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WHICH? Some must sow, Though others reap Some must go. While others sleep; Some must sigh While joy bells ring Some must die, While others sing. Some will laugh, While storm clouds burst; Some will quaff, While others thirst; Some will grope While others sail Some will hope While others fail. Some will sin, Some will win, In cause unjust; Some will greed, While others give Some will need While mortals live. Voices raise Upon the air Some in praise, And some--despair! Thus the ills And joys must be; Thus fulfills Our destiny. Keep this thought Within thy mind, "Peace was brought For humankind." Who hath braved Life's sea--storm tost, Some are saved, And some are lost. ---Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE STROKE OF RUIN. BY MAURICE THOMPSON. It was moonlight and rather late in the balmy evening, with a breeze flut tering along Royal street, and the sound of a guitar coming from an in definite distance. No street cars were running and but few strollers-these most creoles in high-heeled shoes tap ping lightly on the banquettes-went up and down the narrow way. Boyle Harding leaned back in an easy chair on the iron-railed balcony, or gallery, which overhung the side walk. an'd smoked slowly, with half closed eyes. He was waiting the ar rival of his young friend. Francois Rapin, who had lately interested him to a singular degree. Even at the moment, upon the un carpeted stairway came the active cre ole's feet, two steps at a time, alc';g with a lively tune sung almost breath lessly through a curving black mus tache. "Ah, but here I am!" he cried, is suing through the doorway and trip gay step along the floor towards "Well, and what is it?" demanded the New Yorker. "What have you found out?" "Bah I" He produced a cigarette and asked for a lioht by an inimitable pantomine with Yiead and shoulders. "Maybe she wentto the French opera. Go with me; I have a box; come." "But haven't you yet.seen her?" "Seen her-how should I know? Monsieur Harding forgets the condi tions." He laughed in his atrociously frivolous French way. "I beg pardon," said Harding, quickly; "I had, indeed, forgotten that I did not know her name, her place of residence, nor yet even the color of her eyes. Yes. I will go with yon to the opera. Everybody goes, "Not everybody, but everybody of the best. It is the distinctton; we draw the line in front of the boxes." "Not the dead line, I hope." "Even that sometimes, yes. I have known a glance of sweet eyes to cost a man his best blood under the oaks. Are you a good fencer?" Boyle Harding made no3answer, but flung his cigar stump over the iron filagree down into the street, where it coruscated on the cobble-stones. and then he rose and shook himself light las one does who forms an imperfect laor feels vaguely impatient over elayed expectations. The sky above New Orleans was as blue as a sapphire, and the irregular old houses along Royal street caucoht many a stray glint from the splen 'd mood. Harding was in a mood to feel all the force of such a scene. He had come South a fortnight past with let ters of introduction to influential peo ple, but he was not seeking society; a quiet sojourn in New Orleans with his eyes and ears opened suited him bet ter. He was young, however, brimful of blood and surcharged with a poet's imagination. What was, perhaps, just the thing he would have most desired came to him unexpectedly one day. Is was a twinkle of romance in the gloom of Royal street. He suddenly met a beautiful young woman face to face at the door of Gardin's old book store, a dingy hole where you find the con tents of French libraries that have -been sold at successive sales or picked up at auction. Warm eyes exchange an involuntary look which seeme to have a glow of inquiry struck out of iris points. Harding was electrified, and impulsively lifted his hat. She passed him with a half smile, leaving a breath of violets and the rustle of a gwn quietly elegant in the air round The color of her hair, her height, the tint of her eyes, her complexion -he could not fix one of these in his mind, but he knew that she was the loveliest, the most enchanting girl that ever breathed. The impression entered his consciousness so suddenly and set itself so deep and with such a thrill of romantic pleasure, that he stopped short in the door, and stood there, hat in hand, smiling reminis oenly and listening to the purr of his onbodsweetly quickening along his veins. A lover is a great fool; but he is the only man who knows what song it was that the stars sang; and to him you must go if you would learn the secret of heavenly happiness and the value of dreams as nutriment for the imagination. A lover's soul will tre ble its stature by feeding one moment on a smile. In fact, Boyle Harding had felt this sudden growth within; it had quick ened, broadened and sweetened his suiritual vision, while affording a fine and richly mysterious increment to his enjoyment of his new surroundings. Thswas midway inthe fifties, when New Orleans had reached the splendid zenith of her wealth, and when the peculiar color of her social life was most azzling and romantic. As an American city she stood apart, a hot, almost tropical heart of passion, lux ury, pleasure and abounding hospi tality. And with it all went the old freeom of chnivalric personal courage and the love of spectacular results in matters of honor. Harding and his young creole friendi set out on foot; it was but a shortI step to the Opera House, and as theyI went along Rapin was prattling on the subject of fencing, always a great vogue with the jeunesse doree of New Orlans. He was himself a rich orphan, living upon an almost unlimited in come, and had long been a confirmed habitue of the fencing halls. Having seen some rapiers and foils in Hard ing's rooms, he was saying: "But you must be interested in sword play-in fencing. It is the noblest of all the exercises for gentle-~ men, and your physique is precisely made up for it. You must be a mas ter, or you could be." "I have had good masters," Hard ing replied in an evasive tone, "but I am limg interest in it.' "Your masters were in New York'" ""No; Paris. I had 1. Duval for three years.' "31. Duval: You had M. Charles Duval for three vears: "Yes." "Ah, what fortune: He, and he only, teaches the 'stroke of ruin,' the pass which pierces across from shoul der to shoulder, disabling the victim for life, yet never killing him:" Ra pin spoke enthusiastically, and after a moment's pause added almost breath lessly: "And you learned his stroke: Oh. but I am overjoyed: and you will teach me to do it' Ah, Monsieur. I shall