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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: '-Bricks Without Straw."
Text: "The Burden of Egypt," Isaiah
six., 1.
1 What is all this excitement about in the
ftreets of Cairo, Egypt, this December
morning in 1889? Stand back I We hear
load voices and see the crowds of people retreating
to the sides of the street. The excitement
of others becomes our own excitement.
Footmen come in sight. They have
* rod in the hand and tasseled cap on head,
and their arms and feet are bare. Their
garb is black to the waist, except as threaded
with gold, and the rest is white. They are
clearing the way for an official dignitary in
a chariot or carriage. They are swift, and
sometimes run thirty or forty miles at
a stretch in front of an equipage. Make
way! They are the fleetest tooted men on
earth, but soon die, for the human frame
was not made for such endurance.
I asked all around me who the man in the
carriage was, but no one seemed to know.
Yet as I fell back with the rest to the wall I
aid, This is the old custom found all up and
down the Bible, footmen running before the
rulers, demanding obeisance, as in Genesis
before Joseph's chariot the people were commanded,
"Bow the knee;" and as I sea the
swift feet of the men followed by the swift
feet of the horses, how those old words of
Jeremian rushed through my mind, "If thou
hast run with the footmen and they have
wearied thee, how canst thou contend with
horses?'
Now, my hearers, in this course of sermons
I am only serving you as footman, and clear
ing the* way for your coming into the
wonders of Egyptology, a subject that I
would have you study far beyond anything
that can be said in the brevity of pulpit
utterance. Two hundred and eightynine
times does the Bible refer to Egypt and
the Egyptians. No wonder, for Egypt was
the mother of nations. Egypt, the mother
of Greece; Greece, the mother of Rome;
Rome, the mother of England, the mother
of our land. According to that, Egypt is
our great-great-grandmother.
On other Sabbaths I left you studying
what they must have been in their glory;
the Hypostyle hall of Karnac, the architectural
miracles of Luxor, the Colonnade
of Boremheb, the cemeteries of Memphis,
the Sphinx, which with lips of stone speaks
loud enough to be heard across the centuries
HeJiopolis and Zoan, the conundrum of
archaeologists. But all that extravagance
of palace and temple and monument was
the cause of an oppression high as heaven
and deep as hell. The weight of those
kMuioi- than ?mr mnr1nrn
l/IUUhS Ui OM/UC,
machinery could lift, came down upon the
Hebrew slaves, and their blood mixed the
mortar for the trowels.
We saw again and again on and along the
Nile a boss workman roughly smite a subordinate
who did not please him. It is no
rare occurrence to see long lines of men
onder heavy burdens passing by taskmasters
at short distances, lashiDg them as they
go by into greater speed, and then these
workmen, exhausted with the blasting heats
of the day, lying down upon the bare
ground, suddenly chilled with the night air,
crying out in prayer: "Ya, Allah!" "Ya,
Allah 1" whicb means O God! O God! Bat
what must have been the olden times
cruelty shown by the Egyptians towards
their Israelitish slaves is indicated by a picture
in the Beni-Hassan tombs; where a man
is held down on his face by two men and
another holds up the victims feet while the
officials beat the bare back of the victim,
every stroke, I have no dcubt, fetching the
blood.
Now you see how the Pharaohs could afford
to build such costly works. It cost them
nothing for wages?nothing but the tears
and blood of the toilers, and'tears and blood
are cheap drink for devils. "Bricks without
itraw" may not suggest so much hardship
nnt.il von know that the bricks were usually
made with "crushed straw," straw crashed
by the feet of the oxen in the thrashing, and,
this crushed straw denied to the workmen,
they had to pick up here and there a piece
of stubble or pather rushes from the waterside.
This story of the Bible is confirmed
by the fact that many of the brick walls of
Egypt have on the lower layers brick made
with straw, but the higher layers of brick
made out of rough straw or rushes from the
river bank, the truth of the Book of Exodus
thus written in the brick walls discovered by
the modern explorer.
That gov?rnmefctal outrage has always
v been a characteristic of Egyptian rulers.
Taxation to the point of starvation was th9
Egyptian rule in the Bible times as well as
it is in our own time. A modern traveler
gives the figures concerning the cultivation
of seventeen acres, the value of the yield of
the field stated in plasters:
Produce 1,802
Expenses 993%
Clear produce 808%
Taxes 493 '
Amount cleared by the farmer 315%'
Or, as my authority declares, seventy per
cent, of what the Egyptian farmer makes is
paid for taxes to tne government. Now,
that is not so much taxation as assassination.
You say, "Why did they stand it?' Because
they had to stand it. You sea along
back in the world's twilight there was a;
famine in Canaan, and old Jacob and his
sons cauie to Egypt for bread. The old man's!
boy, Joseph, was prime minister, and Joseph
?1 suppose tbe lather and the brothers called
him Joe, for it does not make any difference
\ ' how much a toy *s advancaa in wonaiy success,
his father and brothers and sisters always
call him by the 6ame name that he was
called by when two years old?Joseph, by
Pharaoh's permission gave to his family.
who had just arrived, the richest part of
Egypt, the Westchester farms or the Lancaster
farms of the aticien*s. Jacob's descendants
rapidly multiplied.
After awhile Egypt took a turn at famine,
and those descendants of Jacob, the Israelites,
came to a great storohouse which Joseph
had provided, and paid in money for corn.
Bat after awhile the money gave out and
then they paid in cattle. After awhile the
cattle were alP in possession of the government,
and then tbe Hebrews bought corn
from the government by surrendering themselves
as slaves.
Whore was help to come from? Not the
? throne, Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the
army, Pharaoh's officers commanded that.
Not surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
ma le them all tremble. 2iot the gods Amnion
and Osiri3 or the goddess Isis, for
Pharaoh built their temples out oC tbe groan
of this diabolical servitude. But oae hot
day the Princess Thonoris, the daughter of
Pharaoh, while in her bathing house on the
banks of the JJile, has word brought her that
there is a baby afloat on the river in a cradle
made out of big leaves.
Of course there is excitement all up and
down tbe banks, for an ordinary baby in an
ordinary cradle attracts smiling attention,
but an infant in a cradle of papyrus rocking
on a river arouses not only admiration, but
curiosity. Who made that boat? Who
made it water tight with bitumen? Who
launched it? Reckless of the crocodiles, who
lay basking themselves in the sun, the maidens
wade in and snatch up the child, and
first one carries him and then another carries
him, and all the way up the bank he runs
a gantlet of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out
of the bathing house and says: "Beautiful
foundling, I will adopt you as my own. You
shall yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne."
