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KEY. DR. TALMA.GE |
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subject: "Woman and Her Sacri
nces#"
Text: "To bring Vashti the queen before
the king with the crown royal to show the
people and the princes her beauty, for
she was fair to look on. But the queen
Vashti refused to come at the king's commandments
by his chamberlains; therefore
was the king very wroth, and bis anger
burned him."?Esther i., 11, 12.
We stand amid the palaces of Shusham.
The pinnacles are aflame with the mornins
light. Tbe columns rise festooned and
wre.-ithpri. thp wealth of pmnlres flashinc
from the erooves, the ceilings 'adorned with g
image* of bird and beast and scenes of
powers and conquest. The walls are hung s
with shields and emblazoned until it seems t
that the whole round of splendors is ex- t
hausted. Each arch is a mijrhty leap of t
architectural achievement. GoU'en stars a
shining down on glowing arabesque. Hang- j;
inss of embroidered work in which mincle \
the blueness of the sky, the greenness of the c
grass and the whiteness of the sea foam. 3
Tapestries hune on silver rinjrs, weddinc to- e
gether the pillars of marble. Pavilions r
reaching out in every direction. These for t
repose, filled with luxuriant couches, into
which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is A
submerged. These for carousal, where c
kings drink down a kingdom at one swallow. A
Amazing spectacle! Light of silver dripping h
down over stairs of ivory on shields of srold. d
y. Floors of stained marolo, sunset red ana gi
nicht black and inlaid with gleaming pearl. Why,
it seems as if a heavenly vision of ame- tl
thyst and jacinth anJ'topaz and chrysoprosus c
had descended and alighted upon Shnshan. h
It seems as if a billow of celestial glory had b
dashed clear over heaven's battlements upon B
this metropolis of Persia. ri
In connection with this palace there is a o
garden where the mighty men of foreign ti
lands are seated nt a bauqaet. Under the p
spread of oak and linden and acacia the T
tableware arranged. The breath of honey- si
suckle and frankincense fills the air. Foun- y
tains leap up into the light, the spray struck ii
through with rainbows falling in crystalline h
baptism upon flowery shrubs, then rolling e'
down through channels of marble and p
widening out here and there into pools d
swirling with the finny tribes of foreign d
aquariums,' bordered with scarlet annem- ft
omes. hypericums and many colored p
ranunculus. Meats of rarest Dird and beast a;
smoking up amid wreathes of aromatics. b
The vases filled with apricots and almonds, tl
The baskets piled up with apricots and ci
dates and figs and oranges and pomegran- ai
ate3. Melons tastefully twined with leaves of
acacia. The bright waters of Eulseus filling 1(
the urns and sweating outside the rim in a
flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine si
from the royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz. a
in bottles of tinsed shell, and lily shaped tf
cups of silver and flagons and tankards "of w
solid gold. The music rises higher, and the g
revelry breaks out into wilder transport, ii
^ .-- and the wine has flushed the cheek ana tl
touched the brain, and louder than all t<
other voices are the hiccough of tue tne- fl
briates. tbe gabble of fools and the song of ic
the drunkards. a
In another part of tbe palace Queen ti
Vashti is entertaining th6 princesses of Persia n
at a banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to ai
his servants, "You go out and fetch Vashti
from that banquet with the women, and E
bring her to this banquet with tbe men, and lc
let me display her beauty." The servants T
immediately start to obey the king's com- s<
mand, but there was a rule in oriental so- tl
ciety that no woman might appear in public bi
without having her face veiled. Yet here w
was a mandate, and no one dare dispute, de- c<
manding that Vashti come in unveiled be- ti
fore the multitude. However, there was in st
Vashti's soul a principle more regal than e
Ahasuerus. more brilliant than the gold of
Shushaa, of more wealth than the realm of
Persia, which commanded her to disobey
this order of the king, and so all the righteousness
and holiness and modesty of her T
oature rises up into one sublime refusal. t(
She says, "I will not go into the banquet unveiled."
Of course Ahasuerus was infuriate, *{
and Va3bti, robbed of her position and her "
estate, is driven forth in poverty and ruin to S
suffer the scorn of a nation and yet to re- y
! ceive the applause of after generations who S
j shall rise up to admire this martyr to kingly r'
insolence. ?eu, me iasi vestige 01 tuat feast
is prone; the last garland has faded: Jj
the last arch has fallen; the last tankard has *
I been destroyed, and Shushan Is a ruin. But c
as long as the world stands there will be n
3 multitudes of men and women, familiar a
with the Bible, who will come into this pic- c
A ture gallery of God and admire the divine >'
H portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti the si
veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the G
silent. si
H In the first place, I want you to look upon J
B Vashti the queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with _
H white, drawn around her forehead, indi- #(
H eated her queenly position. It was no small .
honor to bo que n in such a realm as that. *
Hark to the rustle of her robes! Seethe*
n blaze of her jewels! And ye , my friends, it _
H is not necessary to have palace and regal h
in r?rrl<?r tr? nnp^nlv Whftn T cpm n.
1 woman with strong faith in God putting her j?
foot upon all meanness and selfishness and
godless display, going right forward to serve ?
Christ and the race by a grand and glorious ?
service, I say, "That woman is a queen," *
and the ranks of heaven look over the bat- ?
tlements upon the coronation, and whether
she come up from the shanty on the commons
or the mansion of the fashionable
square, I greet her with the shout: "AH hail!
Queen Vashti." What glory was there on
the brow of Mary of Scotland, or Elizabeth .
of England, or Margaret of France or Catherine
of Kussia, compared with the worth of
some of our Christian mothers, many of g
them gone into glory?or of that woman 7
mentioned in the Scriptures, who put all t
her money into the Lord's treasury?or ot
Jephthah's daughter, who made a dem- t
onstration of unselfish patriotism?or
of Abigail, who rescued the herds and flocks
of her husband?or of Ruth, who toiled under
a tropical sun for poor old, helpless
Naomi?or of Florence Nightingale, who
went at midnight to stanch the battle wounds
of the Crimea? or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson,
who kindled the lights of ta'vation amid the t
darkness of Burmah?or of Mrs. Hemans, t
who poured out herholysoul in words which s
will forever be associated with hunter's horn t
and captive's chain and bridal hour and t
lute's throb and curfew's knell at the dying t
day?and scores and hundreds of women, c
unknown on earth who have given water to 3
the thirsty and bread to the hungry and t
medicine to the sick and smiles to the dis- t
Icoirajied?their footsteps heard along dark f
lane and in government hospital and in 5
almshouse corridor and by prison gate? t
There may be no royal robe?there may be ?
