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ing with hoo and plow and sickle, and you
know they will be farmer*. Aud othe.rs are
always swapping jack-knives or hails or
bats and making something by the bargain,
and they are going to be merchants. W hen
Abbe de Ranee bad so advanced in study
ing Greek that he could translate Anacreon
at twelve year* of age, there wns no doubt
left that he was intended for a scholar. But
in almost everv lad there comes a time,
when he does not know what he was made
for. arid bis parents do not it is a
crisis that God onlv can decide, -hen toere
are those born for some especial rk, and
their fit. ess do >s not develop until quite
late When Philip Doddridge, whose ser
mons and books have harvested uncounted
souls for gl 'rv, begun to studv for the minis
try Dr. Cals my, one of the wisest aid best ,
men. advised him to turn bis thoughts to j
bout* other work. Isaac B rroas, the emi
nent clergyma and Christian scientut-his
books standard now, though he has been
-i 4.voar; IVMk th* IK
DOCKS SlMlluai'i *.. j.
dea'i over two hundred years—was the lis
heartenment of hiß father, who used tony
that if it pleased to take any of hie
children away be hoped it might
be his son Isaac. bo 9omo of
those who have be-n characterized
for their stupidity in boyhood or
girlhood, have turned out the mightiest
benefactors or benefactresses of the human
race. These things being so, am I not right
in saying that in many cases God only
knows what is the m st appropriates thing
for you to dci, and he is the oue to ask. And
let all parents, and all school*, and all uni
versities, and all colleges recognize ibis, and
a large number of those who spent their
best years in stumbling about among busi
nesses ail occupations, now trying this and
now trying that, and failing in all, would
be able to go ahead with a deftnit ■, decided
and tremendous purpose, saying, “to this
end was I born.”
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous. Let me say that you are made
for usefuiuessuess aud heaven. I judge this
from the way you are built. You go Into a
shop where there is only one wheel turning
and that by a workman’s foot on a treadle,
and you say to yourself: “Here is something
good being"done, yet on a small scale;” but
if you go iuto a factory covering many
acres, and you find thousands of bands pull
ing on thousands of wheels, and shuttles
flying, aud the whole scene bewildering
■with activities, driven by water, or steam,
or electrio power, you conclude that the
factory was put up to do great work
and on a vast s ale. Now, I look
at you, and if I should find that
you had only one faculty of body, only oue
muscle, only one nerve, if you could sea but
could not hear, or could hear and not see, if
you had the use of only one f. >ot or one
band, and, as to your higher nature, it you
bad only oue mental faculty. and you had
memory but no judgment, or judgment but
no will, aad if you had a soul with on y one
capacity, 1 would say uot much is ex
pected of you. But stand up, O, man, and
let me look you squarely io the face. Eyes
capable of seeing everything. Ears capa
ble of bearing everything. Hands capable
of graspiug everything. Mind with more
■wheels than any factory ever turned,
more power than Corliss engine ever
■moved. A soul that will outlive all the
universe except heaven, and would outlive
all heaven if the life of other immortals
were a moment short of the eternal. Now,
what has the world a right to expect of
you? Wbat has God a right to demand of
you? God is the greatest of economists in
the universe, and he makes nothing use
lessly, and for what purpose did he build
your body, mind and soul as they are
built? There are only two beings in
the universe who can a-swer that
question. The angels do not know. The
schools do not know. Your kindred cannot
certainly know. God knows, aid you
ought to kno v. A factory running at an
expense o£ $500,000 a y ear, and turning out
go ids worth srvsutv ce its a year would not
be such an incongruity as you, O man, with
euch se ni-iufinito equipment doing nothing,
or next to nothing, in the way of useful
ness. “What shall I do?’ you ask. My
brethren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask
God. There’s some path of Christian use
fulness open. It may he a rough path, or
it may be a smooth path, a long path or a
short path. It may be on amount of oon
spicuity, or in a valley unobserved, but it is a
path on which you can start with such faith
and such satisfaction and such certainty
that you can cry out in the face of earth
and hell and heaven: “To this end was I
born.” Do not wait for extraordinary
qualifications. Philip the Conqueror gained
his greatest victories seated on a mule, and
if you wait for some c-parisooed Bucepha
lus to ride iuto the conflict you will never
get into the world-wide fight at all. Sam
•om slew the Lord’s enemies with the jaw
bone of the stupidest beast created.
