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BLESSINGS OF HOME. Dr. Talmage Preaches on a Question of Domestic Interest. THE INFLUENCE OF HOME. Points Out the Disadvantages of a Life Spent in Ho tel sand Boarding Houses. Home life versus hotel life is the theme of Dr. Talmage's sermon for to day, the disadvantages of a life spent at more or less temporary stopping places being sharply contrasted with the blessings that are found in the real home, however humble. The text is Luke x, 34,45: "And brought him to an inn and took care of him. An on the morrow when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatever thou spendest more when I come again I will repay thee. This is the good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found the un fortunate on a lonely, rocky road, where to this very day depredations are some times committed upon travelers, and had put the injured man into the sad dle, while this merciful and well to do man had walked till they got to the hotel, and the wounded man was put to bed and cared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accommoda tions, for, though in the country, the landlord was paid at the rate of what in our country would be $4 or $5 a day. a penny being then a day's wages. and the two pennies paid in this case about two days' wages. Moreover it was one of those kind hearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of their guests, because the good Samaritan leaves the poor wounded fellow to his entire care, promising that when he came that way again he would pay all the bills until the invalid got well. Hotel and boarding houses are neces sities. In very ancient times they were urknown, because the world had comparatively few inhabitants, and those were not -much given to travel, and private hospitality met all the wants of sojourners, as when Abraham rushed out at Mamre to invite the three men to sit down to a dinner of real; as when the people were positively com manded tobe given to hospitality; as in many of the places in the east these ancient customs are practiced today. But we have now hotels presided over by good landlords, and boarding houses presided over by excellent host or hos tess in all neghborhoods, villages and cities, and it is our congratulation that those of our land surpass all other lands. They rightly become the per mant residence of many people, such as those who are without families, such as those whose business keeps them migra tory, such as those who ought not for various reasons of health or peculiarity of circumstances, to take upon them selves the cares of hosekeeping. Many a man falling sick in one of these boarding houses or hotels has been kindly watched and nursed; and by the memory of her own sufferings and losses the lady at the head of such a house has done all that a mother could do for a sick child, and the slumberless eye of God sees and appreciates her sacrifices in behalf of the '-stranger. Among the most marvelous cases of patience and Christian fidelity are many of those 'who keep boarding houses, enduring 'without resentment the un reasonable demands of their guests for expensive food and attentions for which they are not willing to pay an equival ent-a lot of cranky men and women who are not worth to tie the shoe of their queenly caterer. The outrageous way in which boarders sometimes act to their landlords and laniladies shows that these critical guests had bad early rearing and that in the making up of their natures all that consti'tutes the gentleman and lady was left out. Some of the most princely men and some of the most elegant women that I know of today keep hotels and boarding houses. But one of the great evils of this day is found in the fact that a large popula tion of our towns and cities are giving up and have' give up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more freedom from domestic duties and more time for social life and becaise they like the whirl of publicity beuter than the quiet and privacy of a resi dence they can call their own. The lawful use of these hotels and~ boarding houses is for most people while they are in transitu, but as jterminus they- are many cases demoralizations, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innumerable have begun to disintegrate. There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to support and direct homes of their own, have struck tent and taken permanent abode in these public establishments. It is an evil wide as Christendom, and by voice and through the newspaper press I ut ter warning and burning protest and ask Almighty God to bless the word, whether in the hearing or reading. In these public earavansaries the de mon of gossip is apt to get full sway. All the boarders run daily the gantlet of general inspection-how they look when they come down in the morning and when they get it at night, and what they do for a living, and who they receive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear and what they do not wear, and how they eat, and what they eat, and how much they eat, and how sittle they eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be isolated and reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: Who is he? Where did he come from? How long is he going to stay? Has he paid his board? How much does he pay? Perhaps he has committed some crime and does not want to be known. There must be something wrong about him, or he would speak. The whole house goes into the detective business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leaves his door unlocked by accident he will find that his rooms have been inspect ed, his trunk explored, his letters fold ed differently from the way they were folded when he put them away. Who is he? is the question asked with in tenser interest until the subject has beome a monomania. The simple fact is that he is nobody in particular, but -minds his own business. The best landlords and landladies cannot sometimes hinder their places from becoming a pandemonium of whis perers, and reputations are torn to tat ters, and evil suspicions are aroused, and scandals started and the parliament of the family is blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was .not caught in time, as was his English predecessor of eunpowdery reputation. The reason is that while in private homes families hav so mc to keep them busy in z bese prmiscuous and multitudinou residence- there are so m:-ny who have nothin z to do, and that always makes mischicf. They gather in each other's rooms and spend hours in consultation about others. If they had to walk a half" mile before they got to willing ear Of solic listener to detraction, they would be out of breath before reaching there and not feel in full glow of ani mosity or slander, or might, because of the distance. not go at all. But rooms 20. 