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* % i i “IF FOK TIIK LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL.II. OAKLING TON, SOUTH CAKOL1NA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMJ3EK 11, 1891. NO 10. OF A VISIT TO PATMOS. SERMON PREACHED SUNDAY, NOV. 8, BY REV. DR. TALMAGE. Uo Tells How He Left Kgypt ami Voy- &gi u £ Past Rhodes Reached the Gre cian Archipelago and Visited the Island of St. John's Revelation. Brooklyn, Nov. 8.—An overflowing con gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning attested t he interest the religions public is taking in the series of sermons Dr. Talmage is preaching on what he saw, confirmatory of the Scriptures, during his tour from the pyramids to the Acropolis. This morning’s sermon, the fourth of the series, was on the islands of the Greek , ^ThAt cityV. 'mereimu.'li’pe, ftA7ite7at 1^'! archipelago. The doctor took two texts: i ita schools, its printing presses, its goveru- cannot see that nations are prosi>ered in temporal things in proportion as they are prospered in religious things? Godliness is profitable not only for individuals, but for nations. Questions of tariff, questions of silver bill, questions of republic or mon archy have not so much to do wir h a na tion’s temporal welfare as questions of re ligion. Give Cyprus to Christ, give Eng land to Christ, give America to Christ, give the world to Christ, and he will give them ail a prosperity unlimited. Why is Brooklyn one of the queen cities of the earth? Because it is the queen city of churches. Blindfold me and lead mo into any city of the earth so that I cannot see a street or a warehouse or a home, and then lead me into the churches and then remove the bandage from my eyes, and I will tell you from what I see inside the consecrated walls, having seen nothing outside, what FARM READING. you sit must be darkened, and in the pros | uown, aim tneywm t>e in tne room, anu euceof John was to pass such a panorama although those in health standing around as no man ever before saw or ever will see you may hear no voice an 1 see no arrival a n4r4rAe ti Allc .i, A in this world, and lienee the gloom of his from the heavenly world, you will see and , aufl UlMrUCIIOIlS 10 IIIC surroundings was a help rather than a henr. And the moment the fleshly bond j Hldl Who GllidC the PlOW. hindrance. All the surroundings of the; °f the soul shall break, the cry will lie:; place affected St. John’s imagery when he J “Follow me! speaks of heaven. St. John, hungry from I cloud enforced abstinence, or having no food straight for giory, straight for liodF'^ | Imve noticed with surpr except that at which his appetite revolted,' As on that day in the Grecian archipel 1 t hinks of heaven; and as the famished man is apt to drenn.of bountiful tables covered | walked to the with luxuries, so St. John says of the in-1 might keep my habitants of heaven “They shall hunger! long as I could, no more.” Scarcity of fresh water on Pat* | cut of heaven mos and the hot tongue of St. John’s | cavern on Patmos seemed sounding in the . . . „ . thirst leads him to admire heaven as be waters that dashed agHiiiRt the side of our j Shovels (OF twisters, ) make lip tne j Hays, "They ghiill no more.” j ship, “Behold tbo tol^rnnclo of Gwlls li st 0 f RthielimonU to do till tin'' St. John henrs the wave, of the sen wild will, men, umt he will dwell with thorn, , . , . , Blit work of cultivation. While the; The Door Step. The conference meeting through at last, We ho vs around the vestry waited !ud! > pnst , t l Ue P 8 t tn i ™,^mlght for home,! I" tnrelling over the country, we; To see the girls come tripping past, night for gmry, straight for Godf’ v j have noticed with surprise that a! s, ! ow 1,1 waiting to he As on that day in the Grecian archipel-1 . . j muted, tgo, Pntmos began to fade out of night, 1 majority of the farmers stlii THE COURT OF LT.M IL It is Freely Commented Upon by an Old Country Paper. Probably lynch law is indigenous to American soil. Some of its refine ments mav he due to red Indian Acts xxi, 8, “When we had discoverer! Cyprus we left it on the left hand;” and Revelation 1, 9, “I, John, was In the Isle that is called Patmos.” Goodby, Egypt! Although interesting and Instructive beyond any country in all the world, excepting the Holy Isold, Egypt was to me somewhat depressing. It was a post mortem examination of cities that (lied four thousand years ago. The mum mies, or wrapped up bodies of tbe dead, were prepared with reference to the Resur reetton day, the Egyptians departing this life wanting their bodies to be kept in as good condition as possible so that they would be presentable when they were called again to occupy them. But if when Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds his body looking as I saw his mummy in the museum at Boulac, his soul will become an unwilling tenant. The Sphinx also was to me a stern monstrosity, a statue carved out of rock of red granite sixty-two feet high and about one hundred and forty-three feet long, and having tbe head of a man and the body of a lion. We eat down in the sand of the African desert to study It, With a cold smile It has looked down upon thousands of years of earthly history, Egyptian civilization, Grecian civilization, Roman civilization: upon the rise and fall of thrones innumer able; the victory and defeat of the armin'- of centuries. It took three thousand years to make one wrinkle on its red cheek. It is dreadful in its stolidity. Its eyes have never wept a tear. Its