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VOL. III.
CLEVELAND, WHILE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1.(5, 1804.
NO.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THK I5UOOK?.,YX DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SKliMON.
Subject: “A Vision of Heaven.'•
r of Chehov Hint
X site visions of
Text : u Xow it <
oniony the captives Jo
the hen ecus were open
Qo<k"—Ezekiel i., 1.
Lxpnfrinto-1 nml in far •'xllnotl tlio hnnk<*
or the? rhvr Chobnr, an affluent of tin? Eu-
nl,rates. s„t Esaklol. It was th-re ho haul an
Immortal .Imam, ami It is civ a to us in ||,o
Holy Scriptun!?. Ho dr-amo l of Tvro an. 1 • - •
Eyypt. Ho dronme 1 of Christ and tho com- Dons by bin by
nu: lien von. This exile, seated by that river Die Lord.’ 1
Chobar. had a more wonderful dream than While wo worn talking he introduco.l
you or T ever have had or ever will lmvo to another of tho somf writers and s:
sealed on the banks of the Hudson or \| a - I “This is Charles Weslov, who belonged
snd TiiAlmer and Ridley ami Polyonrp, whom
tho flames refused to destroy ns they bent
outward till a spear did the work, and some
of the Albiffonses and Huguenots and conse
crated Quakers who were slain for thoir re
ligion. They had on thorn many scars, but
their sears were illumined, and they Hud on
their faces a look of especial triumph,
Then wo passed nlou# Bom? row, and wo
met sorao of tho old gospel singers. “That Is
Isaac Watts.” said my attendant. As wo
came up to him, ho asked me if tho churches
on earth wore still singing tho hymns he
composed at tho house of Lord and La ly
Abner, to whom ho paid n visit of thirty-six
years, and 1 told him that many of tho
churches opened the Rabbath morning ser
vices with bis old hymn, "Welcome, Sweet
Day of Rest,” and celebrated (heir gospel
triumphs with bis hymn, "Salvation. Oh the
.Toyful Song !” nml often roused thoir dovo-
"Oome, Wo That Love
Oregon or Til a
or Tiber i
bams
Da nut
But wo all have had memorable dreams
some of thorn when w<‘ were half nslo-p ami
ot know whether
7 or sunlight,
let loose and
wlf in
»that 1
o.*ii of
were thoughts
imbe.v
i mags'mi-
earth to a different church from mlny, but
wo arc all now members of tho same church,
the temple of God and the Lamb.” And I
tol l Charles Wesley that almost every Sab
bath wo sang one of his old hymns. "Arm of
the Lord, Awako,” or, "Como, Lei Us Join
Our Friends Above!” or. ".Love Divine, All
Love Excelling,” And while wo were talk
ing on that street called Song row, Kirk
White, tho consumptive college student, now
everlastingly well, eamo up, and we talked
over his old Christmas hymn, "When Mar
shaled on tho Nightly Plain.” And William
Cowper came up, now entirely recovered
from his religious melancholy and not look
ing ns if he had over in dementia attempted
suicide, and we talked over the wide earthly
celebrity and heavenly power of hh old
hymns. "When I Can Head My Title Clear,”
nn 1 "There Is a Fountain Filled With
Wool.”
, And there we met George W. Bothuno of
1 ia to mo wondrous Brooklyn pastorate, and I told him
iumvmirnnee of the ; of how his comforting hymn had been sung
ie of the main nvo- at obsequies all around the world—"H Is
1 that, lost in rap- ; Not Death to Die.” And Toplady came up
lenee
which street t
accosted me and offered to allow me the
joetfl of greatest interest, and conduct
whether the
disarranged
tion or fneulti
Nudt a dream Iliad this morning. It was
nbout half-past 5. and the day was breaking.
?JS5Lr. ,,r r?7 °i f (! vl * u c1r,,f,m of hf *nven.
RaeklH had his dream on the banks of the
hel-ar: T had my dream not far from tho
banks of Hie Hudson. The most of t he stork s
ot heaven were written many centuries ago.
nnd they tell us how the place looked then,
or how it will look centuries ahead Would
you not like to know how it looks now? That
is what I am going to (oil you. I was there
“ is morn In:'. T have just got back. How I
got imo that city of the mui I know not
Which of the twelve eati '
uncertain. Rut my first
p "*no is that T stoo 1 on i
nuns, looking this way n
full of music ...
el laughter and light that i k
mansion (o
temple, nnd
mgol. "How
ii?" and the au-
jording to the
from street to street, nnd
mansion, and from temple i
from wall to wall. 1 siud to tl
long hast thou been in heavej
sv.cr. ‘‘Thirty-two years
earthly calendar.”
1 hero was a secret about this angel’s name
that was not given me, but fro:,, the tender
ness and sweetness and affection and Inter
est tak< a In my walk through heaven, and
more than all in tho fact of thirty-two years’
residence, 11».o number of years since she
ascended. 1 think it was my mother. Old
age and decrepitude and tho tired look were
all gone, but I think it was she. Von see, I
was only on a visit to the city and had not
yet taken up resldenev, and I could know
only iii part,
1 looked in for a few moments at the groat
temple. Our brilliant and lovely Scotch* e-*-
saylst, Mr. Drummond, v lys there is no
church in heaven, but ho did not look for it
im the right street, st. John was right when
in his Patmos c vision, recorded in the third
chapter of Revelation, he speaks of "the
temple of my God.” I saw it. this morning,
t he largest church I ever saw, as big as all
mingling of ail earthly June and October —
, «« the balm of tho ono and the tonic of the
,,4. tho nudiouccs of all the | other. The social lifo in that realm when
they are is fluper’o and perfect. No conlro
” * • ' ’ ‘ • tvn 1*1;^ ii'l Hll ii'til-, inn
the churches and cathedrals of tho earth put ! Ohatsworth is
together, nnd it was thronged. Oh, what ’ "
multitude! I had never seen so many poo
- - audiences of air
churches of all tho earth put together v„ u ,„
make a poor attendance compared with tho
assemblage. There was a fashion in attire
and headdress that immediately took mv at
tention. Tho fashion was white. Ail in
white, save ono. An 1 the headdress was a
_?f.. roso ttn '| Rly «ud mignonette,
1 asked about whether tho church w...
still milkin'..'use of Ids old hvmn, "Book of
Ages, riefl For Me.” An ! wl? also met on
Song row Newtou and Hastings and Mont
gomery and Horatio Bonar. and wo heard
floating from window to window snatches of
the old hymns which they started 0I1 ,. ;ir th
and started never to die.
