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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’, (ATLANTA. GA~" lTUESDAY JULY 27 18f 0 T5' TALMAGE’S SERMON. DBLIVBRBD AT ASHBVILLH, H. YBSTBRDAY. Sr. TiIwm Coatlaara III swim «* •*»■ ■era—-TeUM IOUMU4 ruut“-“>um- urad by Soar Ova V«rd.tlolt"-Tlioai.n4a. or recti* Bear tha on at Dlrlna. Asheville. N. C., July 25.—[tpccUI.]— The Hot. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.. ia hero at this great aummer watering place spending a few days. Vaat thronga from all the arrronud- log rerlona came in to attend the religions ■ervice today. After singing and prayer and Scripture exhortation, Dr. Talnage preached a sermon on the subject, ‘‘Measured by Yonr Own Yardatlclr." The text was from Mat thew ril., 2: “With what measure ye mete, it ihail be measured to yon again.” Dr. Tal- mage said. In the greiitalt sermon erer preached—a ser mon about fifteen minutes long, according to the ordinary rate of speech—a sermon on the Mount of Olires, the preacher, sitting while Be rpokr, according to the ancient modo of oratory, the people were giren to understand that the same yard stick that they employed opon others would be employed npon them- eelrcs. Measure others by a harsh rule, nod yon will be measured by a harsh rule. Meas ure others by a charitable rule, and yon will lie meheured by a charitable rule. Give no mercy to others, and no mercy will be giren to yon. “With what measure yo mete, it shall be measured to yon again.” Thi re it a great deal of unfairness in the criticism of human conduct. It was to smite that unfairness that Christ uttered the words cf the text, and my sermon will be a re-echo Of the divino sentiment. In estimating the misbehavior of others we most take into con sideration tho pressure of circumstances. It ia novi r right to do wrong, but thero are de grees of culpability. When men misbehave or commit some atrocious wickedness wears disputed indiscriminately to tumble them all over the bank of condemnation. Sudor they ought and sudor they must, but in difference of dcprcc. In the first place, in estimating the misdo ing ot others we must take into calculation the hereditary tendency. There is such a thing as good blood and there is inch a thing aa bad Wood. There aro families that hare had a moral twist in them for a hundred years family record in that regard. Thero been eicapadea and maraudings and acoun- drelltms and moral deficits *11 the way back, whether you call it klep tomania or pyromania or dipsomania, or whether it bo in a milder form, and amount to no mania at all. The atrong probability is that tbo present criminal started life with nerve, rnusclo and bone con taminated. At some start life with a natural tendency to nobility andgenerality and kind ness and truthfulness, there ate others who start lifo with just the opposite tendenoy, and they aro horn liar*, or bora malcontents, or born outlaws, or born swindlers. There is in England a school that is called the Princess Mary school. All the chiidron in that school are the children of convicts. The school Is supported by high patronage. 1 had the pleasure of being present at one of their aurnvoraaries in 1S70, presided OTOr by land, after parents had committed a cortati number of crimes and thereby shown thorn- “’ to bring up their solves incompetent rightly pernicious influences and pnt in re formatory schools, where ail gracious and kindly influences shall be brought upon them. Of course the experiment is yonng and it has got to be demonstrated how large a porcentsgc of the children of convicts may be brought up to respectability and usefulness. But we all know that it is more difficult for children of bad parentage to do right than for ohlldren of goodparentag*. ration of American independence, that all people are born eqnai. Thero never was a greater misrepresentation put in ono sentence thau in that sentence wbich implies that wa are all horn eqnai. Yon may at woll say that flowers are born eqnai, or tract are born equal, or animals aro born eqnai. Why does ono hone cost $100 and another horse cost $5,COO? Why docs one sheep coit $10 and another sheep coet $500? Difforonco In blend. Wo aro wlsu enough to recognize the diU'cranco of Mood In hones, in cattlo, in sheep, l,ut wo are not wieo enough to mako allowance for tho difforonco In tho human blood. Now I demand by tho law of eternal falli cis that you be mure lenient in your crit icism cf those who were horn wrong—in wbote a