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HEY. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON,
Subject: “Fairest of the Fair.”
Text: “He is altogelh <“■ lovely." —Solo¬
mon’s Song v.. 16.
The human race has during centuries been
improving. For awhile it deflected and de¬
generated, the whole and from all I can read for ages
but under the judency was toward barbarism,
ever widen ing and deepening
influence of Christianity the tendency is ' now
In the upward direction. The physical ap¬
pearance of the human race is seventy-five
per cent, more attractive than in the six¬
From teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
the pictures on canvas and the laces ahd
forms in sculpture of those who were consid¬
ered the grand looking men and the attrac¬
tive women of 209 years ago I conclude the
superiority of. the men and women of ouc
time. Such looking people of the past cen¬
turies as painting and sculpture have pre¬
sented as fine specimens of beauty and dig¬
ity nity would be iu our time considered deform¬
and repulsiveness complete. The fact
that many men and women in antediluvian
times were eight and ten feet high tended to
make the human raoe obnoxious rather than
winning. Such portable mountains of hu¬
man flesh did not add to the charms of the
World.
But in no climate and in no age did there
ever appear any one who in physical at¬
tractiveness could be compare! to Him
whom my text celebrates thousands of years
betore He put His infantile foot on the hil!
back of Bethlehem. Ho was and is altogether
lovely. The physical appearance ot Christ
is, for the most part, an artistic guess. Some
Writers declare Him to have been a brunette
or dark complexionad. St. John, of Damas¬
cus, writing 1100 years ago, and so much
nearer than ourselves to the time of Christ,
and hence with more likelihood of accurate
tradition, represents Him with beard black,
and curly eyebrows joined together, and
His “yellow complexion, An and long fingers 1500 like
mother.” author, writing years
ngo, represents Christ as a blond : “His hair
is the color of wine and golden at the root,
and. without Ulster, hut from tho
level of the ears, curling and glossy, and
divided down tho center after the fashion of
the Nazarenes. His forehead is even and
smooth. His faoe without blemish and en¬
hanced by a tempered bloom, His counten¬
ance ingenuous aud kind. Nose and mouth
are in no way faulty. His hair beard is full, of
the same color as His and forked in
form; His eyes blue and ex reinely brill¬
iant.”
My opinion is, it was a Jewish face. His
mother was a Jewess, and there is no wo¬
manhood on earth more heautiiul than Jew¬
ish womanhood. Alas that Ho lived so long
before the daguerrean and photographio
arts were born, or we might have known His
exact features. I know that sculpture and
painting were born long before Christ, and
they might have transferred from olden
times to our times the forehead, the nostril,
the eye, tho lips of our Lord.
TMdias, tho sculptor, put down his chisel
of enchantment 500 years beforaChrict camo.
Why did not some one take up that chisel
and give us the sido face or full face of our
Lord? Polygnotis, the painter, put down
his pencil 400 years it before andgive Christ. Why least did
not some one take up us at
the eye of our Lord—the eye, that sovereign
of tbe faoe? Dionysius, Egypt, the literary artist
who saw at Heliopolis, the the the time strange of
darkening of heavens at
Christ's crucifixion near Jerusalem, nrd^iot
knowing what it was, but describing it as a
peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying,
“Either the Dioty suffers Dionysius or sympathizes
with some sufferer,” that might the
have put his pen to the work and drawn
portrait of our Lord. But, no; the fine arts
were busy perpetuating the form aud ap¬
pearance of tho world's favorites only, and
not the form and appearance of the peasantry,
among whom Chirst appeared.
It was not until the fifteenth century, or
lint il more than 1400 years after Christ, that
talented painters attempted by pencil The pictures to give
us the idoa of Christ’s faoe.
before that time were so offensive that the
hibition. council at Constantinople Leonardo da forbade VinoL in their the ex- flf
But Christ's
teenth century, presented the repulsive face on
two canvases, yet one was a
face and the other an effeminate face. Rapt
ael’s face of Christ Is a weak face. Albert
Durer’s face of Christ was a savage face.
Titian’s face of Christ artists, is an expressionless ther with
face. The mightiest e failure pen
cil or chf 3 to’give el, have made signal iu at
tempting the forehead the cheek
the eyes, the nostril, the mouth of our blessed
IjOt< 3.
But about His face X can tell you something
positive and beyond controversy I am sure
it was a soulful face. The face is only the
curtain of the soul. It was shoufd impossible have that
a disposition like Christ’s not
demonstrated itself in His physiognomy.
Kindness as an occasional impulse may give
no illumination to tho features, but kindness
as the lifelong, dominant habit will certainly produce
attractiveness of countenance as as
the shining of the sun produces flowers.
Children are afraid of a scowling or hard
visagedman. They ery out if he proposes to
take them. If he try to caress them, he
evokes a slap rather than a kiss. All mothers
know how hard it is to get their children to
go to a man or womau of forbidding appear
ance. But no sooner did Christ appear in
the domestic group than there was an in
fantile excitement and tho youngsters began
to struggle to get out of their mothers’arms,
They could not hold the children back,
“Stand back with those children!” scolded
some of the disciples. Perhaps the little ones
may have been playing in the dirt, aud their
faces may not have been clean, o r they may
not have been well clad, or the disciples may
have thought Christ’s religion was a religion
chieflv for big folks. But Christ made the
infantile excitement still livelier by His say
ing that He liked children better than grown
people, declaring. “Except ye become as a
little cltild ye cannot enter iuto the kingdom
of God ”
Alas for those peopl# who do not like chll
dren! They had better stay out of heaven,
for the place is full of them. That. I think,
is one reason why the vast majority of the
human race die in infancy. Christ is so
fond of children that He takes them to Him
self before the world has time to despoil and
harden them, and so they are now at the
windows of the balaee and on the doorsteps
and playing on the green. Sometimes
Matthew or Mark or Luke tells a story of
Christ, and only one tells it. but Matthew,
Mark and Luke aii join in that picture of
Christ girdled by children, and 1 know by
what occurred at that time that Christ had a
face full of geniality. lovely in
Not only was Christ altogether I
His know? countenance but lovely in His habits.
