Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 18S&

DR. TAUIAGE'S GOOD-BYE.

EMBARKATION FOR THE HOLY LAND. Tji.t TVords of the- Brooklyn THvin Man kind Compared to a Ship In Dock Deine Fitted OutJFor IIaven A Loving Uenedlction. The Eev. T. De Witt Talma, D. I., of TJrooklyn, on his embarkation for the HolyLand by the pteamer City of Paris addressed his millions of friends through the prees, taking for his text Acts, xx, 3S: "And they accompanied him upon the ship." His permon is printed below at fnll length: To the more than 2",000,000 pcoplo In many countries to whom my fcrmons come week by week in Kntrlish tonjrue and by translation, through the kindness oi the nevFpaer press, I address these words. I dictate thern to a stenographer on the eve of my departure for the Holy Land, Palestine. When you read this sermon I will be mid-Atlantic Ijotobe pone a few weeks on a religious journe). I go because I want for myself and hearers and rvaders to fcc llethlehem, and Xazarvth and Jerusalem, and Calvary, and all the ofher places connected with the Savior's life and death, and ?o reinforce myself for eermonri. I go al-o because I am writing the "Life ot Christ," and can be more accurate and graphic when I have been an eye-witne.-s of the sacred places. I 'ray for my successful journey and my f afe return. I wish on the eve of departure to pronounce a loving benediction upon all my friends in high blares and low, upon conpTeations to whom my rerinori are read in absence of pastors, upon groups gathered out on prairies and in mining districts, upon all tick and invalid and nzed ones who cannot attend churches, but to w hum I have lng administered through the printed page. My nest Birmon will be addressed to you from Koine, Italy, for I feel like Paul when he said : 'S as much as in mc is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Pome rho." The fad is that Paul was ever moving, about on land or sea. He was an old sailor not from occupation, but from frequency of travel. I think he could have taken a vetool across the Mediterranean as well as some of tho chip captains. The pailors never scoffed at him for being a landlubber." If Paul's advice had been taken, the crew would never have gone ashore at Melita. When the v s-el went Fcudding under t hare i!ef Paul was the only sell-possessd man on board, and, turning to the excited passengers, hr exclaims in a voice that Minds alve the thunder of the teinpe.t and the wrath of the ma: "P.e of good cheer." The men who now go to oa w ith maps, and charts and modern compass, warned by buoy and licl't-houpc, know nothing of the perils of nnck-nt navigation. Horace paid that the man who first ventured on the sea nrut have had a heart bound with oak and triple brass. People thca ventiirM only trota headland to headland and from island to island, and not until long after spread their sail for a voyage across the sea. Before starting the weather was watched, and the vessel having been hauled up on tho there the mariners rdaced their shoulders against tho stern of the ship and heaved it o'J, they at the lat moment leaping into it. Vessels were then chiefly ships of burden the transit of passengers bt ing the exception; for the world was not then migratory as in our day, when the first desire of a man in one place seems to be to get into another pla.-e. The ship from which Jonah was thrown overboard and that in which Paul was carried prisoner went out chiefly with the idea of taking a cargo. As now, so then, vessels were accustomed to carry a fi.ur. In those times it was inscribed v ith the name of a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Syracuse had on it 'the inscription "Castor and Pollux." The ships were provided with anchors. Anchors were of two kinds those that were thrown up onto the rocks to hold the vsd fat. This last kind was what Paul all u-red to when he Mid: "Which hope we have aan anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail." That was what the sailors call a "hook anchor." The rocks and sand-bars, shoals and headlands, not bing mapped out, vespers carried a plumb line. They would drop it and find the w ater fifty fathoms, and drop it asaiu and find it forty fathoms, and drop it again and find it "thirty fathoms, thus discovering their near approach to the there. In the spring, summer and autumn the Mediterranean sea was white with the winzs of ships, but at the first wintry b'ast they held themselves to the tearet harbor, although now the world's commerce prospers in January as well as in Jun?, and in mid-winter all over the wide and stormy deep there floats palaces of light, trampling the billows under foot and showering the sparks of terrible furnaces onthe wild wind, and the Christian passenger, tippeted and shawled, sits under the heiter of the smoke-stack, looking ft" upon tb phosphorepcent deep, on which U written in scrollsof foam and rire: '"Thy war, O God, is in the feea and thy path in the great waters!'' It is in those days of early navigation that I see a group of men. wemen and children on the bf-ach of the Mediterranean. Paul is about to leave the congregation to whom he had preached and they are come down to see him off. It is solemn thin? to part. There are so many traps that wait for a man's feet. The solid ground may break throuzh, and the tea bow many dark waves it hides in it3 bosom? A few counsels, a hasty fcood-bye, a last look, and the ropes rattle, and the sails are hoisted, and the planks are hauled in, and Paul is gone. Iexjectto eail over tom-i of the same waters over which Paul Failed, but before going I want to urge you all to embark for heaven. The church is the dry -dock where souls are to be fitted out for heaven. In making A vessel for this vovae the first need is sound timber. The floor timbers ought to be of solid stuff. For the want cf it, vessels that looked able to run their jib-r-oorrs into the eye of any tempest, when caught in a Ftorm, have been crushed like a wafer. The truths of Coil's word are what I mean by floor timber. Away with your lighter materials. Nothing but oaks, hewn in the forest of divine truth, tre stanch enough for this cra;'t. You must have love for a helm to guide and turn the craft. Neither pride nor ambition nor avarice will do for a rudder. Love, not only in the heart, but Hashing in the eye and tingling in the hand love married to work, which many look npon as no homely a bride love not like brooks, which foam and rattle, yet do nothing, but love like a river that runs up the steps of mill w lir-e la and works in the harness of factory bands love that w id not pass by r.n the other sid but vTsits the man who fll among thieves near Jericho, not merely faying, "Poor fellow! you are dreadfully hurt," but, like the good Samaritan, Lours in oil and wine and pays his lioard at the tavern. There must also be a nrow, arranged to cut and override the billow. That is Christian perseverance. There are three mountain Buries that sometimes dash against a soul in a minute the world, the flesh and the devil and that is a well-built prow that can tound over thea. Jor Jack of this many

have put back and never 6tarted again. It U the broadside wave that bo often sweeps the deck and fills the hatches, but that which strikes in front is harmless. Meet troubles courageously aud you surmount them. Stand on the prow, and, as you wipe oil" the spray of the split surge, cry out with the apostle: None of these thlncs move

