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THE LOST CHILDREN. REV. DR. TALMAGE'S CONSOLING SER MON FOR BEREAVED PARENTS. The Shorter the Voyage the Less Chaace Fora Cyclone-Temptation In O.d Ag" What the Lad D3 log at Sixteeni lis 5yared. Generosity of Bereave mnt. From an unusual standpoint Dr. T>alage offers comfort at the loss of children, and this sermon must be a a.an for many wounds. His text is Iaish lvii. 1. --Th righteous is taken away frota the evil o come." We all spend much time in pane rie o: longevity. We consider it a grea thing to live to be an octogenarian a any one dies in youth, we say. -W'at a pity'. Dr. Muhlenberg, in old age. said that the hymn written in early life by his own haud no more expressed his sentiment when it said: I would not live alway. If one be pleasantly circumstanced, he never wants to go. WilliLm Cuilen Bryant, the great poet, at 82 years of age, standi: in my house in a festdl group, reading "Thanatopsis" without specta:hts, was just as anxious to live as whoa at IS years of age he wrote that immortal threnody . C to feared at 80 years of age that he would not live .to learn Greek. M.>naldesco. at 1l5 years, writing the history of his time. feared a collapse. Theophrastus. writing a book at 90 years of age, was anxious to live to com plete it. Thurlow Weed, at about S ye art' of age, found life as great a desirability as when he snuffed out his irst politician. Al bert Barnes, so well prepared for the next world at 70, said he would rather stay here. So it is all the way down. I ouppose that the last time that Methusaiah was out of doors in a storm he was afraid of getting his feet wet less it shorten his days. Indeed I some time ago preached a sermon on the blessings of longevity, but 1 now pro pose to preach you about the blessings of an abbreviated earthly existence. If I were an agnostic, I would say a man is blessed is proportion to the number of years he can stay on terra firma, because after that he fAlls off the docks, and if he is ever picked out of the depths it is only to be set up in some morgue of the universe to see if anybody will claim him. If I thought God made man only to last 40 or 50 or 100 years and then he was to go into annihilation, I would say his chief business ought to be to keep alive and even in good weather to be very cautious and to carry an umbrella and take overshoes and life preservers and bronze armor and weap ons of defense lest he fall off into nothing ness and obliteration. But, my friends, you are not agnostics. You believe in immortality and the eternal residence of the righteous in heaven, and therefore I first remark that an abbreviated earthly existence is to be desired and is a blessing because it makes one's life work very compact. Some men go to business at 7 o'clock in the morning and return at 7 in the evening. Others go at 8 o'clock and return at 12. Others go at 10 and return at 4. I have friends who are ten hours a day in business, others who are five hours, others who are one hour. They all do their work well. They do their entire work and then they re turn. Waich position do you think the most desirable? You say, other things being equal, the man who is the shortest time de tained in business ani who can return home the quickest is the most blessed. Now, my friends, why not carry that good sense into the subject of transference from this world? If a person die in childhood, he gets through his work at 9 o'clock in the morning. If he die at 4.3 years of age he gets th:rugh his work at 12 o'clock noon. If he die at 70 years of age he gets through his work at 50o'clock in the afternoon. If he die at 90, he has to toil all the way on up to 11 o'clock at night. The sooner we get through our work the better. The harvest all in barrack or barn the farmer does not sit down in the stubble field; but, shoulder ing his scythe and taking his pitcher from under the tree, he makes a straight line for the old homestead. All we want to be anx ious about is to get our work done and well done, and the quicker the better. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviat ed earthly existence in the fact that moral disaster might come upon the man if aie tar ried longer. Recently a man who had been prominent in churches, and who had been admired for his generosity and kindness everywhere, for forgery was sent to state prison for I5 years. Twenty years ago there was no more probability of that man's committing a commercial dishonesty than that you will commit commer ciai dishonesty. The number of men who fall into ruin between 50 and 70 years of age is simply appalling. If they had died 30 years before, it would have been better for them and better for their families. The shorter the voyage the less chance for a cyclone. There is a wrong theory abroad that if one's youth be right his old age will be right. You might as well say there is nothing wanting for a ship's safety except to get it fully launched on the Atlantic ocean. I have sometimes asked those who were schoolmates or college mates of some great defaulter: "What kind of a boy was he? What kind of a young man was he?" And they have said: "Why, he was a splen did fellow. I had no idea he could ever go into such an outrage." The fact is the great temptation of life sometimes comes far on in midlife or in old age. The first time~ I crossed the Atlantic ocean it was as smooth as a mill pond, and I thought the sea captains and the voyagers had slandered the old ocean, and I wrote home an essay for a magazine on '-The Smile of the Sea," but I never afterward could have written that thing, for before we got home we got a terrible shaking up. The first voyage of life may be very smooth. The last may be a euroclydon. Many who start life in great prosperity do not end it in pros perity. Tho great pressure of temptation comes sometimes in this direction. At about d5. years of age a man's nervous system changes, and some one tells 'aim he must take stimul ants to keep himself up, and he takes stimu lants to keep himself up until the stimulants keep him down, or a man has been going along for 30cor 40 years in unsuccessful busi ness, and here is an opening where by one dishonorable action he can lift himself and lift his family from all financial embarrass. ment. He attempt~s to leap the chasm, and he falls into it. Then it is in after life that the great tempta tion of success comes. If a man make a for tune before 30 years of age, he generally loses it before 40. The solid and the permanent fortunes for the most part do not come to their clmax until in midlife or in old age. The most of the bank pretidents have white hair. Many of those who have been largely successful have been dung of arrogance or wordliness or dissipation in old age. They may not have lost their integrity, but they have become so worldly, and so selfish un der the influence of their successes that it is evident to everybody that their success has been a temporal calamity and an eternal amage. Concerning many people it may be