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BEY DR. TAIMAGE. TR Yy - ALADY A\:{Qv’fi‘ B NN R T e et SLRER 1T »l‘ s gvz T _fi'fpv?,“*‘i ; 'An_ -‘j;»(% ._l’_\;; ),.' - . fi\g " . DAY SER \}‘”%‘@Qm% e R e e T ¥ Text: 4T went up' to Jerusalem.,"—Cala SR Mt T e SRR Kl}ymaymmmw. Wo are $n Joppa. lltis 6 o'clock in the morning, but must start early, for by night weare to Ain Jerusalem, and that city is !% | bfi" away, Zfomyhkflolamd% < -orcarriage. As to-day w 0 0 portunity in Palestine for ukinfwthe whofi mohpon that. The horses, with harness 1 and Lilngllnz. are hitched, and, with & dragoman.in coat of many colors seated in front, we start on a road which unveils in “twelve hours enough to think of for all time -and all eternity. g‘nrewell, Mediterranean, with such a blue as no one but the Divine Chemist could mix, and such a fire of morning g:w as only the Divine Illuminator eonlg | dle. Hail! mountains of Ephraim and Judea, whose ramparts of rock we shall mount in a few hours; for modern engineers «can makeé' a road m;fwhere, and, without piling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can scale the heavens. | We start out of the city amid barricades -of cactus on either side, Not ecacti in boxes two or three feet high, but cactus higher than' the top of the carriage—a plant that | bhas more swords for defense, considering the amount of beaut%, it can exhibit, than anything created. e passed out amid about four hundred gardens, seven or eight | acres to the garden, from which at the ‘ right seasons are plucked oranges, lemons, flfig olives, citron and pomegranates, and ( which hold up their censers of perfume be- ‘ forethe Lord in perpetual praise. Wemeet great processions of camels ?oaded with kegs of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy Mohammedan with four wives—three too many. The camel is a proud, mysterious, solemn, -ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous tsh.agc. stalking out of the past. The driver with his whip taps the camel on the fore leg, and he kneels to take you as a rider. But when he rises hold fast or you will fall off backward as he puts his I{):'9 feet in standing posture, and then you will fall off in front as his back legs take their place. But the inhabitants are use to his “ways, although I find the riders often dis mount and walk as though to rest theme selves. Better stand out OE the path of the camel—he stops for nothing and seems not o look down; and in the street I saw a «child by the stroke of a camel’s front foot hurled seven or eight feet along the ground. Here we meet people with faces and arms and hands tattooed, &s in all lands sailors ‘tattoo their arms with some favorite ship or admired face. It was to this habit of fattooing among the orientals that God refers in a figure when he says of hischurch, “I have graven thee on the palms of my hands.” Many of these regions are naturally sandy, but by irrigation they are mads fruitful, and as in this irrigation the brooks and rivers are turned this way and that to water the gardens or farms, so the Bible “suys, *‘The king’s heart is in the hands of the Im:l' and he turneth it as theriversof water are turned whithersoever he will.” As we pass out and on we find about eight hundred acres belonging to the Universal Israelitish alliance. gMontefiore, the Israelit. ish centenarian and philanthropist, and E;tfihschild, the banker, and others of the ge hearted have paid the passage to Pales- Aine for many of the Israelites, and set apart lands for their culture; and it isonly a be ginning of the fulfillment of divine prophecy, when these people shall take possession of #he Holy Land. The road from Joppa to %exusa.lem, and all the roads leading to jezareth and Galilee, we saw lined with pro . ions of Jews going to the sacred places, fier on holy Ffl%rimage or as settlers. All she fingers of Providence nowadays are pointing toward that resumption of Pales tine by the Israelites. I do not take it that the prospered Israelites of other lands are to 0 tgere. They would be foolish to leave fheir prosperities in our American cities, where they are among our best citizens, and -cross two seas to begin life over again ina strange land. ] But the outrages hea&ed upon them in “Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger ~gnany, will soon quadrugle and centuple the procession of Israelites from Russia to Pal estine. Facilities for getting there will be l _multipliec‘i], not only in the railroad from .Joppa to Jerusalem, to which I referred last ;Sabgath as being built, but %ermission for a woad from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has been obtained, and that of course will soon connect with Joppa and make one great ocean shore railroad. So the railroad from Jerusalem to Joppa, and