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TRI-WEEKLY ED)ITION. WINNSBORO), S, C.9 FEBRUARY 16,95ESALHD189
WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?
Sobert Louis Stevenson Lets in a Flood of
Light on the Question.
It may be good news to some people
to know that a vigorous effort is being
made in certain literary circles to dress
plagiarism In the robes of virtue and
call it an art rather than a crime.
Robert Louis Stevenson has made a
charmingly frank confession as to the
debt he owes to Washington Irving,
Defoe,and Edgar Allan Poe. All of
these writers, especially the first, he
says, have been unconscious contrib
utors to his literary reputation, and he
is not alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
says: "Originals arenotoriginal. There
is imitation and suggestion to the
archangels if we knew their history."
Mr. Lincoln's famous remark at Get
tysburg about "government of the peo
ple," etc., was used by Webster, and
Mr. Cleveland's desire for a "public
odice" that should be a "public trust"
was first expressed in the same lan
guage by Charles Sumner in 1872.
And Mr. Sumner borrowed it from
Thomas Jefferson. Shakespeare said
"Conscience does make cowards of us
all," but a Brahman who lived 2,000
years before the poet said, "Guilty ton
science always makes people cowards."
It is not likely that Shakespeare ever
heard of this Brahman. He was no
doubt unconscious of his debt. But
Disraeli pronounced a funeral oration
over the Duke of Wellington which
had been already used by Theirs
at the funeral of Marshal Saint-Cry.
Now this, of course, is plagsarism,
pure and simple, says the St. Louis
Glob6-Democrat. But Shakespeare and
Emerson were not plagiarists, in the
commonly and rightly accepted mean
ing of the word. What a man hears
or reads and really digests and mental
ly assimilates cannot be said to be pla
giarized. Plagiarism means placing
the bodily stolen and unacknowl
edged fruit of another man's
brain to your own account, and I
think a few honest people would agree
with Voltaire that "of all the forms of
theft plagiarism is the least dangerous
to society." Maybe it is the least dan
gerous to society, but it is certainly
the mos't dangerous morally to the man
himself. To rob a man of his brains,
especially if that man be dead and
vonnot defend his property, is a kind of
mental cannibalism in which the crii
inal adds pitiable vanity to his theft.
THE CITY'S ROAR.
How it May Be Notated and Used In the
Coming Years.
"I see," said a well-known musician,
"that the Sun has been publishing the
opinion of some artist fellow that each
city has its color tone. I suppose he's
right; I don't know much about red
splashes and green smears. But the
publication of that item brings up to
utterance point something that I've
had in my mind for many years, and
that is the actual tone, the sound tone,
the keynote of cities.
"You know every sound of nature
has its notation, whether it is the buzz
of insect life in August or the roar of
Niagara in late April. So, too, I be
lieve tbat every city has its especial
sound,and that the roar of its tratile
could be rdueced to notation and individ
uaiized. I am positive that the roar of
no two cities is alike, any more than
the roar of two lions is alike.
"Of course, the roar of a city differs
in depth and intensity according to the
time of the year, week, and day. The
roar of New York on Sunday morning
in August, for instance, is a very dif
ferent thing from that of New York on
a Saturday morning in October, and
again very ditfdrent from that of any
time in the dead of winter, when all
the streets are covered with snow. But
these different sounds could be cata
logued, and herein will lie the practical
utility of the thing. Travel and war
fare in the air are bound to come, you
know, and when they do the catlogue
of city notes will be as much of a ne
cessity as a compass and barometer.
"Take an example now. You are
traveling in a ballon and the wind has
been blowing a gale for a week. The
captain doesn't know how much he's
out in his reconking, when he hears a
loud-booming note coming up through
the clouds. 'What note is thatt' lhe
asks of the mate. The mate puts the
-electro-tuning pipe to his ear and hol
lows back that is BBB flat below the
staff. 'Triple B flat below the line,
says the captain, 'and this is Sunday,
November 4. Why, that's New York.
Let out the gas there, my hearties.'
And in five minutes more you're safe
at the Central Park Aerial Landing
Enclosure. Why, sir, it's the thought
of the age. "-New York Sun.
More P'athetic Than Humorous.
-~- An aged couple living south of
Brazil, Ind., had devoted their three
score and ten to rural life and the mak
ing of a farm, sold their possessions for
the snug sum of $16,000: When the
purchaser called with a notary to close
up the deal by taking the deed of title,
the husband having signed and passed
it to the wife, she positively refused to
sign without a consideration, saying
she had spent her life in making the
farm and had never realized anything
she could call her own, and now was
her opportunity. The husband failed
to satisfy her and secure the signature.
Then the purchaser asked to know what
she would take and sign taie deed, fear
ful that she would be exacting beyond
his inclination to comply. After a
good deal of hesitancy she said she
thought she ought to have $2, which
L ~ he promptly handed her, and she signed
the title. She turned over the silver
dollars time and time again laughing
over her good luck. She said: "Well,
this is the first money Ihave ever had in
my life that I could call my own and
spend it aslImay wish to do'to suit
mnreaf."-nen~onnjs Sentinel.
ierinan War Do.
