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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "THE PF.ODICAL'S FATHER." Jtn Cplifllnc Talk on Thin T'nuious Biblical Story by llic Hev. Ur. J. Wllbir S . Chapman?How It Iteveal* One i*art of (iud'x Nature. New York City.?The following sermon entitled "The Prodigal's Father," it one oi a series prepared for the press by the distinguished evangelist, the Rev. l)r. .1. Wil bur Chapman. It was preached irom the text: "But when he was yci a great way otT his father saw hint * * * and had compassion and ran * and kissed him * * * and said to his servants, Bnug forth the best robe and put it on him. and put a ling on his hand and shoes on his feet, and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it."' Luke xv: 20-23. Of making many sermons on the prodigal son there seems to have been no end. Yet I was in the ministry fifteen years be-, i fore 1 oreached from any part of the parable. ^ There may be many reasons why, as j a rule, we mm away from it. it may be i that the picture is too realistic. i was standing in the prison chapel at J ?act, Illinois, when a request was made that 1 should c#rrduct a service for the conTicte. Just as 1 was leaving the bui'ding the officer said to me. "By the way, if you should come do not preach upon any part of the prodigal. We have had twenty-four jnini<ters here by actual count, and every on- of them rave us the prodigal son. and these poor fellows have had about as much prodigal as they can stand." K may f.l?o lie that we have turned away from it because it is such familiar ground tnat rias lost us cnarni ior us. y was sweeping through the magnificent Rocky Mountain scenery some time ago. and when vre had plunged into the Royal Gorge, and later swung into the Grand Canon it seemed to me that scen^rv more sublime could not be found in all the world, and if I had never been impressed before with the existence of God I should have cried opt unto Him in the midst of those mountain peaks. I noticed that every one in the car, with one single exception, was gazing in rant admiration. Tins one woman was intently reading a book, and to my certaha knowledge she did not lift her eyes once from the printed page while we were in that wonderful scenery. When, we had swung out into the great table land I overheard her say to a friend. "This is the thirteenth time I have crossed the mountains. The first time I could not keep the tears from rolling down my cheeks, so impressed I, but now,'' she said. "I know it so well that I frequently go through the whole range with scarcely a glance cast out of the window." It is thus, .alas! that we read God's word, and thai which fills heaven with wonder, and furnishes the angels a theitie for never-ending praise, we read with indifference or fail to read at all. And yet my own confession is that T never have had until recently the best ox this torv of the prodigal. I thought it was to give us a vision o" the younger son, and as such it would be a message to backsliders, and while this is ?ne part of the interpretation it is not by any means me uesr parr, i nen it occurred to me the story might have been given us ihat we should take warning from the selfishness of the elder brother, but I conceived such a dislike for this character that I never cared to consider him even for a moment. But it has in these later days become to me one of the sweetest portions of all the New Testament because I believe the parable was written that we might fasten our eyes upon the father of the parable 'and in that father get a glimpse of God. Did it ev$r occur to you that in the piclures of the fathers of the Bible you were wlways given a vision of one part of the nature of God? Jacob crying out, "Me Ye bave bereft of my children: Joseph is not, "?iroeon is not, and now You will take Benjamin from me." is an illustration of God crying out in His great tenderness over the lost. David exclaiming. "Oh. Absalom, my son. mv son! would God I had died for thee,"vis just a hint as to the wav God feels over His lost ones for whom His Son baa really died. And yet better than any picture of a father as the revelation of God is the life of the Son of God from whose lips we have heard these words. "He that hath seen Mc hath seen the Father." But nutting all these things together, and in the light of them reading the story of -v?he prodigal, our hearts burn within us as We see God. I. ."BUT .WHEN HE WAS YET A GREAT f* WAY OFF." ' These Trords must have a wonderful meaning, for tlic measurement is from ^God's standpoint. It would he an awful thing to be a great wav of? arcordini? to mar? s conception, but when it is the coin> Motion 0? One who is iatinite we are otartled. and yet oar amazement gives way instantly to adoration, for wc are told that even if we are so great a distance from Hint we- are not to he discouraged. In .Acts ii: 39. we read that the promise is ,-unto ''all that are afar off." and in EpheVlans ii: 13, 17. we are told that "Ye who i*oinelime3 were far off are made nieh by the blood of Christ." and thai Jesus Christ t -"came and p_r -ached