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OF MUSIC IN HEAVEN. THE TOPIC OF DR. T. DE WITT TALMAGE'8 6UNDAY SERMON " A Wonderful Dlxcourae, Imbued wtk Living Faith la III Glorlee Thai M ill II Celebrated la tha Hume of lb Blast la tha Umli'i Mew Hong. TlnnnirT.YW Ron! 7 Tip T..i . ...,.,. .. teruion for UKlaywiu a glowing descrip- lion oi wio meiouies oi mo Celestial land. UU tc.t was. "And they fclIlg a new sonf" Kuv v9 P,,n,;Jr, , . rfa Nearly all the cities of Europe and Aiiieri l.av,oonH,n.atoric of muij and association, who object it U bv voice ana instrument, to advance tlie art of sweet found. On Thursday nights Exeter hail of London used to resound with the iniisio of first etas performers, wiio gave tlieir services gratuitously to tho mncs, who came in witli free tickets and huzzaed at the entertainment At Berlin, at 11 o'clock doily, the military band, with sixty or r..J -rS,,Uen dTUt .at ,. .. .w me people. On Latter Sunday in Dresden the Tin. i," .fe.lg . ,VUu , Ule ,u BWwtmiSH Tninsthed, lost, en- cburcbe. to listen to the organ peals chanted, dumb, we could not l.etir it and the exciting sounds of trumpet and tho fidi.tiwr ....... i. . v. drum. When tho great fair day of wanu near gainer in ti.e street and oewuuer u e ear wuu mcestwint playing i ton thousand and thoiisiuuls of thou offliKe and horn, violin and bassoon. tl,ids sing it-"tho new song." At Duaseldorf. once a year, the lovers Further, it is a commemorative song, of inusio nwemble and for three or We are distinctly told that it makes ,our mix. w.m upon uie great singing festivals and shout at the closo of the choruses, and greet tlio succAsful com petitors as the prizes are distributed cups and vases of silver and gold. All our American cities at times resound with orchestra and oratorio. Those who can sing well or play skillfully up on Instruments are greeted with vocifera tion and garlanded by excited admirers. THR ECSTATIC DKLIOIIT3 OP MUSIC. There aro many whoso most ecstatio delight is to In- found in melodies, and all tho splendor oi celestial gates, and an tue luseiousness oi twelve man- ner of fruits, and all the rush of floods from under tho throne of God would not make a heaven for them if there were no great and transporting harmo- nies. Passing along our streets in the hour of worship you hear the voice of aacred melodv, although you do not ntpr the building An.l nnssin,, nU the streets of heaven wo hear from the I temple of God and the Lamb the breaking forth of magnificent jubilate. We may not yet enter in among the favored throng, but God will not deny us the pleasure of standing a while on the outside to hear. John listened to it a great while ago, and "they sang a new song." Let none aspire to that blessed place who have no love for this exercise, for although it is many ages since tJie thrones were set and the harps were strung there has been no cessation in the song, excepting once for about thirty minutes, and Judging from the j glorious things now transpiring in God's j world, and the ever accumulating tri- umps of the Messiah, that was the last 1 half hour that heaven will ever be i silent Mark the fact that this was a new song. Sometimes I have in church been floated away upon some great choral, in which all our people seemed to mingle tlieir voices, and I have hi the glow of my emotions said : "Surely this Is uiusio good enough for heaven." Indeed I do not believe that "Luther's Ilymn," or "Coronation," or "Old Hundred," or "Mount Fisgali" would sound ill If spoken by sainted lips or thrummed from seraphio harps. There are many of our fathers and mothers in glory who would be slow to shut heaven's gate against these old time harmonies. But this, we are told, is a new song. Some of our greatest anthems and chorals are compositions from other tunes the weetest parts of them gathered up iuto the harmony; and I have sometimes though that this "new song" may be partly made up of sweet str;uns of earthly music mingled in eternal choral But it will, after all, be a new ong. This I do know, that in sweet ness and power it will be something that ear never heard. All the skill of the oldest harpers of heaven will be St SriZ tZ I iitan wui rui iruui " the floods will cap their hands, audit will drop with the sunlight of ever ing day and breathe with odom from the blossoms of the tree of hfe, A , new song"-just made for Leaven. HOW THE GREAT COMPOSKU3 WROTE. Many earthly songs are written by J composers Juit for the purpose of mak- ; Ins a tune, and the land is flooded with All the loveot uoas note books in which really valuable tunes are the exception. But on in a while a man is wrought up by w.e great spectacle, or moved by sonn- t-r rible agony, or transported by some ex nimit ffladness. and he sits down to write a tune or a hymn, in wim iit:..