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* Not by any means the least lmpres(rtve
evidence of the bnge size to which
modern transatlantic steamship
I has grown Is to be found in tne graphic
representation, reproduced from
the Scientific American, of the bewildering
amount of provisions that have
to be taken aboard for a single trip
lacross the ocean. Our pictorial representation
Is, of course, purely imaginary,
particularly as regards the live
stock; the beef, mutton, game, etc.,
received on the ship in the dressed
^condition, no live stock whatever
being carried. The drawing was
made up from a list of the actual
amount of provisions carried on a recent
eastward trip on the Deutschland,
and the number of live stock which
contributed to meet the supplies for
one voyage was estimated from the
actual number of cattle, sheep, etc.,
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the total weights In dressed meats
given in the table. With the excep,
,t!on of the live stock, the provisions
are shown in the actual shape in
.which they would be taken on board.
The dimensions of the vessel are:
length, 686 feet; beam, sixty-seven
feet, and displacement, 23,000 tons;
her highest average speed for the
whole trip is 23.36 knots, and she has
made the journey from Sandy Hook
to the Lizard In five days, seven
hours and thirty-eight minutes.
The total number of souls on board
PROVISIONING A TRANSATLAS
of the vessel -when she has a full pasBenger
list is 1617, made up of 407
first cabin, 300 second cabin, 300 steerage
and a crew of 550, the crew comprising
officers, seamen, stewards and
the engine-room force. Sixteen huniflred
and seventeen souls would constitute
the total inhabitants of many
an American community that dignifies
itself with the name of "city,"
and it Is a fact that the long procession
which is shown in our illustration
wending its way through the assembled
provisions on the quay, by no
means represesents the length of the
line were the passengers and crew
strung out along any great thoroughfare.
If this number of people were
to march four deep with a distance
of say about a yard between ranks,
they would extend for about a quarter
of a mile, or say the length of four
icity blocks.
To feed these people for a period of
Blx days requires, in meat alone, the
equivalent of fourteen steers, ten
calves, twenty-nine sheep, twenty-six
lambs and nine hogs. If the flocks of
chickens, geese and g.?ne required to
furnish the three tons of poultry and
game that are consumed were to join
In the procession aboard the vessel,
they would constitute a contingent by
[themselves not less than 1500 strong.
,The ship's larder is also stocked with
1700 pounds of fish, 400 pounds nt
n-nniriiPH B-n.*ppthr<>?rts. ptrv. 1700 dozen
eggs and fou-teen barrels of oysters
and clams. The 1700 dozen of eggs
packed in cases would cover a considerable
area, as shown in our engraving.
while the 1000 bricks of ice cream
iwould require 100 tubs to hold them.
Of table butter there would be taken
on board 1300 pounds, while the 2200
quarts of milk would require sixtyfour
cans to hold it, and the 300 quarts
of cream eight cans.
In the way of vegetables there are
ishipped on board 175 barrels of potatoes,
seventy-five barrels of assorted
.vegetables, twenty crates of tomatoes
and table celery, 200 dozen lettuce;
."while the requirements of dessert
Blone Tvould call for four and a quarter
tons of assorted fresh fruits. For
snaking up into the daily supply of
bread, biscuits, cakes, pies and the
toothsome odds-and-ends of the pastry
Oook's are, there are taken on board at
ieacb trip ninety barrels of flour, each
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weighing 195 ponnds, this Item alone
adding a weight of eight and a half
tons to the cooks' stores. To this also
we must add 350 pounds of yeast and
600 pounds of oatmeal and hominy.
Under the head of liquids the most
Important Item is the 400 tons of
rlflnlHncr irnfop whnno htllk IS ade
quately represented by the circular
tank shown in our engraving. This Is
supplemented by 12.000 quarts of
wines and liquors, 15,000 quarts of
beer In kegs, besides 3000 bottles of
beer. Last, but not by any means
least, Is the supply of forty tons of Ice.
Of course It is not to be supposed
that all of this supply will be consumed
on the voyage. There must be
a margin, and a fairly liberal margin,
of every kind of provision. Moreover,
the extent to which the larder and cellar
are emptied will vary according to
the conditions of the voyage. In
tempestuous weather, where the trip
is a succession of heavy gales, and the
diuing room tables are liable to be
practically deserted for two or three
days at a stretch, the consumption
will be modified considerably.
