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TEniSfoSMrpTE iy mm i icr mm mmmmmmmr w- M'VU III ,1 "ll i mm I Mm. I ss im 4h LOST FRIENDSHIP. ALU The Third Dtrxy Gettysburg The New York Herald fr.e,i tireri a rr He cannot feel that one black Aour's action Has blotted out that self ot other days. How merciless the punishment of nature! More terrible than law or prison bars; To lose the fellowship from friendly faces. Is as if heaven had been bereft of stars.

A sight for mourning is a brother vanquished. Condemned to crime among the 'shadows gray: Ah, careful we lest comes our own undoing While loudly we rejoice, "we're not as they." "Judge not lest ye are Judged," Divine injunction! But to our armor look before we sleep And lest we careless grow, we being human. Beseech Thee, angel, strongest vigil keep. Boston Courier. prize of 100 for the best poem on Gettysburg baUle.

and nearly 1,000 were sent. The winner is John Harrison Mills of New York city, a soldier of the mar for the Union In the 21st New York regiment, whose history he wrote. He is now an artist In New York city, belonging to the Water Color Club and the National, Academy. I thought the clock struck five, and fath- er was calling the men; But, tired with the mowing, I turn! my cheek to the pillow to sleep asnin And my pillow wet with the morning dew; my bed was the hill; the skv Was my roof and my blanket and In the east the morning son was hifrh. A gun Fhakes the ground another volley! Away in the dark Where the sleepless pickets watch a flash like the firefly a distant spar It flutters along the edges.

A stir thro the shadow runs. And the silent battalions-stand In line, and the gunners af tlie, guns. There are eight and fifty guns aligned. And the whue slabs rise behind To tight in their street it is not meet. Kut the dead will never mind.

We came through Gettysburg town. Firing back as the sun went down; 1 saw there a maid she was not afraid And she smUed as the sun went down Now under the rising sun in the woods the tight roars on. Six points on the dial our silent gun marks on lite lunettes ere the riiht has won. The trenches emptied at Sickles' call whea Longvtreet tripped last night. ana me tail Crashed down ia our centre And still we wait-ch, the waiting, "tis worst oi an: When the lanyard la smlnging, the ruse I cut- the sabre at carry, ere hip her Tile wheels leap and tremble, the trail Vspurna the sod, the hoofs in the Viust strike fire.

We wait but m-e know where the eartaln Fhakes as the flying reek drifts afar Are the tcene shifters setting the stage anew tor the ever new drams, of war. Now tte curtain rings up. To your guna! Ah! lion of Lee what, at bay With sheli! Load! Since Jreey was lost and won such a sight has not seen the day. Shall it ver again? 'Twixt tb crest and the putin, half way, cannon stand wheel to wheel. From the left the right mile on mile-tier on tier now where that white tongue forks with red molten steel.

Aim low! Fire! And now. as if wired and Plans for the Encampment fT at the crisis of his fierce temptation His guarding angel had not glanced aside. Or' If with armor on and drawn sword waiting. To feltowhip he might not then have died. But knowing not that then would come the tempter And knowing not that thus would he assail.

He fell from proud estate that marks high manhood. Became the thing against which good, men rail. Within him there still lives the kindly Impulse The love for mankind still throbs In his heart: Sometimes forgetting he dwells In the shadows He strives to do again a worthy part. He can not learn this self or evil censure Whose fellows pass with an averted gaze: Remedies for Curse What can be done to stay this de-famer, this deceiver, this destroyer of the bodies and souls and substance of men? Legislate against it? Go, on and get the most that may be in the form of statute. Shall we urge the pledpe upon the young? Yes, it may guard some.

Shall we cry aloud and spare not, that the magnitude of this monstrous immorality may be made known in all its odious ugliness? Yes, let the trumpet blast wake the deafest ear. But if all this is done the effect will not be as salutary as is certain to be realized if the principles of the Christian religion are powerfully and persistently taught Drunkenness has been tne degradation of man since when? Certainly since Noah (Genesis ix: 20-21) drank himself der drunk. All along the Old Testament record there are monuments of intemperance. Drunkenness rioted in Cor-ith vlien Paul inaugurated a Christian church there. So much that he corrected them for indulgence in drink at the Lord's Supper.

