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TMAGE'S SERMON. The Brooklyn Divine Preaches at Bey rout. A ChrUlmM Sermon in Which He Givet Utterances nuonieliushto ' inspire:! Iy tlo Sms of he An Scls at (he UirtU t Christ. Text: .CAT; SJlOry lit nuui me 5coi-, twn oh earth peace, good una toiaara men." Luke ii.. 1 1. At Jast I have what I longed for. a Christ mas eve in tho Holy Land. This is the time of year that Christ landed. He was a Decem W Christ. This is the chill air through which- He descended. I look up through these Christmas . skies, and I seo no loosened star -hastening southward to halt above Bethle hem, but all tho f-tars suggest the Star of Bethlehem. No more need that any of them run along the sky to point downward. In miietnde they kneel at th feet of Hira who, though once an exile, is now enthroned, for ever. Fresh up from Bcthlehim, I am full of tho scenes suggested by a visit to that village. You know that whole region of Bethlehem is famous in Bible t.tory There were the waving harvesta of Boaz, in which KuLli gleaned tor herself and weeping Naomi. There David tho warrior wa3 thirdly, and threo men of unheard of elf denial broke through tho Philistine army id get him a drink. It was to that region that Joseph and Mary came to have their names enrolled in the census. That is what the Scripture means when it says they camo "to be taxed," for people did not in those days ru&li after tho assessors of tax any more than they now do. - The village inn was crowded with tho t rangers w ho had come up by the command of Government to have their names in the census, w that Joseph and Mary were obliged to lodge in (ho stables. You have scon some of those larj-je stone buildings, ia the center of which the camels were kept, while run ning out from this center in all directions there were rooms, in one of which Jcsu3 was Ixm h. Had his parents loc-a more fchowily lipparelcil I have no doubt tliy would have found more comfortable entertainment. That night in the fields the shepherds, with crook and kindled .fire-3, were watch ing their Hock.-?, when hark! to the -pound, of voices strangely sweet. Can it be tliat the maidens of Bethlehem have come out to serenade- the weary shepherds? But now a light stoops upon them like the morning, so that the flocks arise, shaking their snowy fleece and bleating to their drowsy young. The heavens are filled with nrinies of light, and tho earth quakes under the harmony as, echoed back from cloud to cloud, it rings over the midnight hills: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." It seems that the crown of royalty and dominion and power which Christ left behind Him was hung on the sky in sight of Bethlehem. Who knows but that.that crown may have been mistaken by the wise men .for tho star runaing and pointing downward? My subject, in the first place, impresses me with tho fact that indigenco is not always tignificant of degradation. When Princes are born, heralds announce it, and cannon thunder it, and flags wave it, and illumina tions set cities on lire with the tidings. Some of us in England or America remember the time of rejoicing when the Prince of Wales was born. You can remember the gladness tlironghout Christendom at tho nativity in the palace at Madrid. But when our glorious Prince was born, there was no rejoicing on ' earth. Poor ami growing poorer, yet the heavenly recognition that Christmas night shows the truth of the proposition that in digence is not always sigiuficaut of degrada tion. , , In all ages there have been great hearts throbbing under rags, tender sympathies un der rough exterior, gold in tho quartz, Par ian marble in the quarry; and in every stable of privation wonders of excellence that have been the joy of the heavenly host. All the great deliverers of literature and of nations were born in homes without ailluence, and from their own privation learned to speak and fight for the oppressed. Many a man lias held up hisnne knot light from tho wil derness until all nations; and generations have seen it, and off of hisjhard crust of pen- lil-tr liac Viirlro?