The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, July 21, 1894, Image 4
SELECT SIFTINGS.
rJiseuit formerly meant baked twice.
Parsley originally caiuo from Europe.
The aluminum timepiece is the latest
Parisian fad.
There are said to be over 3,000,000
deities in tho Hindoo mythology.
Frederiok the Groat left more than
ono hundred songs of his own composition.
The largost proportion of married
people is found in Cleveland aud the
smallest in Now Orleans.
In 1NS3 the United States produced
103,000 tons of refined copper, nearly
one-half the world's yield.
An old superstition has it that if a
wolf booh ft man beforo tho man sees
tho wolf ho will bo struck dumb.
A man died at Jacksonville, Fin., a
few days ago at tho ago of ninety-six
who was the father of ninety children.
Tho so-called thaler millionaires in
Berlin?a thaler is about soveuty-flvo
cents?now numbor 426, against 410
one year ago.
White-haired Willio Dempster, of
Wilton, Kan., twolvo years old, can
wag his ears either ono at a time or
both together. While exhibiting this
strange peculiarity, ho says the alphabet
backward.
Ono of the queer delusions of a patient
in the Kankakoo (III.) Insane
Asylum is that hi* font are made of
sardines. As he is harmless lie is permitted
to keep them tied up in tin
cans filled with oliyo oil.
The Custom House receipts in Guatemala
amounted during the year 1893
to $4,301,818. The tax on the exportation
of coffee produced $1,19(5,807,
which gives a total for all resources
from the Custom House, exports and
imports included, of nearly $5,500,000.
The rare instance of tho coining of
age of a whole trio of triplets was eelehrate
1 recently at Whitenast, near
Ijehiiiington, England. Generally, in
case of triplets, tho children die soon
after uirth, but occasionally they survive
at d reach maturity. One case is
oti rec< rd of quadruplets, all of whom ,
were reared.
Edward, the Hlaek Prince, was tho
first Iluke of Cornwall, created in
1337. and the title was transmitted in ,
perpetuity to his heirs nude, by virtue
of which the eldest son of the King of
England is Duke of Cornwall as soon
as born. The present lhiko of Corn- i
.._ll *!...?>- i w.i ... i--: ?
w nu, vuu i i iiuiu'm ?* fiirrt, urrivti^ 11 nci
income of about $300,000 from bis
dukedom.
I
The innrrmpe rate in Enqlnn.1 nn I
Wnloti during tli? btsl qmtrtcr of lust
year nan lower iLuvu iu aiijr previous ,
Juke period.
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tin line tnilwny. H|h-ii oIn-i r\at ion < nr> ?i<
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floor ?p.w e.
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ifrrt.
Thru** I'lividr lo the ilo?*.
So Hhake-penre miiiI, ami it i* tlir> heat of
pond mlvire for tlione sufferlnv with tetter,
ringworm, < < / inn. enlt rheum ami other
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with eealcy nklii eruption!*. Telterine I* til*
only absolutely euro euro. IlrtliorlMn eell It,
60 * ell la u leix.or by mail on receipt of price by
J. T. SlIUPTHINK,
Savannah, (la.
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re.i in Montana.
Karl's Clover Root, tlia groat bloo I purifier, '
rfivca fr<'-hlieK!< ami ele.iriu?*H to the complex- i
on (Iml I ur<*H constipation. ?let1*., .'el I Is., $|.
Mormons have hoc u rod I ml and money to
establish a college at Lamonl, Iowa.
Ilall'i t'lilarrh Chi*
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REV. DR. T.VI MAGE
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
. T"T: ?"T'?en w?8 mouth filled with
IHUKllter. ?pMlm n*?.l o ?n?- . *
a. no inn Sir*
teth in the heavens shall laugh."?Psalm
.1., 4.
Thirty-eight times does the Bible make
referenee to this configuration ot the features
and quick expulsion of breath which
we call laughter. Sometimes it Is born ol
the sunshine and sotmdlmos the midnight.
Sometimes It stirs the sympathy of nhgolS
and sometimes tho cachlbnatton Of devils.
All healthy people InUgh. Whothor It
pleases the Lord or dlspleasos Him, that depends
upon when we laugh ami at what we
laugh. My theme to-day is the laughter of
the Bible? namely, Snrah's laugh, or that ot
skepticism ; David's Inugh, or ttint of spiritual
exultation ; tho fool's Inugh, or that of
sinful merriment ; Clod's laugh, or that of
In Unite condemnation ; heaven's Inugh, or
that of eternal triumph.
Scene, an oriental tent. Tho occupants,
old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled
and decrepit. Their throe quests nro three
angels, tho Lord Almighty one of them. In
ret tiru for the hospitality shown by the old
people Clod promises Sarah thnt she shall
become the ancestress of tho Lor I Jesus
Christ. Sarah laughs In tho face of Clod,
Sh?- does not believe It. Shols affrighted at
what she has done. She denies If. She
says, "t did nol laugh." Then God retorted
with nn emphasis that silenced all disputation,
"But thou didst laugh." My friends,
the laugh of skepticism In all ages Is only
the echo'of Sarah's laughter. God snvs He
will accomplish a thing, and men say It cannot
he done *
.. mmiiihup inugn at the
mlrach 8. Thoy siy they aro contrary to the
laws of nature. What la a Inw of nature?
It Is Go I's way of doing a thlnir. You ordinnrlly
cross a rlfst at one ferry. To-morrow
you change for one ilny, nnd you go
across another ferry. You made tho rule,
llavc you not the right to ohnnge it? You
ordinarily come In at that iloor of tho church.
