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FIYE LIYE PICTURES
WORDED BY REV. DR. TALMAGE.
Stephen Gazing Into Heaven—Look¬
ing at Prayer—Asleep. Christ—Stoned—Dylog
Text-. “Behold, I see the heavens opened.”
—Acts vii., 56-60.
Stephen had been preaching arousing ser-
moD, and the people could not stand it.
They resolved to do as men sometimes would
like to do in this day, if they dared, with
some plain preacher of righteousness—kill
him. The only way to silenoe this man was
to knock the "breath out of him. So they
j rushed Stephen out of the gates of the city,
| and. with curses and whoop and bellow.
j they brought him to the cliff, as was the cus¬
tom when they wanted to take away life by
stoning'. Having brought him to the edge
of the cliff, they pushed him off. After he
had fallen they came and looked down, and
seeing that he was not yet dead they began
to drop stones upon him, stone after stone;
ArnM this horrible rain of missiles Stephen
clambers upon his knees and folds his hands;
while the blood drips from his temples, and
then, looking up. he makes two prayers—
one for himself and one for bis murderers;
“Lord J. sue. receive my spirit.” That was
for himself. “Lord, lay not this sirt to their
charge,” That was for his murderers. Then,
from pain and los.s of blood, he swooned
away and fe!l asleep.
I want to show you to-day five Pictures:
Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen look*
1 ng at Chr'st, Stephen stoned, Stephen
in his dying prayer, Stephen asleep,
First, look at Stephen gazing into heaven.
Before you lake a leap you want to know
where you are going to land. Before you
climb a ladder you want to know to what
point the ladder reaches. An 1 it was right
that Stephen, within a few moments of
heaven, should be gazing into it. We would
all do well to bo found in tbp .‘■ame piosture.
There is enough in heaven to keep us gaz¬
ing. A man of large wealtli may have statu¬
ary in the hall, and paintings in the sitting
room, an l works of art in all parts
of the house, but he has the chief pictures in
the art gallery, and there hour after hour
you walk with catalogue and glass and ever
increasing admiration. Wei), heavm is the
gallery where God has gathered the chief
treasures of His realm. The whole universe
is His palace. In this lower room where we
stop there arc many adornments, tessellated
floor of amethyst, and on the winding cloud
stairs are stretched out canvases on which
commingle azure and purple and saffron and
gold. But heaven is the gallery in which
the chief glories are gathered. Thoie are
the brightest robes. There are the richest
crowns. There are the highest exhilarations.
St. John says of it. “The kings of the earth
shall bring their honor and glory into it.”
And I see the procession forming, and in the
line come all empires, and the stare spring
up into an arch for the hosts to march under.
They keep step to the sound of earthquake,
ami the pitch of avalanche from the moun¬
tains, and the flag they hear is the flame of a
consuming world, and all heaven turns out
with harps and trumpets and myriad voiced
acclamation of angelic dominions to wel¬
come them in. and so the kings of the earth
bring their honor and glory into it. Do you
wonder that good people often stand, like
Stephen, looking into heaven? We have
many friends there.
There is not a man here so isolated in life
but ttuwe is some one in heaven with whom
ho once shook hands. As a man gets older
the number of his celestial acquaintances
very rapidly multiplies. We have not had
them one glimpse of them sincethe night we kissed
goodby. and they went away, but still
we stand gazing at heaven. As when some
of our fneuds go across rhe-sen. we stand on
t lie dock, or oa the steam tug. and watch
them, and after awhile the hulk of the VPS-
sel disappears, ami then there is only a patch
of sail on the sky. and soon that is gone and
they are all out of sight, and yet we stand
looking in the same direction. So when our
friends go away from us into tho future
world we keep looking down through Ihe
Narrows and gazing and gazing as though
we expected that they would come out and
stand on some cloud and give us one glimpse
of their blissful and transfigured faces.
While you long to join their companion-
snip, an t the years and the days go with
such tedium that they break your heart, an 1
the vipers of pain an l sarroiv and bereave¬
ment keep gnawing at your vitals, you will
stan-L like Stephen, gazing into heaven.
j. on wonder if thoy have <*h;mged sineo vou
saw them last. You wonder if thev would
recognize your face now, so changed has it
been with trouble. You wonder if, amid the
myna 1 delights they have, thev care as
much for you as they used to when they
shoulders gave veu under a helping hand and put their
your burdens. You won¬
der if they look any older, and sometimes
in the evening tide, when the house is all
quiet, you wonder if you should call them
by their first name if they would not an¬
swer, and perhaps sometimes you do make
the experiment, and when no one but God
and yourself are thera you distinctly call
tiieir names and listen and sit gazing into
heaven.
