The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 29, 1898, Image 5
THE LEDGER: OAFF*)EV. SEPTEMBER 21), 1898.
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THE LIMITS OP LIFE.
DR. TALMAGE TALKS ON THE DANGER
OF HAVING TOO MUCH.
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Worry of l Ht'lrkn AitrtwrUu.
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ICopyrtsT.t. 183R. by America* r»«*>s Anro-
ciation.j
WAWimoro^, Kept. 8J.—Frpra a
pBHest^e of Scriptare that probotVy ijo
othor clergyman ever prv«oli<S1 fpoja
Knr. Dr. Tahnago iu thiH dlflcoorse wrts
frirrtt a trnth vtry opproprkrto Itfr tbuat
who bava nuhealthy ainbitlwi for graat
wealtu or fauAv The tuat 1h 1 Cbrod.
x*. «, T:
“A hi on of grrat etatnro. .whoee fin-
gor* and tow were four and twaty, dx
on each hand and rSx on each -foot, and
ho also was the hob of a giant. Bot,
•wh#u ho defied Israel, Jonath.-m, the roti
of Kliimea, David’s brother, siewhim. M
Malforumtioo photographed, and f«r
what reason? Did oct this passage slip
hy piirtake into the sacred Scripture*,
a* sometimte a pnragwiph nttetly cb-
noiions to theedittu: getciato his news
paper during his absence? I» not tidi
S«r«ptrralerrata? No, no; there wnoth-
ing haphazard about th« fiible. TW*
passage of Scripture was As oertainly m
*oml«d t/j be pat in the Bible k* the
verse. "In the beg-rnnlny Gk*! created
the h«tvone and the earth," or, "fc>'od
so loved the world that h^«T.v« Ub enly
begnttep Son."
And 1 select it for wy t»« todsy be
cause it is charged wnh prwctical and
treaiendous njeaujog By tire {/eople of
Ded the Phili«Mne« bad been ooiwjeered,
•vidtJi tlm exceptfQB of a ghtfife. f He
race of giants is mostly evSimA, I era
gbid to rtvv ThtTe is no use for giants
now except to fKlnwra tii© iawme of
imiseune. But tberp wore ruany (rf them
In olden tiincs. Gdliatfi T.’m> accord log
to the Bible, 11 foot 4^ inches high,
or, if you doubt this, tlye famous Pliny
declares that at Crete, by an earthquake,
a monument wss broken open, di*cover-
ing the remains of n giant 4(1 oubite
long, or Cl) feet high, ft), whether you
take sacred or profane history, join must
come to the couqluwon that ttiere were
in these times cases of btunau aWtuda
monstrous and appalling.
The diniit 1« ItlrftoTjr.
David hid smashed the sfra.^i e?
erf tbeso giants, but there were other
giants that the Dsosi/tean vaars had noi
yet subdued, and one of thorn stands in
my text Ho was not only of Alpine
stature, hut had a surplus of dfg>1«B.
To the ordinary fingers was anne*«l an
additional finger, and tho foot had also
a superfluous addrtifhnh. fie had 24
terminations to hands and feet, wheio
others have 20 It was not the only in
stance of the kind. TaTfirHiar, the
learned writer, says that the emptror
of Java hud a son endowed with tho
f me number of exfeniKHes. VoJqgtfu*,
e poet, had nix fingers on tpieh band,
auperfuis, in his oeletrratvd 1etJ3«r«,
speaks of two families near Berlin sim
ilarly equipped of band and foot. All of
which 1 can believe, for I have seen
two eases of tho same physical super
abundance. But this giant of the text
is in battle, and as David, tho stripling
warrior, bad dispatched one giant the
nephew cf David slays this monster oi
my text, and there he lies after tbe lirt-
tle in Gath, a dead giant- Bis rtaUuw
did not Kive him, and his superfluous
appendices of hand and foot did not save
him The probability was that iu the
battle his sixth huger on bis hand made
him clumsy iu the uno of bis weaMn
end bis sixth toe crippled his gait. Bo-
hold the prostrate and malforiaed gleet
of tho text: "A man of grout stature,
whoso fingers and toes were four and
twenty, six on each baud and six on
each foot, apd bo also wa« the bob of a
giant But when he defied Israel, Juia*
than, tho son of Shimta, Dowd’s broth
er, slew him.”
