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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1892 -.r '?! V H PI. t i t . ' ', Uf h ?. &. ' . H: V' " u t '- r- ' . A 1 T THK FLIGHT OP TIME. OR. TALMAQE PREACHES ON THE SUNDIAL OF AHA2. Th llinilimn Aro I'nnlrollril by thn Hand ill Ontnlpiiteiico Thiiw'n PIIhM I Mnrhed liy tlin NuiirllnylireHl mi lh MnuiilHln Top. J Hl-UOKI.VN, Inn. KV Dr. Talmage'a hit ton thl mottling wan full of brightness Mill good cheer He might have cnllrd It a recipe for Imppliionn. Tin' buoyancy iiihI -elasticity of toniMntniont whlih cliiii ik . tcrlre him were conileunun throughnir ninl must tin '( Intii Imparted to hi Iniir UN teM was II King xx, II, "A d fix inalab tho prophet cried unto tho m I Mid lie brought tho shadow ton dogn buck wanl hy which It had gone down lu the dial of A liar.." Ilrrv In tho llrst clock or watch or chin omclcr or llmotilecc of which the woi.'d linn any knowledge. Hut It wax a wnttli that did vol tick and a clock that did n.it atrUo. It warni Kiindlal. Ahar., tho Mug, invented It, llotweon the hours Klventn tat Kraft and the cure- of ollko he Invent ltd something hy which ho could toll tlio time of day. Thl-miikIImI tuny have Invii a great column, and when tho shadow ol that column reached one point it wax nine jo'clock 11. 1 point It vu hour and Or It may I (o'clock 11. m., and when It reached auothi r as three o'clock p. m and all tho half hotii-M wore so inoasunil may hate Itocii n (light of Ml air- hik.Ii 'a mar now no round in iiiuuostnu ami other old count rlen, and when the irimduw '.reached one stop ll wan ton o'clock a. m., nr 'another Mop ll wan four o'clock p. in,, and llkowlM other hours may havu liccn I mil cnted. TDK Wtllll.D'rt IHIIilll.OdKS. The clep-yilnt or water clock followed tho miudlal, and tho wind kIum followotl iho clepsydra. Then camo the caudle clock of Alfred tho Great and tho caudle wan marked Into three part, and while, thu Urn l pltrtwa burning ho kiivo hluiNolf tore IIkIoii, and while tho nocoud part wan burn Ing he kiivo hlmwlf to polltlcH, and while tho third purl wiim hurniuK lie Kavu htm elf to rent. After awhile camo the wheel Mid weight clock, and Pope Bylvcuter tho Second wan lis nuwt Important Inventor. And thenklll of couturier of exquisite mtcti Milam tolled at the timepiece- until the world had the Vlck'- clock of thu Four teenth century and llujKheim, the Inveu (tor, awutiK the llr-t Hudulum and Dr. Illooke contrived the recoil encapcinent. And the "eudlcK- chain" followeil and the "ratchet and pinion lever" took lu phcr, 'ami the comia-uwitlon lialaticc and the 'temwlnder followed, and now we have Jibe buxr. and clang of tho great clock and watch factorloH of Swltrorland and Oer Buuiy and Kiigland and Amorira turning tout what HeeniH to he the iicrfcctlou of jttmeplcceH. It took tho world nix thou HMiul yearn to make tho procul chrououi let or. So with tho moaNuremonl of longer ppucea than inlnute.H and hours. Time wan jeMcuUktcd from now moon to now moon: then from harvest to harvc-t. Then the year wan pronounced to he three hundred Mid flfty-fourdaynand then three hundred mmI nlxty dayn, and not until a long while nfler three hundred and -Ixty-llvo da-. Then evenu were calculated from the foundation of Home, afterward from the Olympic ganioH, Then the llahylnulann had tnelr nieaniiromont or toe year ami tin Kotnan theirs and tho Arnieiihui't theln Mid the Hlndooa their. Chronology wan buny for centurle Htudylng iiiouumouta. ItBHcriptloiw, coin, mummlea and iiHtrou my, trying to lay a plan by which all lqutloo of datea might In nettled and jtvevta put In their right place lu the pro etNaloH of the agon Hut the clirouologlNtH only heaped up a mountain of coniunlou land bewilderment until In the Sixth con Itury Dlonynlun Kxlguu-, a Itoman abbot, Wild, "lt everything date from the birth at liethlehem of the lird .Iokiim Ohrlnt, the Saviour of the world." The abbot pro noHod to have thing- dated backward and forward from that greit event. What a plendld