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10 THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 15, 1885.--TWELVE PAGES. «letic survey wu, during the but fiscal year, car. led on within the boundaries and off the coaste of thirty-two States, two l emtoriee and the Dintrict of Columbia. In July hut, certain irregularities wrere found to exist in tho management in thin bureau, which led to a prompt investigation of its methods. The abuses which were brought to light by this examination and the reckless disregard of dutv and tho interests of the govern* merit developed on the part of some of those con* ner ted with the servico made a change of superin* tendency and a few of its officers necessary. Since the bureau has been in new hands an introduction of economies and the application of business meth ods have produced an important saviug to tho government and a promise of more useful resulti. This service ha» never been regulated by anything but the most Indednito Jrgal enactments and the most unsatisfactory rules. It was many years ago sanctioned apparently for a Tnn> ^c—regarded as temporary and related to a onrvey of our euii** Keined. place In tbc appropriation. Made b; CongroL"*: " “*• Rrtd’taUy taken Itmlf ponnn anil objects no* con templated *,n ita creation. and attended —it, on-^ttoua until it sadl; need. le«Mattv« attae- tlon.' Bo far aa a further tuner ut oiir total la eo-. first day o.* July last, steps were at once taken for the procurement of such plans for the construction of these vessels ss would be likely to insure their usefulnow when completed. These are of the utmost important'-', considering the con stant advance in the art of building vessels of this character, and the time is not lost which is sjteut in their careful consideration and selection. All must admit tho importance of an effective navy to » nation like ours, having such an extended soe*caeat to protect, and yet we have uot a single vessel of wsr that could meet the first-slasa vessels of any important power. Such a condition ought not longer Vo continue, lhe nation that cannot resist aggression is constantly exposed to it. Its foreign policy is of necessity weak and its negotiations are conducted with disadvan tages because it is uot in condition to enforce the terms dictated by its sense of right and justice. A RUSSIAN PRINCESS. Throwing a Fortune Into tho Fire—The Temper of a Fiend. Caroline Baoer tells the story of thcP;i n . WEALTH IN WASTE. bonO, - l,h lhe of a fiend, and become the moot admired and feared woman at the conrt of tho Em peror Alexander. Her husband idolized ner, and, unfortunately, allowed her com- ticH, now in charge x»f this establishment—it they cannot be profitably attached to some existing de partment or other bureau—should be prosecuted under a law exactly defining their scope and purpose. and with a careful discrimination be tween the scientific inquires which may properly bo assumed by the government and those which should be nndertakcu by Ktate authority, or by in dividual cnterpri«e. It is hoped that the report of the Congressional committee heretofore appointed to investigate this and other like matters will aid in the accomplishment of proper legislation on this subject THE ABUT. The report of the Secretary of War is herewith submitted. The attention of Congress is Invited to the detailed account which it contains of the administration of his department, and his recommendation and sug gestions for the improvement of tho service. The army consisted, at the date of the last consolidated returns of 2.iso officers and 24,703 enlisted men The expenses of the department for the fiscal yeai ended June 3utb. 1885, including f 13,lt>MW.ttf for public works and river and harbor improvements, were $40,850,999.64. Besides the troops which were dispatched in pursuit of the small baud of Indians who left their reservation in Arizona and commit ted murders and outrages, two regiments of cav alry and one of infantry were sent last July to the Indian Territory ?