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"7" Y 7 noon r worrying oyer mo hei iefc to eir Treasury. stea to churches, in and jsion, mat wiey proTiae a k room where bicyclists can themselves up a little before g into church, after a spin on the COS' ty roads. . The Denver Mining Industry eaye : For unmitigated, lying, infernal Bcoundrelism in mining promotion, wo have 6een nothing equal to our present one. Colorado has become the Botany Bay of bunco steerers." Dr. Anderson, instructor of ath letics at Yale, eays that the ethical clement should be considered in that department as in everything else, and that broken down prize fighters are not proper instructors for young men. ' A person who is accomplished in the tciencp of agrostology was wanted at the Agricultural Department, Wash-ngto,-and the Ci?il Service Commis sioners superintended a competitive examination for a $1500 appointment. Ordinary people call an agrostologist a haymaker. The physicians of Chicago enjoy peculiar privileges as regards trans portation. For fifty cents he can pro cure of the city clerk a badge with a red cross which gives him the right of way. The physician can then pin on the badge and mount his ft heel or car riage and all vehicles are obliged to yield him precedence. A new law in Pennsylvania provides that all typewriting heretofore execut ed, and all that may hereafter be done, for any purpose whatever, 6hall have the same legal force and effect as or dinary writing, and that the word "writing" occurring in the laws of the State Bhall be held to inelude type writing. This is the first State that Las thus legalized the work of the typewriter. The course of Immigration Commis sioner Senner, in deporting an immi grant who has been drunk throughout the transatlantic voyage, is to be com-. mended, thinks the New York Mail and Express. The habitual drunkard is, in anticipation, a combinTon ol pauper, criminal arJumjliew It is merely question of development, lie is one ofthe most objectionable of immigrants.' We have no welcome for him. The Union Bank of London would not admit responsibility for giving 'Urs. Langtry'a jewelry to the wrong party on a forged order; but "to avoid expensive litigation" it settled by paying the lady $50,000 in consid eration of her loss through the bank's agency. This, explains the New Or leans Picayune, is the stubbornness that sticks to the idea that a bank can' make no mistake, even when an over paid customer has the money in his hani to prove tho bank has paid him too much. Of the 11,500,000 direct living de scendants of the Vikings, 2,500,000, more than one-fifth, reside in the "--United States born of Scandinavian f parents, either in Europe or America.' Few provinces of Denmark, Sweden or. Norway contain eo many Scandi navians ns the 375,000 who mako up L one-fourth of tho population of Min nesota. Wisconsin and Illinois have 'each 200,000. Iowa, Nebraska and the two Dakotas have tho larger part of the remainder. It is a suggestive fact that so large a proportion of the Scandinavians are settied in the dis tinctively agricultural States. The pv-jowTfreiiablo figures., obtainable indi cate tnac, oi tne Scandinavians, one out of four engages in agriculture. One of the most appalling results ot 'foreign' pauper immigration, observes the Atlanta Constitution, is disclosed by the fac t that nearly one-half of all the crimes committed in tho United States are traceable to this obnoxious element of oar population. This state ment is based upon the official records furnished by the census of 1890, and is, 'therefore, the most reliable infor mation, that can bo obtained on this important subject. At the time this census was taken the number of crim inals in' the various prisons of the United States was found to be 82,329. ""Ufhis number 25,019 were of African Jviner 57,310 white crimin- this number between ' i elements of the 43.19 per .81 yOBLICAN . C08VESTI0N. ORGANIZES AT ST, LOUIS AND PRO CEEDS TO BUSINESS, The Platform Will Dcclaro Out and Oat for Gold. BRIEF SUMMARY OP THE PRO CEEDINGS. The republican national convention was formally opened at St. Louis Tues day at noon. Tho day was propitious with un clouded skies and refreshing breezes. Although the convention - was' not called to order until noon, the streets in the vicinity of the hall were throrig ( d for two hours before that time with strangers, who had come to the city to' witness what they could of the grand spactacle and were naturally drifted aronnd tho auditorium, but the doors were clot od to all persons, including delegates and alternates, until the time should arrive for their official opening. Tho only exceptions to this rule were newspaper men, furnished with badges and tickets of admission, offi cials of the convention arid several hundred special and general aids to the sergeant at-arms. Ihe assignme seats for the state delegations w completed until 11 o'clock. In the section immediate! right of the platform were fi placards of the seats of California orado. Gonnectiefct.-Illiaois. Wash ton, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida.South Carolina, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, West "Virginia and Delaware, California and Alabama being in the front rows and the others coming be hind them in the order named. Tho other seats were fixed in the section facing tho platform on tho left-hand side. ' An honr was occupied by the assist ant sergeant-at-arms in instructing-and loeating his deputies, ushers and as sistant ushers and in the meantime a band of music in the gallery behind the platform played various airs. Owing to the vast ground space ihe distinguished delegates were lost in tho throng upon entering and got to their seats without recognition or applause. Henry Clay Evans, of Tennessee, was the first. distinguished-participant to arrive. Ho "oeme in at 11-: 15 o'clock and took a scat pp tbeieftof the chair man's seat. Lesajhan a hundred peo ple were in the hfaj. . When Mr. Fitt appeared in the New York seats there was a volley of cheers from those in the neighborhood. The doors were' hot ODen for ceneral admission until -about a quarter past 11 o'clock, - and; from that time on spectators made ttheir way to the gal leries, but not ifci large numbers, the iiefcetS-es-sdaif'-Km being put at $40 for the set that is for every session of the convention. 