cold ears have not listened to the groans of the Egyptian na tlou, the burden of which I tried tc weigh last Sabbath. Its heart is stone. It cared not for Pliny when he measured it in the first century. It will care nothing for the man who looks into its imperturbable countenance In the last century. But Egypt will yet come up to the glow of life. The Bible promises it. The mis sionaries, like my friend, good and great Br. Lansing, are sounding a resurrection trumpet above those slain empires. There will lie some other Joseph at Memphis. There will be some other Moses on tbe banks of the Nile. There will be some other Hypatia to teach good morals to the degraded. Instead of a destroying angel to slay the firstborn of Egypt the angel of tbe New Testament will shake everlasting itfe from bis wings over a nation born iu a day. When, sopn after my arrival in ■Egypt. I took pari in the solemn and "ten tier obsequies of a missionary from our own lundlSij’lng there far away from the sepulchers of her fathers, and saw around her the dusky and weeping congregations of those whom she had come to save, I said to myself: ’‘Hire is self satrifiee of the noblest lype. Here is heroism immortal. Here is a queen unto God forever. Here is something grander than the pyramids, lie:.* is that which thrills the heaven* Here is a Specimen of t hat which will yet save the world.” UOODDY TO EGYPT. Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds us on tbe steamer Minerva in the Grecian archipelago, the islands of the New Testa meut, and islands Pauliniau and Johan uinn In their reminiscence. What Brad shaw’s directory is to travelers in Europe, and what the railroad guide is to travelers iu America, the Book of the Acts in the Bible is to voyagers in the Grecian, or, as 1 shall call it, the Gospel archipelago. The Bilde geography of that region is accurate without a shadow of mistake. We are sailing tin's morning on the same waters that Paul sailed, but in the opposite direc tlon to that which Paul voyaged, die was sailing southward and we northward. With him it was Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it is reversed, and it is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ephesus. There is no book in tbe world so accurate as the Divine Book. M y text says that Paul left Cyprus on the left; we, going in au opposite direct iou, have it on the right. On our ship Minerva were only two or three passengers besides our party, so we had plenty of room to walk tbe deck, and oh, what u night was Christmas night of 1889 In that Grecian archipelago—islands of light above, islands of beauty liencathl It is a royal family of Islands, this Grecian archipelago-^the crown of the world’s scenery set with sap phire and emerald and topaz and ebryso prsKiit, and ablaze with a flaky that seems let down out of celestial landscapes. God evidently made up bis mind that Just here be would demonstrate the utmost that can be done witli Islands for the beautification of earthly scenery. The steamer had stopped during tbe night, and in tbe morning the ship was as quiet as this floor, when we hastened up to tbe deck and fouud that we had anchored off the island of Cyprus. In a boat, which tbe natives rowed standing up, as is Hie custom, instead of sitting down, us when we row, wc vv^e soon lauded on the streets where Paul and Barnabas walked unit pre-'ulied. Yea, when at Antioch, Paul and Baruabus gut intou light—ns ministers sometimes diil, and sometimes do, for they all have Imperfections enough to anchor them to tiiis world till their work is done, I say—when, because of that bitter con troversy, Paul and Barnabas parted, Bar nabas came back here to Cyprus, which waa hlg birthplace. Island, wouderful for history! It has been the prize sometimes won by‘Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by tbe Saracenp, by the Crusaders, and Put of hll, not by sword hut by pen, and that.the pen of tbe keenest diplomatist of tiie ceo tury, Lord Benconslield, who, under a lease which was as good ns a purchase, set Cyprus among the Jewels of Victoria’s brown. We went out into the excavations from which Dl Cesuola has enriched our Aineri can museums with antiquities, mid with no better weapon than our foot we stirred up the ground' deep enough to get a tear bottle In which some mourner shed his tears thousands of years ago, and a lamp which before Christ was born lighted the feet of some poor pilgrim on his way. That island of Cyprus has enough to set an antiquarian wild. Tbe most of its glory Is the glorv of the past, and the typhoid fevers that sweep its coast, and the clouds of locusts that often blacken Its skies (though two hundred thousand dollars were expended by the British empire iu one year for-the extirpation of these nox ious iusacts, yet failing to do the work). and tbsfrequeot ohange of governmental masters hinder prosperity. CTTRU* WILL VET COME TO GOD. But when the island? of tlfe sea come to ment, its homes, its arts, Its sciences, Its prosperity or its depression, and igno rance and pauperism and outlawry. Tne altar of God in the church is the high water mark of the world's happiness. The Christian religion triumphant, all other Interests triumphant. The Christian reli gion low down, all other interests low’ down. So I thought on the evening of that day we stepped from the filthy streets of Lan.aca, Cyprus, onto the boat that took us back to the steamer Minerva, which had already begun to paw the waves like a courser impal lent to be gone, and then we