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I Vl'j (j l.i-.-n in luve with liir ! f -. . .I , i-i I it's a wonder my ' ,: . . . ! -,:,:(-; -- iu' t : iiit-H I think it l r :. ; r n v, l-:t when I spoke t ' : i ...( ;t, eh-: S ill Iot to bother, ' j , i" ,,: I . no t f""".v anyway. ' A i ' i .t ' - a h. i t: 1 .l.' y iiiirt-', and she; 1. . , ,:, :.. i ;t:n ii!t'.'n y ars i.M r j t :. i . nut wh' ii tlutt willful j v.i .'. u .m 1:1 wished to I'c jn r t icu 1 ur- j j v , i .. ., i. ti.: its in-- with respect. ! ,a t : i 1 1 ii!ii':i;; my friends I urn (-.,:. ; j. r- : t-. ti iv.' burly kj I sense ; ' 1 c.i-, t r i T ; .inlly mi mo.-d Milo'-i't -, j a:, ! I -i i:. i v. - 11 cli.u,'li in lay pro- I (, ,,t : t lri!-lui in.: to lc'l ! iv 1,. i I i,:. .v. w.it'-r. lint when I'm w ;, J i.i.lv, ..: in !n-r pn-icnce, I'm an i n- , .1 Inv.-In.t', Io!i.-! a s. A litnutic !r m n 'm'ii.i u.iul.l !. 11 l.rilii'iut i ,-.,:., r it '.;.,i! t . 1 . : 1 : j ; 1 r - 1 t- lm-. An l II.'. I.' I I..' i.ll.i.ti tllilt t'i'1, llllil fcli"! 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Wli'-n : ;," to tliltiO.M I - iv :-, I'm nlwuys there if I know t!..- things nr.-n'littlo worse th hi ii u 1!, t'.r l-lly thinccs mo u th Li 'i-!-- u!i I -. 1 1 -t of men, iiil I (:,;. ! u! ...;t th-- Willi wiitchili ller. j . ,, r u T.l ; i v 1 Imt two iliiiicos to j 1. if, 1 1 af i.olhiim' to .lo in tbo j 1... .i.t I. ut nt.-h lu r. 1 !.! ,-!,t 1 w.is .l.-.-jurnte. 1 hail ; r, :.t I., r vi. ..ft- m nsu u Mm 11s is mr t . 1 1 ' 1 r I v !' :i 1 oi' them, :ui I mo.-t 01 : v I....I.I-V ..- that way. .Sometimes 1 hi- '.,.-ii- th'-;:.', mel often curries t hem, 1 !' t!.i- lit --lit they wero no win i. t. 1 e m eti, 1111 I in her llllllil whs in... r-.1 r.Hi'. I wei.t up to her ; ti:-;-.-iri:i. to 1-.- Mrry to m o 1110 was t he 1 11 tii-ulur form of torture wliich ;i:.'ii.l.--l it.-flt to heron this es I' ,1 hi. -I.t. "Vo l here !" r-lif Miiil, l-:t 1 Ii- r -vi-!.rowa in iitouishmeut .--. i u:ii--sit 11-uaie; nil jnit on, of f ., l-te.iu-i' I 11 :n ulvvavs where " 1..., I'm I...1 li'T.' I'm Home- :. 1 .:-.-,' I .-ii 1 wittilv. iho ', i.i .1 :!ii!ii'.l..Tal.-ly. 'V.'.i'r.' so fiinnv," she re- 1 : . . 1, .-h .kin- " I "Vf ," -u l 1 severely, "I supjoso j 1 .i:u i ii'iiiv, verv funny but wh'-ro i ,.ii,vv,,;,--' 1 !i, l .-il i on any violets ?" j j i -If. "I 'I: in't ku iw how shouhl I I. a'.-' h,. -.ul it seriously, but t:;- r-- v -i . a l.iok in ln r eves that was 1 t..; 1' 1 h ive like-lto shako her. "I'-oiy, ;. "ii know a.'tly what I ; . .'. . wi.. r- are mv violet-i'.'" "i: v.. ;i in. an th.? violets you sent ' . . I. r i ll.' 1 with dignity, "1 1 t. 1 ih.it uft.-r thev lel't von ' ; i - - o' 1 tii me: Jo you want i ' . ' 1 I 1 -.. V" I In-i tr '.itii;ly. i ' !' '. 1 y . " ' 1 Mill, nvlueeil once - : t . :;.y u-'iul eon-lit io;i of usi-', ! v , "I . ii.ln't ni' -iri it, lear, 1 don't i ' t:..- ! i be-.; your -union, of . : I -;.:.'t n ant ihem ; I only j ' ; : to wear them or carry ' ; . 1 !-.!..!, darling. " L - ;w that she had the best j ' . L..M1-. d thiiifs with a high J i : '' a-- nt me by a friend," I, " hi 1 I suppose I have i t ' . 'Ai .ir what 1 please; but sit I ': -1 1:1 1 .- loiisj, you'll be 1 was r.n allusion to my i ; i m, id- 'i.-d me. ' I ' -r-- x.'ee iinjly rude !" 1 . '. . - a aav and leaviuo' tier. :-. -: severe speech I had j ' Polly, and 1 sutiYred at oiit. Ir (our ili.ys I j 1 ir i.- r or senl li r violets - awful f.j;;r days; I t ' r at -, 1 ut ju-t reviled j . : -I I.t becoming e-- ; oil'. v worn in in tho j - i -"an I 1 veil Went to : '' ' ' ; " '!! Hunt to a danee y a i- s ire to see us, and 1:. 1 when I pae I her and 1 vw r m v li-. i I with Ler - :u the air, I wi-hed Miss I ' - w.-d, somewhere else, ' ' ; :-! r'J-h vi r to Polly, throw ' i... r Net and kiss them! ! w! l.j thut I have often 1 ' ' '" 1 r t- to li.. r, fully cou- ' ' w.i-a very silly letter, I : I toll htr I was merely; :..v-t If frr iie-t knowing she j ;: 1 r-d roses, ,1'i.i l.t 'tLrceJ iin-swt-r I received was ' ;v . 1 !. a s;,.y ii. 1 'oose, anl if j : : - - v. aited until I liuibbc.l 1 l ' , ' " iyit'-' yoi wo aid have dis- . 'f 1 sent the rose your- : "" '' V1"''.'t.-. I don't care at . V:v :'''1 ' ,:: ;i 1 learned, not that ' . .-' r,o,. ;.'.lUti i,ut tll.u Ler t hii 'l and she wanted' s ' 1 th-.-m. huudreds of I ,';,":'; h 'i'"' that willful an-.l f.s- V "'V-'A 'o;u in would bo ni- 4 1 ' ' i- 1 : , ,! :t -r' att 1,1 uy misfortunes ' 1 L !, 1 vahl'""t.Uu. There was! : -'.if t- y.uiio Ill!4!j llu acquaintance ' ul n rerof Puilv's, wul, exactly ! ;jV" "Vu'; ,h'Uae my,..lfUiehiir;i ' . I'1 "n":'- "r 'uur,. had taken a . ; - to Lisa, in hK-t I hated ! K'"" " ' l'"l'-v reiiiaiv.-d that li- ' Hi;";'1,11"' !fci:w''. 1 Uou't tbiLk ' - J ,Mi 6a tstraor Jmar afl'eftiou for J .1 '. We were no relation ; I was glad ol that. A few days after I Lad been sir '1 n '..i to Dully I called upon Ler. an I, heaven favoring ine, I found htr a I one. ' Dolly, dearest," I begun, "I am so tarry " "Don't," she said, thut incident is closed. There are ho many nicer things to talk about; Jano Hunt for in t inc.'. I shivered; I was abat to ie puiiisiied. "Is she nicer? ' f-aid I. "What .lo you really think of her?" said Polly with rather ua anxious look I thought ; but of Ciur.so I was mis taken. ")h, she's n very good girl, very ood !" with a dosperatj desire to make Pully jealous if I could, which I couldn't. "Is she." Dolly tossed hor iiead. "Well, Mr. Morton, do you want to know what I think hho looks like?" The "Mr. Morton" was ominons; I fhiv.red aniu. "I can't imagine," said I lightly, thinking how very pretty Dolly was with that pink spot in either cheek. "J think hhe looks liken cook!" she declared triumphantly, whilo I, in wardly agreeing, protested: "Oh, Dolly, 11 cook ! ' "Yes," she went on spitefully, "and not even like a good cook !" "Dolly ! Not like a bad cook?" "Yes," she went on, "like a very poor cook !" I was obliged to laugh, I couldn't help it. "Splendid wife she'd make!" raid I, not meaning to rouse Dolly. Dut suddenly sho turned and said tho most terrible thing to mo that she'd ever said since I'd known her. "Then you'd better marry her!" This from Dolly ! "Oh " I began, but she was gone, and there was nothing for mo to do but to pick up my hat and go, which I did, calling myself a beast and a brute as I went. That night