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THIS iMON. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 1885.— SIXTEEN PAGES TABERNACLE SERMON. "Kccwlng (he Time, that Now it i> Tim* to Awake Out of 8l*ep“-LooMIuc Backward and Looking Forward- Reason* WSijr Wo Should Wake Up—A Flee Beriaoa. Brooklyn, December 27.--[ot>eoial.]— 1 This Being Ihe last Sabbath night of the year 1885, the Btv. T. DeWitt Talnrage, D. D., preached at the fobernacle, this city, a sermon appropri ate to the occasion. The hymn snug was: “My days are gliding swiftly l»y, And 1, a pilgrim Granger, Would not detain them as they fly. These hours of toll and danger.’* - * The preacher took his text from Romans xiii, It: ^‘Knowing the time,* that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” Following U the discourse in full: . While this morning with glad nmthem we celebrated the Ccristmas hoar, has it occurred to you that this is the hut Sabbath night of grand and beautiful, and eveutful and joyous and solemn eighteen hundred and eighty-five? The oesasion is mightily suggestive. Starting out on along journey on^horsoback, you ride along without stopping for ,mauy a mile until after a while you come on top of a high hill. You rein in the steed. The horse smokes by reason of the length of the way. You take your feet out of the stirrups. You turn around in tho saddle. You look off upon the ravines through which you havo passed and the hills over Which yon have come, and make an estimate of how many miles you have traveled. Then turning around again iu the sad dle and 2 putting your feet in the Stirrups, you look ahead, and wonder how far it will be before you come to the place of des tination. And so, today, wo come up on tho Sabbatic mount of privilege. Mo horseman ever spurred on a steed factor tho wo have gone up the steeps of life and down tho dangerous declivities; but havjug come here today, wo stop and look back upon tho way through which wo have come—tho darkness and the sunshine, the accidents and tho sue- cesses—ar.d then look forward nud wonder how long or how short will yet bo tho way. And sitting and standing here, tho hour scorn ? to me, as to you it must be. momentous. \ put my finger on the pulse of this moment nud I feel tbst it beats high aud eternal destinies. Yon and J havo started on iu a life which will continue to live after the sun 1ms gone out cold in death and this wrecked and foundered world shall have strewn its timbers on the coast of eternal desolation. Oh! it is a mean question for me to ask myself, and you today: "Where am I? What am I? Whence camo I? And whither am I bound?” The simple fact is that each ono of us has a soul to savo. Now, when any man in olden times had saved tho life of a Roman citizon from drowning, for instance, that man, who rescued the unfortu nate, was honored. He was allowed some times to sit in tho senate; ho was allowed to ride in tho great processions, and when he entered a room the peoplo would rise up to greet him and do him honor. I would to God that tonight wo might asplro for tho highor honor of saving a soul—an immortal soul. There arc threo or four reasons that I cau think of why wo should obey the injunction of mr text and wake up. Tho first arousing consideration that occurs to my mind is the fact that there are so many obstacles in the way of our salvatian. Now, there is no need of our hiding this fact. Wo sometimes hoar people talking to the unconverted and saying: ** It is just as easy for you to bccomo a Christ ian as It is to turn over your hand.” It is not. There are tremendous obstacles in tho way of your beroming a Christian, and every man that has tried in thorough earnestnoss to bocomo j,n child of God has round thattbero are obsta cle*. That is not a wise general who depreci- Ves the forco of an enemy—who says to mop; “My troops, you will have an easy time of it. Those castles can be cap tured without any very serions bombardment. There are only a few euemlos in that opposing host. It will only be a few moments’ assault and we will gain the victory.” No. A wise general says: “Thosearc strong battlomouta; those men who are coming out to assault us are armed, and they are brave men. If you ever capture thoso fortresses, and if you ever ©vereoino that host, it will bo by a mighty raMying of all your energies.” And I have to tell you now that if yon are ever going to get to heaven it will be by going out in a contest ns ono against a hundred, as one against a thousand, as ono against a hundred thousand; aye, it is an infinite