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"njac- -n, $. 'yiBsfsr r-xr WORLD'S FAIR GOSSIP. "People from All Lands Thronzlngf Chicago Thoroughfares. Strange Things Seen anil Heard at eon rark The Beautiful Home of the rishes A Logging Camp from Michigan. Special Chlcwro The streets of Chicago now present Eomc strange sights.

In an hour's stroll through the business section one may come aeross the turbaned Turk, stalking majestically along under a big load of self-importance; the coal-black Ethiopian, with his monstrous earrings and bangles of brass; the swarthy little Jap, with his beadlike little eyes taking in everything that passes, and yet pretending to pee nothing; the hooded Bedouin of the desert; thedried-up, mummified Javanese, whose appearance strongly suggests the need of a good scouring; and in fact a specimen of almost every race under the sun. They are all here, at any rate, and if you don't meet them in our streets all you need do, if you wish to sec them, Ls to take a trip out to Jackson park and there you will find them without any trouble. It is quite a comical sight to see a wild son of the Sahara, clad in the strange habiliments of his desert land, scooting about among the teams on our street crossings. A number of Arabs were going down the street the other day and came to a crowded crossing. One of them gathered his fluttering garments about him and made a wild plunge among the horses and wagons, and succeeded in getting Jl3tp fiWIPs3 Ti'L-r -tzr- MIC1IIGAX LOGGING CAMP.

afely to the opposite side, from which he vigorously beckoned his companions to follow, uttering meanwhile, with great vehemence, something in his native tongue which sounded to uninitiated American ears very like a malediction on the carelessness of civilized teamsters. Ilis brethren soon joined him, and as they stood for a moment on the corner they held a consultation, apparently, to decide whether they had better venture any further among the snares and dangers of civilization or not. Having decided the matter they strode away to the south, in the direction of Jackson park. Out at the fair grounds there is a pcr- FISHERIES "feet reproduction of the confusion that we are told occurred at the building of the tower of Babel. In Midway Plais-ancc, which has become a part of the fair grounds, one admission admitting to both, where the foreign nations have their buildings, the opportunities for studying some of the strangest people on earth are manifold.

Here the Algerians and Tunisians are busy with their building material; there the Egyptians arc putting the finishing touches to their booths; and yonder are the people from Ceylon, deeply intent upon the completion of their odd dwellings. It is all wonderful to behold. Ilere, where but a few short months ago was a wilderness of bushes and shrubs, we have a composite city of villages from the different countries on the other side of the world. It is wonderful how quickly some of these strangers from abroad become Americanized. The Egyptians are especially apt in their studies of our language and manners.

This was quite noticeable in one instance, when, a few days ago, a group of them entertained their American visitors with their efforts to converse in English. They would try to pronounce every word that was spoken to them and the mistakes that they made were ludicrous beyond description. One of them, a keen-eyed young chap with a world of mischief in his brown head, was a born comedian. He possessed a rudimentary knowledge of several languages, and he spared himself no pains to entertain the crowd. He first sung a song in his own tongue, -which must have been funny, as it convulsed his companions with laughter.

IS THE FISH rAYILIOX. Then he recited a piece in Spanish, concluding with the remark: "That Spain." He next recited the same piece in French, concluding, as before, with the Information: "That France." Finally he exclaimed: Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-av! That English." This tickled the crowd Immensely and the people apolauded the younjj mimic uproariously. -KHg liteX kK. -s ZZT--ssw-rirT-Htt fr1 Hassaew One of the leading attractions just at present is the beautiful Fisheries building in the northeastern portion of the fair grounds. The exhibits are rapidly coming in, and among them arc some of the wonders of deep sea life.

This magnificent home of the fishes will undoubtedly prove one of the most frequented buildings of the exposition. Ilere in the vast aquariums darting about in the crystalline waters will be seen the finny tribes of almost every lake and stream on the globe, and in the deep sea tank in the center of the building will be found rare forms of salt water life. ri.OIUDA ALLIGAT0I13. In addition to the live fish there will be a great many prepared specimens displayed in glass cases. There will also be a varied assortment of fishing boats and tackle from differeutnations, and queer models and implements from the celebrated fisheries of the world.

