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MV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
DAY SERMON.
SUN.
Subject:
“People Who
Their Way."
Have Lost
Text: "And God opened her eyes, and
the taw a well of water; and the went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink.”—Genesis xxi., 19.
Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba. There
is an early stir in the house of old Abraham.
There has been trouble among the domestics.
Hagar. an assistant in the household, and her
son. a brisk lad of sixteen years, have become
impudent and insolent, and Sarah, the mis
tress of the household, puts her foot down
very hard and _ says that they will have to
leave the premises. They are packing up
now. Abraham, knowing that the journey
before his servant and her son will be
very long and across desolate places,
in the kindness of his heart sets about put- — -—
ting up some bread and a bottle with water ! Books
Again, I find in this Oriental scene a lesson
of sympathy with woman when she goes
forth trudging in the desert. What a great
change it was for this Hagar. There was the
tent and all the surroundings of Abraham's
house, beautiful and luxurious bo doubt.
Now she is going out into the hot sands at
the desert. O, what a change it was! And in
our day we often see the wheel of fortune turn.
Here is some one who lived in the very bright
home of her father,
sible to administer
at the table. Music in the 'drawing
Welcome at the door. She is led forth into
life by some one who cannot appreciate her.
A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in
the desert. Iniquities blot out all
tho lights of that home circle.
Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high
hope that shone out over the marriage akar
while the ring was being set and the vows
given and the benediction pronounced, have
all faded with the orange blossoms, and there
she is to-day, broken-hearted, thinking of past
joy and present desolation and coming an
guish. Hagar in the wilderness!
Here is a beautiful home. You cannot
think of anything that can be added to it.
For years there has not been the suggestion
of a single trouble. Bright and happy chil
dren fill the house with laughter ana song,
to read. Pictures to look at.
in "it.” It is a very plain lunch that Lounges to rest on. Cup of domestic
Abraham provides, but I warrant you there Joy full and running over. Dark
would have been enough of it had they not night drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter,
lost their way. “God be with you ! ” said old j Eyes close. And the foot whose well known
Abraham as he gave the lunch to Hagar. and steps on the door sill brought the whole
a good many charges as to how she should 1 household out at eventide ervimr- “father’s
conduct the journey. Ishmael, tho boy,
suppose, bounded away in the morning light.
Boys always like a change. Poor Ishmael!
He has no idea of the disasters that are ahead
of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look
on the familiar place where she had spent so
many happy flays, each scene associated with
the pride and joy of her heart—young Ish
mael.
The scorching noon comes on. The air is
stifling and moves across the desert with in
sufferable suffocation. Ishmael, the boy, be
gins to complain, and lies down, but Hagar
rouses him up, saying nothing about her own
weariness or the sweltering heat; for mothers
can endure anything. 1 fudge, trudge, trudge.
Crossing the dead level of the desert, how
wearily and slowly the miles slip. A tama
rind that seemed hours ago to stand only just
a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come
under its shadow, now is as far off as ever, or
seemingly so. Night drops upon the desert,
and the travelers are pillowless. Ishmael,
very weary, I suppose, instantly falls asleep.
Hagar, as the shadows of the night be-
f in to lap over each other—Hagar
ugs her weary boy t>> her bosom and'thinks
of the fact that it Ls her fault that they are
in the desert. A star looks out, and every
falling tear it kisses' with a sparkle. A
wing of wind comes over the hot earth
and lifts tho locks from the fevered
brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps fitfully,
and in her dreams travels over the weary
day, and half awakes her son by crying out
in her sleep: “Ishmael! Ishmael!” And
so they go on, day after day and night after
night, foi; they have lost their way. No
path in the shifting sands, no sign in tho
burning sky. The sack empty of the
flour, the water gone from the bottle.