without being told, that the Lord who
made the rivers and lakes and ooeans was
dS^Mep^fnTokvbeca^fifwal SSsSSsa?-sws
“ughlyw^ri^d H opp 9 o e ^ a toX r e?
dfrecUotSto those Who'fasted, thy face, among and other to
things, He says, “Wash a
remaliv blind man His‘ 0 7t^”and°He feet” Himself
only washed disciples humility, suppose
not to demonstrate His own
r, j ; fa ?k£>£\hatTromThe ware? fa* hat't
is But when I find
Christ SSf in such constant commendation of
; tnj^rjsrss. long
orTdus?? 1 ' highways? and took such
iournevs He wore
laS
@h t j^amiUoti ottriml.
age had thinned or injured His locks, whloh
were never worn shaggy or uakempt. Yea,
all His habits of personal appearance were
lovely.
Sobriety was also an established habit of
His life. In addition to the water, He drank
the ju ice of tho grape. When at a wedding
party this beverage gave out. He made gal¬
lons on gallons of grape juice, but it was as
unlike what the world makes in our time as
health is different from disease and as calm
pulses are different from the paroxysms of
delirium tremens. There was no strychnine
in that beverage or logwood or mix vomica.
The tipplers and the sots who now quote
the winemaking in Cana of Galilee as an ex¬
cuse for the fiery and damning beverages of
the nineteenth century forget that the wine
at the New Testament wedding had two
characteristics—the one that the Lord made
it and the other that it was made out of
water. Buy all you can of that kind and
drink it at least three times a day and send a
barrel of it round to my cellar.
Yon cannot make me believe that the
blessed Christ who went up and down heal¬
ing the siok would create for man that style
of drink which is the cause of disease more
than all other causes combined, or that He
who calmed the maniacs into their right
mind would create that style of drink which
does more than anything else to flit insane
asyiums, or that He who was of so drink helpful that to
the poor would make a style
crowds tho earth with pauparism, or that He
who came to save the nations from sin would
create a liquor that is tho source of most of
the crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries.
A lovely sobriety was written all over His
face, from the hair line of the forehead to the
bottom of the bearded chin.
Domesticity was also His habit. Though
too poor to have u home of His own, He
went out to spend the night at Bethany, two
or three miles’ walk from Jerusalem, aud
over a rough ar.d hilly road that made it
equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every
morning and night going to anil fro. I would
rather walk from here to Central Park, or
walk from Edinburgh to Arthur’s Seat, or in
Loudon clear around Hyde Park, than to
walk that road that Christ walked twice a
day from Jerusalem to Bethany. But He
liked the quietude of home life, and He was
lovely in His domesticity. the
How Ho enjoyed handing over resur¬
rected girl to her father, aud reconstructing
homesteads which disease or death was
breaking up! As the song, “Home, who fiweet that
Home,” was written by a man at
time had no home, so I think the homeless¬
ness of Christ added to His appreciation of
domesticity. lovely in His
Furthermore, Ho was sym¬
pathies. Now, dropsy is a most distressful
complaint. It inflames and swells and tor¬
tures any limb or physical organ it touches.
As soon as a case of that kin.I is submitted
to Christ, He, without any use of diaphor¬
etics, commands its cure. And what an eye
doctor He was for opening tho long closed
gates of sight to the blue of the sky, and the
yellow ol the llower aud the emerald of the
grass! What a Christ He was for cooling
fevers without so much as a spoonful of
febrifuge, and straightening crooked backs
without any pang of surgery, and standing
whole choirs of music along the silent gal¬
leries of a deaf ear, and giving healthful ner¬
vous system to them cataleptlcs! stoical advice Sympathy philoso¬ ! He
did not give or grief. or He
phize about the science sat
down and cried for them.
It is spoken of as the sbortost verse in the
Bible, but to me it is about the longest and
grandest, “Jesus wept.” that! Ah, When many of us
know the meaning of wo were vol¬
in great trouble, some one came iu with
uble consolation and quoted the Scripture in
a sort of heartless way and did not help us
at all. But after awhile some one else came
in, and without saying a word sat down and
burst into a flood of tears at the sight of
our woa, and somehow it helped us right
away. “Jssus wept.” You see. it was a
deeply attached household, that of Mary mother and
Martha aud Lazarus. Tho father aud
were dead, and tho girls depended on their
brother. Lazarus had said to them : “Now.
Mary, now, Martha, stop your worrying. I
will take eare of you. I will bo to you both
father and mother. My arm is strong. Girls,
can depend on me! ’
you Lazarus siok—yen, Lazarus
But now was
was dead. AH broken up, the sisters sit
disconsolate, and there is a knock at the
door. ‘Come in,” Christ says entered, Martha. and He “Come just
id,” says Mary. It much lor Hun He
broke down. was too
‘a^at.home astatea it tnat before lie cnoKea_up stokneis at ion sun ■m souueu v
?! °" d ’ Vympat hetto'Chrisf *
0 f a^you “Jesus
wept. hj'doJ° u n°t no try "T that mode of
u° U m^’ worn™ “ words?
