The weekly ledger. (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1894-1896, December 31, 1896, Image 5
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 31, 1890.
A QUICK KOUT OF SIN.
REV. DR. TALMA:v: F” VORG A GUDDEfJ
He TliinUfl t!:c' Tv t.i Can Ko Cr.ptarnJ ;
Tor r.lK'-t!-; • »y Fnvr.lry of
the Cliristiau r,:i-.:;.-Aa rioquont K*- i
hortatlon For a revival.
WASliINGTON, >'
of Dr. Taluiago i:i 1
movement to rapn
rigliteousncPH elrilt'
l~.—lull fioruion
half cf a pndden
e tho world for
i, chord that will
vibrato timnigh Cdiri^tendoui. Tho text
is II Kings xviii, 23, “I will deliver
thee 2,000 horses if thou bo able on tby
part to set liders upon them.”
Up by the waterworks, tho upper
reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of
the besieging army and the generals of
besieged Jerusalem i ro in coiibultation.
Though Gemixal Rab-shakoh had been
largely paid to Ktrp the siege, ho kept
the money and continued tho siege—the
military miscreant! Rab-shakeh derides
the capacity cf the city to defend itself
and practically says: “ifon have not
2,000 men who f an manage horses.
Produce 2,000 cavalrymen, mid I will
give you a present of 2,000 cavalry
horses. You have not in all your be
sieged city of Jerusalem 2,000 men who
can mount them, and by hit and bridle
control a horse." Rnb-shaUch realized
that it is easier to tiud horses than skill
ful riders, and hence he makes the chal
lenge cf tho text, “I will deliver thee
2,000 horses if then be able to set riders
upon them.”
Rab-shakeh. like many another bad
man, said a very suggestive thing. Tho
world is full of great energies and great
opportunities, but few know how to
bridle them and incut;t them and man
age them. More spirited horses than
competent riders! The fact is that in
tho church of God we have plenty of
fortresses well manned and plenty of
heavy artillery and plenty of solid col
umns of bravo Christian soldiery, hut
what wo most need is cavalry—mounted
troops of God—for sadden charge that
aeems almost desperate. If Washington,
if New York, if London, are ever taken
for God, it will not bo by slow bom
bardment cf orgumoutatiou or by regu
lar unlimboring of great theological
guns from tho pert holes cf the churches,
but by gallopof sudden assault i;ud rush
of holy euergy that will astound and
throw into panic tho long lines of drill
ed opposition armed to the teeth. Noth
ing so scares tho forces of sin as a re
vival that come;-, they know not whence,
to do that which they cannot till, to
work in a way that tin y cannot under
stand. They will ho overcome by flank
movement. Tho church of God must
double up their right or left wing. If
they expect r.s from tho north, we will
take them from tba south. If they ex
pect us at 13 o’clock at noon, wo will
come upon them at 13 o’clock at night.
Tho opportunitic ; for this assault are
great and numerous, but where aro the
men? “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses
if tbon ho able to r t liders upon them. ”
I’ru'.se For tho Frons.
The opportunitic i of saving America
and saving tho cmnv planet were never j
so many, never so urgent, never so tre
mendous r.a now. Have yon not noticed
tho willingness of tho printing press of
the country to give tho subject of evan
gelism full swing iu column after col
umn? Such work was formerly confined
to tract distribution and religious jrmr-
palism. Now tho morning and evening
newspapers, by hundreds and thousands
pf copies, print all religious intelligence
and print most awakening discourses.
