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AF1g VEARs. "Give bawk. MY c) jild!" I plead that d l?y My face inst 1he cottin-lid. "Here Is e pla-b. upon my breast. Noft there, in cold and darkness hid. Why, he had just begun to live To know my face. to laugh, to reach bishands to meet my lips, and inah* sweet essays at some unknown speech "Untrodden round his baby feet The whole fair realm of childhood lay; Nor stones nor thorns to make them bleed - My hand had smoothed them all away. No wind of heaven had buffeted His sunny head with cruel breath My arms had safely sheltered him. Give him to me. Of Death!" Now, standing by that little grave Where In and out the passing years Weave tapestries of green and gold. I smile, remembering my tears. I lay mygray beed gia the mound - ,agi iimy tears, and 'reath my -atia -I whisper: 'It is bette: so Keep h1i, 0 gentle Deat 1i A PRACTICAL JOKE. BY HELEN FORRMST Glii TES. Miss Auricula Pendhaim was neith er young nor beautiful. In the' world's eyes she was long past the age of romance. But in the heart of a true woman there is always a soft spot where youth and hope blooni eter She lived in a little hall bedrooni, in one of those great, un-home-like boarding houses, where people are packed together like sardines in a box, and worked for Mademoiselle Vicini, the fashionable milliner of Playport. She had a speaking acquaintance with Mrs. Bloom, the plump widow, who posite her at the table; Kitty Suppfe, the pretty shop-girl on her lA who despised homely people, and thought no one ought to to ive after she'was past thirty; and Mr. Mills. the foreman in the printing office of the Playport Eagle, who sat at the corner beyond, and that was all. During the day she worked hard at the store; in the evenings she sat at a window, with a shawl across her shoulders, and mended her clothes and read her Testament, aad crocheted on a black worsted mat, which had beenon hand for a year at least. be cause Kitty Supple generally had beaux in the parlor, and audibly de clared she thought old maid had no business to be peeping and prying ! And upon the whole, it was not a ver lively life. Mr. Mills, up in his second-story front, was as solitary as she, no doubt. But he was a man. He could go out to theatres, reading-rooms, chess clubs. Miss Peadham was tempted to wish at times that she was a man. There was such an utter loneliness in her heart, that when Billy Parks, the landlady's little boy, brouit his mittens to her to mend early on the morning of the first of April, she was glad of the chance to talk to some boy. L say, Miss Pendham, observed this this artless youth, why don't you get married. Miss Pendham colored. Or was it the reflection of the red yarn where with she was threading a slender darning-needle. Everybody doesn't get married. Billy, said she. Yes; that's true, remarked Billy. Mother, she says she wishes she'd never gone and got married, when father goes on a spree. But Miss Sup ple she says, you'd have got married to old Mills long ago, if you could have caught nim. Miss Pendham was silent a moment. She was used to these satirical stings -of Kitty Supple's vivacious tongue: but all the same they smarted. Miss Supple ought not to talk so, said she. bhe knows that Mr. Mills is 7nothing to me. Mother says that Miss Supple wants old Mills herself, says Billy. I don't like her. I wouldn't marry her, not for a hundred dollars! She told moth er about the comic valentine I sent her, and mother gave me a lickino. But I'll be quits with her yet.IS April-fool her, see if I don't! Did you -ever get April-fooled, Miss Pendham, when you was a girl? Or April-fool other folks? . Sometimes, said Miss Pendham, a moisture blurring her vision as she re membered the great, fragrant barn at home, and the slim girl-could it be possible that it was herself?- filling the hens' nests with empty egg shells and deceptive china eggs, to deceive the laughing little brothers who were dead and gone long ago. Wasn't it fun, though? said Billy, with a chuckle. I mean to April-fool everybody in the honse. Thankee, MissPendham! And snatching the mittens from her hand, he scampered cheerily .down stairs, three steps at a time, finishing up with a prolonged slide down the banisters.., While Miss Pendham tied on her -bonnet, arranged her little grey shawl and went to Mademoiselle Vicimi's with a bandbox in her hand, which contained Miss Helena Montrose's wedding bonnet-a marvel of white - tule, orange-burds and point-lace upon which~ she had worked late the precedin~g ulght. And Kitty.Supple, who was late at the store tripped after her with fluffy, brown fringes of hair escapini from under her turban hat, and blue eyes sparkling with mischief. But she had a pale, frightened look when she got to the store. Of course I didn't mean it, said Kit ty; and I don't auppose it signifies anything. But the parcel was just slippe'. mn under the string that tied the banat'ox, and it was the easiest ting in the world to pull it out. I couldn't help laughing to think how astonished she would be to find it gone. And I opened it and peeped in to see what it was. Elegant point lace that must have cost five or six dollars a yard ! AndlIput it in my pocket: and when I next felt for my pocket hndme it we gen. Now I've walked tde ove &ae road, and asked every one I met if they had seen a preel wra~ppedl i brown paper and 41i 'y6 ptank tveinr ad no one had. I M-t . I han't touched ike dMd 'ig Bdt Miss Pendhamn will never know who took it-- .that's one comfort. And Kitty Supple cried at intervals all day behind theo counts'. The joke had noved so jocose as she had * it ouldbe. (om.! Sh,4ly dhuieked Mademoi mele Vismi. x'ei veintlace: Miss entiema - fait d'Alencon, in ~~ y $uet Taris for her he- !Of erse yonr k'ow,M 'ai,)hat I shall hold responsie er the twenty-five les whieh'tha.s 3wv yards o~f lace wee aeedat. Ne do I eare to re iin my sev-a a yvug peson s mxceedigy in le s youi have Aowin yorelf to be. You will be god emotgh to ptirovkl your'elf with another dtuation by thi. day month. So Kitty Supple was minerabe, and * was AuriculIa IPeadham: and the only happy persm &mncer'ned in the point-lae trnasetfon was Master Bil y Parke, who was the seamup who had abstracted the ofela lace trom Kit tyspocked as a trpped momentari Lae eh? tsad Billy tohimself'. I was in hopes that it was her young man's photo. But I'll settle her. When Kitty Supple took her purse rom her pocket, at dinner time, as e .a dew at 1 'Pak taIe,well toc'. wit aL suusitatti are-a uddn to 0:1\ow.)it tumbled a at, pawr parce(. Her he-art gav a oyous up So t wa there all the time: she tIoI. Ho: ((ouli I have possbihy llised it She opne it, surreptitious2y. while te green o eyes of Master Billv. 