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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
HHBH DAY SER3IOX.
Subject: "The Decoration of th?
Soul/' (Preached at Fort
Scott, Kansas.)
Text: ''Pat a ring on his hand.Luk?
HH XV., 22:
nn I will not rehearse the familiar story of
the fast young man of the parable. You
MHI know what a splendid home he left. You
know what a hard timo he had. And you
remember how after that season of vngahQMBO
bondage and prodigality be resolved to go
MWQH and weep out l.is sorrows on the bosom of
parental forgiveness. Well, there is great
excitement one day in front of the door of
the old farm house. The servants come rushing
up and say:''What's the matter' What
is the matter r' But before they quite arrive
MHO the old man cries oat: "Put a ring on his
band." What a seemiag absurdity! What
hBBH can such a wretched mendicant as this fellow
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with a ring? Oh, he is the prodigal son. No i
more tending of the swine trough. No mtrs
longing (or the pods of the carob tree. No
more blistered feet. Off with the rags! Cn
with the robe! Out with the ring! Even so
does God receive every one of us when we
come back. There are gold rings, and pearl
rings, and cornelian rings, and diamond
rings; but the richest ring that ever flashed
of the vision is that whicn our father puts '
upon a forgiven souL
I know the impression is abroad among
some people that religion bemeans and belittles
a man; that it takes all the sparkle out
of his soul; that he has to exchange a royStering
independence for an ecclesiastical
gtrait jacket Not so. When a man becomes
a Christian, he does not go down, he start3
upward. Religion multiplies one by ten
thousanJ. Nay, the multiplier is infinity.
It is not a blotting out?it is a polishing, it is
Ian arborescenee, it is an efflorescence, it is an |
Irradiation. When a man comes into the I
kingdom of God he is not sent into a menial
service, but the Lord God Almighty from the
palaces of heaven calls upon the messenger
angels that wait upon the throne to fly and
"put a ring on his hand." In Christ are the
largest liberty, the brightest joy, and highest
honor, and richest adornment. "Put a ring
on his hand.''
I remark, in the first place, that when
Christ receives a soul into His love He puts
upon him the ring of adoption. In my
church in Philadelphia there came the representative
of a benevolent society in New
York He brought with him eight or ten
Children of the street, that he had picked up,
and he was trying to find for them Christian
homes; and as the little ones stood on the pulpit
and sung, our hearts melted within us.
At the close of the services a great hearted,
I wealthy man came up ana said: "i u tajte
this little bright eyed girl, and I'll adopt her
as one of my own children;" and he took her
by the hand, lifted her into hid carriage and
went away.
The next day, while we were in the church
gathering up garments for the poor of New
York, this little child came back with a bundle
under her arm, ana she said: "There's
my old dress; perhaps some of the poor children
would like to have it," while she herself
was in bright and beautiful array, and those
who more immediately examined her said
she had a ring on her band It was a rinjj of
adoption.
There are a great many persons who pride '
themselves on their ancestry, and they glory (
over the royal blood that pours through their
arteries. In their line there was a lord, or a |
duke, or a prime minister, or a king. But when
the Eord, our Father, puts upon us the ;
ring of adoption, we become the children of ]
the ruler of all nations. "Behold what man- j
ner of love the Father hath bestowed upon j
us that we should be called the sons of God." j
It matters not how poor our garments may ,
be in this world, or how scant our bread, or .
how mean the hut we live in, if we have the j
I ring of Christ's a loptioa upon our hand we ,
are assured of eternal defenses.
Adopt! "Why, then, we are brothers and
sisters to all the good of earth and heaven.
We have the family name, the family di'ess,
the family keys, the family wardrobe. The
father looks after us, robes us, defends us,
blesses us. We have royal blood in our veins, (
and there are crowns in our line. If we are ,
his children, then princes and princesses. It ,
is only a question of time when we get our
coronet- Adopted! Then we have the fam- ,
ily secrets. "The secret of the Lord is with j
them that fear him." Adopted! Then we (
have the family inheritance, and in the day
when our father shall divide the riches of ,
heaven, we shall take our share of the man- ,
Isionsand palaces and temples. Henceforth .
let us boast no more of an earthly ancestry.
The insignia of eternal glory is our coat of
arms. This ring of adoption puts upon us
all honor and all privilege. Now we can
take the words of Charles Wesley, that prince
of hymn-makers, and sing:
Come, let ns join our friends above,
Who have obtained the prize, |
And on ilie eagle wlcgi of love ,
To joy celestial rise.
^ Let all the saints terrestrial sing i
With those to glory gone; i
Far a 1 the servants of our King, j
In Heaven and earth, are one. ^
I have been told that when any of the i
members of any of the great secret societies j
of this country are in a distant city and are /
in any kind of trouble, and are set upon by <
enemies, they have only to give a certain sig- (
nal and the members of that organization
will flock around for defense. And when |
any man belongs to this great Christian <
brotherhood, if be gets in trouble, in trial, in j
persecution, in temptation, he ha3 only to ]
how the rinz of Christ's adoption, and all j
I? the armed cohorts of heaven will come to hii i
rescue. 1
Still further, when Christ takes a soul into 9
His love He puts upon it a marriage ring, i
Now that is not a whim of mine: "And 1 j
will betroth thee unto Me forever; yea, I 1
will bafcroth thee unto Me in righteousness, 1
and in jugment, and in loving kindness, ]
anlin mercies." At the wedding altar the !
bridegroom puts a ring upon the hand of the 1
bride, signifying love and faithfulness. 1
Trouble may come upon the household, and
the carpets may go, the pictures may go, the
piano may go, everything else may go?the
last thing that goes is the marriage ring, for
it is considered sacred. In the burial hour it
is withdrawn from the hand and kept in a
casket, and sometimes the box is opened on
Ian anniversary day, and as you look at tnar
ring you see under its arch a long procession
of precious memories. Within the golden
circle of that ring there is room for a thousand
sweet recollections to revolve, and you
think of the great contrast between the hour
when, at the close of the ''Wedding
March," under the flashing lights
and amid the aroma of orange blossoms,
you 82t that ring on the round
finger of the plump hand, and that other
hour when, at the close of the exhaustive,
watching, when you knew that the soul had
fled, you took from the hand, which gave
back no responsive clasp, from that emaciated
finger, the ring that she had worn so
long and worn so well
On some anniversary day you take up that
ring, and you repolish it until all the old luster
comes back, and you can see in it the
flush of eyes that long ago ceased to weep.
