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REV. DR. TALMAGK
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Tixt: "^4 certain man icent down from
Jerusalem to Jericho?Luke x., 80.
It is the morning of December 5 in Jerusalem,
and we take stirrups for the road
along which the wayfarer of old fell among
thieves, who left him wounded and half
omui. Job's picture of the horse iu the I
orient as having neck "clothed with tbun- I <
der" is not true of most horses now in Pal- l
eetiuo. There is no thunder on theirjMri|^mj
though there is some lighthiBkJ?^HMM
heels. Poorly fed and
whacked, they sometimes retort. To Amp *
cans and English, who are accustomed to
guide horses by the bridie, these horses of
the orient, guided only by foot and voice,
make equestrianism eu uncertainty, and th i
Snil on the bridle that you intend for slow
lg up of the pace may be mistaken for a
hint that you want to outgallop the wind or
wheel in swift circles like the hawk. But
^|u<y can climb steps and descend precipices
skilled foot, and theoneT choose for our
^^Rimey in Palestine shall have the praise of
?lng for weeks without one stumbling step
h amid rex ky steeps where an ordinary
P~o would not for un hour maintain surestedness.
There were eighteen of our
party, and twenty-two boasts of burden carried
"our camp equipment. We are led by an
Arab sheik, with his black Nubian servant
carrying a loaded gun in full sight, hut It is
the f<ict that this sheik represents the Turkish
Government which assures tho safety of
tho caravan.
We cross tho Jehoshaphat Valley, which,
if it had not bceu memorable in history and
were only now discovered, would excite tho
admiration of all who look upon It. It Is
like tho gorges of tho Yosemitoor the chasms
of tho Yellowstone Park. Tho sides of this
Jehoshaphat Valley are tunneled with graves
and overlooked by Jerusalem walla?an eternity
of depths overshadowed by an eternity
of architecture. Within sight of Mount
Olivet and Getlisomane and with tho heavens
and the earth full of sunshine, we start out
on the very road mentioned in tho text when
It eajBi "A certaiu man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho and fell, among
thieves." No road that I ever saw was so
well constructed for brigandago ? deep
gulloys, shorn tnrns, eaves on either side.
There are fifty places on this road where ?
highwayman might surprise and overpower
au unarmed pilgrim. His cry for help, his
shriek of pain, his death groan would do answered
only by the echoes. On this road today
we met groups of men, who, judging
from their countenances, have In their veins
Iho blood of many generations of Bob Roys.
Jose phi is says that Ilerod at one time discharged
from the service of the temple forty
thousand meu, and thut the great part of
them became robbers. So late as 1820 Sir
Frederick Henuiker, an English tourist, was
attacked on this very road from Jerusalem
to Jericho and shot and almost slain. Thero
has never been any scarcity of bandits along
the road we travel to-day.
With the fresh memory of some recent
violence in their minds Christ tells the
Kople of tho good Samaritan who came along
at way and took care of a poor fallow that
bad been set upon by villain eras Arabaaad
robbed and pounded and cut. Wa encamped
for lunch that noon clo9o by an old stono
building, said to bo the tavern whore tho
Bceno spoken of in the Bible culminated.
Tumbled in the dust and ghastly with
wounds the victim of this highway robl>ery
lay in the middle of the road?a fact of
which I am certain, because the Bible says
the people passed l>y on either side. There
were 12.000 priests living at Jericho, and
they had to go to Jerusalem to officiate at
the temple. And one of these ministers of
religion, I suppose, waa on his way
to the temple service, and he is
etartled as lie sees this bleeding victim in the
middle of the road. ''Ob," he says, "hero Is
*? man rliat has been attacked of thieves.
IVhy don't you go home?" says the mlnlEter.
The man, in a comatose state, makes no answer,
or, with a hulf dazed look, puts Tils
wounded hand to his gashed forehead,AtfXftjB I
drawls out, "What?" 'Well," says the mljap3Inter,
"1 must hurry on to my duties at Jemina .<
*ulom. T have to kill n lamb and twd ptgaffifl ^
in sacrifice to-day. I cannot spehflajiy^MnB 1
body elso vrill take care of him. a
one of tiro things that cannot lie I
how. Beside that, my business ifrwtjS souls S>
and not with bodies. (jood mornin]?T tVhci
yon get well enough to sit up I ifiH, bo glno
To see you at the tpmpie." fff
And tlio minister curves hBf way ou.v
iovrard the overhanging , tho
road and passes. You hypuSlWei^ One of
the chief officers of religion is to heal wounds
?You might have done ficra a kipd"flps^tliat
would have been more acceptGod
than all the incense that will smoke up from
you censer for the next three weeks, and you
missed tiie chance, (Jo on your way?execrated
by tbo centuries.
