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OR TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 8f THE NOTEDDIVINE.
Subject: Lift Up the Fallen?\ Pl#? For
Welcome For the Prodigal?Kindness
Would Reclaim Many Unfortunates
Who Have Dropped by the War.
[Copyright lnuu.]
Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr.
Talmage pleads for a hearty-reception to
all those who have done wroni; and waat
to get back, while the uusymnathetic and
self-righteous are excoriated; text, Luke
xv., 28, "And he was angry and would not
go in."
Many times hare T been asked to preach
a sermon about the eider brother of the
parable. I received a letter from Canada
saying, "Is the elder son of the parable so
unsympathetic and so cold that he is not
worthy of recognition?" The fact i3 that
we ministers nursue the younger son. l'ou
onn hear the flappings of his rags In many
a serraonlc breeze and the cranching of
the pods for which he was an unsuccessful
contestant. I confess that It has beeu
-dlffloult for me to train the camera obscura
upon the elder son of the parable. I
could not get a negative for a photograph.
There was not enough light in the gallery,
or the chemicals were poor, or the sitter
moved in the picture. But now I think I
have him; not a side face or a three-quarters
or the mere bust, but a full length
{>ortralt as be appears to me. The father
n the parable of the prodigal had nothing
to brag of in his two sons. The one was a
rake and the other a churl. I Ond nothing
admirable In the dissoluteness of the one,
and I find nothing attractive ia the acrid
" ' ?obriety of the other. The one goes down
* over the larboard side, and the other goes
down over the starboard side, but they
both go down.
From all the windows of tae old home
fy, tend bursts the minstrelsy. rne noor
' quakes with the feet of the rustics, whose
dance is always vigorous and resounding.
The neighbors have heard of the return of
H the younger son from his wanderings, and
thejf have gathered together. The house
is full of oongratulator9. I suppose the
tables are loaded with luxuries; not only
the one kind of meat mentioned, but its
E ooncomltauts. "Clap!" go the cymbals,
L "Thrum!" go the harps. "Click!" go the
chalices, up and down go the feet inside,
while outside is a most sorry spectacle.
The senior son stands at the corner of the
house, a frigid phlegmatic. He.had just
come in from the fields in very substantial
apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations
around the old mansion, he ask3 of a servant
passing by with a goatskin of wine on
bis shoulder what all the fuss is about.
One would have thought that, on hearing
that his younger brother had got back, he
would have goue into the house and rejoiced
and, If he were not conscientiously
opposed to dancing, that he would have
Iolned In the oriental schottlsh. No. There
le stands. His brow lowers; his face darkens;
his lip curls with contempt; he stamps
the ground with indignation; he see3 nothing
at nil to attract. The odors of the feast
coming out on the air do no( sharpen his
appetite; the lively music does not put any
spring into his step. He is a terrible pout;
he criticises the expense, the Injustice and
the morals of the entertainment. The father
rushes o&t bareheaded and coaxes him to
come in. He will not go in; he scolds the
father; he goes into a pasquinade against
the younger brother, and be make tho
most uncomely scene; he says,"Fathot, you
... put a premium on vagabond^m. I staid
at home and worked on th?>farm., You
never made a party for me; you didn't so
4 much as kill a kid. That wouldn't have
cost half as much as a calf. But this scapegrace
went off In floeclothes, and he comes
back not fit to be seen, and what a time
you mako over him! He breaks your heart,
and yon pay him for it. That oalf, to which
we have been Riving extra feed during alltheso
weeks, wouldn't be so fat and sleek
if I had known to what use you were going
to put itl That vagabond deserves to be
cowbided instead ol banqueted. Veal is
too good for him!" That evening, while
the younger son sat telling his father about
his adventures and asking about what had
occurred ou the place since bis departure,
the seuior brother goes to bed disgusted
and slams the door after him. That senior
brother still lives. You can see him any
day of the week. At a meeting of mtuiS'
ters in Germany some one asked the question.
"Who Is that elder son?" and Krum-'
macher answered: "I know him; I saw him
yesterday." And when they insisted upon' *
knowing whom he meant he said: "Myself.
When I saw the account of the conversion
Of a most obnoxious man, I was irritated."
First, to is senior brother of the text
stands for the self congratulatory, self satIsiled,
self worshipful man. With the same
breath in which he vituperates against his
younger brother he utters a panegyric for
* himself. The self righteous man of my
text, like every other self righteous tnuu,
was full of fau'ts. He was t>u lngrate, for
he did not appreciate the home blessings
which he had all those vears. He was dis
obedient, for when the father told him t j
oome in be staid out. He was a liar, for
he said that the recreant son had devoured^
his father's living when the father, so far
from being reduced to penury, had a homestead
left, and instruments of music, had
jewels,bad a mansion and instead of being a
pauper wa3 a prince. This senior brother,
with so many faults of his own, was
merciless in his criticism of the younger
brother. The only perfect people that I
have ever known were utterly obnoxious.
I was never so badly cheated in my Ufo as
by a perfect man. He got so far up In his
devotions that he was clear up ahovo all
the rules of common honesty. These men
that go ubout prowling among prayer
meetings and in places of business, telling
how good they are?look out for them;
t keep your hand on your pocketbook! I(
have noticed that just in proportion as a.,
man gets good he gets humble. The deep
Mississippi does not make as much noUe
as the brawling mountnin rivulet. Thexe
^as been mmy a store that had moregoocte
in the show window than Inside on the
shelves. ' !
This self-righteous man of the text stood
at the corner of thehous? hugging himself
in admiration. We hear a croat deal in
our day about the higher lite. Now, there
are two kinds of higher-life men. The one
is admirable,- and the other Is repulsive.
The one kind of lusher-life man is very
lenient in his criticism of other?, does not
bore prayer meetings to death with long
harangues, does not talk a groat deal
about himself, but much about Christ and
heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle aud
more c?>ful until one day his soul spreads
a-wing, and he flies away to eternal rest,
and everybody mourns his departure. The
other higher-life man goes around with a
Bible conspicuously under his arm, goes
frcm church to church, a sort o! general
evangelist, is a nuisance to his own pastor
when be is at home and a nuisance to other
pastors when he is away from home, runs
up to some man who is counting out a roll
of bank bills or ruuning up a difficult line
of figures and asks him how his soul is,
makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha;
standing in a religious meetiug making uu
address, ho has a patronizing way, as
though ordinary Christians were clear
away down below him, so he had to.tallc at
ti>e top of hiMOtaeln order to tDalce them
hear, but nttfbe same time eoeouraflng
them to hopjfron that by climbing many
years they may after a while com? up within
sight of the place where he now atanda.
