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VOL.‘III.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ‘23, 1894.
NO. 8.
REV. I)R. TALMAftE,
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY JjKKMOV.
Subject: “IJubiCH Surpassed.'*
than
ru ’U‘g,
If In this JouniA? of Ufa bar* lenrnod
Anything, wo have jAitfnnd that this world,
neither with its oinffUlmfents nor trains, can
satisfy thrt soul. Why, hero come ns many
witness- s as I wish to cull to tho stand to
testify that before hlqh heaven and the
World, in oompanioiishlj) with Jesus Christ
mi l a good hope of heaven, they feel a Joy
that nil the resources of their vocabulary fail
to express, Soiretlr.ies It evidences itself In
career is ended, and nothing opens beyond. ]
Whore ho will land stopping off from this llfo I
Is a mystery, or whether he will land at all,
for it may be annihilation. Ho has no
prayer to offer, and he does not know how to
pray. No hope of meatlng again in another
state of existence, lie Is through with this
life and Is sure of no other. Tho ruby on
tho mantel and the ruby on the wasted lin
ger of the deputing one s »y nothing of tho
BUDGET OF FUN.
jamlatIons ot hosanna ;sometime* in doxol- ransoming blond which they so mightily
ogy ; sometimes in tears. A contorted nn
tive of India in a letter said t “How I long
for my bed, not that I may sleep 1 lion Wake
often and long but to hold sweet commu
nion with my God,*'
If so mighty is worldly joy that Julius IT.
hearing his armies were triumphant, ex
pired. and If Talvn, henring that tho Roman
senut“ had decreed him an honor, expire I,
and if Dionysius nn 1 Sophoolos, overcome
of joy, expired, an 1 if a shipwrecked pur*
Text ; “ H it b<
Proverlifi vlii.. 11.
You have all seen the precious stone com
monly called tho ruby. It is of deep red
color. The Hilda makes uufch of ft. It
glowed In the first row of the high priest's
breastplate. Under another name it stood
In tho wall of heaven. Jeremiah compares
the ruddy cheek of the N'.i • rif«'8 to the ruby.
K/.okiel points it out in the robes of the king
°I lyre lour times does ; oloinon ttso it ns | sei', waiting on the coast of Guinea In want I not jealous
symbol by which to extol wisdom or rellg- lin( j starvation at tho sight of a vessel | rubies whilo
So far as giving solace or lllumiim-
i setting it-* value i
nhvn
rubies.
The world does not agree ns to how th
precious «*ti»n* « w»-ro formed. The anei
thought that amber was made of drop
pcmpiratlrui of tlrn go l«1“*s The thua*
derstone was supposed to have dropped from
bettur than l printing relief, fell <lo.nl from shock of de- 1
light, IB it any surprise to you that tho joys .
typify.
tion to a departing spirit, theynro a dead
failure. Midnight, of utter hopelessness
drops on all the scene.
Another room of mortal exit.
and uo rubies. She never Imd money ouougtl
to buy one of th«He exquisites. Sometimes
she stopped at a jeweler’a show Window and
saw a row of thorn incarnadining the velvet,
phe had keen taste to appreciate those gems,
but she never owned one of them. Him was
unhappy because others Imd
n had none. Hut she had a
.and that was tho grace of
imforte l her along the way
f pardon and heaven rolling over the soil I ! amid bereavements uni temptations mu! per-
should sometimes he almost too mu<*h for , lions and sickness an<l privations mid
the Christian to endure and live? \n aged , trials of nil sorts. Now she is going out of
aunt sni<l to me : “l)e 'Witt, tltfeo dines i 111*'.
have fainted dead away tinier too great The room is bright, not With pictures or
»» munncK-uu. me r-Mieraio w.vjmiu «•* Christian jov. It was iu all tlirea cases at -tatues. not with upholstery, not with nnvef
liava Inm,u made o( lw. ItreJly. Use th o imlv aommnuion."
lazuli wai ttimvrht to have hern horn of t'm Af , Christian man whtlMn prnvor
,TV of uu Indian giant. An I nm.lmn nun- , .. Sl(1| , ll0r ,| . , ..„nnot hoar tuiv .noro
rnlo^lM■ any Hint tlm pr«r|nna -lonw wr • ..i,, H lor mortal.
T" mi’ tho rnDj \Vltlthdlrt I w
made of gases nn-l liquids,
ithoanvdof the But
| Withhold I withhold t" We have heard of
•einB like a »;>ark fr
ting s,n».
The home of the genuine ruby is Bitrmah,
and sixty miles from its capital, where lives
and reigns the ruler, called ‘‘Lord of the
Rubies,*' Under a careful Governmental
guard arc these valuable mines of ruby kept.
Rarely has any foreigner vlsito I thorn. When
a ruby of large vale • was dis.-over^l, it was
brought forth, with elaborate ceremony, a
procession was formed, and. with all ban
nered pomp, military gust-1 nn I princely at- | stupid,'’an<l all August sunset is Inane, ......