Soon afterward n l.evite came npon tho
scene. The Levitcs looked after the pnusip
of tho temple and waited upon the priests
and provided the supplies of tho temple.
This l.evite, passing along this road where
we are to-day, took a look at the ma-s.j>f;;"
bruises ami laceration in tno middle or tuo
rouii. 'My! my!" says the Levite, ''this>.
,mun is awfully" hurt nn.l he ought to lie
'hetped. Hut my business Is to sing in the
choir at the temple. If I am not tliere no
!one will carry my part. Besides that there
may not. he enough frankincense for the eonj
sers and the wine or oil may have given out.
and what a t'eni'i'ul balk in tho service that
woma inaKe. then oneof the priests might
get his breastplate on crooked. But it seems
too bad to leave this man In this condition
Perhaps I had better try to stanch this foUod j
ing and give him a little stimulant. Blffaol ' The
ceremony at- Jerusalem is of more importance
than taking cure of
mun who will probably soon be aaSESBSBsa
hour vv.fr. fifctiirai^opo^yougf.t wnt
. ?i. i M|ii ffli'lt Tltnfters ns "Levitea cm one way M
up to the tamplo. There, I have lost five
minutes already! Go along, you beast!" lie
shouts as he strikes his heels into the sides of
,the animal carrying him, and thodust rising
from the road soon hides the hard hearted
official.
But a th^rd person is coming along this
I. You cannot expect him to do anyjg
by wav of alleviation, because he and
wounded man belong to different no
ttons whicli have abominated each other
for centuries. The wounded man is ait
Israelite, and tlio stranger now coming on
tho scene of suffering is a .Samaritan. They
belong to nations which hated each other
with an objurgation and malediction diabolic.
They had opposition temples?one on
Mount Genzim and the other on Mount
Moriah?and I guess this Samaritan, when
he conies up, will give the fallen Israelite
another clip and say: "Good for you! 1
will just finish tiio work these bandits began,
and givo you one more kick that will put
you out or your misery. And hero is a rag
of your coat thai they did not steal, and 1
will take that. What! Do you dare to appeal
to me for mercy? Hush up! Why, your
ancestors worshiped at Jerusalem when
th?y ought to have worshiped at Geri/.inv
Now. take that! and that ! he'd that-** wiltRay
the Samaritan as ho pounds tho fallen
! Israelite.
No: tho Samaritan rides up to tho scene of
suffering, gets ofY his beast uud steps down,
and looks into tho face of tlio wouuded irrttn'
and says: "This poor follow does not belong
to my nation, and our ancestors worahiiajd
in different places, but he is a man, and that
makes us brothers. God pity him, as I do."
And he get down on his know and Itegiae to
examine his wounds and strtiifchfen Out'bis'
'limbs to see if any of bis bones nro broken,
and says: "My dear feilow, cheer up; you
meed have no more care about yourself, for
I am going to take care of you. Let me feel
or your piiiso! i^-tine listen to your breathi
lug! I nave in them 'bottles-two liquids,'
that will help you. The one is oil. and that
will soothe tno pain of those wounds, and thoi
other is wine, and your pulso is fecbjp^MifU
you fee! faint, and that will stimulate y?"'
Now I must get you to- the nearest tavern.".,
"Oh, no," says the man. "I can't walk^jft
mo stay here and dio.y ''Notisonsqff(Saynl
the Samaritan. "You aro not going to die. I '
I am going to put yon on this beast, and li
will hold you on till I atf
b* ' 1
Now the Hamaritan has got the wonnSPy
man on bis feet, and with much tugging ana
, lifting puts him on the beast, for itis astonishing
how strong the spirit of kindness will
make one, as you have seen a mother after 1
threo- weeks of sleeplem watching of her boy, 1
down with soarlet /ever, lift that half grown j
boy, heavier than herself, frotn couch to J
lounge. And so this sympathetic Samaritan
has unaided put the wounded man In the 1
addle, and at slow pace the extemporlred ?
