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-WORK AFIER. DEATH. )R. TALMAG:S - DrA OF EMPLOY- II MENT IN HEAVEN. fr Eralq e View of the Celestial World-Em fi pioyment Suited to wVorker-All Will i Find Plenty of Congeuial Occupations. C WSMa-TON, Dec G.-Dr. Tal mage's sermon today gives a very un- St usual view of the celestial world and is c one of the most unique discourses of the great preacher. The text is EzeKitU i. 1, "Now it came to pass in the thir tieth year, in the fourth mionth, in the ' fifth day of the month, as I was among 0 the captives by the river of C(heba r, a that the hieavens were opened. I Ezekiel, with others, had been expa triated, and while in foreign slavery, stading on the banks of the royal ca nal which he and other serfs had been condemned to dig by .he order o Nebuchadnezzar-this royal canal m the text called the river of Chebir the illustrious exile had visions O heaven. Indeed it is almost alwa' s -that the brightest visions of heave come not to those who are on mountain top of prosperity, but to some John on desolate Patmos, or to some Paul in Manertine due geon, or to some Ezekiel standing on the banks of a ditch he had been crmpelled to dig--yea, to the weary, to the heart broken, to those whom sorrow has banished. The text is very particular to give us the exact time of the vision. It was in the thirtieth year and in the fourth month and in the fifth day of the month. So you have had visions of earth you shall never forget. You remember the year, you remember the month, you remember the day, you remember the hour. Why may we not have some such vision now and it be in the twelfth month and i asixth day of the month? -he question is often silently asked, though perhaps never audibly pro pounded, "What are our departed Christian friends doing now 1" The question is more easily answered than you might perhaps suppose. Though there has come no recent intelligence from the heavenly city, and we seem dependent upon the story of 18 centu ries ago, still I think we may from strongest inference decide what are the resent cceupations of our transferred kinsfolk. After God has made a na ture he never eradicates the chief characteristic of its temperament. You never knew a man phlegmatic in temperament to become sanguine in temperament. You never knew a man sanguine in temperament to be come Dhlegmatic in temperament. Conversion plants new pricciples it in the soul, bitt Paul and John are jusl as different from each other after con version as they were different from each other before conversion. If con version does not eradicate the promi aent characteristics of temperament neither will death eradicate them Paul and John are as different fron each other in heaven as they were dif ferent from each other in Asia Minor You have, then, only by a sum i1 subtraction and a sum in addition t, decide what are the employments o your departed friends in the bette world. You are to subtract from ther all earthly grossness and add all earti ly goodness, and then you are to com to the conclusion that they, are doin now in heaven what in their best mC mnt they did on earth. The reaso why so many people never start fc: heaven is because they c:>uld not stan it if they got there and it should tur out to be the rigid and formal pla< some people photograph it. We l tocome to church, but we would n 'at~here till next summe We "Halleluiah h u we would not want to he it all the time for 50 centuries might be on some great occnasion would be possibly comfortable to we a crown of gold weighing seve~ pounds, but it would be an afiticti' towear such a crown forever. Inol1 er words, we run the descriptions heaven into the ground while we ma that which was intended as espec andcelebrative to be the exclusi employment in heaven. Y ou mif as well, if asked to describe the hat of American society, describe a Dec ation day or a Fourth of July or autumnalThaniving, as thougl were all the time that way.. I am not going to speculate in rdto the future world, must, by inevitable laws inference and deduction and c< mon sense, conclude that heaven we will be just as differ from each other as we are now dif eut, and hence that there 'will b least as many different employm in the celestial world as there are ployments here. Christ is to be great love, the great joy, the great ture, the great worship of heaven, will that abolish employments? more than love on earth-paternal al, fraternal, con jug al love-abohi earthly occupation., In the first place, I remark tha those of our departed Christian frii who on earth found great Joy in fine arts arenow indulging then e in the same direction. On earth had their gladdest pleasures amid tures and statury and in the stuc the laws of light and shade and spective. Have you any idea that affluence of faculty at death colls and perished? Why so, when thl more for them to look at and they keener appreciation of the beal -and they stand amid the very. 1 where the sunsets and the ramn and the spring mornings are WC Are you so obtuse as to supposi cause the painter drops his ease the sculptor his chisel and thei en er his knife, that therefore the t which he was enlarging and inte; ing for 40 or 50 years31s entirely orated? These artists, or theso f3 of art on earth, 'worked in coarn terial and with imperfect braiu with frail hand. Now they ha; red their art into larger libertie into wider circumference. Thi at their old business yet, but w the fatigues, without the limita without the hindrances of the trial studio. Raphael could improve upo masterpiece of "Michael the Al gel" now that he has seen bhm could improve upon his masterp the "Holy Trinity" now that I visited them. Michael Angelo better present the "Last J udg after he had seen its flash and the rumbling battering rame thunder. Exqisite colors here, ful lines here, powerful chiar here, but I am persuaded. th -grander studies and the bright leries are higner up, by the 'w marble stairs of the sepulche that Turner and Holman Hu Rembrandt and Titian .anc ieronese, if they exercised faith mn tne Christ whom th trayed upon the canvas. arc ng vet, but their stren; ulty multiplied ten thousa 'i band has forgotten its cm espirit has faculties as f four fingers and a ti tral is superior to oreason that God to< d their band thei might give the~r rmore wie . nultipliant. oy among -'a-brac, awater CO eiiN ~a t; ~ ;~no~t say, !for, am so sorry they hau L"o leave al; I tan ~s' thting:" ltr say, "I am glad i v have gone up to higher artist . Dortunity and appreciation." O ends who found so muc j pv in the ie arts on earth are now luxiriatinr ma Louvres and Luxembourgs celesa . m remark again that all ourIdeparte tr0 iristiaii friends who in th - wor- cIy ere passionatelv fond of u a 1 i regaling that taste in 1 " U-0 0 i) lestia1. The Blibi' says rec >:ut the music of '. hal t t all be figurauve. ilk about halleiliahs an d on e glass and trumpets ant' harps md NV ratorios and orga'. The .