me. Let all your fears ttay aft. 1 ne right must conquer. Know that Moses, in an ark of bulrushes, can run down on a war steamer. Have a good, strong anchor. "Which hope we have as an anchor." By this strong cable and w indlass hold on to your anchor. "If any man Fin we have nn advocate with the father." Do not use anchor wrongfully. Do not always stay in the same latitude and longitude. You will never ride up the harbor of eternal rest if you all the way drag your anchor. Put you must have sail's. Vessels are not fit for the sea until they have tho flying jib, the foresail, the top gallant, the skysail, the gaflsai!, and other canvas. Faith is our canvas Hoist it and tho winds of heaven will drive yon ahead. Siila made out f anv other canvas than faith will be ulit to "tatters by the first northeaster. Strong faith never lost a bittle. It will crush foes, blat rocks, quench lightnings, thrash mountains. It is a shield to the warrior, a crank to the most ponderous wheel, a lever to pry up pyramids, a drum whose beat gives strength to the step of tho heavenly soldiery, and sails to waft ships laden w ith priceless pearls from the harbor of earth to the harbor of heaven. Put you are not yet quipped. You must have w hat seamen cad the running rigging. This comprises the ship's braces, halyards, clew-lines, and such like. Without the se the yards could not bo braced, the sailed lifted, or tho canvas in any way managed. We have prayer for tho running riffging. Unless you understand this tackling you are not a spiritual seaman. By pulling on these ropes you hoist the sails of faith and turn every whither. Tho prow of courage will not cut the wave, nor the sail of faith spread and flap its wings unless you have a strong prayer for a halyard. Ono moro arrangement and you will be ready for Fea. You must have a compuss w hich is a bible. Look at it every dav, and always tail by it, ns its needle points toward the star of Bethlehem. Through fog. and darkness, and storm it works faithfully. Search the scriptures. "Box the compass." Let me give vou two or three rules for the voyage. Allow your appetites and passions only an under-deck passage. Do not allow them ever to come up on tho promenade deck, Mortify your members which are upon the earth. Never allow jour lower nature anything better than a steerage passage. 1-rf-t watchfulness walk the decks ns an armed sentinel, and thoot down with great promptness anything like a mutiny of riotous appetities. Be sure to look out of the forecastle for ieelergs. There are cold Christians floating about in the church. The friwid-zono professors will Fink yon. Steer clear of icehergs. Keep a lop-book during ull tho voyacr an account of how many furlongs you make a day. The merchant keeps a dav-book as well ns a ledger. You ought to "know every night, as well as every year, how things are going. When the express train stops at the depot you hear a hammer sounding on all the wheels, thus testing the safety of the rail train. Bound as we nro w ith more than express speed tow ard a great eternitv, ought we not often to try the work of seff-examinstion? Be sure to keep your co'ors up. You know the ships of England, Russia, France and Spain by the ensigns they carry. Sometimes It is a lion, sometimes än eagle, sometimes a star, sometimes a crown. Let it ever be know n who you are and lor what port you are bound. L-t "Christian" ba written on tho very front, with the figure of a cross, a crown, and a dove, and from the masthead let float the streamers of Immanuel. Then the pirate vessels of temptation will pas you by unbanned as they say: "There goes a Christian, bound for" the port of heaven. We will not di.-turb her, for she has too many guns aboard." ltun up your flag on this pulley: "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of Ciod and the wisdom of God unto salvation." When driven back or laboring und r great stress of weather now changinsr from starboard tack to lirlxanl, and then from larboard to starboard look above the topgallants and your heart shall beat like a war-drum as the streamers float on the wind. The sign of the cross w ill make you patient and the crown will make you glad. Before you gain port you will smell the land breezes of heaven, and Christ, the pilot, will meet vou as vou come into tho narrows of death, and fasten to you, and pay: "When thou passest through the waters I will bo with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." Are you ready" for Fuch a voyage? Make up your minds. The pang planks are lilting. The bell rings. All aboard for heaven! This world is not vour rest. The chaffinch is the silliest bird in all the earth for trying to make its nest on tho rocking billow. Oh. how I wish that as I embark for the Holy Land in the east all to whom I preach by tongue or type would embark for heaven! What you all most need is God, and you need Him row. Some of you I leave in trouble. Things are going very rough with you. You have had a hard struggle with poverty, or feickness, or per secution, or bereavement. Light after light has gone out, and it is so dark that vou can hardlv see anv messing left. Mav that Jesus who comforted the widow of Nain and raised the deceased to life, with J lis eentle hand oi sympathy wipo away your tears! All is well. When David was fleeing through the wilderness pursued by his own son he was being prepared to become the sweet Finger of Israel. The pit aud the dungeon were the best schools at which Joseph ever graduated. Th hurricane that up set the tent and killed Job s children pre pared the man of Vi to write the magnifi cent poem that has astonished the ages, There is no way to get the wheat out of the straw but to thrash it. There is no way to purify the gold but to burn it. IiOok at the people who have alwars had it their own wav. lhev are proud. uisvn tented, useless, and unhappy. If you want to find cheerful folks go among those who have been vurificd by the fire. After Possini had rendered "William Tell" the five hundredth time a company of musi cians came under his window in Pariti and serenaded him. They put upon his brow n golden crown of laurel leaves. But amidst all the applause and entnnsiasm IU)ssuu turned to a friend and said: "I would give all this brilliant scene for a frw davs of youth and love." Contrast the melancholy feeling of Rossini, who bad everything that this world could give birn, to the joyiul experience ot Isaac v aus, w nose misionunes were innumer able, when he cays: "The LIU of 7-lon yields A 'hoin.lD'l icred aweetl JU 'orv w rt-arh thi haTilr fioldi, Or wik the goMerj streets "Thrn let our on? aHotiud, A nd Try er b dry ; WV're Kiarchiti: thru Imniaonel't ground, To fairer worlds m high." It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves. While the Israelites were on the march, amid great privations and hardships, they behaved weil. After a while thev prayed for meat, and tho skv darkened w ith a large flock of quails, and these quails fell in great multitudes all about them ; and the Israelites ate and ate and thev Btutfed themselves until they Oh , my friends, it is not hardship.