"But.” say some of my hearers, "did you
sen anything of our friends in heaven?” Oh.
yes, I did. "Did you seo my children there?”
says someone, "and are there any marks of
their last sickness still upon them?” I did
see them, but there was no pallor, no cough,
no fever, no languor, nbout thorn. They are
all well and ruddy and songful and bound
ing with eternal mirth. They told mo to give
their love lo you ; that they thought of you
hour by hour, and that when they could be
excused from the heavenly playgrounds they
eamo down, and hovered over you, nnd
kissed your cheek, nnd filled your dream
with their glad faces, and that they would be
at Die gate to greet you when you nseen led
to be with them forever.
"But,” say other voices, "did you see our
glorified friends?” Yes, I saw them, and
they nr« well in the land across which no
pneumonias or palsies or dropsies of typhoids
ever sweep. Tho aroma blows over from or
chards with trees bearing twelve manner of
fruits, and gardens compared with which
Tho climate is
mingled with green loaves culled lrom the
royal gardens and bound together with bands
Of gold.
And I saw some young men with a ring on
tho linger of the right hand and said to my
accompanying angel, "'Why those rings on
the lingers of the right hands?” and I was
told that those who wore them were prodigal
non* ami once f«.| twine in the wilderness
nud lived on limb, but thev came home an.I
the rejololng father said, "Put a rin- on hia
hand.”
Hat I wild there was one exception to this
fashion of white pcrviidlnenil tho an litorimn
ami clear tip through all the tcallerlns. It
was tho attire of tfio one who presided tn
that irntnemo tempi/, -the chlefeat, tiie
mightiest, tho loveliest person In ail the
plane. Ills ole d.s seoinedtolm flushed with
Inllnito beauty, and his forehead was a
moraine rky, and ids lips were eloquence
omnipotent. Hut his attire was of .loop
colors. They sug>-slo,l tho mintage through
an/i 1 said to nay at-
robe
• (rod
which 1m bud pa
tending angel, “Wh.it js that <
that ho wears?” nud I was (old, *
dyed garments from Reznik,” and
the wine press alone.”
Soon after I entered this torn
gnu to chant the celestial litany,
like anything i had ever heard I
and power, an 1 i have hoard t h
of the great organs and the
groat oratorios. ! said to my nr
angel, "Who is that standing
the harp?” nnd the answer wt
And l su'd, "Who is that sounding that
trumpet?” und the answer was "Gabriel!"
And f said, "Who is that at the organ?” and
the answer was "Handel!” And tho music
rolled on till if came to a doxo’.ogy extolling
* Frist Himself, wbeu all the* worshipers"!
lower down and higher up, a thousand lm!-
they bo
wed ness
ost sweet
d of the
ti pa trying
■lor with
1 sin
mony I fell br
is too much b
tho over wild :i
But I notice
Hint on tho cd<
like the Jachy.
seen it in tho
suddenly
ed. "Worth
i lor tiie ov
iro!
thoir
iii that
: Imr-
l as I 1
'it the altar was somethln«
I. or tear bottle, as I ha/1 i :
the lucliry- j J
Jealousies or hates, but love, uni
versal love, everlasting love. And they told
mo to toll you not to weep for them, for thoir
happiness knows no hound, and it Is only a
question of time when you shall rolgn with
them iu tho same palace nnd Join with them
in the samo exploration of planets and tho
same tour of worlds.
But yonder in this assembly is nn up
turned face that seems to ask how about tho
ages of those in heaven. "Do my departed
children remain children, or have they lost
their childish vivacity? Do my departed
parents remain aged, or have they lost tho
venerable out of their nature?” Well, from
wlmt I saw I t hink childhood has advanced
to full maturity of faculty, retaining all the
resilience of childhood, and that the aged
had retreated to midlife, freed from all dc-
end v. • . but still retaining tho charm of tho
venerable. Ju other words, it was fully de
veloped and' c'ompieto life of all souls,
whether youug or old.
Some one says, "Will you tell us what most
Impress'd you in heaven?” f will. I was
most impress*) 1 with tho reversal of earthly
coalitions. I knew, of course, that there
would ho differences of attire and residence
i/i heaven, lor Raul had deolared long ago
that souls would then differ "as one star dif
fered from another,” as Mars from Mercury,
as Saturn from Jupiter. But at every step in
my dream in heaven I was amassed to seo
that some who were expected to be high in
heaven wore low down, and some who were
expected to ho low down wore high up. You
thought, lor instance, that those born of
pi els p.ucnlage, and or naturally good dis
position. and of brilliant faculties, and of all
styles of attractiveness will move in the high
est range of celestial splendor and pomp.
