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|r DAS SERMON.
^ubject: "A Poor Investment.*
(Preached at Topeka, Kan.)
1 Text: "f? have sold yourselves for
fiaiicjht, and ye shall be redeemed without
monry."?Isaiah iii., 3.
' Tho Lord's people had gone headlong into
in, and as a punishment they had been car- |
;ried captive to Babylon. They found that
,'inlauitv did not Dav. Cvrus seized Babylon I
?nd felt so sorry for these poor captives that,
;without a dollar of compensation, he let
them go home. So that, literally, my tjxt
was fulfilled. "Ye have sold yourselves for
naught; and ye shall be redeemed without
inoney."
i There is enough Gospel in this text for
'fifty sermons. There are persons here who*
tiave, like the people of the text, sold out.
?Tou do not seem to belong either to your
selves or to God. The title deeds have been
passed over to "the world, the flesh, and the
devil," but the purchaser never paid up.
"Ye have sold yourselves for naught."
1 When a man passes himself over to the
world be expects to get some adequate compensation.
He has heard the great things
that the world does for a man, and he believes
it. He wants two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. That will be horses and
houses, and a summer resort and jolly companionship.
To get it he parts with his
phy sical health by overwork. He parts I
with his conscience. He parts with much
domestic enjoyment. He parts with opportunities
for literary culture. He parts with
his soul. And so he makes over his entire
nature to the world. He
does it in four installments. He pays
down the first installment, and one-fourth of
bis nature is gone. He pays down the second
Installment, and one-half of his nature is
irone. He navs down the third installment.
and three-quarters of his nature are gone, |
and after many years haVe gone by he pays j
down the fourth installment, and lo! his entire
nature is gone. Then ho comes up to the j
world and says: "Rood morning. I have |
delivered to you the goods, I have passed |
over to you my body, my mind and my soul,
and f have come now to collect the two hundred
and fifty thous-.nd dollars." "Two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars?" says
the world. "What do you mean?" Well,**
you say, "I come to collect the money you
owe me, and I expect you to fulfili your part
of the contract." "But," says the world, "I
have failed. I am bankrupt. I cannot possibly
pay that debt. I have not for a long
time expected to pay it." "Well," you then
6ay, '"give me back the gooJs." "UH, no,"
?ays the world, "theyare all goR9. I cannot
give them back to you." And there you
stand on the confines of eternity, your spiritual
character gone, staggering under the
consideration that "you have sold yourself
for naught."
I tell j'ou the world is a liar. It does not
beep its promises. It is a cheat, and it
fleeces everything it can put its hands on.
It is a bogus world. It is a six-thousandyear-old
swindle. Even if it pays the two
tundred and fifty thousand dollars for
which you contracted, it pays them in bonds
that will not be worth anything in a little
while. Just as a man may pay down ten
thousand dollars in hard cash and get for it
worthless scrip?so the world passes over to
you the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in that shape which will not be worth
c farthing to you a thousandth part of a second
after you are dead. "Ob," you say, "it
will helD to burv me. anvhow." Oh. my
brother I you need not worry about that.
The world will bury you soon enough from
anitary considerations.
Post mortem emoluments are of no use to
you. The treasures of this world will not
pass current in the future world, and if all
the wealth of the Bank of England were put |
In the pocket of vour shroud aud you in the
midst of the JorSan of death were asked to
pay three cents for your ferriage, you could
cot do it. There comes a moment in your
existence beyond which all earthly values
fail, and many a man has wakened up in
such a time to find that he has sold out for
eternity and has nothing to show for it. I
?Lould as soon think of going to Chatham
street to buy silk pocket handkerchiefs with
no cotton in them, as to go to this world expecting
to find any permanent happiness. It
nas deceived and deluded every man who
has every put his trust in it.
History tells us of ona who resolved that
he would have all his senses gratified at ona
and the same time, and he expended thousands
of dollars on each sense. He entered a j
room, and there were the first musicians of |
the land pleasing his ear, and there were fine |
pictures fascinating his eye, and there were
costly aromatics regaling his nostrils, and
there were the richest meats and wines and
fruits and confections pleasing the appetite,
and there was a soft couch or sinful indul
gence on wnico ne recuneo, ana tas man as- |
dared afterward that he would give ten |
times what he had given if he could have one
.week of such enjoyment, even though he lost
his soul by it! Ah! that was the rub! He
idid lose his soul by it! Cyrus the conqueror
thought for a little while that ho w*aa making
a fine thing out of this world, and yet
before he came to his grave he wrote ous
this pitiful epitaph for his monument: "I
am Cyrus. 1 occupied the Persian empire.
'I was king over Asia. Begrudge me not
this monument." But the world in after
years plowed up his sepulcher.
The world clapped its hands and stamped
Its feet in honor of Charles Lamb; but what
dpes be say? "I walk up and down, thinking
I am happy, but feeling I am not." Call
the roll, and be quick about it. Samuel
jonnson, cue learnea: nappy? ".No. I a u
afraid I shall someday get craz/.". William
Hazlitt, the great essayist! Happy?
"No. I have been for two hours and a half
going up and down Paternoster row witii a
volcano in my breast." S-nollet, the witty
author t Happy? "No. I am sicx of pr usa
end blame, and I wish to GoJ that I had
such circumstances aroun 1 me that I coul l
throw my psa into oblivion." Buchanan,
the world renowned writer, exib l fron his
own country, appealing to Hsnry VIII for
protection! Happy? "No. Over mountains
covered with snow, and through valleys
flooded with rain, I coaie a fugitive."
Moliere, the popular dramatic author! Happy?
"No. That wretch of an actor just
now recited four of my lines without thi
propsr accent and gesture. To nave the
children of my brain so huajr, drawn an 1
quartered tortures me liku a condemned
spirit."
I went to see a worldling dij. As I w.^nt
into the hall I saw its floor was toss^llat: 1, j
and its wall was a picture gallerv. I foua I |
his death chamber adorned with tapestry j
until it seemed as if the clouds of th; setting
sun had settled in the rooai. Tha man ha t
given forty years to t ie world?his wit, his
time, his genius, his talent, his soul. Did the
world come in to staud by his deatiibai an 1
clearing off the vials of bitter medicine, put
down any compensation? Oil. no! Tho world
does not like sick and dying people, and
leaves them in the lucchl It ruinad this
man and then left him. Ha had a rnagniticent
tuneral. All th-j ministers wore scare's,
and there were forty-three carriages in a
row; but the departed man appreciated not
the obsequies.