-. note or. every word is a spark droppo! from the forge of his own burning emo . . .......... tions. So Meudelssounwroie. u .u ... So Mendelssohn wrote, and Beethoven and so Charles Wesley. Cowper, depressed with misfortune nnt.i olinnct insane, resolved on sui- wde. and asked the cab driver to taKe him to a certain place where he ex pected to destroy his own hie. lue cab driver lost his way, and towper lost his way, and Cowpe .ink nf his sin and went began to think "" , j IW1 back to his home ana sai uU.u . Ood mow In a mfiM" "W Ha wooden to perform; Ee ptaiiU his footstFpa io ths tea. And rtdca upoo Um Rorm. Te fearful saint, freab courac Ukr. The doadi jtn ao much drrad An bit iU morcy, and aball brea In bkaaiDga on your head. Mozart composed his own requiem, and said to his daughter Emily, "Play that," and while Emily was playing the uuu,' ana iuib ijui.j - r'- requiem Morart's soul went up on the ware of his own musio into glory. ; Emily looked around, and her lamer was dead. Thl. ...... . . ! "'" 'i iicaven was not , composed because h,.aV0, llm, othlj eUttodo, but Christ. In memo, ,.f '"'J cr"wn-''"'" rund !irone. 1, a"J l"'aVl,- ""'1 wrought upon b?tho mptiuvs of the great eternity, rin-u mis rrom !u heart, made It for tho armies of heaven to shout in cele bration of victory, for worsliix-r to chant in their temple services, fur the Innuuinerable homo circlet of heaven to sing tho honso of maiiv miulHinj ,,,,1 m If a now tuno bo church there is only h..r . I .i . ' J1" 'T," ""I 8i"g . U " 8omo tm' Mon tho congro- I--ta. But not so 'Sfi J" T8 f H0"' T1,e J .tof" h r "P w n-T !l " ,ir nW il"b'1n Tliut Christian man or woman who few minutes ago departed from this very street ha Joined it. All know it those- by tho gates, thoso on the river bank, those In the temple. Not feel ing their way through it, or hultrng, or going back, as If they never before had ting it. but with a full round voice thnv tlitiitv !,.! ....... I . ,o , d ZZZ : that anthem should travel down the olr wo ,.,,, 1t . ,t N could roll it. thunder No harp could tcli itai trill. No lip could announce while I speak heaven's cathedral quake. ; beach to beach, and ten thousand times referenco to nxst deliverances. Oh. how much have they to sing about I They sing of the darkness through which on earth they passed, and it is a night song. That one was killed at Yorktown, and witli him it is a battlo song. That ono was imprisoned for Christ's sake, and with liim It Is a prison song. That was a Christian sailor lxy that had his back broken on the ship's halyards, and with him it is a sailor's song. That one burued at Smithdeld, and with him it is a fire song. Oh, how they will sing of floods waded, of fires endured, of persecution ""t-'red. of grace extended I 8ong of . hail ! B"" of 6WorJ! mn of hot llwu,! J?ifnx! As when the organ liIH'9 mt 8011,0 "'lt llarluony ' tlu,re co"'ts wmimlly the sound of , 1,10 tuulanto, woeping through the jW'1''" R(lt''K ex-pnsiteness to the H'rfonnaiiees, so amidst tho stupen- do,,s a(!(,1;lim of tllB 'vonly worship- era shall cometrcmulous remembrances of past endurance, adding a sweetness and glory to the triumphal strain. Bo the glorilled mother will sing of the cradle that death robbed, and the en throned spirit from the almshouse will sing of a lifetime of want. God may wipe away all tears, but not the mem ory of tho grief that started them! IT WILL Bit ACCOMPAX1KD BY HARPS. Further, It will be an accompanied song. Some nave a greac prejudice against musical instrument, and even among thoso who like them there is an that they are unauthorized. I love the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in inumpn at uie ucu oca. i .u,0 uio 1""T. fr D:ivid strui,k St 1,1 the Lord. I lovo the trumpet, for we are to d that it shall wane tne ueaa. i love all stringed instruments and or gans, for God demands that wo shall praise him on stringed instruments and organs. There is in such musio much to suggest tlio higher worship, fori read that when he had taken the book the four-and-twenty elders fell down be fore the Lamb, having every one of them "harps," and "I heard the voice of the harpers harping with their harps," and "I saw them that had got ten the victory from tho beast standing on the sea of ghuss, having the harps of God." Yes, the song is to be accompanied. You say that all this is figurative. Then I say prove it. I do not know how much of it is literal, and how much of It is figurative. Who can say but that from some of the precious woods of earth and heaven there may not be mado instruments of celestial accord? In that worship David may tike the harp and Habakkuk tlio shigionoth, and when the great multitudes shall, following their own inclinations, take up instruments sweeter than Mozart ever Angered, or Scliumuin ever dreamed of, or Beethoven ever wrote for, let all heaven make ready for the but of stupendous minstre.sy and the ,. . eternlj orchestra, wi be ftn antic!paUv, Jurt. . r it , Jg. VV l.y y . JJ ' of musi(; toduy for X!e sen iee you would not have ft ,uistak0 as to suppose tmit y fully inaugurated. Fes- cuorusos 0n earth last only a short , Tiie famous musical convoca- t,on at Dussoldorf ended with the fourth day. Our holidays last omy eight or ten days, but heaven, although H'is fur 80 '"iuiy 'tiiin-has ouly JUht beLTin "tlie new song." If the glorified Inhabitants recount past deliverances ... . . I It.. ,.1,..;a in wlU also emunuju m jfat 9 o'clock, when the church , hful taken tllB f,.w people mattered through it as the i'i:un audience you would not have made so great a mistake as if you sup- ,ed tliatthe present population oi j ' . U)h9 it, cui(.f citizenship, miliions 0re alrea.ly thero, .ifnntsure onlyahandful com populations. All e f ,at,, 1'" , ah All India is China is yei saved. AH Borneo Is yet to, tu, avpL All Switzerland is yet w i , saved. All