21, 22. 2,3. 24 and 25 are on the sanie corridor, and when one carrion er w goes "Caw! Caw! all the other crows hear it and flock together over the same carcass. "Oh, I have beard something rich! Sit down and let me tell vou all about it." And the first guffaw increases the gathering, and it has to be told all over again. and as they separate each carries a spark from the altar of Cab to some other circle until, from the coal heaver in the cellar to the maid in the top room of the gar ret, all are aware of the defamation and that eveaing all who leave the house will bear it to other houses until au tumnal fires sweeping across Illinois praries are less raging and swift than that flame of consuming reputation blazing across the village or city. Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old fashion ed hatching of eggs in the haymow re quired four or five weeks of brooding, but there are new modes of hatching by I machinery, which take less time and do the work by wholesale. So. while the private home may brood into life an oc casional falsity, and take a long time to do it, many of the boarding houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral incubation and one old gossip will get off the nest after one hour's brooding, clucking a flock of 30 lies after her, each one pick ing up its little worm of juicy regale ment. It is no advantage to hear too much about your neighbors, for your time will be so much occupied in taking care of their faults that you will have no time to look after your own. And while you are pulling the chickweed out of their garden, yours will get all over grown with horse sorrel and mullen stalks. One of the ,orst damages that come from the herding of so many people into boarding houses and family hotels is in flicted upon children. It is only anoth er way of bringing them up on the com mons. While you have your own pri vate house you can, for the most part, control their companionship and their whereabouts, but by 12 years of age in these public resorts they will have picked up all the bad things that can be furnished by the prurient minds of dozens of people. They will overhear blasphemies and see quarrels and get precocious in sin, and what the barten der does not tell them the porter or host ler or bell boy will. Besides that, the children will go out into this world without the restraining, anchoring, steadying and all controlling memory of a home. From that none of us who have been blessed of such mem ory have escaped. It grips a man for SO years, if he lives so long. It -pulls him back from doors into which he other wise would enter. It smites him with contrition in the very midst of his dissi pations. As the fish already surround ed by the long wide net swim out to sea, thinking they can go as far as they pleas'e, and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to draw in the net hand over hand and hand over hand, and it is a long while before the captured fins be gn to f e the net, and then they dart this way and that, hoping to get out, but find themselves approaching the shore and arab,rought up to the very feet of the captors, so the memory of an early home sometimes seems to relax and let men out farther and farther from God and farther and farther from shore-5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years-but some day they find an irre sistible mesh drawing them back, and they are compelled to retreat from their prodigality and wandering, and, though they make desperate effort to escape the impression and try to dive deeper down in sin, after awhile are brought clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages. If it be possible, oh father and moth er! let your sons and daughters go out into the world under the semiomnipo tent memory of a good, pure home. About your two or three rooms in' a boarding hovse or a family hotel you can cast no such glorious sanctity. They will think of these public caravan saries as an early stopping place, mala dorous with old victuals, coffees perpet ually steaming and meats in everlasting stew or broil, the air surcharged with carbonic acid and corridors along which drunken boarders come staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning, rapping at the door till the affrighted wife lets them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy of calling such a place a home. A home is four walls inclosing one family with identity- of interest and a privacy from outside inspection so com plete that it is a world in itself, no one entering except by permission-bolted and barred and chained against all out side inquisitiveness. The phrase so often used in law books and legal circles is mightily suggestive--every man's house is his castle. As much so as though it had drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret. Even the offcer of the law may not en ter to serve a writ except the door be voluntarily opened unto him, Burglary or the invasion of it a crime so offen sive that the law clashes its iron jaws on any one who attempts it. Unless it be necessary to stay for longer or short er time in family hotel or boarding house-and there are thousands of in stances in which it is necessary, as I showed you at the beginning-unless this exceptional case, let neither wife nor husband consent to such permanent residence. The probability is that the wife will have to divide her husband's time with public smoking or reading room or with some coquettish spider in. search of un wary flies, and if you do not entirely lose your husband it will be because he is divinely protected from the disasters that have whelmed thousands of hus bands with as good intentions as yours. Neither should the husband without imperative reason consent to such a life unless he is sure his wife can withstand the temptation of social dissipation which sweeps across such places with the force of the Atlantic ocean when driven by a Septewnber exuinox. Many wives give up their homes for these public residences so that they may give their entire time to operas, theaters, balls, receptions and levees, and they ar ina perpetual whirl, like a whiptop spinning round and