CU'ITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, APRIL u, 1800.
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l'rf-nrlii-d by u,.r. T. , w,u Tl,ilnKC( n,
1., NiiiiiIii), April (1 Tin- Full Tut I
Hero Keptirtetl Tim Uiourrvrtloii Idea
a Mint IIIi-mi-iI TlioiiElit t.i All Clirlitlnm.
Ukooki.yv. April -Tlw Academy of Mtnlc
wfcs nppronrlately jlecorntotl txliiy for Kns
ttfr service, anil 0,n regular artists of tlio
Brooklyn TalicruuclovvcronssNtcd hy eminent
musical mm former. The lij inn mint; lieforo
sermon was:
We praise thee, O lloil, for the won of tliy Iotb,
For .tesiii uhn (U( nn,i u now koiio almve.
Tim subject of Dr. TnlttMtfo's senium waa
"Miii-liieliih: or, Hunter Thoughts " It hoi
based on tlioHonliin tj. xxlll, 17, IS: "And
tlio Held of Kplirou, which win In .Mnchpcliih,
which uni before Mature, tint llclil, mid the
cave which u thciclii.uiid nil the Itivh Mint
were In tlu Hi-Id, Unit worn In nil tlio borders
roundabout, wcriuimdc sure unto Abrnlinm."
Following Is tlio si-rinoii In full:
MACIirKI.AII.
Hero is tho first cemetery ovi-r lnld out,
Mnchpclah wns it imnm It was mi nrlior
escent Ix-nuty, where tho wound of di-ntli wns
bantlnged with foliage Alirnliiini, n rich
mini, not ls-lng nlilo to lirlho tin- King of
Tctrors, proioM.3 hero, ns fnr lis posMhlo, to
cover up hi- ravages. IIk luul no d-mlit pre
viously nutkH.il Mm legion, nud mm that
Nnriih Ids wife Imd died Mint lemiirkublo
lier-mii who nt nlni-ty years of age had born
to I iT tho Kou Isaac, iind who now, after hIio
luul reached ono hundred mid tncutv-sovvn
yearn, hud expired Abruhiiui Is negot Inllhg
for n fninily plot for la-r lust slumber llph
ron owniil this real estate, nud after. In mock
sympathy for Abriihiiin, refti-uug to take
anything for it, now sticks on n big prico
four liiiiulrc-d shekels of silver This t-euio-tt-ry
lot Ik paid for, and tho trunsfer nude, In
the presence of wltntysscj In u public place,
for there wcro no deeds and no hall of record
in those early times. Then in a cavern of
limestone rook Abraham put Snralr; anil, u
few year uf U-r, himself followed, and tbon
Inane mid Hobokah, and then Jacob and
lA-ah. Kmbowortxl, picturesque and incmor
ablo MacliK)lnhl That "God's aero" dodl
catod by Abraham lias been tho mother of
innumerable mortunry observances. Tho ne
cropolis of ovcry civilized land has vied with
its inutropoliM.
Tho most beautiful hills of Europe outside
the great cities are covered with obelisk and
funeral vase and urchod gateways and col
umns and parterres in honor of the inhu
united. Tho Appiun Way of Itomo was
bordered by sepulchral commemorations.
For thin purMsu 1'i-w has its arcades of mar
bio sculptured into exquisite bus reliefs and
the features of dear faces that have vanished.
Genoa lias its terraces cut Into tombs; ami
Couf.tantii.oplo covers with cypress tho elleut
habitations; and Paris has IU IVro-Ijvcliulso,
on whose heights rest Ilulzic and David and
Marshal Noy uud Cuvier and La l'laco and
Molk-ro, and it mighty group of wurrlors nud
jioeU and painters and musicians. Iu all
foreign nations utmost gsuius on nil sides is
erpended in the work of Interment, mummi
fication and incineration.
IIKST1W0 I-LACK8 OK VHK DEAD.