I want to persuade my au lienca that this
world is a poor investment; that it does not
pay ninety per cent, of satisfaction nor
eighty per cent., nor twenty per cent., nor
two per cent., nor one; that it gives no solaca
when a dead babe lies on your lap; that it
gives no peace when conscience rings its
adarm; that it gives no explanation in tha I
day of dire trouble; an i at the time of your
decease it takes hold of the pillow case and
Bhakes out the feathers, and then jolts down
in the place thereof sighs and groans aud
execrations, and then mikes you put your
head on it.
Oh, ye who have triad this world, is it a
satisfactory portion? Would you advisd
your friends to make the investment? No.
"Ye have sold yourselves for nauscht." Your
conscience went. Y our hope went, x our
Bible went. Your heaven went. Your God
went. When a sheriff under a writ from
the courts sells a man out the officer generally
leaves a few chairs an 1 a bad, and a few
cups and knives; but in this awful vendue in
which you have been engaged the auctioneer's
mallet has came dowu uoon body, mind
and soul?going! gone'. "Ye have sold
yourselves for naught."
How could you do so? Did you think that
your soul was a mere trinket which for a few
pennies you could buy in a toy shop? Did
you think that your sout, if onca lost,
might be found again if you went out with
torches and lanterns? Did you think that
p your soul was short lived, and that panting,
you would soon lie down for extinction? Or
h?h you do idea wh&t your soul was worth?
Did jrou ever put your forefingers on Its ;
* 1 *?ni?Kaa?
euemai puu*?r iu<oiuuuu??> . w.
of its peerless wing? Hava you nofc known
that after leaving the body, tha flrat step of
your soul reaches to the stars, and the next
step to the farthest outposts of God's universe,
and that it will not die until the day
when the everlasting Jehovah expires? Oh,
my brother, what possessed you that you
should part with your soul so cheap? "Ya
have sold yourselves for naught."
But I have some good news to tell yoa. I
want to engage in a litigation for the recovery
of that soul of youre. I want to show
that you have been cheated out of it. I want
to prove, as I will, that you were crazy on
that subject, and that the world, under such
circumstances, had no right to take the title
deed from you; and if you will join me Ishall
get a decree from the High Chancery Court
of Heaven reinstating you in the possession
of your soul. "Oh," you say, "? am afraid
of lawsuits' they are so expensive, and I cannot
pay the cost." Then have you forgotten
the last half of my text? "Ye have sold
yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed
without money."
Money is good for a great many things,
* A J?? fha matter nf
out it cannoii uu on/buiu^ m ?uu ? ?
the soul. You cannot buy your way through.
Dollars and pounds sterling inean nothing at
the gate of mercy. If you could buy your
salvation, heaven would be a great speculation,
an extension of Wall street. Bad men
would go up and buy out the place, and
leave us to shift rorourselve3. But as money
is not a lawful tender, what is? I will
answer, Blocdl Whoss? Are we to go
through the slaughter? Oh, no; it wants
richer blood than ours. It wants a king's
blood. It must be poured from royal arteries.
It must ba a sinless torrent. But where is
the king?
x see a greac many tnrones ana a great
many occupants, yet none seaai to becoming
down to tha rescu?. But after awhile the
clock of night in Bathlehe:n strikes 12, ani
the silver pendulum of a stir swin^j across
thesky, and I seethe Kin? of Heaven rising
up, and He descsnds and steps dowu from
star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lower
and lower, until He touches the sheep covered
hills, and then on ta another hill, this
last skull shaped, and there, at the sharp
stroke of persecution, a rill incarnadine
trickles down, and we who could not t>e
redeemed bymonev are redeemed by precious
and imperial blood.
Wo have in this day professe 1 Christians
roVin ?ra sn rAfAfinl an 1 eth^-aalizid that
they do not want a religion of bloal. What
do you want? You saa.n to want a religion
of brains. Tha Bible says, "In tha bloot is
the life." No atoiamant without blood.
Ought not the apostla to kna v:' What did
he say? "Ye are redeenad not with corruptible
things, su?h as silver an i gold, but
by the precious b!o a i of Carist." You put
your lancelet into tli3 arai oS our holy religion
and withdraw the bload, an 1 you leave
it a mere corps?, fit only for th 3 grave. Why
did God command tha priests of oil to striko
the knife into tin kii, an 1 the goat, ani the
pigeon, and the bullock, an I the lamb? It
was so that whan the bload rushed out from
these animals on the floor of the anoieut
tabernacle the people should be co-npalle I to
think of the coming carnage of the Son of
God. No blooJ, no atoneai9nt.
I think that Go i intaniei to impress us
with a vividness of that color. The grean of
the grass, the blue of the sky, would not
have startled an 1 arousal us like this deep
crimson. It is as if Goihai said: *'Now,
sinner, wake up an I sae what tha Saviour
eudurad for you. This is n .it water. This
is not wine. This is blood. It is tha blood
of My Son. It is the bio ad of tha inmaculate.
It is the bloo 1 of God." Without th3
shedding of blooi is no remission. Thara
has been many a man who, in courts of law,
has pleaded "not guilty," who neversli3les*
has been condemned because there was bloo I
found on his han.ls or blood found in his
room, and what shall we Jo in the last day if
it it be found that wj have recruciflel the
Lord of Glory and have never repeated of
it? You must believe iu the blood or die.
No escape. Unless you let th? sacrifice of
Jesus go in your stead you vourielf must
suffer. It is cither Christ's blooi or your
blood.
"Oh," says soma one, "th9 thought of
blood sickens me." Good. Gol intended it
to sicken you with your siu. Do not act as
though you had nothing to do with that Calvarian
massacre. You had. Your sin3 were
the implements of torture. Those implements
were not made of 6teel aarl iron
and wood so much as out of your sins.
Guilty of this homici le, aud this regicide,
and this deicide, confess your guilt to-day.
Ten thousand voices of heaven bring iu th9
verdict against you of guilty, guilty! Prepare
to die or believe in that blooi. Stretch
yourself out for the sacrifice or accept the
Saviour's sacrifice. Do not fling away your
one chance.
Tfr f/\ ?na oo if oil Uao TirajtQ
iiV ao^oio w ?uy ao 4b uti aavhavwi* ? w<? w w?# ing
to bid in your sou'. Th9 first bid it mato
is the tears of C'.rist at the tomb of I>?2iru3,
but that is not a high enough vrice.