moved on and up among tbe is lands of this Gospel archipelago. Night came down on land and sea and the voyage became to me more and more suggestive and solemn. If you are pacing it alone a ship’s deck in the darkness and at sea Is a weird place, anil an active imagi nation may conjure up almost any shape he will, and it shall walk the sea or con front him by the smokestack or meet him under the captain's bridge, But here J was alone on ship’s deck iu the Gospel ar chipelago, and do you wonder that the sea was populous with the past and that down the ratlines Bible memories descended? Our friends had ail gone to their berths. “Captain,’’ 1 said, “when will we arrive at the Island of Rhodes?” I,ooking out from under his glazed cap, he responded in sepul- chral voice, "About midnight.” Though it would be keeping unreasonable liours, I concluded to stay on deck, for 1 must see Rhodes, one of the islands associated with the name of the greatest missionary the world ever saw or ever will see. Paul lauded there, and that was enough to make it famous while the world stands, and fa mous in heaven when the world has be come a charred wreck, A WONDERFUL IIISTORV. This island has had a wonderful history. With six thousand Knights of St. John, it at one time stood out against two hundred thousand warriors under “Solyman the Magnificent,” The city bad three thou sand statues, and a status to Apollo called Colossus, which has always since been con sidered one of the seven wonders of the world. It was twelve years in building and was seventy cubits high, and had a winding stairs to the top. It stood fifty- six years and then was prostrated by an earthquake. After lying In ruins for nino hundred years, it was purchased to be cou verted to other purposes, and the metal, weighing seven hqndred and twenty thou sand pounds, was put'on nine" hundred catncls and carried away. Wo were not permitted to go ashore, but the lights all up ami down the hills show where the city stands, and nine boats come out to take freight and to bring three passengers. Yet all tiie thousands of years of its history are eclipsed by tbe few hours ordays that Paul stopped there. As 1 stood there on the deck of the Minerva, looking out upon the place where the’Colossus once stood, I bethought myself of the fact that tbe world must have a God of some kl ml. It is to mean infinite pathos—this Colossus uot only of Rhodes, but the colossi in many parts of tbe earth. This is only the world’s blind reaching up anti feeling after God. Foun dered human nature must have a supernat ural arm to help it ashore. All tiie statues and images of heathendom are attempts to bring celestial forces down into human alfalrs. Blessed lie our ears that we have heard of an ever present God, and that through Jesus Christ ite comes into our hearts and our homes, and with more than fat herly and motherly interest mid affec tion lie is with us in all our struggles and bereavements and vicissitudes. Rhodes needs something higher than tiie Colos sus, and the day will come when the Christ, whom Paul was serving when he sailed into the harbor of Rhodes, shall lake possession of-that island. As we move on up through tiiis archi pelago, I am reminded of what an iinptg’- taut part tiie islands have taken in the history of the world. They are necessary ro the balancing of the planet. The two hmnispheres must have them. • As you put down upon a scale tiie heavy pound weights, and then the small ounces—and no one thinks of despising the small weights—so the continents are the pounds and the islands arc the ounces. A conti nent is only a larger island, and an Island only a smaller continent. Something of whal part the islands have taken in the world’s history you will see when I remind you that the Island of Salamis produced Solon, and that the Island of Chios pro duced Homer, and the Island of Samos produced Pythagoras, and the Island of Coos produced Hippocrates. HE LONGED TO SEE PATMOS. But there Is one island that 1 longed to see more than any other. I can afford to miss the princes anion-' the islands, hut 1 must see the king of the archipelago. The one 1 longed to see is not so many miles in circumference as Cyprus or Crete or Paros or Naxos or Scio or Mityleua, hut I had rather, iu tiiis sail through the Grecian archipelago, see that than all the others; for more of the glories of heaven lauded there thunooall the islands and continents since the world stood. As we come toward It I feel my pulses quicken. “I, John, was iu tbe island that is called Patmos.” It is a pile of rockti twenty-eight miles in cir cumference. A few cypresses and inferior olives pump n living out of tiie eiirlli, aud one paint tree spreads its foliage. But the barrenness and gloom and loneliness of tiie island made it a prison for the banished evangelist. Domitiuii could not stand his ministry, am}, .one day, under armed r guard, that minister of the Gospel Atefiped from a toss ing boat to these dismal rocks and walked up to the diainal cavern which was to be Ids home and the place where should pass licfore him all the conflicts of coming time and all the raptures of a coining eternity. Is it not remarkable that ivearly all the great revelations of music and poetry and religion have been made to men in bauish ment—Homer and Milton banished into blindness; Beethoven banished Into deaf new; Dante writing bit "Divina Com media” during the nineteen years of ban ishment from bis nativei-nd; Victor Hugo writing his "Lea MlseruTfes” exiled from home and country on tbSisland of Gmeu- sey, and the brightest visions of the future have been given to those who by sickness or sorrow were exiled from the outer world Into rooms of suffering. Only t hose who have beeq imprisoned by very hard sur roundings have had great revelations made ]y dashing agaiu.