No! No I No! He is to be the emancipator
of the Hebrews. Tell it in all the brick
kilns. Tell it among all those who are
writhing under the lash, tell it among all
the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis and
.Zoan and Thebes. Before him a sea will
part. On a mountain top, alon?, this one
will receive from the Almighty a law th*t is
to be the foundation of all good law while
the world lasts. When he i3 dead. God will
come down on JTebo ancl alone bury htm, no
man or woman or angel worthy to attend
the obsequies.
The child grows up and g03S out and studies
the horrors of Egyptian oppression and
suppresses his indignation, for the right
time has not come, although once for a minute
he let fly, and when he saw a taskmaster
put the whip on the back of a workman who
was doing his best, and heard the poor fellow
cry and saw the blood spurt, Moses
doubled up his fist and struck him on the
temple till the cruel villain rolled over in the
sand exanimate and never swung the lash
' again. Served him right!
But, Moses, are you going to undertake
the impossibilities? You feel that you are
going to free the Hebrews from bondage.
But where is your army? Where is your
navy? Not a sword, have you, not a spear,
t.y. ? ... . -
1 not a ph*riot not a horse. Ah! God was b1
on his side, and He has an army of His own.
The snowstorms are on Goi's side; witness
the snowbanks in which the French army of'
invasion was buried on their way back from
Moscow. The rain is on His side; witness a
the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tem-' P
pests so saturated the road that the attack 0
could not be made on Wellington's forces!
until eleven o'clock, and he was strong
enough to hold out until reinforcements ar- c;
rived ?
Had that battle bean opsned at five o'clock P
in the morning instead of at eleven the des- ~
tiny of Europe would have been turned the
wrong way. The heavy rain decided every- j\
thing. 8o also are the winds and the waves 5"
I on God's side. Witness the Armada with ~
one hundred and fifty ships and twenty-six ?
hundred and fifty guns and eight thousand
sailors and twenty thousand soldiers sent out
by Philip IL of Spain to oonquer England. ^
What became of those men and that ship- R
ping* Ask the wind and the waves all ?
along the English and Irish coasts. The
men and ships all wrecked or drowned or f1
scattered. 8o I expect that Moses will be "
helped in rescuing the Israelite? by a
special weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Nile was a deity. Its waters were then as 9
now every delicious. It was the finest nat- ?
ural beverage of all the earth. We have no ?
such love for the Hudson, and Germans have 11
no snch love for the Rhine, and Russians ?
have no such love for the Volga as the Egyp- 11
tians have love for the NiJe.
But one day, wheu Pharaoh comes down
to this river, Moses takes a stick and whips d
the waters, and they turn into the gore of a j1
slaughter house, and through the sluices and "
fishponds the incarnadined liquid backs up
into the land and the maledor whelms every- a
thing, from mud hovel to throne room. Then ^
came the frogs, with horrible croak, all over y
everything. Then this people, cleanly al- j
most to fastidiousness, were infested with t]
I insects that belong to the filthy and un[
kempt, and the air buzzed and buzzed with e)
flies, and then the distemper started cows to j
bellowing and horses to neighing,and camels
to groaning, as they rolled over and ex- C(
pired. ^
And then boils, one of which will put a t|
man in wretchedness, came in clusters from jt
the top of the head to the sola of the foot. ?
And then the clouds dropped hail and light- a
ning. And then locusts came in, swarms of
them, worse than the grasshoppers even were
in Kansas, and then darkness dropped for
three days so that the people could not see
their hand before their faoe, great surges of
midnight covering them. And last of all,
on the night of the 18th of April, about
eighteen hundred years before Christ, the
Dostroying Angel sweeps past; and hear it |
all nightlong, the flap! flap! flap! ocms wings
until Egypt rolled on a great hearse, the ,
eldest ciuld dead in every Egyptian home. t
The eldest son ot Pharaoh expired that night c
in the palace and all along the streets of j
Memphis and Heliopolis, ana all up and down
the >ile there was a funeral wail that would 8
have rent tne fold of the unnatural darkness t
if it had not been impenetrable. f
The Israelitish homes, however, were un- j
touched. But these homes were full of preparation,
for now is your chanca, 0 ye 1
wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces a
of food you can and to the desert! Its
simoons are better tnan the bondage you ,
have suffered. Its scorpions will not sting
so sharply as the wrongs that have stung t
you all your lives. Away! The man who j
was cradled in the basket of papyrus on the ;
Nile will lead yoa. Up! Up! This is the
night of your rescue. They gather together Jat
a signal. Alexauder's armies and all the i
armies of olden time were led by torches on f
high poles, great crests of Are; and the
Lord Almighty kindles a torch not held by
human hands but by omnipotent hand. c
Not made out of straw or oil, but kindled i
out of the atmosphere, such a torch as the ^
world never saw betore and never will see
again. It reached from the earth unto the c
heaven, a pillar of fire, that pillar practi- t
1 * * ?f u *L: m
calJy saying, "lnisw&y; luarcu cum nay;
On that supernatural ffambeau more than a t
million refugees set their eyes. Moses and
Aaron lead on. Then come the families of *
Israel. Then come the herds and flocks s
moving on across the sands to what is the s
teach of waters now calle.t Bahr-el-ftulzum,
but called in the B ble the Red Sea. And c
when I dipped my hands in its blue waters, a
the heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled over r
me. .
After three days' march the Israelitish a
refugees encamped for the night on the t
banks of the Red Sea. As the shadows begin
to fall, in the distance is seen the host of a
Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six hun- t
drei finest war chariots, followed by com-* t
nion chariots, rolling at full speed. And the
glittering of the wheels and the curses of in- I
luriated Egyptains came down with the t
darkness. But the Lord opened the crystal c
gates of Bahr-el-Kulzum and the enslaved j
Israelites passed into liberty, and then the
crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against ?
the Egyptiau pursuers. I
It was about two o'clock in the morning r
when the interlocked axle trees of the i
Egyptian chariots could not move an inch
either way. But the Red sea unhitched the ?
horses and unheltneted the warriors, and 'v
left the proud host a wreck on the Arabian
sands. Then two choruses arose, and Moses
led the men in one, and Miriam led the . 1
women in the other, and the women beat | I
time with their feet. The record says: "All t
the women went out after her with timbrels
and with dances. And Miriam answered
them. Bin?; ye to the Lord, for He hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea." What
a thrilling story of endurance and victory.
