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TRI-WEBLY EDITION. WINNSBOR09 S. C., MAY 9 1895.0SALSHD14 VIGILANTE METHOD& 2 Relentless Pursuit of Bad Men in Fa, Western America. The vigilants have a thorough sys tem of their own of private inquiry and espionage as well, says Chawnbers' Journal. Many a thief has mentally wondered, with much unnecessary pro. fanity, how it was known that he had appropriated some neighbor's calf, colt or horse. Each district has its owl committee. This committee does nol work outside its district save in spe eial cases. Committees assist each othei when required to do so. In heavy caset committees will join each together. It such an event from 500 to 1,000 met can be centered at any given spot or very short notice. When action is need ed every member must attend the ren. dezvous, absolute Incapacity from ill ness being the only excuse admitted. The members are bound to secrecy and to help and assist each other In all cases of emergency--to an extreme lim it. The obligation Is a stringent one. No one is admitted as a member unless he is well' reported on by the other members. An executive committee is formed of picked men only, who do all the .preliminary work, do it skillfully and thoroughly, and do not state the result of their labors until on the ev' >f carrying out their plans. As an illustration of how thorougi, :he vigilantes are in their methods I may give the following: Two "road agents" in Montana had killed without any provocation two passengers on a stage coach in open daylight. The agents, well mounted, started at once to leave the country. Three vigilantes followed them. Day after day the vig ilantes followed the trail, but failed to overtake the road agents, who, well - knowing the character of the sleuth hounds on their track, were forcing their tired horses toward the South. The latter at last gave out; the agents stole two fresh ones from a stable and renewed their flight through Idaho, down int Utah, and across to Nevada -the hunters- behind them tracking day by day and hour by hour. At last the vigilantes overtook their men, and two- ringing shots from Winchester rifles ended that chapter. A local paper afterward stated that "The bodies of two men, each shot through the heart, were found yesterday on the roadside. They had a considerable sum of gold on their persons, but no papers to Iden tify them by. It is supposed that this was vigilante work, as robbery evident ly was not an object-their pockets hav 'ug been undisturbed." Shingles for Dishes at Sociables. It-is now a fashion in the shingle dis tricts to use cedar shingles at church socials, musical and literary entertain ments, wher.e the program concludes with refreshments. The shingle is used as a food tray and is coming into gen eral popularity at church socials. There is always .a disposition on the part of some of the ungodly who at, tend ehurch to steal the plates on which the refreshments are served, but when the lukewarm coffee and ancient sandwiches are passed around on a cedar shingle worth about 9C * cents a thousand even the small boy has no desire to steal his plate. - Of course, there are certain fashions to be observedin using the cedar plate. In the first place, no fancy butts are allowable; soup Is served only on'ten inch clears, slightly cupped. *No shing gles containing sap or worm holes ar~ suitable for pudding dishes. Church sociedes who contemplate adopting thel new dish should read the following 'from an exchange: "Then followed refreshments. These9 were served from red cedar shingles cut about sIxteen inches square and covered with Jap napkins. Our cedar shingles miake good waiters, as their delicate odor, added to the aroma of steaming coffee, makes you hungry at the first sniff of it The girls take the shingles and napkins home for preser vatlon after their beaus ornament them with monograms and fresh poet ry. The latter Is sometimes too fresh and then the girl breaks the shingle over her beau's head."-West Coast * Lumberman. Reading and Talking. Those who read largely are best fitted to converse well, for they obtain from books and papers interesting matter for discourse. As to the manner, It can be be acquired only by social mingling with. our fellows. A hermit cannot be expected to be a good conversationalist. Whether in simple talk or in the higher forms of conversation we need to con sider the preferences of others and to -try to adapt ourselves to them. A real amiability will lend an indefinablo -charm to our speech. Abruptness, con tradiction, all assumption of mental superiority, are to be studiously avoid ed. Graciousness and considIeration are requisite for those who would make themselves helpful and agreeable. Chil dren should be encouraged not only to listen but modestly bear their part in the family talk, asking questions freely and relating their daily experiences s )lder people do.-Harper's Ba'mr. Real Nice Girls, Tooy It is very economical to fall in love with a girl who thinks theaters are wicked.