The Engineer Then and Now.
Most of us remember tbe days when
au engineer was groom, driver, rubber,
machinist, repairer, oiler, polisher and
everything else about an engine. Today?
Bless you! In fashionable
clothes he ascends to his cushioned
seat. His hands are gloved. Patent
leathers are on his feet. The gong
rings. He opens the throttle, and off!!
At the end of his run he descends to
mother earth, unsoiled, unspotted, unscathed,
ready for any social function
of his set. The stablemen hasten
to take his horse for a rub down, and
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when he mount9 again on the following
day the iron stead is clean, bright,
lresh, aching for another run. With
oil as fuel of what use would a fireman
be? At the engineer's elbow will
be a button, by pressing which the
petroleum will be fed to the furnace.
There will be no great tender for
coal, but a small tank for kerosene
inside of the one for water Tons will
be taken off the weight of the locomotive,
which will mean a saving of rails,
bridges, ties, etc.?Victor Smith, ha
New York Press.
A Canoe That Folds Up.
Among recent inventions, the portable
canoe is receiving notice in sporting
circles in Europe. The middle secKEpj
tion, which folds so as to form a
trunk--liu-o hnv with convenient lian
dies, receives the two hermetically
closed ends, the oars, etc. The oar
can be unscrewed into two parts and
singly stowed away in tbe "trunk."
The length of the boat is about thirteen
feet, and it can easily be carried
overland by two men.?New
Herald.
Authors and Publisher*.
The immense competition among
younger publishers and the hawking
round of books to the highest bidder
by the literary agent has made publishing
a less renumerative pursuit
than formerly; and I have in my
mind's eye a number of publishers
whose houses are less magnificent than
those o? at least a dozen autnora wuum i
I could name.?Sphere. J
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There is a little settlement Just outside
the city of San Francisco where
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the large majority of tlie structures
were once street cars. It is located at
the ocean beach on the ehore end of
Golden Gate Park. There are perhaps
fifty of these car dwellings in the little
settlement, many of them fitted out
with considerable elegance and numerous
conveniences. They are arranged
upon. a general plan affording their
occupants the widest view, all fronting
the sea. Streets intersect, at right.
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angles, and plank walks are laid so as
to give pedestrians access to their
homes without wading through the
deep sands. Few of these cars have
been adorned with a coat of paint The
exteriors are generally intact, and the
conspicuous signs denoting the route
toIi^k fim mn on re npranibulat
ed are not obliterated.
Some methods are used In the
adornment of these '.'urious resoits.
Many of them are covered with vines,
most have galleries extending around
the front and sides. The roofs of
some are arranged as lookouts, and
awnings drop over the windows. There
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is considerable space for storage he- I
low the cars, while other cars acquire 1
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additional room by little" extension!.
In some instances one car Is raised
above another, and sometimes the
cars are laid upon other buildings, tbns
giving an extra story. The platforms
of the cars are often transformed Into
balconies and bay windows with the
aid of the carpenter and glass fitter,
and afford points of observation protected
from the cold winds, besides
giving extended view of sea and land.
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these dwellings is highly Ingenious, the
necessities of tbe case requiring the
utmost economy of space, the average
sleeping car* suggesting a model.
Half a dozeu persons have bi-en at
ulght accommodated with loggings in
one of them. Ventilation Is always
assured.
While there ate many families permanent
residents of "Cartown," the
larger number occupy the "vehicles"
as others do the houseboat, giving opportunities
for original methods of entertainment
and diversion for themselves
and friends. Confined and restricted
as these dwoilings art, there
is compensation in the fresh ocean
breezes which here blow rigut from
the sea, besides the enjoyment of a
health-giving environment. History
and romance have been ransacked in
a "cabtown" home.
providing names for these car "villas"
suitable to the facetious idiosyncracies
of tlje various owners. In "Car
town," the "Villa Mlramar" and
"Chateau Navarre" adjoin the modest
restaurant and more conspicuous bar.
There are many kinds of trades pursued
in tin's odd settlement, restaurante
and bars beiug most numerous.?
Scientific American.
Did Yon Ever Octupus?
