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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. By W. W. PRICE. VOL. IV DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AOJUCUBTURA I, AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, ISDN. TERMS'. One Dollar Per Year. NO. 37. SOUTHEHN MILWAY CO. ^ (BA8TKRN 8YSTKM.) f ES WASHINGTON NOTES GOSS1P OF Til K C A rrr.VL IN HillEF PARAGRAPHS. PIED MONT AIR LINC. OC^rr.NSKD SCHEDULE OF l'ASSENOEn THATNS, I \ c«. i aim i i Northbound No.£8 No Hii No.IV No. 18 May l_2»h. 180ft Daily j Dolly t Dally ExSun Doings of tho Chiefs and Heads of the Various Depart meats. Lv Atlanta c time lit 0>i •• Atlanta it time l.oo “ NororoSi " nuford " Gutnosvllle 2.25 " Lula " Cornelia •• Mt \irv . .... IV V».<»0 p p 10.00 P 8 6 10.40 pj ,83 " Totcoa “ Wobi minster " Genova " Central " Grsonville ... “ Spartanburg. " Gaffneys " HlavksburR.. " Kin.: sMount i ’* (iastonla Ar Charlotte. ... Ar. 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Non, 35 and M United States Fast Mull, Pull man Sleeping Cars letween Atlanta, Mont gomery and New York.- W. A. Xl’HIi, ,S. I!. UAI<6w(CK, Gen'l Pass. A'r't, Ain't Oenprtl Pais Af't Washington, d c. Atlanta, OA. W. II. RYDEK. Superintendent, Clturlotto, North Carolina W. II. GREEN, Qon'l Supt.. Washington, D. C J. M. CULP, Traffic Mn’gr. Washington D. C NORTH CAROLINA MUXS. Remarkable Progress in Cotton Man ufacturing In the State. The North Carolina statu agrienl tural department has issued valuable special bulletins giving a list of manu facturing enterprises in North Cnr«>* linn. That portion of it which in of greatest interest is in regard to cotton mills. This shows that cloven mills arc now in course of construction ; that the stock in eight more lms been subscribed and that 100 arc now in operation, spinning or weaving, be sides these, there avo twelve knitting mills, one silk mill, one towel mill, four bag nulls and manufactory of sash cord and cording. There are thirteen woolen mills in operation. The total of all is 102. Alamance county leads, having twenty-two cotton mills, tListon haa twenty-one, Randolph fifteen and Mecklenburg thirteen. There are mills in forty-one of the ninety-six counties. There’are reported 19,000 looms and 750,00 ) spindles. Henry CL Hester, secretary of the New Orleans cotton exchange, lias sent Governor Carr the following tel egram : “1 congratulate you and the people of North Carolina on her remarkable progress in cotton manufactures. She is now practically equal to South C ar olina, the largest cotlon consumer in the South. By the actual census of mills North Carolina h is consumed of this year’s crop 227,000 bales, an in crease of 55,000 over \*^t year. She li is new spindles which may be brought into play in 1 895 00 which, with f.iir trade conditions, should increase her total to at least 250,000. In 1890 North Car olina consumed 111,000 bales. So your slate Ins practically doubled her cotton manufactures within the past live vears.” SMALL ( IT FROM TIIE WEST. In October the Western Lines May Do More for Rutes. At the meeting of Western Das senger Association at Chicago Tn*-sday a resolution was adopted providing I that special rates to tho Atlanta expo- i sitiou should be based on 75 per cent. ; of tho regular fare each way, the 'bites j of sale and return limits to be Fixed by j the chairman. It was agreed that no lower rat* s should be made in advance of another meeting, which will beheld early in October. It is then cxp« ct< <1 that a further reduction will be made. The western lints believe that they have done all that is safe and reasona ble fer this month. Nihilists Arrested. The United States government, it is authoritatively announced at tho state department,has decided to enter forth- j up pendm ; with upon an independent investiga tion of the Cheng Tu riots, with the co-operation of a Chiuoso representa tive. As at first arranged, the inquiry was to have been made in co-opera tion with England, but th**re has been a change of plan within the last few days occasioned by the fact licit the British consul at Chung King Inis been detained at his post, and it is said will not be able to begin tho inquiry for a month or more. Mr. Walter E. Faison, chief of the consular bureau, will bo detailed as acting solicitor at tho state depart partmont pending the appointment of a successor lo Mr. Waller D. Dabney, who has accepted the position of pro fessor of law at the University of Vir ginia. The legal requirements of the office of solicitor are very high and considerable care is always exorcised in the selection. Mr. Faison is be lieved to bo thoroughly equipped for llio place, and Mr. Adeo, tho acting secretary of state, regards the depart ment us fortunate ill so readily Had ing a man of so much legal ability. Gold Reserve Dropping Lower. At the close of business Wednesday llio treasury gold reserve stood id $100,115,172. This Figure was reached just before tho ond of tho day’s busi ness by the syndicate depositing $2,- 500,000 gold. Prior to 3 o’clock Assist ant Treasurer