Italy is yet to be saved. All Spain is yet to be saved. A 11 Russia is yet to be saved. All France is yet to , be saved. All England is yet to be saved. All America is yet to be saved. All the world w yet to be saved. After that there may be other worlds to con quer. I do not know but that every star that glitters in our nights is an In habited world, an.l that from all th spheres aiw&j - h,aTea xhpr(5 will be no gate o era out We do not want to heres amigbty host aro io inan-u , keep I keep them out keep them out We will not want to God will not want to aeep them out A HEAVEX LARGS EX0UQI1 FOR THK CXTVKUSK. I havo eometimcs thought that all tho millions cf earth that go into glory aro but n very small colony compared with tho inllux from tho whole uni verse. Clod could build a heaven large cnotii'ii not only for the universe, but for ten thousand universes. I do not know Just how it will be, but this I know, that heaven Is to bo constantly augmented, nnd that the song of glory Is rising higher nnd higher, and tlie procession Is being multiplied.' If heaven suns when Abel went up th. first soul that ever left earth for glory how must it sing now when souls go up in flocks from all Christendom, hour by hour nnd moment by momeutl Our happy gatherings on earth are chilled by the thought that soon we must separate. Tluuiksgiving and Christmas days come, nnd the rail trains flying thither ore crowded. Glad re unions take place. We have a time of great eitoyinent But soon it is "good- by" in the hull, "good by" at the door, "good -by" tin the street, "good-by" at the rail train, "good by" at the steam boat wharf. We meet In church. It Is good to be here. But soon tha doxology will be sung, the 'benediction proiiouuced, and the audience will be gone, lint there are no separations, no good bye In heaven. At the door of tlio house of many mansions no good by. At tho xvirly gate no gxd by. The song will be more pleasant bo causo we are always to singlt Mightier song as our other friends come in. Mightier song as other garlands are set on tho brow of Jesus. Mightier song as Christ's glories unfold. WE WILL SIXO WKLL IS HKAVKX. If tho first day wo enter heaven we sing well, the next day we sing better. Song antieipativo of more light, of umre love, of more triumphs. Always something new to hear, something new to see. Many gotxl ieople suppose that wo shall seo heaven the first day wo get there. J'o! You cannot see London in two weeks. You cannot seo Homo in six weeks. You cannot see Venice in a mouth. You cannot see the greut city of the New Jerusalem in a day. No, it will take all eternity to seo heaven, to count tho towers, to examine tho trophies, to gazo upon the throne, to see tho hierarelis. Ages on ages roll, and yet heaven is now I The streets now I Tho temple now I The Joy uew I Tho song new I I staid a week at Niagara Falls, hoping thoroughly to understand it and appreciate it But on tho last day they seemed newer and more incom prehensible than on the first day. Gazing on the iullnito rush of celestial splendors, where the oceans of delight meet and pour themselves into the great heart of God how soon will we exhaust the song? Never I Noverl The old preachers in describing the sorrows of the lost used to lift up tlieir hands and shout: "The wrath to come I The wrath to come!" Today I lift up my hands, and looking toward tho great future cry: "The Joy to come I The bliss to comol" Oil, to wonder on tho bonks of the bright river, and yet to feel that a little further down we shall find still brighter floods entering Into itl Oil, to stand a thousand years listening to the enchanting musio of heaven, and then to find out that the harpers are ouly tuning their harps. Finally. I remark, that it will be a unanimous song. There will no doubt be some to lead, but all will be ex pected to join. It will be grand con gregation singing. All the sweet voices Oi tho redeemed I Grand musio it will be when that now song arises. Luther sings it Charles Wesley sings it Lowell Mason shigs it Our voices now may bo harsh and our ears un cultivated, but, our throats cleared at last and our capacities enlarged, you and I will not be ashamed W utter our voices as loudly as any of them. GOD GRANT WE MAT ALL KI.N'O Those nations that have always been distinguished for their capacity hi song will lift up their voices in that melody. Those who have had much opportuni ty to hear tho Germans sing will know what idea I mean to give when I say that the great German nation will pour their deep, full voices into the now j ong. bveryoouy Knows me natural gift of tlie A'riuan for singing. No singing on this continent like that of the colored churches in the south. Everybody going to Richmond or to Charleston wants to hear the Africans slug. But when not only Ethiopia, but . all that continent of darkness, lifts up Its hands, and all Africa pours her reat volume of voice into the new , song that will be music for you. Add- i ed to this are all the sixteen thousand millions of children that are estimated to have gone into glory, and the host of young and old that hereafter shall people the earth and inhabit the stars. Oh I tlie new song! Gather it all up I Multiply it with every sweetness! Pour into It every harmony! Crown It with every gladness! Belt It with every splendor I I'm it with every glory! Toss