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Newspaper Page TextFAYETTEVILLE UMKrnnklin “THE CONSTITUTION. iVOL. XVIII. WEELY EDITION— ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1885. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHARLES STANHOPE’S BROTHER. A Tragic Story of the War Relate- From Facts Given by a Mem ber of the Tenth Georgia Regiment. By MISS REBECCA CAMERON-. COMtisM, 15S3, The ups and down., changes and iloUit- indci that marked the disastrous spring ol 3833 found me sorrin-as surgeon In one of the brigade* belonging to General Hoke’s diH*. Ion, C. B. A., then stationed in eastern Caro line. The foil campeign a? been a very severe one, and hard fighting, elieeaso and starvation bad done so much to thin our meagra ranks that all aorta oi means were retorted to for the purpose of refilling thorn. Thirty days' leavo was the usual reward of tho lucky follow who oonld bring a recrntt back with him, and of oourae the ardor for re* cruiting developed iteolf very strongly among our etsrrcd and ragged soldiery. Among tho Urn In my brigade was a splendid young fellow named—well, we’ll eall him Stanhope— . & great, stalwart, young aiz foot giant, very good looking, and with the pleasantest temper and manners of any man I ever saw. He was under my . care for eomo tlmo, lor, as I said be fore, the fell campaign had been peculiarly Severe, and constant exposure to bad weather on gutrd end picket doty, bad fare and the like brought on a sharp attack ol pneumonia for Stanhope, end es soon as he was fit for travel we got him a twenty day*’ furlough and sent him homo for hia mother to feed up stud strengthen, though often the women at borne had as little to eat as the men in tho trench ea. VThm his leave expired Stanhope returned to ramp, bringing with him a recruit, which entitled bun to another twenty days' furlough. Eo it *aa about the first ol January when he got back to the command. I was at Captain L’a. quarters when Stan hope reported for duty, acoompanled by an other recruit, whom ha Introduced aa his brother Franc!,. There was something very Shy and diffident in the manners of the now recruit, and Stanhope evidently sympathised With him to an extont that completely unbal anced him and mads him awkward and hesi tating in turn. Francis was very handsome, hardly more than seventeen, and email for his K e,wtth a very fair, sensitive comploxlon, Eck, curly huir and beautiful dark hull eyes, which, however, were very rarely luted. There was no sign ol beard on the round dim- i captain and I were captivated instantly, and dotained him sometime in conversation. "Captain," said Stanhope as they were loavlng," will you permit Francis nnd 1 to occupy a Uy as remote from Ills' ofher men es possible? Frank’s mother ii very much afraid that he will con tract diseases of soma sort, sod bo nefm spent a night awnefrom homo before in bis lift He was fbWyoungest and has heei bites ftgby?- of me. I don't know how long It luted, bu when I began to recover myself and was able to feteon the only eonselons ides I had was that I hud received aforewarningotawful die. alter, and, of courie, that can only bo tho death of Francis." Sea Sow mnch tho thought afflicted him, I eaidi "If yon insist upon its being a forewarning of seme sort, Stanhope, why might It not fore tell your own death?” "Because in that ouo is. would have been given to Francis. Sly own death could only oflect mesa It would touch him. I think we are doomed to ultimate do- feat and, u my own choice apart &om Frank, I would rather bo knoeked over in tho next battle than llvo to be anrrendered.*’ A long conversation followed, In which I battled vainly against his conviction, and when he rose to go I said: "I’ll see what I can doforyou, but Ifcar it will ba impossible to keep Frank out of the fight.” He smiled drearily ana laid, u he stepped ont into tno darkness: "Yon have never foiled me in kindnesa yet, major, and 11 yon don’t aneeeed this time it Will be destiny.” 1 went at once to Captain L. to uk if the younger Stanhope could bo kept out of the Impending fight, frankly telling the reuon for the request. Captain L. anawered: "That sort of old women's folly don’t sound like Stanhope, and I don't well see how I am to spare jany available .men. hfy company barely musters two thirds fit for dnty, and aU tho details have been mado already. If wo take any provisions tomorrow I'U try and tend young Stanhope to tho roar with thorn and that’ about all I can promise. It’s a pity to harslet the boy enter the service, anyhow. m> ii. Tho nut day came bright and eloudless,and I saw the Stanhope brothers marching side by side into tho fight. Through that busy and bloody day I bad bnt little time for any other thought than my work,but towards noon I saw Frtncii Stanhope one of a guard carrying prisoners to tho rur,and my mind discharged of tho obligation, I thought no more of tho brothers, but bulled myself with the work cut out for me by yenkee shot and aholl. The long, stubborn fight was drawing to a close, tbo hard fought field nearly won, when twoot Ihoambulanco corps cams up with a stretcher between them. "Hero’a one of tho worst jobs wo’vo brought yon today, major,” said one of tho men. you 100*7, m . , “Ah» Who fo it?” -roerShm- "What,Franiu?"'' “Ho, eir) poor Cbarlio, Ho was atruok down by a pioce of shell Just as Captain Xi.’s company charged that battery yonder." "flow long ego?” I asked, drawing ont my watch. “About ten mifiutes, I expect,.sir.” - I looked at my watch. It was just ten min- uteswlter five o’clock! Tho men laid down their ghostly burden and 1 proceeded to ex„ iso Unfo^Foor follow, thane was nothing I and was bitterly oppoaod by both him and mother, hut was very spoiled and wilful, very foolish and ignorant, and I hold steadily to my purpose. 