fondants, the gem was brougnt t<> the king s j miror.'i has no pillared splendor, and a dia-
palaen , . . . , | mou<l has no Hash, and n pearl in light, and
Of great value »s tho VU»n . mn di more so j u j, cr y , lo aquamnrino, and a ruby no ruddi-
than diamond, as lap. Ian * and jewelers llPiw> Mv gracious t.ord ' Mv glorious
will tell you. An export on this subject | Qod ! My proefoas Christ ! Rollover on us
few billows of that rapture. An l now
poor workmen »r workwomen getting a let
tof SudaenlV b*Tnng them that a fdmtno imd
been left them, and how they were almost
betjidu thomsolvuH with glee, taking tie* Hint
ship to claim the estate. BiU, of), what it is
to wake up out of the stupor of n sinful life,
and through pardoning grace find that all
onr rartbly existence will lm divinely man j From tier
a god for our best welfare, and that then nil hear rapturous musi
will roll in upon the soul! I rapturous muM
tie* gems of mountain or of sen, but there is
a strange and vivid glow in the room. Not
thollght of the chandelier or star or noon
day sun. but something that outshines all of
them. It must Im the presence of super-
naturals. From her illumined face I think
aho must hoar sweet voices. Yea. sho does
hour sweet void's voices of departed kin
dred, Voices apostolic and prophetic and
evangelic, but all of them overpowered by
th • voice of Christ, saving, “Como, yu blessed
of Mv Father, inherit the kingdom."
illumiuod face, I think she must
Y -a, sho does heap
ho I t a
.impart'd with that
morning Is j thunderous as
cstrn
now
saintly
writes, “A ruby of perfect «*o!or weighing
five carats Is worth at tho present day ten
times ns much a diamond of equal weight. ”
It War a disaster Win U nifties th** Hold IqM
Hio ruby he was wimrlng at the battle of
Grandson. It was a groat affluence when
Rudolph II of Austria inherited a ruby from
his sister, tho queen downgor. It was thought
to have had much to do with the victory of
Henry V. as he wore it Into tho baffle of
Agmoourt. I
It Is tho prid** of th« Russian eourt to own ' , ncn ,j n
tho largest ruby of the world, presented by
Gustuvus III to the Russian Empress. Won-
drolls rtibyf It has eloctrio charaete^lle.^ IW w#MI ,. Miy
an*l there arc lightnings eoinprcssod tb Its I author of inytett, know nll^nbout Hie
double six sided priuus. W hat sludl t call I 0 f lainb and ddvo on the altars ui the
*! It is pet rifled blood! I tempi.*, nnd
alone, now the hundred and forty and
four thousand in concert. From her illu
mined face, I think she must breatho rodol-
enco, Yea. she does iuhnio arouia from off*
thu garden*} whos-* flowers hover wither and
from tltn blossoms or orchards, every tree of
which boars twelve manner ol fruit. From
her Illumined face, I think slio must soon
glorious sight. Yen, she sees the wall that
has juspe.r at the base mul amethynt at the
too and blood red rubles between, (loodhy,
sa’eet soul! Why should you longer stay?
Your work nil done, your burdens nil carried,
your tears all Wept ! Forward into the
light! Up into the joy! Gut Into tho
grandeurs! And after you have saluted
id your kiutired, search out him of
cs’of Lebanon .-'.Inr and tell him
tho opal the s**a, tin* ruby suggests tho blood I that you have* found to he gloriously true
of sacrifice. The most emphatic ami start- what thousands of years ago lie assorted
Hug of all colors has the rtrOy. Holomon, tlm | this morning
HUMOROUS SKKTrilKS FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
First n Loan, Then u Gift Soul to
Coventry -A < Jon vernation at See
uml Iliiml Not Just, the An
swer lie fxpeded, F.fe.
•makes mo think of tlio modern novel."
“In what respect?”
“It’s »vcombination of striking title,
j gilt-edged binding and a mighty |>< r
1 piece of work after all.'*—NVnvhius*
' ton St a tv
(4RADUATBU APPBTjLATIONM
When she was introducedio him slio
called him Miutor Oildorsleove. After
j she was well acquainted with him
,She was a maid ot iuiuiner prim.
Hut melted 'neatumlH spo'chou bluad ;
At first sho lent her bar to him
And afterward giC^o him her hand.
‘ -Now York Press.
A COWKllH.VTfOji '
“You’re a linnV<
watch to its envoio{k
“May bo,” was,
“but I’m outside j
time.”—Judge.
NOT JUST TIIK HK KXPKCTKD.
He (after they fiiulijiked it all over)
“I don’t see what Sou could see in
mo to fall in loveswitlrfmo. ’
was
“Charles” was the usual term.
When they became engaged she
addressed him ns “Charlie."
Ah the engagement progressed ho
became “dear.”
Jinjt. before the wedding she culled
him “dearest.’*
grumbled the 1 1 hiring the honeymoon sho called
1 him “darling."
ool r.-npouse; I T° her friends she nUuttoa t<> “Mr.
Gildersleevc.
One year after marriage she called
him “May, you,” while in speaking of
him he was “thal husband of mine. ”
-Judge.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Onr Most imuorlanl
Tclcgraptiic Advices
And Presented iu Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
SEOONO HAND.
response ; j
5»ud you're doing I
1 ask you. us fair itilmlo.l men
inicustomwl t*» make conittftrison.s, is not
such a joy as that worth more than anything
one can have in a _!e\velc*l casket ? Was not
Solomon right when ho said, “Wisdom Is bet
ter than rubles?’’
There is also something hi the deep ear-
mine of the ruby that suggests tho sacrifice
on which our whole rystem of religion <le-
While tho emerald suggests the I Christ
1 the tupphire the skies, ami the pal
i lest, “Wisdom Is bolter than
rubi
It is frozen Ur-
Ill all the world tne
valuable, and my text mak- st
“Wisdom is better than ruble
Hut it is Impossible to couq«rc two things
together unless there are some points of sim
ilarity a8 well hr of difference. 1 am glad
there is nothing lacking here. The ruby is
more beautiful in the night and under the
lamplight than by day. It is preferred for
evening adornment. IIow tho rubies glow
and burn nn I flash as the lights lift the dark-
neat l Catherine of Aragon had on her Anger
a ruby that fairly lanterned tho nig!