[a Tho Common Mon.
> Behold how superfluitma are a tjmf-
drauco rather than a help! In all the
Jxittle at Gath that day t£ere was not a
ifian with ordinary hand and ordinary
foot and ordinary stature that wr.s not
better off than this physical curiosity of
my text. A dwarf on the right side U
■Irongor than a giant on the wrong ride,
and all the body and mind and estate
and opportunity that you oanaotuso for
God and tho betterment of tho world is
a sixth finger and a sixth toe, and • ter
rible hindrance. Tho most Of the good
done in the world and the *au£t «f those
who win tho battlee for tho right are
ordinary people. CWut the fingers, of
their right hand, and they have just
five—no more and no lew. One Dr. Duff
among missionaries, but S,00f) mission
aries that would toll you they have
only common endow meat One Floronoe
Nightingale to nurse »he sick in oetb
apicuous places, but 10,000 women who
are justasgocftl uurfiwt though never
heard of. The "Swamp Angel” was a
big gun that during the ertvtl ww made
a big doIbc, hut musket? of ordinary
caliber and shells of ordinnoy heft d*4
the execution. Proa dent Tyler and his
cabinet go down the Potomac one day
to experimont with the "Peacemaker,"
a groat iron gun that wae to affright
With its thunder foreign Davies. Tho
gunner touches it off, and it explodes
and leaves oabiuet ministers dead on the
deck, while at fbat time, all up aad
down our coastu, were oftonan td ordi
nary bore, able to be the defense oi the
nation, and ready at the first touch to
waken to duty. The curse of the world
Is big guns. Aitm the peMrictews, whe
have made ell the noise, go home bnarpe
from angry discussion on the evening nf
the first Monday in November, the next
day the people, with the nilaut halleta,
will sottlo everything and settle it right,
1,000,000 of the whit? slips of parcr
they drop making about an tooth dous»
as the fall of an apple blossom.
Clear back in the otmntey today there
are mothers, in plain apron and shoos
fashioned on a rough last by a shoe
maker at the end of the lane, rocking
i babies that aro to be the Martin Luthers
a*4 09 B'INens rvivl
J Wo
Vhs vM Wo fJSfcirftkw'n 3nd
tlte tvSuliiuijt^.hs iha! tho OoQrgo
Whitcfields of the future. The longer I
live the more 1 like c-ymmou folks.
They do Dn* world’s work, bearing tho
w« ld , b bards**,, trmtfiig fho World’s
fftnyatj**- cttjat?thg at^WofitT* couKO-
ktrisat Aa infer bsf^*y\v a nep rii j e ap
a WioatA da o Wirt \>r a
Ifc'Jgkl# i* HaUtWffdl ikd RociefV wtiuld
fn t9» !*«** teateiTenr fftlure iVdre aot
of oypKkLSu lawyers to spe
thaAcgiii itosi fhtor rights.
A T4w>*>e * 4 Witlard ^byker
risfi? v> etninexAfn t)hi» medical profes-
sirav 1M '-Ai# rtuil invited (jwwp
Juheria and
aenridl Arer fldv to the wqcld if it
w* re uui lot ytflwvrnimon dbetorn!
