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I REV. DR. TALMAGE.
I THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SP\I
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Christian Principles
Involved in Ijife and Fire
Insurance."
Text: "Let him appoint officers over the
land, d take up the fifth part of the land \
Of Egypt the seven plenteous years." I
?Genesis xli., 34.
These were the worils of Joseph, the President
of the first insurance company that
the world ever saw. Pharaoh had a dream that
distracted him. He thought he stood on the
banks of the River Nile, and saw comiug up
out of the river seven fat, sleek, glossy cows,
And they began to browse in the thick grass.
Nothing frightful about that. But after
them, coming out of the same river, he saw
seven cows that were guant and starved, and
the worst looking cows that had ever been
een in the land, and in the ferocity of hunger
tney aevouiva ineir seven iutpitmevraavis.
Pharaoh, the King, sent for Joseph to decipher
these midnight hieroglyphics. Joseph
made short work of it. and intimated the
seven fat cows that came out of the river
are seven years with plenty to eat, the
even emaciated cows that followed them
are seven years with nothing to eat.
''Now," said Joseph, "Let us tike onefifth
of the corn crop of the seven
prosperous years and keep it as a provision
for the seven years in which there shall be no
corn crop." The King took the counsel
and appointed Joseph, because of his integrity
and public spiriteduess, as the President
of the undertaking. The farmers paid
one-fifth of their income as a premium. In
all the towns and cities of the land there
were branch houses. This great Egyptian
life insurance company had m.llions ot dolJars
as assets. Alter awhile the dark days
<jame and the whole nation would have j
starved If it had not been for the provision !
they had made for the future. But now
these suffering families had nothing to do
but go up and collect the amount of their
life policies. The Bible puts it in one short
-phrase: "In all the land of Egypt there was
oread." I say this was the first life insurance
company. It was divinely organized. It
had in it all the advantages of the "whole
life plan," of the "tontine plan," of the "re served
endowment plan," and all the other
good plans. We are told that Rev. Dr. Annate,
of Lincolnshire, England, originated
the first life insurance company in lG'JS. No!
it is as old as the corn cribs of Egypt; and
God himself was the author and originator.
If that were not so I would not take your
time and mine in Sabbath discussion of this
subject. I feel it is a theme, vital, religious
and of infinite import, the morals of life and
fire insurant e.
About ten or twelve years ago there was a
great panic in life insurance which did good.
Under the storm the untrustworthy ana bogus
institutions were scatterei, while the
genuine were tested ana nnniy escaousnea,
and where do?s the life insurance institution
stand to-day? What amount of comfort, of
education, of moral and spiritual advantage
is represented in the simple statistic that in
this country the Jife insurance companies in
one year paid $'7,000,OUO to the families of the
bereft; and in five years they paid $300,000,000
to the families of the bereft; and are
promising to pay?and hold themselves in
readiness to pay?$2,000,000,000 to the families
of the bereft!
They have actually paid out more by divir
dends and death claims than they have ever
received in premium.}. I know of what I
speak. The life insurance companies of this
country paid more than $7,000,00) of taxes to
the government in five years. So, instead of
these companies being indebted to the land,
the land is indebted to them. To cry out
against life insurance because here and there
one company has behaved badly is as absurd
as it would be for a man to burn down 1,000
Acres of harvest field in order to kill the moles
and potato bugs?as preposterous as a man
who should blow up a crowded steamer in
AflnntU fKo mmvwo nf H^rnvinff
itiiU'Aviaau^ ivi vuv |/ut w* -r .. ? j ?0
the barnacles on the bottom of the hulk.
But what does the Bible bay in regard to
this subject? If the Bible favors the institution,
I will favor it; if the Bible denounces it,
I will denounce it. In addition to the foracast
of Joseph in the text, I call your attention
to Paul s comparison. Here is one man
who, through neglect, fails to support his
family while he lives, or after he dies. Here
is another man, who abhors the Scriptures
and rejects God. Which of those men is the
woi-se< Well, you say, the latter. Paul says
the former. Paul says that a man who neg1^4-^
hit nmicwlinl.1 i< mnra nhnnt
ious than a man who rejects tiie Scriptures:
"He that provideth not for his own, and especially
tho.se of his own household, is worse
than an infidel." Life insurance companies
help mo.it of us to provide for our families
after we are gone; but, if we have the money
to pay the premiums and do not pay them,
we have no right to exjioct mercy at the hand
<of God in the judgment. We are worse
than Tom Paine, wor.se than Voltaire,
and worse than Shaftesbury. The Bible declares
it?we are worse than an infideL
After the certificate of death has been made
* - ? -1 aU.-a.. ?? nnccud aiwl
OUL, CUiU CIH1 1) UI MAlj uujiiuitviwivu,^.
the officer of the life insurance company
comes into the bereft household and pays
down the hard cash on au insurance policy,
that officer of the company is performing a
positively religious rite according to the
Apostle James, who says: "True religion
and undefiled before God and the Father is
this: To visit the fatherless and the widow
in their affliction," and so on. The religion
of Christ proposes to take care of the temporal
wants of the people as well as the spiritual
"When Hezekiah was dying the injunction
came to him: "Set thy house in
order, for thou shalt di.9 and not live."'
That injunction in our day would
mean: "Make your will; settle up your
accounts; make" things plain; don't deceive
your heirs with rolls of worthless
minintr c-+nr>lr rlfWt H<?<->(>]' Vft theill With
deeds for western lands that will never
Jrield any crop but chills and fever; don't
eave for them notes that have been outlawed,
and second mortgages on property
that will not pay the first." "Set thy house
in order." That is, fix up things, so your
,going out of the world may mak< as little
-consternation as possible. See the lean cattle
devouring the fat cattle, and in the time of
plenty prepare for the time of want. The
difficulty is, when men think of their death,
they are afraid to think of it only in connection
with their spiritual welfare, and not of
the devastation in the household which will
come because of their emigration from it. It
is meaidy selfish for you to be so absorbed in
ithe heaven to which you are going that you
forget what is to become of your wife and
chiiui on after you are dead. You can get
Out of this world without leaving a dollar and
yet die happy if you could not provide for
them: you can trust them in the hands of the
Cod who owns all the harvests, ai:i the herds,
and the flocks; but if you could pay the
* otwl tiarrloot. tlmm if. is fL
premiums un n jwutj uuu -T ?
mean thing for you to go up to hoaven while
they go into the poorhouse. You, at death,
move into a mansion, river front, and they
move into two rooms on the fourth story of a
tenement house in a back strec-t. AY hen they
are out at the elbows and knees, the thought
of your splendid robes in heaven will not keep
them warm. The minister may preach a
splendid sermon over your remains, and th"
quartet may sing like four angels in t' e
organ loft, but your death will be a swindle.