^° ™ S ’ or " £ a r“oul w?rds ot
Why, h your'dear dea soni. worns are are not i neces
fll ?‘haMurnhy! belaud/ryw«E?hem
WeU, you did not know
him • Once ” when I was in great bereave
m ^ } “® Thad^come tQ house. Kind ministers
oa and talked bsauti
fuhy ana praj i lllf rnhn Murnhv tf/’Zte), or'
^“^fXnds one
I ever had
e j 1 orlous ®™’" 3 lr irishman ‘® a J came in and looked hand iuto
0 b strf>J)K and
^id not a ^enough but sat down and cried with
^'w of a philosopher somehow to say
,,“'V' P was or /"qfrom whv it was, but from
00 floor to ceiling the
room was fllted with with an a u all ail pervaamg pervading com- com
Iorr - p 7
wnat t makes Curts, . su.t .
I think that is a „
popular Christ. There are so many who
want sympathy. Miss Etske, the famous
Nestormn missionary, was in t he chapel oue
day talking to the heathen, and she was in
very poor he-alth and so weak she sat upon a
mat while she talked and felt the noed or
something to lean against, when she felt a
woman's form at her back and heard a
woman’s voice saytng -Lean on me bne
leaned a little, but did the not wnut to oe said, too
cumbersome, when woman s voice
“Lean hard ; if you love me, lean hard.
And that makes Christ so lovely, tie
wants all the sick and troubled and wearj to
lean against Him, and He says, Lean hard ;
if you love Me. leau haf-- A} 1 ?, lie Js
close by with His sympathetic soldier and help. Christian Hod
ley Vicars, the famous
of til9 Crimean war. died because when he
was wounded his regiment was too far off
from the tent of supplies. Heiwas not mor
tally only have wounded, got at and the bandages it the surgeons and the medt- eo^d
eines he would have recovered- bo mueu
of human sympathy and hopefulness com.s
too late. But Christ is always close by if
we ready, want and Him, has eternal and ^as life all^ foraU the medicines who as,.
for it. Sympathy lovely His doctr jsm nes. Sell
Aye. He was in
sacrifice or the relief of the siti. .rmg or
others by our own suffering. He whs the ^niy
physician that ever proposed to aura His pa
tients by taking their disorders. Bell own
I flce: And what did He not give up lor
j others ! The best climate m the universe
the air ot heaven, for the wintry weather of
Palestine, a scepter of uuhmtted dominion
for a prisoner s box in an ear.hlj courtroom,
brfmblSfa^aee'for'acXp°tt,at'hSnf swtsjs pri. s»
K dowVtTrough'the sarjsrs.-ssv o^en is;
sky,
iasufficient similes ^
: Do yon wonder that the story of His self
j ! sacrifice has led hundreds of thousands to
0 die ^."Ht r '°“®1*10 P andi^ “eath w^tiSto?^* to”Christ^
» B:
and wild beasts were iet out upon her and
. the attack of tooth
when life continued after
and paw she was put m a net, and t at net
SSSS K Huguenotsdyingfor !u,n
■ tinct. All for Christ!
; Christ -Su?“l ’ "bigenses^ying, Christ! f«CJ«btj
i for The bones of martyrs,
HAMILTON. HARRIS COUNTY, GA.. MAY 4, 1894.
^ a the Saviour's sacrifice has inspired all the
of
heroisms and all the martyrdoms of
quent centuries. Christ has had more men
and women die for Him thau all the other in¬
habitants of all the ages have had die foi
them.
Furthermore, He was lovely in His sen
mons. He knew when to begin, when, to
stop and just what to say. The longest ser¬
mon He ever preached, so far as the Bible
reports Him—namely, the sermon on the
mouut was about sixteen minutes in delivery
—at the ordinary rate of speech. His long
est prayer reported, commonly called “The
Lord’s Praver,” was about half a minute.
Time them by your watch, and you will find
my estimate accurate, by which I do not
mean to say that sermons ought to be only
sixteen minutes long and prayers only half
a minute long. Christ had such infinite
power of compression that He could put
enough into His sixteen minute sermon and
His half minute prayer to keep all the fol
lowing ages busy in thought, and action. No
one but a Christ could afford to pray or
preach as short as that, but Ho meant to
teach us compression.
At Selma. Ala., the other day I was snows
a co**on press by which cotton was put in
such shape that it occupied in transports
tion only one car where three eats were for
merly necessary, and one ship were three
ships had been required, and I imagine that
we all need to compress our sermons and our
prayers into smaller spaces.
And His sermons were so simplicity lovely for and sentt
ment and practicality and il
lustration. The liglit of a hen candle, for the her crystal chick
of the salt, the cluck of a
ens, the hypocrite’s dolorous physiognomy, black
the moth in the clothes closet, the
wiug of a raven, the snowbank of white
lilies, our extreme botheration about the
splinter of imperfection in some one elsn’s
character, the swine fed on the pearls,
wolves dramatising sheep, and the perora
tion made up of a cyclone in which you hear
the crash of a rumbling house unwisely con
structed. No technicalities, no split mg of
ll airs between north and northwest side, no
heipfulness. dogmatics, but a great Cbristly throb of
I do not wonder at .the record
which savs, “When He was come down from
the mountain, great multitudes followed
Him” They had but one fault to find with
His sermon. It was too short. God
help all of us iu Christian work to get down
off our stilts and realize there is only one
thing wo have to do—there is the great
wound of the world's sin aud sorrow, and
there is the great healing plaster of the gos
pel What you and I want to do is to put the
plaster on the wound. All sufficient is the
gospel if it is only applied. A minister
preaching to an audience of sailors eon tern
ing the ruin l>y sin and the rescue by the gos
filar pel accommodated himself to sailors’ vernac
ears* nnrl qai<] preache'rwasSied “This nlunk bears” Many see^
y aft er this to
anil* got'the^uggcstive^reply)'■'‘Thhi*plank
Yet Y Christ was lovely I in His chief life’s
work. Tnere were were a thousand thousand things tilings for tor
Him to do, but His great work was to get
our shipwrecked world out of the breakers.