So the burden of oppression was lifted, but
another burden of Egypt is made up of deserts.
Indeed, Africa is a great continent
for deserts, Libyan, desert, Sahara desert,
deserts here and there and yonder, condemn
ing vast regions of Africa to barrenness, on e
ot the deserts threa thousand miles lone an d
a thousand miles wide. But all those deserts
will yet be flooded, and so made fertile. De
Lesseps says it can be done, and he who planned
the Suez canal, which marries the R9d
Sea and the Mediterranean, knows what he
is taking about.
I Another burden of Egypt to be lifted is
the burden of Mohammedanism, although
there are some good things about that religion.
Its disciples must always wash before
they pray, and that is five times a day.
A commendable grace is cleanliness. Strong
drink is positively forbidden by Mohamme
uauisuj, BULL IUUU^U BJUio iuay uavo Btrtrn a
drunken Mohammedan, 1 never saw one. It
is a religion of sobriety. Then they are not
ashamed of their devotions. When the call
for prayers is sounded from the minarets the ^
Mohammedan immediately unrolls the rug
on the ground and falls on his knees, and 11
crowds of spectators are to him no embar- I
| rassment?reproof to many a Christian who ]
omits his prayers if people are looking. .
But Mohammedanism, with its polygamy,
blights everything it touches. Mo- s
hammed, its founder, liai four wives, aud r
his followers are the enemies of good g
womanhood. Mohammedanism puts its
curse on all Egypt, and by setting up a sin- 1
ful Arab higher than the immaculate Christ, 6
is an overwhelming blasphemy. May God ,
help the brave and consecrated missionaries
who are spending their lives in combating c
it. C
But before I forget it I must put more i
emphasis upon the fact that the last outrage
that resulted in the liberation of the Hebrews
was their being compelled to make 8
bricks without straw. That was the last r
straw that broke the camel's back. God t
would allow the despotism against nis peo- r
pie to go no farther. Making bricks without
straw! 1
That oppression still goes on. Demand of ?
your wife appropriate wardrobe and {
bountiful table without providing the means '
necassary?bricks without straw. Cities de- 1
mantling in the public school faithful and t
succsssful instruction without giving t'ru i
teachers competent livelihood?bricks without
straw. United States government de- ?
man ding of senators and congressmen at 1
Washington fall atten iance to the interests ?
of the people, but on compensation which ,
may have done well enough when twentyfive
cents went as far as a dollar now, butt 1
in these times not sufficient to preserve their (
influence aud respectability?bricks without
straw.
In many parts of the land churches demanding
of pastors vigorous sermons and
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sanctified Ciceros on four hundred dollars
a year. Bricks without straw. That is one
reason why there are so many prior brickB.
In all departments, bricks not even or
bricks that crumble or bricks that are not
bricks at all. Work adequately paid for ia
worth more than work not paid for. More
straw and then better bricks.
But in all departments there are Pharaohs;
sometimes Capital a Pharaoh and sometimes
Labor a Pharaoh. When Capital prospers,
and makes a large percentage on its investment,
and declines to consider the needs of
the operatives, and treats them as so many
human machines?their nerves no more than
the bands on the factory wheel?then Capital
is a Pharaoh. On the other haud. when
workmen, not regarding the anxieties and :
'it: ' tfio." ?.. _ A'iV.Jrk1. '
usiness straggles of the firm employing
?em, and at the time when the firm are
aing their best to meet an important con act
and need all hands busy to accomplish
, at such a time to ha ve his employes make
strike and put their employers into extreme
arplexity and severe loss?then Labor be>mes
a Pharaoh of the worst oppression,
ondage, and though thera may be deserts
et for us to cross, we are on the way to the
'rornised Land. Thanks be unto God for
lis emancioatinz Gospei.
Come up out of Egypt all ye who are yet
oslaved. What Christ did for us He will
o for you- "Exodus P1 is the word. Exous!
Instead of the brick kilns of Egypt
Dme into the empurpled vineyards of God,
'here one cluster of grapes is bigger than
ie one that the spies bi ought to the Israelis
by the Brook Eshcol. though that cluster
ras so large that it was borne "between two
pon a staff."
Welcome all by Bin oppressed,
Welcome to His sacred rest;
Nothing Brought Him from above.
Nothing bat redeeming love.
A Valuable Tnrtle.
The true t-rtles inhabit the sea and
an be distinguished from allied specied
>y the form of the legs, which are more
longated and flattened, enabling them
o swim with great ea?e. These reptiles
pend almost the whole of their time in
he sea, seldom coming ashore, except
or the purpose of laying their egga. The
?er. J. G. "Wood gives m Golden Days
he following interesting information
bout them:
TJtic common green turue is iouuu on.
he shores of the West Indies. The
tsual mode of capturing it is by watchng
it go ashore, and then tilting it on
ts back by levers which are thrust
lexteriously beneath it. Much practice
s required in the art of turtle turning,
or the reptiles are very heavy, very
trong, and when they take alarm scuttle
iff seaward with wondrous speed, kickng
the sand and 6t0D03 behind them
rith such force that the hunters are
>ften half blinded before they can secure
heir prey.
Another valuable species is the hawks>111
turtle. This is the creature from
vhich is obtained the beautiful material
o familiar under the name of "tortoise
hell." In this reptile the thirteen plates
if the carapace are directed backward,
,ud overlap each other like the tiles of a
oof, as may be seen in the figure. These
>lates or "scales," as they are termed,
,re separated from the shell by placing
he turtle with its back downwards over
, clear fire. The heat loosens the atachment
of the plates and enables them
o be removed. Tiie turtle is then re>laced
in the sea, where, in process of
ime, a fresh set of scales will be proluccd.
In Celebes, however, the turtle
s first decapitated, aud then the plates
ire removed by placing the animal in i
>oiling water. When the scales are tirst
emoved from the animal they are rough,
>rown, and uniess held to the light,
jive very little indication of the beauty
vhicii lies concealed.
The manufacture of tortoise shell is a
atber complicated process. The reader
nust be familiar with the common toroise
shell combs. These are of equal
hickness throughout their length,
vhereas the plates from which the con bs
ire made are thickest in the middle and
Jiminish in thickness towards the edges
md points.