A young couple from Northleach, on
a visit to Barnum and Bailey's had
suocunibed to fatigue, and were stated
on a bale of hay in an obscure corner
of the menagerie-tent
"What do you reckon Is the most
strange thing we seed?" said the girl.
"It's hard to say; out i Know wpac
['d like ter be now."
"The flying-trapeze man?" she ventured.
"No, not him."
"Mebbe the ring-master?"
"Nor him. You recollect the octopus
in the glass tank? Well, I'd like to
be he."
"Why?"
" 'Cos he'd nigh unto a hundred
arms, an' I'd like ter use 'em all ahuggin'
you a hundred times at
oncost"
"Jerry, that's a very wrong wish."
" 'Taint, neither."
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rime Ashing for the impossible, 'stead
o' makin' the best of sech opportunities
ez yer happen ter have."
And Jerry rose to the occasion, and
put all his energy into the gentle art
of octopusing.?London Answers.
Primitive Writing Material*.
Among the North American Indians
picture-writing on stones, horn and
buffalo robes was common, but bark
was also largely used. Then much
writing has been done on bone. Prehistoric
man used it, of course, for his
imperfect picture-writing, and the
Koran was first written on shoulderbones
of mutton, and kept in a chest
of one of Mohammed's wives.
Something akin to bone is ivory, and
writing on ivory, as early a practice
as writing on bone, has persisted to
the present day among Oriental na
nons, ior uie reiisuu ium i?uij ia a.
beautiful and expensive material, fitted
for, the reception of Important
ceremonial writings. The edicts of the
Roman Senate were written on plates,
of Ivory. These plates wer? called
"libri elephant," by way of acknowledgement
to the elephant who had provided
the article.
The Eskimos, too, in their cooler
climate, have used walrus Ivory for
records of hunting and fishing expeditions.
Their hone implements also are
covered with such picture-writing.
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Bostpn pays $106,000 a year for lta
school janitors.
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DB. TALMAGES SEBMON
cinanA.v?<? nisrmiQSF BY THE NOTED
/ For Better State Highways.
ONE of the marked exhibits'of
machinery at the Pan-American
Exhibition this summer
constitutes a collection *of
th& latest and most improved roadbuilding
and road-repairing machines.
It is intended to make this exhibit of
permanent benefit to the country by
showing in detail to visitors what can
be accomplished in Improving our public
highways, and incidentally the nannifnrnnna
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ment that will be held in Buffalo late
In the summer will tend to emphasize
this point In many rural parts of the
country little is known of modern
road-machines, and it is to convince
highway superintendents and residents
of the rural districts of the economy
in road building and repairing
when the latest labor-saving machines
are used. As delegates from all the
different States will meet in Buffalo
at the good roads conference, it is expected
that a new impetus to roadbuilding
will thus be given to all parts
of the country.
In connection with this it is inter?-L!
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plans for road improvement that have
been made by the State of New York
for the coming year. It is estimated
from official figures that contracts will
be given out this year for road Improvements
in the State involving an
expenditure of nearly a million dollars.
The State has appropriated
$420,000 for road Improvements for the
current year, and about a similar sum
will be expended by the different counties.
This State appropriation Is in
strong contrast with past sums voted
for road improvements, and is more
than twice the amount ever turned
over by the Legislature for such purposes.
In 1890 the sum appropriated
for State highways amounted in
round numbers to 3150,000, and in the
two preceding years $50,000 each, making
the current appropriations much
larger than for the three previous
years.
The expenditure for the current year
is no indication of extravagance, but
rather a conservative and sensible outlay
of funds at a time when road improvement^
have reached wh4t might
be called an economical period of evolution.
Because of the invention of
new road machinery it is possible to
construct public country highways today
at a cost of one-third and one-half
the expense required five years ago. It
is to demonstrate the success of this
that the road machinery exhibit has
been made at the Pan-American.
When good highways are once made
to-day according to careful engineering
plans, the modern road-repairing
impleihents enable the counties and
towns to keep them in excellent condition
at a very little annual outlay of
funds.
