The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, December 27, 1899, Image 4
TliE DIVIN MBUL.
Pillars of Snn'ke Typify God's
Power and Mercy.
DR TALMAGE SPEAKS
Of Trials Through Which T'uth
H as Tritrinh--t-y s g
gled. The'C;wrch to ze
AZbier cf N ors
The tr'o:L
has sor k i a Cye
set it. u
great su ei. ' p','
lar- of Sm J.
The a r
wondrol~'s' i~r I
eurves iL i 'Ito
adme, or o r
in a pia
the cr.un ' e ' Ie e
nmorningi, hy
dusuis have b ou. '-r :c it &
ing from tle ch im 'f s toe te c
ing of the house' fd i '
turning out vaI a1ric :h pnn
ingz presses pre i a:i andk a
paper. and a1 "eIt h w i
of work in motin. 0.1 a .eariay toi'
vapor spoken of nu unsue
buoyancy and sproa'.:s t u ai ea
veil across the mkv and traces uh
graceful lines of circle and em,ieee
and waves an'd tCs-sO. and
soars and scrters with such tlaenee
of shape and coor ani su' niene
that if you have neoer noi a it :.ou
are like a man who has ab r.:s e lived
in Paris and yet never eni the Luxem
bourg, or all his life in Rome and rever
seen the Vatican, or all his life at
Lockport and never seen Niagara.
Forty four times the Bible speaks of
the smoke, and it is about time that
somebody preached a sernon r-co-nz
ing this strange, weird, lbautiful, ela
tic, charming, terrifi- and faszeicating
vapor. Across the Bible sky 2 >ats the
smote of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom,
the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit,
the smoke of the voleanic hills when
God touches them. anq in ny text the
gloriouz twh of God comit g up out
of the wnd, r-cs like pillars of smoke
In the first -lace. these pl'ars of
smoke in my ieit iodicate the sud, rinz
the church of God has endured. What
do I mean by the chureh? I mean not
a building, not a seet, but thos' who in
all azes and all lands and of all beliefs
love Gd and are trying to do right.
For many centuries the heavens have
been black with the smoke of marty r
dom. If set side by side, you could
girdle the earth with the firE s of perse
eution-R wland Taylor burn'd at
Hadleigh, Latimer burned ;t Oxford,
John Roa~ers burmed at Smjitatield.
Johu HoOper burned at Ghuuce-ter,
John Ross burned at Constance, L Lw
rence rs burn, d at Coventry,
Joan of Arc Ourn d at R :uen.
Witness the sueri.s of the Wal
denses, of the Aioigense~s, oif the Nes
torians. Witness St Btrtolome'w's mas
sacre. Witnress the Duke of Alva driv
ing out of life 18.O00 Chri-tians. Wit
ness Herod arnd Nero and Decius and
liidebratnd and Torquemada atnd Earl
of Montfort and Lord Claverhouse,
who, when told that he must give e e
count for his crueities, said, I have
no need to account to man, and, as for
God, I till take him in try own ha ds.
A red line runs throu.:h the ehurch
history of 1 9u0 y ears, a line of blod.
Not by the hundreds of thouanas but
by the milliotns nust we e unt tho-e
Flain for Christ s sakC. No wo~e
TJhn Milton put the groans of t e
martyrs to an immiurW tuDe. wrmtfg:
Avenge, 0 Lord thy shughtered saints,
whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains,
cold.
The smoke of martyrs' homes and
martyrs' bodies if rouling up all at
once gould have eclip'sed the nooeday
sun ano waned the brighte-t day the
world e-:er saw into a muidalirht. "Whon
is this that cometh up t ut of the wi:derI
ness like pil'ars of smoke ?'
Has p ;'- i n cease'uY Ask that
young m~ t:.ng t beasrs
tian in a s*v "r factr. a er from
morning o i e bu.tt of all
thle mean i.ie.ms 'fu -e g em
poyce. Ask 1t -: ' eC na
makes her fo cd'ess for thiC 11"
God and even her kneeling p ::r
the bedside a derision and, is no moc
fit for htr holy companionship than a
fithy cro'v would be fit compi in for
a robin or a gIlden oricle. Comraomise
with the worldi and surrende- to its
conventionalities and it n~av o
alone, but all who will li ve ol ia
Christ Jesas must stuff ri per- teation.
Be a theater goiog. card pla ii , witie
drinking. round dane'.n" Ci.,:in. and
you may escap~e ertu-sa andsel
pressure. B3.t be an up and dow,
out and out ?ollower of Chlit, an
worldling will win-c to worl ing a he
speaks your nau~e, and y'u wil 'e put
in many a doggered and snubbted y
those not worthiy to biUke 'o~~s
sho s. Wh en the bridge at AVhtabuia
broke and let down the aost of the ar
load of passengers to 1intt d ea th,
Mr. P. P. Bies was seate d on oncid
of the aisle of th ecar writig' down a
Christian song which he was~ co'to-i' g~
and on the other ei le a "roup ofut
were playirg cards Whos ladin
place in eeriy3 wou..c you fe
that of P. P Biiss, the~ "o-;el -iner
or of the card playe-rs?
A great coamplaint comes fromt the
theaters about the lades' bigh hats be
cause they construe; the view (f the
stage, and a lady reporter a-ked me
what I thought about it. and I tb i her
that if the Inudecent pie:u.resof' aoctess
in the show windows were aecurato pwe
ures of what goes on iu man'y of the
theaters nxit byv niight ti. ' t would
be well if thbe ladie~- iats wr a .-!
high, so as to coai;!eIt.l obtr ct the
vision, if professtd Chritiars go to
uth places durit g the reek, no one
will ever persecute thec"n for ther e
ligion. for they lav' no, an bey are
the j ke of hcil. Ba: 1. t te i,
coner.ted a: d Ct rit an lii., an
theyv will soon run aci t nern t'
position.
For a compr.'i-e ('-t'" cha"r-'er
an easy t:me now. t f ' rte -i
behavior grimaec atnd 1ai ue '. r
the body, thiaaks to the G'odf free
America, i-re vr n " n 'ords or
fiery stakes -utif' t! s 'o hu
ands of th ao d,0 i a' -..v ene
rack ad-'ibbet and To In i b
sy m bol of :1.dn::c. :
private a'd u li sureo r
lars of -otk. W ra'exvtn
scene in ILdiaw ndui t y
rebellion a a:a IfM:ad
came up and fcu -''-b
one of Ucearrl 'O.
who Lad tecn i:sulte
slain by the rep'y s. n- ar ua t e
a oat a. , , - i
e rc i d d d t i
th ur f th iAs
e.e r ra our ci, A
andb~rt nei oroos are 'i -1 d o'
-I.AU It r
t * z r A r- ~ Ai itA i- nA I-,[,
A. U a' t'1!I 1
t hAe we-rui ry prospr i aI d I IC epur
Amoa, an-. d t !e apy suS.
