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AT THE TABERNACLE. The Testimony of Jesus Christ-* and His Witnesses. Dr. Talmawe I J oints Out There Is No Intelligent Explanation Os the Gospels Save to Accept Them as Litoral Truth—Wild Attempts at Evasion. Brookia A ppi 30. In the Tabernacle this forenoon th'' large audience listened vit.h rapt Attention ton powerful discourse by Rev. Dr. Talmage, who chose for his . object. “Over All Forever,” the text se lected being Bomans ix, 5. "Christ came, who is over nil.” For 4,000 years the world bad been wait ing for a deliverer -waiting while empires rose and fell, Coinpierors <'.rme and made ; t.he world worse instead of making it bet I ter; still the < nturies watched and wait' I. | They looked for him on thrones, looked for i him in palaces, looked for him in imperial robes, looked for him at-thehend of armies. | At last they found him in a barn. The cut- . tie stood nearer to him than tile angels, for j the former were in the adjoining stall while I the latter were in Iho clouds. A parentage of pedantry. No room for him in the inn, because there was no one to pay the hotel expense. Yet t lie pointing star and tbe.’in geiic < antata showed that. >avan made tip in appreciation of his worth what the world lacked. “Christ came, who is over all, God Ide-tsed forever. Amen.” THE CENTL'AL AND VITAL Tr.t’TH. But wiio is t his < 'hrist, who came? As to the difference between different denomina tions of evangelical Christians! have no concern. If J could, by the t urning over of my band, decide whether all the world shall at last be Baptist or .Methodist or Congre gational or Episcopalian or Presbyterian, J would not Vim my hand. But there .'ire doe! tines which are vital to the soul. If Christ be not a God, we tire idolaters. To t his ( hrist illogical quest ion I devote myself this morning and pray God that we may think m ight and do aright in regard to a question in which mistake is infinite. I suppose that the majority of those here today assembled believe the Bible. It re quires as much faith to be an infidel as to be a < .‘hristian. It is faith in a different di rection. The Christian has faith in the teachings of Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, .Moses. The infidel has faith in the free thinkers. We have faith in one class of men. They have faith in another class of men. But as the majority of those—per haps all of those here assembled-are will ing to take the Bible for a standard in mor nls mid in faith J make this book my start ing point. I suppose you are aware that the two gen erals who have marshaled the great armies against the deity of Jesus Christ are Strauss and Renan. The number of their slain will not. be counted until the trumpet of the archangel Sounds the roll call of the resur rection. Those men and their sympathizers saw that if they could destroy the fortress of the miracles they could destroy Chris tianity, and they were right. Surrender the miracles, and you surrender Christian ity. Tite great German exegetesays that nil the miracles wore myths. The great French exegete says that all the miracles were leg ends. They propose to take everything supernatural ftom the life of Christ and everything supernatural from'the Bible. They prefer the miracles of human non sense to the glorious miracles of Jesus Christ. VAIN IMAGININGS OF INFIDELITY. They say there was no miraculous birth in Bethlehem, but that, it is all a i'andit'iil story, just like the story of Romulus said to have been born of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. Tin y say no star pointed to the manger; it was only the flash of a passing lantern. They say there was no miraculous making of bread, hut that it is the corrup tion of the story that Elisha gave 20 loaves of bread to a hundred nten. They say the writ er never t umed int o wine, but t hat it is n corruption of the story that the Egyptian plague turned the water into blood. They say it is no wonder that Christ sweat great drops of blood; he had been out in the ' might air and was taken suddenly ill. They riv there were no tongues of fire on the heads ufWw disciples at the Pentecost; that there waXonly a great thunderstorm, mid the air was full of electricity which snapped ii.id fl™ all around about the heads of the AisciiSes. Ti.< J- say that Mary and Martha and Christ felt, it important to get up an excite ment, for the forwarding of their religion, mid so they dramatized a funeral, and Laz arus played the corpse, and Mary and Mar 11a played the weepers, and Christ was the tragedian. 