no palatial surroundings. She does not naed f
them, (or all charitable men will unite with f
the crackliDg lips of fever struck hospital i
I and plague blotched lazaretto in greeting :
her as <jhe passes: "Hail! Hail! .Queen
YasliiL"
Again, I want you to consider Vashti the
veiled. Had she appeared before Ahasuerus 1
and his court on that day with her face uncovered
she would have shocked all the delicacies
of oriental society, and the very mea .
who in their intoxication demanded that she '
jcome in their sober moments would have de- j
ppised her. As some flowers seem to thrive j
pest in the dark lane and in the shadow and '
[where the sun does not seem to reach them, ;
bo God appoints to most womanly natures a
retiring and unobtrusive spirit God once *
an n while does call an Isabella to a throne. '
pr a Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front '
pf a host, or a Marie Antoinette to queil a ]
[French mob, or a Deborah to stand at the
front of an armed battalion, crying out: 1
I'Up, up! This is the day in which the Lord '
will deliver Sisera into thine hand." And ;
^rhen women are called to such outdoor
irnrir and to such heroic Dosition.-> God
I prepares them for it, and they have iron in
their souis and lightning in their eye, and
whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed
strength of the Lord Omnipotent in their
right arm. They walk through furnaces as
though they were hedges ol wild flowers and
cross seas as thouirh they were shimmering
bapphire, and all the harpies of hell down to
uieir dungeon at the stamp of her womanly
indignation. But these are the exceptions.
Generally Dorcas would rather make a garpent
for the poor boy. Rebecca would
lather till the trough for the camels. Hanlah
would rather make a coat for Samuel,
fiie Hebrew maid would rather erive a pre[cripiion
for Xaiiman's leprosy. The women
If Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks
I) cook a meal for famished Elijah. Phoebe
1-ould rather carry a letter for the inspired
postle. Mother Lois would rather educate
Emnthv In the Serlnturea.
I When 1 see a woman going about her dally |
i
I *
i
iuty, with cheerful dignity presiding at the
able, with kind and gentle but Arm discipline
pre&idinp in the nursery, going out into
j ?..nr. Kloaf nf trn mnets, fol
uo wunu vvuuuui auj --r- , ,
owing in the footsteps of Him who went
ibout doing good, I say,"This is Vashti with a
reil on.1' But when I see a woman of unblushing
boldness, loud-voiced, with a
ongue of infinite clitter clatter, with arro?ant
look, passing through the streets with
he step of a walking beam, gayly arrayed in
i very hurricane of millinerv, I cry out,
'Vashti ha? lost her veil!" When 1 see a
voman of comely features, and of adroitness
)f intellect, and endowed will all that the
icbools can do for one, and of high social
>osition. yet moving in society with super:iliousness
and hauteur, as though shejwould
lave people know their place, and an undeIned
combination of triggle and strut and
hodomontade, endowed with allopathic
tuantities of talk, but only homeopathic ininitesimals
of sense, the terror of dry goods j
ilerks and railroad conductors, discoverers '
>f significant meanings in plain conversa- '
ion, prodigips of balinasre and innuendo. I
av: "Look, look! Vashti has lost her veil!"
Aca'n. I want vou to consider Vashti the j
acriflce. Who is this I see coming out of
hat palace gate of Shushan? It seems to me 1
hat I have seen her before. She comes '
tomeless, houseless, friendless, trudging 1
ilong with a broken heart. Who is she? It 1
s Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what a change it '
ras from regal position to a wayfarer's '
riiit' a utile while aeo approved and 1
oucbt for: now none so poor ns to acknowl- ]
di?e her acquaintanceship. Vashti the 3aeiflce!
Ah, you and I have seen it many a
imp!
Here is a home empalaced with beauty.
lIi that refinement and books and wealth
an do for that home has been done, but
ibasuerus, the husband and father, is taking
old on paths of sin. He is crartually ffoinf?
own. After awhile he will flounder and
trugsrle like a wild beast in the hunter's net
-farther away from God, farther away from
30 right. Soon the bright apparel of the
bildren will turn to rags; soon the houseold
song wiil become the sobbing of a
roken heart The old story over again,
rutal centaurs breaking up the mariage
feast of Lapithae. The house full
f outrage and cruelty and abominaon,
while trudging forth from the
alace gate are Yashti and ber children,
here are homes that are in danger of
ich a breaking up. Oh, Ahasuerus, that
ou should staud in a home, by a dissipated
fe destroy the peace and comfort of that
ome. God forbid that your children should
rer hnve to wrintr their hands and have Deo
le point their finger at them as they pass
own the street and say, "There goes a
runkard's child." God forbid that the little
set should ever have to trudge the path of
overtv and wretchedness. God forbid that
ay evil spirit born at the wine cup or the
randy glass should come forth and uproot
lat garden, and with a lasting blistering, all
5nsuming curse shut forever the palace gate
traiJist Vashti and the ohildren.
During the war I went to Hatrerstown to
>ok at the army, and I stood in the night on
hilltop and looked down upon them. I
iw the campflres all through the valleys
ad all over the hills. It was a weird specicle,
those campflres, and I stood and
atched them, and the soldiers who were
atherine around them were, no doubt, talkig
of their homes and of the long march
ley had taken and of the battles they were
> fight. But after awhile I saw these campres
begin to lower, and they continued to
>wer until they were all gone out and the
rmy slept. It was imposing when I saw
le campflres; it was imposing in the darkess
when I thought of that great host
sleep.
Well, God looks down from heaven, and
!e sees the firesides of Christendom and the
>ved ones gathered around these firesides. ]
hese are the eampflr^s where we warm our- i
jives at the close of the day and talk over i
le battles of life we have fought and the ]
attlesthat are yet to come. God grant that i
hon at last these fires begin to go out and i
jntinue to lower, until finally they are exngj
ished and the ashes of consumed hopes
:rew the hearth of the old homestead, it
lay be because we have
Gone to sleep that last loan sleep
From which none ever wako to weep. j
Now we are an army on the march of life. ,
hen we will be an army bivouacked In the i
int of the grave. i
Once more I want ycu to look at Vashtl
le silent. You do not* hear any outcry from
lis woman as she eoes forth from the palace
ate. From the very dignity of her nature,
ou know there will be no vociferation,
ometlmes in life it is necessary to make a
stort; sometimes in life it is necessary to
esist, but there are cries when the most 1
riumphant thing to do is to keep silence. i
'he philosopher, confident in his newly dis- i
overed principle, waiting for the coming of
lore intelligent generations, willing that i
len should laugh at the lightning rod and
otton gin and staimboat?waiting for long <
ears through the scoffing of philosophical
:hools, in grand and magnificent silence,
kililei, condemned by mathematicians and i
jientists, caricatured everywhere, yet waitig
and watching with his telescope to see
be coming up of stellar re-enforcements, i
rhen the stars in their courses would fight
3r the Copernican system, then sitting down
1 complete blindness and deafness to wait
jr the coming on of the generations who
rould build his monument and bow at his
rave
The reformer, execrated by his coniem
oraries, fastened in a pillory, the slow fir
f nublic contemr.t burning under him
round under the cylinders of the printin;
ress, yet calmly waiting for the day whei
urity of soul and heroism of character wil
:et the sanction of earth and the plaudits cf
leaven. Affliction, enduring without an]
omplaint the sharpness of the pane and th?
