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A GREAT MAN'S LIFE Stephen J. Field the Subject of Dr. Talmage's Sermon. HIS RELIGIOUS TRAINING Laid the Foundation of His Ster ling Character. The Great Divine's Tribute to a De parted Friend. One of the most notable characters of our time is the ubject of Dr. Talmage's discourse, an'd the lessons drawn are inspirinz: text. II Samuel iii, 3S, "Know ~,e not that there is a prince and a great muan fallen this day in Israei?" Here is a i'lumed catafalque, follow ed by King D.vid and a futnt ral oration which he ielivers at the to mb. Con cernin'g Abner. the great. David weeps out the text. Mlre appropriately than when orieitnaly uttered we may now utter this re .ouuding iamentation. "Know xe not ibat ibere is a priuce and a great mvan fallen this day in 1-rael?' It was' 30 :inutes after 6. the exact hourof ut set .f the Sabbath day. and while the ievt-nit.g lights were being kindled that the soul of Stephen J Fieid, the lawyer the ju'ge, the pa .'r. the statenarj, the Christian. as eended. .-~ :undsu it the home on (oude-r Capit! bill. as it was sun down ou all tbe surrouroing bilk. but in both cases the suuset to be followed by a gitriou, zuurise. H1ear the Easter authems ,il ligeri g in the air. "The trtum pet shall souna, and the dead shall rise '' Our departed frienld camneforth a boy from a niinister's h'.cme itn New ]Et land He kneit Aith tar bar and moth er at norning and evt-ning prayer. learned from mvaternal lips lessons of piety which Listed hirn at d controlled him anid sli the varied and exciting scenes of a fifetime and helped him to die in pe-ace an ostoeenariau. Blot out from American histvry the names of those mitnisters' sons who have done honor . judicial bench and commercial circle and national legislature and presidential chair, and you wuuld ob literate many of the grandest chapters of that history. It is no small advan tage to have started from a home where God is honored and the subject of a world's eancipation from sin and sor row is under constant discussion. The Ten Commandments, which are the foundation of all good law-Roman law German law, English law, American law-are the best foundation upon which to build character, and those which the boy, Stephen J. Field, so often heard in the parsonage at Stock bndge were his guidance when, a half century after, as a gowned justice of the supreme court of the United States, he unrolled his opinions. Bibles, hymubooks, catechisms, family prayers atmosphere sanctified, are good sur roundings for boys and boys and girls to start from, and if our laxer ideas of religion and Sabbath days and home training produce as splendid men and women as the much derided Puritanic Sabbath and Puritcnic teachings have produced it will be a matter of congrat aation and thanksgiving. Do-not pass by the fact that I have not yet seen emphasized that Stephen J. Field was a minister's son. .Not withstanding that there are conspicous exceptions to the rule-and the excep tions have built up a stereotyped de famation on the subject-statistics plain and undeniable prove that a larger proportion of ministers' sons turn out well than are to be found in any other genealogical table. Let all the parson ages of all denominations of Christians where children are growing up take the consohtion. See the star of hope point ing down te that manger! Notice also that our departed friend was a member of a royal family. There were no crowns or scepters or thrones in that ancestral line, but the family of the Fields, like the family of the New i ork Primes, like the family of the Princeton Alexanders, like a score of famiiies that 1 might mention, if it were best to mention themn, were "the children of the King," and had put on them honors brighter than crowne and wielded influence longer and wider tnan scepters. That family of Fields traces an honorable lineage back 800 years to Hubertus de la Feld. coadjutor of Wil liam the Conquoror. Let us thank God for such families, generation after gen eration on the side of that which is right and good. Four sons of that count r, minister, known the wo:ld over for extraordinary usefulness in their spheres, legal, eammercial, lirerary and theological, and a daughter, the taoth er of the associate justices of the su preme court Such families counter balance for good those families all wr -ng from generation to getneration families thats :antd for wr aith, upright ecusly got and stingily kept or wickedl.S squandered; faarilies that stand for fzaud or imniurity or tualovolenee; faami ly na-mes that immediately come to every nd. though through sense of prot riety they do not come to the lip. The name of' Field will survive centu ries and be' a synonym for able Cbri3 tian js'urnaali~m, as the names of the Pharaohs and the Caesars stand for eruelty and oppression and vice. While parents cannot aspire to have such conspi uo5u5 households as the one the name of a hose son we now celebrat e all parents may by fidelity in prayer and holy examnle have their sons and daughters become kings and queens unto God. to reign forever and ever. But the work has already been done. and I could go through this country and find a thousand households which have by the grace of God and blessing upon paternal and maternal excellence beco.me the royal familie's of America. Let young men beware lest they by their behavior blot such family records with somne misdeed. We can all think of households the names of which meant everything honorable and conse crated for a long while, but by the deed of one son sacrificed, disgraced and blasted. Look out how you rob your consecrated ancestry of the name they handed to you unsullied! Better as trustee to that name add something