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/ THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA met< . States IDEALS. ''ponder if there lies within all hearts V dies ra as mu» i ss haunts mine day by day, A dream-of amu< ii, i g brighter than the earth More glorious i » >i the son’s eternal ray? And jet the vistt.ii 1 can never grasp, For nearer a» I < ome it floats away, t floats away—away. I wonder if there's music in all lives Like the melody that falls upon my ear? It eon.es, it goes! I cannot catch the strain. And yet the rapturous sound is ever near. It seems as though my heartstrings had been touched By spirit hands, and thus awoke the song, The song 1 always hear. Is t here a picture foi med in eve ry brain, Of wond reus lights and shades,of tints so rare, That human painter cunning tbo’ he be, Can never eatch the gleams that sparkle there? A picture glowing, waim with trembling life, And which beside all others fadeaway And vanish into air? The dieem that tills my heart with strange unrest Is prtsage of the next whin this life's done. The song, an echo of the spirit's cry, Whose lina notes aie sung in heuv’n alone. The picture, who can say? A glimpse, maybe. Id things unseen, ui known. IIai.a Hammond. FARE THEE WELL I MoibeeHiebasd AND IIofSEHOiDEKs: 1 ap pear before you perhaps lor the last time. "What a sea of faces 1 behold, and what a flash of eyesl Theie is Lamest Willie and Kusa and that proud Kentuckian.' Farewell 1 Have 1 sinned? forgive me the rast For this may be my last— Farewell 1 There is a sense ef sadness in paitingwith you all and with Fighteen ninety at the same time; but the be st of friends must y art. Farewell! Come light up, everybody, and shake! iriends and enemies alike! old and young, big, little and indiflerent. li your head is as 1 aid as au onion, 1 don t eare, come shake! Farewell! lam no respccltr ol icisonsihis time. I wish to leave no one in tears Whilst 1 am gone lor years and years— Nor yet au enemy unbound Nor Iree Horn the letters— ol Love. Farewell! Now if any one take a notion to send me a turkey gobbler for Christmas dinner please tend it in care of 8. S. If sent alive fas ten him in a secure box with an augur hole in lop for air. if dead—pack him about w ith ice. hare thee well, hll.LV CTCTMDSR. REMINISCENCES. Did yen evtr ihirkci low ihe sun seems to just t^iep out oi sight whtu one is pleasantly employed? This season never comes hut 1 think of some of my childish expeifei ccs. Flections bid just ysssed, bor tires bad been all over the state aLd all the yyiotethnic dis plays we could afloid indulged in. The pocket of Ue entail boy was as bale as that famous Cupboard end we devised many ways to eon tinuc our pleasure a' as little tost as possible. One afternoon two cousius came for me logo to Iht noccb with them auc help make iirc-nm]JH feurrep’.iLicusJy making llu baJls, we went to the tjcife and got the freth turpentine from the a*»wMJtv »ni eared We csUd in cur n cit we iouct the tTmT. When vecame to cur£ei\is citin't we hurry? An eytn that been took us home but we were UW. Faeh had work to do, of coime, and, of course again it had bee n coue long beioie we got there. My folks were on ihe piazza; each had a word to say. You know bow a fellow gets uagged when he gets caught that way. Vi ell, mother invited me in. 1 didn't want any supper, and wonoered wbaton earth mace people eat so eaily anyway. Then 1 wondered what in the world there waa in the fire-balls. 1 hey bad ruined my hands; and when 1 finished my interview with mother I was cure my hack was even in a worse condition 1 quietly crept oil to bed aud resolved that the Utter enu of the game was uot encouraging enough for any more tire-balls. The others pasted through a simular expert ence and the remains of our fire tal.s roited where we put them that first after noou • for next time.” OLivtu Waldo. MY JOURNAL. “Our life is two-fold: Sleep hath its own world.” May S—'72—Fain world I lift the veil that ob- acuies the future and look beyond! I am alt eagernest to begin my new life— my heart vi brates with expectant Joy. Sadness may fill other hearts, hut mine shall be as free and hap py as the birds of spring. 1 have formed an attachment for a lovely girl of my own age, just across the way. she nas two brothers-plain working young men—not the ones that tuy heart tel s me shall figure iu my life. Ah, my hero will be altogetber dif ferent, tall and manly, and such eyes as he shall have! 1 see my "chum” waving her hand. Tea is ready, and she guts in. 'the twilight shades aie falling around me. I love this hour best of all the day. All is quiet! there seems to be a hallowed stillness over the earth. A young and ■livery moon Is shining upon me. 1 clap my bands in girlish glee, for why ahould not this moon reveal unto me who my true love is to he! If 1 am to marry him, let me aee him with his lace to ward me, and his back to the tea. 1 shall put a haudful oi taud under ■ay pillow to make me dream. May 10—Oh, so many things have happened in the past few days. First, my dream was just won derlul. 1 saw tnree persons, One was my hero tall and nob.e looking; but what had 1 to do with the others? One w as fair, with light curly hair falling gently over a white brow; the other waa m pale, melancholy youth-a youth to fortune and to lame unknown. A shadow crossed my pathway—a long dark shadow. Then a change came over the spirit of my dream. 1 saw a new made grave, and youth and strong manhood ■food alone. 