be your lifelong debtor. I have dreamed of that incomparable thrust: I have made two journeys to Paris to learn it; but, you must know. M. Duval is an ancient enemy of my father. I could not go to him, and his pupils are so few and so, so. so dis tinguished and exclusive that I could not reach one of them. Harding laughed at the youth's frankness and told him pleasantly that he should be glad to give him the secret instruction. Thereupon Rapin almost hugged him, and they were just entering the Opera House. A great curve of splendor. a ilash of faces, jewels, laces. eyes. fans--a be wildering horizon of corsages, coif fures, necklaces, bracelets, rings: a foam of airy growns sinking and swell ing gently, like surf froth against a beach of fairy land. Harding gazed in half-blinded stupidity, so he felt, and could see no details, could make out no individual face distinctly. It all struck him as some vast spectacle of barbarous gewgaw splendor. and yet nothing that he had ever seen could compare with it in unity of effect. The boxes were all full, and full of beauty and queenly costume, so accentuated that nowhere else could such insistences upon decoration have been tolerable. There. however, it was the perfection of color, brilliance and condensed, passionate beauty of expression such as the Greeks of Alex andira dreamed of in their luxurious exhibitions. Harding and Rapin were the only persons in their box, which was well to one side of the great curve. On the stage a celebrated ballet favorite was kicing neatly through one of her captivating passages. "We will begin the lessons to-mor row," murmured Rapin: "I shall be an apt scholar, Monsieur." "Yes." said Harding, absently. He was gazing along the great sweep of beauty and light. "But excuse me for a moment or two," the creole added after a while, when the curtain was down, "I am going to call at the box of a friend." He went, and Harding continued his survey, which, now that his eyes had somewhat accustomed themselves to the glamor, became more real and ab sorbingly interesting. Presently he saw pin in a box, a magnificent one, near the centre, talking with a tall, young woman and it was she. There could be no doubt for a moment. The thrill through Harding's heart told as much as the girl's resplendent, yet, ina way, subdued beauty. Harding', eyes were fixed; the trance of that old-time love which men used to acknowledge was upon him. His strong, healthy, boyish nature plunged into the thick of a passion-romance as fervid as it was pure and sincere. And at the very central moment she turned from Rapin and looked straight at him. Moreover, he could see a light of quick interest come into her face; they were speaking of him. The prosy fact was that Rapim, in his enthusiastic way, had been telling Mlle. Marie de Montmartin-that wvas her name--about his good fortune in finding a master to teach him the "stroke of ruin," and he had directed her attention to the young man in his box. But for Mlle. Marie de Mont martin we may as well say that she glanced mechanically, then looked again. Harding was a superbly hand some young athlete, a flower of per fact manhood with a face never to be forgotten by any woman. Rapin presently returned to the box, bringing with him, or at least Hard ing fancied it, a breath of that ex quisite violet perfume which had been haunting Harding's memory for days and nights together. "Who is she-the young lady in the box where you've been?" The abrupt inquiry and a certain timbre of Harding's voice betrayed his emotion to the quick creole. "Oh, she-that is Mile. Marie de Montmartin. Lovely, isn't she? You might envy me, M. Harding. She is my betrothed." "Ah"-Harding hesitated and a palish change passed over his face, like a fleece cloud over some glorified space of sky. Then he coolly added: "I doenvy .you. Yes, she is the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen. She is the one I met in the old book store door. You are quick to find." Rapin colored. "Thank you," he said, as the cur tain went up and the prima donna strode forth with a superb swing. The next day Rapin came to Hard ing's rooms for his initial lesson; but the young man begged a postpone met; he was not feeling in good form, e said, and was averse to exercise. And now Harding's powerful letters of introduction came into play. The only son of General Stanhope Harding* had the key to open even the exclu sive gate of the mansion wherein the ncient family traditions of Montmar tin were kept in an atmosphere of their own. Here the young man~ found Mlle. Marie even more fascinat ing than his imagination had pictured We must acquit him; he did not de iberately seek to gain her affections:; indeed there was no need to seek; she claimed him at sight, and the way wasI love's sweetest path. Rapin was for gotten as a merely conventional lover nust always be when the true one omes rushing in all aglow and all| >owerful. Marie's parents were delighted. rhere was no obstacle, religious or ther, and an alliance with the Hard ing family was something to be proud of. So, in due course of time, the en agement was announced and the wed lin g day approached. Hadng had been to New York: hie returned late in November, radiant with happy aspirations, and took rooms as before, but now in the St. Charles. He brought some frienids with him, and his parents would be coming a little later. I have said that a lover is a fool. His vanity, moreover, cannot be over estimated, and the selfishness of his passion plays him small yet irresisti ble tricks. Harding had a desire to o ag'ain to the old book store of Garcian, on Royal street, anid have his first meeting with Marie over once more in his imagination. He slipped away from the hotel furtively and with a foolish stir in his blood. The morning was like a summer's dream, clothing the old city in films of chastened splendor. Up aind down the narrow streets clacked the high. heeled boots of the little creoles. Fruit stands, heaped with luscious or anges, bananas. apples, dashed the air with a rich bouquet, and there were roses ever-ywhere. Harding held his head high and walked swiftly. When we go to seek an illusion wve are pretty sure to find a reality. It is not the scheme of nature to humor us ing came abruptly face to face with Francois Iapin, whom he had not seen since the announcement of the coming nuptials. Somehow it was a surprise, but Rapin's face showed a qticK Sine'. Harding stopped short in his tracks. and would have probably put forth his hand in a friendly offer of salutation: but just then his ht was lightly tapped from his head by lapin. who innedi ately picked it up and handed