That He oame to do, and that Ho did, and
He did it iu three years. He took thirty
years to prepare for that three years’ activ¬
ity. From twelve to thirty years of age we
hear nothing about Him. That intervening
eighteen years I think he was in India. But
He came back to Palestine and crowded
everything Into three years—three three winters,
three springs, three summers, aut¬
umns. Our life is short, but would God we
might see how much wo could do in three
years. Concentration! Intensification!
Three years of kind words ! Three years of
living for others ! Three years of self-saeri
flee ! Let us try it. in His demise. He
Aye. Christ was lovely deal in anathe¬
had a right that last hour to
matization. Never had any one been so
meanly treated. Cradle of straw among
goats and camels—that was the world’s re¬
ception ot Him! Ilocky cliff, with ham¬
mers pounding spikes through tortured
nerves—that was the world’s farewell saluta¬
tion ! Tho slaughter of that scene sometimes
hides the loveliness of the sufferer. Under
the saturation of tears and blood wo some¬
times fail to see the sweetest face of earth
aud heaven. Altogether lovely ! Can cold
est criticism find an unkind word He ever
^° formed m ®’ d ° or a “ an a . J^nkindthought unman b that He ever
What a marvel it is that all the nations of
earth do not rise up in raptures of affection
I must sav it here and now. I lift
my right hand in solemn attestation, i love
Him, and the grief of my life is that I do not
love Him more. Is it an impertinence for
me to ask, Do you. my hearer-you, my of
reader, love Him? Has He become a part
'childrenonirthEto vour nature? Have vou committed your
His keeping, His ns bosom? your
children in heaven are already in
Has Ho done enough to win your confidence?
Can you trust Him, living and dying andfor
ever? Is your back or your face to ward Him?
Would you like to have His hand to guide
'comfort vou His y”ufffls might to suffering's protect you, to’atoue^for His grace to
you,
His arms to welcome you, His love to encir
cle you. His heaven to crown you? ot
Oh, that we might all have something
the great German reformer’s love for this
Christ which led him to say. “If any one
knocks at the door of my breast and says,
‘Who lives there’?’ my ’ reply W’ is, ‘Jesus Christ
liv03 her ot Milrti Lu ” Will it not
be grand if, when we get through this short
an ^ rugged road of life, we can go right up
j nt0 jjj s n rBS9 nce and live with Him world
wit houtend.
*.nd if, entering the gate of that heavenly
c - wf , 3boul( j ))e so overwhelmed with our
unw . orthiness on the one side, and the Buper
nu i splendor on the other side, wo get a lit
tle bewildered and should for a few moments
bp ] 05t on tb e streets of gold and among the
burtislled temples and the sapphire thrones,
there wou u b o plenty to show us the way
| aadtatt0 llg out ot our joyful bewilderment,
anil perhaps the woman of Nain would say,
,. (;ome i et me take you to the Christ who
rajged my on |y boy to life.” And Martha
wouW say "Come, let mo take you to the
(jurist who brought up my brother Lazarus
from tomb.” And one of the disciples
wouM say "Come, and let me take you
the Christ who saved our sinking ship
jn the hurricane on Gennesaret.” And
p . m , woaH sayj “Come, and let mo
lead you t o the Christ for whom Idled
qq tha road t0 ostia.” And whole groups of
mar:yrs woa[d 8ay) “Come, let us show you
the Christ for whom we rattled the chain and
waded the floods and dared the fires. ’ And
our wn glorified kindred would flock around
us gayjng) “We have been waiting a good
while for you, but before we talk over old
t(mes and we te „ you ot what wa have en
j oyad sjnce we have been here, and you tell
^ what yoU have suffered since we parted,
come> como aD( j j e t U8 show you the greatest
si£?h t in all the place, the most resplendent
t b rone an d upon it the mightiest conqueror, of the
{he exa]tatiou 0 f heaven, the theme
immortals, tbe altogether great, thealtogeth
er good . the altogether fair, the altogethet
j ove i y p>
Well, the delightful m-,ra will t-oroe.
When my dear L->rd wit brios me home,
And I shall se“ His face.
Then, with my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
A blest etern ty I’ll epe '
Triumphant in His grace.
A “Blowing Cave” :'n Pennsylvania.
In Lancaster Comity. Pennsylvania,
I on a hilltop a short distance from
York Furnace Bridge, is located the
i famous natural “blow hole. ” It is not
j a cave> but a series of fissures in the
1 rocks, from which a cold draft of air
i continually iasues-St. Louis Be
pttb 1 lj c .
! Bethany Sunday-school in Phila
! .Superintendent, delphia, ot .b,«h lias John membership Wanamaker of /.
^ a
, thaD r,< m , and Mr Wanamaker’g
i class numbers over 12»0.
ARP’S LETTER.
HE REGALES IIIS READERS WITH
MORE BIG FISII STORIES.
Reluctantly lie Will Soon Tear Him¬
self Away froil* Florida.
