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fshippjlg- cattleT
(the way beeves embark for
i a tkaxsatlaxtic voyage.
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|Tho Operation of Transferring the
> Unruly Steers From Transport
Barges to the Cattle Steamer
?A Typical Embarkmeut.
I Loading cattle on a ship for Europe is
an operation that requires several hours of
hard work, a vast amount of patience,
many skirmishes and hand to horn or
hand to tail conflicts and no end of
profanity. The first part of the work is
the simplest. The cattle shippers provide
their own superintendents, who
[hire the men to go with the freight to
[Europe and who supervise the work of
Wtting the beeves on shipboard. The
(favorite hours for loading cattle are late
IB the afternoon or early in the morning.
'The first barge load usually leaves the
Stock yards before daybreak, and by the
ftime the sun is beginning to make itself
(uncomfortable the last bullock is in his
iplace and ready for the voyage.
| The work of letting the cattle out of
iheir peas, where they have been fed and
^watered since their long trip from the
(West, is comparatively an easy task.
Superintendent Flynn, two collie dogs
end two old men armed with long sticks
'constitute the force, and unless a steer is
particularly unruly and makes trouble
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work begins when the cattle are forced
into the pens at the end of the covered
pier. The gangway leading to the barge
opens invitingly, but it al ways require.?
more or less urging to induce the first
bullock to make the journey over it. In
cases of this sort the crew of the barge
give a chorus of wild yells, iutended to
be encouraging, the superintendent
.whacks the steer over the flanks with his
Jprod and the task is generally over. The
Test of tiie bunch follow the leader without
much persuasion. From the moment
fchf> haro-e leaves the slin the cattle are
solely ia the agents bands.
Tho Exeter City loaded one day recently
from her pier instead of from the
upper Bay, where most cattle ships take
on their living freight. This made the
work slow and laborious. The vessel was
not ready, there were lighters and tugs
in the way, and the loading of the regular
cargo was not entirely finished. This ;
led to endless annoyance between the !
two sets of laborers and greatly heightened
the'confusion.
As the barge slowed up and made fast
to the steamer while the gaugways were
being run out, the cattle had an opportunity
of viewing for the first time their
quarters for the coming fortnight during
their first and last ocean voyage. It was
Vint nn invitinrr snprtnolp. The r7.iv
hot. The longshoremen had shed such !
of their garments as could be spared,and
were carrying on their backs the bales of
hay to be used as fodder. These wore
dumped on the deck between the cattle
pens, where a large, square space was
?- filled with the odds and ends of the
cargo, fresh meat and vegetables, strong
boxes and barrels not yet stowed away in
place.
The pens were half bedded down with
hay, and the men under direction of the
second officer were busy taking down tin;
whitewashed bars that separated them
one from the other. Altogether it was
as hot a spot as could be found along the
river front, and the long day's wait had
not put the men in special good humor
with themselves or with their work.
At last the pens were ready and Super
inienciem nirsn ana xoreman jsraaiey,
who with six underhands were to go with
the cargo to the other side, began loading.
As the barge hands went below and
opened the first pen the cattle realized
that they were about to have another experience
and in an instant the place was
noisy with their complaints. Some of
the more fractious steers kicked and prodded
each other with their horns, while
others contented themselves with huddling
in the most distant corners cf the
- pen, to the intense disgust of the men.
"Here there, not so fast?"
, Four fat bullocks were wedged in the
gangway.
"ill, Jim; stir mm up.
I The gangway has a railing on each
side and offers every chance for the successful
stirring up of refractory steers.
A minute later several young men who
had bfcen sitting on the side of the steamer,
heavy and stu^ with the heat, awoke i
with the most surprising activity, and
arming themselves with sticks proceeded ;
to make the frightened bullocks wild;
with fear and pain.
0 "Stop that. I didn't ask you to kill I
him. Just start him up."
Two men left theft: work at this point :
and showed at once the superiority of;
skilled over the improvised apd unlearned |
labor. They flourished their arms and
sticks before the bullocks' eyes and sueonorior?
in rlriinnr* thorn Tlirtn na i
iU V4UI1U^ vLiv. 1m I'll*. U< 4 UOUj C* J j
the foremost bullock started on a wild
dash, one of the men caught him by the j
tail and acting as a rudder steered him j
neatly into port at the further end of the j
Bhip.
After this experience the work went j
on rapidly and with less friction. When
a pen was lilted the bars were put up.
Only a certain number can go into a pen, |
as the ship's rules are that each bullock j
must have at least eight feet by two fct, j
eight inches space.
At the end of two hours the task was i
ended and the cattlc were safely housed .
for the voyage.
. This was a typical embarkmcnt. Some- i
[times the cattlc are more obstinate than ;
^ ivney were on me i^x'jier u;ry, ana sometimes
the conditions are not so pleasant.
[Loading early in the morning, before
(daybreak, in midstream and in cold
( weather, tries Fne patience of the men
land temper of the cattle to the utmost, j
[in the winter when the wind comes up
the bay, tingling the face and benumb- '
(ing the hands, and the cattle are forced ;
out of their warm quarters and into the !
jchilling blasts, there is more or less j
;harsh treatment and the work is hastened
<in a way that gives the men a chance to ;
get riJ of some ol their surplus ill
(nature. But even then there is not grave !
icruelty. Each cargo is loaded under the \
ifiimrrvision of a trusted airent of thi*
shipper, and as ill treatment has the ef- i
jfect of lessing the weight of the cattle
during transit, nothing of a serious nature
is allowed.?New York Ilcrald.
'
' Twenty-one thousand five hundred j
'dollars is the amount paid for the last re- 1
'corded sale of a seat in the New York
'Stock Exchange.
' St. Petersburg, Russia, is the only
capital in Europe in which the population j
(is steadily diminishing. j
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Tlie Sultan's Housekeeping.
It is estimated that over six thousand
persons arc fed daily at his Dolma
Bagtche palace when the Sultan is there.
