'off with HIS HEAD."
.uv, riiln aaa T-T i rr h
H 1 1 r V 1 6 W Win
Executioners in Canton.
jrutal and Bspulsive Porms of Oriental
Punishment.
wanderings in Canton,
During our
the Pall Mall tta-
vs a writer m
ttP our ears were
assailed -with the
athay synonym of the Egyptian bak-
v ilia ovatno nf mir brains
eesu ltj j mi vcvuo v
sounded and echoed with it. "Cuin-
Lw! camshawl" yelled immature pos-
asors of pigtails, and mature possessors
hood the sound wherever wo went,
hen the youngsters' requests were not
ompiied with, they after a little invari-
,blv changed their cry to "Funquai!
... r : j :i t
anqu.iii foreign uevu, loreigu ucyh;.
We nuircned mio me magiuicxiui juumu
o the accompaniment of the cumshaw
Here we were shown tue mstru
whereby bamboo chow chow is
to the nadal callosities of the
uac.
cuts
lVL'Il
. l wAfana on1 afirvrf TrrAAnft
1 P jvOu lac rviio auu eus& m -4 w
xactmg confessions (no criminal can be
ixecuted according lo the laws of China
until he has confessed his crime),
canquls, a species of collar which for
i f.-i.ij
ar-Teness ar.u uncomioriauieness eveu
utstrin the mashers', and which
ctanular planes of wood with
and hand holes. The gloomy,
le ck
mall depository -room of these torture
mplements we tnougnt to be a lair
eprcsentation of what a European m -
id:;vva! chamber of ''justice" has been.
"We were next taken in our sedan
SriiniM t irou?n'an overcrowaea ousv
ussin" on our way the new Roman
I
aspires
s pierce the clouds. The excution
i r J a- i. 11 i a
i.
sruuau we iouna 10 ue a smaii encioseu
octangular space, about fifteen yards
bv li.'ty, entered by a gate. On the
it on entering ran a row of small
s yaa'.id houses, the habitations of pot
ters whose rough, unbaked workday all
.about on the grouud, drying in the sun,
bat we were informed that it was cleared
1 1 A
lawav whenever an execution was aooui
to take place. Facing the potters' houses
was a high wall, at whose base and
leaning against it were some large crock?,
all of which had their mouths earthed
over except one. Here our guide intro
du:cd u to two poorly dressed China
men, whom we noticed gambling at a
fan tan table near the gate on our arri
val. One, a big, brutish-looking fel
low with a villainoui cast in one of his
eyes, was tne neaa executioner, ana tne
-other two, who were smallish men, wer?
hi3 assistants. Through our guide we
XtoUl the head executioner that wc
ivnsncQ to ste tne instruments ot his
calling, and thereon he produced a short,
very hsavy two-handed sword and a long
knife. The following conversation was
carried on between us and this "boss"
through the medium of our guide:
''How do you use this sword? Where
is the block?"
"We don't use a block. What we Jo
is to make the prisoners kneel down in
two rows facing one another, and bend
ing their heads down. Then I take the
swoni, and chop, chop, one on each side,
and the heads fall off; so on till they're
all dune, as you'd switch the tops of
green weeds with your walking-stick."
"But you don't alwaya chop a head
off with one blow?"
"Always." .
"What is the knife for?"
"For the ling che, or death by many
cuts. We tie the culprit who is con
demned to this death to that cros3 there
vpointirig to two rough unbarked sticks
roughly crossed), and we begin by cut
ting off the eyelids, ears, nose, and so on,
ending by sticking the knife into the
heart. The cuts vary in number from eight
to a hundred aud twenty, according to
the heinousness of the culprit's crimes."
"What class of criminals are condemned
to the ling che?"
"Parricides, matricides and women
who have killed and mutilated their
husbands form the majority."
"Do the executions interfere with your
appetite and sleep?"
The three executioners grinned sar
donically at this question, so we asked :
"How many persons have you execut
ed in a day?"
"I have chopped twenty heads off
myself in two minutes. See that dark
looking place on the ground over there
that's caused by the blood of the last
batch we had."
"What is done with the bodies?"
