Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

i KKTABLIfSHEn IHftO. 1 IJ. 11. EfeTILL Editor and Proprietor, f SLEEPING IN THE TENTS. STIRRING INCIDENTS AT THE GET TYSBURG REUNION. The Blue and the Gray Tenting on the Field Where They Fought Like He roes in the Long Ago—Return of a Sword—Captor and Captive Renew their Acquaintance. Gettysburg, Fa., July 3.—Very littlo more sleep visited the eyes of the people of Gettysburg last night than on the night of July 2,1863. This morning dawned clear and beautiful, a perfect counterpart of the memorable day it commemorates. In place of cannon shots, however, the shrill shrieks of locomotive broke the Sabbath stillness as excursion after excursion reinforced the crowds already thronging the streets. Bril liant uniforms, flushing arms and a mass of people moving in all directions over the field brings vividly to mind the scenes of the great conflict. The morning was spent in sight-seeing and going over the field. MARCHING TO THE FIELD. This afternoon, as soon as dinner was over, the veterans collected at their respec tive headquarters, and at 1:30 o’clock a pro cession formed at the Eagle Hotel, and led by Adjt. Whit rear and followed by a band took up Its march toward the place where twenty-four years before the Philadelphia men had held their position against the fa inous Pickett’s division of Gen. Longstreet’s corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. The procession proceeded out Baltimore street to the place where Emmittsburg joins it, and which was the outer post of the Union sharpshooters during the fight, out the Emmittsburg road to Battlefield avenue the wearers or blue badges and white helmets proceeded. BLOODY ANGLE. Slowly they make their way through the dust which covers the roads. At length they reach “Bloody Angle.” The band strikes up “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,” and the old Philadelphia brigade is once more oil the ground they defended against sucli overwhelming odds. At a few moments after 2 o’clock the Sixty-ninth regiment inarched to the stand erected for the pur pose and there the assemblage was called to order by Col. O’Brien, who introduced Ad jutant A. W. McDermott, who read the list of killed and mortally wounded of the Sixty ninth regiment. He then presented Gen. Joshua T. Owen, who delivered an oration. LANGUAGE ALMOST WANTING. During his speech the General said he hardly knew what to say to the men who twenty-four years ago to-day, emerged from the woods 1,800 yards away, and made a ter rible assault on the Union line. “Let them place their monument when l they wish,” he continued. “Armistead and several others pierced our line, and here within a few feet of thi; spot he fell wounded unto death. The renowned phalanxes of Alexandria would not have dared to make the charge Pickett made. ” In closing he called for three cheers for Pickett’s division as proof of their friend - ship. They were given with a will, as were three cheers for Gen. Owens. GIVING OVER THE MONUMENT. Colonel Reilly then presented the monu ment to the care and ki-eping of the Rattle field Memorial association. It was received in their name by Colonel J. B. Bachelder. Before the ceremonies began, Mi's. Pickett, escorted by General Burns, took her seat on the platform and the crowd at once cheered her. Now Adjutant-general McDermott stepped forward and presented her with a beautiful floral cross, which had been given the brigade bv Mrs. Reed, of Philadelphia, and which they now Wished to present to her. She arose and merely bowed her thanks. THE SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT. This finished the ceremonies of the Sixty ninth, and now the Seventy-first regiment took the platform and Capt. Stockton in troduced Gen. Burns, who succeeded Gen. Baker in command a-s orator. The General spoke for some time, but finally took out his paper and read. When he finished Gen. Baldy Smith was presented and spoke for a few minutes. The monument was presented by Gen. Wistar, and was accepted in the name of the association by Col. John M. Vanderslice, of Philadelphia. Col. R. Penn Smith then in a very in teresting speech turned over to tho Memo rial Association the tablet of Cushing's bat tery, which Was also received by Col. Van derslice. RETURNING A SWORD. Perhaps the most interesting incident of the whole dedication was the presentation by Col. Cowan to Pickett’s Division Asso ciation of a sword which he to >k during Pickett’s famous charge. It is about three feet long. The handle is of mother-of-pearl uud the blade of finely polished steel. The way it came into possession of Col. Cowan was as follows: During tho charge a very young Confederate officer jumped toward a gun at which he was standing, but was im mediately shot down, and fits sword fell at the Colonel’s feet. He kept it . but has never been able to restore it to tho family of the officer, and be lias now given it to the division in order that they may tako measures to see that it is returned to the proper [tersons. Maj. J. C. Crocker, of Virginia, accepted it in the name of Pickett’s Division Associa tion, premising to do all that wns possible to find the familv of the officer. Col. Cowan then introduced Gen. Baldy Bmith and Gen. Hunt to the assembly, by whom they were received with cheers. Tho party then broke up and returned to town. A FUNNY INCIDENT. Avery funny incident occurred this after noon. A little fellow wearing u blue liudge and Philadelphia brigade helmet walked up to u tall man wearing a Pickett badge and laid: “Bay, don’t I know you! Haven’t I seen you lieforel” “Why, yes, I believe I know you, too,” the other answered. They finally recollected that the little fel low had taken the big one, who was wound ed, prisoner during the charge, and a few minutes afterward they hail their pictures taken with clasped hands, and standing on the sfnit where the Confederate baid he was taken. ALL MIXED Ul*. This evening it is hard to tell which is the brigade and which Pickett’s division. Duo man, who was aup|>osed to be a Phila delphia man, came down tho street with a Confederate h:uige mid cantisin fastened on one sid-, n blue badge on the other, and a brigade hat set sideways on his head To night some are in reality tenting on the old ffaini) grounds on the spot where they slept tm then arm-twenty-four years ago. One hundred small and four hospital tents have itecn put up at a clump of trees, and the lighter spirits will probably hunk here to night, uinl to-mon-ow they will go over the Key WMfa Fever Record. Key Wist, July B.