said it seems as if it would have been better if they could have embarked from this life at 20 or 30 years of age, Do you know the reason why the vast majority of people die before ZIU' It is be cause they have not the moral endurance for that which is beyond the 30 and a merci ful God will not allow them to be put to the fearful strain. Again, there is a blessing in an abbrevi ated earthly existence in the fact that one is the sooner taken off the defensive. As soon as one is old enough to take care of himself he is put on his guard. Bolts on the doors to keep out the robbers. Fireproof safes to keep off the flames. Life and fire insurance against accident, receipts lest you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat against shipwreck. Westinghouse airbrake against railroad colli sion and hundreds of hands ready to over reach you and take all you have. M against cold, defense against heat, defense against sickness, defense against the world's abuse, defense all the way down to the grave, and even the tombstone sometimes is no: a suficient barricade. If a soldier who has been on guard, shiver ing and stung with the cold, pacing up and down the parapet with shouldered musket, is glad when some one comes to relieve guard and he can go inside the fortress, ought rot that man to shout for joy who can put down his weapon of earthly defense and go into ate, the suhiier wo a o sud cd 1 hours or the .u.La w~it .ts :t .tand' guard six hours.' We have eC: neo:: se re about every thitny but relt iin, co :o.. u en e :t ou every thin - but tr'iu:' eres e .rout this world. a there is a 'leviug ia an abb Via ed %::thly existe Ce in the fact that one esca'e' s' n::ny "h'remenuts. The longer We ae te ore a:tachments and the more kindred. the r ore eh urds to be wunded ur rasOeCi or -uude.i If a man live on to -, or " years of age, how :n-ar .raves are cleft at his feet' in that long r~ach of time father and mother go, brothers and sisters go, children go, graudchiidren go. tcrsoal friends lutside the family circl whom the had loved with a love like that of )avid and .Jonathan. U'eiies that, soe ten have a natural trepidation about 'iss ton and ever and anon du-'ug 10 or ') or GU N e Irs, this horror of their disolution a d irs through soul andbd N ow. uppnose t:e lad goes at lt years 'f a=ec lie e s funerals. 50 ck. tI o-be !ue'. ' awful wrenchiings of the hear:. It.is,.td'enOu" tr us to t hir deparitre. hat is It not easier for us to tear their depjar:.,re th1an S r 'We ut r L ite c~c of -ct-cu outr-cy, int a geuer":.iy e h'ereV''eita wtch wt'.1 p racticall say. "l: i:,! hard ena. .:=or mue tJ p"i thrvugh this rave:nent but how I au tint he wilever have to go through it. S, 1 reaon wtit a : gelf, and so you will f"ud ep 'Au with lourselv. David les: his son. Though David was kin' he lay o th; earth mo:uniins and in cUnsua>e for so e tiu.. At th's d stance Sof ti e, which do you really think was the one t.o e. c :.e.:h ort lived child er the lung live the li:i Dvi'l died au e riv s th: ehld died he woui.1, in the :r: laice, have e-c aped that part.eular he reavement, then he wou'. escaped the worse bereaveuent of l ou. his recreant son, and the pursuit of the 'hiiistines. and the fatigues of his mi.itary campaign. and the leaou:-y of Stul, and the perfidy of .Ahi:hophel, and the curse of Shimei, and the dettruction of his family at Ziklag. and, above all, he wculd have escaped the two great calamities; of his life, the great sins of uncleanliness and murder. David lived to be of vast use to the church and the world, but so far as his own happi ness was concerned, does it not seem to you that it would have been better for hiru to have gone early? Now, this, my friends. explains some things that to you have beea inexplicable. This shows you why when God takes little children from a household he is very apt to take the brightest, the most genial, the most sympathetic, the most talented. Why? It is because that kind of nature suffers the most when it does suffer and is most liable to temptation. God saw the tempest sweep ing up from the Caribbean and he put the delicate craft into the first harbor. "Taken away from the evil to come." Again, my friends, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly enxistence in the fact that it puts one sooner in the center of things. All astronomers, infidel as well as Christian, agree in believing that the uni verse swings around some great center. Any one who has studied the earth and studied the heavens knows that God's fa vorite figure in geometry is a circle. When tod put forth his hand to create the uni verse, he did not strike that hand at right angles. but he waved it in a circle, and kept on waving in a circle until systems and con stellations and galaxies and all worlds took that motion. Our planet swinging around the sun, other planets swinging around other sur s,but somewhere a great hub,around which the great wheel of the universe turns. Now the center is heaven. Tnat is the capi tal of the universe; that is the great metrop olis of immensitiy. Does not our common sense teach us that in matters of study. it is better for us to move out from the center toward the circum ference rather than to be on the circumfer ence, where our world now is? We are alike those who study the American conti nent while staeding on the Atlantic beach. The way to study the constituent is to cross it or go to the heart of it. Our standpoint in this world is defective. We are at the wrong end of the telescope. The best way te study a piece of machinery is not to stand on the doorstep and try to look in, but to go in 'with the engineer and take our place right amid the saws and cylinders. We wear our eyes out and our brain out from the fact that we are studying under such great disadvantage. Millions of dollars for observatories to study about the moon, about the sun, about the rings of Saturn, about transits and occulations and eclipses, simply because our studio, our observatory is poorly situated. We are down in the cellar trying to study the palace of the uni verse while our departed Chvistian friends have gone up stairs amid the sky-lights to study. Now, when one can sooner get to the center of things, is he not to be congratu lated? Who wants to be always in the freshman class? We study God in this wrnd by the Biblical photograph of him, but we all know we can in tive minutes of inter view 'with a friend get more accurate idea of him than we can by studying him 50 years through pictures or words. The little child that died last night knows more of God than all Andover, and all Princeton, and all New Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all the thological institutes in Christendom. Is it not better to go up to the very headquarters of knowledge. Does not our common sense teaches us that it is better to be at the center than to be clear out on the rim of the wheel, '. lding nervously fast to the tire lest we b: sud denly hurled into light and eternal felicity? Through all kinds of optical