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HEAVENLY 11011E. Dr. Talmage on th'e Glories of the Father's Homn. THERE ARE MANY ROOMS. And T here Is a Place For A'I of God's Children. The Family Room and i-s Blessed Association. Is a unique way the heavenly wor:ld is discoursed upon by 'r. Ta1lue 1:1 tbis sernon under the tire of a hone: text, J:hn, siv. '. '~1-! Fay i r*a hou-e are maux re i. Here is a bontle of na dei!e thAt is a eure all The disuirles were -ad. a'i Chrict offered Leateni as an alteiative. a stimulant ani a to:ie. He shows them that their sorrow- a'e ct;ly 4 da:k background of a .right pie ure of' ecom ing felicity. lHe 1, t, then know thar, th'ugh ::ow they lie o the lowlans, they shall yet have a hou e on the up lands. Nearly all the Bible descrip tions of heaven may be figurative. I xn not positive that in alli h. u there iv i 'teral crown or harp or pearly g te ei throne or ehariot. They u;::y bo only used to illustrate ti glories of the place, but how well they dO it! The favorite symbol 1.y whi h the lble presents celestial bappite.s is a hcus-, Paul, wlo never owi'c a house. al though he h'red cne for two years in Italy, speaks of bca'c- a liou-e n)t ade with band-." a:d Christ in our text, the translation of whi'h is a little changed, so as tosiv: the more ac-urate meaning, sfys, "la MY FAher' houe are many roois. This.divinely aut.horized ccmpariso .of heaven to a great hoietad of large accommodations I propose to carry out. In some healthy neighborhood a mAn builds a very commodious habitation. He must have room for all his children. The rooms com2 to be called af:er the different members of the family. That is mother's room. that is Get rge's room. that is Henry's room, that is Flora's room, that is lMary's room, ard the house is all occupied. Bat time goes by, and the sons go out into the world and build their own homes, ard the daughters are marri.:d or have talents enonh ' o go out ? d do a good work i the orld. AEter awhile the father and mother are almost alone in the big house, and, s-ted by the even. ing stand, they say, "Well, our famil:y is no larger now than when we started together 40 years ago." B it time goes still farther by, and some of the chil dren are unfortunate and return to the old homestead to live, and the grand children come with them and perhaps great-grandchildren, and again the house is full. Millennia ago God built on the hills of heaven a great homestead for a f.mi ly innumerable, yet to be. At first he lived alone in that great houpe, but af ter awhile it was occu: ied by a very large family, cherubic, seraphic,anghc. The eternities passed on, and many of the inhabitants became wayward and left, never to return, and many of the apartments were vacated. I rcefer to the fallen angels. Now these apart ments are filling up asain. '1 here are arrivals at the old homestead of God's, ehildren every day, and the day will come when there will be no unoccupied room in all the house. As you .and I expect to enter it and make there eternal residence, I thought you would like to get some more particu lars about the many roomed homuestead. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You see, the place is to be apportioned off into apartments. We shall love all who are in heaven, but there are some very good people whom we would not want to lhee with in the same room. They may be better than we are, but they are of a divergent temperament. We would like to meet with them on the gclden streets and worship with them in the temple and walk with them on the river banks, but I am glad to say that we shall live in different apartments. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You see, heaven will be so laree that if one wants an entire room to himself or herself it ean be afforded. An ing':ious statistician, taking the statement nmade in Revelation, twenty' first chapter, that rne ha--venly Jerusa 1em was natasured a:nd found to be 12. 000 furlongs and that die length and and height and ir-: .iaaar <qu-L says that wenid imake hieam. in p4.8 sextillion 988 quintillion cu%~ fc,. and then, reserving a certain porti for the court of heaven and the streeis and estimating that the world may htt a hundred thousand Tears, he ciphers out that there are over 5.00J0,000.000, 000 rooms, each room 17 feet long, 16 feet wide, 15 feet high. But I have no faith i'h the accuracy of that calculation. He makes the rooms too small. From all I can read, the rooms will be palatial, and those who have not had enough room in this world will have plenty of room at the last. The fact is that most people in this world ar'e crowded, and, though out on a vast prairie or in a mountain district people may have more room than thec want, in most cases it