1 think now If I had real!) known what I would encounter In camp lit® I would not have faced It, even to be with. Charlie. “But I was wilful and Charlie.though sorolv agalnsthis judgment and desire, had to yield !u my tears and importunities. Mother linlpou mo mako my uniform, and through tbs neigh- borbond it was given out that 1 was going t> the ctiali ru pan of tho atnto to slny with rela tives of mother’s, so 1 could bo noar Charley. When the last day of hie furlough came ha made a final appeal tame to stay at home, but the thought of separation from him was worse than, anything sue I could imagine, and l only clung to him end cried to bitterly tbat he yicled to my tears. When I reached tbo camp and was sworn in and found niysolf the only woman in that great body ol men I repented most heartily, and, 11 1 could, would gladly have boon sent home; but it wu foe lalo th-n. aid alter a time when I began' to get annus, timed to it at all, and found that my disguise was perfect, the comfort oi being with Charlie wu recompense enough for all I suffered, and I know, even while he dlupproved of it, that ho still htd joy and happiness with ms, and oh,if 1 could but have had one eonselons word, one look, even after he wu wounded”—she Stopped abruptly, wringing her hands in tosr foes agony. Then she raid quietly: "Doctor, I want to go home. The war is ended for me, and I want to go to mother. Will yon see about get ting my discharge? I anppoee there will bs no trouble about it under the circamstaneoi.” Tho composure wu terrible, because so un natural. I saw at once It must bo tears or a brain faver; so I said: "Urs. Stanhope, I will do all I un for you, but before I get transpor tation for you I must seo that you aro lit to travel.” . Bho caught her breath with a gasp and said: "Indeed 1 am quite well now. 1 only want mother. Fleaae let mo go. Don’t koep me here or I shall go mad." "Very well,”! answered, soothingly, "you- shall go; but just now I wont you lo tako. charge of this. X found it In Chariio’s jacket pocket and saved it lor yon.” It was his pocket- book, and u tho took it she tremblod eo vio Imtly thather shaking fingers could not undo tho clasp. I opened It for her, and, as I In tended, the first objeet that met her ease was a thick curl of the sunny browu hair that I bad cut for her from tbs dear dead brow. She looked at it In silence lor n moment, her color and then sx- : "Oh, . _ I a r thscurl to her lips, while a sodden torrent of tears lushed Irons her ayes and sha sank upon tbo bed weepiag, until the tears foreod themselves through her slupod fingers In perfect stream My objeet was gained, and era long I with drew and sought Captain L. to apprlso him of the facts of tho case, and proeura transporta ■ lion lor her. I bad no didiculty in making' Ibo neccisary arrangements, and tho noxt day Mrs. Stanhope started home, accompanied by the regimental chaplain. In tho confusion tbat followed our retreat and final surrender I loet her address, and other subsequent fate I know nothing. But in all my practice, within army ana civil life, 1 never met with a more distressing rase. IKotk —Tho above etory waa told to me by one of tbe members ol the Tenth Georgia reig- mect, who ha# Wen Mrs. Stanhope before and TALMAGE’S SERMON- PREACHED IN THE BROOKLYN TABHRNACL*. Sr. Talmage Among tbo Stara-HIa Plaoouraa "th» PJaladra end Orion”—A Ood of Ord*r, IeOVi and Kindly Wirning mi Btrmon Yaatsrday in IT all. "vpsiv I . WmsmmmmS, . such o veteran as yourself,” replied tho genial captain, and tbo brothora thanking him,with, drew. H During tbe months that followed I tried Virions ways to cultivate young Stanhope’s friehoehlp, but ho was so shy and reserved that I mado but little progress, and finally, repelled by his gentlo yet impassible rosorve, I let him alone. He was ae little known by his comrades ss by me. At first they woro disposed to make a t of him, but ho eo steadily ropulssd all ^Bir advances that ho aoon alicnatod all their regard, and 11 Stanhope had not been the most popular man In the command Frank would have had a rough time of it. As It war, bis life wu lonely In the extreme, for oxcept When on dnty ho aednlonsly confined him- Mlf to his tent, seeking ana permitting no companionship bnt tbat of his .brother. The men often remarked that Charlie Stanhope wu forever doing doable dnty. No task aver devolved upon Francis that he oonld perform. Charlie wu always his snbstilnte for pollco or sight dnty. This, ot course, wu very hard on him, and he befgn to sbow it, end I under- look to remonstrate, explaining to him the physical risks he ran and the necessity of his brother's learning to boar the hardships of his profusion and accumtomiog himsolt to the performance oi duties which, shonld any thing happen to Charlie, he would be compeU- In truth he wu such a beautiful lad; so quiet end refined looking tbat I involuntarily recoiled from tho Idea ol bis becoming famil iarized with the horrible, debasing Inuaenoea of camp-lit*. But I might u well htve been arguing with a pine board for any lmpreuion I produced. Stanhope wu grateral lor my In- tereat in him, bnt resolute in his determina tion to spare Francis whsnever he coaid. Vexed at what I thought Quixotism, I said **"9ery well, Stanhope; if you refuse to lis ten to reason I will mention theu facts to your brother and see It he will consent to the farther sacrifice of yonr health to hfa comfort.” Stanhope started forward eagerly and said: "For heaven's uke, major, il yon have tho leut particle oi regard for me, don’t apeak of this to Frank. He hu no Idea that I am doing extra work. He does not altogether under stand onr position hero. It la ell my fsnlt. I don’t explain things to trim, you see, he U so I delicate and so devotsd to me. It wu only to bo with mo tbat he enlisted at all. Yon see for veunclfthat he Isn’t fit for army Ills. From ire me yon won't apeak to him,” His manner was absolutely pusionate in Its earnestness, and I gave the required promise, **?