-n s of t nd over !,Z.ij spoakN 0~ of' YV-0sTi: eadver a eaven had no songs of T eaven. a umber of thse on ,p art woUld ha "ve nen 'aken up by die 1 rt onigrnts. Surely the Chris- i i at death )s 1nt lose his memory. yc hen there must be m lions of souls la ,va -en who Inow Coronation ' w *A ".ntioch and -Mount l'sgani hf d ld Hundred." T-ie leader of w e eternal orchestra need only once sa p his baton, and all heaven will be di esdy for the hallelujah. g If ~heaven should ever get out of m ausic Thomas.Hastings and Lowell dlason and Bradbury would start up a f aundred old magniicent chorals. But E that with the new song that John ci mentions, and the various doxologies tt alluded to, and the importation of sub- n lunar harmonies, a Christian fond of a music, dying, will have an abundance t of regalement. What though the a voice be gone in death, what thouga r the ear be fallen in dissolution, are n you therefore to corelude that the t spirit will have no power t> make or a catch sweet sounds Cannot the soul r singa How often we compliment I some exquisite singing by saying, c "There was so much soul in her music." In heaven it will be ali soul until the body after awhile comes up I in the resurrection, and then there 1 will be an additional heaven. Cannot 4 the soul hear? If it can hear, then it can hear music. Do not therefore let it be in your household when some member leaves for heaven, as it is in some households, that you close the piano and unstring the narp for two years because the fingers that used to play on them are still. You must re member that tuey have better instru ments of niisic where they ar. You ask me, "Do they have real harps and real trumpets and real organs?' I do not know. Some wiseacres say posi tively there are no such things in heaven. I do not know, but I should not be surprised if the God, who made all the mountains, and all the hills, and all the forests, and all the mines of the earth, and and all the growths of the universe-I should not be sur prised if he could, he had a mind to, make, a few harps and trumpets and organs. Grand old lHydn, sick and wornout, was carried for the last time into the music hall: there he heard his oratorio of the "Creation -" History . says that as the orchestra came to that famous passage, "Let there be light. i the whole audience rose and cheered, ) and Haydn waved his hand toward f heaven and said, "It comes from r there'" O verwhelmed with his own : a music, he was carried out in his chair, and he came to the door he spread his e hand toward the orchestra as in bene d iction. Ihaydn was right waen he w aved his hand toward heaven and aid "It comes from there.". Music ras born in heaven, and it will ever d have its highest throne in heaven, and n want you to understand that our de ee parted friends who were passionately .e fond of music here are now at th~ t headquarters of hrmony. I think - hat te grand old church tunes thai .- died -when your grandfathers di It When those tunes died, they ddn it stay on earth, and they could not hay r een banished to perdition, and so t tink they must be in the corridors o )U alabaster and Lebanon cedar. b.- Again, I remark that thcse of ou 'of departed Christian friends who in thi ke -orld had very strong military spir all are now in armies celestial and out i yebloodless battle. There are hundred *ht of people born soldiers. They cann_ iitinelp it. They belong to regiments i >r time of peace. They cannot hear an drum or a fife without trying to kee it tep to the music. They are Christial1 nd -when they fight they fight on t re- right side. N sw when these our Chri >ut tian friends who had naturalhax of powerful milit. spirit entered he-a m-- en they entere'. the celestial arrm in The door of heave~n scarely opens. 1 ntt ou hear a military demonstra.tiO er.- David cried out. "Tne chariots of G< Sat are 20,000:" Elisha saw the mou ntsntsttins filled with celestial cavalry. m-- John said. "Thie armies which are thhe heaven followed him on white horses - apNow when those who had tne mi buut tary spirit on earth sanctified enter No go glry, I suppose they right away, ff1- listed in some heavenly campaig .hess they volunteered right away.. Th must neds be in heaven soldiers w. all a soldierly spirit. There are gra nds parade days, when the King revie thethe throops. There must be armed istes cort sent out to bring up from earth heeyhhaven those who were more than c< pic- uerors. There must be crusades e of ofeing fited out for some part of Gc per-r- domiinon-battles, bloodless,. grno ~that less, painles-angels of evil to sededffoght down and fought out, other ereiisbbllious worlds to be conquered, woi avev e tbput to the torch, worlds to tifuluhssaed, worlds to be demolished, wo: ooms to be sunk, worlds to be hoisted. >owswsssies that, in our own world there ventn baatles for the right -and agains,, be-be-wwong where we must h-ave the h< '~and enly military. That is what k< rraav- us Christian reformers so buoya taaste So few good men against so many tsify- men; so few churches against so im >oblit- grogshops; so many pure prin -iends presses, against so many poll e ma- prninti presses, and yet we areb anda -tand tndcourageous, because, whi car.ar- nnw that tLie armies of evil in andndwwrld are larger in numbers than areareaary of truth, there are celestia thououthhr-s in the air fighting on our .iononsIIhave not so much faith .in the a :erres- on the ground as I have in the a in the air. 0 God. open ou. i hihisttht we may see them-the mil: chan-n-sspiits that wen. up from earth to ~and the military spirits before the thi eoe of-Joshua -and Caleb and Gideon hashasDDaid and Samson and the nun< cououldoofChristian warriors who on< ~ment" fought with ileshly arm, and heeard haing gone up on high, are co: ofofiitsddwn the hils of heaven rear grace-fight among tie invisibles. Ou urourpapated Christian friends who ha tt the military spirit ,in them sanctifie. rr gal-iinhe ceestial army. Weh inding longin to the artillery, or the ca~ r, and or the infantry, I know not.I E anandkknw that they have started ot Pauaul feeetservice and courageous se saaving and everlasting .s'rvice. 