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ON EASTER 31M.N. On Easter morn The softened winds to eveiy quickened ear Breatbe sweet n:usic, telling tihe tirae f 3ear. All nature sings, and in glad an iphon, Blent with the orga'i's tone. The voice of man in praise to heaven :s borne. With Aprhi's fairest ofTeria :s we adorn. Our altars, emubleml!Tg c teruai Lpring O'er winter tritmphing, Ad good o'er evi', joy-ness o'er - eT. ife o'er death--Chliit risen from the tomb On Easter morn. RUTH EDWA1S LOVERS. Gifford Hull. the grocer's son, standing behind the counter of his father's store, tying up sugar in pound parcels, saw a girl come into the store, brightly lighted already, though it was only half-past five, for the winter afternoon was rainy and dark, and going up to the counter on which some loaves of bread were piled, look ed at them with eyes that seemed all ready to devour them, and say to his father: "Have you any five-cent loaves, sir?" The grocer answered promptly. "'No."7 "How much are these, sir?" asked the girl. "Reg'lar price," said the grocer; "ten cents." "Have you any stale loaves." asked the girl. "No. -said the -rocer very shortly. But his son, looled askance at te girl, who was as pretty and as fair and as fragile as a lily, saw her take the end of a black ribbon that hung about her-throat from her bosom, and untie from it a five-cent piece, which she held toward his fat father in her trembling fingers. "Wonst you please cut a' loaf in two, and sell mehalf " she pleaded. "Not in the habit of doing business in that way," said the grocer. The girl turned away. Gitford saw starvation in her eves, despair in all her movements, and slipped'his thumb and finger into his waistcoat pocket, and came from behind the counter. - "Lefs see the aive-cent bit, miss, he- said. "Why, bless you, you,ve made a mistake, it's a ten-cent piece. I thought it was very large for five cents. Father, that's the price of a loaf." The girl looked at the piece of money with eyes that dilated with something between joy and awe. She muttered to heiself, under her breath, "It's a miracle! Jack's five pence to turn to ten pence." Gifford followed the girl, and by his gentle. manly courtesy and sympathy won her con fidence. 'Let me help you a little," he said. "I think you can get work at Mrs. Trimmer's, the milliner. Give her our card, and say we sent you. But you mustn't go until tomorrow. Just around here is a decent place-com mon, but decent-where they'll take you in. This will do it, and get your breakfast and dinner. Oh, take it!" "I never thought to be a beggar," said the girl passionately. "Take it as a loan," said the grocer. "You can't sleep here, let alone the rain all night." "If you'111et me pay it back I'll not say no again," said the girl. "and thank you, thank you, than'k you." -"Mrs. Trimmer's is 84 - street, and Biddy Ryan's is that tall brick house there, in the basement. She takes girls to board. You'd better say you're a nursemaid or a seam stress. That is true, you know. Good enwhen she had said good-night he watched her, saw her admitte at the Irishwoman's door, and -went home, rejoicing that that pretty, slender young creature would not sleep in the street that night. He1 took her on trust sharp young city tradesman though he was, and be lieved in her implicitly. It was odd for the son of his father, but Gifford was his mother all over, despite the penurious maxims that the old man dinned in his ears. So it was, that instead of making up his mind next day that the girl was an impostor and hiad spnt his gift in liquor, Gifford walked, in the after noon down - street, and looking in at Mdame Trimmer's window, saw a face he remembered, set abzut with bright braids of Drown hair, bent over a little hat; and seeing it turn toward 'mwaked strai hti mand up to the gand said: "Goo-day," and then "go-dyto Madame Trimmrier. "We'v brought two of our custom ers together, I see." he said. "Glad to know it." And just then his fin gers, playing with the contents of his vest pocket, touched the cash received -of one of the customers alluded to the five-ent piece he had so deftly hocus-pocussed into ten cents. The girl looked at him in surprise. adame looked at the girl more re petfully than before. The story of --te fire was true then, and this dress that the young woman wore was giv en her bya neighbor when sheescaped in her night attire from the burning So she bg. a upo the subject of *fires, and Gifford Hull, who hdthe gift of representation peculiar to good salesmen, .talked also. He itold no ies; but when they parted, Madame Trimmer had somehow come to the belief that the house in which her new hand had resided was a brown stone: that the dresses destroyed were velvet and satin, and the money lost some . thousands at least; and being a mean and contemptible person,. was disposed to be very amiable to Ruth Edward, in consequence. A little while after, Gifford called again at the store-and ao'ain and agamn. At last he saw Rut m neat attire, pretty with knots of ribbon, trim with bright belts and snowy cuffs, and dainty o-aiters. And though she never looked sweeter to hinm than she did that night in her ragged dress, and with her wet hair blown about her face, when he first saw her, he saw now how proud any man might be of her. He did not measure his worth by dollars, as his father did, and the worthy grocer had been very econom ical in the matter of poor Gifford's ed ucation. Now he had fallen in love. he began to wish he knew more-could do or be something better. The idea that he conferred a favor on her be cause she was poor, and he was or would be rich, never entered his hon est mind. But he went where he could see her often, and asked her to walk with him of bright evenings, and took her now and then to see a play, and carried her flowers; and at last, one even told her that he loved her, and aske her to be his wife. When he didthat, she burst into tears, and told him by way of answer all her story. Her betrothed husband, Jack Perry. had left her three years before he was a sailor, and she had waited and waited, but he had rxver come ao-ain. He might be dead. but she cudnot believe it. "AndJ she said. "while I believe he lives I can love no other man. I'm fond of you. You'd make me happy, I know ; but I must be true to Jack. Forgive me, if I give you pain. I'm a~s fond of you as a sister could be, but-but you are not Jack "No, I'm not Jack," said Gifford sadly, "and I'll not trouble you any more, but just be your friend still, if yu'll let me." - He keit hs promise for a Near. m itcagscamle to pa",Ss. The -rocer dit d, and he was his own muasie. ie VaS lonel,. for he had no other r-la tiVe. The 1house seenied deslate. and he used to think how Ruth's.i.;ce there