In this lesson Ingersoll's Eloquence Perhaps the most sad example of the prostitution of God-given genius was the rhapsody of Col. Ingersoll accompanying the present of a keg of whisky. Pitiful that such exquisite diction and divine imagery should be associated with the curse of alcchoL Col. Ingersoll said: "I send you some of the most wonderful whisky that ever drove the skeleton from a feast or painted landscapes in the brain of man. It Is the mingled souls of wheat and corn.

In it you will find the sunshine and shadow that chase each other over the billowy field, the breath of June, the carol of the lark, the dews of the night the wealth of summer, and autumn's rich content all golden with imprisoned light Drink it, 'and you will hear the voice of men and maidens singing the 'Harvest mingled with the laughter of children. Drink it, and you will feel within your Sa.ys God Alone Ca.n "I once thought that there was hope of an amendrient to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drink as a beverage in the United States, but nothing but the shedding of blood can accomplish that now by the power of men alcne. and the men who believe in it are not, as a rule, advocates of war." This was the conclusion drawn by Rev. James M. Gray.

D. of Boston, In a recent talk at Chicago. "Every thoughtful Christian citizen." he continu3d, "must be impressed by the growth of the liquor evil. The census report on the manufacturing of alcohol liquors, including wine, beer and other spirituous drinks? shows a total consumption in this country in 19M) over 1.300.000,000 gallons, or 17 3-10 gallons for every member of the population. And this is not counting the output of illicit distilleries, of which there are still a great IF LIFE fT Tlfe were all.

what need the living then In transient griefs that seem to multiply Each with the disappearance of Its mate. And so to crowd In one long misery The little pains. In union waxing great. And racking us beyond all mortal ken? This tear-wash'd vale were nothing else to be There where the twilight robes the close of day The Hidden Presence To say that God is everywhere is not the same as to say that I see God everywhere I go. The first is an intellectual theory, the second a vital experience.

It is conceivable that God might be everywhere and yet the soul not see him wherever it should go; it is conceivable that the soul should see God wherever it should go and yet God not be everywhere. The theological doctrine of the omnipresence of God has grown out of the spiritual experience of companionship with God, but the two are not identical. The one is a deduction of the philosophers, the other is an experience of the devout It is this last one which the sacred writers lay stress in the Bible. They are not framers of a theory; they are narrators of an experience. We find God everywhere if we take God with us; not otherwise.

It is sometimes said that the devout soul does not really see God in nature, he Self-Majesty When appetite has the keenest edge it must be wielded, like a dangerous weapon with the most absolute mastery. When the nerves quiver with irritable propensity, the will must lay a tranquilizing hand upon their trembling, forbid the lips to open but for quiet words, and compel the heart to live by the placid faith of. happier hours. When coward inclination recoils frcm the austere simplicity of duty, shrinks from the hardness of Its strife, grows sensitive to the voices of derision, and obtuse to the whisperings of God, then inclination must be punished as a treacherous and wicked counsellor, and all that it forbade be undertaken at any cost. And when the proud, self justifying thought would refuse to confess and double Christ and the People It is frequently said that the church of our time has lost its grip on the working class.

The statement is far too sweeping; but whatever truth it contains, is measured by the extent to which the church, ever or anywhere, turns aside from the word or example of her Lord. He was no respecter of persons; His heart overflowed with love for all sorts and conditions of men. Jesus was a social reformer. As a Man of the people He had a heart that was in sympathy with them; and His life and teaching were addressed to the betterment of their conditions here and hereafter. It is now nineteen hundred years since His advent.