Sbamgar slew six hundred of the Lord’s
enemies with an ox-goad. Under God,
spittle cured the blind man’s eyes in the
New Testament story. Take all the facul
ty you have and say: "O Lord! Here is
what I have, show me the field and back
me up by omnipotent power. Any
where. anyhow, any time for
God.” Two men riding on horse
back came to n trough to water the horses.
While the horses were drinking, one ot the
men said to tUe other a few words about
the value of the soul, aud then they rode
nway, and in opposite directions. But the
words uttered were the salvation of the one
to whom they were attered, and he became
the Rev. Mr. Champion, oue of the most
distinguished missionaries in heathen lands;
for years wondering who did for him the
Christian kiudness, and not finding out un
til in a bundle of books ssut him to Africa
he found the biography of Brainerd Taylor
and a picture of him, aud the missionary
recognized the face in that book as the man
who, at the watering trough for horses, had
•aid the thing that saved his
soul. What opportunities you nave had
in the past! What opportunities you have
now! Wbat opportunities you will
have in the days to come! Put on your
bat, O woman, this afternoon, and go in
and comfort that young mother who lost
her babe last summer. Put ou your hat,
O man, and go over anil see that mer
, chant who was compelled yesterday to
make an assignment, aruL toll him of the
everlasting riches remniumg for all those
who serve the Lord. Can you siugi Go
and sing for that man who cannot get
well, and you will help him into heaven.
Let it be your brain, your tongue, your
eyes, your ears, your heart,.your lungs,
your hands, your feet, your body, your
mind, your soul, your life, your deatn.
your time, your eternity for God, feeling
in your soul: “To this end was I horn.”
It may be helpful to some if X recite my
own experience in this regard. I started
for the law without asking any divine di
rection. I consulted my own tastes. 1
likeu lawyors aud court 100 ms and judges
and juries, and I reveled in hearing the
Freliughuysens and the Bradleys of the
New jersey bar, and as assistant of the
county clerk, at sixteen years of age, I
Marched titles, natu nlized foreigners, re
corded deeds, received the confession of
judgments, swore witnesses and juries and
grand juries. But after a while I felt n
call to the gospel ministry and entered it,
and I felt some satisfaction in the work.
But one summer, when 1 wa- resting at
Sharon Springs, and while sealed in
the park of that village, I saw to myself:
“If 1 have an especial w rk to do in the
world 1 ought to find It out now.” and
with that determination I prayed as
I had never before prayed, and got the
divine direction, and w: ote it down in iny
memora: dum book, and 1 s iw my life work
then as plainly as I see it now. O. do not
be tatisiied with general directions. Gi t
apt-citic directions. Do not (hoot at ran
dom. 'lake ami and lire. Concentrate.
Napoleon’s success in battle carno ir on his
theory of breaking through the enemy’s
ranks at one point, not 'ry.ng to meet t ie
whole line of the enemy’s force bv a similar
lorce. O e reaion why ho lost VVaorloi
was because te did not w< rk his
usual theory, and unreal his force
cut over a wide range, O,
Christian man ; O, ('hris iiiu woman
bieak through somewhere. Not a genera!
engagement t< r God but a particular ei
sug.) .i-r.i, a id made iu answer to p aver
It tu-r- ar-sixteen i.uwtrerf tn.lipai |*sque
kln to* w< rei, thcr*ri4\ * huVdre i
I WM * rthferewt imeei.,.,. t, fuiaii. .it* r
ont styles of work to do, different orbits in
whi h to revolve, and if you do not get the
divine direction there are at least fifteen
hundred and ninety-nine milli n possibill
i ties that you will make a mis ake. On
your k. ees before God get the matter sot -
tied so that you can firmly say: “To this
; end was I born."
