The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, June 26, 1901, Image 1
THE SORROWFUL
FACT OF HELL.
The Future Punishment of the Wicked
The Existence of Hell Legibly Declared
liisliop CatulU r, <>? (Scot-gin, luiiidlna tins subject in n fair anil logical ninnm i
in Ihc l<> lowing contribution to the Atlanta Daily News:
I low extremely now \j is liiu liu
man mind lo ronit inplntu lh? sternei
aspects i?f the moral luwl Mull scorn
lo imagine llliil llioy can utterly ex
tinguish, by ignoring or by repudiut
ing, these Illings wbieb tlio llosh find I'
iia loo disagreeable lo consider. Hence
Ihey lower Hie requirements of right
cousucss or deny llie pctiulilcs ol sin
in order to indulge desire without ilis?
(|uiolu?lc ami to ? scape obligation with
out compunction, h is a iriek of the
?stlich which hides its bond in the
sand and fancies that I hereby it has
escaped its purstircts because it no
longer sees lliein.
.\ friend told me the other day ol a
case in point, lie and a fellow travel
er wore seated near each other in a
railway ear. A distributor of tracts
came In ami dropped his Icallels in the
laps of the pas8cugois. My friend's
fellow passenger betrayed great impa
tience ami began to abuse the colpor
teur ami his tree literature, denounc
ing the poor fallow as a crank he I ore
exuiuiniiii! Ins tracts. My friend tbuie
upon expostulated, saying, "You have
noi read the tract. Look at ii more
carefully and you will like it." Iiis
traveling companion yielded to his ad
vice ami proceeded lo re.nl the liacl
and in a few moments responded:
" \\ by i am mistaken. I did not ob
serve it closely. I thank the man for
it." Alu r rending it to a llnbh he
folded it up carefully and put it in his
pocket r<?r inline reference. The tract
was designed lo prove thai, there is no
In ll. The man at lirsl supposes K was
an orthodox document, and then he
rest nti d tin mit ol it to him. Mut
when he discovered it was framed to
refute the doctrine of eternal punish*
?m nt it instantly became a most ac
ceptable present.
Similarly wo hnvo recently SOOI1 soi o
parties gleefully applaudiug, because
thoy utterly misunderstood, an net of
a small .-ret knowu as iho United
litolhrcn. It appears that this body
has stricken out <>i " the Apostles'
ClOed " tin: word "lu ll" in tin- phrase
which says of (Ihrisl, "he descouded in
to hell." and has substituted the word
" hades." Whereupon certain panics
hasten to rejoice thai the United
Urethren show signs of weakening on
th< doctrine of olcrnni punishment, id
though t'te brethren did nol dream
that they weir dealing even remotely
with the subject when thoy took the
action mentioned. Here, for example,
is. sapient passage from an editorial
wide i appeared in the t\< w York
Pressi
o Man1. retllS have bcOll expressed
of late years concerning the abolish
ment in modern popular thinking ol
what .me recent dramatist labeled 'tin
good old loll oi' our lorefalhcrs.' Ii
is true that ih>- strcnuousncss of tin
anci< nl idea, ivhicii f on ml expression
in tangible cinders and sulphurous
Ihtllio, has -nil. red severely from tie
attacks all ah n.; the line delivered by
anew generation which bus delighted
more to dwell upon the Kindness, love,
long suffering ami forgivoucss of Deity
than upon His vengeance (to use the
word only in Scriptlia) sense ) Hut it
more sigiiilican) yet to lind this attack
taking actual ideologic form and wln
niug a victoryi \N hen the goncrnl quad
rcnnial conference of tbo United
Urethren church, in session at Prcd
crick, Md., decides to substitute the
milder 'hades1 for the ?boll' of the
apostles' creed it gives tllO older class.
who have enjoyed bearing oratory
from (he pulpil through a long career.
Something to -hake head-, over, t>
prophesy upon and to shrink from."