ambulance is moving toward the tavern. I
"You feel better now,-1 think," says the 8a- I In
naritan to the Hebrew. "Yes," ho says, "1 j Hi
lo feel better." "Halloo, you landlord! help at
me carry this man in and make him com- cl
fortuble." That night the Samaritan sat up 1*
with the Jew, giving him water whenever tb
he felt thirsty and turning his pillow when- oi
ever it got hot* and in tho morning bofore oi
the Samaritan started on his lourney ho ev
said, "Landlord, now I am obliged to go. of
Take good care of this man, ?ud I will bo ^
along nere soon again and pay you for all ^
you ao for him. Meanwhile here is some
thing to meet present expenses." The "two"* tu
pence" be gave the landlord sounds small,
but it was as much as ten dollars here and ~~
now, considering what It would thore and "
then buy of food and lodging. r?
that December noon we sat under .
iMHow of the tavern where this scene of ^
Mpyihad occurred, and Just having passed nt
jyZjpg the road where tho tragedy had hap- m
pm*L 1 could, as plainly as I now see the -fi
nearem man to this platform, see that Bible gi
story re-enacted, and I said aloud to our ti<
group, under the -toa&e?t:Uuo drop of prac- Si
tlcal Christianity is worth mofe than a torn- oi
pleful of ecclesiasticism, and that goo<l Ha- ti
marltan had more religion in five minutes m
than that minister and that Levite had in a 1ft
lifetime, and the most accursed thing on j ,
earth la national prejudice, and I bless God ^
that I live in America, where Gentile and Jew,
Protestant and Catholic can live together
without quarrel, and where in tho
great national crucible the differences of sect J
and trll>e and neoplo are being molded Into u ^
great brotherhood, and that tho question *
which tho lawyer flung at Christ, and which ?,
brought forth this incident of tho good 8amnritan?'Who
Is mv neighbor? is bringing t,
,'orth the answer, 'My neighbor is the first
man 1 meet in trouble,' ana a wound close at
baud calls louder than a temple seventeen
miles off, though it covered nineteen acres." ,
I saw lu London the vast procession which
one day last January uiowxl to 8t. Paul's IT
Cathedral at the burial of that Christiau i*
hero Lord Napier. Tho day after at Hawar- .,
den, in conversation on Various themes, I .
asked Mr. Gladstone If he did not think that ^
umui nuu '?CI O UUUCV UIU 5UUUUW UL LQISO
religions might not nevertheless bo at heart
really Christian. Mr. Gladstone replied:
"Yes; my old friend Lord Napier, who was J
yesterday buried, after ho returned from his r,
Abyssinian campaign, visited us here at J"
liawarden, and walking in this park where
wo are now walking ho told me a very beau- ?
tiful tnoideut. He said: 'After the war in
Africa was over we were on tho march, and ,
we had a soldier with a broken leg
who was not strong enough to go along "
with us, and wo did not daro to leave n
him to bo taken care of by savages, but we 5
found we were compelled to leave him, and 1
we weut into tho liouso of a woman who was 8
said to boa very kind woman, though of tho 2
race of savages, and wo said, "Hero Is
a sick mail, nud if you will take care ?
of him till he gets well we will pay 1
you very largely, and then wo offered ?
her five times that which would ordl- ?
narily be offered, hoping by tho excess of *
pay to secure for him great kindness. The
woman replied: "I will not take care of him ?
for the money you offer. I do not want your v
money. But leave him here, and I will tnko c
care of him for the sake of tho lovo of 8
God."'" Mr. Oladstono turned to mo and ?
said, "Dr. Talniage. don't you think that ~
though she belonged to a race of savages that
was pure roligiou^' Aud I answered, "I do; s
I do." May God multiply all tho world over g
tUe number of good Samaritans!
In Philadelphia a young woman was dying. k
She was a wreck. Sunken into the dopths i
of depravity, there was no lower depth for a
her to reach. Word came to tho midnight 1 s
mission that she was dying in a haunt of e
4 n 4s illi Ht naar Kir 1VI?a hta..1/4 *-11 I- ' *
??? *-'J ?' ?V ?*uu?U IAJ wu uur J
of tho Christ of Mary Magdalen? This ono
refused and that ono rofusod, saying, "I t
dare not go there." A Christian woman, 1
her white locks typical of her purity or soul, ?
said, "I wui go, and I will go now," Sh I
went and eat down by the dying girl and told 1
of Christ who como to seek and save that 1
which was lost. First to the forlorn ono *
came the tears of repentance, and
then the smile, as though she had 1
begun to hope for tho pardon of Him 1
who eamo to savo to the uttermost. Then 1
iust beforo she breathed her last she said to n
njeeangelpf tncroy bending over her pillow, ?
