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TOPICS OF THE DAY, The Department of Agriculture is receiving many requests for silkworm eggs, and replies that they cannot be shipped successfully till fall. Slub I berry trees and a satisfactory climate I are essential, the South being the best ! field of labor. A nugget of gold weighing 21 pounds (about $5,000) has been found at the Berlin diggings, Victoria, and I brought into Dunolly by two miners. | The gold field was celebrated for j nuggets some years since, and the present find will no doubt lead to the discovery of others. The Chicago Tribune remarks that "the Japanese government is wrest ling with the question of text-books in the schools. Think of it! A nation only lately barbarous already attain ing to that highest index of civiliza tion, a wrangle over the claims of rival publishing houses ! The evolu tion of Japan is the real marvel of the ninteenth century." The population of the State of Nevada has dwindled down to 12,000 in consequence of the collapse of the mining interests, and there are scarce ly enough inhabitants left to maintain a State government. The saltpetre beds, however, may induce a fresh immigration, and add to the popula tion. The deposits are very favorably situated for working, being in the vicinity of a rich farming country, with an abundant supply of wood and water close at hand. In the New Orleans markets every thing is sold by the eye. There is no standard of measurement. Nine tenths of the hundreds who sell in the noted French markets of the city do not know what a bushel or a peck is. They buy their vegetable by the lot, and place them in little piles on tables. These piles are of different sizes and prices The buyer looks at the piles and buys that which lie thinks is big gest and best. .Sometimes buckets and boxes are used to measure, but they are of all kinds and shapes. There was no city in Europe with 1,000.000 inhabitants at the beginning of the present century, the most popu lous being London, witli 865,000 per sons. There are now five European cities with upward of 1,000,000 in habitants, and tlie first two of which contain in the aggregate 7,000,00) persons. In America, at the begin ning of the century, there were no cities that would now be regarded as more than fourth-class towns; the population of New York was about 60,000. At the last census there were twenty-six in the United .States which exceeded that figure. The Yuma Indians of Arizona, who at the American occupation of Cali fornia were to be found scattered over all the desert bottoms of the Colorado River and its tributaries, and who were then supposed to number six thousand souls, now number only about ' fifteen hundred. The men are above I the average ot anv while race in stature; in fact, a short man is not to be found. Broad chested and strong limbed, with a springy gait and a swinging stride. Yuma is no ordinary I man and capable of wonderful endur- | ance. Contact with civilization has j been the bane of the tribe. One of the greatest attractions of I the London season has been the series : of concerts given by Senor Sorasat i, i the Spanish violinist, who holds to-day a position at the head of his profession . in Europe. Although Sorasata ap- ' l peared in this country years ago, he I \ was then comparatively little known 4 outside of his own country, and | American audiences evidently failed 1 } to recognize the superiority of his f t genius. This year he was heard in : / England for the first time, and his performances have been described as a series of artistic triumphs. He is not only an interpreter of the classic ; works, but is a composer himself, and : his own compositions as played by him self have proved, perhaps, the most j attractive features of his perform- | ances. It is said that lie is thinking of visiting America again next sea- i son. The Best Advice. John K. Porter, the well known New York lawyer, was aligned, when a k young man, thedefence of a man charg ed with assault in the second degree, and charged by the Court to give the accused the best.advice he could under Y the circumstances. Porter immediate t ly retired to an adjacent room to con -1 suit with his client, and returned * shortly without him. “Where is your client?” demanded the astonished judge. “He has left the place, I guess,” re plied Porter, with most refreshing sangfroid. “Left the place Why, what do you mean, Mr. Porter?” “Why, your honor directed me to give him the best advice I could under | the circumstances. He told me he was guilty; so I advised him to cut and \ run for it. He took my advice, and as ! a client ought, opened the window an-l skedaddled. He is about a mile away \ now. The very audacity of the young bar rister deprived the Court of the power of speech, and nothing ever came of ■ the matter. (tSycttr. - ■.... I.— - ' '• ■ ■ - . _ ■ . VOL. XH. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26,1885. NO. 32. SONG OF THE PINES. Oh, song so strange, oh, song so sad, The pines keep ever chanting. Why is it when the world is glad eins sorrow to be haunting These dark' old woods in Southern land, Where trees grow tall, unbending, And solitude becometh grand, ' When years have brought no ending? Is Nature closer to us here? e think of wise old sagos, Who found her teachings always clear, Far hack in those dim ages. She sympathized with human woe And set to music willing, The melody so sad and low These lonely woods is filling. —Maellie F. Dudley. Music and Matrimony. When n ‘‘floating” young man of thirty years has a sister of eighteen ready to graduate from the boarding school which has conveniently swallowed her up for the last eight years what is he to >lo with her? This was the question that puzzled Frank Curtis. He remembered his sister as a very pretty little girl, though he had not seen her tor three years. There was no help for it. Frank saw that matrimony for him was immi nent. About this time he made a trip with the Cutler family; they were rich and relf-made, worshiping their maker, and the household consisted of father, moth er, and daughter, still under twenty-five. Joseph Cutler, of Cutler,Sheffield & Co., was reputed worth $5,000,000, of which one at least the golden youth honed would be settled op his daughter Lizzie as a bride. Not very clever, not very pretty, she at least knew that her money could buy her whatever she wanted in the way of a husband, and she was con tent to wait until chance should bring her the man who most nearly resembled her ideal. Frank Curtis’ wooing was brief after he had once decided that Lizzie Cutler's money would provide a luxurious home for himself and his sister. He had a small income of his own, and was con sidered clever in his profession. Con gratulations began to pour in thick and fast on the pair when a hundred thou sand dollar house began to rise at Mr. Cutler’s expense, to be ready for the young couple on their return from their bridal trip. They were to take in Clara Curtis’ commencement as they traveled, and bring her home with them. Frank was agreeably surprised at his sister’s appearance when he and his bride arrived at her school. In a vague, mascu line way he felt that she and Lizzie did not seem very congenial, but he supposed that would wear off after a little. “Os course you arc coming to-night,” I said Clara. “It’s our concert.” “I play,” she continued, dimpling and blushing, ■ “a duet for violin and piano with Mr. I Heldmann.” Frank nodded. He was fond of mu sic, and, to sit through a whole evening J of school-girl playing and singing was a | sacrifice on the altar of fraternal alTec- I tion and the proprieties. As for Lizzie I she always frankly avowed that good ! music sent her to sleep. But she be I came suddenly attentive, and so did ; Frank, when Clara appeared with the j violin and the professor took the piano. | Frank heard genius in the moaning and I wailing under her hands of that most I perfect instrument. If she had been I pretty before, she became transfigured I now. He wondered how she felt, stand . ing before all those people of whom, j perhaps, not one in ten understood what she was playing. But the novelty of the | thing, the sweet face lovingly pressed I against the violin, the delicate fingers ■ dashing over the strings, brought down j the house. She was the success of the evening, and had her first taste of that intoxicating drink the applause of the multitude. “I congratulate you,” said her rother. “I was proud of you to-night.’’ “Clara, Professor Max wants all in the I music-room,” said one of of her com ■ namons, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were l left alone, while Clara and her fellow- ■ performers pursued their way to the presence of the professor of music and German, a fair-haired, powerfully built man of one or two and thirty years, known among his fluttering pupils as Professor Max, and addressed by them as Mr. Heldmann. He congratulated them on their success, and then dis missed all but Clara. “I have told you many timesnow al ready, Miss Curtis,” he said. “You have ' genius that you should cultivate. lad vise you that you go to Europe and : study.” “Be a professional player?” said Clara, with wide eyes. “What would my brother say?” “Talk to him about it. He will yield. Break from your friends, from love; you were born to be great. Must you smother such a talent? And for what? That j foolish men make love to you in a ball room, and you marry and die like other women. What for a career is that for vou? I love you. 1 tell you so, but you must not love me. I give you to art. You must love some day, otherwise your pteying will alway lack; then you will know what I have done in leaving you free from my love, for I ask nothing back. All that I can do to help you will I do. Y’ou must call on me when you need me, and when you have the world ■‘■your feet after your triumph, think once at home of the man who first set free the fluttering wings of your genius. Re member what I tell you.” Clara, bewildered and frightened, only saw the tears dim his bright blue eyes, only felt two bearded lips on her cold hands, and she was alone with the memory us her first love affair. She went home with her brother and his wife, was called upon, went to balls, en tered upon a round of gaycties appropri ate to a girl upon her first season, under the chaperonage of a sister-in-law whose prestige of wealth cast a glamour over her. But she was not altogether a suc cess. Men thought her quiet and trans cendental; women, shy and uninterest ing. She practiced incessantly, much to the disgust of Lizzie, who declared to her husband that the scraping of Clara’s ■ fiddle drove her crazy. Every day only proved more conclusively that she and her sister-in law were made of different . clay. That conversation with Heldmann in the music-room recurred to Clara again and again. Another thing troubled her, and that was the very evident desire of Frank and Lizzie to see her married. She had been at home a year now. She had noticed that Harry Bennett, a friend of her brother, was beginning to act toward her very much as poor Professor Max had , behaved before his explanation in the music room. She liked Harry, tut what | he saw in her to care for in that way puzzled her greatly. He called one afternoon and found I Clara practicing. “Confess that you I don’t really like that stuff,” he said, as j she laid aside the violin. “You only' play it because you think you ought to.” “It is the best part of my life,” she answered gravely; “the only part that 1 feel is worth living.” “I know,” said Harry. “All young girls think they ought to live for some thing. That’s part of their boarding school training; but I have been honing I for months that we might, try life to- I gether. You shall do just as you like— practice all day long if you want to.” “Don’t think that I am ungrateful.” said Clara, in a low Voice; “but I can’t, indeed 1 can’t. Musicians tell me that 1 can, if I will, become a great violinist. 