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OLD TliS^cSm \ M OR. TALMAGE delivers a DISCOURSE j Of REMINISCENCE. * \ \ It In Appropriate So??en?e? to Conte*^ plate tbe JPa?oraiua <rf o?r'Ltv?? la ? f Spiilt of Gratitude to Cod for H'? &ie?elD??. Brooklyn, Aag. 6. ? Rev Dr Tal raage has chosen as the topic for to-* day a panorama of reminiscences ap propriate to the season,^ the text se lected being Paalm xxxii^/' While I was moaing the fire burned. , Here ? David, the- psalmist, with *wthe forefinger of his right hand against his temple, the door shut against thfc world, engaged in contemplation. And it would be well for as to take the mttae posture often, closing the door against the world, while we sit down in sweet solitode to contemplate. In a small istind off the coast I once ga&ed a Sabbath in delightful solitude, :&r I had resolved that I / would have one day of entire quiet before I entered upon au to anal work. I thought to have spent the day in ^ * laying out plans for Christian wo*k, but instead of that it became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my pastorate. I shook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when the curtains of lite are lifted. T^The days of my boyhood came back, and I was 10 yearf os age, 4ed I was 8r and I was 5. There was but one house on the island, and yet from Sabbath daybreak, when the bird ? chant woke me, until the evening melted into the bay, from shore to shore there were ten thousand mem ories, and the groves were a hum with voices that had long ago ceased. ANTICIPATIONS OF YOUTB. i Youthjsapt too much to spend all its time in looking forward. Old age \ is apt tele much to spend all of its time in looking backward. People in midlife and. on the apex look both ways. - 1^ would be well for us, I ; think, however, to spend more time in reminiscence. By the constitution of S." oar nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast ma jority of the people live not so much in taev present as in the future. I . find that you mean to make -a reputa tion, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect ' : Ho achieve absorb a great deal of yqpr tkne. But I see no harm in this jf it 9 ' does not make you discontented #ith the present or disqualify you for ex isting doties. * It is a. useful thing sometimes to look back and to see the dangers we have escaped , and to, see the ^ we have suffered, and the trigfls and ^^^ws^deringa of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up our. enjoyments. I mean today,. so far as God may help me, to stir up year memory of the r? so that in the review you may encouraged and humbled tad 'j - urged to pray* I ' There is a chapel in Florence joth a fr<isco by Guido. It was covered up "* with two inches of stucco until our American and European artists went there and after long toil removed the covering and retraced^ the fresco. And I am aware that the\ memory of is covered % up with ten thoasanS obliterations, and I propose this morning^ so ^ar as the Lord may help me, I to take away the covering that the |eld pic ' tare may shine out again, j I want to bind in one sh&f all your past advantages, andVi want to bind in another sHeaf all your P** adversities. It is a precious harvest, and I must be cautious how I -i HOME INFLUENCES. ; t - ? * * ^ ' a 4mong the greatest advantages of your past lift was an early home and its aarroundiags. The bad men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of ta unhappy home. Wears not' sur prised that Byron's heart was a conse cration of sin when we hear his moth er was abandoned, and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat" He who has vicious parents has to fight every inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity and fct last reach the home of the good in heaven. N b Perhaps your early hbme was in theeity. It may haye been in the day? when Canal street, New York, was far up town. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed 'into stores, an^ it seemed like sacrilege to you, for there was more meaning in that plain house, in that sa^all house, than there is in ar "'j* gsanite mansion or a tarreted cathe .? ffral. Looking'" tack this morning, yoa see it as though it were yesterday ? ihe sitting rooift, where the loved ones sat by the plain lamplight, the mother at the evening stand, the t: brothers and sisters ? perhaps long ago gathered into the skies ? then plotting mischief on the Boor or under the # table; your father, with a firm -voice, commnpdipg silence that lasted half a I minut^jj f ' Ok, those were good days! If y#u had yonr foot hurt, yoqr mother ai I - * ways had a soothing salved to beal it. If yon were wronged in the street, .your