1e eorpor-tthyymay come this way to lng ainint-oourside and drive sin and mea tthloof and satan from all our hearts. diold.. der they are comning, coming. inning, you hear them as tliey swept by amrsup. But what ar-e our mnathen umb -as friends to do in the next wor-ld. thhe hu- found their joy and delignt in r k awaaaymaaics. There was more pot e brrnbrain tinEuclid than in John g somoeeTThywere as passionately ? yymoemoatemahmtics as Plato, who Do1)nototooerrhis door, "Let no one. enti tthe tap- no is not acquainted wihG and the try." \hat are they domug in :?' u~'like ;icf W. 1 Sg~r umbers inlinite, dis- I cculan1ons ma t i ne Vii them, arithmret(c y bras aold geonetries and t - ri,-i For all eternity. What' of space to bt sarvey u 'at ~nitue a~ measure:5iP Wh at ui ers, what circumifernces,, hat ngles, what uaternionS. what e loids, what parallelograLs, what ic sections: The didactic 1)r. said lie really though. that the eeaed in heaven sipent somtie 0! ir time with the higher branches rnathemaies. So of our transfer and transported inetaphyscians. 1al, are they doing now, Studyiog Lutman miind, only unuer circuin nes than they used to study it. ev used to sauly the mind sheathed te dull human body. Now the rit unsheathed- no x they are study - the sword out the seabbord. Have any doubt about what Sir. .Will i Ilt.iiltou is doig m heaven, or at Jonathan Ederds 1s doing in a':eii or the multitudes on earth to had a pas-ion for metaphysics tified by the gra(:c cf God? No ;liulity in guessing. Metaphysics, >rious metaphysics, everlasting etaphysics. What are our departed Christian lends who are explorers doing now? ploring yet, but with lightning lo )motion, with vision microscopic and lescopic at the same time. A conti eat at a glance, a world in a second, planetary system in a day. Chris an John Franklin, no more in dis bled Erebus pushing toward the ?rth pole: Christian De Long, no lre to free blockaded Jeannette from e ice; Christian Livingston, no more mid African malarias, trying to take revelation of a dark continent, ut all of them in the twinkling of an ye taking in that which was once naproachable. Mont Blanc scaled vitiaout alpenstock, the coral depths of he ocean explored without a diving )ell, the mountains unbarred and pened without Sir Humphrey Davy s afety lamp. What are our departed friends whc ound their chief joy in study doing zow Studying yet, but, instead of a rew thousand volumes on a fe ;helves, all the volumes of the uai verse open before them-geologic, or nithologic. botanic, astronomic, phil >oohic. No more need of Leyder jars or volataile piles or electria bat teris, standing as they do face to fac' with ihe facts of the uiverse. What are the historians doing now Studying history yet, but not the his tory of a few centuries of our plane on'y, but the history of the eternitie -whole millenniums, before Xen( phon or Herodoius or Moses or Adar was born. I [istory of one world, h tory of all worlds. What are our d( parted astronomers doing! Studyin astronomy yet, but not through th dull lens of earthly observatory, bi with one stroke of wing going rig1 out to Jupiter and Mars and Mercuy and Saturn and Orion and the Pleide overlooking and passing the swifte comet in their flight. Herschel died Christian. Have you any dou about what Herschel is doing? Isa Newton died a Christian. Have y( any doubt abut what Isaac Newt< is doing? Joseph Henry'died a Chr: tian. Have you any 'doubt abo what Joseph Henry is dloing? Th were in discussion, all these astron mners of earth, about what the auro borealis was, and none of them cou guess. They know now; they ha been out there to see for themselv' What are our departed Christi hemists doing? Following out th own science, fcllowing out and f lowing out for ever. Since they di they have solved 10,000 questic which puzzles the earthly laborato) thin wall of electricity-the thin wv that seems to divide the physical fr he spiritual world. the thin wall e lectricity, so thin the wall that e and anon it seems to be almost brol r through-broken through from < side by telephonic and telegrap t apparatus, broken through from ther side by strange iluenlces wb s e in their ignorance call spiriti t istic manifestations. All that ma a leared up. They laughing at us a older brothers will laugh at mnexp p nced brothers, as they see us y ., contracted brow experimenting, c e wishing they could show us the -- to open all the mysteries. Ags .d standing amid his student explo r- down in Brazil, coming across, s e great novelty in the rocks, takins it his nat and saying: "Gentlemen .. us pr. We must have divme ilht d nation. We want wisdom from 1- Creator to study these roks. tt ade them. Let us pray.". Ag in going right on with his studies fc r.B u t what are the men of the Ii who in this world found their< d j jyin the legal profession-what n--hhey doing now? Studying law n; universe where everything is cont re ed by law from the fighting of 1 t ing bird to thight of world-lav id dry and hard and drudging, ws righteous and magnificent law, b s. wwhich man and cherub and se to and archangel and God himself n-- he chain of a law long enous err ind aroutrd the immensities an d's inity and eternity. Chaim of n-- What a plece to study law, whe be the links of .he eam are in the k re. What are our departed Chr: lds friends who in this w-orld had be joy in the healing are doing ldd Busy at their old business. Ao Be ness in heaven, but plenty of sic are on earth plenty of wounds in 1i the ferent parts of God's dominiorn av. ealed and to be medicated; thos epss rifed souls coming down not 1 nts. dctors' gig, but with lightning bad motion. You cannot understant any that patient got well after all th4 ing ful doctors had said he mus tedd Perhaps Abercombie touched oy- Abercombie, who, after many ewe dctoring the bodies and the st the people in Scotland, went up to the 144. Perhaps Abercambie tc co-o-hhm. I should not wonder deiod odfriend Dr. John Brown, wb rmy in Edinburgh-John Brown, rmythor of "Rabandlis l-riends,' veves Brown, who was as hnmb e a tarv tian as he was a skillful onj -oioinannd word renowned author-I ononennt wonder if he had been bac andand adagain to see some of his redsdsttints. Those who nad their artrthhhaling the sickness and the ono.,eerth, gone up to heaven, are uningooth again for benignant medic vv to But what are our friends wh< - dd- thei chief joy in conversation t thehesocialitv doing now:( In bright ar v r vation there and in grander be- itv.What a place to visit in Iryy vour next door neighbors ar nlyyI'and queens. you ycurselves kie; foor quenly. If they want to kno vie-aricpr uarly about the first p: hayss they have only to go over a -e on Ada. If they want to know I s S nu and the moon halted, th ony to go over and ask Jost lad heywat to snow no0w tile st( tedtdm. they have only to attical and as I >t. li they want F Thhey more aot Zth arrioganice of athtlw-tthy have ony to' go over ry to Mordecai. IT thy w.ant to kn 'ton.onhethe ed sea baile?d w en it v, nd of ene ther have only to gou wrooe MoscS. If they want to know rr here ticulars about the Bethlehem - e only to go over an No ras nhight inTT t 3 14 have only to go over and ask :o'e who were per5Olnal spectators hiie the montainLa s crouched and the '] eavers got black in the facc at the erc nectacle. If they want to know an, ore about 4" suf!erings of Su he ,cotch CovenantesF. they Be tve only to go over and er sk Andrew Melville. If they want all o know more about the old time revi als, they have only to go over to ask ie WVtiteield. anl Wesley, and Living- w ton, and letchc e, and Nettieton,and th "innev. tin Oh.