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WEALTHY BUT INSANE. DE. TALMAGES JOURNEY vou found him after a while. Where? In the same place where Joseph and Mary found their boy in the temple. What do mean bv that? I mean, you uo your l-ntv toward God and toward your child WONDERFUL ITINERARY OF CHRIST'S WALK TO NAZARETH.

and you will find him after a while in the kingdom of Christ. Will you say, "I do not have any way of influencing my child?" I answer you have the most tre Bethel and the Sea of Galilee Fare OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI L. POWER, B.H.HBNET. R. II.

HEJNORY PROPRIETORS. JACKSON, NOVEMBER 10, 189u. DAILY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One month 8 0 50 8ix months 3 00 One year 6 00 well to the Historic Mountains Around Jerusalem Awful Tragedies of the Olden Times. Beookltx, Xov. 9.

Today Dr. Talmage preached the seventh of his course of ser mons on his recent tour in Palestine. As on Arrival and Departure of TrV ILLINOIS EXTRA L. NORTH EOCSD No.2. Arrive No.

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Mail Express a 5 westbound. Mail 0i 8 5 Express NATCHEZ ACKSON' A aLU Prl111 WKST BOUND "-'Hi-S. Mail, leaves Jaeksou Accoramodation KA6T BOUND. Mall, arrives jack sod Accommodation Daily exeeut Sunday 1)0 previous Sundays the sermon was preached before two large audiences. In the morn The Hemingway case was agned the Supreme Court thia morning.

ing it was preached in the Academy of Music, in this city, and at night Dr.Talmage preached it again in the New York Academy of Music which The Christian Herald con Allen W. Thueman, son of hia father, says Cleveland did it with hi3 reform tariff message in 1887. tinues to rent for these services. During the six meetings thus far held in New York 90,000 people have endeavored to hear Dr. Talmage preach.

Of these 30,000 have been admitted and 60,000 have been turned away for lack of accommodation. Following is the sermon from the text, Senatob Shebman, when asked the cause of the tidal wave replied laconically: "The women did it. They fonnd the prices higher when they went shopping, and the men had to vote against the tariff bill." boys, appoints herself as sentinel to guard the seven corpses from beak of raven and tooth of wolf and paw of lion. She pitches a black tent on the rock close by the gibbets. Rizpah by day sits on the ground in front of her tent, and when a vulture begins to lower out of the noonday sky seeking its prey among the gibbets Rizpah rises, her long hair flying in tb wind, and swiasrlru: her arms wildly about shoos away tne oira or prey until it retreats to its eyrie.

At night she rests under the shadow of her tent, and sometimes falls into a drowsiness or half sleep. But the step of a jackal among the dry leaves or the panting of a hyena arouses her, and with the fury of a maniac she rushes out upon the rock crying, "Away! Away!" and then, examining the gibbets to see that they still keep their burden, returns again to her tent till some swooping wing from the midnight sky or some growling monster on the rock again wakes her. TUE GIBBETS IN AMERICA. A mother watching her dead children through May, June, July, August, September and October! What a vigil! Painters have tried to put upon canvas the scene, and they succeeded in sketching the hawks in the sky and the panthers crawling out from the jungle, but they fail to give the wanness, the earnestness, the supernatural courage, the infinite self sacrifice of Rizpah, the mother. A mother in the quiet home watching by the casket of a dead child for one night exerts the artist to his utmost, but who is sufficient to put upon canvas a mother for six months of midnights guarding her whole family, dead and gibbeted upon the mountains? Go home, Rizpah! You must be awfully tired.

You are sacrificing your reason and your life for those whom you can never bring back again to your bosom. As I say that from the darkest midnight of the century Rizpah turns upon me and cries: "now dare you tell me to go home? Iam a mother. I am not tired. You might as well expect God to get tired as for a mother to get tired. I cared for those boys when they lay on my breast in infancy, and I will not forsake them now that they are dead.

Interrupt me not. There stoops an eagle that I must drive back with my agonized cry. There is a panther I must beat back, with my club!" "So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north" (Ezekiel viii, 5): At 1 o'clock on a December afternoon GEO.RU I A PACIFIC Trains leave Winona dailv EOin tr m. and 4.46 p. passing (irKt 6.:3 and 6.09 p.

arriving at and 9. p.m. liie at 10.x? a EetnrninK, leave Greenville at 60 p. passing Greenwood at a'' ar-5 arriving at Winona at 10 a' 1 aai making connections with N.Vr''"4 "-c Dound trainson I. C.