"The friends take the bodies away,
but we keep the headfr in the crocks
over by the wall there, and when we
havj a large number which are no longer
recognizable we bury them ; would you
like to see some of the heads?"
We declined, and one of my compan
ions began to grow pale and complain of
not feeling well, so we ordered the guide
to lead us away.
"Gentlemen, give twenty cents each,
cumshaw, to the executioners," said the
guide, which we gladly did to escape
from the staring of the "boss'' butcher's
swivel eye; and so ended our interview
ith these Hih Executioners of the
Great Chinese Empire."
A fl it failure A poor pancake.
Ten Things a Baby Can Do.
It can beat any alarm clock: ever in
vented waking a family up in the mora
mg.
Give it a fair show and it can smash
more dishes than the. most industrious
servant girl in the country.
It can fall down oftencr and with less
provocation than the most expert tum
bler in the circus ring.
It can make more genuine fuss over a
simple brass pin than its mother would
over a broken back.
It can choke itself black in the face
with greater ease than-the most accom
plished wretch that was ever executed.
It can keep a family in a constant tur
moil from morning till night, and night
ti 1 morning, without once varying its
tunc.
It can be relied upon to sleep peace
fully ail day when its father is down
town and cry persistently at night when
he is particularly sleepy.
It may be the naughtiest, dirtiest,
ugliest, most fretful baby in all the
world, but you can never make its
mother believe it, and you had better
not try it.
It can be a charming and model in-
fant when no one is around, but when
viiitors are present it can exhibit more
bad temper than both of its parents to
gether. It can brighten up a house better than
all the furniture ever made; make
sweeter music than the finest orchestra
organized; fill a larger place in its
parents' breast than they knew they
had, and when it goes away it can cause'
a greater vacancy and reave a greater
blank than all the rest of the world put
together.- Philadelphia News.
An Impertinent Man.
Alex. Walker, clerk of the Capital
Hotel in Little Rock, although a hand
some young man, has lost much of the
hair that once occupied a prominent po
sition on the top of his head. O.10 even
ing recent y a well-dressed stranger regis
tered at the hotel, and, just as he had
completed the work of spreading his
double great-primer name ontheb)ok
he glanced at Walker, stepped back and
said :
"Great Cseiar ! Another baldheadcd
maul It is my misfortune, it seem?, to
be thrown with this class of men. I
ought not to say it, perhaps, but I don't
believe that bald-headed men are
honest."
"Look here," said Walker, "your
remarks are personal and insulting."
"I did hope that I would never see
another bald-headjd man," the stranger
continued, "but here I am compelled to
stop with one."
"Get out of thishouvj!" Walker hotly
exclaimed.
The stranger stepped back and took off
hii hat, revealing the fact that he had
not a hair on his head.
lMy dear friend," said. Walker, ex
tending his hand, "I have just received
a box of Havana cigars. Come around
and enjoy yourself." Arkinsaw Trav
eler. Painlessness of Throat Cutting:.
The victim of despondency wht
hacks at his throat in a persistent at
tempt at suicide probably inflicts much
les3 self tortue than we have been wont
to suppose. Several years ago Prof.
Brown Sequard announced that stimula
tion of the larynx produces complete
loss of sensibility to pain in the body.
He has sinco observed that a similar,
though slighter, efJEcct may be given by
irritation of the windpipe or even of the
skin covering the throat. By hundreds
of experiments, especially on dogs and
monkeys, this eminent pathologist has
demonstrated that, after simply cutting
the skin, he could lay bare, cut, bruise,
galvanize and even burn the various
structures in two thirds of the neck
without causing any great pain, and
sometimes with no apparent pain, "what-
TTTl 1 1 1 ll-J A U
bver. vvnen ne nas miieu uu,'s uy
cutting their throats, death has occurred
without convulsions and without agony.
Arkansaw Traveler.
A Sympathetic Con.
A Newtonian was picking apples on
Monday, when an old cow ran up to him
and then away, acting very strangely.
Knowing her to be an unusually intelli
gent cow, he suspected that something
must be the matter and followed her.
