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Atlanta, Bi Sash, Doors and Blinds I CLARK, BELL & CO., -Manufacturers and Dealers in- Sash, Doors, Blinds, ouldings, Brackets. SIIIKTGIjBS and. LUMBER. Also SEWER nnd DRAIN LIRE. Prices as low i.g the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed. CLARK, BELL & CO., Gainesville, Ga. JOB PRINTING Of Every Description MATH Him AT THIS IITOB. Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention. S A TRIAL! Orders for Fancy and Plain Job Printing receive prompt attention at this oflice. REV. DR. TALMAGE, the BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “A Proposition to Celebrate the Nineteen Hundredth Birth day of Christ by an Inter national Jubilee.” Text “ To 11.1 a child is bom," Isaiah lx., 6. That is a tremendous hour in tlio history of any family when an immortal spirit is in carnated. Out or a very dark cloud tlmro deseouds a very bright moraine?. Ono life snared r.ml another given. AH tho bolls of gladness ring over Urn eradlo. I know not why any one should doubt that of old a star pointed down to the Saviour’s birthplace, for a star of joy points down to every honorable nativity. A new eternity dates from that hour, that minute. Beautiful nnd appropriate is tho custom of celebrating the anniversary of such an event, and clear on into the eighties and nineties the roeurronco of that day of the year in an old ninn’s life causes recognition nnd more or less congratulation. Ho also Nations are ac customed to celebrate tho anniversary ol their birth nnd tho anniversary of the birth of their great heroes or deliverers orbenetuc- tors. The 22d of February and the 4th of July aro nevor allowed to pass in onr land without banquet and oration and bell ring ing and cannonade. But all other birthday nnuivorsaries are tame compared with tho Christmas festivity, which celebrates the birthday described in my text. Protestant and Catholia and Greek churches, with all the power of nutsio and garland and processlou and doxology* put tho words of my text into National and con tinental and hemispheric chorus, “To us a child is born.” On tho 25th of December each year that is tho tliomo in fit. Paul’s and St. Peter's and St, Mark’s and St. Isaac’s and all tho dedicated cathedrals, chapels, moot ing houses aud ohurohes olear round tho world. Wo shall soon roach tho nineteen hun dredth anniversary of that happiest event of all time. This century is dying. Only seven more pulsations, nnd its heart will cooso to beat. Tho lingers of many of you will write It at tho head of your letters and tho foot of vour important documents, “1900.” It will be a physical aud moral sensation unlike anything olse you hnvo before oxporloiioeds Not ono hand that wrote that “1801” at the induction of this century will have ctinulug loft to write “1901” at tho induction of an other. The death of ono century and tho birth of another century will be sublime and sug gestive and stupendous beyond nil estimate. To stand by the grave of one oontury nnd by the eradle of another will be an opportunity such as whole generations of the world’s in habitants nover experienced. I pray God that there may bo no sickness or casualty to hinder your arrival at that goal or to hinder your taking part in the veledictory of tho de parting oentury and the salutation of tho now. But aa that season will bo tho ninotoeu hundredth anniversary of a Haviour’s birth, I now nominate that a groat international jubiloo or exposition bo opened in this clus ter of oltios by tho soaooast on OliristmaH day, tho 25th of December, 1900, to bo con tinued for at least ono month into tho year 1901. This contury closing December 01st, 1900, and tho new century beginning Janu ary 1st, 1901, will it not bo time for all Na tions to turn aside for a fow weeks or months from everything olse and emphnsizo the birth of tho greatest being who ever touched our planet, nnd could there ho a more appropri ate time for such commemoration than this culmination of tho conturies which nrodntod from Ills nativity? You know that all his tory dates either from boforo Christ or after Christ, from B. C. or A. D. It will bo tho year of our Lord 1900 passing into tho year 1901. Wo have liud tho Centennial at Philadel phia, colebrative of tho ono hundredth an niversary of our Nation’s birth. Wo lmvo had tho nmgnlflcont expositions at New Or leans and