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ACHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Wall of Heaven."
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r Text: "The foundations of the wall of
t the city were garnished with all manner of
precious stones."?Revelation ixi., 19.
P Shall I be frank and tell you what are ray
designs on you to-day? They are to make
you homesick for heaven: tp console you concerning
your departed Christian friends by
giving you some idea of the brilliancy of tUe
scenes in which they novr commingle: to
S've all who lore the ljord a more elevated
ea as to where they are going to pass the
most of the yeare of their existence, and to
? 6et all the indifferent and neglected to quick
| and immediate preparation, that they may
have it likewise.
, ' Yea, it is to induce many of our youag
people to study a volume of God that few
^ ever open, but without some acquaintance
V ."with which it is impossible to uaderstaod
H the Bible?I mean the precious stones, their
W crystalization, their powers of refraction,
r .their cleavage, their fracture, their luster,
their phospboresence, their transparency,
their infinity of color and shape, and what
they had to do with the welfare and doom
of families and the destiny of nations?aye,
oositive revelation they make of God
Himself.
. itiv text stands us in the presence of the
most stupendous spienuur ut iiUDuuiiusr,
| and that is the wall of heaven, and says of
its foundations that they are garnished with
all manner of precious stone3. All the
ancient cities had walls for safety, and
fceavea has a wall for everlasting safety.
"You may say that a wall made up of all
manner of precious stones is figurative, but
you cannot understand the force and significance
of the figure unless you know something
about the real structure and color and
- value of the precious stones mentioned.
Now, I propose this morning, so far as
the Lord may help me, to attempt to climb
not the wall of heaven, but the foundations
of the wall, and I ask you to join me in the
attempt to scale some of the heights.. We
4 shaJ I only get part of the way up, but better
that than to stay down on the stupid level
where the most of us have all our lives been
standing. We begin olear down at the bottom
and where the wall begins.
The first layer of the foundation, reaching
all around the city and for 1500 miles, is a
layer of jasper. Indeed there is more of
jasper in the wall of . heaven than of any
other brilliant, because it not onlv composes
I a part of tha foundation, but makes up th9
chief part of'the superstructure. The jasper
is a congregation of many colors. It is
brown, it is yellow, it is green, it is vermilion,
it is red, it is purple, it is black, and is
so striped with colors that much of it is
called ribbon jasper.
It is found in Siberia and Egypt, but it is
rare in most lands and of great value, for it
IB SO nara UJO uruuiai * yt uunom uuiuvu
break it off from the places where it has
been deposited. The workmen bore holes
into tip rock of jasper, then drive into these
0 holes sticks of dry birch wood, and then
saturate the sticks and keep them saturated
until they swell enough to split the rock, and
the fragments are brought out and polished
and transported and cut into oameos and
put behind tbe glass doors of museums.
- The portraits of Roman emperors were
cut into it. The finest intaglio ever seen is
in the Vatican museum, the head of Minerva
in jasper. By divine arrangement jasper
adorned the breastplate of the high priest in
the ancient temple. But its most significant
position is where it glows and burns and
darkens and brightens and preaches from
the lowest stratum of the wall of heaven.
Olad am I that the very first row of stones
In the wall of heaven is jasper of many colors,
and if you like purple it is purple, and
it you like brown it is brown, and if you like
green it is green, ana u you nice ocaer yoi- .
low it is ocher yellow, and if you like Vermillion
it is vermillion, and if ?ou like
black it is black. It suggests to me that
heaven is a place of all colors?colors of
opinion, colors of creed, colors of skin, colors
of taste. j
But we mast pass up in this inspection of i
the foundations of the great wall of heaven,
and after leaving the jasper the next precious
stone reached is sapphire, ana it 1
sweeps around the city 1500 miles. All lapidaries
agree in saying that the sapphire of
the Bible is what we now call lapis lazuli.
Job speaks with emotion of 'The place of
sapphires," and God thought so much of this
precious stone that He put it in the braast>
plate of the bizh priest commanding, "The
second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire
and a diamond."
1 he sapphire is a blue, but varies from
faintest hue to deepest ultramarine. It is
found a pebble in the rivers of Ceylon. It
is elsewhere in compact masses. Persia and
.Thibet and Burmab and New South Wales
and North Carolina yield exquisite specimens.
Its blue eye is seen In the valley of
the Rhine. Alter a burial of thousands of
years it bas been brought to sight in Egyptian
monuments and Assyrian cylinders.
At Moscow and St. Petersburg and Coustantinope
I have seen great mass as of this
sapphire, commonly called lapis lazuli. The
closer you study its veins the more enchanting.
and I do not wonder that the sapphire
is called into the foundation of .the wall of
heaven. It makes a strong stone for the
foundation, for it is toe hardest of all minerals
except the diamond.
Sapphire based on jasper, a blue sky over
? " a* T?.u?
El uei jr auudoi. wv. uuuu pvmvo w/ iw m ? elation
and says, "The second, sapphire."
and this suggests to me that though our
earth and all its furniture of mountains and
seas and atmospheres are to collapse and
vanish we will throughout all eternity have
in some way kept the most beautiful of
earthly appearances, whether you take this
sapphire of the second layer as literal or
figurative. The deep blue of our skies and
the deep blue of our seas most not, will not,
be forgotten. If a thousand years after the
world has gone to ashes you or i want to
*" recall how the earthly slues looked in a sumr
jiier noon or the midooean in a calm, we j
will have only to look at the second row of
the foandatlon of the wall of heaven.
Ob, I am so glad that St. John told us
about it! "The second, sapphire r While
we are living in sight of that wall spirits
who have come from other worlds and who
never saw our earth will viaitus, and we
, will visit them, and some time we wiU be in
conversation about this earth when it was
yet afloat and as wing, and wa shall want to
tell them about how it looked at certain
times, and then it will be a great object
lesson for all eternity, and we will say to
our visitor from some other world, as we
point to vard the wall of heaven, "it looked
like that stratum of foundation next to the
lowest." John, twenty-first chapter and
minafAAnfk vorcn uThfl QdnnhirA "
A step higher aad you come to chalcedony,
another layer in the foundation of
the wall and the rucuin? 1509 milea arouud
the heavenly city. Chalcedony I Translucent.
A divine mixture of agates and
opals and cornelians. Striped with white
and gray. Dasbed of pallor blushing into
red and darkening into purple. Iceland and
the Hebrides boll forth beautiful specimens
of chalcedony.