would brighten it. He .s iwcr ro\ingqr sVeeter and sweeter 1and de -er to hinm every day. and s he spoke agaim. Are you waiting for Jack still he said. Sie auswered: "I am always wait 1n Ze was her friend again as he had ben. but he could not think of any other face Ly the tireside of his home. nor did he 'seek to place one there. Weeks Slipped away and ionths. An other year, then. As the holiday time was coming on, and people were triniinint up their dwellings with evergreeE and holly, he took her a great arniful of fragrant branches for her little room, and meeting her face to face, saw a look in her eyes that he had never seen before. lie took her hand in his and held it. and her cheek flushed. He bent his head low and kissed her mouth. "Are you waiting for Jack still: he asked softly. She answered. "I have waited a long, long while. I shall never forget Jack: but-" "But vou'll remember me a little." When they parted Gifrord thought himself the lhappiest man on earth, for Ruth had promised to marry him in a week. The afternoon before he went to see her, and they spent a long and happy hour together. To-morrow she would be his-to morrow-to-morrow: He told her all his plans for their life together. At last he arose to go. His hand was on the latch, and lie had kissed her, when there came a knock upon the door. He opened it. A man stood there, in sailor's dress. bronzed, browned with wind and weather, who opened his lips to speak. -stopped with the words upon his lips and uttered a low ery. It was echoed by Ruth-Ruth. who tore her hand awrav from Gitford. and screamed. "it's Jack: My God: it's Jack, come back. Jack: Gifford heard that, and knew what it meant. His heart seemed to turn to a lump of stone. 'Jack has come back to her !" he re peated; and then rememberingthe wo man he loved more than himself, he spoke bravely: "Good-by, Ruth. Don't mind me. I'm glad you are happy." Then he was gone, leaving then o gether. What was to have been his wedding eve had come, and Gifford lay cast down upon the carpet before the blazing fire, with his head upon his hands. I he had been a woman, he couid have sobbed. Asit was, he only moaned. He was thinking. Just now the clergyman's servant was lightning the gas in the parlor be ready for them and the clergyman was waiting and his good old wife. Just now, but for Jack, he would have tapped at her door, and he would have handed her into their carriage, and they would have driven to the parsonage, and the words would have been uttered, the sweet, sweet words of the marriage service, and those whom God had join ed no man could put asunder. Alas! Jack had come and had parted them forever. Just then the house door, that al ways creaked when it was opened, creaked woefully, and a step crossed the hall, and the flutter of a woman's iess came to his ears; and Gifford lifted up his head, and saw that some one had come into the room. The day ioht was g'one, and the fire just gave aittle glea.m of red, and he could not see who it was. and called out: "Who is there?" Then whoever it was came toward him and knelt down, and put her hand upon his head. "Ruth:!"he cried: "oh, Ruth, why do you come here ?" "Light the lamp," she said, "and see why." He lit it. She stood before him in her dainty wedding dress, in which, no doubt, die was to be married to Jack. It was very cruel-but he did not tell her so. He onlyvsaid<c "Whiy do you come back to me, since Jack has come back to you ?" She lifted her eyes to his and smiled. "Jack did not seek me out," she said. "He rang atmy door by chance. He dreaded nothing more than meeting me; for he married to another woman -he for whom I waited so long." "Married:!" Then he looked at her. "Married: and you--" "I have come t~oyou," she said. "I have not even a memory now that is not y ours. The man I thought I loved -only aL myth that wore his likeness. And the knowledge has given me no pain, but only joy, if you still love me, Giffod." And the lights were not lit in the parsonage fruitlessly. Poll Tax Delinquents. The Columbia State says the num ber of deliuent polls 'in the State show perhaps' more clearly than any thing else could the sad condition of the poorer classes of the people of the State. The number of delinquent polls this year seems to be much larger than has been known in several years. And this is the state of affairs in the face of the fact that the laws in regard to the non-payment of poll tax are more stringent this year than ever before. If the law is rigidly enforced as it stands on the statute books, many a poor fellow who cannot raise the neces sarv amount will have to spend a short time in jail. Just to give somie idea of how many delinquent poll tax paers there are, it may be mentioned that in the connty of M1arlboro alone. the report is sent up to the Comptrol rler General that there are exactly 1,000 delinquents. The trial justices there the other day made requisition for 100) poll tax warrant blanks. Friday they made requisition for 900 more. in stead of netting just over $1,000 to the State, these polls, if paid now, will net some $5,0t00. In Sumter the condition is even worse. In that county there are betwveen 1,000 and 1.200 delinquent poll taxpayers reported. The trial justices there have written to the Com troller saying that in many cases the 1men have 'simply been unable to raise the money and asking the per mission of the 'comptroller to indulge certain delinquents till next fall. They state that many of the delinquents are good, honest,'hardworking men but if tue law is applied to the letter, they will have to be imprisoned. How things are in other counties is not de finitely known, but it is pretty safe to say that in nearly every county in the Stte the same condition of atfairs will be found to exist. In Rlichland there is a large delinquent roll. The facts given, however, proclain the pitiual condition of the poorer classes more tan anything else that has been o'oght'to the attention of the publie in months. THE latest news from Cuba is to the effect that ther~e is a big uprising in the province of Puerto Principe; that all laborers, sugar field hands and sympathizers arec in arms, and that a battle is at hand that will probably decide the fate of Cuba. The uprisino in Puerto Principe is general and wili Iseriously eieet results. M1aceo is on the islaiid haustening to the front with 1500 meu. Havana harbor is full of Imen-of-war, and foreign residents are AN EASTER JUBILEE. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE RESURRECTION. i:ster is Queen of the Sabbath and Holds Iu IlIer HandThe Key to All the Cemeo teries in Christendom. Ni:w YonK April 14.