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CHRIST IS THE CHIFF. WHY. OH- TALMAOR ON HOST OOM ?VlOfO liH FIOtHK IN A ??HHON THAT HI l?T ?W VVl*l* OK INMl'lUATION TO OHHINTIANS. Ohrlst the Object of K.lth I^v. M? Ho?#^Trwwr?? >" Heave". ' New York, Sept. l.-For his sermon for thta forenoon. Kov. i>r. TalmyJ . loot* n topic which mimt prove. full ln.plr.tion lo Obrtf. Th* title of hi* ^l?courn? I". 1 ,M SmSm- ? ???!?"? s: among ten thousand, J' of The most conspicuous r history step" out upon tJ^P1* (jrn '|1(cht| ft.iircr which. <1 amonded with ?g r?ln.?lT.?w? .? him from .ho Lkv wah only ? ratification of the 1iug< of prophecy, the finger of genealogy. finger of ecology, the finger of event. ?11 fire finger* pointing in one . dl tlou. Christ Is the overtopping figure ii *'? a iii. w the "vox humana in all r?" ,h. n.o.t e.qol.lt. n.lw??? ?? lights and shades In all painting, acme of all climaxes, the dome of nil catSedraled grandeur and the peroratl ? ?f "TheOreeU alphabet Is made up of 24 letters, and when Christ compa'efi himself to the first letter and the last letter, the Alpha and the Omega, 1 he ap-. proprlated to himself all the aplendore that you can spell out either with tho < !w? WtVr. ?r .? lb. Wl.or. /^tw-n them. "I am the Alpha and Oi^ega, the beginning and J,he end." j The { What does that Scripture mekiv which wy, of Ohrlst, "He that comothsfrom above la above all?" It meas after y have piled up all Alpine and Himalayan altitudes the glory of w^ult\ . nTr to spread Ita wings and descend a thous and leagues to touch those Pel Ion, a high mountain of rhessaly . Oesa, a high mountain, and Olympus, n high mountain, hut mythology tells us When the giant# warred against the tods they pi l?d up these three tains, and from the top of them pro pped to scale the* heavens, hut the . height waa not great enongb. and thero was a complete -faUura. And aft?|L^M the giants? Isaiah and Pa?J. and apoatoJlc Baphaal and Mlch ael Angel$. artHWc gUnts; neraphlm and archanfel celestlal giantH ?have failed to cUmb to the top of Christ's glory they might all nn ? In the words of Fatil apd ery o alll" "Above alir But 80I011 text prefers to call Ohrlst tain," and ao today I bail bl First, Ohrlst mutt be chl preaching. The*e are sd man homlletics scattered through try that all laymetb as well as men, have made ?P th?|[ ? eermons ought to be. Thnt the moat effectual which mosi ?cts forth Christ as the par ?In end tho correction of all Tldnal. irtWM. political, nation is no reason why we should endless changes on; a few phra are those who think that if n tlou or a discourse have freq tlon of justification, sanctlfica nant of works snd covenant therefore it must be profouc gel leal, while they are anspl< dlsoourse which presents the * but under different phraseoloi I any thero la nothing in all tl realm of Anglo-Saxonlstn, ol word tWMWW.tbAt Wfi. inhoi the T^atln and the Greek and ? European, but wa hava a rigt )shal it in religious dlacussloi sets the example. His illustra from the grass; the flowers. yard fowl, the crystals of sal hi from the seas and the .star do not propose in our Bund teaching and In our pulpit add put on the limits. as^FiiffPei' 1 know that thero in a great in our day ngalnst words, ? the.v were nothing. They ua; lined, but they have an imperl They are the bridge between soul, between Almighty Qod human rare. What did Chi upon the tabled of atone? What did Christ utter on Mom Words. Out of what did Oln the spark for the lllumlnatlo universe? Out of words. ?") be light;*' nnd light was. C thought is the cargo. nnd wordi the ahip; but how fast would y get on without the nhlp? V need, my friends, in nil your your Sabbath school class, in fnrmntnry institutions nnd whi need In to enlnrge our vocabuli we cnmfl to *|>cnk about God and Christ nnd heaven. We ride a few ol?J word* to death, when there Is such Illimitable resource. Shnkespcnre employed 1ft,0()O different words for dramatie purposes; Milton employed R.000 different words for poetic purposes: Hnfus Ohonte em. ployed over 11, (MM) different word* for legal purpose*, but the most of us hnve less than 1.