thought for the world) What a nighty thing for Uhrixtiaully! It would Save been most natural to date everything rom the creation of the world Hut I am ;lad the chronologMx could not too eanlly gueMn how old the World wan In order to get the nations In the habit of dating from that occurrence In lu docunioiita and his torlea. Forever fixed In It that all history h to Ik dated with reference to the birth of t'hrlnt, and, thin matter nettled, Hales, the chief chrpnologlst. doclartil that tho world Van made five thmisjuid four hundred and eleven yean la-fore Christ, and the deluge came three thousand one hundred and xMfty-flve yearn before Chrlnt, and all tho .lllnatriouaeventaof the last nineteen ceu turlea ami all the great eventa of all time to come have been or ahall Ih dated from the birth or Christ. Tbeae thlngn I nay that you may know what a watch In, what a clock It, what an alniauac In, ami learn to appreciate through what tolls and hard' -khip aad perplex I tUn the world came to .'tU preaeat convenience and comfort, and 'to lielp you to more respectful consider atioaof tnataundlal of Ahax planted In nay text. thr ArrucnoNB or iikzkkimi. We are told that llcxeklah tho king wax Tlngof a boll. It must have been one of the wont kind of carbuncles, a boll with out any central core and aometlmoa death' ful, A fig was put upon It as a poultice. Ilexeklaadld not want to die then. Ills noa, who wan to take the kingdom, had not ret been born, anil iiezeKiairs iieaiti would have been the death of the nation. So he praya for recovery ami In told he will get well. Out he wants some miraculous sign to make him sure of it. He has the choice of having tho shadow on the sundial of Abas advance .or rctwiu Ho replied It Would not U so wonderful to have the sun (go down, for It always does go down sooner or later. Ileasksthat it golmckwanl. In other wonln, let the day Instead of going ton towanl mindowu, turn and go towanl JKiiurine. I mi tho Invalid king bolstensl tip and wrapped In blankets looking out of Hue window upon ttie sunuiai in me conn jyanl. While be wntchea the shadow on the fllai the shadow la-glus to retn-at. Instead of going 011 toward six o'clock In the even tug It goes hick towanl nix o'clock in the mornlBg The big poultice hud In-eu draw (tig for aome lime, and sure enough the I mi I Woke aad ilexoklah got well. Now I ex Mtjroa will come on with your higher IcriUchHn and try to explain thin away and y It was an optical delusion of llexekiah, M the shadow only seemed to go back or 11 cloud came over and It wan uncertalu .which way the shallow did go. and an lloxe ItImL Mnwitu.! It tji iff lu.f Iim timlc tilt MIS ttaa at hll own mind for the n-trozrilde movement, No. the nhadow weut back on Ml the dlala of that land and other lamia.' TfcmtollChrnnlelcHXxxMl.andlliidthat way off In Habyion the mighty men of Die ul.l.lhU..,,.,,l,uimnUUm An.l IJTyWrto not like Hlble authority turnover yMHrcopycH iierouotunami It mi mat a war tff hi Kgypt the people noticed that then wan aotm-ihlng the matter with the -no The fact b that the whole unhorse wait itaoH f tad. awl nuan aad moon and mh Mv not verj big things HUM, and he cull with lil little linger turn hack an entlio i I world hh ivwllv iw yon roulil wt buck tin' 1 hour hiimlor minute baud of jour clock tr WllU'll TMK KLIOIIT UK TIMK. Al thf niionlng of tin- new ) rnr people are iiiorulli'lng on the (Unlit ' time, ott nil feel tlutt 011 are movlugnu towanl mm down mikI ninny of you arc under cotise (iii'iil depression. I proMHc thin morning to not the handiou your watches and clocks to going I'u other way. I propono to show you how you may make the shadow of your dial like tlio shadow on thu dint of Aha to top going forwunl and uiakt' It go buck wanl. You think I liuvuu big undertaking on hand, hut It ran he done If tho kiiiih l,ord who reversed the shadow In llcii klahV courtyard tuovca uiniii un. While looking at the sundial of llerokluli and wo Mini the shadow retreating we ought to leant that Hod controls the