^t llte rocks, aud each ; and they shall be bis people and God him-1 Worl wave lias a voice, and all the waves to-| Rt ‘lf shall be witli tin in and Ik.* their God; y-j-j, gefcher make a chorus, and they remind | and God shall wipe away all tears from 1 him of the multitudinous anthems of ; their eyes, and there shall be no more heaven, and he says, “They are like the death, neither sorrow nor cryinff, neither shall there be any more pain, for the for mer things are p.tj^ed away.” votc« of many waters.” One day, as he looked off upon the sea, the waters were very smooth, as it is to-day while we sail i them iu the Minerva, and they were like Kluss, and the sunlight seemed to set them on fire, and there was a mingling of w hite j light aud intense flame, and ns St. John ! looked out from hiscavern home upon that j Popping the Question. Don’t bo too sudden about I brilliant sou he thought of the splendors of! Many ;l girl 1ms said “n >” when she I heaven and describes them “As a sea of iiiTous patterns of patents of wrought iron foot plow stocks are an iiuproveineut in some respects on the old time all wood stock, «we doubt if, on the whole, they are ’ I eiui’t remember what we said, much to be preferred lo a well made, fwas nothing worth a song or iron bound, well adjusted stock of ,, , sf! ,' l v’ ,, ,- , Wt that the old pattern sources. Its Lycnrgiis was one John Lynch, of Irish race, a farmer, jier- haps a justice of the peace, who flourished in Virginia or Carolina in the seventeenth century n( , ' that he was recognized as judge over a We let the old folks take the high- f “"'I chastised offenders way, by summary floggings, a punish- And started towards the Maple farm, ment which ivuch law in its modern Along :i kind of lovers’ byway. development ‘retains. The court of A STORf FROM SIBERIA. Horrors of Russian Tyranny Ulus (rated. she blushed, and took my A most tragic meeting between father and son, who, after a long separation, descried each otherstund- ing on different sides of the inipas a- ble gulf that divides this world's sheep from the goats, occurred near the city of Yladivo.-toek lately, w here It is said | the construction of the new Siberian Kailwuy was commenced in honor of the Czarowitoll's visit. Among the None of them are I glass minglctl with fire.” Yes, seated in ' meant l the dark cavern of Kntmos, though home- . , , , , • ,• j sick and hungry and loaded with Do-! lOYCl* clldll t CllOOric* tiie right time mitian’s anathemas, St. John was the most j t ,,1.1., fortunate man on earth because of the | 11 u I 10 !* the question ^enrl). ■ panorama that passed before the mouth of Take a dark HD'ht for it. Have | that cavern. I ,' • _ . . ° . . , tiik pAxoiiAMA. passks. ’ Hie uliiius closedj the curtains dowiij Turn down all tbe lights that we may j an d the lamp turned most OUt. Kit better see it. The panorama passes, aud , . i i lo! the conquering Christ, robed, girdled, hear eilUllgll to her SO YOU call IIUOK | armed, the flash of golden candlesticks and : vour little Auger into hers, seven stars in his right baud, candlesticks! *' ° , aud stars meaning light held up and light I ” Alt UUtll to Conversation begins ! . suited for turning purposes unless i .sped sued ‘yes,” simply because the j provided with properly shaped iron.- ! gh: rude path by which we :;!i transformed and in e scattered. Ami there passes a throne and; t 0 flag, and .then quietly remark,— i ’ , J 3 LU51 Christ oa It, and the seals broken, and the . T , . , and keep IU repair than woes sounded, and a dragon slain, and “busie, I want to ask you a SOJUC-; , . 1 , 1 , . seven last plagues swoop, and seven vials ihmo-,” ! 11 t * le 111 c< firw non ml out. and trlip viainn vnniahfie A i lift uuirtn /.u.ilift* to give tiie correct curve to the! mould board, and a landside to sup-! port and guide tiie share All turn- ■ plow work had better be done with i: | I regular turn-plow—made for this] : iioe—whether one or two horse. The old excuse of too “costly” can 1 ardly be urged now, for these | improved turn-plows cost less to buy the “tilers, condition to Tie snow v.'us crisp beneath our arc poured out, and the vision vanishes, And we halt a moment to rest from the ex- j citing spectacle. Again the panorama moves on before tiie cavern of Patmos, and John the exile sees a great city represent j ing all abominations, Babylon towered, i palaced, templed, fountained, foliaged, J sculptured, hanging ;<r dens, suddenly go i lug crash I crash! ati.l the pipers cease to pipe, and the trumpets cease to trumpet, ; and the dust, and the smoke, aud the bor- | ror liil the canvas, while from above and beneath are voices announcing, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen!” And we halt again to , do the same quality of work. biie will fidget about a little and r . ‘ i ■ , , Iu the matter of implements for probable answer,— “Yes:” After a pause you can add,—- “Susie, my actions must have shown—that is, you must have seen —i mean, you must be aware that— JL’uuse for awhile, but keep your little linger firmly locked. She muv rest from the spectacle. . ,, , , ., , . , „ Again the panorama passes before the I COUgil and try to tlU'U the subject oil cavern of Patmos, and John the exile