The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, August 08, 1888, Image 3

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DR. TALMA GE'S SERMON: Nono lille o Jesus, "Unto you theroforo which beliovo, Ho is >rcolou8."-1 Pot. 217. , AV is had for many yours In this coun try commercial depression. "What was i he inattvi with cho Btoros'f With tho .jarvests? With tho pooplo? Lack of faith! Monoy enough, goods enough, (skilful brains enough, industrious hands Miough, but no faith. 17ow.what dam jigos tho commorclal world, damages ',ho spiritual. OUll G lt KAT LACK s faith. That is tho hlngoi on which eternity turns. Tho Blblo says we are saved by faith. "O," says some one lu the audience, UI have faith. I hollovo that Christ carno down to save tho world.?' I roply that in worldly natters, whenjou have.faith you al ways act upon it. For instance, if I ;ould show you a business operation by which you could make livo thousand dollars, you would immediately go into lt. You would provo your faith in what I tell you by your prompt and untnediato action. Now, if what you call faith in Christ has lod you to sur render your entire nature to Jesus and to corresponding action in your lifo, it is gonulno faith, and if it has not, it is not faith at all. There aro somo things which 1 bo llevo with the hoad. Thou thero aro other things which 1 boliovo with tho hoart. And thou thero aro other things which 1 behove both with tho head and heurt. I beliovo, for instance, thal Cromwell lived. That is a matter of the bead. Thou thoro aro other things which I beliovo with tho heart and not with tho bead. That is, 1 have no es pecial reason for believing thom, and yet I want to boliovo thom, and tho wish is tho father to tho expectation, lint there is a very great difference be tween that which wo believe about our selves, and that which wo believe about othors. For instaneo, you remember not a great while ago thoro was A DIS AST KU IN PENNSYLVANIA, amid tho mines; there was an oxplosion timid the damps, and many lives wero lost. In tho morning you picked up your newspaper, and saw that thoro lind been a gloat disaster in Pennsyl vania. You said: "Ali, what asad thing this is; how many lives lost! C, what sorrow!" Thou you read a little further on. Thero had been an almost miraculous effort lo got those men, out, and a few had been saved. "O," you said, "what a bravo thing, what tv grand thing that wasl How wall it was donol" Then you folded tho paper up, und sat down to your morning re past. Your appetite had not been in terfered with, and during that day, per haps, you thought only two or three times of tho disaster. But suppose you and I had been in tho mino, and tho dying h ad been all around us, and we had heard the pick axes just above us as they were trying to work their way down, and after a whilo wo saw tho light, and thou tho life-bucket let down through the shaft, and, suffocated and half dead, wo had just strength enough to throw our selves ovor into it, and had boon hauled out iuto the light. Thou what an ap preciation we would havo had of tho agony and tho darkness beneath, and the joy of deliverance. That ls tho difference between behoving a tldng about others and behoving lt about our selves. Wo keep up tho Bible and read that Christ came to save tho world. "That was beautiful," you say, "a fine speci men. o?^ pelf-donial. 4 That was very grana indeed;'? But suppose it is found that we ourselves wore down IN THE 311NK OF SIN and in tho darkness, and Christ stretch ed down His arm of mercy through tho gloom and lifted us out of tho pit, and eot our foot ou tho Bock of Ages, and put a now song into our mouth: O, tlion it is a mattor of handclapping; lt is a matter of congratulation; it is a mattor of deep emotions, Which kind of faith have you, my brother? lt is faith that makes a Christian, and it is tho proportion of faith that makes the difference bctwecnChristinns. What was it that lifted Paul and Luther and Payson and P/oddridgo abovo the ordinary lovol of Christian character? It was tho simplicity, tho brilliancy, the power, and tho splendor of their faith. O, that wo had moro of itl Cod give us moro faith to preach and more faith to hear. "Lord, wo believe; help Thou our unbelief !" "To you which believe, Ho is precious." First: 1 remark Christ is precious to the beliovor, AS A SAVIOUR FROM SIN. A man says: "To whom are you talk ing? I am ono of tho most respectable mon in this neighborhood: do you call 310 a shiner?" Yes! "The heart is eceilf ul abovo all things and desperate ly wicked." You say: "How do you know anything about my heart?" 1 know that about it, for (rod announces it in His Work; and what God says is always right. When amain boeomes a Christian, people say: "That man sets himself above us." O, no! Instoad of sotting himself up, ho throws him self down. Ho cries out: "I was lost onco, but now I sec. I prostrate my self at tho foot of tho cross ot tho Saviour's mercy." What a grand thing it is to feel that nil tho bad words 1 havo over uttered, and till tho bad deeds 1 h?vo dono, and all tho bad thoughts that havo gone through my mind, aro as though they had nover been, for tho sako of what Christ has done. You know thero is a difference in stains. Somo can be washed ,out by water, but others ro quiro a chemical preparation; Tho sin of tho heart is so black and indelible a mark that no human application can ciennso it, while tho blood of Jesus Christ can wash it out for ever, ?, tho infinito, the OMNIPOTENT CHEMISTRY of this