instruments trying to peer in through the cracks and the keyholes of heaven, afraid that both doors of the celestial man-ion will be sw ung wide open before our entranced vision, rushing about among the apothecary shops of this world, wondering if this is good for rheuma tism, and that is good for neuralgia, and something else is good for a bad cough, lest we be suddenly ushered into a land of ever lasting health, where the inhabitant never says, "I am sick.'" What fools we all are to prefer the circum ference to the center: What a dreadful thing it would be if we should be suddenly ushered from this wintry world into the May time orchards of heaven, and if our pauperism of sin and sorrow should be sud denly broken up by a rresentation of an em peror's castle surrounded by parks, wit h springing fountains and paths up and down which angels of God walb- two and two We are like persons standing on the cold steps of the National Dicture gallery in London, under umbrella in the-rain, afraid to go in amid the Turners and the Titans and the Rahaels. I come to them and say, "Why don't you go inside the galiery':" -'Oh," they say, '"we dont know whether we can get in." I say, "don't you see the door is open?" -'Yes," they say, '-but we have been so long on these cold steps we are so attached to them we don't like to leave " "But," I say. "it is so much brighter and more beautiful in the gallery; you had bet ter go in," "No," they say, "we know ex acty how it la out here. but we ddnt know exactly how it is inside," So we stick to this world as thouigh we prerferrel cold drizzle to warm habitation, discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal pur pe, as though we preferred a piano with four or five of the keys out of tune to an in strumuent fully attuned, as though earth and heaven had exchanged apparel, and earth had taken on bridal array and heaven had gone into deep motirning. all its waters stag nant, all its harps broken, all chalices crack ed at the dry wells, all the lawns sloiug to the river plowed with graveCs, with de-ad ar. gels under the furrow. Oh, I want to break up my own infatuation and I want to break up your infatuation with thia world: I tell you if we are ready and if our work is done the sooner we go the better, and if there are blessings in longevity I want you to know right well there are blessings in an abbrevi ated earthly existence. If the spirit of this sermon is true. how cnsoled. you ought to feel about members of yotr tauni!r that went early. "'Taken fromu the' evi' to come" th~s book says. What a ounat-- (<-"pe th-ey had. llow glad we uhat 'o ' e- that they will never nave to go t'ro ugh t''e strugle ich we have had to gthugh. The ha jst timne enough to gt out ofc te'rale an'! run up on the sprngt'tue hilis of this world and see how i looked, 'and te they tarzed for a better topping place. They were hke shipis that put in at a. Ilelena, stayi-ng there long enough to let passengers go up and tee the arrack of Napoleon's captivity, auni then hist sail for the port of their own native 'irn. t is hard for us, but it ih essd :o.r i here. nd i he if irit thi s r: a is true. then we ou'ght not to " :tround :-ighin'g aud groanit. whoa :notier year is gigi;, 1lut w e our to g ow: on ne knite b'.' ti mnilest. ee and see t:e let~ery :.d tinink Gal that we "re :: I:. mie nearer hoOe. We ou cat n; atio : rount i w it h t1i)r 'id feelin:; a t our he dih or ai ut :'utici eted demise. ought to .e livig not t dt';i' to that old "i:txi' whIich I used to heir i: y . y hood L.v hat ye- mut lives toiaeer day were the li-st: you inuit ive :IU thul you were t. I- ttrever, or Cou wi:1. oLu not be inervous :e t ya u1.11ve to :uve oat a hetur y iute :ir Ala ::r t. (te Chris ::nas iay: I witnes "e 1 :1-netng very thri!:.ing, We hwOi justdaime the f tully} pre e ts liI':-t':ls m rain-' , whet I heard a "reetl cry of di'stres in the .e.:whay. Slhiihl ire::. a nerighi or's house emme it, to Sher fa::r was diei. It w.- os!y throe duoors u. ad l th'inks in two :uin uIes we were there. There lay the old nrisii in sea catain his lace upturned :oi rt the win dow. :L. thoagh lie ra.i sui :"ty peen ;he healIan i anud with an i::umi.-1 c-u'ne rnance. au though he were jIu-t going int har or. Th fact was he hai alre.ly =:;t throui the N-rrows. utin te a.'' iing roga were tie Christimas preseits w:-it'in :.r ims distribution. Long :ro, ene night when he had inarrow y escaped with his --hip fromn beivg r.n down by a crea: oceau steamer. he had made nis pe:ice wi:u God. a-,i a kin der neighbor or a better ii1:n: ihat ('apain Pendietoau o i Wul i not tu-l this side of heaven. N ithout a ui:nnt's warni:.. the pilot of the heivenly harijr hall uet lieu juist oat the 1ithtshp. lle had often taiked to t;.e of the =ooiness of God, and especially of a timie when he was .bout to enter New York harbor with his ship from Liverpool. and he was suddenly impressed that he ought to put back to sea. Under the protest of the crew and under their very tireat h put back to sea, fearing at the ame time he was losing his mi'd, for it did seem so unreasonabl- that when they could get into harbor that Lighit they shoubi pu' back to sea. But they put back to sea, and Captain Peul'eton sail to his mate. "You c:all me at 10 o'clock at night." At 12 o'clock at night. the c:rtain was aroused and sail: "What does this mean? I thought I told yo't to call me at 10 o'clock, anti here it is 12."- "Why," said the mate, "I did call you at 10 o'olock, and you got up, look ed around and told me to keep right on the same course for two hours, and then to call you at 12 o'clock." Said the captain: "Is it possible? I have no remenbrance of that." At 12 o'clock the captain went on deck. and through the rift of a cloud tue moon light fell upon the sea and showe l him a shipwreck with 100 struggling passengers. He helped them off. Had he been any earlier or any later at that point of the sea he would have been of no service to those drowning people. On board the captain's vessel they began to band to gether as to what they should pay for the rescue and what they should pay for the provisions. "Ah," says the captain. "my lads, you can't pay me anything. All I have on board is yours. I feel too greatly hon ored of God in having saved you to take any pay." Just like him. lie never got any pay except that of his own applauding con science. Oh, that the old sea captain's God might be my God and yours' Amid the stormy seas of this life may we have always some one as tenderly to take care of us as the captain took care of the drowning crew and the passengers. And may we come into the harbor with as little physical pain and with as bright a hope as he had, and if it should happen to be a Christmars morning, when tne presents are being distributed and we are celebrating the birth of him who came to save our shipwrecked world. all the bet ter, for what grander, brighter Christmas present could we have than heaven. S ng by cactas Plants. The Philadelphia Record says sever al men etmployed about Horticultural hal, in Fairnour t park, are nurstna .