Atlanta and Augusta and 8t. Louis. Wo have tho presoiit World’s exposi tion at Chicago, colobrativo of this conti nent’s emergence, and there aro at least two other groat celebrations promised for tills country, aud other countries will have their historic events to commemorate, but the one event that has most to do with tho welfare of all Nations is the arrival of Jesus Christ ou this planet, and all tho enthusiasm ever witnessed at London or Vienna or Paris or any of our Amorlcan cities would bo eclipsed by tlio enthusiasm that would cele brate the ransom of all nations, the first step toward the accomplishing of it being taken by an infantile foot one winter’s night about five miles from Jerusalem, when tho clouds dropped tho angelic cantanta^ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to men.” The throe or four questions that would ho asked me concerning this nomination oftimo and place I proceed to answer. What prac tical use would come of such international celebration? Answer— 1 Tho biggest stride the world over took toward the evangeliza tion of all Nations. That is a grand and wonderful convocation, the religious con gress nt Chicago. It will put intelligently be fore tho world tho nature of false religions which have been brutalizing the Nations, tramping womanhood into tho dust, enact ing the horrors of infantioido, kindling funeral pyres for shrieking victims, and rolling juggernauts aoross tho mangled bod ies of their worshipers. But no ono supposes that any ono will be converted to Christ by hearing Confucianism or Buddhism or any form of heathenism eulogized. That is to be done afterwards. Ami how can it so well he done as by a cele bration of many weeks of the birth and char acter ami achievements of the wondrous nnd unprecedented Christ? To such an exposi tion tho kings and queens of the earth would ot send their representatives—they would /no themselves. Tho story of a Saviour’s advent could not bo told without telling the story of His mis sion. All the world say, “Why tlds ado, this universal demonstration?” What a vivid presentation it. would ho, when nt such a con vocation the physicians of tho world should tell what Christ lias done for hospitals and the assuagement of human pain, and when Christian iawyers declare what Christ has done for the establishment of good laws, and Christian conquerors should tell what Christ had done in the conquest of Nations, and Christian rulers of the earth would tell what Christ had done in the Government of earthly dominions! Thirty da vs of such celebration would do more to tell tho world who Christ is than any thirty years. Not a land on earth but would hear of it and discuss it. Not an eye Hp dimmed by tiie superstition of ages but would see the illumination. The difference of Christ’s religion from all others is that its one way of dissemination is by a simple “telling.” not argument, not skilful oxeget- ists, polemics or the science of theological fistcuiTs, but “telling.*’ “Tell ye the daughter of Zion. Behold, thy King eorneth.” “Go quickly aud toll His disciples that He has risen from the dead.” “Go homo to thy friends and tell them how great tilings tho Lord hath done for thee.” “When Hois come, Ho will tell us all things.” A religion of “telling.” And in what way could all Nations so well be told that Christ hud come as by such an international emphasizing of His nativity? All India would cry out about such an affair, for you know they have their railroads anil telegraphs. “What is going on in America?” All China would cry out. “What is that great excitement in America?” AH the islands of the sea would come down the gangplanks of tho arriving ships and ask, “What is that they are celebrating in America?” It would bo tho mightiest missionary movo/nent the world has ever seen, it would be tho furri ing point in tho world’s destiny. It Mould waken the slumbering Nations with on** teuch, Question tho Second—tTow would you have such an international Jubileo conducted? An swer-All arts should be marshaled, and art In its most attractive and impressive shape. First, architecture. Whilo nil academies of music, and nil churches, nnd all great halls would be noodod, there should bo ono great auditorium erected to hold such an audience as has nover been seen on any sacred occa sion in Amorien. If Sorihonius Onrio, nt tho cost of a- king dom, could build the first