So, no. I found the highest thrones, the
brightest coronets, the richest mansions,
were n • mpted by those who had repro
bate father or bad mother, and who
inherited the twisted natures of
ten generations of miiscronnts, and who
had compressed in their body all tho de
praved appetites and rill evil propensities,
but they laid hold of God’s arm, they cried
for esp r-ial mercy, they conquered seven
devils within and seventy devils without and
Were washed in the blood of the Lamb, and
by so much as thoir contest was terrific, and
awful and prolix thoir victory was consuln-
te and resplendent, and they have tn
?ood parentage, who could hardly help b
ug good, because they had ten generations
inn Is, or tear bn: ties, into which the orien- ! of preceding piety to aid them. Tho steps by
tnls used to v. cop tl, ir griefs and set them ! which many have mounted to tho highest
away as i »•/• !. But this iachyrmal. or tear I P ,tt <>es in heaven wore made out of tho cra-
bottle, in -• c! of earthenware, ns those the of corrupt parentage. When I saw that
oriental*
i lustro
great «
tear bottle
id fiery with
:«dors, and it was lowering and of
: : *ity. And I said to my attending
V'hat is that great lachrymal, or
' ding on the.step of the altar?”
and the angel said "Why, don’t you know?
That is the bottle to which David, thepsalm-
i“l. referred in this fifty-sixth psalm when he
raid. ‘l*ut thou my tours into thy bottle.’ ft
is full of tears from earth—tears of repen
tance. tears of bereavement, tears of joy,
tear s of many centuries.” And then I saw
bow snored tolhe sympathetic Go.1 are earth
ly sorrows.
As I \vn coming out of the temple I saw
all along the pictured walls there were
shelves, and golden vials were being set up
I said to my attending angel : "That is fair ,
that is right. The harder the struggle tho
more glorious the reward.”
Then I pointed to one of tho most colon
naded and grandly domed residences in nil
the city and said. "Who lives there?” and
the answer was, "The widow who gave two
mites.” "And who Jives there?” and the
answer was, "Tho pf?nitont thief to whom
Christ said, ’This day shftlt thou be with Mo
in paradise.’ ” "And who lives there?” I
said, and the answer was. "The blind beggar
who prayed, ‘Lord that my eyes may be
opened.’ ”
Rome of those professors of religion who
were famous on earth I asked about, but no
•j could tell me nnything concerning them
<>n all these shelves. And I said • "Why the j Their names were not oven in tho city diroe-
setting up of ail these vials at this time? tor3* of the New Jerusalem. The fact is that I
I hey seem just now to have been filled,” suspected somo of them had not got there at
hjhI the attending angel 'viid, "The week of all. Many who had ten talents were living
prayer all around the earth h is just elo' e j, on the back streets of heaven, while many
end more supplications have b'-en made than j with ono talent had residences fronting on
have been mu ;*.■ for a long while, and these ’ the King’s park, and a back law/i sloping to
new vi • hat the Bible theriv' 1 i ar a . ; t b. ■: :
‘-peaks "i as "yvkn vials full of odors, bility of heaven were guests at their tabic?,
the prayers of saints.” And I said ! and often tho white horse of Him who "hath
the moon under His feet” champed its bit at
their doorway. Infinite capsize of earthly
litlons ! All social life in heaven graded
which a:
to the accompanying angel. "Can it be possi
ble that the prayers of earth are worthy of
being kept in such heavenly shape?” "Why,’*
Kt: i the angel, "l hero is nothing that so J according to earthly struggle and usefulness
moves heaveu as the prayers of earth, and as proportioned to talents given !
they arc set up in sight of these infinite! As I walked through those streets I np-
multitudes, and. more than all, iu the sight 1 predated for the first time what Paul said to
of Christ, and He cannot forget them, and j Timothy, "If wo suffer, we shall also reign
they are before Him world without end.” ! with Him.” It surprised me beyond doacrip-
Then we came out, and as the temple is al- , tion that all the great of heaven were great
ways open and *ome worship at one hour sufferers. "Not all?” Ye?, all. Moses, him
and others at other hours w ? passed down ! of the Red Sea, a great sufferer. David, him
the street amid the throngs coming to an i of Absalom’s eunfiliul behavior, nndAhitbo-
going from tho great temple. And wo passed j phel’s betrayal, andaNution’s dethronement,
along through a street called Martyr pla
and wo there, or saw sitting aU tho w
dows, thf* souls of those who on earth w
through fire and blood an I under sword s
rack. We saw John Wyclif, who
were Vy decree of tho council of Constant
thrown into tho river,
bathed his hands in the iir*
been water, and Bishop Hooper ap-J McKail
i great sufferer. Ezekiel, him of the captiv
iry, who had the dream on the banks of the
Chebar, a great sufferer. Paul, him of tho
diseased eyes, and the Mediterranean ship-
hes i wreck, and the Mars Hill derision, and the
Marnertine endungeonment, andthewhipped
I Roger-:, who back, ani the headsman’s ax on the road to
h it fiad | Ostia, a great sufferer.
Yea, all tho ape jtles after livee of suffering
died by violence,-bealen to death wiili full
er’s club, or dragged to death by molis, or
from the thrust of a sword, or by exposure
on n barren island, or by decapitation. All
tho high up in heaven great sufferers, nnd
women more than men. Folioitas and St. Co-
j colin an l St. Agnes and St. Agatha nml Bt.
| Lucia and women never heard of out
ride their own neighborhood. queens of tin?