it to the greatest height of majes ty I Roll it to the grandest ryele of eternity! and then you have but tho fiuntest conception of what John ex perienced when, amidst the magnifi cence of apocalyptio vision, he hoard It tlie new song. ' God grant that at last we may all Sing It l)Ul U we ao noi sing inn praise of Christ upon earth we will never sintr it In heaven. Be sure that your hearts are now attuned for tlie heavenly worship. There Is a cathe dral In Europe with an organ at each end. Organ answers organ, and tho musio waves backward and forward . with indescribable effect Well, my friends, the time will come when earth and heaven will bo but different parts of one great accord. It will be Joy here and Joy there! Jesus here and Jesus there! Trumpet to trumpet! Organ to organ ! Hallelujah to halle lujah! "Until the day break and the shadow flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bet her!" Another War. TaRr Brant aayi that one should write poetry 'a order to aojuira command of Ua-ua-a. Editors aciusvs tba sum rasolt by reading It Tuna. FREEZING TO DEATH, A NltM'a I ipvrlrix'a In lliti Lumber Urilloni of Maine, "la Ifhraarv, 1XHV said Cunt. It L. Zol'.v, of I'liioiitowu, "I had an iulcnst in some luaiU r wuy up in the Tincata quis region, and I hod to go up thm and see how things were getting along. It was a long journey, Inn tin. i.leigliing was like glass, and I had one of the le-t liorx-s that ever stood iiiM.le tho thills. On my sit'ond day out (lie thermometer stood at 20 degs. In-low. and was ineluuvl to go lower. I knew I would rea. li ima of llnwe queer little villages common to the Maine Uickwmid early in the even ing. There 1 intended to etuy till night, and drive on next morning to the house of the agent of the hunter roH'ity, twelve mile further along. I reached tho village mid found that there was no tavern there. "This, of course, uwet my plans. So I ate supHT in the village and started on, intending to proceed to the agent's the sauio night. It was a starlight night, but the air was tilled w ith that (Hvuhar frozen uiUt frequently noticeable on very cold nights. As wo neared the river this ha.e I vaine denser, until finally it was with ditlieulty 1 could see anything ahead of me. It was like passing through a storm of scaly ice. Suddenly, as 1 was thinking that wo must lie almost on the margin of the fiver, there came a crack ling sound, a loud splash of water, and the next second my horse was flounder ing nWnit in water, w hich also covered the sleigh, the mix's and myself up to my waist. "Tlio water splashed alxnit soon drenched the rest of me, and in less time than lean tell it I was coated with a rapidly thickening nrnior of ice, I guess my nohlc hea.-t mut have floun dered at least a minute in that hole tx'fnro he knew exactly what had hapioiied, Whin the situation did come to him he became quiet, threw hi? fore f.vt tip, and lodged them IkiiIi in the ice with a con certed blow like a trip hammer. The ico was thick, hut beneath that blow an im mense cake was broken oir and w:is car riiil dow n iu under the edge of tho ieo below. Tlio horse swam onward, drag ging the sleigh with it through the rap idly fn-e.ing sludi. Oneo more he pounded the ice ahead of him with his jMiweiful fore feet, and agaiu tho ice yielded. "During all this time I was shouting for help. I might, at the llrst break, havo t'li ned and leaed hack to shore, but had not edit tied myself in time. It was now too late, and even if It had not been I was so still'ened by the casing of ice that I couldn't have moved to save myself trom death. The horse kept on, and, strange as tho story seems, broke a chan nel for fifty fivt across that river, and drew the sleigh out safely on the other side. And he didn't tarry when ho got there, but started otT at the top of his s;ccd toward our destination, lie soon struck the road and away we went. 1 knew that although one danger was es caiMil. a greater was before us, and I urged the horso on wiih my voice. My roiies and clothing had frozen so solid that if 1 had lieeii encased in iron I could not havo Urn more motionless. My horso was a jet bluvk, but his icy coating made him stand out, even in that frozen mist, like a sieeter horse. I could not move oven my hands. Wo wero not yet half way to the agent's house when I found myself growing drowsy. I could no longer use iny veico. The clatter of tho horses' heals and the cruaking of the runuers on tho ico sounded to me like thunder cl:is nud wtjird, hidious cries. I knew that I was freezing, but I lalmrcd hard to rouse my will and fight with it against lay fate. Tito star looked liko great cUs of fire, although U'foro they could bo seel Imt dimly through the peculiar haze. Tho trees, with their branches covered with snow, took on the shaiies of gi';uitio ghosts. Still I pre served all my powers of reasoning. Finally I felt myself growing ileliciously warm. A laaguor, such as Do Quincy might havo dcscrilicd, with attending visions of loveliness, took iMssegsioii of me. I heard tho most delightful music. Still I made one mental effort to shake off this fatal spell, and that was all. "I don tkiow how fur I was from the agent's honso when I froze to death, but tho next thing I rcincmticreri I was suf fering such tortures as a victim of the rack might feel, lie never folt