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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "The Clouds His Ohario;.*'
Text: "Who maketh the clouds His
Chariot."?Psalm civ., 3.
Brutes are constructed so as to look down.
Those earthly creatures that have wings
when they rise from the earth still look
down, and the eagle searches for mice in the
erass and the raven for carcasses in the field.
Man alone is ma le to look up. To induce
t him to look up God makes the sky a picture
gallery, a Dusseldorf, a Louvre, a Luxembourg,
a Vatican that eclipses all that German,
or French, or Italian art ever accomplished.
But (Jod has failed so far to attract
the attention of most of us by the scenery of
the sky, We go into raptures flover owctrs
in the soil, but have little or no appreciation
i of the "morning glories" that bloom on the
I wall of the sky at sunrise or the dahlias in
I the clouds at sunset. We are in ecstasies
over a gobelin tapestry or a bridal veil of
rare fabric, or a snowbank of exquisite curve,
but see not at all, or see without emotion,
the bridal veil of mist that covers the face of
the Catskills, or the swaying upholstery
around the couch of the dying day, or the
snowbanks of vapor piled up in the heavens.
My text bids us lift our chin three or four
inches and open the two telescop-s which
under the forehead are put on swivel easily
turned upward, and see that the clouds are
not merely uninteresting signs of wet or dry
weather, but that they are embroidered
canopies of shade, that they are fhe conservatories
of the sky, that they are thrones
of pomp, that thoy are crystalline bars, that
they are paintings in water co!or, tbnt they
are the angels of the mist, that they are
great cathedrals of light with broad aisles
for angelic feet to walk through and bow at
altars of amber and alabaster, that
they are the mothers of the dew,
that they are ladders for ascending
and descending glories, Cotopaxis of
belchinz flame, Niagaras of color, that they
are the masterpieces of the Lord Hod Almighty.
The clouds are a favorite Bible
simile and the sacred writers have made
much use of them. After the deluge God
hung on a cloud in concentric bands the
colors of the spectrum, saying: "I do set my
bow in the clouds." As a mountain is sometimes
entirely hidden by vapors, so, says
God, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud
thy transgressions." David measured the
divine goodness and found it so high he
apostrophized: '"Thy faithfulness reaches unto
the clouds.' As sometimes there are thou
-* " tfcn
sanus ui uctrvcs vi ? ?| 'vi stun
heavens, so, says Isaiah, will be the converts
in the millenium, "as clouds and as doves."
As in the wet season no sooner
does the sky clear than there comes
another obscuration, so, says Solomon,
one ache or ailment of old folks has no more
than gone than another pain comes "as
clouds return in the rain." A column of
illumined cloud led the Israelites across the
wilderness. In the bonk of Job, Elihu, watchin?
the clou ls. could not understand why
they did not fall or why they did not all roll
together, the laws of evaporation and condensation
then not being understood, and he
cries out: "Dost thou know the balancing of
the clouds'!" When I read my text it suggests
to me that the clouds are the Creator's
eauipage, and their whirling masses are the
wheels, and the tongue of the cloud is the
pole of the celestial vehicle, and the winds
are the harnessed steads, and God is the
Royal occupant and driver "who maketh
the clouds His chariot"
To understand the psalmist's meaning in
the text you must know that the chariot of
old was sometimes a sculptured brilliancy
made out of ivory, sometimes of solid silver,
and rolled on two wheels which were
fastened to the axle by stout pins, and the
awful defeat of Genomaus by Pelops was
caused by the fact that a traitorous charioteer
had inserted a lin<b pin of wax instead of a
linch pin of iron. All of the six hundred
' TDl*nnsvV* lnof ltr.nK nino in
uuariuio vi J u^iavu iwt vuou uuva ?u
the Red Sea, for the Bible says: "The Lord
took off their wheels." Look at the long
flash of Solomon's fourteen hundred ehario's,
and the thirty thousand chariots of the
Philistines If you have ever visited the
buildings where a kin;? or queen keeps the
coaches of state, as I have, you know that
king; and queens have great varieties of
turnout. The keeper tells you: "This is the
state carriage, and used only on great
ccasions." "This is the coronation
carriage, and in it the king rode
n the day he took the throne." "In this the
Queen wont to open Parliament" "This is
the coach in which the Czar and the Sultan
rode on the occasion of their visit." All
costly and tesselated and enriched and emblazoned
are they, and v. hen the driver takes
the reins of the ten white horses in his hands,
and amid mounted troops and hands in full
force sounding the national air, the splendor
starts and rolls on under archer entwined
with banners, and amid the huzza of hundreds
of thousands of spectators the scene is
memorable. But my text puts all such occasions
into insignificance, as it represents
the King of the Universe coming to the door
of his palace, and the gilded vapors of the
heavens rolling up to His feet, and He stop
pin? in ami taking tho reins of the galloping
winds in His hand starts in triumphal ride
under the arch~s of sapphire, and over the
atmospneric highways of opal and chrysolite,
the clou ls His chariot.
Mv hearers, do not think that God belittles
Hims?lf when he takes such conveyance.
Do you know that the clouds are among the
most wondrous and majestic things in the
whole universe? Do you know that they are
flying lakes and rivers and oceans? God
waved His hand over them and said: "Coma
up higher!" and they obeyed the mandate.
That cloud instead of being, as it seems, a
email gathering of vapor a few yards wide
and high is really seven or eight miles across,
and is a mountain, from its base to its top,
15,000 feet, 18,000 feet, 20,000 feet, and rut
through with ravines 50;K) feet deep. No.
David did not make a fragile or unworthy
representation of God in the text when he
spoke of the clouds as His chariot. But as I
suggested in tho case of an earthly king, He
has His morning cloud chariot and evening
cloud chariot?the cloud chariot in which
He rode down to Sinai to onen the law, and
the cloud chariot in which he rode down to
Tabor to honor the gospel, and the cloud
chariot in which He wj]l come to judgment.
When He rides out in His morning chariot
at th:s season, about six o'clock, he puts golden
coronets on the dome of cities, and sil
vers the rivers, and our. or tne aew manes a
diamond ring for the finger of every prases
blade, and bids good cheer to invalids ivho in
the night said: "Would God it were morning."
From this morning cloud chariot He
distributes light, light for the earth and light
for the heavens, light for the land and light
for the sea, great bars of it, great wreathes
of it, great columns of it. a world full of it.