it to him, saying: "Monsieur Harding will now re member his promise to teach me the mysterious stroke of M. Duval." He bowed low and was gone: while a card Buttered down at Harding's feet: it bore Rapin's address. At first Harding's heat of temper was great, but reflection led him to consult his friends, who ridiculed the thought of a duel. He was glad to escape. for, although a born tighter, this was no time to be risking his life or to be killing a man. He had however, consulted but one side of that advisory board which al ways exists in such cases. His North ern~ friends were unanimously opposed to the duel, but he must be frank and ray the matter before his fiancee's familr. "You must fight him, sir," said Montmartin. "Of course, there is but one way open to a gentleman," sighed Marie: "you must challenge him." The Montmartin household and all the Mlontmartin circle were as a unit on this point. No evasion was to be considered, since Rapin smilingly re fused to apologize, and so Harding sent the challenge. which was prompt ly accepted. They met at sunrise under the "oaks' so well known to duelling his tory. Merrily clinked their rapiers for honor's sake and Marie's. That was but about forty years ago: and yet what a distance: What a far spin the world has made down the "groove of change" since then: Farragut and Butler have been in the city, the re construction terror has come and gone: the reassertion of State authority fol lowed the victory of the citizens over the alien soldiers; the lottery has gone: the city is rich once more: see the bales of cotton, the hogsheads, the barrels, the bags on the levee: And there are no more duels. Yesterday a white-haired man, whose shoulders drooped strangely, and whose two arms dangled half-paralyzed beside him, walked down Royal street. "That is Francis Rapin," said a creole Lo some friend. "He got that wound in the celebrated duel with Harding." "Y-e-e-s, drawled another of the group, with a queer little shrug. "Y-e-e-s, Mr. Harding taught him the 'stroke, of ruin,' la: ha: c'est vral, n'est ce pas?" I followed with curious gaze the re treating from of Rapin, recalling at the same time that Boyle Harding and his wife were now living in Nice, where, in most comfortable circum stances and well loaded with is me, Harding writes his novels and plays with his grandchildren. His wife is said to be still beautiful and very domestic.-New York Vanity. BLACK BUCKNER BUCKS. But the Illinois Legislature Rejects His Bloody Shirt. SPRINGFIELD. Ills., June 7.-A bill appropriating 815,000 to enable the State of Illinois to participate in the Atlanta exposition passed the House1 today by a vote of 79 ayes to i8 nays. The l~ill, which was introduced in the Senate by Henry Evans, a Republican1 of Kane county, passed that body some time ago, but when it went to the House the appropriations commit tee made an unfavorable report on it. Col. Jonathan Merriam of Tazwell county, a distinguished Federal soldier took up the fight for the bill and: through his efforts it was taken from: the public table and advanced on the< calendar. Today he called it up ag'ain and it was read a third time and paced on its passage.1 The debate which followed was a stirrinG' one. John C. Buckner, a col-1 ored 1Representative from Chicago. took the floor against the measure and] made an attack on the bill. He said the melnbersof his race could not at tend the exposition and be treated as ] citizens of a great State. With bitter ness he spoke of the lynching of col ored men in the South and declared < his hostility to any measure that would 1 benefit the South unti! colored men ] were allowed their rights in the South. ern States. He declared that at some. of the building erected at the World's Fair by Southern States, the blackest I Eottentot was welcome, while colored I :itizens wvere denied admittance. < Col. MIerriam, in defending the bill,< said: "I am informed that 25,000 old 1 soldiers have already signified theirt purpose to visit the Atlanta Exposition.1 I'hey are survivors of the legions who bore the flag through storms of shot .I nd shell as they fought their bloody:< way under the leadership of Sherman and Logani acro'ss the valleys of Re saca and up the heights of Kenesaw t ntil their victorious banners waved e aout Atlanta, and thence took their e way to the sea. Now, after thirty years f f peace, with fraternal feelings re- e~ stored, ther want to meet again under i hat flan' as it floats over that historic t ity amY greet with friendly clasp the a rave men who fought with --gual de- a otion for the lost catuse, and there I emonstrate anew that peace hath her t ictories no less renowned than war."' Col. Bryan of DuPage called MIr. a Buckner's'attention to the fact that I he colored people had been recognized c n the Atlanta Exposition, and as a ( :epublican he deplored the attempt a ade to excite any feeling against the t South. Other speeches in the same a ein were made. A Sensation in st. Paul. Sr. PAUL, MIinn., June 2.-Ambrose sborne, a negro, 2S years of age, arrowly escaped death at the handst f a mob at 5 o'clock this morming at he corner of Lexington avenue and nglehart street. S3hortly after 4 'clock Osborne entered the home of hree sisters. MIaggie, Frida and An nie Kitchell, aged~23, 18 and 11. Os orne seized Frida by the throat and f egan choking her. The other sisters I ere awakened by the scuhile at d ran ut to the street and gave the alarm. Aton Kitchell, who lives close by, was the first to respond and ran aft'er the brute. The chase was a hot one for a mile, but the negro finally gave p and was brought back to the corner f Lexington and Inglehart, where the whole neighborhood had been roused, app~rised of the brute's act ad were ready' for a lynching bee. sborne was led to a. tree, a rope se ured, and he was given a few nun utes to confess. This lie did and was swung to the limb of a maple tree. This threw the wvomen into hysterics, ntI Kitchell, the captor. begged that osborne be spared. He was thereupon taken down and turned over to the police. A Disastrous Flashi of laihtning. I H.Iulro, Junie 1.-The fire which 1 wssatdin the petr'oleumn sheds on 1 Wihlsurg Island yesterday after- 1 non, as the result of a stroke of light- c nng, has left a track of deiastation three hundred metres wide. The Gaiser t Factory and the IIamburg:Amer~ican Company's depot are safe, the wind s having driven the Ilames in the oppo S[HAMGAR'S OXOAI). ITS USE AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PH ILISTINES. Rev. D)r. Talmage -'nforces tihe Neeessity of Uing ihe W-apmn We Have at Hand For All Great Emergencies- hut We 31u1t Have God With Us. NEW YonK, June 2.