worthy. Do something to honor the old homestead, whether a mountain cabin or a city mansion or a country parsonage. Rev. David Dudley Field, though 32 years passed upward, is hon orea today by the Christian life, the service, the death of his son Stephen. Among the most absorbing books of the Bible is the book of Kings, which again and again illustrates that though piety is not hereditary the style of parentage has much to do with the style of descendant. It declares of King Abijam, "He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him," and of King Aztariah, "He did that which was rigrht in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah has done." We owe a debt iinz as certainly as wc hav gt to those who subsequentl!y apiipear in the houshold. Not -o sacred is your old father's walking staf, v.hich y ou keep in his memory, or the eyeglases through which your mother studied the Bible in her old age as the name they bore, the name which you inherited. Keep it bright, I charge you. Keep it suggestive of something elevated in character. Trample not underfoot that which to your father and mother was dearer than life itself. Defend their graves as they defended your cradle. Family coat of arms. ascutcheons, en signs armorial, lion couchan t or lion dor mant. orlion rampant or lion combatant may attract attention, but better than all heraldic inscription is a family n ame which means from generation to gen era tion faith in God, self sacrifice, duty performed, a life well lived and a death happily died, and a heaven gloriou-y won. That was the kind of name that Justice Field augmented and adorned and perpetuated-a name honorable at the cloae of the eighteenth century, more honored now at the close of the nineteenth. Notice also that our illustrious friend was great in rea!onable ind genial dis sent. Of the 1.042 ,pinion he r-t.d-rrd none was more potent or memorable than those rendered while he was iu small minority and sometimes in a minority of one. A learned and distinguizhed lawyer of this country said he would rather be the author of Judge Field's dis .ent iag opinions than to be the author of the constitution of the United States. The tendency is to go with the wulti tude, to think what others think to ay and do what others do. Sonuetiaies tte wajority are wiong, and it require hervies to take the negative, but t,, do that logically and in gsaa humior re quire, some elements of make up not of ten found in judicial dissenters or, in deed, ins any class of men. There are so many people in the world opposed to every thing and who display their oppo sition in rancorous atd obnoxious waHs that a judge Field was neeced to make the negative rezpected and genial and right. Minorities under God save the world and save the church. An un thinking and precipitate yes" n-,y be stopped b.) a righteous and he-oic "no " The majorities are not always right. The old gospel h mn declares it: Numbers are no mark that men will right be found; A few were saved in Noah's ark to many millions drowned. The Declaration of American Inde pendence was a dissenting opinion. The Free Church of Scotland, und-r Chalmers and his compeers was a dis senting movement. The Bible itself. Old Testament and New Testament, is a protest against the theories tiat would have destroyed the world and is a dissenting as well as a divinely in I spired book. The Decalogue on Sinai repeated ten times "Thou shalt not." I For ages to come will be quoted from lawbooks in courtrooms Justice Field's magnificent dissenting opinions. Notice that our ascended friend had such a character as assault and peril alone can develop. He had not come to the soft cushions of the supreme court bench stepping on cloth of gold and saluted all along the line by hand clapping of applause. County parson ages do not rock their babes in satin lined cradle or afterward send thiem out into the world with enough in their hand to purchase place and power. Pas tors' salaries in the early part of this century hardly every reached $700 a, year. Economies that sometimes cut into the bone characterized many of the homes of the New England clergy men. The young lawyer of whom we speak today arrived in San Francisco in 1S49 with only $10 in his pocket. Williamstown college was only intro ductory to a postgraduate course which our illustrious friend took while ad ministering .instice and halting ruffian ism amid-the nmining camps of Calif or nia. Oh, those "forty niners," as they were called, through what privations, through what narrow escapes, amid what exposures they moved! Adminis tering and executing law among outlaws never has been an easy undertaking. Among mountaineers, many of whom had no regard f-r human life, and where the snap of pistol and bang of gun wei e not unusal responses, required courage of the highest metal. Behind a dry goods box, surmounted by tallow candles, Judge Field began his judicial career. What exciting scenes he passed through! An inferceal machine was handed to himn, and inside the lid of the box was pasted his deci sion in the Pueblo case, the decision that had balked unprincipled specula tors. Ten years ago his life would have passed out had not an officer of the law shot down his assailant. It took a long training of hardship and ab ise and misinterpretation and threat of violence and flash of assassin's knife to fit him for the high place where he could defy legislatures and conegrevse and presidents and the world whe-n he knew he was right. Hardship is the gritdstone that sharpens intellectual faculties and the swords with which to strike effectively for God and one's coun try. The reason that life to so many is a failure is because they do not have op position enough and trials enough or because