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MEMORIAL DAY.
Oh! year that ceaseless com st.d go,
rrocesslonnl with thronging hours,
Each May-time pause, o'er friend and fo,
Comrades at last, to scatter Bowers.
Tho (food swenls rustj ths drum aw still;
The children's children sing nnd play.
Oh! marching years, oVr vslo and hill,
Drop flower, thift fnlr Memorial Dsy.
Margaret E. Hangxtcr, In Harper's Weekly.
LENA, THE FLOWER GIRL.
A DECORATION DAT BTOI17.
gJ.?J2HEr.E many
rcopio living in
New York City to
tiny, nnd not old
people cither, who
remember "Lena,
tlio Mower Rirl," ns
Mio was known to
the men and women
who hnd occnMou
frequently to cross
Mmlisou Square.
Lenn wnsa remark
ably pretty child,
nnd though onlv
thirteen slio looked
young for her years.
The lonfj Isshoil Mue ryes, tho tnnglo
of llaxt'ii curls, tho sweet tfentlo voice,
ami n certain jileiulinp; in tho child's
lununer were very tflectivo with stran
gers nnd gmdnnlly won to litr a num
ber of friend of both sexes who came
to look for her every day.
In tho Mower season tho chill sold
lioutounicrcs, nnd tho blossoms seemed
to Kiiiu nu added chnrm from the
lainty hntiils thnt pinned them on the
coats of her rmtrons.
When flowers wero too expensive,
or the weather was too cold, little
Lena, with tho same brave, uncom
plaining spirit, sold morning and even
ing paper, aud old men, nud young
men, too, who knew her aud guessud
thnt there wnsa pressing need for tho
chiM's constant efforts, would often
walk a block out of their way in order
to buy from her. Finely dressed ludiei
would often stop to admire tho child's
pretty face nnd to ask her some ques-
to.
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THE TLOWER GIM,.
lion about herself and her home life,
at w hieu. they expressed interest and
sympathy, but ,nev--: t l ..' i i..t-.
tf mpt"''. to verify littlo Lena's state
ments, or to take her nwny from the
roiiU lite nnd the touiptutiuns of thu
btreet.
It whs tho morning of Decoration
Pur, nud in nntieiputiou of nu in
ereustii market for her wares tho child
iiad invested all her small capital in
Mowers. With a largo biiHket Mlled
with blossoms before her, kIu htond nt
the corner of Twenty-third street nnd
I'iith avenue, with u paper of pins in
one hiiud, ready to pin tho favors on
the coats of purchasers. A tall mnu,
who hail been watching her from the
opposite hide of tho htreet, finally
dossed over, and, to her grout delight,
bought ten smull bouquets for titty
cents; only one of which ho would
take. The man woro a (Jraud Army
button, nnd hiH erect bearing nud a
tear running from tho left eyebrow
nnd disappearing in a purple lino un
der his hat told that ho hud been a
eoldier.
With n womanly tenderness in his
voice, tho man bent dowu, nud look
ing in tho child's lace, usked her her
Uumc,
"Lena Hermann, she replied.
Tho man repeated tho uame, looing
tho while still moro eagerly into tho
pretty upturned face. Theu ho asked :
"Is jour father living, my child?"
"So, sir," sho responded. "He is
1cud ; died so long ugo that I Cauuot
Xeliiemlier him."
"Ah, that is very fad," said the
in h ii, und ho pretended to mu ll of the
Mowers that ho hud fasti nod in his but
tonhole, and then continued :
"And your mother. Is she, too,
duid?"
Oh I no, sir !" said tho child, with
n glad ling in her voice. "Mother is
living, Lut sho is not strong auv
Wore."
"I am sorry to hear that," said tho
man, ami ho half raised his hand ns if
to stroke tho child's head, but drew
it back ngain. "I am interested," ho
went on; "tell 1110 something moro
bout your father and mother."
The tact that ho hud invested so
liberally in tho Mowers which ho did
Hot want to take away, won Lena's
confidence. That nud something so
pernio nud friendly in his manner
that she could not explain it to hor
ftdf, induced her to opeu her heMrt to
In 111, though several times during her
narrative she had to desist, while she
Accommodated other customers.
This, in brief, wus tho ehild'sstory :
Kho was a baby, tt n months old;
ho was living with her mother and
father in liulVslo. About that time
the war broke out, and her father went
away, a sergeant, in Clifford's liattery.
He wrote regularly to his young wife,
whom ho dearly loved, and onco after
two years he cumo home, wearing the
houlder straps of a captain.
Theu he went away again, and after
euu cf Grant's great buttles iu Virginia
lie whs reported missing.