'org her face. it was lilled (,ottonl ba~tting. A i that onV :,on 1ily Parks tte h sweri.s of un1]initedt re "t~''- the aico :iace isd o to -1ed it siso i et. Wien Miss PlendhoiIn1 wenlit up) t( her roo,-m she foid a ltt(er uilder the door, bUt She had! nospirit to opei i. It's oIe of 'ihv P'it1 s Apr' s she though a1 :- - puhed it aside WOt her(1-1 , dear1oh, dar wVonder' !i: I l ver1 laugh agin Tn tyve dolhars 1o pa foir that lace, anud I have twentriv e cents wn my wee-ks board is setled and mly pew rent paid:' And discharged froim Madoite101le A. V ' iii 's. too. What is to b.co:we of me: It was growing dusk nmv -a sweet, purple, April dusk, full of faint scents and sounds of spring even there in the city streets. She lighted her lamp and sat dlo.-i with her head resting on 1)th hands. Just then there camve a soft tap. 1ap. at the door. Come in: said Miss Pendian. The door one ned. its hinges revolv ing with a difident squeainless. Ilhope I don't inltrtde said Mr. Are vou ready. aske Mr. Milk. hot.vering or, t~i- tlh aesn i~. (' X a r'e spectable middle-aged genius. Reade faltered Auricula. For the concertexplained M r. Mills. We had some tickets sent to the Eagle oflice. I thought perhaps you would enjoy the music. Didn't you get my letter2 I slipped it under the door. Oh: cried Auricula., suddenly stoop in for the neglected envelope. which sti71 lay under the table. I tid see it. but I thought it was one of Billy Parks's April fools. But vou'll go, won't vo u pleaded the foreman in the Playnort Eagle oflice. I should like it very much. said Auricula, feeling herself color to the roots of her hair. And, speaking of April fools,. slow ly added Mr. Mills, fumbling in his pocket, when I was on my way to the oflice this afternoon, one of our dev ils- I beg your pardon. Miss Pend ham: that is an entirely metaphorical apellation-told me that mv coat-tails were festooned with something white. I didn't mind it much, because I had three different labels pinned on my back this morning: but when I came to look, it seemed very nice lace. Per haps you can use it for something. I'm sure it is of no service to me: Thus speaking. Mr. Mills drew from his pocket the five vards of point- lace, which matched Miss Montrose's boi' net. Miss PIendham gave a smothered shriek of joy as she clutched at the disorderly parcel. Oh, Mr. Mills: she cried. I. never was so glad of anything in my life. Oh, Mr. Mills, how good you are: And with sobs and tears she ex plained to him the history of that piece of lace. They took it at once to Mademoi selle Vicinui before they started for the concert; and somehow this little iuci dent seemed to establish a mutual un derstanding between them. I always thoughs Miss Pendhami was a superior young woman, said Mr. Mills. I am more than ever con vinced of it now. Mr. Mills is really very sensible anid agreeable, thought Auricula. After all, there is something in the printer's profession that broadens anad enlarges the mind. So Master Bily Parks succeeded in April-fooling every body to his heart's content, and Kitty Supple breathed more freely when she heard that the point-lace was safe. But I'll never play any more prac tical jokes, she thought. She turned up her pretty little nose when she heard of Mills's engagement to Miss Auricula Pendham, a few weeks later. T wo old things like that setting up for lovers! How utterly ridiculous: she said. But Miss Kitty Supple had yet to learn tha+. life's blossoming time does not always come in April.-Saturday Night. ______ Three Lives for One JACKsONVILLE, FHa., Aug. 1.-A special to the Time-Union from Live Oak, Fla, says: George Mitchell, color ed was hanged here to-day, in the pre sence of a large crowd, for complicity in the murder and robbery of Alfred Ryberg, a white man. Mitchell died like a man, and to the last protestedl his innocence. His last words were: "Ever-y body meet me in~ Heaven. I feel that my soul is save~, and 1 want to see my friends in glory. I (lie with out hard feelings against anyone. Mitchell is the second man to hang for Ryberg's murder, Henry Browvn haing been executed for the same crime July 17. Brown. Mitchel and Stevens were convictedi to death for the crime, but the tw-o latter were re spited. The respite caused such indig gnation that a mob attempted to storm the jail and lynch Mitchell and Stevens a few days ago. The Gover nor decided to let the law take its course in the case of Mitcheil but is still considering Steven's aippeal for clemency. It is believed that Stevens will be hanged, as the chani ces are that h~e would be lynched if clemency were extended. When Brown was hanged he swore on the scalold that he alone kill Rylberg and that Mitchell and Stevens were inno cent. slaughter of Tramp. CANToN, 0., Aumr. 2. -A freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort WXayne and Chii cago Railroad broke inl two on a heavy p denear Stark Siding early' this .moaning. The rear end crashced io the first section and ten cars wer wreed.~ A -ilmr" tramps were riding in a : am-2: - '-as smnashed camne up taey~ -- to se arms and lea's co .;s stiek ing from al parts o rkae Thomas Collins, of Soutz Bethhem, n Pa., lived just long enoughmto give is name and address Three others, bad lv mangled, were taken~x out. T wo of tenm were dead, and the third died on the way to thet hospital. Michael Mm, of C:eelnd. had his head cut oeand miay die. Adolph Suden of Newv York, dohn Lugen of Chicago. Charles l-kert of Philadelphiia, Louis Sipson of Pittsbur, William McCoy and Charke Wilson of Soh~o, are badly hurt. IT has beenz calculated by thre rmatne matician, Taequet. thra' one thousamd milion writers. in one thousand mi' lion vears, could not write out all :he combinations of the twenty six lette'rs o the alphaibet, if each oif themr were daily to write out forty page~ of themn each page containing ditYerent orders f the letters. WOYDERS OF THE EYE. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON IT$ MARVELOUS CONSTRUCTION. 114 eib,o .