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PROMINRNT PEOPLE. _
illrxnv “Hutu “£372“!!th is to lecture in
ms tummy new \vitiler on lrelanil.
SENTINEL. l
so='rii uni-:iviiik. sizimizniiizn n. '
- . p The International Match at New
YACHT
acme.
York for the Cup.
parade is orderly and moves re larly, but
on the ‘sea the spectacle shif every nio~
merit; it was a continual transformation
si‘t‘ur‘, brilliant with color and motion.
and must have astonisliol the poor
muigravits on the steamer ltaly as it came in
from th.‘ 0 man. They must have been struck
\vitli awe at the sight of this the first wonder
of the great new world to which they had
ijoiiriieyml to make their t‘urtiiiie:<it must
l:|\\“ ‘been‘ to tlicip a‘ \‘lSl-‘ll of boundless
J
ARTII (I UAK ES. Eureiiosl‘ufiitefirfgfilho being destroyed in
.AN AFFOI'N"! OF THE NOTED 171‘-
HI‘IAYAIS IN AMERICA.
1586 bya shock and a sea~vvave ninety
feet high, and again being overwhelmed
in ”do, while Arica surl‘ercd much in
August, 1763, from a great earthquake
wave which extended to all the shores of
the Pacific. In t‘liili in 1822 occurred
an earthquake in which were noticed the
Fantoua Qitaklngs in the .‘lississippt
\‘alleyu'l‘lic Sever-est Incl h-
TIIE EM PTY PLACE.
Text: 3Thou shalt be niismd, because thy
seat vull be empty."——I Samuel, xx. 1.“.
Peru has been a! HR TALuGE'S 5 "IR-l0“. “Maw? mu thha‘: most
brilliant moment in your its will be the mo-
mentwnenyoueanaandwordtoyonhmnnu
that you have conquered your evil ts by
the grace of God, and become eternal victor.
0h,I despise not parental anxiety! The time
I'll come when you vnll have neither father
nor mother,and you will go around the place
where they used to watt-h yon,a.nd find them
.1
7“] l; ,1“, tilt.
in alt‘lii" t;.lv. llllvllst‘li tram"
Ci lii‘s‘tiuJMuiir, iliel-rotbor of President I
Millard l‘llllltfll't‘. is still living in lndiaua.
’l‘ntni’t‘awsit [inch in the llritish House
of Louis. lean)» in, of wui'so. heading the ‘
list. '
Ill I‘uizvina. i.’tlio l-‘vonuh se‘i: tist, has
grow! the centenary hue and ha. an duly
‘Il ii‘wl l _\‘ his ~u .iitryueu
A Vi u \‘nm‘ lilti‘i‘l‘ szus that Mrs Langv
try" .léllf blue In New \ oi‘k next Wluwr is
mm do. ido lly among lK‘i\llllll! a.
Sin“. ll u» was. t-t Maryland, always
w‘hrs a nut ms.- tird about his neck to keep
ill lhc lthllt‘llgl i. And he says it has been a
‘twl “till“.
ii, is idt‘rglimsn ll ii-r iiiissimiary woikin
in u ll mnir} .i! {bu Bangor .Me. Theologb
(Al PM l: Mi. * ,
Mus v: l:\ ri .«s’o _l.“ said to write on an
avt-iage ttl on twniilv lcllt‘i‘s a day, most of
llirlli ..\ g" plv l ~ c ‘lllllllllll";l'.l\\ll‘ from err
lil‘!‘ ‘:l»lll"i'l\
"lunar. uni-s one \ilillo trait who never
land in an illellftll Wm H the compliment
purl 5‘ ll=~vllii;l Whipple lb“ .zh‘r day by an
unlil' l d 'Zhil‘git
‘l‘ul; Kin; inf l‘wllllglll, now oii'iii'iiig,&r
ha" l\\ ll\ \ ”E‘Il‘ll Munro, ll'Ls ll it been uut-,
sci» !!.w m l‘.s ”l llx\ hail» tl unmiou before
f r llu .ftsl l\\-‘l\l\.)l'.‘1l‘\‘
.\ v: \ll \\ .\\l u» v i A. tli . lililltlll princess,
an wps if». inc !« u.;,.r~_ lh'c- In li.iii ‘llfllt‘l ts.
l’lig'. V. .itil hpimsli. hhe ls liuw asi‘biml
rtwi lzvr :iiil illhl‘\ he: p0 iplo to edtr atolhoir ‘
lttlillr‘n ‘
'l‘iii»: xli‘i‘l'lls m iapwl an a ossiou of so many
old i-zi‘vti. lea has has. turned attention to~
“ill‘il lllv’ nil \ i\ ins. :iliiim; \\ liulii is l‘iori'o‘s
Vim-m tn Hen- l'l Jiiwob \‘iunpb Ill, who
L, n.» ‘u; m l'vlilisthlllid "
l‘\\ ‘ul \ « ‘\I: \‘ll' luvs bow-mm the New
Yin .. l . he is 13-» tziml mm to osmium
tlia' ‘: - f .. : ri lumen u tuiiuty. the
on: !’\ t. :1. . H; s' .n K .n; and ”rm-val Me!“
r." l\.xit pu' .....; in!) llls pm‘lmtei and
:11‘1-‘l 2.!» llm llxl‘I H on .1 New York
Lu: ,1! g... Ii. -ll'll\ after his appoint-
Ilu m
in \l ‘.\«' . \\ ‘l'l l iii-v-‘l'ni-l‘ \lgor. of
.n i'ilziuniia r ci-tilly, took
Jill : x --l(\ .‘tllil lei ml I lll"‘ Hint. would
mt ' " m. ‘1' unml or l-ii‘ii-diim‘»,iii)il
lt‘l“ l l..'ill~" ill-W“ lt"'iuil itsslll‘thlli‘¢*3
:h i‘ ‘l; * l '.l' n he .i in. nth any limo
...i'...
(no i-:i\ v their l'Iuslui u homes and
l , isriniii -i-pi zist lily. thisitliinlun
Ht. \. ,»«ll.l:1.lii >llll 1!.
.3.’ ‘
MbSIbAL AND DRAMATIC. .
rpm! wl' Sh i...»~.;uuii'u‘l i:'.:\\'-i Navy to»:
lru'islsll-=l lulu l 'c. lit in.
M: l I Alum; t'iu m-li ilu ~\\:l a“ trot-i,
H.181 s :lli_:s UH llI‘l' lli'llnlu; '
Ska \l vl’. \ U mum-s s o-n wlll prupully
l~i slrv‘j. i ii than illdllli‘tll
Alums: l‘itumi, iliw Aniori‘in
w.: -;w:i l Hm was -:i lll .\iis:r:ili:i
31; 5‘ «' Swen it: swin'. l ‘snew play. "l‘:i,'
lld.‘ t:"“il “”1; lr‘v’t‘.\t‘l ill tlin “cst
Mull; «i; it \ isuinuv-i-‘i'. well known in
an -i :- :‘ zili-l rcaiei‘, iliwl run-nil) lll ling
ldnl
fl,l-'\i.‘f ll:\ .\-. (ml l‘fl'o‘i 'l‘vi'rv liavu rn
ting-'1!“ liligdiilulznr :i l'i‘l'l \ tut to this
inhli'll, .
‘Nltu .iz. nil-z .\l;in.i:i“w1‘.l lm :lin «‘lllt‘f
f in: 2: i2! Ill 5‘ Ml :,::o Mikhail \ ruperht‘y
v. u! smi, ‘ ll
sffll“
'iit ross,
.lrs's \ Lisp’s iliii;‘::‘-~r. »'~\ll - ls sgiiiki‘ll HI
n; it iiicii'minlis \. Iii‘u, is «mum; in
If ’ __
\ l, \i i.» ,i‘i-l ll itidwiiio'upnr:i llnlls‘i‘ lllll‘iil‘
in; is Mix-serr- h-l :Il l. .i lug-dos, \“ul, at
3 .s‘ i: i \l I_ , . ’ -
luv: is: do gut‘ll a dinner Ill London
lminru hn «his: »: \«w You, an l tho l'l‘lll}‘t‘
u! \\ ,ilrss ‘3 v.ii!i-‘i l.
ll: \m .\l .‘i \~.i i Y, tli.\.,\l’rina'iovpl-irvzr.
h-h ‘ " H iwl‘ .i ‘sw‘fiil’ei but of lllty tii,‘lils
111 A i. ..i lli \ ‘ .t‘wt‘l.
\i o inns lli “Ill have twenty ov-ii
Ill-'{tl‘us .. .lllili; ilio illi‘lfir hull-‘4“ .unl -
VJ :~ Y; sh -w p .i .-. :irvt mittvill ' ,
luv. ll» \\l| .\li: tux lllviiilNS. of l‘liicago,
hm a mew-u a pic i‘JliC‘iI “Hzir liicli
l‘ Misti: sun ll J H. MW iv‘kci‘ praises
hag! i.