is house built elose to house, and the streets-. crowded, and the cradle is crowded by other cradles, and the graves crowded in the cemetery by o.her graves, and one of the iichest luxuries of many Speople in getting out of this world will be the gaining of unhindered and uan eramped room. And I should not wonder if, instead of the room that the statistician ciphered out as only 17 feet by 16, it should be larger than any of the roome at Berlin. St. James or Win ter palace. "In my Fathmer'~ house are many rooms." Carrying out still further the symbol iam of the text, let us join hands and go up to this majestic homstead and see for ourselves. As we ascend the gol den steps an invisible guardsman swings open the front door, and we are ushered to the right into the reception room of the old homestead. That is the place where we first meet the welcome of heaven. There must be a place where the departed spirit enters and a place in which it confronts the inhabitants celestial. The reception room of the newly arrived from this world-what scenes it must have witnessed since the frst guest arrived, the victim of the irst fratricide, pious Abel: in that room Christ lovingly greets all new .omers. Hie redeemed them, and he has the right to the first embrace on ar rival. What a minute when the as tended spirit first secs the Lord! Bet ter than all we ever read about himt or talked about him or sang about him in all the churches and through all our earthly lifetime will it be. just for one second, to see him. The most raptur ens idea we ever had of hiuin on sacra mental days or at the height of some Seat revival or under the upliftedi ton of an oratorio is a bankruptcy of thought compared with the first flash of At tlit moment wben you confront ieach otier. Christ loorkinit upon you aid Neu looking u;pon Christ, there wiI be- In ecetatic thrill and sureinz of tmotion that beLgar all d scription. Lok! They ued no iutroduction. SLir' co Christ chose that repentant '-in r r. ard tiat re.p(Ptant si ner eoe Chris - Irties moiment cf an ii. unci! hitorythefir.-t kissof heaven! Jeslis' and the - ul 'T s.l and -x (I o:0 nt) thtat r eeption rmm ;ir t.e dlor'ti kimsoks. enough 1 Ii ci I ni. let ,utl k-- o v tiemt. it V ithout i.r wounds or their --iku I :- thir t1g i - e ,igliat hetaven . do:,e r .te- r iiaUt, o eeef so transt0:i l lovel;! TPe call v"11 bV une. The gree 'with a, ;rr r c dortiondtote U --iieh (f your parti:z and tar leng-tI f ur t it raIn-. Fai tha ithie! h r i. ouir e er : B:i-ot r., Fi Im e ycn u j y. For er-; apart, toyth0!r aiain in the re-Wion ro mIe the Old homstad. ' .i, Thy will kn-w you are coti I 1 e.Thcre are s- nw ny immrirtals td In g all" the apcs between hre au-i haven th t n like that flies like ! inghtnin. Thery ili be there in a inlztanlt. Thou,.h thiey were inj somle Wother on errand from Grod, a inal ro d eftbe thron that would feh thnem. Though 10ru might at firet fetI daz.-d ad' overawi d at t heir uer Tal pind1r. all that feeling wil be trone at their fi-st touich of heavenly swai tmn, and we wil p say: OV, my lo,t bo'00 1Oh,. ],lot campanIion! '1 my l,-t frind! Are we here to cether What se in that recoep tion room of trhe old m oi s-rad have b-,en wit .nessed! Thegre Cmet Joeph and I ia . ti .ding it ade trhhr Io tha dyiung they Sa n PhJaraoh's paoued vid ad tIh little chld for ihini he onc. fa-ited and epr! : sary and L Azouc. afr the heartbreak of Bethar Tinothn and rand other L,;. Is theila Grahan arid her sailor sor: Iod and GeotgetCookian, the min4rv of the F ea at last made many fe,: z;tLuther anad 31agda.ene, the the dauirhter be te~noane2d; Joh n otard and the prisoners whom he gsphetlizrd. and nultitu.de Without numb, ir who. one-, so weary and so sad, parted on earth, but tno:iously net in heaveu. A to alt heroo ens of that house there is no one that i re enra tares my soul than that !e.:eptinn room. "In tide Father's houec are many rood s e. Anotl er room iu our Father's house is of the gtronerooh. We belong to the ro0 al fan dir. Theo d of King Jesus Fi ws in our vins. so we have a rieyt to enthr the throneroom It is no easy thing on eath to gnstthrough even the outside door of a king,,'s residence. Darinon the Franco-German war, one eventide1 in the summer of 18y0, I stood stuming the exquisite eiptur ineeof the gate of the Tuileries, Parii. Lot in admiration of the wonderful art of that gate, I knee not that I was exciting suspicion. Lwering my eyes to the crowds of people, I found miy elr osf being cl inspected by the gov ernmentoicials, who, from my com Plexion, .adged a to be a German and that for some belligerant purpose I might be examining the gates of the pdwlace. ty explanation in very po r thenc lettd N chatsdyo them cadc the lette Ny lanrgte fron that cIlins What an coinoflgnsiie ofmerilance The hao.eros of hlyparces iarucarfl guardind, an.of Fedian hof Spain moretf tro u t h oeroom!'Adzln ofac ouri Ftrirrosen actl alrt. N> osng whaeerla the thronthteroom ofath fscte ave or Napowen glite ovr forgnt tembassadr Noembr or Fahe' hren isl ahon te upholsce tronof harcayd aidw thre hleer athroedof jthicwal, throneo of unirsIaul doif.W Sardinio stnFserinand owringo Elzetha omEupiand sB>ifac onfi eide. u.