Hail Him in worship as every morning He
drives out in His chariot of morning cloud,
and cry with David:
"My voice shalt Thou hoar in the morning:
in the morning will I direct my prayer unto
Thee nod look up" I rejoice in these Scripture
ejaculations: "Joy corneth in the morning."
'"Mv soul waiteth for Thee more than
they that watch for the morning," "If 1 take
the wing of the morning," "The eyelids of
the morning," "The morning cometh," "Who
is she that looketh forth as the morning;''
"His going forth is prepared as the morning,"
"As the morning spread on the mountains,"
That thou snoumst visit mm every
morning." What a mighty thing the King
throws from His chariot when He throws us
the morning!
Yea; He has his ovening cloud chariot. It
is made out of the saffron and the gold and
the purple and the orange and the vermilion
and upshot flame of the sunset That is the
place where the splendors that have marched
through the day, having ended the procession,
throw down the torches and set the
heavens on fire. That is the only hour of the
day when the atmosphere is clear enough to
let us se9 the wall of the heavenly city with
its twelve manner of precious stones, from
foundation of jasper to middle strata
of sardius and on up to the coping
of amethyst At that hour wiili
out any of Elisha's supernatural vision
we see horses of fire and chariots of fire and
banners of fire and ships of fire and cities of
fire, seas of fire, and it seems as if the last
conflagration had begun and there is a world
on fire. When God makes these clouds Kis
chariot let us all kneel. Another day past,
what have we done with it? Anotbc-r day
dead and this is its gorgeous catafalque.
I No*v is the tim* for what David called the
"evening sacrifice," or Daniel called the
"evening oblation." Oh! oh! what, a chariot
made out of evening cloud! Have you
hung over the ta(Trail on the ocean
and seen this cloudy vehicle roll over
the pavements of a calm summer
sea, the wheels dripping with the magnifioence?
Have you from the top of Ben
Lomond or the Cordilleras or the Berkshire
hills seen the day pillowed for the night, and
yet had no aspiration of praise and homage?
Oh, what a rich God we have that He can
Lr
put on one evening sky pictures that
excel Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment"
and Ghirlandjo's "Adoration of
the Magi" and -whole galleries of
Madonnas, and lor only an nour, ana tueu
away, and the next evening put on the same
sky something that excels all that the
Raphaels and the Titans and the Rembrandts
ana the Corregios and the Leonardo da Vincis
ever executed, and then draw a curtain of
mist over them never again to be exhibited!
How rich God must be to have a new chariot
I of clouds every evening!
But the Bible tells us that our King also
has a black chariot. "Clouds and darkness."
! we are told, "are round about him." That
! chariot is cloven out of night, and that night
j is troubla When He rides forth in that
| black chariot pestilence and earthquake and
famine and hurricane and woe attend Him.
! Then let the earth tremble. Then let na;
tions pray. Again and again He has ridden
! forth in that chariot of black clouds, across
i England, France, Italy. Russia, and America,
; and over all nations. That which men took
! for the sound of cannonading at Sehastopol,
I at Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir, at
i Hunker Hill, were only the rumblings of the
j black chariot of the Almighty. Ave, it is
. the chariot of stormcloud armed with thun.
derholts. and neither man nor angel nor devil
| nor earth nor hell nor heaven can resist Him.
j Un those boulewards of blue this chariot
never turns out for anything. Aye, no one
else drives there. Under one wheel o?
i that chariot Babylon was crushed and Baalher>k
fe!l deid and the Roman Empire was
i prostrate I and Atlantis, a whole continent
j that once connected Europe with America,
I sank clear out of sight so that the longest
anchor of ocean steamer cannot touch the top
I of its highest mountains. The throne of tfte
I Cresars was le?s than a pebble under the
right wheel of this chariot, and the Austrian
despotism less than a snowflake under the left
wheel. And over destroyed worlds on worlds
that chariot has rolled without a jar or .iolt.
This black chai iot of war cloiifd rolled up
to the northwest of Europe in 1812 and four
j hundred thousand men marched to take Mosj
cow, but that chariot of clouds rolled back,
! and only twenty-five thousand out of the four
| hundred thousand troops lived to return. No
j gr<=at snow storm like that had ever before or
| has ever since visited Russia. Aye, the chariot
: of the Lord is irresistible. There is
! only one thing that can halt or turn any of
1 His chariots, and that is prayer. Again and
: azain it has stooped it, wheeled it around,
j and the chariot of black clouds under that
! sanctified human breath has blossomed into
such brightness and color that men and
anzels had to veil their faces from its brightness.
Mark you, the ancient chariot which
j David uses as "a symbol in my text had only
! two wheels.aml that was that they might tarn
I quickly, two wheels taking less than hal
| the time to turn that four wheels would
j have taken. And our Lord's chariot has
j only two wheels, and that means instant re
| versai, ana mscam neip, ana instant uenver- i
lance. .While the combined forces of the
u liverse in battle array could not stop his j
] black chariot a second or diverge it an inch, J
j the driver of that chariot says: "Call upon j
| Me in the day of trouble and I will dej
liver thee." "While they are yet
: speaking I will hear." Two-wheeled
, chariot, one wheel .-justice and the other
j wheel mercy. Aye. they are swift wheels,
j A cloud, whether it belongs to the cirrhus,
i the clouds that float the highest; or belongs
i to the stratus, the central ranges; or to the !
' cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move j
j 3lowly along the sky if it moves at all. But ;
; many clouds eo at a speed that would make j
a vestibule limited lightning express train
' seem lethargic, so swift is the chariot of our
j God; j'ea, swifter than the storm, swifter
! than the light. Yet a child ten years old has
been known to reash up, and with the hand j
I of prayer take the courser of that chariot j
by the bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn
| it aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel
I stopped it. Elijah stoppod it Hszelciah j
' stopped it. Daniel stopped it. Joshua I
' stopped it Esther stopped it Ruth stopped
i it Hannah stopped it Mary stopped it
: My father stoppea it My mother stopped it
I 41v sister stODDed it We have in our Sab
I bath-schools "children who again and again
1 and again have stopped it.
| Notice that these old-time chariots, which
i my text uses for symbol, had what we would
I call a high dash-board at the front, but were
j open behind. And the king would stand at
the dash-board and drive with his own hands,
! And I am glad that He, whose chariot the |
j clouds are, drives Himself. He does not let |
I natural law drive, for natural law is deaf. He
; does not let fate drive, for fate is merciless,
j Bat our Father King drives Himself.
