Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ba tn ess of God's kind - Bhin j, and if I wanted B?ot know in what for> Bf2^1** or trom what Hp^-fcimdaticn stone, or BjpMCCfor me an. organ with BJe only stop. And so this ijkmy tins in building one feb, dew, broai, heaven j B??n ~t3 review of too j B ?may bs useful to BBB&t aiaractiristics of a .ark that a Brook iiLicult pastorate* agrander array 2yn. The Me tho Conventionalist, the ta denominations send hera He who stands ?klyi preaching may within fifteen minutest lien, a Saur?n, and a F John M. yi^y>n and a ld not be ashamed of. where a poor sermon r market. Brooklyn has been ser* Pieties, aa electricity of i> $k every time it flashed ^which quaked with the and a Cox, and a a Vin ton, and a ; mentioning the mg the Brooklyn s tima there has to every man's 4 roan's preference ministers; of the ^os for a Brooklyn if diScait pastorate, ad stand before any church in. Brooklyn men who have heard discussed in the have before yon, t, iii ty logicians in ^a siip in the use of a "e&speech, there will be jfj?li notice it. If you ?Sor furl a sa? in the be ship captains right you are as ignorant ira of navigation ! So ?f ?ard study, if you yoarsalf. you will te a difficult pas f?e a Brooklyn pasto J?CUOUS pastorate. The nuntry t?as no g reatar seacoast. Every pulpit wise or ignorant; kind The reportorial corps rganized anny. Many tte education and large " to weigh oration ~go?& you say a silly - ?ir the ead of it, and 5t will go into per iere is no need of whose influen?a : ^jintin ? press spend. rf. dmoazrcing news , r: is the pulpit oa tne done on Monday _omnivorous, all eyed rer^v-gilant. Brooklyn pastorate is ia tne fact that every Brooklyn is New York Strangers have not seen ?y have s^en Brooklyn, [the chasm in which oar their cares, and their business troubles, and ive greeted their families they have forgotten all ami Broadway and the commit business sins in the day, they come over yxjZXri taem. ?es here. Stand at the or at the ferry gates on -at 10 o'clock, or Sabbath lex? and you see north, ?Earope, Asia, Africa, *<alia-coming to Brook e arb, or part of it in the ie!>resentatives-some of |?b??a. They hava just Krrt?l to seek the house ol the Lord for their remand fog banks off Every song sung, every every sermon preachel ia Brooklyn and sdi along this ie shape goes all round A . Brooklyn pastorate is at litige ot conspicuity. nari that a Brooklyn pastorate ed hy brevity. I iwthink my r&n ministers of the gospel now were preaching when I Most of t?? pulpits "changed seven or eight ival. torate has been brief sometimes for another the ministers of the gos? rood for this world, and tn ted them. Sometimes _ by the decree of their >metimes they came with xpets, proposing to carry them, and got extin yj were distinguished, out in two or three years all they knew. Some d in a short time wori; reat many years to da or ba I reasons a Brook ? characterized bv brevity, rold pls-n by which a mini? baptized an infant, then re Tthe church, after he had b? married him, baptized his them and lived on lons [almost evarybodv but him pastorates ".hey were, rnber them-Dr. S^rin.:, D5minie Zaoriskie, Daniel lalsey. w melte I from their fore the flowers of an unfading of 30. 40, 50, 55 years* >me of them had to be ralpit or into tha carriage md decrepit, bu S when the ilted ona -lay in front cC tbay stepped in vlzorou? wa saw tha wheels of izh th? ?j?te' of the sun ^tT4tMy father, my father, ?Israel and th? hors3men a Brv>klya pastorate i>? happiness. sna where p3ople take their min?star.?. In pro? rid outside may curse a C?OS3 np by the mau fe in. Brooklyn society tion two elements-the ^vavs means a quiet Sab tndisb, which mean- a On tha top of this an Et?oasilic?e*-";h-? bra wo v Isa, the vivaron* Irish, Dhiiosoo'iii German ?i ?< ; < I - I -and in all this intermingling o? populat the universal dominant theorvthata c: can do as he pleases provided he doesn't c rarb anybody else. " A d^ighcfdl C?mate. Waii? it is turd ^?&k throats; for,1& r?dst of tit ii j bracing: , Net an atmosphere made ii o the: discharged gasead" chemical faciorie-i the miasms of swaaips^ but coming pant right oaf $000 railes of Atlantic .Chem fere, anybody else has had .a chane? breathe it! AU thro?rh the city a,soci of kind, genial, generous, syrapath< people. How they fly to you when you in trouble ? How they watch over you w' you are sick ! How tender they are w you when you have buried your de Brooklyn is a good place to liv? in, a >,? place to die in, a good placa to ba buried a good place from which to rise in beautiful resurrection. In such a city I have be?n permittel have 24 years of pastorate. Darla r th years how many heartbreaks how ms losses, ho w man y bereave -a e n t -d Har J1 j family of the church that has nos b< struck with sorrow. Sat G-oi has sustair yon in the past, and H9 w il sustain you the future. I exbors you to be of gc cheer, Oh thou of tie broken heart. " Ti e< ing may endure fer a night, but joy c me in the morniag." I wish over evary door this church we might haVe written t word 4'Sympathy''-"^sympathy foi all t young? We must crowd them in here by tho sands and propose a ra lia nt gospel th they will take oa the spot? We must mi this place so attractive for the yoting that young man will co ne here on Sibbata mor ing, pdt down his hatj brdsh his hair ba< from bis forehead unbutton his ovirjj3 and look aro uni won lerinz if he has not c mistake got into heaven, fie will sae in tc faces of the old people not faa gloo u whic some people take for religion, bdt th a sui shine of celestial pear*?, and h i will s 13 "Why^ I wonder if that isn't the sam 3 p^ac tint shone out on the faca of my father an mother, when they lay dying?' And then there wiil cone a dampness i bis ?yes through Which ha can har dy se and he wi 1 close his eye? to imprison tb emotion, but the hot tear will break throuz tiie fringes of eyelashes and drop UOO? tb coat sleeve? He wiil pus his head* on tt back of the pew in front and s->b. "Lor God of the old people, help me ?1 We ough tc lay a plot here to: the religious captur of all the young people in Brooklyn? Yes? sympathy for the old. They har their aches and pains an i distresses. Toe cannot hear or walk ot- sea as well as th?j used to. We must b? reverential in the" presence. Oa dark days we oust heip then through the aisle aaa hela them fin i tb place in the hymn book. Some Sabbat: morning we shall miss them from their place an i we shall say, uWaere is Father So-ani soto-day ?