father always ready to pro tect yojv- The year was one round of frpHtf and -mirth. Your greatest I^troohSe was an April shower, more ^ sunshine thaa shoWer. The heart had '0M not been ransacked by trouble^ nor had sickness broken in, and no 1 lamb <, had n warmer sheepfold than the home ' in which yonr Perhaps you were brought up in the coonlry. You stand now today in mmory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe, because you coujd not' wait aiy jooger. You hear the brook rambling along the pefcbke. Yoa step again in to the furrow where jnpor lather in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. Yoa frighten the swallows from the rafters of the barn and take just; "one j i silence yoqr conscience by they will not miss it You drink again oat of the j very et that the old well fetched1 op. ,, go for the cows at night audi %ii v _ - them wagging their heads through the bare. Ofttimes in the dusty and; buiy \ streets yoojriah you were home a&n on that cool grass, or in the hall oftbe I fermhouse, through which there Was' tne breath of new mown hay or the' blossom of buckwheat. ? \ Yo? may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the sea, but not one ofl them stirs in your sool so much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yellow sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk and the for getmenots playing hide and seek mid the long^graas. - The father who used to come in sunburned from the fields aEdjjit down on the doorsill and wipe the sweat from his bi?w may have gone to hW> everlasting rest. The mother who used to sit at the door a ^ little bent oyer, cap and spectacles on her face, mellowing with the vi cwBrtudes of many years, may have pat down her gray head on the pillow in valley, forget that home you never will ABE YOU GSATEFUL? t Have you thanked God for it? I fHave you rehearsed all these iiblesaed reminiscences? Oh, thank God ifor a| CWaa father. Thank God &r a' ^OT^aa motljer. Thank God for an earlyCbnjtian alter at which you were kneel Thaok ;God|for an earqr Christian heme. I bring to mind e- i ae ?ay came when you set up your own Jhousehold. j Hie | : ' data Phased* along in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affair in your life became the subjeet of mutual consultation, and advise ment \ ou were so happy yon felt you never could be any happier. i * One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and <?rker. But out of thai: ctiM'Uhe amnmg messenger of God descended to incarnate an immortal spirit Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and yoa were to lead them. A gem to flash in heaven's coronet- and you to polish it, eternal ages of fight and da^nese watching, the Mailing out of a aewly created being. \ on rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that in your posses* mou an immortal treasure was placed, i ou prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered; yoa were earnest in suppjfc <*?? thirt yoa might lead iMhS&gh life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness ; there was a double interest aboat that home; tiere was an additional interest why yoa should stay there aad be &itUbjL and when in a few months yoar house was filled with the music of the child's laughter joa were struck through wrth the iact that yon had * stupen dous mission. . npHj j 0 Have yoa kept thai vow? Bam yoa neglected any.of these duties? Is your home as much to you as it used grajfied?. God help yoa . today in yoar solemn reminescenee.and let! his mercy i01 upon roar sool if your kind ness has- been ill reqaited. Godhave mercy on the-paienvon the wrinkles 1 laSS".** j? story of a i s 8m. God have mercy on the ! mother who in addition to her other pangs ha* . the pang, of a child's unswty. Oh, .there are many, many aad sounds in this ssd world, 6<tt the* aridest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mothers : heart' rjAjnf er? any here who remember that in that home they were anfluthful? Are there those who wandered off from that early home and left- the mother i to d^^jth a broken heart?" Oh, * ?ir thSt^minispence today. KEPEUfT^LNCE. ' I nnd another point in your life history. ^ 0u found one day you wer? in ?? wrong road; you could not sleep **mght There was* just one word ing house, or through y ggkt office, orj your shop, or your bedroom, and that word was "eternity." You said: "I am not readv for it O God, have mercy"' The Lord heard. Peace came to yoaf heart Yoa remember how. your hand trembled as you took the cup cd the holy commuitipn. Yoa remember th$ old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through, the aisle. You remember the old people who & the close of the service took your hand in their in congratulating sympathy, a* much aft to say, "Welcome home, you j lost prodigal," and thoagkthose hands have & withered away that commun ion Sabbath is resurrected today; it is resurrected with ill its prayers and j songs and tears and sermons and transfiguration. Have you, kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help yoa. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heaven. . Start today as you started then. I rouse your soul by that remi niscence. But I must not spend any more of j my time in going over the advantages of your life- I just j^t them all in one great rbind them up in yoar'tuemorf with ope load bar song, such as leapers : nng. Praise the Lord, ye-Alood bought mortals on earth! -Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven! But some of you have not always had a smooth life. Some of yoa are now in the shadows. Others had their troubles years ago ? you are a' mere wi&ck of what yoa once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your pa* life, but how shall I*do it? You say that is impossible, a? you have had so many troubles ifnd adversities. Then I will just ta&rtw6, the fiirst trouble and the last trouble. As when yea are watttmg along the street and there has been music in the distance you unconsciously find your selves keeping step to the music, so when you started life your very life was a, mfsical timebeat The air was foil of jo? and hilarity. With the bright clear oar yeu made the boat skip. You went on, and life grew brighter, until, after awhile, suddenly a voice from heaven said, JJIkltr and you halted. You grew palie. Yon confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on yoar child's cheek was an un healthy nuqji. You said it cannot be anything serious. Death in slippered ieet walked rouad shout, the crad^ | Yoa did not hegr the fread , but after awhile the truth flashed on yoa. / I ~ \ j * . . . ? ? . ? . You walked the floor. Oh, if you cou d, with your strong, stoat hand, have wrenched the child from the de stroyer. # ? You went to your room, and you save my sai<L j "God, Ged-^save my ' child! childr ! The world seemed goiog out in da/kneas. You Mid, UI cannot bear it, 1 cannot You felt as if you could not bear it" put the lashes over the bright; eyes, never to see them again sparkle. Oh, if you could have taken that little one in your armsand with it leaped , in to the grave, how gladly you would5] have done it? your property you Oh, il go, go, land you your and could let houses t_ your storehouse 'go, how gladly you would have allowed them to depart if you cou:!d only have kept that one treas ure! ' ! ! :1-;P ? i: 1 ? ? .. i t H|. : LIGHT IK DARKNESS. : * j l.!l Jfclt one day there arose from the heavens a chill blast that .swept i over the bedroom, and ibstamly all the light went out, and there wasdarknesB ? ihick^jnarky, impenetrable, shud dering darkness. But God did not leave you there. Mercy spoke. As you were about to put that cup to your fipis God said, "Let it pass,'f and forthwith, as by the hand i>f aegels, another cup was put into your Hands. It was the cup at' God's consolation. And as you have sometimes bead of a wounded soldier and wine into his lips, so God puts arm under your head, and i right hand he pours into your wine of his comfort and his tion, and you jooked into the empty cradle and looked alt your heart, and you looked at the chastisement, and you said, 4^1 Father, for it aeemeth sight" Ah, it is your first trouble, did you get over it? God ?? you. You hsfitebeen a better since. Yon have been a 1)_ man ever since. In the jar closing gate of the sepulcheryou the clanging of the opening j heaven, and you felt an ir drawing;; heavenward, j ;You been purer and holier ot heart tiie last time put its 'mi ' ? . ' 1 : k i . I your neck and said: arms "Good around night, inrheavsn;' w mama. Meed , me isorrow, u. ' t ?. was PjY down to your was it? Per The child' on the stair or the tick of the stand disturbs vou. Counted th% figures in the flowers in the wall weary the days carpe* paper Irl ? ~L "i 'rr i r"i ? the weariness and exhaustion! the burning^ pangs! Would Goj& were morning, would God it fere iug^t,1^ere your freqaent cry. |Bht you aiie better perhaps even ^ell. 'Have you thanked God that today you Oh, Ob, ft can come yon are Jb praise and helptfcnd to ask Bless tin diseases and redeemeth from destruction. ~ ' psyoar last so embarrassment. some of you. jon jour ? man or occupation, on pare!, oi^a commodious evferyfiring you pot your 4and seems twtiurn to gold. But totare ? others of you who are like the t lipjon which Paul sailed Where two sei b met, and you are broken Bythe viol nee of the waves. By an junadviaed ii dotse ment, or by a conjunction of w?