But now we must make a swift ascent to
the top of the foundation wall, for we cannot
minutely examine all the layers, and so,
putting one foot on the chalcedony of which
we have been speaking, wj spring to the
emerald, and we are one-third of the way
to thetop of the foundation, for the fourth
row is emerald. That, I would judge, is
, God's favorite among gems, bociuse it holds
what seems evident is His favorite color on
K earth, the green, since that is the color m?st
widely diffused across all the earth s continents?the
grass, the foliage, the everyday
dress of nature. The emerald*. Kings use
it as a seal to stamp pronunciainentos. The
rainbow around the throne of God is by
St. John compared to it.
Conquerors have considered it the greatest
prize to capture. What ruthlessaess
when the soldiers of Pizarro pouuJad it with
their hammers! Emeralds have had much
to do with the destiny of Mexico. Five of
them were presented by Cortez to his bride,
one of them cut into the shape of a rose, another
into the shape of a trnmpet, another
into the shaoe of a bell, with tongue ol
peerl, and this presentation aroused the jealnntir
nf t.ho throne and causad the cotise
queat fall of Cortez. But the depths of the
83a wore decorated with those emeralds, for
in a shipwreck they went down off the coast
of Barbary. Napoleon wore an emerald at
Austerlitr.
In the Eremin museum at Moscow there
are crowns and scepters and outspread miracles
of omerald. Ireland is called the
Emerald Isle not because of its verdure, but
because it was presented to Henry II of
England with an emerald ring. Nero had a
magnifying glass of emerald through whioh
tie looktd at the gladiatorial contests at
,.,-s . -
Roma: Bat here are 1500 miles of emerald
sweeping around the heavenly oity in one
layer.
But upward still and you put your foot on
a stratum of fardonyx, white and red, a
seeming commingling o>f snow and fire, the
snow cooling the Are, the fire melting the
snow.
Another climb and you reach the sardius,
named after the city of Sardius. Another
climb and you reach the chrysolite. A
specimen of this, belonging to Epiphanus, in
the Fourth Century, was said to be so
brilliant that whatever was put over to conceal
it was shone through, and the emperor
of China has a specimen tnat is described as
having such penetrating radiance that it
makes the night as bright as the day.
A higher climb and you reach the
beryl. Two thousand years ago the Greeks
used this precious stone for engraving purposes
. It was accounted among the royal J
traasures of Tvre. The hilt of Murafs |
sword was adorned with it. It glows in the
imperial crown of Great Britain. Lnther
thought the beryls of the heavenly wall was
turquoise. Kalisch thought it was chrysolite.
Josephus thought it a'golden colored
jewel. The wheals oc ?zekiefs vision flamed
with beryl and were a revolving Are.
The beryl appears in six sided prisma, and
is set in seals and intaglios, in necklaces and
coronets. It was the joy of ancient jewelry,
it ornamented the affluent with eardrops.
Charlemagne presented it to his favorite.
Beautiful beryl I Exquisitely shaped beryl 1
Divinely colored beryl I It seems like congealed
color. It looks like frozen fire.
But stop not here. Climb higher and you
come to topaz, a be wilder meat of beauty
and named after an island of .the Red Sea.
Climb higher and you come l? chrysoprasus,
of greenish golden hue and hard as
flint
vJumb higher and you reach the jacinth,
named after the flower hyacinth anl of reddish
blue.
Take one more step and you reach the
top, not of the wall, bat the top of the
foundation ot the wall, aad St. John cries
out, "The twolfth fin amethyst 1" This precious
stone wuen found in Australia or India
or Euroj^ stands in columns and pyramids.
Kor^color it is a violet blooming in
stone. For its play of light, for its deep
mysteries of color, for its unseen Egyptians,
in Etruscan, in Roman art it has been honored.
The Greeks thought this stone a preventive
of drunkenness. The Hebrews
thought it a source of pleasant dreams.
For all lovers of gems it is a subject of admiration
and suggest! veness. Yes, the
word amethyst means a prevention of
drunkenness. Long before the New Testament
made reference to the amethyst in the
wall of heaven the Persians thought that
cups made out of amethyst would hinder
any kind ot liquor contained therein from
becoming intoxicating. But of all theamethnHnA
r?nnq from which the ancients
drank not one had any such result of provention.
For thousands of years the world has been
looking in vain for such a preventive amethystine
cap. Staggering Noah could not
find It. Convivial Ahasuerus driving Vashti
from Che gates could not And it Nahal
breaking the heart of beautiful Abigail
could not find it. Belshazzar, the kingly
reveler, on the night that the Chaldeans
took Babylon conld not find it. Not one of
the millions of inebriates whose skulls pave
the continents and pave the depths of the
sea could find it. There is no snch cup. i
Strong drink from hollowed amethyst imbrutes
the same as 9trong drink from pewter
mug. It is not the style of cap we drink
out of, bat tb^t which the cup contains,
which decides the helpfal or damning result
of the beverage.
Ail around the world last night and today.
out of caps costlier than amethyst, men
and women have been drinking their own
doom and the doom of their children for this
life and the next. Ab, it is the amethystine
caps that do the wildejt and worst slaughter!
The smash of the filthy goblets of the
rummeries would lonjt ago nave taken place
by law, but the amethystine chaliccs prevent?the
chalices out of which legislatures,
congresses drink before and after they make
the laws. Amethystine chalices have been
the friends ;of intoxication instead of its ]
foes. Over the fiery lips oC the amethystine
chalices is thrust the tongue of that which
biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an ,
adder.
Drunkenness is a combination of apoplery
and denaehtia. The 400,000,000 victims of
opium come out to meet the 150,000,000 vietims
of aloohol, and the two agents take the
contract for tumbling the human race into
. perdition, but whether they will succeed in
fulfilling the contract depends on the action
of the amethystine cups, the amethystine
demijohns, the amethystine ale pitohers, ths
amethystine flagons; the amethystine wine
cellars. Ob, Persians I Oh. Assyrians! Ob,
Greeks! Oh, Egyptians! you ware wrong
in thinking that a cup of amethyst would
prevent inebriation.
But standing on the top of this amethystine
layer of tna foundation of the wall of
heaven I bethink myseif of the mistake that
many of the ancient Hebrews made when
tnoy thought that the amethyst was a producer
of pleasant dreams. Just wear a piece
of amethyst over your heart or put it under
your pillow, and you would have your dreams
filled with everything beautiful and entrancing.