-ery sore hands, and one of them is just sure that he is out of danger from blood poisoning from stings re ceived in handling prickly cactus plants. All summer the tall, slender cacti have stood with soldierly erect ness in a bed at the east end of the hail. When frost thr-eatened the head gardener gave orders for their remov al into winter quarters, and the men having the j-b went about it without the usual precaution of wearing buck skin gloves. They were stung in manty places by the needles that bris tied from the stalks, but as the pain at the time was not great, they kept at work until all the cacti had been housed. A few hours later their hands began to ptuff up, and soon swelled to ungainliy proportions, as the poison of the stings took effect. They suf fered intensely for several days, anid even now. after a week has elapscd, have to use their hands in a very gin gerly manner indeed. ways oft a Connery Editor. An editor died, says an anony mous writer, and slowly wended his way down to where he supposed a warmer reception awaited himt. The devil met him and said: "For many years thou has borne the blame of the bad speling that printers have gotten off in the paper. The paper has gone for one dollar and also the dollars have failed to comne in. TQe printer has be delved thee for wages when thou hadrt Lot a farthitg to thy rname. People have taken thy paper vtithout paying for it and cursed thee, for .not ~eting out a beiter sheet. Tnou nast been called a dead beat byv the rail road conductors when thou hast shown thy pass to their envious gaze All these thou hast borne in silence. Thou shalt not enter here." And as the editor turns and walks a ray, Sa tan nmuttered: "Heaven is his home, and besides, if I had let him in here, he would have been dunning hs delirquent subscribers, and thus created dwcard in my kingdom." severe Eartt quaki. A soecial from Pccatello,Idaho~say s: A severe shock of eartb q take at 2:30 Thursday morning was felt the entire distance from Silver B->w to Monida, Mont., and at 7 o'clock the second shock w as percepti'ole but rot so severe. At Divide, Red Rock, Lima, Mionids, wndows ratt~led, d'shes' fell to the floor. dlwer pocts were thrown frcm their stands, lamp chimnneys and oth-.r glass ware suffered destruction. Clocks stopped and buildings were made to snav and crac. Ai Dillon especially was the first chock severe, The court house walls were cracked and the plas ter fell from the ceiling. I hoots a J ndge. John Davis, colred, was carried to jail in Cincinnati by otdicers fran B~rown counity to e~ cape 1ynching. His crime wss shcooting anid fatally wounigJudge John Mx. Mark e', of Brown county commn pless court in Gergetoiva Wednusday. D svis talk ed to Marley about a case for burglary, :or which he was tried but not con victd. Judge Markley walked away. Davis called him and fired waen the judge turned facing htm, taen died. Juge Markley's r-gund is in the een tre of the forehead. He is still liv'ing. Train G.2:a Over Emrblicm'ut rledwn a d0 foot embankment on the Missouri Sedalia, Warsaw and Souhwetern ioad at noron Taesday three mles north of Warsaw. En aneer John Minnier was instantly' ajiled. Fire man Charles McCon also ad a broken arm and B:akeman Price, Cond actor W. L Bass and Fred Schweetman, a passenger, was badly hurt. A De'v'er paper tells of a pretty yung lady who hung a picce of Jiver on her bed post in order nat the mos quitoes tmighUt feast on it and let her alone, In the language of the Riel; m oud Times what horribly stupid I r~s thos mosquitoes must be. IS i; WAS WHITE. THE TrELLiNG S - CitY OF HOW 1T TURNED. I h-re TEM a Ghat '-enNY R .t er Get tysburg and& Ed.ir L' Aiii Newry :tade Grav3 of a al. A big black cld that send to puhl out at the httom u~tl Lad4 th-e 'r.ajpe r.1 a 1h!!a ? spilled its tloo;d ar::th we s -a of~ ..shll P'ass. T" t oJ rusht d o rrotc r.i; r" J trac . 'fd .Ne r -land _.:rs a, trat~n l d :"; t be ce d di.) u t" dot ;'a:.s. azt 'e :o t of she hill un :i oad e:. lu e repa:red. There v\ i nu amISa nt f;r the ex-uirsi ;ni:a' save what tha~v c'ud ma3 for tces? ss. d yet onLe read m> c.itolaiut. N .,ot 3 tnret cl: lo tue the compiuty or send in a oil fir thi extra meal of mountain trout that th.ev were compelled to idau N car' of the washout. "T" c Y.aske e tou'iats," said the id nier, "hav mn patiene an' I : ;oC' et :nonry to}.a any clkss of n:"ouie urnua ths' suat." A "u,;le cf gentlemen came over to the litle roudih',u-e, walkirg with their hads beuind them, lookiag at the locomotives that stoods'.emning is 'r.nt c; toe house waitingi for cra.. U :"n l- pilot o cue of these e ines w d nan la everJils sat suking a cigar. "Gn ?<od evening,' Said one of the tc r t . s.n e "Go d evcenin," resronded the en 'ippose," said the Ne ' E.-giand er, outing a clea a tan bcot ';-,on the .cse of the pilot, .toat y^v he.ve been in cose place for some ti:ne "Well, I can't say that I have," said the man in cverails. I s5-e thuat your Lair is whte, and yet yVu are a ,lger man than I ar..' 'O :" said the engineer, a little Pm barrrasse:, "I got that in the (0's. ions before I commenced railroadio." I see, I see," said the Excursionist, showing still greater interest. "At Gettysburg, perhapsi" It was gcing home from Gettys burr," said the engine driver, glane ing at his right hand, that had a deep dimple in the thick of the thumb. "I went home. also, after Gettys burg," said the Yankee, and the two inn icoked at each oth, r for a mo ment in silence. The freman brought a cushion from the cab, threw it upon the pilot, and the engineer motioned the men to a seat. 'Well, there was a good many went home from Gettysburg," said the en gineer, with the hard pedal on ".hrma. The Yankee ncdded in silence. Of course each knew by the other's accent that they had fought there face to face and not side by side. "One of your fellows did me a mean little trick down there," said the excursionist. '-Well, if it comes to that, a damn ed Yankee poked his bayonet through my hand," said the engineer, for he had to swear when he talked. "And, seeing that you were unarm ed, made y ou a prisoner, when he might have killed you." "Yes, I had been hit on the head with a roent piece of shell or some thing heavy enugh to knock me out. When I came to and stagger~ed to my feet this Yankee made a run at me an' I had to give up." "Well, sab, I watchedt my chances an' hit him a crack under the eah; grabbed his gun an' when be started to get up, I laid the barrel across his head and left him there, when I might have killed him." "And here," said the excursionist, removing his travelling cap, "is the scar y ou gave him." "An' here's the ma'k of yo bayonet," said the engineer, wiggling his thumb. The two men shook hands. The tourist returned to his sleeper, but came back again nresently with a hait dczen friends. The Yankee produced a well-filled cigar case, planted him self at the side of the engineer, and asked him to tell how his hair hap. pened to be