-Exchange. - Speech Is Silver. Mrs. Houser-Have you any Idea what "speaking terms" means, Mr. Houser? -Mr. Houser-Certainly, madam. Any where from $50 to $200 per night. ac cording to the prominence of the lec turer.-Buffalo Courier. It is merely a matter of progress and poverty with the fast young man. The man who knows a great deal know b ttertnto tryto te iik A little anecdote 'ibout sarah Bern. hardt way throw some light on the mat ter of stage kissing, or at least demon strate that there are kisses and kisse on the stage as well as off. This emo tional actress was recently performing in a new play, and at the close of the last act she had to rush upon the stage, I kneel down by the side of her dead lov' er, who had been shot by a villain, and passionately kiss his forehead. 11 is said that French noblemen, poets, authors, and artists wrote to her, of. fering to serve as the corpse; and she, not wishing to offend any one, had a fresh person every night. The news of the scheme got abroad, to the vas! advantage of the box office. The fact that the ranks of the world's famous musicians are thinning fast is again recalled by the death of Rubin stein, following not far behind the deaths of Gounod and Tschaikowski. During his lifetime Rubinstein enjoyed a distinction in kind not unlike that of Liszt Like Liszt, he was one of the greatest piano players the world has ever seen, and after the death of the former he was, at least in the populai opinion, the very greatest. The amaz ing enthusiasm he created upon his visit to America many years ago at. tested to this. His later and more per. manent fame will rest upon his work I as a composer, and in that regard he will stand-for a time, at least-as a man of eminent talent, If not of genius, a skillful master of orchestral resources and a writer of music which rarely fails to charm and is almost never bar. ren of ideas. Brilliancy is the effect he gives first and most of the time. What he lacked was the strong force. the vitality and fire, the emotional bent and the depth which marked the greater exemplars of his art Pic turesque as was the figure he presented among his contemporaries, there will be an interesting and pathetic chapter of history to write when the story of his life is told. The early triumphs, the later unhappiness and the stormy course of life filled .with passionate likes and dislikes mark the career which seems to be typical of great artists, particularly when the artists -ire musicians. An interview was printed a few days .go with a Japanese gentleman in Ta. coma in which he was made to say that if it: had not been for the war with China his government would have seized the Sandwich Islands. Well, suppose it had made the attempt what would have happened? Of course this government could not have tolerated anything of the kind. A ringing pro test would have been sent at once to the Japanese government, warning It to keep hands off. If it had not paid attention to the warning then the President would have called Congress together. - Every available vessel in the navy would have. been sent to the isl ands. Meanwhile the regular army would have ben increased to 50,000 men with further reinforcements of Pacific coast volunteers. They would have gone to Hawaii and stopped the business. If it so happened that our fleet and our troops proved insufficient at first they would have been increased. They would have taken possession of Hawaii and the Japs who were not killed would have been captured and sent back to Japan and Japan would have paid the expenses. And Europe would not have, interfered. While the Japanese have something over 12.000 people in the islands this country has the prior lien up)on them. If we do not take them ourselves neither shall wve allow any one else to take them. It is fortunate therefore for the Japs, if such were their purpose, that they are in war with China, because they are thrashing the Celestials. If they had been in war with Uncle Sam it would have been most unfortunate for them,. for they wTould have been the thrashees He Hadn't Thought or That.' A colle:-tor of unpaid bills has a hard time of it, but one met a philosophical debtor recently who convinced him of some astounding facts. The collector says tha:: he had been chasing up the said philosophical debtor for about six months and was getting tired of the ob. It was always "come around to morrow" or "haven't got It now." "Say," he said when he made his last trip, "are~ you ever going to pay thir bill?" "Why, yes, some day," the philos opher replied. "But, look here, young man, I want to show you a thing or two. Hc w many bills have you got In that pack?" "About forty," said the collector. "How long does it take you to visit all these people?" the philosopher ip guired. "About a day." "What if all paid up promptly?" "Why, that would be great" "Would It? What would you do for a. living if all these debtors paid up n one day?" The collector looked blank for a mo ment. "Great Jerusalem! I'd be out of L ob." "Well, then, don't be so anxious to collect every cent due your people. One bill a day Is enough. As for me, come around some time next week, and I may do something for you," and the philosopher faded away. -Syracuse ?ost. Women in Journalism. Women in journalism have a serious new difficulty to contend with now. The type casting machines that are coming Into general use on the big! daily newspapers have no provision whatever for itallcs.