iolence of the storm, and the heft of thi
hain and of the darkness3 of ninht. Wait
ng until a divine hanu shall be put forth ti
oothe the pani; and hush the storm and ro
sase tte captive. A wife, abused, persecutet
iid a perpetual exile from every earthly
omfort?waitinc, waiting, until the Lore
hall gather all His dear children in a heaven
v home, and no poor Vashti will ever bt
hrust out from the palace gate. Je^us. ii
ilence and answering not a word, drinkint
he gall, bearing the cross, in prospect of th?
aptuous consummation whon
Angels thronged His chariot wheel
And bore Him to His throne,
TbeL swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious work is done.
Ob, woman! Does not this story of Yasht:
ue queeu, ? asuci mo vuneu, vuscu me sun1flce,
Vasnti the silent, move your soul? M5
iarmon converges Into the one absorbing
lope that none of you may be shut out 01
he palace gate of heaven. You can endure
he hardships, and the privations, and the
jruelties, and the misfortunes of this life il
rou can only train admission there. Through
he blood of the everlasting covenant you go
hrough these gates or never go at all. God
orbid that you should at last be banisheJ
rom the society of ai:gels and banished from
he companionship of your glorified kindred
md banished forever. Through the rlcb
jrace of our Lord. Jesus Chri?t, may you bf
enabled to imitate the example of RacheL
ind Hannah, and Abigail, and Deborah, and
Mary, and Esther, and Vashti. Amen.
DEVASTATION BY ARMY WORMS.
Elavoc Wrought in Iowa by Swarms ol
Greetly Insects.
Array worms have eaten up a pasture for
L L. Burchett, northeast of Bloomfleld,
[owa. They are not regular army worms,
>ut there are armies of them just the
same. They are by no means confined to
Mr. Burchett's place, but are found in
various places in almost all parts of the
:ounty. The.r have much the appearance of
:ut worms, except that they are hardly so
lark and are very active. They appear so
far to be confined to blue gras3 pastmes
whero the grass was not eateu off last fall,
und they contino their work almost exclusively
to blue grass, passing by the clover
aud timothy spots in the pasture and eating
the blue grass. A reporter made a visit to
James McGowen's pasture, where they were
at work, and found them covering the
ground almost as closely as chinch bugs
usually are found, and the grass after they
had left it looked very much lilio it does
when burned up by drought.
They are short-iived, and in many places
already they are dying off. While they are
uuiu? great uiuuagu i<j jniscurc'^, uuviug euicu
over hundreds of acres for K. T. Hotchkiss,
S. S. Standiey, Harvey Wray, John Wallace
and others, it is not thought that they will
do much damage in any other way or to
other crops, yU it is too soon to be able to
judge, as they have only been at work about
ten days. It seems difficult to stop tnom,
although some success has been accomplished
by ditching the ground, the same as is sometimes
done for chinch bugs.
A marble statue to Lord Byron has been
erected in Athens, Greece, The statue is the
gift of ilr. Demetrius Stefonovic Sehcylizzi.
RELIGIOUS READING.
THE HAND OF I'HOVIDENCE.
The hand of Providence in our successes, ^
our accomplishments. our deliverances is
easily recognized by'ourquiekenedor grate- I
ful perceptions, but less easily and readily
as a rule, do we acknowledge the same lynd
and wise hand in our mistakes. Yet in most ,
lives the latter equal, if not exceed, the '
former in the experiences of the passing ,
years. Our motives are so curiously mixed,
our foresight is so short, and our limitations
are necessarily so many that we are
constantly blundering, now turning in this ,
or that direction when another would be the :
better one to take, now remaining in a place
when we ought to leave it and changing a
place when we ought to remain in it, until,
as we draw near the sunset, we are fain to i
bewail our lack of judgment and wish in vain
that we had our lives to live over again.
After the event it is often quite plain to us ,
that we should have acted in another way, '
md we see clearly where we were wrong and j
svhat would have*been the wiser course of
notion. But at the time our eyes were hold- '
?n. and we did not perceive tie indications
plainly. Especially when our mistakes atTeot J
the lives of others as when parents by a certain
iecision modify or entirely change the cir- !
:umstances and future position of children,
3r as when, at a turn in the road, our stepping
to this side?or that arrests our fortunes
ftnci gives us the downward push instead of .
the upward, we are apt to cast the blame
trholly on our fatuity and to leave Provi- j
ience quite outside* the reckoning. And,
:aking this view, it is not strange if we grow 1
?ynical and morbid and eat our bread in 1
bitterness and look with envious wonder on
the comrade who has outstripped us in the '
narch. '
If. however, we accept the sweet and com- J
forting doctrine that our whole lives, from 1
the beginning to the ending, are under God's j
sovereign control, that while we are free to J
:hoose still, for reasons infinitely kind and
[ar-reaehing as eternity, the love that out- J
lasts time and sense [>ermits our errors, we j
shall escape the danger of compliant or
sveaK cnagrin. irue. wo uiu uu sumc v??r
iions act on impulse and with childish pre- ]
:ipitancv, and again, on another, we suf- !
fered meretricious reasoning to mislead us,
but ail the while we were God's dear chil- '
iren and he had not let us go, and there (
tvas some need in our nature which !
?ven he could not have supplied unless the
iiscipline of life had made us aware of it
There are characters which cannot be deval- .
sped except by contact with pain and disappointment.
There are strong and noble ,
souls which arrive at their full estate only by j
wrestling against wind and tide. There :
ire exceptional temperaments which would j
never find God unless driven to his arms ;
by stress of sorrow and desolation of defeat. .