TA hat shall she do? As she puts
her fainting Ishmael under a stunted
shrub of the arid plain, she sees tho
bloodshot eye, and feels the hot hand,
and watches the blood bursting from the
cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in tho
desert of Becr-sheba: “We shall die! wo
shall die!” Now', no mother was ever made
strong enough to hear her son cry in vain for
a drink. Heretofore she had cheered her boy
by promising a speedy end of the journey,
even smiled upon him when he felt desper
ately enough. Now there is nothing to do
but place him under a shrub and let him die.
She had thought that she would sit there and
watch until the spirit of her boy would go
away forever, and then she would breathe
out her own life on his silent heart; but as the
boy began to claw his tongue in agony
of thirst, and struggle in distortion, and beg
his mother to slay him, she cannot endure
the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub
and goes off a bow snot, and begins to weep
until all the desert seems sobbing, and her
cry strikes clear through the heavens; and an
angel of God comes out on a cloud and looks
down upon the appalling grief and cries:
“Hagar, what aileth thee?” She looks up
and she sees the angel pointing to a well of
water, where she fills the bottle for the lad.
Thank God! Thank God!
I learn from this Oriental scene, in the first
place, what a sad thing.it is when pwipln dp
not know their place, and ' ' ’ *
lagar was an assistant
that household, but she wanted to rule there.
She ridiculed and jeered until her son, Ish
mael, got the same tricks. She dashed out
ter own happiness and threw Sarah into a
great frit; and if she had stayed much longer
in that household she would have upset calm
Abraham’s equilibrium. My friends, one-
half of the trouble in the world to-day comes
from the fact that people do not know their
place; or, finding their place, will not stay in
it. When we come into the world, there is
always a place ready for us. A place for
Abraham. A place for Sarah. A place for
Hagar. A place for Ishmael. A place for
you and a place for me. Our first duty is to
find our sphere; our second is to keep it.
We may be born in a sphere far
off from the one for which God
finally intends us. Sextus V was l>oru on the
low ground, and was a swineherd, God called
him up to waive a scepter. Ferguson spent
his early days in looking after the sheep; God
called him lip to look after stars, and be a
shepherd watching the flocks of light on the
hillsides of heaven. Hogarth began by en
graving pewter pots: G od raised him to stand
& the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoe
maker’s bench held Bloomfield for a little
while; but God called him to sit in the chair
of a philosopher and Christian scholar. The
soap boiler of London could not keep his son
in tnat business, for God had decided that
Hawley was to be one of the greatest astrono
mers of England. On tho other hand, wo
may be born in a sphere a little higher than
that for which God intends us. We may be
born in a castle, and play in a costly con
servatory, and feed high'bred pointers, and
angle for gold fish in artificial ponds, and be
familiar with princes; yet God may have
fitted us for a carpenter’s shop, or dentist's
forceps, or a weaver’s shuttle, or a black
smith's forge. The great thing is to find just
the sphere for which God intended us, and
then to occupy that sphere and occupy it for
ever. Here is a man God fashioned to make
a plow. There is a man God fashioned
to make a constitution. The man
who makes the plow is just as hon
orable as the man who makes the constitu
tion, provided he makes the plow as well as
the other man makes the constitution. There
is a woman who was made to fashion a robe,
and yonder is one intended to be a queen and
wear it. It seems to me that in tho one case
as in the other, God appoints the sphere; and
the needle is just as respectable is His sight as
the scepter. I do not know but that the world
would long ago have been saved if some of
the men out of the ministry were in it, and
some of those who are in it were out of it.
I really think that one-half of the world may
be divided into two-quarters—those who
have not found their sphere, and those
who having found it. are not willing to stay
there. How many are struggling for a posi
tion a little higher than that for which God
intended them. The londswoman wants to
be mistress. Hagar k-vps crowding Sarah.
The small wheel of a watch, which beautiful
ly went treading its golden pathway, wants
to be the balance wheel, and the sparrow,
with chagrin, drops into the brook. Pecans,
it cannot, like the eagie, cut a circle under
the sun. In the Lord’s armv we all want to
be brigadier generals. The sloop says:
“More mast: more tonnage; more canvas.
