Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 April 1899 — Page 3

i FLOWERS OF EASTER. The Eloquent Orator's E«Mer Di»ew Bring to the Dknrlrlted and the Bereaved. (Washington, April; 2. Copyright, 1S99.) In this Easter sermon Dr. Talmage interprets the message which the flowers bring to the anxious, the dispirited and the bereaved; text, Luke 12:28, “If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is -cast into the oven, how much more will :He clothe you, O ye of little faith?” The lily is the queen of Bible flowers. The rose may have disputed her throne in modern times and won it, but the rose originally had only five petals. It was under the long continued and intense gaze of the World that the rose blushed into its present beauty. In the Bible train, cassia and hyssop and frankincense and myrrh and spikenard and camphor and the rose follow the lily. Fourteen times in the Bible is the lily mentioned; only twice the rose. The rose may now have wider empire, but the lily reigned jin the time of Esther, in the time of Solomon, in the time of Christ. Caesar had his throne on the hills. The lily had her throne in Ahp valley. In the greatest sermon that •was ever preached there was only one flower, and that a lily. The Bedford dreamer, John B,unyan, entered the house of the interpreter and was shown Dr. Talmage Draws an Inspiration from Them.

a cluster of flowers and was told to ‘"consider the lilies.” We may study or reject other sciences at our option—it is so with astronomy, it is so with chemistry, it is so with jurisprudence, it is so with., physiology, it is so with geology—but the science of botany Christ commands us to study when He says: “Consider the lilies.” Measure them from root to tip Of petals Inhale their breath. Notice the gracefulness of their poise. Hear the whisper of the white lips of the Eastern and the red Kps of the American lily. Belonging to this royal fainily of lilies are the lily of the Nile, the Japan lily, the Lady Washington of the .Sierras, the Golden band lily, the Giant lily of Nc-paul, the Turk’s cap lily, the African lily from the Cape of Good Hope. All these lilies have the royal blood in their veins. But I take the lilies of my text this morning as typical of all flowers, and their voice of floral beauty seems to address us, saying: “Consider the lilies, consider the -azaleas, consider the fuchsias, consider ' the geraniums, consider the ivies, consider the hyacinths, consider the heliotropes, consider the oleanders.” "With deferential and grateful and intelligent ;and worshipful souls, consider them. .Not with insipid sentimentalism or with sophomoric vaporing, but for grand and practical and everyday, and, if need be, homely uses, consider them. The flowers are tbe angels of the grass. They all have voices. When the clouds speak they thunder, when the whirlwinds speak they screarg, when the cataracts speak they always whisper. 1 stand here to intrepet their message. What have you to say to us, O ye angels of the grass? This morning I mean to discuss what flowers are good for. That is my subject: What are -flowers good for? I remark, in the first place, they are good for lessons of God’s providential -care. That was Christ's first thought. All these flowers seem to address us today, saying: “God will give you apparel and food.” We have no wheel with which to spin, no loom with which to -weave, no sickle with which to harvest, no well sweep with which to draw water, but God feeds us with the bread -of the sunshine, and God has appareled us with more than Solomonic regality. "We are prophetesses of adequate ward--robe. “If God so clothed us, the grass -of the field, will He not much njpre -clothe you, O ye of little faith?” Men .and women of worldly anxieties, take this message home with you! How long has God taken care of you? Quarter of ^the journey of life? Half the journey -of life? Three-quarters the journey of life? Can you not trust Him the rest of the way? God does not promise you * -.anything like that Which the Homan I --emperor had on his table at vast ex--pense—500 nightingales’ tongues— but He has promised to take care of you. He. has promised you the necessities, -not the luxuries—bread, not cake. If God so luxuriantly clothes the grass of the field, will He not provide for you, His living and immortal children? He ■will.

