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i.13 Noted Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Eafcjaet :
"Tbo Sword Its
, Xii Doom. "
Ml m1 on tad
Tjext? T&. atoord shall be bathed in
Utiiven." Isaiah xxxiv., 5. ...
Chaplain T. DeWitt Talmaa preached
his annual nermoa bafora th9 Thirteenth
Keiirns.nt, N. a, 8. N. vY.,-la the Broolclya
Academy of Music TheBtsfT oScersand
members of the regiment were Immediately
In front Of tha rdat.fnt-in nrl their f i-inrvia
thronged the galleries. Tn9 hymn sung wai
the national air:
My country, tl of tb.es, .
. - bweot Uad of liberty.
The following is the sermon in, fall :
Three hundred and fifty-one times does
the bible speak of that sharp, keen, carved,
inexorable weapon, which Hashes upon us
from the text the sword. Sometimes the
mention , is applaudatory - and sometimes
damnatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes
as sheathed. In the Bible, and in much
secular literature, the sword represents all
javelins, all muskets, all carbinss, all guns,
all police clubs, all battle axs, all weaponry
for physical defense or attack. It would
be an interesting thinst to give the history
ft t,h Pin mnA fnllnm (..m .11
uuv. ill. Ml 14U TO U
through the aires, from ,the first crop in
Chaldaa to the last crop in Minnesota. It
would be interesting to allow the Pen as
, it has tracked it way on down through the
literature of nations, from its flrst word in
the first book to the last word which some
author last niht wrote as he close i his
manuscript. It would be an interesting
thing to count the echoes of the hammer
from the first nail driven, down through all
the mechanism of centuries to the last stroke
, in the carpenter's shop yesterday. But m
; this, my annual sermon as chaplain of the
Thirteenth Regiment, I propose taking up a
weapon that has done a 'work that neither
plow nor pen nor hammer ever accom
plished. My theme is the sword its mission
and its doom.
The sword of the text was bathed in
; heaven; that is, it was a sword of righteous
ness, as another sword may be bathed in hell,
and the sword of cruelty and wron.' There
is a great difference between the sword of
Winklereid and the sword of Cataline, be
tween the sword of Lsonidas and the sword
of Benedict Arnold. In our effort to hasten
the end of war, we have hung the sword,
with abuses and execrations, when it has had
a divine mission, and wnen in many crises of
the world's history it has swung for liberty
and justice, civilization and righteousness
and God. At the very opening of the Bible
and on the east of the Garden of Eden God
placed a flaming sword to defend the tree
of life. Of the officer f the law St. Paul
declares: "He beareath not the sword in
sin." Through Moses God commanded:
"Put every man his sword by his side."
David in his prayer says: "Gird thy sword
upon thy thigh, O most mighty." One of the
old battU shouts of the Old Testament was,
"The sword of the Lord and of Gideon."
Christ,in a great exigency, said that such a
weapon was more important than a coat, for
he declared : "He that hath no sword, let him
f seU his garment and buy one." Again He de
clared: " come not to send peace but a
sword." Of Christ's second coining it is said :
"Out of His mouth went a sharp, two edged
BWOrd." Thus. cnmAtnmiw fl OTirati vI v hut.
oftener literally, the divine mission of the
sword is announced. ,
"What more consecrated thing in the world
than Joshua's sword, or Caleb's sword, or
Gideon's sword, or David's sword, or Wash
ington's sword, or Marion's sword, or Lafay
ette's sword, or Wellington's Bword, or
Kosciusko's sword or Garibaldi's sword, or
hundreds of thousands of American swords
that have again and Again been bathed in
heaven. Swords of that kind have been
. u V i- ): 1 il. 1 . . mi .
w ucMt nifluusuL me unman race, iiiey
have slain tyrannies, pried open dungeons,
and cleared the way for nations in their
march upward. It was better for them to
take the sword and be free, than lie under
the oppressor's heel and suffer. There is
something worse than death, and that
is life if it must cringe and crouch
before the wrong. Turn over the
leaves ot the world's history, and find that
there has never lieen a tyranny stopped or
l a nationliberat3d except by the sword. I
am not talking to you about the way things
ought to be, but about the way they have
been. What force drove back the Saracens
at Tours, and kept Europe from being over
whelmed by Mohammedanism, and, subse
quently, all America given over to Moham
medanism? The sword of Charles Mattel and
his men. Who can deal enough in infinities
to tell what was accomplished for the world's
good by the sword of Joan of Are.
