Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation.
About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1890)
Jy‘“ i L‘ ~! ' IJA§ ‘ s i . KRBV UN IALMAULL. T Meo TAR :‘,f;?a;»;‘d"""" R SRR SPG R e R e et W 7 Rt ol BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN e T RRC Rk U S S PR S e oA T T § / DAYeERMON. - Eubject: “Wings of Love.” _ ¢ Texr: “The Lord God of Isracl, wnder Rhgo‘winmfiwm come to trust.”—Ruth | Bcene—An Oriental harvest field. Grain standing. Grain in swaths, Grain in sheaves, | At theside of the fleld a white tent in ‘which to take the noon!ng, rrs of vinegr or of sour wine to quench the thirst of the thot working people. Swarthy men striking ‘their sickles into the rustling barley. Others twistinf the bands for the sheaves, putting ono end of the band under the arm, and wit the free arm and foot collecting the sheaf. Sunburned women picking up the stray straws and brin‘gg.ng them to the binders, ‘Boaz, a fine look g Oriental, gray bearded and bright faced, the owner ot the geld, look ing o, and estimating the value of the grain and calculaling so many eghahl to the acre, and with his large, sympathetic heart pitying the overtasked workmen and the women, with white faces enough to faint, in the hot noomda‘y sun. But there is one woman who especially attracts the man’s attention, She is soon to be with him the jointowner of the fleld. She has come from a distant land for the sole purpose of being kind to an aged woman. ! I'know not what her features were; but when the Lord God sets behind a woman’s face the lamp of courage and faith and self sacrifice there comes out a glory independent of features, She isto be the ancestress of Jesus Christ. Boaz, the owner of the field, assoon as he understands that it is Ruth, ac «<osts her with a blessing: ‘A full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wiu_f thou art come to trust.” Christ mmfaros limself toa hen gathering the chickens under her wings. In Deuteronomy God is represented as an eagle stirring up her nest. In agreat many places in the Psalms David malkes ornithological allusions; while my text mentions the wings of God, under which a poor, weary soul had come to irust. . ask your attention, therefore, while, tak ing the suggestion of my text, 1 speak to you in all simplicity and love of the wings of the Almighty. First, 1 remark that they were swift wings under which Ruth had come to trust. There is nothing in all the handiwork of God more curious than a bird’s wing. You have been surprised sometimes to see how far it could fly with one stroke of the wing; and when it has food in prospect, or when it is affrighted, the pulsations of the bird’s wing are unimag inable for velocity. The English Lords used | to pride thomselves on the speed of their fal- | cons. These birds, when tamed, hadin them | the dart of lightning. How swift were the carricr pigeons in the time of Anthony and at the siege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed! -A carrier pigeon was thrown up at Rouen and came down at Ghent—ninety miles off— in one hour. The carrier pigeons were the {elsgraphs of the olden time, Swallows have . be:nshotin our latitude having the undi = gested rice of Georgia swamps in their crops, showing that they had come four hundred Juiles in six hours, It has been estimated ;t{mt in the'ten yearsof a swallow’s life it flies far enough to have gone around the ,world eighty-nine times, so great isits ve locity, f= And so the wings of the Almighty spoken of in the text are swift wings. They are swift when they drop upon a foe, and swift when they come to help God’s friends. Isa father and his son be walking by the way, and the child goes too near a precipice, how long does it take for the father to deliver the -child from danger? Longer than it takes “«God to swoop for the rescue of His children. “The fact is that you cannot get away from the care of God. If you take the steamship orthe swiitrail train He is all the time along with you. *“Whither shall Igo from Thy spirit, and whither shall I flee from Thy presence? If Tascend up into heaven Thou | art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold! | “Thou art there, If I take the wings of the | morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of | the gea, even there Thy hand shall hold I ‘me.” The Arabian gazelle isswift as the wind. ! 