North Carolina Newspapers

A SAILOR'S A senifltlilng while same up last night, It wiw uia mist, 1 wlt, or ruin. It ' -,1 about, flashed In and oat, k ..i4Ji:aUit the window pane, U was a hud, no doubt, so doubt, And n ill not come again. . And something beat with alow repeat,' Ami heavy swell, the old sea-wall, And sliriti and elear and piercing street. 1 tlioiixht I heard the boatswain'! ealL , The sails were set and yet, and yet, It way hid been no boat at all ' ' t. at BRED I' THE BONE; It was close on sundown when the V. S. A. despatch boat Speedy sighted and spoke Admiral Bralnerd's most westerly scout, the Denver,' protected iruisor; and the cruiser"! were the last American eyes Wat he was ever to- soe. In the northeast, leagues sway from San Domingo, the Ameri can liberation of which from continual Internecine strife had caused' the Eu ropean Alliance to declare war against the States, JBrainord was feeling for the enemy's powerful fleet, hoping to rUvert Us attention from the U.'S. A. ' Flying squadron swooping down , to flevstate the western coast of the mainland of Europe, and also secure the Windward passage against its ap proach on Domingo and Cuba. That " afternoon, acting on information ac curately supplied by the captain of the R. M. 8. Co.'a mallboat, tho ad. miral had flung his scouts, one after . the other, down Into the. southeast, Mid detailed the .quick-steaming Speedy for Santiago with despatches, Ind to speak . the Westerly scouts, when encountered, with orders to re join the main body of the fleot (''Lin. lt.i,Anf nnfttntf ta 11UIV SiltllS IICUIQUBU,, bB ,w ntmoRt mil nf har Ann nnelnnn and sweaty-browed engineers and firemen, . sighed contentedly .when he looked at Ihe speed dial. Another four hours at , lghteena-half gnots should see him. In harbor. He also found relief in the thought that Lieutenant Durey would 'l'"n bp In hospital. "Poor follow," he s he wlpod the wet-off his -irs. "Batter a shell in. id end up lielow, in the little Warn ped ward room, Durey ' was writhing In a fresh attack of agony. : A suffocating sob .burst, from him; -he dug his elbows Into his knees.- With, his face sup ported between his hands he let him self swing like an automaton to the vessel's Jobbling. - S excruciating were the flames of pain within his I breast that It was a 'if a thousand nerves, raw, vibrant, and exposed, were being plucked out by their roots. He gritted his teeth together to hinder -himself from shrieking. Sweat beaded his heavily-lined brows and trickled down over the twitching ashen-gray cheeks. Gasping thickly, he threw himself back, shut his eyes, . - and stiffened ms mnscies., ; ' Then suddenly his anguish fled away. For a minute or two lie sat there, panting with exhaustion, ' his . body limp and shaken; but a lurch and weather roll made him secure himself in a safer position beside the table. He wondered with fear, when the next - attack would recur; then the jumpy, tumbling movements of the hurrying boat dlverteiUr''Tht' oat, carefully nursed through tlie Calces Passage by her . tired officer), hurled herself up the dark; seething slopes Hashing dimly with kindling phosphorus, heaved her self across the widening troughs and smashed down a growing sheaf of sea, she jarred and groaned and quivered in every inch of her rigid hull. But Durey was oblivions to the " many voiced turmoil. Within his brain jost ling thoughts were making a noisier hubbub. He sat there looking dully at th shielded glow-lamp, his squar ish hetid sunk between tne even snoui. , dors, and his thin, long-fingered hands gripping the "Addle." Lieutenant Durey was of slender build, unfiled for much hardship or physical stress. Nothing but his high- spirited nature hod enabled him to withstand the pungent seasoning of the gun room. However, bis seafaring ancestry had bestowed on htm a torn--perament fearless of the elements f to him at sea it came as mere routine to cope with and bear the weight of the greatest -elemental danger. From the female, side ot his family stock was' the taint developed In him- his Ineradi cable abhorrence ot physical suffering. At school his cowardice of a caning had earned the contempt of other and tardy lads. However, as years had passed and his physique Improved, he had partly lost this squeamish nicety of feeling, and through his profession had become hardened to the thought ot possibly experiencing it some day. . Nevertheless, this blemish was not wholly eradicated, and, making him look constantly ahead to a state of war, It had covertly Inspired his with drawal from the servl.e, . , However, when the rumor of war spread In the land, Durey had offered his services again. He was comfort ably married by this time, with a charming wife and babes;' and until the very last moment had enter tained a vague Innerly hope that his wile or his parents would offer some strenuous opposition to his re-servlng, some opposition to which he could tiorably how the head. To their God n had to join his ship. ,?MMiiUclutchlug the "fid 't, he admitted", mentally, a secret gladness at his being !o sick-bay ashore. While tho flagship the spectacle of ' (Tory, living things, once in uy f-hpjf j hi- men, brought aboard out ot 1 riii-or, had revived all aie alihorrence of,suffer!ng. .i I , too, had suffered i!f(-;itIr.rn the sudden attack of his ; t - '.ili of an inioiniil tumor deveJon4, by ti's exposure to wet mid cold wh.'