they ignominiously lie down to be run over by them instead of using them for stairs on which to put their foot and mount. Thoes "-born with a gold spoon in their mouths" are apt 10 take their last medicine out of a peutt mug. Have brave heart in all depart ments ye men of many obstacles! There is no brawn or character without then). The roughs glaring and growling arour d about the shed of a courtroom in Marys ville. Cal.. had as much to do with Judge Field's development as Mark Hopkins, the great Williamstown col lege president. Opposition develops courage. I like the ring of Martin Luther's defiance when he said to the Duke of Saxony, "Things are otherwise ordered in heaven than they are at Augsburg." Notice also how much our friend did for the honor of the judiciary. What momentous scenes have been "itnessed in our United States supreme court, on the bench and before the bench, whe ther far back it held its sessions in the upper room of the exchange at Newf York or or afterward for tea years in the city hall at Philadephia or later in the cellar of yonder capitol, the place where form many ycars the Congressional library was kept, a sepulcher where books were buried alive, the hole called by John Randolph "the Cave of Tropho nius!" What mighty men stood before that bar pleading in immortal eloquence on questions of national import! Ed mund Randolph and Alexander Hamil ton and Pinkney and Jeremiah Mason and Caleb Cushing and the weird and irresistible Rufus Choate and George Wood and Charles O'Conor and Jamt s T. Brady and Francis B. Cutting and men now living just as powerful. How suggestive the invitation which William Wirt, the great Virginian, wrote his friend inviting him to yonder s;vek wv! ci men ton great seatuoat question from New York. Emmett amd Oakley on one side, Webster and nyself on the other. Come down and .ear it. Emmetts whole soul is in the case, and he will stretch all his powers. (JOkiey is said to lie one of' the finest logician: of ti age. as much a Pnoeion ias Emuectt is a Themistocles, and Webzter is as ambJ1itious as Cazar. le will not be outdone by any man if it is within the coass f his., power to avoiu it. Cone U W inon. It will be a coibat worth witness-ig The supremne court has soIod so hi'h in E anatd and the United States that the the vices of a few who have ocCujiied that iniportatt -place I:ave not been able to disgrace it, Leither the corrup tion (If Francis B; 'eOn, for the crueliv of Sir Georce MeKitzie, nor the Sab bath de-,eeration of L;rd Castlcrea-h. To that highe t of all otI - -b ham Lincold callcd our iri na, but I. lived long enoughi to honor the zupreme court mtoe than it had ever hau red hinm. For more than 4 years Le mat i, the preseoice o this ;auuo and of all nations a model judue. Ferlesne, integrity. devoti-tI to rinipl, char. aeteriz. d hi N bie ever touchd his hand. No rofan- word eer scalde d Lis toniue No blemiih ol wrori ever iarm.u is claracter. l qualiied was he to w ia nine af ciated in the hi't of ijhis coiutry with th art-- of tih- jud:ciar:. As at 1: o'clock da) b. tai. ou ordel hill the gavel fatll iU tLie supreme court roomn, abC it 1., aun-u r--i that the chief justice of the CUitei 6iati- and the ajieiate ja txues ar- inut t, miuter, anu all eou u-(-oa at t.e bar and all slieciatorb rihe It' Uiett tei.ii a:d Ihe odVicer with the irdi. -iez. IitZ, 03tz!* annouices that all i, noW ready fur a liearing ata exclaims --od save the UC ited States of Amerie, iGo I with we could in ima-iu i-tion ga!Lr together tausie who hve, occupied t'iat high judicial ace it thi- ard other lauds, au Ili niht vnter. and aft-r the fajl .g If some tighity gan i Ia demanutu atte:in we Cla h.u-k upn thetu-flar-lial, the giant of AIL ri- an ju bisprIidienct and J.,i iJa : I j .. , .lhniel Wetbste~r 'a i iiioniiwmorattion. 'When~ thle rpot less r: ine of th juC~i dicial robe fell or; JAn .Jay. it tILducheI nIothing less spotl-ss than it5elf," and Rutledge and Cuhing ait E !sworth and Jo-eph Storey, callkd the Walter Scott of common law, and Sir Matthew Hale and Lord Eidon and Lord T: t r den and Sir James McIntosh and ),'.. field and the long line of lord cha: lors and the great judge-s from i: i sides of the sea. and after they iad taken their places in our quick, nd imagination the distinguished casas of centuries which they decided naht ag-a: be called on, after the assembhled nations had ejaculated, "God save the United States of Ameri.a." "God saive Great Britain," "God save the na tions. " Ah, how the law honors and saieti fies everything it touches! Natural law. Civil law. Social law. Com mercial law. Common law. Moral law. Ecclesiastical law. International law. Oh, the dignity, the impressive ness, the power of law: It is the only thing before which Jehovah bows, but he bows before that, although the law is of his own making. The law! Byit worlds swing. By it the fate of centu ries is decided. By it all the affairs of titue and all the eyeles of etcrnity will be governed We cannot soar so high, or sink so deep, or reach out so far, or live so long as to escape it. It is the throne on which the Almighty sits. To interpret law, what a profession! What a responsibility: What an exe cration when the judge be a Lord Jeff reiss! What a benediction if he be a Chancellor Kent! In passing let me say that for this chief tribunal of our country congress shriuld soon provide a better place. Let some of the moneys voted for the im provement of rivers which are nothing but dry creeks and for harbors which w'll never have any shipping and for monuments to some peop!e whom it is not all important for us to remember be voted for the eretion, of a building worthy of our Uni ed States supreme court. John Riuskin, in ~Stones of Venice." calls attention to the~ pleasing fact that in the year 813 the doge (of Venice devote-d himiself to putting up two great bulidines-St. NIatks, for the worship of God, anid a palace for administration of justice to man. In its appreciation of what is best let not 1899 be behind 813 With such irranite in our quarries and such architect capable of drafting sublime strueture and such magniticent sites on whlichi to build let not another year p'ass tefore we hear the trowel ring on the cirner stone oif a temple to be occupied by the highest court of the land. Have you ever realiz-:d hoiv muchi God has honored law in the fact that all up and down the B ble he ma4kes the judge a ti pe of himsef and ern;doys the scene of a coiurtrootn to set f..rr h the~ grande-urs of the gr.