".Mother inarched aud searched for
jeuu, aud ertrj boily .eurcueJ, bop-
fnfr that father rnlRlit be alive," con
tinued the child ; "but at last, she was
forced to give him up as dead, and
the people down in Washington, who
aid be waa dead from the first, sent
her a pension. This pension paid our
rent and we lived very happily, for
mother could sew and embroider, and
I went to school until two years ago.
when aha broke down and could work
no more. The doctors told her it was
her nerves, and that she must give up
fretting about father. They told her
that thousands of other men were hur
ried in unknown gtaves and that she
must submit to what could not be
helped. Dut, air," ami the girl with
tears in her eyes, looked up at the
bronzed face of the1 tall man, "moth
er says there are diionsea the doctors
ennnot cure, nnd no of them is a
broken heart"
"Littlo Lena," mid the man, and
there were tears in his eyes, "I will
buy all your flowers if you will take
mo to your mother.
"Oh, sir!" cried tho child, "that is
too much. What can you do with bo
many flowers?"
"We can make your mother's room
pretty with them," said the big, tall
man, and to the child's great surprise
ho took the basket in one hand, gavo
her tho other, and tol l her to lead
b in to her home.
Out of Droadway to the east, and
down through narrow streets, whoso
towering tenements on cither hand
looked liko the abolcs of tho cliff
dwellers, tho child conducted tho
stranger. Then into ono of tho tall
buildings sho led him, and up a half a
dozen flights of stairs, swarming with
children, till she came to a door at the
back, at which the stranger tapped.
In response, a low, sweet voice from
tho other sido called out: "Come in."
Aud littlo Lena entered with her vis
itor. There were two rooms opening Into
each other, but sparsely furnished,
but clean in every detail, and near
tho window of the first room a young
woman, still beautiful despito tho evi
dences of pnin in her face, half re
clined iu a rocking chair.
Lenn ran forward and throwing her
arms round her mother's neck, cried
out :
"Nero is a kind gentleman who has
bought nil my flowers, and wants to
see you 1"
Tho invalid half turned end raised
her fuco to that of the stranger. On
tho instant the polo face assumed a
deathly huo; sho tried to lift her
hnnds; in a choking voice uttered the
word "Lewis," then dropped back, as
if dead. To tho child's unutterablo
amazement tho tall mnn dropped on
ono kneo bosido the invalid's chair,
threw his arms about the unconscious
form, and as ho poured kisxen and
tears on her fnce, ho cried out:
".Muryl My Mary I Thank God I
have fouud you nt lust." Theu he
reached out his lolt arm, and drew tho
child to his side, and so he remained
for some seconds,
Mrs. Hermann sooiuVgainod con
- ?., cud look'i.l ' tap - to see
V nee'.in.'j '"iiii i her t-e man sho had
so long mourued as dead." And in her
generous patrou of tho morning, little
Lena, tho Mower girl, had fouud her
futlier.
This, in brief, was Captain Iler
mauu's story, nud it Inn moro thuu
ono parallel in the records of tha war.
At tho battle of Cold Harbor ho wns
desperately wounded and taken pris
oner. Ho remained in tho hands of
tho Confederal s until tho close of thu
war, tho sabre cut in his bond having
destroyed his reason, or rather hi.-,
meinorj. Iu somo reppect ho up
peared to bo quite sane, but ho had
lott all recollection of the war or his
connection with it. How ho mndo his
way to San Francises ho could not
and never will recall, but he certainly
reached there in lfdS, where his cusj
attracted tho attention of some of thu
most prominent physiciaus of that
city. It was decided to perforin nu
operation nnd raise a fragment of
bono which, pressing down on tho
brain, had produced this particular
form of dementia.
Hie operation was in everyway suc
cessful, for within eight wooks Cuptaiu
Hermann, iu full possession of physi
cal health and nil his moutal faculties,
wus discharged trom the hospital. Use
less here to attempt auy description of
tho man's feelings on discovering that
four years of his life were a perfect
blank. His story becoming known to
some generous citieus of Hau Fran-
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A JOVrt'L imCOQNITION.
cisco, a purso was raised which enabled
him to make his way back to his old
home in DutValo. Here he at once be
gun a fruitless search for his wife an 1
child. They had disappeared about
the close of the close of the wnr, and
no one could tell of their where
abouts. Mrs. nermann's only relatives were
some distant cousins at Syracuse, and
these could not enlighten him as to his
wifo's movements.
After long months of tearou he gave
his dear ones up for dead, and making
his way back to the Fsoitto Coast ho
(ought in the excitement of mining to
tiud relief for his sorrow. Being a
mnu of remarkable intelligence and
great force of character, he accumu
lated 0 co&kiueiable fortune within, a
few years. lie was on his way East in
connection with his business, when
chance brought him in contact with
little Lens, the flower girl, as before
described.
That, in truth, was a joyous Me
morial Day to little Lena and her
mother. While hundreds of thousands
of people throughout the broad Ro
public were decorating the graves of
the heroio dead, three people were re
joicing on the return from tha grave
of the dear one whom they believed
they should never meet again.
Lena, the littlo flower girl, after this
disappeared from Madison Square, and
many of the patrons who inquired for
her will perhaps learn here for the
first time of the good fortune that be
fel her. Her mother soon regained
her health nnd went back to the Facifio
Coast with her husband. Lena her
self, now grown to womanhood and
motherhood, is the wife of one of tho
best known members of Congress from
the Golden State.