nhadowa. Wo are nil ready to acknowledge his mining menl of tho sunshine. We ntand lu the glow of a bright morning and wo miv In our feelings If not wlrh ko many wouls, "Thin life Is from (lod, thin warmth Is from God." Or, we have a rush of prospeilt) and wo nay, "TlionoHiiccensennivfrouidoil What a pnivldentlal thing It wan I Injught that lot Just iH'fore the rise of real estate) llow grateful to (lod I am that I innile that Invontmeiit I Why, they have declared 10 per cent, dividend! What a mercy It wim that 1 Hold out my slum's before that col lapsel" Oh, yen; wo acknowledge God In tho HUiishtiio of 11 bright day or the nun shine of a groat proscrlty, Hut nup'iosc the day Is ilurkf You have to light the gan at noon, The nun does not show him self nil day long. Then1 In nothing but shadow, llow slow wuare to reall.o that tho storm Is from God and the darknenn from God and tho chill from God. Or we buy the day In'foro the market's retreat, or wo make an Investment that never pays, or we purchase goods that wo cannot dispose of, or a crop of grain wo sowed Is ruined by drought or freshet, or when wo took ac count of stock on the 1st of January we found ourselves thousands of dollars worse off than wo expected. Who under such circumstances nays, "Thin loss In from God. I must have been allowed to go Into that unfortunate enterprise for some good rea noil, God controls the ennt wind an well an tho went wlndf" flOII CUKTIIOLS TIIK SHADOWS. (My friends, I cannot look for ono moment on that retrograde shadow on Ahax'a dial without learning that God controls the shadows and that lesson we need al) co learn. That he controls thu sunshine Is not no necessary a lesson, for niiylaxly can Ik happy when thlngn go right. When you sleep eight bourn n night and rlno with an appetite that cannot easily wait for break fast and you go over to the More and open your mall to rend more orders than you can (III, and lu tho next letter you llml a dlvl dead far larger than you have laen prom Ised, and your neighbor comes lu to tell you some Muttering thing he ban Just heard wild iihottt you, and you llml that all the ntylen of goods lu which you deal have ad vanced in per cent. In value, and on your way homo you meet your children in full romp and there are rosea on the center of the tea table and ronoH of health In cheeks all around the table, what moredo you want of consolation f I don't pity you u bit You feel an If you could boss the world. Hut for those In Just opposite circumstances my text conies In wit hun omnipotence of mean lug, 1 ho shadow! Ob, the shadow) Kliad ow of bercavemeull Shadow of sickness! Shadow of linnkruntcyl Shadow of mental depression) Shadow of persecution! Shad ow of death! Hveuk out, oh, nun dial of Ahax, and tell all thu people that God manageathe shadow! An llouklah wit In Ida palace window wrapped lu Invalidism and surrounded by anodynes and cuta planum and looked out upon the black hand of the only clock known at that time and tutw It move hack ton degrees, he learned a lesson that a majority of tho human race need thin hour to learn that tho lasnt friend a man ever had controls the shadow. The Hotbackn are sometimes the best things that can happen. Tho great German au thor, Schiller, could not work unions he hud In bin room the scent of rotten apples, and the decay of the frulta of earthly prosperity may in'come an inspiration Instead ot a de pression, lloltort Chambers' lame feet shut him up from other work, ami he bo camotho wurld renowned publisher, and helped fashion the In'st literature of the ages. The painful disorder like that of llcxeklah called a carbuncle Is spelled ex aetly the name as the precious atone called the carbuncle, anil tlio pang or miiieriug may Iwcomo the Jewel of Immortal value. Your Hcthack, like that of Ahiu's sundial, may Ik recovery ami triumph. I never had a net hack but It turned out to la a net for wanl You never would have Intoine a Christian If you had not had a setback. The highest thrones in heaven are for tho setback". In