I tell you plainly that a roaring; roistering,
bouncing sinner Is not so repulsive to
me as that higher life malformation. The
former may .repent; the latter never gets
over his pharlsaism. The younger brother
of the parabfe came back, but the senior
brother stands outside entirely oblivious
U<M /InCnmannHl n n 4 .1 O /-> I t , U./N
iu iiib wwu uoiiu4?iouv;ics nuu uouuns, |?uaouaolng
bis own eulogluro. Oh, how
much easier it Is to blame others than to
blame ourselves. Adam blamed Eve, Eve
blamed the serpeut, the seuior brother
blamed the you^er brother, and uoue of
them blamed themselves.
Again, the senior brothsr o" my tost
stands for all those who are faithless
about the reformation of the dissipated
and the dissolute. In the very tones ot his
voice you can hear the fact that he has no
faith that the reformation of the younger
son Is genuine. His entire manner seems
^ to say: '"That boy has come back for more
money. He got a third of the property.
Now he has come bnck for another third.
He will never be contented to stay on the
farm. He will fall uway. I would go in,
too, and rejoice with the others if I thought
this thins was genuine, but it is a sham.
That boy is a conflrtnod inebriate and debauchee."
Alas, my friends, for the Incredulity
In the church of Christ in regard
to the reclamation of the recreantl You
aay a man has been a strong drinker. I
say, "Yes. but he has reformed " "Oh."
yon snv, with a lugubrious face, "I
hope you are uot mistaken; I hone yoa
are not mistaken." You say. "Doa't rejoice
too much over his conversion tor
soon he will be unconverted, [ fear. J
Don't make too big a party for that returned
prodigal or strike the timbrel too
loud, and If you kill a calf kill the oue that
is on the common? and not the one that
has been luxuriating In the paddock."
That U the reason whv more prodigals do
not come home to their father's house. It
is the rank infidelity in the church of Gol
on this subject.
There is not a house on the streets.of
heaven that has not in it a prodiual that
returned ami staid home. Thore could be
unrolled before you a scroll of 100,033 j
names?the names of prodiccils who came
back forever reformed. Who wis John
Bunyan? A returned prodigal. Who w.is
Richard Baxter? A returael proiisral.
Who was George Whitefleld, the thunderer? I
A returned prodigal.
And I could go out in all tha aisles of
this church to-day and find on either side
those who, once far astray for many yeirs,
have been faithful, and their eternal salvation
is us sure as though they had been ten
years in heaven. And yet some o; you
have not enough faith In their return!
You <lo not know how to shake hands
with a prodigal; you do not kuow how to
pray for him; you do not know how to
greet him. H-* wants to sail into the wsm
gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You
are the iceberg against which he strike*
and shivers. You say ho has been a prodigal.
I know it, but you are the sour, unresponsive,
censorious, saturnine, cranky
elder brother, tind if you are going to
heaven one would think eonae pec pie
would be tempted to go to perdition to get
away from you.
Plenty of room for eteganc sinners, for
sinners In velvet or satin and laoe, for sinners
high salaried, for kid gloved and patent
leathered sinners, for sinners flsed up *,
by hairdresser, pomatumed andl&vendered
and cologned and frlzzledand crimped and
"banged" sinners?plenty of room!
Such we meet elegantly at the door of
our churches, and we invite them Into the
best seats with Chesterfleldlan gallantries;
we usher them Into the house of God and,
put soft ottomans under their feet and pat
a gild ed^ed prayer book In their hands ,
and pass the contribution bor before them
with an air of apology, while they,ithe.'
generous souls.take out the equlslte portsraonnnie
and open it and with diamonded
finger push down beyond the #10 goldpieces
and delicately plok out 119 an expression
of gratitude their offering to the
Lord?of one cent! Forsnoh sinners plenty
of room, plenty of room!
Be not so hard la your criticism of the
fallen lest thoa thyself also be^temptod.
Do you know who.tbat man ijarSrho, Sabbath
before last, staggered hp and down
the aisle la a aburob, disturbing the service
until the seavioe bad to stop anttl lie
was taken from the room? He was a minister
of the gospel ot Jesus Christ ia a sister
denomination! That man had preached
the gospel; that maa had broken the bread
of the Hoiy Obmmunloa- for fhe people
From what ?-hek;htb to wh%t a depth:
Oh, I was gfia there wa* np smiling in
the room whOT that , mad "WW taken out, I
his poor wife following him with bis hat I
in her band and-.'his ooat on her arm. H j
was as solemn to me as two fanerals?the :
funeral of the&ody and'the faoftral of thr
soul. Beware teat thou also be tempted!
An invalid went to 8o&th America, for,his
health aud one (lay sut sonnlng himself on
the beaoh wbeaJie saw something crawl
Ing up nejtoaon wriggling toward him,
and he wan affrighted. He thoaght it was !
a wild beast or 1 reptile, "and be took hi?
pistol from his 'pocket. Then he saw it |
was not a wild beast. .It was a map, .'an
Immortal maa, a man made in God's own I
luid^o, uuu i-uo (luur wrotuu ui.imvu u|> t</ <
the feet of the Invalid and asked for strong
drink, and the Invalid took his wine flask
from bis pockatfand gave the poor wretcb
something to drink, and then, nnder the j
Btimulus, he.xose np and gave bis blstorr. !
He had been a merchant In Glasgow. He
bad gone down nod or the power ot strong
drink until he winrsb reduced in poverty
that he was Uvfeife li a( boat'just off the
beaob. "Why," jjpifl the invalid, "I knew
a merchant in Gl&iigow once, a merohant
of snob and each a name." And the poor i
wretoh straightened himself and said. "J j
am that man!" "Let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed, lest he fall."
AgainI remark that the senior brother of
my text standB for the spirit o? envy and
jealousy. The senior, brother th<tafSj[h? tbat |
all tbe honor they? did. to i^ilSturned j
brother was a wron<? to him.' He said, "I
have staid at bome^ and I ought to have
had.the ringrand I ought,to have had the
banquet, and I ought to havd biwt tho gar*
Alas, for this spirit of envyand Jealousy
coming down through the agftfi Oatn and !