worse. Suddenly, at my feet, the pricking of a milliou needles assaulted my flesh. Tor turing me at that spot a maiiicnt, until I writhed in agony, it dashed quickly up my leg, stopcd an instant, as if gloating in my misery, asd then crawled with that awful pain slowdy upward, until it seemed that tiny jets of tho fiercest llumo were being blown into aiy body, heart and brain. Ilie intensity of UiU agony was not constant. IS it had Ijocii I would havo died again in a short time. It came in waves, so to Bieak. Each wave was a little less furious than its predecessor, until at last the storm was passed, and I found myself a weak, BeeehlcsH, limp and helpless mortal, lyiug on a rolto be fore the fireplace of uiy friend, the agent, lio hud brought me back to life, "When I was strong enough to hear it, he told me that ho was awakened in the night by the c-iiliar ami loud neighing of a horse. lie looked out of the window and saw a sight that startled him a ghostly horse and sleigh and driver in the road before his door. He recovered him self and went down. Then he discovered that the driver was dead. Ho quickly carried the driver into tho house, laid him on the floor liefore the fl replace, and recognized me. Knowing tha even if I was not beyond all aid, nothing could l dono for mo until the rot nnd clothing were thawed, ho made the fire blaze and hurried to thn ri'scuo of the faithful and intelligent horso that had reasoned with itself lliat it must stop at the first house it came to on that trrriljle night, and that life and death dependisl on it. By the time tho horse was cared for I was in shape to he resuscitaUsl in case any such thing could be done. I was stripix-d and ruhlx-d brUkly with snow and snow water for more than an hour before I gave any evidence that I might be called back. Then another hour was ent in the same treatment, whea a spoonful of brandy was poured down my throat After that the circulation was started, and my agony began. Tli.it sulfering lasted for an hour, and well, I can say this: Freeze to death if you want You'll like it. But don't kit anybody fetch yoa to again." New York bus. Drain of a War liana. When the Duke of Wellington was fighting In Ppnin tliere were two borwe which had always drawn the same gun and had been aide by ai'le in many but tle. At lat one was killed and the other, on baring hi food brought to him as unial, refusfd to eat, but turned his bead round to look for his old frvud and neighed many time a if to call him. All tha care tliat was bestowed on him was in vain. There were other borne near him. but be would not notice them and be sooo afterward died, not baring ooot tasted food once hi former coco paiiion was killed. Ouf Dumb Anlmiia PURiUf.a A SLAVCR. 1 rtemsrV.aM Mit ii".Ini tlia l.ni.nn tart-tl . Ill l 1 1 U ;5,0l0s..ul-i till tloiiril "I nit "del I'n. le T. 'la's Cabin' at !'v l.rk theatre the other day," said PutM'iinaii .S!-ei;''..t I i t!u Ananias rlith, "and ii" 1 tat in tha gallery and watched niiza can: ; arns t'." ice--nia.li- of c.uivas ja-t aliead of four or live dog tl'.at u.i ;ht ns well N- inud.M.f canvas, so far as caninology gin s, it brought hack to my inin 1 nu incident in my career that should 1 live to bo as old us Magu Kclum" "Who'-" asked Sergt. Joyce. "M.igusckuii. tho guy who existed en a certain earth for 10,tKK) years. I say, fellers, if I should live to his age I shall not forget it. I can't reineuilier the exact date, hut it was less tlwa a hun dred years ago that 1 was iu command of the French uian-of war Sclii, and my mission on the high seas was to look out for and capture African slave traders. One moonlight night us wo were plow ing the swelling Atlantic at the nominal speed of seventy-live miles an hour the lookout at the ni.if-t head reported a sail on our lit- (piarter. I ordered the helm thrown down hard and as the huge ship olieyed the rtnldcr her stivl prow killed nearly l.WOlish, But we had more at stake than fish, and wo did not stop to take any of them up. In a short time we were headed for the strange sail, and it wasn't long until from tho ipmrter deck I could wtt her plainly. "The sino)' stacks of the Sein became red hot. and one of them melted to the divks, but I called for water, and the ship was saved from destruction. Wo did not lessen our speed for a little thing like that, but continued to split tho ocean open. Soon along, sinuous black smoke ascended high iihuvo the masts of the chase. Then 1 knew what wo were after. Hastily heating the men to quar ters I, in the dc lilierato voice I use on the Lincoln Lane gang, told them that there was fun ahead. Tho vessel SOU miles ahead of ns was a slave dhow, and for the honor of ourselves particularly, and France as a matter of course, we must capture her. 