1 At 11 ido the delegates began to ar rive, those of Casfornia and Maine be ing the first to etter the hall. They did co without demonstrations. Other state delegates pcured in rapidly and eoon the sections assigned them began to fill np. OutiSile the clash of brass bands was heard from time to time de noting the coming of. the delegations, Prominent amfng the Colorada men was Senator Telle, who chatted pleas antly with those fx his neighborhood and "saw" Mr.'; Lodgers floral chal lenge with a silver. white rceo in his buttonhole. While waiting for . the convention to be called to order the band rendered some good musioi In the interim of two pieces Mr. iChauncy M. Depew entered the hall, smiling as usual, and got a hearty reception. At 12:20 o'clock Senator Carter, chairman of the republican national committee, called the convention to order. By this time all the seats of the delegates and nearly half of the gallery space were filled. The chaplain, Rabbi Sale, opened with prayer, the whole assemblage standing aff the chaplain inyoked the divine benediction. ' At the close of the chaplain's prayer Chairman Carter said : "j. ins convention is assembled in compliance with, the terms of a call issued by the national committee on the . 14th of December, 1895, which call the secretary will now proceed to read." The secretary did so, in a voice which was inaudible at ten feet distant and amid frequent dries of "Louder. Chairman Carter then said : , "Gentlemen of tho convention, by direction of the-aational committee. I present for your, approval for your temporary chairman lion. Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana." Mr. Sutherland, on behalf of the New York delegation, moved that the selection of the committee be ap proved, and this was carried without a dissenting voice. Mr. Fairbanks came forward, and in a clear and distinct tone, with only occasional references to his notes, de livered his address, which was fre quently applauded. After expressing his profound grati tude for the expression of generous confldenco which iho convention had bestowed npon him Mr. Fairbanks de voted the first half of his remarks to a contrast of the reoord of the republi can party with, that of the democratic party as viewed 'from .the standpoint of a protectionist Incidental to this discussion Mr. Fairbanks made the' as sertion that the republican party had. made "sound money," and that it also made an honest protective tariff to go with it. ' - j. '.: "Sound money'- and honest protec tive . tariff." he said, "go hand - in hand,' not one before the other. The nhhean party haa - not been nn "'SL,Jb.e proper, use of silver. " "Tpd and favors today ,4jof our cireu- """""-tuse V AS epeecn iur. -carter proposed mo ap pointments. of the secretary, assistant eecretariep, sergeanU-at-arms,' offioial stenographers and other officials, and the persons so named Were, declared duly appointed. -- Mr. Lamb, delegate from Virginia, onered a resolution which was agreed to, that until a permanent organiza tion is effected) the convention will be governed by the rules of the last con vention.- Mr. ijamb also offered an other resolution, which wan also adopt ed, ordering that the roll of states and territories be now called, and that the chairman of each delegation announct the names of the persons selected i serve on the several committees as fol lows: First, on permanent organization. Second, on rules and order of busi ness. Third on credentials.. Fourth oh resolutions. Also, that all resolutions in respect to tho platform shall bo referred to the committco without debate. The states were then called for their selection of delegates as members of tho several committees'. After an announcement of the places and times of meeting of tho four com mitteop, the convention at 1 :47 ad journcd to Wednesday at 10 o'clock.. SK'COXD DAY. A chilling drizzling rain began about 8 o clock Wednesday morning, and the second day of the creat republi can convention promised to bo ' very disagreeable. There was but very lit tie interest felt by the great mass of delegates, as McKinley's nomination was certain and tho platform was sot- tied except perhaps as to a fow techui al points of phraseology in which paratively few Wore much inter- man Fairbanks rapped for or- o'clock and Dr. Williams, the Mothovlist Episcopal of St. Lonip. mado the prayer. Lodce rosa to ask for the committee on resolutions the privilege of siltion during the progress of tho convention, that tho sub committee had completed the report and that it' was now being Considered by the fall committee. The request was granted. The chairmau's call for the report of the committee on credentials met with no response and tho matter was passed Mr. Sewell, of New Jersey, and Sena tor Wellington, of Maryland, asked unanimous consent to make the retort of Committee ob permanent organiza tion and rules, but objections were heard. Several resolutions were handed up and referred to the committee without debate. Cosiness then seemed at c standstill. Sehator So well, of New Jersey, moved that the report of the commit tee on permanent organization be de clared in order, iiis motion was greeted with cheers by the