UT^rtp THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. ( ., MAY «, 1897. STARVIXGr MILLIONS. AN ELOQUENT PLEA IN BEHALF Or FAMINE STRICKEN INDIA. 1U v. Dr. TaliuHco Is to Fill the Ships That Aro to Carry Food For the Starving 1'eoplo of India—A Thrilling Sertaua. Chicago, May 2. — Or. Talnjaao is on a inis^iou of tread for tlu* fauilnc suf- fi'rorx of India. He is shaking every day to vast audiences iu Iowa and lilinois, helping to fill the ships provided by til's United Ft ate* government for carry ing com to India. Text, Esther i, 1, “Tina is Ahasuerus which reigned from many ?rnre India even onto Ethiopia.’’ Among the 77d,() ( .<8 words which make up the Bible only once occurs the word “India. ’’ In this part of the Scrip tures, which the rabbis call “ Megillah Esther,’’ or the volume of Esther, a bok sometimes complained against be cause the word “God” is not even once Hjention. d in it, although one rightly disposed can see (Ted in it from the first chapter to the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus. who invaded Greece with 2 t OU<),000 men, bat returned in a poor fisher’s beat, had a vast d< minion, among other regions, India. In my text India tuk<« its place in Bible g ography, and the interest iu that land lias continued to increase un til, with more and more enthusiasm, all around the world Bishop Heber’s hymn about “India’s coral strand” is being sung. Never will I forget the thrill of anticipation that went through my body ajid mind and soul when aft er two weeks’ tossing on the seas around Ceylon and India — for tho winds Aid not, according to the old livmu, “hlov/Ta ft o'r Souls. Tho Baptist missionary, Carey, who did infinite good to India, had two great passions—first a passion for fceiuls and next a passion fe r flowers— and ho adorned his Asiatic home and tho American homes of his friend* and museum* on tithe r side of the se a with the results cf his floral expedition* in Inelia. To prepare himself leir morning prayer* ho was accustomcel to walk amid tho flowe rs and trees. It is tho heaven cf the magnolia and abelmosk anel palm tree. The ethnologist going there) will find endless entertainment in tho study of the) race snow living there and the race*s of whose* blood they arc* a eemimiugling. The historian go ing there will liuel his theory of War ren Hustings’ government in India the reve rse from that which Edmund Burke gave) him iu the* most famous aeldre ss eve r made in a courtroom, its two char* ae*te ristics matchles* c-loque-uce and cue siele*el ress cf statement. The archaxrlo- gist will bo thrown into a frenzy eif de light a* he visits Delhi e.f India and digs down and find* seven dead cities uiidcrneuvn the now living city. All hu-ee s* to the hunters and the* botanists uuei the ethnologists and the historians «md tho archsooleigists who visit Inelia, each one on his or her errand. But we today visit India as Christian women ard men to hear the full meaning of a groan of hunge-r that 1 as trawled 14,000 mile*, yet get* louder and more agonizing as tho days go by. But why have any inte re st in people so far away that it is eveming there when it is umru- i:.g here, tlieir complexion elarker, their Ixnguag* (a ns a jargon, their attiro unlike thM> found in any American wardrobe, tbrtr meniery rod their am- Uiiiou uui'Ju anything that vve recall or Lop* fiisil Vith more enipin:sis than you puk itcS* feM iuterregatory “Why?” I answer: First, because cur Christ was kb AsistMk K«v)it gave to us its monu ment*, IrBwr gava to ns its law, Gc*r- ♦*» us its philosophy, but Asia gave to a* it* Christ—his mother lui Afeitilk; tU* mountains tiiat locked down ug«*n him, Asiatic; the lukeson w kc*a pohUy banks he* r. sted and em VrTiose chopped wave * he walked, Asiut- ic; th« apeMlhM whe m lie first commis- sientd. Ahiatk; (he* audit ne-es be whelm ed with hi* illustrations drawn freim blccming Bhes, and salt crystals, and great rainfall*, and bellowing tem pests, and h^po-rites’long face s, and creaking ruimui—ail those audience* Asiatic. Christ daring his earthly stay was never outiiel* of Asia. \v’h« n he liael 16 or 18 year* to spare from his active work, Bistend of spending that time in Europe I tbirk he ge e* farther toward the heart of Asia—namely, Imiia. Th.