--llow Mucht 'Morte Over I i o isu: is tlihe 7ime ri baly st-archi1I : i e -,sirg.ht nie t ortv i. a iYK, . u v 2S. Rev. l)r. Tal mae,1h0 is still absent on his sum mer pletachin-g tour in the west and southwest, has prepared for todaya sermonl on The All Seeing, the text selected b1einig Psalm xciv, 9 "le that formied the eve, shall he not see?"' The imperial organ of the iuiman systeli is the eye. All up and down the Bible God honors it, extols it, il lustrates it. or arraigns it. Five hun dred and thirty- four tiles it is ien toion'd in the Nible. Omnipresence "the eves of the Lord are in every place." Divine care-"as the apple of tlie eve. The clouds -"the eyelids of the morni wiing." Irreverence-- "the eyt that imocketh at its father." Pride "()h, how lofty.are their eyes!" In attention -"the fools eve in the ends of the earth." Divine inlspectiol "wheels full of eyes." Suddenness "inl the twinkling of an eye at the las1 trunp." Olivetic sermon "the light Iof the body is the eve." This norn in 's text "le that formed the eve, shall lie no see:" The surgeons. tl doctors, tle anatoitists and the physi Ologists understand miuch of the glo iesi of the two great lights of the hu nu'im race but tile vast multitudes gc (.1n from cradle to grave without any appreciation of the two great master pieces of the Lord God Ahighty. I God had lacked anything of infinitt wisdom!i, he would have failed in cre ating thie human eve. We wandez throuighUt the earth trying to see won drful ihts. but the most wonderfu] .sight that we ever see is not so won derful as the instrunents through which we see it. It .as been a strange thing to me foi 40 yea%-rs that somre scientist, wit)] enough eloquence and magnetism, did not go through the country with illus trated lectures on canvas 30 feel square to startle and thrill and over wheln Christendom with the marveh of the human eye. We want the ev taken from all its technicalities am some one who shall lay aside all tall about the pterygomaxillary fissures, and the selerotica. and the c'iiasma o the optic nerve, and in comnion par lance, which you and 1 and every body can understand, present the sub ject. We have learned men who hav been telling us what our origin is ani what we were Oh! if some oneshoulk come forth from the dissecting tabl< and from the classroom of the univer sity and take the platform, and asking the help of the 'reator demonstrat< the wonders of what we are! If I refer to the physiological fact, suggested by the formcr part of in text, it is only to bring out in a plain er way the thelogical lessons of ti latter part of my text. "Ile that form ed the eye, shall lie not see ,- I sup pose my text referred to the humai eye, since it-excels all others in struct ure and in adaptation. The eyes o: fish and reptiles and moles and bat: are very simph: things. because the3 have not niuch to do. There are in sects with -. hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have less faculty thar the human eyes. The black beetl< Iswimming the summer pond has tw< eyes under water and two eyes above the water, but the four insectile art not equal to the two human. Mai placed at the head of living creatures must have supreme equipment, whil< the blind fish in the Mammoth cave o Kentucky have only an undevelope< organ of sight, an apology for the Ieye, which, if through some crevice of the mountain thley should get int the sunlight. might Ibe developed int< positive eyesight. In the first chapte of G3enesis we find that God, withou any consultation, created the light created the trees, created the fish, cre ated tile fowl, but when he was abou to make man he called a conventior of divinity, as though to imply tha all the powers of Godhead were to b enlisted in the achievement. "Let u make man." Put a whole ton of em phasis on that word "us." -"Let u make man." And if God called convention of divinity to create mar I think the two great'questions in tha conference were how to create a sou and how to make an appropriate win dow for that emperor to lookr out of. See how God honored the eye be fore he created it. He cried, unti chaos was irradiated with the utter ance, "Let there be liaht :" In othe' words, before he introduced man int' this temple of the world he illumina ted it, prepared it for the eyesight And so, after 'thie last humaln eye ha been destroyed in the final denmolitiot of the world, stars are to fall, and th< sun is to cease its slining, and th< moon is to turn into blood. In othei words, after the human eyes are n< more to be profited by their shining the chandeliers of heaven are to be> tuirnedl out. God, to educate and t< bless and to help tile human eye, se in the mantel of heaven two lamps-h gold lamp and a silver lamp- the on for the dlay and tile other for th night. To ~show how God hlonors th eye, look at the two halls built for thi residence of the ey'es, seven bone making the w~all for each eye, the sev en ihones curiously wroughta together Kingly palace of ivory is considerei rieh, but the halls for the residlence o1 tihe human eve are richer by so much as huruan bonec is niore sacred that elephant tusk. See how God hronored the eves when lie made a roof foi themi so that the sweat of toil shoul( not smart them and the rain dashing against the forehead should not drii into them, the eyebrows not benidling over' the eyec,but reachiing to thet righl 'ad to thle left, so that the rain andu sweat should be' compelled to droi upon01 thre cheek, instead of falling int( this divinely protected human eye sighrt. See hiow (God honore'd the eyi in the fact presenltedl by anatomiisti and physiologists that there are SI)1 contrivances in every eve. For' win (10w shutters. the eyelids opening and closinrg 30,000iI times a day. Tile eye lashes so constructedl that they' hravi their selection as5 to what shall be ad mnitted. saving to2 the dust, "Stay omt.' and~ sain~g to the light. "COome ini." IFr ins(t(ide eartains the iris, or tuitl~ of the eve, acc ordiing as the light is greater or less. 'onitr'acting or dilat Thei. eye of the~ owlI is blind in the dayv time, the eves of sonie cr'eature's are blind at niight, but the humran eye,. so mur"elosiv conlstrutedl canl see bothr by day iid bv night. Many of thelt' cri-t?(1tatures1 o~f God can move the ey.e onlyv fro-ar side to side, but the hu ma ye, so mar'velously constructed, ha~s o! nimuscle to lift the eye anid ainot her mu tscle to low-r' the eye, anid another miusclet to roll it to the right, andi anlother to r'oll it to tire left, and another miuscle piassinig through a pu-1 lv to turn it round and round-an elaborate ge?