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7' 1 PPiODIGAIS EKTOBN. Dr. Talinage on the Joys of Con-f version. Jo of the New Convert Ullssfal Experience The Lords Loving I'atlier YVTio Rejoices at the Keturn of a War-ward'Son. In a recent jubilee sermon at Brootlyn BeV.

T. De Witt Talmage took his text from Luke xv. 23: "Bring hither tho fatted caff and kill it" Ho said: Joy 1 Joy! Joy! "We banquet to-day over this accession of a multitude of souls. In all ages of tho world it has been customary to celebrate joyful events by festivity tho signing of treaties, tho proclamation of peace, the Christmas, the marriage. However much on other day3 of the year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanks-givingday tbero must be something bounteous.

And all the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by banquet and festivity. Something has happened in the old homestead greater than any thing that has ever happened before. A favorite son whom the world supposed would become a vagabond and outlaw forever has got tired of sight-seeing and has returned to his father's house. The world said he never would come back. Tho old man always said his son would come.

He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now. havingreturnodto his father's house, the fat her proclaims celebration. There is a calf in the paddock that has been kept up and fed to utmost capacity so as to be ready for some occasion of joy that might come along.

Ah! there never will be a grander day on the old homestead than this day. Let the butchers do their work and the housekeepers bring onto the tablo the smoking meat. Thomu-sicians will take their place, and tho gay groups will move up and down the floor. All the friends and neighbors are gath ered in, and extra supply is sent out to tho table of the servants. Tho father pro-sides at the table, and says grace, and thanks God that his long-absent boy is home again.

how they missed him; how glad they are to havo him back. One brother indeed stands pouting at the back door and says: "This is a great ado about nothiug; this bad boy should have been chastened instead of greeted; veal is too good for him!" But the father says: "Nothing is too goo.i; nothing is good enough." Thero sits the young man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of Borrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of tlie trouble ho has seen. All ready now. Let tho covers lift Music He was dead and he is alive again Ho was lost and he is found! By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merrymaking when a soul comes home to God. First First of all thera Is tho new convert's joy.

It is no tame thing to become a Christian. The most tremendous moment in a man's life is when he surrenders himself to God. Tho grandest tirao on tho father's homestead is when the boy comes back. Among the great throng who in the parlors of this church professed Christ one night was a young man who next morning rang my door boll and said: "Sir, I can not contain myself with the joy I feel; I cams here this morningto express it I havo found more joy in fivo minutes in serving God than in all tho years of my prodigality and I came to say o. You have seen, perhaps, a man running tor his physical liberty and the officers of the law after him and you saw bim escape, or afterward you heard the Governor had pardoned him and how great was tho lee of that rescued man; but it is a very tame thing that, compared with the ruu-sing for one's everlasting life the terrors of tho law after him, but Christ coming in to pardon and and rescuo and save.

You remember John Bunyan in his great story tells now tho Pilgrim put his fingers in his oars, and ran, crying: ''Life, life, eternal life!" A poor car-driver in this city somo years ago, after having had a struggle to suppori, hi family, suddenly was informed that a lnrge inheritance was its. and there was joy amounting to bewilderment; but that is a small thing compared with tho experience of one who has put in his hnnls the titlo-deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of Heaven, and he can truly say: "Its mansions are mine, its temples are mine, its songs are mine, its God is mine!" it is no tamo thing to become a Christian. It is a merry-making. It is the killing of the fatted calf. It is jubilee.

You know the Bible never compares it to a funeral, but always compares it with something briirht It is more apt to be compared to a banquet than any thing else. It is compared in the Bible to the water, bright flashing water; to the morning, roseate, fire-worked, mountain-trnnsfigurctl morning. I wish I could to-day take all the Bible expressions about pardon and peace and life and comfort and hope and Heaven, and twist them into one garland and put it on the brow of the humblest child of of God in this assemblage, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of tho Lord God Almighty." the joy of the new convert the of tho Christian service. Sou have seen sometimes a man in a religious assembly get up and give his experience. Well, Paul gave his experience.

