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GOSPEL OF CHRIS). Dr. Talmge's Views on the Corn ing Sermon. RELIGIOUS TRUTHS. How He Tninks They shcu!d Be Presentcd. *natirs Shou!d Preach the Liv irg Ch 'ist. In this *ts;r Dr. T m addresases all Chrau' wn'a -.~*~"i desecriben what be . h 1 k- %i modes of p'reacti te er in i fut ur,: testx, Rn Ns- xi i- Q n'' '-try, let us wait on our u r ing." bhile I was se'Cel c' 'I !.;u7 (1 a hoTel at L Xiigton. Ky.. e vn> evenir g, a e lilman .sk: '.' do y'u think of :te c-ni' St I Mun. supposed le was askI 'e in r- . sone new dise 0rse <a Pr Cmr of Londor, who smiesp ed tline serns, ad I r . ''I &' not seen it." But I fwud out afer wara that he nprt !' ak thought would be l.av .r the couwing setm n of T he sermons of the f tu':r . % mir g as a noun :rt as the word --emon. 1.. " Ba: mr "i-tak- Zt " 1 To a verv itmportart a' d 'rai tl me, "The Coinirz Srrn. Befo'e the world is converred the style <f reliious dise-ur-e %ill have to be converted. You mid t q vell go io the mocdern Sedan o(r" Ge lotbrg ith bous at d arroas, ir-t-d of rifies and bomb !bells at d ;'ark- of ar; : to expect to corquer 'ns -:orl for God by the old styles of e.h-'rt and sermonology. Jonatha Edvards preached the sernons MOST adaa ted to the age in which he lve but if tho-e sermons were preacht d nox :hey would divide an audlence irto two elasses those sound atleep and tho'e wanting to go home. But there is a discourse of the future. Who ;ill preach it I have ro idea In what part of the earth it wilI be born I have to idea. In which denomina'ion of Christians it will be delivertd I cannot guess. That dis course of exh r:ation may le hort in the corrry n.e. ting hu-e on the bartks of the St. Lawrence or the O:egon or the Ohio or the Tombiebte or the Alabama. The person who shall de liv.r it may this moment be in a cra'le under the shadow of the Sierra Nevndas or in a New Eng!and farmhue or amid the aicefields of southern sauanna,, or this moment there may be some younz man in one of our theological semi naries, in the jrinior or middle or senior class, shaping that weapon of pow(r, or there may be coming some new baptism ofi he Holy Ghost on the churches, so that some of u. who now siard in the watch-towers of Zion. wakig to a realization of our present in if ciency. may preach it ourselves. That coming discourse may not be 50 years f1 And let us pray God that its arrival may be hastened while I announes to y ou what I think will be the chidi characteristics of that discourse or exhortation when it does arrive, and I want to make my remarks appropriate and sugirestive to all classes of Christian wor kers. First of all, 1 temark that that future religious discourse will be full of a liv ing Christ in contradistinction to didactic technicalities. A discourse may be full of Chriat though hardiy mentioning his name, and a scrmon m~ny be empty of Christ while every sentence is repetitious of his titles. The world wants a living Christ, not a Christ standing at the head of a formal system of theology, but a Christ who means pardon and syanathy and con dolence and brothprhood and life and heaven a poor man's Chris:, a rich man's Christ, an overworked mua's Christ, an invalid's Christ, a farmer,'s Christ, a mriuchant's Christ, and every u~an's Christ. A symmetrical and fine worded system of theology is well enough for theological erasses, but it has no more business in a pulpit than have the tech nical phrases of an anatomist or a psychologist or a physician in the siek room of a patient. ['he werld wants help, immediate and world upliftiaiz. and it will come through a discourse in which Christ shall walk right down into the immortal seul and take ever lasting po'tession of ir. '"'c it as s ui of light as is this av.u i:nnmfllct. That sermon or ex'hrration of' th'. f - ture will not deal with men in ti~e threadbare illustrations of J esus Chri-t. In that coming address there will b in stances of vicarious suifering taken right out of ever3 day life, for there is not a day when somebody is not dy ing for others-as the physician saviug his diphtheria patient by saectiemsg his own lift-; as the ship ea. taim gtina down with his ves-el while he is getting his passengers into the lifeboat; as the fire man consuming in the buroing budd ing while he is taking a child out of a fourth story window: as in summer the strong swimmer at intst Ih?:pton or Long Branch or Cape Myt or Lake George himself perished trr ing t o res cue the drowning; as the niewejaper boy one summer, supporangr his a other for some years, his invalid