The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, May 09, 1888, Image 5
PR. TALMAG R'S SIMMON
JlOfOXMIUVtiO?i Of ??Vli JlulHtS.
"Whon Ktmli ,' awake, I will sock lt yet
ftjral?."-Prov. 5S1 : It?.
WITH tin insight Into human tinturo
suc)) as no oilier man ever roached,
Solomon, in my text, sketches the men-:
tal operation? of one who, having stop
pod
AHlDJ'l KJtOM Till': PAT ti
bi rectitude, desires to return. Willi a
wish for something botter, ho says:
.' When shall I awakoV when shall I
como out ol' lids horrid nightmare of
iniquity?1' But seized upon by un
eradieatcd habib, and forced down-lull
by Ina passions, he cries out: "I will
seek it yet again. 1 will try il oneo
moro."
Om libraries aro adorned willi an
elegant lilcraturo addressed lo young
men, pointing out lo them all the dan
go! s aud perils of llfo-coinploto minis
of tho voyage, showing all tho rocks,
th(i quicksands, tho shoals. But sup
pose a man has already niado ship
wreck; suppos? he. is already oil' the
track; supposo bo bas already gone as
now m inc TO OUT HACK?
T!>;ii, is a liehl comparatively untouch
ed! I propose to address myself this
evening to Such. There aro those in
this audience who, with every passion
of their agonized soul, are tend y lo hear
(his discussion. They comparo them
selves with what they were len years
ago, twid cry out from thc bondago in
which they are incarcerated. Now, if
thcro bo any in this house, come with
an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are
beyond tho palo of Christian sympathy,
and that the scrmo.' can hardly bo ex
pected to address mom, thou, at this
moment, J give them my right hand
and call them brother. Look up. There
is glorious and triumphant hopo for you
ye;, f sound the trumpet of Gospel de
li vc rance. Tho Church is ready to
spread a banquet ut your return, and
thc ) i m archs of heaven lo Tall into lino
of ban tiered procession at the nows of
your emancipation. So far as God may
help me, I propose to show what aro the
obstacles lo your return, and how lo
surmount those obstacles.
Tin: KlItST DI Kl*"!Ult I.TY
?ti tito way or your return is thc loree
of inonu gravltntiott. Just as thcro is
:i natural law which brings down to
thc earth anything which you throw
into the air, so lhere is a corresponding
moral gravitation. In other words, it
is easier tu go down than it is to go up;
it is (.usier lo do wrong than it is to do
right Cull to mind tho comrades of
your boyhood days-some of them good
some of them bad. Which most affect
ed ?you? ("all to mind the anecdotes
that you have heard in tho hist live or
ten yearn- -.some of them are puro and
some of them impure. Which tho moro
easily sticks to your memory? During
the years ol' your life you hilve formed
certain courses of conduct-some ol'
them good, some ol' thom bad. To
which stylo ot habit did you tho moro
easily 3 ?old? Ahl lay friends, we have
to fake but a moment ol' self-inspection
to lind out that there is in all our souls
a foreo of moral gravitation. Mut that
gravitation may bo resisted. Just as
you may pick up from the earth some
thing and hold it in your hand toward
heaven, just so, by the power of (hui's
grace, a soul fallon may bo lifted, to
ward peace, toward pardon, toward
heaven, Force of moral gravitation in
every ono of us, but power in God's
grace lo overcome Huit force of moral
gravitation.
