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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN" DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Modern Spiritualism." I
Text: "Behold. there is a woman that
hath a familiar spirit at En-dor. And SouZ
disguised himself and put on other raiment, \
and he went, and two men with him, and j
they came to the woman by night, and he
said, I pray thee divine unto me by (he !
familiar spirit, and bring me himupxvhom
I shall name unto thee."?I Samuel xxviii.,
7,8.
I have recently become a Spiritualist. At
least so some of the journals of that belief i
declare. This, together with the fact that j
mediums are now being tried in the criminal ;
courts, setting millions of people to make j
inquiry in regard to communication between !
this world and the next, leads me to preach j
this sermon. .
Trouble to the right of him and trouble to !
the left of him, Saul knew not what to do. I
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spiritual medium, or a witch, or anything !
that you please to call her?at any rate, a
woman who had communication with the
spirits of the eternal world. It was a very
difficult thing to do, for Saul had either slain
all the witches or compelled them to stop :
business. A servant one day said to King
Saul: "I know of a spiritual medium down
at the village of En dor." "Do you?" said the
King. Night falls. Saul, putting off his
kingly robes, and putting on the dress of a
plain citizen, with two servants, goes out to j
hunt up this spiritual medium. It was no
easy thing for Saul to disguise himself, for !
the'tallest people in the country only came |
up to his shoulder, and I think from the j
strength of the man and the way he |
bore nimself, he must have been well pro- I
portioned. It must have been a frightful
thing to see a man walking along in the
night eight or nine feet high. I suppose,
as the people saw him pass, they said:
"Who is that? He is a3 tall as the king"
?having no idea that in such a plain
dress there really was passing the King.
Saul and his servants after awhile reach the
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the housei" and they look in and see the
haggard, weird and shriveled up spiritual
medium sitting by the light, and on the table
sculptured imagos, and divining rdds,
and poisonous herbs, and bottles, and vases.
They say: "Yes, this must be the place."
One loud rap brings the woman to the door;
and as she stands there, holding the candle !
or lamp above her head and peering out into I
the darkness, she says;
"Who is here?" The tall king informs her i
that he has come to have his fortune told, j
When she hears that, she trembles and !
almost drops the light, for she knows there I
is no chance for a fortune teller or spiritual j
. medium in all the land. But Saul, having j
sworn that no harm shall come to her, she
says: "Well, who shall I bring up irom the
dead?" Saul says: "Bring ud Samudl." That
was the prophet who had died a little while
before. I see her wavinsr a wand, or stirring
up some poisonous herbs in a caldron, or hear
her muttering over some incantations, or
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the realm of the dead: "Samuel! Samuel!"
Lo, the freezing horror! The floor of the
tenement.opens, and the gray hairi float up,
and the forehead, the eyes, the lips, the
shoulders, the arms, the feet, the er tire body
of dead Samuel, wrapped in sepulc.iral robe,
appearing to the astonished group, who
staeper back and hold fast and cat^h their
breath, and shiver with terror. The dead
prophet, white and awful from the tomb,
begins to move his ashen lips, and he glares
upon King Saul, and cries out:
"What did you bring me up for? Why
did you break my long deep? What do you
mean, Kine Saul?" Saul, trying to compose
and control himself, makes this stammering
and affrighted utterance, as he says to the
-dead prophet: ''The Lord is against me, and
I have come to you for help. What shall I
do?" The dead prophet stretched forth his
finger to King Saul and said: "Die to-morrow!
Come with me into the sepulcher. I
am going now. Come, come with me!" And
lo! the floor aeain opens, and the feet of the
dead prophet disappear, and the arms, and
rue snouiaers. ana iiw lureucau. mo uwi
closes. Nothing is left in the room bat Saul
and the two servants, and the spiritual medium.
and the sculptured images, and the
1 t divining rods, and the bottles, and the vases,
and the poisonous herbs. Oh, that was an
awful seance!
I learn first from this subject that spiritualism
is a very old religion. It is natural
"that people should want to know the origin
and the history of a doctrine which is so
widespread in all the villages, towns and
cities of the civilized world, getting new
converts every day?a doctrine with which
many of you are already tinged.
Spiritualism in America was born in 1847,
In Hydesville, "Wayne County, N. Y., when
one night there was a loud rap heard against
the door of Michael Weekman; a rap a second
t.me, a rap a third time: and all three
times* when the door was opened, there was
nothing found there, the knocking having
been made seemingly by invisible knuckles.
In that same house there was a young woman
who had a cold hand passed over her face.
and there being seemingly no arm attached
to it, ghostly suspicions were excited. Aft?r
a while Mr. Fox and his family moved into
that house, and then every night ther* was a
banging at the door; and one night Mr. Fox
said: "You are a spirit?" Two raps an
swering in the affirmative. "Are. you an
injured spirit:" Two raps, answering in the
-affirmative. And so they found out, as they
say, that it was the ghost or spirit of a pedler
who had been murdered in that house
many years before for his $500. Whether
the ghost of the dead pedler had come
there to collect his $n00, or his bones. I can
not say, not being a spiritualist; Dut mere
was a great racket at the door, so Mr.
"Weekman declared, and Mrs. "Weekmau
and Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox and all the
little Foxes. The excitement spread. There
was a universal rumpus. The Hon. Judge
Edmonds declared, in a book, that he had
actually seen a bell start from the top shelf
of a closet, heard it ring over the people that
were standing in the closet, then, swung by
invisible hands, it rang over the people
in the back parlor, and floated through
the folding aoors to the front parlor,
rung over the people, there ana then
dropped on the floor. N. P. Talmage,
Senator of the United States, afterward
Governor of Wisconsin, had his head
completely turned with spiritualistic
-demonstrations. A man, as he was
passing along the road, said that he was
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home through the air, at such great speed he
could not count the posts on the fence as he
parsed; and as he nad a hand saw and a
square in his hand, they beat, as he passed
through the air, most delightful music. And
the tables tipped, and the stools tilted, and
the bedsteads raised, and the chairs upset,
and it seemed as if the spirits everywhere
had gone into the furniture Dusine3s. We^l,"
the people said, "we have got something
new in this country: it is a new religion."
Oh no. my friends. Thousands of years ago
we find in our text a spiritualistic seance.