The next bid heaven makes is the sweat of
Gethsemane, but it is too choap a price. The
next bid heaven makes saaava to bo the
whipped back of Pilat9's hall, but it is not a
high enough pries. Can it be possible that
heaven cannot buy you in? Heaven tries
once more. It says: "I bid this time for
that man's soul the tortures of Christ's martyrdom,
the blood on His tempi?, the blood
on His cheek, the blood on His chin, the
blood on His hand, the blood on His side, the
blood on His knee, the blood on His foot?the
blood in drops, thoblooJ in rills, the blood in
I pools coagulated beneath the cross; the blood
that wet the tips of the soldiers' spoars, thj
blood that plashed warm in the face of His
! enemies."
Glory to God, that bid wins it! The highest
price that was ever paid for anything
I wa3 paid for your soul. Nothing could buy
it but blood! The estranged property is
brought back. Take it. ''Sou have sold
yourself for naught; and ye shall be redeemed
without money." O atoning blood,
cleansiug blood, life giving blood, sanctifying
blood, glorifying blooi of Jesus! Why
I not burst into tears at the thought that for
I thee He shei it?for thee the hard hearted,
I for thee the lost?
"No," says some one; "I will have nothing
to do with it except that, like the enemies
of Christ, I pat both my hands into
I that carnage and scoop up both palms full,
] and throw it on my haad anl cry, "His
! blood be on us and on our children!' " Can
I you do such a shocking thing as that? Just
rub your handkerchief across your brow
and look at it. It is the blood of the Son of
God whom you have despise! and driven
back all these years, Ob, do not do that any
longer! Cotne out boldly and fraukly anl
honestly, and, tell Christ you are sorry. You
cannot afford'to so roughly treat Him upon
whom everything depends.
I do nit know how you will get away from
! this subject. You sje that you are sold out,
an I that Christ wauts t > buy you back.
There are three persons who come after you
to- lay?God tho Father. God the Son and
Go 1 the Holy Ghost. They unite their three
omnipotences in one movement for your sal|
vatiou. You will not tike up arms against
the triune God, will you? Is there enouzh
muscle in your arm for such a combat? By
the highest throne in heaven, and by the
deepjst chasm in hell, I beg you look out.
Unless you allow Christ to carry away your
sins, they will carry you away Unless you
allow Christ to lift you up, they will drag
you down. There is only one hope for you,
and that is the bloo). Christ, the sin offerins.
bearing your transgressions. Christ,
the divine Cyrus, loosening your Babylonish
captivity.
Would you not like to be fre>? Here is
the price of your liberation?not n?ney, but
blood. I tremble from hoad to foot, not bocause
I fear your presence, but because I
fear that you will miss your chance for immortal
rescue. This i3 the alternative
divinely put, "He that believeth on the Son
shall have everlasting life; and I19 that believeth
not on the Son shall not sea life, but
the wrath of Godabid9th on him." In the
last day, if you now reject Christ, every
drop of that sacrificial blood, instead of
pleading for your release as it would have
pleaded if you had repented, will plead
against you.
OLoriGodof the judgment day! avert
that calamity! Lst us sa* the quick flash of
the scimeter that slays th3 sin but saves the
siuner. Strike, omuipDtent God, for the
soul's deliverance! Beat, O eternal sea!
with all thy waves against tin barrau beach
of that rocky soul and make it tremble. Oh,
the oppressiveness of the hour, thj minute,
the second on which the soul's destiny
quivers, and this is that hour, that minute,
that second I
Some years ago there came down a fierce
storm on the saacoast, and a vessel got in
the breakers and wa3 going to pieces. They
threw up some signal of distress and the people
on shore saw them. They put out In a
lifeboat. They c>me on, and they saw the
poor sailors, almost exhausted, clinging to a
raft* and so afraid were th3 boatmen that
the men would give up before they got to
them they gave them three rounds of cheers,
and cried: "Hold on, there I hold on! We'll
save you!" After awhile the boat came up.
On* man was saved bj having the boathook
pat in tbe collar of hi9 coat, and some in ona
way and some in another; but they all got
4 11 - ' *- fy J???n fKn Aarvfjii'n ''Prtl* I
in I/O (Q9 DOttt. nVWf oojra uug o^puutu, *v?
tha shore. Pull away now, pull!"
The people oa the land ware afraid tin
lifeboat had gone down. They said: "How
long the boat stays. Why, it must have
been swamped and they have all perished
together." And there were men and women
on the pier head sand on the beach wringing
their hands; and while they waitsi and
watched they saw something looming up
through the mist, and it turned out t j be the
lifeboat. As soon as it came within speaking
distance the people on the shore cried
out: "Did you save any of them? Did you
save any of them?" And as the boat swept
through the boiling surf and came to the
pier head the captain waved his hand over
the exhausted sailors that lay flat on the bottom
of the boat and cried: "All saved!
Thank God! All savedP'
So it may be to-day. The waves of your
sin run high, the storm is on you. but I cheer
you with this Gospel hope. God grant that
within the next t9n minutes we may row
with you into the harbor of God's mercy.
And when these Chrlstlan'men gather around
to see the result of this service, and the
glorified gathering on tha pier heads of
heaven to watch and to listen, may we be
able to report all saved! Young and old,
good and bad! All saved! Saved for time.
Saved for eternity. "And so it came to pass
1 -* - * -? J ?i.- i 1 1?
mac may an escapea stue uu mu j.
Foofl Brings Sleep.
Some persons, though not actually
sick, keep below par in strength and
general tone, and I am of the opinion
that fasting during the long interval between
supper and breakfast, and especially
the complete emptiness of the stomach
during sleep, adds greatly to the
amount of emaciation, sleeplessness and
general weakness we so often meet, says
the Medical Journal.
Physiology teaches us that in the body
there is a perpetual disintegration of
tissue, sleeping or waking; it is therefore
logical to believe that the supply of
nourishment should be somewhat continuous.
As bodily exercise is suspended during
sleep, with wear and tear correspondingly
diminished, while digestion, assimilation
and nutritive activity continue a3
usual, the food furnished during this
period adds more than is destroyed, and
increased weight and improved general
vigor are the result.
All beings except man are governed by
natural instinct, and every being with a
stomach, before man, cats before eleep,
and even the human infant, guided by
the same instincts, drinks frequently day
and night, and if its stomach is empty
anv nrnlnnorprl noriod it cries lon??
h""*?o? I -- o
and loud.