The time-honored ineunction to
"let slip the dogs of war" is being 1i
provided with a new meaning in Ger- ri
many. That country is determninedp
to be prepared for the next European
war, and is leaving no stone unturned ai
to render its military organization ast
effective in every branch as possible. F
A mongst the preparations in progress In
for the next campaign is a regular
system of dog drilling. Not only are
dogs used by the ambulance corps V d,
seek out the wounded, bring tUen:
brandy, water, and soup, fetch thE
ambulance attendants and help tc
dvaw the injured on little hand-carts, t
to the tield bospital, all of whicn
services they perform with wonderful
accuracy, intelligrence an I skill, but
they are now attached to some of the
regiments as regular four-footed ei
soldiers. In this capacity, the first el
le;son they have to learn Is silence. ci
They are taught to repress the out- te
break of barking, by which they tE
would announce their presence to an
enemy, and to replace this mode of
signaling by a low growl audible only
to their friends. This is a dilticult e
leson, but a more tedious task is to tc
follow. Tnis is to teach the wardog 0
that while all doas are dogs, men are 0
divided into friends and enemies,and S(
the way to distinguish them is by the te
color of their trousers. The way this 01
tine distinction is impressed on their sl
intellect is by dressing soldiers up in g1
Russian and French uniforms, and
making them beat an ill-treat the Y
dogs and abuse them in French and tl
Russian; whereas soldiers in Ger
Ipan uniform are told off to pet and 0
caress the canine recruits, and regal- 01
them on that delicacy dear to all
beings born in the katherland-the
sau age. At night the dogs can ren
der good service at the outposts,their
quic. sense of h#.uring enabl ng them
to an nounce the 'roach of footsteps- e
long before they have been detected e
by duller human ears. Tne dogs are
also trained to carry dispatches in a P
little saichel, which is buckled on s
the light iron collar they wear. Gray h
Fomneranians make the best soldier Is
dois, on account of their great mus- b:
culbr strength, their quickness in si
learning, and their unobtrusive color. ti
For ambulance ser.ice, however, is
Prof. Bungartz, the animal painter, a:
who is much interested in this branch b
of the Led Cross Society, and has v
himself trained many dogs for it, de- 1
clares that Scotch oollies are the best s
breed.
A Dog %jVhose Fame Lives ... h
The good dee'ls of Bob, the fire- d
men's do;, are still fresh in the mem- C<
ory of his humaa comrades. It was d
at a tire i.i Duke st eet that Bob n
darted into a burning house and, ob- U
livio- s of the hereditary animosity t)
betw- en the two races, brought out h
-there being no other living thin.r h
to rescue-a I alf-suffoe.tted cat, r:
whicn he carred in his mouth to a
place of safety. At another lire in
the Westminster Bridge road the
brigade thought that all lives ha i
been saved; but Bob, having made his P
usual rapid survey, began to scrat'h tl
and bark furiousl" at a little door
till, in spite of the r fear of fanning
the ilanmes by creating a draught, the s:
tiremen broke in an-l discovered a bi
child crouching down in a corner mi
pa-ie-stricken. lioh was always in a
attend .nce at the o'd Southiwark tire il
station, ready to follow an engi e
and to run up the lid~ler and jump tc
through the windows of a burning 01
buildmg eve more quickly than the
iremen. lie died, it will be rememn- tb
bered, at the lost of duty, run over
by the wheels of an e glne on the.
way bl.:rsted cal-driver, don-tchew
know.-London liaily Nt ws.
nussr, irrs repurrra, rurtes at)
solutely the notion that she should In
tervene to protect the Armenian Chris
tians from Turkish barbarity, and this :b
Is quite~ naural and entirely just. Why
should Russia Intervene? England Is
responsible for the Armenian muassa
cres. She Is morally and politically tc
just as much responsible for them as
she could be If she had planned and l
executed them. They are 15art of thet
Inevitable consequences of what she c
did when she, backed by* Germany,
buliied and forced Russia Into accept
ing the treaty of Berlin as a settlement
of the Rtusso-Turkish war, substitut- P
ing it for the settlenient or the treat'. n
previoulsly made between Russia and '
Turkey. If the settlement of that war b
which blussia had compelled Turkey to -
accept had been carried out, there a
wouit never have been any more mans-E
sacres of Christians in Armienia. Butt
there would have been also an aston- d
ishing loss of' British irestige, and sot
E.niawii worked to substitute a treaty n
of ler owV1 naking othe other,~* and r
succeededl. Urth pr1~estge waLs saved. .6
but wihein Disraeli reorne-:d .1r Beli1r- P
iun. h:U ing secured~h what was called
"peace with lhonor" he had uncon- .
seously provided for these ver' as- d
sacres. England is responsible fo.r them 0
Why- should Russia lift a finger to P
ightenu that responsibiiltry. N
Familiar with the Show. - . r
Aunty (showing Bible pictures to 4-. e
ear- old niece)-And now, Maggie, t
ho is the man in the lion's den? Mag- t
gie-Buffalo Bill, Aunt Jennie.
Brooklyn Eagle.f
Spared the Troubie,
Radbourn-A mnan tried to commit
suicide by drownuing yesterday. Ches
ne-Was he saved? Radbourn-Yes,
be was saved from drowning. Some
iiot threw a log of wood at him and t<
kncked his brains out.-Exchange. e
n
A Wise Thief...
Judge-When you broke into the li
brary and stole a lot of hooks, why did
you take only the works of classical a
authors? Thief--Because, your honor,
modern books fetch hardly any price in
the marketFliende Blaetter.
A Fingeriess Family.
In a Lincolnshire family in England,
res a family who suffer under the en
ius deformity of being fingerless. Thb
culiarIty doos not appear to be one
those freaks of nature which may
>pear in one individual. and not be
ansmitted to the next generation.
rom what can be learned, the singu
rity has existed in the family so far
i history or tradition extends, and
ere seems at present no signs of its
'ing out. as- t1w grandchildreu are as
void of fingers as their graudsire.