Pass on now and see Stephen looking
upon Christ. My text says he saw the Son
01 Man at the right hand of God. Just how
Christ looked in this world, just how He
looks in heaven. w P cannot say. The paint¬
ers of the different ages have iried to
imagine the features of Christ and put them
upon canvas, but wa v. ill have to wait until
with our own eyes wesee Him aud with our
own ears we can hear Him. And yet there
is a way of seeing Him and ht aring Him
now. I have to ted you that unless you see
and hear Christ on oarth you will never see
and hear Him in heaven.
i.oox: x.iero He is! Behold the Lamb of
Can you not see Him? Then pray to
*od to take the scales off your eyes. Look
bat way—try to look that way. His voice
■omes down to you this day—comes down to
he blindest, to the deafest sonl—saving
‘Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth” and
•De. T - v ® saved, Proclamation for 1 am God. and there is none
of universal emanci¬
pation for all slaves. Tell me. ve who know
most of the world's history, what other king
ever asked tho abandoned, aud the forlorn,
and the wretched, and the outcast to come
and sit beside him? Oh, wonderful invita-
tion! You can take it to-day and stand at
tho head of the darkest alley in all this citv
ami sav, “Come! Clothes for your rags, salve
for your sores, a throne for your eternal
reigning.” A Christ that talks like that and
acts like tbnt and pardons like that—do vou
wonder that Stephen stood looking at Him?
I hope to spend eternity doing the same
thing. I must see Him. I must look upot
that face once clouded with my sin, but now
radiant with my pardon. I want to touch
that hand that knocked off my shackles. I
want to hear the voice that pronounced mv
deliverance. Behold Him, little children,
lor if you live to threescore years and ten
you will see none so fair. Behold Him ye
aged ones, for He only can shine through the
dimness of your failing eyesight. Behold
Him, earth. Behold Him, heaven. What a
moment when all the Nations of the saved
shall gather around Christ! All faces that
way. All thrones that way, gazing on Jesus.
His worth if all the Nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love Him too,
I pass on now and look at Stephen stoned.
The world has always wanted to get rid of
good meD. Their verv life Is an assault
upon wickedness. Out with Stephen
through the gates of the city. Down with
him over the precipices. Let every man
come up and drop a stone upon his head.
But these men did not so much kill Stephen
as they killed themselves. Every stone re¬
bounded upon them. While these murderers
are transfixed by the scorn of all good men
Stephen lives in the admiration of all Chris¬
tendom. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive.
So all good men must be pelted. “All who
will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer
persecution.” It is no eulogy of a man to
say that everybody likes him. Show me
any one who is doing all his duty to state
or who cliurob, and I will show vou scores of men
If all utterly abhor him.
men speak well of you. it is because
you are ernrer a laggard - or a' dolt. 17 a
steamer makes rapid progress through tha
waves, the water will boil and foam all
around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ
will hear the carbines click. When I see a
man with voice and money and influence all
on the right side, and some caricature him,
and some sneer at him, and some denounce
him. and men who pretend to be actuated by
right motives conspire to cripple him. to east
him out, to destroy him, I sav, “Stephen
stoue
When I seen man in some great moral or
religious reform ball ting against grogshops,
exposing wickedness in high places, by
active better the means trying to purify apd the I church d and
world's qgtate, fin th at the,
newipafiAfS ttnatffem-.trze oppose ntm. ani men,
even good men. him an 1 denounce
him because, though he do^s good, ho docs
not do It in their way, I say, “Stephen
stoned".But you notiee. my friends, that
while they assaulted Stephen they di.l not
succeed really in killing him. You may as¬
sault a good man, but you cannot kill him.
On the day of his death Stephen spoke b"-
fore a few people In the sanhedrin. This
Sabbath morning he addresses Christen¬
dom. Paul, the apo 3 tlo, stood on Mars
hill addressing a handful of philosophers
who knew not so much about science us a
modem schoolgirl. To-day he talks to nil
the millions of Christendom about the won¬
ders of justification and the glories of the
resurrection. Johu Wesley was howled
down by the mob to whom he preached, and
they threw bricks at him. and they de¬
nounced him. an l they jostled him. and
they lands, spat upon him. and yet to-day, in ail
be is admitted to be the great father
Of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the
Presidential chair, but from that spot of
coaguiatecr oiooa on tne noor in me oox or
Ford's Theatre there sprang up the new life
of a Nation. Stephen stoned, but Stephen
alive
Pass on now and sec Stephen in his dying
prayer. His first thought was not how the
stones hurt his head, nor what would be¬
come of his body. His first thought was
about his spirit. “Lord Jesus receive my
Spirit.” The murderer standing oii the trap^
door, the black cup being drawn over his
head before tho execution, may grimaod
about the future, but you and'I have no
Bhamo in confessing some anxiety about
where we are going to come out. You arO
not aU body. There is within you a soul,
I see it gleam from your eyes to-day, and I
Bf’o it Irradiating your countenance. Some¬
times I am abashed before an audienoe.
not because I come under your physical
eyesight, but because I realize the truth
that I stand before so many Immortal
spirits. The probability Is that your body
will at last ftod a sepulcher in some of the
cemeteries that surround this city. There Is
no doubt that your obsequies will be deoent
and respectful, and you will beableto pillow
your head under the maple, or the Norway
spruce, or the cypress, or the blossoming fir,
but this spirit about which Stephen prayed,
what direction will that take? What guide
will escort it? What gate will open to re-
ceiveit? What cloud will he cleft for its
pathway? After it has got beyond the light
of our sun will there be torches lighted for
it the rest of the way?