CArTM TiC-rEnr Noun:
Where tho Crippled Veterans Ahlilo.
Tho Government tenderly cares for
its heroes living as well as dead. In
lhfi( a Soldiers' National Home was
established by act of Congress. A
board of nino managers was to estab
lish ono central homo nnd hospital
and as mauy branches as they thought
best. Under this authority "at lenytb.
seven homoi were established. The
seven homes for disabled soldiers nre,
respectively, tho Eastern, Western,
Northwestern, Southern, Central,
Facifio nnd Marion. Tho Eastern
branch was tha first ono started. It
was organized nt Augusta, Me. In
November of 1HM this haven wna
opened for all invalid United States
soldiers from New York aud New
England. A fountain of medical
wnter, called Togus Spring, flows
here.
Tho Central Homo is situated at
Dayton, Ohio. Here is one of tha
most beautiful spots in tho country,
though tho grouuds of all soldiers'
homes are beautiful. Tho Dayton
Hospital was tho second ono estab
lished under tho law of 18 lit). It is
tho largest of nil the brunches. It
occupies a fertile farm of G17 ncres.
There nre over 4"')0 inmates in tha
Dayton Home. From its locntiou iu
tho centre of tho State it attiacU u
great Lumber.
Tho Northwestern Homo is nt Mil
waukee, Wis., threo miles from L'iko
Michigan. It is on a picturesque nn 1
roinnutio looking spot. Tho North
western Homo was tho third ono estab
lished. To insure it locution tho
ladies of Milwaukee rnised $10,001)
and bought the -110 acre farm on w hich
tho buildings tdand. They did it by
means of a sanitary fair. Iu 18CJ tho
board of manager. decided to set go
ing a soldiers' home in the South. A
lovely, salubrious location w as selected,
at tho ancient town of Hampton, Viu
The buildings look over tho blue
waters of Hauipton Roads, where tha
battle was fought between the Mcrri
mac and Monitor. The visitor to tha
S'-theru Home will regard it as one
of tho loveliest spots" on inrtL. Tha
grouuds are exquisitely laid out. Tha
Governor has exerted himself to en
tertain the battle-scarred veterans. A
theutro has been provided for them.
Traveling theatrical and concert com
panies regularly ttop hero nud give
their programmes. Guests from tho
greut hotel at Old Point Comfort, oKi
cers nnd their families from Fortress
Monroe, and residents of tho villages
hereabouts swell tiio audience. Ono
of tho things that will attract the visit
or's attention hero uro tho thousands
of solditrs' graves, iu rows, with their
littlo whito headhtoncs. Whatever tho
men wero iu life, thcynro nliko now
under tho white hcad-donos. There
are 2100 veterans at tho Southern
Home.
During tho last ten yenrs three
other homes have been opened. The
csteru Home at Leavon worth, Kansas,
contains 2000 members; the I'acitlo
Homo at Santa Mouicn, Cnl., 800, and
tho Marion Home, at Marion, Ind.,
900.
An Incident ol Appomattox.
There occurred a curious incident
of which no mention is mado in tha
books which huvo treated of tho clos
ing scenes at Appomattox. Tho mus
kets of tho Confederates wero allowed
to remain stacked 011 tho field. Tho
grass caught lire in some way nnd was
allowed to burn. So suddenly hud
tho fighting ceased on the morning of
the 9th that thousands of tho pieces
wero left loadod. As the flames of the
truss crept along tLe liuo of stacked
muskets tho gnus wero heated to tiring
heat, nud soon thero wus inccssuut
popping. The balls weut up into tho
uir almost straight until the force of
tho dischnrgo was Fpcut and then
dropped down. To this day tho Meld
of surrender is strewn with these bul
lets, aud so littlo has Appomattox
been visited that tho balls are easily
found.
This firing of tho muskets by tho
burning grass was tho ouly salute that
accompanied the surrender. When
Leo had received Graut's terms nnd
accepted them, tho firing of 100 guns
in token of victory wus begun, but
Grant quickly etopped it. St. Louis
Globo Democrat.
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT.
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Our Heroes.
Into the valley of the awful shade
Proudly thiy man-bed with clear, unf.iltei
tUK ey;
Nor fllie'liud they whon the augul came aa 1
laid
Upon their brows the wreaths of sacrifice.
Tb earth, their mother, keeps bor saeruj
trurn
And suluM them ever from the suns aaj
suows.
While your by year above tholr hallowed
nun
Remembrance fragrant as the violet,
blows.
Cllutou Seo'.lard.
Ths Fight for ths Rliht Always Vlo-torlous.
Taper cut into very fine strips Is
tha latest thing recommended for pu
Iowa,
tn theEmbtirv Mmnrlsl rhnreti, Brook
lyn, a larire audience lntnt to ths annual
mrmnn of Chaplain T. De Witt Talmage, of
ths Thlrtonuth Heiriment, N. O. 8. N. Y. Ths
members of the reviment occupied ths boiiy
of ths chtin-h. I)r. Tnlmairn cbose tor his
subject "The Oreatest Holder of All
Time " the text boln: "Thero shnll not any
tnnn bo able to stand Isifors thea all the days
of thy llfe."J(M.Miiai..5.