Our own country consents to Ihj second to
none iu resect to the lifeless liody. Every
city and town and neighborhood of any in-tz-Jligence
or vlrtuo has, not many miles
away, its sacred luclosure, whore ulTectiou
bos engaged sculptor's chisel and llorkt's
ipado and artificer iu metals. Our own city
bas shown Its religion, as well as its art, In
the manner in which it holds the memory of
those who huvo ruvuod forever away, by its
Cypress Hills and its Evergreens nnd its Cal
vary and Holy Cross unci Friends' cemeteries.
All tho world knows of our Oreenwood, with
now about two hundred nud fifty thousand
inhabitants sleeping among hills that over
look the sen, nud by lakes emliosomod iu
uu Eden of flowers, our Amorlcau West
minster Abliey, an Acropolis of mortuary
nrchitecture, n Pantheon of mighty ones us
cendod, elegies In stone, Iliads iu mnrblo,
whole generations in peace waiting for other
generations to join them. No dormitory of
breathless sleejiors In all tho world has so
many mighty dead.
Among preachers of the goupul, Ilethuuo
anil Thomas DoWltt, and lllshop Janes uud
Tyng, mid Aleel the millenary, and lleochor
and Uuddingtou, nud McCUutocknnil Inskip,
nud Dungs mid Cliapin, and Noah Schenck
and Bmnuel Hanson Cox. Among musicians,
the renowned Uottsclialk and the holy
Thomas Hastings. Among philanthropists,
Peter Coojier and Isaac T. HopH-r, and Lu
cretin Mott and Isabella Oriiham, nud Henry
Ilergh, the mxistlo of mercy to the brute cre
ation. Among the literati, the Curys, Alice
nud Phwbe; James K. Paulding nnd John O.
Bnxe, Among journalists, Bennett and liny
nioud nnd (Ireoloy. Among scieutihts, Onus
by Mltchel, warrior ns well as astronomer,
nud lovingly called by his soldiers "Old
Stars;" the Drapers, splendid men, ns I well
know, one of them my tencher, tho other my
classmate.
Among Inventors, Ellas Howo, who,
through tho sewing machlno, did more to al
leviato the toils of womanhood than uny man
that ever lived, and Professor Morse, who
gavo us magnetic telegraphy; tho former
doing his work with the needle, the latter
with the thunderlKilt. Among physicians
and surgeons, Joseph C. Hutchinson, nud
Marion Sims, nnd Dr. Vnlontluo Mutt, with
the follow ing epitaph w hich ho ordered cut
lu honor of the Christian religion: "My im
plicit faith nud hoe is iu n merciful redeem
er, who is tho resurrection and tho life. Amen
and allien." This is our American Machpelah,
as sacred to us us the Miichelah iu Canaan,
of which Jacob uttered that jiastoral poem in
one verso: "There they buried Abraham, nnd
Saruh his wife; there they buried Isaac, and
llebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah."
A NOVEL QUESTION.
At this Easter service I ask uud answer
what may seem n novel question, but it w ill
be found, U-foro I get through, u practical
mid useful and tremendous question: What
will rcMiricctiou day do for the cemeteries?
First, I remark, it will bo their suK-mal
heautilicatiou. At certain seasons it is cus
toinury iu all lands to strew llowers over tho
mounds of the departed. It may liavu U-en
suggested by tho fact that Christ's tomb was
inn garden. Ami when I say garden, I do
uot menu a garden of these latitudes The
Into frosts of spring and the early frosts
of autumn are so near to each other that
there mo only a few months of lloweis in the
Ik-Id. All the llowers we see toduv liad to U
jietUsl mid coaxed mid put under shelter, or
they would uot have bloomed at all. They
urethe childieuof the conservatories Hut
lit this season, nud through the most of the
year, the Holy Land is all nbliisli with Moral
opulence.
You find nil tho royal family of llowers
there, some that you bUpHscd Indigenous to
the fur nut Mi, aud others indigenous to tho far
kouth the daisy uud hyacinth, crocus mid
anemone, tulip and water lily, geranium uud
ranunculus, mignonette, nnd sweet marjoram.