And now I come to the climacteric con
sideration. As near as I can teil, you were
built for a happy eternity, all the disasters
which have happened to your nature to be
overcome by the blood of the Lamb, if you
will heartily accept that Christly arrange-
ment. We are all rejoiced ai the increase
in human longevity. People live, as near
! as 1 can observe, about ten years longer
i than thev used to. The modern doctors do
i not bleed their patients on all occasions as
! did the former doctors, in those times
if a man bad fever, they hied him, if he
had consumption they bled him. if be hod
rheumatism they bled him, and if they
could not make out exactly what was the
matter they bled liiin. Olden-time phle
botomy was death's coadjutor. All this
has changed. From the way I see people
skipping about at eighty years of age, I
conclude tnat life insurance companies will
nave to change their table of risks and
charge a ma i no more premium at seventy
than the/ used to do when he was sixty,
and no more premium at fifty than whe i
he was forty. By the advancement of
medical science and the wider
acquaintance with the laws of health, and
the fact tnat people kuow better how to
take care of themselves, human life is pro
longed. Bit do you realize wbat, efter all,
is the brevity of our earthly state? In the'
times when the people lived seven and eight
hundred years, the patriarch Jaoobsni'l that
his years -ere few. Looking at the life of
the youngest person iu this assembly and
supposing he lived to be a nonagenarian,
how short tno time and soon gou-, wh.le
banked up in front of us is an eternity so
vast that the arithmetic has not figures
enough to express its length, or lu-eaith, or
depth, or hight. For a happy eternity you
were born unless you run yourself against
the divine iuteutions. If stand.ng iu your
presence, iny should fall upon the
feeblest soul hero as that soul will appear
when the world lets it up, and heaven en
trances it, I suppose I would besooverpow
cred that I should drop down as one dead.
You have examined the family Bible and
explored the family records, and you maw
have daguerrotypes of some of the kin red
of previous generations, you have had pho
tographs taken of what you were in boy
hood or girlhood, and what you ware ten
years later, and it is very interesting to any
one to be able to look back upon pictures of
wbat he was ten, or twenty or thirty years
ago; but have you ever had a picture taken
of what you may ho and what you will be if
you seek after God and feel the spirit’s re
generating power? Where shall I plant
the camera to take the picture? I plant it
on this platform. 1 direct it toward you.
Sit still or stand still while I take the pict
ure. It shall be an instantaneous picture.
There! I have it. it is done. You can
see the picture iu its imperfect state, and
got some idea of what it wiil be when thor
oughly developed. There is your resur
rected body, so brilliant that the noonday
sun is a patch of midnight compared with
it. There is your soul, so pure that all tho
forces of diabolism could not spot it with an
imperfection. There is your being, so
mighty and so swift that flightfrom heaven
to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter and back
again to heaven would uot weary you, aud
a world on each shoulder would not crush
you. An eye that shall never shed a tear.
An energy that shall never feel a fatigue.
A brow that shall never throb with pain.
You ai e young again, though you died of
decrepitude. You are well again, though
you ocugbed or shivered yourself into tho
tomb. Your every-day associates are
the apostles and propoets and martyrs,
and most exalted souls, masculine and
feminine.of all the ceuturies. The archangel
to yon no embarrassment. God himself
your present and everlasting joy.
That is an instantaneous picture of what
you may be, and what 1 am sure some of
you will be. If you realize that it is an
imperfect pioture, my apology is what
the apostle John said: “It doth not yet
appear what we shall be.” “To this end
was I born.” If I did not think so I
would be overwhelmed with melancholy.
The world does very well for a little while,
eighty, or a hundred or a hundred and fifty
years, and I think that human longevity
may yet bo improved up to that prolon
gation, for now there is so little room be
tween our cradle and our grave we cannot
accomplish much, but who would want to
dwell in this world for all eternity! Borne
think this earth will finally be turned into
a boaven. Perhaps it may, but it would
have to undergo radical repairs, and
through eliminations and evolutions aud
revolution- and transformations infinite, to
make it desirable for eternal residence. All
the east winds would have to become west
inds, and all the winters cnanged to spring
tides, and the volcanoes extinguished,
and the oceaus chained to their beds,
and the epidemics forbidden entrance, and
the world so fixed up that I think it would
take more to repair this old world than to
make an entirely new one. But I must say
I do not care where heaven is if we can
only get there; whether a gardeuized
America, or au emparadised Europe, or a
world central to the whole universe. “To
this end was I born.” If each one of ns
j could sav that, we would go with faces
i hining aud hopes exhilareut amid earth’s
worst misfortunes and rrials. Only a lit .le
while and then the rapture. O ily a little
while and then the reunion. Only a little
while and then the transfiguration.