* Bible say* uothing ef Clirist from 12 ye>ars cf age until 80, Let the ro are re c- ord* in l!:t!ia and traditions in India which represent a strange, wonderful, most excellent and supiinctural be ing us staying iu lue’.iu about tiiat time. I think Christ Wiss the re mueli of the* time between ht« tvre!fth anel his thirtieth year; but, kwteavtr that may lx*, Christ was beau iu Asia, suffered in Asia, died iu Asia p«4 MctHeie ei from Asia, and all that make s me* turn my ear more atte n- tivciy towarel that ccmineut as I hear its cry cf el is: re. s. Mittftiouary Acltieveiucnts. Besides that I remember that eemeof the* me st hpi«iiuid achievemeiits for tho cause of that Asiatic Christ have* been made* in Inelia. How the heart of every intelligent Christian beats with aei- n.irutieiu at the* mere menticu of the name* of Henry Martyn! Having reae! the life* of cur American Davitl Brain- erd, who gave his lile* to evangelizing our Ame rican savage s, Hcmy Mi.ityn goes 1< rward to give his life le r the* sal vation ef Inelia, e.ymg lie in exhaustion of se rvice* at 81 years of age*. Lord Ma caulay, writing ef l.im says: II'Te* Miirtyn He s. In ii:t*i:!:<.'<,d's e arly Plexnu Du* e lirif-; >:.n he ie» l< i.nu i*, j i.i.'iai ;< nb. R<*!if.i( a, st/iiew.r.g t/cr l.i i* lave) i'.'* «,n, l’< ints tu it <• iii,us tvogluis *., hit !i hi* wen. Ii. ii.i r;: I in ;,hu*s! Nut with :•-.."liter ml, Nor sti.initi with teais by 1:nunss orphan* shell. But trophies <.f the cross. In that tlcr.r name, Tlaouyh evi .y >< t ::< < 1 c::r < t , ti i! a::*t si:.• tan, Ciiwp.ul he jomneyed to that happy shore*, \ihi..e (baiter, toil untl eia:n;o uio huottauo moii*. Is there in all history, secular or re ligious, « more won iu us cliaraeier tliau William Cany, tli<* e < uverted shoemak er of Eng ;.:.*1, elating all things for God in Inoia, translating the* Bible* into many dialects, building chapels anel opening misiieu l.e.u* s and laying foundedie.ns le r the ie eltniptiou e.f tho countiy, and althcugh Fione.y Hutith, who sometime* laughed at things ho ought not t have* satirized, bad in tho le urn cel Eerinburgh lb view scolied at the* itle a of wliat l;e* eaile el “low I cm, low bred mtchauies” like Carey at tempting to ce avert the Eiab.mins, Carey stopted neit until In* had staiied inflututis that eternity, nei mere than time, shall have power to arrest, 218,- OCO Bibleji going le-rJi fre.m his printing pre sses at nkramp.ore*. His .sublime* hu mility shov.ceJ u.vslf in the epitaph be on.ere ei fn.m the old ge sp: 1 hymn: A V. n te hia, ja«or tnel Lelpleaa wom. lie said: “No; they only represent Gcd. There is but cue Goeb” “When people: die, where do they gc tc?” “That depends upon what they hr.vf bee n doing. If they have been dcinp good, to heaver:, and if they have beer; doing evil, to hell.” “But do yon not believe in the trans migration (T souls, and that after death Vic go into birds or uuimato of some f( rt?” “Ye*. The last creature a man it thinking of while dying is the cue intt which he will go. If he is thinking of ■ beast, he will go into a beast” “I thought yon said that at deatb the* soul goes tei heave n or hell?” “H*: goe s there* by a gradual proe**s. It may takr him years and years.” “Can any one become: a Hindoo: Could I lit come a Hindoo?” ‘‘Yes; you could.” “How c’onld I become a Hindoo?” "By doing as the* Hinders do.” From 1 he walls of ons of their mu seums at Jaipur I had translated fen me these beautiful sentiments: TI.i- wist- iritl.t fjilluri- c*juul to Ktuwss. Liki* t’.n Mis < * silver n e-n t) reiuph crTstt! be n'ls, l«*t love* through yoixi khow. IJo net to i.thi is li ::t which if ilin*.