from J(;gpa to Da mascus, will soon bring all the Holy TLand within a few hours of connection. Jewish colonization societiesin Enfiland and Russia -are gathering money for the trans(i)ox'tatlon .of the Israelites to Palestine, and for the purchasefor them of lands and farming im lements, and so many desire to go that it | % decided by lot as to which families shall go Airst, They were God’s chosen people at‘the first, and He has promised to bring them back to their home, and there is no power in one thousand or five thousand years to make God forget His promises. Those who are prospered in other lands will do well to stay wvhere they are. But let the Israelites who are depreciatod and attacked and persecuted turn their faces towards the rising sun of their deliverance. God will gather in that distant land those of that race who have been maltreated, and He will blast with the Tightnings of His omnipotence those landson either side of the Atlantic which have been the instruments of annlog'ance and harm to that Jewish race, to which belonged Abra ham and David and Joshua and Baron Hirsch and Montefiore and Paul the Apostle .and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the T .arAd Aord. On the way across the plain of Sharon wa meet many veiled women. It is not respect able for them to go unveiled, and it is a veil that is so hung as to make them hideous. A man may not even see the face of his wife until after betrothal or engagement of mar riage. Hence the awful mistakes and the unhappy homes, for God has made the face an index of character, and honesty or dishon sty usually is demonstrated in the features. 1 do not see what God madea fair face for if it were not to be looked at. But here come the crowds of disfigured women down the road on their way to J ogpa, bundles of sticks for fire-wood on their heads. They started at three o’clock in the morning to get the fuel., They stagger under the burdens. Whipged and beaten will some of them be if their bundle of sticks is too small, All that is required for divorcement is for a man to -say to hiswife, ‘‘Be off, I don’t want you any more.” Woman a slave in ail lands, except those in which the Gospel of Christ makes ‘her a queen. And yet in Christian countries there are women posinias skeptics, and men with family deridmit e only religion that makes sacred and honorable the names of wife, mother, daug}ater and sister. ‘What is that? Town of Ramleh, birth olace, residence and tomb of Samuel, the ol R e B T R e 5,4,_?”,:.',) LA |4LR w A TRO v E‘:éi I \,‘% ,5,,-‘;—%, — C’f‘:‘ ‘mufiw'i.!”‘%;‘x o fi,n& ,‘:‘ :?",-;%‘q'}? ‘ol % ‘%;- &eB 45 ol e R e ..,: I AR W e % “":ig‘* T T GIA R DR T S KON SRER _the ’g ] ot b 3 Gvieatae PER TR 08 Irrety from ~_ Now we p, »‘,,,m, he guard houses, which |R A S %‘%m ‘ gnt and partly vtarough m - men dwell and keep the bandits ofl:h-:nvnm. !1): mo:v“:“' ' dbe ‘g' -0 X 8 WO | y and a purse ‘vm R;m;gu w&d gl: com pensation cnonil: the struggle that the savage might have with the wayfarer, There is “%,2‘ other defense that amounts to much in lands and that is the law of uo:gmmuy. i you can get an Arabp 1o eat with you, if only one mou%h!ul you are sure of his protection, and that has been so from age m The Lord’s supper was built on that m, mm friendship after ‘gar taking food to . To that custom Wal ter Scott refersin his immortal *‘Talisman,” where Saladin, with one stroke of the sword, strikes the head from an enemy who stauds in Saladin’s tent with a cup in his hand and before he has time to put it to his lip, and does it so suddenly that the body of gis en smy, beheaded, stands for a moment after the peneading, with the cug still in his right hand. After the cup had been sipped it would have been impossible, according to the laws of the oriental hospitality, to give the fatal blow. The only lands where it is safe to travel unarmed are Christian lands. - Human life is more kighly valued and personal rights are better respected, and I am glad to believe that in our country, from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean, there is not a place to day where a man isnot safer without a pistol than with one. But all through our journeys in Palestine we reguired firearms. While the only weapon I had on my person was a New Testament we went through the region where Isaid to the dragoman: ‘‘David, are you armed?’ and he said ‘*Yes,” and I said: ‘“‘Are those titteen or twenty muieteers and bag gage men and attendants armed?’ and he said “‘Yes,” and I felt safer, On we roll through the plain-of Sharon. Here grew therose after which Christ was named, Rose of Sharon, celeßrated in all Christendom and throughout all ages. There has been controversy as to what flow. er it was. Some say it was a marshmallow that thrives here, and some claim this honor rfor tne narcissus, and some for the blue iris, and some for the scarlet anemone, for you must know that this gla.in of Sharon is a roll: ing ocean of color when the spring breezes move acrossit, But leaving the botanists in controversy asto what it is, I would take the most aromatic and beautiful of them all and twist them into a garland for the ‘‘name which is above every name.” Yonder, a little to the north as we move on, is the plain of Ono. The Bible mentions it again and again. The village standing on this plain of Ono is a mud village. fi‘wa great basinsof rock catch the rains for the geople. Of more importance in olden time han in modern time was this plain of Ono. But as the dragoman announced itand in the Bible Iread of it I was reminded of the vast multitude of people who now dwellin the plain of Ono. They are. by their nervous constitution or by their lack of faith in God, alwz:.lys in the negative. Will you help to build a church? Oh, no! Will you start out in some new Christian enterprise? Oh, nol Do you think the world is getting any bet ter? Oh, no! They lie down in the path of all good movements, sanitary, political and religious. They barness their horses with no traces to pull ahead, but only breeching straps to hold back. For all Christian work I would not give for a thousand of them the price of a clipped ten cent piece. They are in the plain of Oh, no! May the Lord multi ply the numbers of those who when anything good is undertaken are found to live in the plain of Oh, yes! Will you su%mrt this new charity? Oh, yes! Do you think that this victim of evil habit can be reformed? Oh, yes! Are you willing to do anfithing, whether obscure or resounding, for the wel fare of the church and the salvation of a world? Oh, yes! But, lam sorry to say that the most populous plain in all the earth to-day is the plain of Ono. Here now we come where stood the fields into which Samson fired the foxes. The foxes are no rarity in this land. I counted at one time twenty or thirty of them in one group, and the cry all along the line was *‘Foxes! Look at the foxes!” and at night they sometimes bark until all attempts to sleep are an absurdity, Those I saw and heard in Palestine might have been descend ants of the very foxes that Samson employed for an appalling incendiarism. The wealth of that land was in the harvests, and it was harvest time and the straw was dry. Three hundred foxes are caught and tied in couples by some wire or incombustible cord which the flames cannot divide, and firebrands are fastened to those couples of foxes, and ‘the affrighted creatures are let loose and run every whither among the harvests, and in the awful blaze down go the corn shocks, and the vineyards, and theolives, and all through the valleys and over the hills and among the villages is heard the cry of ‘‘Fire!” Andin the burnt pathway walk hunger and want and desolation. . All this for spite. And some theologians learn one thing and some another. But I learn from it that a great man may some times stoop toa very mean piece of business, and that if men would use as much ingenu ity in trying to bless as they do in trying to destroy, the world all the way down would | be in better condition. Yet the fire of the | foxes kindled that night in Palestine has not gone out, but has leaped the seas, and thesly ~ foxes, the human foxes, are now still run ' ning everr whither, kindling political fires, fires of religious controversy, fires of hate, world wide fires and the whole harvest o righteousness perish. It took the hard work of multitudes on these plains of Palgstine for months and months torear the vine #nd raise the corn, but it took only three hundred worthless foxes one night to blaze all into ashes. Brace up wour nerves now, that you may look while I point them out. Yonder is Kir jath-Jearim, where the ark of God staid un til David took it to Jerusalem. Yonder John the Baptist was born, Yonder is Emmaus, where Christ walked with his disci);;les at eventide. Here are men plowing, only one handle to the plow, showing the accuracy of Christ’s allusion. When we plow in America or England there are two hands on two handles, but in Palestine only one handle. And so Ghrist used the sinfula.r saying, ‘‘No man ha.vin§t put his hand to the Plow and looking back is fit for the kipidom. * Theox is urged on by a wooden stick pointed with sharp iron, and the ox knows qnou%h.not ta kick, for he would only hurt himself instead of breaking the goad. And the Biblé refers to that when it says to Saul, *ltis hard for thee to kick against the goads.” : Here is the valley of Agalon, famous for Joshua’s pursuit of the five kings and the lunar arrest. And in"im‘:):fi:nafion I see the moon in daytime halt. o has not some times seen the moon dispute the throne with the sun? But when the king of day and the ueen of night, who never before Joshua's ame nor since then stop%ed a moment in their march, halted at Joshua’s command it was a scene, enough to make the universe shiver: ‘‘Moon, stand thou still in the valley of Ajalon™ At another time we will see the sun stop above Gibeon.but now we have only to do with the moon, and you must remem her it was mora of an orb than it is now. I LAI e RT T R R G b Bty g S b »:.