galleries, which wished the convention to pro ceed. . The motion was put and Chairman Fairbanks declared it carried. . Sen ator Wellington indignantly pro tested that the motion was out of order, as. the convention could not suspend the rule, and nis point was warmly supported .by Delegate Little- field of Maine, bfc tho - chair ruled that both gentlemen were out of order as the convention cad decided to re ceive the report. When the reading clerk, who intoned the Oommittee re port totho house, announoed the name of John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, to be permanent chairman, there were cheers from the galleries and the same demonstration greeted the name of U. S. Grant, of California.' " The reading of the, report on per manent organization was followed by a wild and tumultuous scene. Mr. Mudd of Maryland, jumped to his feet and loudly protested against action upon the report. "It can be received," ho shouted, 'but it cannot be acted npon. : Nothing can be done until the convention has acted upon the report of the oommittee on creden tials. Until that committee has acted there will be no action. Mr. Fairbanks ruthlessly overruled the point of order and left Mr. Mudd angrily shouting on the floor. Mr. Fairbanks called for a vote on the adoption - of the report and do- manded a call of the roll. His demand was seconded by Delegate Evans of Minnesota. Mr. Fairbanks, however, called for at rising vote, and the ' convention' seemed to rise en masse to the call. The - gallerios cheered and pandemo nium reigned before the convention realized that a few dissenters had won a victory over the convention. Senator Sewell of New Jersey, Con gressman Payne of New York, were designated to escort the permanent chairman to the platform. Thurston Speaks. Mr. Thurston faced the arena atd spoke as follows: "Gentlemen of the Convention: The happy memory of your' kindnoss and confidence will abide in my grate ful heart. forever. My sole ambition is to meet your expectation, and I pledge myself to exercise the import ant powers of this high office with ab soluto justice and impartiality. . I be speak your cordial co-operation and support to the end that . proceedings be orderly and dignified. Eight yc ars ago I had the distinguished honor to preside over "the convention which nominated the last republican presi dent of the United States. Today I have the distinguished honor to preside over a convention to nominate the next president of tho United States. This generation has had its object lesson and the doom of the democratic party is already pronounced... The American people will return to the republican party because they know its adminis tration will mean supremacy of the constitution of the United States, maintenance of law and order, protec tion of every American citizen to live, labor and vote, vigorous foreign pol icy, enforcement of the Monroe doo trine, revenue adequate for all gov ernmental expenditures and the grad ual . extinguishment : of the national debt, currency as sound as govern ment, untarnished as its honor, whose dollars, whether gold, silver or paper, (shall have equal purchasing and debt- paying power with the best dollars of It" L the emhzed world a protective tariff which protect., poyered with reoiproo-""- reciprocate?, thereby, lew "-Tlietj foj Arasrlsaa "w?ffU ft JlJ- ries for Ihe -free coinage of American muscle ; 1 pension "policy jast and gen erous to ur-liviDg heroes and to wid ows and orphans -df their- dead com rades) theTgVfernmeiital euporvLion and Contf ol'pf transportation lines and rates the protection df people from all tihlawf u jj combinations and tin just exaction of aggregated capital and corporate! power an American wel come to eery Gdd-f earing; liberty loving; cohtittitidu-respecting; law: abiding, labor-seeking, -decent man the exclusion of all whose birth, whose blood, whosb condition, whose prac tices, would., menace permanence of free institutions, and endanger the safety, of American society oe lessen the opportunities for American labor the abolition of sectionalism every star in the American flag shining fof honor and welfare and happinessjevory commonwealth ofj by and for tho peo ple j a deathless loyalty 3o"a1Mbat is true and American and a patriotism eternal as tho stare." Almosteve?y sonterce of the ad dress was punctuated with appluune, and at its ojose delegates roso and waved their hats, fl igs and handker chiefs With a prolonged cheer. As the demonstration ccdsed, by the direction, of Permanent Chairman Thurstona letter was read from J. Henry Fort,jchairman of the commit tee on credentials, announcing that tho committip would bo unable to re port until afternoon. A recess wa then taken tfni&2 o'clock. The report of the committee on per manent organization, betiles naming Senator TburBton as chairman, made the secretaries, sergeaut at-arms and other temporary officers permanent officers of the, convention and gave a iist of vice president?, one from each state, as agreed on by. tho delegation. Tho reading,oT the list of vice-presidents W8s interrupted by applause as popular names were reached. Afternoon-Session. " . It was 2 :4wJbjyjihQ.; chairmau's hammer knoclfCd for order and . an nounced that, the afternoon scssiou wonld be cpnod with prayer by Bishop ArnetJof Wilberfbrfie college, O. ' Tile bishop invoked blessings on the Conventiorrand oh the country and gave thanks for an assembly repre senting tho culture, the wealth and re finement of more than forty centuries. He prayed that the victory to bv gained in tho Jature through the work of the convention may redound to the blessing of cvfy section, and thai protection andJiberty and civil and political rights may be secured to ev ery" man, woman and child from the lakes of tfie north to the