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TRI-WEFKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 9, 15. Fracticaluy the Chinese army is some thing like the Chinese gong. It's beaten all hollow. Authorities are agreed that Connecti tut's automatic gallows is just as good a one to be avoided as the old-fashioned kind. Men who permit themselves to be hypnotized" into committing murder ought not to complain if the State "hyp. notIzes" them into eternity. The swearing of New York police of Acials on the Lexow witness stand wasn't a patching to the artistic swear Ing they indulged in privately. We do not understand why any man Ahould embark in the train robbing business when it is so easy to get a po. eition as bookkeeper in a bank. The Siloam Springs AZrr.) Herald of fers a year's subscription free to the man who brings in the body of Outlaw Bill Cook, dead or alive. There's enter prisel A new steel company with $1,800,000 capital has been organized in Pittsburg; henceforth the Pittsburg City Council will not have matters all Its own way ir the steal business. There e an odd thin: in strikes In Owensburg, Ky., a few days ago, when the employes of a bauk quil wvork and left the institution without anyone to carry on business for a time. The directors, in an attempt to cut down expenses, reduced the salary of the cashier by $200 and that of the bookkeeper by $100 and discharged the assistant bookkeeper. The cashier and bookkeeper promptly went on strike, and the bank opened up the next morn ing with no one behind the counters. The directors were hastily convened, an immediate restoration of old rates was ordered and the strikers resumee work. The courtship between New York. and Brooklyn for municipal union cools ".n ardor. Brooklyn never received with warmth, nor with more than toleration, the advances of New York for a union of the two cities. Now New York has become less demonstrative since the election, which showed but a nominal majority in Brooklyn favorable to an nexation, and is inclined to break off negotiations. The Legislature has to enact a law providing for copsolida tion, and the present coolness between the two principal cities In the "Greater New York" scheme Is likely to end In an open quarrel. In "throwing off" on Brooklyn, N;ew York declares that It will go ahead with the consolidation program, including the remaining mu nicipalities. But this would give New York but about 200,000 more than its present population, or, say, a total of 2,000.000. With Brooklyn added the total population would be 3,000,000. If consolidation shouki not include Brook lyn it would only postpone for a couple 'f years the date at which Chicago will b.e ahead of New York in the numbei '>f Inhabitants. * We learn from the esteemed Norwich .Bulletin that "Frank Crumb of South Plymouth narrowly escaped death on WVednesday at the hands of an infuri ated bull." This Is a bull worth pre serving._________ Safo, Thank Heaven.' Philanthropist-Is not your heart souched by all these sights of poverty? Millonaire-Yes, indeed. But as long as my bank account isn't I can stand it, I guess.-New York World. How lt'a Done. Humorist--I have a joke here on Philadelphia. Editor--We don't buy single jokes on Philadelphia. We con tract for them in lots of a gross each. --Kate Field's Washington. "Of All sad Words," Algy (to jeweler)-I have Din ,ack this ring. Jeweler-Ak. but it is impossible that it should be a misfit. Algy (savagely)--No; but the engage nent was.-Exchange. EACH year, it is estimated, there is an average of 6,00;0 murders com mitted in the United States, 130 legal hangings, and 200 lynchings. Seek happioess for yourself and you 'willlose it but seek it for others and you will find it. The day of judgment will be a great uncovgrmg of shams and hypocrisies. Sin got a foothold in this world by making itself look harmless and little. Some can ride a hobby with as much cruelty of spirit as others mount a war horse. No field of wheat ever ripens that d es not have a good deal of straw and husk mit. No man can serve two masters, and yet we know people who are trying to .serve a dozen. No matter where a good man lives, his house is always built on the rock If we are satisfied with what has been found out, we shall find out noth ing more. If tact could be sold, only such as are already possessed of it would want to buy it. A prudent man doesn't tell every thing he knows every time he opens his month. No burd mnis heavy that love gives us to carry. Nobody works harder and gets less for it than the hypocrite. A man who agrees with us doesn't gome aond nar often enongh. nid, being a native of Provence, there vere of course solemn ceretiponies al 7alence. Buonaparte superintenden he draping of the church choir in that .S W..e arfumagied to prvsent a fuierary urn, anid beneath, ai conspicuous letters. ran the legend: Behold what remains of the French ,ycurgus." Mirabeau had indeed dis layed a genius for politics, his scheme or a strong ministry, chosen from the tssembly, standing in both. relief .gainst the feebleness of Necker in >ersuading Louis to accept the sus ensive veto and to choose his cabinet ithout relation to thgprty in power. -Sloan's Life of Napoleon in the ,entury. Bound to Break Down. One can do three times as . much by )eing quiet and taking things easy as y rushing. Girls in every station of ife are hurting themselves by attempt ng to do too