* and*the answer will be: "What haven't you heard? The King's wagon have taken Jacob up to the palace where hi: Joseph is yet alive." Sympathy for business men. Twenty four years of commercial life in New Yorl and Brooklyn aro enough to tear one* nerves to pieces* We want to make oui Sabbath service here a rescae for all thes martyrs of traffic, a foretaste of thstlaac where they have no rents to pay, and then areno business rivalries, and waere riches, instead of taking wings to fly away, broce over other riches. Sympathy for the fallen, reme.aoer.nj that they ought to be pitied as mach, as J n>flTi run over with a rail train. The fact i that in tiie temptations and misfortunes oi life they get run over? You and I in tai same circumstances would have done a: badly. We should have dona *?or>e perhaps. If yon and I hai the same evil surrounding; ant the same evil parentage that they had and the same nativa born proclivities to evil that they had? you ant I should have bear in tile penitentiary or outcasts of society, "No," says soma self righteous man, "1 couldn't have been overthrown in that way.?! You old hypocrite, you would have been th first to fall! We want in tins church to have sympathy for tile worst man, remembering he is a brother; sympathy for the worst woman, remembering sh ? is a sister. If that is not the gospel, I do not know what the gos Del is. Ah? yes, sympathy for all tba troubled, for the orphans" ia their exposure, for widowhood with its weak arm ingoting for bread, for the household whica erst re? sounded wita merry voices and pattering feet now awfully slill-broad-winged sym? pathy, like the feathers ot the Almighty: warm-blooded sympathy, everlasting sym? pathy; sympathy which shows itself ia the grasp of the han I, ia the glittering te=;r of the eye, in the consoling word of th a mouth; sympathy of blankets for the coid, of bread lor the hungry, of medicine for tLa sick, of rescue for the lost. Sympathy ! Let it thrill ia every sermon. Let it tremble i& every song. Let it gleam ia every tear and ia every light. Sympathy 1 Mea and woman are sighing for. sympathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for sym? pathy, tumbling off into uncleanliness and crime and perdition for lack of sympathy. May God give it to us! Fill all this pulpit with it from step to step. Let the s weep "of these naileries suggest its encircling ?rms. Fill ali. the house wit! it, from door to door, and from floor to ceiling, until there is no more room for it, and it shall overflow into the street, and passe rs by oa foot aa 1 ia carriage shall feel the throb of its magnifi? cent benediction. Let that be our new departure as a church. Lot that be my new deparare as a pastor. Sympathy i Gratitute to Gol de? mands that this morning I mention the fact that during all these 2t years I have missed but one service through sickness. When I entered the ministry I was so deli? cate 1 did nov think 1 would preach three months, but preaching has agreed with me, and I think the healthiest thing ia all th 2 earth ts tti? religion of Je=xis Christ! Bless tiie Lord, O my soul! Wust ingrates wa are in regar .i ?o our health! I must, in gratitude to Goi, also mention the multitudes to whom I have been per? mitted to preach, it is simply miraculous, the attenda nce morning by morning, night by night; aad year by year, and long after it has got to be an old story, i know some people are dainty and exclusive in their tastes. As; for myself, I like a big crow J. I would like to see an audience large enough to scare me! If this gospel is good, the more that get it the better. Many have received the gospel here, but others have rejected it. Now, 1 tell you what I am going to do with some of my fdearest friends who have hitherto rejected the gospel. You ar?? not afraid of me, and 1 am not afraid of you, and^ some day, O brother, I will clasp your bands together, and I will turn your face the other way, and I will take hold of your shoulders, and while you are hel?les? ia my grasp I will give you one headlong push into the king? dom of God. Christ says we must compel you to come in. I will compel you to come in. Can I consent to anything else with these men. who are as dear to me as my own soul? I will compel you to come 10. Profiting by the mistakes ot the past, I must do better work for you and better work for God. Lest I might, throuzh some sniden illness or casualty, be snatched away before I have the opportunity of acing so. L taketh?3 occasion to declara my love for you as a people. It is different work if a pastor is placed ia a church already built up, and be is surrounded by established cir? cumstances. There are not ten people m this-church that have act been brought into the church tbroarh my ministry. You are my family. I feei as much at home her.> as I do in my residence on Oxford street. Yon are my family-my father, ray mother, ray sister, my son, my daughter. You are my jov and crown, the subject of my prayers. Your present and everlasting welfare is the object of my ambition, i have no worldly ambition. I had once. I have not now. I know the world about as well as any one knows it. I have heard the hand? icapping of its applause, and ? have he-rd the hiss of its opposition, and I declare to you that the former zs not especially to be sought for, nor is the latter to be feared. "The world has given me about all the com? fort and prosperity ic can giva a man, and I aa ve ao worldly ambition. I have an all ?onsumiagambitioa to make full proof cf ny miaistry, to get to heaven mvself and to take a great crow 1 with me. Upon your table and cradle and armchair and pillow ind lounge and nursery and drawing room ?nd kitchen may the blessing of the Ai-nighty God come down! Daring these 24 years there is hardly a family that has not been invade 1 bj sorrow >r death. Whore ara tliose grand, old men, j those glorious Christian wom^n, who used to worship with us? Why, they went away into the next world so gradually that they aad concluded the second stanza or the third stanz i in heaven before you knew they were gone. They had on the crown befor fou thought they had dropped the staff < the earthly pilgrimage. Aad then the dear children. Oh. hov/ many have gone out of this church I You ;ould not keep nhem. You folded them in j four arms and said: uO God, I cannot ? ?ive them up! Take ad else, take my pro?