impossibilty that you rfvor r % succeed by any strength or resolution of your own, and if there were not some supernatural nid to be offered and some divine promise to fako hold of, we would be lost, and we would all ho lost. In tho first place there are the obstacles in tho worldliness that surround you. I need not tell you, men ef Brooklyn and New York, that thcro is a tide of worldliness sotting away from God and from heaven. You havo folt it. You havo waded down in it until tho flood camo to yonr knee, until it camo to your girdlo, until it has como to your lip. Yon rise in the morning. You find it is a few moments later than you thought it was. You are in great haste. You hurry through the morning meal. You race down tho street You go to your office. Yon open the letters and you answer them. You examine the money market. You mn hither and thither. Yonr life is a toil and a turmoil. The long day, save the fifteen or twenty min utes in which you lnnch, is given np to tho in fluence of this world, and It is very rare indeed that from eight o’clock in tho morning until four or flvo o’clock in the afternoon that you havo a single thought about the great future, gome thought may, while you are standing at the counter or in tho banking house, some stray thought of the future world may come through your mind, but it darts out again, just like a ■wallow that In summer time wheels into the open window, mskes a circuit of a few minutes and then goes out. 0 this tide of worldliness! You have felt it. It sets away from God aud away from heaven. Yon know it. i Then there are obstacles in the way of your getting to heaven, In Satanic and infernal as sault. The sir is fall of evil spirits. Theyac- . cost you. They meet you at the cross roads. They tell yon the wrong road. They try to nnboree your good resolutions, to spike your guns, to outflank yon in every Christian move ment, and If you are ever ouccessftil at all in gaining the realm of everlasting bliss, it will be by rallying all yonr physical, mental and moral energies, aye, it will be by calling upon the Lord Almighty by His infinite and omnip otent grace to help you. And yet, if there were a single man in all thisaudienco whb should suddenly have come upon him the im- pretsicn that he was going to min heaven, there would, go up a shriek louder thsn that which ia|hcard between colliding railtmtns. There is uo man who expects to miss heaven But how are you going to get over all- them obstacles? I ask yon as reasonable men, if the impediments in the way ought not to arouse you. Another awakening consideration is in the value of the soul. Theodoric forbade the de basing of the national coin. They say. “We ought to debase' it. Wc can mix something else in it and it will be just as good.” • No ” said TbccdorJc. tho emperor, “I will not hare my ffccc imprinted on a debsaed coin/’ . Here wo arc; the image of God has been impressed if non ouktOUl, and yetlt has been debased and has becc-mc a counterfeit. We have all siunei and wc are all lost, unless divine grace rescue and redeem us. Now, hero is the son!. What is it worth? Is there not som»-th»ug in Us value to arouse us? I sometimes hoar iieople compare the f ovil iu valud to a mine. That is a very * poor comparison, for the silver and the gold in the mine will melt after a while and be of no more value than the scoria spit out from Cotopaxi, while these jewels of the soul will exist as long as there are vases in eternity to kold them. Might I not rather take a Bckln? They are rightly adjusted, The two ■Mrs tre just even now. I hold up the bal ances. On the one side of that seals I put in simply ■ sonl; nothing else at all; no trappings, but simply a naked Soul That is on one side . if the balances. On the other side of tho bal ances I put this world with all its riches, a id Loners, and gains, ,a ponderous world. But that world rises—that side goes up, whilo the other side, in which is tho soul, comes down with ten thousand million ton weight. It is an immortal soul. It is a priceless soul. It is caged now. It beats sometimes against the wires of the cage and tries to et&pe, hut it can not; but, let once tho door or that cage bo opened the thousandth part of an inch, as it will be after awhile opened, let it bo opened never so little, and that soul goes out, taking fifty worlds at a bouud. Ob, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Another arousing consideration I find in the brevity of the time in which wo have to pre pare for the next world. How long it took to complete