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REV. DR. TAOIAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
f- DISCOURSE.
Subjcct: “War.’*
Text: “The tower of David bui’ f 0T nn
armory, whereon there hung - t 'thousand
buckles, all shields of mighty • ^ —Solo¬
mon's Song iv.. 4.
Tho church is here comp to *m arm
pry, the walls hung with trophies of dead
heroes. Walk all about ib ', s lowerof David
and see the dented shu and the twisted
Swords and the rust' q hemlets of terrible
battle. So at this see a month earlier at
the south, a month j^nr at the north, the
American church*’ j are turned into armories
adorned with me of departed braves.
Blossom sacrifice andbhjoo^ qy walls, with stories of
.self a j,? patriotism and prowess!
By unanim decree of the people of the
United Stages of America the graves of all
jthe notthe/n and southern dead are every
•year decorated. All acerbity and bitterness
‘ boom cbq gone out of thcnational solemnity, and
ap. men and women of the south one
* /month ago fioralized the cemeteries and
graveyards so yesterday we, tho men tombs and
women of the north, put upon the of
our dead the kiss; of patriotic affection.
Bravery always appreciates bravery, though
it light on tho other side, and if a soldier of
the Federal army had been a month ago at
Savannah he would not have been ashamed
to march in the floral processions to the
cemetery. And if yesterday a Confederate
soldier was at Arlington he was glad to put
«sprig of heartsease on the silent heart of
our dead.
ln a battle during our last warthe Confed¬
erates were driving back the Federals, who
were in swift retreat, when a Federal officer
dropped wounded. One of his men stopped
at the risk of his life and put his arms
around the officer to carry him fr’om the
hold. Fifty Confederate muskets were aimed
at the young man who was picking up the
officer. But the Confederate captain snout¬
ed. “Hold! Don’t fire! That fellow is too
brave to shoot.” And as the Federal officer,
held up by his private soldier, went limping
slowly off the field the Confederate soldiers
gave three cheers for the brave private, and
. just before the two disappeared behind a
barn both the wounded officer and the brave
private lifted their caps in gratitude to the
Confederate captain.
Shall tlie gospel be less generous than the
world? AYe stack arms, the bayonet of our
northern gun facing this way, the bayonet
of the southern gun facing the other way,
and as the gray of tho morning melts into
tho blue of noon, so the typical gray and
blue of old war times have blended at last,
and they quote in tho language of King
James’s translation without any revision,
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men.” Now, what do we
mean by this great observance?
First, we mean instruction to one whole
generation. Substract 1865, when the war
ended, from our 1896, and you will realize
what a vast number of people were born since
the war, or wero so young as to have no
vivid appreciation. No one under forty-one
years of age has any adequate memory of
that prolonged horror. Do you remember
it? “Well,” you say, “I only remember that
mother swooned away while she was read¬
ing tho newspaper, and that they brought
my father home wrapped in the flag, and
that a good many people came in the house
to pray, and mother faded away after that
until again there wero many people in tho
house and they told me she was dead.”
There are others who cannot remember
tho roll of a drum or the tramp of a regi¬
ment or a sigh or a tear of that tornado of
woe that swept the nation a^ain and again
until there was one dead in each house. Now,
it is tho religious duty of those who do re¬
member it to tell those who do not. My
young friends, there were such partings at
rail car windows and steamboat wharfs, and
at front doors of comfortable homes as I
pray God you may never witness. Oh, what
a time it was when fathers and mothers gave
up their sons, never expecting to see them
again and never did see them again until
they dead! came back mutilated and crushed and
Four years of blood. Four years of hos¬
tile experiences. Four years of ghastliness.
Four years of gravedigging. Four years of
funerals, coffins, shrouds, hearses, dirges.
Mourning! mourning! mourning! It was
hell let loose. What a time of waiting for
news! Morning paper and eyening paper
scrutinized for intelligence from the boys
at the front. First, announcement that the
battle must occur the next day. Then the
news of the battle’s going on. On the fol¬
lowing day still going on. Then the news
of 30,000 slain, and of the names of tho great
generals who had fallen, but no news about
the private soldiers. Waiting for news! Af¬
ter many days a load of wounded going
through the town or city, but no news from
our boy. Then a long list of wounded and
a long list of the dead, and a long list of the
missing, and amoug the last list our boy.
When missing? How missing? Who saw
him last? Missing, missing’ Was he in the
woods or by the stream? How was he hurt?
