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August 2l-39tf; - 1
THE MIRACLE AT CAN A. 1,
DR. TALMAGE ON THE TRANSFORMA- \ |
TION OF WATER INTO WINE. j ]
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An Eloquent Sermon Preached on Blbli- |
cal Ground?Christ Lores the Housekeeper?He
Comes in the Hour of Ex- ; j
tremlty?He Wants Us to Be Happy.
Near Casta, Dec. 22.?The Rev. T. j J
De Witt Talraage, D. D., preached j
here today on "A Marriage Feast," j <
taking for his text John ii, 10: "Thou ! i
hast kept the gopd wine until now." : c
He said: ! t
Standing not far off from the demol- ; \
ishad town of what was once called | 1
Cana of Galilee, T bethink myself of '
our Lord's first manhood miracle,
which lias been the astonishment of
the ages. My visit last week to that
place makes vivid in my mind that
beautiful occurrence in Christ's minis
try. My text brings us to a wedding ;
in tbat village. It is a wedding in j
common life, two plain people having ; J
pledged each other, hand and heart, ' j
and their friends having come in for
congratulation. The joy is not the 1
less because there is no pretension. '
In each other they find all the (
future they want The daisy in the |
cup on the table may mean as much as
a score of artistic garlands fresh from
the hothouse. When a daughter goes
off from home with nothing but a
plain fathers blessing and a plain *
mother's love, she is missed as much
as though she were a princess. It !
seems hard, after the parents have
sheltered her for eighteen years, that *
in a few short months her affections j
should have been carried off by an- ,
other; but mother remembers how it
was in her own case when she was *
young, and so she braces up until the ,
wedding has passed, and the banqueters
are gone, and she has a good cry
all alone.
Well, we are today at the wedding
in Cana of Galilee. Jesus and his mo- *
ther have been invited. It is evident that *
there are more people there than were
expected. Either some people have
come who were not invited, or more .
invitations have been sent out than it
was supposed would be accepted. Of \
course there is not enough supply of \
wine. You know that there is noth
ing more embarrassing to a house- \
keeper than a scant supply. Jesus
sees the embarrassment, and he comes
up immediately to relieve it. He sees |
standing six water pots. lie orders
the servants to fill them with water, *
then waves his hand over the water, [
and immediately it is wine?real wine. *
Taste of it, and see for yourselves; .
no logwood in it, no strychnine in it,
but first rate wine. I will not now be 1
diverted to the question so often '
discussed in my own country, whether
it is right to drink wine. I am de- (
scribing the scene as it was. When (
God makes, wine he makes the very i
best wine: and one hundred and thirty
gallons of it standing around in these r l
water pots? wine so good that the ruler ^
of the feast tastes it and says: "WJUy, j
this_J? bctmr anything we .
have had! Thou hast kept the good j ^
wine until now." Beautiful miracle 1 I
A prize was offered to the person who I
should write the best essay about the j j
miracle in Caua. Long manuscripts i s
were presented in the competition, but j '
a poet won the prize by just this one ! j
line descriptive of the miracle: j ^
The unconscious water saw its God. and blushed. ; ^
We learn from this miracle, in the
first place, that Christ has sympathy <
with housekeepers. You might have j
thought that Jesus would have said: ,
"I cannot be bothered with this house- ,
hold deficiency of wine". It is not for
me, Lord of heaven, of earth, to become
caterer to this feast. I have (
vaster things than this to attend to." '
Not so said Jesus. The wine gave out, j 1
and Jesus, by miraculous power, came i *
to the rescue. Does there ever come a ! *
scant supply in your household? Have j
you to make a very close calculation ? ; *
Is it hard work for you to carry on j ^
things decently and respectably? If j ]
so, don't sit down and cry. Don't go :
out and fret; but go to him who stood (
in the house in Cana of Galilee. Pray ,
in the parlor! Pray in the kitchen! .
Let there be no room in all your house ^
uncons*xrrated by the voice of piayer.
If you have a microscope, put under *
it one drop of water, and see the in- *
sects floating about; and when you \
see that God makes them, and cares
for them, and feeds them, come to the | c
conclusion that he will take care of A
you and feed you, oh, ye of little faith! 41
TRUST IN GOD. *
A boy asked if he might sweep the _
snow from the steps of a house. The 'J
lady of the household said: "Yes; you ^
seem very poor." He says: "I am
very poor." She says: "Don't you
sometimes get discouraged, and feel .