>- j ?rty, t ak ? my reputation, but let ma .Wp j i?is treasure. Lord, I cannot bear tbi?." j Oh, if we could ad die together! If we ; xmll keep ad th? sheep and tue iambs or' j :he family fold together until some bright ? ;pring day. tiie birds a-'- lanfc ?I I this \ craters a-glittar, an i thea-wa could alto- : pether h<?ar che vo'c? of t te- good Shepherd I UKI band m baud pa>?- through the flood! j So, no, u;>, no! Uh, ii" we ou y hud tl oti^e j : :at we are ail tcdepart together, au ! wj j .oul'i say to our families: "'Tue time has j o:na. ?ne Lord bids us away." Aul then j .ve could take our little children to their ! ?eds an i straighted out t;ieir limbs an 1 say. j 'Now sleep the last sleep. Hoo l night un- j ;il it is go >d morning." An 1 then wa c >uli I rp to our owe couches and s.*y: "Now, { altogether we are ready to go. Oar chil? dren are gone; now let us depart." No, no! It is one by one. lt may be in the midnight. It may bo in the winter and j in the snow coming dc wa twenty inches j de^p over ortr grare; It may be in the i str?nge hotel and ?jr arni too weak to pull the bell for He'p. it^iatb'eso siddenlyw? have nb time ever] to say good bj-. Death is a bitter; crushing, tremendous carse. . 1 play you three tuaescri.tfce. gospel harp of comfort. "Weeping may endure for ? night, but Joy cometh ip. the morning." That is one. K'Ji\l things work together ior good to those who love God." That is the j second. "And fae Lamb which is in the midst of the thr-one shall lead tnem to liv? ing fountains of water, anl God shall wipe all tears irom their eyer." That is the third. During these 21 years I have tried as far as I cmld by argument, by illustra? tion and by caricature to fiil you w:th dis? gust with much ot" this molern religion which people are trying now to substitute tor the religion of Jesus Ciirist and th 3 relig? ion ot* the apostles. I have tried to persuade you that the worst of all cant is the cant of skepticism, and in? stead ot" your apologising for Christianity it was high time that those who do not be? lieve in Christianity should apologize to you, ant I have tried to show that the biggest viilians in the universe are those who would try to rob us of this Bible, and that the grandest mission of the churca o: Jesus Christ is that of bringing souls to the Lord *--a soul saving church. But now those years are cone. If you have neglected your duty, ii I have neg? lected my duty, it is neglected forever. Each year has its work, if the work is performed within the 13 months, it is done forever; If neglected^ it is neglecSad ion* ?ve.\ When a woman was dying she said, "Call them back;'* They did not kno* what 6he meant; She had been a disciple Of the world. She said* "On, call them back!" They said, "Who do vou want us to Call back?' .'Oh*" she said; "call them back; the days, the months, the years I have wasted* Call them back !" But you cannot call them back; you cannot call a year back, or a month back, ora week back, oran hour back, or a second back. Gone once, it is gone forever. When a great battle was raging, a mes? senger ca me up and said to the general, who was talkiDg with an officer, "M?nerai, we have taken a standard from the enemy." The general kept right on conversing with his fellow officer, and the messenger said again, "?General, we have taken a standard from tho enemy." still tue general kept right on, and the messenger lost nis patience, not having his message seemingly apprecia? ted, and said again, "General, we have taken a standard from the enemy." Tue general then looked at him and said, "Take another." Ah, forgetting the things that are behind, let us look to those that are before. Win another castle; take another standard; gain another victory. ' Roll on, sweet day of the world's emanci? pation, when "the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the wood shall clap their hands, and instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle; tree, and it shall be unto the Lor:, for a name, for aa everlasting sign Vhat cannot be cut off." BILL ART'S LETTER. He Mes Some Pointei Eemar?s in Regard to tte Nep ProMem, And Blames Misguided Advisors for Mnch of the Race's Troubles. We see that there has been an anotner negro burned-bnrned in Georgia-burned mainly by hi-? own race. That last is a good s;gn-a sign that they are beginning to appreciate the s'n of those horrible crimes that almost every day are committed somewhere by the villianous black tramps who are to be found in almost every community. "When the negro, as a race, begins to preach against those horrible crimes in his own pulpit and to write against them in his own newspaper and to talk against them by the fireside and in the field, these outrages will cease. But all the negro pape: s I have seen make large cipital out of the lynchings and burnings and breathe out threats of retaliation, but attach little importance to the crime*. In this they have the sympathy of northern fanat? ics and northern politicians who have for thirty years encouraged the'r revenge by fire and as? sassination. In southern negro schools and colleges that have been established with north? ern money the white importea teachers have made their pupils believe that they were an oppressed race, and were kept under the ban of persecution; that if they had their rights they would have social equality with the whites in churches and schools, and"some of the northern religious papers have openly advocated the set? tling of the negro problem by miscegenation. Even so great and good a man as Rev.. John Hall, D. D-. and LL. D., cann out in a two column phillipic against the "Horrible Tragedy" at Paris, Texa*, and all along through his ar? ticle used the lar?e tvne headlines, such as "RED-HOT IRONS-SO ASE D WITH OIL CAST INTO THE FLAMES," and so fortland he appealed to the friends of the freedmen to help them to avert these awful outraces. He says the world's fair is to be visited by all na? tions, and how can we hold up the grei;t ex? hibition and laud our civilization in tho face of the headlines, "TEXANS BURN A NEGRO MURDERER AT THE STAKE ?" Will Dr. Hall never learn to pufc himself in our place? Will the northern people never let us :.nd the negro alone? Are we to have no credit for humanity or intelligence? HaV3 we not lived with the negro all our lives, and do we not know him better than those who see him afar off? Shall we be penned np with tLem on a limited space and under the most fool sh and malignant federal laws and not be allowed to Protect ourselves and our wives and daughters? 