One who is well informed gives a graphic
picture of the Sultan's housekeeping,
lie admits that it is clear that there is a
good executive ability about the management
of this enormous household, for
there is scarcely ever a jar or a hitch,
evfcn under the impulse of the most untimely
demands. Every different department
is under the control of a person
who is directly responsible for that, and
he has a corps of servants and slaves
under his orders who obey him only, and
he is subject to the treasurer of the house-'
hold.
Women have no voice whatever in the
management of anything in any department.
Their sole occupation is to wait
upon their respective mistresses, or to
serve the Sultan iu some specified capneitv:
and the labor about the nalace is
so sub-divided that no one works very
hard except the Lord High Chamberlain
and the treasurer of the household. The
chamberlain is mostly occupied in administering
to the wants and Cf. prices of
the Sultan, and is in almost constant at-.
tendance upon him; so the treasurer of
the household has the burden of the
housekeeping on his sturdy shoulders.
He has an organized force of buyers, who
are each charged with the purchase of
certain supplies for their individual departments,
each having his helpers, servants
and slaves.
One man is charged with the duty of
supplying all the fish, and as to furnish
fish for at least 6000 persons is no light
undertaking in a place where there are
no great markets such as there are in
all other large cities, he has to hfve
about twenty men to scour the various
small markets and buy of the fishermen,
and each of these men has two others to
carry the fish they buy. About ten tons
nf fish a week are reouircd. There are
nearly 18,000 pounds of bread eaten
dailj*, for the Turks are large breadeaters,
and this is all baked in the enormous
ovens situated at some distance
from the palace.
The food for the Sultan is cooked by
one man and his aids, and no others
touch it. It is cooked in silver vessels,
and when done each kettle is sealed by
a slip of papci and a stamp, and this is
broken in the presence of the Sultan by
the High Chamberlain, who takes one
spoonful of each separate kettle before
the Sultan tastes it. This is to guard
against poison. The food is almost
always served up to the Sultan in
the same vessels in which it was cooked,
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baser metal the kettle is set into a rich
golden bell-shaped holder, the handle of
which is held by a slave while the Sultan
eats. Each kettle represents a
course, aud is serve;! with bread and a
kind of pancake, which is held on a
golden tray by another slave. The Sultan
never uses a plate. He takes all his
food direct from the little kettles, and
never uses a table and rarely a knife or
fork?a spoon, his bread, a pancake or
fingers arc found far handier. It requires
just twicc as mauy slaves as there
are courses to serve a diuner to him.?
Chicago Neics.
Three Kinds of Teeth.
m man tnere are mree uinus 01 icein:
the incisors, the canines and the molars.
The incisors, eight in number, are
placed in front of the jaw and are kept
to a sharp edge by the abrasion of the
upper and lower sets. They are gnawing
teeth, and in rodents, such as rats
and mice, arc subject to severe wear, and
are consequently continually growing
from the base. In man, however, having
once attained their full size, their
growth ceases.
The rodentia, or gnawing animals, are
characterized by the presence of greatly
enlarged and modified incisors. These
are tubular and have a persistent pulp,
and the material of which they are made
is so arranged that the hardest portion is
the frout surface, and the softest the
back. Thus a chisel-like tool is formed,
nnrl lr/mf nrmcfortflr cVinrnrmorl ]?r fViP
end of the opposing tooth in the other
jaw. "When one of these incisors, by any
chauce, fails to meet its fellow, it continues
growing, and forms a long tusk,
which sometimes curves around uutil it
pierces the skull.
The canines, or dog teeth, are characteristic
of carnivorous mammals. They
are formed by nature to seize and tear
prey, and^are lacking in rodents and
most grass-eating animals. In apes they
are very prominent, those of the gorilla
nearly equaling the lion's in size. They
ure never more than four in number.
The molars have rough and flattened
surfaces, and are used for crushing and
grinding. In man they exceed iu number
both the incisors and canines, but in
certain fishes they are exceedingly numerous.
Thus, in the looroids, or as they
are commonly called, the "clam-crush
ers, vc find all the upper ami lower
jaws paved, from front to back, from
one side to the other, with hemispherical
grinders, which exhibit the greatest j
economy of material in the construction
of a surface capable of resisting pressure;
aud immense pressure is brought to bear
upon these teeth, for the fishes thai own
them take a hard-shell, salt-water ciam,
or even a small oyster, and, closing their
powerful jaws, crack the shell to fragments,
swallow the clam aud spit oul the
shell. The grinding and crushing action
to which these teeth are subjected results
in their wearing aw, aud ultimate
destruction, necessitating a succession of
teeth; so that we see here one of the
most primitive cases of true molars having
regular suecessots.? The Ledger.
The Myriad Ways of Eating.
Did you ever watch the myriad ways
of eating? There is the aggressive eater,
who bites his broad as though ho owed
it a grudge, and drinks his coffee with
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uvus uiMi i;im\ jjiiia' uvei iiiu uj mi in 111a
cup with unappeasable wrath. The timid
eater, who nips his foo;l apologetically;
the preoccupied eater, who doesn't seem
to know salt from sugar; the hungry
eater, who eats as men have championed
a lost cause. I never watch a company
of caters but I feci that the line of demarkation
between the human family and
the brute creation grows very faint and
dim as it approaches this common centre.
i have often wondered if the race, as it
advances, will not one day escape the
bondage of the appetite. Relief c:m
only come through methods of simplification.
"When science shall condense a
whole beef into a lozenge and the nutriment
of a week's baking into a pastil,
we shall iose much of our present kinship
with the brutes that perish.? Chicago
JJcrald.
A clock owned by Lewis Van Loan, of
[Coksackie, N. Y., dates back to 1717.
Catching and Caring Cod in California.
The manner of catching and curiDg
codfish on the Pacific coast is generally
similar to that on the Atlantic side.
Large schooners of from 200 to 300 tons
are employed to bring the cod down
from Behring Sea and Alaskan waters to
the depots at Tiburon, California City
and Kershaw Island, where the fish arc
cured. Formerly the salt supply was
brought from the Alcmcda "saltings,"
but to-day the principal supply is obi
tained from Alviso, being transported on
clumsy looking, square-bowed sailing
crafts, of which many types may be seen
rotting in the marshes and lagoons of
Tiburon.