leaving the theatre we happened to meet a moment. She was radiant and scornful. "Dolly," I said, resolving not to no tice the contretemps of tho afternoon, "who are you going to dance the co tillion with at tho Terry's to-morrow nightV' "With Mr. Morton," eho answered sweetly. "What a dear you are I was afraid you'd promise somebody else. ' And then sho laughed. "With the pleasant, agreeable Mr. Morton," she continued, "who never suys the wrong thing." And then I knew she meant the other one! I'm afraid I said n bad word ; her mocking laugh followed me in the darkness, and echoed in my dreams that night. I wished I'd never seen her and took it back immediately. I debated a long titno within myself whether or not I should go to the Ter ry's, but ns usual ended by going. I could dance slag and take Dolly out, and lovely idea perhaps she would take me out! Then as I thought of the way I had left her the night before, this beautiful hope faded. What would she want with a brute like ms? I never saw her look hotter than that night of the Terry's dance; she was in white, which best became her, and she seemed to mo like an angel. And that beastly Morton looked pretty well too. I had to admit to myself that he was rather a well ap pearing chap. Mrs. Floyd Hopkins, who aspires to be something of iv belle herself, stood for 11 moment and followed the direc tion of my glance. ".Miss Dalrymple is looking particu larly well this evening," said she, a very gracious speech indeed for her. "Very!" I replied, having sense enough left not to discuss Dolly with II wo in an. "Hut what an awful tlirt!" 6he went on; this left me gasping. "And engaged, I understand, to Mir. Morton all the time." "Who said it?" I asked hoarsely. Dolly engaged and to that cad wit h my name. "Oh. everybody says so," and then she looked at me with such an unpleas ant, tiraile. ''That's your name too, isn't it?" "Yes, I believe it is," I said bril liantly, moving away from her. Dolly engaged! I couldn't grasp the full significance of it; tho thought lelt me dazed and bewildered. This very night would decide it. I would go to her and ask her if there was any truth in it. Just then she came toward mo as if she was going to take me out, but something in my face must have stopped her. "What is the matter?" she said, turning a little white. "Doily," I said sternly, "will you give me tho tirst two dances after sup per?" "Of course if you want them ; but won't you dance now?" I never saw Dolly so meek before. "-No," I answered, almost roughly, "not now." Sho left me with a strange look on her sweet face. It seemed centuries until supper; I tried to think of what I should say to her, bat my miu I was in such a cha otic state that I decided to depend on tho inspiration of the moment. At last supper was over and I found her, tucked her arm in mine, and marching ori' to a quiet nook, put he in the only seat, and stood accusingly before her. "Dolly," 1 began, look at me 1" This sho did, a little timidly, I thought, an I 1 almost forgot what 1 was going to say in the joy of looking at her. "My darlin.'j'' I went on, "I hae loved you to long, so well, and bopsd that in the coure of year you mitfhl come to care" she dropped her eves; just then I remembered that horriblo gossip, "bat to night, Dolly, I heard Romething that turned my heart to stone." "What was it?" she asked. "That you were engaged to " ' "Who?" breathlessly. "Morton," I gaspeJ, "that wretch ed, caddish " "Stop!" she said, with dignity. "Tell me. you shall," I grasped he? wrists; "iH it so?" If it had been any woman in tha world but Dolly I should have sail she was embarrassed. She actually blushed. "No," she said slowly, "it is not so, but " her hands went up and covered, her face. My heavens ! suppose sho should cry. "13ut what?" I insisted cruelly; "you're not engaged to him, but you're in love with him?" She took her hands away and her face was very red ; if it ha 1 not been such a serious mom.'ntl should havo said she had been laughing. "Mr. Morton ha? never asked mo to be his wife if ho docsI shall--" I was beside myself. "And if he does?" I hissed. "I shall say yes," very softly. A terrible silence ensued; the earth was sinking beneath my feet. "You love this Mr. Morton?' I said sharply. And then the very queerest thing in the world happened ; Dolly's face whitened a little as she roso and put out her hand. "Yes, you old goose," she said, "I love this Mr. Morton !' It didn't take mo long to gather Dolly into my arma. The next live minutes are not to ar pear in this narrative. "Dolly," said I, blissfully, "did you ever know such a stupid old fool as I am?" "Never in all my life," said the sweetest of girls, her voice coming from the vicinity of my coat collar. "And do you suppose that woman meant me when sho told mo that gos sip, my darling?" "Of course she did," said the voice, "and I'm glad she said it I don't believe you'd ever have asked me, otherwise!" My answer would not look well on paper. "Do you know, Dick, that you never havo asked me before?" And when I came to think of it, I never had. The Peterson Magazine. 'ew .Method ot Amputation. A new and simple moda of treat ment has been introduced in Franca by which, it is claimed, a large pro portion of injured limbs now usually amputated can be saved, says the Hospital. The method, which is duo to Dr. Eeclus, was recently described before the French Congress of Sur gery, and is thus explained : "Whatever the extent or gravity of the lesions, he (Dr. Eeclus) never under any circumstances amputates the injured limb, but merely wraps it in antiseptic substance by a veritablo embalming process, leaving nature to separate the dead from the living tissues. This method of treatment possesses the double advantage of being ranch less fatal than surgical exaeresis, and of preserving for tho use of the patient if not the entire limb, at any rate a much larger part than would be left after ampatation. He advocates this very conservative treatment on account of the excellent effects of hot water, which ho uses freely. After the skin has been shaved and cleansed from all fatty substances by ether, etc., in the usual way, a jet of hot water is made to irritate all the injured surfaces, and to penetrate into all the hollows and under all the de tached parts of the wound, without exception. This is the only way of removing all clots and