No wonder Martin Luther always had jr flower on his writing desk for, inspiration! Through the cracks of the 'prison door a flower grew up to cheer Picciola. Mungo Park, the gireat traveler and explorer, had his life saved by a flower. He sank down in the desert j 4o die, but, seeing a flower near by, it suggested God’s merciful care, and he ijgot. up with new courage and traveled . on to safety. I said the flowers are the .angels of the grass. I add now they are ,the evangels of the sky. It you ask me the question: “What are flowers for?” I respond, they are jgrood for the bridal day. The bride must have them on her brow, and she must have them in her hand. The marriage altar must be covered with them. $A wedding without flowersVould be as inappropriate as a wedding without music. At sucli a time they ai-e for congratulation and prophecies of good. So much of the pathway of life iis coveiod «p with thorns, we ought to cover the Ijeginning with orange blossoms. Flowers are appropriate on such occasions, for in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases it is the very best thing that <couM have happened. The world may criticise and pronounce H an inaptitude and may lift its eyebrows in surprise and think it might sugjfest soraethinsr better, but the God who sees the

20, 40, 50 years A wedded life before they have begui. arranges for the best. So that flowers i a almost all eases are appropriate for the marriage day. The divergences of t sponition will become corres pondeueet. recklessness will become prudence, rivolity will be turned into practicality There hais been many an aged widowed soul who had a carefully-locked bureau, and in the bureau^ box, and in the box a folded paper, and in the folded paper a half-blown rose, slightly fragrant, discolored, carefully pressed. She put it there 40 or 50 years ago. On the anniversary day of her wedding she will go to the bureau, she will lift the b#x, she will unfold the paper, and to her eyes will be exposed the half-blown bud, and the memories of the past w .1 rush upon her, and a tear will drop . pon the flower, and suddenly it i*itransfigured, and there is a stir in the dust of the anther, and it rounds out, an 1 it is full of life, and it begins to tremble in the procession up the church ais le, and the dead music of a half century ago comes throbbing through the air, and vanished faces reappear, and right hands are joined, and a manly vpice promises: “I will, for better or for worse,” and the wedding march thunders a salvo' of joy at the departing crowd, but a sigh on that , anniversary dfjy scatters the scene. Under the ddep-ietched breath the altar, the flowers, t e congratulating groups and there is nothing left lg hand holding a faded are scattered but a trembli and then into sharp, sudjSen is over rosebud, whi "h is put into the paper the box, and the box carefully placed ib the bureau, and with a click of the lo<^k the scene

Ah, my friends, let not the prophecies of the flowers on your wedding day be false prophec ies. Be blind to each other's faults. Sl ake the most of each other's excellencies. Remember the vows, the ring bn t he think finger of the left hand, and( tin benediction of thp calla lilies. If you k me the question: “What fare flowers good for?” I answer, they are goo$ to honor and comfort the obsequies. The worst gash ever made into the side qf o ir poor earth is the gash of the grave, It is so deep, it is so cruel, it is f |> incurable, that it needs something to cover it up. Flowers for the casket, flowers for the hearse, flowers for the cemetery. What a contrast between a grave in a country churchyard, with the fence broken down ami tli' tombstone aslant and the battle browsing amid the s and the Canada thistles, orning in Greenwood, the ate bloom rolling to the unds arid then breaking crests of white flowers all neighboring mullein stall and a June rj wave of ros top of the nt into foarriing around the |)illows of dust. It is the difference be arid under an want old Mo ween sleeping under rags embroidered blanket. We tality with his chisel to go through all 1 le graveyards in Christendom, anq while he carries a chisel in want old Mortality to have seed in thetpalm of the one hand!we some flower other hand. “Oh,” ion it makes nc think yon ai ay, “the dead don’t know;, difference to them/’ I mistaken. There are not so many steamers and trains coming to any living city as there are convoys coming frog Heaven to earth, and if there be instantaneous and constant communication between this world and the better world, do you not Suppose your departed friends know what you do with their bodies? Why has God planted golden-rod and wild flowers, in the forest aj d on the prairie, where no human eye ever sees them ? He planted them there for invisible intelligences to look aft and admire, and when invisible intelligences come to look at the wild flowers of the woods and the s. vill they not make excur- - — sc j the flowers whieh you have planted in affection and remembrance of them? When I air a handful of dead I would like to have violets—anyone could pluck them aut of the grass, or some one could lift from the edge of the pond a water lily- -nothing rarely expensive, no insane display, as sometimes at funeral rites, w here the display takes the bread from he children’s mouths and the clothes fi-om their backs, but something from the great democracy of flowers. Rather than imperial catafalque of Russian czar, I ask some one whom I mag have helped by a Gospel sermon or Christian deed to bring a sprig of arbutus or a handful of China asters. It was left for modern times to spell