peace to you which were r.Tar oi" " as well as to them that were nigh. It ne'er is iny question with -tied as to hcv deeply lias sinned. It is a remarkable thing that throughout the whole Bible He has ever chosen the most conspicuous sins ar.u the most flagrant sinners that He might present to us His willingness to forgive. God requires hut three things iff we -would know Him in this way. First, there must be a willing mind. In Isaiah i: 19, we read, "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." In another place we read. "If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted for what a man hath and not for what he bath not" In still another place we arc told. "If any man will do His will he shall know of the doctrine." God Himself, infinite though He may be, will not save us against our wills. Second, there must be a desire to know Vr. tn.tk :t >f I ?1 ii<v viucn mat nc niaj uu iv. .ucic Miu?r edge of the truth may be our condemnation, and it is the saddest thing in the world that so many people know and ret are unwilline to do. It will be an awful judgment which must finally fall upon the rank and file of men because all their lives thev lived under the shadow of the church and heard the preaching of the word, all ?f which condemns them. The third requirement is an honest confession of one's intentious. God never gives to one more light than be uses, but if there is in the heart a single desire, however faint, to know Him. and that desire is confessed before men and unto God, He enlarges our vision, sheds upon us more abundant light. and it is always by tbe way of confession that we cater into the iulncss of joy. n. "IIIS FATHER SAW HIM." M*\ Moody says that that father was looking through the telescope of his love. 1 ivv always felt that he was looking through his tears. It is said that when astronomers want to increase the scope of their vision they add to the number of lenses, and sometimes our falling tears are like the lenses in the telescope. They bring objects far removed nigh unto us. But what a comfort it is to know that the Great Father ot us all looks after us with a pity that is infinite and with a svm pathy that is beyond conception. The vision of the father of the prodigal was limited, but God's eye sweeps through all 5-nace, and He see? us wherever we are. Tde can even behold our thoughts, and when you bowed your head and said, "I ought to come," and partly lifted your k -band as an expression of your intention, or started to rise that vou might make pub r~r ~? j ready to ran to meet voa. is all llial Jle requires on your part. He is ready to do all the re*;. It is said that l)r. Rainsiord, of Knclaad. in one or the Northlie'd eonurenees at one time related the story ot an old friend of hi*, a Herman professor. who was an aeno-tie. and you Itnow the creed of the agnostic is simply. "I do not ltnow." This old professor c.une to visit Dr. Rainsford and went with him to all the j services of hi< church. When tne day was ended the rector said to him. "Professor, 1 tell me what you think of it all." His answer was. "It is beautiful, but thai is ail 1 can say." Then Dr. Kainsford put to him these questions: First. "Do you r.oi thin!: that it is possible that there inav be a Hod?" and the old professor said. ' Ves. possible." Second. "Tlion do you not think that it is probable that Hod has made a revelation of Himself to His creatures?" and his friend answered. "Ves. probable." 'i" 1 /J,? \ /?ti ttnf tliinlr."* s:i:il lir. 1 lltiu. ?? VII. ?|W ? ..WV ? ... . '"that He would malic that revelation plain if we were to ask Him?" and tli?* old professor answered. "1 should think He would be obliged to." "Well." sai l IV. Rainsford, "h*.\r you ever asked Him":" and the old man answered. "No." "For my sake.'' said he. "will von ask Him now?" and they fell upon their knees in the study, and iiie old minister said. "Lord God. reveal Thyself unto inv dear friend." When his prayer was ended he said, "Xow. i'roiessor, yon pray." and the old inan lifted up his eyes and said. "Oh. God." and then as if he felt he had cone I too far. he changed his petition, and said. I "Oh. God. it" there he a God. show me the 1 light and I will and he was just going on to say, "I will walk in it." when suddenly lie sprang to hi? feet with his face radiant ana shouted. "Why. 1 see it. I sec it, and it is glorious!" lLs agnosticism took wings and departed from him. Faith ' filled his heart and joy thrilled in his soul. He has from that time to this been a good disciple of Jesus Christ. In the light of all this I make the plea, only encourage your least desire, ana you shall come to know Him whom to know is life eternal. III. j "HE HAD COMPASSION AND RAN." [ I never knew until recently what that word "compassion" meant. 1 know now that it indicates one's suffering with another. It is this that makes the story of a man's transgression so pathetic. Other hearts are made to ache and almost break. Other eyes are filled with tears and other lives made desolate. 