The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 06, 1893, Image 4
POETRY. i
The Private of the Baft.
Lest night, among his fellow rocghs.
He jestei, qnalted sad swore;
A drtmkeu prirateof the Bnff*.
Who ne?er looked before.
Today, beneath the foemaa's frwa,
He stands in Elgin's place.
Ambassador from Britain's crown,
And type of all her race.
Poor, reck law, rede, low born, mxtaagfct,
Bewilder**! and alone;
A heart with Engtrsh instinct fraught ' "tj
He yet cm call his own. w j
Aye, tear lis body limb from limb;
Bring ?c rd or ax or flame;
He ofcly fciows that no* throcgh him
Shall England come to shame.
7m r hop fields roand him seemed,
? Like dreams, to come and go;
Bright leagues of cherry bioewms gleamed.
One sheet of bring snow;
The smoke :\bcrre his father's door
Ingray j oft eddyings hang;
Most he tiea watch it rise no mora,
1 Doomed by himself so yoong?
Yes. honor calls? with strength like steel
He pot tbe vision by;
Let dosky Ir discs whine kneel.
As Kngfcsfc lad most die.
And thas, with eyes that woold not shrink.
With. kn? to man nnbent.
Unfaltering on its dreadfnl brftxk.
To his red & care he went.
Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed.
Vein those ^shattering gons.
Unless pro ad EifgUnd keep untamed -
Ifce strong leart of her sons;
? 3o let his l ame throogh Earope ring?
A man of mean estate.
Who died, as Arm as Spsrtat king,
Becaqae. his sod was great.
-Sir yraocw Hastings Doyie.
A NEW YEAR'S SERMON.
OR. TAUW|G?'S DISCOURSE AT THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
??CoBulder tl|? I?#r? of,*?ay Geaerat loos-'
Ww the T<it, ?ad th? Sermon W*? Re
prdinc rThe Chronology of the
Bible, \or God ImoBS the
Centqrle<.
Brook lvn\ Jan. 1. ? Rev Dr Tal
mage this moriing appropriately took
for the subject of his New Year's day
8ermon?"Tie Chronology of the Bible,
or God Among the Centuries." Be
fore the ^jscoiKie the great audience
which fa UjV&owded the Tabernacle
sang the hymn: ^
r Our G<xl, oarl??Ip ih %ge* pwt,
Ottr feoj ? for years to pome.
The texl chosen was Deuteronomy
xxxii, 7, "Consider the jears of many
generation?."
At 1 'I o'clock last eight, while so
many gooc people were watching, an
old friend passed out of our homes
and a stranger entered." The old
friend making valedictory was 1892;
.the stranger arriving is 1893. The]
old friend was garrulous with the
occurrences of many days, but the
stranger put his finger over his lip
and laid nothing and seemed charged
with man} secrets and mysteries. I
did not sec either the departure or the
arrival, bi t was aoond asleep, think
ing that fas for me the be3t way to H
be wideeiake now. Goodbye, 18^2!
Welcome, 1S9SI ^
As an army is divided jnto brigades j
and regis jents and companies, and
they obserre this o*der hx their march ]
and their tread is majesti? so the I
the time >f the world's existence is!
1 divided iito an army divinely com- 1
raanded; he eras are the brigades,
the centuries are the regiments, and
the years, are the companies. For- j
ward into the eternity nast, oat of the :
eternity to come;! Forward is the I
? ^ command, %nd nothing can halt them, I
~?ven though the world should die. I
While obeying my text, "Consider the i
years of many generations," I pro |
pose to speak of the "Chronology of j
the Bible, or Gocrtimong the Centu- 1
ties."
ARRANGING EVENTS.
We make a distinction between |
time and eternity, but time is only a j
-- piece of eternity, and chronology has !
been engaged in the sablime work of !
dividing up- this portion of eternity j
that we call time into compartments 1
Jand putting events in theiiKright com- ;
tment. It is as much an injustice!
inst the past to wrongly arrange j
events as it wonld be an iajustice '
? i? through neglect of chronological I
accuracy, it should in the far disfctot
future be said that America was dis-1
covered in 1778, and the Declaration ]
of Independence was signed in 1492,
and Washington was born on the 22d I
of Mareb, and the cavil war of the j
United States was fought in 1840.