The process of hatching aud rearing fish ill be fully illustrated, and the lover of piscatorial pursuits will here find much to edify aud entertain him. Norway has a wonderful exhibit. The fisheries of that country employ more than eighty thousand men, and nineteen thousand boats. The exhibit now ready to be installed consists largely of full-sized boat- and models of fishing vessels, equipped with nets and other apparatus. Cod, mackerel and herring form the major part of the Norwegian exhibit in a commercial sense, but the most interesting feature about their space will be the display of boats.

From Mexico will come illustrations of the pearl fisheries of the Gulf of California, showing how the natives descend to depths of more than one hundred feet to capture the precious oysters. Canada displays the famous methods of Nova Scotia fishermen, and will also send a creditable exhibit of the food and commercial products of her fisheries. There will also be a large collection of boats, fishing paraphernalia, and fish-eating animals and birds, besides a collection from the museum in Montreal. Americans will not be outdone, despite the elaborate preparations being made by foreign competitors. Ten states will make collective exhibits in the main building.

They are Maine rfH I lir BUILDIXO. Rhode Island. Oregon. Washington, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio and Minnesota. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will each show its methods of fish propagation and culture.

There will also be waterways by which fish climb the mountain river-, and rapid-flowing streams. And in addition to the live fish in tanks these states will show models and photographs of their hatcheries. The Japanese exhibit will be the largest of any of the foreign countries in the building. Besides the fish products there will be models of the different boats used in Japan. One section of this exhibit will be a display of isinglass made from teaw eed.

Inch is made in many colors, and which, when held to the light resembles the stained glass used in church windows. There are said to be a great many fishermen the land of the mikado and they take great interest in everything pertaining to the pursuit. Their exhibit therefore will doubtless be very complete and extensive. The transportation of the fisheries exhibits from all parts of the orld has been attended with many difficulties and much expense. Huge tanks have been constructed and special cars and vehicles have been fitted up, and with all the pains taken there has been much loss and disappointment experienced by those interested in the displays.

Several rare and valuable specimens of fish life have died in transit, and some that it will be impossible to replace. The attempt is made to reproduce as nearly as possible in each tank the conditions under which the fish who will inhabit them naturally live. There will be tree stumps for perch to lie under, rock reefs for lake trout, and gravelly bottoms for river trout. The plants that will grow in the aquaria will also conform to the character of those found in the waters from which the fish are taken. One immense tank, seventy feet long, twelve feet wide, and five feet deep, already finished, shows ridges of rock peculiar to the river-beds of the Mississippi valley.

Among the recent arrivals at the Fisheries building are tw large Florida alligators. They are perhaps the largest living specimens that ever came to Chicago, being about twelve feet in length and well proportioned. These southern strangers are to be provided with special tanks, and as they arc very vicious will be safely fenced in to prevent them from reaching out and taking in any careless visitor who might take them for inanimate objects and venture too close. Just west of the Live Stock building, in the south end of the grounds, a logging camp is being erected. The camp belongs to the Michigan exhibit and is considered one of the glories of the Wolverine state.

There is a log cabin and all the surroundings or camp life. Wild forest scenery only is needed to make the logging camp realistic as well as picturesque. Lying near it is a low wagon holding feet of timber. This load is one of the biggest shipped out of Michigan on one car. The logs are arranged in the form of a pyramid thirty feet high, and in the most airy way possible.

Hut for the thick chains bound in and out of the logs one could imagine the heaps toppling over at the slightest breath. Some of the logs measure three feet in diameter. The cabin is of hemlock, the logs being sawed in the interior, leaving the rough bark outside. The crannies between the logs are stuffed with strips of bark. The gable is made of Norway pine, as are the beams.

The roof, which is not yet completed, will consist of hemlock scoops. These scoops are the remnants of the trees after the interior has been scooped out. The logs are then cut lengthwise and nailed to the roof, one forming a trough down which the rain can triekle, another with the bark up, forming a bridge between the concave scoops. The height of the cabin is eighteen feet, while above the gables two tannarac flagpoles shoot twenty feet in the air. Every implement used by lumbermen in northern Michigan will be exhibited in the sleeping-room, llehind the cabin will be ranged five logging cars, carrying loads of hard wood and headed by a regulation logging locomotive.