t ' In December last I looked off and saw in
the distance the battlefield of Marathon, and
I asked myself what was it that, on that
most tremendous day in history, stopped the
Persian hosts, representing not only Persia,
but Egypt, and Tripoli, and Afghanistan,
And Beloochistan, and Armenia; a host that
had Asia under foot, and proposed to put
Europe under foot, and, if successful in
that battle, would have submerged by Asiatic
barbarism European civilization, and, as a
consequence in after time, American civiliza-
. fcion. The swords of Mittiades, and Themisto
cles, and Ar is tides. At the waving of these
iwords the eleven thousand lancers of Athens
en the ran dashed against the one hundred
thousand insolent Persians, and trampled
them down or pushed them back into the
sea. The sword of that day saved the best
part of the hemispheres, a trinity of keen
steel flashing in the two lights the lisht of
the setting of tho sun of barbarism, the light
of the rising sun of civilization. Hull to these
" three great swords bathed in heaven !
i What put an end to infamous Louis XVX's
plan of universal conquest, by which England
would have been made to kneel on the steps
of the Tuileries and the Anlo-Saxon race
would have been halted and all Europe
paralyzed? The sword of Marlborough at
Blenheim. . Time came when the Roman war
eagles, whose beaks had been punched into
the hearts of nation, must be brought down
from their eyries. All other attempts had
disgracefully tailed, but the Germans, the
mightiest nation for brawn and brain, un
dertook the work, and, under God, suc
ceeded. What ' drove back the Koman
. cavalry till their horses, wounded, flung their
' riders and the last rider perished, and the
Hercynian forest became the scene of Rome's
humiliation? The sword, the brave sword,
the triumphant sword of Arminiui.
While passing through France last Janu
ary my nerves tingled with excitement and
I rose in the car, the better to sot the battfe-
' field o Chalons, the . toounis and breast
works still visible, though nearly live hun
dred years ago t.hsy were shoveled up.
Here, Attila, the heathen monster, called
by himself the "Scourge icvL, for the
puin.-Insient of Christiana," "wife mas"
wn of nations, came to igjinious de-
feat, and he put into one great pile the
wooden saddles of his cavalry, , and the
spoils of the cities and kingdoms he had
sacked, and placed on top of this holocaust
the women who had accompanied him in
bis devastating march, ordering that, the
Ir-rcli be put to the pile. What power broke
tluit sword, and stayed that red scourge of
cruVty that wi rolling over Europe? The
sword of Theodoric and Actius.'
'1 n come down to later aes, all intelligent
V- i -hmen mute with all intelligent Ameri-
t saying that it wa the best thiu? rSat
( . .Amerind t-Jonies swung off from the
i vtiiintct ot Great' Britain. ' It would
t'i-en te worst absurdity of 4090 years
i". contuffit should have continued in
to a tursne oa the other side of the
.no ' one would proposa a governor
I for the United states as tuera U a
- r nral for Carta la . We. have
n.M lyi-cns hrour American cipit.,
cnul 1 i -ir llv bm brouziit to support a
- on th other lid of t!- Atlantic,
,-: 1 a 'u is- The only usi
-ft ;:Sfl!i!i ' Jsan 5 H:kP8 ni this
if,- t tl 'veil v. --n th?y i !-s
tiiair TiiigHfir frrnjods in the
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bv -vvarJt '-r r-.-Itri-..-"jii
. . tut- -f, , veta past ni
- 1 . 1 trouble the mother
- wuh Xrelttnd would be a
Uw. compared with the
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ivuwe sha v!u.ld have with us.- Encland
vt vX the United Htatos maks excellent neirb.
bans, but the two families are too large to
liv in the same house. . What! a godsend
that we should hare parted, and parted long
a-jp! But I can taint? of no other, way in
wtUch we could have : possibly achieved
A"Tierican independence. . George m.;'ths
half v crazy King, would not have let us go.
Lord North, his Prime Minister, would
not have let us go. Gensral. Lord Corn
wallis would not have let us' go, although
after Yorktown he was glad enough to have
us let him go, Lexington.' and Bunker Hill,
and Menmouth, and Trenton, , and VaUey
Forge were proofs positive that they were not
willing to let us go. Any committee of Amer
icans going across the ocean to see what could
have been done would have found no better
accommodations than London Tower. ; The
only way it could have been done was by the
sword, your great-grandfather's sword. Jef
ferson's pen .could write the Declaration of
Independence, but only Washington's sword
could nave achieved it, and the other s words
bathed in heaven.