•• prevent an outbreak which ecemcd imminent. They remained to aid if neces sary in the expulsion of intruders upon the r» vations who seemed to have caused the discon tent among the Indians, but the executive procla mation warning them to remove was compiled with without their interference. Troops wcivalso sent to Bock Springs, in Wyoming Territory, after the massacre of Chinese there, to prevent fur ther disturbances, and afterward to Beattie, in Washington Territory, to a cert a threatened attack upon Chinese laborers and domestic violence there. In both cases the mere presence of tho troops had the desired effect. It appears that tho number of desertions have diminished, but that during the last fiscal year they numbered 2,927; and oue in stance is given by the Lieutenant-General of six desertions by the same recruit. I am convinced that this number of de sertion* can be much diminished by better discipline and treatment, but the punishment should be increased for repeated offenses. These desertions might also bo reduced by lessening the term of first enlistment, thus allowing a discon tented recruit to contemplate a nearer discharge and the army a profitable riddance. After one term of service a’re-enlistmeut would be quite apt to weenie a contented recruit and a good soldier. The acting judge-advocate-general reports that the number of trials by general courts-martial during the year was 2.328, and that 11,851 trials took place before garrison and regimental courts- martial. The suggestion tbst probably more Umu half the army have been tried for offenses, great and small, in one year, may well arrest attention. Of course many of these trials before garrison and regimental courts-martial were for offenses almost frivolous, and there should. I think, be a way de* Tiaed to dispose of these in a more sum mary and less inconvenient mauner than by courts-martial. If some of tho proceedings of courts martial which I have had occasion to examine present the ideas of Justice which generally prevail in these tribunals, I am satisfied that they should be much reformed if tho honor and the honesty of the army and navy are by their Instrumentality to he vindicated aud pro- The board on fortifications or other defenses, ap pointed in pursuance of the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1886, will in a short time present their report, and it is hoped that this may neatly aid the legislation so necessary to remedy the present defenseless condition of our sea TUX MORAL SEXT1CK. The work of the signal service has been prose cuted during the last year with results of Increas ing benefit to the country. The field of Instruction has been enlarged with a view of adding to ita use fulness. The cumber of stations in operation June autk, 1885, was 489. Telegraphic reports are received dally from 140 stations. Reports are also received from 26 Canadian stations, 3i5 volunteer observers, 62 army sergeants at military posts and 333 foreign stations. The expenses of the service during the fiscal ▼ear, after deducting receipts from military tele graph lines, was f7y2.6ltt.97. In view of tho fact referred to l y the Secretary of War, that the work of this service ordinarily Is of a scientific nature, und the further fact tbtt it In assuming largo pro- portion* cou.«ti>ntly, and becoming more and more uusultcd to tho fixed rule# which must govern the Army, lam luc lined to agree with him in the opin- i# n . ,l "**ouid be separately established. If this is done the scope and extent operations should as nearly a* «Msib.e be definitely prescribed by law, and always 9f WKt Mevr&atttoi 9 always THE UlLlTAUf ACaDTMT. The Military Academy at West Point is reported as being iu a high state of efficiency and well equip]**! for the satisfactory accomplishment of the purpose of its maintenance. 'The fact that the class which graduates next year is an unusually large one has constrained me to decline to make appointments to second lieutenancies in the army ftotn civil life, so that such vacancies as exist in these pUi-esutay be reserved for such graduates. As yet it is not probable that there wtU bs enough va cancies to provide positions for them »ll when they leave the military school. Under the prevailing law and usage those not assigned tg duty never active*' rnter tbe military service. It is suggested that the U« on this ahMeti bs chanm* so that auoh Million, of Dollar* to Iw Ssved anil Ite- corereil by a Simple Appliance. Carbon dale, I'*., Special. As near as any ono can calculate there are heaped iu the anthracite coal r<;poUH of I’ennaylvania not lets than 150,000,OiXJ tons of mine waste. This waste is called cnlm. Everywhere in tho coal country it meets the eye in block tuouuds that cover acres iuid rival in dimensions and height the sur rounding hills themselves. Tho land oo- l.up'ed by these unsightly upheavals in Lackawanna, Luzerno, Carbon, Lehigh, and Schuylkill counties would make another county. To carry this waste from tile brak- era and dump it require* milts o! railroad track and thousands of men | )0 ,. s aU( j mules. A low estimate p- m( *s the cost of a«.m-!ttff fttlll «UI»* .