much. The girl who has o work is over-ambitious, and the so iety girl thinks she must let as much s possible come into her lite. And o, between clubs and classes, w-ith ve.ry form of gayety imaginable, she s working so hard that when she is 0 and should be reaching. her prime. vhich physicians say is 35, she is old nd broken down. The feverish desire o have and to achieve is killing the -irls of to-day. They are never satis led, everything in life is rush and hur y. They want to dress like bne riend, be.as learned as another, and a' reat a society leader as another. All restlessness and seeking after rhat does not belong to one is a hin trance to any woman, be she old or -oung, and one which, in many in tances, God did not intend should onie into her life. Repose and per eet quietness seem to be unknown actors nowadaysj and the simple do ag 'what one has to do..quietly and roperly also ignored. The girls of to .ay, no matter what their age may be, sh'for everything. There is excite 1ent in mind and body over the least ttle thing, ..and Women are wearing emselves out absolutely doing noth Ig. You cannot cor vince a girl, says writer in the. iadies' Home Journal, hat with pioper deliberation she ight accomplish just what she wishes nd be strorig ii body and restful in iind aswell. No,:she has got so en irely used to rushing at everything lat she wears , herself out racing up nd down stairs, and when simple nor ial work is finished she is, as she puts ;, "so dead tired that I can't even one-ser-creIbrrs "I wish the crickets would stay about Le house all winter, just as they do in e summer!" eiclaimed the observant ersevman's wife the other day. . "Why? Do you enjoy their singinr i much?" he asked. "No; it is not that, although I do like hear them chirp. The particulai !ason that makes me wish they were tili here, is that the cockroaches are eginning to appear again abont the itchn.- A big one just -ran across the oor', lad yoknew I would rather die an tdudh one of- .the nasty thingi. hey seemi to' kn'ow' it, too, for last inter there were several great big nes which took possession of cornets here there were covers .for thlem, and ould dart- oht 'at ~a' almost' every ime I wt .--near - them;- When we 1oved the .kitchen into. the basemten hey all came down here.-' When the summer began the crick ts came in. Besides being, pleasant ompanions, in a serj litie time' they eeed to have eaten up every cock oahadcoo bug, and I didn' see ne of 'tiew. .again. ntil just, a fey lays ago." Crickets are noted-.among-entoinolo :ists for their voracity and pugnacity. n somie parts. of ti~e worl%.they do riuh amie to'rass Brt n chil ren are'employed: to6. cac~ad kil bem. These crickets live in burrows a the ground aurong.-thes grmt The >urrows are six. or. eight inches deep. ie children have -merely. to stick a bit f stiff 'grass down in the burrow. If here is a cricket in the hole he will re ent this intrusion upon his privacy, ze the end of thegr..a$ss.in. hismalfndi ls, anid hanig ~onso persistently that .e can be drawn entirely out of the urrow and killed before he will let go -New York Sun. Queer Lot 'o" old Money. Representitive:Woomer of .Lebanon, 'a., relates th interisting episode that ccurred' in his bank. Mi-. Woomer is ashier of the People's bank of Leb non, and on the day above mentioned he executors of the estate of Mrs. doses Light walked in and deposited ;4,000 cash, which he had found ha~d ieen put away in various places by rs. Light. The~money had been ac umulinfg~ta~rs and was the pa iet-aviig frob'i the sale of produce. Emong the deposits were 1,700 pen. des, including many issues of the old 'coppers." There were $18 in notes of he State Bank of Lebanon. Fortu iately they are still good, us the Leb bon State Bank never failed, but was nerged into the present Lebanon Na ional Bank. There were $47 in frac ional currency, Including 3, 5, 10, '25, n4 50. Qent- "slunpla.stei." . Some of he ltterivere in the original sheets in hich they were printed. When it be. ame known that these old relics were n the bank people thronged in to pur hase them and in an hour all the 'shinpasters' had disappeared. There as also a $10 5 per cent. interest earing note, issued by the government n the early part of the war. There vas a large quantity of old silver, in luding a half-dollar that was minted 1802. There were several of the irst issue of greenbacks, as crisp and 2ew as when they had come off the ress at the bureau of printing and en gravin TH E PU MA'S FL:A O OF MA N. ;tow Tw o, So cho1boyM in Oregoa Niied f Mouinin Lion. "A rv-ent ietrer. (e3e ibing the ani malits of the Patagonian plainis, narrates some interesting cha.auteristics of the puma, or panther, which are well known to peopIe in regions where he abounds," said the man from theRock ies to a New York Sun reporter. -This infornation, of indisputable - accuracy, upsets some widely spread fallacies concerning this beast. One 61 of these, the idea that he regards man as his natural prey, is prevalent among people whose notions of forest* beasts have been formed from exaggerated stories of the eastern panther, a dread topic of rural tales and of boys' read .ing since the first settler invaded the North American wilderness. "The ferociousness of the pampas I puma toward all other beasts and his I gentleness or fear in respect to man finds its counterpart in the mountain t lion of the Rocky Mountain and Pa