Several logwheels used for hauling logs in the summer will be rolled alongside the cars. This exhibit will give the city people forae idea of the rough life of the lumberman in the dense pine forests of the north and will illustrate to the uniuiti-ated the immense labor involved in procuring material for the building of our homes. FOR WORLD'S FAIR VISITORS. Some Valuable Suggestions Concerning Their Itaggage. The following suggestions relative to the baggage of people intending to visit the Columbian exposition at Chicago during the coming months will, if they are observed, be the means of saving much annoyance aud unnecessary delays at Chicago and elsew here.

The railroads entering Chicago are making extensive preparations to meet the demands hicb will be placed upon them and if each p.is.5j,jef trill use a little precaution it will prove of benefit to himself and the railroads as welL Attention is invited to the following suggestions: 1. Do not think of checking anything that yon can possibly carry. 2. See that all baggage which you desire checked is placed in first-class condition before bringing to the depot, and use a quarter-inch ropes instead of 6traps for trunks, as the rope is much more effective. 3.

Mark each article with your name aud permanent plr.ee of residence, by paint or card, so that if it should get astray you can leadilv be found through such address. 1. Do not deliver your baggage into the hands of any person unless he gives you a claim check for it, and see that the checks correspond, taking the number of the expressman, or his wagon, at the same time. 5. On coming to the depot to check your baggage attend to the duty yourself and do not delegate it to any friend or hackman, as a large majority of cases where baggage goes astray are the result of the failure of the owners to act for themselves.

On receiving your railroad check make a memorandum of the number and exact reading of same. No baggage will be received at the Union depot unless it bears a claim check or one of the depot claim checks is taken for it If a Union depot claim check is used it will be necessary for you to obtain the duplicate from the expressman, as a failure oblige you to identify the baggage and pay for the stray check, which may cause you to miss your train. Do not fail to exchange the claim check for a railroad check at the check counter, and do not run away without your check. Keep cool, and give plenty of time, that the business may be properly transacted. Those leaving the city on the evening or early morning trains should attend to the checking of their baggage on tho- afternoon preceding.

When possible, it would facilitate delivery at Chicago if the passenger would write on the back of tho check a description of the baggage; whether valise, trunk, box, etc. (5. Itefore your train roaches Chicago an agent will pass through the train, and, should you desire your baggage handled by them, they will take your check and issue a check In place and deliver same to residence or hotel. To whoever you deliver your railroad check do not fail to secure a claim check for its delivery from them aud take memoranda of the check received and tho nnmber of the expressman and company he represents. 7.

as a rule, should be checked to Chicago, and not to suburban stations or the exposition grounds as the facilities for rapid delivery will be much greater in the city. S. When leaving Chicago, observe the same suggestions as to the use of claim checks, memoranda, as has been given above. 9. Carry as little baggage as possible, and do not attempt to send bicycles, baby carriages, by baggjge.

Mate Inspection of Grain. The state board of railway and warehouse commissioners bad to content themselves with showing to the world how grain was graded, with the integrity of the state as its guaranty. The sixty-eight grades of gr.iin now in force will be represented by the actual grain, and an expert inspector will be at hand to explain how the grading is conducted. All tho appliances of the service ill be there. Where dampness is the cause of differing grades, new grain will be supplied as fast as the old dries out The western farmer can learn all about how his wheat is graded on iti arrival in Chicago in about five minutes.

The other lines of work of the commissioners could not be well represented. The 3Iay Concerts. On Wednesday, Thnrsday and Friday. May 24, 25 and 20, the initial choral performances at the exposition will be given in Festival hall. The programme has been arranged on a grand scale.

Mendelssohn's "Elijah" will be sung by the Apollo club, of Chicago, numbering six hundred voices. The Chicago Festival chorus, numbering twelve hundred voices, will sing Haydn's "Creation," while programmes of 6ongs and part songs will be rendered by the exposition's Children's chorus, numbering fourteen hundred voices. A feature of these concerts will be the singing of Mine. Lilian Nordica ami Mr. Plunkett Greene, both artisU being already engaged for tho series.

