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The Georgia Enterprise.
OLUMEXXII.
The Giergia Enterprise.
A pfi -gressive Detnoorntic paper, pulr
liahed weekly at Covington, Newton
County, Georgia, terms, $1.50 i>er an
num, strictly in advance. Established
October 28th, 1 SC.S. Burnt out on
Augimt 31st. I MSI, and again on Decem
ber 81st, 1833. Botli times it went down
in ashes without any insurance.
Till: ENTEUPiUiIis an uncompromising
sdToouteuf tlie principles of Disorganized
and living Democracy of to-day.
While it grants equal justice to all
men bcforo the law, it luihls tliia to I't. a
White Man's Covernmeut, belonging to
him by the right of discovery—be
queathed to him by the blood and suffer
ing of the Fathers. None but Anglo
Saxon names were signed to the Declara
tion of Independence, and none bul
white men bled aad died to wrench thu
colonies from England’s cruel grasp, to
establish the proud young Republic of
America.
Upon theso issues the paper is wiling
to go before the public, asking no other
support than that which its merits de
serve. The paper will ho free and out
spoken on all questions of public interest,
and svill not endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous feat of "running with the hare,
and baying with the hounds.’’
In other words, The Enterprise. will
not be a “fence ridor” in any of the po
litical campaigns. Those who desire a
live newspaper, are earnestly requested
o give it a trial.
3. W. HAWKINS, Editor.
WITHOUT INVITATION.
Am Unceremonious Call Upon a
Family of Digger Indians.
; [From the Salt Lake Tribune. J
m ilo dashing furiously along I sud
denly felt myself sink into the earth to
my arm pits. At the same instant I
heard down in tho ground the shrieks
of human beings—women and children.
I felt hands clutch at my legs and rmki'd
bodies pressing against them. I utter
ed no sound—l was too much frighten
ed. I held my breath and shrank with
in myself. Every instant I expected to
have a knife or spear tlirust into my
body. My feet were on the ground, and
without knowing what I was doing, I
gave a strong push with my breast.
Ftoding something was giving way
I plunged forward and up a steep slope
Of two or three feet, when I found my
self bounding like a deer aoross the
level meadow with a great contrivance
of basket work suspended from my hips
and extending a yard or more on all
•ides. I looked for all the world as
ifll lad donned a huge hoop skirt. While
making a momentary halt, in order to
dioingage myself from the singular
machine hanging upon me, I east my
•yes backward and saw an old woman
and three or four naked children scram
bling out of the hole from which I lmd
jnat made my escape. Yelling at the
top of their voices, they dashed away as
fast as their legs could carry them, mak
ing for the nearest hills. By the time
I had pushed by basket skirt down to
my heels and stepped out of it, I saw a
dozen or more black heads emerging
from the earth in my immediate
neighborhood. Seeing the shaggy
heads popping up all about me, I darted
•way at a pace that must truly have as
tonished the natives. I think I must
have laft the village at least five miles
behind before I halted. I then threw
Blyself upon the ground too much ex
hausted to even lean mv gun.
“Was it one of their houses that you
had jumped into, uncle ?” here asked
a amnll boy who had been listening with
“all his ears.”
Yes, boy, the roof of one of their
huts Yout see the miserable root-dig
ging, frog-eating devils live in holes in
ine ground, just like so many wood
chucks. They make a kind of basket
work dome of willow which they place
oyer the hole and cover with grass and
earth by way of roof, and in hot weath
er they sometimes strew this roof with
green leaves as an additional protect
ion from the heat of the sun. The one
in which I plunged was so cohered, and
the frame-work being old and rotten /
popped through it easily enough.
IP TRAIN WRECKING
Ha4e Unpopular In Mexico, by Nliontinp
VhoMr Who Obstructed tbc Hallway.
A train ou the Mexican National Hail
road rail over anil killed a Mexican near
Patz euaro. Friends of the .dead man
undertook to retaliate, and put a big
rock on a curve. The engine of a pas
senger traiu struck it, and an American
engineer was injured and a Mexican tire
man killed. The Jefe Politico sent a
'quad of Mexican gendarmes with in
structions to bring in every person sus
pected of uny complicity whatever.
Tniity-three arrests were made. The in
vestigation resulted in the selection of
three victims, and sentence was imme
diately passe t. Shortly after sunrise on
•a recent morning the three were marched
to the scene of the disaster, stood up
before an adobe wall and a file of sol
diers, at. ten paces distance, fired a volley
at them. The men tell at the first tiro.
A sergeant stepped forward to the bod
ies, put a revolver close to each head and
blew out the brains. The corpses lay for
some time where they fell, as a warning
•••gainst more train wrecking, and were
buried near the scene of the wreck.
~ THE POPE AND K NIGHT*.
The Pope, after having examined Car
dinal Manning’s justification of Cardinal
Gibbons's memorial in favor of the recog
nition of the Knights of Labor by the
Roman Catholic Church, lias instructed
Cardinal Simeoni, prefect of propagandi,
to confer with these cardinals and settle
the question in accordance with the
views of the Vatican.
PACING A JURY.
Jtke Sharp, “the notorious” of New
York city, has at last been brought into
court on a charge of bribing officials to
pass the Broadway surface railroad.
BUSINESS BOOM.
Money Pouring into the South for Mills,
foundries, Railways, Etc.
Anniston Ala., is to have car anil lo
comotive works.
Union, 8. C. is to have anew cotton
factory, with a capital stock <3 #150,000.
Angus McGilvray will build the Tech
nological school at Atlanta, til., for
#43,250.
Chattanooga, Teun., is about to have
a first-class factory for building improved
fire a| paratus.
The new railroad from Strasburg, Va.,
to the West Virginia state line, will have
u capital of #1,000,000.
The John I‘. King'Manufacturing Cos.
of Augusta, Ga., has added to its cotton
factory 70 looms and 3,000 spindles.
The authorities of Crowley, La., de
cline to build a frame court-house and
will erect a substantial building of brick.
Muldrar Station, Miss., is going in for
a creamery with all the modern improve
ments. It will be run on the co-opera
tive plan.
The Etowah Iron & Manganese Cos.
have c mtr.uctcdwjth theCartersville, Ga.,
Land Improvement Cos. to erect a 100-ton
furnace during the summer.