You had the means to provide for the comfort
of your hous "hold when you left it and
you wickedly neglected it. Oh,'" sayB soma
one, "I have more laith than you; I believe
when I go out of this world the Lord
will provide for th 'in." Go to Blackwell's
Island, go through all the poorhouses
of the country, and I will show you how
often God provi'ies for the neglected children
of neglectful parents. That is. he provides
for them through public charity. As for
myself, I would rather have the Lord provide
for my family in a private home, and through
ray own industry, and p it ;rnal and conjugal
faithfulness. But says some man: ''I mean
in the next ten or twenty ye irs to make a
great fortune, and so 1 shall leave my family,
when I go out of this word very "comfortable."
How do you know you are going to
live ten or twenty years? If we could look
np the highway of the future, we could sae it
crossed by pneumonia, and pleurisies, and
consumptions, and colliding rail trains, an I
runaway horses, and breaking bridges, and
funeral processions. Are you so certain you
are (ioin<; to live ten or twenty years, you ran
warrant your household any comfort after you
go a way fro.x them? Beside that, the vast
majority of men die ix>or! Two oidy out of
a hundred succeed in business. Are
you very certain you are going
to be one of the two? Rk'b one
dar, poor the next. A man in New York
got $2,000,000, and the money turned his
brain and he died in a lunatic asylum. \11
his property was left with the business firm,
and they swamped it: and then the family of
the insane man were left without a dollar. In i
eighteen months the prosperity, the insanity,
[ the insolvency, and the complete domestfc [
I 4-U~4- 4.1 U. .. ?I
i uui. Kiiau, iiiyio atu tucu *?uv ui^
solvent, who are solvent before they gat
under the ground, or before their estate is
I sett'ed up. How soon the auctioneer's mallet
; can knock the life out of an estate. A man
thinks the property is worth $15,000; under
j a forced sale it brines $7.00 ). The business
j man takes advantage of the crisis and ho
compels the widow of his deceased {partner
to sell out to him at a ruinous,
price, or lose all. The stosk was sup-]
posfd to be very valuable, but it has
been so "watered" that when the executor^
tries to sell it he is laughed out of Wall street,'
or the administrator is ordered by the surrogate
to wind up the whole affair." The estate
was supposed at the man's death to be worth
?()0,000; out after the indebtedness had been
met, and the bills of the doctor and the un
uerniKer, ana irit* romusionu cuccer nave oeen
paid, there is nothing left. That means the
children are to come home from school and
go to work. That moans the complete hardship
of the wife, turned out with nothing but
r needle to fiiht the great battle of the world.
Tear down the lambrequins, close the piano,
rip up the Axminster. sell out the wararobe.
and let the mother tak-1 a child in each hand
and trudge out into the desert of the world.
A life insurance would have hindered all
thit.
But, says some one. "I am a man of small
means, and I can't afford to pay the premium."
That is sometimes a lawful and a genuine
excuse. and there is no answer to it; but
in nine cas>\s out of ten when a man says that
he smokes up in cigars, and drinks down in
wmr, aim in iu.\uru? uuuu^u niuney
to have paid the premium on a life insurance
policy which would have kept his family from
i>eggary when he is dead. A man ouerht to
put himself down on the strictest economy
until he can meet this Christian necessity.
You have no right to the luxuries of life until
you have made such provision. I aimire
what was said by Rev. I>r. Guthrie, the great
Scottish preacher. A few years before his
death he stood in a public meeting and declared:
"When I came to Edinburgh the people
sometimes laughed at my black stockings
and at my cotton umbrella, and they said I
loooked like a common plowman, and they derided
me Ixvause I live I in a house for which
I paiil ?25 a year rent, and oftentimes I
walked when I would have been very glod to
have a cab; but, gentlemen. I did all that because
I wanted to pay the premium on a life
insurance that would keep my family comfortable
if I should die." That I take to be
the right expression of an honest, intelligent,
Christian man.
The utter indifference of many people on
this important subject accounts for much of
tho crime and the pauperism of the day.
Who are these children sweeping the crossings
with broken broom and begjdns of vou
a penny as you go by? Who are these lost
Rouls gliding under the gaslight, in thin
shawls? Ah, they are the victims of want;
in many of the cases the forecast of parents
and grandparents might have prohibited it.
God only knows how they struggled to do
right. They prayed until th 3 tears froze on
their cheeks, tliey sewed on tho sack until the
breaking of the day; but they could not get
enough money to pay the rent; they
could not get enough money to decently
clothe themselves; and one day
in that wretched home the angel of
purity and the angel of crime fought
a great fight between the empty bread tray
and the tireless hearth, and tne blackwinged
angel shrieked: "Aha! I have won the day."
Says some man: " I believe what you say;
it is right and Christian, and I mean sometime
to attend to this matter." My friend,
you are going to lose the comfort of your
household in the same way the sinner loses
heaven, by procrastination. I see all
around me the destitute and suffering families
of parents who meant some day to attend
to this Christian duty. During the process
of adjournment the man gets his feet wet,
then comes a chill and delirium and the
doleful shake of the doctor's head, and the obsequies.
If there be anything more pitiable
than a woman delicately brought up, and on
her marriage day by an indulgent fathei
given to a man to whom she is the chief joy
and pride of life until the moment of his death,
and then that same woman going out with
ueipieds uuuaiun uu uci uuuk ias an ug^iu ivi
bread in a world where brawny muscle and
rugged soul are necessary?I say, if there ba
anything moro pitiable "than that, I do not
know what it is. And yet there are good
women who are indifferent in regard to their
husband's duty in this respect: and there are
those positively hostile, as though a life
insurance subjected a man to some
fatality. There is in Brooklyn to day a
very poor woman keeping a" candy shop,
who vehemently opposed the insurance
of her husband's life, and when application
had been made for o policy of $10,000 she
frustrated it. She would never have a document
in the house that implied it was possible
for her husband ever to die. One day,in
quick revolution of machinery, his life was
instantly dashed out. What is the sequel i
She is, "with anno?L;ng tug, making the naif
of a miserable living. Her two children have
been taken away from her in order that they
may he clothed and schooled, and her life i!
to be a prolonged hardship. 0 man, before
forty-eight hours have passed away, appeal
at the desk of soma of our great life insurance
companies, have the stethoscope ol
the physician put to your heart and lungs,
and by the seal of some honest company decree
that your children shall not be subjected
to the humiliation of financial struggle in thf
day of your demise.