I Ml the shadow of tho sun dial of thin nation was net buck, and all thlngn seemed going to ruin, and it was net back further In IME!, and further In t8tt), and ntlll further In 1W, but there In not an Intelligent and well halniiced man- north or south, east or went but feels It wan net back toward the sunrise. llOW TIIKV MAY UK Tt'llNKD HACK. Hut I promise to show you how the shad ows might la turned luiek, First, by going much among the young eoplu. In most family circles there are grandchildren. Hy thin divine arrangement most of the people who have passed the muiidlau of life can compass themselves by Juvenility, It i a bud thing for au old man or old womau to nit looking at the vivacity of their grand children shouting, "Stop that racket!" Better Join in the fun. Ut the eighty year-old grandfather Join the eight-year young grandson or granddaughter. My father and mother lived to nee over eight) cuiiurcn ami gramicuuuren aim grout grandchildn'ii, and a more IsjUtcrotis cnw wen never turned out on thl sublunary sphere, and they all seemed to cry to the old folks, "Keep jouug," and they did keep young Don't walk with a cam- unless you have toor only uwudcfctiM In 11 city iiflllctcd with too many canines. Don't wear glasses Htnmger than nt-cesarj, putting on mint ber tens when elghteciis will do as well. Don't go Into tho company of those who are always talking ulsail theumatism and luiuliagoaud sbovtuossof bruit h and the brevity of human life It In too much for to-fi'iiiiriiititiilk nif about the shortness of human lift From all I cau llml out lie lias always la-en hero and from present pros's-i ts he Is always1 going to stay Itomalu joung. Hang up your ntocklug lu Christmas time. Help I tho Iwys fly tlw kilo. Teach the girls how ' to dress their dolls Hotter than arnica ' for your still Joints and latulp tea for j our slit pies nights will Ik a largo dose ol I youthllll companionship nw ii.uu tiir cwk-k. rWtjNuk tin cIikK othumi.u life Make the shadow ol tiiosundml ol Aba. ntrrat ' dmrw IVople maiu themselves old IIV UlUiU- I.. MllU aUOUt llClltg Olll IIIUl ' wHuiig.lot the good old days, which were I ' ta-vi i I .i I,:.. b.- ,is gisst as nun- nays rnim an i in in i bo grandchildren an net is had as the giunilpurcnt won - i aw Uui lm-hc.l up tbll ll yol i .-I neon hi a rmi"i Hilniuiiig a nsifi wucre some very urn iieuine, n nine ueu, were tawing over oki timem you win him tlml !- age doc not monopollne nil the outig rascals It may ipiw I hi hard to gut tiamg eopic up early enough in thu morn lug, but their grandparents alwayn had to bo pulled out of bed ll is wrong now to play mlschovlous tricks on the utisun poctlug, but eighty years ago at nchool that now vcneraldo man nut down on a crooked pin not ncchlen tally placed there, and purposely drove tho sleigh riding party too near tho edge of I he embankment that ho might see how they would look when tumbled Into the snow And that man who lias so little patience with childish exuberance was In olden times up to pranks, onoduUf of which If practiced by tho eight-year-old of to-day would set grandfather and grandmother cra.y llevlvo jour remembrance of what you wore between llveund ton yearn of ago, and with patience capable of over) thing Join with the young. Put back thu shadow of the dial not ten degrees, hut fifty and sixty and seventy degrees. Set back your clocks also hy entering on new and absorbing Christian work. Inour desire to Inspire the )ouug we have in our essays had much to nay about what has la-en accomplished by the young, nf Itumulus, who founded Homo when he was twenty yearn of age, of Cortes, who hail continent! Mexico at thirty years; of IMtl., who wan prime minister of Knglainl at twenty-four years; of Haphael, who died at thlrty-nevon years; of Calvin, who wrote bin "Inntltuton" at twenty-six; of Mulanu thou, who t(Kk a learned professor's chair at twenty-one yearn; of Luther, who had conquered Germany for the Information by thu time ho was thirty-live yearn. And It Is all very well