-Rev. Dr. Tal muage preached twice today in New York-at the Academy of Music and the West Presbyterian church-on both occasions to crowded audiences. One of the serions was on the subject of "Easter Jubilee." the text being taken trom I Corinthians xv. 54, 'Death is swallowed up in victory." About 1.861 Easter mornings have waked the earth. In France for three centuries the almanacs made the year begin at Easter until Charles IX made the year begin at Jan. 1. In the tower of London there is a royal pay roll of Edward I, on which there is an entry of eighteen pence for 400 colored and pictured Easter eggs, with which the people sported. In Russia slaves were fed and alms were distributed on Eas ter. Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus, at Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia, to decide the particular day, and after a con troversy more animated than gracious decided it and now through all Chris tendom in some way the first Sunday after the full moon which happens up on or next after March 21 is filled with Easter rejoicing. The royal court of the Sabbaths is made up of 52. Fifty one are princes in the royal household but Easter is queen. She wears a richer diadem and sways a more jeweled scepter, and in her smile nations are irradiated. We welcome this queenly day, holding high up in her right ha nd the wrenched off bolt of Christ's sepulcher and holding high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries in Christendom. MY text is an ejaculation. It is spun out of halleluiahs, Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection and observed all the laws of logic, but when he came to write the words of the text his fingers and his pen and the parchment on which he wrote took tire, and he cried out, "Death is swal lowed up in victory:" It isa dreadful sight to see an army routed and flying. They scatter everything valuable on the track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dy ing man. You have read of the French falling back from Sedan, or Napole on's track of 90,000 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, or of the five kings tumblina over the rocks of Bethoran with t~eir armies, while the hailstorms of heaven and the swords of Joshua's hosts struck them with their fury. But in my text is a worse discomfiture. It seems that a black gaint proposed to conquer the earth. Hegatered for his host all the aches and pains andmaladies and distempers and epidemics of the ages. He marched them down, drilling them in the north east wind amid the slush of tempests. He threw up barricades of grave mound. He pitched tent of charnel house. Some of the troops marched with slow tread, commanded by con sumptives; some in double quick, com manded by pneumonia. Some he took by long beseigement of evil habit and some by one stroke of the battle ax of casualty. With bony hand he pounded at the doors of hospitals and sick room and won all the victories in all the great battlefields of all the five continents, Forward, march, the con quoror of conquerors, - all the generals and commanders in chief ,'and all presi dents and kings and sultans and czars dropunder the feet of his war charger. But one Christmas night his an tagonist was born. As most of the plagues and sicknesses and despotisms came out of the east it was appropriate that the new conqeuror should com~e out of the same quarter. Power is gven him to awaken all the fallen of al the centuries and of all lands and marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won, but the last day will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth his two brigades, the brigade of the risen dead and the brigade of the celestial host, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from the risen sepulchers willtake him from beneath, and the brioade of descending immort als will tale him from above, and "death shall be swallowed up in vic tory." The old braggart that threat ened the conquest and demolition of the planet has lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word written over all the gates of mausoleum and catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lonly cairn of the artic explorer and on the catafal que of great cathedreals, written in capitals of azalea and calla lily, writ ten in musical cadence, written in dox ology of great assemblages, written on the sculptured door of the family vault, is "victory." Coronal word, embannered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of triumphal arch under which conquerors return. Victory ! Word shouted at Culloden and Bala'k lava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and Solferino, at Marathon, where the Athenians drove back the Medes; at Poitiers, where Charles Martel broke the ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis, where Themistocles in the great sea fight confounded the Persians, and at the door of the eastern cavern of chis eled rock where Christ came out through a recess and throttled the king of terrors and put him back in the niche from which the celestial conquer or had just emerged, Ahan, when the jaws of the eastern mausoleum took down the black giant "-death was swallowed up in victory !" I proclaim the abolition of deaith. The old antagonist is driven back into pthology with all the lore about Stygian ferry and Charon with oar and boat. We shall have no more to do with death than we have the cloak room at a governor's or president s leee. We stop at such cloakroom and leave in charge of the servant our overcoat, our overshoes, our outward apparel, that we may not be impeded in the brilliant rouna of the drawing room. Well, my friends, when we go out of this world, we are going to a kings banquet. and to a reception of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb' we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappings with whichi we meet the storms of the world. At the close of our earthly ireception, under the brush and broom of the porter, the coat or hat may be handed to us better than when we resioned it, and the cloak of humanity wiTl finally be returned to us improved and brightened and puri fied and glorified-. You and I do not want our bodies returned to us as they ar now. We want to get rid of all their weaknesses. and all their sus centibilities to fatigue, and all their slwess of locomiotion. They will be put through a chemistry of soil and cold and changing season, out of which God will reconstruct them as much better than they are now as the body of the rosiest and healthiest chid that bonds over the lawn is bet ter than the siekest patient in the hios pital. But as to our soul, we will cross right over, not waiting for obsequies. independent of obituar-y, into a state in every way better, with wider room and velocities beyond computation. the dullest of us into companionship with the very best spirits in their very bes