neutral line there wai a hangman'* knot, or who cime from a treo tho fruit of which fir conturtee haa boon gnarled and and worm eaten. Dr. Barrie, a re former, gave some marvelous statistics In his atory of what he called “Margaret, tbo Moth- >fCi r ' - l Till was act only poor 1 pro cr of Criminal*." in a village in . ow York state. Sho it eho was vicious. Sho was not well provided for. Thora were no almshouses there. The public, however, aomewbat looked after her, but chiefly eeoffed ether, and derided her, and pushed hor farther down into hor crimes. That wae in that ancestral line, two hundred ol criminals. In ona branch of that family thore wete twenty, and nine ol them have Men ia etato prison, and nearly all of the others havo turned out badly. It ia estimated that that family cost tha county and auto $100,000, to •ay nothing of the property they do- '—’ ' * not witling, as sen- atroyed. Aro yon not willing, as son- aiblo prcplo to acknowledge that it is a fearful disaster to ho born in inch an ancestral line? Docs it not mako a great difference whether one drreenda from Margaret, tho mother of criminals, or frem some mother in Israel ? Whether you an tha son of Abab.or tho aon of Joshua? It ia a vary different thing to swim with tho current, from what it ia to swim agalnat tho current, as some of yon hart no doubt found la your summer re creation. If a man find himself lain ancestral current when then is good blood flowing smoothly from generation to ■carnation, it ia not a very gnat credit to him & ha turn oat good, and honest, and pan, and noble. Ha coaid hardly halp it. But i now bq ia bora ia an ancestral Una, in a neredlti dltary lines when tha indnenew havo been bad and thi hero Lai boon a coniine down over a moral declivity, if the man surrender to OTOri UlOWUCUITlIJi li IUD UI»U gUUDUUGI tv tho influence* ho will go down nader the overmestering gravitation nniess some super natural aid be afforded him. Now, such a person deserves not yonr excoriation, bat your pity. Do not sit with tho lip carled ia scorn, end with sn neenmed air of aagolic innocence looking down opon snob moral pro* ciplteticn. You bad better get down on your knees aid first pray Almighty God fer. their . - wR!f*t have not bean thrown nadar tha wheals of that fuggernanf. In Great Britain and la the United States, in everv generation, them an teas of thous ands ot poraona who at* rally developed criminals and incarcerated. I lay, ia avery generation. Then, I suppose, there are tens of thouraiifla af peraona not found oat in their criminality. In addition to thaw than aro tlvaly br coming criminals, nevertheless a criminal tendency. Any ona of all these thousands by tfco grace of God may become Christians and resist .the anceetrat in fluence. and open e near chapter of behavior; but the vaat majority of them will not, and it beromr v all zuen, professional, unprofessional, minister* of religion, judaee of courts, philan thropists and Christian workers to recognize tho me that there era these Atlantie and Pa cific turgta of hereditary evil rolling on thranfh tha centerte*. I lay, of coarse, a man can resist thi* tan- dency. just aa in tha ancestral line mentioned lathe lint chapter of Matthew. You eee in the same lino ia which then ww a wicked Bebotooas tad a doperate Manwice, than aftarwaid coma a plena Joseph sad a glorious Christ. Bat, my frtands, yaamnst racogniss tha fact that than Infineacn go on from na il to generation. lam glad to know, however, that a river which has produced nothing but miasma Air a hundred mile*, may after awhile tarn tho wheels of factories and help support industrious and Tirtuons populations; and there are family lines which were poisoned **«*!»• a benediction now. At the last day it will be found out that thora aro men who havo gone dear over into all forms of iniqui ty aid plunged into other abandonment, who before they yielded to the first temptation resisted more evil than many a man who has been moral and up right all his lifo. Bat supposing now, that In this ago when thore are so many good people, that I come down into this audience •nu select the very beet man in it. I do not mean tho man who would stylo himself the best, for probably he is a hypocrite; but I mean the man who before God is really the best I will take you out from all yonr Christian surroundings. I will take yon hick to boyhood. I will put you in a depraved home. I will pnt yon in a cra dle of Iniquity. Who is that bonding over that