wbite. I"Well, sah," said the engine man, it's that damn silly that Ihave nevah told it." "But you must-you could not re fuse an old comrade," said the Yan ken, laughing heartily. "-After the scrap," said the Virgin ian, whose accent must now be imag ined, "I went home to rest until my hand could heal. Our place was a long way from the railroad, and when I left the train I hired a saddle horse and started out to the plantation. It was a dark, rainy night. The result of the battle of Gettysburg had sad dien-ed me, but -cow the thoughts of seeing the folks and friends at home oave me pleasure that could not be marred even by the sad news of the death of one of our neighbors. ~"This man-this dead man-and I had been playmates and fast friends in boyhood days; but, as we grew older, we fell or rather 'grew' in love with the same girl. I can't say that I blamed him for that-any man with eyes would do it-but when I went away to war and saw 1-im standing by her side upon the station platform, it didn't seem quite an even break. He was to stay unere and listen to the mu-sie of her voice, while I heard the roar of cannon. He would s't by her side in the summer twilight, while I slept out in the rain and helped make bistory, and the thought of it put a hardness in my heart that had sJ ten ed only at the news of his de ath. It was pleasant, however, to retet that I had faced the enemy-had waiked 'in the shadow of the shell,' and lived to come home to her, while he, poor devil, had been kicked by a mule and died. "Te'morrow he would be planted, and I sho-uld be there to see ho w she took it and console her as he had dorce when I anstwered my country's call. "It must have been nearly midnight when I entere d a lonely laue led cast the principal buary ing ground ini the neighborhocd. Lookng over the high fence, I saez a re-.7 grave, and doubted niot that it was for my neigh br. "Th ri-n a ad ceased. The moon shone diady behiod the cloads. Sud de-nly my- horse stopped with his head "razog uver the graveyard. I spurred ''im and h started for' ;ard, beut st-p pad again, raised his head and snorted. "I lis~nVd but heard nothing; lbo-ed aud saw7 nothinz but the white I spard n'hippe my us oat wi'h another wild uocri nae while raid aLd nIded the othr 'a. at 15 sbaut, ooeover h i" and .Lsi. The scared hoise trembkcd uoder me, but I urged him on to wh~ere nhad sop)ed drst. Now the white oject rose again. My God'ui was frorm the open grave-uis grave, too. Inmade nocdt. For the Lrst time .my Itfe my blo d ran cold. Isat like one parai z' in' the s;>.ddle ad saw the w:ite thinag rise and fall. Ag'ain I urged myv frighu ened Lorse, but as often as I brought him up to the scratch he whnirled, snr1ted, ad dashed away down the mudy a' e. I could not go round, and he would noi go past the afri hta objet Ta this way- we woke foruar an back, chumin tne mad, out getnineg no nearer notro. At Ihst, discouraged and disgusted, I 'ermrnineu to pull down the high fence on my right and pas through the field. "As I reined my horse toward the fenc e e rfued to ,o, or to take his eyes from the &rsve. With a wild, unearthly Cry, Seul a I hd never he:rd from u hore, the poor nimel -k t erblivez to !te rtn. I 1m eU1 i: . ray riding wLip, rough. hii to hufe-, and s;ug into the s:.ddle ar in. mkLitg nver the wall I saw this inire came ritbt up cut cf the grave. T:ere c-uld bo no mistake now, for the moon Yr s s.ining alaio;t full. I saw it put out its hands upon itber side. as tnoughit were trying to :ift itself uu. TLS white arms seemed to beckoa to me in the moonlight and then it sank back into the grave again. "I w as never superstitious. I had never sten, up to tbis tiuie, a thing on earth that I would not appriich. But t;_; was tcr much for rrme. It was r.ot f tis r th -it was: ure itniv, and I r- sick at toart. N>- ? be 1 to rsender :u;; this sorv wouldssd we 1e I should go how: and( t-1il it. -Iwho hd' fe t de'a Upofn the i tu e cd y and L r it, for :". ren a. d m1ouths, must s.y th~at I had seen a ehost in a 'ra " rd. The very tho~vahi it un.de me angry, a _d I s tiore th1a I would eoire this miAerv or die Lie :t best, was not a grand, sweet sori to the pence of the south at that ti;:e, an.d tha~t thought, perhags, hielped we to ce a little mite reckltss. Taking firm hold of what was left of my once ample stock of courage. I dis mounted and made my horse fast to the high fence. Crossing the road, I looked over the wall, but nothing co;uld be see.. "' hrd never been afraid of this man 'he flesh, then why should I fear !.is ;;:-.t or whatever or whoever was doir- du at his op mi gra'e. I wras ncv a vnre that I was shaking with cid. -I took a drink. A friend had given r-e t bottle of brandy in the town, but I had forgotten it until now P;eesently I felt warmer and waited for the ghost. I began to hope that the thing had iaken water at my dis play of courage. I could see my horse over against the fence resting quietlv. A g'avayard rabbit darted past, roll ing the leaves and causing me to start. --I took another drink. 'Putting my hands upon the rough stone, I leaped lightly to the otuer side. I felt another chill, but when my ghost remained out of sight I took courage and started for the grave. From mere force of habit I took out my pistol and held it in my hand as I we; t forward. "Unfortunately for me. a big cloud swept between me and the moon, and I paused, a hundred feet from the grave, to iCt it pass. Now up came the ghost again, and right there is where I got this hair. B.fore nor since I have known a moment like that. I was not warm, and yet I was perspiring freely. "I took another drink, but this time I could not taste it, I could feel the three drirks now getting together and giving me new coutage. "Suddenly all sense of fear left me. 'Hi. there:' I yelled. 'Ocm out and show yourself :' and instantly up came the ghost, but instead of frightening me it made me laugh, and I laughed loud, there in the lonely place. and heard the echo come back from the hili across the run. I had a vague feeling that I was insane, and yet I was not, but I could not understand why I was not afraid. "I wanted to get hold of that ghost and have it out with the thing, and dared it to come out and make a fight. I fired my pistol to show that I was brave. There was a sound from the lane of breaking rails, the snap of a hitching strap and I sa w my poior hos se galloping away. "I was in for it now, sure enough, and determined to give a good ac count of myself. Right there I took another drink, and to my surprise the bottle was empty, I also took a shot at the grave, for it occurred to me now for the firAt time that some one might be having fun wisth mee As the smoke of the pistol cleared away I saw the white thing lift itself to the edge of the open grave. It had wings. I could hea.r them and see tho~m beating wildily against the sides of '.he seput enre. 'Come out of that,' I cried. 