Missing, missing! What burning prayers
that he may yet bo heard from! In that aw¬
ful waiting for news many a life perished.
The strain of anxiety was too great. That
wife's brain gave way that first week after
the battle, and ever and anon she walks the
floor of the asylum or looks out of the win¬
dow as though she expected some one to
come along the path and missing!” up the steps as she
soliloquizes, “Missing,
What made matters worse, all this might
have been avoided. There was no more need
of that war than at this moment I should
plunge a dagger through your heart. There
were a few Christian philanthropists iu those
days, scoffed at both by north and south,
who had the right of it. If they had been
heard on both sides, we should have had no
war and no slavery. It was advised by those
Christian philanthropists, “Let the north
pav in money tor the slaves us property and
set Ihem free.” The north said. “We cannot
afford to pay.” slaves The south said, “We will
not sell the anyhow.” enough But the purchase north
did pay in war expenses to
the slaves, and the south was compelled to
give up slavery anyhow. paid Might not the
north better have the money and saved
the lives of 500,000 brave men, and might not
the south better have sold out slavery and
saved her 500,000 brave men? I swear you
by the graves of your fathers and brothers
and sons to a new hatred for the champion
curse of the universe—war!
O Lord God, with the hottest bolt of Thine
omnipotent indignation strike that monster
down forever and ever! Imprison it in the
deepest Bolt dungeon of the eternal penitentiary.
it in with all the iron ever forged in
•cannon or moulded Into howitzers. Cleavo
it with all the sabers that ever glittered in
battle and wring its soul with all the pangs
which it ever caused. Let it feel all the con¬
flagrations of the homesteads it ever de¬
stroyed. Deeper down let it fall and in
fiercer flame let it burn, till it has gathered
into it; heart all the suffering of eternity as
well as time. In the name of the millions
of graves of its victims, I denounce it. The
nations need more the spirit of treatv and
less of the spirit of war.
^AYay^nore ghastly now than once, not
°,^ r i weaponry, because now tt it takes chiefly down took
dr twst men. wiiereas once
>w 5 i the worst. Bruce, ia 1717. in his “In
kitutfons of Military Law,” said of the Eu¬
ropean armies o i his day, “II ail infamous
persons and such as have committed dastardly capital
crimes, heretics, atheists and all
feminine men were weeded out of the army,
it would soon be rechrced to a pretty moder¬
ate number.” Flogging and mean pay made
them still more ignoble. Officers were ap¬
pointed to see that each soldier drank his
ration of a pint of spirits a day. There were
noble men in battle, but the moral character
of the army was then ninety-five per cent,
lower than the moral character of an army
to-day. By so much is war now the picked more
detestable because it destroys the
men of the nations.
Again, by this national ceremony we mean
to honor courage. Many of these departed and
soldiers were volunteers, not conscrints.
many of those who were drafted might have
provided a substitute or got off on furlough
or have deserted. The fact that they He in
their graves is proof of their bravery. Brave
at the front, bravo at the cannon’s mouth,
biave on lonely picket duty, brave in cavalry
charge, brave before the surgeon, brave m
the dying message to the home circle. We
yesterday put a garland on the brow of cour¬
age. The world wants more of it.
The church of God is in woeful need of
men who can stand under fire. The lion of
worldly in derision roars and the sheep trem¬
ble. great reformatory movements at
the first shot how many fall back! The great
obstacle to the church’s advancement is the
inanity, the vacuity, the soft prettiness, the
mam by pabyisrn of professed Christians.
Great on a parade, cowards in battle. Afraid
of getting their plumes ruffled, they carry a
parasol over their helmet. They go into
battle not with warrior’s gauntlet, but with
kid gloves, not clutching the sword hilt too
tight Jess the gioves split at the back.
In ail our reformatory and Christian work
the great want is more backbone, more
mettle, more daring, more prowess, We
would in all our churches like to trade off a
hundred do nothings for one do everything.
“Quit yourselves like men; bo strong.”
The saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see.the triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye.
Again, we mean by this national observ¬
ance to honor self sacrifice for others. To
all these departed men home and kindred
were as dear as our home and kindred are to us.
Do you know how they felt? Just as you and
I would feel starting out to-morrow morn¬
ing with nine chances out of ten against our
returning alive, for the intelligent soldier
sees not only battle ahead, but malarial sick¬
ness and exhaustion. Had these men chosen
they could have spent last night in their
homes and to-day have been seated where
you are. They chose the camp not because
they liked it better than their own house,
and followed the drum and fife not because
they were better music than the voices of the
domestic circle. South Mountain and Mur¬
freesboro and the swamps of Chickahominy
were not playgrounds.