So great is the demand for an extra
quality of brick, that a company with
#IOO,OOO capital starts in Nashville,
Tenn., to supply brick machines.
The contract to build the 70 miles of
the Atlanta & Hawkinsviile Railroad in
Georgia, has been let to S. L. James. It
is to be completed by January, 1888.
The Wclburu Hill gold mine, a few
miles south of Murphy, N. C., and near
the Georgia state line, is to be reopened
and worked by a company of Chatta
nooga capitalists recently organized for
that purpose.
In Savannah, Ga., a large amount of
building is going on or projected. The
Union Society and the Catholic Library
Association will each build a #25,000
building, a magnificent hotel is projected,
and a cotton oil seed company of Phila
delphia, will build a mill.
The report of the Elyton Land Com
pany, of Birmingham, Ala., is an account
of wonderful progress. Starting 15 years
ago with a cash capital of SIOO,OOO, it’s
show of comparison by last years’ sale of
lands of #4,8(16,955, and the present esti
mated value of the property is $15,000,-
000.
Under the auspices of the Patrons of
Husbandry, of Alabama, Tennessee,
Georgia, North Carolina and South Car
olina an Inter-State Farmers’ encamp
ment will he held at Spartanburg, 8. C.,
from August 2d to 6th, inclusive. The
object of tiiis gathering is mainly to bring
the farmers of these five states together to
consult about the most improved farm
appliances.
RECEIVED WiTK BRICKBATS.
O’Brien The Iriwh Editor Heriously Assailed
hi KliiffNton. < antwln.
When Mr. O’Brien arrived at Kings
ton, crowds of people greeted him as lie
stepped out ot the ear at the station.
’I he party was driven to the Barnett
I ouse, where a crowd had collected,
which heartily cheered. A battery of
the Dominion regular artillery corps was
held in readiness, fully armed and equip
ped, at ilie barracks. The Fourteenth
(Prince of Wales’s Own) Rifles were
massed at the drill shed on Union street.
Besides this a large number of special
constables were sworn in to aid the ordi
nary police force. On arriving at the
skating rink, where the meeting was held,
crowds —all O'Brien sympathizers—were
found gathered around the building and
alongside the walk. Not an opposing
voice was heard; not a suspicious or
rowdy-looking person was seen lurking in
any quarter. After the meeting had con
cluded, broken stones and cobble stones
then began flying like hail, women
screamed and general confusion reigned.
"Ah, they’re at it again,” said Mr. O'-
Brien in a tone of mournful regret more
than of anger. ‘‘Yes, yes,” roared the
mob, "there lie is! Drag him out here
on the street ; kill him ! choke him !
tear him asunder,” and then almost burst
through Mr. O'Brien’s body guard,which
consisted of American special correspond
ents ami local officials of the National
League. As the party doubled into
Wellington street, another shower of
bricks and broken stones came crashing
through the crowd.
The Canadian Freeman, an Irish-
Catholic organ, on Brook street, was
wrecked. Two hours had no%v elapsed
since the first attack was made, and no
body knew where Mr. O’Brien was. But
lie was at last discovered at the house of
I’eter Devlin. The latter quietly notified
the police, and a guard was sent to escort
him to the Burnett House. Mr. O’Brien
escaped into the house of an Orangeman
mimed Donnelly, who smuggled him
through his rear lot into Devlin’s prem
ises. After Mr. O’Brien was safe at the
hotel, the mayor oll'ered military and
police protection.
[SENSATIONAL SCENE IN CIIITKCH.
Rev. W. O. Pearson preached a ser
mon to tiie Episcopal diocesan council in
Omaha, and said that attempts had been
made, in the name of Catholicity, to
foist upon the church the doctrine of
Christ himself upon the altar in the bread
and wine. By those who fail to see that
it it were really true that Christ’s body
and blood were upon the altar, the wor
ship of them would be a blasphemous
denial of the incarnation and an idolatry
more awful than anv that could be con
ceived. Rev. J. Williams, of St. Barna
bas Church, Omaha, withdrew, saying
tlie speaker had insulted members of the
congregation by branding as idolatrous
points of a belief held by them as the
most sacred features of religious life.
RUFFLED HIS DIGNITY.
Tlie Archdeacon of Win jhester, who is
a very little man, while ihowing some
ladies over the grand old Cathedral re
cently, with the object of demonstrating
the monstrous size of the pipes of the
organ, which is in course of repair, crept
into one which lav on tlie floor. He then
stuck fast in the pipe. As he had the
kev of the cathedral in his pocket and
hail locked the door, the situation was
somewhat critical. At length, however,
the workmen engaged in repairing the
organ came back from dinner and extri
cated the venerable gentleman from his
predicament.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Mumps ami measles are still in
ami around Dawsonvillo, (la. The doc
tors Hay the measles arc of a very malig
nant type, and very dangerous. Some
have died from the effect* of it.
Green Rickernon, a well digger, who
is in jail at Macon, Ga., on a charge of
l i iig mm !"*d Harmon Brown, a
hurl, '.an, died of a complication of dis
eases. When Brown’s body was first
discovered, it was thought he was run
over by a train of cars, Imt Rickerson
was tried and convicted of his murder.
Augu fa, Ga.. capitalists had quite u
lively tim ’ n i the letting of the con
tract for the Augusta A Chattanooga
railroad. The executive committee of the
directors let the contract to a New York
syndicate, Blair, Boynton A: Cos.,
for $8,500,000 in bonds ami $8,000,000
in common stock, but the Georgia Con
struction Cos. will tight the matter in the
courts.
Several prisoners escaped from the
Dublin, Ga , jail, by burning out a patch
that had been placed over a hole,through
which Joe Weave, escaped some time
ago. Two remained in town, and report
ed to the sheriff in the morning for
breakfast, and were promptly locked up.
One of the prisoners was an escaped con
vict, who was captured near Dublin. He
had been identified by the sheriff from
Cochran, and was serving under a sentence
of ten years, and tiiis makes his third es
cape.
One of the grandest affairs that ever
took place in Kentucky, came off at Hop
kinsville, at the dedication of a Confed
erate monument.
Four colored convicts, at work on the
governor's house at Raleigh, N. C., made
a break for liberty; three were shot and
one escaped.
Rev. James W. Payne an evangelist
made a stand at Atlanta, Ga., and was
successful enough to attract th<* attention
of a lovely young lady, who wedded
him. The happy* couple will make Nash
ville, Tenn,, their permanent home.