respect for the departed and comfort for the living in letters of floral gospel. Pillow: of flowers, meaning rest for the pilgim who has got to the end of his journey. Anchor of flow’ers, suggesting, the Christian hope which we must have an an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast. Cross of flowers, suggesting the tree on which our sins were slain. If I b ad my way, I would cover up all the d reamless sleepers, whether in golden-hnndled casket or pine bos, whether a king’s mausoleum or potter’s field, iv th radiant or aromatic arborescence. The Bible says: “In the midst pf the garden there was a sepulcher.” I wish that every sepulcher might be in the midst of a garden. * If you asked me the question: “What are flowers apod for?” I answer: “For religions symbolism.” Have you ever studied Scriptural flora? The Bible m an arboretum, it is a Divine conservatory, it is (. herbarium of exquisite beauty. If you want to illustrate the brevity of the brightest human life you will quote from Job: “Man cometh forth as a fl: wer and is cut down.” Or you will quc ;e from the psalmist: “As the flower of the field, so he perisheth; the wind pas *eth over it, and it is gone.” Or you will quote from Isaiah: “All flesh is gras s and the godliness thereof Is as the flower of the field.” Or you will quote from James the apostle: “As the flower of the grass, so he passeth away.” What graphic Bible symbolism! All the crii flowers will soon be dead, whatever oire you take of them.

Though morning and night you baptise them in the name of the shower, the baptism will not be to them a saving ordinance. They hare been fatally wounded with the knife that cut them. They are bleeding their life away; they are dying now. The fragrance in the air is their departing and ascending spirits. Oh, yes! Flowers are almost human. Botanists tell us that flowers breathe, they take nourishment, they eat, they drink. They are sensitive. They have their likes and dislikes. They sleep, they wake. They live in families. They have their ancestors and their descendants, their birth, their burial,, their : cradle, their grave. The zephyr rocks the one and the storm digs the treqpih for the other. The cowslip must leave its gold, the lily must leave its silver, the rose must leave its diamond t necklace of morning dew. Dust to ! dust. So we come up, so we prosper, we spread abroad, we die, as the flower— as the flower! Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not. abide with me! Flowers also afford mighty symbolism of Christ, who compared Himself to the ancient queen, the lily, and the mod- j ern queen, the rose, when He said: “1 am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valley.” liedolent like the one, humble like the other. Like both, appropriate for the sad who want sympathizers and for the rejoicing who want,! banqueters. Hovering over the mar- ; riage iceremony like a wedding bell or j folded like a chalet on the pulseless heart of the dead. 0 Christ, let the per- j fume of Thy name be wafted all around i