As an illustration of the reduction
In the cost of road-building through
better engineering methods and the
employment of new road Implements,
it is estimated by the State Engineer's
office that the new road extending
from Newbtirg to Woodbury in Orange
County, New York, can be constructed
at a cost of about $2000 per mile the
.whole distance of eleven miles. This
road is a broad macadam running
through some very hilly and rough
parts of the county. Similar roads a
few years ago cost upwards of $5000
and $7000 per mile. This reduction in
the cost is not entirely due to improved
road machines, although they form the
most important factor in the question.
The engineers have developed better
and more economical plans for building
and Improving roads, and the
price of trap-rock for finishing off the
surface has been reduced in cost
There has been a more general demand
for crushed stone since the modern
road-improvement crusade was
started, and this' has caused the construction
of many new quarry factories,
and the invention of new machines
for crushing and supplying the
stone. It is estimated that the difference
in the cost of trap-rock to-day
saves the engineers nearly a thousand
.D O milfl in rnnri ronstTUCtion.
The New York State Engineer is
| busily employed in considering further
reduction in the cost of trap-rock
for State road building purposes, and
he has suggested the advisability of
the State purchasing a trap-rock quarry,
and putting the convicts at Sing
Sing to work in preparing the
stone for public highways.?Ha rnor's
Weekly.
Go Hand In Hand.
All experience with horseless carriages
and vehicles of every sort shows
more and more clearly that the success
of the automobile is inseparably
conuccted with the improvement of
country roads and city streets. Where
the highways are always in good condition
nothing prevents the "auto"
| from doing what Is desired. It goes
anywhere and does anytning wuum
reason. But where or when the roada
are soft the horseless carriage is a
practical failure.' This broad fact
means much for the improvement of
the highways of the United States. It
will give newTorce to the agitation for
good roads which has been gaining
ground of late.?Cleveland Leader.
Improve Country and Town.
One of the essentials in this life Is a
good road from the farm to the market.
The product of the farm can be
marketed at a lower cost. This means
that you can' buy more for your money.
It saves your live stock. The
farmer need not send up the country
for so many horses and mules. One
horse can draw more on a good road
than two can on a bad road. Good
roads and street sprinkling improve
the county and town.
' Better Roads Are Needed.
American roads must Improve greatly
before this country can hope to
match Frcnch feats with horseless vehicles.
Some day we shall have highways
such as are enjoyed In France.
Then there will be gfeat race records
for automobiles on this side of the
Atlantic.?Cleveland Leader.
DIVINE.
Subject: Sin In High Placet?The Same
Law of ltlght and Wrong Should Apply
to Both Rleh and Poor?J?*a*clnation
of Fraad.
t Copyright 190L1
\VA8HIWGT01T, D. C.?In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows that there is a tendency
to excuse brilliant faults, because
they are brilliant, when the same law of
right and wrong ought to be applied to
high places and low; text, Daniel iv, 33.
as mo hour was the thing fulfilled
upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he wis driven
from, men and did eat grass as oxen."
Here is the mightiest of the Babylonish
kings. Look at him. He did more for the
grandeur of the capital than did all his
Sredecessora or successors. Hanging garens,
reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces, all of
his own planning. The bricks that are
brought up to-day from the ruins of Babylon
nave nis name on them. "Nebuchadnezzar,
son of Nabopolassor, king of Babylon."
He was a great conqueror. He
stretched forth his spear toward a nation,
and it surrendered. But he plundered the
temple of the true God. He lifted an
idol, Bel Merodach, and compelled the
people to bow down before it, and if they
refused they must go through the redhot
furnace or oe crunched by lion or lioness.
So God pulled him down.
He was smitten with what physicians
call lycanthropy, and fancied that he was
a wild beast, and he went out and pastured
amid the cattle. God did not excuse
him because he had committed the
sin in high places or because the transgression
was wide rosounding. He measured
Nebuchadnezzar in high place just as
he would measure the humblest captive.
But in our time, you know as well as I,
that' there is a disposition to put a halo
around iniquity if it is committed in conspicuous
places, and if it is wide resounding
and of large proportions. Ever and
anon there has oeen an epidemic of crime
in high places, and there is not a State or
a city and hardly a village which has not
been called to look upon astounding forgery,
or an absconding bank cashier or
president, or the wasting of trust fund or
swindling mortgages. I propose, in Carrying
out the suggestion of myv text, as far
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around iniquity and show ycu that sin is
sin and wrong is wrong, whether in high
?lace or low place, and that it will Be
ealt with by that God who dealt with
impalaced Nebuchadnezzar.