-it iirdenn at dayi ? Boo1k of Genes is 1hl .t ' - of all the earth dlo nra ? U -: a Deuteronomuy. "The L -ri shal jd his people." B -ok of Psa:m-., to Judae~ hituself "3B.on of th.- .\ets "uiige of quick a nd dead l lok of Timothi , 'The Lirid te riebtereuu .Judge."' Never will it te U it.,roioi how Go-d h-onu~s judge'.- a;.d courtro'ims until the thiunderbo t of thet I ast di ,.hall pound the opena or th g d ta sizi-the dte of trial . the dlay o lear ance, the day of udoom. the day~ of jd ment. The law of the eis on that lie easion will be read. andu the indtret mient of ten counts. winhih are theTe Commandments. Juanive will pl-ad the case against us, but our eloriou advocate will plead iv our behalf, for "we have an adiocate withi the Fanther -Jesus Cnrist, the righteus [ hen the ease will be decided it n c-r ance, as the judge annoumiee, I"There is now, therefore, no condeton, to thetm who arc in Chriist Je ui."Luader the crowded aalleries otfcloud on thtir last day and under the sa ing uph ols tery of. a burning heavens and while the Alps and Himalayas and .\lount W a h ington arc falling flat on their faces we will be able to uinderstanid the sgii cance of thor-e Scripture passages which speak of God as Jtudge and emitoy the courtroom of earth as tyicalt'~ of the scene when a:1 nations shl be brought into the tribunal. To have done well. all that -h a profession could atxk of hiin., a It u to made that priifessti mure hrunoirable by his brilliant and sublimr- life. i-u enugih for national and interuatiurtal, terre s trial and celestial couttratulati-on. And then to expire beautifully while the prayers of his church were being offered at his bedside, the door of hecaven open ing for his entrance as the door of earth opened for his departure, the sob of the earthly farewell caught up into rap tunes that never die. Yes, he lived and died in the faith of the old fash ioned Christian relia~ion. Young man, I want to tell you that Justice Field believedI in the Uible from lid to lid, a book all tiue either as doctrine or history, much of it the his tory of events that nether God nor man approves. Our friend drank the FOWDER ABSLUTELY URE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAXING POWOER CO., NEW YORK. bread of which "if a man eat ie shi SAM HOSE'S CRIME. never hunger." ie was the up and. down. out and out friend of the church of Ch rist. If there had been anything TheFearful Deeds of the Black Fiend ilanical in our religion, he would have scouted it, for he was a logician. If Who Was Butchered. there had been in it anythinri unreason able, lie vould have r-iected it. becae The full story of th i o he w:s a Lreat reasoner. If there had i Ie L e c bee in itan thina that would not stand llcse tle Negro who was burned at re-varch. lie would have esploded tle tihe stake and bu'cliered while yetalive, fa-lae - for his ife was a life of re- at Newran. Ga., is told in the Atlanta :earch. Young men of Washington. Journa as fullows: VInn men of America. young ien of the round world, a religion that would stand the test (f Justice Field's pen been fur a day or two," said Mrs. Cran etratig atd all ransacking intelle-' ford. nr.ust have in it sorethingi worrhy ( Tues'ay night he knocked on the your e entidnce. I tell you now that door which oiened into our room. He (hri'rtianity has not only tlie heart of occupied a shed room which had pre the worhl ion its side, but the brain of ben us d for plunder. I tIe iv, 11:d ao. Ye whO have triedi a li. t rian tod islfred to be carful. repre-sirlit tihe rt'tioin of the l3ilile as -Ui n d %vert to the door, opened it arid S4iiic big plilla.jiuious, how do you qurkl steped behind. This is all that Tuesday nih he knce.o h irtehistiard fait of otph wavtd hich Tuesday night. 0-1. .1 Field, hoIL-c- -htiVeS of the law, "Vei (te:day night Sam was glumn Iib- * ary occupied rithl h~is Ilaguiien d did c 'tu have muh to say. When dt U'isuis. h:- cae to the oupe he had his shoes t Aiid now tay the Gwhd of all cotfr ,ff I put atriie his supper and Alfred sjeak to tihe bereft, v-eiilly to he-r anid in' eif %venit izlio the dining rooin who rea- the quree lf hi-n life. fro tie ani brgar our meal. Alfred at with da3 %'.heu ias a s:rai g r h,- was shown to hris bar-k ti, the inside door, but pur her puw iil the Epiicopai church, to this ace..unty for th thisia faithd dof Stephe tibre the rker h. art. ie chanud al ee on San. ash0 then uspected the Aircdhe eut dit not oatiheedooopnedtan for thie chiurch in -Lich b~e was horn "XX bile we were eating I saw Sam a, d thte k.urtb in which lie tier1 aliko damt iklo tiee door at- the back of Al l)(e- Fit h(r ft I.a d le di not make the slightest Mzct!.ir of he-avt and earta, and id Je toid I't be wor o shoes. I saw the d- Chrisnt. hi (),I bewittei $rr arid to uph-d ah've his head. aid before in tw eotirnu ion if Gaints, ald i thr I could pruam dhis cae the a with life evriig Ain terrifi: .orze, splittiing Alfred's