1 put it in my own words, but Hi Is is t lie exact meaning of their state ments. They say the Bible is a spurious book, written by superstitious or lying n.en, p icked up by men who died for that which tin v did not believe. ' Now, I take back the limited statement whi. ii 1 made a few moments ago, when I unld it tequires as much faith to lie an in lldel as to be a Christian. It requires a thousandfold more faith to be an infidel than to be a Christian, for if Christianity demai'd that, the whale swallowed Jonah, then skepticism demands that Jonah swrtl l.wed the whale! 1 can prove to you that Christ was God not only by the snpernat l Ural appearances on that Christmas night, but by what inspired men said of him, by what he says of himself and by his won ■ derful achievements. “Christ came, who is : bver all.” Ah, does not that prove too much? Not over the Ca’sars, not over Frederick, not over Alexander the Great, not over the Henrys, not over the Louises? Yes. Pile all the thrones of all the ages together, and my text overspans them as easily as a rainbow overspans a mountain top. “Christ- came, who is over all.” Then he must be a God. BY THE WORD OF BIS POWER. The Bible says that all things were made by him. Does not that prove too much? Could it be that lie made the Mediterra nean, that he made the Black sea, t hat lie milde the Atlantic, the Pacific, that he made Mount Lebanon, t hat he made the Alps, tlie Sierra Nevadas, that he made the hemispheres, that he made the universe’ Yes. The Bible says so, and lest we be too stupid to understand John winds up with a magnificent reiteration and says, “With out him was not anything made that was made.” Then he was a God. Tle Bible says at the name of Jesus eve y knee shall bow. All heaven must con e down on its knees. Martyrs on their km ‘S, apostles on their knees, confessors on t heir knees, the archangel on his knees. Bes ire whom—a man? No. He is a God’ The Bible says every tongue shall confess— Bornesian. Maylayan, Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Persian, English. Every tongue ■shall confess. To whom? God. The Bible says Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. Is that characteristic of human ity? Do we not change? Does not the body entirely change in seven years? Does not the mind change? Christ the same yes terday, today and forever. He must be a God. ’ Philosophers say that the law of gravita tion (decides everything, and that the cen tripetal and centrifugal forces keep the worl® from clashing and from demolition. But Paul says that Christ’s arm is the axle on which everything turns, and that kanrt the ■socket in which everv- ttimg is si t. julira me woiua, “ti/mwmiEg —upholding all things by the word of his power." Then he must be a God. THE SAVIOUR’S OWN WORDS. Then look ut what Christ says of himself. Now, certainly every one must understand himself better than any one else can under stand him. If I ask you where you were born, and you tell me, "I was bom in Ches ter, England,” or "I was born in Glasgow, Scotland,” or “I was liorn in Dublin, Ire land,” or “I was born in New Orleans, the United States,” you being a mini of integri ty, J should believe you. 1 f 1 asked you how many pounds you could lift and you should say you could lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds or 300 pounds, I should believe you. It is a mutter personal to yourself. You know better than any one else can tell you. If I ask how much estate you are worth and you say SIO,OOO or SIOO,OOO or $.’>00,000,1 believe what you say. You know better than any one else. Now, Christ must know better than any one else who he is and what be is. When I ask him bow old he is, he says, "Before Abraham was, 1 am.” Abra ham bad been dead 2,028 years. Wils Christ 2,028 years old? Yes, he says he is older than that. “Before Abraham was, I am.” Then Christ says, “I am the Alpha.” Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Christ in that utterance declared, “I am the Aof the alphabet Os the centuries." Then he must lie a God. Gan a man lie in a thousand places at once? Christ says he is in a thousand places at once. “Where two or three are gathered together in my mime, there am I in the midst of them.” This everywhere utiveness, is it characteristic of a man or of a God? And lest we might think this ev erywlieroiitiveness would cease he goes on and he intimates that he will be in all the cities of the earth—he will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America the day before the world burns up. “Lo, lam with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Why, then, he must be a God. Besides that he takes divine honors. He declares himself Lord of men, angels and devils. Is he? If he is, he is u God. If he is not, he is an impostor. A man comes int o your store tomorrow morning. He says: “I , am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. 