round and round very prettily, until it loses its its equi poise and shoots oil into a tangent. But the difference is, in one case it is a top and in the other a soul. Besides this there is an assiduous ac cumulation of little things around the private home, which in the aggregate make a great attraction: while the den izen of one of these public residences is apt to say: "What is the use? I have no place to keep them if I should curiosotiec, quaint chair or cozy lounge upholsteric3, pictures and a thousand things that accrete in a home are dis carded or neglected because there is no homestead in which to arrange them. And yet they are the case in which the pearl of domestic happiness is set. You can never become as attached to the ap pointments of a boarding house or fam ily hotel as to those things that you can call your own and are associated with the different members of your household or with scenes of thrilling import in your domestic history. Bless ed is that home in which for a whole lifetime they have been gathering until every figure in the carpet and every panel of the door and every casement of the window has a chirography of its own, speaking out something about father or mothei or son or daughter or friend that was with us awhile. What a sacced place it becomes when one can say: "In that room such a one was born: in that bed such a one died; in that chair I sat on the night I heard such a one had received a great public honor; by that stool my child knelt for her last evening prayer; here I sat to greet my son as he came back from sea voyage: that was father's cane: that was mother's rocking chair." What a joy ful and pathetic congress of reminis cences' The public residence of hotel and boarding house abolishes the grace of hospitality. Your guest does not want to come to such a table. No one wants to run such a gantlet of acute aad mer ciless hyperciticism. Unless you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shunammite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the -vid ow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil well of the miraculous cruse because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Ra hab in the preservation of her life at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies, and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue from the destroyed city because of his enter tainment of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual blessing because they entertained Christ and to Publius in the island of Melita in the healing of his father because of the entertainment of Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumer able houses throughout Christendo a upon which have come blessings fr generation to generation because th. ir doors swung easily open in the enla - ing, ennobling, irradiating and diviie grace of hospitality. I do not know what your experience has been, but I have had men and women visiting at my house who left a benediction on every room-in the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave the children, in the gospeli zation that looked out from every line ament of their countenances, and their departure was the sword of bereave ment. The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup of ten curves, or lips, ea.h one having on it the name of the distinguished person who had drunk from it. And that cup which we offer to others in Christian hospitality, though it be of the plainest earthenware, is a royal cup, and God can read on all sides the names of those who have taken from it ref reshment, but all this is impossible unless you have a home of your own. It is the delusion as to what is ne cessary for a home that hinders se many from establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor 20, nor 15, nor 10, nor 5, nor 3. In the right way plant a table, and couch, and knife, and fork, and a chair, and you can raise a young paradise. Just start a home on however small a scale, and it will grow. When Kiaig Cyrus was in vited to dine with a humble friend, the king made the one condition of his coming that the only dish be one loal of bread, and the most imperial satis factions have sometimes banqueted on the plainest fare. Do not be caught it the delusion of many thousands it postponing a home until they can have an expensive one. That idea is the devil's trap that catches men and wo men innumerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of Ameri ca, build plain homes for the people. Let this tenement house system, in which hundreds of thousands of the people of our cities are wallowing it the mire, be broken up by small homes, where people can have their own fire' sides and their own altars. In this great continent there is room enough for every man and woman to havea home. Morals and civilization and re ligion demand it. We want done all over this land what George iPeabody and Lady Burdett-Coutts did in Eng. land and some of the large manufactur es of this country have done for the villages and cities in building sinal houses at low rents, so that the middle classes can have separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The rich have their palaces. and the poor have their poorhouses, and crimninals have t ieir jails, but what about the honest middle classes, who are able and willing to work and yet have sina] income? Let the capitalists. inspired of God and pure patriotism, rise and build whole streets of small residences. The laborer may have at the close td the day to walk or ride farther than is desirable to reach it, but when he gets to his destination in the eventide he will find something worthy of being called by that glorious and impassioned and heaven descended word-"home.' Young married man, as soon as you can buy such a place, even if you have to put on it a mortgage reaching from base to capstone. The much abused mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent and provident is the beginning of a competoney and a fortune for the reason he will not be satisied until he has paid it off, and all the household are put on stringent eco nomics until then. Deny yourself all superfluities and all luxuries until you can say, "Everything in this house is mine, thank God!