She led him to a cow in another part of
the orchard that wa3 nearly choked to
death with an apple. After he had re
lieved her the old cow fairly cried for
joy and licked the sufferer profusely, and
when the latter was driven into the
barnyard where she would be out of dan
ger refused to leave her. New Orleans
Picayune.
Teddy's Interpretation.
The golden text for a certain Sunday
school was: "And the child grew and
waxed strong in spirit." Luke ii., 40.
The Christian Register says: Littla
Ted's arm went up like a flash when th
superintendent asked : "Can any of these
bright, smiling little boys or girls repeat
the golden text for to-day? Ah I how
glad it maks my heart to see so many
little hands go upl Teddy, my boy,
you may repeat it; and speak good and
loud that all may hear." And they all
heard this: "And the child grew aao)
waxed strong in spirit like 2:40."
TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON
NIMRODS HUNTING EXPLOITS SEV
ERAL THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
Need of Instruction in the Divine
Manual of Arms.
Text: "He was a mighty hunter before
the Lord." Genesis, x., 9.
In our day, hunting is a sport; but in the
lands and the times invested with wild beasts,
it was a matter of life or death with the peo
ple. It was very different from going out on
a sunshiny afternoon with a patent breech
loader, to shoot reed-birds on the flats, when
Pollux and Achilles and Diomedes went out
to clear the land of lions and tigers and bears.
My text sets forth Nimroi as a hero when it
presents him with broad shoulders aJhd
shaggy apparel and sun-browned face, and
arm bunched with muscle "a mighty hunter
before the Lord.' I think he used the bow
and the arrow with great success practicing
archery.
I have thought if it is such a grand thing
and such a brave thing to clear wild beasts
out of a country, if it is not a better and
braver thing to hunt down and destroy those
great evils of society that are stalking the
land with tierce eye and bloody paw, and
sharp tusk and quick spring. 1 have won
dered if there is not such a thing as Gospel
hunting, by which those who are flying from
the truth may be captured tor God and heaven.
The Lord Jesus in His sermon used the art of
'angling for an illustration when he said: k'I
will make you fiahers of men." And so I
think 1 have authority for using hunting as
an illustration of Gospel truth; and I pray
God that there may be many a man in this
congregation who shall begin to study Gospel
archery, of whom it may, after a while, be
said: u He was a mighty hunter before the
Lord.
How much awkward Christian work there
is done in the world ! How many good people
there are who drive souls away from Chribt
instead of bringing them to Him! religious
blunderei-s who upset more than they right.
Their gun has a crooked barrel, and kicks as
it goes off. They are like a clumsy comrade
who goes along with skilful hunters ; at
the very moment he ought to be most
quiet he is crackling an alder or fall
ing over a log and frightening
away the game. How few Christian people
have ever learned the lesson of which 1 read
at the beginning of the service, how that the
Lord Jesus Christ at the well went from talk
ing about a cup of water to the most practi
cal religious truths, which won the woman's
soul for Grod! Jems in the wilderness was
breaking bread to th"? people. I think
was good bread: it was very light bread,
and the yeast had done its work thoroughly.
Christ, after he had broken the bread, said to
the people: 'Beware of the yeast, or of the
leaven, of the Pharisees!' So natural a tran
sition it was; and how easily they all under
stood him! But how few Christian people
who understand how to fasten the truths of
God and religion to the souls of men! Tru
man Osborne, one oi the evangelists who went
through this country some years ago, had a
wonderful art in the right direction. He
came to father's house one day, and while we
were all seated in the room, he said: "Mr.
Talmage, are ali vour children Christians.'"
Father said: "Yes" all but De Witt." Then
Truman Osborne looked down into the fire
place, and began to tell a story of a .storm
that came on the mount:uns,and all the sheep
were in the fold; but there was one lamb out-,
side that perished in the storm. Had he
looked me in the eye, 1 should have been an
gered wht n he told me that story: but he
looked into the fire-place, and it was so pa
thetically and beautifully done that 1 never
found any peace until I was sure I was inside
the fold, where the other sheep are.
The archei-s of o.'d times studied their art.
