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7 ;OK^ ( :. ' Vienna News. Published 8em!-Weekly. VIENNA, - - QEORQIA. Americans are the best painted peo ple on earth. More than 3,000,000 gallons of paint were spread upon the United States during 1901. English counties seem rather belat ed, but Westmoreland and Lancashire are quarreling over Lake Winder- mere. The former county claims that the lake Is wholly within Its pre-' elncts, while Lancashire has strong evidence that the dividing line runs through the middle of the lake. Since the Washington monument was opened, 14 years ago, 2,062,000 persons have ascended to the top of the shaft. In spite of efforts to pro tect the monument from vandals two of the large memorial stones In the Interior were defaced recently by the removal of the letters of inscription. The work was done by two men, who escaped before It was discovered. It has long been the popular im pression that the Chinese language, like the Chinese people 1 themselves, was a curious compound and almost beyond the comprehension of an Occi- dentallst. But it is a matter of Inter est to know what Borne of Its peculiar difficulties are, as they were stated by Professor Herbert‘Allen Giles, the English Orientalist. It seems that there are really two distinct Chinese languages, the spoken and the written. The former may be easily acquired, but the latter, the “book language,” is a study of a lifetime. The Belgian Consul-General at Chi cago has made a report on the magni tude of the commerce of cereals there from which the following figures are extracted. It Is not every American who realizes the enormous business done. In the first place, the flour is expressed In terms of wheat by call ing one-barrel of flour the equivalent of five bushels of what. The figures of arrivals show that 321,000,000 bushels of grain were received In the last statistical year. Wheat in bulk was received to the amount of 31,- 000,000 bushels, and maize to the amount of 134,000,000. Dr. Grace, foremost of cricket champions, whose exploits with bat and ball have never been surpassed In any eleven In the annals of the game, is conspicuous in a movement in England to limit matches to a single day. Cricket is a fascinating exhibi tion of skill, but it has never been extensively popular in the United Bplrlt becomes impatient of conflicts long drawn out. A baseball game is usually over in two or three hours. A cricket match may last two or three days. Jonathan likes quick decis ions, says the New York Tribune, and lie applauds Dr. Grace’s curtailing of cricket. The work of counting the census re turns of the United States is facilitat ed by machines working automatical ly. The system consists In recording on cardboard, by means of holes per forated at suitable places, the indica tions of the separate census retumB or bulletins. The. cardboards ape then placed in a machine ,which au tomatically turns up tho data fed into it The machine has a series of points corresponding to all possible positions of the perforations. Wher ever a hole exists it is traversed by one of the points, which passes through it into contact with a cup of Quicksilver placed below the card board, and this contact completes an electric circuit that acts on a regis tering apparatus. Unless a card has been perforated at a given point no record is made. There are five sorts of cards—tor individuals, for families, tor mortality, for farms and for har vests. At the last census there were used, inround numbers, about 6,000,- 000 farm cards, li5,000,000 harvest cards, 76,000,000 Individual cards, 16,- 000,000 family cards and 1,300,000 mortality cards, some 8000 to 10,000 cards can be handled by each ma chine without error. The system thus described in its larger outlines has been perfected in many details and is regarded as fully successful. DE. CHAPMAN’S SEKM0N A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR-EVANGELIST. Subject! A XiOit Saviour—A Companion Picture to a Masterpiece, Which Dr. Chapman Suggests—Tho Awfulnes* of Being Without ClirUt. New Yoke City.— 1 The Rev. j. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.„the popular pastor of tho Fourth Presbyterian Church, who is re markably successful as a.n evangelist, has prepared an interesting sermon upon the subject "A Lost Saviour.” It is preached from the text, "They have taken away my Lord." John 20: 13. One of the masterpieces in the Louvre presents to us a picture of Christ upon the cross. Hia head is upon His breast; un derneath His arms the little birds are fly ing for a place of refuge, and in the deep ening shadows there is seen a woman kneeling with loving lips and hands pressed against His bleeding feet. Travel ers stand before this painting with tear-wet cheeks and go away with burning hearts. If I were an artist I should paint a com- r nion piece with this text as the theme, would not put tears upon her cheeks who speaks the word because the flowing of tears would prove a relief. When we cannot -weep our grief is severest, but I would represent her with agony in her eyes and deepest sorrow in every expres sion of her face. If I could I would paint the aoh as she cries out, “They have taken away_my Lord;" I have seen the distress of a mother bird when her little one waa gone, the despair of the deer when ita com panion was killed, the agony of the wife when her