gulf .of the south, Mr. Madden, of Chicago, was recog nized by the chair for a special pur pose. Madden then, in appropri ate terms, pre3cnted a gavel made from a portionof the house in which Lincoln c nee lived. The chairman, in in accepting it, expressed the hope that the inspiration of the immortal Lincoln migbtrHre the hearts of tho contention to higher patriotism. Judge Denny, of Kentucky, pre sented a seoond gavel made from? the wood which formed part of the home stead of Henry. Clay, "the father . of protection. . ' .Temporary Crjan Firbanks.rej; 'ponded, cxUfying. nfi gratification that the staSwHebrrfClay had en- jtercd the rcpuMcan fold and trusted bearer of this great convention in No vember next. 1" The report of the committee on cre dentials was Ihen -presented by its chairman, Mr. Fott, of New Jersey. The report recommanded that the roll of delegates and alternates of the con vention from the BtVarval states and territories, as prepared by the national committee, be approved as the perma nent roll of the convention. After discussion the majority report was adopted amid cheers. A minority report was presented, but was overwhelmingly defeated. The chairman of the committee on resolutions was recognized and report ed that the platform wonld be ready at 8 p. m. ' Mr. GrosverJ&r moved to adjourn ffntil 10' o'clock Thursday morning. The chairman declared in favor of the ayes, and -at 5:07 the convention was adjourned accordingly. The Platform Will be Gold. . There is no. "possiblo misconstruing the meaning ot' the financial plank '"li Me. cogi,ttflq na -resolutions has decided upon and which reads as follows: . V. - The republican party is unreserved ly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879. Since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unal terably opposed to every measure cal culated to debase our currency or im pair tho credit of our country. We are, therefore, Opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by interna tional agveement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until' such agreement 'can be ob tained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency now ia- circulation must be maintained at a parity wth gold, and we favor all-'measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or ; paper, at the present standard the Standard of the most enlighted nations of -the earth. . -. KILLED BY A SCIIORCHKB. Captain Leathers - Meets a Violent Death In-' .New Orleans. After surviving for sixty years all the perils to which a steamboat man is exposed, the world -renowned Captain Thomas P. Leathers is dead at New Orleans from the effects . of being run over by a bicycle one even ing about :Js2'j. weeks ago. The captain "was crossing St. Charles avenue when a bicycler came along at high speed and ran into and knocked .him down. " The rider wasalso thrown down, but quickly remounted his wheel and made good his escape without being reoognized. Captain Leathers never rallied from the shock. H :h. Scooped by the Southern. ":. The Southern and the ' Cincinnati. Hamilton and - Dayton nave made ft joint lease of the Cincinnati Southern, tar lOO.veaM. v4t,V an on tion on the road, At legst - their bid h&a fcssa sa REV. DE. TALM AGE. TttB KOTED DIVINE'S SUNDAY MS$Ot7RSfi. r Subject: "The' Biker Attlla;'" , frirr: "There fell a .great star frorii heaven, turning as It were a lamb, and. It fell upon the third part ot the rivers, and upon the fountains ot water; and the name of the star is ailed Wormwood." Revelation vili., 10, 11. , Many commentators, like Patrick and Lowtb, Thomas Scott, Mntthew Henry and Albert Barnes agree in saying that tbe star Wormwood, mentioned In Revelation, was Attlla, kins of th Han?. He was so ca'led bectttiso he.wflS brilHtttit ns a Star, anil, like Wormwood:! de .etfibtttered everything he todched; We . have' .Studied the l-tar of Bethlehem; and .the Mfimlrig, Star'. of the Revelation; ond the Star", of Peace; but my present subject calls us to gaze at the star Wprmwppd, apd my theme might be called Brilliant Bitterness. A more e&tfaordlnary character history does not furnish than tbis man thus referred to. Altila, the king ot the Huns. One day a wounded heifer came limping along through the fields, and a herdsman followed Its oloody track on the gross to see where tne heifer was wounded, and went on back fur ther and ftlrth'erj Until he eama to a sword fast in the earth; the pbitit dbwiiwftrd, as though is, bad dropped from the heavens and against the edges. ot this sword the heifer had been cut. The herdsman pulled up that sword and presented it to Atti'a. Attlla said the sword must have dropped frCm the heavens from the grasp of the god Mars and its being given to' him meant that Atilla should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at being called liberators, or tho merciful or the good, but Attila called himself, and demand ed that others e'alt hith th6 gfiourge of God. At the head cf 70fJ,0d0, trddps; mounted on Gappadocian horses, swept everything from the Adriatic to the Blaok Sea. He put his iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Paviaand Padua and Verona bog for mercy, which he bestowed hot; Tho Byzuntlne castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up t auction masive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured by him, the .inhabitants fwere brought out and divided into three classes the first class, those who could bear arms;- -frhd -mtwtJUpraqdiatcly enlist under Attlla or be butchered; tfia Fcddad 0a?s, the beautiful women, who were made captives to the Huus; the third class, the aged men and women, who were robbed of everything and let go back to the city to pay heavy tax. It wns a common saying that the grass never grew agajil tfjlefo the hoef