Nothing in the spiritualistic circles of our
day has been more strange, mysterious and
wonderful than things which have been seen
in the past centuries of the world. In all the
ages there have been necromancers, those
who consult with the spirits of the departed;
oharmers. those who put their subjects in a
mesmeric state; sorcerers, those who by taking
poisonous drugs see everything and hear
everything and tell everything; dreamers,
people Who in their sleeping moments can 9ee
the future world and hold consultation with
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dispensation in the stars; experts in palmistry,
who can tell by the linos in the palm of
your hand your origin and your nistory.
From a cave on Mount Parnassus, we are
told, theie was an exhalation that intoxicated
the sheep and goats that came anywhere
near it, and a shepherd approaching
it was thrown by that exhalation
into an excitement in which he could foretell
future events and hold consultation with the
spiritual world. Yes, before the time of
Christ the Brahmins went through all the
table moving, all the furniture excitement,
which the spirits h?.ve exploited in our clay;
precisely the same thing over and over
again, under the manipulations of the Brahmins.
Now do you say that Spiritualism is
different from these' 1 answer, all those .
delusions I have mentioned belong to the
same family. They are exhumations from
the unseen world. What doss God think of
all these delusions? He thinks so severely of
them that he never speaks of them but with/
livid thunders of indignation. He says:
"I will be a swift witness against
yfce scorcer." He says: "Thou shalt n\
. * fuffor a witch to live." And lest you might
make some important distinction between
Spiritualism and witchcraft, God says, in so
many words: "There shall not be among
you a consulter of familiar spirits, or
wi7ard, or necromancer; for they that do
these things aroan abomination to the Lord.''
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And he says again: "The soul of those who
?eek aftT such as have familiar spirits, and
who go whoring after them, I will so*; myself
against them, and he shall be cut off from
among his people." The Lord Almighty, in
a score of passages, which I have not now
time to quote, utters his indignation against
all this great family of delusions. After that
be a Spiritualist if you dare?
Still further we learn from this text how
it is that people come to fall into Spiritualism.
Saui had enoueh trouble to kill ten men. He
did not know where to go to find relief. After
awnne ne resoivea to go ana see tde witcn or
En-dor. He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. It was his trouble
that drove him there. And I have to tell
you now that Spiritualism finds its victims in
the troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the
Sereft You lose your watch, and you go to
the fortune teller to find where it is. You
lose a friend, you want the spiritual world
opened so that you may have communication
with him. In a highly wrought, nervous
and diseased state of mind, you go and put
yourself in that communication. That is
whv I hate SDiritualism. It takes advan
taee of one in a moment of weakness,
which mav come upon us at any time.
We lose a friend. The trial is keen, sharp,
suffocating, almost maddening. If we could
marshal a host, and storm the eternal world,
and recapture our oved one, the host would
soon be marshaled. The house is so lonely.
The world is so dark. The separation is so
insufferabla
But Spiritualism says: We will open the
future world, and your loved one can come
back and talk to you." Though we may not
bear his voice, we may hear the rap of his
band. So, clear the table. Sit down. Put
your hands on the taole. Be very quiet.
Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No motion
of the table. No response from the
future world. Twenty minutes. Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement all the time
increasing. Forty minutes. The table shiv?rs.
Two raps from the future world. The
letters of the" a'phabet are called over. The
departed friend's name is John. At the* pronunciation
of the letter "J," two rats. At
the pronunciation of the letter "0," two
raps. At the pronunciation of the letter
"H," two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter "N," two raps. There you have the
whole name spelled out. J-o-h-n, John.
Now, the spirit beinsr present, you say:
"John, are you happy?" Two raps give an
affirmative answer. Fretty soon the hand of
the medium begins to twitch and toss, and
begins to write out, after paper and ink are
furnished, a message from the eternal world.
What is remarkable, the departed spirit, although
it has been amid the illuminations of
heaven, cannot spell as well as it used to. It
has lost all grammatical accuracv and cannot
write as distinctly. I received a
letter through a medium once. I sent it
back. I said: "Just please tell those
ghosts they had better go to school and get
improved in their orthography*" Now, just
think of spirits, that the Bible represents as
jnthroned in giory, coming down to crawl
under the table, and break crockery, and rap
the window shutter on a gussy nignc. xs
there any consolation in such poor, miserable
work compared with the thought that our
departed Christian friends, got rid of pain
and languishing, are in the radiant society
of heaven, and that we shall join them there,
not in a stifled and mysterious half utterance,
which makes the hair stand on end and the
cold chills creep the back, but in an unhindered
and illimitable delight
And none shall marmar or misdoubt,
When God's great sunrise finds us out.
Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into its delusions. Saul, in the midst of his
disaster, went to the witch of En-dor. The
vast majority of those who have gone to
spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfortunes.
I learn still further from this subject that
Spiritualism and necromancy are affairs of
the darkness. Why did not Saul go in the
day ? He was ashamed to go. Besides that,
he knew that this spiritual medium, like all
her successors, performed her exploits in the
night. The Davenports, the Fowlers, the
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages,
have chosen the uight or a darkened room.
wt?>i Thn of their wonders have
been swindles, and deception prospers best in
the night.
Some of the performances of spiritual mediums
are not to b9 ascribed to fraud, but to
some occult law that after awhile may be
demonstrated. But I believe that now 999
out of every 10?0 achievements on the part '
of spiritual mediums are arrant and unmitigated
humbug. The mysterious red letters
that used to come out on the medium's
arm were found to have baen made by an
iron pencil that went heavily over the flesh,
not tearing it, but so disturbing the blood
that it came up in great round letters. The
witnesses of the seances have lo.-ked tha
door, put the key in their posket,
arrested the operator, and found
out, by searching the room, that hid- j
den levers moved the tables. The sealed i
letters that were mysteriously read without
opening have been found to have been cut at
the side, and then afterward slyly put together
with gum arabic; and the medium
who, with a heavy blanket over nis neaa,
could read a book, has been found to have
had a bottle of phosphoric oil, by the light of
which everybody can read a book; ana ventriloquism,
and legerdemain, and s'eight of
hand, and optical delusion, account for
everything. Deception being the main staple
of Spiritualism, no wonder it choose3 the
darkness.
You have all sesn strange and unaccountable
things in the night. Almost every man
has at some time had a touch of hallucination.