Ill the college nt Ik-yrout you may see Dr.
Post's collection of alsMit eighteen hundred
Ui, a of Holy Land llowers; while among
trto are the oak of frowi climes, nnd tho
tumarlk u f the tiopics, walnut nnd will-. .
Ivy nud Imwtlioni, imh nud older, pluo nnd
sycamore If mich Moral nnd hotniilcnl beau
ties nni tho wild growtlm of tlio lloldn, think
of what a garden must l-e in Palestine! And
lu Mich n garden Jesus Christ slept after, on
the Foldiei-'s sx-nr Ills last iliopof blood had
coagulated And then see how apptupi lain
that all nui cemeteries should lx llnialiod
nud tree shadisl lu Juno, (liccnnood Is
nrootl ii'h gulden.
1 IIK III Hl'llUKOTION HIKA
"Well, i'n-n. ' uti say, "how can ymi mako
nut that the Ucsuriivtion ilnv will beautify
the ceuieli-l lesl Will it lint leave tin-Ill II
plowed up ground On that iluv lliin-will
Ih mi eiutliipial.e, and illl imt Mils split tlio
Hi!ihel AlH-nlis'iiglnliltf, as well ast eplalll
-lab Mi it can iiirmd In. I Mm two words, 'Our
Mii,'iii 'llur Chiiile.M'" Well, I will tell
sou Imw Hesuii-is-tion dav will lu-mitify all
the ccmetei le.s. It w ill Ik b bringing up Mm
faces that wcie to Us oi-t, mid lu our ineinor-t.-s
in e to us iiow.uimii- Ix'iinlilul Minn nu
'ulla 111 v. and the Int'iiis that me to us mote
graceful than an willow L the wateis. Can
u think of mi thing t Ix-uutirul than
the leiiipeaiauei of tuose fiom wlmm we
hawi been pm-iislf I d i not care which wa
tin-tree falls in tin- blast of Mm Judgment
liiirrieaiie, or il Mm plowshare that da shall
tm ii under tlin last rose leaf and Mm last
ehllia uster, if out of the broken sod shall
i nun tho ImiiIIcs of our IommI ones not diim
i.ged, but irradiated
The idea of the lesin lei-tlnil gets eiuier to
iinilcrstuud as I hem- tlio phoiiogriiph unroll
Minm voice that talked Into it or sung into it
a eur ugo, just In-fore om friend's dci-ense
Vou turn the wite, and then come foith tho
xorj tones, the very iii-i'i-utiiaMou, the iry
eoiigh, the w-i-y song of the htmhi Unit
breatlnsl into it once, but Is now ilcp.iltcd.
If n man can do Mint, cannot Alinight (IikI,
without half triug, n-tiirn the oii f oiir
departislf And if Im can return Mm uieo,
why not tin- lips and Mm tongue uud the
throat that fashiouisl the volcl Aud if the
lips and the tongue aud the throat, why uot
then Mm biain that uggcstod the nordsl
And if the brain, why uot the nerves, of
which Mm brain is the headquarters! And
if ho can return the nerves, why not the
muscles, which are less Ingenious) And if
the muscles, why not the bones, that mo les's
wonder full Aud If Mm voice and the brain
nud the muscles and the Ikiiics, why not tho
entire body I If man can do the phonograph,
Ood can do the resurrection. Will It lw tho
same body that iu tho last day shall bo reiiul
mutcdl Yes, but infinitely Improved.
Our lioilles change every seven years, nud
yet, iu one sense, it is the samu liody. On my
wi ist mid the second finger of my right baud
there is u scar. I made that at 1- years of
nge, when, disgusted at the presence of two
warts, I took a red hot Iron nud burned them
olT uud burned them out, Since then my
body has changed at least ii half dozen times,
but those scars prove it is the same body.