K.R Uu a-l through Damascus gate we are passing out of Jerusalem for a journey northward. Ho! for Bethel, with its stairs, the Bottom step of which was a stone pillow; and Jacob's well, with its immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with its divine boy in his father's carpenter shop, and the most glorious lake Mondat, Noverber 27th, is named by the President as a Thanksgiving Day. He ought to have added a to hi3 proclamation that this has no reference to the result of the late election. mendous line of influence open right De-fore you. As you write a letter, and there are two or three routes by which it may go, but you 'want it to go the quickest route, and you put on it wia Southampton," or "via San Francisco," or "via Marseilles," put on your wishes about your child, "via the throne of God." How long will such a good wish take to get to its destination? Not quite as long as the millionth nart of a second.

I will Drove it. Tne promise is, "Before they call I will answer." That means at your first motion toward such prayerful exercise the blessing will come, and if the prayer be made at 10 o'clock at night it will be answered five minutes before ten. "Before they cal I will answer." Well, you say, I am clear discouraged about my son, and I am getting on in years, and I fear I will not live to see him converted. Perhaps not. Nevertheless I think you will find him in the temple, the heavenly temple.

There has not been an hour in heaven the last one hundred years when parents in glory had not had announced to them the salvation of children whom they left in this world profligate. We often have to say "I forgot," but God has never yet once said "I forgot." It may be after the grass of thirty summers has greened the top of your grave that your son may be found in the earthly temple. It may be fifty years from now when some morning the towers are chiming the matins of the glorified in heaven that you shall find him in the higher temple which has "no need of candle or of sun, for the Lord God and the Lamb are the light thereof." Cheer up, Christian father and mother! Cheer up! Where Joseph and Mary found their boy you will find yours in the temple. You see, God could not afford to do otherwise. One of the things he has positively promised in the Bible is that he will answer earnest and believing prayer.

Failing to do that he would wreck his own throne, and the foundations of his palace would give way, and the bank of heaven would suspend payment, and the dark word "repudiation" would be written across the sky, and the eternal government would be disbanded and God himself would become an exile. Keep on with your prayer, and you will yet find your child in the temple, either the temple here or the temple above. A CHRISTIAN WOMAN'S PRAYEH. that ever rippled or flashed Blue Galilee, sweet Galilee, The lake where Jesus loved to be; GENERAL DIRECTORY. and Damascus, with its crooked street called Straight, and a hundred places charged and surcharged with apostolic, There is one thing we wish to congratulate the Convention upon, and that is, it has forbidden the Legislature from meeting every two years.

Let everyone give a hearty amen. Oxford Eagle. A Mistake. Tha Legislature will meet very two years. In 1892 in regular session, in 1894 in special session, in 1896 in regular session, in 1898 in special session, and so on.

evangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal, kingly and Christly reminiscences. In traveling along the roads of Palestine Millionaire Lehman's Luxurious Apartments in doomingdaie Asylum. Descending to tbe first floor the locked doors on the right of the parlor open upon the private suite of apartments occupied by the insane Chicago millionaire E. J. Lehman.

Mr. Lehman was and is still the proprietor of the biggest retail dry goods store in Chicago. Mr. Lehman is suffering from a form of paresis, and although he is but 42 years old there is not the slightest hope of Ms recovery. He lives like a king in his apartments, and his family pay for the luxuries with royal liberality.

He has three apartments, which occupy all the right side of the house on the lower floor. For these rooms and board alone he pays $150 a week. Then he has three special attendants who keep with him night and day. These cost $42 a week additional. He keeps his horses and carriages and rides out onee a day.

One of the attendants does the driving, while the other two sit on either side of him. For the many other luxuries he enjoys Mr. Lehman pays out in all $400 a week. He pays more than any other inmate of the asylum. While at times he is quiet and pleasant Mr.

Lehman is one of the wildest men in the asylum when an insane fit strikes him. It is because of this that it is necessary to keep three attendants watching him. He has smashed thousands of dollars' worth of furniture since his incarceration. He is a tall, athletically built man, and is possessed of enormous strength when he becomes wild. Although his three attendants are all trained athletes they have great difficulty in holding him at times.