1 it gets but one glimpse of the hunter it | uts many crags between. Solomon four or gve times compares Christ to an Arabian .gazelle (calling it by another name) when he ‘says, ‘‘My beloved is like a roe.”” The dis- | Aference is that the roe speeds the other way; Jesus speeds this, Who but Christ could ’have been quick enough to have hel;{ed Peter | when the water pavement broke? Who but Christ could have been quick enough to help ‘ ‘the Duke of Argyle when in his dying mo ment, he cried: “Good cheer! I could die | iike a Roman, but I mean to die likea Chris tian. He who goes first goes cleanest!” I had a friend who stcod by the track at Car lisle, Penn.,when the ammunition had given «©utat Antietam, and he saw the train from Harrisburg {reighted with shot and shell as it went thundering down toward the battle ficld. He said that it stopped not for any «erossing. They put down the brakes for no grade. They held up for no peril. The wheels were on {ire with the speed -as they dashed past, If the train did not come up in time with the ammunition it might as well not <ome at all, : So, my friends, there are times in our lives wwhen we must have help immediately or per dsh, The grace that comes too late is no grace at all, What you and I want is a God —~now. Oh, is it not blessed to think that God is always in such quick pursuit of His dear children? When a sinner seeks pardon, or a baffled soul needs help, swiftor than thrusl’s wing, swifter than ptarnigan’s wing, switter than flamingo’s wing, swifter than eagle’s wing are the wings of the Al mirghty. remark further, carrying out the idea ol my text, that the wings under which Ruth had come to trust were very broad wings. There have been eagles shot on the Rocky - Mountains with wings that were seven feet from tip to tip. \%en the king of tho air sits on the crag the wings are spread over all the eaglets in the eyrie, and when the eagle starts from tho rook the shadow is like the spreading of a storm cloud. So the wings of God are broad wings. Ruth had been under those wings in her infantile davs; in the days of her happy girlhood in Moab; in the day when she gave her hand to Mahlon, in her first marriage; in the day when she wept over his grave; in the day when she trudgeed out into the wildlerness of poverty; in the days when she plucked up the few straws of {arlefl dropped by ancient custem in the way of the poor. Oh! yes, the wi;\fis of God are broad wings. They cover up our wants, all our sor rows, all our suflerinfis. He puts one wing over our cradle, and He puts the other over our grave. Yes, my dear friends, it is not a desert in which we are placed, it is a nest. Sometimes it is a very hard nest, like that of the eagle, spread on the rock. with ragged moss and rough sticks, but still is a nest; and although it may be veri hard under us, over us are the wingsof the Almighty. There sometimes comes a périod in one’s life when he feels forsaken. You said, ‘‘Everything is against me. The world is against me, The church is against me. No sympathy, no hope. Everybody that comes near ma #hrusts at me. I wonder is there is a God, anvho=m 1 anv hand an gg R A RN SN RTt wat out in his orrow, as he said: *ls His mercy | cloan gone forever? And will Ho be favor. 10 more? And hath' He in anger shut |up His mercies?” Job, with his throat ; and ulcered until he could not even swallow the saliva that ran into his mouth, exclaims: “How lonz bsfore Thou wilt de part from me and leave me alone, that I may swallow down my spittle?” Have there never been times in {our life when you envied *hose who were buried? When you longed for the gravedigger to do his work for ypou! Oh, the faithlessness of the human heart! God’s wings are broad, whether we know it or s':;Ot'"fi & metimes the mother bird goes awa: from the nest, and it secems very strangetbu{ she should leave the callow young. She plunges her beak into the bark of the tree, and she drops into the grain field and into the chaff at the barn door, an®f into the furrow of the plow boy. Meanwhile, the birds in the nest shiver and complain and call and wonder why the mother does not come back. Ah, she has gone for food. After a while there is a whirr of winis,and the mother bird stands on the edge of the nest, and the little ones open their mouths, and the food is dropped in; and then the old bird spreads out her feathers and all is peace. So,sometimes, God leaves us, He goes off to get bread