As God puts all the events of time ;
, in the right place, let us be careful
that we do not put them in the wrong '
place. The chronology of the Bible j
takes six siepH, but they are steps sol
long it makes us hold our breath as j
we watch the movement Froo^Adam j
n to Abraham. - From Abraham io the !
e?4ua KWV of Egypt ;J Pmm the-ex* j
dns to tBe-4o^fidahon of Solomon's j
temple. From the foundation of Sol
omon's temple to the destruction of j
thai temple. From the destruction i
of the temple to the fetors from Baby- 1
lonish captivity. From Babylonish |
captivity to the birth of Christ
j Chronology takes pen and pencil, '
and cailin^ajwaronomy and history to
|i?!p ^says: "Let [ as fix one
, event from which to calculate j
Let it be a star, j
.Bethlehem star, the 7 Christmas j
And from that we go back and j
see Ji&worfcl.was created 4,004 years j
~*jsts the deluge came 2,348 |
fore Christ; the exodus out
of 2gypt occurred 1,491 yea*a_he?>re |
Christ and Solomon's temple was de
?|tro?ed 5 $6
Chronok^lBJetPthe first chapter
of GeneaHaw! says t)be day mentioned
not a day twenty-four
ifoms, but of ages, the word there
translated as "day" in other places
meaning ages and so the Bible account
of the creation and the "geologists' ac
count of the creation are completely
harmonious. Chronology inters the
book of Daniel and says that the
word* "time and a half" mean a year"
and ' a half.
f -OuoHok^j enters at another point
and shows us that the seasons of the
year were then only two?4nmmer
and winjer.;;! We ?nd that the Bible
year ?66 days instead of 365; that
the dajr was calculated from 6 o'clock
in the moraijig to 6 o'clock at night;
that the night was^fivided into four
wafciwa? wuaeJy, the late wa*eh, the
midnight, the cock crowing, the early
watch. The dock and watch were
invented so l*pog after the world be
gan their mission that tha day was
not very sharply > divided in Bible
times. Ahaz. .
p{ stprs wits .
*ad$fee sba/fewSrhk^
/
f\'< \ ? ' ^
^ _.4 i ?
threw on the steps beneath indicated
the hour, the shadow lengthening or
withdrawing frcm step to step.
But the events of life and the events
; of the world move so slowly for the
meet part in Bible times that they
had no need of such timepieces as we
stand on our mantels or carry in our I
pockets in an age when a man may I
have a half dozen or a dozen engage- 1
ments for one day and needs know the j
^exact minute for each one of them, j
The earth itself in Bible times was the I
chief timepiece, and it turned once on
its axis and that was a day, and once
around the sun and that was a year.
THE ALMANAC.
It was not until the Fourteenth
century that the almanac was born,
the almaaac that we toss carelessly
about, not realizing that it took the
accumulated ingenuity of more than
5,000 years to make one. Chronology
had to bring into its service the mon
uments of fferpt, and the cylinders
of Assyria, and the bricks of Baby
Ion, and the pottery of Nineveh, and
the medals struck at Antioch for the
battle of Aetium, and all the hiero
glyphics thai could be deciphered, and
had to go into the extremely delicate
business of asking the ages of Adam
and Seth and Enoch and Methuselah*
who after their 300th year wanted to
be thought young. ! ?
I think it must have been in recogni
tion of the stupendous work of making
an almanac tint all the days of the
week are named after the gods Sunday,
after the sun, which was ctf old worship
ed as a god. j Monday, after the moon,
which was also worshiped as a god.
Tuesday, after Taesco, the god of war.
Wednesday,: after Woden, the chief
god of the Scandinavians
Thursday, after Thor,, the god of
thunder. Friday, after Frea, the
goddess of marriage. And Saturday,
after Saturn; The old Bible year be
gan with the 25th of March. .Not
until 1752 did the first of the month
of January get the fyonor in legal
documents in England pf being called
the first day of the yeaf.
Improvements all along have been
made in chronology unt&l the calendar,
and the almanac, and clock; and the
watch seem Jo have reached perfection,
and all the nations of Christendom
have similarity of time calculations and
have adopted .what is called "new
styfe," except Russia,' which keeps
what is called the "old ;sme," and is
twelve days different, so that, writing
from thereof you wish to be accurate, you
date your letter Jan. i and Jan. 13,
or Dec. 10 and Dec. 22.- It is some
thing to thank God for that the modes
are so-complete for calculating the
cycles, the centuries, the decades, the
years, the months, the d^ys, tbe hours,
the seconds. " j A*
. Think of making appointments as J
iiir the Bible days for toe time of the
new ifteon. Think of making one of
the watehes of the night in Bible
times a rooster crowing. The Bible
says, "Before the cock crow thou shaH
deny me thrice," "If the - Master
cometh at tie cockcrow ing," and: that
was the way the midnight watch was
indicated. Thex crowing of t^at barn
yard bird has always been most un
certain. The crowing is at the lowest
temperature of the night, and the
amount of dew and the direction of
the wind- may bring the lowest tem
perature at 11 oclock at night or 2
o'clock in the morning, and at any
one of six bours. Just before a rain
the crowing of chanticleer in the night
is almost perpetual. .