1 I have built hundreds cf ships.” Be goes on to give his experience. You defer to him ■ as a man of large experience and great pos-1 sessions. But the next day you find out i that lie is not the great shipbuilder of Liv-; erpool; that, he never built a ship; that he never built anything. What is he then ? An i impostor. Christ says he built this world; lie built all things. Did he build them?: If he did, he is a God. If he did not, he is an impostor. EARTHLY IMPOSTORS. * ; A man comes int o your place of business, wit h a Jewish countenance and a German accent, and says: “I am Rothschild, the banker of London. I have the wealth of i nations in my pocket. I loaned that large amount to Italy and Austria in their per plexity.” But after awhile you find that he has never loaned any money to Italy or Austria; that he never had a large estate; that he is no banker at all; that he owns nothing. What is he? An impostor. Christ says be owns the cattle on a thou sand hills; ho owns this world; lie owns the next world; he owns the universe; he is the banker of all nations. Is he? If he is, he is n God. Is he not? Then he is an im poster. A man enters the White House at Wash ington. He says: “I am Emperor William of Germany. lam traveling incognito., I have come over here Jw IVCTeatum ams pleasure. I own castles in Dresden and Ber lin.” But the president finds out the next day that he is not Emperor William; that' he owns no castles at Berlin or Dresden; that he has no authority. What is he? An ■ impostor. Christ says ho is the king over all. the king immortal, invisible. If lie is, ' he is a God. If ho is not., he is an impostor. FOOLISH THEORIES OF UNBELIEF. Strauss saw that alternative, and ho tries to get out of it by saying that Christ was sinful in accepting adoration and worship. Renan tries to get out of it by saying that Christ—not through any fault of his own, but through the fault of others—lost his purity of conscience, and he slyly intimates that dishonorable women had damaged his soul. Anything but believe that Christ is God. Now, you believe the Bible to be true. If "you do not, you would hardly have appeared in this church. You would have gone over and joined the Broadway Infidel club, or you would go to Boston and kiss the foot of the stat ue of Thomas Paine. You would hardly come into this church, where the most of us are the deluded souls who believe in a whole Bible and take it all down as easily as you swallow a ripe strawberry. I have shown you what inspired men said of Christ. I have shown you what Christ said of himself. Now, if you believe the Bible, let us go out mid see his wonderfl achievements—surgical, alimentary, ma rine, mortuary. Surgical achievements! Where is the medical journal that gives any account of such exploits as Christ wrought ? He used no knife. He carried no splints. Ileemployed no compress. Heinade no pa tient squirm under cauterization. He tied no artery. Yet behold him! With a word he stuck fast Malchus' amputated ear. He stirred a little dust and spittle into a salve and with it caused a man who was born blind and without optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens to open his eyes on the sunlight. He beat music on the drum of the deaf our. He straightened a woman who through contraction of muscle had been bent almost double for well nigh two decades. He made a man who had no use of his limbs for 38 years shoulder his mat tress mid walk off. Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine Mott stood powerless before a withered arm; but this doctor of omnipotent surgery comes in and lie sees t he paralytic arm use less and lifeless at the man’s side, and Christ says to him, “Stretch forth thine hand,” and he stretched it forth whole as the other. He was a God. THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES. Alimentary achievements! He found a lad who had come out of the wilderness with five loaves of bread for a speculation. Perhaps the lad had paid 5 pennies for the five loaves and expected to sell them for 10 pennies, and so he would double his money. Christ took those loaves of bread and per formed a miracle by which he fed 7,000 famishing people, and I warrant you the lad lost nothing, for there were 12 baskets of fragments taken up, and if the boy had five loaves at the start I warrant you he had at least 10 at the close. The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh bor's house to help get up a wedding party. By calculation she finds out that the amount of wine is not sufficient for the guests. She calls in Christ for help, and Christ, not by the slow decay of fermentation, but by a word, makes 130 gallons of pure wine. Marine achievements! He turns a whole school of fish into the net of men who were mourning over their poor luck until the boat is so full they have to halloo to other boats, and the other boats come up, and they are laden to the water’s edge with the game, so that the sailors have to be cautious in going from larboard to starboard lest they upset the ship. Then there conies a squall down through the mountain gorge, and Gennesaret, with long locks of white foam, rises up to battle it, and the boat drops into a trough and ships a sea, and the loosened sails crack in the tornado, and Christ rises from the back part Os the boat and conies walking across the staggering ship until he comes to the prow, and there he wipes the spray from his brow and hushes the crying storm on THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, MAY 3. 