Men ay deser te it, a- ~re
Then he Stabled h;s cA nor, es InI
Sr. Paul's eathedral. or brA eif ( LA tle
'nua"' of Christ, as did the ic'nLela ts
il York mirister: or hurl agair.,t it
august hterary.a pa:.1s, as ,id Gh
bon.; or plot its ocrthro-s, as ,-o souw
hate and deloauc-iery are repnlvea by
;he Ten Commna! daents which it tha
ders and thre sermon 02 the A! t
which it breatic. But it wIl s'and a,
Zrga- the earthj stand . tl!' S:1,114 uni
laead wonder worktun a" bCe-ulEa
wliraeulous thing for wi-ich GU de;
creed it. Su ill wit.; tax t h(ir brain to
;_ay things that will p-it lert at i'sad
vantag, but many of them will send
for its coidolence- when dying, and
their children will b eather, d up un
.ier its benedictions after the parental
urse has been removed. Through her
gates will m-rch all the i~nl-nees for
oed that shall ever retch our world.
'ake her membership as a miss, not
peaking of the aikaowkdltgA excep
ions, they are the nobcs', b -st riea:
and womeA-u of the a e But for thei:
:e earth would loig -A L-ve bcee a
burned out v, lcano. Tney iale
he sit that has kept th! hmittniti
from putrtfatin insufferabe either to
human or anelie oifactories.
Y1u lyig aud hypocrtjeal wri(,
snut up those slander: about the ehur.-h
of Christ, an institution which, Lr
from being what it o(ogit to be, aind
never pretendiog to be perfect. i, 5(0
times better than any other institution
that the wrTi eversaw or ever dreamed
. The highest hoior I ever had, and
the highet'ouor i fhall eer r, Ceive,
anu the highest honior I ev. r waut is to
have my name on her recrd, a, a mjei
ber. At hetr a'tars I repented. At
h--r sacraments I blitved e h. r sA'r
ice let me die. Fr-(I h r dtes l-t
ae be buried. O) c'hurch oft (i(!
Thou h,-me oAf the riehceou,! 'Thou
harbor froiti teuip-sil ThoAu liebtho~uwe
of many' nations! Thou typte (Af heaveu
I eA ul'd kiss thy very duat with ecstasy
For her my tears shall fall,
F-or her moy pr'vers are--ud,
To her my toils and cares be given
Till toils and cares shall end.
' rfumeid smoIke," say's SJAonanl in
the words follinsii uly te xt. N At like
the fu:nes cot hed upA f Aon the thYr wat
Af a s:eamn pAipe or poisoad~ (2 'the
clses of chle!'uid1 fteorics or Ul'atin
in black wrati fron the conasg tHie
of homuesteads or su'pharous fromt blaz
ig batti ries, but sweet as a burning
grve of cinnamon or junlie of ita'sa
fas or the odors of' a temple eenser
''Io is this thet cometh out of the
wilderness like pillars of s noke tper
fmed with :cyrrh and fratkineense'
[ear it, tuen and women everywhere,
that the advance of the genuine church
of Christ me~ans peace for all niatiAons.
Victor Hiugo in his ho'k entitled
"Nuet3 -three." says: "Nothling cal
mer than smoke, but nithing rnwre
startling. There arAe peaefuli sma.k-s,
and there are evil ones. The thienness
c >lor of a line of smolke wake the,
doe difference between war and peace,
between fraternity and hiatredi. Tue
whole happiness of man or his co~mpl-tA
misery is sometimes expressed ini this
thin vapor which the mind scatters at
wl" The ;:ret Feecnehti was right,
but I go further ard sav that as the
indoin of G.od advaunces like pillars of
smoke the baek volume'. belching' fr-tn
:atteries of war and jpouine: out fromn
portholes of s.hips wil aih
The churTh of Go d will yet become
the arbiter t'f ti'ti,. . It the world
woudI al! .xV it it co todayil. stIp i'd
:etween GjernL ]any . an Fra'dce andi 'et
ie the truble IAl-out Al-c and Lor
~ite, and hmvee EC:' iln and her
ratoitZOd'~ alndk ietweenC all the (other
at..ns that ale fly irg at each othe-r's
.rats and comtuand pea(ce, and ComH
tand peace and di-bau~ dtrmies a id
arness for the plow theC w:ir i-rees5
LAw being hitched to) amunmes-I
va.nor s or saddled for cavalry charge.
hat titne mtust comec, or t ro-uh lin
nereas- d facility for hiomi Ag meu 'andI U
IWlowig u~p cities and whelingin h--ts
o nstant death, so that we can kill a
TCmen~t < asier than w.e A'ouldi on'ce
i a comipany and kill a urizace ('a'ier
than we coui~ onee' killarg~et
e[patent itieso te we .re
cg'::ey dsutinth o rce
Ir', anti o l ing wA.itt on o , A''
tobbt with b-oni. a nd -( umli
inentor ins i ed of the A areati If
to blow this h-u k -f a pue into frac
:ers. dtropp ig th :n.LetCi stonmes en
Ba t Is shal noULI t b A ''1 ha.tr I
et Ao I I a ot' to lmy B K, w :.i
Ali ' e th t h blat~ . -
shall t eo Ae -oe z tade! u n -
-I:1tho iA o is l r ie his
a: es nt a Ikatc.aeda
-e cu't in tao n l a n
ha~ 3re 'arnh u es anlamsua
t &"s(' A F!4 C. 1 litx
IN tI
. i i: o z
ro~ h'ri a o nith "Glor
a~~~~1' nteblht Oio e.innL~
rom t - r i L f l , 1 l n aT.