f Attila's horse had trod: His armies fdddened tho waters dt the Soihej aiid the'Mbselioj and tbe Rhine with carnage and fought oa the Cata Ionian plains, the, fiercest battle since the world stoodr-300.000 diad left on the field! On and on until those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer, and, acloud of dust seen in the dis tance, a bishop cried, "It is tho aid of God!" and all the people took up tho cry, "It is the aid of God I" As the cloud of dust was blown aside the banner 8f fe-en forcing armies marched in to help" arfiugt Attilaj the Scourge of God. The most unimportant oc currences he used as a supernatural re source, and after three months of failure to capture the city of A;uileia. and bis army had given up tho siege the flight of a etork and her young frcui the. towr of tho city was taken by him as a sign that tie was to capture the city, and his army, inspired by the same occurrence, resumed tne siege and took the walls at a point from which the stork had emerged. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Ildicoj who Was hired for the assas sination his followers bewailed him. fiot with tearsjbut With bldddj cutting thu selvea with knives and lances. He was mix Into three coffins; the first of iron, the second ot silver and the third bf gold. He was buried, by night, and into his grave were poured the most valuable coin and precious stones, .amounting to tne weaun oi a Kingdom, ine 4 the burial were massacred, so that it would j' I entombed. The jttoman empire conquered the. worldibut Atrilrt Conquered the Roman: empire, no was ngnt in caning uimsoii a scourge, but instead of being ihe Scourge of .' God he was the scourge of hull. Besauso of his brillianoo and bitterness the commenta tors were right in believing him to be the star Wormwood. As the regions he devas tated were parts most opulent with foun tains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic is this reference iri- Revelation: "There fell a great star from heaven, burn ing as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the foun tains of waters, and tho same of the star is called Wormwood." . Have you ever thought how many Imbit tered lives thtro are all about us, misanthro pic, morbid, acrid, saturnint? Tho Euro pean plant from which wormwood is ex tracted, Artemisia absinthium, is a perennial plmt, and all the year round it is ready to exUde.its oih And tfi many human lives there is a perennial distillation bf acrid ex periences. Yea ) there are some whose whole work is to shed a baleful influence on others. There are AM las of the home, or Atttlas of tho social circle; or Attilas of the church, or Attilas of tho Slate; and one-tbtrd of the waters of all the worlds if not two-thirds the waters, are poisoned by the fulling, of . the star Wormwood. It is not complimentary to human nature that most men. as soon as they get greater power, become overbearing. The more power men have tho better If their power be used for good. The -less power men have the better if they use it for evil. Birds circle round and round and round before they woop upon that which they are aiming fr. And it my discourse so far has been swinging round and round this mo ment it drops straight on your heart and asks the question, Is your life a benediction to others or an im bitter meat, a blessing or a curse; a balsam or wormwoottV Some of you I know are morning stars, and you are making the dawning life ot your children bright with gracious In fluence?, and you are beaming upon all tho opening enterprises of philanthropic and Christian endeavor, and you are heralds of that day of gospehssation which will yet flood all the mountains and valleys of our sin cursed earth. Hail, morning start Keep on shining with encouragement and Christian hope! s Soma ot you are evening ttars, and you are cheering the last days ot old people, and though a cloud sometimes comes over you through the querulousne&s or unreasonable ness of your old father and mother it is only for a moment, and the star soon comes out clear acala and U seen from all the balco nies ot the neighborhood.- The old people will fdrgive your occasional shortcomings, for they themselves several times lost their patience whe n you were young and slapped you when you did not deserve it. Hail, evening start Hang on the darkening sky your diamond coronet! - But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do vou soold and irrowl from the thrones pa ternal or maternal? Are your children ever lastingly peeked at? Are you always crying 'Hush!" to the. merry voices and swift feet, and their laughter, whii occasionally tri'kles through at the wro2g times and it suppressed by them until they can bold It no longer, and all tbe barriers burst into un limited guffaw and caohinnation, as in high weather the water has trickled through a slight opening in the milldam, but after ward makes wider and wider breaoh until it carries all - before it with irresistible freshet? Do not be too much offended at the noise your children now make. . It will be still enough when one ol them is dea't. Tiien rou would give youi right band to hear ono shout from ihtir si lent voices or one step from tho still foot You will not any of you have to wait verj long before your house is stiller than you want it. A'ae, that t here ore so many hornet not known to Society For the Prevention ol Cruelty to Children, where children are put fin the limits and whacked and cuffed and ear pulled and senselessly called to ordei and answer sharp and surpressed until it is I wonder that under such processes they dc not all turn out Modocs and Nana Sahibs. ' What is your influence upon tne neighbor hood, the town or the city ot your residence I will suppose that you an a star ot wit. What" kind of rays do you ahoot forth? Dc you use that splendid faculty to irradiate the "world or to rankle it? 1 blesa all the apostolia ; college ot humorists, The man (hat mako-i ma laugh is ray benefftfqr, t dq or i nan w ncyooayto mass ma cry : can o that without ay kwUmim - V wl on go that without uyftwlgt-taav' .Vwipn bless all skillful punsters, all reparteelsts, ail propoundora of ingenious conumdrums, all those who mirthfully surpriso us with un usual juxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a divine mission, and so have their successors in these UineUi Tby stir Into the acid bev erage dt li fe tb saccharine.