mother. when offered by a gentlema n 50 cents to get some special paper, andi he got it, and rushed up in his anxiety to deliver it and was c u~hed .udtr the wheels of the train and lay on the gra-s with only strength enough tosay, ''Oh, what will become of a y poor, sick motlier now?" Vrearious sutfhring the world is full of it. An erteineer said to me on a locomotive in Dakota: "We men seem to b2 c ming to better appreciation than we used to. Did you see that account the other dlay of an engineer who to save his pas-enger:, stuck to his place, and when Le w as found dead in the locomnotive, which was upside down, he was found still smiliag, his hand on the airbrake? And as tihe engineer said to it me he put his hard on the airbrake to illhs trate his meaning, and I looked at him and thought. "You would be just as much a hero in the same crisis."O, in that religious discourse of the future there will be living illustrations taken out from every day life of' vicarious suf fering-illrstrations that will bring to ?Lrd the ghastlier sacrifice of him who in the high places of the field, on the cross, fought our battles and endured our struggle and died our death. A German sculptor miade an imace of Christ, and he asked his little child, 2 years old, who it was, and she saia, that "must be some very great man." 'Tne sculptor was displeased with the criti cism, so he got anothe r block oh mar ble and chiseled away on it t wo or three years, and then he brought in his little child, 4 or 5 years of age. anid said to her, "WI'o do you think that is?" She said, "That must be the one who took little children in his arms and blessed them." Then the sculptor was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what the world wants is ota cldChrist not an intellectual rimt n'ota severely magweria a Christ but a lovieg Christ, spreading out his armis of sym.p.thy to press the whole w,-rM to1 his loving heat t. h1it I rtenark again that the religious i re of the future will have to be bot. Cofdensatin is d-miaided by the a'e in which we livo. No tuore -d o' lgintroductions ard long ap. a. Q so tmanv divisions to a i,.curse' t *at it niv 1o said to be hy dit h vd in mther d ays men g)t all t irm Tion fro:m the pulPit. ter were ew b ooks, and there w, re no no -:1p-r, aS . d there was lit-,l r 1 r" e'c to 1lace, alld peph - l sA it and liten two and a half hiour to a reliii us iscour-e, and - vnt-nthl" iont'l. fiq(; them-n fr"-b In t o- Il:( w I '-* t I ' - ct 1' . nr ,:-, : hi I -, f~ e. oud theW - 1 ti.m. 1 wh tt i A (; b u-v i'i e es . T a : c'dIo th th r e Iould or r ad hel I _hi e a yva r ..- aalrh I -r "e n co ie pe *d pn O Wew:t 'tite rh hh. is l h aftera L~rer hs cap~eh ne th. i r t a ma n ia t 6 1 ! "~ tvti wW r t rca Il a a ' I I i I vx ':u ! 't at:.. lie, C .rd by w or. I ail regn -- e o, W ae w ht tFin tant "Nw to c n vt deine f d an br..1 ia ntt ohim. aft." -e ;rr has ei' .eeddth. w . . , -1G, to him.r a wuan sal roew to reep:ulate. at d iA fer. qWt4 no; in re 1*llius irhs al( Wwarning'it~n anantstneec i hrh -Oiiee i'e, -ard "ial, anc N IxV to eronceltiC. 13 11 iiuelas d un niiniht, ans ters ain t p o ixtyd aslec and fth ou wronnd in-t his soulne butuha made a m"tistake nthe hr e kept onk-uutii 'Gnod fro hi.' I woul atm o'ccathetic. heke Paul, an( reu-cote h1i. Iht accident is ftet one N toW i reli ioleth es as warnit' a~uiSto..lutn.*e itt church. t' io ua-r as w111h a warnna to minis ters araibtt prolixity. Eychus wa wron iious his conulece, but P a anda +.atake rhen he kevt on aui dn dir lie ov t to have stropped at n oclock. h d tEre would lai bCe-U no ac:i-lent. I1' Paul nii~ht have gone on to too great ledgth, et all those of us who are now praching thc gospel reenibra that there is a lini to religious disrourse, or ought to be. and o itt our tiav we have no apos toc ower of hiracles. iNapgt eon it an addxe- s of ,eve'n utinutt s thriiled hi, army and thrilled Europe. CtrisC' srmon on the mountd the model tr fute, was les tian IS minutes long at ordinary mode of deli ry. It is not electricity -cattered all (ver the that srikces ut electricity gthertl into a thurdvrbolL and hurlt-d, and it is not relo us truth sca tr d ver and sread out avcr a vast reach of time, but religous truth proj.cted in Com Buct frmaks that slgthepo reheu Whnteri~o~discourse of thefureowhhI fTuere arerths in ths times inwhe hitiAt hurihtiehae dsurteselvehsc 'turs'the world and heimrstartl the nermons an er in theopiruon a it i tupid.a studts, allhe jst ente~r preauponr teeuwkall evermn andn wotrdepo:artens a theilrgeor hai dnee evathered