to wash away all foreign bodies, together with tho micro-organisms they may contain. Tho advantages of hot water at this high temperature are threefold: (1) Hot water at this temperature is antiseptic, heat greatly increases the potency of antiseptic substances; (2) it is hemostatic (that is, stanches the flow of blood); (3) it helps to com pensate for the loss of heat resulting from the bleeding, and especially from the traumatic shock. After tho 'em balming' process, and the dead tissue has been separated from the living, the surgeon has nothing to do except to divide the bones at a suitable spot. According to Eeclus the results at tained ore remarkable." The Iran Kiiis of IS 13. A great inquiry is now being made in different German towns for the iron mourning rings of the year 1813. The history of these curious memorials of German patriotism may not be gener ally known. During the National awakening against Napoleon in 1813 the princess of tho royal house made an appeal to the people for the sacri fice of personal ornaments not unlike that made by tho Long Parliament at the beginning of our civil wars. Gold mourning rings were consequently sent in immense numbers to tho treas ury in Berlin, and ea:h sender re' ceived in acknowledgment an iron ring upon which was inscribed "Gold I give for Iron." From Swinemundo alone no fewer than 144 fiokl rings were sacrificed to the Fatherland, and iron rings sent thither in exchange. Specimens of these iron rings are novr worth more than their weight in gold, Westminster Gazette. Wheelman's Remarkable Experience. Wheelmen are brimful of 6tories of adventures which have happened to them during the summer. The latest of these is of a cyclist who was riding along a suburban road with an JEolian harp attachment on the frame of his wheel. A moderate wind fanned the cords into musical vibration, which attracted the attention of three birds, who hovered above the cyclist for some distance and then, growing less timid and more friendly, alighted on the handle bars of the steering crown. They set up a symphony of woodland music, the wheel all the while being in motion. New York Press. Surviving Army Chaplains. It appears that there are now only six surviving United States Army chaplains, to wit : Bishop Fallows, of Chicago ; Archbishop Ireland, o Paul; Dr. J. J. Mclntire, of Souta Dakota ; Eev. E. M. Cravath, of Nash rillp. Tenn. : Jlev. H. D. Fisher, ol j Kansas, and Kev. D, H. HS3l. i 1 SU Louifl, " REV. TALMAGE. The Noted Divine's Sunday Ser- n: CP Subject; "A Prince's Career." Text: "Ye know tho (j-aco of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though 11 was rich, yet for your sake Ho became poor." U Cor inthians viii., 9. That all tho worlds which on a cold win ter's nijrht make the heavens one groat piit ter are without inhabitants is an aburaity. Scientists tell us that maay of theso worl.ls are too hot or too cold or too rarefied of at mosphere for residence. But, it not fit for human abode, they may be Rt for beings different frcm and superior to ourselves. We are told that the world of Jupiter is changing and becoming fit for creatures like ihe human race, and that Mars would do for the nuinan family with a little change in t!e structure of our respiratory organs. Imt that there is a great world swung some where, vast beyond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of tho universe and the metropolis of immensity and has a popu'a tion In numbers vast beyond all statistics and appointments of splendor beyond the capacity of canvas or poem or angel to de scribe is as certain as the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the astronomers with their big telescopes havo already caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We spell it with six letters and pronounced it heaven. That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen centuries ago. Ho was'tho King's Son. It was the old homestead of eternity, nnd all ,V.s castles were as old as GoJ. Not a frost had ever chilled the nir. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of one of its inhabi tants. Thero had never been a headache or h side ache oral cart ache. Thers had not been a funeral in tiie memory of the oldest inhabitant. There had never in all the land neen woven a black veil, for there had never been anything to mourn over. The passage of millions of years had not wrinkled or crip plea or badimmed any of its citizens. All the people ther were in a state of eternal adolescence. What floral and pomonic rich noss! Gardens of perpetual bloom and or chards iu unending fruitage. Had some pirit from another world entered and asked. What is sin? What is bereavement? What is sorrow? What is death? the brightest of tho intelligences would have failed to give definition, though to study the queution there was silence in neaven for half an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had honors, emoluments, acclamations su :h as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As He passed the street the inhabitants took off from their i-rows garlands of white lilies and threw them in the way. He never en tered any of the temples without nil tho wor shipers rising up and bowing in obeisance. In all the processions of the high days Ha was the ono who evoked the loudest welcome, sometimes on foot, walking in loving talk Tith the humblest of the land, but at othet times He took chariot, nnd nmong the 20,0 0 that the psalmist spoke of His was the swift est nnd most flaming, or, ns when St. John described Him. He took white palfrey, with what prance of foot, and arch of neck, and roll of mane, and gleam of eye is only dimly suggostod in the Apocalypse. Ho was not like other princes, waiting for the Father to die nnd then take the throne. Wiien years ago an artist in Germany made a picture for the royal galleiy representing tho Emperor William on tho throne and the Crown Prmcc as haviug one foot on the step of the throne, the Emperor William ordered the picture change.! and said, "Let the prince keep his foot off the throne till I leave it." Alicady enlhrcu.d was the heavenly Trinco side bv side with the Father. What a circle of dominion! What multitudes of ad mirers! What unending round of glories! All the towers chimed the Trince's praises. Of all the inhabitant", from tho center of the city on over the hills and clear down to the bench