Suppose that next Sabbath you come In at
th? other door. It la a liahlt you have. Have
you not a right lo change your habit? A
law of nature Is God's habit? His way of
doing things. If He makes the law. has He
not a right to change it at any time lie wants
t<> oh Align it?
Alas ! for the folly of those who laugh at
God when He says, "I wi'l do a thing."
they responding, "You can't dolt." Go I
says that the Bible Is true?It Is all true.
Bishop Colenso laughs, Herbert Hponoer
laughs, Stuart Mill laughs, great German
universities laugh, Harvard laughs?softly.
A great many of the learned Institutions,
with long rows of professors seated on tho
fenoo between Christianity and Intldellty.
laugh softly. They say, "Wo didn't laugh.'
That was Sarah's trlek. God thunders from
the heavens. "But tliou didst laugh !" The
garden of K len was only a fable. There
never was any ark built, or tf It was built It
was too small to have two of every kind.
The pillar of lire by night was only the
northern lights, the ten plagues of Rgypt
only a brilliant speelmen of Jugglery. The
sea parted because the wind blew violently a
great while from one direction. The sun
and moon did not put themselves out of the
way for Joshua. Jacob's ladder was only
horizontal and picturesque clouds. The de?lr.?l?
? -
j..., ... VI pinii nut inn iirsmorn In
K<ypl was only cholera infantum become
epidemic. The Kullet of the whale, hy
positive measurement, too small to swallow
a prophet. The story of tt?? Immaoulatn
concept ion li shock to nil decuuey. The
lime, the dumb, the blind, the halt, cured
|>y mere liumnu surgery. The resurrection
of t'hrM's friend only a bountiful tatdenu,
I'hrist itu I I.i/.arns an I Mary and Martha
acting their parts well. Mv friends, there
Is not n doctrine or statement of Ood's holy
word that has not been derided by the
skepticism of ilie day.
I take up this l ook of King James's translation.
I consider It a perfect bible, but
here are skeptics who want It torn to pieces.
And now, wltli this Itlhto in iny hand, let
lie tear out all lliosa portlous which the
skepticism of this day demands shall ho torn
out. What shall go llrst? "Well," says some
one In i he audience, "take out all that about
the creation and utiout the llrst settlement
of III" world." Away goes <1 >ueais. "Now,"
ays so-no one, "lake out all that about the
miraculous t;ul lun-mof thochlblrcn of Israel
in tlie wilderness." Away goes Kxodu*.
"Now," ?ii\s so am one else In the audience.
"Iht ra are things In Deuteronomy an I
Klti{s that at not fit to be read." Away go
Deuteronomy rnd the Kings. "Now," says
aoine oil", "the book of Job Is a fable that
night to ootne out." Away ko"8 the book of
Job. "Now." says some oil", "those pass?>*es
In the New Testament which Imply the
llvlnily of Jesus Christ ought to oomu out."
Aw.IV IT" ill.. IAi.mi..-11-l. ,,u e
- ?.rtun, nitys
onto one. "h? took of K'vi'liillon ? how
preposterous! It represents n min with the
iuooii iin l.tr hit f? ? nut n sharp s*or I In
til* hnti-l." A w.ty go * the hook of Hereintlon.
Now there are n few pieces loft. What
shall wo do wilti ttietn? "Oh," nays * >tne
mini in the nil italic1, "I don't believe u
or.I initio Hilda from one end to tlie other."
Well, it is nil kooc. Now you have
put out tho Inst light (or the nations. Now
It Is tlie pitch i);irkii<*Ms of eternal int.!ni*ctit.
How do you like it
lint I tliill's, my lr..*n Is, wo had hotter
keep the liitilo n little lot?g"r iutnnt. It has
(!one pretty well for n good innny years
rtu'ii there nr.- old people who flntl It a coinfort
to have It ou their laps, uul children
like to.* storms in It. Let us keep it (or n
curiosity any how. If the Hilde In to tie
thrown out of the school it no out of the
courtroom, so that men no more swear by It,
mid it is to he (nit In a dark corridor ot the
city lihrniy, the Koran on one side and the
writings ol Confucius ou the other, thou let
us each one keep u copy lor him?elf, for we
might have trouble, and wo would want to
be under the delusions of lis consolations,
and we might die, and wo would want llie
delusion of the exalted residence of (lot's
right linn I, which It mentions. Oh, what an
awful thing It Is to laugh In do i's face and
hurl His Revelation hack at film! After
awhile the day will come when they will siy
they did not laugh. Then all the hypercriticisms,
alt the caricatures and nil the
learned sneers In the quarterly reviews will
be brought to ju tgmonr, and niiild the rocking
of every tiling heti?utii and ami I the
B..,r,l?r. ... I. .u ?
ijimuik 1 Will ( II1111
der, "But thou didst UuKb!" I think the
moot fascinating laughter at Christianity I
ever remenih *r was a man in New Kugland.
Ho made th? wor-l of (io.t seem ridiculous,
nnd ho laughe I on at our holy religion until
he cnine to die, nod then he said: "My life
him been n failure \ failure domestically.
I have no children. A f ailure socially, for I
nm trented In the streets like a pirate. A
failure professionally because 1 know hut one
minister that hits adopted my sentiments."
For a quarter of a century h? laughed at
Christianity, and ever nice Christianity has
been laughing at him. Now, it is n moan
thing to go Into a man's house and steal his
goo is, hut I tell you I ho most gigantic lew
glary ever Invented Is Ilia propitsltlon tu
steal tl'^ < ireasur-rs of our lio'y r dlglon.
The meanest laughter ever ntt'Tod ts the
laugh of the .kept i.'.