1 can see this old father going up to the outlook from his home, gazing on in the direction which his bov had taken, coming down the steps again like David of old crying out? "On, my ?on, my son. would God I had died for you!" He had compassion. We had in our city a young man who was more than ordinarily prosperous in his business, and his prosperity seemed to be the cause of his downfall. It became so marked that his partners called him ! into their oface to say that he must either mend his ways or dispose of his interests in the concern. His promises were good, and all went troll for a little ser.ror, and then when the failure was worse than ever they insisted that he should dispose of his interests to thorn, and with a great sum of money he began to sink rapidly, lie had gone from bad to worse until not long ago they found him floating in the river, for he had taken his own life. The story is sad in the extreme, but the saddest portion of it is found in the fact that there is an old man to day going about the streets of the city mourning for his son. He scarcely lifts his eyes from the ground as lie walks. Sometimes you behold him with the tears rolling down his cheeks. He has compassion. And it is a fact that one never fcin?, breaking even the least of God's commandments, that the heart of the great and loving Father does not yearn over him and long tor his return. IV. WHAT DID HE DO? We all know this story so thoroughly well that it would seem almost unnecessary to emphasize things the father did when the meeting between himself and his son occurred, but lor the sake of the story let me say: First, "he kissed him." You will notice that he did not wait until the boy's garments hid been changed, or the signs of his wanderings removed. There would have been no grace in this. But clad in all his rags he threw hi? arms about him and drew him close against his heart, and gave hiin the kiss which was the sign of complete reconciliation. This is what Jesus Christ waits to give to every wandering soul. The old hymn says. "My God is reconciled," and this is the teaching of the Scriptures. It is not necessary that 1 should work myself up into a fever of excitement, nor weep and wail in tlie depths of my despair, but it. is necessary only that I should receive what God offers me in Texus Ch'.Vst. The llr<t step in tlic L'lirwtian life* is. an acccpiance of that which comes from above. We had in Philadelphia a young man belonging to one of the better families-, socalled. who by his wayward actions disgraced his father and finally hroke his hear*. .After a little lie left I113 home, went lo Baltimore, from there to Washington. and after months of wandering determined to return, lie was ashamed to meet the members of his family, but he knew that if he made a peculiar sound at th<? tloor at tlio midnight hour there was one v ho would hear and understand, and when he stood before that door it was swung open and without a word of reproach his mother bade him welcome. The next morning he did not come down from his room, the second morning he was ashamed to come, but the third morning as he descended the stairway his brother, a physician, met him and said. "Kdward, mother is dying." She had been suddenly stricken down and was anxious to see him. He made his way into her room, knelt beside her bed and sobbed out, "Oh, mother, I beseech you, forgive me!' and with her last departing strength she drew close to him. placed her lips close to his ear and j said. "My dea^ boy, I would have forgiven | you long ago if you had only accepted it." This is a picture of God. With a love that is infinite, and a pity beyond description. He waits to save every one who will but simply receive His gift of life. Second. I have always imagined that when the father started out from the hou?e running to meet his boy, that the servants must have noticed him, and possibly they ran alter him. wnen tne iamer saw mc condition of the son I can hear him as he turned to the approaching servants to say, "Run. bring the best robe and put it on him." and it is a beautiful thing to me to know that when they brought the robe the father wrapped it round about him, thus covering over all the signs of his wandering. This is what God does for me and for vou. The moment we believe the robe of Christ's righteousness is placed about us, and God looks upon us as without spot or blemish, for we are at once accepted in the beloved. I remember that when Jonathan was dead and David wanted to do something for some one that belonged to him. the only one he could find upon whom he inicht lavish his affection was poor, little, lame Mephibosheth. He was lame on both his feet, vou will remember (his nurse had dropped him as she was fleeing away from the enemy), but when David found him he placed him at the king's table and in such a position that his lameness was hidden, and if you had been on the opposite side from him you never would have known that he had a mark of deformity about him. This is what God does for every Bior, wandering, lost one that comes tc im. "I. even I, am He that blotteth out all thy transgressions, and I will remem ber them against vou no more forever." Third, he put the