* to thee would cause) thee pain. And this is the «uta ot duty. A man obtains a proper rr.!n of action by IoeiI:i:*.B cn his ufdghbors ns himself. From tiiat continent of interest ins folk, from that coutimut that gave the Christ, from that continent which has been endeared by so many miinionary heroics, tin re* conics a groan of 80,000,- (.00 people in hunger. More people arc in danger cf starving to de ath in India today than the entire population of the United Ftz‘.os. In the* famine* in India in the year 1877, about G,000,000people starved to death. That is more* riian all the people of Washington, of New York, cf Philadelphia, of Chicago, put together. But that famine* was not a tenth part as awful as tho ecu there now raging. Twe*nty thousand are fly ing there ef famine everyday. Whole villages and towns lave* died—every mau, woman and child; none left te: bury the dead. The vultures and the jackals are* the only pallbearers. Thcug’ some help has been sent, before full re lie f can reach them I suppose there* wiT be at le ast 10,000,000 dead. Starvatio:, even for one person, is an awful pre.ee: ■). No foeid, the vitals gnaw upon them selves, and faintness and languor a id pangr from head to feie.t, and horror i ’ll (it spair :n:d insanity take fall pi sscss* u. One handful of whe at or corn 'or r c-e per day would keep life going, but they cannot get a handful. The crops failed, anel tho millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to be* hungry in a world where: there* arc emouglr grain and fruit and all tiie hungry mouths on meat tei fill the planet; and tiie getbe r. at l:ir! Her suns of mauv but, alas, that the sufferer: ply canne t Le brought to- stands India today! Look late dusky from the l et centuries; under 1:< v tur- Gii thy kinu ani.s 1 tall. Neeei I tell you cf Alphonse Lacroix, i ti e fc'wiss missionary nr India, or of : Vn’illiam Butler, the glorious American Jletheidist missionary in India, or (if the rcyal family of the* Beuddtrs of the IU formed church of America, my dear mother church, to whom I give) a kisseti love* in passing, or of Dr. Alexander Duff, the hcoteh missionary whose vis- 1 it to this country’some cf us. will re member li revel ? When he stood in tho ; old Broadway tabernacle, New York, and pleaded for India until thero was I no other elt pth of religious emotion for him to stir and no loftier he ight of Christian eh epic nee for him te» scale, anel close d iu a whirlwind cf hallelu iahs, 1 could easily belie vo that which was said of him—that while pleading tiie cause of India iu one of the church es of Feotkmd ho* got so overwrought that he fell in the pulpit in a swoon and was carried into the vestry to be resuscitated, and when restored to his Ecase s and preparation was being made to carry him out to some dwelling where ho could be put to bed he ecm- p* lied his friend* to take him back tc» the pulpit to complete his plea for the salvation of India, no sooner getting on bis feet than he began where ho left off. but with more gigantic power than be fort* he faiute d. But just as noble a* any I have mentioned are* the men and women who are there now for Christ's i sake* and the redemption of that people. I Far away front the ir native land, ram- : iue on cue side and black plague on the other side, swamps breathing on them malaria, and jungle s howling err them with wild te asts or hissing with cobras, the name * of tiie te missionaries of ail denominations to U* written so high on the roll ef martyr* that no name s of rhe last i,8U0 ye ars shall be written above them. You need to see the m at their werk in schools and churches and lazarettos to appreciate them. All Iron- I or upon them and their household* while I smite the lying lips of their slanderer*. Tlu* Iliniloo Faith. Most interesting are* the people cf In dia. At Calcutta i said to one of their lenders, who spoke English well: “Have these idol* which I see any pow t r of the nisei vc* *.p help or destroy?’ ’ ban such aching* of brow as cnly a dy ing natin leek-; her eyes hollow with unutte rable wee; the tears rolling down her sunken cheek; her back bent with 1 more agonies then she* knows how to curry; her e vens containing ue thing but asiits. Gaunt, gha-Hy. wasted, the dew of death upon her forehead and a "pallor such as the last l our brings, she I stretches ferth he r trembling la nd to ward v.s, iU-d with hearse whisper she says: “I am dying! Give me* bread! That is what I want! Bread! Give it to me quick. Give it to me now—bread! bread! bread!” America has heard the cry. j.Iany thousands of dollars have already letn ecrieributed. One ship laden with breadstulls has sailed from ban Francisco lor India. Uursenate* and 1 house ei representative?, in a bill signed i by e ut* sympathe tic pre sident, have an- ( thorizea the see rotary ef the navy to i charier a vessel to carry food te< the: I famine suffer, rs, anel you may help fill that ship. We want tei send at least 60.0,'.'OO bushels of corn. That will save i the lives ef at least 600,000 people. Many will re spend in contributions of ; money, anel the* barns anel terneribs of the* entile United .State* will jour forth their treasures of food. When tiiat ship is laden till it can carry no more, we will ask him who holels the winds iu bis list and plants his triumphant foot on btorniy waves to let nothing but good happen to the ship till it anchor* in Be ngal eir Arabian w ate rs. They who the dock* of St. Petersburg when the planks of the relie f *hip were thrown out and tho representative * of the mu nicipalities and of royalty went aboard her, the long freight train at the same time rolling down to take tin: food tc the starving, and on alternate curs ol that train American and Russian flags floating. But now the: hunger in Inuia is mightier than any that Ireland or Russia ever suffered. Quicker onght tc be tho response, and on so vast a scale that the one ship would become a whole flotilla—New York sending one, Boston another, Philade lphia another, Charles ton another, New Orleans another. Then let the m all meet in Be.me harbor of In dia. What a peroration of mercy for the nineteenth century! I would like tc stand en the wharf at Calcutta or Bom bay and see sueli a fleet come in. With what joy it would be welcomed! The emaciated would lift their heads on shriveled hands and elbows, and with thin lips ask, “Is itceming—something to eat?” And whole village* and towns, too weak to walk, would crawl out on hands and knee* to get the first grain ol eern they could reaeli and put it to their famished lip*. May I cry out for you aud for others to those sufferer*: “Wait a little longer, bear up a little mere, e*h, dying men of India;oh, starv ing women; oh, emaciated babe*! Relief is on the way, and more relief will scon be* coming. We* send it in the name of the Asiatic Christ, who said: ‘I was hungry, aud ye fed me. Inasmuch as yc have dene* it unto cue cf the least ol these my brethren ye* have done it untc me*.’ ” Christian people of America, I call your attention to the fact that we may now, as never before, by one magnificent stroke open the widest door for the evangelization cf Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way of Christianizing Asia has been the difference of lan guage, but all those people understand the gospel of bread. Another obstacle has been tho law of caste, but in what better way can wo teach them the brotherhood cf man? Another huge dif ficulty in the way of Christianizing Asia li:’* been tiiat those people* thought the religion we would have them take was no belter than their Hinriooism or Mohammedanism, but they will new Sfo by this crusade for tbo relief e.f peo ple 1-1,600 miles away that the Chris tian religicu is ef a higher, better and grander type than any other religion, fer when did the followers of Brahma or Vishnu or Buddha or Confucius or Mtbaimxcd ever demom trato like inter- irt in pee pie on opposite sider. cf the world? Having taken the bread of this life* from our hands, they will be mere apt to take from ns the bread of eternal life. The missionaries of different de ne minations iu India at 46 stations are already distributing relief sent through The CTiristk.n Herald. I; it not plain that these missionaries, afte r feeding the* hungt r e f the hotly, will ho at het- ti r advantage to feed the hunger of tho h uJ? When Christ, before pie.■.eking to the 5,COO in the* wilderness*, broke for ti: m tin* miraculous loaves, he indi cated that the* bo*t way to prepare the vve rid lor spiritual anel < ternal consider ations is first to look ■ Iter their tom- peral inteiists. Oh, church of Godin America and Europe! This is your opportunity. Wo have on cocasicps ef Christian patriotism evied, “America for God!” Now let us add the* battle shout, “Asia for God!” In til*.