The next laughter mentioned In the Bible
Is David's laughter, or the expression of
spiritual exultation. "Then was our mouth
HUM with laughter." lie got very ntUOll
down sometimes, but there are other ehapters
where for four or five times ho calls upon
the people to oral* and i-Jtult. It was not a
mere twit'*h of the Itivw --It was a demonstration
that took hold ol his whole phya.eal nature.
"Then was our month IVhs| with
laughter." My friends, this worhl will never
| he converted to Oo?l until Christians cry less
nnd laugh and sing more. The horrors are
a poor halt. If people are to he persu ?d? I
to adopt our holy religion. It wllll*. because
they have made up their minds It I" a happy
religion. They don't like a mortdd Christianity.
I know there are mortdd noeplewho
enjoy a funeral. They come early to seethe
friends take leavsof the cor|>se, and they .teal
a rhle to the cemetery, hut all healthy people
enjoy a we lding better than they do a burial.
Now. you make the religion of Christ
sepulchral nnd hearsellke, and you
make it repulsive. I say plant the rose of
rthuron along the church walks and
eolumldne to c1*mt>er over thi church wall,
ami have a smile on the Hp. snd have the
mouth nilsi with holy laughter. There Is
no man In the worh', except the Christian,
i hat haa a right to foe| an untrammclod glen,
lie is promised everything la to t>e for the
lend here, and ha l? on the war to a delight
which will tuke all the procession* with palm
branches aud all the orchestras harped and
cymbaled nud trumpeted to expreus. "Oil,"
| you say, "I have so much trouble." Have
you more trouble than Paul had? What cKos
no aay? "Sorrowful, yot always rejoicing.
Foor, vet making many rich. Having nothing.
yet possessing all things." The merriest
laugh I think I have ever hoard ha* been In
the sickroom of Clod's dear children. When
Theodoslus was put upou the rank, he suffered
very gront toriuro at tho first.
Somebody asked him how he dured all
that pain on the rack. H? roplieo "When
I was first put on the rack, I suffered a great
deal, but very soon a young man In whtto
stood by my able, and with a soft an t comfortable
handkerchief ho wiped the sweat
from my brow, and my pains were relieved.
It was a punishment for me to get from the
rack, because when the pain was all gone
tho angel was gone." Oh. rojotce evermore I
You know how It Is In the army?an anny In
encampment. If to-day news comes that
our side has had a defeat, and to-morrow
another portion of tho tidlugs conies, saving
wo have had another defeat, It demoralises
nil the host. Hat If the news comes of
victory to-day and victory to-morrow tho
whole army Is Impassions 1 for the contogl.
Now, In the kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ report fewer defeats tells us Ihe victories?victory
over sin and death and hell.
Itejolco evermore, and again I say rejoice. I
iwiiuvo there Is more religion In a laugh
than In n groan. Anyboily can groan, but
to Inugh In the rnhlst of banishment and
persecution and Indescribable trial, that required
a David, a Daniel, a l'aul, a modern
heroine.
The next laughter mentioned In the Blblo
that I shall speak of Is the fool's laughter, or
the expression of sinful merriment. Bolomon
was very quick at simile. When he makes a
comparison, we all catch It, What Is the
laughter of a fool like? lie says, "It Is the
crackling of thorns under a pot." The kettle
Is swung, a hunch of brambles is nut under
It, nnd the torch Is applied to It, and
there Is a great noise, and a big blase, nnd a
sputter and a quick extinguishment. Then
it Is darker than It was before. Fool's laughter.
The most mtserahlo thing on earth Is a
bad man's fun. Thoro they are?ten men in
a barroom. They have at home wives,
mothers, daughters. The Impure Jest starts
at one corner of tho barroom, and crackle,
crackle, crackle If goes all around. In MX)
such guffaws there Is not one Item of happiness.
They all feel hemeaned If thoy have
any tonsolenee left. Have nothing to do
with men or women who tell immoral stories.
I have no confidence either In their Christian
character or their morality.
Bo all merriment that springs out of the
defects of others?caricature of a lamo foot,
or a curved spine, or a blind eye. or a deaf
ear Will be met with the Judgment of Oo I,
dther upon you or upon your children.
Twenty years ago I knew a man who was
particularly skillful In imitating the lameness
of a neighbor. Not long ago a son of
the skillful mimic bad his leg amputated for
the very defect which his father had
mimicked years before. I do not say It was
a judgment of Hod. I leave you to make
your own Inference. Bo all merriment born
or dissipation, ttint which start* nt the
counter of the drinking restaurant or tho
wineglass in the homo circle, the mini 111 it
simper, the men Minifies* joke, the snt urnitlliin
gibberish, the paroxysm ot mirth about nothing
which you sometimes see iu the fashion*
nble olilbrooni or the exquisite parlor nt
twelve o'clock nt night, nretlie cradling of
thorns under a pot. Such laughter i?2*l such
sin end In death. Wh?n I was a lad. a book
came out entitled, "Dow .Junior's Patent
Sermons."' It made n great stir, a very wide
laugh, all over thy country, thit book did.
It was a caricature of the Christian ministry,
and of the word of God, and of the day of
judgment. Oh, we had a grout laugh ! The
commentary on the whole thing is that the
author of that hook died In poverty, shame,
debauchery, kicked out of society and cursed
of Almighty Ood. The laughter of such
men Is the echo of their own damnation.
The next laughter that I shall mention as
b??lng In the Bible Is the laugh of Go I's condemnation,
"He that sltteth In the heavens
shall laugh," Again, "Tho Lord will laugh
at hltn." Again, "I will laugh at his calamity."