So now the sword has'its uses, although
it is a sheathed sword. There is not an
armory in Brooklyn, or New York, or Phila
delphia, or Chicago or Charleston, or New
Orleans, or any American city,- that couia
be spared. We have in all our American
cities a ruffian population, who, though they
are small in number, compared with the good
population, would again and again make
rough and stormy times if, back of our may
ors and common councils and police, there
were not in the armories , and arsenals
some keen steel which, if brought
into 'play, would make quick work
with monocracy. There , are in s every
great community' unprincipled men, who
like a row : on "a large scale, and they
heat themselves with sour mash and old rye
and other decoctions, enriched with blue vi
triol, potash, turpentine, sugar of lead, sul
phuric acid, logwood, strychnine, night
shade and other precious ingredients, and
take down a whole glass with , a resounding
"Ah P' of satisfaction. When they get that
stuff in them and the blue vitriol collides
with the potash, and the turpentine with the
sulphuric acid, the victims are ready for any
thing but order and decency and good gov
ernment. Again and again, in our Ameri
can cities, has the necessity of home guards
been demonstrated.
You . remember how, when the soldiers
were all away to the war in 1883-4, what
conflagrations were kindled in the streets of
New York, and what negroes were hung.
Some of you remember the great riots in
Philadelphia at fires, sometimes kindled just
for the opportunity of uproar .and despolia
tion. In 184tt a hiss at a theatre would have
resulted in New York city being demolished
had it not been for the citizen soldiery. Be
cause of an insult which the American actor.
Edwin, Forrest, had received in England
from the friends of Mr. Macready,
the English actor, when the latter ap
peared in New York, in Macbeth, the
distinguished Englishman was his3ed and
mobbed, the walls of the city having been
placarded with the announcement: "Shall
Americans or English rule in this city?"
Streets were filled with a crowd insane with
passion. The riot act was read, but it only
evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of
stones, and the whole city was threatened
with violence and assassination.
But the Seventh regiment, under ; Gen.
Duryea, marched through Broadway, pre
ceded by mounted troops, and at the com
mand: '.'Fire! Guard! Fire!" the mob scat
tered, and New York was saved. What
would have become of Chicago, two or three
years ago, when the police lay dead in the
streets, had not the sharp command of mili
tary officers been given? Do not charge
such scenes upon American . institutions.
They are as old as the Ephesian mob that
howled for two hours in Paul's time about
the theatre, amid the ruins of which I stood
last J anuary . They were witnessed in 1675
in London, when the weavers paraded
the streets f and entered buildings to
destroy the machinery of those who, because
of their new inventions, could undersell the
rest. They were witnessed in 1781 at the trial
of Lord George Gordon, when there was a re
ligious riot Again, in 1719, when the rabble
cried, "Down with the Presbyterians! Down
with the 'meeting houses !" There always
have been, and always will be, in great com
munities, a class of people that cannot govern
themselves and which ordinary means can
not govern, and there are exigencies which
nothing but the sword can meet. Aye, the
militia are the very last regiments that It
will be safe to disband.
Arbitrament will take the place of war
beween nation and nation, and national
armies will disband as a consequence, and
the time will come God hasten it! when
there will be no need of an American army
or navy, or a Russian army or navy. . But
gome time after that cities will have to keep
their armories, and arsenals, and well
drilled militia, because until the millennial
day there will be populations with whom
abitrament will be as impossible as treaty
with a cavern of hyenas or a jungle of
snakes. These men who rob stores and
give garroter's hug, and prowl about the
wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in
gambling hells, and go armed with pistol '
or dirk, will refrain from disturbance of the
public peace just in proportion as they real
ize that the militia of a city, instead of be
ing an awkward squad, and in danger of
shooting each other by mistake, or losing
their own life by looking down into the gun
barrel to see if it is loaded, or getting the
ramrod fast in their bootleg, are prompt as
the sunrise, keen as the north wind, potent
as a thunderbolt, and accurate, and regular,
and disciplined In their movements as the '
planetary system. .
Well done, then, I say to the legislatures,
and governors, and mayors, and ail offi
cials who decide upon larger armories and
better places for drill and more generous
equipment for the militia. The sooner the
sword can safely go back to the scabbard
to stay there the better; but until the hilt
clangs against the case in that final lodg
ment, let the sword be kept free from rust;
sharp all along the edge, and its point like a
needle, and the handle polished, not only by
the chamois of the regimental servant, but
by the hand of brave and patriotio officers,
always ready to do their full duty. Such
swords are not bathed in impetuosity, or
bathed in cruelty, or bathed in oppression,
or bathed in outrage, but bathed in heaven.