glorious gospel! Some man says: "I beliovo all that. 1 boliovo God lias forgiven tho most of my sins, but thero is ono sin 1 cannot forgot." What is it? I do not want to know what it is, but I take tho responsibility of saying that God will forgive it as willingly ns any other sin. "O'er sins like mountains for their size, The sens of sovereign ginee expnml, Tlio sens of sovereign gruco urlso." There was a very good man, about soventy-flvo years of age, that onco said: "I boliovo that (Jod lias forgivon mo, but thoro was ono sin which I commit ted whon I waty about twenty years of ago that I NEVEU FOR?AVE MYSELF for, and I can't fool happy when! think of it." Ho said that ono sin somotlmos carno ovor bis hoart, and blotted out all his hopo of heaven. Why, ho lacked in' faith. The graco that can forglvo a small, sin cp.n forgive a largo sin. Mighty to savol Mighty to save I Who is tho God like unto our God, that par donoth Iniquity ? 0, what Jesus ls to tko soul that hollows in Hind Tho soul looks up into Christ's fuco, and says: "To what oxtond wilt Thou forgive mo?" And Josus looks back into Ids fuco, und says: "To tho uttermost." Tho soul says: "Will it novor bo brought up again?" "Novor," says Christ. "Won't it bc brought up Again In JudguiontDay?" "No," says Christ, "novor in tho Judguaont Day." What broad is to tho hungry, what harbor is to tho bostormed, what light ls to tho blind, what liberty is to tho captive, that, and moro than that, ls Christ to tho man who trusts Him.' Just try to got Christ away from that Christian. Put on that man tho thumb' scrow. Twist it until tho bones crack. Tut that foot into the iron boot ol' per secution until lt is mashed to a pulp. Stretch that man on tho rack of tho inquisition, and, louder than all tho up roar of tho persecutors, you will hear Ids voico Uko tho voice of Alexander Lo Croix abovo tho crackling faggots as ho cried out: "O, Josus! O, un blessed Josus! O, divino Josus! who would not dio for Theo?" Again: I remark that Christ is precious to Clio believer, AS A vu I UNI). You havo commercial friends und you have family friends. To tho commer cial friend you go whon you havo busi ness troubles. You can look back to aomo day-lt may havo beon ten or twelvo yours ago-when, if you had not that friond, you would havo been on tiroly overthrown in businoss. But I want to toll you this morning bf Josus, thc best business friend u man ovor had, Ho can pull you out of tho worst por ploxitics. Thoro aro pcoplo in this audience who havo got in tho habit of putting down all their worldly troublos at tho feet of Jesus. Why, Christ nicols tho business man on tho street and says: "O, business irvin, I know all thy troublos. I will bo with thee. I will seo theo through." Look out how you try lo corner or trample on a man who is bached np by tho Lord God Almighty! Look out how you tramplo on bimi O, thoro is a financier that many of our business men havo not found out. Christ owns all tho boards of trade, all tho insuranco companies, and all tho banking houses. They say that tho Vandorbills own tho railroads; but Christ owns tho Vandorbills and the railroads, and all tho plottings ol slock gamblers shall bo put to confusion, and Cod with His littlo (ingor shall wipe out thClr infamous projects. How often it bas benn that wo hayo seen men gather up riches by fraud, In a pyramid of strength and beauty, and tho Lord caine and blow on it and it was gone; whilo there aro those boro to-day who, if they could speak out in this assem blage, or dared to speak out, would say: "Tho host friond iliad in 1837; tho best friend I had In 1857; tho boat friond I bad at tho opening o? tho war; tho best friond I over had-has been tho Lord Josus Christ. I would rather give up all other frionds than this one." But wo haye also FAMILY KKIKNDS. Tliey como In whon wo hayo sickness in tho iiouseiiold. Perhaps they say noth ing; but they sit down and thoy wcop as tho light goes out from tho bright oyes, and tho whlto polals of the lily aro scattered tn tho blast of doath. Thoy watch through tho long night by tho dying couch, und then, when tho spirit has gone, sootho you with great com fort. Thoy say: "Don't cry. Josus pities you, All is well. You will meet tho lost ono again." Thon, w'bon your son went off, breaking your heart, did thoy not como and put tho story in tho Yory best shape, und prophosy tho return of tho prodigal? Woro thoy not in your houso when the birth angel Hap ped its wings ovor your dwelling? And they have beon Ibero at tho baptisms and at tho weddings. Family friends! But 1 havo to loll you that, Christ is tho best family friond. O, blessed is that cradle over which Jesus bonds! Blossed is that nursery whoro Josus walks! Blessod is that sick brow from which Josus wipes the dampness! Blossed is that labio where Jesus breaks tho broad! Blessod is that gravo whoro Josus stands with his scarred feet on tho upturnod sod, saying: "1 am tho Resurrection and tho Life; ho that bcliovoth in Mo, though ho were dead, yet shall bo llvo!" Havo you a bilbo in tho houso? put it into Ibo arms of 'rilH Q lt KAT CIUI.IJ-l.OVKU. Is there a sick ono in tho house? Think of Him who said, "Damsel, arise." Aro you afraid you will como to want? Think of Him who fed tho fivo thou sand. Is thoro a lillie ono in your house that you arc afraid will bo blind or deaf or lamo? Think of Him who touched tho blinded oyo, and snatchod back tho boy from epileptic convulsion. Oh, ho is the best friond. Look ovor your family friends to-day, and find another that