Will tho soul have to travel through long
deserts bef, e it roaches the good land? If
we should lose our pathway will there be a
castle at whose gate we may ask the way to
the city? Oh, this mysterious spirit within
us! It has two wings, but It is in a cage now.
It is locked fast to keep It, but let the door
of this cage open the least, and that soul is
off. Eagle’s wing could not catch it. The
lightnings are not swift enough to come up
with it. When the soul leaves the body it
takes fifty worlds at a bound. And have I
no anxtety about It? Ilavo vou no anxiety
about it?
I do not care what you do with my body
when my soul js gone, or whether you be-
lieve In cremation 01 inhumation. J. shall
sleep just as well in a wrapping of sackcloth
as iu satin lined with eagle’s down. But my
sonl—before I close this discourse I will flrd
out where it will land. Thank God for the
intimation of my text that when we die
Jesus takes us. That answers all questions
for me. What though there were massive
bars between here and the City of Light,
Jesus could remove them. Whnt
though there were great Saharas of
darkness, What Jesus could illume them.
though I get weary on the way, Christ
eould lift me ou His omnipotent shoulder.
What though there wero chasms to cross,
His hand could transport me. Then let
Stepheu’s prayer be my 'lying litany, “Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit.” It may be in that
hour we will be too feeble to say a long
prayer. It may be in that hour we will not
be able to say the Lord’s Prayer, for it has
seven ble petitions. Perhaps we maybe too fee¬
even to say the infant prayer our mothers
taught us, which John Quincy Adams, sev¬
enty years of age, said every night when he
put his head upon his pillow:
Now I lay mo down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
We may be too feeble to employ either of
these familiar forms, but this prayer of
Stephen is so short, is so concise, is so earn¬
able est, is so comprehensive, “Lord we surely will be
to say that, Jesus, receive my
spirit.” Oh, if that prayer is answered, how
sweet it will be to die! This world is clever
enough to us. Perhaps it has treated us a
great deal better than we deserved to be
treated, but if on the dying pillowthere shall
break the light of that better world wo shall
have no more regret than about leaving a
small, dark, damp house for one large, beau¬
tiful and capacious. That dying minister in
depicted Philadelphia, some years ago, beautifully
it when, in the last moment, he
threw up his hands and cried out, “I move
into the light!”
Pass on now, and I will show you one
With more picture, and that is Stephen asleep.
a pathos and simplicity pecular to the
Scriptures tho text says of Stephen, “He fell
asleep. ’ “Oh,” you say, “what place that
a
was to sleep! A hard rock under him,
stones falling down upon him, the blood
streaming, the mob howling. What a place
it was to sleep!” And yet my text takes that
symbol of slumber to describe his departure,
so sweet was it, so contented was it, so
peaceful was it. Stephen had lived a very
laborious life. His chief work had been to
care for the poor. How many loaves of
bread he had distributed, how many bare
feet he had sandaled, how many cots of Biok-
ness and distress he had blessed with minis¬
tries of kindness and love, I do not know.
Yet from the way he lived, and the way he
preached, and the way he died, I know he
was a laborious Christian. But that is all
over now. He has pressed the cup to the
last fainting lip. He has taken the last in¬
sult from his enemies. The last stone to
whose crushing weight he Is susceptible has
been hurled. Stephen is dead! The dis-
ciplescome. They take him up. They wash
away the blood from the wounds. Thev
straighten out the bruised limbs. They
brush hack the tangled hair from the brow,
and then they pass around to look upon the
calm countenance of him who had lived for
the poor and died for the truth. Stephen
asleep! I
have seen the sea driven with the hurri¬
cane unti! the tangled foam caught in the
rigging, and wave rising above wave seemed
as if about to storm tho heavens. Rnd then I
have seen the tempest drop, and the waves
crouch, and everything become smooth and
burnished a.s though a camping place for the
glories of heaveD. So I have seen a man
whose life has been tossed and driven com-
ing __
down at last to an infinite calm in which
there was a hush of heaven’s lullaby.
Stephen asleep!
I saw such a one. Ho fought all his days
against poverty and against nbnse. They
traduce! his name. They rattled at the
doorknob while he was dying with duns for
dents he could not pay. Yet the peace of
God trooded over his pillow, and while the
world faded heaven dawned, and the deep¬
ening twilight of earth’s night was only the
opening twilight of heaven’s morn. Not a
sigh. Not a tear. Not a struggle. Hush!
Stephen asleep.
I have not the faculty as many have to tell
tho weather. I can never tell by tha setting
sun whether there will be a drought or not.