«vs‘-,"s-wi: e;’ R araTe s P s;;:“,% .auk.u;‘,;;ifiér > & %’; .f,;@ ._q‘,'»‘.’..,,.1!“ ment day to burv it. EWon the dav of whi % sm?%rfi o ’i{ z'é'-ta»&#wsef’:’:”: i f‘.;%;.;,,;‘,_é?«"fm B, IR Wi el€ Late s T PEODRDAY. §Ly ) “rxki,z s ?,»fieq,fl-{ I hmfyw n 4 o axothero tumbling aver the rooksword amm%:hq ones out of the _And there is the cavern of Makkedah, -where they fled for safety, and where they | ~were afterward locked in, and from whlclvx they were taken out to be slain, and in which fl‘:lr were afterward burlod,andwyou do well to examine that cavern, for within a few hours it became three things which no other cave ever was—fortrcss, prison, seg}xlchor. ow we pass the place where once lived one of the Ereatest robbers of the country, Abou Gosh by name. From this point you see he could look over the surroundfgg coun try, and long before the travelers came up to him the plan for taking of their money or their life, or both, was consumated, He one day found a company of monks who would not pay, and he smothered. them to death in a hot oven. In his last dags he lived here like an oriental prince, and had attendants and’admirers to whom he told his stories of brigandage and assassination. So late as when our eminent and beloved American, William C, Prime, passed through, Abou Grosh, the scoundrelly Bedouin, sat at his doorway smoking his gipe, His descendants livein this village, and probably ara no mor honest than their distinguished ancestor, but marauding ana murder are not as safe a business now as when all this route to Jerusalem was subjected to outrages pan demoniac. Here we pass the village of Latrun, home of the penitent thief, the village, a few strag gling houses on sbqu hills, rising from the valley of Ajalon. fp these steep hills in his earlier days the thief had carried the spoils of arson and burglary, and down them he had born the heavier burden of a guilty heart. But hi%]her than these hil%s he mounted after he had repented, from: the transfixed posture on the cross to the bosom of a forgiving God. Now we come to the brook Elah, from which little David took the smooth stones with which he prostrated Goliath, There is a bridge spanning the ravine, but at the sea son we crossed there is not a drop of water in the brook. We went down into the ravine and walked amid the pebbles that had been washed smooth, very smooth, by the rush of the waters through all the ages. There is where ' David armed himself. He walked arounda and picked up five of these polished fiabbles. Ho got them of fi‘ust; the right size. e prepared himself for five volleys, so that if the giant escaped the firsthe will not es cape the whole five. The topogn}g)hy of the place so corresponds with the Bible story that I could see the memorable fight go on. It is the only fizht I ever did watch. Pugilism lyabhor; but here were two cham gions—the one God appointed, the other Satan appointed, and deciding the destiny of a nation, the destiny of a world. It was a Marathon, an Arbela, a Waterioo, a Blen heim, a Sedan, concentrated into two rizht arms. Here are two ridges of mountains 500 feet high, the Philistines on one ridéze, the Is raelites on the other vidge. The fight is in the valley between, at that seasom shaded and sweet with terebinth and acacia, David the champion for the Israelites, Goliath the champion for the Philistines, David under sized and almost effeminate, only a mouth ful for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet high. They advance to meat each other, but the Bible says that David made the first step forward. Nearer and nearer they come, but I do not think David will wait until he comes within reach of Goliath’s sword, for that would be fatal, and David has a weapon with which he can fight at long range. Closer and closer they come, but David ad vances the more rapidly. ‘‘Come to me,” said the gianf, ‘‘and I will give thy fiesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the fleld.” You see Goliath going to give David for a banauet to the vulture and jackal. He, the mountain of flesh, will fall over on that little hillock. I hear him laugh through the mouthpiece of his hel met. He wifi toast the little whiffet on the top of his long sword. He will call all the ¥ crows for a breakfast. ‘‘Come to me, you contemptible little fellow, and I