.But r must ask the rmn engaged in life In [
suranee business whether they feel the iin-: 1
portance of their trust, an 1 charge them I
must that they need divine grace to Lnlp
them in their work. In this day, when there j
are so many rivalries in your line of busi-,
ness, you will bj tempted to overstate tha
amount of ass its and the extent of the
surplus, and you will bo tempt id to
abuse the franchise of the company,
and make up the deficits of one year by
adding some of the roeeiyts of another year;
and you will be tempte 1 to send out m ian,
anonymous circulars derogatory to other j
companies, forgetful of the fact that anonymous
communication moans only two things
?the cowardice of the author and the ineniciency
of the police in allowing such a thing
to ha date 1 anywhere sive insi le of a penitentiary.
Under the mighty pressure many
havtj gone down, and you will follow them if
yuu uave 100 iuucii ( (uimencu in yuui.seu,
an 1 do not appeal to the Lord for positive
help. Bat if any of yon belong to that miscreant
class of psop'.e who,without any financial
ability, organize themselves into what
they call a life insurano company, with a
pretended capital of $i00,()0.) or if-J'KJ.OKJ,
then vote yourself into the lucrative position,
and then take all the premiums for
yourself, and then, at tnj approach
of the State Superintendent, drop all into the
hands of those life insurance undertakers
whose business it is to gather tip the remains
of defunct organizations and bury them in
their own fault?then, I say, you had better
get out of the business, an 1 disgorge the
widow's houses you have swallowo 1. But my
word is to ad those who are legitimately engaged
in the business. You ought to be bet
cer tnim oitier men, not only because 01 i.ie j
responsibilities that rest upon you, but because
the truth is ever confronting you t+i it
your stay on earth is uncertain, an.I your life
a matter of a few days or ye irs. Do not those
black edged letters that come into your oSica
make you think? Does not the do -tor's certificate
on the death claim give you a thrill?
Your periodicals, your advertisements,
and even the lithography of your policies
warn you that you are mortal. Accordinj
to your own showing the cluneos that you
,wiil die this year are at least ~ per cent. Are
vou prepares ior me cretneinous exigency?
I The mo<t condemne I man in the judgment
day will he the unprepared life insurant
man, for the simple reason that his whole
business was oonneete 1 with human exit, an 1
he cannot say: "I did not th'.nk." His whole
business was to think on that one
thing. 0, my brother, get insured for etirnity.
In consideration of wh it Christ has
done in your behalf, have the indenture this
day made out, signed and sealed with th? red
seal of the cross.
But I have words of eucourag 'in >nt and
comfort for those of my hearers who are engaged
in the fire insurance business. You
are ordained by God to stand between us an l
tne most ragtug eminent oc nature, vv o ore
indebted to you for what the national board
of underwriters and the convention of chiefs
of tho fire department have effected through
your suggestions a:id through your encouragement.
"We are indebted to you for what
you have effected in tho construction of
buildings, and in the change in tU-j habits of
our cities: so that bv scinntifl* prin'i;>lo*
orderly companies extinguish the fiiv, i:ist\md
of the old time riots which u>ed t > extinguish
the citizens. And we are in l:>'ote 11 > you for
the successful demands yo:i have ma le fur
the repeal of unjust laws?for the battle you
have waged against incendiarism an 1 arson
?for the fatal blow you have given to the
theory that corporations have no souls, by
the cheerfulness and promptituda with which
you have met losses from which vou might
nave escaped through technicality of the
law. I do not know any class ot' :nen in our
midst more high toned and worthy of conldence
than these men. and yet I have so:ne
times feared that while your chief bu3in2S3
is to calcttfate about IcfcB"39 on earthly
property, you might without sufficient
thought go inlo that which, in regard to
your soul, in your own parlance might
be called "hazards," "extra hazards," "special
hazirds." An unforgiven sin in the soul
is more inflammable and explosive than cami)hene
or nitro-clvcerine. However the rates i
may be?yea, though th? whole earth were
paid down to you in one solid premium?you
cannot afford to lose your soul. Do not take
that risk lest it be said hereafter that while
in this world you had keen business faculty,
when you wont out of tho world you went
out everlastingly insolvent. The scientific
Hitehcocks and Sillitnans and Mitchells of
the world have united with thesacrid writers
to make us believe that there is coming a
conflagration to sweep across the earth, compared
with which that of Chicago in 1881. and
that of Boston in 1873, and that of New York
in 1835. were mere nothing, Brooklyn on fire!
New York on fire! Charleston on fire! Sin
Francisco on fire! Canton on fire! St. Petersburg
on fire! Paris on fire! London on fire!
the Andes on fire! the Appanin is on fire! the
Himalaya on fire! What will be paculiar
about tho day will ba that the water with
whifh wa nut; out eraat fires will itself take
flame: and the Mississinpi, ami the Ohio. and
the St. Lawrence, and Lake Erie, and the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and tumbling
Niagara, shall with red tongues lick the
heavens. The geological heats of the center
of the world will bum out toward the circumference,
and the heats of the outside will
burn down from the circumference to the
center, and this world will become not only
according to the Bible, but according to sci
once, a living coal, the living coal aferward
whitening into ashes, the ashes scattered by
the breath of tho last hurricane, and all that
will be left of this glorious planet will be the
flakes of ashes fallen on other worlds. Oh! on
that day will vou be fireproof, or will you be
a total loss? will you be rescued, or will you
be consumed? When this great cathedral of
the world, with its pillars of rocks, and its
pinnacles of mountains, and its cellar of
golden mine, and its upnolstery of morning
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uiuuu, aim lbs uajsuiaitiui iuiiv vi wnw ooc*, .?*?*
blaze, will you get out on the fire escape of
the Lord's deliverance? Oh! on that day
for which all other days were made, may
it be found that these life insurance men had
a paid up policy, and these fire insurance men
had given them, instead of t >e debris of a
consumed worldlv estate, a house not made
with hands, eternal in tha heaven?.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The word nolite was formerlv annlied
to glass or marble surfaces, which we
now style polished.
Guns as weapons of warfare were first
used by the Moors in Spain at the siege
of Algeziras in 1344.