eitic coast ranges. This animal is a larger beast than his relative of the .astern wilderness, there known as the )anther. "The mountain lion, like the pampas puma, is terribly destructive to other wild animals and to young live stock, 9 but except in romances has never fig. ur ed as an animal dangerous to man. Uwing to his shyness toward human beings the mountain lion is rarely seen by man, though sometimes in mount- f ain fastnesses a camper may hear his q wealing cry to his.mate by night, and perhaps detect signs of his presence v :tbout the camp, which, if pressed by d hunger, he may visit in the hunter's absence and make way with any meat left carelessly within reach. Like the 'South American puma the Mountain lion is often found upon the plains, f where his presence is soon made known i to ranchers by his ravages among the V colts and calves and sheep. His flesh is d white and many North American hunt-. r ers, like the bauchos, consider it good r eating. "The mountain lion cub makes an t attractive pet until he gets so large as i to be formidable in strength. That a point reached, while still amiable to t his master, he becomes unsafe for r strangers to approach, and his fierce e predatory instincts are inevitably dis played toward animals which are his t natural prey. Until these instincts be- t come manifest, which usually occurs a when the whelp is about a year old, he r is playful and gentle as a kitten, and ii his soft velvet eyes give no warning of r latent dagr s mebnwt faint marking of bars and spots, which disappear soon after their eyes. get open. t eThis disinclination of the puma to t attack man is often attributed to cow- I ardice, though an animal should hardly be termed cowardly which will risk combat with the grizzly bear, as the pt;-a is known to do. "'So cowardly is the mountain lion,' F said J. B. Treadwell of California, who s has often killed them, 'that more than b -ce have I shot one in a tree, wound=. k ing him so badly that he fell to the f ground; instead of attacking me he en deavored to creep away.' And an Ore- O gon schoolmaster tells of two -boye, pu- % pls of his, who gave one morning as C the cause of their tardiness that theyi had stopped to kill a mountain lion on ' their way to school. At sight of them t the animnal had taken to a tree, and, while one boy watched him to see that I e did not escape, the other went bacwk home for the gun with which theT killed him." HOMELY PET FOR THE LADIES -x Budogs Coming Into f avor-Onle of the Ugly Brutes Worth 81,750. There has been recently some adverse English comment on the Americani taste in bulldogs. It is estimated that it is a feature of angiomania and nott to be compared with the genuine En glish love for the ugliest lof its kind.1 The American loves bulldogs as he loves hot-house flowers, He buys onlyj champions. Yet without his usual acuteness he buys the champion only when he is going down hill. The one instance known to the New York Corn mercial of when he reangyknew a good thing is that of the Bedgebury Lion. For, this dog there is an English au thority that its owner was offered $,759 by a New Yorker at nine months old. The offer was refused. The dog afterward came to this country for 100. Britomartis also came to this country, the price being $600. His. Lordship, a descendant of Dom Pedro, I the most aristocratid of all bulldogs, is I also in the United States. Dlom Pedro isi13 years old, and it seems that the average age of a bulldgg -.is .only ten ears. The bulldog in England Ji, after all, an exotic. He is an arrange ment of "man and Providence." This7 I b admitted. The cofter's delight, and9 the docker's darling was a very differ set beast twenty years ago. The bull- I dog's nose has been gradually retired, until it is scarcely more than an amus Ing suggestion. His under jaw has~ been brought up and assumed the prominence that really belongs to the nose. Philanthropic people have com-~ mented from time to time on the pro priety of interposing on the part of. the nose. It is said, and not without reason, that the nose is a sort of pur chase point in seizing hold, and, more over, that the upper jaw being forcibly retired in the effacement of the nore the lower jaw is not properly supported in its business of holding on. The~ bulldog was once intended by nature for a useful life. He is now a creature of luxury, a ladies pet. Napoleon and Mirabeau. A new impulse to the revolutionary movement was given by the death of Mirabeau on April 2, 1791. His obse que were celerated in many places, R1V. DR. TIfALHTAGE. r THE BROOrLTK DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMGN. SubJect: "Ceylon, the Isle of Palms." TFXT: "The ships of Tarshish fIlrst."-Isav Mh Jx.. e The Taishish of mytext by many commen. tators. is supposod to be the island of Cey lon, upon which the soventh sermon of the round the world series lands us. Ceylon was called by the Romans Tapobrane. John Miltoncalled it "Golden Ch!ersonese." Mod erns have called Ceylon "the isle of palns." "the isle of flowers." "the pearl drop on the arow of India." "the isle of jewels," "the Island of spice," 'the shoW place of the un! verse," "the land of byacinth and ruby." In my eyes. for scenery, it appeared to be a mixture of Yosemite and Yellowstone Park. All Christian people want to know more of seylon, for they have a long while been con tributing for Its evangelization. As ourship from Australia approached this Island there hovered over it clbuds thick and black as the superstitions which have hovered here for centuries, but the morning-sun was breaking through like the gospel light which Is to scat ter the last cloud of moral gloom. The sea lay along the coast calm as-the eternal par poses of God toward all Islands and con tinents. We swing into the harbor of Colom bo, which is made by a breakwater built at vast expense. As we floated Into it the water is black with boats of all sizes and - manned by people of all colors, but chiefly Tamils and Cingalese. There are two things I want most to see on this Island: A. heathen temple with Its devotees in idolatrous- wor.