(X)ft words that we can mnnsge, nnd thnt mnkes un ho stupid ? When we come to net forth the love ^'of Christ we nre going to take the ten derent phraseology wherever we find it, and If it hn? never been used in thnt direction before nil the more shnll we u?e it. When we come to sp??nk of the glory of Christ the conqueror we nre going to dmw onr similes from triumphal arch and oratorio nnd everything grand nnd stupendous. The Frcnch navy have 18 flag* they can put Into 06.000 different combinations. And I have to tell yon that theS? standards of the crow may be lifted Into combinations infinite nnd varieties everlasting. And let me nay to these young men who come from the theological seminaries into our service*, and are, after awhile, going to prench Jeena Christ: You will hare the largest llherfK and unlimited resource. Ton only have to present Christ In your r.wn way. + i Chr"?r? rawer. Brighter I ten the light, fresher than tfca fovntalna. deeper than the aeaa. in m thaw fospel themes. Bong has to irtnflr flyWara no iwmIbiw, atm aat glor no o0or compared with theaa llwlw tlisitoea. Theaa harreata of ggalag op qtriofcr than we oan 4dMa mil IlaHlnr potpfta with tfcatr Ana aa| praiuetna resolutions with (Mr p*?a>, llchtlng op dying Mi thatr gtarjr, they are the sweetest thought for the poet, and they are the most thrilling Illustration for the orator, and they offer the most Intense soene for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghastliest agony. Brightest hope for grlmest death. Grandest resurrection for darkest sepuloher. Oh. what h gospel to preach I Ohrlst the chief. His birth, his suffering. his miracle*, his parables, his sweat, his tears, bin blood, his atonement, his intercession ?what glorious themes! Do we exer cise faith? Christ is Its objeot. Do we hare love? It fastens on Jesus. Have we a fondness for the ohureh? It is because Christ died for It. Have we a hope of heaven? It Is because Jesus went there, the herald and the forerunner. The royal robe of Deme trius was so costly, so beautiful, that after we had put It off, no one ever ' dared to put It on, but this robe of Christ, rloher than that, the poorest and the weakest and the worst may wear. "Where sin abounded graoe may much more abound." "Oh, my slns^ my sins," said Mar tin Luther to Htauplts, "my sins, my sins!" The faot Is that the brawny German student had found a I^atln Bible that made him quake, and noth ing else ever did make him quake, and when he found how, through Christ, he was pardoned and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying: "Come over and Join us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of Clod. Tou seem to be only a slender sinner, and you don't muoh extol the mercy of Ood; but we that have been suoh very awful sin ners praise his grace the more now that we have been redeemed." Can It be that you are so desperately egotis tical that you feel yourself In first rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you are soarless and immaculate? What you need Is a looking glass, and here It Is In the Bible. Poor and wretched and miserable and blind And naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putre fylng sores. No health In ub. And then take the faot that Christ gathered up all the notes Against us and paid them, and then offered us the receipt! And how much we need him in our sorrows! We are Independent of cir cumstances if we have his grace. Why, ho*ntade Paul sing in the dun geon, and under that grace Ht. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the apooalytto trumpets. After all other candles have been snuffed out, this Is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect day; and after, under the hard hoofs of calam ity ? and all the jpools of worldly en joyment have b^frn trampled Into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rook the Christian, from cups of granite Illy rimmed, puts out the thrlst of his soul. ? ? UJ CO P-f Ph ? 1 H so a r, o u: (-1 Y, u o V T) '? 2 u C2 & 7, A H 0L> E a> rrt ,X3 -c. o Kl O CL- o ?C E S (C Q_ a r. O O cc a_ iu >; b? o ?r oc ? pel ??=? 5ZT, Lx3 i/i r id f o U) o 'f. c. w < ? - -"'i ?nm t?uy ?*u rlouo ntrnnRers standing: around watchlnR you. You wnnt your kin dred from afar *o hear vour last prayer. T think that Is the wish of nil of ur. But la that nil? Can earth ly friends hold us up when the billow* of death come up to the Rlrdle? Can human voice charm open heaven'* Rate? Can human hand pilot un ttmuiRh the narrows of death Into heaven'* harbor? Can nny earthly friendship nhleld un from the arrows of death, nnd In the hour when satan shall practice upon un his Infernal archery? No, no, no, no! Alas, poor soul. If that In all. Petter die In the wlldernenn. far from tree nhadow and from fountain, alone, vulturen clrcllnR throuRh the aid waiting for our body, unknown to mXn. and to have no burial, if only Chrlnt could say through the solitudes. "T will never leave thee, T will never forsake thee." From that pillow of ntone a ladder would noar heavenward, ang-eln eomlnr and ROln*. aorosn the nolltude And the harrennen* would come the sweet note* of heav? i enlr mlnntrelay. The U?