-Somerville Jour nal. Many a manis living an honest life who wouldn't if the jail were farther Food f6r Thought. Nothing is so brave as love. A singed cat dreads the cold. Every life is a prayer of some kind. Wnerever there is love there will be trust. Between two evils some folks choose both. Whatever duty has to do, love likes to do. To be without faults is to be without t friends. Time is but a freckle on the face of eternity. t Good example always brings forth good fruits. The man who cheats another robs himself. t Life is a sea in which people swim t and show uff. Economy may be as unwise as ex travagance. t When the heart gives, the gift is al- c ways great. The secret of education lies in res pecting the pupil. An opportunity missed may be an eternity lost. It is a doubtfal felicity, : that of "reverencing." No promise is as certain as the thing promised. I Angels would weep if mon had to be judged by each other. The truths a man carries about with him are his tools. Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character. The most merciles of all masters is the unrelenting pas t. Because a woman trusts a man is no e sign that he should be trusted. A great nature is always dignified and 9 b3yond the reach of satire. I have fire proof perennial enjoy ments, called employments. Sometimes even the man who go e t wrong pays as he goes He that will hope for true delight, with virtue must be graced. Bate would oyercome by killing; love conquers by dying. Dying grace is a good thing to b hope for, but living arace will bring it. No matter who has the floor, self- t conceit will always find a way to f speak. Those who borrow trouble never get a chance to pay it back. The bands grow heavy when the heart is we i . The tritly wise man will never worry a about what he can't help. Patting a crown on the head puts nothing kindly in the heart. a There is no severer test of self-re- a hance than a threadbare suit. You cannot step on a man's toes d without hurting his feelings.. b Kindness is the golden .chain by b which society is bound together. Benevolence is allied to few vfces; elfishness to fewer virtues. Hiding a sin isn't a bit safer than b 1iandling a rattlesnake. There are more people governed by their humor than by their reason. a A The ~Tide. Son (reading)-"There is a tide In the 1 affalhs of men which, taken at the flood, I leads on to fortune." What kind of tide does that mean? t . Practical Father-Tied down to buss a oiess.-Good News. - A Wise Lover. "Bill, wculd you marry a gal like e that?"8 "Not for yer life! It'd take a Rocky-k feller or a Astor to-keep her in chewin' n gum."-Exchange. The Craze for Foreign Titles. n tti it "Papa, is he mine?" "Yes, daughter a0U take him and be happy, and be mighty p e~areful of him. He cost me a cool mi.l lion." -n Full-Fledsged. Noah Count-Well, Hedison, any new a conceit on hand? Inventor-Yes; my son's home fron r< school-Cleveland Plain Dealer-.t 11 A Sacrifice. Parson-I am sorry to see that yot. a have given up your pew, particularly in 0 Lent. P Mrs. Worldly-Yes, I know; but I i cost so much for the children's dancing b lessons this winter, and we had to gIve up something.-Texas Siftings.d For Equal Rights. "You say you believe in equal righta for both men and women?"e "I do, Indeed." "In whose interest are you carrymlL on this crusade?" "Mrs. Lease's."-Judge. An Effect Missed. I Hie-I shot him in the Rockies. She-What fierce eyes he had! lHe-Oh, they are only glass. She-I see. You had the advantage of him.-Life. The Inference,. "Crabb is a man who asserts his an thority In his own house." "How sad; I hadn't heard before tha' hi wita was dead."-Eqagg. 1g REV. D1. TALM MA.1 'CE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUY' PAY SERMON. Subject: -kiaster Jubilee." 'T.r: "Death is swallowed up in vio ory."-I Corintiiia.s xv., M. About 1661 Easter mornia s have wakenek he earth. In France for three ce..turies thi imanacs mAide the year lein at Easter un. ilChiarles IX mw- the year begin at Jan.1. n the Tower of London there is a royal pal oil )f Edward I. on whir-h there is an entr3 ,f eighteen pene*e for 41) colored and pieo arel Easter eggs, wrth which the poplt ported. In Russia ws were fed and'lms re distributOd on E:L-r. Ecelesiastieal couneil; met at Pontus. a 'raul, at Rome. at Aehr in. to decido the par icu'ar day, anl arter a controversy more niniated than gracious decided it, and nov rough all Christend-om in some way the .rst Sunday after the fi!! moon which hap ens upon or next after March 21 Is tiLlet rith Easter rejoicing. The royal court a be Sabbaths is mad.