1 shall open the subject to my brother this very evening.” “Clara, don't do that, I implore you. | You don’t know anything of that kind, iof life; you don't know what terrible influences will be brought to bear on you. Give up the fancy; I wish I could move you by saying, ’for my sake.’ Give it up.” But Clara thought of Professor Max’s words, and nerved herself for an inter view with her brother. It was more ■ stormy than she had anticipated. From his standpoint she was absolutely inex- : curable and equally incomprehensible. But they were obliged to give way before J her determination. The world discov cred that the Curtises bad quarreled with Clara and sent her to Europe, and her name was dropped from its visiting . books and after a while from its mind. She sent one letter to her relatives, but. Lizzie returned it unopened, without con sulting Frank, and they received no more communications. They learned through an ever-vigilant, press that Miss Curtis, a young American girl had. as Clara An selmo, made a brilliant debut abroad, and after that they lost sight of. her for several years. On taking up his paper oae morning Frank discovered that the celebrated violinist, Mme. Clara An selmo, and the great Polish pianist and composer, Phillippe Noel, who rivaled Chopin in bis delicate fancy and the strain of French blood that gave him his name, had been engaged for a series of concerts. “It is the worst possible taste for her , to come back here,” said Lizzie. “Os course, you will take no notice.” “Most people have forgotten her ex > istence by this time ” said Frank, depre . catingly. “I shouldn’t dream of your going, but think I shall go and hear her . play.” He went. Across the hall he saw i Harry Bennett and his pretty fiance, un I conscious of any interest but music on t Harry’s part, for Clara was years before her day. Harry seemed excited and i nervous, and, in watching him, Frank i forgot to look for his sister’s entrance I until the welcoming applause of the - audience aroused him. She was the same Clara, simple and quiet as ever, except that a close ob : server could see added power in her serene forehead and direct gaze. But I once in the full tide of sound she seemed to become etherealized with excitement , and delight. Max Heldmann was right. i This was her world, the career for which she was born. The audience was roused to furor by the violin and piano duet i composed by Noel and played by him • and Clara. Even Harry could not but t feel the sympathy and perfect accord - between the two. He turned to the r pretty girl by his side and knew that she was all his, but he felt that if he had i married Clara she would always have . escaped from him on the wings of music, r When she played she no longer belonged J to earth. i Unknown to Lizzie. Frank went to see r his sister rhe next morning. He met 1 Harry in the hotel parlor, and they went 1 together to her rooms, annoyed to find i early as it was. the pianoist Noel was t already there, apparently on an intimate footing. But perhaps he had only come ! to practice. He rose with Clara as the two meh caiho forward. “Frank, 1 am very, very glad to see you. I I didn’t hope for this,” she said, giving him an affectionate kiss, and holding out her hand to Harry. “This is my husband, M. Noel I’hilippe, my brother. Mr. Curtis, and his friend, Mr. Ben nett?’ Frank was startled and Harry dis mayed. Something still stirred in the depths of his heart for her in spite of the seven years and the new love. Noel excused himself on a plea of an en gagement, murmuring in French to Clara; “You will dobetter without me,” , and departed. “And you never sent me a word of ; the change in your life, Clara,” said Frank, reproachfully. “I had no encouragement,” she an swered, and blushed a little. “When my first letter was sent back unopened, , naturally I did not make a second at i tempt, considering our parting.” “Sent back!” began Frank; then re membering Harry’s presence, and con I jecturing Lizzie’s work, he said hastily ; i “Forgive me; tell me about yourself now.” “If you care to hear, Mr. Bennett, you won’t be bored. No? Well, 1 studied hard, night and day, as you may sup- j pose. My debut was wonderfully suc cessful. I may tell you that without conceit. They said I was a full-fledged artist, and the house fairly rocked with applause. You cannot imagine the triumph, the bliss. To knqw that you ! have the power to express to others what music says to you, anil that you sway them with your emotions; to feel- feel to your highest and deepest capacity, and leave it all hero—.” She held out her hands with a quaint foreign gesture. “I am happy. Then I’hilippe'’ —she paused a moment, and went on “music gave us to each other. His first composition was dedicated to me, and I never played anything so well as what he writes. We were married three years ago, and—he is half of my soul, as I am of his. Don't . smile, Harry. You cannot feel the I divineness of music, and I cannot tell I you; but the universe is in it, and when . i words are too feeble wo play together— he and 1.” She had risen, and stood before them with loosely-clasped hands and far-away j eyes. Frank, in his well fed, placid, j domestic life; Harry, in his struggle for I the almighty dollar and his tranquil en- I gagement, cmild not follow her if they i tried, and they did not try. They j vaguely felt that she lived in an atmos I phere too rare forthem; that poets write i of but never find. Then Noel came back and they rose to go. “God bless you, Clara, wherever you i may go,” said her brother in farewell. “God bless you, Clara,” said Harry, j clasping her hands. Hut when they were gone she leaned i 1 ’ her head against her husband’a arm, with the light still in her face, and as she bent ' i his face above her hair, in her heart she | blessed Max Heldmann, who had given i her to art and to love. Earthquake Phenomena. 