lang on his hand. The ring is always the emblem for complete ness. And this was a beautiful illustratior of the fact that the father's love was per feet, and that his love had not been af n j fecicri l>y the wanderings of the boy. This j is certainly true o? Clod, and I know no ! better figure to give a thought of His love than that of the ring. I "For the love of Hod is broader than the measure of man's mind. ! Ai d the he,ul of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind." I Fourth, he put shoes on his feet. I can I si'v i he poor bov as he hobbles on to meet hi* father, his feet bleeding at every step, for the *bors were worn and he walked with difficulty. but when he was well shod | with shot . from the king's house 1 can see I linn iiki.ng ino nana ot rue o,a tamer .inn running hack to liis home. One of the I commonest excuses presented by men for not yielding to Christ is the fear that they may not hold out. but to me it is comforting to know that the moment we arc saved He nuts shoes on our feet, and that we are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. V. i "AND THEY KTLLED FOR HIM THE FATTED CALF." J I can see the old father as he runs from i home to home exclaiming, "Come and reI ioioe with me, for ray boy was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found." and they begin to lie merry. One can never have the fatted calf killed for him but once, but one of the delightful things about the Christian life is that we may repeatedly sit down to enjoy the feast for others, and it is thrilling to know that we never have a time of feasting here that they do not hare a time of rejoicing in heaven. "For there i? joy in the nresenc of the angels of God over one sinner that repentj cth." At the dose of a meeting in Joliot. Illii nois. 1 s*t down beside an honored cvanI gelist. Rev. H. AY. Brown, and among ! other things in his career, he told me this story: A number of years before he had a remarkable work of grace in the lake region of AA'iseonsin in that town of the strange name. Oconornowoc. After his work of grace he returned one day for a little visit. ana as ne stepped on troin tne cars ne saw at the station an old man named James Stewart. Knowing him well he asked him why he was there. The old man replied that his bov had gone away from hoipe and had said to him. "Father. I will return some dav. but I can not tell when." And said he. "I aim waiting for him to come back." Strange as it may seem, thirteen years' afterward he revisted that old town, and tlm first man be saw when getting off from the ears was this old father. He had forgotten his story, but he met him. saying, "Mr. Brown, he hasn't come yet. hut he will come, and I am waiting." "Ju$t then." said my friend, "I lifted up my eves and saw one walking down the aisle of the car, and said to myself. If I was not sure that the boy was dead I would say that that was the son." But other eyes j had seen him. too. and with a great bound | the old father sprang to the steps of the . ear. and when the boy reached the nlatform. and in less time than T can tell it, he was in his father's arms. The old father sobbed out. "Oh. my sop. thank God, you've come, you've come." and then, j turning to mv friend, ho said. "Mr. j Rrown. I should have waited until I died." Thus God waits, and looks and yearns and lov?s. Thus Jesus Christ entreats us to look unto Him and be saved, and in His name I bid you come. CoJ resolves. We are about to start out on a new year. It is worth something to make a good start. It is a good thing to make a few good resolutions at the beginning of the year. We drift out of the way, pet into bad habit?, and no time is better to pull ourselves back into ripht courses than the beginning of a new year. There is one thing we can all do. and that is to resolve to be a little more cheerful and genial than we have been in the past. We can write down the fact that we intend to sneak a shade more kindly than the year before. We can also resolve to show the world that glorious morning face that Stevenson speaks of. It is surely our duty to carry a cheerful snirit into each day's task and trial. We do well to count un our mercies and be cheerful. It is an awful sin to go through the world grumnv and morose. Thi3 is a pood, glad world we are in. We are girded round with mercies new every morning and fresh every evening. If we give ourselves unselfishly to the service of others we shall find jov and gladness everywhere. ?The Rev. J. B. Silcox. "The Greatest of These S? Lore." Christian fellowship is possible only because of love. It is the only ground on which different faiths can meet. Christian unity is not and cannot be found in creed, for there are no two persons of the same church even that read and understand the Scriptures alike, much less those of different faiths. Instead of being nearer together after e. discussion of their creed they nr.