Sir John Maude.ille. the celebra
olar of 400 years ago. said that the Emperor , w p at mighty good was ever done without
u f . C J 1 i na Ji a,la rrl ' 'v 1 iliiVi 0 ! 10 4u n l s J t . a * 1 eaoriflee of life? Thu great wonder of tho
bright as day, Tho nrobabilit ti* that .Solo- worbl.tln* bridge that unites these two eltios,
1 temple, and h« knew the n
on<* thing luoro flela! f>|ood, nnd wlmt oth
comparison, J t » 0 uld he so well use to symbolize it as the
ruby? Red, intensely red. red as the .blood
of tlm grouted martyr of all time -Jeans -of
the centuries ! Drive tho story of the cruci
fixion out of the Hiblo and tho doctrine of
tho atonement out of our religion, and there
would be nothing of Otirfstlautty loft for our
worship or our admiration.
Why should it bo lmrd to adopt tho Hible
theory that onr r deiunilba was purchased
by blood? What great brldgo ever sprung Its
*• 1 Urol)*'*, what templu aver reared its tow
•hi trnv- what Nation ever achiev' d Its indepeiUlei
j <*ost tho HTo of tho first ftrehftocl. Arlr Ili
shipyards of Glasgow and Now York how
mon, under some of the lnmps that illumined
his cedar j.a luce by night, noticed the' . siupyaiMB or UJasgow ana new ion* now
liar glow of the ruby a* it looked In the hilt | m „„y curpenfers went down under acohleuts
of n sword, or hung ih some fold Of the . before the steamer was launched ; ask the
holstery, or beaut ifle«l tlio lipof tomecliallee. | G, rtt4 » groat transcontinental railroads how
while he was thinking at the same time of 1 m(U , v tbelr const ru chon were burled tin-
tho ejrcollencv of our holy religion as chiefly . ,j,, r ,'.rumbling embankment** or crushe<i un-
seen In the night of trouble and hecriehour. dcr tltn'»ers or destroyed by the powdflfrldncri.
“NV isdom w better than rubic** Tabulate theBtatlitlcsonliow uinny mothers
Oh, yes. It is a goo-lth ng to have rebglon have heou martyrs lo the era.fle oL.slok chil-
whilo the sun of prosperity relen high and THI us how many men H.ierifh od nerve
everything Is l*rdlianr:in fortune, iu health, and musolo and brain and llfo in the effort
In worhl.N favrir. v <*t you can at such tune < support thair.households. Toll ns how
hardly tMI how much of If Is natural exuber- mn i, V men in England, in France. In tier
anefl and how much of it Is the grace of God. mnnv. in Italy, in the United States. I
Hut lot the sun set. and tlm shadow* nva-- Lued'lor tboir country,
intiene trie plain, «n«I the thick darkness of - 0 j,j nft jj, e wf) rld, Io
slckn<
poverty or per
xhnu a tlon fllfthe s-ioT :i
nnd 1111 the world ; tJ»«*n you sit
lamp ot (iod’s word, aud under
Consolations of tlje gos|»i*l e.
neoee of God which pcss-th rill understan l-
fug appears. You never fully nppreetntcd | llooM Hll(1 ,/,doek Ju the afternoon, purehin.
I heir power until in th** deep night of trouble • fhg the ratisom of a ruined world.
Lamp revealed their exquisite- Dive in all the seas, explore all the mines,
owbar pll the inoiintoiiui. view all the
crowned jewels <ȣ ail the omp ror ; . and find
gem tfiat ••an »<* overwhelmingly
i I tfjo mon startling, the most nlupend
imi fid .< : tho r*ou®o I sfieri!let* «H all tinej And eternity was on a
i T/ 1 1 ’ i K * i hluff back of Jerimalem when one Being took
it*- ught the M j )ou UitusoK thu 3iu«, the agonies, the pur-
oat the | ( i<ffhfr of a great multitude thnt no man can
r between 1J o’clock of a darkened
In those burnished palaces of our God may
failing ot imerM all meet. For I confess to you that my
■ precious ston- ; chief desiro for heaven Is not the reliance,
or. t« take the suggestion of the text, not the
rubcseeuco of the seoac. My one idea ot
heaven Is tho place to meet old friends, God,
our best friend, and our earthly friends al
ready transported. Aye, to meet tho millions
whom I have never seen, but to whom I
have administered in tho gospel week by
week by journalism on both siden of the son,
nnd throughout Christendom, uud through
many lands yet somlharharic.
For the last twenty-throe years every blast
of injustice against mo has multiplied my
rentiers All the world over, and the present
malignancy printed and uttered boentio our
church is in llnnnchil struggle after having
two great structures destroyed by flro uml
wo compelled to build three largo churches
—I nay tho presold outragoous injustice In
pome quarters will multiply my audience in
all lands if I can koop in good humor nod
noLJIght hack.
A gentleinun lapped mo on the shoulder
summer before last on ii street of Edinburgh.