sees I l,y asking YOU how YOU liked the a mounted Christ on a snow white charger i , ' , , ,* eadiug forth the cavalry of heaven, the i sermon, but sue does it to eUCOUmgC long line of white chargers galloping j you, through the scene, the clattering of hoofs,! • the clinking of bridle hits, and the flash of spears, all the earth conquered and all heaven ia Doxology. And wo halt again to rest from the spectacle. Again the panorama passes before the cavern ol Patmos, and John tne exile sees great thrones iiflod, thrones of martyrs, thrones of apostles, thrones of prophets, thrones of patriarchs, and a throne nlglier than all on which Jesus sits, and ponderous I looks are opened, their leaves turned over, reveal Ing the names of nil th-it have over lived, tbe good and the had, tha renowned and the humble, the mighty and the weak, and at the turn of every leaf the universe is in ither case it au-pirs wj'l 1 for you. rapture or fright, and the sea empties its i Wait five 01' tell minutes and then go sarcophagus of al! the dead of the sunken shipping, aud file earth gives way, and the 111, “The past year has been a very Hippy one. to me, lint J hope that ;aui we rest a moment tare vc heavens vanish. A; fi om the spectacle. The pHiinraiiin moves on before the cav-. era of Patmos, aud John the exile beholds a city of gold, mid a river more beautiful i .• i than the Rhine or the Hudson rolls i Lowevt r, that depeudse itirely through it and fruit trees bend their bur- v; , n . ] am here tonight to know , (lens ou eitdcr bank, uni nil is surrounded ' by walls in whiob the upholstery of au- i tumnal forests, aud the sunrises and sun sets of all tbe ngtifi, and the glory of buru- ; in« worlds seem to be commingled. And i ! the inhabitants never breathe a sigh, or i utter a groan,-or disc ills a difference, or cultivating the crop-there is a wide field for progress and improvement. The practice of running two or three furrows m a two and tt half or . • three feet row, ought to be aban doned as too laborious aud slow. V.’e write of this matter now because the work of laying off rows for the main crops will soon commence. In some sections of the South the most suc cessful fanners have adopted five, pause volt can con-1. . e ,, ... 1 - , LU.wtic cases, six feet as the uniform width of rows, both of corn and eot- R ton, ising improved, adjustable cul tivators iu the work of cultivation, requiring only two furrows or one round trip to inch row atone plow ing; while we do not recommend that cotton rows be at once widened from tfoegto five or even four feet, we think with thorough preparation mid liberal manuring it will be found much more economical both in seed and labor to approximate gradually the wider distances. Rut . . such implements cun not be .used to ii*s will 1)*.5 still liaupier. ] 4. ■ 1 11 i 1 11 j nu vantage in badly prepared, rough. 011 stumpy land.—firanted, Then pre- — pare, the hind for thetn by removing that is, to ask von—1 am here to-; .. . — , , , , , . .Jumps and large stones, good break- qis t te o.ie . j n ^ a , K j harrowing. A farmer who , . ; has alwttvs been accustomed to their \\ mt again. It isn t best to be too After a tinue,— “1 was thinking as I was up the street tonight, that before 1 .vent away I would ask you—that is, I would broach the subject nearest my—I mean I would know my—” Stop again and give her hand a gentle squeeze. She may make a move to get away or she mav not. In night to hear from your vweet—” Thu moon was full, the fields were gleaming; * Ry hood <in'l tippet sheltered swept Her face with youth and health was beaming. The little hand outside her muff— 0, sculptor, if vou could but mold it! So lightly touched my jacket cuff. To keep it warm I had to h it. hold To have her with me there alone, ’Twns love and fear and triumph blended; At last we reached the foot-worn stone „ Where that delicious journey ended. her ringlets from her thank you, Ned,” She shook brow, And with a dissembled, Birt vet ! knew she understood With what a daring wish 1 trend led. A cloud passed kindly overhead, Tire moon was peeping slowly through it, Yet hid its face, if it said, Come, now or never! do it! do it! My lips till then had only known , The kiss of mother and of sister, Lilt somehow full upon her own Sweet, rosy, darling mouth—1 kissed her. • j frown a dislike, or weeji a tfeir. The fasl I ion they wear Is pure white, and their fore heads are encircled hy garlands, and they who ware sick are well, and they who were old are young, ami they who were lieroft are reunited. And as the last figure of that panorama rolled out of si^ht I think that John must have fallen hack into his | cavern nerveless and exhausted. Too J much was it for naked eye to look at. ! Too much was it for human strength to experience. LAST WORDS OF HAPPY CHRISTIANS. My friends, I would not wonder if you should have a very similar vision after ivsh about such things. awhile. You will he through with ibis i not deceived me, and vou wore reudv ! world, its cares and fatiRUes and struKxle.s, i , , t „ and if you have served the Lord and have I SJiarc use would consider himself poorly Kl ! prepared for his work if suddenly i p ontv of time to recover composure, ; , ■ i <■ i • i , *, I for. 1 • • 1 ’ deprived of his harrows. A good 1 and then tint vour hand ou vourii • e ,, , , 1 . - l harrow is one of toe most ^;rtisfac- uenrt and continue,— I, , , i, ,, ’ ! tory and tiselul implements of a well “Yes, I thought as I was conn up ; , , ’ ° • | oiuered farm, and will more than re- here tonight how hupnv J d been,! •. . -n , . . f ....... pav its cost every season; it will save .id I said to mvself that if I onlvi-. . • ,i " • ri i i • • its cost in the silting of labor and knew yon would corrteut to be my—I • ... increase of cron, in going over one that is. I said if I only knew—f , , , * , , , b .. , ! oiiiuirea itcres of land one time.