They were very precise in the matter. The
books crave special diie:tions as to how the
archer should go, and as to what an archer
should do. He must stand erect and firm, his
left loot a little in advance of his right. With
his left hand he must ' take hold of the bow
in the middle, and then with the
three fingers and the thumb of his
righ hand he should lay hold of the arrow
and affix it to the string so precise was the
direction given. But how clumsy we are
about religious work! How little skill and
care we exercise! How often our arrows miss
the mark! Oh, that we might learn the art
of doing gocd and become "mighty hunters
before the Lord !'
In the first place, if you want to he effectual
in doing goo4, you must be very sure of your
weapon. Ihere was something very fas
cinating about the arch.ry of olden t'mts.
Perh ii's you do not know wh it they could
do with the bw an I arrow. Why ihe chif f
battles fought by t ie English Plantag nets
were with the Ion;; how. Ttry would ta'ce
the arrow of polished wood, and fe ither it
w'ith the plume of a bird, and then it would
fly from the bow-string of plaited silk. The
broad fields of Agincourt, and So! way Mos,
and Neville's Cross, heard the loud thrum of
the archer's low-string. Now, my Christian
friends, we have a mightier woaron than that.
It is the arrow of the Gospel ; it is a sharp ar
row: it is a straight arrow; it is feathered
from the wing of the dove of Gods spirit ; it flits
from a bow made out of the wood ( 1' the cross.
As far as I can estimate or calculate, it h is
brought down four hundred million souls.
Paul knew how to bring the notch of that
arrow on to that bow-string, and its whirr
was heard through' the Corinthian theatres,
and through the court -room, until the
knees of Felix knocked together. It
was that arrow that stuck in Luther's heart
when he cried out: "Oh, my sins! Oh, my
sins!" If it strike a man in the head, it kills
his skepticism; if it strike him in the Keel, it
will turn his step : if it strike him in the heart,
he throws up his hauds, as did one of old
when wounded in the battle, crying: "Oh,
Galilean. Thou hast conquered f
In the armory of the Earl of Pembroke,
are old corselets which show that the arrow
of the English used to go through the breast
plate, through the body of the warrior, and
out through the backplate. What a symbol
of that Gospel which is sharper than a two
edged sword, piercing to the dividing asun-j
der of soul and body, and of the joints and
marrow! Would to God we had more faitli
in that Gospel ! The humblest man in this
house, if he had enough faith in him, could
bring a hudred souls to Jesus perhaps five
hundred. Just in proportion as this age
seems to believe less and less in it, I believe
more and more in in it! Whit are,
men about that they will no accept the .r own
deliverance l There is nothing proposed, by men
that can do anything,: like this Gospel r The
religion of Ralph v aldo Emerson was the
philosophy of icicles; the religion of Theo-:
dore Parker was a sirocco of Jfche desert, cov
ering up the soul with dry sand, the religion
of Kenan is the romance of believing noth
ing; the religion of Thomas Carlyle is only a
condensed London fog; the religion of the
Huxleys and the Spencers is merely a pedestal
on which human pnilosophy sits saivering in
the n'ght of the soul, looking up to the siars,"
offering na help to the nations that crouch
and groan at the Lase. Tell me where there
is one man who has rejected that Gospel for
another, who is thoroughly satisfied,. and
helped, and contented in his skepticism, and
I will take the car to-morrow and ride live
hundred miles t see him. The full
power of the Gospel has not yet been touched.
As a sportsman throws up his hand and
catches the ball flying through the air, just
so easily will this Gospel after a while catch
this round world flying from its orbit and
bring it back to the heart of Christ. Give
it full swing, aud it will pardon
every sin, heal every wound, cure every
trouole, emancipate every slave, and ransom
every nation. Christian men and women
who go out this afternoon to do Christian
work, as you go into the Sunday-schools
and the lay preaching stations, and
the penitentiaries, and the asylums, I want
you to feel that you bear in your hand a
weapon compared with which the lightning
has no speed,and avalanches have no heft, and
the thunder bolts ot heaven have no power; it is
the arrow of the Omnipotent Gospel. Take
careful aim. Pull the arrow clear back until
the head strikes the bow. Then let it fly.
And may the slain of the Lord be many.