While he sleeps in one of the small rooms an attendant sits at his bedside and watches all night, while the other two sleep in the large room a few feet distant. In addition to the usual iron gTatings on the windows several strong bars have been placed. Several times a week the Chicago millionaire tries to break out of the rooms. He has almost wrenched the iron gratings from their places, and on one occasion almost succeeded in climbing up the wall to the glass transom above the top of the door and breaking through. To guard against a repetition of this the glass has been removed and wooden boards have been nailed in its place.

About once a month Mr. Lehman's wife comes on from Chicago to see her husband. Sometimes she brings one of her four children with her. She is not permitted to speak to him or allow him to see her. While she stands in one part of the grounds he is driven past her in his carriage, and in this way she is enabled to catch a brief glimpse of his face.

In his rational moments Mr. Lehman talks to his attendants about his wife and children. He says that he has the sweetest family in the world and that they all love him. In his parlor Mr. Lehman has a handsomely carved organ.

He is very fond of musio and is a musician of no insignificant skilL He plays upon the organ at times half the day and completely enchants the other inmates of the house. New York Journal. I am impressed, as I could not otherwise have been, with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot. We find him occasionally on a boat, and once riding in a triumphal procession, as it is sometimes called, although it seems to me that the hosannasof the crowd could not have made CITY OFFICERS. William Henry no.

Buck Isydore Strauss 7 irk A. Lusk Henry Taylor Alex. Wilson vOsored vi- ALDERMKN. North Ward B. W.

Griffith, Luther South Ward H. M. TaVtor A est Ward Geo. Lemoti, Kegular meeting of the Board on r3 after 1st Tuesday month. WtdEa STATE OFFICERS.

John M. Stone M. M. Kvans Geo. Go van Semtavn70: Stoue Auditor rui J.

J. Evans y. m. Muier J. Preston SMiperin tendent Ej- K.

11. Henry (ieo. 1. Carlisle Commissioner Iumw Miss Rosa Tucker tite 1 1 S. Wilson Swamp Land Comtu J.t St LfTeE" J.

II. Askew. Railroad Comma, Walter McLaurm. BKNKVOLEST INSTITUTIONS. State Lunatic Asylum Dr.

T.J. Mitcbe'l E. Miss. Insane Asylum.Dr. J.

M. Buchanan vX" Deaf and Dumb Institution J. K.lobvi Blind Asylum Peter Fairlvi'S' Do you know what that scene by our In an interview with a press correspondent at Natchez, J. R. Lynch said that he believed a Federal election law was needed more in the cities of the North than in the South more frauds are committed in the elections in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and other Northern cities than anywhere in the Southern States.

a rule on a stuDDorn, unimpressive ana funny creature like that which pattered with him into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But we are made to understand that generally he walked. How much that means only those know who have gone roadside in Palestine makes me think of? It is no unusual scene. Right here in these three cities by the American sea coast there are a thousand cases this moment worse than that. Mothers watching boys that the rum saloon, that annex of hell, over the distance traversed by Christ.

We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two miles from Jerusalem. Well, any has gibbeted in a living death. Boys hung in chains of evil habit they cannot break. The father may go to sleep after waiting until 12 o'clock at night for the ruined boy to come home and, giving it up, he Penitentiary Board of Control. J.

H. Askew, Walter McLaurm, with (ioven The incorporators of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad, having become disgusted with the slow methods of the Anglo-Southern Construction Company, to whom had been let the contract to build the road, hava cancelled their contract, and are now negotiating with another construction company. It is to be hoped that some arrangements will be made to enable work to commence at an early day. SUPRKMK COURT. Thos.

H. Woods Chief Justice. Sec or J. A. P.

Campbell As'so Justice, Third Dij--- T. E. Cooper As'so. Justice, Fourth may say, "Mother, come to bed; there's no use sitting up any longer." But mother will not go to bed. It is 1 o'clock in the morning.

It is half-past 1. It is 2 o'clock. It is half-past 2 when he comes staggering through the hall. Do you say that young man is yet alive? No; he is dead. Dead to his father's entreaties.

Dead to his mother's prayers. Dead to the family altar where he was reared. Dead to all the noble ambitions that once inspired him. Twice dead. Only uiiver cuiion 4 of October and 1 irst Monday of April.

UNITED STATES C0U3TS, Circuii and Chancery Courts 1st MoEia. May and Novembei Robert A. Hill, K. H. Winter, Clerk; 3 S.

Mathews, Marsha; CIRCUIT COURT HISDS COUNTY, First District At Jackson, first Monday ia uary and June 18 days. Second District At Raymond, fourth in January and June 12 days. J. B. Chrisman, Judge; V.