* further apart. Christian unity cannot be effected in our creed. Such is impossible. It is not found in our politv. TTorc the same difficulties confront us as before. Xor is it to be found in our tastes. Indeed, if there is any difference it is that we get farther apart here than on any other ground. Creed, or polity, or tastes are not possible grounds of unity, indeed, they are impossible grounds. There is but one possible ground, and that is found in love. We niav differ in our ideas eoncern 1' 1:4.. j ?-4 u. if we have love in our hearts we can strike hands with our neighbor and say, "My brother."?Ram's Horn. II]e*sins; Ourselves. Cod blesses u.i by enabling us to bless ourselves. Blessings are largely the result of reaction; they are the return upon ourselves of that which we do. .Tint a^. modern mechanism has made the recoil of great forces a great part of the value of those forces ? the recoil of rapid - fire guns does almost all the work of those guns?so divine Power makes, out of the reaction of what we do, our own fates to condemn us, or our own angels to bless us. We confess this truth in the proverb that we make our own beds, and must lie on them. God gives us the words of life? words of labor or duty or love or burden, but we set them to music, and life is a j melody or a threuody largely from the way < in which we set the measure. Familiar j are Emerson's words: "If you love or serve, you cannot, by any hiding or strata- I gem, escape the remuneration." God rules, j and God so rules that no man or manner i of event can rob us of the prize that God j has fitted us to prepare for ourselves.? j Sunday-School Times. Power of Oae Belief. Have you ever thought what a change it would make if you believed with all your ' heart and soul and strength and mind that God is? This one belief would alter every- j thing. Some may even think that it would 1 change too much; it we realized Uod as j He really is we could think of nothing : else. This I do not admit. The thought j of God should.be to the best of our thinking, like the sky to other objects of our landscape, always there, blue, serene, uni- | fving. In His presence, constantly and steadily realized, everything would find its right place- it would be easy to do right , and difficult to do wrong. In fact, the problem of life would be solved.?James ; s Stalker. As We Sow. \ There is a flower called heartsease, j , which flourisheth on the meanest soil when I ; fed with good deeds and kindly thoughts, | r and 'tis worth a king's ransom to its pot- j > sessor. That same flower had its roots ; deep in the heart of God, and its fruit' unto eternity, where every good shall reap its unfailing* harvest of weal, and every ill j i deed find its just meed of woe. We need i not think to cheat ourselves with the i fancy that God's law can fail. Here and . hereafter we shall reap as we hare sown.? . A. L. Glym I BILL ARP. I * * * i* * fcfcfc **?;&&*** KZTt* SiS33?Jtfi &)? fefc "A little more grape. Captain Bragg." said Geenral Taylor, at the battle of Buena Vista. And so we say now to Captain Teddy. "A few more niggers to offices up north and a few more to our southern postoffhes. (Jo the whole hog while you are at it. McKinley gave you a starter by appointing a negro over a white community at Hogansville, and another at Athens, th'1 cultured college city of the south, but ho got alarmed and took the back track. It was just such a case as you have now in Mississippi at Indianola, for the people of Hogansville went 4 miles to get their mall rather than take it from a negro?a dirty politician." Teddy has done no worse on the postofiice line. The postoffices are the people's not the president's. They are almost as near to us and as sacred as is our preacher or our family physician. No greater insult, no greater outrage upon our rights, could be perpetrated by a tyrant than to appoint a negro as postmaster in a white community. The difference between Teddy and Mr. McKinley is that the latter Played fool for a while and quit, but Teddy keeps it up and grows more defiant of southern opinion and southern indignation. Sometimes providence afflicts the people with a fo6l, and sometimes with a knave to tyrannize over them, but it looks like we are to have both fool and knave in the same person. But "the Lord loveth whom he chastenth." A medical friend from over the line writes nie that he has a growing sense of justice and abounds in sympathy for our long-suffering people, but that Teddy's deformity does not come from original sin or total depravity, but from physical defects in his anatomy, and says: "I have strtied his cranium and find that he has too small a cerebellum. His occiput goes straight up from the medulla oblongata and meets the sinciput at right angels and leaves no room for moral attributes. A perpendicular back head like Teddy's indicates a fighting, bear-killing, athletic and foolhardy man. The aphryon and the messial plane are cramped together and Teddy's back head is a perpendicular plane without hill or dale. A man with a very small cerebellum is peculiar, and it will be found on inspection of the sinciput or forehead thai the nose and cheek bones generally rest on an enormous jawbone, or. as you might say. the jawbone of an ass. If Teddy had lived in Sampson's day he would have