~Iarig of six iiuscles as~ perfect ais God coild mnake' thiemi. There also is the retina, g.athiering thec r'ays of light and passing thie visuail tuIpressioni along the optic nerve, ) ut the thickness of the lampl wick --paissing the' visul impri~essioni on to ::ie wsor01iumi and oil into the soul1. Whta delicate eins. what an exquis ite screen. what soft cushions, what . w ,idfu c.Lemitr' of the human The eve wasred ny a slow siream 4f mistare WIthe. we sleep or wake. rolliing- inper ptilv over tie pebbe of the eye and emrptvinrg into a bone of the nostril. A contriV ance so wonderful that it can see I he sun 5rll r, (0 miles away zan(1 the point of a pini. Telescop and nieroscope in the same conr trivanice. The astrononer swings and moves this way and that and ad justs and readjusts tire telescope until hegets it to the right focus. Tie mi croscopist moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts the nagini fying glass until it is prepared to do its work, but the humnan eve, without a touch, beholds the star and the smallest insect. The traveler anong the Alps with one glance takes in Mont Blanc and the face of his watch to see whether lie has time to climb it. Oh. this wonderful camera obscura which you and I carry about with us, so today we can take in our friends, so from the top of Mount Washington we can take in New England, so at night we can sweep into our vision the constellations from horizon to ho rizon. So delicate, so semi-intinite, and vet the light coming 95,0(i0,0(1) of imriles at the rate of 20(),00t)l miles a see and is obliged to halt at tile gate of the rc, waiting for admission until the portcullis be lifted. Something hurl ed 95,000,000 of miles and striking an instrument which has not the agita tion of even winking under the power of the stroke. There, also. is the mer ciful arrangement of the the tear gland by which the eye is washed and fromr which rolls the tide which brings the relief that comes in tears when some bereavement or- great loss strikes us. The tear is not an augmentation of sorrow, but the breaking up of the arctic of frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of consolation. Incapacity to weep is madness or death. Thank God for the tear glands, and that the crys tal gates are so easily opened. Oh, the wonderful hydraulic apparatus of the humani eye. Divinely constructed vision! Two lighthouses at tie liar bor of the immortal soul, under the shining of which tire world sails in and drops anchor. What ain anthem of praise to God is the hunan eye: The tonrgue is speechless and a clumsy instrument of expression as compar ed with it. Have you not seen it flash with indigination, or kindle with en thusiasm, or expand with devotion, o melt with symipatthy, or stare With fright, or leer with villainy, or droop with sadness, or pale with envy, or fire with revenge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam with love? It is tragedy and comedy and partooral and lyric in turn. nIave you not seen its up lifted brow of surprise, or its frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain If the eye say one thing and the lips say another tiing, you believe the eye rather than the lips. Tile eyes of Archibald Alexander and Charles G. Finnev were the mightiest part of their sermon. George Whitefield enthralled great assem blages with his eyes, though they were crippled with strabismus. Many a military chieftain has with a look hurled a regiment to victory cr to death. Martin Luther turned his great eve on an assassin who came to take his life, and the villain led. Under the grace of the human eye the tiger, whith five times a mai's strength, snarls back into the African jungle. But those best appreciate the value of of the eye who have lost it. The Em perior Adrion by accident put out the eye of his servant, and he said to his servant: "What shrall I pay you in, money or in lands? Anything you ask me. I am so sorry I put your eye out." But the servant refused to put any financia1 estimate on the value of the eye anr Iwhen the emperor urged again th matter he said, "Oh, emrperor, I want nothing but my lost eye" Alas for those for wvhomr a thick and imrpenetr able vail is drawn across the face of tire heavens and the face of one's own kindred! That was a pathetic scene when a blind man lighted a torch at night and was found passing along the highway, and some one said, "Why do you carry that touch when you can't see?" "An!" said he, "I can't see, but I car-ry this torch that others may see me and pity my help -lessness and not run me down." Sam son, the giant, with hris eyes put out bythe Phrilistines, is more help less tan the smallest dwarf with vision undamaged. All the sympathies of Christ were stirr-ed whenr he saw Bar -timeus with darkened retina, and the only salve he ever made that wve -read of~ was a mixture of dust and saliva and a prayer, with which he cured the eyes of a man blind from his nativity. The value of the eye is shrown as nmuch by its healthful action. -Ask the man who for 20 years has not seen the sunt rise. Ask the man who for half a century hras not seen tire face of a friend. Ask in the hospital the victim of ophthralnria. Ask thre mran whose eyesight perished in a power blast. Ask the Bartimeus who never met a Christ or tire man born blind who is to die blind. Ask him. This morning in my imperfect way, I have only hinted at the splendors, the glories, tire wonders, the divine revelation, tire apocalypses of tire hru mian eye. arid 1 stagger back from tire awfu.' portals of thre phrysiological miracle wvhich must have taxed the in genuity of a God to cry out in your ears the wvords of my text, "lie that formed tire eye, shiall he not see?" Shall Her-schrel not know as much as his telescope? Shall Fr-aunhofer not know as' much as his spectroscope: Shall Swammei-dan not know as mruch as his micros-cr-ope? Shall Dr. Hfooke not know as much as hris mine romreter? Shall th~e thing for-med kirow more than its master ? "H'Te that formred tire eye. shall he not seeK" The recoil of this qjuestion is trenren d (ous. We stanrd at tire center of ar varst circeunfer-ence of observation. No privacy. (On us, eves of cher-u bim, eyes o~f archangel, eyes of God. We may rnot be able to see thre irrhabi tantsof other worlds, but perhaps they may be able to see us. We hrave riot optical inrstrumerrts strong enough to descry threm. Perhrapsthrey have opti cal inrstrumirenlts, strong enoughr to deser-v us. Tire mrole cannot see tire eaglh~ midsky, but tire eagie mnidsky can see tire mole midgrass. WVe are able to see miountains and cat-erns of another wor-ld, burt perhaps the irnha bitants of other wor-lds can see the towers of our cities, tire iashr of our seas, thre miarchning of our processions, tire whrite r-obes of our weddings. tire black scar-fs of our obsequries. It passes out fromr tire guess into tire positive when we are told ini tire Bible tat tire inhabitants of othrer worlds do come as aconrvov to tis. Ar-e threy not all muinistertin~g spirits sent forthr to minister to those who shall be heirs of s-alvation i But hruman inspection. and anugelic inspection. anrd stellar in spcton,. and lunar inspection, and solarr inspection are tame compared with tire thought of divine inspection. " -You con verted nme 2J y-ears ago,"- said a black mian to my father. "How so. said my father. "Twenty years ago said tire other, "inr tire old schoolhouse prav:ier meeting at B~ounrd Br-ook you said in your prayer, 'Throur, (.od, s'eest me,' and I had nro pec urrder thre eve of God until I bcoarme a Christian. - Hear it. --The eves of thre Lord are in everyV place." "His eyelids try te chi iidren of mien." His eyes were as ar mlamne of lire.