that God is going to let you starve?" j J
The lad looked up in the woman's face |
and said: "Do you think God will let '
me starve when I trust him, and then j t
do the best I can ?" Enough theology j f
for older people! Trust m God and j h
do the best you can. Amidst all the v
worriments of housekeeping, go to j b
him; he will help you control your i 1;
temper, and supervise your domestics, | i
and entertain your guests, and man- j t
age your home economies. There are c
hundreds of women weak, and nerv- {ous,
and exhausted with the cares of c
housekeeping. I commend you to the *
Lord Jesus Christ as the best adviser 1
and the most efficient aid? the Lord t
Jesus who performed his first miracle
to relieve a housekeeper. i r
I learn also from this miracle that p
Christ does things in abundance. I [<
think a small supply of wine would n
have made up for the deficiency. I p
think certainly they must have had v
enough for half of the guests. One gal- f
Ion of wine will do; certainly five gal- il
Ions will beenough; certainly ten. But u
Jesu$ goes on, and lie gives them , e
thirty gallons, and forty gallons, and ' i;
fifty gallons, and seventy gallons, and j 1;
one hundred gallons, and one hundred ; a
and thirty gallons of the very best I t
WHIG. v.
It is iust like hiin, doing everything t
on the largest and most generous scale. 1
Does Christ, our creator, go forth to v
make leaves? He makes them by the c
whole forest full; notched like the t
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fern, or silvered like the aspen, or i
broad like the palm; thickets in the
tropics, Oregon forests. Does he go .
forth to make flowers? He makes plen- 1
tv of them; they flame from the hedge, c
they hang from the top of the grape- c
pine in blossoms, they roll in the blue !
wave of the violets, they toss their ;
white surf into the spiraea?enough for "
ivery child's hand a flower, enough
to make for every brow a chaplet, y
jnough with beauty to cover up the
jhastliness of all the graves. Does ,
le go forth to create water? He pours c
t out, not by the cupful, but by a f
iver full, a lake full, an ocean full, *
pouring it out until all the earth has
inough to drink, and enough with
vMcLtowash^ _
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Does Jesus, our Lord, provide reiemption?
It is not a littTe salvation
for this one, a little for that, and a little
for the other; but enough for all?
' Whosoever will, let him come."
Each man an ocean full for himself.
Promises for the young, promises for
ihe old, promises for the lowly, promises
for the blind, for the halt, for the
outcast, for the abandoned. Pardon
for all, comfort for all, mercy for all,
leaven for all; not merely a cupful of
Jospel supply, but one hundred and
thirty gallons" Ay, the tears of godly
repentance are all gathered up into
jkxTs bottle, and some day, standing
before the throne, we will lift our cup
>f delight and ask that it be filled with
,he wine of heaven; and Jesus, from-hat
bottle of tears, will begin to pour
n the cup, and we will cry: "Stop,
Fesus, we do not want to drink our
>wn tears!" and Jesus will say:
'Know ye not that the tears of earth
ire the wine of heaven?" Sorrow may
3iidure, but joy cometh in the morning.
HK HELPS US TO BE MERRY.
I remark further, Jesus does not j
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griefs. He might have sat down in
:hat wedding and said: "I have so
much trouble, so much poverty, so
much persecution, and the cross is
joining; I shall not rejoice, and the
rloom of my face and of my sorrows
shall be cast over all this group." So
said not Jesus. He said to himself:
''Here are two persons starting out in
married life. Let it be a joyful occasion.
I will hide my own griefs. I
will kindle their joy." There are
many not so wise as that. I know a
louse hold" where there are many little
children, where for two years the musical
instrument has been kept shut
because there has been trouble in the
tiousc. Alas for the folly! Parents
saying: "We will have no Christmas
;ree this coining holiday because there
nas been trouble in the house. Hush
;hat laughing- up stairs! How can
here be any joy when there has been
so much trouble?" And so they make
jverything consistently doleful, aud
send their sons and daughters to ruin
with the gloom they throw around
them.
Oh, my dear friends, do you not
enow those children will have trouble
mou^h of . their own after a while?
Be glad they cannot appreciate all
yours. Keep back the cup of bitterness
from your daughter's lips. When
s our head is down in the grass of the
:omb, poverty may come to her, betrayal
to her, bereavement to her.
Keep back the sorrows as long as you
Jan. Do you not know that son may,
iftera while, have his heart broken?
Stand between him and all harm.
iTou may not fight his battles long;
aght thein while you may. Throw
not the eliill of your own despondency
aver his soul; rather be like Jesus,
who came to the wedding hiding his
)wn grief and kindling the joys of
>thers. So I have seen the sun.'on a
lark day. struggling amidst clouds,
jtaok, ^ragged ^rteutoiis. but
leavik^'inack^he^biackne^; *^<1 the
tan laughed to the lake, and the lake
aughed to the sun, and from horizon
o horizon, under the saffron sky, the
water was all turned into wine.
I learn from this miracle that Christ
is not impatient with the luxuries of
life. It was not necessary that they
ihould have that wine. Hundreds of
people have been married without any :
wine. We do not read that any of
he other provisions fell short. When
Jhrist made the wine it was not a necessity,
but a positive luxury. I do
aot believe that he wants us to eat
iard bread and sleep on hard mat;resses,
unless we like them the best.