^wouKl-ypu kiss me?" "1 will," sahi tho ?
X&rttUiau woman. as slio put upon her cheek j1
salutation before, in the heavenly d
Xthjak. God gave her the welcoming j
d*U'>'t -fc*n"iftriUms along every street F
or y road as well as this one ou ^
|d,^sig^itseera is again ^
do >'<>u ?;nlt t!iis?" and ho re- *
plietfc "This is tho Brook Cherith, whero ?
klijdtf- wis fed by tho ravens." And in f
that answer he overthrow my lifo long
notions of tho place wliero Elijah was waited P
on-My* the black servants of tho sky. A
brook Jo mo bad meant a slight depression "
of jjflfcml and a stream fordable, and perhan^mteon
feet wide. But hero was a chasm I
thft^Cn earthquake must havo scooped out
wiUi its biggest shovel or split with its ,
'mightiest battle as. Six hundred foot
deep Is it. and the brook Cherith is a river c
which, when in full force, is a silver wedge f
splitting tho mountains into precipices. Tho t
\ fi-ntKertd descendants of Elijah s ravens still c
j wing their way across this ravine, but are
nof like tho crows wo supposed them to be. 1
They areas large as cagi<- . and one of thoui c
could carry in its beak nnd clinched claw at t
once enough food for a half dozen Elijahs. a
No thanks to the ravens; they are carniv- t
erous, and would rather have ploko 1 out the J
eyes of Elijah, whom they found at the fl
mouth of thecave on the side of Cherith c
waiting for his breakfast, having druuk his t
?orain?r bavaragj fr.j-rt tf-f rushing stream t
'.beneath, than have been his butlers and ]
purveyors. , ?
. UutQotl compelled them, as Ho always has [
iforapellod and always will compel black ami c
oniw nnd ovorshaoowing providences to i
4Mtrrr Me/p tc Hit! children It they OaXy DJLVH 1
to catxto the Meaning as it drops ,
from the seeming adversity, tno greatest f
blessing always coming not with white wings i (
but black w ings. Black '-wings of convic- ,
tion, bringing pardon to tho sinner. Black
wings of crucifixion over Calvary, bringing
redemption for the world. Black wings oi
American revolution, bringing free institutions
to a continent. Black wings of
American civil war, bringing unification
and solidarity to the republic.
Black wings of tho judgment day
bringing resurrection to an entombed
human race. And in the lost day, when all
your life and mine will be summed up, we
will find that the greatest blessing wo ever n
received came on tho wings of the block
ravens of disaster. Bless God for trouble I
Bless God for sickness! Bless God for persecution!
Bless God for poverty! You never
beard of any man or woman of great use to
the world who had not had lots of troublo.
fho diamond must be cut; tho wheat must
lie threshed; the biack ravous must fly. Who %
are these nearest the throne? "Theso are '
they who come out of groat tribulation, and t
hail their robes washed and made wbito in 1
i he blood of the Lamb." But
look 1 Look what at 4 o'gJock in the J
afternoon bursts upon our vision?tho plain c
of Jericho, and the valley of Jo-dan, and the t
[.r*ilor1le? niW"? iiYuulf wSllf Hi iTiae "up "on I
their haunches, and wo all dismount, for the <
steep descent is simply terrific, though <t
Princess of XTnllaohia who fell here and was
dangerously injured, after recovery spent a
largo amount money in trying to make the '
road passable. Down and down! till we saw
fhto White tentspltched for us by our mule- f
teersamtd the ruins of ancient Jericho, which j
fell at tho soil nil of nnor mimin nl"'"-1 "
, ? U.V f.UJdl Ull ? L
"ram's horn," that ancient instrument I
which, taken from the bend of the lender of <
the fl<x:k of sheep, is porforntod and pro- ,
pared to lie lingered by the musical per- '
lonner, and blown upon when pressed to tho I
lip*. Ah in another sermon I have fully do- . I
cribed tlmt serine, I >vill only say that every t
day for seven days the ministers of religion
went round the city of Jericho blowing upon "
those rams'horns, and on the sevonth clay, , 1
without tho roll of a war chariot, or the j
stroke of n catapult, or the swing of a b&l- j,
lista, crash! crash I crash! ?ffttlie walls of .