Now. the fact is the view that the
United Urethren take of this phrase in
the creed has no relation to eternal
punishment or hdl as a place of
penalty at all- They used the word
hades " in place of the word 44 hell *'
because the latter word has a:; idea of
penalty attached to it, whereas the
former has it not. They never he
lieved that Jesus went to any place of
punishment at his death. >' Hades "
is the Greek equivalent of the. <>r< i<s
rupux ol the Latins, and the. United
Urethren with many others behoved
that the phrase in the creed means no
more, than to he buried, to go down
into the graVO, to pass from the visihle
into the invisible world, as all men,
good or had, do when they die.
The Methodist Kpiscopal churches
in the United States have not had in
the form of the creed used hy them
the word " lu ll " since 1780. Thoy
use. this form: "He suffored lindoi
PontiUS l'llate. was crucified, dead and
burled." Dr. Charles HodgO, the
groat Presbyterian thoologinn, inti
mates in his 44 Systematic Theology "
that, this Mas the original form, and
Ihm the words into hol) " did not ap- i
pear in HlO creed until the fourth cen
tury. Lot this bo as it. niiiy, it is chair
that the Methodists did not modify in
thO Slightest dogrOO their adhesion to
the doctrine ol eternal punishment
when thoy look this form of the creed
a hundred and fifteen years ftgo. On
the contrary, they have preached with
power ami persistency the doctrine ol
everlasting punishment for the Dually
impenitent.
For the two words, "dead and
buried," the Unilod Urethren prefer
the short GrOCk word ? hades." Thnl
is all tholr action means. What lias
that to do Willi I he doctrine, of punish
ment? Absolutely nothing. But sup
pose more had been meant by this
Substitution of the word ?? hades " for
the word " hell;" suppose, squinting in
thi! direction ol BOflOnillg or abbreviat
ing the pains of perdition had been in
tended, what effect would that have
had? Nothing more than could come
from the expression of an opinion by
a small and comparatively unimportant
Boct. That is all. .Suppose n larger
body bad undertaken a deliverance
looking in the duection of making hell
shorter and loss painful thau tho ortho
i dox view represents, what cited would
'I thai have had on the doctiine? Nouu
i i ai all, unless Ihcirj deliverances worn
! sustained hy the Scriptures. Klornal
f facta are n<>: changed hy dropping one
: word and taking up another, n sin is
i to ho eternal, punishment will ???? so
despite an\ sentimental opinions lo
the contrary. 'The llres i<i lull arc
I not to he extinguished hy wishing them
ollt.
What do the Scriptures leach on tho
I subject V "How rundest thou?" Is the
decisive question With all genuine
Christians. Now I submit thai to a
plain man the Bible -a bonk t<> be tin*
durslood by plain nu n leaves no room
tu doubt that in the future Id1' a dif
ferendoom awaits the good and the
had. This is clear if the Scriptures
are n revelation, ami not a riddle.
Noah and the antediluvian sinners
surely did not land at las*, in the same
world. Did Hod give ihem heaven
and Noah the ark? If so he punished j
the good man and n warded the -in- '
m is. Did .hulas climb over the wall
ol tin- Now Jerusalem with a rope and
welcome his betrayed Lord home with
hosannas like the acclamations of the
multitude welcoming llim lo the .lern
sah n; on the eatthV
Did Nero ami Paul go lo tho Btimo
place when they died? Were Dives
ami I .a/.a r us in llie same place? Were
the wi-e virgins on the inside at the
man Inge feast, in the same case as
the foolish virgins on the outside t<>
whom it was s lid, *? I know you not."
Was lie- fate of the wise builder,
win so house wu? founded on bedrock,
the same as that ol the foolish buildei
who creeled his house Oil the -ami?
Did tho SlOI'in have the BaiUO Cited on 1
the two sti ucturcs ?
The Savior represents Inmsell at the
last day as a shepherd divi ling nu n I
into two great classes -is sheep add
goats. To one class lie says, *? C< m<
yo blessed of my Father, inherit tho
kingdom prepared lor you from iho
fouiulatiAii of the world." To the
other lie says, "JJeparl from mo, ye
cursed, into everlasting tin-, prepared
for the dovil and his ai.gols." Now,
omitting to cousidor any curious qu< -
lion as t<> what tin- lb'' may mean and
to other mallers, 1 wish to know if t)>.<
same destiny is revealed for both tin
sheep ai d the goals? Or does iI nol
appear that the opposite characters, u
different a< sheep and gouts, have
passed IlltO the eternal world, and met
destinies so wide apart thai the ex
treme*! orthodoxy cannot make them
Wider-.'