- up of i'fty-two. Fifty ne are princes in the royal household, bia aster is queen. She wears a richer diaden nd sways a more jeweled scepter; and i er smile nations are irradiated. W.., wel oma this queenly day, holding high up ii er right hand the wren-hod ol bolt o 'hrist's sepuleher and holding high up i, or :eft hand the key to all the cemeteries ii hristendom. My text is an ejaculation. It is spun on f halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in hi rgument about the resurroction and. ob arved a. laws of logic, but when hi ama to wnce the words of the text hii ng-ars and his pen and the parchment on rhich he wrote took fire, and he cried out, Death is swallowed up in vitory!" It is a readful sight to see an army routed and yixg. They scatter everything valutble om ie track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoof oi orse on breast of wounded and dying ian. You have read of the French falling ack from Sedan. or Napoleon's track o1 ,000 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, or f the five kings tumbling over the rocks ol ;ethoran with their armies, while the hall. toris of heaven and the swords of Joshua'a .osts struck them with their fury. But in my text is a worse disco.mfiture. It sems that a black giant proposed to con ner the earth. He gathered for hishost all ie aches and pains and maladies and dis )mpers and epidemics of the ages. He iarched them down, drilling them in the ortheast wind, amid the slush of tempests. [e threw up barricades of grave mound. He itched tent of charnel house. Some of the mops marched with slow tread, commanded y consumptions; some in double quick, ommanded by pneumonias. Some he toot y.long besiegement of evil habit and some y one stroke of the battleax of casualty. ith bony hand he pounded at the doors of ospitals and stokrooms and won all the vic >rles in all the great battlefields of all the ve continents. Forward, march! the con neror of conquerors, and all the generals ad commanders-in-chief, and all presidents ad kings and sultans and czars diop under ie feet of his war charger. But one Christmas night his antagonist wai orn. As most of the plagnes and sicknesse nd despotisms came out of the east it was pprpriate that the new conqueror should oMe out of the same quarter. Power is iven Him to awaken all the fallen of all the Bnturies and of all lands and naashal them gainst the black giant. Fields have already Ben won. but thelast day will see the de. sile battle. When Christ shall I -d fortk [s two brigades, the. brhgde of:'he risen 9ad and the brigade of the celestial host, the lack giant will fall back, and the bdgade on the riven sepulchers will take him from anatb, and the brigade of descending im. toitals will take him from above, and death shall be swallowed up in victory." he old braggart that threaiened the con nest and demolition of the planet has lost is hrone, has lost his scepter, has lost his alace, has lost his prestige, and the one ord written over all the gates of mausoleum ad catacomb and fbecropolis, on cenotaph ad sarcophagus, on the lonely cairn of the retic explorer and on the catafalque of ret cathedral, written in capitals of azalea ad calla lily, written in musical cadence, Titten in doxology of great assemblages, ritten on the sculptured door oi the family ault, is "Victory.' Coronal word, emban erad word, apocalyptic word, chief word ol 'iumphal arch under which conquerors re tir. Victory! Word shouted at Culloden ad. Balakiava and Blenheim; at [egiddo and Solferino' at M'iarthon, where 1 Athenians drove 'bask the Modes; at oletiers, where Charles Martel broke the inks of the Saracens; at Salamis, where hemistoles lnthe great sea ilght confound the Persians, and at the door of the east n cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ ime out through a recess and throttled the ing of terrors and put him back in the che from which the celestial conqueror ad just emerged. Aha, when the jaws of L eastern mausoleum took down the black lant, "death was swallowed up in victory!" I proclaim the abolition of death. The old atagonist is driven back into mythology ith all the lore about Stygian ferry and aron with oar and boat. We shall have o more to do with death than we have with o cloakroom at a governor's or president's vce. We stop at such cloakroom and leave tcharge of the servant our overcoat, our rershoes, our outward apparel that we may ot be impeded in the brilliant round of the rawing room. Well. my friends, when we out of this world we are going to a king's iquet, and to a reception of monarchs, and the door of the tomb, we leave the cloak aesh and the wrappings with which we est the storms of the world. At the close~ our earthly reception, under the brush and oom of the porter, the coat or hat may be aded to us better than when we resignted ,and the cloak of humanity will finally be turned to us improved anid brightened and mifed and glorified. You andI I do not at our bodies returned to us as they are ow. We want to get rid or all their weak ~sses, and all their susceptibiiitics to a gue, and all their slowness of lo.*omotion. hey will be put through a chemn:stry of ' il ii heat and cold and chan;;ing seanna tut which God will reconstruct the'm as miu.