* • .1. - • of Ihsro young men u u* not u VBW duty liter graduating may niliuro second UeuteUbU 5# the srmy If -dealro It, subloet to ualgnment when opportunity occur, and under proper rule, is to priority of (election. The expenditure on account of the military, academy tor tho but ftacal year, excloelvo of tb, rum taken for ita porpoaM from apprn|.rinUoue for Iha support of Lb. army warn |2ttkiia.u7. The act approved March a. tans, deigned to com- penult officer, and enllated rum for the tow of pet- v.w nr.n-.rta .title In the aervtca of the United Btatee, ta'ao iudednitt tn ita tertne aud apnuonU; admits bo many claim the adjustment of which could not bare bees contemplated that If U Is to remain upon the atatule book It naeda amend ment. aanxiKs ovkb xavio abl* watxas. There ahoold ba a general tow of Oonanan pro- klbiting the construction of bridge, over navlgnbla water, in auch manner aa to oUtruct navlgaiion, with provisions for preventing the mi. It mm, that under sxlating statutes tho government cannot Intervene to prevent such a construction when en forced upon U without its consent, though when auch consent la asked and grunted npon conditions, the authority to Insist npon wvth condi tion la clear. Thus it la rcpreorstod that while the officers of the ««»**roment are with great care guarding against the obstruction of navi gation by a bridge across the Mi««lMlppi river at SL Paul a large pkr for a bridge baa been built just below this plsce, directly in the navigable channel of the river. If such things are to ba per mitted a strong argument la presented against the appropriation of Urge sums of money to improve the navigation of this and other important high ways of commerce. HI BAVT. The report of the Secretary of the Navy gives a history of the operations of his department and the present condition of the work committed to his charge. Ue also details in full the course pursued by him to protect the right of the government. In respect to certain veasek unfinished “ And also concern ina the disnatch boat Dolphin, claimed to be completed and await- s from the recitals coutetued in this report that only the application of business principles has been Insisted upon in the treatment of these subjects, and that whatever controversy 0Uen was caused by the exaction by the department of contract obligations, aa they were legally construed, la the case of the Dolphin, With entire Justice to the contractors, an agreement has since been entered into, providing for the asesrtsinlng by Inquiry of 'he completeness »4 her construction, snl further providing for the reeessment of any damages to which the governs.ent may be entitled on account of a par tial failure to perform such contract, or the pay- reant of the sum still remaining unpaid npon her price in case a full performance Is adjudged. The contractor by reason of failure in boatman be ing unable to complete the other three vessels, they were taken possession of by the government iu their unfinished state, under a clause tn tl tier love for pleasure and luxury he went beyond his means, and then sold one estate after another. Once when he handed her a littlo pack of bank notes he had won as a sort of peace offering. Natalie seized them and threw them into tho fire, to cure the general, she said, of club and gaming and Etta hours. Another night, when she was adorned in full splendor for a court ball, the general kept her waiting. At last he came, greatly excited, with a red face and dashing eyes. She supposed tho excite* ment was caused by wiiie, and told him so in vehement words. “No, dear darling,” he protested, “I had the most important business to attend to, concerning yourself and our Alexandra. Look at theso ruble notes—you will not throw them into the fire.” “I will, though, ” she exclaimed. And as she spoke sho snatched the notes from his hands and throw them into the flames. He shrieked in despair and rushed forward to save them-too late! There was seen a bright blaze, and— “Natalie,” ho said, in a hollow voice, “you have just destroyed our whole for tune—300,000. I hope, if I should not re turn alive from the Caucasus, that yon may uevor have n bitter repentance. To-day I received orders from the Emperor’s own lips to join the army in the Caucasus to morrow. In order to secure your and our child’s future. I to-day sold our last estate to the crown, ond everything now is ashes! at-hes!” Uen. Kurakin was killed lu one of his first engagements in the Caucasus, and XatAlio became the most heartless of widows. Gossip About l’eople. M. Paste nr is the seU-made son of n tan