*t hithatero ororh Fthoe's housee wet ar plrineisiand all thes Phoerhaps that ever msaw scepterv inogniton asltter e fretin ise ar hofee a shihcrpene at Amer-y am hrn as Qoines Trahi theo drustice, a peasnt oma uninsa droion for er child'stn shire;ruting and fouendgu neore wito uilthe. saWe mayb y nd csmen and s it uplit Keing, im. fohimethat oecmethe scepte Igan psato ourseith es at thy Thncrownes. Pehaps ow fail ovei wtoul te ncid as~ Peter gneratin the gearfaip arpenerm famil Amtor famiy ThasQeren Tr n cthe draisely youasnt n womn ov seekin theefo afcrwhilenwhoiwe a:nretS when wre-e intor the thorofm this wrie nee fo aiunil the etn to mt inon pn rayer anoth and spirtad castfund this momet epntershe hroneroom. Itla cron, tihe folirevr:Wn, toh tihe cronted prossi-ratte lvesanh Tcrown of. tl he rowna frm underi thel ieatoe arbiot fro heaenrain fmily.I wThr ad mne theypareatvll young in rain whiaond haesen the falteyreetied toeeetinon plaeusd shall rein seee them com h ingomtrth fomthnd tast andr Tillsu hal Spaise crnd stheItalian cOw, tht tErnelsrono ChreTurkIsh mywn Fthe sRhusearowte mayrooian Aot-he roll the ouroFahrs frouder sthe musit aroom.olt. ohn han-athe while Iwetatkomch andut the l fuic of ean tatod n thermutb meus thl g here'erap ntsh sn earth kinas tetch from retblshnr Tisn shal rievoked se touchofe ory keyhat ronotom t.te ofCrsome mythber. hoeare mare oomany Chanhrpoind cormFaters ands histhmia rom.ist.o and hera choe riters a hrstia uhymnouotsh thahe oneaen upfrmath theretb music ithise wrldp o dscd asd o music was thumad fomt hrmolnyg ivcorket if yo thantes the some baring bter erewr songa isasnyi hteave gaotu irmn erther the must bfor themolme pl haeno mesc uic.hi anrd can dicodan non else.icainithealan thaoplte hmusic ha capedoth gie. Dr. thelnoer, ofythg firt heaen 'Heanno iagine exlithed the standrs "the xulogy Lft ee umean thesicandocnw eas nthn Ine casal that music romo u ahrs hue you wilho ay ecme the l masters. Mozart and Handel anc Men delsohn and Beeth'oven and Dddridge, whose sacred poetry was as remarkable as his sacred pros,, and James Mont gemery, and Wihiam Cowp yr, at last got rid of his spiritual melancholy, and Bishop Huber, who sang of "Green laad's icy mountains and India's coral strand," and 1):. Rfl-ss, who wrote of -fHigh in yonder realms of light,' and Iiaac Watts, who went to visit Thomas Abney and wife for a week, but proved himself s> agreeable a guest that they made him stay 3(; years, and side by side Augustus Toplady. who has got over his dislike for Methodists, and Charks Wesley, freed from his dislike for Calvinists, and George W. Bethuce, as sweet a songster as he was great as a preaeber and the author of "The Vil lage Hymns" and many who wrote in verse or song, in curch or by even I tide <radle and many v:ho were passion I ately fond of musict, bait coald make none themeilves, the poorst singer th(re more than any earthly prima donna and the p~orest players there more than any earthly Gottschalk. Oh, that music room, the headquarters of cadence and rhythm, symphony and chant, psalm and antiphon' May we be there some hour when Haydn sits at the keys of one of his own oratorios, and David the psalmist fingers the haip, and Miriam of the Red Sea ba':ks I claps the cymbals, and Gabr'el puts hii lips to the trumpet and the four a-d twenty elders chant, and Liad and Parepa r-nder matchless diet in the music room of the old heavenly home stead! "In my Fdther's house are many rooms." Auother room in our Father's house 'Cil be the family room. It may cor respond somewhat with the fancily rcom on earth. At morning and even ing, you know, that is the place we now meet. Though every membtr (f the household have a separate room, in the family tco-n they all gather, and j->ys and sorrows .aad experi ences of all sty3les are there re hearsed Sacred room in all our dwell inks, w hether it be luxurious with ot tomans and divans and books in Russian lids standing in mahogany case or there be only a few plain chairs an- a cradle. So the family room on high will be the place where the kinsfolk assemble and talk over the family experiences of car~h, the weddings, the births, the burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the children departed remain children there? Oh, no! Everything is