No one plate could furnish material
or one of these combs, so that if there
vere no means of uniting the plates, such
jbjccts could not be made. Fortunately,
he tortoise shell is amenable to the
oint influence of water and heat, so that
vhen well steamed, any number of plates
:an be pressed together, and look as if
hey were a single piece.
This valuable turtle frequents the
warmer seas, its chief home being ia the
topical Pacific, and the inhabitants of
;he many islands which stud that ocean
nakes various U3es of it.
Excavating Indian Mounds.
A. S. Logan, of Osage City, Mo., has
>een excavating some of the Indian
aounds on the banks of the Missouri
liver in the vicinity of Jefferson City.
The mounds were built in a circle on a
duff 150 feet above the water. Digging
everal feet down from the top of the
nound Mr. Logan found a vault conducted
of ledge rocks. In Bhape it
night be called square, with the corners'
lightly rounded. The walls of the vault
verc about three feet high, and no
:ement was used in buildiug them. The
orners had a rece33 made in each, form1
g a segment of aa arch, in which many
jones were found, together with tools
ind a pipe. The bones were thd&e of
nen, women, and children, indicating
hat the vault was a family receptacle.
The material of which the tools were
'ashioned?there were axes, knives, and
jointed instruments?was a species of
lard sandstone known in the neighbor
loud as "cotton rock." The pipe was
i heavy variety of stone unknown to Mr.
Logan. The bowl was round and tho
item about four inches long. Oa the
oowl some characters had bee a engraved.
The wonder was how the pipe could have
been made with such simple tools as were
found in the vault, aud Mr. Logan is inclined
to think that "these people lived
interior to the a^e of flint tools, and it
may be that tho "cotton-rock" implements
hud becouie obsolete, like the distaff
of our grandmother's mother, and
had been laid away as interesting but
useless relics." He has a theory that the
vaults were built to preserve the dead,
not from the depredations of animals,
but from the sweep of the Missouri's tide,
which in those preaistori c times flowed
along in the viciuity of the mounds. ?
Neio York Port.
At a recent wedding, as the newly
married pair were marching down the
aisle, the organist played "Onward
Christian tidier, marching to th?
war."
ad must look for the judgments 01 uoa.
Let all oppressors whether in homes, in
lurches, in stores, in offices, in factories, in
>cial life or political life, in private life or
ublic life know that God hates oppressors,
nd they will all come to grief here or h defter.
Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing,
- *?? o ^AAioltra wKon fnr?
dialling lULUg, ? UU1.U,.! U V-.UQ .. UWU .v.
19 complete extinction of the Hebrews in
Igjpt he ordered all the Hebrew boys mastered,
but be did not find It so fine a thing
rhen his own first born that night of the de*
Toying angel dropped dead on tbe mosaic
Dor at the foot of the porphyry pillar of the
Eilace. Let all the Pharaohs take warning,
ome of the worst of them are on a small
ale in households, as when a man, because
is arm Is strong and his voice loud, domlates
his poor wife into a domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases where
le wife is a lifetime serf, her opinion discarded,
her tastes insulted, and her existence
wretchedness, though the world may not
now it. It is a Pharaoh that aits at the
ead of that table, and a Pharaoh that tyumizes
that home. There is no more aoorrent
Pharaoh than a domestic Pharaoh.
But it rolls over on me with great power
ie thought that we have all been slaves
own in Egypt, and sin has been our tasklaster.
and again and again we have felt its
tsh. But Christ has been our Atosea to lead
s out of bondage, and we are forever free,
he Red sea of a Saviour's sacrifice rolls deep
nd wide between us and our aforetime
"TEMPERANCE.
THE FIRST GLASS.
Glass namber one, "only in fun;".
Glass number two, other boys do;"
Glass namber three, "it won't hurt me;*
Glass number four, "only one more;"
Glass number Ave, "before a drive;"
Glass number six, "brain in a mix;
Glass number seven, stars up in heaven;
Glass number eight, stars in his pate;
niaaa -nnmViAr nirto whislnr Tinfc WlTlft'
Giass number ten,drinking again;
Glass number twenty, not yet a plenty.
Drinking with boys, drowning his joys;
Drinking with men, jost now and then,
Wasting his life, killing his wife;
Losing respect, manhood all wrecked,
Losing his friends, thus it all ends.
Glass number one, taken in fun,
Ruined his life, brought on strife;
Blighted his youth, ruled his truth;
Gave only pain, stole all bis gain;
Made him at last a friendless outcast.
Light-hearted boy, somebody's joy,
Do not begin early in sin;
Grow up a man brave as you can;
Taste not in fun glass number one.
?Central Baptist.
MEXICO HONORS WASHINGTON
Au American, who runs a drinking saloon
in Monterey, recently exposed the portrait
?* ? - * U * i.
ui wwi ^o H tiamu^wu aa a mgu ILL lruub UL
his saloon. General Reyes, the Governor of
Nuevo LeoD, more mindful of the honor due
to the "Father of His Country," than the
American himself, ordered the portrait removed,
asserting that Washington was too
great and good a man to have his portrait
used as a sign for a drinking house. It is
said that the publican claims damages and
has appealed to Secretary Blaine; but. however
the Administration may look at it, the
overwhelming sentiment of the country will
be with the Mexican Governor.?New Or?
leans Picauune.
THE DRINK HABIT IN ITS DECLINE.
Instead of drink being the rule now among
native Americans, it is the exception It is
rarely seen on our dining tables. Church
members seldom make a practice of drinking.
It is never heard of at ordinations,
and not often at funerals. Thousands of
children have grown up without ever taking
a glass of beverage. Total abstinence has
become respectable, and druDkenness a disgrace.
And yet sensible people seriously
tell us that our reformatory methods must
be given up, because we have made no
progress.
Tney say there is more drinking per capita
now than when we began this temperance
work. Will they please tell us if this means
more whisky or more beer? But suppose it
means more alcohol, will they please tell us
how much we would have been taking at
the previous rapid rata of increased immigration
of drinkers, if it had not been for
temperance work and teaching.?Temperance
leacher. _______
LADY MACDOKALD'3 TEETOTAUSSL
Lady Macdonald, the wife of the late
Prime Minister of Canada, is a staunch total
abstainer. The story of how she became so
has been told by herself. 8be says, after
some reflection, she was led to give up wine
drinking suddenly at last on Christmas Day,
1867. She had thought a good deal on the
subject, but never made any decided resolution
until that day. Conversation at dinner
turned on total abstinence, and a guest, a
strictly temperance man, who held high
office in the dominion, said (hat practically
total abstinence was impossible for any one
"in society." Lady Macdonald combated
this and, as a result of further discussion,
she was challenged as to whether she would
herself "give up her glass of sherry at dinner."