*; lucviment to give food to starv ing India i hear the rustling e f the wing ef the Apocalyptic angel, icady to fly through the midst of heaven pro- fiming to all the kinpde ms and pe*o- vrhatever. have been loyal to Gcd the awful re sults of disloyalty, so that none* t f then) may ever attempt it—I say our world, having finished its mission, may then go out of existence. The central fires cl the world which aro burning out rapidly toward the crust may have reached tht surface by that time, and the* Biblt prophecy be fulfilled which declares that the •*rth and all things that art therein shall be burned up. The ran somed buMiait race at that tune on earth will start ankart in those chariots o! fire for the great metropolis of the uni- ver««. ths heaven, where the redeemed of the* Lord Hiall talk over the faminct and the plagues and the wars which thii er.ith suffered aud agaicst which wt struggled and prayed as le ng a* then was any breath iu u*. Glorious eeiiiiium- matioa! fttm East and th* We«t. May 10, 1860, was a memorable day, for then was laid the last tie that con nected the two rail trucks which united tiie Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The Central Pacific railroad was built froir California eastward. The Union Pacific j railroad was built westward. They were within arm's reach of meeting, pains, my left arm only one iiwrs piece of tiie rail track tf that I was unable put down. A great audience assembled I midcontinmt to see tho last tie laid. The kjcomotive* of tho eastern and ! western trains stood panting on the tracks close by. Oration explained tiie j oecjtEion, end prayer solemnized it, and music enchanted it. The tie was made of polished laure l wood, bound with sil- . ver bauds, aud three spikes were used— a goltl spike, presented by California; a ' silver spike, presented by Nevada, and nu iron spike, presented by Arizona. When, all heads uncovered and all hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham mer struck tbs last spike into its place, the cannon boomed it kmid tho resound ing mountain echoes and the telegraphic instruments clicked to all nations that the deed was done. My friends, if the laying of tiie last tie that bound the cast and the west of one continent together was such a resounding occasion, what will it be when the last tie of tiie track ef gospel influences, reaching clear around the world, shall be laid amid the anthems of all nations? The spikes will be the golden and silver spikes fashioned out of tho Christian gonercs- ; ity cf tbo hemisphe res. The last ham mer stroke: that completes the work will j be heard by all the raptured and piled , KelViffCrtltor up gallerie s cf the universe, and the | mountains cf earth will shout to the throne.! of heaven: “Halleluiah, for tho Lora God Omnipotent uigue th! Halle luiah, for the kingdoms cf this world have* become the kingdoms cf our Lzrd Jesus Christ!” Of Mercury! Mr. Henry Roth, of 1848 tM«*li 9lh Street, St. Louis, was given tUa usual mercurial treatment for coatqgiom; blood poison. He was twica pras^unc- ed cured, but the disease ret armed eacU time, he was seized with rhmNtictic pains, and red lumps and mtrm cov ered bit body. “I waaim a hor rible i« ,T the- says, “mmd the mor« ttceot- ment I rtceiv- ed. th* worse* l seemed to gel. A New York specialist said he could cure me, but h:s treatment did me no good stiff and full of was useloK 'so to do erom the lightest work. This was my cenaditiou when I began to take S. S. S.. and a few bottles convinced me that I was being benefitted. I continued the medicine, and one dozen bottlea cured me sound and well. My system was under the effects of mercury, and I would soon have been a eromplctc wreck but for S. S. S.” S. S. S., {guaranteed purely vegetable) is the only cure SSS for real blood dis eases. The mer curial treatment of the doctors al ways does more harm than good. Beware of mercury! Books on the disease and its treat ment mailed free to any address by Swift Specific