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Bulloch Times.
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STATESBORO, GEORGIA.
J. R, MILLER, Editor and Publisher,
■ Lxarjg ' c a ciiw. . jl—
Entered at the P“st Office at States¬
boro as second-class mai'm ittor.
Cnicago is bragging about her mar¬
riage record for the past year, which
>cachcd the big figure of 17,000 wed¬
dings.
_
Professor L. F. Blake, of the Univers¬
ity of Kansas, says that he considers
lightning rods for buildings in cities, ex¬
cept high structures, altogether unneces¬
sary
_
President Dwight, of Yale, says that
a plan is under consideration to put au
ind to gambling and betting at the uni¬
versity, especially on football and other
games. __
The jackal is a greater foe to Indian
humanity than the tiger. From the sta¬
tistics published by the Government of
India it may be seen that in one year
•while 928 persons were killed by tigers,
more than 1000 children were carried o2
by jackals.
Kate Field’s Washington throws cold
■water on the hopes of those who expect
great things from being permitted to on
ter the Government service. Miss Field
•ays the opportunities for advancement
•re worse than none, and that the longer
• man stays in it the less fit 13 he lor any¬
thing else.
In order to induce farmers to it uni
grate into Western Australia the Gov¬
ernment of the colony has formulated
what the American Agriculturist deems
• tempting scheme. The idea is to give
every applicant a block of 160 acres of
land, the only payment required beiug a
ice of $5; to lend him $250 towards
putting up a $500 house, and, after he
has spent $250, or more, in cultivation
or improvements, to lend him a sum
equivalent to what he has spent up to
$5\0.
“'Sffie truth of history” gets auothcr
blow cWdweeu the eyes, exclaims the
New Y<Vk Tribune. This time it is the
esteemeiAbusy bee who is involved. John
Burroug’tm reports that the boa does not
gather hmey all the day from every
opening flower, the fact being that he
dees gather honey during any pov
I^Psaedfr® da J>Jg# from anyjoai water. V t
“HoneyMr. Burroughs explains, “is
the sweet water plus the individuality of
the bee.” Thus does the practical ob¬
server whe cannot tell a lie play the mis¬
chief with the wisdom of the ages.
!
j The loss of the masticating teeth be¬
fore the thirtieth year means a shorten¬
ing of the life of the individual ol from
two to five years, To know the extent
to which many ol these teeth are lost,
even before the fifteenth year, one has
only to turn to the recently published
reports of the examination of the teeth
•f children in the schools and orphan
homes of London and elsewhere, If
some effective measures are not adopted
lor combating the ravages of dental de¬
cay it looks very much as though an¬
other half century would find the poorer
classes of English people practically
•dentulous before the twentieth year.
Philadelphia maintains her reputation
of being the city of homes, observe-s the
New York World. During the five
years ending December 31, 1891, there
were erected there 24,173 more new
buildings than in New York, and 5162
more than in New York, Boston and
Baltimore combined. This great lead
was due in large part to the custom in
Philadelphia of building small houses
for one family rather than huge struc¬
tures of “flat” tenements. When we
observe the cost of new buildings the
itory is a different one. The average
cost of those erected last year in Phila¬
delphia was $3338.88, in Boston $6,.
848.67, and in New York $17,509.58.
Atlanta, Ga., according to a directory
census recently taken, now has< a popu¬
lation of 104,421. Building operations
during the year 1892 were the largest in
the history of the city. One thousand
and sixty-one buildings were put up, at
a cost of $7,000,000. Atlanta has main¬
tained its reputation of being “the
Yankee city of the South" as the follow
ing statistics in the New York Post
•hows: There are within its bounds
ninety-four miles of street railway. Its
business amounts to $140,000,000 an*
»ualiy, and it contains 229 mercantile
houses, 633 manufactories, and nineteen
banks with a capital of $5,500,000. It
has no less than ninety-eight churches,
and ten public schools, twelve private
schools, and six institutions for the edu¬
cation of colored children. During 1892
» central police station was built and
new water works were laid. - -
The New Orleans Picayune believes
that the golden age of the American
farmer is at hand, because the country
is filling up so rapidly.