6ay it with all sincerity that the mistaken in? terference of our northern brethren with the negro problem, has been the prime cause of all the negro's misfortunes, of a 1 the outrages and all the lynchings and burnings. Senator In galls, being at last out of a job, has laid aside his hobby and says there will be no more poli? tics founded on the negro. He ought to know, for he rode that horse for twenty-five years and roweled his sides until the ribs were bare and his friend Tonrgee rode behind until his crup? per W28 sore, and it is a fit time to turn the old rip cut to die. Now let northern philanthrop? ists shinny on their own side and look after tue poor and wretched in their own cities. If it could be done we would gladly put a million of our poorest negroes against a mil? lion of their poorest whites on exhibition at Chicago and let the world see the difference -the difference in flesh and health aud con? tentment and hilarity. Here is the happiest race upon earth and the easiest to control if Jet alone by their conceited or pretended northern friends. li?t what I was going to say to Dr. Hall and all of his sort-yonr legislation has penned us up with these people and we arc going to pro? tect ourselves. If we find a rattlesnake or a mad dog or a hyina going about loose, shall we not kill him? I have lived in the country for years and felt th^; awful apprehension-the apprehension of some awful grief, and I say now ?hat if it had come I would have joined my neighbors and bumed the vile brato at the stake with as much serenity as I would kill a gorilla. I have read Governor IT ogg s proclamation and Governor Northen'* and the editorials in some of our pa? per-: and have wondered what was the mat tor with me. Why can't I feel that th;so lynchings and burnings are horrible and bar? barous? Maybe I am like th? poor fcl!ow at camp meeting who said he would like to get religion but lie couldn't feel that he was a sin? ner. I can't feel that way. If I had been at Paris where I could realize the awful brutality of that negro's crime upon that poor little in? nocent child i should have joined the mob. Yea, I could have neeu the brute torn linu from limb and his flesh eaten by the dogs. I felt just that way when the negro cut tho school girl's throat near Madison in my own sta^e, and threw her mangled body in th'. d tch. Such a negro or such a white man is no more to me than a wild beast that has no soul. Yon may call it- revenge or barbarity if you please, but to my mind it is an evidence of the purest love of helpless innocence and the deep? est sympathy for riic sufferers. I want no man to argue the matter with me. I would not tol erate discussion over it with a northern man ??.ho has had no experience nor with a southern onew o has never felt the apprehension. Lei lr: officers of the law do or try to do their -wem duty, but when the ctse is clear and the I roof positive or the crime confessed, it makes uo difference with me whether they shoot him '-rhum him. If the burning will better serve the purpose of intimidating and preventing of similar crimes by other brutes, then let them bum. In ?he olden times they stoned them with stones, according to the scripture, and there was virtue in the remedy. But the mod? ern philanthropist cries educate them-educat them just as if fliere was a.'y reform in educa? tion without mora! and religious training to go along with it, side by side. There are le^s ! than two hundred white convicts in our peni tcntiary and over two thousand negroes ; ^i-st of these negroes never knew anything of j .lavery, for they ?re under forty years of age. ? md a large majority Lave had &<-um school- i jng, bat they grow worse in-trad vf 1? ;- j ter. Uefoiv the war there was not one ou?rage to where there are fifty now. and yet o ar northern friends eay it is from ignorance f the law er fiom lack of education lt is ; neither. It i-. beca tuc < f their nico trai's ? f -r indolence and steal ?rig and the gratifica- | ?ion of their passions and appetites. Before j the war th' sc traits were fettered by fear, but , r . . .. row they feel no restraint. Tlte old-time ne? groes are still good citizens, made so by ?ar?y i raining, but the average negro of to-day has fjllen back instead of advancing. Tho heathen I Chinee is a Christian compared with 1dm. i How far, or how long this incarceration of ne I gr.) convicts shall go on, I kn >w not, but I do know that the methols of modern civiliza? tion in the south will hare to be changed. There is too much" liberty in the youth of the negro -nd of the white face too. Parents and teachers ate not respected arid reverenced by the children as they u?ed to be.- The negro used to fear thp lash and it was ? wholesome and salutary fear- Now it i? the calaboose, the jail, or tue chaiu'g?ng, which ihej do rr>t fear. I verily believe that a good whipping will do a young negro moro good ana ls.it longer than ten years in the ehaingang. There would not be five hundred negr es in our cbh v.ct c imps today if all tho misdemeanors had1 been punished at the whipping post. But ni 'dem philanthropy would cry out, "Oh, horri bl ! horrible!" 1 he very men who permit the poor ?n 1 the wretched to st??rve or to freeze in the xuiserabl . garrets aiid lofts of the tene? ment house* would be the first to cry out aga n?t us. The very men who ship rum to Africa every day to bc bartered in tho slave trade would raise their sanctimonious eyes to heaven and ask the friends of the poor down trod? den negro of the south to ?alU for 1rs protec? tion. How long will thes3 Catdines abuse our patienci? When I ruminate upon these things it make? me t rod-very tired, and keeps me from being calm and serene. It make* both side-i of my head ache and I have to take a doub'e dose of my medicine. But I am get? ting better now, and ein stoop down and help the little orphan pick strawberries every morn? ing. We have a gr at lime together, but I am like a hen with one chicken, 'lhe children used t > follow m* about, b it now I follow the chd dreu.