Never sinco tho world has stood has
such a force been offered to all engaged
in the world’s evangelization. Of tho
more than 15,000 newspapers on this
continent I do not know one that is not
alert to catch m.d distribute all matters
of religious information. Oh, now I see
a mighty suggestiveucssin the fact that
the first book of any importance that
was over published after Johann Guten
berg invented tho art of printing was
tho Bible. Well might that poor man
toil on, polishing f.touca and manufac
turing looking glasses and making ex
periments that brought upon him tho
charge cf insanity and borrowing money,
now from Martin Bret her and now from
Johann Faust, ufitil ho set on foot tho
mightiest power for the evangelization
of tho world. The statue in bronze
which Thorwald.-vu erected for Guten
berg in 1837 and tho statue commemo
rating him by David D’Angers in 1840
and unveiled amid all the pomp that
military processions and German bands
of best musio could give the occasion
were insignificant compared with tho
fact, to bo demonstrated before all earth
and all heaven, that Johann Gutenberg,
under God, inaugurated forces which
will yet accomplish tho world’s redemp
tion. •
Tho newspaper press will yet an
nounce nations horn iu a day. Tho
newspaper press will report Christ’s
sermons yet to ho delivered and describe
his personal appearance, if, as somo
think, ho shall come again to reign on
earth. Tho newspaper press may yet
publish Christ’s proclamation of the
world’s emancipation from siu and sor
row and death. Tens of thousands of
good men in this and other lands have
been ordained by tho laying on of hands
to preach tho gospel, but it seems to mo
that just now, by the laying on of the
hands of tho Lord God Almighty, the
newspaper j^esses aro being ordained
for preaching th > gospel with wider
sweep and mightier resound than wo
have ever yet imagined. The iron horses
of the printing press are .••11 ready for
tho battle, hut where aro tho men good
enough and strong enough to mount
them and guido them? “I will deliver
thee 2,000 horses if thou bo able to set
riders upon them.”
Useful lit Itattle.
Go out to tho Soldiers' homo and talk
with tho men who have been iu tho
wars and they will give j’on right ap
preciation of what is ihn importance of
the cavalry service in battle. You hear
the clatter of the hoofs and the whir of
the arrows uud the clash of the shield;
and tho bang of the carbines as they
ride up and down tho centuries. Clear
back in timo Oymardyas led 20,000
mounted troopi in DeKfiriana. Jn xphus
says that when the I .raelit ; escaped
from Egypt .50,0'Mi cavalrymen rode
through the parted ibd ~oa. Three hun
dred and si venty-oney rs b fere Christ
Epamiuoudu i he;' led his tr... j s at full
gallop. Alexander, on a horse that no
other man could ride, led his mounted
troops. Seven thousand horsemen de
eded tho struggle at Arbeln
Although saddles were not invented
until the time of Constantino, and stir
rups were unknown until about 450
years after Christ, you hear tho neigh
ing and snorting of war chargers in tho
greatest battles of the agns. Austerlitz
and Marengo and Solferino were decid
ed by tho cavalry. Tho mounted Cos
sacks re-enforced the Russian snow
storms in tho obliteration of the French
army. Napoleon said if he had only
had sufficient cavalry at Bautzen and
Lutzen his wars would have trium
phantly ended. I do not wonder that tho
Duke of Wellington had his old war
horse Copenhagen turned out in best
pasture, and that tho Duchess of Wel
lington wore a bracelet of Copenhagen’s
hair. Not one drop of my blood hut tin
gles as I look at the arched neck and
pawing hoof and panting nostril of
Job’s cavalry horse. “Hast thou clothed
his neck with thunder? lie puweth in
tho valley; ho goeth on to meet the
armed men. The quiver rattleth against
him, the glittering spear and the shield.
He saith among the trumpets, Ila, ha!
aud ho smelleth the battle afar off, tho
thunder of the captains aud tho shout
ing-”
Tiio Hold Fasti.
I think it is the cavalry of the Chris
tian hosts, the grand men and women
who, with hold dash and holy reckless
ness and spurred on energies, aro to take
tho world for God. To this army of
Christian service belong the evangelists.
It ought to he the business of the regu
lar churches to multiply them, to sup
port them, to cheer them, to clear tho
way for them. Somo of them you like;
somo of thmn you do not like. You say
some are too sensational, aud somo of
them are not enough learned, and somo
of them are erratic, and somo cf them
aro too vehement, aud some of them
pray too loud. Oh, fold up your criti
cism and let them do that which wo,
tho pastors, can never do.