I needle, nnd tho broom, and iho scrubbing
j brush, and tho washtub, anil tho dairy, re
warded according to how well they did their
work, whether to sot a tea table or govern a
Nation, whether empress or milkmaid,
i 1 could not get over it, as in my dream T
; saw all this, nnd that some of the most un-
i known of earth were the most famous in
I heaver, and that many who seemed thogroat-
! < M failures or earth wore tho greatest sue-
c.’mscs of heaven. And as wo passed along
one of the grandest boulevards of heaven
there approached us a group of persons so
radiant in countenance and apparel 1 had to
shade my eyes with both bands because I
could not endure tho luster, and X said,
"Angel, do toll me who they are?” and tho
| answer was, "These are they who eamo out
of great tribulation nnd had their robes
washed and made white In tho blood of tho
Lamh!”
i My walk through the city explained a
i thousand things on earth that had been to
me inexplicable. When X saw up there the su-
parlor delight and the superior heaven of
many who had on earth had It hard with
| cancers and bankruptcies and persecutions
! and trials of all sorts, I.said, "God has equal
is'd it nil at last; excess of enchantment In
heaven has more than made up for tho de
ficits on earth.”
•‘But,” saiil I to mv angelic escort, "l
must go now. It is Sabbath morning on
earth, and I must preach to-day nnd be in my
pulpit by half past 10 o’clock. Good-by,” I
said to the attending angel. "Thanks for
what you have shown me. I know T have
seen only in part, but I hope to return again,
through the atoning merevof our Lord Jesus
Christ. Good-by.”
Then I passed on amid chariots of salva
tion, nnd along by conquerors’ thrones, and
amid pillared majesties, and by windows ot
again, and under arches that had been hoist
ed for rettirno i victors. And as i oame
toward the walls with the gates, tho walls
flashed upon me with emeralds and sapphires
and ehrysoprasos and amethysts, until I
troinhled under the glory, anil then l heard
a bolt shove, and a latch lift, and a gate
swing, and they were all of pearl, and I
passed out loaded with raptures, and down
by worlds lower and lower, and lower still,
until I came within sight of the city of my
earthly residence, and until through tho
window of my earthly homo tho sun poured
so strong upon my pillow that my eyelids
felt it, and in bewilderment as to where I
was and what 1 had soon I awoke.
Reflection the First Tho superiority of our
heaven to all other heavens. Tho Scandina
vian heaven • Tho departed are in everlast
ing hnltlo, except ns restored after boing out
to nieces ; they drink wine out of tho skulis
of thoir nuomios. 'The Moslem heaven as
described by tho Koran: "There shall bo
houris with large black eyes likes pearls hid
den in their .shells.” The Slav’s heaven:
After death the soul hovers six weeks about
the body, and then climbs a stoop mountain,
on the top of which is paradise. Til© 'Tasma
nia’s heaven : A sponr is placed by thedead,
t Hitt they may have something to fight with,
and after awhile they go into a long chase
for game of all sorts. Tho Tahitian’s heaven
The departod aro eating up of the gods. The
native African heaven : A land of shadows,
and in sneaking of tho departed they say all
is done fur over. The American uborigfne’s
heaven : Happy hunting grounds, to which
the soul goes on a bridge of snake. Tho
philosopher’s heaven : Made out, of u thick
fog or an infinite don’t know. But hearken
and behold our heaven, which, though mostly
described by figures of speech in tlio Bible
and by parrfWo of a dream iu this discourse,
has for its chief characteristics separation
from all that is vile ; absence from all that
can discomfort ; presence of all that can con
gratulate. No mountains to climb ; no chasms
to bridge ; no night to illumine ; no tours lo
wipe. Scandinavian heaven, Slav’s lioavon,
Tasmanian heaven, Tahitian heaven, African
heaven, aborigines’ heaven, scattered into
tameness and disgust by a glimpse of St.
John's heaven, of Paul’s heaven, of Christ’s
heaven, of your lioavon, of my heaven!
Rolloot ion the Second- You had better take
patiently and eheorfully all pangs, affronts,
hardships, persecutions and trials of earth,
since, it rightly born *, they insure heavenly
payments of ecstasy. Every twinge of phys
ical distress, every lie told about you, every
earthly subtraction, if meekly borne, will be
heavenly addition. If you want to amount
to anything in heaven and to move in its beat
society, you must bo "perfected through suf
fering.” 'I h ? only earthly currency worth
anything at the gate of heaven is the silver
of tears. At the top of all heaven sits tho
greatest sufferer, Christ of tho Bethlehem
caravansary and oI Pilate’s oyer and term
iner. and of tho Calvurean assassination.
, oh, who <*an tell,
Oli. ye of the broken heart, and the disap
pointed ambition, nnd the shattered fortune,
and tho blighted life, take comfort from
wh.it I saw in my Sabbntli morning djoam !
Reflection tho Third and Last How de
sirable that we all get there! Start this
moment with prayer and penitence and faith
in ChrDt, who eamo from heaven to earth
to take ns from earth to heaven.
Last summer, a your ago, f preached one
Sabbath afternoon in Hyde Park, London, to
a great multitude that no man could number.
But I. heard nothing from it until a few
weeks ago, when Rev. .Mr. Look, who for
twenty-two years lias presided over that
Hyde f.’ark outdoor meeting, told me that
last winter, going t hrough a hospital in Lon
don. he saw a dying man whoso face bright'
ened as he told him that his heart was
changed that afternoon under my sermon In
Hyde Park, and all was bright now at his
departure from earth to heaven.
Why may not the Lord bless this as well as
that? Heaven as I dreamed about it, and as
I read about it, is so benign a realm you can
not any of you afford to miss it. Oh, will it
not be f.ranscendontiy glorious after the strug
gle of this life is over to stand it in that eter
nal safety? Samuel Rutherford, though they
viciously burned his books and unjustly ar
rested him for treason, wrote of that celes
tial spectacle *.
The Kinp? there Jn His beauty,
Without a voll, I s flCftu;
It were a well Hpeut Journey.
Though seven deaths lay between.
The T.'tinb with His folr army
J'o'li on Mount glon stuirJ,
And a lory, Klory dwelleth
Xu luimunuerd land.
Snails as J'ooJ.
