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GLORIES OF HEAVEN. REV. on. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE I WORLD TO COME. I tke Great Divlitc I'nlut* the Attract- i Ivenron of < Iirlnl lu UlowiltK Col- ' ro? l''roni Ivory rnlnrm to Cruel xlois Akouj. (Copyright, I.ouis KJojwrh, K-90-1 """ " Washington, July'TFV ?In this discourse I>r. Talmnne sets forth the ^lo ries or uic worm u> conic sum mc mtrnctlvcncss of the Christ, who opens the way; text. Psr.'.ir.s, xlv, y, "All tliy garmcnts smell of myrrh and aloes and , cassia out of the Ivory palaces." Among the grand adornments of the city of Paris Is the Church of Notre j Dame, with great towers and elaho- j rate rose windows and sculpturing of , the last judgment, with the trumpeting ntigels ami rising dead; its battlements of <i tint re foil; Its saerlsty, with ribbed eel Mugs and statues of saints. I'.tit there was nothing in ail that building which more vividly appealed to my i plain republican taste* than the costly | vestments which lay in oaken presses j ?robes that had been embroidered j with golil and been worn by popes and archbishops on great occasions. There was a robe that had been worn by l'lus VII at the crowning of the first Napoleon. There was also a vestment that had been worn at the baptism of Napoleon II. As our guide opened the oaken presses and brought out tlioso | vestments of fabulous cost and lifted tlieiu up tlic fragrance of the pungent aroiuatics in which they had been preserved tilled the place with a sweet- ' ncss that was almost oppressive. Noth- | lug that had been done in stone more [ vividly impressed me than these things I that had been done iu cloth and cm- j broidery and perfume. Itut today I j open the drawer of this text, and I look ; t?|H?n the kingly robes of Christ, and as ! I lift them, Hashing with eternal jewels, the whole house is tilled with the nroiua of these garments, which "suiell myrrh and aloes and cassia out of " the Ivory palaces." Tin? Itolicn of Christ. In my text the King steps forth. His robes rustle and blaze as he advances. Ilis pomp and power and glory overmaster the spectator. More brilliant is he than <Jucon Vasltti moving amid the Persian princes; than ; Marie Antoinette on the day when i Louis XVI put upon her the necklace of Sot) diamonds; than Anne lloleyn the day when llenry VIII welcomed Iter to his palace?all beauty and till i pomp forgotten while we stand in the presence of tlds imperial glory. King of Zion, King of earth. King of heaven, King forever! Her garments not worn J out. not dust bedraggled, 1 ?nt radiant and jeweled and redolent, li seems as If tliey must have been pressed 100 years nuiid thv flowers of heaven. The wardrobes from which they have been taken must have been sweet with clusters of camphor and frankincense and ail manner of precious wood. I>o you not Inhale tlm odors? Aye. ye. "They smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces." Your first curiosity is to know why the robes of Christ are odorous with myrrh. This was a bright leafed Abyssinian plant. It was trifoliated. The Greeks, Egyptians, Itomans and .lews bought and sold it at a high price. The first present that was ever given to Christ was a sprit; of myrrh thrown , || |,ltf Inf'iklil.. ?....! it. I?..l I. I ..I, .mi.I *t i c H y\ a) u : I i t * > t ? I f I II J? a l> a 1>? V . ........ ..... voiuai Ira- j granee?swwt :;s a friend stieking to | you when all else l?otra.v; lifting you ! up while others try to push you down; not so much like morning glories, that bloom only when the sun is coming up, nor like "four o'cloeks," that bloom only when the sun is going down, but like myrrh, perpetually aromatie?the same morning, noon and night, yesterday, today, forever. It seems is if we cannot wear him out. We put on him all our burdens and allliet him with all I our griefs and set him foremost in all our battles; and yet lie is ready to lift iliiti iu 111 ] i i 111 /. ( hiki t(? ii('i|v. i have so imposed upon him that olio | would think in eternal atlfont lie would quit our soul: and yet today lie addresses us with the same tenderness, dawns upon us with the same smile, pities