The cod arc caught on the banks of
Alaska and the Okhotsk Sea by men who
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"dories," small boats from twelve to
fifteeu feet long, with flat bottom, sharp
prow and square stern, specially fitted to
receive the catch, which averages 200
fish of four or five pounds daily for each
man. In other cases a larger dory is
used, and the crew work sociably on
shares or for a fixed rate per man. The
spells of labor may average three or four
hours, when there is an interval for
meals, and at the end of the day the entire
crowd proceed to "take care of the
fish." One makes a hasty rip vertically
and horizontally and passes the fish to
the "header," who breaks of! the head
and removes the viscera. A third takes
out the principal bones and passes it to
the Salter, by whom it is packed in brine
in the hold. Both the boning and salting
process are mere temporary expe'dients,
the actual curing of the fish taking
aw COM
uu aiinai at uau a. tauuiotv;.
When a cargo of the headless and
eviscerated fish reaches one of the packing
stations of San Francisco Bay the
first step is to wash the cod in large tanks
with false bottoms freely communicating
with the bay. At such spots there is
sure to be a large gathering of smelts and
local predatory fish. Then the cod are
piled on trucks and run on a short lino
of rails into the interior of tho factory,
where a thorough steeping in brine tanks
takes place. Next the fish are spread
out on long lines of "flasks," or drying
frames, where in the desiccating air of
California the second process is rapidly
completed. The remaining bones are
then removed, where "boneless cod is
callcd for," and lastly the product is
packed ready for shipment.?San Francisco
Chronicle.
A Brazilian Delicacy.
''Talking of centipedes," said a New
Yorker in the Tribune, "reminds me of
a dish I ate oncc in Brazil. I went away
up the Amazon one winter among the
wretched Indians there, buying up raw
rubber. Several of us left the boat one
day and. made our way into the dense
forest to see if we could shoot any
toucans. TVe got lost in short order,
and wandered about for a day and a
night before we found the little creek in
which our boat lay, aud we were only
brought back then by some Indians
whom we met carrying rubber to the
river to soil. We met them just as they
were about to camp for the night, and
as they promised to show us the way
out of the forest,we camped with them.
"We had some tinned beef left and
some whisky, but us I had lived on
tinned beef and fresh fish for some time
and was mightly tired of them both, I
was looking about for a change of diet
and was glad to see that the Indians had
some native food with them. This consisted
of some soit of grnyish-white
paste, that looked like a mixture of suet
and 'grits.' I asked them what it was,
but I could not understand what they
said and our interpreter had gone off for
water. It did not taste at all bad, and
the flavor was unlike anything I had
ever eaten, so I had swallowed a bit of
it about as big as your fist before the interpreter
returned and told me that the
dish was made of some sort of dried
root, pulverized and mixed with the
ornshnrl lindifis nf white ants.
"I did not cat any more."
IIow Indians Stand Hot Weather.
It is as much a part of the Indian's
creed to become inured to the heat as to
the cold. It is not au infrequent spectacle
to see infants in heavy blanket
shirts weighted with elk teeth tied into
beaded frames or cradles and left standing
against the heated frame wall the
ration house, while their mothers gossip
hours away within. "We have seen, after
the issue of beef upon the hoof, a half
dozen squaws drag the steer that fell to
their allotment into the open prarie, aud,
under a scorching sun, clean, quarter and
divide it when perhaps a few mesquite
trees not far distant or an overturned
wagon would have furnished a partial
protection from the intense glare and
heat.
A young Pueblo girl's toilet for a hot
summer evening is the same that she
would make in December. Her limbs
from the knee to the ankle arc wound
with not less than ten thicknesses of
deer skin. The costly black native
blanket is carcfully adjusted with a
brilliant woven girdle at the waist. A
scarlet kerchief hangs backward from
the shoulders and over all is the shawl
draped from the head. Fill a jnr with
water that gushes from a rock a full
mile from her adobe home, place it upon
her head, start her olt under a fervid sun
and contrive to meet her at the other
end of the line, and you will find her as
placid and undisturbed as the limpid
water witinn cue jar upon uer ueuu.? |
Wit?hin<jt?i Slur.
A Precious anil Inlercstsir; Metal.
Tin, which every one knows, but
which few, except men of science and
metallurgists, are acquainted with, is one
of the most precious and most interesting
metals. After gold and silver, it is intrinsically
the most precious of those in
use. It is nearly of the same color and
almost as bright as silver, but has less
resistance and is less valuable. "When |
warmed by friction, it has a pronounced '
odor and tasic. When it is bent, the |
dcr--ui?c:>icnt of the crystals of which its i
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mass 13 iunucu cause's il, nuuuut uuj |
fracturc taking place, to emit .1 peculiar
sound which metallurgists call its cry,
and by means of which an expert can
nearly determine its degree of putity.
The places where tin is produced arc few,
scattered sparsely over the surface of the
globe; ami it disguises itself under the
form of a blackish mineral which, to the
profane eye, gives no sign of the treasure
that is within it. One of the richest, as
well as the most ancient tin-mining districts
is in the Malay Peninsula, the Golden
Chersonesus of the ancients. The
name of the province, Perak, signifies
silver; but it is peculiarly the province
of tin.? Washington Star.
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RE 7. DR. TALMA6E7
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Kind Words Never Die,
Cherished and Blessed."
Text: "A soft tongue breaketh the
bone."?Prov. xxv., 15.
When Solomon said this he drove a whole
volume into one phrase. You, of course,
will not bo so silly a3 to take the words of
the text in a literal sense. They simply
mean to set forth the fact that there is a
tremendous power in a kind word. Although
it may seem to be very insignificant,
its force is indescribable and illimitable.
Pungent and all conquering utterance: "A
soft tongue breaketh the bone."