'And when we do,' says 1, 'you fellers know your business.' For two days mid nights wo chased the strange craft, and during that time I did not sht'p a wink or eat a mouthful of fisxl, I was so excited. At six Ik-Hs on the third day wo were in shooting range, and I ordered the ten tou rifle cannon to be fired. Tho eighty ton shell fell ahead of the slaver nearly two miles. "The effect on tho water was terrific. Win not ice 1 said the shell weighed eighty tons, and as it fell iuto the ocean it ex ploded. Tho water raised in a solid wall that was. 1 should judge, 000 fit-t thick to an altitude of 7,iHH) yards. It made a hole that you could put the state houso, court house, insane asylum, blind asylum und Union stariuu into all at one and the same time that Is, of course, if you ha i them there. The slave ship plunged against, at and iuto this wall, and then came a mighty crash a crash that was caused, as I afterward learned, by an island sixty miles distant being washed from its base by tho waves. The ship penetrating tho wall caused it to break and the upheaved water fell iu torrents, while the slaver teetered on the brink of tho huge abyss for a moment and then fell bow first into tho hole, and the scat tered fragments of the broken wall falling upon her buried her from sight forever. "In a few hours the Bea was calm nnd for two mouths we cruised in that vicin ity, but not a sign of the lost slaver was found Two years after wo picked up on tho coast of Zanzibar a water soaked book that I am satisfied was the 'log of the lost ship. According to the book tho dhow that we destroyed was tho Lemon Eared Nellie, from New Brunswick, and alio had 7 a.OoO slaves aboard, all of whom were drowned. I felt so bad about this that I resigned iny place in the French navy and got a job on tho Iiidluuupoh's police foR'o with more pay and less work." Indianapolis Journal. Manufacture of Paper HmitcU. After threo years of experimental work an English company has succeed ed In producing paper barrels which are able to coiiixte favorably with barrels mado of wis si. The paper barrels are used at present principally for tlio car riage of gunpowder, mining fuses, fruit, flowers, molasses, paint, cement, matches, chemicals, dyes, asbestos, sugar, size and extract of meat The materials usd in making tho barrels are waste paper, cardboard and (for the better quality) old sacks. When cardboard is used it Is soaked or boiled for six hours ami afterward treated In the same manner as tho other raw ma terial. This is carefully sorted and put Into a rag engine, or boater, where it Is beaten and torn to pioocs by a series of knives for about an hour and a half. It is afterward mixed with water until a pulp of uniform consistency Is gained. This Is rolled, joined, shaped land dried, and the barrel is finally covored with hoops. Before the tops and bottoms are put In the barrels are painted with a water proof composition, mado of linseed oil and resin, for ordinary purpose barrels, and with a special varnish where they are used for food products. The stand ard size made is 10 12 inches in diam eter by 23 inchee long. The price at which these barrels can be produced enables them to compete favorably with wooden barrels. A barrel costing 31 cents iu wood can, when made of paper, lie sold for 28 cents. One great feature is that there is no waste with the process, all "wasters" being beaten up into pulp again. New York Com mercial Advertiser. Two Arbor I)y. Governor Beaver whsjy designated two Arbor days this year, April 11 and Vt. Pennsylvania is such a large state that the ad vance of the season is not the same in all portions. In some sections tho first named date is much too early, and them can take advantage of the second. One or the other will be pretty certain to suit everywhere, and there should be a more than ordinary observance of the occasion. Tlie planting throughout the state has received a great Impetus within the past few years, and, as tliere cannot be too much of it, should be urged on with enthusiasm by all Philadelphia Presa Tha Papa's Indonaaiaal. A check for several thousand dollars, sent to Pope Leo XIII from Newark, N. J., has been returned through the regu lar channels to the Newark bank, on which it was drawn, duly indorsed by the pope. Tlie handwriting is neat and even. The check will be kept as a sou venir. Brookiya Tba Lalral Milx-rlaii TragMlf. The survivors of the Yakutsk massacre weretried by court martial, without ben efit of counsel. iiHu thecharge of armed rexistance to the authorities, und all were found guilty. Three of them were hang ed, fourteen (iachldiiigf iur women) were condemned In N-nal servitude for life, five (including two women) went sent to the mines for lift'-cn years, four hoys and girls less than ill years of age were con demned lo ieii il servitude for ten years, and two others were sent as forced col onists to the arctic villages of Verkhoy ansk and .Sre.lni Kobimk, in "the re tnotcxt part of Yakutsk." And this sen tence, the St. Petcr-hiirg olllcials say, is nn evidence of the "unusual nio. -ration" of the judges who coiiixised the court martial! A further pnxif of this "unusual mod eratiou" it furnished by the fact that the political exile, Koliaiidleriisteiu, after receiving four severe bullet wounds at the time of the massacre, and after lying nearly live uionths in a prison hospital, was cafried to the xcalfold on a cot Ix'd and hanged by putting the nixise around his nit-k and dragging the bed out from under him. If this is Kuiail "modera tion," lino might well pray to bo deliv ered from Russian severity. Out) of the executed men, two hours before the rox was put alxnit his neck, scribbled a hasty farewell note to his comrades, in which he said, "We are not afraid to die, but try you to make our deaths count for something writ all this to Kemiaii." The appeal to me shall not be in vain. If I live, the wuolo English speaking world at least shall know all the details of tho most atr.x'ious crime. U.