The kingdom of Sweden commenced
in 1011), by Amund; ind of Denmark in
1014, by Canute the Great.
It is said that during its period of
growth, Indian com dra.vs from the soil
thirty-six times its own weight of water.
Cavendish, in 17G6. discovered hydro
gen, and between 1774 and 1779 Priestley
discovered oxygen, azote and nitrous
gas.
Papin, a native of France, and who
died in Germany in 1(394, was the first
man to make experiments on the power
of steam.
One of the Massachusetts laws of 1617
requires innkeepers to keep "good beer,"
and the penalty for violating the law was
a loss of license.
A lady in Lexington, Ga., has a ball of
yarn that was spun and wove during the
Revolutionary War, over 100 years ago,
and yet the thread is seemingly sound
and whole.
Among tnc eariy nomans coiumanuera i
of armies were called "imperatores," but
when C'a?sar became Emperor the commanders
were called dukes or lieutenants
of provinces.
In the reign of James I. men and women
wore looking-glasses publicly?the
men, as brooches or ornaments in their
hats, and the women at their girdles or on
their bosoms, sometimes (like the ladies
of to-day; in the centre of their fans,
which were then made of feathers, inserted
into silver or ivory tubes.
II. A. P. Carter, King Kalakaua's Minister
at "Washington, says that the Ha
wuiiau language is a very easy one to
learn. It is spelled phonetically, and as
every other letter is almost sure to be a
vowel, the pronunciation is not at all difficult.
It is a tradition that an English
bishop once learned enough of the laugnage
iu six weeks to preach his sermons
in it.
Among the peoples who inhabit the
region near S:anley Falls iu Africa is one
which has a very peculiar copper coinage,
rnncistimr of pnnrnious snearheads made
out of very thin copper. One of these is
valued as equal to 200 English pounds'
worth of ivory. Everything among them
has its value reckoned" in terms of copper
spears. Tinpoo-Tib, the rich and influential
Arab trader whose henchmen not
long ago captured the Stanley Falls
Station, has sent one of these spears to
London. This tribe manufactures highly
artistic metal work.
A Queer Orgy.
About the queerest orgy that has ever
been recorded, we imagine, is described
as follows: It might well come under
the head of the lJevel of the Tube.
While a mill (somewhere in this country
?location not stateU) was eioseu lor re*
pairs, the long iron tube conducting the
water from the canal to the turbine was
painted with a mixture of benzine and
asphaltum as a protection against rust.
While the work was in progress, the
superintendent, while passing by, heard
sounds of hilarity within, which were
not strictly in accordance with workmanlike
conduct, and looking through the
manhole saw the half dozen employes in
boisterous mirth dancing nround painting
each other's faces and clothes. On
seeing the superintendent they invited
him to come and be frescoed. Suspecting
the cause of the dirticulty he suiu<
fnrf!i rif rnun find milfVl
uiwuuu a n* i iviw v* wv ?
difficulty was experienced in removing
the men, although before all were taken
out, the remaining ones were already in
a state of partial stupor. The open air
revived them, although it was followed
by a true blue Monday headache. The
affair shows that too great care cannot be
exercised when it h necessary to make
use of paint giving oil hydrocarbon
vapors in places that are closely confined.
?Mech<iii ic<tl .Xews.
A Portable Telephone.
Two Belgians, Colonel Kcnard and M.
Nothomb, the latter professor of telegraphy
in a technical college, have just
made "known at Brussels a wonderful discovery?namely,
a portable telephone,
wherewith telephoning is undo easy on
open ground from any where to any where
by means of a copper wire worked by a
small but astonishingly powerful generator
of electricity.
In warfare, soldiers could carry the
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with others by simply throwing the wire
ami roll in" it around a sword fixed in
the ground to form the circuit and then
spe iking through a small box. The said
telephone also acts as a telegraph, and
can be u<ed as a substitute whenever telegraph
wires are cut. Experiments made
between Brussels and Antwerp show the
transmission to be so pcrfcct that sound
can be heard even at several yards from
the receiver.
The portable telephone already exist
in Germany, but costs so dear and so
constantly gets out of order as to be ioinracticabie.?Frank
Leslie's.
EELIGIOUS HEADING.
God the Spirit.
O Messed Spirit! let me feel
Thy vital breath opon my heart;
Thirsting for Thee, I lowly kneel,
And wait till Thou Thyself impart. ^
To Thee my earth-dimmed spirit cries;'
Change Thou my blindness into sight \
Give me from shades of sin to rise,
And batho my soul in heaven's pure lig&fc.
Thou canst to my weak thought unfold |
The wonders of Christ's matchless grace;
vuiwu wiu ittiiiu o iat isucu uuuuiu
The glories of His unveiled face!
Ii but Thy quickening breath inspire,
This heart with fervent love shall glow;
And kindling as with Heaven's own fire,
Heaven's bliss, on earth begun, shi 11 know.
Come, Holy Spirit! fill this breast
"With Thy sweet, soul-transforming power;
Be Thou ray ever-present guest,
My life, my joy, from hour to hour.
?[Rev- Ray Palmer, D. D., in Independent.
The Fragrant Life.
A while ago I found an exquisite fable
in an old, musty volume, and it is worth recalling.
Here stands an old oak with its great,
brawny arms, and which storm and tempest
have only rooted more firmly in the earth;
just beneath, on a turfy knoll, grew a littlo
violet.
u A ro vnn r?nf nchnmoH nf " coi/I
the oak one day, when you look up at me,
Jou little thing down there?when you see
ow large I am and how small you are, how
wide my branches spread and how littlo space
you occupy ? You will very soon be dead and
gone, but I live for centuries, and then my
wood will make a mighty ship that will float
over the great deep."
But the violet was happy and content. It
had no lofty, ambitious thoughts, but was
quite satisfied with its lot.
"Wo are both," replied the violet, "where
God placed us, and He has given us both
something. He has given you strength and
mo sweetness, and I oflfcr Him back my
fragrance and I am thankful. True, I mav
soon die and be forgotten, but I am well
luiiuuiii/, x iiuvc n*t*u 11 ugiuui, uuu J. uupo
to die fragrant, and this is all I desire.?
[Selected.
Follow the Cloud.