— was only cerhmi timt n»v heart lia<! k . n ,, u - • tHHUnCTIl ( ulliYiitor. done tiie best you could, I xhonld not won- I Hold oil—there\s no hlliTV about der if your dyiiitf bed were n Patinos. It .. ... ,, . . , * . often has been so. I was reading of a dy J *'• 'JC* V i 1111 a chance to 8oh ing Imy who, while the family.stood around !ul moan outside among the trees, sorrowfully, expecting each breath would i . , ■ 4R , be tbe last, cried: “Open the gates! Open I 1 1,18 " ill make her lonesome, Tlnd the g:ires! Happy! Happy! Happy!” John ! call U p all the love in her heart. Owen, in his last hour, said to his attend-i ,... , , . , • ant, “Oh, brother Payne! the long wished ! “ ‘ R ‘ u tille begins to COUgll and grow for day hns come at last!” Rutherford, in j restless VOU CUU go Oil. the closing moment of his life, cried out: 1 „ . - T b ,, “I shall shine, I shall see hlm'as he is, ami i Before i met you this world was ail the fair company with him, and shall | •( desert "to me. I didn’t take unv have my large share. I have gotten the ! , . victory. Christ is holding forth his arms i pleasure m life, and it didn t matter to ejnbrace me. Now I feell Now I enjoyi | whether the sun shone or not. But Now I rejoice! I feed on manna. I liave angels’ lni*l. My eyes will see my Re- v, hut a change in one short year. It deeiner. Glory, glory dwulletli iu Imman uel's land.” Yes, ten thousand times iu the history of the world has the dying bed been mude a Patinos. Yon see the time will come when you will, oh, child of God, he exiled to your last sickness as much as John was exiled to Patmos. You will go into your room not to come out again, for God is going to | do something better and grander and hap pier for you than he Jias ever yet done! There will be such visions letdown to your pillow as God gives no man if he is ever to return to this tame world. The apparent feeling of uneasiness nnd restlessness at the time of the Christian’s departure, the physicians say, js caused by no real dls tress. It is an unconscious and involun tary movement, and I think in many casus it is the vision of heavenly gladness too great fur mortal endurance. It Is only heaven breaking in on the departing spirit. Yo'» see your work will 1* ^ >11e and the time for your departure will he at hand, and there will be wings over you anti wings under you, and song* 4ct loose on tbe air, and your old father aud mother gone for years will descend into the room, and your little children whom you put away fur the last sleep years ago will be at your side, and their kiss will he on your foreheads, and you will gee gardens in full bloom, aud the swinging open of shining gates, and will hear voices long ago hushed. ‘ A SUPERNAL FACT. In man J a Christian departure that you have known and I have known there was in the phraseology of the departing ones something that indicated the reappearance of those long deceased, It is no delirium, no delusion, hut it supernal fact. Your glorified loved ones will hear that you are is for you to say wlictliur my nature kail be a prairie of happiness or one ienig and never-ending pathway ol thistles. Speak, dearest Susie, and -ay—and say that—” Give her five minutes more by the clock and then add,— “That you—you will be—that if, that you will—be mine!'” She will heave tt sight, look up at the clock and around the room, and (lien us she slides her head over your vest pocket she will whisper,— “Henry—I will.” • Costly Metals. Some rare metals possessing special qualities are required for certain work. Thus, palladium is used in making some parts of timepieces, and irridittm for the points of gold pens. Lithium is the lightest of metals. Rhodium is extremely hard and brittle, and is only fusible at u very high temperature, and irridiom is the heaviest suUstuuct hitherto discovered. The mtiuiHated have Childish Faith. Perhaps ’twas boyish love, yet, still. O, listless woman! weary lover! To feel (’nee more that fresh, wild thrill I’d give—but whocan live life over? —K. ('. Steadman. A family consisting of a father and his three sons, by the name oi ;i'eat er, hard “pets,” had often laugh ed to scorn a pious though eccentric mini.sler. One of the boys was bitten by a rattlesnake, and was expected to die, when the minister was sent He found the young man very penitent. The minister, calling on the family, kneeled down and prayed lit this wise: “O Lord, we thank thee for the rattlesnakes. We Ihank thee because a rattlesnake hits hitieii Jim. We pray thee send a r.ittlivnake to bite John; send one to bite Bill; t.nd, 0 Lord, send the biggest kind of tt rattlesnake to bite the old man; for nothin" but rattle- snakes will bring the Beaver family An example of childish faith, of a to repentance!" i;e wears away, wqs day. A little boy kind dull age wears away, wqs seen ..the other day. A little boy was!' sitting in the yard of an old country homestead; on either side of him sat a huge dog, patient and loving. The sun shone down schorchiugly on the trio, and its rays were uncomforta ble. Shading his eyes with his curved hand the child looked, sky ward and said: “Put iu that sun, please.” The sun shown brightly, and the little fellow repeated softly: “Please put in that sun, man in the sky, it hurts my head.” Just then over the face of the orb there sailed a white summer cloud, then another, and the yellow I laze turned sudden ly to a hazy, restful gray. Turning to the dogs, the little boy, putting an arm around the neck of each, said: “Did you see the sun pulled in, Romeo and Chieftain? When you wants, anything, if you is good, and asks God for it, he gives it to you. The suit hurt my head and I asked him to put it in, and didn’t you see how lie did natch out and put it in for me.” The dogs looked wise, leaned their Lead loiingly toward the diminutive little theolo gian, aud, whatever might have been their belief,, kept- au inscrutable silence.