- Thy make the cup of earthly' existence"; wblcH Is sometimes stale: effervesce and IraPble They placate arUptto'sitlea; They foster longevity' They slaj follies aa Absurdities which all t.ie ser mons of all the' ptflpits cannot reach. They nave for examples ClljahV who made fun of the Baalites when they cailcd down fire, dtfd if did not come; suggesting that their heathen god had gane hunting, or was off on a journey, or was aslaerfvund nothing but vociferation could wake him, ecyiag. "Cry aloud for he is a god. Either he is talking or ptlrswing or ..perad venture he steepeth and must be dvftritsJ. They have an . example in Christ, who witt healthful sarcasm showed up the" lying, hypocritical Pharisees by suggesting that such perfect people lik themselves needed no improvement,- saying, ''Tue whole need not a phy sician Wit they" tndf are staK." But what use ore you" nMiflbg of your wit? Ia it bestiilrch6d with pl-ofanity aad anclean ness? Do yod emipioy it . iri amrisemfent at physical defects' fof w'hlcli the" victims are not responsible? Are your gdwfs bf mim icry used to put religion ia contempt? Is it a" bunch of nettlesome invectlva? Js it a bolt of unjust scorn? .1 it fun at other's misfor tune? Is it glee at their disappointment and defeat? Is it bitterness put dfop by drop into a cup? Is it like the squeezing dt Ar temisia absinthium into a draught al ready pungant? Then you are the star Wdr'mwoqdi Yours" is the fuu of a rattle snake trying UfW well it can sting. It is t he fun of a hawk trying liW juiekly it can strike out the eye ot a dove. 1 But I will change this and suppose you are a star erf Worldly Prosperity. Then you have large oppoffiinlly You can encourage that artist by buying his pltftere. You can improve the fields, the stables, the t'ighway, by introducing higher style of fowl an I horse and cow and sheep. You can bless the world with pomo'ogical achievement in the orchards. Yotf can advance arboriculture and arrtdt thU de'athfiil iconoclas-n of tho American forests.- You crtd put 0 piece of sculpturd iritd the niche of that public academy; You Ctni e'D'doW a college. You can stocking a thousand Jjftfo fe'c't from the wlntor fro?t You cau build a church. You lan put a missionary of Christ on that foreigfi shors Yon can hnlp ransom a world. A rich mau will If ft heart right can yorf toll mi how much good a Jartia Jejox or a George Peabody or a P -tor Cooper of a William E. Dodge did wbl&4iIng, or i doing now that he. is dead? "" There is not a jity, town bi neighborhood that has not ilorious' sfleim'e'ns of c'otos'aorittel wealth. But suppose ycM grtrfd t,he" frtc"9( of the poor. Suppose when a ffifisTsr wages are due you make him wait for them bocitSf3f ho can aot help himself. Suppose that, because his family is nick and ho bas nart extra expenses, he should politely ask you to raise his wages for this year and ycnl roughly toll him if ho wants a better plated to go aad get it. Sup pose by your nfajSner' foX atft ds though he were nothing nid yOU Wef'eeV'erything. Sup pose you are s9lQsh and overbearing and ar rogant. Your first name ought to be Attila and your last natfta Attila, because you are the star Wormwood, and yoTJ huve tmbntered one-third if not three-thirds of the" waters that roll pat your employes and operatives and dependents and associates, and the long line ot cafriftgeg which the undertaker orders for your f uherftl; Iri otdetf to make the occa sion respectable, will U3 flifod with twice as many dry, tearless eyes a3 there" aftf jrsons occupying them. - There is an erroneous idea abroad that there are only a few oreniuses. . The.ro are millions 8t tb?ui'Khat is, men and women . i i i i t I. . wno nave espcctai aai.ptpiiwn mm nuicm for some one thing. It may b" gsat j it may be small. The cirole may be like tho dir nm ference of the earth cr no larger than a thlm ole. There are thousands of geniuses, nni in some one thing you aro a star. What kind of a star are you? You will be in this Vorld but a few minutes. As compared with sternity thd stay of the longest life on earth is not more than a minute. What are we iotas with that minute? Atewe imbittering ihe domestic of social or po'lttctl f ouatains, or are we UJie'Mo.afeSi who,- when the Israelites In the wilderness complain J thkt the waters of Lake Marah were bitter audi they could not drink them, cut off the brankh of a cer- ain tree and, turew tnat Diaau. into xhj Water, and it ceaame sweat idlBlakei ine thirst of the suffering host? Arswd With a branch of the Tree of Life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we ean touch? - Dear Lord, send us all out on that mission. All around 9 imbittsred Jives imbt tered by proaeoatiod,- imbittered by byper crltlcism, itdtfittefeid . ..by portertj', im bittered by pain, imbittefod by injustice. Imbittered by sin. Why not gd fcrrtb and sweeten them by smile, by inspiring Words, by benefactions, by hearty counsel, by prayer, by gospe'ized behavior? Let U3 remember that if wd ttfe wormwood to others we are wormwood to ourseH'esii and our life will be bitter and our eternit y bitterer; 3 he gospel ot Jesus Christ Ma tho only sweetening power that is