Digestion requires no interval of rest,
and if the amount of food during the
twenty-four hours is in quantity and
quality not beyond the physiological
limit, it makes no hurtful difference to
the stomach how few or how short are
the intervals between eating, but it does
make a vast difference in the weak and
emaciated one's welfare to have a modicum
of food in the stomach during the
time of sleep, that, instead of being
consumed by bodily action, it may during
the interval improve the lowered
system.
I am fully satisfied that were the weakly,
the emaciatcd and the sleepless to
nightly take a light lunch or meal of
simple, nutritious food before going to
bed for a prolonged period, nine in ten
of them would be lifted into a better
staudard of health; on the contrary,
persons that are too stout or plethoric
fkft.il/l ^aIIah* fln ArvnAClfo pniirao
fuuuiu 1U"U" *"
A Warm-hearted Tar's Qnaint Proposal
An old seaman-named Peters, stationed
on one of the United States cruisers in
the North Atlantic squadron, was a man
of rough exterior but of a warm heart.
Its warmest corner was reserved for a
certain young ensign oa board the same
ship, whom Peters worshiped with unswerving
constancy. One day it happened
that an unpracticcd landsmen,
while attending to some duty in the rigging,
lost his footing and fell into the
water. As he was unable to swim, he
would probably have been drowned had
not an officer sprung after him and gallautly
held him up until assistance came.
A letter from the Secretary ot tne JNavy,
commending in high terms this heroic
action, was sent to the brave rescuer and
read before the assembled ship's company.
Old Peters viewed the whole proceeding
with a feeling of jealousy, and,
after brooding over the matter some
days, he relieved himself in the following
manner: "Mr. Bradley," said he,
sliding up to the object of his devotion,
"that there letter what the Secretary
wrote, that's a fine thing for a young man
to have. You ought to have one, Mr.
Bradley." "Why, yes, Peters," said
young Bradley, with his pleasant smile,
"that letter is, undoubtedly, a thing for
nnt fnllnw tn ha nroud of. but I'm afraid
I don't quite see my way to getting one
like it." "Mr. Bradley," answered
Peters, in a hoarse tone, inviting confidence,
"ter-morrow night, sir, I'll be ia
the main chains, fussin' with somethin'
ornuther. P'raps I'll axerdentally fall
into the water. Sich things have happened,
as yer know yerself, sir. Then,
Mr. Bradley, what's to hinder ye from
jumping artcr me, like your messmate,
there? I guess ye'd have as good a
chance as him for one o' them letters
from the Secretary." "Thoro'sonly one
difficulty about the plan, Peteis," said
Bradley, preserving a grave countenance,
but inwardly much amused; "unfortunately,
you see, I don't know how to
swim." "Sho! is that all, sir?" returned
Peters, undismayed; "that ain't nothin.'
I'll hold you up till the boat comes."?
Argonaut.
Ingenious Observation Train.
A novel style of observatory has been
devised by an ingenious Manitoban who
is of opinion that the scenery of this
country is such that passengers on a railroad
ought to have better facilities for
seeing it. Three or four sections of a
car roof are raised to a height of twelve
to eighteen inches above tho ordinary
level, forming a sort of "conning tower,"
the sides of which arc glazed. Second
story seats are provided in these
sections where passeugers can sit and
enjoy the scenery in any direction. If
perfectly heated and ventilated such a
car would be most desirable, but it is a
question whether the added weight in
the upper part of the car would affect
its safety, and whether the considerable
motion in swinging round curves or running
over rough tracks would affect
many travelers very unpleasantly.?CAicaijo
2Teu)S.
A Brooklyn man who wanted to go
west and grow up with the country settled
in Kansas, and had got as far a3 a
home in a dug-out when he was struck
by lightning, pelted nearly to death
in a hail storm, and blown half-way
into the next county by a cyclone. He
has returned to Brooklyn, and now advises
young men to MGo west and blow
up with the country."
TCTUnPD A XTVTVP f
rjL\t\?\\jEu
8AVE THE BOTS.
The National Baptist says that "recently
when two hundred or mora drunkards were
gathered in a meeting by the Breakfast Association,
a speaker asked that all who bad
begun to drink after the age of twentj-one
would raise their hands. Six: responded.
He then asked that all who had. begun to
drink before twenty-one should, raise their
hands. A sea of hands were raised. By
saving the boys from the saloon, we can. go
far to save the next generation.
AN UNNECESSARY INDULGENCE.
Dr. Maudsley says: "If men took careful
thought of the best usa they could make of
their bodies, they would possibly never take
strong drink, except as they would a dose of
medicine, in order to serve' some special
purpose. It is idle to say that there is any"
need for persons who are in good health to
indulge in strong drink. At the' beat it is
an indulgence that is not necessary; at the
worse it is a vice that occasions infinite
misery, sin, crime, madness, and disease."
THE CONSUMPTION OF" BEER.
''Do you know," said a dyspeptic-looking
man at the luuch counter, ini the Astor House
a few days ago, "that we have no lager beer
nowadays? This beverage that is sold as
lager beer is turned out it* ten days or two
weeks' time by the big brewers. The use of
duplex air-pumps has almost completely revolutionized
the brewerv business." "Brewers
have to make their beer quickly in order to
keep up with the enormously increasing demaud,"
replied the dyspeptic's friend. "Iam
told on the authority of a careful statistician
that the increase in the manufacture of beer
in this city alone-.in the year ended April 30
i last was more uiani .j,wu,,uw uanreis. newYork
City now consumes annually a trifle
more than 30,000,000 barrels of beer. At
the present rate of increase the consumption
in this city ten years from now will be 50,000,000
barrels."?New York Times.
IN FAVOR OF STERNER MEASURES.
The Canadian Churchman takes the view
that excessive drinking is a symptom of deficient
moral sense, which is in itself the root
of all criminality, the cause of all crime, and
further, that this deficient moral sense is
largely du9 to the light penalties inflicted for
I drunkenness. "A sentence on a drunk is a
j matter of joke and merriment," says our
I contemporary. "A few days' confinementjust
long enough to sober up?and the person
is let loose on the public again. The punishment
of this crime of putting one's self in
position to commit other crimes ought to be
increased a thousandfold." Of course this
measure of increased punishment is metaphorical.
Ten days is the usual allowance
tor what is known in New York police courts
as "a drunk and disorderly." A ten-thousand-day
sentence would confine a man for a
generation, and be in excess of the requirements.
