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- 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,
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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
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' 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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
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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.”
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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?”
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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,
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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.
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teacher interrupted him. S
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