against which the oeean of tinmeusitv rolls its billows, the Prince was the acknowl edged favorite. No wonder my text savs that "Ho was rich." Set all tho diamond of the earth in ono scepter, build all the palaces of the earth in ono Alhambra, Kainer an me pearls ot mo sea in one dia dem, put all th-i values of the earth in one coin, the aggregate could not express His aftluence. Yes, St. Paul was right. Solo mon had in gold f.SO,0('0,000 pounds, and in silver 1,029,000,377 pounds. But a greater than Solomon is here. Not the mill ionaire, but the owner of all things. To !e sciibe His celestial ssrroundings the Bible uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow over tho throne, and setting them as agate in the temple window, nnd hoisting twelve of them Into a wall, from striped jasper at the base to transparent amethyst in the capstone, while between nro green or emerald, an I snow of pearl, and blue ot sapphire, and yellow of topaz, gray of chrysopra.se, and flame of jacinth. Alfthe loveliness of laud scape in foliage and river nnd rill and all enchantment aquamarine, the sea of glnss mingled with lire as when the sua sinks in the Mediterranean. All tho thrill of music, instrumental and vocal, harps, trumpets, doxologies. There stood the Prince, sur rounded by thoso who had under their wins the velocity of millions of miles in a seconJ, Himself rich in love, rich in adoration, rich In power, rich in worship, rich in holiness, rich in 'all the fullness of the Godhead bod I'y." But one day there was a big disaster iu a department of God s universe. A race fallen! A world in ruins! Our planet tho scene of catastrophe! A globe swinging out into darkness, with mountains nnd seas and isl ands, an awful centrifugal of tin seeming to overpower the beautiful centripetal ol righteousness, nnd from it a groan reached heaven. Such a sound had n.;ver been heard there. Fienty of sweet sounds, but never an outcry of distress or an echo of agony. At that ono gronn the Prince rose from ail tho blissful circumjacpnce and started from the outer gate and descended into tho night of this world. Out of what a bright harhor into what a rough sea! "Stay with us," cried angel after nngel nnd potentate Rfier potentate, "No," said the Prince, "I cannot stay. I must be off for that wreck of a world. I must stop that groau. 1 must hush that distress I must fa' ho.n that abyss. I must redeem those Nations. Farewell, thrones and temples, hosts cherubic, se raphic, arehangelic! I will coma back again, carrying on my should?r a ransomed world. Till this is done I choose earthly scoff to heavenly acclamation, and a cattle pen to a king's palace, frigid zone of earth to atmosphere of celestial ratiance. I have no time to losf , for hnrk ye to the groan lhat grows mightier while I wait! Fare well' Farewell!'' "Ye know the erace of I our i.ord Jesus Christ, that, though H t was rich, yet for your sakes ne became poor." j Was there ever a contrast so overpowering j as lhat between tho noonday of Christ's ; :e!estial departure and the mldnisht of His sarthly arrival? Sure enough, the angels ; were out that night la the sky, nnd an '; "special meteor actel as es;ort. But nil , :hat .was from other worlds, and not from this world. The earth ma le no demonstra :ioa of welcome. It one of Xti great princes of this world steps out at a depct, cheers : resound, and the bands play, and the flags wave. But for the arrival of this mission ary Prince, ot tho skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plumo fluttered. ! All the muic and the pomp were overhead j Our world opened for Him nothing better ; than a barn door. The Bajah of Cashmere sent to Queen Vic toria a bedstead of carved gold nnd a canopy that cost $750,000, but the world had for the Triuce of Heaven and Earth only a litter of straw. The crown jewels In tfc" I wer ol London amount to ?15,000,000, but this a. em terof eternal royalty had nownt-r 't-.- !: :i;s Lead. To know how poor He w as Rsk tie camel drivers, ask the shepherd-, as V iry, ask the three wise men of thuEat-t.wh" a't.-r-ward came to Bethlehem. Tc .v hew poor He was ex-txine all the rec r i of real estate in nil that oriental coui.L-y e- d i. what vineyard or what field Hf ( i - '1. N -t one. Of what mortgage was II : tlic - .Tr j.ii gee? Of what tenement was H-' tb- -u-'.i ir.). Of what lease was He the less" 'u j t,-r paid Him rent? Not ownint -m. which He sailed, nor the beast - "i IT : rode, nor tho pillow on wnich li had so little estate that in or s tax He had to perform a mirar .-. i amount of the assesasient in . - . .... and having it hnu'.ei ashore .' '. . Hi death the world ruhod in to " a . in ver. tory of Hi9 good?, and the er - .jrev e was the garments Ha had w . ?rii:r. in them by night and t.-ave'.ic i-; their .y dav bearing oa them the dat 01 tL Ui.-hway and the satnrittca of the sea. S l ii.l ia my text hit the mark when 'ni-I f t'cj -.issioaary Prince. ' For your e.ik-:; He oe-Chm.'p-ict.' The world could have trr ned I' m belter If it had chos-.-n. It had all tiit. rr.f rins foe making His earthly conijit'.or: ?H.rt,'rrbJ' i Only a few years before, whsa l'oi;.'ey. ij-i ' genfnh airlvei. la BriadiaL to rrct:. j I with arches and a eos'lv column which I relebratod the 12,000,0;0 people whom he ; had killed or conquered, an I he was nl : lowed to wear his triumphal robe in the ; lenate. The world had applause for im- perial butchers, but buffeting for tUs Princa of Feaee; plenty of golden chalice j for the favored to drink out of. but our 1 Prince must put His lips to the bucket of :he well by the roadside after He had begged tor a drink. Poor? ' Born in another" I man's barn, and eatin? at another man'4 table, and cruising the lake In another man's fishing smack, nnd buried in another man's tomb. Four inspired authors wrote nis bi ' bgraphy, and innumerable lives of Christ ' havo been publisheJ, but He composed His utoblography in a most compressed war. He said, "I havo trodden the wine preas i,lone." Poor in the estimation of nearlv all the prosperous classes. They called 111m xL Lath breaker, wine bibber, traitor, blas phemer and ransacks-i the dictiomry of op probrium from cover to cover to express their detestation. I can think now of only two well to do men who espoused His cause Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. His frien ls for the