Tli ii, ii is said in 111 - - closing sen
tence of the passage, '-And these shall
, go away into ovorlnMing punishment,
but the righteous into lite eternal."
What do that mennV Ar. ??oluriiiil
lifo " and "everlasting piiuishment"
dilYureiil decrees of a common blessed
ness, or is one a State of joy and the
oihoi n stato of pain?
And it is idle nonsense to talk llboilt
the Word " OVCrluStillg" as applied to
the punishment being a term of limited
duration, and the life, being a term
signifying thu word " eternal," as ap
plied to OlldloSSnCSS. Ill the (.leek
tl c> are the same word. If hell is less
than end!. -*, so is heaven, llCCOI'diug
lo this pas . jc.
To tie imo purpose the cnao ol
Dives mid Lazarus ICUCllCS, Say
Abraham," llotweou us and you tin ,,
is ii greiltgull fixed; SO that they Wllicil
would pass from hence to you Cannot,
neither can pass to us, that would come
from thence." How long, then, would
Dives slay wllOte he was? Doe- thole
not seem lo have been in hi- case
a fixedness of condition af well as a
fixedness of character? And that is
what we, see, in this world. Character
drifts to the places that Iii it.
I fear the result of all this sentiment
al effort logo! rid of the idea thai the
?4001! and the had 40 to different places
in the next world tends lo cITacO tin
distinctions bolWCOn riglll ami wrong.
It impairs the authority of UlO moral
law by destroying the sanctions of the
future, life. The French people got
the OXlhodoX doctrine quite out of their
minds once, and when they ceased to
fear any hell in the next world, they
proceeded to make a hell on earth.
Then was the " lloigll of Terror."
And let no man vainly imagine be is
standing for the. vindication of the
divine mercy when he pleads against
the doctrine of the, future punishment
of the wicked. It is not niercy in
government, but corruption that treats
virluro and vice alike. Wherefore the
Psalmist sings, "Into theo O, Lord,
hclongcth.mercy; for thou ronderesl to
every man according to his work."
(oid's morcy is manifest in the rcctb
l?de ol his moral government. Mercy
and justice arc not opposito principles,
mutually OXClUSivo of each Other, but
thoy arc. dilTc.rcnl aspects of the divine
holiness.
Sometimes it is said: " I can not
believe a morciftll Qoti would aUoW a
man to suffer elernally for the sins of
a short life time?" Hut pray tell us
when did (Ik. length of lime consumed
in committing a crime measure the
penalty which il should receive? Shall
we hang a man who kills MlOlhor by
slow poisoning and only fine tho mur*
derer who slays his victim in the
twinkling of an i yo?
If hell is limited so is heaven. If
man can rise old , f hell, he can far
more easily fall out of heaven, for
falling is easier (ban remaining stand?
fast or rising when down. At last our
einuce is not between the orthodox
doctrine of oik; heaven and one hell,
and the heterodox doctrine of one
heaven and no hell. We are shut up
by facts to lake the orthodox view of
one heaven and one hell, or to believe
that there is to be at last onO hell, and
no heaven at all.
It is timo men ceased trilling with
this awful subject. It islimo they ob
jected to sin moro and suffering loss.
Pain i< inevitable ? law is broken, and
tho worst fact of nil is tho righteous
ness l a aixl not ilio agony Incurred.
Ii lime men had quil petliu? their
own sin- nnd extonunting nil other'
wrongs, Couvciting the world byl
coddling is mi unpromising plan ol
sn|vn< ion,
i four Ihore la a heretical orthodoxy
all loo prevail ut, Some preachers u-o
porfectly otthodox word-, i>ui speak
oi hell in -m li a llippaut manner as t?,
make iin ii in uriirs doiibi their sin
cerity ami question Ihe doctrine the)
preach. Some preacher* thti ateu
sinners with lu ll, if as thoj were glad
Ihe nu n threatened would -_'o there.