husband was taken, the sorrow of a mother when her baby was dead, hut this text represents all these distresses put together, and we have a story which can not he expressed in words. The speaker if Mary Magdalene, one of the inhabitants of Magdala, she who was possessed of seven devils. She was the sinner in the house of Simon, the Phari see, who washed the Saviour s feet with her tears, anointed them with precious ointment and covered them with kisses. When Simon objects the Master rebukes him with the story of the two debtors, one forgiven much, of the other little. She became one of the attendants of the Mas ter. She followed Him from Calvary ta Jerusalem to the s^ene of tb<* crucifixion. Early the third after the crucifixion, with the wife of Cleophas, she goes to the sep ulcher to see His body. She finds the tomb empty, and then cries out in aeon”. "They have taken away my Lord." What a change there is wrought in Mary Magda lene. She has been a sinner of the worst sort. Tradition makes her a servant in the house.of sin in the place where she lived, but she has become a - saint, and wherever the gospel has been preached her story has been told. W^at a Saviour we have; One who calls out the best there is In us always. Saul, of Tarsus, by nature is bitter and cruel, hut he catches a vision of Christ and becomes gentle as a woman, de livering hia message with tears of real sor row because of the lost condition of the world. Peter is an ignorant fisherman, hut catches a vision of his Master and becomes one of the greatest preachers in the world’s history. The thief on the cross is profane, and doubtless causes Christ a new pang of Agony with his profanity, until turning his head he catches a vision of that blessed face and cries out, “Lord, remember me.” I. Kindred texts. I have been looking up the Bible these past days and have been' greatly interested to see how many kin dred subjects to this are to he found in God’s word. First, Adam and Eve. They are in para dise; everything about them is beautify). Even God Himself saw that it was very good. The music of the birds is the sweet est, the fragrance of the flower ia the best; there is no curse upon Eden, when sudden ly the cloud appears, the moving of the serpent is heard and there is a great change. Adam and Eve are driven thither from the garden. Genesis 3: 23-24, "There fore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man, and He placed at the gate of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword whioh' turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Second, the Ark of the Covenant. This was a small cheat overlaid with gold, four and a half feet long, two feet nine inches wide and the same measure in heighth. Within it were the tables of the law. It was carried by the prieats as occasion re quired from place to place. So sacred was it that it was death for any one to look upon it but the priests, and so it was care fully covered. It represented to them the visible presence of Jehovah. It was car ried about by the children of Israel on their travels through the desert at they entered the channel of the Jordan, ana was taken thirteen times around Jericho in six days, but now the Philistines have- come up against the children of Israel and the ark ia taken. Old Eli ia waiting for tidings of the,conflict. His seat is by the road side that he may hear the more speedily. At last there is a great shout of horror, and a man of Benjamin ia seen run ning. with his clothes rent and earth upon hia bead. There is trouble, but who can imagino the extent of it. Listen to him as ho cries out, "Israel has fled before the Philistines," and the face of old Eli pales. Hophni and Phinehas arc slain, and the old man begins to shake in an agony, but horror of horrors, the qrh of God is taken! I. Samuel 4: 18, "And it came to pass when he made mention of the ark of God that he fell from off the seat backward to the side of the gate, and hit neck brake and he died; for he was an old man and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years." Tell us that the sun will not shine agtin, that the rain will not fall, that the ■tara-are dead, that the moon will refuse to thine, but you will bring to uk no such tidings at came to Israel when the news was carried that the ark was taken. It is at if God had departed from our own land. It ia an awfnl thing to be without hopu and without God in the world. Third, the Lost Bible. During the reign of Josiah, who began to reign when he was eight yetra old, the repairs to the temple were begun, and in the midst of this work the book of the law was found. 