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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1889.
DR. TAUIAGK'S SERMON.
HE TALKS OF THE WONDERS OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Sotnn of tlir SluU Awful l)lnlri In !!
tory llntc Occurred During llm Piul
Mine Uremic Tim Spirit or ClirlMUtiltj
Spreading Otrr tlm Knrtli.
Kanhas Citv, March at. Tbo Hcv. T. D
Witt Talmngo preached a sermon licro today
on "Wonder of Disaster nnd Blessing," his
text being, "I will show wonders in tho heav
ens nnd In tho earth." Joel II, HO. Ilotnldt
Dr. Cummlng great and good man would
havo told u tho uxnet tlmo ot tlio fulfilment
of tills prophecy As I itcpjHsl Into his study
in Imiloii oil my arrival from Paris Just
after tho French hod surrendered at Sedan,
tho good doctor said to mot "It Is just nt I
told you ahout Franco; pcoplo laughed at me
becauso 1 talked about tho seven horns and
tho vials, but I foresaw nil this from the
Book of Daniel and tho Book of Itovela
tlon." Not taking any such responsibility in
tho interpretation of tbo passage, 1 simply as
sort that there is in it suggestions of many
things in our time.
Our eyes dllato and our heart quickens its
pulsations as wo read of events in tho Third
century, tho Sixth century, tho Klghth cen
tury, the Fourteenth century; butthero nre
more far ivnelilng events crowded into tbo
Nineteenth century than Into nny other, and
tho last quarter bids fair to cell o tho pro
coding threo quarters., Wo rend in tbo dally
nowspapers of events announced in ono porn
graph and without any especial emphasis
of overits which a Herodotus, a Joscphus,
Xcnoplion, a Gibbon would havo taken wholo
chapters or wholo volumes to elaborate.
Looking out upon our tlmo, wo mutt cry out
in tho words of tho text: "Wonders in tho
heavens nnd in tho earth."
I proposo to show you that tho tlmo in
which wo llvo is wondorful for disaster and
wonderful for blessing,- for thero must bo
lights and shades in tills picturo ns in nil
otlicrs. Need I nrguo this day that our tlmo
is wonderful for disaster i Our world lias had
a rough tlmo sineo by tho hand of God it was
bowled out into space It is an epileptic
earth: convulsion after convulsion; frosts
pounding it with sledgo hammer of Iceberg,
and fires melting it with furuacoH woven hun
dred times heated. It is n wonder to mo it
has lasted so long. Meteors shooting by on
this side nnd grazing it, and meteors shooting
by on tbo other bIcIo and grazing it, uouo of
them slowing up for safety. Wholo llcoU
and navies and argosies nnd Hot Ulna of worlds
weeping nil about us. Our earth like) n fish
ing smack off tho banks of Newfoundland,
while tho Etruria and tho Germanic nnd tbo
Arizona nnd tho City of Now York rush by.
Besides that, our world has by sin been dam
aged in Its internal machinery, nnd over nnd
anon tho furnaces havo burst, and tho walk
ing beams of tho mountains havo broken, and
tho islands havo shipped a sea, and tho great
bulk of tho world has been jarred with accl
donts that ever nnd anon threatened lmmo
diato demolition. But it seems to us as if our
century v. cro especially characterized by dis
asters, volcanic, cyclonic, oceanic, epidemic.
I say volcanic, becauso nn eartbquako is only
a volcano bushed up. When Stromboll nnd
Cotopaxiand Vosuvlusstop breathing, let tbo
foundations of tbo earth beware. Seven
thousand earthquakes in two centuries ro
corded in tho cataloguo of tho British associ
ation. Trojan, tho emperor, goes to ancient
Antiocb, and amid tho splendors of his recep
tion is met by an carthqunko that nearly de
stroys tbo emperor's Ufa Lisbon, fair and
beautiful at 1 o'clock on tho 1st of November,
1753, in six minutes 00,000 havo crlshed, nnd
Voltniro writes of them: "For that region it
was the last judgment, nothing wanting but
a trumpet I" Europe and America feeling
the throb; 1,600 cbimnoys in Boston partly
or fully destroyed.