Jordan reported $1,700,- 000 in gold withdrawn at New York for export to Europe. When tlmt. report was received the gold reserve had fallen be low tho $100,000,000 mark, standing at $07,015,172. On the treasurer’s books it stood ubovo tho reserve limit, but tho withdrawals ou Monday had not been taken tip. Tuesday the gold reserve was all day below the limit to the amount of $1,000,000. This fact was not known at the treasury, how ever, as it was generally understood, though not officially reported, that Iho $2,000,000 in gold deposited by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company ha<l been ou tho syndicate account. Did Not Die of Cholera. Hnrgonrj General 'Wyman, of the ma- rino hospital service, has instituted a rigid investigation into tho facts in re gard to tho arrival of tho steamer Bel- gic at San Francisco. This is the steamer that is supposed to have brought cholera infected Chinese and Japanese to Honolulu and then to have proceeded to San Francisco, whero her steerage passengers passed the quaran tine officials and were landed. Press reports stated that the Belgic landed at San Francisco with three dead Chi nese in tho steerage, all of whom had died from cholera August 51 at. Surgeon General Wyman wired Dr. Godfrey, in charge of tho marine hos pital nt San Francisco, giving him an abstract of tho press dispatches and directing him to investigate them. A reply was received from Mr. Godfrey slating that these Chinese did not die from cholera. No evidence has been adduced tending to show that there was cholera on the Belgio at any time cither before or after leaving China, but the marine hospital service,taking the worst view and acting upon the supposition that cholera did exist, is looking into tho whole matter thor oughly, and within a few' days all the steerage passengers will be located. Must Walt Sixty J ays. The postoffice department has been I mi t to considerable trouble lately by the issuance of duplicate money orders for those alleged to have been lost, misdirected or possibly stolon by dis honest clerks. All duplicates have to he issued by the department at Wash ington and last year applications were made for tho issuance of more than 50,000 such orders. Tho department fiuds that in many cases both original and the duplicate have been paid, and in some cases suit has had to bo brought to recover the money. In order to obviate such en tanglements in the future, Fir.it As sistant Postmaster General Jones, at tho solicitation of tho auditor, lias adopted a rule not to issue duplicates in the future until the ixpirutionof s xty days from the date of the orig- al money order, thereby affording time for the the receipt nt tho auditor’s of fice of the money order stnternehts of paying postmasters and an oppor tunity to examine such statements to ascertain wliethi r the original orders have been paid. This may work a hardship in some cases among those who can ill afford to wait the period of sixty days on ac count of the mistakes of their corres pondents, but it is held at the post- office department that tho general good of the whole service demands the enforcement of the new regulations. Goes to the Supreme Court. There seems to be no doubt that the Oxnard sugar bounty question, which was decided by Comptroller JJowlcr adversely to tho Oxnard company on constitutional grounds, will go to the supreme court of the United States for final determination. Within tho next few days Secretary Carlisle will certify the case to the court of claims under section 1005 of 4ho revised of claims, will be under tho charge of Assistant Attorney General J. E. Dodge, who iH especially charged with the de euse of the government in all chh«h before that court. Mr. Dodge very likely will ask to have the case advMiict d, and it is probable, in view of the interests involved, that tho court will consent to try it n’most im mediately after it reconvenes on Octo ber 28th, unless the clainmtils should usU lint her time for presentation. In tho meantime all claims lor bounty limb r t lie appropriation " ill be held Fund determination by ,.f t (ju- Mtton of tho constitutionality of the appropria tion. Testing Armor Flute. Tho naval ordinance board conduct ed a most important and successful test at Indian Head proving grounds Wednesday. Urimarially it was a test of steel armor plate, but really one of great importance, as it was a trial of tho strength of tho frames of modern warships, which, it has been claimed, would not withstand tho shock caus ed by heavy projectiles against the armor covering them some author ities even going so far as to as sort that the armor, if not shat tered or penetrated by tho shot, would be driven through the vessel by the crushing of the frames. This was tho First frame test ever made of dis tinctly modern warships, though tho English government some years ago did fire at an antiquated armored ves sel for the purpose of observing the ef fects of the shot. Wednesday’s expor- ments demonstrated tho fact that tho frames of our warships are perfectly* able to meet all