And w e never lose our identity. If God can
nnd does sometimes rebuild u man Ave, six,
ten times, in this world, is it mysterious that
he can rebuild him once more, uud thnt in
the rcsuricctionl If ho can do It ten times, I
thlnl. he can do It eleven times. Then look
nt the seventeen year locusts. For seventeen
years gone, nt the end of seventeen years
they upH-ar, and by rubbing tho hind leg
against the wing make that rattle nt which
all the husbandmen nud vinedressers tremble
ns tho iiihisMilu host tnkes up tho march of
devnstntion. Itesiirreotlon every seventeen
J ears!
THK (I Of I. ALOKIIIIA.
Another eonslderiMon makes the Idea of
resuricctlon easier. Mod made Adam Ho
was uot fashiouisl nfler uny model. Thero
had never lieen n human organism, and so
there was nothing to copy. At the llrst at
tempt God made a perfect man. Ho made
him out of the dust of the earth. If out of
ordinary dust of tlio earth uud without a
model Uod could m-iV.0 a jierfeet man, surely
out of the oxtraoidlnary dust of the mortal
body, and with millions of models, find can
make each one of us a -rfecl being in tho
resurrection. Surely the last undertaking
would not be greater than the llrst. See the
gosjiel algebra, ordinary dust minus a model
equals a H-rfect man, extraordinary dust
and plus a model equals n resurrection liody.
Mysteries nUnit it 1 Oh,e; that Is ono rea
son why I lielieve it. It would not be much
of u ( jod w ho could do things only as far us I
can imdersand. Mjsteiies Oh, jes, but no
more about the resurrection of your body
than alioilt its present existence.
I will explain to you the lust mjstery of
the icsiincctiim, and make it as plain to oii
ns thut two nud two make foiu.if sou will
tell me how Nourmiud, which is entirely in
dependent of your body, can net umiii jour
body so that at jour will jour eyi-s oj-n,
or jour foot walks, or jour hand Isoxtendod,
So I find nothing iu the Ilible statement con
cerning the resuriectioii Mint staggers mo for
a moment. All doubts clear from my mind.
I say that the cemeteries, however beautiful
now, will Is- more beautiful when the bodies
of our lo ed ones come up.
THK IlKST OK THE C1HAVK.
They will come lu improved condition.
They will come up rested. The most of them
lay down at the last very tired. How often
you have hem d them say, "I am so tiredl"
The fact is, it is a tired world If I should
go through this audience, and go round the
world, I could not II ml a M-rsou iu any style
of life ignorant of the sensation of fatigue. I
do uot lielieve there lire llfty -rsous in this
audience who are not tired Your head is
tiled, or j-our back is tired, or jour foot is
Musi, or j'our brain is tired, or jour nerves
are tired. Ixing journeying, or business nj
pllcntiou, or liereiivement, or sickness have
put on j-ou heavy weights. So the vast ma
jority of those who went out of this world
went out fatigued. About the poorest pluco
to rest in is this world. Its atmosphere, its
surroundings, and even its hilarities are ex
hausting So God stoM our earthly life, and
mercifully closes tho oj'os, and quiets tho feet,
aud folds tho hands, aud more especially
gles quiescence to the lung ami heart, that
have not had ten minutes' rest from tho llrst
rwplratlon nnd the llrst lient.