The hands of this remarkable family
-esent the appearance of haviiig had
e fingers amputated, or. chopped off
ughly and unevenly below the second
int, leaving a short stump. There is
> nail or hard substance, and were It
)t for the absence of anything like a
catrice a casual observer would con
ude that the defect was due to an ac
dent; but, as though nature had at
mpted to compensate for the absence
' fingers, the thumbs are abnormally
rge and strong.
Tne family are in other respects fully
idowed by nature, and do not appear
suffer the disadvantages the absence
fingers might be expected to entail.
ae of the daughters, aged 20, can write,
w, knit, and is in every way as dex
rous and accomplished as other girls
'her age and station. When asked if
e "did not find it awkward to be fin
rless," she replied:
"No! If. you had never had fingers.
)U would not know you needed
em."
The only drawback that seems to be
!casioned Is the curiosity the absence
'fingers evokes from strangers.
Good Horses Still Valuable.
Horses by the million, but of small
lue, are to be found in the United
ates. Many believe that the days of
uine usefulness are about numbered,
cept in a limited way, owing to the
de use of electricity as a motive
)wer, and to the bicycle as a "road
er." As a result of present conditions,
yrseflesh in most parts of the country
very cheap. and many farmers and
eeders take a gloomy view of the
tuation. It is possible, however, that
ie horse market, like the fruit market,
overburdened with common stuff.
ad that really good stock will still
ring a fair price. Apropos of this
lew of the case, the Horseman, a jour
l able to speak with some authority,
ys:
-Dealers in fine carriage and draft
orses report a great scarcity of really
sirable individuals; in fact, many
)mplain that they experience much
ifficulty in filling orders. At the great
arts a superabundant supply of com
ion stock may be found any day of
ie year, but good carriage or coach
orses, fine gentlemen's roadsters or
!a y draft teams are scarce and bring
Lirly remunerative prices."
He Submitted.
"I'm going down to the gas office to
Lve a row," he remarked to a fellow
ssenger on a Woodward avenue car
e other morning.
"Yes, overcharged you?"
"I should remark! My house was
nt up all last month, and yet here's a
11 one-fourth larger than for the
onth before. Why don't they knock
man down and rob him? I'll see 'em
Texas before I pay a penny of it!"
Six hours later the two men happened
meet again, and the man who was.
rercharged was ask~ed:
"Well, did you raise a row down at
e gas oflice?'
"Well, no; I started out to, but-"
"They bluffed you down?"
"No, not exactly a bluff."
"You told 'em your ho use was closed
I the montht"
"Yes."
"But they insisted that the gas had
en burned?"
"They did."
"And you?"
"Oh! I paid the bill. I happ.ened
remember that when I got home I
und that the four burners had been
ft lighted and booming away for
ir'ty days and nights, and s;o I dec
ned to submit to the robbery!"- Free
Wants the Doctors to Aavertise.
The editor of a paper in the eastern
art of the State has made an an
auncement that henceforth he will
ever preface the name of a physician
y his professional title. Thus, in
:ead of saying, "Dr. Sawbones was
aong those present," he will say, "A.
.Sabones was present" He does
is on the ground that medical ethics
iscountenance advertising, and holds
at the prefix "Dr." is an advertise
tent of a calling. "There is no more
ason," he argues, "why I shiou!ld
eak of Dr. Sawbones in the news r~e
arts than of Grocer Jones, or Lawyci
muith, or Hlotelkeeper Brown. If any
ractitioner wishes to see himself set
wn in 'this newspaper as a doctor.
~ar advertising columns are at his dis
sal."-Buffalo Courier.
amed After a Generous Countess.
Few persons know that Huntingd.ou.
a., was named in honor of the Count
ss of luntingdon, an eighteenth ceen
iry great lady, who did much for the~
niversity of Pennsylvania. Provo)g
v'illiam Smith, of the university.
unded the little city in 1777, anid
ratefully honored the iiversity's im
-o in naming the new settlemenm.
hiladelpia Inquirer.
The Desired Effect.
Doctor-The pellets 1 left here were
produce sleep.-Did they nmave that
Tect'? Patient-Yes, indeed; the nurse
ever wakened once during the night.
-Exchange.
ALTOGIH Switzerland is mostly up
ad down hill, it has 1,950 mil' s of
ilroad track, which cost over $100,-'
per male for construction.j
TLEY. DR TAIMAGE.
Bub~c?~ "P1~u3 o Compass." IC
e
frc
Tx=?: "They $al come from the Ef.t L
tromthe Wead from the North. an.
rom the South, and shall sit dow."-Lu.a it.
itil.,29.0(
The man who wrote this wa at one time a in;
pnetioint phyielan, at nhe time a tah wi
muted painter, at anotr-tim a -powerini sa
pehehO, at another tirme a rerter- a t t
ipredreportr. Go4 blesa i. I b
T B aU eportrs IFrom their peun drops wi
rabmakh or poisoo Nations. Thamame 04
or tibs reotar was Lueaas. For short X4 tr
Wa alIea and in my tex, altboz ej
s.t Te b =~nr.he e
Itioo Cb wJe
poMt a on of Chris WwcaI the
se-' h -bwsthe round warra 9te.