Hoot land, nnd said, “I live in tho Hh'ctland
Islands, North Scotland, and I rend your sor-
mons every Sabbath to an audience of neigh
bors, and my brother lives in Cape Town,
Mouth Africa, aud hn roads them every Hali
but !i to an audieu'-e of Ids neighbors." And
1 hear nnd now say to tho forty millions of
the earth to whoso eyes these* words will
Vicarious suJTeriug come, that one of my dourest anticipations
lit the most thrilling. | is to meet them in heaven. Ah, that Will bo
Sho
Nov
HUNT TO
Tho Man (with \
kind of HchnhiTH
this institution?**
Principal — “Tljofso ^
study.”—Texas Hitting
WAS THIS ^Afti,-
Siqdiia (mij^nghif to
day)—“Oh, don’t dAy.^j
Angelo. You’ve Liliy bjl
G*cn hours, mul it sfer
without you.’ Phtl/iil
I .IK Kl) iifSlU
Fail* Shuiq)or-v : *“U fByv
think mo vnry tiresome"'"''
Clerk “i like : tat
Madam. M.v throat
that it hurls me to cnll^ui
A CJKNTbKMAN' , o^ l!?
“George is n mtjroentf
“Did he try to indsry
money?” ^
“Well, he propqfHidj
to reject him aftbLhhi
out.’’—Life.
A VRAimCATj
Elder Bister
prove your mi
continually davy
house?
Delhi- "What
gageil.”--.fmlpj
, you know.
ion! "What
turn out at
AMKIUtAN NOTJW,
I Tho son of Albion stood gn’/ing at
the grouj> of men in front of the “Bon
Ton Temple of Bacchus” with duopin-
| terest. Excitement was runniug high
1 at Red Dog. li was the day of elee-
j tion, and a reform iielcH was in the
' Held.
"Alkali Ike,
Hank Hitt«
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drift of Her Progress M Pros
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed In
Pithy Paragraphs.
for IItree duyr
be the Ill’s! I
Editor
Brazil?”
Assistant
Edijpr — “Bay
killed a week
Bio is still dOf
oi' it. ’’— Judge,
hot ti
the Divlnu Lamp revealed the!
ness. 1'earls and itrncthysts for
rubies for the night.
All of t ho books ot the Hiblo attempt in I’^J
tidifortun
Of the IDO psalms of l>avfd at !<*r»st ninety
allude to trouble. There are sighing* iii
every wind, and leers m every brook, nnd
pongs iu every heart, ft wip originally pro-
[•ossd to call tlio Pfi-idcnt’s r *altlem;n at
WaaUington “Tho 3’.da «' or “tho Exck-u- | phrtrV
tive Mansion." but after™ was destroyed in
the war of 1814 and rebuilt in was paint' d
white to cover up tho marks of the amok**
and fire t hat had blackened the stonewalls.
Hence it whs onllcd “Thn While House."
Most of things now white wlthattr • *'ivun» ss
wore onco black with disaster. r *
Whut tho world most niJ'^ls is llie eons.ilu.-
tory, nnd here it comes, our holy religion,
with both hands full of nno lvnes nnd seda
tives and balsams, as in Lnnicl’fc time to s^op
mouths bjonine : a* in rtliad*- ich’s tim<» to
cool, blnst furimc ** ; as in Ezekiel's time to
eonpole Captivity f as In Ht. John*?? time to
unroll an apocalypse over ro :ky desojatiqus,
Bear its seething Voice ns it 'hiclnn s:
“Weeping may endure for :i night, but Joy
eomotn in the morftfhg." “The montnfns
shall depart, and tlm hills be removed, but
My loving dtiaam-y- shall not depart from
you.” “Whom tho Lord loveth lie ebss-
tenoth." “They shall hunger no more,
noltlu r thirst any more, neither shall the
sun light '*n nor any heat, for tho
Lhmb whDh is in tho midst of tho throne
shall bwl thorn to living fountains of water,
nnd God shall wipe away all tears lro:n their
symbolic that martyrdom a«* the ruby
Mark you. there hro uinny gems that arc
somewhat like the ruby. So is the cornelian,
so Is the garnet, so is the spinel, bo is the
bains, bo tho gems brought from among tho
gravels ot ( -'nylon ami Now South Wales, but
is only one genuine ruby, and that
comes from the mine of Hannah. And there
in only .ono Christ, and IT" --oraes from
hhnven. One Red**"iner, one Hansom, one
Son of Ood. only “one name given under
lmaven among men by which wo can ho I
saved.”
Ten thousand thru** 10.000 beautiful imita
tions of that ruby, but only one ruby. Christ |
had no descendant. Christ had no counter- i
part. In the lifted up grandeur and glorv
and love an i sympathy of Ills eharaeter lie |
is flie Tn ’ompirable, the Infinite One! “Th<*
only Wi»u UuJ, our Suyiyur.,’ J.et all hearts, <
au rubies.
g U j, froni diff<?rcnt •ontinonls, from
difforent hsrnisphwreg, from op|»osile sides
of tho earth, t*> gr.vl en -h other in holy love
in the presemm «»f flm glorious (Jhrist who
nn le it possible for us to gut there. Our
hIiis all pardoned, our Sorrows all
banished. never to weep, never to
part, never to die! I tell you
that will bo better t ban rubies. Others may
, have tho crowns, and thu thrones, auil tho
.• s -pfers ; give us our old friends back lig-lin,
jhriM. “tlm friend who stleketh elosor than I about my liQ
.. brother," ami nil the kin I rod who have got
up from Onr bereft households, and nil our
friends whom we li'lvo novel’ yet seen, nnd
you may have all tho rubles, for tlmt will ho
“belter than rubies."
Instead of tlm dying kiss when they looked
so pule ami wan and slek.lt would be tho
| kiss of welcome on lips jubilant with song,
i while standing on floors paved with whotex-
qtiisileDuas, un ler ceilings hung with what
l glory, i . uidc 1 by walls facing us.with what
j splendor, nmid gladimss rolling over us with
| what doxoiogy- fur better. iullnitoJy hotter,
I everlastingly bettor than rubies!
