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"ON BROKEN IECES." Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tal mage, D. D. Lessons Drawn fram a Notable Shipwreck -In the stru;xgge with Sin and I)oubt, Let All E!se Go and Cling to the Beam of the Cross. BROOKLYN. N. Y., Jan. 1d.-Dr. Talmage took for his te::t this morning a part of the I forty-fourth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of Acts: -Some on broken pieces of the ship." He then said: Never off Goodwin Sands, or the Sker ries, or Cape Hatteras, was a ship in worse predicament than in the Mediterranean hurricane was the grain ship, on which two hundred and seventy-six passengers were driven on the coast of Malta, live miles from the metropolis of that island called Citta Vecchia. After a two weeks' tem pest. in which the ship was entirely dis abled and captaia and crew had become completely demoralized, an old missionary took command of the vessel. He was small, crooked-backed and sore-eyed, according to tradition. It was Paul, the only un scared man aboard. He was no more afraid of a Euroelydon tossing the Mediter ranean Sea, now up to the gates of Heaven, and now sinking to the gates of hell, than he was of a kitten playing with a string. He ordered them all down to take their rations, first asking for them a blessing. Then he insured all their lives, telling them they would be rescued, and, so far from losing their heads, they woul not lose so much of their hair as you could cut off with one click of the scissors: aye. not a thread of -it, whether it were gray with age or golden with youth. -here shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you." Knowing that they can never get to tho desired port, they make the sea on the four teentb. night black with overthrown cargo, so that whe' the ship strikes it will not I strike so hem :.y. At daybreak they saw a creek, and in their exigeney resolved tc make for it. And so they cut the cables, topk in the two paddles that they had on these old boats. and hoisted the ma; .sail, so that they might come up with sua force as to be driven high up on the beach by some fortunate billow. There she goes, tumbling towards the rocks; now prow foremost; now stern foremost; now roll ing over to starboard: now a wave dashes clear over the deck, and it seems as if the old craft has gone forever. But up she comes again. Paul's arm around a mast, he cries: "All is well; God has given me all those that sail with me." Crash!.went the prow with such force that it broke off the mast. Crash! went the timbers till the seas rushed through from side to side of the vessel. She parted amid-ships, and into a thousand fragments the vessel goes, and into the waves two hundred and seventy-six immortals are precipitated. Some of ti 'at had been brought up on the sea-: .ore and had learned to swim, and with their chin just above the waves and by stroke of both arms and propulsion of both2 feet they put out for the beach and reach it. But, alas, for those others ! They had never learned to .swim, or they were wounded by the falling O the mast, or the nervous shock was too grew, them. And others had been weakened by long seasickness. Oh, what will become of them! "Take that piece of a rudder." says Paul to one. "Take that fragment of a spar," says Paul to another. "Take that table." "Take that image of Castor and Pollox." "Take that plank from the lifeboat." "Take any thing and head for the beach." What a struggle for life in the breakers! Oh, the merciless waters, how they sweep over the heads of men, women and children! Hold on there! Almost ashore, keep up your courage! Remember what Paul told you. There, the receding wave on the beach leaves in the sand a whole family; there . crawls up out of the surf the centurion; there another plank comes in with a life - cimging fast to it; there another piece of the shattered vessel with its freightage of an immortal soul. They must by this time all be saved. Yes, there comes in last of all-for he had been overseeing the rest 4the old missionary, who wrings the water from his gray beard and cri es oat: "Thank~i God all are here!" Gather them around a fire and call the roll. Paul builds a fire, and when the bundles of sticks begin to crackle, and, standing and sitting around the blaze, the passengers begin to recover from their bhill, and their wet clothes begin to dry and warmth begins to come into all the shivering passengers, let the purser of the t'essel go round and see if any. of the poor creatures are missing. Not one of that crowd that were plaged into the sea. How' It relieves ot anxiety as we read: "Some on broken pieces of the ship, and so it 'came to past they all escaped safe to lan1" Having on previous occasions looked at the other passengers, I confine myself to day to an exauhination of those who came in on broken pieces of the ship. There is ___something about them that excites in me an intense interest. I am not so much in terested in those that could swim. They got ashore, as I expected. A mile of water is not a very great undertaking for a strong swimmer, or even two miles are not. But I can not stop thinking about those on broken pieces of the ship. The great Gospel ship is the finest vessel! of the universe and