moods, in the very best room of the universe, the four walls furnished and paneled and pictured and glorified with all the splendors that the infinite God in all azes has been able to in vent. Victory: This view, of course, makes it of but little importance whether we are cre mated or sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer incineration, let them have it without caricature. The world may become so crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by law as well as by general consent. Many of the mightiest and best of earth have gone through this process. Thousands and tens of thousands of God's children have been cremated. P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelist singers, cremated by accident at Ash tabula bridge; John Rogers, cremated by persecution: Latimer and Ridley, cremated at Oxford; Pothinus and Blondina, a slave, and Alexander, a physician, and their comrades, cre mated at the order of 'Marcus Aurelius. At least 100,000 of Christ's disciples cremated, and there can be no doubt about the resurrection of their bodies. If the world last as much longer as it has already been built, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreaae set apart for resting places, but that time has not come. Plenty of room yet, and the race need not pass that bridge of fire until it comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. But wheth er out of natural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcendant, magnificent, inexplicable structure called the resurrection body, you will have it, I will have it. I say to you today, as Paul to Agrippa. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" The far up cloud, higher than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops of water from the Hudson, other drops from East river, other drops from a sta nant pool out on Newark flats. Up yonder there, embodied in a cloud and and the sun kindles it. If God can make such a lustrous cloud out of wa ter drops, many of them soiled and impure and fetched from miles away, can he not transport the fragments of a human body from the earth, and out of them build a radiant body? Cannot God, who owns all the mate rial out of which bones and muscle and flesh are made, set them up again, if they have fallen? If a manufactu rer of telesccpes drop a telescope on the floor, and it breaks can he not mend it again so you can see through it? And if God drops the human eye into the dust, hie eye which he origi nally fashioned, can he not restore it? Aye,.if the manufacturer of the tele scope, by a change of the ;lass and a change of focus, can make a better glass than that which was originally constructed and actually improve it, do you not think the fashioner of the hunan eye may improve its sight and multiply the natural eye by the thous andfold additional forces of the resur rection eye? "Whv should it be thought with you an incredible thing that God should raise the dead?" Things all-around us suggest it. Out of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and earth. Resurrected. Resurrected. The ra diant butterfly, where did it come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smites the tempest with its wings, where did it come from? A senseless shell. Near Ber gerac, Francs, in a celtic tomb, under a block, were found flower seeds that had been buried 2,000 years. The ex plorer took the flower seed and plant ed it, and it came up, it bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thous and years ago buried, yet resurrected. A traveler says he found in a munimy p it in Eg,-t garden peas that had been buried tere 3,000 years ago. He brought them out, and on June 4, 1844, he planted them, and in 30 days they sprang up. Buried 3,000 years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" Where did all this silk come from-the silk that adorns your persons and your homes? In the hollow of a staff a Greek missionary brought from China to Europe the progenitors of those worms that now supply the silk markets of many na tions. The pageantry of bannered host and the luxurious articles of commercial emporium blazing out from the silkworms! And who shall be surprised if out of this insig-nificant earthly life our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eter ity. Put silver into diluted iiitre and it dissolves. Is the silver gone forev er.. No. Put in some pieces of copper and the silver appears. If one force dissolves, another force reorganizes. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that Gdshould raise the dead !" The insects flew and the worms crawled last autumn fee bler and- feebler, and then stopped. They have taken no food; they want none. They lie dormant and insensi ble, but soon the south wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and the air and the earth will be full of them. Do you not think that God can 'do as much for our bodies as he does for the wasps, and the spiders, and the snails. This morning at half past 4 o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the nieht, the day. In a few weeks there wif'l be a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not some day a resur rection among all the graves? Ever and anon there are instances of men and* women entranced. A trance is death, followed by resurrection after a few days. Total suspension of mental power and-voluntary action. Rev. William Tennent, a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexandre, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms-Rev. Wnm. Tennant seemed to die. His spirit seemed to have departed. Peo ple came in day after day, and said: "He is dead: lie is dead: But the soul returned, and William Tennant lived to write out experiences of what he had seen while his soul was gone. It may be found sometime that what is called suspended animation, or com atose state, is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next wvorld, frvim which it comes back-a furlough of a few hours granted from the con flict of life to whiich it must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance, and this waking up of grains buried three thousand years ago make it easi.er for you to believe that your body and mine, after the vacation of the ~grave, shall rouse .and rally, through there be three thousand years between our last breath and the sound ing of the archangelic reveille? Phy siologists tell us that, while the most of our bodies are built with such wonderful economy that we can spare nothing, and the loss of a finger is a hindrance, and dhe injury 0f a toe joint makes us lame, still we have two or three apparently useless phy sicial apparati, and no anatomist or physiologist has ever been -able to tell what they are good for. Perhaps they are the foundation of