shall be glorified and eternized in the deep everlasting blue of that fiery stone which formils the second fou ndation of the hevenly wall. The green that sleeps oil tuebrook's bauk. and rides ou the sea wave. and spreads its bainers on the mountaintop, shall he eternized in the emerald thatt forms the fourth foundation of the heavenly wall. The fiery gush of the niorning, the conflagration of the autuiiinal surset. the electricity that shoots its forked tongue out of the thunder-clord, the flames at whose breath Moscow fell and Etnas burns shall be eternized in the fiery jasper. It seems as if all earthly beauty were in one bilhw to be dashed up against that wall of heaven; so that the most beautiful things of earth will be kept either in the wall, or the foundation. or in the rainbow round ebout the throne. I notice the unspeakable attractive ness of heaven. In other places the Bible tells us of the floor o heaven the waters, and the stones, and the fruits: but now St. John tells us of the roof-the frescoed arch of eterni ty, and the rainbow round about the throne. Get a ticket, and carefully guarded. you go into the royal fac tory at Paris where the Gobelm tapestries of the world are made, and see how for years a man will sit put tting iin and out a ball of colored worsteds through the delicate threads, satisfied if he can in a day make so much as a finger's breadth of beauty for a king's canopy. But behold how my Lord, in one hour, with his two hands, twisted the tapestry. now swungabove the hrone into a rainbow of iniinite glory. Oh, what a place heaven must be! You have heretofore looked at the floor: this morning take one glance at the ceiling. On earth the deluge of sin covers the tops of the highest mountains. I heard an Alpine guide, amid the most stupendous evidences of God's power, swear at his mule as he stun bled in the pass. Yes, the deluge of sin dashes over the top of the highest mountain ranges. Revenge, drunken ness, imp'ety, falsehood, blasphemy, are but different waves of a flood that has whelmed nations. New York is drowned in it, Brooklyn is drowned in it, Boston is drowned in it, Lon doa is drowned in it, St. Petersburg is drowned in it-two great hemis pheres are drowned in it. But the redeemed, looking into the "rainbow round about the throne," see the pledge that all this is ended for them forever. They have committed their last sin, and comibated their last temptation. No suicide leaps into those bright waters; no profanity be fouls that pure air: no villain's torch shall fire thosetemples; no murderer's hanrdrtrike down -these sons of god. They know that for thorn tdeluge of sin is assuaged, for there is a rainbow round about the Now the world is covered with a deluge of blood. The nations are all the time either using the sword or sharpening it. The factories of the world are-night and day manufactur ing the weaponry of death. Throne against throne, empire against em pie The spirit of despotism and freedom at war in every land: despo tic America . against free America, despotic England against free Eng land, despotic Germany against free Germany, despotic Austia' against free Ausxuia. The great battle of earth is being fought-the Armaged don of the nations. The song that unrolled from the sky on the first Christmas night, of "peace and good will to men," is drowned in the booming of the great siege-guns. Stand back, and let the long line of ambulances pass. Groan to groan. Uncover, and look upon the trenches of the dead. Blood! blood! a deluge of blood! But the redeemed of heaven, look ing upon the glorious arch that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over. No batteries are planted on those bills: no barricades blocking those streets; no hostile flag above those walls; no smoke of burning villages; no shrieks of butchered men; peace! German and Frenchmen, who fell with arms interlocked in hate on the field of death, now, through Christ in heaven, stand with arms interlocked in love. Arms stacked forever; shields of battle hung up. The dove instead of the eagle: the lamb instead of the lion. There shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy mount, for there is a rain bow round about the throne. Now the earth is covered with the deluge of sorrow. Trouble! trouble! The very fii-st utterance when we come into the world is a cry. Without any teaching, we learn to weep. What has so wrinkled that man's face? What has so prematurely whitened his hair? What calls out that sigh? What starts that tear? Trouble! trouble! I find it in the cellar of poverty, and far up among the heights on the top of the crags; for this bath also gone over the tops of the highest mountains. No escape from it. You go into the store, and it meets you at your counting-desk; you go inta the street, and it meets you at the corner: you go into the house, and it meets you at the door. Tears of poverty! tears of perseention! tears of bereavement!