ofinmrtlnev -a py rehdtay. hr -totmkn Bret eaon alsopl thaheliousi thdildeure ss tohea futureek ofwhc I asther ae tyei toher Christ thot takn o fodulr themoa thwould her mstrve hadnt Crng about t. a mri ricl ard fdul themselvey the 'sorl many peope takpethe tht at Cherit's bands Becusete all the dursood it. H hluated hisa su re ahe anher wihickemaing a th isen esure to ha haiafu rofk saft AI the peopcl ecnewhtis he meat as their anieked to hear Andi thatn appears 1: fo wint beietoiay wot hRoebesteria. had noverist, per siv2o a miace aoes, wahts, si hyan sorirts ofands Becud etheorly. Butwhenit that illhortatdnhis dib ctrbe doe en and ther wicken bytoua The e aure sbmay athaeul oa salt, a rs fessorteandgby oun lilyn aroa lto h ech teeles not heowinehov, and te am olkd thima Aond whn tome of oxu dtheours'el ofemnariesrae aps it wuilnt be Phrilloianr unotu fauudadltint, bu t O.im and setin ive righ a straiWteswnts insu and sooh ofm anadoray. ho im But~ en hait e.hrtathe fures reiiu icourse dosc ofehr wilhe aChistan hrch arin s all theochurchesmi Chito in oureamest citnowill bet onmed foTheold atspinrials wanthg coufit.o Ahrihinor hemsee to bemort and eto fle a imot andt hr wtan toherabotn the great fu untile of veryethcinge who~ averbyd trule olyrte.f they Cudit practical arixsmathetichuhelp ofth Christin church tre ciioull bea anygtedr eiiy world wuldtb spiritale othelpl Sah hae bie ther deea waurc eon tfort all know teoplelvoul get hous mortalr and cmortalaind A theyr toha abdead bae grea fu urce. t tehe youm fSiends aike te have her child itese wo hae he roubl oivaai toherh ty ound geta rciaulo ast sptetic hrlp i thoe hristanchh there uee notsorro andi wschtreet inasineen to Neath andr or nyother enty outh wod he wentsfrom ons te hset ay f here wer hom lohkich fo itau ll ther hee woud res to thato and wher tery that bee nodth wit dhefoud boe. nhe arnt came to the god Sva and ad: have mieio iscfildutre tou e.ehe haen't boushtater sad seed. hueI ct fidapahhr there has been ethanI eno sorrow and wereat thresays weto othe goi Udrsvandyu sid othets. We all have our grieft and all have our he6tbreaks. Lsih, an the world 'aUghs- vith you; Wep. and you weep albnet lr the, sad o1l etrih must horrow its mirth, lB it has trout e enough of its own. We hear a great deal of discussion nov all over the land about why people do not go to church. Sxme say it is because Christianity iq dying out and because peop'e do not believe in the truth of Go'd's word, and all that. They are false r. asons. The reasons is because our sermons and ex hortations are not interesting and prac ,ieal and helpful. Some one might 's well tell the whole truth on this sub j--e, aid so I will tell it. The religi ,u dicourse of the future, the gospel s. i)n to1 coeic forth and .hake the na oans ,I!d lifr reple out of dartness, Vill '.- a popuar serm.n. just for the l:r-ole reason that it will meet the woes and thu wants at;d the anxieties of the There ar- in .il our denominations -t munmics sitting arouno .0 froin up;on the fresh young puilpitU t America to try to awe themn down. tI ary o-: "Tut. tut, tut! Strs-tional!' Fhboy st and ioday prenching in churhe hat hold a thousand people, and there t-e a hundrcd persons present, and it hoy cannot have the world saved if, -heir way it eens as if they do not tait it !aved at all. - I do net know but the old way of .Akirg ministers of tho gospel is bet --r-a coll-giate eduction and an ap .retticeship iider the care ard howm ,ttention of sonieearn-st aced Chri-tiat. mirister, tihe young man getting th. 'triarch's spirit and assisting him i. is relig'ous iervice. Young lawyen. -tud with old law'ers, young phyaici .is with oll physicians, and I believ it would be a great help if every youno nan *tudying for tao gospel ministri :ould put himself in the home and acart and sympathy and under th, icnediction and perpetual presence o i 'bristian minister. But I remark again, the religious iiscourse of the future will be an rw:kening sermon. From altar rail ti he front dooi step, under that sermon. in audience will get up and start for ,eaven. There will be in it many -t -taeca:o passage. It will not be a lul iaby. It will be a battle charge. Me. .ill drop their sins, for they will feel ,he hot breath of pursuing retributioi. in the back of their necks. It will b, sympathetic with all the physical dis resses as well as the spiritual distres-e .f the world. Christ not only preacher ,ut he healed paralysis, and hE heale .