! and He puts His loving hand on the reins of
j the flying coursers, and He has a loving ear
! open to the cry of all who want to catch His
attention. Oh, I am so glad that my Father
| drives, and never drives too fast, and never
| drives too slow, nnd never drives off the I
j precipice, and that He controls,by a bit that
: never breaks, the wildest and most raging
j circumstancea I heard of a ship captain
j who put out with his vessel with a large
number of passengers from Buffalo on Lake j
! Erie, very early in the season and while ;
there was" much ice. When they were well j
: out the captain saw to his horror that the ice ;
: was (jjusiug ill ua liilli 11 uiu an sji&oo, auu uo ,
j saw no way out from destruction and death.
1 He called into the cabin the passengers and
j all the crew that could be spared from their
| posts, and told them that th .' sh p must be lost
j unless (iod interposed, and although he was
not a Christian man ho said: '"Let us pray,"
and they all kDeit asking God to come "for
their deliverance. They went back to the
deck, and the man at the wheel shouted: "All I
right, cap'n, it's blowing nor' by nor' west j
now." A\ bile the prayer was -joing on in the
rabin the wind changed and blew the ice out of
the way. The mate asked^Shall Iputon more
sail, cap'n?" "No!"' responded the captain.
"Don't touch her. Some one else is managing
this ship."
Oh, men and women,shut in on all sides
by icy troubles and misfortunes, in earnest j
prayer put all your affairs in the hunds of
I i>od. You will come out all riaht. Some one
| Vse is managing the shin! It dirt w?1s m
! happen so that when Leyrlen was beseiged,
; and the Duke of Alva felt sure of his tri
% -v . ?J i .1 A 4-1.A
I umpn, suddenly iue wmu lumeu, auu mo
| swollen waters compelled him to stop
' the siege. and the city wa9 saved,
j God that night drove along the
coast of the Netherlands in a black chariot
of storm cloutL It did not merely happen so
I that Luth<.;r rose from the place where he
was sitting just in time to keen from Ix-ing
I crush? I by a stone that the instant after fell
| on the very spot. Hftd he not escaped where
would have been the Information? it did not
merely happen so that Columbus
was saved trom drowning by an oar
tint was floating on the waters. Otherwise,
who woiul have unveiled America?
Jt did not merely happen so that when
(Jeor^e Washington was in Brooklyn a great
fog settled down overall the place where this
church stands, and over all this end of Long
Island, and that under that fog he and his
army escaped from the clutches of Generals
11 owe and Clinton. In a chariot of mist and
cloud the God of American Independence
Hn tl?of nillnw nf>nn?rt!a't,ion
iwucaiung uvio. v>i buuv p<iiv<> vw.?v.~...
I put down my head to sieop at night.
On that soli.l foundation 1 builu when 1 see
this nation in political paroxysm every four
years, nor. been use tiiey care two cents about
whether it is high tariff, or low tariff, or uo
fcsriff at all, but only whether the Democrats
or the Republicans shall have
tha salaried offices. Yea, when European
nations are holding their breath,
wondering whether Russia or Germany will
launch a war that will incarnadine a continent,
I fall bank on the faith that my
Father drives. Yes, I cast this as an anchor,
and plant this as a column of strength, and
iift this as a telescope, and build this as a
fortress, and propose without any perturbation
to launch upon an unknown future triumphant
in the fact that my Father drives. Yes.
He drives very near, i know that many of
the clouds that you see in summer are far
off, the bases of some of them five mihs
above the earth. High on the highest peaks
of the Andes travelers have seen clouds far
higher than where they were standing.
Gay Lussac, after he had risen in a
balloon twenty-three thousand teet, still
saw clouds above him.
But t'.iere are clouds that touch the earth
and discharge the.r rain, and. though the
clouds out of which God's chariot is made
may sometimes be far away, olten they are
close by, and they touch our shoulders, and
they touch our homt's, and they touch us all
over. 1 have read of two r-des that tho
Lord took in two different chariots
of clouds, and of another that He
will take. Une day, in a chariot ot
clouds that were a mingling of fog and
smoke and fire. Go! drove down to the top
of a terrible crag fifteen huudred feet high,
now called Jebel-Musa, then called Mount
Sinai, and He stepped out of His chariot
i among th* split shelvings of rock. The
i mountairs shook as with an ague, and there
: were ten volleys of thunder, each of the ten
emphasizing a tremendous "Thou shalt," or
"Thou shalt not." Then the Lord resumed
His chariot of cloud aud drove up
the hills of heaven. They were
dark and portentous clouds that made that
chariot at the giving of the law. But one
day He took another ride, and this time down
to Mount Tabor, the clouds out of which His
chariot was made,were bright clouds, roseate
clouds, illumiued clouds, and music rained
from all of them, and tbe music was a mingling
of carol and chant and triumphal
march: ''This is My beloved iSon, in whom I
am well pleased." Transfiguration chariot I
"Oh," say hundreds of you, "I wish I could
have sean those chariots?the black one that
brought the Lord to Jebel-Musa ut the giving
"''ha la 1*7 onri fch? white one that brought
Him down to Tabor." Never mind, you will
see something grander than that, and it will
be a mightier mingling of th* sombre and
the radiant, and the pomp of it will
be such that the chariots in which
Trajan, and Diocletian, and Zenobia,
and Caesar, and Alexander, and
all the conquerors of all the ages rode will
be unworthy of mention; and what stirs me
the most is that when he comes in that
chariot of cloud and goes back, He will ask
you and me to ride with Him both ways.
How do I know that tiie judgment
chariot will be made out of clouds/
Revelation L, 7: "Behold He cometh with
clouds." Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone as He does now. He is going
to bring along with Hiin escort of ten full
regiments. Inspiration says: "Behold the
Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints."
| But those figures simply mean that there
i will be a great throng. And as we shall
| probably through the atonement of Christ
be in heaven before that, I hope
that we can come down in that escort
of chariots. Christ in the centre
chariot, but chariots before Him to clear the
j way, and chariots behind Him, and chariots ;
, on either side of Him. Perhaps the proph- I
; ets and patriarchs gof the old dispensation j
I may ride ahead each oua charioted?Abraham I
I and Moses and Ezekiel and Dayid and Joohua, I
* - I
i who iorotoia nis nrst coming. \ju ohuci o???o >
| of the central chariot apostles and martyrs
; who in the same or approximate centuries i
I suffered for Him?Paul, Stephen, and Igna- j
i tius, aud Polycarp, and Justin Martyr, and j
: multitudes who went up in chariot of fire j
: now coming in chariot of cloud, whiie in the |
rear of the oentral chariot shall be the multi- j
' tudes of latter days and of our own timo who
| have tried to serve the Lord, ourselves I hope
: among them "Behold the Lord cometh with
ten thousand of His saints." Yes, although
all unworthy of such companionship we
want to come with Him on that day to see
the last of this old world which was our residence.