-a deluge of tears! Gathered togather from all the earth, they could float an ark larger than Noah's. But the glorilied. looking up to the bow that spans 1the throne. shall see that the deluge is over. No shivering wretch on the palace-steps; no blind man at the gate of the lh venly temple, asking for alms; no .l ing of the screw-driver on coffin hd. They looked up at the rainlow, and read, in lines of yellow, and red, and green, and blue, and orange, and indigo, and violet: "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat: for the lamb wvhich is in the mint of the throne shall feed them. and shall lead them unto living fountains of wvaters, and 'God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Thank God for the glory spanning the throne! In our boyhood we had a supersti ALL TROUBLES PAST. "THERE WAS A RAINBOW ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE." The si;n of I'omi..e fr'om cod anld W" ha It Teachep. to Men -The Trial. o Chris Van arJ Their Rainbow of Promite. The subject of Dr. Tahuage's Sun day diiscourse was, -All Tr'oubles Pas:~ and the text, Revelation iv.. 3: "There was a rainbow round about the thr one." Following is the ser mon: As. after a night of fearful tempest at se., one ship. more staunch than another, rides on undamaged among the fragments of spars and hulks that float about. so old Noah's ar, at the close of the deluge. iloats on over the wreck of a deal world. Looking out of the windlow oi the ark, you see the plants of houses, and the sheaves of az whea4, and the eai'carases of Cattle., and the corpses of men. No tower is left to toll the burial: no mourners to form in lie of procession: no ground in which to bury the dead. .Sinkog a line twenty-seven feet long. you just touch the tops of the mountains. Ghastliness and horror: The m-':.ui stadofwlkirg" th10 E . 1 a nlod-1 em ship, in ma L and f..y- tos ses helplessly: 11o helm to guide: no sail to 'et: no shore to steer for. Why protect the agony of the good people in such a craft, when they might in one dash of the wave have been put out of their misery? But at yonder spot in the horizon Kwe see colors gathering in the sky; at ust the opposite point in the horri zon other colors are gathering. I fd ttt they are the two hutresses of an are-d bridge. The yellow, the red, the orange. the blue, the indigo, the violet are mingled. and by invisi ble hanids the whoie structure is hung Sin" the sky. and the ark has a tin nmphal arch to sail under. An angel o' lgt swIngs his hand across the Ssky an in the seven prisnatic col ors he aints with pencil of sunbeam $ th everlasting covenant betweeir God and every living creature. God lifted up that great arched bridge, nud st it over 1-Is own head in the heavens. John saw it. for he says: "There I. s a rainbow round about the trooe. I notice that none but thie people iho wee in the ark saw the rainlbow. cast .s shdo-w clear down into the whee-1-0 . Lh people were buried. ad611 4ih. vun thle dead, Laces with a t~rane radiai'e, but they could not see it. So nly those who are at last J ound in CLri' the Ark. will see the pug glories of the throne. ifence you had better get into the As you call your family out at the close of the shower to show them he sign in heaven, so I want you all last to see the grander rainbow Md about the throne. Look saysNoal to his wife, "at that bow in the clouds: and, Shem and look! look-the green, the ellow. the red, and the orange!" I ould not wonder if some of your chl-ildrenin the Good Land should awhile cry out to you. "Look, iok, mother! there is a rain round aboiithe throne!" You ielbetter get into the ark, with all eur faniilies, if you want to see it. T1 notice also that the chief glory of God comes after the rain. .No show -eno rainbow; no trouble, no bright -es'of Christian consolation. Weav -~sare sometimes, by reason of their ~wrk, dusty and rough in their ap 1; and so it is the coarse-clad ps, whose hand and foot swing eiwattle, that weaves the rainbow. 1my Christians are dull, and stupid. sand usekss because they have not disaster enough to wake them The brightest surf that heave es is thrown over the sho' hestorm. You can -e a ouhChristian of sun alone. Then some very lines in tIN n of the rain ,youi e in life the blue orange. 3ingling all of th~e former makes a ot;andit takes all the shades, sadness, and vicissitudes of life ie-make the white lustre of a pure char'acter. <Jour child asks you, "Father, what the rainbowt" and you say, ithe sunlight striking through raindrops." Therefore I. won how there could be a rainbow en since there are no storms ;but then I conclude that that inbow must be formed by the of heaven's sunlight through falling tears of earthly sorrow. -we see a man overwhelmed Siith trouble,and his health goes, and property goes,and his friends go,I Nwwe shall see the glory of Gin this good man's deliverance." Miagara Falls I saw, one day. rainbows spanning the awful ge iof the cataract, so over the ~,si("of the Christian's trial hover iich-hued wings of all the prom Inotice that the most beautiful Ahisof this world are to be pre z~e n heaven. When you see the 'atcolor fade out from the rainbow -fearth .you need not feel sad, for Sou will see the rainbow round about Ihe throne. That story about the orld burning up has given me many a pang. When I read that Paris was esieged, I said. "Now the pictures mnd statues in the Louvre and Lux ~embouirg will~be destroyed; all those of Rembrandt, and those bold F ases of Rubens, and those enchant nents of Raphael on canvas, and toestatues of Canova." But is it nt a more melancholy thought that rin is to come upon this great glory 'othe earth, in which the mountains are the chiseled sculptures, and upon the sky, inwhich the "transfiguration" of sunrise and sunset is hung with loops and tassels of fire? I was re lieved when I found that the pictures bad been removed from the Louvre and the Luxembourg, and I am re -lieved now when I think that tie best harts of this earth are either to be r.eoved or pictured in the Good KLand. The trees must twist in the last fire-the oaks, and the cedars, and the maples; but in heaven there 1h11lbe trees of life on the bank of te river, and the palm trees from Sinch the conquerors shall pluck 4heir branches. The Hudson, and .S St. Lawrence. and the Ohio shall ~boil in the last flame, but wo shall ~have more than their beauty in the iver of Life from under the throne. The daisies, and the portulacas, and ~roses of earth will wither in the ~~sirocco of the judgment, but John of the garlands which the glori fishall wear; and