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VOLUME in.
KEY. SAM JONES
CONDUCTS A REVIVAL IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Dr. Talinagc Predicts Hundreds of Con
versions—What the Evangelist
Thinks of Goofi-for-Nothing
Church-men.
From tlio Brooklyn Ka/le.
The Rev. IJr. Talmuge sat bnckyn his
chair against the organ from on the plat
form of the Tabernacle D t evening, with
one limb thrown over the other, one hnn<l
rosting on bin lap and the other support- j
ing hiw chin and locked b.teutly at the
back of a tall, lanky, u rk o• npleciioued,
dark haired, dark m<>us ached man, cl id I
in black abninltn illy fiiik.g clothes who
walked about on the front rf rhe plat
form uiid shouted yuri.ii phrases in |
drawling southern 7T. e' :u,u tr'dh pon
siderahle offense to grammatical
structure. The man bulked about as
slowly as he talked a;id kept both hands
in his pockets most < f the time.
From the auditorium 4,000 eyes were
directed toward the figure oil the plat
form, 4,000 ears listened i-neatly to the
words he was speaking, Every << w a u j
then a mild laugh r; throir. h the peo- j
pie, but at other time, all you qtuef.
.1
“Bear on© another’s btndc.fb was the
text on which the speaker (Evangelist 8.
P. Jones, of Georgia,) pr.-c > at tirst.
He spoke of do-nothn ;• (hnmh.us.
“God don’t want you, broth nr, i' r die
sort of house you live in. or tho sort of
clothes you wear, or the s rt 1 f i- and yor*
eat. He wants you for the’solid licks!
you put in for the ki m of C'least ,
The kingdom of God is :oi meT u..d j
drink. How much would a E-How h :ve j
to eat to get to heave ? If it v.t.s call n j
that got us to heaven it ... id ' a* vi -
taries of fashion that woul<l - ' tUere, j
and there is nothing in the worn: iacre j
rotten than the s ime bon too .eieiy. 1 !
speak from ;
sorvatiou. [Laughter, j I was over i
the stock exchange, i- Eev; Y ah, t -day
and it was a sight. If I wr. one cf
those fellows I wouldn’t let anyone cans
and look at me. No, I wouldn't. Why,
they were shouting an’ a jumping around
all excited. Wlmt were they shunting
about? Why, they were buying stocks,
they were making money and they were
glad. Yes, If th- re is anything a man
ought to shout a. die 11 id an at, it is
for getting religion. But the brothers
say you should be dignith-d in religion,
you should regard the propria'.ios. Pro
prieties. I don’t wa t my nineteenth
oentur.y proprieties in mine. ! h.-pe be
fore long to see you nil en./y >:• religion,
shouting like those men i.‘ die stoc! ex
ohange, a dpi n ifyi g the L id. There
are a great m .. me i wlm j..in a church
and expect to get to heaven because
they beloug to tintt chuich, Bu! L teli
yoij, brother, that kind of f.ii :g won’t do.
We are all expecting s.ilvati .met into,
every one of us, and yet we are c dent
to lot the parson do all the praying, a; and
the praising, and the solid work. We’re
like a lot of men ■ oiug to market and
getting stuck in a mud hole. 8 ,mo of
us are drinking and none (4 us are fight
ing and some are laughing and carous
ing, and we're letting the driver get out
of the wagon alone and try to whip up
the horses, so as they’ll pull u; out.
Now, if we all get out ourselves a; and put
pur shoulders to the wheel that would, be
the end of the stick. What wo need
among our Christians is more work. Are
you working for Christ, brother? No!
Why aren’t you then? Beciuse you
can’t do anything—-yon don’t know what
to do? Why, you poor, helpless infant,
what are you good for? I think the most
pitiful sight in the world would be to see
a mother with ten grown up children,
one 32, and another 28 and another ni,
and so on down to 12 years of age, not
one of them able to walk alone, not one
of them any bigger than when they were
a week old. Poor children! poor moth
er ! Give them some soothing syrup and
put them all to sleep. Keep them quiet,
ty'hat wo need, brethren, is work, work.”
At the close u£ dir. Jones’ forty minute
address the congregation sang “JesUs,
tover of My Soul!” and the long meter
doxology. Then, before the benedic
tion, as many as desired were asked to
stay and take part in a ten minutes’ after
service. While the hymn, "Jesus, Lov
er of Mv Soul.” was being sung a second
time, Mr. Jones Walked down from the
platform and called on all who wanted to
be prayed for to come forward and shake
hands with him.