New York capitalists purchased for
about $300,000, the Mobile, Ala., city
railroad, twelve miles of track, stables,
rolling stock, one hundred acres of land,
farm buildings, etc.; the Dauphin street
railroad, two miles track, stables, lolling
stock, etc., and Spring Mill 1 abroad,
seven miles of track, etc. Tin purchase
includes all she street railroads in the
city and is a bargain.
FEHSONAL
Mb. Parnell, the Irish leader, is sick
with cancer of the stomach, the disease
which killed the great Napoleon; his
condition is causing anxiety to iiis friends.
Rev. Dr. James T. Curran, of New
York, recently disciplined by Archbishop
Corrigan, is following Dr. Glynn out of
the Catholic Church into Henry George’s.
Irving Fisher, a Yale student, has in
vented an apparatus for recording the
length and strength of the stroke pulled
by each member of a rowing crew. It is
already in use.
Senor Macedo, Portuguese minister
of Marme, bas tendered his resignation
in consequence of a dispute in the Cham
ber with a deputy, who struck the minis
ter in the face. The deputy has been
court-martialed.
Sir John Ashlet, the well-known
London sporting patron, captured a stal
wart pickpocket lately who had stolen
his watch and gave him a severe thrash
ing before handing him over to the po
lice.
Duluth, Minn., boasts among the
names of her citizens the following:
Spring,Winter, Summer, Breeze, Rainey,
Dewey, Frost and Snow, The climate
around Duluth is very ficklo, it should
be understood.
Mayor Hewitt has induced tho open
ing of the Museum of Natural History on
Sundays. The city will pay $15,000 a
year to meet the extra expenses and the
working people will have a place where
instruction aad entertainment can be
combined in their only hours of leisure.
Patti says that Americans ought to be
very proud of Mrs. Cleveland. When the
diva 7,wns iu Washington, she and the
President’s wife exchanged pictures and
autographs. Mis. Cleveland promised to
visit Patti at Craig-y-nos some time in
the future.
Washington Irving Bishop, the mind
reader, has added another feature to his
public entertainments. In Cinciunati the
other evening he opened his performance
with a brief lecture on the rottenness,
corruption, and general rascality of the
New York press. It is alleged he skipped
his board bill in several places.
Henry Fink, Vice-President of tho
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia road,
has been elected Vice-President of the
Richmond & Danville, and in this dual
capacity will act as the general operating
officer of tho Richmond Terminal system,
of which these two lines form a part,
and his headquarters will be in New
York,
JonN Fitzoerald, of Lincoln, Neb.,
President of the Irish League, is having
photographs taken of the letters ami doc
uments in the handwriting of Pigott,
which were submitted to the expert com
mittee for comparison with the London
Times fac-eimile letter, and will forward
copies to Mr. Parnell and his friends *ud
to the leading members of the Gladstone
pa.ty, so that they may compare the
Handwriting for themselves with that of
tho Times letter.
Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor,
returned from Florida recently, and is
now at his home in Llewellyn Park, N.
J., in a condition that excites the live
liest anxiety of his friends and admirers.
His deafness, which has been bad for
twenty years, is greatly aggravated, and
he is confined to his room and most of
the time to his bed. He himself, so far
from being alarmed, maintains his usual
good spirits, and insists that he will be
“up iu a few days.”
RELIEVE IN Till! LAW.
The East Tennessee Farmers’ Associa
tion, composed of the leading farmers of
the state, at their annual convention in
Knoxville, adopted resolutions, by an al
most unanimous vote, indorsing the In
ter-State commerce law, and expressing
the belief that it will result in relief to
the agricultural classes.
A UNION OF SOLDIERS.
A movement has been inaugurated at
Atlanta, Ga, to form a War Survivors’
Association to be composed of soldiers
who fought on the Confederate and Fed
eral sides during the war.
“MY COUNTRY MAY 8118 BVBR BB RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1887,
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Gossip About the President, His Cabinet
and Other Notables.
fftint Nouthrrn Man nr. Ilrln| Itlr,|ilu4-
■ at.i .1 l. li.ma About lb. N.t1.a.1
■trill, Etc., Etc.
TITE FENCING Mt'ST GO.
Tha Presilient approved an application
from the Secretary of the Interior to the
War Department, for a detail of a troop
of cavalry to he stationed at Cheyenne,
Wyo, to aid the civil authorities in en
forcing the proclamation of the President
forbidding the fencing of the public do
main and directing the removal of such
unlawful fencing.
LAND CLAIM DECISION.
The Surveyor General of New Mexico
has reported against two or three private
land claims which aggregate about 47,000
acres, but recommends the confirmation
of the claim known ns the San Miquel
del Bado, which covers an area of 315,-
300 ncres. To this Assistant Secretary
Stockslagger dissents, but concurs in the
other recommendations of the Surveyor
General.
UNFRIENDLY CANADA.
The Department of State has received
from Consul General l’helan, at Halifax,
a report ia the case of the American
schooner Clara J. Friend, which was re
fused permission to purchase supplies at
Halifax. The consul general says that
the vessel was engaged in deep sea fish
ing on the Banks; that the weather had
been very severe, and the supplies had
become exhausted. If provisions could
not be secured in Canada the voyage
was likely to prove a failure. This at
tempt was made with the result already
stated.
NOTES.
Tlie President lias appointed George
11. Nott to be postmaster at New Orleans,
Lo uisiani.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed William Daniel storekeeper and
gauger at Bcvea post-office, N. C.
Tlie acting Secretary of the Treasury
lias appointed Simpson A. llaygoodtolw
storekeeper and gauger at Lawrcnceville,
Ga.
The comptroller of the currency au
thorized the Third National bank of
Knoxville, Teuu., to begin business with
a capilai of $256,000.
The following appointments have been
made in the General Land office: John
Mason, of Virginia, and Arthur Grabows,
of Georgia, timber depredation agents.
The President has appointed Charles
J. Russell, of Illinois, and J. B. Thorne,
ot Maryland, to be members of the Board
of tlie Millitary Academy in place of Gen.
Palmer and Mr. Gwinn, of Maryland de
clined.
Tlie Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed Benjamin W. Green, of Arkan
sas. to tie chief of a division of the Thir-
Auditor’s office. He also appointed
James W- Sutphen to be storekeeper and
gauger at Helm’s post-office, Virginia.
