THE HOMES OF PRIVATION^
HARD STRUOOLE OF THE IMPOV
ERISHED ARRAN ISLANDERS.
Girls Who Carry Sanded Seaweed
to Make a Poor Soil, in Which to
Grow a Scanty Crop ot Potatoes.
Perhaps in no quarter of the globe is
agriculture carried on under more dis
heartening conditions than in the Arran
Islands. These islands, three in number,
lie about ten miles off the west coast of
Ireland, in the mouth of the Bay of Gal
way. They are simply three limestone
rocks thrown up by some convulsion of
nature long before the memory of man.
Biffing the ages a light deposit of soil
has accumulated on the bare rocks in
spots, particularly in the valleys, and
peculiarly nutritious grass has sprung
up. The blades of this grass are not
flat, such as is the grass of this country,]
but perfectly round. The finest beef in
the British isles is raised upon the scanty
product of these sea-girt islands. But
very little of this beef is eaten by the
men who cultivate the juicy tenderloins
nnd sirloins. It all goes to pay the rent,
that gaunt spectre, ever feeding, yet ever
hungry and gTecdy, which has stalked
over the beautiful island of Erin for 800
years, drinking the milk of the cows, de
vouring the sheep and lambs, and leav
ing only thejiotatoes as a feeble barrier
between existence and starvation.
But raising potatoes on the islands of
Arran is quite a different thing from
raising thetft in the State of New York.
A large proportion of the arable land is
reserved from necessity for grazing pur
poses. The soil in which the potatoes
lire cultivated is all artificial. It is made
of a queer compost of sand and seaweed.
The sand is carried from the seashore on
the backs of donkeys and Irish girls to
the spots selected for a garden. It is a
common occurrence for a young woman
of sixteen or eighteen years to carry bas
ket loads of sand weighing 100 pounds
from one to three miles all day long and
then come home and do the household
work before going to bed. It will read
ily be seen that the soil thus made must
be very light. Whatever fructifying
properties it possesses comes from the
seaweed. In this manner every foot of
tillable soil on the Arran Islands has been
made for centuries. As only a very small
portion of the surface of the islands is
sufficiently smooth to permit of the de
posit, the area under cultivation is neces
sarily very small. When the seed pota
toes have been planted the Arraner be
gins to pray for rain. He prays that
water may come down in bucketfuls, so
that his little plot will be soaked all the
time. For the limestone rock beneath
his artifieial garden contains at all times
n frightful amount of latent heat stored
in it from the sun's fiery rays, and, unless
there is a wet season, such as prevails in
the tropics, the seed potatoes will be
fried into Saratoga chip, in the earth.
If the season has been a good one from
an Arran Island standpoint, the product
would excite smiles on the part of a New
Yorker, were it not so pitiful. The yield
is a veritable example of the old saying,
“small potatoes, and a few in a hill.” A
potato as big as a hen’s egg would be the
exception. The majority would be no
bigger than an old fashioned “dodo,”
such as the boys used to play marbles
with. One crop exhausts the strength
of the soil, and the same process must be
resorted to each year as far as the sea
weed is concerned, in order that another
crop may be raised. And so, during the
centuries, the people have learned by bit
ter cxpejicnce the value of seaweed as a
fertilizer, and they consequently look
upon it with the same jealousy as a New
York farmer views his expensive guano.
1“. flits way rude customs which have
"growu into laws have sprung up with re
gard to the division of the precious fer
tilizer. No landowner can go down to
the beach and gather seaweed whenever
the notion atr.kes him to do so. He must
go down to the sea in the spring of the
year, when a certain weed which grows
at the bottom of the sea begins to lose its
hold, and join in the harvest of the sea
weed. He must get into his little cockle
shell boat, called a cunagh, made of ash
ribs covered with canvas, and go at low
tide to gather the weed. This is torn
from the bottom by the aid of a rake six
teen feet long and carried ashore in the
frail boat. It is then piled upon the
beach in a heap. When the harvest is
over two of the most important men on
the island are selected to divide the
weed. AU the inhabitants, men, women
nnd children are present on this occa
sion, to the number of between 3000 and
4000. The heap of seaweed is usually
about 300 feet long, fifteen feet wide
and ten feet high. The two men look
the heap carefully over and agree on the
place where it is to be divided. A nar
row lane is then cut crosswise through
the heap, dividing it into two piles.
These heaps arc in turn subdivided, un
til a hundred little heaps scattered over
the beach indicate that each landowner
has been allotted his share. The weed
is then taken away at the leisure of the
owner.
The Arraner, like the peasantry in
other portions of Ireland, is as primitive
to-day in his cooking of the potato as ho
400 years ago. He knows of only one
way to cook his favorite vegetable, and
will listen to the explanation of no other
mode. He simply washes the potato and
boils it just as it co-nes from the earth,
with its jacket on. After c*ooking the
potatoes are turned out into an oval
shaped wicker contrivance, closely re
sembling the lid of a champagne basket.
After all the water has been strained off
the potatoes are dumped from the “skib,”
as it is called, upon the middle of the
table. The family then gather around
the table and eat potatoes, with a little
salt, until hunger is satisfied. The Ar
ran Island child who cannot eat from
fifteen to twenty-five potatoes at a single
sitting is considered to be ailing. Some
times if the cow has recently “come in,”
the children are allowed the indulgence
of the “dip.” Fresh milk or buttermilk
is placed in the bottom of a bowl. The
child seizes the potato around the mid
dle with the thumb and forefinger of the
left hand. Then, with the flat of his
right hand he knocks the skin off the top
of the potato, and. squeezing it with his
left hand, he forces the mealy contents
of *he vegetable out upon the table. This
he picks up and squeezes together like
-new-fallen snow, dips it into the milk and
transfers it to his mouth. Whatever
may be said by scientists about the po
tato being ninety per cent, water, there
is certainly some unknown quality about
them which conserves in a most remarka
ble manner tbe health and strength of
these rugged islanders. They will go
out in their frail boats fishing all day,
get wet to the skin, and sleep all night
in the wet garments without any appar
ent ill effects. Even the little children
frequently walk ten miles to procure a
quart of milk for the visiting stranger,
and return with as little concern as if
they had juat been around the corner to
the grocery. Given plenty of potatoes,
the Arraner has good health and is hap
py. Give him a chunk of boiled ling or
codfish and he is delirious with delight.