In the seventeenth century all Europe
was threatened with a wave of Asiatic bar
barlsrn, and Vienna was especially besieged.
The king and his court hud fled, and noth
ing could save the city from beiug over
whelmed unless the King of Poland, John
Sobieski, to whom they had sent for help,
should with his army oome down for the re
lief, and from every roof and tower the in
habitants of Vienna watched and waited
and hoped until, on the morning of Sept.
11, the rising sun threw an unusual and un
paralleled brilliancy. It was the reflection
on the swords and shields and helmets of
John Sobieski and his army coming
down over the hills to tDe rescue,
aud that day, not only Vienna, but Europe,
was saved. And see you not, Oye souls
besieged with sin and sorrow, that light
breaks in, the swords aud the shields and
the helmets of divine rescue bathed in the
rising 6un of heavenly deliverance? Let
everything else go rather than let heaven
go. What a strange thing it must be to feel
one’sself born to an earthly crown, but you
have been born for a throne on which you
may reign after the last monarch of all the
earth snail have gone to dust. 1 invite you
to start cow for your own coro
i nation, to come in and take
the title deeds to your everlast
ing inheritance. Through an impassioned
prayer take heaven and all of its raptures.
What a pjor farthing is all that this world
| can offer you compared with pardon her i
and life immortal beyond the stare unless
I this side of them, there be a place large
I enougn and beautiful enougu aid grand
! enougn for all the rausomed. Wherever it
I tie, in what world, whether near by or far
away, in this or some other const-llation,
hail home of light and love and blessa loess!
Through the atoning mercy of Christ, may
we ali get there!
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THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 5,1891.
WHERE BROOMS GROW.
FOUR LUCKY ILLINOIS COUNTIES
WHICH SUPPLY THE WORLD.
How Broom-corn 7s Grown and the
Methods Adopted for Harvesting the
Crop—Buyers from Foreign Lands
Present in Douglas, Moultrie, Coles
and Edgar Counties.
irom the Chicago Tribune.
Arcola, 111.. Sept. 23.—The broom is
an essential adjunct of civilization. Wher
ever the primitive man separates himself
from the nuimals on which he depends for
subsistence and introduces a broom into his
dom.cile, he is ou the high road to civiliza
tion. The broom is the imperial scepter of
the American house wife, and often the sole
sign manual of her authority aud power.
Very early in our history the witches of
Now England were supposed to scud across
that rugged soil bestride the discarded
broomstick, and that habitation is a curios
ity indeed that does not have behind some
sheltering door the broom that keeps cleanly
our happy homes. All hail to the broom!
There are four counties in Central Illinois
largely devoted to the cultivation of broom
corn—Douglas, Moultrie, Coles aud Edgar
—comprising about f .rty townships. Not
all of this area, of course, is utilized for the
production of broom-corn, but it is in
these couuties it has its natural home. Tne
j black alluvial soil of which these counties
aro composed is peculiarly adapted to the
! growth and perfection of broom
corn. The broom-corn of this section,
particularly of Douglas county, is re
garded as the standard in respect to
growth, fiber and color by the principal
manufacturers of tne United States, and
commands the best price iu the mai kets.
There are some astonisning growths of this
plaut in this county. Your correspondent
has seen to day some stalks wh ch show a
growth of thirteen feet niue inches in
eighty-seven days, aud this growth was
made in the midst of au unparalleled
drought. No frosts affect the thrifty broom
corn growth of this locality. In ninety days
the crop is practically matured.
The cultivation of broom-corn in this sec
tion as an agricultural pursuit, was begun
by Col. John Cofer, now deceased, a mem
ber of the Illinois legislature neatly a
quarter of a century ago, and from that
small beginning it has grown into a great
industry, bringing into this seotiou in round
figures about $1,000,000 annually.
In ISOO the acreage of broom-corn in the area
indicated was from 30,000 to 35,000 acres,
producing about 12,000 tons, bringing into
the coffers of the agriculturists of these
counties at least $1,000,000. The acreage of
1801, owing to the extraordinary price of
luaian corn last spring, is fully one third
short—estimated at 20,000 acres. The gross
yield will be somewhat short of IS9O, but
far superior in growth, fiber and color—
the essentials of the broom-corn product.