1893. the knee of hiisomtdpotence. Who wrestled down that euroclydon? Whose feet tram pled the rough Galilee into a smooth floor? HE CANIUIME THE DEAD. Let philosophers and anatomists go to Westminster abbey and try to wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hu man power ever wakened the dead. There is a dead girl in Capernaum. What does Christ do? Alas, that she should liave died so young and when the world was so fair! Only 12 years of ago. Feel her cold brow and cold hands. Dead, dead! The house is full of weeping. Christ comes, and liA takes hold of the hand of the dead girl, and instantly her eyes open, her heart starts. The white lily of death blushes into the rose of life and health. She rushes into the arms of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke Up that death? Who restored her to life? A man? Tell that to the lunaticsin Bloom ingdale asylum. It was Christ the God. But there comes a test which more than anything else will show whether he was God or man. You remember tiiat great passage which mJ’s, “We must all appear liefore the judgment seat of Christ.” The earth will be stunned by a blow that will make it stagger in midheaven, the stars will circle like dry leaves in au equinox, the earth will unroll the bodies, mid the sky will unroll the spirits, and soul and flesh will come into incorruptible conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and darkness and triumph. On one side, piled up in galleries of light, the one hundred and forty and four thousand—yea, the quint illions —of t he saved. On the other side, piled up in gal leries of darkness, the frowning, the glar ing multitude of those who rejected God. BEFORE THE ETERNAL THRONE. Between these two piled up galleries a throne, u high throne, ft throne standing on two burnished pillars— mercy—a tbrone so bright you had better hide your eye lest it be extinguished with excess of vision. But it is nn empty throne. Who will come up and take it? Will you? “Ah, no!” you say. “I nm but a child of dust. I would not dare to climb that throne.” Would Gabriel climb it? Hi dare not. Who will ascend it? Here comes one. His back is to us. He goes up step above step, height above height, until lie reaches the apex. Then ho turns around and faces ail nations, and we all see who it is. It is Christ the God, and all earth, and all heaven, and nil luell kneel, crying: "It is a God! It is a God!” Wo mutttail ap pear Ixifore the judgment seat of Christ. Oh, I am so glad that it is a divine being who comes to pardon nil our sins, to com fort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs are so great they are beyond any human sympathy, and we want Almighty sympa thy. Oh, yc who cried all lust night be cause of bereavement or loneliness, I want to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who is come. When the children are in the house and the mother is dead, the father has to be more gentle in the home, and he has to take the office of father ami mother, and it seems to me Christ looks out upon your helpless ness, and he proposes to lie father and mot Il er to your soul. He comes in the strength of the one, in the tenderness of the other. He says with one breath, “As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that, fear him,” and then witli the next breath ho says, "As one whom his mot her comforteth, so will 1 comfort you.” De you not feel the hush of the divine lul laby? Oh. put your tired head down heaving bosomdi vilw-CUBI wliili he’piits lus arms around you and say s: “O widowed soul, I will be thy God. O or phaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do not cry.” Then he touches your eyelids with his fingers and sweeps his fingers down your cheek anil wipes away all the tears of loneliness mid bereavement. Oh, what a tcuder mid sympathetic God has come for us! Ido not ask you-to Iqy hold Icf him. Perhaps you are not strong enough i for that. Ido not a»k you to pray. Per i haps you are too bewildered for that. 1 only ask you to let go and fall back into the arms of