The phy^ciU 1* his f#g, driving
at* the tooe (Jt tethfitri^rbouiw oy riding
nn hRtoahadL, »r> the sa£-
|<0' ndhth dhy of
(Jto TOe* and <x*xtkM if) to toko Wild of
tfy ifota Um; while tho f:\pn-
Wy, vcl*h te«i looking on
rmd ^grf»fyg‘'F<to hi* j#U*-ioH iu regard
to tttr fntknt fiA tofrj-ing him «ajs
"TlteSJfe Clod> I a/to d^vred the case;
he is goteVg dtoites in me gu
adajto«£to)u Ota* tb* mefittan
•f too Qt tnetropontan
*hf pwsho* if* 1 illnstrioa?i liv-
tag u$<> (If toe yrwMtft.
rtt« nwotoa af veaiiiu
d» toe She in all depEfrf-
gient# Puopla nO» saftsfied with ordi-
aJbeBrs f*T ordinary dw-
t&toafl ot Dftof to spo wlx* they
with a tof^l f 11 ®?
vmxto Jto Tri.toMd-rt rhAal taidcovin^-if
ci «4 4asHi»ai a:vd ^isdal addemlft, they
Uxn*M& A e«M*Jh fWm'mu.t o< money
fir ttvattliood tu»4 tejr tho supply of
TJtotoi vrt teigo tetdvd UM after
vtc httoe ^ao^TiiOto is iicjiArtnot,
for wjttm' the tf&rK^tfrity for gry-
hiif, ®*ft tteat tjj&orfofch not &r \n
oW?»L CkRIki of hi? own
i« woroe fl:a« an hifldel, ”
but tho large and fabulous sums for
which many struggle, if obtained,
woulff bo a hindrance rather than an
advantaga
Tho anxieties and annoyances of those
uipw ecJMiwt ImVe 1^:00010 plethoric can
oaK' by ttorc wtro ijossosj? thujji.
U w«t |Ci o good thing when through
yw* toiW'try f«>d prosi^erity you oau
own the bouse ft» which you live. But
xpn -<jKO 41* bouses and you
bav^SI TfnrtoT^ifw to (*i^lhct and ail
those tenants to please. Suppose you
kavv auD in Ixit-vusuccesses
njiMl in nhiuufl dVftry fliryctiqn You
have frrvev)tr,iefits. The fire boll rings at
ru^h wy stiuss to.hx)k out of
fha uffn'low to seJ • it is any cf ywur
mills. Kpidcmg^cf crime conies, and
tfuw ato vtuti ;-/ial ai/sc'oud--
ing in all direcCfi&s, and ytm wonder
whethor any of your bookkeepers will
e)m«« A paplc ctrikos the
v , n’MrfKT' /lv1ti . and you are like a bon
under n sky full of hawks mid trying
tairh todA ih rt') your own
©vkrgrown chkl«iluji spjiely uiidtr <viug.
wutC«« hue htidi
roachcd you have to trust so many im
portant things to others that you are
apt to become the prey of othore. and
you are swindled and defrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first $1,000 is
not equal to the anxiety on your brow
now Unit you have won your (jauO.OOO
fftnuTMitoJ oamiio.
Tfc? toWTlde with noch a ono is he is
spread out liko tho unfortunate ono in
my text. Yon have more lingers and
toes than you kuow what to do with.
TwenU* were useful; 24 area hindering
Diwraeli ■t«y* frirat a king of
Fotond Otrffcoutod hie throne and joined
$kj {pq*&&fiud tocamo a portor to carry
burdoa*. And soma on® askod him why
ho did so, and he replied: "Upon my
tWmm, ibo lead which I oast
Arif etvtofip tar th^u tho uno you
iMh to©
"eugh over-
to bo pibied, for
■oo uto o*UW r 4*> torigblutst is hrTE a
straw whra courpurod to that weight
aBdMi«toit£ I htoorerk I have slept
more in four nights than I have during
(41 QSejBtaCL I Urgju ta Dvo and to ho
a king myself. Elect whom you choose.