H. Potter, Clerk. CHANCKRY COURT I1INDS C0C.VTY. First District At Jackson, first Monisy March and October 12 days. Second District At Raymond third Mon-h; February and September 12 days.

Warren Cowan, Chancellor; W. W. Clerk. HINDS COUNTY SUPERVISORS THE WIMBERLY PLAN. The Wimberly plan did not work well in the Delta; in fact was a dead failure.

"Wimberly had the tickets for Hill prepared in book form. Eaoh ticket had a stub numbered to correspond. The books were placed in the hands of agents who were to distribute them to voters as called for, eftch voter's name and number to be recorded on the stub. The voter wa3 re. quested to take his ticket, go to the polls, vote, return to the agent and report that he had voted for Hill, when he would be checked up." But the plan failed to work and Catchings was elected by the usual majority.

First district S. P. Head, Teiry: seconds trict D. M. Birdsong, president, Bolton; th'i district T.

McClelland, Learned fourth t- W. H. White. Cavusra; tilth district J. C.V-.

Pocahontas. Meetings on first Monday in a month, nltprnatelv at Kavniond and Jatison. Kavmond January, March, May, July, and November; Jackson February, April, Just August, October and December. W. W.

osing, clerk, office in Raymond; Ramsey Wiur.cr. deputy, office in Jackou. IMPORTANT CONSOLIDATION. On Saturday last the Memphis Appeaj purchased the name, material and good will of the Avalanche, and consolidated the two papers under the name of the Appeal-Avalanohe. This ia one of the most important newspaper consolidations that has occurred in this country, equal to that of the Louisville Courier and Journal or New Orleans Times and Democrat.

Henceforth, the Appeal-Avalanohe, with increased business and circulation doubled, will know no rival. Owning the exclusive franchise of the Associated and United Press, it can and will publish the greatest newspaper in Memphis. While the combination will prove ad A Fortune from Iteans and Beef. Oliver Hitchcock, the Park row beans and beef man, has made more money from the sale of the two articles of diet mentioned than any man in the world. His fortune is estimated to be $750,000.

He ia said to own considerable stock in the New York Central railroad and to have a large sum invested in bonds and mortgages. He is a remarkably sturdy man for his age he being 74 years old. Every day finds him behind his counter, at the corner of Beekman street, slicing the juicy cornbeef or ladling out the Boston vegetable. He works only four hours day now. Mr.

Hitchcock began selling beef and beans forty years ago, and he has been at it continuously ever since. Some of the most famous newspaper men of New York city have dined at his humble restaurant. Horace Greeley was one of Hitchcock's regular customers. cannot remember why he made a specialty of beef and beans, he has tangible evidence that if these articles are properly cooked and decently served they will bring a handsome remuneration. New York Journal.

man in ordinary health can walk two miles without fatigue. But not more than one man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany to Jerusalem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion is necessary to keep you from falling prostrate. who am accustomed to walk fifteen or twenty miles without lassitude, tried part of this road over the Mount of Olives, and confess I would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon one's physical energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a day in the morning from Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the evening from Jerusalem to Bethany.

VIEW FROM MOUNT SCOPUS. Likewise it seemed a small thing that Christ walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth. But it will take us four days of hard horseback riding, sometimes on a trot and sometimes on a gallop, to do it this week. The way is mountainous in the extreme. To those who went up to the Tip Top house on Mount Washington before the railroad was laid I will say that this journey from Jerusalem to Nacareth is like seven such American journeys.

So, all up and down and across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode. Herod rode.

Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With swollen ankles and sore muscles of the legs, and bruised heel and stiff joints and panting lungs and faint head, along the roads and where there were no roads at all Jesus walked. We tried to get a new horse other than that on which we had ridden on tbe journey to the Dead sea, for he had faults which our close acquaintanceship had developed. But after some experimenting with other quadrupeds of that species, and finding that all horses, like their riders, have faults, we concluded to choose a saddle on that beast whose faults we were most prepared to pity or resist.

We rode down through the valley and then up on Mount Scopus and, as our dragoman tells us that this is the last opportunity we shall have of looking at Jerusalem, we turn our horse's head toward the city and take a long, sad and thrilling look at the religious capital of our planet. This is the most impressive view of the most tremendous city of all time. On and around this hill the armies of the crusaders at the first sight of the city threw themselves on their faces in worship. Here most of the besieging armies encamped the night before opening their volleys of death against Jerusalem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount Mo-riah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvary! Will we never see them again? Never.

