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PARADISE OF THE NEGRO.
Bahama Islands Lapecially Suited to
the African Race.
It 1s the negroes’ paradise for
living and the very climate of all the
world for dolce far niente ways, {rre-
spective of color. The editor goes to
his office about 10 and goes home at 2;
there is ne night editor.
opens late and closes early; business
men lock up and go home to dinner;
there Is plenty of time, If not to-day,
to-morrow, amd hustling
Is unknown. It is all a
cessily, conducive to longevity and a
cheap
The postofdice
competition
climatic ne-
quiet conscience. Gray heads are nu-
merous and the number of aged negroes
is remarkable. 1 asked some of them
how old they were, but nobody Knew,
Probably because so many of them are
native Africans, speaking to this day
They
were captured when young from slave
the Congo or Youraba language.
ships. The British erulser Sappho land
ed 1,000 at Nassau in 1838
apprenticed to reputable families and
Many of them he
They
were
well brought up.
the names of the best Nassau citizens.
Some of them
¥ toe
ell
» * ry rl ;
wear tattooed marks of
African origin upon their faces.
Their character averages better than
that of the Bahama blacks,
emancipated. The neg
four-fifths of the
They take no undue adr
fact.
*
on
roes
whole
They are admitted
ame te t
conraged to
the
make
selves and all worth
At a
on government
grounds I saw the
erick Havynes-Smith,
ous conversat
ciated. horticul
the
(ov
mn wit
tinguished-looking o
fame name, i
and has
Many wel
il well-mannered colored peo
colonial par
master of Nass;
ground
he gr
and
recent
he ey
leading
influx {es
East Coast Stemshi;
idence letter to Ne
The basest tho
Ing ms i
ture; t
and
standing of hi
or should
his natu
itual
ne
building
Rhode Island’
is to be 350 fee
8 new capitol
TT 3 % 1 Tees
t long. I'he bucket un
der the eavespout w ill have to be placed
either or
setls,
in Connecticut in Massachu-
“That {di
ng here
Highley's r
that ever
the
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never noti
about
Lon wt *
Wasi you.
A MOTHER'S DUTY.
Your i u hn * § he
cious Le
most
0.0
1ysterious change that develops
the thoughtful from
thoughtless girl, should find
the watch day and night.
As you care for their physical well.
being, so will the woman
be, and so will her children
be also,
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REY. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Washington
Susday Sermon,
Divine's
Subject; “Kindness for Another's
Sake"
Text: "Ts there yet any that f= 1st of the
house of Saul, that I may show him kind-
ness for Jonathan's sake? * = = 85 Mep-
continually at the king's table and was lame
on both his feet.” II Samuel ix., 1 and 13,
Was there ever anything more romantio |
and chivalrous than the love of David and
Jonathan? At one time Jonathan was un |
and David was down, Now David is up and |
Jonathan's family is down. As you bave |
often heard of two soldiers before going into |
battle making a covenant that if one is shot |
the survivor will take charge of the bo ty, |
the wateh, the momentos and perhaps of the |
bereft family of the one that dies, so David
and Jooathan had made a covenant, and |
now that Jonathan is dead David is {inquiring
about his family, that he may show kind.
ness unto them for their father Jonathan's
sake,
Careful search is me
than by the exeoadingly homely name of
Mephivosheth is founda, His nurse, in hisin.
fancy, had let him fall, nnd the fall had nut
both his anklas out of pli «. and they had
never been set, This decrepit, noor man is
brought into the palace of King David,
David gazes unon him with malting tender
oubt seeing in his face a resome-
blance 8 old fri Jonn-
David
. the de verry am |
than,
“How im
King
zia
How vou remind
friend an
1 Your
and & son of Jona.
nes
an
u, Mephibosheth
nr inther, mv «
[ made »
YORrS ALO,
What
AN resol
irzain wit
grad «
hall be seat
it was
partis
iAM« In
grace apd
tor, and we will
eve! tha
wr
midlife vo
wr
in past 5 Vest incre vo kb
the time
and cheated,
i HRvVe © to the o Insion
in all
that man
Ou CAND say
“There
deositini, ahov
iy wicked,” What
lieved befors, now vou !