At \a A .1X1i Nit1 a-, hie Valkyi Ei
I,. Nil e t. irm-wt;ons ha en ex
in to allf i lilmi-.Atd men
S 1e Ie i, thCe truest b h.k ever
I .. T . nJ thlo ieOs of I' l'
7l: 4f m.m's expulsin f'rua'
d dw aerbtiee i f a ira
t r 1 ace t fi :he
'r ,,rea dt by the hameuur
- ers. H ir, onli 1 v U lanien'S aid:
't lng vi'y; Tae'ius aud lizy
.;:., t he Bi e a e u t f d
r .:tu a .i'm.irrdh Ta it
*'d I' !tyr teling the saM e :? IN
. i'er,'e tel ig of the iassac're of
ar the eciti
It i; d..mstrate~d to al urioest *!ei
: i tso cer4in tbat Williani
Gia li~ t wr.t "Thanatop-i~ 'r
L s o vro.te "Hiawathia" ', tha:
od. UV t*-e iru ofi' pohiet and6
A 0t e.. wre th 1Ale. Ai. the w~ie
ne i!! science, an.. lax an~d meiine-ii(
..i icratri to blie ve ia Chris
tIn. a Lem there wll be io peo
> hle I in it escept tiose
C - .- ,uti''ous f...r lack of brain or nluri
wt.i t so faiie, aho do not like the
BA" 1:aue it rebukes their s -, iih
The time is harter.Ing when there
w:ll be no inidels left except liber
tine"s ani harlots and wu-derers. MI
i iCs ot Christi ius were once there were
tLouands, and thou,ands where oce
:here were hundreds. What a brighi
evening this, the evening of the nine
t enth centur! And the twentieth
ceiturC. whieh is about to dawn. wili.
in my ( iniiioin, brit-g universal vi tor3
0o C. hrist aind tie chur':h nowi
arhin on with'i s-ep double quick or.
it voi prefer the fiLure of the text.
is o ini" Swept on in the mighty gale:
of bt-siun imuro-sing and grand and
m"!t"stie and ssift like pillars of swoke.
OA, come int) the church throuuh
Christ the door. a door more gloriou!
than that of the temile or Hercules.
which had two pillars, and one was
oli and the other ewerald! Corie ii,
toda:.! The world you leave behind is
a p.or world, and it will burn and pa.
4t like pilars of ,moke. Whether thi
tinal con.fibier.ioa will start in the
ni ine. of Pennsytvania, which, in
ie pleces, have for many years been
tiurnin- and eating into the heart of
the imounitains, or whether it sh1ab
'1u 'er the California geysers or
I liether from out the furnaces of Coto
paxi and \ rmiuvius and St:owboli it
.sha 1 burst forth upon the astoi!bec
nationis I make no prophecy but all
o-'!Oist S tell us that we stand on th<
id of a world, the heart of which ik
a ragiga roaring. aAfal fhmaie, and
,onW day God will let the red mou.'ter:
of their iiipri'.ontnent of centuries, and
Ne w York on fi - in 1835, atid Charle"
too on fire it ISO. and Chicago on fir
in 1872, ated Btoa on tire in 1S73
er, only like onei spazk from a bhei
sami', force as compared Iith that
li't univ er-al lae which will be ste
in~ othe r -sorldis. But gtradtually the
fi ues will lesn, anid the world vmili
beceune a great living coal, and tita
will take on ashen hue, and then our
ruined pa. et will begin to emoke, arid
th is. a es w.ill stu4.ke, and the vati
c.x wiii s.ntke, arid the islands wil
-,woke. andi ithe seas will stuoke, anid
the c1iie will sunke, and the tive can
iiicnts wil'l be tit'e pillars of smoke.
B t the black vapors will begiu to
e-en in height anid density and then
will beem'ne hardiy visiible to those who
1' up ,' i- from the galleries, arC
a e' a-.a il fOm i st one tttint ti le
wn i. i e o i u a. thi:;. slitary vapor, anui
t e.xiat w.iil vanitish, aad tiwCre
Cw io be nth'i'g lef~t except the charni d
risfa bur.) I ut world, the corpse
ofa dead .ar, ue a'hes of an exuin
gui--hed pltt a fallen pillar of smroke.
Dat that ili rot interfere w'th .your
ivestmeursit if y.'u have taken Christ
as sour Saviour. S.ncare heaven as
your eterna! ltmea, arid you can look
down nuon a distnantled, disrupted arsd
denwehvd earth without any pertur
~Wen wrarpptd in fire the realns of
ti'der i.4w,
Arid 1.eavxeti's l?st thunders shake tihe
Iearth blAu,
Thou, undiismaayed. shalt o'er the ruins
And liith: the torch at nature's funeral
;,ile.
The Mi;;rutiom. of Rtosina.
For many years naturalists like Au
dubon and Wilson studied and wrote
of this bird before it was known that
there were "robin roosts," as well as
pigeon roosts. Only within the last
few years was the fact brought out
that a bird more familiarly known than
the passenger pigeon followed this
mode of spending the night, although
it adopted spring instead of fall for
massing by hundreds in a high shel
tered wood for a n~ght's protection
from cold, or because it is the period
before pairing time, or for some other
r'son at present beyond marn's ken.
With what stealth must this well-known
and mucht-observed bird have found its
way in such ntumbers to the same patch
of timber night after night in the early
months of the year. according to 1o
ca!ty coming from all directions so
swiftly that a secreted observer could
not count, keeping up a chatter that
could be heard for a long distance, un
til the last bird, somewhat belated,
perhaps, found shelter in the darken
ing grove, when all became silent as
thousands of wings were folded to rest.
Another peculiar trait of the robin,
nnoted except by so keen an ob
server of bird ways as M1aurice
Thcmpson. Is that, with all its friendly
and conrfidtng relations with the human
family during the time of nosting and
rearing its young, in the fall of the
year. it bceturies a wild bird, betaking
itself large~y to the woods and even
the secluded parts of mountains, at this
seson showing little dIsposition to he
on familiar terms with man, giving a
noe of alarm and flying high and
Awity when surprised at his approach.
Athis time they range over extensive
trcts of country, but nearly always
evince a tendency to seclusion. The
wrier has seen them in small flocks
flying over a wide valley at such an ele
ration that only by the wen' known
X:i rt seuitak. rather than by the eye,
cot:e he surely determine that they
were robins.
Evnints migratory habits thN lird
i ewt pecuml'am. Thry secm to
moeo~ward In the fail vwIth more
tar4.n. than~ most other birds, al
1cowing th increased severities of the
od seasona to push them off the win
t s dge. Or are these late goers
th 'irds inured :o cold by a residnee
in the States further north, which,
comng southlward, take the place of
others that have gone rlie~r In the
a'sn? Th" quiestionl of identity, al
'ays a diflirlt one, almost precludes
argument on this pcint
Ltrumort is a distinct koss to thec
ntm 'x. lie was an intelligent,
trlant officer.
40 YEA RlY 2TRUGGOLE
E'SY. ACK-3 ME D A AV: SER ISSUES
A STA~ . :N .
reve.s Tha'tt the Jran Clhance-lor Was
Fae to I ace Urom U11-iease
31any Timvs '!rn: h:t: ixrnzt h of Years
--At Times1C wa. Ou: of IN.; Minrd.