Coming through the skies myriads of
| chariots rolling on and rolling down. By
that time how changed this world will be.
: Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all mossed
I and lichened, its poor houses all palaces,
, its sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues,
: and in the same pasture field lion and calf,
and on the same perch hawk and dove. Now
the chariots of cloud strike the earth, Ailing
j all the valleys, and covering all the mountain
s.'des, and halting in all the cemeteries
and graveyards and over the waters deep
where the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus.
A loud blast of the resurrection
trumpet is given and the bodies of the dead t
I rise and join the spirits from which they have ;
long been separated. Then Christ, our King,
' +1%A Ap rtlnn/1 wifh hie !
| I ISIU^ in buu tcuvci uuauvu wi viwuu| ??hm ? .
j scarred hands waves the signal, and the I
chariots wheel and come into line for glorious |
ascent. Drive on! Drive up! Chariots of }
cloud ahead of the King, chariots of I
cloud on either side of the King, j
chariots of cloud following the Kin?. Up- I
ward and a past starry hosts, and through
immensities, and across infinitudes, higher,
higher, higher, unto the gates, the shining
gates. Lift up your heads, ye Everlasting
Gates, for Him who maketh the clouds His
chariot, and who through condescending ana I
uplifting grace invites us to mount and ride
with Him!
" TEMPERANCE. 1
Rally Bound the Banner.
Rally rouud the temperance banner. Wake ;
the echoes with your song.
Shake the hills with your hosannaa. Swell ;
the chorus loud" and long.
Onward still the cause is speeding. Soon j
will dawn a brighter day. _
Where humanity lies bleeding. Temperance i
soon shall win the sway.
Rally round the temperance standard. In |
the war against this foe.
"Who will lead the glorious vanguard? Who j
will deal the conquering blow?
Strike now in and out of season. Dash aside
the poison bowl.
Save immortal man his reason. Strike the \
fetters from his soul.
Rally ropnd the temperance banner. On the
hilltops let it wave. j
Young and old, with loud hosannas. Cheer
the hearts ye toil to save. j
Wives and children join your praises. Fill j
the air with glad refrain,
As the daffodils and daisies breathe their ,
perfume after rain.
G. H". Vouk,in "Battle Axe of Temperance." j
Dr. B. W. Richardson on Alcohol. :
In ]>Sii3. and for a year or two before, I had |
been making some original researches into ,
the properties of a rare chemical substance
named uitrite of amyL Then 1 went on to \
inquire into the methyl series, and so step by j
step continued, reporting every year until, iu ;
ISM, 1 began with the alcohols. It was at j
one time supposed that there was only one of j
these, but there are now known to be several.
Now, the first great fact that startled '
me when examining "into the alcohols was i
that they unque-tionably lowered the temperature
of the body. 1 did not thon know j
that any one else had noticed this before me; !
but 1 know now that two or three others? j
Dr. John Davy (brother of .Sir Humphrey;, j
Dr. Rae, the Arctic u.spiorer, and Dr. Lees, J
of Leeds, hd all severally suspected this j
fact: but they hud not proved it by experimental
research. My great point was a dej
monstrntion by scientific instruments?by
the perfect thermometers now made.
That was the first step?the startling fact
that alcohol lowers temparature. Now for
the second. This came tYon the study of
anaesthetics. In watching t he action of alcoj
hoi,I found there were just the same four de!
grees or stages as in the action of anesthetics,
| viz., simple excitement without insensibility;
excitement with commencing insensibility;
1 insensibility absolute; and lastly, death-like ,
i insensibility. I came, therefore, to the con!
elusion that alcohol does not act after the
I manner of a food,but of a chemical substance
j like an anaesthetic. This, then, was the
! second step. This was followed up by tracing
j the changes and the modifications which
j take place" in the body from the continued
j use of alcohol. I reauhe 1 thus the third step
I or third conclusion, viz., that alcohol is a
prolific cause of death and of great harm to
tae internal organs of the body; it is, in fact
in its ordinary use, a slow poison.
I can no more accept th'e alcohols as food3
than I can chloroform, or ether, or methvlal.
That they produce a temporary excitement
is true: but as their general action is quickly
to reduce animal heat, I cannot see how they
can supply animal force. I see clearly how
they reduce animal power, and can show a
reason for using th?m in order to stop physical
pain or to stupefy mental pain; but that
they give strength?i. e., that they supply
j material for construction of fine tissue, or
throw force into tissues supplied by other
material?must be an error as solemn as it
is widespread. The true character of the
alcohols is that they are agcreeablo temporary
shrouds. The savage, with the mansions of
his soul unfurnished, buries his restless energy
under their shadow. The civilized man,
overburdened with mental labor or with engrossing
care, seeks the same shade; but it is
shade, after all, in which, in exact proportion
as he seeks it, the seeker retires from
perfect natural life.?CasseWs Mayazins.
A Monkey's Tcmperance Lesson.
In my youth, says a writer to an exchange,
I had a friend who Had a monkoy. We always
took him out 011 our chestnut parties.
He shook all our chestnuts for us. One day
my friend stopped at a tavern, and gava Jack
about half a glass of whiskey. .Jack took
the glass and drank its contents, the effects
of which soon set him skipping, hopping and
dancing. Jack was drunk. We agreed to
come to the tavern next day, and see if Jack
would drink again.
I called in the morning at my friend's
! but instead of being as usual on his box. Jack
I was not to be seen. We looked inside, and
| there he was. crouched up in a heup. "Come,"
said his master. Jack came out on throe legs,
applying his fore-paw to his head. Jack had
the headache. He was sick and couldn't go.
Bo we put it off three days. We then met
again at the tavern and provided a glass for
Jack. But where was he? Skulking behind
chairs. "Come here, Jack," said his master,
holding the glass out to him.
Jack retreated, and as the door opened he
slipped oat and in a moment was on the top
of the house. His master called him down.