2 Kings 22: 8, “And Hilkiab, the high prikst, said unto Shaphan, the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to- Shaphan and he read it. This was doubtless the very book which Moses had commanded to be placed in this sacred spot. Deutero nomy 31: 26, “Take this book of the law and put it in the aide of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." It might hkve been carelessly mislaid or it may have been maliciously concealed, but what a narrow escape. However, we need not tremble, lor He who cared for Moses when he waa in the ark and for HU own Son when He was cradled in the manger will care for HU book. “Heaven and 0*rta shall pass away, but My word shah never pass away." However, some of us have lost our Bible. We have lost it be cause we have been absorbed by fiction or worldliness, or we bare permitted some sin to lay hold upon us. We have lost our Bible, and if we have our position is as sad at Mary in the garden when she said, "They have taken away my Lord." __ Fourth, Lost Fellowship. Luke 2: 42-45, “And when He was twelve years old they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast, and when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and Hia mother knew not of it. But they, supposing Him to hare been in the com pany, went a day’s journey; and they •ought Him among their kinsfolk and ac quaintances. And when they found Him aot they turned hack again to Jerusalem, teeking Him." Mary and Joseph have made a journey to the feast and they are hdmeward bound. As they move out from Jerusalem up toward Galilee they are busy, with the scenes about them, doubtless con versing with those who are traveling with them, when suddenly they begin to look about for the child Jesus. Where can He be? Every search fails to locate Him. Wearily they trudge back to Jerusalem, and there they find Him with the wise men! Many of us have lost fellowship with our Saviour. Time was when we were close to Him, when we walked in sweetest communion with Him, but now we have been busy about other things and tve have lost the old joy. Let us learn from the lesson of this morning that if we nave missed step witn Him- we must go back to Jerusalem, or that is, the place where we lost Him and begin over again the old life of peace and jov. God nity the man who is crying out in his heart to-day if not with his lips, "They have taken away my Lord." Fifth, a Lost Saviour. Matthew 27: 3-5, "Then Judas which had betrayed Him, when ho saw that He was condemned, re pented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying. "I have sinned in that I have betraved the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to as? See thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself." You have seen a storm held back by the force of the wind, when suddenly the wind ceased and the storm would break with all its fury. This was like Judas. I doubt not in all his following nfter Jesus that again and again he was filled with the desire to be true to Christ. but the time passes and he is false to the anpeal of his conscience, nnd suddenly the Master withdraws from him and all the storm of his awfnl spirit of be trayal breaks upon him, and Judas hangs himself. There are some of us who hay.e been resisting Christ, for this snirit has in fluenced us. We are persuaded of His di vine character. Some day His divine hold upon us may he broken. It would he an awlul thing for us to have to say, “They have taken away my Lord.” , II. The text again. Let us now think to gether especially of Christ’s care. There are some texts very like it in the Bible, ns for example, “Take not Thy holy spirit from me, “Restore unto me tnc joy ol Thy salvation," "Without God, without hope in the world,” for only those can ap preciate Mary’s position who have been in the same place with her. and the most of us have been there, and there have been times without number when we felt that ail was lost, that, our nosition was hope less. Notice first of all the weakness of Mary’s faith. If she had but stopped to consider she would have remembered His word that He must rise again. If in the dark hour of trial we would pause for a mo-' inent to think of His messages we shall he delivered from this awful fear. Oh, that Gpd would strengthen our faith in the hour of trial. Notice also the strength of her love. Nothing could keep her away from Christ; the Jewish soldiers had no terror for her; she would see His body, for she loved that. There are certain things that cause as to lose conscious fellowship with Christ. First, physical weakness. Whenever the body is weak be sure to watch and pray, for the devil will easily overthrow us at this time. Second, weakness of faith, but since faith is the gift of God it becomes weak only because of lack- of exercise, and it ia not necessary that any of ug should fail be cause of this. Third, sin. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." It is not given to great minds alone to see Him, nor great hearts to feel His presence, but to pure hearts, and this blessing is within the reach of us all. m. Oh, to have no hope. What if wc should lose Christ, what a dreary world this would be. Let us imagine Him as taken out of art, and with this would go Hoffman’s “Christ in the Garden," "Christ before Pi late,” and every other painting that has S ane to enrich the galleries of the world. uppose we have Him taken out of music, the music of the Old Testament would go, for they sang of the Saviour to come; the music of the New Testament would be ban ished, for He is the theme of the Psalms. All the music that is worth singing in the world’s history would depart from us, for He is the suhjeSt of our praising. Sup pose He were taken out of literature; the best books jn the world are either written directly concerning Him, or have been in spired indirectly by Hit matchless love. If He were taken out of preaching there ia no man in all the world that could hold a con gregation for any length of time, tor men delrehted to hear concerning Christ, and without Christ the message would be as sounding brass and a tinkling symbol. What it He were taken