Q be teaskful. ?
Compare these modes of marking
time with our modes of marking time,
when 12 odock is 12 o'clock, and
6 o ciock is 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock,
18 a o'clock, *,and : inde
pendent of all weathers, and
then than* God that you live now.
Bat notwithstanding all the imperfect
modes of marking hours or years or
centnnes Bible chronology never trips
np, never falters* never contradicts it
seif, and 'here is one of the best
fcrgnments for the authenticity of the
ocnptnres. 1
If you can prove an alibi inihe
court*, and you can prove beyond
doubt that you were in some particular
place at the time you were charged
with dora$or saying something in I
quite another place, you gain the
yvi&tj, and infidelity jbas tried to
prove an alibi by contending that
events and circumstances in the Bible
ascribed to certain times must have
tasen piace at some other time, if they
tookjcl&ee at all But this book's
chronology has never been caught at
anlt It has been proved that when
Jte Hebrews went intn E^vnt ther*
were only seventy of&e^LtZ
caaje oat there were 3$W,~
000 of tbem.
1 .. '^ow," infidelity, with a guffaw
?*?"^?PP*eas, "what an ab
surdity! They went down into Egypt
seventy and came oat 3,000,000.
18 j klsehood on the fiwe of it
iNaaons do not increase iir that ratio "
Bot, Mr akeptioal friend, hold a
were 430 yeaarm Efcypt, and that
explains the increase from seventy
persons to 3,000,000, for it is no moi4
?butratheB^Bss, than the ordinary in
crease of nations. The Pilgrim^ Fathers
caaoe to America in the Mayflower,
Me small rfupjoad of paaangen,. lea |
300 yean ago, and now we have
; a nation of 60,000,000.] Where, than
! w ? so called impossibility that the
1 seventy Jews who went into Egypt in
4jQyewbecame.3,000,000? Infidelity
wrong and Bible chronqlogy yig^t.
3PLESDID REVIEW.
Why fait!
J* ?bject of Bible
analogy been so neglected, and
that the ooet of yoo hate never given
Xt ^ of ??,
"f** ">???* fin* sermon ever
! f!pr. ka.! ? ?D *^'8 etapendooa and
brtheUr^E Wrtood
by tte hajf day or t be whole day at
gT?lreT,e? ?***? arroits^a.
(> ??^j ' M *g*>a on the
EJyeea Frenchmen by the
*"* and
^fc?Mberbanne red\armiesi go bv
^ ^Th*8b?? '*** long
?d nntil the popohwe w.re *> hoa J
*ey ?wld hnzzajso longer. Again
?ndagaM and^gwn tie German! by
hundreds of thousands have stood on
jmijiwd and statoed TJnter den
> and strewn garlands
of uniformed hcrts led
r? ; ?
'yKr"' '- * i: : 'j; j ?' --.i- ?
. r
on bj^Ajon-^foltke "or^BIacher or
Frederick the Grea?
When Wellington and Ponsonby ,
and the Scots Grays eame~l>ack from
Waterloo, or Wolseley, from Egypt,
or Marlborough from Blenheim, what
military processions through Regent
street "and along by the palaces of
Lordon and over the bridges of the
Thames! What almost interminable
lines of military on the streets of oar
American capitals, while mayors and
governors and presidents, with un
covered heads, looked on J Bat put all
those grand reviews together, and they
are tame compared with the review
which on this New Year's day yoa
from the pew and I from the pulpit
witness.
Hefir them pass in chronological
order ? all the years before the flood;
all the years since the flood; decades
abreast; centuries abreast; epoch*
abreast; centuries epochs abreasts; mil
lenniums abreast, Egyptian civilization,
Babylonian populations, Assyrian do
minions; armies of Persian, Grecian,
Peloponnesian and Roman wars;
Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts,
crusaders of the first, the second, third
and the last avalanche of men; Dark
Ages in somber epaulets and brighter
ages with shields of silver and helmets
of gold; Italy, Spain, France, Russia,
Germany, England and America, past
and, present; dvnastie?, feudal domains,
despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages
on ages, ages on ages, passing to
day in a chronoloical review,
until one has no more
power to look upon the advaricjng col
umns, now brilliant, now squalid, now
garlanded witi*. peace, now c>imspn
with slaughter, now horrid with ghast
Hness, now radiant with love and joy.