But he will cling to bis old-fashioned
style of cooking bis potatoes.
One of the chief difficulties of the
dwellers on tbeae sea-girt isles lathe pro
curing ot turf with which to cook the
potatoes. There is not a sod of turf in
Armutr T* ut across the yarrow styait ol
ten. miles of water on the Irish mainland,
there are thousands of acres of it. liafi
turf is brought to the islands in liffla
sloop-rigged vessels called “bookows.”
These vessels cany about the equivalent
of a cord of wood. A load costs $35.
Very few Arrancrs have that much
money at one time, and so they club to
gether sometimes as many as twenty-five
of them being interested in a boat load.
Some of them are so miserably poor that
twelve cents will represent their interest
in the fuel. It is all thrown out upon
the wharf and carefully divided pro rata
into heaps according to the amount in
vested. Then the young girls, wearing
shoes made of the green hide of a cow,
with the hair on the outside, come down
like pack horses, with their wicker
baskets strapped on their backs, and
carry the turf away. In this manner,
when nature has been so kindly in those
sea-girt isles as to permit the potatoes to
grow as large as egg, the pot is kept
boiling.—Airis York Sun.
SCIENTIFIC AN1) INDUSTRIAL.
A great hydraulic canal is proposed to
convey a portion of the water of Niagara
River, and thus utilize this enormous
power for manufacturing purposes.
Of the 4200 species of flowers now
cultivated in Europe, only ten per cent,
give forth any ordor. Therefore, it
cannot be said "that most flowers arc fra
grant.
The latest invention is clothing made
of a fabric in which fine threads of cork
are interwoven with wool or silk, which
renders it impossible for the wearer to
sink in water.
One of the latest inventions in the
bicycle line in a whistle that is operated
by the automatic application of a small
wheel upon the revolving tire of the
steering wheel.
Professor Cohen, of Breslau, Germany,
has found by careful experiment that the
heating of damp hay to a temperaturo
sufficient to cause spoutaueous combus
tion is due to a fungus.
The distance from which a lighthouse
becomes visible on board an ocean vessel
depends upon the state of the weather
and the ocean. In clear, calm weather
It powerful light can be seen thirty miles.
A New York inventor has completed
jin air-pressing machine whereby car*
{■empress the air which moves them, and
( illowing for friction this can continue
ong enough to be the next thing to per
petual motion.
Professor Orton, while urging the im
perative necessity of taking action to re
strict the wasteful use of natural gas, ad
mits that even the strictest regulations
cannot prevent the exhnnstiou of the
supply in a few years.
It has been suggested that the study
of the influence of diet and habit upon
the color of hair in different nations of
men may cause discoveries by which tha
color of the hair in the human race may
be modified by judicious treatment.
Bricks boiled in coal tar are rendered
hard and durable, and machine-made
brick, if boiled for a long period, say
twenty-four hours, become waterproof.
Bricks thus treated are well adapted for
sewers, cesspools, and the foundations of
buildiogs.
A curious farinaceous substance is re
ported by M. Rene de Champagne to have
fallen in Asiatic Turkey duriug a hail
storm, and to have been sold by the
kurds under tbe name of “celestial
grain.” It is described as resembling tha
mulberry in shape and size.
One cause assigned by several physi
cians nnd druggists for the increasing
number of victims to the opium habit is
the use of antipyrcnc. A great number
of young women, especially female clerks,
take antipyrene in such quantities that it
finally loses its restorative power. They
then resort to morphine.
Baron James Rothschild, of London,
has adorned his drawing-room with the
most superb electrolier ever made. It is
composed of gilt bronze and rock crystal
in a design of the time of Louis XVI.,
sixty-eight electric lights being skillfully
arranged among the bronze leaves. This
unique illuminator is about five feet high
by twenty-eight inches in diameter, and
cost $6000.
To end the long dispute which has
been waged with reference to the right
designation of the metal which is now
assuming such importance, it is urged
that the largest producers in the world
favor the form aluminum, which also has
the advantage of greater brevity, and
that therefore foreign acientifie journals
and scientific men should follow the ex
ample of American journals and call it
once for all aluminum, instead of alum
inium.
Gypsy Jewelry.
Like their more favored and better
civilized sisters, gypsy women are repre
sented by the best authorities to lie pas
sionately fond of jewelry, notwithstand
ing the fact that their extreme poverty
renders it impossible for many of them
to gratify this taste. Trinkets of greater
or less value, according to circumstances,
are worn by them, being limited in num
ber only by the means of the wearer. If
the gitana is unable to have iier orna
ments of gold, silver jewelry will do; and
if silver trinkets are beyond her means
brass will suffice.
As brilliancy of color is the first con
sideration in a gypsy's attire, size is the
chief merit of her jewels. Among the
wealthier gypsies, if there is such a thing
as wealth Connected witli the race, the
Moorish, Egyptian and Oriental find
most favor. The poorer content them
selves with strings of coins or cheap
medals, without regard to the event or
personage they are intended to com
memorate, and even with rudely designed
ornaments of brass made by the male ar
tisans of their tribes. Large earrings are
preferred to any other articles, and the
comparatively opulent gitana indulges in
bangles, beads and necklaces.—Jeiceleri
Weekly.
A Sand Storm in Utah.