or trial, or starvation that injures the soul, but abundant Fupply. It is not the vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian's life; it is the quails! it is the quails! I cannot leave you until once more I confess my faith in the Savior whom I have preached. He is my all in all. I owe more to the grace of God than most men. With this ardent temperament if I had gone overboard I would have gone to the very depths. You know I can do nothing by halves. h, to f rce how (treat 1or Daily I'm constrained to be!" I think all will be well. Do not be worried about me. I know that my Itedeemer liveth, and if any fatality should befall me I think I should go straight. I have beeu most unworthy, and would be sorry to think that any ono of ray friends had been ss unworthy Christian as myself. But God has helped a great many through, and 1 hope He will help me through. It is a long account of shortcomings, but if He is going to rub any of it out I think Ho will rub it all out. And now give us (for I go not alone) your benediction. When you send letters to a friend in a distant land you say via euch a city or via such a Bteamer. When you send your good

wishes to us send them via the throne ot God. We shall pot travel out of the reach of your prayers. "Thrfe i a oone whr hpiriti Won't, Whrr frli'ii1 holds fellowship Ith friend; Though nundrwi far, br Inith we meet Aronnii ono common mercy .'nt." And now. mav the blessing of God comedown upon your bodies and upon your souls, your children, your brothers and sisters, and vour friends! May you be blessed in your business and tu your pleasures, in vour iovs and iu your sor rows, in the house and by the way! And if, during our separation, an arrow from the unseen world should strike anv of us, may it only hasten on the raptures that God has prepared for those who love him ! I utter not tho word farewell; it is too sad, too formal a word for me to speak or write. But, considering that I have your hand tightly clasped i:i both of mine, 1 utter a kind, an affectionate and a cheerful good-bye ! THE LENGTH OF A DAY. It Is Tcrty-E ght II ura and a Week U Four Tim a nn Iu,;. Prnf. F. H. BaiW makes the statement in the Boston Journal of Education that the day contains exactly forty-eight hours, and that the week, though seven times as long as the day for any one locality, is, upon the earth as a whole, only fuiir times as long. "We readily perceive," he savs, that the natural day travels around the earth with the sun and never ends, it being dav or davtime continuously on the half of the earth toward the sun ami night on the opposite half. The date, or almanac day, travels the same way and with the same speed, and if it had no place for beginniiiff or ending it would always be the same date. ' "We will commence with the beginning of tho first day of the year. It is the mo ment of noon, Dec. 151, on the meridian of Greenwich, forenoon over the western hemisphere, and afternoon over the eastern. The mean sun is exactiv in the south, and at this moment, tho first day of the new year is born. Where? Not at Greenwich. Tho civil day begins at midnight, and it is midnight ou the lah meridian at this moment, and there New Year's day begins. As the sun travels westward from Greenwich across the Atlantic and America, New Year's marches westward acro.-s the Pacific and Asia, conquering the earth at the rate of one twenty-fourth part every hour. By the time the sun readies the Mississippi valley it is evening of the last dav of the year in England, but Jan. 1 holds sway over one-fourth of the earththat lying between the !üth meridian east of Greenwich and the lSOth. "Six hours later, when the sun has traveled halt way around tho earth and is over the lSOth meridian, New Year's has reached Greenwich and swaysone-half the enrth. In another six hours the bells of the Mississippi valley are ringing in the new year, but it has be; n on earth eighteen hours. And in six more the sun is again over the meridian of Greenwich, and NewYear's exists for a single moment over the entire earth. But Mother Earth does not stop her waltzing nor Old .Sol his westward journey, and the 2d day of January puts in his appearance when? the 1st did twenty-four hours before, and immediately commences chasing his elder brother around the earth at tho rate of more than 1,000 miles an hour, the chase continuing for exactly twenty-four hours, during which the portion of the earth under the sway ot Jan 1 is continually decreasing and "that of the 2d increasing." "Another method of prenentingthe samo facts may be considered better. Think of the davs oast and future as threads each wound upon its own spool and of suffi cient length to reach, when unwound, around the earth at the equator. The spools are kept at the 180th meridian those bearing past dates have been used, tuture nates awaiting their time, and al ways two in use at once. When it is noon at Greenwich on the 31st of December. the spool bearing that date is empty and its thread einlies the earth. Beside it, rotating about the Fame axis (the lSOth meridian), is the spool dated Jan. 1 ; and at that moment some power capable of traveling 1,000 miles an hour seizes the end of the thread and flies westward : the thread unwinds. The other spool ro tates at the same velocity, but is winding up the threa t of Iec. öl, dragging it uround the earth, the free end keeping ex actly even w ith the advancing end ot Jan 1. Each thread is exactly twenty-four hours unwinding and the same winding up again, and the portion of the earth lv ing north and south of the unwound tart of each thread bears its date, consequently each date exis's upon the earth for forty eight hours, or a little more than two com5lete rotations of the earth upon its axis, t is evident that the thread of any day has been unwindingseventeen hours "w hen it reaches the oth meridian went of (ireen wich, that it is twenty-four hours dragging nseii across me line, ana mat it ni l he seven hours longer before it is entirelv wound upon its spool and the date is past for the entire earth. A l'erfect Imtv f It Father. Beilage. Nnrse (ahowine rew haby to proud father. who id prematurely bnldand wears fale teeth) "How like nis pa, Herr iiaronl lour very iinnee: baron "You think no?" Nur?e "No hair, no teeth just like the Herr Iiaronl" Territorial Jnarnnlmm. (Montana Herald. An eastern man, armed with a rerolrer. rifle. bowie knife, clung oliot ad1 brans knurkles was aked if he was goinz West to exterminate Iddi.inü. MNo," he replied. "I'm only coin? to Oklahoma to edit a newapnper. 