Oh, that I were a topsail schoonei. or a full
rigged brig, or a Cunard steamer.” And so
the world Xs filled with cries of discontent,
because we are not willing to stay in the
place where God put us and intended us to be.
My friends, be not too proud to do anything
God tells you to do. For the lack of a right
disposition in this respect the world is strewn
with wandering Hagars and Ishmael#. God
has given each one of us a work to do.
You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark al
ley. You distribute that Christian tract.
You give ten thousand dollars to the mission
ary cause. You, for fifteen years, sit with
ciironic rheumatism, displaying the beauty
of Christian submission. ' Whatever Gcxl
calls vou to, whether it win hissing or huzza:
whether to walk under triumphal arch or
lift the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to
preach on a Pentecost, or tell some wanderer
of the street of the mercy of the Christ of
Mary Magdalene; whether it be to
weave a garland for a laughing child on a
spring morning and call her a May queen, or
to comb out the tangled locks of a waif of the
street and cut up one of your old dresses to
fit her out for the sanctuary—do it. and do it
right away. Whether it be a crown or a
yoke, do not fidgit. Everlasting honors upon
those who do their work and do theft- whole
work, and are contented in the sphere in
which God has put them; while there is only
wandering, and exile, and desolation, and
wilderness for discontented Hagar «nd Ish
mael ,
household out at eventide, crying:
” will never sound on the
coming,
again.
A long, deer
Father’s
door sill
grief plowed through
- e P _
all that lightness of domestic life. Paradise
; lost! Widowhood! Hagar in the wilderness!
How often it is we see the weak arm of
, woman conscripted for this battle with the
■ rough world. Who is she, going down the
! street in the early light of the morning, pale
| with exhausting work, not half slept out
with the slumbers of last night, trage-lies of
suffering written all over her face, her luster
less eyes looking far ahead as though for the
; coming of some other troifble? Her parents
called her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes on the
day when they held her up to the font,
| and the Christian minister sprinkled on
i the infant’s face the washings of a holy
baptism. Her name is changed now. I hear
it in the shuffle of the worn out shoes. I see
It in the figure of the faded calico. I find it
in the lineaments of the woe begone
countenance. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor
. Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May
God have mercy upon woman in her toils,
: her struggles, her hardships, her desolation,
and may the great heart of Divine sympathy
inclose her forever.
Again: I find in this Oriental scene the fact
l that every mother leads forth tremendous
destinies. You say: “That isn’t an unusual
scene, a mother leading her child by the
! hand.” Who is it that she is leading?
i Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great
, nation is to be founded; a nation so strong
1 that it is to stand for thousands of years
| against all the armies of the world, Egypt
| and Assyria thunder against it, but in
’ vain. Gaulus brings up his army,
and his army is smitten. Alex
ander decides upon a campaign, brings up his
; hosts and dies. For a long while that nation
i monopolizes the learning of the world. It Is
: the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ish-
| mael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilder-
: ness. She had no id®a she was leading forth
such destinies. Neither does any mother.
You pass along the street, and see pass boys
and girls who will yet make the earth quake
with their influence. TVho is that boy at
Sutton Pool, Plymouth, England,
barefooted, wading down into the
slush and slime, until his bare foot
comes upon a piece of glass and he lifts It,
bleeding and pain-struck? That wound in
- the foot decides that he be sedentary in his
! life, decid«s that he be a student. That
i wound by the glass in the foot decides that
I he sball be John Kitto, who shall provide
: the best religious encyclopedia the world has
’ ever had provided,, and with his other writ
ings as well, throwing a light upon the
Word of God such as has come from no other
man in this century. O mother, mother,
that little hand that wanders over your
face may yet be lifted to hurl thundernolts
of war, or drop benedictions. That little
voice may blaspheme God in the grog shop,
or cry: ‘‘Forward! ,r to the Lord’s hosts, as
they go out for their last victory. Mv mind
to-day leaps thirty years ahead, and 1 see a
merchant prince of New York. One stroke
of his pen brings a shipVput of Q
other stroke of his ship'
■Ifot&ren..— is 'mig’fffeTT^ail uie money mar
kets of the world. Wh^ is he? He sits to
day beside you in the Tabernacle. My mind
leaps thirty years forward from this
time, and I find myself in a relief as
sociation. A great multitude of Chris
tian women have met together for a generous
purpose. There is one woman in that crowd
who seems to have the confidence of all the
others, and they all look up to her for her
counsel and for her prayers. Who is she ?