everlasting love. Soon you and I will hear the click of the latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong men will take us in their arms and carry ns down and lay us in the dust, and they can not bring us back again. I should be scared with infinite fright if I thought I must stay in the grave, if even the body were to stay in the grave. But Christ will come with glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up the rocks and let us all come forth. The Christ of the manger is the Christ of the throne. OF COURSE YOU READ The testimonials frequently published in this paper relating to Hood's Sarsaparilla. They are from reliable people, state ample facts, and show beyond a doubt that Hood's cures. Why- don't you try this medicine? He sure to get Hood’s. Constipation, and all troubles with the digestive organs and the liver, are cured bv Hood's Bills. ULequalled as a dinner pill. "WAR TO THE KNIFE” Between the State ot South Carolina and the Railroads, Columbia. S. C., May I.—lt is “war to the knife" between tile State of South Carolina and the railroads. Concerning Receiver Chamberlain's proposition to ' arbitrate their differences Governor Tillman said today: “1 think the State of South Carolina has courts of law to settle all such ques tions. She will no,, urbritrate with any body' about tuxes. As to threats and bluffs about punishing sheriffs, we will see them out as we have already done." lu regard to the ease of Sheriff Nance, of Abbeville, who apologized to the court, the Goveruor said the State would not stand up to Nance. Com menting further, the Goveruor said: '•Nothing was intended to come out of tins scheme. This proposal is the quintessence of insolvenee coming from tiie source it does. The South Carolina road warned to pay its taxes in re pudiated bomls ami after waiting a whale year the legislature agreed to take the taxes without interest rather Hum repeal the charter. We are neither defenceless nut' without resources with which to continue the fight. We will certainly cotiuue until the end is reached. If the means used will destroy the credit of the roads they will have them selves to blame. The next move will be made very shortly.” A TRAFFIC CONFERENCE. Columbia. May 1. —Railroad trafl'i managers, representing every road in the state will have a conference with the railroad commission tomorrow. Ths managers want the rates raised on cer tain classes of freight. They have not yet indicated what action they will ask % The Sower i Has no second chance. The first supplies his needs —if he jH takes the wise precaution of planting Ferry’s Seed Annual, for 1838, JSr contains all itfe latest and best W information about Gardens and wk U Gardening. It is a recognised wL H authority. Every planter should 11 v have it. Sent free on request. vs FERRY ACC., Detroit, Mich. (Continued from page 3.) Vine* are climbing around the railjt>g> butterflies and 'birds are flying over head. the feathered songsters are warb ling in glee, and the . growing flowers tiiat ure here in profusion seem to lie giving out their sweetest fragraneg. I p here is a big do 1 show, and a collection of toys of different nations, iiniF here tiie little ones stand and drink tlieir milk and eat tlieir cake and candies, unmolested by careful mothers or aus tere aunts. If this morning's expert iem-es are any criterion, the children's building is destined to be one of the most, popular ;> aces on the grounds. The funds necessary for its .erection and furnishing were contributed by the wo men of tiie various states ?>f the Union, pie exiiosition authorities not being asked for u solitary cent. WORLD’S CONGRESSES. Gatherings that Will Shupe the Course of Civilization for Years. Chicago, May I.—While the inaugural l ceremonies were iji progress at Jackson ; Park this morning the Memorial Art i Palace, located on Lake t Front Park | within n couple of minutes walk from the business center of the city, and which has been erected at a cost of six hundred thousand dollars, two-thirds | contributed by the Art Ir.stitue of Chi- i cago, and the balance by tiie directory of j the Exposition, was receiving its finish- ■ ing touches, uiid this afternoon it was ' thrown open for the inspection of visi- I tors from at home and abroad. Under I the roof of tliis magnificent pile there will be held this summer the greatest series of world's con gresses that has ever been idanned, such a bringing together of peo ple of every clime ns‘a few years ago would liave seemed chimerical aud bor dering on the impossible. The leading idea of this feature of the Columbian Exposition, which is under the d’rection and control of a sub administration designated as the World's Congress Attxilliary, is to assemble the leaders of human