BOMB DISASTERS OF THE NINETEENTH CXN-
t Tunr.
But tho disasters of other centuries havo
had their counterpart in our own. In 1813
Caraccas was caught in tho grip of tho earth
quake; In VSiX, In Chili, 100,000 Kquaro mllea
of laud by volcauio forro upheaved to four
andseTeu feet of permanent elovation; in
1854 Japan felt tho geological agony; Naples
shaken in IS.". Mexico in 18M; Medosa,
tho i capital of tho Argentine Republic, iu
1801 Manilla terrorized in lliC3; the Hawaiian
islands by sucli force uplifted nnd let down
in 1871; Novada shaken In 1871, Antloch In
1873; California in 1873, San Salvador Jn
1873; whilo in 18b.1 what subterranean ex
citement 1 Ischta, un island of tho Mediter
ranean, a beuutlful Italian watering place,
vineyard clad, surrounded by nil natural
charm and historical reminiscence; yonder,
Capri, tho summer resort of tho Roman em
perors; yonder Naples, tho paradiso of nrt
this beautiful island suddenly toppled into
tbo trough of tho earth, 8,000 merry makers
perishing, and somo of them so fur down be
neath tho reach of human obsequies that it
may bo said of many a ono of them as it was
said of Moses, "Tho Lord hurled hint." Italy
weeping, all Kuroo weeplug, nil Christen
dom weeping where thero wero heart to
sympathize, ami Cbristiuuii to pruy. Hut
while tho nations were measuring that mag
nltudo of disaster, measuring it nut with
golden rod liko thut with which tho angel
measured heaven, but with tho black rulo of
death, Java, of tho Indian archipelago, tho
most fertile Island of nil tbo earth, Is caught In
Urn grlpof the eartbquako, and mountain after
mountain goes down, and city nf tor city, until
that island, which produces thohcalthlfia bev
erage of all the world, has produced tbo ghast
liest accident of tho century. One hundred
thousand eoplo dying, dying, dead, dead.
WnKN HEAVEN'S winds, visited the EAIIT1I
uouaiiLY.
But look at tho disasters cyclonic. At tbe
mouth of the Uuugos are three Islands tlw
Uattlah, tho Suudeep and tho Dakln Shabar
poro. In tho midnight of October, 1877, on
all thoso threo Islands tho cry was; "Tho
waters, tho waters I" A cyclouo uroso and
rolled tho sea over thoso threo islands, aud of
a Imputation of :! 10,000, 315,000 worodrowned.
Only those saved who had climbed to the top
of tho highest trees. Did you over sou a cy
clone! No Then I pray God you muy uover
sco ono. I saw ono on tho ocean, aud it
swept uh eight hundred miles back from our
course, ami for thirty-six hours during tho
cyclone and after it wo expected every mo
ment to go to tho bottom. They told us be
fore wo retired at 0 o'clock that the barom
eter bad fallen, but at 11 o'clock at night we
werq awakened with tho shock of the waves.
All tho lights out. Crash) went all the
lifo boats. Waters rushing through the sky
lights down into tbo cabin aud down on
tbo furnaces until tboy bUscd and smoked
in tho deluge. Seven hundred ooplo pray
ing, blaspheming, shrieking. Our great ship
poised u moment on tho top of a mountain cf
phosphorescent fire, and then plunged down,
down, down, until it teemed ns if alio never
would nsaiu bo righted. Ah I you never
want to tee a cyclouo at sea. But 1 was In
Minnesota, where there was ono of thoso cy
clones on land that swept tbe city of Roch
ester from Its loundatlons, aud tool; dwell
ing houses, burns, inun, women, children,
horses, cuttle, and tossed thorn Into Indh
orlinlimte itilu, and lifted n rail train and
Unshed it down, a mightier baud than that
of tho engineer on tho air brake, t'ytlone
in Kansas, cyclouo iu Missouri, cyclone iu Wis
consin, cyclouo Iu Illinois, cyclouo in Iowa,
Satan, prince of tho ower of tho nlr, norer
mndo such cyclonic disturbances ns ho has In.