The Secretary of War and his collea
gues of the commission appointed to se
lect a design for the Lafayette statue,
have decided to award the contract to
furnish the statue, to one of the Parisian
sculptors. Negotiations are now pend
ing regarding certain modifications and a
small reduction in the price asked.
A LOVELY YOUNG LADY
Hiilijcrtrd tn n .Most Crut-I Experiment la
lhe Clt; of I’erla, France.
A sensational hypnotic experiment was
achieved at a private performance at the
Folies Bcrgere, in Paris, France, by a
beautiful young lady entering a cage of
lions, after she had been hypnotized by
M. de Torcy, according to the methods
of Dr. Charcot. De Torcy and the hyp
notized young lady entered the cage, the
animals being kept in check bv the lion
tamer. De Torcy compelled the young
ladv to fall on (he lion’s backs, and to
place her head in a lion’s mouth, held
open for tlie purpose by the lion tamer,
't he seance wound up by the young lady,
who had been put in a rigid acute cata
leptic state—resting with her head on
one stool und her feet on another while
tlie lions jumped over her. One lion
placed its paws on the patieut’s thighs
and caught in its mouth a piece of meat
attached to a cord, thereby firing a pis
tol fastened to the roof of the cage. The
lions all jumped about and roared furi
ously, and in the midst of the excite
ment De Torcy brought the patient out
of the hypnotic trance and removed hsr
from the cage.
A FUND MISSING.
Commotion was caused among the
members of the Clan-na-Gael in New
York and Brooklyn, by the report that
one of the leading officers of the body
had gone away with $40,000 of the funds
of tlie society. It was stated that he was
a native of Kentucky, and recently went
to Brooklyn from Louisville. The state
ment was also made that he had not de
faulted, but had gone on a secret mission
to England with tho funds in hi* pos
session, which had been collected ior tho
purpose. Tlie executive board of tho
body has tried to keep the matter quiet.
The missing man belonged to the faction
which controlled tho recent convention
in Pittsburg, when several of the camps
of the society withdrew on the ground
that they contributed their money, but
never had any reports showing what was
done with it.
BLOWN UP.
A Negro Arlillrrj limn liiolimlly Kllloil In
Savannah. Ga.
At a commemorative celebration of
the adoption of the loth amendment to
the Constitution of the United States,
tho colored military of Savannah, Ga.,
turned out in force, and Simmons’ bat
tery fired a salute. A member named
William Fuller was acting as No. 1, and,
til rough some inadvertance, one of tlie
guns was prematurely discharged, and
Fuller was almost blown to pieces.
NEW MASONIC TEMPLE.
The trustees of the Masonic hall in Au
gusta, Ga., have decided to rebuild the
temple on the okl site on Hroad street,
and Architect Woodruff, of Macon, is
| now at work on the plans for a hanu-
J some and appropriate hall. A strong,
solid appropriate and unique front wilt
I be adopted, which will give a conspicu
ous appearance to the temple, and make
I it one of the handsomest buildings on
[ Broad street.
LATEST NEWS,
Oscar Simons, one ot Iho wenlthlcs
bankers of Fort Wayne, Jnd., suicided
because of financial troubles, brought on
by becoming surety for #700,000 for an
electric light company.
Prince Luthpold, Regent of Bavaria,
will receive Emperor Francis Joseph's
sanction to assume the Bavarian throne,
and Emperor William's consent lias
already been obtained.
The metal workers of Belgium joined
the strike inaugurated by the miners.
W k"- -‘a other trades followed suit.
Eighteen thousand persons struck in
Center district alone. Troops prevented
the strikers from committing acts of vio
lcnce.
Gen. James L. Selfridge, one of the
veterans of the late War, and a prom
inent citizen of Philadelphia, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver. The act was com
mitted within thirty yurds of the resi
dence of the deceased.
Jay Gould was before the New York
Railway Commission as a witness, and
being asked his opinion of the interstate
law, said: "There is a great deal of
good and some had in it. I have not
asked the commission for any change yet.
I should prefer to wait a year or two be
fore giving any definite opinion.”
A aleoptr on the Denver & Rio Grande
Salt Lake express was derailed near
Sslida, Col., and Grace Leslie, leading
lady of the Kate Castleton troupe, was
instantly killed, Dr. George Cox received
a severe scalp wound, and Pullman Con
ductor Aubrey was hurt about the head
and hip. #
Four tons of nitro-glycerine exploded
eight miles from Duluth, Minn. Nine
residences, and as many other buildings,
were totally or partially wrecked, and
trees in the vicinity were torn to shreds.
The shock and concussions were plainly
felt in Duluth, and many panes of glass
were broken in Oneoka, live miles dis
tant.
Janatfschck, the eminent actress, fell
down a p:iir of stairs in a hotel at New
port, R. 1., and was badly hurt.
Over 500 people formed an Anti-Pov
erty Society in New York city, with
Rev. Dr. McGlynn as president and
Henry George as vice-president.
A fire broke out in the shanties occu
pied by about 300 Italian laborers on the
Summit division of the Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic railroad, and, owing
to the scarcity of water, many of the men
lost their lives in fighting the flames.
Mr. O’Brien the Irish editor had a
pretty hard time in the streets of Toron
to, Can. The Orangemen assailed him
with mud and brickbats, as he was walk
ing in the streets and lie got hustled
pretty badly. J. M. Wall, a New York
Tribune reporter who was walking with
Mr. O'Brien, got a bad cut on the head.
Several policeman were injured in de
fending the assailed men.
DENOUNCING IDOLS.
The friih ('ullego of Koine Doe* Nol Be
lieve In Parnell und Gladstone.
A memoir is about to be issued from
the Irish college at Rome ou the existing
troubles in Ireland. The document after
repudiating the action of Mr. Parnell,
concludes by saying: The party with
whom Mr. Gladstone has now identified
himself for the furtherance of the revolu
tionary movement which has for its
avowed object the dismemberment of the
united kingdom, have done everything
possible of late to persuade Catholics, by
their speeches, in and out of Parliament,
that the vicar of Cnrist was in favor of
it. Could the English government be
brought to believe this outrageous calum
ny, what would they think of the Pope?
What would the Emperors of Austria,
Germany and China think of him? What
would the world at large think of him?