All that the children of Israel had to do in
the wilderness was to follow the cloud. If the
cloud rested, they rested ; if the cloud
moved forward, then they moved as it
did. I can imagine the first thing Moses or
any of the people did when the grey dawn of
morning broke, was to look up and see if the
cloud was still over the camp. By night it
was a pillar of fire, lighting up the camp and
filling them with a sense of God's protecting
care; by day it was a cloud shielding them
from the fierce heat of the sun's rays and
sheltering them from the sight of their enemies.
Israel's Shepherd could lead His people
through the pathless desert. Why? Because
He made it. He knew ever}' grain of sand in
it. They could not have had a better leader
through the wilderness than its Creator.
Ana. sinner, can you in all your difficulties,
or doubts and fears, have a better leader than
Jehovah? Oh! I like that good, old hymn:
"Guide me, 0 Thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim, through this barren landl
I am weak, but Thou art mighty,
Hold me with Thy powerful hand;
Bread of Heaven!
Feed me till I want no more."
Yes, that is the true prayer of the bewildered
sinner. God is able, and still more, He
is willing to lead us.? [D. L. Moody.
Temperance in the Sunday-School.
From the Golden Rule we quote the following,
which we commend to the thoughtful
consideration of Sunday-school workers:
"Is temperance taught in all the classes in
our Sunday-schools? A lady arranging for
a temperance entertainment, asked some
little girls if they could sing a temperance
song. They had never heard one. Older
girls were called on, but they did not know
any. In the singing-book, containing nearly
400 psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, two
temperance selections were found. It is said
many children are sung into Heaven. Surely
in this school few would be sung into the
temperance ranks.
iiA.. ?"n :M dahIam)
V-/II OUIIUUJ X/U111C1 III XJUUJ iUll niU) IUU
lesson topic. Now we know some teachers
are enthusiasts on teinueronce. 'Does your
teacher tell you about the poor drunkard
sometimes?' said an earnest worker to a little
girl. 'No; I guess my teacher don't know
any drunkards.' To a vouneman she remarked:
'1 suppose you took up the wine
question to-day f 'No; we never discuss temperance
in our class.' 'Your boys are wide
awake on the temperance question, I hope,'
she said to a gentleman. 'Well, I meant to
have spoken on the subject,' replied the
teacher, 'but they were so interested about
/rnrHuno nrirl fhtt whm*PJllmilfcs ftf
LL1C UUXJ^XXig, ^uiuvno vuw ..
the golden candlesticks of Solomon's temple,
I really had no time.'
"If we are ever going to teach temperance
effectively, we must begin with the young.
Do all the boys and girls in our Sundayschools
become temperance men and women?
How many young men once in Sunday-school
refuse wine on all occasions? Let any teacher
not interested in teaching temperance review
the class record of ton or twenty years ago,
and see if all the boys are now sol)er n\en.
Our children know who burnt the houses of
the s^eat men of Jerusalem; do they know
the facts concerning alcohol? Thev can tell
the results of idolatry among the Jews; can
rvf i?fomruiron/?A in thair
HJt'J tcil I,UC CUOV.W VI iiaw?M|/v?u..vw ... vmwm
own town? 'Cannot civilization put a stop
to this crime against humanity (shipping rum
to heathen countries)?" is now
the cry of Africa. 'Whiskey Is
king here,' is the report of our home missionaries
at the far west. Why then, not have
temperance as well as missionary conceits?
A teacher says she does not know how to
teach temperance. Tell them what the Bible
says, and take your boys and girls to the
drunkard's home. Let "the children see for
themselves.
"Do not let us content ourselves that
scientific instruction is given 111 our public
schools. If the work is ever done it must be
done by the church and Sunday-school.
There are at least ij,000.000 scholars and
teachers in our Sunday-schools. What may
not this great host do to crush the greatest
curse on earth? The bitter, unceasing cry
from suffering wives and children is heard
round the world. Do we believe it? What
will our Sunday-school teachers do about it}
Do you feci that you could rlo more, pray
more, or give more, and are tempted not to
do it' Look at it again in the light of Gethsem?io
and Calvary. How the treasures and
pleasures of earth pale, like the rushlight before
the glorious noontide sun, as we think of
the appeal of the great Apostle, who himself
had sacrificed all for Christ. "Ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though
he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor,
that ye through, his poverty might be rich."
?f Donald McLeod.
All after-humiliations of our Lord were as
nothing to the first?namely, that of His in
carnation. The great humiliation was to
make Himself flesh. That being done,
the manger and the Cross, and all that lay
between, were comparatively small considerations.
"Being found in fashion as a man,"
is not half so surprising that He should
surrender Himself to be despised and crucified,
as that, being Lord of all, He should be
willing to put on our mortal flesh. Self-intelligent
men find diflirulty in conceiving
Jesus Christ to be the Lord our God, but
6imple hearts never did and never will. The
law is well known in Heaven by which the
sweet mystery is "hidden from the wise and
prudent, and revealed unto babes. "?[J. PukfoivL
T^mpcrance News and Notes.
The seventeenth annual convention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence union 01 America |
was held in the city of Philadelpliia, Wednesday,
Aug. a. ..
The British Medical Temperance Association
now numbers 350 membors, all total abstainers.
and 72 associates, abstaining melical
students. ?
The Washington Sentinel says: "Prohibition
has destroyed every brewery in Maine,
Vermont and Kans is, and is now engaged in
that unV"'" ?- wa."
The whisky pool of Kentucky "prohibits"
the manufacture of whisky until October 1,
18S8. They have o0,00U,0U0 gallons of old
bourbon on hand. Why not pi-oliibit until
TEMPERANCE.
Songs of the Wheat and the Corn.
BOB IXGERSOLL'3 PICTURE AND ITS REVERSE.
There's a wonderful fountain of liquid joy
Flowing forth in a crystal riU,
Forever and ever it welleth up
From the misty depths of the still;
Tri ifcfi wiHnninrr ^nnrsA /i_q ifc hnrri?a nlnrw I
It circles the wide world round,
And side by side as they drink of its tide
The prince and the beggar are found,
While poet? sing, so merrily sing,
As they qaaff it again and again:
"It is only the lifo of the wheat and the corn
Which Nature hath given to men."
"Come drink of this nectar, and feel the
warm glow,
Of summer and autumn's content;
Thy pulse shall thrill like the breath of a
June,
When the sunshine and shadows are blent
! With the carol of birds, in tbe dew-spangled
dawn,
WJ uuu mo uttwu la nayriMJiieu wiui ugut.