can be compared to Him. When wo want our friends, thoy aro sometimes out of town. Christ is in town. Wo find that aomo will stick lo us iii prosperity who will not in adver sity. But Christ comes through dark est night, and amid ghastliest sorrow, and accross roughest sea to comfort you. Thoro aro mon and women hero who would hayo been dead twenty years ago but for Jesus. Thoy havo gone through trial onough lo exhaust ten times their physical strength. Their property went, their health went, their families woro scattered. Cod only knows what thoy suffered. Thoy aro an ama/.omont to 'themselves that they havo bcon ablo lo stand it. Thoy look at their onco happy homo, surrounded by all comfort. Cone! They think of tho timo when thoy used ;o riso strong in tho morning, and walk vigorously down Hie street, and bad oxperlonccd a health they thought inexhaustible. Gonel Every thing gono but Jesus. UK HAS PITIED TU KM. His oyo has watched thom, lils omnipo tence has dofonded thom. Yes. Ho has been with them. Thoy havo gono through disaster, and Ho was a pillar of bro by night, Thoy have gono across stormy Galileo, but Christ had his foot on tho neck of tho storm. Thoy felt tho wavos of trouble coming up around thom gradually, and thoy bogan to climb into tho strong rock of God's de fonco, and thou they sang, as thoy look ed over tho waters, "God is our ref ugo and strongth, an ovor-prcsont holp in timo ot troublo; thoroforo wo will not foar though tho earth bo romovod, though tho mountains bo carried into tho midst of tho son, though tho moun tains shako with tho swelling thoroof. Tho othor day thoro was a sailor who came into thc Bethel in Now York, and said: "My lads (ho was standing among sailors), I don't know whaVs tho matter of me. I usod to hoar a good deal about rollgion, and about Josus Christ. I don't know that I havo any rollgion, or that I know anything much about Christ; but whon I was in mld-Atlantlc I looked up ono day through tho rig ging, undv thoro seemed to como light through my soul. I havo folt different i ?? "'"I ','WV 'V, ' ?'.?"<< ?V\'?W .' ' " N . . .',< ;. 'V . ..:. , .". . . QYor since, and I love thoso that I onco hated, and I iool a Joy ? can't toll you. I really don't knew what is tho mattor of me." A rough sailor ?ot up, and said, "My lad, I know what's the matter of you. You havo found Jesus. It is enough to make any man happy." "Ills worth If all tho nations know, B?ro tho whoto earth would lo", o Ulm too." I remark again; Christ is prooious to tho hohovor, as A FINAL DKLIVEUEIt. You and I must after awhllo get out or this world. lloro and there ono per haps may como on to oighty, to ninety yours of age, hut your common sonso tells you that tho next twenty-fivo years will land tho majority of this audience m eternity. Tho next ton ' years will thin out tv groat many of thoso family circles. This day may do tho work for somo of us. Now why do I say this? To seato you? No; but just as 1 would stand in your olllco, if I woro a business man, and you whoro a business man, and talk ovor risks. You do not con sider it cowardly to talk in you storo ovor temporal risks. Is lt baso In tts this morning to talk a little while ovor tho risks of tho soul, that aro for eternity? In ovcry congregation Death has the last year boon doing a great deal of work. Where is your father? Whoro is your mothor? Your child? Your brothor? Your sister? O, cruel doos Death seem to bel Will ho pluck every dower? Will ho poison every fountain? Will ho put black on ovory door-knob? Will ho snap ovcry hoart-string? Can I keep nothing? Aro thero no charmed woapons with which to go out and con tend against bim? Givo mo somo keon sword, sharpened in (.Jud's armory, with which 1 may stab him through. G?YO mo somo battlo-axo that 1 may clutch it. and hew him from helmet to sandal. Thank God, thank God, that ho that rldoth on tho palo horso hath moro than a match In Him who rldoth on tho white norse, St. John heard tho contest, the pawing of tho steeds, tho rush, tho bat tle-cry, tho onsot, until tho palo horse canto down on his haunches, and his vidor bit tho dust, whllo Christ, tho conqueror, with uplifted voice declared it: "O death, I will ho thy plague; O gravo, f will'b? thy destruction." Tho sepulchre is A LIGHTED CAST-MS on tho shore or hoavonly seas, and sen tinal angels walk up and down at tho door to guard lt, Tho dust and tho dampness of tho gravo aro only tho spray of tho white surf of colostial seas, and tho long breathing of tho dying Chris tian, that you call his gasping, is only tho long inhalation of tho air of heaven, O, bless God for what elit ist is to tho Christian soul, hero and hereafter! 1 heard a man say, somo tl ino ago, that they nover laugh tn heaven. I do not know where ho got his authority for that. I think they do laugh in heaven. Whon victors como homo, do wo not laugh? Whon fortunes aro won in a day, do wo not laugh? After wo havo boon ten or tlfteon years away from our friends, and wo greet thom again, do wo not laugh? Yo?, WK WILL LAUGH IN U1?AVEN. Not hollow laughter nor meaningless laughter, but a full, round, clear, deep, resonant outbreak of eternal gladness. Uh, tho gleo of that moment when wo first seo Jesusl I think wo will tako tho hist two or th roo years iii beaven to look at Jesus; and if, in ton thousand years, there should bo a moment when tho doxology paused, ten thousand souls would' cry ont: "Sing! Singl" and when tho cry was, "What shall wo sing?" tho answer would bo, "Jesusl Jesusl" Oh, you may have all the crowns in heavon! I do not caro se much about thom. You may have , all tho robos in heaven; I do not caro so much about thom. You may havo all tho sceptres in heaven; I do dot care so much about thom. You may have all the thrones in boa von; I do not caro so much about thom. But glvo mo Jesus -that is onougli heaven for mo. Oh, Jesusl I long to seo Theo, thou '-chief among ton thousand, tho Ono altogothei lovely." Thoro may bo somo hore who have como, hardly knowing why they como. Perhaps it was as in Paul's time-yon havo como to hear what this babble) sayoth; but I am glad to meet you face to face, and to striko hands with you ir i ono earnest -talk about your deathles; I spirit. Do you know, my friend that ! this world is not good onough for youi lt cheats. It fades, lttlios. You art immortal. 