Co., Atlanta. Ga. Something New Under the Son! We have just put in a nice ami hereafter you can get nice beef, cold as ice, at the lowest prices, by calling ou Ci. ph* ai:el te ugucs the urn can liable riche* of Jesus Christ. Tiie (io:»*i<*l Circle. And now I bethink myn lf cf sonu*- thing 1 r.e ver thought cf holem*. I had i.otieHl t!::.t ii:c* circle is Grd’s favorite figure’, :;:,d upon that sal ject i. address ed yon se Die* time ago, ! ut it did not ecf’r.r to i::c* until in,w that the gospel te; ms to be* moving in a circle. It start ed iu Asia, E*. thlolicm, an Asiatic vil lage; Jordan, an Asiatic river; Calva ry, an Asiatic mountain. Then this gos pel moved cn to Europe. Witness tho chapels and churches and cathedral* and Ciiri.-tian universities of that con tinent. The u it crossed to America. It lias praye d and preached aud sung it* way across our continent. It has crcss- The Senate Wouldn't Mind. A group of De nioeratic congressmen in the cloakroom were discussing the attitude ef the senate with respect tc the tariff bill, fciciiie of them were in favor of agreeing to the Re publican pro gramme and adjourning without doing lusiiKss iii e rdcr that attention might be feeused on the* senate. They thought that this would hurry up the senate in the final disposition of tho bill. “It won't do anything of the kind,” said Congressman Terry cf Arkansas. “The senate will go ahead in it* own way and pass the tariff bill in its own time. It will be totally indifferent tc public opiuie u. It reminds me of a man with a wooden leg who used to be a neighbor of mine. As be* went down town eve ry morning ho had to pass a garden iu which was a noisy dog. The dog would run to the fence and hark and snarl until the man finally grew tiral cf the annoyance. One morning, as lie went by the garden, he opened the gate and stuck bis wooden leg in- biuo; The dog flow at it and chewed it to his heart's content. ‘Now,’said the man, T hope you feel better. You have had lot* e f fun, and you didn’t hurt me a little bit. ’ “The public,” said Ur. Terry, “will chew en the senate's Washington Post. Clarj & Kendrict DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C- Office over J. li. Tolle son's new store In office from 1st to 24th of eueli month; SOUTHERN RAILWAY. FMimuo.i via I’.'.r. i CoSid •r..>c.l S»*h «. - t V. c •*: ! *; l - -r r rail Ik '!v» !. IStiJ. HurtliUounii. I i t’u.i> i \ Vo i < r.v .•’I * •! -Jii:i •e So. 2C iMllV. vcoeieu log.”— help by contribution* of money or bio ads tuffs toward filling that relief t(1 to Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands ship will flavor their own feed ftr their in its way, aud now iu all the great lifetime with appetizing qualities aud insure their own welfare through the promise of him who said, “Blessed is be that eciisidereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him iu time cf trouble.” A Noble MUsion. Oh, what a relief ship that will be! It shall n it nun a screw nor hoist a sail until vve jave had something to do with its cargo. Just 17 years ago from these Easter tiucs a ship on similar errand went out fre m New York huilor—tho (Id war frigate Constellation. It had once carried guns of death, but there was famine iu Ire land, and the Constellation was loaded with 500 ton* of feed. That ship, cnee cove red with smoko of battle, thui covere d with Easter hosannas; that siiip, constructed to buttle England, go ing forth over the waters to carry relief to sonic of he r starving subjects. Better than sword into plowshare. Letter than spear into pruning hook was that old war frigate*, turned into a white winged angel of resurrection, to roll away the stoin* Iremi the mouth of Ireland’* sep ulchre. On like errand live years ago the* ship Leo put out with many tons of food for famine struck Russia. One fciut- ureffiy afternoon on the de ek of that Steamer, as she lay at Brooklyn wharf, u wondrens scene took place. A com mittee of the King’s Daughters had dec orated the ship with streame rs and bunt ing, American and Russian flags inter twining, Thousands of people ou tho wharves and ou the decks joined us iu invoking God’s blessing ou tiie