sheth is lame
f ave be
believe that Mephibe on both |
Again, Mephibosheth in the text stands for
the disabled human sou. humbled and re. |
etored. When this invalid of my test got a
command to coms to King David's palace he |
of Mephibosheth had treated David most
shocking!y, and now Mephibosheth says to |
himself: “What does the king want of me? :
Isn't it enough that I am lame? Is ho going |
to destroy my iife? Is he going to wreak on |
me the vengeanes which he holds toward my |
grandfather, Saul? It's too bad.” But go
to the palace Mephibosneth must, sines the |
king has commanded it, With staff and i
erutches and heiped by his friends,
ses Mephibosheth going up the stairs of |
the palace. I hear bis staff and crutehes
rattling on the {ezwsliated floor of the
tharoneroom. No sooner have these two
persons confronfed each other—Mephib.
osheth and David, the king-—than Mep-
hibosheth throws himself flat on his face bee
fore the king and styles himself a dead dog.
In the east when a man styles himself a dog
be utters the utmost term of seif-abaegation,
Itis nota term ao strong in this country,
where, ifn dog has a fair chanee, he some.
times shows more nobility of character than
some human specimens that we wot of, but
the mangy curs of the oriental eities, ns [
know by my own observation, are utterly
detestable. Mephibosheth gives the utmost |
term of seif-loathing when he compares him-
self 10 a dog. and dead at that,
Consider the analogy. When the com-
mand is given from the palace of heaven to
the human soul to eome, the soul begins to
tremble. It says: “What is God going to
do with ms now? Is He golag to destroy me?
Is Ha golag to wreek His vengeance upon
me?" There is more than one Mephibostieth
trembling now because God has summoned
him to the palace of divine grace, What are
you trembling about? God has no pleasure
in the death of a sinuer, He does pot send
for you to hurt you. He sends for you todo
ou good, A Beotoh preacher had the fol
wing circumstances brought under his ob-
servation: There was a poor woman in the
parish who was about to be turned out be.
enuse she conld not pay her rent, One night
she heard a lond knooking at the door, and
ghee made po nuswer and hid herself, The
rapping gontinued louder, louder, louder,
but she made no answer and continued to
hide herself. Bhe was almost frightened un-
to death, Bhe said, “That's the ofMesr of
the law come to throw me out of my home,”
A few days niter a Christian philanthropist
met har in the street and said “My poor
woman, where were you the other night? 1
eame round to your house to pay vour rent,
Why didn’t you let me in? Were vou at
“Yes, that was me, 1
“Way,”
came to Pry rour
she sald, “If I bad had any
have let you in, 1
of my home.” 0 soul, that loud knocking
At the gate to-day is not the sheriff come to
put vou in jail; it is the bast friend vou ever
had come to be your security, You shiver
with terror because you think it is wrath, It
is marcy, Why, then, tremble the
King of heaven aud warth ealls you to His
palace? Btop trembling and start right
NWRY, “Oh,” you say, “I ean't start, I
bave been so lamed by sin and so lamed by
avil habit I can't start, I am ¥
" My friend, come
before
lame in both
with onr
help vou up to
to get the
palace, you Biart now. The
Holy Spirit wili | i have to
do is just to tl f yours! vour face at
the feet of the King, as Meg eth did,
Mephibosheth's eaniuinl comparison
extravagant to : ;
has sean himsel!
iow ha has been tr
no term v
ndemuation,
font, wo oft
al
he palace to
If you want
y got thers,
0S
the world, but n man
as owen
afd
and
ord,
AX Dra
ating thera
ant his
nou
phibosheth's com;
nan s nite
4h’
nar
fistely ti
rib it hot? Seep
Mop 1} 3 et
Iv vastyre
winle 4
BRIDZSIY Tale,
reign
cinta the light of
‘ 2 world hai good
nan who in this world
preciate the music «
seid had
ve A higher =n
tic of that
enhiboahet he
O my soul, what a magnificent gospel! It
fakes ga man 0 low down and raisos him #0
high! What a now, who
wants to be banqueted and implacsd?
when Wilberforce was trying to get
“emancipation bill” through the British
paridament and all the Dritish jsles were
hear of the passage of that
“emancipation bill.” when a vessel was com-
aevesig
was deal will bet
f heuven than we who
And those
f the easy
wn of
in this world
good hearing.