head 'peik tohe ih berf espin toerd ande open, the a ininng to the eye. porarv refi:hg l flace lets over e faen l threw up his handand looked .vw! a- %it h !'rjcf ranuot jus' now te at we foir a Ai-Corrd, and then fell for- i cide where tha sracred and ilen t for ward and pitteisd out of the chair to heall eiar the cru pipet that wakes the the floor. The sight was so a kful, the Ot a-of Three plar:. ar. proposed, and black demon standing over him, that I all ap buropriate. Sot -a let it be in scamed. for ie od's acre near this capital, where 'If you just breathe azain I'll kll ;It jillox of dust are airearly etibroid- yu'cried the _Negro, raisitng the ax red with spring flowers. Iow apero- and holding it Over my head. priate isoe ce tery near this city, "Then he took the ax in both bands which was so long his reidenee, and so and truck Alfred with all his might near the place where he sat in jud- on the temple. Again he lifted the ax tuent, holding evenly the blances that and struck until three terrific blows had God put in his hand! It would be well been given, the last two struck after for us soretimes to go out and read his Alfred had fallen to the floor. epitaph and recall his virtues. Some say "Then, to make the crime complete, let him rest on the P.-cific slope, where the Negro 1k'icked him viciously. he achieved so much for the new state The Negro then rushed over to alid i-ted himself for so great emi- where I was. le tore my little baby nence, and it would be beautiful to let from my breast and threw it across the the whole nation bow at his passing cat- room. Little sary said. afaliue, a funeral reaching from ocean "'h, don't hurt my poor papa, Sam" to oein and 3,000 miles long, the Al "The negro slapped her full in the leganies and the Rockies and the Sier- face a fearful blow, and the child fell r Nevadas echoing the thunders of the several feet away unconcious. rail train taking him to his last earthly be" if you don't behave,' said he to home. Mary 'I'll kill yu too-' But equally appropriate is another , "Then he caught me by the arm and proposal that he be Piut to rest amid the rid: 'I ain't er oing to kill ou.' ad o iatehmelf and mogetiheradr- "e Idwas.e toe mynlite room, nonead rtheudbebatfurolesrmmybes and thereewEnlan across theboyfmyhsad Oh friend wofe aily o n athspssn ctr-i room aLle horbey tl sa d rim ataqe atcbridera ras. n Afro aoieanf m" h o' utm orppSm toilea and tru0ggleslongste qui- "The Mer. Cranpped bre down ndh lgae Old te whockieren h shoo- wae as far blte child whsfeati ll rafell as woleci theavilyundrson the sterakinge oaway t unoniost.eldsp staff taind tnghi as his wast erthlyh " p iimn yor don't eprvaidhet thrugteuates apoprat sntheric i hc "Then hesauht me upo the or- n propoal wiat heo ie don to rest. ro srikIean'te woang wthill threu.'o Farowed frothesdtle Nwgand cotni hrcrostathe, dyiofnm husband aOhm ariedrs ohean factiviie o the ret i s caly sohrrible. Itol aruse e cti ltock olde Msleep ter al slie of th id"asoofaatmjriyfth toie anstrugTe he anees andmea qui etr There, whorayr broke shown and ilce. o ld th erng plate here w could kwedta tle oment h s er is al-ht fellifs thel reureatin handily sowshms beaning fter t firsgt reain byap stf ndr bathe asthe wuldrught I pom entr anplle reparoundthl. om therobeh mae wite i the lood of heb | He sal wae myd uonthe andr Lhab. wilso i ont e t old htimcken coulmave aihnythingee heeto Fardwy, frm thea joldend fonteo hoe prostate din't killnd my child tan3 ru eas. 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Thbried Cure childrehngu i the armsa some bn rea ly eloved and bregftaatin o ro WtoAes fBathes. Nei.hbar. accept 'or parti ie WksrT.Wong.tn fude n lihe Luri nordebroght mere.rn~ lo the 'L'ordeetakes ri i'hi isno ous of ermneoe. .hel Caet o Lynchdi- nis hedneda-a ronre to the hmnd of swet repose, -ji~mieltcrriteGogalnh Ii, cirmr.,d,-- hie- him i as he itoeis. irsad Of toi; aid miiiilie day as full. 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The greed time thorough education of all the people >tf hotel, bordmug-house and lodein~g- oftheSouth-educationthatshallreach W: WALuWi5 AT 'iU~N3ET. With gleamiug bosoms lifted high And poised on stroug exultant wings, They circle down th, lsulnset sky To happy twit:crings. With every facile turn and wheel The rose-gleans paint their anber throats, And flash a hundred glints of steel Back from their burnished coats. Now, in a span that balks the sight, They sweep o'er hill and marsh and main, Then. with their swift and joyous flight, Lo! they are here again: Or low or high it little recks, Or far or near it is the same. Their rapid undulation flecks The world with .hints of flame. o fair and tireless ones, my thought Doth chafe within its fleshly bond; I too would rise, impeded not, To the serene beyond. -Julia P. Dabney. A RASCAL FOILED. Judge William Richards was putting away his papers one winter afternoon, preparatory to leaving the office for the day, when he was interrupted by the entrance of a tall, well dressed young man, who said he wished to consult him on a very Important matter. It was the holiday season, and the judge was the last one left in the large of fice building, but he acceded to his visitor's request and courteously of fered him a chair. The stranger took a cigar from his pocket and lighted It, glancing sharply about the room meanwhile and spoke in a brisk, business-like manner. "Judge Richards," he said, "before telling you my name and business I wish to mention a few incidents IA your past life and also to touch on your circumstances at present. I see you are surprised, but I wish you to see that I know a good deal about your affairs; then my business with you will be more readily understood." The