<You are wonderfully devoted to each other. Whet will become of the other if on* of yon should take a notion to marry? A wife would Separate yon to a great extent.” ‘There 1s no danger,"- he answered qnlotly. The weeke passed swiftly, and tha army was foiling back towards the interior. The battles of Kinston, Averysboro, Bmithficld bad bean fought, ana wo made on the 18th ot March vebet wu to prove a final stand at Bentons- wills. ' TbenightbeforsthebattleCharlleStanhope came to my quarters and aaid: "Major, I wish yen would detail Francis on umo dnty that will keep him ont of the fight tomorrow. I feel a horrible presentiment ol coming trou ble, and It must presage his death, for nothing che could affect me eo. ” He wu In a state of terrible nervous excitement, ghastly pale and Shaking all over srith a strong nervous chill. "Before we go any briber, my fina fellow, I’U S ^Hre you a glut ot brandy and rally those cken nerves a little,” I anawered, proceed- tag to administer it u I spoke. In a few min utes, with the help of the brandy, be managed to pull himself together somewhat, and then I i said quietly: "New,tell me when this nor. Tons leisure cam* on and what yon here been doing to prostrate yoarealf so greatly." H» .ailed a wintry smile and answered: ••You call It Bcrvcnsneu: I know it fo a ore- gcntlment, I wu standing by tbe font door uretebtursoncoftb* follows play kail. Itwu Just S o'clock, for the buglet of Stair's battalion were blowing 'water eall.’ I felt perfectly well tad cheerftri—Indeed, I wu lenghlng at tha pranks of some of tha boys-but lost u the first angle i curded a horror of greet darkness— ■heolnte, palpable darknets—rnshad ever men despsi 'horror, anguish of tool took poesemion; ttr.uck him in tbo temple and burlod itself partly in tho brain. Ho waa absolutely ruueonsclous, and In a few minutes all would be over with him. As 1 stood gazing down upon what had boon inch a splendid specimen of manhood, a i quad ot men stoppod in pasting toward tho , . (poke a thrilling rercam pierced my car, and a slight boyish figure sprang from tho group of mon and'foil In a perfect abandonment of agony bosldo tbo bleeding bedy of Charlio Btanhopo, vainly striving lo clasp it In his arms. Filled with tno deepest compassion, I stoop ed to raleo him from the bloodstained breast to which he clung, but beforo I touched him the teeth clenched, tho form grew rigid and he lay like one dead. One ol tho mon took him up as gently es a woman would havo done and rated the drooping hud against hfo knee, while another poured water from his canleen upon hfo face, and stooped down to unbutton the jacket and collar and give him air. A tingle glance made me hutlly closo tbe teket again and hid the men ley him down. ' is had rovealed the hitherto jseke That sin,1* (lanes closely guarded secret. Frances Stanhope wee a woman. It scorned cruel to restore him to the coneelonanus of such anguish u hers was, but professional instinct triumphed over sentiment, and nndrr my ngoron* treatment the pals lipe parted with a sigh ot returning life, a algh tbat almost as suddenly became a moan, and In an Instant she wu beside Cnsr- lle again, with his hud lifted upon bar nit breast, while she mined klssu upon hk pale fere and speechless lips. I could do nothing lor her,and the wounded we re coming in n last that I wu compel)* i to ettend to them, bnt In every pines through that dreadful night I could hear her low mono tone voice speaking incessantly to her dead. Several times through the night I found tlmo to go to hsr and urge bar to lie down or taka mucthlng; bnt to all requests sha oppoaod tho mule pathos of her eyas, beseeching to bo let alone. Towards morning my field work wu all dose, and 1 again sought Frances Stanhope. Overcome by grief 'and weariness sho had fallen Into a heavy sleep. I lifted her in my anas and placed her In an ambulance buide the body other husband. When w* reached the boose that I wu nalsg u a hospital. I gays her In chugs ol os* of the ladleo who wu nnratag thus, do- sirlag that she bo put to bod and kept as qutst u possible. The lut sad ritu were paid to the remains of CharluHtashope. There wu but leant lime for ustlment and grief. Toward! evening a message wu brought to me that Mrs. Btanhop* wanted to sumo. I immediately hutened to hu room. Bbewu lying In bod, her delfoate beauty heightened by feminine apparel, and ul came up she held ont both hands, saying, brokenly: "Oh, dcctor, how can I thank yon for all yonr kindness to ms?” "By saying no mon about It, madam,” I answered, ul seated myself by the bedside and took her throbbing wrist between my fin gers to const the flying pulse. After some questions ae to hu general condition, eho uld timidly: "Doctor, 1 would 11k* lo tell you how I earn* to be here. It Is due both to your kindness and to tho memory of my husband. I wu