there must be flowers or there could bc no gar ands. :I see the same truth set forth in the twelve foundations of the wall of the heaven. St. John announces the twelve foundations of this wall to be, he first, of jasper-yllowv and red; --tesec.ond, of sapphire-a decep blue: tthird, a chalcedony-a varied ; bat the fourth, emerald-a bright geucolor; the fifth, sardonyx-a heewas a casket of bitied gol;but I have to aumounce that at the foot of thisraiubow of heaven i be-isa bx tlis b of r tlis 0ba ac Los- I irm:w of rIll .i Ow 11 flow ' I that colored ilis c : n the gre. the freshness of His grace: in the violv-t, H1is humeility ill ta11 Ltvt of beaty the- bend, o, hli< id arm1 of l0ov" 0wm N tu l te -Ar But m.id willt I fold vqm: at ilhe beginin,:u:d what 1 tll .u ajih eks-hdnone hui Nodh's- -11milY inl th ark aw h l:bo.:md th::t iv th ose who-c are at la'tin Cril' shall. dliscovc r i. :l)!uld t,!i glorlies ) heaven. cannot Se% the 1kindom of God. A STORY OF THE WAR --Talking abc ut fl: war'." :'aid my a1she., fron: his pipe nfh,:4al gazed in the iire. -theii s ne inci dent connecte(d with i. which will haunt Ime to !my Lrv.:t'c. He paused a m('maellt, mid thieni answered my look of inquiry as fol lows: "It was in 'ti.in Virginia.and three us had left the camp on a foraging expedition. I rememb..r it was a beautiful night-a full moon in eloudless sky-not a very favoraleh' nght for the work we had in hand. which was simply the getting of a bushel or two of green corni from a field which was closely watched. -But we were .successf'ul, tnd were on our return trip to the camp whe(Un we were attracted by noisl, as oi some one walking, in an old-abanule ed barn by the road.ide. "There had been spies about. and we were suspicious. SO We palused in tle road and listened. -Presently a man appeared in the doorway. A glance sufficed it) show that lie was a Unidonl soldi.c . Ic did not1 appear' to see us. bet 'stood with foldted amgzing11 upon the( clear and beautiful sky. Then lie walked forth. barl'healid. and stood with his back to us. still gazing on the sky. "-A spy!' was the exclamation of my comr-ades. 'Lot's startle hin with a bullet.' "'I'll just lire for fun,' 'and not to hit him.' and suiting the action to the word, raised my rile and blazed away. "I never could tell just how it hap pened-God knows I didn't aim to kill him-but as my rile rang out, on the still night air I saw the dust fly from his coat of blue: then he turned suddenly and faced us-tfhen -fell on his face in the road. "We hurried to his side.but he was dead. Some cursed fate had guided my bullet to his heart, and all that we could do for him now was to bury him there by the roadside. "There were no papers on his per son by which he could be identified. We found only alittle testamnent with the initials, -J. H.' on the fly leaf,the picture of a woman yong and beau tiful, in a gol locket, and a ring with~ the same initials, 'J. H:' engraved on the inside." Blackman paused a moment. and put his hand over his eyes, as if to shut out a paiful vision. "Do you know," hie said, after h(e had remained silent for several nonU - utes, "that I can't get away from the meogy of the thing? I never walk aogaroad but that the scene comes back to me, and I hear the crack of the rifle: see him turn in the road and face me, then fail to his dleath: and somehow, I have a premonition that my death will be as suddlen as his was, and will come when I least expect it." He left me abruptly and retired to his room. I little thought that his words would be verified and that I would never see him again in life. He left early the next morning for his home in Mississippi. A teh> gram that his plantation was in dan ger of being submerged by the floods hastened his departure. Only a week afterward I read this announcement in a New Orleans newspaper: "News of the terrible dirowning of Mr. -.-Blackman and his only daughter has just reached this place. It seem that his little girl had been playing near the river, which had r'is en to within twenty yards of the house. Mir. Blackman and his wife were busy packing up, preparatory to removal out of the r'each of the advancing waters, and the little one had slipped away from them una wares. They did not know of the danger she was in until, alarmed by her screams, her father ruished out, only to see her struggling ini the wa ter. He phumged in to save her, and both were drowned. II was pained anid siu'prised by the mournful newvs, and instantly recall ed the forebodings Blackman had imparted to mec that memorable night in the hotel. He had foretold his death. Was. it chanc-or fate. -F. L. STANTON. The Assessed Value of'Witfe. A recent opinion rendered by the Viginia Court of Appeal, sh ows that the law recogniz'es a graded val uation of wives. The complainant had sued for damages for the loss of his wife, who had been killed throuigh the negligence of the defendants. On the trial evidence tending to show that the deceased b ta been a supe ror wife was oft'ecJ, and. presuma bly inthweneed by this, the jur'y gave the comiplain1ant a verdict for .11000. The defendants objected to proof as to the char'acter of the wife, and ear rid the issue to the highest court of the State. The tribunal holds that such evi dence was perfectly proper as means of estimating the damage suffered by the husdand. "If the c'haracter and conduct of she wife." says the Court, "be such that her death will cause but little torrow,' suff'ering and mental anguish to the husband, thien the fair anid just proportion of the damages to beI awarded by the jiury, will be measur ed accordingly. But if on the eon trar," the Court added, "the w~ife he loving, tender and dutiful to her' husband: thriftyv. in du striou s, eco nomical and nrudent-as the evi. dence in this ease pr'oved~ Mr's. Me Connell to be-then he4r price is far above rubies. and the loss of' uch a wife, of such a helpmecet. of such in fluence, of such a blessed aind potentt ministry and comipanionlshipi, is a proper clement of ud~:iges to be cosidred by the jury in 11xim:~ the sol~tium to beC awarded to iil hus band for tearing her from his heart and home.''