-b ~ter than they are now as the bob'y ofthi esiest and healthiest child that bounds 'over t lawn is better than the siekest patient in te hospital. But as to our soul, we will cross right ovet. >t waiting for obsequies, independeont of yituary, into a state in every way hetter, ith wider room and velocities beyond corn. itation; the dullest of us into companion tp with the very best spirits in their very ist moods, in the very best room oft the uni irse, the four walls furnished a. ran'~ei id, pictured and glorified with all titnselen yrs that the infinite God in all ages has bc-n 13 to invent. Victory ! 'lis view of course malkes it of but litth portance whether we are cremated or pultured. If the latter is dust to duit, the *ner is ashes to ashes. If any prM'er in eration, let them have it without ear a tre. The world may become so) eron,.(I at remation may be unive-rsally' ado ' Slaw as well as by general connut. 31any the mightiest and best of earth have .-onl rough this process. Thousands and ten:! thousands of God's children have been emated. P. P. Bliss and wi fe, the evange it singers, cremated by accident at Ashta ia bridge: John Borers crenmated h' ne's iton, Latimer and Ilily cremated at ox. rd, Pothinus and Blondina, a slave, and exander, a physician, and their comnradlcs emated at the order of Marcus Aurelius. least a hundred thousand of Christ's is. ple cremated, and there can be no dlout xut theresurrection of their bodies. If the Orld laot as much longer as it has al rea13 ien built, there perhaps may be no roort r the large acreage set apart for the resting oes, but that time has not come. Plenta nam wat.and. the rae neead not nas s.a Urrdge~ o fire'uhtil it aomes to it. The ido. of us prefer the old way. -But whether oul of natural disintegration or cremation wE shall get that luminous, buoyantadsomt Xanseenaent, magninoent Mexpa estrue aure called the resurrecetion body you will 2ave it, I will have it. I say to you to-day is Paul said to Agrip "Why should it be hought a thing inroible with you that God thould raise the dead?" That far up cloud, higher than the hawk lies, higher than the eagle Ilies, what is it iade of? Drops of water from the Hudson, Dther drops from the East Biver other drops from a stagnant pool out on Newark fats. Up yonder there embodied in a cloud, and he sun kindles t. If God can nake such 4 ;str~us.loud out of water drops, many of them soiled and impura and fethed from niles away can He not transport the frag Ients of a iman body from the earth and >ut of them build a radiant body? Cannot aod, who owns all the material out of which bones and muscle and flesh are made set hen uD. ailn if they have fallen? If a :rierruturer rt-eseops a releseope >n the floor, and it breaks, can he not mend t again so you can. see through it? And if ;od drops the human eye into the dust, the ?ye which He -orjginally fashioned, can He aot restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer of :he telescope, by a change of the glass and a a ihange of focus, can make a better glass than :hat which was originally constructed and ietually improve it, do you not think the ashioner of the human eye may improve its fight and multiply the natural eye by the bousandfold additional forces of the resur. -eetion eye? "Why should it be thought with you an in redible thing that God should raise the s lead?" Things all aroundus'suggest it. Outi E >f what grew all these flowers? Out of the nold and earth. Resurrected. Resurected. the radiant butterfly, where did It come t 'rom? The loathsome caterpillar. That al, ( matross that smitesthetempest withits W ,1 rhere did It come from? A senseless shell sear Bergerac, France. in a Celtic tomb, un, ler a block were found flower seeds that had 9 >een buriea 2000 years. The explorer took c he flower seed and planted it, and it camq ip. It blomed In bluebell and heliotrope, rwo thousand years agc buried yet resur; ected. A traveler says he found in a mum- E ny pit in Egypt garden peas that had been b )urfed there 8000 years ago. He brought hem out, and on June 4, 1844, he planted I hem, and in thirty days they sprang up' 3nrled 3000 years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be thought a thing in ,redible with you that God should raise the lead?" Where did all this silk come from he silk that adorns your persons and your iomes? In the hollow of a staff a Greek nissionary brought from China to Europe he progenitors of those worms that now nupply the silk markets of many Nations. e pageantry of bannered hosts and the uxurious articles of commercial emporium. ilazing out from the silk worms! And who ihall be surprised if out of this insignificant Iarthly life, our bodies unfold into something rorthy of the coming eternities? Put silver nto diluted niter. and it dissolves. Is the dlver gone forever? No. Put in some pteces >f copper, and the silver reappears. If one g broe dissolves. another force reorganizes. "Why should it be thought a thing in. tredible with you that God- should raise the lead?" The Insects flew and the worms irawled last autumn feebler and feebler and t ben stopped. They have taken no foodl