us with the same compassion. There is no name like ids for us. It la more imperial than Caesar's, more j musical than Beethoven's, more conquering than Charlcmnitiic's, more eloquent than Cicero's. It throbs with all life. It weeps with till pathos. It groans with all pain. It stoops with all condescension. It breathes with all perfume. Who like Jesus to set a broken bone, to pity a homeless orphan. to nurse a sick man, to take a , prodigal back without any scolding, to illumine a cemetery all plowed with graves, to make a queen unto God out of the lost woman, to catch the tears i U boman sorrow in A lachrymatory 1 tlmt shall ncvc:* be broken? Who has siu-h au eye to see our lived, sueli r. lip to kiss away our sorrow, sueli a h:::al to snatch r.s out i f the* lire, such a foot to trample our enemies, siteh a heart to embrace all our necessities? I strangle for some uietaidior witii wliieh to express liiai. lie is not like the burst in-.; forth ef a fail orchestra. That i* U"j total. lie Is not like tlie fv:i when lashed to raise by the tempest. That is too boisterous. He is a-.t like the mountain, its brow wreathed with the lightning. That is too solitary. (.Jive us a softer type, a gentler comparison. We have seemed to see hlnf with our eyes and to hear him with our ears and to toueli him with our hands. Oh, that today he might j appear to seme other one of our live j senses! Aye. the nostril shall discover his presence. lie comes upon us like j spiee gales from heaven. Yea. his gar- I incuts snteit or lasting ana all pervasive myrrh. A!oct of ntttoriioMR. Would that yon all knew his sweetness! ilow soon you would turn from j nil other attraetietis! It' the philoso- I pher lettped out el" ltis hath iu a frenzy of Joy and elnpped l'is hands and rushel through the streets because he had found the solution of a mathematical p.'olib t:t, how will you feel leaping i front the fountain of a Saviour's tnerey ! and pardon, washed clean and made | white as snow, when the question has i been solved, "flow can toy soul he ' saved?" Naked, frost hit ten. storm lashed soul, let Jesus litis hour throw | around thee the "garments that smell | of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of j the ivory palaces." Votir second curiosity is to know , why the robes of Jesus are odorous with aloes. There is sotue difference ; of opinion about where these aloes g'-ow, what is the color of the tlower. ! what is the particular appearance of . the herb. Suffice it for you .111 1 tne to know that ."does mean lyttcne.-s the world over, -an I when Christ conies ! wills garments hearing that particular odor they suggest to lue the bitterness i f a Saviour's sufferings. Were I there ever such nights as Jesus lived through - nights on the mountains. 1 nights on 1 he sea. nights in the desert? Who ever had such a hard reception as Jesus had? A hostelry the lirst, an . unjust trial in over and tei*niinci another, a foul mouthed, yelling mob till- lost W.MS tl'oro !l SUM.Ml .01 Ilis back as wide :is your t\v<> lingers where lii? was r.?>t whippedV Was j there a spare on his brow an inch square win re ho was not out of tho briers? Whoa tho spike struck at tl.o iustcp. did it not go clear through to the hollow of 1110 foot? <Hi, Ions, deep, ! bitter |?i!^;rii!>:i ! Aloes! Aloes! Mini tlailr Free. John loams! his Lead on Christ, but who did Christ loan on? Five thousand nan fed by the Saviour; who fed Jesus? The sympathy of a Saviour's heart going out to the leper and the i adulteress; but who soothed Christ? lie had a lit place neither to be born nor to die, A poor babe! A poor lad! A poor young man! Not so much as a tajK-r to cheer his dying hours. Kveu the candle of the sun stiufl'ctl out. Was it not till aloes? our sins, sorrows, bereavements, losses an 1 all the ago- j uies of earth ami hell picked up a< in one cluster and squeezed into one clip, and that pressed to his 1 ips until the acrid, nauseating, bitter draft was swallowed with a distorted countenance and a shudder from head to foot and a gurgling strangulation. Aloes, aloes! Nothing but aloes. All this for himself? All this to get the fame in the world of being a martyr? Ail