The "(rallnnt Ttilrux-nth," as this ri;
jment Is Kxnorally nnd appropriately called,
bus jrnthnred to-nltit for tho worship of
0d and to hrvir tbu annunl sermnn. And
first I look with hearty sntiitnllcm Intoths
fn''M of tho veterans, wh, tliomjli now not
in n-Mr sorvr.., have the name patriotic and
military nothu'in.tni :whl'h chnr.v'teriwl
them when, In lsr,3, lb,.y bnde fnrwell to
homo and loved omvt and started for ths
field and risked all tlvy held dear on earth
for tho rn-estaMishmentof thu falling United
HtatejiOovertim'-tit. "All that a man hath
will he give for his life," and you showed
yoiirselve wlllilitr to irlve your lives. Wo
liailyou! We 1 bank you! Wo Mess you, the
vetrans of the Thirteenth. Nothing can
ever rob you of tlmhm.rof having been
soldiers In one of the newt tremendous wars
of nil history, a w.ir with (irnntand Sherman
and llaneoi'k and 8herldnn nnd Knrratrnt on
one si l. nnd f.ee nie! stonewall Jii"kon and
Loniss.reet nnd Johnston on tho other.
A in Oreek nsseinnlaires, when speakers
would nrotmu tho audience, they shouted
"Marathon!" ho if I wiinte t to stir von to ao
eliunatlon I would only ni-.l to speak tho
words. "Lookout Mountain," "Chancellors
vllle," "OettyVmru." And thouuh through
tho pnsa?o of years you aw fororer Iron
from duty of enlistment, if European nations
should too enlly nnd too rpileklv foriret the
Monroe doctrine and "t B''greMvo foot upon
this continent I thluk your ankles would bo
supplo auain, and your arms would prow
strong axnin, and your eves would be keen
enough to follow the stars of tho old flag
wherever they might lend.
And next I ifroet the eolonnl nnd his staff,
nnd all the officers and men of this retjlmont.
ft lias been an cvetitful year In your history.
If never lefr( Urooklyn appreciates some
thing of the valuo of its nrmorios, nnd ths
Importance of thoTmen who thero drill for
tho d'Tenso and sifety of the city. The
Messing of Ood bo upon all of vou, my cotn
rndes of the Thirteenth It"glment! And
looking about for a subject that might bo
most helpful and Inspiring for you, and our
veterans hero assembled, nnd tho clttr.eus
gathered to-night with their good wishes, I
have concluded 1 1 bold up before you tho
gp-atent noldier of all tiao Joshua tho hero
of niv text.
He was a mv-niflccnt fighter, but ho al
ways fought on tli right side, and ho novor
fought iiiiLms (i,l told him to light. Iu mv
text he gets bis military eoulpmeiit and one
would think it must Inv.. b"en plumed hel
met for the brow, greaves of brass for the
feet, habergeon for the br vnt. "There shall
not nny man lie able to stand !cf,.re thee all
the days of thy life." "Oil." you siv. "any
body could hnvo courage with such 'a liaefe.
Ing up as that." Why, my friends, I have to
tell you that the God of tho unlvorseand tho
Chieftain of eternity promise t0 juiit n,
much for us as for him. All the resources of
eternity nro pledged in our Mialf, If we go
out In the service of (tod. and no moro than
that was offered to Joshua, tlod fultllled this
promise of my text, ultliough Joshua's first
battle was with tho soring freshet, and the
te-xt with a stone wall, and tho next loading
on n regiment of whipped cowards, and tho
next luittlo against d:trknoss, wheeling tho
sun nnd the moon Into his battalion, and tba
last against the king of torrors, death I v
great victories. J
Tor the most part, when ths general of ao
army starts out in a conflict he woulo. liko
to have a small battle in order that be may get
h's'coiir.ig.i up n 1 he may rally his troops
and g-t thorn drilled for greater conflicts,
but this llr.st undertaking of Joshua was
greater than tho levying of Fort 1'ulaskl, or
the thundering down of Ollbraltar, or tha
overthrow of the ilvtilo. it was the crossing
of t'io Jordan nt the time of the spring
freshet. Tiie snows of Mount Lebanon had
lust been melting, nn I they poured down
intotlie valley, ami the wbolo valley was a
ragln -torrent. H the Cntiaanites stand ou
one bank, and Ihev look across ami see
Jo.-hiia an 1 tho Israelites, and thev hiiiL'h
un 1 say: "Aha! aha! They cannot 'disturb
ns until the freshets fall, ft Is impossible
for them to r .i'h us." Hot after nwhUe they
look across the water, and they see a move
uiont in tho army of Joshua. They sav:
"What's tho matter now' Why. thero must
be a panic among those troops, and they are
going to fly, or perhaps they nro going to
try to march across the river Jordan. Joshua
is a lunatic." Hut Joshua, tho chieftain of
the text, looks at bis army and cries, "For-
wani, niaren: an I iney Mart lor the bun It
of the Jordan.
