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POETRY. i The Private of the Baft. Lest night, among his fellow rocghs. He jestei, qnalted sad swore; A drtmkeu prirateof the Bnff*. Who ne?er looked before. Today, beneath the foemaa's frwa, He stands in Elgin's place. Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Poor, reck law, rede, low born, mxtaagfct, Bewilder**! and alone; A heart with Engtrsh instinct fraught ' "tj He yet cm call his own. w j Aye, tear lis body limb from limb; Bring ?c rd or ax or flame; He ofcly fciows that no* throcgh him Shall England come to shame. 7m r hop fields roand him seemed, ? Like dreams, to come and go; Bright leagues of cherry bioewms gleamed. One sheet of bring snow; The smoke :\bcrre his father's door Ingray j oft eddyings hang; Most he tiea watch it rise no mora, 1 Doomed by himself so yoong? Yes. honor calls? with strength like steel He pot tbe vision by; Let dosky Ir discs whine kneel. As Kngfcsfc lad most die. And thas, with eyes that woold not shrink. With. kn? to man nnbent. Unfaltering on its dreadfnl brftxk. To his red & care he went. Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed. Vein those ^shattering gons. Unless pro ad EifgUnd keep untamed - Ifce strong leart of her sons; ? 3o let his l ame throogh Earope ring? A man of mean estate. Who died, as Arm as Spsrtat king, Becaqae. his sod was great. -Sir yraocw Hastings Doyie. A NEW YEAR'S SERMON. OR. TAUW|G?'S DISCOURSE AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. ??CoBulder tl|? I?#r? of,*?ay Geaerat loos-' Ww the T<it, ?ad th? Sermon W*? Re prdinc rThe Chronology of the Bible, \or God ImoBS the Centqrle<. Brook lvn\ Jan. 1. ? Rev Dr Tal mage this moriing appropriately took for the subject of his New Year's day 8ermon?"Tie Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries." Be fore the ^jscoiKie the great audience which fa UjV&owded the Tabernacle sang the hymn: ^ r Our G<xl, oarl??Ip ih %ge* pwt, Ottr feoj ? for years to pome. The texl chosen was Deuteronomy xxxii, 7, "Consider the jears of many generation?." At 1 'I o'clock last eight, while so many gooc people were watching, an old friend passed out of our homes and a stranger entered." The old friend making valedictory was 1892; .the stranger arriving is 1893. The] old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranger put his finger over his lip and laid nothing and seemed charged with man} secrets and mysteries. I did not sec either the departure or the arrival, bi t was aoond asleep, think ing that fas for me the be3t way to H be wideeiake now. Goodbye, 18^2! Welcome, 1S9SI ^ As an army is divided jnto brigades j and regis jents and companies, and they obserre this o*der hx their march ] and their tread is majesti? so the I the time >f the world's existence is! 1 divided iito an army divinely com- 1 raanded; he eras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years, are the companies. For- j ward into the eternity nast, oat of the : eternity to come;! Forward is the I ? ^ command, %nd nothing can halt them, I ~?ven though the world should die. I While obeying my text, "Consider the i years of many generations," I pro | pose to speak of the "Chronology of j the Bible, or Gocrtimong the Centu- 1 ties." ARRANGING EVENTS. We make a distinction between | time and eternity, but time is only a j -- piece of eternity, and chronology has ! been engaged in the sablime work of ! dividing up- this portion of eternity j that we call time into compartments 1 Jand putting events in theiiKright com- ; tment. It is as much an injustice! inst the past to wrongly arrange j events as it wonld be an iajustice ' ? i? through neglect of chronological I accuracy, it should in the far disfctot future be said that America was dis-1 covered in 1778, and the Declaration ] of Independence was signed in 1492, and Washington was born on the 22d I of Mareb, and the cavil war of the j United States was fought in 1840. As God puts all the events of time ; , in the right place, let us be careful that we do not put them in the wrong ' place. The chronology of the Bible j takes six siepH, but they are steps sol long it makes us hold our breath as j we watch the movement Froo^Adam j n to Abraham. - From Abraham io the ! e?4ua KWV of Egypt ;J Pmm the-ex* j dns to tBe-4o^fidahon of Solomon's j temple. From the foundation of Sol omon's temple to the destruction of j thai temple. From the destruction i of the temple to the fetors from Baby- 1 lonish captivity. From Babylonish | captivity to the birth of Christ j Chronology takes pen and pencil, ' and cailin^ajwaronomy and history to |i?!p ^says: "Let [ as fix one , event from which to calculate j Let it be a star, j .Bethlehem star, the 7 Christmas j And from that we go back and j see Ji&worfcl.was created 4,004 years j ~*jsts the deluge came 2,348 | fore Christ; the exodus out of 2gypt occurred 1,491 yea*a_he?