For the Inst month tho palate of New
Yorkers has craved the flavor of roasted
snail. The delicacy is known to every
man who studios the problem of orig
inal flavors in edibles. But a month
or so ago the newspapers began to talk
about these delicious comestibles, arid
Kuch is the value of advertising even
to a snail that the imported supply ia
now scarcely equal to the demand.
T'hese snails are not tho snails we know
of, familiar to mossy garden walls and
rich loams.
They are gathered in quantities from
the Bay of Biscay and along the south
ern seaboard of France and sent to
this country alive. They are prepared
after having been washed in several
waters by boiling and then packing
hack in the shells into a thick paste of
butter, garlic and parsley, and roasted.
They are hearty, digestible and in
imitable; but the taste for them is an
acquired one and a great many primi
tive appetites never experiment with
them more than once.—New York
Press,
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
ALLIANCE OFFICERS ELECTED.
Adairs ol Government and News of
Hie* Departments Dismissal
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple nml Their (Jfnefnl Welfare.
Attorney-General Olnoy, Friday, np-
pointod James K. M. Hawkins, of Dir-
minglmm, to bo Assistant United Htntcs
District Attorney for the northern dis
trict of Alabama.
Secretary Herbert received tho fol
lowing cable message Saturday from
Hour Admiral Benhnm: “This morn*-
ing there were sharp engagements at
Aria Point, resulting in some insur
gent success. ”
The senpto finally disposed of the
election bill Wednesday. It passed by
n majority of eleven. Tho populists
voted wjtli the democrats to repeal the
laws, Tho bill now goes to the presi
dent ns no nmondments were added by
tho senate.
The executive committee of tho
National Association of Democratic
Clubs, organized July I, 1888, for tho
purpose of aiding in the promotion of
party success, met in Washington at
noon Thursday. The sessions were
private.
Tho president 1ms selected Messrs.
Walker Fearn, of Alabama, nnd Som
erville 'I'uek, of New York, to servo on
tho Egyptian international tribunal to
fill vacancies on the retirement of
\ ietor .Harriuger, of North Carolina,
nml Ernest H. Crosby, of New York.
These places pay handsome salaries
ami the appointments do not require
confirmation by the senate.
The gold reservo in tlvo treasury is
again intact. It readied that condi
tion Friday when the gold received
lrom the recent bond issue swelled tho
gold beyond the .$100,000,000 mark.
On August 10 last, the gold in tho
treasury stood at $100,000,000, since
which date iu has gradually declined,
reaching its lowest point of $04,000,-
000 on Tuesday last, when the gold re
ceived for the sale of bonds was trans
ferred into 1 ho treasury cash.
No W ork, No Pay.
Mr. Hoatner, of Louisiana, has in
troduced an amendment to the rules of
the house which ho thinks if adopted
will prevent a repetition of the filibus
tering procoedingsof the past few days.
Tho house had found it difilcult to act
on account of a largo number of its
members declining [to vote and tints
breaking a quorum’. Mr. iloiitner’s
amendment to the rules provides that
the clerk of the li&mso shall make a
note of ouch member present and not
voting and said member when refusing
to vole and being (present, shall have
one day’s salary d< attic ted. Mr, Boat-
ner’s nmendment^tthcr provides that
the speaker slffiiliBtertiiiu.•no motion
to excuse a member 1 from voting or to
refund a line when the clerk has im
posed it. Mr. Buainer thinks when a
member’s salary ifmYectod by this not
voting be will always vote. The reso
lution has been referred to the com
mittee on rules,
Snimic Tttl’inCoiiimilto' Rimy.
A Washington special of Friday
says: The senate finance committee is
making rapid progress iu the considcr-
ration of the turilV bill. It will prob
ably be reported to w the senate within
ten days. Ooftl AvillVcrtainly Lo put
on tho dutiable list. And so will sugar.
The sugar schedule as giving the com
mittee) more troublf than any other
section of tho bill. *Tho committee is
practically agreed that tho sugar trust
shall be given no infant ages. Indeed,
the committee is xinJpiti-trust commit-
mittee and it is determined to prevent
the fattening of 4.his great trust
at tho expense <U the American
people. Thus, if lift product of the
refiner is taxed uLn higher rate than
the raw product ofAjm sugar farm tho
excess will not ho i®ro than one-tentli
of a cent. The iiwieations arc that
raw sugar will have-n duty of 1 cent a
pound upon it, anil that a duty of 1
1-10 cents will ho placed upon refined
sugar. This difference is made on ac
count, of tho foreign matter to bo
found in raw sugar. Tho Louisiana
senators all, while working for a duty
of 1 ! cents, are willing to accept I
cent and will vote for the bill in that
form.
lilmidN Propositfoil NiiccchhI'mI.
Late Thursday uftornoffn Mr. Eland
succeeded in getting his proposition
to coin the scigniontge and bullion in
the treasury, before congress. The
democratic vote on the proposition
was practically solid. Every member
of the Georgia delegation was record
ed in tho affirmative, including Speak
er Crisp, who voted to make a quorum.
The opposition to tho coinage of the
seigniorage is inconsiderable in tho
! democratic ranks, and there are also
forty republicans who favor it. if
this profit silver should he coined it
will increase the currency in circula
tion by fifty million dollars, and would
doubtless be of good service to the
secretary of tho treasury in meeting
the current expenses of the government.
The opposition to Mr. Bland’s proposi
tion is directed at the second section,
which provided for the coinage of bul
lion purchased under the Sherman law
and upon which notes have already
been issued. It can lie readily seen
that the coinage of this bullion would
add nothing to the money in circula
tion, and at the same time would pos
sibly endanger gold redemption. The
proposition Jo coin the seigniorage is
i sure of puBsage. An amendment will j
I be offered striking out the second sec- !