The Railway Age says that in the last
twelve months thirty-six railioad com¬
panies, representing 10,508 miles and a
capital of nearly $385,000,000, have de¬
faulted and been placed in the hands of
receivers .
It seems as difficult to get good farm
help in France as in the United States,
notes the American Agriculturist. The
Govemmeut is much discouraged over
the emigration from country districts to
towns and cities.
Japan has now a school system similar
to our own. Controlled by local au.
thorities are more than 23,000 schools,
of which 26,000 are elementary, The
teachers number nearly 72,000 and the
scholars 3.410,000, or nearly half the
total population of school age. The to
tal annual expenses of the system is
about $7,000,000.
The Chattanooga (Term.) Tradesman
has compiled reports of new industries
established during 1892 in the States of
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The
total is 2440, 320 less than for 1891, and
508 less than for 1890, and 141 less than
1889.
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The French syndicate which is build¬
ing the mucb-talked-of railroad from
Jerusalem to JalTa finds that the esti¬
mated cost of $1,290,000 will be con¬
siderably exceeded. The road lias beeu
in process of construction for two years
and is about half done. It is fifty-seven
miles in length, or seventeen miles longer
than the shortest highway now in use
between the two cities.
The New York Journal thinks that an
idea of the extent to which word build¬
ing is carried among chemists may be
obtained from a glance at the principal
subjects of the two leading articles in a
recent number of the American Chemical
Journal. The words are bromtrinitdo
phenylmolicester and tribrommononitro
benzol. These things are not words,
but alphabetical monuments.
It is often remarked, observes the New
Orleans Picayune, that a public petition
is no index of public of public senti
in* anybody will sign
->y kind of,a natBClU d anotlyer il¬
lustration of the faot~~s’i?t;tfis £0 be af¬
forded in a recent election in Seward
County, Kansas, for the purpose ol
settling a controversy about the county
seat. Not nearly so many votes were
cast at the election as there were names
signed to the petition praying that an
election, to settle the poiut in alleged
dispute, be held. The Supreme Court
is to settle the matter.
An analysis of Bradstrect’s report for
the past year shows that there was a de¬
crease of seventeen per cent, in the
number ot failures and a decrease of
forty-four per cent, in the liabilities.
The New Orleans Picayune figures it
out that the South’s proportion of the
liabilities represents twenty-three per
cent, of the whole, or $18,000,000
against $35,00,000 in 1891. “It ap¬
pears from this showing,” comments the
Atlanta Constitution, “that the South
led the other sections in business re¬
cuperation and prosperity. Economy,
hard work and a more intelligent sys¬
tem of farming are the main causes of
this gratifying change, and if we stick
to these conditions we may confidently
expect still brighter results.”
There is a project in Philadelphia to
erect several model dwel isg houses for
the poor who are now living in disease
breeding sections of the city. Money
has been subscribed, plans have been
prepared, and a site has been chosen.
Lecturing on the subject recently, the
Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf said:
“Large numbers of our laboring people
have been obliged to make their homes
near the commercial and industrial
centres in which they are employed.
These localities, being limited in area
and filled for the most part with old
houses and crumbling rookeries, have
become overcrowded, and in conse¬
quence frightfully filthy, both physically
and morally. A number of gentlemen,
practical business men, have come to me
and have encouraged me to the extent
of several thousand dollars’ subscription
to the stock to proceed at once with the
organization of a model dwelling com
pany on a site that measures 18 lx
2225x231 feet. This is large enough to
permit a spacious central court tor
garden and playground that faces on
three streets, two of them being among
the most prominent in the city, that is
sufficiently near the commercial and in¬
dustrial centres and sufficiently far from
the slums to assure philanthropic; ami
financial success. S
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN tfIVINE v S SON
DAY SERMQN.
Text: "f am read / to preach the gosnel
to you that are at home also." —Romans
i., 15.
Rome! What a citv it was when Paul
visited it I What a dit.y it is nowl Rome!