Pro.'. S< n mdcal ad
ef P:e : durn his
de in : .S . i e . p m
decibn hitritlsad
t n 7 o Lisi.' p at
re:: .. says the Vo.rd.
I befoe
the hum,'Iing of e in 1.70 1is
miarck .SOljae ch.isamu
tion w,%vs thh ; ta in the Sa
he broke d "n': c r lk a chld;
that- so ealr':y as 1_::; e a almost in
a dying s-ate, ar.
he not ouy s'uab e agonies
but was smin s r brief periods
out of his mind.
For forty a -:i of this man
of iron, v e Lvas in the pou
la.r esimu'nai:.:st a synonym of
rugged stren;:h, wa . ne continual
fight with die-e, u'err.g ard death.
Pro. Shw ints a thriiing
p:icture of I-we ismarcks' grim
strigie With dah.
"Several tin:es dri ng nearly forty
years," he writes, murelt was face
to face with d ." 1":,57 an injury
to his leg, re.c.ve, w.ile hunting, de
veloped, from neg:cet and quack treat
nient, into asericus wound, so that
the doctcrs stronumy advised the am
putation of the le.'t leg above the knee.
But Bismanrck decided to fight the dis
ease.
"A fter two years of keen suffering
he regained his strength, but this left
leg always remained the seat of weak
ness. In the Ko:_gratz campaign of
1s66, when he was Lroken down by
wo'rk and v;orry, t: leg became vio
lently painful. Ie was reduced to the
lowest state of nervous prostration, the
attack cuizril:ating in a violent storm
of hysterics, in which he 'man of iron'
cried like a child. When he returned
from the campaign 14e had aged greatly,
but the excitement of the war of 1S70
once 'more raised him above his play
sical il's.
"When I saw him first, In ISS2, I
said: *If he ;:L.3 .0s hie is LOW,
there will be a sruus collapse in six
months, with rese.s concerning Vhich
I should ertertuin great fears.'
"My prediction was fuuiilld. The
Chancellor was reduced almost to a
dying state in 1SS3 by mistreatment,
his doctors diagnosing his case as can
cer of the liver and stonich.
put him under a strict regimen
and in a fortnight he was so well that
in my absence he drn.l an immense
quantity of butterilk-enough for
three ordinary men-bringing on jaun
dice in a serious form; but careful
treatment and dieting mitigated his
sufferings from fLeachaee and headache
and for years he was almost rejuven
ated.
"But again from time to time gout
like pains in his lict leg came on, the
precursors of his fatal illness, and on
Oct. 17. 197, (nine months before his
death on July 30. 1893), there began an
intolerable pain whose sudden appear
acce and terrific st:ength were almost
inexplicable, rendexing his life thence
forward an unbearaLle burden.
"I diagnosed there symptoms as In
cipient old age rortification, which the
prctracted and re'entlcs course of the
disease had carnfirmed, though the
Prince was never informed of it and
harmless bulleti::s w'ere prepared for
the papers. so that hie might not learn
the truth ft cm that source.
"The process of decay w"as attended
by shight aberations of tne mind, by
delusions of which he was afterward
conscious. 'his afternoon I was part
ly .au:side of myself; row I have found
mself with~ninm agin,' was his de
soription of the e at~tacks.
".But two days~ before his death he
was able to st inhi.acustomned p'ace
at dinner and d"rank the foaming wine
in which he de' 'ghted. His intellect
was as bright "s ever.
"So he was t"a. After ten months
of this awful agony deathnwas agen
tIe deliverer and we had succeeded in
our o bject of arre.ging the disea'se u':
til the decay of the vital forces brougnt
about the end."
"Ulip-hip-hurrah" has always been re
garded as a thcroughly British cry,
typical or the exui.iant temperament
of the race. Compared with it the
"Vive" of the Frenehman, the "Hoch"
of the German, and the "Slava" of the
Russian are tamne cad expressionless;
but the "Hip-hip-hurrah" from Anglo
Saxon threats rings through the
spheres and carrie". everything hefore
It. It is a cruel b:ciw to find that the
words are nct Eagli::h at all. The one
consolation left us is that they were
nct "m:.de in Ger:rany."
A renteman na:r' d Adams has been
investigating the r--."steries of the pyr
amids and mocur:a:s of Egypt, and
has found the ph:'ase "Hlip-hip-hur
rahi" amcng the er':ly hleroglyphics of
that country. The only consolation
derivable from this remarkable discov
ery is the argumert which may rea
sonably b!" e deduce. that the nrp: an3
gv e us' a prior r!.:ht t) the whol
ing' to Mr. Adamn Lh ieoglyphic
'Hip-lipn-hurah ns hen trans
Pled. "On, on to 'liender."
IWa, r .r \rtn-'!!:g to Nor'' I Daca
wile thie train Is pai"ng thriough the
been rin: n 'lon "''"hr 'h :ht inter
P.'ston 1:ulyv came'~ :"mo 0i~ in n'- 'r
for he" dine'r. Ca'.tin" h'r cye out
of the car windo I~naso ht
changed inndc"pe Sh s"id toth
waiter, with purely """-raph cat incer
es:
s"nAhrl anw oae-rn hr
-Emerson1 h.7-" ii
N eeded in I 1th Uu ness
"I say," said :he im uess man to the
deetie'some fellow. h~ss been rep
ren :ghmself as a colletor of ours.
le has. been tutk!::g in mare money
thr "anyu two of :loe n we have and
I want5 h'im co~tarcd as quickly as you
"AV! right: P1'1 have hi it j Il in
es th'an a wek.
"Gre:: S . :::' I don't w"nt to
a monh. ar C:. 1:e I.'~e
ofr miege erLa '"l a iace
o ,f cwec:e 'nt , he- *. this I wa
tryng o rivhr without blndrs
I 7) . . Ne \t case."-Cleve
SOM.THING3 v NEW IN STEEL
A Discovery That Is Expected To
Rfevolutionize a Great Industry.
Just as Americans begin to feel that
they are upon the verge of developing
superiority to Great Britain not only
in shipbuilding, but in the steel trade.
in which such a nuwber of valuable
foreign contracts have lately been
taken by our manufacturers in the face
of British competition; and just as na
ture seems to encourage the American
aspiration by showing that the English
coal mines will be exhausted within
another fifty years, science seems to
be coming to the aid of the Britisher
and may be about to open new fields
of com:etition in s:cel in which Amer
:(a nist take part if she is to main
tain her hard-earner' ;,restige.