9h- =-themmaeonZm .Wreyril ; th
oa from the Et, and from the Wew, "ad- | -
re* the ort,'ad roM the 6omb, and I
otig meore interedd me in my rece'n ja
'yaroiund the worid than to see the
Wi eainabout woon, whether en the
or the Odin or eal or edi- it i
itSraasa or Bad R e, looking through a
n==e@.I daetraunnt to U-d just where wa
We silg, and R .is well to dno that. y
thghthe epaPinote1 you that thr'ze are -i
thrt4we potais of divlsion of the compas
end in the marinaes compe there C M.in
enbyF or eardna poinbt, and my to= haWs p
thm--t e North, the Soutb, the3as, the tn
Wit. B39I spread out bebore as the map ol &
the world to se the euent of the Rosp] W
campaign. babadea part of the. Sold te
be tasth t, abennee ou vospiu si
am oalgspe, and the Xfansx of tbe
amr a eWkl10ooded Vaet 1e
tvw# be~ and etrad xnw and Pa
uster. . Grdea., lap. p.<
ladredade Sibeians-othei vehiei bo!
o thalpdge drax=t by eh , their
pard the thi mntir at e.L' s'3soas, tha g
e-matence a Ikthme tattle #ith the cottd. o
fs-wint-aWdhges upon them with wars
oft" iad strikes the- wdhb4uete of hail ,
an4 pounb Ihem with batUlna cars of gla y.
- bf
JZt alrzady the buts of the aretie bear
tesng of 4tvine WOhi airdy the
nW~s faD on OPWs New 2 o' 1
readythe wanh of the s n of riteous
Dees begins to be filt through the bodies
andmindsan souls of the Kyperbawrns.
Down lror Nova Zembla, down fUm Spi..
brman w gir% d~wfrom the land of the =id
ight @an, ds from the passaees of erysta,
dowa over realms of ice and over domin- si
al af 0now and through hurianes of r
*let Ches's dimciples are ecming from the Ah
xorth. The inhehIransoAndson ay are Af
atern to the cross, The ChurZe X1s- Wu
swam,= in those poardelimes has It
been eamy sucacssi In estabilza 151
tweinLy*1ar 9gO stations, and over ,000 VP
natiehatie beileved ad ben bmtid.
fThe o m bsve knWWd the bgbit t
goe AU np and down Labradot. The Dsa h
=ha bld Nas gathered disciples frog E'
mong the shivering inhabitants of Gren. De
laud. Williampanan preache . hol
up-atheebdlatitudes of CogUtbs, 4 ' o
t9Jng one nine times ja the sam la
day to as MM 4eSJ tt bes who isten re
and the go it buid sohool ouses an thi
ohrehe Cat
Alasga, etled at its anneation Wiliam oU
. Seward's 1oly.- turns out to be Wil1a tir
I. Sewrad ttraangh, and it is 'earita the k.i
voice of Godtbrough the Ameriean mitson- IW
arips, mea and women as deAant of arotle ro<
hardships as the old Scottish chief who, W1
when 6amping out In a winter's night I-o
knocked from under his son's head a pillow for
of snow. saying that such indulgence in BID
uxury would weaken and disgrace the clan. w1
The cannette went down in latItude seven- In
ty-eveas. while D)Long and his freezing an
and dying men stood watching It from t oh
crumblin and crackling polar pack, but the of
old snip of the gospel Bailsas unhurc In lati- pr
tude seventy-seven as in oar own forty de- me
grees. and the one starred Nag Aosts above da
the topgallante in Bafln's Bay and Hadson's It
trait and Melviiie Sound. The herolsm o1 roI
polar expedition., which hu5 made the names an
ot Sebastia Cabot end Ocoreeby and ri
S8lhwatka and Henry Hndson Lmmortal, is a
tobe eeIipsed by thxe prowess of the men and tic
women who amid the irosis of highest lati- I ea
tudes are this moment taking the uzppe z v
shore's of Europe, Asia and America for God. "T
BeIentibts nave neveir been able to agree at or
to what is the aurora borealis, or northera a
lihts, I (3an t'll them.I It is the banner ol J o
victory 'or Christ opread out in the nothern
night beav:'ras. Partially fulflled1 alreadyex
the prophecy of my text, to be omnpletely tli
fulfilled Iine near future, "They shall comr; lb
from the North." l
Btmy text takes In the opposite point ol afi
/e compass. The far South has, through thn
high temper-itare', temptatione to latthargy idl
and indolene and hot blood whiceh tenbal
towara multiform .evi!. We have through ahe
my text got ths Northi in., notwithstaniniig wa
its frosta, and the same ftext brings in th-t in?