our day. And mn I not right in saying that
ono of tho characteristics of tho time iu
which wo llvo N disaster cyclonic I
Hut look nt tbe disaster oceanic Shall 1
call tho roll of tbo dead shipping! Vo mon
sters of the deep answer when I call your
names. Vlllo do Havre, tltf Schiller, City of
Ronton, tho Melville, tho President, tho fim
bria. Hut why should I go on calling tbo
roll when none of them answer, and tho roll
Is ns long as tho white scroll of thoAtlantlo
surf at Capo H at t eras breakers! If the
oceanic cables could rcjiortnlt tho scattered
lifo nnd nil tho bleached bones that they rub
against !tu tho depths of tho ocean, what a
message of pathos ami tragedy for loth
beaches! In ono storm eighty fishermen
perished off tho coast of Newfoundland, ami
wholo fleets nf them off tho const of England.
God help tbo oor fellows at mot, and give
high seats in heaven to tho Grace Darlings
nnd tho Ida 1 ,0 wires nnd tho lifeboat men
hovering around Goodwin's Sands and tho
Skerries. Tho sea, owning three-fourths of
tho earth, proposes to enpturo tho other
fourth, and is bombarding tho land nil
around tho earth. Tho moving uf our hotels
nt Brighton Bench backward one hundred
yards from whero thoyonco stood, n typo
of whnt Is going on nil around tho world nnd
on every coast. Tho Dead sea rolls today
where ancient cities Uxd. Hilars of temples
that stood on hills geologists now llud threo
quarters under tho water or altogether sub
merged. Tho sea, having wrecked so nimij
merchantmen ami flotillas, wants to wreck
tho continents, nnd henco disasters oceanic.
PLAQUES THAT HAVE SMITTEN llt'UANITY.
Look at tho disasters epidemic. I sjtcnk
not of the plaguo in tho Fourth century that
ravaged EuroM, ami in Moscow nnd tho No
Klltau dominions nnd Marseilles wrought
such terror in the Eighteenth century, but I
look nt tho yellow fevers, nnd tho choleras,
and tho diphtherias, and tho scarlet fevers,
and tho typhoids of our own time. Hear tho
walling of Memphis, aud Bhrevejwrt, and
Now Orleans nnd Jacksonville of tho lost fow
decades. IVoin Hurdwar, India, whero every
twelfth year threo million devotees congro
gate, tho caravnns brought tbo cholera, and
tbatouo disease slew eighteen thousand in
eighteen days in Bossorah. Twelve thousand
in ono summer slain by it In India nnd twen-ty-ilvo
thousand In Egypt, Disasters epi
demic. Homo of tho finest monuments in
Greenwood and Liurcl Hill and Mount Au
burn arc to doctors who lost their Ufo bat
tling with southern epidemic.
Tt'UNINO OVKll A NEW LEAV.
But now I turn tho leaf In my subject, nnd
I plant tho white lilies nnd tho palm tree
nmld tho night shado nnd tho myrtle. This
ngo no more characterized by wonders of
disaster than by wonders of blessing. Mess
ing of longevity; thonvcragoof human llfo
rapidly Increasing. Forty years now worth
four hundred years once. Now I enn
travel from Manitoba to New York in threo
days and threo nights. In other times it
would havo taken threo mouths. In other
words, threo days nnd threo nights now nro
worth threo months of otbor days. Tho aver
age of human lifo practically greater now
than when Noah lived his UV) years nnd Mo
thusaloh lived his 000 years. Mossing of in
telligence: Tho Salmon P. Chases and tho
Abraham Lincolns and tho Henry Wilsons of
tho coming tlmo will not bo required to loam
to read by pino knot lights, or seated on shoe
maker's bench, tor will the Fergusons have
to study astronomy while watching tho cattle,
Kuowledgo rolls Its tides along every jwor
man's door, aud his children limy go down
nnd bathe iu them. If tbo philosophers of tho
lost century were called up to reclto in n class
with our boys at tho Poly techulc, or our girls
at tho Packer, thoso old philosophers would
bo sent down to tho foot of tbo class becauso
thoy failed to answer tbo questions I Frco
libraries in all tbo important towns and cities
of tbe land. Historical alcoves nnd poetic
shelves and magazine tables for all that desire
to walk through them or sit dowuat them.