-Buffa'lo Saturday Ti A TALK WIT- CAPT. TL.MAN. He ~ G ives ' eportr soIIe' of lii vi. e f the Pei-, -was in A: ' i . 9 * to 11!.- cO i M'r. Ti lhu-ru. who is au en iu:i: : a inran. a d shor e . : ]fl (nwt II< the politivs o-f ihm! :I tira n k n who wHsel'ei himhin (1tuuphIg thn (aI. He -m fe ,ed itat Col. Y -. .. h li farer.: d Ir. n v y. .li -Thinther is nidx't re -uion b''ie s . o i to i i . ire. ae bot a!t and on ot C.:-l (1ran wil ao Ed t : ie al Iny phi. orm. T ll Alla ino to , Spitar poto. n iskt' themlo. oinet to spkf, tco, i I an IW Iwre. caonine mr. Tehihi. "Whait do yon thlinlk cf lolb's <k. feat ill AlabaaL:" I nlic.,t 2u asked the farier, for your vallidacy and Kolb's is cons. ide-red( ;,I the am Si t. 110on wa;s: --I see no" a 1::(g beten Ure fand Kolb's candslacy, for e ranas the F;'naears' * acecni d. out an ouil. and I do not cn - sider mayself a canidateii o, the A! lince-, for I advised t A Uliance not to uler politie. :a I asked tiem!cr not to tae any i on a mi oraiir zation in my bethalf.t -Wnelwho nominatad you th 1e --WhyV the peoplo, r." course" hie answer -m w Al0(le meet. All classs of people were invited to the r mven ionlb og ciSe thre were a nutr oTi arm ers hlr. In fact you ocanot d ll meetin, in Caro rt t bnving The laers in. Mr. Tiluan hen sai tha lhe hpdtwo or th"ree, more1T :11didates -woul nteI"r the rave for Governor: the gwe as his a for that deire that. all coul not thpn.-pek at4 it Sarmn meStad that woold give Some]( Of them (, imee0A to geNt a rest. As to the cry o wan divisionamong tIe Carolina Democrats, wr. Tilhuau said that was all noinsense. r of a a imnnueDemocrat. anid -will abide b hv~the Demlocratic Conive-ntion. The only truth of any division is betwe thu e Democrats and the ring The onl1vly toi that is weorryin i.)r Tlnan, he Sae uo in he labor of the canvas; but h intends going around the Staty with the crowd as lotg as he cair cow Iwllsa. h A-Do you intend to answer Col.Bat er'sope tter in de. o manaemen o the knows Mof Andy Boawr tof kgiuh'e?"e nt lt "hI willeytor knowsi alecuville hisponerdso the rig. ho says he hallyeouan m reotfrmally paig ti pron the tae uo his chdyfance. for is euletion.t wy." as r Uplmn Nifrthoewillie me da freen v ot and wit Mar. outewilar Whe rngstert inCarsnton. Teyware alradg hsrd body Ias Ithink wI tilkineg thateir up.idIrenlieeatil dohit A v anheatwsw.te ih I side. StwR. SAThet ~mEA RThechl Sur eilnouth oetr was o i Ieat-eart on the nieft Side. ti etislf' tatoE avery viatkows r ondyh he daolctor, as w call so itat hsnceearthi ond was rgt bie.afek Ias ntonr n whe lighiet etiallyoad ealhysiin fareaknd. Ineis on te ht ide of th ryvfraee of is buit tae earttht.a oU ort soiitewrihtr sidry Men thens aimanrance ajostds heatd oe frakm ie efu hs rightnside man whSeart was rit M. tewat bt oly(io a ubyeae, inocentof colecingth txe his forther in cox parnis Hoever Mas motert gill hinklfeinredat the hldenefit area cationds. the a waon theh sident dro Uie oke 0Of inuthe he qikl.ol r Mtwr. Teatw xays: echl "Te nogthere as to hearlCt-book anth lefnde but it et iuts life' Thooe dtor wxas cled riand M wife says tat schol lookredo hm willastanderuard ovenihe grae to tmanihood it physician fa any near cme to hcim' and craaed the porivlg kilfn exm.n h er htba ouThre isaono theh sae Men's Butysl thisurance1 aginto objctedi' Jo Sreat. The trusedMtoinueta mnwhosei heart owash riht. It was to isuche ol oaere ase Io nowg owin'the a hld was bornh wlie coi erton the r al Ardean m hi hevc and the wro cCie cryng side. 00 ithe three.ana) hmpo c"Thedcsued aonainntto tome byoo akit ae btiold sto~ agaito tuh of at. bho io to e xmie asia 'e. tha wie as hat whering hmuiseig h wltaend guad ofever in gre mto ong e up. ut tIgi won' mindo ha '4t much i1r.li!av it odb of any ben "eilo sc.i'ence ill teach te dotorsb 'how toe cut upt ie peopile witout "Thr of anss ofthe onm nahe Cfiilhas myselflthough noikin to me, Mr wo avnc his peesrton thetriht si. That('. Tis onl oterail vaey plan talkhere a child wasbon wthhi RUSSIAN HEBREWS. s-h1t of rile Trial-4 TieV SlffW!, i" Ilt ( zar's Empire. an'ords a striling1l cxam'pl of 'e comp11licated d'i-diie, f I. in Ruissia. sys th o,- i Alaw'x stadent ofJwihe .:' mladle 1,vr his properIty w Klel'z!n sisting of Iouse and land. to las %wife in her ow;n righit. hatLfl th- noitury publi. rfused to legali VI nth1V gtoun that tLe wife. who was also of the JewisL.h fith. 1a 1. r ight to acquire landed propeurty Ini husbaud. T1h imattr went to court. and it was dcd that. although a Jew )osessing a diploma of either of I he three learned d(egr(-es had the right to reside inl all parts of the empire, amI ill virtue (f such right might a( <1uire property in the district of his resjile. yet this right io a1-uire propercy was the result of an excep tio.n to the law granted i favor of the Jewish doctor or master oi law or arts. as the Case might be, individually, and was 1 not connaiiluniiCalc to his wife or chil(ren. The decision was uplheld au of iir-med on appeal to the Senate at SL Pectersburg. Possibly we shall s;oon lear of the wives and familis of 1ussian Jews not having the right to r.