William H. Ballou, the author of “The
Upper Ten,” “The Bachelor Girl,” etc.,
■ elated this story at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel to a group of interested gentlemen:
“When I was in Salt Lake City recently
I followed the fashion there and went
every afternoon with long train loads of
people out to Great Salt Lake, twenty
miles distant to float on the surface and
enjoy the salt bath. One afternoon as
the train drew near to the station at
Garfield, one of those extraordinary sand
storms, prevalent there, came whirling
down through the mountain ravines. It
is these storms, I think, that will one day
fill up the lake bed and leave a small
imitation of Sahara. This particular
storm was terrific aud terrified the |tleaa-
ure seekers. It passed directly in the
path of tbe train, and in less time than I
can tell it the engine and cars were cov
ered with a deep bank of sand from
which there gemmed no hope of getting
out with our lives. The atmosphere
within was hot and stifling; we were
literally buried alive.”
“How did you finally get oat?” asked
a gentleman.
“Why, the train had scarcely stopped
before the storm changed in direction
and blow every grain of sand back up
tbe mountain aides. Then we got on our
bathing suits and enjoyed ourselves.”—
New York freu.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CARAMEL CUSTARDS. - .
Dissolve two ounces of sugar with the
juice of half a lemrfn and a little water;
stir it over the fire till quite brown, then
pour in about a wincglassful of boiling
water; beat up the yolks of four and the
whites of two eggs, add them to a pint
of new milk and a few drops of essence
of vanilla, and to this strain the caramel
when cool. Pour the mixture in a de
licately clean pan, nnd stir in the bain-
marie till it thickens; pour it into little
china cups, and strew the top with
grated chocolate and pink sugar.—
Brooklyn Citizen.
HOW TO FOLD A SHIRT.
Few things put a man in a temper
more than a badly folded shirt, uo mat
ter how well it is laundricd. There is a
certain art iu the method of “folding”
that if carefully followed insures stiff
cuffs and an unruffled front. Spread the
shirt on a table or bed, fold over the two
sides lengthways, so that they lie one
over the other upon the bosom. Turn
the sleeves hack half way from the shoul
ders, doubling the sleeve gussets in half
and allowing them to lio straight down
on the folded body. Then take the
whole and give it a cross-fold upward,
so that the lower part of the shirt which
is turned over shall cover the upper part
of the sleeves and bosom. *— Yankee
Blade.
SAVE OLD FLANNELS.
Mrs. M. H. Lamb writes in Orange Judo,
Farmer: It is a common practice to de
stroy old cast-off flannels, or tear them
into carpet rags. Don't do it! Have a
basket for storing them after they are
washed. Put it iu a convenient place
where any one of the family can find it
and you can place your tiands on it in
the dark. Then when si child wakes in
the night with a sore throat or a croupy
cough you can quickly get and heat a
flannel around the lamp chimney, and
after greasing the afflicted parts with oint
ment or oil, apply flannel piping hot.
This will quiet pain and give almost in
stant relief.
If you were obliged to get up and build
a fire to heat bran sacks or other appli
ances, you would be more apt to ueglect
it until too late and cause much suffering
to yourself and child. If the worn and
feeble mother would heat a large flannel
ami lay it on her tired side, or any part
of her body where there are aches and
pains, she would be very agreeably re
lieved and save herself much suffering if
the flannel could be secured in a moment.
In some cases of sick and nervous head
aches relief may lie obtained by apply
ing hot flannels to the stomach and head,
especially if the patii ut is lacking in vi
tality. Try it, feeble mothers, and you
will never more consider a flannel gar
ment valueless, even if worn past useful
ness as a garment.
FOT-riES WITH SODA CRUST.
The old-fashioned pot-pie, which was
cooked by the gentle heat of a moderate
fire of wood or charcoal, was made in a
round-bottomed dinner-pot, sometimes
with a soda-biscuit crust, which was sub
stantially like baking-powder crust given
for the lamb pot-pie, and sometimes with
a suet crust, far which a recipe is given
below; the meat, if at all tough, was
first partly cooked in only water enough
to prevent burning, all its gravy being
carefully preserved; the dinner-pot was
greased, and lined with an unbroken
piece of crust, the meat placed in it, with
abundant seasoning aud very little gravy,
or a few spoonfuls of cold water if the
meat was uncooked; then the upper
edges of the crust were slightly wet with
cold water and drawn together aud
pressed in such a way as to prevent the
escape of gravy; the cover of the pot was
greased on the inside and put over the
pot-pie, and it then was cooked by a very
moderate fire three or four hours, or until
the crust was browned; great care was
taken not to burn the crust, and in dish
ing the pot-pie all the gravy was pre
served.
With our modern cooking apparatus it
would he difficult to cook a pot-pie of
this kind without danger of burning, but
it might 1)0 done with care, using a gas
or oil stove where the heat cau be exactly
moderated. It certainly is a very de
licious dish and very nourishing, because
all the goodness of the meat is preserved.
Usually no potatoes were added to it
while cooking.— Chicago Newt.
RECIPES.
Meat Croquettes—Take one pint of
cold potatoes, well mashed, one pint of
cooked rice,oue pint of cold meat chopped
tiiH;. mix thoroughly; make into balls
the size of an egg, roll in meal or flour
md fry until they are a light brown
color. Any kind of meat or fish will
answer.
Pumpkin Pie Without Eggs—Take
half a gallon of stewed pumpkin, one
a half cups of sugar, one cup of butter,
throe fourths cup of sweet milk, aud half
a teacup of Hour; season to taste. Add
the butter, aud sugar and milk while tbe
pumpkin is hot, and the flour just before
baking. Beat together well, aud bake
with oue crust.
Baked Tomatoes—Take large smooth
tomatoes. Out a slice from the end next
to the stem, and take out the core and
most of the seeds. Now make a rich
dressing of bread crumbs, aud a little
finely minced cold ham or beef. Salt
and pepper to taste, aud butter enough to
make it about the consistency of stiff
dough. Fill the tomatoes with this, and
bake until they arc well done.