this in a spirit of stubbornness, because he did not like Caesar? No. no! All this ' because he wanted to pluck me and you I'roui hell. Because he .wanted to taisu iue and you to heaven. Because we were lost, and he wanted us found. Because we were blind, and lie wanted i lis to see. Because we were serfs, and lie wanted us manumitted. Oh. ye in whose cup of life the saccharin has predominated; oh. ye who have had bright and sparkling beverages, how do you feel toward him who in your stead and to purchase your disenthrallment, took the aloes, the unsavory aloes, the bitter aloes? The Dltinc I'll j stcinn. Your third curiosity is to know why these rat fluent s of t'hri-l are odorous with cas>ja. This was a plant which Ki'cw in India ami the adjoining islands. You do not care to hear what . kind of a liowcr it had or what kind of a stalk. It ;s ciiou.h for tne to tell you tlia it was used tin- liciiUlily. hi that land and in that a\jc. where they knew but little about pi,a;ina?y, cassia was Used to ari?si many forms of disease. S.I uiloll ill III I' teVf we till,I Coiniicx with jxaruiciils that .Min-ll nf ens-ia. it suixm-sis to mo the In-a Km; ami curative power <> ' tin? Sun of (Jo.I. " Hi," you ay. "now yon haw a suporlluous Idea! Wo an? n?.t sick. Why do wo want cassia'/ Wo arc athletic. Our reborn*ion is jtcrlVot. (tin- limits arc lithe, au.l tin liri;hl cool days we feel we could lionnd like a rue." I lieu to (lillcr. my In-other, from yon. N >!ic of j. ii can lie heller in [thjsirnl health than I am, mil yet I must say we are all sick. 1 have taken the diagnosis of yotir case and have e\ :iUi111?*> 1 :iII Hie !~t untliorities on tin: subject, iiikI 1 have to tell yon that juti arc "rnll of \\(minis and hruiscs and putrefying snros which lane not been hound up or mollified with ointment." Tin- marasmus of sin is on us tho palsy, llio dropsy, the leprosy, The inaii that is expiring tonight in the nc .t street the allot atlih: ill"I Imiiicopa hie doctors have given him tip ami his friends now standing around to tale his last words?is no more certainly dying as to his body than yon and I are dying unless we have taken the im-diciiic (torn tool's apothecary. All the Ic.lVi s of this llible arc only so many prescriptions from tho JMvino Physician, written, not In I.atin. like the prescriptions of eflfthly physicians, but written in plain Kaglish. so that a "man. though a foot, n-el not err therein." Tlat.k (Jul tl.at tin* Su v- I bur's garni', tit s smell of eassiu! Chrlot ihe lleiilcr. Suppose a tatr.i wore slek. ami there jvys u pliinl 0:1 liis mantelpiece with medicine l:e knew would euro liim. and lie refused to take it. \?hi?t would you bay of him? lie is a suicide. And what do you say of that man who, sick in siu. has the healing medicine of | Clod's grace offered him and ret uses to take it? If lie dies, lie is a suicide. IVople talk as though (Sod took a mail and led^iim out to darkness and death, as though he brought him x.p to the cliffs and tlieu pushed him off. Oh, no! When a man is lost, it is not beIl.i t i.evli.K t.li.1 ..if It rn I.o jumps off. In oldeu times u suicide wsis buried at the crossroads, ami the f people v.'oiv accustomed to throw j stones upon Is is grave. So it seems to me there may l?e sit this time a man | who is destroying his soul, stud as | though tite angels of Clod were here to bury him ::t the point where the roads of life stud death cross esteli other, throwing upon the grstve the broken j law and si great idle of misimprovod privileges, so that those going by may look sit the fcstrful mound ami learn what si sttieide it is when an iumiortal soul, for w hich Jesus died, puts itself out of tin' way. j \\ hen Christ tiod this planet with S foot of liosh, tlse people rushed sifter ^ him people who were siek, and those who, being so sick they could not wstlk, ; wore brought by their friends. Here I see a mother holding up her little ^ child, saying: "Cure this croup, I.ord ( .T.sus! Cute tills scarlet fever!" And x others: "Cure this ophtluilmia! Hive ease am! tvst to tliis spinal distress! Straighten this elttb foot!" Christ | inside every house where lie stopped a d spoils:;ry. 1 do not ivliovo tiiat in , the !'