-hip and an audi ence of Olngalese addressed by a Christian missionary. The entomologist may have his b captnre of brilliant insects, and the sports man his tent adorned with antler of red-deer I and tooth of wild boar, and the painter his I portfolio of gorge 8000 leet down and of days i dying on evening pillows of purple cloud etched with fire. and the botanist his camp I full of orchids and crowfoots and gentians and valerian and lotue. I want most to find 0 out the moral and religious tr.umphs, how C inany wounds have been healed, how many b sorrows comforted, how many entombed u nations resurrected. Sir William Baker, the ! famous explorer and geographer, did well for Ceyion after-his eight years' residence in this island, and Professor Ernst Heckel, the 1 professor from Jena,ldid well when he swept 1 these waters and rummaged these hilis and 6 took home for future inspection the insects a of this tropical air. And forever honored be such work, but let all that is sweet In rhythm e and graphic on canvas and imposing in mdn- 9 ument and immortal in memory be brought I to tell the deeds of tbose who were heroer I and heroines for Chrlst's sake. Many scholars have supposed that this isl and of- Ceylon was the original garden of Eden where the snalhe first appeared on rep tillan mission. There are reasons for belief that this was the site where the first home stead was opened and destroyed. It Is so near the equiator that there are not more than twelve degrees of Fahrenheit differ enco all the year round. Perpetual foliage, t perpetual fruit and all styles of animal life prosper. What luxurianee and abundance I and superabundapceo lIffel What styles of a p!umagedo not the rbi sport! Whatstyles sly~~~otq sdgr u hW u 1bretto! Here on the roadside and clear out on the - C beach of the sea stands the cocoanut tree 0 saying: "Take my leaves for shade. Take the juice of my fruit for delectable drink. t Take my saccharine for sugar. Take my fiber for the cordage of your ships. Take my oil to kindle your lamps. Take my wood to b fashion your cups and pitchers. Take my leaves to thatch your roofs. Take my smooth surface on which to print your vooks. Take my 30,000,000 trees covering 500,000 acres and with the exportrition enrich th-i worldl. I will wave In your fains and spread abroad in your umbrellas. 1 will vIbrate In t your musical instruments. I will be the I scrubbfng brushes on your floors."b Here also stands the paiLm tree saying "I am at your disposal. With theso arm I fed your ancestors 150 years ago, and with these same arms Iwill feed your descend ants 150 years from now. I defy the cen 'uries! ! Here also stands the nutmeg tree saying. . "I am ready to spice your baverages and en ric~h your puddings and with my sweet dust mak-e insipid things palatable." Rere also stands tue coffee plant saying : "With the lIquid boiled from my berry I stimnulate the nations morning by morning." H'ere also stands the tea plant saying: "W~th the liquid bolled from my leaf IC soothe the wormt's nerves andi stimulate the world's convereation evening by evening-." IHere stands theinceona saying: "I a-n the ion of malaria. In all climates my bit terness Is the slaughter of fevers." What miracles of pro luctiveness on these sandis! Enough sugar to sweeten all the word's beverag.es, enough bananas to plie all the world's fruit baskets, enough rice to mx all thse world's puddings, enough cocoa nut to powder all the world's cakes, enough flowers to garland all the world's beauty. But in the eve-ning, riding through a cin 'amon grove, I first tasted the leaves and' b:;rk ol that condiment so valuable and I delicate that transported on ships the aroma of the cinnamon is dispe!!ed if placed near a: rival bark. Of such great value Is the cIn namo:u shrub that years ago those who ia jured it in Ceylon were put to death. But: that which once wais a jungle of cinnamon is now a park ot gentiemnen's residences. The long, whito d welling houses are bounded with this sbmo. and at! olherstyles of growth conoreated there make a botanical garden. Doves called cInnamon doves hop among the branches, and crows, more poetically styled ravens, which never could sing, butI think they can. fly across the road giving lull test of their vocablos. Birds which learned their chanting under the very envec of heaven overpower all with their grand march of the tropics. The hibiscus dapples the scene with its scarlet clusters. All shades of brown and emerald and saffron and bril! ance ; melons, limes, magnosteens, custardI app'.ei, gu-tvas, pineapples, jasmine so Ia ten with asoma tiw~y have to hold fast .to the wall, nn I begonias, goriosais on fire and iI orchids so deicente otlier landis must keep| them under