--DiLL ?r.p, in Atlanta Constitution. PEOMINEUT PEOPLE. THE Duke of Cumberland has a collection j Cf family jewels valued at $2,000,000. Vf ES LEV CORNS has been elected Mayor of Ironton, Ohio, for the thirteenth con? secutive term. MRS. G. W. WOLCOTT, wife of the United States Senator from Colorado, is noted for her charities GENERAL LEW WALLACE has been notified by his publishers that 400,0'JO copies of "Ben Hur" have been sold to English readers. THOMAS A. EDISON* recently said that he never owned a watch in his life. "1 never wamt to know what time it is," so he says. J?DGE RICKS, who has coma into prom? inence by his decision growing out of the labor litigation at Toledo, is just fifty years old. H. W. J. HAM, the Georgia orator, has received offers trom several Northern lec? ture bureaus to engage his services nest season. D. B. GATES, one of the wealthiest farm? ers in Greene County, Missouri, and a grand? son of General Gates, of Evolutionary fame, i* dead. ORLANDO B. POTTER, the New York mil? lionaire, rarely indulges in a more costly lunch than can be had for ten cents. A glass of milk and a piece of custard pie satisfy his wants. IT has been authoritatively announced that the Crown Prince of Austria will visit the World's Fair, at Chicago. He is ex? pected in august. THE Emperor of Germany has joined the army of amateur painters, and has painted a picture o' a ship sailing the high seas. It will be randed for. SENATOR DANIEL WEBSTER VOOSHEES, of Indiana, has grown whiteman! stjop shouldered since he entere 1 the United Stac ?S Senate chamber late in the seventies. THE Dake of Edinburgh for a lonj time has not been very popular in England. His goin? to Germany to live will add to bis un? popularity, and yet paradoxical as it may seem, will please the English mightily. SIR WILLIAM FINK is one of the few English grocers who has ever been knighted. He commenced life with Fortnun. & Mason, and when the Crimean War broke out was intrusted by them with the superintendence of tne execution of large Government or? ders for military and naval provisions. MISS LUCV LAKCON, the peet and writer, died in Bo-ton a few nights ago, aftsr many week s of illness. Miss Larcon was born at Beverley, Mass., in 1S20, and began writing stories and poems when seven years old for her own amusement. Uwing to the death of her father two years later, she was com? pelled to work in a factory, after attending school for two or three year.-?. THE LAB3K WOULD, ITALY has female switc imen. OUR railroads employ TS 1,003 men. WOMEN work in Swiss dynamite mills. THERE are forty-six hodcarrier union?. FRENCH miners have formed a National anion. FLINT glass workers have a surplus of $10C?,000. THE bakers' unions of Austria have 72,663 members. tr. LOUIS union butchers run a co-opera? tive store. WOMEN tailors recently held a mass meet? ing at Boston. OMAHA (Neb.) telegraphers have estA ished a pap?r. THERE are said to be 20,000 union baker? lin this country. IDAHO butchers favor the proposed law to license the craft. HEBREW carpenters have separate unions in the Brotherhood. BUFFALO f.N. Y.) unions want an eight | hour clay for policeman. AN industrial school for girls is about to be opened near Danville, Ind. DENVER (Col.) striking shoamikers will establish a co-operative factory. INDIANAPOLIS (Ind.) street car men get sick and death benefits from their union. THE Central Labor Union, of New York City, has approved the striice of h 5tel wait? ers for the right to wear mustaches. IT is estimated that the cost of annual conventions to the labor organizitions is not less than a million dollars per annum. THE great uprising of laborers in the Middle Ages was due to an attempt to re? establish the claim to property control of the person of the laborer. ORGANIZED labor of Glasgow, Scotland, has established a daily paper because it wai dissatisfied with the treatment accorded by the capitalistic press during a strike. A HOME for factory girls has been erected at Hamburg. Each inmate receives her wardrobe, besides bed, etc. The girls pay $1.25 a week for board and lodging, and an j eight-cent dinner is also provided for non inmates. The persons in charge are prac? tised nurses. In connection with the home there is an agency for servants and fae cory hands. G0RD0N~AS~CHIEF MARSHAL. Farther Plans for the Re-interment Exercises at Richmond. A Richmond, Ya,, special says: The i executive committee of Lee camp ! spent two hours Wednesday night dis? cussing the details in connection with the reception of the remains of ex- j President Jefferson Davis on their ar rival from New Orleans May 30th, and their reinterment the next day. The | reports of sub-committees "showed | good progress in the work entrusted to them. All railroads heard from have I offered special rates for veteran and other organizations to Richmond. A letter was received from General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, com? mander of tho United Confederate Veterans, accepting the invitation to j act ns chief marshal. Colonel John B. 1 Cary, of Richmond-, will be his chief of staff. The form of invitation to be sent to all confederate camps, grand! camp officers of the United States Con- i federate Veterans, and jill confed?rate ! officers whose addresses ar*- known, was adopted, as w??s the draft of a cir ular which will accompany the invita? tions. Quarters wiU be provided for all military and veteran associations. While that matter has not been decid? ed it is not believed that there will be any addresses nf the interment. LIQUIDATION IN SIGHT. The iiate City National Bank Will Soon Re-Opened A telegram was received at Atlanta ? Monday afternoon from Comptroller Hepburn indicating that the failed Gate City National bank would prob? ably be able t . liquidate its indebt- i edness within the week, and re open j for business. All arrangements for opening the i bank to pay the depositors in full ? have been mad?', except the sale of tho ! building. As soon ns that has been ! done the depositors will all be paid. J To Him Who Seeks. ! Hope is the message of the Eastertime; And the triad Earth, , While jet the snow lies white upon the hill, j And while the Ice King wields b? sceptre still, Heralds afar, with faint and tuneful chime, The summer's birth. Only the ears attuned to melody Can catch the strain ; Only for watchful eyes the first flowers blow Beneath dead leaves and coverlet of snow ; And first to him who seeks her longingly, Spring comes again. Th rough1 all thc voices of the waking year, The Father speaks; To heavy hearts, b?w?d with their weight of grief, He sends H'S promise in the budding leaf; And first the messengers of Hope appear To him who sveks. - IC. E. Bancroft, In Youth's Companion. TIE PHANTOM TKAIfl. BY AKCIIIE Ii. EGGLESON. I _ It was thc summer of 1888, known as the wet season. It rained continu? ally from the 1st of April till July, and on every third or fourth day thc drizzle changed lo a heavy shower. Roads were impassable, and even rail? way traffic came to a standstill. I was employed by the Great West? ern road and