A Bread Omelette—One cup of fine
bread crumbs moistened with half a cup
of milk, three eggs, white and yolk beaten
separately, adding the whites last to the
crumbs. .Season with salt and pepper.
Put in the skillet or omelette pan a good
bit of butter, and when it begins to
“sizzle" pour in the omelette. Shake the
pan all the time, and turn in the frothing
aud browning edges over into the middle
constantly. Fold one-half over, put a
hot plate upon the pan, turn tills over,
and your omelette is dished.
Potato Croquettes—Pare and boil
three potatoes, mash aud beat until light;
add the yolk of one egg, a teaspoonful
of chopped parsley, silt ami pepper.
Form into six cylinder shaped croquettes.
Now you have two whites of eggs, one
from the oyster cutlets and one from the
potato croquettes. Put them together,
add a tablespoonful of water, and beat
until well mixed, but not light. Dip the
cutlets aud croquettes, first in this and
then in bread crumbs, and fry them in
smoking hot lard. Put the lard in a
small saucepan, so that there will bo a
sufficient quantity to immerse the arti
cles.
A Sensible Wedding.
I Out in Keokuk, Iowa, a couple were
married recently after the homely fashion
of our ancestors and with no cui of fun.
They were well-to-do people, but tbe
bride wore a calico dress, tho groom a
suit of jeans,the decorations werenutumn
leaves and the guests were requested to
come in calico and jeans nnd without
presents. Mr. Ward McAllister might
not approve such primitive simplicity,
hut there is nothing like calico to set oil
(| the native beauty of a pretty girl,—Nev
York Mercury,
KEY. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN<
DAY SERMON.
us kind)v Je 4 . , K U8a, ? ni * amI n11 of
n® Kindiy ti entod ft s though we had beon
thaTwav' “*1 ^ ^dinat,^"
tefbcSd Last even “!" tl,e genial sis-
brieh?ive,l ArT' 6 .' 1 , 0nler . ei1 a h,,u,lre ' 1
®y e d Arab children brought out to
. for T me t an d it was glorious* This
^3i < T eo " to ? tlle ste i ,s °f the coil-
lace of in >k p U ! X,1 .‘ t u ‘. most beautiful vil-
l?mLfoL 1 nf«! St . lne ’ Its housss °f " hits
limestone. Guess its name! Nazareth his-
thaf e «n ote of the tr.nity of places
t mt th„ U i nStlaU trar e!ers must see or feel
p-hu L 7 laV T® not M ‘ ea Palestine—namely
Jerusalem, Nazareth. BabV-
hood, boyhood, manhood of Him for whom" I
would e n ?w r 1f R p mj mllli0 “ I-pie who
^l 1 r ° were required, march out
’ " hti] r' > mder ax down iu the
floods or straight through the tire.
° ld V i 1,age « Gareth,even putting
aside its sacred associations. First of all. it
that Cft T n be sai(l few Of the
onentnl villages. Its neighboring town o."
Nab.ouf is the filthiest town l ever saw.
although its chief industry is the amnufac-
ture of soap. They export all of it. Naza
reth has been the scene of battles passing r
from Israelite to Mohammedan him
from Mohammedan to Christian, tiu-
most wonderful of the battles be-
1Dg j Ip at . wb * c h twenty-five thou
sand Turks were beaten by twenty-ono
hundred French, Napoleon Bonaparte
commanding, the greatest of Frenchmen
walkme these very streets through
which Jesus walked for nearly thirty years
the morals of the two, the antipodes the
snows of Russia nnd the plagues of Egypt
appropriately following the one, the doxolo-
gies of earth nnd tho hallelujahs of heaven
appropriately following the other. And then
this town is so beautifully situated in a great
gieen bowl, the sides of tho bowl surround
ing fifteen hills. Tho God of nature who is
the God of tho Bible evidently scooped out
this valley for privacy and separation from all
the world during three most important de
cades, the thirty years of Christ’s boyhood
ft ,, .y ou ^ b ’ the thirty-three years of
Christ’s s tay on earth ho spent thirty of
them in this town in getting ready—a start
ling rebuke to those who have no patience
with the long years of preparation necessary
when they enter on any special mission for
tho church or the world. The trouble is with
most young men that they want to launch
their ship from the drydock before it is ready,
and hence so manv sink in the first cyclone.
All Christ’s boyhood wai spent in this vil
lage and its surroundings. There is the very
well called “The Fountain of the Virgin,” to
which by His mother s side He trotted along
holding her hand No doubt about it; it is
the only well in the village, and it has been
the only well for three thousand years. This
morning we visit it, and the mothers have
their children with them now as then. The
work of drawing water in all ages
in those countries has been wo
men's work Scores of them are
waiting for their turn at it, three great and
everlasting springs rolling out into that well
their barrels, their hogsheads of water in
floods, gloriously abundant. The well is sur
rounded by olive groves and wide spaces in
which people talked and children, wearing
charms on their heads as protection against
the “evil eye,” are playing, nnd women with
their stings of coin on either side of their
face, and in skirts of blue aud scar
let and w'hifce and green move on with
water jars on their heads. Mary, I
suppose, almost always took Jesus
the bov with her, for she had no one she
could leave Him with, being in humble cir
cumstances and having no attendants. I do
not believe there was one of the surrounding
fifteen hills that the boy Christ did not range
from bottom to top, or one cavern in their
sides He did not explore, or one species of
bird flying across the tops that Ho could not
call by name, or one of all tho species of
fauna browsing on those steeps that He had
not recognized.