[ think, if circumstances wi}f allow,
we have a right to the luxuries of
Iress, the luxuries of diet and the luxaries
of residence. There is 110 more
"eligion in an old coat than in a new
me. We can serve God drawn by
golden plated harness as certainly as
when we go a-foot. Jesus Christ will
Iwell with us under a fine ceiling as
well as under a thatched roof; and
when you can get wine made out of
water, drink as much of it as you can.
What is the difference between a
Chinese mud hovel and an American
lome? What is the difference be;ween
the rough bear skins of the
Russian boor and the outfit of an
American gentleman? No difference,
ixcept that which the Gospel of Christ,
lirectly or iudirectly, has caused.
When Christ shall have vanquished
ill the world, I suppose every house
vill be a mansion, and every garment
t robe, and every horse an arch-neck;d
courser, and every carriage a glitering
vehicle, and every man a king,
md every woman a queen, and the
vhole earth a paradise; the glories of
he natural world harmonizing with
he glories of the material worm, until .
he very bells of the horses shall
ingle the praises of the Lord.
CHRIST LOVES OUR LAUGHTER.
I learn, further, from this miracle,
hat Christ has no impatience with
estal joy, otherwise1 he would not
lave accepted the invitation to that
redding. He certainly would, not
lave done that which increased the
lilarity. There may have been many
n that room who were happy, but
here was not one of them that did so
nuch for the joy of the wedding
>artv as Christ himself. He was the
hief of the banqueters. When the
vine gave out, he supplied it; and so,
take it, he will not deny us the joys
hat are positively festal. *
I think the children of God have
uore right to laugh than any other
eople, and to clap their hands as
ludly. There is not a single joy deied
them that is given to any other
eople. Christianity does uot clip the
rings of the soul. Religion does not
rost the flowers. What is Christiantv?
I take it to be simply a proclamation
from the throne of God of
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mancipation jural! Uiccusia\cu, ani?
f a man accepts the terms of that proc- I
amatiou, and becomes free, has he not ]
right to be merry? Suppose a fa- ,
her has an elegant mansion and large j
[rounds. To whom will he give the i
irst privilege of these grounds? Will
tesay: "My children, you must not 1
valk through these paths, or sit !
lown under these trees, or pluck <
his fruit. These are for outsiders.
Chey may walk in them." No
ather would say anything like
hat. He would say: "Ihe first priv- I
ioges in all the grounds, and all i
>f my house, shall be for my own ^
:hildren." And yet men try to make .
is believe that God's children are on
he limits, and the chief refreshments !
md enjoyments of life are for outsid- J
;rs, and not for his own children. It is
itark atheism. There is no innocent
leverage too rich for God's child to
lrink; there is no robe too costly for ;
lira to wear; there is no hilarity too 1
,rreat for hirn*to indulge in, and 110 ]
louse too splendid for him to live in. \
ie has a right to the joys of earth; he ,
hall have a right to the joys of heav- *
n. Though tribulation, "and trial,
Jld hardship may come untoJum* let
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him rejoice. '"ilejoice in the Lord, ye
righteous, and again 1 say, rejoice."
I remark again that Christ comes
to us in the hour of our extremity.
He knew the wine was giving out before
there was any embarrassment or
mortification. Why did he not perform
the miracle sooner? Why wait
until it was all gone, and no help
could come from any source, and then
come in and* perform the miracle?
This is Christ's way; and when he did
come in, at the hour of extremity, he
made first rate wine, so that they cried
out: ''Thou hast kept thogood wine
until now." Jesus in the hour of extremity!
lie seems to prefer that
hour.
In a Christian home in Poland
great poverty had come, and on the
week day the man was obliged to
move out of the house with his whole
family. That night he knelt with his
family and prayed to God. While
they were kneeling in prayer there
was a tap on the windoVr pane. They
opened the window, and there was a
tViat fix* f-imilu had fad and
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trained, and it had in its bill a ring all
set with precious stones, which was
found out to be a ring belonging to
the royal family. It was taken up to
the king's residence, and for the honesty
of the man in bringing it back he
had a house given to him, and a garden
and a farm. Who was it that
sent the raven tapping on the window?
The same God that sent the raven to
feed Elijah by the brook Cherith.
Christ in the hour of extremity 1
You mourned over your sins. You
could not find the way out. You sat
down and said: "God will not be
merciful. He has cast me offbut in
that, the darkest hour of your history,
light broke from the throne, and Jesus
said: "0 wanderer, come home. I
have seen all thy sorrows. In this,
the hour of thy extremity, I offer thee
pardon and everlasting life!"
Trouble came. You were almost
torn to pieces by that trouble. You
braced yourself up against it. You
said: "I will be a stoic, and will not
care ;" but before you had got through
making the resolution, it broke down
under you. You felt that all your resources
were gone, and then Jesus
came. "In the fourth watch of the
night," the Bible says, "Jesus came
walking on the sea." Why did he not
come in the first watch? or in the second
watch? or in the third watch? I
do not know. He came in the fourth,
and gave deliverance to his disciples.