suffioler I It swo3ten3 the disposi tion. It sweetfas the manners. I'. sweetens life. - It ewec&B'ns mysterious providences. t sweetens aptction: 11 sweetens death, ft sweetens irj thing. I haW heard peo ple asked In JUoial company. "It you could have three wranes gratified what would your three wishes be?" If I could havo three wishes met this morning. I tell you what (Jhey would be: 1. More of the grace of God 2. More of Iho grace of God. 8. More ot the graoe of Odd. In the dooryard of my brother Johh, missionary in Amoj", China, there was a tree called the emperor tree, the two characteristics ot which are that it al ways grows higher than its surround ing, an 1 Its leave3 take tbe form ot a crown. II this . emperor tree bo planted by -a rosebush. It grows a little higher than the bush and spreads out above it a orown. If it be planted by the side of an other tree, it grow3 a little bigger tharrthat iree and spreads above it a crowu. WjuI 1 God that this religion of Christ, a more won derrul emperor trte, might overshadow all your lives! Aro you lowly in ambition or circumstance, putting over you its crown? Are you high in talent and position, pultin? over you its crown? Oh, for more of the saccharine in our Hvre and less of the worm wood! ' What is true of individual is true of na tions. God sets them up to ravolvo as stars, but they istiy fa-1 wormwoo-.l. . Tyre,the atmosphere ot the desert, fra grant with spices, coaling in caravans to her fairs, all sea3 cleft into foam by tlr keels ot her laden merchantmen, her markets rich with horses and camels from X ogarmah, her bazaars filled with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and agate from Syria, with wlnos fro:n .. Holbon, with em broidered work from Ashur and Chllmad AVbere now the gleam of her tower.?, where the roar ot her chariot., where the masts of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry their nets wh- re once she stood, lot 'tho sea that rushes upon the.barroriueas where once she challenged tha admiration of all nation.", let tbe b-irbarians who set their rod tents whero once her palaces glitterod, answer the question. She was a star, but by hei own sin turned to wormwood an. I has fallen. Hundretf gated Thebes,-for all time to bt the study of the antiquariam and hierog'y nhtst. hr stonen Ioim ruin? snmi I nVi-r 27 miles, her sculptures presenting in figures or warrior and chariot the victories with which the now forgotten kings ot "Egypt shook the nations, her obelisks and columns, Camao and Luxor, tbo stupendous temples ot her pride! Who can imagine the 'greatness of Thebes In those days when the hippodrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrine and her avenues roared with the wheels of processions (a the wake of returning conquerors? What dashed down the vision of chariots and temples and thrones? What ' hands pulled upon the columns of her glory? What-ruthlessness defaced he sculptured wall and broke ob lisks and left her indescribable temples great' skeletons of granite? What Bpit of de struction spread the jair of Wild beasts in her royal sepulchers, aad 1&ught the miser able cottagers of to-day to build huts In the courts of her temples, and sent desolation and ruin skulking behind the obelisks, and dodging among the sarcophagi, and leaning against the columns, and stooping under the arches and weeping In the waters whioh go mournfully by as though they were carrying tne tears ot all ages? Let the mummies break their long silence and come up to shiver In the desolation and point to fallen gates: and shattered statues aad defaced sculpture. reflpondIng:.,,Thebes built not one temple of GodV Thebea hated righteousness and loved aln. Thebes Was a star, but she turned to wormwood and has fallen. ' ' 1. - Babylon, with her 253, towers and her bracen gates and her embattled, wall?, the splendor oi lbs eartn cameraa witQin nsr p-ilaaea, has iansiB!? gRfdn 1 built by XebusUftdse;!1. to rteMi tt bride, AtsftiJi n ui iwi h s wp:3 & e'dunf ry" aad cou-fd 06t eadnre the flat cottu try" ftWrid -f&bylon-tbe--" banging K built, terrfiS! above' ferraewtilS at the height of 400 feet there-WerB' woods waving and fountains playing, the verdure, the ioJIager( the glory looking as If a mountain were oa the wing. On the tiptop a king walking withil hisqueen. among statues snowy white, look-i Ing up at birds-brought from distant lands," and drinking out of tankards of solid gold' ot looking off over rivers andlakes upon na tion subdue! and. tributary, crying, "Is not thiii gYea Babylon which I hard bufirr i Whit batterl ttg ram smote the walls? what plowshare upturned tho gardens? what army shattered the brazen gates? Whtft, long, fierce" blast of stor ji put oat this light which llld-JUne-l the world? What crash of ( discord drove down" the music that poured j from palace window and garden grove and called the banqueters to their revel and tho , dancors 10" ttair feet? I walk upon the; scene of desofttf ton fo find an answer and ; pickup pieces ot ttttJirpon and brlok ana( bt'?feeu pottery, the ra.natns of Babylon, and' as hi tbe silence of the night I hear Upsurg ing of that billow ot desolation which rolls) over the scone, 1 hear the wild waves say"- Ing: "Babylon wa? peoui. B ibylOT wa ; impure. Babylon was a ar, but bv sua abe turned to wormwood and ha- fallen. ' j ftom the prosecutions of the pilgrim fathers aad the Huguenots tn oth land GOtf sat apon these shores a natiohV The (?cfufll fires of the aborigines went otrtm the greater light of a free government, 'ipe sound ot -the Warwhoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of eutBrpjiiidd- projt--ress. The mild winters, the fruitful sum errf, the healthful skle3, charmed fronii otUtff lands a race of hardy men who loved ! God aiid wantdd to