1 wish no more of fair Luna's fortune telling- for three days lster 1 attended a picnic in the woods, and met two so like the two in my dream but my ideal hero waa not there. May 13— Mr. B. called to see me. 1 like him very much. Mama thinks 1 am too young to re ceive attention from the boys. May Si—If Mr. B. was only tall and not a blonde, I could make a hero of him. May 2t—He waa here again laat evening Mama says he has beautiiul manners and un friend across the way thinks him charming Bhe, tco, baa gentlemen visiting her. One 1 do not like, and she talks of him most. 1 can't say why 1 dislike him, for.he is handsome and very fascinating. Ju^e 3- One month ago I began my journal, and oh, what a happy month it has been to me. Jfy friend and 1 tell each other everything, i did not believe 1 could love any one as 1 Oo her. Mr. B- says this has been the happiest month of bis life, and be regrets when the summer will dose, and he have to return to the city; and 1 ngtet it too, yon may be sure. » » « Deab Friends: As we must render an account for "every idle word, so must we likewise of every idle silence.” So I will again apeak with yon fora abort time—my dear S. 8. friends. Since writing to you last 1 have departed from mr old heme, ay pleasant associates, and friends (Oh, Feta dear, don’t stretch your eyes like that, for'tis true. I re ally had some friends after ell), and now find myself in onr talented Mum's State; in the progressive and beautifnl little city of Fort Worth. Iam very favorably impressed with the Lone Star State, with all its btack mud and red beaded girls. But either of these elements sie all right jnst so you keep your distance. I doubt not that some of this hand have be- eowse thoroughly disgusted with me. To those and others 1 wish to say that I have chosen another "role" now. law not going to reveal my real self to people any more. 1 am going to be like other people. 1 shall "Let the silver lining only gild the life that others see," For "Lips may smile while hearts are aching ana the world no wiser be. ” I bare not seen a bunny South lor a long time. Am latterly forgotten? No one ever ■pinks to me, I gneas. But I am not quite for gotten by all, lor 1 received a long and of course very interesting letter from onr dear Earnest Vera? wjjn’MriU^e friends with me? And yon, Prairie Flower. Corn Flower Kona Abba, Fats— yes you, Fats, if you did qusrrel time. And all the rest of this dear hand. If you knew just how much I thought of eseh of you, you could not feel very unkind towards me. Musa Dunn, you would feel nice some of these winter evmings should I waltz insure enough and tell you lo gel up from there. Let n e tel you people of au accident- or, gg Ism supposed lo be strictly noser, I should say an incident. Anywsy there wts a duit in it (There was ont m Juy side also teat lasted a week) Well, now for ihe dint; it happened when I wss on my way out hire. At Marshall I noticed a gay trio bet id the train. There were two very pretty girls and a young man. They all resembled very much, so I supposed they were brothers and sisters Well, everything got on nicely till about midnight. I noticed that my yoong lady frienda were evidently getting fatigued. They would take it by turns leaning on their brother. (And obi how I envied that boy). At last one of them went to get a drink oi water and I being in the seat jnst in iront of her brother, she mistook me for him, on her return; so she site down by me. But she did not stop st that. She just squared herself around on the seat and leaned over on me—with those beantiinl golden curls brushing my pale cheeks. (Y'ou know I did not feel in good health then). She was more asleep than awake, so I hated to disturb the dear thing. But when her big bud looked over and said in a very bossy kind of voice, “Grade!” 1 gave her a little push and ‘ hollered,” “I-ady. you’re mistaken in the msn.” When she realized her true porition she gave au unearthly yell and a much more un earthly punch with her elbow (aud that’s where I got my dent). The rest of their journey they msde in a sleeper. They ought to have done that a: fiist, i think. Firline. FANCY WORK. FANCY LAMP MATS. £ Tike white ibcct wedding, cut a circular piece thirUen inches iu diameler, button-hole stiich around the edge with colored stpbjr—I think gieen prettiest—tut icven circular pieces each six inches iu diameter, and work around in Ibe same waj: double ll cm all through tie center once, then aeioss through the center again and tack them around tie large circle by the center or points of Ihe imall ones, letting the worked edges lap over where they are tacked. This forms a shell-work all around the outside. These are very lovely, aud very easy to make, as well. To make two useful sud ornamental articles of a common cheese box, take the top ol box, nail three broomsticks inside at equal distances from each other, crossing to form legs Confiue at the crossing with strong wire passed through the holes in ti c sticks. Stain—not paint—with any kind of staining preferred—walnut, cherry, or oak lor a cover, take Canton flannel of any color desired, navy blue or old gold heiugmy choice, cut a round piece to fit the top, take a strip of the fame two or three inches wide, and long enough to extend around the top sew the strip to the round fiece, joining the ends in a neat seam en the wrong side, sew around the lower edge any pretty worsted fringe to match the color of your goods, put this on over the top, tie s nice bow of ribbon, matching the cover in color, around where the legB cross, and you have an intxpensiee aud pretty lamp stand. Now. to dispose of the box. Drive a stake in the ground in a shady place in your front yard, so as to stand firmly, and at the required height; nail a bit of hoard on top oi this and another piece across the first, to form a strong founda tion. T'pon this nail the box securely. Take a f dece of grape vine two or three y aids long, asten the ends of the vine on opposite sides of the inside of the- box, and bore a small hole in the bottom oi the latter to drain off the water. Fill with rich dirt and sand, having the latter about an inch deep at the bottom- Now, plant a vine with fine leaves at the sides of the box where the ends of the grape vine art fastened, and train the tendrils up over the vine. Cy press