-i -Ilia liTaar1 jnF lrnil-wlfail rrcx anrl religion for the starving millions of the race. Poetry, and scionck?, and literature, and commerce, - and lalws, aild consti tutions, and liberty, like Christ, were nborn in a manger. All the greit thoughts which have decided the destiuy of nations started in obscure corners, and had Herods who wanted to slay them, and Iscariots who betrayed them, and rabbles that crucified them, and sepulchres that confined th :m until they burst forth in glorious resurrect on. Strong char acter, like the rhododendron, is an Alpine plant, that grows fastest in the storm. Men are like wheat, worth, all tho more for being flaiWl. Soine of the most useful leoplo would never have come to posi tion of usefulness had they not been ground and pounded and hammered in the foundry, of disaster. When I see Moses coming up from the J ark of bul rushes to bo the greatest lawgiver of the ages, and Amos from tending the herds to make Israel tremble with his prophecies, and David from the sheepcote to sway the poet's pen and the King's scepter, and Peter from the fishing net to be the great preacher at the Pentecost, I find proof of tho truth of my proposition that indigence is not always significant of degradation. UJ DUUJCV.U CliOV Allipi J UV fTJlV'U XJkJ thought that it is while at our usefid oc cupations that we have the divine manifestations. Had those shepherds gene that night into Bethlehem rnd risked their flocks among the wolves, they would not have heard the song of the angels. In other words, that man sees most of tiod and heaven who minds his own business. We all havo our posts of duty, and standing there God appears to us. We are all shep herds or sheperdesses, and we have our flocks of cares and annoyances and anxieties, and" we must tend them. We sometimes hear very good people say: "If I had a month or a year or two to do nothing but attend to religious things, I would be a great deal letter than I am now." You are mistaken. Generally tho best peo ple arSthe busy people. Elislia was plowing in tho field when the prophetic mantle fell on him. Matthew was attending to his cus tom house duties when Christ commanded him to follow. James and John were mend ing their nels when Christ called them to be fishers of mcu. Had they been snoring in tllA Klltl CHirisf. WYYii.r. rinf. hw ii,ii - - . . . .M. ' W ViUlk V ' I indolence into tho ' apostleship. Gideon was at work with tho flail on the threshing floor when he saw the 5 angel. Saul was with great fatigno hunting up tho lost asses when he found the crown of Israel. The prodigal son would never havo reformed and wanted to have returned to his father's house if he had not first gone into business, though it was swin3 feeding. : ;Not once out of a hundred times M ill a "-lazy man become a Christian. Those who have nothing to do are in very unfavorable circumstances for the receiving of divine manifestations. It is not when you are in idleness, but when you are, like the Bethlehem shepherds, watching your flocks, that the glory descends and there is joy among the angels of God over your soul penitent and forgiven. ( lUy subject also- strikes at the delusion that th religion of Christ is dolorous and grief incusing. ; The music that broke through tho -midnight heavens was nota dirge, but an an them. It shook joy over jthe hills. It not only dropped upon the shepherds, but it sprang upward among tho thrones. The roba of a Saviour's righteousness is not black. The Christian life is not made up of weeping and cross bearing and war wasrmg. Through the revelation of that Christ mas t night I find that relisrton is not a groan, but a ... song. - In a world of sin and sick bod and sepulchers, wo must Iiave trouble j but in the darkest night the heavens part with angelic song. You may, like Paul, be shipwrecked, but I exhort you to bo of good cheer, for you shall all escapa safe to the land. . Religion does not show itself in tho elongation of the face and the cut of the garb. The Pharisee who puts his religion inta his phylactery has none left for his heart. Fretf ulness and complaining do not belong zo the family of Christian graces which move into the heart when the devil moves - out. Christianity does r not frown - upon amusement j and recreations. It Is not a synic, it is not a shrew, it chokes no laughter, it quenches no light, it defaces no art. Among the happy, it is the happiest. It is just as much at horns on the playground as it is in the church. It is just as graceful in the charade as it is in the psalm book. It sings just as well in Sur rey gardens as it prays in St. Paul's. Christ died that we might liv3. Christ walked that wo might ride. Christ wept that we might laugh. Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that glorious endings sometimes have very humble bsginnings. The straw pallet was the starting point, but tho shout ia tha mtdalgut sky revealed what would be th3 Elorious consummation. Christ on Mrvs ip, Christ on the throna of universal do minion what an humble starting ! What a glorious ending! Gracj begins on a small scale in the heart. You s 33 only men &a trew wal'xing. .The graco of Gol in the heart u a feeble spirk, an I Christ h3 fr ko3? both hands over it let it b3 blown out. What an humble beginning ! Bat look at that same man when He ha entered hoaven. No crown able to express His royalty. No palace able to ex- Fire. His wealth. No sceptre able to express lis power an I His do-nimon. Drinking from the fountain that dripi frotn the everlasting Rock. Among tha hat-pars harping with their harps. On a soa of gtvH mingle I with firef Batore tha throns of tf J, to go no mora out forever. The spark of gra33 that Christ had to keep both haa 1 over l33t it com3 to ex tinction, bavin flami up into honor and glory an l immorality. What humble start ing! What glorious con?ammitioa! The New Testament Church wv on a small scale. Fishermen watched it. Against the uprising walU crashed infernal enginery. Tha world said anathema. Ten thousan l people rejoiced at every seeming defeat, and said: "Aha! aha! so we would have it." Martyrs on fire cried: "How long, O Lord, how long?' Very humble starting, bat seo tho difference at the conramtnitioii, when Christ with HU almighty arm hai struck off the last chain of- human bondage, and Himalaya shall bs Mount Zion; and Pyrenees, Moriah; and oceans, th3 walking place of Him who trod tho wavo cliUs of stormed Tiberias, and island shall call to inland, sea to sea, continent to continent, and the song of the world's redemption rising, the heavens, like a great sounding board, shall strike back t!het shout of salvation to the earth until it rebounds again to the throne of God, and all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters. Oh, what an humble beginning! What a glorious ending! Throne linked to a manger, heavenly mansions to a stable. My subject also impresses me with the ef fect of Christ's mission upward and down ward. Glory, to God, peace to man. When God sent Ills Son into the world, angels dis covered something new in God, something they liad never seen before. Not power, not wisdom, not love. They knew all that be fore. Bat when Go I S3at Hi3 Son into this world then the angels saw the spirit of self denial in God, the spirit of self-sacrifice in God. It is easier to love an angel on His throne than a thief on the cross, a seraph in his worship than an adulterass ,in hor crime. When the angels saw God the God who would not allow the most insiguificant angel in heaven to be hurt give up His Son, His Sou, His only only Son, they saw something that they had never thoughtof before, and I do not wonder that when Christ started out cn that pilgrimage -the angels in heaven clapped their wings in triumph and called on all the hosts of heaven to help them celebrate it, and sang so loud that the Beth lahem shepherds heard it: "Glory to God in the highest." But it was also to be a mission of peac3 to man. Infloito holinesi accumulated de pravity. How could they ever com? to gether ! The Gospel bridges over the dis tance. It brings God to us. It takes us to God. God in us, and we in God. Atone ment! Atonement! Justice satisfied, sins forgiven, eternal life sucurei, heaven built on a manger. But it was also to bo the pacification of all individual aud international animosities. What a sound this word of peace had in the Romau Empire that boasted of the number of people it had massacred, that prided itself on the number of the slain, that rejoiced at the trembling provinces. Sicily aud Cor sica and Sardinia aud Macedonia and Egypt had bowed to her sword and crouched at the cry of her war eagle3. She gave her chief honor to Scipio and Fabius aud Cfesar all men of blood. What contempt they must have had there for the penniless, uuarmed Christen the garo of a Nazarine, starting out to conquer all nations. There never was a place on earth where that word peaca sounded so offensively to the ears of the multitude