>re | Christ and Solomon's temple was de ?|tro?ed 5 $6 Chronok^lBJetPthe first chapter of GeneaHaw! says t)be day mentioned not a day twenty-four ifoms, but of ages, the word there translated as "day" in other places meaning ages and so the Bible account of the creation and the "geologists' ac count of the creation are completely harmonious. Chronology inters the book of Daniel and says that the word* "time and a half" mean a year" and ' a half. f -OuoHok^j enters at another point and shows us that the seasons of the year were then only two?4nmmer and winjer.;;! We ?nd that the Bible year ?66 days instead of 365; that the dajr was calculated from 6 o'clock in the moraijig to 6 o'clock at night; that the night was^fivided into four wafciwa? wuaeJy, the late wa*eh, the midnight, the cock crowing, the early watch. The dock and watch were invented so l*pog after the world be gan their mission that tha day was not very sharply > divided in Bible times. Ahaz. . p{ stprs wits . *ad$fee sba/fewSrhk^ / f\'< \ ? ' ^ ^ _.4 i ? threw on the steps beneath indicated the hour, the shadow lengthening or withdrawing frcm step to step. But the events of life and the events ; of the world move so slowly for the meet part in Bible times that they had no need of such timepieces as we stand on our mantels or carry in our I pockets in an age when a man may I have a half dozen or a dozen engage- 1 ments for one day and needs know the j ^exact minute for each one of them, j The earth itself in Bible times was the I chief timepiece, and it turned once on its axis and that was a day, and once around the sun and that was a year. THE ALMANAC. It was not until the Fourteenth century that the almanac was born, the almaaac that we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to make one. Chronology had to bring into its service the mon uments of fferpt, and the cylinders of Assyria, and the bricks of Baby Ion, and the pottery of Nineveh, and the medals struck at Antioch for the battle of Aetium, and all the hiero glyphics thai could be deciphered, and had to go into the extremely delicate business of asking the ages of Adam and Seth and Enoch and Methuselah* who after their 300th year wanted to be thought young. ! ? I think it must have been in recogni tion of the stupendous work of making an almanac tint all the days of the week are named after the gods Sunday, after the sun, which was ctf old worship ed as a god. j Monday, after the moon, which was also worshiped as a god. Tuesday, after Taesco, the god of war. Wednesday,: after Woden, the chief god of the Scandinavians Thursday, after Thor,, the god of thunder. Friday, after Frea, the goddess of marriage. And Saturday, after Saturn; The old Bible year be gan with the 25th of March. .Not until 1752 did the first of the month of January get the fyonor in legal documents in England pf being called the first day of the yeaf. Improvements all along have been made in chronology unt&l the calendar, and the almanac, and clock; and the watch seem Jo have reached perfection, and all the nations of Christendom have similarity of time calculations and have adopted .what is called "new styfe," except Russia,' which keeps what is called the "old ;sme," and is twelve days different, so that, writing from thereof you wish to be accurate, you date your letter Jan. i and Jan. 13, or Dec. 10 and Dec. 22.- It is some thing to thank God for that the modes are so-complete for calculating the cycles, the centuries, the decades, the years, the months, the d^ys, tbe hours, the seconds. " j A* . Think of making appointments as J iiir the Bible days for toe time of the new ifteon. Think of making one of the watehes of the night in Bible times a rooster crowing. The Bible says, "Before the cock crow thou shaH deny me thrice," "If the - Master cometh at tie cockcrow ing," and: that was the way the midnight watch was indicated. Thex crowing of t^at barn yard bird has always been most un certain. The crowing is at the lowest temperature of the night, and the amount of dew and the direction of the wind- may bring the lowest tem perature at 11 oclock at night or 2 o'clock in the morning, and at any one of six bours. Just before a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the night is almost perpetual. . Q be teaskful. ? Compare these modes of marking time with our modes of marking time, when 12 odock is 12 o'clock, and 6 o ciock is 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock, 18 a o'clock, *,and : inde pendent of all weathers, and then than* God that you live now. Bat notwithstanding all the imperfect modes of marking hours or years or centnnes Bible chronology never trips np, never falters* never contradicts it seif, and 'here is one of the best fcrgnments for the authenticity of the ocnptnres. 