ordinary demands. It was also demoust rated t hat t he now four teen-inch armor with which the new battleships will be protected can, under ordinary oireustanees, receive tho fire of any naval vessel afloat without seri ous damage. A test was also made of a new armor bolt designed by tho or- linaneo board to replace the bolts now used in fastening armor ships, which are weighty, cumbersome and expensive. Each of tho threo tests was entirely satisfactory. The armor plato far exceeded tho proscribed re quirements; tho counterfeit frames bore the shocks without impairment, and the holts were entirely satisfac tory. MINERS ENTOMBED. TIIIUTY-FIVK MICN AUK lU’HIKl) ,AUVK IN A III KNINK MINK. LKTTICR < All HI KR&’ OONVKNTION Sixth Alumni >l,*rtill|j at I'lillaclrlpltla. Largo Kopi’PHRii tilt loll. Tho mxtli annual convention of llio National Association of Letter Car riers was formally begun in tho Bourne building at J’hiladclphiu Tuesday morning. It was iho first gathering in the new structure aud Georgo A. Bartel, president of tho Bourse; Julia T. Bailey, tho vieo president, and William It. Tucker, iho secretary; made addresses of welcome to the del egatee. The convention was called to order at ]() o'clock by President Oowdou, of Cleveland. Tho committee on creden tials reported a representation of f.QS out of f>2H votes in tho convention. Delegate Atkinson offered a resolution requesting the committee on legible tion to prepare a law for presentation to congrtss providing for the increase of salaries of second-class carries from $8151) a year to $1,000. WIIARF AN I) FRICIGHT BURNHD- Valuable Merchandise Destroyed by Klro in Boston. The Boston and Albany extension wharf and freight sheds in East Bos ton, known as pier 1, Grand junction docks, were destroyed by lire Wednes day morning. The sheds were filled with freight of various kinds, none of which could bo saved. In the sheds de stroyed were stored about 15,000 hales of sisal grass, fifteen to twenty ear loads of hay in bales, nearly fifty car loads of flour in sacks, a large quantity of wool and hemp, sixteen carloads of merchandise, and a large amount of general merchandise all valued at about $300,000. Tho wharf and buildings destroyed were worth $'200,000. Tho losses on freight will fall upon the consignees and shippers, who, it is stated, have their goods insured. WORMS HATING TUB COTTON In the Mississippi Delta—Planters Or dering Paris Green. Reports received at New Orleans in dicate that the worms in myriads arc eating up tho cotton, from Missis sippi in all parts of the Yazoo and Mississippi delta, tho greatest cotton producing country in the world, the cry is for paris green and londou pur- i pie. From tho Red river country in ) Louisiana clear on up to Shreveport and from Vicksburg to Monroe and i throughout that section of tho country tho accounts of cotton worms is dis* i heartening. A canvass of the loading drug houses shows that the orders for paris green aud loudon purple have been so numerous from the worm-in fested cotton districts that it has lieun impossible to fill them. BLOWN INTO KTKRMTY. Five Persons Killed and Threo Injured by a Dynamite Kxploslon. Five persons were blown to instant death aud three injured try an explo sion of dynamite at Hpooht’s ferry, ten miles from Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday morning. Hank’s Books Missing. Tho bank of Tacoms, Wash., which failed lately, having $229,000 of the city’s money in its prksession, is prov ing an enigma to judges, receiver# and All tiro Thought to l>e Dead— Little Hope of Rescue. Saturday itftornoon lire was discov ered by timbormoif at the thirty-hoy- entli leveo of tlio Osceola copper mine at Houghton, Mich. Tho timbermon at once rusheM to the shaft and when brought to tlio surface in tiny big bucket gave tho alarm. Thirty-six miners were at work at tho time, ami up to a late hour but one person lmd been rescued, a pump boy, and ho died shortly after reaching tho open air. Smoke poured in dense volumes from tho moutji of every shaft in tho mine and escape through these open ings was impossible. Tho lire gained rapidly. Gathered about tho shafts of tlio Osceola wore tho wives, mothers and children of tho unfortunate men, anx iously waiting further nows from their loved ones. The scene was very pa thetic. Every effort is being put forth to rescue the unfortunate men, but hope is not high. A Later Account. Another ami a later dispatch from the scene of tUo disaster is to tlie’effeot that it is now positively known that thirty-five doomed men arc entombed in tlio Osceola mine, with no possibil ity of reoitvaring their bodies until the fire is extinguished, which may not bo for months. It is the opinion of some of the oldest employes of llio mine 1 hat the fire was the work of tin incoudi- ii UT AH of tlifi) doomed miners might have escaped had thoyhoCded warning, as Captain Edwards, who was the itrwt to detect the Fire, dispatched messen gers to every, Hippo where tlio miners were known to bo working. Captain White descended with Anton Ecysk, who said no left his