as in tho Roman Empire. jThay did not want peace. The greatest music they ever heard was the clankiug chains of their captives. If all the blood that ha j been shed ia battle could ba gathered together i t would upbear a navy. The club that strae'e Abel to the earth has its echo in th? butcheries of aliases. Edmund Burke, who gave no wild statistics, said that thare had b$ spsnfe ia slaaj'ater thirty -five thousand millions of dollars, or what would be equal to that; but he had nob seen into our times, whan in our own day, in America, we expanded thraa thousand millions of dol lars iu civil war. Oh, if wa could now ta'o our p33ition on some highlpoirit an I S33 ta 3 world's armiej march past! What a spectacle it would be! There go t!i3 hosts of Israel thi'ough a scor j of Red seas oa3 of water, the rest of blood. There go Cyrus and his army, with infuriate yell rejoicing over the fall of the gatas of i ini . Al...,l. 1 -J . rjauyioii. iiiaro g-J- awiiuucr, lu.vaiu; t forth his host3 au I c miuiring all th3 world bub hicmelf, th3 earth reeling with the bat tle gash of Arbela an I Persapolis. There goes Ferdinaud Corfcej, leaving his bubherei enemies on th.3 table lauds onca fra grant with vanilla anl cavered over with grove3 of flj waring cacao. Tharo goss the great Fraailimw, leading his army dowa through E ?ypb liko on3 o it3 plaguas, an 1 up through Italia liko ona of its own icy blasts. Yondar is th? grave trench uader tha shadow of Sooastopl. There aro the mini of Djlhi and AUahabxl, anl yonder are tha inhuman Sapays anl tho bravo regimsnt un ler Havelok aveaging ths insults! flag of Britain; while cut right through tb.3 hsart of my native laud is a treao'a in which there ha one million North 3m an I Southern d3ad. Oh, tha tears! Oa, tha bloal! Oh, thalon ' marches! Ui, tha hospital wounds! Ua, ths martyrdom! Oh, tho death! But brighter than tho light which flashal on all thasa swords and shields an i musketry is tha light thab fell on Bibhte'ia n, and louder than tha bray of tha truoapafc aai tha neighing of tha chargers, anl tli3 crash of the walls, and the groaning of tha dying armie3, is the son? that unrolls this m anient from the sky, swoet as though all tha bells of heaven rung a jubilea: "Peace on earth, good will toward man." Oh, when will the day come God hasten it! when the swords shall ba turned inbo plowshares, and the fortress33 shall ba remolelel inbo churches, and tha ; man of blood babbling for renown shall ba- i come good soldiers i of Jesiu Christ, aud tha cannoa now striking down whole calumnsoC daach shall thuaiar tha victories of tha truth. When we think o' the whole world saved we are apt to think of the few people that now inhabit it. Only a very few conipared with the populations to come. And what a small part cultivated. Do you know it has been authentically estimated that three fourths of Europe is yet all barrenness, and that nine hundred and ninety -one one-thousandth part, of the entire globe is uncultivated? This is all to be cultivated, all inhabited and all gospelized. Oh, what tears of repentance when nations begin to weep i Oh, what supplications when continents begin to pray! Oh, what rejoicing when hemispheres begin to sing! Churches will worship on the places where this very hour smokes the blood of human sacrifice, and wandering through the snake infested jungles of Africa Christ's heel will bruise t he serpent's head. Oh, when the trumpet of falvation shall be sounded everywhere and the nations are re deemed, a light will fall upon every town brighter than that which fell upon Bethlehem, and more overwhelm ing than the song tliat fell on the pasture fields where the flocks fed, there wul be a song louder than the voice of the storm lifted oceans, "Glory to God in the highest," and from all nations and kindred and people and tongues will come the response, "And on earth peace, good will toward men!" On t his Christmas Eve I bring yon good tidings of great joy. Pardon for nil sin, comfort for all trouble and life for the dead. Shall we c now take this Christ into our hearts? Tho time is nassinrr. This is the closing of the year.f How tho time speeds by. j rui your nana on your heart one, two, throa. Three times less it will beat. Life is passing like gazelles over the plain. Sorrows hover like petrels over the sea. Death swoops like a, vulture from the - mountains. Misery rolls up to our ears like waves. Heavenly songs fall to us liko stars. I wish you a merry Christmas, not with worldly dissipations, but merry with Gospel gladness, merry with pardoned sin, merry with hope of reunion in the skies with aid your loved ones who liave preceded you, : In that grandest and best sense a merry Christmas.: ; ' And God grant that in our final moment we may have as bright a vision as did the dying girl when she said: "Mother" point ing with her -thin white band through the window "Mother,; what is that beautiful land out yonder leyond the mountains, the high -mountains?" "Oh," said the mother, "my darling, there are no mountains within sight of our home." 4Oh, yes,' she said, "don't you see them that beautiful land be yond the mountains out there, just beyond the high mountains?" ' a . , ) m, mAfha-1Vk1ror1 dnWTl into th& faCO Of her dying child and said: "My dear, I think that must be heaven that you see." 'well, then," sho said, "father, you come, and with your strong arms carry mo over those mount ains into that beautiful land beyond the Wgn mountains." "No," said the weeping father, "my darling, I can't go with you.' MWeU" she said, clapping her hands, 'never mind, never mind; I see yonder a shining one com ing. Ho is coming now, in His strong arms to carry me over the mountains to tho beau tiful land over the mountains, over the high mountains !" r TRADE OF THE PAST WEEK. Iliia 1Vvthor Cue Only Modern nle Vol n me of Business Special telegrams to Bradsireet's report a continuation of a moderate volume of gen eral trade throughout the country. Tho mild weather ia largely responsible for this, hav ing marked efl -cts uoon s l?s of coal, woolen goods and other so isoaabla staples. Through out soma of ths VV estern States it is reported that low prices of farm pro lucts ara eoan terbalancad in part by large yields of wheat and corn, and tho excellent condition of lire stock. F-irm-rs in these regions are snid to have large qaaatitieso stock to sail. at to the Sjuthwtt5 and on the Pacific coast rains (succeeding dry weath-r at the Southwest) cause uneasiness among country merchants as to large stock of winter goods remaining ansald. - Most varieties of bog products are stronger on a better demand at home and abroad. Pork is in fair rtquest and dressed hogs are 3 163 higher. . ,, The New Vork stock market is firmer oa easier money, and the probability of more seasonable wather during the remainder of the winter, this pointing to a better trade in coal and other staples. Money has been er ratic, having twica touched 40 per cent, per annum on call, owing to a natural stringen cy at this tima, aided by manipulation. Bank clearings at 37 cities for 183'J eg ;re gate 555,734,569,211 as reported to Brad street's par cent, mora than last year, and y per uaut. over 18S7. Only 6 cities show a decrease as comparetl with 1338 or 1S87. Cereal products are quite irregular. Fiour is in fair demand here and for export. Wbeac has been in light request, but on freer call from abroad, with reported lighter 6tocks in the United Kingdom and in Russia; 3 stron-, ger and up Oats, too, are stronger, aud up ae. luaian earn, however, on freer movements at the interior, and liberal offsr iugs is weaker, and a trifl lower. Barley is depressed, and la2.. lower on light demand, while rye is irregular in demand and price. Exports of wheat (ind flour as wheat) from both coasts of the United States thU week aggregate 1,893,054 bushels, against 2,351,631 bushels last week and 1,056 369 bushels in the like week of 18c8 ti9, showing a total from July 1, 1889. to date or 54,345,310 bushels as compared with 5:3,300,000 bushels in a like period one year ago, and with 76,000 bushels two years ago. Stocks of wheat at nearly 1000 points of accumulation iu the United State3 and Can ada, east of the Rocky Mountains on Decem ber 28, as reported to BradslreeVs aggregated 51,227,176 bushels, a total not dilfariug ma terially from l hit reported ona montu pre viously, when it was 55,455,455 bushels. Oae y.ar ao, like stocks as reported to this jour nal amounted to 53,749,493 bushels. Stocks of Iadian corn at like points aggregated 15, 417,409 bushels last Saturday, agaiust 9,456, U5U bushels a month ago and 12,180,879 bush els one year a,o. Stocks of oats increased only inoderetely during December, 