I cannot, tell by the blowing of the wind
whether it will be fair weather or foul oa the
morrow. But I can prophesy and I will
prophesy what weather it will be when you,
the Christian, come to die. You may have
It very rough now. It may be this week one
annoyance, the next another annoyance. It
may be this year one bereavement, the next
another bereavement. But at the last Christ
will come in, and darkness will go out. And
though there may be no hand to close your
eyes, and no breast on which to rest your
dying head, and no candle to lift the night,
the odors of God's hanging garden will re¬
gale your soul, and at your bedside will halt
the cnariots or the king. No more rents to
pay, no more agony because flour has gone
up, no more struggle with “the world, the
flesh aud the devil,” but peace—long, deep,
everlasting peace. Stephen asleep!
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Uninjured by the last of foes.
Asleep in Jesus, far from thee
Thy kindred aud thy graves may be.
But there is still a blessed sleep.
From which none ever wake to weep.
You have seen enough for one dav. No
one can successfully examine more than hav¬ five
pictures in a day. Therefore we stop,
ing seen this cluster of divine Raphaels —
Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking
at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen in his
uying prayer, Stephen asleep.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
HE HOPES THAT ALL THE BOYS
WILL SEE THE EXPOSITION.
William Tells ol His Experience in
Raising Silkworms.
The exposition gets bigger and bigger. The
managers hare builded wiser than they knew,
and everything < oneerning it seems to prosper,
It will be a great show and a great eohool. I
wish that every youth in this southern land
who is over ten years of age could visit it. They
would learn more in a day than they can learn
in a year from books. The sight is the very
best receptive of knowledge. The best way
to study geography is to travel, and the best
way to study art is to see things made by the
artist or the mechanic. I see that a Philadel¬
phia si k house will have silk wo. ms there mak¬
ing theit cocoons and will feel the silk from
them and spin and weave it into cloth and will
sell you a crava’ for a song.
I make mention of this because when I was a
lad my father carried on that same business of
making silk in Lawrcuceville, Ga., and for
three years I had to pick mulberry leav *3 ih
their seasoit an t feed them to the greedy
worms. I lied to got tip before day and go to
the mams muitio.-tultua orchard and piok the
leaves while the dew was ou and carry them in
sacks to the silk In use and scatter th$m all
over 1 ho fan-dies and the greedv worms would
eat them all up before breakfait. The big
worms that were two to two and a half inches
long wore kept in one row of hurdles and were
given the coarser leaves; smaller ones were
graded down according to age and the little
worm j , half sn inch long, had to have the
young and tender leaves. When the worms
were full grown and bad devoured till they had
stuffed themselves with mulberry fiber they
settled down to business and spun their wind¬
ing sheet; in tho shape of a cocoon. These co¬
coons wero beautiful little tliiDgs, about as
large as a pecan nut and of the same shape.
They white, were of different colors. Some were pure
yellow some and all green, some bright pink, some rea, some
were and glossy. The
worm got smaller as he wrapped his
web around him, and by the time the co¬
coon was done it had changed its shape and
turned into a chrysalis, an ugly brown thing
that had neither head nor tail visible. It pass¬
ed into a comatose condition for awhile and
then came to life again and cut its way out of
the cocoon in the shape of a butterfly or large
fluttering moth and crawled about over the
hurdles to find some place to lay its eggs.
These eggs soon hatched out into little silk
worms that went to eating leaves just like their
greedy ancestors.
But. we dident wait for many to cut their
way out of the cocoons. We put them in a
pot of hot water and they staid comatose all
the rest of their lives. We would have per¬
haps a hundred cocoons floating on the top of
the hot water and with a tiny brush would
catch up tho delicate fibers of silk from thirty
to forty cocoons and make a thread of all of
them together, and having fastened that thread
to a reel close by we would turn the reel Just
like our grandmothers used to turn it in wind¬
ing spun truck—turn it until it clicked and
then tako the cut off and begin again. Just
so we reeled the raw silk and kept putting more
cocoons in the hot water. In this way we reel¬
ed off every bit of the winding sheet and left
the ugly dead chrysalis floating on the water.
When they accumulated so as to b 3 iu the way
we skimmed them out and threw them away.
Tills is only an outline of the business, and
1 want the young folks to see how the thing is
done from the tiny little egg to the raw silk
upon the reel and from there to the loom. My
father was a pioneer in the morns nmlticaulus
crazo, as it was called, and I think the only
man in Georgia who made silk and sold it. I
remember that one year he sold #600 worth at
one shipment and he sold some other smaller
lots. He would have continued the business
but his trees took tho “die back” or some¬
thing and I 10 had to give it up. It was
said that the continued stripping of the
leaves will kill them in about three years,
for the leaves are the lungs of plants and
they can’t keep on making now lungs just
to please silk worms, These trees were
grown fiom cuttings and we began to strip
tlnm the second year when they were
about as large as a broom-handle. They had
no branches and were about as fur apart as
•oung apple trees in a nursery'. We stripped
them like pulling fodd r, coming down with
both hands and leaving only a few leaves
at the top. It would have been good fun if it
had not taen so monotom us and required SO
much < f Ben Franklin’s advice about “early to
bed and otrly to rise,” etc, I liavent gotten
over that habit yet, but it hasent made me
wealthy or wise. I never have found out how
one woim can get red silk out of a mulberry
leaf and another one will got white or yellow.