With such demonstration will Go I
greet every kin l of great sin and wickedness.
But men build up villainies higher
and higher. Good men almost pity God lev
cause He ia so schemed against by men.
Huddcnly a pin drops out of the machinery
of wickedness or 11 secret is revealed, and
the foundation begins to roek. Finally the
whole thing Is demolished. What Is the
matter? I will tell you what the matter is
That crash ot rulu is only the reverberation
ot God's laughter. In the money market
there are a great many good men ami a
great many fraudulent men. A fraudulent
man there says, "I mean to have my million."
He goes to work reckless of honesty,
and he gets his llrst 100,000. He
gets after awhile his 200,000. After awhile
he gets his 500,000. "Now," he says, "I
have only one more move to make, and I
shall have my million." He guttlers up all
his resource*. He makes that one last
grand move, he fails and loses all, and he
lias not enough money of Ills own Icit to pay
the cost of the ear to his hotno. People cannot
understand this spasmodic revulsion.
Home said it was a sudden turn In Krie Ballway
stock, or In Western Union, or In Illinois
Central ; somo said one thing and some
another. 'I'bey all guessed wrong. I will
tell you what It was. "lie that stttcth In the
heavens laughed." A man In New York said
he would l>e the richest man in tho city. Ha
left Ills honu? work as a mechanic and got
Into the city councils some way and In ten
years stole f 15,000,000 from the city government.
Fifteen million dollars ' He held the
Le-2Mature of the State of New York in the
grl* of bis right hand. Huspidous were
aroused. The grand jury presented Indictments.
The whole land stoo I aghast. The
man who expected to put half the city In his
vest pocket goes to Blackwell's Island, goes
to Ludlow street jail, breaks prison and goes
n?*rt tb- sen is rearrested - *l
back and again remandel fa Jal'. Why"
"He that sltteth In the hen vans laughed."
IlnrilM VILHit iPr.sn# nmrilr.i I, ,,| llor i.m
and Virgil among hvr poetw , *h? had Aoguitus
and Constantinn anntn,' her wnmrnri.
Kill what mean the ileliwitl P.inlhrnn, an
Ih# Forum tome t Into a ciltl? market, an I
the broken welled t'oliwuin. and the amli'teeturnl
skeleton of her great nquetu-ts.'
What win Ihnt thunder? "Oh," yon any,
"that was the roar of tho battering run*
against her walls." No. What wm that
quiver? "Oh,''you My, "ilint win the lrani|i
of hostile legion*.'* No, Tho quiver nn I
tho roar were the outburst of omnipotent
laughter from tho dotted and tnauttnt lieavans.
Home defied (to I, an t He laughe I Iit
down. Thebea da tie I tin 1. and Ho Ian rho I
hor <lown. Nineveh dolled find, nn I llo
laughed hor down. Babylon defied flo I.
an?l Ho laughed her down. Thorn in n great
difference between do IN lau/ii all I ll'S
amllo. Ilia wmlle Ih eternal b?ntltu|e. l|-?
smiled when Davidsnug. aud Miriam. Inppe I
the cymbals, and Hnun ih nuido garments
for hor won, and I'aul preached, nn I John
kindled with npoevlyptlo visioii.^ ,y) J when
any man has anything In mi!" a It
woll. His smite' Whv.lt Is ty.
tho apple nreharda In lull tddWfT 11 "
Inn breaking on a rippling n^S/jlfoJfchnven
at high noon, all the b. lis be marriage
peat, hut Ilia laugldej^ti'tijdt never
fall on naf It la a eondnnifrW|^V '*>r our
tin . It Is a wasting away.
Wo may let the satirist laugh at us, nn I
nil our eoniDnnlotiH tnav Inu rh nt us. nn I W'?
may t><? ma'lo tho targ>n (or tho tii'Trm-ou
nt mrth in<l holl, l>ut Oo I forbll that wo
nlinuM over oomn to tho fulflllmont of tlr?
prophooy again*t tho rojootor* of?fr?iti?,
"I will laugh nt your mUmlly " But. my
frt?-n'l?, alWnf ii* who rojwt f'hrUt on I th >
purilon of tho go?pnl rinmt com? un-W thnt
trcmcndona bomharlmont. flo I want* m
?lllo rrpont. Ilo eoiwaola, Ho itf*, He
Importnnoa, ah I lf? <He* for n?. H* coin**
flown out of heaven. Ha pot? nil I!?? wnrM"*
rln on on? ahonhler, Il? put* nil the worhl'-t
nrrnw on tho other ahouMer. nil I thou with
that Alp on ono nMn ?n I thnt lllnrtlai i on
tho other llo atarla up th-? hill l?aeli o'.leruaaiem
to aatilevo our aalvntlou. Ifepirathe
palm of lfl? right foot on ono lor ' op'ke.
nn<l Ilo pui* I ho pAloi of III* lett
foot on another long aplke, mil tboo,
with HI* hnn<l* npitte I wlih Hi* own 'on
I|n goAtloiilnloo, awying ' liOnV. Ino'c in I
l.?f, With tha crimaon roil of My aiertltei^
I will rovr up nil vour *ln* , with Mv ilym ;
groan I will *w?l'ow up nil jour groin*.
f?ooh I 1,1 vo !' But n lhou?nn I of you turn
your hack on thnt, nn I Ihon thi* ro ? * o,"
Invitation turn* to a ton* ?tlvliiolv o nlnon*.
thnt KOba like ? nlmoorn through I ho ikr*t
chapter of Proverb ' Beean** I havi
onllott An>1 jr.* ratn*a<|, t have Mroto'io I o?r
My right han l, an t no mnn rogirlo', hu?
yehavoaot nt naught nil My roun**l nn I
wonht nono of Mvreproo', I. nUo, wilt
laugh at your calamity *' O i, what* tan rii
that la ?% <loop laugh, a long, r-v <r?r it la:
laugh, an ovorwholm'ng Inugh. (In I grant
wa may navor hoar it. But 1* thla <lay of
merciful rlattatIon ylai t your heart to Chrlat.