-ide with their husbands and fathers in districts where the stand ,rd of their education gives them ivilee ctolive. SAVED BY TRANSFUSION. The lood of a Man Introduced Into the Veins ofa Wonen Gii ing Per Life. LiuZi Cunningham. a young shop girl. was -o1und unconsciouS in e on the morning of January G. Beside herlay her friend. Mary Fallon, a Se'amlistress, dead. The unlighted "as jet was wide open and the room a full of gas. Miss Gmuingham was taken iii a comatose condition to th New York Hospital. She falle to rally after reeivig the usual tre atenIit. so on Jaiuary T her piysi 'ian ldecid(ed' to try tle transfusiu of blood. In twOperatis fIoriy oUnmes Of blood. poisoned by the iLhaled gas. had beIe drawn from her. Amos L. Lincolu, a big. healthy telegraph lileiall. under treatnent for a mus cular affection of it" arms. volun teered to give the blood needed to till her veins. About twenty-five I ounces were drawn from his right arm into a baisin containing phosphate of sodla: which was intended to keep the blood from coagulating. A little rubber ipe termiunantig in a glass tube was atW;1 tched to the bottom of the vesselwich:s eleva ted several feet above the girl's body. The glass end of the tube wat insert ed in the radial artery in her wrist, and Amos Lincoln's blood was let into her veins. Miss Cunningham remained unconscious until January 9. She then revived enough to speak a little, but soon sank back into un consciousness, from which she was re-vived during the next four days only occasionally and with great diff Iiculty. On the 1:3th she begani to show symptoms of inmprovemient, although her body was totally paralyzed and her mind was inaetive and clouded. IThe paralysis continued until Feb uary 1. when MIiss Cunningham be gan sitting up in b)ed and occasionaly leaving it. She continued to conva lesees lowly, and a few days ago was sent~home with only a slight halt in her gait and a general stiffness of her movements to tell of her narrowv es cape from death. Dr-. Robert F. Weir. the attending physician, said that despite the unusual lengt h *and strenuousness of her struggle for life she was just about as sound a's ever in mind and bodyv.-Ne w York Star. REPUBL:CAN.S AT SFA It Looks as Though they Could nont Aree ,on aI Fed:-ral Election Law W\ASrrGOvo. June 12.--The Re publicans in the Sena'te aind House are still at sea as tow heerit' iLs good policy for themi to pass I Federal election law. After their ~n :<ernce in tr-ying to caucus over theI question. it begins to look as though they would fail altogether unless Mr. Reed takes the miatter in his own hands. Thus far everything that has been done of general importance has been accomiplished by an exhibi tion of nerve on Mr. Reed's part. When they have got into on1 inextri cable tangle he has cut the knot :md gathered up the loose ends of the web in his own Iirm hand. There is no doubt that Mr. Reed feels that the imnmediate future of the party depends upon their passinig a general Fed ral election law, which they hiave~ been agitating at their conventions for a number of y-ears. At the same time, if anything is doneli he wants to be complete and. a'etive. A half-way~ m:asure would1 be worse than nothing. He does not favor the Rov;ell bill. but there :s a strong Western contingent whiich~ does ifavor~ i~and which winl rather have no( ile' islation than to pass the Lodge billIt is believed by the advocexdes of ihis more conservative' meatsure that it can~ he adxoptedl in auus. If it shouild be.1 it is proble that' the Radicals would he indifi'erent as to its passage. aind an. adj'oulirnet might Iid the bill unalcted upon. The delay of actio by th euus warrants the assumtifhon. ta the conservative elementi is s51 Sttog in the party, for' it 1s certinl tha't thme Radicals woudhl stiat once if for a mionent they got control. If h speaker deteie .ha 111 Radca bil ust pass. whether 01 no. ?is past record justilles the belie that he will succeed. The silver (uti'don hung in caucus just ablouit as this; mjatter now hanugs, and Mr. Reed took theC hit in his teeth. The bill has passed the House without anyV material amendmenliOPt. Camnhibalis.m in Egyvpt. Losnvo, Jun~e 12.-The zmost zip palling accounts are received of the sufferings of the people in Upper Egypt and along the .wene o1f the expedition for the relief of Gordon. It is said tha t the ihb lits dr*iven desperate by s.tari non, feed on echi (other. wh iall kids (. ani l sought fory fo. The wriec pole ligzt win each oda 111 r 1 ml 11 sels, and1 hund reds are p.eriing' daily. Fihure of of erop is sid to cause this5 awful isery though1 the wars in wvhich British amb1 ition for' teritory hasi pomiendy aiue cu sing the iailure of the. lerops. lu ded it is said that imo:,t c;' the iumle poulation left the d'astahl d re 1ion w ihot santIiint mn !:dOsr to FARMERS AND SCHOOLS. A a'ohited Arl!cie From a Lcading South ernar-mer. .n~e ild theshii'. I wrh. o . :. 1 e1 heC-L in the devel p t I I r . 14 1itulrar rsource. I1' :e :e;ienxuo farmiers an~id do, 711.110 11on mrineret In i i ubje of elidcation. I. W r mur farms Vll . !hu poor adkvantage. if the p:rt nee-ssary is not "ivnj to the intellee tuil cuilir iioil inprovonent of our ch Iib"Ire-n. Then are hat few nisfortune S more f oll of evil to :y coiiunity than the a- enft o '. leuationaltrain in-. The f-.anier makes a great m itake. who allows his children to grow up without sueh mental train ig and snehi 'pnend e0ducation as will fit them. at least. for the practi cal duties of life. It occurs to nw that we are not gi1ing propr at tention to those de mands in1 the ruI1- distiits. In the asenIce oschools, many cYhildren -are put upon th"n mmiity as illit eraItes. who bm ai hurden to so eit ald the _1 I ' Weh n1 ot make these boys and "il-. y trainig and educaion, god citi . useful to themselves and1(l L(ehiul to the State? Many men excuse th-mseles from the duties necessar- to maintain a neighborhood school. by putting the onus upon the State. Tho State, say