the resurrection body, worth nothing to us in this state, to be indispensably valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis appear to have a hint of this suggestion when they said that in the human frame ther-e was a small bone which was to be the basis of the resurrection body. That may have been a delusion. But this thing is certain-the Christian +ciet of our ayv have fonnd out that there are two or three superluities of the body that are sometiiin(g-glo rious ly suggestive of another state. I called at my friend's house o: e summer day. I found the yard all piled up with rubbish of carpeiter's of and inason's work. The door was off. The plumlbers had torn up the floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone. and the paior hangers were doing their work. All the modern improvements were beingur introduced into that dwell ing. There was not a room in tiw house fit to live in at that time. although a month before, when I vi-it ed that house, eveything'vas so bear ti ful I couldnot have suggested an im provement. My friend had gone -with his family to the Holy Land, expenct ingto come back at the end of s;ix months, when the building was to be done. And oh, what was his joy when, at the end of six months, he re turned, and the old house was improv ed and enlarged and glorified. That is your body. It looks well now. All the rooms are filled with health, and and we could hardly make a su gges tion. But after a wiile vour soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your taber nacle will be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic. Every, nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and artery must .be hauled over, and the old structure will be burnished and adorn ed and raised and cupolaed and en larged, and all the improvements of heaven introduced, and you will move into it on resurrection day. -For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle where dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." "Oh, what a day when body and soul meet again. They are very fond of each other. Did you e ver have a pain and your sound soul not re-echo it? Or, changing the subjuct, did your body ever have any trouble and body not sympathize with it, grow ing wan and weak under the drepress ing influence. Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebr ated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? Surely God never intended two such good friend to be long separated. So when the soul's ast Easter morning shall come the soul will descend. crying. "Where is my body?" and the body will ascend. say in "Where is my soul:" and the Lord of the resurrection will bring them together, and it will be a per feet soul in a perfect body, introduced by a perfect Christ into a perfet heaven. Victory! Only the disapprove of the resurrec tion. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffat, the missionary, prcach about the resurrection, and he said to the missionary, "Will ny father rise in the last day?" "Yes.." said the mis sionary. "Will all the dead in batte rise?" said the cruel chieftain. "Yes," said the missionary. "Then," said the warrior, "let me hear no more aboit the resurcticn day. There can be no resurrection, there shall be no resur rection. I have slain thousand. in battle. Will they rised?" Ah, there will be more to rise on that day than those want to see whose crimes have been repented of. But for all the others who allowed Christ to be their pardon and life and resurrection, it will be a day of victory. The thunders of the last day will be the salvo that gleets you into harbor. The lightnings will be only the torches of trinphal procession marching down to escort you home. The burning worlds flash ing through imniensity will be the rockets celebrating your coronation on thrones, where you will regin forever and forever and forever. Where is death? What have we to do ~vith death? As your reunited body and soul swing off from this planet on that ast day you will see deep gashes all up and down the hills, deep gashes all through the valleys, and they will be the emptied graves, they will be the abandoned sepulchers, with roughi ground tossed on either side of them, and slabs will lie even on the rent hil locks, and there will be fallen monu ments and cenotaphs, and then for the first time you will appreciate the full exhilaration of the text. 'He will swallow up death in victory.' Hail the Itrd of earth and heaven! Praise to Thee by both be given; '1 hee we gt eet trirnnphant now, Hail the' esurrection Thou! Let Us Take Time. Let ustake timeforthegood-by kiss. We shall go to the day's work with a sweeter spirit for it. Let us take time for the evening prayer. Our sleep will be more rest fulif we have claimed the guardianship of God. Let us take time to speak sweet, foolish words to those we love. By and by, when they can no longer hear us. our foolishness will seem more wise than our best wisdom. Let us take time to read our Bible. Its treasures will last when we shall have ceased to care for the war of po litical parties, and rise and fall of stocks, or the petty happenings of the day. Let us take time to be pleasant. The small courtesies which we often omit, because they are small, will some day look larger to us than the wealth which we have coveted, or the fame for which we have strug gled. SLet us take time to get acquainted with our families. The wealth you are accumulatine, burdened father, may be a doubtful blessing to the son who is a stranger to you. X our beauti fully kept house, busy mother, can never be a home to the daughter whom you have no time to caress. Let us take time to get acqain'ted with Christ. The hour is comning swiftly, for us all, when one touch of' His hand ini the darkness will n'-au more than all is written in the day book and ledger, or in the i-ecords o'! our little social world. Since~ we must all take time to die, why should we not take time to live-to live in the large sense of a life begun here for eternity. Mr'. B3uchannan. a railroad magnate and a gold bug of Nebraska. seemis to be excited. He has written Secretary Morton atlengthi on the silver quesiion and gives the result of his observati'-n as foiows: ''The way of this bnneful idea has almost reached an epideic~ condition, and unless fully answered in kind, both great political parties will be obliged in response to the pop ular demand, to either incorporate a substantially free silver plank ini their platform or else a disgraceful strad dle." The Spartanburg Herald says: 'Mr. Buchannan is right. The wave of this idea is an epidemic. The peo-I pe of this country are going to rise in heir might at the next election and demand that silver be restored to it place in our monetary system fromi which it was hurled by stealth. No amount of sophistry and false doc trines can obscure the issue. The (e mand for a stable currency, the hasi of which is broad enough to prevenit easy manipulation by banker's, is epii demic." Sleeves puff at the elbow now in stead of at the shoulder. They are be ing made new so a women c-an have her pockets in them. The men will ae a ardtme then findig them. SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS. A Pract icat Farmner Tell, us How to Make Mioney on the I'arm. 1 not look beyond your reach for wealth,. when it lies :1l about vou,'' says 11. W. Buckhee in the Southern Cultivator. 