.? centuries wliieli have g< ne by siuoe, his hcMt iias got haul. 1 feel 'N that we can come now with ail our , <] wounds of soul stud get his beticdie- j t i < kl 1 O l.crt* \\ it urn \\*?? u-inf ' v " x v ' " v J. hca-lin?. - Wo want si^rht. Wo want Ifonlth. Wo want life. "The whole ( need not a physician, hut thov that nre .. siok," Hlcsscd ho (!od that Jesus Christ comes through this assemblage s now, his "irannents snivlli:!^ of myrili" ? that means fragrance. "isn?l aloes"? they mean hitter sacrificial nioinorios. | "ami cassia"?that means medicine ami . cure. <* Out of lvnr> I'llIiicpn. According to my text, he conies "out ( of the ivory palaces." Von know, or (if you do not know 1 will toil you new. v that some of the palaces of olden time ^ were aderued with ivory. Ahah and j Seletiiou had their homes furnished t with it. The tusks of African and t Asiatic elepliants were twisted into all ; manner of shapes, and there were . stairs of iverv, and chairs of ivory, and tables of ivory, and tloors of ivory, and pillars of ivory, and windows of ivory, and fountains that dropped into ' basins of ivory, and rooms that .had j ceilings of ivory. Oh, white and over- , mastering lieauty! (jreen tree lira nolies sweeping the white curbs. Tapestry trailing the snowy lloors. llraekets of v light Hashing on the lustrous surround- ( injrs. Silvery music rippling on the : beach of the a relies. The mere thought ( of it almost stuns my brain, and you say: "Oh, if 1 could only have walked over such lloors! If I could have thrown myself in such a chair! It' 1 could have hoard the drip and dash of 1 those louutnin*. \mi shall have Konii'thiufr better than that if ymi only ' lot Christ introduce you. From that 1 place he came, and to that place he ' proposes to transport' you, for his "gar- 1 incuts smell of luyrrh and aloes and ' cassia out of the ivory palaces." What J a place heaven must l>e! The 1 itilories ol" the French, the Windsor castle of ' the Knylish. the Spanish Alhambra, the ( Itussian Kremlin, are ni6re dungeons 1 compared with it! Not so many ens- ( tics on either side the Kldnc as on hotli sides of the river of tlod?the ivory palaces! t me 1'i.r the angels, insuffera- ' ldy bright, winged, lire eyed, tempest ' charioted; one for the martyrs, with hlood red rohes from under the altar; ' one for the Kim;, the steps of his pal- 1 ace the crown of the church militant; 1 one for the singers, who lead the 1 I htHM>; one for you. ransomed from sin; : one for me, plueUcd from the buruins,'. ' tMi, the ivory palaces! Ilealiiim of Ui'aul.v, Toda; it ?"ems to me a< if the windows of those palaces were illumined for some great victory, and 1 look and , si", climbing the stairs of ivory and walking on tloors of ivory, some wlioiu we knew and loved on earth. Yes, I know them. There are father and mother, not Mi years and ?'.? years, as when they left us, but blithe and young as when on their marriage day. A tni t Imrc a re brot Iters and sisters, iii or- j ricr tItiiia when we used to romp across tie meadows together. The cough | j gone. Tlic canecr cured. The erysipo- 1 la > healed. Tlic heart break over, t >li, j ( lio\v fair tlic.v arc in the ivory palaces! j And your d*-:;r li:ilr children that went j ' out from you Christ did not let "lie of | them drop as lu lifted tlmin. lie did | | not wrcm h one of them from yon. No. They went as from one timy lovcil well to OIIC \\ iioiil t hey loved belter. If I I , should take n'lr lit11 ehild :iti<! pre-s j 1 Its soft fare auainst my roiiu'li < ! < ek, j ^ I 111 Ik I t keep it a little* while, hut when Villi, the neither, mine a loll;;, il w< 111?1 \ j struv'ule tii yo witli vim. Ami so yon j tO'iutl hohlin^ yotir dyitn; child when j ^ .1 mis passed h.v in the room and tlie | little ntie sprang ont ureet hint. That { is all. Vmir hristiati d'ail did tint ?,o d ivvii into the dust and the gravel and t! mud. Thmi^h it rained all that funeral day, and the water eaine up to the wheel's lit.h as ymi drove out to he eetiu tery, it made no ditferen e to liiein, for they stepped ffolll the holite here to tie* home there, riyht into the Ivory palaces. All is well with them. All Is well. It 19 not fl dofld weight that yflU lift vhon .vou carry a Christian out. Josus nukes tho tied up soft with velvet oouiises, ami he says: "Cut her down are very gently. I'ut that head which v111 never tieke ayain on this i>illow if hallelujahs. Send uj> word that the iroeessloti is coming. King the hells, tit:..'