What would non-Catholics, who believe
in revelation, think of the Catholic
church if its head on earth could view,
except with profound sorrow, the move
ment which is filling Ireland with anar
chy and devastation? Woe to the move
ment which,unless its days are threatened,
will leave tlie land that once flowed with
milk and honey, a desert without re
ligion.”
INDIGNANT CANADIAN MILITIA.
The 65th French-Canadian Regiment,
of Montreal, has been refused permission
to visit I lig ligate Springs, Vt., on the
occasion of tlie Queen’s birthday. Ihe
minister of militia has taken the ground
that it would be a bad precedent to es
tablish, more especially in view of the
feeling existing over O’Brien’s visit and
the fishery and other questions. He also
cites the fact that the governor of New
York .refused permission for the 69th New
York to visit Canada. The members of
the regiment are indignant, as they asked
to go without arms.
A IIRUTE IDENTIFIED.
In the early part of February last,
Henry Pope, a negro employed on Mr.
Kendrick’s place in Summerville, Ga.,
committed a most diabolical outrage on
that gentleman’s daughter and fled to
Alabama. Several amateur detectives
took hold of the matter, as Mr. Kendrick
was a poor man, and tracked Pope t*
Gadsden, Ala., when be was arrested and
returned to Summerville. He was fully
identified by Miss Kendrick.
•401.D1K.1t PRINTER*.
During a recent strike of book printers
in Leipsic, Germany, the government
forced all book printers serving in the
army in that section to take the place of
the strikers,
ATLANTA HOLD I Bit ft DECLINE.
As an organization, the Gate City
Guard, Capt. Burke, of Atlanta, Ga.,
will not visit Europe, but a few members
of the command will go as tourists.
’ — Jefftrutm.
KEY. DIE TALMAGE.
I’HK BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON
Subject: "Sprig of Hcirt’n Rmo.'
Text: ti And His Disciples went and told
JsmUk*— Matthe w xiv., 12
An outrageous assassination In i just taken
placet To apiieaao a rovon ;Wul woman,
King Herod oruerml the death ot' that noble,
self-sacrificing Christian, John th> Unpti*t.
The group of the difl-i pies were thrown into
grief ana dismay. They felt themselves ut
terly dofenaeletis. Th *re was n authority to
which they could appeal, ami yet grief must
always find expression. If there In* no hum iu
ear to hear it, then the agonized soul will cry
it aloud to the winds and the woods and the
waters. But there was an ear that was
willing to listen. There is a tender jta
thos, and at the sain' time a moat admi
rable picture, in the words of my text: “They
went and told Jesus.” Ho could understand
all their grief, and He immediately soothed
it. Our bunions aro not more than half so
heavy to carry if another shoulder is thrust
under the other cud of than. Hre we find
Christ, His brow shadowed with grief, stand
ing amid the group of disc ip es, who, with
tears, and violent gesticulations, und wring
ing of hands, and outcry of bereavement, aro
expressing their woe. Raphael, with his
skillful brush putting upon the wall of a
palace some scene of sacred story, gave not so
skillful a stroke as when th • piai i hand of the
evangelist Writes: “They went and told
Jesus.”
The old Goths and Vandals once came
down upon Italy from the north of Europe,
ami they upset the gardens, and they broke
down the altars aim swept away everything
tHat was good an l beautiful. So there is
ever and anon in the history of all the sons
and daughters of our race an incursion of
rough-handed troubles tint coin) to plunder
and ransack au Aput to the torch all that
ni'*u highly prize. There is no cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as to allow us suel
ter, and the foot of Meet st courser cannot
bear us beyond the quick pursuit. The ar
rows they put to the strings My with unerring
dart, until we fall pierced and stunned.
I feel that 1 bring to you a most appropri
ate message. 1 mean to bind up all your
griefs Into a bundle, and set th in ou lire
with a spark from God s altar. The same
prescription that cured the sorrow of tho dis
ciples will cure all your heartach es. I have
read that when Godfrev and his army marched
out to capture Jerusjl-in, as they came ovei
the hills, at the first flash of the pinnacles of
that beautiful city, the army that had
marched in silence lifted a shout that made
the earth tremble. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus
Christ, marching on toward heaven, I would
that to-day, by some gleam from the palace of
Gods mercy aud Gods strength, you might
be lifted into great rejoicing, and that before
this service is ended you might raise one glad
hosanna to the Lord!
In the first place, I comment 1 the behavior
of these disciples to all those in this audience
who are sinful and unpardoned. There comes
a time in almost every man’s history when lie
feels from some source that he has an erring
nature. Tlie thought may not have such heft
as to fell him. It may l o only like tho flash
in an evening cloud just after a very hot sum
mer day. One man to get rid of t hat impres
sion will go to prayer; another will stimulate
himself by ardent spirits, and another man
will dive deeper in secularities. But some
times a man cannot get rid of these impres
sions. Tli** fact is, when a man finds out that
his eternity is poised upon a perfect uncer
tainty, and that the next moment his foot
may slip, he must do sum* thing violent to
make himself forget where ho stands, or else
fly for refuge.
If there aro any here who have resolved
that they would rather die of this awful can
cer of sin than to have the heavenly surgeon
cut it out, let me say. my dear b other, you
ixdsrL) fDr yourself a bitter cup. You fly in
the face or your everlasting interests. You
crouch under a yoke and you bite the dust,
when, this moment, you might rise lip a
crowned conqueror. Driven and perplexed
and harassed as you h ive 1 ecu by sin, go and
tell Jesus. To relax the grip of death from
your soul, and plant your unshackled feet
upon the golden throne, Christ let the
tortures of the bloody mount transfix Him.
With the beam of Ilia own cross He will
break down the don- of your dungeon.
From the thorns of His own crown He will
pick enough gems lo make your brow blaze
with eternal victory. In every tear on His
wet cheek; in every gash of His side; in
every long, blackening mark of laceration
from shoulder to shoulder; in the grave
shattering, heaven storming death groan, I
hear Him say: “ Him that coineth unto Me,
I will in no wise cast out.”