You see it all through His sermons. If a
man becomes a public speaker, in his ora
tions or discourses you discover his early
whereabouts. VV hat a boy sees between seven
and seventeen always sticks to him. When
the apostle Peter preaches you see the
fishing nets with which he had from his
earliest days been familiac And when Amos
delivers his prophecy you hear in it the
bleating of the lienls which he had in boy
hood attended. And in our D ‘I'd’s sermons
and conversations you see all the phases of
village life and tho mountainous lifo sur
rounding it.
He had in boyhood seen the shepherds get
their flocks mixed up, and tooue not familiar
with t he habits of shepherds and their flocks,
hoplessly mixed up. And a sheopstealor ap
pears on the scene and dishonestly demands
some of those sheep, when he owns not one of
them. “Well,” says the two honest shep
herds, “we will soon settle this matter,” and
one shepherd goes out in one direction and the
other shepherd goes out in the other direction,
and the sheepstealer in another direction,
and each one calls, and the flocks of each
of the honest shepherds rush to their
owner, while the sheepstealer calls and
calls again, but gets not one of the flock. No
wonder that Christ, years after, preaching
on a great occasion and illustrating His own
shepherd qualities, says: “When He putteth
forth His own sheep H* goetk before them,
and the sheep follow Him, for they know His
voice, and the stranger they will not follow,
for they know not the voice of the stranger.”
The sides of theso hills are terraced for
grapes. The boy Christ had often stood with
great round eyes watching the trimming of
the grapevines. ( lip! goes tho knife and off
falls a branch. The child Christ says to tho
farmer. “What do you do that for?”
“Oh/’ says tho farmer, “that is
a ?Iead branch and it is doing
nothing and is only in tho way, so I cut it
off.” Then the farmer with his sharp knife
prunes from a living branch this and that
tendril and the other tendril. “But,” says
the child Christ, “these twigs that you cut
oil now are not dead; what do you do that
for? “Oh,” says tho farmer, wo prune
off theso that the main branch may have
more of the sap and so be more fruitful.”
No wonder in alter years Christ Mi I in His
sermon: “1 am the true vine and My Father
j» the husbandman; every branch in Me that
beareth not iruit He takelh away, and every
branch that beareth fruit : • purgeth it.
tnat it may bring forth more 1 unit.” Capital'
* ° w'ho had not been a country boy
would have said that.
Oh,this country lR»y of Nazareth, come
forth to atone for tho sins of the world,
aud to correct the follies of tho world, and
to stamp out the cruelties of the world,
and to illumine tho darkness of the world,
and to transfigure the hemispheres! So it
has been the mission of the country boys
in all ages to transform and inspire and
rescue. Hiey come into our merchandise
and our court rooms and our healing art
and our studios and our theology. They
lived in Nazareth before they entered Jeru
salem. And but for that annual influx our
eities would have enervated and sickened and
slain the race. Late hours and hurtful ap
parel and overtaxed digestive organs and
crowding environments of city life would
have hailed the world; but tin? valley.-
and mountains of Nazareth have given
Iresh supply of health and moral invigora-
tion to Jerusalem and the country saves
the town. From the hills of New Hamp
shire and the hills of A irgiuia and the
hills of Georgia come in our national
eloquence the Wehsters and the Clays and the
Henry W. Gradys. From tho plain homes
of Massachusetts and Maryland come into
our national charities the George Peabodys
and the William Corcorans. From the
cabins of the lonely country regions come
into our national destinies the Andrew
Jacksons and the Abraham Lincolns. From
plow boy’s furrow and village counter
aud blacksmith’s forge come most of
our city giants. Nearly all tho Mes
siahs in all departments dwelt in Naz
areth before they came to Jerusalem. I send
this day thanks from theso cities, most
ly made prosperous by country boys, to the
iarrahouse and the prairies nnd the moun
tain cabins, and the obscure homesteads of
north and south and east and west, to the
fathers and mothers in plain homespun if they
be still alive or the hillocks under which they
sleep the long sleep. Thanks from Jerusa
lem to Nazareth.
But alas! that the city should so often
treat the country boys as of old the one from
Nazareth was treated at Jerusalem 1 Klain
not by hammers and spikes, but by instru
ments just as cruel. On every street of every
city the crucifixion goes on. Every year
shows its ten thousand of the slain. Oh, how
we grind them up! Under w'hat wheels, in
what mills, aud for what an awful grist!
Let the city take better care of these
l>oys and young men arriving from
the country. They are w’orth saving.
They are now’ only the preface of what they
will lie if, instead of sacrificing, you help
them. Boys as grand as the one who with
his elder brother climbed into a church
tower, and not knowing their danger went
outaide on some timbers, when one of those
timbers broke and the boys fell, and the
older boy caught on a beam and the younger
clutched the loot of tho older. The older
could not climb up with the younger hanging
to his feet, so the younger said: “John, 1 am
going to let go; you cun climb out into safety,
but you caret climb up with me holding fast;
I am going to let go, kiss mothfr for me,
and tell her not to feel badlv; good-by!”
And he let go and was so hard dashed upon
the ground tie was not recognizable. Plenty
of such brave boys coming up from Naza
reth! Let Jerusalem bo careful how it
treats them! A gentleman Ion" ago en
tered a school in Germany and ho bowed
Very low before the boys, and the teacher
said, “Why do you do that?” “Oh,” said
the visitor, “I do not know what mighty
man may yet be developed among them.”
At that instant the eyes of one of the boys
flashed fire. Who was it? Martin Luther.
A lad on his way to school passed a door
step on w'hich sat a lame and invalid child.
Tlie passing boy said to him; “Why don’t
you go to school!” “Oh, I am larne and l
can’t walk to school.” “Get on my back,”
said the well boy, “and I will carry you to
sciiool.” And so be did that day and for
tuanv dovs until tho invalid was fairly
Itarted on the road to an education. Who
was the well boy that did that kindness? I
don’t know . Who was the invalid he car
ried? It was Robert Hall, the rapt pupil
orator of all Christendom. Better give to
the boys who come up from Nazareth to Je
rusalem a crown instead of a cross.