tho lut tod only surviving child oft forgo family, and had bun ipoiltd all my Ufa, until I knew no will hot mins—no standard of right opart from my dasiru. Charlie and I war* cousins, and bad boss sweethearts all our line. When ha umo home In Use winter, msthu wanted sa to marry at once. Hu hnlth wu failing to lut the wanted to lul sure that I bad a pro tector. Charlie urged it also, and I consented on one condition—that ha would great tbe first icqurat I made of him as his wife. Of room* he promised, and tie seen muriei. When hfo leave expired ha had secured a re cruit and took him back tor ump to get his other furlough. He wu gone from mo a week, sad I suffered so much fa his abaenu that I decided to insist upon wbst had bean a vague intention whan I exacted lb* conditions of our marriage. "When he returned I told him of my desire, John Hoblnsoa’a aureus 1a a Xtangeroas flipe. CixcixxsTi, Novombor 3,—A epoolsl from Xawrcnccburg to the Daily Nows states that betwcon two and throe o'clock this morning Ibo steamers J. W. Gall and Mountain Girl collided at Split Iiock, two miles from Aurora, and that tbo latter vestcl sunk, carrying down with her seven mon and between thirty and forty horses, Tho Mountain Girl wu leased by a portion ol tho John Hoblnton show, which wu travelling as a cheap circus and varioty concern. A performance wu given at Lawrcnccburg last night, and the company wu on Ha way to Rising Sun at tbs time tho disuter took place. With the oxcep tlon ol a young man named Hurol, of Law renceburg, who wu connected with the show, tbe drowned men were all deok bands. The collision between the steamer J. W. Gaff, en rents from Memphis to Cincinnati, and Che sleamrr Mountain Girl, going dotrn the river toVcvey, Ind., happened at 1 o’clock this morning, about a mils below Laugher, Island, some ten or fifteen miles below Lewrenoebnrg, Ind. The Mountain Girl wu chartered to convey the circus exhibition along the river, and had left Lawrsnceburg with its people, horses and circna property altar 11 o'clock lut night. It’* next appointment wu at Veva; Sun. Tha enow wu In the -namo A Mcnshan. Captain D. L. Thompson, who was in command of the Mountain Girl, wu at the wheel whan the boat started down tne rlvsr, bnt his mat* bad tho wheol at the time of tho accident, although Captain Thompson wu In the pilot hone*. The Mountain Girl waa a •mall, up the river steamer, built for the Big Bandy trado, and owned by tbe Big Sandy packet company. She was valued at from (3,000 to $8,000. It la thought she can be easily raised. The J. W. Gaff wu not lejurod In any way. She arrived here this morning wffh people belonging (o the circus to the number of between thirty or forty. Two tro missing, the osnvaasman and tho lamp lighter, bnt nobody ean tell whether they were drowned or merely left In tbi|confuilon aboard tha Mountain Girl. Tho circus men leaf ten valuable trick house, a number ot snakes. Their circus property Is nearly all on tha boat, when It will ba Injorod by tbe water. From the but Information that can ba ob- tainedjftom tha circus people, it now appeare tbat John King, of CmesnnaU, and Richard Howell, of Lawrenceburg, wen drowned. Bom* of the men lay that they uw King in tho water. Nobody can be found who hu •ten Howell, and It Is therefore aeanmed that ha is drowned. Captain Thompson thinks all of tha steamboat enw an eafe. Presidential Heads. Item the Philadelphia News. Washington's hair wu foniand pay. Garfield wu bald, and bisbalrof a nml blonds color, John Tyler wu fine-haired, and bewua fiat lookiai nun. Jt Hereon had red hair, and wa an told that he if freckled President Lincoln did not pay mnch attention to his heir, end most ol his picture* represent It es rathe r len(. It wu dark and straight. q 6f( * Paooktvx, N.Y., Novombor 8—[Special.] The music at tha Brooklyn tabernacle this morning, by Professor Honry Eyro Brown, wasmoro thin usually excellent. It consist ed of tho organ cola Sets, No. 1, in 0 minor, by Thiele. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D, D., expounded the twentieth chapter of tho firat boook of Samuel, where It Is fold how David’s wife deceived her husband's onomles by efflgy. Tha proseher showed that tho poorest way to got out of troublo was tojllo out, Tho opening hynm wall "Son ot my sonl, thou Saviour dear, Il 1. not niKlit il liiuu arl licet." Tho subject ol tbo sermon was i "Tho PIo lades and Orion,’’ and the text wu from Amoa r. 8: "Seek him that maketh the aeven stars acd Orion,” Following la Dr. Talmage ur mon )a lull: A country farmer wrote this text—Amos; of Tokoa. Ho ploughod tho earth and threshed the grain by a new threshing machine just In vented, ae formerly the cattle trod out tho grain. He gathered the fruit of tho sycamoro tree and scarified it with'an iron rmnb iuit before it wasgetting ripe, u it was nocownr, ni.d ruiUniary in that way to take from it tho blttuncfs. lie waa a son ol a poor shepherd and stuttered, but before the stammering rus n.' the Philistines and Syrians and To “ni- r.Isns and Moabite! and Amonltos and Edom itca and Israelites trembled. Mosoe wu i lawgiver, Daniel wu a prince, Isaiah a cour tier snd David a klag, but Amos, tho author of my text, was a passant, and, ns might be supposed, nearly all his parallelisms ere pastors), his prophecy full of tbo odor ol now- mown hoy end tne rutlto id' hvusls and the rumble of carts with sheaves, and tho roar of wild bouts devouring the flock, whilo the shepherd cento out in their defenso. IL watched tho herds by dny and by night, in habited S