-pilepsy, and he healed the dumb a. oliud and the lepers. A dying Christian took out his wate' and gave it to a friend and said -Take that watch. I have no more us. ror it. Time is at an end for me, ant .teruity begins." Oh, my friends. when our watch has ticked away for u t ie last moment, and our clock ha ,truck for us the last hour., may it b tound we did our work well, that we dic it in the very best way, and whethe .ve preached the gospel in pulpits, o. taught Sabbath classes, or adrinia tered to the sick as physicians, or bar gained as merchants, or pleaded the aw as attorneys, or were busy as artis aus or husbandmen cr as mechanics, of were, like 31artha, called to give a meal to a hungry Christ, or like Han iah, to make a coat for a prophet, or ike Deborah, to rouse the courage of some timid Barak in the Lord's confliet, we did our work in such a way that it will stand the test of the judgment! And in the long procession of the re deemed that march around the throne may it be found that there are many there brought to God through our in strumentality and in whose rescue we exult. But let none of us who are still uneaved, wait for that religious dis course of the future. It may come af er our obsequies. It may come after the .toneeutter has chiseled our name on the slab 50 years b fore. Do not wait for a great steamer of the Cunard or White Star line to take you off the wreck, but hail the first craft, with however low a ziast and however smdi a hulk and however poor a rudder and however weak a captain. Better a ds abled schooner that oomes up in time than a full rigged brig that comes up ater you have but~k. Instead of waiting for that religi us discourme of the future (it may be 40, 50 years off), take -this plain invitation of a inan who to have given you spiri tal eyesight would be glad to be called the spittle bry the hand of Christ put on the eyes ef a blind man and who would consider the highest compliment of this service if, at the close 500 men should start from these doors saying: "Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not. This oce thing I know-shereas I was blind, tbow I see." S.wifter than shadows over the plain, quicker than birds in tLeir autumnal fight, hastier than eagles to their prey, hie you to a sympathetic Christ. The orhestras of heaven have strung their instruments to celebrate your rescue: And many wre the voicesaround the thr ne. kj-e.a ~. tne L >rd brings back his og u. Murdered Wife and Childrtn. The horribly mutilated bodies of a woman and her three children evere found Tnursday evening at their Lome on a small farm about a mile from the town of Montgomery, Pa. A short time ago a peddler named Hummel married the widow of a farmer and took up his residence with her on the farm. The widow haa three children. For the past week neighbors passing the farm noticed that there was no signs of h abitation. An investigation was made late toaay and the bodies of the two children were found hidden beneath a straw stack. In the house the bodies of the mother and the other child were found lying in the sleeping apartment. The bodies were horribly mutilated. the murderer evidently having used a club in comnmitting the crime. Mrs. Hummel's name before her recent mar riage was Mrs. Oliver Delaney. She was about 30 years of age, Hummel's age is between 50 and 55 years. The coupie were married on Nov. 10. Mrs. Hummel's first husband died six months ago. There is no trace of the murderer. The Horrors of War. Gen. Kitchener, who is in command oft he British forces in Egypt, reports to the war department at London that Gen. Wingate found Nefissa evaen'id. pushed on to Abriaadil, fe ur. iuies further, and found Fedil's forces encamped. They were forthwith en gaged by the mounted troops under Mahon, with four Maxims and two guns and the Jebadieh under Girringe. The Dervishes charted with all their old dash to with 80 yards of the guns. Wingate, with the infantry, arrived in time to support Mahon and cleared the whole camp. The Dervishes bolted through the bush, pursued by the mounted troops. Wingate estimates Fedil's force at 2.500 men, of whom 400 were killed: Wingate captured many prisoners, grain, rifles and spears. The Egyptian casualties were three REELS OF 8AR LD WIRE. 