No. no. The Btyle of pillow will not
decide the character of the dream. The only
recipe for pleasant dreams is to do right and
think right when you are wide awake. Conditions
of physical disease may give a good
man nightmare, but a man physically well,
if he behave himself aright, will not be
troubled with bad dreams.
Nebuchadnezzar, with eagle's down nnder
his head and Tyrian purple over it, struggled
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for the soothsayers and astrologers to coma
and interpret it. Pharaoh, amidtha marble
palaces of Memphis, was coafoandei by a
dream in which loan cows ate up the fat
cows and the small ears of corn devoured
the seven large ears, and awful famine was
prefigured. Pilate's -wife, amid clouds of
richest upholstery, had startling dream,
because of which she Mat a menage in hot
haute to a courtroom to kaep her husband j
from enacting a judicial outrage. But Jacob,
at Bethel, wish a pillow of mountain
rock, had a blissful dream Of the ladder
angel blossoming.
Bunyan, with his head on a hard plank of
Bedford's jail, saw the gates of the CataK
tial city. St. Joljn, o* thw barrenest Ittina
of the iEgeanSev in his dreafa heard trumpets
and saw cavalry men on white horses
and & new heaven aud a new earth. No
amount of rough pillow can disturb the
night vision of a saint, and no amount of
amethystine cnarm can delectate the dream
of a mifcreant.
But, some one will say, why have you
brought us to this amethyst, the top row of
the foundation bf the heavenly wall, if you
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ore not &Die to accept tae taeory wl iuo w
cient Greek?, who said that the amethyst
was a charm against intoxication, or if you
are not willing to accept the theory of the
ancient Hebrews that the amethyst was a
Producer of pleasant dreams? My answer is,
have brought you to the too row, the
twelfth layer of the foundation oC the heavenly
wall of 1500 miles of circling amethyst,
to put you in a position where you can get a
new idea of heaven; to let you see that *
after yuu have climbed up twelve strata
of glory you are only at the base of the
eternal grandeur; to let you, with enchantment
of soul, look far down and look lar
up and to force upon you the conclusion
that it all our climbing haft only shown us
the foundations of this wall, what must the
wall itself be; and if this is the outside of
heaven, what must the inside be; and if all
this is figurative, what must the reality be;
Oh, this piled ud magnificence of the heavenly
wall t Ob, this eternity of decoration!
Oh, this . opalescent, florescent,
prismatic miracle of architecture! What
enthronement of all colors I A mingling of
the blue of skies, and the surf of seas, and
the green of meadows, and the upholstery of
autumnal forests, and the fire of August
sunsets. All the splendors of earth and
heaven dashed into those twelve rows of
foundation wall. All that, mark you, only
typical of the spiritual glories that roll over
heaven like the Atlantic ancl Pacific Oceans
swing in one billow.
r>n v.-11 nr?fc ?p? that it was imDOSSible
that you understand a hundredth part of the
suggestiveness of tbat twenty-tir3t chapter
of Ravelation without going into souie of
the particulars of the wall o? heaven and
dipping up some of its dripping colors, and
running your eye along som9 of it3 wondrous
crystallizations, and examining som?
of the frozen light in it3 turquoise, and
feeling with your own finder the hardness
of its sapphire, and snielding your eyes
against the shimmerinc brillianca in its
beryl, and studying the 1500 mile3 of emerald
without a flaw? Yet all this only the
outside of heaven, and the poorest part of
the outside; not tbe wall iteelf, but only the
foot of the wdU, for my text says, "The
foundations of the wall of the city were garnished
with all manner of preoious stones."
Ob, get down your harp if you can play
one! Get down a palm branch if yon cai
reach one I Why, it makes us all feel lik<
crying out with James Montgomery:
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold T
Oh, my soul 1 If my text shows us onlj
tbe outside^ what must the inside be? W hilc
riding last summer through the emperor's
park near St. Petersburg, I was captivated
with graves, transplanted from all eonee,
and the flower beds?miles this way and
miles that way?incarnadined with beauty,
and the fountains bounding in such revel
with the sunlight as nowhere else is seen, 1
said: "This is beautiful I never saw anyr
thing like thfi before."
But when I entered' the palace and saw
the pictured walls, and the lona; line of statuary,
and aquariums afloat with all brighl
scales, and aviaries a*chant|with bird voices,
and the inner doors of the palaces were
swung back by the chamberlain, and I saw
the emperor and empress and princes and
princesses, and they greeted me with a cordiality
of old acquaintanceship, I forget al
the groves and coral bewitchment I had
seen outside before entrance. And now ]
ask, if the outside of heaven attracts our
souls to-day, how much more mil De cne uplifting
when we get inside and see the Kins
in His beauty and all the princes and
princesses of the palaces of amethyst?
Are you not glad that we did not stop in
our osoent this morning until we got to the
top round of the foundation wall of heaven,
the twelfth row, the amethyst I Perhaps the
ancient Hebrews were not, after all, ao far
out of the,way when they thought that the
touch of the amethyst gave pleasant dreams,
for the touch.of it this nour gives me a very
pleasant dream. Standing on this amethyst
I dream a dream. 1 close my eyes and I sea
it olL We are there. This is heaven 1 Not
the outside, but the inside of heaven.
With what warmth of welcome our long
ago departed ioved ones have kissed us. My!
How they have ohanged in looks I They
were so sick when they went away, and now
they are so welL Look! Tonder is the
place of our Lord tho l?iug. Not kept a
moment outside we are ushered into the
throneroom. Stretching out His scarred
hand He says, "I haveloved thee with an
everlasting love," and we respond, "Whom
have I in heaven but Thee?"
But, look! Tonder is the playground of
the children. Children do you want a throne.
A throne would not fit a child. There thev
are on the playgrounds of heaven?the children.
Out of the sick cradle of darth they
oameinto this romping mirth of the eternal
playgrounds. I clap my hands to cheer
them in the glee. Tonder are the palaoee ol
the martyrs, and before their doorway the
flowers, crimson as the bloody martyrdoms
through which they waded up into glory.
Yonder is Apo3tolic row, ana the highest
turrets is over the home of Paul. Here if
Evangelist place. Tonder are the concert
bails in which the musicians of earth and
heaven are taking part?Handel with organ,
and David with narp, and Gabriel with
trumpet, and four and twenty elders witfc
voices.