Oh, it is not an unmeaning thing when I tell
you that when Christ receives a soul into his
keeping he puts on it a marriage rin *. He
(endows you from that moment: wun an ms
wealth. You are one?Christ and the soulone
in sympathy, one in affection, one in
hope.
There is no power in earth or hell to effect
a divorcement after Christ and the soul are
united. Other kings have turned out their
companions when they got weary of them,
and sent them adrift from the palace gate.
Ahasuerus banished Vashti; Napoleon forsook
Josephine; but Christ is the husband
that is true forever. Having loved you once,
He loves you to the end. Did they not try to
divorce Margaret, the Scotch girl, from
Jesus? They said: "You must give up your
religion." She said: "I can't give up my
religion." And so they took her down to the
beach of the sea, and they drove in a stake
at low water mark, and they fastened her to
it, expecting that as the tide came up her
faith would fail. The tide began to rise, and
came up higher, and to the girdle, and to the
* -?Ai?Anf inaf oo fKa woirtk
I up, ana in tut) laau iuuuuuii, jim tw .^v> . w
was washing her soul into glory, she shoutel
the praises of Jesus.
Oh, no, you cannot separate a soul from
Christ. It is an everlasting marriage. Battle,
and storm, and darkness cannot do it. Is
it too much exultation for a man, who is but
dust and ashes like myself, to cry out to-day:
"I am persuaded that neither height, nor
depth, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor any
other creature shall separate me from the
love of Stod which is in Christ Jesus, my
Lord?" Glory be to God that when Christ
and the soul are married they are bound by
. a chain, a golden chain?if I might say so?a
chain with one link, and that one link the
golden ring of God's everlasting love.
1 go a step further, and tell you that when
Christ receives a soul into His love He puts
on him the ring of festivity. You know that
it has been the custom in all ages to bes'ow
rings on very happy occasions. There is
nothing more appropriate for a birthday gift
than a ring. You delight to bestow such a
gift upon your children at such a time; It
means joy. hilarity, festivity. Well, when
this old man of the text wanted to tell how
glad he was tbat his boy had got back, he
expressed it in this way. Actually, before he
ordered sandals to be put on his bare feet,
bpfore he ordered the fatted calf to be killed
to appease the boy's hunger, he commanded:
"Put a ring on his hand."
Oh, it is a merry time when Christ and the
soul are united! Joy of forgiveness! What
a splendid thing it is to feel that all is
right between me and God. What a glorious
thing it is to have God just take up all the
sins of my life and put them in one bundle,
and then fling them into the depths of the
sea, never to rise again, never to be talked
? -'i ?? oil
or again, rouuuvn mi ^uuc. t/u *
illumined. God reconciled. The prodigal
home "Put a ring on his hand."
Every day I find happy Christian people. I
find some of them with no second coat, some
of them in huts and tenement houses, not
one earthly comfort afforded them; and yet
they are as happy as happy can be. They
sing "Hock of Ages" as no other people in
the' world sing it They never wore any
jewelry in their life but one gold ring, and
that was the ring of God's undying affection.
Oh, how happy religion makes us! Did it
make you gloomy and sad ? Did you go with
your head cast down? I do not think you
got religion, my brother. That is not the ef?
foct of religion. True religion is joy. "Her
ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are peace."
Why, religion lightens all our burdens. It
smooths all our way. It interrupts all our
sorrows. It changes the jar of earthly discord
for the peal of festal bells. In front of
the flaming farnace of trial it sets the forge
on which scepters are hammered out. Would
you not like to-day to come up from the
swine feeding and try this religion? Al! the
joys of Heaven would come out and meet
you, and God would cry from the throne:
''Put a ring on his hand."
You are not happy. I see it. There is no
peace, and sometimes you laugh when you
feel a great deal more like crying. The
world IS a CUt'at. ll ill ou ncais jwu uv/?u
with its follies, then it kicks you out into
darkness. It comes back from the massacre
of a million souls to attempt the destruction
of your soul to-day. No peace out of God,
but here is the fountaiu that can slake the
thirst. Here is the harbor where you can
drop safe anchorage.
Would you not Tike, I ask you?not perfunctorily,
but as one brother might talk to
another?would you not like to have a pillow
of rest to put your head on? And would you
not like, when you retire at night, to feel
that all is well, whether you wake up tomorrow
morning at 6 o'clock, or sleep the
sleep that knows no waking? Would you
not like to exchange this awful uncertainty
about the future for a glorious assurance of
heaven ? Accept of the Lord Jesus to-day,
and all is well. If on vour wav home some
peril should cross the street and dash your
life out, it would not hurt you. You would
rise up immediately. You would stand in
the celestial streets. You would be amid the
great throng that forever worship and are
forever happy. If this day some sudden disease
should come upon you it would not
frighten you. If you knew you were going
you could give a calm farewell to your Deautiful
home on earth, and know that you are
going right into the companionship of those
who nave already got beyond the toiling and
the weeping.
You feel oa Saturday night different from
the way you feel any other night of the
week. "You come homo from the bank, or
the store, or the shop, and you say: "Well,
now my week's work is done, and to-morrow
is Sunday." It is a pleasant thought. There
is refreshment and reconstruction in the very
idea. Oh, how pleasant it will bo, ir. wnen
we get through the day of our life, and we
jo and lie down in our bed of dust, we can
-ealize: "Well, nov the work is all done,
ind to-morrow is Sunday?an everlasting
Sunday."
Oh, when, thon city of my God,
Shall I thy courts ascend,
Where rongregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths have no end?
There are people in this house to-day who
ire very near the eternal world. If you are
Christians, I bid you be of good cheer. Bear
with you our congratulations to the bright
yity. Aged men, who will soon be gone,
ake with you our love for our kindred in the
setter land, and when you see them tell
;hem that we are soon coming. Only a few
nore sermons to preach and hear. Only a
tew more heartaches. Only a few more toils.
3nly a few more tears. And then, what an
intrancing spectacle will be open before us!
Beautiful heaven, where all is light,
Beautiful angels clothed in white,
Beautiful strains that never tire.
Beautiful harps through all the choir,
There shal. I join the chorus sweet,
Worshiping at the Saviour's feet.