.von mine-field duly In Hampton Rmi H .'urv"ons had !.f ' 'i (1 in (1, .. o V " ' i.ii il, SUMMONS. Snt If tonight a aall should lean, From out fie dark and driving rain, You must not hold me bank nor weep, For I mast nil a trackless main, . To find aud have, to bold and ketp, ' What 1 have sought so long In Tain. I need no (hart ot sea nor sand, ; Nor any biasing beaoon star, :.. My prow against wild waves shall stand Until It euts the blessed bar, And I ma up the shining strand Where my lost youth and Mary are. i Flavla Bosser, In The Criterion. . J Unci scampering of naked feet over head, the deepening throb and thud of quickened machinery took his atten tion. With a curse at his infirmities of mind and body he switched oft the light, staggered to the ladder,-and slowly clambered on deck. As he drew his legs out of the companion, the boat made a steep dip; hastily banglng-to the hatch, Durey grabbed a Ufe-line and stared about him. The night was heavy with the men. ace of storm. Though a myriad stars. gleamed ahead, the. horizon to wind ward was obscured with cluods. The strong bead-wind blew wet and sharp with spray that stung the lieutenant's throat and nostrils like, line salt With A start of surprise he saw the men wore standing by at quarters, and amidships torpedo gear was being rap Idly adjusted abeam. ' Gulping down an exclamation was It of fear or amazement? he staggered forward to tho bridge. .. , . As he climbed Its ladder a swirling bunch of tea meeting the port bow splashed over the forecastle .and bridge -aeathewsloths. Contact with the chilly gout of spray restored Dur ey's self-control. The drenched sub. was clearing his eyes, when he ob served him, "Hollo, sir," -cried he, In a voice charged with excitement, "would y' not be better below. She's throwln' a . lot of water aft. Bridge's like a mill-sluice " ' "No.good drlvin' her, I reckon. She's - " - vv,re than she's makin' over 18 grunted, "wny ve tfiOTnv-! jis hiblnocu- V grunted. "Why 're UlC-N. "It's' Civ. terrunicd uieTrnv iis lara, and shootlugV ,ih arm west-by-south. "Four, blajabats. Overhauling ns, I guess, tofWe'U flght, though. If It comes to that Sorry didn't report, sir. 1 was waiting till there's more certainty about then. Durey steadied himself and took a long look at the distant strangers head ing down on their port quarter. "They're none of ours. What are they doing there? I just reckon the leading beat 'a a smartening, an H take some llckin'," he snapped out, quick'as his heart was beating. The acting lieutenant nodded empha tically. "That'a my way of thlnkln'," he screeched against the flurry of wind. "The look I got, before that streak of cloud came up, gave them away. Guess the Alliance have run out a flyln' squadron also. Keen look outs ,they must have. They've sighted us. They shifted nine points to the weat'ard, and ptit on speed, Looks as If they know something about us," "ThevjyjaWrfT'the pass as we teared the Calcos. Running for San tiago and the transports," cried Dur ey, and snatched the binoculars out of the lieutenant's hands. As he stared at the enemy, envy, vehement and despicable, swept into Mm, for well h'e (mew the Speedy's commander was cool and collected, while It was himself who was growing flurried and painfully , apprehensive. Was he a coward physically as well as morally, he asked himself, and In stantly was eating his heart In bitter ness at his Inborn pusillanimity. He was moving to the binnacle when a sharp cry broke from the acting lieu tenant, "By the Powers, they've opened fire!" and (be smothered report al most overwhelmed his voice. There was 'a volcanic eruption of red-hot splinters and sparks amldshlp as the nlght-spont projectile' flopped against the base of the - mainmast, crashed through the deck, and wrecked every thing In the after-part of the vessel. . Durey recovered himself from the port bridge-rails against which he had been hurled with the sudden toppling of the thrashed hull. The actlne lieu- "Want lay In a bloody heap beside the wheel, and from aft came shrill cries and hoarse yaps of tortured bodies , For the moment he winced, and felt a hopeless feeling possess him, but the next he was bendinj over his In sensible junior. A second 'projectile rtcochetted over the seas wide to star board, sending up great showers of snowy brine visible in the night; a third plunged short by 10 feet oft (he port quarter. The enemy could play a good game at long bowls. "Bear a hand, here; some of you forecastle men," Durey ordered. "Aft;, there, report the wreck," as, with the poor "loaning lump of humanity In his arms, lie tried to stanch the flow of blood from the mangled arm and ribs. Jagged segments' and splinters of steel make ugly wounds. . Warm, sticky blood smeared his hands and wrists; it made him feel very sick. Disgust swept through him at his own weakness, and with tender but shaky hande he bound up the ghastly lacerations. Only a little more, and the acting lieutenant would have been evlscorated. As Durey turned from assisting the seamen to lift him down the ladder, the tight feeling in his throat" became more choking' when he realized that the enemy -were now visible to the naked eye. The flashing from the foremost vessel's bow chaser struck his senses like a blow, though not an 01 her thot hit his vessel. Between D700 and 000 yards distant he was fmm the lending cruiser. Four points oft the bow Great Anagua bfan to loom low and IndMhu't In the dark ness for the "qually wind chopping about had cleared the starry heavens of cloud and the thin dp- !e of rain. 0'i 'i' 1 r -d tho Fm cdy, thnw i. 1 ' k (' r- t tsw, ,-j.l i . i i " Lieutenant Durey had returned to the bridge from attending the wound ed. Though pain gnawed at him he gave no heed tojt. Sense of the re sponsibilities now lying jn his shoul ders had revived his self-respect and Induced an Obliviousness to suffering hitherto foreign to him. He was streaming with salt water, and his .eyes and nostrils were stung with brine and the salty -northeast wind that roared and eddied about, smell ing of the doepMgray Atlantic surges and storm-filled weather, ; Its sharp tang permeated his brain, It reviv ified the dominant Instinct of his stock. z,'".1, , Durey was transfigured by its mag ical Influence. His face settled In stubborn- lines; a grim joy lightened It; his weak, sensuous lips became hard as Iron bars, He had the omnipotent look, of the man who goes forth