“Oh,” but you say, “instead of curing my
wound you want to make another wound,
namely: That of conviction!” Have you
never known a surgeon to come and find a
chronic disease, and th-n with sharp caustic
burn it ail out? So the grace of God comes
to the old sore of sin. It has long been rank
ling there, but by divine grace it is burned
out through these fires of conviction; “tho
flesh coming again as the tlesli of a little
child;’ 1 “where sin alxmnded grace much
more aboundeth. 1 ' With tho ten thousand
unpardoned sins of your life, go and toll
Jesus. You will never get rid of your sins in
any other wav: and remember that the broad
invitation which I extend to you will not al
ways be extended.
King Allied, before modern time-pieocs
were invented, used to divide the day into
three parts, eight hours each, and then had
three wax candles. By the time the first
candle had burned to the socket, < ight hours
had gone, and when th • s -end candle had
burned lo the socket, another eight hours had
gone, and when all the thre • can lie> were
gone out, then the day had pa sjd. Oh. that
eom of us Instead of calculating our days,
and nights, and years by any earthly time
piece, might calculate them by the numbers
of opportunities and mercies which aro burn
ing down and burning out, never to le
relighted, lest at last we bo amid the foolish
virgins who cried: “Our lamps have gone
out!’
Again: I commend the liehavior of the dis
eipl *s to all who are tempted. I have hoard
men in mid-life say they had never been led
into temptation. If you have not felt tempta
tion it is because you have not tried to do
right. A man hoppled and handcuffed, as
lon , r as ho Jit's quietly, does not test tho power
of the chain; but when he rises up. and with
the determination resolves t snap tho hand
'•nlf or break the hopple, then he finds the
power of the iron. And there are men who
have boon for ten, and twenty, and thirty
vears bound hand and foot by evil
habits who have never felt the power
of the chain, liocauHo they have never tried
to break it. It is very easy to go on down with
th * stream and with the wind, lying on your
oars; but just turn roun 1, and try to go
against the wind and tho tide, and you will
liuil it is a different matter. As long as we
g > down the current of our evil habit we seem
to g*t along quite smoothly; but if after a
wlnle we turn around nod head the other way,
toward (Mirist, and |Mird<m, mid heaven, oil,
th m,how we have t<> Ily to the oars. You all
1 have your temptation. You have one kind,
vou another, you another, not one person es
; catling.
ft is all folly for you to say to some one*
“[ could not i>e tempted as you aro.” The
lion thinks that it is so strange that the fish
should lie caught with a hook. The fish thinks
it is so strange that tho lion should be caught
with a trap. You some man with a cold,
phlegmatic temperament, and you say: “I
suopose that man has not any temptation.”
Y* s. as much as you have. In his phlegmatic
nature ho has a temptation to indolence and
cc.isoriou lies-! :m 1 ov. i- eating and drinking;
ii t op tat ion to ignore tho great work of
1 i f**; a t emptation to lay down an obstacle in
the wav >i all good enterprises. The temper*
in nit decides the styles of temptation; but
sanguine or lymphatic, you will have tempta
tion. Satan has a grappling-hook just fitted
for your soul. A man never lives beyond the
rea hof temptation. You say when a man
gets to bo seventy or eighty years of age he U
safe from all Satanic assault. You are very
much mistaken. A man at eighty-five years
of ugo has as many temptations as a man at
twenty-five. They are ouly different stylos
of temptation.
Ask tho aged Christian whether he is never
assaulted of the powers of darkness. If you
think you have conquered th power of temp
tation, you are very much mistaken.
A man who wanted a throne pretended he
was very weak and sickly, and if he was ele
vated ho would soon be gone, lie crawled
upon his crutches to the throne, and having
attained it he was strong again. He said: “It
was well for me while I vas looking for the
keys of authority that i should stoop, but
now that I have found them, why should I
stoop any longer?” und he throw away his
crub h -s and was well again.
llow illustrative the |>ower of temptation!
You think it is a weak and crippled mMut-nce,
but give it a chance, and it will lie a tyrant
in your soul, it will grind you to atoms. No
man has finally and for ever overcome temp
tation until hs luu left tho world. But what
are you to do with theso temptations? Tell
everybody about them? Ah, what a silly
man you would lw! As well might a com
mander in a fort send word to the enemy which
gate of the castle is least barred, us for you to
go and tell what all your frailties are, and
what your temptations arc. The world will
only scoff at you. Whitt then mast a man
do? When the waves strike him with terrific
dash snail he have nothing to hold on to? In
this contest with “the world, the flush, and
the devil," shall a man have no help, no coun
sel'
()ur text intimates something different In
thos>* eyes that wept with the Bethany sisters
1 see shining hope. In that voice which
spake until.tee gravo broke and the widow of
Nain had hack her lost son, and the sea slept,
and sorrow stupendous woke up in the arms
of rapture—in that voice I hoar the command
anil the promise: “Vast thy burden
on the lz*rd, and He will sustain thee.” Why
should you carry your burdens any longer?
Oli. you weary soul, t’hrist lieen in this
conflict lie says: “My grace shall be suffi
cient for you. You shall not be tempted
above that you are are able to l>ear.” There
fore. with all your temptations, go, as tiiuse
disciples did. Aiul tell Jesus.
Again: 1 commend the behavior of the
disciples to all those who are abused and
slandered and ]>ei*secuted. When Herod put
John to death, tho disciples knew that their
own heads were not safe. And do you know
that every John has a Herod? There are
persons in life who do no" wish you very
well. Your misfortunes are honeycombs to
them. Through their teeth they hiss at
you, misinterpret your motives, and would l>o
glad to see you upset. No man gets through
Lfc without having a pummelliuy. Some slan
der comes after you, horned and tusked and
hoofed, to gore and trample you; and what
are you to do? 1 tell you plainly that all who
serve Christ must suffer persecution. It is
the worst sign i'i the world for you to lie able
to say: “I haven’t an enemy in the world.”
A woe is pronounced in the Bible against the
one of whom everybody speaks well. If you
a’ eat jeace with all the world, and every
body like:, you and approves your work, it is
because you are an idler in the Lord’s vine
yard, and are nut doing your duty
All those who have serve. 1 Christ, however
eunneut, have been maltreated at some staple
of their experience. You know it was so in
tho time or George Whitefleld, when he stood
and invited men into the kingdom of God.