As ttfrtoENt, lam fife Vety tt-wtruld be
piadarw to return to court."
loodedT ptrsons ought
tteeNr wfiMMunmVs uvv real, and their in
KOUBta tuA their nervous prostration
11111 imwtoin " I reply that they oould
get ton ® the hatkersome surplus by
giving it away. If a man has more
he ran carry without vexa
tion, let him drop a few of them. If his
ttrtoton fe»4e great he eaanot manage it
without getting nervous dyspepsia from
iototof *» aaoeh, tot him divide with
those who have nervous dyspepsia be-
vtohMMr eaanot gwt euough. No; they
guard their sixth finger with more care
than they did the original five. They
go limping with t^at they call gout
anil Itooto aof tot gkuto of ny
taat, to>W use lamed by a aug»Tflaou*
toe. A frW of th^> by charities bleed
themselvee of this financial obesity and
momtav fMhosto bat asany of them
hang on to the hindering superfluity
ttt feoft. and then, as they are com-
pelted to floe the saoaey up anyhow, ia
their last will and testament they gen-
evoadly pve some of k to the Lord, ex
pecting tw doubt that fie will feel very
tatift <Mfar4 to dMte Thonk God that
once in awhile we feave a Peter Oooper,
who, owning an interest in the iron
wurha a* Trento*, mad to Mr. Lester:
to>. ndl tori faite easy about tho
amount toe are making Working un
der one of our patents, we have a
monopoly which seems to me some
thing Wrong Everybody has to ooxao
to ns for it, and we are making money
too Mto* tot togtoHnoril tho poioe.
asrd toil whilo oar philuntlin^lBt wm
JortMVu# Xitoper Inofetnto, whbli moth
ers a hundred institute* of kindness and
mercy all over the land. But the world
had to wo*t 3. $00 years for Peter Cooper I
Doatitbod ttsaeroaltr.
komylnd fer the beuevoleat instibn-
Ihei g*t a legacy from men who
Aistr life were as stingy as
death, hut who iu their last will and
tostaiituri buetowtd money on hospitals
pad mi sioc&Y tocioticfs flat for snflb i
I.bjtve no nsrpwt. Tiny wo aid ,
have tuhon tYoey eurvt of ft. with tiiem if '
they oould emi bought up half of heaven
and let it out ut ruinous rent or loaned ;
the money to cek“Ptial citizens at 2 per ;
cYnt a month and gf>t a "cftsner’’ on
harps fyid* Lxpcutf?*. 'They lived in this j
woahl ftO er W (Caqhs in the prb^ace to j
apirrMiug Og and want aiql aude
co etforts ^tu hr afief. The chirittofc
of sooli ptrtpfr ar« in the "Patio post j
future" They »*• th* !
Tljb Jakitodj^lity is tPvCif oath a
o«Xr iu a donation 6> her
uevolcnt fivriidSbs taoa to at'uae for M^s
M'Hiuie cTejwiietjtdiM'iiK Uh) lieirs at law ;
wifl try.tn bik£k tho-wull by pfoviiy?
that the old was nmile or cfrwy,
gud the ex^wgso of the litigation
abc/nl! leave in tfie lawyer’s ba(Kle what
was meant for the Bib^e scsijtty. Ob, ya
oves^eighted, successful fsisinesB man, ;
wheroer tfii*»B«caieMjHicli your cjpr Of ,
ydhr eyos, let me pay tbut if yau arV
prostTati*d with anxietivs about keeping i
or inventing these tnsnArndoos fortunes
I can tell ycfginjw yen edfi do more to
get yocf hdhlth back an4 yoar sjAri^. j
mhed than by ^rinkiag gallons Of bad
tasting wafcsr at Horatogu, Homhurg or
Carlsbad. Gh'« to God, imniunity anfl j
the Drble 19 pnr ^ent of all your iu-
eo:»e, and it will make a new nmu of 4
yon, and from rootless walking of the
Goer at utght you ehall have eigtit
beurs’ sle^i withotft th^ hdlp of hro- r
rakleof potaiMum, and from no appetite
you will hardly be able to wait for your
regqiar meal* and yonr wtQr oho^k IvBl
fill ui). and. whvn you die A»e hleitsings
of -Hjh sc \^io but for yon wduld have r
porhLed wiH blowin all over your grave.