Jesus in the last extremity I
WILL YOU LET CHRIST COME?
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l wonuer 11 11 win uesom uur very
last extremity. We shall fall suadenly
sick, and doctors will come, but
in vain. We will try the anodynes
and the stimulants and the bathings,
but all in vain. Something'will say:
"You must go.'' No one to hold us
back, but the hands of eternity
stretched out to pull us on. What
then? Jesus will come to us, and as
we say, "Lord Jesus, I am afraid of
that water; I cannot wade through to
tlnf Artier side," he will sa^ 'Take
houT of my arm and?we' will take
hold of his arm, and then he will put _
his foot in the eurf of taking
us on down deeper, deeper, deeper,
and our soul will cry: "All thy waves
and billows have gone over me."
They cover $ie feet, come to the knee, .
pass the girdle and come to the head,
and our soul cries out: "Lord Jesus
Christ, I cannot hold thine arm anv
longer." Then Jesus will turn around,
throw both his arms about us, and set
us on the beach, far beyond the toss
ing of the billows. Jesus in the last
extremity.
That wedding scene is gone now.
The wedding ring has been lost, the
tankards have been broken, the house
is dowu; but Jesus invites us to a
grander wedding. You know the Bible
says that the church is the Lamb's
wife, and the Lord will after awhile
come to fetch her home. There will
be gleaming of torches in the sky, and
the trumpets of God will ravish the air
with their music; and Jesus will stretch
out l|is hand, and the church, robed in
white, will put aside her veil, and
look up into the face of her Lord the
king, and the bridegroom will say to
the bride: "Thou hast been faithful
through all these years! The mansion
is ready! Come liome I Thou art fair,
my love!" and then he shall put upon
her brow the crown of dominion, and
the table will be spread, and it will
reach across the skies, and the mighty
ones of heaven will come in, garlanded
with beauty and striking their
cymbals; and the bridegroom and
bride will stand at the head of the
table, and the banqueters, looking up,
will wonder and admire, and say:
"That is Jesus the bridegroom? But
the scar on his brow is covered with
the coronet, and the stab in his side is
covered with a robe!" and "That is
the bride! The weariness of her
earthly woe lost in the flush of this
wedding triumph!"
There will be wine enough at that
wedding; not coming up from the
poisoned vats of earth, but the vineyards
of God will press their ripest
clusters, and the cups and the tankards
will blush to the brim with the heavenly
vintage, and then all the banqueters
will drink standing. Esther
having come up from the bacchanalian
revelry of AJhasuerus, where a
thousand lords feasted, will be there.
And the queen of Sheba, from the
banquet of Solomon, will be there.
And the mother of Jesus, from the
wedding- in Cana, will be there. And
they all will agree thai the earthly
feasting was poor compared with that.
Then, lifting their chalices in that
holy light, they shall cry to the Lord
of the feast: "Thou hast kept the good
wine until now."
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remove all impurities and leave the
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Horse meat is said to be selling at seven
cents per pound in Berlin, and
such is the increasing scarcity of beef
the juice of horse flesh constantly
increases, and the supply of it has
so diminished that butchers can
bardly supply their customers.
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There are more than forty thousand
Chinese in San Francisco. They
form neaii^one-seventh of the city's
population afil it is computed that
they send twelve million dollars a
rear from fheir earnings to China.
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iODDS AND ENDS.
The Dhosphate lands of Florida are
to be cfeveloped<by a New York com- <
pany. They ait said to be very rich. ]
The camel is used successfully as a 1
pack animal ifc Australia, and is con- '
sidered superkfr to the mule for that (
region. <
John Lafountain, who died near j
Huntington, Ind., the other day was ,
a grandson of the last chief of the Miami
Indians. i j
Stains, on a'ceiliug should be care- (
fully scraped sufficiently to take otf
the oltU whitewash, and washed with j
cleat"! water before rewhitewashing. j
Then whitewash with good white- ,
wash. 1
Jefferson Davis departed this life
olmncf niiAsti*pfieldian urbanitv. 1
his last words being: "Pray, excuse
me." Lord Chesterfield's last words
were: "Give Payrolles a chair."
An English guest, upon being asked
his opinion of American crosscountry
riders, said ie thought them "the
horsiest set on foot and the footiest on
horse" he had ever seen.
A resident of Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
presented a ticket.issued in 1855 on*the j
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad (
the other day, and rode in a palace on
the same piece of pasteboard that j
would have secured him passage in j
one of the clumsy coaches of thirtyfour
years ago.