! open your Kates, ye Ivory palices I" A n<l so your loved ones are here. They are just as certainly there, :::ving died in Christ, as that you are lore. There is only one thing more hey want. Indeed, there is one tiling n heaven they have not got. They vant it. What is it? Your company. Jut, oh, my brother, unless you change our tack you cannot reach that liarH?r. Vou might as well take the 1 Southern I'acilie railfoad, cxpoetiug u that direction to reach Toronto, as o go i :t ia the way sotne of you are roir.g. and yet expect to reach the vory palaces. Vour loved ones an? ooktng out of the windows of heaven tow, and yet you scent to turn your Mick upon them. Vou do not scent to atow the sound of their voices as well is you used to or to be moved by the dv;!11 of their dear faces. Call louder, ;c departed ones! Call louder front he ivory palaces! Sl.vitlcry Solved. When 1 think of that place and think f my entering it, I feel awkward. 1 'eel as sometimes when 1 have been ] xpo.-ed to the weather, and my shoes tnve boon bentired, and my cent is oiled, and my hair is disheveled, and stop in front of sonic line residence vhere 1 have an errand. 1 feel not it to go i:t as 1 am and sit among the , wests. So some of us feel about lteav- , :t. We need to be washed; we need i o he rehabilitated before we go into i ! e Ivory palaces. Mterual Cod. let he surges of thy pardoning mercy roll ^ >ver t:s! 1 want not only to wash my 1 tauds and t >y feet; but, like some . killed diver, standing o:t the pier . icad. who leaps into the wave and onus up at a far distant point front < vhere he went in, so I want to go < lown, and so I want to come up. O ' esus. wash mo in the waves of thy , ?li? til It'll* Ami hero I ask ,vou to solve a mys- < ery that I:as been oppressing tue for ;o years. 1 have been asking it of loetors. of duinity who have been j tudying theology half a century, and h?\v have given tne no satisfactory nswor. I have turned over all the ooks iti my library, but got no solui >n to the ina ction, an 1 today I come aid ask you for an explanation. By viiat logic was Christ induced to ex- j hatigc the ivory palaces of heaven or the crucifixion agonies of earth? 1 i hall take the first thousand million ' ears in heaven to study out that probein; tneataw bile and now taking it us 1 he teuderest. mightiest of :t 11 facts hat Christ did come, that he came , vitli spikes in his feet, came with : horns in his brow, came with spears j n his heart, to save you and to save i ue. "tSod so loved the world that he rave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not per- 1 sh, but have everlasting life." (> 'lirist, whelm all our souls with thy ^ 'ompassion: Mow them down like summer grain with the harvesting 1 sickle of thy grace! Hide through to- 1 lay the conqueror, thy garments smell- ' ng "of myrrh an 1 aloes and cassia 1 )ut of the ivory palaces!" An Oilcl Rxporlonoe. James riillingwortli, a Cincinnati nan, had an experience in a Chicago violin shop recently that might happen nee in ln.owo.oon times. Mr. l)illingivorth came over from Cincinnati with US till llgil ICi', w ill) IS II SOHU'W llill Mvlli>d violinist. On the road the dnnghit's pet violin got smashed in a trunk, it was ,t medium good instrument. Mr. iMllingworth paid -ST." for It in a London shop and had given it to his laughter. lie took it to a State street store to have it repaired. The next lay he went hack to get it. *\Ve haven't finished the repair yet," said the elerk. "You see we had to lake the violin apart," lie explained, .'Xhihiting t lie pieces. Mr. IHllingworth was astonisiiml to itteh sight of his name on the underside of the top piece. He examined it more closely. "This i< a violin I made r?0 years ign." lie gasped, more surprised than lie had ever been ill his life. Haifa century ago Mr. Ililliugworth