( Words Gordon Hall, far from hoin?\ riyltiR In door of a heathen temple, said, "Glory to thee, O God!" What did dy Inif Wllberforce nay to hln wife? "Come and nit beaide me. and let u? talk of heaven. I never knew what happlneas *-a* until I found Chrlnt." What did dylnir Hannah More #?ay? "To ro to heaven. think what that Is! To ro to Chrlnt. who died that I mlRht live! Oh, Rlorloun crave! Oh. what a Rlorl ou* thlnR It la to die! Ob. the love of Christ, the k>va of Chrtot!" What .did Mr. Toplady. the Rreat hymn maker, my in hla laat hour? "Who can jrteaa ure the depth* of the third heaven? oil, the nuimhiiic that Mil* my aoul! I I'Iim J I moo it be gone. to r aur? ly IK> one (an II v<? in IhU world after auch glorlea I us (Jod htu? inanlfeaUfd l<? my *oul. | what <ll<l Ihe dying Jftneway any? "I on o ??? eaally die ?*i clot*- iny ey?a or (uru my head In Bleep. llefors a fow hours havrf pa?u-d I Mhall ftajid on Mount Zion with the on? hundred und forty and four thounand. and with th>? Ju?t ii ifii made perfect, and we ahall ascribe ilohea and honor and Klory and majeaty and dominion unto Ood and the lamb." I>r. Taylor, con demned to burn at tin* stake, on bin way thither broke away from the guardsmen and went bounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jeaua and to die for him. Hlr Charlea Mare, In laat momenta, had aueh rapturoua viaion that he cried. "Upward, upward, upward!" And no Kivat waa the peace of one of Ohrlat'a dlaolpleH that he put hi* finger upon the pulae In bin wrlaj and counted It and observed It. and mi great waa hla placidity that after awhile he aald, "Stopped!" and hla life had ended her? to begin In heaven. Hut grander than that waa the teatlmouy of the wornout fl rat mltdonary, when In the Mamerttne dungeon he orled: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my depar ture ia at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have flnlithed my co I have kept the faith; henceforth there la laid up for me a crown of rlghteoun neaa, which the I^ord, the rlghteoua Judge, will give me In that day, and not to me only/, but to all them that love hla appearing!" Do you not see that Christ la ehief In dying allevln tlona? Hope (or the Hrdfeinrd . Toward the last hour of our earthly residence wo arc tppedlng. When ] see the subset I nay, "One day Uhm? to live." When I see the spring bios mmiH scattered, 1 say. "Another season gone forever." When I clone tha Bible on Sabbath night I nay, "Another Sab bath departed." When 1 bury a friend I say, "Another earthly attraction gone forever." What nimble feet the yearn have! The roe buck 8 and the lightnings run not ho fust. Prom decade to rte cade, from sky to sky. they go at h Uouml. There In n place for us, Wheth er marked or not. where you and 1 will sleep the hiHt sleep, and the men are now living who will, with solemn t,read, carry uh to our renting place. Aye, It Ih known In heaven whether our departure will b a coronation or a banishment. Mrlgliter than a banquet ing hall through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the nepuleh er through w hose rifts the holy llnht of heaven streameth. Ood will watch you. He will send his angels to guard your slumbering <lust, until, at Christ's behest, they shall roll away the stone. So also Christ is chief In heaven. The the crlptlon. all all ?ru rphnlm. r. f. g ^ fr .? earthly r ? ti 1/ J * **-' M * .5 p ^ *.?1^2 p g J. g "ti i a - a a ? ii ri / -g 7 . v, "3 * ? fan""" ?? -r. ^ V -A " * - o UH" ? o r- * CI .* >'? o Z ? ' y, x'e? ',H 1 p ? n r. "? ?- r: ?' 2, o ?? ? t> ~ t; tf >. ?? c ? ??. ? - *2 ^ spirit, saeri '.ECJ"'' p :! * k r; - j:. 7, i : S ? ? t) a?" g-Jil- >-7 "2 * ' of heaven. " " ?ep the most Myriads suffering, : c " 5f y" ~ " a. ,-r-- breaking ~i ? *a .y ? j si) ? martyrs, u, ~ c- If Li' c V J! V i- J. " 5" S..V 3e through ? v. "This Is o H ^ i ti f/e,l at Cor r S * v. '-r;-Uat Antlooh S 1 c ? ? *2 A* children t 2 0 * -Jj f' ~ ?i/'Thls Is the o ^ * S h V' 2 ^ ^ U)l? arms and W K * ? T 2 2 ^ 1; S 'the storms of r old ? and loud. ~ ^ ^ t *> 9 JJ| g 'teautlful place." x i Z. ~ bereft will say, ?c H v ii 5" ? * k a'.'lio comforted us ^ S * ? t t 5 ^ f oke." Many who ?8 , ? ? S ^ I; -* 7>fn Ood and piling 5 ? 3 u t * H but were saved u v 75 g" "This Is the Jesus S ? " ? -2 g -;lVe were lost on the J ?? J = f: S {'} brouRht us home. *> 5 2 ^ </j tln?i he has made us q *" ' 7 Mercy boundless. i I. And then, after ?