1 can get pens. ink ana paper oui mere. An Knemy f tho Murplua. Texas Sifting. Cohen "Vy rou standing np by dot letter box so lone. Jacoh Loewenslein "I ras got a glaini ajalnst the government, Abraham. My clerk put two stamps on a letter ty mistake, und I wait for dot carrier to nx it." Jlufinraa liefnrn I'lenaar. I Manner' Weekly. J The Minister "What a pleasure to be good Are you rood. Tommy!" Tommy "No, not very, bnt I'm sroingr to torn orer a new leaf soon as I lick that Thompson kid buiiness before pleasure that's my motto." UD(roui Iloinha. Chicago Ledger. "What's that hai!dinr yonder?" That's a 10-ceut lodging house." "I thouKbtso. It'ia'ir-r-re shell, aia't it?" "Ourfht to be; it's held many a bum."

A MISSING PAG? SUPPLIED.

THE LAST BATTLE OF THE LATE WAR. An Unrecorded Victory of the Army of Gen, Grant at 3Iirttnftlle, Virginia De tall of tho FUhtt-The Killed and AVunnded. An interest, to. which its severity and the members engaged on the othtr 6ide wou'd not otherwise entitle it, attaches itself to the battle of of Martinsville as be ing the last struggle between the army of Gen. Grant and that of northern Virginia. This engagement, of which there exists no record in history, occurred on the Sth day of April, lSi-"), between a detachment of Gen. .Stonemau's command, on the one side, and a regiment of cavalry, a portion of the army of Gen. Beauregard, on tho other. Being informed that 8toneman, with a considerable force, was making a raid through southwest Virginia, Beauregard, then stationed at Ililleboro, X. C, sent out a regiment of cavalry, under the command of Col. Wheeler, to watch his movements. This force about four hunlred strong arrived in Martinsville on the 7th of April, nt 4 o'clock in tho afternoon, und encamped cn Jones' creek, three-quarters of a inilo ncrth of the town. The citizens of Martinsville then, as now distinguished for their hospitality, were not slow in making the acquaintance of the Confederates, and, on tho morning succeeding the night of their arrival, most of the ollicers and many of tho men were domiciled with the inhabitants of tho little village Col. Wheeler himself being at breakfast with Mr. Marshall Hairston, two miles distant from his com mand. In the camp, too, the same feeling of security prevailed. Some of tho "boys" witn me ganantrv wmcn characterizes tne true Union soldier, had serenaded the belles of the town the night K fore, and gay laughter and merry jests went rouna as preparations for breakfast were being made. Meanw hile, Rtoneman had arrived nt l loj'd Court House, forty-tivo miles north of Martitoviilo. Here, receiving in formation of Wheeler's whereabouts and intentions, a detachment commanded by Gen. Bahner (since governor of Illinois) was sent out to cut bun oil. The advance of this foree, live hundred strong, with Col. Trowbridge'1 in command, reached Martinsville at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 8th; and, without pausing a moment in tho village, advanced upon the camp of W heeler, and noured a vol lev of musketry into the unsu?peringConfeferatea as they sat carelessly at breakfast. Notwithstand ing the suddenness of this attack, the dis charge was promptly returned, and tho hring continued for fifteen minutes, when the Confederates gave way. and a helterskelter retreat arross the fields and through the woods ensued. Nor did Wheeler's regiment so complete was the rout ever again come together as an organized command. For months afterward they were seen wandering through the country in parties of two or throe, and squads of men, professing to have taken part in the battle of Martinsville, continual to come for a long w hile afterward to the little vi!hge. The Federal lo?s in this engagement was four killed and the same number wounded. The latter were carried, temporarily, into a carriage house near the scene of the conflict, where one of them breathed his last. Seeing that ho was rapidly approaching his end, someone who had the wounded in charge endeavored to direct his attention to spiritual things, but his thoughts seemed to wander. Presently a shout rose on tho air, "We've whipped 1" "Who's whipped?" tho wounded man asked. "The Yankees'', was the reply. "I'.ully for them!" he exclaimed, and instantly expired. The three wounded Federals who remained were carrier! to tho residence of Mrs. James Smith of Martinsville, where they were eatvd for until sufficiently recovers! to travel. The dead were buried in the Episcopal cemetery in the little village, and were afterward removed to tho National cemetery at Danville, Va. The Confederate los was one killed. His comrades made a rude grave for him in a lonely hollow in the woods, but his remains were afterward disinterred, and now rest in an unmarked grave in tho cemetery at Martinsville. Of their wounded only one was left behind, a Capt. Black, "severely shot through the body, who was taken to the residence of Mr. George Waller, four miles distant from Martinsville. Here he remained until his wounds had healed, when he returned to his home in Franklin, Tenn. The excitement of the battle had by no means subsided when the news of Talmer's approach with the main body of his command three thousand strong spread tresh consternation through the town. The flower of the