These heroes risked and lost all for others.
There is no higher sublimity than that. To
keep three-quarters for ourselves and give
one-quarter to others is honorable. To
diy.ide, even With others is generous. To
xeep nothing for ourselves and give all for
others is magnanimity Cnristlike. Put a
a girdle around your body and then measure
the girdle and see if you are fifty or sixty
inches round. And is that the circle of your
sympathies?—the size of yourself? Or. to
measure you around the heart, would it
take a girdle large enough to encircle the
land and encircle the world? You want to
know what we dry theologians mean when
we talk of vicarious suffering. Look at the
soldiers’ graves and flad out. Vicarious—
pangs for others, wounds for others, home¬
sickness for others, blood for others,
sepulcher for others.
Those who visited the national cemeteries
at Arlington Heights and at Richmond and
Gettysburg saw one inscription on soldiers’
tombs oftener repeated than any other—“Un¬
known.” 'When, about twenty-one years ago,
I was called to deliver the oratfou at Arling¬
ton Heights, Washington, I was not so much
impressed with the minute guns that shook
the earth or with theattendanceof president
and cabinet and foreign ministers and gen¬
erals of the army and commodores of tho
navy as with the pathetic and overwhelming
suggestiveness of that “Unknown!” epitaph “Unknown!” on so many
gravesat my feet, the
It seems to me that time must come when
the government of the United States shall
takeoff that epitaph. hai-e They are no more un¬
known! We found them out at last.
They are the beloved sons of the republic.
Would it not be well to take the statue of
the heathen goddess off the top of the eani
tol (for I have no faith in the morals of a
heathen all goddess) National and put one great statue of
in our cemeteries—a statue
liberty in tho form of a Christian woman
with her hand on an open Bible and her foot
on tho Reek of Ages, with the other hand
pointing down to the graves of the unknown,
saying, “These are my sons who died that I
might live.” Takeoff the misnomer. Every¬
body knows them. It is of comparatively
little importance what was the name given
them in baptism of water. In the holier and
mightier baptism of blood we know them,
and yesterday tho Nation put both arms
around them and hugged them to her heart,
crying, “Aline forever!”
Again, by this national ceremony we moan
the future defense of this nation. By every
wreath of flowers on the soldiers* graves we
say, ‘‘Those who die for the country shall
not be forgotten.” and that wili give enthu¬
siasm to our young men in case our nation
should in the future need to defend itself in
battle. We shall never have another war be¬
tween north and south. We are floating off
farther and farther from tho possibility of
sectional strife.
No possibility of civil war. But about for¬
eign invasion I am not so certain. When I
spoke against war, A said nothing against
seif defense. An inventor told me that ho
had invented a style of weapon which could
be used ia self defense, but not iu aggressive
warfare. 1 said. “When you get tho nations
to adopt that weapon, you have introduced
the railienium.” I have no right to go on my
neighbor’s premises and assault* him, but if
some ruffian break into my house for the as¬
sassination of my family, and I can.borrow a
gun and load it in time and aim it straight
enough. I will shoot him.
There is no room on this continent for
any other nation except Canada, and a bet¬
ter neighbor no one ever had. If you don’t
think so go to Montreal and Toronto and
see how well they will treat you. Other
than that there is absolutely no room for
any other nation. I have been across the
continent again and again, and know that
we have not a half inch of ground for the
gouty foot of foreign despotism to stand on.
But I am not so sure that some of the arrog¬
ant nations of Europe may not some day
challenge us. I do not know that those
forts around New York bay are to sleep ail
through the *
next century. I do not know
that Barnegat lighthouse will not yet look
off upon a hostile navy. I do not know but
that a half dozen nations, envious of our
prosperity, may want to give us a wrestle.
During our civil war there were two or three
nations that could hardly keep their hands
off us. It- is very easy to pick national quar¬
rels. and if our nation escapes much longer
it wiii be the exception.