u»e cartn—my ana rose, lfly and rose— until the wilderness crimson into a garden and the round earth turn into one great bud of immortal beauty laid j against the warm heart of God. Snatch ' down from the world’s banners eagle and lion and put on lily and rose, lily and rose. But, my friends, flowers have no grander use than when on Easter morning we celebrate the reanlmation of Christ from the catacombs. The flowers ! spell resurrection. There is not a nook I or corner in all the building but is touched with the incense. The women j carried spices to the tomb of Christ, ! and they dropped spices all around about the tomb, and from these spices have grown all the flowers of Easter morn. The two white-robed angels that hurled the stone away from the door of the tomb hurled it with such violence down the hill that, it crushed in the door of the world’s sepulcher, and millions of dead shall come forth. However labyrinthine the mausoleum, however costly the sarcophagus, however architecturally grand the necrop- 1 olis, however beautifully parterred the family gounds, we want Them all broken up by the Lord of the resurrec- : tion. The forms that we laid away j with our brokennearts must rise again. ' Father and mother, they must come out. Husband and wife, they must come out. r Brothers and sisters, they must come out. Our darling children, they must come out. The eyes that with trembling fingers we closed must open in the luster of resurrection morn. The firms that we folded in death must joins ours in embrace of reunion. The beloved voice that was hushed must be rotubed. The beloved form must come up without its infirmities, without its fatigues. It must come up. Oh, how long it seems to some of you! Waiting, waiting for the resurrection. How: long, how long! I make for your broken hearts to-day a cool, soft bandage of lilies. I comfort you this day with the thought of resurrection. When Lord Nelson was buried in St.Paul’s cathedral in London, the heart of all- England was stirred. The procession, passed on amid the sobbing of a ' nation. There were 30 trumpeters sta- i tioned at tke door of the cathedral, w|tli j instrument^ of music in hand, waiting j for the signaL and, when the illustrious dead arrive^a^the gates of St. Paul’s cathedral, these 3b trumpeters gavebne united blast, and then all was silent. Yet the trumpets did not wake the dead. He slept right on. But I have to tell you, what 30 trumpeters could not do for one man, one trumpeter will do for all nations. The ages have rolled on, and the clock of the world’s destiny strikes 9,10,11,12, and time shall be no longer! Behold the archangel hovering! He takes the trumpet, points it this way. puts its lips td his lips and then blows one long, loud, terrific, thunderous, reverberating and resurrectionary blast! Look, look! They rise! The dead—the dead! some coming forth from the family vault, some from the city cemetery,

some irom _ the country graveyard. Here a spirit is joined to its body, and there another spirit is joined'to another body, and millions of departed spirits are assorting the bodies, and then reclothing themselves in forms radiant for ascension. The earth begins to burn—the bonfire of a great victory. All ready now for the procession of reconstructed humanity! Upward and* a-wajrl. Christ leads, and all the Christian dead follow, battalion after battalion, nation after, nation. Up, up! On, on! Forward, ye 1 ranks of God Almighty! Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates and letstheconquerors come in?! Resurrection! Resurrection! And so I twist all the festal fiowers/jf the chapels and cathedrals of all Christendom into one great chain, and with that chain I bind the Easter morning of 1899 with the closing Easter of the world’s history-resurrection! » May the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will. \ Sot Approved. Uncle Amos—What does this mean about woman bein’ a “ministerin’ angel?” Uncle Hiram—Oh, I s'pose it’s one of them silly, new-fangled notions about women goia’ in the pulpit.—Brooklyn Lite.

LETTER FROM GEN. GOMEZ’. The OM Patriot Telia the Story of file Trouble* to Hfta Ablest Wife. Havana, April 3.—Gen. Maximo Gomez, in a long letter directed to his •wife in Santo Domingo, reviews his differences with the so-called military assembly. He begins by describing the situation as it was when Robert P. Porter, a representative of McKinley, visited Cuba after the assembly’s representatives at Washington had obtained a promise of $3,000,000 from the president. The writer, proceeding, says: * Accepted Porter’* Proposition. “This action on the part of the assembly’s committee' 1 approved. It was then that Mr. Porter appeared and as ked me, as commander-in-chief, to decide to accept the $3,000,000, to aid in its distribution and the disarming of the army and to proceed forthwith to Havana to assist the United States military governor, Gen. llrooke. I agreed, and on arriving at Havana. I conferred with Gen. Brooke concerning the payment and the disarmament. It was decided that Gen. Brooke should request Washington to ship to Cuba the $3,000.OOC» which had been obtained by the representatives of the assembly. I saw to the adjustment of all questions that led up to the termination ofc-the ridiculous armed situation, aud began, to entertain hopes of an early return to Sunto Domingo.