I like all tho evangelists I have ever
seen or heard. They are busy now; they
aro busy every day of the week. While
we, the pastors, serve God by holding
tho fortress of righteousness and drilling
the Christian soldiery and by marshal
ing anthems and sermons and ordinances
on the right si !<\ they are out fighting
the forces cf darkness “hip and thigh,
with groat slaughter. ” AH success to
them! The taster they gallop the better
I like it. The keener the lances they
fling the inert) 1 admire them. We rare
not what conventionality they infract
if they only gain tho victory. Moody
and Chapman aud Mills and Jones and
Harrison and Muuhnli and Major Colo
and Crittenden and a hundred others
are now making the cavalry charge, and
they are this moment taking Now York
and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for
God, and I wish they might take our
nation’s capital. Hear the tremendous
facts: There are now in this country
nearly 100,000 church congregations,
with nearly 21,000,000 communicants
and seating enpacify in church for more
than 43,000,000 people—in other words,
room in the churches for three-fourths
of the population of this country, and
about one-third of the population of this
country already Christian. In other
words, we will have only to average
bringing two souls to God during the
next three years and our country is re
deemed. Who cannot, nud. r tho power
of tho Holy Ghost, bring two souls to
God in thice years? As so many will
bring hundreds and thousands to God,
most of you have to bring only one soul
to God and the gospel campaign for this
continent w ill bo ended. If you cannot
bring one soul to God, or two souls, or
three souls, in three years, yon aro no
Christian and deserve yourself to bo
shut out of heaven. Tho religious pes
simists of this country aro all tho time
depicting the obstacles as ro great aud
our forces as ho small that we half of
the time feel that we aro attempting an
impossibility.
Take out of your prayers and preach
ing some of your stuffing of groans and
put in something of acclamation and
triumph, aud the United States will bo
gospeli/.ed, aud if the United States bo
gospelizod America will ho gospelized,
and, America gospelized, wo will take
Asia from the Pacific beach and Europe
from tho Atlantic beach, and not far
from now tho lost star we live on will
take its place among tho constellations
that never fell. Let the more than 21,-
000,000 communicants, as they lift tho
sacramental cup to their lips, take oath
that they will not rest until tho other
40,000,000 are saved. Tho opportunities
are all saddled aud bridled. Where are
tho men and women to guide them? “I
will deliver thco 2,000 horses if tbon bo
able to set riders upon them.” What
two men can do for good or evil is im
pressed upon me by the fact that, two
Scotchmen going to California, each
took something that would remind him
of his native country. The one took a
thistle, tho national emblem of Scot
land. The other took a hive of bees.
Years went by, and tho work of tho two
Scotchmen is widely set n. Tho curse of
tho Pacific slope is the thistle, and tho
blessing of the Pacific slope is tho honey
found everywhere in woods and fields.
In your life are you responsible for honey
or thistles, aud if one man can do so
much good and another so much evil,
how much could he dotxjfor the ransom
of this country by 21,000,000 people nil
consecrated?
Full L’p tlio Itlinds.
Got out of tho way with your dolor
ous foreboding and chango yonr dirges
for what wo have not done for the grand
march oi what wo may do and will da
The woman at Sedan, in whose house
Napoleon the last was waiting to make
surrender of himself aud bis army, said
I
to tho overthrown French emperor, I
'What can 1 do for yon?” And the do
spairing ex-monarch replied, "Nothing
but draw down the blind -o that I can
not be stared at.” iu thi ; gospel cam-,
paigu wo have plenty to'draw down tho
blinds. In God’s name, I say, pull up
the blinds and let the morning sun of
the coming victory shine upon us. What
we want in this campaign for God is
tho self abnegation and courage of tho
men of Sir Colin Campbell, who, as
Lord Bishop Cowio of New Zealand,
onco chaplain of his nrmy, told mo, said
to the troops: “Men, no retreat from this
place. Die right hero. ” And they shout
ed: “Yes, Sir Colin. Wo will do it."
And they did!
Temporary defeats ought not to dis
hearten. What is Bunker Hill monu
ment? Monument of defeat. But from
that bloody mount American independ
ence started for its grandest achieve
ment, aud all tho defeats of the cause of
God aro incipient victory.