THE GLORIES OF THE PRESENT.
This chronological study - affords,
among other practical though tag espe
ciaJly two? the one encouraging to
the last degree and t}ie other startling.
The encouragiogH^Iou^ht is that the
main drift of the'cJfiuiries has been
toward bettermenvwith onl j here and
there a stout reversal. Grecian civi
lization was a vatt improvement on
Egyptian civilization, and Roman
! civilization a vast improvement on
Grecian civilization, and Christian
civilization is a vast improvement on
Roman civilization.
What was the boasted age of Peri
cles compared with the age of Long
leilow and Tennyson? What was
Queen Elizabeth as a specimen of
moral womanhood compared with
! Queen Victoria? What were the
[ cruel warriors cf olden times com
pared with tie most distinguished
warriors of the last hilf century, all
of them as much distinguished for
kindness and good morals as for prow
ess ? the two military leaders of our
civil war on northern and southern
side communicant members of Chris
tian' churches, and their home life as
pure as their public life?
Nothing impresses me in this chro
nological review m>re than the fact
tl|at the regiments ot years are better
and better regiments as the troops
move op. I thank God that you and
I were not born any sooner thau we
were born. How could we have en
dured the disaster of being born in
the Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Six
teenth century? Glad am I that we
are in ^be regiment now passing- the
reviewing stand, and that our children
will pass the stand still better
regiment. God did not build this
world for a slaughter house or a den
or in&my. j
A good deal of cleaning house will
be necessary before t^is world becomes
as clean and sweet as It ought to be,
but the brooms, and tke^. -scrubbing
brushes and the upholsterers and plum
bers are already busy, and \0ien the
world gets fixed up, as will be, if
Adam Eve ever visits' I ex
pect tl^y will, they will say to each
other, 44 Well, this beats paradise when
we lived there, and the pears and the
plums are better than we plucked
from the first trees, and the wardrobes
are more complete, and the climate is
better."
" ' Since I settled in my own mind the
fact that God was stronger than the
devil I have never lost faith in the
emparadisation of this planet. With
the exceptiou of a retrogression in the
Dark Ages, the movement of^the
world has been on and on, and up and
up, aud i li*v4 two jubilant hosannas
? one i<>r the closing year and the
other tor the new year.
PUNCTUALITY.
| But the other thought coming out
of this subject is that Biblical chro
i oology, aud indeed all chronology, is
urging the world to more punctuality
and immediateness. What an unsat
isfactory and indefinite thing it must
have been for two business men in the
tiflhe of Abaa to make an appointment,
saying, "We will settle that business
matter to-morrow when the shadow on
the dial of Aljaz reaches the tenth
step from the |t?p," or "I will meet
you in the street called Straight in
Damascus ' in; the lime of the new
moon^or when asked in a courtroom
what time an occurence took plaet
should answerj "It was during the
time of the latter rain," or "It was atf
-the time df the third crowing of the
barnyard!" \
You and I remember when minis
jtersoftbe Gospel in the country,
givrng out a notice of an evening
service, instead of saying at 6 or 7 or
8 o'clock, would say, "Tae service will
begin early [candle light" Thank
God for chronological ~ achievements
ifhich have ushered ia "(Calendars and
aimftmre and clocks ; ^ad watches, and
at so chea$> a rate all may
the?! | Chronology, beginning by ap
IMhM the lvalue of years and the
value ? of daji, has kept on until it/
cries out, "Man, immortal; woman, im->
mortal; look ototibr that minute; look
out for that second!" . ,
We talk a great deal about the
valge.of time, but will never Jully ap
preeiateite value until the last fragment ,
of it has passed out of our possession j
forever. The greatest fraud a man j
' can commit is to -rob another of his
; time. Hear it, ye laggards and repent! j
All the fingera of chronology point to
punctuality as. one of the graces. The
minister or the lecturer or business ;
man who comes to his {place ten min- ;
utes after the appointed time commits !
a crime the enormity of which can !
i only be estimated by multiplying the ?