conservatory, but here dtellumt of all weather, and flowe more or less akint to razaleas and hone-ysuckles and floxes and fuchisias and enrysanthemnume nd rhodo dendrons and foxgIoves and pansIes which dye the plains and mountains of Ceylon with heaven.I The evening hour hurns incense of all as if the sky hal fallen, and butterflies spangling the air, and arms of trees sieeved with blossoms, and rocks upholstered of moss, commringlng sounds and eights and oors until eye and ear and nostrIls vie with each other as to which sense shall open the door to the most enchantment. A s:ruggle between music and perfume and Iridescenee. Oleauders reeling in intoxication of color. Great banyan trees that have zeen changmng their min:,s for centuries5, each century car rying out a new ph,.n of growth, attracoIe our attention and saw us puiss in the year o 1894 as they saw pass the ge'nemrlons 194 and 169~4. Co.ouubo is so thorougnfly embowered in foliage that if you go into one of its towers and look down upon t he city of 180,000 people you c-annot see at house. Oa..the trees of CerQnL Mats von hva to ha. hold the morning cffmbing down thiroug,. their branches or the evening tipping ther leaves with amber and gold ! I sorgive thi Buddhist for the worship of trees until they know of the Go-I1who made the trees. I wonder not that there are some trees In Cey on called sacred.- To me all trees are sacred. I wonder not that before one of them they burn camphor flowers and hang; Ilamps around its braneches and 100,000 peo-! a eah -es maDe lsrimne to tha L tue. Worship ~Somet Aitig- man must, aid,- tiftri he bear oi the only Being woriny of worsnip, what so elevating as a tree I What glory en throned amid its foliavM - a mist in ie'o:ogy spreads out In its branches! Wh-t i voice when the tempests paws tbrough it I low It looks down upon the eradle and the trave of centuries ! As the fruIt of one tree mn!awfullv eaten struck the race with woe ind the uplifting of another tree brings yeace to the soul, let the woodman spare the ree and all nations honor It, If, through i!gher teechin , we do not, like the Gaylon se, worship Itl How consolatory that whn re no more walk under the tree branches en orth we may see the "tree of life which ears twelve manner of fruit and yields her irut every month, and the leaves of the ree are for the healing oi the nations!" Two processions I saw in Ceylon within me hour, the first led by a Hindoo priest, a itge pot of flowers on his head, his face dis Igured with hcly laeerations ani his un ashed followers beating as many disnords rom what are supposed to be musical in truments as at one time aan be induced to ter aba human ear. The nronessnn halted t ile door of the huL'. ' The occupants ame out and made obeisanceand presented mall contributions. In return therefor the rlest sprinkled ashes upon the children he caime forward, this ev!dently a form of >enelction. Then the procession, led on >y the priest, started again. More noise, nore ashes, more genuflection. However een one's sense of the ludicrous, he could ad nothing to excite even a smile in the ovementa of such a procession. Meaning ess, oppressIve, squalid, filthy, sad. Returning to our carriage, we rode on fo' few moments, and we came on another roeesston, a kindly lady leading groups of ative olidren, all clean, bright, happy. pbhfng. Th were a Chr:sttan school out or exercise. There seemed as much Intlli ence, refinement and happiness in that reg ment of young Oingalese as you would find a the rsaks of any yoine ladies' seminary eing ebasroned on their afternoon walk brough Cetral Park. New York, or Hyde lark, London. The Hindoo procession 11. strated on asmall scale something of what Undoolsm can do for the world. The Chris [an procession illustrates on a small scale Dmething of what Christianity can do for e world. But those two processions were niy fragments of two grealprocessions ever rching across our worw, the procession lasted of superstition anj the procession lessed of gospel light. I saw thom in one fternoon in Ceylon. They are to be seen if 11 nations. Nothing is of more thrilling interest thax. ie Christian achievements in this Island. he Episcopal church was here the national hurob, but disestablishment has taken place, nd since Mr. Gladstone's accomplishment f that fact in 1880 all denominations are on qual platform, and all are doing mighty rork. America Is second to-no other nation i what has been done for Ceylon. Since B16 she has .1 her religious agents In the affna peninsula of Ceylon. The Spauld 1s, the Howlands, the Drs. Poor, the anders, and others just as good and strong ave been fighting back monsters of super ition and eruelty greater than any that ver swung the tusk orroaredin the jungles. The American missionaries In Ceylon ave given special attention to medical In :rction and are doing wonders In driving ack the horrers of heathen surgery. Cases f suffering were formerly given over to the vil worshipers and such tortures inflicted 5 may not be described. The patient was -ampled by the feet of the medioal atten ants. It is only of God's mercy that there a livIng mother In aeylon. Oh, how ljiasses of native itu'dents unaleitne efte f those who follow the examble of the late amuel Fish Green are providing them, so 2at all the alleviations and kindly minis ries and scientifle acumen that can be found i Amerlcan and English hospitals will soon less all Ceylon. In that island are thirty-two Amerizan ?hool, 210 Church of England schools, 234 esleyan schools, 234 Roman Catholio !hools. Ah, the schools decide most every ing! How sugggestive the Incident that .mo to me in Ceylon. In a school under me care of the Episbopal church two boys ere converted to Christ and were to be aptized. An intelligent Buddist boy said the school. 