-In his sermon today Rev. I)r. Tahnage discusses one of the most heroic and picturesque characters in ancient Jewish history. a man who like many others who ac hieved high distinction. came from the sturdy rural classes-the subject of the sermon was "Shamgar's Oxgoad," the text being. "After him was Shamgar. which slew of the Philistines 600 men with an oxgoad" Judges iii. 31 j. One day while Shamgar. the farmer was plowing with a yoke of oxen his command of whoa-haw-gee was chang d to the shout of battle. Philistines. always ready to make trouble. march up with sword and spear. The plowman had no sword and would not probably have known how to wield it if he had possessed one. But fight he must or go down under the stroke of the Phil istines. He had an oxgoad-a weapon used to urge on the lazy team; a weap on about eight feet long, with a sharp iron at one end to puncture the beast. and a wide iron chisel or shovel at the other end with which to scrape the lumps of soil from the plowshare. Yet, with the iron prong at one end of the oxgoad and the iron scraper at the other. it was not such a weapon as one would desire to use in battle with armed Philistines. But God helped the farmer. and leaving the oxen to look after themselves lie charged upon the invaders of his homestead. Some of the connentaries to make it easier for Shamgar suzgest that per haps lie led a regiment of famers into the combat. his oxgoad only one of many oxgoads. But the Lord does not need any of you to help in making the Scriptures, and Shamgar. with the Lord on his side, was mightier than iU0 Philistines, with the Lord against them. The battle opened. Shamgar, with muscle strengthened by open air and plowman's and reaper's and thras her's toil, uses the only weapon at hand, and he swings the oxgoad up and down, and this way and and that, now stabbing with the iron prong at one end of it, and now thrusting with the iron scrap r at the other, and now bringing :own the whole weight of the instru nent upon the heads of the enemy. rhe Philistines are in a panic, and the supernatural forces come in, and a blow that would not under other cir :umstances have porstrated or ;lain left its victim lifeless, 2ntil when Shamgar walked over the eld he counted 100 dead, 200 dead. 00 dead, 400 dead, 500 dead, 600 dead -all the work done by an oxgoad with iron prong at one end and an iron ;hovel at the other. The fame )f this achevement by this armer with an awkward weapon )f war spread abroad and ionized him until lie was hoisted .nto the highest place of power and be .ame the third of the mighty judges f Israel. So you see that Cincinnatus aas not the only man lifted from plow o throne. For what reason was this unpreced mted and unparalled victory of a far ner's oxgoad put intothis Bible, where here was no spare room for the un mportant and the trivial: it was, first of all, to teach you, and .o teach me, and to teach all past ages ;ince then, and to teach all ag'es to :ome that in the war for God and igainst sin we ought to put to the best se the weapon we happened to have >n hand. Why did not Shamgar wait intil be could get a war charger, with eck arched, and back caparisoned, Ld nostrils sniffing the b'attle afar >f, or until he could get war equip nent, or could drill a regiment, and vheeling them into line command hem forward to the charge? ['o wait for that would have een defeat and annihilation. So ie takes the best weapon he could lay iold of, and that is an oxgoad. We Lre called into the battle for the right, nd against wrono, and many of us iave not just the -ind of weapon we vould prefer. It may not be a sword >f argument. It may not be the spear >f sharp, thrusting wit, it may not >e the battering ram of denunciation. 3ut there is something we can do and ome forces we can wvield. Do not vait for what you have not, but use hat you ~have Perhaps you tave not eloquence, but you ave a smile. 'Well, a smile of en ouragement has changed the behavior f tens of thousands of wanderers, and >rought them back to God, and en hroned them in heaven. You cannot nake a persuasive appeal, but you can et an example, an d a good example Las saved more souls than you could ount in a year if you counted all the ime. You cannot give $10,000, buti -on can give as much as the widow of he gospel. whose two mites, the small st coins of the Hebrews, were bestow d in such a spirit as to make her more amous than all the contributions that ver enowded all the hospitals and niversites of all Christendom of all ime. You have very limited vocabul ry, but you can say 'yes" or "no" ndl a firm "yes" or an emphatic "no" as traversed the centuries and will raversed all eternity with good ir uence. You may not have the cour ge to con front a large assemblage, t you can tell a Sunday school class two -a boy and a girl-how to find ~hrist. and one of them may become William Carey to start influences bat will redeemIndia, and the other Florance Nightingale, who will il mline battlefields covered with the ving and the dead. That was a tough ease in a town of :ngland where a young lady, apply ag for a Sabbath school class, was >d by the superintendent she would ae t'o pick up one out of the street. 'he worst of the class brought from r'eet was tone Bob. He was fitted out rith respectable clothing by the su erintendent. But after two or three abbaths he disappeared. He was und with his clothes in tatters, for chad been fighting. The second time ob was well clad for school. After oming once or twice he again disap eared and wvas found in rags, con aquent upon fighting. The teacher ras disposed to give him up, but the aperintendent said, "Let us try him gain," and the third suit of clothes :as provided him. Thereafter he came util lie was converted, and joined the hurch. and for the gospel mimtstry, nd became a for'eign missionary, pre cting and translating the Scriptures. Vho was the boy called Bob? The il astious Dr'. Robert Morrison. great n earth and greater in heaven.' Who is teacheri w'as I know not, but she sed thec opportunity opened,. d great has been her reward. ou may not be able to load air Arm trong gun. You miay not be able to .url a Hfotchikiss shell. You may not *e able to shoulder a glittering musket ut use anything you can lay your ands on. Try a blacksmith's hammer r a merchant's yardstick, or marso trawel, or a carpen er pane, 0or a housewife's broom, or farmer's oxgoad. One of the surpri es of heaven will be what grand re ults came from how simple means. tise Joyce, the vile mn, became a great apostle of righteousness not from hearing John Wesley preach. but from seeing him kiss a little