If foreign foe should come, we want men
like those of 1S12 and like those of 1S62 to
meet them. We want them all up and down
the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter m the
same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette and
Fort Hamilton—men who will not only
know how to light, but how to die. When
such a time comes, if it ever does come, the
generation on the stage of action wiii say:
•*My country will care for my family as they
did in the soldiers’ asylum for the orphans
in the Civil War, ancl my country will honor
my dust as it honored those who preceded
me in patriotic saeriiice, and once a year at
any rate, on Decoration Day, I shall be res¬
urrected into the remembrance of those for
whom I died, Hera I go for God and my
country! Huzza!” old
If foreign foe should come, the sec¬
tional animosities would have no power.
Here go our regiments into the battlefield—
Fifteenth New York volunteers, Tenth Ala¬
bama cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsylvania rifle¬
men. Tentn Massacausetts artillery. Seventh
South Carolina sbarpshoopers. I do not
know but it may require the attack of some
foreign foe to make us forget our aosurd sec¬
tional wrangling I have no faith in the
cry. “No north, no south, no east, no west!”
Let ail four sections keep their peculiarities
and their preferences, each doing its own
work and not interfering with each other,
each of the four carrying its part in the great
harmony—the bass, the alto, the tenor, the
soprano—in the grand march of Union.
Once more, this great national ceremony
means the beautification of the tombs,
whether of those who fell in battle or acci¬
dent, or who have expired in their beds, or
in our arms, or on our laps. I suppose you
have noticed that many oi the families take
this season as the time for the adornment of
their family plots. This national observance
has secured the arboriculture and floricul¬
ture of the cemeteries, the straightening up
of many a slab planted 30 or 40 years ago,
and has swung the scythe through the long
grass and has brought the stonecutter to call
out the half obliterated epitaph. This day
is the benediction of the resting place oi
father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sis
ter. them
It is all that we can do for now.
Make their resting places attractive, not ab¬
surd with costly outlay, but in quiet remem¬ afford
brance. You know how. If you can
only one flower, that will do. It shows
what you would do if you could, One blos
som from, vou may mean more than the
Duke of Wellington catafalaue. Oh, we
cannot afford to forget them, They were
so lovely to us. We miss them so much.
We will never get over it. Blessed Lord
Jesus, comfort our broken hearts, From
every bank of flowers breathes promise 6
resurrection.
In olden times the Hebrews, returning
from their burial place, U3ed to pluck the
grass from the field three or four times, then
throw it over their heads, suggestive of the
resurrection. We pick not the grass, but the
flowers, and instead of throwing them over
our heads we place them before our eyes,
ri.c ht down over the silent heart that once
beat with warmest love toward us, or over
the still feet that ran to service, or over the
lips from which we took the kiss at the an¬
guish of the last parting. infidels.
But stop! We. are not Our bodies
will soon join the bodies of our departed in
the tomb and our spirits shall join their
spirits in the land of the rising sun. We
cannot long be separated. Instead of cry¬
ing with Jacob or Joseph, “I will go down
into the grave unto my son, mourning,”
let us cry with David, “I shall go to him.”
On one of th3 gates of Greenwood is the
quaint inscription. “A night’s lodging on
the way to the city of New Jerusalem.”
Comfort one another with these words. May
the hand of Him who shall wipe away all tears
from all eyes wipe youreheek with its softest
tenderness. The Christ of Mary and Martha
iind Lazarus will inloid you in His arms.
The white robed angel who sat at the tomb
of Jesus will yet roll the stone from the door
of vour dead in radiant resurrection. The
Lord Himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout and the voice of the archangel.
So the “Dead March” in “Saul” shall be¬
come the “Halleluiah Chorus.”
KENTUCKY’S DELEGATES.
Will Carry the State for Free Silver.
Blackburn Commended.
Kentucky declared for free silver in
her county conventions Saturday. The
following series of resolutions were
adopted in all the counties:
“Resolved, 1. Thatwefavor the free
and unlimited coinage of both silver
and gold as the standard money of
this country at the ratio of 16 to 1,
this same to be legal tender in the pay¬
ment of all debts, public and private,
great and small, this to be done by
the independent action of the United
States government.
“2. We disapprove of the financial
policy of President Cleveland and Sec¬
retary of the Treasury Carlisle, because
we believe the same to be hurtful to
the best interests of the American peo¬
ple.
“3. We approve the action of Sena¬
tor Joe Blackburn and commend him as
the nominee of the democratic party in
Kentucky for re-election to the United
States senate.”
NINETY FUNERALS.
Tornado Victims Buried at St. Louis
Sunday.
Grand and Florissant avenues, the
main thoroughfares of Beilfontaine
and Calvary cemeteries at St. Louis
were covered Sunday with a continu¬
ous stream of carriages following the
victims of the tornado to their last
resting place.