Ono mllo ahead go tw.i nriests. enrrvlnu
glittering box four feet long and two foot
wide. It is tho ark of tho covenant. And
they eomo down, and no sooner An thev
Just toiwh the rim of tho water with their
leci tiiuu by an almighty flat Jordan parts.
The army of Joshua marches right on with
out getting their feet wet over the bottom of
the river, a path of chalk anil broken shells
und pebbles, until thoy got to the other bank.
Then they lay bold of tho oleanders und
tamarisks and willows nnd pull themselvej
up a bank thirty or forty foot high, and hav
ing gained the other bank thev clan their
shield and their cymbals and slug the
irno.cH ui llie 11 XI 01 rfoslllla.
lint no sooner have thev readied tho bnnlt
thnu the waters begin to ilnih nnd roar, anil
wuii n terriiiu rusu t:iey nreak looso from
their strange nnehorage. Out yonder they
have stopped; thirty tulles up yonder thev
halted. On this side tho waters roll oft
toward the salt sea. Dut as tho hand of tho
Lord (iod is taken away from the thus up
lifted waters waters perhaps uplifted half a
mile as tho Almighty band Is taken away
those waters rush down, and some of the un
believing Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what a
misfortune! Why could not those waters
have stayed parted,' Jio-uuse, perhaps, we
Hiav want to go hack, oh, Lord, wo nro en
gaged In a risky luiniucss. Those f snaaiiitoa
may eat us up. How if we want to go buck?
Would it not have been a mow complete
miracle if Die Lord had parted tho waters to
let us come through and kept them Parted
to let us g. back If wo are defeated' My
friends, (iod makes no provision for a
Christian's retreat. Ho clears tho path
all tho way to Canaan. To go I aek Is to die.
The same gatekeepers that swing back the
amethystine and crystalline gate of tho
Jordan to let Israel puss through now swing
hut the amethystine and crystalline gato of
the Jordan to keep tho Israelite from going
back. I dne!aro it in your bearing to-day.
Victory ahead, water forty feet deep iu tho
rear. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead; bo
hiud you death aud darkness and woe anil
boll. Hut you say. "Why didn't those
Cannauites, when they bad such a splendid
chance stumllug fn the top of the bank
thirty or forty feet high completely de
molish those poor Israeltlus dowu in the
river?" 1 will tell you why. God had made
a promise, and Ho was going to koep it.
"There shall not any umu bo ubls to stand
before thee all the days of thy life."
Hut this is no place for the host to stop.
Joshua gives the command, "Forward,
march!" In the dlstauoe there Is a long
grove of trues, aud at the end of tho grove Is
a city. It is a city of arbors, a cilv with
walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to
uuuress me vory sky. 11 is me great meiro-
fiolis that uomniauiis the mountain pass. It
s Jericho. That city was afterward vanturud
by l'ompey, aud it was afterward captured
by Herod the Great, and it wus afterward
canto rod by the MohumuiHdaus, but this cum
paigu the Lord plan. Them shall be no
swords, no shields, no buttering rain. There
shall b enly ons wva-rn of war, and that a
ram's horn. Tin horn of ths slain rum was
sometimes taken and holes wero punctuied
In It, and then the musician would put tho
instrument to his lips, and he would niu his
Angers overthls rude musical Instrument, and
make a great deal of swe-t harmony tor the
people. That was the only kind of' weapon.
Seven priests were to take these rude rustic
musical Instruments, and they wero to go
around the city every day for si days onco
a day for six days, and then on the seventh
day they were to go around blowing these
rode musical instruments seven times, and
then at the close f the seventh blowing of
the rnms' horns on the seventh day the
peroration of tho whole soene was to be a
shout, at which those great walls should
tumble from carmtone to base.
The seven priests with the rude musical In
struments pas all around the city walls on
the first day. and a failure. Not so much as
a pleoo of plaster broke looo from tha wall,
not so much a loosened ro.?k. not si much as
a piece of mortar lost from Its place.
"Tnere," say the unbelieving Israelites.
"Didn't I tell you so? Why, tluwe ministers
are fools. Tho Idea of going around the city
with those musical instruments nnd expect
ing in that way to destroy it! Joshua has
been spoiled. !Io thinks beeauso he has
overthrown nud dstrovodthe spring freshet
he can overthrow the stonewall. Why. It is
not philosophic. Don't you see them is no
relation between the blowing of these musi
cal instruments and tho knocking down of
the wall? It Isn't philosophy."
And I suppose there were manv wiseacres
who stood with their brows knitted, and
with the forefinger of the right hand to the
forefinger of the left hand, arguing It all out
and showing it was not possible that such a
cause should produce such an effect. And I
suppose that night In tho encampment there
was plontyof philosophy and caricature, and
if Joshua had been nominated for nny high
military position he would not have got
many votes. Joshua's stock was down. The
second day. tho priests, blowing tho musical
Instruments, go around tho city, and a fail
ure. Third day, and a failure; fourth day,
and a failure; fifth dnv, and a failure; sixth
day, and a failure. Tho seventh day comes,
tho climacteric day. Joshua Is up early In
the morning and examines the troops, wnlks
all around about, looks at tho elt v wall. The
priests start to make the circuit of tho city.