I tion. The vote on this is iu doubt, j
but it is not believed that Mr. Bland’s ;
bill will go through without amend- j
I meat. Mr. Bland stated that he :
I would be willing to modify his resolu
tion so as to not have any doubt of re-
' deraptiou in gold. He is opposed,
however, to striking out the second
section,
Marion Butler, of North Carolina, is
Made President.
A Topeka, Kan., special says: The
national convention of tho farmers’
alliance concluded its work Friday
night nnd adjourned. 'Tho following,
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: /
President, Marion Butler, of North
Carolina; vico president, J. L. Gil
bert of California; secretary and
treasurer, D. P. Duncan, of South
Carolina; executive committee, Manu
Page, of Virginia, II. ('. Dunning, of
Pennsylvania, J. E. Dean, of Now
York, 11. L. Loueks, of South Dakota.
The executive oommitteo was au
thorized to appoint, u national lecturer
and select a place for holding the next
convention. Ben,Terrell; of Texas,
tlu* present national lecturer, will
doubtless he chosen for another term.
The salary of the president and lec
turer was fixed at $J,000 each, and of
the vice president at $2,250.
HECltKTAltY MOUTON ltEl‘ROVEI>.
The scheme of President Upson to
adopt a new constitution did not meet
with the approval of the convention,
the resolution providing for its adop
tion being defeated by an overwhelm
ing majority. The clfort to have tho
Alliance endorse woman su if rage was
also a failure, all of the delegates from
the southern states voting against it.
Before adjourning tho convention is
sued nn address appealing to everyone
who believes in tho principles of the
Alliance to stand by tho organization,
and not only secure tho benefits to
come from organization, but also to
make certain that some political party
shall enact thoir demands into laws.
The Alliance took exceptions to the
ideas advanced by J. Sterling Morton,
secretary of agriculture, relative to the
classes nnd expressed ils disapproval
of Secretary Morton in a resolution.
A SUIT OF THE SAINTS,
Mormons Appeal (o Hie Coih’In for Pos
session of Consecrated Ground.
'I ho long delayed equity suit of the
reorganized Ghurcli of Jesus CUrrist of
Latter Day Saints against tho Ghurcli
of Ohrist of Imlependeuco, to deter
mine the title to the famous Mormon
temple lot in Independence, Mo., lias
been taken up for trial in the United
States circuit court at Kansas City, Mo.
Tho suit is a contest between two fac
tions of the Mormon church to deter
mine the ownership of a piece of
ground in the city of Independence,
on which somo day the Mormons ex
pect lo erect, a temple, which shall bo
the most magnificent ever roared by
the hands of man, nnd from which, on
tho last day of the world, it is be
lieved, all good nnd faithful followers
of Josoph Smith will ascend direct to
lioavon.
Camp Hardee Wants Information.
The following order was issued at
Birmingham, Ala. . Friday afternoon by
Gamp Hardee, Confederate Veterans:
“To United Confederate Veterans:
Camp Hardee, of Birmingham, will bo
pleased to hear from each camp in -tho
United States as to tho number of del
egates that, will bo present at tlio re
union in April. Camp Hardee wants
to hear from ouch camp so that propa-
tions may be made for each delegate
who will attend.”
A World’s Fair History.
Ex-Senator T. \V. Palmer, of Mich
igan ; John Boyd Thatcher, of New
York, and Prof. Tousley,of the world’s
fair commission, met at New York re
cently to outline the work of preparing
the official history of tho fair. Prof.
Tousley will ho the historian. Tt, is
expected that the entire work will con
sist of about thirty octavo volumes of
500 or LOO pages, and will cost from
$250,000 to $000,000. The oxponso
will l>o borne by the government.
AN Oak faint (Gal.) woman testifying'
in an assault ease swore that she saw a
bullet that had been lired at her whiz
by. Such keenness of vision us this is so
rure that few would have courage to
make oath to possession of it.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
counrxTic!) wueki.v.
UofTco— lions tod—Arbncldc’H 24.10 40 100 II).
caflos,Lion 24.10f.,Lovoring’n2l lOo. Green—Ex
tra choice 21'Xc; choice good 20J^c; fair P.L-£c;
common 17%al8hjC. Sugar Granulated
4^c; powdered 5p£e; cut loaf 5%;
white extra (J 4c; New Orlcaim yellow clari
fied jo low extra 0 Syrup--
Now Orleans choice 45c; primo85(a i'Je; common
20(./,30o. Molasses —Genuine Culm 85of.Wc:, im
itation 22($25. Teas Black 85((/,55c; green
40(?/,00c. Nutmegs C5(///85c. fdoves 25($30c;
< inimmon Allspice 10(^11c. Jamai
ca ginger 18c. Singapore popper lie, Mace
$1.00. JJico, Hoad fie; goo I fi'J; common
44£c; imported Japan 5(r£5%e. Halt Hawley’s
diray r 1.50; Virginia 70c, Unoose - fiats !8@14;
White fish, hall’ bids. $1.00; pails file;
Mackerel, half barrels, $(j.00@1.50. Soap.
Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs &UH)0'til -75.
turpentino, fi!) bars, fit) lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
CamlloH -Paraflno 11c; star lie. Matches
400b $ I 00; 800s .*:) (X)a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 00m
5gross $8 75.Ko(Ia-KegS, bulk 4%o; do 1 lb pkgs
cases, 1 lb 6%o, do I and %IL>h He, (loV»lb
finvokers—XXX soda 5bjC; XXX butter
!\%c\ XXX pearl oysters'fij^cislieil and excelsior
7c;lemon cream 9o; XXX ginger snaps 0o: corn*
hills 0c. Gandy—Assorted stick fie; French
mixed 12al2%. Oannod gooda-Oondcnso 1 Milk,
$fi00u8 00; imitation mackerel$3 95a4 00. Sal
mon $5 25a5 50; F. W. oysters $175; L W
$135; corn $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4c; Lump
L .-^nickel packages $3 00; celluloid $5.01).