1 I The only settled facts about earth- I 1 . quakes are that they are the result of i some shock imparted to the rocks at a i 1 i considerable distance beneath the sur- | r i face,and that this shock reaches the sur- I 4 l face in a series of concentric rings, all \ points on the circumference of each ring ; receiving the shock at the same moment, even though they bo hundreds of miles ' apart. In other words, all points at ' I equal distances from the censer of the I ’ earthquake receive the shock at the same : f moment. Although this is theoretically j the case, according to well-known physi- | ' cal laws, still in practice the facts are somewhat different; for the shock is re- : tarded or accelerated according as the rock opposes or favors the passage of the wave. The severity of the shock in I r a given place is dependent upon a variety j r of causes. These are: 1. The strength ot i the original shock; 2. The distance from i 1 the earthquake center; and, 3. The kind of rock on which one is standing, loose 1 , gravels greatly diminishing the force of 8 ; the shock. The destructiveness of 1 earthquakes depends rather upon the c suddenness of application than the 8 amount of motion. In that at Rio Bomba 8 it is reported for a fact ttiat a marl was buried across a stream a distance of one 1 hundred feet, and landed on an eleva ■ . tion of fifty feet higher than his original r position, ft is an undoubted fact that t objects are frequently thrown great dis -1 tances. In the Mississippi valley, dur- i t : ing the earthquakes of 1811 to 1814, the • tops of trees were twisted and entangled 1 ; and strong log-cabins were thrown to ’ the ground. Rivers are sometimes *• checked in their flow, t.nd, in past geo -1 logical ages, some have been completely t turned from their course by earth -1 quakes.— Popular Science Monthly. 8 ; ' 3 i Securin') His Noles. i Fitzgay appeared on the street when 3 the therm'-meter was eighty-two degrees in the shade, with a pair of earmuffs i adorning the side of hi> head. “Hello!” said a friend. “What’s the 3 matter? Aren’t afraid of your ears be t ing frostbitten, are you?” t : “Oh. na a-w; not at all. thanks. Went 1 to the Thomas concert last night. Don't s want any of the harmony to escape, ye e know.” — Hartford Post. [ASEffION BY TALMAGB. “THE TWELVE GATES.” | Text: Revelations xxi. 21: ‘‘And the twelve , ,’ates were twelve pearls.” Our subject speaks of a great metropol i the existence of which many have doubt? I. ■ I’here has been a vast emigration into that ’ city, but no emigration from it. “There is no such city,” says the undevout astronomer, i “I have stood in high towers with a mighty telescope, and have swept the heavens, and 1 have seen spots on the sun and caverns in t he j inoon, but no towers have ever risen on my I vision, no palaces, no temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such i city.” Even very good people tell mo that heaven is not a material organism but a grand spiritual fact, and that the Bible de- i scriptions of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and He ought to know: “I go to ( prepare”— not a theory, not a principle, not a sentiment—but “go to prepare a place for I you.” The resurrected body implies this. If I my foot is to be reformed from the dust it j. must have something to tread on. If my hand I is to be reconstructed it must have something , to handle. If my eye, having gone out in death, is to be rekindled 1 must have some thing to gaze on. The adverse theory seems to imply that the resurrected body is to be hung on nothing, or to walk in air, or to float amid the intangibles. You tell us that if i there bo material organisms then a soul in heaven will be cramped and hindered in its enjoyments; but I answer: Did not Adam and Eve have plenty of room in the garden of Eden? Although only ’» few yarHe ur o si miles would have described the circumfer ence of that place, they had ample room. And do you not suppose that God in the im mensities can build a place large enough to | give the whole race room even though there * bo material organisms? Ilei’schol looked into I the heavens. As a Swiss guide puts his alpen- I stock between the glaciers and crosses over from crag to crag, so Herschel planted his j telescope between the worlds and glided from 1 star to star, until ho could announce to us | that wo live in a part of the universe but ■ sparsely strewn witli worlds, and ho peel’s out ! into the immensity until ho finds a region no larger than our solar system, in which thorn j are fifty thousand worlds moving. And Pro fessor Lang says that, by a philosophic rea- j soiling, there must bo somewhere a world ■ where there'is no darkness, but everlasting , sunshine; so that I do not know but that it is simply because we have no telescope power- i ful enough that we cannot soo into the land . where there is no darkness at all and catch a glimpse of the burnished pinnacles. As