they, has undertaken the education of its children and they feel them selves relieved. The question is not as to the undertaking of the duties. as much as its discharge. Are the advantages for an education in our country districts fully up to the de mands of the commnities? If n ot is it not the duty of eitizens of such communities: to begin at once to remedy these defects! No man -I believos our country' schools are what they ought to be. nor what they might 1'e, under prop er efiort and proper interest. In many seeuon of the Site our schools are not couti uelger than three or four mr.o.nLIths. The amount paid I, not Sufficent to warrant thl Me servicesof even F or (inary teacher, and the limited time of the school Cannot ' Ve Such il struchon : wil rm-nm Wita lhe child until the school opens again. The lack 0 Lopetent tenehors is of itselfs uI Int to iotrOy ti., i Ciency of tlh instruction.iD wo1ld seem. then t r hin.; to do. in order to im rove the conu try schools .s toav 'ete stando a for teach~ers. Jj gto' tter tah ers, however, it will b1essar to pay better price., and to carni Uter prices we must extendOt tiue of the schools. At bst. lherefore. it would appear !hr.t the lirst thing to do i4o ralge means to extend the thn! of the schools four to nine nontis. and then all other possible advautages will follow. If the State oamnot be induced to extend the appropriat:.on sutlicient to warrant the additional time for the schools. then the farmers should themselves and among themselves. by voluntary asAcsseent. raise such amounts as will be necessary to ex tendi the time and estab~lish such schools os the community may de manai. Some people make the mistake to rely upon the pittance furnished by the St'ite as suffielent for ordiniary dema'nds, and excuse themselves up)on th~e grtm~d of thle aid fis~~ h edi by the Statc. orL demian more aid fromi the Stat' rathaer than exer cisec their i ght to a porsonal contri bution to the duca'.tiona of their children. Formerly the Stato diid none of this w.ork and1 the parent was left to do ill. The fact that the State relieves th e'ctizenI of about one-half ti. burden does not at all excuse th citze from01 r fully carrying' th Ate h+~( alf. If farmer, all over Geoi and the South. would only recogni te their duties in this connectioni iifl go to work, usin" the a'I of the Sae. as far as it goes, and suplementinrg, when this is exhausted, by ar'wing upon their indivithudi p~ures for the building of good andi c( fra ble school-house-s and the minten ance, in every commuity. of good schools, our rmu-al hromes. wo.uld be more cheerful and happy, our chil dren wmda~l) be10more intelligenit, and the country would take on a look of thr-ift and gladness that would open an era of p)rospecrity to the State. I may have more to say upon coun try schools in a subsequent number. W. J. NoaTmmu. Lonfgst reet's Old Soldiers. General1James Longstreet has arriv ed in St. Louis from Richmond, Va., where hte parricipated in the Lee statume unveiling ceremtoies. In talking freely of the treatment he re eeived from his; old soldiers while in Richmond the General said: -The boys may misjudge mec and may mo tive s r nd act~ions with their hecads, bttheir hearts are ll right every time. ould not .:ake a good deal for my ex. rience T he old soldiers cvered me ~ i Confede~rate flags ceered me. er-dor mec. and wrnm hand agi:nand again. One olid num tOS whsrved under me is now totllyblid. e si: -General.. I wi~il never see you a'gain in this worldi. but I hope we'll I moot up yon der wh'er we ~ ca lls I wont to her umr('(' ouc' mre beftore I die."(Gen.red Lo';' r**t was mu''ch arTbted wille ~kn of.hi old com intervewer wo, in his opunon.~ was the bs aa'y ofiee in t (on relied: -The b -i cav alrym'an on either side w.as Je I tewrt.~ Heii was thle greatest avalryv solier. I think, the world evrknr Dr. DanielI G.Drnto.1 who pres)id ed at the btanqiuet tentdered to Walt~1 Whitnmu Saturda evenmg.~ ]' a sort of universal geius.~ ' iman of abun titiec) andlier tast'.?. I- 1a. -d ls many branchie-s of larnin.an in a1 controversy with C.ol.-iobr G3. Ingersoll showed himseh' 0ou the 0e eas~lio rferrd to more ih1m a1 match for. that as1tt reasoner". -Wa 0d eth loeraimako fdah feahr ('rhas for :eueit.ato ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S KIND HEART. rhe Gentlest, Purest, and Noblest Charac ter in I1cnan History. .11o'~ai arie Of papo-rs on fincoln, John E. Iemsburg says: In routh, the meauest creature found in iim a friend and if need be defender. le wrote essays and made speeches 6gainst cruelty to animals, and sought 0 impresA upon his playmates' minds he sacrediess of life. The same ten, ier regard for the weak and unfortu iate characterized his manhood. While riding through a forest once with a >artv of friends he saw a brood of oung birds on the ground which a torm had blown from their nest. He lismounted from his horse, and after a aborious search found the nest and placed the birdlimgs snugly in their ittlc home. When he reached his ompanions and was chided by them or his delarv. he said: "I could not have slept to-night if I had not given those birds to their mother." In the social relations of life he was . a most exemplary man. He was a de voted husband. an indulging father, an obliging neighbor. and a faithful friend. Mrs. COl. Chapman, a lady who lived for a time in his family, pays this tribute to his private life: "Hie was all that a husband, father, neighbor should be, kind and affectionate to his wife and child, and pleasant to all around him. Never did -I hear him utter an unkind word." "His devotion to his wife and children." says George W. Julian, "was as abiding anl unbounded as his love of country." The strong attachment always mnani