Tho next thing in the way of your
return is ike power of evil habit, I know
thcro tire those who say it is very easy
for thom to give up evil habits. I ?lo
bel le Vu thom. Hero is a man given to
intoxication. He knows it is disgrac
ing his family, destroying his properly,
ruin lng him body, mind, and soul. If
that man, being au intelligent man,
and loving bis family, could easily give
up that habit, would he not do so? The
fad. Huit he does not give it up proves
il. is haid to give it up. lt is a very
easy thing to sail down-stream, Ibo fide
carrying you with great loree; but sup
pose you turn
THIS ?0 AT UP STU KA M.
is it HO easy then to row it? As long as
wo yield to Ibo evil inclinations in our
hearts and our bad habits, wo aro sail
ing down-stream; but tho moment ive
try to turn, wo put our boat in the
rapids j list above Niagara, and try to
row lip stream. Tako a man given to
the habit ut using tobacco, as most of
you do, and let him resolve lo stop, and
he (iuds it very difficult. Twenty-one
year? ago I quit that habit, and 1 would
as soon dare to put my right hand in
the Uro as once lo indulge in lt. Why?
Bccauso it was such a terrible struggle
to gb!? over it.
Now, lot a man bo advised by his
physician to give up the use of tobacco.
He goes around not kno wing what to
do with himself. Ho cannot add up a
lille of ligures. Ile cannot sleep nights,
It seems as f the world had turned up
side down. Ile feels his business is go
ing to ruin. Where he was kind and
obliging ho is scolding and fretful. Tho
composure that characterized him lias
given way lo fretful restlessness, and
lip has become a complet? fidget. What
power ls it that has rolled a wavo of
woo over tho earth and shaken a por
tent in tho heavens ? Ho has triedlo
stop smoking 1 After a while ho says,
.'I ain going lo doas 1 please. Tho doc
tor doesn't understand my case. I'm
going back to tho old habit."
And ho returns. Everything assumes
its usual composure. His business
scorns to brighten. Tho world becomes
an attractive place to livo in. His
children, seeing tho differonco, hail tho
return of their father's genial disposi
tion. AVhat Wavo of color has dashed
blue into tho sky, und greenness into
tho mountain foliago, and tho glow of
sapphire into the sunset? What en
chantment bas lifted a world of beauty
and Joy on bis soul? Hp has gone back
to smoking. Oh, tho fact is, as we all
know in our own cxperioneo, that
IIAMT IS A TASJV-MASTBU;
as long, as wo oboy lt, ijf does not chas
Uso us: but lot us resift, and wo lind wo
aro to bo lashed witljr scorpion whips,
and bound with ship ?able, and thrown
wto the track of lfattiMw-Wiioiil-lnfr inn
goiinuits. During tl:o war of 1812
thero was a ship sot on Uro just above
Niagara Falls, and thou, cut loose from
its moorings, lt carno on down through
tho night, and tossod ovor tho Falls. It
was said to luwo boon a scono brilliant
boyond all description. Well, thero
aro thousands of men on Uro of ovil
habit, coming down through the rapids,
and through llio awful night of tempta
tion, toward tho eternal plunge. Oh,
how hard it is to arrest thom! Hod
only can arrest thom.
.Suppose a man, after tlvo or ten or
twenty years of evil-doing resolves to
do right. Why, all the forces o? dark
ness aro allied against him. Ho cannot
sleep nights. Ho gets down on his
knees in thc midnight and cries: "G?ll
help mol" Ile bites his lip. Ho grinds
his teeth. Ho clenches his fist in a de
termination to keel) his purpose. Ho
dare not look at tho bottles in tho win
I dows of a wino store, lt is ono long,
bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight
with an inllamed, tantalizing, and mer
ciless habit. When ho thinks ho is en
tirely free, the old inclinations pounce
upon him like a pack of hounds with
their muzzles tearing away at the Hanks
of one poor reindeer Iii P*iris lhere ^
a sculptured representation of Bacchus,
the god of revelry. Ho is riding ona
panther at full leap. Oh, how sugges
tive! Lot every ono who is speeding
on bad ways understand ho is not rid
ing a docile and well-broken steed, but
ho is riding a monster, wild and blood
thirsty, going ata death leap.