Blessings of quick information: Newspapers
falling all around us thick as leaves hi a Sep
tember equinoctial. News three days old,
rancid nnd stale, We Geo the wholo world
twicoa day through tho ncwspajicr nt tho
breakfast table, and through tho newspaper
nt tbo ten table, with an "extra" hero and
thero between.
CHIUSTIANITY IS IN A VLOUIllhlllNO CONDI
TION. Blessing of Gospol proclamation) Do you not
know that nearly all the missionary societies
nave been born In this century I and nearly
all tbo Bible societies, and nearly nil tbe great
philanthropic movements A secretary of
I ono of tbe denominations said to me tbe other
day in Dakota: "You wero wrong whon you
said our denomination averaged a now church
every day of tbo year; they established nlno
in ono uook, so you aro far within tho truth."
A clergyman of our own denomination soldi
"I have just been out establishing llvo mis
sion stations." 1 tell you Christianity is on
tho march, while Infidelity is dwindling into
imbecility. While Inlldellty is thus dwind
ling aud dropping down Into imbecility and
indecency, the wheel of Christianity Is mak
ing about u thousand revolutions iu n minute.
All tho copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson
aud Disraeli and of any ten of the most pop
ular writers of the day, less iu number than
tbe copies of the Oiblo going out from our
printing presses. A fuw years ago, in six
weeks, more than two million copies of tho
Now Testament purchased, not given away,
but purchased becauso tbo world will havo it.
More Christian men in high otllcial potdtlou
today In Great Britain aud iu tho United
States than over before. Stop that false
hood going through tho nowspaers 1 have
seen It In twenty that tho Judges of tbo
supremo court of tho United States aro all
iulldels except one. By personal acquaint
ance 1 know threo of them to bo old fashioned
evangelical Christians, sitting at the holy
sacrament of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 1
suppose that tbo majority of them are
stanch liellovers in our Christian religion.
And then hear the dying words of Judgo
Rluek, a inun who had been attorney general
of tbo United States, and who had been
secretary of the United States, no stronger
lawyer of the century than Judgu Black
dying, Ids ngod wifo kneeling by his side,
nnd lie uttering that sublime nnd tender
prayer1 "U Uird God, from whom 1 de
rived my existence and In whom I havo
always trusted, take my spirit ru thyself
nnd let thy richest blessing come down upon
my Mury " Tho most opulnr Uxik today is
tho Bible, and tbe mightiest institution is tbo
cburrh, ami the greatest name among the
nations, nud more honored than any other,
Is tho iiniuo of Jesus.
ntlNOH THAT OUCillT TO MAKE PEKHIMIHTH
OITIMlbTS.
Wonders of self sacriiicei A clergyman
told mo iu tho northwest that for six years
ho was n missionary ut tho extreme north,
living -400 miles from n osUIIIco, nud somo
times ho slept out of doors In winter, tbo ther
mometer sixty nud sixty-llvo degrees Mow
zero, wrnpiel iu rabbit skins woven together
I said: "Is it oslhler You do not menu
sixty nnd sixty-live degrees liolow rerol" lie
snldt "I do, and I was happy." All fur Christ,
Whero U thero uny other lcliig that will
rally sucli enthusiasm r Mothers sew lug their
! fingers oh to educate their boys for the Gos-
I ffWtl frltilt.tti nVn tilrt.t t'nnrii u liivtit .,ii
ii,e iuihkii, jt ISSltW jsnm IMAUIJ nil
Ihe table until tho course through grammar
school nnd college and theological seminary
bo completed, Poor widow putting her mlto
Into the Iord's treasury, tho fnco of emxror
or president Impressed upon tho coin not so
conspicuous ns tho blood with which she
earned it. Millions of good men nud women,
but tnoro women than men, to whom Christ
Is everything. Christ first nud Christ last,
nnd Christ forever.