'Let all the boys on Buddha's ide come to this part of the room and all ie bovs on Cbrist's side go to the other art of the room.'' All the boys except two went on Buddha's de, and when the two boys who were to be aptized were scoffed at and derided one of em yielded and retired to Buddha's side. ut atterward that boy was sorry that he ad yielded to -the persecution, and when le day of baptism came stood up beside the oy who remained firm. Some one said to be boy who had vacillated In his choice be teen Buddha and Christ, "You are a oward and not fit for either side," but he eplied, "I was overcome of temptation, but repnt and believe." Then bota boys were aptized, and from that time the &ngelican iission moved on more and more vigorously. will not say which of all the denomina ons of Cliristians Is doing the~ most for the vangelzationl of that island, but know this ..Ceylon will be-taken for .Obrist I Sing ishop Heber's hymn: : What though the spicy oreezes .Blow soft over Ceylon's Isle I Among the first places I visited was a u-idhist college, about 100 men studying to come priests gathered around the teachers. tepp~ng into the building where the high riest was Instructing the class, we -were polegtic and told him we were Americans nd would like to see his mode of teaching 'he had no objections, whereupon he be an, doubled up as he was on a lounge, with is right hand playing with his foot. In his rt hand he held a package of bamboo aves, on which were written the words of ts lesson, each student holding a similar ackage of bamboo leaves. The high priest rt read, and then one of his students read. group of as finely formed young men as!I ver saw surrounded the instructor. The ist word of eabi- -sentence was Intoned. 'here was In the whole soene an earnestness rhich mpressed me. Not able to under tand a word of what was said, there Is a ook of language and Intonation that Is the ame among all races.~ That the Buddhtsts ave full faith in their religion no one can :oubt. That is, In their opinion, the way to eaven. What Mohammed Is to the M~o ammredan; and wh'et Christis to the Chris ,. Buddha Is to the Buddhist, We wait d b r a pause. in the reeitation,- and then nresingr our thanks retired. derby is a Buildhist temple. on the altat f which belore the-image of Buddha are of erings of .flowers. 'As mg~ht was coming on v came up to a Hlndoo temple. First we ure prohibited going farther than the out dde steps, but we gradually advanced* untIl re could see all that was going on Inside. L'he worshipers were making obeisance. Tne amt ams were wildly beaten, and shrill pipes sre blown and several oter instruments rre in full bang and blare, and there was s indescribable hubbub and the most labor 'u style of worship I had ever seen or eard. The dim jights. and the jargon, and e aooms. and the fliting figures minglesi .;r ey'e ana ear a horror wzucan iris diffidct o shake off. All, this was only suggestive of vhat would there transpire after the toilers f the day had ceased work end had time to per at the temple. That such things *ould be supp~osed to please the Lord or mve any power to console or help the wor b ers is only another mystery Inthis world i nysteries. But we came away sadldened vth the spectacle, a sadness wr ich did not ave us until we arrived at a place where a hristian missionary was pre~tehing In the tret to a group of nativee. I had tnat morning expressed a wish tc ritness such a scene, and here It was. Stand 'ag on an elevation, the goodl man was ad ressing the crowd. All was attention and lence and reverence. A religion of relief nd joy was being commended, an ithe dusky aces were Illumined with the sentiments 0? eifinton and re-enforcement. It was the ae of Sh nrn alnn walking among nettlesD. It was trie morarnfng light after a tn-Ec-Tark. ness. It was the gospel after Hindooism. but passing up and down the streets o! Ceylon you find all styles of people withis five minutes-Afghans, Kaffirs, Portuguese, Moormen, Detcb, Baglish, Bcotch, Irish. Ameriean-all clas.s s, all dialects, all man aetrs and custom, all st-ies of enlaam. The most interesting thing on earth Is the ha. man race:, and specimens of all branches of it confront you in Ceylon. The island ot the present is a quiet an I inconspleiuous affair compared with what it once was. The dead cities of Ceylon were larger and more im poslag than are the lIving cities. On this Island are dead New Yorks and dead Pek inags and dead Edinburghs and dead Lon dong. Ever and anon at the stroke of the arcbroglis.'s hammer the tomb of some great municipality flies open, and there are other buried cities that will yet respond te the explorer's pickax. The Pompeii and Herculaneum undes neath Italy are small compared with the Po:npeiis and Herculaneums underneath Ceylon. Yonder is an exhumed city which w.1s fcunded 500 ye:ars before Christ, stand Ing in pomp and splendor for 1200 years. Stairways up which fifty men might pass side by side. Carved pillars, some of them fallen, some of them aslan?, some of them erect. Phidlases