chivalry of Henrv county had doubtless enlisted in the army, for no record of the valor of those who remained behind has come to us, unless, indeed, it were of thatcharacter of which discretion is said to be the better part. Yielding to the entreaties of their women kind, the male portion of the community "took to the woods," where they seen ted themselves in caves, hollowsin short, in any secure hiding-place which presented itself. Before taking flight, however, it was deemed advisable that these knight errants, in order to prevent its fallinsinto the enemy's hands, should destroy all intoxicants stored away at the tax-in-kind depot. While this measure w as being carried into etl'eet ono of the party with a prudent foresight, scarcely to be expected at such a time, proposed that a little of the cheering beverage should be bottled for their private consumption during their period of exile. The idea was no sooner suggested than acted upon and the fugitives set out w ith "renewed spirit." While the heroes were engaged at the tax-in-kind depot the women at home were no less active in providing for their comfort. Provisions were being hastily gotten together and put into receptacles easy of transportation. At the last moment one of these ladies discovered that she was minus a bag of any description. "Here, Clarj'," she said, taking the fork from the colored cook, who was frying "middling" at the laro open fire place, "run up a bag, quick, for me to put Mr. 's bread in." "lxs, miss Jane," exclaimed the prudent Clary, "don't let's make no bag. While we's sewin' it, de Yankees will come. Lot's take a pillow-case." The pillow-case was brought and the bread put into it. At this moment a fresh alarm of "Yankees" reached the occupants of the kitchen, aud seizing tho hissing frying pan, Mrs. poured its contents, melted grease and ail, into tho gaping sack mouth which Clary held open in her trembling hands. In this dripping condition it was conveyed 13' her husband no less alarmed than herhelf to his hiding place in the clefts of the rocks. Contrary to their expectations, the conduct of the Federal troops was all that the people of Martinsville could desire. A nhort time after the firingceased they filed quietly into town and encamped in the yards of tho different citizens, Gen. Palmer's headquarters being at the residence of Mrs. Kuth lledd. - Private property was in every ease strictly guarded, and sentinels placed wherever they were desired. The tax-in-kind depot, however, where government supplies were kept was rantacked and its content taken possession.

of. These consisted of provisions of various kinds, including 10,UO0 pounds of bacon, 1,200 bushels of w heat, and 400 pairs of socks knit by the ladies of Martinsville of tax-in-kind yarn, and ready bagged and marked to be" sent to the soldiers from Henry county. On the morning of the 9th of April the Union troops left Martinsville and took up their Hue of march southward to join Stoneman'g command, then stationed at Pandy Bidge, Stokes county, North Carolina. When quiet had been restored to the little tow n, the good housewives began to bethink them of the absentees, and messengers were sent to apprise them that all danger was past. After a diligent search all save one of the fugitives were discovered. As the day advanced, and no trace of the missing man had been seen, alarm began to be fölt lest some evil had befallen him. IVescntlv, ono of the party came upon a demijohn with a glass turned carefully over its mouth. An examination of this article (the contents of which had been only partially consumed) proved it to be tbo property of their lost comrade. "lle'il bo on hand soon," said the discoverer of the demijohn, quietly. "We'd better wait for him here." His suggestion was acted upon, and, concealing themselves in the woods, the party prepared to wait, foon a fdight crackling was heard among the bushes, and our hero emerged, walking on tip-toe, and, peering cautiously about, to make sure that no foe was at hand. His objective point was evidently the demijohn, but the eager hand which he placed upon the inverted glass was arrested by a chorus of laughter from his hi Men companions. The evenim of the Oth of Anril found

'il. . ?1 i e . i f me exnes again in me. iTosomoi tneir lamlliea, exchanging adventures with thoso they left behind them. GnAcr. W iu.ovgiiby. THE LIME-KILN CLUB. A He-view of the I.leveii Years' Work ot the OrtfHti znt'oii. De'.r -lt I re Trcsd When tho meeting had been called to order and several of the windows lowered from the top to let out the odor of burning woolen caused by Elder Toots getting his back too near the hot stove, Urothcr Gardner arose and said: "We hev begun de twelfth y'ar of do existence of dis club, and it ar' an appropriate time for figgerin up what we nev accomplished as an organization. I hev made a little calkeriation which I will purceed to read : "We hev improved do moral status of de cull'd race in America 52 per cent." "We hev reformed upward of (estimated) 50,000 pussons who war addicted to do use of intoxieatin' drinks. "Wo hev converted upward of (estimated) 1,000.000 pussons to de science of hygienne an sanitary regulashuns. 