All who preach feel that two kinds of
sermons are necessary?the one on the
faith of the gospel, the other on the morality
of the gospel?and the one is just as
important as the other, for you know that
in this land to-day there are hundreds of
men hiding behind the communion tables
and in churches of Jesus Christ who have
no business to be there as professors of religion.
They expect to be all right with
God, although they are all wrong with
man. And, while I want you to understand
that by the deeds of the law no
flesh living can be justified and a mere
honest life cannot enter us into heaven,
I want you as plainly to understand that
unless tne life is right the heart is not
right?grace in the heart and grace in the
life. So we must preach sometimes the
faith of the gospel and sometimes the morality
of the gospel.
It seems to me there has not been a
time in the last fifty years when this latter
truth needed more thoroughly to be presented
in the American churches. It need*
to be presented to-day.
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around fraud in this country. You.know
for years men have been made heroes of
and pictorialized and in various ways presented
to the public, as though sometimes
they were worthy of admiration, if they
have scattered the funds of banks or
swallowed great estates that did not belong
to them. Our young men have been
dazed with this quick accumulation. They
have said: "That's the way to do it.
What's the use of plodding on with small
wages or insignificant salary -when we
may go into business life and with 6ome
stratagem achieve such a fortune as that
man has achieved?" A different measure
has been applied to the crime of Wall
street from that which has been applied
to the spoils which the man carries up
Eat alley..
So a peddler came down from New England
many years ago, took hold of the
money market of New York, flaunted his.
abominations in the sight of all the peo-'
Ele and defied public morals every day of
is life. Young men looked up and said:
"He was a peddler in one decade, and in
the next decade he is one of the nionarchs
of the stock market. That's the
way to do it." To this day the evil influence
of that profligate financier has been
felt, and within the past few weeks he
has had conspicuous imitators.
There has been an irresistible impression
going abroad among young men that
the poorest way to get money is to earn
it. The young" man of flaunting cravat
aavs to the young man of humble apparel:
"What! You only get $1800 a year?
WKir J-Vinf. wnnlHn'fc keen me in T)in
money. I spend 85000 a year." "Where
do you get it?" asks the plain young man.
"Oh, stocks, enterprises, all that sort of
thing, you know." The plain young man
has hardly enough money to pay his
board, has to wear clothes after they are
out of fashion and deny himself all luxuries.
After awhile he gets tired of his
plodding, and he goes to the man who
has achieved suddenly large estate, and he
says, "Just show me now it is done." And
he is shown. He soon learns how, although
he is almost all the time idle now
and has resigned his position in the bank
or the factory or the store he has more
money than he ever had, trades off his old
silver watch for a gold one with a flashing
chain, sets his hat a little further over on
the side of his head than he ever did,
smokes better cigars and more of them.
He has his hand in. Now, if he can 'escape
the penitentiary for three or four
years he will get into political circles, and
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something to do with harbors and pavements
and docks. Now he has got so far
along he is safe for perdition.
It is quite a long road sometimes for a
man to travel before he gets into the romance
of crime. Those are caught who
are only in the prosaic stage of it. If the
sheriffs and constables would only leave
them alone a little while they would steal
as well as anybody. They might not be
able to steal a whole railroad, but they
could master a load of pig iron.
Now, I always thank God when I find an
estate like that go to smash. It is plague
struck, and it blasts the nation. I thank
God when it goes into such a wreck it can
never be gathered up again. I want it to
become so loathsome and such an insufferable
stench that honest young men will
take warning.
If God should put into money or its
representative the capacity to go to its
lawful owner, there wpuld not be a bank
or a safety deposit in tfoe United States
whose walla would not be bhown out, and
mortgages would rip and parchments would
rend, and gold would shoot, and beggars
would get on horseback, and stock gamblers
would go to the almshouse.
How many dishonesties in the making
out of invoices, and in the plastering of
false labels, and in the filching of customers
of rival houses, and in the making and
breaking of contracts. Young men. are indoctrinated
in the idea that the sooner
they get money the better, and the getting
of it on a larger scale only proves to
them their greater ingenuity. There is a
glitter thrown around all these things.