~what a place to visit in! If in ernity were one ninute shorter, it by vouid not be long enough for such m ;ciality. Think of our friends who n this world were passionately fond ad f ilowers turned into paradise: Think de of our friends who were very fond of m raising saperb fruit turned into the h, orchard where each tree has 12 kinds g of fruit at once, and bearing the fruit all the vear round. What are our de tared Christian friends doing in m heavcn. those who on earth found thei:r chief joy in the gospel ministry? o1 They are visiting their old congrega ions. Most omf those oiu nisters have c( ot their people around them already. When I get to heaven- as by the grace t( of God I am destined to go to that place-I will come and see you all. F Yes, I will come to all the people to whom I have adn~inistered in the gos e pal and to the millions of souls to whom, through the kindness of the printing press, I am permitted to preach every week in this land and in the uttermost parts of the earth, I will visit them all. I give them fair no tice. Our departed friends of the min istry are now engaged in that delecta ble entertainment and undertaking. But what are our departed Christian friends who in all departments of use fulness were busy finding their chief joy in doing gaod-wnat are they do ing now,, Going right on with the work. John Howard visiting dun geons; the dead women of northern and southern battletfelds still abroad looking for the wounded; George Pea body still watching the poor; Thomas Clarkson still looking after the en slaveL--all of those who did good on earth busier sinea death than before; the tombstone not the terminus, but the starting post. What are our de parted Christian friends who found their chief joy in studying God doing now? Studying God yet. No need of revelation now, for, unblanched, they are face to face. Now they can han . dle the omnipotent thunderbolts just t as a child handles the sword of a fa s ther come back from victorious battle. They have no sin; no fear, conse a que'tly. Studying Christ, not through . a revelation save the revelation of the scars-that deep lettering which brings it all up quick enough. Studying the e Christ of the Bethlehem caravansary; t the Christ of the awful massacre, with t its hemorrhage of head and hand and y foot and side; the Christ of the shat , tered mausoleum; Christ the sacrifice, the Star, the Son, the Man, the God, a the God-Man, the Man-God. But hark! t The bell of the cathedral rings-the c cathedral bell of heaven. What is the iu matter now? There is going to be a n n great meeting in the temple, worship s- ers all coming through the aisles. tt Make room for the Conqueror. Christ standing in the temple. All heaven o- gathering around him. Those who ra loved the beautiful come to look al Id the Rose of Sharon. Those who loved e music come to listen to _his voice, ss Those-who were mathematicians come ~to count the years of his eeign. Thost ir who were explorers come to discove: >- the heighlt and the depth and thi ed length and breadth of his love. Thost ns who had the military spirit on earti -y and sanctified, and the military spiri h in heaven, come to look N. the C'gaii all of their salvation. The astronomer y come to look at the Morning Stat of The men of the law come to look a rer him who is the judge of quick an .en dead. The men who healed the sic ne come to look at him who was wount. hic ed for our transgressions.. All dile' the ent and ditiferent forever in many ri ich spects, yet all alike in admiration fC al Christ, in worship for Christ, and a tee alike in joining in the doxolog: as "Unto him who washed us from or e- sins in his own blood, and madei iithkings and priests unto God; to him I ny lory in the church throughout a 'v ges, world without end." Amen. ssa To show you that your departi sesizfriends are nmore alive than they ev mme were, to make you h'omesick for hea oo en, to give you ant enlarged vie w letthe glories _to be revealed, I ha mi.- preached this sermon. the Death of Gen- 3Iaceo. . HeHe T~ANA, Dec. 10.-Dr. Maxir tssiz Zertucha, who was formerly Genet rev- Antonio Maceo's physician, has s1 law, rendered to Col. Tort at San Fehi hif and confirms the reports of the rel are leader's death, which occurred at 2 in a m. on Dec. 7, in the engagement roil- tween the rebels under Maceo and I Lum- Spanish troops under Major Cirujer rnot Maco received one bullet, which pe. buttrated his head, breaking his jaw, a forz passed out at the union of the neck a raph the shoulder, and was also wount now; by another shot which struck him wh to the stomach. Another attempt Ei in- made this morning t:> discover w law. disposition has been made of the ye re all leader's body. A delegation of cora and! pondents of the.f >reign press and stian porters of the local newspapers a their gone in the direction of Hoyo Color noww: to make an investigation in that vic sick- ty, where it is believed the body kness buried. It was rumored in Hlab ee dif- last night that if the body shoul< to be found, it would be brought to e glo- city. Up to the time of sending a lazy dispatch this evening nothing loco- been learned of the whereabouti I why Macos body and nothing further -skill- transpired to confirm the report: t die his death. A great deal of spec him- tion is being indulged in here a years the reason why General Weylex uuls of camped near Guanajay yesterday lod innlleft the aid, taking a direction th2 uuched not known here. The steamer Mi f mmy lanes has left her-e for Merne and odidied G eneral Weyler-s disposal. heeauu- -xlD To UiE FALSE. 'John NE Yomg, Dec. 10--The Cu Chris-Iin New York do not believe that rsician eo is dead. As soon as Gen.- Th< shoulddIEstrada P'aima .heard the repor -again telegraphed to his private infor. )ld ni- at ey West and this afternoon 1 jooyiinceived a dispatch which came to veies of West from Cuban sources at Hal come absolutely denying that Maccc tment. dead. The dispatch read as folio' ,found "Macco passed the trocha 1) and innReport of his death absolutely er con- Contradict it on my authority-. soocial- eral Palma said that the desp-atch where a source in which has, entire. (1 a kings Zertuche, who is said to have -lyy and Maco's physician, and confirm w more report of the Cuban general's tradise, nothing is known at the junta. nd ask2 N'LoN lIe tow thee l)t'.Al)EL1I- ' Dec. 11.