1889. Stocks of wheat fl mr last Saturday were 1,657,076 barrels agaiust 1.6J6.034 one month ago and 2,102,143 barrels one year ago. PANIC IN A PLAZA. Hundreds of Persons Hurt by tho Fall of the Grand-stand. While a bull fight was in grogress at Villa jLerdo, Mex., about 10,000 persons were crowded into the plaza. When the second bull was beiog killed nearly all present rose tmd stood, applauding and stamping their feet. , Suddenly one side of the plaza began to give way. A rush followed and the extra movement of the the thousands of spectators helped to bring about tbe fall of the struc ture. It bulged out rapidly and then col lapsed, precipitating the unlucky inmates to fbe ground, the distances of the falls ranging from 10 to 25 feet. Many were buried be neath the debris. Among them were many ladies of the best families of the town. In their desperate situation many flght3 occurred among the men, and many were stripped of every stitch of clothinz. The crowds on the opposite side of the building, which numbered several thousands, became panic-stricken, and fell end trampled on one another in their at tempts to reach the outside of the plzi. The bull-fighters were also seized with fear and made their exits, with the bull closely following. The trampling of the helpless and the agonized cries of tbe men and women (made the place a scene of pandemonium. I In was not until outside help came to the people pinned down by the planks and tim bers that the unfortunate victims were re leased from their painful positions. ' Many physicians were called and the fwounds of the people were attended to. The kiumber of wounded will reach into tbe hundreds, but, while the injuries of a great rnany are serious and painful, it is not thought that any will prove fatal. CROP REPORT. Agricultural Department Estimate of the Production of Cereals. The December report of the Department of Agriculture shows that the reported area of corn, 78,319,651 acres, represents an in crease of 2a P r cent, over the average Oi! 1888. The yield per acre of corn is very nearly twenty-seven bushels, or one and one tenth bushel less than the product of 1879, and is tbe largest rate of yield since 1880. The product as estimated, is 2,113,802,000 bushels. The wheat acreage, 33,123,859 acres, is 2 1-10 per cent greater than the aggregate for 1888. The yield per acre of wheat is nearly 12.9 bushels or one-tenth of a bushel greater than the November average of yield per acre. The total product as estimated, is 499,560,000 bushels. The acreage of oats is placed at 27,46216 acres, an increrse of less than 2 per cent. ' The product of oats is 751,715,000 bushels at the rate of 27.4 bushels per acre. The aggregate of all cereals is about 3,450, 000,000 bushels, or at least fifty-three per capita. AN INNOCENT MAN HANGED. A lylnff Man Confesses to Sfurdcrs for Which another Was Executed. A startling revelation has been made at Illinois Station, a small town in Indian Ter ritory. On the evening of December 27 "Minnie" Rogers, a l colored gambler and .'whiskey pedler, was run over by a railway train and fat illy injured. Before he died ihe made a statement regarding the murder. in 1886, in tbe Cherokee Nation, of Dr. J. M. 'jPyle and Mrs. William Kerr. The couple were found murdered in their .'beds at their respective houses one morning, their heads having been crnshad in by some implement. John StephenBon.to ward whom suspicion pointed, was arrested, tried before kludge Parks at Fort Smith. Ark., convicted And banged. On his deathbed Rogers con fessed that he had committed the deed un aided. He swore that he had been hired to do it by an enemy of his victims. DEATH IN ITS WATER. An Epidemic of Ty phoid Caused by a Foul Stream. An epidemic of typhoid fever has raged in Northern Berks county, Pa. for some weeks, and many persons have died. .. . Citizens of that section sent a complaint to Reading, in which they say that many cattle havedied from the prevailing contagious cat tle disease, and that some or the dead cattle were thrown into Maiden Creek and ore now floating down stream, v - The complaints 8y that the water is per fectly sickening. This is the stream along which the citjr fcas erect "d a pumping station end ai ranged to gtt its supply of water for kcusjh Id purposes in a tew weeks. She Fad Not Entirely Forgotten. Mr. Billns sat in his comfortable