Thy salats In all this glorious war
Bhail conquer, thongh they die.
They see tho triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye.
And now, standing as I do iu this
national capital, let mo say that what
we want in the senate and house of rep
resentatives and tho supremo court is a
Pentecostal blessing that will shako the
continent with divine mercy. There re
cently came into my hands the records
of two congressional prayer meetings, on
the rolls of which were the names of
tho most eminent senators and repre
sentatives who then controlled the des
tinies of this republic—tho ouo con-
gressiona^irayer meeting in 1857 and
the other in 18GG. The record is in the
handwriting of tho philanthropist, Wil
liam E. Dodge, then a member of con
gress. There aro now more Christian
men in tho national legislature than
ever before. Why will they not band to
gether in a religions movement which
before tho inauguration of tho next
president shall enthrone Christ in fho
hearts of this nation? They have tho
brain, they have tho eloquence, they
havo the influence. God grant them the
grace sufficient! Who in congressional
circles will cstl.hlish the capitolino
prayer meeting in 18S)7? Lot the even
ing of tho last decade of this century bo
irradiated with such a religions splen
dor. There aro the opportunities for a
national and international charge, all
bridled aud saddled. Whore aro tho
riders to mount them?
A Quick Flight.
Tho cavalry suggests speed. When
once the reins are gathered into the
hands of the soldierly horseman, and
the spurs are struck into tho flanks, you
hear tho rataplan of the hoofs. “Veloc
ity” is the word that describes tho
movement, acceleration, momentum,
and what wo want in getting into the
kingdom of God is celerity. You see tho
years are so swift, and tho weeks aro so
swift, aud tho days are so swift, and
the Tours ere so swift, aud tho minutes
aro so swift, wo need to bo swift. For
lack of this appropriate speed many do
not get into heaven at all. Hero we
are in the last Sabbath of the year. Did
you over know a twelvemonth quicker
to be gone? The goldourod of one au
tumn speaks to tho goldcnrod cf the
next autumn, aud tho crocus of ouo
springtime to the crocus of another
springtime, aud tho snowbanks of ad
joining years almost reach each other in
unbroken curve. Wo aro in too much
hurry about most things. Business men
in too much hurry rush into specula
tions that ruin them and ruin ethers.
People move from place to place in too
great haste, and they wear out their
nerves and weaken the heart’s action.
But the only thing in-which they aro
afraid of being too hasty is tho matter
of tho soul’s salvation. Yet did any one
ever got damaged by too quirk repent
ance or too quick pardon or too quick
emancipation? The Bible recommends
tardiness, deliberation and snuillike
movoment in some things, as when it
enjoins us to bo slow to speak and slow
to wrath and slow to do evil, hut it
tells us, “Tho king’s business requireth
haste,” and that our days are us the
flight of a weaver’s shuttle and ejacu
lates: “Escape for thy life. Look not
behind thee. Neither stay thou in all
tho plain. ” Other cavalry troops may
fall back, but mounted years never re
treat. They are always going ahead, not
on an easy canter, Lui at full run. Other
regiments hear the command of “Halt !”
and pitch their tents for the night. The
regiments of tho years never hear tho
command cf “Haiti” and never pitch
tent for the night.
Tho century leads on its troop of 100
years, aud the year leads on its troop of
805 days, and the day leads on its troop
of 24 hoars, nud the honr leads on its
troop of GO minutes, and all aro dashing
out of sight. Perhaps there aro two
years in which wo aro most interested
—our first and our last. Held up in our
mother’s arms, we watched tho flight
of tho first With wondering eyes wo
all watch the coming of tho last Tho
namo of that advancing year wo cannot
call. It may be iu tho niuoties of this
century, it may bo iu the tons or twen
ties or thirties of tho next century, hut
it is coming at full gallop.
Dow to Meet It.
