Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 May 1890 — Page 6

OPEN WIDE THE GATES.

Talmage Appeals for a Welcome to the Kin? of Glory.

The Celebrated Brooklyn Preacher Talki Eloquently About One of tha Most Boautimi of the Imperishable Songs of thj

Divine Poot, David.

In his sermon of la.it Sunday Rov. T. Do Witt Talmago proached to a largo congregation in tho Brooklyn Academy of Music, taking his text from David's song: "Lift up your lioails, O yo gates and bo yo lifted up, yo everlasting doors and tbo iting of glory shall come iu." Psa. 24:7.

In oldon times when a groat conquoror re'urnou from victorious war, tho peoplo in wild transport would tuko hold of tho gates of the city and lift ihcm from thoir hinges, as mueh as to say: "This city needs no more gates todelend it sineo the conqueror lias got ho.no. Oft from tho hinges with tho gato*!" David, who was l.lio pcot of poets, loretolls in his own way ihe triumphal etilr.mce or Christ into heaven, after His victory over sin and •death and hclL It was as if tho celcstial inhabitants had said: "Hero Mo come3l Make way for Him! :sli back tho Lolts •of diamond I Take hold of tho doors of pearl and hoist thorn fro.n the.r nges of gold! Lift, up your ho ids. O ye cates and bo yo lifted up yo cveriast.ng doors and tho Kin,,' of CJlory shall come in.

Among tho mo.iutiins of Palestine no ont is moro uplifting than Mount Olivet. It was the peroration of ojr Lord ministry. On tho roof of a house in Jerusalem I Asked, "i\lii-. is Olivet!" and the first .glance transfixed me. Hut how shall 1 describe my emotions, when, near tae closo of a journey, in which wo had for two nights •cm limped amid tho shatter masonry of o!d Jericho, and tasted of the acrid waters ol tho Dead Sea, that crystal sarcophagus -of tho buried cities of thu plain, and waded down into tho dojp und swift Jordan to baptize a man, nu.l visit tho ruins of tho house of Mary and Martha ant Lazarus, we found ourselves in stirrups and on horse,

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lathered with the long uud aiflicult w.i ascending .Mount Olivet. Oh, mat so.emu und snpgestivo ridge! Itisa limo'tonelull a mile in length, and three liuudrel feot high, and twenty-seven hundred feet rbovo tho level of tho sea. Over it Kin' David Hod with a broken heart. Ov^r it Pomnoy led his devastating hosts. Hero tho famous Tenth Legion built their batteries in besiegoment. Tne Clurden of Gcthsemano weeps at the foot of it. Along the baso of this 11 ilashed tho lanterns and torches of those who carno to arrest Jesus. From the trees on this hill the boughs were torn off und thrown into the path of Christ's triumphal procession. Up and down that road Jesus had walked twice a day from Bethuny to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Bethany. There, again and again. Ho had taught His disciples. Half way up. th:a mount He uttered llis lamentation, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem I" Prom its hoights Jesus took flight homeward when Ho had finisiied His earthly mission. There is nothing moro for Him to do. A sacrifice was needed to mako peace between the recreant earth and tho outraged heaven, und Ho had offered it. Death neoded to bo conquered, und Ho bad put iiis resurrection foot U]on it. 'j ho ilurty-threo years of voluntary exile ha ended. The grandest, tenderosl, mightiest Good-Dye ever Millard \pxa now bo uuored.

On Mount Olivet Jesu-s stands in a group 01 Galilee fishermen. Tliey liad been together in many uceues of sadness and had been tho moro endeared by that brotherhood of suffering. They had expected iiiin to stay until the day of coronation when He would t..ko tho earthly throne and Wave a scepter mightier, and rule a dominion wider, than any lJharoah, than any David, than tiny Caesar. 13ui now all theso anticipations collapse. C..rist has given His last uuvice. Lo has oll'eied His last sympathy. He has spoken llis last word. Ins hands are spread apart as one Is apt to do when ho pronounces a benedictioo, when suddenly the strongest and most stupendous law or ull worlds is stiattered. It is the law which, since the worlds were created, holds the together. It is tho law which holds ever,thin to the earth or, temporarily lijriud from earth, returns it tho law which keeps the plaucts whining around our sun, and our solar system whirling around other systems, sinJ all tho syste.ns whirling arouud tho I rone of Uoi—tin law o£ gravitation. That luw.s suspended, or relaxed, or roken, to let the body of Jesus go. That law had laid hold of hiin thirtytlireo years before, when ho descended, it had relaxed its gnp Hi but once, and that when it declined to sink Him from thu top of tho waves on Oalilee, on wiiich he walked, to ih: bottom ol the lake. That law of gravitut on must now give way to Him who made the law. It may hold tho the other stars, but it cannot longer hold tho Morning tatar of lledemptiou. It may hold tho noouduy s: n, but it cannot hold the bun of llighteousness. Tho lingers- of that law are abo it to open to let go tho m.st illustrious Being the wor.d had over seen, and whom it had worst maltreated. Tho six'ongest law of nature which philosophers ever weigh or measured must at list give way. It will break between the rock of Olivet and the heel of Christ's foot. \alch it, 11 yo disclplosl Watch it, ail tho earth! Uatch it, all tho heavens!

Christ about to.leave tl"s planet. Howl His friends will not commit io havo Hiin go. Ills euemios catching Him wo -Id only attempt by another ivary, to put Him into some other tomb. 1 w.il tell .vou how. V'ao chain of the most tremendous nat-iral law is unlinked. 'J ho sacred foot of our Lord and tho limestone rock part, and purt forever.

Loaning back, and with pallid cheek and uplifted eyes, tne disciples see their Lord rising from tho solid earth. Then, rushing forward they woul grasp his feet to hold Hiin-fust.,but they aro out of roich, and it Is too late to detain tlim. Higher than tho tops of the fig- rees from .ich they hid plucked lho fruit. Higher than the olivetrees that sluded the mount. Higher, until He is within sight ot the Bethlehem where -lo w.is born, an I tho Jordon where He avus uibtizeJ, und the Golgotha where He was slain, uigher, until on stairs of flee cloud Mo steps. Higher, until, into a sky bluer than thu laico that could not sink Him, ho disappears into a sou of giory uosa billowin/ up endors hide Hiin. 'A'he. fishermen watch and watch, wondering ..uo law of nature will not reassert

Ittelf, und Ho sha I in few moments come back again,, and tliey shall see Him descending lirst His scarred feet coming In sight, then the arred side, then the scarred brow, and they may take again His scnrre.l hand. But tho mom-nts pass by, and tho ours, and no reappearance. Gone out of sight of earth, but come within sight of heaven. And rising still, not welcom by ono angelic choir like thoso Who.one Christians night escorted Him flown, but ail hoaven turns out to gre.'t Him hopjp, and •ho temples havo especial anthem, und .ho palaces especial banquet, and tho streot especinl throngs and ull along tho line to the foot of tho throne, lor years vacated but now again to bo tuken, there are arches lifted, and banners

waved, and trumpets nuad«8, Md doxologies chanted, and coronets enst own. "Tne nngels throng'd His ohar.ot wheels,

And bore Him to His throne Then swept their golden harps and sung The glorious w.rk is done.'

Itwns the greatost day in heaven I As lie goes up the steps of tho throne that thirty-throe years beforo Ho abdicated for our udvantago, there rises from all the hosts of heaven a shout, saintly, cherubic, seraphic, arch *ngelii\ "Hallelujah! Amen."' "O garden of olives, thou dear honored spot, Ti.e fame of thy lory shall ne'er bo forgot."

No wonder that for at least fourteen hundred years tho churchos havo, forty days after Easter, kept Ascension-Day I for tho lessons are most inspiring and glorious. It takos much of tho uncertainty out of tho idea of heaven, when from OliI Vet we soo hum nature asocuding. Tiie same body that rose from Joseph's tomb I ascended from -Mount Olivet. Our human nature is in heavcu to-day. Just as thoy had seen Christ for forty days, He ascended, head, fare, shoulders, hands, feet, and tho entire human organism. Humanity ascended! Ah, how clos ly that ice ps

Chr,st in sympathy with Oi030 who are still in '.he struggle! Ascended sears, face scars, lian.l scars, lee', scars, shoulder scars! That will keep Him I in accord wi:h all tin sufferin-r, with all the wcarv, with all tho imposed-upon.

No more is ho a spirit now than bo !y, no moro of heaven than earth. Thoso pi' tho celcstial inhibitants who never savour world, now walk aroun.l Him and learn from His physical contour something of what our race will bo when, in the resurrection, heaven will have uncounted bud es as well as uncounted spirits. On Ascen-sion-Dav Lo lif ed Himself through t.ho atmosphere of Paloitiue until, amid tho immensities, 11(3 dis puearod. Ho -as tho only lieTlig the world ever saw who lould lift Himself. Surely, if Ho does lift liunscif, Ho can do tho lesser dooi of lilting us. "No star goes down but climbs another sky, No sua sets here except to risTs on hiis^..'1

Chr.st leads us all tne way: hrcugh the birth hour, lor ho was born in Bethehem through boyhood, for 1-le passed it Nazareth through injustices,for lie endured the outrages of Hale's court-room through death, for he suffered lton Calvary through tho sepulchre, lor Ho la three da. within lis darkened walls throueh resurrection for tno solid masonry gave way on the first Easter morning through nssons'.on, Jor Mount Olivet watched llim as He climed the skios: through the shining gates, for lie entered theuiainid muguiticent acclaim. And hero is a gratifying consideration that you never thought of: We will see our Lord just as He iooUed on oa th. As rie arose from the tomb iie ascended lrom Mount Olivet. Wo shall see him ns iio looked on tho road to Emmaus, as Ho appeared in Ihe upper room in Jerusalem, as Ho was that day of valedictory on tho riilgo from which Ho swung into tho sities. How much wo will want to see him.

I was reading of a man born blind. Ho was married to one who took care of him all those years of darkness. A surgeon said to him, "I can remove that blindness, and so he did. His signt given him, a rose was handed to tho man who never before had seen a rose and he was iu admiration of it, and his family whom ho had never seen beforo now uppearod to him, and ho was in tears of rapture, when ho suddenly cried out: "I ou^ht first to have asked to see tho ono who cured me show mo tuo doctor." When from our o,es the scales of earth sli ill fall, and we have our first vision of heaven, our lirst cry ou^ht not lo be, "Wliero aro our loved onesf" Our first cry cuffht to bo, "iWicro is Christ, who made all this possible I bhow mo tho Doctor!" dory bo to Gnd for ascended humanity! Could wa realize it, and that it is all in sympathy lor us, we would havo us cool a lounge in the conllict ot tins lite as had Chanos tha Twelfth when he was dictating dispatches to his secretary, and a bombshell fell into tne room, and tho secretary dropped his pen and attempted flight. Charles said to mm: "Go oa with your writing! waat has tho bombshell to do with tho ictt-T I am diomtin I" If tho ascended Christ be on our side, nothing should disturo us. "Our fellow Sufforor yet retains

A fellow-leolim in our pains, And still remembers, in tho skies, His tears, His agonies, and cries." I am so glad that Christ broke tho natural law of Lrravitatiou wlun Ho shook off from His feet tile clutcii of Iwount Olivet. Peoplo talk as though cold, iron, unsympathetic, natural law control.od everything. Tho rciirn o. law is a majestic thing, but the Gou wao mule it has a rigtit to broilc it, and ag.iin and again has broken it, und again and again will break it. A law i3 only Cod's way uf doing things, and If He choosc3 to do them some other way, Ho lias aright to do so. A law is not strong enou^u to shackle tho Almighty. Christ broke botanical law wneu, one Monday morulng in March, on tho wav from Bethany to Jerusuleiu| b.v a lew words lu turned a full-leaved llg-tree into a lifeless I stick. He bro,io iditliyologn al law wuen, without any natural iiidiu-oment, Ho swung a groat schojl ot lisn into a part of

Lake Tiberias, where thy tislieriuoa had cast their nets for eight or ten. nours witaout iho capture of a minnow and by making a lisu help ply tuo tux by yielding lrom its mouth a lioman staler. Christ broke tho la.v of storms bv compell.ng, with a word, tho angered sua to hush its frenzy, and itio winds to ouit their bellowing. Ho broke zoological law when l-e made the devils posson tho swine of Gadara. Ho bruKo the law of oconomics when He mado enough broad lor five thousand peoplo out of livo bis uits that would not ordi-arily have been onough for ten ot tho hungry, he broke intellectual law when, by a word, He sileaccd a maniac into plucidity. Ho broke physiological law when, by a touch, Ho r..ightoned a woman who, for eighteen years had been bent almost double, an when he pu spring into tho foot of inhumuted Laz irus, uud when, without medicine, Ho guvo the 'ying girl back in health lo tho Syio-Phcenii-ian mother, nd when He made the palatial homo of Uto noblemen resound again with the laughter of his restored boy, and whon, without knife or battery. Ho set catiracted eyes to seeing ngitin, and the drum ot deaf ears to vibrating ag.ii i, and norvos of paralyzed arms to thrilling again, und thon when iu leaving tho earth Uo dolled all atmospheric law ani physiological law, and thut law which has in it withes and cables and girders onough to hold tho universe, tho law of gravitation.

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Tils st who proved Himself on so many occasions, and (spot lady tho last, superior lo l.^w, still lives and every day, in answer to u.ver lor the good of the world. He is overriding tho law. Blessed bo God that wo are not iLe.-ubjects o4 blind fatuiity, cut of a sympathizing divinity. Havo you never teca typhoid fever break, I or a btorm suddenly quet, or a ship a-beam's-end right itBO f, or a fog lift, or a parched sky broi.it. in uiiawei's, or a perplexiiy disentangled, or the me .usolablo take solace, or the wayward reform at the call of prayer? 1 havo aeen it multitudes have I seen it. You have, if you havo been willing to soj It. Deride not tho fuith-cure.

Because impostors atiouipt it, is nothing against good men whom God bath boi or. I with marvelous restorations. Pvonodnce uoliting impossible to prayer and trust. Be-rauso you an.I I fvinnot elT'i it, is no reason why others may not. Iiy the same

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argumrat I coutd prove mat Rapfcaat never painted a Madonna, aad that Meudelsslioa never wrote an oratorio, und thut Phidias nevor chiselled a statue. .Because we cannot accomplish it ourselves, wo are not to conclude that others may not. There aro in immensity great ranges of mists whi havo provid, under closer tolescoplo scrutiny, to bo tho storehouse of worlds, and I do not know but from that passage in James, which, to some of us, is yet misty and dim,

there may roll out anew honven and a new earth, -The proycr of faith shall save the S f.

sick." Tho faith-curists may, in this war

against disease, bo only skirmishing before a general engagement, in which all the ma ndics of earth shall routed. Surely, allopathy and homoepathy and hydropathy and eclecticism need reinforcement from somewhere. hy not from tho faith and prayer of the cousccratcd} Tho mightiest school of mcdicino mi.y yet bo tho scho:i of Christ. I do not know but that diseases, now by ull schools pronounced incurable, may give Way under gospel bom bardI ment. 1 do not know but that llio day I may como when faith and pravor shall I raiso the dead. Strands and oo aton and

Spinoza aud Hume and bchleiermacher rejected tho miracles ot tho far past. I do I liot propose io be lino ttiem and reject tho miracles of tho far luture. This 1 know, tlio Clristof Ascension-Day is mightier I than any natural laws, for on-Outlay of which 1 speak he trampled down tlio sirout:es. of them all. Law is migluv, but I Ho who made it is mightier. Drive out fatalism from your theory, und give grace the thron\

Standing to-da'.* on the Ascension peak of Mount Olivet I am also glndd ned at tho closing gesture, tlio last gosturo Christ ever made.

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lifted up 1.Is haiuls and

The cruel world toon Him in at thestirt cn cr,.dtu of straw, und at last thr ist liimout ith tlio point of tho spenr but benediction Ascending until enoalli. Ho saw on one side tho Beihleiiom wuoro tliey put Him among tho cattle, und Calvary on tho other si.jc, w'nero they put Hun among the thieves. As far us tue excited and intensified vision of tho trroup ou Olivet could see Him, and after Ho was so fur up ti.ey could no louger uoar His words, they saw tho gesture of the outspread hands, the benediction. And that is His attitude to-d. y. His benediction upou the: world's climates, and tcey are changing, and will ko.p on changing until tho atmotpuors shall boa commingling of October and June. Benediction upon the deserts till tluy waiten with 111/, and blush with rose, and yedow with cowslip, and emerald with grass. Benediction upon governments till tliey bceouio moro just and humane. Benediction upon nations tdl tnoy kucel la prayer. Benediction upon the waole oartn uut.l every mountain is an Otivot of oonscjration, uud every lake a Galilee on whosd mosaic of crystal, and opal, and sappliiredivmu splendors shall walk/un, ta.ee tuo benediction oi xlis pardon, sinners young, and sinners oid, sinuers moJer.it -, and suiuci'3 aba.,done i. Taicj the benedijtion oi tlis comiort, all yo broken-hearted under bereavement, and privation, and myriad w.ies. Take His benedlct.on, all yo sick- beds, whetner under acuio spasms of pain, or iu long-protrautod iiiva.unsm. For orpuatugo, and childlessness, und widowhood a benediction, l'or cradles ar.d truudie b-*ds,and rocking-ohairs of octogenari ins, a benedict.ou. For life and tor deata, lor time a id lor eternity, for e.ti'Lli and for heaven, a benedie.ion. Buolunest gesture ever made, tlio last gesture of our ascending Lord. "And xxoui.ed up iiis hands, uud olessed them."

Is our uttitudo ne samof Is it wrath or is it kindness! Is it diabolism or Christism!

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^ives us tho graee ot tue ojien pu.ui, open upward to get tho benediction, open downward to pronounce a benediction. A lady was passing along a street and suddenly ran against a ragged boy, und sue said: "1 beg your pardon, my bay, 1 did not mean io run agaiust you I am very sorry." And tlio boy toos oif uio piece of a cap ho had upou his head uud said: "xou havo my pardiug, lady, and you may run agin me and knoctc me ciear down: 1 won't care." And turulug to a comrade Ua said: "That nearly took mo oil my feet. Nooody ever askoi mv parding beiore." Kindness! iliudnest! Kill the worid w.ta it. lucre has always been too much disregard lor others. Illustrated iu lo-Si), iu Lugi mi when niuoty-tive thoasand acres of marsn.^s were drained lor liea.th and lor ci op raising, and the s]iortsinen destroyed tho drauiago-woncs bo.aasj tne/ wtutel io keep tne marches lor tuntiiif grouud, wnere they coitid snoou

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sug&rcstive ol one or t.io an ient iiiqnets where everything was set to mini the plates biougnt in aud rem vol io tho toui'd of musi.% tin motions ot the carvers keeping time with tho music, Uio conversation lutinj an I dropping with the rising and falling of tin music. But, instoad oi tue isie of an i-nrthlv or.-hestra, it would be the inusie of a hoavonlv :h inn, ir words tin music of kind thoughts, our steps the ill isic of nelDful deeds, our smile the jsic of encour.ig. ing looks, our youth aud old ngd the first anil last burs ol .sio condu tod bv tin piorcod hund that was opened in love and spread downward in benediction on Oiivetle lieiiflus on As ension-Day. "By a now way nouo ever trod,

Christ mounted to tho throne of God."

Significant Cliaitji la I arhlny.--.K5! Tho most significant symptom of tlio day is not the timid and tontitivo efforts at creed revision in ecclesiastical councils. It is not even the bolder admissions und conversions of ati occasional writer of such standing and authority in the church us to have no iear of beinij brought to book for luiresy. It is rather tlio calm acceptance of "advanced views," which a few years tijro would have causcd a decided blioclc to rooled prejudices, and private evidences Ih uimy a preacher of unquestioned oithocioxy would fi'ladly welcome a revivified gospel that would iroe him from the trammels of formal beiioTs that id their origin in a more superstitious and less enlightened t£e. Js it not a noticeable sign thut intellectual and educated ministers have almost censed to preach, the doctrines of thoir theology? It is partly because they have ceased to bulievo them, and moro perhaps because they know that intelligent and educated people in the pews do not believe them and can no longer bo made to believe tliem. Neither are they any longer effective for tlio •vonvciMiou" and "regeneration" ol nanldnd.—Forum. &

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LUTHERANS IN POLITICS.

Will Knde»Tor to Snnd JI«n to the Illinois Iiflilatur« to Change tha Xdueailon LkV.

The first move in Illinois in tho Lutheran church plan to go into politics for tho purpose of attacking the compulsory odu cation law was made on tho 13th, when ex

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Senato. At tho reoent meeting of tho Lutheran Synod, at Springfield, it was determined to put up candidates for the Legislature in certain districts where tho Lutheran church is tho strongest, pledged to vote for a repeal or modification of tho law, Tho particular cluuse aimed at is tho ono requiring thut ull tho common branches be tuught in tho English language and this is the ono which tho church des sires to havo stricken out. Mr. Sonne said that the Lutherans would try to nominate aud elect members of the Legist laturo in a number of northern districts, hoping to elect enough members pledsrod to a modification of tho compulsory education law to control the balance of power iu tho Legislature aud force their point. The Lutherans are almost all Repuid:cans but in this tliey expect tho aid of tho Gorman Catholics, who are largely Democrats, and between the two forces it is thought half cozen districts can bo carried.

A MAYOR ON THE WAR PATH.

blessed them," says the inspired account of our Lord's dopaitui e. 1 alll SO glad Ho Ho Locks Up Cltlzriia and Tt ri'orlzes tlie

lif oJ up iiis hi nds. Gestures are often i:ore siguifi-unl than words, attitudes than arguments. Curist had made a gesture of contempt when With hi* linger Ho wrote on the ground gesture of repulsion whon Ho sau, "Get theo boyind me, Satin gesture of coudeuiuatioii when lie stud, ••\o'J unto you, Pharisees and hypocr.tes." But His last gesture, is a gesture of Louodiction. lie lifted up His hands and blessed ietn. His arms are extended, and the pa.m-t of His lids turned downward, aud so He droppod benediction upon Olivet, beiicdietinn upon Palestine, beuedi tiou upon all the earth.

Good Townspeople,

News was received on tho 13th from Cedar Keys, Fla., that that city hu3 beeu in a commotion sinco Saturday. Tho mayor and marshal are holding high carnaval. Tho light-house keeper had a pistol discharged ut him while he was on tho street, and was warned to keep off the street. An iuolTensive man—an episcopal clergyman—and his wife nave loft the city to avoid horse-whipping. The U. S. Collector has beon hold up by Mayor Cottrell and his nlly, the town marshal, and threatened with imprisonment if ho stepped outside of his office, and Ii. M. Dozier, agent of the Florida Central railroad, was waylaid and an attempt made to shoot him. Tho telegraph operator was terribly whipped Tj a negro, a yor Cottrell, holding a loaded pi:.tol to the negro's head, and forcing him to do the whipping. He grossly insulted i.. lies of tho town, and, in fact, things aro so bad that tiiauy of the oldest and leading citizens havo left the place, including several ministers. It is a perfect reign of terror, and every person met on tho street or the last few days is armed.

TOMAHAWKED THE CASTAWAYS.

News was received at San Francisco, Sunday night, by tho steamer Zealamlcr, that in a great storm March 4, the schooner Eliza Nary was driven on tho reefs at Mallicoloin, tho New Hebrides. It was impossible to see anything in the b!i"iliug rain till just boforo tho ship struck. 'aere were on board at the time a crew of fighteon men, two passengers, forty-four recruits and fifteen returning laborers, making a total of seventy-nine. Tlio first boat which was lowered was manucd by four white men aud several of the black crew. The boat was dashod to pieces while going on shore, and the four whito mon were drowned. Thoso who remained ou tho ship wore saved. Several of the recruits swam for the shore and wore either drowned or killed alter landing. Ono boy had to fight his way fpra tho shore to tho Mission Station, distant ton milon. I-Ie,with twenty of his companions, went with some natives to a villa -o near the coast. They wore given food, but, while eating, tho savages set upon them and began tomahawking the castaways. The boy ran and cscapod. In all, four white men and forty-sovon blacks were lest. §f| BLOWN TO ETERNITY.

The Crew or a Lor.omotivo Din ipptar With IlH Explorion.

A Lehigh Valley engine, George Pearl, engineer, and Henry J.O'Connor, fireman exploded at Buffalo on the llth. A roar was heard like tho discliargo of a battery of heavy artillery, the earth trembled as though with an earthquako and the air was filled with Hying fraginonts of iron, steel brass aud timber, accompanied by a cloud of mingled steam and dust. All that remained of tho engine were the six driving wheels, the truck und wheel at the forward and the disabled tender at tlio rear. Tho tracks were rippsd from t'ie ties and bent out of shape tho ground was torn up for some distunce and broken telegraph and electric light wires dangled from their, poles, a tangled mass. What was apparently a human body was seou flying through the air at au elevation ot 100 feet and was observed to fall on tho .i:^ Shore rnilroud at least 1,000 feet woat of where the explosion occurred. Tho body of tho other unfortunate mail took a northeasterly course at a high elevation and dropped into the creek, 500 foot away.

Eldor Ladwig, pastor of tho Ohristiau church at Whitewater, Davics county, was observed to kiss one of the lady members of his congregation good-bye, in the presence of her husband and on the public street, and the gossiping was severe. Ou tho following Sunday ho discussed the subject ot kissing in his pulpit, and explained that tho kiss given tho lady was ono of friendship, a sort of holy kiss, and that in all his life ho had kissod but five women. After the close of his sermou he called for arising vote of his congregation on the sinfulness of his kissing, and the audience uroso cn masse and voted him innocent of sinful osculation.

Tho Stato Bureau of Agriculture makes this statement of tho comparutive condition of winter wheat for May, 100 standing for the average condition for tho month: Ind.ana,53 Illinois, 00 Ohio, C3. This is from thirtecif to nineteen points lower than the April statement. Tho condition of the winter wheat crop the conntry over cannot average at present above To per cent. The condition in Kansas faestimated at 02, in New York and Pennsylvania about 99.

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Bqasllty In Satnra. ,j:

So far as the Saturnians can be said to have any pride in anything, it is in the absolute level which characterizes their political anil social order. They profess to be Ihe only true republicans in the solar system. The fundamental articles of their constitution arc these:

All men aro born equal, live equal, ami die equal. All men are born free—free, that is, to obey the rules laid dowu for the regulation of their conduct, pursuits, aud opinions free to be married to the person selecled for them by the pliysilogieal section of the government, and l'rce to die at such proper period of life as may best suit the convenience and general welfare of the community.

The one great industrial producer of Saturn is the broad-root. The Saturniaiu fiud this wholesome and palatable enough, and it is well they do, as they havo no other vegetable. It is what I should call a most uninteresting kind of eatable, but it serves as food and drink, having juice enough so that they can get along without water, l'lipy have a tough, dry grass, which, matted together, furnishes them with elothes'sulliciently warm for their coldblooded constitution aud more than eufliciently ugly.

A piecc of ground largo enough to furnish bread-root for teu persons is allotted to each head of a household, allowance being made for the possible increase of families. This, however, is not a very important cons deration, as the Saturnians are not a prolilio race. The great object of life being the product of thu largest possiblo quantity of bread-roots, and women not being so capable in thu lields as the stronger sex, females are considered an undesirable addition to society.

Tho one thing the Saturnians dread and abhor is inequality. The whole objcct of their laws and customs is to maintain the strictest equality iu everything, social relations, property (so far as they can be said to havo anything which can be so called), mode of living, dress, and all other matters. It is their boast that nobody ever starved under their government. Nobody goes in rags, for the coarsc-libered grass from which they fabricate their clothes is very durable. (I confess I wondered how a woman could live in Saturn. Thoy have no looking-glasses. There is no such article as a ribbon known among them. All their clothes were of ono pattern. 1 noticed that there were no pockets in any of their garments, and learned that a pocket would be considered prima facie evidence of theit, as no honest persou would have use for such a secret receptacle.)

Before the revolution, which established the great law of absolute and lile-long equality, the inhabitants used to feed at their own private tables. Siucc the regeneration of society all meals aro taken in common. The last relic of barbarism was tho use of plates—one or even more to each individual. This "odious relic of an ell'cto civilization,1' as they called it, lias long beeu superseded by oblong hollow receptacles, one of which is allotted to each twelve persons. A great riot took place when an attempt was made by some fastidious and exclusive egotists to introduce partitions which should partially divide one portion ol these receptacles into individual compartments. The Saturnians boast that tliey have no paupers, no thieves, none of those fictitious values called money —all which things, they hear, are known in that small Saturn nearer tho sun than the great planet which is their dwelling-placc. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Atlantic.

Two Instances of Liucli.

"Speaking of luck," said Senator Vest to a Washington Post writer, "I will tell you a story to which another man in this company can bear witness. One day. while I was in Richmond as a member of the Confederate Congress, I lost a roll of money, my pay for tho month, somewhere in the'street on my way from the War Ollice to the hotei. I called a few fellows together anil went on what seemed to be a hopeless quest through the dimly-lighted and snow-covered streets. Tho chances were a thousand to one against success but we hadn't been out lifleen minutes beiore a young Lieutenant who who was iu our party stooped down and pick up the money. We all talked about our friend's good luck —but fieo how quickly fortune ciwn turn another face. 1 was in high glee and wanted to treat. The Searching partv now went iu search of a place of refreshment, bul it was after midnight and it was a good while before we found a place open. At length, however, wo were piloted to a saloon to which, pending some repairs, access was had from li.e street only by a ladder of about, a dozen rungs. 'We all climbed up. considering it a lark (1 was a good deal younger in those days), ami after having some refreshment climbed out again. •Would you believe it?. Tho lucky fellow who had found my mono}' missed Iiis footing, fell, and in that fall in leu or twelve leet broke his neck ind was instantly killed.

"He Evened Up."

Col. ]\I.oby relates the following amusing incident which occurred in a cavalry light iu tho Shenandoah valley ic 18(54:

In ihe midst of a sharp cavalry engagement with Sheridan's men in a charge near Berryville there came riding into our lines like a whirlwind a 1 ankui! soldier on a black horse. A score of men tried to stop horse and rider, but the old black's blood was up, and he went on clean through our lines before he was under control. The rider was sent to Libbv prison, and we mustered the black charger into the confederate service. A few davs later we charged some of Custer's men, and that old horse was ridden into the engagement by one of our soldiers. The black evened up things,, too. for ho carried his rider into the federal lines, aud never came back.

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A Steady Advertiser.

C. Longfellow, druggist at Machine. Me., inserted an advertisement of his business In the lirst sue of tho local paper, fort}' years ago, and has kept

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In 1859 M. Solomon of Atchison was freighter across tho plains. Among oull whaokors was millionaire Tabor Colorado.

Buffalo Bill sesms to havo taken Roma) b.v storms, his audioticos average lO.OOll poop.o and tho enthusiasm being unprecedented in that city.

ICx-Soerotary Bayard has written a letter consenting to deliver uu oration boforo tha Huguenot society of South Carolina in' Charleston ou April 14 next.

Opium is tho inspissated driad julco of the unrtpo pods of the papaver tomnlferum' or poppy. Morphine is an alkuloid of opium, obtained by chomlcul treatment.

David Bushncll, of Conno^ticut, was tho, Qrst to call uttontlon to torp'iiloas and opedo boats, and lie made tho first torpedo Loat iu tho latter part of tho eighteenth, scutury.

A prospector in the San Bernardino Mountains killed a mountain sheep a few days ago that weighed dressed 40i) pounds. Its horns measured 10}^ itichos around a| tlio baso.

The Duko of Portland has beon disappointed again. It is a girl, and tho precedent of a century, dur,ng which no direct, lieir has been born to the house, romuins unbroken.

Miss Eliza Porter, a young lady of West Virginia, owns a saw and grist mill on Camp Creek, Boouo county, whicli sha i'oaducts herself, und she is luying thai foundation of a fortuno.

Four comots will bo seen this year.! French grapo growers regard this as a favorable omen, portending a big ciop. Suporotitiou still holds its sway, even in the most civilized lands.

In New Orleans they uro discussing tho propriety of liconsing gamblers tho samo as thoy do saloons. The gumblors aro very much hurt by tho propont.on. Thoy ob-1 joct to being put on tho same grado with saloon mon.

An Adelaide, Australia, dally paDer has In its employ thro3 men named Day. Ono of thorn is callod Sun Day becpuso ho is a clergyman another, b.'ing a castiier, Is callod Pay Day, wbilo tho third, beiug a law reporter, goes by tho name of Judgment Day. 'J he lifo of tho lato Albert U. Gallatin had oxtcuded over several generations. Ha had dined with tho duke of Wellington,' and one of hia favorite unocdotes told of teoing an American Irigate, in the war lSPJ, Lriug up to tho foot of Wall street a British friguto tuken as a prizo on tha high seas.

Au Alabama negro recently brought to Birmingham come chips cut from a cork tree growing in his neighborhood. Ho says tho tree was imported from the old country aud planted muny years ugo, when a mora' twig. It has grown to bo sovaral foot ia ciruumferenco, und tho show it to ba a gonuin: cork treo.

Cornelius Vunderbilt and his mother, Mrs. William 11. Vuudorbilt, havo decidod to build a mission house ou Forty-second Hro.'t, New York, that will surpass in cOit, size uud uppointmonts any institution o£ tho kind in the world. It is intended us an auxiliary lo tlie work of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal parish.

An English electrician has boin directing hit uttention to thj purili :atio:i ot sja water au othjr lluids by olootricity. 11a is made c.troiul application of tins principle also to wines and brandies. He finds that it has the eltoet of soitauiu^ tne asperities of some wines by removing thj preio in. mint bitartrate of po.asli.

Kalidasa, tho greatest drauiutic poet of India, has oe.'n cal.od tlie bhakespearo of India, ii 13 drama "La ivunlulu" produeod a sensation in Europe. It w.,8 translated by Sir vviJlium Jones. Iio is noted for the variety of his creations, lii.s iagenious conceptiuus, beauty oi uarrub.ve, delicacy of leuumeut aud fertility of imagination.

Tho foster-mo.her of t.io little king ot Spain is Maxim.ua l:Jruju, handsoiua bruuot from the province of Sautander. \.licn chosen from among the thousands wliu competed for tho post she was so poor that the neighbors at lleras, her native piaco, had to subscribe SiO for lier journey tu Madrid. Stio is now worLh lortuuo, presented to her by the royal family.

Dom Podro lately went lo Cannes to lnpect its military Jorulicatious, and entrance was ut lii-jt reiuscu by the sentinel ut tlie cate but when tlio so.di learned who he was the bayonet was liuod uud hq was uliowod lo puss in. Altorwurd the acuiiuci was seveiely punished by the commanding oflke.- oil tue ground that th«

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emperors i.nd cared tj liuvo uo mouarclis prowling about its iorts. At a roL-out banquet at Sau Francisco of the Uu icrtakers' Associ.tt.oii of California tne menus wore printed on cardbourd cul iu tlio saapj of cotliu, und among tua dishes wore crab salad a laflolaire, ciiickeu dressed a la shruudc, smelts served on a stretcher uud slowed tomatoes a lij grippe. Tho hall was apprjpr.atjly decorated lor the occasion, uud among tho other artistic d.splays were uu easliruuueJ casket containing tho remaius ot AicOimy.

Tlio champion lino handwritar of tha world is DelievoJ to bo iiila Mittoridgo,

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resides iu Belfast, lie is seventyo.ght years old, but has written tho Lord's Prayer six Uiuod r.-p^aiodly on the sp.ica covered oy a s.lver live-cent piece, which is ut the rate of 3,OJO words ou a postal card. He wrote tho Lord's Prayer once onuspacoot thr jo-six tosmtlis ot au inch, aud says he will come under a cou tract ta put yj,djj words on postal card- Mr liitteridgo does not use a microscope iu writing, but one is neadod to i-oaJ wiiat ho wi ites.

A French millionaire named Uamoutling,: attending tho winter ut Nice, a few weoks ago ordoroJ a coffin of a special pattern uud purchased grouad iu a cemetery upon which ho had a vault budt under hia person tl supervision with room lor thred coffins. "I want room enougu to be quite ut e..ao,'' ho said to a friend who asUod hint why ho uit.de it so largo. Whcu ull was douo ho shot himself :utl in his room a. tlio hotel, after having made a will leav.n^ all his money to the widows and orpnaus ot men killed in the ro.eut explosions el mines at St. Etienno.

Norwegian navigators still cling to tha ido ol discovering tho uorlli polo. Th.-ie hopes uro based upoa the fact that various urlicles from tho Pucifio ure ojo .slonally found stranded on the co^st of Ui oenlaud, having beeu carried thore by some current. A notabl-j instance of this is the uuding there of a pair of oilskin trousers, marked with tho name of ono of the crew of a vessel that hud beon wrecked on tho Pacific ti'laof Behrimr's Straits. Ills argued that where pair of trousers ran go a properly constructed vessel ought to bo ablo to follow, by virtuo of supposed current b» tween the two oceans, via UuMtroUo pole.

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