It is high time, however, that in our
courts of law and in practical dealing with
drunkenness the offense should be deemed a
serious one and its humorous element, if it
has any such, be ignored. A man who gets
drunk puts himself in the way of committing
every known sin, and the legal punishment
seldom conforms with the weight of the
transgression.?New York Observer.
KEPT HIS PROMISE.
The celebrated Frenc'i General Cambronne,
wheu he was a common soldier, was
terribly given to the sin of drunkenness. I
One day, when he was drunk, he struck an I
officer, and was condemned to death. His j
Colonel, however, who loved him for his
bravery, obtained his pardon on condition
that h8 would promise never to drink wino
or spirits again. Twenty-five year3 afterwards
the Corporal had become a General,
and had immortalized himself by his haroie
i retreat from Waterloo. Having retired into
family life, he lived quietly in Paris, beloved
and esteemed by all. His old Colonel
one day invited him to dinner to meet soma
of his former comrades. Thopliceof honor
was reserved for Cambronne at the host's
right hand. A highly pricad wine was
brought in which was served only on grand
occasions.
j "General," sai J the old Colonel, "you must
! tell us all the news;" and he was just about
j to fill Cambronn?'s glass. The General
I stopped his hand; the Colonel insisted.
"But, General, 1 assure you it is excelI
lent."
"That has nothing to do with it," said
! Cambronne, eagerly. "It has to do with my
| honor and my promise. Colonel?my prom
I lse as a uorporai; nava you torgoicen it; i
Since that day not a drop of wine has touched
my lip3. My word and my conscienca are
worth more than vour wine."
INTEMPERANCE AND INSANITY.
| A recent contributor to the Western
Christian Advocate, writing of intemperI
ance and insanity, quotes Dr. Parchaffe as
giving the causes of insanity in 976 cases of
! which he had knowledge, and of these in|
temperance was responsible for lti4. He
quotes Dr. Griesinger, professor of clinical
medicine and mental science in the Univerl
sity of Berlin, a3 citing drunkenuess as "one
! oi the most important causes of domestic
troubles," to which :24l more of these cases
J of insanity were accredited. Ho furthermore
says, "Drunkenness stands midway
j between psychical and physical causes. Its
I effects are very powerful and very complex."
He adds-: "On the one hand, the action of
alcoholic excesses is principally, purely phys!
ical, in part direct, by causing irritation and
I changes in the nutrition of the brain, by the
j development of chronic stasis within the 1
j 'jianium; in part indirect, by producing
! Jrunkard's scorbutus, fatty degeneration of
I tlie liver, ser.ous gastric aiseases; in suon.,
I by complete ruin of the coustitutiou." He
j then ci:es drunkenness us producing imporj
cunt psych.cal causes, by the quarrels and
| brawls which drunkenness so frequently oo
! . asion?, and the sad montal impressions
j which it causcs, domestic discomfort, witLJrawal
from the family, ruin in business,
; and loss of self respact which it must forca
j iiome upon the drunkard. This is weighty
I scientific testimony which ought to warn all
users oi intoxicants ol the peril involved in
j he drinking habit in the way ot physical and
j ii3itt-.il deterioration and ruin. The insane
j isylunrs of this country steadiiy increase in
j jumb.rs, and like our prisons, are, many of
I them, overcrowded. Alcoholism, directly
; >r iini.rectiy. is undoubtedly chief among
i the eausw.?Xationa! Advocate.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Tho annual drink bill of the world oxcaeds
| ?1,000,000,000.
! The Emperor of China has ordered all tho
; distilleries in the Hooded districts to be closed
for a year, in order to save the grain.
Several liquor saloons in Tacoma, Wash.,
had not been closed once for from six to ten
years until the recent enforcement of a new
Sunday law.
In Scotland there are altogether (omitting
the Orkney and ShetlauJ Isles) 11,79$
j licensed premises, or one to every 310 of the
estimated population.
The British Woman's Temperance Association
will put up a memorial tablet in Willard
Hall, in the \\ oman's Temperance Temple,
in memory of Mrs. Margaret Bright Lucas,
their former President.
The unions of New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand
and Tasmania have united and organized a
national W. C. T. U., with Miss Jessie
Ackermun aS President.
Theannual report of the British Woman's
Temperance Association, recently issued,
states that the past year has been the most
progressive one in its history. There are in
all 425 societies, extending throughout
twenty counties, the Isle of Man and the Isle
of Jersey.
All Victorians in Australia point with
pride to Mildura, the beauty spot where the
development of the irrigation scheme of the
Chaftey brothers from San Francisco is
making the wilderness blossom as the rose.
No saloons have ever been license.!. After
prosperity came a club license was sought
and granted, but wrouaht such disaster that
it was soon revoked, tub district policeman
testifies that ho has never had to arrest a
drunken man.
The American Medical Association, organized
in May at the instance of Dr. N. S.
Davis, brings into the arena of popular
temperance a sword of keeuest edge. It requires
no pledge as to the prescription of
alcohol, but is open to every one interested
in the topic. Nor is any written pledge of
personal Abstinence demanded, but it is a
point of honor in the society that if any
member ceases to l?a total abstainer he
sha:l withdraw. ^
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RELIGIOUS READING.
TITE MOTHEIt'8 PRAYF./U
Lord, give me this soul!
I bave waked for it when i should! hav?
slept. 1
I have yearned over it and I have vrept,
Till in my own the thought of it has sway
* All through the uightaud day.
Lord, give me this soul!
If I might only lift its broken strands;
To lay them gent1}- in Thy loving hands;
If 1 might know it had found peace in Thee
What rest, what peacc to mel.
Thou wi t give me this soul!.
Else why the joy, the grief, the doubt,.thrf ]
pain, '
The thought perpetual, the one refrain,
The ceaseless longing that upon Thy breast 1
The teuipest-tossed may rest?
Dear Lord, give niethis-soull j
"SHE DIEl) AN HOUR.AGO " J
One day the conversation at dinner, in' o ?
family well known to the writer, turned up- j
on a lady who was so unfortunate as to have .
incurred the dislike of certain members ol ]
the household, because of some little peculi- \
arities. After several hnd expressed. theii \
views in no gentle terms, the married slstei
added: "I can't endure her, and I believe 1 ]
will not return her call if she comes her* 1
again." Her husband, who had remained sil- <
em, ra?jied: "She will not troubla you agaiu.
my dear; as she died an houriago." "You dc
not mean it? Surely you are only teasing us
for our uncharitable"ness?H ''She it? really
dead. 1 learned it on my way home to dinner."