a conquering army marching on to take a city comes at nightfall to the crest of a mountain from which in the midst of the landscape they can see the castles they are to capture, rein in their war chargers and halt to take a good look before they pitch their tents for the night, so now, coming as we do in this moun tain top of prospect, I command the regi ment of God to rein in their thoughts and halt, and before they pitch t heir touts for the night take one goixl long look nt the gates of the great city. “And the twelve gates wore twelve jwarls.” In the first place I want you to examine the architecture of those gates. Proprietors ! of large estates are very apt to have un or- j uainented gateway. Sometimes they ‘ spring an arch of masonry, 1 toe posts of the gate flanked with lions in [ statuary; the bronze gate is a representation 1 of intertwining foliage, bird haunted, until ( the hand ot architectural genius drops ox- i haustod, ail its life frozen into the stone. Babylon had a hundred gates; so had Thebes gates of wood ami iron, and stone guarded nearly all the old citiea There have been a great many fine gateways, but Christ sots hand to the work, and for the upper city he swung a gate such as no eye ever gazed on untouched of inspiration. With the nail of his own cross he cut into it wonderful tra ceries, stories of past suffering and of glad nesstooome. There is no wood or stone or bronze in that gate, but from top to base qnd from side to side is all of pearl. Not one piece picked up from Ceylon banks and an other piece from the Persian gulf, andanother piece from the island of Margarette; but one I solid pearl picked up from the beach of ever lasting light by heavenly bands, and hoisb d and swung amid the shouting of angels. The glories of the alabaster vase and the porphyry i pillar fade out before this gateway. It puts i out the spark of feldspar and Bohemian dia j mond. You know how one little precious . stone on your finger will flash under the gas i light But, oh, the brightness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck through and i dripping with the light of eternal noonday, j Julius ('asar paid 126,000 crowns for one i pearl. The government of Portugal boasted of having a i>earl larger than a pear. Cleo patra and Philip 11. dazzled the world's vision i with precious stones. But gather all these to j gether and lilt them and add to them all thq ■ weadh ot the pearl fisheries, and set them iu I the panel of one door and it does not equal i this magnificent gateway. An almighty I hand hewed this, swung this, polished this. Against this gateway on the one side dasb all the splendor of earthly beauty. Against this I gateway on the other side beat the surges of j eternal glory. Oh, the gate, the gate! It i strikes an infinite charm through every one j that passes it. One step this side that gate ! and wo are paupers. One step the other w’de : that gate and we are kings. The pilgrim of earth going through in the one huge pearl | sees all his earthly tears in crystal. Oh, gale ; of life, gate of iicarl, gate of heaven! For our weary souls at last swing open. Heav.-n is I not a dull place, a contracted place, a slii; i 1 | place. “I saw the twelve gates and they were twelve pearls.” in the second place I want you to count j the numb'r of those gates. Imperial parks | and lofty manors are apt to have one expen j si ve gate way, the others are ordinary; but look i around at these entrances to heaven and count I them. Twelve gates! I admit this is rather hard on sharp sectarians. Here is a bigoted I Presbyterian who brings his Westminster i assembly catechism and he makes a gateway I out of that and ho says to the world: “You ' go through there or stay out.” And here is ! a bigoted member of the Reformed church i and he makes a gateway out of the Heideberg catechism, and he says: “You go through I there or stay out.” And here is a bigoted ! Methodist, and he plants two posts and he I says: “Now, you crowd in between these i two posts or stay out.” And here is a bigoted ■ Episcopalian who says: “Here is a liturgy j out of which I mean to make a gate; go through it or stay out.” And here is a big oted Baptist who says: “Here is a water j gate; you go through that or you must stay I out.” And so on in all our churches and in all our denominations there are men who I make one gate for themselves and then de- I tnand ttiat the whole world go through it. I ■ abhor this contract’dness in religious views. ! Oh, small-souled man.whendid Go I give you the contract for making gates? 1 tell you plainly that I will not go in that gate. I will go in at any one of the twelve gates I choose. Here is a man who says, “I can more easily and closely approach my God through a prayer-book. :f 1 say, “My brother, then use the prayer-book.” Hero is a man who says, “I believe there is only one mode of baptism, and that is immersion.” Then I say, “Jxit me plunge you!” Anyhow, I say, , away with the gate of rough panel and rotten posts and rusted latch when there are twelve i gates and they are twelve pearls. The fact is, a great many of the churches in this day are being doctrined to death. They have lieen trying for thirty years to find out all about God’s decrees, and they want to know who are elected to be saved and who are re probated to be damned, and they are keening on discussing that sut»ject when there are mil lions of souls who need to have the truth put straight at them, that unless they repent thev will be damned. They sit counting the num’oer I ofjteeth in the jawbone with which they are to slay the Philistines, wh -n they ought to be wieliiing skdifully the weapon. They sit on the beach and see a vessel going to pieces in the otfing nd instead of getting out a boat I and pun away for the wreck they sit <hs ; cussing : ; ‘ferent kinds of oar-locks. God intended us to know some things and intended I »l II >lllll I I .