most part were people who, in ; that olimato where ophth ilmia or iufl tmma i tion of the eyeball sweeps ever and anon , as a scourge, had become blind, sick people who were anxious to get well, and j trouble ... peoplo in whose family there was I some onj dead or djing. If II had a purse ( at all, it was empty, or we would have heard wnat tho soldiers did witn tne contents. Poor? The pigeon in the dovecot, the rab bit in its burrow, the silkworm in its cocoon, the beo in Its hive is better provide i for, bettor off. better sheltered. Aye. the bruto creation has a home on earth, which Christ had not. A poet savs: If on windy days tho raven " Ga-nbol like a dancing skiff, Not the less ho loves his havca On the bosom oT the cliff. If almost with eagle pinion O'er the Alps the chamois roam, Yet he has some small dominion Which no doubt he calls his home. But the Crown Princo of all heavenly do minion hns lws than the raven, loss than the chnraois, for He was homeless. Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other in stnneo of such coming down. Who can count the miles from the top of the throne to the bottom of the cross? Cleopatra, giv Iu a banquet to Antouv, took a pearl worth 1100,000 mil dissolved" it in vinegar and swallowed it. But whoa our Prince, accord ing to the evangelist, in His Inst hours took tho vinegir. in it had been dissolved all the pearls of His heavenly royalty. Down until there was no other harassment to suffer, poor until there was no other pauperism to tor ture. B ilious of dollars spent in wars to de stroy mea, who will furnisii ttie statistics of the value of that precious blood that was she ! to save us? "Ye know the grace of oui Lord Jeas Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He b-'canio poor." Only thoso who study this text In two LIac3 can fully realise its power tho Holy an 1 of Asia Minor and the holy land of heaven. I wich that some day you might gc to the Holy Land and take'a drink out of Jacob's well, and take a sail on Galilee, and read tho sermon on the mount whilo standing on Olivet, nnd see the wilderness whore Christ was tempted, and be tome afternoon on Calvary at about 3 o'clock Iho hour at which closed the cnuiflxion an l sit i n ler tho sycamores aud by the side of brooks, and think nnd dream and pray about the poverty cf Ilim who came our sou Is to save. But you may be denied that, and so here, iu another continent and in another hemisphere, and in scenes ns differrmt as posdble, wo recount as well we may how poor was our heavenly Trinco. But in the other holy land nbovo we may all study tbo riches that Jleleft behin 1 when He started for earthly expedition. Come, let u bargain to meet each other at tho door ol I lie Father's mansion, or on tho bank of the river just where it rolls from under the throne, or at tho outside gate. Jesus got the contrast by exchnngingthat world for this: w will g.-t it by exchanging his world for that. There and than you will understand more o: tho voudors of the grace of our LordJcsm Christ, who, 'though Ho was ricn, yet foi jour sakes became poor." Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign grace, omnipotent grace! Among the thousands of words in the language thero is no mow queenly word. It means free and unmerited kindness. My text has no monopoly of tht word. Ono hundred and twenty-nino times does tho Bible eulogize grace. It is a doot swung wide open to let into tho pardon o' God all the millions who choose to enter it. John Newton sang of it when l-o wrote: Amazing grae, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me. Philip Doddridge put it intoall hymnology when ho wrote: Grace, 'tis a charming sound Harmonious to tho ear. Heaven with echo shall rcscund, And all the earth shall hear. One of John Banyan's gro it books Is en titled "Graco Abounding." "It is all of ftraco that I am saved" as has been on the bps of hundreds of dying Christians, l'he boy Sammy was right when, being exam ined for admission into church membership, he was a-ke.l, "Whose worit was your salva tion?'' And ln answered, "Part mine and part G.vi's." Then the examiner asked, "What part did you do, Sammy?" And the nnswer was, "I opposed God ali I could and Ho did the rest!" Oh, tho height of it, the depth of it. the length of it, the breadth of it, tho grace of God! Mr. Fletcher hav ing written a pamphlet that pleased the king, tho kinc offered to com pensate bim, nnd Fletcher answered. "There is only one thiug I want, and that Is more grace." Yes, My blood bought hearers grace to live by an t grace to die by. Grace that saved tho publican; that saved Lydia; that saved tho dying thief; that saved the jailer; that saved me. But the riches of that grace will not ba fully under stood until heaven breaks in upon the soul. An old Scotchman who had been a soldier in ono of the European wars was sick and dying in one of our American hospitals. His one desire was to see Scotland and his old home nnd once again walk th' heather of the bighlan Is and neat tho bagpipes of the Scotch regiments. The night that the old Scotch soldier died n young man. somewhat reckless, but kind-hearted, got a company of musicians to come and play under tho old soldier's window, and among the instruments there wasabagpigo. The instant that tho mu sicians began tho dying o!d man in delir ium said: "What's that? What's that? Why, it's the regiments coming home. That's ihe tune yes, that's tho tune. Thank God, I have got home once more!" "Bonnie Scotland and Bonnie Donn!" wero the last words he uttered as he passed up to the hid) lands of the better country, and there are hundreds homesick for heav en, some because you have so many be reavements, som-3 b:j :ausi you have so many temptations, some because you have so many ailments homesick, very homesick f or the fatli- rlau 1 of heaven, an i the music that you want to h"ar now i3 tho song of free grace, and the music that you want to hear when you die is free grace, and forever before the throne of God you will sing of the "grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though He was rich, for your sakes be came pocr." Yes, yes, for your sakes! It was not on a pleasure excursion that He came, for it wai all pain. It was not on an astronomical ex ploration, for ne knew this world as well before Ho alighted as afterward. It was not because Ha was compelled to come, for Hi volunteered. It was not because it was easy, for He k-.i3w that it would bo thorn and spiko and huuger and thirst and vociferation of angry mobs. "For vour sakes!" To wIdo a way your tears, to forgive your wrongdo ing, to companionship your loneliness, to -oot he your sorrows, to sit with you by th new made grave, to bind up vour wounds in t ie ugly battle with " thJ world and bring you homo at lat, kindling up th mists that fall on vour dying virion with the sunlight of a glorious morn. "For your sakes!" No: I will change that. Paul will not cara and Christ will not enre if I change it, fori must get Into the iie.