^re eeen events, or by tire or storm, orSa have been flung* ?wb^re you once Jis-; pensed great charities now you have nard work to make; the iwo ends meet oigottiento thank God ^fryourda^rs ofjjfrtMperity. and that ifaiougb your trials some of you hajve made investments which will continue after the Ja& bank of this world lias exploded and the ailvrf and gold are molten in fires of a* burning world? Have yon, amid allyour losses and discouragements, forgot that there was bread on your table this mdtrning, and that there shall be a shelter for your bead froth the storm, and there is air lor your lungs, and blood for ' your heart, and light for your eye, aud a glad and gjorious and triumphant re ligion for your soul? : BEREAVEMENT. f- It- i ? ! out in the fresh lair; .. j in jipia1 place i to God's name and to Mag to implore Giod's , ; . Goifsi foigiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all Jpur our lives sshddbood; al heart 'i Perhaps your list* trouble was a at That heart which in was your jrefuge, the parent . heart, and which has been a source tftheqmckeet sympathy ever sinee, has suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes; whenever in sud den annoyance and without delibera-. tion you - a^r? "I will go and tell mother," ihe thought flashes on you, 1*1 have no mother j"* Or the iatber, with voice less tender, but at heart ate earnest saod loving? watchful of all your wayBy exultant over your success without saying much, although the old^ people do talk it over by tbenj selves ? ia> liken away forever. ; Or there was ytoir companion in liie^ sharer of your j4js and sorrows, taken, leaving the bnrt an old ruin, where the 411 winds bpow over a wide wildernesa of desolation, the sands of th^ desert driving i across the place tbeK garden mourns for of.Machpelah. wf ich once bloomed of. God. . |And Sarah ai^lhe . ? |H Going along yonr path in life sudden ly right before y?u was an open grave. People looked down.and they saw it waff only a. few feet deep antra few feet wide, but to you It was a chasm down which went all yonr hopes and all yiour expectations. Bat cheer up in the name of the ;:tfeM?rter: i Lord arnp? better Lord Jesus Christ, is not going to forsake yon. Did i r 1 take that chSld out of your Why, he is going to shelter it tha$ yori could. He is going" to array itjn a white -robe aod give it a palm btaneh and have h all ready to ereet "you: at your coming home. b?t>ken heart that Jesus the> importunate cry Jesust compassionates. Blessed weeping eye from which the soft hand o? Jesus wipes away the tear. Some years ago I was sailing down the St John river, which is the Rhinej and the Hudson commingled in ob4 scene of beapty and grandeur, and greet Blessed the heals. that the wKpMli $ I -j while I was on tbe decl a gentlemafr jxHiited out to places of interest, and be. this is interval land, and it is I land, in all tbe provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." - "What," said I, "do jiu mean by interval land?" '?'Welt," be said, "this laud is submerged tor a part of tj^e year. Spring freshets come down, and all these plains are overflowed with the water, and the water leavps a rich deposit, and when the waters are gooertbe.barvest^priiigs up, and there is the grandest harvest that was /ever reaped" And I instantly thought, "It is not the heights of the church and it is not the heights of this world t^at are the scene* of the greatest prosperity, but tbe soul over which the floods of sorrow have gone, the soul over which the freshets of tribu lation have torn their" way, that yields the greatest fruits of righteousness, and the largest harvest for time, apd the richest harvest for eternity." Bless God thsft?your soul is interval laud. 1 TIlB FINAL REMIN3BCNNCK. But these reminiscences reach only to thiff morning. There is one more point of tremendous reminiscence, and that is last hour of life, wbeu we have to over all our past existence. Whir* moment that will be! I pTaoe Napoleon's dying reminiscence on ?t. Helena beside Mri-' Judsop's dyihg reminiscence in -the harbor of St. Helena,, the , same i island, 20yeare liter. Napoleon's dying reminiscence was one of delirium as he exclaimed, "Head of the army!" Mrs. Judson's reminiscence, as she icsme borne from her missionary toll and her liJe of ^lf sacrifice for God, jn the cabin of tbe ship in the harbor of St Helena, was, "I always did love ibe Lord Jesus Christ" And theu the historian says she foil into a sound Bleep for an hour and woke amid the songs of l.Mgek ~r & I place tbe dying reminiscence of igustts Caessf against the dving niniscence of the Apostle raul, dying reminiscence of Augustas " was, addressing his attendants, ? I played my part well; on the stage W lifef1 and they answered in the affirmative, and he said, ''Why* then, don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the Apostle was: "I haije fought * good fight. I have finished my course. 