: number of persons present by ten. If i
the engagement ibe made with-iive
persons, he has stolen fifty minuses,
for he is ten minutes too late, and he
has. robbed each of the five persons Of
ten rain utes apiece, and ten times five
are fifty. j
If there be 500 persons present and
he be ten minutes too iate, he has com
mitted a robbery of 5,000 minutes,
i for ten times 500 are 5,000, 'and 5,000
minutes are eighty-three hours, which
make more than three days. The
thief of dry goods, thief of bank bills,
is not half so bad as the thief of time.
SOME EXAMPLES. -
Dr Rush, the greatest and busiest
physician of his day, appreciated the
value of time, and when asked how
he had been able to gather so much
information ~for his books and lectures
he replied: "I have been able to do it
by economizing my tkoi\ I have not
spent one hour in amusement in thirty
years." And takings a blankbook
from his pocket he said, "I filL a book
like this every week with I thoughts
that occur to me and facts collected
in the rooms of my patients."
Napoleon appreciated the value of
time when the sun was sinking upon
Waterloo, and he thought that a little
more time would retrieva his fortunes
and he pointed to the sinking sun and
said, "What Would I not give to be
this day possessed ot j.he power of
Joshua and enabled to retard thy
march for two hours?" The good old
woman appreciated the value of time
when at ninety-three years of age she
^said, ? "The Judge of all the
earth does not - mean that I
shallhave any excuse fpr not being
prepared to meet him."
Voltaire, the blatant infidel, appreci
ated the value of time when in his dy
ing momente he said to his doctor, "I .
will give yo\half of what I am worth |
if you will givfc'me six months of life,"
and when told that he could not live
six weeks he burst into tears and said,
"Theni shall go to hell!" Jolm Wesley
appreciated the value of time/when he
stood on his steps waitiug forja delayed
carriage, to take him to afl appoint
ment, saying, "I have lpst ten minutes
forever." Lord Nelson appreciate^
the value of time when he said, '/I
owe everything injjthe world to being
alwavs a quarter of an hour -before
hand."
A clock maker in one of the old
English towns appreciated the value
of time when he put on the front of
the town, -clock the words, ' Now or
when?" Mitchel, the astronomer,
appreciated the value of time when
he said, '*1 have been in the habit of |
calculating the value of a thousandth
part, of a second." That minister of
the Gospel did not appreciate the value
of time who 4uzing_A season of illness,
instead ot employing^his time in use
ful readingftor writing, wrote a
religious romance/ 1 which in s^irfe un
known way came into the Possession
of the famous Joe Smith, wh/ introduc
ed the book as a divine /revelation,
which became the foundation of !
Mormonism, the most beast iy abomina
tion of all time.
Tjiey best appreciate t >e value of
time 'whose Sabbaths have been wasted
and whose opportunities of repentance
and usefulness are all agone, and who
have nothing left but memories, baleful1
and elegiac. They stand in the jbleaa
Septofaber, with bare feet, on the sharp]
stnbble of a reaped wheat field, crying,
"The harvest is past!" And the sough
of an autumnal equinox moans forth
in echo, lLTfe harvest is past!"
THE LAST OF ALL.
But do not let us get an impression
from chronology that because the
years of time have been so long in
procession. they are to go on forever.
Matter is n$t eternal. No, no! If you
you watch half a day, or a whole day,
or two days/ as I once did, to see a
military procession you remember the
last brigade, and the last ivgiment,
and the last company finally passed
on, and as we rose to go we said to
each other, "It is all over."
So this mighty procession of earthly
years will terminate. Just wheu I
have no power to prognosticate, but
science confirms the Bible prophecy
that the earth cannot always last. In
deed there has been a fatality of
worlds. The moon is merely the corpse
of what it once was, and scientists have
again and again gone up in) - their
observatories to attend the defcthbed
of dying worlds and have seen them
cremated. So I am certain, both from
the Word of God and science, that
the world's chronology will sooner or
later come to its last chapter.
The final century will arrive and
pass on, and then will dbme the fioai
decade and then the final year, and
the final month, and the final day.
The last spring will swing its cenaer
of apple blossoms and the last winter
bank its snows. The last sunset will
burn like Moscow and the last, morn
ing! radiate the hills. The clocks will
strike their last hour, and the watches
will tick their last second* No
incendiaries will be needed to run
hither and yon with torches to set the
wodd on fire.
Ctfemirftry teaches us that there is a
verj/inflammable elefhent in water.