| - Ited his peculiar de El " ^ ?; :.,~;eullar mercies, recited ? *7 si t:. all the v??lce? will J J-'- V .nto a great chorus. _ i- ^ *7! J' :: v the arrhp* o<*ho ?n/l V _ m -? *? "e eternal reverberation ' 1 ?v ' s ti ~ ;-hs so anxious to g<i to fi 6 ! ^ 3 r that when he was about u >, * f ' bequeathed $lrt0,000 to o'1' ? ^ifter his deceasf-, taken 2 11 and In Asia Minor, and ~ - ? complied with. But 5! -7 c H x ? I reds today whose henrts t' ** L' ? n the Holy Land of Z' ?' ? >re your treasures arc, /. ur hearto also. Quaint " i; caught a glimpse of that his quaint way he said, * In my dpeam. and. lo! ?e city rang again for Joy, ?poned the gates to let In >kod In after them, Hiid lo! ne like the sun, and there of gold, and men walked rpn In their hands, to ring bal. and after that they -hut up the gates, which when 1 had seen I wished myself flmonp them!" 8TIUTK II V M<1HT*IN<J J A Knllirr it ml Man >li-r( Dentil In ?lir Wn?er . My Southern Associated Press Stamford. Poii., Sept. 2. --John W. llowtOI l?w>k a Hall In bis eat bont Sn turdny evening with Samuel A. Soarl, t ho latter'* sou, Pamuol. ngtHl 9. and Willie a.nd Rdward FUirrett, aged 5 and 12. Thoy went bathing nn Orcon wloh Point Poach and subsequently wont In tholi oat, letting It drift 400 foot fi>?ni tho shore. Tho vessel wan capsized In a squall at six p. in., but tho party wore not alarmed. but clung to tho side of tho boat. Soon Soarl proposed going ashon1 to got anothor boat and right tholr craft. Ilo started | to ?wlm, taking his younje^t child on j hi* baok. with Ills arm* clasped about his father's nock. Tho other* saw i them start, then a vivid flash of light ning c-a. no and when thoy turned around to look again tlw man and boy were not visible. Howell swam ashore and saw the body of Soarl and his son floating near the beach. Doctors and in^n on .*hore tried all night to resusci tate them, but withou-t avail. ffallore Amilt Poltee CaytalM. rKey W?it, Fl*.. Aug. *>.? Pj)Mw Captain Hicks wae mqrdcrousljc^lkMaultsa by ssllore of the United Mates cruiser Cin cinnati whom he fcsd arrested for over ataylng their leave and wm taking to the ship. The Captain ?u badly Injured. . ha feeling between fhe sailors and *ha police la hitter and a cOlltaton may occur at any time. CHILDHOOD OF VERDI. THK ( HI HI II AND OHUAN -TIIM COM. l*ONKttM riHHT KHIKWIlD. IIUNCOLK, Til 10 VltLAUIC WUKIIK HID WAN BORN. All Honor* of ? laeeeiitfal Career Are HIm. Verdi, whom the la?t generation will remember as the composer of "Rigo It'tlo," "II Trovatore" and "I^h Fav orlta" and the present um the creator of "Ada," "Otello" and "Kalstaff." wag bum in the same year as Richard Wh? ner. The Oertnan preceded the Italian Into this world by five months, but Verdi has already outlived hi* (treat contemporary fourteen year*, and now at nearly eighty-two years of age be Is living a life free from care and full of gentleness and happlnfcfcfc in a mug nlfUei.t villa only a few miles from where he wan born. All thfe honors that a successful oareer can briny are IiIh, and he haft greater wealth than any other living- composer, ?xcept the youth Franohettl, who belouga to the Italian branch of the Rothschild family and whose mother can repeat of him what Meyerbeer's mother said of her son, "lie Ih a muidcian, but not of necessity." It required a stron charac ter to live the life of Verdi and pre Herve at the end of four score yeaj* the freshness of interest, the Intensity of purpose ai?d the iuduatry which characterize him at the present time, and It would not be ?t raining a point to find the foundation of that character In the simple and laborious life which he lived during his first twenty years. No musician who ever made a name for hlmaelf was more humbly born than Verdi, though it has been a rule that great musicians aiv humbly born. No musician was jsver obliged to toll more b?borlously for the few advantages of edU?!'rwC'Crch"ev,d"SincenU<.vor srr:.. . .c Blgnor <",taW"*'?VrU,n? the 'f ..iw. ?"'h.V exMa.Lf Verdi's >ov. t by .he *;??,?-' ?.. earliest envlionmen . b 10 18i3. whlc? h, up was one of the r mUes from village of Roncolc. duchy of I>ftr* Busneto. aneiPii.tly ln veixH's birth ma. but at the time of ViW. under the dom nation of ^ uke all the rest of t V. Alpe8>.. ?Departments ?u j)ela ^ ? tf)ld. |? There were but 200 sou* an ^ ^ H<>ncole and tho^uji H father kl.pt> ami f ' "which the future composer was born In which *n? t . or road. H stood in the main streit o ^ house u. h.? "UetnlnH Slgnor t.fnslV*? ^ t thm> miles een.e Artl,.tcho . ab??> )( distant from UU9*?,1? ImaKlne a kind with P ?><???* 6m;li of lnP and of tumble-down house oi ^ ^ mortar, standing &lw?