The world is so large and time is so short, and there are so many things we have never seen at all, that we cannot afford to duplicate visits or see anything more than once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray rock, and the three thousand years of architecture and battlefields. Farewell, sacred, sanguinary, triumphant, humiliated Jerusalem! Across this valley of the Kedron with my right hand I throw thee a kiss of valedictory. Oar last look, like our first look, an agitation of body, mind and soul indescribable. THE CORPSE CUT INTO TWELVE PIECES.

And now, like Ezekiel in my text, I lift up mine eyes the way toward the north. Near here was one of the worst tragedies of the ages mentioned in the Bible. A hospitable old man coming home at eventide from his work in the fields finds two strangers, a husband and wife, proposing to locrge in the street because no shelter is offered them, and invites them to come in and spend the night in his home. During the night the ruffians of the neighborhood conspired together, and surrounded the house, and left the woman dead on the doorstep, and the husband, to rally in revenge the twelve tribes, cut the corpse of the woman into twelve parts and sent a twelfth of it to each tribe, and the fury of the nation was roused, and a peremptory demand was made for the surrender of the assassins, and, the demand refused, in one day twenty thousand people were left dead on the field and the next day eighteen thousand. Wherever our horse today plants his foot in those ancient times a corpse lay and the roads were crossed by red rivulets of carnage.

Now we pass on to where seven youths were put to death and their bodies gibbeted or hung in chains, riot for anything they had themselves done, but as a reparation for their JEathcr and grandfather, Saul, had done. BunaX was denied these youths from May until Novcgnner. Sizpahj the mother of two of them dead Out on the western prairies was a happy but isolated home. Father, mother and child. By the sale of cattle quite a large sum of money was one night in that cabin, and the father was away.

A robber who had heard of the money one night looked in at the window, and the wife and mother of that home saw him and she was helpless. Her child by her side, she knelt down and prayed among other things for all prodigals who were wandering up and down the world. The robber heard her prayer and was overwhelmed and entered the cabin and knelt beside her and began to pray. He had come to rdb that house, but the prayer of that woman for prodigals reminded him of his mother and her prayers before he became a vagabond, and from that hour he began a new life. Years after that woman was in a city in a great audience, and the orator who came on the platform rd plead gloriously for righteousness and God was the man who many years before had looked into the cabin on the prairie as a robber.

The speaker and the auditor immediately recognized each other. After so long a time a mother's prayers answered. But we must hurry on, for the muleteers and baggage men have been ordered to pitch our tents for to-night at Bethel. It is already getting so dark that we have to give up all idea of guiding the hocses and leave them to their own sagacity. We ride down amid mud cabins and into ravines, where the horses leap from depth to depth, rocks below rocks, rocks under rocks.

Whoa! Whoa! We dismount in this place, memorable for many things in Bible history, the two iiiOFe prominent a theological seminary, where of old they made ministers, and for Jacob's dream. The students of this Bethel Theological seminary were called "sons of the prophets." Here the young men were fitted for the ministry, and those of us who ever had the advantage of such institutions will everlastingly be grateful, and in the calendar of saints, which I read with especial affection, are the doctors of divinity who blessed me with their care. I thank God that from these theological seminaries there is now coming forth a magnificent crop of young ministers, who are taking the pulpits in all parts of the land. I hail their coming, and tell these young brothers to shake off the somnolence of centuries, and get out from under the dusty shelves of theological discussions which have no practical bearing on this age, which needs to get rid of its sins and have its sorrows comforted. Many of our pulpits are dying of humdrum.

People do not go to church because they cannot endure the technicalities and profound explanations of nothing, and sermons about the "eternal generation of the son," and the difference between euli-lapaarianism and supra-lapsarianism, and about who MeLchisedec wasn't. There ought to be as much difference between the modes of presenting truth now and in olden time as between a lightning express rail train and a canal boat. Years ago I went up to the door of a factory in New England. OntheovtsMedwr I saw the words, "No admittance." I went in and came to another door over which were the words, "No admittance." Of course I went in, and came to the third door inscribed with the words, "No admittance." Having entered this I fonnd the people inside making pins, beautiful pins, useful pins, and nothing but pins. So over the outedde door of many of the churches has been practically written the words, "No admittance." Some have entered and have come to the inside door, and found the words, "No admittance." But, persisting, they have come inside, and found us sounding out our little niceties of belief, pointing out our little differences of theo logical sentiment making Dins! it was to the courage ana perseverance of a crank that we owe the discovery of this great hemisphere.