With what mood will wo moot it? In
jocosity, as did Thomas Hood in his last
moment, saying, “I am dying cat of
charity to the undertaker, who wishes
to earn a lively Hood. ” Or iu fear, as
did Thomas Paine, saying in his last
moment, “Oh, how I dread this myste
rious leap in the dark!” Or in boastful
ness, us did Vespasian, saying iu his
last moment, “Ah, inethinks I am be
coming a god!” Or in frivolity, as did
Dcmonax, tho infidel philosopher, say
ing in his last moment, “You may go
home; tho show is over. ’ ’ Or conscience
stricken, ns did Charles IX of Franco,
saying in his last mounnt: “Nurse,
nurse! What murder! What blood!” Or
shall we meet it in gladness of Chris
tian hope, liko that of Julius Charles
Hare, who said in his lust moment,
"Upward, upward 1” Or liko that of
Rio , ,,r d Baxter, iu his lust moment say
ing, "Almost well. ” Or like that of
Martin of Tours, saying iu his last mo-
mrnt, "I go to Abraham's bosom.” Or j
like that of polished Addison, who raid |
in his last moment, “See with what ease i
a Christian can die. ” Or liko that of i
G' orgn White field, who felt that ho had
said nil that ho could of Christ, de clar
ing iu his last moment, “I shall din si
lent.” Or liko that of Mrs. fjchimmel- j
pcnnich, who said in her last moment:
“Do you not hear the voices? An<l tho
children's are the londe'st. ” Or liko that
of Dragonnatti, saying in his last mo
ment: “Stand aside! I see my father
nnel my mother coining to kiss mo. ”
Or ns diel the dying girl whei, having
a few evenings before sat on a bench iu
a London mission, was seen to have
tears of contrition rolling down her
check, nnel who, departing from the
rexnu, had pn* in her hand by a Chris
tiau woman a Bible, with the passage
marked, “The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin.” Though having
promised to bo at the next meeting, sho
did neit come. The Christian woman
who gave her the Bible was visiting the
hospital, and the nurse said to her: “I
wish yem had beeu here a little while
ago. We had a young woman who had
been run ove-r by a wagon. Poor thing,
she was fearfully crushed ami died al
most at once. Sho had a Bible in her
baud, with your name in it, and she
said when she was brought in: ‘Thank
God, I found Christ as my Saviour last
night! The blood of Je!Hus clirist, his
son, cleanseth us from all sin.’ ” Oh.
my friends, if all right for the next
world, the years cannot gallop past too
rapidly. If it were possible for the cen
turies to take the speed of the years, and
the years tho speed of the days, and the
days the sived of tho hours, they could
do us no harm. Tho shorter our life tho
longer our heaven. Tho sooner we get
out of the perils cf this life, if our work
bo done, the better. No man is safe till
he is dead. Better men than we have
been wrecked, and at all ages. Lord
aud Lady Napier were on horseback on
a road iu India. Lord Napier suddenly
said to Lady Napier, “Ride on aud fetch
assistance aud do not ask me why. ” yho
sped on and was soon out of sight. The
fact was a tiger’s eyes glared on them
from the thicket, and he did not dare to
tell her, lest, affrighted, sho fall in the
danger and perhaps lose her life. From
all sides of us, on this road of life, there
are perils glaring on us, from tigers of
temptation, and tigers of accident, and
tigers of death, and tho sooner we get
out of tho perils of this life the hotter.
Let 1897 take tho place of 1896, and
1898 the place of 1897, mid our souls
will Lo landed where there slin!l bo
“nothing to hurt or destroy iu all God’s
holy mount.’’ “No lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon. It shall not 1h> found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there. And
the ransomed of tho Lord shall return
and conic lo Zion, with songs and ever
lasting joy upon their heads. They shall
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and
sighing shall flee away.”
A Grand SjM-ctaclr.
Oh, will it not he grand when from
tho windows and doors of the “honso
of many mansions” we look out and see
passing along tho golden boulevards of
heaven the white horse cavalry that St.