If the weather were not so hot and I had
time I would show you kindness as a means
of defense: kindness as a means of useful
ness; kindness as a means of domestic harmony;
kindness as best employed by governments
for tho taming and curing of criminals,
and kindness as best adapted for the
settling and adjusting of international auarreAs;
but I shall call your attention only to
two of these thoughts.
And first I speak to you of kindness as a
means ot defense. Almost every man in the
coarse of his life is set upon and assaulted.
Your motives aro misinterpreted, and your
religious or political principals are bombarded.
What to do under such circumstances
is the question. Tho first impulse of
the natural heart says: "Strike back. Give
as much as he sent. Trip him into the ditch
which he dug for your feet. Gash him with
as severe a wound as that which he
inflicted on your soul. Shot for 6hot.
Sarcasm for sarcasm. An oye for an
eye. A tooth for a tooth." But the
better spirit in the man's soul rises up and
says: "You ought to reconsider that matter."
You look up into the face of Christ and
say: "My Master, how ought I to net under
these difficult circumstances?" And Christ
instantly answers: "Bless them that curse
you, and pray for them which despitefully
useyou."
Then the old nature rises up again and savs:
"You had better not forgivo him until first
you have chastised him. You will never get
him in so tight a corner again. You will
never have such an opportunity of inflicting
the right kind of punishment upon him
ogain. First chastise bim and then let him
go." "No," says tho better nature; "hush,
thou foul heart. Try the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone." Have you ever in all
your life known acerbity and acrimonious
dispute to settlo a quarrel? Did they not always
mako matters worse and worse and
worse?
Many years ago there was a great quarrel
in the Presbyterian family. Ministers of
Christ wore thought orthodox in proportion
as they had measured lances with other
clergymen of the same denomination. The
most outrageous personalities were abroad.
As in the autumn a hunter comes home with
a string of gamo, partridges and wild ducks
slung over his shoulder, so there were many
ministers who came back from the ecclesiastical
courts with Ions? strings of doctors of
divinity wliom thoy had shot with their own
rifle. The division became wider, the animosity
greater, until after a while some good
men resolved upon another tack. They began
to explain away the difficulties; they began
to forgive each other's faults, and lo I
the great church quarrel was settled, and
the new school Presbyterian church and the
old school Presbyterian church became one
?the different parts of tha Presbyterian
order welded by a hammer, a little hammer,
a Christian hammer, that tno Scripture calls
"a soft tongue."
You have a dispute with your neighbor.
Tou say to him, "I despise you." lie replies,
"I can't bear tho sight of you." You
say to him, "Never enter my bouse
again." He says, "If you come on ray door
siil m kick you off." You say to him, "I'll
put you down." He says to you, "You are
mistaken, I'll put you down." And so tho
contest rages, and year after year you act
the un-Christiau part. After a wnile tho
better spirit seizes you, and one day you go
over to the neighbor and say: "Give me
your hand; wo have fought long enough.
Time is so short and eternity is so near that
we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I
ieoi you nave wrongeu me very mucn, out
let us settle all now in one great hand shaking,
and be good friends for all the rest of
our lives." You have risen to a higher platform
than that on which before you stood.
You win his admiration, and you get his
apology. But if you have not conquered
him in that way, at any rate you have woa
the applause of your own conscience, the
high estimation of good men, and tho honof
of your Lord, who died for His armed enomies.
"But," you say, "what are we to do when
slanders assault us and there come acrhnoaious
sayings all around about us, and we are
abused and spat upon?" My advice is: Do
not go and attempt to cha-:e down tho slanders.
Lies are prolific, and while you are
killing one fifty are born. All your demonstrations
of indignation only exhaust yourself.
You might as well on some summer
nicht. when the swarms of insects are coming
ujTfrom the meadows and disturbing you and
disturbing your family, bring up some great
"swamp angel," like that which thundered
over Charleston, and try to 6hoot tbom
down. The game is too small for the gun.
But what, theD, are you to do with the
abuses that come upon you in life. You
are to live them down. I saw a farmer go
out to get back a swarm of bees that had
wandered off from the hive. As he moved
Maid them they buzzed around his head,
aad buzzed around his hands, and buzzed
around bis feet. If ho had killed one of
them they would have stung him to death.
But he moved in their midst with perfeot
placidity until ho had captured the swarm
of wandering bees. And so I have seen
men moving amid the annoyances, and
the vexations, and the assaults of life w
such calm, Christian deliberation that all
the buzzing around about their soul
amounted to nothing. They conquered
them, and above all they conquered themselves.
"Ob," you say, "that's a very good
theory to preach on a hot day, but it won't
wor^." It will work. It has worked. I
believe it is the last Christian grace we
win. You know there are fruits which we
gather in Jnna, and others in July, and
others in August, and others in September,
and still others in Ocfcobsr; and I have to
admit that this grace of Christian for
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10 uuuuu iiuo ioou uuiu ul uud vui utian
soul.
Wo hear a great deal about tho bitter
tongue, and the sarcastic tongue, and the
quick tongue, and the stinging tongue, but we
know very little about "the soft tongue that
hreaketh the bone." We read Hudibras, and
Sterno, Dean Swift and other apostles of
acrimony, but give little time to studying
the oxaniplo of Him who was reviled, and yet
reviled not again. 0 that the Lord by ilis
spirit would endow us all with "the soft
tongue that hreaketh the boae."
I press now to th? other thought that I desiro
to present, and that is, kindness as a
means of usefulnsss. In all communities
you find skeptical man. Through early education,
or through tho maltreatment of profossod
Christian people, or through prying
fvirinaifrp fiKmf. t.hn fnhllPft wnrlil fcllWA n.rA ft
crront main* ne^Dlo who b200113 skeptical in
religious tiling--;. How stall you capture
them for Go.i? Sharp argument and sarcastic
retort never won a single soul from skepticism
to tho Christian religion. While powerful
books on tho "Evidences of Christianity"
have their mission in confirming Christian
people in tho faith they have already
adopted, I have noticed that whoa skeptical
peoplearo brought into tho kingdom of Christ
it is through tho charm of some genial soul,
and not by argument at all.