vines are nice for this. I u'. a geranium or other desirable plant in the center, and trailing plants around the edge to fall over the outside, and you have a very prelty flower- stand. HAIRPIN BALI.. f Take a small cat-basket, which may he pur chased anywhere for five cents, push the bot tom out, fill the basket with hair—the curled hrVWffifB’’ Villi*""'" 1 " ig now crochet two PERSONAL MENTION What the People Are Doing and Saying. Mr. Adam Moats, of Bigby Fort, Mtate, who la #4 yearn of ago, baa 400 descendants Gao. Booth says that out ot avery flea ■anooa la Hoodoo ooa diaa aitbar la tba Mr. Patrick Donah aa haa again ol Tka Boston Pilot, which ha lost throogh personal miafact- Mr. Parnell is ooeof the moat ratteaot Mala British poUttea. Sport is his abhor- for ha regards it aa the height of retty as well as useful little article for four dressing-room. corded table mats. * Take tidy cotton No. 10 and white cornet laces; make a chain of G, join, then lay ihe lace on and crochet over it cveiy stitch, using the double stitch (without putting thread over) for it. They are very pretty edged with red, and may be made either round or oblong as you choose.—Hearth and Home. ORANGE FLOWER SYRUP. Take the fallen petals carefully from the ground, the rest of the flower will make it bitter, (elect and wash without bruising one pint of white petals. While they are drying on a cloth prepare a rich syrup of granulated sugar and water the same as for any other syrup. A quart for each pint oi blossoms. Skin carefully and drop in the petals and simmer two minutes. Stir gently, strain and bottle. Seal while hot. It will be a delicate sea-green color and contain all the fragrance of the groves in spring A teaspoonful of it added to a glass of water makes a nice summer drink. It is a nice flavoring for custards, etc. A curious decorative scheme was shown us the other day, and can be utilized in the mak ing of cbair-backs, mantel valances, or anything of that kind. Y'ou may have seen a chi d take a sheet of red paper, fold it aud refold it, and then with a pair of scissors clip it in curves along the folds By nnfolding this and laying it upon a sheet of some other color a delightful design is shown, with the dttaiis all in regular juxtaposition. This is a decorative scheme in a nutshell. The difi'erence is that iu-t-ad of papei you use felt, and instead of one sheet you use several sheets. IHrT~—1 P. Marvin, who lives ot Joi towa, N. Y., k mid to be thoooly surviving ■mV- t* T *t ***** —fi *—i 107 to 18*1. Edward Everett Hale suggests the ap pointment in some leading university of a "Professor of America,” who shall stand aa an expounder of Americanism. Ex-Treasurer Archer, of Maryland, now in the state penitentiary, is an assistant steward in the hospital department. His flee years’ term, by good conduct, will ex pire Sept. 6, 1893. It is said that every year Cornelius Van derbilt sends Marshall P. Wilder, the hu morist, a healthy looking check for the fun he makes for the poor in the lodging house districts of New York city. James P. Yoorhees, of Detroit, a son of the senator, is an author, an actor and a sculptor of acknowledged merit, and he has written a play which those who have read it arc confident wUl prove a success. William Plireaner, of Lebanon, Pa.,is the owner of a volume of “The Life, Achieve ments and Adventures of the Celebrated Sir William Wallace.” The book is bound in wooden covers, is over 300 years old, and la still well preserved. Count von Moltke is an enthusiastic musician, and in former years played the violoncello remarkably well. lie delights in quiet musical evenings at home, where Dr. Joachim is a frequent guest, among other famous artists. A ring which Crig. Gen. II. J. Hunt lost near Fairfax Station, Ya., iluriug the war was recently found embedded in the hoof Ot a cow owned by a dairy farmer of that locality, and returned to its owner in Wash ington. It bore his name. Senator Ilearst’s gold mine is the largest in a group of miues near Deadwood, S. D., and is said to bo the richest mine iu the world. Three thousand miners are em ployed upon it, and they take out from $150,000 to 5030,000 every mouth. The number three has been an important factor in the life of Bismarck. He has three children, he owns three large estates, lie has taken part in three wars, he has signed three important treaties, and lias held of fice under three German emperors. Mr. Gladstone is the owner of the largest lead pencil in the world. It is the gift of a pencilmakcr of Keswick, and is thirty- nine inches in length. In place of the cus tomary rubber cap it hrfb a gold cap. Its distinguished owner uses it for a walking •tick, The Count aud Couutess de Villeneuve of Paris petitioned the Quebec parliament to permit an orphan boy, 4 years of age, named Grandbois, to change his name to theirs, as they are about to adopt him as their son. The boy will be heir to the title and $7,000,000 besides. QUEER CHINESE MEDICINES. s ING, DECEMBER 13, 1890. TALMAGE’S SERMON. Antelopes’ horns, powdered, the Chinese believe to be excellent for rheumatism. A decoction from the hedgehog’s hide is considered in China excellent for skin dis- Novelties which are now being shown for the holidays are little brackets with drapery attach ments—little, delicate frail things of bamboo or some other light wood made with almost rustic simplicity, hut backed by a heavy semicircular silk scarf, which foims a decorative background as it hangs on the wall, or a little bracket with queer looking curtains banging from it, odd things, curious—Dever seen before, and made at prices that would guarantee their sale, some thing like *15 a dozen, we believe. A man with a good deal of originality has adopted the tape idea which we see in Renais sance lace curtains, ior applique purpoies, upon valances or portieres. He has taken a quarter- inch ribbon of a quiet shale, having a beaded