and Christopher Wrens never hear: of herz. performed the marvels of sculpture and %rchitecture. Aisles Ibrough which roral proc'ssions marched. Arches under whieb kin::s were-carried. City with r-servoir twenty miles in circumfer onet,. Extmonoorized la!6es that did their eoollag and refreshin2 for twelve centuries. Ruins more suggetive than Melrose and _'nilworth. Coylonian Karnaks and Luxors. Rains retainiug much of grandeur, though wars bonb-.r:!ed them, and time put his chisel on every bioek, and, more than all. vegetation put its anchors and pries and wrenches in all the crevices. Dagobas, or places where relies of saints of dietles are kept-dagobas 400 feet high and their fallen material burying precious things, for the sight of which modern curiosity has digged nnd blasted in vain. Procession of ele phants in imitation, wrought into lustrous marble. -.Trooos of howes in full. run. .tihnes. chapels, catnetUrals wrec'ed on the mountain side. Stairs of moonstone. Ex - ulsite serolls rolling up more mysteries - an will ever be unroll-ed. Over sixteen square miles the ruIns of one city strewn. Thronerooms on which at different times sat 165 kings, resigning in authority they in. herited. Walls that witnessed coronations, assassinations, subjugations triumphs. Al tars at which millions bowed ages before the orchestras celestial woke the sheperds with Vidnight overture. When Lieutenant Skinner in 1832 discot ared the site of some of these cities, he foon I congregated In them undisturbed assem blages of leopards, porcupines, flamincoes and pe' licans; reptiles sunning themselves on the altars, prima donnas rendering ornithological chant from deserted music halls. One king restored much of the grand eur, rebuilt 1500 residences, but ruin soon resumed Its scepter. But all is down-the spires down the pillars down, the tablets down, the glory of splendid arches down. What killed those cities? Who slew the New York and London of the year 500 B. C.? Was It unhealthed with a host of plagues? Was it foreign armies laying selge? Was it whole generations weakened by their own vices, Mystery sits amid the monoliths and brick. dust, finger on lip in eternal silence, while the centuries guess and guess in vain. We simply know that genius planned those cities, and Immense populations Inhabited them. An eminent writer estimates that a i hrinainone rainof Ceylon would be. Edinburgh to London. SixteefnMiunInrea, pillars with carved capitals are standing 'ntinel for ten miles. You can judge somewhat of the size of the eities by the reservoirs that were requIred to slack their thirst, judging the size of the city from the size of the cup out of which it drank. Cities crowded with inhabitants not like American or English cities, but picked together as only barbaric tribes can pack them. But their knell was sounded, their light went out. Giant trees are the only royal family now occupying those palaces. The growl of wild beasts where once the guffaw of wassail ascended. Anuraj ahpara and Pollonarna will never be re builded. Let all the living cities of the earth take warning. Cities are human, hav Ig a time to be born and a time to die. No more certainly have they a cradle than a graVe. A last judgment is appointed for in dividuals, but cities have their last judg meat In this world. They bless, they curse, they worship, they blaspheme. they suffer; hey are rewat deJ, they are overthrown. Preposterous! says some one, to think' that any of our American or European wties which have stood so long can ever comne through vice to extinction, rat New Yorkt and London have not stood as long as those Ceylonese cities stood. Where lis the throne outside of Ceylon on which 165 successive kings reigned for a lifefime. Cidles and na ions that have lived far longer than our present cities or nation have been spul hered. Let all the great muncipalities of this and other lands ponder. It is as true ow as when the psalmisi- wrote It and as true of cities and nations as of individu.als, "The Lord hreogeth the way of the righ ens, but the way~ o -E' ~jodlisal' perish." -___________ A History 01 at1. V alienune. St. Valentine-was an Italian priest iho sufiered martyrdiom at Rome in 270, or at Terni in 306d.- Historians differ as to the date. Legend ampli fe, by dwelling on the virtues of his life and the manner of his death, and tells how he was brought before the Emperor, Claudius II., who asked why e did not cultivate his friendship by honoring his gods. .As Valentine pleaded the cause of the one true God earnestly, Caiphurnius, the priest, eried out that he was seducing the Emperor, whereupon he was sent to Asterius to be judged. To him Valen tine spoke of Christ, the light of the world, and Asterins said: "If He be the light of the world Hie will- restore the light to my daughter, who has been blind for two years." The maden was brought, and aftcr Valen tie prayed and laid hands on her she received" her sight. Then Asterius asked that he and his household might. be baptised, whereat the Emperor, being enraged, caused all to be im prisoned and Valentine to be beaten with clubs. He was beheaded a year later on February 14, 270. History, - having little to tell con erning the man, makes amends by dwelling at length on the ceremonies observed on this day. They trace the origin of these to the Roman Luber calia, celebrated in February, at which one practice was to put the names of