The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 06, 1895, Image 4
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.
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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
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all
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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"""
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? 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
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r?Mh *1 U* m*mt In wbkh w? B
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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.
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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.
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It Cure* Quicker.
f' " Chill* will not return.
As a prcvf.ritt-yg a ?Ka}l -iees
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will efTcci'iiall) prevent Cfclll*. Kcp a hnttW. to I hi
Koum.
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kiji 10 aeu'l for it or ncn.l von or?lcr dir* i lu ih*.
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