for us to show how early In lift one can do very great thlngn for God and thu welfare of the world, but some of the mightiest work for God has been done by septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarians, Indeed, there In work which none but such can do, They pro nurve the equipoise of senates, of religious denominations, of reformatory movements. Young men for action, old meu for couu nol. Instead of any of you la'glnntng to fold up your energies, arouse anow your energies With the experience you have obtained and thu opportunities of observa tion you have had during a long life, you ougnt 10 ih utile to io in one year now more than you did In ten years right after ! you had passed out of your teens. Physical power loss, jour spiritual owur ought to U- more. Up to the last hour of their liven what Miwer for good old Dr. Archibald Alexander, old Dr. Woods, old Dr. llawen, old Dr. Mlluor, old Dr. Mel lvalue, old Dr. Tyug, old Dr. Caudllsh, old Dr. Chalmers! What have boon Hlsmarck to Germany, ' and Gladstone to Kuglaud, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to America In the time of au advanced agef lct me nay to those In the afternoon of life: Don't bo putting off the harness, when God wants It oil" be will : take il olf. Don't be frightened out of life' by thu grip as many aru. At the llrst sneeze of an Inllucii.a many give up all an lost. No new terror has come on tlio earth, Tlio microbes as the cause of dlseasu were described lu the Talmud seventeen bun drod years ago an "Invisible legions of dan genius ones." Don't Ih scared out of life by all tills talk about heart failure. That tnatble has always boon In the world. That In what nil tho people that ever passed out of this life have died of heart failure. Adam had it and all of his de scendants have had It or will have It. Do not Ik watching for symptoms, or you will have symptoms of everything. Some of you will yet die of symptoms. Symptoms an often only what we sometimes see lu the country a dead owl nulled on a barn door to scjin- living owls. Put your trust In God, go to bed at ten o'clock, have the window open six inches to let In tlio fresh air. sleep on your right stile, and fear notb lug. The old maxim was right, "Gut thy plndlo ami distaff nady. and God will nend tho fax." "I ST.K TIIK BIIAIKIW MIIVK. Hut while balking at this sundial of Ahax and I see tlio shadow of it move, I no- tico that It wont back towanl tin sunrise instead or rorwant towant ino nunsoi 10- wanl the morning Instead of towanl tho night. That thing the world in willing now to do. and lu many cases ban done. Then have a great many things been writ ten and spoken about the sltnsct of life. I have said some of them myself. Hut my text suggests a Is'tter Idea. The Lonl who turned back that day from 'going towanl sundown and started It towanl sunrise is willing to do the same thing for all of un. The theologians who stick to old religion; technicalities until they la-come soporifics , would not call It anything but conversion. I call It a change from going towanl sun down to going towanl sunrise. That man who never tries to unbuckle the clasp of evil habit and who keeps all tho sins of the ast and the present freighting him and who Ignores the ono mlemptiou made by the only one who could nslcom, If that man will examine tho sundial ho will find that thu shadow Is going forwanl and be In on the way to sundown. His day is on the road to night. All the watches that tick, all the 'docks that strike, all the sand glasses that empty themselves, all the shadows that move on all the sundials in dicate the approach of darkness. Hut now, In answer to prayer, an lu my text the change was In answer to pniyer, the par doulug Lonl reverses things and thu mau starts towanl sunrise Instead of sunset. He turns the other way. The captain of salvation uives him the military command, "Attention! Itlght alKiut face!" He was marching towanl indifference, marching towanl hanlness of heart, marching to wanl prayerlessnexs, marching towanl sin, marching towanl gloom, marching toward death. Now he turns and marches towanl peace, inarches towanl light and marchuj towanl comfort and marches towanl high ' hope and marches towanl a triumph stu pendous and everlasting, towanl hosannas that ever hoist and hallelujahs that over roll. Now If that is not the turning of the shadow on the dial of Ainu from going to wanl sundown to going towanl sunrise, what is It' DAVIUtKAK OS TIIK MOUNTAINS. 