The discovery has en demonstrated
in London. and is beln; made mue!
of by the Eriisi press, that the ubil
ity to produce perfect steel by casting
it In a vacuum made by liquid hydro
gan with a process that it is not pro
posed to mai:e public, has at last at
tained practicability. A company has
been formed with a capital of thirty
tbousand pounds to experimentally de
velop the proecrs and if the plan is
as successful as Prof. Dewar, the d's
coverer, presumes It will be, the air
bubbles that now cause flaws and
weakness In steel will be done away
with and a metal will result such as
the world has never seen. To say that
this means a possible revolution in the
steel trade Is to put it mildly, and if
the English government can control
the process. as it is now intimated may
be the case, then American scientists
and those of other countries will be
put upon their mettle to get even with
the Dritishers, says the Marine Jour
nal.
Liquid hydrogen. which Is the great
agent now disc(,ered, is described as
a clear, colorlass. transparent and very
volatile fluId, no clearer than pure
water, but only one-fourteenth the
density of water. In its Lwhtncss it is
out of all proportion to any known li
quid. A piece of paper when placed
in it sinks. The difference between
liquid hydrogen and liquid air is as
great if not greater than the difference
between the ordinary temperature and
liquid air. Liquid hydrogen places
temperature at within twenty degrees
of absolute zero, which is represented
by 494 degrees Fahrenheit and 273 de
grees Centigrade below zero. The boil
ing point of liquid hydrogen is 252 de
grees lbelow zero, at which It Is capa
ble of enormous pressure.
The discovery must affect every
problem of physics and chemistry. Its
possibilities are illimitable. It may
revolutionize the methods that have
been laboriousiy built up during the
last three hundred years.
The Horse and Half Dollar.
She was a very easy going person,
and the repose with which she told the
story was beautiful, aggr-ivating, rimue
ulous.
--The man came and woke me up. It
was 2 o'clock, but he said 'that our
horse had got out of the barn, so we
got up and dressed and went out after
the horse, and we found the horse and
put him back in the stable. The next
morning we gave the man half a del
ia r.
"And the .ext night the man came
and, woke us up; and it was 2 o'clock
again, just like the night before. And
the man said our horse had got out Lf
the stable again. .o we got up and
dressed and we found the horse and put
h'm back in the stable. And my hus
band gave the man 50 cents again.
"-Then the third night the man came
and said that our horse had got out
again. And it was about the same
time, 2 o'clock. But we were very glad
the man came to tell us. And when we
found the horse again we decided that
we would loc-k the stable this ti-ne so
that the horse couldn't get out, and so
the nman wouldn't have to come and get
us out of bed to go out and get the
horse hack into the stable again.
"And we did lock the stable. But the
next night the man came and got -us
up and told us the horse had got out
of the stable again. And we had to
get up just like on the other nighta to
go and get our 1:orse again. And each
time we gave the man 50 rcnts. But
this time we saw that the stabe had
been broken oipen.
"So my hushand askred our neightbor.
and he said that his horse got out of
his stable nights, only a little earlier
than our horse did, and the same man
todi himr a bout his horse getting
away. And he paid the man 50 cents
every time. So my husband decided
that we would watch.
"And we did watch that night, but
the horse did not get away. So we
never found out whether the man let
the horse out to get the 50 cents or
not, because thle day before the man
had hung himsekL."
gina to Law Notes, gives us the fol
lowing jury story: In a prosecution
for horse stealing tried in Bedford
County, Virginia, just after the war,
the evidence was conflicting and, as
usual, the attorney for the prisoner
obtaine dfrom thce Court an instruction
that the prisoner was entitled to the
beneit of ever-y reasonable doubt-. Tphe
jury retired, and after they bad been
Iout about two hours the dinner hour
arrived. The j'atge seat the sheriff to
as if the jury were likely to agree.
IThe answer cane, "-Yes." The court
waited until 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
and again sent word to know if the
jury were likely to agree. Again an
allimative answer camne back, Supper
ieu canme, and no jury. Once more
the sheriff madec his pilgrimage to the
jut-v room and returned with the same
sv. en. Lights were procured, and
:out I) o'clock the jury filed in with
their verdict, which the Court read
solenly: "We, the jury, find the de
fendant not guilty by a d-.n tight
squeeze." Upon the first ballot the
jury had agreed to "not guilty," but
one juror hung the jury nearly twelve
hours on the "d-n tight squeeze" add
endm---Law Notes.
Convincing Testimony.
I am sorry to have to say it, but 1
have good ason to believe that young
ma who la paying atteations to your
dauhter is not a person of steady hab
"And I have good reason to believe to
tecontrary, my friend, for he has
been calling on her stead ily for the
last nine years."-Boston Pilot
While manmy astro'omers regard the
panet Mars as a "dying world," oth
ers, no ably the Abbe Moreux and Col.
du L gondst, cons~der it as a young
ad growin'g plmnet. Morerux explains
the doubt ofe the "canals" by an op
ic e '-- ..d the other holds that
IM eA ' ed after the earth and
* ar wing to its distance from
t e'' -un adIts light atmosphere, Mars
mhtto be an icy desert, but observa
tio shows that it IS not, and hence
he cncludes that the body of the
s,1anet is sill warm. The "canals," he
t-:nks are cracks produced bty contrac
enfc the~ crus:t. The white poles of
.'srs are fomed not by snow. but hai!
toes. Mars, in short, Is, according to
.!!ete earth when she was in the
mary era.
S. Rmbho-Abralom, are you a
:ntan t?
0o-At the ofiee they think
hat above the average. Why?
mho-You couldn't dy!e a
. daccount of yours'if when
Scamre in at three o'e&ock this
Cring-that's all.-Thicago Tribune.
L 'ttle Nel-John-ny, what Is a philso
B~roher Johnny (e. little older)-A
o'I ow that rides a. philosopede of
c ourse.
he 1+1 Tll so f-t
NATURE'S D)AINTIES.
C U 5U AR !'CLES O' FOOD THAT
ARE EJT LITTLE KNOWN.
Dislhk., fo-- 1orqP!vih Foute.i on I'reju
d ieei F'le-ii t Dee:di'd I'avorito
.hin1iocero, Meat Not Wititit Ai rers
--Lion I'lesh Saill to H. Goe'd Eatin; .
It was Punch oI pathtically otm
phiinedil of the L1..lon1 0; eterial
beef and miuiton. ::: p . fr the
inventon ol a lit'W ilt':. I1- ee-l. til
En..glisl bill of fare is': '.' I:.'ly
lituitcd one. andi Iu::y he t a uch
1:1vc souit,tims v1.ishfi Idit a lew
IuI,-at 1wla be .-.-,-1n1,-. U'. Wv( d1
11o1 tnl-e lv ut . - dl' :.II T. I li. n' 'ile:
wvhich1 naturez off--3: it is n t utccessa rv
to invIit 1 It\% 1: 1. but :1mip6 to
acquire coulra*:e to! 1 : m- ni (at hith
erto unealten i:::l.brsadr
til es.