The ripening of His glorious purpose has been slow but sure. "The mill3 of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small." We look back over the centuries and are able to estimate what Christ has done for the people. The heart of Jesus went out to the How to Be Happy Real life lies in service; that Is to say. to be of some use in the world, to make other people happier and better by our presence among them, is the only way of being happy and of Improving ourselves, and that not as an occasional thing for a day or for a month, but as the settled habit of our life. I am here in the world to serve and to think of others and not myself.

Now although that is the open secret of happiness in the world, it is extraordinarily difficult for us to realize it, and I suppose most young people begin under the impression that instead of happiness lying in service it lies in being served. I would therefore remind you. especially those of you who are placed in circumstances Explanation of Miracles There is a "funny man" on the Chicago Tribune who now and then says a thing of force and sense. Looking at the constant foolish quarrel over the miracles of Jesus and seeing how the explanations are often more mystifying than the miracles themselves, he says: "The most reverent may to handle the New Testament miracles is to refrain from any attempt to explain them." Perhaps Faith nd Works Ask me why a true faith must work! Ask why the branch can do other than bear clusters of ruddy grapes. Its difficulty would be to abstain from bearing; the vitality of the root accounts for its life and productiveness.

Blame the lark, whose nature vibrates in the sunshine, for pouring from its small throat volumes Your Fa.ther Knoweth "Vour Father knoweth." This is one of the tender words of scripture, the sweet hushing answer of a love that understands all and can do all. There Is such Joy la these words: "He knoweth. Tour Father knoweth that ye nave need of such things." It may heart-need or fife-need or soul-loafing, tha nnattalned desire, the on rat WERE of In filmy mist, and shrouds the after while In mystery were this uncertain way Not less of tear, and more of cheery smile. Why fear the Issue of eternity? If life were ail ah! but the shadows give An outer edge of promise and of cheer To smooth the frown and banish our despair And as we use our golden talents here. We And fruition of our labors there; Eternal joy is measured as we live.

Leslie Weekly. only imagines him there; he reads him into nature. In the same sense the artist reads into nature beauty, and the poet truth. Nature reflects back to them what they bring to nature. The artistic in nature is discovered only by the artistic in man; the divine in nature is perceived only the divine in man.

The man of vision does not see what does not exist; he does not create, he perceives. But the blind man does not see what does exist; he floes not see it because he can not; for as only the spirit of the artist within can see beauty without, so only the spirit of the divine within can see God without. That is what Christ means when he says. "Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God." The muddy pool does not reflect the stars. We discern so much of God in nature and in life as we have of God within us wherewith to discern no more, no less.

the past wrong by shutting it up in sullenness instead of opening it out in secret shame; we must instantly, by an act of self-sacrificing will, invoke the Holiest to witness our impenitence and humble ourselves within that presence to which our pitiable disguises are of no avail. And if ever a sad, distrustful mind, producing timid and wavering steps, comes over us, and life appears too and death too awful a thing, it were false in us to submit to such a delusion, and listen to such monotony of strain; and we must force ourselves upon the wing away fly to the hills of faith where dwelleth our help lose ourselves in the forests of our deepest worship, where blessed birds will sing the songs of heaven to our weary hearts. James Martineau. masses, to the great body of producers, who, by sweat of brain and brawn, are ever enriching the world- Observe how His preaching Is en riched with industrial figures; of nets and boats, sowing, fertilizing and reaping, mills and markets and toll- booths, shepherds, housekeepers, arch' itects, vine-dressers and other sorts of handcraftsmen. At the outset of His ministry He gathered about Him a cabinet of twelve men.

all of whom were devoted to braincraft or handi craft There was not among them a s.ngle gentleman of leisure. In view of such conditions, it is not surpris ing to learn that the great multitude of believers in the early church were from among the working class. On the one hand, "not many mighty, not many noble were and on the other, there was little in the new religion to attract the Indolent, since one of its fundamental precepts was, "If any man will not work, neither let him eat" Dr. David J. BurrelL of ease and comfort, that if you make the great object of your life pleasure and amusement, the springs of youi being will gradually dry up within you.

and long oefore you have reached middle life you will find that pleasur has ceased to please, and amusement has ceased to amuse; but, on the othei hand. If you make the whole object of your life to serve others to minister, to bless, and tc save any one of these human being around you. you will find that thos sacred springs within your own na ture bubble up afresh, bubble up in perennial freshness, and while yog never sought you will always flnJ pleasure and amusement in the world Dr. R. F.