ner. Senator Logan bos been made a Knigbt Templar. Mr. Gladstone's voice baa quite recovered its old volume. General John M. Swift has become editor of the Boston State. Canon Farrar lectnred forty-one times,all told, during his tour just ended. Two of Speaker Carlisle's sons have gone to Wichita, Kansas, to practice law. W. II. Vanderbilt told a Cleveland, O., man that his income in 1883 was 120,000,- 000. James Gonlon Bennett has picked out Pan as tho place at which to spend bis mouey this winter. Prince Bismarck admits that ho ought not to read the French society papers, but be does read them with rcgnUnty. Dr. Camison, the royal Spanish physi cian, is to publish a pamphlet on tuo na ture of the illness that killed Alfonso. Georgs Bancroft, the historian, is the only private citizen who has been given the right to the floors of Congress at sll times. The seventieth birthday of Mcrizel, the great French painter, will be colebrated in Paris to-day. The American _colouy are taking much interest in the event, EvQovernot and Congressman John D. f-org, of Massaclmsett*, druwa an income of from $&0,'066 to IdO.Ouo a year from tho cstats of his wife, and has no care of it.* Henry 8. Wellcome, an American, ho, i n,t been given the bronze medal of the tritish Itoyal Humane Society for heroism in rescuing a woman from drowning in the Thames. A new honor awaits Canon Farrar npon his arrival in England. It is said he will be offered the Bishopric of Manchester, re cently mado vacant by tho death of ita ad ministrator. An article on “Our Railway to the Pa cific" is being written by Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome. Tho Marquis contributes the letter press aud tho P»taoro« {he illustration*, Iilentenant-iiommander Gorriuge's body bos been removed to Rockland Cemetery, on the Jersey side of the Hudson, and a me morial obelisk will be raised therein to com memorate his various good sets. The sister of Edwin M. Stanton, the only surviving near relative of the war Secre tary, has written to Jndge Kelley, thanking him for his book on the relations between President Lincoln and Mr. Stanton. Sarah Bernhardt is not the only French woman who has achieved skill In the sculp tor's art. The published list of gifts just made to a charity under the patronage of a number of ladies in Paris include, several works of art by the patronesses themselves, among them being a statuette by the Duch ess of Tzes, which, we are told, “no master of the day would disown,” aud a bust of Chopin, modelled by the Connies* do Beau- moat-Castries. Sarah contributes a group. Among the painting contributed by lauy amateurs meutioned in the same list are a Bad Biding Hood," by the Princesa Mathilde; a landscape -a view in St. Helena bv the Barones* Nathaniel de Rothschild; “View of an Interior," by the Princess Scylia. and a number of other pieces by ladies of rank. The Rev. Dr. Milburn, the well known blind preacher, who was elected chaplain of the H»n*e of Representatives for tLis ses sion of Congress, once before filled that po sition, over forty years ago. lie is s Meth odist preacher and certainly has s mild end convincing eloquence that is rare among a ministry given to somewhat load exhorting He is always * greet drawing card at camp- meetings and revivals, when his simple but graceful oratory ix rendered more effective by the pathos of his Ufa long blindness. The salary of the chaplain of the House is (900 a year, and ita duties consist in mak ing a short prayer every morning, when the House baa been called to order. It is not very often that a chaplain is re-elected, os it is desired that every religious denomina tion shall be represented in turn. cimying^and duT.ping culm in the region at $20,'““u a day, besides the interest on the cost of the dumping grounds, »inch in many thousands more. At tho preseut time fifteen per cent, of the product of the mines goeH to the culm piles. For the first forty years of tho an- ihraoita business the percentage of waste averaged more than double that, for crude and imperfect methods and appliances in mining, breaking, and screening were un able to save from tlio waste heaps cool that is now the most profitable of nil the diller- ent kinds on the market. It is only about fifteen years ago that chestnut coal began to be saved from the culm, and it was then estimated that not less than 7,000,000 tons of that size coal, worth about $25,000,000, wore bnried iu the accumulations of mine debris. Several years ago improved screen ing produced u size of coal which was given the name of pea coal. It rapidly became a