child on the pulpit stairs. Again, my subject springs upon us the thought that in calculating the prospects of religious attempt we must take omnipotence and omniscience and omnipresence, and all the other attributes of God into the calculation. Whom do you see on that plowed field of my text? One hearer says, "I see Shamgar." Another hearer says, "I sae 600 Philistines." My hearer, you have missed the chief personage on that battlefield of plowed ground. I also see Shamgar and 600 Philistines, but more than all, and mightier than all, and more overwhelming than all I see God. Shamgar, with his unaid ed arm, however muscular, and with that humble instrument made for ag ricultural purposes and never con structed for combat could not have wrought such victory. It was omnip otence above, and beneath, and back of and at the point of the oxgoad. Be fore that battle was over the plowman realized this, and all the 600 Philis tines realized it, and all who visited the battlefield afterward appreciated it. I want in heaven to hear the story, for it can never be fully told on earth-perhaps some day may be set apart for the rehearsal, while all heaven listens-the story of how God blessed awkard and humble instru mentalities. Many an evangelist has come into a town given up to world liness. The pastor say to the evange list: "We are glad you have come, but it is a hard field, and we feel sor ry for you. The members of our churches play progressive euchre, and go to the theater, and bet at the horse races, and gayety and fashion have taken possession of the town. We have advertised your meetings, but are not very hopeful. God bless you." This evangelist takes his place on plat form or pulpit. He never graduated at college, and there are before him 20 graduates of the best universities. He never took one lesson in elocution, and there are before him 20 trained ora tors. Many of the ladies present are graduates of the highest female semi naries, and one slip in grammar or one mispronunciation will result in suppressed giggle. Amid the general chill that pervades the house the un pretending evangelist opens his Bible and takes for his text, "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." Opera glasses in the gallery curiously scrutinize the speaker. He tells in a plain way the story of the blind man, tells two or three touching anecdotes, and the gen eral chill gives way before a strange warmth. A classical hearer who took the first honor at Yale and who is a prince of proprieties finds his spectacles becom ing dim with a moisture suggestive of tears. A worldly mother who has been bringing up her sons and daught ers in utter godlessness puts her hand kerchief to her eyes and begins to weep. Highly educated men who came to criticise and pick to pie:es and find fault bow on their gold headed canes. What is that sound from under the gallery? It is a sob and sobs are catch ing, and all along the wall and all up and down the audience, there is deep emotion, :o that when at the close of the service anxious souls are invited to especial seats, or the inquiry room, they come up by scores and kneel and repent and rise up pardoned; the whole town is shaken, and places of evil amusement are sparsely attended and rum holes lose their patrons, and the churches are thronged, and the whole community is cleansed and elevated and rejoiced. What power did the evangelist bring to bear to capture that town for righteousness? Not one brilliant epigram did he utter. Not one graceful oesture did he make. Not one rhetoricaY climax did he pile up., But there was something about him that people had not taken in the esti mate when they prophesied the failure of that work. They had not taken into the calculation the omnipotence of the Holy Ghost. It was not the flash of a Damascus blade. It was God, before and behind,and all around the oxgaoad. When people say that crime will tri umph, and the world will never be :onverted because of the seeming in sfficiency of the means employed, they count the 600 armed Philistines on one side, and Shamgar, the farmer, awkardly eguipped, on the other side; ot realizing that the chariots of God re 20,000, and that all heaven, cheru ic, seraphic, archangelic, deific, is n what otherwise would be the weak ide. Napoleon, the author of the say ng. "God is on the side of the heaviest rtillery." lived to find out his mistake, for at Waterloo, the 160 guns of the English overcame the 250 guns of the French. God is on the side of the right, and one man in the right will eventuall'y be found stronger than 600 en in the wrong. In all estimates of any kind of Christian work, do not ake the mistake every day made of eaving out the head of the universe. Again, my subject springs upon us he thought that in God's service it is est to use weapons that are particu arly suited to us. Shamgar had, like any of us, been brought up on a farm. He knew nothing about jave ins and bucklers and helmets and >reastplates and greaves of brass and atapults and ballistw and iron scythes fastened to the axies of chariots. But ie was familiar with the flail of the trashing floor and knew how to ound with that, and the ax of thej oods and knew how to hew with: hat, and the oxgoad of the plowman nd knew how to thrust with that, and ou and I will do best to use those eans that we can best handle, those eapons with which we can make the nost execution. Some in God's ser ice will do best with the pen, some with the voice, some by extemporanes us speech, for they have the whole ocabulary of the English language alf way~ between their brain and ongue, and others will do best with: ranuscript spread out before them. Some will serve God by the plow, aising wheat and corn and giving iberally of what they sell to churches ad missions: some as merchants, and ut of their profits will dedicate a enth to the Lord: some as physicians, rescribing for the world's ailments. nd some as attorneys, defending in ocence and obtaining rights that therwise would not be recognized, nd some as sailors, helping bridge the eas, and some as teachers and past ors. The kingdom of God is dread ully retarded by so many of us at empting to do that which we cannot: o-reaching up for broadsword or alchion or bayonet or scimiter or en ield rifle or paixhian's gun- while we ught to be content with an oxgoad. thank God that there are tens of housands of Christians whom you ever have heard of and never will ear of until you see them in the high places of heaven, who are now in a uiet way in homes and schoolhouses, ud in praying circles, and by sick eds, and up dark alleys, saying the aviig word and doing the saving eed, the aggregation