1 seo it In tho doathloss spirit looking out from your oyo. lt is a mighty spirit, lt is an immorta spirit. It beats against tho window ol tho cago. leoine out to feed it. Dur tho past week tho world has been try ing to feod it with husks. . I como oui this morning to feed it with that brent of which it a mau cat ho will uovot h ti ngor. WHAT II AS THU WOULD DONK for you? Ifas it not bruised you? Ha it not botrayed you? Has it not mal treated you? Look mo in tho oyo, im mortal man, and toll mo If that is no so. And yet, will you trust it? Ohl wish that yon could forgot mo, tho woal and sinful man-that I might van isl from your sight this morning, and tba Jesus might como hil Aye, Ho como hero this morning to picul for your sou -comos in all covored with thc wound of Calvary. Ho says, "O, immorta man! I died for theo. I pity theo. . como to save theo. With theso hands torn and crushed, I will lift theo ti] into pleasures that nover dio." Win will reject-who will drive Him back? When Christ was slain on tho cross they had a cross, and they had nails and they had hainmors. You crucif; by your sin, O imponitontsoull tho Lor! Jesus Christ. Hero ls a cross; bu whoro aro tho nails? Whoro aro th hammers? "Ah," says somo ono rc jeeting Christ, somo ono standing a lon* way off, "I will furnish tho nails, don't beliovo In that JOSHS. I wi! furnish tho nails." Now wc havo tb nails, who will furnish tho hammers "Ab," says some heard heart, "I wll furnish tho hammers, Wo have n spears? "Ah," says some oro long I; the habit of sin and rejection ot Christ' mercy, "I will furnish thom." Noi wo havo all tho instruments: the cross the nails tho hammers, tho spears: am ! tho crucifixion goos on. Oh, tho dark 1 nossl Oh, tho pungi Oh. tho toa rsl Oh tho d??thl "Bohold tho Lamb of God that takoth away thosinsof tho world I' Lord JOSHS HELP THAT MAN. Ho sits far back to-day. Ho does nc liko to como forward. Ho fools strang In a religious assemblage. Ho think perhaps wo do not want him. < Jesus, tako that trembling hand. Pu thino ear to that agitated heart, an hear how it beats. O, lift the iron gat of that prlson-houso, and lot that ma go froo. Lord Jesus, help that woman. Sf: is a wanderer. No tears can she weet ) .L Soo Lord Josus, that polluted soul, seo that bllstorod footl . No ohuroh for hor. No good cheor for hor. No hope for hor. Lord Jesus, go lo that soul. Thou wilt not stone her. Lot the rod-hot chain, that bums to the bono till tho bloody ichor hisses in tho neat, snap al Thy touch. O, hayo morey on Mary Magd alono 1 V**S ' Lord Josus, holp that young mani Ho took money out of his employer's till. Didst Thou seo it? Tho clerks (vero all gone. Tho lights wore down. Tho shutters woro up. Didst Thou seo it? O, lot him not fall into tho pit. Homomborest Thou not bis mother's prnyors? Sho can pray for bim no moro. Lord Josus, touch him on tho shoulder. Touoh bim on tho heart. Lord, savo that young mani Thoro aro many young mon hero. I GOT A ?KTT1SK from ono of thom who ls probably hero to.day, and 1 shall lvovo no othor Oppor tunity of answering that loller. You say you believe lu mo. O, do you bc liovo in Josus? 1 cannot savo you, my dour brother. Christ can. Ho. wants and waits to savo you, and ito comes to-day to savo you. Will you havollim? I do not know what our young mon do without Christ-how they got on amid all tho temptations and trials to which thoy aro subjected. O, young men, como lo Christ to-day, and put your soul and your Interest for this life, and for tho noxt, into lils keeping. In oldon times, you know, a cup-bearer would bring wino or water to tho king, who would drink it, tirst tasting it him self, showing that thoro was no poison iii it, then passing it to tho king, who would drink it. Tho highest honor 1 ask ls thal 1 may bo cup-boaror to-day to your soul. 1 bring you tidewater of everlasting lifo. I hayo boon drinking of lt. Thoro ia no poison in it. It has noYor dono mo any harm. It will do you no harm. O, drink it, and llvo forever. And lot that agod man put his head down on tho staff, and let that poor widowed soul bury her worried faco in hor handkerchief, and these little children fold tho bands iii prayer, while wo commend you to Him who was wounded for your transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; for to you which bo)love, Ho is precious..' -.