out of our living. Men who do not call themselves religions yet believe in Christ and flee to Him again and again in the hour of temptation and trial, and without Christ they would be like a boat upon the sea, rudderless and helpless. What if He were taken ont of our homes; how could we live when the baby goes away and the mother’s heart is breaking. - , “Oh, to have no hope, no Savftrar, How dark this world would be.” . There is a story written by Dr. Henry Van Dyke entitled “The Lost Word.” It gives an account of one Hennas, the son of Demetrius, who became a Christian. Be cause of this his father, a man of large wealth, disinherited him. He becomes s disciple of John, an<f at last wearies of this discipleship, and utterly discouraged be wandera back in the vicinity of his old home. There he meets a magician, who reads his fortune ip a leaf, and finally promises if he will give him hut one word out of his vocabulary that he will restore him to the old joy that once was his. The promise is st last made, and suddenly Her man u in his home agtin without the one word, and the one word it the name of his Lord. He finds his father dying and the old man welcomes his return and cries out, “My son, when yon left me you found something that made your life beautiful. Mine hasbeenafailure: will you not tell me what I must do now, for I am to die,” and unconsciously the boy began, “Father, yos must berieve In ■“ and. behold, the word, had gone from him. He had parted with it, and he stands shamefaced in the pres ence of hia dying father. He marries a beautiful girl, ana God gives him a lovely child. Tfiejr are seated one day ,in the garden with their heart* overflowing with gratitude, when the wife suggests that they kneel down and express their thanks for all their treasures, and again he. begins, "We thank thpe, oh-—" and speech fails him, for he has sold his Lord and he can not even recall HU name. He U a compet itor in the chariot races and wins the prize, but cares nothing for it, because his heart is heavy. He takes hU little son in the chariot with him and whirls about the course. The horses become unmanageable and the child is thrown from the chariot and seriously injured. Nearer dead than alive he is carried back to the palace, and the father kneels down- by his bedside. There U no hope now except in prayer. He cries out, “Spare him, ob, spare him, oh " and there is no word to fill the place, for he has sold his Lord. Then sud denly his old master, John, appears, and after tears of repentance he U restored again to bis priceless position. Is this not an illustration, for many of us who have in an unguarded moment because of our love for the world and our desire for power parted with Him who alone can eatisfy the soul. It is an awful thing to be with out Christ. God save ua from the cry of Mary, “They have taken away my Lora." - PROMINENT PEOPLE. Rudyard Kipling has written 160 short stories. Henry Watterson denies that he Is a candidate for Governor of Kentucky. Professor Schenek, author of “The Determination of Sex," died in Styrin. Governor Cummins, of Iowa, is one of America’s foremost authorities on forestry. ■Prince Henry of Prussia, like his brother, the Kaiser, is an earnest stu dent of music. King Edward has devoted the gift of ?30,000 received from the Maharajah of Gwalior to the hospital fund. John 6. Rockefeller, as'all the world knows, plays golf. That and a mild game of ping-pong indoors keeps away the blues. William A. Hemphill, former Mayor of Atlanta, Gn., and founder of the Atlanta Constitution, died suddenly at his home in Atlanta. The will of Jobn W. Maekny divided Ms estate Into two portions, leaving one to his widow and the other to his son," Clarence H. Maekny. Friends of Senator Foraker, of Ohio, are working for bis nomination for Vice-President, hoping to Mock any chance of the nomination of Senator Hanna for President. The gallant General De Wet objects to being termed, a “guerrilla lender.” The Bloemfontein Post so referred to him. nnd subsequently withdrew the phrase at the Boer general’s request. Senator Pettus, of Alabama, whose term expires in March, 1003, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest lhau In .the United States Senate. He. was born in 1821, and when his term expires he will be eighty-two years old. Colonel George B. McClellan Harvey, under whose editorship Harper’s Weekly has much Improved, Is only thirty-eight years of age. He comes of a Scotch ancestry, was horn in Ver mont, received only a grammar school education. LABOR WORLD, Strikes are unknown in Japan. Toledo (Ohio) telephone girls may or ganize. Chicago Janitors to the number of 300 have formed a nnlon. Decreases in miners’ wages In Eng lish Federated districts affected 321,000 men. PIneyville (It. T.l weavers claim tlint salesmen of woolen goods will strike next. v Telegraphers throughout the country are organizing nud will demand higher wages. Stonemasons In Scotland to the num ber of 2000 were given n voluntary In crease in pay. Five thousand iron and steel workers in South Wales liavq been granted nil Increase in wages. The American Steel nnd Wire Com pany will erect n hospital in each of its plants for emergency cases. At Everett, Wash., the street enr company bns voluntarily raised the wages of its conductors and motormen. It Is believed th-t between 13.000 nnd 20,000 men