Abyssinia proper is a great plateau <
rising abruptly from the Red sea to a j
height of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet, (
with mountains towering some 4,000 <
to 6,000 feet higher. Its two great (
rivers, the Abai and the Atbara, are (
both feeders of the Nile, the former (
having long been regarded as the j
main stream of the great river. ' The \
population numbers about 3,000,000. \
Capt. E. S. Drake, a prominent far- t
mer of Marlboro county, South Caro- s
Una, has gathered the phenomenal 1
yield of 254 bushels and forty pounds i
of corn from one acre. This beats the i
world's record. The highest yield J
heretofore that is on record at the na- i
tional department of agriculture is 212 <
bushels and a fraction, raised by Dr. J. <
W. Parker, near Columbus, in 1853. t
Capt. Drake is competing for a $1,000 ]
prize. . (
At last benevolent genius has dis- *
L/vmt Mf^olro lifn >\!nowqnt fnr 1
UU V U1 UU 11 VJTi tv umnv ? v.
the wealthy Londoners. The court 1
bureau, limited, is going to leave cards
for them, send out invitations, engage
servants, select houses, take rooms for
them at hotels when they go-abroad, |
and even regain tables at restaurants, i
After many days the popular idea of i
a "lady" sfe a person who sits in silks j
and satins upon a sofa reading novels j
all day will be realized. Who knows <
that the court bureau may not work a i
revolution in the destinies of woman? i
France has now a "sleeping girl." '<
She belongs in the department of the (
Olse, and her slumber is not that of J
one in a peaceful trance, but is agitated 1
like h-udgy thA yffin- . J
euc? of the nightmare or the "XTues. 5
A dispatch says: "For the past nine 1
days sh? has been plunged into this (
somnolency, during which she some- ?
times beats himself on the head and *
breast and utters unintelligible excla- f
mations. Bouillon is now and then (
poured down her throat when she 1
opens her mouth, and by this means
she is kept alive. The girl, .who is 20 j
years old, and a farm servant, has had J
brief fits of drowsiness before, but 1
none of them lasted so long as the (
present one."
Compariug Rainfalls.
Rainy days are so much more (
frequent in England than in the i
United States that it is difficult for us .
to bear in mind that more rain falls .
on the Atlantic coast of the United .
States than in Great Britain.
The average annual rainfall of Philadelphia
is six inches more than that of
London, and Glasgow has a smaller
actual rainfall than London. This is
as true of New York as it is of Philadelphia,
and most of our American s
cities have a larger annual precipita- i
tion than English cities. t
The difference is that while the Eng- j
lish rainfall is distributed over a vast s
number oL rainy and cloudy days, our <.
rainy days are rarer, but when it rains ?
it comes down bv the bucketful. An t
English rainy day is easy to stand (
with a light umbrella, because at no \
time will it rain very hard; here the t
same amount of rain will fall in a i
single drenching storm. The result is I
that it is comparatively easy to keep i
about, to row, to ride or to walk 011 an t
English rainy day; here it is almost j
impossible to keep up any exercise \
whatever in the rains.
When, as is the case this year, our
rainfall is a full fourth heavier than
usual, Philadelphia has 50 per cent. ?
more rainfall than London, although \
the seventy or eighty brilliant clear
days in the past year are fully up to
the English average.?Philadelphia*
Press.
Make Believe.
The New England Primer impressed s
the alphabet upon the memory of an ^
earlier generation by certain rhymed a
couplets. The lines which served as a {
hook on which to hang the letter C? r
The Gat doth play,
And after slay? ,
have their statements of fact fully c
substantiated by a communication tc
Nature:
Animals have a keen sense of "making
believe," which is the essence of
play. A child's first game is bo-peep
?a make believe. When a pair of
friendly dogs have a jolly tussle, they 11
make believe to engage in deadly t.
combat 0
A striking instance of this occurred I
to me some years back. I gave a dead s
mouse to a kitten. It was the first ^
time she had seen one, and she sniffed
at it inquisitively before deciding on ^
tossing it about. *
A pair of slippers lay on the floor.
She dropped it into one of them, and
immediately proceeded to look for it s
most zealouslv in the other slipper, a
till I took up the first, which contained 1
her booty; then she showed that it
was no real lack of memory that had t1
sent her on the bootless search.? 11
Youth's Companion. t
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Caution to Mothers. J
Every mother is cautioned against
giving her_c]iild laudanum or pare- n
goric; it creates an unnatural craving a
for stimulants'which kills the mind ^
of the child. Acker's Baby Soother ^
is specially prepared to benefit the (
children and cure their pains. It is
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New York expends $100,000 a
month in street-cleaning. c:
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German School Life.
In the course of a lecture ou "A
V'isit to German Schools," recently
ielivered in Bradford by Mr. T. G.
Rooper, British inspector of schools,
president of the local branch of the
teachers' guild, he gave a description
)f a higher board school for girls
^Burgerschule) as drawn bv a German
jchoolmaster. Next he described a
typical school inspection, first in the
kvords of a German school inspector
md then in the words of one of the
[lead teachers, and finally in the words
>f the scholastic newspapers.