of their work verpowering the most ambitious sta tistics. the regiments pass the Lord of Hosts. here ~will be whole regiments of urses and Sabbath school teachers nd tract distributers and unpretend ing workers, before whom, as they pass, the kings and queens of God and the lamb will l.ift flashing coronet nd bow down in recognition and revrece The most of the Christian work for the world's reclamation and salvation will be done by people of one talent and two talents, while the ten talent people are up, in the astro noincal observatories studying other Worlds. though they do little or noth ing for the redemption of this world. or are up ini the rarefield realms of "higher criticism" trying to find out that Moses did not write the Penta teuch. or to prove that the throat of the whale was not large enough to swallow the minister who declined the call to Nineveh and apologizing for the Almighty for certain inexpli cable things they have found in the Scriptures. It will be found out at the last that the krupp guns have not done so much to capture this world for God as the oxgoads. Years ago I was to summer in the Adirondacks and my wealthy friend, who was a great hunter and fisher man, said, "I am riot going to the Adirondacks this season, and you can take my equipment and I will send it up to Paul Smith's." ' Well, it was there when I arrived in the Adi rondacks. a splendid outfit, that cost many hundreds of dollars. a gorgeous tent and such elaborate fishing appa ratus: such guns of all styles of ex quisite make and reels and pouches and bait and torches and lunch bask ets and many more things that I could not even guess the use of. And my friend of the big soul had even writ ten on and engaged men who should accompany me into the forestand car ry home the deer and the trout. If the mountains could have seen and understood it at the time, there would have been panic among the antlers and the fins through all the "John Brown's Tract." Well, I am no hun ter, and not a roebuck or a game fish did I injure. But there were hunters there that season who had nothing but a plain gun and a rug to sleep on and a coil of fishing line and a box of ammunition and bait, who came in ever and anon with as many of the captives of forest and stream as they and two or three attendants could carry. Now, I fear that mar.y Chris tian workers who have most elaborate educational and theological and pro fessional equipmentand most wonder ful weaponry, sulicient, you would think, to capture a whole community or a whole nation for God, will in the last. day have but little except their fine tackling to show, while some who had no advantages except that which they got in prayer and consecration will, by the souls they have brought to the shore of eternal safety, prove that they have been gloriously success ful as fishers of men and in taking many who, like the hart, were pant ing after the water brooks. What made the Amalekites run be fore Gideon's army? Each one of the army knew how much racket the breaking of one pitcher would make. So 300 men that night took 300 pitch ers, and a lamp inside the pitcher,and at a given signal the lamps were lifted and the pitchers were violently dash ed down. The flash of the ltght and the racket of the 300 demolished pitch ers sent the enemy into wild flight. Not much of a weapon, you would say. is a broken pitcher, but the Lord made that awful crash of crockery the means of triumph for his people, and there is yet to be a battle with the pitchers. The night of the world's dissipation may get darker and dark er, but after awhile, in what watch of the night I know notall the ale pitch ers, and the wine pitchers, and the beer pitchers, and the whisk-y pitchers of the earth will be hurled into demo lition by converted inebriates and Christian reformers, and at that awful crash of infernal crockery the Ama lekitish host of pauperism and loafer dom and domestic quarrel and cruelty and assassination will fly the earth. Go out, then, I charge you against the Philistines. We must admit the odds are against us-600 to 1. In the matter of dollars. those devoted to worldliness and sin and dissipation, when compared with the dollars devo ted to holiness and virtue-600 to 1. The houses set apart for vice and de spoilation and ruin, as compared with those dedicated to good. 600 to 1. Of printed newspaper sheets scattered abroad from day to day, those deprav ing as compared with those elevating, 600 to one. The agencies for making the world worse compared with the agencies for making the world better, 00 to 1. But Moses in his song chants, "How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight?" and in my text one oxgoad conquers 00 uplifted battleaxes, and the day of niversal victory is coming,unless the Bible be a fabrication and eternity a :nyth, and the chariots of God are un whieeled on the golden streets, and the last regiment of the celestial hosts lies ead on the plains of heaven. With s, or without us, the work will be one. Oh, get into the ranks some here, armed somehow : you with an needle, you with a pin, you with a ood book, you with a loaf of bread for the hungry, you with a vial of edicine for the sick, you with a pair f shoes for the barefooted, you with ord of encouragement for the young an trying to get back from evil vays, you with some story of the hrist who came to heal the. worst ounds and pardon the blackest guilt nd call the farthest wanderer home. say to you as the watchman of Lon on used to say at night to the house iolders, before the time of street amps came: "Hang out your light:" Hang out y our liglit: A Liquor Constable Killed. CusNToN, June 1.-This morning bout half-past 10 o'clock ex-State onstable John Workman and State onstable Sam Duncan engaged in a hooting scrane, in which Workman was killed. It seems that Workman hought that Duncan had something o do with his discharge from the force ast year and approached Duncan in egard to it this morning. The first thmg anyone discovered was Work an hitting Duncan with a stick. He truck him twice with a stick and uncan grabbed the stick. Workman hen shot him twice in the hips, and uncan then shot Workman three imes, once under the arm, once in the rist and once in the back of the head. ork-man fell and was carried off. uncan gave himself up and wired he sheriff to come for him. The ver ~ict of the coroner's jury was that orkman came to his death by gun. hot wounds at the hands of S. M. uncan. It seems to have been a case f self-defence. Woman Betrays Pickler. CASON. N:3, .June 5.