Abel, Esau and Jacob, 9aol and. David,
Hamaa and Mordecal, Orthe}ia and Iago,
Orlando and Angelica, Caligula and TorquHtus,"
Cssar and Pompay. Oolumbu* and .
the Spanish oonrtlera, Gambysej Aad tbe i
brotl^er be slew because Was . a better
raarksaiad, Dionysius awSB^^Hbienlus, i
whom he slew becaase b$?wa? a better j
slntcer. Jealousy amoMK^Mloters?UI03- j
terman and Geoffrey Ki?wprtiIad*on and I
Reynolds, Francla, auitowioiee a plctura >
of Raphael, Raphael sendH.hifn a picture. |
Francia, seeki^lt, falls la wSt.of jealousy j
coatemporai^fcMgJkofeaoh o'.Uer. XiaophoQ
and sfi*?i#tet' at tho same ten-,
but froai^^JJ Igyfr y?u never would
RoliglouMlMpB|P|fe^he Mohammedans '
praying fcuSHj Bgfi* drought; no raia
00m ^ bd^'a ^ PI,iy
that the Christiana began to pray and the
Lo^-d wus so dUjjfwhtd with their prayers
that He seat raipjight away &o He ?vould
jot hear any more of .their 6uppUo/itloua.
Oh, this acwtfiisd spirit of envy andjealou3yl
Let as stamp It oat from all our
hearts. ' 4 .
. A wtestler waa*0-envious of Theogenes/
the prinoe of Wrt^tlers, that he could not
:be consoled i?v anyway, and after (Theoirenea
dle^ad 6.Statue whs lifted to blm in ;
a public pmoe hta envious antagonist wei^t I
out eTer&hlght..?.nd wrestled with the
statue until bpe night he threw It, and Ic
fell on him and crushed him to death, go
jealousy is; not only absurd, but It N
killing to the body, aud It Is killing to thd
soul. J-jf
0!t, my friends, the world Is large enough
for all of ufcrpEjatjus, rejoice at the succms
of others. ;rb? next best thing to owning
a garden oai?el<ree is to look over the feuce
and admire tnMrowers.
The next be?,t thj/ii? to riding In fine !
equipage Is &y|||fid on the streets and ad- j
mire the pnKKQ& span. The next be3t '
thing to bajgng a banquet given to our- j
selves to hnJ09?:a banquet given to out '
prodigal ,br?Bwe that has come home to
his father's hpose.
Ah, the thto pouting elder soa is
put bstore ufcijjl# order' tuat we might
better see thq.raatjMt[C ,and forgiving face
of the Father^vXtertfadts are mighty. The
artist In sketching tlie field of Waterloo
years after fb# bfttile put a dove in the
month of thecMnon. Baphael in oae o(
bis cartoons beW^e the faoe of a wretc 1
p?t thd laoe of aittppj andlnnoceut child.
Aadt ao' the Mai*"faoe q? this irascible
and disgusted eider brother is brought
?ut in order thaf in the ooutr.ist we
might better undetAand >. the fororiving
and radiant face'Of God. That la the
meaning of it?that God lg ready to take
back anybody that is sorry, to take him
clear back, to take him back forever and
1 fc i'iIME ^ k I m Ku.il/ ml It
lorevuEtuiu mtoi , ?w vt??.w u,u, ? ,WM
a loving bu&tfipnt "?kls3 oa his parched
lip, a ring on Uls bloated hand, an easy
shoe on h& 'Chafed foot, a garland on hi*
bleeding temples and heaven in his soul.
Ob, I fall flat oa that mercy! Come, my
brother, and It t as get down intdthe dust,
resolved never to *l?e until thaFatUer'i
forgiving hand shall lift us.
0!?, what a God we havel Bring yondoxologies.
Come, earth and heaven, aud
join in the worship. Cry aloud. Lift the
palm branches. Do you not leel the
Father'.? arm around your neck? Do you
not feel the warm breath of your Father
against your chepk? Surrender, younger
son! Surrender, elder 3on! Surrender,
all! Go In to-day and sit down at the banquet.
Take aslice of the fatted calf, and
afterward, when you are seated, with one
hand in the hand of the returned brother
and the other baud in tuo naau 01 ?ae rejoicing
father, let your heart beat time tc
the clapping of the cymbal and the mellow
voice of the tiute. It is meet that we should
make merry aud be glad, for thN, tlty
I brother, was dead aud U aUva aguia, Hf
1 was lost aed is fouud.
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.
PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
Cnobnypd Order*? J'rovoktnff Each Othe*
to Good Work* ? Wo Owe God the
J Scut? Whosoever Will May Drink?A
Prayer of Calvin?Make Life Greater.
' They told the eleven and all the rest."
We are ready to tell tho,eleven, .
With faces and hearts aglow,
That the Lord has indeed arisen
And before His owirdoth gp, .
Through the old'Galilean places,
To the mountain of sacred tryst;
To t?l: i? fair an evangel
Were a joy to be uu missed.
We are eager to toll the eleven
How He sat with us at meat,
And we scarce could spealc for gladness,
As the air grew strangely sweet;
Till h?nr-A not a loaf unbroken.
A cup with its wine unshed,
But shall bring back the hour the Saviour
Was known in the breaking of bread.
And still we tell the eleven,
While, unknowing and unconsoled,
Vast kindreds, tongues and peoples
Are heirs of a tale untold.
In the white light of death and judgment.
8ufflcath it then to attest.
We told the eleven. d<jar Master,
But we told not ' all the rest?"
?Louise Manning Hodgkins, in Zion's Her
aid. '
Provoking Each Other to Good Works.
This is a favorite phrase with some people.
They are very much afraid that it will
be said of them that they set themselves up
to be better than their neighbors. The applause
of men, and to be on good terms with
all about them, is the very broath of theii
nostrils. So they take much satisfaction in
the thought that while they are all right with
. God?for do they not worship Him with all
due deoorousness in the most approved style
and wear becomingly the conventional
marks of piety??it cannot for a moment
be changed against them that they are in the
least Pharisaic or interfere in the slightest
degree with others' spiritual rights. Lei
such folks get what comfort they can out ol
all that may be good in this attitude; but let
them also reflect that two very serious dan-,
gers are in their pathway. They stand
in great peril of moral cowardice, and
thflir llirht. if nut so carefully under o
bushel, will bo very likely to go out
altogether. We /ire bidden to provoke
one another unto love and good
works. Be more pros'oking, Is a proper exhortation
if we give the ri^ht meaning to
the word. To thrust one's self in any shape
?action*, opinions, professions, exhortations?needlessly
into public view, is rulgai
and offensive; but stand with boldness, in e
manly or womanly way, for truth and right
when they are assailed, or to exhibit our
earnest, loving interest in the highest welfare
of our friends, is quite another thing.