I approach you now with a general invitation,
not picking out here and there a man,
lor here and there a woman, nor here and
there a child; but giving you an unlimited
: //X. All
LUVlLttl/IUil, SajiUK, UUIUO 1V1 Ull uuiugv7 mv
low ready." We invite you to the warm
heart of Christ, and the inclosure of the
Christian Church. I know a great many
;hink that the Church does not amount to
much, that it is obsolete: that it did its work
md is gone now, so far as all usefulness is
concerned. It is the happiest place I have
jver been in, except my own home.
I know there are some people who say they
ire Christians who seem to get along with>ut
any help from others, and who culture
solitary piety. They do not want any ordilances
I do not belong to that clas3. I cannot
let along without them. There are so many
ihings in this world that take my attention
!rom God, and Christ, and Heaven, that I
fvant all the helps of all the symbols and of
J1 the Christian associations; and I want
irounrt about me a solid phalanx of men who
love God and keep his commandments. Are
there any here who would like to enter into
that association? Then by a simple, child
like faith, apply for admission into the visible
church, and you will be received. No
questions asked about ^'our past history or
present surroundings, kjulj uuo w?u?uu juu
love Jesus?
Baptism does not amount to anything, say
a great many people; but the Lord Jesus declared:
"He tnat believeth and is baptized
shall be saved," putting baptism and faith
side by side. And an apostle declares: "Repent
and be baptized, every one of you." I
do not stickle for any particular mode of
baptism, but I put great emphasis on the fact
that you ought to be baptized. Yet no more
emphasis than the Lord Jesus Christ, the
gre it head of the church, puts upon it
The world is going to, after a while, lose a
great many of its victories. There are to be
revivals of religion that will shake the earth.
We give you warning. There is a great host
coming in to stand under the banner of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Will you be among them?
Will you be among the gathered sheaves?
Some of you have beeu thinking on this
subject year after year. You have found
out that this world is a jx>or portion. You
want to l>e Christians. "V. ou have come almost
into the kingdom of God; but there you
stoD. forgetful of the fact that to be almost
saved is liot to be saved at all. Oh. my
brother, after having come so near to the
door of mercy, if you turn back, you will
never come at alL After you have heard of
itie goodness of God, if you turn away and
die, it will not be because you did not hav6 a
good off.r.
God'3 spirit will not always strive
With hardened, self-destroying man;
Ye who persist His love to grieve
May never hear His voice again.
May God Almighty this hour move upon
your soul and bring you back from tho husks
of the wilderness to the Father's house, and
set you at the banquet, and "put a ring on
your hand."
Some French Intoxicants. "*
Absinthe, the favorite intoxicant of the
French, is almost always manufactured with
alcohols of industry, iil-rectitied, renaerua
green by the addition of the sulphate of copper
and saturated with resin, so as to give it
the beautiful greenish white precipitate produced
by pouring water on it, and which
drinkers so much admire. Vermouth, another
favorite liquor, is adulterated with hydrochloric
or sulpuric acid in order to give it a
pungent taste. Kirsch is extracted From tho
leaves of the cherry-laurel, and contains as
much as twenty-two centigrams of prussic
acid per litre, instead of five or six centigrams.
Rum is manufactured always with
alcohol distilled from beet root, to which is
added other and formic acid The "bouquets'"
of brandies are manufactured by the action
o* sulphuric acid on castor oil. The coloring
matters employed are extracted from logwood,
the elder, sorrel, fuchsine and coaL
Such is the trash which is daily consumed bv
the Parisians.
Dr. Richardson affirms that inn-keepers,
publicans, and barkeepers have in London a
higher death-rate- than any class except
hackney-coachmen. _ _
RELIGIOUS READING.
Palm and Pino.
Couldst thou, Great Fairy, give to ma
The instant's wish, that 1 might see
Of all the earth's that one dear sight
Known only in a dream's delight,
I would, beneath some Island steep,
In some remote and sun bright deep,
See high in heaven above me now
A palm tree wave its rhythmic bough!
And yet this old pine's haughty crown,
Shaking its clouds of silver down,
Whispers me snatches of strange tunes
And murmur of those awful runes
Which tell by subtle spell, and power
fif iavrpf. wmnathies. the hour
When far in the dark North the snow
Among great bergs begins to blow.
Nay, thou sweet South of heats and balms,
Keep all thy proud and plumy palms,
Keep all thy fragrant flowery ease,
Thy purple skies, thy purple seas!
These boughs of blessing shall not fail,
These voices singing in the gale,
The vigor of the ;e mighty lines?
I will content mo with my pines!
?{Harriet Prescott Spofford in Harper's
Bazar.
A Brave Ennig-a.
When we are in earnest, really devoted to
what we are doing, we forget ourselves.
This it is that makes brave soldiers. It is the
same devotion that helps our brave firemen
fr? mm"! Hi?ir livou tn save thostrof others.
X brave young ensign during the great I
Peninsula war, was observed wherever the
fight was thickest and strongest, to make his
way to the front, holding up the colors, and
to cheer the men by his wonderful daring
and courage. Hour after hour he stood his
ground, and while hundreds were falling
around him, remained unhurt. At the end
of the engagement his superior officers said
tobim: ' Carnegie, how did you manage to
stand fire as you did i You should let seme
of us into the secret; you were always to the
front, and yet you* have not a scratch.
"What's the secret/" "It is the king's secret,
sir, but you may know it better than I do,
for you nave served him longer; I remembered
who I was fighting for?ray king?and
that gave me strength and courage so that I
did not think of myself." Is that the way
you serve your King?
The Rilnle 3fot PcwtimUtic.
1 DO JD1UIO leacLies no J. CMUUISILI. it violates
none in Christian believers. Its record
of creation opens, "And God saw everything
that he had made and behold it was very
good." It goes forward with the song, "The
Lord is good to all and his loving kindness is
over all his works." It closes with a vision
into the New Jerusalem, where "God shall
wipe all tears from the eyes, and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain." It
utters no long-drawn sighs like Buadha and
Schopenhauer, that existence is an evil, because
it has longings that can never bo satisfied.