Pjckles, plain or mixed, pints $ I OOal 40; quarto,
$1 50a 1 SO. Powder—Rifle, kegs $3.25; y£kog«,
$1 *.K); l /i kegs$l 10. Hhot$L 55 par sack.
Flout*. Grain nml .tfeal.
Flour—-First patent $4 65; second patent
$1.25; extra fancy $3.35 ; fancy $3 25; family
$3.00. Com—No. 1 white 55 •. Mixed,
52c. Oats, Mixed 40c; white 44e; Texas rust
proof 50o. Seed rye, Georgia 75a30c.
Hay--Choice timothy, largo bales, $1.00
No. 1 timothy, large halos, $1.00; choice
timothy, small bales, 95c; No. L timothy, small
bales, 90c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 85c.
Meal—Plain 54 •; bolted 52c. Wheat bran—
Largo saoks 90c, small sacks 00c, Cotton
seed meal—$1 80 per cwt. Steam feed—$1,10
per cwt. Stock peas 60a65c per bu. White,
fiOafiS. Boston beans $2.05a2.75 per bushel.
Tennessee, $ 1.75a 2.00. Grits—Pearl $2.90.
ProviniouM.
CleaErib sides, boxed 7 %c, ice-cured bellies
10c. Sugar-cured hams llalfic, according
to brand and average; California, 8,i8%c. break
fast bacon I4al5c. Lard, loat8* £. Compound 6%
Local-Market Closed quiet. Middling 7 3-tfi
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
And 'Ihey Had One No Golden
Opportunity I’lq*. Answer at
Hand Not Artistic The
Eatal Objection, Etc.
•’here w.isii young man in SI. Croix.
Whoso face was expr *ssivo of Jo lx
Mis friends ho would cr>nt
With an offer to treat.
Saying, ’Have one on me it's a boix.”
1 lulliuuipolls Journal.
Cheeky
impudeiK
Keene
Tit - Gits.
A NSW MU
‘What
■ tlANP.
tho height of
‘What's vour height?"—
no f.oi,i>r,N orroirruxrrv.
She “Why haw you never been in
He “Oh. well, I've novel* known
any rieli girls. Detroit Free Proas.
Tin: FATAL < UUKCl’tON*.
H«- -“Have you any objections lo
marrying a widower?”
She “NoI -unless lie tried to make
me wear his first wife’s old clothes." —
Harlem Life.
oi.iTlrtt, HIM HAM) IN*.
“Young Snifkina tells me hejs a
practising physician now. Is lie?”
“Well, from the high rate of mor
tality among his patients J should say
he is, just practising." Buffalo Cour*
A Ills.' TO Tllf, enoJT:s.-U»)N.
The Amateur “How is it all your
phniogrupli.s oi' people show their true
expression ho well 7"
Tlio Photograph - “1 never toll n
patron to ‘look natural. ’’’■■--Chioago
Record.
NOT AllTtSTI*
“Did you know Mrs. PlontirockH
luwl stained glass all through her new
hoimo ?”
‘No ; but wlmt a pity 1 (‘an she get.
anything to take it out?” Rochester
i )cmocrut.
NOT FOND OF THK ANTIQUE.
“How did you like the ruins oi
Poiitpeii, Mr. •foy-nson?"
Mr. Joynsou (who has just returned
from a Continental tour)— “Not very
wfsli; they are so dreadfully out of re*
pftir, M -Tit-Bits.
FAST IfOin'ilV'KN1S8M.
•Toe
to me. ’
Tom
Joc
ose COMFORT.
“How does your new girl like it
with you?” asked the caller.
“Silo seems to be contented.”
“Dogs she do the work well?”
“No ; but, sho doesn’t find fault with
• h« way J do it.” - Washington Btar.
I f Kit 1'LHASA NT OCCUPATION.
“I wish you wouldn’t be asking me
ibid money all the time, ” growled tho
husband.
“I’m not, deal ,” responded the wife
swOctly. “Part of the time in occu
pied i»n spending it.”—Detroit Free
Press.
THK BABY’S PKEBOUATIVK.
“Do you really think tho baby
reu(l| understands everything that is
said?”
Fifther “Vos, from the way hr
eritiif; I know he heard mo speak of
wanting to take a nap.”—Chicago In
ter Ocean.
A LOAN.
I’oliee Justice “Bui you say thif
man struck you first.”
Prisoner—“Ho did, your Honor.”
“Well, lie must have hud somo provo
cation - what did lie strike you l'or?”
“Five dollars, your Honor."-■•.De
troit Tribune.
“He’s a very gentlemanly looking
juf.li, it is true, and he is very polite,
bit he beats his wife.”
“Good gracious!”
“Yes, they piny chess every night
together and lie invariably boats her. ”
—New York Press,
Miss Buclde “How long should a
couple know each other before getting
married?”
Mrs. Wedlock- “Wlmt a silly ques
tion, child! If they know each other
they arc i)ot likely to get married at
all.” —Boat-on Transcript.
BriTICRED BHJ(’K,
Flossie was watching the masons lay
brick, and the process interested her
grontly.
“Oh, mamma 1 ’ she exclaimed, “as
she saw the men putting on the mor
tar, “they’re buttering the bricks,
bn’l the.) V” - Boston Post.
A MEAN MAN.
Old Judge Peterby is a very close
man even to his young wife. She was
going out shopping and hinted that
sho would like a blue silk dress.
“Nonsense! Bine don’t suit your
complexion at all,’ lie replied.
“Then I I! take u green dress.”