successful rival of chestnut coal for stoves and grates. Then the mine engineers cal culated that the culm piles bad swallowed up five or six million tons of pea coal, worth ten or twelve million dollars. A year ago tho Dehiwaro and Hudson Ca nal Company succeeded in separating from cnlm at the breakers a coal still smaller in size than pea coal. This was called buck wheat coal, and it was found that it was just what the Hudson river steamers want ed for their boilers. It coiiid not be screen ed with sufficient facility to make it profit able, because the coal in coming from the mines to the breakers is so damp that the dust clings to the finer fragments and they cannot be cleansed by the ordinary process es of screaning. Tho fact was mode clear, though, that there was still a size ( of coal going to waste which, if it could be sepa rated from the culm, would be worth a mil lion dollars a year to mine owners. Invent ors had been lor years striving to devise sonio plan by which cnlm could be bandied aud disposed of more quickly and economi cally. Mine owners had spent thousands of dollars in furthering theso efforts. After tlie discovery of buckwheat coal the importance of a practical method of overhauling old culm piles to recover tho wealth in coal buried there gave a new im petus to tho inventive genius of the coni regions. Ransom T. Mitchell, of Bradford, has at last solved the problem. He has se cured patents on applying the use of tbc air blast to coal waste, in connection witli conducting pipe*, in such a manner that he can carry cnfin from the breaker to the dumping ground and to any desired eleva tion. The air dries the dust on the minute fragments of coal as the mass passes through the pipes. At tho dumping ground the culm is delivered into screens, whero the dust is then easily separated and every particlo of cool, however smnll, is made merchantable. Besides thus absolutely ex tracting sll the cool from the cuiui, the uir blast removes the waste from the breaker to tho pile at one-tenth tho cost of mnleand car power, a saving of about $<>,000,000 a year in the working cost of that branch of 00*1 Mining. Mr. Mitchell's method simply consists in setting up a blower of sufficient power at the breaker, aud connecting it with the pipes, which not only carry the cnlm awsy from the breaker, but at tho samo time draw out tho sulphurous mine gases and re place them with pure air. Mitchell's pat ents also cover the overhauling and sorting nf old culm piles by means of the air blast, by which the millions of dollars' worth of coal buried there may be recovered at one- quarter the cost at which the same quantity conld be mined. A practical test of the Mitchell air blast in bundling vnlm was mode the other day At tho Pennsylvania Coal Company’s breaker No. 5. The success of the test was com plete. Several large companies are making arrangements to use the appliance* at their collieries. Mitchell has refused an offer of $500,000 for his psteuta. lie says that as they hare mode a let of hitherto value lets and unsightly hasps of cool dost worth $30,- 000,000, ana have made it possible to dis pose of cnlm at on annual saving of $0,000,- 000, they an worth a great deal more mouey than an;* one can giro him for them. want you to understand that V must bleed?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘V., count ten and woke when you get to seven.’ “He counted tho numerals up to seven, ho started, rubbed bis eyes os though awakening, but more aiowly proceeded with tbe eight, nine, ten—but lie remained asleep, as was proven by heavy snoring which immediately followed his wonderful exhibition. About u quarter of an hour after this self-conducted dialogue, V. went iuto the peculiar crisis which we have noticed iu him after a suggested stigmatiza tion. When it was over, wo examined the arm and found the V which ho had traced in his imagination, aud it was covered with blood. This V wn* on the same spot where 1 pruwoux’.y, oii August 3, produced a stigmatism in the presence Of l)r». Barth and Dclarue. This same series of pheno mena were repeated thrice during the night, tho patient holding the same dis course and the result being the same each time. “At 5 o’clock precisely V. awoke without knowing that he had been asleep, hut con vinced timt he had been employed in the garden of the asylum, gathering flowers. Here, then, we have a caso of hemor rhagic stigmatization produced without in termediary, and by auto-suggestion during iuducod hypnotism, the stigmata being iii the place of an old stigmatizations induced by me on former occasions. Drs. Rama- anchor in tho arm-chair in front of tbe kitchen fire, where tho girls were getting supper. He yanked off his boots and pall- ed up the toe of his blue woolen stocking. He had a vague impression of having for gotten something. Ho thought ho would usk his wife. “Where’s your mother?" ho said, looking around as ho held his loft Btockinged foot in his right hand. "Where’s who?" replied his oldest daugh ter, ns she stood, astonished. With a tea piate iu her hand. “Why, where’H your mother?’