rejoiced to have been his armour-bearer, and carried his jawbone some." Just so?exactly?not only so. but also. 1 understand it all now. and thank my medical frieud. The lack of cerebellum and medulla oblongata and occiput has made Teudy crazy about bears and negroes and other black woolly things. But I should like to know what kind of a cerebellum that fellow Crumpicker or Stumpsucker or Dirtdauber has got. that mattes mm &u venomous toward our people. At Teddy's request he has introduced a resolution to have a committee appointed to visit Indianola and see what our people are doing to the colored postmistress. Of course, he will be appointed chairman of the committee, but I'll wager ten dollars he don't go. He is nothing but a gas bag and a coward. Mr. Thompson tried to get him to come down to Alabama and see how the negroes on his big plantation were getting on. He was invited and accepted the invitation, but he did not come. He was afraid. And that is what discourages me about any growing sense of justice prevailing among the common people up north. If they are getting any kinder why .do they send such a malignant man to congress? Hating the south seems to be the stock in trade of most of the northern members. The brainy men, like Charles Francis Adams, have modified very much of late. Forty years ago he was commanding a nigger regiment down here for which I will never forgive him. but lately he has made a speech at Charleston and another in New York, in which he says comerning the right of a state to secede: "If we accept the judgment of modern students and investigators it would seem as if the weight of argument falls into the confederate scale. The Issue was settled by might and not by right." Then why don't they pension our soldiers and nay us for the property they destroyed ?and ask our pardon besides. Four generations! Old John Adams. John Quincy Adams, his son Chas. Frances Adams and now this Charles Frances, his son. and he is 70 years old and has been forty years finding out that we bad the right to secede and they had no right to free our negroes without paying for them. Besides all that, this Adams took charge of a whole regiment of our runaway negroes to fight us with. Lew Wallace did the same thing. Yes he did worse. He was president of the court that tried Wirz and convicted him and hung him on perjured evidence. The longer I live the more I am convinced that as a general rule the smartest men are the meanest?especially the -politicians. Think of Henry Ward Beecher preaching from his pulpit that Sharp's rifles were better than Bibles to convert the slave owners of the south and so his people bought the rifles and the ammunition and told old John Brown to go ahead. But the niggers were loyal to their masters and wouldn't burn nor kill nod destroy. And henee Lew Wallace and Adams and many others armed all they could muster up and joined the grand army and marched * am* Kolnlooa TrnniPn til em aowu upuu uui and children. At that time there were 30,000 runaways up north?fugitive slaves?the meanest of the race and nobody but an unprincipled dog of a man would have led them against us. Down further south the negroes mixed with genetlemen and were true and faithful during the war and as General Henry R. Jackson said, they ought to have a monument built to their loyalty as high as the stars. But. pshaw! What's the use of scratching the old sores? Let them scab over. Are we not all brethren since the Spanish war? Did not we all light and bleed and die together in Cuba? Don't the editors and political orators tell us that fraternal peace prevails/"* tr.e#n the sections? I am still si<r have been out of the house but twice in three months, Jfnd maybe that is why I brood and ruminate over the ^ wrongs we have suffered. When the j spring comes and the birds begin to ( J * 1 a klnnm mOuKh sing ana ine nuwti? iu uiuuiu mnjw.1 ( I will write more loving letters; and , if Teddy will retract and apologize for . Che lies he told on Mr. Davis I will let J Sim alone, considering that his cerebellum is limited by the medulla oblon- ( lata and the sinciput. I never read the modern novel. They come and they go and are forgotten; hut Miss Pettus. of Alabama, sent me the "Princess of (i'endale." and I reluctantly took a glance at the first page and got caught. 1 turned the leaf and read on and had devoured one hundred pages before breakfast and all of it during the day. It is a faithful and I charming recital of southern home life on a big plantation before the war. Then the war comes, with its distresses. and Forest with three hundred men pursues Stract with fifteen hundred and captures him, and Miss Emma Sanson figures as a heroine in guiding Forest across the river, and then comes the sad story of Sam Davis, the typical southern hero. Interest never flags in the beautiful story, and it will be a landmark for our children and children's children, for It ia faithful to the truth of confederate history. ?