The first who advanced was a pleasant
faced lady in a seal skin sacque, who
came smiling down the central aisle.
Then came a middle-aged lady, also seal
skin sacqned, from the east side of the
church; then a young working girl from
the west side; then no iron-bearded man;
J,hen a rosy faced young man |rc m the
central aisle, and then about a dozen oth
ers, men and women. They shook hands
with the evangelist, and then retired to
their seats. *
At the conclusion of the hymn Mr.
Jones mounted the platform again.
“ I want to hear a few Words of testi
mony for Christ; only a few words,
brethren,” he said.
A tall man with an iron-grey beard rose
in the central part cl the east side simul
frnfrtrtifdy with another tail, thin man,
with and irk, clean-shaved face, strong, at
tenuated featnnw and glasses.
“ I am in the fold; I know it, ami I am
going to sLy there,’ said the iron
bearded mrr , complacently.
“ I have wandered fir,’’ said the - lean
shaved man, “ lmt I’m in the arms cf
U ms now, and I feel safe.”
“Eleven years ago I enlisted in this
ship as an able-bodied Christian,” said u
gray haired, gray bearded man heartily.
“She’s a stout ship, and she’ll Barry me
into port, prime th° Lord !”
“Praise tin Lord!” echoed the revival
ist and many of the congregation.
“ I have lifted up the cross < f Christ
hi the thickest of the battle for ton years
in this church, aud Hi kecuon dd nil!”
shouted a very well dressed stout old
gentleman, white haired and whiskered,
jumping to his feet under the gallery in
the (. si: de. JJ’.s tone was very < eti
: t, . . he .■ - 1-i i-• id h;s
fsrjtn ; and looked at the Cos. vrogatlon
.vith a what-aro-goiiig-to-dn-about-it ex
pression.
A Indy in widow’s weeds rose on the
front of the east side. “I am pled lam
in the hands of Jesus,” she said.
“I am w --king for Jestis,” said Trustee
Ells, oie cf the pie s,infest and meat
hard-working of the Tabernacle volunteer
officials. “I am glad of it, and am wil
ls a' to devot. myself more and more to
Him. He’s very good to me.”
“I am willi-v • to devote every gift I
possess to my father in Heave fluid a
cheerful looking young lady rising in
front of the- erst .side.
j
man who rose from the center of the
o* ureh. “I am glad c. 4 the- privilege of
fighti ig„Hia bailies and hope lie may
strengthen me to faithfulness and true
Courage.”
“I joined the church one and a half
years ago,” said a well-dressed young
man, who rose under the central part of
the gallery.. “Ikiever regretted it.”
“Those are . good words,” responded
the revivalist, “ge§ oiit your sword.”
“I am not ashamed to confers the Lord
Jesus Christ, v said a colored man, who
sat far back under the gallery.
/‘That’s right, 1 Mother,” c one the re
ply. “In the south wo have revivals
w here the colored people pray for tlie
white men and the white men for the
c 1 red folks, and by "and by they can’t
tell which from ‘tother. Good religion
that is.”
“I thank G. and f >r sa ving’mo. I know
lie is keeping me to-dav,' said a young
nui i with a quiet, se..si!do looking face.
NViie i the ten mi: utes to be devoted
to taki. g testimony had expired the ben
ediction was pro roll - Ced,
‘ ‘These services \ ill be kept up a week
in -.-r,” and Dr. T mage afterward.
*■ i -.ere is r.o off- r. row t( inane c . ver
■ in. s. Mr. Jones is just getting the
Christians of the congregation up to the
proper gi -w and then lie will expect
thorn all to work f r the sinners next
week. I never saw better promise; there
will be hundreds of and a-versions.”
—
WASHINGTON AS A GIFT
TAKER.
Nothing Hoggish About, the Fath
er of His Country,
Since Gen. Grant has declined to re
ceive a subscription for his benefit, says
the St. ifcjnis Republican, it has been in
order to cite the action of some of his
predecessors in this respect. The most
illustrious example, which seems to have
boon forgotten, was that of Gen. Wash
ington, which will be i it Cresting now to
recall, as it occurred just one hundred
years ago.