Why, this ngo is not so characterized by
Invention nnd sclent Mo exploration ns It la
by Gospel proclamation. You can get no
Idea of it unless you can ring nil tho church
bells In one chime, and sound nil tho organs
In ono diapason, nnd gather nil the congrega
tions of Christendom In ono Gloria In Excel
sis. Mighty camp meetings. Mighty Ocean
Groves. Mighty Chnutnuquas. Mighty con
ventions of Christian worker. Mighty gen
eral assemblies of tho Presbyterian church.
Mighty conferences of tho Mothodlst church.
Mighty associations of tho Baptist church.
Mighty conventions of tho Kpiscoval church.
I think lcforo long tbo best Investments will
not bo In railroad stock or Western Union,
but In trumets and cymbals nnd festal deco
rations, for wo nro on thoovo of victories
wido nnd world uplifting, Thero tuny bo
many years of hard work yet Uforu tho con
summation, but the signs nro to mo so en
couraging that 1 would not bo uubollovliig if
I saw tho whig of tbo nocalyptic angel
spread for Its Inst triumphal (light In this
day's suiisct; or If to-morrow morning tho
ocean cables should thrill us with tho news
that Christ tho Lord hnd nlighfod on Mount
Olivet or Mount Calvary to proclaim univer
sal dominion.
O you dead churches, wako upl Throw
back tho shutters of stiff ecclesiastlclsm and
lot tho light of the spring morning como In.
Morning fur tho land. Morning for tho sen.
Morning of cmaucliwtlou. Morning of light
nnd lovo nnd caco. Morning of u day In
which thero shall In) no chains to break, no
sorrows to assuage, no dcsot Ism to shatter,
uo woes tocomHiKslounto. O Christ, descend!
Scarred temple, tako tho crown 1 Bruised
linud, tnku thosccpteri Wounded foot, step
tho throuol "Thine is tho kingdom."
THE atlANl) CKNTUAl, DEIttT UP THE MILLEN
NIUM. These things I say liecnUHO I wnnt you to
Ixj alert, I want you to Ihj watching nil
thoso wonders unrolling from the heavens
and tho earth. God has classillod them,
whether calamitous or pleasing. Tbo dl vino
purposes aro harnessed in traces that cannot
break, and in girths that cannot slip, anil in
buckles that cannot loosen, and nro driven
by reins they must nnswer, 1 preach no
fatalism. A swarthy engineer at ono of tho
depots in Dakota said: "When will you get
on tho locomotive and tako a rldo with list"
"Well," I said, "now If that suits you." So
I got on ono side tho locomotive, nud it Motho
dlst minister, who was also Invited, got on
tbo other side, nnd between us wero tho en
gineer nnd tho stoker. Tho truhi started.