A.gain it often happens that the last re- j
suit of an apparent mistake is happiness for
:he'very persons who seemed most disas- e
trously influenced by it at first. Wealth '
Hies and luxuries are abridged, but the sons ,
and daughters, bravely facing poverty, are "
uetter equipped for the struggles before '
:hom than they would have been had the '
path been altogether smooth. By a certain J
iecision, regretted and lamented in solitude ,
and silence, we have closed, at en,' or another
period, a door of our lives which we j
:an never open again. When we locked that
loor we lost tne combination, una iit\ci iu
ill our immortality can we discover the forfeited
secret.
And yet, where for us there would have
been, perhaps, joy and ease, there has been
Instead blessing and the ability to bless, a
wider fleld of influence, a surer sense of
power and the going on to a firmer and
Qigher vantage ground. In our mistakes,
and, being finite and sinful, we are always
making them, let us not be utterly disheartened,
since back of them and back of
us is the guiding band of One whose love
and wisdom never err.
Bevone the smiling and the weeping.
Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
is Bonar's lovely hymn puts it, we shall bo
soon. But even more consolatory is the rellection
that beyond these varied experiences,
whiie we stay hero, are God's tender
rare over us. God's* purpose for our bene- ;
fit. God's clear sight for our blurred vision
nu'd God's never-slumbering providential :
love. f
(
THE MAIN WORK OF LIFE.
The main work of our life may be variously ;
phrased,*but one way of expressing it would
be as follows: To take the natural elements j
of our character, and by bringing them into (
close, permanent contact with Jesus, get f
them so purified and mellowed, so ennobled ,
nnd sublimated, that the grossness and dross |
;hill depart, while the excellence remains,
i'ne great thing is to put ourselves where wo J
can have brought to bear upon us the tremendous
educative influence which comes
from the warm, close, personal friendship of
a tculv great ana good man. There j
Is nothing more precious or powerful.
When we stand continually where wo
see the workings of " his mind,
watch the nobility of his impulses,
feel the great swftep of his wide-reaching affections.
everything small or base within us ,
is rebuked, and we jput on, without fully
knowing it, similar fcraffi of soul. It wa3
precisely in this 9% fthat'^lie Apostle John
became" so wonderfully transformed, so :
radically changed. He was in th? begj|i- ]
ning a son of thunder, vehement ana violent.
ready to call down Are from heaven to
consume his en'-mles, bent on securing the j
lirst place as the right hand of power. But
after his prolonged intercourse with Jesus,
his zeai became chastened, his ambition
turned into worthier channels. He grew in- '
to likeness with Him whom ho loved so '
truly, and became the disciple whom [
Jesus especially loved. Its*ems clear that
he was the most receptive of all the Twelve
the one in whom the love of Christ had
freest course, and hence there was less diffl- .
cultv in'auecting the transformation. Ho
remained to some extent John, not James or
Peter or Paul. The lines of his being were ]
not obliterated or blotted out, but they were
wonderfully touched up and toned* down
and added to. until a veiy different picture <
was formed upon them?a picture of rarest J
beauty and marvelous completeness. What J
occurred in the case of the son of Zebedee
may occur in the case of any other son un- '
derthe wide heavens. We may get into,
and stay in. the very presence of the Son of
Man. and so become altogether like Him?
each one like Him, yet each one somewhat
UIUUD'IU. it l> u Kiunvus nuin.tuak.Luut
well absorb ami thrill us. ,
I
HUIFTIN'O YOCB CARE.
"Cast all your care upon Ilim, for Hft
careth for you." Sometimes like a wild did- |
u^e, sweeping all before it, and sometimes
like the continual dropping of water?so
does care mar our peace. That we shall
someday fall by the hand of S^aul: that we
shall be "left to starve or pine away our days
in a respectable workhouse; that we shall
never be able to get through the difficulties
of the coming days or weeks; household
cares, family cares, business cares, cares
about servants, children, money ; crushing
cares, and cares tnat buzz around
the soul like a swarm of gnats on a
summer's day?what rest can there be for
a s.)ul thus besetV But when we once learn
to live by faith, bolievelng that our Father
loves us," and will not forget or forsake us.
but is pledged to supply all our needs;
when we a^iuire the holy habit of talking to
Him about all. and handing over all to Him,
at the moment that the tiniest shadow is
cast upon the soul; when we accept insult
ami annoyance and interruption, coming to
us from whatever quarter, as heing His permission.
ami. therefore, as part of His dear
will for us -th -a we have learned the secret
of the Gospel of Itest.?Rev. F. 13. Meyer.
O fiod of truth, make mo on? with thc?
in eternal love. Oft am 1 weary, reading,
listening, but all I wi9h and lung for is in
thee:. Th?e silent be all teachers, speak thou
to me aloue.?Thomas a Kvuipis.
LI IN BRONZE NEAR ESSEN.
Statue of the Famous Chinese Viceroy Unveiled
in His Presence.
The honors heaped on Li Hung Chang in
Germany culminated in the unveiling of a
? * Phlnoio VinurnTT i)i hid
StatUO CI lUtf miuiju? ...
presence in the park of Herr Krupp's villa,
near Essen.
LI continues to bo dined find feted, with
tho object of making him disgorge orders,
but he is disappointing his scheming entertainers,
for instead of giving them tho orders
they so earnestly, yet diplomatically, seok,
he is rewarding them with decorations.
All the heads of departments have been included
in his wholesale distribution of
decorations.
TEMPERANCE.
SALOOS ADVEKTISEJIEST.
[ will sell you, kind neighbors, if you will
but call,
\. drink that will poison and ruin you all;
Hie goods I shall deal in will take away life,
Deprive some of reason; fill the country
with strife;
\Iake widows and orphans, of fathers make
fiends;
Hie loud wail of thousands my business attends.
[ will see that the youths in ignorance are
kept;
rheir morals corrupt, nor shall I forget
3f natural afhction the parent to rob.
I'll inspire insurrection and stir up the mob.
[ will uproot religion, the soul I'll destroy;
For none of my votaries shall heaven enjoy,
rhoufrh spirits are priceless I'll send them to
hell:
Compel them forever in torment to dwell. \
should any one ask me my reason to give,
My answer is, Money, and mbney I'll have.
By trading in spirits I can it obtain,
A.nd if I keep* trading no one should complain;
Legislators sustain me. my business support,
A.nd then I have license directly from Court.
Judges assure me my business is iust,
rhougli it ruins my neighbor ana grinds him
to dust.
A WAn>*ISO TO YOUTH.