judge nodded, wondering. "At the age of 21," the stranger con tinued, "you commenced, practicing law in this city. A year later you disap peared out west and were gone two years. Almost immediately after you came back you made a great 'hit' with a brilliant speech, an business began to come your way. You settled down, worked hard, and your success was great. You have a big practice, are an ex-circuit judge, and 18 months ago you missed an election to Congress by only a few hundred votes. Another election comes up within six months, and you are sure of winning. Mining investments you made out in Colorado have yielded enormous returns, and you are reported to be worth between $200,000 and $300,000. Your social po sition is high, and-pardon me-in ten days you are to be married to Miss Holt, the only daughter of Senator Holt, the most distinguished and aris tocratic man of this section of the country. I am right so far, I be lieve?" "Yes," replied the lawyer, "right enough, but I must say I fail to see how my private history can affect any legal business you may have with me." The stranger laughed easily. "Perhaps when you hear my busi ness you may not call it strictly legal. Judge Richards"-he paused to relight his cigar-"I am a little hard. up at present, and so I came to you. I want $10,000." "Oh, you do?" ejaculated' the aston ished judge. "Exactly-$10,000. The day before yesterday you deposited $15,000 in the First National Bank. Most of it, I be lieve, was to go for a certain ornament you are to give to a certain young lady, but I want $10,000 of it and must have it. Black-mail you understand." "Well, I'll be d-d!" said the judge faintly. "Yes," laughed his visitor. "You certainly will be, socially and political ly, if you do not provide for my neces sities." "Well, you certainly are a cool? one," ejaculated the judge, slowly recovering from his astonishment, "but before I turn over this trifling sum to you, per haps you will kindly enlighten me as to the obligation I am paying off with it" The judge had recovered enough to be ironical, but hardly very angry as yet. "That's only fair. Hear one part of my story that I omitted a moment ago. While out west you met a cer tain May Robbins. Remember her?" The lawyer made no reply, "Well, I had a talk with her some time ago, and she says that she is your wife. What do you think of that?" "Think of it? I thInk that it is an unmItigated lie." "Oh, Indeed! Well, what do you think of this?" And he took from his pocketbook a folded sheet of note paper, and handed it to the judge. He read slowly: My Darling May:-I got to the Point all sa'e In the night and leave for the coast early in the morning. I will send for you and the little one in a few weeks. The sheriff managed to wing me, but it is nothing serious. Your affectionate husband, W. H. R. The judge looked keenly at hIs visit or. "Well?" 'This is your writing 1 bel~eve?" The judge nodded. "And the initials of yotur name form the signature. New what do you sup pose would happen if I showed that note to Senator Holt?" For reply the lawyer tore it into small bits and tossed them into the fire. "Oh, that's all right!" said the other cheerfully. "'You surely don't sup pose I was a big enough fool to give you the original, do you? That was copy-tracing paper, you know. Now, judge"-and he dropped his ban ering tone-"come down to -business. You don't want Senator Holt to see hat note. Give me $10,000, and in 24 ours the note shall be in your pos session, and I will be out of the way." "Pshaw, man," said the lawyer con-! emptuously, "don't be a fool! Don't ou suppose t~bat a note like that can e explained away? If your woman what's her name, May Robbins-has any documents, bring them out and I ray talk to you, but in the meantime intend to see that you work out your term in the penitentiary."' "But you acknowledge your writ ing?" asked the strange', ignoring the hreat. "Yes, I wrote that no.t e, but if you know anything about it at all you know that I wrote it for that gentle anly thief and all around scoundrel, arry Roberts, after the Sheriff had 5hot him through the hand and he ould not write for himself." His visitor lighted a fresh eigar and gazed calmly up to the ceiling. ~~:et~~~', 'u hjgh igh' as W~ell r it at first--just as a facier, you might say. Now !!-ten to me. We are alonc here. No one is around t listen. I never like to bluff when I hold a good hand. So I am going to make honest confession, and if my soul don't profit by it, maybe my pocket will. I know as well as you do that that woman is not your wife, but I must have money, and I would not hesitate to swear that she is. Harry Roberts, who afterward married her, saved your life when you first came out to that country a 'tender foot.' So when he got in trouble and' had to skip out he came up to your cabin on the Point with his hand all smashed to flinders, and you felt call ed on to write that note to his wife for him and to help him out of the country. He was caught however, and hung afterward, so he is out of the way. "Now the case stands this way: I am a tolerably well educated man my self, and it 'was no great trouble for me to take May's marriage certificate and make William Henry Roberts read William Herndon Richards. If you remember May, she is unscrupulous. I had a friend in the clerk's office, and I managed to get in there and change the license the same way. So you see we have documents a-plenty. You'll give me -the $10,000 before noon to morrow or I will show your note to Senator Holt and commence legal pro ceedings to compel you to provide support for your wife, nee Robbins." The judge was mad clear through now, and he rose up and started for his visitor with blood in his eye. The stranger sprang