Eleven men in buckram suits! Dues it fol
] ow tl-, a t every man wii h an oleanginous treble corpo- like
ros tv is given (o seeing double and
Jaek'Falstaff? Dr. Hunter w% Cooper, friend, of Atlanta, Mur
oame here the otlur day liri fishing all
phy Candler. They ltavi p it over
tlic state and tv. mid npi>Y 'Clearwater. They
came from St. Pcierstur t t amt the d< ctor
alarmed us about the 1' >Je s^.tvti.-h that lie
help'd to catch there n ^ nd of the wharf,
He got excited with hie / ralive he tolil
how, whin the monster —oketl, the alarm
w.va given and every man and >oy in town ran
down to see, and after the fit rmenhad tan
glcd ropes and log chains all • or it, it took cv
ery able-bodied man in town .> draw it to shore.
“it actually weighed,“ so he, “over 500
pounds and its taw was li ■ most venomous
w apon I ev*.r bebohl. It hall been broken off
a fo it or two, but what w»s left measured five
feet and eight inches.” “Oh, ntetcy,” said my
wife, “isent it awful. Girls, you must not go
in bathing any more. Every day somebody
would tell about tins' awful creatures—devil
fish and iharks and stiugarees and sawfish.
It is a wonder tlioy have not got some ot us be
fore now.” genii and
Dr. Cooper is a fi st class man
camo from good old Baptist stock. He stands
high in his profession and in his stockings, and
is hands mo and he knows it, hut 1 not:c u that
Murphy every lime for ho told confirmation. a big yarn he “Isent appealed it so, to
Murttb? Y«m saw that fish. I ).leilg« yott ttty
woid it was the biggest monster I ever laid my
eyes on.” “Murph" simply nodded assent as
(he doctor branched off on another narrative,
Murphy is a Presbyterian ami Ins ofhcial post
tion in the Agnes Scott institute is ever bo¬
fore him. but still lie will not go back
on h'« lrt< nda, especially when so far away from
home. He afft ctionatdy calls the doctor
"Hunt,” and the doctor calls hint 'Murph,
and they coincide on everything, except that
Murph says Hunt plays too much croquet with
the pretty girls along ilie route, and sometimes
they miss a train by it winch is ' cl v l’ 1 ”'' 0 l ' 1 ' lf? '
Raul that uhen pretty giria .- | pursue u a
And Hunt
man il is very bod * nu '””, rarl "‘ after
them. My wife remarked that night much, ivo
retired that she liked them both very
very much, indeed, and after a pause she said
it would bo a right good law.f every handsome
married man when lie wont faraway Irom home
slmull bavo to wear a ribbon in ns tat t
hum y man printed on it, justas; 'i a L? warn nh
Jp foolish girlH.j oil if »« I ,? not. but imt
but snored a little os nearu nci
Htill I
Sw{^a~NXrthelm Petersburg. I dident like to il wa°s have jeX. Clear Water of 8b
1,1 anything-, ot even in monsters,
#jj(| gQ )fae noxt d(iy j took particular notico of
the doctor os he was fishing in tiie puis. I
diagnosed him. Ho began to play the seven
men in buckram suits. Tho first repu ab'e
trout ho canglit lie declared to J>o a six-pounder, Swede,
and tried (o prove it by our holiest
Witmoro. “Nu, in,” said Witmore, “flat vssli
vay no more as treo pounds, but be is a vine
visb.” Dr. Cooper quarreled fussed liim about out of an¬
other pound, and so surrendered, they and when every the
fish until Witmore
doctor canglit a ten-pounder the Swede said,
“dot fish vay more dan any ten pounds—he This suited sa
fifteen-pound doctor’s turn visii, exactly, certain. and that night ho
the of the honest
was gushing in his praise
Kwedo. I heard that to overpaid him for
his boat and made him ko p it. Our cottage
girls were out with them that, day and they
all had glorious sport. They caught several
huntlrc d pounds of lino fish. Our youngest 07
caught tho largest grouper. It weighed
pounds and was three feet long. The Dr. and
Mr. Candler strung tho four largest on an
oar and toted them from the dock up to tho
town and the load made them wriggle anil twist
their leg** like drunken men 1o the k n il! !i miise
ment of the people, They left their burden on
the plank walk and had to hire a wagon to
haul them «1 way. After a glorious fish supper
they spent the evening with us recounting tho
8110.11 81 of flic day, anil both declared it was
the best day they had had in Florida.
On parting tho doctor Bail in sotto
voce. “Now Maj ir, when you, in your
litters these glorious deods relate, speak
of ms as I inn—nothing extenuate, bnttet
it all down in colors—f bavo bfon hacking you in
all your marvelous yams about Clear Water
and can now do so with more self-respect than
heretofore, and if you should need a voucher
for anything just- wiite it out anil sign my
name to it. Clear Water harbor is the loveliest
village of the plain, and I shall certainly bring
my family here next winter. About that cro¬
quet business don’t speak of it. It is only one of
Murph’s numerous vagaries. Ho imagines that
became lie is a Presbyterian and can’t fall from
grace that he is privileged to toil while lies,
but the devil is the father of lies of all colors
and Murph had better be careful.”
It was a goodly company that day and
wore grieved to part with them. Mr. Candler
says he wants a bay front here by the ides of
.September. Another week will find journeying
us
ward, and that will bring another friends. pleasure— The
the reunion with kindred and
poor, rejected and dejected hermit was made
tO 8 ay:
“And what is friendship but a name—
A charm that lulls wealth to sleep, fame
A shade that follows or
But leaves a wretch to we. p.”