to death, knowing it Is the best flght of -all. -v Crash went ' a heavy projectile through tho cap of the port smoke stack, and smoke and flarr.3 poured In a lurjd cloud to windward. ' As Durey threw a defiant look at the cruiser again spouting fire, the second artificer reported water ' rising fast in the after stokehold. The projectile which had wrecked tho after-part ' of the boat must have started some plates. Durey now had no hesitation. Ho. bent over the bridge rail. "On deck, there. Tho gunner :' to the bridge. Calmly and Incisively he Is sued his orders. Then "Up helm" electrified the gun crows, yet their hoarte cheering brought no change ta their officer's iron-clad expression; his voice but rang tho harder and more despotic as be gave the sighting ranges to torpedo and gun. For his line had claimed hlm'heart and soul, - Who can tell , how many fierce hearted forebears' blood sang joyous ly In his pulsing body at he thrust his weak vessel against the enemy, now opening a terrific cannonading? And what thoughts thronged his clutter! souses as tne rour great, , tnirmumnjj cruisers loomed large upotkrrfsTbows, Who, of his forebcanw-fjialmod " him then? ' It was not UW the war was over that the Sjjswdy'g fate was known.- The Citteirtoa. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. P. J. Kent was operated on In a Chi- hospital the other day, and from his bftHwu taken a knife blade one and orNjiNarter inches long. The blade hauYbeen. in his skull for 22 years, andlslnce that time he had been subject to What were supposed to be epileptic seizures. A subllme)tacle was witnessed a few weeks ago In' a Tyrolean valley near Tannheim. A violent storm arose suddenly, and many globes of lightning rolled over the surface of the lake. Then a column of water, 30 feet hlgX rose from the middle ot the lake, and from its top small flashes darted. The spectacle lasted three minutes. Electric lamps cannot only be made to talk, but also to sing. An ordinary sound by placing the arc In the circuit of a telephone 'instead of the ordinary receiver or Instead of the ordinary transmitter. In either of these posi tions it will pronounce words, which can be hearddlstinctly at a considera ble distance. It naturally follows, also, that the electric car can be utilized as the receiver and also as the transmitter of .the telephone. v ., . - ' Piles ' of the rather unusual length of 110 feet 'were recently used In con structing the fender piers lor the Thames river swing bridge, at New London, Conn. This length was so cured by splicing North Carolina piles from 69 to 65 feet long with spruce piles from 35 to 40 feet Some of these plies wer driven In 50 feet of water. They were all used to replace piles driven in 1889, which had. been almost entirely eaten away by the teredo. A petition, signed by S00O persons, says the Naples correspondent ot the London Express1, has been presented to the Italian government, asking for a pension ot 72 per annum to be conferred on a wamon named Madda lena Oranetta, who hassglv9fc birth to 62 children 69 boys and three girls during her married life. In nine years she presented -her husband with .11 sets . of triplets, three groups of quad ruplets, one group of six, and the other 11 children came singly.' She ts now, 57 years old and incapable ot work. The greatest egg-laying competi tion on record has just been concluded In New South Wales, under the manage ment of the state government Forty one pens there were six pullets of one breed In a pen competed and the competition lasted for a period of six months. Black Ornfnsrtons showed in. .comparably ,the best results all through. The New South Wales poul try breeders have now sent a chal lenge to the United States, inviting breeders of laying strains to forward three pens ta compete with three local pens under the same conditions. " The Volt r Vole. What constitutes the vulgar voice t In an article In the London Spectator a writer concludes that this evidence of vulgarity "springs, like almost all vulgarity, however displayed, chiefly from two causes an undue love ol consplcuousness and an undue fear pi the same." The person whooe chief aim Is to keep himt-elf or herself la the eye of the world rarely makes a remark without desiring that it shall reach the ears of others besides the one. directly addressed; and here the peculiarity of false sound of the voice Is attributed to the absence of slng'o ness of motive. . On the other hand, the wavering tone' and affected accent of the timid vulgar atSS ascribed to another form of Insincerity, namely, the wish to imi tate others wiih whom one bap-.e'ij la be, whr-rt they are of a snrpo e I!y hitler s , HI !,!',! t .;. T, a'tcnipt it r,h to lul, ai.d .o j, nit only in to n c f pll ( o of ), A SERilON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "A NOTE OF WARNING.? The Bev. Ur. J. Wilbur Chapman Bejolees . That the BIbU GIym Instances of Fail ure to Sexra M an Inspiration How to Avoid Similar UlstokM, New Yons Cirr.--The following sermon entitled, "A Note of Warning." was Breached by the great evangelist, the Bev. r. J, Wilbur Chapman, It is to the praise of God that He has in His word given us repeated instances of men who have fallen, that they might serve u a warning and their very failure be an inspiration to us to avoid similar mistakes. One can not rend the story of Adsm and Kve without getting s glimpse both of the power of Satan in his over throw of our first parents and the tender ness of God as He cried out in the cool of the day: "When art thou?" We ran not study the life and character of Nosh with out being impressed with the fact that a man might be used of God to-day, then to morrow wander away so far from Him as to make grievous mistakes. The whole of the Old Testament is a cry to those who have wtndered away from God to return. In their wanderings we get our lessons, and in God's cry wa havo certain evidence