Charles Lamb, than whom England nevor
produced a more lovable, witty, brilliant
luuiunsi, uuviuk ueeu seciuuea ana orougnt
:o tbe verge of an untimely grave by strong
irink, raised this note of warning:
' The waters have gone over me; yet out of
:heir depths, could 1 be heard, I would cry
iloud to those who have set foot in the perildus
flood. Could the youth to whom the
[Irst flavor of sin is delicious look into my
iegradation and see what a fearful thing it
is to feel oue'sself going over a precipice,
jret with open eyes and passive will to look
jalinly on nis own destruction, yet feel it all
jmanatmg from himself; could he but look
nto my eye, feverish with last night's drinkng.
and feverish looking forward to toilpht's
repetition of that folly: could he but
feel ail godliness depart out of him, yet not
'orget the time when it was otherwise; could
le but feel this body of death, out of which I
:ry hourly for deliverance, yet with feebler
ind feebler outcry: it were enough to make
aim dash the sparkling cup to earth in all
he mantling pride of its temptation,"
The Religious Telescope, after quoting this
n an address to youth, says:
"Why did not Mr. Lamb qdit and reform?
Because he could not. Ere he was aware he
lad bound himself with the steel wires of
labit and sold himself a slave to an all-consuining.
flery appetite for strong drink. He
lid not quit and reform, for the very reason
hat you will not quit and reform ten years
inn/iu if rnii tvia nf hhnhni* onh
M'uv,w 4i jyjy* 'ViUi Uttk/u V* Uiiua.uj ? ^
irouse the flery appetite by tampering with
itrong drink now.
'And, young men and boys, why not heed
he admonition of the inspired Word? You
lo not want to be ruined by strong drink.
Fou do not wish to become that most loath!ome
of all things, a drunkard. But to avoid
his terrible fate you must turn your face
ike a flint against the saloon and the wine:up.
It is the only safe way. We speak
iom experience, and we know what we say."
SlTCBAi DRIXI.
The Welsh miners who, some years ago
ivtire loc'ced un for many days without access
:o solid food, were sustained because, for;unately,
near to them and within their reach
ivas a little stream which supplied them with
ivater. And, in the absurd feats of men livng
without food, we And they all take water;
yhen sometimes, for even forty days, they
inrvive. many call this starvation, but it is
eally not so. The water acts as food?not,
ifter all, a surprising fact when wo consider
hat the human body, including even the
eeth and the skeleton, is made up pretty
lftarlv of abrtv-flve narts ner cent, of water
done. The greatest fact,'however, derived
rom natural history Is the magnificent one
hat all animals except man, and all plants,
iemand as a drink nothing but water. Life,
itrength, activity, intelligence, are sustained
>n this fluid alone. Nay, it we take man, we
hscover that it is not all men. women and
ihildren who use this thing alcohol. Millions
ind millions never touch it, and yet, as our
nodern experience shows us, they live just
is well, just as industriously, just as aclivoly
is do they who indulge in alcohol. Most
:onvincing is it, too. that men who take
ilcohol take it with water. Brandy contains
ialf water, and it has to be diluted with
nore before it can be tolerated: our beers
ind ales contain over ninety per cent, of
rater, our wines over eighty; so ftiat even
he alcoholic populations are largely waterirlnking
communities. The only drink, in a
latnral sense, is water, without which we
:ould not live, but which many poison with
his foreign substance, giving no credit to
:he water that is their mainstay and deluded
n supposing that it is the alcohol, or spirit,
;hey have put into the water that renders
he vital service.?Sir B. W. Richardson.
f^OEXEBAl"15COTT wT IXTEMPERAKCE.
General Scott was in command at Rock
[stand when the cholera broke out there,
ind, after various injunctions In his order as
:o sobriety and cleanliness, he added this
surious paragraph, which was recently,
printed in the Magazine oj American His:orf;
m
i*'in addition to the foregoing, the senior
sur/repn present recommends the use of
flannel underclothing and woolen stockings;
sut the Commanding General, who has seen
much of disease, knows thnt it is intemper!tnce
which, in the present state of the
itmosDhere. eenerates and SDreads the
calamity, and that, when once spread, good
and temperate men are likely to take infection.
He therefore peremptorily commands
that every soldier or ranger who shall bo
found drunk or seosibly intoxicated after
he publication of this ower be compelled,
as soon as his strength will permit, to dig a
(jrave at a suitable burying place, large
enough for his own reception, as such grave
cannot fall soon to be wanted for the drunken,
man himself or some drunken companion,
rhis order is given as well to serve for the
punishment of drunkenness as to spare good
and temperate men the labor of digging
graves for their worthless companions/'
"* THET ABE KILLINO MZJT.
The liquor selling establishments of the
land are killing men for gain, as certainly
and steadily as if they were absolute retailers
of the plague, or of pestilential disease.
They know that they are killing men. Every
glance at the resul's of their traffic demonstrates.
terribly, the destruction they are
making of their neighbors. For what is mur
d.er? According to Blackstone, eminent authority,
it is "the sacrifice of human life from
mere sordid love of gain, supreme selfishness,
recklessness, or any wicked state of
the heart." Think vou, does not the drunkard
maker's occupation come within the
compass of the deflnitionV Let the graves of
the victims and the sad faces of living survivors
answer.?National Temperance Advocate.
BICTCLES AND THE SALOON.
The liquor dealers also complain that the
bicycle hurts their business. Young men
who formerly loafed about tho saloon now
are out on the road. Money formerly
spent for drink Is now spent for ' he bicycle.
The good rider has found out that strength
and speed on a wheel ure impossible for the
drinker of Intoxicants. Many young fellows
n rn nmhlHmic tn hft fnsf riders. find henPft
they quit the strong drink.?Rev. Charles B.
Mitchell.
TESTFERANCE SEWS AXD NOTES.
Bridget starts her Dre with coal oil. Tho
devil uses alcohol.
There is no sin that n man inflamed with
drink may not commit.
The sparkle In the wine is made by ono of
the devil's sharpest teeth.
If you would teach children to hato drlok,
give them the first le-son before they leave
the cradle.
Rather than sign tbo license of a liquordealer.
Dr. J. W. Watts, Mayor of Lafayette,
Wis., has resigned.
According to Temperance Cause, ninety
per cent, of the criminal cases in our courts
is duo directly or indirectly to the drink
habit.
Holland proposes introducing into its
schools a line of instruction Intended to fortifv
the minds of the pupils against the evils
of drink.
The Catholic Telegraph remarks that If
the capita] invested in the destructive liquor
traffic were put into some useful business,
the same wages could be paid, fewer drunkards,
criminals, paupers, and insane would
be made, and the State could afford to get
lea* taxes and still be benefited in many
wav3.