'Twelve y'ars ago .'UX)0,tN'iO dogs owned by cull'd pussons war allowed to sleep und' r de bed. To-day do number is estimated at less dan 100. "When dis club was first organized do los of chickens in de United States by midnight evaporashun was calkerlated at 10,000 per night for ebery night in de y'ar. At dis date it will not average tiftv. "Twelve y'ars ago no culi'd pnsson in dis hull kentry felt any moral obligashun when in de presence of a watenuellvou. At de present time de said maU rmellj'on has jrot to be de biggest r-n' do ripest sort, an' to hold out actual incouragement to be tooken in lefo' a cull'd man kin bo tfJiptcd. "In seventeen different 6tatcs dis club has taken precedence of de regular legislatures, an' its proceedings ar' read an' honored wid fur mo' interest. "In many localities de Lime-Kiln club is considered do superior of concress, an' our reports on agriculture, fisuin', 'possum huntin', an' astronomy ar' accepted as standard by a large majority. "We have inducted do speerit of economy an thrift into (estimated) 4,000,000 bosoms, adding to do capital of de kentry nt least ?7.",i)OO,(,00 per y'ar. "Twelve years airo de best educated cull'd man in Iis kentry couldn't tell a sixshillin' chromo from a two-thousand Hollar paintin'. At the present date de same kin le told six miles otT. "Eben up to sehen y'ars ago no cull'd pusson in dis kentry had any idea of gravltashun, astronomy, or medical science. To-day t,000,000 of our race know why a grindstun falls to de ground when you point it up in de air. A linos' ebery man, woman an' child keeps track ob de moon's ph;ises, an' knows de sun's distance from the airth. De cause an' effect of chilblains is now common knowledge, an' de cull'd man who gits a whack in de evo knows all about de virchews of fresh beef as a remedy. "To sum up, we hev made a record of which elery member of de club may justly eel proud, and we hev honestly aimed de right to inscribe on our banner: Sic Semi, er Tremor." The Rev. Mr. Penstock, who lias been very quiet for a few weeks past, now arose to i no iure: "Does de cha'r fully comprehend do meanin of de Latin term just used? "De cha'r does I" was the emphatic re sponse. "Exactly, but I I what did de cha'r mean to infer?' "llrtiddor Penstock," replied the presi dent w ith a whole coi.i ptornge company in his tones, "dis cha'r hasn't passed frew college an' bin loaded down wid certificates an d'plomas, but nevertheless he reckons on knowin what he is talkia about. De meanin' of dat Latin is: 'We Hev Got To De Top.' " "Put I I!" "Brudder Tenstock, sot down! You if disturbin' do meetin' and' layin' yourself liable to a line of iialf a rnillvoa aoUara: Sep.-rstl Uy Helleton, Philadelphia l:evrd. Feven youne ISradys, rancinsr from two to seventeen years of age, stoo.l grouped about their mother in Judge Hreey'a court yesterday. where they had been brouirht by their father, Henry IJrady, by a writ of habeas corpus in an etf.irt to have them transferred to his keeping. The rest of his children, IJrady said, were trrown up. When Judge Bretry heard that llraily ami his wife had separated on account of a i!it!erence of rehjrion, he dismissed the case with the severe remark: "The sin of this (separation has been com mitted in tha name or on account of what they term religion. I think the community might Eny that it was the aMfence or religion. How ever, they separated, tne wite taking serea children and the husband three. I propose to let them remain as they selected to do. The writ is dismissed. She Thonifht So. itoston Transcript. They had company, Mrs. llarty, at supper, and. after the meal was over, Mrs. llarty re marked very politely: "I have enjoyed my supper very mach in deed." Little Edith remarked with artless simplicity: "I thought you were eating a good Ueai. Jiothlnic to Fear. Epoch. Miss Lovelorn "I was terribly frightened one evening in the country. A tramp sprang at ma with a long knife and tried to steal my ha r." Miss Canptique "How thankful you. roust have been that you could take it oil' and giro it to him." Slio Was. (To-Day.) He (who has been hancin fire all winter) Are you fond or iuiiie, aim rmith? sjhe (promptly) "What a singular wey you have of proposing, iAlirnruo. lei, darling." And now the cards are out. bh Died. Omaha World. -Housekeeper "Norah, you must always sweep behind the doors." New Servant "Ves'm. I alwayi does. It's the asifcit war of eettin' the durrit out of sight."

BIRD, BEAST OR WHAT IS IT?

SAILOR BILL'S REMARKABLE FIND. lie ricked It Up in the South Seat and Expects to Sell It To a 31 uneum For n KiR Price. When II Ots to New York. Several sailors lelonginj to the trading bark Ulrich were gathered in the Dowhead saloon at San Francisco. It was their last leave on shore before the vessel sailed, and they were liberal and frequent in their potations. Tho fdufTed animals and the curios in the place at last attracting their attention, they bean telling about the strange creatures they had met in their travels. Finally an old salt related the experience of a brother tar with a vampire that he had bought on a South sea voyage, and told how it was detected one night stealing from its cage and feeding on the bodies of the sleeping sailors in the bunks. 'Huh!" cried one of the group, de risively, at the conclusion of tho weird description of a vain di re's looks and habits. "Huh, I don't know what kind of a bird a vampire is, but I'll bet he's no worse sort of a bird than Dill's bird." "What the deuce kind of a thing is that bird anyhow, Dill?" asked a bj Stander. I've heard tho boys jabber a good deal about hitn since you've been in port, but none of the yarns wem to make any sense." "Dill's solid on the beast, and don't vou forget it," interjected one of tho group. '"You bet his head's level. He'll make a good round bit on tho falo of him, will Dill, when we get to ew iork. llamt found out what makes half of him sleep at a time, have ye, Dill ?" l.ill fdiook his head, as he sat dow n his glass. "No," he said, "the thing, whatever A . 1 I. uis, oeats me as it s neat every no.ty wnat sees it. Dust mo! but he's a puzzler from tne word go. "Where'd vou find him anvwav. Dill? asked an Examiner reporter who happened to oe present. Drapt aboard ship in the cunosest man ner you ever heard tell of," was the reply. 