If a drummer Uj' wero compelled In the
nnny to U-nt his drum for twentj -four hours
without stopping, his olllcer would Ik court
martlale for cruelty. If tho drummer Uiy
sh iiild be commanded to Is-nt his ill mil for a
wo-k withoutceaciug, dnj mid night, ho would
.lie iu attempting it. Hut under your estmeiit
isUKior heart that Is-guii its drum U-nt for tho
nun eh of life tliiity or forty in slxtj or eighty
veins ago, and it has had no furlough by day
jr mglit; and, whether m conscious or coma
tovi state, it went light oil, tor if it hod
bln,iK)d seven seconds j'bur life would have
doted And our heart will kis-p going un
til some time after joui'splrit has ll-iwn, for
theauseultat-ir sajs that after fin- last expira
tion of lung mid the last tluob of pulse, uud
lifter the spit It Is lelen-cd, the heal t kis-ps on
beating for a time What a liiuiej, then, it
is ti tut the grae is tin- (ilaen win u- that won
(ii mis uiiu hiuei y of veuti iclo nnd in tery can
halt '
Clidei the healthful chcluistl'J of the soil
all the wear mid teal of nerve and muscle
and bone will be silbtl acted and I'jJ-t bath of
giHid, flesh, clean sod will wash oft Mm last
ache, and then some of the saum stj le of dust
out of which the bljx of Adam was con
structed iniij be infused into the lesiints-tiou
body. How can the Isidles uf Mm human nice,
which lui e had no leplt-nishiueiit fiom the
oust since the time of Adam in paradise, get
uny i'isiis-mtion from tho Morehouse irom
which ho wns const i noted without our going
back Into Mm ilttslt That original, life giving
material having Lt-cu added to the body as it
once was, uud all Mm defects left Is-hllld,
nhntulssh will Ixi Ihe icsiitris tlou liodyl
And will not hundred of thousands of such
upiwnriug nbowt the (lowmius heights mako
(lio-u'sl mote Is-autlful than any Juno
morning after a showi-H Tim dust of Mm
ratthU'lng Mmoiigiual material fot tin-fashioning
of the llrst human lining, c have to
go Imck to the saum place to get a perfect
IhhIj
Factor1 sale up to Iks rough places, and
thoo wh i toil iu them have their garments
gtiiuj uud their hands smutched. Hut who
ernes for that, when they tutu out for us
iH-autiful musical instiuiueiits or exquisite
lipholsterv I What though the grave Is a
rougli place, It is a lesiiriection hodj iiiauu
facturj, and from it shall come the radiant
nud resplendent forms of our friends on the
hilghtcst morning the world saw ever You
put Into n factors cotton, mid it comes out
npuirel. You put into a factory lumber and
lead, mid It conn out pianos mid organs.
And so Into the factory of the grave jolt put
lu pneumonias and consumptions, uud they
come out health. You put iu groans, nnd
they come out hallelujahs. For us, on the
final day, Mm most atliactivn places will not
he the pinks or Mm gardens or the palaces,
but Mm cemeteries.
Till: PKUKKLT HKHl IIIIKC'TION IIOllV
Wemenot told In what season Mint day will
come. If It should Ihi winter, those whoconm
up will be mot o lustrous than tin-snow that
covered them It In the autumn, those who
come up will I hi more gorgis ins than Mm woods
after the frosts have k'iici1is them If In Mm
spring, the bloom on which they tiead will
be dull compared uith Mm lublcuudof their
cheeks Oh, tho (M-rfect resurrection hodyl
Almost everv one has some defis-tive sjsit in
his phjsie.-il constlttiUon; n dull ear, i-t a dim
eye, or a iheumatie fivot, oru ueurnlgi-- brow,
or a twisted muscle, or u weak side, m an In
llumcd tonsil, or somoHliit nt which the cost
wind or a season of overwork assaults him.
Hut the resurrection Isnly shall Im without
onn weak sMit, and all Mint the doctots nud
nurses and iqioMiccnrlos of earth will Micro
after have to do will be to rest without inter
ruption nfter the bioken nights of their
earthly existence. Not only will that day bo
the beatification of well kept cemeteiies, but
somo of the gruvej ards that have Ims-ii neg
lected, nud U-en tlmiasturo ground for cattlo
and rooting plnci-s for swine, will for the
first time have attiactiveiiess gU-en them.
It was a shamo that In that placo ungrate
ful generations planted no trees, mid twisted
no garlands, nud sculptured no marble for
their Christian ancestry; but on the dny of
which I sH-nk tho resurrected shall mako the
place of their feet glorious. From under tho
shadow of the church, where they slumls-red
among nettles and mullein stalks and thistles
nud slabs aslant, they shall rise with a glory
that shall Hash the windows of the village
church, and by the boll tower that used to call
them to worship, uud nlxivo the old spire 1m--sido
which their prayers formerly ascended.