Horton, he is right For generations past mer have tried to explain the miracles oi the Christ but they haven't got be yond making bad blood among them selves. Strange that so many fail tc see that Jesus himself Is the great est miracle; one would naturally ex pect him to do things no other mai ever did before him or after him. A stab at the miracles is a stab at th Christ Baptist Union. sound; blame the child, full oi bounding health, for laughing, sing ing and leaping; blame the musician whose soul has caught some frag menta of the music of eternity, foi pouring It forth In song, before yot wonder why it is that the true faltk which has opened the way from th believer his Lord produces thes greater works. F.

B. Meyer. filled wish. To every pang of dlsap pointment to every powerless reach Ing forth of hope, no less than tc vary sigh over mere temporal need this word comes: 'Tour Father kaosr eta." Some men are your friends only leng aa they can use you. Like a hundred craters the black line breaks into fiery eruption, and sucn A shock is it by another the vale fp.its asunder 1 think, with the The scream, the deafening crash and the lasu of the earth, smitten as with a flail! It was- but the flourish of trumpets, the blare as the gudiators come.

Only a red splash here and there, and the bursung of the drum Of the nverburriemu tar; a lull; the vol- leying crash and the roar Of battle, in echo recede, return, as waves from a surf beaten shore. A murmur iiong the lines is h-ard, and there, on the cret-t. Against the gren, and in the sheen of the bayonets. s-e The guidons licketts Virginians and of Carolinian Heth. Over the nai.i.

rine waves of gray that leap on the tide of Death. Now Is the belt drawn tighter, the visor down, and we.l Each rifleman looks to his rifle that every shot may tell. For yon are no kid giove warriors, where they come they mean to slay; Not a man here but knows what it bitterly means when Lee is brought to bay. They have passed their guns; their columns close; now at shoulder shift" thev come. Load! With shell! Fire low! there the old muskets go.

Here the shells diop again. Fire low! Fire low! Their batteries over them roll a veil Through their ranks cuts the blast of the Iron hail. The air is alive with the bees of lead droning their angry hum. On, with colors hih. they come.

Each heart is its 'own drum. And every ear h-ars U.ud and clear its battle anthem sung. Though the earth is clft with thunder anl the air Is beaten dumb As the great guns roll their volleys and the haying hills give tongue. Half way a pause the lines close up! Straight on like a summer rain Death I ats their faces. Their rifles speak.

Then that old yell heard again. Like a battering ram their column strikes our Center and as a mall Crumbles on him that breaks is, so is it, as they fail. They laid the wounded on the floor. The little house would hold no more; The little maid was not afraid. Put the tender eyes ran o'er; The sient shoe swept the town.

With the dying she lay down; The little maid smiled she was not afraid To die as the stjn went down. John Harrison Mills. nent members of the Grand Army of the Republic, bands will play the old marching tunes, and the audience will join in singing them. the evening though this date may be changed to Wednesday even ing. to suit the pleasure of prominent people who desire to be present will be held the three great woman's re ceptions.

The national president of the Ladies of the G. A. Mrs. Emma Wall, will hold her reception from 7 to 8 o'clock, and will be assisted by her staff and all past national officers who are in the city. From 8 to 9 o'clock the national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs.

Calista Robinson Jones, assisted by her whole staff and such past national officers as are in the city, will receive the rommander-in chief and his staff and all visiting vet erans and ladies. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant chairman of the reception committee, assisted by Ms. Ellen Spencer Mus-sey, chairman of the woman's auxili ary committee, and all the national officers of all the woman's orders, and the members of the executive com mittee, will take their places in line for the grand reception.