can carry more passen gers than any craft ever constructed, and you could no more wreck it than von could wreck the throne of God Almighty. I wish all the people would come -aboard of her. I could not promise a smooth v oyage, for oft times it would be a tempestuous or a chopped sea, but I could promise a safe - arrival for all who took passage on that . Great Eastern, so called by me oeause its Commander came oiut of the east, the star of the east a badge of His authority. But a vast multitude do not take re gular passage. .Their theology is broken in; pieces, and their life is broken in pieces, and their aorldly and spiritual prospects are broken in pieces, and yet I believe they are going t-i r-tch the shining shore, and I am encoura~2 by the experiences of those people who nare spoken of in the text: "Some on broken pieces of the ship." One object of this sermion is to encoturage all those who can not take the whole sys tem of religion as we believe it, but who really believe something. to come ashore on that one plank. I do not underrate the value of a great theological system, but where in all the Bible is there any thing that says: Believe in John Calvin and tliou shalt.be saved; or, believe in -Arminius and thou shalt be saved ; or, believe in the Synod of Dort and thou shalt be saved; or, believe in the Thirty-nine Articles and thou shalt be saved A man many be or thodox and go to hell, or orthodox and go to Heaven. The man who in the deep af fection of his heart accepts Christ is saved, and the man who does not accept Him is lost. I believe in both the Heidelberg and Westminster catechism, and I wish you all did, but you may believe in nothing they contain except the one idea that Christ came to save sinners, and that you are one of them, and you are instantly rescued. If oucan comnein on the grand old ship, I wal rte have yo e bgdt ig you can Imd only a piece of wood aslong as the human body. or a piece as wide as the outspread human arms, and either of them is a piece of the cross, come in on that piece. Tens of thousands of people are to-day kept out of the Kingdom of God because they can not believe every thing. I an talng with a an thoughtful about his -soul, who has ?lely travel:d thtrough N\w Eughmdj rt and pags: the iiigh.t at Andover. lie say to me: -'i en not believe that in this lfe' desi i irrevo cably fixedi I think there viil be another 1 opportumity of repentance after deadh." I say to himn: '-My brother, what has that to do with yout Ih,:'t yea r.ai that the man who waits .or anrter hanc atter death, when he has a z..d ch:,nee before death, is a stark fto *i Tat you be;ter take the plank that is t'.rov ii to you now and head for shore r'ther ta.in wait ior a plank that may by in viib'le'-t hans be thrown to you alter you are dead ? )o as you please. but as f-r myseif, with pardon t for all my sins .ff m. 1e now and all the joys of ti:'" a eternity offered me now, I instantly t he imiin rather than run the risk of stuc otter chiance as wise men think they can peel off cr twist out of a scripture passage that has for all the Christian centuries been interpreted an other way. You say: "I do not like Princeton the ology or An'liv ert h ly." I do not ask vou on board eit be< f thnt great men. f war, their part-holchs i ll'd with great siege guns of eaeiaisiastiial hi:LIlo. But I do ask tou to take the one plank of the Gospel that you do beliete .n and strike out for the pearl-st: unig i'e-ih of IIcaven. Says sone other in:i: "I would attend 4 to religion if 1 was guite sure about the loetrine of election ant free agency. but that mixes me all1 up." Trhso things used to boter mn. he i have no tnira te rplex it about theit. :t' I say to myvsel I: --i I love Christ and live a goiod, honest. useful life. I am elected to ie saved: and if I do not love Christ ani live a bad life I will bec danmed, and all the theological seminaries of the universe can not make it any dieter et." I floundered along while in the se:a of sin and doubt. and it was as reugh as the Mediterranean oni the fourteenth ni:ht when they threw the :Crain otverbotar.: but I saw there was :gyrey for a sinner, and 1 that plank I took, and I have been warmn- 1 ing myself by the bright lire on the shore for three decades. While I anf alking to another man about his soul he tells ne: "I do net become a Christian because I do not bteltiv't :e is any hell at aL' Ahl! don't you Do all the people, of all beliefi and no belief at all, of good morals andi had morals. go straight to a happy Heave:: D.a the holy and the debauched have the sate lestinations? At midnight. ii a ha: i-wvay, the own r of : house and a burghar miet eahii oter, and t they both lire, and both are wounded, but the burglar dies in five minutes and the p owner of the house lives a week after. Will n the burglar be at tie gate of Heaven c waiting when the house-owner comes in! Will the debauche and the libertine got right in amwong tie: families Of Heaven? I 1 wonder if Herod is playing on the banks t )f the River of Life with the children he massacred. I wonder if Charles (uiteau a and John Wilkes Booth are up there shoot- b ing at a mark. I do not now ',itrovert it, a although I must say for such a miserable a Heaven I have no admiration. Bat the c Bible does not say: "Believe in perdition c and be saved." Because all are saved, according to your c theory, that ought not to keep you from t Loving and serving Christ. Do not refuse p to come ashore bec.