CHURCH WORK Dr. Talmage Beviows the "Work of Nearly a Quarter of a Century. Three Great Churches Ilullt Difficulties and riensurcs of a Jlrooklyn Fastor- ate Essentials of Success In Church Work. On Sunday, April 23, Rev. T.

DeWitt Talmage preached his twenty-fourth annual sermon in Brooklyn, his text being from Revelations, iv. 4: "And round about the throne were four and twenty scats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders." The preacher said: This text I choose chiefly for the numerals it mentions, nanicly four and twenty. That was the number of elders seated around the throne of God. But that is tho number of years seated around my Brooklyn ministry, and every pulpit is a throne of blessing or blasting, a throne of good or evil. And to-day in this, my twenty-fourth anniversary sermon, twenty-four years come and sit around me, and thc3 speak out in a reminiscence of gladness and tears.

Twenty-four years ago I arrived in this city to shepherd such a flock as might come, and that day I carried in on my arms the infant. son who in two weeks from to-day I will help ordain to the gospel ministry, hoping that he will be preaching long after my poor work is done. We have reccved into our membership thousands of souls, but they, I think, are only a small portion of the multitudes who, coming from all parts of the earth, have In our house of God been blest, and saved. Although have as a church raised 81,100,000 for religious purposes, yet we are in the strange position of not knowing whether in two or three months we shall have any church at all, and with audiences of thousands of people crowded into this room and the adjoining rooms, we arc confronted with the question whether I shall go on with my work here oc go on to some other field. What an awful necessity that we should have been obliged to build three immense churches, two of them destroyed by fire.

A misapprehension is abroad that the financial exigency of this church is past. Through journalistic and personal friends a breathing spell has been af forded us, but before us yet are financial obligations which must promptly be met or speedily this house of God will go into worldly uses and become a theater or a concert hall. The 812,000 raised cannot cancel a floating debt of $140,000. Through the kindness of those to whom we are indebted 500,000 would set us forever free. 1 am glad to say that the case is not hopeless.

We are daily in receipt of touching evidences of practical sympathy from all classes of the community and from all sections of the conntry, and it was but yesterday that by my own hand I sent, for contributions gratefully received, nearly fifty acknowledgements cast, west, north and south. Our trust is in the Lord who divided the Red sea and "made the mountains skip ilkc lambs." With this paragraph I dismiss the financial subject and return to the spiritual. In the first place, I remark that a Brooklyn pastorate is always a difficult pastorate. No city under the sun has a grander array of pulpit talent than Brooklyn. The Methodists, the Baptists, the Congregationalists, the Episcopalians, all the denominations send their brightest lights here.

He who stinds in a Brooklyn pulpit preaching, may know that he stands within fifteen minutes' walk of sermons which a Saurin, and a Bourdaloue. and a John M. Mason, and a George Whitfield would not be ashamed of. For forty years Brooklyn has been surcharged with homilctics, an electricity of eloquence that struck every time it flashed, from the old pulpits which quaked with the power of a Bethune, and a Cox, and a Spencer, and a Spear, and a Vinton, and a Farley, and a Bccchcr, not mentioning the names of the magnificent men now- manning the Brooklyn pulpits. So during all the time there has been something to appeal to every man's taste, and to gratify every man's preference.

Now let me say to all tho minister of the gospel who are ambitious for a Brooklyn pulpit, that it is always a difficult pastorate. If a man shall come and stand before any audience in almost any church in Brooklyn, he will find before him men who have heard the mightiest theme-, discussed in the mightiest way. You will have before you, if you fail in argument, fifty logicians in a fidget If you make a slip in the use of a commercial figure of speech, there will be five hundred merchants who will notice it. If yon throw-out an anchor or furl a sail in the wrong way, there will be ship captains right off who will wonder if you are as ignorant of theology as you are of navigation! So it will be a place of hard study. If you are going to maintain yourself, you will find a ISrooklyn pastorate a most diflicult pastorate.