for our soul, and then He comes back after a while to the nest and says, ‘‘Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it,” and He drops into it the sweet %romise of His grace, and the love of God is shed abroad and we are under His wings—the broad wings of the Almighty. Yes, they are very broad! There is room under those wings for the sixteen hundred f millions of the race. You say. ‘Do net get the invitation too large, for there is notding more awkward than to bave more guests than accommodations.” I know it. The seamen’s friend society is inviting all the sailors. The tract society is invifing al! the destitute. The Sabbath-schools are inviting all the children. The missionary society is inviting all the heathen, The printing presses of the Biblesocieties are going night and day, doing nothing but printing invita tions to this great gospel banquet. And are you not afraid that there will be more guests than accommodations? No! All who have been invited will not half fill up the table of God’s supply There are chairs for more. There are cups for more. God could with one feather of His win%l cover up all those who have come, and when He spreads out both wings they cover all the earth and all the heavens. ’ v R s Ye Israelites, who went through the Red Sea, come under! Ye multitudes who have gone into glory for the last six thousand years, come under! Ye hundred and forty four thousand, and the thousands of thou sands, come under! Ye flying cherubim and archangel, fold your pinions, and come under! And yetthereisroom! Ay! if God would have all the space under the wings occupied he must make other worlds, and peopfe them with other myriads, and have other resurrection and judgment days, for breader than all space,broader than thought, wide as eternity, from tip to tip, are the wings of the Almighty! Oh! under such provisions as that can you not rejoice? Come under, ye wandering, ye weary, ye troubled, ye smning, {e dying souls! Come under the wings of the Almighty. Whosoever will come let him come. However ragged, how ever wretched, however abandoned, how ever woe begone, there is room enough under the wings—under the broad wings of the Almighty! Oh, what a gospel! so glorious, so magnificent in its Ig)rovision! I love to preach it. Itis my life to preach it. It is m{ heaven to preach it. remark, further, that the wings under which Ruth came to trust were strong wings. The strength of a bird’s wing—of a sea fowl’s wing for example—you might guess it from the fact that sometimes for five, six or seven days it seems to fly without resting. There have been condors in the Andes that could overcome an ox or a stag. There have been eagles that have picked up children and swung them to the top of the cliffs. The flap of an eagle'’s wingr has death in it to everything it strikes. There are birds whose wings are packed with strength to fly, to lift, to destroK{. So the wings of God are strong wings, ighty to save. Mighty to destroy. I preach Him—"'‘the Lord, strong and mighty; the Lord, mighty in battle!” He flapped His wing, and the antediluvian world was gone. Ho flapped His wing, and Babylon Efrished. He flapped His wing, and Hercu neum was buried. He flapped His wing, and the Napolonic dynasty ceased. Before the stroke of that pinion a fleet is nothing. Anarmy isnothing. An empire is nothing. A world is nothing. The uni verse is nothing. King—eternal, omnipo tent—He asks no counsel from the thrones of heaven. He takes not the archangel into His cabinet. He wants none to draw His chariots, for they are the winds. None to load His batteries, for they are thelightnings. None to tie the gandals of His feet, for they are the clouds, Mighty to save. Our enemies may be strong, our sorrows violent, our sins may be great. But quicker than an eagle ever hurled from the crags a hawk or raven will the Lord strike back our sins and our temptations if they assault us when we are once seated on the eternal rock of His salva tion. What a blessed thing it is to be de fended by the strong wing of the Almighty ! Stronger than the pelican’s wing, stronger than the albatross’ wing, stronger than the condor’s wing are the wings of the Almighty. ~ Ihave only one more thought to present. The wings under which Ruth had come to trust were gentle wings. There is nothing -softer than a feather. You have mnoticed - when a bird returns from flight how gently it stoops