- \ er v havhave tdoubt remains in Cuban cir( a.. ifthis city of the death of Antoni rmm nel--ceo the Cuban leader. News ao oover to hand tociay fronm priv'ate s Sknow which acknowledged that no i LEaamani: doubt of Maceo's death can and ask 'This informationl comes direcity o w how the Cuban agents on tae island as'aclcl-yintended to finish the uncertai .:oud askkthe minds of the Cuban res the par hr. It wascaracterized as askk the an end of any possibility that -a th acounts of the general's tragi .a man ni untrue, BLoODTHIPS" rN HA N j. it at a* unli Fig- whic % Indicates th6 :pir!t of the abble. T H E AVNDec. ).via Kt:y \Vst few Auericans in Hauvana are in stant dread. They believe that N. ir lives are in danger. L gentleman c-nnected with the i rio De La Marina newspaper, told that the gist of President Cleve d's message had been received by Havana newspapers, but that the cie sor had prohibited publication fear- nad that the warning to Spain to cease ber chery would inflame the populace cor I cause attacks on Americans. I )r. Burgess, who has been here for loo rs, and who is one of the nerviest At n ever born under the Stars and Ja< ipes, says that the situation Is grav- cot than it has ever before been. Joe ho] ringer, wh'o has been in the Amen- tur 1 Consulate Offlice for twenty-six oIL rs and is now acting Consul Gen- pu i, intimated to me this morning th; at he wished Secretary Carlisle had tw cepted the proposition of Captain loz 7ans (Fighting Bob) to come to Ha- .y Lna with the battle ship Indiana to m< y a box of cigars. Mr. Springer A .ested that the Americans in the ty would be overjoyed if Captain b ans was still selecting the brand of th bacco and his ship was at atchor in so avana. of I was witn a small party of Ameri- di .ns last night in the cafe of the Hotel er 3glaterra, a leading hotel. Two of ta e party speak Spanish. Nearly all t9 te chairs around the small tables in P te cafe were occupied by civilians 0 ad military oficer, including some s >mmon soldiers, who had attended al ae bul! fight during the day. Many g opies of La Lucha supplement, a 7hich contained the account of the re orted death of -,Maceo, were being . ead and discussed. Suddenly one of he Americans said to the gentlemen t vith him, "Did you hear that? Let's et out of here." On the side walk he xplained that the group of Spaniards a rho was sitting near us had in the 9 ourse of the conversation remarked: r 'We ought to kill the American pigs, he same as wehave killed Maceo. If he rebels had no sympathizers in the United States we would have ended s this war long ago." The gentleman who translated that Spanish epigram explained that those who were so fortunate as to have a right to claim protection under the American flag were always designated by the term "pig. . Mr. Louis Silva, who is in Havana in the interest of a large pump mana facturing house, with offices in New York, says he notices a- feeling of un rest among the Spanish people which he never observed before and he has made several trips to Havana during the last seventeen years. Mr. Silva says the government made a mistake when it allowed that bull fight yester day, that it helped to raise the blood thirsty proclivities of the rabble. A Cuban, though a loyal Spaniard, told me last night that the Govern ment officials evidently did not believe in the reported death of Maceo, else the news would have been given out at the palace; that the report was dis seminated to appease the Spanish pe pe and give them something to talk about, take their minds off rioting, and let them think that the Government would soon end the rebellion. It is singular that Maceo, according to the report, was killed near Punta Brava and that Weyler telegraphed to Havana yesterday from Artemisa for reinforcements, saying that he had Maceo hemmed in and wanted to crush out the insurgents at once. But the Spaniards have wonderful powers. The character of the Spanish rabble can best be described by citing an in cident of yester'day's bull fight. Three bulls had been t:illed in accordance with the recognized formula. The Ifourth bull was either so tame or tired that the professional matadores re fused to kill it and went home. The mob then tore up the Denches and 1threw them with bottles and stone tnto the ring at the bull. The anima Sfinally ran into its stall, and the po lice locked the stable doors. Six Men1Kine~d. -CORDELE, Dec. 8.-A boiler in th m ill of the Wilcox Lumber compan. at Seville exploded this morning a f 5:15 o'clock with fatal results-.T killed are: S. Piland, mayor of Se le An Irish employee, nime un - known. Four negro workmen. Tn e xplosion was terrific and the shoc e was so great that all that part of th e plant in which the boiler was situate w as completely wrecked. The repo and shock was felt for miles aroun and brought many people to the sen af the disaster. It soon be came know hat a terrible loss of life had resulte aand sarehers began to pull away tb ebris in search of the unfortunate: t- One of the first bodies taken out we s' that of Mr. Piland. He was mayor< of the town and was employed by tl - ompany as watchman of the plan Li ater the mangled remains of anothe hewite man was discovered. He pro is ed t be an Irishman, lately employ< ty whose name it is now impossible or procure. Four other bodies, all ner ho mployees were then recovere~d. Hu en dreds are now surveying the scene le the terrible disaster. The buildi: he resents a picture of a complete wre 'he and the damage to the plant ius he will be in the neighborho - d of fc t tousand dollars. Mayor Pila: leaves a wife and three children. uc. A convenienft invention. v.- An Orangeburg farmer comes to 1 na- front with a new invention int in shape of a Lubricator for oiling ni--icle wheels without taking them ted the axle. It is inserted in the h mi- between two of the spokes. Wh you want to grease your wheel all j have to do is to withdraw a plung which operates with a spring, and an- as much oil as is needed on the ax hiis pon being released the spring co u p the oil hole until it is opened oid iling up again. It is a very inge ov- us and clever device, and is bounc pe- be used generally- With these lul nor ators a vehicle can be oiled up a ose- where along the road in less than timm minute. The patent for this valua artrtiivention is owned by the Natic out Lubricator Company of Orangebi; didet S. C.Mr. Jas. L. Sims, Editor senenProrietor of the Orangeburg 'li De-- andDemocrat, is the manager of company, which is a guarantee the is all right. The company wants .uble agent in this county to sell the Lu. >un-- cators. See advertisement in ano sday column. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ng aa Five Hundred Lost. waswaos BE, Dec. 11.-The loss of >un-un-bbythe founderng of the North nennman Lloy d steamer Salier, which lud-d-oonthe Coronas Corrubeda shoai untnttte gale that swept the Atlantic c for of Europe early this week, is now inin-iitvely known to have been ni annd greater than at first supp3seni. A patch from Corunna to tre (or -AA Gazette says that the number o( lla-a-ssns lost may possibly be as big b bas5U. The Gazette s correspoa sp offssys that the ship had on boar< hicihhppasengers when she left Ant iss to and embarked a great many mc assssestte various Spanish ports she tou aapple at. The character of th-e Sa haam wreckag', which has already e popotwwshed ashore, indicates that ~ham steamer quickly went to pieces. pre- leard that the Sahier was wrn bybyfor miles north of Villagracia o n-dorrnight of Dec. 7, the vessel bei ime lethan thro iia oil' shor -LENISC-N'3 rF!RST GRADUATES. of tht-% "vemi,erp of the Zhlna 1m1(1 their I S These ?. he first anrual cnmmencenient cx ~sE- of the Clemson Agricultural Th 1 MecLhanicil College commerced col day and Ended on Wednesday. the ing the first commencement the ex ises were attended b.- many from Dih parts of the State. .me )n Sunday at 11 o'clocki, in tihe cot- lan e chapel, the baccalaur ate sermon the s delivered; on Monday morning cer competitive drills took place, be- inc , followed by the regimental review bu the afternoon and an entertainment an the College Glee Club in the eve- ] t 11 o'clock oa Tuesday the annual m( dress to the literary societies was St livered. ()a Wednesday, commence- er nt day, the graduating orators was Sp ard. The following members of the ca 'aduating classs read their theses: ye AGPICULTUiRAL. en Gooding, P. I., Hampton, "Per- tb anence of the American Republie." ac Moore. J. II., Abbeville, "Progress E the South Since the War. Moorman, T. I., Richland, "Con- bt ntrate and Conquer." su Tillman, B. R., Jr., Elgefield, "In. ci :rnational Arbitration." E Tompkins, F. G., Edgefield, "Tnt t riendship of Books." B Turnipseed, B. R., Richland, "Pow of Cins-ience.'' c 3IECHANICAL. I Aull, B. M., Newberry, "Pickett's t Bradly, J. T., Abbeville, "The Pal- t 2etto Flaa." - Earle, E. P., Oconee, "South Caro- c ina During the Revolution." Hart, G. W., Orangeburg, "Dan ers of Demccraev." Klugh, W. W., Jr.. Abbeville, 'Industrial Education." Mauldin, I. M., Pickens, "The True ,itizen." Sease, L. A., Lexington, "Party rganiztion Essential to Republican iovernment. Tuten, T. H., Hampton, "The New E~ra." 3IISCELLANEOU s. Other agricultural graduates and their theses: Blaine, J. M., Fairfield, "Nutrifica tion." Boulware, G. F., Newberry, "Evo lution." Breazeale, J. P., Anderson, "Com mercial Fertilizers." Folk, J. F. Colleton, "Man and Na ture." Furman, C.2M., Jr.,Oconee, "Coal." Hamilton, R. G., Union, "Relation of Veterinary Medicine to Human Health." Robertson, B. F., Pickens, "Nitro gen." Sloan, B. F., Ozonce, "The Culti 'ation of Cotton." Wertz, L. A., Edgefield, "The His tory of the Earth." Other mechanical graduautes and their theses: Bowen, J. T., Pickens, design of 15 K. W. Kapp dynamo. Brysnt, F. L~, Spartanburg, design of 18 K. W. Manchester dynamo. Calhoun, P. N., Oconee, design of IS K. W. Manchester dynamo. Carpenter, W. H., Anderson, design of 20 K. W. Edison dynamo. Chreitzberg, A. M., Charleston, de sin of 25 K. W. Kapp dynamo. Cothran, T. W., Abbevilleh, design of 25 K. W. Kapp dynamo. Dowling, D)., Bamberg, design of 30 K. W. Manchester dynamo. Hunter, J. E., Lexington, design of 12 K. W, Edison dynamo. Langley, P. G., Jr., Charleston, de sign of 20 K. W. Edison dynamo. Lee, R. E., Abbeville, design of 1i tK. W. Kapp dynamo. Peues. 0. M., Marlboro design of a 12 K.'W.' Edison dynamo. .Simson, J. G., Anderson, aesigt t of 35 K. 'N. Edison dynamo. 1 Tindal, A. J , Clarendon, design o r 30 K. W. Manchester dynamo.. -Wardlaw, W. W., Abbeville, desigi of 35 K. W. Edison dynamo. -Those who will ofliciate as marshal r at the liommencement exercises are [1 D. H. Henry, chief, and C. W. Gent , ry, W. UI. McFadden, W. T. Brock rr T. R. Vogel, A. D. Talbert, W. a s Sarratt and J. S. Garris, assistants. e Mr. T. H. Tuten is the presidentc 11 the graduating class. sliver Leaders to Meet. . WAsmlI0TON, Dec. 9.-The genera v conference of silver leaders -will I of held here December 15 to prepai .e plans for the campaigns < '1900. General Warner, .Preside: of the Bimetallic League, will call ti Smeeting to order and William J. Br 20al n will, be permanent chairman. Gel l Warner will within a few days issue ir- formal call for the gathering. Amo: pethe senators who will attend are B: Sler Allen and Kyle, Populists; Jon! P of Arkansas; Vest, Cockrell and TH ris, Democrats; Stewart and Jones, he. Nevada, Silverites, and Teller, D ie. bois, Cannon and Mantle, Repub nd- cans. Many others are expected. T nd proposition to mobilize all thc~ Led friendly to silver under a new par le name does not meet with much fav In from the Democratic Senators, w a say the vote of their party has be blgreater than the combined silvere be- ments of all other parties, and that t fight should be continued underi ree name of Democracy. Southern De sedocrats are also said to object to a pa do name. The Populists seem mclir nis to adopt any name that promises s nncess. The Republicans are more f naorable than any others to the for: this tion of a new party. It is admitted this all uarters that Mr. Bryan -will do: thas nate the conference, it being accel has that he will be the Presidential no has ee in 1900. of Swlit .Justice in Georgia. la- MAcos, Ga., Dec. 11.-Warren C s to ngham, the negro taken from en- city to Albany, Ga., last night un an uard of the State militia to be t at is for a criminal assault on a young igel- man named Camp. was tried at a is attcial term of the Dougherty Supe Court, convened for that purp Judge Spence presided. The v1< oans of his assault was brought into C Ma- and identitied him. The jury was m>sas four minutes and brought in a ver he he of gulty. Cunningham was then nantt enced to be hanged on the 30th of te re- cember. _____ ______ Key Kinied Ills Assallant5. ann,,PAmis, Tex., Dec. 1.--A do was killing occured in Pontotoc c vs: ty, hickasaw Nation, Tue hc...ni'ght. A man had been runn false- whiskey jomnt in that place, but Ge- about to close out and quit the c frm try to evade the ollicers. Two i D. named Edward and Stanton, con< oee od that he had a consideraole aim ddtlie of money and went to this place eatetthe purpose of robbery, but thei tended victim killed them boott y i'made his escape. es s in How T) MagiE A HAM SwEE' >Ma- ham can be made sweet and th came vor of the meat much improve >urces putting one or two large teacu irtther'brown sugar in the water inis exist the ham is boiled. Another way frm put a teacup of New Orleans mc and is and one of vinegar made from ntytviincider in the water, and when the ideintns isboiled allow it to remain in t being until the liquid cools. Sliced taking can be kept fresh for weeks and he a.