I remark still further, a Brooklyn pastorate is always a conspicuous pastorate. The printing press of the country has no greater force than that on the sea coast. Every pulpit word, good or bad, wise or ignorant, kind or mean. Is watched. The rcportorial corps of these cities is an organized army.

Many of them have collegiate education and large culture, and they are able to weigh oration, or address, or sermon. If you say a silly thing you will never hear the end of if, and if you say a wise thing it will go into perpetual multiplication. Besides that, a Brooklyn pastorate is always conspicuous in the fact that everybody comes here. Brooklyn is New York in its better mood! Stran gers have not seen New-York until they have seen Brooklyn. Again I remark, that a Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by brevity.

I bethink myself of but three ministers of the gospel now preaching here, who were preaching when I came to Brooklyn. Most of the pulpits around me have changed seven or eight times since my arrival. Sometimes the pastorate has been brief for one reason, and sometimes for another reason. Sometimes the ministers of the gospel have been too good for this world, and Heaven has transplanted them. Sometimes tney changed places by the decree of their denomination.

Sometimes they came, with great blare of trumpets, proposing to carry everything before them, and got extinguished before they were distinguished! Whether for good or bad reasons, a Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by brevity, not much of the old plan by which a minister of the gospel baptized an infant, then received him into the church, after he had become an adult married him, baptized his children, married them and lived on long enough to bury almost everyone but himself. Glorious old pastorates they were. I remark again, a Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by its happiness. No citj under the sun where people take such good care of their ministers. In proportion as the world outside may curse, a congregation stands close up by the man whom they believe in.

Brooklyn society has for its foundation two elements the Puritanic which always means a quiet Sabbath, and the Hollandish, which means a worshipful people. On the top of this an admix ture of all nationalities the brawny Scot, the solid English, the vivacious Irish, the polite French, the philosophic German; and, in all this intermingling of population, the universal dominant theory that a man can do as he pleases, provided he doesn't disturb anybody else. A delightful climate. While it is hard on weak throats, for the most of ns it is bracing. Not an atmosphere made up of the discharged gases of chemical factories, or the miasms of swamps, but coming panting right off 3,000 miles of Atlantic ocean before anybody else has had a chance to breathe it! All through the city a society of kind, genial, generous, sympathetic people.

In such a city I have been permitted to have tw euty-four years of pastorate. During these years how many heartbreaks, how manj- losses, how many bereavements! Hardly a family of the church that has not been struck with sorrow! But God has sustained you in the past and he will sustain you in the future. I exhort you to be of good cheer, oh thou of the broken heart. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comcth in the morning." I wish over every door of this church we might have written the word "Sympathy." Sympathy for all the young. We must crowd them in here by thousands, and propose a radiant gospel that they will take on the spot.

We must make this place so attractive for the young that a young man will come here on Sabbath morning, put down his hat, brush his hair back from his forehead, unbutton his overcoat, and look around wondering if he has not by miitake got into Heaven. Yes, sympathy for the old. They have their achA and pains and distresses. They eannot hear or walk or sec as well as the used to. We must be reverential in their presence.

On dark days we must help them through the aisle, and help them find the place in the hymn-book. Sympathy for business men. Twenty-four years of commercial life in New-York and Brooklyn are enough to tear one's nerves to pieces. We want to make our Sabbath service here a rescue for till these martyrs of traffic, a foretaste of that land where they have no rents to pay, and there are no business rivalries, and where riches, instead of taking wings to fly away, brood over other riches. Sympathy for the fallen, remembering that they ought to be pitied as much as a mail run over with a rail-train.

The fact is that, in the tempta-tations and misfortunes of life, they get run over. You and in the same circumstances, would have done as bad-1-; we should have done worse, perhaps. We want in this church to have sympathy for the worst man, remembering he is a brother, sympathy for the worst woman, remembering she is a sister. If that is not the gospel, I do not know what the gospel is. Ah! yes; sympathy for all the troubled; for the orphans in their exposure; for widowhood with its weak arm fighting for bread; for the household which erst resounded with merry voices and pattering feet, now awfully still broad-winged sympathy, like the feathers of the Almighty warm-blooded sympathy, everlasting sympathy which shows itself in the grasp of the hand, in the glittering tear of the eye, in the consoling word of the mouth sympathy of blankets for the cold, of bread for the hungry, of medicine for the sick, of rescue for the lost.