1! have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid op for me a crown of righteous ness which tbe Jityrd, tbe righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to alP them that; love bis tq>pearing." 1 I. Augustus Caesar died amid pomp! ["?and great surroundings. Paul utter ed his dying reminiscence looking up through, tbe roof df'si dungeon. God grant tha^ our dying pillow may be the closing oif a useful life and tbe openingof a glorious eternity. SHOT AND KILLED IN THE PULP^f. A North Carolina PreiclLr Meats His End Thus In California. Gastohia, Aug. 1 4 ? Distressing tidings have just reached hereof 'the tragic death in California ef Kev. E. P. Jones, pastor of tbe Gastcmia Bap tist (^hurch. A member of ins con gregation, visiting in the ,, mountains, Writes that on Friday :a telegram went to Mrs. Jones at Boone bearing "|he shocking intelligence that her husband was shot and killed inl bis pulpit |in Dixon, ?kL, last Sunday. No pellicular* are known. ,;j Mr. Jones was called to tbe pastorate of the Gastonia church last spring. Having a trip to California in vie^, be came by Gastonia, preaching twice ' on Sunday, May I4^ccepted tbe call quid on Monday resumed, bis journey, in tending on his return in September to l:. ax? - -i . if f* .. . move his family here from their Watauga home and euter actively up fcn tbe work of bis new field. ' i This totally unexpected report of a tragedy so utterly inexplicable: fells like a thunderbolt upon his congrega tion here and friends everywhere, and [. would, dot of sheer reluctance of be lief, be discredited hut for its direct ness and apparent reliability. * The letters Mr Jones wrote htune both to tbe papers and to bis friends deplored the gambling, drinkiug, racing, Sabbath desecration and oiher popular forms of sin witnessed by faim on every .hand; but while the* indi cated that be was not enamored of high life in California, still be seemed to enjoy especially preaching the Gos pel as he knew iL * But he was a man oi force, of great natural tenderness, of fervent spirit ualmindedness, and not a man of vio lent or intemperate Bpeech. Over most men and many preachers he pos sessed one advantage? he had re ligion. As a servant of the Jtfeet High be was fearless. If be felt God calling him to rebuke ppen sin and warn the perpetrators of it, be obeyed tbe call with the loyalty of ^heaven born seal. If it is true that Bev JL F- Jones was -shot and killed in bis pulpif, he was slain while doing bis* duty, not Itashty but in tbe fear ojf God an<j the love of man. ? Charlotte Observer. THE SILVER SITUATION. Shortage In tKe Treasury Purchase*. A Discussion tn Congress Probable, W abhi n?3T0K, July 31.? Fo# the first . time since the passage of the Sherman law tbe Treasury this iqonth tailed to buy the foil quota^of 4 ?00, 000 ounces of silver. The total pur chase for tbe month was 2,384,000 ounces, leaving a shortage of 2,1 16,000 ounces. TbB amount purchased today was 216,000 ounces, at tbe counter figures of .7030 perjwince. The Populist members of Congress from Colorado, peace and Bell, wjye at tbe Treasury to^y, and bad ^-'in terview with Secretary Carlisle and ActingDirector Freston. They were in MrT'^reston's room at the tim$ be rejected all offers and made the coun ter offer of . .7030 dents _ an ounce. Both of them were much concerned about what they claimed was an effort of tbe Treasury Department to "bear" the price of silver in the markets of the world. a*, The silver men indicate a purpose to precipitate a silver discussion on the first working day of the extra -session of Congress j a resolution of inquiry as to whether or not the Secrets Treasory has tot* xceeded bisaul m refusing to purchase 4,/ ounces of silver in July, as prol by the SheriE|}a law. 4 TERRIBLE CASUALTY. A .PLEASANT pARTY TURNSD. INTO oUe of sorrow. o . ' A. Tacht Goes Down in tbe Dark With Twehty-nine on Hoard ? Ban into an ?! Old Pier ? Kight of Drowned Were Women. - | | Tkoy, N. Y.,^i&)g. 4. ? About 9 o'clock last mgi^fa pleasure party while going to a distance at the lower end1 of Lake George met with a terri ble ' casualty The steam yacht Rachel, which is owned by D. W. Sherman, proprietor ofthe Pgal Rock ^Pft&te, Lake George, waa conveying tweity-niue people up tbe lake. Tbe little vessel was turned toward the Due Hundred Mile Island House, and was gliding toward tbe landing when the passengers were thrown for murd by a sodden shock. In the darl tbe vesspl had run ifyon a