Perhaps tome of you wtll take this
advice, lute the most of you will uc%
wid yfw v?Hl tvy to or.ye jjcnr swe-lhto |
huad hy on i< moko fiagtrs nn4 ,
your rbeiHbatie foot by k©-ttiitg oq it
hxac ahtd riiojc well bo a sigh df
relic In' 1 bou you aro gau'o out of tfee
W(rrdv\, anff vTfim over your w-nmius ths>
minister nxjftus the words, "Bloasedassi
tho dead who die iu the Lord, ” persons
who have keen appreciation of tho ludi
crous will hardly be able to keep their
facts straight But, whethor in that di
rection my words do good or not, I nm
auxions thnt all who have only ordinary
equipment be thankful for what they
have and rightly employ it. I think yvm
all have, figuratively as well aslltorallt?,
fingers enough. Do not long for hinder
ing hapestUriKirp. SmndiHg in the pres
ence of thhi fallen giaut of my text and
in thi? post mortem exUmins.tion of
him, let na kani how much better off
we (ire with just tho usual hand, the
u:-:ur,l foot. You have thanked God for
a thonsayd fhjtigs, Irct I war ran $ yyp
never thanked him for those t aY) imiif*-
mentx of work aed Lo«)»c?ion tout no
one hut the infinite and omnipotent G»u?
could have ever planned or made—tie
hand uud the foot. Only that soldier or
tiiut meehifoio Who in a bottle or
through machinery has lost thefti
knows anything adequately about their
value, and o«ly tho Christian scieuflfct
cini imv e 9ty {^preciatiou of whht di-
vintrmasterpteoes they aro.
Tire Hand That VVorVn.
Sir Charles Bell was eo impresst'd
with the wondrous construction of the
human hand that when the Earl of
Bridgewater gave if40,000 for essays ou
the wisdom and goodness of God and
eight book* were written Kir Charles
Bell w*oto his entire book ou the wis
dom and goodness of God ms displayed
iu the human hand. The 27 bones iu
the hand and wrist with cartilages and
ligaments and phalanges of the fingers
all msdo just ready to knit, to sew, to
build up, to pull down, to weave, to
write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to
battle, to give friendly sain tat loa. Tho
tips ef it® fingers are so many telegraph
offices by reason of their sensitiveness
of touoh» The bridges, the tunnels, tho
cities of the whole earth, are tho vic
tories of the hand. The hands are not
dumb, hut ufUm speak as distinctly as
the lips. With our hands wo invite, we
repel, we invoke, wo entreat, we wring
th«n in grkf, or chip them in joy, or
spread them abroad in benediction. The
malibrniationof the giant's hand in the
text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned
of Cod more exquisitely and wondrous-
ly than any human niechani-sm that wm
ever contrived, I charge you to use it
for God and the lifting of tho world out
of its moral predicament Employ it ki
tho sublime work of gospel hand shak
ing. You oau see the bund is just made
for that. Four fingers jast set right to
touch your neighbor’s hand on one Bide,
and your thumb set bo as to clinch it ou
tho other side. By all its bones and
joints and muscles and cartilages and
ligaments the voice of nature joins with
tho voice of God commanding yon to
shake hands. The custom is os old as
the Bible anyhow. Jehnsaid to Jehon-
nfiab: "Is thine heart right as my
heart is with tbioeJheart? If it be, give
pie thine hand. ” When bands join in
Christian salutation, a gospel eketrieftiy
thrills across tfio palm from heart to
heart, and from the shoulder of one to
the Khoulder of the other.