She at once decided to try, saying,
'Henceforth I enter the ranks of total abstainers,
and drink to our success in water."
Her ladyship's testimony is that "Since
then, thank God, I have never found any
necessity for wine. In health I can do my
life's work without any aid from dangerous
stimulants; in sickness I have invariably
ana positively reiusea 10 wuuu ? ..
THE SCCLA.L GLASS.
The social glass reflects horrid shapes to
those who indulge in it frequently. The
daily papers chronicle two frightful consequences
of the continued use of this soul distorting
reflector. In one county there is an
atrocious murder; in another city, a brutal
assault, resulting in the death of a neighbor
and friend. And yet when the criminals
are brought to trial, it will be found that
neither had any malicious feeling against
his Yictim and that both, when not under
the influence of liquor, were eood neighbors
and law abiding, citizans. Sociable habits
and the social glass are responsible for thes9
two crimes. The criminals deserve punishment
for their crimes. They will have no
effective defence and no excuse will prevail
to lessen their guilt by showing, thavyf they
were in possession of their sensed, they
would have been incapable of their crimes,
punishment must be meted out. Who will
dare advance a plea in extenuation of their
crimes, in favor of the brutal murderers?
Justice must orevail. We are a law abiding
people and criminals must be punished that
the community may be protected. All this
is true and ri<?ht, and yet there are
those who think that an ounce
of prevention might be used to prevent
the development of criminal proclivities
of men when, the provocative cause
leading to the commission of crime, is known
to those who are authorized to prevent the
commital of greater crimes by the arrest of
those whose frequently intoxicated condition
and quarrelsome dispositions foretell, to the
officers of the law, what the consoquences of
permitting the violent drunkard to remain
?t. Inrrro will hp A firimiriil is nunishedbe
causede deserves punishment and to prevent
others from committing crime. These two
objects influenced law makers and Jaw officers
in the past, but we flatter ourselves
that the prevention of crime is more to be
desired than the punishment of criminals.
We do not regard our police officers a9 appointed
for the sole purpose of arresting
criminals. Theirs is a protective, preventa
tive service and we treat them as guardians
of tbe public peace, and except in preventing
the influence of intoxicating liquor from
developing criminal proclivities, they are
quick to detect and prevent other influences
from fostering criminals. If every one
who became intoxicated knew that
he was liable to arrest, this
knowledge would have a wholesome effect
on the drinker. But it may be said that the
arresting of every one who became intoxicated
would be an odious duty to impose on
an officer; would be too degrading on good
though weak citizens, audtoo great a humiliation
on their families. This may be true,
but the benefit to the weak and tao gain to
his miserable family would compensate for
th? humiliation. Though we doubt the
goodness of any man wno sacrifices his interests
and the happiness of his family to
the gratification of his appetite for intoxicating
liquor, yet, we would not go too far.
We would only ask that the violent be sheltered
in the county jail, until the violence of
the storm raised by them has spent its force
and they were sufficiently calmoi to learn
that they had been a public nuisance which
could be no longer tolerated, and as they are
generally well-men liu? aud selfish men,
they would try to so conduct themselves as
to escape personal inconveuieuoe and punishment,
and thus they would gaiu control
of themselves in time to prevent their criminal
proclivities from gaining control of
them.?Sacred Heart Review.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Some men can keep drunk when they can'l
keep auyttiing else.
Temperauce is a tree that has contentment
for its root, and peace for its fruit.
,;Britons never will be slaves." boasts the
Londoner?yet he will walk three miles to gel
his ale.
Sir William Temple: l-.Men may lose their
health without losing their senses, and be intemperate
every day without being drun!<
perhaps once in their lives."
"A ilruuken man," says Shakespeare. '*i
like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman
one draught above heat, makes hiin a ool
the second mads him, and a third drown:
him."
The deputy marshals of Alaska have considerable
trouble with the Indians who rui
illicit stills for the manufacture of a vilo an-J
vicious decoction called hoochinoo, whicli
creates in the native breast a decided longinj
for somebody's blood.
Of an estimated population of 29,001,018 it
England and Wales, 173,036 persons were con
victed of drunkenness last year. Fifteei
j thousand nine hundred and forty-two wer
[ convicted for being drunk on Sundays be|
tween 12:30 noon and midnight.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE DEAREST NAME.
If Jesus from our faith today
Were stricken, and we knew
A Godless creed must meet our need,
That nothing else were true;
If Jesus from our heart were cast,
From pages to be read.
What word, in all the realms of thought,
Would answer ua instead?
If Jesus, midst the mists oftime,
were lost, ana we coma snow
He never died, our crucified,
"What could the new Creed show
To take His placc, to vibrate through
The prostrate human mind,
To give the race a standing place,
A hope for human kind?
If Jesus from our Creed ioday
Were stricken, who could trace
Another word the world liath heard
To ever take its plane;
Could ever frame a sound so sweet?
In all the realm of art,
Who yet hnth shone a t-ingle tone
So priceless to the heart?
?[Geo. Kiingle.
CHARACTER.
There is a structure which every responsible
person i9 building, whether he intends
so to do or not. That structure is character,
and every public act and word of our lives
is a part of that structure; and when our
building is done it will be just what we have
made it. If a man has been a drunkard, he
will be rated a drunkard; if be has been a liar,
people will estimate him a liar; if he has
been all his life a man of truth and uprightness,
the people will regard him a man of
integrity. No man can permanently Injure
our reputation but ourselves.
The first thing in erecting a building is a
good foundation. Without this, no matter
what may be the quality of mat- rials built,
the building will crumble and fall. This
foundation to character is honesty. No man
can be a man who is not honest.' But a man
may have a good foundation, and still have
an inferior building. Sec that large brick
> - J? 1: J ?
OUliaing, piiiceu upon a suuu iuva iwunuation,
but built of brick which arc hard and
soft. Soon the building will be regarded as
inferior, and possibly unsafe, only because
of the 80ft brick laid into the waifs.