It Is thought that this will be the most gorgeous affair that has ever been given at a national encampment One happy thought In connection with it is that there will be no necessity for roaming all over a big city in an attempt to locate receptions that one wishes to attend. Besides being under one roof, and held during consecutive hours, those who attend can give themselves up to the thorough enjoyment of the evening and not be in the least hurried. in July, 1863. during the famous riots. owned a white horse which he used for peddling.

This horse was the only company that he ever commanded, and he drilled it only in the "school of tie soldier." He nsed no reins, but guided the animal by military commands. The horse responded as promptly as a "high private" to the command. "Forward, march!" "File right!" "File left!" "Right about, march!" and "halt." but when Heath wanted the horse to trot he did not use a whip and cry out "Gi' up! Old Satan!" On the contrary, he would command "Double quick, march:" and then the dust would fly. The old horse went years ago to his last resting place, and Heath has gone "where all good old darkies go." After his death, the family and friends having no means for the funeral expenses, their representative appealed to the commander of the Grand Army Post to give him as "good a funeral as white folks hav." and when they learned that only $35 could be appropriated from the public fund for a destitute veteran's funeral, they got a few more dollars tosether by soliciting subscriptions and a few more carriages were hired to carry some of the colored friends to the cemetery. Corps Dec.

I. 1S64. to report with his division to Gen. Grant at City Point, there was great rejoicing. We felt sure that we would soon touch elbows again with the boys of the Sixth corps, and when we left the front to embark at Stephens depot, below Winchester, there was as much frolicking as If we bad been released for a boll-day." Chicago Inter Ocean.

While the plans of the woman's citizens' committee at Washington are not completed as to details, tie general features are now ready to give to the public The reception of the Woman's Relief Corps. Ladies of the G. A. and -of the Woman's Auxiliary Committee have been settled upon as to place. There was very strong talk of holding these receptions In the rotunda of the rapitol, and all arrangements had been made to put a measure through congress for that purpose.

While the historic rotunda la large enough, the provisions for Ingress and egress are very poor, and remembering the trouble on this account ten years ago, Mrs. Spencer Mussey, chairman of the committee, felt that she would like to have even roomier quarters for these great events if possible. The result is that the receptions will all be held in Convention halL This is to be magnificently decorated for the various functions of the week. It Is to begin by holding a great religious and patriotic service on Sunday, Oct. 5.

There Is a splendid chores of 500 mixed voices cow in training for the musical features of this service. It Is thought that a great religions concert, with eminent soloists, will" be the feature of Sunday afternoon- On Monday afternoon a mass meeting will be held. At this meeting a formal welcome will be tendered by the citizens' and executive committee to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R.

and other patriotic and military organisations which are the guests of the city. Tuesday a great general camp fire reunion is to be held In the hall, taking practically the whole day. when campfire talks will be made by promi piece (Romans he admonishes against "rioting and drunkenness." Meanwhile tow small a portion of, scripture is taken np with teaching the topic of total abstinence from Intoxicants. Christ our Lord was almost absolutely silent on tie subject Neither He tor His representatives established temperance societies. But what they did do was more effectual.

They taught the highest principles of life and right conduct And so if the Sunday school aeher will first anathematize the whole abominable business of the liquor interest and then take these lesson verses and pic out the noble principles therein inculcated and impress them the class will receive impetus for a temperate life. "Owe no man anything" (lesson verse SO), and if one abstains from drink it will help fcim in many ways to be honest Thus go through all these rich instructions, applying them, as is so easily done, to the high end of an abstemious and upright Jfe. John Lindsay Withrow, Park Street church, Boston. Out of Place blood the star-lit oawns. the dreamy, tawny dusks of many perfect days.

For fifty years this liquid joy has been within the happy staves of oak. longing to toucn the lips of man." The opposite opinion of whisky is reflected in the following comment of the Nation newspaper on Ingersoli's letter: "If whisky produced the effects which Col. 'Bob' ascribes to It It would undoubtedly be the best gift bestowed by Providence on suffering, toiling humanity. But unfortunately It does not produce these effects. It may possmiy cause some to near tne voice of men and maidens singing the "Harvest Home." mingled with the laughter of But what the-great majority of people hear when, they take it in sufficient quantity to-be affected by it is the voice of men swearing at the maidens and the yell of children under the application ot th3 parental poker and tongs." Do It Moreover, the product of malt liquors alone in the United States has increased in fifty years in a ratio that may be judged when it is stated that th- establishments for its manufacture have multiplied three and a half times, from 431 in 1840 to 1.509 at the present time.