I heaid Captain Evan Howell make a epeejh
once and ho got eloquent and humble as he
said: “My friendH, we are helpless and ignor¬
ant creatures. We know noth ng hardly about
the mysteries book of nature that are all around us.
Tne good says; ‘GreH is the mystery of
of godliness.’ We cant tell why it is that whon
a goose cats grass the grass turns to feathers
and when a horse eats grass it turns to hair and
when a sheep eats grass it turns into wool.”
And he might have added and when a worm
eats mulb: rry leaves it (urns to silk.
The exposition has been a great strain upon
Atlanta, but that town is smart and gamey and
will make it a grand success. When the scheme
wa .3 first proposed we outsiders never said any¬
thing pered to discourage it, but we smiled and whis¬
was there ever such cheek. Right after
the great Chicago fair and right in the middle
of a financial panic for a little city of only
U'0,0<X) psople to propose such an absurd
scheme is perfectly ridiculous. And to think
had their say. It is a very amusing idea for a
South Carolina man and a Brunswick preacher
to write up and g;iy they will not come to the
fair nary step if the stred. car fare is raised to
10 cents. Why, this is a free country and those
gentlemeu can stay at home or they can come
and patronize the Southern railroad that will
charge 10 cents, too. It does not seem lobe
the price, but it is the raiso that arouses their
indignation. But this little episode will all
settle down. It reminds me, however, of the
time when we proposed to build a public acade¬
my in Rom ■, and it was to cost #1,£00. The
boys had put mo forward to run for mayor and
the issue was “academy” or “no academy.” Of
course I was for progress and the noisiest and
bitterest enemy I had to contend with took the
streets and declared that I would tax the peo¬
ple to death, and ha for one was not going to
stand it. Looking over the tax books at his
sworn return of his property I found that his
part of the academy would be 47 cents. Sol
pleasantly showed him the figures aud told him
I would pay his part if he would hush—and he
of ihe impudence of asking for the patronage
of the national government and an appropria¬
tion.
But the managers k pt right on and have
never faltered for a momsnt. And they got
bell the Smithsonian and they seriously institution discussed and the the practica¬ Liberty
bility of borrowing the Bartholdi statute of
liberty from New York harbor and putting It
up in Clara Meer.
I see that the hotel department is all right
and that the visitors will he fed and sheltered
decently. There has been a little flirtation go¬
ing on about the street car lines charging 10
cents, but that is all buncomb, I reckon. It is
a right big rumpus about a very little matter
and I reckon will die out after a few more have
hushed. Now let everybody hush about this
car fare business, for the people are tired of it
and in these parts are not making any fuss
about it. It will cost our people from two to
three dol are each to go to the fair and enjoy the
day and come back home and talk about it for
a rnon’h and we are not going to miss it for 5
cent*; we are not built that way. I should
think it would remind a newspaper man of those
amu ing fellows who ever aud anoa get mad
wbh the editor and write to him to stop their
paper. But I don’t reckon the fair will bust up
on account of the absence of any man who
swear- he wont come if he has to pay 10 cents
to the street cars. I hope not.— Bill Arp ic
Atlanta Constitution.
AN AUDACIOUS V1LLIAN.
Tries to Smash the Old Liberty Bell
With a Sledge Hammer.
The Columbia Liberty Bell special train ar¬
rived at Areola. Ills., Saturday evening and
about 2,000 people gathered to see it.
While Manager Knapp was giving a history
of the bell and the guides were hoisting it to
ring it, a man named Matthews rushed
through the crowd and struck the lower rim
three hard blows with a sledge hammer,
making three dents in it.
The bell was considerably damaged.
people Manager of Areola Knapp said he would trust to the
to prosecute the vilUaii who
had so grossly insulted American pride.
. Major L 8 . A. D. McWilliams, of Fourth Ree-
lmwit, N. G.^effected the arrest and fiatt.
THE MARKETS.
KEW YORK COTTON FUTURES.
Cotton quiet, middling uplands 8 %,
middling gulf, 8 1-2. Futures closed steady.
Sales 97.700 bales.
September .7 87@89 January...... 8 10@11
October.....7 90@91 February .... 8 15@16
November .7 96@97 March...... 8 20@21
December... 8 04@05 April........ 8 25@26
May........ 8 30(8)31
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Cotton quiet. Middling 4 9-32. Futures
steady. Sales 6,000; American, 5.500.