1 If you can prove an alibi inihe court*, and you can prove beyond doubt that you were in some particular place at the time you were charged with dora$or saying something in I quite another place, you gain the yvi&tj, and infidelity jbas tried to prove an alibi by contending that events and circumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain times must have tasen piace at some other time, if they tookjcl&ee at all But this book's chronology has never been caught at anlt It has been proved that when Jte Hebrews went intn E^vnt ther* were only seventy of&e^LtZ caaje oat there were 3$W,~ 000 of tbem. 1 .. '^ow," infidelity, with a guffaw ?*?"^?PP*eas, "what an ab surdity! They went down into Egypt seventy and came oat 3,000,000. 18 j klsehood on the fiwe of it iNaaons do not increase iir that ratio " Bot, Mr akeptioal friend, hold a were 430 yeaarm Efcypt, and that explains the increase from seventy persons to 3,000,000, for it is no moi4 ?butratheB^Bss, than the ordinary in crease of nations. The Pilgrim^ Fathers caaoe to America in the Mayflower, Me small rfupjoad of paaangen,. lea | 300 yean ago, and now we have ; a nation of 60,000,000.] Where, than ! w ? so called impossibility that the 1 seventy Jews who went into Egypt in 4jQyewbecame.3,000,000? Infidelity wrong and Bible chronqlogy yig^t. 3PLESDID REVIEW. Why fait! J* ?bject of Bible analogy been so neglected, and that the ooet of yoo hate never given Xt ^ of ??, "f** ">???* fin* sermon ever ! f!pr. ka.! ? ?D *^'8 etapendooa and brtheUr^E Wrtood by tte hajf day or t be whole day at gT?lreT,e? ?***? arroits^a. (> ??^j ' M *g*>a on the EJyeea Frenchmen by the *"* and ^fc?Mberbanne red\armiesi go bv ^ ^Th*8b?? '*** long ?d nntil the popohwe w.re *> hoa J *ey ?wld hnzzajso longer. Again ?ndagaM and^gwn tie German! by hundreds of thousands have stood on jmijiwd and statoed TJnter den > and strewn garlands of uniformed hcrts led r? ; ? 'yKr"' '- * i: : 'j; j ?' --.i- ? . r on bj^Ajon-^foltke "or^BIacher or Frederick the Grea? When Wellington and Ponsonby , and the Scots Grays eame~l>ack from Waterloo, or Wolseley, from Egypt, or Marlborough from Blenheim, what military processions through Regent street "and along by the palaces of Lordon and over the bridges of the Thames! What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of oar American capitals, while mayors and governors and presidents, with un covered heads, looked on J Bat put all those grand reviews together, and they are tame compared with the review which on this New Year's day yoa from the pew and I from the pulpit witness. Hefir them pass in chronological order ? all the years before the flood; all the years since the flood; decades abreast; centuries abreast; epoch* abreast; centuries epochs abreasts; mil lenniums abreast, Egyptian civilization, Babylonian populations, Assyrian do minions; armies of Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts, crusaders of the first, the second, third and the last avalanche of men; Dark Ages in somber epaulets and brighter ages with shields of silver and helmets of gold; Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, England and America, past and, present; dvnastie?, feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing to day in a chronoloical review, until one has no more power to look upon the advaricjng col umns, now brilliant, now squalid, now garlanded witi*. peace, now c>imspn with slaughter, now horrid with ghast Hness, now radiant with love and joy. THE GLORIES OF THE PRESENT. This chronological study - affords, among other practical though tag espe ciaJly two? the one encouraging to the last degree and t}ie other startling. The encouragiogH^Iou^ht is that the main drift of the'cJfiuiries has been toward bettermenvwith onl j here and there a stout reversal. Grecian civi lization was a vatt improvement on Egyptian civilization, and Roman ! civilization a vast improvement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a vast improvement on Roman