\‘i .. iii 1 \i' is .1“illi:l~lltl.‘l\n .\ siiiwcrtt ~iii“
:x' lili: xp-i, and is ataui. in; Wli it ll. is pruiuW
lust A... lm lliu inn-st slrmg .pirirtu; eiurl
. ("l ‘ ‘Z
l
l.‘ - l‘.l-§§l\ II u»: an“ wi'l 2» iii Mrs D.
l‘ l‘- m‘rs‘s rep-clum- this mason slid is
pr ~' ally lll ~ only .\:m-i i vulnrti'v-u who now
rnlo
NEWSY GJLBANIIIGS. ‘
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l‘im « l'i \ix‘. i‘u} ,
l ‘5' i l'l‘nlll‘ l:.i
A \lr\i»
n
litils Hin: \ until trap in Urea: lii'ituin is
'llll i Pk ‘t‘\l.l|"lil ol~ lbik M ’l‘ ii‘rilor]
\l K" tree
has Emmi
s ‘ltx-Ill.
‘lnul-wl by
\\ iiiizi;-- is l» lm .tiiil‘il-sd ill
.‘xixzil ll‘ll .'l‘-”‘l\‘ll, in \lclulnu‘.
-» in! h“ "’ ‘Jl ll luslr‘ls‘, l‘i‘uiii 3.2““;
.
Till him. l~ d .‘Ifllllliiwd' i‘miutv. \Vivi,
vat l-Mi Il'ccs 'zm‘ their smile may feel on
‘ildg'dlll‘ll‘ . .
ll ls «beanie-l that tho 7 irn u sod liri lgv
firings» 1|... ll .-l~~n liiicr at ‘iniglik'ccpsm
“.il ,.._, islmm I. W.
VHTVVJUJW liftltt\ have lmnu tin-Ml Hill at
5.5“ llav n, t‘oim . for ll‘ftllilill‘tlllli‘ selling
l
mm in sis iv! bum-r _ i
'l‘m' 2pm,: l‘:il lul‘lllll}lllltl.:~*lsi‘flllllfllt‘il l
5: 3h ”Wu-H“ ,: :l vii~.wlii« li Will lento l‘l‘lrll‘. ,
J“ h. us l‘wi .A \} uiLitiun. .
.\r. l‘ n l ll is ~lu nlld tn have another lee
corn. :i! ltl'\l \\ mlrr. It u.“ lug.” on Jau~ l
i.:\l'jv .- :i'cl l‘iili ”Low \‘t‘l'ks.
Tilr’ .\\\v-ll~ll 'inl ll iliish nim‘spulwrs liar.»
ln‘t“l 'll"'|l\\"»ll:_\ luvm-s Eul‘ Illv‘fit'ylllsll‘ll limit
03' .1 ltiiinii In icon lleii'iim‘k 'atiilil SW61 ‘Ii
null-r the .\' ‘illl-l ‘
fig. \\\.3\ ll .s Jll‘l been luriicl it? til Sir
\\' .ni u A: iiis'i'uiig‘s lawlurv Ll l:lt:li\llil i
on . n ;. gnu: ti-ur 4wa long. slip-cu and a'
bull in l. s in launch-r atil it. a lunl “eight
Wen by the Mayflower.
The series of races for the gran? ) .iuhliiig
trophy, “‘0 Allml‘ii‘a‘scnp. last 3' ar caused a
lively revival of popular interest in this sport.
1 and the sucvoss of the Aiiiorionn t:lIllil‘i‘lilUr
in llli‘ great l‘i‘lllt‘s‘l- iii kcopau the cup on
this side of the o 'cnll was \-I ginitlyitis; l i tia~~
tiniial pride that when the cumin: of tho tlu-
Iitutei was followed by tho cliulleugoof Idriit.
llomi of llioroyul English navy. on llL‘l' of the
lialalea. a larger boat than the “humid. lh-i
' ‘l‘ll'fli‘l Vticlitsnicn of tho lilaxt ~r:i cities do.
‘/ .‘lln, Ki iuniita. a native of Kimhin, J3. ,.
toriuiltod to build new yaclifs “llll the spas
yial object of investing the tia‘n'on. The
Slayllonar. of llosluii. and lb ~ Atlantic. of
Brooklyn. :ii‘c tho n ‘V\ litmus. The owner of
the Puritan again asseit sl his abilily to
“\CIII‘G~0§III‘ N?
i t a strum Inna
rill: .\\lFfl‘.li‘.\'.\‘ . i‘ij. .
nie l :iu-l beat all comers. :inl th- l‘~is 'illa
\\;i{:i"lcrc-lsiiid l nprmwl and 3qu ii l‘llll‘l'\‘il
!h-~ listi 'l'lzn pi’nli'miiuijv Il’:i|l\‘ i-l' tlinso
yachts in tho club 1 r‘.‘.lll’ is aid the serum of
i-nnlcsis fur the lion ir of uph ildm; ill" sii
lil"‘lll‘|= j. ml the .\‘l:i‘l‘l“:lll ”stains: ho;-
S U! ll t’|\;ils ll:l\‘i‘ liner; :im n; llm nut.»
\\'i|l’lll_\‘ \‘\iUll‘ ul' llic ‘\ "‘II' in ‘.\ llxt li fim pili
ll unit-lost was mus: ..l\\'ll. :inl lll-‘ result
haul-Minsk l:l~l)i‘1\l‘.lilill :i l‘u‘s'. ‘ll \u lit
clirrfi l wll‘ llin lniiii-i‘ 'l‘li : M i} ili‘Jr‘l‘ \lcfmiicl
:ll‘r I'ixiils iu llli‘ p:-.~‘.;iiiiti:iiw fr as. and “as
\- llI‘-’I\' l :is :‘llii‘l: is l: il'li'h'll izi. the cunt: st
“llll lllt‘ l‘:ll;l.-lllll:lll s }:i- li'
'l‘liu ll‘s‘l .d‘ llo sures
.‘J. \v \"iii'l. l;i\'. lun'.’
.5.i.~.- .ni the 2th. and
wins i‘.‘isll_\' \iuii is» liic .l.‘\\'ll aocr, the Ann-in
* h:lld- lioi‘
‘a chance.
'1l?,‘A'-;i-ulicls.
'l‘lll'l MARKETS. l
saw voiix. 11‘» , ‘ g
Beef ca' .‘m. gin-d In name i w 61,“?! 3?".
Calves, cutii‘ii to prime veals "i «Q l
Slice \ ............. . ...... . REESu. a“
Lambs ........... 3K4! : I“
Hugs Live ..... l? M [3%
lll‘t'ssisl. cltv ....... '| uh ‘ ~¢
Flauru hr :71 , gin «lto fancy ll Iii) «a o L0 ‘
\Vi-sl, gm “l hi \‘htliCfi‘i; lit) it 4 00- l
Whmzwxd _:, lied”... staid 3‘34 ;
Rye —h‘mte ........ . ....... . . a? on 53 l
Barley Fuzir rowed State. . . _ id) ‘ .
('uru— l‘ ugrad. Mixed. . -. . . . Ml}; d 52:;
Oillfi— \Vluw that» ....... . . in it! "
‘ . Mixed Western. . . . . . . :13 «a :H
Hay—Mid. to vr. 'l‘iniothy.. 50 it? 85
litrau- NH. 1. Ryi-.......... 60 «a 70
Lard—i‘ity Stir-nun ....... .. 7 lit) @, 85
Biitwrwsuite L‘i‘uamary .. . . 21%“! 3".“
Dairy. . . . . ....... . . . 13 Li) 21
“'09:. lm. Creamery ll (9 15
Factor ...... . . . . . , 10K“? 25‘
Cheese-“plate history . . . . . . (I) 9
Skiins.............. 6 (I! 7
V\'mta-rn............‘ 752cc 8
figs—State and Penn. . . . . . ._ 16 u) 13
‘ ' BUFFALO.