that though we may have sinned, yet Ha is always ready to put our sins away from Him and frelii s. :. . . One af the best illustrations in the Old Testament, lo inv mind, is that of Saul. He made a splendid appearance as a king. When the people demanded a king God lent Samuel to look one out, and he found Saul, whose appearance was kingly. If nothing -else recommended him to the throne this did. The firsf thing Samuel id was to pour the anointing oil upon his bead,, which was an indication that God was taking him for His own, and thus separating him from the world. A little later we read that the Spirit of the Lord same upon Saul, and it looks as if he must have been tilled with Iiis presence, and must hare fulfilled the highest expecta tions of the people. A little further on in his history the man of God appea: him. saying: Uod is with thexT thou mighty man." And we havej" a to the conclusion, as we look unanr jhat it is indeed true, and whaurthaV I Cl7 out for the king anoVft&til is Cilla forth, he stands head tufa shoulders abofe the men gatlieredjrrfuut him, and involuntarily the peoplfcrWhen they look upon him, art d to such enthusiasm Mint flier snout, i "GOD SAVE THE KkiG.'' Afterward, when he went ti) Gibeah. .then gathered around him 'lAband of men whose hearts God had Vuiiched." Thus the story goes on, with SauTTtsllfg ever higher and higher in the papular es teem and favor. Yet in the end,' and in the face of it all, he blackened the pages of the Old Testament, mij. the ruling of bis kingdom a failure, and di?d by his own hand really, in the sight of God, a mur derer. . . One cannot read such a story as this without trembling, and it is for each one of us to-day that the Bible was written, that we might know God, and that we might know ourselves, j I have learned from this story of Saul, the king, that it it possible for one to be born of the Spirit, really to be saved, and to be saved forever, and yet - MISERABLY FAIL in the sight of God. I remember preaching in one of tht eities of Indiana. For four days She church wot crowded, but a crowd is not an indi cation of a blessing. Not infrequently tht Sresence of a crowd is an indication ol efeat, for preachers are apt under such circumstances to put their confidence in men, rather than in God. During all tht four days not a hand was lifted for prayer, nor a single indication given that there might be an awakening on the part of the Christian people. The field I was next to labor in seenied quite ready for the har vest, and in the preparatory services many, people were being saved. I called the min isters of the Indians city together and asked them to give me ihe privilege of closing my engagement with them, that there woa tome barrier in the way of the working of God's Spirit, and that I felt when X preached as if J was bound with chains. After a. little conference one of the ministers requested that the decision be withheld for a little, that he felt sure that he knew where the difficulty was. As the leader ot our force, of personal work ers we had one of the members of this minister s church, a man well known throughout .his own State, and a judge of one of the highest courts. Somehow it teemed that when this man passed tkroucth the audience he sent a cold wave over the people. From the conference ot ministers the pastor of this church went into the office of this old judge and said to him: "I have been hearing rumors; on the Streets for a long time that your life it not clean, and I have come to say that if these rumors are untrue I desire ta take some public stand with you to contradict them, bnt I have also come to say that if they are true I will stand nearer to you than a brother, and help you to get free from the power of your besetting sin." ' The old judge looked a moment at him, and then put his head on his arms on the desk and sobbed out: "They are all true, and more" In a raqment they were on their knees In prayer, and it was but a moment more before the old judge rose a delivered man, free from the power of his sin. I was just lifting my hands to pronounce the benedietion at the close ot an afternoon service when the church door opened and the old judge came in. Having lifted his hand to ask permission to speak he made this statement: . f "My trjends, I have been known for years as one of. the members of the church and as an officer of the church, but for a long time my life lias been robbed of its I tower and my soul of its peace. LShave ost my influence in my home, and I fear almost altogether in mjr city. But I have gotten right with my minister, and right with God, and I have come to ask your for giveness,' - " The confession Was made with sobs. There was no benediction pronounced that afternoon. The people all filed out one way. Some took the hand of the judire to say "God bless you," some to say nothing, but to pass with tear-wet'eheeks and burn ing hearts. But when the evening service came, and the sermon had been preached there was a remarkable change. The at mosphere seemed like heaven. Fully fifty people pressed their way to the front to accept Christ as their Saviour. The first man to come wiis the old judge, with his arm around a poor lost man, who was hopefully saved. In less than six days more than 600 people eaine pressing their wav into the kingdom. There were several reasons why Saul fell. In the first place, he was jealous of Da vid; it aroused alt the hatred in his soul to see David beloved and honored, while these things had been denied to him. "ilut It is not the end of his sin. It really seenn as if jealousy mvt have been born in hell; if one has the seed cf it in his na. ture he is somehow compelled by a forct e ran-flara.7 resiSTto jo aeqr rntg tut evil, ' In the second place we find Sunt destroy ing the Lord's truest friend. How true rl is that when we have committed one sib and failed to make that one right, the rest become easy, not infrequently almost s delight. . , - In the third place we find him snoring Agag and the part of his dork. He the king with lying upon his lipsl This sin becomes very easv. If we allow the corrup tion of two- or three days to lie in our souls without being cleansed how and the resullnl No one oiicht to close his eves at niL'ht until he lins absolutely made curtain that nil of the sins ot the day have hvei waxnitil away in . the precious luood ol Christ. - T"i last 'we see of foul i when he falls tinnn lua. sword and takes Ins own lite a t i. r in t lit ot liod a-id in tiio S 1 t Of TltJHl. bm n a iul. In the very bfrinnmj of it y. u " to r t t! " ! 