- I will guide three with inre eye.'' Oh, the eye of God, so ull of pnty so full of nower. so full of love. so I uII of Iuignation, o Ill of comipassion. so full of ierey:, I (ow it peers through the darkness: How it outshines the day: I low it glares upon the offender: How it beams on the penitent soul: Talke about the hu Manl eye as1 being indescrihably won dlerful-how iuch more w df the great, searching, overwhelming eve of God: All eternity past and Il eterniitY to coie oin that retina. The eves with which we look into uach other's face today suggest it. It .stands written twice on your face and twice on mine, unless through casual tv one or both have been obliterated. IHe that formed the eye, shall he not see K On. the eye of God: It sees our sorrows to assr--. them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them, sees our wants to sympathize with them. If we ight him back, the eye of an antagonist. If we ask his grace. the eve of an everlasting friend. You often find in a book or manuscript a a star calling your attention to a foot note or explanation. That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all the stars of the night are asterisks calling your attention to God, an all observ ing God. Our every nerve a divine handwriting. Our every muscle a pulley divinely swung. Our every bone'sculptured with divine sugges tion. Our every eye a rellection of the divine eye. God above us, and God beneath us, and God before us, and God behind us, and God within us. What a stupendous thing to live! What a stupendous thing to die! No such thing as hidden transrression. A dramatic advocate in olden times, at night in a courtroom, persuaded of the innocence of his client charged with murder and of the guilt of the witness who was trying to swear the poor man's life away-that advocate took up two bright lamps and thrust thei m close up to the face of the wit ness and cried. "May it please thecourt and gentlemen of the jury. behold the iurderer!" and the man, practically under that awful glare, confessed that lie was the criminal instead of the man arraigned at the bar. Oh, my friends. our most hidden sin is under a brighter light tlan that. It is under the burning eye of God. He is not a blind giant stumbling through the heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling for the step of his chariot. Are you wronged? Ie sees it. Are you i)oor He sees it. IHave you domes tic perturbation of which the worid knows nothing? He sees it. "Oh," you say, "my affairs are so insignifi cant I can't realize that God sees my affairs." Can you see the point of a pin Can you see the eye of a needle? Can you see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God given you that power of minute observation and does he not possess it himself? "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" But you say: "God is in one world, and I am in another world. He seems so far otr from me, I don't really think he sees what is going in my life." Can you see the sun 95,000,000 miles away, and do you not think God has as pro longed ~visiont But you say, "There are phases of my life and there are colors--shades of color- in my annoy ances and my vexation that I don't think God can understand." Does not God gather up all the colors and all the shades of color in the rainbow? And do you suppose there is any phase or any shade in your life lie has not gathered up in his own heart? Besides that, I want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle. That eye of yours, so exquisitely fashioned~ and strung and hinged 'and roofed, will before l.ong be closed in the last slum ber. Loving hands will smooth down the silken fringes. So he giveth his beloved sleep. A lengend of St. For tobert is that his mother was blind, and he was so sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day in sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by miracle she saw everything. But it is not a legend when I tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resurrection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who went groping through this world under perpetual obscuration, o-r were dependent on the hand of a friend or wvith an uncertain statY felt their way, and for the aged of dim sight about whom it may be said that "they which look out of the windows are darkened" when eternal daybreak comes in. 'What a beaustiful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery: "Here reposes in God, Katrina, a saint, 85 yeaLrs of age and blind. The light was restored to her May 10, 1840." South Caronina at the Fair. Mr. E. L. Roche, South Carolina Commissioner of the Atlanta Exposi tion, has issued a circular in which he says: "I have established headquar tes in Columbia, and anm now iready to receive all contributions to the State exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Please advise me what articles may be expected from your county, and the approximate quantities of wvhat will be sent. I am especially anxious to re ceive at an early date specimens of woods and minerals, as they will have to be prepared for exhibition. Speci mens of building sto.nes, especially granite, must be large enough to be ressed to cubes of eight inches. I have arranged with the r-ailroad com panies to bring to Columbia, free of charge, all articles intended for the exhiit, and addressed to me as Com missioner. Perishable articles, such as fruit, should, however, be sent by express, collect. 1 mail you a package of shipping tags to facilitate you in your work. Please see that the blanks are properly tilled out before shipping. It is extremely important that I should receive full and early information as to wvhat your county will do towards making the State exhibit a success, and I will, therefore, be obliged to on if you will commiunicate with mne at your earliest convemience.~ They Waint G;otr. C:ILUMII!, S. C,., Aug. 1. Last night ther-e was a mass meeting of the neroes of the city in the county court house. D~uring the past few weeks the negroes have been organizing in the several wards, with a view of electing delegates to the county convention to be held ou Aug'ust 9. The Rev. RI. E. Hart had been invited to address last nightt's meeting and he did so in a manner that created the greattst en thusiasm. Ie was cheered to the echo. He dealt in his speech wvith thme conlsti tutional issues anid picttured the fate of the negro. It was distinctlyv a race speech. When lhe referred to J1udge Gol, lhe did so ini the most glowing terms and when lie spoke of him as a possible candidate' for the Preside'ncy on the Republican ticket, urging all lovers of the national constitution to support him, the suggestion was greet ed with the wildest applause. The court house was ti lled to its utmost capacity. ___ Queick With Hecr (Gun. W\'AsliNGToN. Aug. 3.