cargo, and the long meter Doxology iu “Ulel Hundred” sounded grandly up amid tho masts and ratline*. Having had the joy of seeing tiiat ship thus consecrated, we bad the additional joy of standing on cities ou the coast of China people arc singing “Rod: ef Ages” and “There Is a Fountain Filled With Ble.oel,” for j you must know that not only have tho Scriptures been translated into those Asiatic tongues, but also the evangelical hymns. My missionary brother, John, translated some of them into Chinese, and Mr. Gladstone gave me a copy of * the: hymn, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” which he had himself translated into Greek. The Christ who it seems spent j 16 or 18 years of hi* life in India is , there now iu spirit, converting and sav ing the people by the handed* of thon- j sands, and tiie gospel will move right ou through Asia until the story of tho Saviour’s birth will anew be made known in Bethlehem, and the: story of ! a Saviour’s sacrifice be told anew on and around Mount Calvary, aud tho ! stcry of a Saviour’s ascension be: told anew on the shoulder of Mount Olivet. And then do you not see the circle will be complete? The glorious circle, tho circle of the earth! This old planet, gashed with earth quake and rcorchcd with conflagration and torn with revolutions, will bo gir dled with churches, with school*, with unive rsities, with millennial festivities. How cheering and how inspiring the the.ngiit that we are, whether giving temporal or spiritual relief, working ou ; the segment of such a circle! And that the Cbristly mission which started iu Asia will keep ou it* way until it goes Gear around to the place where it started! Then the earth will have dem onstrated tiiat fer which it was created, aud as socn as a world has completed its mission it dies. Part of the heaven* i* u ee men ry cf dead world*. Our world, built todoucualrutu to the worlds which Tolstoi an a C'Iicsh Euthr.sSrxt. An inte re sting piece cf chess news is scut from fc*t. Petersburg by tiie* ccrre- fponeh'rt of tin* London Daily Mail. lie says that Count Tolstoi, who is now staving in tzt. Petersburg, take s up from time: to time: a new hobby and devotes himself to it with astonishing energy. Chess is the latest e;f these, and the count is new studying openiugn, eeuu- binatious and end games with gre at as siduity. Visitors to the* house* v.nere the: great author and se vial reforme r live*? iu striking simplicity may frequently find Count Tolstoi and his wife aud children playing chess as if their lives depenele d upon the result. The table s in the various rooms are nearly all marked out us chessboards, aud even the dog* aud othe r family pets have: been given names of dices pieces—rook, knight, pawn, aud so forth. Lv Atff.tllrt. O. i*. » * r td ■ 1 i" MU ■i) u ;; ;•() i- • « Afi tntn. 1*. T. fi .’•J 1 1 P* .. • !-a * • i: V* • « NiinuiMt.. «l 'ii • 1. ti •», . i y K* • 4 liuf.iril h» H i ** | 7 . 1'* •» #• (Saiiii-iv. i ti*. in 1 • A p 7 -ii; •• > ft •• t.fin .. 1 r. P i 1 r» •j •* 4 19 " 1 '.ri.i.'i.i > •4 i ;c, i> At. \ti. Airy •. ** • 4 1 * j 3 ... . . Lv TiwriHl. ... ! 1 .. J u 1 :t jr> 8 •a *V W.-sHuiiislar 1 J lit/ III 4 1: IV ** Sm,.... a . .. . l.' 4S 1*1 4 In . 4 s. •• < '••i.tral .... ) ) Fi 4 !/' . . • 4 .Vi 4* • sr.M n»i!!n .. 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Ou being taken out of the water the* body e.f it was found to have suffered a good deal from rust, but the head anel beard are intact, and the bands only are missing. A magnificent marble pedestal was also discovered, bearing an iuse-ription showing it to have stoeid iu tho temple of Neptune. The statue has been placed in the mu seum here and has caused much interest aine'ug ardiieologists, who are inclined to class it with the* Jupiter Olympus of Delphi.—Athens Dispatch to Lou Jon Btaudurd. We* Awiike'M Interest. Two high das? German art journals— Vom Pels Zum Mecr aud Mode me* Kuu*t —of Berlin have recently printed beauti fully illustrated sketches of President McKinley and hi* family by C. Frank Dewey, an American writer, now liv ing in Be rlin. 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