* "Out in the barn, niu’t she!' Didn't R i IR You hug'at to know where an y One,’ said Uncle B., in telling this stor- on Wednesday iu Lewiston, "had a fluTig me heels over head into our muck bid, 1 couldn’t ’u felt so mean, but I braced up and I says T reckon I know where your mother is. She said she'd wait for me at Oswald A Armstrong’s, on Lisbon street, and I think I'd better not atop for any sup per before I just drive down and get her.’ Well, I drove down to Lewiston and found her. She was 'a sittin' there, kind of mad, long about 6:30 o'clock, sho didn't say nothin’ worth mentionin’ to yon. Wo both eat pretty hearty when we reached home. The next time I take her witli me I guess I'll tie a string around my finger," Cotm« at ita tut sntburtxNt tk* «4 two lustwsta, at a rota sol tictilliis Ue aaps^U H.SM.000. Tk* dtvrogrtttlusa f»r tkis pupa* karts* bsroata siallakU us tkc MESMERISM EXT it AO it DIN ARY, Marvclottl Phenomena of Hypnotism Vouch ed for hjr a French Physician. A remarkable illustration of the marvel ous phenomena of hypnotism is given in full in the following hitherto nnraported case of repeated stigmatization by auto suggestion during induced sleep, as given by Dr. Mabulc, the medical director-in- chisf of the Asylum Lctond, near La Roche, France: “On August 2th last, at my visit, about 0:15 o’clock in the morning, in the presence of Dr. Rnmadier, associate physician of the Lefoud Asylum, anil M. Cusuvelot, interne of the service. I plunged V. (one of the pa tient*) into the somnambulistic state, and wishing to combat the insomnia with which he had lately been suffering, I said to him: -This evening near 8 o'clock yon will say to Ernest, the guardian of yonr word, “Put me to bed, I am in need of sleep.” You will go to bed, and precisely at 8 o’clock you will go to sleep, and you will sleep until 5 o'clock in the morning. Daring yonr sleep you will hear nothing, see noth ing and feel nothing. Do yon understand?" V. answered in the affirmative. That even ing at 7:57 o’clock, while walking in thr courtyard and conversing with other pa tients’ he stopped suddenly, his eyes be came fixed, and several slight (Spasmodic contractions passed over his fsco. He passed into the hypnotic -or, rather, that intermiarv condition described by M. Du- montpollier, and going to the guardian of tbe ward, he repeated the exact words dictated by me iu the morning. He was pnt to bed, and precisely at 8 o'clock he fell into a deep slumber. “From this moment it was impossible for me to awakeu him, because be could netber feel, sue nor hear anything. Pres sure npon tbc hysterogenic zones had no effect, bat in a short tune the patient him self "Tbst Miss Jones is s nice lookins |Lrl, Isn’t •1m** -to, rod shs'd be tbe bells of tbs Imn if It wsso't for thins-” -Wkst's thetV "She bee catarrh so bad It la unpleasant I aaarher. aha baa triad n dosen thing* and la* kalpa bar. I an sorry, for I Ilka her. but that do—a t stake It any leaa dlsasmabla fur one 1 Sow if she had seed Dr. Ka*r’e Catarrh Bamtcty. th-r* would bare been aoiktas of the kind said, fur It will can catarrh every tin*. dicr and Ckauvelet watched through tbe night witli mo and witnessed this remark able exhibition.” It would bo easy to relate Rovorfd other instances almost as remarkable as those given above of the phenomena of hypno' tism, each and every one of which is au thenticated by the numes of tbe ablest ond best known physicians of France, whose experiments hare been conducted in Buch n manner as to leave no room to doubt of ibo reality of the phenomena or the authen ticity of tho details. Enough has been shown to illustrate the general character of tlie results attained, and to show, ns stated in tho outset, that the human brain under certain conditions, not us yet understood, is capable of exercising an influence upon the matter composing the body not pos sessed by it in its normal state. LONG OR SHORT SERMONS. Blinll they Bliort mol Crisp, or Long and Dull. Boston Beimld. It seems ns though a brighter era were dawning for the study of American history, since Mr. John