T
runt you may spend all your llfo on earth
under Hiss'iillennd escape forever the tbunilerof
thi laugh of Goj's indignation.
The other laughter mentlone 1 In the
Blblo, the only one I shall speaV o", is
heaven's laughter, or the expression Ol
eternal triumph. Christ said to His disciples,
"Blessed are ye that wesp now, fo
ye shall laugh." That makes me kuorf
positively that we are not to spend out" days
in hrnveu singing long meter psalnis. The
formallstlo and stiff notions of heaven that
some peonle hare would make me miserable.
I am glad to know that the heaven of the
Bible Is not only a place of holy worship,
but of magnificent sociality. "What." say
you. "will the ringing laugh go around the
clreles of the saved?" I Say yes?pure
laughter, cheering laughter, holy laughter.
ii wiii ne a laugn 01 cougraiuiauoD. wnen
wo moot ? frlond who has sudden ly
omo to a fortune, or who has got over
somo dire sickness, do we not shako
lauds, do wo not laugh with him/ And
whoti wo get to heaven an.i ??"? out friends
(here, somo of them having o< nta up out of
g'cal tribulation, why, wo will any to ono of
them, "The last time I saw you you had boon
suffering for six weeks under a low Intermittent
fever," or to aunt her we will say "You
for ten years woro limping with tho rheumatism,
and you wero full of eontplaints
when we saw you last. I congratulate 3*00
on this eternal recovery." We shall laugh.
Yes, we shall cougratuhite nil those who hava
eom ? out of great flnaneial embarrassments
in tlds world because they have become millionaires
in heaven. Ye .shall laugh. It
shall boa laugh of I; lasso?iatIon, It Is just
as natural for Us to laugh when we meet a
friend we have not seen for ten years as anything
is possible to bo nature'.
When we meet our friends Irom whom we
have been partod ten or twenty or thirty
years, will it not be with infinite congratulation?
Our perception , quiekene t, our
knowledge Improved, we will know eaoh
ollu>r ut it M'uli \Vi? will linvn to tullr nv?r
all that lias happened sines w? have boon
separated, the one that has been tenyaarsia
heaven telling us all that-has happened in
the t<Mi years of his heavenly residence, an I
we ("Hint; him in return all that has hap
pencai during the ten years of his nlmence
from earth. Ye shall laugh. I think Osow
Whltedeld and John Wesley will have a
laugh of contempt for th?ir earthly collisions,
and Topludy and Charles Wesley will
have a laugh of contempt for th-dr earthly
misunderstanding, and the two farmers
who were In a lawsuit all their days will
have a laugh of contempt over their earthly
disturbance about a line fence. Exemption
from all annoyance. Immersion in all glad
twns Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye
shall laugh. Yes, It will ne a laugh of triumph.
Oh. what a pleasant thing It will he
to stand on the wall of heaven and look
down at satan and hurl at him defiance and
see bim caged and ohalne I and we forever
free from his clutches ! Alia! Yes, It will
be a laugh of royal greeting.
You know how the Frenchmen cheered
when Napoleon came hack from Elba , you
know how th? English cheered when Wellington
eaino hack from Waterloo , you know
how Americans cheered whon Kossuth arrived
from Ifungurv ; you remember hour
Home cheered when I'ompcy oatne hack vl torloua
over 900 cities. Every cheer was a
laugh. Hut. oh, the mightier greeting, the
iilry troop of hfiivcti shall go through the
strwlf, nnil, neeor<llng to thu Book of Itevelatlon.
Christ in (lit led coat, the crimson
coat, on i? white horn", and nil the armies 01
heaven following Him on white hor*"s ! Oh,
when wo sou nn I hour iluit cavalcaiio we
shall cheer, wo shall laugh ! Does not your
heart heat i|iiickly at the thought of the
great Jublloe upon which wo are soon to enter?
I pray (Sod that when we get through
with this world an?l are going out of It wo
may have some such *rlston as the
lying Christian Inri Avium ho saw
written all over the elouns In the sky toe
letter an'l they nskeil Sim. standing bv
hisside, what he thought that letter "W"
meant. 'Oh," he said. "that stands fur w ?!
come." Ami so may it ho when we quit this
worhl. "W" on the gate, "W'on the iloor
of the mansion. "\Y ' on the throne. Welcome!
Welcome! Welcome! I liav?
preached this sermon with tlvo prayerful
wishes?that you might ? what a mean
tiling is the laugh ot scepticism, what a
bright litis is the laugh of so.ritual exultation.
what a hollow thin ; is the laugh of sinlul
merriment, what an nw.'ul tiling is th
lau^ii < I ??i?-ii a r.i 1 jiilit. rubicund
thing is the laugh of eternal triumph.
Avoid the III , choose the light. Be comforted.
"Blesse I lire ye til it weep DOW?)'t
shall laugh , ye shall laugh."
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
FnovrsHOH K. A. Kl.n Ki'.r.R, nn eminent
Herman scieutist, Is now making a tour o(
ihis country.
Hbkatods <Ji?av mil llltokhurn am th<*
most conspicuous ilrwjere In the United
Htatea Senate.