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. P. S.?The Constitution is mistaken. Williams, who made that beautiful speec h in New York, was not northern Williams, but southern Williams. Me is from Missouri, and said "we of the south." Not a northern man exoppt Charles Francis Adams said a kind word for us. and he left out Mr. Davis. If he had said what Watterson said or what southern Williams said heeoudn't have gone back to Boston. B. A. PROMINENT PEOPLE. 1 The German Crown Prince is said to be an expert skater. King Edward is said to be the latest victim to the fascination of the cakewalk. The Czar lias sent SoOOO to President Loubet for the relief of tbe destitute French fishcrfolk. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give Brainerd. Minn.. 512.000 for a library 1 under the usual conditions. The condition of Charles M. Schwab causes some anxiety, though the reports given out say that be is well. The Presidency of the Golden Rule League, just established at Dayton. Ohio, has been offered Senator Ilanna. Judge Me. of the Philippine Commission, has been granted six months' leave of absence. His health is impaired. The King of tbe Belgians lias paid a private visit to London, in furtherance of a scheme for the better government I nf tlio ('micro. Henri Wlllem Mesdagr. the Ilollaml i painter, has decided to offer his famous collection of paintings to the Dutch people. The collection is valued at several million llorins. W. II. Osgood, of the United States Riologi< al Survey, hits just returned from :t biological exploration of the base of the Alaska peninsula and the region between Lake Clark and the Xushagak Itiver. Benjamin Kidd, the economist, who has just made a tour of the new British South Africa, says he believes the country to bo richer than the United States west of tile Mississippi, and believes that its future is assured. Pope Leo XIII. retains his interest in his native village. Carpinato. Ho euiovs visits front the natives, and lie has (lone much for the improvement of the place, giving it, among other tilings, waterworks and a hospital. He has directed that tiie house in which ho was horn be converted into a Tope ? Leo Museum. LABOR WORLO. There are 22.000 casual laborers In Liverpool, England. I'apcrhnugcrs at Indianapolis. Ind.. J nro making arrangements to form a i union. United Mine Workers at Dudley. ? Ala., have received an advance of live 3 cents a ton. j Cincinnati (Ohio) contractors have i signed the st ale presented by the strik- I iug plasterers. * With a promise of an adjustment of t wages Bessemer. Mich., minors have ; returned to work. v Carpenters at Cheyenne. Wyo.. have T returned to work. The men struck for , 11 fly cowts au liour. .Holders at New Haven, Conn., have f made a formal demand for an increase iu wages avcr#fing nearly ten per cent. During 1902 Bridgeport showed a greater growth of industrial establishments than any other city iu Connecticut. ? Two thousand shoemakers are idle J at Leicester, England; several thou- ( sand in Germany and some in Vienna, Austria. At Maynnrd. Mass.. the spinners' strike has been settled. It is believed the men have been conceded practically all they asked. On and after April 1 the organized enrpeuters of Schenectady, N. Y., will demand forty cents an hour. The prevailing rate is thirty-five cents. The number of people employed in the British civil service now exceeds 500,000. Of these over 100,000 are employed by the i>ostoffiee. All the lithographers in Cuba are , employed iu Havana. There are 400 ' men employed in the trade, and their , wages amount to *100,000 a month. c The number of employes in the New York City municipal service has reached 45,290, of whom 12,000 are teachers and 10.000 members of the police and lire departments. Chinese Government Advancing. The Chinese imperial government has taken another step in advance by { i appointing a Japanese scholar of dis- ( tinction, Dr. Unoklchl Hattbri, to a professorship in Pekln university. The doctor was in that city during the " siege. He is to be dean of the school of literature. The appointment is a sequel of the visit of the famous Chi- . nese educator, Wu Ju-lun, to Tokio to | .familiarize himself with Japanece oduJal roathmJs. k; News Notes. After making a great splutter about prohibiting betting on horse races the British commission appointed to in quire into the matter has come to the conclusion that if the law prevents school-boys from indulging in the practice it is about as much as can be expected. Pope Leo. in receiving Mgr. Denis o'Connell. bestowed encouragement 011 the Catholic University in Washing- . ton. B?w?r* of Ointments far Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense ol smell and completely derango the whole sys. tem when entering it through the. Kueowe surfaces. Bueh articles should neyer be a sad except on preemption* from reputable phTsieians, as th* damage they will do is ten fold to the good yotf possibly derive from them. Hall's Cataarb Cure.manufactured by F. J. Cheney k Co., Toledo, 0.. contains no mercury, and is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of thes'ystem. In buying Hall's Catanrti Cure 1* sure'to get the genuine. 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