—There have been five ftew cases of l'ever since yesterday, hut no Icatlis, The record stands now: Total cais s to date (18, deaths 81, discharged eurod 18, sick now 80. Jackeonvilie’s Working Man. Jacksonville, Fla., July 3.--Big prep arations have Iks a mode for a woi'King amn’s parade tomorrow through tho prin cipul stroeto of the city. fPie Jiofning ffrtojS. ENGLAND’S ELECTION. The Spalding Result a Surprise to the Whole Country. London, July B.—The Post, Lord Ran dolph Churchill’s organ, says: “The result of the Spalding election seems to show that the government has not met the demands of public opinion with reference to the crimes bill. The government has dawdled over four months, when the bill might have been passed forcibly in as many weeks. The sooner a stronger government is formed the better. Great changes are necessary with a view to strengthen the ministry’s hold upon the country.” WHAT MAY FOLLOW. London, July 4, 5. a. m. —The News says: “Reading between the lines of Lord Ran dolph Churchill’s speech he says that the Spalding election was a remarkable result, making a more than half home ruler. The News predicts that the Tory Democrats will soon be invited to throw away the Harting ton crutch and go in a body for home rule. The Standard says: “If the Spalding elec tion proves an isolated case it might be dis missed without a thought, but if followed by others of the same sort the outlook will be very serious.” A MAN IN WOMAN’S CLOTHES. Tho Finding of a Corpse Followed by a Strange Discovery. New York, July 3. —Glaucus E. Olds, 48 years old, a lodger at No. 100 East Twenty ninth street, was found dead in his room to day. The Deputy Coroner visited his house and found the man lying face downward. It was found that he wore a woman’s wrapper and underneath a female night dress. He had on long stockings. Women’s clothing was about the room. Ho had been sick for two months. His body was padded about the hips and legs and on his breast were rubber palpita tors. Papers were found showing that ho was born in Raleigh, N. C. lie was a graduate of Yale Col.ege ami civil engineer. He had been employed in the Pensi' >n Bu reau at Washington. Recently he has been employed by a legal firm in this city as a server of subpoenas. A letter was found written by him in 1870 to G. Punkin, No. 286 Strand, London, asking for a complete report of the Bolton ami Park trial and photographs of the principals. Two more letters were found from dealers in theatrical goods, dated 1871, and addressed to Olds as H. A. Detyso, evi dently an alias. FIRE FEEDS ON PAPER. A Large Warehouse in New York Badly Damaged. New York, July 3. —The firemen from the lower districts had scarcely rested from their battling with fires last night when at 6 o’clock this morning fire was discovered in the cellars of the big paper warehouse of J. O. Preble & Cos., at Nos. 54 and 56, Frank lin, and No. 77 White streets. The police man who was first warned of the fire by smoke had not turned in the alarm before the flames were roaring throughout the first floor and flaring from the windows. The fire was overcome at 7:30 o’clock. The buildings are of briek and five stories high, mid were occupied solely by Preble & Cos. The buildings are damaged #IB,OOO, and Preble & Cos. lose, it is estimated, #IOO.OOO, the firm having much heavy machinery. Tho house is one of the beet known in the line of envelopes and blank books in the east. Their loss is said to lie insured. The cause of the fire is unknown. MOONLIGHTERS APPLY FIRE. The House of an ex-Magistrate Visited by Incendiaries. Dublin. July 3. —Moonlighters last night made an attack upon the house of ex-Magia trato Daniel Mac Donnell near Firies. Mac- Donnell was absent. The miscreants warned Mrs. Mac Donnell to abandon the farm and then set fire to the house and re tired, promising to return. Messrs. Sexton, Macdonald, Kennedy and Moyne, attended a meeting in Phienix Park to-day to protest against the exclusion of Mr. Sexton from the lord-mayoralty of Dublin. Mr. Sexton received the unani mous support of the meeting. 11l a speech, ho declared that he had acted in accordance with Mr. Parnell’s wishes, and he trusted that he would not be defeated by Par nellites. ATLANTA'S SALVATIONISTS. Mayor Cooper Revokes His Order For bidding a Parade. Atlanta, Ga., July 3.—Mayor Cooper tonight concluded to revoke his order for bidding tho Salvation Army to parado to morrow, not, however, before tho Salvation Army hail held an immense meeting this afternoon and decided to parade in the teeth of tho order. The Army is backed up by many prominent church people of this city, who claim that Mayor Cooper had no right to issue any such order. The local press are also against tho order, which it is held, was an interference with the principle of religious liberty. Tho Salvation Army held a large meeting to-night. They claim that the Mayor has been whipped by the Army, backed up by public sentiment. A SAVANNAH NEGRO KILLED. Caesar Waters Shot by Peter Round tree at the Charleston Junction. Charleston, 8. C., July 3. —The colored troops have already inaugurated the cele bration of the glbrious Fourth. Peter Roundtree and Ciosar Vaters met at the Savannah Junction this afternoon on their way to the city. Waters bud a razor ana Roundtree a pistol. Tne Coroner held an inquest on Waters, and Roundtree lias started on his way back to Savannah. The only public celebration here to-mor row will be a parade of the colored poople. A Second Officer Drowned, New York, July 3. —As Albert Ferric, six ond officer of tho steamship Han Marcus, of the Galvestou line, was going to board his vessel shortly after midnight this morn ing he missed bis footing on the narrow gang-plank and fell overboard and was drowned. His home is in Richmond, Va. Sharp Growing Weaker. New York, July 3.