Tho engineer had Ills hand on tho agitated
pulso of tho grent engine, Tho stoker
shoveled iu the coal and shut tho door with n
loud clang. A vast plain slipped under
us and tliu lillls swept by, nnd that great mon
ster on which worodu trembled aud bounded
nud snorted and raged as ft hurled us on. I
said to tho Methodist minister on tbe other
sldo tho loeoinotlvo: "My brother, why
should Presbyterians nud Methodists quarrel
alxmt tbo decrees and free agency! You soo
that track, that firm track, that Iron track;
that Is the decree. You see this engineer's
arm! That is free agency How lcuutlfully
thoy work together. They uro going to tako
us through. Wo could not do without tho
track, nnd wo could not do without tho en
gineer." So I rejolco day by day. Work
for us all to do, and wo may turn tho crank
of tho Christian machinery this way or that,
for wo aro freo agents; but thero Is tho track
laid so long ago no ono remembers it, laid by
the hand of Almighty God in sockets that no
terrestrial or satanio pressuro can ever nf
feet. And along that track tho car of tho
world's redemption will roll and roll to tho
Grand Central depot of the millennium. I
have no anxiety about tho track. I nm only
afraid that for our indolence God will dis
charge us and get somo other stoker and
somo other engineer. Tbo train is going
through with us or without us. So, my breth
ren, watch all tho events that are going by
If things seem to turn out right, glvo wings
to your Joy. If things seem to turn out
wrong, throw out tho anchor of faith anil
hold fast.
There is a house in Loudon wb.cro Peter tho
Great of Russia lived awhile whon bo was
'moving through tho land Incognito and in
workman's dress, that ho might learn tho
wants of tho people, A stranger was visiting
atthathouso recently, and saw In a dark at
tic an old box, and ho said to tho owuor of
tho house, "What's inthat box!" Tho owner
said, "I don't know; that box was thoro when
I got tho houso nnd it was thero when my
father got it. Wo haven't had any curiosity
to look nt it; 1 guess there's nothing in it,"
"Well," said tho stranger, "I'll glvo you two
pounds for It." "Well, dono." Tho two
pounds nro paid, and recently tho contents of
thut box wero sold to tho czar of Russia for
fifty thousand dollars. In It tho lathing ma
chine of Peter tbo Great, his private lottcrs
and documents of viduo beyond all monetary
consideration. And hero nro tho events that
seem very luslgnllicant and unimportant,
but they Incase treasures of divine provi
dence aud eternities of moaning which after
a while God will demonstrate Iwforo tho ugos
ns being of stupoudous value. As near as I
con toll from what I see, thero must bo a God
somewhere about.
When Titans play quoits thoy pitch moun
tains; but who owns thoso gigantic forces
you havo been reading about the last two
mouths! Whoso hand is on the throttle valvo '
of the volcanoes! Whose foot suddenly ,
planted on the footstool makes the continents
quiver! God I God I Ho looketh upon tho
mountains nud they tremble. He toucheth
tho hills nnd they smoke. God I God I I
must Iki at onco with him. Through tho
Lord Jesus Christ this God is mine nud lie Is
yours. I put tho earthquake that shook Pal
estine at the crucifixion against all thodowu
rocklngs of the centuries. This God on our
sldo, wo may challenge all the centuries of
time mid all the cycles of eternity
TIIINUS THAT MAY COME TO I'ANB,
Those of us who uro In mid-life may woll
thank God that we have seen so many won
drous things; but there aro eople here today
who will see the Twentieth ccVir;. Tliiu;s
obscure to us will w j,n t) y0U yeti ino
Twentieth century will lw ns far uhead of the
Nineteenth as the Nineteenth U ahead of the
Eighteenth, and as you caricature tho habits
and customs and ignoruneoof the ast, others
will caricature this ago. Some of you may
live to sett the shimmering veil ltween tho
material and the xplrituul world lifted. Mag
netism, u word with which wo cover up our
iguoiuuce, will yet bo an explored realm.
Electricity, tho fiery courser of the sky, that
Benjamin Franklin lassoed nnd Morso nnd
Hell nud EdiMiu have tried to control, will
Ih-coiiiu completely manageable, and lo
comotion will (o swiftened, and a world
of practical knowledge thrown In Uon the
rnco. Whether o dcwirt In tills century, or
whether we seo tho own gntes of n more
wonderful century, wo will see these things.