And an angel of God says: "Where shall
I take you? On what street of heaven
would you like to live? What celestial
habitation would you like to occupy?" And
I answer t "Now that I have got inside the
wall made up of all manner of precious
stones I do not care where you put me. Jusl
show me where my departed loved ones are.
I have seen th9 Lord, and next I want to
Bee them. -1
"But here are those with whom I toiled in
the kingdom of God on earth. They are
from.my old parishes at Belleville and Syracuse
and Philadelphia and Brooklyn, and
irom many places on both sides the sea
where I have been permitted to work with
them and tor them. Give them the best
places you can find. I will help steady
them as they mount the thrones. I will help
you burnish their coronet?.
"Take these, my old friends, to as good
rooms as you can get for them in the house
of many mansions, and with windows looking
out upon the palace of the great King,
As for myself, anywhere in heaven is good
enough for me. flalteluiah to the Lamt
that wa88lain." But 1 awake. In the ecstasj
of the momont my foot slipped from the
layer of amethyst, that_so called ' producer
ot dreams, and in the effort to caccn myseu
the vision vanished. And, lo, it was out a
ireaml
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Cork i9 about the most buoyant sab
stance.
Tbe microscopists say that a mosquito
has twenty-two teeth.
Yawning is caused by a deficiency to
the air supply to the lungs.
The carbons of electric arc lamps are
now being made of powdered graphite,
instead of coke.
Scales are now made that will weigh
the flame ol a candle or the smallest
strand of hair plucked from the eyebrow;.
In England farmers always soak their
seed in bluestone of vitriol to prevent
smut snd rust. A pound of vitriol to
four bushels of wheat is the proportion
used.
Variations*in the size of raindrops are
attributed to' atmospheric disturbances
and to the height from which thej fall,
those from a high altitude being much
the smaller.
The new screw propeller of English
origin has two flat blades in the usual
form, but the remaining two, which are
opposite each other, are looped, so that
they form practically a revolving figure 8.
The platinum bfods in the IJral Mountains
in Russia are the only ones in the
world in which that metal is found in
grains. In several places it is to be found
imbedded in the hard serpentine rock,
but only in the Ural in grains.
A recent invention is a new type of
refrigerator car that can be run for twenty
days without re-icing. It is charged
with ice*and certain chemicals, the combination
maintaining a freezing temper
ature during this long period.
It i& said that a really indelible ink
and a kind of vinegar cau be produced
from the juices contained in the banana
peel. The fiber of the-peel,, it is said,
can also be utilized in making cloth of
great strength and remarkable beauty.
Ottawa (Canada) electriciau claims
to have discovered a process for utilizing
electrioily for light, power or heat, so as
to abstract the heat from cast iron blocks
until they are reduced to the temperature
of ice. He claims that this can be done
at a price to compete favorably with the
latter.
London scientists have recently demonstrated
that the purest air in the
cities is found about twenty-five feet
above the street gutface. Heretofore it
has been thought that the highest floors
in tenement houses h-d the best air. The
investigations above referred to show
that the healthiest apartments are those
on the third floor:
Dr. Lowery, or St. Louts
after hit.terlv attacking the mctnor
ies of a number of dead people, de
clared his willingness to go to til
graveyard, take the ffcslilcss jaws c
those he had been traducing an
shake them till the teeth rattle:l
Just how this act would tend to rais
groveling humanity to the benign an
saintly plane of Mr. Lowery, those no
partaking of his peculiar goodncs
ni&y never know. But Mr. Lower
was figurative. The only ja.w he wi:
Bhake much will be his own, an o:
fense only less ghoulish than the pre
posed grave robbery.
Handkerchiefs have been adde<
to the equipments of the Russiai
soldiers. Heretofore the warriors o
the Czar have depended upon coa
sleeves aod fence rails.
;[ TEMPERANCE. I
DEATH OF THE DRONKABD.
There, standing in the snow and sleet,
r All night a wanderer in the street,
, And rags and filth frum head to feet.
And almost frozin dead?
A victim of vile rum is he,
A wretch as wretched a9 can be,
I To hopeles? misery wed 1
A Pariah of society,
Whose curae is on his head.
\ He stands upon the corner there,
Like some doomed phantom of despair,
Seen through the morning's sleety air.
And waits the door to ope?
The rumshop door, that porch of hell,
' Where he and many millions fell
Down Ruin's ready slope,
1 And went with headlong speed to swell
| The throng without a hope!
A shivering, shambling, shapeless mass,
I Wirt hrtth hands clutching at the glass.
! He lets the fiery poijDn paa3
To quench the hell within!
But hark! be hears demoniac calls;
Foul fiends assail him from the walls,
I And devils at him grin!
He staggers to the street?he falls I
May heaven forgive his sin!
i Coma, drag him off and out of si^htl
'Tis only a drunkard, and what right
i Has his foul, bloated corpse to blight
The fairness of the morn?
i A few pine boards and'Potter's Field
Are all to him the world can yieldTo
wreck and ruin born!
But hold! enough! He has appealed
i To God from human scorn!
?P. 8. Cessidy, in New York Mercury.
a child's death from alcohol. ,
^ William D. Monahau, a four-year-old son i
of Richard Monahan, a saloon-keepof (
Yonkers, N. Y., recently died of alcoholic
1 poisoning. The little fellow went behind his
father's bar while no one was around, and,
1 climbing on a chair, took down a bottle of
whisky and drank almost a pint of it. He
was found lyin? insensible on the floor by
his mother. Doctors were calleaf, but they t
? ??J in vatrivinff f.hA l*hilfL
VJUUIU UUb auwvowu 1U KWFk.<uQ VMV _
TEMPERANCE STUDIKS.
The tendency of liquor to exaggerate the
drinker's mental peculiarities is well known.
If a man has gambling Instincts he wants to
tackle some kind of a came as soon as ha
gjts a "jag on." If he is full of the milk of
good fellowship ha bunts up his friends and
wants them to drink with him?and if he
can't find his friends he'll take anybody who
comes along. If he is a quarrelsome dis!
position he will get into no end of rows?And i
! lay it to the liqnor. I've known men of
1 deep religious training who always wanted (
to sing hymns while intoxicated, and to dis- .
| cuss religion, though of course they no longer ,
1 held any relation to the Church. (
, "Drink affects a man's physical pecaliari- |
ties in the same way," said a gentleman in |
1 the Astor House rotunda, where the snbject j
; was being discussed. "I know a man who ,
' walks pigeon-toad with one foot,for instance. ,
I cbn tell whether he has been drinking as <
[ far as I can see him. That particular toe .