Again, if you want to be skillful in spiritual
hunting you must hunt in unfrequented and
secluded places. Why does the hunter go
j three or four days in the Pennsylvania forests
or over Jttaquette .Lake mto the wilds of the
Adirondacks? It is the only wav to do. Th
deer are shy, and one "bang" of the gun
clears the forest. From the California
stage you see, as you go over the
plains, here and there a coyote trotting along,
almost within range of tne gun sometimes
quite within range of it. No one cares tor
that; it is worthless. The good game is hid
den and secluded. Every hunter knows
that. So, many of the souls that will be of
most worth for Christ, and of most value to
the Church, are secluded. They do not
come in your way. You will have to go
where they are. Yonder they are down in
that cellar, yonder they are up m that gar
ret. Far away from the door of any church,
the Gospel arrow has not been pointed at
them The tract distributer and the city
missionary sometimes just catch a glimpse of
them, es a hunter through the trees gets a
momentary sight of a partridge or roebuck.
The trouble is we are waiting lor the game to
come ts us. e are not good hunters. We
are standing in Schermerhorn street, expect
ing that the timid antelope will come up
and eat out of our hand. We are expecting
that the prairie-fowl will light on our
church-steeple. It is not their habit. If
the Church should wait ten millions of years
for the world to come in and be saved, it will
wait in vain. The world will not come.
What the Church wants now is to lift their
feet from damask ottomans, and put them in
the stirrups. We want a pulpit on wheels.
Ihe Church wants not so much
cushions as it wants saddle-bags and arrows.
We have got to put aside the gown and the
kid gloves, and put on the hunting shirt.
We have been fishing so long in the brooks
that run under the shadow of the Church
that the fish know us, and they avoid the
hook, and escape as soon as we come to
the bank, while yonder is Upper Saranac and
Big Tupper's Lake, where the first swing of
the Gospel net would break it for the multi
tude of the fishes. There is outside work to
be done. What is that I see in thj la k
woods? It is a tent. Tha hunters
have made a clearing and camped out.
What do they caro if they have
wet feet, or if they have nothing
but a pine branch for a pillow, or for the
northeast storm If a moose in the darkness
steps into the lake to drink, they hear it right
away. If a loon cries in the midnight, they
hear it. So in the service of God we have
exposed work. We have got to camp out
and rough it. We are putting all our care
on the seventy thousand people of Brooklyn
who they say come to church. What are
we doing for the seven hundred thousand
that do not come? Have they no souls? Are
they sinless that they need no pardon ' Are
there no dead in their houses that they need
no comfort t Are they cut off from God, to go
into eternity no wing to bear them, no light
to cheer them, no welcome to greet them! I
hear to-day surging up from the lower depths
of Brooklyn a groan that comes through our
Christian assemblages and through our
Christian churches; and it blots out all this
scene from' my eye to-day, as by the mists of
a great Niagara, for the dash and the plungj
of these great torrent of lite dropping down
in.o the fat!io:n!es; and thun lerin al.y w oi!
sulfei iug and woo. I sometimes thiiiK that
iust as GjDl llctt.vl ouL the Church of
Tliyatira and Corinth and Latxlicea, because
of their sloth and stolidity. He will blo" t)ut
American and English Chritianity, and raiss
on the ruins a stalwart, wide-awake, mission
ary Church, that can take the full meaning
of that command: "Go into all the world,
and preach the Gosjyd to every creature. He
that believeth and is baptized shall be saved,
and he that believeth not shall be damned."
I remark, further, if you want to succeed
in Gospel hunting you must have courage. If
the hunter stand with trembling hand or
ilioulder that flinches with fear, instead of
his taking the catamount, the catamount
takes him. What would become of the Green
lander if, when out hunting for bear, he
should stand shivering with terror on an ice
ber? What would have become of Du
Chaillu and Livingstone in the African
thicket, With a faint heart and a week knee?
When a panther comes within twenty paces
of you, and it has its eye on you, and it has
squatted for the fearful spring, "Steady
there."'
Courage, O ye spiritual hunters! There are
great monsters of iniquity prowling all around
iibout tho community. Shall we not in the
strength of God go forth and combat them?