father in a lower level, but Eoysk lost his head, and finding hint uhmanngeuble, Cap tain White abandoned him to his fate, pushed toward tho south workings of the mine aud reached the ‘’surface in safety, tho only one of the party in No. d shaft- to escape. He reported that tram meti had offerod to carry one of tho drill boVs to tho surface, but the boy was so frightened that ho re fused to move tind was. left. Twenty of thirty-live are mar* riod men and jqostiU 1 them have largo families. REFUSED TO WORK ON SUNDAY Mexican Lyuotype Operators Strike Against. Coitliniu us Labor. A special from tho City of Mexico says Tho Mexican Herald, the English daily which made its appearance hist Sunday, had a strike Monday. Mexi can operators who had worked Sunday to get out Monday morning’s paper rebelled against the loss of their ac customed holiday. Tho paper will ap pear, according to present intention, ovory day in the year, but it remains to bo seen if it will bo possible to se cure operators willing to work so con tinuously. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. President Geo. C. Smith, of tho Western and Atlantic and West Point railroads was ro-eloctod at tlio annual meeting of directors iu Montgomery. Georgo Augusta Sala, the famous journalist, is critically ill at his home in London. Wednesday the Union Goal company of Slmmokin, Pa., began working 3,000 men sixty hours per week. Reports received in New Orleans in dicate that cotton worms are destroy ing tlio crop in adjoining states. A Chattanooga family named Scnn- lau ate toadstools, believing them to be mushrooms and are critically ill. Tlio announcement comes from Montgomery that Secretary Herbert will bo a candidate for tho United States senate. Home Secretary Ridley has an nounced in tho British parliament that his office had no power to order an in quiry in Mrs. Muybrick’s cuse. Middletown, ()., people are satisfied that Dr. H. H. Holmes was once su perintendent of public schools at that place and was known as C. W. Hatch. Two Oklahoma farmers, Oiler and William Knapp, fought with hatchets and pitchforks about a load of hay. Both men wero badly wounded and will die. Samuel Gompcrs, <x-president of the American Federation of Trades, was accorded an ovation by the Trades- Union Congress at Cardiff, Wales. Tho thirteenth Ohio senatorial con vention met at Marysville and in dorsed Governor McKinley for presi dent and Joseph B. Foruker for United States senator. Tho organization of tlio Ohio demo cratic state executive committee lias been completed. 11 was decided to open the campaign on September 28th, in the evening. Ex-Governor Campbell will 1)0 the principal speaker. The eighth annual convention of the republican league of the state of New York met in session at Bingham ton, N. Y., Wednesday. It is esti mated thut five thousand delegates aud visitors are in attendance. HEIRS TO A FORTUNE. General Holt’s Will Sent, Through tho Malls to the Register of Wills. What purports to ho the lust, will ] of the late General Joseph Holt, of j Kentucky, who died over a year ago, I was made public at Washington Mon- ! day in a sensational manner. In the ■ mail delivered to the office of the reg ister of wills on Saturday were two or three envelopes which were not open ed until Monday morning by Colonel Wright, the register. Among them was one addressed, in crude letters printed in ink, which when opened was found to contain a half-sheet of foolscap paper, tho left end of which was burned, but not enough to make the writing illegible. Several small holes were burned in the sides and cen ter of the shoot, but scarcely a word was eliminated. The text of the docu ment was ns follows: "I do hereby doviseend bequeath nil ol my property, both personal and real, to Lizzie Ilynds, cousin of my first wife, and to Josephine Holt Throck morton, who iu my godchild, and to their heirs and assigns forever. I do hereby direct that at my death all of my properly be divided equally be tween them. "Lizzie Ilynds is to inherit hers at my death; Josephine at the age of twenty-one. Her father, Major Charles B. Throckmorton, will hold her share in trust. I appoint Mr. Luke Devlin, of Washington, executor. “Signed and sealed in tho presence of tho witnesses at Washington Feb ruary 7, 1878. “J. Ilonr. “Witnesses: Ellon E. E. Sherman, U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman.’ 1 Not ->no word of explanation accom panied tho will and the officials of the register’s office are at a loss to account for its appearance. No ono who is fntnilliar with the handwriting of Gen eral Holt and with the signature of Grant and Sherman doubt iho uuthen- ticily of tlio document. I’LV. DILTALMAdli VIIK NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY DISCOURSE Subject: “ The Chieftain.’ FAVORABLE TO FIGHTERS. Dallas County Attorney I’ublishos an Opinion. A dispaton from Dallas, Texas, says: County Attorney John Gillespie pub lishes a legal opion on the status of the law touching upon pugilistic) en counters in Texas. The opinion is not in accord with Attorney General Crane’s views and contains cold com fort for those who are opposed to the approaching fight between Corbett and Fitzsimmons. GilloHpio holds that tho club canmr be enjoined froth erecting the buildinj or go jug on with arrangoiuout,H, 0 nH t injunction law with*regard to felony or misdemeanor eases bus bqeu re pealed. Ho holds further that the laws now on the books, one making pugilism a misdemeanor and tho other licensing the same, make affairs complicated. The misdemeanor law, lie says, iH con flicting, vague and indefinite, and no man can tell just what tlio law is until the eourts paHs upon tlio same. Attorney Gillespie closes by saying that if at any time in the future a rep utable citizen will make affidavit that llio law Iiiih been violated, then he will prosecute, but that lie cannot antici pate violations of the law. Tho opinion of tlio county attorney may not give satisfaction in official circles at tlio state capital, but the cit izens of Dallas who favor Iho glove carnival are delighted beyond meas ure. % The Collins and Cavanaugh glove contest, which was “pulled off” Mon day night and which will form Hie basis of a test case under habeas cor pus proceedings, was stopped by tho police in the twenty-first round. AFTER RO THSCHILD AGAIN. A Hoinb-’Tlirawer’s Designs Nipped in : tho Hud. A Paris dispath says that a bold nt- i tempt was made Thursday to explode J a bomb in Rothschild's bank iu the Hue La Ditto. While Iho busihess of the day was at its height a man walk ed into the bank carrying under his arm a bornb to which was attached a lighted fuse. One of the detectives employed in the bank was standing near, and sprang upon tho man, seized the bomb aud extinguished the fuse in time to prevent an explosion. The would-Le bomb thrower was arrested and taken to the police station. This attempt to blow up tlio Roth* scliildh’s banking establishment, taken iu connection with the recent sending of an infernal machine through the mails to the office of Huron Alphonse do Rothschild, signifies a persistent purpose on the part of tho anarchistic lenient to inflict injury upon the Advices lit,vo been received from i htntutcs, stating to tlie oonrt that it is ] everyone having anytbiiiK: to do with Moscow and Kt. Petersburg stating ! alleged by the claimants that a right that 900 persons, known or suspected under the constitution has been denied to be nihilists, have been arristtd tty [ them and asking lliat, as great public the police of those citieB and large ; interests ale involved, the court pass quantities of bombs, firearms aud dyn- : upon the matter at an early day. amitc seized in their lodging- „od The ctec, when it rcaebc. the 8«url haunt.; . i Tho books of the institution have disappeared and tho most diligent seal eh lias failed to find th»-m. They are supposed to have been I urned. It is said that apple, will core dy«- pep.ia, Masonic Temple Burned. Masonic Temple, at Boston, Mass., one of the finest Masonic buildings iu tho United States, was almost entirely destroyed by tiro Saturday. Tho building was magnificently, furnished and iho loss will probably reach $♦•)<),■ 900, The building eost $730,000; heads aud employes of tho Rothschilds j glorious lIn house. IIOI.MKS TO BK TRIED AT LAST. lie XVIII lie Drought llcforo Court in Philadelphia. Tho Toronto authorities have been notified that II. H. Holmes, the multi murderer, will be placed on trial at Philadelphia shortly for the murdir of Benjamin F. I’ietzel, father of tlio two little girls whom Holmes is alleged to have murdered in Iho St. Vincent street collage ill 1'hiliidelphhi. In event of failure to conviot Holmes ho will be banded over to the Indianapo lis millionth s and will be carried to Canada only after all attempts to con vict him in tho United States of a cap ital t IT •mo hive proved abortive. To (^uarautlno Portland. The city board qf health of Port land, Oregon, has taken steps to quar antine that poifc from a threatened in vasion of cholera now epidemic in Honolulu. Every precaution will ho taken to prevent the disease being brought to this port by both tramp steamers aud those iu direct connec tion with tho orioufc, Home recent ar- rivali have brought suspicioufl Tf.xt: “The chlnfest among ton lliou- •nml.”—Canticles v., 10. Tho most conspicuous character of history ♦tops out upon the platform. The linger Which, diamond with light, poinled down t<» Him from tho Bethlehem skv was only a rat i- lleation of the linger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, iho finger of chronology, Iho linger of events—all fivo fingers pointing in nno direction. Christ Is the overtopping figure of all time. He is the “vox humana” In all tousle, the grneofulest lino in all sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades in all painting, tho acme of all climaxes, the dome of all cathodraled grandeur and the peroration of all language. The f:roek alphabet is made up of twenty- four loiters, and when Christ compared Him- seir to the first lotlor and (heIasi letter.the Al pha aud the Omega, He appropriated to Him