Our demotion-to Jesus .should be pushed
more into view rather than less. If we have
"no religion to apeak of," it may lie seriously
questioned whether we really have thf
genuine artiole.
'
WeO?e(ti)dih? Best.
We need to regard certain specific cJairae
of God upon our daily life, just because He j
is God. ,v First of nil He deserves our confidence.
We owe Him our unswerving trust,
but we often worry needlessly .nd practically
doubt His power and His goodness.
Nothing steadies life so much, makes it
calm in the midst of great pressure and fear,
as the thought that God is in His heaven,
that this is a good world, and that our life
moves on to happy issues. "I am persuaded,"
says the apostle, "that he is able
to guard tbat which I have committed
unto him." God deserves, just
because he is God, the best that is in
us. The Jews had the right idea
when they brought the best of their flocks
and their first fruits to the altar. "I will
not oiTer to my God that which costs me
nothing," said a worshipper in ancient
time. And until the element of sacrifice enters
into our offering to God we come short
of the Christian ideal. Look over your
uctiona at the close of a day and see if
there be one single exertion tbat represents
true subordination of your own desires and
interests to the welfare of some one else. If
you cannot And one. then God has been defrauded
of His rightful due. He who gav<
to the world in fiis Son not only His best
gift, but the oue which cost Him most, expects
from us a sacrificial response.
Will m..?. n? I lr
There wa9 a vessel that ba?l been tossed
on the seas for 41 great many weeks, and
been disabled, and the supply of watergave
out. and the crew were dying of thirst. After
many days they saw a sail against the sky.
They signalled it. When the vessel came
nearer, the people on tbe suffering ship said
to the captain ot the other vessel: "Send us
some water. We are dying for lack ol
water." And tbe captain on the vessel
that was hailed responded: "Dip your bucketa
where you are. You are in the mouth oi
the Amazon, and there are scores of miles of
fresh water all around about you, and hundreds
of feet deep." And then they dropped
their buckets over the side of tbe vessel,and
brought tip the clear, bright, fresh water,
and put out the fire of their thirst. Sol
hail* you'loday, after a long and perilous
voyage, thirsting as you are for pardon, and
thlratlDg, fot comfort, and thirsting for
eternal'lite; 'and I ask you what is the use
of your- going , in that death-struck state,
wtdftali around^you is the deep.clear.wide,
apajncling flood of God's sympathetic mercy.
Q&Vdlp'/.yonr buckets and drink and live
forever! "'Whosoever will, let him come
and tttke of the wator of life freely."?Talmage.
*
A Prayer of Calvin.
Grant, Almighty God. that thou ha9t
given us once for all thine only begotten
bon to rule us, and h^st by thy good pleasure
consecrated him a King over us, that
we may be perpetually s-afe and secure under
his hand against all the attempts of the
devil and of the whole world. 0 grant that
we may suffer ourselves to be ruled by his
authority and so xoouduct ourselves that he
himself may everoontinue to watch for our j
sniety. aud an tnou oust committed us to
him."that he maybe the guardian of our
salvation, so also suffer u.s neither to turn
aside nor fail, but preserve us ever in his
.service, un:il we at length be gathered into
that blessed and everlasting kingdom which
has been procured' for us by the olood of
tinne only Son'. Amen.
--V, . mjiWhat!,
stand with slackefied bands r.nd
fallen heart before {he littleness of your
service! Too little Is It, to be perfect in it ?
Would you, then, ir you were master, risk
a greater.treaaare in the bands of such a
man? OMjafefc is no man, no woman, so
small cannot make their life great
by high toufokror; no sick crippled child on
i:s bed Qil a niche of service
that . world.?The Faith that
U?ay^M^ iuV?8 Jieeded.tbn rod of correction.
VWKur beart is aching and your
uvwu <k nvu?u wu nwu, fcu oiV|l QUU
aalc.wJMrthfcrtbIs f3 not God speaking to yob
in tfc&fciay, because you would not hear Id
au/'bfett.^ev. J. Wilbur Chapman.
Soi*H?\6f odr ohoic?st blessinpa come to us
as peicondlwy results?not piunned for nor
asked-TOjuorr'antieiuAted, but juBt the pweet
overflbwihg "of God 8 love Irom the cup that
'althiholda ttf> to Him.
v-fy.. .
AU olcheniies are' ducreditcd, except that
which'-transmutes the iron of disappolntatent'lnto.tbegold
of character
: TH? PROGRESS OF MEXICO.
StatiJtlcs Showing Itt Growth In Weslll
nnd'Bnalnesi In Fifteen Tear*.
Statistics showing great galas in Mexl
can trade and revenues have been pub
lisbed. In fifteen years the gold value o>
imports has risen from $23,250,000 annual!}
to $51,000,000. o The exports, which ar?
reckoned on a silver basis, have risen from
546,725,000 to 8148,000,000. The total Fed
eral revenue has risen from $37,621,000 tc
360,276,000. The number of piecos of pos
tal matter has Increased from 10,400,000 tc
.111,452,000. The number of ships anc
steamers entering Federal ports has Increased
from 1680 to 6900. The number ol
railroad Dasseugers annually has riser
from 2,075,000 to 3.000.c00.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MAY 20.
Subject: The Parable of the Sower, Matt
xlll., 1-8; 18-23?Golden Text: Lnk<
Till.. 11?Memory Verges, 22, 23?Commentary
on the Day'a Lesson.
1. "Tli? same day." The day the ser
mon was preached that is recorded la the
orecedlng chapter. "The house." Peter'j
nouse, where ho was acoustomed to dwell
in Capernaum. "Sat by the seaside." -.Bj
:be sea of Galilee. Jesus sat In the boat
!7ltb the multitude standing on the shore.
2. "Great multltude^yrere gathered tosethdt."
The Pharisees had been laboring
by base calumnies to drive the people
way from Jesus, but they still nocked
itter Him a3 much as ever. Christ will be
ulorifled in spite ot all opposition; He will
ae followed.
3. "In parables." Tills was the first of
Christ's parabolic utterances. A parable
is an allegorical relation or representation
of something real in life or nature, from
which a moral is drawn for Instruction.
Christ's parables area comparison of splr!tnal
things with liutural Id order tbat the
spiritual things may be better understood.