—Jacob Sharp passed a l-estless night. He is growing weaker. Ho owoko at ti o'clock this morning and had a slight breakfast. His family spent much of the day with him. At tunes lie fell into a lethargic state. Stricken Down by the Sun. Pittsburg. July 3.*-A large number of prostrations from heat and five fatal eases of sunstroke were reported to-day. The mortality umoug children during the past, four weeks has been greater than for many years. Nihilists Near the Czar. Berlin, July 3.—Advices have been receiv ed ii'i.iiii Russia to the eject that twelve Ni hilist* were arrested near tho Czar’s palace at. Krnsnoe Helo. just as tho Czar and family were starting for Finland SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JULY t, 1887. THE SUMMER HAT. Its Variety as Seen in New York—Other Matters. New York, July 2. —The hat has an ob ject in life this sumjner. Its ambition, usually gratified, is to be rustic. It is tho business of the hat to ignore vexatious cir cumstances that may keep the town house open till well into July. The hat cultivates the art of looking as if its owner was devot ing the summer to sunburn, and berries and milk, and when caught on the city streets it waves its wild flowers serenely in proof of having just come in for an hour’s Indispen sable shopping, and being ready to flit back to the far-away country farm house again on the next train. The hat par excellence is of a soft, pliable twig, something after the willow' family, colored and woven to look as if the wearer had just twisted it together herself under the trees with the stream for a mirror. As a matter of fact it is imported, and economy is not its prominent feature. Sweet simplic ity not infrequently makes heavier de mands on the check book than elaboration. It is a pretty enough hat, though, and comes in scores of shrqies, some of them artistic as hats go. The willow hat takes no trimming but flowers. It is tho fancy of the hour to adorn it with as good an imitation as the milliner can furnish of whatever posy hap pens to be in bloom. Lost week the first rural hats that appeared carried hunches of pink azaleas and mountain laurel. This week I have seen one or two wound round and about with wreaths of wild roses not too large, and pale tinted like the briar rose that grows on the Palisades. Pink clovers will be in order for a short time, and then one may expect the meadow lilies to come in. Another rustic hat that wins a good deal of favor is braided of a green Mexican grass that keeps its color, with a brown shade or two for relief thrown in. Such hats are faced with plush, and milliners who know how to handlo them fasten a nosegay loosely on one side with meadow daisies, corn flowers, summer asters and maybe a red ha wherry or two nodding as the wind blows. Coarselv braided straws of all de scriptions have lieenthe rule sinco July came in, and will lie taken as a compliment rather than a discourtesy to the most ceremonious of toilets. If one doesn’t fancy them she can take sheer white mull and veil her hat completely, nestling her posy bunch among tho folds on top of the crown. Her only other recourse is the newly revived hat of drawn muslin, whicli will be used a little with diaphanous white toilets at garden parties on the lawn. But one doesn’t always plunge into the country for relief from summer heats. At the soaside the sailor hat in rather coarse navy blue, brown or mottled blue and white straws will hold almost exclusive sway. It takes a band of ribbon for trimming or dotted net with flowers. Its chief rival is a felt yachting hat of pretty much the same shape, and which is now white with a cardinal band and now red with a white band. The driving hat is big and gay in color. With a white cloth suit it is of white felt. Ordinarily it is a great picturesque Rem brandt or Gainsborough, of the style adopted by Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Jr., and some other society folk throe or four weeks ago and cropping out on the heads of all their following since the big hat is covered with drooping white plumes, and a fad—more sensible than most fads—that attends its wearing is that young women, married arid unmarried, let their hair blow about as it will under it, the vexatious, eye spoiling gauze veil being reserved for mature age and amounting to a confession of anxious care for curls whose faithfulness is not to l>e trusted, and for dubious frizettes and waves. For horseback riding the hat is invariably low and soft-crowned. High, stiff heavers are as inadmissible as they are ugly. To say summer bonnet is the same thing as saying lace or tulle. It is not saying much else except roses or wreaths of fine flowers. The dress bonnet is very small, very reserved in its use of colors of contrast with the dashing hats, and chary of showing itself on hot days, save on occasions when its presence is considered absolutely necessary. Three French milliners—alj milliners hail from Paris and must bo addressed as Madame, no matter what land has tho honor of tlieir birthplace —have recently astonished the town by buying a magnificent build ing on one of the best Fifth avenue corners, where they will establish the busiuoNM of hat and bonnet making. The price paid was #200,000, about half to remain on mortgage. Besides the, purchase money the sisters must have #50,000 or #75.000 to invest in stock for such a big and fashionable trade as they propose to do. Yet it was not so many years ago that they were almost penniless immigrants who went from Castle Garden to set up an humble shop among the East Ride tenement dwellers. Some women have business ability. I doubt if any more lugubrious memorial was ever devised than one which is exhibited with great pride by a Now York photog rapher. It is a picture of two girls stand ing on opposite sides of a "property altar” leaning over it in the very act of stifling their convulsive solra with their handker chiefs. Across the face of the altar is the legend “Good-by.” Dozens of copies of this unique exhibition of bad taste were actually sent out to friends as assurances of grief at a bereavement. The Buffalo