'One Thing That Is Never 11andled Without Gloves When It Is Shipped. Barbed wire for shipment is wound on reels contaIning about 100 pounds each. In its dimensions a reel of wire is of about the size of a half-bushel measure; innumerible barbs project ing from it all over except for narrow strips of board that extenl across the ends and form the end pices of the reel. Large quantities of barbed wire are exported, and it is a common sight, to see the reels going abord ships lying at South street wharves, says the New York Sun. The wire is brought alongside the ship on the deck! of a lighter, such a load consisting' perhaps of 2,000 or :.000 reels; some times two or three lighter loads arel taken aboard a single ship. If it can, be done the lighter is bronght along side the vessel, in the slip, in order, as far as possible, to avoid handling;, with the lighter alongside the wire can be hoisted directly from the lighter in to the ship. Sometimes It is necessary to tie the lighter to the opposite side of the wharf from that at which the vessel is made fast, and moe the wire across the wharf. In that case more handling is required. There should be a man on the lighter to tumble the reels down from the load and roll them alongside to the rail, the rolling being done with the foot. On the deck of the lglter, at the rail, stands two men, ea~lh with a cotton hook. When the rol of wire has been rolled along to tLem and tipped over on its side, betveen them, they each set a book though strands enough of the wire to hlil. and lift the reel aid set it up on the stringpiece of the wharf. Thence it is tipped over onto the wharf by a man standing there to receive it, and he starts it rolling across the wharf by a push with the foot. He wears hand cover ings of some sort, as every longshore man does In handling barbed wire; these protective coverings include gloves and mittens of leather and hand leathers. The hand leathers worn are seven or eight inches In length and five or six inches In breadth and are often cut from old boot legs Hand leathers have a slit in thenn across one end, through which the hand Is passed, the strip of leather above the slit rest ing on the back of the wrist. When the palm and insides of the fingers of gloves have been worn out the gloves are put on with the back of the glove on the palm side of the hand and used In that manner until that side is worn out also. The reels of wire are gath ered in bunches of six at the foot of the board that rises from the wharf, resting against the ship to protect the side of the ship from being scraped in !sting cargo aboard; they are hoist ed aboard with a bit of stevedores' gear made expressly for the purpose. comprising half a dozen dangling ler.gtis of rope, each with a book at the end of it, which can be spread out to reach the reels. Ahook is put into each reel, under wire enough to give it a secure hold, and when they have all been hooked, the bunch is hoisted up the side of the ship. Upset Ty an Umbrella. "Talking about stealing umbrellas," said a New Orleans man. "I had a whimsical experience last week. One afternoon, when it was raining, I hap pened to see a very good umbrella In the hall and-well, I anne-Ked it, or rather, I established a p:'otectorate, intending to return it before night to the gentleman In the adjoining office, who I supposed, of course, was the owner. "But somehow or other I Cidnt, and for several days I dodged him In and out of the building, feeling particular Ily uncomfortable and guilty Finally he dropped in, and, seeing the um brella in the front office waliked off with it, I witnessed the incident unob served from the rear room, and, natur ally, said nothing. Next 'tay we en countered In the elevator an:1 he hand ed me the umbrella. "'Here's your parachute,' he said. 'I'll have to own up that I appropriat ed it yesterday, but it was ra'ning and the temptation was too strong for my morals.' "I took it rathler gingerly and re frained from offering any explanation. That afternoon I set it just outside my door and had the satisfaction of see ing it disappear under the arm of an architect who Is a prominent member of my church and generally regarded as a very moral man. Sin',s then he has had pressing business whenever I hove Into sight, and I infer that he is suffering a duplicate of the pangs re cently experienced by myself and my neighbor. The fellow who originally left It hasn't turned up. so I suppose that he, too, is a member of the robber band." Engine Driven Tiy Entcierla. N. P. Melnikoff, the editor of the Russian joul nal To'chnologue, has made a little model of an engine which depends for its motive power upon the fermentation of hacteria. Although the engine of itsel-f has no practical value, it nevertheless furnishes an in teresting example of the power which can be derived from fermenting bod ies. Mr. Melnikoff decotnposes glucose into its constituents One hundred and eighlty parts glucose wvill giv' niety two part sof alcohol and eighty-eight parts of carbon