Before I speak of the doom of the sword
let me also say that it has developed the
grandest natures that the world ever saw. it
has developed courage that sublime energy
of the soul which deles the universe when it
feels itself to be in the right. It has de
veloped a self sacrifice which repudiates the
idea that our life is worth more than anything
else, when for a principle it throws that life
away, a much as to say : It is not necessary
that I live, but it is necessary that righteous
ness triumph. There are tens of thousands
among the Northern and Southern veterans
of our Civil War who are ninety-five per cent,
larger and migntier in soul than they would
have been had they not during the four years
ot national agony turned their back on home
and fortune and at the front sacrificed all for
a principle, '
It was the sword which on the Northern
side developed a Grant, a McClellan, a
Hooker, a Hancock, a Sherman, a Sheridan
and Admirals Farragut and Porter, and on
the Southern side a Lee, a Jackson, a HilL a
Gordon and the Johnstons, Albert Sydney
and Joseph E., and Admiral Semmes, and
many Federals and : Confederates whose
graves in national cemeteries are marked
"Unknown," yet who were just as self
sacrificing and brave as any of their Major
Generals, and whose resting places all up and
down the banks of the Androscoggin,, the
Hudson, the Potomac, the Mississippi and
the Alabama, have recently been snowed
under with white flowers typical of resur
rection, and strewn with red flowers com
memorative of the carnage through which
they passfs'l, and the blue flowers illustra
tive of the skies tl.'i'ongh which they as-
i tl --'rd .imftl. There is one
.t that i,' - Is ty i ..Titu i-i every li.rone
x -nun, in e ery war rtfflee, in every navv
yard, in every national council. That word
is disarmament. But no government can af
ford to throw its sword away until all th
great governments have agreed to do the
same. Through the influence of the recent
convention of North and South American
Governments at Washington, and through
the peace convention to be held next July In
London, and other movements in which
prime ministers, and kings, and queens, and
sultans, and czars shall take pare, all civil
ized nations will come to disarmament, and
if a few barbarian races decline to quit war,
then all the decent nations will send out a
force of continental police to wipe out from
the face of the earth the miscreants. ' .
' But until disarmament and consequent ar
bitration shall be agreed to by all the great
governments, any single government that
dismantles its fortresses, and spikes its guns,
and breaks its sword, would simply invite its
own destruction. Suppose, before such gen
eral agreement, England should throw away
her sword; think you France has forgotten
Waterloo? Suppose before ' such general
agreement, . Germany should ' throw
away her ' sword, how , long would
Alsace and Lorraine . stay i as they
are?. Suppose the ; Czar f of Russia be
fore any such general agreement should
throw away his sword; all the eagles and
vultures and lions of European power would
gather for a piece of the Russian bear. Sup
pose the United States, without any such
general agreement of disarmament, should
throw away her sword; it would not be long
before the Narrows of our harbor would be
ablaze with the bunting ot foreign naviei
coming here to show the foUy of the "Mon
roe doctrine." !
- Side by side the two movements must go.
Complete armament until all agree to dis
armament. At the same commanJof "Halt!"
all nations halting. At the same command
of "Ground arms!" all muskets thumping.
At the same command of "Break ranks !" all
armies disbanding. That may be nearer
than you think. The standing army is the
nightmare of nations. England wants to
get rid of it, Germany is being eaten up by
its Russia is almost taxed to death with it.
Suppose that the -millions of men be
longing to the standing armies of the
world and r in absolute idleness, for
the most part of :' their lives,
should become producers, instead of con
sumers. Would not the world's prosperities
improve, and the world's morals be better?
Or have you the heathenish idea that war is
necessary to kX M the surplus populations
of -the earth, and that without it the world
would be so crowded there would scon be no
reserved seats, and even the standing room
would be exhausted? Ah 1 I think we can
trust to the pneumonias, and the consump-
tions, and the fevers, and the Russian
grippes to kill the people fast enough.
Beside that, when, the world gets too full
God will blow up the whote coopern and
start another world and "better one. Be
side that, war kills the people who can least
be spared. It takes the pick of the nations.
Those whom we could easily spare to go to
the front are in the penitentiary, and their
duties detain them in that limited sphere.
No; it is the public spirited and the v&loroui
who go out to die. Mostly are they young
men. If they were aged, and had only five or
ten years . at the most to live, the sacrifice
would not be so great. But it is thosa
who have forty or fifty years tso liv
who step into the jaws of . battle.
In our war Colonel Ellsworth fell
while yet a mere lad. Renowned McPher
son was only 85. Magnificent Reynolds was
only 43. v Hundreds of thousands fell be
tween twenty and thirty years of age. I
looked into the faces of the French and Ger
man troops as they went out to fight at Se
dan, and they were for the most part armies
of splendid boys. So in all ages war has pre
ferred to sacrifice the young. Alexander the
Great died at 33. When war slays the young
it not only takes down that which they are,
but that which they might have been.