civilization. What was the boasted age of Peri cles compared with the age of Long leilow and Tennyson? What was Queen Elizabeth as a specimen of moral womanhood compared with ! Queen Victoria? What were the [ cruel warriors cf olden times com pared with tie most distinguished warriors of the last hilf century, all of them as much distinguished for kindness and good morals as for prow ess ? the two military leaders of our civil war on northern and southern side communicant members of Chris tian' churches, and their home life as pure as their public life? Nothing impresses me in this chro nological review m>re than the fact tl|at the regiments ot years are better and better regiments as the troops move op. I thank God that you and I were not born any sooner thau we were born. How could we have en dured the disaster of being born in the Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Six teenth century? Glad am I that we are in ^be regiment now passing- the reviewing stand, and that our children will pass the stand still better regiment. God did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den or in&my. j A good deal of cleaning house will be necessary before t^is world becomes as clean and sweet as It ought to be, but the brooms, and tke^. -scrubbing brushes and the upholsterers and plum bers are already busy, and \0ien the world gets fixed up, as will be, if Adam Eve ever visits' I ex pect tl^y will, they will say to each other, 44 Well, this beats paradise when we lived there, and the pears and the plums are better than we plucked from the first trees, and the wardrobes are more complete, and the climate is better." " ' Since I settled in my own mind the fact that God was stronger than the devil I have never lost faith in the emparadisation of this planet. With the exceptiou of a retrogression in the Dark Ages, the movement of^the world has been on and on, and up and up, aud i li*v4 two jubilant hosannas ? one i<>r the closing year and the other tor the new year. PUNCTUALITY. | But the other thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chro i oology, aud indeed all chronology, is urging the world to more punctuality and immediateness. What an unsat isfactory and indefinite thing it must have been for two business men in the tiflhe of Abaa to make an appointment, saying, "We will settle that business matter to-morrow when the shadow on the dial of Aljaz reaches the tenth step from the |t?p," or "I will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus ' in; the lime of the new moon^or when asked in a courtroom what time an occurence took plaet should answerj "It was during the time of the latter rain," or "It was atf -the time df the third crowing of the barnyard!" \ You and I remember when minis jtersoftbe Gospel in the country, givrng out a notice of an evening service, instead of saying at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say, "Tae service will begin early [candle light" Thank God for chronological ~ achievements ifhich have ushered ia "(Calendars and aimftmre and clocks ; ^ad watches, and at so chea$> a rate all may the?! | Chronology, beginning by ap IMhM the lvalue of years and the value ? of daji, has kept on until it/ cries out, "Man, immortal; woman, im-> mortal; look ototibr that minute; look out for that second!" . , We talk a great deal about the valge.of time, but will never Jully ap preeiateite value until the last fragment , of it has passed out of our possession j forever. The greatest fraud a man j ' can commit is to -rob another of his ; time. Hear it, ye laggards and repent! j All the fingera of chronology point to punctuality as. one of the graces. The minister or the lecturer or business ; man who comes to his {place ten min- ; utes after the appointed time commits ! a crime the enormity of which can ! i only be estimated by multiplying the ? : number of persons present by ten. If i the engagement ibe made with-iive persons, he has stolen fifty minuses, for he is ten minutes too late, and he has. robbed each of the five persons Of ten rain utes apiece, and ten times five are fifty. j If there be 500 persons present and he be ten minutes too iate, he has com mitted a robbery of 5,000 minutes, i for ten times 500 are 5,000, 'and 5,000 minutes are eighty-three hours, which make more than three days. The thief of dry goods, thief of bank bills, is not half so bad as the thief of time. SOME EXAMPLES. - Dr Rush, the greatest and busiest physician of his day, appreciated the value of time, and when asked how he had been able to gather so much