All About tlio Eyes.
Don’t allow a cold wind to strike tlio
ornllles. bow l
icr be lifted in all
J he most wholesome thing on earth is
trouble, if met in ChrLetlnn spirit. To mnk»?
Paul what he wash took shin wreck, and
whipping on the bare tue-k.ntid penitentiary. I
and pursuit of Wild inol . and tlio sword of i
dcenplfatlon. To make David wlmt ho was i
It took all that Ahilh ;• e; and -.ml and Ab- i
salom nnd Goliath and u.l the Philistino
boats uouni <io against him. id tooh. Robert t
fhamburs’s malformation of feet to make j
him the litemry conqueror.
It WfU I * r^uvn • nt t!;.-<t brought William]
Haworth, ot xwsley'.i.tlm". from wickedness J
to an MvamroliBin that won imany thousandb I
for heaven. The world would never have |
known what heroic stuff Illdloy was mode f>f |
hnd not the flies been kindled nrouml his '
fe*jt, and not liking this slow work he cried j
“I ciiQiiot burn. Let the lire come to me. I
Cannot burn." J hank Go t that there sr-
penn, that nufold their b€^t glories under the
lamplight! Thank God for tho ruby.
Moreover, lam f»uro Solomon was right iu ,
saying that religion or wisdom is bettex tlnm | rubles.
rubi.--* from the fact Hint a thing is worth | To bring out a contrast that will illustrat.*
what it will fetch. Religion will fetch solid I my text, I put before you two last earthly I
happiness, and the ruby will not. In all Hceiies. The one Is in a room with rubies. ,
your observation did you ever find a person but no religion, ami the other in u roo
thoroughly felicitated by an in rustment of with religion, but no rubles,
jewels? As you know more ot yourself than < tlrst room, where an affluent
any one clb’e. are you hapfrier now with
worldly adornments and successes than be
fore yon won them? Do*s the picture that
ill homes, all tim‘*«. all
boforelLhn! J^et ii
our souls!
in olden IIuks P< othind was dfstorbnd by
fr.'ebooters and pirates. T • rid the seas
an I ports of these desperado*** tin*, liero
William Wallace fitted out a merchant ves
sels, hut filled It with urmod men and pul
out to sea. Tho pirates, with their flag in
scribed of a death’s head, thinking they
would get an on°y prize, bore down upon
the Scottish merchantman. wh»*n the armed
men of Walla, e boarded the craft of the
pirates and put them in chains and then
sailed for port under the Hcotch flag flying.
And to our souls, availed of sin and death
and bell, through (Jhrist are resound, ami
tho black llug of in is lorn down, and the
striped Dag of the cross Is hoisted. Blessed
bo God foranyjtlgn. for any signal, for any
pp*oJous stone that brings to mind thu price
paid for 3uch a rescue.
I like tho coral, for it soum*? the solidified
foam of breaker*, nnd I like the jo*r
it gathers p.vunteou colors ire
bosom, null like tin* jot, for it com pres *u.i
the shadows of many midnights, and T like
the chrysoprase because its purple is iliu-
inlrod wltn a small heaven of stars, and I
like the chrysolite for it u waves of color
which seem on fire, But this morning noth
ing so impresses me ns th.j ruby, for it d# -
piets, it typifies, it suggests “Tlio blood ••!
Jesus Christ that edeanseth from ail siu."
Without thushedding of blood there is no
remission.*’ Yea. Solomon v/ns right when
in my text he said, “Wisdom Is bettor than
Don’t lmvc colored Hlindcs on the
lamps; nso white or ground glnss.
Dun't go directly from a warm room
into a cold, raw utmotsphere.
Don’t ope ii llio eve's under water in
bathing, especially ill salt water.
Don’t let any fdrung light, like tlmt
from electricity, ski no -directly into
the eyes.
Don’t strain tlio eyes hjf readiog,
sewing or any like (jccupatioii, with an
imperfect light.
Don’t lmthe the eyes with cold water J
that which is as warm as cun bo homo
is better.
Don’t sleep opposite a window in
such manner that a strong light will
strike the eyes on nwakening.
Don’t, above all, have the children
its sleep so that tho morning sun shall
shine in their faces to arouse thorn.
Don’t expect to get unotlmr pair oj
eyes when these have boon destroyed
by neglect or ill use, but give them
fair treatment and they* will servo
faithfully to the end.—New York Ad*
voi User.
ii ii * i yor goiu’ tnr vote
.... s uml moral melhods?”
! cried a red-bearded enthusiast,
i “The hull ticket’ll bobcat.'’ replied
tin* pavlv addressed ; "I’ll be hanged
et T do!”
And Hum the intelligent British
tourist drew out his tablet and wrote
“Nolo: In America, after an elec
tion, the 'mentis of 1 lie defeated can
didate are taken mil and lynched.”
ruosr. bovuHs.
They had been engaged, but
were suffering from one. of those quar
rel's fvhich sometimes rufMe the course
of true love.
They hnd not spoil
and neither wished \
yield.
Bnt with the haukcring which af
flicts murderers and lovers with refer
ence to the scene of the late unpleas
antness, he called at the house on a
trumped-up business mission to her
father.
By chance (?) she answered his ring
*»j • at the door.
• • '' . 1 ' Gathering himself, lie, with a cold,
instead of \ . ,•
slow voice, begins the following dia
logue :
I)oes Mr. 1 >udley reside hol e ?'
‘lie does.”
Is ho in?”.
‘.no is not.”
Will lie be in soon?”
‘He will.”
He “Thank you ;T will call again.’