cradle? An intoxicated mother, who it that swearing In.thc next room? Your fether. arc unclean. There is not in tho homo a Hi- hie or a moral treatise, but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. After a while yon are old enough to get out of tho cradle, and you are struck a ’loss tho head |for naughtiness,'but novor in any kindly mannet reprimanded. After awhile youare old enough to go nbroad, and you aro rent out with a basket to steal. If you come bonro without any apoil you are whipped f age until the blood comes. At flftccu years of age battles in this yon go out to fight your own world, wbich seems to care no more for yon than the dog that has died of a fit usder tho fence. You are kicked and cuffed and buffeted. Some day. rallying yenr courage, you resent some wrong. A man iixi: “Who im wnn'i T Vnnw ... siji: “Who are you? I know who you are, Your father hid freo lodgings at Sing Sing. Year mother, the was np for drunkenness at tbo criminal court. Get out of my way, you low-lived wretch!*' My brother, suppose that bad been the history of yonr ad vent,** and the history of four earlier surroundings, would you have been the Christian man youare today, seated in this Christian assembly? I tell you nay. Yon Ing and the lost, Again, I have to remark, that in our esti mate of tho mladoiog of people who have fallen from high respectability and nsefulneif, ist take into consideration the conjunc- we must tion of circumstances. In nine cases oat of ten a man who goes astray does not intend any positive wrong. He has trust funds, risks a part of these ‘ * Ho risks a part of these fund* in in< vestment? He says: “Now, if I should lose that investment I havo of my own prop erty five times as much, and if this invost- mentahould go wrong I could easily make it up; i could .five times mako it up;" With that wrong*reasonlng he goes ou and maaes tho investment, and it does not turn ont quite as well as he expected, and he makes an other investment, and strange to uy at tho time all his other •flairs g< t entangled, and all his other resources fail, and his hands are tied. Now he wants to ex> f. Hogi ‘ trirate himself. He goeaa little farther on in the wrong investment. He takes a plungi ils wifi farther ahead, for he wants to save h. and children, ho wants hie homo, he wants to aavo his membership in the church. He takes one moro plungo and all Is lost. Some morning at ten o'clock tho bank door is not oponod, and thore ia a card on the door signed by an officer of the benk, indicating thero is trouble, and the name of the defaulter or tho defraud er, beads the newspaper column, and hun dreds of men say; “Good for him;” hundreds of other men say; “I’m glad ho’s found ont at last;” hundreds of other meu say: “Just as I told you;” hundreds of other men say: “We couldn’t possibly havo been tempted to do that —no conjunction of circumstancot coaid ever have overthrown me;” and there is a super abundance of indignation [but no pity. Tho heavena fell of lightning but not one drop of dew. If God treated us as society troats that man wo would ail have been in hell long ago! Wait for the alleviating circumstances. Per haps he may havo been the dupe of others. Before you let all the bounds out from their kennel to maul and tear that man, find ont if ho baa not been brought up In a com mercial establishment whoro thero was a wrong system of ethics taught; find out whotherthat man has not sn extravagant wife who is not satisfied with his honest earn ings, and In tho temptation to please her he has gone into that ruin into which enough another man swear. Yen pride yourself on your Imperturbability. You say with your manner, though yon havo too mnch good taste to say it with your words: “I havo a groat deal more sense than that min has; I have a great deal more equipoise of temper then that man has; I never could make each a puerile exhibition of myself as that man haa made." My biotber.youdo not realize that that man was bora with a keen nerrous organization, that for forty yean he has been under a de pleting process, that aiekneea aod trouble havo been helping undo what was left ot orig inal healthfelneea, that muoh ot his time it has been with him like filing eawe, that his nerves have come to be merely a tangle of dis order*, and that he is the meet pitiable object look sick and nobody aympat see. Did you not say that y< tempted to an lizes. Let me Did you not uy that yon could not Ira ebullition of temper? Some September you