Sept. ... .4 16(2)17 Jan. & Feb... 4 18b
Sept. A Oct. .4 16@17 Feb.AMar... .419@20
Oct. A Nov. 4 15@16 MarA Apr.....4 21s
Nov. A Dee. 4 16b Apr & May. ...4 22b
Dec. & Jan . .4 17 May A June. .4 23(824
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
wheat Sept_____56% Dee.... 59%
corn— Sept .31 Dec... 27%
oats — Se t. .19% May.- 20 %
PORK— Oct.. .17% Jan... 9 50
LARD— Oct.. .5 80 Jan.. 5 75
ribs — Oct.......5 30 Jan 4 80
HOME COTTON MARKETS.
Rat- Char- Cot- Chir
eiah. lotte. umbii. le«ton.
Good middling 8 % 8 7% 7
Strict middling. .7% 7 95 7 1-2 1%
Middling....... .7% 7 80 7% 7%
Strict low middling... .7% 6 45 7% 7%
Low middling. 6 95 7% Vi
Tinges........ Vi
Clean stains... ..7%
RALEIGH NEW COTTON.
Good Middling.7%; strict middling. 7%;
middling, 7 %.
Baltimore probuce Market.
Flour-Steady; Western superfine $2.20;®
2.40; do extra $2.50@2.75; family <12.95@3.25;
winter wheat patent S3.33@S.$0; spring
wheat,patent $3.40(S8.7O; do straight $3.25/®
3.40.
Wheat— Firmer and dulbspot and month
60%@60%; October 61%@61%; December
63%@63%; steamer No. 2 red 57%@57%;
Southern wheat by sample 59@6l; do on
grade 57%@60%. September
Corn— Firmer; spot 40 bid;
39% asked; October 39% asked; the year 34%
@34 1-2; January 34%@34%; Southern white
corn 40; do yellow corn 41.
Oats—Steady, some activity ; No. 2 white
Western 261-2@27; No. 2 mixed western
24@24%. Rye—Dull, little demand;
very No. 2, 44.
Hay—Steady; good to choice Timothy
$14.50@$15.00.
charlotte produce marret.
Cabbage—New per crate.......... 1 25
Extra flour—Sack,................ 1 90
Family “ 1 75@2 25
........................
Meal—bolted, 46 lbs. per bushel,.. 46
Oats,—32 lbs. per bushel,........ 63
Potatoes Irish.................... 40(850
“ Sweet................... 35@40
Onions—Select, per bushel........ 50(860
Country—Ham................... ' Sides................... 10(»11
U “ Shoulders 7%
...... 7%
Lard—N. C., 8 @ 9
Chickens ... 10@15
Butter...... 15
Eggs ....... 11@12
RALEIGH TOBACCO MARKET.
Smokers, Common................ 3 a 5
“ Good.................... 6 a 10
ii Fine...................... 8 a 12
Cutters. Common.................. a 16
“ Good..................... a 20
It Fine...................... a 27
Fillers, Common Green........... a 8
“ Good.................... a 4
Wrappers, Good.................. Common.............. a 15
“ a 25
ii Fine................... a 55
Market active for all grades.
NAVAL STORES.
Wilmington, N. C.—Rosin Arm, strained,
1.12%; good 24%@25%; strained, 1.17%; Spirits turpen¬
tine Arm, Tar firm, at 1.20;
crude turpentine steady, hard 1.10, soft, 1.50,
virgin, 1.80.
New York—R o s i n quiet; strained,
common to good 1.47%@1.50. Turpentine
easy Charleston at27%@-28. Turpentine firm at 24%.
—
Rosin firm at 1.10.
Cotton Seed Oil. — New York—Cotton
seed oil stronger; crude 24, yellow
prime 27; off grade 26.
RICE.
The rice market was quiet at Charleston.
Tho quotations are: Prime 5 a5%; Good
4 a 4%; Fair 3%n3%; Common 2%a3.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Lemons, 360's, per box 7.50. Raisins,loose,
per box 1.75; cluster, per box 2.00. Mixed
nuts, per pound 10c. Red onions, per
bag 2.00. Virginia peanuts, hand-picked, per
bushel, 1.25. Grapes, 2 to 30c. per basket.
Turnips, per barrel, 1.50, Beets, per barrel,
2.50. Cabbage, 6 to 7c. Bananas, 1.25 to
1.75 per bunch. Coeoanuts, per 100, 4.00.
White beans, per bushel 2.50. Northern
pears. 4.00@5; Northern potatoes, 2.00.
Northern apples 2.50.
COUNTRY PRODUCE-
Country Butter—Choice Tennessee 18a25c,
medium 12 % to 16c.
Cow Peas—65c and 70c. per bushel.
Poultry—Grown fowls, choice 3.00 to 3.25
per dozen. Chickens 1.25a2.50 per dozen,
according 4a4.50. to size and quality. Ducks—
Muscovy Geese, young 4.60 per
dozen.
Eggs—Eggs Wool—Washed 12%c. per dozen.
15c per pound; unwashed
11c. Hides 11c to 12c. Wax 25o to 27c.