How many Ibero aro who resolve on
a better life, and say: "When shall I
awake?" but seized on by their old
habits, cry: "I will try it once more;
I will seek it yet again!" Years ago,
there wcro some Princeton students
who wero skating, and the ice was very
thin, and some one warned Ibo com
pany back from tlx; air-hole, and final
ly warned them entirely to leave tho
place. But one young man with brav
ado, after all tho rest had stopped, cried
out: "Ono round more'l" Ho swept
around, and went down, and was
brought out a eorpso. My friends,
thero aro thousands and tens of thou
sands of mon losing their souls in that
way. It is the ono round moro.
1 have also to say that if a man wants
to r. !nrn from evil practices,
: . > M HT Y UKPUI.S1?S HIM.
Desiring io reform, he says: "Now, I
will shake oil my old associates, and I
will find Christian companionship."
And ho appears at tho church door
somo Sabbath day, and tho ushcrgrccls
him with a look as much as to say:
"Why, you herc? You are the last
man I over expected to seo at chiuchi
Come, take this seal right down by tho
door." Instead ol' saying: "Good
morning; I am glad you aro hore.
(Jonie; 1 will give you a first-rate scat,
right up by tho pulpit." Well, tho pro
digal, not yet discouragi d, outers a
prayer-meeting, and some Christian
man, with moro zeal than common
sense, says: "Glad to seo you; the dy
ing thief was saved, and I suppose then
is mercy for you."
TMK YOUNO MAX, IM.SdUSTKI),
chilled, throws himsolf on his dignity,
resolved he will never enter into flu
house of (Jod again. Perhaps not quite
fully discouraged about reformation, lu
sujos up by some highly respectable
ni?n ho used to know, going down thc
street, and immediately tho respect abb
man has an orran I down some otl'iei
sired. Well, tho prodigal, wishing tc
return, takes some member of a Chris
tian association by the hand, or tries to.
Thc Christian young man looks at bini,
looks al t he faded apparel and the markt
of dissipation; instead of giving him ?i
warm grip of tho hand, ho oilers bin:
tho tip ends of the long lingers of Hu
left hand, which is conni lo slrixiny a
man in UK /ace! Oh, how few Chris
lian people understand how much fora
and gospel there is in a good honc.sl
hand-shaking] >_:oinethnes, when yoi
have felt the need of encouragement
and sumo Christian man has taken yoi
heartily by the hand, have you not. tel
thrilling through every fibre of you:
body, mind, and soul an encourage
nient thal was just, what you needed'
You do not know anything nt all abo ti
this unless you know when a man trie
to return from evil courses ol' eonduo
ho runs against
UKl'l'i.SlON'S INS I'M KU A Ul.I-:.
Wo say of sonic man, he lives a bloc!
or two from the church, or half a mil
from thc church. There aro people i:
our crowded cities who live a lliousain
miles from church. Vast deserts of in
difference between them and thc hons
of God. Tho fact is, wi; must keep on
respectability, though thousands am
tens of thousands perish. Christ sa
willi publicans and sinners. Bul i
there como to the houso of God a mai
with marks ol' dissipation upon him
people almost throw up their hands ii
horror, as much as to say: "Isn't i
shocking?" How thoso (Ininti/, fustUh
ona Christiana in all our churches ar
going to got Into beaven, I don't know
unless they have an especial train o
cars, cushioned and upholstered, enc
ono a car to himself. They cannot g
with tho great bordo of publicans an
sinners.
Ohl yo who curl your lip of scorn :i
tho fallon, 1 tell you plainly, if you ba
been surrounded by tho sain? influence:
instead ol' sitting to-day amid thc eu
tined, and tho refined, and tho Clirii
lian, you would have been a crouchin
wretch in stablo or ditch, covered wit
iilth and abomination. It is not bi
cause you aro naturally any belier, bi
because tho mercy o? God has proteo
ed you. Who aro you that brought i
in Christian circles ami watched I
Christian parentage, you should bo ?
bard on tho fallon?