two vast amphi theatres, placing thorn back to hack, hold ing groat audiences for dramatic representa tion, nnd then by wonderful maohinory oould turn them round with all their audiences in thorn, making the two auditoriums ono amphitheatre, to witness a gladltorlal contest, amt Yospnotnu could ei i- sfruot tho Coliseum with Its eighty columns, and its triumphs in three orders of Greek architecture, and a capnoitv to hold 87,000 peoplo seated nnd 15,000 standing, and all for purposes of eruolty and sin, cannot our glorious Christianity rear in honor of our glorious OhrlBLa structure Inrgo enough to hold 50,000 of jth worshipers? If we go groping now among the ruined amphitheaters of Verona and Pompeii ami Capua and Ptuqsuolt and Tarraco, and then stand transfixed with amazement at their im mense sweep that held from 50,000 to 100.000 spectators gathered for carousal and moral degradation, could not Christianity afford one architectural achievement that would hold and enthrall its 50,000 Christian disci ples? Do yon say no human voice oould bo heard throughout such a building? Ah! then you were not present when at tho Bos ton peace jubilee Paropa easily with her voice onohnntod 50,000 auditors. Aud the time is near at hand when in theo logical seminaries, where our young men aro being trained for tho ministry, tho voice will be developed, and Instead of tho mumbling ministers, who speak with so low a tone you cannot hear Unless you lean forward and hold your hand behind your ear, and then aro able to guess tho general drift of the sub ject and decide quite well whether it is about Moses or Paul or some ono else—Instoad of that you will have coming from tho theologi cal seminaries all over the land young min isters with voice enough to command tho at tention of an audience of 50,009 peoplo. That is tlio reason tlfyfi the Lord gives us two lungs instead of One. Tt is tho Divine way of saying physiologically, “Bo heard I” That is the reason that tho New Testament ill beginningthsjtccount of Christ’s sermon on the mount Ascribes our Lord’s plain articulation aud tosound of utterance by say ing, “Ho openMl his mouth.” In that mighty concert nail and preaching place Which I suggest Ipr this nineteen hundredth anniversary let imisic crown oilr Lord. Bring all the oroho&traA all tho oratorios, all the PhHharmonlo aiw Handel and Haydn so- oiet ies. » Thon give nSft Haydn's oratorio pf tho “Creation ” for ohc Lord took part m uul- verso building Mid “without him.” says John, “was not|-anything made tlmt was made,'* and lffludol’s “Messiah” and Beethoveu’s “Sypiplionies” and Mendels sohn’s “KHjnh,* f?tlio prophet that typified our Christ and ttui grandest compositions of German and Hugflsh and American masters, living or dead* ,§A.ll instruments tlmt can hum or roll orwpfepor or harp or (Hite or clap or trumpet oj thunder the praises of the Lord joined to aiJ * Sroi«jes that can chant or warble or prow/tp-r multitudinous wor shipers. What qj* arousing when 50,000 join in “Antioch”; or “Coronation” or “Ariel,’, rising halleluiah or subsid ing into an aliAftbt «'in*»rmiturnl amen I Yea.' let Boulptwnvst/’ind oft pedestals *nll nrourfd that bulfAihg—the foims of apostles nnd martyrs. mAn.-ml women, whoi#t>Uo or wrought or suiLV*& by headsman’s ax or fire. Where is my favorjtC of all arts, this art of sculpture, that it ifLiot busior for Christ or that its work is nofjfjettor appreciated? Lot it come forth at t3 nativity. We wi for that now trii did for tho Part In Carrara come our Lord’s resurrl up in that audltoi lms-rellof nnd ini ties won for our tlio Cauovas of Wlioro are the At fJhantreys? Hidl you. / Let sculptu/e Acropolis, hut li our Christ is sb and h/is more t world's jubilee of tho *i! »ooond Phidias to do frlo wlrnt tho first Phidias Lot tho marble of sftrroetion to colobrato Let sculptors sot bf Christ’s oolobratlou fo descriptive of tho bat- ' religion. Whore aro Nineteenth Contury? cAn Thorwuldsens and bfomewhore, I warrant would tako three yenrs to make a programme worthy of such a coming together. Why do 1 tako it upon myself to make such a nomination ot time and place? Answer— Because it so happened that in the mysteri ous providenco of God, horn in a farnihouso and of no royal or princely descent, the doors of communication aro open to moevery week by tho secular and religious printing presses nnd have been open to mo every