-The 8S0, 000 an gold bars stolen f rom the Carson int was recovered yesterday in in a ost unexpected way when the Gov ~rnment otlicers dug up the treasure in the wood shed of Wm Pickler, an em loee in the melters' and refiners' de artment. who had not even been sus ected. Pickler was betrayed by a roman with whom lie had been liymg nd whom he hand abused. She came to the olhicers on Monday night and told hem that she would disclose yesterday the hiding place of the missing bullion rue to her promise, she appeared and ave minute directions for digging im ne corner of Pickler's wood shed. here the bars of gold were unearthed ust as they had been stolen from thme int. Th'is discovery bears out the rase which the Governmeut experts ad formulated against thme employees n the departmient. If any one of the ~annow turns State's evidence the Anhot truth will come out. A HOT WAVE. FROM LAKES TO GULF--FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE SEA. The Record for the Second of June sroken in Numnerous Places Charleston One D. gree Hotter than Ever Before on the Same Day of the Year. WASHINGTON, June 2.-The hot wave, which has hovered over the Eastern and middle sections of the United States during the past few drys has been a record breaker, and the officials at the weather bureau are unable at the present time to predict any relief. There is an area of high pressure that is central over Tennessee, which has caused the present excessive heat to beso intensely felt. This high pressure, which has persistently hoverd over Tennessee, is known as the per manent high, and has been contributed to very largly by southerly winds. During the past twenty-four hours in Western Pennsylvania and Marylanu the temperature has not been quite so high, a falling off from 2 degrees to 6 degrees in different sections of these States having been noted. The followingare some of the inaxi mum temperaturesreached: 94 degrees at New York, 96 degrees at Harrisburg, 96 degrees at Philadelphia, 94 degrees at Pittsburg, 94 degrees at Baltimore, and 96 degrees at Washington. At Philadelphia the record has been broken by 2 degrees. At Washington the thermometer has been even higher than 96 degrees at this time of the year, as in June, 1874. when the tempera ture rose to 102, degrees 6 degrees war mer than it was today. In lew York city it was 3 degrees hotter than on any 2d of June in the past decade. The Southern cities east of the Missis sippi River have been feeling the ef fects of the hot wave to a great degree. The following are the cities in which records of high temperature for this date was made today; Vicksburg 98, degrees 2 degrees above; Memphis 9S, 1 above: Chattanooga 98, 4 above; New Orleans 94, 2 above: Mobile 96, 1 above; Atlanta 98, 7 above: Augusta 100, 1 above: Savannah 98, 1 above: Charleston 98, 1 above; Charlotte 9S, 5 above; Raleigh 98, 6 above; Louis ville 9S, 2 above; Indianapolis 98, 4 above. Notwithstanding the fact that the record shows that the thermometer has been 6 degrees higher in Washing ton than it marked today, it is doubt ful if the people and animals ever suf fered more. The attendance upon churches was seriously affected and all means of conveyance down the river and into the surrounding coun try were crowded. Hotel arrivals were the smallest for months. One of the visitors down the river was seized with a hemorrhage, induced, it is thought, by the extreme heat, and died before reaching the city. He was Chris Kraft, a cigar maker, aged 40 years. James Murray, a stonecutter, white, about 30, was overcome by the heat at the corner of 37th and M streets, Georgetown, and died almost immedi ately. CHCAGO, June 2.-The hot weather in Chicaoo continues and is causing much suYering. The weather bureau reported the highest temperature of the day as 92 degrees. This was 4 o'ciock this afternoon and is two de grees only less than the temperature of last Fiiday. The thermometers on the street registered as high as 97 de gree in the s ade. The mean tempera ture of the day, as offieially reported, was S2 degrees, 10 degrees higher than the normal temperature of June 2 averaged for the past twenty years. People overcome by heat on the streets today were revived in nearby drug stores and only one case so far learned was serious enough to send to the hospital. PmIunELPHIA, June 2.-The tropi cal heat that has prevailed since Thurs day has reaped a terrible harvest of death in Philadelphia. The prostra tions from the heat number several scores and on Friday there were two deaths, three yesterday and the climax was reached today when seventeen per sons died from heat prostrations. The thermometer today in the weather bureau office at its maximum at 2 o'clock, registered 95 degrees, t wo lower than yesterday's maximum. The lowest point touched by the ther mometer today was at 5.30 this morn ing, when it stood at 7) degrees. From that time on until 2 o'clock the mer ury went booming upward until it reached 95 degrees. To the gasping thousands compelled to breathe the smperheated air from the bricks of the houses and the scorching asphalt of f the streets the difference of two de grees in the mercury from yesterday was not noticeable, ard the suffering among the residents of Philadelphia was as great as has been on any date f the prevailing hot spell. Fortun tely the day was Sunday and the workers in the mills and factories were ble to rest and seek what coolness hey could. But for this the mortali y wrould, undoubtedly, have been much higher than i.t was. Besides he seventeen there were a score of rostrations reported by the police, and how many more there were in the ouseholds of many families they aone know. Shortly after 2 o'clock a thunder hower cooled the air, and the ther ometer fell 12 degrees in an hour. t 8 o'clock to-night the thermometer ,as 81 degrees. Reports received from oints throughout Eastern Pennsyl ania show that the heat in that sec ion has been as great as in Philadel hia, although not so deadly in its ef fect.' Little promise of reli~ef is held ut by the weather bureau, and nd another dreadful day of suffering eems in store for Philadelphians to norrow. BALTIMORE. June 2-The mercury gain hovered about the nineties to ay. 95 degrees being the highest re orded at the observer's office, On the op floor of Johns Hopkins University uilding- In other parts of the city he readings rei'orted were as high as 02 degrees. 'There was but . little reeze to temper the intense heat of he sun's rays. Fifteen prostrations ere reported, two cases resulting fat lly. John Pierce, 60 years old, a far ner, and Daniel Bates, aged 40, a olored stevedore, succumbell to the orrid heat and died shortly after ar iving at the hospital. CLEVELAND OHIO, June 2.