DROWNED BY CLOUDBURSTS.
Life and Property Dentrovert In Wegt Vlrclnla
and Ohio.
Near Parkersburg, W. Ya., a rainstorm
was attended by one of the most devastating
olondbursts that ever occurred in tho vicinity.
At Littleton, W. Va., there stands
scarcely a house to mark the scene of a once
pretty village. Houses were swept away by
the water, and their occupants, seeking
shelter from tho destroying elements, were
cauKht In the flood and carried alone.
The bodies of James Berry and his wife
and child, Uvint? on Weeee Creek, near
Tjittlet-rm Hnxm hnan fnnnd. A number of
houses, borne away from their foundations,
lodged some distance down the stream, and
tho occupants were rescued. The loss of
property cannot be estimated. The courses
of the streams are marked with masses of
debris. All the other small towns in the
vicinity of Littleton suffered considerably
from the loss of property and destruction of
farming lands.
i The two Baltimore nnd Ohio railway
bridges across Wheeling Creek at Wheeling.
W. Va., were badly damaged. The creek
throughout its length is out of its banks, and
buildings and crops have been washed away.
An estimate of thi damage excwls ?200,000.
A portion of the Baltimore and Ohio nassenffer
Btation was swept away by the flood in
Wheeling Creek.
, A cloudburst occurred In the vicinity of
Bellalre, Ohio, doing srreAt damage to property.
8heep. horses and cattle were drowned;
trestle-work And bridees, seven houses, with
tnelr contents, and the large canning and
preserving works of McMlllen Brothers were
swept away by the heavy water in Wegee
Creek.
GOVERNMENT FINANCES.
Condition of the Treasury at the Clow of
the Fiscal Year.
The United State3 Treasury statement
Issued July 1. shows tho public debt, less
cash In the Treasury, at tho close of the fiscal
year to have been 3955,279,234, an Increase
for the month of SI.820,854.
The debt is classified as follows: Interestbearing
debt, $847,368,890; debt on which
Interest has ceased since maturity. $1,636.890:
debt bearine no Interest, $373,728,570;
total, 81,222,729,850, which does not include
$547,110,973 in certificates and Treasury
notes offset by an equal amount of cash In
the Treasury.
The Treasury cash Is classified as follows:
Gold, $144,020,363; silver, $513,393,713; paper,
$178,371,621; bonds, disbursing officers'
balances, etc.. $18,114,936. Total. $853,905,
635; demand liabilities. 8586.473,539, leaving
a cash balanie of 8267,432,096.
The records of the Treasury Department
show that the excess of expenditures over
receipts since January 1. 1893, aggregate
$140,635,123. which is divided as follows:
Last half of fiscal venr 1893, 81,984.390: fiscal
year 1894, 869,803,261: fiscal year 1895,
842,805.221: fiscal year 1896, 826.042,241.
The coinage of standard silver dollars
during the last six months was 87,500,412,
and the total silver coinage during the year,
811.440,641. .
The expenditures on account of pensions
for the year just ended amounted to 8130,434,046.
being a decrease of 81,961,182 over
the year ended Jane 30, 1895.
TWO SEA SERPENTS CAPTURED.
Paget Sound Fishermen Have the Good!
to Prove Tbelr Story.
Tacoma, Wash., Is greatly interested in
the capture at Hood's Canal, Puget Sound,
of two sea serpents, ten and eight feet long,
which have been taken there for exhibition.
When caught on hooks they fought ferociously,
fishermen having to pound them
with oars. One closed his jaws down on a
steel gaff hook and bit It off. The mala died
from injuries, but has been kept on ice. The
female is doing well in a large tank of salt
water. Probably she will be takea East.
Scientists on the Government Fish Commission
steamer Albatross and at the State University
have been unable to classify the
monsters. They undoubtedly belong to the
order of sea 83rpents occasionally reported
by marine men. The neck of the dead serpent
is the size of a man's thigh, the body
feeing ten feet long and tapering to a point
at the tall. It has the body of a snake, a
head like n bulldog and fangs like a tiger.
The body is striped and spotted like a rattlesnake.
It has a dorsal fin the entire length
of the vertebrae, and a similar one underneath,
extending from the stomach to the
tail. Behind the gills are small side Ads. It
possesses many heavy molar teeth, besides
long, sharp incisors, partly curved like a
tiger's. In the stomach of the dead one was
found a small quantity of kelp, indicating
that the monsters are partly herbiverous.
The live one is fed on shellfish, halibut and
herring.
tragedy" in a cemetery.
%7rs. Johns Lay In Ambush for McCallum,
andJHc Shot ;
Mrs. Lem Johns was killed nt Kuttawa,
Ky., by Marshal McCallum. The tragedy
grow out of a feud. Eight months ago McCalium
arrested Mrs. Berryman, mother of
Mrs^ Joiins, for resisting him in the discharge
of his duties, and she fell dead in
jail from heart disease as a result of excitement.
McCallum was acquitted on trial for
contributing to her death.
Mrs. Johns hid' herself in the cemetery,
and sont word by her child to McCallum
that a man wanted to see him. When he
came miu ruau iruoi ucujuu u ?rn>c3i.uiitf
with a pistol levelled at him. McCallum
quickly drew his pistol and fired, killing the
woman instantly.
THROWN BY CATERPILLARS.
New Source of Danger to Cyclists Discovered
in Brooklyn.
Caterpillars are the latest known soaroe of
danger to cyclists. On Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, between DeKalb and Vfiiloughby,
numbers of these pests were washed off the
trees by the rain upon the smooth asphalt
road. They wero crushed beneath the
wheels of bicycles and other vehicles, and
soon the road was rendered so slippery that
not a cyclist could pass it without being
thrown.
Many minor accidents occurrcd. and the
matter was investigated. The cause was
then discovered, sand was thrown down and
policemen stationed at the ends of the block
warned cyclists of the danger.
General P. M. B. Young Dead.
General Pierce Morgan Butler Young, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
for the United States to Guatemala and
Honduras, died at the Presbyterian Hospital,
New York City, of a complication of diseases.
His death was due mainly to heart disease,
with which he had been h filleted fcr several
von rq nnrl was vprv sudden. as it was
thought at the hospital tnat he was improving.
General Young was born In Spartanburg,
S. C., In 1837.
llecord-Breaklnc Speedy Justice.
At West Liberty, Ky., Fato Brooks was
found guilty of the murder of Gus McKinzle
and sentenced to be hanged. The
murder occurred the day before. It was the
result of a quarrel between drunken men.