1 think mon also aro often binden
from loturu by tho fact that church
are too anxious about their nienibersh
and too anxious about their donoinin
tlon, and they rush out when they sec
man ubout lo give up his sin and i
turn to God, and ask him how he
going to bo baptized, whether
sprinkling or immorsion, and wi
kind of a church ho is going to jul
Ob, my friends, it is
A I'OOlt TIMK TO TALK
ubout Presbyterian catechisms, a
Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist lo'
feasts, and baptisteries to n man that
coming ou t of tho darkness of sin int o I
glorious light of the Gospel. Why;
reminds me of a tuan drowning In I
. I
-.-;-~r
son, mid si llfc-bont puits out for \ ni,
and i)io man in tho boat says to]tho
man out of tho boat: "Now, if igot
you ashore', aro you going to ilvo o:|my
afreet?" First got him ash oro, and Iben
talk about tho non-ossontials of roliqon.
Who cares what church ho joins, 1! ho
only joins Christ and starts for heaton?
Oh ! you ought to havo, my brothel, an
illumined fuco and hearty grill for cfory
ono that trios to turn from his ovil yay.
Tako hold of tho samo book with lim,
though his dissipation shako tho bfok,
remembering that "ho that convcrtoth
a sinner from tho error of ids ways mall
save a soul from death and ludo a liuil
titudo of sins."
Now, I hayo shown you those obrta
eles because I want you to understand
I know all tho difficulties in tho way ;
but I am now to toll you how Hannibal
may seato tho Alps, and how
T1U0 S1IACKLKS MAY ll IC UN'll IVKTKD,
and how tho paths of virtuo forsaken
may bo regained. First ol' all, my
brother, throw yourself on God. Go to
him frankly and earnestly, and loll bini
these habits you have, and ask Him if
thorn is any help in all tho resources ol'
omnipotent love, to give it lo you. Do
not go with a iong rigmarolepeople bull
prayer, made up of "Ohs, 'ami "Alis,"
and "forever and ever, amen 1" GD to
Cou* and cry for help ! heh) I holn I and
If you cannot cry for belt), just look
and live. 1 remember, in tho lalo war,
L was at'Autiolam, ami l went into tho
hospitals after the battlo, and said lo a
man: "Whero aro you hurt?" Ho
inailo no answer, but hold tip his ann,
swollen and splintered. I saw wliere
he was hurt. Tho simple fact is, when
a man has a wounded soul, all he has
to do is to hold it up before a sympa
thetic Lord, and get it healed, lt does
not luke any long prayer. Just hold
up tho wound. Oh, it is no small thing,
when a man is nervous and weak and
exhausted, coining from his ovil ways,
to feel that Cod puts two omnipotent
arms around him, and says : "Young
man, I will stand by you. Tho ?n?.uu
lalns may depart, and thc hills bo re
moved, but I will never fail you."
And then as tho soul thinks tho nows is
too good lo be true, and cannot believe
il, and looks up in God's face, God lifts
His right hand and takes an oath, an
ulhdhv.it, saying : "As I live, saith the
fiord God, t have no pleasure in thc
death of bini that dieth." Messed be
God for such a disciple as this I "Cul
tho slices thin," said tho wifo to thc
luisband, "or thero will not be enough
lo go all around for tho children ; eut
thu slices thin." Blessed bo God, there
is
. A VU Ul? J.OAF l'Oll KV KUY (INK
that wants it ! Dread enough and tc
sparc. No thin slices at tho Lord'*
table. 1 remember when tho Master
Street Hospital, in Philadelphia, wm
oponed during tito war, a telegram
came, saying : "Thero will bo three
I li und rod wounded men to-night ; bc
ready to tako caro of them;" and from
my church t hero wont in Some twenty
or thirty mon and women to look aftei
these poor wounded follows. As they
came, s;omo from one part of thc land,
some from another, no ono asked
wholher this man was from Oregop.kn
from Massachusetts, ior from Mi^iff*
sota, or from Now York. There fwfti
a wounded soldier, and the only quos'
tien was how lo tako oft tho rags tilt
most gently, and put oh tho bandage,
and administer tho cordial. And
when a soul comes to Cod, Ile does not
ask where you cunio from or what y btu
ancestry was. Healing for all yum
wounds. Tard?n for all your guilt
Comfort for all your trouble?.