-every timber, every brick, every foot of plumbing, every doorsill." Do not have your children born in a boarding house, and do not yourself be buried from one. Have a place where your children can shout and sing and romp without being over hauled for the racket. Have a kitcben where you can do something toward the ref ormation of evil cookery and the les sening of this nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost one of his great battles by an attack of indigestion, so many men have such a daily wrestle with the food swallowed that they have no strength left for the battle of life; and though your wife may know how to play on all musical instruments and rival a prima dona, she is not well educaten unless she can boil an Irish potato ana broil a mutton chop, since the die sometimes decides the fate of familie and nations. Have a sitting room with at least one easy chair even though you have to take turns at sitting in it, and books out of the public library or of your own pur chase for the making of your family in ing matches, with an occasional blind man's buff-which is of all games my favorite. Rouse up your home with all styles of innocent mirth, and gather up in your children's nature a reservoir of exuberance that will pour down refresh ing streams when life gets parched, and the dark days come, and the lights go out, and the laughter is smothered into a sob. First, last and all the time have Christ in your home. Julius Caesar calmed the fears of an affrighted boat man who was rowing him in a stream by saying, "So long as Caesar is with you in the same boat no harm can happen." And whatever storm of adversity or bereavement or poverty may strike your home all is well as long as you have Christ the king on board. Make your home so farreach ing in its influence that down to the last moment of your children's life you may hold them with a heavenly charm. At 76 years of age the Demos thenes of the American senate lay dy ing at Washington-I mean Henry Clay of Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside, and "the old man eloquent," after a long and exciting public life, transatlantic and cisatlantic, was back again in the scenes of his boyhood, and he kept saying in his dream over and again, ",My mother, mother, mother!" May the parental influence we exert be not only potential, but holy, and so the home on earth be the vestibule of our home in heaven, in which place may we all meet-father, mother, son, daugh ter, brother, sister, grandfather, grand mother and grandchild and the entire group of precious ones, of whom we must say in the words of transporting Charles Wesley: One family we dwell in him, One church above, beneath; Though now divided by the stream The narrow stream of death; One army of the living God, To his command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. THE STORY OF A PARDON. Arrested and Sent to Serve Sentence After Thirty Year's Freedom. Sent back to serve out a sentence af ter having escaped from the State pri son 31 years ago. Such was the fate of Hope Frazier, an agea Negro who vts sent' to the-penitentiary from Col leton county two weeks ago. But the governor has pardoned him, and the old ex- slave can go back to his children and his grand-children, born since he es caped from prison over 30 years ago. The members of the jury of 12 ignorant Negroes who convicted him are all dead. All others interested in the case are dead, and the governor pardoned the poor old fellow upan the petition of those who in latter years have found him an humble but good citizen. In January, 1867, the Negro was con victed of larceny of live stock and sen tenced by Judge Platt to two years in the State prison. The convict was brought to Columbia. For 11 months he served his sentence. There were no great, forbidding walls; there were no massive stone prison buildings; there was no great army of convicts there. The State prison was a wooden affair and the wails offered little security. One day Hope found an "easy" place on the wall and quietly took his departure from a servitude quite differ ent from that to which he had before been accustomed; for it was but two years after the close of the war, and Hope had been a slave. Back to Col leton county 'ae went. As if nothing had happened he resumed his work on the Middleton and Burnett plantations. For 31 years he has followed the even tenor of his way until two week ago Thursday, when he was arrested as an escaped convict. "It was an old grudge somebody had against me, marster," the poor old fellow said. "Fez131 years 1 have gone right there to that cote house and paid my taxes without any one bothering me, and after this long time they arrested me. I didn't done go to tief dat hoss, and I didn't know it was wrong to leave the penitentiary." Poor old ex-slave, with his warped ideas of morality! With the weight of 72 years on his shoulders the prison life ill became him. Friends interested themselves in his behalf and the go"ernor Thursday made him a free man.-The State. Dairy Rules. The Iowa Agricultural College cream ery has promulgated the following rules, which could be profitably observed by all. 1. Nothing but tin pails should be used in the milkyard, as it is impossi ble to keep wooden pails sweet. 2. The cows' udders should be care fully washed before any milk is drawn. 3. Milk should be aired immediately by pouring or dripping from pail to pail before cooling, and then be cooled as quickly as possible to at least 60 de gress. 4. Milk should be kept where the surrounding air is pure and free from stable odors or taint of any kind. 3. MK-r.ines milk should 'be cooled before miixing with the evening's milk. 6. Cows should not be permitted to drink stagnant or impure water, but should have an abundance of good water. 7. Cows should be driven quietly to and from pasture. 