progress from the civilized globe, not only for the purposes of mutual ac quaintance and the establishment of fra ternal relations, lint to review the achievements that have already been made in the various departments of en lightened life, to resume in eacli con gress tiie progress of tiie world in tiie department concerned, to formuate dec larutions on the living questions of the day that demand the urgent attention of all those interested in the social and the niqral amelioration of mankind, ami to promulgate suggestions concerning the practical means by which further pro gress may made, and the prosperity and pence of Hie world and humanity ad vanced. Commencing on the 15th of the present month and continuing until tiie hisit day of October, and possibly later, Chicago will be the scene of nine teen of these gatherings. Many of tiie congresses, however, on the principle of :• ivlieel within a wheel, will be subdivided. Under the head of agriculture for instance, 'there will be no less than nine distinct assemblages, iu tiie department of religion twenty-four, in that of leinnerec.ee ten .—AUs'LVtTir'r rfotal of one hundred and fifty separate and distinot conferene >s. and the magnitude of the undertaking may be gathered from the fact that any where from one thousand to three thou sand individuals are expected to partici paite in each and every conference. Al ready the books of the Attxilliary record acceptances from over one hundred thou sand distinguished people of the United States, and of one-fifth that number from England and the continent. Arch bishops and bishops, scientists, states men, pliilosnphers. men and wottn-ii whose mimes will live in history for their aehievments in the fields of commerce and finance, medicine, art. music and literature, education, science and philoso phy: reprosentiiitive workers in behalf of tiie progress of women, the leading lights of the daily, weekly and monthly reli gious and secular press, workers in the temperance cause, representing all the total abstenanee socities in existence, bankers and financiers, board of trade operators, merchants, insurance special ists. representatives of colleges and col lege fraternities, educators of deaf, the dumb and tiie Wind, civil and mechani cal engineers, jurists and lawyers, as tronomers, and geologists, electricians, and meteorologists, lenders in the world of labor organizat’jons, devotees of so cial and economic science, ministers and laymen of all faiths from tiie evangeli cal to the Moliammedan, advoeates of Sunday rest, health officers and agricul turists. and soon through an almost end less list, will gather-fneni the four quar ters of the universe, eacli in their re spective section, and consider the ques tions that particularly relate to the par ticular sphere in which they live and move and have their being. It would seem impossible that this program could !>e successfully carried out. under one roof, but the structure which was open today has uot only two auditoriums, each ivith a seating capacity of two thousand, but also thirty-three halls, and six large committee rooms. It will there fore be practicably for forty-one Confer ences with' an attendance upon each ranging from three thousand to five hun dred to be in session ait the same time. The old reliable remedy for cough, cold croup and sore throat. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, should be kept in every home. - NO REBELLION REPORTED. Washington, May 2. —The state de partment is ignorant officially of the reported insurrectionary movement in Cuba. Nothing bearing on the subject was received by the department from the Spanish legation in Washington for several months and no recent com munications concerning the matter have come from tiie United States diplomatic »r consular offices. Assistant Secretary Adee believes the movement is nothing more than a renewal ot the banditti sys tem which offers many opportunities in the wild and unsettled portion of the island. A PLUCKY CONDUCTED Washington. May 2.—Albert Watts, the Wayne county desperado, attempted to kill Conductor Jones, who runs the passenger train on the Menova division of the Norfolk and Western road, while the train was at Ferguson station, but the plucky conductor made him desist in his efforts. Watts’ friends, who are rough, tried to take the train and made threats that they would. The company, therefore, have Disced guards on the sam» and will give the gang the best of !• should thev endeavor at any time to carry out their intentions. CARPENTERS STRIKE. Richmond, Va.. May I—Tiie union •arpenters employed on the new cham ber of commerce building quit work this morning because non-union men were employed. It is believed that the ser vices of the latter will be dispensed with md the work pushed to completion. FOR SICK HEADACHE Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr M W. Gray, Cave Spring. Ga., says: “I have used if wl,h P er feet success In habitual sick headache." Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report 1 Powder ABSOWTE??/ EWS TKANSPOKTATION. > The Evolution of the Modern Locomotive from the Itnife Cart. Chicago, May I—All colors save white have been excluded in the decoration of all the World's Fair building save one. Tlrnt exception is tilie Transportation Building. On its exterior and interior every color in the spectnuu was brought into requisition, and these, with a profu sion of gold leaf, liave produced mi ef fect as beautiful and artistic ns it is striking. The chief attraction, however, is not the building itself, but tiie ex hibits wibch it contains, illustrating as they do, every successive step in the evo lution of modern transportation facili ties, from the rude cart z to the modern locomotive and ithe ocean greyhound. A chronological arrangement lias been pursneil which simplifies tiie tusk of tak ing in the scope of the cxlilbit. From the original “plank stringer” tramway, laid in England in IbGO. the visitor pass es by the successive developemeuts of "way leaves” used in 1738, the iron soantlings of 1708, the first cast-iron rails made iu 17.80. and the first tram way in tiie United States, built iu 1809. At tliis point in the journey the visitor reaches the era of steam, for it was in 1785 that Watt completed ids model of the steam motor. From this begins a series of old locomotives, leading up to the monster English engine which oc cupies a position of honor as the biggest yet built. To give a description, how ever, of all tiie locomotives on exhibi tion. each of which illustrates a distinct step in advance, would occupy columns and then be incomplete. It. is enough to say that every newly discovered princi ple is illustraited by the engine or au exact v reproduction of tiie engine iu which it was first utilized. Next iu importance to the railway section is the street ear exhibit which includes tiie cable ear system, from the original car built in San Francisco to the modern plants of New York aud Chicago. Every kind of road vehicle, too, front the pneumatic-tire bicycle to the heaviest truck, is also present to speak for its particular merits, and even the flying machines and airships,, are represented by models aud charts, details of con struction and colored prints. Tuktn as a tvhole the Transportation exhibit is au epitome of the labor and thought pf hundreds of years. Standing in one part of tiie building The visitor G-rH',"rb -Klf extents and purposes, be in the middle of the seventeenth century. A few steps in one direction will take Uitu back a hundred years and an equal ly short journey will transport him into the atmosphere pf tiie ii’iietceiitli cen tury. For perfection and consistency of nrrangeiueut the exhibit is arevelation to those who are accustomed to look upon nn exposition as an indiscriinimtte jumble for the inspection of the thou sands. In 1850 “Brown's Bron.hlal Troches" were introilueed, and their success as a enre for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, and Bron chitis has been unparalleled. STRIKING AT HOMESTEAD. Pittsburg. May 2.—Y’esterday fifty skilled workmen in the 33 inch Warn mill of the Carnegie Steel Works at Homestead threw aside their tools and quit work on account of a reduction from 37 to 2G cents per ton.-'The whole town is excited. Former union men look upon the trouble as :y victory for them. It is said they intend returning to work to get even with the present strikers who accepted their positions last sum mer. TAXING THE TURF. Richmond. Va.. May 2.--Tiie lower branch of tiie city council lias passed an onllnance fixing the license for turf ex changes at $4,500. It is believed tins will practically shut off their reopening in this city. THE THREE C’S. SOLD. Chnrlestoß, May 2. —The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad wais sold at private auction today under a decree of the United States Court, to Charles E. Hellier of Boston. Muss., representing bondholders, for 5550.01 XL A certified cheek of S2S,O<X) was put up to bind the purchase. kA More Great Cures of Torturing and Disfiguring Skin, Scalp, and Blood Diseases are Daily Made by the Cuticura Remedies than By all other Skin and Blood Remedies Combined To those who have suffered long and hopelessly, and who have lost, faith in doctors, medicines, and all things human, the CUTICURA REMEDIES appeal with a force never before realized in the history of medicine. Every hope, every expectation awakened by them, has been more than fulfilled. Thousands of the best physicians that