Slim- G-(mdtoChoico;..... 835 @395
lamina—\Vesteinuun...".530 (gall?
Htm'NvWQ‘slel‘u...:uuv.;u § I?) (Q 5 33
Hug+ Gmd tn Chmce \orks t .2} (d 5 35
Flour-U3; ground it. rem 5 33 (Q 3 *2
W ln-atrTB-o. 1. Hard luluth. all (a; bi Lg
Cum—Nu. 2. Mixed New. . .. 39 ell 39‘s
Oszsvxu. 2, Mixed \Vestern 38 id 53%
Barley v'l‘wu-ru tired State. , , -— q) —
hour-ox.
Beef—Ex plate and family“) 59 (all (I)
Hugs— Live ............. . . . 5%ut 5X
7 Northern Dl‘fn‘sed. . . (island 7
Pork—Ex. Prime.3 per bbl. . .10 50 (ct ll 00
Flour—Aviator \\ heat pat‘s. i 50 in 4 65
Coru-lligh Mind........... 53 (Q 563‘
Dent—Extra wait». . .. «33,9 45
Rye—vamp: ..... ...........'. 7‘3 Lt! 73
wartn‘rowx Nasaisoa‘rru lam.
MIwErtra quality....:':.. 5 23 G 5 50
Shoe Livow ‘ at......... , 4x3 5
Lamb: ....... “fin"...uu '3 C 6
Eats—Rom d. v....... 5X0 1’
. -munauln.
l'loor—Penmextamllymooda'fii 04”
What—Narakodunuuu -
Byo—mnuuunu..." -' fl
WYQMV......... - a 5986
i :in slump i‘nl‘ll ii; iii toelio iiiinii'cs :i‘iivml
of lll‘ lit-.iisli «uric: ‘lii- quli-wiii: \l\l‘l
..f t .i- Him is taken from lllt‘ New
\Nrk -~.~I ,
.\l l" i3 o'clucklhop'c'eiralviri signal \in.
given and one hall I » sinii‘ili :iiiioiig ll \usl
rlwli la lwl‘ tho too couipi-tilurs. .\ll llli‘
vl‘hl'l lli.‘ litlslll‘Naisf llli‘l’llV . onll s; :ii‘c li:id
:\~£r‘llllili‘1l ilioi‘c,ilicy furiuml :i
lugs on the lush!» rind tho sailing \ uswls lio-
roiid. The il:i,:uf lli- l‘.i-_\'.'tl Nurlhorn \‘-i« lit
\‘llili was ll\ in; ['1 nm ili . thlllr‘t‘cl boat :ts‘ the
l‘.\u \ :\ ~lilsslrii44lel Hi! - llu‘ riii: :l‘lil slriwl
'mt \llslllh‘l lo the :*:i 'e of ill Tao skirting
‘»l,"i!1\l\\ll.\ qnen, iiii-l lmili came up in 'ho
lane. the .\l:ivilnw.~r \vcll ,ilmad 'tll l -.~\ ideally
viii: ii .iv FIJI“ itit
pro: ared to siil so glaso' t.) the judges“
boat that the ilalnlca would have in pass lie-
lint lliis “us not to l e “V a
beautiful bit of i‘lnsi‘ w \ri. :i‘id ' Very skdlfiil
llllt!\=\‘ll\l‘lll‘,‘,‘ tho ciiilor rushed up bet ween
the Mayflower uni _ the judges 112:, gain-
ing the a li a'itage of the \\' lll‘l\\t|l‘\l pm tzoii
x.. >~ . .L- \.:\s~~uil‘ .
mil cow"- MN ”l" l" N“ “‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ gum» lliiqlicsucin Pittsburg.
almailof her rival. ‘l‘lim here close together
and the \\ ind that the Yankees thought they
hat for a ccrla lily won: to the tialatea,
She" did not keep her adi aiittiuo long. The
litilt' rirnlo 1
several «lo-p lit-k nf t'i~i,s!:i:‘tiiiz line, tho ,
. .. . ... Hr... ... t... s...
and spires and domes on show, a vision
which had never entered the iiii’ist fantastic
divanis of their narrow life at h-riie.
Perhaps there is too little written here
about the racers and too much of the atten-
dant vessels. but all the iiitewst was in tho
latter From the starting line out to Sandy
Hook it ~was simply a series of tacks, f‘iill, bel~
lying sails iii the sun for ii long spin. Wriii 3-1381
for a moment as the vessels wont about. and
again well-tilled as they startsd off on the
other in ‘k. Down below the Narrows the
Sle‘ll‘lllktal‘ St. Johns cut across the bow of the
Iit‘llltlt‘il and injured her i liaiices a trifle but
did not all‘oct the result in the slightcfl. as
the Mayflower kept drawing awaiv. At. tlii
lino) s iiisideSandy Hook the \\ holecoiicoiirsr
of sad and steam gatherel and waited while
the sloop and citllor suept luv. It was a lit
tlc after I‘ o‘clock then, and ~the Mayflower
was six minutes ahead of the (inlatea in pass
ins; these marks "Iii distance she was half 5
mile Ill the lead.
(llll‘lll ran. beyond the Hook, it was stil
Mayflower weather. a light wind and a
smooth scaJnth a scarcely perceptible swell.
Tho (ialaYcii did worse than lllllli‘ harbor.
The Mayflower took in her little jili-topsai
as she uvpared to go aroifiid the ugly rec
vcsstol t nil marks the wreck of tho Scotland
As she passed and startol hoiiioward then
was a flash of white from tugiiiast to bqu irit
end. and her great balloon jib swelled
-out. the iiiaiumil was cased utf a bit. iiiil
away she wont with the race already won if
no accident linppciic l. It was 2:13 u‘i-lo Vk
when she turned and ‘3: it when the Halateu
followed her exainp‘o. Here the natty llril~
isli sailors showed up to bad a lviiiilrige. for
they bangle-l terribly iii lli-~sclt1‘ii:: u" ' their
big jib. Huceit was hall-way up and bail to
be hauled in ligatiieiirl \\ lli‘li it \\.‘\s finally sot,
. alter the loss of iiiluiiblo lllll“. tlio Mays
. is .‘t lung one,
ilnwci‘ was two iii-les unity. .-\ slcrn cliaso
’l‘lp liiiluli-a (wind it so iii
; «lend. The Mayflower \rissml the Southwest
_ spit at 3,314 iii-luck, ' ll‘ (iiillileu \\.is not
1 liiiieil. There the .\l:i_vi‘,uw~~r gut her (3 in
, aiicr lliiil.
‘t‘ini lung lino t» ua'mh the run
iiukcr boom really. but dad n d break out the
itiiriiens‘v sail for a l «i; limo.’
Noniic paid any iitiwnllon to lli~ cull-ii
All our» hurryin; :i\\.iv tn lllt
in. Die \iily
, pf lllt‘ world mcr :i_;:iiii. lli-~ (itiiztli‘u Intel)
I and ll‘lt‘llilln‘s‘
\{lllllll‘ilt‘il. the Mnydnuci
9 fluttered \\'llll the pruseii e in“ moribmly, ll
; liml greeting lli_~ \ li‘l \r
l‘ii [he \\:l'\' up till
the \-‘lllli‘lll‘l\ s; teti-l . ill gigttiliv sl:iys‘iil~
and b n :imegrmil ill‘ll" in: fwaiiiy slur-l . 'l‘lii
schooner .\‘:i :Ill l‘rai»; in \\l\‘;.‘ll:l numb-r of
ladies iiuro \ll‘it\\lli‘il ml Nimiy llu l. a short
limo ago, “as } lis».wl \\ 113i l‘llliillli‘i‘ gl'uiip of
ladies, huwlloss of the title of lllt'll‘ sisters. on
her dock As l~'i~i't \Vciiltouitli is neared tlii
, eral successive months far from any vols
(lulllt‘ Iii ll“ i;auv-erivu-
iuuar'rm'ult l\\l\llllglfitht3, and ”bull“;
t inns in South Amer-lino.