It was a crank that gave us the printing press, the cotton loom, the locomotive, the telegraph. All the great inventors from Archimedes to Edison have been cranks, all the great philosophers from Plato to Herbert Spencer, all the reformers from Lycurgus to Lady Habberton, all the peat preachers from Peter the Hermit to Henry Ward Beecher, all the heroes who left their plows standing in the furrow while they went to fight for liberty under Washington. Kate Field's Washington, i i vantageous to the Appeal-Avalanche, it will also benefit the other Memphis news The West Jackson Church B. F. Lewis.

preaching 11 a. 8:00 p. m. Sunuay 9:30 a. Mi.

J. T. H. LairJ, Superintend-. Prayer meeting, Thursday, p.

m. Baptist Church 11. F.Sproles, Pastor: Framing 11 a. 7:30 p. m.

Sunday School a B. W. Griffith, Superintendent. Prayer e-s Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.

Presbyterian John Hunter, Pastor r-ing 11a.m.; 7:30 p.m. Sunday School S) a. W. S. Lemly, Superintendent.

Prayer Wednesday night, 7:30. West Jackson School, 9 a. Dr. B. II.

Cully, Supennteu, Methodist Church. Eev. W.C. Preaching every babbath at 11 7:30 p. prayer meeting Wednesday Sabbath-school 9:30 a.ui.,W L.

Superintendent. St. Peter's Catholic LcuiiA Dutto, pastor; services every Sunday tar.j -7 a.m. High Mass, 10 a.m. espers, 4 p.

u- Episcopal (St. Andrew's) CiifRCH-EeTJ-' Hallani, Itector. Sunday service 11 a. -j Sunday School, 9:30 a. M.

Green, indent. Christian Chubch Kev. T. E. White.

pa-Preaching every 11 a. Beth Israel Conrkatio-o 1- present. Services every Friday citfht, -ducted by laymen. Societies, Capitol Lodge, no. 11, 1.

O. JV; day night. T. A. Her, G.

C. A. BroDr- retar7 a i Central Lodge, No. 7o4, K. of third Tuesday nights in each wentu.

v- dictator: H. C. Strauss, reporter; -financial reporter. r-S Jackson Lodge, No. 103, K.

and L. of third Monday. E.F. McGili, protector, secretary. Manassah Lodge, No.

202, I. O. ijy.l and fourth Sundajs, 10 a. id i Temple basement. Jo Asher, prew Kahn, secretary.

3Ti? Pearl Masonic Lodge, No. JV night each month. A. G. Lewis, 1 Gaston, secretary.

rj Pearl Lodge No. 23, Knights oWS'" s. and fourth Tuesday nights in each ingstoa, chancellor commander; keeper of records and seals. papers, as it lessens the number of journals dependent on that city for support. a corpse of what he once was.

Gibbeted before God and man and angels and devils. Chained in a death that will not loosen its cold grasp. His father is asleep, his brothers are asleep, his sisters are asleep; but his mother is watching him, watching him in the night. After he has gone up to bed and fallen into a drunken sleep his mother will go up to is room and see that he is properly covered, and before she turns out the light will put a kiss upon his bloated lips. "Mother, why don't you go to bed?" "Ah!" she says, "I cannot go to bed.

I am Rizpah watching the slain!" A POINTED POLITICAL SUGXJESTIOX. And what are the political parties of this country doing for such cases? They are taking care not to hurt the feelings of the jackals and buzzards that roost on the shelves of the grog shops and hoot above the dead. I am often asked to what political party I belong, and I now declare opinion of the political parties today. Each one Is worse than the other, and the only consolation in regard to them is that they have putrefied until they have no more power to rot. Oh, that comparatively tame scene upon which Rizpah looked! She looked upon only seven of the slain.