Turns to go.)
She—“Excuse me, who shall l say
ailed V”—Life.
A ( lose Call.
“The closest- call I ever had, ” said
E.C. 8enley, a detective, to tlio corridor
man at the Inn del I, “was in Southern
1 Indiana, where a posse of us had gone
i to capture some counterfeiters. 'There
! were five of us iu the party, ami, as I
1 * had previously been over tlio ground
aud located flic house, I was deputed
j to wfitch the front while tlm others (le-
! ployed in the rear, and wo wero to
BiUybub, you I come together at a given signal and
fcmormug?" i make a rush for the house, which was
J’vd boeti worried « j 0 » cabin standing in nn open Held,
J day. v i ft began to rain soon after we sep-
old fellow, I • arated, and seeing a now weatlior-
trifle as that jml j boarded house ahead of me, and
j knowing that I was in the right neigh*
I borhood, I concluded to stay there a
| few hours until after tlio rain sub
sided.
I “There was no danger of tho coun
terfeiters leaving. Knocking at tho
s'he learn easily?” 1 door, 1 was admitted. Inside were
fiarkably so. I have live men and a woman. They showed
liot'to whistle ‘After me upstairs to my room, and as tho
Jt. 1 man who piloted mo left I hoard him
i turn tho key iu the door uml 1 know
papTKCTlON*. j that I was a prisoner. Then I saw
Pyou any idea how I the house whs of logs an had been
this terrible cold?” recently weatherboarded. In a few
jnk it was her | minutes I heard them consulting to-
j go the r iu the hull, and I felt that my
Bobbie-
grandma?
Dickey-
rnother-iu-law.
Bobbie- “\V:
x eh ?”
L it was a last winter ;
ft weftr it. Chicago
|IUH NAS1K.
ole lady
Dst you hundred? or thousands of dollars on * thu queenly wih
You enter the
f .... and worldly
i is about to quit this life. There is a
ruby ou the muntel, possibly among th
There is
in the head-ire:
your wall bring you as much satisfucti
the engraving that at the expense of was
hung upon the wall when you first began to
keep house?
bo all the cutlery and rare plate that glit
ter on your extension dining table, surround,
ed by flattering guests, contain more of rea
blish than the piain w ire of your first table,
at which sat only two? Docs a wardrobe
crowded with costly attlro give you more are
satisfaction than your first clothes closet
with its four or five pegs? Did net the r:ain
eton the third Anger of tho left hand
On the finger of the dying man there is
ruby. The presence of these rubies lmpli
pul once of ail kinds. The pictures
Cooking by Steam.
Cooking disbeff are now made in
England in which, in tlio boiling pro*
ecus, the meat does not come in con
tact with tho water or Btejtto. The
edible is contained in a jacket, which
in turn is immersed in the Odteide
kettle containing the boiling water. It
in claimed that by this the nutritious
l qualities of meat are preserved, noth-
* i ing passing ofl in vapor. Thei'O is
i,. moisture enough in the moat to pre
vent it burning and all tho flavor is
retained, while, aguin, tho fiber re
tains a tenderness not found in any
ring!-. „
oathe day of your betrothal give more glud-
ijr-aa than thu ruby thnt in bow enthroned on
thu third fl&gcr of your right hand?
walls are heirloom3 or the trophies of Eu
ropean travel. The curtains are from foreign
looms. The rugs ore from Damascus or
Cairo. The sofas are stuffed with ease and . r ,
quietude. The rocking chairs roll hack- other method.—Ji,uruware.
war-1 and forward ou lullabies. The pillows -- *«■' -
jquisitely embroidered. AU ttio n)>- Q -\r a irie teiteber says: “X cau
pointrnectbof tlie roo.-n are a paroratiou to n - 1 " . ' • , , ■
successful eommer.'ial or professional life. , teach ray implln more physiology in
Hut tiie man has no religion, never uas Imd ; half ftn hour with a cat amt ajuck-
aud never professed lo lmve. There Is not j b u ifo than with all the textbooks that
a Bible or one religious hook In the room. '
The departing man feeis that his earthly
we have in the echo ole
loom whb being sealed
“Dropping out of a small window at
tho end of the room, I reached my
horse just as they discovered my es-
! capo, and the ball from a ritlo
1 whistled past my head as I mounted
tho horse. A regular fusilado foi-
y° ur lowed, and the bullets (mine close
! enough for mo to hear them, bnt I
s my ladder s HUCCCC dcd in reaching my companions,
,, , I and wo Hnrnmudod tho house ‘ just iu
y owr H ! time to catch them as they started
name before he w». married?’’ ! home.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Dickey—“T-dbirt know, but ho says i „
it’s Dennis over'M^.”—Truth. The Matuhcle- in Battle..
A colonist who lias recently returned
from South Africa gives sonic interest
lirnest ('. Cavo nml Joseph Hughes,
of Now Orleans, have sueil tho Louis
ville nnd Nashville railroad for #f>,000
damages, for bodily injuries iu tho
wreck at Unit Port last year. The
plaintiffs are postal clerks aud allege
that the accident was duo to a defect
ive frog.
During Wednesday uight'a gale the
bark New Light, Captain Avis, lumber
laden from Savannah for Philadelphia,
was stranded on Hogue bench, twelve
miles west of Tieuiuort, N. <'. Tho
crew was saved. The vessel is a total
loss. The pilots report seeing the
masts of two schooners sunk, on Outer
Diamond Lookout shoals.