square miles of land were permanently
raised from two to seven feet. At mid~
night of February ‘20, 1835. the city of
(‘onceptinn was for the fourth time dc-
stroyed by an earthquake; 300 shocks
were felt within two weeks: there was a
seawavc thirty feet high; and a subma-
riiie volcano near .luaii Fernandez Ithtrd
sent up a column of fiery cjccta through
a depth of 500 fin-t of water. In April,
la‘fi'l. there was a great earthquake ex-
teiid‘ng throughout the southern part of
South America. destroying l‘.‘,l)’ilil per~
sons in llueuos .-\yrcs.——_\‘c.c York Trib—
Hilf’.
l’l‘he most recent disturbance in the
l'uited Sirius. the upheaval east of the
Mississippi llivcr and the partial destruc—
tioii of l‘harleston, “S. (‘.. are so fresh in
the public mind as to require an det-iiled
descriptioii.~l-Zii. ‘
This continent has rcpratedly‘lieen vis-
ited by earthquakes since its disc‘overy
in MN. Hue, oi the most notable was
that which occurred in nut near New
Madrid, in Missouri, in the valley of the
Mississippi llivcr. That famous eartli~
quake. according to Humboldt, pre—
sented one of the few examples of the
incessant quakiiig of the ground for sevv
l
‘tlllfl. Over an extent ofcbunlry sir-etch»
iiig for 300 iiizli-s southward from the.
mouth of the Ohio River the ground rose
and sank in great iiiidulations,:iiid lakes
were formed and were again drained.
Tllt‘ surface burst open in fissures that
geiicrallv trendcd northeast and south—
west and were soiiictiuics more than half
a mile long; from these fissures mud and
‘ tinned over what has since beta called
; when they ce-iscil i miicideiitally Willi the
water Wi‘rt‘ thrown. often as high as the
tops of the trees. The disturbrinces con-
.1
~.,
“the sunk country“ until March ‘2“. 151
great vartliqiiakc oi (braces.
The most Si‘\‘(3rc carthpiake that has
been recorded in the Middle and Eastern ‘
States was that of November is, 17.15.
The shock then felt in New England was
a “'lch moving from either the same (eu-
tcr whence emanated the tremendous
disturbance that had dcstroycd Lisbon
the list dayof the lllullnlll. or fhilll :i
rcntcr “hose activity had barn slimii»
lated by the t otiliiiual i‘lltlklllf\ lll‘l! lhcii
prevailed from lccla'id to the .“i'illlt‘l‘l‘d‘ 1
than. 'l‘nis' earthquake began in Mass.»
chiis‘clls‘ \\ itli a roar a: noise like that or ‘
lllllllllt‘l‘: after :i iniwiile‘s continuance of
this llll‘l‘t‘ Cillly‘ llie lirsl severe .sliuck ‘
with a siiillil’ikc that of a long. rolling;
Sl'.l' :i swi-ll so great that men in the
upenliclds Fill! in -ci e swim-thin: liy
“lllt‘ll in lmld on lest they should lu-
thrmvu ilown.’ .\:t~~r two or lliri-c lcsscr
shacks lhcrc mimic the must violcnl of
:i.l, pinduciiig:iqiii.1\, liniisuziial into 2‘
with siiildcn lt‘rlis and wrenches;
. (‘illllllllll’ll l\\0 minutes. and :il'ti-ra slight
: l‘i'viizil
Mayflower >llfllu s‘ vii! llor spzniicikcr :Illil :ill ,
the \l‘~.\1‘l.~“;::llll -r at the liim From llie city
there had t‘t‘llli‘ d Ion :ilintlwi .‘lei-l while the
. vessel: “1- 'c out zit scn. llll‘l ll, to xwas “ail
. in; \lllil-‘l‘ the s'llzi-luw of ti o green lilulfs.
Some snul there own lint” In people i-ll sra ’
If rum-s. sailed in '
‘ 'l‘uolxc iiiiiiiitns la:
. linii \r
.,.......p»... . .
and shore. sii‘ii - pill ll til liiiif lll‘ll iiii‘iilwl‘.
liiil “banner “in cvii t \‘.i‘,lllI mav lliivi
been, sea and share “vb“ [N‘Ul‘li‘vl l’nr ll‘tll
a mile the .\l:i}'il-i\\i-x‘ piissml llil‘illllll :i lai (
.if \cssels tliri-o :ml linir dcnp on i'll“ll side
She . l‘x-s‘sed lllt‘ llllt‘ :il :il» -iit it‘ll o‘clock and
one lUIlvl.li|ll: cry of i-xuimlinu went up from
wary throat and men sloziiii \iliisllo. “'llll!
the guns nf the _\'.i ‘lll liimziicl n :t :m-l “or.
\lls\\\‘l‘i\l by a canauu lrom the fortification
r the liabilo‘i passcil l~_\
iii 1 there was a \l’lll'fll' li»~iiioiisti‘:i!ioii ii‘
of the lin.;lisliiii:iu “ho liul cum:
L'MU miles l-i get the old .\tiici'ii‘:i‘s I ‘nii.
NATURE-s UPHBAVAL
Queer Scenes and Incidents During
the Run liuuake Excitement.
A stampede occurred at .\la"oii, Ga.
\Voiiieii went imii li}'s’lt‘l‘l ‘S in Memphis.
The shock rang; the clitirch bells at. Stubs
Ville.
At l‘i-liiiiiliia. S. (‘., the shock lasted three
lllllllllf‘i
A largecornico of the Denison Hotel at
liidiaiinp ~lis fcll.
Several public meetings were liniken upin
l.« -iiis\'illo. Ky.
Augusta, tla., had ten distinct jars.
in iiinr was appalling.
.K iioxv illo experienced three shocks, lastiu;
sin cii iiiiiiiilo‘s‘.
Only one shock \va'sffelt at Mobile, AlzL It
lasli'il two scum ls.
.\t Sax aniiah \‘lm‘lis were stopped and
slrco’ pm etiicnis upturned. ,
i‘liarls‘liui \\\'cst \K'L‘ people thought the
day of )udgni int hail arrived.
Evorylsi ly at Milwaukee, '\\‘is., believed
it to be a dynamite explosion. _
The terrestrial disturbance upturned stoves
and tables at l‘etcrsburg. \‘tt
Fright ‘Ilt‘sl negnms faiiitisl by the bum
dre Is at Montgomery rind t‘hauanooga
;\t “'iliiiiuglon. Dclw the vibration iiiovml
sou-rial ships on the stocks building.
The shock h\\‘\llt¢\l iii dizziness and attacks
of nausea to hundreds at Dayton. Ohio.
The
.. .~\l t‘oluiiilius. Ohio. the inmates of the iii-
rm’fiirs; Landfill incl‘ t ‘ lain" Island. not far .
distant. When they tackcd for a ton: lea
over to Staten Island lll \ Mavilower had
picket up morn than she lost befoie and was
iii the lead. Alter that the Gamma lial not
lt'wa-z more interesting to watch
the marina [uiiiora iia. Them was t‘onimo-
dare “'liitiug. a halo old man» of seventy,
TII GALATEA.
the first Commodore of the Brooklyn
Yacht [(‘liib. ‘slttillg in his row-boat and
bending to his mars Ho'watches all the
races that way and nsvi .tes down to
Sandy Hook and back Withoutthinking
anythingot it. There isasound of melody
and the big steamboat Columbia 095 by
with crowds on her three decks; the iscilla
is seen standing down the Bay with all sails
set; the tug Storm King. all the way from
Boston. poses on. apd_a jolly crowd are
raising glance to their lips. Jay Gould, the
Hunt-suntan in America. perhaps in the
world. is watching it all from the bridge
of his magnillicnt steam‘er Atalanta.
‘ so is Elbridgo '1‘. (Sorry. the Commodore
3fthe club...from the bridge of his steamer,
:ho Elertraf Other millionaires enjov the
dies? from the steam yachts Ocean Gent,
tame. (foisair, Vision, Sappho, Stranger.
.liieila, Wanda. Tillil. \‘edottg, Meteor,
flaby and a whole arma la of sailing yachts.
rho veranda: of the hotel at Fort Ham.
Eliot; at}; decorated “p'ith‘fllags and black
wi poo egazinga emig typmcemion.
Numerous steamboat: with whistles scream-
ing, bunting waving and men and women
hurrahing and shakin hats and handker»
:liieta, sweeponin'am h procession. The
big schooner yachts Ambassadnm, from
Boston: Miranda, Montaak, Aetwabiaeubem,
Wave Crest. “near and the old ideas
follow. while sloop- and mitten innumerable
fill very space.