Men are not saved through tho head; thoy
are saved through tho heart. A storm comes
out of its hiding placo. It says: "Now,
we'll just rouso up all this sea;" and it makes
a great bluster, but it does not succeod. Part
of tho sea is roused up?perhaps ono-half of
it, or one-fourth of it. After a whilo tho
calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks down,
and the ocean begins to rise. It comes up to
1 high water mark. It embraces tho great
Imnillmirlc Tfc CTlhmnrfrM t.llfl hfiflCheS (if nil
tho continents. It is tlio heart throb of ono
world against ths heart throb of another
world. Anrl I have to tell you that while all
your storms of ridicule and storms of sarcasm
may rouse up the passion of an immortal nature,
nothing loss than tho attractive power
of Christian kindness can over raise thoaeathless
spirit to happiness and to God. I have
more faith in tho prayer of a child Ave yeare
old, in the way of bringing an infidel back to
Christ and to heaven, than I have In all the
hissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical controversy.
You cannot overcome men with religious
argumentation. If you como at a skeptical
man with an argumont on behalf of the
Christian religion, you put the man on his
mettle. He says; "law that man Ijas a car'
. ' ' . V
bine, ril use ray carbine. I'll answer his
argument with my argument." But if you
:omo to that man pDrsuading him that you
desire his happiness on earth and his eternal
welfare in the world to come, he cannot answer
it.
What I have said is just as true in the reclamation
of the openly vicious. Did you
ever know a drunkard to be saved through
the caricature of a drunkard? Your mimicry
of the staggering step, and the thick tongue,
and the disgusting hiccough only worse
maddens his brain. But if you come to him
in kindness and sympathy, if von show him
that you appreciate the awful grip of a depraved
appetite, if you persuade him of the
fact that thousands who had the grappling
hooks of evil inclination clutched in their
soul as firmly as in his have be 7i delivered,
then a rav of light will flash across his
vision, and it will seem as If a supernatural
hand was steadying his staggering gait.
A good many years ago there lay in the
stroots a man dead druuk, his face exposed
to the blistering noonday sun. A Christian
woman passed along, looked at him and said,
I "Poor fellow." She took her handkerchief
and spread it over his face, and passed
on. The man roused himself up from his
debauch and began to look at the handkerchief
and lol on it was the name o? a highly
respectable Christian woman of the city. He
went to her, he thanked her for her kindness,
and that one little deed saved him for thi3
life, and saved him for the life that is to
come. Ho wa3 afterward Attorney-General
of the United States; but higher than all, he
became the consecrated disciple of Jesus
Christ.
Kind words are so cheap it is a wonder we
do not use thorn oftener. There are tens of
thousands of people who are dying for tb|
lack of on? kind word. There is a busine^
man who has fought against trouble until h?
is perfectly exhausted. He has been think,
ing about forgery, about robbery, about suii
cide. Go to that.business man. Tell him
that better times are coming, and tell him
that you yourself were in a tight business
pass, and the Lord delivered you. Tell him
to put his trust in God. Tell him that Jesm
Christ stands beside every business man in
his perplexities. Tell him of the sweet promises
of God's comforting1 grace.
xnac maa is aying ror ttie lack of just ona
kind word. Go to-morrow and utter that
one saving, omnipotent, kind word. Hera
is a soul that has been swamped in sin. H?
wants to find the light of the Gospel. H<
feels like a shipwrecked mariner loolring out
over the beach, watching for a sail against
the sky. Oh, bear down on him. Tell him
that the Lord waits to be gracious to him,
and, though he has been a great sinner,
there is a great Saviour provided. Tell
mm tnat though his sins are as scarlet they
shall be as snow; though thoy are red
like crimson they shall be as wool. That
man is dying forever for the lack of one
kind word.
There used to be sung at a great many of
the pianos all through the country a song
t.hof. Vina olmnof sIiasI A?f. T nrioli c/m*iaKa/1t?
V"?w MMU MtUJVOV U*?U WUWl A ?T IOU JVUIOUUUJ
would start it again in our social circles.
There may have not been very exquisite art
in the music, but there waa? a grand and
glorious sentiment:
Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed.
Oh, that we might in our families and in
our churches try the force of kindness. You
can never drive men, women or children into
the kingdom of God. A March northeaster
will bring out more honeysuckles than fretfulness
and scolding will bring out Christian
grace. I wish that in all our religious work
we might be saturated with the spirit of
kindness. Missing that we miss a great deal
of usefulness. There is no need of coming
out before men and thundering to them the
law unless at the' same time you preach to
them the Gospel. Do you not know that this
simple story of a Saviour's kindness is to redeem
all nations? The hard heart of this
world's obduracy is to be broken before that
story.
There Is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the
most remarkable Dicture3 I ever saw. It is
"The Descent of Christ from the Cross. It
is one of Rubens's pictures. No man can
stand and look at that descant from the cross
as Rubens pictured it, without having his
eyes flooded with tears, if he have any sensibility
at all. It is an overmastering picture
?one that stuns you, and staggers you, and
haunts your dreams. One afternoon a man
stood in that cathedral looking at Rubens's
"Descent of Christ from the Cross." He was
all absorbed in that scene of a Saviour's sufferings
wlion the janitor came in and said:
"It is time to closo up the cathedral for the
night. I wish you would depart." The pilgrim
looking at that "Descent of Christ from
the Cross," turned around to the janitor and
said; "No, no; not yet. Wait until they got
Him down."
Oh, it is the story of a Saviour's suffering
kindness that is to capture tho world. When
the bones of that great Behemoth of iniquity
which has trampled all nations shall be
broken and shattered, it will be found out
that the work was not done by the hammer
of the iconoclast, or by the sword of the
UUIi^UCI U4, XJk UJ bUU iViuu Vi |/viouvuvtwu|
but by tho plain, simple, overwhelming
force of "tho soft toDguo that breaketh the
bone."
And now I ask the blessing of God to come
down upon you in matters of health, in matters
of business: that tho Lord will deliver
you from all your financial perplexities; that
he will give you a good livelihood, large salaries,
healthful wages, sufficient income. I
pray God that He may give you tho opportunity
of educating your children for this
world, and through the rich grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ of seeing them prepared
for the world that is to come.