the East river bridge! Twolvaor thirteen years. If it had takeu twonty years from tho day the foundation stone was laid, it itwon!d not have been a great while forgo magnificent a structure. How long was St. Peter’s in building? Scores arid huudreds of years. And St. Paul’s is not done yet. If there is a vgat work to be dono you expect it will take a great whilo to do it. Now hero, they tell us, is a temple of holiness to be built in every man’s soul. How long are you going to give us to build that temple? A thousand years? “O, no,” you say, “you can’t have so much as that.” Nor seven hundred, nor fivo hundred, nor three hundred, nor two hundred, nor one hundred, and some of us will not have sixty, and some of us will not have fifty, arid some of us will not havo thirty and none of us will not haye twenty to build this great tem ple. O how vast the work aud hour short a time them is to do it! When will this procession that you sco every afternoon from two to four o’clock, stop? This Jong procession going out toward the ceme* tciics. Not until all thero merchants havo gone out of their stores, nnd all these mechan ics have gone out of of their shops, and all these aitists have gone out of their stadios, and all tlicir mothers havo left thoir cradles, and all this city shall be emptied of this present popula tion. The processiou will keep going on until all thoso who are here this night shall have joined it in silence. O, how brief life is! We talk about it until it gets a stalo truth, but some times God strikes it on the soul with such ve- 1 cmcncc that we arc roused up. My brother, a missionary in China was telling me of an instru ment that they had at work in China during the insurrection, for tho beheading of men. He said it woikcd a stroke something liko that (in dicating; nnd at every stroke one life went, and another, nnd nnothet. And I thought to my self, tbnt is just like tho stroke of tho minutes. In just that way the generations pass off. Cer tainly as quickly ns that. A llfo—another, is gone, and another, nnd another, and another, nnd soother, and another. The waves of huma nity dash np on that other beach in quick sue- ccfstou. Every stroko cf tho heart says: “Be quick! ” The revolution of the sersons: “Be quick!” Tho coming of tho morning, tho drop ping of the night: “Bo quick!” Another arousing consideration I find iu tho glory to bo won. Paul was very fond of com paring the Christian life to a foot race. Thoso foot races have gono out of fashion. But you have seen racing and you know that very often the speed of tho driver nnd his horse is influenced by tho wager. Ho knows when it is a largo wager and a small wager. Two steamers start for Liverpool and it is known that tho ono that makes tho quickest trip gots the job of carrying tho Unitod States mail. Will not tho fact that tho contract will bo given to tho swiftest vessel somehow influence the speed of those ships? Now, I Say, wo arc started In a race, and ought not the fact there n are vast emoluments, great gains, a crown of glory that fadeth not away, before us, ought not these considerations to inspirit as by the way? OJ blessed land. If you were offered in tho gospel merely a bunch of withered flowers—if you were offered jncrely tho dregs of a wine cup, I would not bo surprised if yon faftnninterc. ini in the. result; hut when I tell yon of the joys that are offered to you through tho gospel, I do not sco liow you can stop a moment, in tins race. I do - nqt understand why ydtjrni put forth redoubled strength that you '-J qTV gain tlio pri»o. i'TJioy ahull- hunger no Dime, neither thirst any more, neither shall th»snn light on them, nor any beat, for the Lamb which is 1n tho midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, nnd God shall wipo away all tears from their eyes.” : ’ ; “Blest arc tho saints bolovod of God, Washed are their robes in Jesus’s blood; Brighter than angels, lo! they shine, Tlicir glories splendid aud sublime.” Tliero is anothor arousing consideration in this suhlcct, and that is that ao many havo made shipwreck of their opportuulty woo had as good cliauccs as wo havo. A man takes a good deal of responsibility when he says in re gard to any ooo who goes out of this world: ’That man is lost.” There is a way of calcul ating tho extinction of physical life. The phy sician cornea in, examines the eye, puts his hand under the arm, feels the pulse aud says: “Life is extinct; the man is gone.” Bat there is no such accurate way of deciding in this world in regard to the death of a soul. But