' turns in more than usual. It keeps on turn- <
ing in as he gets fuller until it finally downs ,
him. It gives him a sort of a peculiar side '
motion. When he is drinking he walks on |
the side of tne street toward wnioh that foot |
' leans and it'seems to steer hun up to every j
barroom against his will. When he is not j
drinking he walks on the other side and it ,
' keeps him along the curb. It is a fact that j
; is observable that in liquor the lame man (
j goes more lame, the deal man is more deaf, |
the blind man is more blind, the hump {
1 backed man is more humped and the straight (
man?why, I used to kayr a very straight ,
1 man who would actually fall over backward (
1 when he got a 'loan' onNew York Herald. t
J AN INCIDENT WITHOUT COMMENT.
' A merchant of this city met aa old ac?
quaintance recently on an elevated railway
train. In the course of conversation the
! man told him that since they had last met, a
t few years previously, he had passed through
a wonderful experience. He then told a
story which we reproduce in the briefest
possible form.
He had been a member of the Produce Exchange,
and had been in good circumstances,
He fell into the habit of drink, not because
he lovad-the taste of liquor, but a mania of
thrist seemed to possess nim, so that he often j
i drank from twenty to thirty times a day. j
He soon lost his business, and drifted steadily <
downward. His wife and children wera j
l forced to leave him, and he became utterly <
discouraged, and was most of his time in a ,
half drunken state. While in this condition f
i he chanced one da; to meet a man he knew, (
who was a hard drinker like himself. After ,
some conversation this man proposed that i
they should go to a certain mission to hear (
i the singing. They went A woman attached )
to the missionpame and spoke kindly to them j
and invited them to remain; but they de- ,
clined. The merchant's friend, however, felt j
drawn to return the next night He went
thereafter steadily every night for a week to (
tee mission, feeling, he' said, as though he e
could not stay away. ? very night the faith- .
ful woman missionary would come and t
speak kindly to him and urge him to seek ,
salvation; but he always declined. One t
night he felt as though he ought to make an ]
effort to become a man arain. While this ,
fealinz was in his heart, though he was even J
then in a drunken state, she came to blm as
usual and invited him to go forward. He
got up at once and went with her. Befort)
he knew whit he was doing, he was kneeling
at the altar, and she was praying for
him, and then he b*gan to pray for himself.
He was fully converted, and went to work,
in connection with the mission, to bring in
others and save them. From that moment,
he says, the desire for drink left him entirely.
Started once more in the right way,
he be?;an to prosper. He notified his wife
and children, and they came back to lire
with hie, and now he is at the head of a
happy and comfortable home- He believes,
it is needless to say, most implicitly in the
efficacy of prayer. He believes he was lei,
half drunk though he was, by the Holy
'Spirit to the meeting through tne instrumentality
of his drunken friend, and that
the same divine influence prompted him to
return night altar night and finally to pray (
f<y himself.?New York IndepandenL <
(
TEMPERANCE TOR RAILROAD MEN. ,
The officials of*at least two railroad com- <
panics in this country have recently taken <
occasion to enforce strict regulations against 1
the employment of drinking meD. On the i
Long Island Railroad proof that an em- I
ploye goes inside of a saloon whde on duty
will cause his dismissal. The habits of i
men who apply lor wortc are euso w u? mquired
into and preference given to total
abstainers. Discbarges of employes for
breaking the rule azainst the use of intoxicating
liquor have already followed this
stringent order from headquarters, and
heads of departments are to be held responsible
for future enforcement of the regulation.
The officers of a railroad running out of
Cincinnati have been led to take similar. ,
steps to,enforce sobriety through an acci.
dent caused by a drunken engineer. The
conductor and fireman lost their places for
not discovering the condition of the engineer |
and having him* removed, and the crusade :
against tippling employes of the company \
has already led to au unusual number of dis- j
charges. , ,
An accident should not be needed, how. j
ever, to arouse a railroad's officers to the <
necessity of greater security for their ]
patrons. Good business management would ,
seem to require this*. An unsteady hand at
the lever, tne dimming of the eyes that |
keep a l?okout from the cab window or a ,
moment of misplaced ju Igment may sacr:- j
* tice lives, destroy property, shake the conlidence
ot travelers m the line an i ultimately J
reduce dividends. The Brotherhood o" Loco* j
motive Eugineers, whico, through the con- |
e servatism and caaracter of its leaders, has (
< i.. rt,: rjio miisn influential and re
II
, spected of labor unions, recognizes the nec.-s
sity of sober and carefui julgment in its I
I. members and seaks to promote temperance
aud intelligence among them. Consequently,
there are lew tiner bodies of workrngmea
CI thau the American locomotive engineers. A
ij tew years ago a commotion was caused
among these men by a movement in Massa- J
'S ehusetts and some other States to subject f
y engineers to the test of color blindness.
ii Temporary opposition melted away, how- '
ever, before tlie apparent necsssity, iu thesa i
P* tnmes of color signals, of the engineer being j
j. thoroughly capable of distinguishing tnose
signais. '
If there ara people who complain of a rail- (
road company's rigidity in demanding sobri- ,
i oty among the men it places in responsible '
q positions, they will be interested 130 know i
that in New York and some other States ,
there are laws making it a misdemeanor for '
t the company not to do this.?-New Yor* 1
, pre?8- i i
RELIGIOUS READING.
"IX DUE TI1TE."
I marked a child?a pretty child?
A gentle, blue-eyed thing;
She sowed the scented mignonette
One sunny day in Spring;
And while the tiny grains she sowed.
The stream of thought thus sweetly flowed:
"On this dear bed the dew shall fall,
And yon bright siln shall shine;
'Twill spring, and grow, and blossom,
then,
And ft will all be mine!"
And the fair thing laughed in childish glee,
To think what a harvest here should be.
I saw a man an acorn plant
Upon the hillside bare;
No spreading branch, no shading rock,
Lent friendly shelter there;
And thus, as o'er the spot he bowed,
T henrr! him?fnr hp thmurhl- almirl
"Frail thing! Ere glossy leaf shall grace
Thy wide and sturdy bough,
I may be laid amid the dead,
As low as thou art now;
Yet wilt thou rise in rugged strength,
And crown this barren height at length."