1 was with the Santa Maria Iat vear trading in tho South seas w hen one of thoso rattling old gales came up and drove us 8outh until we sighted South Victorialand. Then the storm shifted and we turned to and scudded before it toward the Bellamy islands. Wey, after it had banged and basted us south till I believe another league and we'd been afoul of the pole, it gave us a chance to beat up north. Another gale sprang up and we t curried north about ns fast as we'd Khot south. Weil.it w as right on the breast of thnt gale that this thing plumped aboard. It was my trick at the wheel, and I was watching the gallant Ktaja crack in the blast when 1 firct sighted the thing. It chased tho vessel for a long way, and it did it in the oddest kind of way you ever saw. It was weak on its wings "in that wind. When I first sp!d it it came shooting up from our wake tili abreast of our starboard quarter, r.üd then it stopped and rolled in the air, sort of dcspcraiu-like, as if it was lost. Then it lvg.m to come down, but very cautious. When it found itself near the water it s- nu'd dazed, and shot up into the air with a little screech of fright. "(J.ce acrain it would chase after us and get above our starb ard and fall again, but never a fall br ,:-;:. it aboard. At last it seemed to pt ho skeery that it never tumbled more'n a couple of fathoms. "Well, maybe it kept this kind of ma neuverint: up six, maybe ten, times I didn't take no count. Dut the last time it did this tumbling racket and overhauled us it found it.e!f on our port sMe. Then for the first time it seemed to get its senses, and tumbled sensibly, for when we drove up to it, itiu.-t tumbled aboard. "Itwasnt till a long w hile afterward that I worked out its queer actions in my mind. You needn't g"n, Sam. I'll bet you can't tell right away w hy it was rattled when it wrs a-rtarboard and wasO. K. when it struck the port I'll tell you, and it'll give you a charge to grin some more. It w as because it could see on its starboard side at that time, and not on its port side." "And does it see on its port side now and not on its starbosrd side?" asked the 'lonirshoreman, lar.ghing., "Sometimes!'' returned Dill, stolidly. "Sometimes?" echoed the other, exhibiting his surprise. "Wltv, what do you mean, Bill!" "Just what I say. Oh, you needn't lauch and blutf around as if vouknow'd everything. This bird, or beast, or animal, or whatever it is, cr.n teach you a good deal yet. It couid see on its starboard 6ide and not on its port side the time it fell aboard, because at that hour its port side was asleep, and its starboard side was not. For that's the nature ol the benst." "What is?" "Why, half of it is on water for twelve hours while the other half's below for twelve hours watch and watch." "Do you mean to tell me half of that bird's asleep twelve hours w bile the other half of it is awake? "That's w hat I said," replied Bill, doggedly. "Ain't that so, lads? ' and he turned for corroboration to his shipmates. Thev all vigorously nodded their heads and mumbled ave. "And it's on board shin now?" the other asked, half incredulously. "And it's on board now," echoe! Dill "You can come and fee it for yourself. What's it like?" he continue J, in answer to the other s nuerv. "Well, that's hard to say. It ain't like any beast, bird or rer tile what I've seen in all my travels. It's t-ort of betwixt and between, and feteers clear of everything, Some say it's one thing and Home say another, but to mv mind it ain t either. You've seen a marmoset, eh? Well, it's a little like a macmosi t. 1 ou ve seen a par rot, and its nc?e is like a parrot, only not so hard and horned. i ou ve seen a vam pire, like what Jim here was just tellin; aljout? Well, its w ings is something liko a vamnire's. It ain't cot no tail. but a fanshapeu steering gear where its tail ought to grow. It hauls it in w hen it ain t eai! ing. And it's put the softest and warmest fur vou ever felt. Its got four little legs, with little claws that are stout enough to hold the body up as long as it cares to hanz on to anything. Of all the headlichts vou ever clapped eyes on they beats 'em all : biz and round and clear. One is the brightest kind of a blue, and you'd swear it couldn't be beat. Then when you'd catch a glimpse of its bright green mate vou d be lost completely. "But the funny part of them and the funny part of the curious beast is that they "never shine together. The blue eye and the white t ide of it goes to sleep, and the green eye aud the brown side of him keep awake. lhe wings, being of a dark color, are on the brown side of the fur and are always on leck. So the beast can only Uy when the green eve is going. Twelve" hours on and twelve hours off those eyes havo it between them watch in and Watch out, as I said before. "You talk about your chronometers and your dials and your time-calculators; none of them can hold a w heel to that beast. We've watched him time and again in all sorts of weather, night and day. and twelvo hourti to the notch exactiv the green eye opens and the blue eye shuts, or just the other way, as the case may be. Two lees unjurland two loes double up, and tho waU-h. is set for the maxi twelve

hours. It's at tSa shifting watches that the beast feeds, too, mostly on flies and bugs and such like, though it is getting to have a great love for sugar and sweet things. Whisky he doen't care fcr. "It's a gentle "eort of beast, and takes life as if it liked it. If you poke its awake) side to have some fun it only gives a lov hiss and runs out a loner, sleek toncrue. The asleep side won't pay any attention, no matter w hat you do to it. "Where the beast lives when it's at home I can't say. 1 don't know any m-re about him than the lads aboard. We're jroing to work the South seas on a trading trip and then turn the capo and steer for