'You've got a pair of wings; why don'i you get up and fly?' "l'nere was no reply from the ghust and it seemed to me that I must end the suspense or go mad. Rashicg up to the grave I laid hold of the thia-, dragged it forth, raised it high above my head, and slammed it upon the earth. It gave a 'squ i k '" "What was it?" gasy:d the New Englander. "It was an ol' white gandab, sah." New York Sun. A Mistaken I.:ea An exebange says it is all a mista ken idea to think that becau-.e a ne ws paper publisher only collects a little at a time that it doesn't do him much good. E:ery dollar czunts in the ne spaper busiuess, whether it is paid in oradvrtsin o sbscription. We are aware that some people tnink that a dollar is a small amount and that the pu'lisher is not nezessarily corn I ellad to have it in order to run bis 'bu:,iess, but we hasten to say that sucn is not the case. When a publish er has several huvdred dollars due him for subscription, and he only gets the pitiful sum of a dollar at a time it helps him to nneet his expenses. And right here we would like to deeply imn press it on the minds of those wh> are indebted to us for subscription or ad vertising that we always want it and actually stand in need of it whenevsr it is due. It is a my stery to some pec ple how a newspaper is made to pay anyway, but it is no mystery to the publisher when he can promptly get what honestly belongs to him. Tne trouble is that in some instances he finds it a very hard matter to get it. Bogus ta:e8. The grand camp of Confkdcrrte veterans has declared war upon bogus military titles, and n1one too soon. All Iaround us are generals, colonels, ma jasan atas. merely by grace of a mstaen ouresyand an unnecces rva misraen raneSuppme y, these dienhold their miitarl .itles by vir tue of bravery and skill displayed on the battledield. As a matt-r of fat:, however, many men k-nown as gener ais or majors never witueased a oaitte. but manifested their bravery at d abilty as sol!diers in some bon proo)f p'ltio. Nearly every ignoramua s.-o 'has gathered togel.a a . w dol. asby extortion, of times by disues t* . s graed berore the coun-r av s a ~aeral, CA ;lael, ma~j~r 0" captain. Withiout a Ripp'e. A memboer of the Union Paciac syn dixate. speaking Thur'say of the' ar rangie~jnents for deuositin in the Newr York banks the $5S,00000 whUxvich is to be naid the governmen't fo the re lease of it lin upon the Gu iot lPacific main line, purchased last week at 0:naha. said: "Tue transacitons wiul oe carried through wituiont a ripple to disturb the financial situation. The money wil be deposited in eight or nine banks, and more ifthey care to qial'. y as such depository. Oue bank is ready with ooads to take $15,000,000 of the money and it can arrange to take omectO if necessary." Something Wrong. When we re lect ihata few thouscn d persons posses more than half of all the wealth of a mighty nation of 70, U00,000 of people, inhabiting a east territor7 of wonrrou resour -es, it need not he argued that som thir g is wrong. The fo;uhders of our r-public nevcr planued a gov-rrmest of a fe- dangercusly rich :kd many d in eercunly poor. Well iey iew that, in the i e -:it tble cl sh of thaee two dangecus clsses, the republics of I other days were destroyed in the early days of 1he repubiccorpcrations were fe:w ; now they are numbered by bun dreds of thousands. There bas been a reckhssness in their creation that is alwi.a;r ?unndingT; and every ore of he, n m:: attert [lo" in S ipiilea3:t, h>. in i: s'me elememiis of sovernenty, d-i frm tit- zovernmental store -t he e p:"'s ;eI";-rty. While ruany have been creatid fur high aur co&ws of rN<.atest impridance, m v oth-ers have been tro>uht tirtc beirg si;.h prp.se pum 'iy seltib orpcs'tively bad. Wjih tuo cread.n of te c suoething of pocer d-pard from the many and etatered in th few. Worse ,t:i, corpodGi coubijes -h c rpora tiou ; h viat .han is harne tsed with levi a:tban; mouseer trusts roll the Ju:;er nau- of moropcily over thousa.ds of me-. wonrn aud childrei Cor ora tiros lote: hive had ite of in div:idl mn n th' 'r a'd be r the courts. mmutin h-ve been despoiled and before Cth costs. Com,. 1a.iis "ive been desp->iled and un bore millions cruel;v burdened through the wrongful application of the law concerning ''commercial pa per" and the "rights" of "innocent" holders of avalanches of swindling roailrcad and bonds and other like de vices for safe public plundering. It would- be difficult, perhaps, to tid in I the plans or teachings of 'ne father., any su:ocrt f'r such nia%.moth and far-rrec'ing wrnngs -H n. Dav'id A. de Armond in The Iliust ated Anmeri can. Djn't Got D scour.t ztd. The Carolica Spartan says 'short crops prevail throughout this section of tte '.ste. but the farmer must not get di-couraged He must set his wits to work. As the Spartan stated a few weeks ago, fall oats and rye on good lard will supplement the short corn crop. Three acres of good land for each horse, sown in wheat, will stop the drain for flour. A good garden bestun now will shorten the grocery bills. Tyco or three aczen hens well managed will supply the family with sugar, and a good cow or two will make surplus butter enough to buy shoes. Let no one be discouraged. All should begin at once to plan to meet the short crops and low prices. Tne wise, brave man and woman should rise superior to circumstances. Next year may be a good all-around crop year. A little wise planning and steady licks will help to surmount all obstacles that now seem to block the way. Power Next to That of the President Mere than 50,000 persons will di rectly or indirectly draw pay from the city in the rest administration of the mayor of Greater Ne v York. Tne sal- y of 33,C00 of those whose names will be actualy on the city's ray roll will aggregate $33,000,000. Parts of this amnount represents the salaries and patronage of the aldermen and other officers elec'.e. on T atsday, but th~s is comparatively smnall most of the total representig the patronage of Greater New York's firat mayor, Robert A. Van Wyck. A contervative estimate of those wno will draw pay directly froma the city, through city contracts and the like, is22,000. Mayor Strong. at the time the great city charter was passed, ref arred to this force as equal to, if not exceeding the actual number of all officeholders. A Mysterious Shipwreck. Captain Robinson or the stea:ner Georae W. Clyde. frotn Jacks~nville and Charleston, S. OC, reports that last Tuesday, when cff Body Island, N. C., he saw an immense amount of drifting wreckage, including pieces of a vessei's house, natchets, large pieces of timber and other material, such as would have come from a large coast ing vessel if btoken up. He also pass ed an impro'ised life raft, evidently but recently used. It is thought that the raft .was constructed by the crew of some vessel on the verr.e of foun dering, bu..it is not certain whether the men were rescued from the raft er drowntd. From Cape Hatteras to Frying Pan Sz~oal lightship an im mease quantliy of haird pine lumber of various dimensions was passed. A Jockey Kilued. At the Eugiesile traczr near San Francisco Thursday whis-e Bert Ostran der was exerclsing E. M. McCormick's horse, Thyme, Nick Hall's colt, Corri ente, with Sim McLa~in up, dashed into him and both animals and jock ess were tharosvn dow'n, McLaia escaped it jury. Octrauder, however, fell upon the track upon his head, sustaifiing corcussion of the brain. His death is momentarily expected. Thyme was badly shaken up, but Cor riente ran eight miles after the acci dent and dropped in his tracks from stee-r ,exhaustion. A Candidate f.