Overwhelmed with shmaje, the little
group realized far the first time the solemnity
of such sinful conversation. Let us take
warning, and speak of those about u* as w?
shall wish we had done when they arc taken
from us.?fPresbyterian.Witness.
TESTING OOtD.
A short time ago I handed to one of God's
own children, who was n?t a member of my
church, some money I had secured for him
and his family in their time of need. The
tears came to his eyes.. The act had touched
the tenderest emotions- of his soul. He began
to tell me of the severe trials through
which he bad been, passing. Said he, "I
took it to the Lord. 1 told Llim lie knew
how sick I had been, how long out of
work, how dark everything looked,
how I and my wife had been fertting,
but that for the future I would not fret,
but would trust Him* no matter what should
come." Said he, "Immediately help began
to come." It pays to trust God". God seems
to summon us to the high and exalted privilege
of testing Him. hence he says, "Prove
Mc." Trv Mfr." "Si>p if T will nnf " nn??
reader, have you fulfilled the conditions? If
bo, joyously and confidently wait tiil there
shall come the blessing?full, abundant, running
over.?[J. W. Totteu.
ciiildrkn still.
I am interested in the religious character
of children. What change is necessary in a
child of a dozen years to become a Christian?
What are the marks of a child who is a
Christian? Should he bo expected to be
spiritual? Should he think much about hi9
sin3? Should his Christian life be retrospective
or free from self-consciousness? I
know a little girl who is a member of a
church, who is obedient to her father and
mother, who is as happy as the day is long,
who is healthy in body and mind, but as
soon as you b'esrin to talk with her about her
sins, or about the love or power of God, she
will probably at once turn the conversation
upon the pranks of her kittie, or how
far she can ride on her velocipede. Her experience
is about as far from the experience
of some saint-like child, as brown eurth is
unlike white snow. Yet, I am heathen
~.w?..?u i.% k~i? /^u
iu a v, uiiaiiaii iiiiiu suuuiu j
be a Chrislian child, and should think and
speak to a child, and that the Christian life (
of the child, like the other life of the child, |
should not be retrospective, but free from ,
self-consciousness. Let us not pray for our (
children to be pale-faced saints, but brown- j
checked boys and girls who love Christ in
their play and in their study. Oh, for the j
natural "Christian :--LFarinton in, Advance, j
i
A Pt'RB RELIOtOM. ;
A religion with 110 Christ in it as a per- i
sonal Saviour from all sin is not worthy 1
the name of religion.
A religion which does not purport a holy
heart and life, and which docs not set forth I
or show a power sntlicient to enable one to '
practice its p-ocopts, is not the true religion. '
A religin that does not a fiord strength and l
relief under affliction, joy in sorrow, help in |
time of need, deliverance in time of temptation,
and satisfy the longing of the human
heart, is not the religion of the Bible.
A religion which we cannot freely and
safely recommend to everybody, and which
will not tit every case, is not the religion of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
A religion which we do not enjoy, bat
which brings us into bondage and only
makes us miserable, is no better than no religion.
A religion in which we are not kept unspotted
from the world and enabled to show
a consistent and unselfish life, is not the
pure and undented religion.
Anyone who practically embraces the religion
of our Lord Jesus Christ will have no
use for any of the new-fancied religions of
today, for "the old-time religion" satisfies in
every respect. Anyone who claims to have
the religion of our Lord Jesu? C.irist. and is
Ux>t saved and kept from shining, and doee
not find happints* and satisfaction in ft, is
either a hvpocrite or greatly deceived.?
[Times of Uej "icing.
THE SOURCE f?? STRENGTH.
Jesii3 has commanded me to open my
heart :*nd to stretch out my hands. It is
enough for me to do as Jesus tells me. The
apnst 1- s implored from God the recovery of
a friend. When they were in prison "they
asked to get out of it*. When they were persecuted.
beaten, they cried to Ilim for help,
and u t they were well aware that afflictions
await us: that our sorrows enter into the
Divine p!aii; but submissive and persevering
at the same time, they prayed to God to
deliver them, and (.iod did de iver. |
I speak to this Gml at every 1 our of the j
day. The command, "Pray without ceas- i
ing," which scares so many people, constitutes
my safety and makes my happiness.
It is not enough for me to think about God; i
my soul must pour itself before Him.
When you have some beloved being be- |
side yon. does it sufliee you to think of him,
not to speak to him?why, would not that !
bo a torture? Every time an idea occurs to |
you. a feeling overflows, you speak. Ah, If
the fear of wearying did" not restrain us,
how far more freely would our heart give itself
expression.
One can never weary God. Wliat is it I
say to him? What does one say to one's
father and to one's mother? What does one
not say? Is any subsequent eloquence required?
All fear over, embarrassment gone,
the lips move as the beaat prompts, and the
mother is satisfied, the father rejoices.
? [Madame de Gasparin.
True turning unto God and the remaining
In the practice of any oue sin, cannot staud
together.?[R. Bolton.
Learn from the earliest days to inure your
principles against the points of ridiucle; you
." an no more exercise your reason if you live
in constant dread of laughter than you can
enjoy your life if you arc in constant fear of
death.?[Sidney Smith.
You have chosen the kingdom of God and
his righteousness; other things, therefore,
shall be added unto you; and if any which
you drsire should not be added, comfort
yourself with the thought that you hav? *he
good part which can never be tasen away.?
[Whitetield.
another young laa.y nas fallen a victim
to that death-dealing ogro the kerosene
can. This occurrence has become
bo common that newspaper comments
might properly be restricted to
a brief sentence, as "Jenny Jones, 125
Blank street, kerosene." Horrible examples
and volumes of warning advice
do not seem to reduce the annual number
of victims a bit.
Perplexed" wants to know how "a
man with a long and drooping, mustache*
ought "to eat his soup." He
ught to eat it in the dark. . . .. .
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSOV- FOR
AUGUST 30.
Lesson Text: "Christ at the Feast,"'
John vii., 31-44? Golden
TexG,: John vii., 37
?Commentary.
31. "And many of the people believed on
Him, andsaid, when Christ cometb, will He do
more miracles than these which this man
hath done? The lessons of the fifth chapter
were based upon the incidents connected
srl+U XN? a( ti. T XI
vivuuucui tin icaau ui wd utina; tuubt) 111
the sixth chapter were associated with the
manna and the passover feast; these are in
connection with the feast of tabernacles,
which points us forward to the coming
kingdom of Israel and the time of blessing
upon all nations. It was about the midst of
the feast when Jesus went up to the temple
and taught. He was up to this time demised
even by His own brethren (verses 3-5),
but He kept quietly on, seeking not His own
s;lory but the glory of Him that sent Him.