The place where Virgil sang and Horace
satirized, and Terence laugbe I and Catiline
conspired, and Ovid dramatized and Nero
fiddled, and Vespasian prosecuted and Suiia
legislated, and Cicero thundered, and Aurel¬
ius and Decius and Caligula and Julian and
Hadriad and Constantine and Augustus
reigned, aud Paul the Apostle preached the
gospel. I much of draftsman, but I have
am not a
in my memorandum book a sketch which I
made in the winter of 18SD, when I went out
to tho gate through which Paul entered
Rome ami walked up the very street he
walked up to see somewhat how the city
mu.->t have looked to him as he cams in on
the gospel errand proposed in the text.
Palaces on either side of the street through
which the little missionary advanced. Piled
up wickedness. Enthroned ac-ursedness.
Templed cruelties. Altars to sham deities.
Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched,
domed, turreted abominations. Wickedness
of all sorts at a high premium and righteous¬
ness per cent. off. And now he passes
by the foundations of a building which is to
be almost unparalleled walls which for vastness. have begun You
can see by the is be something enough to
rise, that here to
stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye,
it is the Coliseum started.
Of the theatre at Ephesus fhe where Paul
fought with wild beasts, temple of Diana,
of the Parthenon, of Pharaoh’s palace at
Memphis and of other great buildings, the
ruins of which I have seen, it has been my
privilege to address you, but a member of
rny family asked me recently why l had not
spoken to you ot the Coliseum at Rome,
since its moral and religious lessons are so
impressive.
Perhaps I had visited the Mam
wrought upon me. Paul incarcera¬
ertine dungeon where was
ted. 1 had measured the opening Paul at the top
of the dungeon through which had
been let down, and it was twenty-three
inches by twenty-six. The ceiling at its
highest point was seven feet from ceiling the floor,
but at the sides of the room the was
five feet seven inches, The room at the
widest was fifteen leefc. There was a seat of
rod; 2% feet high. There was a shelf
fe* t high. The only furniture wasa spider’s
web suspended from the roof, wh eh .1 saw
by the torchlight 1 carried. There was the
subterraneous passage from the dungeon to
the Roman forum, so that the prisoner trial. could
be taken directly from prison to
The dungeon was built out of volcanic
stone from the Albino Mountains. Oh, it
was a dismal and terrific place. You never
saw coal hole so daru or so forbidden. Ths
place was to me a nervous shock, for I re¬
member that was the best thing that the
world would afford the most illustrious be¬
ing, except one. that I ever saw, and that
from that place Paul went out to die. From
that spot I visited the Coliseum—one of the
most astounding miracles of architecture
that the world ever saw. Indeed, I throw saw it
morning, noon and night, could for it a
spell on me from which 1 not break
away. Although vast ruin, the Coliseum
now a
is so well preserved that we can stand in the
centei and recall all that it once was. It is
in shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblong. It is 3*
its greatest length 613 feet. After it,'had
furnished seats for 87,010 people it 100,000 h.-pj- r oom
for 15,000 more to stand, so that peo¬
ple could sit arid stand transfixed by its
scenes of courage horror. and mariyrdqfn /' and bru¬ V
tality and
Instead it car wMern tickets of admis
sion, they entered by ivory check, and a
check dug up near Rome within a few years
was marked “.Section 6, Lowest Tier. Seat
No. 18.” You understand that fhe building
was not constructed for an audience to be
addressed by human voice, although I tested
it, with some friends and could be heard
across it, but it was made only for seeing
and was circular, and at any point allowed
full view of tho spectacle. in olden times
The arena in the centre was
strewn with pounde i stone or sand, so as not
to be too slippery with human bloo J, for if
it were too slippery it would spoil the fun.
The sand flashed here and there with
sparkles of silver and gold, and Nero added
cinnabar and Caligula added chrysocolla.
The sides of the arena were composed or
smooth marble eleven feet high, so that the
wild beasts of the arena could not climb up
into the audience. O n the top of these sides
of smooth marble wasa metal railing, hav¬
ing wooden rollers, which easily revolved.
BO that if a panther should leap high enough
to scale the wall and with his paw touch any
one of those rollers it would revolve aud
drop him back again into the arsna.
Back of this marble wail surrouuding the
arena was a level platform of stone, adorned
with statues of gods and goless9s and the
artistic effigies of monarchs and conquerers.