'A sower went forth so sow.* Whoevet
joweth the word of God In the h9arts ol
he people Is represented by the sower lo
the parable. CI) Jesus Christ, who came
to sow the good,seed In this evil worlds (2)
The apostles -who scattered It over the
world. (8) All who go forth, in public or
in private to teach or to preach the troths
Df the word of God. (4) All whoso holy
example illustrates aud imprexsea thpat
truths. tWe must "go forth" and And the
fields and not wait for the fields to come
:o us. "
4. "When he sowed." A sower would
jow in the proper season. "Fell by the
wayside." There are four kinds of ground
mentioned. The first is the wayside, where
ao plow had broken it up. "The ordinary
roads or paths in the East lead often a.long
the edge of the fields, which are unenjlosed."
The seed that fell on this ground
was not oovered, and was at once devoured
oy the fowls.
5. "Upon stony places.". Luke says
tliinnn u rn/?L' '' tlia rnnlra at DulaafIna
unci Syria are mostly limestode, wltli rnuuy
flat stretches, covered wit Li nuinctiorso
3f soli. This Is the second kind of ground.
'Forthwith they sprung up." A thin surface
of soil above a shelf of rock is like a
aot-bod; the stoue keeps the heat aud
stimulates the growth.
6. "They withered away." Luke says
'It lacked moisture." The hot sqn soon
irled up the little moisture and scorched
:he grain.
7. "Among thorns." The third kind of
soil waa good, and there was hope of a harvest,
but the ground was fllled with pernlolous
seeds.
8. "Good ground." The fourth kind of
40ll was rich and well prepared. Notice
the gradation in reboot to these four kinds
of soil. In the first, tho seed perishes
without even springing up; In the seoond,
it springs up, but withers away; in the
third, it springs up aud bears fruit, but not
io perfection; in the fourth,'.it yields a
harvest of perfect gralu. "Some an hundredfold."
This represents the highest
degree of frultrulness. Other seeds only
bore sixty or thirtyfold. The'return of a
hundred for one is not.unheahl.of In" the
East, though always montionehl as something
extraordinary.
1^. "Hear ye therefore." This form of
discourse seemed so>strnnge to the disciples
that they asked Him why He spoke
In parables. He replied that it was not
given to the multitudes to understand the
mysteries of His spiritual kingdom, but it
was given unto them. He therefore at
once proceeded to unfold the parable.
19. "Heareth the word of the kingdom."
The truth of the Go#pel. All hoar; God
speaks to every person. The four kinds of
soli represent fpnr classes of individuals.
The wayside hearers are those who do uot
nnrinratAnrl hpcfuiso tliftvdo not navnrnnaf
attention. Sin bus so hardened tbe heart,
worldllnoss has so deadened the feelings,
sinful pleasures and desires have so dulled
the consolence that God's truth irtt%es no
impression, more thau a passing dream, 01
a peasant song to be heard and forgotten.
Evil habits, profanity, unclean thoughts
nave tramped it solid. "The nicked one."
Mark says "Satan," and Luke, "tbe devil.'
He is always around watching bis cliuncc
:o destroy any influences for good ttm'
! may exist. "Catcheth away." Careless
crlfllng hearers are an easy prey to Satan
his the birds pick up the seed by the way
side so the devil will rob us of tbe word
jnless we take oare to keep it.
20. "With joy recelveth It." The stony
ground hearers go farther thau the first
zlass; they not only hear, but believe, ant '
receive the truth, nnd the seed springs up
They take upon themselves a profession o
religion.
21. "Not root In himself." He did no:
jount the cost. Luke 14:25-83. "His 60U
Is not deeply convinced of its guilt and de
pravlty." His emotions are touched, bu
;he truth has not entered Into bis iune.
! life. "Duretb for a while." While every
| ching goe#smoothly and he is surroundec
by influences that hold him up. vWhei
tribulation or persecution arlsetb." Luke
jays, "In the time of temptation fal
away." They have no power to reaWt anj
! opposing influences. "So long as they an
In the popular current nnd there is uoth'
Ing to test their principles they appear ali
right; but aa soon as any real test comet
they tall away." "He Is offended." "Hi
Is stumbled." Ho is not able to endure fos
Christ.
22. "The care of this world." Tin
:horny-ground hearers go farther that
sither of those mentioned in the forme:
Instances. They had root in themselves
and were able to endure the tribulations
persecutions and temptations tbat came
apon them; but still they allowed otliei
:bing3 to cause them to become unfruitful
First, the care of this world. Anxieties
about worldly success; too great attention
:o the labors of daily life; the desire fox
worldly goods and honors; the being
ibBorbed in things that are right iu them
jelv'es to a degree that is wrong. "Deceitfulness
of riches." This is tho second
weed that chokes the word. Riches claiir
to be able to bestow blessings, and bonor
and happiness, but they caunot give one
Df these things. They harden the heart.
I 3teal away an the nro or tioa; mi rne soui
with pride, ungor and love of the world
and make men enemies to self-denial and
the cross of Christ. Luke mentions a thin)
weed, the "pleasures of this life," and
Mark u fourth, "the lusts of other things.'
These four weeds, allowed to grow, are
euongh to choke the word and cause the
heart to become unfruitful.
23. "Into the good ground." This was
ground thoroughly prepared. "Hoaretii
the word." Who are they who brought
forth fruit to perfection? 1. They heard
the word., They diligently attended to the
ministry of the word. 2. They understood
It. That is, they earnestly considered am!
searched out the important truths of the
Gospel. 3; They kept it. Luke 8:15. The>
did not allow it to slip away from them. 4
[ They brought forth fruit out of au hon'tfj
I and good heart. A huurt that seeks an J
i velconMK truth A /heart oieansed from sin
VALUABLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND
; '' i": .?
Alt Expedition DUoovers the Palace of
King Mlotl'ln Crete.
An archaeological expedition has dls
covered uear Herakliop, Crete, the ruinsol
the/palace of King MHtos, of most anclen!
date. The disoovtrlM 4end to prove the
~ . ... -u-.l... rtrnrvL- . I
OTHtan OlVIDZUIIOn OKlor uou iub
King Minus is chiefly famous as the
owner o( a- monster cailed the Minotaur,
half "bull, half man, wbleh lived in * mazt
and was fed once a year on seven youths !
and seven maidens, the tribute whicb I
Minos exaoted annually from Athens. I
One. year Tlieseus was ohosen togo-tc I
Crete. Mlnos's daughter, Ariadne, rfave I
him a piece of string, one end of whloh h I
tied at the entrance to the maze, holding I
the other in his nand as he entered. He f
slew cbe Mlnotaui* and bjT means ot the I
string found his way out of the maze. |
Old Hoine WeeK in Maine.