$2.9.” m Broakwater ‘ on
har- way with the turning nor to
mm m l‘ *‘ h...“ film:
t were ere.
“fund a ramps-d. 0a the lauda
sane asylum had to be t:e«l tp bedposls
A male ensued at the Hotel An iorson and
At \\'ilmiiigt0ri. X. (‘. rocking chairs on
the lloor were made to start in motion.
Unly one shock was perwptiblo at~liynchs
burg. Faiiiilius carried their beds mm the
l .\l l‘t‘t‘li
The inmates of the Soldiers‘ Home at Dav-
: euport, luwa. imagined it was the firing of
, distant t aiiuou.
Buildings rocked walls cracked. floors and
cliiuuieys tell, and lamps were overturned at
Raleigh. N. L‘-.
The shocks lasted but twenty seconds at.
l‘oluiiibiis, (la. The inhabitants sat up all
night. too frightened to retire.
Ne was ran through the streets of “‘hoel-
iug, IV. \‘a., wringing their hands Chande‘
hers were diStiuctly agitatoi.
In St. Louis scores of people endeavored to
break into church to pray: Theyrbelieved‘it
was the end of llio world. '
Lt Scranton. \‘a.. the oscillation drove
men, women and children nearly wild. Una
old man wanted to commit suicide.
The tolegra ili operators at Washington
were notified roni Atlanta to look out for
the shock. They thought it was a joke and
took no noticoof the warning.
The Academy of Music. at Cleveland was
the scene of a panic. A candidate belll" ini~
tinted into a secret lodge rushed throng the
streets with a cable about his waist ..
One woman died la Savannah, Ga. from
sheer fright. Two others broke their legs by
throwing themmlvca from upper windows.
In the towns of Eastern Georgia and North
and South Farolina the damage to property
“was a matter of universal complaint. but no
fatal casualties were reported.
EFFECTS OF THE SHOCKS.
The Earth nukes at Sea—Remarks
able C atom at Augusta.
The Hydrographic Office, at Washington.
has receive 1 a letter from Capt. Leo Yoe ,
of the steamer City of Palatka, briefly do-
:ribing‘the effects. of the earthquake at sea.
He had just left Charlestm and was about
twelve miles .off the harbor of Port
Royal, in eight and one-half .fathoms.’
where he “experienced a terrible
rumbling sensation,” which lasted' one
and one-half minutes There had been quite
sheavysoa from the southeast. but when
and the waters remained a perfect calm‘uutil
the rumbling came to an end, when the swell
was again manifest. The wind was south-
east and light; weather cloudy; The sensa-
tion. Capt. \‘oegol sav resembled that of a
ship scraping- a pebbly ttom. The ship‘s
vibrations were very t.
One of the curious insults o! the recent
earthquake at Augusta. 6a., is the change
in the topography of the country. Many
houses on the sand bills. the aristocratic
part ofthe city, which before could t be
any point. these remarkable changes wall at
once he and they go to prove
that there has a oonsidu-abla setting of
the earth.
———-——.—-—‘-—°
Curls Jens Biron Jameson died at his
residence near-re “Bradford. Oat
recently. 3”“ was 94 ‘ at ‘be:
in; the eldest Indhn of the chart! he.
Belong“ in the ‘Mm war at 180.
. _ x
the rumbling began the wave motion ceased '
seen from the city. are now in full low, '
while other landmarks have disa ,
In takinga bird‘s-eye view of t e city from
~ lllg {he
died away. Nuincrinis other
‘lll’l‘lsS fulliiwcil iii tili‘ t‘iillr-i' ill a llltllllll.
lll Huston the main shock threw down
niiitiy cliiiiiniys. witil' vows and brick
, buildings. and llll’trll,llilill llll‘ Country it
llll‘i'W down lll!‘ rude stone oallsbmiiid»
farms; Ili‘“ springs of water
wit’copcncd. Illt‘ vessels in llll‘ liziili-r
fell ill“ sliolk; large niiib rs of list
were. killed and tlu.ilrd to the surfaci- of
the water. Nine hours afterward, at 2‘
o‘clock l‘. \l., a sea wave, twenty feet
' high, arrived at the harbor of St. .‘llll‘
this in Ill" \\'c\l llluliil“.
0:1 Ui'lulu r l‘.‘. 15:“.
lllel ci‘insidcrzilrle shack ilizit has lif‘t‘ll
observcd iii the Middle and Eastern
States in the present century. l’ruin iicar _
o ‘('\lrl‘t‘l the
1 Quebec lli-~ shock spread to St. John, N.
ll.
l and southward to New
locilyoi the wave of sho. I»; was about
. .i._-...
and thence \vcsliviiid lo (liiciigo
York. 'l‘hc‘vc-
l-lJN'U fret per second. The occurrence
of thcslimk felt at tgiicl-cc was ti-lc»
grupliml ll: Moiilrcal by lhi- Operators of
the .‘loiitrml 'l‘eleg'raph company in lllllt!
to call the attention of those at the latter
city to the phenomena about thirty sec~
ends beforc the shock rcachrd them. /
lii l‘aliforiiia the earthquake of NS?
di slroyed one of the Southern Missions.
That of Maich “.‘i, lfiifiowas the must.
SCVi‘l‘L‘ that has occurred “my during;
many years. Special damage was done
in San 'l-‘iaiiciscu by lhl‘mt‘rdl‘klllg of the l
walls of line public buildings. ‘
In N! \‘atla the mining regions sulIi-rcd
iii lsil by‘tlic destLictixiii of Leno l‘ine
and Ullit‘l‘ st‘tllt‘lih'nl“.
A shock of earthquake was fell in this «.
part of tlic illllllll‘} on August 1". ”"4,
at ‘J‘UI l‘. .u. ‘l‘h rr'xvcrc two distinct
shocks. occurring “lllllll an interval of
a few seconds, and lasting: about a
quarter of a minute. .\t the Signal
Ullice the men in charge fell the shock
at :‘zll l‘. \I.. and the advices “lllvh
llli‘y rl't‘l‘th‘ll from
various parts of the coiiiitry gave l‘Cdell
to believe that the current was an erratic
and irregiilaronc. It “as tclt through
a belt of territory extending from “fish'-
iiigtiui to Portland. .\lc.. and from the
Atlantic coast as far west as 'l‘olcdo.
At midnight on June ll. 13““. a strange
renior was felt at Sandy Hook and (‘oncy
Island. No aliock was felt elsewhere in
the l’iiitcd States, but in the \Vcst lii-
dies a proiioiiiicel shock was felt on the
Islaii l of Antigua the day before. at
which time earthquakes occurred in
l‘oicticrs. France. and a terribly destruc-
tive volcanic outbreak was experienced
in New anland.
(in January ‘3“, 183:}. a severe shock
of earth iiiike was experienced at Centre.
ville. (‘a ., preceded by a heavy shower
of rain. _ .
On February H, 188‘}, a shock of five
minutes‘ duration was felt at Lake t‘ity.
t‘ol. The shock was also \ioleiitly felt\
at Capitol t‘ity. iii the ‘llfllc State. 1’
Uii December 19. 1882. two slight but ‘
.distirictly perceptible shocks dearth—1
quake lasting un seconds were felt at
Dover, Noll“ accompanied by it rum.
blim; noise. They were also felt in Rolf .
liiisford, Rochester, (‘oiitoocook, (‘oip ‘
cord. and other to“ us in that Stale. The ‘
shocks traveltd from east to west. '3
On January ‘21, 188], an earthquake ;
lasting about ten seconds was felt at 2
Bath, lilo, and throi‘ghout the ucighbor- l
ing country. At first there was aloud ;
report followed by a rumbling sound, as i
of a heavy team passmg over frozen ,
ground. Windows rattled and distinct ,
oscillations were felt. l
011 November 18, 1878, shorks were ;
felt in the Mississippi Valley over an 3
area of fully 1: (Milo Square miles. The
region of greatest disturbance was along
the Mississippi from (Intro to Memphis,
and along the Missouri from Gl‘iso“? to
Lexington. ‘
On September 27, 1882, a slight shock .
was felt in St. Louis. A mlling neise
was followed by twelve distinct. vibra~
tions at intervals of a second. The first
vibration was the most Violent. The
shock lasted about fifteen seconds.