>--i-^ GARIBALDI'S OIJD HOM 10. Desorption of tho Kaltau '"patriot's llouso at Caprcra. Tho chior ontrauce at Garibaldi's old homo at Caprora leads directly into tho kitchen. A few bare robins with white crested walls join it, and in somo of thom beds have beou put up for Garibaldi's family. In the garden grow only rod Howers; lt looks as If a bloody dow had fallon from tho sky. Through the yard the rooms are reached which Garibaldi inhabited to the last. In the little ante-room port raits of Nullo and the two Caireles who fell at the Vitia Gloria, and n steel engraving of the Prince of "Wales hang on tho walls. All have dtfforout frames; tho glass of some of them ls broken. There Is also a miserable lit tle oil painting representing Italia thrusting her dagger Into tho heart of the Popo. In tho small library tho fo.w books of tho man who bad not read uj.ttch stands on two old, rickety bookcases. Some of tho books are turned upside dowu, and there Is no attempt at arranging thom. Most of tho books aro English, among thom Cobdon's works and many English translations of Italian books. A volume of Petosi'a poems translated luto English attracts atten tion by its worm binding^ M next'to it stands-curious and characteristic of tho boro of bloody battles with the child-like heart-"Paul ot Virginie." Manya volume on agriculture abd "La Roumaine Economique" shoSv that Garibaldi was also a studont bf econ omic questions. On tho shelf, covered with dust and cobwebs, lio tho printed parliamentary papers. Prom tho library you enter tho sanctum of the houso, the room in 1 which, on June 2,1882, Garibaldi died at tho age of soventy-Qve; near the window stands the poor camp-bed, as lt stood at tho moment of his death. From lt ne could seo bis beloved soa and the coast of Corsica. Tho parish of Llvorno has put a simple bronze railing round the bed. Wroatbs He on the coverlet. One of thom bears tho inscription: "Tho Italian Free Masons to Their Grand Mtuter." On a round tablo in the midst of the room aro th reo books, Dante's "Divine Comedy," an album with the photo graphs of tho "Thousand," and Mi dland's "Crusados," with Dore's Illus trations. The walls aro covorod with many wreaths and pictures, among thom the portraits of Garibaldi's mother and youngost ohlldron. An unevon path leads through the high room to tho placo which Gari baldi bad himself solocted for the cre mation of his body. On two groat granito blocks ho had built ibo funeral pilo which should consume bis mortal remains. Tho Y?OW from tills placo is magnillcont, over tho rough mountains of Sardinia, tho little cliffs aid islands, which, yellow as gold, rise out of tho dark-bluo sea and over the Corsican hills. To bo bumed at this plato was his last wish. The sons, who are not like their father, have left this wish unful filled. Garibaldi's gravo is ac tho place whore his two daughters lue burled, only nearer tho sea, and in a copso of yow treo3. His monument ls a large rough block of granite, with only bis hame ongravod into lt. At this gravo tho pilgrims from all parts o? Italy as sembled; and tho odgos of the banners of all those who fight for truth and light touched tho "holy grave." Knglish Sparrow Ingenuity. At tho city of Lafayetto, two sum mers ago, somo boys, iii flying a kito, dropped lt accidentally ovor ti telegraph wiro, whence tho string hung sovoral foot in mid-air. A femab sparrow covoted tho string to weavo into ber nest. Sho pecked at it sovor&l times, on tho wing, unsuccessfully, and at last succoeded in getting ono foot and log ontangled. It proved to be a painful and precarious situation. In vain sho lluttorod and triod toosoapo. Her calls woro soon answorcd by nosily a hun dred sparrows, which sat In rows, chirp ing, occasionally flying down to tho im? prisoned bird noar onough to catch tho situation. At longth, as if by prccon cortod arrangement, thoy startod in a clrclo round tho imprisoned bird. Each bird, with tho certainty of a well aimod-arrow, nlppod tho string with its bill, Finally tho string parted sudden ly. She flow to an adjoining building, whoro hor mates and borsolf soon loos ened tho obnoxious string, and sho flow with it to hor nost. A Hannibal, Mo., man claims to have soon a leopard walking on tho railroad traok near that city tho other dav ?'HM THKOItY OP BLTUOl'. I'rofossor- boo Errera Givoa ? Ilosumo of Homo Points, In nu address to t?o Anthropological society of Brussols, Professor Leo Error? luis given a rosumo of souio points In tho chemical theory of sloop. Tho phenomena of sloop havo In com mon with other Yltal functions tho oharaotor of periodicity. An examina tion of such periodic functions in gen oral may aid in ascertaining tho cause of sloop. Tho respiratory rhythm is regulated by tho amount of oxygon and carbonic acid In tho arterial blood. When tho blood ls charged with oxy gon tho respiratory conter momentarily suspends activity; but soon tho tissues yiold tholr oxygon to tho blood, havo it replaced by carbonic acid, and tho blood tims modified acts as an oxcitant to tho respiratory conloi*. Rauke has shown that tho fatiguo and recovery of muscles is duo to a similar alternation of tho accumulation and discharge of certain "fatiguing substances," chief among which is lactic acid.' An injec tion of this'acid Into fresh muscio ren ders it iucapablo of work; washing tho acid out res toros tho activity. Cannot sloop bo explained by a simi lar chomical theory? Prover has ox tended tho views of Bin/., Oborstoiner and othors (who all agreo in making the accumulation of certain products of fatigue-ermudungsstoffo-tho cause of sleep) by calling all such fatiguing pro ducts of activity "ponogous." These accumulate in waking lifo, aro readily oxidioablo, and absorb tho oxygon in tended for glands, muscles and nerve centers until action is impossible and sloop sots iii. Gradually tho ponogens aro destroyed by oxidation, slight exci tation is sufUcicut