He arose in the presence of two churches, the church on earth and the church in Heaven, und ho said: "Now this is my experience: 'Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothiug, yet possessing all If the people in this house this morning knew the joys of the Christian religion, they would all pass over into the kingdom of God the next moment When Daniel Sandenian was dying of cholera his attendant said: ''Have you much pain?" he replied, "since I found the Lord I have never had any pain except sin." Then thoy said to him: "Would you like to fend a message to your friends?" ''Yes, I would; tell them that only last night the love of Jesus came rushing into my soul like the surges of. the sea, and I had to cry out: 'Stop, Lord, it is enough; stop, Lord, the joys of this Christian religion! Just pass over from these tame joys in which you are indulging joys of this world into the raptures of the Gospel. Tho world can not satisfy you; you have found that out Alexander longing for other worlds to conquer and yet drowned in his own bottle, Byron whipped by disquietudes around the world, Voltaire cursing his own soul while all the streets of Paris were applauding him. Henry IL consuming with hatred against poor Thomas a Bocket all illustrations of the fact that this world can not make a man happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elizabeth rode shouted in the street, "God save tho Queen One moment the world applauds and the next moment the world anatbemizes.

come over into this greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude. The night after the battle of Shiloh, and there wero thousands of wounded on the field and the ambulances had not come, one Christian soldior lying there a-dying under the starlight began to sing: 'There Is a land of pure delight," And when he came to the next line there were scores of voices uniting: "Where saints immortal reign." The song was caught up all through the fields among the wounded, until it was said there were at least ten thousand voices as they came to the verse: VThere everlasting spring abides, a i ABa'ncver withering flowers Deathlike a narrow stream divides That heavenly land from ours." it is a great religion to live by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart throb between yon and that religion this morning. Just look into the face of your pardoning God, and surrender yourself for time and eternity, and He is yours, and Heaven is yours, and all is yours. Some of you, like the youug man of the'text, have gone far astray.

I know not the history, but you know it, you know it When a young man went forth into life, the legend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him into a field the guardian angel swept a circle clear around where the young man stood. It was a circla of virtue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed foes came doivn, but were obliged to halt at the circle thoy could not pass. But one day a temptress with diamonded hand stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand and the tempted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of you have stepped beyond that circle.

Would you not like this day by the grace of God to step back? This, I say to you, is your hour of salvation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anne what is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow in helpless sickness, she could not move her head or move her hand. Sho was waiting for the hour when the Ministers of State should gather in angry contest, and worried and worn out by the coming hour, and in momentary absence of the nurse, in the power, the strange power which delirium somo times gives one, sho arose and stood in front of the clock, and stood thero watching the clock when the nurse returned. The nurse said: "Do you seo any thing peculiar about that dock?" She made no answer, but soon died.

There is a clock scene in every history. If some of you would rise from" tho bed of lethargy and come out from your delirium of sin and look on the clockof your destiny this morning, you would see and hear something you havo not een or heard bsfore, and overy tick of the minute and every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum will say: "Now, now, now now!" como home to your Father's house. Come home, prodigal, from tho wilderness. Como home, como home! Second But I notice that when the prodigal came there was tho father's joy. He did not greet him with any formal "How do yon do?" Ho did not come out and say: "You are unfit to enter; go out and wash in tho trough by tho well and then 3'ou can come in; wo have had enough trouble with you." Ah! no.

When the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival it was an outburst of a father's love and a father's joy. God is your Father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I sometimes hear, as though He wero a Turkish Sultan, hard and unsympathetic and listening not to tho cry of His subjects. A man tokl me ho saw In one of the Eastern lands a King riding along and two men were in altercation and one charged the other with having eaten his rice, and the King said: "Then slay the man and by post mortem examination find whether he has eaten the rice." And he was slain. Ah! tho cruelty of a scene like that Our God is not a Sultan, not a Czar, not a despot, but a Father kind, loving, forgiving, and He makes all Heaven ring again when a prodigal comes back.

"I havo no pleasure," Ho says, "in the death of him that dieth." If a man does not get to Heaven, it is because he will not go there. No difference tho color, no difference tho history, no difference tho antecedents, no difference tho surroundings, no difference the sin. When the white horses of Christ's victory are brought out to celebrato the triumph, you may ride ono of them, and as God is greater than all, His joy is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in His heart the surging of an infinite ccsan of gladness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, and all tho ages of eternity. It a joy deeper than all dtpth, and higher than all height, and wider than all width, and vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it undorgirds, it outweighs all tho united splendor and joy of the universe.