Souh, notwithstan'lng its torr-thy. 'The the
geldsii of eaetus, the oranre groves and the :oa
thickets of magnol'ta are to be surrendered rig
to the Lordl Almtghty. The South! Taag Mt
mana M.-rieo and all the resgions that Will. tov
Sam H. Pres-ott anid Lord Kingeboroug- a e
made f'illar in literat'ure ; M1exleo, is tht:
strange diet-ct of the Asecs; tMexico cone ge
quered by Bernan Cortes to bie more gicn thn
fusl5y conquee I .iee Xico, ti is capitat te
more than 70,00 leet above tije sea leyel lool" ros
ig down upon the entrancement of lake and in
valey and plain , Mexio, the ho-ne of na. ues
tions yet to be born-4ll orT Chriet. The en
South.! That means Africa, which Dav'i4 tIs
Livi ng'#tone conseerated to Gosd whienz he dIet[
on h'a knees in his tent of exploratton. A!4 po
ready about 700.000 conytr it to Chuistiant1|i~
In Arrica. Tue Sout bl That means all ?1a4 .I
islands strewn by omnipotent hand throng4 W
tropical j--as-XlyanD, Polynesia, Mde.no or
si, Malronesia ancl othe.r Is'.ands 1nov 1ai
numeous than you can ImagIne unen- yos pa
have voyaged earound the worl. The Soothi n
That means .Tam for God., Sumnatra lo: Go-.p
Borno or Go,8iamfor God. d
A ship was wree-sed near one of these 14 to
ands, and fivo ie:>oats pat out for shore op0
but inose Vi-o arriv.,d in tne nerst boat Wi-O 1 Its
cubbd to dhath by the emanUrde. an d till1 do
other boat put back and was som'ehowesr-d o
Yars ptasai on, and one of t~' y .ry em. ri
was wre ddagain with oth-'rs on th- s--.n- o
rocks. Crawlingc up on the sb'ore, tbi y o d
asdto bide from t. a cannibals in oini a
e averns, but mouniing the rocks the liar
ava obureb an~d erled ont: "We an
saved I A chureb, a ehurch t" The Southian
That means Venezuela, New Grnada t
ZEcador and Bohvia. T~he South I Thai dt
means the torrid gone with all its bloom th
and all Its frultage, and' all its exvuboranca ele
the redolence of 1111mitab'e gardens, tht a,
muae of boundlefs groe, the landis, thete
seas, that night by night look up tot'1 cu
Southern Cross. which. in stars. transttg | so
ure the midnight heaven as you look up a: 'r
it all the way from the Sand wica Islan-:s ttP
Australia. "They shall come romn thi rt:
oth." I
Bt I must not forget that my text take: ean
, another cardinal point of the omnp its, no
It takes in the East. i have to repot thatl pei
In a journey around the world there is noth- coa
g so muchi lmpre~sses one as the fact that th
the missionaries divinely bl'ssed are taking l
the world for God. Tue horrible war be all
twen Japan and China wiul leave the 1-15 ri
wai of opuosit'on flat in the dust. War i:th
~abatsma always and everywnere. We hol~ d I
up our han s in am-tzment at thbe meecaerE .CO
at Port Arthur, as though Chrst ian Natioma ca
old never go into such diabolism. Wi
foret Fort Pilcow ! WVe forget the fact that |
during our war both North and South re- I Po
oiced when there were 10.000 m ore ui
wounded an I slain on the oposite side., Ia
War, whether In China or taa United Ia
States, is hell let l'ose. But one good result : to
will come from the Japanese-Chinese con- lh
mec. Tnese rreions wml be more ('0'n tQ sr
Ilizatlon ~and Christianity tnan evar be
e. When Missionary Carey put before ai
;embiy of ministers at Northamntion hi
>ject for the evanzelization of India, thei
Lgned him out of the nouse. From Cal,
:ta on the east of India to Bombay on thi
st thera fa not a neizhborhood but directij
indirectli feels the * eosnel nower. Tbi
gernaut. which did its awful work foi
)-rlies. a few weeks ano was brought oul
im the niace where It has 'for vears beet
pt under shed as a curiosity,'and ther
as no one rvernntilally to er'et it. Abou
00,000 of Cbristian souls in India are tho
vn -a'-: that will lead on the 50,
1,0-"0. Tbm Christians of Amoy and Pek
. and Cau ton l the advance guard tha
il lead the 340,000.000 ol Chin%. "They
.o. eome from the East." - The last mosqui
'Mohammedanlsm will he tnrned Into I
ribtian churen. The last Buldhist temol
11 become a rortress of light. The las
>1 of Hlndooism will be pitched into thi
he UrMft who, came from the East wI
bring all the East with him. Of coore
To are high obstae!es to be overcome, and
'ct orl jls mnt be pa*ed throuth bafoc
%tn, as witnezteArmenan
de1 h-cheryof the Turb )ay thal
one on the banks of the Bospborus soo
unblel - The tIfge has afready come whet
i United States Government and Gr.al
taia and Germany ought to intome tho
lignation of all civilized Nations. Whil
a not requisite that arms be sent there t<
nzge the wholesale massacre of Armen,
e, it is requbite that by eable under thi
s, and by protest that shall thrill thi
.es from Washington and Londou and
din to Constantinople, the Kitions an
=ematiaa the diabolism for which the Sal
of Tarkey is responsible. Maanmedan
i is a eurse wh-ther ia Turkey or Nev
rk. "Tv:ey shall co-ns from the East.
d they eill come at the call o the love
s. and ;randest and best ien an. womae
all tim. I mean the mtsslonaries. Dis
ute Americans and Englishmen who hav,
is to Calcutta and Bombay and Canton V
ke their fortunes defame thpilsionarlei
amue the holy lives and the pure hou'e
ds of those misalonaries are a constant re
ke to the American and English libertinei
pping there, but the men and women o
d there stationed go on gloriously witl
er work, People just as good and sel
2ying as was Missionary Moffat, who
:n asked to write In an album, wroi0
wwor'ls:
.I album Is In savage breasts,
Yiera pasalon reigns and darkness rests
Without one ray of light.
Do wdte the name of Jesus there,
ro point to worlds both bright and fair,
Lad see the pagan bow in prayer,
Is-al my soul's delghtz.