will make quick work with you. The idea that a five footer should dare to come out against a ten-rooter! Let the two armies looking down from the ridges watch me!” David respond ed, *‘l come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts!” /Aha! that is the right kind of battle shout. ‘“ln the name of the Lord of Hosts!” How that cry rings through the Wadyes- Sumpt! He who fights in that ?irit wing the day. The almost Israelitish dwarf en larges into ommnipotent proportions. The moment to strike has come. David takes his sling, with a stone in it. and whirls it round his head untilhehas put the weapon ‘ into sufficient momentum, and then, taking | sure aim, hurls it. The giant throwsup his | hands and reels back and falls. - The stone sank into his forehead. That was the only available point of attack. But how about the helmet on his head? Did the stone that David fiunicrush.through the helmet? No. An old rabbi says he thinks that when Go liath scoffed at David the giant so suddenly and contemptuously jerked up his head that the helmet fell off. That is like enough. David saw the bare forehead, a foot high,and aimed at the centre of it, and the skull cracked and broke in like an eggshell, and the ground shook as this %-eat oak of amili tary chieftain struck it. Huzza for David! But we must hasten on,for the dange now is that night will be upon us before we reach Jerusalem. Oh! we must see it before sun down. We are climbing the hills which are terraced with olive groves, uplands rising above u;{}ands, until we come to an immen. sity of barrenness, gray rocks above gray rocks, where neither tree, nor leaf, nor bush. nor grass blade can _%row. The horses stum ble, and slig and puil, till it seems the har ness must break. Solemnity and awe take possession of us. Though a vivacious party, and during part of the day jocularity had reigned, new no one spoke a word except to say to the dragoman, ‘‘Tell us when you get the first glimpse of the city.” I never had such higg expectation of seeing any place as of .seeing Jerusalem. I think my feelings may have been slightly akin to those of the - Christian just about to enter the heavenly Jeruslaem. My ideas of the earthly Jerusa ' lem were bewildering. Had I not seen pic ‘ tures of it? Oh, yes: but they only increased the bewilderment. ‘They were taken from o variety of standpoints, : 1f twenty artists attempt to sketch Brook lyn or New York or London or Jerusalem they will plant their cameras at different laces and take as many different pictures, gnt in a few minutes I shall see the sacred city with my own eyes. Over another shoul der of the hill we fo.and nothinF in sight but rocks and mountains and awful gulches be tween them, which make the head swim if ou look down. On and ufl, on and up,until zhe lathered and smoking horses are reined in, and the dragoman rises in front, and points eastward, crying ‘‘Jerusalem!” It was mightier than an electric shock. We all rose. There it lay,the prize of nations, the termiaus of famous pilgrimages, the objeot of Roman and crusa wars, and for it Assyrianshad fought, and ptians had fought, and the wofidtimd fouggtr—the place where the Queen of Sheba visited and Richard Ceeur de Lion ::’ home , nfl;.}; et W *}wf‘:n Q hearthroak, and Mount Moriah, where the peiee y ißgiggen, Yo, vimag e SN egt o A pran N N ‘Aiohiised. s Colkotha Wikre T diad ant. tho holy Sepaller wher Ho was burio “0 “earth, and type of the city celestial! t’ % _ After I have been ten thousand years in heaven the memory of that fluglz view from the rocks on the afternoon of December 2 will be as vivid as now. An Arab on a horse that was like a wfim wind, bitted and sad dled and spurred, its mane and flanks jet as the night—and thero are no such horsemen as Aral horlemeu—kd come far out to mest us and inviteus to His hotel inside the gates, But arrangements had been made for us to stay at a.hotel outside the gates. In the dusk of eveningwe halted in front of the place and entered, but I said: ‘‘No; thank you for {our courteous reception. but I must slean o-mgnt. mside the &anes of Jerusalem. 