information ~for his books and lectures he replied: "I have been able to do it by economizing my tkoi\ I have not spent one hour in amusement in thirty years." And takings a blankbook from his pocket he said, "I filL a book like this every week with I thoughts that occur to me and facts collected in the rooms of my patients." Napoleon appreciated the value of time when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo, and he thought that a little more time would retrieva his fortunes and he pointed to the sinking sun and said, "What Would I not give to be this day possessed ot j.he power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours?" The good old woman appreciated the value of time when at ninety-three years of age she ^said, ? "The Judge of all the earth does not - mean that I shallhave any excuse fpr not being prepared to meet him." Voltaire, the blatant infidel, appreci ated the value of time when in his dy ing momente he said to his doctor, "I . will give yo\half of what I am worth | if you will givfc'me six months of life," and when told that he could not live six weeks he burst into tears and said, "Theni shall go to hell!" Jolm Wesley appreciated the value of time/when he stood on his steps waitiug forja delayed carriage, to take him to afl appoint ment, saying, "I have lpst ten minutes forever." Lord Nelson appreciate^ the value of time when he said, '/I owe everything injjthe world to being alwavs a quarter of an hour -before hand." A clock maker in one of the old English towns appreciated the value of time when he put on the front of the town, -clock the words, ' Now or when?" Mitchel, the astronomer, appreciated the value of time when he said, '*1 have been in the habit of | calculating the value of a thousandth part, of a second." That minister of the Gospel did not appreciate the value of time who 4uzing_A season of illness, instead ot employing^his time in use ful readingftor writing, wrote a religious romance/ 1 which in s^irfe un known way came into the Possession of the famous Joe Smith, wh/ introduc ed the book as a divine /revelation, which became the foundation of ! Mormonism, the most beast iy abomina tion of all time. Tjiey best appreciate t >e value of time 'whose Sabbaths have been wasted and whose opportunities of repentance and usefulness are all agone, and who have nothing left but memories, baleful1 and elegiac. They stand in the jbleaa Septofaber, with bare feet, on the sharp] stnbble of a reaped wheat field, crying, "The harvest is past!" And the sough of an autumnal equinox moans forth in echo, lLTfe harvest is past!" THE LAST OF ALL. But do not let us get an impression from chronology that because the years of time have been so long in procession. they are to go on forever. Matter is n$t eternal. No, no! If you you watch half a day, or a whole day, or two days/ as I once did, to see a military procession you remember the last brigade, and the last ivgiment, and the last company finally passed on, and as we rose to go we said to each other, "It is all over." So this mighty procession of earthly years will terminate. Just wheu I have no power to prognosticate, but science confirms the Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always last. In deed there has been a fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again and again gone up in) - their observatories to attend the defcthbed of dying worlds and have seen them cremated. So I am certain, both from the Word of God and science, that the world's chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and pass on, and then will dbme the fioai decade and then the final year, and the final month, and the final day. The last spring will swing its cenaer of apple blossoms and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset will burn like Moscow and the last, morn ing! radiate the hills. The clocks will strike their last hour, and the watches will tick their last second* No incendiaries will be needed to run hither and yon with torches to set the wodd on fire. Ctfemirftry teaches us that there is a verj/inflammable elefhent in water. While oxygen makes up a part of the water, the other part of the water is hydrogen, and that is very combusti ble. The oxygen drawn out from the water, the inflammable hydrogen will put instantly into conflagration the Hudsons and Savannahs and Missis^ sippis aud Rhines and Urals and Danubes, and Atlantic and Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean seas. And them the angel of God, descend ing front the throne, might put one ~ tte^feurf