Then, also, I counsel yon, if yoi
want to get back, lo quit all your b:u
associations.
OS K UNHOLY INTIMAI Y
will lill your soul with moral distemper
In all tin; ages of tho Church there lia
not been an ihsmuco where a man kop
one evil associate and was reformed
Gb homo to-day, open your desk, talc
out loiter paper, stamp and 6nve.hn.ia
and then write a letter something! ldc
lilis :
".My old companions: I shirl ?I?U tltiy fe
heaven, l'util I mn persuaded yon will join in
ni iliis, Piircwoii.''
Then sign your name, and send th
letter by the lirst post, (?ive up you
bad companions or give up beaven. I
is nol ten bad companions that dostro
a man, nor llvo bad companions, uti
three bad companions, but one. WUfl
chalice is there for that young ulivtV
saw .dong the street, four or live yo uh
men with him, halting in front, of
grogshop, urging him to go in, ho rc
sisting, violently resisting, until altor
While they forced Illili to go in? lt wu
a summer night and the door was lol
open, and 1 saw tho process. Tho
held him fast, and they put tho cup t
hus lips, and they forced down tho st ron
drink. What chance is there for sue
a young man?
[ counsel you also, seek Christin,
advice. Every Christian mau is bonn
lo help you. IC you lind no. otlu
human ear willing to listen to yoi
story of struggle, como to mo and
will by every .sympathy of my hear
and every prayer, and every toil of m
hand, uland bosido you in tho strugg
for reformation ? ?ihd as 1 hopo io hat
my own sins forgiven, and hope lo I
acquitted at tho Judgment seat i
Christ, I will not betray you. First i
all seek (?od, then
?KKK CHUISTl.VN COU N SK!.,
(?allier np all tho ?nergies of hod
mind and soul, and appealing to C;t
for success, declaro this day, overl:i#
lng war against all drinking habits, s
gaming practices, all houses of fil
Half-and-half work will amount*
nothing: it must bo a Waterloo. Shi ii
back now, und you tito lost. Push o
and you aro saveo. A Spartan gonoi
fell at tho very momont of victory, b
ho dipped bis linger in his own bio
anil wrote on ti rook near which ho w
dying ; "Sparta has conquered
Though your struggle to get rid of f
may seem to bo almost a death sin
gio, you can dip your linger in your m
blood and write on tho Hook ol' Agc
"Victory through our Loni' Jos
Christi"
Oh I what glorious nows it would
for somo of thoso young mon to se
homo to their parents In tho count
They go to tho poat-ofllco cvory day
two to seo if thoro aro any lottors in
you. How anxious thoy aro td hoi
Nothing would please them half
much ns tho nows you might soiul homo
to-morrow that you had glvou your
heart to God. I know how lt ls in tho
country. Tho night comes on. Tho
cattlo aland under tho rack through
which burst8 tho trusses of hay.
Tho horses just having frlskod up
through tho meadow at tho night fall,
Stand knoo-dcep in tho bright straw
that invites them to lio down and rest.
Tho porch of tho hovel is full of fowl,
their foot warm under tho feathers.
In
Tl IK Ohl) l\Ut.M llOUSK AT NIGHT
no canillo is lighted, for tho Hames clap
hands ?b?ut tho great backlog, and
shako the .shadow of tho group up and
down tho wall. Father and mothor
sit tlicro for half an hour, saying noth
ing. I wonder .what thoy aro thinking
of. After nwbilo tito father breaks tho
sileaco and says : "Well, I wonder
whore our boy is in town to-night?"
Ami tho mother answers: "In no bad
place, I warrant you ; wo always could
trust bim when bc was nomo, and since
bo has been away there bavo so many
prayers offered for him Wo can trust
bini still." Then ut eight o'clock
for thoy retiro early in tim country-it
eight o'clock they kneel down and com
mend you to that God who watches in
country and in town, on tho land and
on thc sea.