8. Cans and pails should be washed carefully with warm water, but not hot, and care should be taken to clean the seams of the receptacles: then they should be scalded thoroughly with hot water and be aired. A Good:Showing. Reliable poultry statistics that are of practical value are difficult to get, for the reason that not one poultry raiser out of a hundred in this section even pretends to keep a record. Mr. Brooks Inman. of Yorkville, however, gave the reporter of the Enquirer recently some fgres that are quite interesting. "Since January last up to today," said Mr. Inman, "I have had 26 Brown Leghorn hens, and in the time mention ed they have laid 223 do:zen eggs. A great many of these eggs, I have sold at a dollar a settig. but at 124 cents per dozen the gross incousc would have amounted to $28.121. During this time, the hens have cost on account of feed and other expenses $11.80. leav ing a net profit of $16.32, and the hens practically of the same value as at the beginning of the year." According to these figures it would seem that chick en raising is a pretty good business, es pecially if the chickens are leoked after properly, and accorded intelligent at tention. The Enquirer says there are several other poultry raisers in York ville who are in the business as exten sively as Mr. Inman, and perhaps some of them may he able to report results even more satisfactory. The Atlanta Journal says forty per sons were killed and several hundred wounded this year by our barbarous methods of celebrating independence OLD TIME LAWS. Legislation That Would Seem Queer Enough These Days. In 1649 "irreligion" was made an of fense against the law in Massachusetts. Absence from church was punished by fine. Denial of truth or inspiration of any book of the Bible was punished by fine, stripes, exile and death. In 1651 the Massachusetts legislature prohibited persons whose estate did not ex(e.d X200 ($1,000) from wearing lace costing over two shillings (48 cents) a yard. In 1657 Quakers who came to Aieri ca as a refuge from Puritan persecution. in England found a rude welcome. They were fined, whipped and banished. On first conviction of the heinious crime of being a Qaaker one ear was lopped off; on the third the tongne was bored with a redhot iron. Any one en tering "the accursed sect" was fined. A London woman, lately over, rebuked a magistrate for imposing the penalty, and was whipped with 20 stripes. In 1659 two Quakers were hanged in the Massachusetts colony for returning there after benig punished. And Mary Dyer missed a like fate by the narrow est of margins. She was equally guil ty, and- the rope was around her neck, but she was reprieved. But the follow ing June she was hanged at Boston, the charge of being a Quaker having been found sustained-and sufficient. Charles II was about all the friend in authority those plain people had. He ordered the persecutions in New Eng land to cease, and was but indifferently obeyed. In Virginia John Burgess was expelled from the assembly for "being well affected toward the Quakers." A committee of the English house of commons reported in 1708 that "the slave trade was important and ought to be free." And another committee, three years later, reported that "the plantations ought to be supplied with negroes at reasonable rates," and re commended an increase in the trade. In 1712 the Pennsylvania assembly replied to a petition to emancipate the negroes that "it was neither just nor convenient to set them at liberty." South Carolina solemnly declared that baptism was "not inconsisent with slavery;" so that even negroes might be converted. Virginia had, however, set the example for that broad charity in 1667. Theatrical representations were pro hibited in Massachusetts and Connecti cut in 1749. Poultry Items. Give lime for growth of bone and for egg shell material. A laying hen should have her food and drink at regular intervals. A little cayenne pepper in the food will-generilly stimulate laying If the hens show an inclination to pull feathers, feed them salt pork. Young ducks can be marketed at about five pouuds weight and should attain this weight in four weeks. The eggs of the White Leghorn, Black Minorca and Houdan arc about of the same weight as those of the Light Brahmna. One dollar a year is the average cost for keeping each fowl. If the fowls are of good strain each should give that much profit. tn the selection of eggs for hatch ing purposes choose these from the hens that are the best layers, most vigorous and best in form. Ten dozen eggs is the average esti mate given as the production of the hen. Ducks are said to average about ten dozen and turkeys four dozen. Eggs intended for hatching should not be kept over four weeks. They should be turned every day or two. Thirteen eggs are generally considered enough for a sitting, though many breeders now place under the hen as many as fifteen. Introduce new blood into your poul try once a year, but do not change the breed by cross breeding. If dissatis fied with the breed you have don't try to cross it out by breeding. Sell it out and start with pure-brcds, or a pure bred cock and good, strong, healthy hens. A Heavy Load. Some of the Republican newspapers are beginning to realize that their party will find the administration's foreign policy a heavy load to carry next year. They are begging the president to call a halt in his imperialism and some of them predict that if he does not do sd he will be rebuked by the people at the first opportunity. We quoted recently the comments of the Washington Post on the Philippine situation. While The Post claims to be an independent newsper it has been a staunch support er of the administration and yet it prac tically admits that the president has made a mess of the Philippine war. The Minneapolis Tribune, the leading Republican newspaper of the northwest, frankly tells the president that if the Philippine problem is not solved a year hence his re-election will be very doubt ful. There are many independent and Republican newspapers who talk like the Washington Post and the Minne apolis Tribune. The Democratic press is almost solidly opposed to the impe rialistic tendencies of the administra tion and in favor of making them as prominent an issue as possible in the campaign of next year. Nearly Wiped Out. All but one of the seven members of the family of Win. Reinhard of Colum bus Ohio, were killed and the remain ing one was badly injured by a passen ger train Sunday afternoon. The dead are: William Reinhard, aged 41. Rach ael Reinhard, aged 40. William Reinhard, Jr, aged 14. Arthur Reinhard, aged 9. Karl Reinhard, aged 7. Edward Reinhard, aged 5. Injured: Clarence Reinhard, aged 14, collar bone broken. Mr. and Mrs. Rleinhiard and their five children were out for an afternoon drive in a surrey. They were crosiing the tracks just as the westbound pas senger train, due at Columbus at 3:15 p. i., came along. The vehicle was knocked into splinters and Mrs. Rein hard and Arthur and Karl were killed outright. Edward and William were so badly injured that they died after being removed to a hospital. Clarence sustained a fractured collar bone and other lesser injuries, but it is believed he will recover. The horse which was attached to the surrey was literally grouud to pieces. The crossing has long been regarded as a dangerous one, the view of incoming trains being ob suebya high fence around the fair