Some time ago, after I had been overtempted
to eat something indigestible before
retiring at night, after retiring I saw the
president of one of the prominent colleges
astride the foot of the bed, while he demanded
of ma a loan of five cents! When I
awakened I bad no idea it was anything
supernatural. And I have to advise you, if
vou hear and see stranee things at night, to
stop eating hot mince pie and take a dose of
bilious medicine. It is an outraged physical
organization, enough to deceive the very elect
after sundown, ana does nearly all its work
in the night. The witch of En-dor held her
seances at night: so do all the witchea Away
with this religion of spooks!
Still further, I learn from my text that
Spiritualism is doom and death to its disciEles.
King Saul thought that he would get
elp from the "medium;" but the first thing
that he sees make3 him swoon away, and no
sooner was he resuscitated than he is told he
must die. Spiritualism is doom and death to
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Look in upon an audience of Spiritualists.
Cadaverous. Weak. Nervous. Exhausted.
Hands clammy and cold. Nothing prospers
but long hair?soft marshes yielding rank
grass. Spiritualism destroys tha physical
health. Its disciples are ever hearing startling
news from the other world. Strange
beings cross the room in white. Table
fidgety, wanting to get its feet loose as if to
dance. Voices sepulcnral and ominous. Bewildered
with raps. I never knew a confirmed
Spiritualist who had a healthy nervous
system. It is incipient epilepsy and catalepsy.
Destroy your nervous system and you
might as well be dead. I have noticed
that people who are hearing raps from the
future world have but little strength left to
bear the hard raps of this world. It is an
awful thing to trifie with one's nervous
system. It is so delicate?it is so far reaching?its
derangements are so terrible. Get
the nervous system a jangle, and so far as
your body and soul are concerned, the whole
iniverse Is a ianele. Better in our ignorance i
experiment withTa chemist's retort that may
smite us dead, or with an engineer's steam
boiler that may blow us to atoms, than experiment
with the nervous system. A man
can live with only one lung or with no eyes
and be happy, as men have been under such
afflictions; out woe to tbe man whose nerves
are shattered! Spiritualism smites first of
all, and mightily, against the nervous system,
and so makes lite miserable.
I indict spiritualism also, because it is a
social and marital curse. The worst deeds of
licentiousness and the worst orgies of obscenity
have been enacted under its patronage.
The story is too vile for me to tell I will
not pollute my tongue nor your ears with the
recital Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage. Families innumerable
have been broken up by it. It has
pushed off hundreds of young women into a
life of profligacy. It talks about "elective
affinities," and "afflnital relations," and
"spiritual matches," and adopts the whole
voeabularv of free loveism. In one of its |
Dublic journals it declares "marriage is the
"monster curse of civilization." It is a
source of debauchery and intemperance. If
Spiritualism could have its full swing, it
would turn this world into a pandemonium
of carnality. It is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner it drops
into the hell from which it ros9, the better
both for earth and heaven. For the sake of
man's honor and woman's purity, I say let
the last vestige of it perish forever. I wish
I could gather up all the raps it has over 1
heard from spirits blest or damned and
gather them all on its own head in one
thundering rap of annihilation!
I further indict Spiritualism for the fact
that it is tha cause of much insanity. There is
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not an asylum between Bangor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and bleeding
victims of this delusion. Go into any
asylum, I care not where it is, and the presiding
doctor, after you have asked him:
"What is the matter with that man?'' will
say: "Spiritualism demented him;" or,
"What is the matter with that woman?" he
will say: "Spiritualism demented her." It
has taken down some of the brightest intellects.
It swept off into mental midnight
judges, senators, governors, ministers of the
gospel, and one time came near capturing
one of the presidents of the United States.
At FJatbusn, near this city, a man became
absorbed with it, forsook bis family, took his
only $15,000, surrendered them to a spiritual
medium in New York, attempted three times
to put an end to his own life, and then was
incarcerated in the State Lunatic asylum,
where he is to day a raving maniac. Put
your hand in the hand of this
witch of En-dor and shj will lead
vou to bottomless perdition, where she
holds her everlasting seance. Many years
asro the steamer Atlantic started irom Europe
for the United States. In midocean the
machinery broke and she floundered around
day after day and week after week, and for
a whole month after she was due people wondered
and finally gave her up. There was
great anguish in the cities, for there were
many who hud friends aboard that vessel.
Some of the women, in their distress, went
to the spiritual mediums and inquired as to
the fate of that vessel. The mediums called
up the spirits, and the rappings on the table
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went raving mad, and were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After awhile
one day a gun was heard off quarantine.
The flags went up on the shipping, and the
bells of the churches were rung. The boys
ran through the streets, crying: "Extra!
The Atlantic is safe!" There was the embracing
as from the dead, when friends came
again to friends: but some of those passengers
went up to find their wives in
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fernal Spiritualism bad put them. A man in
Bellevue hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, and he said: "The spirits
told me to." Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they did it,
replied: "Spiritualism demanded it."" It is
the patronizer and forager for the madhouse.
Judge Edmonds, in Broadway Tabernacle,
New York, delivering a lecture in behalf of
Spiritualism, admitted, in so many words:
"There is a fascination about consultation
with the spirits of the dead that has a tendency
to lead people off from'their right
judgment, and to instil into them a fanaticism
that is revolting to the natural mind."
It not only ruins its disciples, but it ruins
the mediums also, only give it time. The
Gadarenean swine on theTsanks of the lake
of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual mediums
than down they went, in an avalanche
of pork, to the consternation of all the herdsmen.
The office of a medium is bad for a
man, bad for a woman, bad for a beast.
I bring against this delusion a more fearful
indictment: It ruins the soul immortal.
First, it makes a man a quarter of an infidel;
then it makes him half an infidel; then it
makts him whole infidel The whole system,
as I conceive it,is founded on the insufficiency
of the word of God as a revelation. God
say3 the Bible is enough for you to know
about the future world. You say it is not
enough, and there is where you and the Lord
differ. *ou clear tne table, you shove aside
the Bible, you put your hand- on the table,
and say: "Now let the spirits of tbe future
world come and tell me something tho Bible
has not told me." And although the
Scriptures say: '"Add thou not unto his
words lest he reprove thee, nnd thou be
found a liar,1' you risk it, and say: "Come
back, spirit of my departed father; come
hank, snirit of mv deDarted mother, of my
companions, of my little child, and tell me
some things I don't know- about you and
about the unsean world." If God is ever I
slapped square in the face, it is whenaspir- '
itual medium puts down her hand on the
table, invoking spirits departed to make n
revelation. God has told you all you ought
to know, and how dare you be prying into
that which is none of your business. You
cannot keep the Bible in one hand and Spiritualism
in the other. One or the other will
slip out of your grasp, depend upon it.
Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in the
fact that it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to taatjfv
against Christianity. Its mediums oau bacc
Loronzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, and
Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians are
idolators. Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne,
and he testifies that he is stopping in the
same house in heaven with John Bunyan.
They call back John Wesley, and he testifies
against the Christian religion, which he all
his life gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson
Davis, the erreatest of all the Spiritualists,
comes to the front and declares that the New
Testament is but "the dismal echo of a barbaric
age," and the Bible only "one of the
pen and ink relics of Christianity." They
attempt to submit the writings of Andrew
Jackson Davis and other religious balderdash
in the place of this old Bible. I have
in my house a book which was used in this
very city in the public service of|Spiritualists.
It is well worn with much service. I opan
that book, and it say3:
"What is our baptism? Answer: Frequent
ablutions of water. What is our inspiration?
Plenty of fresh air and sunlight What is
our prayer? Abundant physical exercise.
What is our love feast? A clear conscience
and sound sleep." And I find from the same
book that the chief item in their public worship
is gymnastic exorcise, and that is whenever
they want to rouse up their souls to
a very high pitch of devotion they sing,
page 65: "The night has gathered UDher
moonlit fringes;" or page 16: "Come to
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keep on in the track you nave started.
"But," says some one, "wouldn't it be of
advantage to hear from the future world?"
Don't you think it would strengthen Christians?
There are a great many Materialists
who do not believe there are souls, but if
spirits from the future world should knock
and talk over to us they would be persuaded."
To that I answer, in the ringing words of the
Son of God: "If they believe not Moses and
the prophets, neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead."
Now I believe, under God, that this sermon
will save many from disease, insanity and
perdition. I believe these are the days of
which the apostle spake when he said: "In
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." I
think my audieuce, as well as other audiences
in this day, need to have reiterated in their
hearing: the passages I quoted some minutes
ago: "There 3hall not be among you a consuiter
of familiar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer;
for they that do these things are
an abomination unto the Lord;" and "The
soul that turneth after such as have familiar
snirits. I will set myself against them, and
they shall be cutoff from their people."
But I invito you this morning to a Christian
seance, a noonday seance. This congregation
is only one great family. Here is the church
table. Come around the church table, take
your seats for this great Christian seance,
put your Bible on the table, put your hands on
the top of the Bible, and then listen, and hear
if there are anv voices coming from the
eternal world. I think there are. Listen!
"Secret things belong unto the Lord our
God, but things that are revealed belong
uuto us and our children." Surelv that is a
voice from the spirit world! But before you
rise from this Christian seance, I want
you to promise me you will be satisfied
with the divine revelation until the
light of the eternal throne breaks upon
your vision. Do not go after the witcn of
En-dor. Do not sit down at table rappings,
either in sport or in dead earnest. " Have
your tables so well made, and their legs so
even, that they will not tip and rattle If
the table must move, let it be under the
offices of industrious housewifery. Teach
your children there are no ghosts to be seen
or heard in this world save those who walk
on two feet or four, human or bestiaL ' Remember
that Spiritualism at the best is a
useless thing; for if it tells what the Bible
reveals it is a superfluity, and if it tells
what the Bible doe3 not reveal it is a lie.
Instead of eoine out to get other people to
tell your fortune, tell your own fortune ny
putting your own trust in God and doing
the best you can. I will tell your fortune:
"All things work together for good to them
who love God." Insult not your departed
friends by asking them to come down and
scrabble under an extension table. Remember
that there is ouly one Spirit whose dictation
you have a right to invoke, and that is
the holy, blessed and omnipotent Spirit of
God, HarkI He is rapping now, not on a
table or the floor, but rapping on the door of
your heart, and every rap is an invitation to
Christ and a warniug of judgment to come.
Oh, grieve him not away. Quench him not.
He has been all around you this morning.
He was all around you last night He has
been around you all your lives. Hark!
There comes a voico dropping through the
roof, breaking through the window, filling
all this houso with tender and overmastering
intonation, saying: "My spirit shall not
always strive.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Could Not Sing the Old Songs?Great
Thrift?He Thought Not.?His
Enjoyment Interfered
With, Etc., Etc.
"I cannot sing the old songs,"
Though well I know the tune,
And I can carol like the bird
That sings in leafy June.
Yet though I'm full of music
As choirs of singing birds,
"I cannot sing the old songs"?
I do not know the words.
I start on "Hail Columbia,"
And get to heaven-born band,"
And there I strike an up-grade
With neither steam nor sand.
"Star-spangled banner" throws me
Righ". in my wildest screaming,
I start r'1 right, but) dumbly come
To voiceless wreck at ''streaming."
So when I sing the old songs,
Don't murmur or complain,
If "Ti, de ah da, turn de dum,"
Should fill the sweetest strain,
I love tiddy um dum di do,
And the trallala eep da dirds,
But "1 cannot 3ing the old songs"?
I do not know the words.
?Burdetle.
Great Thrift.
Little Girl?"Mr9. Brown, ma wants
to know if she could borrow a dozen
airrra QVio nr?nN trt Tlllt 'fllTI Tindfir R
"66- ? r?
hen."
Neighbor?"So you've got a hen setting,
have you? I didn't know you kept
hens."
Little Girl?"No'm, we don't, but
Mrs. Smith's goin' ter lend us a hen
that wants ter set, an' ma thought if
you'd lend us some eggs we've got the
nest ourselfs."?New fork Sun.
He Thought Not.
Miss Knight (to new acquaintance
whose name she did not catch)?"Etymology
of names is my favorite study.
My theory is that all names indicate what
the person's ancestors were; for instance,
my ancestors were knights, the Smith
I family were blacksmiths, and so forth.
' T ilttnU K/iflf tftOW f A 1 TI? V? Q f O
X bUlUiV lb O lUC UtoL rwaj vv vwik ti uuv w
person is, don't you, sir?"
Well no, he didn't, bccause his name
was Hogg.?Judge.
His Enjoyment Interfered With.
"That sermon was the finest effort I
ever heard," said a man on his way home
from church. "I wouldn't have missed
it for $20."