The week beginning August 6 has beet
chosen,for Old Home Week in Maine, whet
theDlrigo State will welcome with great
cordiality and many festivities all the ab
sent eons who may And it convenient to
return to their native towns.
Honey Spent on Scientific Explanation
It Is estimated that between $8,000,OCX
and $9,000,000 has been spent in this couu
try on museum^ and arohaeological and
ethnologfcul oollecttons and exploration
/ .
, THE GKEAT DESTROYER.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
nam'* Poisoned Bovrl?Inebrlacy Is n Di?eaie
Wlilcli Destroy* All That I* Good
in Life?The Train of Horrors It Brings
?Maudlin Remorse.
Ha! dash to the earth the poison bowl.
Aod seek It not agalu?
It hath a maduess for the soul?
A scorching for tliebraln.
Tbt- curses and the plagues of hell
Are flaablug on Its brim?
Woe to the victim of its spell,
TUare la no Hope ror blm.
?John G. Whittier
The Dranksrd'a Progresi.
The really good fellow is convivial when
he la sober, writes Professor David 8tarr
Jordan, lithe New York Independent. It
is a poor kind of good-fellowabip which
cannot be found till It Is saturated with
drink. Men who drink (n saloons do so for
the most part for the wrench on the ner-.
vous system. They drink to forget. They
drink to be bappy, they drink to be drunk.
Sometimes It Is a periodical attuok of madness,
the disease of inebriacy. Sometimes it
Is chronic thrist, which is likewise a disease.
It is a disease which destroys the
soundness of life; which destroys accuracy
of thought and action; which destroys wisdom
and virtue; which- destroys faith and
hope and love. It brings a train of subjective
horrors, which the terrified brain cannot
interpret, and which we call delirium
tremens, the tremendous madness. This
Is mania, indeed, but every act which injures
the faithfalness of the nervous system
Is u step long or short lu this direc-'
tion.
A young man with money and ambition
. starts out to enjov life. He Is "Hail fellow
well met,'' "afraid of no man," and "nooody's
enemy but bis own." He frequents
the clubs, he plays the races, and he Is
with, the gayest id all gay company. He
thinks well of himself; he has a good time,
and he knows no reason why others should
not think well of him. This goes on for a
year or two, when the pace begins to prove
:oo rapid. The "difference In the morning"
becomes disagreeable. It Interfere* with
business, It spoils pleasure. The only
thing to do is to go still faster. The race
down the, cocktail route, helps .0 forget.
Suddenly the man gets sight of himself.
He catches bis face In the^lass. He sees
himself as. others see him. Instead of
"the jolly good fellow, whloh nobody cau
denv," he gets the ellmpse of a useless,
helpless sot.. He sees a man who has spent
his substance, has disgraced his name, has
ruined his home, bus broken the heart of
his wife, has beggared hts children, has
lost the respect of others, and the respect
of himself. This is the shock! When it
has come he is henceforth good for noth?
ing, for there Is no virtue in maudlin remorse;
no hope In alcoholic repentance.
There is nothing that can save him but to
stop, and it takes something of manhood
to do this.
Such tears of remorse are not "tears
from the depths of some divine despair."
They arise rather from the fact that alcohol
irritates the lachrymal glands.
A prominent lawyer of Boston once told
1 me that the great Impulse to total absti1
oence came to him when a young man
from liwaring his fellow lawyers talking after
dinurfrs at the dab. The most vital
secrets oUthelr clients' business were made
publlo property when their tongues were
loosened by wine. The time will come
when the only opening for the ambitious
man of intemperate habits will be is polltics.
It Is rapidly becoming so now. Prl->
vate employers dare .not trust their bualress
to the man who drinks. Tne great
corporations dare "not. He is not wanted
on the railroads. The steamship lines
long since cast him off. The banks dare
not uso him. He uanoot keep aeoount*.
Only thrfpeople, long suljferlng a,od generous,
remain as his resource. Pdlrthls rea- ^
son municipal government is his specialty;
and while the patience of the people lasts
our cities will breed scandals as naturally,
as cur swamps breed malaria.'
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Stop Treating.
Stella Marls, the monthly parish pftpor
ot St. irrancis ae s:ues unurcn, uuanestown,
bad some excellent temperance doctrine
iti a recent issue. Here Is what it
srtys ubout that foolish custom of "treat'
Ing," which we bare so often condemned
in these oolumns:
"'Treating' is a curse. Many of onr
young men think that they will be considered
mean if they don't take their tura
at treating. This is a barroom He?an
idea originated by old topers and drunkards
who hope in this way to get drunk
sbeaply.
"Don't go with fellows who have the
habit ot treating; tuev are the teachers ot
drunkenness. The road from treating to
drunkenness is straight; there is no retreating.
"Self-respect is not learned in a barroom.
You doa't find the cream-of manhood
before the bars of liquor paloons;
you And there the dregs of humanity. A
self-respecting mau will avoid touch with
3uch degraded manhood. Especially
young Irish fellows have got Into this bad,
deplorable bablt ot showing their generosity
and friendship by 'treating* their
friends. Geuerosit.v is a fine trait in the
character; but do not show generosity
by making drunkards. We have too many
ot these already among our sous and
fathers and brothers.
"Stop treating."
A Rum?eller'* Coiifcislon.
There is a man in New York City, the
proprietor and owner of a ma^nidcent
bulldluK which he formerly used as a saloon,
but who has retired from the accursed
trade. He gave as the cause of his
giving up the nefarious "legitimate" busl
ess tbe following reasons: "I have sold
liquor for eleven years?long enough for
me to see cne beginning and the end of Its
evil effects. I have seen a man jauntily
(lush off Ills ilrst glass of liqnor In myplaoe,
aud afterwards llll the grave of a suicide
and a druukarJ. I have seen man after
mun, wealthy aud educated, come into my
9aloon to drink and carouse, wbo have not
uow tlie wherewith to buy a dinner and
who are miserable, drunken loafers and
beggars. I can recall no less than twenty
customer1),worth from $100,000 to $500,000,
who nre at present without money, home,
friends, credit or employment?in short,,
bums. After seelog alt this, can you won-'
der that I got oat of the polluting traffic?"
Beer In Japan.
Miss Parmelee, a missionary' to. the
Japanese, reported that la that country
Germans hud been imported to teach the
people bnw to make beer, aud that tfte
huge smokestacks of now breweries could
now be seen from tbe railroad trains rising
U*CL (IIIIIUSI. OHIJ IUWU Ml IUU lUigilUl,
and that the first beer saloon had been
started In Toklo as she left, and was BG .
popular that in Ave years she expected .
saloous would have extended all over the
empire. ,.