In the Virginia legislature, which ter
minated its session on the sth of Janua
ry, 1785, on motion of Mr. Madison a
bill \|U. ; reported by him which passed
both branches of the Legislature. It di
rected the treasurer of the state to make
a special subscription of fifty shares in
the Potomac company (of the value of
S2OO each share) and of 100 shares in the
James River Company (of the value of
S2OO a share), in addition to the original
subscription made in behalf of the State;
and the additional shares so to be sub
scribed for were declared ‘“to be vested
in George Washington, S}sq., his heirs
and assigns forever, in as effectual a
manner as if the said subscriptions liad
been made by himself or his attorney.”
The preamble was thus nobly set forth
explaining the motives of the grant:
Whereas, it is the desire of this com
monwealth to embrace every suitable oc
casion < 1 testifying their sense of the un
exampled merits of George Washington
towards his oops try, and it is their wish
in particular that those great works for
its improvements which, both as spring
ing from the liberty which he has been
instrumental in establishing audits en
couraged by his patronage, will be a du
rable monument f his glory, may be
made monuments also of the gratitude of
liia country.
This testimony of the appreciation of
his native State was received by Wash
ington with the same warmth of sensi
bility and acknowledgment that prompt
ed it on the part of the Legislature. Rut
he deeji :ed to take any personal benefit
from it, and consented to hold the stock
vested in him >y the act only as a iiu-t
ftivd, to be applied to some object of
public utility. He acknowledged the act iu
a graceful letter to the Governor (Patrick
CARTERSVILLE, GEORG 1 TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1885.
Heniy). Mr. William C. Rives, in his
history of J unes Madison, states the, dis
position eventually made by Washington
was as follows: “The shares in the James
River company were applied by him to
the better endowment of Liberty Hall
Ac demy, at Lexington, in R ickbridge
county, which afterwards assumed the
name c f Washington. C dlege; and the
Potomac shares were . set apart by his
will, as well as by a. previous assignment,
in aid of the esbibiLhme l of a universi
ty iu tin District of C dm* ni.”
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THE ANCIENT CHRONICLER.
A Quaint Uroclnction That Will b
of Interest to our Adairs
• ville Reliefers.
Ti: • following production, entitled the
“Second Book of Chronicles,” will be
}*l* su it reading to fame of the older
citizens of AdrirsviUe. It was written
bvEphii m P. rter, wlio was for many
years a re. ide.it of Adairsvflle, and who
was a frequent contributor to. the local
papers c f the county. Our correspond
ent, who furnishes us with the article,
informs us that “Johnathan, hoary and
beat with age,” was old Col. Johnathan
McDow; that “Joshua, the leader of the
just,” was Rev. Joshua Bowdoin, an aged
ai.d respected minister of the Hardshell
B .ptist church, (both of whom have since
passed over the river,) and that tin
“white-haired stranger” was Mr. O. D.
Anderson, so well known in CartersvUle,
a. and now cf Apopka Oiiy, Fla.
SECOND BOOK OF CHRONIOGEB.
CHipPTEE X.
“1. Andi- c ane to pass after many
and ■ i. . . ioi \ ear < f the rehfn of
Good, w!.--..0 sir mime is Useless, that
the clnvracier, nfter wandering to and
fro in the earth, and walking up and
down in it, returned to the modern city
of Adairs ville:
2. And lifting up his eyes he beheld
and lo! the modern city lay ia ruins at
bis feet;
3. For the armies of Useless had
fallen upon it and slain the people with
the td< oof the sword, tlie stone wall
‘ther.-of was broken down, and few were
left to tell of its fate.
4. And tlie oh rounder was much mov
ed, and his spirit was stirred within - him.
when lie sought for the friends of his
pon th and f u id they were not.
5. And when he considered that Iris
fritn-ds were dead, that the armies of
IVdess had smitten the city as with the
besom of destruction, lie put suck-cloth
upon Ins ioins and sat hiuiseif and >wn in
the ashes and would eat no bread.
6. IT V eit certain of the citizens,
who aforetime had fled for their lives
naked a: and wen .dcd, before the armies
of the nlu as, having returned to the
ci y, c. mo v. here lie was; and when they
saw him they were moved with compas
sion for him, aud essayed to conifer
him;
7. And the} - brought wine, milk and
honey, and said unto him, Why sit lnjre
to mourn u: and weep?
8 Though the glory of the meder.
city is dep irted, it shall yet arise and
shine the glory c f the earth, and the
queen of all the cities of the South.
9. Therefore, arise, put away thy
sackcloth from thee, take a little wine for
thy stomach's sake and tliiue often in
firmities, anoint thine head and wash
thy face, gird up thy loins, take thine
staff in thy hand and go with ns, and
we will do thee good, for the Lord hath
spoken good concerning the oppressed
of his people.