made the violin just as an i xpcrinicnt ind because l.e had a Knack for using abiiiet tool;. He afterward sold the violin to a friend for The friend sold the instrument to a man who was just starting for Australia. Hillingivortli bought his own fiddle back at a London violin shop for $7.").?Chicago Inter Ocean. " Iiiy Hi; n Itniihacl. An alleged new Raphael picture lias toon discovered at the exhibition of sacred art at f'oino. In one of the galerics of the exhibition there is a pir'ii'c iepresenting "The Massacre of he Innocents," I ( longing to I>r. Iiimi !i of I'avia. A ithj:iI?? ! of artista, atracted 1 ?y the beauty of tlio painting, '??riii?*?l it committee to oxamint* it aton!ivcly. The surface of the canvas /.as <*refully s-ratehed in the spot >vhere the signature was expected to >e, an 1 1 ii'low the varnish was found lie signature Kapli. VK1JI and tin* fill' MI?.\. The picture would, there"ore, belong to tin- beginning of tlio nst dorado of Kaphael's life, he liav* illVT died in l.Vju. It is believed that lie picture was bought toward the niddlo of tin- seventeenth century at a talc of a cardinal's possessions. A lliliaiiiinl A r? ii men (. ' Yon once said you would die for me, .lotias, and now you refuse to cut the grass." "That's perfectly logical, Minerva, it' 1 died for you, I'd be done with it, L?ut if I mow the grass once you'll make tne do It every two weeks."? Chicago Hwofd. HOKE SMITH ON THE WAR. "I it in Opposed to Sprontllug l*lli1iill> tliropiiy Willi u (intlinj: (lun.'l Washington, July 2-1. ?Ex Secretory of the luterior Hoke Smith wan interviewed i ll tho subject of the campaign in the Philippines and raid: "Nine-tenths of the people in car section are opposed to continuing tho war. The sentiment all over the south, I believe, is overw l^ehiiingij against trying to rotain the is'aude. The Filipinos are lighting for liberty m tkesamoway that wo did 100 years ago and tho American people are already sick und tired of the slaughter going on there. "I nm lint in fnrnr nf Inrinir nnr troops leave the islands with an armed force lined up against them, Lut that would not lo necessary. If we would avow our intention of leaving the islands to the natives and abandoning cur attempt at sovereignty the lightiug would stop at once. Then after we bad at* gisted in establishing a government, if the natives so wished, our iroops could properly be withdrawn. If the next presidential campaign were to bo waged solely on the issue of continuing tho war, the opposition candidate would L'urry the country." It was suggested that the insurrection might be put down in the meantime. The word "iusui reciion" seemed to displease Mr. Smith, who replied: "There isn't any insurrection. There is simply an invading uruiv trying to conquer a spirited people and it will he impossible, as I believe and hope, loput the 111 down. We wili 110 sooner think we have done it than there will bo another outbreak? President McKiuloy entirely misunderstood tho sentiment of our people 011 the question when he visited the south. He made a speech 111 Atlanta before a great throng, in which be asked the citizens if they wnnted to see our soldiers turn their backs 011 the American flag in the east, uud they answered no. What eisa could they say when the question was put 111 that way? "We can leave the Philippines withaut leaving the llag or running troni an jueniy. 1 am opposed to sureadiug philanthropy with a Gatliug gun." vETS TO ACT ON PENSIONS. State Kftinlott itt Cli'Ster Will lJo an Important (.nt tiering. . CitESTF.lt, S. C., July 2L. ?The stato reuuion of confederate veterans at Chester this week will consider a question, not only of great interest to themselves, but to cho taxpayers of the stato. As is well known the state only appropriates f 100.000 for pensions, and certain classes of old soldiers and their widows a're delined who shall receive certuin amounts. Theso amounts are small enough, but the state cau do uo better at present for them. If the money were available probably every soldier who fought for the Confederacy would get a pension from the state just as northern soldiers do from the national government. Hut that is