of the sea and the u the beach and cry to the s of heaves, "Time was, but shall be bo longer!" Yet, found rist, pardoned and sanctified, we -^elcome the day with more gladness; than you ever welcomed a Christtj^K or New Year's mora. When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow Antl heaven's last thunder shakes the earth below, . Thorn, undismayed, sfc'alt o'er the rain smile And light tby torch attain re's funer*l pile. Tb? LltbU Reach ed Little Clarence ? Pa, if a man from Portugal is a Portuguese, is his littlf boy j a Portngosling? ? Mr. Bosanko ? It will be your bedtime ! in fifteen: minutes. Clarence? May I ask one more ques tion, pa? | ' ~ f Mr. Bosanio? If it isnot a foolish one. Clarence ? Well, pa, why doesn't Wed nesday come on Saturday? Jlr. , Bosanko ? Go to bed now!? Life* j - ? itr * . - COMING SOU&NIR& ! ; .w vrv' World'* FairBalf OoUtn W?W ? irtth Few Pour Own. The preparations had been a subject of great anxiety andmterest to Superintend ent Boebyshell and his assistants at the mint for some time past, and 10 o'clock found all arrangements fully completed in accordance with carefully prepared plan4? When the. hour arrived Superin tendent Bosbyshell was summoned tothe pressroom by Chief Coiner Williim Steele, while Engraver Charles Harber, who designed the famous torn; Chief Clerk M. EL Cobb and other* Assembled as witnesses. ' They gathered around an improved automatic, toggle jointed coining press ?a noiseless, powerful, highly polished and wonderfully accurate machine ? which excites the admiration of all visit ors. Two dies, one bearing the imprd^ sion to be stamped upon the obvers^ face And the other the reverse, And the pnly pair in existence, were already in plAce. Beside the press stood a receptacle con taining hundreds of shining planchets? blank silver pieces, polished and milled, ready for stamping.. No power was ap plied to tbe[ machine for the first test Instead Foreman Albert Downing placed one of the blank planchets in the receiver and grasped the lever which raises the lower die, while Edwin Cliff, his assist ant, stood at the balance wheel Then came the critical moment. -In another second the blank coin which had been prepared might be worth $10,000, or, if imperfect, about thirty-five cents. The first attempt was a failure. Just a little flaw in the planchet or perhaps a little speck of dirt or grease smeared ] upon its face caused the coin's rejection. Cliff picfcejcTit carefully from the die, for such coins are not allowed to drop into the box beneath, lest they be marked by the fall. To an ordinary observer it might have appeared perfect, but the coiner And designer examined it under a glass. One glance was enough. A fatal flaw was revealed, and the verdict which consigned the prospective $10,000 beauty to the serapbox was pronounced. A hammer was at hand, and- what might have been the most famous coin in his tory was battered into comparatively worthlessAetal. The next attempt was made more care fully, for the reputation of the coiners was at stake, and they had resolved that ,the first souvenir of the exposition should be a maxarel of perfection and beauty. The plaijchet before being accepted was examinol under the microscope and found jjrithout blemish. For the second time tJ6e two workmen turned the press by hand, while the spectators waited in suspense. Again the coin was lifted from the face of the steel die and crit ically examined by Coiner Steele, En graver Harber and Superintendent Boe byshell. Every line was sharply de fined, and the strong features of the dis jxrrerer of America which adorned the face of the coin seemed to look approv ingly on the work. Columbus himself could not have done better, and Uncle Sam's reputation as an artist was vindi cated. Cardboard boxes had been prepared -for tlie recepfion of the coins very much like those in which pills are sold! No finger touched the first of these sou venirs, but the pliers gently clutched it by the rim and conveyed the $10,000 lump to the box, which was immediately sealed and handed to the World's fair commissioner. ? PhiladelphlftCor. W ash ington Post * ? f ? 