It does nut make much dlllciciive where we
stand, but tbe higher the stnmlpolnt the
larger tho prospect. We will seo them from
lieu veil If we do nut seo them from earth. I
wrjtnt I'iro Island, long Island, nud I went
uuiu the cutKila from nhich they lel-graph
toNw York tbe approach of vessels hours
Isfforo they como Into Hirt, Thrni Is an open
ing In tho wall, aud the ocrutor puts his tel
cscoo through that opeillug and looks out
nnd see vetsels far out nt nea, While 1 was
talking with him ho went up mid looked out.
Hosnldi "Wonroexpectlug tho Arizona to
night," t saldi "Is it Kwslblo you know all
thoso vessels! Do you know theinas you know
a man's fnco!'' Hosaidt "Yos, I iwver mnkea
mistake) before I can see the hulks, I often
know them by tho masts; I know them nil, 1
have w niched them so long." Oh, whnt a
grand thing It Is to have shlw telegraphed
nud heralded long Iwforo thoy comu to port,
that friends may como down to tho wharf
and welcome their long absent loved ones.
So today we tako our stand iu tho watch
tower and we look off nnd through tho glass
of Inspiration or Provldonco wo look olT nnd
seo n whole fleet of shls coming iu. That
Is the ship of Pence, flag w Ith ono star of
Bethlehem Moating nbovo tho top gallants.
That Is tho ship of tho church, mark of salt
wnvo high up on tho smoke stack, showing
she has had rough weather, but tho Captain
of salvation commands her nud nil Is well with
her. The ship of Heaven, mightiest craft
over launched, millions of passengers waiting
for millions more, prophets and apostles nnd
martyrs In tho cabin, conquerors nt tho foot
of tho mnst, while from tho rigging hands
nro waving; this way ns thoy know us, nnd wo
wave bnek again, for thoy nro ours; thoy
went out from our own households. Oursl
Halll Hall! Put oft tbo black nnd nut on tho
white Stop tolling tho funeral Ml nud ring
tho wedding uiithom. Shut up tbo licnrso
nnd tnko the chariot. Now, tho ship comes
around tho great headlnud. Soon she will
strike tlej wharf and wo will go nbonrtl her.
Tenrs for shls going out. laughter for ships
coming In. Now sho touches tho wharf.
Throw on tho planks. Mock not up that
gangway with embracing long lost friends,
for you vftll havo eternity of reunion. Stand
back nnd give wny until other millions come
on. Farewell to sin, Fnrowell to struggle.
Farewell to sickness. Fnrowell to denth.
All aboard for heaven I
I'ci-soiml Join nullum.
A correspondent of n weekly paper tells
this story "I went tho other day to call on a
friend living In tho lest tmrt of tho town
that Is to say, whero tho buildings uro cost
liest. I uiadoa mistake Iu the house, going
ten numbers too fur along the four story
brown stono row, A pretty joung servant
girl, with a scowl on her face, ojicncd the
door In response to my ring Just threo Inches.
Tliu burglar proof chain was up. 1 nskod if
Mr, Blank was Iu 'Not' she said bluntly.
'But I have an appointment with him,1 1 ex
plained. The girl looked blacker than Isjforu
nud shut tho door In my face. I took 1113'
bearing and rcmcmlK'rcd tho number of my
friend's house. I told tho little story or this
curious exhibition of Incivility to nu en
lightened writer on 11 morning journal, nnd
said It puzzled mo. 'It's tho lufemnl nows
xierH,' ho said promptly. 'Thoy nro gorgod
with accounts of crime, until householders
bar their doors and foibid servnnts to be
pollto to strangers. And eoplo 011 tho streets
or in restaurants or theatres aro afraid to
treat one another decently for fear of meet
ing sharKrs or getting into adventures thut
will make them figure hi tho ipers. Tho
public vision Is distorted by the meanness of
tbo press.' Aud then he went dou 11 town to
his desk to write 1 don't know what,"
Thero is quite too much truth In this
picturo, and it derives force from the fact
that the mun who says tho mean thing hero
ntiout the effect of personal Journalism on
life ami manners Is a nuwspaor man him
self. Nolxxly knows these things any Iwtter
than tho offenders do. Nobody knows tatter
than they tho dlfilculty of getting Kwosion
of Information from people who shy away
on tho merest suspicion that they aro talking
with a nowsator mam And this evil, ns
other evils do, is correcting Itself with its
own overdoing. It Is coming to this, that a
rcxrtor cannot get information except from
men whom he is wrsouully acquainted with
and who know that he is a trustworthy and
discreet man. To some men, wrhsps, on
certain aers, It Is still a disadvantage to bo
known. Hut tho acquaintance method of
obtaining information is steadily gaining
ground; which, in the course of time, may
bring journalism back to llrst principles, plus
a good deal of legitimate enterprise that it
did not formerly have. Boston Transcript.
Killing Komnn I'roconiuU.
This story nbout tho slaughter of Geu. Har
rison's proconsul was published in Peter
Harvey's reminiscences of Daniel Wobster,
Mr, Harvoys narrative of tho incidont is as
follows: "Mr. Webster UXd me that be was a
good deal annoyed becauso the message was,
uccordlng to his Judgment and taste, so inap
proprintc. It entered largely into Roman
history, and had a good deal to say about the
states of antiquity and tho Roman procon
suls, und various matters of that kind. In
deed, tho word 'proconsul' was repented Iu It
n great many times. Mr. Webster suggested
to Gen. Harrison that he should liko to
change some things, und Geu. Harrison
rather reluctantly consented to let him take
It. Mr. Welmter sH-nt a portion of tho next
day in modifying the Inaugural. Mrs. Scaton
remarked to him when hu came home rather
late that day that he looked fatigued ami
worried, but hu replied that he wits sorry thai
sho had waited dinner for him. 'That is of
no consequence at oil, Mr. Webster,' she
said, 'but I am sorry to soo you looking so
worried and tired; I hope nothing has gone
wrong; I really hos nothing has Happened.'
'You would think that something had luqs
pened,' ho replied, 'if you kuow what 1 havo
done; I havo killed seventeen Roman procon
suls as dead as smelts, everyone of them.' "
Sun Francisco Argonaut.
Tim Walking llnrnx.
Tho homo thut can wulk fust, whether ho
bo a wuldlcr, driver or draft horwt, nlwuy
comuuindsn Ixittcr prlcotlmn tlioouutiutill)
u gooil in other rcsiKjcts hut 11 slow walker
A convsHinilcnt iu ouu of our mteiiix:nii'lc-.
suysi "Tho lowtwt, heaviest muru of her '
li.ilf.lif I itir.tl miw lina tlilu v.iii n..,l itl... '
years gained wiilkiui; premiums, nulktii n
milu In twelve iiilnutoa entirely untrained."
This dispose of tho idea that a fun walker
mut lo 11 lout; legged animal. It U the
sprightly t-tep, thu lively action and tho w
crs of ciiduruuco that mako up the vvsl'.Uug
horso. Detroit Freo I'rosti.
Ilium of Dentil.
Thero Inn long Un a populur belief that 1
tho greaU-Ht number of death occur tetwecii
-I nml U o'clock In the morality, Or C'harloJ
Fero Iiuh taken tho troublu to tubulato the
death hours of all witleiiu dying In ttwi l'a
rishiu botipltuls during tho last ten jeur. Hu
found that thero wero rather fewer death
between ? nud 1 1 o'clock iu tho oveuing than
atnuy other tlmo, but thero was no icchil
prcMudcraucc nt nny hour. Now Yorl.
Telegram,
liliiton'a I'overt).
The extent of tho xveity which prevniN
in Iiondon may lo appreciated from the fuel
that nu appeal n rcceutly.puhlUhod from n 1
single keciety for aid in furnishing Ad.iKNi,
meals "for xxir little Marvin;; children,'
Tho ineaU tu bo furnished nro lint oxx'iiMVt, 1
since It la stated, iu tho apxn that each
ikiiiiiiI i-tfntrlliiifiNl will iliv I'm- tin tiot rlimt '
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