Here were movable seats for the emperor
and the imperial swine and swiuesses with
which he surrounded himself. Before the
piece where the emperor sat the gladiators
would walk immediately after entering the
arena, eryinv: “Hail, Caesar I Those about
to die salute^hee." di
The different ranks of spectators were
vided by partitions stuided with mosaics of
emerald and beryl and ruby and diamond,
Great masts of woad arose from all sides of
the building, from which festoons of ibwers
were suspended, crossing the building, or in
time of rain awnings of silk ware suspended,
the Coliseum haviug no roof. The outside
wail was incrusted with marble and had
four ranges, and the three lower ranges had
80 columns each and arches after arches,
and on each arch an exquisite statue of a
god or a hero. Coli;
Into 180 feet of altitude soarel the
eum. It glittered and flashed and shone
with whole sunrises and sunsets of dazzle
ment. After the audience had assemoled
aromatic liquids oozml from tubes distilled
from pipes and rained gently on the uiulti
tudes and filled the air with odors of
cinth aud heliotrope and frankincense and
balsam and myrrh and saffron, so that
cftD. ’ the poet, says of it:
At once ten thousand taffron currents flow
And rain their odors on the crowd belcw.
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«■* tZ.’XSvr&S. 'SZS'S
enough for the arena, and I saw the under
accustomedto ixjssxs&rt.'sisx. waifuntfithe^appS otZl
All the arrangements were complete, as
jta&srstfiz&s: s
slain, so that blood of men and beast was not
a brook, but a river; not a dedicated, pool, but a lake,
Having been in that way be not
surprised when I tell you that Emperor Pro
bus on one occasion threw infce that arena of
the Coliseum 1000 stags, 1000 boars and 1000
ostriches. What fun it musthave been—the
sound of trumpets, the roar of wild beasts
and the groans of dying meu while in the
gallery the wives and children of those down
under the lion’s paw wrung their hands and
shrieked out in widowhood and orphanage,
while 100,000 people clapped their bauds, and
there was a “Ha! ha!” wide as Rome aud
deep as perdition! of that put
The corpses arena were on a
cart or dragged by a hook out througa what
was called the Gate of Death. What au
excitement it must have been w hen two com-
batants entered the arena, the one witn
sword and shield and the other with net
and spear. The swordsman strikes at the
man with the net and shear. He dodges the
sword and then flings the net over the head
of the swordsman and the jerks him who to flung the floor
of the arena, and man the
net puts his foot on the neck of the fallen
swordsman, and spear in hand looks up to
the galleries, as much as to say, “Shall I let
him up, or shall I plunge this spear into his
body until he is dead?”
The audience might bad two If signs, either of
which they give. they wavel their
flags, it meant spare the fallen contestant.
If they turned their thumbs down, it meant
slay him. Occasionally the audience would
wave their flags, anal the fallen would be let
up, but that was too tame sport for most oc¬
casions, and generally the thumbs from the
galleries were turne l down, and with that
sign would be heard the recompanying shout
of “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!”
Yet it was far from being a monotone ot
sport, for tiiere was a change Under of programme
in that wondrous Coliseum. a strange
and powerful machinery, beyond the" anything
of modern invention, the floor of arena
would begin to rock and roll and then give
away, and there would appear a lake of
brignt water, and on its banks trees would
spring appeared up rustling with foliage, and tigers
among the jungles, and armed
men would come forth, anil there would be
a tiger hunt. Then on the lake in the Colis¬
eum armed ships would float, and there
would be a sea When fight. pestilence What fun I What
lots of fun! came, in order
to appease the gods, in this Coliseum a sacri¬
fice would be made, and the people would
throng that great amphitheatre, shouting,
“fhe Christians to the wild beasts!” and
there would be a crackling of human bones
in the jaws of leonine ferocity.
But all this was to be stopped. By the
outraged sense of public decency? No.
There is only one thing that has ever stopped
cruelty and sin, and that is Christianity, and
it was Christianity, whether you like its
form or not, that stopped while this massacre of
centuries. One day in the Coliseum
a Roman victory was being celebrated, and
100,000 enraptured gladiators spectators the were looking
down upon two in arena stab¬
bing and slicing each other to death, an
Asiatic monk of the name of Telemachus
was so overcome by the cruelty that he
leaped from the gallery into the arena and
ran in batween the two swordsmen and
pushed first one back and then the other
back and broke up the contest.