McKinzle was the son of the County Judge.
Brooks would have been lynched but for the
promise of a speedy trial.
Objervlnff the Fourth.
Parades, picnics and cycling jaunts wore
features of the Fourth, which was more pen.
orally observed throughout tho United States
than in recent years. .
The Labor World.
Chicago has 309 labor organizations.
Plasterers are deserting Buffalo, N. Y. '.
Boston is credited with 85,0C0 unionists.
Buffalo has a Polish freight handlers'
union.
Erie (Penn,) painters want nine h<-urs
and S2.
At Berlin 12,500 cabinetmakers won advances.
ot. faui (Minn.; oricKiayers goi iuriy |
cents qq hour.
Female barbers have been admitted to the
St. Louis union.
A second conference on the tin piate wage
scale was held at Pittsburg without result.
THE FOURTH IN EUROPE c
Celebrations of the Glorlona Day In I<ondon
and Elsevhere.
In London the American Society gave a
Fourth of July banquet in the Great Hail of
the Criterion Theatre, Ambassador Bavard
presiding. A statue of Liberty behind the
unatrman was draped with the American
colors. Two hundred and twenty-one persons
attended. After a toast to the Queen had
been proposed by Ambassador Bayard, Sir
Richard Webster proposed a toa?t to the ,
President of the United States. The toast
was drunk standing, with three cheers for
the President. Ambassador Bavard then proposed
a toast to "The Dav Wo Olebrate."
Ambassador Bayard referred'to 1776. thank
in? God for July 4, of that year. Enthusl- ,
astic cheers followed, flag3 were waved, ,
and the band played "Hall Co- .
lumbia" and other American songs.
Mr. Greer, of New York, proposed a
toast to "The Community of English 8peak- '
lnj? People." James Bryce. M. P., replying,
rererrea to me neroes common ro ooia p?o- ,
pie. The Rev. M. D. Hoge then proposed
a toast to "The American 8oclety." which
was greeted with loud cheers. Eight
hundred persons attended the reception
United States Ambassador
Bayard gave at his residence, in Eaton ,
Square, in honor of the Fourth of July. Mr. '
and Mrs. Bayard received the quests at the i
top of the staircase, and the Ambassador and
all the members of his staff wore the National
colors at their buttonholes. ]
The Fourth of July celebrations were
more general in Germany this year than
heretofore. In addition to the official cele- |
brattons by Ambassador Uhl and ConsulGeneral
DeKay, ther? was a praod fostival
at the Zoological Garden. Fifty Americans
had dinner, with an accompani- ;
ment of fireworks, flags and music. The
Uncle Sam Club gave a commers and Mrs.
Wlllard held a reception. Mrs. Uhl's i
luncheon to the Consular ladies was elaborate.
The reception which followed was in
the nature of a house-warmins?. It was attended
by the whole American colony.
Many houses in Berlin displayed American
flags in honor of the dav.
In Paris the United States Consulate and
the houses of the Americans hoisted the
United States flag. Ambassador Eustisbe'
ing away, a reception was held by Consul
Morss. The leading Americans, many English
people and Italians and the American
Consuls were at the American Chamber of
Commerce banquet. M. Lebon, Minister for
the Colonies, proposed an alliance between
France and America in the cause of liberty.
FORTY-FIVE STARS NOW.
Our New Flag; Thus Recognizes tbe Ad
mission 01 uian.
The forty-fifth star, representing the entrance
into the Union of the State of Utah,
was added to the flag on the Fourth of July,
but very few of the Nation's standards whioh
floated in the breeze displayed the new brilliant.
I
FLAO SHOWING UTAH'S STAB.
It is understood, however, that a few army
posts and naval vessels flew the new flag and
that both the army and navy have a stock of
them on hand ready for distribution as sooo
as requisitions are made by army posts and
commanders of vessels.
Under the regulations flags must be used
until worn out. so that the flags now in use
will have to be flown until condemned,when
Q6W flags containing the additional star will
be supplied.
RIOT AT A PICNIC.
Desperate Fight Between Armed Russians
and a Posse.
The Independent Order of Late Russian
Soldiers of New York City gave a picnic on
the Fourth of July at William Suhr's Flushing
Avenue Park, Maspeth, Long Island.
The picnic had been under way for a short
time when a flght took place over the ejectment
of an intoxicated member of tte
Russian Hussar Association, which was
represented at tbe anair ay a uuaiuvc vi
mfflbere In uniform. ?? .
The ngM developed into a riot that necessitate
J flwlummowni: of Sheriff Henry Debt
and a nosse of deputies. They were assisted
by nearly every male resident of Maspeth.
There was a bloody battle between 350 armed
ana uniformed plaknickers and a band of
deputy sheriffs and constabh s. Eight men
were badly injured, two probably fatally.
Thirty more had broken heads, cut faces or
blackened eyes.
Sabres and rifles were used by the picnickers,
pistols and clubs by the officers.
The picnickers were subdued after a pitched
battle, and fifty-eight of them were placed
under arrest and held by a justice of the
pace on a oharge of rioting and of assault
In the first degree.
WARREN'S STATUE UNVEILED.
It Occupies a Site in Prospect Plaza,
Brooklyn.
The unveiling and dedication of the statue
of Major-General liouverneur Kemble Warran,
erected on the Prospect Park Plaza, in
Brooklyn, was the most noteworthy feature
of the celebration of the Fourth in the city.
Mrs. B. L. Parker, who first started the
fund to erect the statue, was present on the
platform with twenty-five of her associates,
but she did not make any statement.
The G. K. Warren Post conducted the services.
A. Sidney Warren, son of General
Warren, uncovered the statue. Light Battery
K, U. S. A., in command of Captain
John W. Dillenbeck, fired a salute. The
statue was presented to the city of Brooklyn
* " 71 x e TTTa PrtOf A.
Dy nenry rusior, ui mo nmim ...
R. It was accepted by Henry 1L Palmer,
Deputy Commissioner of Parks.
Sickness In Spanish Army In Caba.
There are 6810 men in the military hospitals
of the island of Cuba. Of this number
695 are down with yellow fever at Colon. 115
at Matanzas, 84 at Santa Clara and 90 in
Havana. Surgeon-General Losada thinks
that not over 13,000 soldiers will b? sick during
the summer. The mortality is 1.89 per
cent., and there has oeen a decrease of 30 per
cent, in the cases of yellow fever.
Colorado Populists.