that magnificent WJJlMnl"** '
On the erming of December 6 we walked h
amid the brick and mortar of that shat- t
$04iclty, and I said to myselfi AH a
a 1
m narp, or a onto, or a dapping
rrawJBkor on organ played, at the sonna 1
of wtSSn the city surrendered to destruction,
but a rudo instrument making rude
muslo blest of God, to the demolition of
that wicked place which, had for centuries
jelled the A imigfcty And I said, if all g
t-hla waa by the nlessing of God on poor t t
nusio, what mightier things could he done p
yy the blessing of God on good mnsia skill
ul music, gospel music. If all the good ?
hat has already been done by music were a
ubtracted from the world I believe three- _
ourths of its religion Voold b#> gone/ Tbe<
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llabys of mothers which keep Bounding on, I
lougu the lipe that sang them forty ye^n
;o became ashes; the olahymnartn log cabin .1
turches and country meeting houses, and
salms in Rouse's Torsion in SoptfcU kirks:
is atlthem in English cathedrals: the roll of
gang that will uever let Randal or Haydn
Beethoven dlo; the thump of harps, the'
!-<vp of the bow across base vfofe the song*
Sabbath schools stormingtheneerenathe. *
rougbt down.
Seated by the warmth of oar oampftres
at evening of December 0. amid thfe bricks
id d 'bri - Of J eric ho. and iii>ganmii
uadc ^haa^done ^ amiwhat
ixl on goodmufi stji
ters have been doing a grana ufarkv and
noons have "been blessed, but would it
)t be well for ua to pat more emphasis on
usfef Oh, for a campaign of "Old Huuredf
Oh, for a brigade of tfoont ^
ihs! Ob, tor a cavalry charge of "CoronacmsT'
Oh, for an army of Antlocfaa and
b. Martins and Ariel* I Oh, for enough
chestral batons lifted to mprsnal all naone
I As Jericho was surrounded by poor
iusIo for seven days, and was conquered,
? let our earth be surrounded seVen days
j good gospel music, and the round planet
lllDe taken for God. Not a wall of oppotlou.
not a throno of tyranny, not a palco
of sin. not an enterprise of unrighteousess,
could stand the mighty throb of such
Unospherlc pulsation. Muslot It sounded
b tho laying of creation's corner stone
lien the morning stars sang . together,
[usiel It will be tho last reverberation,
hen tho archangel's trumpet shall wake i
u> dead. Musiol Let its full power be
aw togtod to comfort and bless and arouse j
ad save. 1
Whilo our evening meal is being prepared
i tho tents wo walk out for a momatt to
10 "Fountain of Elinha," the one into which 1
10 prophet threw tho salt because the
titers were poisonous and bitter, and loj
ley became sweet and healthy s and ever
nco with gurgle and laughter, they have
Lished down the hill and leaped from the
Dcks, the only cheerful object In all that
scion being these waters. w, J
Now on this plain of Jericho the sun Isseting,
making the mountatns look like balusraaea
and battlements of amber aqd m&roon
udgold; and the moon, just above the create,
sera* to be a window of heaven through
rhich immortals might beloooktngdowuupu
tho scene. Three Afrabs as watchmen sit
csido the camp fire at the door of
ay tent, thoir low conversation in
strange language all night long a
oothing rather tnnn on Interruption,
had a dream that night never to be for;otten.
that dream amid the oomploto ruins
>f Jericho. Its past grandeur returned, and
caw f hanlf.V na If uma uiKon Mn?L A
;avo it to Cleopatra and Herod bought it) |
rom bur. And I Heard tho hoofs of its swift
teeds and the rumbling of its chariots and
ho shouts of excited spectators in its amphlheatro.
And tliero was white marble amid green
roves of palm and balsam; cold stone
r?rmod with sculptured foliage; hard pillars
ut into soft lace; Iliads and Odyssoys in
ranite; basalt jot as the night mounted by
arbunclo flaming as the morning; upholstery
yed us though clipped In the blood of battle
ield? robes cucrusted with diamond; mo- i
airs white as sea foam flashed on by auroras; '
ayotioe which tho sun saw by day rivaled by
ovols the moon saw by night; blashphemy
milt against tho sky; ceilings stellar as the
n id night heavens; grandeurs turreted,
irchivolted and intercolumnar; wickedness
0 appalling that established vocabulary fails;
md we must make an adjective and call it
lorodio.