John describes in Revelation? John
Wesley said he thought horses had souls,
but take the story in Revelation as fig
urative or literal, yon must admit that
ueno hut cavalry horses am mentioned
as being in heaven. John xix, 14, “The
armies which were iu heaven followed
him upon white' horses.” You s?c, they
aro mounted troops. Their leader is iu
deep crimson attire. His vesture, wo
aro told, is ‘ ’dipped in bleed, ” not blood
of human slaughter, as many other cou-
querors have their attire, but his own
blood, blood of crucifixion ageuy, the
blcod by which ho redeemed you and
me. That deep red of garment is in viv
id contrast with the snowy white charg
er on which our Lord is seated. Aud no
saved sinner ran gaze on that red and
that white without remembering that
though his sins were once red like crim
son they havo become whiter than snow.
Oh, those celestial cavalcades whom our
Conqueror in scarlet shall lead on
through the streets of heaveul Wide
streets, hundreds of mounted troops
abreast, long streets, thousands in sight
followed by coming thousands through
tho long day of heaven which hath no
setting sun. Mind you, only tho cavalry
are in that shining procession, those
who did work outside the forts, those
who dared nil things for God, those who
had iu them the spirit of holy dash. We
who did easy work may look at that
procession, but will not be u part of it.
There they pass, the equestrians and
equestriennes of heaven, regiments of
evangelists, of tract distributers, of
street preachers, of salvation armies,
of ouco half starved homo missionaries
on the frontiers, of those who did in
conspicuous service for Christ and never
had their name iu the newspapers but
once, aud that iu tho notice of their
own obsequies—a notice not accompa
nied by the request, “Bend nq flowers,’’
for there was no danger that there
would be a profusion of flowers.
As from the windows and doors of tho
"house of many mansions” wo look on
the passing spectacle some of us will
wish that on earth we had had less sal
ary and more hardship, less comfort and
more exposure, less caution and more
courage, less shelter aud more storm,
less smooth sailing and more cyclone,
and that we had dared all at the front
instead of taking good caro of ourselves
iu the rear. Forward, mounted troops!
Favorites of heaven! Cavalrymen and
cavalry women of fhu L<»d Gcal Al
mighty. No chargers of heaven too
white or too arched of nock or too
prancing of gait for those seated on
them. If Job’s warhorse, whilo tho bat
tle was going oo, said, “Ha, ha!” shall
not these chargers, now that tho day is
won, utter a more jubilant “Ha, ba?”
Forward, under arches of triumph, by
fountains rniubowed of eternal joy and
amid gardens abloom with unfading
efflorescence, and along palaces where,
after they have dismounted, these souls
shall reign forever aud ever, they muich,
they brandish their weapons with which
they gttiuod bloodless victory, and they
rise in stirrups of gold to greet nil tho
rest of heaven gazing upon them from
the amethystine balconies. A glorious
licit veil it \til Be for all of ns who any
where nud an; .. >w served tho Lord, but
an especial heaven, a mounted heaven,
i processional heaven, f..r those who
have done outside v. orb, exposed work,
and belonged to the Lord’s cavalry.
“The armies which were in heaven fol
lowed him upon white horses.”
Then, let tho creaking door of tho clos
ing year go shut. When that closes, bet
ter doors will open. The v orld’s bright
est and happiest years aro yet to conic.
Toward them wo speed on in swiftest
stirrup. Cavalry charge at Inkennan
was not so rapid. At last the equestri
ans equal tho chargers. At last tho
riders aro as many ns tho horses.
A Glaxu Mansion In Newport.
A magnificent dwelling hoosc, built
wholly of colored glass bricks, has beeu
planned to he built at Newport for a Pa
cific coast millionaire. The architects
aro not yet permitted to disclose tho
namo of the prospective owner of this
unique architectural oddity, first, be
cause ho is still aim ad, and, second, be
cause certain details of construction
havo not been determined.
This Newport building, which will
bo designed somewhat after the style of
an old Pompeiian palace, is to be begun
during the coining winter. On account
of tho elaborateness of tho design and
the great care and skill required in tho
construction of the building it will not
bo completed under two years.