r beyqwant none. They lie dormant and In iensible, but soon the south wind will blow lie resurrection trumpet, and the air and the Iarth will be full of them. Do you not thnk :hat God can do as much for our bodies as He toes for the wasps, and the sp der, and the mails? This morning at half past 4 o'clock here was a resurrection. Out of the night, . he day. In a few weeks there will be a res- g arrection in all our gardens. Why not some lay a resurrection amid all the graves? tlrarrd anon -thre--are 4nstanees of men I and women entranced. i A trance is death. followed by resurrectio' ifter a few days-total suspension of menta lower and voluntary action. Rev. William b 'ennent, a great evangelist of the last gen- v ration, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a 9 nan far from being sentimental wrote in nost eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten- e ient seemed to die. His spirit seemed to % tave departed. People came in day after 1 lay and said, "He is dead; he is dead." But f, he soul returned, and Willam Tennent lived o write out experiences of what he had seen a vhile his soul was gone. It may be found s] ome time what is called suspended anima. d ion or comatose state is brief death, giving he soul an excursion into the next world, ~ rom whichit comes back-a furlough of a a ow hours granted from the conflict of life to 6 vhich It must return.; Do not this waking up of men from trance bud this waking up of grains burled 3000 rears ago make it easier for you to believe p bat your body and mine, after the vacation r< >f the grave shall rouse and rally, though here be 3006 years between our last breath a ind the sounding of the archangelic reveille? T Physiologilsts tell us that, while the most of t: mur bodies are built with such wonderful iconomy that we can spare nothing, and the , oss of a finger Is a hindrance, ahd the in ury of a toe joint makes us lame,-'still we fi tave two or three apparently useless physit a al apparati, and no anatomist or physlolog at has ever been able to' tell what they are lood for. Perhaps' they are the foundation fr >f the resurrection body, worth nothing to ft is in this state, to be indispensibly valuable . n the next state. The Jewish rabbis appeart :o-have had a hint of this suggestion when :hey said that in the human frame there was 18 ismall bone which was to be the basis of the t) 'esuri~ection body. That may have been a - leluslon. But this thingis certain, the Chris- S ilan scientists of our day have found out 1 :hat there are two' or three superflnities of :n he body that are something gloriously sug. ~estive of another state. I called at my friend's house one- summer Iay. I found the yard all piled up with rub >lsh of carpenter's and mason's work. The loor was ofT. The plumbers had torn up the J loor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. ti UAl the pictures were gone, and the paper ir angers doing their work. All the modern m'provemtents were being introduced into :hat dwelling. There was not a room in the S iouse fit to live in at that time, although a hI nonth hefore, when .1 visited that house, ~verything was~ so beautiful I could not have udsted an improvement. My friend had i t.mn' with his family to the Holy Land, ex- II n-si~ to come back at the end of sixmonthsa ya vhon the building was to be done. u An:I, oh, what'was his joy when at the ndi of six months he returned and the old aonso was enlarged and improved and glo- tI rified! That is your body! It loooks well is ow. All the rooms filled with health, and re could hardly make a suggestion. But titer awhile your soul will go to the Holy a' Ladd, and while youare gone the old house tc yr year tabernacle will be entirely recon- hi structed from cellar to attic, every nerve, :nuele and bone and tIssue and artery inust be baaled over, and the old as structure will be burnished and adorned hi t.nd raised and coupolaed and enlarged. tr mnd all the improvements of heaven intro lueed. and you will move into it on resurrec- e: -ion day. "For w" know that, If our earthly ra 4eo t" ta'r)acale were dissolyed, we e inve a Dutiding of Godl, a nouse not made sitn hands, eternal in the heavens." Oh 9 ilhat a dacy wvhen body and soul meet againI :e l'hey are very fond of each other. Did tour body ever have a pain and your gy oul nrot re-eeho it? Or, changing the . uesion, did your soul ever have any vI rouble and your body not sympathize It: rithi it, growing wan and weak undei bi ple depressinag influenee? Or did youa iial ever have a gladness buit your body 1 telebrated it with kindled eye and cheek an'i y elastic step. Surely God never intended twc y suceh good frie'nds to he very' long separated.. And so when th'e world's las~t Easter mornia sheall come the soul will descend. crying, If "Where is my- b' 1y? And the body will;, ascend, sayinc "Whnero is my soul?" And , .he Lord of the r"surreton will bring them . together, and it wIl be a perfect soul in a erfeet body. introduel by a perfect Chrisi ut Into a pegrec have \ Vi(torvt , SlYRIADS OF SPARROWS KILLED BY THE HURRICANES. Such