booth mado out of bushes, so that through these branches ho could soo tho stars all night long, and was mors familiar with them than wo who havo tight roofs to our homes and hardly over soo tho stars except among tho fall brick chimnoys of the great towns. But at seasons oi tho year, whon tho Lords were in special danger,ho would stay out iu tho opon field all through tho darknois, hia only sbolter tho curtain ol tbe night— heaven with the stollar embroideries and rilvcrrd tassels of lunar light. What a lifo ol solitude, all alono with his hcrdsl Poor Amos I and at twol re o'clock at night, hark to the woll's bark and tho Uon’a roar, and tho boar’s growl, and tho owl's to whit-fo-whoa, and tho aorpont’s hiss es ho un willingly steps too near wnilomoving through tbo thickets I So Amos, liko other herdsmen, got the habit ol studying tho map of tho heaven*; because it wu «<> much or the tlmo spread out before him. He noticed somo stars advancing snd others receding. Ho associa- " and sattiog with certain sea 1 dMawMIWi'i r year th6 poem orconsior President Arthur had dirk hair, which was «^staSLi , &if!fo w sis‘srw.^ It abort. President Cleveland's hair Is brown and thin. Ba wears It short and coaba It apuom his fore- brad. His brad I* bald at tbs cron, and Its balaaesa k said fa a* dally iaeaMiw. Frank Hcica bad thick curly hair which fall own upon hfo forehead, and Jamas Buchanan ret bis arty bred well trimmed, combing bis alt M sa to abow to tbs fall bis high. span brow Polk patterned after Jeckson In combing b's air strafobt back with bud.’; a pari, and both 'PnJcre^ud^T»;lot_parted thetr^balr ou_ tbs left eldlyon the i. while Frank Plates panel hie sjsystfksfiss! rad bb heir wu as fit spun silver. '-•"‘S'Jrfif b°U «■**** fine u tbe rfaely rhythmio.- ‘But two rosettes Of stars ccpeclelly attracted his Attention while seated on the ground or lying on his back under the open scroll of the midnight heavene—tho I’iciadcs, or sovon stars, and thi n. The former group this rustic prophot anocintcd twlth tbo spring, as it rises about tho first of May. Tbs latter he uiccialed with tha winter, as it cornu to tho meridian in January. Tho pleladca, or aaven stars, connected with all sweetness end joy; Orion tho herald of tho tempest. Tha ancients ware tho more apt to study the physiognomy end juxtaposition of tho heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a special Influence upon the oartb, end perbaps they were right. If the moon every few hours Ilfta and loie down the tides of tho Atlantic cccan, and tho electrise storms of lut year In tho sun, by all scientific admis sion, affected the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? And there are some things which make mo think that It ms not hava been all superstition which connect ed the movement* and tppearanca ot tho heavenly bodies with great moral (rents on earth. Did not a’ meteor rnn an evan gel Utlo arrsnd on tho first Ohrlstmu night and dulgnafo the rough cradle of out Lord? Did not the stare In their coarse* fight egelnst Blicrs? Wu It merely coincidental that before tee deetrnctlon of Jerdsalem tho moon was eclipsed for twelve conieeutlvo rights? Did it merely happen so that a new star appeared in constellation Cassiopeia and then disappeered Just before Klog Charles IX ot France, who wee responsible for tbe St. Bartholomew mtuaer*,ai*df Wasitwithout significance that In tha dayi of tha Roman Kroperor Justinian war ana famlaejwers pro- . csdad by tbo dimness of tha sun, which for nearly a year gavs no more light than tha moon, although there were no olonds to ob- Kurellf Astrology after all may hava bean something more than a brilliant heatbenlitn. No wonder tbat Amoa of tbo text, haring heard theie two anthema ol the sura, put down tho elont rough staff ol tho herdsman and took Into his brown bend and cut and knotted fingers tbe pen of a prophet, and adriaed tbe . recreant people of hie time to return to God, laying: “Seek Him that maketh tbs Bee- <n Stars snd Orica.” This command, which Amos gave 783 years B. 0., 1s just as appropriate for ns, 1883 A. D. In the first place, Amos saw, u we must see, tbat the Ood who mad* the Pleiades and Orion moat be the God of order. Ii wu not so ranch a star here and there that Impressed the Inspired herdsmen, but seven In oi* group end four In another gronp. U* law that night after night and season alter eeaeon and de cade all, r decade they have kept step of light, rich one in its own place, a sisterhood never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the time Ifeelod called the Pleiades the "uven daughters of Atlas” and Virgil wrote in hfo Eneld ot "Stormy Orion” nntll now, they have observed tha order utabliebed for their eomlag and going; overwritten not in manuserlnt that may be icon holed, hat with the hand ot tha mighty on tha dome of tha eky, so that all nations may read It. Order, penlataat- Or der. Sublime order. Omnipotent order. What n sedative to yon end me, to whom ccmmuniticeand nstlozuometlrassseem going pell mill end the world Riled by com e frfoud at hap-beurd, and in all directions mal ad ministration I Tha Ood who heaps seven worlds In right circuit for six thousand years can certainly keep all tho affairs ol indi viduals and nations end continents In adjust ment. We bad not bettor fret much, for tha piaeaiit's argument of the tort wu rlgbt. If Ood ean take care of the seven worlds ol the PU Ud ca and tba lour ehlef worlds ol Orion, he ran probably take care of the one world w* inhabit. So I feel very mnch u my fotber felt on* day