perfect there. The child will go ahead to glo rifield maturity, and the aged will g back to glorided maturity. The risin sun of the one will rise to meridian and the descending sun of the othe will return to meridian. Howevc: much we love our children on earth. we would consider it a domestic dis aster if they staid children, and so we rejoice at their growth here. And when we meet in the family room of our Father's house we will be glad that they have grandly and gloriously ma tured, while our parents, who were aged and infirm here, we shall be glad to find restored to the most agile and vigorous immortality there. If 40 or 45 or 50 years be the apex of physical and mental life on earth, then the heavenly childhood will advance to that, and the heavenly old age will re treat to that. When w join them in that family room, we shall have much to tell them. We shall want to know of them. right away, such things as these: Did you see us in this or that or the other struggle? Did you know when we lost our property and sympa thize with us? Did you know we had that awful sickness? Were you hover ing anywhere aiound us when we plunged into that memorable accident? Did you know of our backsliding? Did you know of that moral victory? Were you pleased when we started for heav en? Did you celebrate the hour of our conversion? And then, whether they know it or not, we will tell them all. But they will have more to tell us than we to tell them. "In my Father's house are many rooms."~ How would it do for my sermon to leave you in that family room today? I am sure there 's no r-som in which you would rather stay than in the enrapturedI circle of your ascended and glorified kinsfolk. We might visit other rooms in our Father's house. There may be picture galleries penciled not with earthly art, but by some pro ceas unknown in this world, preserving for the next world the brightest and most stupendous scenes of human his. tory, and there may be lines and forms of earthly beauty preserved whiter and chaster and richer than Venetian sculp ture ever wrought-rooms beside rooms, rooms over rooms, large rooms, majestic roomo, opalescent rooms, amethystine rooms. "I my Father's house are many roonms" I hope none of us will be disappoint ed about getting there. There is a "oom for us if we will go and take it, but in order to reach it it is absolutely necessary that we take the right way, and Christ is the way, and wa must en ter at the right door, and Christ is the door, acnd we must start in time, and the only hour you are sure of is the hour the clock now strikes, and thbe orly second the one your waten is njos tik ing. I hold in my hand a roll of letters inviting you all to make that your home forever. The New Testament is only a roll of letters inviting you, as the spirit of them practically says "My dying yet immortal child in earth ly neighborhood, I have built for you a great residence. It is full of rooms. I have furnished them as no palace was ever furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are nothing, chrysoprasus is nothing, illtumined panels of sunrise and sunset is nothing, the aurora of the northern heavens nothing, com pared with the splendor with which I have garitured them. But you can en ter there, and so I have opened a foun tain where you may wash all your sins away. Come now! Put your weary but clear sed feet on the upward path way. Do you not see amid the thick foliage on the heavenly hilltops the old family homesteadF' 'In my Fath er's house are nmanv rnmrr." Married Nine Times. Wesley James, an old _Negro, whose home is in Charlotte, has one 'of the most remarkable histories we have ever heard of. He has been married nine times. Eight of his wives are dead, and he now lives with the ninth. Hie s 75 years old and is hale and hearty. His oldest children, twins, are 55 years old, and his youngest, twins also, are 12 months old. James says he is the father of 56 children, and many of them he has not heard from in years. Charlotte News. Many Wars. We are so busy with watching our own war in the Philippines and the British-Boer conflict in Africa that probably the greater number of us have overlooked the fact that Belgium is having alittle war of her own in her dependency, the Congo Free State, that Italy,.is about to have a brush with Morocco, and that there are revolutions going on in Venezuela and Columbia. The makers of guns and ammunition ought to be enjoying a season of great MUCH-NAMED FEBRUARY 2. Otherwise Known Throughout the Country as Ground Ho_ Day. February 2 is a much named day. It is Candlemas Day. Purification of the Virgin Mary. Presentation of Christ in the Temple and colloquially in England the Wives' Feast, but the name that is possibly most familiar to us is