Ii was not I has .Jesus proclaimed thi
solemn doctrine. When our Loid t? 1??
itouuccd sentence ol judgment there
were tears in Ida tones. After do
ununcing woes against Jer.unlein ho
broke into a (lood of (ears Unit her
bouso should so >n in 'oft desolate. It
w i- .1 tender showi r that followed Ihe
lightning's sharp Hash. Let no man
preach ii,, ilocicine of eternal punish*
inenl until Ids lu'art is ready lo break
id g 1 I thai so illlilij pi hi- fellow
in n will in the faco <?! all IUvinc
Mercy ? :i d ?, rush madly 10 so rear*
ill a doom.
Ii in to me mi unutterable grief Hint
some - nils will never bo Baven", Unit
thoy will eventually go into a loveless
world an'! travel beyoiul the reueb of
inv Lord's Icudoi" compassion. ?, Ibe
unspeakable sadness <>i it, that one
distiiel in the universe is never to he
recovered from its rebellion ami mi
ery. I wish it Were not so, 11ul reason
mi I Si riptui'o botli leach mo such is
the case. Man i* I reo, and Und him
cif cm reu prevent a freo ngetii mak
ing a bell.
?? In Ho uliitosl solitudes of nature,
the existence ol bell seems lo mo as
legibly declared by u thousand Sj.h dual
num.noes a> that of IteilVeil ' So
linskjn sorrowfully tenches, und the
\\ nd i- 11ue alas! bow 11 tie!
?' Ib-ll ha? no liimis, nor is circumscribed.
In one Bell place; bill when' wo are la
hell,
i ml to ho sheri when all Ibe world clis
olvca
And every Croat uro shall bo purified.
.VI pbieea shall ho hell thai are not
Itenvcu,"
Then the univtr.se will be composed
?r the inner lights and Iho outer dark
ness must arise:
11 The wailings of Iho damned, of
h ?so who would not he redeemed."
Anger there will become immortal,
md in helpless ruiru will irimah Iis
t? olh. Despair will become eternal
nod hopelessly will weep. u Figures
ol speech," says one. Vcs, and ho\V
dreadful nnisi bo ihe realities of which
these are Inn '.In- shadowy likenesses.
BILL ARP HA i A BIRTHDAY.
lie Has I,ivcd Three Quarters of
a Century and Stops to Medi
tate.
Atlanta Constitution,
To-day i- the sevenly-lifth anniver
: nr. udveul into this world?my
coining into this mysterious, wonder
ful condition that we call life. It is a
lltlim lim? im- meditation, contoinpla*
lion, coi^iialion ntiii rumination. An
aged poetess played double with hor
sed and said:
Life! We've boon hum together,
I'lirough tension and through eloudy
weather;
say not " :r i ulniidd." give little warning,
An i in -?> o lirk'htcr eiimc i>id mi- " ?.it
morning '
She diderd care lo linger ami
languish on her lasl bed. The doctors
hail n't invented or discovered hcnrl
failure then, but that's tho way she
wished to go.
I do not. I would have some little
lime lor ihr Ii i loving words, and
look ?some time for tears and sorrow
on i if faces of those w ho love mo.
Tin h ath of tin- aged is onij a change
a parting, a beginning ol another
life, li is no calamity, no horroi lio
slunk, no unreasonable thing. Ii is
tin- law ol our being and the old are
not fnr abend of the young. How kind
it is in providence lo reconcile us to ii
as wo m at the goal. I r< member
wllOll I though! it was an awful tiling
to dio. I dared nol think ol' it, much
less lo ponder Ii und it seemed to mo
that lb ore was s mio possible escape
from ii ami I might nol surely die
Km a- WO m ar tho allotted age and
realize the symptoms of decay we be
come less reluctant, less alarmed ami
liko Job are ready to exclaim, "1 would
nol live always; I ask not to stay."
Ihn some how 1 do not reel old not
very < Id not inllrm. My eves are
weak and my hearing impaired, and
win n I stoop long at work in the gar
den <>r picking strawberries my hack
aches and my knee hones crack WllOll
I straighten up, bul I booh get over it.
1 love work easy work and it koopv.
me in go id health, hut I doil'l like to
Woik hy Ihe day or the job for some
body eise. I don't like lo have a
master or a boss except my wile, who
wants me right now to transplant her
peppers. I gently hinted that they
should be planted by a high tempered
woman to do well, ami she said she
thought im impertinent man would do
as well and I had better attend lo il
right away. Sometimes I think I have
worked enough, for the pool says we
should crown?