Sympathy! Let it thrill in every sermon. Let it tremble in every song. Let it gleam in every tear and in every light Sympathy! Men and women are sighing for sympathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for sympathy, tumbling off into un-clcanliness and crime and perdition for lack of sympathy. May God give it to us! Fill till this pulpit with it, from step to step. Let the sweep of these galleries suggest its encircling arms.

Fill all the house with it, from door to door, and from floor to ceiling, until there is no more room for it, and it shall overflow into the street, and passers-by on foot and in carriage shall feel the throb of its magnificent benediction. Let that be our now departure as a church. Let that be my new departure as a pastor. Sympathy! Gratitude to God demands that this morning I mention the fact that during all these twen ty-four years I have missed but one service through sickness. I must, in gratitude to God, also mention the multitudes to whom I have been permitted to preach.

It is simply miraculous, the attendance morning by morning night by night, and year by year, and long after it has got to be an old story. I know some people are dainty and exclusive in their tastes. As for myself, I like a bisr crowd. I would like to see an audience large enough to scare me! If this gospel is good, the more that get it the better. Profiting by the mistakes of the past, I must do better work for you and better work for God.

Lest I might, through some sudden illness or casualty, be snatched away before I have the opportunity of doing so, I take this occasion to declare my love for you as a people. It is different work if a pastor is placed in a church already built up, and he is surrounded by established circumstances. There are not ten people in this church who have not been brought in the church through my ministry. You arc my family. I feel as much at home here as I do in my home on Oxford street Your present and everlasting welfare is the object of my ambition.

I have no worldly ambition. I had once. I have not now. I know the world about as well as any one knows it I have heard the handclapping of its applause and I have heard the hiss of its opposition, and I declare to you the former is not especially to be sought for. nor is the latter to be feared.

The orld has given me about all the comfort and prosperity it can give a man, and I have no worldly ambition. I have an all-consuming ambition to make full proof of my ministry, to get to Heaven myself, and to take a great crowd with me. During these twenty-four yea is theae is hardly a family that has not been invaded by sorrow or death. Where are those grand old men, those glorious Christian women who used to worship with us? Why, they went away into the next world bo gradually that they had concluded the second stanza or the third stanza in Heaven before you knew they were gone. They had on the crown before yon thought they had dropped the staff of the earthly pilgrimage.

And then the dear children. how many have gone out of this church. You could not keep them. You folded them in your arms and said: God, I cannot give them up. Take all else, take my property, take my reputation, but let me keep this treasure.

Lord, I cannot bear this." Oh! if we could all die together, if we could keep all the sheep and tho lambs of the family fold together until some bright spring day, the birds achant and the waters aglitter, and then we could all together hear the voice of the good Shepherd, and hand iu hand pass through the flood. No, no, no, no! if wo only had notice that we are all to depart together, and we could say to our families: "Tho time has come; tho Lord bids us away." And we could take our little children to thoir beds, and straighten out their limbs and say: "Now, sleep the last sleep. Good night until it is good morning." And then we could go to our own couches and say: "Now. altogether wo are ready to go. Our children are gone, now let us depart No, no! It is one by one.

It maybe in the midnight It inay be in the winter, and in the snow coming down twenty inches deep over our grave. It may be in the strange hotel, and our arm too weak to pull the bell for help. It may bo so suddenly wc have no time even to say good-by. Death is a bitter, crushing, tremendous curse. I play you three tunes on the gospel harp of comfort.

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comcth in tho morning." That is one. "All things work together for good to those who love God." That is the second. "And the lamb which is in the midst of tho throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." That is the third. During these tw cnty-four years I have tried as far as I could, by argument, by illustration and by caricature, to fill you with disgust with much of this modern religion which people are trying now to substitute for the religion of Jesus Christ and the religion of the apostles. I have tried to persuade you that tho worst of all cant is the cant of skepticism, and instead of your apologizing for Christianity, it was high time that those who do not believe in Christianity should apologize to you, and I have tried to show that the biggest villains in the universe are those who would try to rob us of this Bible, and that the grandest mission of tho ehurch of Jesus Christ is that of bringing souls to the Lord a soul-saving church.