What did the learned Dr. Johnson say of
him? Hepronounced him a miserable mounte
bank How was it when Rob r: Hall stood
and spoke as scarcely anv uninspired man
ever did speak of the glories of Heaven?
and as he stood Sabbath after Sabbath
preaching on thes i themes his tana kindled
with the glory. John Foster, a Christian
man, said of this man: “Robert Ball is only
acting, ami the smile on his face is a reflec
tion of his own vanity.” John Wesley turned
all England upside down with Christian re
form, and yet the punsters wen* after him,
and the meanest jokes ill England were per
petrated about John Wesley. What is truo
of the pulpit is true of the pew; it is true of
the street, it is true of tvie shop, ami tin* store.
All who will live godly in Christ Jesus mast
suffer {lersocution.
And I set it down as the very worst sign in
all vour Christian experience if you are, any
of you. at peace with all tho world. The re
ligion of Christ is war. It is a challenge to
“the world, the flesh and the devil;” and if
you will buckle on the w hole armor of God,
you will find a great host disputing your path
between this ami heaven. But what are you
to do when you are assaulted and slandered
and abused, as 1 suppose nearly all of you
have been in your life ? Go out and hunt up
the slanderer? Oh, no, silly man 1 While you
are explaining away a falsehood in one place,
fifty jxjople will just have heard of it iu other
places!
1 counsel you to another course. While
you are not to omit any opportunity of set
ting yourselves right, I want to tell you this
morning of one who had the hardest things
said about Him, whose sobriety was disputed,
whose mission was scouted, whose compan
ionship was denounced, who was pursued as
a babe and *pit upon as a man. who was
howled at after He was dead. I will have
you go unto Him with your bruised soul, in
some humble, child-prayer, saying: “I see
Thy wounds—wounds of head, wounds of
feet, wounds of heart. Now, look at my
wounds, and see what I have suffered, and
through what battles I am going: and I en
treat Thee, by those wounds of Thine, sym
pathize with me. And he will sympathize,
and He will help. Go and tell Jesus!
Again: I commend the behavior of tho
disciples to all who may have been bereaved.
How many in garb of mourning! If you could
stand at this point where 1 am standing and
look off upon this audience, how many signals
of sorrow you would behold. God nas His
own way of taking apart a family. We must
get out of the way for coming generations.
vVe must get off the stage that others may
come on, and for this reason there is a long
proccession reaching down all the time into
the valley of shadows.
This emigration from time into eternity is
so vast an enterprise, that we cannot under
stand it. Every hour we hear the clang of
the sepulchral gate. The sod must be broken.
The ground must be ploughed for resurrec
tion harvest. Eternity must be peopled.
The dust must press our eyelids. “It is uj>-
pointed unto all men once to die.” This emi
gration from time into eternity keeps three
fourths of the families of the earth in desola
tion. The air is rent with farewells, and the
hiack-tassclled vehicles of death rumble
through every street.
The body of the child that was folded so
closely to the mother’s heart is put away in
tho cold and the darkness. The laughter
freezes to tho girl’s lip, ami the rose scatters.
Tho boy in tho harvest field of Bhunam says :
“Mv head i my head l” and they carry him
home to die on the lap of his mother. Widow
hood stands with tragedies of woe struck into
the pallor of the cheek. Orphanage cries in
vain for father and mother. Oh, the grave
is cruel 1 With teeth of stone, it clutches for
its prey. Between the closing gates of the
sepulchre, our hearts are mangled and
crushed. Is there any earthly solace ?
None. We come to the obsequies,
we sit with the grief-stricken, we talk pa
thetically to their soul; but soon the obsequies
have passed, the carnages have left as at the
door, the friends who stayed for a few days
are gone, and the heart sits in desolation,
listening for the little feet that will never
again patter through tin; hall, or looking for
tho entrance of those who will never come
again—sighing into the darkness -ever apd
anon coming across some book or garment, or
little shoe or picture, that arouses former as
sociation, almost killing the heart.
Long days and nights of suffering that wear
out the spirit, and expunge the bright lines of
life, and give haggard ness to the face, and
draw the flesh tight down over the chook-bone,
ami draw dark lines under the sunken eye,
ami the hand is tremulous, and th * voice is
husky and uncertain, and the grief is wear
ing. grinding, accumulating, exhausting.
Now, what are such to do? Are they merely
to look upintoa brazen and unpityiugheu veil?
Are they to walk a bias to l lieatli unfed of
stream, unsheltered by overarching tree?
Has God turned us out on the barren common
to die? Oh, nol no! no! He has not. He
comes with sympathy und kindlier and lo\o.
Ho understands all our grief. He sees the
height, and tho depth, and tho length, and
tho breadth of it. He is the only one that
can fully sympathize. Go and tell Jesus.
Sometimes when we have trouble we go to
our friends and we explain it. and they
try to sympathize; but they do not
understand it. They cannot unaerstan l it.
But < ’hrist sees all over it, and all through it.
Ho not only counts the tmrs and records the
groans, but before tho tears started, before
tho groans l>ogau, Christ saw the inmost
baling place of your sorrow; ami lie bikes it.
and He weighs it, and He measures it, and
He pities it with an all-absorbing pity. Bone
of our bone. Flesh of our Modi. Heart of
our heart. Sorrow of our sorrow.
As long as Ho remembers Lazarus's grave
He will stand by you in the cemetery. As
long as He remeiuliers II is own heart-break.
He will stand by you in the laceration of your
affections. When He forgets the foot-sore
way, the sleepless nights, the weary body,
the exhausted mind, the awful cross, the
solemn grave, then He will forget you, but
not until then.
Often when we were in trouble we sent for
our friends; but they wore far away, they
could not get to us. Wo wrote to them
j “Come right away.” or telegraphed: “Take
the next train.” They came at last, yet were
a great while in coming, or perhaps were too
late. But Christ is always near—before you,
I behind you. within you, £io mother ever throw
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her arm* around her child with mHi warmth
and ecstasy of affect i m am( ’hrist has shown to
wards you. ( lose at hand nearer than the
staff upon which you lean, nearer than the
cud you put. to your lip, nearer than the
handkerchief with w hich you wipe away your
tears—l preach him an ever present, all sym
pathizing, compassionate Jesus, now cam
you stay away one moment from Him with
your griefs? Go now. Go and tell Jesus.
It is often that our friends have no power
to relieve us. They would very much like to
do it; but they cannot disentangle our finances;
they cannot cure our sickness and raw* our
dead; but glory be to God that He to whom
the disciples went has all i>ovferin heaven and
on earth, and at our call He will balk our ca
lamities, and, at just the right time, in the
presence of ail applauding earth and a re
sounding heaven, will raise our dead.