So we are glad at the Isaiahic prophecy,
that the time is coming when nation shall
not lift up sword against nation. Indeed
both swords shall go back into the scabbard
the sword bathed in heaven and the sword
bathed in hell. In a war in Spain a soldier
went on a Bkirmishing expedition, and, se
cluded in a bush, he had the opportunity of
shooting a soldier of the other army who
had strolled away from his tent. He took
aim and dropped him. Running up to the
fallen man he took his knapsack for spoil,
and a letter dropped out of it, and it turned
out to be a letter signed by his owl
father; in other words, he had shot his
brother. . If the brotherhood of man be
a true doctrine, then he who shoots another
man always shoots his own brother. What a
horror is war and its cruelties were well il
lustrated when the Tartars, after sweeping
through Russia and Poland, displayed with
pride nine great sacks filled with the right
ears of the fallen, and when a correspondent
of the London Times, writing of the wounded
after the battle of Sedan, said: "Every
moan that the human voice can utter rose
from that heap of agony, and the cries of
Water! i For the love of God, water 1 . A
doctor 1 A doctor P never ceased."
After war : has wrought such cruelties
how glad we will be to have the Old Monster
himself die. Let his dying couch be spread
in some dismantled fortress, through which
the stormy winds howl. Give him for a pil
low a battered shield, and let his bad be hard
with the rnsted bayonets of the slain. Cover
him with the coarsest blanket that picket
ever wore,, and let his only cup be the
bleached bone of one of his war chargers, and
the last taper by his bsdside expire as the
midnight blast sighs into bis ear: "The can
dle of the wicked shall be put out."
To-night against the sky of the glorious
future I sea a great blaze. It is a foundry
in full blast. The workmen have stirred the
fires until the furnaces are seven times
heated. The last wagon load ot the world's
swords has been hauled into the foundry,
and they are tumbled into the furnace, anoi
they begin to glow and redden and melt, and
in hissing and sparkling liquid they roll on
down through the crevice of rock until they
fall into a mold shaped like the iron foot of a
plow. Then the liquid cools off into a hard
metal, and, brought out on an anvil, it is
beaten and pounded and fashioned, stroke
after stroke, until that which was a weapon
to reap harvests of men becomes an imple
ment turning the soil for harvests of corn,
the sword having become the plowshare. -
Officers and comrades, of the Thirteenth
Regiment of State Militia:, After another
year of pleasant acquaintance I bail yon
with a salutation all made up of good
wishes and prayers. Honored with, resi
dence in the best .city of the best land
under the sun, let us dedicate ourselves anew
to God and country and home ! In the Eng
lish conflict called "The War of the Roses,"
a white rose was the badge of the house
of York, and the red rose the badge ot the
house of Lancaster, and with these two col
ors they opposed each other in battle. To
enlist you in the Holy War for all that is
good against all that is wrong, I pin over
your heart two badges, the one suggestive
of the blood shed for our redemption, and
the other symbolic of a soul made white and
clean the Ro3s of Sharon and the Lily of
the Valley. Be thase henceforth our regi
mental symbols Ro3e and Lily, Lily and
Hose I . .' ,
' A TORNADO'S TRACK OF RUIN,
Barns and Crops Destroyed by a, Storm
In Vli-glala.
Dinwiddie county, Va., about twenty miles
from Petersburg, was visited by a frightful
wind storm, which wrought destruction and
ruin in its path. The storm extended over
the county for some seven or eight miles, and
its width was about two miles. Those living
in the path of the tornado were much fright
ened and sougnt safety in their cellars. A
large number of barns were blown down, and
fencing for miles were swept away. Many
of the farmers had their orohurds completely
ruined, while their crops of wlient w as badly
cut to pieces hy the heavy full of hail.
Mr. Pea y, formerly of Chicn, jn n bout to
rytaMipn n 'Miiy newspaper lit tie;if vol mcx
lit rJie(,if 1
H-o, to b ni id .sued la the
" SOUTHERN ITEMS. ;
HffTERESTIXa NEWS COMPILED
FROM 51 ANY SOUXICES.
Building is reported to be unusually active
in We&tniinster, Md.,' and the demand for
skilled workmen is large.
A large well has been sunk in the building
f the Wheeling ice plant, ot Wheeling, W.
Va., which flows 2o0 gallons a minute. ,
Farmers from different sections of Washing
ton county, Md, report that the prospects for
a good wheat crop in that county were never
finer. , - -
Deposits of a very fine quality of lead have
been discovered on the farm of N. E. Layman,
eight miles - from Fincastle, in Botetourt
county, Va.
The grand council of the Royal Arcanum,
of North Carolina, was organized at Italeigh.
Supreme Regent Legh R. Watts, of Virginia,
officiated. . - r . , , --.