sunk en pier, and before assistance arrived from tbe shore it sank with all on hoafld. It was only a few moments ?fter *be shock when tbe yac&t m reened to one side and went down in eighteen feet of water. .When all in sight had reached the shore, it was learned that nine persons, all women except a youth of 19, had su> k to watery gijavfo After strenu ous efforts tbe bodteawere brought to tbe surface. " Those wh<\lost their lives reside in Troy, Brooklyn, Hobokeu and War ren burg. The keeper of the One Hundred Mile Is'and House was act ing pilot when tbe boat struck. The following is a correct list of the drowned: Mi* Hattie Hall, Brook lyn; Bertha Benedict*. Montclair, N. J.; Miss Edith Haftiing, Hoboken; Miss H. M. Burton, Jersey City; J. H. Mitchell, F. C. Mitchell, Lizzie Corley, Clara Black, Burlingtou; biz vA Clark, Bridgeport. ALGEHfNE PIRATtb. ? Strang* Oomm?nltjr-How a Trafrfw Wlto Bobbed. A CUrious experience in th<^far Pa Piflc waters was related the other da* by, am old traveler, says the San Fran cisco Examiner. v ; "In July 1 left Manilla, where 1 had united some butfness with pleasure, a-id took a 1st of rpearls, shells, rose wood, abwca/or iUnQlj hemp, and osher things with nie> he said, ,*to the }Bland of Solorf, Borneo. I had pqnsid wabJi cash With me, too^aqd 1 figured on Itebelng a highly profitable as well aa enjoyable trip. "Ndw, you may not know it, but this island, which is ruled by a sultan, has J | for its population the most curious peo ple toj be found anywhere. They are pfthej Mongolian race and are known by the general term Algerine .pirates. Most of them are 'married to Japanese women and they form one of the odd est communities in race study. "Well, J landed and during njy stay of four dnys busied myself in noting the queer costumes of the people and mean time added to my stock of pearls and eurio&ofvjwioua kfmis. J made some good bargains and was flattering my self on the profits of a trip originally Jntenqed more for pleasure than any thing pise. "Finally it came time to leave. The steamer, which already had * lot of chattering Mongolians aboard, pulled up to the dock without casting off i lines, and aa there were but' two or three Europeans to come aboard they' were expected to get on as the ship pame Bp. Ordinarily there would have been no trouble, but in this case the vessel : lurched. J made a struggle to get on, but d?d not succeed. i "I made another attempt, and just then a: native came up and put both his hands under my arms and gave me a fhova. I had caught hold and was just climbing on when I felt a hand under my poat. It was the hand of the pirate native, and he took from the rear pock et of m^Vousers my long pocketbook. It oontained drafts, tickets and cash, and I hadn't a cent left. ] "<4Tho minute he did it the agile pirate ?wung himself on the upper deck and was lost in the crowd. They all looked alike, and when I rushed Ground and finally { told the captain we got Where they were I eouM^hoV find my nan. They all looked lust like so many | Chinamen in Chinatown. 1 "Then the captain stopped the ship. I went and got^a search warrant, but by that time the pocketboOk had been secreted and I could not get a trace of ? In alj * l??t between eleven and twelve thousand dollars, but only thir ty-five hundred dollarsvof it was in pash and the drafts, on tfhich I stopped payment* I have finally just received. The last one cams to me only a few ?ays ago through the.captain, to whom toe pirate afterward sent it TjThis is the queerest of all my ex periences, and had not the captain boarded me and taken me to Yoko hama without pay till I could get more, money of friends I would have been in a bad fit indeed." Vj I f WHAT EVERY MAN IS WORTH. The Cb^tnlcal Compound* of an Average Voter Are Valued at ?18,300. An interesting exhibit at the na tional museum shows the physical in' gradients which go to make up the average man, weighing 164 pounds, Sa^s the American Analyist x\ large ^ k??ds the 96 pounds of water which fcj s body contains. U other receptacles are $ pounds of white of W, a little less than 10 pounds of pure glue?without which it would be im possible to keep body and soul io gether-48* pounds of fat, 8% pounds of phosphate of lime, 1 pound of car bonate of lime, 8 ounces of sugar and ZTrM ?T8 ?* fluorlde oi calcium, a m^?L? ^hate 01 "^fimesia and v? ^Sry table Divided up into his primary chemical elements the same man is found to contain 97 pounds of oxygen enough to take up, er ordinary atmospheric pressure .he space of a roo^ io feet long, io ,feet wide .and .10 feet high. His 5)lds 15 pounds of hydrogen, hich, under the same conditions, would occupy somewhat more than "two such rooms as that described. To Be must be added 8 pounds and 13 punces of nitrogen. The carbon Jn the corpus of the individual referred to is represented by Vfoot cube of poat It ought to 1^6 a diamond of the ?