'The cow, S..1 ;, - 11 o .: i'oi ls.
of the vurious' hii - of 're: ii'l'e thc
food of tilh Ias 1 .ia.i ' t*h;- . eple
Simiply conlsi:ts i; a1.1 multtron.
wvtith ceensI'II i n - to :ork andi
fish. Th ree r, lc m.r. n.:ly other
animals wi0li pn-ju ' :ip.1rt. would
furnish just as'n-urihn. .n d tdSty
and more novel fo.;.! llori !!esh i
regarded it plopni;I !Iorror, but the
dislike is one ipyfon!.ti i on preju
dice. No loubt t.c titsh o& old. worn
out niags is neit lher very p:.iiable o1
nourishing. But aI orse t 'ieh from
its birth is intended for fcod. and fed
and cnred fir like an Ox. supplies ex
c-lient ienat. It is tmuch finer in flavor
than heef or murton, and Lunch more
exiensi.ve. In 11a:Is the restaurants!
include horse lieef in theit daily
menus. In Entland it is sonetimes
serve( at great feasts as a novelty.
and 10 shillings a pound Is Ile usual
price paid for it. Sinihirl. donkey
flesh is very good earing, pravided it
is young. A donllikey miore 'I!n eight
monts old is not edible. In taste it
is said to niuh resembl a turkey
though very mouch tner in flaior. Two
shingii a poundi'l is the price for (Ion
key mnlt. but a b%_r detand iould, of
course. reduce this to a reasonable fig
un: the sameo reillark ipplies to horse
flesh. In Arabia the horse : eaten
and considered a great delica-7.
Custom and prejudhice alone prevent
many really tasty and coimlon ani
iinls being used for food. 01 all ani
mals the pig. with its filthy, groveling
habits and food, seems the u.ost in
likely to be appreciated by uman be
ings. Yet the pig. whose mnmtte is a
synonym for all that is low an( bestial,
is eaten without relugna!e-nay.
with relish. Chr::les Lamb wrote a
prose epie in praise. of roast pork. A
dainty lady will -:it and cijoy roast
pork, but she woull screan :..d shud
der at the very idea of entir.- a roast
rat. Yet the rat is :I veget:iran. and
most (leanly in its habhits while no
body can claim tht for the 1ig. Rat
pie is a great dlelicacy, and was a
dlsh of which the Rev. .1 6. Wood,
the celebrated naturalist, v as ex
tremely fond.
During the siege of Paris. in 1871.
the starving ir.babitants ate up all the
animls in the zoo. Elephant and
lion steaks and the flesh of oiler wild
animals -were enten. and, tl:ough it
was a case of Hobson's ehoice-that
or none at all-the Parisians found
that they were very palat-ti'e. Even
now the gourmets of Paris i-light in
the flesh of camels. lion, -Ind ele
phants. Camel's flesh is brought from
Algeria, and is said to be reinarkably
Ike beef. It is as tender as s eal, and
the Arabs regard it as ver.y nutri
tious. The hump of a camel is the tit
bit of the beast, and when plump and
fat is a daiinty indeed.
lIn the South of France snazkes are
soild. ready for cooking. under the
nameo of hedge eels. Frank Btuckland,
the famous naturalist. stated that he
cIe made a hearty meal oft' a boa con
5iitor, its tL'sh being cxctedlingly
white and tirm. and not unlike veal in
taste. Fried or stewed rattl-snake is
very like el hc epefa ih
out a qualmsofaccscic.
Lion flesh is said to be very -good
i-nrtng. btut tiger ia tough and sinewy.
."ve'rtheless. the latter is e:len ini In
c:t. as there is a superstition that it
iparts strength and eunmnig to the
eliter'. Beair's flesh is a great favorite
in Germany, aund smoked tonne'es and
!a:tns are considered great d:'liencies.
<Hn account of' the rarity of brtain, they
ar!e expensive. Sausage-so dear to
the Teutonic heart-and stomach-Is
aiso made with bear liver; 2~> pounds
of' sausage can be made from a single
liver.
There appears to be eoan'derable
diversity C)f optinion as to the merits of
el-nhiamt's flesh. In India aral Africa
it is a favorite dish with th.i natives,
but a EuAropean who has traveled
muct(h in Africa says: "I na.1 tasted
elephan~t over and over again. It is
more like soft leather and glue than
:tnythitng else I can compare it to."
Another traveler, however, declares
that lie cannot imagine how an animal
so coarse and heavy can produce such
delicate and tendler flesh. All authori
ties, however, agree in e.anmending
elephant's foot. E~ven tha traveler
quoted above, who comp~ared ele
phlant's flesh to leather and glue, ad
milts that "baked elephant's toot is a
dish fit for a king. When atn elephant
is shot in Africa the flesh is cut into
strips and dIried: it is then (enlled "bil
tong.'' The elephant's foot is c-ut off
from the knee joint, and a hzole, about
three feet deep is dug in the earth.
with the sides of it baked hard '-rith
burning wootd. MIost of th u..- fagots
are then removed, and the ehlant's
foot placed in the hole. It is tilled up
with earth, tightly packed dowvn. and
a blazing fire butit on top. which is
kept burning for three hours Thus
cooked, the flesh is like -a jt'lly. :1
enn be eaten with a spoon. it is the
greatest delicacy which '';: he g
to a Kattir.
To Coire Warnt4.
"An Ii'ish cure for warts is to prick
them with a gooseherry thioi'n passedl
thirotugh a wedding iing.'' So says
"IHerbal Simples: Approved for 3t id
ern Uses of Cure." Si'venti'en othe
remedies are credited by the autho
with the same positive ptower. I'ut h
makes this comment on their ~s e:'"By;
somec sutlte bodily ac'tion wroug~t
through at suggestion recei'.'d b y ;l:e
mind. warits do undoubited ly disa ppeatr
as the result of these and ma'ny other
equally trivial proceeditngs."
FREE BL33D CURE
A.ff Tr P? n; Faithi to Suafferers.