grounds. The train was running at a AN OLD CIRCUS MAN'S STORY He Tells How They Found a Place in Which to Bury the Great Giant. "I never told you the exact height of the great giant-what's the use?" said the old circusman. "You wouldn't believe It if I did; as I've said before it would only make you dis-believe what I do tell you about him, and what's the use? But you can form. some sort of an idea about it if from these things that I've told you and from what I'm going to tell you now about his death and burial, because in the course of time he died. "We were under canvas then, show ing three times a day, and moving ourselves, and we were tolerable busy, and we really hadn't time to give at tention as we ought to the burying of what had been, after the great giraffe, our very greatest attraction. The dig ging of a grave for him would have been like digging the foundations for several houses in a row and would have taken .lots of time, and the mere cost of the land would be considerable. "Well, as usual, the old man's horse sense came to the rescue. In looking around for forage when he struck the town be had discovered the bed of an abandoned canal, that they'd stopped using when the railroad was built. This old canal ran through the edge of a man's farm there, and the land was no use to anybody. It didn t pay to plough it becanse it wasn't worth the time and trouble it would take to get horses and plougns up and down the bank, and it wasn't any good for any thing; and the old man bought a strip of that land along there. a few acres of it, enough for a cemetery lot for the giant, for next to nothing. So you see there we were, with the land bought and the grave dug at very small ex pense and practically In a minute. "We laid the giant down in the sec tion of the canal we had bought, and hauled earth from the rest of the piece to cover him up-the old man was wise enough of course to buy land enough to provide for that. When the mound was rounded up in proper shape and due proportions it made quite a ridge: it was a flat country round there, and you could see this ridge for quite a piece. "Of course the old man put up a headstone, and it was much the biggest I ever saw, and quite different from any I ever saw-it was built of brick. The old man hired all the men that could work on It, and they put in a foundation ana built the headstone in half a day. It was something like the side of a brick house for general di mensions, only it was very much thick er and tombstone-like In shape, and at a little distance in the level country the ridge with the great stone at one end of it looked like what it was, the grave of a mighty giant. "And so we left him secure in mem ory, as we thought with the inscrip tion we had put on the headstone, but a great storm came up before the mor tar had set and blew the headstone down, and there it lay simply a scat tering pile of brick. But the mound remained, as it still does; I saw It there only a year ago when I passed through that country. But with nothing to mark it, exact knowledge of It gradual ly faded, and even tradition had grown indistinct, and the great mound had come finally to be known simply as the giant's hill." The CUmate of Cape Colony. The climate of the Cape Colony, and indeed of South Africa, may be com pared to that of the south of Europe and the north of Africa, with frost and snow on the highest lands and subtropical belts on the lowest lying parts, as in Natal, Zululand and Mas honaland. It may be roughly said that any part of South Africa Is better for those suffering from chest complaint than is the climate of our home coun try, at the most trying time of the year. But those who come to South Africa hoping to escape from this disease should not as a general rule delay on the coast The Cape peninsula is delightful for most people, but It Is not by any means best for those who are constitutionally Inclined to consumption.' They must leave the coast, no matter how many inducements there may be for them to stay. and climb the tableland which faces them at whatever port they may land. At irregular distances from the sea we have probably nowhere more than a hundred miles of low-lying coast lands before we ascend.Once on the tableland, so far as climate. goes, it matters not in what direction health seekers proceed, the climate is equally good. Lived in Cages. Capt. Dreyfus is not the only man so unfortunate as to be shut up in a cage. At the Castle of Plessis lex Tours one is shown a dark and gloomy place un der a stairway, where they tell us Cardinal La Blaue spent twelve years In an iron cage so constructed that he could neither stand nor lie In It He had the singular good fortune-ne probably would question the adjective -of undergoing a punishment unique in history. In Copenhagen about 1740 there was living an Englishman who had spent eleven years in a cage. He was a gen tleman of Lancashire .ln the service of Charles XII. of Sweden, and was ar rested for some alleged act of treason. He escaped from prison, took refuge in Hamburg, where he was safe, but Im prudently ventured back, was again arrested and this time, for greater safe ty, was put in an iron cage and stayed there eleven years, when he was re moved to a prison room. He had not been ill any of the time, was quite cleerful, wrote a volume of anecdotes. tamed a mouse for amu2sement and never lost his hope of ultimate relcas". A Paper House. A large paper house with sixteen rooms has been erected by a Russian gentleman upon his country estate at Savinowka, in Podolla. The house was coustructed in New York by an Am erican engineer, and cost $SO,000 roni bles. Its architect declares that it will last longer than a stone building. To make the triumph of paper still more emphatic, the proprietor has re solved that the whole of the furniture shall be made of the same material. An Unhealthy City. St. Petersburg is built on what was formerly a swamp. To the present day a strong west wind, combined with high water in the' river. forces water into the re-itars. The Prince of Wales is the third member of the :' ::: family who has received an inJa::. ahe knee. The Queen slipped aboum liteen years ago and hurt her kr e-an occurr:ence which has caused her to refrain from annecessary walking '::'r'te ever since. The late Dukb .. :v~ also [eli and injured his a:: .: w ln which greatly tried w:,a:e:sa Economy in italy. Marvelous aconomy is practiced by the poor of Italy in looking after the wants of the inner