In liia own town of Hartford, Conn.,
"Murk Twain" la aald to bo noted for hla
shrewd bargains.
It baa been decided to uroelalm Sanford B.
Dolo President of the Hawaiian Republic)
without an election.
Ernkst l.o<iortLMw, a aon of the poet,
who llvra In Manchester, Mass.. has no lit*
crary bent, but la n good painter.
AmonA. Ehersolb, of Hillsdale College.
I Michigan, won first prize in the national
ililnr.iAllnoiut.t Asatoalcul -? - ? a
Thk p*r?on of the Emperor of (lerinnny is
to be closely #uar<led h*<re*ft?r, and a mag*
IMrato and dctoctlvrs will constantly atten I
him.
' "Oknkhaf." Booth, Commander-in-Chief
ol th'> H.ilvallon Army, says, and says It emphatically,
that ho never rends th?? newspaper*.
BImk. Cakmot declined a pension because \
she thought France 1l<l enough when tt paid
h?>r dead husband th < homage of a national
funeral.
Mas. Kai.i.ik Chatham Cordon-Law,
known In the South as "tho mother of the
Confederacy,'* died, a few days n#o. at
Memphis.
ItM'hkskmrarivk Siri.kt, of I'ennsyIvaiila,
divides his salary anion# charitable Institutions
In his district, ant only retainsenou#h
to pay lila actual living expenses.
Conorkssman N. M. Curtis. of the Twenty-sccond
New York District, Is six feet four
Inches tall, hut he Is shorter than Congressman
Albert Heaton Berry, of Kentucky.
Km Domai.ii Ktxwaiit, who has arrived In
this country on a visit, Is one of the live
British (let.I marshals, and the first offbier
of that r ink to set foot on American soil.
ThuUIN II ftiri i, nM',1. A alllr lint
Ho twilight oim Hourly sis yaars ago and
braved public sentiment beneath It f?>r
noar|y a fortnight l ilt ho ^ouldo't stand the
pressure longer t linn that.
Hknatoiin Hhkrmam nn<l Hoar and axHouator
Kvart* arc nil related. The latter
two nro double mutlni, both on tholr
fathers' ami on thotr mothers* side, ant
whon Mr. Ev.nrta was a youth Honntor Hoar's
fnthnr wna his guardian.
RsraKHRMTATiTR IUii.kv, of Texas, has an
at*<<nl-minded way ol touring up papers
whllr In tvinvoiMtlon. A fow dnyxngo, beforo
ho know It, ho tin I torn Into little blta
an elaborate speech which ho had sat op all
the night before to write.
Smallest Woman on Earth.
Sin"o the (loath of Luoia 'A irate, tho
"Mexican midget," th? title of b)in (
tho Htnalleat woman on earth has fallen
to Mlto. Paulina, a native of Holland.
Hho i* now nearly eighteen yours of
age, in hut twonty inched high and
weight a few oitncos loaa than nine
pounds. Unlike most midgets (who
are usually hideous monstrosities) she
is remarkably pretty and accomplished,
speaking four different languages
fluently. ?St. Louis Kopnblio.
Anfomifir Has Meter*.
Twelve thousand automatic pai
meters?or, to give them their popular
name, "i>euny-in-the-alot" meteri
MM now in use in Liverpool alone, and
lUUL *re in great demand in London,
^H^hester and Birmingham, while
800 provinoiml gas companies are nego
tiatiQgor have negotiated fur a supply
?Chicago Herald.
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FARM AND UARDEIf. |
TilVE STOCK THE SHEET ANCHOR.
Stay by your live Btock, no matter
how hard times get, and if there is
any one on earth who will be able to
live with comparative ease you will bo
that one, for when stock husbandry
fails there will be but little show for
anything else.?New York Wochl.
THE FtlAX CROP.
Flax is a very exhaustive crop. It
takes all its nitrogen from tho soil,
and both the grain and stalk are rich
in nitrogenous matter. If the fibre
could be separated from tho stalks
before they are steeped in water and
partly rotted, the stalks would inako
a rich fertilizer. But as the tlax is
usually placed in running water to
rot, most of the plaut foo l it contains
is washed sway and lost. Wo do
not beliov.e it pays Eastern farmers to
attempt to grow fiax for it.% seed
nloue. It exhausts fertility too much.
At prosent flax seed can bo bought fol
less than it ought to sell, provided the
Western farmers who grow this crop
were as caroful as they should be
about maintaining the fertility of their
soil.?Boston Cultivator.
ORIT FOR FOWriS.
After reading aud hearing much
About pounding crockery for fowls,
write* M. R. Allen, I thought I would
try l,bo experiment, though with but
little faith that the fowls wouhl care
much for such provonder. It. was a
much dreaded job ; for I supposed I
must pouud up "a lot" and gather it.
up into a dish for theui to pick at
their leisure. But I found on trial
that tho stuff Hew everywhere ; so that
businesa soou played out. Next I
took a Hat stone into the hen house,
with a hammer, and ponnde.l away
till I was tired. At Hrst tho liens paid
no attention to the grit; but after a
few days of confinement when tho
ground was covered with snow, I noticed
that the broken china had all
disappeared, and it was not long before
I had to drive them back for fear
of ponding their heals, so anxious
were they to get the hard grits.
Broken glass and dishes were utilized,
thus clearing tho pantry sholvos of
useless rubbish.?National Stockman.
niiXNKKTISO snKKI*.