1 have seen day break over Mount Ulutic and the Matterhnru, over tin heights of Lebanon, over Mount Washington, over the Sierra Nevadas, and mld-Atlantle, the morning after it departed storm when the Ulllows won IIUUIU aiimiiuii iniiini oivrnt Nevadas, but tho sunrise of the soul li more effulgent and more transporting. It bathes all the heights of the soul, and lllu mlneniilt thedepthsof thew)ul,andwhelm all the faculties, all tho aspirations, all the ambitions, all the hopes with a light that alcknewcanuoteclliiHo.ordeuth extinguish. or eternity no anyiiung nui aiigiiioui. uu miu-ulfr. I nreacli the sunrise. As 1 look at that retrograde movement of tins auadowou Aha.'a dial. I rememlMjr that It was a sign that llee Mali was going to got well and lie got well So I have to tell all you who ate by tho grace of God Imv lug your day turned from decline towanl night to asaeiit towanl morning, that jou are going to got well, well of all jour sins, well of all jour jwrrown, well of all yoof eaitlii'' distil-! Sunrise! Hut. tii s noi ".I! out, all that J ou say may betruo but lhatdoeart liludvrthu horroru of dissolution Why, you who are tba Lord's are not going to die. All that the grave gets of you an compared with your chief, your Immprtal nature, In an the clippings of your linger nails an compared with your whole lasly. As you run the nclssors along the edge of jour thumb nail and cut olf that which Is of no use but rat her a hindrance, you do not mourn over tho departure of that fragment which llles away, Death will Is only the scissoring off of that which could be of no use, ami tlio soul has no funeral over that which would lie an awful nuisance If we could not get rid of It. This body as It now Is, What a failure ll would make of heaven If our departing soul had to la burdened with It lu tho next world. While others there go ten thousand miles a minute wo would take about au hour to walk four miles, and white our nelghlor Immortal could see a hundred miles we could see only ten mites, and the lleetest and the healthiest of our bodies If seen there would make It necessary to open lu Iicm"ii an asylum for cripples No, no; one of tin iK-st possible things that will happen to il wilt be the sloughing olf of thin body w hoi we have no more use for It lu Its piisotii state. When it shall come up In Its resin reeled form we w III la? very glad to get i back again, but not as it Is now with it limitations and lailwarfmcntn Innumo able. Sunrise) Tliuro Hindi I bntliu my weary sou! In seas nf heavenly rest. And not a wavouf trnulilo roll Across my peaceful breast. BUNItlHKl Sunrise! Hut not like one, of those morn Ings after you had gone to bed late or did not sleep well, and you get up chilled and yawning and Uh- morning buthlsa repulsion and you feel llku saying to tho morning sun tihlnlng Into your window, "I do not see what you llml to smllo nbout; your bright ness Is to me a mockery." Hut the Inrush of the next world will bo a morning after a sound sleep, a sleep that nothing can din turb, and you will rise, thu sunshine In your faces: and In your first morning In heaven you will wade down Into the sea of glass mingled with (Ire, the foam u lire with asplendor j on never saw on earth, and the rolling waves are dovologlen, ami the rocks of that shore are golden and the peli blesof that twitch are pearl, and the skies that arcli the scene are a commingling cf all the colors thatSt..!ohn saw on the wall 01 neaveu ine crimson, ami uie muo, ana tliusalTrou, and the orange, and the purple, and the gold, and the green