Tho region round about the city walls
teemed to me white with cotton such as
rheniua describes as once growing there,
ind sweet with sugar cane, and luscious with
>range and figs and pomegranates, and redoont
with such flora as can only grow where
1 tropical sun kisses tho earth. And the hour
Mime back to me when in th$ midst of all
hnt, splendor Herod died, commanding his
lister Salome immediately after his death to
tecum the assassination of all the chief Jews
tvhom he had brought to the city and shut
p in a circus for that purpose, and the nowq
?mo to tho audience in tho theatre as some
no took the stage and announced to tho exited
multitude: "Herod is dead! Herod is
Tiion in my dream all the pomp of
oricho vanished, and gloom was^wtded to
loom, and desolation to desolatloiK and woe
"> woe, until, perhaps the ripplinV waters
f tho fountain of Elisha sugcostMg it?as
muds will soine^mes give ciiro/tion to a
ream?I thought that tho waters/of Christ's I
.. i >1 .? i l?uJa? J
nd uncleanness" were rolling thtrBflgn Tnair
>lain and across the oontlnent, and rolling 1
ound the earth, until on either side of their I
tanks all the thorns became flowera and
11 tho deserts gardens, and all the i
lovels mansions, and all the fu< '
iprols bridal processions, and all the blood of I
rnr was turned into dahlias, and all the |
proans became anthems, and Dante's "Incrno"
became Dante's "Divlna Commedia,"
ind "Paradise Lost" was submerged by '
'P. ? *' ? B ?gained," ana tears became i
Tystals, cruel swords came out of foundries I
glistening plowshares, and in my dream at |
he blast or a trumpet the prostrated walls ,
u Joriclio rose again.
And some one told me that as these walls |
n Joshua's time at the sounding trumpets i
>f doom went down, now at the sounoing i
rum pet of the gospel they come up ,
igain. And I thought a man appeared ati 1
he door of my tent, and I said. "Who aro |
ou and from whence have you cornel"
nd he said, "I am the Samaritan you heart}
if at tho tavern on the road from Jerusalem
o Jericho, as taking care of the man '
vho fell among thieves, and I have |
ust come from healing the last wound of the ,
ast unfortunate in oil the earth." And I ,
-oso from my pillow in the tent to greet him, '
ind ray dream broke and I realised it was j
?i,. , * i *- -i? * waa ter" 1
xuuo a glorious reality as surely as God is
me ana Christ's gospel i9 the world's Co- '
holicon. "Glory be to the Father, and to '
:hoSon, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was at |
lie beginning, is now and ever shall be^
ft-crld without end. Amen."
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A Wig for Every Day. I
"So you do not believe that Mr. IT?
? wears a wig?" ho asked.
4,Certaiuly not."
"Where's your proof?"
"Look at his hair?smooth, glossy
md natural."
"Very good wigs are made nowadays."
"Well, did you ever see a wig grow?"
"Not exactly."
"llis docs, if it's a wig."
"Aro you sure of it?"
"Of course I am?that is, sure that his
lair in his own, for I have seen him on
he day when lie hun had his hair cut. I
lavo seen it grow day by day until it j
icedcd cutting. In fact his hair is wonlerfotly
vigorous. Hardly ?d*tr pa?ue ^
hat I do not sco II and onco I renarked
to him how rapidly his hair
;row.
" 'Do you think it's too long?'he a^id.
" 'Well, yes, I do, a little,' <
jwcred. t
" 'I'll get it cut this afternoon,' he
laid. * 1
"The next morning I met him and his 1
lair was cut and trimmed almost too ]
ilosoly. Whero in tho world did you <
ret tho idea that he woro a wig?"