That is not so. That was but the utterance
of broken-hearted love. Friendship is a sweet,
savorv reality, and next to the nearest tie on
earth. Th- re are no‘ m my who are bound
Damon and Pythias, but almost every one
friends. It is a pleasure to believe that
have friends at home who will lovingly give
welcome, and we know there are many
will rejoice to sic—to look into their
and grasp their hands and receive their
mgs. Love and friendship are the best
urea of life—better than fame or wealth. There
are friends here, too, new found and new made
friends from whom we part not willingly,
they have been kind and have done so much
make our prolonged v.sit pi asant. This is
happy little town. I was sitting in my
ter’s pretty veranda this evening and
six souirrels in the trees near by. I saw a
of quails and two rabbits in the street as I
proached the dwelling. Colonel Frazer
right opposite, and there was an owl
sitting on a limb near his veranda. A tad,
venerable crane was wading in the water at
foot, of the bluff. “That solitary bird is
always there, ” said the colonel, “and when
straightens up fu 1 length looks as solemn as
Presbyterian preacher.” Nobody dart a to
turb these pets in Clear Water, for it is
the law. Clear Wat' r is certainly a fight
little village, for there has not been a
a quarrel since we have been here. Indeed,
there arc some good people here who favor
ing up the town charier, because the
arid marshal have nothing to do- But
Tampa railroad is coming very soon and
whi-ky will find its way, and maybe the
and the marshal will both fi <1 business.
roads are great blessings, but every good
lias som > bad mixed up wiili it, anq Clear
ter will not (scape. In le.-s than six months I
expect to lie here again.and Mr. Jones says I
shall rule on the new road if I come by Tampa.
In the meantime I will Ire at home in Carters
ville, and be pleased to answer any letters
property in Clear Water. I have will already glad
wirier homes for several amt be
piam some more. Hu Ane in Atlanta
George Francis Train Arrested.
George Francis Train was placed
der arrest at Washington City
day. Train delivered a lecture on
Coxev movement and was arrested
lecturing without obtaining a license.
He demanded to be taken to a
cell and incarcerated, His
was refused. The police took him
the police court which was iu
to await his turn for trial.
WASHINGTON NOTES
WHAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE
SAM’S HEADQUARTEKS.
Comment Concerning Transactions in
the Various Departments.
The senate lias confirmed the. nomi¬
nation of A. M. Avery, to be receiver
of public moneys at Huntsville, Ala.
Consideration of the Bland bill, pro¬
viding for re-enacting the free coinage
law of 1837, has been postponed till
the 3d of May.
Tho house elections committee was
in session several hours Tuesday hear¬
ing arguments in the Goode-Eppe*
contested election case, from the
fourth district of Virginia.
The comptroller of the currency lias
declared a first dividend of 30 per
cent, in favor of creditors of the First
National bank of Cedartown, Georgia,
on claims proved amounting to $10,009.
The motion of Senator Harris for
tbe senate to meet hereafter at, 11 and
devote at least one more hour to work
on the tariff bill, making from five to
six each day, passed the senate Thurs¬
day morning practically unopposed.
Tho senate has confirmed the nomi¬
nation of Charles II. Bisbee, collector
of customs furthe district of St. Johns,
Fla. Postmasters—Virginia, II. It.
Smith, Petersburg. North Carolina,
Amanda E. Morris, Henderson.ville.
Attorner-General Olney was inform¬
ed Thursday that the miners of the
Cotter D’Alene mines, in northern
Idaho, had assembled to the number
of BOO men, and threatened to capture
a train and move east. The civil and
military authorities have been advised
to take proper measures to prevent
violence to property.
The revised regulations to lie ob¬
served at foreign ports and at sea, and
at maritime quarantines of tho United
States, and also on the Canadian and
Mexican border, prepared by Surgeon
General 'Wyman, of the jimrine hos¬
pital service, have been approved by
the treasury. The regulations to bo
observed at foreign ports talio
ten days after they have been posted
in the office of the United States con¬
sul, according to the law.
Tho house committee on coinage,
weights and measures at Wednesday’s
session postponed consideration
the Meyer seigniorage bill until
session, and decided to report a
for tho free and unlimited coinage
silver. Tho Meyer bill was
to Carlisle and molded into shnpo by
him before it was presented to the
house. It provided for the coinage
of the silver seiguiorngo in the treasu¬
ry and authorized the secretary of the
treasury to issue bonds at 3 per cent.
T he silver republicans, under (he
lead of Teller and Dubois, have served
notice on the eastern republicans that
they be treated to tho same
administered to the silver
during the light against the repeal
the Sherman act. At that time,
silver republicans were kept in
chamber day and night,
eastern republicans joining with
democrats to make a quorum. Now
tho tables are to bo turned. They
lake the ground*that the people elected
the democratic congress, and that
republicans are not responsible for
the kind of bill they pass. So far
able, the silver republicans will afford
the democrats every opportunity
pass the bill, but will vote against
on the final roll call.
Guarding the Treasury.
The treasury officials, while dis
claiming any fears of trouble on ac¬
count of the presence of the
incident to the coming of Coxey’s ar¬
my, have taken the precaution of add¬
ing fifty-five carbines and twenty re
velvet's to the treasury’s
of arms. The normal strength
the watch force of the
is seventy men, divided into two
liefs, and in addition to two or
dozen revolvers, there have
been thirty-five revolvers in (ho
in the office of the captain of the
sufficient to sujiply one to each
man on duty. It bus been
best, however, <o increase the
in view of the crowds of hangers-on
Coxey’s army that are expected to
rixe in the city.