(ause all the others, ac- d ordig to your theory. are going to get t ashore. You may have a differenit theory about chemistry, about :istrtonmv, about i the atmosphere, fram th.lt which others u adopt, but you are not therefore hindered t rrom action. Because your theory of light s s different from others. you do not refuse n to open your eyes; because your theory of c air is different, you do not refuse to breathe; because your theory about the a stellar systema is diffeirent, youi do not re- t use to acknowledge the no'th star. Why should the fact that your th.-'oligical the- e )ries are different hinder you fronm act-ing a 1pon wvhat you kinow: If you have not a ahole ship fashioned in the ii:wological dry t locks to bring you to wharfiage, you have t. least a plank. *-Some on brokein pieces t yfthe ship." " But I do not believe in revivals !" Then t o to y-our room, andI all alone with your ] loor locked give your heart to God and join some church whiere the thermometer 1 ever gets higher thaan liftyv in the shade. t But I do not believe in baptism !" Come n without it and settle that matter after avard. "Butt there at-e so many inconsist-t tnt Christians!" Then conte in and show c athem by good example bow professorse ught to act. '-But 1 don't believe in the I 3d Testament!" Then come in on the ew. "But I don't like the Blook of Ro- i nans?' Then come in on liatthew or I Luke. Refusing to come to Christ, whom ou admit to be 'the Saviour cof the lost, be- .a ause you can not admit tiher' things, you ~ tre ljke a man out there in that 31editer anean tempest and tossed in the 3Melita r reakers, refusing to come ashore until be 1 :an mend the pieces of the br-oken ship. hear him say: --I won't go in y any of those plainks until I mnow in what part of the ship they be ong; when I can get the wvinidlass im the right place, and thte sails set, and that keelc oiee where it belotigs, and that floor tint oer right, and these rapes untangled. I will o ashore. I am an old sailor antd know all bout ships fc; forty year's, and as soon as [can get 'the vessel alleat in good shiape I, avill come ini." A matn drifting by on a piece of wvood heat's himi andl says: "Yotu will drown be'fore you get that ship rt'con structed. Betteir do ais I am i'n!. I know nothg about ships. and never' satw one be. ore I came ott boatrd this, ail I ean not swim a stroke, but I am going ashore on C this shiv'ered timber." The man in the oflng while trying to mend his ship goesc lown. The man who trusted to the plank ~ is saved. 0, my brotiter, let your smashed p system of theology go to the bottom while on conie ini on ax splintered spar'. "Some on broken pieces o-f the ship." You maty get all your' difficulties settled s Garibaldi, the mgeiIainothis gardens niade. When the war' between Austria anid Sar'dinia broke out lhe was lit Eg at Caprera, a very rougit and untcult a-ed islantd le1me'. But lie went forth with ais sword to achieve ti-c liberiaiion of Naples a md Sicily, andi gave i,.AO peole free b ov-ernment undet' Victor Emianluel. Gara baldi, after being absent two years frontt Caprera, returned, and, whent he ap- h proachd it. hte found that his home had by b ictor Emanuel. as suiri'se, beent Edfn-s tzed. Trintmeda shrubbeary hani taken the place of thiorny hc s ardent t'ie ttlace of barrenness. andi t he ohi ro'r ii. tn wi . It ie once lived liad given" wy to a0 itet-' itred imansitn w'he"re hei I.-ititt comfot thetrest of hisoi day .A I tell yo fyouin wvill ce andtt enlit-a tn-r t ht- liatnner of our Victiort Emaneut'l, n fllow im through tiek ad hin,111 a. I itiht Htis 1bat ties an endure Ris saeriiice- yit wtilinil after awhile that lHe h.as chtn.i-.1ed a yor heart fr'otm a jun;le of thtrny skulp. -igms 1 into a garden ll i-bloiomi Ith Ilunin iant joy that yon have neva. dreaeti of.1 t'omi e a tangled Calprera of sadness int) a par'at'-,x lise of God! I1 Idonotknowv how your theological sys-' a Lq ma Wn tpinec It may be that y our - arouts started you with only one plank md you beli ve little or nothing. Or they ay have i-ein too rigid or severe n -eligious discipline and cracked you ovel !le head wtitht a psatlm book. 1t may be .::at somne par'tner in business, whbo w as a n~iemer of an evangelical clLt:re, played n you a ii t hat dig !stc.i youe with re ',on. It .;:y ,, "'.:a y have associates vo ive 1:1e : v.ti Christianity it mtd. you x's e! ir thiugs y'ou do no1 eClievei thaal~ on ting': youl di, believe. You Ire in une r'pe*t ii- I Lrd Nelson, when sinL wI:11?am ifs th~at hie wished to disro. ard. t. he. ie' . -lass to his blind ye I... sid: . real:y do ut see the sig ial." 0. im: iw0arc:-, put th, field giass 01 he G3opel.no longecr to your blind eye an ay I can not see, bat put i: to your other ye, the eye of failh, and youi will sC( 'hrist, and He is all ycu need to see. If you can believe notting else, you cer. ainly believe in vicarious sufTering, foi -ou see it adlost every day in some shape. .ast month the steamtship Knickerbocker, if the Cronwell line, running between ew Orleans