edge and reversible colors, and worked it upon a background of some neutral color. It gives a very pleasing effect, on the order of Louis XVI, ribbon designs. There appears to be a noticeable demand ior the old Dutch effects iu fine parlor furniture. BUT FOR A MOMENT. But for a moment, and a flash of shining wings Swept by me on the air; 1 felt the Inscious wine Of passion riotous intoxicate my brain, And reel my senses in a soft delirium Of bliss, ana yet so wild it was akin to pain. I saw revealed, when jeweled hinges turned, 1 felt The warm, sweet tremor of its life within mine own, I heard the low, delicious breathings of the heart Of paradise. But for a moment, and the slumberous portals swung With noiseless sound. I woke and wept, alas! I waa alone. But for a moment, you and I shall stand with mute Unquestioned trust upon the threshold of • land Our feet have never pressed; shall hear the dis tant sounds Our ears have never heard; and i rearing nearer Shall see the gleaming gates again unfold; unto Us still the wondrous shining heart of gold re veal Its sacred life, its rapturous powers— But for a moment— And a deathless Paradise ia ours. Bala Hammond. In China glue fretn the li'ides of assies is anpposol to be aUf'admir/tblo tonte aud Eeart and liver. ? The shell of a certain fresh water turtle made iuto jelly is a sure cure for “misery In the joints” with the Chinese. The orientals believe in the effectiveness of dried toads as a tonic, and think: that caterpillars are a sure remedy for bronchial troubles. Tigers’ bones mixed with hartshorn and terrapin’s shell in the shape of a jelly is used iu China iu cases of disease of the bones and of ague. In China one of the cures for liver com plaint is obtained by administering the foasil teeth of various auimals, which are known to them as “dragons’ teeth.” Bones of the cuttlefish or sepia are be lieved by Chinese to have virtues in the treatment of cancer. They think that the aepia is a bird transformed into a fish. Chinamen use clam shells for a cathar tic and maggots to cure dysentery. Pow dered fossil crabs are, in the opinion of their physicians, au antidote for poisons te all sorts. Salted scorpions, Chinese assert, are ad mirable for smallpox, aud silkworms, as well as the skins which locusts leave on trees on vacating them, are supposed to have wonderful medicinal virtues. Such concretions of limy matter as are farmed in the gall bladders of cows cure 8A Vitus’ dance and smallpox. These same concretions are known by some peo ple elsewhere as so called “madstones,” used for applying to snake bites. Dried snakes, the Chinese believe, are good medicine where a complaint ia diffi unit to diagnose, for the reason that the ■erpent in life inserts itself into all sorts of holes and crevices and is likely after death to seek the uttermost parts of the body. A favorite Chinese remedy for various disorders is made by inclosing auy sort of bird or other animal within a case of moist clay and burning it until the body ot the creature is reduced to charcoal. The charcoal thus obtained is administered in ternally. ROYAL FLUSHES. x*. De«.J,—Tba Maw York Aaafe wy of Music waa fifed wEb aa aadhaaa ot Marly tex thooaaad pamoaaatTbe Cbxto- fea Herald Berrios tbta avowing w ha* Dr. T- 1 —g- dalivered the eleventh aeraaaa ad hia aeries on Palestine and the adjoining eoutries. The 'same sermon, aa on pro- ▼tons Sundays, had been preached in tba morning to another large audience in tba Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tbo sub ject was “Damascus,” and the text, “As be journeyed he came near Damascus."— Acta lx, 3. Dr. Tatmage said: In Palestine we spent last night in w mud hovel of one story, but camels and aheep in the baserr/int. Yet never did the meat brilliant hotel on any continent aeem ao attractive to me as that structure. If we had been obliged to stay in a tent, as we expected to do that night, we must have perished. A violent storm had opened upon us its volleys of hail and snow and rain and wind as if to let us know what the Bible means when prophet and evan gelist and Christ himself spoke of the fury of the elements. The atmospheric wrath broke upon ns about 1 o’clock in the after noon and we were uytiF night exposed to it. With hands flW'fcet benumbed, and •arbodie.- chilled to the bone, we made onr slow way. While high up on the rocks, and the gale blowing the hardest, a signal of distress halted the party, for down in the ravineSkene of the horses had fallen and his rider must uot be left alone amid that wilderness of scenery and horror of storm. As the night approached the temjiest thickened and blackened and strengthened. Home of our attendants going ahead had gained permission for ns to halt for the uigfefin the mud hovel I spoke of. Our first duty on arrival was the resuscitation of the exhausted of our party. My room was without a window, and au iron stove without any lop in the center of the room, the smoke selecting my eyes in t he absence of a chimney. Through an opening in the floor Arab faces were several times thrust up to see how 1 was progressing. But the tempest ceased during the night, and before it was fully day we were feeling for the stirrups of our saddled horses, this being the day whose long march will bring us to that city whose name cannot be pronounced in the hearing of the intelligent or the Chris tian without making the blood tingle and the nerves to thrill, and putting the best emotions of the soul into agitation—Damas cus! C.ESAKEA PHILIPPI. During the day we passed Ctesarea Philippi, the northern terminus of Christ’s journeyings. North of that he never went. We lunch at noon, seated on the fallen columns of oue of Herod’s palaces. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, coming to a hill top, we saw on the broad plain a city, which the most famous camel driver of all time, afterward called Mohammed, the prophet and the founder of the most stu pendous system of error that has ever cursed the earth, rrthsed to enter because he said God would I llow no man to enter but one paradise, tlfd he would not enter this earthly parail 'jh lest he should be de nied entrance to j*. heavenly. But no city that I ever plays hide and seek tdli 1 1'CjjytY'rtmy jFr. But down" yoti go into a valley aud jffu see nothing forthe next half hour bitF barrenness and rocks regurgitated by taTr- volcanoes of other DISAPPOINTMENT AT DAMASCUS. Many travelers express disappointment With Damascus, but the trouble is they have carried in their minds from boyhood tha book which daxxles -ao many young paogle, “The Arabian Nights," and they MM into Daroaecna for Aladdin’s lamp and Aladdin’s ring and the genii which appeared by robbing them. Botes I have never read "The Arabian Nights,” ■art staff not being allowed around oar hoarn ia my boyhood, and nothing lighter hi tba way of reading than “Baxter's flatete* Everlasting Beet” and ITAuDig- ay's "Hktery ot the Reformation,” Da appeared to aae ae aaered and seen re peeaantad it, and ao the flteagpai tenant, bat with Ortr ay window to-night in the betel at Itemaarwa I bear the perpetual ripple ate rash at the river tbaaa Ah, the se er* is oott Now I know why all this flaraaad fruit, and why everything la ao giai, and the plain one great wnaralil. The river Abaaal And not far off tba river Pharpar, which oar bonce waded through today! Thank the riven, or rather the Qed who made the rivets! Deserts to the north, deserts to the south, deserts to the seat, deserts to the west, but here a para dise. And as the riven Gihon and Piaon and Hiddekel and Euphrates made the other paradise, A bona and Pharpar make this Damascus a paradise. That is what made Gen. Naaman of this city of Damas cus ao mad when he was told for the cure of hie leprosy to go and wash in the river Jordan. The river Jordan is much of the year a muddy stream aud St is never so clear as this river Abana that l hear rumb ling under my window to-night nor as the river Pharpar that we crossed today. They are as clear as though they had been sieved through some especial sieve of the mountains. Gen. Naaman had great and patriotic pride in these two rivers of his own country, and when Elisha the prophet told him that if he wanted to get rid of his leprosy he must go and wash in the Jor dan, he felt as we who live on the magnifi cent Hudson would feel if told that we must go and wash in the muddy Thames, or as if those wito live on the transparent Rhine were told that they must go and wash in the muddy Tiber. So Gen. Naaman cried out with a voice as loud ta ever he had Used in command ing his troops, uttering those memorable words which every minister of the gospel sooner or later takes for his text: “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than the waters of Israel? May 1 not wash in them and be clean?” Thank God, we live in a land with plenty of rivers, and that they bless till our Atlantic coast and all our Pacific coast, and reticulate all the continent between the coasts. Only thoso who have traveled iu the deserts of Syria, or Egypt, or have in the oriental cit ies heard the tinkling of the bell of those who sell water can realize what it is to have this divine beverage in abundance. Water rumbling over the rocks, turning the mill wheel, saturating the roots of the corn, dripping from the buckets, filling the pitchers of the household, tolling through the fonts or baptistries of holy or dinance, filling the reservoirs of cities, in viting the cattle to come down and slako their thirst and the birds of heaven to dip their wing, ascending in robe of mist and falling again in benediction of siiower— water, living water, God given waterl AWAKENING IN THE MORNING. We are awakened iu t he morning in Da mascus by the song of tiiose wito have different styles of food to sell. It is not a street cry as in London or New York, but weird and long drawn out solo, com pared with which a buzz saw is musical. It makes you inopportunely waken, and will not let you sleep again. But to those who understand the exact meaning of the song it Iteeoines quite tolerable, for they sing: “God is the nourisher, buy my bread;” God is the nourisher, buy my milk;” God is the nourisher, buy tnv fruit-.” As , . . , , , j chariot nor caravan nor bazar nor pal ae ace, but a blind man passing along the street, small of stature and insignificant in , there is in many parts oi tnc city ul> subdued hissing of a hatred for Christian ity that if itdared would pift to death every fi, woman and child in Damascus who does not declare allegiance to Mohammed. Bat I am glad to say that a wide, hard, splendid turnpike road has within a few yean been constructed from Beyront, oo the shore of the Mediterranean, to thisdty ot Damascus, and if ever again that whole- lie assassination is attempted French troop* and English troops would, with jia- gttnc bits and lightning hoofs, dart np the hole and down this Damascus plain aad leave the Mohammedan murderers dead am the floor of t heir moeqm and eeragliaa. It ie too late in the history ot the world far governments to allow such things aa tba aaacre at Damascus. For sort attacks on Christian miariun christian diariptea tha goapai ia not so appropriate aaballstear sabers sharp and hivy enough to eat throogh with oar oink* from crown of head to saddle. THE MODES* art. Bat I must say that thla city of Damas- eaa aa I see it now U not as absorbing ar tha Damascus of olden times I tarn my hart upon the bazars, with ruga faacinmt- lag the merchants from Bagdad, and the Indian textile fabric of incomparable make, aad the manufactured saddles and bridle* gay enough for princes of the orient to ride and pull, and baths where ablation becomes inspiration, and the homes ol thorn bargain makers of today, marbled and divaned and fountained and upholster ed and