:n all those regions are men and womef
tb the consecration of Melville B. Cox
0, embarking for the missionary work Iz
rics, said to a fellow student, "It I de i
de, comne and write my epitaoh." "Wha
til I wrtte for your epitmph?" said thi
lent. "Write," said he, ithee words
a thousand fall before Africa be givey
there is another point of the compiss ths
t'it insaud. "They hll coine fron
West." .That means America redeemed
rything. between Atlantie and PaoiMi
tans to be brought within the atrole o!
fness and rapture. Will It be done b:
rdly -arm or evangelism? Will it b
r or gospd? I a-n glad that a wave o
orm haswept across this land, and ai
)eItIs e fseling the advantage of th4
ghty nvinen't. Let the good work g<
until the last municipal evil Is ex
pated, About fifteen years aco the dis
guisbed editor of a New Yort dail:
spapr said to me in his editoria
=: *.ou minsters talk about evils o
lob you know nothing. Why don't Tot
with the oMfeers of the law and explori
yourself, so that when you presch egains
you cn speak from what you have seez
n your own eyes?" I said, "I will," an(
company with a commissioner of polic!
i a captain of pollee and two elde)rs of m)
arch I explore- the dens and hiding place
all styles of crime In New York ant
4ched a series of serypons warning you ng
n and setting forth the work that most b<
ne les the judgments of God whelm thi
r with moie awfulsubmergement than tha
canto deluge that buried Hercalanen2
i Pompel. I reoelv-d, a nearly as I cax
rember,several hundred columns of news
aer abus~e for undertaking that explora
n. Editorials of denuneistion, doubli
dad, and with captions in great primei
se, entitled "The .Wall of Talmage,'' o
amrate blakes the Mistake of isa Ife,
"Down Wita Talmage," but I still live
i arn in inlsympoathy wlth all movements
manicipal portlo.tlon.
lut a movement which ends with crim<
xsed and law executed stops hal way
7', it stops long before it gets half way
e law neme yet saved anybody, never yel
igedanybod. Break up all the house
niquity In tis city, and you only sent
Soccupants to other cliiss Break dow:
the policemen in New York, and while il
iges thaelr worldly tortiiaes It does not
Lgg fheir heart or life. The greatesi
atin New York to-day i the transform
ipower of the gospel of Jesus Christ t<
mge thse rtandI the lifesand uplift the
te or mormlsentiment and make men 4<
ht not because they are afraid of Ludow
cet yal or Sing SIn but beeause they
e God and hate aunI have
er heard, nor have n eard, of any,
og aeept the gospett proposes to re.
arate the heart, and by the infdaence o!
t regenerared heart rectify the life. Enc
Lite the law most certainly. but preach the
~pei by all means inehurchee, in theatres,
bames, In prisons, on the land and on thi
.The gospellIs the only power that eat
'olutionlse society and save the worl. All
a is half and halt work and will not last.
New York it has allowed men who got by
ice bribery their thousands and tens o:
usand's and perhaps hundreds of thou
iia of dollars to go scot free, while some
a were merely the eat's paw and agentsa o:
bery are struck vitha the llghtningrs of the
rn. t reminds me of a soene In Philadel.
ia when I was living there. A poor wo
a had been arrested and tried and Im
oned for selling molasses candy on.Sun
POtter labrakers had been allowed
go nAleturbad, and the grogshops were
an on the Lord's Dar, gnd the law, witl
hands behind its back, walked up and
ra the streets deelining to molest man:
the oit'n ers, but we all rose up In oun
tsous ialignition, and catli uson al
.g'rs, ;sible and invisible, to help us, w
:mred tht. t'tough the heavens fell no wo
n should be atiowed to sell molase
tiy on Sunday,
L f.-w wohe ago, after I hal preached ir
s of the chureios In this city, a ma:
ggered np on the pulpit stairs, mandilit
ink, saying, "I amu one of the reformers
a were elected to high of~oe at the la
cion."' I got rid of that "great reformer
son as I could, but I did not get r'd o:
: mpressi.on that a man like that woulh
ete abo-ninstions of New York about a
mas smnallpox would cure typhoid feve
a buzzsaw r-ader HIaydn's "Creatlon.
ltie in all our citise bas become so cor
pt that thle only difference between til
publican and DXanooratic parties Is thia
:ll is worse than the ether. But whal
thng else in the nulveree can do the gas
I c'i and v~ihl accomplish. "They eta1
ne, from the West," and for that purpose
Sev.ingelistic batteries are planted al
in; the Pacille coa-st, as they are planted
along the; Atlantic coast. All the pral
s, all the raountain, all the valleys, al
Scities are und- more or less gospel In
ene>, and when we get enough faith anc
2secretion for the work this whiolc Amerl
, continent will cry out for God. ,"They
il come fromn the Wet."
Imec work is not so diflicalty as many sup
se. You say, " There tare the foreIgn pop
tnions." Yes, but many of them are Hot
ders, and they were brought up to 1ovi
d worship Goi, and it will tsho but littli
persuade the Hollanders to adopt t he re
I on ol their forefathers. Then there ar,
LQ1 thce inrtaigiori so nn of thb
__oe.jo Tey Or their ancestors heot
Thomas Ohalmers thunder and Robert No
Oheyne pray. The breath or God so often
wept through the heather of the highlanan
pad the voice of God has so often sonndeg
through the Trossachs. and they all knoi
-ow to sing Dundee, so that they will not
lave oftento be invited to ocept the God oI
tohn Enox and Bothwell Bridge.