Young men have got to find out that God
looks upon sin in a very different light.
And remember that the man who gets
his gain by iniquity will soon lose it all.
One moment after his departure from life
he will not own an opera house, he will
not own a certificate of stock, he will not
own one dollaif of Government securities,
and the poorest, boy that stands on the
street with a penny in his pocket looking
at the funeral procession of the dead cheat
as it goes by will have more money inan
that man who one week previous boasted
that he controlled the money market*?
Oh, there is such a fearful fascinaMon in
this day about the use of trust funds! It
has got to be popular to take the funds
of otnera and speculate with them. There
are many who are practicing that iniquity.
Almost every man in the course of his life
haa the property of others put iu his
care. Ho has administered perhaps for a
dead friend; he is an attorney, and
i mojrcy passes from debtor to creditor
tVll-ollo-K hia tliinHd or he il in a
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ei&I establishment sad gets a salary for
the discharge of his responsibilities, or h*
is treasurer of a philanthropic institution,
and money for the suffering goes through
his hands; or he has some office in city or
atate or nation, and taxes and subsidies
and supplies and salaries are in his hands.
Now, that is a trust. That is as sacred ft
trust as God can give a man. It is the
concentration of confidence. Now, when
that man takes that money?the money of
others?and goes to speculating with it for
his own purposes, he is guilty of theft. '
falsehood ana perjury, and in the mod
intense sense of the word is a miscreant.
There are families to-day?widows and
orphans?with nothing between them and
starvation, but a sewing machine, or kept
out of the vortex by the thread of a needle
red with the' Mooa. pf their 'hearts, who
were by fatfce*'o^lHi&band left a competence.
You read the story in the newspaper of
hruip who have lost by a bank defalcation.
and it is only one line, the name ot a
woman yon never heard of, and juat one or
two figures telling the amount of stock
she had, the number of shares. It is a
very short line in a newspaper, but it is a
line of agony as long as time. It is a story
long as eternity. '
So there has been a great deal cf fascination
thrown around libertinism. Society
is very severe upon the impurity that
lurks around the alley* and low haunt*
of the town. The law pursues it, smites
it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it.
You know as well as I-that society becomes
lenient in proportion as impurity
becomes affluent or is in elevated circles,
and finally society & >silent or disposed
to palliate. '
Where is the judge, the jury, the police . ,
officer that dare arraign the wealthv libertine?
He walks the streets; he riaes the
parks; he flaunts his iniquity in the eyes
of the pure.
Sometimes it seems to me as if society
were going back to the state of morals of
Herculancum, when it sculptured.its vileness
on pillars and temple wall and nothing
but the lava of a Durning mountain,
( could hide the immensity of crime. At
what time God will rise up and extirpate
these evils upon society I know not nor
whether He will do it by fire or hurricane
or earthquake," but a holy God, I do not
think, will stand it much longer. I beI
lieve the thunderbolts are hissing hot,
{ and that when God comes to chastise the
community for these sins, against which
He has uttered Jtiimseii more Dineny ww
Against any other, the fate of Sodom and
Gomorrah will be tolerable as compared
with the fate of our modern society,
which knew better,-but did worse.
We want about 10',wSJ:pulpits in Amerj
ica to thunder, "All adulterers and whoreI
mongers shall have their place in the hell
that burneth with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death." It is hell on
| earth and bell forever. We have -got to
understand that iniquity on Columbia
Heights or Fifth avenue or Beacon Hill it
j as damnable in the sight of God aa it i*
in the slums.
Whether it has canopied couch d? eiderdown
or dwells amid the' putridity of a
low tenement house, God is after it in His
vengeance. Yet the pulpit of the Christian
church has been so cowed down on
this subject that it hardly dares speak,
and men are almost apologetio when they
read the Ten Commandments. <
Then look at the fascinations thrown
around assassination;* There are in all
I communities men who have taken the
lives of others unlawfully, not as executioners
of the law, and tney go scot free.
Yon say that they had their provocations.
1m . JIa olnna Viaa ft
I VJUU gave 1UC, uiiu uv ?IVM? mww w --p? to
take it, and He may take it by visita|
tion of Providence or by an executioner
of the law, who is'His messenger. But
when a man assumes that divine prerogative
he touches the lowest depth of crime.