* gown wlth midst of a fertile P understand mnlze and hemp, W? a spot how an artist bof whoie of hi* should ppet?e>rve for th^(f Bimp?clty life n love for TOlltujw tnc?nM of character and ft <1 ^Twnys marked to melancholy b _turfti an Inherl V(,r?, "".oh ?... tance as the ha PXD.,ctancy of an keeps the wor ou must be left other opera. lm?K 7 ^ the chtld >" '?r.lUre?H,:.rTur-un"l,i-. ou. .. Zy Z ?5- .he recUa. of V?e faCt- - .k?,. made him the pupil of when his fath church ?n Koncole ;r;rwaCthe him to be the old * 0 loftler flight, ambition c?uMi ta^ ^ lhe poBUton yet When Verd ^ ?,ilary. as ap *" hlB r '*Ie " he records of the church pears from t . the Wld 0f was S6 francs a year cUatlon of the lArst year, at' wa8 his Rna his Income as raised to 40 he ,ows fr?!Q m?r exeeed.nl t(K> fr a..?| riagl.s, etc.. > oftrn thiH sum \ erdl ,H.r annum. Y? ^ thur(.h of Hoiicole whs organist part of which for six > t,nrHV "Cl Jo walk every Son time he ?ftH fron, Russet o. whither Ken?ral edm.atijed ^ ncflrl.v lost his Ufo lie had to start for the church u'0, n Christinas tlay >? VIST'S peasant woman, who extruau * WginninK ??? "'f ?^''l.T.orv " <i>e' r,?i?.r lo let him e.ii.ly "? 'T. I' !' .he ehureh nr??"'-' inuKie. It w" music lesson*, and that he took his first music . ^ ll,UKht1heneimlI. k?7Jj;^^yearKdd ^SxJSx-Jsr* "IT ?. Ac Me where Verd. now live., of Wont A??t? miM,h wr|?,? and though this writer to .,|H?ut it is Impossible for this yner ? ot It is The books speak of It "X,t hut .o ? "l"r7 <oM hy SUno, n" " , ' , -r,. allusions to ham (Jhislanionl we)| Rs leathered mors nnwh*h wonjd seem to indicate that it is a pianoforte of a primitive 1 rt There is a marvellous confusion minds of writ or* on mnslc con .Mo?rt in S?l?h..r? ^ Won'- "o..e.ohojd- ? ? Moxarteum. but the . Aj. ?nhiel. ""'"'J.ngmu. 81?nor Ohto "ot ' rv? ? pretty r.mtni.c.ne of TTtU^runtCn.. the Instrument .?d of th? without *? Ola ?eppe Vsrdl ?ho whleh quit* on the ssWl ln?tm?e?t W,IW ?aA?*? to ??ttefy m?. Verdi became orgauist of HoiC#i>le when be was eleven years ?ml mtt"y years late* Ids name wuh found ls| in the ease ??f the organ. ??*.! tracings of It are piously preserved. On one < casion in his Infamy the <>1.1 \ J ,ureh * came an asylum for him. . I hi" ww In 1S14. The Austrian ami Husslan fonts were driving the Kreiuh before them ami the wretche^ little village of Hon , -ole Haw Nome of the horrors of war. It in hhiU that the Kuaslan "oldiers were bhKHly ami brutal I" their treatment of the v^Hiitilahctl. and nUthelr approach tbe i>o?r denizens of HonVde tied for protect ion >to the churdh. Among them wan thev.n^VUut of Aerdi, who. clasping her bain- t.. her breast, did not ?top iii the main room of the sanctuary like tlie rent who ?vere followed, beaten and killed by the KuaHlitiia, bnt climbed the ladder into the belfry and remained hidden there till all dauger was past. Under the circumstances it in not sur prising that young Verdi was much be holden to the klndneaa of friends for hia education. Kven with their help his Intellectual training wan but scanty. When, he waa ten years old his father Heut him t?? Busseto to learn the three UV In Buaaeto there lived Antonio liarezzi. a diatiller, of whom Carlo \ erdl bought aoine of the warca which he sold at bin oateria In ltoncole. liarezzi be came the l>oy'B guardian angel and open ed to Idm all the avenues of music which the town afforded. They were modest enough, but an Inspiration com pared with thoae of ltoncole. First there waa a cathedral, with a sould old coutrapunlst. Ferdlnaiulo Provesi. as o? ganlst, in which on special oceasioua an orchestra played, in which Barezzl. the well-to-do merch ?nt, waa HuMst. Then Buaaeto alao boasted a philharmonic so ciety, which Proves! conducted and which met for practice In Btrtrezzi's house. Verdi lived with a shoemaker, but in time Biwrezzl not only gave him employment In his warehouse, but open od his home to him ami let /him practice upon a Viennese pianoforte, which was a rare treat to the hoy who knew noth ing better than the miserable little In strument purchased from the parish priest which he had carried with him from ltoncole. He not only practised upon Bnrezzi's pianoforte, but, in the course of time, played piece*. ?a quattro main," with Margherlta, Barezzi's eldest daughter, with a result such as often figures In the story of musical eultiva tlon The young people fell in love with each other, and when Verdi asked her hand in marriage the old man was too wise and discerning a man to withhold his consent. "Yes," was his reply to the friend who Interceded for the strug gling young musiciau, who meanwhile had gone to Milan to study, heen re fused admission to the Couservatorlo where hi* talent was not recognized, studied privately with the maestro al