It was an old custom with early
breeders of merino sheep in Italy and
elsewhere to cover the Iambs with a
....I 1;?.? ? i __ .
nwi i *?i iiiiuii nmi i, nr\nvi ??i|# nil us | ')
keep a constant pressure on the wool,
anil wotting this covering with warm
water to inako the wool soft and sleek
As the lamb grew the bandage w.n
loosened slightly, but kept tight
enough to hoM the fibers together.
The lamb was killed whan its pdt
reached tho highest value for the desired
purpose. It was, an J is, a practice
of some sheep raisers to keep
coverings on their sheop to give
greater quality to the fleece. The
prictico is quite common with exhibitors
at sheop shows At thi (blombinti
World's Fair, H. <1. McDowell
allowed in his large exhibit wh it ho
was pleased to call Ins "'light toppe I"
Dickinson dclaiue memoes. They
had evidently been blanket.) 1 huic.i
they wore shorn last spring. The effort
**- *?" rluuiiw Too eiuvips
wiw iniiu^, itu<i vum vjiiiu^
of the fleeces were groat'y outlined J.
--American A3ric11lturi.it.
odd lioniKi made ivro KKfiriDtZKK.
i'.xrmers whose horses are played
out and useless cnu sell them for
$1.50 to 8- a pie33 to establishm * 1111
that convert the animals into a fertiliser,
nays the Drovers' Journal, an I
then later 0:1 the farmer puroUam t'i >
fertilizer and plants the output of his
old horses where it will enrich his
crops and hasten their growth.
The manner of disposing ot the animals
is this: When led from the pen
the horse is tied to a post au 1 the
"black cap" placed over its heal.
The executionor then strikes it acrosi
the liea 1 with an a\ and the animal
falls helpless to the floor. Its throat
is then cut and life vanishes. This
done, the process of dissection and
separation begins. The hide is tirst
removed and the carcisi boiled, if
it contains any fat. The greaia is
designated as "horse oil." The hones
of "the lower limbs aro boiled, and the
fat extracted from them is called
"neatsfoot oil." When the flesh of
the oarcaas has been thoroughly boiled
and the greaso skimmed oft' the surface
of the vat it is thrown int > the
cellar and allowed to reinaiu there for
over fhrea months, all the time being
cahjecto I to the irilluenco of potash
and gypsum, which in mixod with i?
and which rots it.
The bones pass through two crushers,
the first of which reduces them
and the second grinds them to powder.
Several chemical ingredients are
then mixed with the bone dust. This
preparation is what is commonly
known a* lione fertilizer, and is probably
the liest artificial commodity used
in agriculture. The horse hides are
41i*|>oh?m ok to l^atikor in*rMiiA<Hitrer*,
r.nd bring more then wee originally
paid for the entire animal. lhit not
homea alone nro uae 1 in the prodnetion
of fertilizer. A great many nettle
go that way, too, and a* for bonea,
thorte of any animal are valuable.
Heverai qualities of fertilizers are
produced from animala; it all depending
upon the amouni. and quality of
the ingredicnta naod. Various vegetables
and cereal* require fertilizer of
a certain atreugth, and while a certain
quality will produce goo 1 result* on
one kind of vegetable it will destroy
another. The price per tou ranges all
the way from $i I to 5 J.?.
H4T MD(/'H AH A KKII ri
Wishing to uho a piece of Ian I that
wan apparently a most barren, worthlean
plot of ground, one of my neighbora
tried noma experiment*, writes
Thomas Brabazon, of Connecticut, in
the American Agrioulturint. The only
regetetion apparent wae a Meant/
growth of dAiwiea, a few hntteroupj,
and a large quantity of Hour gr.i<R or
field aorrol. The soil war of har I
pi*t, and in e drouth it war h*ke I to
the depth of tiro or nix i nolle*, eu i
Kotaihir more: and I have aeeu a
aty ahower laatji*? annual h >ure
pournown upon it nnm TCinr?/.n?-i ?i
though it would deluge the whole aim
f?o?, hut to mj Rurpriee, After it ht!
oeaaed raining for two honra, tliu
ground seemed aa herd nod dry m i
i htd been before.
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I
HP n \*r a m rv C ? ? i
I 1 ClIVV 1IV/ 4^UI
I Royal Bakii
I It is Absoli
|| All others contain ,
Ilir.N at the Polo.
In the countries bordering on the
Polar seas, w hero the changing seasons
bring alternately the two extremes of ,
dearth and plenty, birds are more j
numerous in the short an miner than
anywhere olso all the world over, and
in winter absent altogether. All are
emigrants t tore by force of circumstances.
In like manner the birds of
temperate climates are affected by thu
seasonal changes, though in n less degree,
through the influence of cold
and heat, upon their food supplies
rather than hy effect of cold upon
their well-protected bodies. A coat
of mail ia not to be compared to a
coat of feathers for safety, ho far as a
bird's life ia concerned. Layer upon
layer of feathers can withstand any
amount of water or any degree of
cold; in proof of this sec how tho
delicate torn, after wintering in comparatively
mild weather, go back to
the ieo floe* of the Polar Sea and lay
their eggs on tho ice. For two or
three weeks the tender breast of tho
Hca swallow is pressed against a cold
block of ice. Again, as atiothur example
of the influence of food rather
than climate in governing bird action,
take the colony of beccaticos. The
beoeatioo is u Mediterranean bird
common on the southern Hhorcs of
Spain and Italy, in tho (ireciaa
Islands, Sioily and Malta, and on the
northern shores of Africa. Formerly
it was quite unknown in tho British
Isles, 1>ut Home years ago h largo
orchard of tig trees was planted near
Brighton, an 1 the beccalleos have discovered
the fin't and come ovor to
sliari the spoil. Doubtless the
nightingales told tlietu the story of
Knglish tigs and showed theui the way
over. Bo this as it may, the little
birds from the warm shores of the
Mediterranean bid fair to become established
as naturalized British subjects.