The law school at the University of North
Carolina will open July 1st and end on the last
Monday in September. The fee for the-term
will be $30.
A panther, said to have escaped from a men
agerie two years ago in Shepherdstown, W.
Va., is reported to do. frolicking about the
suburbs of that place. .
One of the fifteen prisoners to' be discharged
from the Virginia penitentiary during the
month of June is T. A. Marvin, thecelebratcd
bigamist and forger. V
The farmers of Frederick county, Md, re
port a bright outlook for coming crops, espec
ially those of hay and wheat, which bid fair to
produce an abundant yield.
Grant district, Ritchie county, W. Va., de
feated by a overwhelming majority, the propo
eition to subscribe $20,000 to the Ohio and est
Virginia Southern railroad. ;
The smallest egg on record is reported by
Mr. Charles A. Horner, of Westminster, Md.,
which is described as being too small to meas
ure. It is the product of an ordinary sized
hen. ,. . .. ...
The next annual meeting of the Carolina
Tobacco Association will beheld at Morehead
City in August. All persons regularly engaged
in the tobacco trade will be welcomed as delegates.
The store of W. W. Dorsey, near Prince
Frederick: Calvert county, Md., with a stock
of general merchandise was burned a few
nights ago. The loss is partly covered by in
surance. ,
Basic City, Va., has a lady depot agent At
the death of her husband, who had been the
agent there for several years, the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad Company appointed Mrs.
Annie Hicks as his successor.
A negro, named Andy Tulps, indicted for
murder, escaped from the jail at Tazewell
Court-house, Va.'. He is one of the prisoners
who escaped ou the 2d of lust February and
was captured a few days afterward.
The assessment of real estate of Lynchburg
Va.,has just been completed, and shows an in
crease over that of 1885 of $1,759,171. The in
crease, of 30 per cent, in five years is unusual
and denotes wonderful prosperity.
The registrar of the-, town of Pulaski, Va.
failed to open his books on the day appointed
by law, and. consequently notownoflicers can
be elected tnis year. The authorities are at
their wit's end to know what to do. - .
An incendiary fire occurred near Goff's post
office, in Bedford county, Va.. in which a large
mill, a storehouse, still ana fixtures, and a
large barn belonging to Robert Goff w ere en
tirely destroyed. Loss $10,000; partly insured.
The contractors who are to build the new
electric railroad bridge, from Wheeling to
Martinsbnrg, Wi Va., have contracted for
not less than fivft carloads of 6tone ath day
until late in the fall, from the, Beliaire stone
quarry. -
The people of Shepherdstown, W. Va., pur
pose celebrating the completion of the Shep
herd Turnpike, which will bo finished next
month, to show their appreciation of the gen
erosity of Mr. Shepherd, through whose ellorts
the improvement was made.
Dr. J. G. Gordon, of Winston, N. C, owns a
watch five hundred years old. It is a curious
affair, the works being painted red and having
red jewels. Dr. Gordon was born in Edin
burgh, Scotland, in 1790, and is now one hun
dred years old. ;
George Rubbash, from the northern part of
Augusta county, Va, fell from a freigh train
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and
died from the effects of his wounds. Although
fully able to pay hie fare, he was beating his
way on a freight train when the accident
occurred. .:
A coal vein of extraordinary richness has
been discovered about five miles from Dur
ham, in Orange county, N. C, and a company
is being formed to develop it. J. S. Carr, of
Durham, and CoL A. li. Andrews, of Raleigh,
are th leading spirits in the enterprise ana
great results are promised. , ; '
Last week W. C. PaJmatory found stranded
in the shallow waters of Southeast Creek,near
Church Hill, Md., a porpoise, which was speed
ily killed with the assistance of neighbors. It
weighed over 700 pounds, and many choice
steaks were cut from the carcass, which also
yielded a large quantity of superior oil.
There was recently born in Johnston county,
N. C, a white child which is pronounced to be
the most wonderful freak of nature ever seen
in this state. It had two well developed heads
one at each end of the body. Each head was
capable of nursing and crying. The child was
twenty-two inches long and eighteen and a half
inches across, with arms extended. It had
three feet two on one side of the body (or
trunk) and one on the other, and four arms
two on each ride. It lived fifty hours.
A-small boy was playing on the rive
at Wheeling, W. Va,, when the etet
Ben Herr passed. The 'lad had wad
the water, when the waves from the
boat unset him and carried him out n
river, and, but for the assistance of William
nageaorn, ho would have been drowned, s
A three-year-old child of Mr. Taylor was
playing in a spring, near Wheeling, W. Va,,
by ladling out the water with a dipper, when
it fell in head first. Another child told Mrs.