1 \ Happy Skye Terrier. A curious if not wholly pleasing spec tacle for the typical America# especial ly the typical American out 6( a job. it t&e aristocratic occupant of a < spleaaid ^nraout to be seen on upper Bgoadway^ P^ery pleasant afternoon. Ail open landau, drawn by two handsom& dark bay horfes, elegantly caparisoned; an athletic lodki^j^oaclnnan in light drab, with red trimmings, and occasionally a young footman in the same livery. That is the turnout, and it is quite as swagger a thing as is to be seen in that line about New York. The carriage is worth not less than $2,500, and the horses and gold mounted harness must be worth as much more, while the coachman and his com panion would have brought a cool thou sand apiece before the war, though they are really white and very English, yon know.. ? The occupant of this swell establish ment is a thin, consumptive looking in dividual called by experts in his kind a skye terrier. Silvered o'er with spiky hair of no particular color, his little beady eyes glistening from the recesses of his mdppy weazened countenance, his nose and every other portion of his anatomical system being invisible, this insignificant personage sits alone on the back seat, if not grand, at least gloomj and peculiar. Within the physical possibilities not remote from the butcher's trade he would probably be worth ten cents. For my own purposes I would unhesitatingly say ten cents a bunch would be an ex travagant price for such as he. Yet it takes a five thousand dollar turnout and an able bodied coachman and footman to give this poor little ?'critter**? the pet pup of some royal American family? his daily airing.? New York Herald. T * Witnesses FearedV Lawjen. The best witnesses are nervous ones, who are afraid that they will never be able to speak so as to Be -heard in court. And the worst ones to tsckle are those who are telling the truth. If a witness has truth on her side she lii^y be ever so timid, but she will tell a straight story, and the most astute lawyer in the world can neither shake nor break her word. If a witness is telling a lie a clever law- / yer will make her tell another and an other and another ^pntil she haj vreVen such a networi^of lies around lierself that it is comp&atively easy "to break up one of them, and so the whcge struc ture falls through. It is easy to win a case for 9 woman. The natural chivalry of American men makes them in sympathy with b woman when they would feel none at fell for a man. Any able lawyer will tell jrou that he finds it easier to carry through one weak case for a woman than half %dasen strong ones for a man.? Abe Hi New York Press. y * Wonderful Work ot F.8M, Bees must, in order to collect a ^ of clover honey-deprive 62,000 cl blossoms of theft nectar. To do the 62,000 flowe* must be visited by an aggregate of 3JT50,000 ijees; oi\ in other words, to colMct his pound ot honey one beejfiust make 3,750,000 trips from and tc^he hive. The enormous amount of Work here involved precludes the idea ?f any onj bee ever living long enough to gather more than a fraction of a pound of nectarine sweets. As bees are known to fly for miles in quest of suitable fields of operation, it is clear that a single ounce of honey rep resents millions of miles of travel. ' It is no wonder that these industrious little insects have earned the reputation of be ing "busy" bees.? St Louis Republic. A Bad Way to IJgM a Match. Morris Greenbaum, thirteen years old, tried to scratch a match on his knicker bockers^ yesterday afternoon and the lams caught his jacket He was se verely bomed about the ^body and was removed to the Presbyterian hospital.? New York Sun. , I CRAZED BY THE COMET. fb? Prospective, Arrival of Biel?'? Orb Left It* Influence Behind. There are wise people to-day who be lieve that the proximity of a comet to the earth brings with it various diseases, mental as well as physical disturbances. "I never took any stock in this comet business," said a practical friend of mine. 4Tve seen several comets in my time and read all sorts of rot about them, very little of which 1 believed. But this comet" He paused and drew me away from the crowd. Having glanced about him uneasily, he continued: "This comet nearly drove my wife crazyl Yes, sir; factl And she's nearly driven me crazy. Do you? have you , seen anything queer about me lately?" I told him I had not? that he looked as sane as his average fellow mortal "Well," he resumed, 'Tve run a mighty narrow chance, 1 tell you. But she's cured now. If this infernal comet . hadn't gone away just when it did 1 should have been locked up by this time. "My wife is ordinarily a quiet little woman and takes no particular interest in the newspapers except when there is a mysterious murder case like the great Maybrick poisoning case or the Carlyle Harris case, or something like that? something mysterious, you know. Then she grabs the newspapers and reads up on it, and thinks about it, and talks about it, and advances