Eatings Sore-1 T .mor. licecrs. arc
.11 curable by 1. 1. 1. (Bot:nie Blood
Bam.) which is tade especially to cur e
.:or l;.oo ed Skin Biomi.-ihes,
i .Tht rr.,i',t other trcr truents
- ky eure by B B3. B. (R~otanuie
Ied. jtching ,LErzema, Scales,
3 't~ rs. Boil" ,~ Ciu ni.s. Bietehos,
rb.- R 1heumiati-m, etc .are all due
o bad blood. and h ence easily cured
.' B. Bl''d Po'is -n irctducin
tince "r.s, Erptins. Ss'ollec
'. S 're Thirnott tt., eured by B..
o'B(Ht:tie )lerd Bnalm). ln tone tI
nwtat h'- B. 1. B. does ntot ect:
ain ertble r mneral poisin
)ae hottle will test it in an cas-e. l'
otti1 -s. ix for flve 8. IWrite iol
ree samplle battle. which will be sent
rpaid t. Times readers, di (scri b
'pronus and ;ersonal free mecdica
dvice will be given. Addrcsa Blood
B.lm Co. Atilantae Ga.
A mLUT ELY '
Makes the food more de
RoYAL eMKIRG P1Y
A CHINAMAN'S FATE.
Dee2are4 Dead by a Scciety, He Was Tb,
booed and Wiled Uinelf.
In San Francisco there's a Chinese
secret society, the laws of which are
as strict and unchanging as those of
the Medes and Persians. One of the
members of this society told some of
its secrets-an offense punishable by
Jeath. He was to be tried in the usuali
way before a tribunal of the society.
The night of the ordeal was fixed.
The culprit was represented by able
counsel, but the sentence was death
as was expected. An executioner wac
called from an adjoining room. He
was a strapping big Chinaman, and
wore one of those hideous wooden
masks that art critics think so beauti
ful. He carried a double-edged sword
fully five feet long. To test the edge he
folded a newspaper in eight parts, and
the knife went through those eight
thicknesses of paper as if it were a
bit of butter in summer time.
The culprit was brought in upon his
knees, and another Chinaman, also on
his knees, faced him and caught the
traitor by the cue. He drew the cul
prit's neck toward him, the smockwas
pulled over the shoulders, and with
one mighty swing the double-edged
sword descended. Like a flash it clove
the air and then stopped. A fractional
part of an inch separated the sword
from the victim's neck. Very, very
gently the executioner brought the
weapon down until it just touched the
traitor's neck. Then, as it is a crime to
kill a man in San Francisco, he stop
ped. He brought the sword to his side
again, turned to the jugdes and said:
"The culprit is dead."
The newly executed got on his feet
and said something to the judge. The
Judge did not heed- for the culprit
was dead. He tried to speak to the
Chinamen, who were hurrying from
the hall But he spoke to deaf ears.
To all intents and purpose he was a
dead man.
le made his way Into the street.
md the first thing that caught his eye
was a hugh poster proclaiming to all
Chinatown that he had been executed
that evening. No one would speak to
him, no one look at him-lie was a
dead man-just as dead as if the exe
cutioner's sword had in reality de
scenled.
For a whole week that man wan
tlev-ed about Chinatown, the posters
,c:-el::ii..!ng his execution staring him
n' TC:ce at every turn. Not a crust
- ' Could he beg-not a mouth
m His people knew hirp
was past, gone, buried.
. day he wandered up into
:an portion of San Fran
A stole a revolver from a mes
ioy. who was showing it to
nions. Then he ran down
Itown, sat down on the pave
.a..!oth one of his own death
:dl blew the addled brains ouS
r Chinese head.
-. Tooth set in a Rina.
:- .-young matrons of the
sma. i set who are also doting
mo::.-.hav e just introduced into
fatshion a new ring, which is exciting
t!:e z:-t' est attention.
Trhe '-om~an who first wore one of
these miys terious iings told all about
it the other day to a girl friend who
was admiring it and wanted to copy
i t She said, "Why, the little white
stone wouldn't be considered' a gem to
any one but me. It is only one of my
baby girl's pearly white teeth. She
knocked out a little front tooth not
long ago, and as it was too precious
to throw away, I took It to my jewel
ers and asked him if it couldn't be
set in a ring. And here is the result.
I told him to surround the tooth with
diamonds and turquoises, alternating
wntn one ancther, as I think just the
touch of blue adds much to the beauty
of tile ring. The baby tooth encir
ceu with diamonds looks too white.
A number of my frien~ds who have
copied my idea have ta'.en one of
their baby's te1 th to the jeweler's and
had it surrounded with the child's
birth stone."
The. Hee in Battle.
A veteran cavalry horse partakes of
the hopes and fears of battle just the
same as his rider. As the column
swings into line an~d waits, the horse
grows nervous over the waiting. If
the wait is spun out, he will tremble
and sweat and gr-ow apprehensive. If
he has been six mnonths in tile service
he knows e very bugle call. As the call
comes to advance thle rider can feel
him working at the bit with his tongue
to get it i-t ween its teeth. As he
moves out he will either seek to get
on faster thain he should or bolt. H-.
cannot bolt, however. The lines will
carry him forward, and after a minute
he wvill grip. laiy back his ears, and one
can feel 1his sdden resolve to brave
the worst anad have done with it as
soon as possible.
Ep:eures are developing a taste for
miiature .sceimens of the earth's
products. Ta- suippy the demand in
larger ci r *s for -otng vegetables,
such as ti.:- :'rench conlsider the most
delicate nul apre izing, tbe truck
farmers lan: to ma-ket tiny potatoes,
turnipsl. en :-o. eml litiower and even
headis of enL':g. tile size of a baseball.
Such ver' hs :are it is said, more
easily di.:e- m-!. t heir fiber being tender
and sucent. instad of tough and
often of : wo:'dy na -ure as the growth
Desplite tE: i:v rt difliculty of find
ing spnee for the iiterment of public
men within the wads of Westminster
A bbey at least one otable family still
enjoys a prescriptire right of burial
there. 'These are tha Dukes of North
umberland, who hav' the exclusive use
of a spacious vault in the chapel St.
Nicholas. The vaulh, which was the
last resting place of .he Seymours, was
opened as recently 4, 1883 to received
he remains of Lady Louisa Percy, the
-h'r erister of the present Duke.
, Automnaien nck.
-Mrii iiveators of mechlanical curios
.s.nques Vauca..son was certainly
it.: . .as the S..ientific American.
-: a 'eti duel,. was to connois
- . r t of admiration. The
*.. - o'r in e9archi of food and
* .ad' swr.liowed the seeds
- bP. It was hrwpossihle to
..... dcki from a living one.
ail.wilt in tue water and
The town conni! of Wahterboro has
rn-de an appropriation for the estabhanh
lient of aa~ardintn regulationls against
he towns :f lWmpton. \amOvill,
e. ria. I).. ;nrk, Badmberlz and against
the turpenlhte farms of Georgia, thee
aes being reported as infeet a with
"I has e used x our 'Life for the Liver
'ad Kidneys' with great beneiit, and
'fr I).ipepsia or any derangemient cf
he Livcr or Kidiecys I retard it as be
ont without an cqjual." James J. Cs
irne, Attor-ney at L::wE Bioo.