when we were going to the country mill to get n grist ground, nnd I, n boy ot seven ye are, ut in tbs back part of tha wagon,aud cur yoke ol oxen ran away with at ana along a labyrinthine road through the wooda,ao that 1 thought every moment we would bo dubed to piecee, and I made n ter rible outcry of fright, end my father turned fo mo with a face perfectly calm, and aaid: "Da Wilt, what aw you crying about? I gueu wo can rid* u fut u tbe oxen can ran.” And my hearers, why should we be affrighted nnd load cur equilibrium In the swift movement ot worldly events, especially whon wo are aiaur- cd that It is not a y oko of unbroken steers that are drawing us on, but that order and wise government aro in tin’ yoke? In yonr Sofia potion, your mission, yonr sphors, do the boil you cen and then trust God, and if things are all mixed and disquieting and your brain Is hot and your heart sick, got tome ono to go out with you Into tho starlight ud point onk to yon the PJeladcy, or, botter than that, get Into tomo observatory, and through the telescope ace lortbtr than Amos with the naked eyo could, namely: two hundred stars In the Plei ades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion, there fo a nabnla computed to be two trillion, two hundred thousand bllliona ol times larger thu the sun. 0, be at peace with the God who mado all that and contrail ell that? lha wheel oi tha constellation! turn ing la the wheel ot gslaxlee for ihcnstndx ot ycare, without tho breaking of a cog or tho slipping ot a band or tho snap ol on axio. For J our placidity and comfort through tho Lord era* Christ, I charge you, "Seek Him that meketbtho seven stirs ud Orion." Again, Ames raw, as'wo most sec, that the God who nisdo these two groups ol tho text was tho God of light. Amo! saw that God was not satisfied with making one star or tiro or throe stars, but ho makes seven, and having finished that group of worlds makes another gronp, group after group. To tbe Pleiades Ho tads Orion. It seems that Gcd likes light so well that Ha keeps making It. Only ono being In the uni verse knows the statistics ol Solar, Lunar,Stel lar, motcorlo creations, and that Is the Creator Himself. And they havo all been lovingly christened, each ones namo as distinct as tho names of your children. "Ho telleth tno numbor ol tbo etara; ho cnlleth thorn all by their names.” Tho sovon Ploiadoa had names glren to them, and tlioy are Alcyone, Merone, Celaeno, Eloctrn, Btoropo, Taygolo anil Main. But thick ot the billions and tril lions ol daughters of starry light that God calls by name as they sweep by him with beaming brow and lustrous robe. Bo fond is God of light, natural light, moral light, spiritual light. Again and again is light harnessed for symbolization— Christ, tho bright and morning star; evan gelization, tho daybreak; tbo redemption of nations, Ban {of Righteousness rising with healing in his wlngt. 0, mon sod women with so many sorrows and alns and perplexi ties! If yon want light ol comfort, light of pardon, fight of goodno-s, In carnost prayer through thrift, "nook Him that makoth tho tOVeu stars and Orion.” Again, Ames saw, as ws must soo, that the God who mado thoso two archipoisgors ot stars must bo an unchanging God. Thors had been no ebango In tho stollar appesranoo in this herdsman’s llfctirno, and his father, a shepherd, reported to him that thors had been no change In his lllatlm*. And thoso two clutters hang over the celestial arbor now just as they were too first night that tasy shone on Edcnlo bowers; the same as when the Egyptians built tho pyramids, from the top ol which to watch thorn; tbe same aa whon tho Chaldeans calculated tho Ii iipscs. llm HIM ns when Elihu, a-cording to tbe Book ol Job, went out to study tbo turn:* W.nlis, tho samo under i'lolornnio system and Copcrnlcan system, tbo samo from Calliithones to Pythagoras, and Irom Pythagoras to Horscbol. Buroly aohsngoloss God must havo fashioned the Plelados nnd Orion. O, what an hanodyno amid tho ups and downs of life, and tho flux and reflux of the tides of prosuotit IFaforl^Wfifxel _ ___ the strerr.tn&n of hi* boat in Uie mornlflfi ini ]j0tigr<! him tho evening ol tho snme day. Fifty thousand people stood nround the col- times of tho cations! oapitol shouting them selves hcario at tho preeidenttal la* nugursly acd in four months so groat r-<ro tho m.liputhioe, that a ritfliiin'rt pistil In VTnshlngton depot exprosiod tho sentiment of • great multitude. The world sits la Us chariot and drives tandem, and tho hurto •hc&d Is Huzza And the horso behind Is Annth- cn a. Lord Cobham. In King James' time, v as Applauded nnd had $35,000 a year, but was afterwards execrated and lived on scraps stolon from tho royal kitchen. A’ox&nder tno Great after death remained unburied for thirty dsys because no one would do tbo honor ol shovelling him under. The duke of Welling ton refused to havo his Iron fonco mended be- causo it had been brokon by an infuriated pcpuJiifn in Homo hour of political excitement, and he loft it in ruins that mon might loam what a fickle thing Is human favor, “lint tho rseroy of the Lord Is from ovorlaoting to over- Jilting to them that foar him, and hiaright- rovsuets unto the children's children of Much ss keep hie covenant and to tboao who remem ber bis commandments to do them." This moment, "Book Him that makoth the Seven Stars and Orion." Again Amoa saw, as wo mn«t seo. that tho God who made theso two beacons of tho Orb ental sight sky must bo a God of lovo and kUdly warning. The Plelados rising in mid- sky ssid to all tbe berdamcn and shepherds snd husbandmen! “Gome out and enjoy tho mild weather and cultivate your gardens and fleldi." Orion coming in wintor warned thorn to prepare for tempest. All navigation was regulated by these two constellations. Tho one said to shipmaster and crewt "Hoist sail for tho if a snd gather merchandise from oth er lands." But Orion wis the etorm signal snd said: "Root sail, make things snug or pnt Into harbor, for the hurricanes are get- ping their wings ont." As tbe Pleiades were the sweet evangels ot the spring, Orion was the warning prophet of tbo winter. 