With the timid and for their encour
agement, shake hands. With the trou
bled in warm hearted sympathy, shake
bauds. With the young man just enter
ing business and discouraged at the
small mU/>s and tho large wpensea,
shako hands. With the child who is
new from God and started on unending
journey, for which ho needs to gather
great supply of strength and who can
hantiy reach np to you now because
you are ao much taller, shake hands.
Across cradles and dying beds and
graves, shake hands With your ene
mies, who have done all to defame and
hurt you, but whom you oan afford to
forgive, shake bunds. At the door of
the churches where people oopie in and
at the door of churches wherfi people go
out, shake hands. Let pulpit shake
bauds with pew and Kabbath day shake
hands with weekday and earth shake
hands with heaven. Ob, the strange,
tho mighty, tbs undefined, the mys
terious, the eternal power of an honest
hand shaking I The difference betwem
tht\-e times and the millennial times is
that now myiTrt: rfr.Ao Imnds, but then
all will sl>si'«x» hrvu*.. fluv'ir* and f'rfjt-
iiosl, across soar., .nation vvfMi nat'sn,
Ood and man. church militant and ;
oburek triumphant
Tk« [Iruwan Foot.
Yfe, the trialfonralinu of this fallen
giant’s foot glorifies Jo*' ordinary foot,
for which 1 fair you ka\e never once 1
thaukoTGpd. The 2 t> bones of the foot
ere the admiration <rt the anatomist.
Hie an4i of the foot fashioned with a 1
groee mid a pcWeq that Trajatr’s arch qr 1
(Xir.ws:iti4ie’« arch or any other arch |
could utA equal Those arches stanll
where they were planteil hut tkic arch
ef tin. foot js on abatable .arch, a
yielding arch, u flying arqh and ready ^
f<r movements innumerable The hu
man foot so fashioned as to enable a
man to stand upright at. np oth’er crea- |
ture and leave the hand that would
wtherwiflo have to help i;i bafaupittg the
body free for anything it chooees. Tile
foot of the oatnol fashioned fur tbo paud, !
the foot of the bird faHhioued for flie i
tree branch, the foot of tbo bind faph-
rcued for tho slippery roc*k, the foot of
the Ijon fashioned to rend ito prey, the |
loot of the horse fashioned for tho solid
earth, but tho foot of manmade to cross '
the desi'^t (fr climb the tree or scale tho
cliff or walk the earth or go anywhero j
he needs to go.
With that divine triumph of aoatotqy
in your possession v.'hcre.do youValk?
In what path of riglitoon»»?ie* or wT.«t
p:Uh of sin have you ssUtt down? Where
have you left the mark <?f' your foot-
*tej)t»? Atni'd tho potrifaotlooe to tke
roseks have L-ecn ler.nd tho mtrrk'nf the
fcc-t of birds &ik1 beasts of thoesunds of
yenra ago. And God oan trfcee out all
the footstep* of your lifetmie, and tho«
yon made 50 yedra ago are as plain a*
tho?e made in the ke*t soft wefttbeu, all
of theuvpetrifiixl tor the Jhdfcinwit ^ s y-
Oh, the foot I Give me tho natiftiiography
of yens foot frhm tha time you slepptHl
out pi the eradio until today, a-ud I will
tell yo*r ex art ohUrarter ikjw and what
aro your prospeote for tho wbrld to como.
That there might bo no doubt about
tho fact that both these pieces of divine
mechanism, hand and foot, belong to
Christ’s service both hands of Christ
and both feet of Citriet were spiked ou
the cross. Right through the arch of
both his feet to the hollow of his instep
went the iron of torturo, and from tho
palm of his hand to the beck of it, and
there is not a muscle or nerve or bone
anjong the 2.7 Iwnea «f temfl ^td wrist
or among the Vi hones of t'ho foot but
it belongs to him now and forever.
I'tie ife-m’tjr <U' R<-<-% te©.