over the nest. The young birdsare - nol; afraid of having their lives trampled out | by the mother bird; the old whippoor-will | drops into its nest of leaves, the oriole into its casket of bark, the humming bird into its ) hammock of moss—gentle as the light. And 50, sa;ls the psalmist, He shall cover thee with His wing. Oh, the gentleness of God! But even that figure does not fully set forth; for I have sometimes looked into the bird’s ' nest and seen a dead bird—its life having | been trampled out by the mother bird. But l 1o one that ever came under the feathers of ' the Aln;(ilghty was trodden on. | Blessed nest! warm nest! Why will men ' stay out in the cold to be shot of tem?ltation and to be chilledfiy the blast where there is divine shelter? More beautiful than any flower I ever saw are the huesofa bird’s glumage. Did you ever examine it? The lackbird, floating like a flake of darkness through the sunlight; the meadow lark, with head of fawn and throat of velvet and breast of gold; the red flamingo, flying over the southern swamps like spar\m from the fon;fe of the setting sun; the pelican, white an black-—mornin% and night tangled in its wings—give but a faint idea of the beauty that comes down over the soul whenon it drfip the feathers o) the Almighi’;f. ere fold your weary wings. This is the only safe nest. Every other nest will be de stroyed. The proY‘l(:et says so: ‘“Though thou exalt thgselt like the eaflei and set thy nest among the stars, yet wil bring thee down, saith the Lord of Hosts.,” Under the swift wings, under the broad wings, under the strong wings, under the gentle wlé:fis of the Almighty find shelter until these calaco ities are overpast. I'hen when you want to change nests it will only be from the valley of earth to the heightsof heaven; and instead of "flww!nrngt a don‘" for which David lon;g_ofl. not knowing that in the first mile of their flight they would give out, you will bo conducted upward by the Lord God of Im'nwll under ,whose wings Ruth, the beautifu Moabitess, came to trust, God forbid that in this matter of eternal weal or woe we should bo more smg‘id than - the fowls of heaven; ‘‘for the stark knoweth ~ her appointed time, and the turtle, and the craue, and the swallow observe tho time of their going; but my people know not the judzments of the Lord.” DEER IN SNOW PITS. Imprisoned in Corrals of Their Own Making —Easily Tamed. From a gentleman recently down from the mountains the Apreal learns of the strange experiences of various sorts of wild animals last winter: ¢Deer, when caught in a blinding snow-storm, huddle together and tramp round and round in a circle, beating down the soft snow, so l that when a very heavy fall occurs during say twelve hours, they find them selves in a snow pen, with walls above them, and if they commence to tramp on top of several feet of snow during a storm, they often find themselves in a corral of snow, with a wall surrounding them to a height of ten or twelve feet when the storm clears off, beimy virtually imprisoned in a snowy prison pen, irom which escape is impossible until the spring thaw of the season. “There lives an old miner on Canon Creek, in Sierra County, several miles above Brandy City, who was taking a stroll near his cabin last winter after one of the heavy snows, when he came across | one of these deer pens in the snow, and there imprisoned were seventeen deer of various sizes. They were in a circular pen of snow, with walls fifteen feet high, Upon the man’s appearance the deer be came quite excited, and huddled together and dodged frcm one side es the pen to the other. However, as hunger came upon them they became more docile, and the frequent visits of the miner, with boughs and buds from adjoining trees, which he threw into the pen as food, caused the deer to become regular pets, | and to watch for the visits of their pro tector. After awhile the man placed a ladder in the pit, and spent a great deal of time in handling his pets. Occasion ally he would take one out for food, as meat became scarce, and in this way used up several of the deer, but he has most of the deer yet in a state of domes tication. It is said he has a deer ranch in his mountain home, much after the fashion of a cattle ranch en a small scale” The Appeal is also informed that a similar band of deer was found in one of those deadly snow pits near Washington, Nevada County, and was likewise res cucd. The streets of Downieville were enlivened last winter by the appearance of deer which were driven from the mountains down to the river towns by starvation, and domesticated by kindness and food. As the snow has been disap pearing many carcasses of deer have been found where they have perished in the deadly smow corral. The heavy and sudden snows of the past winter have caused fearful mortality among the deer which did not escape to the lower altitude.