'i t "i i"t ii t 1 B 1 t t y ! ,. t f t l I f ti realljr flis judgment scat ot rjnnst, wnen we are to receive the reward of the deeds done through the body. It it not a tunc when we are judged for sin, for the sin question was all settled at the cross fur those who accept Jesus Christ. It is not to be confused with the dav of jndgment spo ken of in the twenty-fifth chapter of Mat thew; and certainly it is not identical with the irreot White throne judgment presented in the twentieth chofjter of Kevcation. It it simply the day when the Master, before whom the, records of our lives ore Inid bare, shall give to lit the reward for our faithfulness, or express Hi estimate of our faithlessness. . ,-, ,,. ' , I con tee the Master, with His people gathered before Him. A name is cubed th.t is familiar, and I see that one stand ing before Him with great expectancy. Then the. Mister speaks- with that voice that John tells us sounds like the flow ot many waters, that voice that stilled the tempest tossed sea, and caused Lairus to' breiik the bonds of death. I hear Him speak. The crowns are beinf lifted up. and the first one is the crown of life, . j hear Him say; ' . "This is given to b. one who hat done little things well for My glory, or to the one who has suffered Jot My sake, You might have had it, but you failed in your own home, You had no testimony for your own circle of friends. A kind word you might have spoken, but you left it unsaid. The cup of cold water was nJver given. You might have had the crown of life, but it has been taken by-another." vv I see Him hold aloft the second crown. "This," Ho says, "is given to the one who his done hard work for Me. i suf fered the nains of ' Gethsemane eiu'tss mockings ot the crowd, and thevewipes ol the Roman flagellator, and J'yb pains of hell upon the cross.. T!h" n is for the one who ha endured al) -us if only My cause might have b tdvanced. But alas) when-there rcfa time when the church seemed nb it to move forward you opposed it. Vnen thousands of souls might bav bettf converted your prejudice against the wojrk of the Holy Ghost -j v BLOCKED THE BLESSING. You mighthave had the crown, but an other hastaken it." -. - ; I sewTHim hold aloft the .third crown, lendent with jewels. All the angels out aloud: ' . . Thi is the soul-winner s crown." here ha always been toy in the pre enes of the angel of Uod over those re deemed from . , n . "You might have had this crown, but a'asl ' your culture, your intellectual strength and your social position never won a soul for Me. The members of your own household wer led into My kingdom by others. . Tho people in your own store did not know you were Mine." . . I ' remember once holding a series of meeting in Paris. Illinois. In walking down the street with one of my assistants I heard him talking with a young man, asking him to be a Christian, but he made no impression upon him, I heard him say, "Your mother wants you to become a Christian, doe the not! ' And the young man began to cry. Then I heard him tsk, "Your father; wants you to become a Christian, docs he not?" And there was no answer. But soon 1 heard him make this statement: "My father is ah officer in the church and my mother is a leader in the work of the women's society in the church, but neither of them ha ever, spo ken to me about my soul." ; I believe many a father and mother will stand before the Judge on the great Say of awards and hear the words: , "You are orownless. Your children were not taved, or if they were, in their salva tion you have had no part. You-might have had this crown, but another ha taken it."- - I can see Him holding aloft the fourth crown, the crown of glory. I can hear Him fiicture how ono came into the church rom great depths of sin; how his constitu tion had been undermined by trs power of an evil life; how lie had been saved hy -the power of God and cheered by the warm hand clasp and the sympathising word, and brothers sympathy to hold out to the end, And I can almost bear Him say: "Such an one sat beside you in church and walked with you in the streets, or in the store, or possibly lived with you in your home, and yoa said never a word. Yon let him slip away from fellowship with Christ and when he wandered yon exclaimed hi surprise: 'I expected no more.' " t . I can catch the tones of Hit voice, a 'He says! s "You might have had this crown, but another ha taken it." . - - I tee Him hold aloft the fifth and last crownthe crown of righteousness.. I bear Him say: "Did I not promise that I would come again? Had not I written it over and over again in the book! Wa not line added tp line, statement added to statement, that in like manner as I went away I should come back? Were not aH the prophecies of My coming fulfilled, even to the last de tails of Mv life, My suffering and My death! Did you not nave faith that if ono prophecy was fulfilled the other might have been fulfilled also?" t And then that crown, which it to m the most beautiful, the brightest and the best, is held aloft for a moment, dasilir in its glory, and I hear Him any: . "You might have had this crswn, but another ha taken it." - We may miss the five crowns by onr un faithfulness, yet we may be saved, "so at by fire." But one thing must be: we must tee Him face