—Providence Journal. If you emiLd see your own scalp through an ordinary magnifying glass, you would ..be amazed at the amount of dust, dandruff, und dead Advertising Kuggcts. Don’t expect an adveitisement to bear fruit in one night. Bread is the stuff of human life, and advertising is the stuff of busi ness, You can’t cat enough in a week to hit! a year, and you can’t advertise on Ihal plan either. A thing worth doing is worth doing well. A thing worth adver tising is worth advertising well. The enterprising advertiser proves that he understands how to buy, because in advertising he knows how to sell. \ ■ . \ , 4 It you cau arouse curiosity by an advertisement, it is a great point gained. The fair sex don’t hold all the curiosity in the world. People who advertise only once in three months forget that most peo ple camnt remember anything longer than about seven days. A constant dropping will wear a mck. Keep dropping your adver tisement on the public, and they will soon melt under it like roek-sult. Quitting advertising in dull times is like tearing out a dam because the water is low. Either' plan will pre vent good times from coming. A man’s sign offers n mute invita tion to those only who pass his place of business; his cifoulur cun ouh reach those to whom personal lynch consists of tv lawless multitude, occasionally drunk, always savage, impelled by a common desire to mal treat or kill some object of their dis like. The number of judges varies with’lhe force necessary to carry out their will. For they are accusers, judges, executioners and legislators al! in one and at once. Its procedure cannot be reproached with delay. No charge is made, no proof taken, no defeuc6 allowed. In the case of a foreigner ignorant of the language, and opportunity of de fending himself would be clearlv supefflous. Even the identity of the accused is left to chance. Every thing is arbitrary and undefined. Oc casionally, to induce confession, tor ture is resorted to. The punishment however, is the most interesting, and the only protracted part of the pro ceedings. At Kan Antonio, on tin 7th of .March, last, lynchers dipper an alleged thief in petroleum, sei fire to him, “lighiing up the sur rounding country,” and, after a suf ficient enjoyment of his agonies, drew workmen or helots, w hose guerdon is many stripes aud no pay, there a-o some thousands of the least criminai convicts in the country. Manv of them are known to be innocent of the crimes laid to their char-.v, while others are being punished tor nets which have ab oia’.eh n.ffhing in common with mcral crime. Among the latter was one in*.;. old man of venerable aspect, a na tive of Koorok. One day he was struck by the familiar look of the soldier who, with loaded rifle, guard ed his gang, and he made bold to ask him whence he came. To this ques tion the soldier, forbidden by the military rules to enter into conversa tion with the convicts, gave no reply. I he old man, however, grew more ikJgety, soon ceased work altogether and fixed Ids dark, piercing eves on the soldier. At lust, unable to con trol himself any longer, he pro nounced a Christian name softly, calling out: “My dear, dear son!” I he soldier quivered, grew pale, with in effort eompres'sed his lips, convul sively clutched his gun raid pulled himself together for a moment, but it was only one moment; the next him up by the neck. Few couutrie his emotions had completelv nia.--.tc;'- huve been free from occasional out jed him; his hands dropped helplessly about to come, and tber will say In lieavm: no ideg of the value of these scarce lain thereqn accumulate^, I he attention is given; but his anuauncc- Qod, Cj-prit* will Dome with ilien*, aud tbe I to t|] 8m ' agricultural and uommeruial Wlk-nw | So P.u.nm wild, chill and blqaii abd ter . ... ■- HI...., _ Hbls-ivu* Unj beUMdliind In all the arch! ; May I wiiit for that limtl 10, the edge of t!ie!f;,l 11101V precious than gold itud ail- 1 rr • pillow?" And tbe Lord will suvi “Ye*.!. .. . i-.—. . ji. , . I Jltur vigor. which adorned It in iq<(*» port '--Hi Im> eclipsed by the agricultural ami cuiouier eial and ttllifioiM triumph* of the age* to Coma. XV I,\ |h the world *o Htifnhl that It - >. •j* * • : ’May 1 way -1 go down to show,;that soul the; ,, w i.; c ]. ( up?. May I be the cilSsilal escort? * « of them pillow?” And tbe Lord will auyi “Yeg<! ua i i,. * .. ..•br.* You may fly down on that raitudou*” And | l ’ Ul * * tir * ^ Valjjjajs ( p fcbe best pl.iLv in nil the eHi-th lor dfvim* i'evel)tu<au3 i HcfOtv a panorama , „ ^ yuu toi jMiypwtfitllv wata. room in wH*cb J t Muk *4 your glorified kindred will c#m« ‘ concerned— yiwMvn CitizoUi * V - 4 - .'