On this December morning in Palestine
on our way out from Nazareth we saw just
such a carpenter’s shop as Jesus worked in,
supporting His widowed mother after He
w as old enough to do so. I looked in, aud
there were hammer and saw and plane and
auger and vise aud measuring rule and
chisel aud drill and adze aud wrench and
bit. aud all the tools of carpentry. Think
of it! He who smoothed the surface of the
earth shoving a plane; He who cleft the
mountains by earthquake pounding a
ciiisel; He w ho opened the mammoth caves
of the earth turning an auger; He who
wields the thunderbolt striking with a
hammer; He who scooped out the bed for
the ocean hollowing a ladle; He who flashes
the morning on the earth and makes the
midnight heavens quiver with aurora con
structing- a window. I cannot understand
it, but I believe it. A skeptic said to au old
clergyman: ‘Twill not believe anythiug I
cannot explain. ’ “indeed,” said the clergy
man, “you will not believe anything
you cannot explain. Please to explain
to me why some cows have horns and
others have no horns. “No,” said the
skeptic, “I did not mean exactly that. I
mean that I will not believe an} tiling J have
not seen.” “Indeed," said the clergyman,”
“you will not believe anything you have not
seen. Have you a backbone?” “Yes," said
the skeptic. “How do you know?” said the
clergyman. “Have you ever seen it?” This
mystery of Godhood and humanity inter-
joined 1 cannot understand and I cunuot ex
plain, but I believe it. I am glad there are
so many things we cannot understand, for
that leaves something for heaven.
In about two hours we pass through Cana,
the village of Palestine, where the mother of
Christ and our Lord attended the wedding of
a poor relative, having come over from
Nazareth for that purpose. The mother of
Christ—for women are first to notice such
things—found that the provisions had fallen
short and she told Christ, and He to relievo
the embarrassment of the housekeeper, who
had invited more guests than the pantry
warranted, became the butler of the occasion,
and out of a cluster of a few sympathetic
words squeezed a beverage of a few huZaire l
and twenty-six gallons of wine in which
was not one drop of intoxicant, or it would
have left that party as maudiiu and drunk
as the great centennial banquet in New
York, two years ago, left senators, ami
governors, and generals, ami merchant
princes, tho difference between the wine at
the wedding in Cana and the wine at the ban
quet in New York being, that the Lord made
the one aud the devil made the other. We
got off our horses and examined some of
these water iars at Cana said to be the very
ones that held the plain water that Christ
turned into the purple bloom of an especial
vintage. I measured them aud found them
eighteen inches from edge to edge and nine
teen inches deep. and declined to accept their
identity But we realized the immensity of
a supply of a hundred aud twenty-six gal
Ions of wine.
Among the arts and inventions of the fu
ture I hope there may l>e some oue that can
press the juices from the grape aud so mingle
them aud without one drop of damning alco
holism that it will keep for years. Aud the
more of it you take tho clearer will be the
brain aud the healthier the stomach. And
here is a remarkable fact in my recent jour
ney—I traveled through Italy and Greece
and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Tur
key, and how many intoxicated people do
you think I saw in all those five great realms?
Not one. We must in our Christianized lands
have got hold of some kind of beverage that
Christ did not make.
Oh, I am glad that Jesus was present at
that wedding, and last December, standing
at Cana, that wedding came back! Night
had fallen on the village and its surround
ings. The bridegroom had nut on his head a
bright turban ami a garland of flowers, and
his garments had been made fragrant with
frankincense and camphor, an odor which
the oriental especially likes w^niod
Dy groomsmen, and preceded t>v a band or
musicians with flutes and drums aud
horns, and by torches in full blaze,
he starts for the bride's home.
This river of fire is met by another river of
fire, the torches of the bride and brides
maids, flambeau answering flambeau. The
bride is in white robe and her veil not only
covers her face but envelopes her body.
Her trousseau is as elaborate as the resources
of her father's house permit. Her attendants
are decked with all the ornaments they own
or can borrow; but their own personal charms
make tame the jewels, for those oriental wo
men eclipse in attractiveness all others except
those of our own land. The damson rose is
in their cheek, and tho diamond in the
luster of their eyes, and tho black
ness of the night in their Jong locks, and in
their step is the gracefulness of tbe morning.
At the first sight of the torches of the
bridegroom and his attendants coming
over the hill the cry rings through the
home of the brido: “They are iu sight l Get
ready! Behold the bridegroom comethl Go
ye out to meet him !*’ As the two proces
sions approach each other the timbrels
strike and the songs commingle, and then
the two processions become one and march
toward the bridegroom's house, and meet a
third procession which is made up of the
friends of both bride and bridegroom.
Then all eater the house and the dance
begins and the door is shut. And all this
Christ uses to illustrate the joy with which
the ransomed of earth shall meet Him when
H* nrtmac arai'lnnda.l , «»»wl
in une ri»uYmii£ unu w umpemi ny iiie litun
tiers of tho last day. 1. >ok' There He
comes down off tho hills of heaven, the
Bridegroom! And let us start, out to hail
Him, for 1 hear the voices of the judgment
day sounding. '‘Behold < tha Bridegroom
comath! Uo ye out to meet Him!” Anil the
disappointment of those who have declined
tho invitation to the gospel wedding is pi t
sented under I he figure of a door heavily
closed. You hear it slam. Too late. The
door is shut t
But we must hasten on, for 1 do not mea->
to close my eyes to-night till 1 see from a
mountain top Lake Galilee, on whoso banks
next Bahbath we will worship, aud on whose
waters the following morning we will take a
sail. On anti up wo go in the severest climb
of all Palestine, tho ascent of the Mount of
Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ
preached that famous sermon on the blesseds
—biassed this and blessed that. Up to their
knees the horses plunge iu molehills and n
surface that gives way at the first touch rf
the hoof, anil ugain and again the tired beasts
hah, ns mucli ns to say to the riders, “It is
unjust for you to make us climb these steeps.”