Groundhog Day. The celebra tion of Candlemas is observed in the Angelican, Roman. Greek and Luth eran churches, its principal feature be ing the distribution of candles and a procession of lighted ones. It is more than probable that it Is from this cus ton that the name Candlemas Day originated. Some authorities claim that the institution of the feast ante dated the manner of celebrating it, claiming that this f-stival was first observed in 542, during the reign of Justinan, whereas the first procession of lighted candles did not occur until the seventh century. Another authority while giving te honor of originating the celebration of the day to Justinian, says Pope Gelasius, in the latter port of the fifth century. had the first procession of lighted candles. The ceremonies of Candlemas Day in England have been vory much modi fied since the time of the Reformation. An order of Council, passed in the second year of the reign of EdwardVI.. abolished the candle carrying in that country. At Rome, however, quite late in our century, the candles were blessed and distributed with much pomp and ceremony, accompanied by a great procession of ecclesiastics. Unlike the majority of wedther prog nostications taken, as is a usual custom, from these set days. Candle mas weather signs go by contraries. Fine weather betokens a continuance of winter and cold days, while an In clement day Is a sure promise of an early spring and bright summer. Our well-known name, particularly among our rural and foreign population of Groundhog Day for the second of Feb ruary, comes from an old proverb the early Germans brought to America from their Fatherland, that "the badger peeps out of his hole on Candle mas Day, and when he finds snow shining lie draws back Into his hole." East of the Mississippi the badger is scarce and little known, so the farmers transferred the mantle to the wood chuck, or ground-hog. Facts Concernin: Copra. Copra, which is one of the chief pro ducts of the Philippine islands, is the dried meat of the cocoanut. The in dustry, while comparatively young, presents some unique features, and the production of it Is the outgrowth of attempts made a few years ago to find . c :.- convenient method of exporting tIe surplus quantity of cocoanut oil produced in the islands. The earthen jars in which the oil arrived at Manilla were too easily broken to be trans ported with any degree of safety. The only available alternative was a crude form of barrel made in China for the purpose, but these leaked so profusely that they gave very poor results. These difficulties led to a search for a more convenient form in which to ex port the product. It was for the pur pose of supplying this need that M. Eduard Vidal taught the natives how to prepare the cocoanut in a dry form such as is known on the market as copra, basing his process upon some ex periments which -he, together with some planters in the province cf Misamis had carried on with consider able success In the year 1882. The method of preparing the copra is a comparatively simple one. When the nut Is perfectly ripe It Is cut into halves and placed In the sun without further preparation. In a few hours the meat of the nut Is contracted by the effect of the heat and becomes die tached from the shell. The morsels of nut kernel are then collected and exposed to the sun for several days, so that all the water which they con tain may be evaporated, care being ex ercised to guard against moisture and dew, which would soften the material. When the substance becomes brittle, it is considered ready for the market. In ordinary times it is claimed that a thousand cocoanuts will give, In the province of Visayas, about 600 to '700 pounds of copra, hut actual experi ence hardly bears out these claims, the average being from 420 to 490 pounds per 1,000 cocoanuts. The copra industry during its comparatively short history of fourteen years in the Philippines has attained considerable dimensions. He Needs a Tiracer. "Old man, I'm a goner. Yes, I'll have a drink, but don't you get two for a quarter drinks. I shoold feel that mine cost 13 cents and couldn't do it. No, I'm not superstitious, but I can't brace up against nineteen hoodoos. This is Friday, the 13th of January, and I'm a marked man. I wanted to go over to .Brooklyn, and, like an Idiot, took a 'Greene avenue line' car. "Now, there are just thirteen let ters in the name of that line. I got on the car and was the thirteenth passen ger. There were thirteen advertise ments and thirteen straps on each side of that car. The name of the maker of the car had thirteen letters in it. The conductor's uniform had thirteen buttons on It and there were thirteen divisions on the face of the fare regis ter. "No, I don't want 'a nice