In one place a teacher got only ?45
for teaching 170 children. In Anhalt
:own teachers begin with ?50, and
rise in twenty-five years to ?105; in
the country they get ?6 to ?10 less.
As a natural result the applications
for admission to training colleges are
falling olf. The work required of the
teachers, too, was excessive. In Silesia,
Fell hammer, four teacners nave 10
teach 680 children iu nine classes. In
Salzbrunu, Head Teacher Bohin has
220 children to teach by himself. In
Dittersbach, four teacners have 700
children in seven classes, and of these
two classes only get six hours a week.
The number of children legally allowed
in one class is 120, but it is often
exceeded. This is the dark side of the
picture. Looking at the other side,
in the very best schools (as in Berlin)
the teachers are well paid, and thfere is
i large number of applications for
posts; the classes are smaller, and in
>ome cases the teachers are "specialists,1'
and take, say, all the arithmetic
>r all the drawing in the school. But
generally not only were the teachers
>verworked, but the routine for the
children was overcrowded. The discontent
of the Prussian teachers havng
culminated in a joint movement,
;hey were a few weeks ago forbidden
o make a "mass petition." One dis;rict
inspector has gone so far as to issue
an order that "expressions in
eachers' unions' statutes which set up
is the task of the union the furtherng
of the interests of the elementary
schools and of teachers in them are
lot permissible." The social position
if the German teacher has evidently
leclined. In 1870 Bismarck claimed
;liem as his staDC-hest allies, and the
public extolled them highly. Now a
change has set in. The comic press
md reactionaries in and out of parlianeut
combine to flout the unnappy
pedagogue.?St. James' Gazette.
A Meaeenffer of the Infinite.
There is one thought which I place
rar above opinions and hypothesis; it
s that morality is the serious and true
-hing par excellence, and that it sufices
by itself to give life a meaning
ind an end. Impenetrable veils conceal
from us the secret of this strange
world, of which the reality at once
iwes and overwhelms us; philosophy
rnd science will forever pursue, without
attaining it, the formula of this
Proteus, which no reason can measure,
which uo laggfrage can express. But
there isone incfubitahfe-basis'which no ,
skepticism can-'snaae, una i?? nhiii
nan will find to the end of time the
me lixed point of his uncertainties;
joodness is goodness, evil is evil. Science
and criticism in my eyes are
secondary things beside the necessity
rf preserving trie traditions of goodaess.
I am more convinced than ever that
he moral life corresponds to an object,
[f the end of life were happiness
nerely, there would be no reason for
listinguishingthedestiuy of man from
hat of inferior beings. But morality
s not synonymous with the art of being
happy. As soon as sacrifice becomes
a duty and a need, I see no limit
;o the horizon which opens before me.
Like the perfumes from the islands of
-he Ervthrean sea, which floated over
he waters and lured the mariner on,
his divine instinct is to me an augury
>f an unknown land, and a messenger
>f the Infinite.?Ernest Renan.
Eating; Before Sleeping;.
Dr. W. Washburn, in a note on the
?ubject of "Eating Before Sleeping,"
11 The Medical Record, says: "Now
i i.. ?ii.. ? ....^ e? -xi-l
.Here is reaiiy uu cacusc aw iuc utu
>rejudice, and we are only able to
;leep weli without first eating" (especially
if hungry) by long training
igainst nature. .For is it not a fact
hat the stomach requires more blood
luring the period of digestion, and
vhat more natural, theu, than that
he blood be drawn from the brain, as
t is the most vascular organ of the
xxly, and during sleep less blood is
equired in the brain? Hence di<*esion
should aid sleep, and sleep aid digestion.1'?New
York Commercial Adre
rtiser. Daly
Appreciated.
"Is this the postoffice?" he queried,
is he stepped inside the storm doors
vitli a letter in his hand.
"It is," replied the man addressed.
"Could I mail a letter here?"
' Yes, sir."
"And it'll go right out, will it?"
"No doubt of it."
"Thanks! I like this town. Things
ire business here. It is evident that
:ou people like to see a man get
ilong, and you won't lose anything
>y it. I'll speak a good word for your
>ostofilce wherever I go,"and if I can
lelp it any I shall be only too glad to
In so."?Detroit Free Press.
. A Duty to Yourself.
It is surprising that people will
ise a common ordinary pill when
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A small boy in Luzerne, N. Y., is
aid to be able to "play 'Parsifal' on
blade of grass held between his
humbs." Such musical prodigies
re numerous. A four year old l>oy
a a country town can play airs on a
in pan, by simply striking it with a
lammer, which cannot be distinguished
from selections from a Waglerian
ojiera.
There are two wings by which a
lan soars above the world?sincerity
nd purity. The former regards the
itention, the latter the affection,
hat aspires and aims at a likeness to
rod, that makes us really like Him.
Money makes the man, but man
as to make the money first.
A man is not necessarily a heavy i
alibre because he has a large mouth. J i
There's only one man in a thousand they say,
Who correctly whistles a tune.