behind the table. "Easy, now," he cried, "or I'll let you have It through the pocket." And the lawyer saw that he was grasping a pistol in the side pocket of his coat. He was by 31o means a coward, but he did not care to run against a pis tol bullet. He took his seat again. "That's better," commented the stranger. "There Is no need of vio lence in this matter, I -hope. I don't want to hurt you. Just cool down a little and consider my proposition for a few minutes; then tell me what you think of it." "I don't have to consider to tell you that you are the most unmltigated liar and scoundrel unhung!" said the judge, keeping his temper with difficulty. "But I don't suppose that a man w'lfo is so shameless as to confess himself the lying blackguard that you have to me can be affected by anything I can say, so I will spare myself the trou ble of expressing my opinion of you. But you are as great a fool as liar. Admitting that you have the license and certificate-which I have no proof of except the word of a confessed liar don'. you know that it would be the easiest thing in the world for me to prove by dozens of people in Red Gulch that Roberts and this woman were living together as man and wife and that I lived by myself? Don't you know" "Now judge," interrupted the stran ger in his turn, "I didn't try any bluff on you, but up and told the whole truth like an honest man, and yet here you are a-bluffing already. Nobody knew whether this woman was married to Roberts or not, and nobody cared. The class of 'women 'who lived in a mining town like that 'was not usually over particular as to their morals. Be sides, Red Gulch is a dead town now, and has been dead for five years. Where 'would you go to find a single man 'whom you knew there seven years ago? Now listen to me. Suppose you don't give me the $10,000? What happens? I go to the senator 'with my proofs; :the senator puts 'his foot down on a certain marriage; you say It is all a blackmailing lie; the sena tor says my evidence looks pretty strong; that you must p-ove it a lie. Then you *bave a nice job on your hands. You ha've got to hunt up a lot of people that you have not heard of for years, and if you should happen to find some of them not one would be able to swear that the Robbin woman was married to Roberts or was not married to you. All of that 'would take time and money and accomplish nothing in the end. "On the other hand, give me the mney-and $10,000 is cheap, too, I tell you-and In 24 hours all the documents are In your possession, and I am out of the vay. If you don't, think what my little story to the senator means for yo'." The judge 6bediently thought, and It was not pleasant thinking. He did not believe that the 'woman could 'win the case with her forged documents, but this fellow 'was just the kind of a daredevil to go to the senator with his story and then to law. The sena tor would certainly postpone the wed ding, and there would be a long delay. Even though his daughter did not be lieve the story, she would suffer. Of course there would be endless talk and gossip. The story would be ia th< papers, old pranks of his younger days would be raked up, and even though he cleared himself finally there would be a bitter sting left. There 'would be many to say that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire. Then his political aspirations! The election 'was to come off In six months. Nice campaign material this scandal 'would make for his opponents! These thoughts and many more flash ed through the judge's mind, and he glared at his visitor savagely. H. hadn't a doubt that he meant every 'word that he said. Through his light bantering tone there ran a vein of earnestness and confidence that was more dangerous than any loud bluster ing 'would have been. He was confi dent that he had a "good thing" whether the judge paid up now or not, The judge's good thing seemed to lie between paying out $10,000 in cash or having a big scandal on his hands. Suddenly a smile flashed across his face, and then the lips were compressed tightly. The stranger did not notice the change of expression. "Well," said the judge, "I must con 'fess that this is a pretty tight place. Maybe we could discuss it better over a drop of liquor." He arose and opened a handsome mahogany cabinet that fitted snugly over the low mantel. In another min -ute whisky. water, sugar and glasses were placed hospitably {' the table. "Fill your glass," said the lawyer, nraciously. "Ten thousand dollars is .ough money to deser've some con aderation before being parted with. Bring your chair around in front of. ihe table. Jr must be cold back there." Hes pullcd his chair close up to the iire andi the stranger did likewise, so 'nt they were sitting right in front 1wth grate, with their faces not four fet from the smouldering flames. Anyone looking in would have -hought that they were two old friends zaking a social evening toddy together. Now, then, sir, your scheme is sim p wto blackmail me out of $10.000. I bejieve?" "Exactly so, judge." ... you thik you ha a. pretty "Sure of it.. "If I understand you rightly, you say I must give you this money, or you will go to Senator Holt and tell him that I have a wife living out west, and then you will go to law to force me to give money to this woman, but if I give you the $10,000 you promise to turn over the proofs to me and leave the country!" "Yes, that's just it." "At the same time you admit that all these -documents of yours are for geries and that the letter you have of mine was written for another man who happened to have 'my initials?" "Oh, of course I know all-that, but if you let it go to law I wouldn't -hesi tate to swear just the opposite, and I defy you to prove that I am lyin-g." "Well, you