Dairy cattle of 81. Louis are dying by
scores from anthrax, which is also raging in
Randolph County, Missouri.
FARMER BAILEY’3 ESCAPE,
AND THE It A RE EXPERIENCE OF
JOII.V IT. LO'/TIN.
A Happy Release After Both Had About
Given Up.
From the Caucasian, Clinton. JV. C.
Wo had been reliably informed that J. F.
Bailey, of Warsaw, Dublin Co., N. C., had
been cured of consumption, and sent a re-
porter to see him and make a report, believ¬
ing that the facts would bo welcome to many
readers of this paper. We found Mr. Bailey
strong in the belief that he had had con¬
sumption, llionph his physician, Dr. W. P.
K emirdv, slated the ease in a liltlo different
way. The doctor said;
“Mr. Bailey was suffering from overwork
and chronic malarial poisoning, with some
of (he symptoms of chronic rheumatism and
u general run-down condition of his system.
“Boils prevented him from work a part of
the time. Bronchitis and spitting of blood
were sources of great annoyance to him.”
It is probably true that the doctor was cor¬
rect, though without doubt Mr. Bailey would
eventually this have gono into consumption, ns
disease frequently follows the symptoms
and conditions above given. Ho was thor¬
oughly the cured, however. Mr. Bailey said to
“In reporter:
the spring of ’94 I began farm work.
Soon I found my health failing and a hack¬
ing cough my constant companion.
“I grew so weak that I could no longer
work. My cough became so severe that I
was unable to sleep, and I was constantly
sician spitting could up blood give and corruption. My phy¬
me no relief and I contin¬
ued to grow weaker an 1 weaker. I hud well
nigh given up all hop? ii living, much I 033
being restored to my use a 1 strength when a
friend called my attention to testimonials as
to tho value of Dr. Williams’ Link P.lls for
Pale People. I at once b ft off using tho
medicine prescribed by rny physician and
began to take the Pink Tids. I felt the good
effects of this wonderful medicine within
three days. In less than two months’ time
I was a well man, and three boxes of Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills did the work.
“Is it any wonder,” queried Mr. Bailey,
“B el I sing the piaisen of Dr. Williams’
Pink PiUs when they harj done so much
forme? R u t for the' timeiy use of them I
would to-day be in my g-ave and I want tho
world to know of their incalculable value as
a medicine.
The reporter having heard that Mr. John
H. Loftin, of Warsaw, ha 1 been cured of
rheumatism by tho use of three boxes of Dr.
Williams’ Fink Pi is, interviewed him with
the folic wing result. Said Mr Loftin.- “I suf-
fere 1 intensely with rheumatism for tea
months, I was entirely helpb-ss for two
months, I tried various remedies but none
of them did me any good. Having heard of
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and their wonderful
curative powers, I procured a box and began
the use of them with wonderful effect. In
two weeks time I was able to leave ray bed,
and in a few months’ time I was able to do
manual labor. From he!pie..sness to manual
labor is my extern nee, and I attr-bute this
great liekiafit solely to the use of Dr. Williams’
Pink Pi.'s.”
Dr. William's Pink Pills contain all tho
elements necessary to give new life and rich-
n< ss to the L-lood and restore shattered
nerve 3 . Tfc 5 aie for sale by all druggists,
or n ay be had cv mail from Dr. Williams’
Medic in. 3 Company, Schenectady, N. Y.„ for
60 cents per box, or six boxes for $2.50.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
i Phwder Baking
ABSOI.(JT£I.Y PURE
A SPEAKER SQUELCHED.
Eulogy of Auarrliists Not Permitted by
Methodist Preachers of Chicago.
Keir Hardie, tho English labor leader, now
In this country, disturbed the sedateness of
the weekly meeting of Methodist clergymen
at Chicago by a fiery Socialistic speech, and
was greeted with such a storm of ministerial
disapproval that he was compelled to aban¬
don the floor. Hardie had been invited
to address the preachers, and with
several local Socialists attended the
meeting. The Englishman proceeded
to air his views, loudly applaud¬
ed by his friends, and Anally bitterly de-
noUnced the execution of the Chicago anar¬
chists and eulogized them as pioneers in tho
new religion. The storm Hardie which greeted the
statement almost carried off his feet.
Half a dozen preachers at a time bitterly de¬
nounced the sentiments expressed, and the
speaker was then compelled denounced to in sit scathing down. Tho
ministers terms
speech and speaker, and Hardie left much
offended.
A Pueumalic Boat.