That is tho most t>oar.titol foot that
gee^ about jsiths grqatori; usofuin^s,
rind that the most beautiful hand that
does tie most to help others I was
reading of three women in rivalry about
the uppouiuuoe of the hand And the
one reddened her band with berries and
said tbo beautiful tings made hers tbo
most beautiful. And another put her
hand in tho mountain brook and said as
tho waters dripped off that her hand
was tho most beautiful. And another
plucked flowers oh the l ank, and under
the bloom contended that her baud was
the most attractive. Then a poor old
wunmu appeared, and, looking up in her
decrepitude, asked for alms. And a wom
an who had not taken part iu the rivalry
gave her alms. And all the women re
solved to leave to-this beggar the ques
tion as to which of all thehaads present
was the most attractive, and she said,
“The most bountiful of them all is the
ono that gave relief to my necessities,”
and ns shoso said her wrinkles and rags
and her decrepitude and her body dis
appeared, and iu place thereof stood
the Christ, who long ago said, "Inas
much as yo did it to one of the least of
these, ye did it unto mo,” and who to
purchase the eervico erf cur hand and foot
here on earth hud his own Lund and
foot lacerated.
KIPLING AT GLOUCESTER.
Cfotk WVtfh au A1H ('*<
<« Knre BtiSH Him
w.
Whipped the Wrong Kan.
An actor who was iu Washington, re
cently ou his way to join tho army of
stage folk who aro trooping into New
York to begin rehearsals played in a
Chicago stock company a part of the
summer, Bays u writer iu the Washing
ton Post. It wasn’t an especially suc
cessful company and there were periods
when the ghost did not walk for weeks
at a time. Tbo actor I speak of is what
they oall on the stage a handsomo dress
er. He is especially addicted to clean
linen, and a day dawned when he found
that all his shirts were ut too laundry
and he was penniless.
Ho went to call on tlx? Chinaman
who kept the laundry. In this instance
the Chinaman kept the shirts, too, for
no threats, no entreaties, no proffers of
watches and scarfpius as securities, no
argumcota of any kind, mrfiiovd to move
him. Ho wanted money. Two whole
days the actor endured this state of
things. Then salaries were paid. The
actor marched tt> the laundry, laid down
the money, seized the Chinaman by the
collar of his pyjamas, jerked him over
the counter and rubbed the floor down
with him, kori ion tally, perpendicular
ly and spirally. The poor oriental sput
tered out a great deal of talk and one
front tooth, I believe. A policeman
happened to be passing, an eccentric
fellow, casually peered iu and asked
the occasion of the affair. Tho actor ex
plained.
“Ah, thin,” said tho offloer sympa
thetically, “you'll have to do it over
ag’in. It’s not him that kapes tho joint
Hop Sing is sick. You’ve been doin np
toe wrong man. But, thin, ” consoling
ly, “they all needs it."
u wwtpAa
e boo nr r.
Wlien I was introduced to the cap
tain, he was seated iu his little shop
and surrounded on all .sides hy toy v«s-
svls ef various simm ton wm#c ^f hie
own hands. A funny little mam was 1
the captain, with a fringe to fliwy
whieftrw around hisfhee and.with stub- H
by fingers whith aiMued one hy ttrir
dexterity with cl* m^dle. But be wax
very hospitable, Midi was immediately
provided with a ebuir.
The juvenile jpioh&rnau by whom I
had been introduced wanted the capfain '
to talk, as he bad not ofily a fund of iu- 1
terertiug stories and an iuiioituble way
of telling them, but he had a knowledge
and command of the English language |
that were remarkable.
Finally, after a pause, caused by the
exertion of threading h& needle, tho
captain waved his pipe ia the directum
of a square of paper fastened to the wall
and said, "Perhaps you’d he interested
to read that, miss?”
I took it down and read the directions
for a model of a fishftig sebooner, very
parfiealar directions being given that
everything on deck should be perfect to
the smallest detail. TUpx-ue article tbut
stands out in my memory is "gDvrv
butts.” There were a thousand other
articles mentioned, but that alone re
main* to rise up :md haunt "Gurry
kr*«r
But when I arrived at the signatuae
I exclaimed, “Why, it’s Rndyard Kip
ling!” which was a very aheurd remark
for me to make, hut I was exoried.