"I'm glad you enjoyed, it John," said
his wife.
"Ye3, I enjoyed it; but there was one
thing that annoyed me."
"What was that, John?"
"I had no change in my pocket less
than half a dollar for the contribution
box."?New Torlc Sun.
A Nice Legal Question.
Bobby bad wickedly eaten part of the
preserves on the shelf, and so his mother
shut him in the closet.
On letting him out she discovered that
he had eaten the rest of the preserves.
Mightily displeased,she asked him why
he had done so.
"Because, ma," Bobby replied, "I
heard pa tell one of his clients that a person
couldn't be punished twice for the
same offense."?Epoch.
The Reason.
Wife?"John, dear, I'm afraid you do
not love me as you used to do."
Husband?"Now what put that Into
your head?"
W.?"Well,you don't tell me you love
me. You don't say as you used to say:
'Mary, I would go to the world's end for
you.' No, John, you never say that
now."
H.?"Do you know the reason, dear?"
W. (sobbing)?"Yes, I know the
reason well; you have ceased to love
me."
H. ?Stuff and nonsense. I love you
[ more than ever and I would tell you so
occasionally, but I never get the chance.
You are always talking and I can't get
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a word in edgeways.?ooawti uuuricr.
Just the Wife he Wanted.
She?"I confess, William, that your
proposal gives me pleasure. It would be
foolish to pretend that it does not, yet?
He?"Yet, what? What possible objection
can you have to becoming my
wife? You know that I love you, that I
am able to provide for you?"
"Yes, but I fear I would be but a
sorry housewife."
"Why so?"
"Because I have never been to a cooking
school." *
"All the better, dearest; all the better."
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Ail IUV UkViwi i
"Yes. You will stay at home and attend
to the cooking instead of wanting
to go out and lecture on the culinary art.
You are just the kind of a wife I want."
?Boston Courier.
A Hopeless State of Affairs.
,lMiss Clara," he said tremulously,
"Clara, dear Clara, if I had loved you
less, I could have told you that I loved
you long ago. The mad passionate devotion
of "
Then he stopped.
Upon the girl's face there was a wistful
new-bonnet expression, that impelled
him to pause.
"Excuse my rudeness, Mr. Sampson,"
she said, slowly coming back to earth,
but, for the moment, my thoughts were
far away. You were saying "
"I was saying," explained Mr. Sampson,
reaching for his hat, "that it is getting
late. Miss Hendricks, and I will bid
you good-night.''?Epoch.
Couldn't Please Both.
A source of comfort to one person often
causes extreme annoyance to another.
When people of opposite feelings come j
together a good deal of patience and
courtesy is necessary in order to get
along pleasantly.
Riding on a railroad train, a gentleman,
sitting next an open window, was
tapped on the shoulder sharply by a woman
behind him, who said: "I wish
you'd shut that window right off, mister;
I'm freezing."
"Freezing 1" exclaimed another wo
man, who occupied the same scat with
the gentleman, "you ain't doing anything
of the sort. I'm just suffocating
with the heat."
"I'm freezing I tell you!"
"And I tell you I'm suffocating?"
"I'll tell you what to do," said an
elderly man in the seat in front, turning
around impatiently; "shut the window,
by all means, until this one is suffocated,
and then open it until the other freezes
to death."?Youth's Companion.
Warned.
"Who i3 that lantern jawed old fellow
standing over there eating pie?" asked a
facetious young man from the East of the
belle of the evening at a Missouri ball.
"That's my brother Ben," was the icy
reply, "an' when I tell 'im what you've
said, he'll lick?"
"Oh, you misunderstand me. I meant
that long, lank dandy with the clay pipe
thereby the window."
"That's my beau, young man, and
he'll dandy you in 'bout a minnit and
two seckincu! Oh, he'll?"
"You surely misunderstand me. I
meant that grinning old gawk standing
by that fat, ugly old woman in the green
dress."
"Them's my paw and maw, mister, and
if you want to git out of this country
alive, you'd better start fer tall timber
right off. I'll give you fifteen minutes
start, an' then I'll turn Bill an' my beau
an' paw an' maw loose, an' they won't
leave a grease spot where you stood last
if they kitch up with you. Now you
clear out fast!"?Tid-Bits.
xvovei jnetnou ui nanarc.
A certain fort in the far West, so the
story goes, was in command of a major of
artillery who was constantly lamenting
that his favorite arm could not be more
frequently used against the Indians.
Finally one day he took one of the small
howitzers, which defended the fort, and
had it securely strapped to the back of
an army mule with 'the muzzle projecting
over the animal's tail. With this
novel gun carriage he proceeded in high
feather with the captain and a sergeant to
a bluff on the bank of the Missouri, near
which was encamped a band of friendly
Indians. The gun was duly loaded and
primed, the fuse inserted, and the mule
backed to the edge of the bluff. The
major remarked something about the
moral effect the exhibition was likely to
i ? J? : a. T??n;M ond I
prouuue Upuii lliu jumau uui&o, ?uv>
stepped gayly forward and applied the
match.
The curiosity ot the mule was aroused.
He jerked his head around to see what
was fizzing away there on his neck, and
the next second his feet were all bunched
together and making forty revolutions a
minute, while the gun was threatening
everything under the canopy within a
radius of ten miles with instant destruction.
The captain shinned up the only
available tree. The sergeant threw himself
fiat on the ground and tried to dig a
hole with his bayonet to crawl into, while
the fat major rolled over and over in
agony, alternately invoking the protection
of Providence and railing at the
mule. Finally the explosion came, the
ball going through the roof of the fort.
The recoil of the gun and the wild leap
of the terrified mule carried both over
lio Kin ff tn a oafp Anrhnra<?e at the bot
torn of the river. The discomfited party
returned sadly to the fort.
Shortly after the chief of the Indians
appeared and announced briefly: "Injun
go home."
Questioned as to why he thus explained:
"Injun ver' brave, help white
man. Injun use gun, use bow-arrow,
use knife; but when white man fire off
whole jackas9 Injun no understand, no
| think right. Injun no help um fight
that way.?Toronto World.
American Explorers.
Explorers from America are in every
land and on every sea, says Professor
G. G. Gardner. Already she has contributed
her quota of martyrs in the
frozen North, and has led the way
to the torrid regions of Africa.