Called Before the* Amenably. “The assembly then called upon me io visit its president, saying that the object sought was an unofficial exchange of ideas. But they placed me upon the behch of the accused, my crime being that I was inclined to accept the $3,000,000 which the assembly it. elf, through its representatives, had induced President McKinley to promise, a matter as to which I had not been consulted. It appeared that I had broken off negotiations for $13,000,000. To all this I replied that I had acted in the best faith, but that nothing bad been lost, as I would withdraw the acceptance I had given. They requested me to array myself on their side in order to give strength to their resolutions. 1 answered that 1 had always done so and would continue to do except in eases where the course of the assembly was opposed to my conscience, to my sense of justiee and to toy idea of the best interests of Cuba. Disapproved of Aaklns Charity, “Regarding the matters under consideration I said I had no hope of obtaining more than the $3,000,000 from the United States and disapproved of asking charity, contending that the Only method left was to raise a loan, for which the assembly lacked adequate authorization. Furthermore, I pointed but that the soldiers eoukl not wait; that already they were too great a burden on the people of Cuba, and longer delay appeared to me to be jcmel. Conference Accomplished Nothing. “The conference ended without accomplishing anything. 1 saw 1 eoulJ not make myself understood by the assembly and decided dot to mix up in its doings, but to await developments. Deposed by the Assembly, “A few days later three men whom I did not know visited me, and sai l that several millionaires stood ready to facilitate a loan of many millions, but that the matter was possible only with my eo-operation. I answered that I could not consider any proposition of the kind, and regarded it as strange that any one would be ready to lend money without a guarantee. My visitors replied that the city council could arrange a guarantee. Then a conwnittee of the assembly approached me, asking me to support the assembly’s efforts to obtain a loan. To this I replied that Cuba could not make a loan, as she lacked the necessary authority. The next day the assembly deposed me. I consider that I have acte« honorably, and my strongest desin now is to return home.’’ CUBAN COURTS ARE CORE UPT. Governor-General Brooke Will Take tbe Matter of Tbeir Parlfleiition in Hand. Havana, April 3.—To-day, as under Spanish regime, bribery and fraud rule the Cuban courts. This is the firm conviction of the military administration. Governor-General Brooke is taki.ig the matter tip and intends to clean out the corruption, to revise the judicial procedure. to chancre the court Denionnel

and to abolish the barbarous practice of incommunicado, by which a judge may imprison for life a person ig norant of the accusation against him rind of the names of his accusers. It is true that the statutes allow only three days’ detention incommunicado, but a judge, under the practice that has grown up, may make » new commitment at the expiration of the third day; another at the expiration |pf the sixth and so on without limit. More than this, the evidence in criminal causes is taken by clerks, who, for a consideration, write into the testimony things never uttered, thus often making the best friends of the accused appear to condemn him. Apparently the whole criminal and civil systems have been arranged so as to make it easy to buy and sell justice. Windsor Hotel Victims Identifled. New York, April 1.—The two bodies found in the ruins of the Windsor hotel, Friday night, were positively identified as those of Miss Dora HoH'man, of Baltimore, and Mrs. M. Auze. The latter was an intimate friend of Miss Hoffman. Two More Bodies Fonind. Chicago, April 2.—Two rooiv bodies were found in the ruins erf the Armour felt works, which were destroyed by fire last Monday. They have been Identified as John White end Win, Gillen, employes. ' •