The Agricultural Dili.
The house committee on
Friday completed the agricultural
propriation hill for the coming
yo.nr. The bill will carry au
ation of about $2,450,000, being
$148,000 less than the
for the current fiscal year, mid
8215,000 above tbe estimates
mitted. Tbe increase over (he
mates was made principally in the
propriation for the purchase and
bution of seeds and the expenses of
bureau of animal industry. The
tary in bis estimates asked for
for the seed division and $700,000 for
the bureau of animal industry.
committee increased the
for seed to $130,000 and that of
bureau of animal industry to
The additional 8100,000 in the
appropriation was made to prevent
spread of tuberculosis amoug cattle.
A new provision was also inserted
this section authorizing tho
f fl h „ ricu lt„ re to expend f 830,000
U . iatlimpidv ... , the .. publt.
llh ' 11 oyn llulletm, relating
of The Farmern to
agricultural matters generally. It was
j also stipulated that allseed, plants and
cnttiDgs aUotted to senators ’and rep¬
resentatives in congress for distribu¬
tion remaining uncalled for on the first
of May shall be distributed by tbe
secretary of agriculture.
Tbe present law regarding the pur¬
chase and distribution of seeds was so
ns to confine their purchase and dis¬
tribution to “such seed as are rare, and
uncommon to the country, or such as
can be made more profitable by fre¬
quent changes from one part of the
omtry to the other.”
VOL. XX11I. NO. 20.
SOUTHERN STATES.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS
Whieli Will he Found of Special In¬
terest to Our Readers.
Heat’s livery stable at Durham, N.
C., with thirteen horses, a lot of
gies,harness,etc.,has beeu destroyed by
lire. The amount of the loss is un¬
known.
The session of the Louisiana legisla¬
ture, which meets uext. month, will
elect three United States senators.
This is the first time such an event has
occurred in the United States.
The general council of the United
Mine Workers, of Alabama, the repre¬
sentatives of 8,000 miners, declined
the recent proposition of the Tennes¬
see Coal, Iron mid Railroad Company,
and ordered a general strike, to take
effect at once.
L. tV. Johns, tho general superin¬
tendent of the Tennessee coal, Iron
and Railroad company, at Birming¬
ham, Ala., has secured at Weir City,
Kan., 200 negro coal miners to go into
the Birmingham mines in place of tho
strikers there.
The Glamorgan pipe and iron works
of Lynchburg, Va., were totally de¬
stroyed by fire. Tho loss will be bo
tween $75,000 and 8100,000. Insu¬
rance unknown. Tho company em¬
ployed about three hundred men, and
had enough orders ahead to run them
six months.
Tho attorneys for tho receivers of
the Central railroad, have received a
copy of a bill filed in the Middle dis
D iet United States court of Alabama,
to foreclose the mortgage on the Co¬
lumbus and Western railroad, a part
of tho Savannah and Western system,
between Columbus and Montgomery.
Dispatches from Shreveport, La.,
state that a terrific hailstorm, preceded
by wind and rain, swept over that, sec¬
tion Tuesday morning. It was tho
severest storm since 1877. Many of
the hail stones wore two inches in
diameter, breaking window glass and
skylights, and doing great damage to
fruit t rees.
A Rinninglmm, Ain., special of Tues¬
day says: Tho situation with the
striking miners is otto of quietness.
The new men at Blue Crook and I’ntton
arc still working under the protection
of officers. There is no immediate pros¬
pect of trouble. The coal supply
running short and may cause the eloa
ing down of several industries soon.
It is reported that a bill of injunc¬
tion will l»e filed in a few days at Chat¬
tanooga to prevent the issuance of
8150,000 in bonds by Hamilton eoutt
ty for building a bridge across the
Tennessee river, west of the city. The
bridge was to cost over half a million
dollars, by the Chattanooga Western
Railway Company, a syndicate hand¬
ling large sums of British money. The
county court, voted bonds lust October
to assist in tbe enterprise.
The debenture holders of the Cen
trnl railroad held a meeting at Savan¬
nah Wednesday, but camo no nearer a
determination of the matters
them than at the former meeting. The
agreement which lias been drawn hod
received only 8610.000 worth of signa¬
tures and it has to have 81,000,000 be¬
fore if. can become operative. The
amount was increased to ubotit 8700,000
lit the meeting and the committee will
canvass for further signatures before
another mooting is colled.
DIG FAILURE IN NEW YORK.
Dealers In Tailors’ Goods and I'rlm*
tilings Go to the Wall.
Henry Newman .V Co., wholesale
dealers in tailors’ trimmings, at No.
028 and 430 Broadway, N. Y.,
assigned. The firm obtained ii n
tension last September of
and fifteen months, showing
of 81,600,000 and assets 82,400,000.
The first payment on the
notes falls due on May 15tb.
According to the assignee’s
ment the liabilities of the firm
about 81,500,000. The assets are
000,000, consisting of 8000,OOo worth
of stock nt cost, price; $500,000
good outstanding accounts, real
in cash mid enough estate to
the total assets about $2,000,000.
Henry Newman A Co., were
the largest wholesale and retail dealers
in clothier’s supplies in this country.
In addition to their house at 028 and
4.3(1 Broadway, they, m January, 1803,
opened a large branch 270 and
Franklin street, Chicago.
MOTION OVERRULED
In < ougrcssuiau Ureckeurlde’*
cation for a New Trail.
A Washington dispatch says: The
motion for a uew trial in the case
Pollard v«. Breckinridge was
ed by Judge Bradley's court
morning. The defendant was
in person aud was also represented
his counsel. The plantin' was not pres¬
ent, but was represented by attorneys.