dioxid gas. Iu a cop per vessel, glucose, an acid phosphlate acetic acid, geletin, water (75 per cent.), andl yeast are mixed together. After twenty-four hours the gas with in the vessel, at a temperature of 20 degreesC. (GS degres F".). will have attalined a pressure of four and one ha ir atmospheres. Tile inventor states that if tihe vessel containin:: tihe yeast bacteria be large, and the engine cylin der b ea:-:-pondingly pr'opertioned, enough povx er ,,:n he optained to ope'r ate an engine uninlterrulptedly for twenty or thirty- hours. The fermen tation of different bacteria will give differ-ent results, the oee produced depending upon the gunnritv of carbon dioxid or other gases gen~sated by each species of bacteria. After the ball given by the l'airia Municipal Council to their electors una friends at the Ihotel de Ville, it was found that six dozen silver spo'ons and GSG other articles. such as plate's, mustard pots and tlower vaises. had been taken away. while manyv of the dancers had he'ped themaselves to) bot tles of chamupaga:' for homne consumnp tion. Found a Chest of Gold. A dispatch from Santiago, Cuba. says the wreckers working on the sunk en Spanish armored cruiser Almirante Ojuendo, Wedaesday discovered a chest containing $19,000) in Spanish gold, which the Cendoya company, the firm employing the divers, will retain. Work on the cruiser has h,*n it progress fcr five m~onths ad nl anv thousands a d As ar'h of tr a,ure has 1e m m'u- l'he safe was found inl k : . .'. ere It fell during thle lntr.aig of the shiip. Only a few days ago the wreckers began on the torpedo boat destroyer Furor. They have already found a service of heavy silver plate. Experts asserts, after inspect ing the destroyer, that she might easily have been raised and repaired. The wrecking operations have proved a a source of large returns to the com pa nies, estimated at $500.000. "I have used your 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or any derangement of the Livcr or Kidneys I regard it as be ing without an equal." James J. Os borne, Attorney at Law, Boliston. THenderson 'on . C A CHINAMAN'S FATE. bleolara4 Dead by a Society, lie Was Ta booed and Killed Hisnelf. In San Francisco there's a Chinese secret society, the laws of which are as strict and unchanging as those of the Medes and iersians. One of the members of this society told some of its secrets-an offense punishable by death. He was to be tried in the usual way before a tribunal of the society. The night of the ordeal was fixed. The culprit was represented by able counsel, but the sentence was death as was expected. An executioner was called from an adjoining room. le was a strapping big Chinaman, and wore one of those hideous wooden masks that nrt crities think so bearti ful. ire carried a double-edged sword fully five feet long. To test the edge he folded a newspaper in eight parts, and the knife went through those eight 1hicknesses of paper as if it were a bit of butter in summer time. The culprit was broug1ht in upon his knees, and another Chinaman, also on his knees, faced him :ind caught the traitor by the cue. le drew the cul prit's neck toward him. the smock was pulled over the shoulders, and with one mighty swing the double-edged sword descended. Like a flash it clove the air and then stopped. A fractional part of an inch separated the sword from the victim's neck. Very, very gently the executioner brought the weapon down until it just touched the traitor's neck. Then. as it is a crime to kill a man in San Francisco, lie stop ped. He brought the sword to his side again, turned to the jugdes and said: "The culi "it is dead." The newly executed got on his feet and said something to the judge. The judge did not heed- for the culprit was dead. He tried to speak to the Chinanen, who were hurrying from the hall But he spoke to deaf ears. To all intents and purpose he was a dead man. lie made his way into the street, a"1 thli first thing that caught his eye was a hugh poster proclaiming to all Chinatown that he had hon executed that evening. No one would speak to him, no one look at him-he was a dead man-just as dead as if the exe cutioner's sword had in reality de scended. For a whole week that man wan dered about Chinatown, the posters proclaiming his execution staring him in the face at every turn. Not a crust of bread could he beg-not a mouth ful of water. His people knew him as dead-he was past, gone, buried. And so one day he wandered up into the American portion of San Fran cisco and stole a revolver from a mes senger boy, who was showing it to some