"Cf course it is," answered the cap
tain, as if I should have known it all
along. "Of course it is. Those are the
directions for a ship I was to have ninde
for kirn so he amid halve ft by hint n\fl
he eouM rtffer to it when be was writ
ing hi« story, ‘Captains Courageous.’ I
had fhe rheumatism 6e hod I otiUkln’t
finish it,” he addol.
"How did you come to hnrrw kSndl
What did he look liko? What did he
soy? How did he talk?” 1 asked.
My questions didn’t feeze the captain
in the slightest. I found out afterward
that he was married.
"Why, I was here in tho shop, tend
ing to some young gentlemen about hw
size,” he said, waving hie pipe in th»
direction of the juvenile yachtsman,
“when three gentlemen came down toe
walk u-laughing. Well, they came uud
knocked at the door—'they dlcli't oowrt
right in, mind you; they knocked—and
when I srvu, ‘Come iu, gentlemen, ’ onu
to them—he wasn’t Mr. Ki-fjfeig*—rays,
‘Why, we oau’t come in till we know
how yon stand en the weiicy (juYsrion, ’
he says.
" ‘Well, penth-men,’ I Brjyg, ‘I can’t
tell how I stand on the money qneetio*
until I know what you want.’
"Well, at that they all laughed, and
the jolly one that had done all the (bik
ing said, ‘Well, I guess you’re the man
we want.’
"Bo in the,y came, and lie introduced
me to Mr. Kipling and tho oth** gen-
tlenmni. I never raw three jolliw gen
tlemen, all the time letting off jokes
ou each other and now and then one on
mo.
"Well, finally they told mo what
they came for, which was about my
making the boat, ‘just like ono I’d been
ou myself, ’ they said.
"I said I would if I oould, and I
tried good and hard, but I bad the
rheumatism so bad I couldn’t finish it.”
“W’hat do you—what do all the peo
ple of Gloucester—think of ‘Captains
Courageous:’ ” I asked.
" Why, miss, ” said the captain, lean
ing luck in bis chair and waving bs
pipe eloquently, "the very first rhaptei
of that story was taken and jnst disseob-
ed right here in Gloucester, and I will
say this much—that it’s fairly surpris
ing how much ho does know abwut th*
‘Banks’ and the hfe up these.”—Oqa
Philadelphia Ptfsa.
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An Old Idea.
Every day strengtheua the belief of emi
nent phytieiuu that impure blood iv the
rauae of the maiority of our diseaMe.
Twenty-five years ago thie theory wn» iuksI
aw a bnem for tlie formula of Browns’ Iron
Bitters. The nmny retnarkublecnreaeffiHted
by tiiie famous old hoaMhold remedy an
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Our father was u typical officer of
the time qf Nicholas I, writes Prince
Kropotkin in The Atlantic. Not that be
was imbued with a warlike spirit er
much in love with camp life. I doubt
whether he spent one single night oi
his life ut a bivouac ffro or took part In
ono single battla But under Nicholas
I that was df a quite secondary impor
tance. Tho truq military man of those
time* was the officer who was enamored
of the military uniform and utterly
despised ull other sortR of attire, whose
soldiers were trained to perform almost
inhuman tricks with their legs and
rifles (to break the wood of tho rifle
into pieoaa while "presenting anus”
was one of those famous tricks), and
who oould show on a parade a row of
soldiers as perfectly aligned and as mc-
tionless as a row of toy soldiers.
“Very good,” the Grand Duke Mik-
had «*M ouw of a regiment after hav
ing kept it for one hour moetooless,
"presenting arms,” "only, they
breathe!”
To respond to the then current eoo
eeptiou of a military man was certainly
my fathar’s ideal
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