cocktail.' Count the letters In that combination of words. Gimme 'a bromo seltzer.'" But another count settled even that drink, and he took "Milwaukee beer" and nearly died of fr-ight. H o!b in t he fIr1t ih 31ase:.m.. Peop'e -.n ask how many books te : ie a . British Museum, but nobody seems to know. In fact, there are so many that it is impossible to count them. Some years ago it was estimated by measuremtent that there were 2,000,000 books 'there. Since that estimate was made the number has considerably increased, so rh:t at the present time the total is proib l;y nearer 3,000,000. WVhera Weakness 13 Strengerm. In many employments requiring dex terity and quickness with the hands women arc far more valuable than men. For Instance, where the folding of large quantitics of hooks or maga zines is required or.e woman can do as much as two men. FREEi BLOD CURE An Offer ProvingrFaith to Sufferers. Eation Sores. Tuomrs. Uleers. aie all curafble by B. B. B (Botanic Bd Btldm.) which is made especially to curo all terrible Blood Dis cem Ir Sores, Blood an . i n s Serofala, ti-mt --' .'' c~ --. o re - . --- . . B (B aaic .. ... iti Eeze-ma, Scales, Bierrs, B oils, Carbuncles, Blotches, ~tarrni. 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To the visitor, especially from the Mississippi Valley, where the Congressional survey of public lands has laid out everything four-square, so that directions and distances are always thought of ill their relation to north, south, east or west. this is incomprehensible. But it does not take a very long re sidence there to learn that the points of the compass in the ordinary matters of direction are of very little practical use. and the prevailing system indi cating locations and direction, adapted from that used by the native Hawaii ans and continuing the use of their no menclature, is a very practical one and well adapted to conditions. The islands are small and of volcanic origin. There is at least one main range of mountains on each island, though there may be subsidiary ones. As is well known, mountains do not run with special reference to the points of the compass. And the narrow val leyscut anderowdedout. of the volcan ic mass and extending from the moun tains to the sea bear still less appreci able relation to them. So that if one weretoestablish the points of the com with relation to aniy one of these val leys a quarter of a mile would bring him to another, where he would have to take his bearings all afresh. But there are two objects he can never get out of sight of. These are the moun tain and the sea. And on this fact the basis both of the nomenclature and of the system of direction rests. With re lation to any point the two cardinal di rections are toward the mountain and toward the sea. Now, the native Haw aiian terms for these are 'mauka," to ward or in direction of the mountain, and "makal" toward or in direction of the sea. The topography of the country, a ser ies of valleys extending from the mountain to the sea, and the feudal tenure under which land was held in the ancient day, led to the division of the country into narrow strips, or dis tricts-moku, as the larger were called; ahupuoa. the next smaller, and ill. those still smaller, but all, with very few exceptions, extending from the seashore to the to'p of the mountain. In this way common people, restricted to their own ilis, yet had access to the sea to fish and swim and ride the surf, to the mountains for firewood and building material, and to land be tween to cultivate taro.- The boundaries of these districts were all carefully de fined in time Immemorial and remain the same to-day.. Moreover, each dis trict had Its name, and that name re mains. With the mountain above and the sea below and the narrow districts In suc cession, each with its boundaries and name well defined. the basis of the system and nomenelature of direction was complete. A given point or object is "mauka," toward the mountain, or "makai," toward the sea, in rela tion to another object or point: and and it is "waihihi, or "ewa," in the di rection of the district of Ewa, for t0e other relations of direction. So that in Honolulu, for instance, where no street runs north and south, or east and west, and few streets run straight in any direction for any great distance, no one speaks of the north or southl side of the street-no one can: nor of tile east and west sides. But every street has a mnauka and makai sideC. or a waihihi and ewa side So a particullar corner may be precisely and accurately described as the ma uka- waihihli corner, or the makai-ewa. Thesie tern> are not only colloquial, but official. They are used in contracts, deeds. wills and statutes. They suit conditions and have grown out of them. Mere Perversity. "Dar's one of dc sma'test mules in dis city," announced the proud propr'i etor of an ash cart to one of hlis pa trons. "He unde'stan's eb'ry wo'd I say. same like lhe was a pusson." "Hardly, I guess. Teli him to go aeadl a little." "Get up, dar, Sunshine!' and the mule- began to back. "Look at that, now." "Dat's what I'se telling you, boss. Ef dat mulle don't unde'stan' me peh fect, how do lhe know to do de op'site ebery time? He 'never miss since I had him, boss.'"