They go all around once, all around twice,
threo times, four times, five times, six times,
seven times, nnd a failure.
There Is only one moro thing to do, and
that is to uttor a great shout. I see the
Israolittsh armystraightnulng themselves up,
lllllngtheir lungs for a vociferation such as
was never heard before and never heard af
ter. -Joshua feels that the hour has come,
and he cries out to his host, "Hhout! for tho
Lord hath given you the cltv!" All the peo
ple begin to cry: "Down, Jericho! Down,
Jericho!" And the long lino of solid ma
sonry begins to quiver nnd to move and to
rock, htnnd from under! Hho falls! Crash
go tho walls, the temples, tho towers, tho
palaces! Thealr Is blackennd with the dust.
The huzza of tho victorious Israelites and
the groan of the conquered Canaatiitos com
mingle, an I Joshua, standing thro In tho
debris of tho wall, hears a voice saving,
"There shall uot any man bo able to s'tund
before thee all tho days of thy life."
Hut Joshua's troops may i.ot halt here.
Tho command le, "Forward, march!" There
is the city of At. It must be taken. How
shall It be taken? A scouting party comes
back and says: "J osliua, we can do thnt
without you. It Is going to be n very easy
Job. Vou Just stay hero while we go aiul cap
ture It." They march with asmall regiment
in front of that elty. Tho men of Al look nt
thorn and give ono yell, nnd tho Israelites
run like rein leers. Tho northern troops at
Hull Itun did not make such rapid time ns
these Israelites with tho Canaanitcs after
thorn. They n"ver cut such a sarry figure
as when they wero on tho retreat.
Joshua falls on his face iu chagrin. It Is
the only tlmo you oversee tho back of his
head. He falls on his face nnd begins to
whine, and he says: "O LordOod, wherefore
hast Thou nt all brought this people over
Jordan, to deliver us Into the hand of the
Amorttes to destroy us? Would to Ood wo
had l.e-u content and dwelt on the other side
of Jorlan! For the Canaanltes and all tho
inhabitants of the land shnll hear of it and
shall environ us round and cut off our name
from the earth."
I am very glad Joshua said that, lleforo
it seeniod as if ho were a supernatural being,
nnd therefore could not bo an example to us,
but I find ho Is a man, ho Is only a num. Just
ns sometimes you nad a man under severe
opposition, or in a bad slate of physical
health, or worn out with overwork, Iving
down and sighing about everything being
defeated. I am encouraged when I heur this
cry of Joshua us re? lies in the dust.
(Jid comes and rouse him. How does
Ho rouse him? Uy complimentary biios-
trophe' No. He says: "(let tiiee up. Where
fore liest thou upon thy face'" Joshua
rises, und. I warrant you, with a mortified
look. Hut his oi l courage o-jines back. The
fact was that was not his buttle. If ho hud
ben in it, be would have gone on to victory.
He gathers his troops around him nnd say's:
"Now let us go up and capture tho city'of
A1. Let us go up right away."
They march on. Ho nuts tho nmior.tr of
the troops behind n ledge of rocks in the
night, and then ho sends 11 comparatively
small battalion up Iu front of tho city. Tim
men of Ai come out with a shout. This bat
talion in stratagem fall back and fall back,
una wuen an the men of Al have left thu city
and are in pursuit of this scattered or seem
ingly seuttered battalion Joshua stands on a
rock I see bis locks Hying in tho wind as
he points his spear toward tho doomed citv,
and that is tho signal. Tho men rush out
from behind tho rocks and tuke tho city, aud
It l.s put to tho torch, ami theu these Israel
ites in the city march dowu, and tho Ilylug
battalion of Israelites return, and between
these two waves of Israelitlsh prowess the
men of Al are destroyed, and tho Israelites
gain the victory, and while I seo the curling
smoke of that destroyed elty on tho skv, nud
while I hearths huz.a of the Israelites and
the groan f the Canaanltes, Joshua bears
something louder than It all, ringing and
ocholng through his soul. "Tnere shall not
any man b J able to stand betoro theu ull the
days of thy llfo."
liut this is no placo for tho host of Joshua
to slop. "Forward, march!" cries Joshua to
thetrom. There is the city of (iilieou. It
has put itself under the protection of Joshua.
They sent word: "There are live kings after
us. They are going to destroy us. Nend
troops quick. Kcud us help right away."
Joshua has a three days march more than
double quick. On the morning of the third
day ho is before the eu"inv. There uro two
long lines of battle. The battle opens with
great slaughter, but tho Canaanltes soon
discover something. Thoy say: "That is
Joshua. That Is the niau who conquered
the spring freshet and knocked down the
stono wall and destroyed tho city of Al.