stationed at Westgate, a beautiful town, not very large, but the centre of a piece of magniliccnt scenery. ? To the north a majestic grove of oaks towered np from the banks of thc Big Stowe Uiver which flowed sullenly along ou its south? westerly course, leaving the little city a short distance to thc east. A black? smith shop, two or three stores, a res? taurant and hotel, a church and a schoolhouse, which was ,lighted up by the pleasant face of the postmaster's only daughter Stella, made up the public buildings of the place, with the addition of the depot and grain ware? house, where but little business was transacted during the flood. About a mile northward the railway bridge spanned the Big Stowe, aud I had been requested by the bridge fore? man to make a trip ont to the struc? ture every day just before dark to see that thc approaches were safe, as in every severe storm the river, already swollen to full banks, would lap the I end of the long bridge and whirl ! fiercely around the piers. I slept in my office, as duty com? pelled me to remain there quite late at night, and it was but little trouble to change my lounge into a bed. I had also a corner occupied by a pony in? strument on which at odd moments through the day I instructed a young student in the art of telegraphy, feel? ing thankful for something to help me to pass away lime in such dull weather. One sultry evening, after a few hours of clear sky. 1 placed my rail? way-tricycle on the track preparatory to making my evening trip to the bridge. Heavy bauks of clouds could be seen in the west, and there was an ominous stillness in the air that made anxious to make a speedy trip. It was a toilsome journey, and the perspiration gathered on my fore? head and my breath became short be? fore I finished it; btu. although J found the water higher than it had beeu, it was not more dangerous to the bridge. Upon my return I took care to have my switch-lights trimmed and placed out earlier than usual and hastily par? took of supper, for already the low muttering of distant thunder foretold a heavy storm and a bad night. When it broke at last 1 was alone in my office, and the cracking of the tele? graph instruments, as- thc lightning played around them, resembled the firing of a small pistol. The rain fell in torrents and the wind blew as if would demolish everything before it. I sat listening to the eilorts of the despalcber to make his train orders plain, and when his continued repeti? tious made me nervous, fell back on my guitar for consolation. After playing every mournful melody I could think of, I spread out my bcd and dropped on it, to rest, if not to sleep. For some time 1 heard the rain beating against the window and the wind rushing under thc cornice of the depot and creeping along the rafters with sobs like those of a child; then I dozed off to sleep, and nothing troubled me. I awoke suddenly to had myself sitting ii}> in bod, and to hear thc pony instrument working clearly, as ? if handled by masterly lingers. I was spellbound, for the apparatus was connected wi h thc main lino, and theie was no one in thc room; but it clicked distinctly, and my blood curdled as 1 recognized the call thal is used on the wires only foi those mes- i eages that arc alwavs sent to an operator's car-the "death signal." Who was sending it? I sprang out of bed, turned my i lamps higher, seized my fountain-pen j and made ready lo copy. Thc message | rat? as follows: "From Austin to CW. (J , Oe! wein. ! Number Four Night Limited went j down at Big Stowe Bridge. Fifth J and sixth trestle washed out. .Seven- j ty-iive killed. "K. C." I read and reread this till my own j writing looked strange to mc as it lay j on the desk, and then glanced at thc j clcck. It was a quarter loone. Xii rn ber Four was due at Westgate at half past two. So thc message was scat an hour and a quarter before thc train would reach the place of the wreck! ! At that minute the piercing whistle ? of a locomotive broke upon thc night j air. I glanced at thc window ami saw the red light of an approaching I rain sonic fifty yards away. Throwing <u? mr coat und picking up my lantern, I made my way <" thc platform, saying j alo cd : i "The bridge was all tight lasl night, li is surely ali right now." i 1 stood a Ion:: time waittn2 for the 1 I train to pass by. Number-1 ted stopped at Westgate, bot it ? no near and it made no sound? ' I saw that it was going at full s through a country with which I not familiar. The faithful cugi stood in his cab, with his hand 01 throttle, guiding throngh the dark the human freight that was trnstt him for safe delivery ; and the man, in the shadow, looked out a pallid face. They crossed strc and halted at stations; the bell i and the whistle echoed, but there no rumble of wheels. By and by I began to recognize stations as they came to them. Tl was the New Hampton depot, with 1 passengers crowding about thc st? and frieuds meeting and parting at door of the car. The conda? walked out with his train-orders in hand. Thc mail-pouches were changed, and the phantom train w on again. Next came Fredericksburg, t Sumner, and then-O terrible fate I could hear the hamming roar ? thc panting of thc engine; I could thc turbulent waters of the Big St( lashing the approaches of the 1< Inidge. The train was slowing nj cross it. I held my breath. It 1 in thc center of the great structu The engineer was calling for brat I could hear the escaping steam; J thc next instant it had plunged he long into the black, seething mass water beneath! I dropped on my knees and ga not a scream, but the wildest yell t ever came from mortal lips. Ar ment later, I was fully awake, ly: on the office floor, where I had fal during my nightmare. Some lime elapsed before I coi determine that it was all a dream, turned up my lamps, examined little instrument that had clicked the warning message, looked for copy of it on my desk, and at last i solved that, as I had ample time, would go out to Stowe and exami the bridge before Number Four ia due. If everything was right, no o on thc trip need ever know of i dream. lt was but the work of a mome to get out my tricycle and light up t hean-lamp, and I was soon whirl! away toward to the river. The stoi had passed, leaving a bank of copp( colored clouds in the east and t moon shining dimly in the far we.' As I drew nearer the hoarse voi of thc Big Stowe became a rear, ai I found thc track covered with wale The treble had to be abandoned, ai I continued my way on foot throu< still deeper waters