The architects say that the ground
plan of tho honso will in somo respects
resemble that of the honso of Pausa, fa
miliar to readers of “The Last Days of
Pompeii.” Tho bricks will bo of vari
ous sizes, shapes raid colors, and the ef
fect will boof an oriental richness which
will defy description.
This will l o tho first residence in the
world constructed cf such material and
on theso lines. It is to ho built iu tho
form of a square, inclosing an open
court, inside of which a fountain will
play. By means of electric lights in
many colored globes concealed at tho
sourco of tho fountain tho water will
fall in a shower of varicolored hues. It
is said that tho owner of this fountain
contemplates on certain occasions hav
ing perfumed water flow from tho foun
tain, thus scenting tho entire court, and
on occasions of festivity a continuous
current of California wino of his owu
vintage will flow from tho pitcher held
iu tho uplifted hand of the bacchante iu
the center cf tho fountain.—Chicago
Chronicle.
TURNI]
AMD
Fntton Timepieces.
A buttonhole watch is obviously a
very useful and ornamental fashion.
This unique timepiece can always bo
kept in sight uml enables ouo to auswer
a question as to the time with tho min
imum amount of trouble. Largo quan
tities of these miniature watches were
imported from Franco for tho Christmas
Boason. The buttonhole watch fad orig
inated i:i France. They were first worn
by bicyclists in tho sleeve or iu ono of
tho lower buttonholes of tho coat They
enabled the cyclist to seo the time with
out iucouvcnieuce while riding at full
speed.
In America they will ho worn, how
ever, in tho lapel of tho coat. Tho or
dinary form of buttonhole watch has a
face about half nn inch iu diameter,
or even lers. It may readily be seen that
when these tiny faces aro tastefully dec
orated they will ho highly ornamental
to the lapel of most ccats. At a distance
they might readily bo mistaken for a
badge cf tho Legion of Honor or some
similar device.
Tho works of these novel watches are
about tho size of nn ordinary lady’s
watch. The face, which is about one-
fourth tho diameter cf tho works, is con
nected with the mechanism by n thin
neck. The buttonhole watches may bo
bought for $10, e.ltliQugh some of the
most elaborate designs aro worth ten
times that figure.—New York World.
Coal From China.
China has thrown down f he gauntlet
to the big coal miners of this country.
An American bark recently brought to
tho Pacific coast a mixed sample cargo
of anthracite and manufactared coal
mined and made iu the Touquin district
It ia intended to push the Chinese fncl at
prices greatly below those which Penn-
rylvauia and Welsh coals of tho same
character are now bringing. Experts
have pronounced tho Touquin coal bed
practically inexhaustible. Tho manufac
tured coal is entirely new to American
markets. It is made by tho Chinese na
tives from coal dust. Tho dust is mixed
with u pitchy snbstuuce and compressed
into egg shaped lumps. The inflamma
ble cement aids combustion, and the
coal makes a very hut aud n very clean
fire. Tho imported coal is said to be of
the finest quality, fully equal to tho best
American or British coals, whilo it c&u
bo sold profitably at a price much be
low the standard rates. Pennsylvania
and Welsh anthracite for bouse use aro
now selling on tho Paoiflocoast at about
|13 u ton. Tho Touquin coal of the same
grade cun bo sold to give a good return
at Ida ton, while Touquin anthracite
iteum coal can be quoted at least |1 a
ton under tho present price of Welsh
coal of that grade.
Temperature wf Deep Well*.
W. Hullock, a government expert ge
ologist, has taken tho temperature at
various depths in tho famous “deep
wells” at Wheeling. Several of theso
aro over 4,000 feet in depth. In one of
them—one in which tho depth, as given
by the foreman of the drilling company
which put tho well down, is 4,558 feet
—it was found that tho temperature at
a depth of 1,300 feet was 20.4 degrees,
centigrade. When the instrument was
lowered to a depth of 2,000 feet aud
given time to do its registering, it was
found that tho mark had been set at
83.2, while at a point only eight feet
from the bottom and 4,550 feet from
the surface of the earth it registered as
high us 48.4 degrees.—Si Lcraia Repub
lic.
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