-Miss Eliza b t Fla'ler. daughter of Brigadier General Thaniei W. Flagler, chief of ordiaice, U. S. A., shot aiid killed a colored youth named Ernest Green whom she detected stealing f ruit at the suburban r-esidence of her father about noont today. and was discharg~ed by the coroner this evening on the ground that the homicide was uiintenitionial. No tragedy of r'ecentt years in Wash igoni has caused such a sen~sationi or been fraught with imore intnnediatte ex citement in the neighiborhood of its Making Ragia Stride. Very few people realize how gtrad the tobacco culture idustry has grown in South Carolina in the last few years. In the Pee Dee country it is fast supplementing cotton and farm ers find it more profitable than the fleecy staple. Darlington County was the pioneer, but Florence. Sumter, Clarendon and Marlboro Counties are rapidly following her lead, and in other counties farmers are ready to renounce their allegiance to the erst while king, cotton. The Darlington News has gathered figures to show what a marvelous advance the tobacco industry in Darlington has made siace last year. It is a record of which Dar lington County may well be proud. The following table, prepared from the News, shows the num ber of acres planted in tobacco in the various townships of Darlington in 1894 and in 1885: Townships. 1894. 115. Antioch.............. 38 148 Cypress.................. -- 225 Darlington..........117 300 Lamar................9 559 Lydia..................... 4 310 fechanicsville..........200 410 Ilartsville............. - 98 Palmetto................t1 235 Swift Creek............. 4 250 Stokes Bridge..........- 200 Society Hill...........53 185 Phiadelphia......... ...21) 200 Leavensworth............85 270 Total.............829 3,575 The following table shows the num ber of various tobucco barns im the various townships in 1894 and in 1895. Townships. 1894- 1895. Antioch ................6 29 Cypress...................- 45 Darlington ............. 26 29 Lamar................... 17 91 Lydia......................1 62 Mechanicsville............35 50 Hartsville.............. - 21 Palmetto..................20 27 Swift Creek.............1 43 Stokes Bridge ........... - 41 Society Hill.............18 39 High Hill................11 30 Philadelphia..............4 36 Leavensworth.............11 38 Total..................150 575 In one year the tobacceo acreage in Darlington has increased over 2100 per cent, and the number of tobacco barns nearly -100 per cent. If that pace is kept up for a few years more, Darling ton city will become one of the impor tant tobacco centres in the United States. As the industry grows, ware houses will increase in Darlington and plants for the preparation of the weed for the market will be established add ing materially to Darlington's busi ness. Idle Gossip. A correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution, writing from Laurens, S. C., says a man known well in the upper part of the State, and whose integrity is above suspicion, has let him into the secret of the causes leading up to the calling of a Constitutional Convention in this State. This correspon dent says the supposed main issues which have been thrown out as food for thought for the people now appear as mere collateral incidents, and goes on to give what his informant claims is the king motive back of the Constitu tional Convention movement. The first and chief motive is said to be the speedy abolition of the present su preme court and the adoption of the appellate court in its stead. As long as Chief Justice Mclver rules against the constitutionality of the reform laws there can be no hope on the part of the Irby faction for absolute peace. The Reformers recognize the necessity for the organization of a judiciary which is in perfect accord with the legislative branch. Mclver must go, and then the camp wvill he cleared of non-spmpathizers. The writer goes on to say that in addition to the resto rationi of the old appellate court, which was iu existence in this State before the war, there is to be an in crese on the circuit hench of six judges, all of whom shall be elected for life or good behavior instead of for a term of years. Senator Irby, ac cording to this informqation, will pre side over the enttre judiciary of South Carolina as chief justice and Governor John Gary Evans will fall heir to the place now occupied by Senator Irby, and John Gary Watts will hold the overnor's chair until a better man omes and takes it. This is all idle gossip. There is no more chance of Irby -being elected Chief Justice of South Carolina than there is of his be ing re-elected Sienator. His election to the United States Senate the first time is a mistake that the Reformers of South Carolina irill not repeat. ov. Evans, we rather think, will succeed Irby in the Uuited States sen ate, but lhe will hardly do so with the consent of Irby, who, no doubt, will ake a desperate but vain fight to re tain his seat in the Senate. A .JudIicil Tyrant. AsIuviLu, N. C., July 2.-In the case of H. G. Ewart. Judge of the Criminal Court. aigainst Frank E. Robinson, editor of the Citizen, for contempt, the editor appeared today by J. 8. Adams. Lock Craig, J. D). lurphy and Judge Chias. Moore, rominent members of the Ashville ar. who had volunteered their ser vices to defend the editor. The answer of thne Citizen to the charge of eQutempt was that the edi toria compl ained of did r~ot represent the proceeding of thne court unfairly. The cr-iticism was made in pursuance of the rights of the press under the Constitution of the United States, ahd Noth Carolina as well. The editor further dlenied that lie intended any cotmpl1t of court, and. under deci sions of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. it was believed by all the at torneys that this purging of thne de fendant settled the mnatter. To the surprise of all pr-esent, how ever. , adge Ewart. aifter a long deci-1 sion from the bench, during which lie dis)layed great feeling, ended by sent encing the editor of the Citizen to pay a line of $2.50n and be impi1risoned in the commion jail of Bunconmbe county for thirty days. Bail was Iixed at 82,00011, and1( in a fe~w mninutes the bond wvas miade up by the leading citizens - hankers, merchatnts and others of the c-ity, andl thne editor wvas released from the custodyv of the court. An appeal was at once taken to tihe Supreme Court of North Carol ina. The case will be fought by t'he best talent in thne State.I Kiilled by the con2~tlet. CoNway, July 29.