-orge Kennan in I'eiittirv. Shut Ml aa Iron Ili.f. Several days ago Chief Brown, of tho department of public safety, put a num ber of additional xiliee otllcers on duty between Solio und East LilxTty. They were new men on the force, and one of them was diridedly new to the liH-ulity. The first night ho was on, and while faithfully patroling his Ix'iit, he aas told that a big vicious dog was running at large on Fifth avenue. About 11 o'cliH'k, while walking along tho alxive named street, be thought h spied the dog on a graveled walk leading up to the residence of a prominent citi zen. The olllcer determined to make a record for himself the first night. He called to the dog, hut the latter apxir ently was not on speaking terms with the guardian of tho peace and did not move. Then the olllcer tried to scare tho animal byommandiughlm In a very loud tone of voice to "get out" The dog did not move, and the olllcer, who was get ting more angry each moment at the utter disregard for military discipline, pulled out his revolver and llred at the dog. The latter maintained his stolid Indifference, and the olllcer fired again and again and again. By the time the last shot was llred the ofllcer was close to the dog and found it to lie an admirable piece of work from some iron foundry. The funniest part of tho story Is that the dog hud not been even grazed by the bul lets. It is needless to say there is one ofll cer on the force who would licit qualify at a shooting match. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Wi.ii.li.rful ('luck Ilruyatl. Thomas Fitz-simnions, of Pittston, in ventor of tho wonderful dis k which has been on exhibition in all tha principal cities in this part of the state, and which was claimed by many to lie suxrior, in point of intricate lucchuuixm, to tho fa mous Strasbourg chx-k, is prostrated over tho intelligence that his instrument was burned and entirely destroyed in the Hoover bhx'k lire at Oweito, N. Y. The clix-k cost Fitzsimmous four years of unremitting lalxir. Among its many features was a complcto miniature rail way train, with engine, tender, four pas senger couches, engineer, llroinan and conductor. As this train reached the small station a crowd of inllnltesimal people emerged from a cleverly con structed mansard dexit and congregated on the platform, while a humpbacked bridge tender lowered the gates precisely as In actual railroading. Another feuturo was a complete repre sentation of tho solar system, with sun, moon, planets and myriads of stars twin kling in the cerulean background. The clock was constructed with no tools ex cepting a pocket knife and file blade. Filzsimmons valued it at (15,000, and had recently refused an offer of (7,000 for It. Just the day before the fire occurred he took out a (.1,000 insurance policy on It. It is feared he will loso his mind under the disappointment, as his chx'L occupied all Ids thoughts. Philadelphia Times. Freaks f Ilia Toraado, Hundreds of Interesting incidents are related of the freaks of the storm. A block of iron casting, weighing over one hundred and fifty pounds, was blown Into the second story of tho Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railway build ing, near Union depot Nobody knows where it came from, and the nearest building from which It could have come is nearly one hundred yards away. Oreat sheets of tin roofing were dropped upon Dr. Barry's farm, near Turner's station, forty miles from thecltr, on the Short line. In the ruins of a house on West Slain street a largo office clock was found clinging to the wall, but no one knows where it came from. It was badly broken, but the hands still pointed to 8:20 p. m. A large slab of marble found in a resi dence on West Madison street was never tliere before. It will weigh over 100 pounds. At Baird's drug store, on Mar ket alxive Ninth street, two bird cages with the birds were blown in through the skylight. The cages were not in jured, and the birds are as full of song as ever. When the building occupied by Brand Sc Bethel, the toliacco men, on Oreen street, went to pieces, a portion of the framework dropped through the roof of a little . cottuge just east of the factory. It consisted of a heavy timber, to which were mortised four upright pieces of tiiuber.. When this came through the cottage the family were sitting around the table in the dining room, and the four uprights simply penned them In, but did not hurt them in the least Louisville Dispatch. People at Middlesborough, England, are excited over the alleged discovery of petroleum in the ground beneath them. Experimental borings are being made to a depth of 2.000 feet Trench engineers propose to construct a bridge across the llsiphorus. It will reach from Roumsll-Hissar to Anatoli Hissar, aad will be 2,400 feet Ion;, with a single arch. HOW PICS ARE MADE. Tha Amount ItoTourcl l.y I'axtrjr Loving 'w Vorlier M.niB Kl.irllli.g l lg-iiraa, A great revolution has gone on in the manufacture mid coiiixjiindiiig of pie. No more the housewilo carefully meaa- I un-i out "a cup cf milk, a spoonful of aaleratus, a lump of butter, pinch of salt. thr.s.' tabl.-sKx.ii fuls of sugar, four slicisl appl.