Many believed on Him, but the sincerity of
their faith would be proved by their continuance.
32. "The Pharisees heard that the people
aaurmured such things concerning Him; and
the Pharisees and the chief priests sent
officers to take Him." Always hating Him,
uxd always seeking to kill Him, but unable
So touch flim till His work was done. Professing
to. be children of God and the trueieed
of Abraham, thev made it manifest by
iheir conduct that they were not truly ot
trod nor of Abraham, but rather of their
lather, the devil.
33. "Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a
ittle while am 1 with you, and then I go un;o
Him that sent Me." Over thirty times- in
.his Gospel He speaks of the Father sendng
Him. He says that the Father spoke,
hrough Him and did the works which were
vrought by Him. In all things He honored
;he Father, for He was the "Brightness of
Sis Glory, and the express image of His
jerson" (Heb. i., 3). He says to us who beieve
in Him that as the Father sent Him so
3e sends us (xvii., 18), What strength is
lere for every true servant of Christ.
34. "Ye shall seek Me and shall not find
Vie. And where I am, thither ye cannot
?me." Now, He had before said that "He
;hat seketh findeth" (Math, vi., 8), but there
s no contradiction. We must only take His |
>aymgs in me ngat 01 an nis otner sayings,
"Ye shall seek Me, and find Mfe, when ye
ihall search for Me with all your heart"
Jer. xiix., 13). This kind of seeking never
'ails. "They shall seek Me early but they
ihall not find Me" (Prov. i., 28). This is the
seeking of those who hated and despised
Elira just like these Pharisees.
35. "Then said the Jews among themselves,
tV"hither will He go that we shall not find
Sim? Will He go unto the dispersed among
;he Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?" Of
he earth earthy, they understood notheav;nly
things. That He came down from
leaven they did not believe, and therefore
Sis gsing to Him that sent Him they could
lot understand. That many Jews were
scattered abrcad among the nations is eviient
from the Acts of the Apostles, for we
2nd Paul always preaching first to the Jews,
ind the epistles of James and Peter were
written to such (see Jas. 1; I Pet. i., 1).
rhat they will yet be gathered out from the
nations and home to their own land is clearly
jvident from Isa. xi., 12, and many other
prophecies.
26. "JVbat manner of saying is this that
Be said, Ye shall seek Me, ana shall not find
Me. And where I am, thither ye ' annot
:orae." If He could find His way to any
part of the earth, why could not they follow
Him if they saw fit? Such seems to have
been their thoughts. Anything beyond the
;arth they neither knew nor thought much
ibout.,
37. "In the last day, that great day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying. If any
man thirst, let him come unto Me and
irink." For seven days was the feast continued,
and many sacrifices were offered
;very day, but the eighth day, the last day
af the feast, was a special day (Lev. xxviii.,
30; Num. xxix., 35-38). It, of all the days,
pointed to the perfection and power of resurrection,
for thre^ and eight are the great
resurrection numbers. Tn<j last words of
this verse were probably uttered by Jesus at
the time of the pouring out of the water.
?.bicj} was daily Brought in a golden ves&J
from the pool'of Slloam, wnlie the people
cried, "With joy shall ye draw water out of
the wells of salvation" (Isa. xii., 3).
38. "He that Oelieveth on Me, as the
Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water." To the woman
nt t.hft wall PTa oaiH. "Tho wntar thftf. T qhnll
give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life" (iv., 14);
but this is even in advance of that, for here
He speaks of rivers of living water going
forth from the inmost being of the believer.
It is like the waters of Ezek. xlvii., 1--5, which
issued from the house of God.
29. "But this spake He of the Spirit,
which they that believeth on Him should receive."
From beginning to end of Scripture,
and from the Garden of Eden to the new
heavens and earth, the spirit is the mighty
worker, or, as some one has said, '"the Executive
of the Godhead."
"For the Holy Ghost was not yet, because
that Jesus was not yet glorified." The
Holy Spirit, while in all ages the great
worker, had up to this time not been given
as He was at rentecost, and the reason is
mentioned in this verse.
40. "Many of the people therefore, when
they heard this saying, said. Of a truth this j
is the prophet." They seemed to consider j
this prophet thus foretold to ba a different I
person from the Messiah, but if they had
considered Deut. xviii., 1ft, in the light of tha J
probability of His being that prophet, they j
would have seen good cause for $ome trem- ,
blingon their parr." ' \
41. "Others said, This is the Christ. Bui j
some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?"
They now think it possible that He may be
the King of Israel,tbe Son of David, as lore- |
told in II Sam. vii., 12, 13; Isa. ix., 6,7. That
the Christ or Messiah was understood to be
the King of the Jews, and so looked for, u
evident from Math, ii., 2, 4; Mark 32,
etc. But they could not think tha# He
should coma from Galilee, or, as Nathanael
put it, "Can there any good thing come out
of Nazareth" (chapter i., 40)? They evidently
did not thing or Isa. ix., 1,2, and of tha
light that was to shine in Galilee of the nations.
42. "Hath not the Scripture said that
Christ cometh of the seed of Dtvid, and out |
of the town of Bithlehem where David was.-'
Yes, truly, this was all plainly written in
Pi. cxxxii., 11; Mic. v., 2, and other passages, i
but not any more plainly than the statements
concerning Galilea and Egypt in the J
passages referred to in the previous verse. |
i'heir difficulty was just the difficulty of as
many to-day; they take such Scriptures as
seein to suit that which they wish to believe,
but they wili siot take a:iy interest in that
which seems to conflict with their ideas.
43. "So there was a division among the
people because of Him." It seams strange at
first sight that He, the Prince of Peace,
should cause division among people; and yet
that is one of the very things He came tor.
44. "And some of tbom would have taken
Him, but no man laid hands on Him."
When those sent to take Him were asked
why they did not bring Him, their answer
was, "Never man spake like this man"
(verse 46). Nicodemus also at this time
stood up for Him, saying, "Doth our law
judge any man before it hear him and know
what he doeth" (verse 51) ? But he and the
officers were only despised because of their
respect for Him.? Lesson Helper.
the two young women who accomplished
the feat of horsewhipping a Chicago
doctor aro not to be envied for
their reflections. Assumiug that they
had a genuine grievance against the doctor,
it is still true that a woman with
a horsewhij) is not a deleotable object.