0, now I get the best view of God I ever had I Thero are two binds of sermons 1 never wsnt to preach—the one that presents God ao kind, so Indulgent, eo lenient, so imbecile, that man may do what they will against him and fracture hit every law and put tbe enr of their Impertinence and rebellion under His throne, and wbilothey are spitting in His fsco and stabbing at His bent, He lakes them up in his arms and kis- t<s their infuriated brow and chock, saying, "Of inch is tbe kingdom of hoavon." Tho other kind ol sermonl never went to preach is the one that represents God m nil fire and Urtnro and thunder cloud, and with rod-hot pitchfork tossing the human race into parox ysms ot infinite egonv. Tho eermon that I am now preaching believes in a God of loving, kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion. You must remember tbat tbo winter is lust as Important tho spring. Let one winter pass without to kill vegotation and Ico to bind tbo rivers end snow to enrich our fields, end then you will havo to enlarge your Lr spittle and your cemeteries. "A green ChrlstDM makes a fat gravovard" was tho old proverb. Storms to purify the air. Thermom eter at ten degrees aeove zero to tone up the system. December snd January just ns im« portent as May and Juno. I tell you we need the storms ol life as much m wo do tho sun shine. There art more men ruined by pro** - • Diversity. If wo had our own way in life before this we would havo been impersonal mns of selfishness end worldliness end disgusting sin. and puffed up until wo would novo been like Julius Ctessr who was . made by sycophants to believe that ho waa divine and the freckles on his faco wore at the stare of tbe firmament. One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made last sum mer by tbe Etruria was because sho had a stormy wind shaft, chasing her from New York to Liverpool. Uut to those going in opposite direction the storm ws* a building snd a hindrance. It Is a bad thing to havo a storm abead poshing us back, but h we are God'a children, and aiming to ward heaven, the storms of life will only chase us tbe sooner into the harbor. I am so glut to believe that tbe monsoons and typhoons ttdmistrsls snd siroccos of land anlsea are cot unchained mamacs let loose upon the etftb, but under divine supervision. I am so glad that the God of the Seven Stars is also the God of Orion. It waa out ot Danto'a suf fering came the sublime Divina Commedia, and out of John Milton's blindness came Taradiae Lo».\ and out of miserable infidel attack came tho Bridgewater Treatiao in favor of Qhristiauity, and out ot David's exile came tbo songs of consolation, and out of tho Buffer ing? of Chriot came tho p >3iibility of tbe world’s redemption, and out of your bereave ment, your persecution, y.»ur poverties, your misfortunes may yet come &n eternal heaven. 0, what a mercy it is that in the text and aU up and down the Bible, God induces us to lookout toward other worlds I Bible astron omy in Gonocis, in Joshua, in Job, in tho PealniB, in the Pronbeie, major and minor, in 6t. John's ApocalyiW/ practically saying: "Worlds I worlds I worlds I Got ready for them." Wo havo a nice little world here,that we stick to as though Icalug that wo loso all. We aro afraid of falling off this littlo raft of a world. Wo nro afraid that somo meteoric icococlnst will some night smash it, and wo want everything to revolve around it, nnd are dliappointed when we find tbat it revolvos around tho sun, instead of the sun revolving nround It. What a fuss wo mako nbout this little bit of a world, its existence only n short time hot ween two spasm, the paroxysm by which it was hurled from chaos into order nnd tho paroxysm ol its demoli tion. And I am glad that so many texU call ns to look off to ether worlds, many off them larger and costlier and moro resplondent. “Look there,” enys Job, “at Mszzaroth nnd A returns and bis sons I" "Look there," says St. John, "at tbe moon cinder Christ's foetl" "Look there," says Joshua, "at tho sun stand ing still above Gibeon!" "Look there," says Moses, "at the sparkling firmament 1" "Look there," saya Amos, tbo herdsman, "at the Sovcn Stars nnd Orion!" Don’t lotus be so sad about those who shovooil from this world under Cbriaily pilotage. Don't lot us be so agitated about our own going off' this littlo barge or sloop or canal boat of a world to get on some Great Eastern of the heavous. Don’t let ns persist in wanting to stay in this barn. Ihiii shed, this outhouse of n world, when all tbo King's pslacos, already occupied by many of our beat friends, aro swinging wido open their gates to let us in. Whon 1 road "Iu my Father's house aro many mansions," I do not know but that oacn world is a room and as many rooms as thore aro worlds, stellar stairs,«tellur galleries, stellar hallways, stollar windows, stollar domes. How our deported friends must pity us shut up in thoeo cramped npartmonts, tired if wo walk fifteon miles, when they somo morning * y one stroke of wing can *tnako circuit of io whole stellar system and bo back In time for matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling con stellation is the residcnco of tho martyrs, that ” twelve luminaries is the celestial _H.Jibo Apostles. Porhsps that stoop of light is tho dwelling'placo of angels che rubic, icrnpbic, arenangelie. A mansion with ss many rooms as worlds and nil their windows illuminated lor fostivity. O bow this widens and lifts and stimu lates cur expectation! How littlo it makes tho preiont and how stupendous it makes tho future! H<»w it consoles us ab >ut our pious dead thot instead of being boxed up an«l under tbo ground they have the rang* of as many rooms as thero aro worlds and wel come everywhere, for it is the Father's house in winch there aro ninny tnansi >nsl O, bmt God of the Bcvon Stars and Orion, how can I endure tho transport, the ecstasy of aunh a lew I I must obey my text and seek Him. ]tk HIM &0«l let Wall w ind tnatlFtl^SbHk* t&oigmX^v.maa -v that is most valuable, but the iplntusl, auJ tbat «ach of us hse a soul worth more than all tho worlds which the inspired herdsman saw from hia booth on tho hills < f Toko*. I hid studied it bofore, but tho rathodral ot Cologne, Germany, never impressed me as it did this summer. It is admittedly tbe grandest Gothic structure In the world, its foundation laid in 12H, only two or three years ago completed. Moro than six hundred yearn in building. All Europo taxed for its construction. Its cbanol of tho Magi with precious stones enough to purchase a terpiecca of painting. Its spiro springing 511 feet into the heavens. Its stainod glass tho chorus of all rich colon. Btatuo encircling tho pillars and encircling all. Statues above statues until sculpture can do no more but faints aLd falls back against carvod stalls and down on pavements over which the kings and nuccns ot tho earth havo walked to cor feesion. Nave snd aisles snd transept and portals cemblning tho splendors of sunrise. Inter laced, inter foliatod,lntor-colunined grandeur. As I stood outudo looking at tho double range of flying buttrcnsca nnd tho forest of pinn teles, higher and higher and higher, until I almost reeled from dizziness, I exclaimed; "Great doxolology In stonol Frozen prayer of many hstioi.Br Uut while standing there I iuw a poor man enter and put down bis pack and kneel beside his burden on tbo hard floor of that cathedra). And tears of deep emotion come Info my oyesas I said to mysolt: "Thero Is a soul worth moro than all the material sur roundings. That man will livo after the last pinnacle lias fallen, and not one itono of all that cathedral adory shall remain uncrum bled. Ho Is now a Lszsrus in rags and per* crly snd weariness, but immortal nnd n son of tho Lord God Almighty; and tbo prayer ho now effers, though admit many superstitions, I believe God will hoar, and among tho apos tles whocc rculptured forms stand In the sur rounding niches ho will at last be lifted, and into the presence of that Christ whoso sull'or- inca aro represented by the cruciSx beforo which ho bows; and bo railed In due time out of all his poverties into tho glorious homo built for him and bnilt for us by 'Him who maketh tho Seven Stars and Orion.'" AM EUPCHOR'fl Girr. Francis Joseph, of Austria, Uonoraa Little Montgomery Ulrl From tbo Montgomery Advertiser. An Advcrtlicr reporter yesterday saw a beauti ful piece of Jewelry, which has a very Interesting history; It Is not likely that thero Is another such In America. It Is s present from tho emperor ot Austria to a littlo child here In tbe city. Iu de sign it Is a fourdcaf clover In gold, with a lovely diamond dewdrop In Its center. Upon its back is this Inscription, engraved In the most tasty man ner: "From HU Imperial Majesty. Emperor Francis Joi eph I., to Charlotto Poliak, Ischel, 18th August, From Mr. Ignatius Poliak, tbo little* girl’s fa ther, the following account of tho imperial gift is obtained. Mrs. Poliak spent last summer at the famous Alpine resort, Ischel. The Austrian em- I-crcr ws* thereat the same time. The lath of Angnat wss littlo Charlotte's sixth birthday. U<r aunt, without Mr*. Poliak's knowing it, remem- hiring that the 18th was also tbe emperor’s birth* day .wrote a note of congratulation from tbe child as a little American girl on her sixth birthday to tbo emperor on his fifty-fourth, and signed U •imply "Charlotte." Tbo note ws* accompanied by a rmall Lunch of flowers. Nothing was beard ot the modest tribute of regard until eight days afterward, when the emperor's mssur ot cere monies called upon Mnr. Poliak sad In the name of hi* lovcrtlgu presented the beautiful token already described. He told the ladr that when the emperor came across the simple note snd bunch of flowers from an American child la tbe flics of presents, he wss so struck with Its sin ce rity and disinterestedness that be shed tears, and directed tbat the child’s full name be obtained ■ul iiirt*l( sought out iu order that hl« thanks mfght be returned along with a memento of hia l% lho\incident Is significant as showing that even tmtxrors have hearts tbat can be touched amid all the pomp and flatter/ that surronuds them. The handsome evidence of this fact Is, ot coutm- treeaured as a precious souvenir by the little girl, and when she grows older, no piece In her jewel ca-ket, however superb, will be so valuable In het eye*. t ~i:

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The constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1884-1885, November 10, 1885, Image 1