Whnt triumphal procession never did for a
street, what an orntorio never did for nn
academy, whnt nu orator never did for a
brilliant auditory, what obelhl: never did for
a king, resurrection morn will do for nil tho
cemeteries.
UK IB IllHE.N INDEED.
This EnsU-r tells us that In Christ's resur
rection our resurrection, If wc nro his, nnd
the resurrection of nil the pious dead, is tin
stirod, for he was "tho first fruits of them
thut slept." Itcnnii suys ho did uot rise, but
five hundred nud eightj witnesses, sixty of
them Christ's enemies, saj ho did rim, for
they saw him uf U-r he had risen. If ho did uot
rise, how did sixty tinned soldiers let him get
nwuj 1 Surely sixty living soldiers ought to
bo able to keep ono dead maul Hlcssoil Ihj
God! Ho did get away. After his resurrec
tion Marj' Magdalene saw him. Cleopas saw
him. Ten disciples in an upM-r room at Jeru
salem saw him. On a mountain tho cloven
ha iv him. Five hundred at unco saw him.
Professor Ernest Kenan, who did uot see him,
will excuse us for taking the testimony of tho
live hundred uud eighty who did see him
Yes, jes, ho got away. And that makes mo
sure that our dcparti-d loved ones and we
ourselves shall get unity. Frisil himself
from the shackles of clod, he is not going to
leave us an I ours lu the lurch.
There w ill lie no door knob on the inside of
our family sepulcher, for wo cannot conm
out, of ourselves; but there is a door knob on
the outside, and that Jesus shall lay hold of,
ami, opening, will say: "Good morning!
You have slept long enough I Aiiso! Arise'"
And then what llutter of wings, and w hat
flashing of rekindled ejes. uud what glad
some rushing across the faiullj' lot, w ith cries
of "Father, is that yotH" ".Mother, is Mint
youf" ".My darling, Is that jouf" "How
you all have changed t The cough gone, the
croup gone, tlio consumption gone, the par
nlj'sis gone, the weariness gone. Come, iet
us nx-eiid together I The older om-s first, tho
younger ones next! Quick now, get into
line! Tim skj'ward procession has already
start"!' Steer now by that embankment of
cloud for the nearest gate!" And, us wo as
ci'iul, on one side the earth gets smaller until
it is no larger than a mountain, nud smaller
until it is no larger than a palace, and smaller
until It is no larger than n ship, aud smaller
until it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller
until it is no larger than a seck.
Farewell, dissolving earth I Hut on tho
other side, as wo rise, heaven at first upiK-ars
no larger than your hand. And nearer It
looks like a ehariot, aud nearer it look like a
throne, nud nearer It looks like a star, and
nearer it looks like a sun, nud nearer it looks
like a universe, Hull, scepters that shall al
ways wavol Hail, anthems that shall always
roll I Hull, companionships never again to bo
bioken, uud friendships never again to jiartl
That is what resumption day will do for nil
tho cemeteries nnd graveyards from tho
Maclqielah that was ojK-ned by Father Abra
ham ill Hebron to the Machielah yesterday
consecrated. And that makes Ijidy Hunting
ton's immortal rhythm most apsislte.
When thou, iiij righteous judge, shall come
To take thy ransomed ssiple huine,
Hhall I among them stuiulr
Shall such a worthiest worm iu I,
Who soiui-thnes am afraid to ili-,
He found nt thy rik'ht hand?
Among thy saints let me Is- found,
Whene'er th' archangel's trump shall sound;
To see tli) Kinillii face.
Then loudest of the throng I'll sIiik,
While heaven's resounding arches ring,
With shouts of su ereigu h'r:ico.
Sufi- fur Die Nlflil.
The Winter palace, 10 p in.
The Ctfil -Have Jull looked well under tils
txslovitchf
The Cariua Ves
Tho CJir And iu the clo-mtsf
The Cat inn Yes, dear.