Society is alert for certain lcinds of murder.
If a citizen going along the road at
night is waylaid and slain Dy a robber,
we all want the villain arrested and exe- > .
cuted. For all garroting, for all beating
out of life by a club or an axe or a slungshot,
the law has quick spring and heavy
stroke, but you know that when men get
affluent and high position and they avenge
their wrongs by taking the lives of others
great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead,
ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed,
and the man goes free. If the verdict
happen to be against him a new trial is
called on through some technicality, and
they adjourn for witnesses that never
come and adjourn and adjourn until the
community has forgotten pll about it, and
then the prison door opens and the murderer
goes free.
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JNow,'it capital punisnmenc ue ngm, *
say let the life of the polished murderer
go with the life of the vulgar assassin*
Let us have no partiality of gallows, no
aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do
not let us float back to barbarism, when
every man was his own judge, jury and
executioner, and that man had the supremacy
wno had the sharpest knife and
the strongest arm and the quickest step
and the stealthiest revenge. He who wilfully
and in hatred 'takes the life of another
is a murderer, I care not what the
provocation or the circumstances.
He may be cleared by an enthusiastic
courtroom, he may be sent by the Gov- '
eminent of the United States as Minister
to some foreizn court or modern literature
may polish the crime until it looks like
heroism, but in the sight of God murder
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reveal it.
Now, do not be fascinated by the glamor
thrown over crime of whatever sort.
Because others have habits that seem brilliant,
but yet at the same time are wicked,
do noc choose such faults. Stand independent
of all such influences. Put your
confidence in the Lord God. He will be
your strength. "Vengeance is mine. I
will repay, saith the Lord."
Cultivate old fashioned honesty. This
book is full of it. Old fashioned honesty
such as was spoken of by Dr. Livingstone,
the famous explorer. You may not know
he was descended from the Highlanders.
Dr. Livingstone said that one day one of
pallpf? bia children.
around him and said: "Now, my lads, I
have looked all through our family line.
I have gone back as far as I can, and I
find that all our ancestors were honest
people. There doesn't seem to be one
rogue among them, and you have good
blood. Now, my lads, be honest."
There are hundreds of young men who
have good blood. Shall I ask three or four
plain questions? Are yonr habits as good
as when you left your father's housp?
Have you a good- ticket in your pocktft?
Have you a irauduleut document? Have
you been experimenting to see how accurate
au imitation you could make of your
employer's signature? Oh. you have good
blood. Remember your father's prayers.
Remember your mother's example. Turn
not ?n an evil way. nave you pccu uumx
astray? Come back. Have you venturea
out too far?
As I stand in pulpits looking over audiences
sometimes iny heart fails me.
There are so many tragadies present, so
many who have sacrificed their integrity,
so many far away from God. Why, mjr
brother, there have VenAoo many prayers
offered for you to have you go overboard.
And there are those venturing down into
sin, and my heart aches to call them back.
At Brighton Beach or Long Branch you
have seen men go down into the surf to
bathe, and they waded out farther and
farther, and you got aniious about them.
You said,-"I wonder if they can swim?"
And you then stood and shouted: "Come
back! Come back! You will be drowned!"
They waved their hand back, saying:
"No danger," They kept on waaing cleeper
down and farther out- from shore unul
after awhile a great wave with a strong
undertow took them out. their torpses
the next day washed on tlie beach. Bo I
see m^u wading down into sin farther and
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Come back! You will be lost; you will be
lo-t!" They wave their hand back, saying,
"No danger; no danger!" Deeper
down and deeper down until after awhile
a wave sweeps them out and sweeps them
off forever. Oh, come back! The one
farthest away may come.
"Oh," you say, "you don't know where
I came from. You don't know what my
history has been. You don't know what
iniquity I have plotted. I have gone
through the whole catalogue of sin." My
brother, I do not know the story, but I
tell you this: The door of mercy jo wide
open. "Though your sins be as scarlet,
taey shall be as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall De as wool."
Though you have teen polluted with the
worst of crimes, though you have been
smitten with the worst of leprosies, though
you have been fired with all evil passions,
tMAmon f An Knl". with
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quitous indulgences, mav be set the tmsainar
coronet of a Saviour forcrvenesa.
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