Who can tell what God's joy is? You remember reading tho story of a King, who on somo great day of festivity scattered silver and gold among the people, and sent valuable presents to his courtiers; but methinks when a soul comes' back, GoJ is so glad that to express His joy He flings out new worlds into space, and kindles up now suns, and rolls among the whito robed anthems of the redeemed a greater hallelujah, while with a voice that reverberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates, Ho cries: "This, my son. was dead, and he is alive again." At tho opening of the Exposition in New Orleans, I saw a Mexican flutist and he played the solo, and then aftorward the eight or ten bands of music, accompanied by the great organ, came in; but tho sound of that one fluto as compared with all the orchestra was greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heait of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot His son went off in exasperating circumstances.but the father said, "He will come back." The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three times a day the father went In the early morning he watched the train, its arrival, the steppingoutof the passengers, and then the departure of the train. At noon he was there again watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At night there ngain; watching the coming, watching the going for ten years.

He was sure bis son would come back. God has been watching and waiting for some of you, my brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years waiting, waiting, watching, watching; and if this morning the prodigal should come home what a scene of gladness and festivity, and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at ybur coming home. You will come, some of you, will you not? You will, you will. Third I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is tho joy of the ministers of religion. it is a grand thing to preach this GospeL I know there has been a great deal said about the trials and the hardships of the Christian ministry.

I wish somebody would write a good, rousing book about tho joys of the Christian ministry. Since I entered the profession I have seen more of the goodness of God than I will be able to celebrate in all eternity. I know some boost about their equilibrium, and they do not rise into enthusiasm, and they do not break doyn with emotion; but I confess to you plainly that when I see a man coming to God and giving up his sin I feel in body, mind and soul a transport When I see a man who is bound hand and foot in evil habit emancipated, I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When to-day in our communion service such throngs of young and old stand at these altars and in the presence of Heaven and earth and hell attest their allegiance to Jesus Christ, I feel a joy something akin to that which the apostle describes when he says: "Whether in the body I can not tell, or out of the body I can not tell: Godknoweth." have not ministers a right to rejoice when a prodigal comes home? They blew the trumpet and ought they not be glad of the gathering of the host? They pointed to the fullsupply, and ought theynotto rejoice when souls pant as the hart for the water brooks? Life insurance men will tell you that ministers of religion as a class live longer than any other. It is confirmed by the statistics of all those "who calculate upon human longevity.

TThy is it? Thero is more draft upon tha nervons svstem than lis any other profession, and their toll is more exhausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations who wondered at the dullness of the sermons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire in their temperemsnt Nofuel, no fire. I havo sometimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen never accepting their hospitality, because they can not afford it; but I have seen them on with salaries of $300 and $6 0 a year the average less than that their struggle well depicted by the Western missionary who says in a letter: "Thank you fcr your last remittance; until it came we had not any meat in our house for one year, and all last winter, although it was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes." And these men of God I find in different parts of the land, struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable; some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sell and submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and yet without complaiut and cheerful of soul. How do you account for the fact that these life insurance men tell us that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is because of the joy of their work, the joy of tho harvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home to their Father's house. We are in sj-mpathy wilh all innocent hilarities.

We can enjoy a hearty song and wo can bo merry with the merriest; but those of us who havo toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these joys aro tame compared with the satisfaction of seeing men enter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every minister are the outpourings of the Holy Ghost, and I thank GoJ I have seen eighteen of them. Thank God, thank God! Fourth I notice also when tho prodigal coinos back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on Montauk Point and there was a huiricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the shore, and a vessel clashed into the rocks and you saw people get ashoro in the lifo boats and the very last man got on tho rocks in safetv. vou could not con trol your And it is a glad time when the church of God sees mon who are tossod on the ocean of their sins plant their feet on tho rock Christ Jesus.

when prodigals como home just hear those Christians sing. Just hear tboso Christians pray. It is not a stereotyped supplication we havo heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of tho case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading. No long prayera. Mon never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say and their hearts are hard and cold.

All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: "God be merciful to me a sinner." "Lord, that I may receive my sight" "Lord, save me or I perish." The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of tho tempel, was less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that tha prodigals are coming home. Just see thorn shnko hnnds. No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clinch the fingers of one hand around the other hand. And then see those Christian faces, how illuminated they aie.