to faee. -' In the city of Indianapolis a celebrated Quaker minister told me of a friend whose child had been born blind. He was brought to Indianapolis, and this Quaker waa asked to find a specialist who would successfully treat him. Such an one was fisnd. Whon tho operation bad been ltnishcd he announced thai tho boy would certainly see, and sure enough ho opened his eyes. His first glance rested upon hit mother, whom he had neer known but by finger touch. The mother bent down to see if she was to be recognized, crying out: "Oh. my eon! my ion! ' The bev gated at his jnother, and when be knew her. cried out: y ' "OH, MOTHER, 18 THIS HEAVEN?" It shall be heaven for ut when the scales shall be taken from our eye and the veil that dim our vision shall be removed, and we shall see Him face to face. We may miss every crown mentioned in the New Testament, but we cannot fail to see Him. I do not know if there can be sadness in heaven, but what feeling will it be that will take possession of us when we heat Him say: "You might have had the crown, but another has taken it?" What feeling will it be that shill possess at when we hear Him lav: "Well done, good ana faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord," and we shall have the five crowns, and . A GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE! . Downward. . The man who continues downward only Accelerates his own movement and return becomes more and more difficult. The Rev. J. C. Smith. NO ANIMAL LIKE IT. In the Berlin' Zoological Garden tfiere Is now ail animal which is whol ly unlike any other In the world. It is the offspring of a female puma from the Argentine Republic and of" a male leopard from India. The owner of a menagerie in Germany obtained thnpe two animals some time rko, and as he had only one cafi unoccupied he put the two into it. At On t bo afiald that they would quarrel, b,it th. y ho camo good friends at ones and so l.e al lowed them to reiiii'-iii In the o. Ore morning a little cub was born, and it waa supposed to bo an ordinary puma. In a few week!, however, It row n,b!i a lrop'ud quite as n u. V q a pi ma, pd Hun t' e . 'i l i known! BILL ARP'S LETTER Bartow Man Throws Mora Light Upon Some Little Known Facts, TEE CAREER OF PATHFINDER F2I HONT Bill Dldnt KnoW that Cradle of American Liberty Was. Built , ' with Money Made In the Cray die of American Slavery, ; A little scrap from Tha New York World put me to thinking. A certain Englishman named Hobson lectured Sunday night in Philadelphia on ethics and asked If it was right to accept charity from ill-gotten gains or from such men as Carnegie, Rockefeller ana Rhodes, who made their fortunes by monopolies and trusts and crushing out the small dealers. ' The editor of The World answers, "If charity money is to be scanned and dlslnfectea where shall the process KoThall we'boycott Faneull hall, the cru.Xof liberty," becauso It was built f rofs- "fits, the blood money of Peter Fauuu Slaves? 'The Jolly Bachelor' and truis Have trade ana selling beads iud wfRered rwns to the Indians? YThese were the baus oi many New England fortunes nsjMo I Ing used for generous purpoBos, J are inclined to say let charity hV , what lt,can get. The more sinful tht. channel through which fortunes have; come the better It Is that It should now be diverted to good uses. Luther said It was folly to let the devil have all the good tunes." That is gooa aoctrin irinev "God sent It, but the devil brimght t has good foundation. But I dldr know thatUbe cradle of American erty was built with money made In the cradle of American slavery. Appleton says that prior to. 1776 New England bad brought from Africa over 800,000 slaves and sold them further south, and for awhile they were In such de mand that the negro traders in Massa chusetts seized and sold the young In dians ' who" had strayed too tar from their wigwams and actually stole and carried away and sold the son of King Philip, an Indian chief, who was at peace with' the whites. But what would not a people do who would burn or drown women as witches as they did at Salem T . My friend from Oregon seems anx ious to handle my book and sell It, but Insists that t shall make more proof that General Grant was a slave owner and hired them out until the surrender, I referred him to Grant's biography, written by General James Grant Wil son, who was chosen by Grant to write it If bis people will not believe blm, neither would they believe If one rose from the dead.- The trouble Is that most ot 'his people are either foreign ers or of foreign, birth and don't know anything of ,Amei-& history. The L truth ts our people are profoundly lg- ndrant ot the history of their fathers and forefathers. Not one In a hundred know that Georgia was the first stats that prohibited the African slave trade. Pennsylvania sold negro slaves at sher iff's sales as late as 1843. New Eng land abolished slavery long betoro, but continued the Importation from Africa on the sly. until 1861. Our people bought them because they were profit able In the cotton fields and In the cul ture of rice and sugar cane. For twen ty years before the war our best people wished to abolish slavery, not a an act of humanity, but because they were Increasing so fast and were In the vay of poor white men and were demoralis ing to the sons of the rich and their amalgamation with the whites was a visible curse In many families, And so Joseph Henry Lumpkin, our chief Jus tice, began a correspondence with Hen ry Clay about bis scheme of gradual emancipation. Hy father and many others co-operated with the plan, but the malignant threats of the abolition ists smothered It lnr Its birth. The other day I hxd a social call from some northern gentlemen, and as the sub ject of the war Incidentally came up a solid veteran happened to mention something about Fremont and said ha knew him very well, tor he was the first man he ever voted tor and that