week for many years, with all tho cities and towns and neighborhoods of Christendom, nnd indeed in lands outsldo of Christendom, where printing presses lmvo been established, nnd I feel that if there Is anything worthy in this proposition it will bo heeded and adopted. On tho other hand, if it be too sanguine, or i sure it GEORGIA NEWS NOTES. ;ms of bat place into ano ther lorlous by as much as \ than their Hercules, Uh tlio sea than their Neptune, and ralscl- greater harvests than lheir Cores, andjjZ&gfeS more music in tho heart of the tbnlr Apollo. “Tho goils oi tho Jibathbaj-are nothing but dumb ldois, but our Por’d (made tho heavens.” Ini marble pure its' snW celebrate Him who ottino to m/ik&is “wfcitor than snow.” Lot tho chisel as well iwiwoneH and pen bo put down at the foot of jksus. Yea, lot painting 4° its best. Tho foreign galleries will loan for such a jubilee their Madonnas, their Aftgelos, their Itubons, their Ilnphaols, their “Christ nt tlio Jordan,” or “Christ at the Last Supper,” or “Christ Com ing to Judgment,” or “Christ on tho Throne of Universal Dominion,” and our own Morans will put their pencils into the nineteon hun dredth anniversary* and our Bierstadts from sketching “The Doftha of the Yosemito” will come to present the domes of the world con quered for Immanuel. Added to fiTl this 1 I would have a floral decoration oft a • scale never equaled. The Holds and open gardens could not furnish it, for it will beftvinter, « ul that season appro priately cliostfn, for it WAS into the frosts and desolations eg Winter that Christ immigrated when ho cuoflBio our world. But .while the fields will tjpbure, the conservatories and hot-houses ugthin 290 miles would gladly keep the saeffid coliseum radiant and aro matic duriajfpll the benvocations. Added to all let l tore be banquets, not like the drutfkon bout at the Metropolitan Opera Houm| Now-York, celebrating the centennial Wasliljgton’s inauguration, whore tho rflj^fs oK-.vuio drowned the so briety of so many senators and governors ivnd generals, but a banquet for tho poor, the feeding of scores of thousands of people of a world in which the ^majority of the inhabi tants have nomr yet. ’Jud enough to oaf, not a banquet at which: ii. few favored men and women of sqcial.or,political fortune shall sit, but such a badjjtio*. /is Cnrist ordero.1 when Ho told His segfa its to “go out into the highways and h/Rdf-es and compel them to come in. „ Lot tUA mayors of cities and tho governors of Sta«fe aud tlio President of. the United States ortWaim a whole week of legal holiday—at lenwr ^(rom Christmas day to New Year’s day.- Added to this let the-'? bo at that interna tional riior/H-ana nfigious exposition a mammoth fflBtriyutUyti of uaerod literature. Lot tlm leading* ministers from England, Scotland. Ireland, Felice, Germany and the world take tho pulpit? of all these cities and tell what they know*If Him whoso birth we celebrate. -At tlidfg • convocations Jet vast sums of rnooiey bo raised for churches, for asylums, for-scdiootej for colleges, all of which institutions born in the heart of Christ. Ott, thatand in that season when ChrlrfBgave . Hteutelf to the world let tiie world give iWeif to Him. Why do I propioiwlj America as the country for this coftyocattap.V Because most other ^Hgion. and while all )o tolerated in many jjy country on earth ’denominations stand all would ivo equal international exposition, duster of soueoast eit- tirao—December 25, lands have 'k Ktaj forms of rang) lands America is where all evnngi on an even footitij hearing Un such Why do I selftet ies? Answer— 1900—those lour lyn. Jersey >City^« ana tunnels; will 1) an aggrega® Consequently have such an imrtld Why do nowj time and plttoo/^ stupendous movei! ized. It will tukfl for such an ovejj the work ought t_ in colleges, in iej] nnrfiamontrfj in / binges, nnd we 1 of Now York, Brook- Joboken, by bridges iticaily one and with i of about 6,000,000. Df)rt of America will Jfot population. fthJB nomination of or -Because such a anrot be extempor- 1 years to get ready celebration, nnd hpeedily in churches, ||e, in congresses, in lot National assem- 7 time to lose. It too hopeful, or too impractical, I will do no harm tlmt l lmvo expressed my wish for such an international Jubilee, cole- brat ive of tho birth of our Immanuel. My friends, such a birthday celebration at tho elose of one century