10. Then-was the heart of the chron
icler made glad, and he arose in haste
a id f Plowed them into the city, running
and leaping and prophesying good con
cerning the city.
11. And on the morrow ho arose early
pi the morning and took in Jus hand a
cruse > f oil and a fiaggoa of wine and
went forth to view the desolation of the
land;
12. Aud his heart was sad and his
countenance fallen;
13. For lo! on either side of him and
along his path, were the graves of the
friends of his youth, slain by the edge-of
the sword, and of venerable patriarchs
cut down by the scythe of the great de
stroyer, death,
14. The black and smouldering ruins
of once peaceful homes smote upon his
vision. The direful effects of battering
rums and of terrible engines of war were
still to be seen throughout the length
and breadth of the land.
15. A: and he turned himself to his
tent, and with an exceeding bitter cry
exclaimed, “How doth the city sit solita
ry that w . . full of people?”
16. Mine eyes do fail with tears, my
bowels are troubled, my liver.is poured
upon the earth for the. destruction of the
people while the spoiler was abroad in
the land. I am become a stranger; a
race who know me not have arisen to
fill the earth.
17. And he inquired, saying, Who
among the congregation -is left of the
ancient Patriarchs, Judges and Rulers,
who, aforetime,"were known to the chron
icler .
IK Aid they answorsd, saying, “As
thy sonl livt th, there are none left, save
J.’h- athahoary and bent with age,
Joshua, the leader of the just, and the
white-haired stranger.”
19. A dhe refuse ! to be comforted,
and departed in a chariot of fire, and was
borne on the wings of the wind to the
far distant coasts of lowa.
LOCII KAYE’S LITE.
A GEORGIA "U, GRbW3€4&BrLOtSWf!U E
G3SSIPISG OS GRAVE WAITERS.
o
CierHanaV Cabiart to ba fomti With
out feiatiEeratios of (rer;!, L i r or
Condition, but (orc-irdant t#
the tcflstitahcn.
Cbi-v-m- bine-Ocean.
Cabiact timber is steadily hewing day
by day. Material is gathering it self into
place for the clever Workmanship of v as
ter Carpenter Cleveland. Last week, on
more than one occasion, it was announced
that Judge O. A. Lochrane, of CAeorgia,
was mentioned for a cabinet position. It
was further said that Judge Lochrane had
called on Governor Cleveland. Now
while we cannot measure' Jud v. Loch
ratie’s ambitions for a cabinet appoint
ment, we can nevertheless state Vat with-,
in a few- days Judge Lochrane lias resign
ed his prominent and profitable position
as general counsel of the Pullman Palace
Car Company, a post he has filled for the
last thirteen years. In connection with
this fact, what Judge Lochrane, wlio ar
rived from New York at the Grand Pacific
Hotel yesterday, has to sa)- about his call
upon Governor Cleveland may be inter
preted as to mean even more than its
MERE EXPRESSED SIU.NIKICAXCE,
when it is remembered that the attorney
of a great corporation, which Judge Loch
rane no longer is, might not be considered
available material for a reform cabinet.
Conversing witn a reporter Judge Loch
rane described his call upon Cleveland in
a way to indicate his appreciation of the
latter to have been much enhanced, by his
visit, lie eulogized the. Presidentelect as
being a man who could be approached
without red tape, and who received one
with the highest courtesy. He pronoun
ced Cleveland the biggest man in his par
ty to-day, with a sense and administrative
quality approaching those great qualities
in Lincoln himself. hen Judgcv Loch
rane was pressed to give an idea of Cleve
land’s probable policy toward the l south,
he said:
“He will take IV- rub and nationals, not
men of the bourbon element. The colored
element will feci that C.w land is the
president of the whole people. They will
feel that they are not only protected in
their rights, but that, they are ab.-flutely
established, and this more so than funder
any administration since tlie first admin
istration of General Grant. There will be
nothing in Cleveland’s administfat on that
will not stand its chief'st test, which will
be to demonstrate that the laws ear, be en
forced irrespective of creed, crime or color.
Cleveland is a big, broad; statesman-like
man, and impresses you from tlie start,
that, though he is President-elect, he is of
the people, and his feelings and affections
are congenial with tlie
“And what about his party obligations
and tlie civil service, Judge?”