and here, wirs in a great torm, and the captain and crew saw the chooier Mary 1). Craunler in distress, ?he weather cold. the waves mountain igh, the first oithe-r of the steamship and our1 mien put olut in a lire--boat to save th< rew of the schooner, and reached the yes el and towed it out of danger. the wind hifting so that the schodncr was saved. ut the five men of ti he steamship comling >aek, their boat capsized. yet righted gain and camne on, the sail rs* coated with ice. The boat apsi'ed again, and three times upset and vas righted, and a line was thrown the toor fellows. but their hands and arms u-ere frozei so 1hiiy coul not grasp it, and great wave ro lie, ier them, and they etvi donit. never t0 rse till the sea give" Ip its dead. App1t' tate Ithai heroism and elf-sacrifice of the brave fellows we all an, and can we not appreciate the Christ vho put out in a more biting colic and into more overwiiheiimg surge to bring us ut of infinite peril mt' everlasting safety. 'hie wave of hunan Late rolled over Hin n one side. and the wave of hellish fury oiled over 1i1im on the ouithr side. Oh, the hickness of the night and the thunder of e temptst into which Christ plunged for uur rescue! Come in on that one narrow beam. the teamn of the cross. Let all else go and ling to tlat. 'ut that under you, and ith the ea-nestness of a swimmer strug. ing for his lift' pit: out for the shore. heree is a great warm lire of welcomc lready built, and l'arndy many, who werc s far out as you ..re,. are st.mding in its enial and Ihavenly glow. Tre angels of iod's rescue are waliiig "ut into the surf o clutch your hand. ami they know hou xhausted you are, :iti all the redeemed rodigals of Heaven are on the bench witl ew white robes to clothe all those wlc Olie in tIn broken pieces of the ship. 3Iv smnpat lils are for such all the more cause I was aturally .keItical, disposed 0 question every tng about tlls life-and he next, and was in dan;ger of l'ing furth r out to sea than an; of the two huadred nid seventy-six in the 3lediterranean reakers, and I was sotni' tnint's the annoy nce of my theoingieai professor because I sked so many gucstils. But I camne in nt a plank. 1 knew C h rist was the Saviour f sinners, and that 1 was a sinaer, and ] ot ashore, and I 'do not propose to go out n that sea a:ain. I have not for thir r minutes discussed the controverted oints cf theology in thirty years. And uring the rest of my life I do not propose discuss them for thirty seconds. I would rather, in a mud scow, try tc reather the worst eyelene that ever swept p front the Carribean than risk my ilt mortal soul in useless and perilous d:scu. ions in which sonie of my brethren in the inistry are indulging. The y remind nc f a company of sailors standing on Rams ate pier head. from which the life-boats re usually launched, and coolly discussing he difere-nt styl of' ur-l'ocks and how eep a boat ought to set in then water, while hurricane ws in full b~last and there re three steame.rs crowded with passen ers goig to pices~ i m e ofing. A n old tar, be museles of is~t' xac workiing with nerv u5 exc.itemeinti ries Iut Tiis is no0 time a discuss suchi tingsI~. Mali tile life-boat. Tho will voluntceir Out with her into he surf ! 1Pull my lads, pull for the wreck ! al hal now we have them. Lift them in ud lay them down oit the bottom of the oat Jack, you trny to bring themi to. Put hese flaunels around t heir hands and feet, d I will pull for the shore. Giod heilp tel There! L-auded:I Utzza!" When here are so mnany strugglilt in the waves f sin and sorriow and wret<:bedness, let all ise go but salvation for time anid salvation orver. I bethink nmyself that there are some ere whose opportunity or wvhose life is a ere wreck, antd they have only a small ieee left. You startetd in your youth with 11 sails set, and ev-ery thing promised a rand voyage, but you have sailed in the rong dire~ion or have foundered on a ock. You have onily a fragment of time hft. Then come in oni that one plank. Some on broken pieces of the ship.". You admit that you are nll broken up, ne decade of your life gone by, two do des, three dlecades, four decades, or a al century, plerhapns three-quarters of a entury gone. The hour hand and the dnute hand of your clock of life are al lost parallel, and soon it will be twelve ud your day eudehd. Cleat' discoauraged, re you? I adimit that it is a sad thing to ive all of your lives that arc worth any lng to sin and the devil, and then at last > make God a present of a Iirsterate orpse. But the past yotu can not recover. et on board that old ship, you never will. ave you only one more year left, one more month, one muore week, one more ay, one more hotur-comec in on that. Per aps if you get to Heavetn God may let you o out on some great ission to some other orld, whtere you can somewhat atone for our lack of seric in~il this. From matny a deal h-bed] I have seen the auds thrown tip hi depk rationi something ke this: "My lifte has been wasted. I had ood menttal fac~ulties, and line social posi on. anid gre:e opportuntityt, but through 'orldliness and reet negle~ct alt has gone )waste save thecse fev wmremain ing hours. now accept of Chriist, anid shall eater leaven throutgh His me; but, alas! tas! that when I might have entered the aven of eternal rest wvith a full cargo, and een greeted by the wvavimghands of a maul tude in whose salval iin I had bont a lessed part, I niust contfess 1 now enter the rbor of Heaven o.; h'oken pieces of the Mtxv a poet han s lput his tardest work in a long poem, wish-ing thus to give his anme to poter1ty '-' umake it iimmnortal. [e mayti succe'd, hu: I ikely to tail The ng.' work stan Is ud. tett distinguished nothing~ but i's sia. whiilt his fante is ,nete.i writhi a vre 01' hine, the pro uetion of wvhich c' u I--1 him no effort, and ar'dhv a thou-h. A linie full of soul is tta' than a volumte without it.