fested by him for his frieuds has often been remarked. -Rich and poor, great and humble, all were equally dear to himu and alike the recipients of his re gard and love. The Prince he treated like a man, the humblest man he treated like a Prince. Nothing in his career exhibits the greatness and noble ness of his character in a loftier degree than the cordial and unaffected manner at Washington, in the midst of wealth, and splendor, and refinement, in which lie was accustomed to receive and entertain the plain uncultured frieods of other days. A giant in stature and a lion in strength and courage, he possessed the gentleness of a child and the tende ness of a woman. The sufferin even of a stranger, would fill his with tears. and the death of a would overwhehn him. In hi ear his mother died, and fo his heart was desolate and he be consoled. In his 50th year sister, a lovely, fragileAower, blooming into womaan-Iood, dro and died, and life seeiaed purpos to him again. Of his four children, two died while he was living-Eddie, a fair-haired babe. and his beloved Willie. When death took these hissor. row was unutterable. The ultimate death of his young friend, the gallant Col. Ellsworth, at Alexandria, anf the death of his life long friend, the lamented Edwin F. Baker, at Ball's-Bluff, were bl ws that staggered him. At the death of his good friend, Bowlin Greene, he was chosef to deliver a funeral address. When the hour arrived and he stepped forward to perform the sacred task, his eyes fell upon the coffin of his dead friend and for a time he stood trans fixed-helpless and speechless. The :nlv tribute he could pay was a tribute of his tears. When he turned for the last time from the bedside of the beautiful Ann Rutledge, his betrothed, it was with a broken heart and a mind dethroned '"O: I can never be reconciled to have the snow, the rain, and the storm beat upon her grave," was the pitiful bur den of his plaint for weeks. Reason.. after a timc returned, but his wonted gladness never; and down throug~h all Ehose eventful years to that fatal April night when his own sweet life-blood nowly oozed away, beneath thaut spark ing surface of feigned mirth drifted ~he memnory and the agonies of that ~reat !Zn'ef. At th~e commenemnent ofthe Southern onlicet in pleading tones he said: 'We are not enemies. but friends." And at its close, notwithstanding all the cruel, bitter anga'ish he had endured those fog long years of fratricidal strife: "'With malice toward none, with charity for all," he died, and many a brave Confederate deplored The deep damnation of his taking When Stonewall Jackson d' toching tribute to his g said: "Let us forget his his fresh-made grave." ness of the night en a the peninsula he bent trate form of ai dying South, and, while the down his furrowed him with words of sy the dim rays of a lante from his lips a message and sent: it by a flag oft enemies' lines to be trans home. The narration of his man kindness and mercy while at ton would fill a volume. He lo rescue an erring soldier boy from aws of death and fill a mother's e with tears of joy. He loved to dispel the clouds of sorrow from a wife's sad heart and warm it with the sunshine of happiness. He loved to take the child of poverty upon his knee and plant althin its little breast the seeds of eon Iidence and hepe. Glorious apostie of huma . . When shall we look upon his like again? So honest, so truthful, so just, so charita ble, so loving, so mereiful! Law was his God, justice his creed. and liberty his heaven. It he sinned, mercy prompted hinm. In the presence of such a religion how contemptible your puny theologians and their narrow creeds appear: Born in a western wild, dying in a Nation's Capital, its honored chief, en shrined in th:e hea:rts of an admniring word, Abraham Liueol a stamb;s to-day the gentlest, purest, noblest character in human history. Millenniums may' pass away, unnutmbered geCnerations come and go ereedts risc and fall, but divne faith of freedom's martyr. am faith based upon immut..ble law, eternal justice, universai liberty, a faith formu ated not i'n perishable words but in immortal deedls. will live on through all the year's to come, a torch of hope to every son of toil. i. Stay of Proceedings. The St. Joseph (Mo.) Nces tells the ollowing story: The judge of one of St. Joseph's courts went to his home :he other afternoon, and becoming ac uainted with some flagrant net of his F-vear-old bo', summoned the lad into us presence. "Now, sir, take off y-our coat!'' he ;aid sternly. "I am going to give vou wiping that vou will remember as one as vou live.' "If it'picase your honor," said the bv. "we desire to ask for a stay of roeeings in this case ur.tai wc~ ean repare and 1i1e an apppieat)in for a ,hange of vernue to mother's court. )r appcation will ba .me on the >lef that this court has formed an pinion regarding the guilt of the de endant which can not be s:::ken by videce, and is therefore not compe nt to preide: in the case." Stay granted, and boy allowed "0 ents for attoruey's fees. Appointment Re~minduer. .A new conitriva:yhng he-a applie( watches eal;k~ d :a --antinnt r tinder." A smia i diali I> set into th 'atch's face upon wih ente can 5 JUST LIKE WOMEN. .x 'w. nn~o~c'n Strua:;1ie Over a Sim pie T.rzgraph Me3nae -ra y;i o'ngvr. They wer'e )retiv and tyl1iv dressed. A. car a to ath , Iourteeth street en Taile' of Wiii.LrdIs HIotel. awaiting heir pl1eas:ur e. It could only be Sup )osed(i that teirV were in very distress l fi 1nncial straits. Ih1ev sat .:t a ta in the reception 'oom of Wil's, devising. concoct Iu' an'(d iIstitutin a telegraph ines a'ge to send to some friend. The elder )ne did the writin- and scratching and -ewritmw: which lised up six or seven tern Union bfankis. The