I will say this: “That if yon know a man who lives on without any interest in Jeans Christ and is careless in re gard to bis immortal destiny, and that man lives In that carelcssnen all tho way long un til his last hour, and you never hear him say ouo word of penitence or give any expressions of faith or say anything in regard to tho etern al world or his preparation for it, if ho dies in tilenro In reference to all those subjects—I will iay in regard to that man, it is warning to you and me. Young people, where are those who entered school with you four years ago? Grad uates of colleges, where are those who took the diploma with you on tho aamo commence- mcntfPay? Businessmen, where are thoso who started in commercial life with you twenty yean ago? “Well,” you say, “some of them have passed off.” There is a business man sit ting here who had a partner who left tho world, and now ho thinks over that caso. He rays: That man lived on without any concern about tho futuro world and suddenly he died.” Well, I como to you today and I say: “What do you supposo was that man’s destiny? Where uoyou suppose ho is V’ Well, you are embarrassed. You say: “I wouldn’t like to take the responsibility.” “Well,” I say, “you are not bound to take any responsibility. 1 want your opinion as to where he is,” and again you resist the question. You don’t want to take thfe responsibility. O! I wonder if when we are dead there will bo any awftil guessing about whoro we havo gone. These men sat under the same Gospel. They sang tho same songs. They had the same op- ? »rtunities of salvation. They rejected them. ou sit under tho same advantages and yon arc going through precisely tho same process, and I ask if it is not an arousing consideration for you snd me. The day will como when you and I will have to quit this life. We. may be stalwart today, we may not have an ache or a paiu, we may be exuberant in our pbyscal health, but our common sense tells us that there will have to come a time when we will put our bead to the pillow and die. O! if in that hour you hear the upbraidings of con- science, aud the reverberations of a broken law. and tho thunders of God’s anathemas, you will wish you had never been born. Why not come out tonight and have this matter gloriously settled? If there be anything in Christ, and a bright hope of heaven, why not come ami get it? It is yours if you will have it. la tho name of my Lord Jesus Christ, I plainly offer it. Pardon for all your sin. Comfort fir all your trouble. Hein for all your burden <. The Gospel that I preach is not one of destructions but a gospel of salvation. Pcrtinax heard, one night, pounding at hit palace door, some messengers who wanted to get in. He said to himself: “ They have come to take my life,” and be trembled, and bo refused to open the door. They kept on pounding and pounding away until he almost fainted with fright: but after a while, plucking up courage and girding on his sword, and putting bis hand on tho hilt, he had the doer opened, when lot ths messenger* hvi crme to offer him a.crown. They said: “THe king died one hour ago of apoplexy, and you have been chosen to Ih> his successor, and we have come to offer you the crown.” O! I thought bow much like that is oor rejection oftbegoipel as though it were a matter of overthrow, wii.»n it is a matter of coronation. Not to slay but to enthrone. If, this.moment, by giving up your sin fairly aud squarely—I do not take the responsibility of saying what yon/ sin U, I do not know—if you would honestly, and before Gcd, this moment, giro up your rin and take Christ, the news would fly heavenward and would strike seraphic harps, and angels bend ing in the aky, and ministering spirits flying on errands of salvation, would join wing to wing, and wing towing, while they cried: “Be hold! ho prays!” GENERAL TOOMBS’S OPINIONS, To speak of General Toombs now ono must go back to defective sketches, Imperfect memories and scanty traditions. He labored not tor fame, nor courted popularity, newas a popular man without the least taint of the demagogue in liis composition, for his was “that popularity which follows, and not that which is run after.” In conversing with some gentlemen at the Kim- ball house, General Toombs said, that tho idea of advertising real estate, and the benefits derived firom it, did not originate with an Atlanta man as feme supposed, that in fact some where Jn Buth, there is an account of a real estate transaction which tcok place in Bethlehem, iu which Boas, speaks of advertising, selling and buying