In fact, the harder she hits and tha
more complete the discomfiture of hei
victim, the le3S she appeals to admiration.
A woman who assumes the
borsewhip lays aside by that act all
claims to consideration on account of
her sex; so that the doctor in the case
auder consideration would have been
quite justified if he had met force with
force aud kuockedhis assailants down.
A judge iu New York sent the city
dog catcher up for a month "for keeping
thirty dogs for three days without food
or water." It was a mild sentence.
.*sH
POPULAR SCIENCE. .'3
The fly has 4000 eyes. ^
A returns has a diameter of aevm ;"?
million miles.
Fish will drown if the action of ~i3|
gills is disturbed or interfered with. , ' >
Dr. Brendon, of New York, announced ?
that experience teaches him that-leDrofjr
ia not contagious.
Various berries which once flboriahafc
7500 feet above sea level do not grow is
higher attitudes now than a800 feet.
Dr. Thamm, of Duesseldorf, Germany, -.3|j
has cured forty per cent, of the patient* Jj
ho treated for tuberculosis by the Kocb '< ?
system.
Butter is sent from New Zealand to ;'ysj
England in tin cans, from which the remaining
air i3 extracted after being filled
with butter. si
_
So severe is the climate of Sooth
America upon iron that before ties hav*. >
shown signs of decay the flanges of the ,
tails- will be nearly eaten off by rot.
Civil ixation is not favorable to tha-'
condition of the teeth. The Esquimaux C
have the best teeth of any nation in, tha 'S
world, and it is very doubtful if they I
take any trouble at all to preserve theau 3
A hotel in Hamburg, Germany,, has f.
been built entirely of compressed wood,
woicu oy me pressure to wuicu it is subjected
is rendered as hard as iron, aft
well a3 absolutely proof against the attacks
of fire.
The Natural History Museum at Kensington,
Eagland, has received a novel
addition to its shelves in the shape of
10,000 spiders. Thet insacta were bequcathed
to the institution by the lata
Count Keyserling, who spent a good
part of his life in collecting theou
All the birds of the swallow kind flj
high at the advent of or during fine, yj
weather, and low before astorm? These
facts are accounted for by another. Whea M
the weather is calm, the ephemera upon
which swallows feed fly high in air, bat
just over the earth or water if it be
rough.
It is affirmed that the large quantities v
of snails which appear in the chalk pas- i,
tuies after rain and which are devoured
by the sheep along with the short sweet ?jj
herbage on which both feed, have aeon- V.
siderable share in imparting that pegp- -'J|
liar flavor to which South Down muttoa r
owe3 so much of its celebrity.
Another improved apparatus for railway
carriages will be welcomed by
summer travelers. This apparatus provides
for the production of a cool and ^
pleasant breeze throughout the car. It it .-jg
fitted under the body of the car, is self
-? j 1L.4 :i in ^
revolving, ana is so arrangeu mot it ?*u* catch
the air from all directions. Not ^
the least of its advantages Is that it will
keep working for fifteen minutes after
the train has been stopped.
M. Eiffel, the noted engineer, has offered
to support Jansen's project for th? .vm
erection of an observatory on the summit
of Mont Blanc, Switzerland. Eiffel proposes
the building of a horizontal tunnel
for the purpose of protecting working- /paw
men during the prevalence of storms and
to a3certfan the thickness of ice. Hede-. -pS
clares that if the ice exceeds fifty metre* 'if.
in depth the project must be abandoned,
because it is imperative that the found*- :^
tion of the proposed observatory be built- v.
on solid rock, .. V' -;3g
^ .1,
/" Hard Fight o? Two Birds. _ * ^
i The most extraordinary'occurrence of
birds fighting came under my notice .. %
writes W. Howlett from Newmarket, jd
England, to the Pittsburg Dupatck. <
Rev. H. Moon, walking .along Hig&^F:^
street, had his attention drawn to a peculiar
noise in the air, and upon looking ?
up saw several of the common swift*
dashing about and uttering a peculiar
noise. Presently two of them commenced v
fighting, and with such extraordinary
fierceness did they grab and claw eadr
other that they both came to the ground
and were picked up by the reverenJ* ?!
gentleman and brought to me,, still
locked together.
I examined them, and found th?
claws of each bird fairly imbedded is
the breast of the other, and so deep
that they could not extricate themselves |
and for a long time they remained is ,J
this exhausted and helpless condition. ^
Finally I separated them and washed off
the blood and set them free; it was ft
long time before they could fly.
JSafejna, Thunder
4'Permit me^eaia a macTrntKetSfad#
last week, "to give you the real motive
that the woman had when she asked, w>
cording to your last number, for glass Jj
cups in which to rest her brass bedstead.
I am sure that it was not in order to
prevent the bed from robbing her of her
electricity, but simply because glass is ft
non-conductor, and every woman believes
that lightning won't strike anything
that rests in glass cups.
"I have seen a highly respected relative
of mine run to the pantiy on the
approach of a thunder storm and secure
four class preserve dishes, rest the four
legs of a chair therein and sit serenelj
while the rest of the feminine household
climbed under the bed or got into th?
closets.
"It is supposed that when lightnnijf
comes in a window and sees a woman
with her heels on the rung of her chair,
the legs of which are in custard cup?,
that it turns around and goes back
again."? Upkoliterer.
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Poison in Warfare.
It is reported from Chili that on tlift f?
instigation of the Government an attempt
was made to poison Admiral Moutt and
several other leading men of the insurgent
forces. The stomach pump
saved the life of the Admiral. Waldo *
Silva escaped by the merest accident
and a number of others were made sick,
but were saved by proper remedies.
Twenty officers and men of the Government
army were proved to be implicated
in the plot, and after careful trial vrer?
condemned to be shot and were executed.
The greatest indignation is everywhere
expressed at the cowardly use of poisoa
in warfare as practiced at Iquique.-?
Picayune.
A Farmer Frightens an Army.
An Amager farmer, ^oing to towa
with his load of cabbages, rau into fttroop
of mounted artillery marching oat
to drill and scattered panic in the ranks.
The war horses ran away leaving tha
guns in the road, and one of the artillerymeu,
who fell off, was dragged along1
by the stirrups. The farmer, who was
as badly scared as the rest, was mads
prisoner after the troops had rallied and
was fined more than the value of his load .
for assault upon the Danish Army.?J/lm
York Btcoritr. . .