to arouso tho con tors, and waking lifo begins. Among the pon?goiis Prover counts lac tic acid as tho chief, but tho experimental de monstration of this has been unsuccess ful, and tho theory, accordingly, not generally adoplod. Sinea theso researches Armand Gau tier has found in tho human body a series of llvo organic bases akin to croa lino, Creatinine and exanthino, and calls thom "loucomninus" und *. ptom aines," Tho physiological properties of theso substances aro narcotic, fatigu ing and sometimes lead to vomiting. This ls just what tho chemical theory requires. The periodicity of sleep would bo explained by tho conservation of energy being applicable to all bodily activity; work must bo followed by io pair; lifo is a slow suicide. There is, moreover, reason to believe that tho ac tion of theso loucomaines is a direct ono upon tho brain; it is a direct intoxica tion of tho brain centers. A theory of sleep must take account of tinco factors - work, fatiguo and sloop. Tho chemical theory satisfies theso demands. All work, muscular or cerebral, produces wasto products. Theso accumulate, mako work moro and moro dilllcult; those is fatiguo. As tho process continues, tho wasto pro ducts, notably tho loucomaines, intoxi cate tho higher nervo centers (just as a dose of morphine does), and render thom iucapablo of action; that is sleep. 1 Tho picture is, however, much moro complex. Thoro is a constant struggle against tho fatiguo, which for a timo, by dint of hard work shown in increas ed secretions and so on, may succeed. Wo probably nover arrive at tho ex tremo limit of work; tho sensation of faflguo intervenes to provont'such a disaster. Patigue, as is well known, may ex tend from muscio lo norve, and from norvo to nervo center. Wo may bo very tired from repeatedly lifting a woiglit, and not bo sleep, aud may bo gonorally sleepy without any consider able local fatiguo. Ono is peripheral, the other central. As the waste pro ducts accumulate In tho centers, mo tion and sensation become moro and moro sluggish, until tho time coinda when tho ordinary stimulation no long er arouses thom, and wo sleop. Part ial sleep can bo similarly explained. 'IV io centers go to sleep in a hierarchical or der, tho highest serving tho most deli cate function going first. In waking, tho ro verso is tho case; tho minor cen ters may bo asleop while tho Intellectual centers aro awake. In 'somnambulism Hie latter may be asleop whilo tho form er aro awako. Thc dopth of sleop, according to t his theory, ought to be proportional lo ino number of cortical molecules iii com bination with tho loucomaines. In tho beginning of sleop theso aro abundant, tho corebral colls inactive, and a com bination easy. Tho sleep ls deop. Soon tho maximum number of combin ations is reached and sleop is deepest. Prom boro on, tho loucomaines aro gradually eliminated and destroyed, and sleep should decreaso willi a de creasing intensity. Kohlscliluttor's ex periments on tho intensity of sloop, as tested by tho noiso necessary to awako tho patient, gives tho curvo for tho in tensity ot' sloop corresponding to what wo should oxpect by our thoory. Vari ations in our sleep, caused by an oxcess or work, otc, aro ovldontly similarly explicable In short, fatigue is a poison for which sleep is tho normal antidote This theory maintains (1) that tho activity of all tho tissuos (and primarily of tho two most activo, tho nervous and muscular) glvos riso to substances moro or less allied to alkaloids, tho leuco maines; (2) that theso induce fatiguo and sleep; (3) that on waking, if tho body is rested, theso substances havo disappeared. --.-. > * Col. Lamont on Advertising. PiVor sinco his return from Plodda, Col. Lahiont has been entertaining his friends willi alligators stories which have a decidedly classic flavor about thom, Thc latest, 1 understand, sorves to illustrato tho powers of judicious ad vertising. Tho colonel beard of a family in Florida who had lost their little boy, and had advertised for him in tho daily paper. That very aftornoon an alligat or crawled out of tho swamp and dlod on their frontdoor slop. In his stomach was found a handful of red hair, sorno bono buttons, a glass marblo, a pair of checked trousers and a paper collar. Tlio colonol vows that advortlslng did it. Sylvia Dubois of -Now Jorsoy is 120 years old and not yot tired of living. A medical opinion is that if consump tion was eradicated from cattle it would soon disappear from tho human race. Elvo por cont of English cattlo havo tuberculosis, and 20 por cent of some herds of tho United States aro said to bo affected. ./In elastic mucilago ls mado as fol lows : To 20 parts of alcohol add ono part of salicylic acid 3 parts of soft soap and 3 parts of glycerine. Shake well, and then, add a mucilago made of 03 parts of gum arabic and 180 parts or wator. This is said to keep woll and to be thoroughly olasMc. ?coca IO YES O** TH'M MOE. titructuros Whoso Comploxtty 1? OIT moult of Comprohonslou* Any one who will take the trouble to examine with a lens tho head of a bee will seo on either side the large round ed eompouud eye, und on tho forohead or vertex three bright llttlo simple eyes. Tho latter aro, as tholr name implies, oomparltlvely simple In struoture, each with a singlo lens. But the compound eyes bave a eomplox struoture. Exter nally tho surface is aeon to be divided up into a great numbor of hexagonal areas, each of whioh IB oalled a facet, and forms a littlo lons. Of these the queen hoe bas on eaoh side nearly. 