>r the Gallows. Archie Lckley, a negro. who is wanted IJ toe authorities of King and Q ieen coanty, Va., for a triple mur aer committed ia the county last month, was captured in Philade:phia on Wednesday night. He was given a heariug today and committed to a vait re q-isition papers fromn Viryio is. E arly last month Lockley called at the house of Martha E. Cingpman of Ply mouth, Va. A quarrel arose, and. when attacked, L:>ekly shot her dead, her son Eldie Cuapman, and George Lee all colored. A Tr~luable Cat. How.ard Reed, of Milford, Pa., start ed out hunting for partridge and wood ecck, and was fo.lowed by the house cat. All efforts on the part of The young hunter to drive the cat back home were futile; it was bound to go with him, and it iliusr'ated its ability as a hunter by its "pointic Cg" a wood cock. wvhich youua Rte sho:. Tuen it "ilusuid" a o:,riridge whi'ch was also bagaedi by Ine :unter Ree says he wru d nret p.trt wim the cat 'er the best bird dog ia the counry E0w T.J KEEP EGGs -n;- b st way~ to keep egigs iul iumner- time is to nack 'Iam in linewate!r, an d they will keep in rgoed co::diion for th ree Imonths. ~Pour one .gal on of boilizg water over a pound of liie, whea S.t tied and cold pour itcreai over the eggs which you~ aave p'.ced, smiali ends dowo, in a stone jer, and stai:d in a curi. d:k olace. Esmay also b~e packe n a;.ny:inat will clos th noes f tas Eliandprevenat evaporaston will preserve eg" A NEW G.to: Lxv-T *e C(lubia Rdt--vr sa's bo sg-ats ,myL be kiuedt fro-n .:toor i Lo '"p."ob: 1; Spring pots fro-n Maruh i to Jaue 1; szaudal mnouues A.rii I to 1 'r:r 1; umbrella b3re.ars A\..s:. I to November 1: and from ruar' iY 1 to May 1, while every mau i-.t? ace rts a paper six moaths buat whenu the' Oni is presented say-s, ''I ne ver o're i, may be killed on sight witnout reserve or relief fr'om vs tui or appratse mentilaws, and buried face do wnward, withount h.enefts of clergv. ;N THE OLDEN DAYS. Sow The Cou'nry People Ltved in Georgh eilxty Ycar8 Ago. Mr. 1. D. Glover writes as follow: in the Bowman, Ga., Headlight: The way the people farmed in my boyiood days did not yield such re suits as are realized now. They did not make much cotton. Back before my time they had to pick the lin1 from the seed with their fingers. I was part of the family :business every night and rainy days to pick the lin1 cif the seed so the women could have cotton to spin. In 1S32 cotton gin: were invented and some were operated in this country, but not more than one to eacii county. The farrn rS wculd carry tliir cotton on h'.re back for miles to gin, and but very er of thei mace more than suinnioftO cotton. When our farmers' first began tc raise cotton it took two hands to hoe one row, one hand on either side of the rowv, and they did not chop through it, but thiared it with their hands. It took three or four hands one day to hoe on-e acre, and when it came to pickina it; but fe-v hands could pick .'0 pouiads in a day. It was the green seed varie:ty. and hard to pick They could ..ull off every boll and stand straight up to pick it out, and then stoop down and get another. So ycu see tne picking process ms very slow. The first bales were packel with a crow bar were round and about s-en feet long, and weign-d from 25 ) to :00 pounds. A'ter uing this meturd for a fe v years they began to make square bales. It took lots of timb r to build one of these presses and t hir ty to forty hands to raise it and some times one or two men would be kiled. It took aoout 50 yards for the leevers of one of these presaes to turn in. Up to 1840 but very few farmers made more than one bale of cotton to the horse. By 1550 some made two or three bales to te horse, and the best hands co ,ld pick 150 pfunds a day- Wnen I was a uoy we would pull ctf the bolis while the dew was on them and carry hem to the house to pick at night. In those days we knew little about the value of cotton seed for feed or manure. We would haul en'.ugh home to plar.t the next crop and leave the balance at tn'e gin, where they were thrown out in large heaps to rot, for it was thought they were no good. The men would rise early and go to their work on the farm, and the wo men to cardinig, soirning and weav ing, until abut 9 o'clock, w en the horn would blow for breakfast. We always had meat and bread for break fast, but the bread wns generally Peter Constant" (corn bread.) "Joh n. nie Seldom" (wheat bread) did not come very often, about once a week Sunday morning. There was not much wheat raised, and what wry made had to be flailed out with polee or tramped out by horses; there were no wheat mills like we have now, oat the wheat was ground on corn mils and was bolted by hand. Then we raised one year what was expected to use the next-now we use one year what we expect to make the next. We had dinneraocu: 3 o'c'cc in the afternoon and supper about 2 o'clock which very often consisted ct bread and milk. Daring the fall and winter our suppers usually were made of roasted potatoes, and the whole family would gather around the hearth and peel and eat them. About twenty acres to the horse was the average amount of land cultivated the rows were run as straight as could be and were made as loug as uoile -lo attention was given tosuv:b the land by running the rons on a lev-el. but inltead were often ius up and down the hill. Thousauds of scred that are z.oe in aalless might have been in a high state of cultivation had the proper care been taken to prevent the land from washing. The childrer wouldea tai supperearly and hurri ed otf to b d, so the older :olks couik have light and room to work around the fireplace. We had Lo lamps 01 candies arnd the only light we had was a piue-knoL light. I have held a tore many time for the women to see how to weave at night. InterestImg Fx >eriments. The United Stat . Lhrough its Agri cultural Department, is making some interesting experiments in the mattei of wagon roads. The design is foi steel trackway capable of withstand ing the wear of the heaviest traffic, and that it is now propcsed to lay al least two hundred feet of track as a section of the Geneva road, whici will be the first experiment with this track to be made under official aus pices. "The department has adopted a design for the proposed trackway after extensive correspondence with the principal steel manufacturers ol the country. Sometime ago a circula2 letter was sent to the leading manufac turers, describing the views of the de partment and soliciting suggestions sketches and estimates. Encourag ing responses were received from