Springfield and (fentralia, BL, experi»
enced the same shock.
There was a disastrous earthiauake in
Mexico,iu June, 1853,estending_ t rough-
outthe valley in which the capital is Slt~
nated and doing great damage- . The
“’est Indies have long been notoriously
subject to seismic disturbances. Port
Royal. the capital of Jamaica, was sunk
into the sea by a shock on Jiinev‘l', 1699..
A volcano resembling Stromboli in its
intermittent action was thrown up near the
capital of San Salvador in 1770, and nit-
merous earthquake shocks were felt both
before and afterward, A century later,
on March 19, 1823, the cityot San &lva-
dor was entirely wrecked .by three suc-
cessive shocks, and 500 liveswere lost,
In South America, Venezuela.
was destroyed on Hatch 96, 1832, and
Quito, Ecuador, w almost annihilated
on March 8‘3, 1859. On A t 18,1888,
a tremendous earthquake evastated a
grand luck.
3 (Vt“!l‘l‘r'l‘rlé'lll‘nill says:
large portion of Ecuador, rand extended
The Latest Jewelry l‘raze.
:l‘lic newest and latest jewelry craze
has reached l‘liiladelpli'a. It is :\ cu-
rious little poxtc lionheunsaid to be more
cllicaeious in coiiiiiiauding fortune than
even the. horseshoe of tlic fathrrs. it is
said to have originated in Egypt in the
years \\ hen the pyramids were young.
and bears the original name of Uiidga,
which signifies liapp'ncss tempered with
It is in the form of a thin.
llal. oblong of metal intaglio. and lieu!“
in: the eye of the Suirgod llntiis. from
a “'llllll :i tczir drop falls. intended to rep
,rcsctil the mysterious origin of the river
‘\‘I‘ ‘ n“ l h‘"“”‘“ r‘ 331““ ‘1 if “‘ “ ,lah‘ ' Representatives. and at Mr. “'ilsnii's vacant
ni iii, capable of \vtirdingnll adversity as '
well as of protiioting prosperity, and it
is found sculptured on the rocks. cut on
pillars. and ciigravcd on. mummy cases.
In London this ncw charm is lit-pining:
quite the rage. ordinary furor licinu
stimulated by the curious history szii-l to
have allcudcd ils introduction int» ling
Lind rind ni ixlrrn l‘l\‘llll:lllull. '
'l‘lie llllr young wife 0 :i gallant ullincr
in tlic (iiinrds r1 l‘l‘iVC'l oncfinm lix-rli'is
1h“.lllllltlllfillllllfllll the Suizdan with the
lcgcnd. “This is llll‘ (‘llllflll which pro
lcclcd llit‘ I'illllVlllO‘fi of :mi icnl l‘;r,\pt
againsl misfortune; may it art likewise
in your fzivoriiiid iiistirc liril:i:iiil days
for .\our l‘iilurc." A rcpirt eiiii~
aflvr that the guardsiiian had f.illi~ii ii
\i.-lini in duty and honor, But the
yo iig wife lizid conceived :i szipcri-r
faith in her Hi:d_i:iziiid refused to bciic c,
dc~piic publislicd nillcldl news of his
dcatli. An cxlrawrdinary escape and
unexpected return of the nillccr litisliccn
accredited to the protcctm}: influence of
the ligyptiin tagisman. and in fashions
:tlilc t il'cles llll‘lllllljll is speedily liccom»
lug :ill the wear. — I‘li {Jilrfju’iw Time‘s.
MM)“
In a paper rccciitly read before the
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science at lliillzilo. 1. Lancaster
give some insight into the means by
which soaring birds keep llictusclics .s‘ll“~
pcndi d inotionlcss‘in iiiidhir. He spent
live years iii the Gulf coast of Florida
observing rth- flight of birds. llis
iiiethol was to assume a dress painted t.i
rcs‘niblc a pine buiigli. and taking; up
his position in a trco tap \valch Ill" birds
for hours together. The is one of the
things he saw:
The gunner. when a lrcc top near their
breeding places was occupied. would
treat williin a tool of my lac - as rigidly
immovable as a board. They have
' :iliglitcd on my head with their toes in
my mouth. They \voiild weigh as much
:is‘ eight pounds, with :lliO‘lI four or live
squarc feet of “in; surface. ;\ stilI
breeze \\ as required to float them if they
remained in one place. They seemed to
sleep. as their cyvs \u-rc closed for an
hour at a time. l‘hey were in :i position
of pcrfect cqiiiiiliriiiiii. I have gently
pushed them with a stick in vari in“ dis
rcclions while they were thus balanccd.
and any effort at all \vniild iiiovc tliciii iii
rigiial Stations in any direction until they would wzikcii.
which they were not long in doing. The
p .sitioii of the \\ ings of :ill biids while
it) the act of soaring “as on an iiiclitic.
highest in front. The heai ier the bird
the more the inclination. These gun»
nets would float at an angle of about
liflccn degrees with the horizontal. ’l'lic
frigate birds at very low inclination, of»
ten seemingly nearly lcvcl, but all birds
had the power of varying their inclines
to suit their purposes.
_________.___._.
Chicago (‘haraclerlsl lea.
A l‘liicago letter to the Loliisvillc
This is d great
city. tliie naturally gets that impression
as he passes through the suburbs coming
in. and he realizes that the impression is
a fact when he stands with his hands in
his pocket on a street corner and watches
the procession trot rapidly by. No gen
nine Sltullpt‘d and trade-marked (‘liica-
goau ever walks; he leaves his business
house in a Canter, which increases to a
brisk trot before he. reaches the place
where he grabs and bolts his lunch. and,
fora change, this order is reversed on
the home stretchs he trots into the busi-
ness house. If you corral him with
a question and break his gait
he ‘scowls, swings his arms
ready for a start, and, as he. gets under
headway, spits out spitefully: “Ask
that policeman," and is out of sight.
You ask the copper ‘and he don‘t know:
the amount of ignorance contained in
one of these guardians of the law is as«
tonishing. One of them could not 10—
cate the Palmer Hon 0 or the “'esterii
l'nion oilice “because it's not on my
bate, yer know.“ The average native
Chicagoan is as selfish as the hog he
butchers, and has just about as much tics
commodation about him. Of course
there are exceptions, but they are like
the. oasis in the desert —few and far be-
tween; but there is no gainsaying the
fact that this is abusiaess town from the ,
word go.
About Stars.
The St. Louis Oldie-Democrat says:
Alpha Centaurii, the lending star in the
Constellation of the Centaur, is the
nearest star to the earth, so far as known.
Its distance is usually at from 20,000,-
000,000,000 to 29,000,000,000,000 miles
from the earth. A star called Sixty-one
Cygni is classed asseeond in distance,
being put at about 54,780,999,000,000
distance from our globe. Most of the
stars, however, are millions of times fur-
ther awe from us than those. Light
travels about 196,000 miles inevery sec-
ond of time; and yet with this inrons.
ccivably rapid velocity it would take
light about twelve years to traverse the
a ace separating us from that star. From
i e greater portion of the stars light
would be many centuries in memes
us. That is to say, in these ular
instances the istars which we see are not
thestars as they exist to-night. but as
they existed before Columbus sailed on
his voyage of discovery, or even before
the creation of Adam. j q ,
a lliilvl.
‘ died in it.
not get very much in the way.
\g‘ r n.- .1... 9-1 it o). .x
._ . u. turdu-J, um. \
silverware of the palace, for hing Saul will
give a. State dinner to—day. A distinguished
place is kept at the table tor his son-indent. a
celebrated warrior. David by name. The
guests. Jeweled and plumcd, come in and
take their places. When toaple are invited
to a lung s banquet they are very apt to go.