“The mugwumps, so termed, have made
no pressures for political positions, and
the §outh, considering her very large elec
toral vote, has made very few. Governor
Cleveland’s civil service letter explains
his.opin.ions of political appointments, to
which he will most strictly adhere; and
every emanation that lias derived its in
spiration at Aloany shows he is more of a
statesman than a partisan, and more of a
patriot than a politician.”
“Has he made any cabinet selections?”
“He hasn’t decided upon a single man
that anyone knows of. His v armest friend
to-day cannot say what ho is gplng to do.
Of course from my hour’s interview with
him I can only judge of his policy, not of
his preferences. But” —aud Judge Loeli
rane smiled grimly and significantly—“if
I should venture an opinion 1 should say
that I don’t think there will be any briga
gler generals in the cabinet. Governor
Cleveland has the moral courage to do
what he thinks best to perfect the organi
zation of viie (li.mderan’e 'party, so as to
turn it over, at the expiration of his term,
with large accessions of. intelligent, inde
pendent citizens. In all his races he lias
been supported by independents of the re
publican party, and he is not afraid of los
ing a few friends, for he s ne can fill
up their places with better accessions. As
to his cabinet—well, Smith, Jones and
Robinson will receive high recognition,”
laughed Judge Loch rape, and added,
“That’s just about it”
“You are reported to have resigned
your position as counsel of the Pullman
Company,” suggested the interviewer.
In reply Judge Lochrane
DID NOT DENY THE ASSERTION,
but explained that he had held the highest
relations with the company, but that he
wanted rest, and that circumstances were
such that he did not need to continue in
the position he had held which, he {low*
ever remarked, was far more lucrative than
a cabinet position.
Judge Lochrane made no positive ex
pression of his ambition for the cabinet,
but the inference is easy, from antecedent
circumstances, his manner and pleasant
easiness of speech, that Judge Lochrane
would stand a mute, uncomplaining vic
tim if lightning should dash forth from
the Albany capitol to play with porten
tous glare about, the courtly figure of
Judge O. A. Lochrane, of Georgia. A
word as to Judge Lochrane’s political ea
ycer. In Georgia lie rose to be chief jus
tice of its supreme bench. He pronounces
himself a democrat, but one who has stood
! opposed to the bourbon element of the
| South. He favored Grant as against Gree
ly, and advocated electing the former for
a third term. Both Tilden and Hancock
I he supported, and when it came to the
campaign of 1884, he worked for Cleve
land, believing him the strongest man that
could be nominated after the fact of
Blaine’s nomination, to whom his sympa
thies had gone out,but whom he believed
do. med to defeat when he saw the oppo
sition that had arrayed itself against the
republican nominee. Judge Lochrane
=pent the summer abroad, therefore par
ticipating neither in the campaign nor the
election.
THE ROSS BOY OF THE
SCHOOL.
Tlie Inconvenience of Bill Nye Ex
perienced from the “Ratten”
on the B in.
Dear reader, do you remember the
boy of your school who did the heavy
falling through the ice, aid was always
r nut to break Lis neck but managed to
live through it all ? Do you c ill to mind
the youth who never allowed anybody
else to fall out of a tree aud break his
o .liar-bone when he could attend tout
himself ?
Every school has to secure the services
4 such a boy before i( eun succeed, and
so our school had one. When I entered
the school I saw at a glance that tlie
board had ne< looted to privide itself with
a hoy whose duty it was to nearly kill
hiiuself every few days in order to keep
up interest, so I applied for the position.
T secured it without any trouble what
ever. The board understood at once
from my bearing that I would succeed.
And I did not betray the trust they had
reposed in me. Before the first term
was over I had tried to climb two trees
at once,' aud been carried home .on a
stretcher; been pulled cut of the river
■-.vith my lungs full of water and artificial
respiration resorted to; been jerked
around over the north half of the county
bv a fr ictions horse ‘whose halter I had
i *d to my leg, ad which is now three
inches longer than the other, together
with various other little early eccentrici
ties which I cannot at this moment call
to mind. My parents at last got so that
along about 2 o’clock p. in. they would
look anxiously our of the window and
say, “Isn’t it about time for the boys.to
get here with ’William’s remains? They
generally get here before 2 o'clock.”
O e day five or six of us were playing
“I spy” arou.id our barn. Everybody
knows how to play “I spy.” One shuts
his eyes and counts one hundred, for in
stance, while the others hide. Then he
must find the rest and say “I spy” so
and-so and touch the “goal before they
do.” If anybody beats him to the goa]
the victim has to blind over again.