We not only need more heart, but more back
bone. What is the church of God that it
eh"",' Id fear to look in the eye an v transgres
sion? There is tho Bengal tiger of drunkenness
that prowls around, and instead of attacking
it, how many of us hide uu lcr the church
jjew or the 'communion table? There is so
much invested in it we are afraid to assault
it; millions of dollars in barrels, in vats, in
spigots, in coikscrows, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian-top tables, ami
chased ice-coolers, and in the stiychnine. an 1
the logwood, and the tartaric acid, anil the
mix vomica, that go to make up our pure
American drinks. I looked w.th wondering
eves on the "Heidelberg tun." It is the
great liquor vat of (iei iuuny, which is said to
hold eight hundred hogsheads of wine, ar.il
only three times in a hundred veal's has it
been filled. Put, as I looked at it I
Slid to imelf:
That is nothing
eight hundred hogsheads. Why. our Ameri
can vat holds four million five hundred thou
sand barrels of strong drinks, ami we keep
three hundred thousand men with nothing to
do but to see that it is lilleJ." Oh, to attack
this great monster of intemperance, and the
kindred monsters of fraud and uncleanness,
requires you to rally all your Chritians
courage. Through the press, through the
pulpit, through the platf orm, you must as
sault it. "Would to God that all our Ameri
can Christians would band together, not for
crack-brained fanaticism, but for holy Christ
ian reform. I think it was in 179o that there
went out from Lucknow, India, under the sov
ereign, the greatest hunting party thatwas ever
projected. There were lu,(X)0 armed men in
that hunting party. There were camels, and
horses, and elephants. On some, princes rode,
and royal ladies, under exquisite housings,
and five hundred coolies waited upon the
train, and the desolate places of India were
invaded by this excursio:i, and the rhi
loceros, and deer, and elephant, fell
under the stroke of the sabre and bullet.
After a while the party brought back
trophies worth fifty thousand rupees, having
left the wilderness of India ghastly with
the slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that instead of here and there a strag
gler going out to fight these great mon
sters of iniquity to our country, the
million membership of our churches would
band together and hew in twain these great
crimes that make the land frightful with
their roar, and are fattening upon the bodies
and souls of immortal men. Who is ready
for such a party as that?'' Who will be a
mighty hunter for the Lord.
I remark again: If vou want to be success
ful in spiritual huntings you need not only
to bring down the game, but bring it m. I
think one of the most beautiful pictures of
Thorwaldsen is his "Autumn.1' It repre
sents a sportsman coming home and standing
under a grapevine. He has a staff over his
shoulder, and on the other end of that
staff are hung a rabbit and a brace of birds.
Every hunter brings home the game. No one
would think of bringing down a reindeer or
whipping up a stream for trout, and letting
them lie in the woxls. At eventide the camp
is adorned with the treasures of the forest
beak, and fin, and antler.
If you go out to hunt for immortal souls,
not onlv bring them down under the arrovt
of the (aospel.but bring them into the Churcl
of God. the grand home and encampment w
have pitched this side the skies. Fetch them
in, do not let them lie out in the open field.
They need onrprayers, and sympathies, and
help. That is the meaning of the Church of
God help. Oh, ye hunters for the Lord! not
only brinz down the game, but brins it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went in-doors, what
enthusiasm ought we to have who are hunt
ing for immortal souls. If Domitian practiced
archery until he could stand a boy down hi
the Roman amphitheatre, with a hand out,
the fingers outstretched, and then the King
could shoot an arrow between the fingers
without wounding them, to what drill and
what practice ought not we to subject our
selves in order to become spiritual archers
and "mighty hunters hefore the Lord!" But
let me say, you will never work any better
than you pray. The old archers took tha
bow, put one end of it down beside the foot,
elevated the other end, and it was the rule
that the bow should be just the size
of the archer; if it were just his size, then he
would go into the battle with confidence. Let
me say that your power to project good in
the world will correspond exactly to your
own spiritual stature. In other words, the
first thing, in preparation for Christian work,
is personal consecration.
u Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A Hunt to chine npon the road
That leads me to the Lamb."