Taylor, who immediately rescued it, but not
until it was apparently dead. The neighbors
managed to resuscitate it with much difficulty.
The burglars who escaped from the Martins
burg, (W. Va) Jail on May 15, and were re
captured in Pennsylvania, made another at
tempt to escape last week. , They had succeed
ed in filingonthi rivet heads of the bars which
fasten the cell doors, and would have made
good their escape had they not been detected.
An engineer working on the Union Bridge,
Wheeling, . W, Va.', was drawing a barrel of
water from the river, when' his jacket caught
in the "nigger hend,", and he was, carried
around several times, the ropes wrapping
around him with the weight of a barrel of
water on the end of the rope thirty feet below.
Fortunately his left foot caught in the throt
tle, stopping the engine or he would have been
killed. ; i
Joseph Griffiths, who died recently at Wil
liamsburg, Greenbrier county, W. Va., was
probably the most eccentric charactet in the
state. He had amassed quite a fortune, over
$30,000 in cash being found in his house, and
he owned several valuable tracts of land. In
his store for many years he refused to reduce
the price of his goods, for which lie demanded
war-time prices, and which became dusty,
mouldy and covered with cobwebs. He lived
entirely apart from his neighbors, and would
Eermit no interference in his way of doing
usiness. ; -
The German Emperor always has a lnrp
box filled with orders when he is on his trav
els, the value of which is some $20,000. He ig
fond of suddenly producing one of these, with
the needful diploma, and giving it to some
body who is not expecting anything of the
Wind.
Miss CouistxkyWai.thaIs daughter ofthe
Senator from Misxixsippi, is described as by all
odds the prettiest young woman in the Sena
torial circle at Washington. Hhe in a petite
bruneMew itha well-round figure, cj ear com.
flexion end beautiful h&i'A eyes.
!bank
I Iboat
el imto
rl Ymg
fcJthe
Tact In Managing the Boys.
' A quaint story is told about Master
Tommy 'Anderson, an old-time peda-
fofrue. Once he taught a school in
'armington, where the boys had driven
out I several teachers. He found that
the chief, conspirator was a good-looking
f grown-up girl, sancy and , proud.
The schoolmaster wore his hair in a
cue, as was the fashion in those days.
When he was "doing a sum," with his
head down, she tossed his cae back
and forth as if it were a toy, mnch to
the amusement of the scholars. Uncle
Tommy said nothing but kept up quite
a thinking. He knew if he called out
the guilty girl and punished her, the
big boys would rise and carry him out.
So he adopted unusual tactics in con
ducting. his campaign, ' He found a lot
of long hair hanging up in a barn.
From this he selected and smoothed
out : a bunch resembling a cue, and
tied it up nicely vith a ribbon. Taking
this to., the school-room early the next
morning, he suspended it from the
peg here the girl always hung her
cloak and hood; then be commenced to
set copies as usual. "When Bhe came
in and Spied the curious contrivance
'she looked surprised' and puzzled.
Quoth Master Tommy, in a mild tone
of voice : ' ,
. "Miss, I have brought that bunch
of hair for you to use as a plaything,
instead of my cue." 1
The proud-spirited girl was humilia
ted before the whole school, and could
not help crying. Uncle Tommy had
won the victory by. stratagem rather
than by force of arms, and had no fur
ther difficulty with his scholars.
Farminqton (J&e.) Chronicle.
' She TV as Smart.
, He X love you, Maud. '
She All right, Harry! And you
may keep company with me this sum
mer on a few conditions. , 1
. "Name them, sweet !"
"You must not try to work the bac
cili in ice cream racket on me, nor cut
all the drowning accidents out of pa
pers to show me, nor "tell me any chest
nuts about poisonous serpents at pic
nics. They won't work ! Now, I think
we can get along very well." Law
rence American.
To l)Uel Coldn, .:.
Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system
effectually,Vet gontly, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood Is impure or sluggish, to
permanency iure habitual constipation, to
awaken th lUdneysknd liver to a healthy ac
tivity, without feZlns or weakening them,
use Syrup of Figa - .
Only a word; yet who can tell its power for
weal or woe.
etx JVweto Free, will be sent by Cragin & Co.,
Phila,, Pa., to any one in U. S. or Canada, post
age paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins Electrlo
Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars
around each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers.
No one in wise enough to advise himself
German Proverb. - ,
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kwite's Grbat
The saddeBt thing under the sky is a soul
incapable of sadnesa. ,
J. C. Simpson, Marquess, W. Va.. says:
"Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad
case of catarrh." Druggists sell it, 75c
He Is the wisest man who does not think
hlmseif so.