Each had a hope; the childish heart
Looked to tbe Summer's joy;
The manly thought?strong "and matureLooked
to futurity
Each trusts to nature's gtnial powerHe
wants a forest; she a flower.
i
Who sows the seed of heavenly truth, i
And doubts Almighty power?
Will years less surely bring the oak '<
Than months the Summer flower? t
Then sow; although no fruit you see,
God "in due time" will raise the tree.
-[Rev. John Hall, D.D. j
HOW A REVIVAL BEGAN.
A remarkable instance of a revival that ]
;'broke out," occurred more than fifty years j
igo in a small town in New Hampshire, and i
began at a very small meeting. Tbis is the ,
interesting way in which we fonnd it de- ]
scribed: "Two plain farmers one summer i
Jay were at work in the same field. Ab they j
worked tftey talked?not aDout tne crops or
the weather, buc on the subject nearest and
dearest to their hearts?tne progress of
Christ's kingdom. In several of tne neighboring
towns there had been extensive rerivals,
while their own town seemed to
them, to have been passed by. The love of
Christians had grown cold," while sin and
wickedness abounded unreproved.
"Tbey lamented, as only true Christiana
can, the low state of religion about them,
and in looking for the reason of ouch coldness
were led to faithfully consider their
jwn personal responsibility. They resolved
to plead more earnestly than ever before for
the out-pouring of His Holy Spirit, upon
;heir church and town, and as they parted,
igreed to meet for prayer .the same evening
it the schoolbouBe, midway between their
Iwellings. At the set hour each took a lan;ern
and went out to the appointed place.
[>f the fervency of their prayers, or holy
gladness of their songs of praise at that
meeting we may never know. It must,
iowever have seemed good to them to t>e
there, for as they separated' another meetng
was appointed for the next week. During
the hour of the second meeting a
neighbor chanced to g<y by, and seeing a
light in the f>choolhou*e went in to ascertain
:he reason. Thus the praver-meeting of two
secame a prayer-meeting of three. At the
third meeting the scboolhouse was filled *o
jverflowing. The Holy Spirit was manifestly
present, and sinners were heard
>arnestly asking, 'What shall I do to be
laved?' The good work was continued and
ipread rapidly from district to district, with
i Pentecostal-in-gathering of souls that made
t the most remarkable revival ever known
;q the town. From among the converts
four became preachers of the Gospel and
xrent forth to do faithful service in Christ's
rtneyard. The far-reaofcing results of the
prayers of faith of those two Christain men,
net together in Christ's name cau never be
!ully known until revealed in light of
Jternity."? [Christian Intelligencer. i
AVAILIMr A> V AYAllii^ir ritAlciu
One of our trials as Christians arises
Tom the fact that, our prayeYs arelot
so frequently or so readily answered
is we bad hoped, and that our efforts
are not more successful. We are
lonscious that we have prayed earnestly and
jften for various objects, and we have felt
lure the objects were good and such as we
:ou!d properly pray and labor for; and yet
10 adequate results have seemed to follow.
We have felt disappointed and often deeply
liseournged, and wondered wliv it should
)e so. No doubt this is a sore trfsl, and oar
laith wavers and staggers under it. We
sake one or two suggestions which may
lelp to explain the mystery.
The first is: Prayer is more frequently
inswered than we imagine. But it is aniwered
in a manner'and-at a time least expected.
In our own minds we had formed
tome particular plan or mode by which God
ffould accomplish the desired end?forgetting
bat a divine lov? and wisdom knew better
iow to do it than we did. Afterwards we
lee and know that our prayers have been
inswered. not as we had expected, but in a
far better way than we had planned and an;icipeted.
Our next suggestion is: In our prayers
tod efforts we may depend too mncb on our .
>wn strength or the strength of others. The
treat Apostle says: "I can do all things
hrough Christ which strengthened me." j
rhe Apostle had had a wonderful experence,
and this experience led him to look
nore and more to dm bora ior wisaom Bna
strength to help bim ami less to himself and
rthers. We may pray and pray earnestly
'or all good objects, and we may labor for
:hem, out we must always remember that a
ifvine help mast pro with oar prayers and
sfforts.?[rarish Visitor. *
REJM. GRATtTCDE. .
Do we remember tbat sacrifice calls for
mcrifice. and that our evil natures must be
irucified with Jesus Christ? How rflany
>nly seek in the cross a sight that will appeal
to their imagination without taking bold
sf their hearts. Among the impressions proiuced
on us by tbc .Bufferings of our Lord,
:here is a secret tenderness, I know not
what, tbat attracts and softens us. We are
touched, but the emotion is not repentance.
Our tears flow, hut they are not caused by
lelf-abasement. The most worldly-minded
>f men and women are susceptible of these
amotion#. You will see that, although they
ire softened for a moment, at heart they
remain as frivolous as ever. The eyes
moistened with passing tears will sparkle
aone tbo less at the sight of some coveted
possession ; the lip-j tbnt proclaim redeeming
love will be uttering the most frivolous
words; the hearts be as full of vanity as
;ver.? fBersicr. <
Christ's patience under the trial of being j
misunderstood and misjudged is a wonder- .
ful lesson to us. In every pain and trial
Lbere is a blessing folded. We may mi-s it, 1
but it is there, and the loss is ours if we do i
not gpt it. Every night of sorrow carries in .
its dark bosom its own lamps of comfort. '
I'he darkness of grief and trial is full of j
benedictions. The truly happiest, sweetest,
tenderest homes are not those
where there has been no sorrow, but
those which have been overshadowed with
jrief. and where Christ's comfort was ac- !
:eptcd. In one of the battles of the Crimea, '
x cannon hall struck inside a fort, gashing (
the earth airl sadly iiiHrritig thp beauty of
the place. But from the ugly ebasni there J
burst forth a sprluir of water, which flowed
on thereafter, a living fountain. So the .
itrokes of sorrow un-li our heart*. but leave 1
fountains of rich blessing.?[J. I*. Miller. 1
D.I>. ;
An Iowa man has been selling dl- ^
plomas of high degree for the reason- 1
ible sum of 830, placing them within (
jasy reach of the illiterate and lowly. y
5o great has his business become that '
;he corn crop of the State was being 1
iusked by Masters of Art, and swill (
!-J * * **ir+a Kir "Ronlnrc nf
.arrieu uu uuc .?? ??? w.