While oxygen makes up a part of the
water, the other part of the water is
hydrogen, and that is very combusti
ble. The oxygen drawn out from the
water, the inflammable hydrogen will
put instantly into conflagration the
Hudsons and Savannahs and Missis^
sippis aud Rhines and Urals and
Danubes, and Atlantic and Pacific
and Indian and Mediterranean seas.
And them the angel of God, descend
ing front the throne, might put one
~ tte^feurf of the sea and the
u the beach and cry to the
s of heaves, "Time was, but
shall be bo longer!" Yet, found
rist, pardoned and sanctified, we
-^elcome the day with more
gladness; than you ever welcomed a
Christtj^K or New Year's mora.
When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow
Antl heaven's last thunder shakes the earth
below, .
Thorn, undismayed, sfc'alt o'er the rain smile
And light tby torch attain re's funer*l pile.
Tb? LltbU Reach ed
Little Clarence ? Pa, if a man from
Portugal is a Portuguese, is his littlf boy j
a Portngosling? ?
Mr. Bosanko ? It will be your bedtime !
in fifteen: minutes.
Clarence? May I ask one more ques
tion, pa? | ' ~
f Mr. Bosanio? If it isnot a foolish one.
Clarence ? Well, pa, why doesn't Wed
nesday come on Saturday?
Jlr. , Bosanko ? Go to bed now!? Life* j
- ? itr * . -
COMING SOU&NIR&
! ; .w vrv'
World'* FairBalf OoUtn W?W
? irtth Few Pour Own.
The preparations had been a subject of
great anxiety andmterest to Superintend
ent Boebyshell and his assistants at the
mint for some time past, and 10 o'clock
found all arrangements fully completed
in accordance with carefully prepared
plan4? When the. hour arrived Superin
tendent Bosbyshell was summoned tothe
pressroom by Chief Coiner Williim
Steele, while Engraver Charles Harber,
who designed the famous torn; Chief
Clerk M. EL Cobb and other* Assembled
as witnesses.
' They gathered around an improved
automatic, toggle jointed coining press
?a noiseless, powerful, highly polished
and wonderfully accurate machine ?
which excites the admiration of all visit
ors. Two dies, one bearing the imprd^
sion to be stamped upon the obvers^ face
And the other the reverse, And the pnly
pair in existence, were already in plAce.
Beside the press stood a receptacle con
taining hundreds of shining planchets?
blank silver pieces, polished and milled,
ready for stamping.. No power was ap
plied to tbe[ machine for the first test
Instead Foreman Albert Downing placed
one of the blank planchets in the receiver
and grasped the lever which raises the
lower die, while Edwin Cliff, his assist
ant, stood at the balance wheel Then
came the critical moment. -In another
second the blank coin which had been
prepared might be worth $10,000, or, if
imperfect, about thirty-five cents.
The first attempt was a failure. Just
a little flaw in the planchet or perhaps a
little speck of dirt or grease smeared ]
upon its face caused the coin's rejection.
Cliff picfcejcTit carefully from the die, for
such coins are not allowed to drop into
the box beneath, lest they be marked by
the fall. To an ordinary observer it
might have appeared perfect, but the
coiner And designer examined it under a
glass. One glance was enough. A fatal
flaw was revealed, and the verdict which
consigned the prospective $10,000 beauty
to the serapbox was pronounced. A
hammer was at hand, and- what might
have been the most famous coin in his
tory was battered into comparatively
worthlessAetal.
The next attempt was made more care
fully, for the reputation of the coiners
was at stake, and they had resolved that
,the first souvenir of the exposition should
be a maxarel of perfection and beauty.
The plaijchet before being accepted was
examinol under the microscope and
found jjrithout blemish. For the second
time tJ6e two workmen turned the press
by hand, while the spectators waited in
suspense. Again the coin was lifted
from the face of the steel die and crit
ically examined by Coiner Steele, En
graver Harber and Superintendent Boe
byshell. Every line was sharply de
fined, and the strong features of the dis
jxrrerer of America which adorned the
face of the coin seemed to look approv
ingly on the work. Columbus himself
could not have done better, and Uncle
Sam's reputation as an artist was vindi
cated.
Cardboard boxes had been prepared
-for tlie recepfion of the coins very much
like those in which pills are sold! No
finger touched the first of these sou
venirs, but the pliers gently clutched it
by the rim and conveyed the $10,000
lump to the box, which was immediately
sealed and handed to the World's fair
commissioner. ? PhiladelphlftCor. W ash
ington Post
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\ Happy Skye Terrier.