The people of Europe, through Colum1
?n nAur wnrM fnr
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I us; and we, through Stauley, have discovered
a new world in the old ioi
them.
Much has been done on land, little on
the other three-quarters of the earth's
surface. But here America has laid the
foundations of a new science?the geography
of the sea.
Our explorers have mapped out the
surface of the ocean and discovered the
great movements of the waters. They
have traced the southward flow of the
Arctic waters to temper the climate of
the torrid zone. They have followed tho
northward set of the heated waters of the
equator and have shown how they form
those wonderful rivers of warm water
that flow, without walls, through the
colder waters of the sea till they strike
the western shores of Europe and
America, and how they render habitable
the almost Arctic countries of Great
Britain and Alaska. They have even
followed these warm currents farther and
shown how they penetrate the Arctic
Ocean to lessen the rigors of the Arctic
cold. Bravely but vainly have they
sought for that ignis fatuus of explorers
?the open polar sea?produced by the
action of the warm waters from the
south.
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American explorers nave sounueu mc
depths of the ocean, and discovered
mountains and valleys beneath the waves.
They have found the great plateaus on
which the cablcs rest that brings us into
iustantaneous communication with the
rest of the world. They have shown the
probable existence of a vast submarine
range of mountains, extending nearly
the whole length of the Pacific Ocean?
mountains so high that their summits
rise above the surface to form islands
and archipelagoes in the Pacific. And all
this vast region of the earth, which, a
few years ago, was considered uninhabitable
on account of the great pressure,
they have discovered to be teeming with
life. From the depths of the ocean they
have brought iiving' things, whose lives
were spent under conditions of such
pressure that the elastic force of their
own bodies burst them open before they
could be brought to the surface; living
creatures whose self-luminous spots supplied
them with the light denied them
in the deep abyss from which they
sprang?abysses so deep that the powerful
rays of the sun could only feebly
penetrate to illuminate or warm.
A Handsome Meerschaum Pipe.
Perhaps the finest specimen of a meerschaum
pipe in the United States is
owned by James Addington, of East
Aurora, this county. It was made as a
masterpiece from the factory of Franz
Hiess, Viennahess, Germany, and was
exhibited in Germany. England and
France, and afterward taken to Sidney,
Australia, by the manufacturer's agenf.
It was there sold to a large tobacco
dealer, who valued it at $500, and from
whom Mr. Addin<yton bought it. The
pipe is thirteen inches in length from the
bowl to the tip of the mouthpiece. The
bowl is one and one-half inches h gh and
represents an old stump with the bark
partially fallen off, and from the back of
which has sprouted a young scrub, the
leaves and branches of which are perfect.
On the front of the stump is a lizard; at
the base of the stump are the most delicate
leaves and ferns. On the stem,
which is about three quarters of an inch
in diameter and eight inches long, is
j carved a bed of ferns and grass, in which
' are standing three perfectly formed
horses. The horses are so exquisitely
j carved that each muscle is visible. The
I bowl and stem are carved by hand from
one pice of mecrscl a im. Attached to
the stem is an amber mouth-piece three
I inches loDg, on which is carved a horse's
head. For this mouth-piece alone Mr.
Addingtou has been offered seventy dol|
lars. It is very seldom that such an elegant
piece of hand-carving as this pipe
I is to be seen. It took the workman three
years to complete the task, he having
tried seven pieces of meerschaum before
finding a piece out of which the pipe
could be cut.?Bufafo Courier.
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TEMPERANCE.
Battle Hymn of Temperance.
In the battle of the ages
Dawns at length the victor-day.
Long desired emancipation
Hastens on its blessed way.
The fulfillment of the Scriptures,
When Messiah shall have sway.
The truth goes marching on.
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory. Hallelujah!
The truth goes marching on.
Loud and glad be our Te Deum;
Wrong is bowing to the right.
Superstitions are receding.
Overmastered by the light
Cruel customs are expiring.
Hoary errors take tneir night
The truth goes marching on.
(Chorus.)
We have sundered chains of bondage
With the'loyal battle sword,
Tet there lives the liquor bondage,
Deep detested by the Lord,
And against it he has uttered
Maledictions of His word.
The truth goes marching on.
(Chorus.)
Let us strike against the demon
That is drinking up our blood;
Let us meet him witn the weapons
That are furnished us of God;
Let us conquer 'neath the banner
Of our common brotherhood.
The truth goes marching on.
(Chorus.)
Let the work of Reformation
Rise like ocean biLows strong;
The decree of the Almighty
Is to overthrow the wrong.
And we swell with holy angels
The truth goes marching on.
- (Chorus.)
?Rev. F. Denison, in Providence Outlook.
The Boycott on Beer.
A great struggle is now in progress in vari?
ous sections of tne country between the proprietors
of breweries and their employes.
In Chicago, on Thursday of last week, a
strike was inaugurated which stopped every
brewery in the city, except one, and threw
out of employment between fifteen hundred
and two thousand men. The trouble grew out
of the employment of non-union men in the
breweries. In Milwaukee, Albany, New
York, and other centres of the beer trade,
East and West, a similar condition of affairs
exist In this city trouble between the
brewers and their employers has been in progress
for months. A critical point was
reached last Friday when the employes circulated
a petition about the city calling upon
all workingmen to "arise" and boycott cerfhaf
OM anllttlflp hoor TYlAY1TI
factured by a firm employing.non-union men.
All the brewers in this section have decided
to make common cause with the boycotted
firm, and on Monday seventy-eight breweries
were closed and five thousand men thrown
out of emplopment. . The brewers declare
that they will carry their point if they have
"to shut every saloon in the city to do it"
We apprehend that a very large portion
of the community will be able to regard
this beer fight witn a great degree of equanimity.
If it should result in the entire destruction
of the beer . traffic, or even a temporary
suspension of it, the country would
hardly feel called upen to mourn the loss.
The possibilities involved in such a struggle
are encouraging in the cause of temperance.
If the brewers will carry out their threat
and close up "every saloon in the cityv
they will deserve to have their names enrolled
in the army of the world's greatest
benefactors. If the saloons could be closed
for a year, or even for a few months, until
their regular patrons could once be thoroughly
soberea up, we have no doubt that many of
them would find business decidedly unprofitable
when they opened again. It is
possible that many persons would realize then
what they do not realize now?that the
saloons can in no way be considered as indispensable
adjuncts of civilization, but that
they are, on the contrary, ugly excrescences
upon it, pests and nuisances always and
everywhere. The only thing, therefore, we
have to fear about the brewers' threat is
that they will not be able to carry it out.