^es^e, because the stone is pure Parbon but the National museum has SOt such, a one ii* its possession. A row fif bottles ponUIn the other ele ments goiqg to make up the man. inca are b ounces of chlorine, 8V ounces of fluorine, 8 ounces of phos phorus, 8)tf oupces-of brimstone, 2W ounces of Bo&tain, W ounces of pota? L sium, l-io of an ounce of iron, 2 ounce*' ? of magnesium and 3 pounds and# ounces of calcium. Calcium, at pres ent market rates, is worth $300 an otmoe, so, that tte amount of it con tained in one otynary human body baa a money value of *18,800. Few of oar fellow citizens realize that they are ^"-^irr nnmli llfcjnsli ill) 4 a 6 ? TAKEN ON THE SPOT. _ Ho* * Persistent Camera Mm ttot t Fl* _ tare mi the Wrack. "I ^*as in a wreck nfcar Rossville, lad., about a month ago," said ex-J no tice Sch wab to a Cincinnati Times-Star man. "We were on the way to Chicago, and were inidely awakened just before daylight sby a grand crash. We found our coach hanging o^er a chasm formed break in the bridge over Middle .fork river. The ? engine, tender and^ baggage car and the trucks of our car" were down in th'e river. The ends of our coach restea on cither side of the ragged gap in th^bridge. A wrecking crew got there at daylight, pulled us put of our predicatnent, and started tc clear. Then there was fun. "A photographer got there with the first rays of the morning sun, and pre pared to take pictures for some illus trated journal. He got his instrument set up, focussed and all ready, and was ?bout to let'er go, when the foreman of the wrecking crew deliberately held a shovel before the lens and spoiled the exposure. ,.Tfie photographer, an old lmnd, fully acquainted with the policy of the railroad companies to prevent the photographing of wrecks, (if possible, tried it ag^in. HcLgot back a trifle on . higher ground, typt when all was ready again he found a line of men holding rubber coats on poles, obscuring the view of the wreck. Hi* third attempt met with a movement the ralR-oaders to smash his camera,^ and he hastily retreated with it to a neighboring fence. "All this time a middle-aged, de termined-looking farmer leaned over his fence, within fifty yards of the < broken bridge, an interested spectator of the proceedings. To him the pho tographer jrirent and asked the privilege of taking the picture from his land, promising a copy to him of the picture made. That was agreeable to the farmer and the camera was soon in po sition again, but again the rubber coats went up and stopped the busi ness. Then the farmer determined to have a picture if it cost a farm. Send ing his m&n to the barn, he directed him to hitch up a wagon, and, after fastening a high step ladder into it, he drove down to the fence corner, took the photographer aboard and in a few minutes the latter had secured several good exposures of the entire wreck. The coats could not be raised high enough that time, but the whole wrecking ??ew made for the wagon, determined to wreck that camera. But the farmer, with a few words, gathered a dozen or so of stout farm hands about him, and, armed with elubs, they~got aboard the wagon, sur rounded the photographer and camera, and, standing off the wrecking crew, drove off thie $eld safe and in triumph.'* I an intemperate ;rqw.- ' %% Ge*S J>runk Frequently Acts Like J a Human Taped liav? a crow at home that dearly loves whisky and has a constant desire to bowl up when not already satisfied in that direction," said Mbxwell Con state tine tp a St. Louis Oldbe- Democrat manl **lt all started with my son, a harem-scarum rascal, who cooked wheat grains in whisky and fed the bird with them. This went on & long timerrithout my knowledge until the bird, became infatuated With wheat prepared iq that manner. I noticed that the boy and the bird became great friends, so much th^t the latter would acknowledge thanks and desire for more of wh^t I thought to be ordi nary wheat grains by the most un melodions caw that a crow was poo ?essed of. 1 thought to make friends^ with the bird by presenting it with a few grains of wheat, but after taking one or two it invariably turned away in apparent disgust I couldn't under stand it at alL My son, after judi ciously cultivating the bird's appetite for whisky wheat, mixed w&isky in its drinking water, which was not ill re ceived. It was not lon? until he had that crow Slipping pure" whisky and getting hilariously loaded. Then 1 discovered the trick one day and I set tled u A long account with that youth. ButthRrow is not satisfied without