companions. Then he ran down into Chinatown, sat down on the pave ment beneath one of his own death notices and blew the addled brains out of his poor Chinese head. Baby's Tooth Set in a RIng. Exclusive young matrons of the smart set who are also doting mothers have just introduced Into fashion a new ring, which is exciting the greatest attention. The woman who first wore one of these mysterious rings told all about it the other day to a girl friend who was admiring it and wanted to copy it. She said, "Why, the little white stone wouldn't be considered a gem to any one but me. It is only one of my baby girl's pearly white teeth. She knocked out a little front tooth not long ago, and as it was too precious to throw away, I took it to my fewel ers and asked him If it couldn't be set in a ring. And here is the result. I told him to surround the tooth with diamonds and turquoises, alternating with one another, as I think just the touch of blue adds much to the beauty of the ring. The baby tooth eneir cieu with diamonds looks too white. A number of my friends who have copied my idea have taken one of their baby's teeth to the jeweler's and had it surrounded with the child's birth stone." The. Horse in Battle. A veteran cavalry horse partakes of the hopes and fears of battle just the same as his rider. As the column swings into line and waits, the horse grows nervous over the waiting. If the wait Is spun out, he will tremble andl sweat and grow apprehensive. If he has been six months in the service he knows every bugle call. As the call comes to advance the rider can feel him working at the bit with his tongue to get it between its teeth. As he moves out he will either seek to get on faster than he should or bolt. H.' cannot bolt, however. The lines will carry him forward, and after a minute he will grip, lay back his ears, and one can feel his sudden resolve to brave the worst and have done with It as soon as possible. small Vge-ta.bles the Best. Epicures are developing a taste for miniature specimens of the earth's products. To supply the demand in larger cities for *oung vegetables, sueh as the French consider the most delicate and appe izing. the truck farmers bring to ma sket tiny potatoes. turnips, carrots, cat litlower and even heads of cabbage the size of a baseball. Such vegetables are It is said, more easily digested, theih fiber being tender and succulent. inst.ad of tough and often of a woody na 'ure as the growth arrives at maturity, The. Right ,. f Burial. Despite the growit.g difficulty of find ing space for the iterment of public men within the wats of Westminster A bbey at least one otable family still enjoys a prescriptis e right of burial there. These are th4 Dukes of North umberland, who ha?, the exclusive use of a spacious vault in the chapel St. Nicholas. The vaul;, which was the last resting place of ,:,he Seymours, was opened as recently y 18S3 to received the remains of Lady Louisa Percy, the elder sister of the pr<:sent Duke. An Automsion Duck. Of all inventors of mechanical curios ities Jacques Vauca.4son was certainly the~ ';ing, says the S,;ientific American. HIls automatie duel, was to connois seurs anu objcct of admiration. The bird waddled off in search of food and picked up and swt~llowed the seeds that it met with. It was impossible to distinguish this duck. fronm a livinu 'ne. It splashed about in the water amnd quacked at pleasure. A Fatal Accident A horrible accident occurrcd at the ills cotton mill in Greenville on Wednesday, which cost the life of one f the operatives, William J. Scott, ho was in charge of the elevator, lie was making a trip upward at the time and wa- V king over the side of the -icsvr att some wjrkmen below, when tI was erusht by the second floor and wra d,,,qn to the floor of the elevator. ~s head and shoulders were horribly nashed before the elevator could be stoped. Mr. Scott was taken to his hm'e in the mill village and medical attention was immediately given, but the injuries were so severe and numer ous that he was beyond the skill of the physician, and in a few hours breathed his last. A Fearful A ccident. A fearful accident occurred about O:0 o'clock Thurs~ay morning at the uarry above the locks, at Augusta, Ga. The back line of the derrick broke, faling on the workmen. Hal Nabrit, olored, was killed instantly. Sam Sullivan, colored, had his leg broken and was otherwise severaly injured. Several other workmen were more or A Long Felt Want. A riag art of the press of the country, and many influen tial business organizations, are urging the establishment of a )arcels post system inithis coun try. It seeis quite; probable that (oIIress, at its next ses sion, % ill legislate to this effect. At the meeting of the executive comInittee of the National As sociation of Manufacturers he!d a few day's ago a resolution was adopted unanimously favoring the "enactment of a law by congress providing for the stablishiment of n parcels post systei inl the United States, similar to the laws now inl f rce in Enghdul znd Gerzmany. anu aIlso the negotiation of parcel! post tieities with otheri nations. .