till I reached tl bridge. I passed easily over the fit four trestles, and was angry to fii that I had such faith in the mysterioi message that I was expecting dang? in the firth and sixth. When I stopp? and swung my lantern out ahead < me, its gleam, aided by the mooi light, showed me thirty-two feet ? rail vibrating to and fro over a yawl ing chasm, where the mad watei laughed and leaped and shrieked as : a demon controlled them. The lift and sixth trestles were washed awa\ and I knew by a warning scream c the locomotive that Number Four ha just left Sumner. There was no help for it; I mus cross that gap on the rail and flag th I ruin that was coining through th darkness to death aud destruction, crouched down and began my passag for life, taking my lantern betweei my teeth, that I might have thc use o both hands. The least dizziness o weakness, thc slightest loss of balance would plunge mc into the waves below and thc train would bc lost. I crawled carefully along; now was moving successfully, now I wai trembling-now thc swaying of tin rail was turning my head I I wai two-thirds of the way across when '. heard the train coining; a few step; more, and the headlight of old Numbei Four came swif'ly around a curve ant bore down thc long grade. ? 1 wa3 like a madman; in my excite* ment mv teeth shut themselves tighth ou tue wire handle of my lantern anc I crept like a beast of prey to the fini footing that lay before me, where 1 stopped long enough to take my light in my hand and wave the clanger sig? nal. As I ran lightly up the track 1 waved it in a dozen shapes and shouted at the top of my voice, though I knew no one would hear mc. The lerrible ?train on my nerves gave way when I dimed up on the engine and tried to explain matters to the engineer, who had halted fnive hundred feet from the bridge. 1 got through with an incoherent sentence in which "mes? sage" and "phantom train" repeated thetn-elve-, and then I believe I cried -at least thc boys say I did; but they never called it babyish; and thc whole crew called it a wonderful coinci? dence.- [New York Ledger. Attacked By an Elephant. When irritated by a wound the ele? phant of ludo-China, says an explorer in thc New York Sun, becomes very ?langerous, especially lo white men. Willie thc elephant of India takes to flight at Hie first shot, if its wound is not mortal, the Indo-Chinese animal at once attacks the hunter. I had au adventure of this sort: 1 wanted to show the Cambodians what a Euro; e ui hunter can do, and I therefore requested the mandarin to allow mc to try a shot at thc wild nerd, which mean li me had retired into the forest. Only after my re? peated assurances that 1 should not hold him responsible for the conse? quences, ?he mandarin gave his con? sent. 1 took my rifle and some am? munition, liv-; ready for tiring, ami ordered my Cambodian servant toi follow me at n distance with my re soivi don hie-barre; led rifle. Entering thc forest, I saw three elephants staudinir in front of ?r.e. 1 looked round for my servant, but he was no where to be seen. A full-grown female elephant, followed by a young one, rushed toward me with uplifted trunk and fierce trumpetings. I had no time to spare to take good aim, and so I fired into the open mouth of the beast. The tremendous recoil of my gun threw me to the ground, and at the same moment I heard my serv? ant fire twice. I quickly raised myself, but was unable on account of the smoko of my gun to see the elephant. Then I sud? denly felt something graze my face, and I was hurled a distance of several yards, and lest consciousness. When I recovered the Cambodians stood around me. They had thought ?hut I was dead. My clothes were sprink? led with blood, and a pain in my up? per jaw convinced me that there was something wrong. I found that sever? al teeth had been knocked out. Thc elephant had knocked them out with her trunk, and had dissappeared. Three balls had not killed her. A deadly wound can only be given when the ball enters through tile temple or the eye. As the elephant has keen scent and hearing, a European needs long ex? perience before he can hunt thc animal successfully. The native, who creeps noiselessly in his Ann imite costume, has, in spite of his inferior weapons, a better chance of success than a Euro? pean with his creaking boots and breech-loader. The Benongs kill ele? phants with poisoned arrows, which, although they cannot penetrate the thick skin, may inflict a deadly wound in softer parts, such as the trunk. In such places the poisonous substance, prepared from extracts of herbs, acts so violently that the animal often dies within ten minute?. Plenty of Deer Left. J. L. Dobbins, the former trapper and deer hunter of Reynolds County, Mo., is spending a week at the Lacledc. Mr. Dobbins has probably killed more deer and black bear be? tween the cast fork of Black River and Marble Creek than any hunter in Southwest Missouri. While his long, silvery locks indicate his extreme age, his eyesight is yet good and not less than twenty deer have fallen before his Winchester since November. .'li's no trouble to kill them, boys, but they q*e rallier hard for a stranger to find," remarked the old trapper to a group of listeners at the Sr, James. ul have tramped all over thc famous Bush Mountains, Cuford's Range, the Shutin, the twin Hills, the banks of the Big Black, Current River, Marble Creek and other places in the south? east for thirty years, and I know nearly every hill and rock in the country. Of course, game is not as plentiful now as it was then, but it is all a mistaken idea about the deer being exterminated; (here are plenty of them right now in the canebrakes and mountains of Southern Mis? souri, but no hunting party from thc city can find them ; it takes us old managers to do that, and, as hunting is our living, we arc not very fast in informing hunting parties where to find them, but on thc other hand we steer them just as far away from the game as possible. While I don't pre? sume one man out of ten from the city could kill a deer, they succeed in frightening them out of tho country. These are the parties that are respon? sible for the statement that there are no deer in the state. They are in? structed by the hunters to go to this place and that place until they become disgusted, shoot a few squirrels and pull out for home with the impression that there was not a deer within 500 miles of where they were hunting. - [St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Cu ri ncr the ll li eu ma tis