be free. Eotoro the wootiman's ax forests fell and rose again in-, to ships' masts and C'larhes' pillars. Oltto&. on thebank of lak3 be?!n t" rival cltl3 Of t the sea. The laud qankes with the rush of the fail car and the waters aro churneJi white w th tbe steamer's whee'. Fabulous bushels of wa3(eTn wh3nt meet on the way fab-1 ulous tons of eastern coal. Furs from thenortta pass on the river fruit.3 from the south. And "T idisg In the same market IS Maine lumber man and ebuth Carolipa rice mwohant an Ohio farmer aad Alaska fur dealer. An'? churches nul sahoott ant asylums weatter light and lovo and mef cy and salvation vpoa 60.000,00 of people. , I pray that our nation may not copy the . crimes of the nations that have perished and our cup of blessing turn to wormwood, and like thorn we go dowb. I am by nature and by grace" ail Optimist, aad I expiat that this . country will Ccrtintie talvanco until Christ f shall come again. But -be not deceived.. Our orly safety is In rlsfhteoatnesi? toward God nii justice toward ml. It-mm fiMfgr'-. the god'taw of the Lord to tnfs land, and , break His S'abtM'ni, and tnoprovi no by th dira disasters ttilt brre arain and aaire come td ns as a aatiotJ. and we learn saving" lcason neither from civil Wr nor raging epi demic nor drought nor mildew nor scourge5 ofioust and grasshopper nor cyclone nor has pOteofled the fountains of public v"ne andbesllmed tut bl rh places ot authority, f making tree goveromoni ut niunuuR and a byword in all the earth; if the drunk-, linmMkiionAS thiii Rt nccor unit tiuurtn tum u . . r - - blasphome in the street of our great cities ; a? though tuey .were reacnin nuot: the fame of a, Cyrinth nd a Sodoni ore not repented of, we will yqt see tho smoke " of our natlo ruin: the pillars of our national an& slat caDitols will fall more disastrously thart when Samson pulled down Dagon, ana iuturo historians win recora upon i v bedewed with generous tears mu the free nation ot the west arose In splendor which made the world stare. It bad magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It hated JdSttce, It hugged its crime. It halted on its bfgB march. ,It reeled under the bio w of calamity. It fell. And as it was going down all the despotisms of earth frora the top of bloody thrones begin to shout, "Aba, so would we have it!" while struggling; and oppressed people lookel out fromj dungeon bara with tears and groans and, cries ot untold agony, tho scorn of thoser and the woe of these uniting in the exclama tion. "Look yonder! Tbera fell a great star rrom heaven, burnifl? as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third pwrt of tbe rivew and opon the fountains of waters, and tne name of the star is cullod Worm-yodr SOUrilERK PROGRESS Tbe Industrial Situation as Reported i ii -for the Past Week. Reports from hundreds of southern correspondents' as to industrial and business conditions in the south for the past week,' notes the same quiet state of affairs that is usual at this season of tbe year. . EecJent statistics as to the iron out put sinee January 1 and the stocks now udsoU, show a fair consumption but it is considerably below the, output of pig iron. The iron and steel mark et continues dull, but the southern furnaces with only a few exceptions, are busy.- All encouraging transac tion for the week reported from Ala bama, in the Birmingham district, was thecale of 500 tons of pig iron for im mediate tLipment to Italy made by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company. - Negotiations are also pend ing between this company and an Italian steel making concern for tho delivery for a term of years of .60,000 tons of iron per annum. Lumber shows little change. Busi ness is better in some section, but no marked improve hod t is expected until later in the summer. At the coal mines trade is active for tbe Benson and no labor uisttfrat of any importance are reported. The textile manufacturers reports quiet bnsincs3 and are making no ef fort to rush the market while prices remain so low. The dull season, bow ever, bas no depressing effect upoo cotton mill building and several new concerns are reported, tho largest be ing a 30, 090-spindle cotton mill tk-aoet-about $300,000, wbich will bo estab lished at Birmingham, Alia., by Trainer Bros., of Chester, Pa. - Among the most important new in dustries reported for the week are tho Buncombe Brick company, capital $25,000, at Asheville, N. C. ; the Fischer Land and Improvement com pany, New Orleans, La., capital $50,-" 000 ; the Cberaw, 8. C, Land and Improvement company, capital-$20,-000; the Beatty - Lumber company, Clifton Forge, Va., capital $250,000, and a lumber manufacturing company at ElizabetbCLty, N; C, with a capi tal of $25,000. Other new industries aro as follows : An ice factory at Spartanburg, S. O. ; machine shops at Norfolk, Va. ; coal mines to be opened at Garrison, Tex. ; a cotton mill at. Birmingham, Ala. ; a broom factory at Greensboro, N. O. ; a furniture factory at Mebane, N. C, and a lumber mill at Crockett, Tex. The enlargements include a phos- -t-hate company, at Raleigh, N. C. ; a cotton mill at Salem. N. C. ; knitting mill at Cberaw, S. G. ; at tIive Tex , a lumber mill, and at Waco, Tex., mantel and screen works. -' The new buildings for -the week as ' reported are a $40,000 Y. M, O. A. building at Mobile, Ala, ; a $10,000 business house at LonUville, Ky., and ' nnother to cost $25,000 at Shreveport,, La. ; a $40, 000 court house at Char , lotte, N. C, aud one at Harrisonburg, Va.; toost $45,000. A 300,000 depot will be built at : Atlanta, Ga., and a -government - building is to be erected at Savannah," Ga., at a cost of $209,000. V-TradesmaQ (Chattanooga, Tepn. ) ' i CosPiasios to as offenSe? who has grcsUy violated ttt ten ia, t::, 3 'I ' it".