Tho Cjir Then give me mj steel lined
night gown, set the man triipskv, give me the
double Imi iclcd pistolnviti'li uii-l turn the gas
otr. I shall sis-W pleasant ilieuuis wheieiu 1
lliuj' see that lilack-mul-tauov iu u rascal,
(Jooigisilt Ki-iiuitllRftI, bii-al.iing li.u sweet
llil of the K.ilil pllsoii, l'ittsblil Hlllletill.
A Wise Iliad,
l-'ll'st College Hoj What arejoii going to
go iu for -.vealth or fninel
Second College Hoy -HoMi. I'm going In
boa ball jvnjt-r. New Yulk Weekly.
JOAN QF AHC MCM0MIAL8
Two (ii.ll) Hlniiliiies In lie Unlit lit Mm
I'reiirli People.
The I'iciicli pisiplu are ut pit-sent a null, nt
least nu one tiling, nud Mint 1 Uu-deter-mltiiitliiii
to honor Mm uieuioiv of the
Maid of Oi leans bv Mm etis-tion if two
remarkable Htiucllltes At Douiieiuv , Jniiti
of Ale's blillipliice, a basilica is id
rertdv In process of poiisliuetl.ui, nnd
the tni-iiuiuenlal group, repiesentiiu Joan
listening to the voices, has bis-u completed
At iilieiiilleurs a mole iilllbitlnus metuiil llll
I MI'MVll Ti nu: VlllCI s
ist-ili-s It ill lii- ii cuius -II 1 castle of nil-dlii-v
al design. Tin-donjon nl-"o the castle
will Is- 1 10 fis-t high, uud ut tin-summit It Is
luleii'l-sl to place n gigantic group, of which
Joan shall Ihi Mm central figure. The Yau
cnillfiiiNCtitcrpilso Involves the collection of
iiii emu moils sum of money, but contribu
tions m,, iHiiug liberallv made, and It Is
thought the nisslisl stun will be realuj-d with
in u lertsoiinble time The Domieui) Ilielllo
rinl displavs Joan as receiving hei mission;
the other is toi epresent her as the warrior
maid who saved Fiance.
A Mull with u ('liiiriiii-d l.lfe.
Iiwience Long, a young man who resides
at Jeirersotiville, Iuil., has had at least three
csciis-h from death of n most remarkable na
ture. When a lad ho fell olf Mm IjoiiIhvIHo
bridge, and di-splto the terrille tumble did
not iis'eive a scratch or bruise, his only dam
age U-iug a thorough welting. When 17
jtsiisolil Iioug married the daughter of u
neighbor secretly. On hearing Mm news, tho
girl's father loaded a shot gnu nnd stnrti-d
out to kill Ids Hon-ln-law. They met uud the
old man emptied Isith barrel nt the Isiy, but
fulled to hit lillii. Iing's latest adventure
(M-ciirrisliit Iouisvilleon the night of the re
cent tornado. He wns In Mm 111 fntisl Falls
Cltj hall when it was struck by the whirl
wind, and went down with the wreck. He
promptly crawled out of Mm ruins nnd found
Mint the only Injury he hud sustained wns n
small scratch on one ear.
Kin I n to lU-tnnlii In Africa.
"The churiii of Africa," that mysterious
h-1I which lures back to the Jungles and the
fou-sts of the dark continent every explorer
who has once set fisil ukiii Its soil, remains
Kilent In the case of Einiii Pasha. Ho has
facts I dntiger nnd death for years iu the Sou
dan nud iu the oquutoi ial belt, and Ids rescue
wns n feat lu which all the world took Inter
est. Hut he cannot even move beyond the
confines of the magic power that holds him.
lie has abandoned his proostl visit to Eu
rojs!, joined MaJ. Wlssiunu's exploring ex
M'ilitlnn, uud is preparing once again to
plunge into tho mighty wilderness of Central
Africa.
Hlxty Vears it Sailor.