And seo that old man get up and with tho same voice that he sang fifty years ago in the old country meeting house, say: "Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes havo seen Thy salvation." There was a man of Keith who was hurled into prison in time of persecution, and ono day he got off his shackles and he cama and stood by the prison door, and when the jailer was opening the door, with one stroke he struck down tho man who had incarcerated liim. the streets he wondered whero his family was. Ho did not dnra to ask lest ho excite suspicion, Lut, passing along a little way from tho prison ho saw a Keith tankard, a cup that had belonged to the family fiom generation to generation ho saw it in a window. His family, hoping that some da ho would get clear, came and lived as near as they could to the prison houso. ami thot set that Keith tinkard in the window, hoping he would see it; and he camo along and saw it and knocked at tho door and went in, and tho long absent family were nil together again.

O. if you would start for the Kingdom of God to-day I think some of you would find nearly all jrour friends and nearly all your families around the holy tankard of the holy communion fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, around that sacred tankard which commemorates the lovo of Jesus Christ our Lord. it will be a great communion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard one on earth, ono in Heaven. Fifth Once more I remark that when tho pi odigal gets back tho inhabitants of Heaven keep festival. 1 um very certain of it If you havo never seen a telegraphic chart you have no idea how many cities aro connected together and how many lands.

Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem articulated, and news flies from city to city and from continent to continent. But more rapidly go the tidings from earth to Heaven, and when a prodigal returns it is announced before the throne of God. And if these souls this morning should enter tho kingdom there would be some ono in tho heavenly kingdom to say: "That's my father," "That's my mother," "That's my son." "That's my "That's my friend," "That's tho one I used to pray for." "That't the one for whom I wept so many tears." And one soul would say, "Hosanna!" and another soul would say, "Hallelujah!" "Pleased with the news the saints below In songs their tongues employ. Beyond the skies tho tidings go. And Heaven is filled with joy.

"Nor angels can their joys contain, But kindle with the fire; The sinner lost is found, they sing. And strike tho sounding lyre." At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cicero, the orator; at the Macedonian festal sat Philip, tho conqueror; at the Grecian banquet sat Socrates, the philosopher; but at our Father's table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors. Tho table is so wide its leaves reach across seas and across lands. Its guests are the redeemed of earth and the glorified of Heaven. Tho ring of God's forgiveness on every hand, the robe of a Saviour's righteousness every shoulder.

The wine that glows in the cups is from tho bowls of 10,000 sacraments. Let all the redeemed of earth and all the glorified of Heaven rise and with gleaming chalice drink to tho return of 1,000 prodigals. Sing! sing! sing! ''Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end." From a cathedral close comes to us the story of a discussion concerning a certain gentleman who was blessed with a nose of a Bardolphian size and color. "He must be a heavy drinker," said one cleric. "Not at all!" said another; "I knew his father and his grandfather, and they had the same unfortunate kind of nose." "Ah!" was the reply, "evidently a case of damnosa hsereditas." St James' Gazette.

New suppose a horse can be kept very cheaply in TexasP" Texan "Thai all depends on circumstances, stranger. A neighbor of mine had to pay pretty high for keepin' ahoss" "How so?" "It cost him his life, and he didn't keep the hoss long either. It was my hoss he was trying to keep." Texas Sittings. THE LATE OWEN BROWN. His Thrilling Escape from Harper's ferryA Good Man Gone.

Owen Brown, son of old John Brown the John Brown of Kansas, of Harper's Ferry and of history, died recently at his mountain home near Pasadena. His death recalls the days of abolition and of slavery, the terrible struggle of the free-soil party in Kansas and the many events that led to the armed attack upon the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry and eventually to the great civil war. It is not the writer's purpose to write either obituary or eulogy. There are live3 in thi3 vast country that need no ante-mortem comment 1 knew Owen Brown in Ohio, many years before he came to the Pacific coast Like his brother Jason, who survives him, Owen was strong in stature, noble, brave, manly, yet kind and gentle as a woman, as sweet in disposition as a child; his character pure, almost Christ-like. I might add that no raco of men, perhaps, in the present century better exemplified tho true Christian character than this same family of Browns, from the rugged, brave old martyr, John Brown, to the gray-haired, patient Jason, who returns alone to his mountain home.

The life of Owen Brown is fraught with romance. He was a lineal descendant of one of the Pilgrim fathers. Born in 4, 1824. at Hudson, Summit County, his childhood and youth were pass-id in different portions of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. In 1854, in company with his three brothers, he removed to Kansas, the party traveling overland and wintering their stock in Southern Illinois.

They settled on the banks of the Pottawattomie in Lykins County, Kan, and in tho next few years became identified with the early history of the free-soil State, which is written in the blood of many martyrs. Owen Brown was a participant in tho Kansas-Nebraska struggle. He was present at the sacking of Lawrence. He" suffered persecution at the hands of tho Missouri border ruffians. His houso was burned, his cattle stolen and his household goods carried away.