Wednesday the Indian council sold
!)(> Inkins of rupees, ehiellv iu tele
graphic transfers at Hi; pence. Com
menting on thin action. The London
/ >//U ij S nr * says: “Tho council evi
dently is carrying into etl’eot the
government's intention to refrain from
placing an nrtillcinl value on i he rupee,
Wedesday's allotment being the lowest
ever recorded."
A special from Seituate, Mass., nays:
Captain St. John and the seven mem
bers of the crew of the Minnie Rowan,
which went HHhore oil' Pirst Cliff Point,
wero wifely landed Wednesday night
bv tlm life saving crew of fourth Cliff*.
They were badly frost bitten aud ter-
iblv exhausted after their experience
of the previous eighteen hours, having
n,, ' v spent a greater pavl of the time in the
rigging.
There were no new developments
Thursday at the (iaylord mine iu Ply
mouth, i’ll. Thu rescuers are working
hard through solid coal to reach the
ntomhed miners. So far, tl«*v have
been unable to communicate with them
v way. Should they all be aliv
now it is safe to sax’ that they will
starve before they enn be reached. In
this event eleven widows will he left to
are for forty-live orphans.
At a meeting of the board of ilirec
ora of the Associated Press at Chioago
Thursday Victor F. Lawson was elected
president, Horace White, of thu Ncxv
York I'.ii.nlnu Dost, lirst vice presi
dent ; A. IT. Hein, of the (tnlveston
Xr:irN and Dallas Xrtifft, socond vice
president; Melville 13. Stone, sucre
tary uml general manager; Charles S,
Bielil, assistant, secretary aud assistant
general manager; George Schneider,
treasurer.
Judge Bradley, of thu district su
preme court, at Washington Thursday
refused to grant tho petition of Carroll
L. Hiker, of Chicago, for a mandamus
to compel Secretary Carlisle to issue
to him a pro rata share of tho SdO,-
0011,011(1 bonds used on the basis of
proposals submitted by him. Judge
Bradley, iu denying Hiker's applica
tion, said that ho had no authority to
grant the application, and that secre
tary Carlisle's power in the premises
was discretionary.
The wholesale dry goods lioitso of
Witter k Co., at, Columbus, O.,
and several small buildings adjoining,
were burned Thursday morning, Tho
tolal loss is placed nt $240,000, distri
buted as IuIIoxvh: Jones, Witter &
Co., on stock, $1 HO,000; T. 13. Miller,
on building, 40,000; adjoining prop
erty 320,(100. Insuraneo on stock
$100,000,ou building probably $D1,000.
The adjoining property is well insur
ed. Threo tiromen were severely but
not fatally injured.
A Brooklyn, N. V., dispatch says:
The jury before xvliieli John Y. Me-
Kiino, of Gravesend, was tried for
violation of thu election Jaws, came
into court Thursday morning and ren
dered a verdict of guilty with a rec
ommendation for mercy. Tho pun
ishment provided by law is not less
t han two years’imprisonment nor more
than ten. McKano xviis charged with
n number of offenses against the olcc-
tion laws, but the particular one that
brought him to grief was his obstruct
ing the execution of an order issued by
.Tustieo Gnynor to permit the inspec
tion of thu registry lists of tho town of
Gravesend, iu which Coney island is
embraced.
Tho international regatta receutly
announced to bo given ill Austin,
TcxnB, next June, haH been declared
off. The citizen refused to subscribe.
Colonel J. W. Alspaugh, of Greens
boro, N. C., xvho assigned a few days
ago, tiled another paper Wednesday
making A. H. Ottloy k Co., of lteids-
villo,preferred creditors to the amount
of $11,000 additional.
Tho attorney general of Houth Car
olina him rendered nn opinion that the
provision of tho county government
Dill which was supposed to disarrange
the whole tux machinery of the state,
really amounts to not hing, ns the pres
ent county government will remain in
force until 1H05, when the new law
goes into effect.
fudge Woods of thu ltonuokc, Va.,
hustings court, rendered Iiih decision
in the local option contested election
use of tJiuteity Wednesday, declining
the election of Heptemher 5th last,
valid. Prohibition will go into effect
April 1st unless the deuiaion is reversed
by tiie higher court. The “wets” will
appeal,
Hank President George N. Henson,
of Chattanooga, who on February Oth,
o tragically killed J. B. West iu an
levator cage, was released from eus
tody Wednesday on a $111,0(111 bond,
xvliieli lie gave at once. Ho numerous
wero his sympathizers tlmt he could ns
easily have found himdsiucu hud the
amount been half a million.
The will of Mrs. H. P. Clarke, Vvlio
tied at Columbia, H. O., last, week, was
probated Thursday. Hhe was a graml-
laughter of tlm late. P. T. Baruuin aud
inherited a large, part of his estate.
Her estate is worth $(100,000 and is
divided equally between her husband
and their two children, one a girl live
years old and the other nn infant. The
husband is sole administrator.
lho Virginia state senate Wednes
day refused to order the engrossment
of tlm Wickham resolutions looking
to the settlement of West Virginia’s
portion of thu debt of tlio undivided
btnto. The resolutions were antago
nized on the ground that the settle
ment xvould be in the interest only of
speculators. A motion to reconsider
xvah passed aud the matter will come
up again.
A sensation which 1ms cast the dis
pensary excitement into tlio shade for
the time being has been created nt
Charleston, S. C., by the announce
ment of a shortage in the accounts of
John L. Wober, Into school commis
sioner of Charleston county. Tho
shortage was announced in Columbia
by the state superintendent of educa
tion, who placen the snm of tho defal
cation at $1,21)7.
Application for charter was tiled nt
Ihnttanooga Thursday by A. H. Ochs,
Nowell Handers, J. P. Hmartt, J. W.