—-■■.l— --ns not to know others. I have heard scores j of sermons explanatory of God’s decrees, but came away more perplexed than when I ! went. The only result of such discussion is a great fog. Here are two truths which are to conquer the world. Man* a sinner; Christ, a Savior. Any man who adopts those two theories in his religious belief shall have my right hand in warm grip of Christian brother i hood. A man comes down to a river in time of freshet. He wants to get across. He ha? to I swim. What does he do? The first thing is to put oil his heavy apparel and drop every thing ho has in his hands. He n ust go empty handed if he is going to th*, other bank. And I tell you when we have come down to the river of death and find it swift and rag ing, we will have to put off all our sectarian ism and lay down all our cumbersome creeds, and, emptv-handed, put out for the other shore. What'” say you. “would you re solve all the Christian church into one kind of church? Would you make all christendom worship in the same way, by the same forms?” Oh. no; you might as well decide ; that all people shall eat the same food, with- ■ out reference to appetite, or wear the same kind of apparel, without reference to the (shape of their body. Your ancestry, your temperament, your surroundings, will decide I whether you go to this or that church and adopt t his or that church polity. < ie church will best get one man to heaven and another •■ church another man. I am not opposed to ! fences being built around denominations of < hristians. lam not opposed to a very I high fence being built around each of the de i nominations of Christians; but I do j say that in every fence there ought Ito bo bars that you can let down I and a gate that you can swing open. Go , home, therefore, and take your Bible and get ; down on your knees before God and make : your own creed. lam notopposed to creeds, i 1 believe in them; but a ereed that does not reach down to tm? ti .itnoi a mans immortal i nature is not worth the paper that it is print i ed on. 1 do not care which one of the gates you i to through, if you only go through one of the i twelve gates that Jesus lifted. Well, now I : lee all ■be r d< ■ le 1 f earth coming up to ward heaven. Do you think they will get I In? Yes. Gate the the Moravians com i up; they belie vol in the Tz>rd Jesus j Christ, they pms t hrough. Gate the second: the Quakers < onio up; tiny have (.rusted in tli> Lord; they pass i Ihr nr. !i uatc (fin Liijr I; th »daitherans come t tie yba I a gro.it admiration for the re- I'Tuu ■;•, mil they p.r-s through gate the fourth; the Roman Catholics come up, be lieving in salvation by Jesus Ghsht, they pass ' through gate the fifth: the German reformed I church passes through gate the sixth; the t Congregationalists pass through gate the j seventh; the Baptists pass through gate the 1 eighth; the‘Episcopalians pass through gate the ninth; the Sabbatarians pass through gate the tenth; the Methodists pass through gate the eleventh; the Reformed Dutch church passes through gate the twelfth; the Presby terians pass through. But there are a great host of other denominations who must come in, and great multitudes who connected them selves with no visible church, but felt the power of godliness in their heart and showed it in their life; where is their gate? Will yon shut nil this remaining host out of the city? . No. They may come in at our gate. Hosts of God, if you cannot get admission through any other entrance come in at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle before the throne I looking out on the one hundred and forty mi l ■ four thousand and you cannot tell at what ' gate they came in. One Lord, one faith, one | baptism. One glassy sea. one doxology, one I triumph. Glory be to God, one heaven but twelve gates. In the third place, notice the points of the compass toward which these gates look. They are not on one side, or on two sides, or on three sides, but on four sides. This is no fancy of mine but, a distinct, announcem • it. “On the north three gates; on the south three gates; on the east three gates; on the west three gates.” What does that mean? Why, it means that all nationalities are in cliuled, and it does not make any difference j from what quarter of the earth a man comics up; if his heart is right there is a | gate open before him. On the north three gates. That means mercy for Lapland ami Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south three gates. That moans part of Hindostan and Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east three gates. That means salvation for China and Japan and Borneo. On the west three gates. That means redemption for America. It does not make any difference how dark-skinned or pale-fac’d men may be, they will find a gate right before them. Those plucked bananas under a tropical sun; those behind reindeer shot across Russian snows; from Mexican plateau; from Roman campagna; from Chinese tea field; from Hol [ j land dike; from Scotch highlands,they come, ! they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for a , ■ few precious souls. It is not a Windsor castle [ i built only ‘'or royal families. It is not a small i town with a small population, but John saw i | it, and ho noticed that an angel was measur j ing it, ami be measured it this way and then ’ , measured it that way, and whichever way he t ' measur'd it it was 1,590 miles; so that Baby [ I lon and Thebis and Tyro and Nineveh and . I St. Petersburg and