self all the splendors that you can spell out either with those two letters or all the let ters between them. “I am the Alpha and tin' Omega, the beginning anil the ond.” AVIial does (hat Scripture mean which savs of Christ. “He tlmt eomelh from above is above all?” It mean- (hat a'toryou have piled up all Alpine and Uim ihiyan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have lo sprea 1 Its wings and descend a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pelion. a high moun tain of Thessaly: Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus, a high mountain; but mythol ogy tells 11s wlii'n the giants warred against the gods they piled up those three moun tains, and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens; but the height was not great enough, and there was a complete fail ure. And after all the giunts--lsninh and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Itupii- ael and Mtchfiel Angulo, artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and archangel, ce lestial giants—have failed to climb tothotop of Christ’s glory they might all well unite in tho words of Paul, and cry out, “Above all!” “Above till!” Hut Hohmion iu mv text prefers to call Christ “the Chieftain,” and so to-dav I hull Him. First, Christ must he chief in our preach ing. Thorn are so many books on homile tics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, imvomado up I hoir minds what sermons ought to lie. That sermon, is the most effectual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the par don of nil sin and the correction of all evil— Individual, social.political, national, There Is no reason why wo should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhor tation or a discourse lmvo frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspiolous of a dlsoomse which presents the same truth, but under different phrase ology. Now, 1 say there is nothing in all tlie opulent realm of Anglo-Baxonism; of all tho word treasures that wo inherited from th-i Latin and the (lreek and tho Indo-Euro pean. hut wo have a right to marshal it in religious discussion. Christ sots tho exam ple. Ills illustrations wero from tho grass, tho fiowors, tho barnyard fowl, tho crystals of salt, as well as from tho seas and the stars; and wo do not propose in our Hunday-suhool teaching and in our pulpit address to bo put on the limits. I know tlmt tlioro Is a great deal said in our day against words, ns though they wero nothing. They may bo misused, but they lmvo an imperial power. They are tho bridge between soul and soul, botwoon Almighty God and the human race. Wlmt did Gou write upon tho Tables of stone? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for tho illumination of tlio. universe? Out of words. “Lot them be light.” and light was. Of course thought Is the cargo and words are only the ship, but how fast would your cargo got on without the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sab bath-school class, in your reformatory insti tutions, and what wo all need, is to enlarge our vocabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ and hoavon. Wo ride a few old words to death, when there is such inimitable resource. Hhakespearo employed 15,000 different words for dramatic purposes; Milton employed. M)00 different words for pootlo purposes; Itufus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal pur poses, but the most of us have loss than thousand words that we can manage, ai that makes us so stupid. When wo como to set forth t.io love of Christ, wo are going to take the teuderest phraseology wherever we find R, and if It lias never been used in that direction before all the more shall wo use it. When we como lo speak of Iho glory of Christ tho conquer or, avo are going to draw our slmllies from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. Tho French navy have eighteen (lags by which they give sig nal, bill llm-G eighteen (lags they can put i Into 0(1,000 different combinations. Audi have t.t tell you that tIim.-» » standard< of tho cross may lie lifted Into combinations infinite and varietias everlasting. And let me.say to the young men who como from the theologi cal seminar.'es into our services, and are after awhile going to preach .Tesus Chris', you will have the largest liberty and unlimited re source. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Brighter than the light, fresher than tho fountains, deeper than the sinus, are all these gospel themes. Song lias no melody, (low ers no sweetness, sunset sky no color com pared with tl'.oso glorious themes. Tliosp harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their (Ire, ami producing revolutions with their power, lighting up dying beds with their glory, they are llio sweetest thought for the poet, and they are the most thrilling illuslratb»n for the orator, and they offer the most intense scene for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the sky all enthu siasm. Complete portion f >r direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghasilio.st agony. Brightest hope for grimmest dintli. Grand est resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Oh, what a gospel to preach! Christ the Chief. His birth, His suffering, Mil mir acles, His parables, His sweat, II • tears, His blood, His atonement .His intercession -wind j dent of eireams:nners if we lmvo ILs grace. Why, Ho made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grace St. John from dcs data Patinos board the blast <»f the apocalytio trumpets. Afl«*r all oilmc candles have been snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect day, and after, under the hard boo's of calamity, all the pools of worldly eiiDymont Imvi*. bcnii trampled into deep mire at tho foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite lily-rimmed, pats out tho thirst oi his souk Again, f remark that Christ is chief in liv ing alleviations. I have not any sympathy with the morbidity a road about our demise. The lint purer «»f Constantin >;»ln nrrnngoil Unit on tlio tiny of his cor mathm th * stonc- mason should come un i coif-iiU him ah mt the tombstone thut after awhile he would nct'd. And thero are in *;» who an mono- maniacal on the mihjn.rt of departure from this life bv death, an I the m w > limy think of it the Iihs they ar«» prep.md to go. Tills is an unmanline, s not worthy of you, not worthy of me. Sala lin, the great conqueror of hit day, While dying, order-* l that the tunic, !n ha t on lliin be carrie 1 a r l"r his death on Ids spear at the head of his army, and that then the s-d.Her, ever and nnon, n'eml I slop and say: “Behold all that is hdt of Sal idin, the emperor and conqueror! (L* all the stab's he conquered, of all tho wealth he accumu lated, nothing did lie retain but this shroud.” I have no sympathy with such b°- liavior, or such absurd demonstration, or with much that we hear uttered in r. gar l to departure from this life to the ne\J. There is a coinmonsunslenl idea on this subject that you need to consider :Imre are only two styles of depart urn. A thousand, feet underground, by light of torch, tolling in a miner’s shaft, a lc lg * of r> , .'tnny fall y die a miner's death, j from th" slippery rat lines and broken on the halliards, wc may tilt' n sailor’s death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones and recking leprosies and raging fever-', wo may die a philanthropist's death. On the field of battle, serving God aud our country, slugs through the heart, the gnu carriage may roll over us, and we may die a patriot's death. But. after all, there are onlv tw» stylus of departure—the death of tho righteous ami tho death of the wicku I—and wo all want to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home. You want tho hand of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. You want the light on your pillow from eyes that have long reliooiod your love. You want your room still. You do not want any curious strangers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer, l think that is the wish of all of its. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us up when the billows of death como up to tho girdle? human voice harm * open heaven’s gate? Can human hand pilot us through tho narrows of death into heaven's harbor? Can any carl li ly friendship shield us from tlio arrows of death and in the hour when satan shall practice upon us his infernal archery? No, no, no, nof Alas, poor soul, if that Is all! letter die iu the wilderness far from treo shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures circling through tho air watting for our body, unknown to men, and to lmvo no burial, if only Christ could say through the solitudes, “I will never leave thoo, I will never forsnko thee.” From that pillow of stone a la Idee would soar heavenward, angels coming and going, and across tho solitude and the bairimnosa would come tlio sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. , , , ,", Gordon Hall, far from home, dying In door of a heathen teinplo, said: “Glory to Tliee, 0 God!” Wlmt did dying Wilborforcu say to his wife? “Come and sit beside me. and lot us talk of heaven. I never knew wlmt hap piness was until i found Christ.” What did dying Hannah More say? “To go to heaven, think wlmt that is! Togo to Christ, who died tlmt 1 might liv •! Oh. glorious gravel Oh, wlmt ft glorious thing It is to die! Oh, tho love of Christ, the love of Christ!” What did Mr. Toplftdy, the great hymn maker, say in his last hours? “Who can measure the depths of the third heaven? Oh, the sun shine that Ill's my soul! I shall soon be gone, for surely no one can liv in ibis world after such glories us God has mani fested to my soul!” What did the dying Janeway say? “I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my hand In sleep. Before a few hours have passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and fourthousnndand with llio just men mad*) perfect, and we shall ascribe riches, and honor, mi l glory, aud majesty, and dominion unto (Sod and Iho Lamb/’ Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on his way thither broke away from the guardsmen, an 