But before the covers are litted from the
“wit. Saul looks around and finds a vacant
seat- at the table. He says within himself. or
rhaps niidibly: “What does this mean 9
\‘here is my soti-iu-law! “‘here is David.
the grcat warrior 9 I invitel him. I ex-
~c‘ed him. \\ hat 3 A vacant chair at a
’ing‘s banquet 3“
. The fact was that David the warrior had
been seated for the last time ath‘Ls father in
law‘s table. _ The day before Jonathan had
ceased David to go and occupy that place at
the table. saving to David in the words of
my test: "Thou shalt be missed. because
thv seat will to empty.“
‘l'he prediction was fulfilled. David wu
missed. His scat was empty. That one va-
cant chair sin he louder than all the occupied
chairs at the banquet. In almost every
house the articles of furniture take a liviii
personality. That pi. tare—a stranger would
not see anything remarkable either in its (Irv
si or execution. but it is more t) you than
a! the pictures of the Louvre and the lins-
embourg. You remember who bought it and
who admired it. And that hyiiiusbook—you
remember who sang out of it. And that
cradle—Von remember who rocked it. And
that Hilde—you remember who icavl out of
it And that bod—you remember a he slept
in it. And that room—you remember who
But there is nothing in all your
house so eloquent and s.) xniglltV-Viflu‘d as
the vacant chair. I suppose thatl‘et‘oieh‘aiil
and his guests got up from this leiiixiuot them
was a great clutter of wine—pit ~liers‘, but all
that racket was drowned out by the voice
that came up from the vacant chair at the
table. Many have gazed and wept :it John
Quincy Adam‘s va ‘flllI chair in the House in!
chair in the \‘iced’n-sideucy. anl at Henry
(‘lay's \acant chair in the American Senate.
and at Prime Albert‘s vacant i hair in \\‘ind~
s r l'nslle. and at 'l‘lzicrs‘s vacant chair in the
cuiiiivils of the Fi‘cii. b mitinn; lril all these
chairs. an: unimportant to you as compared
“'llll tho vncaitt chairs in your own house—
lliivo these chairs any lesson for you
to learn! Arc \n- any i otter men and \\ uineu
than \\ hen they first addressed us'
1. First: 1 point out to you the father‘s
va ant chair. Ul-l men always like to sit in
the sittiie place and in tho >lllllx‘ chair. They
swiiiehnw feel more at home. and s-nnetiiiies
when yoiiare in their place aul they come
llllil the mun. you jump up suddenly and
say: ”More. father. here‘s your chair.“ The
ph’lfllllllll)‘ is it is an arm-chair, for he is
not so strong as he once was, and le nor is
a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty.
his gums a latte duprcoso i. for in his early
days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps
a cane chair and old-fashioned a iparel. for
though you may have Sllggl“be\ some im-
prm t‘lllt'lll. fallici' d as n it want any of your
nonsens -. Uraii-lfazlicr never had much ad»
iiiiratiou for new~fanglel notir ns‘. lsat at
the table of one of my parishioners in a
former congregation; an aged man was at
the table and ms son was =re iding, and the
(other somewhat abruptx aidrossisl the
iv“ and said: "My son. dnn‘t now try to
show otf be ~aiise the minister is beret" Your ‘
father never likvd any new customs or man-
lit‘lNl
thitigs,alid he never looked s i happy as when
will: his eyes closed he sat in the armdiair in
the corner. From wrinkled brow to the tip
of the slippers, what placidityf The wave
of the past years of his life broke at the foot
t I that chair. Perhaps, so‘iietinn-s. be was a
little impatient, and Sulllr’lllllt‘s told the same
story twi a: but 0\ or that old chair how
many blessel memories hover? l hipc you
did not crowd that old chair. and that it did
Sometime:
the old man‘s chair vets very much in the
war, especially if he as been so unwise as to
make over all his propertv to his children
with the understandin; that they are to take
caie of him. I liaxe seen in such cases chillrcn
crowd the old man‘s chair to the door. and
then flaunt it clear into the street, and then
crowd it into the poorhouse. and keep on
r wrdin it until the old man fell out of if
ibis) his EI‘JYB. v
But your father‘s‘l‘liair was a sacred place.
The children us ‘d to viral; up on the rungs
of it for a g. od~iiiglit List The longer be
stared the better you likel it lint that chair
has bin-rt vacant now for some time. The
furniture dealer would not give you fifty
cents for it, but it is a throne of influence in
ycur doiiii-stic circle. [saw in the French
ialace and in the throne rot-tn the chair that
Caroleon Used to o cupy. It “as a beauti—
ful chair, but the most szgnificaiit part of it
was the letter “N,“ oinbroideml into the
back of thorhair in \urple and gold. And
your father‘s ol l c 'air sits in the throne
room of your heart. and your affections have
:iibniiderol into the lack of that chair in
purple and gel-l the letter "F.“ Have all
the prayers of that old chair been answered!
llave all the (ounsols of that old chair been
practiced: Speak out. old nruiwlifiirf His~
tor-y tells us of an old man whose three 'sons
were victors in the Olympic games. and when
they came lack. these thne song with their
arlands. and put them on their father‘s
WW. the old man was so 'ejoiced at the vies
tories of his three children that he fell (bad
in theira s And are youfu man. going
to bring math or ‘ g and t‘hristian use-
fuliie‘ss aui t \ your .father's brow.
or on the vacant chair. or on the memory of
the one departed ' Rival: out. ol-l arm chair!
w ith reference to your father. the words of
mi; text have been fulfilled: “Thou shalt be
missed because thy seat will be empty.“
II.~I a little further on in your house
and I lit; the mother‘s cha.r. It is vcrv apt
to be a rockingschnir. She had 30‘ .
cares and troubles to soothe that it must
have rockers. I remember it well. It was
an old chair. and the roskers were almost
worn out, for I was the youngest, and the
chair had rocked the whole family. It made
a creaki noise as it moved; but there was
music in the sound. It was just high enough
to allow as children to put our heads into
her la That was the bank where we de~
posim all our hurts and worries. Oh; what
a chair that was! It was ditl‘eivnt from the
father‘s chair; it was entirely difl‘erent \ on
aske me how! 1 canum tell; but we all felt
it was different. Perhaps there was about
this chair more gentlenw. more tender~
fleas. more grief when we had done
wrong. “‘bcn we wens wayward father
smldcd, but mother cried. It was
a very wakeful chair. In the sick days of
children other chairs could not keep awake;
that chair always kept awake. he it easily
awake. That chair knew all the 0d lulla-
bies and all those wordlem songs which
mothers sing to their sick childreu—songs in
\vhiehall ity and compamion and sympa~
thetie in uenoes are combined. That old
chair has stopped rocking for a. good many
yeamw It may beset up in the loft or the
aunt, but it holds a queeply power yet.
‘ben at midnight you went into that_ rog-
ahop to get the intoxicating draught, di you
not. hear a voice that aid: “My son, yhy go
in there!” And louder than the botsterous
encore of the place of wicked amusement. a
voice saying: “My son. what do you here!
'And when you went into the house of sun a
voice saying: "What would your mother do
if she know you were here!” _
And you were provoked vntli yourself, and
charged yourself with superstition
ana“ tieism,‘ ‘ and your head got hot with our
own thoughts. and you went home an on
wenttobod.andno soonerhailyoutouc ed
the bed than a voice said: ““"hat a prayer-
lesa pillow! Man, what is the runner-2 This:
You are too near your mother‘s rockin ~
chair. “01:. W3" you y: “theres
no ‘ in that. I’m five bu miles oi!
tromvr relwasborn. Tl’mthrcothousand
miles at! from the church whose bell was the
that music I ever heard.“ I cannot help
that: you are too near your mother's rock-
ing—chair. “ h,“ on say, “there can‘t be
inythinzinthat: tchair‘ hasbeanvaeant
agreutwhile.“ lcannothelpthat: it is all
the mightier for that: it h onsnipotennthat
vacant mother‘s chair. I} whispers; it
; it w ,5 It carols; it mourns; it
prays; it warns: it thunders. A Guzman
went olIand broke his mother‘s heart, and
from home I: mother
lay and
looked upon her tam, and heahdout: “0h,
mother, mother! what your life could not do
yourdeathsballofleet Motorboat Igjvo
promise.
dull: Wiflr
file web? of
heart to God.” And hekepthia
victory for the vat-ant
totem to mother '
5
l
gone from the hmand to
an gone ruin the neighborhood. Cry as
loud for forgiveness as you may over the
mound in the churchyard, they will not ’
answer. Dea l! Dead! And their you will
take out the white lock of hair that
was cut from your mother‘s brow just
before they buried her, and you Will
take the cane with whiih ‘our father
used to walk, and you all think and
thiukand wish that you had done just as
they “natal you to, and would give the
world if you had never- thrust a pan:
through their dear old hearts God pity the
young man who has brought disgrace on his
father‘s name: God pity the young man
who has broken his mother‘s heart! Better
ifhe had never-been born; better if in the
first hour of his life, instead of being laid
against the iii-arm bosom of maternal tenders
new, be had been eofliued and clued.