Trigg aud /. O. Patten, incorporators,
for tho Chattanooga and Ht. Louis
Steamboat Company. This organiza
tion is the finale to the transfer Inst
fall of tho property and paid up stock
of the Chattanooga Steambon( Compa
ny to a few of the wealthier share
holders.
Tho old Kentucky Paper Company
at Louisville has been placed in thu
hands of a receiver on the supplement
ary petition of Granger & Co., who
hold a mechanic's lien on tho property
for about $11),000. Suit to establish
this lion was brought last November.
Thursday the Louisville nml Nashville
railroad sued tho paper company on a
claim of $H,500. The paper company
is indebted to tho ninount of about
$100,000 and the plant, is valued at
$000,000.
WO»Dl
“T declare
mnrvel,"
“Tell me how yi
“She makes t
ever tasted.”
“There’s uothi
that.
perfect
j discovered it."
loveliest bread
marvelous about
. V ia. l 1 ! JJiaUnUUAU -
1 don’t know, s^ouisa attended a ud iu born-shaped
. 1 iifr-sr-hool inri, vn winters — 1 ... , , ,i
cooking-school 4o%‘two
Judge. Vi
KRAl'lNO WHJiH#. Hi: HAD SOWS.
Widow—“T waftf a stone for my
husband’s grave oxijptly like the other
one iu the lot.” £
Agent “Hut isn't it a trifle small
for a man of your Jiusband’s promi
nence?" L v
Widow- — “No, 41*’ Tf Thomas
thought a stone lixf that was good
enough for his lirsf wife, f guess it’s
plenty good enough for Thomas. —
Life.
ing information as to the inode of war
fare carried on by tho Matabelos, in
company with the other Zulu tribes.
As a rule they attack in tho curly dawn,
when tlio savage’s eyesight is sufficient
but the European's inadequate, says
the Blackburn (England) Times. They
formation,
with the object of outflanking tho
enemy and getting at his rear. When
within fifty yards they hurl their
ussegais, and then make a determined
rush.
Machine guns are too much for them,
but they will charge right up to the
earthworks when defended with rifles
only, aud if tlie Europeans became un
steady they might easily get within a
fortified camp. As a rule two repulses
check their ardor, but they seldom de
sist altogether until they have made
one ti tin I attempt to take the white
men iu the rear. Iu open country the
Mntabeles would not be formidable if
they outnumbered the company’spoliee
by four or five to one, but in broken
settling.
SOMEWHAT SltoU.AK.
Mr. Siuniokle hadiist been reading
of the marriage of a youug woman i ground they would tiik
xvitli money to a man with a foreign ( ■— «■
ancestry. ■ The Pecos Valley, New Mexico
“Modern matiiniv^x, Jrv I'tfjuarkgd, , the coming cuttle fattening region
TENNESSEE IN LUCK.
Her Bonds to the Amount or $(100,000
Safely Floated.
Latham, Alexander A Co., fiscal
agents for tho state of Tennessee, have
concluded ono of tlio must important
financial operations thutlius been made
in behalf of any southern state for a
long time. They sold to liluir A Co.,
bankers, $000,00(1 of 4; per cent Ten
uessoo bonds at pur and accrued inter
est. These bonds were authorized by
tho lust legislature of Tennessee for
the purpose of building the state peni
tentiary. ’I'liin negotiation insures be
yond doubt the calling in of all out
standing 5 and (I per cent bonds of the
state of Tennessee without delay, and
the refunding of the same in a new
bond hearing a lower rate of interest
WHOLESALE MUHDER.
A Man Kills Ills Family iff Seven lo
Keep Them front Freezing.
A dispatch from Oklahoma, O. T.,
says that seven persons xvere found
dead iu a house there. It is reported
that their throats were cut and that
tho lather of the victims left a note
saying that he hud murdered his family
to koop them from freezing to death,
adding that ho would commit suicide.
The dispatch says that twenty persons
had frozen lo death in Oklahoma.
HUNG IN EFFIGY.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton anil
l|is Son the Victims.
Hop. ,J. Sterling Morton, secretary
of Agriculture, and his son, Carl Mor
ton, were hung in eflligy at Nebraska
City, Nebraska. The oifigios wero
found hung iu a prominent place iu
the town, and boro the inscription:
“(Joiiipliinents of the Democratic
Marching Club.”
It is not known who did tho work.
The deed is the culmination of anger
on the part of many prominent demo
crats on account of the Nebraska ap
pointments made by Secretary Morton
whoso homo is Nebraska City and par
ticularly the appointment of William
Ffluogiiig toa lucrative position in the
packing ltoiiHo there, l’tlaegiug is
president of the republican club of the
tlixvn and wuh given the plaoo ovor a
democrat who xvas endorsed by nil the
leading democrats.
Many democratic politicians came
out in interviews condemning the ap
pointment and declaring it meant the
loss of litany democratic votes. Carl
Morton said, “I don’t care who kicks.
Father is under obligations to fexv peo
ple in this section.” All citizens unite
in declaring the etligy bunging an out
rage, even though some think the pro
vocation was great.
TALKED TILL 1IKATII.
Prof. Hunter—My last 'discovery
among tlie Indian mounds was three pet
rified female figures in an upright posi
tion, as if conversing.
Higgins—Probably it was au afternoon
tea and they hadn’t noticed anything
unusual.—IHallo.
.so It ELI* toa HIM.
“So the poor fellow is doooted to an
early death?"
“How do you make that out?”
“Didn't you say he lived by his wits?”
—lUuilom Life.