Destruction Not Seen Since the Great Blizzard-Sparrows as a - Food Commodity - A Parasite on Man. I HERE is no telling how many millions of sparrows were de ' s stroyed kby ,the two recent , hurricanes, which swept the 'tlantic seaboard. No such destruc ion of bird life by storms has been !ecorded since the great blizzard of tarch, 1888, when vast numbers of eathered victims were picked up in qew York, Pennsylvania andelsewheie, Lfter the snow had melted. Reports rom. many States say that the havoc mong the sparrows caused by the vinds has been enormous. They have )erished by myriads. Not the winds, however, but the airis accompanying them were re ponsible for the mischief. Atmo pheric disturbances often cause wide pread 'disaster to sparrows. A cold torm comes at night, after the birds .re assembled in large numbers at heir roosting places. They get wet. )rdinarily their feathers, being anex ellent non-conductor, keep them rarm. But when the plumage is moist .nd has lost its fluffiness, it does not Learly cover the animal. Feathers, ou see, are not put on all over abird. .hey are arranged in lines and patches Lere and there. If you will examine he body of a sparrow, separating the dumes with your fingers, you will find hat it is actually more the half Laked. The wind blowing on the wet eathers causes the water to evaporate sore rapidly. Consequently the bird ets chilled and perishes. The cause f its death is simply lowering of its ody temperature. Even in a human eing a lowering of a degree or two in emperature & quickly fatal. 'Thus he sparrows, which cannot find sheltez re likely to succumb. Very likely ome of them will be found in the iorning fluttering about on the round, still alive, but unable to fy. perhaps the sunshine revives them iter in the day. During the spring rhich followed the famous blizzard he scarcity of sparrows was generally emarked. Following out. the notion hat it is an ill wind which blows no ody any good, many people make a ractice of gathering the birds after torms for the table. Most people entertain a prejudica gainst eating sparrows. Having long aspected that it wasunreasonable, the rriter picked up half a dozen of the ,irds in the grounds.of the Smithson m Institution on the morning after he last hurricane. He had them ,roiled for dinner, tasted the first one rith some hesitation, and ate them all rith great relish. In fact, they werf xcellent, though each one made only mouthfuLe It is not surprising to arn sparrows have been used fo )O#1ii Europe for centuries. They re sold by poulterers in England at a illing a dozen, and are considered a elicacy. Immense numbers of them re killed every autumn along the Del ware, not far from Philadelphia, as Liey are feeding on the seeds of reeds i the marshes. The sparrows thus obtained are pre ared and sold as reed birds in the 3staurants. Further South they figure a rice birds on eating house tables. hat many of them are disposed of in ic markets under these assumed ames there can be no doubt. When iey have been feeding in the grain elds or in the wild rice marshes their esh is especisdly good. If caught live in the cityr their flavor can be mnch improved by feeding them for a tw days with oatmeal, cornmeal 03 heat. They do not taste like reed irds, but more like snipe. The meal. decidedly gamey. It is said that iey make an admirable pot pie. Pos bly canned sparrows may be a elicacy of the future, vying with etolans in the estimation of the epi. ire ! If the public could be educated to,. tst appreciation of the quality of the >arrow as an edible, the multiplies on of the species might be kept with Sbounds. To this latter object the >ortsmen' are now contributin to >me extent, shooting the birds f'roza -aps. In 1880 the sparrow occupied only )ont 15,600 square miles of territory this country. Within the next five ears it spread over 485,000 square iles in addition. At present it in sts the whole of the eastern half ol ~e United States, and in the West ii found wherever there are settle ents. The bird is a parasite on man, id nowhere in the world is it known thrive far away from the human munts. It has a big brain and a high agree of intelligence. Having been, sociated with mankind throughout storical times, it has developed cx aordinary cunning. The species is tremely fecund, one pair commonly ,isingv from twenty to thirty young in season. If there were no deaths, the ~ogeny of a single couple in ten years >ld number 275,716,698. The sparrow's worst enemy is the itcher bird, a small shrike which sits most Northern cities in winter. s peculiar method in capturing small rds and mammals and impaling them ithorns or sometimes on the sharp 'ints 0r naro wire rence. nas onten ..n described. Many little screech dis, too, have taken up their resi siee in the towns, having learned to 1on sparrowsv. They attack them anhsk, when the sparrows have re ea for the night and are~not sum mtly wide awake to escape. The in the street. Likewise the ejsaotw hawk and the sharp-shinned hawk are the foes of the sparrows. Many peo ple have noticed how sparrows will hop about