To-day you will find her in the Sabbath-school,
while the teacher tells her of that Christ who
clothed the naked and fed the hungry and
healed tho sick. My mind leaps forward
thirty years from now, and I find
myself in an African jungle; and
there Ls a missionary of the ci’oss ad
dressing the natives, and their dusky
conutenances are irradiated with the glad
tidings of great joy and salvation. Who is
he ? Did you not hear his voice to-day in the
first song of the service ? My mind leaps for
ward thirty years from now, and I find my
self looking through the wickets of a prison.
I see a face scarred with every crime. His
chin on his open palm, his elbow on his knee
—a picture of despair. As I opened the wick
et he starts, and I hear his chain clank. The
jail keeper tells me that he has been in there
now three times. First for theft, then
for arson. now for murder. He
steps upon the trap door, the rope is fastened
to his neck, the plonk falls, his body swing-
into the air, his soul swings oil' into eternity.
•V ho is he, and where is he? To-day playing
kite on the city commons. Mother, you are
To-day hoisting a throne or forging a chain—
you are kindling a star or digging a dungeon.
A good many years ago a Christian mother
sat teaching lessons of religion to her child:
and he drank in those lessons. She never
knew that Lamphier would come forth and
establish the Fulton street prayer meeting,
and by one meeting revolutionize the de
votions of the whole earth, and thrill th-
eternities with his Christian influence.
Lamphier said it was his mother who
brought him to Jesus Christ.
She never had an idea that she was leading
forth such destinies. But O, when I see v.
mother reckless of her influence, rattling on
toward destruction, garlanded for the sacri
fice with unseemly mirth anil godlessness,
gayly tripping on down to ruin, taking her
children in the same direction, I cannot help
but say: “There they go, there they go—
Hagar and Ishmael!” 1 tell you there are
wilder deserts than Beershoba in many of the
domestic circles of this day. Dissi
pated parents leading dissipated children.
Avaricious parents leading avaricious chil
dren. Praverless parents leading prayeriess
children. They go through every street, up
every dark alley, into every cellar, along
every highway. Hagar and Ishmael! and
while I pronounce their names, it seems like
the moaning of the death wind—Hagar and
Ishmael!
I learn one more lesson from this
Oriental scene, and that is, that every
wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and
Ishmael gave up to die. Kagar’s heart sank
within her as she heard her child crying:
“Water! water! water!” “Ah,”shesays, "tny
darling,there is no water. This is a desert.”
A; ’ then God’s angel said from the cloud:
“\N iiat aileth thee. Hagar?” And she looked
up and saw him pointing to a well of water,
where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed
be God that there is in every wilderness a
■well, if you only know how to find it—fount
ains for all these thirsty souls to-day. “On
that last day, on that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried: “If any man thirst,
let him come to Mo and drink.”
All these other fountains you find
are mere mirages of the des
ert. Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in
trying to find out the elixir of life—a liquid
which if taken, would keep one perpetually
young in this world, and would change the
aged back again to youth. Of course, he
was disappointed; he found not the elixir.
But here I tell you to-day of the elixir of
everlasting life bursting from the “Rock
of Ages," and that drinking that water
you shall never get old, and you will
never be sick, and you will never die. “Ho,
every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters.” Ah, there is a man*who says:
“I have been lookipg for that fountnin a
great while, but can't find it.” And here is
some one else who says: “I believe all you
say, but I have been trudging along in the
wilderness and can’t find the fountain.” Do
you know the reason? I will tell you. You
never looked in the right direction*. “O,” you
say, “I have looked everywhere. I have
looked north, south, east and west, and I
haven’t found the fountain.” Why. you are not
lookingin the right direction at all. Look np,
where Hagar looked. She never would have
found the fountain at all, but when she
heard the voice of the angel she looked up,
and she saw the finger pointing to the supply.