Science. Having accomplished this i
iiuch for education, the Iowan was c
arrested, and his whole 3tock ia i
trade, inclusive of his own thrifty g
Derson. is in the hands of a receiver, j
SABBATH SCHOOL I
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB
FEBRUARY 12. (
I
Lesson Tsxt: "Nehemiah'c Prayer," '
Neb. i., 1-11?GoldenText: Pulm '
zxx., 10?Commentary. I
I
1. "The words of Nebemiah, the son of
Hachaliab." Nebemiah (comforted of Jehovah)
was one of the Jewish captives selected
by Artaxerxes, the Persian monarch, to fill j
the office of rcupbearer. He arrived at Jerusalem
about thirteen years after Ezra was
governor of Judea, remaining about twelve !
years, and then returning to Artaxerxes, i
from whom he received a new commission.
He went again to Jerusalem aud ruled there
xor anocner iweniv-iwo years, D. U. 440-4ZS. '
He was one of the greatest men of the
Hebrew Nation, renowned for his zeal, ]
patriotism, courage, humanity and earnest
devotedness to God and to His service
("Searching the Scriptures" by Dr. Ander- 1
son). One of the most interesting things in '
the book is the edict to rebuild the city |
(chapter iL, 5,8), from which begins Daniel's
seventy weeks.
2. "I asked them concerning the Jews that I
had escaped, which were left of the captiv* |
itv, and concerning Jerusalem." The church
of to-day seems not to appreciate. the fact
that Jerusalem was and is and shall yet be a
city very dear to Jehovah, and more Hear
than we can understand to every loyal Jew. 1
'The Lord hath chosen Zion. He hath desired
it for His habitation." "The Lord
shall yet comfort Zion and shall yet choose
Jerusalem." "At that time they shall call
Jerusalem the throne of the Lord" (Pa.
exxxii.. 18; Zecb. i., 17; Jer. iii, 17),
3. "And they said unto Me, The remnant
that are left of the captivity there in the
province are in great affliction and reproach."
By comparing verse 1 and chapter
ij.t 1, with Ez. vii., 6, 7. we And that this
desolation was the condition of things at
the Holy City thirteen years after the great
reformation wrought through Ezra, and we
reel inclined to ask why it was so. With
the temple finished, the worship restored
ind such purifying as Ezra had accomplished.
why was there not mora zeal for
3od? If one question can help to answer
mother we would ask. Why, with all the
jpen doors of this generation to carry the
jfospel to every creature and the vast
imount, of money in the hands of Christiana,
ire there so many hundreds of millions still
without the Gospel*
t- Ana it came so pass, waea x ne&ra
Shase words, that I sat down and wept, and
nourned certain days, and fasted anl'
prayed before the God of heaven." Here is
i man away off in Babylon so interested in
she welfare of Jerusalem and in the honor
>f the God of Israel that for several '
lays he gives himself up to ]
nonrning and fasting and praying.
Compare Daniel fasting and praying for
ihree full weeks that be mignt know the
nind of God (Dan. x, 2, 3): See Paul three
rears at Epbeeus, warning the people night
ind day with tears (Acts n., 31), and reiiember
that God is a rewardar of them that
iiligently seek Him (Heb. xL, 6).
5. "And said, I beseech Thee, O Lord God
>f heaven, the great and terrible God, that
reepeth covenant and mercy for them that
ove Him and observe His commandments."
From here to the end of the lesson we have
lis prayer, and it is aprayer that was heard
n heaven and answered. Observe that in
chapter ii., 4, he one day prayed without
ittering a word with his lips, for at the same
xioment he prayed to God and spake to the
ling. Compare this verse with chapter ix.,
52, and Ex. xxxiv., 6, 7, and see in Jer.
cxxii., 17, the comfort to be obtained from
the God of heaven.
C. "I pray before Thee now day and
sight for tbe children of- Israel, Thy ssr- v
rants, and confess the sins of the children
sf Israel." Identifying himself with, the
nation, he confesses their sins. He excuses |
nothing, palliates nothing, but includes <
Himsef, saying, "Both I and my Father's
house have sinned." "He that oovareth his
sins shall not prosper, but whoso confwseth
and forsaketn them shall obtain maroy"
(Prov. xxviii., 13). If we confess our sins
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
(I John i., 9). I
7. "We have dealt very corruptly against j
Thee, and have not kept the command- .
ments." The curses had come just as God
had said in Dent, xxviii., 15, 45, and they i
had brought it all upon themselves (isa. i
lix., 2). Nehemiah does well to make fall ,
cociei*ion; bat, oh, think of Him who took
all these sins upon Himself, who allowed all '
sin to be-heaped npoa Him, tn?lHng it His i
own that He might give onto us His righteousness!
This He does now for evarj individual
believer (II Cor. v., 2L, Acts xilL. 1
38, 89), and this He will yet do for Israel i
(Isa. Jr., 21). |
8. "Remember, I beseech Thee, the word ,
that Thou oominandeet Thy servant Moses." '
He reminds God of the curaa which He by 1
Moses had said should come, and which had i
come. He did not question the authorship
of Mosee, nor did he doubt that Moses spoke
the words of God. He believed God, condemned
himself and his people and justified '
God. j
0. "But if ye turn unto Me, and keep My (
commandments, and do them." -He is quoting
now in his prayer from Deat. xxx., 1-5,
where Jehovaa promised, on oondition of
true repentance and obedience, to restore
them to their land and bless thsm and give
them a heart to love Him supremely; out
the condition was, "If thou turn unto the J
Lord thy Go:t with all thine heart and with
all thy soul" (Deut. xrx, 10). As He choee '
Jerusalem to put His name there and mag*
nify Himself from thence, so He chooses as
to Bear His name and magnify Him in these
mortal bodies (A.cts ix.. 15, 16; Phil, i., 20).
10. "Now theee are Thy servants and Thy
people - whom Thou hast redeemed by Thy
great power and by Thy strong hand." So .
pleaded Mosee, reminding God that not*
withstanding all their sin still they were
His people and His inheritanca which He
Wiiffht nnt. nf Errot fDeut. ix.. 26, 29). So
pleaded Daniel also as he identified himself
with- the 8infal nation and asked marc/ in
these words, "Q Lord, forgive for Thine own
sake, O my God, for Thy city and Thy
people ore called by Thy name" (Daa. ix..