I am sure that there are some here who at
some time have been hit by the Gospel ar
row. You felt the wound of that conviction,
and you plunged into the world deeper; just
as tne stag, when the hounds are after it,
plunges into Scroon Lake, expecting in that
way to escape. Jesus Christ is on your track to
day, impenitent man ! not in wrath, but in
mercy. Oh, ye chased and panting souls! here is
the stream of God's mercy and salvation, where
you may cool your thirst Stop that chase of
5in to-day. By the red fountain that leaped
from the heart of my Lord, I bid you stop.
There is mercy for you mercy that pardons:
that heals; everlasting mercy. Is there in
ill this house anyone who can refuse the offer
that comes from the heart of the dying Son
Df God?
There is a forest in Germany, a place they
call the "deer leap" two crags about eight-
sen yards apart, between, a fearful chasm.
This is called the "deer leap,' because once a
muter was on the track of & deer;
it came to one of these crags; there
tvas no escapa for it from the pursuit of
the hunter, and in utter despair it gathered
itself up, and in the death agony attempted
:o jump across. Of course, it fell, and was
lashed on the rocks far beneath. Here is a
-jath to heaven. It is dam: it is safe
Jesus marks it out for every man to walk
in. r3ut here is a man who says : "I won't
ivalk in that path; I will take my own way."
He comes on up until he confronts the chasm
I hat divides his soul from heaven. Now, his
ast hour has come, and he resolves that he
will leap that chasm, from the heights of
arth to the heights of heaven.
Stand back now, and give him full swing,
!or no soul ever did that successively. Let
aim try, Jump! Jump! He misses the
marl:, and he goes down, depth below depth,
"destroyed without remedy.'' Men! angels!
levils! what should we call that place of
iwful catastrophe? Let it be known for ever
is ''The Sinner's Death Leap."
it is said that when Chailemagne s host
was overpowered by three armies of the
Saracens in the Pass of Roncesvalles, his
tvarrior,' Roland, in terrible earnestness,
leized a trumpet, and blew it with such
terrific strength that the opposing army
reeled back with terror; but at the third blast
of the trumpet this instrument broke in two. I
lee'your soul fiercely assailed by the powers of
jarth and hell. I put the mightier trumpet
)f the Gospel to my hps; and 1 blow it three
times. Blast the first "Whosoever will, let
aim come." Blast the Second "Seek ye the
Lord while He may be found. "BlaL the third
"ISow is toe accepted time now is the day
af salvation. "Does not the host of your
sins fall back? But the trumpet does not,
like that of Roland, break in two. As it was
iianded down to us from the lips of our
fathers, we hand it dawn to the hps of our
children, and tell them to sound it when we
are dead, that all the generations of men may
know that our God is a pardoning God,a sym
pathetic God, a loving God; and that more to
Him than the anthems of heaven,more to Him
than the throne on which he sits,more to Him
than are the temples of celestial worship, is
the joy of seeing the wanderer putting his
hand on t he door-latch of his Father's house.
Hear it, all ye nations! Bread for the worst
hungsr. Medicine for the worst sickness.
Light for the thickest darkness. Harbor
from the worst storm.
Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful inter
est entitled "Around the World," describes a
tomb in India of marvelous architecture.
Twenty thousand men were twenty-two years
in erecting that and the buildings around it
Standing at that tomb, if you speak or sing,
after you hae ceased vu hear the echo com-
mg from a height of 150 feet. It is not like
other echoes. The sound is drawn out in
sweet prolongation, -as though the angels of
God were chanting on the wing.
How many souls here to-day, in the tomb
of sin, will lift up the voice of penitence and
prayer? If now they would cry unto God,the
echo would drop from afar not struck from
the marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum,
but sounding back from the warm hear of
angels, riving with the news; for there is joy
among the angels of God over one sinner that
repenteth.
LABOR NOTES.
There is considerable demand for all kinds
Df mechanics in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Western lumber manufacturers say
that the prices will be much higher next fall.
Dexvep., Col., is becoming an important
manufacturing centre, and will produce $30,
i)0.),000 worth of products this year.
The builders in the small towns all over the
country are reporting an increasing demand
for small houses. The building and loan as
sociation fever is spreading in the West.