1 went hounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jems, mi l to die for Him. Sir Charles Hare, in his last moments, lmd such rapturous vision tlmt he cried, “Upward, upward, upward!” And so great was tho peace of ono of Christs disciples that he put his finger upon tho pulso in his wrist and counted it and ob served it; and so great was his placidity Hint after awhile lie said, “.Stopped! ’ an l his life had ended here to begin iu heaven. Bit grander than that was the testimony of tho worn out first mi-si-niary, when, iu tan Mainertlne dungeon, lm cried, “1 am n <w ready to he oflhred, and tho time of my de part urn Is at hau i; I lmvo foug.it too goo 1 light, I lmvo finished my <■ mrs<\ L have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of right" m-m -a wni"h the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give ms in that • lay, and not t• * only, but to a'dtliem teat His appearing! ’ Do you not see that Christ is chief in dying alleviations? Stand on su m* high It'll of he.ivmi ).| in ail the radiant sw mp tho most glorious obJ".?t will be Jnsu-. Myriads gay,lug on the scars of His suffering, in sioiifH first, afterward breaking, forth into acclamation. Tim martyrs, all the pure: for tin Him ) throug'i which they passed, will say, “This is the Jems for whom we did.” Tim apoMtl'-s, all tho happier lor the shipwreck ami tho vmrging through which they wen!, will say. “ 1’ais istli" Jesus whom we preache l at Corinth, and Cappu* doeiu, and at Antioch, and at .Tjru-mhmi. Little cnildr m ela l in wnito will say, ’•d’iiis is the Jesus Who look us in His urns and blessed us, aud when the storms of the w odd Do Christ is its object. oil Jesus. Have wo a roiuliiess Tor llio church? Jl is because Christ die 1 f.»r it. Have wo a hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went there, the herald and the loro- runner. The royal robe of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that after he had put It off no one ever dared to put it on, but this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the weakest, and tho worst may wear, “Where sin abounded, grace may much more abound." “Oh, my sins, my sins!” said Martin Luther to Ktuupitz, “my sin*, my sins!” The fact is tlmt the brawny German student had found a Latin Bible that made him quake, and nothing else ever did make him quake, and when lie found how, through Christ, he was pardoned and saved lie wrote to a friend, Haying, “Como over uml join us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of God. You secm to bo only a slender sinner, amt you don’t much extol the mercy of God, but we that have been such very awful sinners praise His Gr/vo tho more now tlmt we have been redeemed.” Can It be that you are so desperately egotistical that you feel yourself in first rate spiritual trim, and thut from the root of the hair to tho tip of the toe you are scarings uml Im maculate? What you need is a looking glass, and here it is in the Bible. Boor xml wretched and miserable and blind ami naked Jrom the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefy ing acres. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the i I lo j l bn I ehu •old i be lUtifill pla bereft will s:i) farted us i who wand- plunged into vngab • by grace, will say: * pardoned u c We we talus, and He broug guilty, and II • hut m At erey boumllosq gr. than, a ft*) I'lltitU lo marts broke.” Many off friii Go l au l nlism, but were save l rids is the Je ms who i*o lost on til 5 moil li lt us home. We wero t lo iu white as su >w.” ,eo unparallelu l. And me has recited his p •"iilla deliverances and pe Miliar merei".-', i " :tel them as by solo, all the voices will com ' to gether into great chorus, which will m uo tin' arches echo and n- • -ho with th ? eternal reverberation of triumph. Edward I was so anxims to go to tho Holy Land that wlmn lie w. s about to expire he bequeathe 1 fltiJ.Oin l< have his heart, after his deceas**, t:i mu *o the if by Lm t in Asia Minor, and his rc pmst w u complied With. But there are bun Iru la to-day wuose hearts are already in tho Holy Ban l of Heaven. Where y mr treasures are, there are your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyaa caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way i e said: “And 1 heard in my dream, and, lo! tho bolls of the city rang again for joy, a .<1 us they opened tho gates to let in the men I looko 1 ill after them, and lo! the city shone like the sun, and there were streets or gold, an t men walked on thorn, harps in their hands, to ring praises with all, and after tlmt they shut up tho gales, which, when 1 had uecu, 1 wished myself among them!” Photographs Taken From a Kite. W. A. Eddy, of New Jersey, experimented successfully with (lying kites iu a high wind the fact that Christ gathered up all the at Blue Hill Observatory, Milton. Mass. He notes against us ami paid them and then of- also took photographs with plates which fered us the receipt I And how much we were sent up kites k&O Icct abevo th9 u»o»d Him In our surrow.it Wo nr# tndopen* 1 gruunck