wrought on those skies in shape of garlands, of b.m tiers, of ladders, of chariots, of crowns, of thrones. What a sunrise! Do you not feel Its warmth on your faces? Scovllle Mo Collttm.theilylnglKiy of our Sunday school, Uttered what shall Is? the peroration of this sermon, "Throw buck the shutters and let thu sun lut" And so thu shadow of Ahu.'s miudlal turns from sunset to sunrise. No rilrtlng at rni)or Mooting. One liowlston girl believes that pniyer meetings aru not the place for lllrtatlous and pairing olT. She has known what it is to expect one or two men waiting at the church door every Sunday night with the iiiostlon whether or no he may go home with her. She lias determined to rid tier self of both, and probably has. She went to the cake walk in Lyceum hall Saturday night, and during the evening both asked permission to escort her home. Shu said yes to both. They1 laith waited for lier on the lauding, and when she cuinu down stairs she smiled and took one of each young man's arms. At llrst they jiosltated a little, but then went down the last (light of stairs at a Jerky gait. At the foot of the stairs they laith let go her arm and walked up Lisbon street, looking ugly at each other. She entertained them both witli lively stories of the evening's entertainment. Kach thought that hc other would dropoff at the head of the stu'et and he would go , home vith the pretty girl: but no, they I both went on up Main street, wishing lu their Inmost hearts that they were out of . It, What a fool the other fellow was) Why didn't ho leaver in tlio meantime they wont past corner after corner where each thought surely the other would say good night, for hud not the girl said he might go home with herf So 011 they went until the gate was readied, and with a pretty thought nbout the effect of the moon on dried leaves in the gutter she asked them Imth in. They both said it was late and looked nervous. "Can't you lioth come up and seo me Thursday even lug?" she asked "Mamma would be pleased to meet you." Ono said he had an engagement at the store that night ami thu other wild he was going out of town Thursday. After a ma ment, during which each thought It was time for the other to move ou, the young lady said good night and went up the steps. No one annoyed her Sunday night when she camo out of praj'er meeting. Low-In-tou Journal. Mine. Ilurrloa. New York society Is again busy talking of the reported engagement of Mine. .Barrioa to Senor Mart Inez, do Itoda.n mem ber of the Spanish Cortes from Grenada. Such an event would add to the deep in terest taken in the lieautlful widow's ro mantic history Mine, do Harrlos was the daughter of Francisco Aparicia, a wealthy coffeu planter of Que.alteuango, tho second city of Importance in the republic of Gua temala. When she was fourteen years old General du Harriot espied her one day and fell violently In love with the beautiful young girl. Thu common story Is that tho girl rebelled. And then, too, her parents objected to the match. She was whisked off to a mountain convent by thu general. The next move that thu dictator mado was to clap tho father Into Jail. , The prisoner was informed that bo could remain there until his pretty daughter be came Mine, do Harrlos. However that tuny be, hIio certainly did become the dictator's wlfeatateuilerage anil some of her friends say tin story of ulxluctlon and marriagu by force was all romance. At any rate she was devoted to the general and ever since his death has la-en devoted to his numerous children, only fourof whom are her own. When the trouble arose between Gauto mulu and ber neighbors Mine, de Harrlos escaped to San Francisco. The general fell on the Held of battle. Ills widow eventually settled lu Now York. Phila delphia Press. Interplanetary SlgnnlhiK. At Its mast favorable oppositions, Mars is still 43,ixio,000 miles from us, or u hundred and sixty times farther than the moon; while the diameter of Its disk is only twenty-live Inches. 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