Then there are among these toreigners s&
nany of the Englisb. They inherited the
same language as we inherited-the English
in which Shakespeare dramatized, and MUl.
ton chimed his enutos, and Henry Melvilie
zospeliasd, and O!!vr Cromwell- prorogued
parliament, and Welilngton commanded his
sager hosts. Among these foreigners are
The Swiss, and they were rocked in a cradle
ander the shadow of the Alps, that cathedral
of the Almighty in which all the elements.
mow and hail and ternpest and hurricane,
worship. Among the'se foreigners are a vas:
host of Germans, ani they feel centuries
afterwardl the power of that unparalleled
sp!rit who shook the earth when he trol it,
and the havens when he prayei-Martin
Luther I From all Nations oar foreena Don
giations have comp, lmd thay aEc -homesick.
rar away from the n!Aei- or tteir childhood
and thegraves of their ancestors. and oar
glorlous-relleion Dresented to them aricht
will meettheir needs and fill their souls and
tindle their enthusiasm. They sball come
from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota, anI
from the ore beds of Wyoming. and from
the silver mines of N.'va-i. and from the
goldanrn~a af Tiors.nn. nn- fe-n tha
banks of the Platte. and the Orecon. and the
Sacramonto: nn-1 .e Cn>umbia. "They
shAh vome frnm the West."
But what will they do after they comes
rere is something gloriously consolatory
hat you have nve r noticed. "They shall
enme from the Ew, and the West, and ths
Kortb. and the South, and shall sit down."
Db, this is a tired world I The most of peo
Dle are kept onthe run all their lifetime.
t,3iness keevs them on tha run-. Trouble
teeps them on the run. Rivalries of Ufe
keep them on the run. They are running
from disaster. They are running for re
ward. Ani those who run the fastest and
rn the longest seem b.et to sueceed. But
I :y text sugzgests a restful posture for all
I od's ohildren, for all those who for a life
time have been on the run. "They shall sit
lown!" Why run any longer ! When a man
gets heaven, what more can he get? "I'hey
hall sit down." Not alone, but pleed com
anionship of the universe; not embar
asd' though a seranh should sit down on
ne side of you and an archangel on it'
ther.
There is that mother who, through all the
fears of jnfaney and childhood, was kept
running Amid sick trundle beds, now to
shake up the pil!ow for that flaxen -head
and now tq give a drink to those parchel
, Ips, and now to hush the frightened dream
I of a littleone, and when there was one less
of the children, because the great lover of
C hlidren had lilfted one out of theseroup into
the easy breathing of celestial atmosphere,
the mother putting all the more anxious
cars on those who were left, so weary of
arm and foot and back and head, so often
crying out: "I am so tired!I am so tired!"
Her work done, she shall sit down, and that
business man for thirty, forty, Afty years
has kept on tne run. not urged by selish
ness, but for the purpose of achieving a
P livelibood for the household. On the run
R from store to store. or from factory to fac
tory, meeting this loss and discovering that
inaccuraey and suffering betrayal or disap
pointment, nevermore to be oheatd or per
plexed or exasperatied, he shall sit down,
not in a great armchair of heaven, for the
rockers of such a chair would Imply one's
F need of soothing, of changing to easy pos
lure or semi-invalIdIsm, but a trohe, solid
as eternity and radiant as the moripg after
La night of storm. "They shall sit 'a.owA."
I notice that the most of the styles of tol
require an erect attitude. 4 Thera are the
I housands of girls behind counters, many
such persons through the inhumanity of
employers compelled to stand, even when
because a lack of customers there is no need
that they stand. Then there are all the ear
penters, and the stoteanasons, and the
blaeksmiths, an1 the farmers, and the engi
seers, and the ticket agents, and the con
duetors. In most trades, In most occups
tions, they must stanid. But chead of all
those who love and serve the Lord is a rest
tag place, a complete relaxation of fatigued
muscle, something cushioned and uptiols
tered and emabroldered,~with the very ease
Iof heaven. "They shall sit down." Best
Ifrom toil, rest from pain, rest from persecu
ion, rest from uncertainty. Beautiful, joy.
one, transporting, everlasting rest!i
Oh, men and women of thes frozen North,
and the blooming Sc ath, an] from the
realms of the rising or setting sun, through
Ohrist get your sins forgiven and start for
the place where you may at last sit down In
blissful recovery from the fatigues of earth,
while ther e roll over you the raptures -of
Iheaven. Many of you have had sudlh a rough
Itussle in this world that if your faculties
Iwere not perfect in heaven you would some
time forget yourself and say; "It is time for
me to start ot, that journey,'1 or "It must be
time for me to count out the drops of that
medicine," or "I wonder what new attack
there is on up through the newspapers?" or
5"Do you think I will save anything of those
erp rmthe grasshoppers, or the locusts,
or tedroughts?" or "I wonder now much
E have lost in that last bargain?" or "I must
h nrry lest I miss the train." No, no I Ta.
last volume of direful, earthly experiences
will be finished. Yea, the last chapter, the
ILast paragrapn, the last sentence, the last
wor:i. Finis !
Frederick the Groat, not wthstanding the
asighty dominion over which he reigned,
was'so depressed at times he could not speak
Iwithout crying, and carried a small bottle of
quie pison with which to end his misery
when he could stan]. it no longer. But ?
give you this small vial of gospel anodyne,
I ne drop of ,w~hleh, not hurting either body
or soul, ought to soothe all unrest and put
Iyour pulses into an eternal calm. "l'hey
shall come fromn the Bast,ani from the Weist,
an]. fromn the North, and the South, and. shall
utr down. '
Gas nhat Burns Without Lignt.
Lord Dundreary used to remark,
when anything puzzled his mentality
beyond endurance: "Well, thait's
soinething n'o fellah can find out"
In something of- the same spirit of
meek resignation and recognition of
his own mental shortcomings, the
average Washington citizen is
tempted to give up the conundrum
why it is that he pays for gas, and
right liberally too, and then gets
something that doesn't give any light.