-Detroit Free Press. A stranrs Animal. Devil's Island. made famous as the prison of Dreyfus, has a strange spe cies of animal found nowhere else on earth. This odd animal has been called the coati, and is a peculiar combination of mammiferous, carnivorous planti grade It is about tile size of a cat when full grown, with a long head shaped like a pyramid. a tremendous nose, making it the Cyrano of animals. The jaws are long, like those of the young alli gator and it uses its forepaws to carry its food to the mouth, as monkeys and squirrels do. From the Other Side. Here is a "personal!" that appeared at long ago in a London newspaper: "Willie, return to your distracted wife and frantic children! Do you want to hear of your old mother's sui (lde? You will if you do not let us know where you are. Anyway, send back your father's colored meer schaumn." And yet we say tile Briton has no very lively sense of humor. The City of Ghent. The famous old city of Gheat, Bel gium is built on twenty six islands, which are connected with one another by eighty bridges. Three hundred sretst and~ thirty public squares are e~nta:ned' ini these islands. The Mushiroom Lover. In London a pavilng stone which weighed 500 pounids. and which was wedged In on all sides by other stones, was lifted up by a mushr'oom. Nothing Like Trying. "Ha," exclaimed thle jealous man. "Somebody has beenu pressing a kiss upon your brow!" "No, no, no," protested the unhappy woanlt. 'Thien y-ou have been sitting too near the r'adiator!" he thundered, wth :iluTeetation of politeness. -:wr there is a hole burnt In your I t is not easy to construct the story that shall be at once psychological anl medicorealistic, but as will be seen, the rifle can be mnade.-Detroit Jonal. An Odd Collection. A French woman has collected for i'y years specimens of corsets worn at different periods and in her chateau is a billiard room with glass cases in which are her treasures. Those who shudder at the idea of an eighteen inch waist would be shocked at a cor set of the Cathlerine de Medici reign with a waist of thirteen and one-half inches, and outside cover of steel bars to prevent stretching. There are to be seen some leather stays worn by Char lotte Corday, and a pair of brocaded satin ones, which once belonged to the Empress of Austria, with only a Initeen and one-half Inch wat I VALUABLE WALKING STICKS. Interesting Historical Facts About Some Famous High- Priced Canes. In a hairdresser's window at the heath resort of La Bourboule. in France, some little time ago an ugly, ungainly cudgel, worth about six pence, was displayed, together with the notice, "A stick of genuine olive wood from Jerusalem. It formerly be longed to Pontius Pilate in the year 27 of our era. Price, 7.000 francs." Any one desirous of wasting a little time might have asked the vendor for proof of his veracity, but we, having duly recorded the existence of this remark able stick, will pass on to that of Dr. 11. Hale, of Detroit, which is, to the best of our belief, the most valuable stick extant. It was formerly the practice of phy sicians, as old prints prove, to carry canes in the hollow heads of which some disinfectant was placed, which the doctor smelled through perfora tion in the gold top. Dr. Hale's fa mous staff, however, boasts of a head containing a fine chronometer, and is, with its jeweled ornaments, worth about $2,000. It is somewhat of a co-Incidence that two of Queen Victoria's most fa mous walking sticks should be inti mately connected with the Stuart regime, but such is the case. The staff of the stick she habitually uses, we learn, is of stout English oak, and was made for and presented to Charles 1I by a loyal subject at Wor cester, the wood being culled from a branch of the famous tree whose leafy boughs gave the wandering king shelter from the Cromwellian sol diery. The Prince of Wales. who possesses no fewer than 172 walking sticks, is obviously a collector, but we very much doubt whether he possesses a more interesting specimen than that purchased at the Culloden sale by her majesty, the Queen, in July. 1897. The stick in question was made of hazel wood, and the head was fashioned so as to represent Wisdom and Folly, but the special interest it possesses Is the fact that it was once the