Typographical Convention, which recently decided that women should ls paid the same rates a- men for the same work, was one of the most intelligent Ixidies of laboring men’s, representatives ever as sembled. It i.s only foolish laboring men who demand that women shall be paid lower wages for the same work. The com petition of well-paid women is not so dan gerous. There will be more female “stars” of the first magnitude—measuring success by the ducats which theatre-goers pay—upon the American stage next season than tills. In one lucrative profession at least the women are elbowing tho men aside most completely. Central Park is not so picturesque ttiis summer ns it has been in former years. Tho drives are just ns jxipular and the throng of carriages grows daily more dense. But what sober vehicles they are. Mrs. W. 11. Van derbilt long ago set the example of riding in a heavy barouche, gravely [minted and sadly u;iholstensl. Only the dowagers fol lowed her lead for a time, but of lab' it has Usui whtsjxTod that Fhryue makes herself the centre of attraction in the jolting little village cart and that to her and to her alone belong the buggy with its rod wheels and embroidered robe and the low und graceful victoria. Respectability accordingly turns lumbering and ponderous and dark colored with a rush. No use. Phryno will do the same and respectability may us well lie gay and delight the eye of the July swarm of country cousins as of yore. E. P. H. Cholera in Rocella. London, July 3—Cholera has appeared in Rocella. In Calabria, where there have already been reported seventeen cases and nine deaths, the outlook is ominous, iu> the weather i Unusually warm. Gotham’s Long Death List. New York, July 3.—Tho deaths reported to the Health Board toilay numbered 250. This is the largest figure for one day since lb7o. PAUL SAFE IN A BASKET. TALMAGE TELLS THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS ESCAPE. Slenderness of the Tenure on Which Great Results Hang'—No Insignifi cances in Our Lives Unrecognized and Unrecorded Services Acknowl edgements to the Old Folks at Home. Martha’s Vineyard. Mass/, July 3.- Many hundreds of Brooklyn Tabernacle peo ple and their friends have madea pilgrimage to this place. It is one point in an excursion of six days, taking in Newport, Nantucket and this island. The Rov. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., preached here this morn ing in the great Camp-meeting Talieruacle. Thousands of people were present from all parts of New England. The music was conducted by a band. Dr. Talmago’s text was: “Through a window in u basket was I let down by the wall.”—II. Cor., xi. 33. He said: Sermons on Paul in jail, Paul on Mars Hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul before the Sanhedrim, Paul before Felix are plentiful, but in my text we liuvo Puul in a basket. Damascus is a city of white and glisten ing architecture sometimes called “the eye of the East,” sometimes called “a jiearl sur rounded by emeralds,” at one time distin guished for swords of the best material called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric called damasks. A horseman by the name of Saul, riding toward this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had ilropiied under a flash from the sky, which at tile same time was so bright blinded the rider for many days, and, I think, so permanently injured his oyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. The Mayor gives authority for his arrest, and the popular cry is: “Kill him! Kill him!” The city is surrounded by a high wall, and tho gates are watched by the Silice lest the Cicilian preacher escape. any of tho houses ore built ou the wall, and their balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside, it was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruitsand flowers from the gardens. To this day visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai arc lifted and let down in baskets. Detectives prowled around from house to bouse looking for Paul, but his friends hid him, now in one place, now in another. He is no coward, as tifty incidents in his life demonstrate. But he feels his work is not done yet, and so he evades assassination. “Is that preacher here!” the foaming mob shout at one house door. “Is that fanatic beret” tho police shout at another house door. Sometimes oil the street incognito he passes through a crowd of clinched fists and some times he secretes him*cif on the house-top. At lust the infuriate populace get on sure track of him. They have posi tive evidence that he is in the house of one of the Christians, the balcony of whose home reaches over the wall. “Here he is! Here he is!” The vociferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursuers are at the front door. They break in. “Fetch out that gos pelizer, and let us hang his head on the city gate. Where is he:” The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good stout basket in the house. Paul’s friends fasten a rope to the basket. Puul steps into it. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony ou the wall, and then while Paul holds on to the rope with both bands his friends lower away, carefully and cau tiously, slowly but surely, further down and further down, until the basset strikes the earth and the npos tie steps out and afoot, and alone starts on thut famous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished earth and heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul’s diary of travels: “Through n window in a basket was I let down by the wall.” Observe, first, on what a slender tenure great results hang. The ropeniaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never know bow much would depend upon the strength of it. How if it had lieen broken and the apostle’s life hod been finished out, what would have become of the Christian church! All that magnificent missionary work in Pnmpbilia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia, would never nave been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting a part of the New Testament would never have been written. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously told as ho told it. That example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean Kuroclydon, under flagella tion and at his beheading would not havo kindled the courage of Dm thousand martyr doms. But that rope holding that basket, how much depended on it! Ho again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances. Did ever a ship of many thousand tons, crossing the sea, have sunn important pas senger as had once a basket of leaves, from ta(frail to stern only throe or fotlr feet, the vessel made water-proof by a coat or bitumen, and floating on the Nile with the infant lawgiver ot the Jews on board? What if some crocodile should crunch it J What if some of tho cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war some times carry forty guns looking through the port holes, ready to open battle. But that liny craft ou the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that born baffled Binai at tho law-giving. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical importance! The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night, and the father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safo oil the ground, but one remains in the con suming building. That one wakes, ami find ing his lasi on fire and the building crum bling, comes to the window, and two peas ants make a ladder of their bodies, one peas ant standing on the shoulder of the other, and flown the human hairier the boy de scends—John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of pou* ants ask tho millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all round tho world. Ask their hundreds of thousands already ascended to join their founder, who would have peris lust but for tho living stairs of peasants’ shoulders An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, aud right in the midst of surrounding can nibalism and squalor the passengers discov ered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful borne* and highest style of religion and civilization. For tifty years no missionary and no Christian influ ence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a denrt of heathendom? Hixty years before, a ship bad met disaster, and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, wont to Ids trunk and took out a Bible which his mother had placed there, and swam ashore, the Bible hold in his teeth. Tiie i*>ok was read on all skies until the rough and vicious population were evangel ir-ea, and a church wus started, and an en lightened commonwealth established, anti the world's history has no more brilliant page than that which tells of the transforma lion of a nation by one book. It did not seem of much importance whether the tailor continuo.l to hold the book in his teeth or lot it fall iii the breakers, but upon what small circumstance depended what mighty results' Practical inference: There are no insig nificances jn our lives. The minutest, thing is port of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of infinitesimals. Great things an aggrogu tiou of small things. Bethlehem manger nulling on a star in the eastern sky. One nook ip a drenched sailor’s mouth the evan gelization of a multitude. One 1 mat of papyrus on flu- Nile freighted with events for all ages. The fab' of Christendom in a basket let down from a window on the wall. What you do, do well. If you make a rope make it strong mid true, for you know not how much may depend on your workmanship. Kt you fashion a boat lot it Im water-proi >f, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Biblo in tho trunk of your boy as he goes from home, let it he heard in your prayers, for it may have a mission as far-reaching as the book which the sailor earned in his teeth to the Pitcuirn beach. The plainest man’s life is an island lietween two otornitice—eternity past rip pling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casual, the ac cidental, that which merely liappened so, are parte of a groat plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from tho Damascus w all is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the Church in the northeast storm of centuries. Again, notice unrecognised and unrecord ed sorvices. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm ordis missed an anxious look from his far'" until the bosket touched the ground and dis ehatgod its magnificent cargo? Not one of their names has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Damascus or ill all the earth coinpur.Hl with the importance of their work. What if they had in the agita tion tied a. knot that could slip! What if the sound of the mob at the door had led them to say: “Paul must take care of himself, and we will take care of ourselves.” No, noi They held the rope, and in doing sodid more for the Christian church t.hun any thousand of us will ever accomplish. But God knows and has made eternal record of their undertaking. And they know. How exultant they must have felt when they rgad his let ters to the Homans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Thes salonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Phile mon, to the Hebrews, anil when they heard how ho walkisl out of prison with the earth quake unlocking the door for hiiu, and took command of the Alexandriun corn-ship when the sailors were nearly scarf'd to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat. I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talk ing in private over the matter, and saying: “How glad I am that we effected that rescue! In coming t imes others mav gut the glory of Paul’s work, but no one alum rob us of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope." Once for thirty-six hours wo expected every Ynoment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the sky lights and rushed down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time; but by the blessing of Ood and the faithfulness of the men iii charge we came out of the cyclone and wo arrived at home. Each one het<ire leaving the stun thanked Capt. Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Capt. Andrews, and when years after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized tne goodness, the courage, the kindness of Capt. Andrews, hut it occurs to mo now that we never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in the darkne.is amid the hissing fnmaces doing his whole duty. Nolsidy thanked the engineer, hut Ood recognized his hero ism and his continuance and his fidelity, and there will Ik: just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight, as for tlie Captain who stood on the bridge of tho shii> in the midst of the howling tempsot. There are said to be about sixty-nine thousand ministers of religion in this coun try. About tifty thousand I warrant enrne from early homes which had to struggle for the necessarian of life. The sons or rich bankers and merchants generally become hankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific struggle to get their every day breud. The collegiate and theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table for eight, years. The other children wore more scantily ap parelled. The son at college every little while got a bundle from home. In it were the socks that mother had knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not as good as once it was. And there also were some delicacies from the sister's hand for the vora cious appetite of a hungry student. The father swung the lioavy cradle through the wheat., the sweat rolling from his chin Ik: dewing every step of the way and then sitting down under the cherry tree at noon thinking to himself: “I am fearfully tired, hut it will nay if I can once see that boy through college, and if 1 can know that ho will te: preaching the Gospel after 1 am dead.” The younger children want to know why they can’t have this und that us others do, and the mother says: “Be patient, my children, until your brother graduates, and then you shall nave more luxuries, hut we must see that boy through.” The years go by, und the son has lieen or dained and is preaching the glorious Gospel, arid a groat revival comes, and souls bjs scores and hundreds accept the Gosjk-I from the lips of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visit ing tho son at the village parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing, fattier and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way und asking them if lie can do anything to make them more comfort able, saving if they want anything in the night Just to knock on tho wall. And then, nil alone, father and mother talk over the gracious influence# of the day, and say: “Well, It was worth all wo went through to educate that lsiy. It was a hnrd pull, hut we hold on till tho work was done. The world may not know it, hut, mother, wo held tlie rope, didn't we f" And the voice, tremulous with joyful emotion, responded: “Yes, father, we held the ro|xj. I feel my work is done. Now, l/ml, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.” “Pshaw!" says the father, “I never felt so much like living in niy life as now. I want to see what that fellow is going to do, he hux twigun so well,' Bomotmng occurs to me quite personal. I was the youngest of a large family of children. My parents were neither rich nor poor; four or tho sons wanted collgiute education, and four obtained it, but not without great home-struggle. We never heard the old people say once that they were denying themselves to effect this, tint I remember now that my parents always looked tired. I don't think they ever got rested until they laid down in the Somer ville cemetery. Mother would sit down in the evening and say: “Well, I don’t know what makes mo reel so tired!” Father would fall immediately to sleep, seated by the evening stand, overcome with tlie days fatigues, fine of the four brothers, after preucking tho goopel for about -K) yettis, entered upon li * haavotuy lest. Another of the four is now on the other side tlie earth a iul*rfonary of the cross. Two ot us ate in this land in tho holy min istry, and I think all of us are willing to acknowledge our obligation to the old folks at home. About 21 years ago the one, and ats'ut 2.‘i years ago the other, put down the burdens of this life, but they still hold the rope. 0, men and women here assembled, you brag somethimes how you have (anight your way in the world, but I think uiere have been helpful influences tlmt you have never fully acknowledged. Has there not been some influence in your early or present homo that the win-id cannot see) Doe* there not reach to you from among the New England hills, or from Western prairie, or from Southern plantation, or from English, or Scottish, or Irish home a cord of influence that lias kept you right when you would have gone astray, and which, after you had made a crooked, track recalled you? The rope may be as long as thirty yeurs, or Uve hundred miles long or three thqpsand miles long, but, hands that went out of mortal sight long ago st ill hold the rope. You want a very swift horse, and you need to rowel him with sharpest spurs, and to lot the reins He loose upon the neck, and to give a shout to the racer, if you are going to ride out of reach of your mother’s prayers. Why, a ship crossing tho Atlantic in six days can’t sail away from that,. A sailor finds them on the lookout as lie takos his pluce, and finds them on the mast as ho climbs the ratlines to disentnngle a rope in the tempest, and finds them swing ing on tho hummock when he turns in. Why not lie frank and acknowledge it—tho most, of ns would long ago have been dashed to pieces had lint gracious and loving hands steadily, and lovingly and mightily held the rope. But there must come a time when we shall find out who these Painascentw were who lowered Paul in the btwget, and greet them and all those who ha ve rendered to God and the world unrecognized and unre corded services. That is going to lie one of the glad excitements of heaven, the hunting up and picking out of those who did great food on earth and got no erodit for it. lore the church lias I men going on nineteen centuries, and yet the world has not recog nixed the sorvices of the people in that Damascus balcony. Charles G. Finney said to a dying Christian: “Give my love to St. Paul when you meet him." Wlion you and I meet him, as we will, I