The acreage price for five years has been
from S7O to $75 per ton, or a return to the
grower of S2O to $25 per acre, although
tome of the most successful growers havs
obcained returns of from S3O to $35 per
acre.
In this locality, devoted largely to the
cultivation of broom-corn, are seen the evi
dences of prosperity; comfortable and ele
gant homes, all the appointments of a first
class agricultural outir, land selling from
SSO to SIOO per acre, all resulting essentially
fi iuu the fact that this section ot the country
has the finest -oil under tho oanopy of the
heavens. This area, rescued by the pioneers
from malaria and pestilence, is the broom
corn propagating area of the world. A few
years ago 8. R. Duncan sold $15,000 worth of
broom-corn ot his own raising, and 8. D.
Harris the same year sold his orop for
$17,000.
For the benefit of the statistical reader it
may be noted that the United States annu
ally, in round numbers, consumes 30,000
tonß of broom-corn, and these four counties
furnish nearly half of that amount—about
12,000 tons. The remainder is raised prin
cipally in Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Missis
sippi, Ohio and Missouri. This section
raises an evergreen broorn-corn yielding
what is technically known as “fine hurl.”
The brush is known in the markot ns short
used for tilling or hand brushes, self-work
ing, the average brush of the average
season, which supplies the larger
domand of commerce; and hurl, the long
green brush that is used for outside wrap
pings. The farmers claim that iu those
years in which they have the long brush
the buyers want the short, and vice versa.
Areola, Douglas county, is the largest
broom-corn shipping point in tho United
States or in the world. It supplies all the
leading manufactories of this country and
ships direct to Europe and Australia, while
Chicago dealers buy largely in this market,
J. D. Blood, of the firm of J. D. Blood &
Cos. of Amsterdam and New York, the
largest manufacturer of brooms in the
world, is a familiar figure ou the streets of
Areola each autumn. T. Feck, also of Am
sterdam, deals largely here. 1.. H. Smith,
Pittsburg, Pa.; K. C. Normon & Cos., Bal
timore, Md.; Perry & White, Ur
bana, O.: the Merkle, Wiley Broom-
Corn Company, Paris, 111., and the
Southwestern Broom Company, Evansvillo,
Ind., all deal largely here. H. A. Nelson &
Son of Canada pay their annual visit, leav
ing many solid dollars of the dominion in
this town, as do T. 8. Simms & Cos. of St.
John, New Brunswick. There is not, in
point of fact, an extensivo broom manu
facturing establishment in the United
States that has not its representative here
every year. A singular feature in connec
tion with this project is that no large man
ufacturing establishment has yet been able
to survive for any length of time in the
neighborhood where the brush is raised, and
that this piroduct has never beau the object
of speculation on ’changa These are two
matters in economics which tho able social
scientists who are setting everything on pa
per should next tackle.
The cultivation of broom corn Is not
more difficult than that of Indian corn.
Tho seed is planted from May 15 to May
30. Corn-planters have a particular
attachment for drilliug the seed. It is only
planted to plow one way. The chief diffi
culty about the cultivation of this cron is to
get it fairly started. It is a tender plant
and requires a good deal of care to get it
fairly under wav, but when it gets waist
high and bogins to shade the ground it kills
all vegetation in the neighborhood. Heuce,
the broom-corn row in the fall is perfectly
clean, something that seldom happens to the
Indian corn. The broom-corn gives the
best yield in dry weather, and this is essan
tial to its cutting and curing. The cutting
reason commences about Sept. 1 and
continues a month. Septimber is usually
hot and dry iu this locality, which favors
the harvest.
Thousands of foreign laborers are re
quired every year to gather this immense
crop. Ah ut .Sept. 1 the farm r boys of
Clay. Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper aud
other s utbern counties arrive at this point
by the train load daily with their oilcloth
valises, with organized and enduring appe
tites, and scatter to th ■ country for work.