com* watering-place and back in your li homa from your (umoter inside, away to make a procession or many miles. Perhaps ■oroo sudden sickness may hare touchod his brain, and hla Judgment may bo unbalanced. Ho is wrong, ho la awfully wrong, and he must bo condemned, bat there msy bo mitigating circumstances. Perhaps uniter the atm temptation you might have fallen. Tho reuon some men do not steal two lraudred tbonund dollars is becauto they do not got a chant s. Have righteous luc ignition you must about that man's conduct, but tem per it with mercy. But you say: “I am so ■otry that the Innocent should suffer.” Yea, I am too—yorry for tho widows and orphans who lost their all by that defalcation. lam aoriy also for tho hosineu man, tho honest bustneu men, who havo had their affairs all crippled by that debicatlon. I am sorry for tho venerable bank president to whom the creditor that bank was a matter of pride. Mutuu. ouui, Itjiuuuuii. uvkycu, an the Mae.nem of darkness forever. Yon dedantly say: “I could not ha tempted in that way.” I’erbapa you may be tested lie. “ * alter awhile. God has a very good memory, and ha sometimes sums to uy: "This man feel* so strong in his Innate power and good heehall bo tested; he la to fail of bittsi invective against that unfortunate It shall be •hown now whether be has the power to stand.” Fifteen yun go by. The whoel of fortune turna.uvcral time*. and 1 you are in n crliia that you naver cookl have anticipated. ” *■ tho powers of darkness coma around, Now, all and they chucklo, nnd they chatter, ana racy uy: “Aha! hero ia tho old fellow who was so proud of hla Integrity, and who bragged ha couldn't ha overthrown by temptation, and wig so uproarious In hi* demonatrettonq of indignation at the detaloa- H Let ns eee.” God lets tion fifteen yean ego. the min go, God. wl under nS protecting cere, lets'the men go end try for himself the m*|eety of hla integ rity. God letting the man go, the powers of derkneee pounce upon' him. I see you some deyin yonr office In groat excitement. One of two things yon can do: Be honest end be pauperized and have yonr children brought home from school, year family dethroned In social influence. The other thing la, yon can step a little aside from that which la right, you can only jut go half on Inch eat of" path, yon can only take a little risk, wtii, juu oiu uui/ tano ■ muo n», muu $uou on have ell year fiinncm fair and right. Yon nave a large property. Yen can lure a for tune fervour children, and andow e college, and build a public library in year native town. Yon belt and wait, end halt end wait nntil yonr llpe gat white. Yon decide to ritk it. Only n few etroku of the pen now. Bat oh, and moat awfel conjunction any one could bars imagined you ere prof' tnlcd. Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation, rime. Good men mourn hold carnival, and xposure. ci td devils you have , . liver or spleen, what we call in our day malaria, but what the old folks celled chills and fever. You take quinine until your can are first buezing beehive* and then roaring Ni agaras. You take roots and herbs; yoa take everything. You get well. But the next day you feol uncomfortable, and you yawn, and you stretch, and you shiver, and yon consume, and you suffer. Vexed more than you can tell, you cannot sloop, yon cannot rat, you cannot bear too see nnythiog that congress of exi lewepaper clams tion points: and while yon and editorial paragraph. it occura to you how mnch this story is like that of the dedication fifteen rear* ego, and a clap of thnadav shakes the window-sill, mying: "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured te you again!” Yoa look In another dinctioo. There it nothing like aa abnUItien of temper to put* man te d lead van tag*. Yoa, a man with calm ia temper by an lal at teelmal annoyance. You ay “I coaldn’t be unbalanced ia that way.” Perhaps yo* smila at a provocation that makas IJKPISTIgCT PRIhD; is asleep in tho sun. Your chiidron’* mirth was once music to yon; now it is deafening. You sty: “Boys, stop that racket!" You turn back from June to March. In the family and in the neighborhood your popularity is ninety-fire per cent off. The world seye: “What ia the matter with that dicngrecablo man? What a woe begone coun tenance! I can't bear the light of him.” You have gat your pay at last—got your psy. You fecljuet as tho man felt; that man fer whom you bad no mercy, and my text comes in with marvellous apprdtonrse: “With wbat measure ye mete, it enall be mesiured to you again.’ In the atndy of society I have come to thla conclusion, that the moet of tha people want to make it out. They make enough olutions to lift them Into angelhood. The vest majority of people who fait aro the vic tims of circumstances; they aro captured by ambuscade. If their temptation! should come ont in a regiment and fight them in n fair field they would go out in the strength and the tri umph of David agalnat Goliath. But they do not see the glints and tbry do not seethe regiment. Suppose temptation should coma np to a man and aay: “Hero is alcohol; taka three tablespoonsfel of it a day until you got dependent upon it; then after that n glam throe times a day nntil you get dependent upon that amount, thon go on iucreanngthe amount until you are aatur- ated from morning until night nnd from night uutii morning.'' Do you suppose any man ‘ la that way? Oh, would become a drunkard 1 ‘Take thtso bitters, take this nervine, to digestion, take thie night-cap.” The vast majority of men and women who are destroy. ed by opium and by mm first take them as icinea. In making up your diah of critl- cism iu regard to thorn, take from the caster the cruet of sweet oil and not the cruet of cayenne pepper. Bo easy on them. Do yon >w that physician, that lawyer, that knowhow _ „ m onrnallst became tho victim of dissipation? Why, the physician was kept up night by light on professional duty. Life and death hovered in the balance. Ilia nervous system was exhausted. There came a time of opl drmlr, and whole families ware prostrated and bis nervous strength was gone. He wea all worn out in the service of the public. Now public. ho must brace himself up. Now he atimn- lutes. The life of this mother, the life of this child, the life of this father, the life of this whole family must be saved, and of nil theso families mart bo saved and ho stimulates, end he dooe it again and •gain,. Yon may criticise his judgment, but remember theproceee. It wes not naaldsh remember tho process. It wee not naolllah process by which ha wentdown. It was msanlfl- cent generosity through whloh he fell. That attorney at the bar for weeks has boon stand ing to tho testimony and contesting In tho dry technicalities of the law, and now the time haa come for him to wind up, and he must plead for the life of his client, andhia nervous stem is all gone. If he that speech his olient JONES IN MISSOURI, syster fella He must keep np. He says: “I must keep np.” Having n large practice you sec how ha ie enthralled. You may criticise his judgment, bnt remember the proem*. Do not be herd. That Journalist has had exhausting midnight wotk. He hat bad to report epatehm and orations that keep him up till a very late hour. up tome case of crime In company a detective. lie site down at midalght to write out bia notes from a memorandum scrawled on n pad under unfavorable clreum- itaucri. Hla strength ia gone. Fidelity to .. fidelity te the public intelligence, fidelity te his own livelihood demand that be keep up. He must keep up. He stimulates. Again and again ht does that, and ha goes down. Yon may criti cise hla lodgment in the matter, bat have mer.y, Remember the process. Do not bo hard. My friends, this text will come to fulfill ment in some case* in tbit world. The huntsman in Farmataen was shot by some un known person. Twenty yean after tha son of the huntsman was in the tame forest, and ho accidentally shot n man, nnd the man in dying, anid: “God is just; I shot yonr father just hero twenty years ago.” A ^bishop laid — - - ««.’ - ■ to Louis XI. of France: “Make an iron cage fer all those who do not think as wo do—an Iron cag* in which tha captive can neither lie down nor stand straight up.” It was feels- ioned—the awfel instrument of paniohment. After awhile the bishop offended Louie XL, and for fourteen years he mi in that Sana saga, and could neither li* down nor stand np. It Is a poor rnla that will not work both ways. “With what measure j* mates it ahall bo measured to yon again.” Ob, my friends, let tube resolved to scold less and pray more! That which in tha Biblo is used a* tha symbol of ail gracious influence* lathe dove, not tha poreaplno. Wo may ao nnsklUfnliy manage the lifeboat that wa ahall ^■down those whom w* want to tho t preparation for Christian nscfnlneaa Is rm hearted common sense, practical trot warm _ sympathy for these whom ws to eeve. What headway will we make is the judgment if ia thil world we have bean bard on those who have gone ■stray? Wbat headway trill you and I nuke io tho lest great J adamant, whoa wa mast have mercy or perish? The Bible says: “They ahall hava judgment withont mercy that showed ao mercy.” I see the scribes of heaven looking np into th* face of aneh a mao, saying:.