It formulates no hard dogma, like John
| Stuart Mill, that the Creator cannot be both
benevolent and omnipotent. Its tone never
sinks to the minor key when treating
of actual life on earth, like Pascal in his
"Thoughts on Religion," or Baxter and
Howe in their sermons on the decline of
piety, or John Cotton and Cotton Mather
in their gloomy letters on the decay of Puritan
zeal. The Bible gives striking portraits
of weak and nervous men, of men who look
instinctively on the dark side of life and
moan, like Jacob, "Few and evil have been
the years of my life," and wail, like Solomon,
after royal debauches, "All is vanity
and vexation of spirit." But the broad
sweep of revelation is towards gladness and
praise. Its cheerful tone is inspiring: "0
waiiI/1 nt-oicn flm T,nrf] fnr hit
cuau tuou nuutu v?w v? ?v. M?
goodness." Lot everything that hath breath
praise the Lord. "Praise the Lord, 0 my
soul."?[Dr. Hemaji Lincoln.
Ch?prlrMu?n of Infidelity.
There is something very suggestive and instructive
in a remark attributed to the arch
infidel, Robert G. Ingersoll: "Life is verv
sad to me; it is very pitiful; there isn't muca
to it" Mr. Ingersoll's experience as tn. infidel
is not singular. Other noted infidels,
much more serious and profound, able to
disclose to others and enjoy themselves any
secn-t comforts there may lie hidden
in philosophic unbelief, if such there be,
have anticipated him and even
yet more bitterly bewailed the
calamity of human" existence. As Mr.
Ingersoll only notoriously rehashes the
old infidel arguments and sneers, adding
absolutely nothing original, save it may bo
th? brilliant tinsel of a unique sarcasm, or a
jaunty blasphemy to point the inconsequent
logic of his predecessors and his own, it is
not to be expected that his occasional sober
mo Ann in t.hia
article, should be very different from theirs.
How Mr. Ingersoll's lament respmbles that of
his great French master and superior, Voltaire,
who said: "The world abounds with
wonders, also with victims In man is more
wretchedness- than in all other animals put
together. Man lores life, yet knows he must
die; spends his existence in diffusing the
miseries he has suffered, cutting the throats
of his fellow-creatures for pay; cheating and
being cheated. The bulk of mankind are
nothing more than a crowd of wretches,
equally criminal, equally unfortunate.
I wish I had nevor been born." To the
French sceptic "the cold and barren peaks"
were burdened with slaughter and crimsoned
witn Diood. To tbe philosopmc iiuine tney
were shrouded in blackness and darkness.
He s id: "When I look nbroad or.
every side I see dispute, contradiction and
distraction- When I turn my eve inward I
find nothing but doatt and Ignorance. I begin
to fancy myself in a very deplorable condition,
environed with darkness on every
side." Yes, tako soberest things the noted
infidels have said of life or or death, and
iney are at once a cuiiiuwih u^uu uu> .
Ingersoll has said, and a confirmation of his
judgment when the light of Revelation is not
permitted to illuminate the little valley
rounded by the else cold and barren peaks
of the two eternities.
But what is the testimony of those for
whom that light shines; for whom there
hang high above and casting light over
peaks and valley, a cross and suffering
saviour! Chie has said: "Yoa, though I
walk through the vuiloy and shadow of
death, I will fear no evil,"for thou ar; with
me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort mo."
Another has said: "For me to live is Christ,
and to die is gain." Such a one after, "Rejoicing
ill hope, patient in tribulation and
finishing his course with joy," said: "I uni
ready to bo offered and the time of my departure
is at band. Then after a sweet and
collected retrospect upon a glorious and
fruitful past, ho anticipated in ''the full assurance
of faith," beyond the peaks,
not cold and barren, but radiant
with tho light of hope, "a
crown of righteousness" in the immediate
and blissful future. Millions holding his
faith have confessed life a rich and blessed
opportunity and exit from it a coronation
and a joy. Contrast life, its significance,
dignity and joy in Christian experience with
the mystery, barrenness and gloom of it in
infidel confessions and lamentations and say
which is to be preferred. ' The apples of
Sodom do not grow on the tree of life, nor
among the leaves which are for tfce healing
of tne nations. Judging infidelity by its
manifest fruits and by the bitter confessions
of its wisest and best representatives the tree,
root, leaf, flower and fruit is only evil.?
[Dr. Stoaels, in New York Observer.
God regards a saint in rags more than a
sinner in robes. The whole of crumbling
tabernacles now occupied by His people will
soon be levelled with the dust; but it matters
not since "He has prepared for them a city."
?[Jackson.
Lean on Jesus and He will rest you. Labor
for Jesus and He will bless you. Live for
Jesu\ and your soul shall mount up as on an
eagle's wing;you shall run and nevor weary,
you shall walk arm in arm with Him and
havap faint.
How Women Begin to Drink.
Out of an examination of 204 inebriate
women I have found that 128 began their
drinking by the use of beer, 37 by drinking
whisky (as punch at first usually), 20 began
with wine,8 with gin and 11 could not remember
what beverage was first used. These young
girls, mill and shopgirls largely, began by going
to some so called refreshment saloon with
their friends, and the debutante usually began
by sipping a little tonic (made of hops,
sugar and water, charged with carbonic acid
gas and colored with burnt sugar); beer soon
followed, and soon rioting, other kinds of intoxicants,
recklessness ana crime; and what
was an innocent, foolish girl yesterday, is today
a branded criminal, and all for a glass of
t beer.?QodtiSa Isidu Rnnk.
TEMPERANCE,
Wine-Drops.
Squeezed and pressed from the bruised grape, I
Bottled and corked, we are hurried away,
To cellars moldy, dark and damp,
And there for many a month we lay.
Out once more to the light of day,
Muddy and strong, we are brought at last,
Fixed up with various poisonous things,
And on to the busy world's markets passed.
Red and strong, from many a cup,
Carrying woe to all who drain,
Into the flood of man we go,
Clouding the senses, burning the bralJl.
Catching the eye of a gay young man,
We tempt him on with spicy breath,
Uutil we poison bis strong young veins,
And sow in his body the seeds of death.
Breaking hearts in many a home,
Filling towns with hate and strife,"'
Wasting prosperity, houses and lands.
Burning up hope and health and life. ..
? xoum s i eniperance uanner.
The Drink Evil is Very Old.
The following is an extract from a lecture
on the "Drink Problem," delivered recently
in London by Axel Gustafson:
It stretches far beyond historic record, and
many have tried to make this fact serve to
prove their assertion that to take intoxicating
drinks, whatever be the consequence, is
natural to man. But if we look impatiently
at probabilities we shall see how the drink
habit insidiously gained its hold upon man
and how naturally he came to acquire this
essentially most unnatural and pernicious of
evil habits.