The .Crasiile In Brief.
Thestappin' stones In front of a satooa
ain't the ones to success.
The Young People's Temperance Federation
Lias started <? movement looking toward,
establishing coffee bouses as substituted (or
saloons in all parts of Chicago. . '
If organised religion could extirpate alcohol,
nod those things which go aloug
with it, and sliure it, there would be little
left to be done this side of the millennium.
Medical professors in the universities and
practicing physicians in Germany aw pushing
the study, of alcohol problems'with a
determined hp.nd. They are JInaUy thoroughly
aroused.ou the subject.
Olney. Ill., has had licensed saloons fot
fifty years, but voted them out at the.
spring election.
Under Government control ot the sale ol
intoxicating liquors la Russia there has
beon a noticeable diminution in drunkenness.
The iron workers who build the sky
scrapers never go on duty when the least
under the inlluence of liquor. If anyonf.
of them sees or tears of a derrick or scaffold
man taking a drink, it his duty to report
at once.
Oborlln, Ohio, has never tolerated a saloon.
Frequent attempts have been made
to start oue, atnl in 1S31 an alliance
which secuto.l iiloilge-i to the amount ot !
$2UO.OOO was formed with the intention ot
forcing liquor into the oltv. but It failed, j
. .- jJ. / .' _ _ __ . ?-> j t.
M CONFESSES 1UBDEB.
Young Garrabrandt Killed Henry Maas
For Three Dollars.
LURED VICTIM TO THE CELLAR.
Qnrrabrandt Poanded Toting Maas to
Death With a Piece of Lead ? Discharged
Froui Factory He Wanted Victim's
Wages to Take Houi??<When Arreat?d
He Made a Full Confession.
Jersey City, N. J. (Special).?Angered
becuuae he had lost his place la a lamp
shade factory, and desiring to get the $3
wages for the week drawn by the boy who
bad made him lose his place, young John
Garrabrandt killed Henry Haas In the coal
bin o( the tenement house In whloh the
Garrabrandts lived in this city. Garrabrandt
was traced to Nyack, N. Y., by Jersey
City deteotlves, and was arrested there
at the home of a relative, Mrs. Primrose*
He was so frightened when the police officers
routed him out of-, bed that he at
once confessed having kHIed'- young Maas.
As he would have related a simple story
of an everyday occurrence, Garrabrandt
told hoiw be had murdered his companion
in cold blood. Not an angry word was
spoken before the crime.
"My name is John Garrabrandt," said
the boy, when the police were ready to take
bis confession. "I will be nineteen years
old on June 13. I reside with my father
and mother. I left home at six o'olock
Saturday morning and went to New York
City. I knew Henry Mhos. I used to work
with him at Sharp & Allen's, Nos. 78 and
80 Murray street, New York City.
i, whji uiscnargeu mree or tour weexs
ago because the boss couldn't trust me
around. He said Henry Maas told lilm I
threatened to shodt a girl there..
"I was going up Murray street about
half-past seven Saturday morning, when I
met Mass at Sharp Sc Allen's door. I asked
him If be could get'off at twelve o'clock.
He Mid 'Yes.' 1 met him at five minutes
past twelve a'olock. He waftv going to Canal
street to deliver some 'boxes. I went
with him. He delivered the boxes and we
went baok to the store.
"He went upstairs, and when be oame
down told me he had his pay?93. We
took the Barelay street ferry and walked
from Hoboken to Jersey City, and went to
my house.
"I went down to the oellarand went into
the woodahed and got a piece of lead with
a laafHor at ran fn It ' hlith T naa/1 ? *
siungshot, and pat It la my pocket. I
made it. I
"I put it la my pocket to bit Henry Maas
with it. I waited down there a few minutes,
when Henry came down. I told him
I bad something lor him behind a barrel la
the corner.
"He went to reaoh (or It and I hit him
with the piece of lead on his bead, near the
ear. He toll down, and I hit him again on
the head when towns tttwo. He struggled
to get op, ' Afterths flrtit biowjie hollered^
and begged me sot to kill him. -Then I
hltthlm again on the liaiul. IBfterTWlt he
said1 nothing.
"I then tied his bands with a piece ot
tar oord that was lying on the ffoor. I
took his money?IS?which, .was In an
envelope, from the Inside pocket of his
coat.
"When Henry hollered Mrs. Coyle came
down into the celler and whistled through
the tube to my mother's apartments.- She
said:
" 'Tour cellar door is open and the key.
Is. in the lock.' y
"I then went upstairs, closing the cellar
aoor, uut uiu uui iuuk it. x went iu my
mother's rooms and .told her I bad
killed Henry Haas In the woodshed.
Mother and I went down to lira. Coyle's
rooms on the first floor, and my mother
told Mrs. Coyle I had killed Haas down In
the woodshed.
"Mrs. Coyle asked me what I was gblng
to do, and I'sald I didn't know. Mymother
told me to go away. .Un. Coyle
said she muotti't tell her hiwbfttfd* ?r any
one. ' 1 '
"Mrs. Coyle said I had better wait wntll
eight and place the body alongside the
railroad track arid people wonld think he
Was killed by a train. I went down to the
oellar and looked the door. *
f'l wanted to Rive the key to my mother,
but she wouldn't take It. I went ont and
saw a policeman coming oat of a cellar at
Seventeenth and Orovo streets. I got
soared and went and took a train at Nyaolc,
Nr Y., and went to the honse of Mrs. Primrose.
1 told Mamie Primrose that I bad
killed the boy, and she told me to say nothing
to her mother aboat it."
"Why did you ask Henry into the cellar?"
Inquired Chief Murphy.
"I hadn't been working all the week. My
father thought I was working aud I wanted
to get some money to bting hfeme*"
"Did yon assault tlm for the putjpose of
getting thia money?"
"I wanted to get the money without
lrtlilnr* K'mt Knf ha'!r?Hia> nn
theWd."
After the boy bad been looked ap Chief
Murphy caused the arrest of Mrs. Garrabrandt
and Mrs.' Coyle as accessories after
the fact. Thejr were released on ball.
Mr. Sharp, of the flfm for wbloh the boys
worked, says that he discharged Oarrabrandt
partly because of the revolver and
partly because he was a ".cigarette fiend."
When be foand the boy carried a revolver
he took the weapon fromvM<h, and has if
still.