Of course the audience was affronted at
having their snort stopped, of Telemachus and they hurled
stones at the head until he
fell dead in the arena. But when the day
was passed, and the passions of the people
bad cooled off, they deplored Telemachus, the martyrdom
of the brave and Christian and
as a result of tho overdone cruelty the
human sacrifices of the Coliseum were for
ever abolished.
W hat a good thing, say you, that such
cruelties have ceased. My friends, the same
spirit of rumous amusements and of moral
sacrifice is abroad in the world to-day, al¬
though it takes other shapes. Last summer
in our southwest thera occurred a scene of
pugilism on which all Christendom looked
down, for I saw the papers on the other side
of the Atlantic Ocean giving whole columns
of it. Will some one tell me in whatrespect
that brutality of last summer was superior
to the brutality of a Roman Coliseum? In
some respects it was worse by so much as
the Nineteenth Century pretends to the be Fifth more
merciful and more decent than
Century. winning admiration in
this That pugilism is.positiveiy is proved by the fact
country
that years ago such collision was reported in
a half dozen line3 of newspaper, if repprted
at all, and now it taker t!W wfit-le “de of a
newspaper to toil what transpired between
the first blood drawn by one loafer and the
•Farowing up of the sponge by the other
loafer, and it is not the newspaper’s fault,
for the newspapers give only what the peo¬
ple want, and whan newspapers put carrion
on your table it is because you prefer car¬
rion.
The same spirit of brutality is seen to-day
in many an ecclesiastical court when a min¬
ister is put on trial. Look at the counton -
ances of the prosecuting ministers, will aud find not
in all cases, but in many cases, you
nothing but diabolism inspires them. Thev
let out on one poor minister who cannot de¬
fend himself the lion of ecclesiasticism and
the tiger of biggotry, and the wild boar of
jealousy, and if they can get the offending
minister flat on his back some one puts his
feet on the neck of the overthrown gospel
izer and looks up, spear ecclesiastics in hand, to would see
whether the galleries and
have him let up or slain. And, lo! many of
the thumbs are down. y
In the worldly realms look at the brutali¬
ties of the presidential election eight years
ago. Read the biographies of Daniel Wob
ster and Alexander H. Stephens and Horace
Greeley and Charles Sumner and Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar au l James G.
Blaine, and it the story ot defamation and
calumny and scandalizition and diatribe
and scurrility and lampoon aud billingsgate
and damnable perfidy be accurately re¬
corded,tell me in what respects our political
arena and the howling and blaspheming
galleries that again and again look down Oolis
upon it are better than the Roman
eum.
When I read a few days agothattheSu- States had
preme Court of the United ap
propriately adjourned to pay honors to the
two last distinguished meu mentioned, East and
American journalism North, South,
and West went into lamentations over their
departure and said all complimentary “When
things in regard to them, I asked:
did the Nation lie a'oou: these men? Was it
when during their life it gave them male
diction or no v since their death when be
stowing upon them beatification? 1 ’
The same soirit of cruelty that you de
p]ore in the Roman Coliseum is seen in the
sharp appetite the world seems to have for
the downfall of goo 1 men. aud in the divorce
of those whose marital life was thought ac
eordant, and in the absconding of a bank
cashier. Oh, mv friends, the world wants
more of the spirit of “Let him up’ and less
of the soirit of 'I’humos down!" There are
i hundreds of men in the prisons of Amei ica
who ought to he discharged, becauss they
were the victims of circumstances or have
suffere d enough.
are
tions men who are domineers? over by
others, and whose life is a struggle with
montrous opposition, and circumstances
have their heel upon the throoomg and
broken hearts. For God’s sake, let them
up! Away with the soirit of “ Lhumbs
down!” What the world wants is 1090 men
like Telemachus to leap out of the nailery
i n to the arena, whether he be a Roman
'JStVJSXPZ
its heel on the1 half that^ts down it you as
Bishqp^r asaStateorNational officer as
devil that posses,e i e K.
°niy a continuation o p s:
eum
the world generally begin .