Soin o ono said to a Grecian soldier :
"What was thc proudest moment of
your life?" Ile thought a moment,
and KU id :
Tl IK I'KOriMCST Id OM KN T
of uiy life was when I sont word homo
to my parents that I bad gained tho
victory." . And the proudest and most
brilliant moment in your lifo will bo
tho moment when you cnn send word
to your paronts in the country that you
bavo conquered your evil habits, by tho
grace of God, and become eternal victor.
Uh I dospiso not parental anxiety.
Tho (dino will como when you bayo
neither father nor mothor, and you will
go around tho placo where they used to
watch you, and find them gono from
thohouso, and gono from thc held, and
gono from tho neighborhood, Cry as
loud for forgiveness as you may over
tho mound in tho churchyard, they will
not answer.
I.H5AW ! DKAl) I
And then you will tako out tho white
lock of bair that was cut from your
mother's brow just beforo they burled
her, and you will tako tho cano with
which your father used to walk, and
yon will think and think, and wish that
you had dono justas they wanted you
to, and would glvo tho world if you
had never thrust a pang through their
dear old hearts. God pity tho young
man who bas brought disgrace on his
father's name. God pity ike yoting man
who has broken his mother's heart. Bet
ter If lid bad never been born-bc; ter if,
in tho first hour of his lifo, instead of
being laid against Hie warm bosom of
maternal tenderness, be bad been cof
fined and sepulchred. There is no
balm powerful enough to heal the
heart of one who has brought parents
to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders
about, through tho dismal cemetery,
rond lng tho hair and wringing thc
Hands, and crying : "Mothori niolberl"
Oh, that to-day, by all tho memories or
tho past, and by all tho hopes of the
future, you would yield your heart to
God. May your father's God and your
mother's (Jod be your ( Jod forever.
liKATINtt UOTllSCUIId).
A Porcelain Seryloo That Was Cheap'
nt. Any Price..
Among tho various admirable pro
ductions of taste which Ibo guests of
liaron Rothschild never fail (o admir?,
is a magnificent service of porcelain,
of singular beauty, elegance ot" shape
and finish, and remarkable for thc artis
tic richness of its paintings,. But the
way in which tho baron became pos
sessed of it is worth relating.
Ono day an old niau, careworn,
wrinkled, feeblo, and apparently tot
tering on tho verge of tho gravo, pre
sented himself before M. dc Rothschild,
soliciting tho honor of an interview
with tito famous banker. Tho aged
visitor took from his bag a rich and
beautiful platy, so splendidly wrought
thal, ibo baron admired it exceed bigly,
and became greatly de! I cd? led with it.
"Sir," said tho patriar. :' "will you
buy this of inc? L haw: .. whole set,.
and it has struck mo that a service so
beautiful cannot lind a moro titting
placo than in the mansion of tho prince
of lin a ne ie rs."
"It. is indeed very tine," said the
baron. "How much do you want tor
tho Sr-rviooV"
"Look you, sir," said tho old man
"I am bowed down with many yeats,
and liavo not long to Jive. 1 tim poor?
and wish to end my days in compara
tive comfort. Will, you in exchange for
this valuable set. of porcelain, give mo
an l?cumo for lifo of 10.? francs a
nioiitliV'^
Tho Ixiron looked afc tho poor man.
examined tho plato again, ana said:
"Well, bu it so; hero ts thu first pay
ment. Send mo tho service, and givo
mo your name. "
Tho splendid Sot of porcelain was de
livered tho saino day to tho baron, and
a month afterward while he was scated
in Iiis counting house, a man entered
and asked for tho second payment o
tho promised income. But tho man
was young, scarcely '?0 years of agc, of
a vigorous constitution and great mus
cular development, and looked us if bc
would live for a In. mired years.
"lint you aro not tho maul" exclaim
ed tho astonished banker.