Primeval man did not know the use of fire.
Therefore he could not cook his food which
indeed must have largely consisted of roots
and fruits. Now, what could have been more
natural than that he should, upon finding that
the fruit juice was what he most enjoyed,
press it out and take it separately, and after
satisfying his immediate thirst set it aside.
We all know that on returning to it some
days later he would find it changed. What
more likely than that he should taste it and
invite others to do so, and that they should
marvel at the change in its taste and the
strange excitement it produced. Of course
others would try the same experiment, and
some one or more would become what we call
drunk. The story of these incidents would
spread. It is probable that the primitive
manufacture of intoxicants was tnus gradually
discovered.
Of course, when this discovery bogan to
result in drunkenness and in the commission
of crime under the influence of drink, remedies
for the evil bogan to be thought of and
sought for. Whether the individual, society
or state should interfere depended upon the
nature of the crime and the character and
position of the individual or individuals who
committed it. And as such a strange discovery?or
perhaps discoveries, as it might
have "been made almost simultaneous in
several different quarters?must have spread
"orviHlw In all flnd fOnditiOIlS.
and therefore the awful results soon have become
apparent, it becomes evident that drink
and drunkenness were generally and probably
had long been prevalent ere history begins
to record the career of man; and that
also, almost coextensively with the spread
of the evil, were such remedies as primeval
man could conceive employed by individuals,
society aud state, in so far as such organizations
existed. There can be little doubt that
the words of Jesus [Matthew xxiv., 38-39]
referred to this condition of the world n>
that period when he says: "For in those days
which were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, and they knew not until the
flood came and took them all away." These
words must clearly affirm that the people in
those remote days had sunk into sucn depths
of sottishness and gluttony that not only
they were incapable ot any attempt at senpreservation
when the great flood came, but
Dut that they were too drunk to know even
that they were about being drowned! That
flood was divina Prohibition with a vengeance.
,The Bottle in Public Life.
Admiring constituencies are as ready as
ever to crown their representatives at 'Washington
with laurel* for meritorious service,
but there is a more general and growing disposition
to bold them to a strict accountability
for unbecoming conduct, and vices
that once were borne with as being at least
pardonable, if not the evidences of genius,
are no longer patiently tolerated. There is
no question of personal liberty involved in
this matter. A man's peculiar ways of life
are not justly subject to outside interference
or officious criticism so long as they concern
himself alone; but whenever he becomes invested
with obligations or functions, for the
proper discharge of which he is directly responsible
to the .people^ the public has the
right to demand that hi? walk and conversation
be such as not to impair his official usefulness
or put in jeopardy the trusts that
have been committed to his keeping.
"Whether it be allowable or not foraprivate
citizen to get drunk and make a beast of himself,
is not the question. He is certainly debarred
from such privileges-when acting in a
public capacity; ior, no iuuner uui uiieilectually
gifted he may to or how well
equipped tor the discharge of public duties,
no man can drown his reason in drink or wallow
in any sort of vice without to some extent
betraying the cause or the party or the
interest which he has solemnly sworn to uphold.
It is gratifying to know that instances
of this high moral treason have' become happily
rare at the national capital, and that although
now and then obtruding themselves
upon the attention of the community they
are more than ever malodorous for the reason
that the general tone of official life is of a
sober and self-respecting standard. But the
rule in this case ought to have no exceptions,
and a summary halt must be called to those
grosser forms of inebriety and dissipation on
the part of public men, whether in or out of
Congress, that tend to hinder the progress of
urgent legislation, to cripple the energies of
any branch of the Government and bring the
public service into contempt? Washington
Critic. ,
A com-water *7*iiner.
Rogers, Peet & Co., one of the great clothing
houses of this city, gave- a dinner to 275
of their employes- last month. This firm divide
a share of their profits with their employes,
and at the dinner declared a dividend
of three and a half per cent., which ranged
from a few cents, which aa errand boy received,
up to $2-15. The remarkable thing
about the dinner, which was elaborate, was
the entire absence of wine or intoxicating
drinks. Cold water was the beverage, whicn
was received with great applause, in his address
Mr. Chambers, one of the firm, referring
to the prohibition policy, said: liWe have no
place for the idle or intemperate. Wedo not
even offer you a g)a<s of wine to-night, that
none may havo occasion to stumble."?New
York Wttncss.
I'empcranoe News and Notes.
Nine of the leading insurance companies of
Great Britain have recently decided to refuse
to issue policies to saloon keepers.
Professor Stewart, of Liberia, estimate*
that for every missionary sent to Africa
70,000 gallons of rum are also sent to that
country.
Dr. Petitham, of Liege, says: "Alcoholism
in Belgium has augmented with frightful
rapidity, and cam ror immediate uuu
thorough action."
A physician cites the case of "a man, habituated
to the use of alcoholic stimulants, who
suddenly began to drink to excess, and took
from sixty to seventy drinks a day, but
claimed that they were small ones. When,
however, the little drinks which the man
took, say sixty or seventy tablespoonfuls,
were added together, it was found that he
was taking about a quart of whisky a day."
Last winter a circus visited the town of
Ayr, in Scotland, and to attract spectators,
the proprietor offered prizes for the best answers
to some conundrums. A liquor-seller
of the town joined in with the question:
"Why his whisky was like a bridge across
tho wator of Ayr;" A poor boy handed in
this answer, which took the prize: "Because
it loails to-the poor-house, th<} lunatic usylum
and the cemetery." The answer was quite a
bnomeran? to the lianor man.
The following "ad" of a grocory firm ?f
Kirkaville, Mo., is a very good temperance
sermon: "Any man who drinks two drachms
of whisky per day for a year, and pays ten
cents a drink for it, can have at our store
" n Af rrronnlnfiiH
au sacKS or nour, pu>u 6??
sugar and 72 pounds or good green coffee for
the same money and get $2.50 premium for
making the change in his expenditures."
A lady living in Rappannock County, Va.,
had twelve stands of bees which were very
valuable until a distillery was started in the
neighborhood. Since it was started, how-1
ver, the bees pay frequent visits to the still,
get very drunk, and are of little profit.
Francis Murphy goes about among the
mills at Pittsburgh talking to the workmen
individually, or addressing them in crowds
at the dinner hour, on the subject of temperance
and right living. _
J
CURIOUS FACTS.
They are making glass tombs dow.