The cruelties of circles, and in day
nurseries, aud iu home
schools. The child that transfixes a fly with
a pin, or the low feeling that sets two dogs
into combat, or that bullies a waai or crip
pled playmate, or the indifference that
starves a canary bird, needs only to be de¬
velope.d in order to make a first class -Nero
or a lull armed Apollyoa. It would be a
good sentence to be written on the top line
of a child’s book, an 1 a fit inscription to be
embroidered in the arm chair ot the sittmg
room, and an appropriate motto for jui-ge
and jury anil district attorney and sheriff to
look at in the court house, “Blessed are the
1 merciful, for they shall obtain mercy!
| And so the ruins of that Coliseum nreaeh
to me. indeed tho most impressive things
on earth are ruins. The four greatest struc¬
tures ever built are in ruins. The Parthe¬
non in ruins, the temple of Diana in ruins,
the temole of Jerusalem in ruins, the Coli¬
seum in ruins. Indeed the earth itself will
yet be a pile of ruins, the mountains in
ruins, the seas in ruins, the cities iu ruins,
the hemispheres in ruin-'. Yea, further
than that, all up and down the heavens are
worlds burned up, worlds wrecke 3, worlds
extinct, worlds abandoned. Worlds on
worlds in ruins!
Hitt I am glad to sav it is the same old
heaven, and in all that world there is not
one ruin and never will be a ruin. Not one
of the pearly gates will ever become un¬
hinged . Not on a o£ the amethystine mansions towers will
will ever fall. Kot one of the
ever decay. Not one of the chariots will
ever be unwheeled. Not one of the thrones
will ever rock down. Oh, make sure of
heaven, for it is an everlasting heaven.
Through Christ the Lord get ready for
residence In the eternal palaces. Rome for
Tiie last evening before leaving Pales¬
Brindisi and Athens an i Egypt and
tine I went alone to the Coliseum. There
was not a living soul in ail the immense
area. Even those accustomed to sell curios
at the four entrances of the building had
gone away. The place was so overwhelm¬
ingly silent I could hear my own heart beat
with the emotions aroused by the place and
hour. I paced the arena. I walked down
into the dens where the hyenas were once
kept. I ascended to the place where the
emperor used to sit. I climbed up on the
galleries from which the mighty throngs of
people had gazed in enchantment.
To break the silence i shouted, and that
seemed to awaken the echoes, echo upon
echo. And those awakened echoes seemed
to address me, saving: “Men die, but their
work lives on. Gauientius, the architect
who planned this structure; the 60,000 en¬
slaved Jews Drought by Titus from Jerus¬
alem, and who toiled on thesP walls, the
gladiators who fought in this arena, the em¬
perors and empresses who had place on yon¬
der platform, the millions who during cen¬
turies sat and rose in these galleries, have
passe 1 away, but enough of the Coliseum
stands to tell the story of bloodshed.” cruelty and pomp
and power—500 I years there, of to
Then, as stood there which came seemed me
another burst of echoes, and
throbbing with the prayers and songs
groans of Christians who had expired “How in
that arena, and they seemed to say,
much it cost to serve God in ages past, aud
how thankful modern centuries reddened ought to the be
that the persecution which
sands of this amphitheater have been abol¬
ished.”
“Where is Emperor Titus, who sat here?”
The answer came, “Gone to judgment.” here?”
“Where is Emperor Trajan, “Where who is sat Maximi¬
“ done to judgment." here?’’ “Goneto judgment.”
nus, who sat
“Where are all the multitudes who clapped
and shouted and waved flags to let the van¬
quished up, or to have them slain put
tuumbs down?” The echoes answered, “Gone
to judgment.” I inquired, “All?” And they
answered “All.”
Aud I looked up to the sky above the
ruins, and it was full of clouds scurrying
swiftiy past, and those clouds seemed as
though they had faces, aud some of the faces
smiled and some of them frowned,' and they
seemed to have wings, .ami some of the
wings were moong’’. and others thunder
charged, and the voice overpowered the
echoes ber.rt'd. “Behold He cometh with
clouds, *wd every eye shall see Him.”