Above all, I look for the mercy of God
ur>on your immortal souls; and lest I stand
before some who have not y et attended to tho
things of their oternal interest, in this, the
closing part of my discourse, I implore them
here ana now to seek after God and be at
peace with Him. Oh, we want to be gathered
together at last in the bright and blessed assemblage
of the skies, oar work all done, our
sorrows all ended. God bless too, and your
children, and your children's children. And
now I commend you to God and to tho word
of His grace, which is able to build you up
and give you an inheritance among all them
that are sanctified.
An Autograph That Lasted.
On the furm of William Wilkinson at
SheltoD, N. Y., stood a beech tree that
was curiously marked. Year3 ago when
the tree was young, John Leland, sailor,
cut the initials of his name on the bark
of the tree, and beneath the letters
carved a handsome sailor's anchor. Not
long ago the beech tree was cut down,
it being about fifty years old, and when
the woodsman split open the trunk he
was startled at seeing in the hard, white
wood, near the core of the tree, the big
letters "J. L.," on a densely black background.
They were just as big and
clearly cut us they were nearly forty
years ago when John Leland did the act
with his sailor's knife. Between the
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thirty-seven rings, and as a tree grows in
girth just one ring a year, it was easy for
the woodchopper to tell cxactly the year
find almost the month in which 4,J. L."
had bceu carved in the beech. It is a
curious feature that th3 letters have
stamped themselves all the way from the
heart of the tree to the bark. Though
they have been overgrown by thirtyseven
rings of wood libre, it is easy to
read '*J. L."ou the outer bark. Another
curious thing is that along the crossbar
of the anchor the wood is cracked
it right angles with the natural grain of
the tree.?A'eto York Sun.
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Tim Value of Pepper.
The value of pepper in cooking seems
to have been known long ago. Its use
ns a medicine wjis common in the days of
TTinnocratcJ, who applied it, moistened
with alcohol, to the skin of his patients,
Just as sugar and tea have been in pagt
times so dear as only to be within the
reach of the wealthy, so pepper was in
the Middle Ages a very costly condiment.
So much was it valued that a small packet
was at that time deemed a suitable present
to offer a great person. Common 01
black pepper is now grown in manj
tropical countries. It is a climbing plant
some twelve feat high, bearing fruit of t
bright red color the sizo of a pea, which,
when dried, turns black.?Timet Dem
crat. _ _
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RELIGIOUS_READING."
THE "SUMMER LAND."
"Over the river," the "Summer land'' lies,
Fadeless its blossoms, unclouded Us skies,
Towers shimmer not in the sun-ray's light.
Stars never glow?for there falleth no night,
O'er it God's glory transcendent!}' flows,
Bathing it ever in"holy repose.
Ah! we get gleams of that glorious land,
When by tiie river's bank trembling we
stand.
Watching the wave3thnt unceasingly flow
Over the crossing where loved ones must go,
Ihev see the beams of heavenly light
Gliding its glittering columns of white.
They hear the songs, and the rustle of
wings,
We?but the echo their ecstacy brings?
Why do we sorrow when happy they lie
Ready for angels to bear them on high!
Such treasures we need their sunlight tc
throw
Over our pathway while waiting below.
Are there no flowers in the bright Summer
T.finil9
Aye, tenderly kept by our Father's hand,
Borne in His love from the chill light of
Time,
Transplanted; they bloom iu a heavenly
clime,
?May we be welcomed at last to the band
Who," "sinless" are roaming the blest Summer
Land.
?[Bell Clinton.
FIFTY YEARS OF EMANCIPATION.
If I bad to select, from the beginning of
the world down to the present time, and so
on to its close, the fifty years in which I
would pass my active "life, I would choose
the half century in which I have lived, because
in that half ceutury there has been
the emancipation of the slaves; there has
been the emancipation of the restrictions
upon the Catholic; there has been the emancipation
of all the restrictions upou the
Corn Law; there has been tne emancipation
of the voter from restrictions upon suffrage.
It has been fifty years of emancipation, and
the only half century of which that can be
said.?[Gladstone.
"ROOTED AND GR0C5DED."
I have seen, says a writer, shrubs and
trees grow out of the rocks, and overhang
fnnrful nrarnniroa nvirinor rfttnrfirfrs. nnil
deep running waters; but they maintained
tbeir position and threw out "their foliage
and branches as much as if they had been
in the midst of a dense forest, it was their
hold of the rock that made them secure, and
the influences of natare had sustained their
life. So believers are oftentimes exposed to
the most horrible dangers in their journey
to heaven; but so long as they are "rooted
and grounded" on the Rock of Ages, they
are perfectly secure.
WHO WILL THANK Y0C?
There is one thing which is worth remembering,
and that is, no one will thank you
for killing yourself. You may work yourself
to death and when you "have done it
people may call you a fool for your pains.What
you'are is'of more importance than
what you do. A strong, vigorous, courageous
man or woman is esteemed and
valued, but one who is helpless, feeble, fretful
and discouraged, gets little comfort or
consideration, even if it be admitted tbat the
feebleness and helplessness is the result of
useful work, and work done 011 behalf of
others. Bad men are ungrateful, good men
are forgetful.
flip I'mviilpncp nf finrl mnlrps nprsrms rf
sponsible for tbe careful preservation ami
the proper use of their powers. They have
lio right to needlessly throw away the
energy which (Jod has granted them. "They
Have iio right to expect others to take care
of them, while they nesrlect to take care of
themselves. It is their right, their duty to
guard themselves against excess, to avoid
dansrer, to abstain from everything which
can injure or destroy them, and" to maintain
themselves in vigor and strength for purposes
of usefulness and bhssing to those
around us.
Take care of yourself. No one else can
care for you. "iou must see to it that you
have food, and raiment, and re*t, ami sleep,
and protection, so that you will be fitted for
tbe best and most lasting service, for the
?lory*of God and the good of mankind.?