More male children die than females.
Modern needles first came into use in
1545.
Pascal, the French mathematician, invented
the wheelbarrow.
Vienna gets its name from the river
Wien, which flows through the city.
Brunswick, Georgia, has an oak tree
which can shade one hundred teams.
It is said that for consumptives notliI
ing is better than raw or half-cooked
I snails.
Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Soult,
and Humboldt, were all bom in the same
year, 17G9.
| A Russian law forbids the use of exclamation
points in newspaper articles in
that country.
A lady living in Boone, Iowa, has just
completed a crazy quilt which lias
24,764 pieces in it.
The term Derrick is an abbreviation
of Tlieodoric, a hangman at Tyburu,
England, in the seventeenth century.
The oldest known specimen of linen
paper extant is a document written A. D.
1308. This was probably made as early
as 1300.
Envelopes for letteis are mentioned
by Swift, 1720; but they did not come
into very general use for more than a
century later.
George Miller, who died in Lancaster
County, Penn., the other day, at the
age of seventy-five, had attended o,700
funerals and made that number of coffins.
Japanese papers tell of a native girl
only twelve years and five months old
who stands eight feet high and weighs |
over 370 pounds. Her hands are nine
inches long and her feet fifteen inches.
If you will take au old English b, p,
d and q you will see that they are all
one letter in different positions, or
viewed from different points. This is
the explauation of "mind your p's and
q's."
The coldest spot in the world has been
located in Siberia. At the point designated
the tl ermometer marks 90 degrees
below zero in winter, at which temperature
a man would be struck dead as with
a blow.
When Charles Gillen^ of St. Louis,
died the other day, his heirs found re
ccipts for every dollar lie liaa paia out
in lifty-four years. He even took receipts
from bar-koepers when he paid
for a drink.
An English lady who came to this
country in early life says she remembers
when men used to go through the
streets of New York calling out "Ickory
hashes" (hickory ashes). They were purchased
from housekeepers for soapmaking.
The Khedive of Egypt is styled "Your
Highness," the chiidren of kings and
queens, "Your Royal Highness," and
the children of emperors, "Your Imperial
Highness." Till the reign of Henry
VIII. the kings of England were styled
"Your Highness," "YourGrace," "Your
Excellent Grace," etc.
?* 1 ' r\ r? r -n
VVliett ii*e laxe u. i\. j^ouivt-, xioouj,
of theToledo Blade, was alive he took
particular pride in the fact that none of
his buildings bad ever been damaged by
lire. It is a singular fact that since his
death three of the best edifices erected
by him in Toledo- have caught fire, and
in each instanco- at the lop of the building.
B. Napoli, an Italian ranchman at Dayton,
Isev., discovered one of his cows
choking on a potato; He thrust in his
lumd and succeeded ini pushing the obstruction
down the cow's throat, but
when he undertook to' withdraw his arm
the cow shut down on it like a vise, and
kept her hold until her jaws were pried
1 ? /..awKsh TKr> lmncs and
apart wnu u kiunuui-. -
flesh of his nrm were so crushed that
amputation was necessary.
Despotic Power in Jtnssia.
There was a theatre-in St Petersburg
which wa3 paying its proprietor# profit of
two thousaud" roubles a month. The inspectors
decided that it waa-not safe from
fire, and directed some improvements.
The proprietor made them; in a slipshod
sort of way, without regard to thedircc- '
tions of the officers, trusting to the popularity
he enjoyed to carry, him through. 1
When the inspectors saw how he had 1
evaded their orders, and tried to circum- 1
vent them, they simply closed up the
establishment and took the proprietor to
prison, where he spent several months :
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reflecting upon me auiiijMi ui piojiu^ ,
with an autocrat.
On one of the islands of toe-Neva is a i
summer garden, with a magnificent cafe,
and open air theatre, and a, fine collec- i
tion of wild animals, a. mixture of restaurant,
circus and park. It was fitted
up at an enormous expense,, was the most
popular place in Russia, ami the owner
wa? a Prince, who was- coining money
out of the enterprise,.which he ran under
the name of his active manager. A guest
ai the place was assaulted l>y a waiter
and complained to the:police. They investigated
the case, or attempted to do
so, but found themselves thwarted at
every turn by the manager, ivlio thought
a man with a. Prince behind him could
do what he pleajedi. The police directed
that the man who committed the assault
should report ait their headquarters the
* " * A ?
next morning> lie- uiu not come. a\u
officer came tothe garden and asked why.
The manager told hi in that he thought
enough fuss had been made about a little
affair already. Ilis opinions changed,
however, for he was at once arrested,
sent to,prison, and lhc place was closed
for the refit oi the season, despite the efforts
of the Prince, whose money was invested,
to have it reopened. A little autocracy
of this sort keeps a high state of
discipline iu St. Petersburg.? Chicayo
A'tticx
Stransrc Re-L'nlon of Brothers.
"When in St. Augustine, Fin., recently,"
said Mr. Lewis i'atison, of Newark,
N. J., to a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution,
"I had what might be called a
remarkable experience. I was out of
wcik and was rather hard up. So I applied
to a batch ot men who were working
011 a new building. They i:skod me
what I could do. and I told them I was
a good mechanic and could do carpenter's
work. The boss gave me a trial,
and I gut along very well lor a week.
J was thrown a good deal with one of
the carpcuters who called himself Dunuiiitj.
and the mm were always talking
about the remaikabie resemblance between
him and me. We got into con
vcrsatioi), nn<l I learned that Punning
was my own brother, wliom I had not
seen for twenty years. lie ran away
Irora home when llfteen years old and
went to sea. About ten years ago lie
settled down in St. Augustine and has
been doing well. IIo has made a good
living. Ail ihe family hud long ago
given him up as dead. lie still goes
tinder the name of Dunning, for some
reason he baa not explained. This is
what I call a curious coincidence."
Philosophy triumphs easily over past
evils and future evils, but present eviU
| triumph over it.
v
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Best Way to Cook Griddle Cakes.
The best way of cooking ejriddle cakes
is on a soapstone griddle. Some object
to these for various reasons. If not
properly heated the results will not be
satisfactory, and the ignorant trying
"just the least bit of grease" will make
matters worse, besides spoiling the griddle.
Those who do not use a soapstone
will find in the old iron griddle an available
substitute, which in some respects
is better than a soapstone. But first the
scaly, carbonized surface must be
scraped and then clcaned with soap and
sand, or rubbed with either sand-paper
or emery-cloth until as smooth as possible.