6,000 tho worker some 0,000 and the drone upward of 12,000. Beneath each facet, ls a crystalline cono, a so-called nervo rod, and other structures, too eomplox to be here doscrlbed, which pass inward toward the brain. It will be aeon, then that the so called compound eye with j its thousands of facets, its thousands of crystalline cones, Its thousands of "nervo rods" and othor elements Is a struoture of no littlo complexity. The question now arises: Is it ono struc ture or many Y Is it an eye or nu ag gregate of eyes. To this question tho older naturalists answored confidently -an aggregate. And a slmplo experi ment seems to warrant this conclusion. Tilget quoted in Goldsmith's "Anima ted Nature'? adapted the facets ot tho eye of a fl-pardon me, fair reader, of a aphttniptorous Insect of the genus Pu lex- so as to seo objects through it under tho microscope. "A soldier who was thus soon appeared Uko an army of pigmies, for whilo It multiplied lt also diminished the object; tho arch of a bridge exhibited a spectacle more magnificent than human skill could perform, and tho Hame of a candi? seemed tho illumination of thousands of lamps." Although Cheshire, in lils book on the bee, adopts this view and supports it by reference to a similar ex periment, it numbers to-day but few supporters. Ono Is tempted to marvel at tho ability of the drone to co-ordi nate 24,000 separato images into a sin gle distinct object. Picture tko con fusion of imagos of one who had sipped too freely of tho sweet but de lusive dregs of tho punch bowll Undor similar circumstances human folks aro reported to soe double. Think of the appalling condition of au Inebriate dronol Thoso who boll?ve tho facetted oyo to be one organ with many parts, contend that each facet and Its under lying structures give, not a complete imago of the external object as a whole but the bungo of a single point of that object. Thus thoro is formed, by tho Juxtaposition of contiguous points a stippled imago or nn image lu mosaic. Hence this view is known as Muller's mosaic hypothesis. Lowno bas experi mented with fine glass threads arrang ed Uko the cones and norve rods of tho bee's oye, and finds that (oven when they aro not surrounded by pigment, a's aro the elements lu an inseot's eye) all oblique rays are got rid of by nu merous reflections and the interference due to the different lengths of the rays. .'Some modification ot the mos?lo hy pothesis is now generally adopted, and Dr. Hickson has recently worked out with groat care the structure of the optic tract whioh lies between the crystalline cones and tho brain. langland's Now TVnr Ship. The poworful turret ship Victoria, so named lu honor of hor Majesty's J ubi loo, completed ber st earn trials at the Nore recently. The ilrat rivet was I driven in her keel plate by Lord Arm strong, at Elswick, In Juno, 1895, and sho was launched on tho 9th of April lust year, In respect to the essentials of speed, protection and armament, tho Victoria is without a competitor in tho navies of Europe. In design she may bo said to resemblo n magnified boro; and though exception luis been taken to tho curtailment of hor armor bolt whioh extends for 1G2 feet over ber total length of 340 feet, and to the alleged dangerous concentration of her heaviest guns In a singlo turret, it must not be forgotten that naval construc tion is only possible on the principle of compromise, and that it ls more satis factory to judge of tho efhcionoy of a battle-ship by tho balance of advan tages sho gains by sacrificing something In her design. Comparing the Victoria with tho crack Frenoh armor clad Amiral Baudin, we find that the latter possosses a comploto bolt at the water lino of the uniform thickness of 21^ inches, whilo tho English ship Is only partially protootcd by a bolt varying In thickness from 10 Inches to 18 bichos; und that, whereas the Frenchman car? rles three heavy guns In as many bar bettes, tho English vessel has hor 110 1 ton guns boxed up in a singlo turret. But on the othor hand, whilo tho redoubt and turret of the Victoria is built up of armor 18 inches thick, the barbettes of the Amiral Baudin aro of the thicknoss of 10J luchos. Tho formor is also moro powerfully armed and engined, lins a wldor area of aotlon, and ls suporlor In spcou . the ratio of 17 knots to l? knots under forced draught. Add all thoso advantagos she carries Into action upon, In round num bers, 1000 tons less displacement, bo sides being protected against raking by a bulkhead 16 inches thick and an angular screen of 0-lnoh plating. Had lt benn determined to continuo tho Victoria's bolt throughout the sides upon the same displacement, lt would have been necessary to reduco the armor from a uniform thiokness of 18 inches to 14 Inohes and 12 inches, or, on tho other band had tho bolt been continued to tho ends without thinning it in the middlo and mqking it 12 Inches nt the extremities, the displacement ol tho ?hip must have boen inoreased to 11,000 tons. As she now oxjsts tho es ? tlmatod loss of buoyancy by tho com 1 plote riddling of tho unarmored ondf ? amounts to 41 tons, representing a total i sinkngo ot two Inches. Her armament will consist of two m 110-ton breeoWoa?or?, whloUdisoharg? projectiles of 1800 pounds, with maxi mum charges of OOO pounds, eaoh gun T i being oapablo of firing ahead, and also, in ccnsequv?CvS o? thu yumorumiiou ot the superstructure on tho ?kio wubin an aro of ICO degrees; one S0-ton gun, firing astern and on either quarter; 19 il vc-ton guus, 12 six-pounder and pine three-pouudor