Jack refused to ol>ey. My friend got a whip
and shook it at him". The monkey continued
on the ridgepole. His master got a gun and
pointed it at him. Jack slipped over to the
back of the building. He then got two guns
and had one pointed on each side of the
house, when the monkey jumped upon the
chimney and got down in one of the flues
and held 011 by his four-paws. My friend
kept that monkey twelve years afterwards,
but never asked him again to take whisky.
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EELIGIOUS READING.
The 2Hill? of (lie God*.
Hark! How the mills are grinding,
How the busy burrs go round,
With a low and harmonic humming,
Where the harvest grain is ground.
See! how the chaff is winnowed,
How the millsto' e's wond'rous might
Sends forth on the floor before us
The wheat in its robe of white,
So the powers of the Fate are grinding,
With a motion and plan fublime,
Our mortal acts and motives,
In the wonderful mills of time.
The mills of the gods are grinding?
Steadily, surely and slow?
The wheat and the chaff dividing
To the place where each should go
And the hapless chaff is winnowed;
But lives that are lived aiight,'
Like the grain on the floor before us,
Come forth all pure and white.
Ro t.he rolHntr hours ore crindinc.
And the pitiless years go round,
"With a slow and solemn motion
Where the mortal grain is ground.
JI?lc ni a Daily Help.
The sound of piano, flute, violin, or banjo
is essentially a cheerful homo sound, indicating
the absence of illness or affliction. In
seasons of bereavement the voice of music is
hushed. Whether or not the daughter shall
ever play so skillfully that her performances
can satisfy artistic critics, it is worth while
for her to practice if she plays well enough
only to please her father or mother. The
household group in the evening, with Ella at
the piano and the big brother by her side,
singing and turning her leaves, the younger
ones joining in the chorus, papa supplying a
deep bass like the rumble of a wave, is pleasant
to the eye as to the ear. Music is a daily
help over hard places, a sweetener of toil, a
soothing influence when there are signs of
rough weather in the domestic sky.
On the Sabbath evening, when the little
ones are allowed to sit up a half hour later
than on other days, bow charming it is to
sing over the dear hymns familiar to us
through many and varied experiences,linked
in thought with stories of other days and
with memories of dear ones whoBe voices
now join in the choru3 beside the crystal sea.
These home concerts on Sabbath evening are
full of tender sweetness, and do much to hallow
the home and make the home life
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Mirror*.
We are mirrors. We can not help being
reflec ors. We reflect in our characters
every influence that touches our lives. I am
Introduced to you. You speak one sentence
?I know that you are an Englishman or an
American or a Spaniard. You are a combination
of reflections. We become like those
with whom we associate. Two boys in a university
in England roomed together for
eight years. Toward the end of that time
these tw > boys were so much alike that it become
remarkable. They had reflected and
reflected until one was the image of the
other. If you called on one and lound the
other ono instead, you might talk to him
on the same subjects and expect to
receive the same answers that you
would from the other. I once knew a girl
who was growing so saintly that every one
wondered. No one guessed her secret. She
became very ill ana a dear friend of hers
obtained permission to open a locket which ;
she wore constantly about her neck. There
she saw engraved on the inside of the locket !
the clue to the secret: "Whom having not
seen we love." If we reflect the glory of
Cnrist we shall be changed from glory to ;
glory?th"t is fr >m character to character.
How this is I cannot tell. Had Paul written
in these times he would probably have
used the photograph instead of the
mirror as a symbol. I cannot tell how the
shadow which appears on the plate is fastened
there. No one can. And I can not tell
how character is changed. We reflect Christ
for a time, and then we are changed again
and then again, and so on from glory to
glory. First the blade, then the ear, and
then the full corn in the ear, and after that
it doth not yet appear what we shall be. Do
you not see the infinite possibilities of this?
We are to go on and on. We are to be God's
reflectors in this world.?[Prof. H. Drummond
in Christian Mirror.
8uy So.
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."
Let us testify to this iove of Christ How
strange that some, who we can scarcely I
doubt ore believers in the Lord Jesus
Christ, their conduct is so graceful and gracious,
refuse to take every opportunity of
testifying to His love and grace. Do not
think this command is written in vain: "Let
God's redeemed say so." Some won't say so.
They have been redeemed, yet they refuse to
tell others of Him who loved them and gave
Himself for them It is incredible; yet wo j
know it is so Why it should be so wo can- |
not tell. Because the remembrance of his
goodness is not only helpful to ourselves, but
strengthening to the f jith of others.
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."
Very simple words these "say so." "My
mother's ki s made me a painter," said Benjamin
West, recording how when, as a boy,
amusing himself with drawing and coloring,
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nis motaer eutei uu mo iww, uuu, uu.ibukvu
with his work, caught him up in her arms,
and covered him with kisses So we might
say we know not all Go 1 might be pleased to
do for us did we but give Him the gratitude
due to His name. Gratitude would bring us
fresh assurance of help in every time of need:
it would draw us nearer to God, and consequently
nearer to one another. A French i
cynic has said that men are very often
thankful for trivial gifts, but are
weighted down with great blessings, the
sense of obligation not seldom making them
enemies. Do not let it be so with us; God
has conferred on us the highest of ail possible
obligations in the gift of His Son?do
not let it be said wo are unthankful. God
has done great things for us, and let us siy
so. Do not bo afraid to confess it in His
presence and in the presence of
our fellow-men. There is nothing
to be concealed. Another French cynic I
has said, "Language is given to conceal our
thoughts.:l Do not let us use language to conceal
our gratitude to our Heavenly Father. If
we receive from heaven, no language can be
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too empnatic to ten it out ueiwc mm a??.?
before the universe. We can never do wrong
in praising God for His mercies. Ingratitude
is one of the crying sins of the day.
Men ask and receive, yet seldom return
thanks. One visiting an asylum for the
insane was accosted by one of the inmates:
"Have you thanke.l God this morning you
are not mad?" "I never thought of it."
So wo very of ten act. We forgot to think
God for His common mercies, and even
for His greatest and grandest of all mercies
?our deliverance from captivity, our redemption
by the blood of His son; His guiding
us as pilgrims. His bringing us out of
the prison-house, his breaking the bars assunder,
His raising us from deadly sickness,
or preserving us from it; His stilling the
storms and tempests of life, and His promise
of leading us safe hoire to heaven at last.