- -Johnn G. Bruton was killed here this afternoon by Con stable John H. McCaskili. Trial Jus tice Coopers court had .iust adjourned and Brunton attacked one .Johnuson,. w.ho had testitied against him. The trial .iustice ordered his constable. Mc Caskill, to stop) the row that followed: Bruton refused to be ar'rested and by-' standers were cal led on to assist the onstale. W. I. Bruton, Zather of John .. inter'fered ma pushed Me-| 'askil away from his son. The latter.j having dra'wa his knife, struck Me- - 2askil in the back. only cutting his :lothes and continued to advance. McCask ill drew his p:stoi and( tir ed' two shots. one enitering theC left side md causing death in a few minutes. icCaskill surrendered to the sheritf md has engaged coun nsel to apply for - sai. The verdict of the coroners sjury : MASSACRED BY DEViLS. 'V1en, Wnme aet Chi i rea I auth:-red. Loi's. Ang. 4.-The Telegra ph toiorrow will print a dispatch from Slanghaii stating that the massacre, at Irceng occIrred on July '31 The ollicials suppressed the news foI thr days. The naimes of the killed air Miss Elsie Marsgall. Miss Annie Gor don. Miss Bessie Newcomb and lissI Flora Stewart, all of the F nglish Z nana mission : Miss Nellie Saunders. Miss Topsv Saunders. Rev. Dr. Stew art and 1rs. Stewart of the Church Missionarv' Societv. Five of 1r. and Mrs. Stewart's children were kilcld and two survive. One had one kmve broken. and the other, a baby. lost :n eve. The following were saved: 3iss Hartford of the American Mission, Miss Coddington of the English Zena na mission, and Rev. 11. S.iPhillipsof the English Chureh Missionary Socie tv. United States Consul Iixson, who isi stationed at Foo Chow, with a party of volunteers. upon receipt of the news of the massacre, started on a steam launch for thescene, and has rsturnedi bringing with him the wounded Aner' icans. The experiences of the survi vors were terrible. They say that death was the least part of the suffer ings of the butchered womuien. The indignation here is intense. Nevertheless, the iany war ships i the harbor are idle. A mass nieeting has been arranged for tonorrow to protest against the lack of energy on the part of the aithorities and to urgre that reparation be made, and that the guilty persons be punished. The niandarins endeavor to blame certain secret societies for the outrage. Eu ropeans. however, regard this as iron sense. The oflicials are renewing their old tactics of stopping telegrams. The re ports of the outrage are rather mixed. The latest savs it is now known that ten persons'were killed, including Miss Lena Stewart and Dr. Stewart's whole family except two. The Ameri can missionaries. Miss lartford and Dr. Gregory, escaped, but the fornier was fearfully injured. Several Eng lish and Anmerican children were killed. The Standard tomorrow will demand that the murderers be visited with con dign punishmyient and that a stern ex ample be nade of the oficials who vir tually connived at the commission of the crime. The paper will say: "If the Emperor cannot or will not protect British residents, we must give him assistance of a kind he will not welcome." The Chronicle will say it trusts that Great Britain and the United States will combine to teach the Chinese a lesson that will cause foreigners to be respected forever, but in view of the conditions existing in the country, the bodies sending missionaries there, and especially women, incur the gravest responsibility. The whole question, the Chronicle adds, ought to be recon sidered. The Times will say: "The outrage must, of course, from the subject of strong representation to China from England and probably from the Unit ed Sates also. It must not be passed over as atrilie. Immunity of the mur derers would cause a standing menace to the lives and property of the who'e European community in Chin-." Where Reform in Needed. Mr. Joseph Choate, of the New York bar, in a recent address, brougtht out the surprising fact that with 30, O00,0lll people England does not have so marry judges as any one of our lar er States. Ini Englandl there are hity-two judges of tire first class, while New York has 140, and Illinois 17S. English courts dispose of husi ness more rapidily than ours, and yet litigation is miiuch lighter in that country than it is here. Just comr plairts" are miade of our comrplicated judical machinery, the facilities afford d for appeals and new trials, and the fighting for delay. In ahnrost any case. when it is to the interen- of a la w yer to prolong the proceedings, it is impossible to secure a prompt arnd final decision. Commenting on Mr. Cho ate's address Tire St. Louis Globe Democrat says "the truth is that in our anxiety to provide ample means for adjustmieint of legal difliculties, we have made our judicial system a souce of endless trifling with the in terests of tire people. Our miultiplici ty of statues is directly conducive to litigation, and thre courts attach so uchr importance to precedents and technicalities that tire lawyers can keep a case ini course of tr'ial almost as long as they please. Ini England, where there is supposed to be much more formrality than in thre United States, the ordirnary practice is far less slow arid uncer'tain than that which prevatis hrere. 'We have so many judges and so many dii'erent tribunals that a case may be taken froni one to another on various pre texts, arid tire expenrse is apt to exceed tre amount in-volvxed in a miajority ofI cases. There is certainly great ineed of reformn in tis matter. It should be easier foi' tire average citizen to ob tami a decision fronm sonmecourt of full aid tinal jurisdiction, wich is to say that it should not be so easy for the layers to protraict all sor'ts of cases. Too manry of our courts exists solely for the pur'pose of giving solemn and< leisurely consideration? to technical< and unimprtant pleas. Tire whole system ought to be simplified. ini shrort,ji with a vie w to saving tinie arid nmoneyP by removing all chrances for cases tof be continued and tranrsferr'ed except for' soundi anid cornclusivei'easorns. Few m iore imiportarnt imatters now engage tre attention of our law mnakers anid I the public. We hrave tirme anid argain urged a reforrm, especial1ly ini our cr'i minal pr'ocedur'e. Nearly~ all the C iyichirnrgs ini this coutry ar'e due to tre fact that thre people have no pati ince with tire dielay arnd tihe uncertain ty of the law, and r'ather thgan run tlie risk of seeing known cr'imrnials escape ii cases of exceptional aetroeity' they ' :lppeal to Judge Lynch. We need a] mio'e expeditious miethrods ini both ririnal andl civil cases, and we be ieve that thier carn be adlotted wvithrout 1')ng injustic-e to inyb)ody'. Whei(thier , ie,' would decrease thle number ofr' u judges or riot we do0 riot know, but Ire people wouli be willing to pay' out . good ronrd sunm to their judges im .xehange for swift arid cer'tairr jstice. It is time to aigitate this r'eformr ini earn .1 striket: a' iroto. 