mosaiced aud arabesqned aud colon naded until nothing can be added, and tbr splendid remains of the great mosqne ol John, originally built with gates so heavy that it required five men to turn them, and columns of porphyry and kneeling place* framed in diamond and seventy-four stain ed glass windows and Bix hnndred lamp* of pure gold, a single prayer offered in this mosque said to be worth thirty thousand prayers offered in any other place. I turn my back on till those and sec Damascus as it was when this narrow street, which the Bible calls St raight,was a great wide street, a New York Broadway or a Parisian Champs Elysees, a great thoroughfare crossing the city from gats to gate, along which tramped and rolled the pomp of all nations. There goes Abraham, the father of all the faithful. II.; has in this city been pur chasing a celebrated slave. There goes Ben Hadad of Bible times, leading thirty- two conquered monarchs. There goes Da vid, king, warrior and sacred poet. There goes Tamerlane, the conqueror. There goes Haronn al Raschid, once the com mander of an army of ninety-five tiiousand Persians and Arabs. Tltere comes a war rioronliis way to the barracks, carrying that kind of sword which tiie world has forgotten how to make, a Damascus blade, with the interfacings of color changing at every new turn of the light, many colors coming and going and interjoining, the blade so keen it could cut in twain an ob ject without making the lower part of tlie object tremble, with an elasticity that could not be broken, though you brought the point of the sword clear back to tlie hilt, and having a watered appearance which made the blade seem as though just dipped in a clear fountain, a triumph of cutlery which a thousand modern foundry men and chemists have attempted in vain to imitate. On the side of this street damasks, named after this city, figures ol animals and fruits and landscapes here being first wrought into silk—damasks. And specimens of damaskeening by which in this city steel and iron were first graved, and then the groves filled with wire ol gold—damaskeening. But stand back or be run over, for here are at the gates of the city laden caravans from Aleppo in one direction, and from Jerusalem in another direction, and caravans of all nations pay lug toll to this supremacy. Great is Da mascus! WHAT MOST STIRS TIIE SOUL. But what most stirs my soul is neither The queen of Roumania is writing a story for a syndicate of newspapers. It costs the English government $2,962,- 000 annually to support Queen Yictoria and her immediate family. Emperor William sent to Count von Moltke, as a birthday present, a marshal’s Silver baton, embellished with imperial eagles and set with diamonds. Czar Alexander III is a great hunter, a real Nimrod, who does not like the official huntings, in the coarse of which animals are driven by foresters just muter the hunt ers’ guns. The empress of Austria recently spent a few days at Florence under the*strictest incognito. At the Hotel de la Ville, where she stayed, she was described as “Mis. Nicholson (from Corfu) aud suite.” She and a lady of her suite were daily to he nin the streets looking into the shop windows, or visiting the churches and gal- Joe Strozier bit Henry Farguson and Henry died of it—all ot La Grange, Ga This of itself would be merely an inter* arting item for the doctors, as blood poisoning was the immediate cause of death, but as both parties were colored the testimony developed much curious African “science.” The negroes of the vicinage declare with one voice (on oath at the trial) that Strozier is a “blue gummed nigger,” and that the bite of such a one is rather more fatal than that ... . ,,, . „ . . ,, wm jnsae, me mstonan ana coliens of a rattlesnake. Most of them were professor, is well versed in languagi afraid to attend the burial, and it was! When only 18, besides liis Greek and Latin, Iowa’s First White Child. The first white child born in Iowa ter ritory is still living at the age of 91, healthy, fairly active and not at all bad looking. Sheia Mrs. Malvina FUnlrKg^d and recently celebrated her birthday by a horseback ride to Humboldt, thirteen miles from her farm, resting but an hoar on the way. She has twelve children living in the same county with herself, the oldest a daughter of 70. She also has seventy-two grandchildren, fifty-five great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. She smilingly says that Iowa “was considered a mighty sickly country when I was a gaL” i another?hill and down again. Up again and dowy again. But after your patience is almost exhausted you reach the last hill top, and tiie city of Damascus, the oldest city ttuder the whole heavens and built by Noah’s grandson, grows upon your vision. Every mile of the journey now becomes more solemn and suggestive and tremendous. This is the very road, for it has lieen the only ro:id for thousands of years, the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, along which a cavalcadeof mounted officers went, ul>out 1,8M years ago, iu t tie midst of them a fierce little man who made up by magnitude of hatred for Christianity for his diminutive stature, and was tiie leading spirit, and, though suffering from chronic inliamma- tion of the eyes, from t hose eyes Uiushed more indignation ajplinst Christ’s followers than any one of the horsed procession. This little man, before liis name was changed to Paul, was called $aul. So many of the mightiest natures of all ages are condensed into smallness of stature. The Frenchman who was sometimes called by his troops “Old One Hnndred Thousand” ivas often, because of his abbreviated personal pres ence. styled “Little Nap.” Lord Nelson, with insignificant stature to start with and one eye put out at Calvi aud his right arm taken off at Ten«riffe, proves himself at Trafalgar the mightiest hero of the En glish navy. The greatest of American theo logians, Archibald