1 would rather have the poorest place inside the gates than the best place outside.” So we remounted our coach and moved onamid a clamor of voices, and between camels grunting with great beams and timbers on their backs, brought in for building purposes —for it is -amazing how much a cnmefcan carry—until we came to what is called the Joppa Gate of Jerusalem. Itis about forty feet wide, twenty feet «leep and sixty feet high, There is a sharp turn just after you have entered, so planned as to make the en trance of armed enemies the more difficult. On the structure of these gates the safety of Jerusalem depended, and all the Bible writers used them for illustrations. Within five minutes’ walk of the gate we entered David wrote, ‘‘Enter into thy gates with thanksgiving,” “Lift up your heads, O ye gates!” **The Lord loveth the gates of Zion,” *“Open.to me the gates of righteousness.” And Isaiah wrobfi “Go through, go through the gates.” And the captive of Patmos . wrote, *‘The city had twelve gates.” Having passed the gate we went on through the narrow streets, dimly lighted, and passed to cur balting place, and sat down by the window, from which we could see Mount Zion, and said: ‘‘Herp we are at last, in the capital of the whole earth.” And thoughts of the past and the future rushed through my soul in quick succession, and I thought of that odd hymn, sung by so many ascending spirits: Jerusalem, my happy home, Name ever dear to mel When shall my labors have an end, In joy and peace and thee? b When shall these eyes thy heav’'n built walls And pearly gates beholg? Thy bulwarks with salvation strong, And streets of shicing gold? And so with our hearts full of gratitude to God for journeying merciesall the way from Joppa to Jerusalem, and with bright anticipation of our entrance into the shining gate of the heavenly city when earthly journeys are over, my second day in Pales tine is endeg.______________ Turkeys Routed by Grasshoppers. Farmer James C. Fairchild, of the up per Paupack region in Pennsylvania, as sertsthat has never known grasshoppers to be as thick in that place as they have been during the past August. In a three acre field of late rye the insccts were so numerous that they ate all the blades off the stalks and sucked all the juice out of them before the erop was ripe. One day Farmer Fairchild left his white vest at the edge of the lot, and when he went to put it onat night he found that the grasshop pers had eaten hundreds of holes in it. The grasshoppers seemed to increase sev eral fold each day in that particular field, and it appeared to him as though they came out of the ground mnearly full grown. As soon as the rye was put into the barn, he turned the turkeys into the stub ble. A high stone wall surrounds the lot, and the turkeys drove the hordes of grasshoppers ahead of them and gobbled up what they wanted. Oneday the tur keys drove apparently millions of the in sects into a corner of the field. They couldn’t get over the wall or through it, Jand several bushels of the grasshoppers, Farmer Fairchild declared, turned upon his flock of turkeys and came within an ace of swamping them. The fowls were completely covered with grasshoppers, and the insects kept coming at them so thick and fast that the turkeys finally took to their legs and wings, and went squalling toward the centre of the iot as though something had scared them half \ to death. | After a little, one of the gobblers ral lied the flock, and led them back to the corner. He gobbled a number of times on the way, and the other tom turkeys marched abreast of him and gobbled de fiantly at the grasshoppers, the hens bringing up the rear and talking saucily as they marched. Well up toward the corner of the field the flock spread out, ~and in amoment innumerable wings were - buzzing toward the wall. Pretty soon the grasshoppers were as thick in the corner as they had been before. There wasn’t room for them all, and again they turned upon the turkeys and the turkeys turned tail in an instant, skedaddled across the lot, and flew over the barsinto the roadway. The fowls had plainly been badly scared by the grasshoppers, and since then Farmer Fairchild has been unable to get his turkeys to stay in the rye field for ten minutes at a time. Curiosity Did It. Book agents follow the motto, ‘“When everything else fails, try curiosity,” and it usually wins. An old gentleman south of this city, who had thrown book agents over the fence, allowed his curiosity to lead him down to the fence to see a bi cycle go by. Just as the young gentle man came up to the gate something went wrong with the wheel, and he st?ped to fixit. The old man kindly offered his aid, and the wily agent slipped a book into the victim’s hand to hold till the wheel was fixed. The conversation turned from the bicycle to the book, and the former was regaired about the time the farmer was ready to subscribe to two of the latter. "When the name was well inscribed and the bicyclist out of hearing, the old man scratched his head in a rather dazed way and said: “Dll be hanged if that ain’t a book agent.”