A curious if not wholly pleasing spec
tacle for the typical America# especial
ly the typical American out 6( a job. it
t&e aristocratic occupant of a < spleaaid
^nraout to be seen on upper Bgoadway^
P^ery pleasant afternoon. Ail open
landau, drawn by two handsom& dark
bay horfes, elegantly caparisoned; an
athletic lodki^j^oaclnnan in light drab,
with red trimmings, and occasionally a
young footman in the same livery. That
is the turnout, and it is quite as swagger
a thing as is to be seen in that line about
New York. The carriage is worth not
less than $2,500, and the horses and gold
mounted harness must be worth as much
more, while the coachman and his com
panion would have brought a cool thou
sand apiece before the war, though they
are really white and very English, yon
know..
? The occupant of this swell establish
ment is a thin, consumptive looking in
dividual called by experts in his kind a
skye terrier. Silvered o'er with spiky
hair of no particular color, his little
beady eyes glistening from the recesses
of his mdppy weazened countenance, his
nose and every other portion of his
anatomical system being invisible, this
insignificant personage sits alone on the
back seat, if not grand, at least gloomj
and peculiar.
Within the physical possibilities not
remote from the butcher's trade he
would probably be worth ten cents. For
my own purposes I would unhesitatingly
say ten cents a bunch would be an ex
travagant price for such as he. Yet it
takes a five thousand dollar turnout and
an able bodied coachman and footman
to give this poor little ?'critter**? the pet
pup of some royal American family? his
daily airing.? New York Herald.
T *
Witnesses FearedV Lawjen.
The best witnesses are nervous ones,
who are afraid that they will never be
able to speak so as to Be -heard in court.
And the worst ones to tsckle are those
who are telling the truth. If a witness
has truth on her side she lii^y be ever so
timid, but she will tell a straight story,
and the most astute lawyer in the world
can neither shake nor break her word.
If a witness is telling a lie a clever law- /
yer will make her tell another and an
other and another ^pntil she haj vreVen
such a networi^of lies around lierself
that it is comp&atively easy "to break
up one of them, and so the whcge struc
ture falls through.
It is easy to win a case for 9 woman.
The natural chivalry of American men
makes them in sympathy with b woman
when they would feel none at fell for a
man. Any able lawyer will tell jrou that
he finds it easier to carry through one
weak case for a woman than half %dasen
strong ones for a man.? Abe Hi
New York Press. y *
Wonderful Work ot F.8M,
Bees must, in order to collect a ^
of clover honey-deprive 62,000 cl
blossoms of theft nectar. To do
the 62,000 flowe* must be visited by an
aggregate of 3JT50,000 ijees; oi\ in other
words, to colMct his pound ot honey one
beejfiust make 3,750,000 trips from and
tc^he hive. The enormous amount of
Work here involved precludes the idea
?f any onj bee ever living long enough
to gather more than a fraction of a
pound of nectarine sweets.
As bees are known to fly for miles in
quest of suitable fields of operation, it is
clear that a single ounce of honey rep
resents millions of miles of travel. ' It is
no wonder that these industrious little
insects have earned the reputation of be
ing "busy" bees.? St Louis Republic.
A Bad Way to IJgM a Match.
Morris Greenbaum, thirteen years old,
tried to scratch a match on his knicker
bockers^ yesterday afternoon and the
lams caught his jacket He was se
verely bomed about the ^body and was
removed to the Presbyterian hospital.?
New York Sun.
, I CRAZED BY THE COMET.
fb? Prospective, Arrival of Biel?'? Orb
Left It* Influence Behind.
There are wise people to-day who be
lieve that the proximity of a comet to
the earth brings with it various diseases,
mental as well as physical disturbances.
"I never took any stock in this comet
business," said a practical friend of
mine. 4Tve seen several comets in my
time and read all sorts of rot about
them, very little of which 1 believed.
But this comet"
He paused and drew me away from
the crowd. Having glanced about him
uneasily, he continued:
"This comet nearly drove my wife
crazyl Yes, sir; factl And she's nearly
driven me crazy. Do you? have you ,
seen anything queer about me lately?"
I told him I had not? that he looked
as sane as his average fellow mortal
"Well," he resumed, 'Tve run a
mighty narrow chance, 1 tell you. But
she's cured now. If this infernal comet
. hadn't gone away just when it did 1
should have been locked up by this time.