He was imprisoned, ill-treated, and finally driven from the State, for the sole reason that he was an abolitionist In 1858 he was at Chatham, where his father organized his famous "Provisional Constitution." He next appeared at Chambersburg, in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, in company with his father. The subsequent events aro matters of history, and are well known. With twenty -three men John Brown swooped down upon the little hamlet in the mountains one Sunday night Out of all his command but ono man, Owen Brown, lived to tell the story of the famous insurrection. Owen fled with Captain John Cook to the mountains, where for days and weeks they lived on corn, raw potatoes and such provisions as they could secure at night Cook's wife was at Chambersburg. and when the two fugitives reached the vicinity of that town on their way north Cook announced his determination to leave his companion in tho mountains and visit his wife.

Owen told him tho undertaking would bo most perilous, and advised him not to go. Cook was obdurate, however, and leaving Brown one night he wended his way toward the town. It is needless to relate tho story of his capture. He was taken back to Virginia, tried at Charlestown, and finally hanged as a traitor. Owen Brown worked his way slowly, northward.

He lived for weeks on corn, raw fruit and vegetables, which he secured from the farms bordering on the mountain range. He finally reached Franklin, in Northwestern Pennsylvania, and from there easily ot over into Ohio, where he wad soon safe among his friends on the western reserve, remaining alone to tell of the attack on Harper's Ferry. Ten of the men were killed in the fight, several died from their wounds and sevon wore hanged in the jail at Charlestown. Alter tho war Owen took up his residence at Put-in-Bay, an island in Lake Erie. It was here that I found him one day about eight years ago, in his vineyard, an old man, white-haired and wrinkled.

His silvery beard was long and wavy. Ho had the appearance of a patriarch. He stood 5rect, as brave and firm as did his gallant old father, whose heroic acts will live as long as history exists. Three or four years ago the surviving members of the family, Owen, Jason and John, came to California and took up their residence near Pasadena. The Nemesis of poverty seemed to have followed them through life, and even to the Golden Stata Some months 3ince Owen and Jason sold their only dow that John might return to the East And now Jason is alone, old, poor, his family gone, almost among strangers in a strange land.

Yet patient, trusting, kind and gentle, grand old man, like his brother Owen, who in the bright sunlight lay down and fell asleep, his life work done, the battle won. Will M. Clemens, in L03 Angeles (CaL) Tribune. THE SAMOAN TROUBLE. Mr.

Bayard's Cowardice in Protecting American Treaty Rights. The degree of cowardice displayed by the Democratic "Administration in dealing with tho Samoan matter will bo better understood after reading the fifth article of our treaty with that country, as follows: If, unhappily, any differences sbould have arisen, or shall 'hereafter arise, between the Samoan Government and any other Government In amity with the United States, the Government of the latter will employ its good offices for the purpose of adjusting those differences upon a satisfactory and solid foundat.on. The Samoan treaties with Great Britain and Germany were made subsequent to -the American treaty and do not contain the above clause. By subscribing to that article our Government virtually undertook to protect the independence of Samoa against foreign interference- Our Consul-Gen-eral, Mr. Greenbaum, so understood it, and when in May, 1886, the Germans attempted the overthrow of King Malietoa's Government by giving active support to the rebels under Tamasese, he hoisted the American flag, oa the request of the King, over the Samoan kingdom and notified the German Admiral and.

Consul that the United States had assumed a protectorate over Samoa in accordance with treaty provisions. The Gorman commander flew into a passion, but was careful not to shoot Five days later the German men-of-war sailed away. It needed no American cruisers to protect American rights and Samoan independence. A courageous Consul had accomplished all that was necessary by the moral influence of the American flag, when there was not a United States gun within two thousand miles. Mr.

Greenbaum's firm, diplomatic, justifiable and necessary course was repudiated by our Government and he was recalled, giving place to Mr. Sewall. The German men-of-war immediately returned, deposed King Malictoa, carried him off a prisoner to Africa and later to Europe, whero ho now is, and set Tamasese up as King, although Mataafa is the legitimate successor. Since then they have carried matters with such a high hand that even the Administration is sufficiently aroused to send cruisers to Apia with instructions to do, substantially, what Mr. Greenbaum was dismissed for doing, but which can not now be carried out without greatly straining our relations with Germany.