Alexander, could stand under the elbow of many of his contempo raries. Look out for little men when they start oat for some especial mission of good or evil. The thunderbolt is only a conden sation of electric:^ SYRIA’S^tOONDAV SUN. Well, that galloping group of horsemen on the road to (Damascus were halted quicker than bombshell or cavalry charge ever halted a regtfeeut. The Syrian noon day, because of the clarity of the atmos phere, is the brightest of all noondays, and the noonday sun in Syria is positively ter rific for brilliance. But suddenly that noon there flashed from the heavens a light which made that Syrian sun seem tame as a star in comparisbn. It was the face of the ■lain and ascenifed Christ looking from the heavens, and under the ilash of that overpowering light all the horses dropped with their riders.’Human face and horse’s mane together iu the dust. And then two claps of thunder fallowed uttering the two words, the second word like the first: “Saul! Saull” For three! days that fallen eques trian waa totally blind, for excessive light wUl sometimes Extinguish the eyesight. And what cornea and crystalline lens could endure a brightness greater than the noon day Syrian snnfi I had read it a hundred times, bnt it neve*- so impressed me before, and probably will never so impress me •gain, as I took n(jy Bible from the saddle bags and read aiond to onr comrades in travel, “As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven, and he fell to the earth and fcord a voice saying unto him, ’Saull SanH Why persecuted thou me!* and ho aaM, ‘Who art thou, Lord!* And the Lord sail}, ‘I am Jeans, whom thou But wo cannot’stop loaflM an this road, far wo shall aee this nahn—d equestrian fetor In Domaecoe, towns* wlflrthtehniea'a hand to toned add a* whteh we with difficulty any of them were induced to touch the corpse, such was their fear of the poison. Unfortunately the doctors did not examine and report on the alleged “blue gums.” be could read fluently French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian ami German, and liad made a beginning in Dutch, Danish, Swed- j toewfc^^&SriL 0 * H^ w^h conpi^lhe'two sides of the world f taafiUii'T. Tbe evening la near at hand, aad aa we leave snowy Iter- mon behind ns abd approach the shadow ot the cupolas of two hundred mosque* wo eat through a dive mfamoce of many miles of garden which embower the city. So luxuriant are these gardens, ao opulent in colors, ao luadotpa ot fruits, ao glittering with fountains, fo rich with bowers and kiosks that the Mohammedan’* heaven waa fashioned after what are to be seen hero of bloom and fruitage. Here in Damascus at the right season are cherries and mulberries and apricots and almonds and pistachios and pomegranates and pears and apples and plums and cjtrona and all the richuess of the round world’s pomology. No won der that Julian called this city “the eye of the east,” and that the poets of Syria have styled it “t he luster on the neck of rloves,” and historians said, “It is t he golden clasp you look out of the window you see Mohammedans, who are in large majority in Abe city, at prayer. Ami if it were put to ’vote who should be king of all the earth, fftffl”rAtrWiWhW,”y®lflLeiU"„would say tops aud ou the streets Mohammedans at worship. The muezzin, or tiie officers of religion who announce the time of wor ship, appeal- high up on the different min arets or tall towers, and walk around the minaret, inclosed by a railing and cry in a Rail and mumbling way: “God is great. I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohammed is the apostle of God. Come to prayers! Come to salvation! God is great. There is no other hut God. Prayers are better than sleep.” Five times a day intis:, the Mo hammedan engage in worship. As he begins he turns his face toward the city of Mecca, and unrolls upon the ground a rug which hit almost always carries. With his thumbs touching the lobes of liis ears, and holding his face between liis hands, be cries: “God is great.” Then folding his hands across bis girdle, he looks down and says: “Holiness to thee, O God, aad praise be to thee. Great is thy name. Great Is thy greatness. There is no deity but thee.” Then the worshiper sits upon his heeLs, then he touches his nose to the rug, and then his forehead, these genuflections ac companied with the cry, “Great is God.” Then, raising the forefinger of his right hand toward heaven, ho says: “I testify there is no deity but God, and I testify that Mohammed is the servant of God, and the messenger of God.” The prayers close by tbe worshiper holding his bands opened upward as if to take the divine blessing, and then his hands are rubbed over bis face as if to convey the blessing to his en tire body. REASONS FOR PRAISING MOHAMMEDANISM. There are two or three commendable things about Mohammedanism. One is that its disciples wash before every act of prayer, and that is five times a day, and there is a gospel in cleanliness. Another commendable thing is they don’t care who is looking and nothing can stop them in their prayer. Another thing is that by tha order of Mohammed, and an order obeyed for thirteen hnndred years, no Mo hammedan touches strong drink. But the polygamy, the many wifehood of Moham medanism, has made that religiou the un utterable and everlasting curse of woman, and when woman sinks tho race sinks. The proposition recently made in high ec clesiastical places for the reformation of Mohammedanism, instead of its oblitera tion, is like an attempt to improve a plague or educate a leprosy. There is only one thing that will ever reform Mohammedan iam, and that is its extirpation from the face of the earth by the power of the gospel of the Sou of God, which makes not only man, but woman, free for this life and free for the life to come. The spirit of the horrible religion which prevades the city of Damascus, along whose streets we