Canton and Pekin and Paris and London and New York and all the j i dead cities of the past and all the living cities . ' of the present added together would riot reach f the census of that groat metropolis. Walking along a street you can, by the contour of the dress or face,guess where a man comes from. , ; You say: “He is a Frenchman,that is a Nor wegian, that is an American.” But the gates . , that gather in the righteous will bring them irrespective of nationality. Foreigners some times get homesick. Soma f the tenderest and most pathetic stories have bean told of thos, who left their native clime and longed | for it until they died. But the Swiss coming to the high residence of heaven will not long any more for the Alps standing in the eternal hills. The Russian will not long any more tor the luxuriant harvest fields ho loft now » that ho hears the hum and tho rustle of the harvests of everlasting light. Tho royal ones from earth will not long to go buck again to • the earthly court now that they stand in the ’ palaces of the sun. Those who,once lived among L the groves of* spice and oranges will not long • to return now that they stand under tho trees of life that bear twelve manner of fruit. i While I look an ever-increasing throng passes i I through th ; gates. They are going up from i I Senegambia. from Patagonia, from Madras, J ■ frou/iLmg Kong. “What,”you say, “do you 1 introduce ail the heathen into glory?” 1 toll I you tlie fa t is that tho majority of the peo- > pie in those climes die in infancy, and all the > infants go straight into eternal life, and so the vast majority of those who die in China and ’ India, tho vast majority of those who die in » Africa go st raight into the skios; they die iu infancy. One hundred and sixty generations have been born since the world was created, i and so I estimate that there must bo fifteen 1 j bii ion ch: Ir-n in glory. If at a concert two ’ tiioiisan 1 children sing, your soul is raptured fi within you. On, tho transport when fifteen th ’i- ci I million litdo ones stand up in white 1,., th * ’ iron.s of God, their chanting ' drawing <-ut all the stupendous harmonies of 1 D::sM.‘ i|7>r and Leipsic and Boston. Pour in i through th ■ twelv ■ gates, oh, ye redeemed! ’ Banners liit“<l, rank after rank, saved bat tal i'.»a .-if.,“i- s.ive I battalion, until all the city of God sh ill iwir the tramp, tramp. Crowdall the t w 4ve gates. Ro un .yet. Room on the 1 throne;. Room in the mansions. Room on i the l iver banks' Let tho trumpet of invita- tion be sounded until all the earth’s moun tains hear the shrill blast and the glens ' echo it. Shout it to the Laplander > on his swift sled; halloo it to the Bedouin careering across the desert. ’ News! News! Oh. glorious heaven, and I twelve gates to get into it! Hear it, oh you r thin-blooded nations of eternal winter! On the north three gates. Hear it, oh you bronzed ' inhabitants panting under equatorial heats! • On the south three gates. Buhl notice when t John saw these gates they were open —wide ’ op n. They will not always be so. After a while heaven will have gathered up a l its in ’ tended population and the children of God ’ will have come home. Every crown taken. » livery harp struck! Every throne mounted! 1 All the glories of the universe harvested in t the great garner! And heaven being made - up, of course the gates will bo shut. Austria 1 iu and the first gate shut. Russia in and the I second gate shut. Italy in and the third gate shut. Egypt in and the fourth gate shut. Spain in and the fifth gate shut. France in and the sixth gate shut. England in and the seventh gate shut. Norway in and the eighth gate shut. Switzerland in and the ninth gate shut. Hin--u I; nin and the tenth gate ghut. Liberia in and the eleventh gate shut. All i ’io gates are closed but one. Now let Amer ica go in with all the islands of the sea and all the other nations that have called on God. The captives all freed; the harvests all gath ered; the nations all saved. The flashing splendor of this last pearl begins to move oil its hinges. Let two mighty angels put their shoulders to the gate and heave it to with silver clang. ’Tis done! The twelfth gate shut! Once more, I want to show you tho gate keepers. There is one angel at each one of those gates. You say that is right. Os course it is. You know that no earthly palace or castle or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing up and down by night and byplay, and if there were no lefences before heaven and the doors set wide open with no one to guard (hem, all the victors of earth would go up after a while and all the abandoned of hell would go up after ajwbilo'and heaven in stead of being a world of light and joy and peace and blessedness would be a world of darkness and horror. So lam glad to aay that while these twelve gates stand open to let a great multitude in, there are twelve angels to keep some people out. Robespierre cannot go through there, nor any of the de bauched of earth who have not repented of their wickedness. If one of these nefarious men who despise I God should come into the gate, one of the keepers would put his hand on his shoulder and push him into outer dark ness. There w no place in that land for thieves and liars and defrauders and all those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should get in there he would null up the golden pavement. If a house burner should got in there he would set fire to the mansions. If a libertine should get in there ho would whisper his abominations standing on tho white coral of tho sea beach. Only those who are blood-washed and prayer lipped will get through. Oh, my brother, if you should at last come up to one of