‘•Dr* you want to poison yourself?
Don’t you know rhoi nil these dresses
lire poisonous?
“Then you pick uv **-d a dress.
“That’s the trouble. 1 don’t like to
Hdo you in any other color except bhjg
and green, ” —Texas Siftings.
‘Jack’s new wife won’t speak
“Why not?”
‘J got confused at the wedding
and tendered my sympathy instead of
cor.grat illations. ’’--Detroit Free Press,
LIFE FOR LOVE.
For love they fought -tho kuighta of old,
And. dying, doomed death swoot,
If but onoh valiant heart of gold
Bled at a ladyc’s feet!
But for thy love, which fast I hold,
I live, nor death would meet!
For, if 1 died for love, what good
Would nmko that dying blest?
Splondid is doath for lovo, but would
Lovo dream on Death’s cold breast ?
In lifo lovo Is best understood,
And life for lovo is bast !
—Frank L. Stanton, in Atlautu Constitution,
PITH AND POINT.
Granulated sugar has a very rotiuau
iftate.
To remove paint Sit down on it Vie-
lore it ia dry.—ToxaH SiftiugH.
No justice cf the peace ia meek
enough to object tol.uingealled judge.
—Milwaukee Journal.
No man can worry about how he
IooIch and keep hia bnuk account grow
ing.—Atchison Globe.
A man can talk himself out of a job
ensior than he can talk himself into
one, Atchison Globe.
A pin, properly inserted in a vacant
chair, makes ns good a starting point,
as the general run of boys desire.
“Every time I drink I’ve got to give
up work. So I had to givo it up for
good.” “Wlmt—drink?” “No. Work.”
—Truth.
Strong "Would you call Supple's
wife handsome?" Weak—“Yes—if J
was talking to Supple.”—Raymond’s
Monthly.
About the toughest thing that can
happen to a man is to go contrary to
his wife’s wishes, nnd then fail.—
Atchison Globe.
With oinnharry Banco on tier pinafore
Simoltmhstlio visitor's knee,
And, when sho eiimboth /town agate,
Itts clothes are a sight to soo.
•Detroit Tribune.
If we should mark the words of
•very man who requests us to do so
it. would not bo long before tho lan
guage of the world would all be in
italics. - -Galveston News.
Employer—“There is a difference,
sir, of $250 botweou the amount ol
money your books show to be on hand
and the amount actually on hand.
WliSt have you to suy, sir?" Em
ploye—-”I— I'm willing to submit, the
difference to arbitration."—Chicago
Tribune.
The Statesifan’s Wife—“This papor
says they tax funerals in Paris." The
Statesman—“Why, that’s the bright
est idea I ever heard of. A man don’t,
care how many taxes you pile on him
alter he is dead. At least, I guess he
don’t., and if ho did ho can’t, vote.”—
Indiannpolis Journal.
“For goodness’ sake, lleliudu,”
groaned Mr. Outlajtfc, oponing hif
sloopy eyes, “do stop your lecturing !
I’ll put my fingers in my ears if yon
don't.” “I wouldn't, if I were you,”
retorted his wide-awake spouse.
“You’ll got your fiugorB caught in the
cogs.”—Chicago Tribune.
Ilob Koy worth was paying attention
to a rich widow up in Harlem. “Mad
am,” ho said, as ha offered her a bou
quet, “you are getting moronnd more
beautiful every day.” “You exagger
ate, my dear sir,” exclaimod the lady,
very much flattered. “Well, thou, let
us suy every other day,” said Bob. —
Texas Siftings.
Anxious Mother—“f wish, Susan,
that when you givo baby a bath you
would bo careful to ascertain whether
the water is at the proper tempera-
ture.” Susan—“Oh, don’t you worry
about tlfht, ma’am; I don’t need no
’momotors. If the little one turns red,
the water is too hot.; if it turns blue,
it’s too oold.”—Tit-Bits.
A Frenchman’s gallantry to ladies is
always equal to an emergency. At a
party a gentleman of that Nation
stepped heavily upon the too of a lady,
who looked up with an angry frown.
“Pardon, madame,” lie said, bowing
low, “hut I have forgot to bring my
miqroscopo." “Your microscope?”
"But, yes; for to seo no leotlo feet of
madame. Tit-Bits.
Docs Color Affect Hearing!
Does color or the lack of it, att'oet
the senso of hearing in either man or
animals? Button, Be Clair and other
naturalists believe that the auditory
nerve in the white or Caucasian race
is not, ns highly developed (or a least
not as sensitive) ns it is in tho savages,
who are usually dark-skinuod people.
Tho idoa of this being due to colot
was never hinted at until some investi
gator accidentally learned that tho ma
jority of white cats, dogs, horses and
other domestic nuialulH aro deaf, or
partially so. I recently addressed a.
note to a well known Washington
naturalist, the sum and substance of
which was this : Query Do you know
anything in regard to the popular
superstition or belief that white ani
mals (particularly ents) are deaf?
The following is an abbreviation ol
of'his reply: “White eats are re
puted to be ‘hard of hearing.’ f hate
known mouy instances, in several ol
which tho infirmity amounted to total
deafness. I doubt if an instance could
he cited of a white cat possessing th>
functions in anything like perfection. 1
—St. Louis Republic.
Rff'iilating Doctor’s Fees ip Russia.
There 1ms of late years been so much
discussion aud disagreement concern
ing the fees of medical men iu Russia
that at last the Government has taken
the. matter in hand and lias settled a
certain specialized scale qf charges
which doctors will in future be en
titled to make in that country. Medi
cal fees will now Vie chargeable iu pro
portion lo the income of the patients
nnd districts and classes have been duly
clas-iiicd in view of this new regula
tion.-—The Hospital,