man. Coffee grounds from the wealthy man's kitch en are dried and resold to the poor. In a similar way oil is twice and some times three times used, the drippings after each successive frying being gathered from the pan and sold to the poor. The Cashew Kernel. A highly flavored nut, known as the cashew kernel, is being Imported into Canada 'for dessert and ccafectionery uses. It is produced in India only, and its season is from May to November, but the production is not large, and im porters must place their orders in ad OF DANiSH ORIGIN AtO Many Lends Told in Our Folk Lore. Nearly all legends, traditions and myths, wherever they exist, have their counterparts in other countries. Stu dents of folk lore will have it that such coincidences prove a common source. Similar to the Rip Van Winkle legend in America are many European myths. There is an old Danish tradition of a wedding from which the bride strayed off to an elf-mound, where the elves thronged about her and offered her wine, of which she drank. The result of this indiscretion on her part was a slumber, which lasted for a century. On awakening she found her way back to the house which she had left, as she supposod, but a little while before, but there was only one old woman there, who at last recollected that in her father's time his brother's bride had disappeared upon her wedding day. With the change of sex and place this is the story of the Kaatskill hunt er. There is a Danish legend resembling part of Longfellow's Hiawatha. That the two poems should be alike in form does not bear upon this discussion, though it did lay Mr. Longfellow open to a charge of imitation, but the matter of Hiawatha was taken from legends which Schoolcraft gathered among the Indians. The story of Great Claus and Little Claus as told by Hans Christian Ander sen differs from the Irish Hudden and Dudden In a few minor details only. The scholars bespeak for both a com mon Scandinavian origin. The list might be prolonged almost indefinitely. Bees From the Philippines. Ther a is one race inhabiting the Phil Ippines which will be a welcome addi tion to American citizenship, and will be afforded every facility and induce ment to immigrate to the United States and engage in the skilled labor in which it has no peer. This is the giant East Indian honey bee, and investiga tion of its work and immense capaci'y for making honey and wax has inter ested the Department of Agriculture in the consideration of an early effort to introduce it into the United States. Secretary Wilson said In connection with the proposed importation of these bees to the United States that a special appropriation would be asked in his coming report to Congress for the in vestigation of the bees of the world, and a swarm of the big Philippine honeymakers would be brought to America as soon as the question of their value and the possibility of their acclimation have been fully determin ed. There will also be an appropriation requested for the study of the agricul tural and kindred products of the new ly acquired territory of the United States, and even under this head the great honey bees of the east could be introduced by the department to this country. Why We Yawn. There can be little doubt that one of the objects of yawning is the exer cise of muscles which have been for a long time quiescent, and the accelera tion of the blood and lymph flow which has in consequence of this qui escence become sluggish. Hence its frequency after one has remained for some time in the same position-for example, when waking in the morn ing. Co-operating with this cause Is sleepiness and the shallow breathing which it entails. This factor, as well as muscle quiescence, is apt to attend the sense of boredom which one expe riences in listening to a dull sermon. Hence it is that the bored individual Is.. apt to yawn. As in the case of sigh Ing, the deep breath which accompa nies the act of yawning compensates for the shallow breathing which Is so apt to excite it. Meaning of Chiecamauga. Thomas Foster, an authority on such matters, writes In protest against the Chickamauga Creek being referred to as "the river of death," as if that was the meaning of the Indian name. He says the Indian word Chickamauga means a boiling pot, and was the name given the place because of a whirlpool that once existed where the Chicka mauga Creek emptied Into the Tennes see river. The rocks which caused the whirlpool were removed by the government some years ago. London, Ex-Watering Place. Time was when London was a water ing place, whose wells, If not rivalling Bath or Harrogate, were widely famed and frequented by people from all quar ters. In South London there was quite a number of spas-Lambeth Wells, which sold water for a penny a quart, and gave it to the poor for noth ing; St. George's Wells, Sydenham Wells, and Dulwich Wells being the best known. Ancient Clay Pipe. The British museum contains a very full collection of clay pipes, dating back as far as the 16th century. The :ustom of waxing the pipe end to pre rent it sticking to the lips was Intro uced by the Dutch about the year 1.'00. Crowded Out by Machinery. When girls of old swift needles plied Fond swains could murmur at their side; But now typewriting keys they pound When man would woo his voice Is drowned. Canary Seed Farms. Many acres of canary seed are annu ally grown inKent, many persons there being s,,lely canary-seed farmers. The traw of the canary-seed plant is high v valued as fodder for horses. an exchange gets off the following: i want to be a farmer and till the virgin oil, and labor in the sunshine to sweat and stew and boil: I want to earn large acres, whereupon the rye to sow, and watch the cornstalk waving, and hear the mortgage grow; I want to be a farmer, and grow a Ifubbard squash, the pumpkin and pomioes, and other stuff, by zos I: I want to be a farmer, I do, up,.n :r.1m. but I haven't got he money to bu:y a gupher hole. 9Jn the Tirai of nl i'ens~IO" A somewhat pathetic letter comes from an old colored citizen. It is as follows: "De rain has done beat down my cot ton, an' most er my co'n is done ruint. My son wuz a sojer in dei war wid de Spaniels. He lost two legs in it. Do you reckon de guy-ment will give him $2 a leg fer 'em?" Level Sea Bottom. The bottom of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is said -to be so level that a railroad could be laid for 500 miles without grading anywhere. This fact was discovered by the United States surveying vessel engaged in making soundings with a view of lay nz embla. A Vigcrcus.Protest. Mr. M. L. Swift. of Nordhef, Cal.. is not in agreement with Generals Mi C. Butler. Joseph Wheeler and C. R. L. Bern(r. apparertly. TIhe Baltimore Sun has received an open lettcr from Mr. Skift, addressed to the president ard his as!ociated sovereign empire and army itakers, in which he says: "It seems to lare become, vithin the past few mouths, a firmly grounded princi pie of J< publicain in,' iruti i.s that one ,A .o doe, nort agree w.ith 3our auguAt authority in th-ematters o-f conqUI(t at.