And O, soul, if to-day, with one earnest, in
tense prayer you would only look up to
Christ, He would point you down to the sup
ply in the wilderness. “Look unto Me all ye
ends of the earth, and be ye saved; for I am
God, and there is none else.” Look! look! as
Hagar looked.
Yes, there is a well for every desert of be
reavement. Looking over the audience to
day, I notice signs of mourning. Have you
found consolation ? O man bereft, O woman
bereft, have you ioaml «»<esctation ? Hearse
after hearse. We step from one grave hillock
to another grave hillock. We follow corpses,
ourselves soon be like them. Tho world
is in mourning for its dead. Every
heart has become the sepulcher
of some buried joy. But sing ye to God,
every wilderness has a well in it; and I come
and I
to draw
to that well to-day,
water from that well. If you have lived in
the country, you have sometimes taken hold
of the rope of the old well sweep, and you
know how the bucket came up dripping with
bright, cool water. And I lay hold of the
rope of God’s mercy to-day, and I begin
to draw on that gospel well sweep,
and I see the buckets coming
up. Thirsty soul! here is one backet
of life! come and drink of it: “Whosoever
will, let him come and take of the water of
life freely.” I pull away again at the rope,
and another bucket comes up. It is this prom
ise: “ Weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning.” I lay hold ol
the rope again, and I pull away with all my
strength, and the bucket comes up bright,
and beautiful and cool. Here is the promise:
“ Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
The old astrologers used to cheat tho
people with the idea that they could
tell from the position of the stars what
would occur in tho future, and if a cluster
of stars stood in one relation, that would be
a prophecy of evil; if a cluster of stars
stood in another relation, that would be a
prophecy of good. What superstition!
But here is a new astrology in which
I put all my faith. By looking up to
the Star of Jacob, the morning star of
the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy in
‘ ' * - - t in God:
TOUGHT.
a dreg in the
Lduce friendship
les.
who liveth till
lout fault,
neglected make
JPEAR1
The only
market—gems of
Kindred weakm
as often as kindred
He shall be im;
he be stoned by orwi
Services and ki;
friendship suspectec
A man has genen ly the good or ill
qualities which he atmtmtes to man
kind. i
It is easy to look own upon others;
to look down upon >urselves is the dif
ficulty.
It is success ih\
success makes fooh
lain# honest.
Habits are easil^ssumed, but when
colors all in life;
dmired, makes vil-
ve strive to strip t
flayed alive.
Prosperity tries tl
the deepest probe, a d draws forth
hidden character.
;m off ’tis
being
Avoid
humin heart with
the
m
language.
circumlocution
Words, li!co eann>< l balls, should go
straight to their ma V.
A*
To look forward pitt£tably we must
Experienp of the past
look back.
is
the best light for th?
future.
regar
“Alii
d to those who put their trust
things work together for good to those
who love God.” I read it out on the
sky. I read it out in the Bible. I read
it out iu all things: “All things work
together for good to those who love
God.” Do you love Him? Have you
seen the Nyetanthes? It is a beautiful
flower, but it gives very little fragrance
until after sunset. Then it pours its
richness on the air. And this grace of the
Gospel that I commend to you this day,
while it may be very sweet during the day
of prosperity, it pours forth its richest
aroma after sun down, and it will be sun
down with you and me after a while. When
you come to go out of this world, will it be a
desert inarch or will it be a fountain for your
sotft?
A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his
heathen comrades came around him and tried
to comfort him by reading some of the pages
of their theology, but he waved his baud as
much as to say: “I don’t want to hear it.”
Then they called in a heathen priest, and he
said: “If you will only recite the Numtra it
will deliver you.” He waved his hand as much
as to say: “I don’t want to hear that.”
Then they said: “Call on Juggernaut.”