A man might be regarded upright in his
dealings and a good neighbor, but liemigbt
have some bad blemishes which would very
greatly mar his reputation. And regard
should be had to this very early in life. In
order to have an unblemished reputation in
age it is necessary that he should have been,
upright in childhood, youth and manhood.
Josh Billings says: "A man may get his
reputation broken, and get it mended; but
likely the public will keep their eye on the
kraclc!" A man of dissolute habits might
reform in after-life and be respected, but he
will not carry the weight of influence that he
would if be had always been upright.
But the blessing of the Gospel is that it
can eventually enre all our ills. Let us,
then, brethren, do all in our power to get
this "sovereten balm" applied to all the wayward
sons of men.?[A. El.'more, in Christian
Leader.
EVERY CHRISTIAN IIAS A MISSION.
There la perhaps no one point which requires
more to be pressed on the attention
of Christian men, women and children id
the present day than this: that everyone is
sent into the world with a mission?that is,
lor some particular object.
He is not sent here merely to vegetate and
die; be is sent to do something for his
Master; and there is no one who has not some
talent which lie can employ for God. Everyone
has a mission. We know what the world
considers to be their mission?just to live aa
happy and comfortable as they can; just to
kill time without any thought of what will
become of them when they are called from
earth.
And what do many Christians regard as
their one and only business in this world?
Why, tlicy think that their mission is to take
care of the salvation of their own souls, and
that when they havt secured that they have
done all that is required of them. My friends,
that is but the beginning of the work, not
the end. Having been led to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, having becoroc united to
Him by a living faith ana thus been saved
forever, you arc then to work, not for yourpelves
only, but for your fellow-creatures?
for mankind. Having been raised up "from
death unto life," show the life which is in
you: show it in action?press forward in
your Christian course, and let your Muster
see that yoj arc willing to do ail that He baa
coramaifded you to do in His seryicc. Endeavor
to discover what is your mission in
the world. "Mission" may be a cant word,
but it contains the sum' aud substance of
Christian usefulness in the world.
Endeavor to find out the gifts God has imparted
to you, and set yourselves to work
with them; and whether the door may be
wide or narrow, whether it be in your power
to benefit many or only a few, if you do the
I trnri.- which God in His nrovfdence has i
given you to do, you will at least hear your
Master sayof you: "lie has done what he
could." What we can is all that our Master
requires.?[Sir E. Burton.
HOW CAN WE ESCAPE?
Wc as Christians have duties; how can
we escape the displeasure of God if we neglect
them? One Christian can not lay out
another's work, but there is a niche where
every one can find his work. If we faithfully
perform the duty that is nearest us,
our sphere will enlarge and we shall find
plenty of work to do for the Lord. I wonder
if at the last great day, we shall not be
called to account for doing what was unnecessary,
when we might have been doing
something to advance the Kingdom of
Christ, something for the help of the poor,
the needy, or the outcast. How can we escape
if we fail to serve God with all our
heart? How many professing Christians
only give the Lord a half-hearted service?
The pleasures of this life have
fully as much attraction as the meetings
for prayer, yea even more, now 01 tea
the meetings of the church are left,
while its members are mingling with the
busy world.
Can we escape any more than could Jonah ?
He was sent to perform certain duties, so
are we. He was to proclaim the word of the
Lord to Nineveh, so are we. Are we not in
the mids-t of wickedness of all kind, are not
all Christians as truly sent to proclaim
Christ as was he? Yet, do we not think
Jonah a little worse than ourselves? Have
not we received our commauds, and our
commission? Are not we to follow the wav
the Lord leads us until we lay down the life
which he has given? We lorgetGod, yes,
we try to flee as did.Tonab. And happy are
they who are led hark from the way to destruction
to tbo narrow and rugged path
which leads to eternal light.
Again I ask bow can we c3cape if wc fail
in duty, if wc heed not its call? There is a
womlerful Bible promise: "As thy days, so
shall thy strength be." So if tbe way does
seem hard, there is the everlasting arm reudy
to be our strength and support.
IIow can wc escape, if we feel callorl to
perforin certain work and do not do it, but
run from and ignore it? Why do wc try
when the love of Christ has rescued us?
We who have tasted of this love should impart
to others the ioy we feel, tbe hope that
js within us should brighten tbe saddest
hour. When soriow and atllietiou come
wc cannot run away from that.
Earth's pleasures will not comfort
us, its greatness will not
help us; but there is the Shadow of tbe Rock,
the covert from the tempest, the promise I
will be more to thee than any earthly friend
can be. And when thy father and thy
< mother forsake thee then the Lord will take
thee up.
; We know the truth of the b'es?edne?s of
these promises from experience when loved
( ones were taken we fled to the refuge and
. was comforted. Even in the day of sore
trial God was with iw, and wc trusted his
love and it failed not.
An exchange says: "Frances Willard
denounces tight lacing in no
* measured terms. She calls the tight
corset the 'death line.'" Miss "VVil5
lard is opposed to tights of all kinds;
most emphatically those in the liquor
i line.
i ,
; TnE e-isiest thing in the world to
do?giving advice?is the thing that
* ought to be the most religiously avoidi
ed. If the advice turns out to be
? good, you get no thanks; if it turns
out to be bad? you get curses.
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~ SABBATH SCHOOL.
international lesson for
november 22.
Lesson Text: "Christ Betrayed.''?John
xviii., 1-13?Golden Text:
Mark xiv.. 41?Com
mentary |
1. "When Jesus had spoken these words,
He went forth with His disciples over the
brook CedroD, where was a garden, into
which He entered, and His desciples."
Matthew and Mark say that they sung a
hymn; they also give the name of the garden,
Gfethseraane, and state that on the way
thither Jesus loretold that upon that very
night they would all forsake Him. (Math,
xxvii., 30-36; Mark, xiv., 26-32.) This going
forth of Jesus from the city where He should
have been proclaimed king reminds us of
the flight of David from the same city and
over the same brook, rejected by his people
and driven out by his own son. But just as
surely as David was welcomed back to his
city and throne so will Jesus be in due time.
2 ''And Judas also, which betrayed Him,
knew the place; for Jesus ofttimes restored
thither with His disciples." In chapter vii.,
53; viii., 1, we read that "Every man weoj
unto his own house; Jeanis went unto the
Mount of Olives." ThiB He did very
often, and therefore Judas knew the place
well. On this occasion, Jesus and the eleven
having entered the garden. He left eight of
them and took Peter, James and John a little
farther, then leaving them with instructions
to watch and pray. He went alone
into the agonies of that night, as recorded by
Matthew, Mark and Luke.