The majority of these have their places se
cured in advance, and ere welcome arrivals
at tne farmhouse. They work on an aver
age in t o lielils thirty days, and thoy carry
thousands of and liars away with them to
ti.eir homes t • make the winter ia Egypt
more c mifortahle, and to lessen tho
burden on the old homo folks. There is per
haps no class of laborers in the world who
snow a lieiter morale th-ta these honet.
hardy farmer b vs wno come here by the
thousands every fall i > t *i! ear.v and late,
• atiug iwo iii-als • I th > three by candle
light, that so r.e burden may lie lift’d off
u.iou.ders which 1 avc Ik-pii Imiiist in toil for
tmu The men urn in t paid extrava
gantly. They gat ‘Oil Shady’’ wages,
"buciw I eat • ukes and a dollar a ■ lav."
■ 'here is a ji.t isr class tout t.h rveat
alt e - Irere, or , v— an -x 'tofor r > i.io •
lore, i'h i- t.. in ,-' .in.. .•■(' o’-mil
Uid , . |f I .1.-u- 101 l, ~. lon API :
fra, ail • v>r It i b t it, r . ti g Sik
‘••••b de t I’i oil ’’! 1110 .ururi >u i
wonders of earth, getting a living from the
mere highways, God only knows when and
how. A few years ago a gang of these per
ennial tramps went into a regularly or
ganized camp just north of the city
limito, burned fences for camp fires,
and became so outrageous in their
depredations, terrorizing the families of
the suburbs, that a vigilance committee
drewe them out of the country. Since
that, episode this objectionable element of
the annual visitation has not been so
abundant or so obnoxious. Bat the honest
boy of “Egypt” is always welcome and
always kindly treated, and takes home with
him .he means to get a comfortable wintor’s
outti 2
To those who have had no experience in
the cultivation of broo n-corn, to the
farm or of the east or middle states, who
raise i his one or two rows of broom-corn by
the side of bis field of Indian corn, breaking
that town only after it lias become rad, the
gathering of this immense crop here is one
of the unknown things of agriculture.
Like all other enterprises this industry
has grown up from a rude begnt-
Diug to a very considerable degree
of perfection. It requires now a large out
lav to be a successful broom-corn grower.
The pioneers of this ci op cured their brush
in old staliies and sheds, end cleaned it on
cylinders run by horse power, a boy, or
sometimes in a pinch in the absence of the
boy, a girl of the family, driving the
horses, ami the hire 1 man holding the brush
by hand on the cylinder. There are quite a
number oi’ fingerless men in this section as
the result if that proc-ss. Now they have
built ii m mse sheds, well roofed and ar
ranged foi the perfect curing of the brush,
and their neif-feeding cyliudars are run by
steam. The curing of broom-corn is Dearly
as difficult an tne curi g of tobacco. The
equinoctial dtorms of September made good
sneds a access: ty.
imagine a farmer ready to go into his
field. Suppose he has twenty hands. Eight
of these will “brta- down.” what is known
in broom-sorn parlance es “tabling,” each
man taking two rows and going backward,
breaks dot in each separate row over the
other ot the bight of about three feet, form
ing what is coiled "the tab.e.” Any one
who has strength and Dower of endurance
fail “brook down." Now, another
gang, “tbe cutters,” come along,
eaoh armed with a knife as sharp as
a razor, made especially for tne purprs, l ,
and cut each stalk about tse.ity-four
inches lon;j. They cut the stalk iu what is
called “tbs boot,” leaving about ten inches
of the stalk clear of the brush part, and
these stalks they deposit in piles at interval
on the tables. Borne of these cutters
become vecy dexterous, maintaining a mod
erate walk while securing every stalk.
Tuese are tbe valuable hands and command
the highest wages. They are the "old
timers.” Nearly every gang has its pro
fesstonal boss, whose functions are some
what iike'the mate of a river steamer.
The brash. having been broken and cut to
the extent, of five acrei, is loaded on wagons
and hauled to the shed. Then ail hands
gather and clean the corn, putting
the cleaned brush away in layers
on racks in the shed for drying. As
soon a3 it is thoroughly cured, which takes
about a week or ten days, according to the
weather, it is bulked down in mass, and is
then ready for baling. This gives the
original shed room for the brush which is
still to he cut The baling is done in a
strong box apparatus by great pressure,
aud a full broom-corn hale should weigh
about 350 pounds. Tbe brush is never
baled until thoroughly cured, and as soon
as Doled is ready for market. The broom
corn market lasts about six weeks. The
dealer ascertains the quality of tbe brush
by pulling a sample from tbe bale with nip
pers, if ho has not seen the orop in the
shed.