But ev'ry man thinks he's that one, alas!
And puckers his month like a loon.
THE SCIENCE OF FIRES.
A Boston Man Make* a New Suggestion,
To Use Electricity Witti Safety.
Gen. Francis A. Walker, president
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
was interviewed by a Herald
man on the practical lessons of the
fire. He said:
"Of course, I have not made a
study of this fire, and am not prepared
with an opinion as to its origin. It is
said to have been started bv electric
wires, and I have no doubt this is the
case. At any rate, it has opened the
way for many objections to the use of
electricity. This great agent undoubtedly
is dangerous. It has been
introduced so extensively in a short
time and has been put to so many
uses that the public has become tern
fied from the numerous accidents that
have occurred. The experience of the
pasttwentv-five years has proved that
the world cannot decline a great
agent of power because of the liabilities
that attach to it in proportion to
its benefits. The general use of electricity
is meeting with opposition, but
its final universal adoption is certain.
There will be accidents and there will
be fires, but the immense power needed
to run street cars and to li^ht cities
cannot be obtained without this cost.
There are as yet comparatively few
men who have had the scientific training
and practical experience to use it
with the best results?the maximum
of power and the minimum of danger.
It is chiefly handled by two classes of
men. There are cranks who are full
of enthusiasm and theory, and almost
without practical knowledge or application,
and there are workmen who
have had something to do with electrical
machinery, nave picked up
some ideas, and blunder ahead after a
fashion. This will change in time,
and electrical matters will be in charge
of men from our scientific schools,
who acquire the experience readily,
and are soon fully equipped for the
business.
"There is one thing that I have
thought might be useful in this connection.
It is that a thoroughly competent
scientific man be appointed to
make a practical study of fires. He
should have no duties other than this,
and should have every possible facility
for worlf. He should go to every
fire in the city, study its progress ana
the accompanying air currents and
meteorological phenomena. He could
keep a chart of the fire for reference
and comparison. I think such a man
could, with advantage, inform himself
upon the gases, if any, generated by
building materials and the contents of
mercantile houses when subjected to
great heat. He could profitably increase
our knowledge as to what constitues
a fireproof building.
"The value of open squares and
parks in case of a big fire cannot be
.overestimated. They form vantage
iiomts ijvm wiiicii. uie nremen can
work; thfejralrow 'the acpaitmcat %o
concentrate its fight at a narrower
point, and afford much practical its
well as moral assistance. The narrow
streets and the 'shammy' way in
which many buildings are constructed
are a constant meuance to Boston.
The only way which will result in
good is for one man to put up a substantial
structure and then for his
neighbors to do the sacpe, and so ou
until the class of buildings is improved."?Boston
Herald.
A Mathematical Prodigy*
Sam Summers, the negro prodigy,
was in town yesterday, and, as usual,
entertained a largo crowd, who were
testing him with all kinds of mathematical
problems. Summers is a negro,
34 years old, without the slightest education.
He cannot read or write, and
does not know one figure from another.
He is a common, every day
farm hand, and to look at him and
watch his actions he seems to be about
half-witted, but his quick and invariably
correct answer to any example
in arithmetic, no matter how difficult,
is simply wonderful. With the hundreds
of tests that he has submitted
to, not a single time has he failed to
give the correct answer in every instance.
Some examples given him yesterday
were: How much gold can be bought
for $792 in greenbacks if gold is worth
$1.65? Multiply 597,312 by 13$. If a
Sain of wheat produces 7 grains, and
ese be sown the second year, each
yielding.the same increase, how many
bushels will be produced at this rate
in twelve years if 1,000 grains make a
pint? If the velocity of sound is 1,142
* i -i I x? _e xL _
reel per second, me puisauon 01 me
heart 70 per minute, after seeing a
flash of lightning' there are 20 pulsations
counted before you hear it thunder,
what distanoe is the cloud from
the earth, and what is the time after
seeing the flash of lightning until you
hear the thunder? A commission
merchant received 70 bags of wheat.
each containing 3 bushels, 3 gftgksana
3 quarts; how many bushejfi&id he
receive? And so on.
With Robinson's, Ray's and other
higher arithmetics before them, those
who have tested him as yet have been
unable to find any example that with
a few moments' thought on his part
he is not able to correctly answer.?
Louisville Commercial.
A True Aboriginal.
A remarkably interesting paper on
the last living ab<~f iginal of Tasmania
was read by Mr. J Sines Barnard at the
meeting* of the Tasmania Royal society
about two months ago. It has
hitherto been generally believed that
the aboriginal Tasmaniansare extinct.