-United uembri, that nmtk.et us iean'd. It is not *hat we inttn-, bu t w.e- do that miakes useftul. It is nit a ft-w faint wtishes, but lifelong struggyle, that makes us yaliant, ,t:u t .* . ' NEW USE -FO BELLS. Bow a Restaurant Manager Obviates the Old System of Bawling Out Orders. "Where's my ham and eggs:" impa tiently asked a man of the waiter in a Clark street restaurant the other day. "They's a ccmin' sah, they's a comm." "But I didn't hear you give the order." "No, sah: we doan give no ordahs; we touch de bells." "I've got a new scheme," said the man ager, who had overheard the conversation. "I don't know how it is with you, but it takes away my appetite to go into a res taurant where the waiter, when he gets an order, bawls it out at the top of his voice. Now, in some places, after order ing just what you did here you'd hear the waiter shout, 'one in the dark, white wings, hog to come along,' and if you told him that you wanted the eggs cooked on both sides, he'd sing out, 'shipwreck thcm white wings.' Of course the cook understands that ham and eggs and a cup of coffee are the articles called for by this order, but to the uninitiated it is all Greek. Waiters' slang is the most com plex jargon ever used, and why they use it they are unable to explain themselves. Now, by my system all the noise and con fusion are done away wiih. You never hear any order given, and the waiters are not obliged to leave the dining room. But come with me and I'll show you." The manager led the way to a table near the center of the room. Upon it were about twenty white buttons, and at the base of each was a label. Every button was capable of transmitting several or ders. For instance one of the buttons was labeled "eggs," and upon a card were the following directions: "For boiled eggs, ring once; eggs on toast, twice; scrambled eggs, three times; omelet, four times." It was the same with steaks, as by a different number of rings the distinction between tenderloin, porterhouse and sir loin, rare, medium or well done could be conveyed to the kitchen with as much ac curacy and with more speed than by the voice. "We'll go down to the kitchen and see how that end of it works," remarked the manager, leading the way to a flight of stairs. A savory smell of cooking meat was wafted to the visitor as he descended the stairs. In front of half a dozen big broilers stood as many white jacketed cooks, with equally white caps placed rakishly upon their heads. The man:ger said that the caps were not worn for adornment, but to prevent hairs and dandruff from falling into the food. "I don't know why it is," said he, "but con stant working near a fire seems to have a tendency to cause the hair to drop out. Of course that would never do, so we oblige the men to wear linen head gear in order to prevent any mishaps. Then, too, it looks cleaner, and in a restaurant looks are everything." Opposite the ranges, surrounded by a little railing, was an annunciator re sembling those used in hotels to denote the numbers of rooms. In front of it was seated a lad about 15 years of age with a number of tickets in his hand. Each ticket had a number printed upon it cor responding to the number given one of the cooks. These were called off in rota tion, so that each one of the cooks would get the same number of dishes to serve. Suddenly there was a whirring sound, followed by a quick snap. The boy looked up and saw the word "steak" on a tri angular piece of metal. Then came two short rings and a long one. The boy looked- at a card acid called: "No. 3. ten derloin steak rare, with mushrooms." The triangular piece of metal yas put beck in its place, and in a trice a juicy steak was sizzling on the iron. It was getting along toward 6 o'clock then, and the orders began to come in thick and fast. "We don't serve anything here but short orders," said the manager, ."and, though I have over fifty articles on my bill of fare, I have never found one that could not be ordered by means of the bell. I don't believe there's another system like it in the country, and you can see for yourself how much time and trouble it saves."