the gates and try to pass through and you had not a, pass written by the crushed hand of the son of God, the gate keeper would with one glance wither you forever. There will be a password at tho gate of heaven. Do you know what that password is? Here comes a crowd of souls up to the gate and they say; “Let me in, let mein. I was very useful on earth. I endowed colleges, I built churches and was famous for mj’ charities; and having doneso many wonderful things for the world, now I come up to got my re want” A voice from within says: “ I never know you.” An other great crowd comes up and they try to got th r '‘”^ u ’ T hey sav: “AVe were b nionorable on earin, and the world bowed very lowly before us. Wo were honored on earth, and now we come up to get our honors in heaven,” and a voice from within says: “ 1 never know you.” Another crowd ad vances and says: “ Wo were very moral peo ple on earth, very moral, indeed, and we come up to get appropriate recognition.” A voice answers: “ I never knew you.” After awhile 1 seo another throng approach tho gate, and one seems to be spokesman lor all tho rest, and he says: “Let mo in. I was it wanderw from God. I deservo to die. I have como up to this place not because I de served it, but because I have heard that there is a saving power in tho blood of Jesus.” The gatekeeper says: “That is the pass w</rd-—Jesus! Jesus!” and they pass in and they surround the throne and tho cry is: “ Worthy is tho lamb t hat was slain to re ceive blessings and richest honor and glory and p.nver, world without end!” I invito you into any one of the twelve gates. I tel! you that unless your heart is changed by the grace of God you cannot got in. Oh, v.'hen heaven is all full and tho troops of God shout, the castle taken, h<>w grand it will be if you and 1 are among them! Blessed aro all they who enter in through tho gates into the city. The “Rose Fever.” “Doctor, I thought you would never come. I can’t stand it much longer,” said a young manto a Cincinnati doctor. “I’ve got such a pain in my head. First it was a headache, then my head got cold and the pain concentrated between my eyes. When I breathe through my nose it feels as if my brains were being > pulled out.” “Humph!” said the doctor, “been to 1 the flower show, have you?” ) “Yes,” said the young man in sur- > prise, “I’ve been there two or three times.” • “Well, you’ve got rose fever. Some times it’s called hay /over. Some flower t has poisoned you. Had a lot of patients i like you this week.” When the patient had been prescribed ' for and had departed, the writer, wno • had been somewhat surprised at the di i agnois given, remarked : “Were you jesting about that man’s L complaint?” r “No, certainly not. I have had a num ber of patients this week who have had the same trouble. Some of them have ; not had as severe an attack as this man 1 has, but complain of unusual pains in J the head which they cannot account for. It is a queer disease, and yet it is per i fectly explainable on a natural and rea ’ sonable basis. Plants and flowers possess ! in nearly every instance some good or bad property. A child at play in thegar i ' den may take a fancy to eat the leaves of ’ | the seeds of a pumpkin and no harm re . i suits. The next minute or two the lit t ■ tie thin" changes its food to jimson , seedsand then there is a funeral. In i 1 some cases it is the root only of the 1 plant which is poisonous or beneficial, • ami it may have to be treated in a com ’ plicated way before its qualities can be - extracted. In other plants it is the i leaves alone which contain the properties, 1 and then again in many other instances j they are contained in the flower. It is ' not, perhaps, the whole flower which is [ of use. It may be the corolla, or the ! calyx, or the stamens, or the pistils, or • the petal which are charged with good ‘j or evil. And then, too, as you have often heard, no doubt, the same flower or some other vegetable matter does not 5 affect all people alike. Hay and rag ‘ weed are the best known causes of this r species of catarrh, and its name, ‘hay ■ fever,’ haa been given to it ou that ac ‘ ! count. “There is no determining ufliat flowers • have aud what they have not in this in fluence. Some people are affected by i tuberosos, others by lilies of various I kinds. I know a big, strong man who is thrown into perfect agony by the ’ slightest smell of flaxseeds when pre -1 pared for a poultice. Another man of my i acquaintance would be made violently ill 1 if buckwheat flower is cooked in a build < ing where he is. All these things are ’ perfectly explainable on scientific ‘ grounds, which 1 don't propose to enter into now, but if you will inquire among the people who have been to the flower ’ show I am sure you will find many who •• have had sudden headaches and trouble t with catarrh after leaving the flowers.” ! —Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. t Bee Meteorology. 1 /.umerous observations have shown ; Emmcrig, a German scientist, that bees, otherwise gentle and harmless, become s exceedingly irritable and excitable on r the approach of thunderstorms; and he 5 thinks that their conduct may be taken Ji as reliably indicating whether a storm is n impending over a certain district or not. n Ina succession of instances, the barome ! ter and hygrometer foretold a storm, the bees remaining quiet, and no storm oc ,, currea; or the instruments gave no infi ll mation of a storm, but the bees for hours - before were irritable, and the storm • came. With regard to rain merely, the . barometer and' hygrometer are safer 1 guides than bees; but in the case of a e thunderstorm the indications of the bees 1 appear to be more trustworthy. 5 I x