- vented from becoming mnoulu end simdly dipping it in melted I. at.;outn of the ham fat. ();7R O THAIV PROLF:O STAPLE iS SOLVED :..i~t~. rW4 iHigh. t116l' 3nr - .,;y n can na3 iaute(. Close, >ne time aio we published an :i tI about a new kind ot cottol that been discovered in Georgia. Al t Phenis, in the Manufacturer's Re d speaks of the cotton as follows: )own in Georgia, on a farm over king the domes and smokestacks of anta, an experimenter named T. A. kson has produced a variety of ton, which, if half claimed for it Ids good in practical extensive cul e, ill work nothing'short of a rev tion in cotton growing. The im ed distinguishing characteristics of s variety are prolific yield-from o to four bales per acre--and a fibre ig. stout and silky, and consequent of greater value per pouind than 1: )st of the cotton now raised in - 1erica. Fugitive references to this cotton e appeared in the newspapers of e country during the past year, and me apparently apocryphal accounts t its history, it characteristics and the smay it has spread among the grow s of ordinary cotton have recently en printed in New York and Atlan- s papers. A New York newspape blishes a cut of a suppositious patch this cotton in' which the cotton alks towered like a forest of trees ove the figure of a man in the fore round. An Atlanta paper published story to the effect that a ciub of uth Georgia farmers had offered 8,000 for all the seed raised with the itention of destroying every seed ex nt and thereby averting a competi on conceived to be ruinous to their .terests. Having given some time to n investigation of the subject on the 'round, I find that while the whole natter has scarcely proceeded beyond he experimental stage, and that some nisinformation and exaggeration have een given carrency, there is entirely ufficient foundation for large expec ations to say the least, and it is difil aut to understand the apatby existing Lmong cotton men in Atlanta and lsewhere, as evidenced by the fact ;hat no recognized cotton expert has as get taken the trouble to make a thor ugh investigation of the matter. Wile it is true that Mr. Jackson has received a large number of letters, many inclosing checks and asking for a handful of the. seeds, and has also had numerouscallers of late to inspect the patch and samples of cotton, yet I find that none of the large cotton houses or planters of Atlanta or else where have taken anything more than the merest passing, superficial interest in the subject. Some cotton men to whom I have spoken regarding the new cotton are outspoken in their skepticism, but further inquiry in e% ery case has demonstrated that this feeling is simply part and parcel of the suspicion which has forever been accorded to any new thing. "Every year somebody pretends to have dis covered a wonderful new cotton, and we don't bother ourselves to investi gate any of them." This remark, by the representative of one of the fore most cotton dealers of the south, pro bably describes the situation as apph' cable to all. And yet when I have mentionet some of the peculiarities of this Jack son cotton, and have inquired if an: otton now raised in the south pos esses such characteristics, the answe has been frankly, "No." I have sev eral times visited Mr. Jackeon's place and have made a somewhat detaile examination of the patch, the plar and the product. I measured th patch and found it contained a fe feet (13 square feet) more than on' third of an acre. I was informed th~ there had been picked some 300 pounc of seed cotton from this small patcl [nd there are top boils enough alread matured to increase this yield to po sibly 1,000 pounds, which would from 2,400 to 3,000 pounds of seed cc eton to the acre, and this in a year'< u nusual blighting drought. It is sa: tt thno commercial fertilizers we u sed ; that the site was selected becau of the poor quality of the soil, and th the crop was raised without irrigatic e(hich might have been supplied), ti inentenion having been to give the!a v erest possible test to the new variet t Granting these conditions, the resi i isscarcely less than marvelous. T d stalks will average six feet in heigi ehile ordinary cotton on farms imn ndately adjoining, and with soil of a d parently similar character, is in tI c doughty year only one to two feet s I counted the open and the matur f bolls only on about 100 of these stal L e highest I found was 53 ;a gr' m any had 20, and those having I r r han 5 were very infrequent. It - caimed that ordinarily it should av age 10 boils to the stalk. The ro to are two feet apart, and the piants f< ro inches apart in the row; the at: t- shoots up straight, with apparen of little tendency to "stool" or limb, a ig it fruits directly from the stalk. :k leaf bud appears on the salk, a sb d twig or stem is developed, and at ur joint of the leaf and the twig the fr: nd with from one to five bolls, is form The history of the plant so far is,. when the boll matures the leaf dr he off, so that there are never more tl he three or four leaves at a time on e-e-stlk, they being at the top, an ads off e in picking the cotton, as well ub safeguard against disaster should ien plant be attacked by the army wo >uu or he would starve to death. St er, commentators have sugtc to~t that ut tendeny to shed its leaves may be e.. simply to the drought, which so seswhat similarly atfects all veg-tit orr but this hypothesis would hari l i-coni-cut for the fixed habit of th , too to invariably shed its leaf onLb - rin- the maturity of the boll. nyAs I remarked before, it cm soar nee b claimed that this cotton he .bie eeded beyond the expernienital s1 iall and until it is scientitically invest Lged ed adgiven the benefit of exter .udd cutivation throughout a numo aesesseasons in various .places, anc( the pr thes from germination to n t ititrity, and then to the loom, has af caefuly noted by a - ua' o art-thoi-ioities. there must iA a ls then speculation as to its niethods ai merits: but there hardly sg'. s for reasonable doubt that it s -a lifeifettict and new variety of con a ierr- thatit will give results far L: anknkaayyvariety now grown. I was ms iniggwith an expert the other d ty astss admitted he had madc no exain pos.s-oofit, but whio expressed the uchchttat it was simply one of the var diiz- heretofore grown in this countr gne asked'him if it