American motherhood and American wifehood this moment are looking upon seventy of the slain, upon seven hundred of the slain, upon seventy thousand of the slain. Woe! woe! woe! My only consolation on this subject is that foreign capitalists are buying up the American breweries. The present owners see that the doom of that business is coming as surely as that God is not dead. They are unloading upon foreign capitalists, and when we can get these breweries into the hands of people living on the other side of the sea our political parties will cease to be afraid of the liquor traffic, and at their conventions nominating presidential candidates will put in their platform a plank as big as the biggest plank of the biggest ocean steamer, saying: "Resolved unanimously that we always have been and always will be opposed to alcoholism." But I must spur on our Arab steed, and here we come in sight of Beeroth, said to be the place where oseph and Mary missed the boy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth, going iome now from a great national festival. "Where is my child, Jesus?" says Mary.

"Where is my child, Jesus?" says Joseph. Among the thousands that are returning from Jerusalem they thought that certainly he was walking on in the crowd. They described him, saying: "He is 12 years old, and of light complexion and blue eyes. A lost child!" Great excitement in all the crowd. Nothing so stirs folks as the news that a child is lost.

I shall not forget the scene when, in a great outdoor meeting. I was preaching, and some one stepped on the platform and said that a child was lost. We went on with the religious service, but all our minds were on the lost child. After a while a man brought on the platform a beautiful little tot that looked like a piece of heaven dropped down, and said, "Here is that child." And I forgot all that I was preaching about, and lifted the child to my shoulder and said, "Here is the lost child, and the mother will come and get her right away, or I will take her home and add her to my own brood!" And some cried and some shouted, and amid all that crowd I instantly detected the mother. Everybody had to get out of her way or be walked over.

Hats were nothing and shoulders were nothing and heads were nothing in her pathway, and I realized something of what must have been Mary's anxiety when she lost Jesus, and what her gladness when she found her boy in the temple of Jerusalem talking with those old ministers of religion, Shammai, Hillel and Betirah. THE CHILD PRAYED FOR IS CARED FOR. I bear comfort. Mary and Joseph said, "Where is our Jesuaf" and you say, "Where is Johaf or where is Henry? or where is George?" Well, I should not wonder If Looking tor 'Wealth. The first question that an enterprising immigrant asked at the barge young CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS.

The new Constitution extends the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to causes in which the principal amount in controversy shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars, and they have jurisdiction concurrent with the circuit court over all crimes whereof the punishment prescribed does not extend beyond a fine and imprisonment in the county jail and here office upon his arrival the other day was "Where is Gold street?" "Silver street is a good deal nearer," answered a waggish officer. But the young man had no interest in silver. He wanted gold. When he was asked why he inquired for Gold street he assumed a mysterious air and de-ciixod to answer. The officer told him where the street was, and he went away satisfied.

"Now, there's an instance of what they expect," observed the officer. "I suppose that young fellow thinks that all he has to do is to go to Gold street and fill his trjmk with gold cobblestones. New York Times. after they will be elected for four year, as other county officers. The fiscal year of the State of Mississippi shall commence on the first day of Ootober.

and end on the thirtieth rlav of The Firemen. Jl05 JacKson Eire Denartment L. 910. jgj; September of each year. public officer or member of the Legislature will be interested directly or "ncHrectly in any contract with the 8tate, president; Oliver Clifton- chief; oeo.

hrst assistant chiet; w. a. assistant chief; A. G. Lewis, treasu.

Schwartz, accretary. girJ Jackson, No G. A. Baley. Perry, secretary.

Regular meetings night in each month. fores- West Jackson, No, Moseley. 'i A. ii. Lewis, secretary.

Kegular Tuesday night in each month. rf Gem, No. McGili, foreman fJr Masters, secretary. Regular meetings day night in each month. it, ni iPriianjj district, county, city or town 3 j.daiatioa be uniform and equal LthtOTghut tiejState.

Property Bhall be jifirppf'tvon to its value. Liueortlhe new Constitution Electric Lights in a An electrician who visited the Lyric theatre in London, where a very complete electrical installation has been put in for theatrical purposes, says that the arrangements or the stage are perfect, and he has never seen any theatre in which the light from the battens can be varied both in intensity and color to so great an extent and with such ease. No limelights are used, the necessary effects being produced by portable arc lamps. There is not a single gas jet anywhere on or near the stage, and the plant has run for twenty-one months without the slightest breakdown. London Letter.

Pearl Hook and Ladder, o. Kog a i pexeottneteofced or appointed to coihalawfcpr.thi of any 11. fii. fO'es, ontn. i eac meetings nrst inursiay nigm i0tfs tt v.

TTornr Richer. nope, io. a. icui.j xrococdinaTxcef otii anynonai lnkripatity of this Chas. Miller, secretary.

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