-Chicago Herald., Hog Guessing on Lonig Island. The season is rapidly approaching when harvet homes will be superseded by hog guessing, the favorite amusement of Long NIshmaer. The manner of proceeding is as follow's: Ha~ndhills are printed announcing the time and place of the proceedings. The namne andl assumed weight of the hogs, to gether w ith the cost of the tickets, are also aidvertised Each person registers his es timate of the *veight upon the ticket be fore surrendering it. Then a hog whose namie ad assumed weight has been ad vertised is killed and dressed. TIhe per son who guesses the exact weight of the slaughtercd animal takes him, or the guess nearest the correct figure entitles the guesser to the meat. "Reckoning" or "allowing" is not permitted. Par ticipatnts, howvever, can guess as many timnes as they are willing and able to pay for the privilege. Some of the swine slatughtered are of enurmous dimensions anud tip) the scales anywhere from 400 to 600) pountds. V arious artifices are resorted to by which thie w eight of the animals is ascer tained or approximated beforehand. Fre quently metasurements are taken upon which guesses are based, and sometimes th'e actual weight is ascertained at night. --New York Evening Sun. Queer Indian Customs in Brazil. The Indian prayer meetinigs in tile country are rather a singular admixture of superstition and devotion. A (loll is dressed in silk clothes, with candlgs on each side, a good bit of tinsel work about it atnd at ribbon tied about its waist. It rests on the table. Eight or ten Indian men statnd around. One has a large drum, wich lhe heats continually. The women sit on t-he 1loor, while the men sing prayers to the saiit, the womien re sponding. They commi~ence praying about 7or 8 o'clock and keep it up twvo or three hours. Theni the womecn with their litt le childien kiss the ribbons, asking favors of the saint. The men then go through the samie ceremony. The saint is then locked un~ in a box, and (dancing commences and lists the rest of the night. ]'requent 1po ions of whisky are imbibed by the men, co~ee and wine by the womeni. When tie men become too drunk to dance longer~ they retire to their haimmocks and sleep util sober. -Pittsburg Con mer cial-Gaztette. French Love of Glory. The F rench chaimi to be the Romans, anod alro everyt hinmg they undheitake to (10 thev" reLfer to a Romuani precedent. Glory is onc'of th ee tings. Tlhe En-:tlish dwellI unon the idlea of power. The F'renchmman has' no part icular care for powter unhess it brings' himi action, admiration and artistic trlite.-"Gath"' in Cincinniati FEnquirer. IA public school system is to be estab lishied in Alaskna by agents of the Federal Financial Bliackmailer In London. It is a favorite plan of the promoters of American enterprise to seek capital ir. Europe, notably in London and Amster dam. It is not an easy task by any mean! to induce foreign capitalists to invest in new projects on this side of the water, especially since there have been so niany enterprises taken up by them in whicl their money has been spent without re turn, and they are apt to look upon every. thing that has an American stamp as a wholesale swindle until they have looked closely into it. But they are not without tricks themselves in London. The presi dent of a leading railroad corporation whlC has raised large amounts of money' " "r at different times for various enterl.risct said the other day: "You can be sure rn nothing in London in raising money untL you have the cash in bank. 1 had $1,OJ0, 000 already counted out for ine and the papers drawn and ready to sign, and yet had the money put back in the vaults and the papers back into my pocket. London is full of financial blackmailers, and it was one of these that rung in his little game on me. It cost me at least i100.fi00 to get my negotiation through, but I had the satisfaction of knowing that the black mailer got no money from it. "They watch the American newspapers for accounts of new enterprises that are likely to seek capital abroad, and then they watch on that side of the water for the man who isto negotiate the securities and cleverly manage to ingratiate them selves by proffered assistance and other wise, so as to be in a position to know every stage . of his progress. They will wait until the last moment before his negotiation is conducted and then strike him. They generally have a newspaper at their back and frequently succeed in scaring their victim into paying a good round sum to prevent an attack on his scheme, which he knows will be disturb ing and disastrous to his enterprise, even though unfounded upon any reasonable or just claim. After one or two experiences in London, I have always made my trips there with the utmost secrecy, allowi:g no newspaper mention to be made at home of my departure. On my arriv:d there I have gone to unfrequented hotels out of the *ay of friends and acquaint ances, until all my negotiations were con cluded. That is the safest way."