VMy dear young innocent," was tho
cply, "wigs are so skilfully made now.
hat-ono can't detect them, il lias, j
i wig for every day in tho month. \
Yheu ho wants to have his hair cut ho i
?uts on his shortest wig. The next day 1
io puts on a longer one and so on stfep
>y step, as his hair grows. Finally his ]
lair gets too long and he has it cuthat
Is, ho goes back to the short wig ^
nd begins all over again. Boeing is not <
eUovin*."?JY Ymh rrttyr*. 1
i
When Katlng Fish. (
"When you eat fish," said ft distill- t
-uished physician to me, "don't eat aay>
lling with it. Bones are apt to slip int< ,]
n6 bread or tho cracker or the potatoei
r anything else you take with tho fish ?
nd thus become lodged in the throat.' I
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PECULIAR 1>>1PAIUATI0N.
DICtrcal Msckataa rvUllawlai (h? Iijaiotloa
"Lav* On? Aaathar."
Do men ever fall in Uffro with each other?
Women do. Not ion J? ago a young woman
In New Jersey was mar n 1*1 to a youthful laborer
on her father** fr* Sometime afterward
it was diaoovereuRftat the hoiband waa
a female; the young wiM refused, however,
though earnestly entreated by her friends, to
give up her choeen oousJrt. The strangest
part of the dlsoovery was tthe fact that the
bride knew her husband w Asa woman before
she was led to the altar. i
If men do not exhibit thi* strange infatuation
for one of their own pas, they at least
oftentimes give evidence of the fact that they
love one another. Thors are many instances
on record where one jOTfrt** R1 * his life
for another. ThcrojSgpLdiy more instances
were tuan have gvvvjy iirS Urwwther.
It is a proud powwiont^-tho knowledge
that one has saved, a proeiov* human life.
Merldem Conn., is the Lome of such a happy
man. John H. Preston, of that city, July
11th, 1890, writes: "Five years ago I was
taken very sick, I had several 01 the beet doctors.
and one and all called it a complication
Of diseases. 1 was sick four ye^rs, taking
prescriptions prescribed by these same doctors,
and I truthfully state I never expected
to get any better. At this time, I commenced
to nave tho 'most terrible pains in
my back. Onedayan?old friend of mimv
Mr. R. T. Cook of ihe Arm of Curtis & Cook,
advised me to try Warner's Safe Cure, as he
had been troubled the same way and it had
effected a euro for him. I bought six bottles,
took the medicine as directed and am to-day
a well man. I am sure no one over had a
worse case of kidney and liver trouble thau I
had. Before this 1 was always against proprietary
modiciuesbut not now, oh, no."
Friendship expresses itself in very peculiar
wayssometimeu; but tho true friend is the
friend in need.
Living bj Rale.
Oliver Wendell Holmes thinks that he
gea his good' mlth, aacLthe retention
hie mentai^igor, in MS OtwMy Bra*;
year, to the extreme care he has long
taken of himself. Never robust, he was'
stiii wiry in his earlier and maturer life,
but since he reached eighty his hygienic
vigiianco is unceasing. The rooms that
he doily occupies are equipped with barometers,
thermometers, aerometers, overy
kind of instruments, in short, to prevent
his inourring the slightest risk of taking
cold. He knows that pneumonia is the
most formidable foe of old ago, and ho is
determined to keep it at a distance if
possible. He never gets up until ho
knows the exact temperature, during
winter, or takes his bath without having
the water accurately tested. He liyes by
rule, and the rulo is indexible. His timo
is scrupulously divided, so much allottod
to reading, so much to writing, so much
to exercise, so much to recreation. Ilis
meals are studies of prudence and digestion,
He understands the specific qualities
of all ordinary foods, and never
departs from tha~i?JMircst discretion in
eating. ' fe)
One might think that it wdW&be a
serious infraction to keep up exercise by
such precise methods. But the lictic
doctor eujoys them, having settled firmly i
in theso habits years ago. Philosophic as
he is about death, he nas an eagej curiosity
to see how long he can live by following
the laws he has rigorously prescribed
for himself. He has long had
various theories on the subject of health
and .longevity, and he relishes experimenting
upon himself. He thinks sometime
that ho may attain one hundred,
which he would dearly liko, if ho could
retain, as he has retained thus far, the
full possession of all his faculties?Chicago
Mail.