ev lork. hen we get there I m going to try and sell tho beast to some biz scientific fellow cr a museum. I don't care w hich as long as one of them gives me big money. It's a queer creature, and it ousht to fetch a big price. Od To Mother Goose. "Little Tommy Grace hrd a ain in Lit face. .V) la l that lie couldn't Ichtd a letter; When la rims Iicfcy Lon, fcinsjing ach a fntitiT Mm, That Tummy langhel and found his (ao was bctUr." As Tommy Snoots anl rVttr ProoVs Were walking out one S jniiay, Fays Tommy Su.wls to iVtiy br oks, 'To-morrow 111 be Monday.' ".V.tthrr Cno. Oh, wonderful book : Was there eer bv nun A Tolurim oompowvl on .v rn-rft a plan. Where i 1 .-in', ihlirhnphy, rthl -a, you'll find Attractively fhown t the infantile mini. Tha orean'a bright euifa, ita wara capped ml' Ii toxt nn1 It motion, its ebb snd lt Cow, Charm e'en the nio?t carel'-a mall hos sail rnuof flrla Put a diver must siV lr Its dep-hiMen rls. So this olnme, which ftprn Wfore in now Um, Ita rauaical Jin?lt we -oou Irarq to rtzej lint lh pure pen l of wivl nu the rlrthui concciU Tl.a labor atone ot a A.xtr reveaU. i Of the many before me, I f its In tbti f la-e. Tbe atory of Thotna, h' nirnnii wasOrae SVime i b iral ailnitnt. It jir niitoaar, Jlal unfitted our Irl-iil hotb lot work and tor risr. ! And what cored him? No doctor lh emotensn long. 'Tw a Joelat romr-anlon, a Jet sot s sDg; Till young Tom, who before could not master a leiur, Laughed a'.ouil, and behold he si icttantlv better! Strange connection 'rixt matter and mind va detect. 'Tis ditfirult oft to tell can from efTe; But a laugh, when the ills wo are heir tire rtf, Is the great panacea the elixir of life! Dear friends, tuanr troubles in this life find Of body snd soul, f heart and of mind. "There's a purjwa in j-aln." This rupve mvt But k or j) a brara heart; tots It olT with a augh. One mor' piece cf ad t lee put It, too, la yon- plpa Aroid tho-a of whom Tommy Snooks in a I e. You remember how spoiled w as that Dice I inlsy walk Br gloomy foreboding and dolorous talk. 1 i Such ppls as thejio social Tulture, ladendHow thev dote upon mlVrics and horrors toteedt Choo.e rather your friend from the bon y-be la. And extract all tbo wuttnc3 from life as yon . t Race WiLtOUCHBT, TRIBUTES TO WOMAN. Tbe Testimony Horn by Toets, Matesra ra nnd PhilokOprtera. Confucius AVoman is the masterpiece. Herder Woman is the crown of creation. Veitaire Womea teach us repose, civility eat dlnity. Uuskio Fhakspeare has no heroes he, hai only heroines. John Quinry Adams All that I am mj mother made tne. VVl.ittier If woman lost usEder.such as iht alone ran restore it. FUdwer To a gentleman every woman is ft lady in risht of her sex. Iamartine There is a woman at the begin uinif of ad great things. K. S barrett Woman Is last at tha cross and earliest at the crave. Gladstone Woman is the roost perfect wb.ee tho mo!.t womanly. !?arili A hancbome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. Richter No roan can either live piously or die rirhteons without a wife. N. I'. Willis The sweetest thing in life is tha the unclouded welcome of a w ife. Heine Handsome women without religion are like flowers without perfume. Beecher Women are a new race, recreated 6inee the world received Christianity. Voltaire All the reasonings of a man are not worth one sentiment of a woman. Leopold Schcfer but one thine on earth il better than a wife that is a mother. Michelet Woman is the Sunday c! man; not his repose only, but his joy, the salt ot his hfe. Luther Earth has nothing rrore tender than a woman's heart when il is the abode of pity. Shakspere For where is any anther in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eyes? Margaret Fuller Ossoli Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seekin c it, Louis Desnoyers A woman may be ugly, illshaped, w icked. icnorant, silly and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous. BROKE DOWN THE FENCES. How a?.hrewd Father Disposal! of nis Sis Dauftitera. Youth's Companion. In an old book written by a western congressman, a contemporary of Clay and Webster, containing reminiscences of his times, a stry is told of one of his friends, a farmer in Ken;ucky named Payne, who had six oau5hters, ncne of w bom were blessed with beauty. The congressman knew theta iu their homely youth, and when he returned a few years later found them all married to irood, influential men. So rreat was his surprise that he ventured to ek their father why they had been all so soucht when . other pirls remained neglected. The old farmer cbuokled. "Yes, and you may say when they had neither dower nor Rood looks. Well, I'll tell von. When I want my cattle to eat buckw beat stubble instead of grass, I don't drive them, into that field; I fence it oil from them. They are o contrary that they always want the thing they can't pet. They break down the fence; I drive them out and put it up. By the time they fight for it once or twice they think they like the stubble. "Well, I saw my srirls weren't the most attractive kind, and I fenced tnem in! "You never found tbem in hotels dnncln or kecpin' stalls at county fairs. Youn? men to know them had to come to their father's house. Wheu the neighbors saw how the Tayne girls were kept awuy from the crowd they thought their value must be hiph. Young men came to break down the fences. They like to break down fences." 'The story was coarsely told, perhaps," adda the old narrator, "but there is more iu it than meets the eye." Law of Selection. . V. Weekly. Jinks (at a party) "You never met my wife, did vou?' blinks "Wife? I didn't know you were married. Is she in the room?" "Yes." "Well, then.it mufct be that beautiful creature over there." "Uy Georjre! ou hit it the first time. She'a the most beautiful woman in the room, isn't her "Yes ; that' why I jruesed she was yonr wife. You are, by lone odds, the homeliest man in the room, and people always marry that way." lilt Heirs Will Ontlnae tbe Dusiness. Tlms.J Doctor "We sball leave for Chicago to morrow, hit dear." Wife "To remain lonpr "Well, I am (foiDK Into the elixir of hi business and expect to get the "contract to supply the Cronin jury." A Snr S:S, . . ' Time. "Jones," said Pmythe, as he watched a eonple strolling near, "that is a first love aCair." "How do you know?" "I just heard her make htm promise cot to wnoka or drink."