Mr. Barnard, however, as we learn
from Nature, contends that there is
still one survivor?Fanny Cochrane
Smith, of Port Cygnet, the mother of
six sons and five daughters, all of
whom are living. She is now about
55 years of age. Fanny's claims to the
honor of being a pure representative
of the ancieut race have been disputed,
but Mr. Barnard makes out a good
case iu her favor. He himself remembers
her as she was forty years ago,
when there were still about thirty or
forty natives at Oyster Cave; "and
certainly at that time," he says, "I
never heard a doubt expressed of her
not being a true aboriginal, *
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Christmas Shadows.
Happy Thoughts Pertinet of the
Joyous Xmastide.
BY SAMUEL M. SMITH.
If minor chords there be
Blent with the pleasant strain.
They do buttead
To make it end
In fuller harmony.
Oh! the happy, happy, happy Christ mastide;
with lightness and its
brightness, with its music and its
gladness and its joy! Where is the
season that can compare with it in
universality, in the abandon of its
gayety? In the homes of the rich
and by the humblest hearth of the
poor, its influence is felt; what heart
so crabbed, what pocket so niggard
or so straitened, as not to relax in or
under the genial contagion that fills
the very air?
But by some unbidden impulse,
my inind turns from.the comprehensive
cheer and wanders abitrarily
away to an alien theme, and fancy
imagines a lustreless, dull jet contre
set within a circlet of diamonds; the
dark symbol of mourning surrounded
by the flashing points of light; how
the darkness enhanced by such a
border.
And thus I think of hearts in which
the depth of sadness intestified by
the surrounding and abounding joy.
There's a minor in the enrol.
And a shadow in the Ihrht,
And asnrayof cypress twining
With the holly wreath to-nignt.
Ah! yes, full many a mother this
night looks through mists?with a
smile floating on the bosom of a tear
?watching the fun and frolic of her
children; she misses so sorely the
patter of little feet, merry laughter
weakens in memory the echo of the
voice that is stilled forever on the
earth.
Leaves have their time to fall.
And flow- rs to whither at the North wind's
breath.
And tears to set?but all.
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh!
Death. * "
And hence in manv homes this
glad festival is a sad anniversary, all
the sadder for the joy that seems almost
like the sacrilege of treachery
to the memory of her loved one.
May such not remember that
Christmas with its star-herald and
its angels1 song was, after all, but an
incident, a means to an end? The
joyous birth was still the birth of the
"man of sorrow,1' but the prelude to
the death that opened the gates of
heaven, into which gate those little
feet have gone into the .beautiful
home of the blest. It was He who
took little children to his arms and
said, "Suffer the little children to
come unto me, and forbid thein not
furof BUCtl IS'thClBWgckim of iiraveu.'! , ,
Did He not say the same to you,
when the little one you mourn laid
aside its toys and went home to God?
"If wn could but hear them singing.
As they are singing now.
If we could but see the ra-tianoe
Of the crown on each dear brow.
There would be no sigh to smother. ..
No bidden tear to flow."
Nervous Derangement and Constipation.
After years of suffering from neraous
derangement and constipation,
and after being treated by several
leading physicians, from whom I ob
tained no relief, I was induced to trv
S. S. S. , , '
Soon after commencing its use, I
found my appetite much improved,
and that the use of cathaiiics. which
I had taken almost daily for ,welvc
months, was no longer necessity.
Since childhood I have been subject
to sick aud nervous headaches,
but since December 1,1888, at which
1 TT Jl ? _ !_ CI O O
time I commenced taxing o. o. o.
I have had only one attack, and that
was when I neglected taking the
Specific.
I do not now have to take purgative
medicines.
J. A. reid, Boiling, Ala.
tormenting skin disease.
For twenty years I was tormented
with a tormenting itching skin disease,
and loss of sleep. I was
treated by the best local physicians,
but received no relief from them. I
finally concluded to take Swift's Specific
(S. S. S.), a half dozen bottles of
which effected, what I consider, a permanent
cure, as I have felt no symptoms
of the disease for over a year.
W. T. Cowles, Terrill, Texas.
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The following statistical report of /
the State Baptist Convention shows f
the Baptists to be the most. numer^J
ous denomination aadtfofl bost-firganized
for effective w uix, in the
State: Last year there were 300 ordained
ministers and 704 churches.
The total membership for the State
amounted to 74,280. There were 616
Sunday schools, with 4,103 teachers
and 35,209 scholars. The church
raised S9.606.35 for State missions
colportage, $8,300.13 for foreign
missions, $3,542.42 for home missions,
$20,263.98 for education, and
$133,200.26 for miscellaneous purposes,
or a total of $175,063.14. The
property is valued at $746,985.
This is a wonderful showing, and is
but a fair index to the real strength
and power of the church in South
Carolina.
A Mare Matter of Form.
Mr. Hardeash?"Well, sir, what
induced you to imagine that I would
give my consent to my daughter's
marrying you?"
Do Gali?"Pardon me, my dear
sir, I wasn't so foolish as to imagine
anything of the kind. I merely asked
for it as a matter of form. If you refuse
we shall marry without it, that's
all."
No man is so high that the law is
not above him.
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