“What! yon plaad for mercy,yoa, whom in all yonr lifo never had any mercy on ycur fellows? Don’t you nmembar bow id bull yoa wore in yonr opinions of thoe* who were litre}? Don't yoa given when yoa ought te hava a helping hand yon employed a bard heel? Mercy! Yoa mast mis speak S ourself when you plead for mercy here. Itrvy for others hat no mercy far yoa. "Lock,” soya the scribes of hesvas, “look at that inscription over the throne of jadf most, the throne of God's judgment.” See it com ing oat letter by letter, word byword, sea ts see hy Matinee, until your startled vision read* It end yonr remorseful spirit appropri- •tra it: “With whet measure ye mete, it ihail be measured to you again. Depart, ye cursed!” We accidently overheard tha following dia lect e on th* street yesterday: J. nse. Smith, why don't yoa stop that dis gusting hawking and spitting ? Smith. Hew con I? Yoa know I am a J. Do as I did. I had the diaaaaa la Its wont form bat I am wall now. 8. What did yoa do fer It? J. I used Dr. Sag*’* Oaten and me end It wtu canyw. Catarrh Baroodv, I cured me and It willr»rar»u- 8. rta hoard ofit, aad tar Java IT1 by It J. Dots. You'll Sad ■teres in town. all thadrng He Founds tha Liquor Hen In Hla Vault For cible Manner. Cliktok, Ha, Jaiy 24.—Bev. Sam Jonea apoke twice here today, Sn the afternoon lecturing on prohibition, end st night delivering a sermon. Twenty-live cent* admission to both. Thousand* of persons assembled in a grove, whloh waa fitted up on a big scale, as usual with Citato- Mans. He began hla lecture b» Hying: “We aro all of one blood, the seme kith and kin. Whatever makes a toed citizen wlU make a good husband, brother*jfither, and what we,want are good hus bands. There nave been two grand epoolu In our The first wee when oar Independ- fro®. foreign _tyr»nny — history. , *nd the ~"second ' was when Abe Lincoln sUpied the proclamation of emanclpo* UcnpfC.000.005 slaves. But the grandest epoch s, 1 ? fiiOOO.OOO slarcs. But the grandest epoch will be the next when 00.000.000 are treed from the thraldom of strong drink. There are 700.000 stares to srr«tlte in oar prisons whose fate is worse than that of thnto whom bloodhounds tracked in other £•7?; A bar room bully Is on a dead level with bis little brother, a bull dog. One to a brute and the other isia bruter. One u a dog and the other la ftdogter, The one haring a little mbre hair and tail. The speaker’ll life had been threatened but he always felt like Raying, ’Kill me, you low-down dog, and I will be in heaven before you get home, and the result would be I would get to heaven be* fore my time.’” He told or how a St. Louis newsman claimed to have made him, and was asked why don’t you make another. Because, said the editor, there was hot any more of the same sort of dirt. You aii mi Dig ne, you oiu nouuci. you. And he added, that If the officials of Clinton had backbono enough prohibition would prohibit In Clinton. He shouted, “Why don’t you throw your hat* up? Be cause each one of you is getting a dig In the ribs, ar.d you have enough to do to tote your own akll* He said he.was democratic from his head to his heels, but he no longer belonged to tho democratic patty. When the party came out with a non* sumptuary plank It withdrew from him. Non- sumptuary meant consumptuary and friendship to 1 i<inor and enmity to prohibition, and thedlrty digs had deserted Jeffersonian principles, which wt re sa aacrcd to him as the Ten Commandments, and were racking around on a whisky barrel. The was so he would like to preach its funeral, and be JONES ON rBOHlniTION. How It Has Increased the Value of Property Everywhere In Georgia. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reports Sam Jonr* as saying at Maryville, Mo.: tome people say. fay, our town will go down unless we Rell whisky, and our taxes will go up.” Law. me! wbat a good pull yoa can get on a poor, se)/}*h. sordid, old devil with an argument like that—“my taxes uill go up and our town down. ' ALIVE IN HIS COFFIN. The Astonishing Experience of George Wel lington, Fanner, of Indiana. From the New York Sun. On the evening of June 18, 1888, George Wellington, an Indiana farmer, had a gathering o friends at his house. Ho was a man forty-two yean of age, and of robust health, and on this evening It was noticed that he was la particularly good spirits. After the guests had departed ho ro sed ..dancing than going to bed. They retti about half-past 11 o'cloek, and she waa asleep |bc- foie miduJgbt. The fanner waa always out of bed at flve o'clock, but on the morning following the party the wife awoke at six and found him still sleeping. When »bc attempted to arouse him, the discovered that of heait disease. He said the man had been dead remarked that — „ — —,. ucarancc, and that none of the limbs grew riL... but tbo two other physicians called In vigorously combated the Idea that he waa In a trauce aua days ahead. During the Interval the corpse wi comtantly watched for signs of returning antmi tion, but uotblng occurred to delay theiftinen ngementa. e burial was to take place In a country grave- 1, and most of the vehicles gathering at the n - house belonged to farmers. The usual ceremoulea took place over tho dead, and the coffln was brought out and placed In the hearse. While the proctnlon was forming, a team attached to an empty wagon came down the road, runu The wagon collided with the heane.aud vehicle waa upset and the coffin flung out. Four or flve men ran to pick it up, but beforea hand had touched It, a voice waa heard, s u “For Hod's Nike let me out of fl The people at lint moved back In affright, but was righted and opened, and We found snuggling to get out. Wfth a tance he pulled nlmself out of the bo: MlgH XI tfall I r i asleep until sometime after mid night, \vhen i awoke the clock was striking flve. *—------- bat* * great deal of weening, and I failed to satisfy mf* a-U aa to the cause. I bad died, but It did not *e*m as If this was a sufficient excuse. When my wife bent ovar the coffin and sobbed and grieved, and refused to be comforted, I did not reel bad with her. On the contrary, her action surprised me. \\ hen the two other doctors pronounced me dead I made tip my mind that I was dead and that the end bad come. I had been taught to be Hava that the spirit oft&e dead ascended to heaven, and that the dead were dead in mind as wall as body. H was a base deception* I felt Indignant that U “As an instance of the acuteness of my hearing, let me explain that after I waa maced In tha coffin the receptacle was moved over to an open window In Ibe parlor, where It was supported on saw ns lyi In the barnyard, ftiUy tvreh_ _ _ . away, and for an bent conversed of my death In ordinary tones of voice, 1 Old not miss on# single conversation, aa both afterwards ad* clock, and much of tha conversation c. .. _ men in the upstairs room. On the night, previous to the ftjnerai, about half past io >'dock, and while fire two men sitting np with the corpse were reading, 1 beard two men climb tha • fence into tha barnyard, cross the yard tad enter the bam. After n few minutes they came out* and I heard the Jingle of something carried by one or the pair. I could not make out what was going on, but learned afterward. The two men stole n horse from a field opposite my barn, and they en tered my premises In search of a bridle. ”l heard the people assemble for tha fonsral, and as J caught a word from this one or that one I Identified them by name to myself.. I listened clotely to the sermon, hut when the minister spoke of me I could not take it as personal. It wai as If the name and person belonged to some one I had known years before. I knew when I was carried out and placed in the hear**, and I am eartala that I heard tha clatter of the team running away before sn) body righted them. \S hen the paoptn began to call out iu a fright I felt that same fear of being hurt that any live man does, them trying to hack the hearse outoftb let l be team go by, but they were not quick As the collision came my eyes opened restored, and from that moment I wax I made a more to get out of bed, but amazement, I could stir neither hand had (ho full me of my ears, but I con my eyes. 1 argued at first that I was I I by name, and I could not respoud by an eyelid, I became satisfied that I was In a trance. My mind was never clearer, aud my beating was painfully acute. I mads effort after effort to throw off the great weight which Reemed to be holding mo down, but I could not bend a too or crook a finger. However, It waa only after the doctor had pronounced me had seemed to me that I could soon manage to get rid of the weight. Had a pistol been fired in the room I am sure the spell would have been broken. After the doctor’s ultimatum I felt that! should tion. k be buried alive. “ ‘ "Wtrat tttn It profit you It you rats tho whole • thh qo*ry Da , . woild and Ioh your uol?