These instructions aro likely to be countermanded in the event of a crisis. It was bad enough to bo humbugged and intimidated by Germany on our own account, but to covenant with a weak, dependent and friendly people like the Samoans to protect them against foreign domination or assault and then to abandon them to their fate at tho first show of armed force was disgraceful and contemptible. Cleveland Leader. SOUTHERN OUTRAGES. The Craol "Work of the "White Savages or the "Now South." Tho killing of negroes for fun goes on apace in the South.

The sport has now been transferred temporarily from Mississippi to Georgia. A gang of negro section hands, sixty in number, engaged upon the Brunswick Western railroad, were congregated underneath a shed in front of tho shanties at Hillsdale. The Atlanta Constitution's correspondent says they wero "innocent, inoffensive negroes, fresh from tho farms, and just started at work for tho railroad." As they wero sitting by a fire, singing one of their favorite hymns "The Gospel Train Am Coming" a crowd of whito men appeared, armed witli Winchester rifles, and without a word of warning poured volley after volley of bullets into them. One hundred and fifty shots were fired. 'Three or four of the negroes were killed outright, and tho remainder of them, fifteen or twenty of whom wera wounded, fled into the woods and swamps.

leaving all their possessions behind them, which, it is needless to say, were destroyed immediately. The whito crowd then distributed themselves over the neighborhood, driving off tho colored residents and destroying their property. This horrible outrage was committee: without provocation, the whites having first intoxicated themselves and then deliberately started out upon a negro hunt The most that can bo said is that several months ago in an altercation a white man was killed by a negro, who then fled from the neighborhood. The section hands had only been on the ground a day or two, had nothing to do with tho original altercation, know nothing of it, and were entirely inoffensive as well as guiltless of any offense. As usual we are informed that the people deeply deplore the occurrence, and that thero will be an investigation, and, a3 usual, it is stated that none of the murderers are known, although they wero traversing that region for several days, and some of them were present at the inquest still armed with their rifles.

Probably nothing will come of the investigation, and no one will be punished for this cowardly and brutal slaughter of peacolul and inoffensive negroes. Tho truth of the matter is that though this section is part of Mr. Grady's New South, where the pooplo love the negro and delight to protect him, as the Major announced in his New England dinner speech, the law is trampled down by a gang of savages who may challenge tho Kemper County (Miss.) savages for brutality and fiendish hatred of negroes. We shall wait with some interest to see whether the av'horities of Georgia are more resolute and enterprising in tho enforcement of law and punishment of crime than those of Mississippi. Unless thoy are thoy must not complain if they aro held as responsible for these shocking murders, and they must not be disappointed if they are refused the Northern skill, enterprise and capital for the development of their resources which they are just now inviting.

Chicago Tribune. NOTES OF THE DAY. JSSTSecretary Bayard (fiercely) II any man attempts to haul down the American flag apologize to him on the spot Chicago Tribune. JBSyJobn Wanamaker spends five thousand dollars a week for advertising, which shows that he has got more sense than many men who have become Cabinet officers. Cleveland Leader.

JGSTAn extra session of Congress should be called at the earliest possible moment, and a tariff bill similar to the Senate substitute for the Milk bill should be passed as soon as possible. N. Y. Press. JSTls it strictly in the line of chivalry for a mob of Southern white men to jump on one negro and do him tc death? Answers to this riddle should be prepaid at the post-office.

Atlanta Constitution Cleveland is spending his brief remainder of official life in two congenial occupations vetoing private pension bills and appointing Democrats to the few remaining offices. Boston Journal. is understood that General John M. Palmer has concluded not to break up the Grand Army of the Republic. The posts will therefore continue to meet at the same time and places in other at the old stand.

Peoria Transcript FARM AND FIRESIDE. Scrub cows, plug horses and mangy pigs are unprofitable farm property. In fattening hogs it is good economy to have a dry, comfortable sleeping place and a tight, dry feeding floor. Stuffed Spare-ribs: Take a large rib, stuff with sage aud onions, and lay on potatoes. Set on the stove and bake brown.

Farmers feeding any of their domestic animals on corn principally, should mix strong wood ashes with the salt fed to them. And give salt and ashes winter and summer, if fed on corn. Iowa Register. The estimated loss to the cotton, apple and potato crops from insects is 40,000.000. Yet the farmers take no precaution to protect the birds.