Parke Davis & Co. ,of Detroit, have started
ihe ball in motion against foreign labor by
lisharging men in their factory who live in
Windsor, Canada, just across the border, and
are not American citizens. The discharged
men say they will move to the Michigan side
aud become citizens.
The General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor has in preparation a state
ment giving a correct history of the difficul
ties which finally resulted in the revocation
Df the charter of District Assembly 126 and
3 local assemblies attached to it.
A London paper says that there is not one
corner of Europe where American small cost
hardware is not for sale. Krupp of Germany,
Armstrong of England, and Hotchkiss of
Franco, with all their vast resources, are un
able to proluee a monkey or screw-bar
wrench equal to the American wrenches.
Four railroads are now being "built in
Georgia to centre in Atlanta. It will then, be
the greatast railroad centre in the South.
These roads will run through coal, lumber
and agricultural sections, and already syndi
iates are operating along the projected lines,
securing control of the most desirable lands.
New England textile manufacturers are
generally, improving their capacity and put
ting in better rnachinery to decrease cost. A
New Hampshire firm has ordered a cargo of
wool from San Francisco around Cape Mora
on account of high freights. The Pepperell
mill in Maine has just divided $500,000 in
dividends and has 1,000,000 left.
Five National Labor Unions have been
holding sessions during the past two weeks.
The Printers at Buffalo, the Shoemakers at
Brockton, the Ironworkers at Pittsburgh,
and the Machinery Workers and Miners at
Cincinnati. There were 200,000 shoemakers
said to be represented through 150 delegates
at Brockton, Mass. The Ironworkers had
180 delegates.
There is a widespread movement among
the Knights of Labor for separate trade as
sociations. The Harnessmakers will want
jne ; the Ironworkers have organized for one,
and the Coopers, Painters, and Decorators
insist on sepai ate control. Numbers of other
crafts are asking for a separate room in the
order, where they can talk things over among
themselves without interruption.
Making Liquor Selling Disgraceful.
The other day news came that the Missouri
Masons were to enforce a rule excluding from
their order all saloon-keepers. The action of
this most powerful of secret societies, suple
menting tnat of the Knights of Labor and all
temperance societies, cannot but have a
mighty influence in the right direction. You
cannot prevent men from selling liquor by
making the act disgraceful. It is a fact that
occupations the most debased have always
been willingly followed if the pecuniary re
ward were large enough. But you can pre
vent young men from associating with those
upon whom society has put its ban. )Vheu
you make liquor selling disgraceful, yott1
make the saloon even less respectable than it
is at v resent as a place of re sort.
House-Keepers,
GREETING.
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I am Offering all Kinds of
Household Furniture
AT BED ROCK PRICES.
Chamber Suits of Ten
Pieces at from $18-00
to $100,00.
I also keep a choice selection of pieca
Furniture, such as'
Bureaus,
Bed Slea'ds,
8afes and Buffets,
Lounges,
Tables,
Marble Top Tables,
Eoquet Tables,
Wash StaD-is,
Hanging Lamps,
Mirrors,
Paintings,
Chromos,
Oleographs,
Book 5 helves,
Hat Tacks,
Brackets,
Picture Frames,
Photo Frames,
Toilet Sets.
Stand Lamps,
Wood and Bottom Fine Chairs,
WTood and Lottom Oak Chairs,
Perferated Bottom Oak Chairs,
Cane Eottom Stool Chairs,
Cane rottom Rockers,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Peed
Pattan Pockers.
and
Also a Large Assortment of
Clocks, guaranteed good
TIME KEEPERS,
Baby Carriages of the Most Improved
and Stylish Make.
I also am Agent for the
LIGHT RUNNING, -
NOISELESS DOMESTIC
SEWING MACHINE,
Best in the World, which
I sell for Cash or on
the Instalment
Plan
EAST TERMS.
Every Machine Warranted.
But why dwell on the
subjectwhen proof
is so easy.
CALL AND III
I respectfully solicit tbo
Patronage of the Citizens of
Hyde, Beaufort and
Martin Counties,
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JRespectfully,
J
Main Street,
Washington, N. G.
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