If very rough and time is valuable,
it will be cheaper to buy a new one.
The clean, smooth griddle must be
heated to the neccssary degree to produce
a delicate brown, and the batter
put on in spoonfuls and baked in the
usual manner. No grease must be used
and if the "riddle is keDt at the ricrht
heat, the result will be an even, velvety,
golden-brown surface, the beauty of
which cannot be produced by the use of
grease. Some, after giving this method
a trial, adopt it at once; others, after an
unsuccessful attempt with a griddle too
hot or too cold, gave it up as being beyond
them.
The fact that waffles have been baked
without grease in a common waffle iron
with irregular surfaces should dispel any
doubts as to the success of baking cakes
on a plain, smooth griddlo. Thethickcr
the griddle the better, though excellent
results have been obtained from a thin,
pressed iron frying-pan. A good, stiff
cake-slice is convenient in turniug cakes,
but a knife will do. A round griddle is
the best shape, as it is easily turned and
kept at a uniform temperature.?Good.
Housekeeping.
Roast Ribs of BecC
It seems like a waste of time to the
writer to write about roasting, or rather
baking beef, yet one of the rarest dishes
served in private families is beef properly
cooked. For some reason or other the
outside is so well done that the ordinary
carving knife makes no impression upon
it until the strength of the carver is nearly
exhausted, wb'ie the inside of the beef
is raw and cold looking, as though the
fire had not yet penetrated it. The reason
for this is that the oven was too hot
when the meat was put into it. It therefore
follows that the o ven should be tested
before using, and the best way to do this
is to throw a tablespoonful of flour on the
oven floor. If it takes tire or quickly
assumes a dark brown color the temperature
is too high, and the oven should be
allowed to cool a little. If it remains
white after the lapse of a few seconds
the temperature is too low and the meat
would stew in its own'juices instead of
roasting. In this case the gravy would
almost be the choicest part of the dinner.
When the oven is of the proper
temperature the flour will turn a biownish
yellow and look slightly scorched.
The selection of the meat is a most im
portant consideration. The fat should
be white; smooth and firm to the touch.
If of an oily yellow color the animal was
overheated and feverish, or worse, when
killed. The lean part of the meat should
be of a bright,, dark red color and flecked
with small particles of creamy fat. If
the fillet is drawn and the top skin or fat
is thin and poor looking do not accept it
if offered gratis. It would disorganize a
well regulated household quicker than a
case, of .smallpox. Select the first ribs
if the family is small and light beef eaters;
the middle rib&if fair consumers of
beef; if many eaters-, boy the sixth and
Beventh ribs of the first chuck. Salt the
joint well and turn it three or four times
while it ia cooking. The length of time
it will take to cook, depends entirely oa
the beef. If a heavy joint, say fourteen
to sixteen minutes, and from nine to
twelve minutes to the pound if a light
beef.
Meat is sweeter if oooked with the
bone; the only object gained in removing
the bone is to assist an indifferent
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Recipes.
Pcff Puddixg.?Eight eggs,one quart
3weot milk, eight tablespooululs of flour,
wet the flour with enough milk to beat
smooth, then gradually stir in the whole
quart, beat the yolks and stir them in
slowly, then lastly the whites; bake in
buttered dish. Eat with hard sauce.
Baked Umelet.?Heat trurce teacupfuls
of milk, melting in it a. bit of butter
as large as a walnut. Beat well together
rive eggs, one tablespoonfulof flour and I
a scant teaspoonful of. salt and add to \
the hot milk, stirring.as-rapidly as pos- I
sible. Turn into a hot, well-buttered j
fryiug-pan and bake in.a. quick oven one- j
Quarter of an hour.
To (Jan Corn.? Put the- corn raw into
cans, then fill it in with cold water even
with the top of the cora; solder up the .
can, pricking a small; hole in the cover;
solder that also. Boil the can and contents
in boiling water two and a half j
hours; tlieu with a. hot iron open the j
small hole and let the gas blow out, after :
which solder up and. boil again two and
a half hours and set aside for use. Peas,
string beans and. Linuu beans can be put
up in the same way;
To Bon. Salt Meat.?"Wash well, and
put on in,plenty of eold water; as soon
as it boils rcmowe to the back of the
fltnve and. let it simmer till perfectly j
tender. Corned, beef is improved by
putting it while hot into a bowl or deep
dish, and putting a plate with a heavy
weight on the- plate on top of it, this
presses- its tog-ether so it cuts in smooth
slices. Ham is bettered by skinning when
welL (lone, aa:l putting it in a drippingpan
half filled with soui cider and w<.ter.
Baste weli^ and bake till the fat is
brown.
Noodle?.?Mix a very stiff dough out
of three eggs a little salt and flour, roll,
Lnto> very thin sheets, allow to lay a few
moments, then roll all up together and
cut iuto shreds with a sharp knife,shake
apart and allow to dry (one can dry
thoroughly, put away in a paper poke
and use at any time). These can thea
Le added to beef broth, chicken soup or
may be cooked about fifteen minutes in
salt water, dipped from the water and
browued, butter poured over for season*
ing, or they are very good seasoned with
plenty of milk, butter and cream with a
little thickening.
Chili Sauce.?This sauce is taking j
the place of old-tiine tomato catsup. It ,
is better to keep ana ueiter m ???,
than catsup. This tesied recipe can
scarcely be too highly recommended:
Remove the skii from a peck of ripe
tomatoes and peel eight white onions.
Put them on the fire and cook them ten
or fifteen minutes; then add a pint of
vinegar and a tablespoonful each of
ground cinnamon, allspice and black
pepper, and a tablcspoonful of cloves.
Tie the spices in a bag of coarse material.
Cook the mixture from four to five hours,
or until it is quite thick. Be careful
not to let it burn. When it is ready to
tnkc off the fire stir in a tablespoonful
of ground mustard, a tablespoonful of
cayenne pepper, two teaspoonfufc Qi
white frinsrer. and salt to taste.
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POPULAR SCIENCE. |
The mean depth of the whole ocean is
12,480 feet. I
A Providence man has invented a fog
horn which can be heard eleven miles. v
A mercury plumb bob has lately been
made. It consists of a small steel rod,
bored out and filled with mercury to give
weight.