Much the same results mightbe effected by
a general boycott on beer, we are not in
favor of the employment of the boycott as a
general rule, but an exception must be made
in the case of beer. We earnestly hope that
the boycott on beer will be continued until
it embraces not only all the workingmen in
the country, but all others who have been accustomed
to indulge in this kind of strong
drink. We say "strong drink" because we
regard beer as a beverage no less harmful in
its general results than the worst kinds of
fermented liquors. It is the sheerest folly to
talk of beer as a healthful or wholesome
drink, or to argue that its sale is not productive
of drunkenness,- pauperism and
crime. An overwhelming mass of evidence
might be offered to prove the contrary. Beer
is the drink of the masses and the main
source of revenue for nearly all the saloons
in the poorer quarters of our large cities.
It is the beer traffic that absorbs
the larger part of the wages' of
wnrlrintrmpft and brines DOVertV and
misery to thousands and tens of* thousands
of innocent worsen and children. We
do not believe in making any discriminations
in favor of beer-makers and beer-sellers as
against whisky-makers and whisky-sellera,
We see no essential difference between them.
They shall all be treated alike before the law.
By all means let the workingmen "arise and
boycott beer, "union beer" and "non-union
beer," and let the boycott be continued to the
end of time,?New York Observer.
Rev. Sam Jones on WhLslcj.
The liquor traffic ought to be made so odi<
ous that nobody but an infernal scoundrel
will sell it, and nobody but an infernal fool
will drink it Separate these liquor dealers
from their liquor, and they will be all right.
The church that will house a man who rent!
a house to sell liquor is a hateful hypocrite.
Some of these cnurches here in Atlanta are
doing just that thing. If there is a man or
woman in this vast audience who never had
a relative or loved one hurt or ruined by
whisky, 1 want him or her to stand up right
now. Ycu have all had a brother, or a son,
?? o fathor or a son-in-lawruined by whisky!
My goodness! these son3-in-law. I'd rather
have a boa-constrictor around my neck than
to have a drunken son-in-law. The devil cannot
do any worse than that Some of you I
old hypocrites that are dilly-dallying with
the whisky question are going to get caught
that way. The devil is going to slip up on
you with a drunken son-in-law, and I'll bet
he will make you Prohibitionist with a
vengeance.
1 look around your city and see the barrooms
as thick as the stars in the heavens.
Each one of the three hundred bars in Atlanta
represents, at least, ten confirmed
drunkards. Three thousand men in Atlanta,
across the line, are gone to ruin! Tou
can stop it if you want to. There are church
members enough in this town to turn out
any day and rote liquor out of it You
don't want to have a fuss. Well, Til tell
you every good man dreads a fuss, but he
don't fear anything that walks on the earth.
Gcd despises a coward. I had rather die at
the mouth of a cannon doing my duty than
to run away from it because I was afraid.
God intrusts all the noble causes on this
earth to men who are game?New York Independent.
A Flask and Prophecy.
At McKeesport, Penn., recently, while
razing an old brick building, corner of Fourth
and walnut streets, woramen xuunu embedded
in one of the chimney breasts a pint
flask of whisky made in 1828, and placed
there ten years later by Orlando Grier.
There was also a tin box containing a
written prophecy to the effect that thirty-nve
years later (< e., '73) slavery would not exist,
though it would cost thousands of lives to
make the change "Men." the writer continued,
"will communicate from breach to
broach of ccean easier than indite a letter.
The demons, fashion and drink, will enthrall
ih- ?.?" 11 rnoHn f/1 AVAf. ?
me jCiiiuna wm w "juuv ^ v??
throw the fiend rum. The tallow candle of
to-day will not even be used to grease boots.
Men will touch the wall as Moses touched the
rock for water, and light will dispel the darkness
McKeesport will become a great place,
waxing strong in wealth and position'mongst
the valleys. Prohibition will be a battle cry,
with temperance a formidable enemy. The
first will fail, the latter prevail for a time,
wax weak and men will again court the cup *
The flask of spirits which I place herewith
will rise in midst of a conflict which will
claim it as one of the principals.'Braddock
Neua
Mrs. Laura E. Howey is lecturing i i the
principal towns of Montana in the interests
of the W. C. T. U. of which she is territorial
president Her addresses are highly commended.
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RELIGIOUS READING?
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Fonr KotlMi.
"Lookup and down!"?do you mind ho# -c
toe tree-top
Rejoices in sunshine denied to its root!
And hear how the lark, gazing skyward, is
flooding . . ,\
All earth with itp song, while the groundbird
is mute.
"Look out and not in f?see the sap rushing
outward
In leaf, bud and blossom; all winter it laj
Imprisoned, while earth wore a white desolation;
Now Nature is glad with the beauty of
May.
"Look forward, not back!"?Tii the dual
of creation,
The chime of the seasons as onward they
roll;
Tie the pulse of the world, 'tis the hope of ,
the age*,?
This voice of the Lord in the depths of the
soul!
"Lead a hand P1?like the rait that turns
. night into morning,
The moon, that guides storm-driven sailor*
to land:?
Ah, life were worth living with this for itr
watchword?
"Look up, out, and forward, and each
lend a hand!"
?{Mrs. Caroline A. Mason. \
"Sell AIL"
Is this demand, "sell all," universal! No,
there would be no one to buy. ( The univer
sai aemana is to 09 reuay w give up nun*
one loves best. God could give up his dearly
beloved son. So could Abram. Peter could
give up boats and the storms his ragged
nature loved, and every one must be able to ..^la
give up whatever God asks. Just here,
thousands stumble. They are ready to give
up all but one thing,?pride of in- '
tellect, unbelief, vocation in Ilfa,
anything but to be, a minister _ ^
or missionary. And the test comes jaston
that one crucial point, that citadel of obstin
acy. But Christ, who had given up th?
wealth and fealty of the universe is his sublime
service, saw its result on himself, and
and says to men "Follow me,"?follow, not
only on earth, but to and in the highest
heaven. Suffer with me, and we wfil be
glorified together. And the suffering is not ?'
worthy to do compared with the glory.?