—Marysville (Cal.) Appeal. Iceland’s Hot Springs. As to the hot springs, those in Reyk jadal, though not the most magnificent, are perhaps the most curious among the numerous phenomena of this sort in Ice land. On entering the valley you see columns of vapor ascending from dif ferent parts of it. There is a number of apertures in a sort of platform of rock. The water is at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and it rises two or three feet into the air. A river flows through the vailey in the the midst of which a jet of boiling water issues with wviolence from a rock raised but a few feet above the icy-cold water of the river. Not far from this place is the grotto, or cave of Surt, which is so large that no one has penectrated to its inner end. In forming these scencs na ture seems to have deserted all her ordi nary operations and to have worked only in combining the most terrific extremes which her powers can command. Nor is she yet silent. Atter the lapse of ages the fire of the voleano still bursts out among regions of eternal snow, and the impetuous thundering of the geysers con tinues to disturb the stillnes of the sur rounding solitude. — [Murray’s Mag azine. | Inflammable Mud. “ The surroundings of Blaine are not only superficially productive, but several parties of experienced prospectors have been examining the mineral indications, which give promise of undreamed-of richness. Coal is found on both sides -of the boundary line, from the coast back to a distance of twenty-five or forty miles, and comprised in anarea of 20,000 acres or more, and the country is o easy of access by a railway line that there is but one way in whick the coal will be brought out, and that is through Blaine. It is only necessary to be in this coal district with one’s eyes open to see it, and competent judges aflirm it is coal of the finest quality. Vast deposits of iron ore abound: in fact there is a moun tain some miles back which is nothing but iron ore, and oil is so much in evi dence that a stick plunged into the marshy land can be immediately lighted by the application of a match.—Blaine, ~ Washington, Journal. ‘ AN OFF YEAR. “Well, Uncle Israel, how did you get on with your farming this year?”’ ; Uncle Israel--I didn't made nothin’, marster. You see, me an’ de boss was workin’ orn shecrs. I ’greed to do de i'- farmin’ for harf de crap, an’ I didnt make but harf a crap dis year, an’ so, mJ . course, I didn't git nothin’..—[Harpers Weekly. : R Lt fi* i S ‘v‘s.riefifev«:-:,:s\-. "‘fl“‘ry‘ **§ f‘s?,§7;s,}f"“-i"J€? 5 T e "", L ' NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS b MEMBERS. WITAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS BECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE GREAT ORGANIZATION,~—LEGISLA ‘ TION, NOTES, ETC. % Cobb County, Ga., Alliance refuses to use jute bagging under any circumstances. > The Alliance tank will be opened in Quitman October Ist with a capital stock of §25,000 subscribed., Her compress is in operation, and expects that 30,000 bales will be compressed this fall. * " The Georgia State Alliance has deter mined to continue the use of cotton bag ging for cotton. Our brethren across the Bavannah are a hard team to beat when they set their heads.— Cotton Plant, South Carolina. ' *** Colonel Polk organized a State Farmers’ Alliance a few days ago in Pennsylvania, and started it off in splendid working or der, and we expect to hear of noble work being done by our pennsylvania brethren. —lndiana Union. * X A. P. Basgkins, secretary of the Florida State Alliance, Anthony, reports that ‘‘at a meeting of the board of directors of the Alliance exposition, there was donated 1,000 boxes of oranges as a free gift to the delegates to the Alliance to be held in Ocala 1n December next. ® * ok Industrial Free Press (Winfield, Kan.) gives good advice: ‘‘Alliance men and reform thinkers and workers, don’t let your enthusiasm abate and