The pneumatic boat of the Interna¬
tional Pneumatic Boat Company, New
York, will be useful to sportsmen and
travelers. It resembles a horse collar
made of india rubber cloth, but the
interior is provided with rubber boots
and trousers, into which the user
thrusts his legs, bringing the boat up
round his waist. He then walks into
the water and inflates the collar, which
buoys him up. Of course he cau pro- }
pel the boat by treauing the water or j
by rigging up The a sail, “boat” and is he easily remains ' j
quite dry. car-
ried about.
r~ A return of tho strikes of 1893 in France,
jost published, shows that they numbered
and 170,123 workmen took partintbestrikes,
* bo number °f working rlajs lost being 3 ,-
Deafineas Cannot be Cured
diseased |>y Ideal applications, portion of the a* they There cannot, is reach only tho
ear. one
iway tional to remedies. care deafness, Deafness and that ia is by constitu¬
flamed condition caused by an in¬
of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tuba. Whan this tube gets in¬
flamed fect hearing, you have and a rambling it sound or imper¬
when is entirely closed
Deafness is tho result, and unless the inflam-
motion cau bo taken out am<3 this tube re¬
stored to its normal condition, bearing will fcs
destroyed forever. Nine cases out of tea aro
caused by ctarrh, which is nothing hut an in¬
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
Wa will give One Hundred Dollars for any
caso of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can¬
not be cured by IlalPa Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
Hr sola b, KK 6co - T ° M °' °-
by Tahiti, electric in the South Sena, is now lighted
lamps.
A V*7OMEN’S FACES
s-v; 5 ? » ▼ —like flowers, fade
and wither with time;
pt Tstaf-v the is only bloom known of the to rose the
cheeks. healthy The woman’s
nerv¬
ous strain caused by
the ailments ana
pains and peculiar to the
7 •> sex, the labor
and worry of rearing
be traced by the lines in a family, the can often
woman’s face.
Dull eyes, the sallow or wrinkled face and
those “feelings of weakness” have their
rise in the derangements and irregularities
peculiar to women. The functional de¬
rangements, weaknesses painful disorders, and chronic
of women, can be cured with
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. For the
young girl just entering womanhood for
the mother and those about to become
mothers, “ and later in “the change of life ”
the it aids Prescription in ” is just what they need;
these nature preparing medicine the system for
events. IPs a prescribed
for thirty years, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief
consuming and Surgical physician to the Invalids’ Hotel
Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y.
Fertilizers for Fall Crops
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insure the largest yield and a permanent enrichment
of the soil.
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Baseball by Electricity.
Btteball by electricity received •
practical test at Palmcr’a Theatre y«-
terday and was at once branded a suc¬
cess. The stage is fitted up as a ball-
ground. The players are small figures
•tetioned in their respective positions.
Tbo catcher stands behind the plate
and plays “back” or “off tho bat ”just
as the circumstances denote.. He
moves on » sort of wheel. The pitch¬
er stands in the box. Tho nmpira
stands behind tho batter and gesticu¬
lates with great emphasis. On tha
lino ore the “coocbers*” who> ward
their hands in a delirium of baseball
frensy. The umpiro automatical!/
raises his hand- The batter, as it oon-
jmred from the depthr, slowly emerges
from a trapdoor at homo plain and
takes position. A. globe in tho pitch*
•r’s hand, denoting tho ball, suddenly
Sashes and tho ball is in play. It goes
out, end then biases in the pitcher’s
hand. Thus a “ball or “strike” is
noted. "When the ball ia knocked ant,
an electric lamp above tho field de¬
notes which direction it goes, and an¬
other flash on tiro ground denotes
where it strnok. Repeated flashes de¬
note every move of Iko ball until it
a o a i Q reaches tha pitcher's baud. Tho
batter, when tho ball is hit, gentries
for the first bag. If ho ia out ho
fitops through a trap door. If not, ho
continues around the circuit until ho
reaches home or ia put out. Ev«fiy
play is called. A green flash denotes
a foul.
The way tho figures run, elide,
emerge from and drop through tha
trapdoors is extremely interesting,—
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JbHNSON’8 CHILL AND VBVKR TONIC
Costs you 50 cents » bottle If it cures yen,
end not a single cent unless it does.
What does it onre?
1st. Chills and Fever.
2nd. Bilious Kerer.
3r d. Ttphoid Fet«b.
4th. Hemorrhagic Fever,
6th, Dengue Fever-
Sth Measles
7th- La. Neuialgia.
Menu back if 8tb. bottle Grippe, tail*. Aak (t»a »baet
one your «ra
ft. A. B. Gl raxdeio, Savannah. Oa., Proprietor-
SAW MILLS FEED CORN MILLS. AND
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u niu/vle loaders, $2.00; rifles, *1.75:
ail-rifles, $1.00; rapeatlng, kodaks; $1.50; revolvers, 85c.; bi¬
cycles, half price; boxing gloves, delivered.
$1.75, get of four. Send sUxaps for 48-pa#e pictorial
catalogue. If. ft D. Folsom Arms Co., S14 B’way, N. Y.
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I Cleanses and fc»»alifkjg the hair .
I Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Restore Gray
| Hair to its Youthful Color.
f Cures scalp diseases & hair falling.
60c,and $L0Oai^Druggists^^^
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Give*relief in FITS minutes.’ 8end
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on THUS. Six
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