property of of "Bonnie Prince Charlie." Her majesty became its owner by an out lay of $800. A stick of more than ordinary inter est is one fashioned from an oar be longing to one of the most famous ves sels of this half century, the Confed erate steamer Alabama, that eventu ally cost England some $17,000,000. In July, 1S90, a walking stick, once the property of George IV, and before him of George III, was sold by auc tion for $90. It is somewhat strange that the stick of Napoleon Bohaparte, Great Brit ain's terrible opponent at the time of the regency, should be sold during the reign of the fourth George for $190 the stick, by the way. was of tortoise shell. iis Reputation Second to None Little knot of lawyers were swap ping yarns In an office on Corondelet Street New Orleans, when somebody mentioned an attorney, now dead, who enjoyed a great reputation in his day for rough and ready repartee.. "The old Major." as we used to call him, said one of the party, "certainly had a handy tongue. I remember, years ago, there was a riverman who had made his headquarters here, and who was especially famous for two things-his enormous appetite and his tendency to draw the long bow. On one occasion he got into a wrangle with a cotton factor over some alleged tampering with a consignment that turned up short, and a lawsuit was the result. The Captain told a pretty damaging story on the witness stand, and the other side, knowing his reputation for romancing, attempted to impeach his evidence. Among others called for that purpose was the old major, who came with extreme reluctance and pro ceeded to dodge all the questions asked him. Finally the young lawyer who was doing the examining got mad. 'Look here Sir!' he exclaimed. 'I want a direct answer without any further evasion. What do you know about this man's reputation for truth and verac ity?' 'Well, Sir, replied the Major de liberately. 'I can't say as to his repu tation for truth, but his reputation for voracity is second to none in New Or leans.' There was a roar of laughter and the case collapsed. Doina Too Mutch. "That is the fourth paper I have seen that has a department headed, 'What Women Are Doing,' " he ex claimed, throwing down the newspap "Well, what of it?" she demanded aggressively, for she was one who might properly be classedl as an ad vanced woman. "What of it?" lhe exclaimed. "It's altogether too broad and sweeping. Eight or ten years ago it might have been all right for a department, but now such a heading as that Includes the whole paper. If they want to get up something off in one corner of the sheet somewhere they ought to head It 'What Women Are Not Doing.' " One Follows the Other. "After all," said the bachelor. "the difference between love and dyspepsia is purely relative. It is a matter of time only. One is future and the oth er is past." "How do you mean," asked the be wildered maid. "The lover doesn't want to cat an . the dyspeptic wishes lie hadn't," an swered the bachelor, thereby thinking he had scored one on the sex that was continually disturbing his peace of mind.-Chicago Post. A Tielme'-t for Headache. A French doctor has invented an electiic helmet, inside of which is a small motor that vibrates strips of steel, the motor making 600 turns per minute. This whizzing is supposed to cure nervouis hteadjache and put the sufferer to sleep. W'ith the Procession. An ingenious mechanical device pasts paper labels on 100.000 cans in ten hours. Down a chute rolls a cease less procession of cnns, and each picks up a label as it passes. Blut Not as Good. A quart of oysters contain, on the average about the same quantity of untrhive substance as a quart of milk r a pound of very Lean beef. Cost of a P'etty Suit. The folly of going to law is shown by a recent transaction in the Justice Court at Greenville, Tex., The con stable levied upon S00 pounds of seed cotton, which when sold the next day under the attachment brought the sum of $11.34. When all costs were paid there was left $3.70, which, by the terms of the original instrument, went to the attorney, leaving the attaching party without a cent for the collection. It Wasn't Like Her. Husband-What stha' you are read Wife-It's a letter from mother. Husband-And what does she say'r Wife-Oh, not much . anything. Husband-You are trying to deceive me. It's a cold day when your moth er hasn't anything mucn to say. Chicago News. Qalckc Work. To test the skill of their working men. the Companie F'rancaise der Chemins de Fer die l'Est, at their works in Epernay, recently caused a locomotive to be "rnounted," or built up, piece by piece, a.4 soon ats possible. it wa finishe in luir'y-i hours. Makes the food more deicos an whosme i0te. 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