Washington gas is a most curious
compound. It is inflammable and is
often of use in warming up milk late
at night, but when it comes to giving
a light for reading or writing pur
poses a lamp is much better and a
candle almost as good. Scientists
say that the blue part of aflamegives
no light, and that the smaller this
portion is the better the illuminating!
qualil ies of the 1:ame. It is curious
how the blue part of a Washington
flame grows. It used to be no larger
than a 25 cent piece Now MIs as
big as a silver dollar nt a twenty to
one ratio. At the present rate of
growth it will soon be larg~er than
the entire flame and will be wander
ing out into the surrounding dark
ness. Then we will all go to bed at
sun-et. and this is really much more
healthful than sitting up late at
n oight.-Washington Star.
SIGN TALK ON THE PLAINS.
Ianguage Without Words, Yet It Is Saf
ficient for Every Occasion.
Garrison life has developed some
;xperts in Indian folklore among
army officers. One of these is Lieut.
H. L. Scott, of the Seventh Cavalry.
Lieut. Scott has made a study of the
sign language of the plains Indians.
In the days of Indian outbreaks and
wars there was a practical phase to
this study, but now that peace pre
vails and there are only reservation
Indians, Lieut. Scott's acquisition is
remarkable chiefly for the scientifk
interest which attaches to it.
One day during the Folklore Congress
Lieut. Scott borrowed four Indians
of various tribes from Buffalo Bill's
camps, and, with only such language
as he used to explain to the palefaces
what he was saying, he carried on a
long conversation by signs. The In
dians were Painted Horse, Flat Iron,
Horses-Come-Last, and Standing
Bear.
The Lieutenant's hand moved nim
,ly when he asked Painted Horse
where he ived. The old indian
lookel homesick for a moment, and
then he made a superb motion pic
ture of a rock with trees on it.
"Pine Ridge," interpreted Lieut..
Scott.
Painted Horse, having found hi..
aands, keDt them going, while his
face remained expressionless. Lieu.
Scott added:
"He says his relatives live there,
And that he has come a long way and
has arrived here."
One after the other the Indian,
,oined in the sign conversation with
as much enthusiasm as an Indian can
manifest. They told. their names
a id where they were from and to
what tribes they belonged. They un
derstood the Lieutenant and each
other as welL When Painted Horse
said Horses-Come-Last was a Brule
Sioux, Horses-Come-Last immediately
worked his hands to say that was a
mistake; he was an Ogallalla. Hav
ing started, Horses-Come-Last, a
magnificent-looking Indian, signed
that he knew Gen. Miles, who was
.itting near, and he wanted the Gen
eral to say smething to him. Gen.
M iles told Lieit. Scott .o tell Horses
Come-Last that he. remembered him
very well as an Indian who had done
good service in the Aiontana cam
paign. Lieut. Scott interpreted by
signs, and immediately Horses-Come
Last showed his pleasure.
Lieut. Scott has had some striking
vidences that the Indians of the
plains meet on common ground,wiln
they resort to the sign langnage. Se
was present when Chief Joseph of the
Nez Perces addressed several hundred
Indians. The chief told of his march
from Washington Territory across.
Idaho and into Montana to the vicin
ity of the Yellowstone Park, a mas
terly military feat, without a parallel
since the retreat of Xnenophon's ten
thousand. In the crowd to which
the chief gave the narrative were
Aricarees, Mandans, Gros Ventres,
Nez Perces, Cheyennes, and Sioux.
They were the representatives of six
different spoken languages. Yet
Lieut. !zcott could see that there was
perfect comprehension of the narra
tive. Not a word was spoken. Chief
Joseph used -nothing but the sign
language, but the Indians alt followed
him.
A literal translation of the ulit
anguage is the best illustration of
its formation. Take the following
sentence:
'-1 shot with an arrow last night
an eagle which was sitting upon a
limb of a tree and it fell to the
ground."
The Indians will convey this In-4
formation by sign language as fol
ows:
"Night-before-trees-loking-l
saw bird-curved beak-limb of tree
-arrow-bow -aim - shoot--trans
fix-whirl downward -strike the
ground."
Lieut. Scott has taken part in numn
Derless talks where the assemblages
included Indians from nearly every
prairie tribe from Texas to the Can
adian line. Practically the samnt
signs were used by alL
"I must give," he said,. "my un
aalified adherence to the belief that
the sign language of the plains In
dians does exist, and that It hau
:eached a high development."
Lieut. Scott has tried to trace thu.
origin of the sign language. Ali of
the indians tell him it Is of great an
tiquity. The Cheyennes andi Ara
pahues tell him their ancestors got it
from the Kiowas, who invented It
But the Kiowas claim they got It
from the theyennes. Lieut. Scott
blieves there was no invention of
the sign language, but that it was o1
gradual and general development.
As tribes of Indians become perma
nently separated they cease to have
use for sign language in commnuni
ctnwih other tribes; then they
drop the use of it. "The indians
around Fort Totten, on Devii's Lake,
have been away from other Indians
and associated with white people
some years. Only the oldest among
them retain any knowledge of the
sign language. The Northern Chey
ennes are the best sign talkers. Co
manclies are the poorest. This the
Lieutenant accounts for hy the facr.
that the Comanche language was th~e
court language of the southern pjains.
Nang Indians of other tribes under
stood it. Hence there was less occa
sion for theComanches to perfect
,hmselves In the signs.
At the Club.
Mr. Murray Hill-You here, Up
town? Why, 1 understood your
~augter was to be married to-night.
Mr. Up~town-So she is; but I makre
it a rule never to mix in other peo