. J 1 a filleted with mire eye use DrIaao Thom p.
ton's Eye Water.DrnKtrist sell at25cper bottle
" i
Never think that you can make yourself
great by making others less.
A 10c. Clrnr In quality, but only a 5c. cigar
In price is, "Tansln's Punch."
Truth Is like a torch; when shaken It shines.
IKIOOCFS
Sarsaparill
Is prepared from BartaparHJa, Dandelion, Mandrake
Pock, Juniper terries and other well-known vegeta
ble remedies, in tuch a peculiar manner as to derlv
the full medicinal value ot each. It wUl cure, whei
In the power of medicine, Ecrofula, Salt Rheum
6ores, Eolla, Pimple, all Humors, Dyejslft, BH
loudness, Sick Headache, Indigestion, General Debil
ity, Catarrh,' Rheumatism, Kidney and Liver Com
plaints. It overcomes That Tired Feeling caused bj
change of climate, season or life. , -
IOO Poses One Dollar
Money in Chickens
If you knew how to properly cur
for them. For 2 3 cents In tamr
you can procure a 100-PAGE BOOK
giving- the experience of practi
cal Poultry Raiser not an ama
teur, but a man working for do!,
lara and centu during' period of
28 yean. It teaches you how to
Itect and Cure Diseases; to Ferd
iCr Eggs and also for Fattening!
which owls to Bava for Breeding
PurKosti: and everything. Indeed.
frm shcmld know on this subject to make It profl.
(hie. Bent poetpsid for aSc. BOOK PCI,
IIOI'SK. 134 Lesiard btreet. H. Y. Cltt.
7E TOSI.50 A BtOIITHcan be made working
P I w for us. Persons preforred who can furnish
horse and give their whole time to the business.
Spare momenta may be profttnldr employed ls
A few vacancies In towns and cltlev B. P. JQitte
bON CO., MM Main St.. Richmond, Va. ,
Make Your Own Rugs.
, Price Lift of Rug Muchlnes, Rue'
Patterns, Tanw. etc., FREE. A rente AVnit-ii.
E. ROhS A- CO.. Toledo, Ohio.
LOOK AT THIS!
Cheapest and best Germ an.
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of Si, 624 hamlHomo paf ee,
bound in black cloth. t:nflieh
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German, worda with English
definitions, so that if you bear
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yxm want to translate an En
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toMof dlSereml diseases, the eaoses and means at
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Sore Throat, Swellings, Frost-bites, -
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To Restore Tone
. and Strength
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Ayer's Sarsbparjlla
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To core Biliousness. Sick Headache. Constlpatkw,
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. Use the SMALL SIZE (40 little beans to the hot
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Makers of "Bile Beans. ' ' St. Louis. Mo.
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SALT LAKE CITY.
Located in the tntdot of the most fertile farming
valleys in the world. Crops abundant, never fall.
Home markets consume everything at high prices.
Wonderful stock and grazing country, bplcudtd
schools and churches of all denominations, good so
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opportunities for investment in salt Lake City or
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Salt Lafce ."ity, Utah.
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE MILS.
Beet Cough Byrup. Tastes good. Use
lime, sola ov amenets.
MIL C li nonce
fSXST IN THE WORLD U ft C M O 1
and WHI8KEY HAB
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out pain. Book or par.
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I in i nil i B- hU WOULLKX , M. U.,
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HA HIT. Onlv Certain
easy CUR K In the Werld.
TREE SALESMEN
1 I iaH STARK KUH&KIiU
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Root TncV J. V.
a;IKS. LmiliUiiin, Mow
ATI AO of U. S. and World OHp
M I IjMU tUhM. si rmii-rat bih. SjUUI
Many of them colored. A1m t tmc modhI t luiortna-
noo rrtWHV. to unrenc mum ana touairiea, porta c
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Address book Ptra, Bouos, m Leeaard Bt. H. X
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and Heirs writ isfor
new Pension lawn. Sent
fret. DeserternrolWvtd.
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ft ft lip Wi'llltV. JJooH-eeiint, Buslnesi forms.
It UMI. PeuiiidiiKhip, Arithmotiu, Khort-hand, etc.,
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A. A. Kreetuan. 8 years Aast U. S. Att-Oea.
IT ANTF.D
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ivelicg v.J.Onmn i, Uo. eyrauuae, . . . Y.
eai or tra
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f, , r presrrfbe and fully en.
-7-.- dorse i Big as thi only
1 TO s DATS. 0f this olf.pnae. ,
dsanniwl o a J q u. i N. r. . .
A msterdam', li.
We have sold Big o fot
many yna. and it baa
- , flven tue beat cl galia-
action,
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