walk and out of whose bazars we make purchases, and in whose mosques we study the wood carvings and bedizen men’s, was demonstrated as late aa 1800, when in this city it pat to death 0,000 Christians in forty-eight hours and put to the torch 3,000 Christian homes, and those ■treats we walk today were red with tba *rt*p, and the shrieks and groans of tha dying and dishonored men and women ■mde this place a bell on earth. This went MS until a Mohammedan, better than hte religion, Abd-el-Kader by name, a greet aeldier, who in one war had with MM beaten 00,000 of the enemy, now pro- against thia mmaaen and gathered the Christiana of rta IntooiUa. «ad private housesandfilled his own home with the affrighted sufferer*. After a WUM too mob cum to bis -doov uid to mended the “Christian doga” whom he was ■haltering. And Abd-el-Kader mounted a home and drew hte sword, and with a few Of hte old soldiers around him charged on tha mob and cried: “Wretches! Ia the way you honor the prophetr May hte mines be upon you I Shame on youl Shame! You will yet live to repent. Yon think you may do as you please with the Christians, but the day of retribution will come. The Franks will yet turn your mosques into churches. Not a Christian will I give up. They are my brothers. Stand back or I wiU give my men the or der to fire.” Then by t he might of one great soul un der God the wave .of assassination rolled back. Huzza for Abd-el-Kaderl Although now we Americans and foreigners png* through the streets of Damascus nnlila. pergonal appearance. Oh, yes; we have seen him lx*fore. He was one of that caval- +aA» roii.in■' frum Jerusalem to Damascus uisrance oytz w tw , «uu «*« up blind. Yes, it is Saul of Tarsus now going along tills street called Straight. He is led by his friends, for ho cannot see liis hand before his face, unto the house of Judas; not Jndns tiie had, but Judas the good. In another part of this city one Ananias, not Ananias the liar, but Ananias the Chris tian, is told by tiie Ix>rd to go to this house of Judas on Straight street and put ills hands on the Idiud eyes of Saul that his sight might return. “Oh,” said Ananias, “I dare not go; that Saul is a terrible fel low. He kills Christians and he will kill me.” “Go,” said the Lord and Ananias went. There aits in blindness that tre mendous persecutor. He wus a great nature crushed. He had started for the city of Damascus for the one purpose of assassinating Christ’s followers, but since that fall from Lis horse he has entirely changed. Ananias steps up to llie sight less man, puts his right thumb on one eye and the left thumb on the otbereye, and in an outburst of sympathy and love aud faith says: “Brother Saul! Brother Saul! the Lord, even Jesus that appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest, has sent me that thou mayst receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.” Instantly , something like scales fell from the blind j man’s eyes, and he arose from that seat the ! mightiest evangel of all tbe ages, a Sir William Hamilton for metaphysical analy sis, a John Milton for sublimity of thought, i a W'hitefield for popular eloquence, a John Howard for widespread philanthropy, but j more than all of them put together i aspired, thunderbolted, multipotent, apostolic. Did Judas, the kind host of this blind man, or Ananias, tbe visitor, see scales drop from the sightless eyes? I think not. Bnt Paul knew they hail fallen, and that is all that happens to any of us when we are convert- ad. The blinding scales drop from oar eyes and we sec things differently. A Christian woman, missionary among a most degraded tribe, whose religion was never to wash or improve personal appear ance, was trying to persuade one of those heathen women not only of need of change st heart but change of habits, which would result in change of appearance bnt the effort failed until the missionary had placed in her own hallway a looking glass, and when the barbaric woman passing through the hall saw herself in the mir ror forthe first time, she exclaimed, “Can ft be possible I look like that?” and ap palled at her own appearance she renounced her old religion and asked to be instructed in the Christain religion. And so we feel that we arc all right in our sinful and un changed condition until the scales fall from our eyes, ;.u d iu the looking glass of God’s word we see out selves as we really are, until divine grace transforms us. MANY PEOPLE ARE BUND. There are many people in this house to day as blind as Paul was before Ananlna touched his eyes. And there are many here from whose eyes the scales have al ready fallen. You see all subjects aad all things differently—God and Christ and eternity, and your own immortal spirit. Sometimes tbe scales do not all fall at once. When I was a boy, at Mount Pli ant, one Sunday afternoon reading Dodd ridge’s “Rise and Progress of Religion in theBonl,” that afternoon some of tbe aealea fell from my eyes and I saw a little. After I had been in tbe ministry about a year, one Sunday afternoon in’ the village par sonage reading the Bible story of the Syro- Phenidau’s faith, other scales fell from my eyes and I saw better. Two Sunday evenings ago, while preparing for the even ing service in New York, I picked a book that I did not remember to have seen before, and after I had read a page about reco nsec ration to God I think the remain ing scales fell from my eyes. ShaU not our visit to Damascus today result, like Paul’s visit, iu vision to the blind and in creased vision for those who saw some what before? I was reading of a painter’s child who became blind iu infancy. But after the child was nearly grown a surgeon removed the blindness. When told that this could be done, the child’s chief thought, her mother being dead, was she would be able to see her father, who had watched over her with great tenderness. 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