women in a box to be drawns by the men, each being bouind to serve and hon->r the womau waose name he had drawn. A oiromn. First Burglar-"Let's quit tis business and become reformers." Second-'I'm a reformer now." First--"Come off." Second-"Yes, I am; a chb.oro And he proceeded to saturate the sponge as the victim slept-Detroif SUIDUNG WILD BEASTS NOT BY EINDNESS, BUT THEOUGR FEAR ARE THEY TAXED. & Trainer Tells How He Handles the& Beasts When First Placed Under His Charge-Nerve Required. BAD KEEPER CONKLIN. in charge of a large men ie, tells the New York how wild beasts are ,amed. He says: "We have a tremendous amount ot work to do with the wild animals up in the winter quarters in Bridgeport of which the public knows nothing. You see we are getting new wild ani mals all the time, and as they come to us there is not a man living who would dare to go into the- cages with them. During tho winter we have to break those beasts io that we can handle them as you see us handle them on the road." "And how do you do it?" "Well, when they come to us the) nave thick leather collars around their necks, with heavy chains attached. They are more savage then than they were before capture, their capture only having served to bring out all that is ugly in them. They will s'pit awid growl at anybody who gets near their cage and jump at the bars until they exhaust themselves. We begin to teach them manners the very day we get them, and they take a lesson in etiquette every day after that until the show starts out." "What do you do to them?" "My men catch the end of the. chai. fastened to the colbar around the new beast's neck and fasten it to the-bh in such: a manner that the beast can only move a short distance. Then I take a good rawhide whip and stdat club and enter the cage. I tae a chair and sit down in the corner." ".Feeling perfectly cool, Isuppose? "Yes, so long as I know that obahi is solid and securely fastenel. Well, the instant I get in the beast will give a roar and spring for me. I would be torn to shreds if I was within reach, but the chain h6lds;, and instead of getting at me the lion, tiger, panther or leopard simply comes to the end of his rope, as it were, is brought up with a shock that sends him in a heap to the floor of the cage, and I give him a lash with the rawhide. The beast is at me again in an instant, and again he goes down and I lash him. I never have used the club on an, animal, but I always keep -it haidy in case it is needed. I keep drawing my chair a little closer to him.as this goes on un -- Wnewithle -noe'T' me. Then I just sit there and talk to them, and you would be surprised at he power the human voice will finally be made to exereise over wild beasts." "While I ed talking to one, just out of reach of his teeth, if he gets ugly nd attempts to ;rng at me I give him ihe rawhide. I eep this up and after a dozen or fifteen lessons they get so that they only snarl and growl at my entrance. As soon as I think it safe I try the beast without.a chain. It is a little ticklish business at Aret, but I have plenty of help ready for the first efort. If it is a success the first time you generally have your beast mas tered, although once in a while abrute that has been tractable enough will break out and go for his keeper. We_ bad such a case here in the Garden two years ago, when ,Toseph F'oster an experienced lion tamer, was clawed by a lioness and nearly killed. Mr. . Conklin modestly refraine& from adding that Keeper Fosterwould anquestionably have met a terrnble death on that occasion if it had not been for the fearless and prompt man ner in which he attacked the lioness with an iron prod. "Genersilyuin'theculi ozgintek Wercan get a beast so that he wik.t. attack his keeper when he enters the cage," Mr. Conklin continued. "We not only have to get them so that they - will not attack their keepers, tholigh, but so that they will not attack each other, and that is a mighty hard job. Sometimes we can never do that. There is an old tiger there, one of the. most savage brutes I ever handled, and I could take you- into his Gags with him now- without the ulightest danger. If I aared to put him in the same compartment with that big Ben gal there, though, I would have a dead tiger on my hands in two seconda.' Notice the long ma'rk on the belly. That is where the Bengal ripped him - two yeai-s ago, when I tried to put them together, as they would show better that way. If the Bengal'scelawsi had not been clipped he would have - ripped open the other one and killed him." . "Whsat truth is there in the story ot the power of the human eye over wild beasts?" "It is a pretty thing to sy, and that is about all," Mr. Conklin re plied. "A man who wants to subdue a wild beast has got to be fearless and g6 about it in a courageous way, and the eye plays its part. The man who attempted to handle a wild beast who was not chained with nothing else than a fearless eye would be in a. pretty bad hole, though. What a man mnst have is a -good heart, plenty of pluck-lots of sand in his neck, as the prize fighters say. The secret of suc Icesfully ha wild beasts is to become imbued wth a confidence that all wild beasts are really cowardly, especially If they belong to' the' cat family. If you are not afraid and you know how to do it it is easy . nough." D~&rDNG AcTIoN. He-"This may be my last kiss, darling-" She-"ThenlI give notice of filibus. ."-C_ -tav an ainDele