Every bird killed adds just the work it would perioral to the labor of the farmer, who consequently has a greater number of insects to destroj. In sweeping the rooms tho plants should be covered either with a cloth or paper, as tho dust settling upon the leaves will stop or close up the pores so that the plants can not breathe. If they get covered with dust it may be necessary to wash off the foliage. The agricultural college professor and larmer are coming nearer together every year. The professor is coming gradually down from his high throne of exclusive science, and the farmer is rising slowly up out of tho vale of fogy-ism and prejudice.

Both havo learned many valuable lessons and have profited thereby. American Breeder. The best food for fattening fowls, old or young, is barley meal, mixed with equal quantities of cornmeal, cooked and fed warm (a small quantity of brick dust in their drinking water is recommended), which will make flesh faster and more solid, giving it a fine golden color after being dressed. Good food is positive economy. Indian Omelette: Mix a table-spoonful of cooked macaroni, cut into half inch lengths, with an equal bulk of grated cheese and a dessert spoonful or so of tomato-conserve; add a grate of nutmeg and a suspicion of cayenne-pepper, then stir the whole in a stew pan until hot.

Put the mixture into the center of a medium-sized omelette, just before folding, and serve at once. Woman's World. Indian Griddle Cakes: One cupful of Indian meal, one of flour, three of boiling milk, two eggs, one tea-spoonful of salt, one of cream of tartar half a teaspoonful of s-oda, two table-spoonsful sugar. Have the milk boiling, and gradually pour it on the meal. Put the other ingredients with the flour, and rub through a sieve.

When the scalded meal is cool add to it the flour aud the eggs, well beaten. Sweetened Juice: Mash the grapes and press out tho juice. Before boiling sweeten as desired with best white sugar; strain carefully; fill the bottles aud seat them upon a wooden foundation in a boiler; surround them with water up to their necks; bring to a boil and boil ten minutes; then from one of the bottles fill all the rest, to make up loss by evaporation, and cork them while hot; after corking, seal the corks; the sulphurous acid gas, impregnating the juices, will be volatilized and driven oil' by the heat. This can be kept several years. American Garden.

FARM IRRIGATION. hat It Costs to Supply a Tract of Land ith ater. There are different modes of irrigating, first by irrigating with, ditches or tiles, upon the foliage, and then on the surface of the land without wetting the fojiage. Irrigating in tiles would require more water than it would to irrigate upon the surface, and the plants would not receive the benefit so directly or so soon as they would if irrigated upon the surface; but in some soils it is preferable, especially on low lands and on heavy soil, because if water is run upon the top of the ground, the land will bake after the sun shines upon it, whereas, if it is run in trenches, it moistens up through the soil. In growing crops under glass, it is very necessary to irrigate, in fact it has all to be done by irrigation, and for that reason 1 would rather grow a crop under glass and am surer of success in doing so than by growing it in the field.

I should rather have a farm of 10 acres arranged for irrigation and irrigated, than one of 20 acres without irrigation, and I could make more upon it in 10 years, and pay for the irrigation machinery necessary, than I could upon the 20-acre farm without the irrigation. Wind-milis are a very cheap mode of irrigation when the wind blows, but if you want to raise the wind, you have got to get up steam, and it is therefore necessary to put in a steam pump. I would as soon be without a steam pump as a farmer who cuts hay would be without a mowing machine. In piping and arranging for irrigation with a wind-mill and a steam pump, the cost would be about $1,000 for the place of ten acres. But 1 do not think the outlay is really thrown away, because the place if it were sold would bring enough to make up all the money expended.

With a steam pump that will pump 100 gallons of water a minute, you can irrigate with a three-inch supply pipe four acres in 20 hours and put an inch of water on a level, which I consider snfficient at any one time to be applied in the driest of seasons; but I recommended applying it a3 often as once a week. The average rainfall in this seetion is about one inch per week, and if this amount were distributed evenly we should probably need no artificial irrigation; but as we sometimes have a week and sometimes more without any rainfall at all, it is necessary to apply something to the crops. Pumping water by steam costs about one cent per 100 gallons on a basis of pumping through a four-inch suction and a three inch supply "pipe; if a smaller pipe wero used of course the relative expense would be greater. The expense of putting th inch of water upon four acres would amount to about $12, after every thing is arranged and paid for. This is $3 an acre, and what crop is there that we grow that will not warrant an expenditure of $3 upon an acre in a dry time, for irrigation.

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