cembalo of T/a Scala Theatre, and re turned to become Provesl's successor in Basse to! "Certainly. How could I re fuse so good a young man as \enli. True, he is not rich, but he -lias genius and Industry, which are better than patrimony." The director of M?e Milan Conservatory who refused to accept Verdi as a pupil was Francesco Bandy. What escaped his notice lmd been re cognized long before by the venerable Proves! and Barezzl. At sixteen years of age Verdi's musical learning was greater than that of his master, who, seeing that he could teaeh him nothing more, dismissed him with the words: "Andra, molto luugi. soggiungevn; e un glorno sara un graude maestro." (\<?n will accomplish much, and some day von will 1k? a great master.) The money which enabled Verdi to study in Milan was in part furnished by Barezzi and in part came from a bursary from the Monte di Pieta. a charitable Institu tion which devoted a portion ot-tts funds to defraying the expenses of stu dents of the arts and iwiences. - Verdi married Marglierita Barezzi in 183, ?, before he had written his first opera. She died in tfWO. Within, two months of that year Verdi lost her and l?oth bin children while at W<jrk upon his first comic opera, which was a failure. Three Trick Klrphnntu, Molly, Wad dy h ml Honrr, Arrive* from Rnropf. On the Columbian line steamer Masna chusAtt*. which arrived from Kuropc Tuesday, were three acting elephant*, known respectively aw Molly, Woddy, and Honey, They will give a genteel variety performance, and as they are decidedly new womanish In their progressive tenden cies, bicycling will, of couiwe, be number, ed anfong their favorite diversions on the *tage. They created considerable amuxcinent an they walked minclngly down t lie gang plank Tuesday night. They w^ Imitre dlately surrounded by small twrs, who followed them to their lodging house In Fifty-seventh street Molly and Waddy are each fully 13 feet In height, while Money, who Is known an the l>aby. owing to Ihe fact that she Is only about 16 yeatv old. and consequently has. pcrhapx, ~2T> years Ht ill to live, weighs fully a ton, although she !?? only six feet high. Prof* Lockhart. their ?*tage manager, Is an old circus man. and it was while traveling with a circus in Itangoon. India, that he tlrst met Honey. She was mourn ing the loss of her bent friend, a native having j it* l kiiiei iter mother. I^ockhart Immediately adopted the lit tie thing, who at that time was no birger than a Kood sised St. Bernard dog, and the professor often took her to ri.le with him In his carriage, although Mrs. I?ock hart offered objections. The professor was perseverlntr. however, and careful to tench her. t?o that when slie wa? placed with Molly and Waddy she was found to fully equal them In sklll./al though they were alreaily known as {ex pert and experienced trick elcpi,nni?.j ? They can juggle barrels, ha'anre in nd foim parymld*. play musical Instrument*, turning the leave* of the sheet mitfslc as they proceed. In addition to doing/all the gcteral trick* acquired by oUui beasts of tteir kind. In addl-tlnn the.y' enact a pantomime farce entitled "Fro/h Itewtau rant to Police Station." f.lttjf Money Is the low comedian. S'.ie dinos not wisely but too well, gives a grophfc- simulation of the recklessness born of wine, arid I* flrwUly arretted and locke-J up by the blgger^nd more serious, mended blasts. Mr. I.rfu)<hnrt brings wlrh him three as sistant*. but ""neves- -pfrmlt* any one hut himself to handle or to feed the animals. They trust film Implicitly and will follow wherever he leads. ? New York Snn. /y Tresasrf Kxpmrtltnre*. JRy Southern Associated Pre**.. J?va*hlnicton. A nr. SI.- For two months of the curont fiscal year to date the Treasury expenditure* have rx ceeded the receipt# Ha.171.4M>. For t'ie month of Aiiin>*t the deficit wa* 103. The receipt* for the month are stated at $?*.? 6?.M4 and expendlTurvs ?t Blnce July 1st. the Treid ury haa loet In prold withdrawals for export to Europe and Canada lll.tw,"*^ and aa, Monday Is I,abor Day. a na tional holiday, all the executive depart ments ^11 ba cloaed and the Treasury financial statement* will not he is*tt*it until TH|sadajy Bapt. t. IS IN A GILDED CAGE. TUB MAO PATH THAT HAH UKWAUU KN TUB OXAHINA. HO MM Ut KlClt STOMIK8 FROM TUB COURT OP MT. FHTBNRBUHO. An I'nbHiittr IVIuceo Who Was. Forced Into * Political MurrUyc, Queer stories from the court o t St. Petersburg have been heard hi Berlin In the last few day**. They have been brought by (the Russian noblemen coming from the capital fur their annual visit# at the German spring*. by minor official# from German conwula ten In