quick firing guns, bo? sides m ucit in o guns for smallor ammuni tion. In other words the Vlotoria will be able to discharge from the broadside 4750 pounds of metal simultaneously, consuming 8000 pounds of powder. She ls also fitted with eight torpedo discharges. This stupendous fighting machino will have a complement of 550 unicorn end mon, of whom 110 will bo engineers, stokers and other non? combatants. According to tho navy estimates for the current year the total ' of the Yiotorla, including hull, machinery and guns, lu ?817,841. Tho trial with open stokeholds, or as lt is sometimes but erroneously termed, under natural draught, came Off recently under tho superintendence of Captain Stevenson, C. 13., the head of tho Medway Steam Reserve. Captain Symons, of her Majesty's ship Pem broke, was in ohargo of the navigation of tho ship, and among those in attend ance wore Mr. It. J, Butler, who re presented the Admiralty; Messrs. P. Watts, lt. Black and M. Sandison, from tho Elswlok firm, the builders; Mr. J. H. Ferguson, Chief Inspootor of Maotiinery of tho Medway Reserve; Mr. Mitchell, Fleet Engineer of tho ship, and Messrs. Andrews and Crocker, who represented the engineer ing and oonstructivo departments of Chatham Dockyard. Mr. Robert Ilumphrys conducted the trials on be half of the contractors. Tho Victoria was run for four hours, but without unduly pro39lng tho engines, as tho con tractors wore confident of exceeding tho guaranteed power under the con ditions. At tho end of the trial the following mean results wero worked out; Steam pressure in boilers, 181.lu pounds; vacuum, 27.8 and 20 8 inches; revolutions, 87.3 and 88.5 by the star board and port engines-, indlcnted boras power. 3855.9 starboard, and 4182.1 port giving a collective Indicated power of 8038.04, or 539 horse3 in excess of the contraot. The moan speed realized, ns measured by patent log, was 10 knots. Tho means of tho observations taken during the four hours' steaming gave the following results: Steam pressure In bollera, 133.4 pounds; mean ail pressure in stokeholds, 1.97 inches of water; vacuum In condensers, star board, 27.4 inches, and port, 27 inohos; moan revolutions, 101,20 starboard and 100.37 port; mein indicated horse power, starboard, 7107.07 and port, 7130.86, giving the remarkable collec tive Indicated power of 14.214.54, be- . lng no less than 2214.64 horses above tho 12,000 guaranteed, great as that was. The Bpeed of tho ship was over 17? knots, the entire series of results being obtained at an expenditure of 21 pounds of coal for every indicated - horse power an hour. At tho conclusion of the trial the ofii?ors expressed groat satisfaction at the unique results - obtaiuod. The Victoria returned to Chatham to com pleto for sea. Motliod of ISnglisli Railroads. Last summer a Hartford lady, who was on her way homo from a foreign tour, bought two first class tickots for Liverpool at tho Euston street station in London and took tho train for that city. When a few miles out from Lon don she toro up some old papors and throw thom from the wirdow, and care lessly tossed out her two tickots also, which represented a cost or nearly $15. Soon tho guard carno around and called for tho tickets. She explained tho sit uation and was permitted to ao on, but just boforo reaching Liverpool was re quired to pay tho faro as if sho had had no tickots, though tho guard gavo her a certitlcato that she had made such t . payment, and why it had been neces sary. With this she wont to tho superin tendent of tho company in Livorpool, and he said that ho would havo tho case investigated, and, if it proved that twa such tickots had been sold at the Euston station and bad not been taken up lie would refund tho monoy. Ho askec bor to call again in three or four days. Sho explained that she would sail foi homo in two hours, and thou ho troh her address and sho loft, thinking that was probably tho end of the matter. Within a fow days, however, sho has i o coivod from tho London and North western otllco a letttor inclosing a post ?nico ord or for tho amount paid for the two tickets. Under its admirable system of ac counting the company had traced the two tickets, proved their salo, and learned that they had not been taken up, and bad then refunded ono of th? two payments which tho travolors had had to pay for their journoy. There is something suggestive in this for tho American i all way managers. Death from Hydrophobia. * A vory agonizing ?oath occurred neal Carthage, Illinois, a couple of weeks ago, from hydrophobia, The victim was Arthur Yates, a farmer's boy, whosq attondlng physician says the case ls the most peculiar within his knowl edge. The symptoms In many instan ces were unlike those attributed to hydrophobia. Instead of being thrown into convulsions and spasms at the sight of water, the boy called for and drank lt. He did not bark and BU ap, as many do at first, but noted like a man afflicted with delirium tremens. During intervals botween spasms ho was perfectly rational and seemed to be oblivious to tho fnot that ho was ill. His parents of ton threatened to dismiss the doctor, thinking tho hoy convales cent. Tho wound oausod from tho : dog's tooth never changed color and i never gave any pain. Tho boy died in ! a horrible spasm in willoh ho imagined i himself to be in mortal combat witt . tho dog? All tho dogs in Hancock - Township have beon klllod save one i which tho owner, it is said, rofuses tt [ kill. The Stato Board of Hoalth hui ordered tho animal exterminated undoi > penalty.