armchair, with . his feet comfortably resting on another chair. Mr. Billns was enjoying hinxsalf. He had dined, and he defied fate to do ifc3 worst, even as another great man is said by histor ians to have done under like circum stances long before the period of Billns. - "Maria," he observed, "this is the anniversary of our wedding, isn't it ? "It is, John." ' Twenty-three years, Maria," said Mr Billns, reflectively, a3 he took the poker and stirred the fire in the grate, "is a thundering long h'm ! h'm ! long time for some married folks, isn't it?" - "It is, John." "And yet it doesn't seem h'm ! h'm as if it were thirty years since I first met you at the Jasper County fair, does it?" "It isn't thirty years," replied Mrs. Bill us, rather shortly. lt is only twenty-six." "I mean twenty-six years of course, Maria. Speaking of that fair," con - tinned Mr. Billns, "I wonder if you re member that big artichoke in the agri cultural hall." "No, I don't remember any big arti choke." ' "Have you forgotten that long ear ol corn sent in by old Absalom Wykoff ?" "I have no recollection of it." "Don't yon remember the big beet that Uncle Jakey Dubois had on exhi bition?" , "No." "Maria," said Mr. Billns, impa tiently, " where's jour memory ? Don't you recollect the great big pump kin that weighed 176 pounds that Cal Hepperly was showing everybody that came to the fair'" "It. seems to me I do remember a big pumpkin." "I thought so. Your memory is a mighty poor one, Maria, but you could not forget that big pumpkin. Do you have any idea" persisted Mr.Billus,with growing recollections of sundry pies his good mother had made shortly after that fair, "whatever became of that pumpkin, Maria?" "I think I have, John." "You have, hey," he retorted in sur prise. "If it is all you can do to re member the biggest pumpkin at that fairjiow do you happen to know what ever become of it, madam ?" "I married that pumpkin, John." The fire burned feebly in .the grate, t the canary bird slumbered peacefully in its cage, and amid a silence so pro found that the shadows could be plain ly heard dancing on the wall Mr. and Mrs. Billus sat in their cheerful little parlor and dreamed the happy hour3 of their wedding anniversary away. -Chicago Tribune. On Business. The Governor of Georgia had just dismissed a delegation of Prohibition ists, when a card bearing the name "Judge J. T. W. Madison" wa3 hand ed him. The chief executive was very tired, having been harassed with dry speeches, and would have sent down an excuse, but the high-sounding name on ' the card bespoke a visitor of impor- , tance; so, wearily yielding, he told the porter to show the gentleman up. A few moments later one of the most deeply colored gentlemen in the State etepped into the room. "Dis yerede gubner?" tMYes. What do you want?" "I's called on bizness, sah. I's er jedge down " " ifou are a judge?" "Yes, Justice o' de Peace down in de swamp districk." "Weil, state your business with me a3 quickly as you can." "I'll do it, sah. Caze dat's whut I come yere fur. Lemme see, now. Oh, yas. Some time ago, sah, I had er man named Sam Bly 'rested an' tried for stealin' co'n. I tried him myse'f and fined him four hundred dollars an' six munts in jail. Dis wuz all satis factory, 'specially ter me, but de blame lawyer he tuck er 'peal ter de circus cou't. Now, eah, my bizne3s wid you is dis yere : Ef you'vs got any 'fluence wid de jedge o' dat circus cou't, Iwush jou'd drap him a few lines an' tell him ter send dat case back ter me. Now, is you got much 'fluence wid dat judge ?" . fLYou old scoundrel, get out of here or I will have you thrown out.' "Jest wait er minit, sah; jest wait er i minit. I know dat nigger stole dat ' co'n, an' I know dat he wants ter take' er 'peal just so he ken skape de justice dat is atter him. Dar's anuder thing: Dat nigger is er mighty p'litical bother down dar an' de folks wants ter git rid o' him till atter de leckshun knows da doe1, er da wouldn't er promised me er hunntid dollars ter send him up. Now, it's er gubnor's duty ter do whut de folks wants him ter do an' hoi' on, hoi' on, I'll go. Neber seed sich times ez dese cornin' ober folks. Hoi' on, fur I'se dun gone." Arkansaw Traveler. : , fr The Cook's Revenge. A very cuiious qa3e has just been de cided in a Frankfort police court. 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