-eines3 of the text myself, and so I say, "For our sakes!" For we all have oar temptations and bereavements and conflicts. For our sakes. We who deserve for our sins to ba expatriated into a world as much poorer than this, than this earth is poorer than heaven. For our sakes! But what a frightful coming down to take us gloriously up! When Artaxerxes washuntin?, Tireoazus, who was atteucing him. showed the king a rent In his garments. Tne king said, "How shall I mend it?" "3y giving it to mo." said Tirebazus. Then the king gave him the robe, but commanded him never to wear it, as it would be inappropriate. Eut see the startling nnd comforting fact while our Prince throws off the robe H-j not only allows us to wear it, but commands n .- wear it. and it will become us well, and Ic: tho poverties of our spiniual stato we j may put on the splendors of heavenly regale ment. For our sakes! Oh, the personality ot this religion! Not an abstraction, not an arch under whtoh we walk to behold elabo rate masonry, not anise castle like that which the Empress Elizabeth of Russla.over 100 years ago, ordered to ba constructed, winter with its trowel of crystals cementingthe huge clocks that had been quarried from the frozen rivers of the North, but our Father's houso with the wide hearth crackling a hearty wel come. A religion of warmth and Inspiration and light and cheer, something we can take into our hearts and homes and business, recreations and joys and sorrows. Not an unmanageable gift, like the galley presented to Ptolemy, which required 4000 men to row. and its draft et water was so great that it could not come near the shore, but some thing you can run up any stream ot annoy ance, however shallow. Enrichment now, enrichment forever. NT FROM El Banks That Have Failed Have Been Due to Local Conditions. WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. The liauking Institutions o tbo South Made a Keniarkable Good Showing During the Panic of 1893. The Atlanta Journal, under date of Jan. 2, prints the following signed statement from Comptroller of tho Cur rency Eckels: Washington', Jan. 2. To the Atlanta Journal The bank failures which have occurred havo been entirely due to local conditions and in almost every instance to defects ie "ii liar to the institutions failing. This is Btrikingly so in the case of the National Bank at Boanoke, Va. , and as much so in the failed Bank iu Texas some weeks since. The same may be said of all national banks failing since November 1, and I imagine the same thing will hold good in the State and private banking houses which have ceased to do business. The banking institutions of the South made, with here and there an ex ception, a remarkable good showing during the panic of lX'J'J and the finan cial distress then was general and acute. No such condition now exists nor will occur, uion the one hand, while on the other during the year since then liquidation has gone on, bud paper has been weeded out, and the banks are stronger in cash means. There is no basis for any exception that either now or in the future the South or any other section of the country will suffer from more than the ordinary number of bank failures incident to the accumulation of slow assets and bad methods of banking. I certainly do not apprehend any difficulty beyoai? that due to the causes I have stated. If the attention of the country could be directed towards attending to busi ness affairs in a business way, undi.s turled by t:vars and rumors of wars" and promises of renewed and continued agitations, the country would enter upon an era of prosperity which in the largest measure would fall to the lot of the ieople of the South. The South today offers z marvelously rich field for investment and iL? '-Hiatal is at hand to be invested, but it will not go there or elsewhere, when dis quieting rumors are everywhere to be met with and uncertainty as to gaining a return for it confronts the investor. The opportunity i resented to Ameri cans to become rich, prosjierous and happy by confining themselves strictly to the immediate needs of their own country was never so great as at this present moment. (Signed) Jas. H. Eckels. Comptroller of the Currency. "leveland's New Year's Ueccptioii. Friday 7,000 ieople visited the White House for periods varying from one to six hours. But patience had its reward in every case, Ar the President and Mrs. Cleveland shook hands with every one of them. The closing ;New Year's reception of the present administration was the most brilliant of Mr. Cleve land's w hole eight years in office, and old-Arthur Simmons, the President's famous colored messenger, whose ser vice in the White House dates back thirtv years, shook his head as he viewed the far-reaching crowd from an upper window-, and dpelnre.l it "dn greatest inception since de wah. " Meeting of Itlmetalllsts. Senator Wolcott sailed on the Cam pania from New York Saturday as the envoy of bimetallism. Before the end of this month an international confer ence in the interest of bimetallism will beheld in Lnmlnn Tlmrm.n.nlf.i;,.. of five governments will be i .resent. -me c-onierence win ne lniormal, but those w ho w ill meet are accredited rep resentative fit tlioir (r-ivarnrn...fu OUt Of this mPftl'Tin. nill iri-mi- a ,-,., I - o b-"" " '"'"I" conference. 