The Common People.
WAITING FOR THE GOSrEL.
"What can we do in forming a conception
of the conditions and wants, the fears and
hopes, the sorrows and agonies, the sins and
rum. the dancers and nossibilities. of mu'.ti
plied millions "groaning and travailing in
pain" who never heard of the Saviour of
men? Each individual a human being?a
brother man, with a soul capable but ignorant
of God?needing the Saviour and waiting
for the Gospel! And there are continents
full of them! "We refuse to look steadily at
this dark and sorrowful procession going its
way to eternity. We cannot while we neglect
them.
If there were only one man in the world
who had never heard of Jesus, it would-be
worthy the combined efforts of heaven "and
earth to carry him the "glad tidings."
What exertions have we witnessed to find
Sir John Franklin?only lost in the Arctic
seas! And yet there are hundreds of millions
drifting into unknown darkness. Saving
nothing of Paeans in Christian lands,
there are, of Mohammedans, 1(30,000.000;
of Asiatic Buddhists, of one sort and another,
idolaters all, 600,000,000; of miscellaneous
heathen in Africa and the islands of
the sea, "200.000,000 more.
If the church looked steadilvatsuch facts;
if she read in the light of the feible and with
full faith in God their meaning?so porten
tious for both worlds?she could never rest
till she had "preached the Gospel to every
creature." Dr. Olin has said, as rightly as
eloquently: "Did the church really believe
the Gospel to be as necessary to the heatheu
as it is to us, there would be at once and forever
an end of her guilty repose."?Go or
Send; A I'lea for Missions.
GLADSTONE AND THE SABBATH.
The following incident shows bow careful
the Hon. XV. K. Gladstone is to observe the
Sabbath at borne or abroad. It occurred on
the occasion of his recent visit to the continent.
The city authorities of Naples wlsbed
to show Mr. Gladstone an extraordinary attention,
and arranged with the authorities
for a visit to Pompeii, at which there should
he a great excavation in the "City of the
Dead.'' lie accepted the invitation, although |
no day was named.
Knowing his love for classic archeology, j
the authorities did not doubt for a moment |
that he would full in witn an tneir pians.
So tlicy lisciI upon Sunday, and on Saturday
morning it was announced in all the papers
that a special steamer would take Mr. Gladstone
and family, the authorities and newspaper
correspondents to P?*mpeii, where
there would :?e an excavation. But they
"counted without their host." or rather
their quests, for the "grand old man" tirmlv
hut politely informed them that "he did not
use the Sabbuth for mere worldly excursions:"
that they must change their whole
plan, or lie would not go.
And vet without his knowledge, the correspondents,
seeing the announcements in
the Saturday papers, without further inquirv
telegraphed to their journals in Englamf,
Franee and Germany, which published on
Monday morning. tliat',Yo?teruay (Sunday)
31 r. tiladstone went on an excursion to
I'ompeii!" Many were the recriminations
in the opposition journals and in the religious
weeklies in England. and some, not
opponent?, deplored that he should set
mii'ii -i iii>rnieiotis example. Vet on that
>S;'l>!>atIi Mr. (Jlailstuiie was in his regular
place at church. mhI <liil not visit Pompeii
until the Tuesday after.?[Exchange.
The new bridge to be built over the
Hudson River between New York and j
Jersey City will eclipse the monster
Brooklyn strncturo. The great central J
span will be 2,800 feet long, nearly : !
twice tho length of the span over East j I
River. There are to be five towers ris-! '
ing to a height of 500 feet above the 1
water. It is one of the most daring; <
feats of engineering undertaken in this | '
or any other county. j !
Money to a man is like water to a
plant, only useful as long as it promotes
and facilitates growth?liko the
water in the fountain or water in th?
tank, keep it flowing, and it blesses;
keao it atftgAaatv jusL itioinres.
1
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB B
SEPTEMBER 11. H
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Lesson Text j " Parable of
Pounds," Lake xfx.t 11-27?Golden
Text: Luke xix., 20?Commentary.
11. "And as they heard these things, He
added and spake a parable, because Ho wal
nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought
that the Kingdom of God should immediately
appear." Although He had said
again and again that He was going to J erusalem
to be crucified and to rise again from
the dead (chap, xviii., 3?34; Matt, xvi., 21;
xvii., 23), yet they understood not, and
thought that now they sbould see Him proclaim
Himself King of Israel and restore the
throne of David, or the throne of the Lord,
at Jerusalem, on which David and Solomon
sat as the representatives of Jehovah (I
Chron. xxix., 23). That this was the Kingdom
they expected is clearly stated in Lulce
xxiv., 21; Acts 1., (3; and that they had a
right to expect this is seen in the Davidic
covenant (II Sam. vii., 12-16); I Chron.
xvii., 11-14); also in all the prophets (see
Isaiah ix.. 6. 7: Jer. iii.. 17). and in the words
of Gabriel to Mary (Luke L', 32. 33).
That they had much ground for expecting v
the Kingdom at that time is seen in the fact
that John the Baptist, Jesus Himself, the
twelve, and the seventy, all preached that the
Kingdom was at hand" (Matt, iii., 2; iv., 17;
i, 7* Luke x., 9. Why then this parable,
and why was the Kingdom not then to be
established? The Kingdom in the person of
the King?Jesus, the son of David?nad been
at hand and in their midst, but they knew
Him not, received Him not, and were now
about to kill Him. Therefore He said:
"The Kingdom of God is taken from you and
given to a nation bringing forth the froita
thereof (Matt, xxi., 43). Tneir rejection of
Him as a nation postpones the restoration of
the throne of David until His return (Acts
iii., 21), and they have lost certain high privileges
which will be given to another elect
nation, even the church or body of Christ,
now being gathered out of all nations (Acta
xv., 14; I Pet. ii., 9). >j3
12. "He said, therefore, a certain noble-^Jl
man went into a far country, to receive for
himself a kingdom and to return." He refers
to Himself and the Kingdom now postconed,
but to be established on this earth at
His return. His approaching death He
speaks of as a iournev into a far countrv.