have been brought from England to Cnnndn to help harvest the wheat crop this season. The strike of boilermakers at San Bernardino nnd The Needles. Cal., has been settled. The men will receive thirty-nine cents an hour. East Blnehlll, Me., quarrymen have agreed to return to work at the scale offered by the operators. The strike began May 1. , ' The Norfolk (Vn.) building trades strike 1ms ended; the strikers lost all they 'contended for. Including shorter hours and higher wages. Physicians In/Roanoke, Vn., formed a combination and raised prices for professional service. This was fol- lowed by 2500 mechanics in the rail road shops devising a plan by which they will employ two doctors fof their families at monthly salaries. WITH PRESIDENT’S PERMISSION, Gen. Mile* Will Go to Philippines to Inspect Army Conditions. With reference to the statement that Lieutenant General Miles‘is go ing to the Philippine islands, Secre tary Cortelyou said Monday night: “General Miles is going to the Phil ippine islands, with the permission of the president, to inspect army condi tions there.” GEORGIA’S TAX RATE Fixed at $s.3» on the Si.ooo—A Reduction ot Fourteen Cents From Last Year. Property holders In Georgia will pay tax at the -rate of $5,30 on the $1,006 this year. The rate was fixed Tuesday morning by Governor Candler and. Comptroller General Wright. After going over the figures of' Comptroller General Wright it was de cided that 14 cents on the thousand, could be taken from the rate of last year, making the rate for this year $5.30. The reduction wAs much lower than was expected even by the officials who fixed the rate. The new rate Is based on the Increase In property virt ues of $10,790,510 over last year. The following is the order Issued which declares what the tax rate should be: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Atlanta, .Ga., Aug. 26, 1902. \ Pursuant to section 1 of the tax act of the general assembly, approved De cember 21, 1900, which requires the governor, with the assistance of the comptroller general, to levy a percent-, age on the taxable property of this state sufficient to meet the require ments thereof, not to exceed a certain per cent named therein, and after ap proximating as ^nearly as practicable the amount of all taxable property In this state as shown by the digest, and other returns. It Is . Ordered. That 2 97-100 mills .be as sessed and collected upon the amounts of the taxable property returned by or assessed against each tax payer and upon the value of all property in the state subject to taxation ad valorem, for general purposes, and In addition to the 2 97-100 mills, an extra per cent of 21-10 mills be asscssediand collect ed (in conformity with said act, pro viding for the support of the common schools) upon the amount of taxable property returned by, or assessed against each tax payer, and upon the value of ail property In the state, sub-! ject to taxation ad valorem. It Is far ther "Ordered, That In addition to thb 2 97-100 mills and the two andone-tenth mills above ordered, an extra per cent of twenty-three one hundredths of one mill (231-00) be assessed and col lected for a sinking fund, In conformity with the act approved December 19, 1900, to retire maturing bonds of the state upon the amount of he taxable property returned by or assessed against each tax payer, and upon the value of all property in the state sub ject to taxation ad volerem. The whole state tax hereby levied mak-. lng five and three-tenths mills for all purposes for the year 1902: “A. D. CANDLER, Governor. “Wm. A. Wright, Comptroller Gen.” The total value of al the property In ’Georgia as returned to the office of Comptroller General Wright Is $467,- 345,407. Last year the total value of all property was $456,554,597. At the rate of $5.44 on the $1,000 the revenue of the state from taxes last year amounted to $2,483,658. At the rate of $5.30 on the thousand this year, the revenue from taxes will be $2,476,930, or a decrease In revenue of $6,727. The amount, however, will be enough to pay all the expenses of the state according to statements by Governor Candler and Comptroller General Wright. When Governor Candler went Into office four years ago the rate was $6.21 on the $1,000. It was the gov ernor’s pledge when he entered office that he would reduce the tax rate, and within four years’ time with a million more dollars to pay to public schools and pensions than any other administration, the rate has been cut almost one dollar on the thousand. CHIEF AGRICULTURISTS MEET. Commlssoners of the Southern States Gather at Nashville. The Cotton States Association of Commissioners of Agriculture began Its fourth annual convention la Nash ville, Tenn., Tuesday. The following states are represented; Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. B. C. White and W. A. Orten, rep resenting the United States depart ment of agriculture were also In ’at tendance. Commissioner Thomas H. Paines,, of Tennessee, called the meeting to or der and introduced * President S. L. Patterson, of North Carolina, who presided. Governor McMUIln, on behalf of the tftate, welcomed the association: Memphis Druggist > Hied. .J. W. Sommer, , a prominent Mem phis, Tenn., drngglst, was shot Tues day night and probably fatally wound ed by T. A. Sawyer, a local loan- agent Family affairs are said to have, caused the shooting.