m. ?'Talk about sick men in a hotel," said Ed Frey, a veteran hotel clerk who is stopping at thc Southern. *'Let me tell you of an experience we had with a fellow not long ago. Ile came to tho house all right, but he took a heavy cold and it seemed lo go into a sort of rheumatism and set? tled in his shoulders. The poor fel? low suffered awfully and couldn't lift his hands to save his life. Ile sent for a doctor, and, of course, got a pre? scription which didn't do him a par? ticle of good. One of the bell boys heard that witch-hazel was a good thing, and seeing a I ot tlc of it in one of the rooms brought it in io the sick mau. The fellow was glad enough to try anything and the bell boy rubbed him with it inti ii fully. About two hours after rubbing the sick man felt the thing begin to burn, and word soon came to the office that he felt as if he were all a tire. I wcut up and found him in awful pain. I asked him thc cause of it and he pointed to thc witch-hazel bottle. 1 looked at it ami found that it. was an old bottle filled with fut nil ure polish, There was a state of things. Finally thc fellow in his pain commenced to jump about the room, and tis he did so he would throw his anns over his head. In about an hour's time thc burning stopped ami his rheumatism was <*onc. He had a few blisters to take caro of, but he was so glad t<? get tho use of his anns that he never made a kick. Funny cure, wasu't it?"-[St. Louis Globc-Deniocrat. One Man in a Million. "Hello, Rivers you have a bad cold." "Worst I ever had, Banks." I am sorry for y on,old fellow. Wish I knew of something that would cuire ? von, but 1 don't. (With tears in his j eves) "Give me your hand, Bank? 1 j You're the only man I've seen for | throe days that hadn't a sure curer'! *_^_ j The King of Italv buvs all his car riage horses in London, but his riding hoi ses arc bred in Ital v. j The Laud of Dreams. I have a boat which every night A httle after candle-Jight. Spreads its white sails and floata away Par from the v. orJd of every day? To Land of Dreams. A fairy zephyr fills the sail, Then, in a sea of moonlight pale, I dri*t to land of elf and fay And watch these fairie folk at play, In Land of Dreams. And often I would linger there, But, softly speeding through the air, My boat so swiftly takes its way, That I am home at break of day From Land of Dreams. HUMOROUS. If a gin's face is her fortune, what's the figure? "Let us annex," is the latest way of proposing. A maker of artificial optics has got to have an eye out for business. ?.There is something in your eye," remarked the thread to the needle. Civilization has done its worst for the poor Indiau when he won't even hunt for a living. Snodgrass-"What a stingy man Jay smith is. Snively-Yes ; he even ob? jects if you make a joke at his ex? pense, "Do you think that a <J' in a man's name is lucky, as some people say." "Sure. Look at Job, and Jonah, and Jeremiah." "Brokeleigh eays says that his word is as good as his note." "Yes, it is just as good. That's what's the mat? ter with it" "This," said Farmer Begosh, who had listened to cheers till he had s headache, "is another reminder of thc hollerness of life" "What is the biggest thing you will see at the World's Fair?" asked Mrs. Fucash. "My hotel bill," replied her husband, gloomily. Wigwag-Buzzletop's a queer chap. Blobbs-How so 7 Wigwag-He got hot last night wheu the cook let thc furnace fire go out Barbers complain that their busi? ness is not what it was fifteen years ago. They have to scrape hard to get a living nowadays. Guide-Now, you be careful; many a tourist has broken his neck at this spot. Tourist (to his wife) -Augusta, yon go first. A Chicago detective caught a cold the other day, and the whole city is elated over thc fact that one of the force caught something. The keen man is quite as apt to come to grief as his dull fellow-mortal, ll it is the well-sharpened pencil that is , most likely to be broken. Creditor-The consciences of those two bankrupts appear to be very elas? tic. Assignee-Well, don't you ex? pect elasticity in suspenders?" Mrs. Cleverly-Yes, but I could never understand of what use a club was to a married man. Cleverly Merely to kill time with, my dear. "How the wind comes in through the the cracks of that door. They ought to be stripped." "Stipped? No, no. They need more cloth tacked over them. Wastrel (who, in a fray, has had his front teeth knocked out) The most awkard part of the business is that I bonght a new tooth brush only yesterday! "Doctor, when do you think a man weighs most?" asked a patient who was undergoing a coarse of dietary treatment "When he steps on my corns," answered the doctor. .'Do you know Dr. Drydust?'' said Maud. "Yes," replied Mamie. "He's very learned, isn't he?" "What makes you think so? ' "He can talk so long on uninteresting things." Daughter (looking up from her novel)-Papa, in time of trial what do you, snpposc brings ?he most com? fort to a man ? Papa (who is district judge)-Au acquital, I should think. Resident-Think of opening an of? fice iu this neighborhood, ch? Seems to me you arc rather young for a family physician." Young Doctor Ye?, but-er-I shall only doctor chil? dren at first. ?.Is his lordship at home?" asked a a gentleman of a wcll-powdcred flunky. "Dont know, - sir, Tm sure. I will inquire." He returned with the message, "No, sir; his lordship de? sires mc to say th it he has just gone out."' "Ali! thank you very much. Kindly give him my compliments and and say I didn't call!" Japanese Fan Lore. Thc tradition that Spain was the laud of the fan aud that all other peo? ple were bunglers in its use is dis? proved by 6omc interesting Japauese fan lore collected by Mrs. Salwcy, a member of the Soci?t? Siuico-Japon aisc of Paris. Japanese warriors were accustomed to go forth to battle with an immense iron fan as a shield. When a boy at? tains his manhood he is presented with a fan. Betrothals are signalized by thc interchange of fans. Cake is handed upon fans at tea time, and a fan is used to blow the tire. The fan is used as a sort of target, and butterflies and fireflies are caught on fans. In fact, there is no occasion in Japanese lite when the fau is not the most conspicuous feature.-[San Fraucisco Examiner. Tastes Differ. Dealer-"Here, madam, is a horse I can lecommend, sound, kind-" Old Lady-"Oh, I don't want that sort of a horse. He holds his. head high." Dealer-"Kb "f Old Lady- "I like ahorse that holds his nose close to the ground so he eau see where he's goinV*-[New York Wcckiv.