-s and a Utile pr.ro lard." Today the dough is kneaded by steam and the ovens are vast and hot l.reatlud caverns. In the rreat kit. hen of the nux.'ern pie factory aro numbers of immense copper kettles surmounting brick ovens, and fat male cx.ks Mir the Kivory nmsnt-s within. On little tables around the room aro dozens of wooden tulw holding the linings for thousands of pies. Then the busy bakers lake the dough, and Ix fore the oven door with deft and rapid touch. press it into the shape of tho embryo pie, into a pan and a line of pies is soon pass ing into the oven's mouth with wonder ful celerity. Tim ordinary ovens used w ill hold about ili.O small pies and the tenix rature nspiind is graduated with remarkable skill. New York, of cou rue. produces and eats mom pies than any city in the world, although its xt cuoita consumption is eclipsed by Chicago, llohton ami Philadel phia. There ttro eight or ten large fac tories dealing exchirively iu pies, and be twit'ii b"t) and 000 bakers also make them. The largest factory is on Sullivan street, nnd its output of pio is something awful to cnntemplute, and when ono thinks of the nuiuIxT of churches and achixili tho money sx'iit for pie would build, it is a qticMion if the x-ople should not stop and uk, "Whither is this awful habit carrying us?" In a year or two the pie habit may rank with tlio curso of drink and evils of tobacco as a never failing fountain from which debating so cictics and lyceuins can draw topic to argue on. One of the foremen in tlio factory on Sullivan stitt't said: "In cur establishment we turn out every kind of pie so far discovered, but there lire certain kinds that uru staple. These are apple, minuc, lemon, gra, rnUin, plum, g.xaelx'rry, whortleberry, strawlx'rry, x'ach, raspU'rry, pineapple, Iuimpkiu and custard. Apple, niinco, onion, pumpkin and custard aro tlie fa vorites. All our material is the finest in the market, nnd wo buy it in large quan tities, always keeping our orders ahead." "How much material do you use daily?" asked the rcxrtcr. "In a single day wo use alxnit 100 dozen eggs, b-"i0 pounds of lard, 13 bar rels of flour, 000 quarts of milk, 2,500 quarts of fruit, and turn out about 7.000 pies, or alxnit TiO.OOO a week and 2,000, 000 a year. Tho output from the large concerns in tho city will amount to i!3, 000 pies daily, and tho bakers will turn out about 40,000 mora, or 73.000 a day, 623,000 a week mid 27.UOO.000 per year, an average of about sixteen piegx.-r capita. These pies cut into quarters the usual sizes outsido of boarding houses would make 100,200,000 pieces. At an avcrugo of flvo cents oa somoof tho cheap restaurants charge only three cents, and tonier ones ten cents this would mnko Now York's annual pie bill (3,400,000, or more than wo pay for public scIhxiIs, or tho lire and police de partments, or send to the heathen. New York produces alxnit ono-thirtieth of the pie crop of the Unitisl States." This lust remark aroused a statistical vein In the rejxrter, and he figured until his brain was dizzy, and these are some of the results: In the United States tliere are eaten every c'ay 2,250,000 pies; each week, 10,750,000; each year, 819,000,. 000, at a cost of (103,800,000, an amount greater than tho internal revenue, and more than enough to pay the interest on the national debt and pensions. If the pie eiiteu daily were heuH.tl one on top of another they would form a pie tower 103,000 firt, or nearly thirty-seven miles high; if laid out in line they would reach from New York to Boston. With the pio products of a year a tower 13,403 miles high could be erected, and stretched out they would cover a line 89,130 miles long, or ulllcient to girdle the earth three times and let a Chinaman in Pekin chew at the last pio. These pits before eaten would weigh In a year 803,000 tons. Pie is a greut institution, as these figures show, New York Journal Tha Coat of Tlelng Rhnntrlnta. One of the managers of a big eastern knitting mill has made a calculation that the shoestrings of a working girl will come untied on the average tiiree times per diem, and that a girl will lose about SO seconds every time she stoo to retie them. Most of the employes have two feet, so this entails a loss of 800 seconds every day for each girl. There are about 400 girls employed in this factory, and therefore the gentlvman finds that 43, 800,000 seconds are wasted In the course of a year, which time, at the average rate of wages, is worth (043.17). Order have accordingly been issued that girls must wear only buttoned shoes or con gress gaiters under penalty of discharge. Detroit Tribune. To Nitr. Vow let ma sing mj Nelly's fame, For other men have done tha aaraa, And iralxed their idol's charm and wtt Bo if I do, what barm Is III forge, hwtroua eyes, yet full of Art Tenth null and wlille aa you'd deilra, Aad hair ao thick and soft lo prees, Its luxury inrlU caress. The com pass of ber volca, til true, MlKht nut pleaie crtUua such aa you But truth il la I cannot sing, Bo that don't cout for anything. Friends will her lometlmea catch and boU With claap that's warm, and touch that's bold No Jealous pong arlae thereat, UecauM my Kelly U a cat. Evening Sua, New to Iter. t Mr. Gotham (at the ball game) Do not Welch's curve, Miss Breezy, ramiad yoa of Hogarth'! line of beaiityl Miss Breety (from Chicago) Well, really, Mr. Ootham, I never saw Uogarta pitch. Naw York bun. W iff lf.S?l HXATEI! n S05S.