TRAIN ROBBERY NEAR TACOMA.
Passengers Forced to J amp From Mo v.
log Cars and Two Are Sliot.
Tacoma, Wash. (Speqlal).?Six highway,
man boarded a Northern Pacific loca]
train near North Yakima a few days ago.
They compelled the passengers to line up
with arras uplifted, after wbleh the thieves
robbed them, obtaining watches, rings and
nearly $000 In money.
The victims were then made to jump,
the robbers shooting at them and beating
tbem with their weapons. Fred Booker
and John Clernan were shot, but will recover.
NO MINISTER AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
VIr. Straus Not to Uetnrn Until Indemnity
Claims are Settled.'
WA8Hi!fOTOK, D. C. (Speolal).?It Is authoritatively
announced that until the
pending Issue relative to tbe payment of
the American Indemnity claims Is settled
to tho satisfaction of the State Depart.ment,
no United States Minister will at.tend
ac the Turkish capital, and] Mr.
.Straus's leave of absence will remain as It
is now, Indefinite In length.
The Bislng In Bnlgsrii,
The rising of peasants in the vicinity of
Rustchuk. Bulgaria, assumed alarming
proportions. The peasants have succeeded
In disarming some troops, nnd have used
rifles against .others. Two officers and fifteen
men have been killed orwounded, and
about the same number of peasants.
Dole Named as Governor of Hawaii.
Sanford B. Dole, the acting President of
Hawaii, has been nominated by President
McElnley to be the ? rst.Ooveraor of the
lalnnds under the new law.
The Labor World.
By the pieoe-work system the Jersey City
lathers make #3.50 for nine hourt?*work a
day. .1 '
Over bait tbejob printing offices at Detrait,
Mich., were tied up by ti pressmen's
strike.
The request of streot railway employees at
Detroit, Mich., for bi#ber wages has been
refused. **'
The WoodsUle Cotton Mills, to work 10,090
spiudlos and 350 operatives, will be located
at Gainesville,,C}n.
The cutters emplp.Vtifd in the collar and
otiIT factories UV'luroy,.N. Y., have applied
to the American federation of Labor for a
charter.
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SEQUOYAH TO HAVE A MONUMENT*
llouor ?o the Blemorj of the Man Who
Invented the Cherokee Alphabets
The people of the Cherokee Indian
natiou are making preparations to
erect a mouument to the memory of
Sequoyab, distinguished as tlie man
F - '" .
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H ?X?-r?V *?\ j \ 0>
CHARACTERS IN CHBB0KEE ALPHABET.
who redaced to a written language
the spoken language of the Cherpkeos
and invented an alphabet which, in
appearance, is as unique as the Greek
or Persian. Already funds for the
monument have been subscribed, and
the people are taking it up with muoh
interest. It is proposed to erect the
monument ou the public square at
Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee
nation.
There is no authentic written history
of Sequoyah's life. Thomas L.
McKinney has contributed some personal
reminiscences, written while
Sequoyah was alive. Little is knowa
of Sfequoyah outside of the work that
made him famous. He led a secluded
life. He oame to the West in 1834 or
1835. The house in 'which he lived is
still standing, seven miles north of
Sequoyah oourt house.
It is said that Sequoyah, in the
latter years of his life, made several
journeys to the far West. In 1843 h? ,
visited the Pueblos in New Mexico,
where he tried to correlate their language
with that of the Cheyennes,
and lived for several months about
fifteen miles southwest of Santa Fe.
Upon his return from his last journey
in the West he was taken ill and died
near the great bend of the Arkansas
River, a few miles from the present
site of Great Bend, Ean. His deatk
occurre^ in 1857 or 1858.
There is regulrfrly printed in the
Cherokee language a weekly newspaper,
the Cherokee Advocate, at
Tahlequab. The Cherokee typograph.
is a model of neatness and the printed
pages have an attractive appearance,
although their contents are hidden
beneath apparently indeoipherable
hieroglyphics. There are more than
? i v .i _ it _ _1
eignty separate cuaraciera in me alphabet.
Many Roman letters are need
for convenience, but their sonnd is
unlike that given in the English language.
D for instance is V, R is E,
T iff t and W is La.
A WoirtttTi'n Predicament.
The Chicago Post describes the sad
case of a wotnau who "was waiting at
the "limits oar barn" for an Evanston
avenue car. There were plenty of
Evanston cars, but her transfer check
was good only on the avenue line, and
she was determined not to pay another
fare.
At last, as night approached, she
went to a telephone and called up her
husband. She told him the situation
?that no ^ranston avenue cars
seemed to b^ running, that it was getting
dark, a id she was afraid. What
should she do?
"Why, tako-an - Evanston car," he ~\
replied.
Prtf T oliall liavA t.n nav another
fare," she objected. .
"Well, what bi it? You don't want
to stay there, do yoti?"
"But I can't," she said, and hesitated.
"Why not?" he asked. /
"Because?because, I haven't any
money. I just used my last dime in
the telephone to call you up."
And then she wondered at the laugh
which reached her ears over the wire
( Where the Stale Eggs Go.
By saying stale eggs is meant those
that are not striotly fresh or that have
been preserved for a very long time.
Many of the eggs that belong to this
class are used by bakers, not only for
the yolks, but for the coloring matter.
It is estimated that 40,000,000 ar?j
used by calico printers, and another
120,000,000 go to numerous photographic
supply establishments, bookbinders,
glove - manufacturers and
leather finishers. This estimate may
be exaggerated somewhat, but it gives
an idea of the large extent to which
such eggs are used.
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'\ I?*tent?d an Alrslilp.
. In ft new. airship, desigued by a
Haitien, a series of fans are monnted
in a car partially supported by a gas
balloon, the fans being nsed to drive
air through adjustable pipes, which
are adapted to turn toward any point
to move the-ship in the opposite direction.
Hm Bapg?t?f .Twenty Mile*.
This big sixteen*inch gun has just
been completed ftt the armory at
Watervliet, N. Yv , It is the biggest
gun of its kind in America. The intention
is to moatrt this majestic piece
of ordnance at Sandy Hook, to form a
part of the poweriiu aerenaes mere.
Without the carriage it weighs 126
tons. The projectile it uses weighs
THE GREATEST OCX IN AMERICA.
2370 pounds, and it requires 1060
pounds of powder to start it ou its
flight Every time the guu i? fired it
costs 1865. The guu has a range of
more than twenty miles, and to attain
the maximum range the projectile
mnnt risn to a heiffllt of Deafly five
miles.