Aud as I stood looking ud along the walls
of the Coliseum they until rose higher amphitheatre and higher,
higher and higher, the
seemed to be filled with all the Nations of
the past, ami all the Nations of the present,
and all the Nations ot the future, those who
went down under the paws of wild blasts,
and those who sit waving flags to let up the
conquered, and those who bald thumbs down
to command their assassination, and small
and great, aud emperor and slave, and pas¬
tor and people, and righteous and wicsed,
the amphitheatre seeming to rise to in
doftnite heights on all sides of me, and
in the center of that amphitheatre, instead
of the arena of combatants, a great tbroni
stood, rising higher aud higher, highei
and higher,'and on it sat the Chrisl
for whom tn® martyrs died and
against whom the Diocletians plot¬
ted their persecutions, and splendors waving
one hand toward the cried, piled “Come, up bless- tc
the right of Him He ye
ed,” and waving the other hand toward the
piled up glooms on the left of Him He cried,
“Depart, ye cursed.”
And so the Coliseum of Rome that even
ing of 18S9 seemed enlarged into the I amphi- passed
theater ot the last judgment, that mighty and
from under the arch of struc
tuve, Almighty mighty God, even through in its Jesus mips, Christ, praying for to
mercy in that day for which all other days
were made, aud that as I expected mercy
from God I might exercise mercy toward
others and have more and more of the
“Thumbs* ” ^ ° £ ^ ^ ° £
down U
VYe may not all be able to do a sum in
higher mathematic?, but there is a sum in
aUnmydo. 1 * It ifSn“, SdlttoE
“Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue
knowledge, and to knowleJge temparance,
ness, and to brotherly kindness charity."
Petrified Snakes.
One of the most startling finds ever
made in this section was unearthed at
Itockvale, a small mining camp nine
miles northeast of here. The Santa Fe
Coal Company, which has large mining
interests at that point, was excavating in
the bottom of a gulch for the purpose of
putting in a new track when a peculiar
formation was run into. The workmen
stopped to examine, and on lggmg
around the spot the strange thing was
found to be a perfectly formed snake
twelve feet in length.
This find caused so much excitement
that the excavation was continued, and
at a little distance another reptile was
uncovered, and on being dug out was
found to be twenty-four feet in length
and as thick through as a man’s body
and perfectly petrified.
This find caused still greater excite¬
ment, and all work was stopped to dig
for snakes. Another one was soon struck
and is not yet uncovered. The reptiles
were found at a depth of three feet. De¬
tails are but meagre so far, but a large
number of persons have visited the find,
and say facts as stated are true. No one
can tell how many of the petrified mon¬
sters will be found, but no doubt there
is a nest of them.—Denver News.
AIL M ere Freaks.
According to mail advices, love had a
queer mating at New Diggings, Wis,,
the other day.
The bridegroom stood six feet two
inches, the bride three feet two and a
half inches.
The officiating clergyman had but one
leg.
The witnesses were a man without
arms, who sigued the marriage contract
with a pen held between his teeth, a
woman who weighed 350 pounds and a
man seven feet six inches tall.
The bride was fifty years old, and her
grandmother, aged ninety-eight, attended
the wedding.—Boston Herald.
Nearly 4,000,000 tons of coal were
mined in Colorado during last year.
TO-DAY.
Jfy sonl upon my lips hath set a seat,
And tho’ I needs must greet thee ua
day,
[That lies between us I must not revea
My life is spent iu learning to obey. |W
But oh! dear one, when thou and X im
meet
In that fair world that knows not ganfc
fear,
Unfettered, shall these longing lips repeat®!
For evermore, “I loved thee a!way)
here.” x<.
—M. L. Smith, in Harper’s "Weekly. %
PITH AND POINT.
Shooting irons—Meteors,
A far-seeing man—The astronomer.
A drawer of water—The marine artist.
—Truth.
When a bicyclist goes at top speed he
calls it a spin.—Quips.
When a man becomes “a big gun” we
always expect good reports of him.
It is queer that a man becomes mo3t
nervous when he has lost his nerve.
Musical bars are no barriers to the
man who “breaks out in song.”—Bos¬
ton Courier.
It is impossible for anybody to have
too many of the necessaries of life.—
Galveston News.
When a man is sick he takes melan¬
choly enjoyment in looking at his tongue.
—Atchison Globe.