--LiiloH's Living Ago.
M*ver Pci'ontoil.
The number of great, generals who
were never defeated in buttle is very
small. Kven -liilitis Caesar, one of
the most fortunate of generals, was
defeated at (iergovia and in one of
his minor ? ugagements with l'otnpo$".
Among the nneionts, Alexander the
Ureal was uniformly successful, and
Ho defi at is known in the career of
either Sulla or Seipio Afiicaiius after
they had become commanders. Several
generals of modern times have
eiirueu i imk iiihi iiiciioii. i iiivrri roniwell
was victorious from Iiih lirst engagement
lit tirantham to Ins final
victory lit Worcester. TI?o great
|>..U~ mC IHS^UI Cllloil It)
win in every buttle and every siege.
The Duke of Wellington wan equally
successfully. Among contemporary
commanders may lie mentioned the
names of Count von Moltke r<nd \ iscouul
Wo La ley. - Ne\? \ ?k DiauatoJ'
j Fur our a quarter of a century. Doctor
I ricrco's Oolden Meoirnl Discover* baa L?n
offeotirif? rurrt of Hronchial, Throat and
I-uiiR alTartinn*. Wenk Lungs, Isliv-diiig
from Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, nil lingerinjr
Coughs, Consumption, or Lung Hviufuh*
anil kiuurci mttluilit-*, nro cured l>y it.
REDUCED TO A SKELETON.
Mrs. Mira Mn.i.s. of Sartll*. lug stont Co.,
Jlfifin.. wrllrt: " Otio
. <S\#T?a-v. yiir nun I (flvpii tip
f ,ni '"'nily tilivftlcmn
.'!< wii'l frlonda; nil wtlil [
i"""' '11" My limits
|K.a W wrrr bitdly nn<l
S5SSr Jl body reduced to a nkolnwB
Q ton. My people roin'
' \i mrnitMl fo give ino y??ur
w, \ J 'Medical Iilncnvcry*
V / an<l I soon l--|ran to
A mend. It trim not lonjr
\ / before I boon mo wo 11
enough to take ohitriro
wSS*~ i?y huuochold duties
again.
Mr*. Mima. . ' nnw*n. my wwywy
to Or. Plrrcei Go'.len
Medical Discovery."
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ng Powder. I
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alum or ammonia. B
Ulgnnlir Lfl.lTM.
Palms have tli a ropntat i<?n of possessing
tho largest leaves. TIioho of the?
Quaja palm of the Amazon ineasuro
sometimes eighteen foot in length aud
are almost equally broa I. The natives
make tents of thoiu. Tlio leaf of
the ooooanut is nearly thirty foot long.
A single loaf of the parasol magnolia,
of Coylon, may shade fifteen or twenty
persons. One of tlieso carried to Eugland
measured nearly thirty-five feet.
The largest leaf grown in temperato
elimates is that of the Victoria regiar
which is sometimes seven foei iadiamv*
tor. ?Wcientiti.' American.
A young woman in liKlianapolin.
lml., dahho 1 h *r faco with powdored
charcoal instead of powdered ntaroli
wli"ii lior boudoir was in scmi-darknos",
and became f-n inocneod at the
J uproarious laughter of hor liancuo
I when lie called that cvcuiug that she
i hroko tlio engagement. Afterward
alio discovered the cause of his mirth
niifl fainted.
KNWEEDOE
firings comfort ami improvement an#
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly whom. The many, who live better
than others ami enjoy life* more, with
less ?'X|Minliturc, l?y nmrc promptly
adapting tin- world's Inst products t<?
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure li<jui<l
laxative principles embraced in tho
remedy, Svrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleasant
to the taste, the relicsliing and truly
beneficial properties of a |>erfect lax.ative;
elTeettially cleansing the system.
disiK'lliug coltls, headaches and lev* m
ami |H'rmaneiitly curing constipation.
It has given satisfaidion to millions ami
met with the annroval of the tucdicaf
profession, In cnu-e it acts on tin* Kidney*.
laver ami I towels without weakening
them an<l it U perfectly llec from
every objertionaldc .substance.
^ Syrup of Fips is for pale l>v all druj*
nn.i I... t I l,w# 1 ?l t in mail*
ufaetured l>y the California r ip Syrup
Co.only, whose name is printed oil every
package, also (lie name, Syrup of Fip.\
and bcinp well informed, you will uot
accept any substitute if utlcred.
r*""icELRI3Es"**"|
JWINE OF CARDUl.t
I For"Female Diseases. \
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my Millions Have
ptcd J line;* Pyle's invitation to
liis wonderful discov< ry, Pyles
line; for easy was/ihtg and elcatiYou
couldn't count tlicm in a
imc. Some of the twelve million
ickecpera in this land must have
pled very often. That's the way
Pc trlinc. I he wise woman who
stiy> -t< s, tri? !? it; the woman who
; it continiK u to use it. A daily
asing sal?; proves it. The truth
here's nothing so acceptable as
dine. Once accept its help, and
11 decline the imitations?they
t help you. It washes clothes or
ns house. It saves labor and it
;s wear. It hurts nothing, but it's
ed to everything. Try it when it
when you try it.
jome unscrupulous crocer* will tOI yon, "thin is
or "the vime as Pearlinc." IT'S KALSE?
:*er p??tsl!c<i, and if your grocer sends you someung?
ttnJ it ba<k. JAME3 ?YLK, New Yot^
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