whisky. After drinking a little it will stagger about and feebly flap its wings, meanwhile giving vent to a squawk that is a cross between a bag pipe and a squeaky door hinge. It will then endeavor to balance itself on a perch with the most ridiculous results. The recovery always brings a sullen iunjor to the bird, and for an entire day it will mope in some dark corner and take on a most vicious temper. When in this latter frame of mind it is quite dangerous to offer any consola tion to the bird, for it iB ill received ftnd apparently does no good." < TALKING MONKEYS. They Have Xot Learned English Yet, Bet Talk with Garner. A chimpanzee who can say "Good day, stranger," in the Maori tongue, a gorilla who speaks a little Fijian, and an ourang outang who has mastered a < (forcible German expletive, are de clared by Prof. Garner, the famous sU* dent of the monkey race, to be now^ iq his possession. It is to be hoped, says the Lady'i pictorial, that the worthy professor, whose very interesting book on "The Speech of Monkeys" attracted so much attention last year, will bring his pets home with him when their vocabulary has grown somewhat in order to givo us an opportunity a^Mstening to their edifying conversation. On the professor's principle there seems no reason why they should not be taught to speak English as well as anj' other language, so wo may yet enjoy the novel sensation of l>eing greeted with an oral welcome from behind the bars of a cage in the well known "house" in the zoological gar dens. Prof. Garner claims, moreover, to have mastered almost the whole of the peculiar language which the monkeys speak amgng themselves. Perhaps ho will be^able to treat uq, one of these days, to a translated report of a debate in a Simian parliament so that we may have an opportunity of comparing it with human eloquence. The Moral ElTbct. Some months ago the Marion was off i the Chinese coast taking coal. A high Chinese mandarin called on board and was received bj- Commander 11 , who offered him cigars, champagne, etc. In leaving the ship, the man darin, while on the deck, gave a look around. "Ah, commander, I see you have still got the old guns?" "Yes," re- i plied the other; "still got them." "They are verj' big," said the Chinese, smiling. "Yes very big." "]jn fact -they look much bigger than the new guns." "Ye% rather," said the com- \ mander, who did not like the talk at ? all. "Oh, I see? I see," said -the man darin, in a very sarcastic way; "you ' have got them for the moral effect!" The Fecuud Fly. A fly will lay four times during the summer, about eighty eggs each time, and careful calculations have demon strated that the descendants of a single insect may from June 1 to the end ef September exceed two million. Were it not fpr bats, insect-eating birds and the innumerable microscopic , parasites with which the fly is particu larly afflicted there would be no wcrae peat in the world than the fly for Infants ?M CNM** THikTY y*T>' otwmw r- ? million* ?f pei^as, ?***??? | g Jt to naqifiiti owably th? W it i WMify ffc * hfclti j j the world hw erer kn?wn. It 1? harml? <? | glrw them Iwahk. It will ? re their lire* . la ^ Mttthiy| .o? wM-t ?? .i^J.t.1. jJfc ami frrmgUMdtl r-** ? okild'm modicUe. I | ?' . F CuterU d? troy Worm. C? tori* alley F>TT<rt?iJ' j * Ca?torl> pmeit? tmiWi Sop Cmr4? % ^ j CutorU onmJUrrtoi nd Wiail GcMm, / C? rditm Twttiit |fwl1w? ' ?v Owjgfa wm Coi?tip*ttaji>a<l FUtulsmey. Vj Cetocto the efcct. of garlnmic mold gms 9* p*mm C?torim dmmm ?ot ouatefamoi plifawiopleiB, or e<horM?r^?tlciHn Cmm torU iirimflitw the food, r?yiUtw tho ot? ? h j firing healthy t?d ? timl ?!? ; >. C? torla fa pmi ?? b pn-aiw ltttf m #mly. jt l> lit ? M <?> IW tallow egyoaotoeell jo?*k|thi?? th? pi? ?r p a? itoodwaadlwwC(lwwr wry p?rp? >" 8? tt>tywftb'l'MNHM?i? 1 ^ \ The fke-?imllo Slf *31 VZfSSSS?"^ &?? ( d??et?ro of ^4 ^/jfflCUcik Wt t HS2< . Children ?ry for Pitcher^ Castorla. SILVER STATE LUTES. '*v They G?t TVgilher an?l Orgaiiixe for Work. Chicago, Ai?gust 3. ? The general committee 'gTected by the silver oft* ventiop met today At the Palmer House! aud effected a permanent organization hy electing G#n. A- J. Warner, <?f Ohio as pr&iifent and George P. Washburn of Boston, as general secretary. (V>1. A. 4). Fiske, ^ O>lorado and H. E. Taubeneck, of Illinois, were made honorary members ot the committee. : A committee on- ways and means was elected, consisting of A. J. War ner of Ohio, Hon. llennts Sheedy of C dorado, C. B. ' Mathews of Ndw York, W. A. Clark of Montana, F. E. Allen of Utah, I. I *. Johnson of Virgiuia and George V. Bryan of Idaho. The following committee on propa ganda was appoiuied: Hon. J. S. 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