When a man has a boil he is in a posi¬
tion to keep his family in hot water.—
Binghamton Leader.
Why need the wild sea waves lash the
shore? There’s no danger of the shore
getting away.—Truth.
You may jocularly tell a man he’s a
lyre, but it isn’t wise to harp on it too
much.—Boston Courier,
The man who erects a large building
on a very small lot does so because jje is
short-sited.—Rochester Democrat.
A pessimist likes a thing he can’t en¬
joy, and an optimist enjoys a thing he
can’t like.—Tennessee Twinklings.
“There’s a time to work and a time
to play,” but to the hand organ grinder
both times come at once.—Rochester
Democrat.
“Your speech is rather sharp,Ithink,”
complained Mrs. Hawkins. “I have to
make it so to get it in edgewise,” re¬
torted Hawkins.
First Disputant—“Then I’m a liar?”
Second Ditto—“On the coutrary, my
dear fellow, you have just spoken the
truth.”— 1 Tid-Bits.
“Do you believe in corporal punish¬
ment for stupid school children!” “Yes,
a spanking always makes ’em smart.”—
Philadelphia Record.
The Parvenu—“Are you fond of
belles-lettres?” The Chump—“Bello
Letters? Don’t know. Never met her.”
—Chicago News Record.
Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, help it,
There is no way to you soe,
For In “grip” has landed once nr. re the free.
the home of the brave and
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Making Sure: She—“Then you’ll
take me lor a drive on Thursday?” He—
“Tes; but suppose it rains?” She—
“Come the day before, then.”—Brooklyn
Life,
Col. Umbus—“If you knew America
was beastly before you Jeft England
whatever induced you to come over?”
J. Taurus—“Ob, simply to verify my
suspicions ”
1
Miggs—“Whv . do it IS .
you suppose
considered bad luck to open an umbrella
the house?" Milton—“I suppose “
there danger , of , disclosing the owners .
is
name,”—Inter-Ocean.
The times when a policy of dignified
silence would unquestionably do a mau
the best service are the very times when
a dignified silence is particularly hard to
keep.—Somerville Journal,
Farmer’s Wife—“Why don’t you go
Tramp—“I would if I U
the tools.” Farmer’s Wife—“Whatsort
of tools do you want?” Tramp—“Knife
and fork.”—Texas Siftings.
Hownow—“Do you find the book in
teresting?” Mrs. Tangletongue—“Oh,
very.” Hownow—“Who is the author?”
Mrs. Tangletongue—“Oh, his name isn’t
given; it is published unanimously.”—•
Boston Courier,
Tommy Cabbage (at the Sunday-din
ner table)—“Mrs. Tillinghast was knit
u at church this morning.” Mrs.
Q a bbage (shocked)—“What on earth
was she kuitting in church?” Tommy—
“Her brows.”—Judge.
Lawyer—“So you have had this
st ol ca nn . £> ^ ror }} babyhood.. , _
what is your age? * The Court—“The
question is impertinent. The lady need
not answer.” Lawyer—“Well,
long have you owned the ring?”—Jewel -\
ers’ Weekly.
Maud—“I don’t see you at Dr. Flips
ley’s church any more.” Madge—“No;
the colors the sun throws through those
new stained-glass windows were too try¬
ing to my complexion, so I wjc obliged
to sever my connection with the church.”
—Brooklyn Eagle.
She (sitting down)—“I see you are
not a regular traveler on these suburban
trains.” He (standing up)—“That is
true. How do you know?” “You gave
me your seat.” “Aud you, madam,
pardon me, are not a regular traveler on
suburban trains either.” “Ah, how did
you guess that?” “You thanked me.”—
Chicago Tribune.
Peculiarities ot a Coal Mine.
A newly opened coal miue near Man¬
chester, England, lies at the great depth
of about 1000 yards, and the borin«F
presents the curious phenomenon of pass¬
ing down from one seam of coal to
another one 400 yards geologically
higher. This is due to a reversed fault,
by which the seams are thrown into thia
remarkable relative position. At the bot¬
tom of the mine the temperature ii
eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit, which
is unexpectedly low, and the barometer
stands three inches higher than at the
surface.—New York Telegram.
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