shall ask him to introduce me to those people who got him out of the Damascene jieril. Wo go into long sermons to prove tlmt wo will Iki able to recognize people in heaver., whou t here is one reason we fail to present, anil that is bettor than all—God will introduce us. We shall have them all pointed out. You would not he guilty of the impoliteness of having friends in your parlor not introduced, and celestial polite ness will demand that we ho mode ac quaiuted with all the heavenly household. What rehearsul of old times and recital of stirring reminiscences! If others fail to give introduction, God will take us through, mid before our first twenty-four hours in heaven—if it wore calculated by earthly time-pieces—have passed, we shall meet and talk with more heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal state we met with enrthly celebrities. Many who made great noise of usefulness will sit on the last seat by the front door of tho heavenly temple, while right up within arm’s reach of the heavenly throne will lie many who, though they could not preach themselves or do great ex ploits for < bid, nevertheless held the rope. Come, let us go right, up and accost those on this circle of heavenly thrones. Hu rely, they must liavo killed in battle a million men. Surely, they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the cities tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? “I lived by choice the un married daughter in an humble home that I might take care of my parents in their old age, and I endured without complaints all their querulousncss and administered to all their wanks for twenty yearn." Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven! “I was for thirty years a Christian invalid anil suffered all the while, occasionally writing a note of sympathy for those wore' off than I, and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, and onoe In a while I was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family In the bark lane.” Foss on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? “I was the mother who reared a whole family of children for God, and they are out in the world, Chris tian merchants, Christian mechanics, Chris tian wives, and I have had my full reward of all my toil.” Let uA pass on in the circle of thrones. “I had a Sabbath school class, and they wore always on uiy heart and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting lor their arrival.” But who art thou, the mighty one of heaven on this other throne? “In time of hitter persecution I owned a houso in Da mascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ was hounded from street to street, and I hid him from the aseassins, and when I found them breaking in my house and I could no longer keep him safely, I ad vised him to flee for his life, and a basket was let down over tlie wall with the mnl treated man in It, und I was one who heiped hold the rope." And I said: “Is that all?" And he answered: “That is all.” And while I was lost in amazement I hoard a strong voice tiiat sounded as though It might once have been hoarse from many exposures, aud triumphant as though it might have Ik; longed to one of the martyrs, and it said: “Not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen tho weak things of the world to confound the things which aro mighty, and base things of the world and tilings which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which arc not to bring to naught things which are, that no flesh should glory In His presence.” And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it was the very one wh" Imd said: “Through a window in a basket was I Jet down by the wall.” Henceforth think of nothing as insignifl cant. A little thing may decide your all A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It, was well equipped, but in put ting up u stove in the pilot l>ox a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship’s officer, deceived by that, dis tracted compass, put the ship two hundred niili*s off her right course, and suddenly the man on tho lookout cried: “Land ho!*’and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals A six penny nail nm near wracking a Cunarder. Hinall rojies hold mighty destinies. A minister seated in Boston at bis table, lacking a word puts his liand behind His head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling fails and crushes the tahlo and would have crushed him. A minister In Jamaica at night by the light of un Insect, called the awIMVi is kt-jit from stepping over a precipice a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated English clergyman, said that he entered the min istry from a train of circumstances startl'd by tho twrkiug of a dog. Hud the wind blown one way on a certain day, tho Spanish Inquisition would have been estab lished in England; but it blew the other way, and that ilropped the accursed insti tution with 75,000 tons of shipping to the bottom of the sea, or flung tho splintered logs on the rocks. Vi,thing unimportant in your life or mine. Throe noughts placed on the right side of ttm figure 1 mate a thousand, and tl noughts on the right side of the figure 1, a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may b# augmentation illim- All the ages of time and eternity e‘ r *” t ’i Iv the bosket Ist down from a Un. miKib balcony. t PRICE ato A YEAR. | > A CENTS A COPY, f YIELDS OF THE FIELDS. THE WHOLE COUNTRY VISITED BY HELPFUL RAINS. A Slight Excess of Temperature in the North and Cooler Weather Than Usual In the South—The Past Week Favorable to the Cotton and Wheat Crops. Washington, July :i.