\ndl, -further, that the presi lent of the association is here by authorized to take whatevei deps inl his judgment may be necessary to secure the enact -nlient of such law and the nego tiation of such treaties." The A tlanta Journal says the sup [)ort of the association which adupted these resolutions is sure to strengthen the advocacy of the proposed parcels post sys tei. The association is organ ized in nearly every state in the Union: has a membership of some i 1.210, comprising leading manufacturers of the country. and it is stated that an active and successful canvass has been made in furtherence of the movement. The matter has been brought not only to the attention of'manufacturers, but to the attention of merchants and consumers, and the canvass has shown that the movement is exceedingly popular. Fully 90 per cent of those who have given their views to the associa tion advocate the establish ment of a "just" parcels post The parcels post system, whici will probably soon be ad opted in this country will, it seems, be modelled after that of England rather than that of Germany. The limit of weight under the German system is 100 pounds, while the limit in Eng land is11 pounds. The English rate begins at 3 pence (0 cents) a pound, and increases at the rate of a penny (2 cents) a pound up to 10 pounds. The limit, as stated, is 11 pounds, and the rate for both the 10 and 11-pound packages is one shilling or 25 cents. The American rate on merchandise-parcels, postmat ter-is 16 cents per pound, and except as to a book, the limit of weight is four pounds. The treasurer of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers is authority for the statement, based on postoffice statistics, that merchandise can be car ried in the mails here at about the English rate. Moreover, he presents figures to show that the American rate is 100 per cent in excess of the cost of our merchandise service, contends that it is prohibitory, and as serts that it amounts to discri mination in favor of the trans portation companies-a discri mination that is largely at the expense of consumers. It is, therefore, the intention of the association to have introduced in the next congress a bill for a rednction in the present rate for fourth-class matter and an ex tension of the maximum weight limit to 8 or 11 pounds, so as to more n arly conform to the English parcels post system. The advocates of a parcels post system are enthusiastic, and be lieve that they are pushing a measure which will be of vast benefit to the country. They believe, and with good reason. that it will increase trade, and that even at the low rate pro posed to be charged, it will swell postal receipts so largely that the annual deficit of the posteffice department will be wiped out. We trust that the senators and members of con gress from Georgia will give their hearty support to some goodl parcels post proposition. FREE BLOOD CURE AuOffer P:37ig F2 :> b :::3 Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulctrs, aze all curable by B. B. B (Botanic Blo sd Balm,) which is made especially to cure 411 terrible Blood Diseases. 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The tragedy oc urred at the distillery of Robert Keeler, four miles from Tiaveler's Rest, about S a. m. The man killed was Nick Williams, colored, who was the engineer. His head was blown off and he was otherwise badly m'itilated. M1atthew Keeler, a son of the proprie tor, was severely scalded. Dr. B. F. Goodlett was called to attend him, but a report has not yet been received from the physician as to the condition of the young man. The explosion seems to nave been caused by water running too low in the boiler.-The State. The leather market is advancing and the national convention of snioe manu facturers recently recommended an ad vance of 25 cent. per pair on shoes. This is an adv'ance of 50 cents per pair POWDER AMOSZTELY PURE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL 9A~r POWDER CO., NEW YOAXL _____CASTORIA ..._..... 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