But now those years are gone. If you have neglected your duty, if I have neglected my duty, it is neglected forever. Each year has its work. If the work is performed within the twelve months, it is done forever. If neglected, it is neglected forever.

When a woman "was dying, she said: "Call them back." They did not know what she meant She had been a disciple of the world. She said: "Oh, call them back!" They said: "Whodoyou want us to call back?" "Oil," she said. "call them back, the days, the months, the years I have wasted. Call them back!" But you cannot call them back; you cannot call a year back, or a month back, or a week back, or an hour back, or a second back. Gone once, it is gone forever.

When a great battle was, raging, a messenger came up and said to the general, who was talking with an officer: "General, we have taken a standard from the enemy." The general kept right on conversing with his fellow-officer, and tho messenger said again, "General, we have taken a standard from the enemy." Still the general kept right on, and the messenger lost his patience, not having his message seemingly appreciated, and said again: "General, wo have taken a standard from the enemy." The general then looked at him and said: "Take another." Ah! forgetting the things that are behind, let us look to those that are before. Win another castle, take another standard, gain another victor-. Roll on, sweet day of the world's emancipation, when "the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the trcs of the wood shall clap their hands, and instead uf the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be unto the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that cannot be cut off." An Ocean Oddity. There are scores upon scores of difTcr-ent forms of marine animal life that comes within the catogory assigned to "star but the most singular specimen in the whole group is the splendid Astrophyton Basket" of the sailor. It is truly a wonderful specimen of marine life, having hundreds of long and short, straight, twisted and curled tentacles; and, but for the geometric precision of the plan upon which the star-like "body" is fashioned, might be mistaken for a miniature, circular specimen of the devil fish.

The center of the creature, the "hub" from which the five stout arms radiate, of our curious Astrophyton. The whole, not including the labyrinthine tentacles, which branch to all the points and intermediate points of the compass, looks for all the world like an animated Fourth of July fire wheel. The five main arms are divided into three each within a short space from the astro's body, and thecc three are almost immediately subdivided into innumerable other arms and tentacles, the whole forming a net by means of which it captures its prej and holds its victims until the life has been sucked out of them. St. Louis Republic.

So Hurry. Prison Warden (to condemned criminal on morning of execution) I am to ask you if there is any little thing you would fancy for your breakfast Criminal Thanks. I would like a couple of peaches. Prison Warden Peaches! Why, we are in March. Criminal Never mind.

I can wait. Disgusting to a Proud Man. Fitzhugh I suppose Hokins is very proud of his wife's success with hei novel? Stevedoor No, I fancy not Yon see, he is merely known as Mrs. Hokins' husband now. Des Moines Argonaal CYCLONE HORRORS.

Awful Effects of the Late Tornado in Oklahoma. At Least Forty Persons Killed and a Largo Suniber Injured Knormous Destruction of Property Th List of l'atalltles. Normas, April 27. Further reports of the cyclone near here Tuesday multiply the horrors. The latest estimate is that thirty-seven people were killed and twenty-five injured.

One hundred and twenty-five persons nro-left in destitute circumstances and thirty-eight homes were swept away. The dead are: Snyder, Love and an unknown employed by Ed Johnson; John O'Connor, wife and two children; five members Bryant family, John O'Connor, and wife; Agnes O'Connor and Nellie O'Connor, twins, aged 13; Charles O'Connor, James O'Connor, David Brooks and wife, Miss Ella Brooks, Owen Rooney, Mrs. Moroney and two children, Miss Annie Hoddens, David Banks, wife and two children; Mrs. married daughter; H. C.

Plcmens, child of Mr. Bateman, Mr. Peary and one child, Rev. J. M.

Corle. The seriously wounded aro: Charles Harwell, Mrs. Kettridge and infant, Mrs. Snider, II. P.

Holliday and child, Thomas Weaver, John Doyle, George O'Connor, Mr. Moroney and three children, Pat O'Malcy, Albert Sinnox, Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore, Four children of Mr. Banks, Mrs.

