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81.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 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.