"My wife is ordinarily a quiet little
woman and takes no particular interest
in the newspapers except when there is
a mysterious murder case like the great
Maybrick poisoning case or the Carlyle
Harris case, or something like that?
something mysterious, you know. Then
she grabs the newspapers and reads up
on it, and thinks about it, and talks about
it, and advances tSgtfries about it, and
thoroughly masters it, hanging the de
fendant every day. She can tind more
clews than the whole metropolitan po
lice force. She pounces down upon me
at breakfast with her theories and clews
and suspicions, and as these are changed
after reading the evening papers 1 get
another dose at night.
"But this comet! She has been
stricken? yes, sir, stricken? by the mys
terious influence the comet is said to
have upoh the human mind! It was
; manifest in her the very day ehe read
! the dispatches and the differences of
learned opinion as to whose comet it
; was and its probable orbit, its dist-^pce,
the number of sparks in its tail, etc. If
it had been a straightforward comet
and come right out where everybody
could see it and where everybody ex- "
pected it, she would have been all se
rene. But the mystery of the thing, the
uncertainty, the disagreement of astron
omers ? that settled her. She began
reading up on the comet from the news
papers. As every newspaper differed,
and every authority in every newspaper
differed with every other authority in
that or any other newspaper, Bhe found
herself suddenly plunged into a whirl
of excitement.
"She sprang come^ on me every hour
in the day and swept" the heavens with a
2-inch xtpera glass every night. < She
had a sort of idea that redhot chunks of
iron were liable to drop into our flat.
She went up on the roof to see the me
teoric shower and got locked out up
there by the janitor. If I hadn't missed
her she'd have &een frozen to death. She
got up ten times a night to look out, and
once she said she smelled sulphur. She
slipped out of bed the first thing in the
morning and read what the papers said
about the comet, then went back to bed
again. When I sat down to breakfast
with my paper she was loaded for me.
You could see a hazy red light hanging
over the Jersey horizon from our win
dows, and she had those windows open
so much at night we all got colds and
snuffles. On Sunday night the sky over
there was bright red at intervals. Well,
she was just wild. Then she smelled
the sulphur in the air. I heysr saw a
woman get so excited. She scarcely
slept a wink.
"The next morning, when she found
that it was the Jersey meadows on tire
-and that she hadn't seen the comet at
all, she was the most disgusted woman
you ever saw. She won't touch a news
paper now. She says the newspapers
are the biggest liars? next to the astron
omers ? on earth. If I say 'comet' at
her now she is as mad as a hornet.
"In my opinion, it's been a confound
ed fraud all along. This man Biela, or
. Beely, ought to get six iuonthe on the
island." ? New York Herald.
Rare Belles Unearthed.
Fdur of the most remarkable relics
discovered have just been found in the
western Egyptian oasis of Theba and
sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhibi
tion. 1 They are plaster casts busts.
These busts originated during the brief
era of prosperity at the close of the Sec
ond apd the beginning of the Third cen
tury of our time. They are not, as it
wotdd seem, detached pieces of statues,
but are complete in themselves. They
are masks used for a special class of
mummies, and like most of the Egyp
tian curiosities come from the grava. -The
departed members of wealthy families
were provided not only with sepulchers,
but with a sort of armor composed cf
several pieces, which completely incased
the dead body. The feet were thrust
into a pocket shaped affair like a car
riage foot warmer, and separate pieces
were made for chest and neck, as well
as the hair, with a mask for the face,
which often resembled the features of
the dead.? St. Louis Post-Dispsich.
A Yarn from Red 151 aO.
A few days ago Jaines R. Holt went
for a quail bunt along the banks of the
Sacramento river. Under a cover of
brush he discovered a nice flock of birds,
but when, he raised his gun to have a
shot they disappeared. He felt satisfied
that there jwere quite a number under a
particular ' bush and he blazed away.
The noisy fluttering which followed tokf
i him the result and he ran for his prize,
''tad just as he was reaching out his hand
to catch a wounded quail he was sud
denly shocked to discover an enormous
rattlesnake in the line of the bird.
He approached ^the birds again with
his gun cocked ^nd ready for a sudden
shot, and learned that the snake was
dead. When he fired at the birds he
killed the snake and six quail, although
none of the birds or the serpent were in
view. The snake had eight rattles and
a button and was 3^ feet in length.?
Bed Bluff (Cal.) News. . *
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on thi* planet, which brings so much
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tamerwWT every day of my life. I
never tike my waehing, ironing or bak
ing to bed "with me, and I try to oil all
the various wheels of a busy life with
an implicit belief that there are a brain
and a heart to this great universe, and
that I can trust them both."
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