younger nleae11 closely over the scrivener --We will be there to-morrow. That was what they wanted to say. That was what they iid say in the very irst writin!. .But," FiId the younger, "if we say we are coing? -hioie we shall both have to sign it." Carrie and I will be there to-mor row." That was thc r-eslIt of much men tal effort spent in comiposing and Much physic:al exertion spent in eras Mig '"1 guess that will do." said the oungcr, and two seened to breathe with that freedom which tells of great responsibilities unshoullered. "Hold on." said the elder. at the cioor. "What?" asked the other. --Carrie and I will be there to-mor row." One, two, three, four, five, six. seven-only seven words." "Well!" -Why we have to ray as much for seven words as we do for ten." Here was more dilicultv. It would never do pay for ten words and send only seven. That would be a reckless ai wicked waste. 'ihey proposed many ways to lengthen it, but each time they talked of a new message on their ingers they found they had either too few or two many words. -Psimw!" sait the younger one; "why didn't. I think of it before? I have it.' Have vou? Have vou?" "-Why,of course!" Leave it just as it is and add -Yours. very truly."' If the young lady had had an inspir ation she could not hare looked prouder of it; and as for the older one. she simply looked on the sweet face before her as that of a wonderful be inI. 'Carrie and I will be there to-mor row. Yours, very truly," was the mes sage that -went through some operators bands yesterday afternoon. ATTAR OF ROSES. How It Is rrepared and How American Roses Wasto Their Sweetness. "Here y'are, gents! Here y'are!" velled the street fakir. "Here v'are, gents! The real genuine otter of roses, right fresh from the otter. the only living animal beside the musk-ox that gives up perfume for the hankychif! Here v'are! Otter of roses, fresh from the otter! Five cents a bottle!" A young mn:IrL in the crowd became Seized with an idea, says the N.Y. Sun. He went to the nearest drug store. ;How much is attar of roses a bot tie?"l he asked of the druggist. "It'll cost you $100 an ounce," said the drug man. "-The genuine India attar of roses is worth $100 an ounce." "Got anv?" asked the visitor. "Not to-day," said the drugist. "We're are just out." "What makes it cost so much?" "Well, one reason is,'' replied the druggist, "it takes 50,000 roses to make a single ounce of attar. If you can buy 50,000 roses for less than $100. then maybe you can knock the price of attar down. Attar of roses, young man, an't milked out of cows." It is made in India, although, if they only know it, they' could make it just as well in California. The sanm4 rose grows there from which th attar is distilled in India. I have seen huge hedge-rows near Sam ona, in California, so dense with these roses that the odor from them, on a warm sultry day, caused a felinz of peculiar faintness and oppressioi to the passer-by. This is the effect of the attar, which is dis tilled by the heat andl moist air, and is held suspended, as it were, in the at mosphere. "There is money in that cause of faintness and indolence, but in this country not only the sweetness, but the great value of the flower, is wasted on the desert air. In northern India ;he roses are regularly cultivated. They are planted in rows in the fiels, and require no particular care. When they begin to bloom they are plucked from the bushes before midday. The work is done by women and children, who seeir to regard it more as a pleas ure than a pursuit of labor. The rose leaves are distilled in twice their weight of water, which is then drawn off into open vessels. These are allowed to stand over night, being covered up with cloths to protect their contents from dirt and insects. In the morn ing the surface of ti.' water will be covered with a thin oily film. This is the rare attar of roses. It is skimmed oil vwith at inue feather and dropped in to vitals. This process is continued daily until the roses cease to bloomn. I don't see why any essenc or oil that requires the distilling of 5' i roses to till an ounce b)ottle hag' *t to have a good price set u-' Mn't you think so?" The Late John Jacob Astor. The following story. ilustrating the Astor philosophy in m oney' matters. is told of the late. John Jacob Astor, says the N. Y. Eccningj Su, by. the m:an who was the other attor in the scene. "I went to Mr Astor. lhe said. "with a business proposition wich demanded an investnient of i$100.000 on his part. Wal~ie lisiening to the putn he kept groping and feeling about on the flool for something ho seemed to have dropp::d When I had tinishedi he said readily: 'All right, go on with the affair;"I'll furnish the money.' At that instant a man entered to tell himu that one of his buildings had just burned down. "'That happens nearly ev'erv day,' he said, with the utmost unconcern, and went on feeling about with great care for that something on the carpet. "I finally asked him what he had dropped. -'Why,' lie said, raising his head and looking as woebegone as a small boy. I dropped 10 cents here a few moments go and I can't find it. if a man's uildings buru down. they~ are gone ud he can't help it and lhe is bound to et themi go. But a mian who deliber ttely thr.o'ws away 10 cents because he von't take the t'triule to lindl it is net o be for'giv'en. A Stern Reatlity. "You will flotce." said the manager f th ecompany, as he stepped in front f thei curtiu. 'that the~ pro'grammle la eee the send and third et.I' thi ca.s'l'here wil be no sup ositioIa T!: e '. ferl f this om:: na P'--ion of the age. :a~ atiii l be about even yei'r e can t.et the miat The lira ron i mulcan, wvhich a Sbeing bailn now, :s having put in an udder v.eighi ng twet-twov tonie, the~ t: