Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 40, Hope, Bartholomew County, 26 January 1893 — Page 3

KTffimrx EiBIM Thera "Was a Rainbow Round About the Throne.” Th© Great Circle of Good and Evil—The Evil To Do Shall Hot urn Unto You Ur. Tal«iago r s Southern Tour. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Atlanta, Ga., last Sunday. Subject: “The Circle of the Earth.” Text: Isaiah xi, 23, “It is lie that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” He said: While yet people thought that the world was flat, and thousands of years before they found out that it was round, Isaiah, in my text intimated the shape of it—God sitting upon the circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure in all geometry is the circle. God made the universeon the plan of the circle. There arc in the natural world straight linos, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles, but these evidently are not God’s favorites. Almost- everywhere where you will find him geometrizing you will find the circle dominant, and if not the circle then the curve, which is a circle that died young. If it had lived long enough it would have been a full orb—a periphery. An ellipse is a circle pressed only a little too hard at the aides. Giant’s Causeway in Ireland shows what God thinks of mathematics. There are over 35,000 columns of rocks —octagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. Those rocks seem to have been made by rule and Compass. Every artist has his moulding room, where he may make fifty shapes; but he chooses one shape as preferable to all others. When men build churches they ought to imitate the idea of the Great Architect and put the audience in a circle, knowing that the tides of emotion roll more easily that way than in a straight lino. The history of the world goes in a circle. Why is it that the shipping in our day is improving so rapidly? It is because, men are imitating the old model of Noah’s ark. A ship carpenter gives that as his opinion. Although so much derided by small wits, that ship of Noah’s tirfie beat the Majestic and the Etruria and the City of Paris, of which we boast so much. Pomology will go on with its achivements until after many centuries the world will have pears and plums equal the paradisaical. The art of gardening will grow for centuries, and after the Downings and Mitchells of the world have done their best in the far future the art of gardening will come up to the arboroscenco of the year 1. If the makers of colored glass go on improving, they may in some centuries be able to mu-k.0 something equal to the east window of York minster, which was built in 1290. If the world continues to improve in masonry, we shall have after awhile, perhaps after an advance of centuries, mortar equal to that which I saw last summer in a wall of an exhumed English city built in the time of the Romans, 1,600 years ago. You go into toe potteries of. England and you find them making cups and vases after the style of the cups and vases exhumed from Pompeii. Tho world is not going back. Oh, no, but it is swinging in a circle and will come back to the styles of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pompeii. Well, now. my friends, what is true in the material universe is true in God’s moral government and spiritual arrangement. That is the meaning of Ese*kiel’s wheel. All the commentators agree in saying that the wheel means God’s providence. But a wheel is -of no, use unless it turn, and if it turns it turns around, and if it turns around it moves in a circle. Jezebel, tho worst woman of the Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted his vineyard. While the -logs were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha the prophet put down his compass and marked a circle from those dogs clear around to tho -dogs that should cat the body of Jezebel the murderess. “Impossible.” the people said: “that will never happen.” Who is that being flung out of tho palace window? -Jezebel. But it is sometimes the case that ■ this circle sweeps through a century ■or through many centuries, The world started >vi'th a theocracy for government—that is God was the president and emperor of the world. People got tired of a theocracy. They said: “Wo don’t want God directly interfering with the affairs »f the worid; give us a monarchy.” The world had a monarchy. From a monarchy it is going to have a limited monarchy. After while the limited monarchy will be given up, and the republican form of government will bo every where doming t and recognized. Then the world will got tired of the republican, form of government, and it will have an anarchy, which is no government at all. And then all nations, finding out that man is not capable of righteously governing man, will cry out ■again for a theocracy and say, “Let

God come back and conduct tho affairs of tho world.” But it is often tho case that tho rebound is quicker and tho circle is sooner completed. You resolve that you will do what good you can. In one week you put a word of counsel in the heart of a Sabbath school. child. During that same week you give a letter of introduction to a young man struggling in business. During the same week you make an melioration in a prayer meeting. It is all gone; you will never hoar of it perhaps, you think. A few years after a man comes up to you and says, “You don’t know me, do you?” You say, “No, I don’t remember ever to have seen you.” he says, “I was in tho Sabbath school class over which you were tho teacher. One Sunday you invited me to Christ; I accepted the offer. You sea that church with two towers yonder?” “Yes,” you say, He says, “That is where I preach;” or; “Do you soo that governor's house? That is where I live.” One day a man comes to you says, “Good morning.” You look at him and says, “Why, you have the advantage of ms; I cannot place you.” He says, “Don’t you romombor thirty years ago giving a latter of introduction to a young man—a letter of introduction to Mosos H. Grinnell?” “Yes, yes; I do.” Ho says: “lam the man. That was my first stop .toward a fortune, but I have retired from business now and am giving my time to philanthropies and public interests. Come up and see me. ” But what is true of tho good is just as true of the bad. You utter a slander against your neighbor. It has gone forth from your teeth; it will never come back, you think. You have done tho man all tho mis 1 chief you can. You rejoice to see him wince. You say, “Didn’t I give it to him?” That word has gone out, that slanderous word, on its poisonous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any harm. But I am watching that word, and I see it beginning to curve, and it curves around, and it is aiming at your heart. You had bettor dodge it. You cannot dodge it. It rolls into your bosom and after it rolls in a word of an old book, which says, “With what measui'e ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” You maltreat an aged parent. You begrudged him the room in your house. You are impatient of his whimsicalities and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell tho same story twice. You g.lve him food he cannot masticate. You wish he was away. You wonder if he is going to live forever. Ho will be gone very soon. His stops are shorter and shorter. Ho is going to stop. But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile your eye will bo dim, and your gait will halt, and the sound of tho grinding will be low, and you will tell the same story twice’ and your children will wonder if you are going to live forever, and wonder if you will never be taken away. The circl# turns quickly, very quickly. Oh, what a stupendous thought that tho good and the evil we start come back! Do you know that the Judgment Day will bo only the points at which the circles join, the good and tho bad wo have done coming back to us unless divine intervention hinder—coming back to us with welcome of delight or curse of condemnation? Oh, I would like to see Paul, tho invalid missionary, at the moment when his influence comes to full orb —his influence rolling out through Antioch, through Cyprus, through Lystra, through Corinth, through Athens, through Asia, through Europe, through America, through the First century, through five centuries, through twenty centuries, through all tho succeeding centuries, through earth, through heaven, and at last, the wave of influence having made full circuit, strikes his great soul. I should not want to see the countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage - seized him at eighty-three years cf age his influence did not cease. T.ie most brilliant man of his century, ho had used all his faculties for assaulting Christianity—his bad influence widening through France, widening out through Germany, widening through all Europe, widening through America, widening through the 116 years that have gone by since he died, widening through earth, widening through hell, until at last the accumulated influence of his bad life in fiery surge of omnipotent | wrath will beat agaipst his destroyed spirit. “Well, now,” say people in this audience, “this in some respects is a very good theory, and in some others a very sad ohe. We would like to have all . the good we have ever done come back to us, but the thought that all the sins we have evere committed will come back to us fills us with affright.” My brother, I have to tell you that God can break the circle and will do so at your call. I can bring twenty

passages of Scripture to ptbvo that when God for Christ’s sake forgives a man the sins of his past li/o never come back. God's memory is mighty enough to hold all the events of the ages, but there is one thing that is sure to slip his memory, one thing that lie is sure to forgot, and that is pardoned transgression. How do I know it? I will prove it. “Their sins and th *ir iniqui ios I will remember no more.” Come into that state this mrating, my i’o>r brother, my dear sister. “Blessed Ls one whoso transgressions are forgiven.” But do not make the mistake of thinking that this doctrine of the circle stops with this life; it rolls through heaven. You might quote in opposition to me what St.John says about the city of heaven. He says it “lieth four square.” That dona not seem to militate against this idea, but you know there is many a square house that has a family circle facing each other, and in a circle moving, and I can prove that this is so in regard to heaven. St. John says, “I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the boasts, and the elders.” Again he says, “There was a rainbow round about the throne.” The former two instance a circle; the hist either a circle or a semicircle. The seats facing each other, the angels facing each other, the men facing each other. Heaven an amphitheatre of glory. Circumference, of Scotch Covenanters'and Taoban legion and' Albigeases. Circumference of the good of all ages. Periphery of splendor unimaginod and indescribable. A circle! A circle! But every 1 circumference must have a center, and what ks the center of this heavenly circumference? Christ. His all the glory. His all the praise. His ail the crowns. All heaven wreathed into a garland round about him. Take off the imperial sandal from his foot and behold the scar of the spike. Lift the coronet of dominion from his brow and see where was the laceration of the briers. Come closer, all heaven. Narrow the circle around hi* gteat heart. O Christ, the Saviour! O Christ, the man! O Christ, uic God! Keep thy throne forever,seated on the circle of the earth, seated on the circle of the heaven! i THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Wash the hair in sage tea. Camphor put in drflwcrs or trunks will keep mice away. Too tight collars or neckerchief;) areapt >toproduce permanent swelling of the throat. To make ivory blacking for shoes, take three ounces of coarsest sugar, one tablespoonful of sweet oil, one pint of small beer. Mix them well together. To keep the skin soft and clear, apply cocoa butter to the hands and face, nights and mornings. Cement for jet is ■mn.d-! by using shellac to join them, smoke the join ts to make them black. Pimples arc caused by improper diet, and can never bn cured except by correcting the habits. Cosmetics only injure. To restore coloi to kid shoes, mix a small quantity of the, best blacky shoe polish with the white of an egg M and apply. > To remove “blackheads” place the hollow end of a watch-key over the spot, press firmly. > A good complexion never goes with a bad diet. Strong coffee, hot bread and butter, hoc.ten grease, highly spiced soups, meats or game. hot drinks, alcoholic liquors and fa* meats are all foes to beauty. Strongtea, used daily, will, after a time, give the skin the appearance of leather. Coffee affects the skin less, but the nerves more, and a sound nervous, system is necessary to, beau ty. Late suppers, over-catipg at meals, the use of candies, sweetmeats, preserves, etc., in excess produce pimples and blotches. ODDITIES OF GREAT MEN. St. Louis Globe-Domocrat Aristotle found amusement in walking on the seashore and collecting specimens. Mirabcau loved clogs and had a famous pot, Chico, to whom he war, much attached. Voltaire was afraid to sleep in the dark, and invariably awoke if his candle went out. Carrcri, a learned Italian, spent his leisure in compiling (iotiliou.; books of travels. Mark Twain is fond of cats and has one named “Satan” and another called “Sin.” Mrs. Eadciiffo ate raw pork before going to work on a particularly thrilling chapter. William the. Conqueror was immoderately devoted to dog fighting and bear baiting. Queen Anne detested the sale of roses and became sick when the), were in the room. Domitian spent his leisure in catching flies and piercing them with a needle.

MAJ. e; W. HALFORD. ‘‘Liige” Halford Appointed Paymaster, With the Kank of Major In the K.gnlar Army—Ho Will He Confirmed Without Opposition. Private Secretary Halford’s name waa sent to lire Senate,Thursday, by the President to bo payrr »stor iu the army with the rank of major. He will bo confirmed

at an early day and doubtless without opposition. The office bus a salary of $3,r>00 a year and an allowance, which makes Hie total Income about 54,000 a year. Mr. Halford was born In England and came to this country when a small boy. He lived in Hamilton, O., during his youth, but. has, for many years, been a resident of Indianapolis. Ho was a printer when a young man, afterward becoming a reporter, and afterward an editor. With the exception of some time spent in Chicago as managing editor of the Inter-Ocean, liis newspaper work has been witli Indinapolls newspapers. Mr. Halford Is about forty-eight years old and a widower, Ills wife having died more than a your •oga AVENGING AFRICAN ANGELS. SensatSon&l Dlucovery at St. Louis— A Bloodthirsty Hand of Negroes. The St. Louis polico made a decidedly sensational discovery while searching tor the assailant of William Jones, a negro who was dangerously cut, Tuesday night, by another negro. Thursday evening a negro onteteel the Central district station and informed Sergt. Mueller that his name was Charles Harris and thatlie was wanted for cutting Jones. Harris said that a month ago, lie (Jones), Powell, Charlie and William Mueller, James and Robert Swain and Charles Carr, all negroes, organized the ‘‘Order of Avengers.” The object of the organization was to avenge insults and injury indicted on any member. About a week ago Jones badly beat Mueller, the troasurerof the organization. A special menting of the club was called and it was decided to punish Jones. Harris, who I.ad a quarrel with the man about a girl, volu ntcerod to be one of the avenging committee of two. Powell was selected as the other. Tuesday night the two waylaid Jones. A FEMALE HERMIT. feml of a True Heart’s Devotion—A 1’onnsylwmia Komauco. A strange romance was ended by the dpath of Mary Reis, who for fifty years led a lonely life because her parents forbade an early marriage. Her body was found Sunday in the little house near Stonersville, Pa. She was seventy-eight years old. When a girl she fell in love with a young man whom her parents did not admire, and they forbade a marriage. This 1 broke Mary's heart, and her homo had no more charms fur her. She preferred to live, by herself, and she refused to accept the hospitality of friends or neighbors, saying that all the world was against her. Twenty years ago she moved into the I ittle stone house, and after that she rarely saw anybody. Last Tveok a friend called and offered to help Ivor in any way, but tiro aged lady refused aid. Her body was discovered on her kitchen floor, Sunday, and S;q was found in the little house. CHOLERA SCARE. Alleged 0'iolera Death on a Train Near St;. Paul. According to the health department, SI. Paul, Minn., has had a case of genuine Asiatic cholera. Tuesday night the health department received notification by wire of the death of one Engelbert I long, a German immigrant, on a Soo train from the East. The health department had Commissioner Sinks at the depot when the train rolled in, and the corpse was at once removed. Coroner Whitcomb was called and was greatly surprised at the corpse. Ho called Dr. Hoyt, the chief of the health department, to assist him In an examination. Both physicians were satisfied that if the case was not absolutely one of cholera, it still bore such a close resemblance to it that immediate steps must be taken, and therefore ordered the immediate disinfection of the body, and ail the baggage accompanying it, and the burial of the former. ‘ WILD WEST WEDDING, Bridal Ceremony on a Missouri Illvcr Sandbar. A romantic weddidg took place a few days ago, near Chamberlain, S. D., the unique feature of which was thatthomarriage ceremony was performed while the parties were on a sanefbar in the middle of the Missouri river. The principals were Joseph Lctournea (Blackbirdf, a quarterbreed Indian, and Miss Estella Kinkade, a step-daughter of Jack Sully, a well known character.

—-pus i'to i)uyr."~ The Hero ofMany Contests Rests With His Departed KindredFuneral of Kx-P«*»ldout IfRS-ojnlKreiuont, O, Slimy Notable don In Attendance • —Cl»>o end smitury Mouorii to , j 4 Clio DeoMMAd* — Fremont, O., was a city of n,( ’ urn *"8» Friday. Business was suspended while the populace gathered to pay tho last tribute of loving respect to their mas [.Honored. eminent and best loved townsman. The morning dawned as bright as the un J ostentalons life of tho illustrious dean. The oaks about the family mansion n» Spiegel grove shone in tho sunshine, every twig, with its tracery pf frost, looking Ilk* delicate wax. Tho frost from tho broad veranda w as picturesque and beautiful hoyond description. It seemed as if even harsh winter had donned a charming robe in honor of tho nobio man whoso remains were in a low hoars to bo born to tho tomb. Carriages hurried hero and then;, tho wheels croaking sharply on tho frosty snow, bearing tho hundreds of distinguished guests to houses of entertainment and later to tho hushed mansion,, whence tho remains of tho nineteenth. President of the. United States were homo to their last resting place besides those of bis beloved wife in tho beautiful Oakwood cemetery. Over public building, churches, stores and many private residences, tho American Hag, draped and bound with black, hung motionless in the air and oil every hand tho sablo emblems ol mourning bespoke tho deep regard and sorrow of tho community. Atl) o’clock the school children of tho city, followed by all tho civic aoeicstics of Fremont, passed in impressive procession through tho largo dining room at Spiegel Grove, where tho remains lay in state. Tho plain cedar casket bore tho simple inscription, “Rutherford 11. Hayes, January 17,1803.” On his breast rested tho decoration of tha Loyal Legion. Tho Loyal Legion of the State of Massachusetts sent a delegation of distinguished representatives, who brought with them three banners of the war. Great numbers of floral pieces were sent by friends, most of which, on account of the delay in trains, arrived too late. Tho Grand Army and civic bodies also placed their tributes at tho feet of the dead chief. A beautiful wreath of palms and hyacinths arrived at noon from Washington, the tribute of Presided Harrison, bearing h»card. Avery largo floral piece came from tho D. K. El Greek fraternity, of which the ox-Presi-dent and his sons wore members. Tho wide rooms of the mansion at Spiof.ol Grove, through which tho January v.mshino was streaming, were filled with i moat distinguished company when the simple farewell services began at 3 o’clock in the south parlor. In the large chamber tu tho rear of it wero Prcssdent Cleveland, tho members of President Harrison’s Cabinet, representatives of the United States Senate and House, officers of tho army and navy sent to represent their departments. Here, too, tho family were seated. Across tho wide hall, in tho largo north parlor and tho library to tho rear of it, were Gov. McKinley and staff, tho members of tho Ohio General Assembly and 1 other representative bodies, and friends. In tho far north end of tho room many were standing, the throng of distinguished non being too groat to permit tho seating of ail. Tho Rev. J. L. Albritton, of tha M. E. church of Fremont, standing between tho doors of the parlors in the expansive hall, read tho Twenty-third Psalm, after a hymn, and was followed in prayer by President J. W. Bashford, D. U., who some forty-five years ago, united j in marriage Lucy Webb and Rurtherford Birchard Hayes, In Chillicotho, O. Another hymn, tho Lord’s Prayer repeated impressively, andthesimplp, solemn services at the house wero over. Tho bodybearers lifted tho remains, boro them from tho hushed mansion, amid sobs and fall-; ing tears, and tho long, sad procession wound out through the native forest of Spiegel Grove, which tho illustrious dead had nourished with such loving care, down Birchard avenue and out Buckland to Oakwood cemetery, whore, after tho brief and simple ritual of tho Grand Army of the Republic, all that was mortal of Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth President of tho United States, was committed to the tomb. Tho military escoif, consisting of th* Cleveland City Troop, the Sixteenth Ohio National Guards and Battery D.of Toledo, commanded by Col. H. S. Bunker, and members of the Q. A. R. and Sons of Veterans not otherwise assigned, composed part of tho escort. Tho post of honor was held by the First Troop of Cava'v of Cleveland, of which Mr. Webb C. Hayes Is a member. The body-bearors wore eight veterans of Gen. Hayes’s old Twentythird Regiment. WRECK ON THE WABASH. J Oollapac of » Bridge at Peru—Gl. C. Borland of I.a Porte, KUledOno of tho most disastrous wrecks in the history of tho L. E. & W. railway occurred early Friday morning at tho Wabash river bridge near Peru. The north bound express struck a broken rail on the bridge when ft collapsed and tho whole train, except tlie engine, fell to the river bed. Oco. C. Borland, of La Porte, was killed, and all the fourteen passengers were more or loss injured. P As the result of a fight between James A. Sales and A. C. Scott, of Richmond, patrolman Uctaold was called upon to arrest Sales. Sales showed fight and Bat7, >ld used his rcvolvpr. Tho bullet entered Sales’mouth, emerging at the back of tho neck. The wound is regarded as a mortal one. — i