Men and maidens shall 9ing the ?weet "Harvest
Home"
In ravishing strains of delight,
And children shall laugh r while they join in
song,
Re-echoed through valley and den:
'Tis the mingled souls of the wheat and the
corn,
Which the Giver hath given to men."
While the world is enticed by the poef 9 9ong,
I sit by the worm on the still;
I chuckle and laugh with the fiends by my
side.
And a death-dealing potion distill.
Such glorious landscapes I paint on the brain
They seem but a feast of delight;
Then I rattle my skeleton bones beside
lill reason hath ned in attrignt.
Drink deep of the cup of the river of life,
Drink deeper, I whisper; aud then
I crush out tha life of tne wheat and the corn
While I rivgt my chains upon men.
My victims I craze with the fury of hate;
Then the helpless hand I guide
Till the dagger is drawn from the heart of a
friend,
When I feast on the crimson tide.
I carry the keys to the prison doors
And the halls where justice goes,
For Justice is blind, and she heedeth not
The weight of humanity's woes;
She hears not the prayers of the prisoned
wretch
All the years, for three score and ten,
Whil* I rob the souls of the wheat and the
corn
j.o nuii tne souis 01 men.
I mingle the threads of the woven gold
Which kings are entitled to wear
With a web so fine that kings will choose
To sleep in a beggar's lair.
I crumble the wall of palaces grand,
And build up hovels instead,
While maidens and mothers with anguish
moan,
And children are crying for bread:
My vassals are shouting in fiendish glee
From mountain, from forest, and fen,
The liquid joy from the wheat and the corn,
Is the river of death unto men.
And who shall hinder its surging tide
As it moans in a sullen roar?
"The world is circled from pole to pole,
Vn cfrmnrl qava ^farnifr'a cHnro "
Forever and ever it hurries on,
And the world with woe doth fill,
For demons are building the gallows high, ]
Enwrapped by the mists of the still.
And I gibber and laugh in ghoulish glee,
As I hide me away in my den:
' Whence cometh the souls of the wheat and
the corn?
Whither goeth the souls of men?'
?Ludia J. CadwelL
. 4.
What a "Little Bit or Wine" Did.
' Please, sir, I am sick. Do not arrest me
for God's sake!"
TUa-'a wnrrla t*rara in fllA mrv?f. Sim.
plicating tones by a fashionably-dressed lacfy
who stood in front of the Lieutenant's desk at
Central station one night. She was evidently
respectable, and was attired in a neat-fitting, 1
t iilor-made costume of the latest pattern, and
her every action bespoke the lady. A beautiful
diamond-set ring sparkled on a finger of her
left hand and solitaires most brilliant shone
resplendent from her ear-drops. She moved
back and forth and grasped the desk to prevent
falling. Her fingers appeared powerless,
however, and had not officer John Kratz
grasped her she would have toppled to the
Soor.
The sight was touching. One of those sad
affairs?a peep behind the scones. The poor
woman was hastily taken from in front of I
+iir?cA who stfwvl canine at her and removed I
to the cell-room. There she gave her name to"
Lieutenant Rakel as Mrs. Maggie Moyen,ancl
her residence as No. 114 Barr street. She
begged that the matter be kept quiet, even in
her condition realizing the disgrace which
might be brought upon herself and family.
She had been found in the yard of a residence
near the corner of John and George streets.
She w?s wandering about when discovered.
A patrol wagon was called bfore any inquiries
were mad, und she was taken to tha station
house.
As near as can be learned the young woman
but recently arrived in this city. Her
husband is connected with the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railway in a lucrative
position, and thoy were married a few years
ago in Dayton, Ohio. She had been shopping
during the afternoon, and had colled upon
several lady friends. At each place a little
bit of wine was indulged in, and the result
was that, being unaccustomed to stimulants, |
sh'j became intoxicated. In the cell-room she | :
got deathly sick, and the heat of the place
inllamed her brain. She in turns raved and :
prayed that her husband might be sent for,
and again that nothing be said and she be !
permitted to go free. Hpr condition was
certainly pitiable. She was kept locked up <
uutil sib became sober, when a policeman
escorted her to her residence.?Cincinnati i
Enauirer.
Worklngmen and Drink.
T. V. Powderly says in the Journal of
Uni'ed Labor: In the City of New York
alone it is estimated that not less than $250,*?
? ???i r,,ui A/\A in 1
uwaaay aru s|wui> iui uumt,
oa3 week; $75,0)0,000 in one year. Who will 1
dispute it when I say that one-half of the policemen
of New York City are employed to
watch the boings who squander $75,00J,000 a
year i Who will dispute it when I say that
the money spent in paying the salaries and
expenses of one-half of the police of New
York could ba saved to the taxpayers if $75,'
00),000 were not devoted to making druuk
ards. thieves, prostitute?, and other subje-tl
for the policemen's net to gather in' If $250, ;
000 go over the counters of the rumseller in
one day in New York City alone, who will i
dare to assert that workingmen do not pay ,
ono-lifth, or 850,000, of that sum? If workingnien
in New York Citv spend $50,0j0 a
day for drink, they spend $300,0 JO a week, 1
leaving Sunday out. In four weeks they
spend 51,200,000?over twice as much money
as was paid in the general assembly of the
Knights of Labor in nine years. In six weeks
they spend $1,SO),000?nearly three times as
much money as that army of organized workers,
the Knights of Labor, have spent from
the day the general assembly was first called
to order up to the present day: and in one
year the workingmen of New York City alone
will have spent tor beer and rum $15,000,000,
or enough to purchase and equip a first-class
telegraph lino of their own; $15,000,0(0?
enough money to invest in such co-operative
enterprises as would forever end the strike
and lock-out asa means of settling disputes in
labor circles.
What Prohibition Can Accomplish.
It is now said that the Panama Canal will
cost, when completed, $(300,000,000, or five
times as much as the original estimate. Even
at this enormous expense, however, the
American Nation could build a couple of
Panama Canals every year out of the money
which is now worse than wasted on liquors
and tobacco. Give us genuine prohibition,
anil then; is almost noining mis country cannot
do in the way of paying out money almost
without feeling it. The man who spends
an average of only twenty cents a day for
J liquor for himself and family, thinks it a very
small matter; but if 5,000,000 of men spend
twenty cents each, that is SI,000,001) a day, or
000,000 a year spent for unwholesome
drink, by moderate drinkers alone, without
saying anything about those who drink to
excess. 1 he only reason why a simple sum
like this does not at once arrest attention an 1
impress upon the public conscience the injury
done to general commerce hy the liquor traffic,
is that while the single payment of twenty
cents seems insignificant the aggregate cost
is so enormous as to b:j outside the range of
ordinary comprehension.?2'/i .