Fiska has taken to lectur ing on it. For long, it has justly been con sidered the dullest and driest reading iu the world, but Mr.Fiskc is fast showing lii* fellow-countrymen that it can be made in teresting ns a novel. Tho way he contrives to make American history so attractive lies in bis power of showing, in every germ- seed of the colonial days, the whole future tree that grew from it, performing, before his very andienoe, the famous Indian juggler trick of planting a seed in the earth, and then seemingly making it sprout, leaf, flow er, fruit, before their vety eyes. More than one potent cause of later prowess and en durance of the revolutionary sires lias he shown lyidg latent in simple custom of life, overlooked by sneli writers as Ban croft, Hildreth and Higginson. But the broadest of men have their limitations, and so perhaps, it is not to be wondered at thut even his phitosphic eye has failed to detect tbe enormons influence exerted on tho heroic epoch of American history by the extreme length and amazing intricacy of the sermons tho forefathers nerved them- selves up to listen to every Sunday, os well as to trace home the degeneracy that has come npon these later days to the deplora ble public iusistancc on brisk, niry little pulpit sparks of twenty minutes. The forefathers sat down before n sermon as be fore a fortress. They meant to take it, moats, wall, bastions, towers. The atmos phere of the church was just ns cold as though they were outside in the trenches. The firstly, secondly, thirdly, and so on to the twentieth, carried, they were still ns determined ns ever to close in the parallels, till they bad made the seventieth surren der. What were Cornwallis and Yorktown to a race of men who, fifty-two Sundays in every year, h id stormed overy position of a Jonathan Edwards, and planted the flag of victory on it. They simply unbent their minds over Yorktown. No doubt these men got a certain drill in the revolutionary army. Baron Steulien had introduced tb’e Prussian system of tactics, and had acquir ed no end of credit for it. But what do anch pbilosophio minds aa Mr. Fiske's exist for, but to probe down bencuth the sur face and show how Dlft* are the claims of nny for^gjj adventurer like Baron Steuben, when placed alongside those of snch stub born drill-master* os were scores of tbe ear ly CalvioUUa divines? A sermon that does not callout grim determination, ss well as effusive piety, will breed none but emas culate saints. How can a man that wea ries and faints in twenty minutes— hardly time enough to dig the ditch and throw up the first earth-works of a strong theologi cal position—ever expect to carry a real material fortification? Far too many, not too few, people go to cbnrcb for the church's good. Large numbers of them ought to be discriminately thiunod out, just as weak kneed,undersized and consnmptive recruits are rejected in the army. Only those who can stand tho test of an hour's or an hour and a quarter's discourse should lie retained. Or, if theso others most go somewhere, why not have special twenty minutes sanc tuaries for them, publicly set apart, a* for the invalid corps, while the able-minded recruits are marched into churches where it is fully understood they will be put through s drill calculated to make soldiers of tbe Lord out of them. If tho revived study of American history shall only em phasize the importance of snch a movement, it will do a world of good. . A PREHISTORIC HOME. Discovery of the Supposed Oldest Amerl- (utu Habitation, Santa Fo New Mecican, Mnj. Powell, chief the geological survey, has discovered in New Mexico, |nenr Cali fornia mountain, what lie pronounces to be the oldest human knbitntion upon tlio American continent. Tho nmuntaina in this vicinity are covered with huge beds of lava, in which tbe prehistoric man ainl his comrades cave excavated Rqunro rooms, which were lined with n species of plaster inndo from tho hint, ami in these rooms were fouud various evidences of quite nn advanced civilization, among them n spec’cs of cloth mado of woven lnur and a lnrgo number of pieces of pottery. In the sides of the rooms cupboards and shelves were excavated. In one room, sticking ont of the bare face of the wall, was n smnll branch of a tree. When this waspulledout it was found that there was a hollow space behind the wall. Col. James H. Stevenson, Major Powell’s assistant, broke this with a pick and found a little concealed niche, iu which was a small curved figure, resem bling a man, done up in a closely-woven fab ric, which, with tho touoh of the hand, turned to dust. It was blnck and crisp, like the luuuuuy cloths of Egypt. In all, some sixty groups of these lava .villages were found, there bciug about twenty bouses in each gronp. The evidences of civilization were similar to, hut removed by their crudity uml evident want of skill a good ileal from tho articles found iu tbe cliff bouses, which have been so fully writ ten up in the reports of tlie geological sur vey. Scientists await with a great deal of interest Major Powell's report of these re cent very important discoveries. Excitement tn Tex*.. Orest excitement ties been caused In the vicintj of 1‘srls, Tes., by the remsrksble recovery of Mr. *i. K. 