impossible now. Nevertheless, according to the testimony of veterans, there are many persons on the pension rolls who are not entitled by law to anything, and many a deserving soldier goes without even the small pittance because others have taken advantage of the law and succeeded in having their uumes placed on the rolls. The confederate veterans havo taken up the question, and at the meoiug in Cuester they will probably devise some scheme whereby only deserving persons shall enjoy the benefits of the pension law. It is a question full of difficulties, but if the veterans devise some practicable law it wili uo doubt be adopted by tho legislature. ouradmTral. Thirteen cities claimed ITomor dead, but thrico 13 claim Dewey living.?Huston Journal. If you haven't Invited Admiral Dewey to attend your picnic, you'd better hurry. His list of spare seconds is tilling rapidly ?Utica Herald. With Dewey's preseneo assured at the national encampment of the G. A. It. at Philadelphia all other advertising would be superfluous.?Topeka Capital. Admiral Dewey has a hard problem on his hands. If ho wishes to retain his popularity, he will have to pay a visit to every city in tho country.?Albany Tiinos-Uuion. On tho morning of his famous battle Admiral Dewey stopped lighting to eat, but tho indications aro that when ho returns to the United States ho will have to light to stop eating.?Loulsvillo CourierJournal. THE COOKBOOK. A nourishing dish may bo mado from rooked meat by stewing it very slowly in **??:l! 1V ('find sfiwk on uruiv' f<?n 1 1/ Iwuiwo An Italian way to give the touch of garlic to the sal.nl is to rub a piece of bread with It (iml put it in tho salmi dish, where it lends its llavor through tho di.sli as tho salad is tossed. Cook twice as much hominy ns you want for a meal and pack what is left in a .square dish. Next day cut ill slices, fry j in pork fat and serve witii maple sirup. Rice is good fried in the same way, and children are very fond of both. For I taking, tho banana should bo green, but neither too green nor too ripe. It may bo made most delicious by pooling ai d rolling in brown sugar and linking ill a buttered pan in a very hot oven. II ; should be served around biano mango. i Vnlud of MUViinai, Tim American and Canadian saw- i mills have discovered that the sawdust j which limy have been perplexed how to rid themselves of as a worthless in- [ cninbrance is worth some $40 per ton. A chemist in Raitimore has invented a proce.-s .>r extracting gas from tho sawdust adequate to supply a city like Ottawa with light and heat at 10 cents per thousand feet. This is thought to portend that around tho great sawmills, j which have been emptying their dust j into tin- uiiawa river, a variety 01 new , industries subsisting on it uro likely to | grow ttii.?Tit-Bits. I'ii)fr*?c?r Mcltisslck Resigns. Montoomi'.ky, Ala , July 22.?The ex- | ecutive oflico lius been notified of the I resignation of Professor McKissick of the chair of mechanical engineering at the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn. He was formerly a South Caroluiaiau and will return to his nail re itato. ? | LOWER RATE ON COTTON. , Stale Railway Coiuiu'sftloners Finally Adopt a New T.irifT. Columbia, s. o., July 22. ? After many mouths of deliteration. daring which period the railroad traflic uiauagers and cotton men have been giveu lengthy and complete hearing, the state railroad coaimissiou has adopted a new standard tariff of rates on cotton for the state of Sonth Carolina. Tho new tariff is considerably lower than that rcceutly suggested by the commission and is lower than either the present Georgia and North Carolina rate; iudoed it will likely be lower tliau any in the country. The tariff will becomo effectiy? 