* * Aod no drunlrard 0 troubled more than I can tall you. Aalbodnerct .ball outer the kingdom of heaven.” | diid before, bow waa I to know Fie scnutloos? — • id think? Wa. the mind reputation and character, and more — It was Jcaus Christ himself that asked theques-t ) I Facts About Lightning, The reiearchea of Profeeeora Von Petrojd Kirsten, Weber and others have proved that th# number of damaging strokes of lightning hae coa- sldirably Increased during the last fifty yean. Ibe ratio of damaging or other strokes to'h# number of buildings In a certain district, cal'ed by the German naturalist* ••MUzgefahr” (danger from lightning), Increased In the kingdom of Bavaria from ml to 1882 thieefold. During the last fifty yeare of factories, rallroadi, ateamboats-in short, of all construction* filling the sir with smoke, vapors, particles of dustof every description—thousands of locomotives, thorn suds of steamers go around the earth, thons- snea of factories of all kinds dally emu enormous "ties of smoke, vapor and dust into tire ak; rep’tto&r ta’cttlc*! 'ureVuio jumbos'* prodticrfpunuse qnaiUtf — ««« bundled Umoatha dust, mol produce immense i (he abortion will u certain)f a bundle [Silence and smllea gave assent tor the question.j ibe grandest, proudest and highest spot that Goa Almighty has located In America is this county ighty has located In America Is'this county and this town. I never have seen inch a country, an 0 after God has blessed you wlibths most fertile coll and tho grandest blessings lu this world, you cannot rest without steeping it in liquor and . * nd debauching you lire? down on ' {lie bare L „ Georgia, where we can’t mako more then three or four bushels ol corn to the aero, and where we can't mako bnt two bushels of wheat to the acre, I could understand how you would need a little li quor to help you keep up. fLaughtor.1 But in this God-favored land, with all the blesslugs of provl- without debauching your families and your homes with this accursed stuff called liquor. Bo ashamed les and your homes country to decent people. [1 HOW OKOQOIA STANDS. Why. down in Atlanta and In Georgia, you can ess t go Into Georgia and property, to Rave your lire, at aa low figures ns you could buy it before we out whisky out of the coun ties In that state. Everywhere property, hs* R oue up-a-every where. That's a fact. And then I sll you another thing, and that* Is this: When tbofe old barkeepers and liquor men have moved ont of our state, somehow or other, Just as soon as they get moved out, the atmosphere gets clearer laughterj and things look better. They do, sure, md things quit smelling like they did. [L 1 things quit smelling like they did. [Laugh- ....) And after wo get them all out wo won't need any disinfectants down thero from this time on. [Laughter.] Now, let me tell you, ir a man has roc but one boy, he wants him to bo sober, don't he? If ho hasn't got but two hoys, he wants them both to be. sober. IfhebARgot ten boys, how many of them to he willing shall he drunkardgr How many? If a o wero to have but one cltlxen In Missouri, we would want him a sober man, wouldn’t we? If we were to have but ten cltixens we would want them all ten sober men. wouldn't we? And If we have two and half million wouldn’t we be better off if they were all sober men? What Is tCihat produce* , brother, Do you catch the Idea? . •very voter In this country is responsible for ev ery drunkard In this country until you have done your level best to Stop this sowing of whisky In Dawn, with flush foot upon the mountain tops, Bianda beckoning to the Bun-god's golden car, While on her high, clear brow the morning star Grows fainter, as the silver misty oopae And rosy river bend and, village white Feel the strong shafts of light* M „ _nair surprise he meadows maalwd with fairy web, —Mortimer Collins. A worm bretncomH from Urn Hath And ktsao* the zero's mouth, \\ horo red le*rc* trombla and part Ai If from tbo tbrob of a boast. unseen thorn: For"tbo fa/'brearo oowaid fora, AndhtatteoroU tborrro. Could the dead hrar and t 1 could t layer ol vapor conitontlj hororlngiOTor luem— the rtrlsflltowltb feMaMotoud ororo objMJIJ,. more or less covered wfth the settling particles ol dUkt. This csu«es total lightning strokoi. 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