the empire of ilx? Csar. and by two or three einl?a*sy otllclalH who are home on leaves of ati Hence for tholr hummer holidays. l-rrom one or two of these roundabout channels, the ffcmslp would have little color of truth and would find little credence, but, when coming from one and all without variation except an regards details, it Is bound to be hoard and accepted as approximately correct. The subject concerns the family affairs of t'he Romanoffc, and might be left to t lie Romanoffs a* part of the In evitable family chronicles were It hot for *Whe strong Influence which the matter is exerting over the politics of Kurope, Amla and Aifrlca. As the world has known, ever since Alexander 111., lay. Htricken with death, on his bed of suffering In Idvadla, the Princess Allx, of Hesse, most beautiful of Queen Victoria'* descendant**, was forced gradually, against her tearful and angry protests. Into her marriage with the dabby. Immoral, and unuatural csarowltt, now Nicholas II. She has a vlgorou*; vi vacious, hltfh-splrlted type of healthy wo manhood, with very dlMtlnct Ideas of the, manly qualith* Indispensable to the model husband, ami she was quite beyond the at tractions of the cfcarowlte'* peculiar per. sonaltty, adorned though It might be with the purple and scepter and the, Iron crown of unlimited power. When England and Germany, In their determination to get a clutch upon the Russian court, Insisted that tlhe marriago must be. the PrlnceBM Allx entered the bonds resignedly -resign edly, but not hopefully. a<? she remarked to her ICnglish companion oJC .years, Just before joining ln*r betrothed to go to the altar: "Whoever enters here must leave all hope behind." Csarlna la Not Httppy. Tho words were not Idle, for tlie young Czarina of Russia Ijijh had hardly a glad moment since she tlrrt *at on he r Imper ial throne, Just a little lower thaiv her , husband'**. 1<}1h noteworthy that' even the odlcial chroniclers of court fetes and Im perial functions have never used that fam- j Ular stock phrase of tlwlr kind: ' "The Czarina appeared to be In excel lent spirits and smiled graciously on all si\|es." Even the Russian court chroniclers know degrees of fulsomeness and truth, and none of tliem has "had the hardihood to ?ay "the empross nmlled." Behind the omission of the?se three commonplace ' wonWll^s a story of domestic sorrow and pain, desperation and cotvsoIoub degrada tion such as the palace may bury as well as the house of the merchant prince, or banker, or butcher, or baker. To the young girl, reared In the home ly tradition* ? of Darmstadt court and In Hie cold, clear air of Osborne House and Windsor Castle, the sudden transfer to the side of a perverted Romanoff, In the midst of an Intriguing, frivolous and scan dal-loving entourage, was a shock to be withstood only after -the most careful pre. paratlon. 81ie had the preparation and withstood the shock. The beauty, sub. mlsslvemws and apparent devotion df this young foreign prince** at first fascinated young Nicholas, whose - associations with women had been limited. He was ohartn ed In her presence : he listened to her ad. vlfce; he gave her Oils confidence. 'Hli mother was distracted by this tuVn of family affairs. She wished to see her son happy, to be sure, but slhe did not wish to let slip from her own bands the f-elns of power which she had held during her husband's life. She feared that the care fully spun wet) of Intrigue between 8t. Petersburg and her Danish birthplace was to be torn asunder; that this beautiful In* torloper^from 'western Europe would re knit the bonds between' her adapted land and the/ooUntry which had cut Schleswlg and HolstHn from her father's soil; that her weakling son would be molded Into a docile husband, upon whom would fall unheeded the words of motherly warning ttnd exlrartatlon. Mother-ffi-law Makes Tro?Me, There Is no <loubt lhat the Princess Allx's resignation am! studied self-control would have given out sooner or later un der the burden of her husband's persopal Ity. So. It Is only fair to acqulf her mother-in-law of all except hastening the domestic catastrophe. This rtie did with the quickncss and recklessness of an en vious woman: She 'told Tier son tbat the Princess Allx treated him with Indiffer ence, was Inclined to^smUe too fondly on tho young men of the court, waa scornful of Ilucutlan ways and devoted to customs of foreign courts, and had brought him completely under her thumb. The sting In this last reproach rankled the Omar, w*lio had showed a fondness up to that tlmo for Che Kngllsh and German ambas sador*. and without tho slightest warning, snubbed them