We do not think of these things?even
the last and best, the gift of His own dear
Bon, for us who deserve*! it not and desired
it not. All this done for us so freely; and
yet thousands have never gone to God and
said, "I thank Thee for sending Thy Son to
die for me; and that Thou didst find me by
Thy grace and didst quicken me when dead
in trespasses and sins." Thousands do not
believe thesa things, and therefore do not say
so: but thousands do believe, and yet do not
say so. Surely there is nothing to be ashamed
of in it There is nothing to make us shamefaced
in His great love in giving His Son to
die for us. Yet thousands know that Jesua
died for their sins who will not say so for
very nhame. There is plenty to make me
ashamed of myself, hut there is nothing to be
ashamod of iu God's love in giving His Son
for me. Let the redeemed of the Lord say
ol?[Rev. Dr. Paterson.
The Real Despots.
At a liquor dealers' banquet at Dalmonico's
one evening last week, one of the afterdinner
speakers is reported as saying that
the world was too much governed and "not
least by its own dear domestic despots, by its
homes and firesides." The speaker, of course,
omitted to sey how much the world was governed
by those other despots, the rum bottle
and the beer keg, \V hen it comes to a choice
of governments wo are inclined to the belief
that the world will prefer the "dear domestic
despots" to the grog-shops every time.
There are many, at least, who believe that it
would be well to give the "dear domestic
despots" a fair cUanco for a while.?New
Yvrk Observer.
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Where Woman is Humbled.
A** onort/lrtfo in 4V?o TT/vm/in'j uAm>7/7
A UUOVUV/bU 1U bUU ft \/HMV'I O F f V# W
shows the attitude in Germany toward
woman's part in puplic interests. At a
call made by an English couple upon a
German of eminence and his wife, talk
arose upon the public question of the
hour. The Engli-hman, perceiving that
the German lady was being left out of
the discussion, asked: "And what is
your opinion, madam?" Before she
could reply her Genhan lord made short
work of it: "Leave the room, meine
Liebc; these matters can be of no interest
to you."
The Oldest Woman Banker.
A group of bankers in a downtown
restaurant were discussing the question:
"Is the banking business conducive to
longevity?" when one of themaaid:
"i don't believe men in our line of
business are any more liable to die young
than preachers or doctors. There are a
dozen bank president'1, in New York
who have passed their seventieth year
and are still hale and active. Two or
three of these men have reached their
seventy-fifth year. There is a lady
banker, however, who is smarter for her
years than any of them. She is Mrs.
| Deborah Poww *, the head of the banking
firm of D. Power & !Son, at Laosingburg,
N. Y., and her age is uinety-nine years.
?New York Teleyram.
An Old Marriage Custom.
A curious old marriage custom, which
is still widely prevalent in Brittany, was
recently interpreted in a novel and
amusing manner. According to the
custom, the bridegroom, immediately
after the priest had wedded the couple,
' strikes his wife in the face, saying:
j "This is how you will fare if you make
i me angry," and then, kissing her, he
savs: "And this is how you will fare if
you treat me well." A short tim? ago a
young Breton married a German girl, and
after the ceremony was over began at
once to practice the first part of the
time-hoaored custom. The bride, who
was ignorant of the "inner meaning" of
what she considered an insult, turned
round on her lord and master and returned
the stroke, 9uying: "J.ook here, I
do not approve of such behavior," after
which the husband is said to have performed
the second part of the ceremony
q fKnn tV?o tkhq] flffprtion.
Whims in Millinery.
The American woman, in nothing, is
go whimsical as in her bonnet. The decided
Parisian styles are not popular in
this country, even in New York city,
the most Parisian city on this continent
in its tastes. London fashions are more
popular, but they are not followed closely.
New York miliners order bonnets
made in Paris to suit their trade here,
and many ladies who have been abroad
find that in New York city alone can
they procure a bonnet which is not exj
treme in taste and, above all, a bonnet
which fits them, an item often overlooked
by the Parisian hat maker. More
extreme and striking styles are worn in
Paris and London than will be tolerated
in New York. A few weeks may change
the entire complexion of the millinery I
outlook of to-day. The drygoods man |
can dictate to his customers what they I
shall wear, The milliner cannot, and it \
is not always safe to predict that the
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j nrst jmpormuuus ui lumiucijr nm m- i
J dicate what the fashions are to be.?
! Oootl Housekeeping.
Lamentation of an Exiled Queen.
} Marie, the exiled Queen of Naples,
I lives the year around in Paris, in hired
| apartments on a third floor, for which I
Bhe pays *1200 a year rent. The house j
is retired and unfashiouable, and the j
rooms are furnished with almost meagre
simplicity. This recluse-like life is fol- !
lowed by the Queen's own desire, to !
which her husband readily accedes. She
j feels that she is an outcast from her.
j former estate, and therefore is deter- j
| mined to live like an outcast. "If," ,
I she once once remarked, 4,I remain at |
the bottom of the ladder I shall at least;
have no fear of falling further. If I j
cherish no hopei I shall suffer no disap- j
pointments. If I set ray heart on nothing
I thall not be bereaved. I went to
Naples a queen, and in a year I left an
exile. My rooms in the palace there ;
were scarcely put in order for me when I j
was driven out by the revolution. Then |
! we went to Home. My husband owned
! a palace there, and made it our home. j
i What then? In a few years Victor Em- j
i manuel drove us out of it. We fled to i
England and then to France. We were !
about to make a permanent home and
devote ourselves to our only child, when
that child died. Has not misfortune
pressed us cruelly? Doubtless, if we
were to purchase a house and seek to |
make a permanent home it would be :
taken from U3. If we were to make
friends we would lose them. No, we
are exiles and wanderers, and such we
must ever remain."?New York News.
The Trousseau Not So Elaborate.
A good Parisian dressmaker says that
the troussea has ceased to be the gigantic
outlit which it used to be. Fashions j
now change so rapidly that what is in i
vogue to-aav may be antiquated six j
month* hence. Half a-dozen dresses at j
most are uow given to a bride ot tip-top :
quality by her parents. The usual number
is live, to wit: The dress, par excellence,
which can be made to serve, divested
of orange blossoms, at dinner
parties and the opera; a traveling costume;
a visiting gown; a morning
gown, and a ball dress. There is the
same economy shown in providing hats,
bonnets and mantles, and underclothing j
is only provided in a quantity amply
necessary for cleanliness and comfort.