1IN1 rN'. 0.. Aug. 2.---The pud * le's and hreidpers ini tire Eagle mill t1 it Iroton went out yesterday beruse hey could get no satisfaction as to threIr ~ale under wich they were to wor'k. ie mill will shut down. Thne mmen a 'ill riot return to wor'k until a sais- 1) actory~ seale is settled . in struock 1y Lijgitning. I~LIN. Aug'- 2 . dispatch from. 'aderborni Wiest Phia, u sayvs thatr igntning struck a companry of soldiers it dr'll inm the distr'ict of Die Sernne resterdy, and most~ of the nmen were >'ostr'ated. Eighmt of tuhem ar'e mn a h yin~iig cnrditioni.____ - T~s;s yearr,'ago rhere were only six T :er a:niato"ris in the Uitedt ~ates. a nd in t w5 thme niumbe of vireels turned out was I1'nec. Now ir ere are twenrty six mianufactories, Tf mid it is estimated that 500Q.000 wheels Ii POWDER Absolutely Pure. A erram or tartar Daing powder' iahest of all in leavening strength.- LA - -.St Tuited States Government Yood HA, Royai Haking Powder Companv1 106 Wall St..N. Y. low A bout These H igh Prices? The Augusta Chronicle says "dur ng the past sixty days when the spec ilators were bulling the price of cot ,on and of wheat for purposes of their nvu, the gold papers were constantly nging the advocates of silver coin e about their claim that the demon tizatioi of silver had caused low prices. But since the bottom has fall .m out of the speculative spurt and otton and wheat have dropped back tinost to low ebb again, a painful si lenice has fallen upon the gold broth trhooJ. While cotton and wheat vere so low (before the recent' rise) old papers assured us that it was over >roduction that reduced the prices so ow. but while they were bounding lpward they grew silent on this the ry. It will now probably resume usiness at the old stand." In discuss ng this matter. the Manufacturer, of >"hilk-delphia. which takes a lively in ,rest inl it, says "a Boston Journal, liscussing the decline of prices within he past few years, contends that sil rt'r ai,'monetization could not have >mriduced the result, which is indeed o be attributed rather to mechanical nvention.because 'wheat did not drop nore heavily than steel rails, and wven the decline in cotton did not <(eep pace with the reduction per ton per mile of the average freight rate of American trunk railroads.' Why the >rice of steel rails declined is plain nough ; the invention of new and re narkably cheap processes of manufac ure put the price down, and this ielped to reduce the general cost of -ailroad transportation. But the per on who uses the argument just quot d is boAnd to show that improve nents have been mad in the produc Lion of cotton and what, within a re :ent period, which have Qperated in in equal degree to reduce the cost of roduction. What are they? Wheat eclined from about 73 cents a bushel o 53 cents in the two years ending xith last March. What invention in fertilizers, what improvement in har resting machinery, appeared within. ,hat time to account for such a result? None; none whatever. An acre of rround cannot be made to produce anw an ounce more of either wheat or cotton than could have been obtained [n July: 1893. We must-believe, then Lhat two -eparate causes have worked o thrust down prices. Mechanical nvention has done so in the cases of anufactured articles. The change of he money standard has done so in the ases of the foods and fibres which we sell in Europe in competition with the vhole world. That such prices would it once drop heavily if half the pres mrt stock ei gold should be demonets> ed, no man would think of denying. he rejection in 1873 of half the stock >f metallic money must have had a recisely similar result." The Latest Conspiracy. MoREHEAD CITY, N. C., Aug. 1. The trial of the sensational cases of onspiracy to defraud insurane~ com anes was continued today. The evi-. lence brought out was in line with hat of the day before, but murch more ~xpicit and conclusive. Fraud was >oved conclusively in one case after nother. The following shows first he actual ages, second, the aenamed n policy, and third, the real physical ~ondition of the parties name below, ~vho were all insured for good mounts: Hattie A. Davis, 70, 45 infirm. Sarah Mt. Gabriel, very old, 47, in rm. Sheppard Davis, 70, 56, infirm. Emma J. Casy, 70,. 50, infirm. Melissa Guthrie, 70, 50, infirm. John Boyd, physical wreck. Win. J. Rice, said to be good risk, unatic. Mary A. Longhurst, 65, 55, poor ieath. William HI. Jones, good risk, con umption. Sarah A. Lewis, over 60. 49. Rosana Washington, 60. 35, laid up vith rheumatismi. Samuel Windsor, 85, 58, infirm. Thomas Davis, -, -, consumptive. Florence Chadwick, very bad health. The prosecution attempted to prove hat the moner received on the bene t paid at the dieath of Wigfall was ivided between four relatives of the lead man and that these four rela ves insured a man in the last stages if consumption eleven days bef ore his heath, swearing that he was a good isk ; that the insurance agent at Bu rt certified that Wigfall was a "good 'isk." Most of the day was taken up y wrangles between counsel as to the dission of testimony. A large num cr of letters, affidavits, applhcations > insura~nce policies, etc., were -ad. ittdl today and several hundred -itnesses we're examined today orally. 'he court room was filled with inter stedl listeners. Rtetributiont Terrible. Paus, Aug. 4.-News has been re rived here of a dastardly attempt to turder M. Vuvillemin, the managing irector of the coal mines at Aniche, ht miles from Douai, in the de u-rtent of Nord. A monster banquet d been prepared for the celebration day of the completion of the fiftieth aar of Vuvillemin's connection with e mines. After mass had been lebrated this morning M. Vuville n, surrounded by a p-arty of engin rs and shareolders in the mines. 'as standing under the church porch, hen an anarchist miner named Ca ile D~ecoux. who had been dismissed o the service of the company after te strike of 1893, approache and red five shots from a revolver at him. hiree of the bullets took effect, one riking M. Vuvillemnin in the cheek, tother in the hand and another in the ik, inflicting serious, but not dan ~rous wounds. After emptying his volver Decouxc was pr-epar-ing to irow a bomb, which he had con aled about his person, when by me means the infernal machine ex oded prematurely, disembowelling ewould-be murderer and hurling a writhing body a distance of seven et from whiere hie had been standing. - of the bystanders were slightly .jued by the explosion. Decoux was tried to mayoralty house but died imediately after hiis arrival there. e attempt upon M. Vuvillemin's re has created a most intense excite