There is no use lighting." And thoy sound
a retreat, nud as they begin to retreat
Joshua and bis host spring upon them like a
pannier, pursuing mem over the rooks, and
us thesi Cuiiaanites, with sprained ankles
aud gashed foreh mds. retreat the catapults
of tue sky pour a volley of hailstones into
the valley, and ull the artillery of the
heavoes with bullets of Iron jiuunds the
Canaanitus against thu lodges of IMu-borou.
"Oh," say Joshua, "this la surely a
victory!" "But do you sea the sun Is going
dowu? Those Amoritesaro going to get away
utter all, aud they will come up some other
time and bother us. audporbaps destroy us."
See, the sou is goiug dowu. Oh, for u longer
day tbun has over been seen In this climate!
What is the matter with Joshua? Has he
Ulien Iu an npoplotio fit? No. He Is In
prayer. Look out when a good man makes
the Lord his ally. Joshua rulses his face.
radiant with ptuyer, and looks at the de
scending sun over Ulbeuu aud at the fuiut
orescent of the moou, for you know the
queou of the night sometimes with linger
around the palaeusof theday. l'ointlug one
baud at the descending suu and tho other
band at the faint crescent of the moon, iutbe
name of that II od who shaped t he worlds and
move the worlds, he cries, "Hun, stuud thou
still upou Uibeou, and thou, moou, in
the valley of Aiou." Ana thoy stood
still. Wuiituer it was by relraotlou of the
sun's rays or by the stopping of I
planetary system I do not know t,i "'
care, i leave It to the Christian Z;
and the infldol scientists to aoifU.v.r"'
tton, while I tell you I have seen th.
thlnir. "What." sav mi. "not th. " V
Ing still?" Yes, The same mlmu ?"
formed nowadays. Tho wicked di ip"r
out half their dav, and tho sun seta JtJJ.
But let a man start out and battle fo,
and the truth, and against sin, an1 oJ?1
of his usefulness is prolonged and oroU
if eriiKil.
llllt It la Hma Inp tmliii. , t
is 110 years old. Washington wut fW.?
Potnmnc n.l M..... V "'"n't.
- - - ..... , ...... ,.1 .M.;..,,, OOII f(Kht I
days. Wellington died peaeefullr u i. Z
House. Now, where shall Jo,t,n.
v ny. ns is to have his greatest bsttl.
After 110 years ho has t meeta!,.,.
h mnm auMccta than all tha .
........ . , r, sau Will? I' I V1'JI fa.
latlon of the earth, his throai pvrvti'
skulls, his parterre tho graveyards ... '
cemntArles nt tlm w-rl.l l.'l. -v
nrl.rilia.M.lh.iVln.. l . 'H
this Is Joshua's greatest battle it Is K,u .
n Joshua's grentest victory. He ,.,
bis friends around him nnd glvi hiu
dictory, nnd It Is full of remiiiiwl
Young men tell what they nro Koimt,,
Old men tell what they have done.
And ns you bavo heard a grand fatly. ,
gnat-grandfather. seated bv tho ....
lire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktown snl-Jl'
in 1 ue rrun'n or man as inougii it
musket to light Hn I show bow the n,
were won un .l.tulni. ..'itluiM. . "
.,.;., i c: A-,'-'zr: "':.; 'v.
iiipiiiiiik i-imii-ii, miii neii'i,;
th.i story of what he has been tlirmiiti ..
Vw. 11. . .1 1. ! 1.1... i. ,
n1 111 .lli.T-, Ills nunc IOPj(. .rjtT
down on his wrinkled foroheal. I w a."'
Ood has kept His promise nil tit
through -the promlsenf the text. A h- .
there he tells the story one, two nr tt .
iiiiMw you iiaveneanioiu Hop;e t
two or thp'o times over and h un....,
go the way of all theearth. and m it wi r,
tho promise hns failed, not one wnr! th r
has failed. All has come to a; nit r
word thereof has folic I." And th's!
turns to his family, as a dying parent
nnd snvs: "Choose now whom ye trills
tho (iod of Israel or the Ood of th ,
Ites. As for m and my house, w,j J.
the Lord." A dying parent cannot t,
less or thoughtless In regard to lil -hu
i.onseni 10 part wun tnern at tho ....
the tomb we cannot. By tho era He in t
their infancy was rocked, by the I..-,.."
which they first lay. by tlio Mmi ,if.
Covenant, by the Ood of Joshua. It icui:,"
le. We will not part. We eaun.it n
Jehovah Jlreh, wo take Thee nt Tliyfr v.
"I will lio a tlod to thco and thy 'm-I.s
me.
Dead, the old chieftain must be )ai 1 ,
Handle him very gently. Thnt sa t. I k.
lsover HOycarsof agi Lnvblm out. S'r
out those feet that walked dry shndth'rw
toman. I loseinose ups Wliicii hcl;.,;
the blast at which the walls of Jfri-fc) (.