"Excuso ino, baron," said ho, "1 am
indood tho man."
''BUt you appeared at least 80 yoars
oldi" said tho baron.
"I have wonderfully recovered," ob
soived tho man, "thanks to your gen
erosity. "
Tho baron laughed heartily, and gavo
orders for tho payment of tho money,
exclaiming:
"Ab, you aro an excellent comedian,
and bavo taken ino in thoroughly."
"I ara probably tho first who has done
so," replied tho dow, politely bowing to
tito millionaire.
Tniouic are some fond, foolish, twist
ing mon who will read over a recife foi
mince pie and thou think they really
know what it ls made of? .
GRAND MOUNT SHASTA,
A flkotoh of Tho Imposing Pilo.
Between tho grout pinos going up you
sec the religions domo of Mount Shasta,
Its snows and frowns so mixed that ono
views it nearly with superstition.
Shasta is ono of tho finest mountains
in Amor loa, a naked domo of rock,
gravel and perpetual snow, mudo by :\
volcano,, and having two sido pieces or
transepts, tho whole imus ctn liding up
in white and dun in crazy-quilt patches
of trianglos of snow and ovals of rocks
and slides of loam and gravel above n
skirt of Oregon pines, which aro of som
ber green, and seem theklrtloof a hugo,
muscular, naked man, wearing a clout
of green, as ho knools upon tho plateau
and surveys his brood of moundy peaks
oxlonding around him in an amphi
theater ot 100 miles.
There is but one Shasta, ;tnd ho is a
Sierra-one of tho bold rango beyond
tho Hookies, overlooking tho Orient
West. "Thoro is tho West; there is
Europe," says the statue of Thomas
Bonton at St. Louis, pointing at tho
samo time west.
Thoro is a county of California called
Shasta, and a rango ot' mountains be
tween tho Sacramento river and tho sea
ls called tho ?hasta range. It is only a
night's vide or a sleep of 319 miles be
tween San Francisco and Mount Shasts,
and in this ride you rise nearly MOO
feet to Sisson, in Strawberry valley,
from which Mount Shasta's peak is still
10,885 foot higher, or above the sea 14,
410 feet.
lt is 10,000 feet higher than tho Eick
Observatory on Mount Hamilton.
Tills is tho power of Mount Shasta
that it rises so grandly above overything
else-not Uko Pike's or (hay's, ono of a
largo family of mountains sitting around
tho whit? tablecloth of thc skies. It
seems tho highest when you aro at it,
and looks to ho inaccessible. Tho rail
road keeps winding around its base as a
wheelbarrow is guided around tho
stcoplos of a cathedral, lt Is moro than
twico tho height of Moiint Washington,
and is .seven-cightli3 of the height of
Mount Illano.
For 2000 feet thc snow slides ?trop
dpwn its sides, frequently turning rod.
Then for 4000 feet lower tho inorganic
mass stands like a vulcan amid his cin
ders. Next for 2000 feet oncamp tho
firs where once tho lava licked tho
world.
Yet it is only twelvo miles from Sis
son, oil t ho railroad, to Shasta's lop,
and women have ascended it, and pant
and grumble in tho deed less than mon.
lu four days Ibero was carried up by
while men and Indians a copper monti
ment weighing tfOOO pounds, which can
be seen 100 miles away. Hut no signal
olllcer can Jive on Shasta's top. Its
pimplos, 1500 feet high, aro Uko tho
warts on Cromwell's bead when
Wnra Uko ?lotld? Hint riso tlg;diiqt tho $uii,
Uni nm ko liitu (jroaiersooiiir-hol grislier groin*.