He shook his head as much as
to
say:
can’t do
Prominent people,
Tni Czar refuses to visit Berlin.
Pobtek is seventy-six years oW.
:ok Muhat HALSTEAp is in Germany.
rmW*h-EVEr.A vn.ia It
lolin. f _
HEiffar Clews, tke Wall street broker,
written a novel. ,
Jefkersox Da'A was eighty-one rears
ol4 June 3, 1889. T
CvBtrs W. Field began life as a clerk in a
New England store.
BrkA. Harte- lias taken up his permanent
residence in London.
Lord Zetlavd, the new Irish Viceroy, will
serve only one year.
It is rumored that President Diaz will visit
the United States next fall.
Clara Bap.tox, President of the Red Cross
Association, was born in Maine.
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of the “Light
of Asia,” is coming to this country.
Vice-President Morton is becoming an
extensive property owner in Washington.
The first of living Americans in the esti
mation of European nations is Buffalo Bill.
Kate Chase Sprague is writing a biog
raphy of her father, the late Chief Justice
Chase.
Kinglake, the English historian who is
now seventy-eight years old, is not in good
health.
Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York
World, once acted as stoker on a Mississippi
steamboat.
Edison, the electrical inventor, is said to
have amassed a fortune of $12,000,009 by fils
inventions.
Jim Keene, the famous manipulator of
wheat coiners, once drove a milk wagon in a
California town.
His Royal Highness King Malietoa, of
Samoa, has developed an inordinate desire for
beer and pretzels,
John Davis, the wholesale dry goods man,
is the richest man in Missouri, his wealth
being estimated at $22,000,000.
Hon. E. J. Gay, of Louisiana, who died
the other day, was the richest man in the
South. He was worth $10,000,000.
Bdison says it cost him thirty-five cents a
mile to learn the game of poker on a train
from New York to Chicago not long ago.
Hippolyte, the winner of the Haytian con
test. is a most inveterate smoker. lie is never
without a strong, black cigar between his
lips.
The Mayor of Griffin, Ga„ is probably the
youngest city executive in the country. Hii
name is Stewart and he is but twenty-three
years old.
Postmaster General Wanamaker is
the only smooth-faced man in the Cabinet
and looks considerably younger than any
other of the eight.
General Greely, of the Signal Service,
is afflicted with rheumatism in a mild form,
and grimly refers to this addition to his out
fit for predicting weather changes.
Rev. Joseph McAden. who died recently
in Brunswick County, Va., was the oldest
Methodist minister in the South. He was
ninety-five years old, aud had been in the
ministry seventy-five years.
Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to Eng
land, has written to the faculty of the Yale
Law School saying that ha will be on hand
at the opening of the college year toinstruct
the classes in equity and evidence.
The grandmother of the Emperor of China
is ei»hty-nine years old, blind, deaf and a
cripple, and the other day her loving
grandson presented her with 500 singing
birds, 200 silk dresses and 100 musical instru
ments.
Adjutant-General Hastings, of Penn
sylvania, who is in command at Johnstown,
is one of the handsomest men in the Keystone
State. Ho is over six feet in height, sym
metrically built, blonde in complexion, with
a moustache and imperial. He is a soldier
every inch. His home is in Bellefonte.
The new Duchess of Portland will only
rank eighteenth in the list of peeresses of her
rank, as her husband’s dukedom only dates
from 1716. The American Duchess of Marl
borough takes precedence of her, but the
American Vicountess Mandeville, when she
becomes Duchess of Manchester, will be one
step below, as she will be the nineteenth in
precedence.
Ax EngliJfh coal-dealer, having, from
pure benevolence’, had a scale so con
structed as to register a ton for twenty-
four hundred pounds, has been fined
for falsifying an official weight.
y Criminals.
the name signi-
f brass, and hard
alf an inch thick,
it, through which
are passetfin such a manner
as to have the neckl of the flange or
fender pass between jhe middle fingers.
The flange rests agaii
right hand, and be:
r.nd firmnesi to thi
A IVeapon XJsei
A brass knuckle,r|
fies, is always made
brass at that, about
Four holes are cast ij
the fingers
st the palm of the
5des adding force
blow, protects the
ission of the blow.