S. "Judas then, having received a band of
men and officers from the chief priests and
Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and
torches and weapons/' Matthew and Mark
speak of a great multitude with swords and
staves (Math, xxvi., 47; Mark xiv., 43).
Judas bad left the supper chamber before
the discourse, and probably at the close of
the passover feast and before the institution
of tne supper. While the disciples were
hearing the glorious words of Jesus's discourse
and prayer Judas was busy obtaining
the band by which to arrest Him whom he
bad professed to lova above all others.
4. "Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that
should come upon Him, went forth and said
unto them, Wnom seek ye?" It is one of
the greatest mercies of our lives that we
know not what shall be on the morrow
(Jas. v., 14), nor even what the next hour
may bring to us. But Jesus went forward
from Nazareth to Calvary knowing everything
that should come to Him from day to
day. He ever saw Gethsemane and the
cross before Him, and yet went forward as
calmly as He now went forth to meet His
false friend and His enemies. He, however,
saw beyond the sufferings a joy set before
Him, a glory to be revealed (Heb. xii., 2;
Luke xxlv., 26), and thus He was sustained.
5. "They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus saith unto them, I am He.
And Judas also, which betrayed Him, stood
with them " This title, ''Jesus of Nazareth,"
is found just twenty times in the Gospels
and in the Acts. It is the title of humiliation
and contempt, and yet of power; compare
John 1., 45, 46, with Actsiv., 10; r., 88, reminding
us that when we are willing to be
despised and be nothing in the eyes of the
world, then God can show His power in us.
The reply of Jesus, "I am," found three
times in this lesson and so often in this
Gospel, reminds us of God's words to Moses,
"Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you (Ex. iii.,
14).
6. "As soon then as He had said unto
them, I am, they went backward-and fell to
the ground." Bee the power of His breath;
what will it be when with the breath of His
lips He shall slay the wicked (Isa. xL, 4). A
few rajs of light from the same Jesus of
Nazareth sent Saul of Tarsus helpless to
the ground (Acts xxii., 6-8), and a word following
sent conviction to his heart . (
7. "Then asked He them again, Whom
seek ye? and they said, Jesus of Nazareth,"
Hath He so willed it they would have been
like the thousands of the Assyrian army
(Isa. xTTvii , 36) and never have risen to
their feet again, but He allows them to recover
themselves once more to approach
Him when He again repeats His question as
before, and they gave the same reply. If
with but a truth ot their earnestness in seek*
ing to take His life they bad only sought Him
to give them life how different nad been the j
result.
8. "Jesus snswered, I have told you that I
am He; if, therefore, ye seek Me, let thes^
go their way." This time, as He repeats the
great "I am," He restrains the power, and
they fall not as before. When we read His
word or hear it, it may come to us with
power or otherwise.
9. "That the saying might be fulfilled
which He spake, Of them which Thou gavest
Me have 1 lost none." In this prayer He
said, "Those that Thou gavest Me 1 have
kept, and none of them is lost but the son of
perdition; that the Scripture might be lul
tilled (chapter xvii., 12). It does not appear
that Judas was ever given to Him, for had
he been given to Christ he could not have
perished. Why Christ ever chose him,
knowing him to be a devil (chapter vi., 70.
71), is somewhat of a mystery which we will
better understand some day.
10. "Then Simon Peter, caving a sword,
crew it and smote the higii priest's servant
and cut off his right ear. The servant's
name was Maichus." Here we see an unbeliever
suffering througu the rashness and
uu-Christlilce conduct or a disciple, and that
is no uncommon circumstance m our tiua%
but rather a cause of stumbling to many?
11. "Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up
thy sword into the sheath; the cup which
My Father hath given Me, shall I not drink
it?' Luke says that Jesus touched his ear
anS healed him (xxii., 51.) Matthew says
that Jesus said to Peter, "They that take the
sword shall perish with the sword" (xxvi.,
52), and added the words about the Father
giving Him more than twelve legions of
angels. But it is only John who speaks of
His readiness to drink the cup which the
Father gave Him. John records no such
prayer as is found in the other gospels about
removing the cup from Him, for this gospel
is the gospel of the Son of God in power
from first-Jo last. All here is perfect acquiescence
in the Father's will without even
a request to the contrary.
12. "Tben tbe Dana ana trie captain ami
officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound
HimMatthew and Mark record that now
all the disciples forsook Him and fled (Math,
xxvi., 56; Mark xiv., 50). Just as Jesus hed
foretold fbat they would, and as the Spirit
through Zechariah had also said hundreds of
years before (Math, xxvi., 31; Zech., xiii.,
7). Every word oil God shall be literally fulfilled
in due time.
13. "And led Him away to Annas first;
for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, which
was the high priest that same year." In the
first chapter of this gospel we heard the
words, "Behold the Lamb of God," but now
we see Him, "Brought as a lamb to the
slaughter" (Isa. liii., 7). Jesus Himself is
the true High Priest of whom all the priests
were only types, but He is also the true sacrifice
in whom all sacrifices have their fulfillment.
He is Burnt offering, Meat offering,
Peace offering, Sin and Trespass offering
all in one.?Lesson Helper.
If John Chinaman Is to bs kept
out of this country, United States
Judges will have to stop rendering
decisions like that given by Judge
Hanford the other day. Heretofore
the practice has been that every Celestial
who came straying in here
across the Canadian frontier in open
violation of the exclusion act should
be seized and sent back to China, his
original point of departure. Now
Judge Hanford claims that the intruder
can be returned to Canada only
as the "place whence he came." John
will like nothing better than this.
He will cross the frontier twenty times
monthly, and enjoy it, if an obliging
Uncle Sam will but return him to
the Northwestern backwoods instead
of to the far land of chopsticks and
pigtails.
It has been stated that C. P. Huntington
will give 8100,000 to the man
who will manage the Southern Pacific
Railroad without injury to the property.
There are probably 100,000 men
In the field pointing lightning rods in
Mr. Huntington's direction '
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A Carious Indian Tradition. :
The American Indiana,especially tho?!
of the lake regions of Southern Canada j
relate a curious tradition to account loir . [ M
the fact that all lower animals are dumb..