On and up over mountain sides, where in tir-
later season hyacinths and dasics and phloxc
and anemones kindle their beauty. On an
up until on tbe rocks of black basalt we de
mount, ami climbing to the highest peak loo!
out ou an enchantment of scenery that seem
tie the beatitudes themselves arched into
skies and roumled into valleys and silvered
into waves. The view is like that of Tennessee
and Nortli Carolina from the top of Look
out Mountain, or like that of Vermont and
New Hampshire from the top of MouUi
Washington. Hail hills of Gallilee! Hai
iaike Gennesaret, only four miles awav
Yonder, clear up and most conspicuous, V
Bated, the very city to which Christ pointed
for illustration in the sermon preached here,
saying: “A city set on a hill cannot be hid.”
There are rocks around me on this Mount ot
Beatitudes enough to build tho highest pulpil
tlie world ever saw. Ay, it is the highrsi
pulpit. Itnverlooks all time and all eternity
The valley of Hattin, lietweeu here aii l
Lake Galilee, is an amphitheatre, as though
the natural contour of the earth hail invite
all nations to coino and sit down and lie,-,
Christ preach a sermon in which there wv-i •
more startling novelties than were ever an
nounced in all the sermons that were
ever preached. To those win. heard Him o.
this very spot His word must have seemed
tho contradiction of everything that they
had ever heard or read or experienced. Tir.
world’s theory had been: Bless-1 ar.
tlie arrogant; blessed are tho super
cilioue; blessed are tlie tearless; blessed
are they that have everything their own
way, blessed are the war Sagles; blessed
are the iwrsecutors; blessed are the popular
blessed are the Herods and tile Ctcsars on 'i
the Ahabs. “No! no! no!” says Christ with
a voice that rings over these rocks am
through yonder valley of Hattin, and do,mi
to tho opnlino lake on one side, and the sa.i
plnro Mediterranean on the other, and across
Europe iu one way, and across Asia iu the
other way, and around tha earth both ways
till tho gfobe shall yet lie girdled with tin'
nine beatitudes: Bliws d are tho poor; bln-
Bit are the mdUrnful; blessed are the me
blessed are tlie hungry; blessed are the m
ciful; hlc.-se,| are the pure; blessed are th
peaiTHiukers; blessed are llnj persecuted
blessed are the talsejv reviled
Tito Finest of Shawl*.
Tho finest shawls that aro used ia thia
or any other market, said a well-informed
representative of the shawl trade to the
Siuutercr, arc those made in India and
known as the India shawl. There is an
imitation India shawl made in France,
but while it isnn excellent product of tho
loom, it does not in any way compare
with tho gctuv.ne article. The real India
shawl is made from the wool of the Cash
mere goat Vy the natives of that land.
Tlie India shawl is made in strips or
pieces by hand and colored nnd then
sewed together, aud the greatest care is
observed in its manufacture. In the imi
tation India the wool of a Species of the
same animal is used, but it iu of na in
ferior quality, and the goats that furnish
the French market with the material are
raised in Australia. England produces
the camel’s hair shawl, the velvet aud tho
beaver shawls. The camel’s hair shawl
is not made from the hair of a camel, as
a good many people suppose, but from
the combings of tho wool of a certain
kind of sheep. These combings aro
woven loosely so as to secure the peculiar
effect that is a characteristic of this make.
Besides the imitation India, France manu
factures a great quantity of broche shawls
in singles and doubles. The material
used iu them is all pure wool. Another
kind of shawl imported from France is a
pattern like the real Paisley. Formerly
these Paisleys were made in Scotland
only, but tho French shawl manufacturer
pilfered the design from the Scotch, and
as a result very few ot the Paisley shawls
come from the land of the plaid ahd the
bagpipe. Those that are made are to
fill special orders, as they are an expen
sive luxury. In tlie real Paisley the wool
is the purest and finest selected, and no
chemicals of any kind arc used in itl
preparation.—Chicago Post.
Honoring Anthracite’s Discoverer.
The proposition to erret a monument
toPhilip Gindcr, who discovered {inthra*
cite coal on Summit Hill, Carbon County,
in.1791, has given rise to a number of
claims for the honor w discovering coal
in Pennsylvania. The Wyomftg valley
people claim that anthracite was known
in that section of the State as early W
1756. There is a tradition that hard
coal was burned in Valley Forge about
the time of the French and Indian /war.
nevertheless, the Sfauch Chunk pro
moters refuse to be turned aside from
their plans. They point with pride t»
the fad that the Lehigh Valley Coal and
Mining Company began practical mining
in Carbon County in 1792 in immediate
consequence of Gindcr’s discovery, and
it was only then that the possible impor
tance of coal as a fuel began to be ap
preciated.—Picayune,
Germany is the largest coal producing
country of continental Europe, the
amount of tbe production for 1887 being
81.863.611 tons.
Beecham’s Pills act like magic on a weak
stomach.
Buffalo Herds a Half Century Ago.
I think I cau truly say, writes General
John Bid well in tho November Century,
that I saw in that region in one day more
buffaloes than I have seen of cattle in
all my life. I have seen the plain black
with them for several days’ journey
as far as the eye could reach. They
seemed to be coming northward con
tinually from the distant plains to the
Platte to get water, and would plunge iu
aud swim across by thousands—so
numerous were they that they changed
not only the color of the water, but its
taste, until it was unfit to drink;but we
had to use it. One night when we were
encamped on tlie South Fork of the
Platte they came in such droves that we
had to sit up and fire gnus aud make what
Gres we could to keep them from run
ning over us aud trampling us into tho
dust. We could hear them thundering
all night long; the ground fairly
trembled with vast approaching bands;
and if they had not been diverted, wagons,
animals and emigrants would have been
trodden under their feet.