aud reaching Into a now century would lx? something in which heaven ami earth could Join. It would not only be international, but interplanetary, interstellar, interconstollation. If you re member wlmt occurred on tho first Christ mas night, you know that it was not a joy confined to our world. The choir above Bethlehem was imported from another world, and when the star left its usual sphere to designate the birthplace all astronomy felt the thrill. If there ho any thing true about our religion, it is that other worlds aro sympathetic with tills world and in communication with it. Tho glorified of heaven would join lu such a celebration. The generations that tolled to have tho world for Christ would tako part in suoU jubilation nnd prolonged assemblage. The upper galleries of God’s universe would applaud the scene, whether we hoard the clap of their wings nnd the shout of their voices or did not hoar them. Prophets who predicted the Messiah, nnd apostles who talked with Him, and martyrs who (lied lor Him would tako part in the scene, though to our poor eyesight they might he invisible. The old missionaries who died in tho malarial swamps of Africa, or were struck down by Egyptian typhus, or were butchered at Luck now. or wore slain by Borncslan cannibals would come down from their thrones to re- joleo that at last Christ had been heard of, and so speedily in all nations. At the first roll of the first overture of tho first day of that meeting all hoavou would cry ; “Hear! Hear I” Aye I Aye I I think myself such a vast pro cedure as that might hasten our Lord's com ing, and that the expectation of many mil lions of Christians who believe in the second advent might ho realized then nt that con junction of the Nineteenth und Twentieth Centuries, I do not say it would bo, yet who knows but that our blessed and adored Mas ter, pleoaod with such a plan of worldwide observance, might say concerning this wan dering and rebellious planet, “That world at last shows a disposition to appreciate what I have done for it, and with one wave of my scarred hand I will bless und reclaim and save it.” That such a celebration of our Lord's birth, kept up lor days and months, would please all tho good of earth and mightily speed on tho gospel chariot aud ploasoalltho heavens, saintly, chorubio, seraphic, nrohangelio and divine, is beyond question. Ob. got ready for the world’s greatest festivity! Tune your voices for the world’s greatest anthem. Lift tho arches for tho world’s mightiest proces sion. Lot tho advancing standard of the army of years, which has inscribed on one side of it “1900” and on thoothersldo “1901,” have also inscribed on it the most charming name of all the universe—tho name of Jesus, Whethor this suggestion ofa world’s cole* brutlon of.the nativity be taken or not, it lms allowed me an opportunity in a some what unusual way of expressing my lovo for tho groat central character of all time and all eternity. He is the infinite nonesuch. Tho armies of heaven drop on thoir knees before him. After Bourdnlouo. before over whelmed audiences, has preaaned Him, and Milton in immortal blank verse has sung Him, and Miohaol Angelo has glorified the ceiling of tho Vatican with His second oom- ing, and martyrs whilo girdled and oano- f fiea with tho flames of the stake mvo with burning Bps kissed Ids mem ory, itnd in the “hundred and forty and four thousand” of heaven with feet on sons of glass lntershot with sunrise, have with up lifted und downswuug baton, and sounding cornets, and waving banners* anil heaven capturing doxologios colehrutod Him, the story of Ills loveliness, nnd Ills might and Ilia beauty, and Hts grandeur, and His grace, and Ills intercession, and His sacrifice, and of His birth, and His death will remain untold. .Bo His name on our lips whilo we live, and when w« dionftor wo havespokon farewell to father and mother and wife, and child lot us speak that name which is tho lullaby of earth and the transport of heaven. Before tlio crossing of time on tho mid night between December 81, 1900, and the 1st .of January, 1901, many of us will be gone. Romo of you will hear tho clock strike twelve of one century and an hour after it hear it strike ono of another contury, but many of you will not that midnight heat either tiie stroke of old the city clock or of tho old timepiece in tho hallway of the home stead. Hoyom years cut a