There is no balm towerful cuoug to heal
the heart of one who has brought parents to
a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about
through the dismal cemetery, tending the
hair and wringing the hands and cryi :
"Mother! Motheri“ Oh. that lo-day byufil
the memories of the past and by allthobopea
of the future, you would yield your heart to
God: Na ' ~\oiir father's God and your
mother‘s (101‘ be your God forever! ’
Ill. [go on a little further: I come totho
invalid‘s chair. “‘hat! llowlong have you
it sick! “Oh, I have been sick ton.
twenty, thirty years." Is it tossiblel “'hat
a story of on lumn ~ef There are in man
families of my ulngregatiou those invalid
chain. The occupants of tbuii think the]
are doing no gool in ih: World; but that in~
valid 5 chair is the mighty pul \it from which
they have been prom-bin; a ltbm years,
trust in liod. (hie day. on an island just of!
tr mi Sal-dusky, Hhin. I pri-acliezl, and there
was a great tliruu.’ of pimple ill-11‘: but the
throng did ii -t impress me si much astho
.spn‘tsicle of ji=s¥ nlic face—the fflt‘t‘ of an ill-
valid who “as “'llr‘ “ed in on her chair. 1
said lu her micron-“xi: “Madam. how long
have you been prostratmlé" for she was lvin
flat in the ‘ lia-r. “l Ili,“ she rep-ll .
“l hue been this only ' fifteen years"
I said: "It” you sull’er \l-ry much“
yrs ‘ she said; ”i siilfer very much I .'
all the time; part nt‘ iliu tune l was: blind. I
:iloays suzler.“ “Well.“ l said. 9‘cazi vuu
ko fir yniir courage iip'" (Hi. yes," sh ~ silid~
‘l am happy. vi‘ry happy ilideed.‘ Her face
sh-mcl it, She looked the happiest of any
on.» nu the ground. Uh. what a liieriusgL
grace to the world. tlu-s - inxalid chairs.
“ii that field nf him an sulfcri’ng the me
of (ind guts its \ lx‘lllr)’, Edward Paysou. the
lll\llllll. anl llicliaiil li:l\lt~f‘.2 the invalid.
and Ruben Hall, the invalid, and the ten
thy iiisund i-t' whuzn the wor‘d has nex or heard.
but of whom all heaven is cognivant, The
most imns‘pi ~im.is thing on \‘fll‘lh for Go l’s
eye and "1‘ eye of 3112913 to rest on is
not a throne of earthly w“ er. but it, is
the iuialid‘s t’hlll". I Ili, these men
and women who are always sulfering but'
never voiiiplaining - tiles.- victims of spinal
disease. and neuralgiz‘ torture, and rheu-
matic evcrufiruion. “ill answer both»? roll—
call or the martyrs. and rise to the marti'r's
thrniie, and will wave the marzyr‘s palm!
But when one of these invalid chairs bes
com-.- \a‘aut. how suggestive it is! 50 more
lmlstcrm; up of the weary lion 1. No mom
changing from sidv- to side to get an easy
he preferred the ild nay of doing‘
1
l
i
po sllli‘u. No more use of the bondage, and
the cataplasm and the prescriptibn. 1 but
invali-l‘s chair may be folded up or taken
apart. or set away. but it Will never lose its
queenly power; it will always preach oftrust
in Hod and chm-rfiil submission. Suffering
all ended umv. “‘ith respect to that invalid
the words of my tevt have been fulfilled:
“Thou shalt be ndmsl, bet ause thy seat will
ls- empty. " ,
l '. 1 ss on not 1 find one more rant
chair. t is 'a high chair. Ii is the child‘s
chair. If that chair be occu icd. I think it
is the mod put-mt chair in al the Leasehold. '
All the chad-s wait on it; all the chairsane '
turned t4 nvard it. It means more than David‘s
chair at Saul‘s banquet. At any rate,“ makes
more racket. That is a stra *9 house that
can be dull with a child in it. l on that child ,
breaks up the hard worldlinua of the pixies.
and keeps you young to sixty, severity nod
eighty years of age: If you have no clnI’ '1 of
your own, adopt one: it will open heaven to
your soul. It will way its way. It: crowing ,
Iu u... Noun-.4, "m 63.. a... a.” Ivuwrlul
startiu v. and its glee at night will give the
day a c e-‘rful close. You do not like children l"
,Tlien you ha i better stay out of heaven, for
there are so many there they would fairly
make you via tyl Only almut five hundred
million of themt The old crusty disciples told .
the mothers to keep the children an ay from
(‘hrlsL "You bother Him,“ they said: “you
trouble the Mastcr.“ Trouble himf He has
tilled heaven with that kind of trouble.
.-\ pionm‘r in (‘alitoruia says that’ for the
first year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada County, there was not a
single child in all the reach of a hundred
miles. But the 4th of July came. an i the
miners were gathered togethenund they
were celebrating the 4th with oration and
poem, and a lmistcmus bras; band: and
while the baud was: playing, an infant‘s
voice was hard crying. an. all the miners
were startled. and the sn'arthy men beganao
think of their homes on the Eastern coast,
niil if their wives and children far atav,’
and t. eir hearts \vcre filled ii ith homesick-
ness turkey heard the lube cry. "But the
music went on, and the child cried louder
and louder. and the brass band played louder
and louder. trying to drown out the lib
t'antile interniptiun, when a swarthy miner.
the tears roiling down his law; got up and
shook his list, and said: "Stop that noisy
band, and give the baby a chance.“ Oh.
there was pathos as well as good cheer '
im’it! There is nothing to arouse, melt,
and subdue the soul like a child‘s Voice. _ '
/ But when it goes away from you the high
chair Incomes a higher chair, and there rs
:lewlation all about you. In _ thy “9401:1111:
at the homes of my congregation there it a
vacant high chair. Somehow you never go:
over it. There is no one toput to bod at
night: no one to ask strange nestionsabout
God and heaven. Uh. wha is the use of
that high chair! It is to call you higher.
“'hat a drawing upward it is_ to have club
.lran in heaven: And then it is such a pre-_
ventivo against 'sin. I! a father_ . is gong» 7‘
away into sin heleaves his hung chilling
with their mother; but if. afatheris.
awa ‘ imo sin what is be gouty: todo vn his
:leai children muting about him and hover-
ing over his every wayward stop! Ob.
out. vacant high chair and say: “Father.
collie back from sin: mother, come back from.
worldlinesa.‘ I am watching you. I am wait-
ing for you.“ “'ith ms ‘t to our child the
words of my text have n I filled: ‘1'1‘11011
shalt be KIM became thy seat In“ be
empty." < .
My beam. I have gathered up the page
of your departed friends.‘ ~ and tried to intone
them into one invitation. upward. last in
arrayallthe vacant chairs ofyour’ homes,
undo! our social circle, and lbid themcry
out: “ ' eissbort. Eternityrsnear. Tak‘ o
my Saviour. Be at peace. With my bod.
Come up where Iain. We lived on
earth; cane let. us live together in vet"
We answerthatinvihfion. Weeome. Kean
amt torus. as Saulkept aseat for-David}
but that seat shall not be on: y. \Van I.
an...” "“ 933:" 1‘1"“ ‘33?" ku’umm
a are or 7
andallourchairsintie homoeirelgandin
the outside world. shit be vacant, may we
boworshipingGodinthat ceironwhich
weshallgooutnomore oreve’r. Ithank
Godtherewillbenovamntchainin beam
LEFTESAKT Gammon Arms. of
Massachusetts, has given the Memorial
Methodist Church, at Plymouth, a ball
cast by Paul Revere, which was used
for eighty years on State irutituhoni.‘ .
and hung lately at the Ames place In
North Eaton, where it was runs for
Fourth of J uly celebrations. It was
once known in Boston a: the ‘Libarty
Bell,‘ and was nuts when par-don
proclamations were issued by the Gov-
ernor. w- ad_
Taste“ of a clergyman in Lynn
whohkedonttoachnrehat “ennui-
as! also of $4.000. remains punt-1!
tomakotheehuchapreaentoffllm
of it. A congregation in Cannon“
heard at the “.000 Month“
“magnum. Thentba Lynn
”undoubted why In. W
hiaoalai-yvaaflm ’ .
hemutbaextva MM“!
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