80 days after the twenty-llfih inst., thus giving tho notico required by tho railroad law of the state. Tho commission in making np tho new tariff has given tho mostcaretnl consideration to tho arguments presented by all interests aud has prepared a tariff that is considered just and equitable. One factor in tho cotton rato problem iu this state now is the rapidly increasing number of cotton mills and the consequent increase in the number of short lianls. There has been a demand for sonio time for a reduction of the rates on cotton iu South Carolina and many will hail with satisfaction tho announcement of tho reduction provided for by the commission. NEGRO MURDERER AT BAY. llarricitdi-d In a Csbln, Ills Pursuers Miiy Hum Him Out. Decatur, Ala., July 23.? A telephone from Blount Springs, Ala., says that a' white man and a negro became involved in a difllculty lust night. Tho white man, whose namo is James Hamilton, drew a knife on tho negro, and the negro emptied a doubiebarrclled shotgun loaded with buckshot into Hamilton's abdomen. The negro made his escape to tho mountains back of the springs and is barricaded in a cabin. Bloodhounds wcro scut to Blount Springs from Warrior and tracked the negro to the cabin. Tho cabin is surrounded by 25 arti.cfl men and they doclnro they will either capture the negro or burn him out. Hamilton is dying. I'liprm That Should fie Rncoa rnirctl. When you are convinced thnt n paper in dishonest and deceitful, stop it. When convinced that it is unclean, stop it. When it lacks enterprise and fails | to give yon the news, stop it lint don't stop a paper that yon believe to be honest, courageous, enterprising and clean, simply becanse its editor has written his own sincere views, instead of yours or somebody else's, for if yon do yon are putting a premium on insincere journalism and serving notice on an editor that the way to sncce^s is to write what ho thinks will best please his readers, instead of what he honestly believes to ho tho truth.?Oonuersville (Ind.) Times. For Coiupmiy. "Yon are so preoccupied sometimes," said Mrs. Fourthly, "that I don't feel 6?fe in letting you go out alone." "That is to say, my dear,"-replied the Kev. Dr. Fonfthly. with his benevolent smile, "when my mind wanders, as it docs occasionally, somebody ought to go along with it."?Chicago Tribune. A Conlrnry rcnon. "Old Bill Ondgett, he was that contrary," said the oldest inhabitant,' "that when spring come he pertended be felt like workinl"?Iudianapolia Journal. Fatal Wreck at Covington. Covington, Ga., .Tulv 25 ?A bad wreck occurred on tbe Georgia road in this city at l>:50 o'clock last evening. Two trains ran "together on a 50-foot trestle in a head-end collision. Both engines and several cars lie 50 feet below the track in a ravine, wbilo tbe engineer and fireman of the construction train are horribly maugled and not expectcd to live. Only a SnianKO. An angry dispute arose at an inn between a number of Germans and Russians. Just as a light was about to begin a German pulled from his pocket something which he presented at his opponents. At the same time he exclaimed, "The iirst to come near me is a dead man 1" The Russians fled in a body. Remembering that it was against the law to carry firearms, tliey informed llio police. A constable was sent to arrest the German. When be entered the inn, ho called the offender before him and bogan to search bis pockets. The surpriso and laughter which took place may be imagined when the policeman drew out, not a pistol, but n sausage. ^ Dolllc Got the Penny. Dollie bad been given n penny as a reward for soino small service, but on her way to the candy shop she happened to lose it. Dollif* knt'W there were plenty more p? nnies where that one had como from mid returned homo confident of receiving another. "Mamma," she said, going into the sitting room. "I've lost my penny, and I want another." "Hut why didn't you take care of tlio one I gave yon V" "1 did. mamma, hut it must linvo dropped and rolled into a corner so that I didn't notice it. If you give me a hig dollar this time, 1 can hear it fall and pick it up. " Dollie got the penny. ClinnRON Color. Then* arc a few creatures hoth of laud nud water tliat can change color ut will, one of these is a little shrimp | of the Irish sea. which changes to suit I the green or red or brown seaweed among which it is found or tlie color of the sandy 01* gravel bottom. Whenever it moves from one place to another, It at one? begins this process, auil in a few momeuts it is so uoar the color of whatever is near it that it cannot be ?een by Its hungry enemies. $