An ugly weapon,
ordinarily strong
will fracture a
that.”
Then they thought perhaps he was too weary
to speak, and they said: “Now, if you can’t
say ‘Juggernaut,’ think of that God.” He
’shook his head again, as much as to say:
'“No, no, no.” They then bent down to his
‘pillow, and they said: “In what will you
trust?” His face lighted up with the very
glories of the celestial sphere as he cried out,
;rallying all his dying energies: “Jesus.”
O come to-day to the fountain—the fountain
open for sin and imeleanness. I will tell you
the whole story in two or three sentences.
1 Pardon for all an. Comfort for all trouble.
(Light for all darkness. And every wilder
ness has a well in it.
fingers from the com
It may well be call<
for, in the hands of
man, a blow from
man’s skull as easily as though he were
struck with a hammer. Without the
flange or fender, the blew would be al
most as disastrous to thci'triker as to the
stricken, as the force ofjhe blow would
then fall upon the kn icljles, whereas by
the errangement desciibltUth^'^'y ^ a.
space maintained betijeen the inner
parts of tho finger holes] and the fingers
themselves.
This is the ordinary V^ss knuckle,
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
[is the spiked
jon is orna-
amid shaped
Jrters of an
>f a slant-
would fife
than de
file it can-
equally
10
about
but the most terrible,
knuckle. The
mented with five or s:
projeetjons, about three
inch long. What the re:
ing blow with such a wi
can be more easily ima«
scribed.
Another weapon which,
not bb called a brass .Ri
as am
me head, is a sh(
an inch in diameter, Ybd just long
enough to be held firmly ir the hands.
Pointed ends project about an inch from
each side of the fist. WLh this a side-
wise punching blow is administered, or
it is brought down upon the victim’s
head like a hammer, and will punch a
hole as neatly as with a punch.
Another equally ^ .gerous weapon in
vogue in England yernufc- a£o, and from
which the knuckle duster evidently
sprung, is the spiked ring. Fist fights
are essentially English, and one of the
oldest tricks of men so engaged was to
roughen the hands with rosin or to wear
a heavy ring. The heavy ring was a fa
vorite device with the rougher charac
ters, and noting its frightful work some
more villainous rough fashioned out the
spiked ring.
‘cindad, ” the
del Sol” where
i ram wav lines
Scenes In Madrid.
I know a few more picturesque situa
tions for a city than that of Madrid.
Lying at an elevation of 2TOO feet above
the level of the sea, and in the neigh
borhood of a range of mountains which,
j even in summer, are | crowned with
i snow, the capital of Spam is partly en
circle by the romanti c Manzanares,
which flows close to tl ic city walls.
Madrid is rapidly divestii g itself of its
Moorish character, and th ree -fourths of
the city have already assujmed an essen
tially modern aspect. Tnis is especially
true of the heart of the
square known as “Puerta
ten streets and all the
meet, and whence they djverge in dif
ferent directions like so ijiany arteries.
The importance of this sqtiare lies in the
fact that it is the heart of Madrid and
the center of its traffic. Here are situ
ated the principle government buildings
hotels, restaurants and caf^s; it is here
that Madrilenians and extranjeras ren
dezvous to gossip, aud politicians con
gregate to discuss and settle the affair
of the nation. The restaurants aud
cafes are very large, but not so elegant
as those of either Paris, Beylin, Wien or
Roma, nor is the coff :e as good, bu;
the chocolate and sherbet axe most de
licious. There are no newspapers at
the disposal of the customers of these
different places of resort, but any one
can buy the local sheets at the door,
where there is generally a [small news
stand. Most of the Spaniel dailies sell
at one cent, but they contain very little
of interest to foreigners. Ail classes
meet in these restaurants arid cafes on
equal terms. The peasant, the shoe
black and the scavenger thing they have
as much claim to the title ol Caballeros
as the politician, the dude a id the of.
fleer. In these places of pi blic resort
prevails a curious custom, wl ich may be
an old relic of Moorish days i n Spain—
guests call the attention of the waiters
by clapping their hands or whistling, as
one does when calling a dog. —Mail and
Express.