Nothing could be more suggestive or more
inspiring tban a field scene in tbe> early
morning or in the gloaming. Tbe hardy
sons of toil scattered here and there, and
these siieut rows of the broken brush, sug
gesting powerfully to tbe old soldier the
stern alignment of a veteran brigade on
some desperate field, when men fell like tbe
broken brnsh of these peaceful times.
INTESCONTINENTAL bail way.
Tho United States Coinm'ssloners Sub
mit a Report of Br gresa.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The commission
ers appointed to represent the United State!
on tho intercontinental railway commission
have submitted a report to Secretary Blaine
of the progress made by the surveying pir
ties in South and Central America on the
line of the proposed road.
The report states that the consuls general
at Guayaquil and Guatemala City were in
structed by the department to extend every
aid possible to the parties and to duly pre
sent them to the different governments, by
whom they wore welcomed in th 9 most cor
dial and hearty manner. The parties in
Ecuador report that they were transported,
with their baggage and equipments, from
Guayaquil to Quito by that government
and at its own expense. l%e government
of Guatemala has also extended many
favors and ordered some of their engineers
to assist in making the survey through that
republic.
It is gratifying, the report says, that the
republics have welcomed aud assisted so
cordially me several surveying parties, as
the enterprise is under mutual control and
for the general benefit.
Home delay was occasioned, continues the
report, owing in part to inadequate com
munication and transportation, in tho
assembling of the delegates from the dis
tant republics in Washington last winter,
and delay has occurred iu the payment of
the money due from several of the repair
lies, congressional action being necessary
in each country.
Congress appropriated $35,000 for tho
year ending June 30, 1891, and the same
amount for tho year ending Juno 30, 1300,
making a total of $130,000. Of this amount
there was on Aug. 1, IS9I, $50,910 remain
ing in the treasury and available for use.
Chile has paid in $3,000 and Colombia
$4,000, t’leir quota to tho common fund, so
that on Aug. 1, 1891, the commission had
about $04,000 for carrying on the work.
The expenses are estimated at about $2,000
for each party per month and SI,OOO for
office and all other expenses, making about
$7,000 for the total monthly outlay.
The report states that the work of the
different surveying parties has been satis
factory and rapid progress mode.
Lieut. Macomb, United States army, in
charge of corps No. 1, reports that he is
working toward the Mexican lmo, being en
camped near Patnlul. After completing the
survey' from Guatemala City to the Mexi
can lino ho will return to Guatemala City
ar.d proceed southward through Central
America.
W. F. Sbutik, in charge of the second
corps, reports that be left Quito J une 3. and
akho jgh this is considered tho most diffi
cult part of the route, he had made an av
erage of about miles per day. and at tho
time of writing wns making about four miles
per day, with the hope of increasing
that speed. He estimate i tbo average cost
of the first 100 kilometers for grading,
masonry and bridges at about 120,000,
equivalent to about $32,000 per mile.
J. Imbrio .Miller accompanied corps No.
2 as far at Quito, and the.i commenced sur
veying to tne south ward t ward Peru, Mr.
M Her reports that he had leached Cuenca,
100 miles south of Quito, oi Aug. 1. This
i-i car tho Peru via i b mndary. He ex
pects to maintain a speed of 100 milos per
month over the route,
in conclusion the report says: Judging
from the satisfactory ‘inference with ihc
delegates from tho other teuubiics last win
tr ii Washington, ad the cordial manner
in which the survey ng parties have boon
re-eiv and a; and as*ist*d, flic oo nniissi itieraare
encouraged t > in-beve li.nl. the republics
gem.ralL will welcome end give substantial
aid and pr- !• ctlen townid the construction
<<f the c uLtinpi itod railway,
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THE POPE’3 LA'dT PORTR&I r.
Artist Chartian Telia How He Se
cured tho Commission to Paint It.