tSgtfries about it, and thoroughly masters it, hanging the de fendant every day. She can tind more clews than the whole metropolitan po lice force. She pounces down upon me at breakfast with her theories and clews and suspicions, and as these are changed after reading the evening papers 1 get another dose at night. "But this comet! She has been stricken? yes, sir, stricken? by the mys terious influence the comet is said to have upoh the human mind! It was ; manifest in her the very day ehe read ! the dispatches and the differences of learned opinion as to whose comet it ; was and its probable orbit, its dist-^pce, the number of sparks in its tail, etc. If it had been a straightforward comet and come right out where everybody could see it and where everybody ex- " pected it, she would have been all se rene. But the mystery of the thing, the uncertainty, the disagreement of astron omers ? that settled her. She began reading up on the comet from the news papers. As every newspaper differed, and every authority in every newspaper differed with every other authority in that or any other newspaper, Bhe found herself suddenly plunged into a whirl of excitement. "She sprang come^ on me every hour in the day and swept" the heavens with a 2-inch xtpera glass every night. < She had a sort of idea that redhot chunks of iron were liable to drop into our flat. She went up on the roof to see the me teoric shower and got locked out up there by the janitor. If I hadn't missed her she'd have &een frozen to death. She got up ten times a night to look out, and once she said she smelled sulphur. She slipped out of bed the first thing in the morning and read what the papers said about the comet, then went back to bed again. When I sat down to breakfast with my paper she was loaded for me. You could see a hazy red light hanging over the Jersey horizon from our win dows, and she had those windows open so much at night we all got colds and snuffles. On Sunday night the sky over there was bright red at intervals. Well, she was just wild. Then she smelled the sulphur in the air. I heysr saw a woman get so excited. She scarcely slept a wink. "The next morning, when she found that it was the Jersey meadows on tire -and that she hadn't seen the comet at all, she was the most disgusted woman you ever saw. She won't touch a news paper now. She says the newspapers are the biggest liars? next to the astron omers ? on earth. If I say 'comet' at her now she is as mad as a hornet. "In my opinion, it's been a confound ed fraud all along. This man Biela, or . Beely, ought to get six iuonthe on the island." ? New York Herald. Rare Belles Unearthed. Fdur of the most remarkable relics discovered have just been found in the western Egyptian oasis of Theba and sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhibi tion. 1 They are plaster casts busts. These busts originated during the brief era of prosperity at the close of the Sec ond apd the beginning of the Third cen tury of our time. They are not, as it wotdd seem, detached pieces of statues, but are complete in themselves. They are masks used for a special class of mummies, and like most of the Egyp tian curiosities come from the grava. -The departed members of wealthy families were provided not only with sepulchers, but with a sort of armor composed cf several pieces, which completely incased the dead body. The feet were thrust into a pocket shaped affair like a car riage foot warmer, and separate pieces were made for chest and neck, as well as the hair, with a mask for the face, which often resembled the features of the dead.? St. Louis Post-Dispsich. A Yarn from Red 151 aO. A few days ago Jaines R. Holt went for a quail bunt along the banks of the Sacramento river. Under a cover of brush he discovered a nice flock of birds, but when, he raised his gun to have a shot they disappeared. He felt satisfied that there jwere quite a number under a particular ' bush and he blazed away. The noisy fluttering which followed tokf i him the result and he ran for his prize, ''tad just as he was reaching out his hand to catch a wounded quail he was sud denly shocked to discover an enormous rattlesnake in the line of the bird. He approached ^the birds again with his gun cocked ^nd ready for a sudden shot, and learned that the snake was dead. When he fired at the birds he killed the snake and six quail, although none of the birds or the serpent were in view. The snake had eight rattles and a button and was 3^ feet in length.? Bed Bluff (Cal.) 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