wvouldl be possil ~per- raise an average of 1) boils t ah as stalk of ordinary cotton if it lennt planted, as this, in two foot rows >10 inch le btweenl stalks. lie prior er dec decared it woul.i not. )rdim ereattcctton is planted in three to fou hce d rows, from 1? to 10 inches apart. er'srshhrr, it would appear, is a ri n poipoit o advantage, whieni, wa thhe al othr considerations, is suil ilt is to merit the most exhaustive e keed mentatio. In an acre of ord thethcottton, with four-foot r-ows and at incihes apart there would be jpnt.with this cotton . plan AA.' POWIDER Absolutely Pure. i cream of tartar bi ki1 p >* .hi'est of all in leaveninz strength. Lalest nLaited Suties GoverUnut (51 lReporit. ROYAL B-tKi PoWDER Co., New York. o foot rows and at four inches part, there would be G6,150 plants to e acre. S, that, allowing for bad easons, accidents. ravages of insects nd worms, it would appear that two ales to the acre might almost be ounted on as an average ceop. For e thing does seem to be clearly es ablished, and that is, that, unlike the rdinary cotton, this plant is more rifty and prolifi- when planted close At the time I visited the patch the pen bolls had been pretty well pick bd ut at Mr. Jackson's house were a a-mber of stalks which had been cut with all the bolls filled. No photo -raphs had been taken of the cotton. secured a photograph of the field, with the pickers just cleaning up the patch, and had several of the stalks with filled bolls photographed. The shortest of these is about two feet high, a cuttiag, and has 15 open bolls. I also had them photographed while beiig held by a negro laborer. They were average stalks, and from the root to the tip measured about seven On one of the five-foot stalks in the house I counted 5 open bolls. I found that 3. of these had five locks and eight had six, and I was informed that some had been found with as many as 10. The seed of this cotton is another peculiarity. It is smaller than that c: ordinary cotten,sothat 1,503 pounds of seed cotton is calculateI to make a bale of the lint, instead of 1,600 pounds, as with ordinary cotton. It appears also to have a characteristic mark, a seam down the centre of one side, and Mr. Jackson is authority for the state rAent that it germinates from the cen - tre instead of from either end, as does the common cotton. It is said there are nine seed in each lock, invariably. No new thing ever appeared shroud ed with a more mysterious origin. or ad a more romantic history. This is the story that is told. Two years ago a soldier of fortune, a sort off wander ing Jew named Keil, stopped of at At lanta and tarried awhile. He fell in with Mr. B. T. Jackson, took a fancy t him and exhibited a 'varied collec tion of curios which he said he had Ig~thered in his travels. Among therm was a wonderful specimen of cotton. It was a cutting 18 inches long, which contained 56; perfect open boils. He rhad cut it, he said from a 20-foot stalk he found growing in front of a hut in ,a wild part of interior Africa, near iCongo river 700 miles from the coast. tThere were numerous other stalks of etae same height, ntaltheysee to Scutting he had secured and Kept sim Ltply as a curiosity. ?Mr Jackson's interest was naturally ~arouse. His father has long been an Yexperimenter in the fields of horticul Sture. He produced the Jackson ~wonder butter bean, which has been t'taken up and pushed by one of the )~leading seed men of the country;,.he dstartled some friends once by giving Sthem ripe tomatoes from the top of a iine and unearthing potato bulbs at atits roots-a vast mystery till hie ex )nplained his success at grafting; and iethere is in his door yard a peach tree e'which bears double blossoms like a Y.rose, and peachy-lookinlg fruit which uttastes like the seed of a rose, for it. hCis a peach graft on a rose stock. Fin Lally it was agreed that the Jacksons e should take the cotton anid see what it -?'would do in tnis country. From ths3 a seed 57 stalks only were raised, bum. in some of them were wonders. Mr. Jackson sent three stalks to the Atlan 'dta exposion, wher6 they appeared in .s.the exhibit of the Plant railway sys tattem. One stalk was seven feet high, sssanother nine and another fourteen, is and there were 158 boils on this one. -~ The results were so satisfactory that ws Mr. Jackson concluded to send Keil ur back to Africa for several bushels of ilkseed. He was gone four months, and tlywhen he returned reported tnat he dndfound the whole region where he had A secured the cotton devastated by a ett forest fire, and there were no tracss the left of either cotton or villagers. t, What will be the future of the cot' -d.ton is yet problematical It is true hat that a responsible looking man was in ps Atlanta, representing himself to be ian the agent of a crowd of South Geor the gia farmers who were ready to pay an- $1,000 for the seed to destroy them;. a abut he didn't succeed in reachmen M the Jackson. Negotiatio, rm to sell the entire uct, some 10-' )raebushels of fis..eseed, to New Or t leans parties,) ut they evidently had due - representations mnad-e, - ' ad beyond sending a telegram to ana nfl Atlanta house which could give no 'ac information, they took no steos to in .nt vestigate the merits of the cotton. It .fterbegins to look somewhat as though the singular fate which has been ac lylycredited to the stranger will pursue it e to the end. The 10 bushels of seed agehave been divided into three portions,. atat-and Mr. Jackson now retains only isvebout a third. Mr. Jackson agreed to rofive a third of the prolits to Keil and its another third to a man in Alabama, aatuho advanced the money to send Keil eeenack to Afri::a. Some mouths ago au- eil disappeared, and was last heard at of from in Alaska. Recently a man fro~m diitsexas appeared with a claim for Kein's om hird, alleging that it had been tranls f erred to him, and so a division was andjmde. Mr Jfackson may sell out his mdd olding in bulk or he may sell in taLmall lots tO individuals, but his who friends are urging him to replant his iion: ntire lot of seed, so that a more thor lieef ough exerimenit may be made and a tietioes rcovicing demonstration be giv .. en of the merits of a cotton whicil is le to believed conitains~ d possiblities of a the boon to the sonth o! ine~denlable irm, I)X.Neb. Dec.. I t.-\ero r-footnite, a .1;year old biy, was accidea ndtlyhnd tas 3~ 'i~ thle r'esult 0t a boyish ca icpal\ With is play matlS he was ng ! p playing police When thmey catpt'red 'ient mnd h.y we ii~ re con~d'emned( to be >cr i- hand. Hle was car de n ned and umary A ;iilow slip) was tied aroun-'i his it 1 nec and hme smpended' h imself by' the I tyneck to a bed rom'mi door. la fore his ',d : ja salw' neri v' I he wa~s dead.