ever wrote a prescription endorse and prescribe them. Druggists everywhere rec ommend them, while countless numbers in every part of the land say, “WHY DON’T YOU TRY CUTICURA Remedies ? They are the best in the world.” They cleanse thetsystem x by internal and external medication of every eruption, impurj.y, and disease, and constitute the most effective treatment of moderi times. Hence, since a cake of CUTICURA SOAP, costing 25 cents, Is suffi cient to test the virtues of these great curatives, there is now nt reason why hundreds of thousands should go through life tortured, difigured, and humiliated by skin and scalp diseases which are speedily lid per manently cured by the CUTICURA REMEDIES at a trifling Jhst. Sold throughout the world. Price. Cmcnu,soc.; CmtTRA rd, Soap, 25c.; Cuticura Resolvent, sl. Prepared by Potter / Jk'K. /S Drug and Chemical Corporation. Boston-. About / ’ V-sN f the Blood, Skin, Scalp, and Hair” mailed Hep. ( 43*For Pimples, Blackheads, Red and Oily Skin, Red, XC’v \ Rough Hands and Falling Hair, use Cuticura Soap. * * 4Vi MAKItIAGE IN NEW YUItY. y Miss Katharine 1 ronholm Wedded to Mr J. I). Abraham*. New York. April 27.—The marriage of Miss Katherine Trenholht, second daughter of William L. Trenhohu, who was comptroller of currency in Presi dium CleveL'iiul's first adtninistration, to Jeese D. Abrahams cahhier of the Southern National Bank, was celebra ted tonljtht at the home of the bride's father. No. 2*io west 72d street. - Tiie marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Delnncey Townsend, assistant min ister of the Protestant church of All • Angels. The I.ride was attended by her sister. Miss Constance Trenholm, ns maid of honor ami by six bridesmaids who were Miss Lizzie Walter, of Sav>; anuah, Ga., Miss Helen Trembolm. sister; Mi - Georgie Gibbs, of Norwalk, Conn., Miss Irene Macbeth, of Washing ton; Miss Emily Hazard and Miss Flor ence Trent dm. "f South Carolina, all cousins of the bride. Samuel Maddock, of Washington, acted as best man. The I ushers were !■’. DeForcst Simmons. John Phipps, of Morristown; A. Alexander Macbeth and .liili.in Thornbey. of Alexandria. Va.; Dr. J. T. Thornbey, George 11. Holmes, Joseph Loiter. S. W. Ferguson and Sam uel Wright, of Washington, and the bride’s brother. Jul'en Trenholm. The reception which followed the ceremony was for the relatives and a small num ber of intimate friends. MRS. CLEVELAND ILL. She Had to Leave the Dolphin and Go to Washington.- > ! New York. April 27. —Mrs. Cleveland t left suddenly for Washington this aster n > >n. She was taken ill on tile Dolphin ' while the Presidential bout was mak- \ ing the reviewing tour. / As soon as the Dolphin anchored at/ Ninety-sixth street Mrs. Cleveland I’ost.master General Bissell. Mrs. Wi -ell and Secretary Thurber were take*. aslioi-e in the launch :md driven to the Victoria hotel. Mrs. Cleveland appeared pale, but was not violently ill. It was deemed best that she should not attempt to attend the ball. , Mr. ami Mrs. Bissell with the Presi dent’s secretary accompanied Mrs. Clevtliind to Washington. Au exagger ati <1 rumor of Mrs. Cleveland's illness bei aine current and many inquiries wers_- made at the Victoria. Washington. April 27.—Mrs. Cleve land arriv'd at tin- White House shortly . before midnight tonight. Make n note of it—Twenty-five cent# buys the best liniment out. Salvation Oil. MUST GO TO CHURCH. Amherst, Mass., April 27.—The Am herst faculty today issued a stat' mint That after consideration they had dieid tlrnt it was unwise to 'set asiil" a systefh whose results upon the whole have been so thoroughly good, mid that consequently the present, plan of required attendance at religious services will lie continued. Undergraduates have for several years deinnnded a change lint tile professor’s statement is directly intended as an an swer to tli-‘ petition recently cireulnti'd, and very generally signed b.v the stu dents asking immediate abolishment of compulsory church attendance. The faculty’s statement is very, decided, in tone and apparently ends the matter. GRANT’S BIRTHDAY. ■pOiMiulelpliia,' Penn.. April 27.. The . seventy-second anniversary of the bi'Jj lof General Grant was observed here thW I'Viniing by the i nion League. Tla- oluill tonight had among its guests General <).■ (I. Howard whose corps held Cemeteryj Ridge at Gettysburg, and General James I Ismgstreet, who comm:’ ndctl the right! wing of Lee’s army :it the same battle.l In addition to Gem*r:il Longstreet, the/ Confederacy was represented by G«mer-Y al William Mahone, of Virginia, General/ E. P. Alexander, of Georgia, and el>» qiient Breckenridge, of Kentucky. E:| Secretary of the Navy George M. Re.i sin and Admiral Daniel Aninn-n repil sented the Blue Jackets of the Nort><