-New York Tribune. Cats in Bustles and Dogs in Muffs. Fashion has long been favorable to dogs. Cats are now coming forward. Some charming belles at Luchon thought this season of using the Pyrenean cat-wh ich is a pretty creature, and not so wild as it looks-as a suivez moi, jeune hoinie. The notion sprang up in this way. A beauty down there was given, In one of her excursions, a lovely cat. But as her arms were laden with mountain flowers, how carry it? A peasant suggested cut ting a hole at one of the ends of a hand basket for needlework, just large enough for the cat's neck to be held in without strangulation when the lid was fastened down. As the basket was padded and lined with satin, and bedizened with fringe and ribbons, pussy did not object to being a prisoner therein, and to being placed on the lady's bustle as a pack. There was no other means of carrying the feline unless there. So the basket was fitted up with strings to tie on to the waist; and so borne into Luchon. The arrangement was daring, original aid piquant. It found imitators, and in a few days there were not Pyrenean cats enough for the ladies' bustles. Fashion even dared to invade the sanctuary at Lourdes with a mountain tom or tabby on the dor sal hump. A fashion prophet tells me that next winter the back part of the muff will con tain a pouch in which a cat is to lie. A contrivance of this sort was first hit upon by Mile. Schneider for her black and tan terrier, which regarded the inside of the muff as a prison and wanted to look about when keeping the hands of his mistress warm. The Duchess de Bauffremont then took up the arrangement and used to carry about as many puppies as could lit into the pouch. Princess Isabeau de Beauvais Craon used to remind me of a maternal kangaroo. Her muff had the pocket in front and a parcel of pups' heads of various breeds peeped from out of the opening at the top.-Paris Cor. London Truth. The Hiurricane Geyser. The most wonderful of all the wonders at the Norris Basin, Yellowstone park, is known as the Hurricane geyser. It is a recent outbreak, scarcely a year old. The crater is about twenty by thirty feet, and Is inclosed by a solid wall of rock, about ten feet in depth, to the surface of the water, and no one can tell how far below this rocky inclosure extends. Several days ago we could sit on the north end of this rock rib and watch the torrid waves rush do'wn the inclosure, strike the wall beeath our feet and sink into the earth, to reappear at the upper end with undi minished force. Now, eight days later, we find that the boiling flood shoots out over the wall where we formerly sat. The Hurricane presents the appearance of a revolving liquid globe. There is a huge bowlder in the center of the quad r:mgular crater, over which the water dashes with such force as to give it the appearance of an immense wheel in per petual motion. The intense he-at may be realizedl, in a measure. when it is stated that the rocks ten feet fronm the edge are so hot that the naked hand can-only be held on them for an instant. The water is turbid and bears evidence of the fact that the subterranean chambers are be ing enlarged. They are evidently ab sorbing the material that has been dis harged at other geysers.-Cor. St. Paul Pioneer Press. When a Family Moves. Society news in the daily papers does a reat deal more than tell people what is transpiring in the fashionable world. The owners of moving cars watch the society losely. As soon as they see that a fama ily is to chuege location from one city to another, they go after themt to see what they have to move rind otter their ser vices. Thent follows the man with storage room, then a sewing machine agent to see if you have anything in his line for sale, thn the seond hand furniture dealer, and last the dealer in second hand clothi ing,. and perhiaps a piano dealer. When a marriage is announttced aheadl for some months. there is the dlressmaker and dry goods merchant to call on the ladies, the cnterer to see~ what he -nn do for the table, and the llorist to see if his services are re quired. This class of people doab~tless work m) a large and profitable business in that way.-Physician iin Globe-I)emaocrat. Sj,iderg' Webso in Washaingtonl. The use of electric light on public bidiings at Washington has led to a geat increase ini the numbdtler oif spiders' webis. The lights ~attra:ct multitudes of iscts, and these in turn attr-act the spidefrs. in many cases architectural utines have become badly obscured by the. w..e-.ChiengO Times. How Charles Sumner M:.de Tea. Mr. Sumner was a man of simple tastes. When he dined alone and knew that he was to have no company but one dish was served, and that was often a porterhouse steak dressed, with oysters. This, with bread and butter and a glass of claret. composed his solitary dinner. Occasion ally he would treat himself to a dinner of cerned beef and cabbage, if he was sure there would be ti'me enough before the arrival of visitors to disinfect his house of the scent. His breakfast, when alone, would be without meat or fish, and would consist of tea, toast, eggs, fruit and some sort of pancakes and butter; but the tea would be selected as carefully for the breakfast as the wine would be for the dinner. Ile would brew it himself with great care. He took the tea from the tea caddy himself, placed it dry in a cup, which had previously been heated by il ing with boiling water from the urn; a teaspoon, which stood In the cup when the boiling water was poured, remainedi in the cup: then boiling water was drawn from the urn on to the tea; a saucer was inverted over the top, and after it had stood for several minutes it was consid ered ready for drinking. Once when I was breakfasting with him he asked my opinion of the particular tea he had given me, and he was disap pointed in my answer. He seemed sur prised as well, and tasted the tea from his own cup, snuffing its aroma. Then dip ping a teaspoon in hot water, he tasted the mixture in my cup and inhaled its perfume. This seemed to solve the riddle "Why," said he, "I must have given you a cold spoon; that spoon in your cup car ried off the flavor. Throw out those slops and let me give you a fresh cup."