'In the wonderful age of improvement. you must move on in the line of march. or let your next door neighbor dig the jewels from the soiL. Many of our young men are not contented with the beautiful old home stead, the greeni fields, and much that makes one independent on the farm .0ut in their anxiety forgain, push out to large cities. or some distant land, where im nine cases out of ten. they would have been happier and wealthier men had they put that same life and energy on the farm. "The world demands men who will work. The curse of our country to day is the multitudes of idle ones who deimand not only a living, but even luxuries thrown in. Nothing in this life can be gained without hard work. Be careful in choosing an occupation, start right and the outcome will be fruitfulness. If you are interested in your vocation, and are industirous, your work, even though hard, will be a pleasure. "Try and interest your boys in your work. To do this you must encour age them in their small beginning. Stake out one acre of land for your boy for his own use. By this ~I do not mean the poorest land on your farm. but the very best, and see also, to commence witl, that it is well en riched. Start them right, as the first year's trial will be apt to decide their future. "Put in something that is in demand and thatalwayscommands good prices. How many farmers have first-class seedcorn that will test 95 per cent. when planting time arrives? A fine grade of seedcorn that your neighbors know is right in every respect, will prove a very profitable investment for von. When you have an article to sell,. give your customers something that is value received, and your trade is established. The same hints may be applied to all varieties of grain. There is a good income awaiting you at your very doors: sezie your grand opportunity. There is always money to be made in growing early onions, for bunching. Try a few of the best bottom sets to start with. They can be planted in rows one inch apart, fot rien inchies between the rows. as soon as the ground can be worked in Lne spring. "Do not plant any crop until you have first given proper attention to the preparation of your ground. Plow thoroughly and do not leave any dead furrrows. unless ground is apt to over flow. If such be the case, it is best to bac'-furrow every forty feet. leaving dead furrows to carry otr surplus wa ter. By continuing this method two .seasons. the land wfil be properly rid ged and will dry off quickly. This treatment applies to lov land only. Harrow the ground as soon as practica ble so as to pulverize all lumps, then plank one or both ways. If the ground is not then in fine condition, harrow and plank again. "Onions fromi seed are one of the most profitable esops that can be planted. They do best in a rich, light, loamy soil, and unlike most vegeta bles. succeed well when cultivated on the same ground for successive years. They may be planted as early in spring as'the ground can be worked, allowing four pounds per acre. Sow thinly in drills about one-fourth inch deep and one foot apart between the rows. When the young plants are strong enough, thin gradually so they will stand about three inches apart. keeping the surface of the ground open and free from weeds by frequnt hoeing, take care not to stir the soil too deeply or to collect it about the rowingr bulbs. "Peas are also money-makers, and should be planted the very first day in the spring that the ground can be worked, as a few days make a great difference in r-our returns. Three to four hundred dollars are often realized on this crop. One of the best early peas is the Lightning Express, and for a heavy yield and earliness, they are hard to beat, as they ripen very even ly and are a sure cropper. The sweet est early pea for family use is the American Wonder, or McLean's Lit tle Gem, and always command the highest price in the market, but are not as heavy yielders as the Lightning Express. For market use,. plant mn rows three feet apart, sowing qumte thickly in the rw to a depth of three inches. From one to two bushels of seed are required to plant an acre in this way. By a succession of sowing about two weeks apart, fine 'peas may be had all summer. By giving your best attention to this crop, keeping free from weeds and well cultivated, ou will feel richly repaid. Care should be taken in having your peas picked at the proper time, as custom ers desire them fresh and tender. See that the stock is clean, give good meas ure, and cover baskets with rheubarb leaves so that stock will present a clean and fresh appearance when offered for sale. By- a little such care and fore thought, you will very soon build up a reputation for your goods- that will enable you to quickly dispose of them at the ~highest market price. When peas have all been marketed, plan your land and prepare for a crop of late cabbage, and thus turn your soil to account each day of the season. "'One of the best late cabbages is the new Christmas King, Seed may be sown in MIay and transplanted to field the last of June or first of July, three to thi'ee and one-half feet apart, so as to admit of cultivating with horse cutivatte both ways. The crop needs rich soil and good cultivating while yo .wing thereby ins.urmng you a prof itable inv-~estmnent. These hints, with others which will suggest themselves to y.ou. wUm, I trust, crown your labor with success. THlE Hlebrew Journal waxed furious because some Jews ate oysters at a Pu rim celebration. It says taat Jews who will cat oynters are lacking in good maners and common decency and are "worse than an:n-chists.' Thereupon h New Yeork .San neatly retorts that some of the most pronounced Jewish anarchists are so particular in their obsrvance of the 31osaic law that they wili not touch an oyster. Pe~ace Restored. WASmIIo-ros. Auril 16.