The Colorado State Convention of the
People's party at Denver selected a delegation
to the St. Louis Convention that will
favor a union of ail stiver forces while maintaining
the party organization and platform.
They will work to secure an endorsement of
the Democratic party nominee in Chicago.
Aliaro Wins a Battle.
General Alfaro, Provisional President of
I Ecuador, defeated tho rebel forces under
General Vega. The rout of the insurgents
is reported to have been complete. The battle
took place in tho mountains between
Quimaz and Chimba.
I>.n.M?nnnt Pontile. j
The Russian Czarina is the seventh woman
to iio appointed to a colonelcy in tuo l'rusian
army.
Empress Frederick, Dowager of Germany,
draws .540,000 a year from tho British Treasury
as an lingliali Princess.
William Black, the novel writer, is also a
portrait painter, an enthusiastic botanist
and an all-round srortsinan.
Gladstone tuu written sucu a vasi uu;uy?r
of letters during his life that his autographs
brim; only twelve cents in the En^Usn markcts*
Colonel Charles King, the military novelist,
is a handsome, soldierly mau of about
fifty, with gray hair and mustaohe, and the
bronzed complexion of the frontiersman.
SSl
Which One?
'I love you. mother," said little Joe,
Lnd hp gave her a husr and a kiss or so.
But the wood-box was empty
And baby cried.
While Joe ran off to have a good ride. ___
""
'I love you, mother," said little 8ue, ?.
'I love you so much?you know I do." >
Lnd the empty wood-box she filled wittt '
wood,
ind played with the baby till he was good,
ind the mother thought?ah, surely you'v?
jruessed? i
Which of the children loved her the hest. . '
?Florence A. Hayes,
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One Country!
After all, ' ,%i
One coantry, brethren! We mast rise or faUl
With the supreme republic; we must be
The makers of her immortality?
Her freedom?fame;
Her g'.ory. or her shame:
Liegemen to Oodand fathers of the free!
After all? \
Hark! from the heights the clear, strong
clarion-call
!jid the command imperious:
Stand forth,
Sons of the South and brothers of the NdrtMj
Stand forth, and be j
As one on soil and sea?
?our country's honor more than
wona:" >, ""
After all, , '
Tis Freedom wears the loveliest coronal:
Her brow la to the Morning: in the sod
3he breathes the breath of patriots; every
clod
Answers her call
And rises like a wall
israinst the foes of Liberty and God! \
?Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution! '
Behind the Hill.
I think I know a path
We two might go together;
It turns not up the stratb,
Nor crosses by the heatherIt
bends not to the nortb.
Where burns the beacon star;
It leads not sunward forth
Where tho rone and swallow are.
No winds of March discover
The early violet there;
The pewit and the plover
Bttr not rue aartamg air.
For It lies behind the hill
Where noonday is as night,
Where tbe loudest bird is still
And the reddest rose is white.
Not here for as, I know.
Again the golden weather;
But there, I think we'll go
In the dreamless rtusk together. ',
?Margaret Armour, in Black and Whltei
The Sleeping: of tbe Wind.
The great red moon was swinging
Alow in the purple east; t
The robins had ceased trom singing,
The nois9 of the day bad ceased;
The golden sunset islands
Had faded into the sky,
And warm from the sea of silence
A wind of sleep came by.
It came so balmly and resting
Ttmt the treetop Dreatnea a kiss,
And a drowsy wood-bird, nesting
Chirped a wee note of bliss:
It stole over fragrant thickets
As 60ft as an owl could fly.
And whispered to tiny crickets
The words of a lullaby.
Then slowly the purple darkened,
The whispering trees were still,
And the hush of the woodland harkened.
To a crying whip-poor will;
And the moon grew whiter, and by it
The shadows lay dark and deep;
But the fields were empty and quiet,
For the wind had fallen asleep.
?Charles ?. Going, in Ladies' H ome Jo urnaL
A Sods of Summer.
Skies of deepest blue o'er'nead,
Green grass springing from its bed;
Bursting buds and opening flowers v
Fill with perfume woodland bowers.
Drowsy murmurs fill the air.
Butterflies flit here and there;
List! the locust's high keyed droning
Mingles with tho dove's soft moaning
Whip-poor will, with plaintive cry,
Calls to black bat fluttering by:
Crickets chirp, we pause and listen;
All arouna bright Are-flies glisten.
** At- - TT>n **rrt thfl hM>P7P
JBIlgUt iuc auiuumv, ttukuu ,Mv
Birds are twittering in the trees;
Bamble-bee is gaily humming.
"Don't you know that summers conn'*""'"*
Fain we'd linger by the way, ~ -i"'*
But dim night fast follows day;
Twilight's mystic shades enfold us,
Far-off; glittering stars behold us. ,
' <t . V
Sights we see and sounds we hear *
Charm alike the eye and ear.
Birds and insects, flowers up-springing,
'Tis fair summer ye are bringing.
?Eva L. Barnes, in Sunbeams.
A Wild Goose's Straugo Nest.
The Bevelstroke (Oregon) Mail state
that one day, as Anton Bargosen was
going to his work at Allen's brewery,
he saw a flock of wild geese flying
overhead. The better to look at them,
he took off his hat, holding it oat*
stretched, and then, to his astonish*
ment, saw one gooee drop in the air
toward him. His vision being keenhe
had not reached the brewery yet;
indeed, had he, this woald not be related
as a fact, for Allen's beer is good
?he saw something drop from the
goose like a shot, straight for his hat,
and fall safely therein. The someTraa
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The goose evidently saw the opportunity
to deposit its egg in a safe
place, and ganged it to a hair. Burgoaen
could not believe his ey6s; yet
there was the egg, sure enough, and,
save for a slight bruise at the upper
end, perfectly uninjured. The egg
and Anton are now at Allen's brewery,
and will verify this story, It is A
most astonishing thing, not heard of
more than once in a life-time.
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One of the wickedest sights we have
seen in a long while, says the Lewiston
(Sfe.) Journal, was witnessed this
week when a man went through the
streets of this city offering for sale a
barrel of brook trout. The man
claimed to have bought them in Canada,
and to have brought them here
for sale. All of the trout were frozen
solidly into the barrel, and among
them were some not over four inches
long. These little fellows should have
beeu at home with their mammas for
the next two years, ^auaaa suumu
look to ber fish laws.
A Flowing Well.
The largest artesian well in New
Mexico wa3 completed the other day
on the ranch of Captain F. H. Lea.
The stream shoots up a column twelve
inches high, through a pipe three feet
high and five inohes in diameter. Accurate
measurements have shown a
flow of 220 gallons per ^aiuute.
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