—lndianapolis (Ind.) News. U S nADATA MDWIO SianOa eO e W G P Tt 1 e (e LS S O e Sl ek e N TR AT S I i ¥ e R L e R R ~ THROUGHOUT THE STATE. Darien is agitating electric lights. ;s\@ There are four murderers in the Bibb county jail, T i Very little cotton bagging isbeingu’qg&; in Georgia this season, Gl James F. Doyle was on Tuesday ap pointed postmaster at Savannah. Vi Two-dollar counterfeit silver certifi cates are in circulation in Brunswick. .The farmers of Jackson county ag holding their cotton for better prices, ° It is said that a dummy line will be built from Ringgold via Cherokee Springs to Cutoosa, Brunswick showed aiarger percentz:lge of increase in population in the last de cade than any other Georgia city. The Georgia school of Technology at Atlanta, opened its third session Wed nesday, under most promising auspices. The Alliance Manufacturing Company at Boston already has its ginpery at work, and will soon have an oil mill 1n opera tion. Work is going on rapidly on the new building at the academy for the blind in Macon. .The building will be four stories high., ‘G. M. Dekle, of Emanuel county, has seventeen acres in sea island cotton and will make twelve bales of cotton, bring ing him $1,200. The Japanese village, which has been on exhibition for some time past in New York, will be one of the curiosities of the State fair in Macon. : & The ordinary of Coffee county hass *: clined to accept the returns of the regis tration on the grounds that none of it has been legally done. The grading of the branch road from near Newborn, on . the Middle Georgia and Atlantic railroad, to Social Circle, is progressing quite rapidly. The alliance of the upper part of Mil ton and lower part of Cherokee, will open a co-operative store at Pleasant Hill, about the 20th of October. The People’s Savings Bank, of Rome, and the Bank of Milledgeville have been named as State depositories by executive order, under authority of an act passed in 1879, Grogan’s district, Milton county, adopt- 1 ed the stock law by a large majority last week. This was the only district in that county that had not already adopted the stock law. : A new artesian well has just been com pleted in Brunswick. The well is 457 ,J feet deep, with a three-inch main, and turns out 200 gallons of water a minute The temperature of the water is 68 d grees. ; The nomination of Dudley as post master at Americus was withdrawn in the senate, Tuesday, and the fight is at last ended. Americus will now get a white postmaster, but who it will be has not been definitely decided upeon. Carroll county has a population of 22,272, against 16,901 in 1880, a gain of 5,371: Coweta shows 22,366, a gain of 1,257 over the census of 1880. Accord ing to the census returns, Habersham county has increased 2,844 since 1880; » gain of 30 per cent. Mr. Clements, on Tuesday, passed through the house a bill to pay James M. Lowrey, of Dalton, $217, the balance of compensation due him as assistant marshal in taking the census of 1860. He had not been fi)aid in full when the war broke out, and has been unable to get the money up to date. He is, however, quite cer tain of it now. There was a disastrous wreck on the Georgia railroad at Carey’s, nesr Union Point, Monday night. No lives were lost, | but the loss in rolling stock and freight - will reach probubly SIOO,OOO. Eigliteen j freight cars and their contents were%%fal- | ly destroyed, smashed in the wreck ‘and consumed in the flames. One of the cars near the engine on freight train No. 13 was thrown from the track while crossing a switch. The train was moving at a high rate of speed, and when the car jumped the track in an instant the train was a mass of debris. One of the cars was laden with sulphur. This became ignited and the whole train was soon in fames. Mayor Glenn, Colonel Pat Calhoun and Mr. Humphreys Castleman, of Atlanta, were in Wasfilngton Tuesday to receive | Mr. Blaine’s answer to the invitation ex tended him to make address at the Piedmont exposition. . %e was very anx ious to go to Atlanta, and while he could ' not say positively that he would accept | the invitation, if it was possible for him to leave Washington between the 15t001. October and the Ist of November, e | would visit Atlanta, and talk to the peo- | ple at the exposition, The delegation | was perfectly satisfied with his answer. | They feel quite certain that Mr. Blaine) will accept when the time ‘comes. After § leaving Mr. Blaine, the delegation called | on Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, | who accepted an invitation to deliver the} address on veterans’ day, October 23d. | The G. C. ‘5 N. This will be one of Atlanta’s greatest} roads when finished—the Georgia, Caro-} lina & Northern, . ; e » It is an air-line from Atlanta thn?’s‘» the most fertile section of the Carolinas to Monroe, N. (~ and on to Norfolk, Va.} It will be a popular truck line through to the metropolitan cities of the northeast, and will, at the same time, have jlany advantages of a local road. Trains ares already running to a point in South Car{ olina not many miles Eomflwfl b, and the grading is soon to be eompleted to Athens ready for the iron.,h%h! ',