During Ids sixty years of naval servlco
Vice Ailiufinl Stephen Clegg Itowau, who
died recently at
Washington, par
tielpati! lu many
exciting events. As
a midshipman he
took mrt In tho
Sennnole war, con
ducting lontiXK
ilillous and engag
ing iiiiiHratiouou
shote. As lleuteii-
VtsC ant bo served In the
- coast survoy, was
executive olllcer of
the sloon Cvane in
VICE AIIMIHAI. HOWAN. ,(, ll(-iflc. Mmil,l
rou, uud during the Mexican war was pres
ent at the capture of Montcroj- uud Sun Die
go. On hlix-kudo duty iu the Gulf of Cali
fornia the Cvuno captured a scorn of Moxl
can vessels and destroj il several gunboats.
At Mm victories of San Gain let and La Mesa
Itownu y,A wouudisl iu the shoulder. He
ejousel tho ciiiim) of Mm north on the brenk
lug out of the civil wur, saw much active
service, nnil nt tho end of the coiitlict hail nt
tninisl tho rank of rear admiral. Ho wns
promoted to vice admiral while iu command
of tho Asiatic squadron lu lb(W Ho was n
native of Ireland, and was 81 j curs old ntths
time of his denth.
Tim Kluhth One to do.
Eight representatives have died since the
election of memls-rs of the Fifty-llrst con
gressfour from each jiurty. The lust to
uuwuwav was Hon David Wlll?r, who ex
plred recently at his homo lu Mllford, N. Y.
lie never occu
pied his sent iu the
house during the
present session Ikc
enuse of Illness.
The oath of otllce
wns administered
nt his home nt the
same time Samuel
J. Ituuilull, also nu
Invalid, was sworn
in, and the two
men remained
paired until Mr
Willicr'N death.
Mr. Wlllter was
horn In Schi-ncctn- ho.n ia in uiuir.u.
dj countj, N Y , In KM) lu chlldlussl he
removisl to Milford, ill Otsego county Ho
was a Uepubllcuii in ,lmes, mid represi-ntisl
Ib-rkluier, Otsego, ami Schoharie counties
t o Twenty fourth (niii;ievsiiiuul district In
tin- Fort j third. F-.i u -sixth and Fiftieth con
gl esses, uud was e l.s its! to the Kiftj-flrst
eongresh In priMite inuiness he was a Imiik
ei and u hop giowei
"A liumaultai lan hull light" was one of the
liceut nt tractions ut tin iiiinghiiiu, Eiigland
l'-inveiiieiit i.s-esses Ht-itt plov idist iu which
the bull lighters lllljlil otke refuge whenever
th- bull's wrath was .woii-isl The gaum of
lug continued for Mime lime, and iillonlisl
lieiilthj exerclM- to Mu, men uud also to tho
animal. No dims) wiu spilltsl.
To Judge James V I aniilsll, v-Uo dlisl re
eently at Detroit. Michigan umluuliUslly
.twos much for tho piivsvut condition of her
statute Usiks. For thii ij years Mr. Campbell
(K-cuplil a placo on the Uinch of the statu
supreme court, mid during that ikji itxl wus
nine Mines chief jusltov
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And made of Choice Meat. If your butcher does not keep
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Notary Pubic and Rea Estate Dealer in City and Farm Property
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Also Railroad Agent for the Different Companies Kast and West.
Southampton. Havre, Hamburg, Stt-len, London, Paris, Norway, Plymouth, Bremen,
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Post Orders and Foiclgn Kxclianu Issued to all prominent points in F.urope.
HavliiKlarKefiicllltles east with the lihwst Hanks and HiivIiik Institutions. I am nro.
pared to make all kinds of Loiiuhoii First (lent r.state MurtuiiKes. City ,,, ' "",nu l" i.'rf?
from 1 to r, years, ut the low est Inteiest. I also deal In School Il..i, Hfllt,., Com t v aii. Cttv
Warrants also In Mate. County and (lt Ccrtlue.l Claim-, and will always pay the hsliesl
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City OHice 1012 O St. Telephone 7;,.
Yard and OHice Corner 10th and Y Sts. Telephone 05.
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