he served under him during . tba war. Well, said I, do you know where he was born? No, he did not up north somewhere. "No," said I, "he was a Georgian born in Savannah, educated In Charleston. His father was a Erenchman, ' bis mother a Virginia lady. The boy was a fine scholar, but unruly and disobedient. Became a tu tor' in mathematics, was appointed lieu tenant of engineers and with Nicola Nlcolet made a topographical survey of Cherokee, Georgia, In 1838, (E3 first that ever was made. My northern friend was amazed. No, we don't know very much until we get too old to make our knowledge Ubeful. Fremont was a .very remark able, man. As an explorer he- never bad an equal on this continent, not even Lewis and Clark, nor Kearney compassed halt the territory nor en dured half the perils that he dld.1 When his men died or deserted him he got more. When his Indian guides re fused to go farther he wont on with out them. He was called the PaOv finder because he found new' paths. He was too restless to wait- for orders, but, like Andrew Jackson, just went ahead. lie ascended the the hlghont pouk of the Rocky mounlivlns. It is numod Fremont's po.ik and Is 15.500 f-.-t hlh'h. ' Vt fimin.'Vd with I'l.Il kenrncy and h.'nny b id b'm nrr-f.t-xi and suit to V.i i.ii ton. v'.ii he g triod mi dtt.t r. k ; tl.'H li I '-i-i i -i a i 1 f d K'l!!j 1 lrm. d'j I fiT pi. : 1 1 .i f , but Vi i' "! aft' t t ( tin A 1m 1 e 1 1 sad ordered btm to Washington. Hs was, offered other eommands, but re fused them and was retired from sa liva service. . After the war be con cluded to build a railroad from Teiar. arkana to El Paso and got the state of Texas to give him a liberal grant of land along the entire route of 800 miles. ' He went to Paris with this grant and agreed to come back und Is sue bonds on. It and get the United States government to indorse the bonds. He got the money and built the road, but failed to get the United States government to Indorce tht bonds, ' The French bondholders never found this out until their money was all spent. Then they bad him arrested and bound over to court to be tried for fraud. When the court came on he did not appear, but forfeited his bond. How it waa finally settled the record does not tell. He was a wonderful man and never got tired of the eiclte. meat that nourished him, and bis wife stuck all" the closer to him ourlng his trials. She was. a wonderful woman, and was' beloved and admired by all who knew her. Chauncey Depew said be knew of one school where twenty seven girls were named for her. On the whole am obliged to admlrt Fremont's character and he was I Georgia. BILL ARP, In Atlanta Constitution. LABOR WORLD. Uncle Sam employs nearly 7500 wom en in the ..various departments at Washington. A musicians' union Is the latest ad- vlltlmi tn thA rnnlra nt ArD.ntrlv.0,1 lnhoi Qulncy, III. VU aria restaurant cmjalrysVnu iv)iave doubled thelBr'meniberthlj) W Uanuary 1, 1 002. f VldKcwt't, Conn., 200 buffers, sb-ui -inul platers, who struck six have voted to return to Broom makers recently won a strike for an Increase iu wages at Des Moines, Iowa, gaining nn Increase of twelve per ceht. Since the craft became organized steel and copper plute printers nt St. Louis, Mo., have secured Increases lu wages amounting to forty per rent., Tncoina (Wash.) carpenters will ask for an advance In their wages of seven aud a balf cents nn hour, or sixty cents a day of eight bours. They hare been receiving 3. At Strcllts, Austria; tho Government has ordered the different cities, towns and communities to provide pensions for their old schoolteachers, nud that no pension below $25 a year should be offered, .' . ; . All the women teachers In the Port age Xa Prairie, Manitoba, schools, ex cept one, have gouo on strike to en force a demand for better wages. - The teachers are supported by practically every leading man in town. ' The Ilusslau workers seem to have scored a victory at Rostoff. They have received arrears of pay, have obtained the ; dismissal of the foreman who caused the trouble, and have obtained a permit to celebrate holidays. . Girls for cheroot rolling are In great demand in Richmond, Va. While learn ing they are allowed $2.50 a week. Af ter six weeks' practico usually tbey are able to cam S4 to $5 a week, and when they become eipert they earn from fU to ?a week. - SPORTING BREVITIES. - Rochester, N. Y., Is to have a three-qunrter-mllc speedway. v Roller polo Is the leading winter sport In Massachusetts. ' Motor bicycle racing lias become a feature on European cycle tracks, v ; Fair progress ts being made In the construction ot the new cup yacht. Bend Or, the famous race horse and Derby winner, 1ms died In England. , : The Chicago racing season ot 1003 will begin at Lakeside on April 20 next. Crcsceus has trotted tbe Montgomery (Ala.) track In 2.07, breaking the. track record, - ' " - Morris Wood,?df Montclalr, N..J., has won he prin :lpal honors in the skating races ou Verona Lake, N. J. . The New 5 York National League Baseball Club will open Its prelimln. ary senson at tbe Polo Ground on April & - I',,,', AlthouglTSi as believed that Jim Murphy, the noteBvSouthern trainer, died poor, It has bcenSoiind since that be was worth about fCO.wq, The golf ?rnb.f the Mlclilgnri-.ljnl. verslty Is to have Its own links. ,Forrjt acres of ground adjoining Perry Field, at Ann Arbor, are to bo purchased. Henri Fournler, a noted chauffeur, has arrived In the United States from Europe, and has Issued a challenge fur nn automobile race to Alexander Win ton. Burt Downing, a brother of Hardy Downing, and tbe youngest of the trio of brothers, Is now the amateur cy cling king ot the Pacific coast, hnviug been undefeated this season. Young Downing Is nineteen, weighs lftl pounds and stands five feet ten inches. There will be an Invasion of Austra lia next full by a numben, of the lead ing cycle cracks of America, including Iver Lawson, Floyd McFnrland and Hardy Downing, sprinters, and several pace followers, with modern motors, Australia Is to have several coliseum cycle tracks, - - THE STARGAZERS. "Mary, what are you sitting out on that cold porch for? Don't you know It's eleven o'clock?" "George and I are looking for the comdt, ma." , "But the new comer Is not due for several nights." "Well we are In no hufry; Ma." Cleveland Plain Dealer. TO DEQIDB A BET. , '"You put me off of the car four blocks from my corner the other day," said the lady to the trolley conduct or. "Yes; I was very Borry, but I corldn't viny W'll help It," saUl the ronduiliir. "You s-e I ini''" al"U "n k man n t' 1 in t" .t a w in 1 v.