Calbcrt, Mrs. S. II. Wilkinson, Georgo Hughes and child, Mrs. Peary and two children.

It was the most serious cyclone in the history of Oklahoma territory. In this (Cleveland) county it made a clean sweep, destroying fields, demolishing houses, barns and agricultural implements and dealing death to everything in its path. At this writing thirty-seven persons arc known to be killed and many others seriously injured and dying. The most damage done was in the vicinity of this town in the west era and central portion of the county. It was about 5:30 p.

m. that tho peo ple of Pureell, a town of the Chickasaw nation, fifteen miles southwest of here, noticed a dark cloud overhanging tho western sky, which soon began to send down shoots like carrot roots. Your correspondent observed the formation of these cyclones through a field glass. Points projecting from the clouds slowly assumed a cylindrie form, then conical, which very much resembled great funnels, out of the end of which destruction poured. Their course was from southwest to northwest.

At first they moved slowly, but seemed to gain force rapidly as the points touched the earth. That portion of the Chickasaw nation where the cyclone formed and first struck is sparsely settled and little ia as yet reported, but passing northward and slightly to the cast it crossed the South Canadian river about midway between Pureell and Norman. Here it struck the thickly settled portion and only missed this town by about ona mile. By this cyclone four persons were killed and several injured. Seven dwelling houses and two school houses were destroyed, besides machinery and stock, numerous outbuildings, fence! and barns.

No sooner had this cyclone passed and spent its force by the time it reached Little river, about five miles northeast of town, than the people in town who had witnessed the destruction being wrought were hastening to the relief of their country friends. In about one hour afterward another funnel-shaped cloud was seen approaching from the west which passed on the other side of town, its course being about the same direction as the other, but it had formed several miles further off. This last and most destructive cyclone passed about five miles west and north of Norman, through what is known as ten-mile flat along the Canadian river, and tho most prosperous agricultural vicinity of tho county. Its force was spent a fewiniles further north when it reached tho divide between this place and Moora station. DEATH I50LI.

ISCnEASEO. PuitCKLL, I. April 27. A terrible tornado passed through this county Tuesday evening at 0:30 o'clock. It started five miles southwest of Alex, Chickasaw nation, traveling northeast, gathering fury as it went, passing from this to Oklahoma territory.razing everything in its wake.

The destruction of 1 if and property is enormous. Forty-two deaths are reported up to date. Eighty-five are known to be seriously wounded. The family of John O'Connor, Bevcn miles northwest of Norman, consisting of twelve, were killed except one. John Moroney's house was wrecked and his wife and three children killed, he receiving fatal injuries.

In the Bryant family five were killed. Searching parties are not all in but each party to arrive swells the list in fatalities. Nine bodies will be interred in the cemetery here under Catholia rites. More Appointments. Wasiiisgtos, April 27.

The president has announced the following ap pointments: To be government directors of the Union Pacific railway: Henry F. Dimer, of -New York; Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan; J. W. Doane, of Illinois; Fitzhugh Lcc, of Virginia, and James W.

Hurdock, of Nebraska. Otto Doderlin, of Illinois, to be consul of the United States at Leipsic. David G. Brown to be collector of customs for the district of Montana and Idaho. Arkansas Touched.

Little Rock, April 27. A terrific cyclone almost wiped out of existence the little town of Jenson, in Sebastian county, last night Nine buildings were demolished. Four freight cars were blown from the track and a portion of the Frisco depot was carried away. One man and a child were seriously injured. Dr.

Buchanan Found Guilty. New York, April 27. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, who has been on trial for the past few weeks, charged with the poi soning of his wife, was found guilty of murder in the first degree.

Mme. Modjeska Taken Sick. PiTTsnuKOir, April 27. Keien Modjcska became quite ill last evening; at her hotel, and was unable to appear at the DuQuesne theater, where she was to play Catherine in "King Henry VIII." The advance sale was large and tne immense audience had to be dismissed from the theater. A Firebug Sent Cp.

Milwaukee, April 27. Matthew Tho-met, the firebug, pleaded guilty to having fired the Stadt theater. He was given the maximum penalty of the law, Judge Walber sentencing him to eight years at hard labor in the state prison..