wide swath through the ohurohes and communities and Nations. But those who cross from world to world boforo Old Time in thir world crosses tlmt midnight from contury to century will talk among the thrones of tho coming earthly jubilee, and on the river bank and In the houHo*of many mansions, until /ill heaven will know of the coming of that celebration, that will fill the earthly Nations with joy and help augment the Nations of heaven. But whether here or there we will tako part in tho music and tho banqueting if we lmvo made the Lord our portion. Oh, how I would like to stand at my front ] door some morning or noon or night und see the sky part und the blessed Lord descend in person, not as ho will come in the hist Judg ment, witli fire and hail and earthquake, hut in sweet tenderness to pardon all sin, and heal /ill wounds, and wipe away all tears, and feed all hunger, and right /ill wrongs, and illumine all darkness, and break all bondage, and harmonize all discords. Some think lie will thus come, but about that coming I make no prophecy, for l am not enough learned in tho Scriptures, ns some of my friends arc, to announce a very positive opinion. But this I do know, that it would bo well for us to have un international and an inter- world celehrution of tho anniversary of His birthday about the time of tiie birth of the now contury, and that it will bo wise beyond all others’ wisdom for us to take Him as our present and everlasting coadjutor, and if that Darling of earth and heaven will only accept you and me after /ill our lifetime of unworthiness and sin we can never pay Hun what we owe, though through all the eternity to come we had every hour zi now song and every moment a now userlption of homage and praise, for you see we were far out among tho lost sheep that the gospel hymn so pathetically describes? History of Boring Sea. Kamschatka Sea is tlio old name for the sea which wo call Behring, or Bol ing. It has not boon used within twenty years, we think. A further chango in the name has been author ized by the United States Board on Geographical Names, which has de cided that, as tho discoverer of tho sea was named Bering, the sea should bo so called, instead of Behring. Tho discoverer was Vitus Bering, a German in tlio Russian service. His descend ants still live in Germany, and a col lateral branch is famous in London as the Barings.—New York Dispatch. Atlanta’s celebration will occur on tho 20th of next December. Tho ex ercises will begin at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and will bo held ut tho state capitol. That program was decided at a rocont meeting of tho pioneers. * * * ' The Augusta Exposition directors have appointed Colonel II. I. Kimball commissioner for the AuguRlu Exposi tion at Chicago, und will give him au thority to represent tho interests of our exposition at tho World’s Fair aud elsewhere. ! Every year tho Crawford county farmers swoop down upon Macon ono day in October about 500 strong, each farmer bringing a load of cotton. The procession is sometimes two miles long. Tho warehousemen alway givo them a banquet at night, when eating nnd drinking and spoech-making iH tho order of tho evening. I * * * At a recent meeting of tho board of directors of tbo Augusta exposition, a resolution was unanimously adopted that it is not tho intention of tho company to interfere in any way with 1 lie plans of tho citizens of Birming ham, Ala., in their desire to entertain the confederate veterans at their pro posed reunion. Tho Augusta Exposi tion Company has appointed Novem ber the 21st and 22d as confederate veterans’ day. All confederates, south and north, are cordially invited to at tend. Captain J. B. James, manager of the Albaugh-Georgia Fruit Company, has an order for 100,000 poach trees to go to Iowa. This company has ono million fruit trees to sell, and Captain James says ho will not bo ablo to fill all the orders ho receives. There will bo fully four million fruit trees for sale by nurserymen around Fort Val ley this fall. The fruit business is no doubt tho salvation of this section and gives employment to a largo number of hands who spend their earnings with the merchants of tho town. i Editor T. It. Gibson, of the AugUB- ta Evening Ncwh, has decided to accept his appointment as consul to Beirut, Byi'in. He will leave in about six weeks for his new post. ’Mr. Gibson is ono of the