15, 19). See what He will yet do fpr them
for His name's sake in Ezefc. xxxvi., 23-33.
11. "Prosper, I pray Thee, Thy servant,
this day, and grant him mercy in the sight
of this man." Having poured out his soul
on behalf of his people, he now asks a special
favor on his own behalf, and yet for their i
sakes as their benefactor. Every such inter- ,
cessor, whether he be Abraham or Moses or
Daniel or Nehemiab, suggest* to us the great
intercessor, our Lord Jesus Christ, who died '
for us, lives for us and will in due time come i
again to us. He, for His name's sake, forgives
our sins ([John ii., 13; Isa. xliii., 33).
and tells us that whatsoever we shall ask in
His name, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son, He will do it (John xiv., 13, 14).
?Lesson Helper.
? Ketorts or a recent prize-fight
describe the fighters as brawny gladiators,
and state that when they got
real gory the smell of warm blood
drove the spectators wild with enthusiasm.
It would appear from
these facts that all a burly ruffian
tias to do to become a brawny gladiator?a
much more dignified being
?la ontiir t.ho rinor Rnd have his I
* J VA/ UUWVt VMV SMg W*.? ?
veins tapped. As to the warm blood
it which civilization sniffed in de- !
.ighted frenzy, more of it and of better
quality can be scented in any
daughter-house.
Something was recently published
n Punch that had every outward apsearance
of being a joke. While people
ivere marveling over a circumstance
>0 violently defiant of precedent, I
Punch explained that the jest had
Deen due to a deplorable typographi*
* *
:al error, ana tnau its repcuimuu
vould be guarded against with the
itmost care. So the stain on the
* 1 '? a A' ? ? ? An/1 nnnrlap.
reputation 01 me sumuci atm
>us jourpal may be considered effaced.
All the papers fn a German town
lave been fined for mentioning a j
leath from cholera. Reporting the
nalady seems to be a much more
lerioua offense than merely exportne
it. - . ..
mmmmm*
k Two Legged Cat. ,.
Miss Eleanor Lewis ha? written #
charming little book called "Famooa
Pets of Famous People," which wasre-i
cently published in Boston. Sir Waltw
Scott, it says, was fond of poultry, cattle,
sbeep, pigs and cats. Byron was'
fondest of dogs and wrote poetry about
them. Charlotte Cushman, the great (
actress, was another lover of .dogs, as;
was Charles Lamb, the poet, and Carlyla, *
the philosopher.
One of the earliest pet cats on record' '
is that of Prince Hana, an Egyptian
notability who lived several thousand
fears ago, and between stone feet of his
statue was placed the image of his cat,
"Bouhaki." The statue may still be<
seen at the Louvre. More famous than
Bouhaki is "Muezza," the cat of Mahomet.
Petrarch, too, was a lorer of
cats, and when his little white i(micino^
died its body was carefully embalmed,
lasso addressed a sonnet to his cat.
Gregory the Great, Richelieu and Wol- sey
are among the ecclesiastical dignitaries
who have shown their preferencej
for cats. Lord Chest9rfield gave all bis.'
lata?and they were many?a life peoDB.
hill'S. T7T<> LBOOED . CAT, .,
, , 1
lion. Another cat disserving of mention
ui only two legs, and is owned by Dr.
Bill, of Princeton College. ; i ' i"V,:
, . s .o .
11 . .
Petrified Wood. ' >' >On
a farm nets. Elktoa, Col.amb.iaM
County, Ohio, an extraordinary find oi>
petrified wood has been unearthed. It:
is a solid piece, weighing 814 pounds,
on the smooth surface of yrhich appear
the outlines of several different specie*
of animals, as if traced by human hands.
Geologists are said to have examined the;,
nature of 'the petrifactioa, and to, few1?'
agreed that its iooaatioa dates back
3500 years by the moat conservative
calculation. It was unearthed by
ditchers in a mucky swamp owned by
Michael Culler. Several agenta of the
Ohio commission are also said to have,
examined the strange object, and areproposing
to utilize it to add to the interest
of Ohio's exhibit at the World's
Pair.?Atlanta Constitution.
I'.Kj a
Ike Flarshlp ot Cslambas.
The model of the flagship Santa Maria,
lent to the World'a Fair by San Domingo,
aardly could be called a yacht, according
to modem ideas on shipbuilding.
Neither Would any one not familiar with
indent shipbuilding set it down as a
ihip. A liberal guesser, not familiar
with his subject, |might suspect that ft
9ras an artistic packing case of ah ornamented
piano case, but a ship?never. ;' >f '
How Columbus ever got across the,.
>cean in such an affair is keeping the old,,
ults guesiiog around Erie Basin, where
the model carsvel was brought in on the
steamer George W. Clyde. One of theaa
Looked her all" over yesterday with ?
scornful expression on his face.
1'Anything like that ever come aero*
the salty!" he said. "Not on yer life.
9he migty have hauled a load er coal
from Canarsie, but nothin' like her ever
come across th' 'Lantic, I'm a tellin'
yer."
i i t
THE SANTA. KAMA AS S3B LOOKS NOW. "
Then he tacked olf the wharf with aa.
injured expression, sizzling be twee a his
teeth the famous song of the watermen:Lealdn1
like a lobster pot,
Stearin' like a dray.
ill of which probably referred to the
model caravel. Outside of the watermen
ire a lot of otber people who have looked .
at the small ship with pro it and pleasure, >,
and crowds have visited the dock to get
a good look at San Domingo'9 gift to
the Fair.
The caravel, which was consigned to
P. Ober, has been put oa a dat car and
taken to Chicago.?New York World..
Driving on One Wheel.
In order toroduce to the minimum'the
weieht to be drawn by trottinfc horses,
ONE-WHEEL VEHICLE
with the possibility of still further lower- ,
ing the mile record, two western inventors
have designed the novel vehicle
shown in the accompanying illustration.
In describing it the Philadelphia Record
says it possesses but a single wheel, the
endless shaft being bent in front to form
a raised top portion connected with the
saddle girth of the Horse. The rear
portion of the shaft carries the connections
with the wheel, and in addition
3 *' fK<?
supports tiie curveu spnug? wiunuS
seat of the driver.
In Chicago one lare win carry a i w
senger a block or au average of about
eight miles in any directiou from th?
heart oil' tue City.