As I passed Shasta a great white
Cloud was trailing from lt like a pen
non, called the "snow-banner of
Shasta." lt was a palpitating, cloud
like wild bird, failing for breath as it
Hew, and holding tiptoe to tho peak,
with its feet in snowdrifts, while its
plumage blew outward and away, y
There J? a bulto, or mountain hump,
near Shasta ?5U0 feet high, but tho
snows, like virgin belles at court, dis
dain to coquet with It and keep all their
llakia for Shasta. It, too, is a line and
stuck-up thing, quito solitary, but tin
minors call it only Shasta bullo, as tl
actors called Mr. Greene, when ho cor
pared himself lo Shakespeare, Shak
peale's call-boy. Coming up to Shas
from the south by tin; tortuous can
of tho Sacramento, you seo tho
mountain vaguely, yet tromeinj
but going from lt northward, as tj
coinollvo turns oflon to seo it, if
stands out naked as before bold
the domesticity of the heavons,
turage plains of tho Kiamal!
lng below bini like a coverh
away
'riic Alps too of ten hide in
ing dows of Lombardy; bul
set in a sky as limpid as tho bl
eye ol' a babe.
How still it is, with that, g
mistakable scar of orator, a m
half wide, telling whore boll el iii
amt vomited its blood and Hamel
cr drunkenly for some spasms o
ands of years I Wo lia ve resol \'
Indi is not, but Ibero is ShUSt]
somewhere must bo tire.
Glorious relic of a time wh
was not and Pan was playing \!
tools of V tilean. tho molten
Shasta ran away, spilling wost;
to a range of mountains, eacj
ing up to bo Uko Shasta's
making only lame miniatures]
WlDATJIBl.
Simple Forecasts a?
Scrvico itu
Thoro is an im mo ,
woathor wisdom in tho C-J
sure you that yoti canncV
farmer anywhere who do\
eyo at tho clouds, or tho \jt
where and prophesy wha"
shall have fbi-tho uox
bouts. I only lack patiei
who seek to prognosticator
for weeks and months nlkU\
silly signs, or no signs at all,*,
tablish their reputations asr'.
Weathor wisdom should bo 8orJf*j
carefully encouraged ; for tOJ
twelve hours ahead whether
storm or cloar weather, ls a
thousands of dollars in thc
singlo town. It is.by ni
science of cunning guessj
aro signs abundant that,
careful observer, Hoi;
forecast which I havej
and have verified:
der clouds, expect a
aro banked to tho
peet rain; to tho sc
rain it it bo summcj
"Watching anima]
good way of pi
electric souse, poad
makes thom apprl
before its appoarail
siblo electric and af
that causo physic/
will hollow, an?
Hons will oil theil
uneasiness. Cat.c
grass freely. SI
frisky, and chastl
will strolch then!
fenco corners or
ble. Peacocks
fowl sqawk won
general state of
servablo in tho pd
barns. Farmer/
and learn to
ingly.
Birds aro cvj
tho weather,
boforo a storij
proportionate
pressuro neal
up a tembl? 1
landward, nhl
Swallows ski!
Cro ivs aro nof
pr|nk thomsei
era. Cranes/
under their,
toms ate tl]
restlessness^
low Hying il
Insects ail
but they al
pointers,
found, howj
fashioned
.study of
Swarms ol
When spl
wind in if
If spiderj
big a til
morning^
oral, .spidj
Weather,
Indicate bj
break upj
from liol
If they
storm
rail
Uo Stinted.
A rag-i>ediller, who wi
Gratiot avenue recently,
Hastings street wlion his ht]
Tho usual number of smart.
soon on hand with their
ono suggestion after nhothoj
in vain. Tho horse cou!
pulled nor pushed, and asl
ading tra thc. the crowd bj
very rapidly.
.'What is lt?" Jnqj
twelve, who pushed lj
circlo.
"Hillky horse," uni
"Where's tho ovi
I man, can't you start/
"No, he doun' Kt/
''Wait a minute
The. Ind ran up
and pulled a ha
balo ut a iced
turned ho eleni
the hor.se, stood
extended his hs
up his ems, h if
once advance/
around tho et,
"lt's accoil
ed tho bo j
"When a
ll re-crack ci
who is fe
roof balk
nil over
Accoi
nu inst!
polsorj
rid ol
groj
wu
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