grow cold. You have a work to perform, and to do it well needs your whole efforts. No one can perform this work as suceessfully as the man true to the cause. With this idea in view, work with a will and suc cess will crown your efforts.” * * % The Southport (N. C.) Leader says: ‘“The ery of haste cannot be justly sus tained aginst the farmer in thus organ izing for his own protection. His steady allegiance to party, often in the face of unwise legislation against agrieultural in terests, is remarkable. The importance of the Farmers’ Alliance ernnot be lightly passed over. and the politieal world is fast seeing the wisdom of catering to it.” *** As the season for State and county fairs is close at hand, it is urged upon mem bers of the order to secure, wherever pos- | sible, an *“‘Alliance day,” and obtain a | good Alliance speaker for the occasion. ‘ Through this means the doctrines and | principles of the order ean be placed be fore many of the best farmers of the country that Alliance literature has been I unable to reach.—National Eeonomist. *** To those statesmen who fear that the sub-treasury plan will enable speculators to secure possession of prodwets and hold for a rise, this statement from the Colo rado Workman (Pueblo) is referred: ‘‘Last ‘ fall and winter the farmers in Kansas | sold their corn for nine eents a bushel or burned it for sue!, but most of the crop was turned over to the bankers to pay in- | terest on mortgages. To day corn is ‘ worth fifty cents a bushel in Kansas. | Overproduction is a great blessing to the ‘ farmers.” * \ k ok The resolutions adopted by nearly all recent State conventions recommend an inerease in the volume of currency, but are silent as to the means of getting this additional currency out of the United States treasury among the people. There are but three methods at present: through | national banks, national expenditures, or the purchase of national bonds. By which process is it proposed to distribute this wuch needed increase ? It might be well to cunsider this portion of the system, and in doing so, the sub-treasury plan is recom mended for consideration.—-National Economist. e ‘** J. J. Rogers, superintendent for the States of North Carolina and Virginia, writes as follows to the Nutional Heono mist: ‘‘Colored Farmers’ National Al liance of Virginia met lin the city of Richmond on the 21st and 22d; 13 coun ties, were represented. The meeting was harmonious and euthusiastic for the St. Louis demands. Colored Farmers’ Na tional Alliance of North Carolina met in the city of Raleigh on the 22d and 23d; 28 counties represented ; perfect harmony prevailed; St. Louis demands endorsed; sub-treasury bill endorsed by strong reso lution and support pledged by influence and votes.” ;i *** The Clod-Hopper (Kosciusko, Misg,) is a vigorous exponent of Alliance princi ples. It says: ‘‘The corn and wheat States are united on the sub-treasury plan, because our beloved money power has ‘worked it to so fine a point on them as to get two-thirds of their earnings. It is urged here that we would pay more for meat, corn and flour, but there is no greater fallacy. On that score it is just a question this way, do you prefer to pay the producers of these articles a price regulated by supply and demand, or do you prefer, as it now is, to pay an unjust tribute to the money powers of the coun try after the food products are forced out of the hands of their producers? On which side are you? Are you for the money or the man?” * : At the recent meeting of the mother State Alliance in Dallas, the sub-treasury, together with the St. Louis platform, was irdorsed, and ths following resolutions, [ "f“%@,“\*"}'&"“‘"‘?”*“?““‘“”“’ e | bltcitiom ol which ‘s pestineet By as of datsctsods spredd Lekictl 10 eason of falsehoods spreac. | @'s T Seuy s and slanderers: ‘Whereas, Rep rts have been from time to time circulated through the press and otherwise deg}nlory of our Lrethren in charge of the Farmers’ Alliance Exchange of Texas, and whereas such reports have done the brethren of our Order great in ijuatice and injury, and whereas the yooks of said Exchange have recently been again examined by an expert ac countant and no fraud found; therefore be it Resolved, By the Farmers’ State Alliance that we declare all such reports false and unworthy to be believed; and further, that any one cognizant of any fraud in the Exci‘;ange management is