Well, I knew the ground pretty well,
and could drop twenty feet < ut. of the
barn window and stiike on a pile of straw
so as to land near the goal, touch it and
let the crowd h free without getting
found out. I did this several times and
got the blinder. Janier Bang got pretty
mad. After a boy had counted live or
six hundred and worked hard to get in
the crowd, only to- get jeered and laugh
ed at by the hoys, ho loses his temper,
It was so with James Cicero Bang, I
knew he always hated me, and yet I
went on. Finally, in the fifth ballot, I
saw a good chance to slide down and let
the crowd in again, as I had done in for
mer occasions. I slipped out of the win
dow and down the side of the barn about
two feet, when I was detained unavoida
bly. There was a “batten” on the barn
that was loose at the upper end. I tiunk
I was wearing my father’a vest bn that
day as he was away from, home, and I
frequently wore his clothes when he was
absent. Anyhow the vest was too large,
and when I slid down that loose hoaid
ran up between the vest and my person
in such a way as to suspend me ftbput
eighteen feet fropi the ground in a prom
inent but very uncomfortable position.
I remember it yet quite distinctly.
James C. Bang came around where he
could see me. He said: “I spy Billy
Nye and touch the ground before hip.”
No one came to repove the barn. No
. pne seemed to sympathize with me in my
great sorrow and isolation. Every little
1 while James C. Bang would come around
the corner and say: “Ob, I see ye. You
j needn’t think you're out of sight up
| there, I can see you plain. You better
I come down and blind. I can see you up
I there !”
I tried to unbutton my vest and get
down and lick James, but it w;is no use.
It was a very trying time. I can re
member how T tried to kick myself loose,
bus failed. Sometimes I would kick the
barn' ad sometimes I would kick a large
hole in the horizon. Fk-ady I was res
cued by a neighbor, who said lie didn’t
want to see a good barn kicked into
chaos just to save a long-legged boy tha
wasn’t worth over six bits.
It affords me great pleasure to add
that while I am looked up to and madly
loved by every one that does not know
me, James C. Bang is the brevet presi
dent of a fractured bank, t kii g a lonely
bridal tour by himself in Europe, and
waiting for the depositors to die of old
age.
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but
they most generally get there with both
feet. [Adapted from tha French by per
mission.]
“I’m on the sea!” I’m on the sea!” roar
ed a bad singer. “You’re not,” cried a mu
sical punster in the company. ‘'You
would be on the C if you saug in tune,
but you are on the 13 hat.
LIFE l\ IIIV AM.
.1 Glimpse cf faha’s Capital Gtj—VVnat a
Strangrr Sees.
Interest in Cuba, however, centers in
Havana, the metropolis of tlie West In
dies, says a letter to the Ca cinnati
Times Star. It has a quarter of a mil
lion population, consisting of energetic
people, representing all the great nation-*
alities. You enter the harbor past Mt .ro
Castle, and see a picture before you iu
beautiful as strange. Green hills m
crowned with palm trees and banana
trees. Houses dotting the scene of am
ple foliage here and there, are one-sto
ried, and painted pink or green, many of
them w hite. Boats having a singularly
and brilliantly colored awning at the
stern hover about the steamer. Huge
warships lie at anchor aud grim forts
frown from points of advantage on the
shore. You enter a boat, and the def
owner, by aid of a sail, soon has yon
ashore, where you find cab ibr* \vy
reasonable," and specify that particular
one rf the leading hotels which you pic
fer. On your way yon note the narrow
ness of the streets and sidewalks, the
low, spacious houses, absence of gl; ss i
the windows, which are barred as in th
other cities visited, the partially, ope:
doors for coolness, through which you
see the tiled or marble floors and cool
furniture provided by the prudent build
er and householder. The court in the
dwelling ventilates it and particularly
cuts off connection between the parlor
and kitchen. Odors from cooking are
particularly disagreeable in hot latitudes.
Every layman, of the military or a civil hi.
wears a straw hat, aud the costumes ■ f
well-to-do people are both sensible a; u
elegant. Arrived at your hotel von will
find it an enlarged specimen of the house
generally described above. The cham
ber allowed to you contains a bedstead < 4
iron or other metal, and lies a wire .'Ci
ting Li place of mattresses, and .a canopy
j to protect the sleeper from blond-suoki ■ k
insects. Rocking chairs abound in your
lofty ap rtment, which you filid saga
ciously contrived for your comfort.