13. "And He called his ten servants, and
delivered them ten pounds, and said unto
them, Occupy till I come." while He Is absent
He expects Hi3 servants to be busy in
His affairs, and He gives them something
with which to work or do business for Him.
In this parable each one receives the same,
while in the parallel parable of the talents
(Matt, xxv., 15) each receives according to
ability. The pound to each may signify the
Spirit, which is given to every man to profit
withal, while the talents may refer to the
special gifts of fche Spirit given to teach as
He (the Spirit) willeth (I Cor. xii., 7, 11).
The servants must be those who believe, in
Him and hath thus become His redeemed,
and they are to bo engaged in His work
right up to the time of His coming again.
14. "But His citizens hated Him and sent a
message after Him, spying, We will not have . 1
this man to reign over us. In verse 27 these
citizens are called enemies. They are under
His care, they are nominally His subjects,
He loves them and seeks their welfare, yet
they hate Him without a cause and desire
another King (Pd. lxix., 4; John xv., 25; ISam.
viii., 19; John xix., 15). Is not every
uue ?uu itnuaea w icucivo ueausaa ma o?viour
virtually doing just as these citizens?
They would not like to say that they hate
Him, but their actions say it, their heart
says it, and He reads the heart. All who
are only Christians in name, and whose only
desire Li to escape hell, but would be glad u
there was no hell and no need of a Saviour.
these are surely His enemies.
15. "And it came to pass, that when Ho
was returned, having received the Kingdom,
then He commanded these servants to be
called unto Him, to whom He had given the
money, that He might know how much every
man had caiued by trading." He will yet receive
the Kingdom, He will return, His servants
must give an account of pounds or t&lente A.
Intrusted to theni. He speaks of the futur^-^^
as if already present. He sees the end from
the beginning. He speaks of the time mentioned
in Dan. vii., 13, 14; Rev. xi.. 15. But
ere the Kingdom is fully established, the
sen-ants in this present time must be reckoned
with, and their places in the Kingdom
appointed them according to their faithfulness.
16. "Then came the first, sayiliz, Lord, Thy
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puuua liiiui fciuutru icu puuuus. ?? uui jv/jr
this one would have in rendering his account.
He had lived for his Master, and had evidently
sought his Master's interests. And
yet notice he does not say, Lord, I have made
your pound into ten, but, leaving himself
out, he says, "Thy pound hath gained ten
pounds." As when Paul said concerning his
labors: "Not I but the grace of God which
was with me" (I Cor. xv., 10). It is God
who giveth and it is God who worketh, and
to Him alone shall be all the glory.
17. "And Hu said unto him. Well, thou
good servant; because thou hast been faithful
in a very little, h:. t thou authority over
ten cities." All that is intrusted to us to do
here in this present time is but a very little
compared with our service in the Kingdom
when it shall come; and it is not success
that He coilimends, but faithfulness.
18. "And the second came, saying, Lord,
Tby pound hath gained five pounds." Each
one shall give account of himself. Every
man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labor (I Cor. iii., 8).
19. "And He said likewise to him, Be thou
also over five cities." There is no reproof
Uin lio/J Ma4- /vninAri frtn T??
urwiuao uio puuuu muu iivi? ^<uuwu iuu. *u h
his measure ne had been faithful, and in that I
measure he is rewarded. Every one accord- B
ing to his own labor. One star differeth fl
from another star in glory; so also is the 8
resurrection of the dead (I Cor. xv., 41,42). 9
20. "And another came, saying, Lord, be- B
hold, here is Thy pound, which I have kept B
laid up in a napkin." The Lord's gift un- B
used and therefore not improved. Like some B
who say that years ago they were converted;
but no one ever heara them tell another how fl
to get eternal life. They can talk, but not of
Jesus and His love; they causing, but not of ^ _ _fl
Him; they have time enough at their dis- tKM
posal. but instead of using it for Him they
labor to while it away; they have money, g
but it is spent upon themselves; yet they pro- fl
fesstohave eternal life, and are members in
good standing of some orthodox church. M
21. ''For I feared Thee, because Thou art
an austere man; Thou takest up that Thou fl
layedst not down, and reapest that Thou B
didst not sow." Having received salvation fl
as a frea gift from God, we are then to work B
it out with fear and tre.-ubliug, for it is Ciod
wiio worketh in us (Phil, ii, 12, 13).
'21. "And He saith unto him: "Outoi thine
own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked
servant.'' By our words we shall be justified
or by our words csndemned (Matt, xii.,
37). Gol reads thd heart, but out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Jesus is the Word of God and the faithful
manifestation of what God is.
*23. "Wherefore then gavest not thou Mv
money into the bank, that at My coming I
might have required mine own with usury?'
It is God who giveth us all things, and
whether it be eternal life. His holy soirit, or
the ordinal y temporal biessiu^s of daily life,
all cvme under the head of "His money," j
'Him own," which He expects us to use for
His glory.
"Take from him the pound and givg
it to him who hath ten pounds." so every
one who uses well what he has will have
more futrusted to him. while the wicked
j-jrvants who bear the M ister's name but
know Hi:nnot, shall lose w hat they have, or
rather what they seem to have."or think
they have (Luke "viii.. IS and margin). For
what we do not enjoy or make some use of
we canr.ot truly be said to have. We may
k - !?" *>.> > n.usn?in'r likrt tllft numfl
to life, without the reality; from which may B
the L jnl deliver Ui.?Lesson Helper. I
Many parents are apt to consider M
their daughters worth their weight in B
gold, but a Scotch gentleman estimatod 9
his two daughters' valuo at even a 9
higher rate than this, bequeathing to A J
each her weight in ?1 notes. The elder
seems to have been slimmer than her
sisier, for she got only ?51,200, while !
the younger received ?57,344. _ _ fl
A xt&Ai.i?? juuug numiiu trnu waa% I
asked the place of her nativity replied] I
that she wasn't born anywhere in par-! 8
tieular, as she was the daughter of a
M?:Uodiat minister. .. .. J ' 1
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