UET dbrsnn so.. - .
licious and wholesome
DER CO.. NEW YORK.
HOW PEOPLE LAUGH
NAPOLEON MADE HIS SOLDIERS RAISE
A LAUGH THAT WON A BATTLE.
It is Said That Laughter Was First
Used When Adam, on Awakening,
Saw Eve By His Side.
Since the days of Adam, who said to
have invented laughter when he awoke
andi saw Eve by his side, no two peo
pie have laughed alike. The laugh is
as distinct as the voice. Women laugh
differently from men, children from
women; indeed, even the laugh of a
full-bearded man is different from
that which he laughs when he has
shaved.
The Abbe Damr.Y!ent thought he had
discovered in the ,rarious enunciations
of laughter a sure guide to the temper
aments of the laughers. Thus he said:
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" belonged to acholeric
'person; "He! He! He!" to a phlegmat
le one, and "Ho! Ho! Ho!" to the san
guine. And it is a scientific fact that
while men commonly laugh in A and
0, women usually laught E and L
Those who practice laughing to any
extent have been divided wittily into
dimplers- and to know how charming
they can be. one has only to go back
to Charles Reade's "Simpleton with a
Diniple-smilers. grinners, horse
laughers and sneerers. This is to lay
down a scieuce of laughing, for which
there might have been need had our
generals in the late war taken up the
idea cf old Bulow, who proposed to
form troops. in face of the enemy, In
line of battle, and order them to ad
vance with their arms at a shoulder
and salute the foe with ringing bursts
of.laughter.
"Be sure." said Bulow, "that your
opponents, surprised and disnayed at
this astonishing salute, would turn
about and run off."
Perhaps this scheme would not work
now, while the present long range ar
tillery is used; but, as a matter of fact,
it is related that the Mamelukes once.
turned tail from an assault upon the
French in Egypt on hearing the roar
of laughter with which Napoleon's vet
erans greeted the command: "Form
in squares, asses and men of science
in the centre."
Great men often have fancied it a.
part of greatness to refrain from hilar
ity. -Philip IV. of Spain is said to have
laughed only once in his life. That
was:when his bride, Anne of Austria,
wept at hgring that the Queens of
Spain had.no feet. She took with Ger
man literaln'ess an old piece of Span
ish courtesy. As she was journeying
toward Spain some German nuns met
her, and desired to present Some stock
ings -ol their own knitting. The
worthy Princess was about to accept
the gift when a Spanish grandee of her
suite interfered with the remark that
it would be against etiquette. as the
Queens of Spain were not supposed to
have any use for stockings, whereat
the Princess began to weep, under
ctanding, poor woman, that on her ar
ri':al in Spain her feet would be cut
Lord Chesterfield said: "Nobody has
seen me laugh since I have "come to
my reason."- and Congreve makes his
Lord Froth in the "Double Dealer"
say: "When I laugh I always laugh
alone." iYoung people and fools laugh.
easily, says an old proverb, which of
ten has proved. true.
Nevertkeless.' the singer Robert
gave lessns in -laaghter in Paris and
in London in 1805, and, so far at least
as filling his own purse went, with
success. He held that men and wo
men couldi not laugh "decently and sys
tematicaly" without proper training,
and said that a person who could laugh
only in o'ne tone seemed to him like
one who &ould say only oui and non;
but that (trained laughter should ex
press many things. . -
It is a curious fact that it is only
among th4 French and among the an
cients that we read of people laughing
themselvesto death. We, in our days,
must haveeither more jokes or a-dull
er appreciation of wit. Zeuxis is said
to have died of laughing at a painting
of an old ioman, his own handiwork.
Philemon epired laughing at a don
key who age so contentedly the phil
csopher's gs- that with his .last ar
ticulate brdjth, he sent out his last
glass of wid to the beast, 'who drank it
with equal 41joyment, and thus proved
himslf, it g-ould seem, not such a
do?ey aftea all.
It remnainsitrue, however, that laugh
ter is goot for the health. "Laugh
and grow fat" is the old proverb. Sy
denhanm maitained that the arrival of
a clown in alvillage was-as wholesome
as that of tjenty donkeys laden with
drugs. Tisset. the famous French
physician. cured consumption and liv
er complainti by causing his patients .
to laugh, arAd Erasmus, through im
moderate laughter at the rude Latin of
Huttens "Letters of;'Obscure Men,"
broke an internal abscess which had
long plagued him.
"When a xnan smiles, and much
more when he laughs, it adds some
thing to his fragment of life," said
Sterne, who wished laughter enumerat
ed in the materia medica, holding it as
a curative of the same kind as cough
ing, sneezing. land perhaps vomiting.
only much pleasanter than any of
these."
Bit Buncoat and Died.
Policeman A4ert W. Owens, of -the
Flatbush station, Brooklyn Borough,
was strolling utj Ez asmus street when
a big Newfoundland dog with an anti
athy for policsmen jumped over the
fence of No. G4iand savagely attacked
him. Before the brute was driven off
the policeman's band was badly lacer
Owens did notavait to ask questions,
but hurried to a physician's office and
had the wound cauterized, then he
went back to look up the dog and settle
accounts.
"Where's that dog what bit me?"
asked the officer. holding up his ban
daged hand as proof of the accusation.
"H e's d ead" s|d the owner.
Dead:" said Owens, incredulously.
"What did he die of?"
"I am sure I don't know. He died
about ten minutes after you went
away. Perhaps the bite kille-d him,"
said the owner, wiping his eyes and
sobng bitterly.
Policeman Owens returned to the
sta:ionho.se. but he has been doing a
tile of thinking ever since.
Greene-How did Jones come to mar
ry that redi-headed girl?
White-Poor .Jons 't notice it:
e is color !hiia'..lT2' i7
The Pit burg Postlearns that ''sorn e
of -i frien ds are itnclined to accept tiue'
irri~e stryi th~a Major dehn A. Loaa
f run't, whose dea~th in bat
was- ridcr:ted f c'm Malilla a few d:g ,,
a ht hy one of his on' men a
re~en N' . real or fan cie~l
a aom." it way be diflieu pig.rove
'om la a a of thec kind, the
Pa.-l b- the-Goveron't owes
it itlt and the memo'rv f the dead
05.r to) ma-- every e vnti~ron
Now is the int turn over- a new