-The oli ial thermometer at the weather of io marked 90j degrees today. but treet instruments were as high as 100 egrees. It was the hottest day for everal years. Not a breath of air was stirring and the heat was sickening. o fatalities are reported, although >rstrations of a more or less serious haracter were numerous. The beach esorts were crowded. CIscINNATI, Ouro, June 2.--Al hough the heat was terrific today not case of sunstroke had been reportedI p to 8 o'clock to night. At noon the ercury registered 96 degree, at 6 p. . 90 degrees, at 8 p. m. 89 degree. A ight breeze sprung up after sundown. PITTsBURG, PA., June 2.-The hot pell still continues in this~ vicinity. oday the thermometer registered 95 egrees and tonight it pegged at 90 egrees. As far as known no serious rostrations from heat occurred today. KAsAS CITY, Mo., June 2.-The weaher here today was intensely hot, RQYAL' 2~ AKII POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar narmg powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.-La . test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St.. N. Y. although a strong wind blew from the southeast. The off cial thermometer registered S degrees but street instru ments ran up to the 100 degree mark. No prostrations were reported. GETTING TOGETHER IN AIKEN. Patriotic Action of the County Executive Committee. AIKEN, June 1.-The county Democratic executive committee met to-day and took important action looking to the restoration of peace and harmony betweent the two rival fac tions in the Democratic party in this county. After discussing the political situation in the State and county the following preamble and resolutions, prepared by Senator 0. C. Jordan, were introduced: Whereas, it is the earnest desire of the Democratic executive committee of Aiken County that unity of action may be had by all of the Democratic voters of the county in the approach ing primary election for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and that peace and harmony may prevail amongst the white people of our county: and to that end we, as such committee, do hereby prescribe the following rules to govern and control said election for delegates to said Con vention. Therefore, be it resolved 1st. That all candidates to be voted for in the primary election shall con form to the rules governing their can didacy as prescribed by the State Dem ocratic executive committee, and shall in filing their pledges as required by said rules, state therein to which fact ion of the Democratlc party they be lono 2d. That there shall be an equal di vision of the delegates between the Reformers and Conservatives in making up the ticket to be voted for in the general election, and which said candidates to be voted for in the general election shall be chosen in the following manner, to wit: The two Reformers receiving the greatest number of votes in said primary, and the two Conservatives receiving the greatest number of votes in such pri mary, shall be declared as the nomi nees of the Democratic party of Aiken County for delegates to the Constitu tional Convention. During the discussion that followed the reading of the paper a motion was made and adopted inviting Capt Geo. IW. Croft. Col D. S. Henderson and Mr. M. B. Woodward prominent Conserva tives, to come into the committee room and give their views, which they did. The resolutions -were unamiously adopted. A motion to call a mass meeting to ratify the action of the committee in this matter was voted down. There will be no factional fight in this county, as our people are heartily tired of the strife and dlivision that has existed for the past four years. No candidates have yet been an Inounced, but a number of names have been mentioned. On the side of the Tillmanites there is talk of running Governor Evans, Senator 0. C. Jor dan and Dr. Timmerman, son of the Lieutenant Governor. Conservatiyves Messrs Geo. W. Croft, D. S. Hender son, Judge Aldrich and M. B. Wood ward. The North Carolina Experiment station gives the following rules for making a second crop of Irish potatoes: The potatoes fr-om which it is desired to grow the second crop) should be al lowed to remaniin where they grew till perfectly ripe and the tops are dead. If they are selected from the culls in digging the partly matured crop for shipping, there will be much uncer tainty as to their sprouting. When the tops are dead take them up and al lOW them to remain a day or so ex posed to the light until they turn greenish. Then spread them in any convenient place on the ground and cover with pine or other straw. Sprinkle the straw and thereafter- never allow it to get all through. Prepare the land as for the early crop except that the fertilization need not be so heavy, and run out the rows by going twice in a furrow with a turn-plow and clean out the furrow full six in ches deep: As the potatoes under the straw begiln to star-t the eyes. which will be from the first to the middleo August. plant th:em in the deepur rows but cover the-m not more than an inch over the top of the tuber-s un til the 'rrein leaves be'gin to grow. Then graidually lill ini the soil to them as they grow. until it is level. The after culture must be as level as possi ble and no hilling should be done, the object at this season of the year be ing to prevent the drying out of the soil. Tihe pota~toes will sprout earlier if. before bedding thet'm under the str-aw, a small pice~ is clipped off one end and rejected. No further cutting should be done when planting. The planting should all be done by the middle of August. This crop will grow green until the frost cuts the tops down, and their immaturity pre vents their sprouting before planting time, so that when they grow it is with the strono orowth of the termi nal bud, which gives them a great ad vantage over the nothern potatoes. that have been long out of the ground and have had the sprouts rubbed off thema in the cellar. A Young Fiend~ in Jail. WicuLiAsTox, June :.-A young demon in the form of a fifteen-year old negro boy committed a rape on a four-year-old negro girl in this county near- Cooley's Bridge. six miles from this place. The boy is hired to the parents of the victim. When the larger mmember-s of the family had gone to the iield, lie began the accom plishment of his purpose. Another child ran to tile field and grave infor mation. Tihe parents hastened to the house and caught the boy in flagrant deico. He was arrested and guarded all night in a house near the scene of his crime from two parties -the friends of the gir-l, who desired to lynch him. anid the friends of the boy who desired to rescue him. Sonm of the best white men in the community