-Official ad vices were receivell this morning by inister Yang Yu, the Chinese repre: sentative in t'he United States, from Simonoseki, Japan, con firming the news that pr'otocols of peace between China and Japan have been signed. The cable message read simiply: " Peace negotiationlshave been signied." Tr E Augusta Chr'onicle is eminient Icorrect when it says the income tax de'cision of the Supreme Court is not calculated to raise that court in public estimation. Eight judges occupying the bench of the heighest court in the land, ought to b)e able to come nearer an aigreemtenit on an nuplhortanlt quies tion of law than half and half. THE: New York Sun says that Mliss Susan B3. Anthony's assertion that 'the colored people receive no, better tratment in the North than in the South" is simply a statement of indis o)utable fact. THE REGJISTATION LAW. [CONTINUED FROM P-WE ONE. do not and will not contain the name of your orator as a regitered voter for the reason hereinbefore stated: that your orator and others like cir-uni stanced with him will not be permitted to vote at said special election by the managers thereof, unless their names be found upon the books of registra tion and they can produce the reigistra tion certificates hereinbefore men tioned; that if the said defendant be permitted to continue the aforsaid ille gal, partial and void registration and be allowed to turn over to the mianag ers of election for the aforesaid coun tv of Richland (when appointed) said paper writings purporting to be the books of registration for the several precincts in said county, your orator will be deprived of his right to vote at said election and grivous and irrepara ble worng and damage will be done to your orator and a large class of citi zens like circumstanced with him, which can be prevented only by the interposition of this court by way of restraining the said defendant from the performance of any of the act hereinbefore referred to. To the end therefore, that your ora tor may have full, perfect and suffici ent relief in the premises, may it please your honors to grant unto your orator a writ of injunction restraining and enjoining the said defendant indivi dually and as. supervisor of registra tion from the performance of any of the acts hereinbefore complained of, and that your orator may have such other and further relief in the premises as may be just and reasonable. May it please your honors to grant unto your orator a writ of subpoena to be directed to the said defendant, commanding him at a certiin time, and under a certain penalty therein to be limited personally, to be and ap' pear before your honors in this honor able court, then and there to answer unto this bill of complaint and to do and receive what to your honors shall seem meet in the premises. OBEAR & DOUGLASS, Complaint's Solicitors. JUDGE GOFF'S ORDER. The follow i.g is the far-reaching or der issued by Judge Goff; no doubt it will be a surprise to the State authori ties: United States of America, South Caro lina District; in the Circuit Court, Fourth District-In Equity. Lawrence P. Mills vs. W. Briggs Green: bill for injunction: On hearing the bill in the above en titled case, and on motion of Messrs. Obear & Douglass. complainant's soli citors, it is Ordered. That the defendant, W. Briggs Green, both individually and as supervisor of reoistration for Rich land county in tle State of South Carolina, be enjoined and restrained until the further order of this court from the commission of any of the acts complained of in the above entitied bill, a copy of which must be served upon him with this order. It is fur ther Ordered. That the said W. Bri-gs Green do show cause before me at N_ lumbia, South Carolina, on Thursday the 2d day of May next, why this or der should not be continued, or some orderof like purport and effect be then granted, enjoining and restraining him, both individually and as such supervisor of registration from the commission of any of the acts com plained of in said bill until the final hearing and determination of this cause. This heartino shall be in the United States Circuit court room, Columbia, South Carolina. This 16th day of April, 1895. (Signd) Nthan Goff, U. . ircitJudge FourthDitc. AN EMPHATIC DENIAL. Ex-Congresman Iziar Refates a sensa tional Report. The Orangeburg- correspondent of the News and Courier, under date of April 13, says: In regard to the re port from The News and Courier's Wshin on correspondent that Judge Izlar ha beentradimg his Government supply of documents and books for seeds your correspondent has just had an interview with Judge Izlar upon his return from a business trip of sev eral days' duration. The Judge gave your correspondent the following writ ten statement concerning the report, which explains his position in the mat ter completely: To the Editor of The News and Courier: I have just returned here after an absence of several days on professional business. My absence prevented me from seeing the issue of your paper of the 8th instant contain ing a statement from your Washing ton correspondent, R. M. L., concern ing myself; and of replying promptly thereto. Your correspondent, in speak ing of the exchange of documents for seeds by Congressmen, has his to say relatve to myself: "Representative Cadmus, of New Jersey, gave Judge Izlar two thousand packages of seeds for books," and you, without inquiry or investigation, did not hesitate to re lect upon my intergrity and reputa tion by making the unwarranted infer ence that this was the reason " why some of Gen. Izlar's constituents could not oet Government publications." I <Yo not know whether your corres pondent had information from others which warrented the statement or whether it was the creation of his own brain, but one thing I do know, that. however the slander may have origi nated, it is wholly without foundation and basely false, and its circulation was unwarranted and unjust. As a member of Congress I never, at any time, traded or exchanged any document or documents, book or books, for garden seeds or other comodity, but faithfully and honestly distributed all documents and seeds alloted to me among my constituents, as far as my limited supply would permit, and any statement or inference to the contrary is not only unwarranted, but wholly untrue. I even went further to serve myv constituents than rmy duty required. When the quantity of documeuts and seeds alloted to me were exhausted I purchased a large number of books and packages of seeds out of my private funds, and had thiem distributed among my constituents th~roughout the district. Whether the addition quamhty of garden seeds purchased by me were procured by my clerk from Mr. Cad mus, of New Jersey, I do not know, but I am positively certain that books were not given in exchange for them. I do not wish to be understood as reflecting upon the course of any member of Congress in what I have said, for under certain circumstances it would not only be wise but benefi cial to the respective constituents of membe's to make such exchanges. In certain sections and communities books would be more valuable and beneficialthan the most improved cot ton or garden seeds, and vice versa. In such cases exchanges would not only be prudent, but helpful. My ob ject in this communication, however, is only to correct the false statement and unjust reflectiou upon my course as a member of Congress in the matter referred to-a statement ireckessly made by your correspondent.and a re flection u'njustly cast upon me through your paper. ha seldom one into the news POWDER : Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar DaEing powdef. Highest of g11 in leavening strength.