The hoitest day of the year IrTNevi
Zealand usually comes at Christmas.* -Wi
A man who ha* practiced medicine for 40
years ought to know halt from su^ar; read
what lie says:
Toledo, O., Jan. 10, Ihst.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney Co. (Jenilemen: 1
have been in the tpmeVal practice of medicine
for most 40 years, and would say that in nil
my practice and experience h ive never seen a
preparation that 1 could prescribe with as
much confidence of success as I can Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre
scribed it a "real many times and itscffeci is
wonderful, and would say in conclusion that
J have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it
would not < ure, if they would take it aceoid-
ing to directions.
Yours truly,
L. L. GoKsrcn, M. D.,
Office, L'l * Summit St.
We will Rive $100 for anvease of Catarrh
that cannot he cured witli Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Taken in'ernally.
F. J. Cheney A- t o.. Props., Toledo, O.
|®‘" Sold by DriiKK'bts, i5c.
FITS stopped free by Dm Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day’s use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $3 trial bjttlo
fn5e. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch SL, i’hila.. Pa.
That
Tickling
In your throat arises from catarrh, nnfas catarrh
is a constitutional disease tho ordinary cough medi
cines all fall to hit tho spot. What you need Is a
constitutional remedy like Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
which, by building up tho general health, and ex
pelling tbe scrofulous taint which is tho cause of
catarrh and consumption has restored to perfect
health many persons ou whom these d soase seemed
to h .ve a Arm hold. Many unsolicited testimonials
I rove b yond question that catarrh is cui\d by
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
rold by all druggists. £1; six for 1'repared only
• y C. 1. ROOD ic CO., Izowcll, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
A Plenain* Sense
Of health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follow's the use of Syrup of Fiji,
as it acts In harmony with nature to effectual
ly cleanse the system when costive or bilious.
For sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by all leading
druggist®.
He deserves not tho sweet who will not
t slo tho sour.
Many persons are broken down from over
work or household cares. Brown’s Iron Bit
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re
moves « , xce.--s of bile, and cures malaria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
He fests enough whose wife scolds at din-
o r tiuie.
OklahointtGuideBook and Man sent any where
~ d., Kansas City, Mo.
on receipt of 5dcts.Tyler & Co.,
Lee Wa’s Chinese Headache Cure. Harm
less in effect, quick and ]>ositive in action.
Sent prepaid on receipt of jtl per bottle.
Adder & Co.,522 Wyandotte st.,Kansas City,Mo
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches
in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas,
bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
“Woman, hor disease* and their treatment.”
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A lazy a}•petit* bothers the rich man n
great deal more than an active one does the
poor man.
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown’s Iron
Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cXires Malaria,
Indigestion,Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes tho Blood rich and pure.
A Poverty-stricken Millionaire!
Tills seems a paradox, but It is ex.
plained by one of New York's ricbcsC
! men. "I don't count my wealth in
1 dollars.” lie said. “ What are all my
] possessions to me, since I am a victim
j of consumption '{ My doctor tells me"
that I have but a few mouths to live,
for the disease is incurable. I am poor-
1 cr than that beggar yonder.” ‘“But,”
luteruptcd tho friend to whom be spoke,
“consumption can be cured. If taken
in time, Dr. I’ieree's Golden Medical
Discovery will eradicate every vestige
of the disease from your system.” “I’ll
try it,” said the iniliioiiuire, and he did;
and to-day there is not a healthier,
happier man to be found anywhere.
The “Diseovery” strikes at the seat ot
the complaint. Consumption is a dis-
■ case of the blood—is nothing more nor
I less than lung-serofuia—and it must
| aud does yield to this wonderful remedy.
“Golden Medical Dbcovery” is not
j only an acknowledged remedy for that
I terribly fatal malady, when taken in
time aud given a fair trial, but also for
all forms of Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp
Diseases, as Y/hito Swellings, Fcvcr-
snres. Dip-joint Dis-ase, Salt-rheum,
Tetter, Eczema, Boils, Carbuncles, Ery
sipelas and kindred ailments.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
A High grade (>ol!f,,(‘ for Young M- n.
'I.-II Iirfi. ti, lending I• • Kiv.' I>t give«.
Ken#oiuib!e 1 xpeii t s t’.'au.fi, 1 i. u year.
i h t> iif'.v buildings t-» L«* t-redt il tbis year.
•'di ui fti rleulrttes ami graduate.*. In recent State Leg
islature.
f end for Oatalogue, Ilulletiu, Degree Rook, Ete.
Free.
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Trinity
Next term opens January
’ist; ita sT i.irr i«>r vorx; rr.ori.*;.
U ii.t V ■ k> . l-’U .1 ri-. i...Alibied
The shower of rice upon bride and groom
s a prayer for copious prosperity and fruit
fulness.
LollllDM’ 1
luo-n.
I prescribe and fully en
dorse Pig H as the only
specific for tbe certain cure
of this disease.
(J. H. INtJKAHAM.M. R,
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Wfi have sold Big G for
many years, nnd it has
.given* tbe best of satis*
I faction.
D. K. DYCHE ft CO.,
Chicago, ill.
51.00. Sold by Druggists.
ONLY 50 CENTS
Sent with yonr order as a guar,
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can |>ay at tbo express offloo
after you have examined the
v atch.ond are convinced of its
worth. The picture that wa
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the watch that we send We
have them in hundreds of diff.
crcutstyles of engraving. Th*
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latcs of ]f*k. aolld gold
over com position metal, and
~re wurrnnted Iu ev«
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. etail price of this watch
is $£5.00, but we de
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. .iit« d States, and therefore
r make the opeelnl price of
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