The fastest train in England is drawn
by a three-cylinder locomotive.
Peanuts are said to be a sure cure for
insomnia.
Flectric light equivalent in illumina
ting power to 1,700,000 candles is used
in lighting the Paris exhibition.
The efforts made to introduce Euro
pean vegetables and fruits in the Congo
States have been rewarded with very
great success.
About one hundred and fifty colors
are now obtained from coal tar, which
has almost entirely supplanted vegetable
and animal dyes.
The saloon of Buckingham Palace in
England famous for the three superb
crystal chandeliers which it contains is
now lighted by electricity.
Recent discoveries made by the use
of the spectroscope show that all the
heavenly bodies appear to be composed
of the same chemical elements.
All Rus-ian ships of war are to be
lighted exclusively by electricity, and
by January next the whole of the Russian
fleet will be lighted by that means.
The electric light M down in the fish
nets used between the Isle of Man and
Anglesey attract the Crustacea and
other creatures of the deep in large
numbers.
Hemholtz has shown that if an invisi
ble jet of steam be electrified or heated,
it becomes visible with bright tints of
different colors, according to the poten
tial or the temperature.
A new model based on scientific prin
ciples has recently been constructed in
England illustrating tho formation of
ocean currents in general, and of the
Gulf Stream in particular.
The moon has no heat screens around
it like the earth with its deep and blank
et-Use atmosphere, so that when the
surface is turned away from the direct
influence of the rays of the sun it throws
off the heat accumulated with great
rapidity.
The Swiss w atchmakers have invented
a watch for the blind. A small peg is
set in the middle of each figure. 'When
the hour hand is moving toward a given
hour, the peg for that hour drops. The
person finds the peg is down, and then
counts back to twelve.
A metallurgist gives as a reason why
steel will not weld as readily as wrought
iron that it is not partially composed of
cinder, as seems to be the case with
wrought iron, which assists in forming
a fusible alloy with the scale of oxida
tion formed on the surface of the iron in
the furnace.
It has been' calculated that the
temperature of something like 750 di
grees Fahrenheit, soou after the period
of the full moon, and that it was de 1 -
pressed by the influence of radiation into
space to something like 250 degrees be
low the zero scale of Fahrenheit soon
after new moon.
Professor Fresenius of Wiesbaden,
after a long series of chemical analyses,
declares that an egg contains as much
nourishment as a pound and an ounce of
cherries, a pound and a quarter of
grapes, a pound and a half of russet ap
ples, two pounds of gooseberries and
four pounds of pears, and that 114
pounds of grapes, 127 pounds of russet
apples, 192 pounds of pears and 327
pounds of plums are equal in nourish
ment to 100 pounds of potatoes.
Pickling Cucumbers.
In preparing cucumbers for pickling
care should be taken to select firm, well
shaped fruit, which should be well
washed in cold water. Put them in
brine that will bear up an egg, w T here
they may be kept a fortnight or longer,
if they are well covered with grape
leaves, weighted down upon them, and
submerged in brine. When you arc
ready to pickle an easy way to green
the fruit is to put it in water in which
alum has been thrown, proportioned
thus—a piece of alum the size of a
walnut to a gallon of water. Let the
cucumbers stand in this half a day;
then throw them into clear, cold water.
Make a dressing of the following ingre
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ounce of cloves, two ounces of celery-
seed, half an ounce of mace, four ounces
white ginger, foui ounces white must
ard-seed, four ounces pepper—red and
black—two ounces allspice, as much of
horseradish scraped and dried as you
can grasp in one hand, one lemon (seed
ed and cut in thin slice?), one pint of
onions or garlic sliced or chopped. Put
this with the cucumbers into one gallon
of vinegar, and place all together on the
fire until the flavoring has struck -well
through. When cold put into an un
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