—' The following is the weather crop bulletin issued to-day by the signal office for tho week endiug July 2: TEMPERATURE. During the week the weather has been slightly warmer than usual in the Northern States, the average daily excess being gen erally less than 2", while throughout the Southern States it was cooler than usual, tho average daily temperature ranging from 3” to V below normal. Throughout the cotton belt during the week the daily average was about 5* cooler than usual. Tlie average daily temperature for the season, from Jan. 1 to July 2, differs less than 1” from normal in all the agricultural districts, except in tho Southern States where tho thermal excess previously reported in the cotton region bus been slightly reduced and tho deficiency on the South Atlantic coast slightly augmented. THE RAINFALL. During tho week the rainfall has been slightly Til excess in the greater portion of the cotton region, and generally from the Mississippi river westward over the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Large ex cesses for the week, ranging from three to ten inches, are reported from Southern Georgia nivl thence westward to Texas, and almost daily rains occurred in the Missis sippi Valley from the Gulf States north wan! to Wisconsin and Minnesota, thus ending the drought previously existing In portions of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Heavy rains are reported this morning from tho States of tlie Mississippi Valley, and are in dications for the cotton region, and the corn tobacco and wheat regions went of tho Alle ghenies. From Michigan and the Ohio val ley eastward to the Atlantic toast there was less rain than usual for the week, the deficiency amounting to alxait 1 inch. The large deficiency in the rainfall for the sea son. from Jail. I to July 2, over the cotton region is largely the result of the deficiency of tho rainfall during the winter and early spring months. Considered with reference to the months of May anil June, tlie rainfall in the greater portion of the cotton region amounted to from 70 to GO per cent, of the average amount of rainfall for that period during the same months. Less than 50 per cent of the average amount of rainfall oc curred in the Lower Ohio Valley, Indiana. Illinois, Southern Wisconsin; lowa and Southeast Minnesota The rain* which have occurred during the past week, and which continue this morning, are timely, and will probably improve the condition at staple crops. GENERAL. REMARKS. The reports from the cotton region indi cate that the weather during the past week, owing to the abundant and well distributed showers has lieen favorable to cotton, although its growth may have lieen slightly retarded by cool weather. The weather has been favorablo for har vesting wheat and hay from the lake region and Ohio valley eastward to the Atlantia coast, while in Missouri and the Mississippi valley showers have delayed harvesting. The weather has been especially favorable in the corn region and the recent rains have extended over the greater portion of the corn belt. Excellent growing weather is reported from New England and the Middle Atlantio States, where a large hay crop has len secured. TIIE MEMPHIS COTTON BELT. Memphis, Twin., July 3.— The regular monthly cotton report of the Memphis dla t.riet, which embraces West Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Arkansas and North Alnliaina, to lie publishied to-mor row by Hill, Fontaine & Cos., will say: “The weather during Juno has in the main lieen favorablo to cotton. Rain, which waa needed in many localities, fell during the last three days of the month and copious showers have fallen throughout the dis trict within the jvist four days, which has Ik"U of material Benefit to both cotton and corn. With rare exception* our 312 corres pondents, as a rule, report good stands with the plant forming aud blooming well. Tlie condition of the crop is not only more favor able than last year but is on the average fully two weeks earlier. This is a most promising outlook for cotton. Corn, how ever, hi many sections has suffered from drought, but the indication* are that a full average crop will lie raised, more than will tie needed for use within tho district and considerably In excess of last year.” wheat’s shortage. , Chicago, July 8.--This week’s issue of the Fortners' Review will say: “Reportson the yield of the winter wheat crop are now coming in, and thus far corroborate our previous statement as to the shortage that might, lie expected Missouri leails In her average, and is followed bv Illinois, while the other State* have the following relative positious: Kentucky, Michigau, Indiana, Ohio, and last Kansas, where the chineb bugs have done very serious damage." Hon. D. F. Kenner Dead. New Orleans, July 3.—Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, a prominent and repreaentative citizen. President of tlie taiuisiana Jockey Club, President of the Sugar Planters’ As sociation, and Identified with many loading enterprises in this city and State, died sud denly at his residence to-day, aged 74 years. Mr. Kenner was formerly a member of Congress, and was Confederate Commis sioner to Frame, and also one of the Tariff Commissioners appointed by President Ar thur. Miners Strike. Wilkesbarke. Fa., July 3. --The miners aud laborers employed in ooUierv No, 3 of the Kingston Owl company, to the number of .'kJO, struck work yijstoroay for an ad vance in price paid for cutting gangway* and air courses and against the new rule requiring a laborer to load six cars for a day’s work, instead of five, as heretofore. Ex-Gov. Morrill Very 111. Augusta, Me., July 3.-Ex-Governor Morrill is very low to-night. He is entirely unconscious, and there is lint a slight move ment of the body. Ho takes no nourish ment. ______ Obligate Defeated. Simla, July 3.—Advice* from Afghan istan confirm the report* of two defeats of Ghilzois recently with heavy losses. The lirHt defeat was on June 18 and the second on June 111. On* of the belles of last season, only recently married, Ijhh already changed her niald four times The fair lady •* exlgeante to a degree, and woe tietide the luckless Abigail who falls to drape a dress by the appointed time, or who mav happen to be asleep when her mistress re turns In the small horn’s from a ball. Maid number five received a month's notice one day last week. • You're so slow, J cant keep you any longer.” •’But, madam." pleaded the girl—French, of Couix (inure to y.iurself that l am always thinking of your lieanty ami your accomplish nieepi. Therefore my work is retarded.” Maid number five got an old tailor-made dress an Ivory brooch aud a pair of lioot* that ver night. And shti stays on.— Town Topics.