both, compelling poor old General von Werder to get out and re turn to Germany. He Informed his wife gruffly that lie wanted to hear nothing more of her petty relative* and their Im potent little court In Darmetadt. He toTd her one day that her moat august relative, the Prince of Wales, was a coward, and her other most august relative. Emperor William, was a cad and a bore. In a gen et ul condemnation of the court of London he remarked that the GuelphM were a lot of tea-drinking old women and the queen was the worst of them all. Three times the Csarlna burst into tears at the breakfast table, and hurried away, leaving the, despot of Russia to think how cleverly he was training her. But, after leaving him the third time ?he de termined to let (him vent his spleen else, where. For weeks whs took her mealr alone. Inaccessible to the appeals from her 1 mother-in-law at first, and Anally ^from I I>armstadt and Berlin and London. To a/ communication reaching her from th* German embassy, that Bmperor William would regret to lose her high "regard and friendship, she replied, briefly, that," tf this was a reference to her Influence for peace between Ru**la and Germany, the Emperor must not dec leva himself any longer, as 4he waa s, mere orfpJier at Mm Peterhof, and oould not get a court-mar. tlal discharged against the will of the dowager emprees. ^ < Since the day of her confinement has been drawing near the young Empr?n* mask of resignation haa fallen off entire ly. She has been embittered by seeing her husband pervensely Intent upon re fYOUR MONEY'S B WORTH.^-. ? Tktt'l *hit rMll if ywf b*y I 7*?r Dootfl. SMk, HM?, Uakir, ? Shluf U? Md OlIUMMtl W<mh1 I work Uom U?. W# WUm katy ? i Kat our i*cr?Miag toMlm? W tb? B r?Mh *1 U* m*mt In wbkh w? B <1* bu?i?i?-n, W? Mk? ?U Mr ? P?4i i *i*fuiiy tr?a mi f tl m knl l ?tock? and wiiK th? *t I kivlai t h< hi tlroac, 4unbM, W?H I AoUbcd. We dou't n?ftk? f?04?l0 V btp; ?en>ke Ibtw (or 0?r <??- I u>??r?. ud wo uki ik? to ' jl*u< iwrkdr who baya (boat. A (JOUST A LUMftBR CO., ?. Myomv*. ?A. *'B?y ?t tboTUki." buffing every one of Iter friends and re. calling every act wWch be performed at her suggestion during tthedr honeymoon. He has seen tier but twice a week elnce June 1. Hie oalU have been brief and sometime* stormy. But a tew day* ago site became hytfterloal after he aootised her of various lndlsoretlone at court, aad ordered him to leave her. Ma remained. . however, to oonfcihue hie reproaohee ?atH her phyeloian arrived, and with RuMm gruffness announced -that ha would Qfrer ed to itn own district. Memberp are re> af the most noted players among Ita the championship. This club has mgay enter the palace again unless th* Osar departed Immediately. Ttie Caar objected thle his wlfe'f mrvoulneai was the soli oauee of -iChe scene. The doctor's reply was: ?> . "It you have no mercy on her majest#, at least consider your future heir and go at ence." 5. All Her rHes?s Bsplshel, The Csar went. In the la?t three weeks he lhaii visited his wife once. The last two t&e* he went to her apartment shs be*? ged to be excused from receiving aim and he did not insist upon entering. The last vestige of her lnfluenoe over total die. appeared weeks ago. In pure contnartaess of tfplrtt ho now endeavors to undo alT that he once undertook at her Instance or fcrtth her approval. In this he is helped by his mother, who Is resolved Cb destroy 'bom*! j pletely the Ocarina's power even in the court circle. The result has been not only roughshod politic* In the Balkan, Turkey. East Asia and Africa, but also a sifting and upsetting of the whole list of attend ants and officials at Peterhotf. The J*>ung Csarlna'e Kngllsh ana German seTyants bave been sen Wa way; her Englfcrtt com panion has beln banished from the pal ace; the few court offloers who were known as her advocates of friend# have been transferred to distant posts of duty. When thte unfortunate wife of rflefcolM ii., shall rise from her childbed to eit again beside her thonarcb and husband, she will And herself entirely alone' and neglected, at a strange court, still holding all the Insignia of an empress oondort's power, but not allowed even a lackey o? *er own choosing. She may submit tame, ly, but she 1* more likely to raise a breeze of protest, whl^h wlU.- brlng het flabby - spotye about on l-nflr tack, with all Its incidental bearings in International poll tics *nd domestic economy.? Berlin Cor-x reepondence Chicago Inter Ocean. V 2r~ \ - -x Chills and Fever. ? A teerssteed ts?s, er Meetf Refssdetf. Alexander's Buck Creek ... ?? Hi" and Fever Cure It ? 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