‘S'* f "iT 1 ” r:r ir Vigor. / lug.twees :i'i<l byways, finding cus- toinuiersan t compelling them to con- Qut: dollar.,per .year lor Tms llulULD, breaks of an excited populace. L the United States, however, the ten deucy drifts toward creating tin • •usual will of any temporary major! ty into a standard of right tun wrong. Yt’hut value is set on indi viduul liberty in a community lik< Yew Orleans, where killing is n< murder, if a sufficient number of cit izens of standing Like part in it, am subsnrvieuce to the “eivium nrdo pravtt jubentium” is the special duh and virtue of ininislers of justice?— Judicial Review. She Consented. “Will you be mine?” “fan you afford to dress me well if I marry you;” “It depends upon whutyou consid er being dressed well. If you meai Worth dresses front I’ttris, I can’t af ford them; nor do you need them,'’ said the w ily New York Press youny UKUI. “1 don’t!" No. Your beauty needs no adorn-, ment, and it, will always eclipse am dress you can wear, no matter hov. fine,or expensive it may be. No one that looks at yon sees your dress. The beauty of face and perfection ol figure only are noted. All fitten sinks into insignificance besides them. What satin is there liko yoiu skin? \\ hat silk like your hair: What colors to compare with your lips, cheeks and eyes?” “John, I am yours.” Nearly Everybody Likes Salt. ■} uc. Cl Those people who assert that the craving for salt is a purely acquired taste, and that this mineral as an article of food is neither nutritive nor ot heir wise beneficial, may point to the Esquimau race as evidence of the value of their theory. The natives met by our exjdorers on tin rivers of Forth'Alaske live almost ex clusively on fish. They do not eat suit with their fish, and decline to eat salt, bacon and bam, firmly be lieving that white folks spoil good meat by tlieir ubsttvd praotlccof salt ing it. On the other hand, thereare probably few African tribes who do not regard salt as one of man's great- cst blessings. Many natives procure it along the coast by evaporation, and tribes that have salt mines,as on tbe coast of Albert Nryairza, are al ways able to sell their product far und wide.—Now York Journal. to bis sides, his rifle slipped with ;* thud to the ground and he hiim-c:;.' fell heavily without a word or a moan, as it out down bv a I'bcold father thiy..’ himself body, called him tend- rly by hi;: name and covered hkn w ith i . . tud kisses. The other guards an l 'raskma.- teeing without undersiniiding w ;. s had happened rtidied to the sp. , surrounded tiie convict, who, it was evident to them, had f**! od hisgu;i"ii, and; raising the butt , ids of th. r guns, prepared to d; It out L brains. Koine of them next tried I : remove him by force, hut lie held ihe unconscious guard so tighllv locked in his embrace, kissing him tnd muttering to himself, “He knows me; yes, he knows me now, my dear boy,’ that they were powerless to separate them. At last they were both removed ou t dray to the hospital, and the true significance of the scene dawned on •'he infuriated soldiers, who were now deeply touched by what they had witnessed. “It was,” writes a corrc.-_ , “a must harrowing scene -one that 1 shall remember with tt shudder lo my dying dav.” Tiie next morning the doctor de clared that the soldier had lost, his reason und must be removed* to a mad house. The convict, on being informed of this, and ordered to be gin work us usual, refused quietly at first, then roared and raved like a maniac, and. was at last, put in a straight waistcoat and confined along with the other madmen.—Levant Herald. sider hi» iii^iimentij, •" i •, '•>>«' Any of our young readers in search of new schemes for entertainment might try a “potato walk,’’ which is a Southern Virginia invention, i It is described as u novel and amusing diversion, and. consists in tryijjg to take tt large,awl knotty potato .from the floor wifi) u siuqll teaspoon, mid carrying.it u given .)U$taW>e within a cerlui ii; period of time, Those who think it easy should trv it at once, yy -.1 I - Specimen eases. S. II- Clifford, New Cassel, \Vis„ 'was troubled witli Neuralgia and Riieuimt- lism, his stomach vvas disordered, ids fiver was affected to an alarming de.-if*-* tpnelite fell away, and he was terribly •educed in flesh :i/)d strengtb. Tbree bottles of Electrir Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg. IU., had :t running sore on his leg of eight \ ears' itanding. L'sfd three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Biiekicu’s Hrniea Kalye, and his leg i» sound ami 'veil* John Speaker, Catawba, ()., bad five large fever sores on Ids leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Elec tric Bitters and one box Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured hint entirely. Sold by Wil cox’s drug store. * ' jj Gall a Chicago girl large-hearted .md generous, if you choose, but a,-,, er refer lo her as big-soled. The Boston Journal of Commerce says: “Cotton of a red color is being grown in Georgia, it is said, vyh re in acre of cotton plants have stalks, leaves and flowers, every stalk of < which is a deep red color. .This crop is the product of a seed taJ.yi three y (.•tirs ago from two stalks of, red cotton found, in a, cotton.' fidd,.' Attempts are being made to perpof,- uatc this variety.” This is my,^- markable cotton, to be si;re, but vvijl the. Joitrnal explain how “it s^u”, was taken from two stalks, aud what is the color of the lint?—News and CouffitJ’. • / Wto -r— v»r . " .(ft I THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER I DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM. 1 1