in the poultry yard at feed ing time, sharing the grain with the hens and sometimes driving the latter away. Ducks avenge such outrage. DOcasionally by catching the sparrows and eating tliem, wetting'them in the watering trough to render doglutition easier and thenswallowingthem whole, -Washington Star. n S edFoxes Too Plentifnta - About fifteen years ago a numler ca red foxes were.brought from Kentuck3 to Missouri, the object being to furisi sport for men and dogs. The animah were turned loose in tha vicinity o: Otterville, Cooper County,. and in : short time "replenished the -earth' to such an extent that all the farmer except ardent sport-lovers regret th< experiment which brought the shrewi animals here. They have become i costly nuisance in the destruction o, pigs, lambs, game and poultry, an( what fox-hunting is now done is largeli with a view to extermination. The sportsmen, according to a correspond ent of the St. Louis Republic, soo discovered that the common hound i entirely inadequate to the task of cap turing foxes, and regular fox hound f the best blood have been imported Many tricks were resorted to by whicl the foxes evaded their enemies. Th animals had observed that the train on the M1isso.uri Pacific Railroad rai by regularly at \he same time eac', day. The next time they were dis turbed they relieved each other altern ately in the race until the train wo almost due, when Mr. Fox, taking th last resort, led the pack slowly towart the railroad, allowing them to get ver close, and as a consequence the hound became very muoh excited and made i great deal of noise on the hot trail and so'could not hear the approachii. train. Mr. Fox was so accurately o, time that when he struck the track th fast express was in sight. The wis and daring Mr. Fox took up th center of the track toward th flying engine, and barely -ha time to pass through a long cu and jump from the track when th great engine came steamix -and thun dering past. No doubt Beynard fel a sensation of sweet revenge as hb leaped safely away, and, glancinj backward, saw the fiery machine das] down upon his howling enemies. Mr Fox no doubt expectercomplete de struction of his pyrsuets, but only tw of the dogs were hushed forever This was encouraging enough. for.ths scheming trickster to repeat tb strategy, until many a dog was laii low. - Other shrewd tricks have beei resorted.to, but the latest and-most daring was that- of a few nights ago, H. R Burnett, a farmer living in tht vicinity of these foxes, heard a pact of hounds approaching his house aboui midnight. They made no halt unti they reached the back door, whez they seemed to lose the track entirely After several mainutes' yelping ar4 "diagnosing" or some other "nosing about the back yard one good, old re liable trailer sounded the fresh tra note at the kitchen door. In a ma ment the whole pack was at his heel and all came sniffng and bellowing through the kitchen, dining-room and front room and out at the front-win dow, which happened to be open, and struck straight for the railroad, a bhough they were on a fresh trail.. A '?itful Eelic. B. T. Daviss of Lexington, Ky., recently felled an apple tree, the ex, act age of which no man can say. This tree was known far and wide as the largest known specimen of. the apple family,'and bore the name of - "Old Dave," from David Crocketti who 'is said to have paused at this ex, act spot to eat- an apple, and that, finishing the delicious morsel, he stooped andl dug with his hunting knife a cavity large enough to contain the handful of seed which he dropned into it. A recent gale fell the giant to the earth, from which violent fall the trunk was split from top to bot torn, exposing a pitiable relic of the days of warfare with the blood-thirsty redskins. This was a child's skeleton, with the delicate little skul' cloven from crown to chin by a tomahawk whtich was still sticking in the rent. . The blade of the weapon was a sharpened stone with a handle of horn..or some such substance. Doctors say the chiid was 3 or 4 years old and a little girI, whose hair was golden, to judge from the strands; which, catching in the inner wood of the trunk, became ims. bedded in it, and which to-dty re. main. The mother, probably having he, hild killed in her arms, instinctively shrinking from thoughts of the mu. tilation that beloved little form would suffer at the hands of the shrieking tierids on their track, had bethoght her, as she passed it, of the old apple tree, the secret of whose cavity she knew, had thrust the lit tle dead thing within, hoping to -re. turn if she succeeded in elud'ingr th~e Indians to give the child a Chrit;ian burial. But she herself hadl in -all probability gone but a few steps ons ere an arrow pierced some vital sixot, or a tomahawk had given her the same fate her child had met.-Phibx delphia Times. A small boy, living in the -ip'm part of New York State, having he: his father say that it was a poor r~ that would not work both ways, bm~~ a hook with a fish and weat out 1 catch some worms. tsawan-s Jrubne Debt. Hawaii's public debt now amounts to S.