certainly are candid. Aren't you a little afraid to acknowl edge all this so boldly?" "Not a bit of it. .."Maybe you are right," muttered the judge. "Just wait a minute." He stepped over to the big desk in the corner, and when he .urned he was grasping a pistol. "Now my young friend," said -he, pointing it at the visitor's head, "you sit where you are and listen." He reached in the cabinet over the mantel and touched a spring. There was a phonograph concealed In the back of it. The judge had started it when -he got out the brandy. Now he reversed it and attached a funnel shaped device, and the whole of the conversation came out in tones that could be heard all over the room. The judge sat in his chair, -holding -his pis tol and smiling pleasantly. The stranger's face was a study. Sur prise, rage, fear came and went, and were finally succeeded by a look of comical disgust. When the last word was finished the lawyer could hold In no longer. and burst into a. hearty laugh. The stran ger glanced up in surprise, and' kis look of cool impudence returned. "Judge, I tell you what we'll do. Give me $100 and we'll call It square." "Cool as ever, are you, my cheerful liar?" laughed the other. "Now may be you will tell me why I should not send you to the penitentiary?" "Oh, you don't want to do that. You are going t- be married next week, you know, and you would not like to think that your marriage meant the beginning of a long term of suffering to one of your fellow mortals." The judge was so pleased at getting out of what a little while before bad seemed a tight place that he laughed again. "Well," said he, "you come back here to-morrow at 9 o'clock and bring all your little documents with you, and we will see what is to be done. In the meantime you need not try to slip out of town, for I am going to put the p0 lice to watching you right away, and, my boy, before you try this kind of thing again let me advise you to study up all the latest appliances for thief catching," and they walked down the stairs together. Just as they reached the street a handsome double seated sleigh dashed up, and a sweet voice said: "Oh, Wil-. lam, we have been looking for you! Come and take tea with us, won1 "Thanks! Delighted!" And the judge threw away his cigar and climb ed in. - His late visitor plunged 'his hands in his pockets and stood. looking after him blankly and said, "Just my infer nal luck" The Confederate Eeunioni. The grand old city of Charleston is preparing to do herself proud on the oe easion of the Confederate reunion. which is little more than two weeks off. The Atlanta Journal says last year at he reunion in that city there was- a ively contest between Charleston and Louiville for the honor of entertains ing the Confederate veterans this year, :d Charleston won after an exciting ballot. The honor thus conferr'ed is du ly appreciated by the people of Char eston. They have made elaborate preparations for the ~entertainmept- of, the veterans and it is their hope thatia larger number of them will assemble i~n Charleston than ever met at any previ us reunion. A beautiful Auditorium which will seat 7.000 people, has been erected for the sessi'jns of the veterans' aissociatio, and the program has been iost. carefully arranged. Repre senta tives of more than 1,200 camps. of United Confederate Veterans will at tnd this reunion. May 10th. the an niversary of Stonewall Jackson's death, sill be the opening day, and for four days the veterans w ill own Charleston. Among those who will take prominent p~arts in the exercises ara General Gor dn. General \Wheeler, General Stephen ). Lee. General Hlampton, General M. C. Butler and General Evans. General \heeler will deliver the opening ,pceh. The Sons of Veterans, as well as eeteraus the.mselves. will go to Charles ton in great numbers, and will have a ine pro;;ram of tui:- o wn. Charleston, dwas beauti! ul. is most beautiful in 3:y. Ch:irestou hospitality, always uli of coniahty and grace, will bestw s warmest welcmei and its rarest race upon the veteraus of ,he Cooled eray. \\ e nee et say that Atlanta si be largely represented at this re auou. Hlundredk' e eerana and sons Af veterabsan~d h.md~n'reds more, visitors, il go from this city. TIhe~ railroads vil mive the usual low rates for such >eeaous. and w'e predict that Unaries ton, whLich has been the scene of many a historic gatherinig will have during ihe seceond week in May the greatest crowd that ever assembled within her .ates. And every body will be well taken care of, Reads Like Fiction. A di-patch Iromi .Ne~ (Orleans says: Dr. A. Chapman of Courtland, Miss., twice reported dcad. has arrived here on the steamer Franklin from Bluefields Nicaraua. DJr. Chapman, who was a smge>n in the insurgest army, tells a thrilir g tory of his escape f'romi Pres idet Zelaya's forces. He was captur ed on F"ebruary 24. near Rama, while in the company of Stephen Powers, an English subject, and also a member of the revolutionary forces. A courtmar i followed the captura, the men be. ig tried as spies. T1hey were condemn ed to be shot. A strange feature of the affair was that the sentence was actmu ally carried out. Stephen Powers fell dead at the first fire, but Chapman was merely wounded in the left arm. He fell to the ground. however, and think ing they had killed him, the soldiers walked off. Chapman made his way to Bluefiids. ,Jack Martin, the Ameri can gunner of the San Jacinto, who was captured by Zelaya's soldiers, has been tried and convicted. Sentence had not been finally pronounced when Chap man left. Martin will undoubtedly be Every old soldier should attend the te rd',nion in ('harleston next month. It will be a raotable gathering of the old Cetirans of tue invincible armies of the