KEY. SAM JONES IX NEW
YO K.
The Brooklyn Union, of Monday, tlui
speaks of Mr. Jones’ introductory ser
vice:
The Rev Samuel Jones, of Georgia,
began a series t f revival services at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle last evening, which
wiii be continued every evening during
the wog?.: in ill Salurdiiy evening next.
The Rev. Mr. Jones is a preacher of un
usual strength and force, aud presents to
his auditors the great Bibical truths with
an earnestness and sh evriiy That carry
conviction yyivn them. His delivery is
clear aud pleasing, and his mastery over
the hearts and minds cf his auditors is
most complete. Last night he moved
an immense audience at will—-now bring
ing them to a pitch of religious enthusi
asm and again convulsing them with
laughter as he told of some ludicrous
adaptation of a religious precept to the
every day affairs of life. He took as his
text St. Peter i., 5: “And besides this,
giving all diligence, add to yoy.v faith,
virtue; aud to virtue, kqowiedge: aud
to knowledge, temperance; aud to tem
perance, patience; and to patience, god
liness; and to godliness, brotherly kind
ness; and to brotherly kindness, char
ity,”
Then follows an outline of the sermon,
interspersed with laudatory comment.
Banking: Intelligence.
He wanted £ position in an Austin
bank. The president was satisfied with
his credentials, but before engaging him
put him through a little civil service cross
examination.
“Suppose now, a man was to eorfie in
here to deposit twenty dollars in one dol
lar bills, how would you count them?”
“I’d wet my fingsr&nd lift up each bill
until I got to the last one.”
“Why would you not lift up the last
one?”
“Because there might possibly be one or
more bills under it, and if the depositor
was to see it lie would want it back, but if
the twentieth bill is not lifted up and
there should be another bill in the pile the
bank makes it, don’t you see.”
“You will do,” said the bank president.
“You have been in the business before,
but I didn’t suppose you knew that trick.”
—Texas Siftings.
The insurance men, not to be behind
hand in low spirits, declare that they
will be mined if the times do not im
prove. It is not that they cannot get
enough business to do; they get too much.
And too much insured property burns
up. The national wealth increases year
ly eight hundred millions of dollars, and
in ordinary times one-eighth of this
amount is destroyed by tire, while .in
days ( f depression the Jess is even great
er. This is due, the underwriters say, to
the “moral buzzard” n their business,
meaning that when the times are finan
cially out of joint, people set fire to their
well-insured property. This is a pain
fully sad view to take of human nature,
but the insurance men sustain their un
pleasant position by forcible statistics.—
Tribune.
An awkward compliment: Lieutenant to
elderly lady—“Mevrouw (madam), really
to-day you look as fresh and blooming as
a lose of twenty years.”
NUMBER 3 7
MAMdifING OKCUAK? /S.
Baltimore Bttn.
Most farmers aio nuclei the impression
that their apple,pencil anti pear orchards,
like the trees < f the {-.‘rest, cau take care
of themselves. They do rot seem to
consider that their foraging ground is
limited, aid to suppose that within this
limited space the trees can find food
enough to sustain their growth and bear
crops off uit without any other supply
of sustes..- ce is rdhor more than can bo
exp cted. Fruit ;ret ■ require a luge
amount of food. The tree itself, to say
nothing of the fruit, takes from the soil
a large arm u it of phi t fix and, as may be
•eon in the po r t\>: diii m in which the
:vn and is lets upon the removal of a
largo tree, loavii < the she u:i u fit place
to pi t; i another tree of the same. kind.
Forest treec, it is true, live and sustain
them :>iv( s wdhout any other help, l>e
c .use the graur.d on which they grow
h taxed with no other crop, aid nature
has furnished the trees with a meai s of
supplying their own wants in this ree
pee , in. the;: f lli • ■ leaves, which, upon
t.-a-ir de<\ inn. si:ioii, fur ish the very
p . Uluru the five.- most need a. and which,
wihr the inorganic matter brought from
below bv the penetrating roofs, s .ud the
organic matter furnished by the atmos
phere through the leaves, the fertility of
the s -il is kept up. So that, ia the case
off ire and trees, all that the trees produce
being left to fertilize the land on which
they grew, there must, of course, be an
acc-umuiatiou * f fertility. Not so
an orchard. There the grow dis got
only c. uinuuliy taxed f >r the production
Of fruit, but nothing is ldavned by the
f li! leaves, for tb.o f- e. ;f t; rir b. ing
bl'.-wn away .sf .si as .key f1 i. The
neces-i tv, therefore, of fmnishi g food
f it the trees oilier - than tin t nffofde <1 by
the leaves is at once seen.