-L test United States Governmentfood Be port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. papers to refute the false charges, mis representations and slanders made and circulated against me, and you will therefore, pardon me if I have trespass ed upon your time and space in thisin stance. ~ am very respectfully, James F. Izlar. Orangeburg, April 12, 1895. The fudge's private secretary while he was in Washington states that when the Judge was first elected to Congress to fill out Judge Brawley's unexpired term he found the quota of seeds as signed to this district completely.ex haustec, also the supply of books and documents, but that he went outbide the department and purchased a quan tity of seed for distribution by .Judge Izlar over his district, and that he himself delivered the check in pay ment of the purchase. The quota - for this year he sent out all over the entire district under the directions of Judge Izlar, and that even this year he pur chased seed from others for distribu tion among the Judge's friends. The demands for both seed and public do cuments have been very great, which necessitated thes purchases, and . that instead of the Judge selling or trad ing he purchased from his -private. funds and distributed both seed and documents. -- A Desecrated Church. S.- FiNscisco. April 14.-Another horrible discovery was made this morning in a small room in the steeple of Emanuel Baptist Church, where'the mutilated remains of young Minnie Williams were found vesterday. -The - church has been Uesecrated by a second murder, the vicim being another young girl, Blauche Lamont, who had been missing since the third inst. She had been strangled to death, her, clothes had been torn from her person ana the body was almost nude when discovered. Her shoes and stock' ns were missing. The imprints of ;te assassin's finger nails plainly visible on the murdered girl's throat but there was no indication of furtherviolence. Shortly after the awful discovery was made, Dr. George Gibson, pastor of the church, was taken into custody by the police. No charge was placed against him, but he will be held until the mystery is fully cleared. Miss Lamont was last seen .alive in the company of Theodore,. Durant, a young medical student and, assistant superintendent of the Sunday school, connected with the defiled place of worship. Dur-ant, wh~o is said to have been engaged to be married to Miss Lamont, is suspected of having taken the life. of the Williams girl, who .is known to have been a warm friend of Miss Lamont. They were members of the church which they ir untly at tended together and werea nth same Sunday school class. S'n .?e . disappearance of Blanche, Miss Wi liams often said that her companion had met with foul play. This startin statement reached the ears of sevea members of the church and the girl4 was asked for an explanation, but she positively declined to re'veal the nature of her information and the mat ter was dropped. The p olice are now - inclined to thiak that D urant, knioi ing that 3Miss Williams was in posses sion of sufficient evid'ence to provelisi guilt in conniection with the disappear ance of -Miss Lamont, .. concludfed to decoy her idto the church and silence her forc eer. T'he police argue: that Durant na 1 heard thestatementof the: Williams cirl and momentarily feared ~ exposure. As she continvad to declare ' that her, friend had been murdered Durant concladed to kill-'her. One of the most damag~ing' svtnse against the young inedica stadent is Chas. Hills, who re~sides across then street from Emanuel~Baptist Church' Shortly after S o'cloc'k .. Fridaiy night he saw a, man and woman standing near the street corner...They chatted together for some time a finally started. up the street toward the church. When tue -churchi-was reached - the man caught .the girl by the arm and half. dragged. her to. the gate leading to the- pastor's study: Af-: ter a few minutes conversation; he couple passed through the gardtii amd finally entered the church thrdu'igh a side door. Hills is positive that the man opened the door -with -a key and was apparently thoroughly familiar with the premises. Suspecting that something was wrong -he waited out- -. side for a few mmnutes, but hearing no - outcry, concluded that the couple were -~ meibers of the church and went to his home. The description given of the man who accompaniedthe girl tallies with that of Durant. A.. theruglr search is being made for Durant.. This afternoon Rev.' J.. George Gig son made a satisfactory explanation to the chief of police as to his movements since last Fridav and was allowed to depat. e dededhaving tried to - keep the~ WVillimus murder quiet and also denied haviniz been intimate with Durant, who"' hec..oes not think guil tr. tiourth he adm1its tae circumstances are very~ str a wa. Theodore Dartmwas th -rnoon arrested at WAainuit Cre. noit on the Sacra ...t.rivr,..'y-ive miles from this city.___ ____ JAmse$(vraLE. Anril 15.-Mrs. W. D. Alexaadcr. who wvith her husband, rooms at the residence of .J. C. Purdy, in Riverside.a suburb of Jacksonville, - had quite an exciting adventure with a. robber Sunday afterg~oon. , Mrs. Alexander was-al'one in the house.and while sittinge at the door heard stealthy footsteps. aind she rose to 'see what it was on tne laz~a. with -two bounds a muan stood before her. lHe dendanded all the mney there was in the house, and whien told -there was none, went and tried another door. Mrs. Alexan dr- screamedl. ind the robber jumped back at her tmad demanded the keys to the door which hie found locked. ~She refused him and. seizing ber by the collar, lhe pulled outa knife and. mad'e t wo thrusts at her.-.- The first. thrust struck the steel in her corset and the second a whalebone in the waist of her dress. Hle theni drew her to one side and she fell on the bed. The rob ber evidently thought lie had'killed her and' going into the next room made a hasty search through a trunk in search of money. Mr. Alexander ad Mr. and . Mrs. Purdy returned home two hours and a haltf later and - found Mrs. Alexander in an uncon sious condition. It was fuliv' an hour before they could bring' her too