a parcel of land before the inhabitants. In speaking of the instruments produced in the agricultural world, he said, that ho thought that the most valuable and Important one, was the cot ton gin of Whitney. That it gave a spring to the agriculture of Georgia which lias continued unim paired to this clay, and a credit that will endure while the cotton plant whitens the farms of tho south with Its snowy harvests, or tho maehiuoryof the cotton factory clatters upon the water falls. That idea of Jeflfcrscn's, as to all men's being created equal, said General Toombs, may hold true In some respects. They have a claim to live, they have an impartial ahare in the Divine love, and they may have been created equal as to certain rights nnd privileges; but thcro Is no equality in man. In the natural world no two things were ever created precisely equal. No two flowers are of- equal fragrance; no two stars are of equal brightness; no two men were ever created equal. It is evidently the universal law of nature that this world was made for progression. Irregularity Is the Aindamcntal law of nature, and hcnco the haimony of tire world. In congress, or elsewhere, General Toombs waa never approached with a bribe. He mado no money by corruption, or by tho fruits of extortion nor did ho wring from the widow’s hand a cup of water, or from her orphan children tho crust of bread. When Johnson was asked whether Burke resem bled Tullius Cicero, “No, sir,” was the reply, “he resembles Edmund Burke.” In his conversation and speeches, Toombs gave proof of tho first char acteristic of genius. Originality, power, variety, novelty of thought, and intellectual brilliancy flashed at 1) wart every subject ho handled. Bo gen eral was his Information thnt he conversed practi cally with men of all professions and pursuits. With the breederof horses, he was a veterinary sur geon ; with the farmer, an experienced agricultur ist ; with the mechanic, a muter of all trades. Evory one with whom he convened might havo supposed that he belonged to their own art, trade or calling, General Toombs was convening with a stranger about the war,*ono day at New Holland, and dis covered that ho was a Methodist preacher from Alabama, no formed tho opinion that tho min ister was an original union man and opposed tho war. “Sir,” said he, “when northern politicians and trim business nien were encroaching upon tho re served rights of tho states; whon it bccamouseless to talk about tho constitution; yes, and whqp northern Christians became too pure In thoir faith, too holy In their zeal and too elevated in tleclr heavenly sanctity to commune with you, and lu looking to a higher law, disregarding tho Bible what.did you doJ “Well,sir,” said he, “I closed my Bible, Joined a company under General Forort, and thought that wo might keep thorn in their proper Sphere of action by mounted cavalry «nd a good supply of cnnulsttfr, bnt the supply of men General Tconibs waa indeed If hfl sail ho would' call the roll of his negroes at tho foot of Burikor Bill? “No,’’.said he,'“I was riot guilty ofao fool ish a speech. 1 believe T am a practical man in business and had been successful In raising cotton in Georgia. Massachusetts, Now York, tho north ern states, had tried slavery, and when Ibund it non-paying, their moral sentiment bccamoos strong that slavery was dono away with. Success- Ihl as I may have boon in Georgia, I would not bo willing to risk realizing anything in a locality where a Massachusetts man had failed. As to call ing a roll of slaves In Ma^sachsctts, I knew of no Job in that state, unlcu I could havo mado a con tract to blow up and dig up Plymouth Rock and to have thrown it into the bay, for, indirectly, that rock hat cost tho south about ns much as many other things. Now, the north should remember that the south was not responsible for slavery. A Dutc h slave owner, in 1020, brought tho first slaves to Virginia; that Georgia was tho first among tho colonics to resist the slavo t rade, and that slavery existed in New York until 1830.” 