'Commodore" Goes Down. The steamer Commodore, which cleared from Jacksonville, Fla , with a cargo of arms and ammunition found ered off Cape Smyrna. Twenty-eight men were on board of the steamer and so far as learned only twelve were sav ed. One boat was washed ashore emi ty and another one landed with the twelve men. The Commodore carried two other boats, but those have not been heard from. The steamer is re ixrted to have sunk twenty miles out to sea. Destroyed by a Cyclone. Saturday a cyclone from the south west struck and almost literally de molished the town of Mooinz Snort. just north of Shreverort, La. Over twenty dwellings were blown down. onl- seven being left intact. Four i ar sons were Kiuea ana twenty wounded The cyclone came suddenly and lasted only about one minute. It is retried mat the cyclone did great damage m adjoining States. Bank Failure at Norfolk, Va. The Commercial National Bank, o: Norfolk, Va , has closed its doors. Th failure was caused by a run -on th bank. The leiosits are slightly ovei SSO.OOO, and it is said all liabilities wil! be paid in full. No other banks are ii the least affected. The bank is now ir the hands of Bank Examiner Sands. io ia Effect July 1. The President has issued a proclama tion fixing July 1st next as the date foi the taking effect of the new rales foi the prevention of collisions at se agreed upon by the leading maritint nations of the worj Willie Are you the nearest relatlv I've got. mamma? Mother Yes, love, and your pa id the closest relative jou've got Judge. ! A Column of Crisp News Items Ar ranged for the Fireside. THE SUPERVISION OF SCHOOLS, Wholesale Jail Delivery Kulclgh't $50,000 Fire"Adjutrtiit-;enoral' licport, Ktc. President Melver, of the State Nor mal and Industrial School, was ir Raleigh last week in consultation with htate Superintendent Se:irlKrough nn.i Suierinteudent-elect Mebnne in regard to the j .reparation of a bill to be pre sented to the Legislature in regard to the law as to school sniervision. lr. Mclver is chairman of the committee appointed ly the Teachers' Assembly at Asheville last summer to advocate before the Legislature the division of the State into educational districts with a sujieriiitendent for each district After consultation with Messrs. Scar borough and Mebnne he is sending out letters calling the committee t- gather in Haleigh on January 1-lth to prepare a bill according' to the instructions of the Teachers' Assembly. Others in terested in the subject wil be United to the meeting and it is hoped that a satisfactory bill can be prepared. The advocates of the new system claim thut it w ill accomplish more than was ac complished by the old system abolished by the Legislature, and that the ex iense will be no more than was allowed under the old law. The district super intendents would conduct examina tions, grant certificates, hold county institutes, inspect schools and devote their entire time to stimulating the ed ucational life of their respective dis tricts. Wholesale Jail Delivery. A wholesale jail delivery occurred at Wil 'on last week. There were seven teen prisoners. Sheriff Cherry turned them in the corridors to have some work done in the cells, but w hen be or dered the prisoners to return to the cells they refused. There was no one to aid the officer, and while some pris oners held him one took the keys, op ened the outside door and made a des lrate rush for liberty. Many men were in the neighborhood of the jail und immediately gave chase. After an ex riting pursuit all except seven were cap tured. One, who had shot a man, re turned and asked permission to go back to his cell. Several desperate criminals are now at large. The sheriff was not hurt. -- ICalcigli's $.-), OOO Fire. Thursday night of last week lire broke out in the car barns and engine house of the Paleigh Electric Street Bailway and destroyed them all, along with nine cars, live dynamos and four engines of 2 horse-jMiwer each, to eether with all supplies. The loss is f-i,0(K), with only 12,f0'! insurance The electric company furnished light to many buildings. .Most of its stock is held "by the (leneral Klectric Compa ny, of Boston, of which dr.s. H. Cutler is a representative. The fire originated in he boiler or engine room and spread with wonderful rapidity. The build ings w ere oi r ood. Adjutant-General's H'-nort . The annual rejxrtof the Adjutant General is said by that officer to be u best he has ever made, it shows th strength of the State ( iuard to be now 1,7X0, against 1, MO at this date last vear. Two infantry companies wer disbanded, and three mustered in. The military aided the civil anthoritics seven times during the year. 'lb practice march of the Fourth licgiment is praised, und it is especially recom mended that such inarches take th place of stationary encampments. Th reHrt says the (iuard can be mobiiied in a few hours and that it is iiirpped for six months' service. That there ii general interest in it is shown by tin fact that between February 1, is.ct, ami this date no less than xi) applicants foi lcrniission to organize companies wer received. No Doubt of I'rit chard's Kc-F.I(--t ion A prominent North Carolina Ienio crat says there is no element of doubt of Pritehard's re-election and I'ritchan knows it. Too many Populists ow their election to the Legislature to Be publican suiqK.i t to desert Pi itch.ir.l Ayer's influence is pledged to PritehnrV for the relief Ayer recently obtained He thinks Butler will eml by support ing Pritchard, and so put I'ritcban and the Republicans under obligation to Butler for whatever he wants be tween now and I!'.'):). Outhrie ha alienated too many Populists to get tli senutorship. Decree for Sale of a ICailroad. Judge Siinoiitoii, of the United S.taV; circuit courthas notified Mr. J. W. Fries, receiver of the North State Improve ment Co., and his attorneys, Watson ,V l.uxton, of Winston, to appear befur him in Wilmington on Jan. 14, whei lie will issue a decree regarding th sule of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Va! ley railroad. It is understood that tin judge's order will be for a sale of th road as a whole, and not by sections as some of the interested parties aske for. The Salisbury World complains tba freight trains aie tied up in that sec tion. The truth is that w ith the !nrg freight business between Charlotte am Selina, a double track is necessaa v be tween these joints. A committee has been api.inted a' Winston to secure a charter from th Legislature for a railroad from Winstoi to Monroe. An effort will be made t get the Norfolk and Western to extern its road from Winston south, or th Sealx.ard Air Line to extend its roa' from Monroe to Winston. . There are thirty-six Mormon mis sionaries said to be evangelizing tin State. Converts are not urged to go tf Utah, but is they desire to go, the El ders furnish the wherewithal. The veterinarians of this State mtin Paleigh and formed themselves into an nssiK-lntioli to be ktinu.ii nu tl.o V.....1, Carolina Veterinary Association a'.