He will do it. He is mightier than Herod,
lie is swifter than the storm He is grander
than the sea. Ho is vaster than eternity.
And every sword of God's omniiiotence will
leap from its scabbard, and all tne resources
of infinity lie exhausted, rather than that
God's child shall not be delivered when he
cries to him for rescue.
Suppose your child was in trouble; how
much would you endure to get him out? You
would go through any hardship. You would
say: “1 don’t care what it will coat. I must
got him out of that trouble.”
Do you think God is not so good a father as
you? Seeing you aro in trouble, and having
all power, will Ho not stretch out His arm
anu deliver you? lie will. He is mighty to
save. He can level the mountain and divide
the sea, and can extinguish tho fire and save
the soul. Not dim of eve, not weak of arm,not
feeble of resources, but with all eternity and
the uni verse at His lect. Go and tell Jesus. Will
you? Ye whose cheeks are wot with the night
dew of tho grave; ye who cannot look up; ye
whose hearts are dried with the breath of a
sirocco; in the name of tho religion of Jesus
Christ, which lifts every burden, and wipes
away every tear, ami delivers every captive,
and ligtens every darkness, I emplore you
now, go and tell Jesus.
A little child went with her father, a sea
Captain, to sea, and when tho first storm
came the little child was very much fright
ened, ami in the night rushed out of the
cabin and said: “Where is father? where is
father?” Then they told her: “Father is on
deck guiding the vessel and watching the
storm.” The little child immediately re
turned to her berth ami said: “It's
all right, for father’s on deck.” Oh,
ye who ore tossed and driven in this
world, up by the mountains aud down by the
valleys, ami at your wit’s end, I want you to
know the Lord God is guiding the ship. Your
Father is on deck. He w ill bring you through
the darkness into the harbor. Trust in the
Lord. Go and tell Jesus. Let me say that
if you do not. you will have no comfort here,
and you will forever ‘e an outcast and a
wanderer. Your death will be a sorrow.
Your eternity will Ik? a disaster.
But if you go to Him for patdon and sym
pathy, all is well. Everything will brighten
up, and joy will come to the heart and sor
row will depart; your sin- will be forgiven
an l your foot will touch the upward path;
and the shining mesM?ng rs that report above
what is done here will tell it until the great
arches of God resound with the glad tidings,
if now, with contrition and full trustfill
ness of soul, you will only go and tell Jesus.
But I am oppressed, when I look over this
audience, at tne prospect that some may not
take this counsel, and go away unblessed. I
cannot help asking: What will be the destiny
of theso people? So I never care whether it
come into the text or not, I never leavo my
place on this platform without telling them
that now is the accepted time, and to some,
perhaps, the last time.
Xerxes looked off on his army. There
were two million men —perhaps the finest
army ever man’ 1. Xerxes r ide along
the lines, reviewed them, came back, stood on
some high point, looked off upon tho two
million men, and burst into tears. At that
moment, when every laxly supposed he would
be in the greatest exultation, he broke down
in grief. They asked him why he
wept. “ Ah,” said, “ I weep at
tht* thought that so soon all this host
will be dead.” So I stand looking off
upon this host of immortal men and women,
and realize the fact, as perhaps no man can,
unless ho lias been in similar position, that
loon the places which know you now will
know you no more, and y6u will bo gone—
whither? whither? There is a stirring idea
which tho poet put in very peculiar verse
When he said:
“ ’Tis not for man to trifle: life is brief,
And sin is here:
Our age is but a falling loaf— <.f
A dropping tear.
Not many lives, but only one have wo—
One, only one;
How sacred should that one life ever be—
That pnmv-v sunn 11
A Lesson in Ethics.
Hundreds of persons in Boston, a lo
cal paper says, recently stood several
hours on a cold forenoon to obtain tick
ets for some lectures to be given by
James Russell Lowell. Again anil again
did Into comers attempt to gain a place
in tho rank by unfair means, sometimes
with success, but oftener with deserved
failure.
A handsome woman, riohly dressed,
and endowed with that mysterious some
tiling which call “style,”
walked up ton gentleman in the line, say
ing, with the air of conferring a favor,
“Will you kindly allow me to step in
before you, sir'i”
He hesitated; it was a tryingposition,
and he was about to yield when a little
blue-eyed woman behind him inter’
posed.
“Do you think,” said she, politely,
but very firmly, “that would be quit
fair to the rest of us, madam i Some ol
us have been standing since 7 o’clock.”
“But I am in a great hurry,” said th
other, endeavoring to preserve her dig
nity, unimpaired.
“So are the rest of us,” said the littl<
woman, courteously. “It is a very busj
world.”
“Tiiis is a pnrtieuiarlv busy day foi
me, and I cannot possibly go the end oi
this long line.”
“I am busy, too, all days as well a:
this. lam a working woman. Perhapi
it is because I have been one all my lif<
that I do not like to be defrauded.”
Tho other woman turned and walked
slowly away. She had been convinced
that she was in the wrong, and had th
good sense to make use of her lesson.
Watches Without Hands.
The construction of watches without
hands has lately attracted some atten
tion, the usual hands being replaced by
figures denoting the hour and minute,
which appear at openings in the dial
plate; the mechanism is simple, and
only a few more parts are required than
in an ordinary wateli. Two wheels are
t&ed to denote the minutes—one, which
moves forward once a minute, being
geared to a second one, marked with the
ten-minute figures, and every ten min
utes a tooth on the first wheel engages
with the teeth on the second, moving it
forward one figure. Thus, every minute
of the hour is shown on the face of the
watch, and, at its completion, both min
ute wheels show two ciphers, and are
ready to begin the round again; the
hour is shown on a separate wheel, and
an ordinary hand indicates the seconds.
Of the advantages of this kind of watch,
it is remarked that few people read the
time of an ordinary watch accurately,
and, if the experiment is tried of glanc
ing at the face in the usual manner, and
then naming the time, it will be found
that an error of from half a minute to
three minutes will be generally made.
With the new watch, it is claimed, no
error can possibly occur, and there is the
added advantage that, at the end <>f
every minute, an audible click is sound
ed as the number changes, by which one
can measure short intervals of time,
even at night.