most popular young mon in tho state, and liked by everybody, and is a social loader. He is a gcntlo- rann of refinement and fino intellect nnd ono of tho best writers on the Georgia press. IIo is well equipped for his now oflioo and, ns a diplomat, will grace his country with dignity in foreign lands and will command re spect always. Mr. Gibson has not yet decided who ho will appoint as his as sistant. ' Sowing machines are at tho bottom of ft very interesting piooe of legisla tion that has boon occupying the at tention of Judge Westmoreland’s court in Atlanta for several days. Tho de fendant in tho suit is Mh W. J. Me- caslin and tho plaintiff is tho Farmers’ Allianoo exchange of Georgia. Col onel W. L. Peck appeared as tho busi ness representative of tho exchange. Judgo W. B. Hammond was attorney for tho exchange. Mr. Mooaslin is charged witli dereliction in that ho failed to deliver at the proper time and according to tho terras of tho con tract, 1,000 sewing machines, which were bou lit of him by Colonel Peek, as manager of tho alliance exchuugo. It was claimed that Mr. Mecaslin de livered only 8G0 machines according to contract. Tho others were shipped out of tho appointed time. Tho ex change was asked to pay tho freight, which should have been paid by Mr. Mecaslin, and ether things. Sumter’s farmers will oat home- raised hog and hominy under thoir own vine and fig treo next year. Never has so much attention been giv en to hog raising before, and ns a re sult nearly every farmer in the county will save enough meat this winter to supply his family a portion of next year, at least,whilo not a few will savo enough to supply the r family and la borers, too, tlio entire year. Ono far mer stated that in liin immediate nigh- borhood twcuty-ono farmers would save enough meat to run them tlio en tire year. This looks like prosperity sura enough, for with thoir smoke houses and corn cribs in Sumter county, and homornised horses and milieu in tho stable, our farmers aro upon u solid basis and will soon lie independent of tho schemes and ma chinations of Wall street money sharks, who seek to grind them beneath tlio heel of oppression. TurpeiiiiiiP Operator* Died. Tho Cordelo Turpentine Operators’ Operative association met tho past week in regular monthly session. Tho following delegates were elected to tho annual meeting in Savannah: A. Prid gen, E. L. Yickors, W. B. Mathews, J. A. Baldwin, W, II. Clements and (J. Urecn. i his meeting promises to be quite interesting, as some very important measures will bo discussed. Tho rules will doubtless bo amended so as to put the association upon a more substantial and solid basis than ever. Notwithstanding recent differ ences among soino of tho members, they aro determined to make a success of tho association. Tho Cordelo asso ciation is in favor of employing a man who will devote his whole time to or ganizing sub-associations and working for tho welfare of the order, Tlio “Troll” Opt)un. Ono hundred nnd fifty bright and uotivo young men, glowing with health nnd full of ambition nnd energy, each intent upon carving out a future for himself, entered tlio big stone arch way of tho statu Technological school at Atlanta lust. Wednesday morning and became students of that institu tion for tho fall term. It was tho fall opening of tlio school. Ono hundred of the young men were old studonts of tho school, having boon present throughout tho Inst session, whilo fifty of them wore now recruits. Tho open ing of tho school was larger than ifc was last session, and it was the largest opening tho school has lmd sinoo two years ago. Tho now students came from every section of tho state, and represented a larger constituency than ever before. They canio from tho mountains and from the low lands. Tho majority of tho new students aro furmers’s hoiih, young men with grit and Ambition, who have saved up with strict economy, enough money to bear tho expenses of a course in this insti tution Numbers of them are browned by toiling in the sum, but their faces betoken the presence of determined character. It was an army of young men who will be heard from in tho future. Dr. Hopkins is much encouraged over tlio outlook for tlio institution. Tho school lms just entered tho sov- enth year of its existence and tho re sults of training in it are beginning to bhow. Russia in Asia. Most of tho towns and cities of Easter^ Siberia arc important only because they happen to bo situated in a thinly popu lated country, but Irkutsk is a city which would attract attention anywhere. As seen from tho western edge of tho forty or fifty miles of table laud which lie between it and Baikal lake, it has quite an imposing appearance. The plain below is covered for a considerable dis tance with tho white buildings of tho city, tho stately towers of numerous churches standing far above the rest* their crosses gleaming in the sunshine, their Ijhbos partially concealed by the luxuriant foliage of tho trees which ’ have been, planted around them. The beautiful Angara river is soon in the suburbs, curving half way round tho city on its way from Baikal to the Yene- soi. Little steamers ply on it between the city and the lake, but numerous rocks and rapids make the navigation of the lower courses of the Angara impos sible : otherwise, through this river and the Yenesei, Irkutsk would have the ad vantage of a continuous waterway to Europe. The population of Irkutsk i« not less than 40,000. It is tho .capital of tho provinco and tho residence of the governor-general of the immense territory comprised in tho two provinces of Irkutsk and Yakuisk. —-[London News. Tun only golden eagle over seen la this part of tho country, says a dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, is captive at tho residence of Joseph May nos, in this city. Mr. Maynes and Peter Barquin went fishing in the roi.rshes along Ottawa liivcr. Maynes got after a monster frog in the edge of tho marsh, along a bluff which iz densely wooded. lie was about to gob his frog when a monstrous eagle swooped down upon him. It seized him between tho shoulder blades, its talons piercing through his overcoat, an undercoat, and cutting into the flesh. The bird beat its wings and Lifted Maynes from his feet. Maynes weighs 15 L pounds, and is 23 years old. lie says ho was terribly fright ened, and more so when tlio bird lifted him from his feet a second time. VVliila attempting the third time to get Maynes into the air he struck tlio eagle on tho head with his frog spear. lie then got one arm around the bird’s neck aud pounded it on the head with his olub. lie got the bird to the bank and Lay across it while Barquin kicked it into in sensibility. A rone was then procured and the bird was tied to a tree. 'Flic cagla has been brought to this city, and was aeon this afternoon by newspaper men. It measures seven feet six inches across tiie wings,weighs thirty-live pounds, and stands three feet two inches high. It is evidently young, there being many pin feathers around the neck and on tho breast. Old citizens who have lived in tiie west say that the bird is a young moun tain eagle of tho golden variety. The plumage is of a dark russet color, almost seal brown. The eagle lms a monstrous head, with a beak four aud a half inches long. Its mouth, when stretched wide open, is live inches across. It swallowed fifteen sparrows for supper, taking each one down whale. Ai'im.ication has been made to tin Secretary of the Treasury fora life-saver’s medul for J. Luke Hunter, an editor of Fannin County, Texas. A short time ago, as Mr Hunter was walking along the street of the village where he dwells, his attention was attracted to a woman, who was weeping und gazing down a deep well. IIo stopped to ask her wliut was the matter, and she said that her two- year old child had fallen down the well.' lie immediately got into the well,slipped down the rope,and though tho water was deep and very cold, ho managed to got holu of the child in ono arm, and sup porting himself with the other, and told the woman to go for assistance, which she did, and in tho course of two hours he and the baby were safely pulled out ol their icy hath. His friends thiuk that he deserves a life-saving medal, if any body does A hemAiiKAUMC meteor exploded near Pompton, N. J., one day recently. In describing tho phenomenon, a witness laid that “the whole sky began to glow Oefore tho meteor itself camo in sight, There was no wavering in its course, and, is it came more nearly overhead, it teemed to go faster. Suddenly it burst, ind u thousand pieces of many colors went Hying in every direction. The jlow, which mingled with tho dawn, lasted for a moment longer. But it was uot uutil the light faded away that the report came. 'Tho light lasted about thirty seconds.