-l eieted the following omers: Presi dent, Dr. C. It. Ellis, Charlotte; vice president, Dr. Thomas B.Carroll, Wil mintrton: secretarv and treasurer lir J. W. Petty, Greensboro. The two "graveyard insurance" sw iudlers convicted of offenses in Car- j teret county, are now in the jeniten tiary. . J A Southern Directory Agency, w ith j Win. M. Hollin, SuiierintenJeiit, has ' been established at Charlotte. WEEKLY NEWS BUDGET, Southern Pencil Pointer. Among tho 4S fourth-class post offices to be advanced to Presidential on January 1st, are Liauriuburg and Warrenton, X. C. Hereafter the steamers of the Civile Line will discontinue calling at Wil mington, N. C, on trips south and w ill make Charleston and Jacksonville their ports of entry. Governor Bradley, Kentucky, has is sued a proclamation offering "JoO for the arrest and conviction of each, any or all of the Ow enslaro mob that lynch ed the negro Holt. The Commercial Bank, of Selma,AIa , has failed. The Commercial w as es tablished in 1SX0 and has a paid up capital of SIOO.OOO, undivided profits of S-Vi,(KH). Geo. A. Wilkins, the vice president, has committed suicido. Joseph B. McCulIah, editor of the St. Louin, Mo., Globe-Lemoernt, was killed by falling from a third-story window of his residence. The Ex-Slave Pension Association, which recently met at Birmingham, Ala. , has put a lot of agents on the road to collect money to further their scheme in Congress. A. II. Pervianee, Bud Newniau, Frank (bible and li. M. Shackleford have been arrested for holding up the Southern Pacific passenger tram at Comstock, Tet. Town Mur'mll T'runL- H.,,r,.H. Helenwood, Tenn., shot ami killed Lew is Peiuberton. w horn he was arrest ing, and James l'ombcrtou, the father, who interfered. A Raleigh. N. C. special sava th incoming freight train, Wednesday, on the Seaboard Air Line, was wrecked by tramps, and Fireman Overby killed. mo engineer s rihs were also broken. B. J. Bear. Richmond. Va. . ieweler. has failed for iJl.'i.uOO. The Southern Educational Society met in annual session in Mobile, Aia , last week. About 300 members were present. Three more bodies Imvn lieen recov ered from tho wreck at Cahabu river, near Blocton, Alabama. J. G. Buckstuhl. the largest stock holder in tho Louisville Baseball Club, nnd prominent iu local business circles, s ueau, uged ;'J years. A farmer in Webster county. W. Va., saturated a hog with kerosene to cleanse him. The animal accidentally became ignited and set fire to tho barn and Louse, loth of which were de stroyed. Cnpt. C. B. Blood, of Tennessee, who acted as drill master for the raw insur gent troops under Gomez, has junt re turned to his home. He brings back the startling information that General Weyler is a native of Ohio and a son of parents of German origin His father is at piesviit a farmer in the Buckeye State. During a Christmas day row in a sa loon at Kiii ne, ia., "Jim' Whitehead and Andrew Reeves, colored, were killed and "Tom" Dowdy was fatally 2Ut. All About the North. The warm weather will prevent tho usual ice palace carnival at St. Paul, Minn., this winter. It is said that farmers iu Northern Indiana rather than bear the exKnse of feeding horses through the w inter have killed them and disosel of their cur cusses to fertilizing factories. 'I he Ohio Miners, iu State Conven t"n, declare that they wilj not ao cept ie.-.f. han 70. cents ier -ii for HIT. At Sully, Iowa, a small IjmS Pear New ton, robbers looted the Stute Bunk. It is i-ejM.rted the robbers entered th bank, blew the safe and carried away an amount of cash estimated at from jVi.000 to 2i,Wi. Twenty-seven toreign steamers were in the rt of Baltimore recently. T have a rapacity of 1(H,(!KI tons, and form probably the largest foreign Hcet ever gathcre.! in that harbor. Maryland has fallen into line with several other States in the matter of institutes for the education of the fanners. The work is to begin this winter with a Legislative appropriation of j"n','0i, wliich is regarded as suffi cient to provide for the holding of one. or more institutes in each county in tho State. At Lancaster, Penn. , Abe ifenson, one of the members of the 'gang of thieves and outlaws who reside on the vVel.-di .Mountains was shot and killed by his step-brother, Jerry Green, who is also u noted criminal jind member of the same gang. IVi-kcr George Nixon, of Carson, Net., has entered tin- race f.r United Stages Senator, against Senator John P. I. lies. Miscellaneous. Col. J. ( oiirtney Hixson, United States Consul at loo-Chow, China, is en io inir a brief vacation in Washing. t.u, the first since his apiiointmenr, three years ago. The directors of the American To bacco Compc.iiy have declared dividends of 2 i'r cent, on the 1 deferred stock and '. per cent, on the common stock. A mild sensation has been created at Madrid, Spain, by the publication of a letter alleged to have been written by Maximo Gomez, the Cuban leivler, to Gen. Ca:iiios offering terms of jra-e. 'lb' President has amended the civil service rules so as to include in this service all employes, cf the gov ernment penitentiary in the United Stat.-s who are subject to classification. Tl.o d..r..M FtiTMU r, :..,...,. ;ii operate on the New England road and its bram-hes, beginning January 1, suc ceeding tne United Mates r.x press Com pany on that system. Hermann's earnings during his pro fessional career are said to have been at lea' t $'5fO,0ilO, yet he died without any protitv at all. Boatswain S. W. Gardiner has been detached frcm the Norfolk navy yard and ordered to the Puritan; Boatswain James Dwyer, from the Boston navy yard to the Newark. 'Ihe loss by fire during the month of November was smaller thau that for any previous month this year, anil also less tima that for any month in the two previous years. The total loss footed up to .So,bl J,8-0 for 1h;m, gin,131,.,00 for IS 15, gl 2,1 85, SOU for 18J4. Mr. Gladstone, of England, has re cently celebrated his t,th birthday, surrounded by his family. There was an enormous ilow of congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the United Kingdom, the United States and the continent. Eugene Debs will go to Colorado to aid the Leadville strikers.