ENGLISH DUCHESSES ... i. «, The young duchess of Marlborough, who was Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, is the youngest of the English duchesses and is very popular across the water. Her manner is modest and dignified, yet charming. She is rarely seen without her pet Blenheim spaniel. * The duke of Portland one fine day ■aw a stunning girl at a railway station and could not git her out of his mind. Ten days later he was enraptured to find her a guest at a country house where he arrived for a visit, and in a few weeks society was electrified with the announcement of his engagei ment to the lovely Miss Dallas- Yorke, a j beauty who was comparatively unknown to fashionable London. They are a very happy pair. Among the duchesses of England the duchess of Devonshire may claim a foremost place. No wearer of the strawberry leaves has been more widely discussed than this woman, who, though a German, has twice been the wife of a British duke. When still very young Countess Louisa Frederica.Augusta .von Alton of Hanover married the seventh duke of Manchester and afterward married his grace of Devon- , shire. In the political and social world ■ she is a noted figure. The marriage of the duchess of Snthj erland was the culmination of a pretty romance. When she was Lady Mill!cent St. Clair Erskine and only 16 one of her grandmother’s guests at a formal dinner failed to appear, and to prevent the number at table being 13 Lady Erskine sent up to the schoolroom for , her daughter to fill the place. She was placed next the marquis of Stafford, and he, heir to the then duke of Sutherland, fell in love at first sight. In spite of his sweetheart’s youth he wooed and won her, for they were mar- . ried on. her seventeenth birthday. The young duchess has.literary talents and . is a beautiful, sweet young woman.

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J; An Evldriirr of Prosperity. It is generally conceded ijnp economist*. study the commercial ifluatiou of tixt coitotry, that the great arteries of railway travel are a sure indication of its condition. A depression in commercial Hues meant idoned business trips and the caracellaof pleasure travel, while a healthy con* n of affairs means busiueh* fcHps sndaa >ase of passengers on pleasure bent, good evidence that a business revival gone broadcast over this country is the ke Shore Limited,” the star train of the ' anderbilt system, between New York and Chicago, which is daily bottfortabiy filled. VV ith a view to taking the best possible care of Sts patrons, the New York Central has arranged to increase.Ahe equipment of this train by placing an, additional standard sleeper on the trains Searing New York and Chicago Tuesdays, Thursday! and Saturdays. To the regular travel the appointmejnts and comforts of this train are well known, but if you have never made a trip on ;it, you owe it to yourseif$d see and enjoy the advance made in comfort aud luxury in modern railway travel; Remember the fare is no higher on this iwin, except bet|Ween New York and Chicago, while the accommodations and service pace fhis particular train conspicuously at the head of the list, when compared witS^l.e'. linesi.— Albany Journal, > -gftg ■J An Exception. *!LaBor-saving machinery has been the great boon of mankind,” said the political orator. •. ?Wpv. ‘fWell, it never saved you anything/’ re- 4 marked an old constituent on the- fringe >f the crowd.—Philadelphia Nofth American. Sailer’s Seed Corn: Poes your seed corn test, Rro. Farmer? riser's does—it’s northern grown, early and gixpl for 80 to 150 bu. per acngd:< Send this notice and 16c for 8 corn samples and low prices to Salzer Seed Co,, LaCfease Wis. [k) i book is never quite woman unless its cent! heroine in the hero's Globe. aetory to a u leaves the/ v'r Atehikm tawsakes. It cured my aches. St. Jacobs Oil makes no mistakes; It seems queer that in intelligence oihee should supply stupid servants.—Chic.;go Daily News. FBEE. You Can tiet Alien’* Foot-1 Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.*Y., for a FREE sample of Allen’s FootEase, a powder to shake into your shoes. It cures chilblains, sweatiog^baanip, swollen, aching feet, l it makes tight shoes easy, (hires Corns, Bunionsmnd ingrowing Nails. Aljdniggi^tsand shoe stores sell it. tS cento. She—"You know it is a woman's prr* uege to change »her mind.” Ife—“I know it; is; but when a man changes his he has to pay damages/'— Spare Moments. The Best Prescription for Chilli*. and Fever Is a bottle of Grove?* Tastklss* Chill Toxic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Priee/Oc. If we make the most of opportunities opportunities will make the most of us.—L. A. W. Bulletin.

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