-Ar nold Burges Johnson in The Cosmopol iran. Tyndall on Lightning Rods. Professor Tyndall, in a letter on light ning conductors, points out that the abolition of resistance is absolutely neces sary in connecting a lightning conductor with the earth, and this is done by closely imbedding in the earth a plate of good conducting material and of large area. The largeness of area makes atonement for the imperfect conductivity of earth. The plate, in fact, constitutes a wide door through which the electricity passes freely into the earth, its disruptive and damaging effects being thereby avoided. A common way of dealing with light ning conductors adopted by ignorant practitioners is, Dr. Tyndall remarks, to carry the wire rope which forms part of the conductor down the wall and into the earth below, where it ends without any terminal plate. Such a "protection" is a mockery, a delusion and a snare. Some years ago a rock lighthouse on the Irish coast was struck by lightning, when he found by the engineer's report that the lig htning conductor had been carried down the lighthouse tower, its lower ex tremity being carefully imbedded in a stone perforated to receive it. If the ob ject had been to invite the lightning to strike the tower, a better arrangement could hardly, he believes, have been adopted. He vetoed the proposal to em ploy a chain as a prolongation of the con ductor, as the contact of link with link is iever perfect.-Scientific American. The Colored Folks in Maryland. The average negro cares only for the present. He forgets the past and disre gards the future. Prospective rainy days bave no terrors for him. If he makes $1 today instead of his usual fifty cents, he will not work to-morrow. There are four preferences which are common to colored men-linen dusters, razors, chickens and cathartic pills. To the country darky a line'a duster is the insignia of prosperity. IIe generally gets it a size or two too large and has it well starched. He wears it as often as he possibly can. Not long ago an excursion, by water, of colored people, came here from over the bay. Nearly all of them, women as well as men, wore linen dusters. Just why nine negroes out of ten carry razors cannot be explained, but that they do carry thenm is a fact, and in every free fight some one always gets slashed. At a colored camp meeting held a few weeks ago this notice was conspicu ously p)osted: Dinner, 25 cents; with chicken. 50 cents. It was the most eloquent kind of evi dence as to the negro's appetite for this fowl. The hoarding tent keeper was a man of experience, and although chicken was very cheap in that section, he knew that a twenty-five cent dinner would not pay for the chicken a colored man could eat. As to the pills, the darkies are al ways imnagthing themselves sick. They know of bet one remedy-pills.-Cor. New York Times. The Vanderbilt Children. * Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt, relict of the man, who, when he lived, was the richest man on earth, was a Miss Kissam, daughter of an American clergyman, whose stock was originally English. She1i had the extreme good fortune to marry Vanderbilt when he was working for his father for $1,000 a year, poor, dependent and as thoroughly in awe of the old com modore as when he was a lad. She bore Vanderbilt eight children-Margaret, now Mrs. Eliot F. Shephard; Cornelius, Wil liam K., Emily, now Mrs. Emily Thorne Sloan, wife of the great carpet dealer; Frederick W., Florence Adele, now wife of W. McK. Twombly, the pushing westerner, now in charge of some of the heavier Vanderbilt interests; Lela. who married Dr. W. Seward Webb, son of the old fighting editor, Dr. James Watson Webb. and now head of the New York Centrad Parlor Car company, and George W., the eighth child and fourth son. NotI a girl has married what in England is called an "aristocrat''-an idler. Every one of their husbands made his way in the world before he married a Vanderbilt. The boys also took care of themselves. The Argonaut. United States Troops in Mexico. The victories won by the United States trops in Mexico years ago have generally been ascribed to the superior fighting qunal iies of the Americans over the Mexicans. But Capt. Lester S. Bartlett, of the Spen cer Riile company, who was recently in Mexico, mentioned this theory: "An old Mexican soldier told me that it was the American sharpshooters that broke up their troops. All over Mexico you will find what are called arroyas. They are what we would call gulches, and occur everywhere on the plains. They have pre cipitous banks and sometimes men walk into them without seeing them. They seem to be the rifts at the bot tom of a sea which one day may have covered the country. The American riflemen would dlrop into these arroyas, which formed natural rifie pits for them, and having superior rifles for those (lays were able to pick off the Mexicans before the latter got within shooting distance with their blli mouth guns. Thue slaughter that resulted always broke .up the Mexicans before they got within lighting distance.'"-New York TPribune.