Fold the arm that llft'vl the spenrtoKarl:
doomed city of Al. Fold it right out ;
heart that exulted when the live kin.n
But w here shall we get tho burnish" L-t
for the headstone and the footstone.'
ituiiK mvseii now. l lningliH. thnt f r ;
bend it shall bo tho sun that stoo l mill-.;
(ihoon. and for tho foot the moontlu: v.
still in the valley of Ajulon.
A NEW OCEAN BUS.
Captain Nlejntir Discovers It In the V
Atlantic and l'uitles Srl-ntLli,
The Naval Ilydrogrnphie OU' h;u V
notified of the discovery of a new f.,r
nnlmal life in the open ocean whiih u
mtnettonot been elas4iilod by nuturu
who are unable from the descri;i'.i 'n fsj
ccivcii 10 say just wmit is the new m, 4
fish, or whatever it Is. The rei-rt
irom captain 11. a. Mejnhr of the C-irJ
steamer Helios. Ho was cruising Ii
South Atlautic, between Cape Horn and
Cape of Oood Hope, a little to the w-si
ln..ui..a..ll.l.. n...l 'p-i. ...... e 1.. 1 1
.uiivviiuin llllli ximiuu im v UIIIIUU I'iU
when tho phenomenon nppeurej. T!i (.
try on his log Is as follows:
"This afternoon my mato called mv itr
tion to the look of the water. I went ottrd
and saw several snots of yellow ami nu.'
looking water. We steered for oneoM-sj
spots and passing through It obsi-rT.il :.
the water bad a reddish color, cnusiilt; t
ions nud millions of red ephemeral jr
I caught some in a bucket ami fo'ji.J'.
thelr bodies were bladdery, with Iniuha
one end. On the other end seemed tot'
bead. Set on a dry spot they jumj-ed
lar.
Biologists in Washington presume t!:'f
man captains refers to tho order "f ,
merlnu'' In speaking of "ephemcrnn w. r.
hut this order, which includes the cr
day tly, does not fit tlio euptula's divrt.:
of his discovery.
MILLIONS OF ANIMALS INSPECT
Condemnation Hops Not I'revent til '
of Diseased Meats.
During tho fiscal year IH'JI tho P.hm'.
Animal Industry insjecte l more th.in:
teen million head of animals st f r
abattoirs iu seventeen cities. Of this t
iieru total of 16,703 wero condcinnel and -
to the tank for destruction, divided a.'
lows: Cattle, 4127: sheep, iM. ftul I
12,110. In nddition to these whole ear
there were a great muuy portions of ..w
mat were conilomneii. 1 lie total until
beef eattlo inspected last year ilinmiu!'
:i.SR2.0oa. or about one-hulf the eattlu
upou tho market. The number cn l"
lu tho figures ouoted art) those e m ir:
after slaughter, and do not inclmlo tt
that foiled to pass when the cattle st
the liool and subject to the rigid mv
tion of thu inspector. Secretary Morten
that this condemnation, however, ion
prevent the sulo of diseased meat la t
markets.
WITNESS OF A TERRI3LE CRM
Daughter Heel Her Mother Kill Her F
er and Herself.
Mrs. Ernest Amiable, thirty years of
who lived in a fashionable part "I '
1 ark, Chicago, shot and Instantly i
her husbuud and theu co:iinullc4 c'.;
just after supper.
Jealousy was tho cause of the tr
tragedy. A lourtcen-ycur-olil iitiugw''
nosseii inn spectacle or ner pan nu "
At the supper table thoro bud been c :
erublo quarreling.
Mis. Amiable rushed to her room.
she secured her husband's revolver in.'!
one shot ut herself. Tho daughter-"
took tho weapon from her mother. '
gained it alter u desperate strug'l''.
theu killed her husband, hhooting !
through the heart, sliu full ucro.s his k
boJy.
IRON PRODUCTION OF I8H
IliilU the Output and tha I'rlre IH-rmj
Matorially.
Iron nre statistics prepared for ttie I'
States Geological Survey by Jolinliirk.
ot Philadelphia, show t lint the prell
irou ore lu tho L'uited Htatus for H
creased only about per cent. ntr.
product ol isua, ami most or tiusw
came from the Luke Superior regiuu.H
sota showiuc the greatest iucreuso. nu-
kIMCflflil Mltwiiitr tl.tt I ivin r.M tttttilticihlf M
while in 18W she was third. MictitK"1
tinued to be the larger nroiliieer. A"
has fallen from second place iu 18i3 te 'j
iu iNUi; Virginia lias lmproveit tier up
rising from tilth in lS'JS to fourth t
while Pennsylvania has fulleu from I"-'
18U3 to filth iu IH'M. The prices I"
averaged ouly 1.H a ton lu tf
t i.oi a ton iu 1VJ3.
To Iteplace Coco Jf Cell uloM.
Beoretury Herbert appointed a Bosf',
sistiuir of Naval Constructors Llnusri.
I I 1 L.I..I . - - a t l...l...t.
tor aim itMiuui, iu menu u x iiimuwf i
examine a uuw material made fro is "'J
of thelndlau coru stalk, which U'i
to displace cocoa cellulose lu ths
tion o( war vtjttscia, I