From the New York World ,
Paris, Sept. 27.—The fashionable ar
tistic sensation of the day here is the por
trait of Pope I.eo XIII. It is not only an
admirable work of art but alsu of great
historical interest, since it is the first and
very possibly the last time that his holiness
has, or will, sit for his portrait to any ar
tist, as h.s failing health makes such a tedi
ous exertion very onerous to a man of his
advanced age.
The matter has been kept very secret in
order to obtain the value of a surprise.
Great curiosity is now expressed as
to how M. Theodore C. Chartian, the artist,
was fortunate enough to obtain this extraor
dinary privilege.
Tho World correspondent called to-day
on M. Chartian at his studio on the Boule
vard Malesberbeg, and found him a young
man of genial manners, not at all putfed up
by his present notoriety. He is already
known in America through hia admirable
caricatures of contemoorary celebrities,
which have been published in leading
American magazines.
When asked how be obtained leave to
paint the portrait he laughed and said:
For years it has been my greatest ambition to
paint the portrait of his holimss. 1 wished to
do it, no. so much for the attention it will se
cure to me as because I am in love with bis
strange beauty of face, c .mbming per leer, fi.
nesse, diplomacy and intellect with exquisite
gentleness; in fact, a face among a t lousaud.
I have never seen tue sane combination of
qualities before. I was a student at the French
Academy of Romo some years ago when the
idea first recurred to me. I saw his holiness
very often, and I cannot t 11 you how many
sketches I made in the course of several years.
After settling down here in Paris pursain : mv
career, I was successful, as you know, with a
number of portraits, the latest being Mile. Bran
dis Emile Blaset and Mounet Sully. Then tae
old longing returned to me.
Every portrait painter will understand how
much the artistic value of the result of his work
defends upon the face he has to wors upon. I
accordingly made the most lifeline sketch of
Leo XIII I was capable of doing I took great
pains, but it was a labor of love.
! went to Rome with an introduction to Count
Lefevre de Behaiue, our minister at the Vatican,
He Kindly obtained for me a personal audience
with the pope. I told his holiness my story and
exhibited the sketch He smiled and seemed
much pleased at both the story and the picture.
Ilia holiness then said very graciously that
although he had made it a rule not to sit to any
painter, he would forego his determination oa
account of the excellence of the sketch, and not
only that, but he would allow nothing to inter
fere with it.
The sketch impressed him; that is very clear,
for be gave immediate orders that a studio
should be fitted up in one of the apartments of
the secret consistory, which was in every wav
suitable to tho purpose, and also desired that
every assistance should be given me, while he
left the details entirely to my taste.
I chose the chair of statu w.th a very dark
red background. The pope, of oeurse, wore a
white woolen robe covered by a red cloth man
tel, lined with silk, a gold chain of Etruscan de
sign around r.is neck and a gold cross studded
with diamonds and rubies on his breast.
His holiness is an admirable sitter, patient
and genial at all times. He took a great inter
est in the picture and gave me every assistance
Asa matter of course I wonted rapidlv, but I
could have had more time if I had desired it.
However, I was so familiar with his face that I
knew exact.y the points to be studied and de
voted myself to them, leaving the minor details
to be worked out afterward.
When the picture was finished his holiness
kindly said that he was quite content with it; in
fact, very much pleased that Leo XIII should
be remembered in the public view by my repro
duction ot his features.
Z Pkre Hyacinths, it is said, has become a
theosophist, and will deliver lectures on his new
faith.
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THORPE.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mr anti Mrs. A. J. Thorpe and G. O. Penton
no i family are requested to attend the funeral
of Mrs. A. J. Thoup :. from her iate residence
m Henry street, THIS AFTERNOON a: 4
o'clock.
McDOWELL.—The friends and acquaintance
of Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Mcl>owollarere-i>ectfnlly
invited to attend the funeral of their infant
daughter, Mildred, THIS AFTERNOON at 4
o’clock, at residence, 74 New Houston street.
OBITUARY.
'IBS. A. J. THUH.PrTdkadT
Died, at th3 residence of her husband, 172
Henry street, at 7:10 p m„ Oct 4th, Annie, the
wife of Mr. A. J. Thorpe and daughter of Mr.
G. O. Penton.
This sad and sudden bereavement will cause
sincere sorrow and condolence of many devoted
friends, who universally loved and admired
this bright, happy life here ended to begin in
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MEETINGS.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
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