Judge Bradley said the trial had
» fair one anil every question of law
bad been settled to his satisfaction
the new triul, if there was to he oue,
should lie in the- court of appeals.
therefore, overruled tbe motiou for
new trial. He said he doubted
court’s power - to allow a thirty
extension in which to file a bill of
ceptions and be would have to
arguments on that point.
was then made on that question
court allowed the thirty days asked for.
Judgment for the amount was then
formally entered.
Coxey at Washington.
Coxey’s army reached Washington
Sunday and with its coming the unde¬
fined feeling of apprehension which
has hovered about the city for the past
few weeks has disappeared.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
MADE !!P OF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Showing VV’liat is Going On in Our
Own anil Foreign Lands.
Two hundred and fifty-two fresh
cases of cholera were reported at Lis¬
bon Thursday.
The National line steamer Helvetia,
Captain Froliche, has been abandoned
in a sinking condition off Cape Finist
cere, Spain, and her crew and passen¬
gers lauded at Gibraltar.
A telegram received at the miners’
headquarters at Columbus, from
Thomas Furry, dated Fire Creek, West
Virginia, says that twenty-one mines
in that state are closed. They employ
3,500 miners.
The Indiana Republican State Con¬
vention adjourned at Indianapolis,
at J o’clock Thursday morning, after
having been in continuous sessiou for
eighteen hours. A full state ticket
was completed aud agreed upon.
One hundred and four fresh eases of
cholerine, or cholera, is reported at
Lisbon, Portugal. The disease is rap¬
idly spreading to the towns and vil¬
lages in the interior. The Spanish
authorities have adopted rigorous pre¬
cautionary measures against the disease
all along tho frontier.
The mortgage bond suit of the Cen¬
tral Trust. Company of New York vs.
the Richmond and Danville railroad,
in Washington, decree of foreclosure
and sale, which was issued by tho
United States circuit court for tho
eastern district of Virginia on the 13th
of this month, has been signed by
Judge Ilnguer, of the district supremo
court.
Governor Flower, of New York, lias
vetoed (he annual appropriation bill
bocatise the republican legislature re¬
fused to amend the bill by striking out
the section to allow the attorney gen¬
eral to designate all counsel employed
by state commissioners. This action
of tho governor will probably delay
the adjournment.
Tho Mobile and Ohio railroad tax
case, appealed from the supreme court
of Tennessee, was reargued bof’ore tho
United States supremo court
’l’he question at issue was as to tho
forco of a stnt-uto of the legislature of
Tennessee, under which the officers of
tho state claim the right to subject tho
property of tho corporation to duim taxa¬
tion. Tho company officials
that, under its charter, the corpora¬
tion is exempt from taxation.
A sensational feature of President
Dobs’ address to the American Rail¬
way Union meeting at Minneapolis
was his attack upon Judge Jenkins, in
which he said: “Jenkins is the most
corrupt scoundrel that was ever out¬
side of prison walls. He is a man
whoso whole life, both public and pri¬
vate, is rotten to tho very core, and I
stand prepared to prove it, too. Jen¬
kins is a disgrace to the bench upon
which he sits, and to the people who
elevated liim to tho position.”
Attorney Geuerrl Moloney, in tin
opinion rendered at Chicago decided
that, the gas companies of that city ore
maintaining a trust in violation of law
and lie will institute proceedings at
once to have their charters annulled.
The attorney general made the
sensational statement iu connection
with the decision that he had positive
knowledge that at Urn time he was
speaking, the trust, was no altering
their IiooIch and records as to make, a
lavorahlo showing at the trial of tho
ease.
EARTHQUAKES IN GltEF.CE.
Houses Topple Over ami Hundreds of
Lives Lost.
A heavy shock of earthquake was
felt throughout Greece Friday evening.
The town of Atalanta, 3,000 inhabit¬
ants, which hail been Imt slightly in¬
jured by previous shocks, was nearly
leveled to the ground. Two-thirds of
the buildings were reduced to heaps of
ruins and the rest were badly damaged.
The destruction of Thebes was com¬
plete, and not a house in the town is
left standing. Laimi suffered less, al¬
though scores of houses were damaged
so badly as to be uninhabitable. Part
of the prison collapsed and about sixty
convicts were caught in the wreck.
The number of dead and injured is not,
known.
Athens, Larissa, Volo; Chalcis and
Patros were shaken severely. Stone
walls were split and roofs were bent in
hundreds of buildings in the four lust
mentioned towns.
Terror reigns on the islands of Syta
and Zante, Repeated shocks have been
felt there in the last, few days. Small
villages have, been half ruined and
hundred of families have been driven
to livo in tho fields unsheltered an un¬
fed.
LATER ADVICE.
The latest reports from Atalanta say
that on Friday 365 shocks of earth¬
quake were felt there in eight hours.
For two hours the trembling of the
earth was almost continuous, For a
radius of three and a half miles on
every side of the town, tbe fields and
highways have been rent with deep
fissures. The sea has encroached upon
the shore about sixty feet. Dispatches
from all parts of the kingdom indicate
that former reports of death and dam
ago to property have underestimated
the losses. The list of dead and in¬
jured grows hourly.
To Issue Licenses.
The liquor question has been brought
to an issue in Greenville, S. C. At a
meeting of the city council, called to
take action as to the right of the city
to issue licenses, the discussion was
long and at times animated, A test
vote was taken, which resulted in a vote
of 6 to 4 in favor of issuing liquor
licenses.