The brewers of Pennsylvania have formed
nil association io ugtic rruniuiuuu, an., .n
their call for a State convention say: "Tj-ftde
is placed in such a positiou that wj j-mst
fight or die." i
? - at ? ? ?
WORD&OF WISDOM.
To act a lie is worse than to ?peaU
one.
3Ien are very much what women make
them.
There are few who arc good judges oi
their own faces.
An emotion has more influence with a
women than a reason.
If all the world were agreed^ it would
ue a very stupm pmce.
The good dog, if he does not Iwnt today,
will hunt to-morrow.
What is a noble ancestor wort& if the
descendants are unworthy.
It is only the weak and dishonorable
that nurse despicable thoughts.
Twenty years! That is long at any
period of existence, but in youth it i? an
age.
Th? world could not go on if people
gave up labor whenever it became irksome.
How many hearts are eaten out in
longing for what they have no power to
reach.
What ao achievement to know how to>
bear a corrodiug sorrow without letting
the ulcers-show on the face.
Wealth covers a multitude of blotches,
not only on escutcheons, but on bodily
forms and mental characteristics.
Every man has his chain and his clog,
only it is looser and lighter to one man
than anotheraind he is more at ease who
takes it up than he who drags it.
A very large mass of the poverty in the
world is the sheer and clear resujts of
profuseness, want of forethought, idle- I
ness, and, most of all, drunkenness.
As from the smallest seeds germinate I
the noblest trees of the forest,* so from
the lowest rounds o-f toil, rise men whose I
influence is as world-wide as the paths of ;
commerce.
How Gold is Shipped to Europe.
When one recalls the millions npon
millions of dollars in gold that annually
seek Europe to provide for the necessities
of our import trade, the question of
how gold is shipped to Europe becomes
a curious and interesting one. The Bank
of America, writes a New 1 ork corre
jpondent of the Globe-Democrat, is the I
largest single shipper of gold abroad, j
Shipments are made m stout kegs, very i
like the ordinary beer keg. Every one j
contains $50,000 in coin or bar gold, i
The latter is the favorite for these ship
ments, since the government has p?r- j
rnitted the sub-treasury to exchange bar i
for coin gold, as coin in $1,000,000 ship- j
ment is liable to a loss by abrasion of
from eight to twenty ounces, from $128
to $320; and the bars only lose about
three-fourths of that amount. When
coin is sent double eagles are preferred.
They are put in stout canvas bags, each :
AAnfn?ninr? 10" fl AllKln Aorrloo A*
Jttg tuuiuiuiu^j x -v-y uvuviv vnjj.vv/, V4 .
$5,000,and ten bags fill each ke^. About j
the only precaution taken against tampering
with the kegs is a treatment of the i
keg ends, technically known as "red- !
taping. Four holes are bored at equal j
intervals in the projecting rim of the :
staves above the head. Red tape is run |
through these, crossing on the keg's j
head, the ends meeting at the centre, |
where they arc sealed to the head by the I
hardest of wax and stamped with the j
consignor's name. The average of insurance ,
is about $1,500 per $1,000,000. Then j
there is an expense of $2 a keg for pack- j
ing and cartage aboard ship, or $200 for
the same sum; and the inevitable loss by
abrasion, whatever it may prove to be.
There arc great Wall street firms shipping
from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000 annually.
Some of these have insured
themselves, and assert that the saving j
lias been sufficient to replace the loss of I
$1,000,000. These are large figures. But j
this has become a country of large figures i
and atfairs.
Knmscliatkans aud Their Homes, j
nhnrirnnftla nf Tv&mschatka and !
Kamschatdales and Koriaks; but little is !
known of their origin, and both have I
decreased in numbers since the Russian j
occupation. The country is now chiefly |
peopled by Siberian-Russians, and by a j
race the product of inter-marriage be- j
tween them and the aboriginal Kam- j
schatdales. This new race it is usual to ,
distinguish as Kamschatdales; and a J
greedy, disagreeable kind of people they
seem to be. They are of a low order,
and live in summer either in wretched
. . 1 _ . i _J i i.? ?
LllltS l)J IIIC river uauns, vi iu m>g i
above the sheds in which they hang their j
fish. In winter they have semi-subterranean
dwellings. Their habits and diet
are alike liltliy; and their notions of
lionesty meagre. The pure Kamschatdales,
on the other hand, appear to be a
kindly and a hospitable people.
The houses of the better class
of natives of Russian blood are usually <
log built, unpainted, containing usually
two, and sometimes, but rarely, four
rooms, in which will be found a few
chairs, a rough deal table, a tawdry gilt
eikon of the I'ussian church, and any
niiml>r>r nf mikroaches and unmentiona
ble insects. The houses are in many
places raised above the ground, either
upon stones, like haystacks, or upon low
wooden pillars. The floors are boarded,
and the house is warmed by means of a
hu<;e brick stove built in between the
rooms, which develops immense heat.
The diet of these "upper classes'' is?besides
fish?milk, sour cream, rye bread
and bilberries. The bilberry seems to be
the only fruit in Kamschatka.?Chambers's
Journal.
The Hi? Prizes of Literature.
The Philadelphia Preis gives some interesting
information about the priccs
paid to writers of books. Stanley is to
?et $30,000 f?rthe account of the trip lie
is now undertaking. This is one of the
largest sums ever paid for a single volume.
Thackeray's largest income from any onbook
was not over $23,000; Wilkie Collins
got $20,000 for "Armadale"' George
Eliot $40,000 for "Middlemarch,''
Scott $-10,000 for " Woodstock," and
Macaulcy $100,000 for his History, 'l ne
$494,000 received by Mrs. Grant for the
memoirs of the General stands unique
in literature. The earnings of the late
Sylvanas Cobb, .Jr., who wrote those remarkable
(ales for the New York L ihjrr,
were about $10,000 a year. These an- the
big prizes of literature, but thi>y illustrate
the general fact that literary work
was never so lucrative as to-day. The
market value of brains gets higher as the
world becomes more civilized.
An Evening Concert.
When the mantle of night o'er the earth is
spread
And the sky with its twinkling gems istarred.
Again on the roof of the i?ok yam sneu
The feline sit'u tiiul chorus is heard.