The appearances of the hearses in
the sad procession alone punctuated
the points where one funeral party
ended and another began. There was
a sunless sky and the sombre clouds
dripped a misty rain, as if nature was
weeping at her own dreadful work,
Fifty-one of the victims were buried
in St. Louis and thirty-nine in East
St. Louie.
Judge Sgodgrass Fined.
In the circuit court at Chaitanoogo
Chief Justice Snodgrass, of the state
supreme court, submitted the case of
pistol carrying, and on confession was
fined $50 by the judge and was dis¬
missed.
Smallpox in Moro Castle.
Private advices received at Key
West state that smallpox is raging at
Moro castle, Havana. On the 24th
sixteen cases were removed from Moro
to the hospital.
SOUDAN AND ITS PEOPLE.
A FRIGHTFULLY HOT BUT RE
JSASSABLY FERTILE REGION.
A Great Domain With Marvelous
Possibilities—Both England and
France Struggling for Its Control.
IMMEDIATELY south of the vast
Saharian Desert with its shifting
sands and sparse population lies
Soudan, “Land of the Blacks,” a
region that stretches clear across the
continent. It has never been fully ex¬
plored, but the accounts brought back
by travelers who have penetrated
it here and there show it is to
be a country of marvelous pos¬
sibilities. So far as climate is
concerned, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, it is one of the hot
e3t regions on the globe, there being
many places where the mean annual
temperature exceeds eighty-five de¬
grees, but it differs from the Sahara in
an abundance of rainfall, and conse¬
quently in fertility also. The entire
region comprises an area of 1,500,000
square miles, or about half that of the
United States, and of this great do¬
main from a fourth to a third is for¬
est. No one yet knows how great are
the resources of this country, nor how
vast the value of the exports that will
tiow from it, when once it has been
opened to commerce, but as itspopula
tion is estimated at from 10,000,000 to
30,000,000, it will, no doubt, prove a
valuable acquisition to the civilized
States that in future will control it.
At present it is divided among over
a hundred native African or Arab rul¬
ers, often at war with each other—
some semi-eivilized, some decidedly
barbarous, others entirely savage, but
most of the States having a population
of sufficient intelligence to appreciate
the benefits that would arise to them
from closer association with the
whites. The expedition that has
started from Cairo is one move in a
game for supremacy between France
and England. The former has long
been aspiring to large possessions in
Africa, and when the Dark Continent
was divided among the great Powers
of Europe, France managed to add to
Algeria the Western Sahara, excluding
Morocco and the land of the Moors, so
as to unite the Senegambian coast
with Algeria. In addition to this, the
French secured a large section of
country north of the Congo, and im¬
mediately began the task of extending
the French influence into the interior.
It is said that this work ha3 been at¬
tended with such success that the
sphere of French influence now
extends far to the we3t of Lake
Tchad, even into Darfoor, and
therefore comprises two-thirds of
the whole Soudan. The object of the
French Government is to acquire a
belt of country stretching entirely
across the continent, but in the Nile
Valley the opposition of the English
is instantly encountered. Forced out
of the Upper Nile Valley and the
Egyptian Soudan by the growth of
the Mahdi’s power, the English have
never relinqished their nominal claim
to the country, and the British East
African Company actually occupies an
enormous area of land on the east
coast, extending inward to Lake Vic¬
toria Nyanza and northward to the
boundaries of the Mahdi’s domain.