'Among other tilings settled by tho war,” said Gen. Toombs, “it drove the faith from a pretty toast, used :tc hear, 'The United States, distinct as the billows, yet one as tho sea’ Yes, tho war settled the right of secession, tho rights of tho states. It is now all sea Not a confederation of tovcrclgn states, hut a consolidated, Indivisible) country. Georgia now, is but an indistinct billow, having no separate existence, is not a sovereign state having important rights which she may in terpose to defend by virtue of that sovereignity,but is merely an humble department of an unique and inseparable notion, and as such she has no power to determine upon the nature and extent of her own right#, nor in any care to intorposo for tho maintananec of them. Stic must i mplieltly submit to the usurpation of a government ordained by herself to promote her welfare and happiness, and whoro powers she has expressly set limits In a con stitution. Georgia a billow? Why shots tho abso lute slave of her own servant, and any attempt on ber part to withdraw of secede from under his op pression gives trim a right to chasiiso her into obedience.” General Toombs was asked what was to l>c the future of the colored man In this country. Hald bo: Time will decide. David Ilcnsbaw, a prominent man of Massachusetts in his day, said: 'Tho two races cannot exist together on terms of sociality politically and physically it is Impossible.’ Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Boston, said: ‘It Is impossiblo to deny that the free blacks in the United States labor under disadvantages, arising from color, which no system of laws, howeveajust and equal, no plana of benevolence, however comprehensive, could re- Tho southern people do not believe that the two races of men so palpably distinguished, not only In personal appearance, but in liablts, manners and caste, can amilatc or become a united and harmonious people.” •The Union—It must bo preserved.” General Toombs was asked what it was he had said about "a masked battery.” 8atd he, the sentiment, “Tho Union, It must be preserved” Is a noble sentiment ben judiciously applied, and docs not fall from the lips of the demagogue, or from a mere factlon- i*t. But to preserve the union, far more is required to Its existence than a simple devotion. The con stitution ia the contract which Imparted to tho government all of Its pow ers. The preservation of that contract Is the only means by which the union can be preserved. As long as the constitution is adhered to the union w ill be preserved. No re* served right in the constitution should ever be en croached upon by the federal government; and no power not delegated to the United State-* can be rightfully exereixd by congress. On no occasion thould the federal government seek to limit, ren der conditional, or otherwise interrupt their full and perfect enjopment. Tho cry, "The Union, it must.be preserved," l*ef nme common north. An amount of hypocritical patriotism, never folt, waa cried cut. Bbc violated and set at naught right* the south derived from the constitution, and she interfered with the internal policy of the states 1 raid that “the cry of union is the masked battery behind which the rights of the south are to be availed.” “As to the war,” said General Toombs, “perhaps U was hastened; It may have, been hastened a law yean, yet it bad to come. A simple love of the union would not hare prevented it; its serenity rested on the contract which created it and im parted to U all of its powers. But that contract the north ceased to regard, was continually making encroachments upon the reserv ed rights of the states, severing the ligaments which united them. Aside from other tilings, there was a continuous interference with slavery. After the south had pretty much given up everything, and secession was threatened, and Mr. O'Conuor, of New York, said 'that he did not desire a union held together by the military force of onesectlon directed against the other and compelling its reluctant obedience, 1 the south saw but one course left for her to pursue, and that was by following tho remedy knowlcdgcd by James T. Brady, of Now York, In 1850: 'A state whose rights are disregarded has a perfect right to secede.’ Sho saw but one remedy, that of Edward Livingston, In his debate on Foote's resolution, in his claiming 'that compact between the states of secession;' that of the Jurist and states man Tazewell, with bta 'constitutional right of secession;' that of Phil Barbour, when candidate for the vice presidency in 1832, with his 'My opinion is, tho rightful remedy of scccsdon,' and of our own Troup: Tho argument being exhausted, to stand by our arms.’ ” His married lift was a beautiful one. Mr*. Toombs waa always his tender and faithful friend his relief In sickness, his joy in health, his partno’ in his good fortune, and his comfort under all cir cumstance*. She never had cause but for tho most unshaken confidence In his virtue. Her heart was never chilled by the least indifference, receiving nothingfromhim but bis tendcrcst lovo. He over ke^iJOite the flame kindled in youth constantly fed by gentleness of affection, kindliness of man ner and depth of regard, and thus cherished a holy light that cheered and gladdened his hearth and home, until the last hours of his life. Aa sho bo- came feeble from ago and disease, ho could sco that her cheek was paler, that her smile bad a fainter play, and that her footstep* flagged with a weaker ring, yet lie found on her check a bloom of aflcctlon, a richer damask than the bloom of ■healtlfmis smilo Irrldiatcd his home, threw beauty upon the features of tho chosen one of his youth, and kindled light upon the forehead of his children. Many great men are retired distant in domestic life; many are absorbed in business or tbeir studies, and aro unwilling to be disturbed by the ordinary occurrences of lifo, and are seldom communicative and pleasant at home. General Toombs ever showed tho fondness and solicitude of a man who seemed to have no caret for others ou his mind outsido Iris family. From the Detroit Free Press. I had camped near tho fork of tho Platte, and was aroused just at daylight by footsteps around me. After listening for a moment, I folt sure that they were the footsteps of horses. They seemed to be circling tround me—not at a canter— not at a trot, but at o modcrato walk. It was well that 1 had secured my horso In a thorough manucr, foy I never saw him so excited. He tugged and pulled at his lariat, stood up ou hlahliul legs, neighed and snorted and pawed and pranced, and it was bis actions that gave mo a clue to tho idem tlty of my visitors. They were wild horses? Had they been Indian ponies my tralnod horso would havo remained as dumb and alicntas a post. Indeed, Indians would not havo approached mo in. that manner. I remained very quiet, hoping tho horses would remain in sight until daylight should glvo me a good view of them. I had to wait fofa foil hour, but when tbo light grew strong tho spectacle waa one to make a man’s blood tinglo. The clrelo had been enlarged until it was half a mile aerpss, and my little camp was the center. Every horso, and there were 129 of them, stood with his head to this center, and soldiers could not havo taken positions on the skirmish line In more precise order. I pitied my own animal. He stood with the lar iat drawn taut and trembled In every limb, nud ho waaes wet with sweat as if I had galloped him twenty miles. I realized how ho must long to brcitk ard Join tbc wild rovers and fore it*, m end hllpxnflj'i ry. . -j/ I torn r feet for fear oft •v* A* * . droves ,< ?ml , noTerfh«».» far this note 1 | hortKjflfkt of- n I Wanes down on their ihouldenf W in the pow* I gras*. They were of various colons, *atflfl*north | - cd in ago from tho yearling colt up to tho veterans probably twenty years old. The bays predomina ted, but ©very color was present, Wo had been observing escb other about ten minutes, when a Jet-black stallion, who was tho leader of the herd, gave a snort, threw up his heels into tho air and broke off at a gallop, followed by the drove In singlo file. They ran in a true circle, nnd they made tho circuit five times before mop ping. Then, at another signal from tbc lender, the circle broke and the horses wheeled iuto a lung, tingle line, or “company front.” Troop hortee could not have done better. I thought at first tho line moan^to chargo me, but at a signal it made a left wheel and galloped straight off on the plain for a mile. Then U broke, assum ed tho rhepo of a triangle nnd returned. When the leader wss within pistol-shot ho wheeled out and the horses formed in a square, with tho four yearlings in tho center. They galloped off for a milo or so, broke again and returned in two ranks. 1 had an almost lrrisitble desire to kill tho leader with a bullet. Indeed, I reached for my rlilo with that Intent, but then camo the reffeetton that it would lie little short of murder. Bueh another per fect horse I had never seen. . His black coat shono like silk, his limbs and body were perfection, aud he bad the speed and bottom of aracc bone. Not a halt wom made for a full hour, aud then U was only pnqiara'ory to taking a departure. Tho lost maneuver was a circle at a slow trot, and each horse w hinnied In a coaxing manner to my own steed. Poor Selim! He struggled in the most frantic manner to break loose, and when finding all h!s efforts of no avail ho threw himself down on tiic grasa and actually groaned his disappoint ment. I rare up then anil waved my blanket. 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