Then the neighboring windows are upward
vaisitl
Ami wltibo-robed forms through the gloom
wv spy,
Ann swift from tho hands of men half eraz^jt,
Tho showers of boots and bootjacks liv.
Hushed for a whilo are the lullabies,
And the wrathful people go bac-'^to
But ere sweet sleep lias sealed t!>lr eyeo.
The concert^ r?- U ned Oil another shed. i
?Boston Courier,
%
THE UNDERTOW. J
A
PHENOMENON THAT Ig PECULIAR
TO OCEAN WAVES.
? m
A Powerful Undercurrent That Frequently
Overcomes the Strongest
Swimmer?Curious Illustrations
of Its Force.
Every wavo that rolls up from the sea
and breaks on the gently sloping beach
has in it the elements of an undertow.
As soon as the wave has expended its
force the waters begin to recede. For a
moment it would seem as if the sand was
running away from beneath your feet,
and no sound foothold could be obtained.
Every bather has experienced this sensation,
and the timid ones invariably grasp
the safety-rapes with a little gasp of terror.
If seized suddenly by a strong
undertow they would have about , ' 3
the same feeling, only in the latter
case the sand would all
wash away under their feet, or, more
accurately, their feet would be carried
away from the sand. The sudden unbalancing
of the body would be fatal to
the bather, unless a strong rope was in
reaching distance; for it docs not require
a very strong current to carry a floating
body out to sea. The Unfortuuate
frequency of undertows near our beache3
makes it dangerous for bathers to enter
the water unless they are well acquainted
with the tides and currents in the
neighborhood. The under tows are not
| so marvellously strong as is frequently
I quoted, but that they will often carry
bathers off their feet and pull them quite
a distant seaward is auite evident.
When one ventures into salt-water up to
his waist he is very light on his feet, and
an undercurrent suddenly strikes him and
washing the sand along with it is liable
to upset him in an unceremonious manner.
Entangled in the treacherous
current, he would be carried hundreds of
yards from the shore before he could recover
himself, even though he be a good
swimmer.
As the undertows flow out to sea they
gradually leave the surface of the water
and penetrate deeper into the liquid mass,
losing their force as they do so. Sometimes
their strength is dissipated altogether
when reachins deeo water and
coming in contact with numerous counter ; -i'ijj
undertows or currents, but more often
they flow into some permanent current
which travels the whole length or breadth
of the oeean; hence objects that are
caught near the shore by the undertow
and carried under the water by the force
of the current are likely to be thrown up ^
on the surfacc of the sea some distance
from the bcach. The length of time
that the objects will remain under water
depends solely upon the stutngth of the
rushing waters. This fact has been
illustrated froquently in curious ways.
Some ten years a^o a small schooner
laden with a valuable cargo went down
off Fire Island Lighthouse in the middle
? ? ? - /!?*? UUa V*n/^ cnMtn/v o 1 aolr
UI U UlCill UUJ, kJUC uau o i;i uug a luaa,
and owing to the clumsiness of
the heavy articles composing the
cargo the sailors could not reach
the spot where the water wa9 rushing in.
The vessel gradually settled down in the
water, while the crew took to their boats
and escaped to the beach. The exact
spot of the accident was located, however,
by the captain, and preparations
immediately maac to raise the sunken
schooner. The water was comparatively
shallow, and ITttle difficulty was anticipated
in getting at the wreck. But the
wrecking crew and the captain were all
considerably puzzled, when they attempted
to find the schooner, at not being able
to discover the faintest sign of her
whereabouts. The bottom of the ocean
was sounded in all directions around the
spot pointed out by the captain, but all
to no purpose. Finally the work was
given up,and the strange disappearance of
the schooner attributed to some of those
mysterious workings of the sea that have
in all ages astonished navigators and
divers. The history of the wrecked
boat would have probably ended there
had it not been for an accidental discovery
made shortly afterward. While
sounding the sea off the lighthouse during
a fog the lead from an ocean steamer
came in contact with the rigging of a
wrecked vessel, which was reported to
the proper authorities on arriving in the
city. On examining the place the lost
schooaer was brought to light. She was
at least three-quarters of a mile from the
spot where she had gone down. On discovering
later that during high tide a
strong undertow frequented that part of
the beach, the cause of the strange removal
of the boat was attributed to it.
It was supposed, and reasonably so. that
when tho boat sunk, the undertow caught
it before it struck bottom and carried it
along with it, and finally dropped it in
deeper water.
In the same way the strength of the
undertows have frequently caused considerable
damage in carrying the sounding-lead
of vessels along with them. On
approaching certain shores the waters
frequently become abruptly deep or shal
low, so that the time between two
"heaves" of the lead might be long
enough for a steamer going at a moderate
rate to run full upon a submerged sandbar.
Cases arc on record where the lead
has been thrown and the bottom reached s
with a moderately short line, and then
thrown again only to find no bottom at
all. The fact was, however,that the bottom
was nearer the surface of the water
than when the first lead was thrown, but
a strong undertow having seized the
heavy piece of lead, the line was played
out until it was brought ui> with a jerk
when the end was reached. "The lead was
hauled in slowly, as plenty of water
seemed to be present, and only thrown
again after the boat had run ahead a considerable
distance. It did not require
many fathoms of line to reach the bottom
in the next heave; in fact, there was
scarcely water enough to float the vessel.
The signal to reverse the engines was
given at once, but all too late. The boat
ran high and dry 011 the reef before her
head n ay could be cheeked.?Harper's
Weekly.
Pulled Bread. *
A New York Times correspondent has
garnered these {joints: Pulled bread?
there is an edible that ought to be on
every American table. It is designed to
be eaten with cheese, and it is delicious.
Tak.^ a loaf of newly-made brc.v!, and
while it is still warm pull the inside out
of it in pieces the size of your hand or
smaller. Put these into an oven hju
bake thcui a delicate brown. When cool
they aro crisp, and full of flavor as a nut.
Eat ?)i:.}l(.d bread once with your cheese
and vou will want it ofte.i.
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Poisoning by Ivtftw.c?.
A ca>c of poisoning by nutmeg is re
corded >u til'.' JJnCM .ue:i?.\u lourmuy iu
which one nutmeg had Uvea cuti>n by a
patient :?-* a cure for sickness. Ic caused
him to Kvome giddy, stupid, and very
. drowsy nil next day. The narcotic properties
of these*seeds, and of others of
the same natural order, dj not appear to
be generally known, C.ud st'em worthy ot
' investigation. '
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