It is found that the store-keeper is the
best custodiau of feminine finery, aud
that the less there is given over to |
the safe-keeping of the servants, the!
better. Then a quantity of lumbering |
boxes are such a trial to temper, and
j such an impediment to ruuning, accord- {
I ing to one's humor, from crtie place to I
! another. It is a fearful responsibility for J
a Frenchman entering the wedded state
to have a wife with a voluminous trous- j
seau. If she dies within three years !
after her marriage, he is bound (allowance j
being made for wear and tear) to return j
it to her parents. Whatever objects are j
lost must be accounted for. He is furnished
with a list of the garments, and |
another is retained by the bride's family.
The notaries of bride and bridegroom '
also receive one each. The struggle for :
influence between the mother-in-law!
designate begins when the bride-elect!
must be placed in the hands of a dress- I
maker for her outfit. One of the old j
ladies wants her own favorite priestess j
of fashion, and so does the other. There i
is often such a tug of war that the
match is broken off.?Argonaut.
The Era of Hair Dressing.
The era of hair dressing is at hand,
days in which the simpler styles will be
forgotten and women shall vie in the
elaboration of their ti ssses as now they
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do in the cut of their gowns. What
is much nearer and surer is the prophesy
of growing individuality in the arrange
ment of the hair. Fashions in hair dressing
are dangerous things to pass from
hand to hand. What is one woman's
beauty is the deformity of another.
Good-bye and bon voyage to you,
Psyche knot. The pug of Cupid's lady
love has worn well with the summei
girl. It is easy to arrange under sailor
hats and easy to keep in place. But to
wear it with a home toilet wants a face
as regular as Sappho's, a figure poised
like L*iana's, the lightness of movement
and grace of a Hebe, the culture of an
Aspasia and the clinging robes of a goddess
or eastern queen. A.Ias for the
commonplace and pug-nosed girl, the
high-cheek boned, the long chinned girl,
the girl of the Koman nose and hard
featuies, when the Psyche knot walks
abroad, degenerated into a hair club,
with two corkscrew curls depending like
the tassels of a patrolman's knob stick
from the end.
Hair is going higher; it is also coming
lower, and neither style ought of necessity
to matter much to you or me. Look
at your face first and no fashion that
suits it will be wrong.
< f the simpler styles, which one need
not call a nair-drcsser to arrange, a flat
coil of smtill braids wound pancakc
fashion against the back of the head
threatens to come in. With a full,round
cast of features and straying tendrils oJ
front hair to relieve it, this plate coiffure
sometimes goes "well. A small, round
coil, low in the neck, but not resting on
the collar is more generally becoming
than any other suit of hair; it is almost
indispensable when the ears are prominent
or large, piling the hair on top ol
the head, mak'ng, in such cases, the
offending members more noticeable.
Ill-shaped ears want the hair pulled
loose above and behind them.
For the evening toilet it is probable
that the bang has received its death
blow. It struggles bravely, but the
Louis XV. and XVI. styles will kill it.
It would not be surprising if a bare forehead
were exhibited this winter by many
women who can doit with impunity and
some who can't. A coming style calls
for a small soft roll over which the front
hair is carried up in waves, the ends
being coiled and fastend in round, wavy
loops with small gold or amber combs.
A curl or two is allowed to fall on the
forehead, but not to hide the brow.
With such a coiffure the home hail
dresser twists the back hair into a fiattisb
French loll, coiliiig the ends loosely on
top. For occasions calling for more elabo
rate arrangements as miny puns, twists
and loopsas the mind of man ever devised
are intricately entwined.?Detroit
Free Press.
Fashion Notes.
Ribbon bonnets will be worn through
the autumn.
Many of the new felt bonnets have
appliijue designs upon them.
Gray and blue reseda and ruby art
likewise effectively combined.
Embroidered velvets appear among
the novelties of the present season.
Many of the autumn gowns have silk
shirt waists, belted and worn with coats.
Two colors of velvet are sometimes
combined in the new toques, with excel
lent effect.
Cashmere colored brocaded ribbons art
shown in widths for bonnet trimming:
and sashes.
Miniature brooms of green gold, with
platinum handles, are worn as earrings
by ladies of political proclivities.
G.ltrsk*. KnU Kii/tlrloa worrinff frnm fwr. I
VJ1X ? v.1 ugm k/uvuiv) w? j *"o ?f v
to six inches in width, and simulating
the antique in pattern, are now in
vogue.
New walking boots are laced in front,
the uppers being made of the materia',
of the dress, and foxed with russel
leather.
Ostrich feathers of all lengths are being
restored to favor for trimming bonnets
and large hats for autumn and
winter.
A novel garniture for bonnets consists
of three Greek fillets, of gold, silver, 01
jet. banded across the top through puffs
of velvet.
Polonaises witii diagonal ironts are in
high favor, and have the advantage oi
being becoming alike to slender and
stout figures.
Long redingotes, plaited skirts, polonaises
and Dircctoire coats are the leading
characteristics of the nearly imported
gowns.
A favorite arrangement of colors in a
costume is a brown polonaise over a
green skirt, which is bordered with
brown stripes.
Large "picture hats," similar to those
worn during the summer, are imported
in felt and velvet for dressy autunrn
and winter wear.
Black and white onyx is the thing fot
half mourning jewelry, while inch thick
rings of jet are the proper caper for the
earrings in the depth of woe.
Satin-woven stripes appear in the new
woolens, n:ainly in gray green aud gray
blue shades, and are made up witn metal
accessories, either galloon or embroidery.
The fichu shawls of net, black 01
white, aod lace-edged, worn throughout
the summer, are now supplemented with
others of China crape, black, white or
colored.
Bad Boys Are a Mother's Pride.
"Maybe you think," says a bachelot
cynic, in the Times Democrat, "that
mothers break their hearts over children
who are holy terrors. But you aro
wrong. As a matter of fact they are
proud of the misdeeds of their small
children. They are proud of terrors.
They are always afraid their children
will be goody-goody milksops. Don't
you know a woman secretly likes a spice
of wickedness in her offspring?that is,
until they grow up? Of cour.-e. she will
spank her boy for fighting with another
boy, but she will spank him twice as
hard if he has been licked as she will if
he had the best of it. I believe the tenderest
mother in the world likes to be
rebelled against sometimes. It shows
spirit, and a mother's awfully proud of
spirited children. If she was sure her
boy wouldn't get hurt she would like to
go out and see him light another boy.
They're queer things, women."
Queen of Bntter Makers.