A * iv:d d’t'V*•: - <{;]>' is, in .•Vef’,
Cos dimes to exist uio •: fruit-- -ti.v ,-;h as
to the best mode x keep! gup the fer
tility of orchards. Some advocate f h e
plan >. f keeping them constantlv Under
the plow, raising roots, n a ns i ng .
sufficient fertjlizvig m.uTerial to produce
both crops. But while this is an ; drair
able pl m so f*r -as trees that are too
young for bearing are concerned, yet for
trees that have commenced beari.: •; such
continuous cultivation is not advisable,
in that it is apt to c usg,a too luxurious
growth of wood at the expense, if the
fruit, besides it so a crifices the roots an
often to prove of serious injury to the
trees.
Others advocate growing other crops
in the orchard for a year or two, and
then grass a year or two in alternation,
and so o:i indefinitely. This' would do
very well, provided goad sound judgment
accompanied it in knowing when to plow
and when not to plow, but there is the
difficulty. Others again think it best not
to plow the orchard at all, but to keep it
as a pasture for stock. This would, no
doubt, l>e as good a plan as any if the
droppings of the stock afforded sufficient
fertilizing material for the two crops,
fruit and gross, but which, to siy the
least, is very doubtful.
bpon the whole, therefore, we think
the better way to keep up the fertility of
au orchard would be to keep it in grass
for mowing and grazing iu alternate
years, but to top-dress it the -same years
it is mown with a compost made of leave®
from the woods ad barn yard manure—
the leaves fur inking the salts of lime
and potash, the very . pabulum most
needed by the trees. Applications of
wood xishes also answer the purpe se ad
mirably as they contain ail the element®
required for growing both word and
fruit, except the carbon anu nitrogen,
r. il which are furnished, by the atmos
phere. A c. 'inpost <4 io‘f-mold nud wood
ashes applied to the soil every other year
will therefore gradually restore to' ita
original fertility when fust reclaimed
from the forest.
Thr) following -lory is fob! about
Tie horse that byre J. Wilkes Booth
from Washington after the murder
of President Lincoln:
The story of the murdered presi
dent—-f he history of the murderer,
John Wilkes Ban h—is familiar to
all, but the horse, what of him ? The
i ioiyl was e-u-fi-e ted. sold b aue
n, and f- ii ! *b ih Soldo r.-’ Express
C -mpai.y, of Now Y- rb. The coin*
ii vve: 1 i KM-111 * Was <jfher
vvii oh and L\ is nmi r or f* li into
fiojiftci 1 i IttSeol ( . At to y i.i’e it
•■as shert-iive-i, its property sold,
md He. Boot is hers*, was pun based
by J ho Grant, who was at that nine
Br m. > n exprisMimn. 1 1861#
i’b.Oiiiol John A. P at, then a re-i
--<l* nt If B i. 1 ,N. Y., < ff. Id SIOO
f r the horse, hut tin off. r vus not
accepted. That same year the colfM
ml moved to Abingtnn, Conn., and
ti e horse was soon afterwards ship
ped to him for the price wri. inaily
tiered. The animal was teen in a
dilapidated condition, but, under tho
ko and treatment hi his new muster,
> n recover'd k n eof ids f.prner
qu ditit s of -I < k •?.-•*, fl tries®,
.net.;: hand e;duro:C>\ Th horse
w s a lain? id powerful imal,
1 iuf, In n mil,
bi gi •, i'ocdly: or e-ye , of dark
•••ay c< 1 a wide si r in ib- j fore
ad, .ni : one wi bo ..-i and . .>t md
a kle 'the animal hr cat i e a greal
favorite with the famiiy, nod during
he la nr j ears of bis life was allow
ed to have pTeity much his own way.
About threeyeir-s ago the horse, on
account of his'age and and ci e habits,
w i allowed to w older ab- ut the
door-yafd and roadside at bis leisure
■ itS ■it •: mV. Ii i one of these ram*
blitms me poor- •• die-, f- 1 iqto a
d:-.ch ami vv -k i d. Hus ii would
,1, ev be dumb beast®,
having p.rt inters terrible Hagedy
met with a violent death*