sev eral firms such as the Carnegie Stee Company, and some others. The offi cials of the steel works became inter ested in the project and submitted quite a number of designs. Aftei much careful study, a pian of track was evolved which gives every prom ise to meet all requirments. No wood will be used in its construction, arnd no crossties for support, rs the avei age mind would be led to elieve. The track consists of a simpic inv;erted trough, or channel of steel, for each wheel wtth a slighuly raised head or the insidin t guide the wheel, eca channel resting on a head of gro~ e] and the two tied togethsr evayr few yards to prevent spreading. ~A ingenious feature of the road is the arrangement for remoun:tingr the road in the event that a heavy ag becomes disloged from thle tr.'ct. The ends of the rails are joined by certain niates which serve to j in the rails and present an inclined snoulder by which the dislodged wheel easily travels to the track alone. The de partmnent has already p' rchased two hundred feet of tracks. d it i now urgicg the co opealia of all agricultural ex periment stations 1 h hope of buying more at an eare ate. lie department is convinced t. 'ch a steel track way as has been d. ad could be successfully built and woJod prove profitable to both as to use and muaintenance, especially in ice i.ies where road aia:eriis are scrce." Deadly Work of an Aisaanin A disoatch f-om Rio Ja:nero says: "A 1 u'clock Frid ay as'ucon, a sol dier of the Tenta cattallion. which constitutes part of the lccli garrison. attempted to shoot President Mcoraes with a pistol. The president was just landing at the maria cc rs:-nal, after visuiig the-eteamer on which Gener al Barbosa, minister o' marine, had returned fromn Bania. Tne bystanders frustrated the attemnot, but Ool Mo raes, the president's nephew, was slightly wounded in disarming the soler, General Bittancour minister of war, then intered and was himself stabbed. The wound. was so serious that he died soon af ter war t. The at tack has caused the greatest agitation throughout the city." Royaz makes the food pure, wholesozzc and dclicious. 0YM NG AKIN POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL RAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. LE-esons of the Election. The Atlanta Evening Journal, a pa per which believes in the gold stand ard but supported the Democratic nominee in the last Presidential elec. tion. under the caption above, says there is one thing on which everybody who is thcughtful and candid will agree. I4 is that the late election in dicates very clearly that the Mc Kinley administration has not made a favorable impression on the country. The Journal is certainly correct in the above deductions, and thousands of Republicans and Assistant Republi cans vill agree with it. The Journal then gces on to say that there is an otheres very signidcans and useful les son to be drawn frcm the result of the election, and that is that a united De mccracy can easily gain control of congress next year and two year later capture the presidency. We believe that this deduction is also correct, but we fear there is very little chance of the gold-bag wing of Democratic party ever agreeing to stand by the party platform unless one is made to suit the Republican party on the currency question. We may as well have a Republican administration as one claiming to be Democratic elected on such a platform. The Journal must remember that it was the gold men in the Democratic party who bolted, and the only way to reunite the party is for them to come back, admit their error and promise in future to abide by whatever a maj )rity of the party does in convention and support the nominees. If the gold men really want a reunited Democracy they can very easily bring such a happy con dition about. The Journal then goes on to claim that the happy results of the late election was brought about by a united Democracy, and says it won by a big plurality in Kentucky, which last year for the first time in its history voted for a Republican candidate for president. The Journal seems to losse sight cf the fact that the gold-bug Democrats in Kentucky had a ticket of their own in the field in oppcsition to the regular Democratic ticket, an d that the victory in that State was won against the forces of the regalar Re 'publicans and the Assistant Repuoli cans masquerading as Damn ocrats. In fact it seems that these two congerniat elements combined ts defeat the De mccracy, as the dispatches say that the gold bug Democratic ticket did not make much of ashow in the re turns because many of the gold bt g Democrats voted for the Republican ticket. The some is true o! the States of Ohio, Virgin a, Ne braska, Marylarnd and others. In all of tnem the gold bug Democrats or Assistant Republi cans either cad tickets of their o wn in the field or voted for the Republican candidates. It is qu~te plain to us that instead of the Doeacy having the support of the goi i wi og o& tre party in the late election it uadi taem and the R-publicans to Eg'n:. This makes the result of the late elections signifi cant; and shows clearly that the issurs set forth in the Cciego platform is the ones upon which the true Damo cracy will fight and win the congres sional elections next year and the presidential election two years later. This to us st ems to be the true lesson of last week's elections. If the gold bug Democrats desire to share in the future victories of the party they will be welcome if they will atone for thei past desertion of the party by promise ing to be more faithful in future, but they must not expect to shape the policy when they are in such a hope less minority. C.omel, Brother McKinley. A dispatch a day or two af ter the eletion reported President McKinley as saying: "I am well pleased wits the result of the election as it indicates that fealty to the republican party and to the principle it represents is as stong as ever." We have heard that President McKnley is a steward in the Methodist Church, and Methodist ste wards as a general thing are pretty honest, truthful men, but in the face of tLie fact that the President's own State, Onio, came dangerously near electing a Democratic legislature, which means displeasure at his ad ministration, Brother McKinley must excse us for doub:.ing him. In the langusge of the Charleston Post, "what there is in the Ohio situation to pease the president it is hard to con cive. Senator Hanna is probably beaten, if not by a msjority of the De:nrcrats, perhaps by a combination against him of members of his own prty. At any rate the Republicans majorities are cut, down until a bare trace of them remains, and if Hanna wins an election to the senate it will be by a mere stave. Tnis is hardly a matter for the president to be well pleased over.' I Too M1ucli for Him. Wmn. J. Lehigh, manager of the Prtand, O:e., Merchauts' &caange assciation, committed suicide Taurs day' on the floor of the exchange by s hooting himself in the head. Busi Iness reversas caused him to take his