(,d exp:mi!:ion savors of the traitor, and :het ojLP ; ho fully speaks his disag pv co is a traitor. If you are alios ed to establish this abominable doctrine we shall sen be, all of us, in ebain.; our right to discuss, our very ight to decide national po'ices for ourselves and by ourselvts. unawed and aundice tated to h. elrcetd masters, will-e torn away. Y u na) be very confident that the luster which two tiDy wars have given you will enabel you to coe~rin that doctrine, but you ehall at lesi hear our ver:.ion of the m)steris of treason. No doctrine could be more imnoral or daag.rons than that we must supp:rt our 'rulers' in every gross ness of exterual policy or war for ajpeara- ce of national unity to 'ard outer world. There is no stoppi place for -ueh a creed shot tof ciplete mental and moral surrender of te wlole people to the tyranny of one wil,'. and the ouly aintidote for such madness is to stop in the biginning. -If all rh who are pained and enraged atour vi cnt criminal aggression were to pu this enlig htened resistance toward y even you would soon be so enlightei as to acknowlkdge the horror of og performances and to graciously di tinue :hem It is now annoutced you will soon make new levies of sl? ers to contitue the assimilating sacre of our beloved Oriental god dren. This is audacity incouce' Was it not enough, having -ob volunteers under the fahl.e preten merely liberating Caba, to cun dispatch these men, who never have enlisted to crush and destroyC ans, to do that very thing to a people in every respect similar to Cubans? This is the quintseneie treaceery and I marvel beyond that an intelligent people has boi6 at your hands." SAVAGE AND FEROCIOUS '. The Devi Dancers of Ceyled and 1Iid v Mysterious Ways' The real Singhalese devl Ceylon are ferocious and, savge lows. Their dances are ievolting ,orrble. But their profession-s . ar and affords a royal living f 'men who go into It There F 'stition among the Sighaleskthatl when a man falls sick he is suppduedt to be affmlcted by a devl. Inorderto rid him of the disease the devil danc ers are called in to propitiate thie de ,men. Two or more of them go by hight to the sick man's house, In front of which a small, square inelosure about six feet high, has been made of grasses and palm leaves. This7 answers the purpose of the green room at a theatre. The men appear at without -masks and with long. y w grass streamers hanging f .their head and waists. The light cast on the se rehes, made'of ' s o which pleces of cloth are~ wrapped, dipped In oil. To the music of a tam-tam, kept up on one note-,the A t dancers sing a peculiar, wild funeral dirge, In which the spectators offen join. -t The dancers begin by slowly moving about, stretching the right foot and -.. bringing the left up to it, and appear as If they were searching for some thing, during which the singing sounds like crying. They are then asking the devil to appear. There are twenty four different sorts of devils, and aft'er the first part, the dancers are con-i." stantly changing their clothes to repre-~ sent the entire species; some wear masks, some don jaws and terribZA teeth reaching to their ears. The jaw open and close in a very realistic man ner. A dancelasts over two nights, as the whole twenty-four devils have all to be personated before the particular de mon who is afflicting the man is pitch ed on. When he gives signs of his presence the dancers go into a sort of frenzy, which increases as he takes possession of them; thle tam-tam Deats faster and faster, the enanting grows .. into yells, the men whirl and stamp and the bells on their ankles jingle *~ and clash. At this stage the dancers appear'to be looking for some object to give the devil in sacrifice, and into which he may pass. A chicken is usually offered by the friend of the sick man, and the unfortunate bird Is seized upon, twist' ed and tormeited and bitten between the false teeth, until the dancers, worn out, move slower and slower, and the chicken sinks into a sort of trance, which Is a sign that the devil has accepted the sacrifice, and Is will ing to pass from the man into the bird. speed of an Earthquake. T he course which an earthquake runs is usually very rapid. From the -- instant when the first shock was felt at Lisbon to the period when all was -, over, and many thousands of people -- killed, not more than two minutes had elapsed. Usually from ten to thirty seconds elapsed between the first and last shocks of severe earthquake. But this lightning speed is not always the earthquake's mode of traveling. While ' Caracas, in Venezuela, was almost totally destroyed and 12,000 people were killed in less than twenty seconds by the great shock there many years back, there are bases in which con stantly recurring shocks have lasted for weeks. No matter how brief the span, the most frightful havoc can be wrought and the wave of destruct ion propagated from the most distant regions. The rumbling earth-sound travels at the rate of about 10,000 to 11,000 feet per second, and the earth wave, on an average, about 1,200 feet in the same space of time. Salaries of Presidents. Very few persons would suspect how small the salaries of presidents of re publics are, when the enormous sumis crowvned heads receive are taken into consideration. '1 he foreigner often thinks the $50,000 salary of the Presi dent of the United States is merely a joke, and that he receives ten times as much in reality, but the same for eigner may not know that the Frenich President, in a country where the wealthiest nmonachs once reigned, re ceives only $120,000 a year. The President of the little Andorra Re public contents himself with a salary of $15 a year, and the President of the Swiss Republic must be satisfied with $3,000 The goia contameo in wne meaas, vessel, chains and other objects pre served in the Vatican \would make more gold coin than the whole of the preen Erean circulation.