In very, verj early times, they say, chd . M
father of all tribe) lived in a beautiful! '
country over against the rising sun. Hljf
form was perfcct and his face handsome! -'A
in the extreme, his descendants being all ...
superb specimens of humanity. Know- Jj
ingof their accomplishments, and being; I *
much given to flattering each other,thqrfrtlfSL
became very naugnty ana arrogant, am t-'-a
a punishment for their bigotry the Great
Father warned the father of the tribes is V|
a dream that a deluge would be seat to "
drown tliem from off the face of tha
earth. In the dream which forewarned ,
the father cf tribes of the great calam*.
ity impending, there was presented to
his visionary view the form and outlines
of a raft, which was to be used in saving;'
a remnant of this bigoted people. Ini jffl
those days all animals talked as men dos -v
and when the father of the tribes in-* . -I;
formed the beasts of the field of hi? fj
dream, and of his intentions concerning' : |
the building of the great raft, they pro- V M
tested, declaring their unwillingness to .3*
accompany him on any such expedition. ^ ^
But the man's superior intelligence prc^i 'Jii
vailed. He built the raft, and lo! hadC .|^
hardly finished when the great flood
came. The man's family and pairs of
every beast took passage and floated for *
many months on the surface of the deluge.
The clouds cleared away on tha
second day after the embarkation and |
for seventeen successive moons the maa |
used the sun as a guide, continual!/ '<;%
steering toward its place of setting. Bat >9
the animals, every one of them (who it
will be remembered had the power ot_ J
speech), protested against sailing to the ''?m
west, declaring in one voice that they ,
preferred steering towards the sun'*.*
rising-place. These murmurs had bee*
going on for ?ome days when, to the
finite joy of the man, who had been hold- ?1
ing the fort against this horde of , 5
creatures who had the voices of men and
the reason of beasts, great spots of dry, gj
land began to appear. Finally this ruddy; -ia
constructed ark grounded, and the man. . tig
and his family and the beasts were again ;:jl
permitted to press the face of the earth
with their feet. But a great and lasting ' ij
calamity had overtakea the animals. For |
their murmurs against the man while oa 1
the water they were deprived of their 1
power of speech, and have remained ^
dumb from that day.?St. Louit BepubThe
Sora Bird.
The sora is a bird that is found onthr -Vm
high-tide marshes of the James andBi(^>^
pahannock Rivers in Virginia, in the kt>; ^
ter part of summer and in the fall. B ';>^J
is rather a small bird, a kind of rail, and ^
furnishes both good sport for gunnetiM^H
and a delicious dish for the table. It
not protected by the game laws, for #u^j|3
excellent reason that it has the good tastr^||
to be invisible except in the gunning.^!
season, and then it is always fat, plufef% Jh
atid juicy. Nearly eversince John Smiti
landed at Jamestown the great conua^|a
drum in tide-water Virginia has been: 'f)
What becomes of the sora after frost! ':<
i nej oegia to appear cn mo margau ui , jn
August, coming from?nobody know*)$|
where. At first only a few are seen, but ;?|j|
the numbers gradually increase until they'll
became plentiful. When flushed by the
sportsman they rise and fly only sixty or
seventy feet and then alight again. They *3g
fly with their long legs hold out beneath, f
them, and their flight has every appear*: %
anee of being labored and difficult. And; '-.M
yot, after the first good frost, the sor^
disappear as completely as if they had
vanished into nothingness. It is the ?
most remarkable case of mysterious
appearance known to natural history aodl^]j?9
has give rise to endless discussion and .
much learned speculation. The mosfc?||S
picturesque and ingenious theory is thafc^Lg
advanced by the Virginia negroes, who rrog
are convinced that as soon frost come*
the sora go into the ground and turn to 'IM
frogs. Less imaginative and more pracmaintain
that thfl SAM.
blUAl pu4ivaupuv4a MMMM ?, , "vVJ?
though a lazy flyer ia the glorious and jij
golden autumn of Old Virginia, nevertheless
has good power of wing, and tfiat jJi
when he gets a good, sharp trost on his?$S
tail, he gets up and dusts industriously
in search of a warmer clime. But tho (&J
common-sense philosophers who hold
this latter theory cannot prove it any ^
more than the darkeys can prove their vj
theory that the birds go into the ground ; :'M
and turn to frogs. The only thing
solutely certain is that the sora vanish 3
suddenly after frost and are not seen ,^1
again until the next August. Where
they go or what becomes of them is still
an exciting conundrum in tide-water Vir
ginia.?St. Louis Rewtblic. . yaw
Boots for Stiort People.
To the question whether bouts c^abo
made that will give extra height to short
people an English shoemaker answers .
emphatically, yes. He claims by an ingenious
device to have produced tha -Aj
amazing result that any person may b? '
raised from half an inch to six inche* -A
above his natural height,may walk,stand
and even dance like other people, and
the true facts of the case may be ignored, ?
if he so please, by his most intimate j"
friends. The change is effected by ao MS
addition within the boot or shoe,instead ^
of outside of it. A. piece of cork, hol?
lowed to receive the foot, is placed in- j
sida the heel, and is finally graduated off i
at the middle of the foot,thns preventing i-.
the body from being thrjWD abruptly
forward, as some people would imagine '-'j?
might be the case. The foot, indeed,
does not extend in reality to the toes,
and it is therefore possible for those who
wish to be in the latest fashion to have J
a narrow pointed toe without feeling any
inconvemcnce therefrom. ? Brooklyn
Citizen.
Smallest Locomotive iu the World 7?
Henry Case, of Gloversville, N. Y.,' I
has, af:er spending his spare time for
fifteen years on the tasK. completed the
smallest locomotive in existence. It i?
made of gold, silver, steel and brass, . '*!
contains 1S15 separate pieces exclu- jS
sive of 668 screws and bolts and - ipS
35S rivets. It runs on a track with a
gauge of 1* inches. The locomotive is
inches in height and weighs 1-J
pounds, and with tho tender two pounds
2? ouuees. It is 8} inchcs long or
twelve with the tender. The diameter
of the cylinder is 5-16 of an inch, and its
stroke of piston is -J- inch. No. 60
cotton thread is used in the cab lamp
and head light, which burns after being
lighted about twenty minutes. The
whole is a beautiful and perfect working
model of the modern iron horse. ?
inglon Star.
Crickets are bought and sold in various