-r I c t 111 I o I y ' ( I I 1 to c t.ie 1 La i NOT WHAT THEY SEEM " The Juggler may not be Inclined ' To dally with the jugs ' . The sinful smuggler may he Jutt -. The opposite of smug. The skipper Isn't always one n ho like the lambkin skip, ' And, with disguit, the waiters knew 7 ,ine tippler seiaom tips. B. E. Xlter, In Chicago Eecord-fleraldC" HUMOROUS, He "Won't you sit In this eholr;s Miss Spooner?" Miss Spooner Af ter you." v- T He "You should remember 4haWj ionslstency.ls a Jewel." She "Yes; but Jewelry Is so vulgar." "She's made a fool of that young fellow." "Well, she didn't have to' rconomlze on tbe raw material.' V.-- , ' , : Oyer "Bald beads remind me ,ot,v kind, words." 'Myer "What's the an-w swerf" Oyer "They eaa never, dye" f "It Is when a young man la in loveJVj . .. remarked the Observer of Events and , Things, "that he hasn't a single idea In1 his head." f ' " J ' ' . ui ' "How is your brother making out?" "Oh, he's ddmg a fioavlBuifts business."-' "Ah, indeed!" "Yes, he's a profas"( slonal card-writer." " " " " Old Party "Stick to your mother', ' my young frlendV His Young- Friend i "T will air Tt mits tn milfh til hn..J . -la,, a). a " Wtnl u Mil 1MW.Q G1DG. , Customer (emerging from bargain - counter crush) Help I My leg Is brok en! Floorwalker You will find the crutch department-:, ottjtha fourth, floor in the rear, f . msW..,i . UBual . Vtot'aMPepprey-T What's the . mater, tJholly? Yo look weary. Chol- ly well aw I was Just 'thinking-- aw PeppreyAli! no. wundes you're exhausted. ' Edna "Do you think your mar riage with Miss Lotta Coyne, tbe heir- ' ess, will have a pleasant outcome?"' Edward "I can't say but .the. thing t that attracts me is the income." . , '.-vf , . Hook "Miss Gottnx has a wonderful, memory for faces."." ' Nye-i'That,s ' right, I was engaged to her last sauawai mer at the shore, and today she actu ally bowed to me on tbe eteeeV't' "There Is a train of thought passing,, ' through- my head at this moment," said the self-appointed 'lectured "That's right," said Voice from th4 ! gallery; "you have wheels in youi head.'; . ""',-.,.1 ' ) "I'm sorry I can't accomnwfSllTO you," said the boarding-house keeper, "but we only take in Blngle. gentle' men." "What's the matter Jl asked , , , Weddman; "find the married ones too ' shrewd to be taken lnr' "'-- . Martha "That horrid' Mr. Roamez I . kissed me In the ball last night." Con- stance "You don't mean it!' How' did it happen?" Martha "It was pitch dark In the hall." Constance , "Ah, I see. That accounts for It, dear." ' Mrs. Tawkey "t hear the Popley'i ' new baby Is very delicate,". Mrs, O'Bull "Yes, It's an Incubus, youi know." Mrs. Tawkey "An Incubus?", Mrs. O'Bull "Yes; they hid to put 3 It in an Incubus to hatch It, Just like ; a little chicken.", , Miss N4irltchYeVTBdw? torwfis man, too." Miss Ascom "May Outwit met blm, too, and she declares he's an; actor, and a low comedian at that Miss Nurltch "Not at alL He assured me be was a Lord Admiral of the 3188 navy." . , .- 7s , 'i . m i' ' . ) b$f ' A Tetnl Blander. . v An insurance man of my acquaint ance ate hearty breakfasts, with meat and coffee, a hurried lunctr at noon, but also .with meat, and a hearty din ner at night He took'no exercise, always rode between house and office, became fat and bloated, -and bis blood became so overloaded that .he readily, succumbed to disease at forty-five. The wonder was that he lived so long." -lie waa a type of the average well-to-do citizen. Like blm, most of us eat too much. Diet should depend upon tern" ' perament and vocation. At bard work out of doors one requires more nutrfc ment than at sedentary labor Indoors A gradual reduction In diet, even an oc casional fast, will cure many ordinary lllav Add' dee? breathing, fresh air, body building 'Xffifaas i""V"r gun shine, wgtSrTnside and out, 811011". astonishing how much bettor one feclu. A friend past seventy, still hale ' and hearty,. to whom I. mentioned 4he fore7 going facts, remarked:. "That s right. II is a text upon, which a big book could be written. Most folks are sick through sheer ignorance, or want of sensc rath. er than because of Intentional abuse ol .any part of the organism, I was past forty before I learned bow to live. The doctors did not teach me I quit theii artificial methods, ' studied nuture't way, and lived in the manner you lit dicate." Good Housekeeping, . . ' Chleag Baelielors Spend Money. Bachelors are like any one el-ie, tli. y spend money when they have it," t.r's an Interview In The, Inter ',Oo" "Chicago bachelors live In a sornr-w i .t different manner from the ft'lio,n i.i New York, and their regular expen a are heavier, In Manhattan tfca boyi live In apartments and eat at the ' ; Here some of us at least keep uur own homes, have our servants, and. l i fact, run a regular establishment. '" 1 costs more money than the Now manner of living-. If a badiolor , ,i fad be can spend a good deal of mo In that way. His clubs cost him c thing, and perhaps he goes out slderably. A man could keep a f , about as cheaply, for a bachelor iti ; erally pretty fice with his mci , r if he Is not a spondthrilt" Prvnt I'.'. ' t in lr.n The ( -n.i"t i i is 0 Hun y f'i'iii w ' ',(.! 1 P!l''V t",'lll 0,1,' I j 1 1 . t of J ttnui, li.a d i I t i i