The cost oi producing the article reaches hundreds of millions or dollars, and the cost to consumers mut attain pretty nearly to a billion." While urging prearhers and citizens to do all in thMr power to abolish the drink habit, he concluded: "But the destruction of the rum traffic as such is too igartic for anyone to undertake except tne Lord of uiory Himself, who. nben He comes, will sweep it and every other sin and sin-producing element frtm the face of the earth, punishing the men who for selfish ends have promoted it, except they repent practice of hopnirg onto weak-looking adult pedestrians and robbing then in order to get together tae price of a "kag" of beer, which they carry to a vacant lot ard guzzle nrtil they are in a state of brutalized- intoxication. At the political clambakes and other out-of-door affairs of the east side population the number of miserably drunken young girls tottering around before the fesiiviries are well under way is something Fad to see. and yet such exhibitions attract little or no attention and elicit bo oiher sensation than that of mild amusement the grown individuals attending such af fairs. Omaha Bee.

unthinkable. If that wr-re saved it would give Sum per year to each of 5.000.000 families." His estimate the value received for all this vast outlay was not given in the report of his sermon, as printed. Most likely he had not anything to pnt en the credit side of the account That would be our condition. We fail to ae where the American people get their money's worth out of the salron. Possibly seme of our readers may know how the account can be balanced.

It'a all pay out and nothing of value paid In. as we look at It An Eccentric Negro Veteran Child Victims of Alcohol So common is the evil of drunken- organized gangs cf boys, their ages ness among children in New York ranging from TO to 15. who make a' city that the temperance societies are going to petition for a law making it a misdemeanor, punishable both by fine and imprisonment, for parents to give alcoholic beverages to their children under any circumstances whatever, unless for medicinal purposes and under the supervision of a doctor or apothecary, and there is a pretty fair chance that their petition will be granted. Whatever may be the underlying canse, the amount of druakenness among mere children is something appalling to contemplate. In certain sections of the town there are well it has been often said of the col ored soldiers who took part In the civil war that many of them had no superiors in valor or daring, and proof of this stands In history Li numerous Instances.

These veteransrwitb black skins are fast passing awry. them -Charley" Heath by name, died a few days ago In Mount Vernon, N. and on bl ureast as he lay in his coffin were many medals and badges that had been awarded to him for a deed of some kir d. or which he may have purchased. He was a character whose Individuality will live long in memory, and he lived two years beyond the time of "three-score and ten." When asked a few days before his death how it was that he had been spared from the enemy's bullet and that other arch enemy, disease, when others around him had died at a much younger age, he replied by quoting Shakespeare: -Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The valiant never taste of death but once, etc. For many years this old negro, who had served In the army throughout the civil war and who was one of those dark-skinned unfortunates who Chatham street was cnasea iui6 Attachments Between "Any mention of the Sixth corps." said the sergeant, "always Dnngs pleasant memories to me. It was was with us in the Shenandoah valley until after Cedar Cn-ek. when it returned to position in frtflt of Petersburg We of the Army of West Virginia missed the boys cf the Sixth, and were homesick for them. Therefore, when Gen.

Thomas M. Harris, commanding the Second division of The -Credit Side" of Drink The Indiana Farmer says: A Chicago preacher, in a sermon recently gave some valuable figures regarding the liquor traffic in the United States. For the different kinds of intoxicating drinks he showed that the American people spend $1,055,000,000 yearly. The Indirect cost involved in the business he estimated at somewhere between one and one and a half billion dollars, saying that "if we take the most conservative figures and say that the total cost of the traffic is we yet have a sum that is all but.