requested to make same known unequivocably, to the end that all guilty parties may be properly dealt with, The following in relation to the Farm | ers’ Newspaper Alliance was adopted, ~ coupled with a persona) expression of esteem and confiderce: Resoived, 'l hat the Farmers’ State Alli ance tender Brother C. W, Macune reso lution of thanks for his presence and able speech and his explanation of the Farmers’ Newspaper Alliance; that wherever he may go our best wishes and brotherly feelings shall ever be with him 3 and that this resolution be furnished tb press for publication. : RAGING WATERS. THE RIO GRANDE OUT OF ITS BANKS—LOSS OF LIFE AND POPERTY. A San Antonio dispatch says: The Rio Grande river is on the greatest rampage in its history, and reports received from various points along the border Friday state that the waters are still rising in spead of abating, as was expected. The rise was so sudden that there was consid erable loss of life in addition to the many thousand dollars damage done property. A twenty-four-foot rise struck the lower part of the river Thursday night. Asit came witheut warning, many Mexicans living in the bottom lands were carried off in the terrent ahd drowned. At La redo as many as a dozen dead bodies were seen floating past, but none are known to have been rescued. A DELUGE OF RAIN. The greatest damage to property, except at Eagle Pass, where a new $50,000 bridge was washed away, and all the property of the Piedras Negras Coal Company on the outside of the mines was swept away, incurring a loss of $50,000, was at the small towns above Lavedo. The large gruzing tracts extending along the river were swept off with their herds of cattle, and the loss of stock alone will be very great. The present rise of the river ex ceeds that of 1882, and is more damaging in its effects. Families living in the valley all the way from Eagle Passto Hidalgo have had to seek higher ground, and hundreds of homes have been washed away. LATER. A Saturday dispatch says: Theriver is rapidly sub-Iding, and all along its banks, from Eagle Pass to Hidalgo, are seen sickening evidences of the great destruc tion wrought by the terrible flood.. Hun dreds of dead beodies of cattle and horses are strewn on either side of the river, while hundreds of other heads are swept clear into tne Gulf. Thousands of aeres of crops were totally ruined, and the amount of damage in that particular item alone is exceedingly great. There are known to have been a number of liveslost, but just how many, no report is given. It is believed that the loss of life will reach fully fifty people, of whom all are Ameri cans so far as is known. THE MONEY MARKET. TO BE RELIEVED AT ONCE BY THE PUR CHASE OF FOUR PER CENT BONDS. The presideot and Secretary Windom were in communication with each other Friday by wire concerning the stringency in the money market. Secretary Windom was in New York, where he held a con ference on Saturday with some of the leading bankers. As aresult of his con ference, Secretary Windom said that he had decided to receive proposals for the sale of fours to the amount of $16,000,- 000, the proposals to be received at the treasury department in Washington at 12 o’clock . Wednesday noon. These bonds the secretary will purchase, if a reasonable price is asked for them. At the same time Secretary Windom will offer to prepay for three-fourths of a year's interest on the currency sccurities, Buttermilk Drinkers. Buttermilk is becoming very popular as a summer drink in this city, and will soon be considered as one of the standard beverages of the hot season. I have more calls for buttermilk than for tea and coffee these warm days,” said L. E. Thornton, an uptown restaurateur yesterday. ‘‘The demand increases every ~year, and this season it is greater than ever before. Itis one of the hest drinks there is for warm weather. It is cooling, nourishing and easily digested. Milk, too, is in great demand, and I have any number of patrons who do not drink anything else with their meals dur ing the scason. The greatest trouble we have to meet is to keep a supply on hand. There is scarcely a day when our supply is not exhausted so that we have to refuse to sell.”—New York Stas. S e s : . TOMMY WAS RIGHT. “I is—” began Tommy, when the teacher interrupted him. S “That is wrong; you should suy 9 am.’? R ““All right,” said Tommy. “I am the _ninth letter of thealphabet.” =