A Holland-Frirsian cow of Crawford
County, l'enn., registered (Shadeland
Boon No. SS87), has ust beat the buttermaking
record, having produced 12.1
pounds and twel.e ouives of unsaltcd
butter in one month. This butter was
made from I77^i pounds of milk which
the gave during that period. For this
remarkable word it required but 14.0!)
pounds of milk for a pound of butter.
The average for the whole time was over
four pounds a day. For seven consecutive
clays she produced 01 pounds
loi ounces, or an average of 4 pounds
OA ounces per day. During that week
she gave 100.1 pounds of milk, and it
took but 12.51 pounds of milk for a
pound ot butter. For four consecutive
days she lacked but 33 ounces of making
;i pounds of butter per day,--Timti*
Demo rat.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
_
Deal with the fortunate.
Silence is the fence around wisdom.
No man it impatient with his creditors.
j
The amenities qf life make the true
beanty of living.
Life is a continual routine whatever
guise it assumes. <f3
A smile through tears is the soul'#
rainbow of peace.
The simple faith of a little child is the
world's truest homage.
Good breeding is ' like affection?one
cannot have too much of it.
TV/mma nro nfftimoa th<? fulfilment of
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a prophecy within our3elves,
The power of forgiveness is the n<xblest
astribute in the human character.
To be autocratic is to be unjust to ,
ouraelves. No- man is "sufficient unto
himself."
Despair and happiness are so closely
linked that each is riven by the wealth
of the other.
Getting up in the morning is like getting
up in the world. You ran not da
either without more or less self-denial.
Where a dam is weakened the water
flows more freely?so a great flow of
words may be the result of mental weakness.
It is a curious fact that man willcondemn
all the faults in others and excuse
whatever habits ho may possess
himself.
With many, life is like a kettle of sap
in maple sugar time, each bubble trying
to swell up higher than the other, until
it bursts. v '
Fools may say wise things, but they
do not profit by them?so wise men may
sometimes err. In either case the nature
is not changed.! .. .
Theories may be beautiful, they may
contain some truth, but experience
knows all their romance; on one side,
and brings them to a test of- their real
value. .
Mysterious Indian Herb' Bemedieg.
Without doubt men of a moneymaking
turn might, with perseverance,
acquire from the Indians knowledge of
the mysterious herbs with: which, they
cure, radically, some of thofle formidable
diseases which batlle the greatest
physicians of the world. From- Chispas
and Tabasco up to Sonora- and Chihuahua,
the Indians make good use of
the herbs of the field and forest* The
Indiaus who live around the little hill
called the Penol, near, the City of Mexico,
says a writer in the GloU-Democrat, can
cure intermittent fevers much more
easily than our physicians, and, ia the
state of Queretaro, the IndiaBS have a
remedy, known only to themselves, and
the secret of which they most jeal- '
ously guard, which cures the worst forms
of blood diseases, as many foreigners
here can testify. So cunning are these
Indians, that they employ, as I am told,
a medicine which, has the property of
paralyziDg temporarily the- sense of
taste, and thus their patients oan get no
clue to the nature of the herbs they are
taking. Maleria yields quickly to the
powerful remedies of the Indians, and
these same rude practioners will oure
bad cases of typhus fever. In the treatment
of the smallpox the Indians are
very successful, placing their patients
in dark rooms, but permitting currents
of air to be continnally passing over the
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body ot tne patient, wnne some ueruui
remedy is continually administered.
That the Indians of the country towns
and of the little hamlets up in the Sierras
are healthy is plainly to be seen. They
live often to an incredible age, and say,
themselves, that the white man is a sickly
fellow who has gray hair while their
own is still coal black.
A recent patient of the Queretaro Indians
said the remedy administered to
him by the Indians seemed to take hold
of him in every part of his body, and
that for twenty days he was kept covered
up and sweatiug profusely. It seemed
to him that they were getting his blood <
"washed out" and every organ of hisbody
cleansed. At the end of the prescribed
time he wa3 told that he was
cured, and so found himself beyond any
doubt. Many of the herbs used by the
Indians are declared by them- to be of
great value, owing to their scarcity, and
it is certain that they cherish them, and
will not part with them for a song.
Even educated pfiysicians nere empiuy
remedies not known in the United States.
The horn ropaths use the poison of certain
venomous snakes, and the activeprinciple
of poisonous native-plants. It
is possible that science will yet make
good use of the weed with which Indian
poisoners take away the wits of their
enemies. A little of this powder in your
soup, and away goes your intellect and
reason. On the principle that "likecures
like," it may be that hr this baleful
weed there is a remedy for some forms of
insanity, for we know very well that thetreatment
of brain trouble is in its inr
tancy,. so to say.
The Lurentor of Invisible Patches aTramp.
A. melancholy-looking man* with a
shaggy beard, wearing an old slouch hat
and trousers with deep fringe around
the bottom and a big, shaggy overcoat,
stood in front of the Philadelphia postoffice,
holding his hands on his chests
Everybody looked at him as they passed,
and some young fellows jeored at him
for wearing an overcoat. The melan*
choly-looking man paid no attention to
them. He wandered up Ninth street
aimlessly and shambled up Market
strei.-t ho'ding his hands over his chest as
he walked. A reporter asked him what
he woie an overcoat for with the tiiermometer
at eighty degrees. He spoke
in gasps and said: "Because I'm- always
cold. I can't get my breath hardly half
the time. I have been cold for years. I
I used to work at ray trade for eighteen
hours a day. I am a shoemaker. I
caught cold about ten yeats agOy and
I've had hard work to breathe ever since.
Sometimes I'm afraid to go tosleop for
fear I'll lose my breath I'ca tho man
who invented the invisible patch on
shoes. That's a good many years ago.
lust think of if. I'm the inventor of the
invisible patch and I haven't got a cent.
I ought to be gettinga royalty from every
shoemaker in the country. I was a
soldier in the Prussian army. I made
many a pair of boots for the officers.
"Where am I going? Nowhere."
The man laughed harshly. Then he
coughed with a hacking sound and went
wearily on his way.
Rules for War and Tence.
Congress declares war; that is, both
Houses must act separately on a bill declaring
war by the United States against
some other country, and the bill must be
signed by the President. The President
aud tho Senate can make peace. Thus
it takes three separate actions to declare
war, and only two to make peaca. In
1812 the delaration of war agains* Groat
Britain was entitled "An a:-t declaring
war between Great Britain aj?d her Dependencies
and the United, gtateq and
i their Territories."?Sun.
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