The reconquest of the Egyptian Sou¬
dan would unite Egypt with the pos¬
sessions of the British East African
Conqaany and give England control of
the entire Nile Valley, with access to
the ocean on the east. A most effectual
bar would thus be placed to the growth
of French influence toward the east,
and England would become the dom¬
inant Power, not only in Egyptian
Soudan, but also in the whole lake
region of Central Africa. It is not,
therefore, to be wondered at that not
only the French, bat other Powers in¬
terested in Africa, should look with
impatience on this fresh aggression on
the part of Great Britain, for if this
plan be carried out, there wili be
little to prevent that Power from estab¬
lishing a solid line of colonies from
north to south through the heart of the
continent, uniting Cape Colony with
Egypt, and thus enabling a traveler
to pass. During the Egyptian occu¬
pation of the region, the exjjorts from
the Soudan down the Nile and by
means of caravans to Cairo amounted
to about $9,000,000 a year, besides as
much more that went abroad through
the Bed Sea ports and from the
Somali coast. A district that can ex¬
port $18,000,000 worth of goods every
year is certainly worth having, tor a
country from which this amount of
surplus wealth can be annually spared
for export, under so bad a Govern
ment as tbat of Egypt, would cer
tainly prove of almost incalculable
weath if its own affairs were properly
administered and the people given do- an
equitable taxation. Tne Egyptian
main comprised Kordofan, Nubia,
Senaar, Taka and some provinces stiii j
further south, an area estimated at a
little less than 1,000,000 square miles, j
with an unknown population. different from
The country is as
Egypt proper as can easily bs con
ceived. Instead of the and sands and
brazen skies, from which rain never 1
falls, there are forests and call swamps, prairie j
long stretches of what we ,
land, and frequent plateaus, consider- ;
ablv elevated above the river, which
furnish excellent pasturage for wild an
telope and the flocks and herds ot tne ;
inhabitants. Here and there are arid j
spots, even sffifficjf^ along
Jtere chasical the contrivance . or c tits; uti333 1
the farmers instead w ! ’ni ch ■
into practical operating of pQlEp 5 ■
’
secure amount for of theAow *,££* ’ ** 0tt!
water 1 to
proper growth hrf fi! ' '
fall is sufficient & ru e fte
little artificial irr:,,, u a F “' pss H »l
^ sou is m u
Which so ! t i, .I"
eub-tropical can be raised ^ 1 !
luxuriance cli m3te It
in the p gr ° T
tato It is the the native and hom e yr wafiU S °
yam the
m tne hot sunshine “»'‘^ o' +i, r "
Valley Q
the a, dinl
natives in the g rea t 0
equatoria these n ”'
and Te abnad.!”” 8 tt, W s
ize with an
in other parts of the world
®5 ln ? at years! a
re g lon some EuL
that ail the tables of
supplied from the Egyptian with fruits and 2 co
this^region is pierced Soudan, jZ and
the b
time may come when
bananas and pineapples, or
and melons, from the fig, of!
be heart
may seen on the tables oi
ancl London. That day i s T
away, however, the exports o
region being at present lM
such articles as will bear the loi
journey to the markets of Cairo 1
Red Sea coast. Ostrich feathei
for many years formed the a
part, in value, of the Soudan d
while wax, coffee, a large vad
gum, ancl an enormous quand
fine skins and hides make up I
mainder. It is plain that
proper made enormously conditions the productive region j
those conditions will be attainel
the land ha3 been reconquer!
civilization by the Anglo-M
troops.
So far as the towns are coal
they are, at present, hardly Omil tJ
the name. Khartoum and
Berber and the rest are lail illJ
their main features, the
ference being found intkll oiiml
some are larger than even®!
striking similarity is Edfom,l
down the Nile, for
borders of the present EgyptiJ ieil
tier, is of the same class. A
ings of stone, where live the i
and important personages of til
a great many houses with ms
ancl thatched roofs where da
canaille, Narrow streets, or
passways, lead between the
and these miserable alleys sen
for entry and exit and as red
for all the filth and offal of the
If it were not for the vulta
dogs ahd hyenas and jackals
town in Soudan would be depo
in a year by pestilence, bat
the vultures eat all they can he
after nightfall the other animal
about and devour the remaia
that the towns of the Upper A
ley are as healthy as those
tropical country. from the
Intelligence q
Soudan has been scarce sincetl
of but Gordon from all and accounts the fall thepowa of hlj
Mahdi’s successor is waning,
iginal Mahdi has been dead!
erai years, and a splendid of ton AM
is, splendid for this part remains,!
been erected over his
mantle has fallen on au Anl
who seems of quite the native able to Aral roj
fanaticism all the|
point of fury. Taking
stances into consideration, :
dent th,at for some time to c
hitherto little regarded good dea. re?
probably furnish a
to the press of Cbjisten om.
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There can be no doubt
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climber building. to have Its on the Jons 5 ,
out
many, its bad ones none.
Boston or Japan Ivy ^
vine of rapid growth, 1
semble in shape tne c j
Ivy although the color four m su 0 £ J
large, which gives vruy*
green vivid ot ^
the most t l
of its chief points is, -
its leaves in the
the very jeolJ
dampness, Tiaes on » ^ her ything
that it clings to an;
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or r It *
the utmost tenam equal!^^ - ’
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or south 6lde ° emingE otF
shade or sun £e deg
any very great
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