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Beml for book containing ixlnsbl* Information for women. It wiU be mailed free to applicants. TUB BRADFIBLD RZOULATOB COMPANY Box tat Atlanta, Os. he had previously submitted at my hands. He pretrod his eyes with his fingers as I had done to produce lethargy; opened tire lids at in inducing catalepsy; rubbed the top of hie bead, aa though trying to indneo hypnotism. "He then commenced the following col loquy, imitating my toicein the questions, anil answering in his own voice: ‘Do you hear me?' ‘Yea, sir.' *Oive me your arm.' ‘Yes, sir.’ ■Now, V., a quarter of an hour after you awake there wtU be a V on your arm at the place where 1 now mark it (he marked the imaginary V on his forearm) and this V will bleed. Do you hear? I FORGOT TUB OLI) LADY. The Farmer’s shopping Tour that Resulted L'nptvnnautly, Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Uncle B„ from one of the towns just out of Lewistoo, is a very prosperous farmer. He bss a snug bank account, s pleasant home, and s nice wife. He is well along to the shady side of 6U, but his face is round sud so kindly that it belies his years, white hi* wife’s cheeks are as roeyas Winter Bald wins. They are a finely preserved couple, anil Lewiston traders like to meet them oc out the counter. Uucle D usually drives in nl this i cason of the year alone. Sometimes in summer his amiable lady comes with him, but usu ally at this season sbe is putt, og down the pork and piling up the cheese. Tuesday of this week, however, it was decided that she should make the trip. They arrived at 2 self commenced spontaneously to go o'clock iu tbe afternoon at one of the through )he series of experiments to which Lisbon street dry g ods stores, and. leaving her, he drove off on a little busii He went to the bank and talked with the cashier. He drove up Ho the blacksmith's shop to get ths shoe* sharpened on the old mare, lie sold some butter, bought a coal hod at tbe hirdware store, and put in a bag of cottonseed at the grain store. It puzzled him whether he had better market kayxnnw or wait tiU spring, sud ba was thinking of it when ha turned his mare's nose over Main street bridge and chirruped a “gid-dap" to her along the homeward road. He unhitched, having driven right into the born, and having fed and bedded Oils bone, went into the house. He came to T U E LAMAR COTTON CHOPPER. nometliins Kntirwiy New. It bss been Tlior- agbly Tried and le Fully (iimrnnteeil. Cbop* h sere* a ita; wltb on* mill*. Fay, for itself las few dsy,. I’lttCL ONLY Slo 11 -end for descriptive circular. Address, BLOUNT & HILL, Atlanta, Ga ix tt2»unfttw4i NOTICE. Ef amnm'x'm Statto*, Jokes Cfwnmri All parties Indebted to the estate of Milbrtr J. Haddock are hereby notified to ronae forward and Mettle at onc«. Also, parti** having claiuia agal&at tbe estate will present tn proper form. J. M. mIUDLKBROOKH, Kiecntor. I'ortablc Mills $80 sad upwards, to mobs boat quality of Table Mm], Mill- stone, uml Del oach M uter M heels, Hittiplssi nod Cheap, eut in Iba market. Rend tor fluid; illustrated cirrutars end — what tbe loath is doinc. A. A DcLOACH A lllto Msnnfntururs, Atlanta wlyr Dr.J. M. liucUan & Son drods of cn-iflcute, of <*"■»Uro. Consultation fruo. Medl> KASTMAN, OEOBOIA. Priest* and rbmnie dUeassa a special!;. Rnn- visitsitjoinioz ire b; maU, lan Pul; 1 WO orr»B. To tatroduro them, we wU \ “W* ***? If" HelfOperotin* Waehin* r\ Machine*. If von wantons aend as ;onr L 0 'smtreproae oOroii one*. Bn NATIONAL CO., 23 De; atrret N. T. ocUTsta HR COUGHSw'CROUP USE TAYLOR’S REMEDY —OF— SWEET GUM A.JJD MULLEIN. Th$ rvMt nn, u from a Itm af th« $aac earn*. «vo*tn« klflif tha •mail Knuu la Iba ftaalhtra BtatM. •oauloa a $tim»Ulin| ai{*~toroal prtoclpla that looaana tbapbtofm prodoclag lLa aarl/ marnlo* aoujh, an4 atima- lotofi ta« tbild to throw off tha falsa awbrni la m$y aad whaaptag^Mh. 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