Palladium, a metal of the platinum
group, but of far lower density than the
latter, may be substituted for steel in the
manufacture of watche9. ,
The weight of air on each person's
body is about fifteen tons. A surface
covering of lead of equal weight of the
air would be a little over five feet thick.
Though there are from two to six per
cent, more males born than females, yet
there is an excess of more lhan six per
cent, of females in the various popula-'
tions. 4
The area of the dry land of the world
is estimated at 55,000,000 square, miles,'
the area of the ocean at 137,200,000
square miles. The bulk of the dryland
above the level of the sea is 23,450,000
cubic miles, and the volume of the waters
of the ocean is 323,800,000 square miles.1
A Belgian entomologist has produced
the numerous color varieties of certain
coleoptera by chemical means, though
he does not claim that his process is that
of nature. Alkalies and acids give colors
varying from brown through red to yellow,
and calcic chloride and heat yield
all the tints from green to violet. I
A French geographer, mentions having
seen on the flanks of high mountains
in Mexico clay strata not deposited by
the waters nor by the decompdsition of
the rocks, but produced by the dust
raised fiom the plains by the winds and
left on the lulls. These deposits vary;
from 100 to 300 feet in thickness.
The use of the mosquito has been at
last discovered. Professor Webster says
that "injurious organic matter in the
water, instead of decomposing and poison- -
ing people, is changed into 'wiggle tails, ^
which in due time become mosquitoes,!
and the winged matter flies -away, leav->
ing the water purified to the extent o?
their ability to remove the impurities, j
The interest at last aroused in Egypt
makes it probable that the Nile will soon;
be admitted to the valley of the artificial
lake Moeris, by a canal eleven miles.'
long. The creation or restoration of
this great artificial lake will give fertility
to a wide area, and will reduce the|
annual inundations of tho Nile, while
storing water to replenish the river today
seasons.
A alrntinor mnflrmntinn f\t tllft thftOTT ;r
of the source of supply of the artesian,
waters baa been observed in Tours, where
the water, spouting with great velocity
from' a well s hundred and ten metres in'
depth, brings up, together with fine sand,'
fresh water shells and seeds in such a
state of preservation as to show that they,
could not liavar been more than three or
four months on their voyage. Some of,
the wells of th* Wady Itir have alao
ejected fresh water mollusks, fish and:
| crabs, still living, which must, therefore,
have made a still more rapid transit. |
The cooling effeeft of ice is actually
dependent upon its melting, as in this
nrnresa the heat which causes it to melt
is absorbed from the surrounding bodies.'
A pouni of ico in melting will absorb
sufficient heat to cool a pound of water
from 174 degrees P. to the freezing point,;
or to cool 142 pounds of water one degree.
The heating power of steam is due
to the converse of this principle. A pound
of water converted into steam, and
passed into a radiator,, will, upon condensing,
give out enough heat to rxise
one pound of water, or about 4.2 pounds
of air, from 32 degrees to 1004 degrees.
A plan recently introduced into Belgium
for preserving word from decay
produced by the atmosphere, water, etc.,
is to fill the pores with, liquid guttapercha,
which is said to perfectly preserve
it from moisture and the action of
the sun. The solid gutta-percha is liquefied
by mixing it with parnffine in proportions
of about two-thirds of gutta-'
percha to one-third of paraffine; the mixture
is then subjected to the action of
heat, and the gutta-percha become? suf?
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ncienuy nquiu tu uc vuouj auviw?.>v?-^
into the pores of the wood. The guttapercha
liquefied by this process hardens
in the pores of the wood as it becomes
cold*
The Persian Barber.
In Persia the barber is quite an important
man; his profession does not
stop at shaving chins and heads, but
includes both surgery and dentistry; ,
just as it used to do in England before
Queen Elizabeth's time. His shop is a
stall-like place, with an open front and
a brick floor. In the centre of the floor
[ is a little tank of water, or perhaps a
; miniature flower garden. A breast-high
recess in the thick wall is the receptacle i)
for the miscellaneous tools ami implements
of the barber's triple profession.
The razors are set straight and stiff in
the handles like table-knives. Several
of these, scissors, combs and a little
hand-mirror complete hisbarbering tools;
but side by side with, them are fleams
and lancets for bloodletting, branding-.
irons for actual cautery, aim a pair 06
rude iron pincers for pulling teeth. The
Persian barber's-customers sit cross legged!
on the floor, or mote often, in flue
weather, outside the shop, ia the street.,
To get shaved, with a Persian, is to have
j not merely the face shaved, but the '
| entire head, save- for a Little tuft on top
j or cne ou eaohiside. Not every Persian
i shaves his beard, but hie- always gets his
head shaved. In the case of boys the
tuft on top' of the head is allowed to
grow long, the idea being that in case of
death. Mohammed will have something
to lift, them into Paradise by. Old men
?a + V>i^lr tTinir wllt^lv'PrS
I WllUtlJUftVlUg uuuua iuian vuv.
erovidc this needful hand-hold and so
&v.e their scalps quite clean. Young
moil aad beaux nave a little tuft, termed
tltt-ryuU^ or lovc-lock, left on oach side
to,grow long and dangb behiud the ear.
?Lidiuanpijlii Xsics.
l ?
With Locked VVIugs.
The recent discovery of the power pos!
sessed by soaring bird3to set their wings
I when fully expanded, to remain locked
j independent of muscularaction, explains
| to my mind a phenomenon that has
puzzled me for many years. It has beta
my custom for many seasons to spend a
few days each fall duck shooting at the
lakes bordering the Illinois Ki\erin C'enI
. v:?i_
tral Illinois. I uu uuus wuic auuvov iuvariably
shot in mid air. while flying
rapidly by, ami often, when not killed at
once, they would :-ct their wings and sail
gradually down to the water or ground,
which they would rcach dead, the distance
being from 100 yards to a quarter
of a mile, apparently corresponding to
the height of the bird when shot. And it
was a maxim with duck shooters on these
lakes, "That bird U killed, for he has 3et
? * ?? Dnol^n tlm rlnrlra T hftVft
1113 WIUJJS. U"'"" ??? ? .
?ccn this phenomenon illustrated in the
wild turkey aud prairie hen. In wing
ihooting the wild turkey, if it sets its
wings and gradually came to the earth a
quarter of a mile or more away, we
always marked the spot, well expecting
to find the dead body when wc reached,
it ,~-8ci?nct>