rociati
d who
Warn
gapel! ©
NE
know that the people were 80 anxious to
get the tidings, be stepped out on the prow
of the abip and shouted to the people jong
before ho got up to the doek, “Frees!” and
thev cried it, aud they shouted it, and they
sang it all through the land, “Free, fres!”
your present and your eternal emancipation
until the angels of God novering in the alr,
and watchmen on the battlements, and bell
men in the town ery it, shout it, sing it, ring
it, “Free, ree!” | coms out now as the
messanger of the palace to invite Mephibosh-
eth to coms up. Iam here to-day to tell you
that God has a wealth of kindness to bes ow
upon you for His Son's sake, The doors of
the palace are open to receiva you, The
cupbearers have already put the chalioss on
the table, and the great, loving, tender, sym
pathetic heart of God bends over you this
moment, saying, ‘Is there any that is yet
loft of the house of Saul, that I may show
him Kindness for Jonathan's sake?”
i;
Avandoning Tobacco Culture,
The splendid farms in Pennsylvania, near
near Marietta, belonging to the estate of
the iste Colonel James Duffy, sud contain.
fag over 600 acres, have bean noted for the
past twenty-five years for their great yields
of tobaceo—amongg the largest in Pennsyl
vania, This year not a tobacco plant will be
razed, the profits from tobacco farming be.
ing too amall to offent the risk of a fallure of
the erop. Not three-fourths of the usual
noreage will be put out in tobaces in Las
easter County this season, A few years ago
15,000 nares were devoted to this erop alone,
FACES DEATH
Yellow Fever in Spain's Army
Causes a Panic,
DEATH RATE 50 PER CENT.
Hospitals Crowded and New Ones
Being Bulit at Weyler's Com-
mand, Fears of Cholera
Epldemi
of the
Troops,
Key
Havana state that a pane pre
we of
Condition
Covernment
Fla,, says
A Zi h fron West,
inthe B
he tereibl i » ILS f vellow
vals I RFIDY in consequent
fever in
Irses Are
Tis
Pas
I'he weed has ©
at the atatas et
but the stale 21
t in thes
spread in these
tire secti
warning.
BHOT AT M FAURE
in this
War of Securing the
A Yrenshman's
Attestion to His Grievances
As President Feure, seated in
riage and hy M
premier, and MM. Bolsdefire and 1
accompanied
thampe, France, a well dressed man, ap
hind
boan leaning against a tree, took deliberate
k succession with
The
aim and fired twice in qui
a revolver at the President, man had
sassin would probably have been lynched,
Throughout the sensations! incidents of
followed the attempt upon his
out.
wardly placid demeanor and manifested not
the slightest sign of agitation,
When Frapcols, the wouldbe assassin,
straightened up from bls lounging position
against the trae and deliberately opened
fire upon the President of the republic the
iatter showed no symptom of alarm and the
open carriage in which he was riding made
no pause, but procesded across the review
ground to the presidential tribune, where
he was to review the troops who were out on
parades in honor of the anniversary of the
fall of the Dastile
The improvement in the condition of
winter wheat which thie Department of
Agriculture reports is a fine business
indicator, Last year's corn erop broke
tll the records, but the wheat yield
was not above the average. There are
indications that the wheat crop in 1864
will equal, and perhaps exceed, the
greatest harvest of the past. As good
crops are the basis of prosperity, the
mitlook for the «country this year is ens
souraging.
SARGENT'S GREATEST PICTURE,
One Critic Thivks It Is His Portrait
of u Little Girl,
1 do not think that there is anything
in Mr
the *'}
that he m
as perfect as
but all
the fa
Bargent's work since he painted
to
ay uot again paint a portrait
teatrice” lead us to Imagine
thi roy # finer one,
tning
ctor of Oe
£3: i}
ered, and
being
being
FRO L
dmitted in the judg
4 the hes
y
fo Single canvas, Lone one
that 1 choose a
: oad 3 Ani
should rest his claim to rl
world's great painters
Fhis Hittle girl, wi
inl
with
all hands join
touching
3 IE
Byles on [Mila
Mohammed's Only Male Descendany
The only male descendant of M ie
med 18 Elsald Ahmed Effendi sied
Khalek Bhelk-el-Badat
and is a prominent
Khedive's
His ances of
centuries
wept that he
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