[Bishop Warren in Sunday School Tirusa.
"Too late."
These are solemn and fearful words; but
they are warranted by the parable, as applying
to souls seeking entrance into the king- *.-l
dom of heaven. The "wise virgins" welcome
the procession, pass on with it, enter <
the banqueting house, and sit down to the
feast These represent such as are ready for
the coming of their lord. Readiness consists
insincere repentance of sin, true faith in
Jeans Christ as Saviour, hearty acceptance
of Him as redeemer and Lord, open confes- :--s?;
sion and prayerful obedience. ~Z These have
no preparation to make when the Lord ,
comes. They have been waiting and watch- v r*
ing. Their work is done. They are saved . '<
with and everlasting salvation. The 'foolish.
virgins" represent such as are unready. SS
They, however, come calling for
mercy. Their- eyes are open npon all the .'.'is
consequences of past folly. But they find
it too latel Tljey are recognized by the .
ere at searcher of hearts as not belonging to
the true procession. They have hadmany a .
pressing invitation, and many an abounding
opportunity. But they have not heeded the
invitations; have not embraced the opoortunities.
The door is shut Too late! Cont-nt
with a mere formal life, they have
never been disciples. They, would not be Instruct
ed in tne way of the Lord: "
but chose their own way. The "wise"
are safely housed. The unwise are forever
excluded. Blessed hope for
the Christian. Fearful disappointment- . --t
for the careless and the formal. This k our
time of opportunity; this our day of gracei j. '^g?l
"True repentance is never too late; but late
repentance is seldom true." No .wonder the
Saviour counsels all to watch.' To us the
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OUIl Ul limn llxaj wuio av nu; mvim w?
moment. ''Watch" is a sentinel virtue. "In
bo attitude of mind and heart dees man incarnate
his noblest end, as man, active to
faith and in good work*, he awaits the sec* ' .''7*
ond coming of Christ" Now .the door is
open. Brand by the door will be shntl?
[?. T. Observer.
Sanliff Fatlipn.
What ccnld be a more sweet and beautiful
fulfilment of the prophecy (la. 49:28) than < ^
the life and recent decease of the great German
emperor?
Those who witnessed one year since the
celebration of the ninetieth birthday of Em- . j
peror William, trembled for the health of - -.*
the aged monarch at wnose feet such a
mapvallnna Whnta nf Iata hfllMP And v?n. ' .
6ration was laid, but none imagined that '~v3j
unharmed by praise, in one short year be .
would go do,wn to the grave bowed down
by the weight of months of sorrow.
Before Prince Wilhelm, the most dearly
beloved by the Emperor of his grand- 'C-Cjjj
children, could reach Berlin, the ninety-one- ' ..t
years old Emperor lay on his dying bed. Ha
appeared for the last time on Saturday at " tf
the window to greet the passing troops, and " '.-v v3g
he crowd which daily watches the spectacle.
On Sunday he remained in bed, ana seemed
to realize from the first that his illness was
probably the last one, requesting that the
sacrament dt the Lord's Supper might be administered
to him. His whole heart went
out toward the sick am whom he had not
seen for nine long months, saying: "if I
could but see Fritz." and as he grew worse:
"I have but one wish more, that I might embrace
my son." *. "v
jq Thurelay afternoon, Dr. Koegel, dh* t
of the couFt preachers, and special chaplain
I to the royal family, remained long by the
bedside, reading selections from the scriptures
and offering prayer. The sick man ~ V :&
joined in repeating a part of the
Twenty-third Psalm, ana also tha
verse. "For me to live is Christ, and to
die is gain," giving a. fervent amen to &
prayer and scripture. To his daughter, who
said to him, "Papa, had you not Letter rest
now?:| he replied, "No; 1 shall have plenty of
time to rest by-and-bye." At another time
be remarked. 1>I never could understand
why poor Fritz should be so sorely tried, bat
I shall know all about it soon." .
All Thursday night anxious -watchers
stood by the bedside of the dying man. At
four, those relatives who had sought a little
rest were again summoned. Princo Bismarck,
who, after a sleeping dose, had just
; fallen into a light slumber, was again
aroused and quickly reached the palace. Von < >r'
" ?*-? <1 Ktt fU
aiOllUtt was kutuo. luoinnuiuuivu w>
bedside and kissed the band of the dying
man; but all was not orer till half-past eight
when the Kaiserin wascarriod fainting from . ' -K
the room. At ten appeared extra sheets announcing
the death or Kaiser William L
'The event recalls to mind his declaration . ' ?
of allegiance to Christ a few years since.'
The occasion was a visit to the Dom Chapel,
in Berlin, to see a new painting with which
the venerable building has been recently
adorned. The subject of the painting was
the kings of the earth laying their crowns
and sceptres at the feet of Christ. In reply
to an address from Dr. Koegel, the court
preacher, the emperor said: "As for wha^
you have said about me personally, I aocep*
it with all modesty as a man whose days ar?
now numbered. In my life-time heaven ha
covered mo wicn oiessmga uiu uwiub^is
pecinlly in my old age. Bat the homage
paid me I lay at the throne of the Highest,
from whom wo derive strength to execute
all the best things that can oe done on
earth." Further on he said: "Within tha
last few years, before the eyes of all of yOo,
things have happened by which Prussia has
been raised higner than ever we expected.
You have all been wituosses of the great V-l
work accomplished, which will continue to
endure if its foundations remain in purity
of religion and progress in every good deed.
In mv old days I can call heaven to witness
that I have looked upon religion as the sola
foundation on which everything reposes, and
aa the highest good of my people." - - ,-ji
-:i?2
The Blood of Drinkers.
The Medical Record, discussing the subject -~
of 4'Science and Drink," says that Harley
has found ttiac, even in tue aiumi pi v^u> uu?
of five p r cent., alcohol "exerts a powerful
chemical effect on b!ood. so powerful as to
entirely derange one of Its most important
functions?namely, the function of respiration.
The alcohol seems to act like an
asphyxiant, inasmuch as it not alone diminishes
the power of the red corpuscles to absorb
oxygen, but to exhale carbonic acid,.
and that, too, in the same way (though to a
somewhat less extent) as morphia doe?." 16
is held that it is because of this chemical
effect that the blood of the drinker is imperfectly
oxidized, unfitted for the purposes ot
nutrition, and predisposed to the gravest
forma of disease. ^ '
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