?1 ?;
Measuring the Flow of Tides. I
A young scientist connected with the
United States steamer [Fish Ilawk, which
Is used in >011 -fnoasuring
the now<Jt the tides. It is;
made of sheet copper in tho shape some- j
what of a fish, and la about four fcotj
long. It is, when iii use, suspended j
rrom the end of a twenty-foot spar rigged!
to the side of tho steamer, and extending j
%t right angles with her, to make tho
action of the machine entirely independ-j
ent of currents that might be caused by
the steamer. The head of this mechan-:
leal1 fish consists of a delicately made re-!
eolring screw or whell, not unliko * .in;
construction and shape the propelling
wrew of tho steamer. When this fish is;
towered into the>water, it turns its head
toward the current, and is hold in that
position by the tail, which serves the purpose
of a rudder. Within the ' body of'
the fish is plaoed delicate machinery,'
which registers its revolutions made by .
the revolving screw, and the rapidity of'
the revolutions is transmitted to the'
laboratory on tho steamer by an ingeni-j
puslv constructed ^V-'ctrical uupucatua^.
thus recording tno IfpluS^ or lue cur-1
rent. An interesting fact ascertained by
the Government observers on this vessel
Is that at the extremities of the sound!
tho tide begins to flow inward near the1
bottom one and one-half hours before it
begins to flow in tho same direction at
tho surface of the water.?New Torh
Telegram.
Opera by 'Phone.
? A novel method of hearing opera,
which the readers of Edward Bellamy's
"Looking Backward" will recollect as
the one in vogue in tho year of grace
2000, has jnst been instituted at the
Castle of Rhonstock.
The Royal Opera House at Berlin was
connected by telephone with the music
loom in the castle at Rhonstock. In
the evening the Emperors of Germany
and Austria, the King of Saxony and
tho rest of the rqval party assembled in
that mnin and M.n o(?am ..of ttfsM
Huguenots," which was performed in
Berlin.?Neva York Journal.
A Pleasing Hesse
If health and strength renewed and of ease
md comfort follows the nee of Syrup of Figs,
is It aetata harmony with nature to effect
y cleanse the nystem when ooetlve or bllloua.
far sale In 60o. and $1 botUos by ell leading
Irugglsta.
Men make lnwa,^wommt make manners,
A. M. PRIEST, Druggist, Hhelbyviile
u<1.,?ays: "Hall's Catarrh Care gives the
x-st of satisfaction. Can get plenty of teetinonials,
aa It cure* every one who fake it,"
>r-igglHta?II It. TOo. __
From the oil of grasshoppers n Spanish iurentor
claims to make the finest soap ret
>rodaoed. __
The crow does not Ir frotn m oorufleld
rlthont oawa T 'J~v
ought and wld TytWAOi,Kfcsas OUy.So:
T, ven.ver han t<> be watobed tosec that it
oesafuil day's Worfa
B. .
IIow Cetywayo Became King.
Umbaude was desirous to see his eld- ?
est son Uoibulnxi placed at the head of
the Zulu nation; but Cetywayo, a di
younger and IBbre ambitious prince, was T<
determined to dispute the succession,
and cbe father, seeing no sign of having
his own way, said to his sons, "You
may fight it out." The nation was im- "
mediately thrown into intense excite- ~
ment. Swords were sharpened, ox hides
converted into shields and a day fixed on
which the two parties of Zulus under
their respective chiefs were to settle the
matter of sovereignty. A more bloody
I attle was perhaps never fought in Zulu- '
a id. No mercy was shown to either
my. The infant was speared on its
m >thcr's breast, old and yoong alike ,
were butchered. Umbulcxi was probably
assegaid, as he was never seen af- |
tcrward; and it was reported that nearly
or quite 10,000 Zulus were either killed j
in battle or drowned in tho river Tugela- ^
which forms the northern boundary of
this colony. In timo Cetywayo" became
kincr.?N*o York CUmrvtr. rj
Secret History of Great Battle. * '
A strange stqry has just been pub- h
lisbed in Germany on the strength of a w
letter from an eye witness, now dead, to
the effect that General Adel Douay, who "
fell at the battle of Worth, was really n
shot b$ an officer in a Tqrco regiment, d
who was furious at Dauay'a order of retreat
before the advance of the Bavarian .
bayonet charge. This tale has confirmstion
(n the fact that whoh the Crown "W
PrjnCU Frederick rode over the battle- 1
fiAld and found the bodv of Tlmuv hn
puby<?l? marveloji that the general had
been kulod at a spot beyond the'roach of 1?
German rifle fire.?Nfto York Times. 1
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The preacher fails jkho tries to preach a '9
doctrino that hasnt been tested in nls own
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ive kindled.
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