" A youth of labor with mi axe of ease,"
and so 1 like, to work when I feel like
il mid (piit when I please. 1 have
neve- dislrOSSOd myself flbout the work
that the toilers have to do. Work lias
its hardships and its blessings, too.
The law ofjcnmpcnsulioti governs every
trade, or calling or condition in life.
There, is a good side and a had side.
14 l?y tin! sweat of the brow shnlt thou
eat broad," and no idle man is happy.
44 The sleep of the. laboring man is
BWOOt," salth Solomon, and the doctor
teils us that bodily exercise, promotes
good digestion. Work brings content
mont. The wealthy who don't work
ami dou'l have tu are always longing
for something' tie V haven't l'o(. Some
thing Unit money can't buy, Cot il Will
not buy good health nor good cbildron,
nor make, the home happy. The peace
and "latitude of the cotter's Saturday
night la unknown to tin; rich. The
toilers us n class arc the happiest peo
plo I know. Thoy enjoy their food
and their rest and their Sundays. 1
bad rathor tako tbo chancos for hnppi
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rtt'sa on earth und n homo in heaven of
till! welkin/ man (hail those of 11 it*
millionaire. Byron says "-The many
must nl ays labor foi (ho few," ami
L'nbc says ?? (hu u;ood Lord mtulc poor
men just lo keep rich men in money,"
imt dm good book says a poor man can
squeeze through I he eye of a needle
and a rich man can't." (Joho is a good
Con fed ( rale veteran and enjoys his re
cord and his religion and Irs tobacco.
That is all he has and he is content.
One of Ihe greatest comforts of old
age i-* in contemplating the happiness
of children. It delights mu to sit in
the fluide of my veranda and watch
for two little pirls who are four and six
?'cars old, coming up the avenue hand
ill hand and waving a welcome and a
-mile at me. It rejoices me to watch
larger ones as they play croquet on llie
tennis court near by and to hear their
merry voicos and unconsciously I
breathe a prayer that they may always
lie happy ami no calamity or alllclion
befall llicni in the yeais to come. If
I ever get lo heaven ami St. I'oloi
asks me what vocation 1 would ell ?ose.
I think I would say. " Please, good
Saint, make men guardian angel of (ho
tittle children I left behind me. and
?give me power to shield tin in from all
harm." I think I would like thai I
think (bat L would. I like it now as
far as I can dolt. It is a privilege and
i delight to an old man to make others
happy, rime was when my chief con
cern was for myself and wife ami our
children, bill as age comes on the heart
enlarges and softens. Tho vanities
ami ambitions and scllishucss of oiu
youth disappear and wo recall the lines
..I llobart:
" Conni iho day los', if lho descending sun
\'icw ? Ir m thy hand no generous action
done."
I .o i n day lit! How many (lays
have Wo all lost in our brief lives.
How many days in which we made no
one happy, not even with smile.
lint ihcsu I'cllcclions arc loo gloomy
for the day. Thoy remind us of Her*
vev's meditations among Iho tombs,
or dray's "Klogy Ina Country Church
yard." I am old, I know; lull 1 do
not leel old nor sail. My desire is to
grow old gracefully ami for
An ago thai melts in unporeeived doeay
And (.'lilies in in .test ilitlOCOUCO auay."
III l.l. A nr.
?,?i i Kit I'l. \( i s TO 1.1 v i. i s. Near,
1'ero Matqtteltc, Wis., an ox-cahinct
maker lived lor many years in tin-1
slump of n tree, says the Kpringllcidl
Journal. The tree was a huge linden
thai had been sawed oil'some liflo.cn
foot ftt in the ground, and the old man
had Used the skill of his craft to make
the interior of his remarkable abode
comfortable and almost luxurious.
The slump possessed both door and
window, and the "houso" was wonder
fully cozy and ccr'ainly peculiarly
ipiaint. An old lisliormaii, a native
of Si. Milo, was the occupant for
several years of a residence which
cost him nothing in the way of rent
or taxes. The residence in question
was a huge cave lo which i he sea (lid
not pcncll'lllo ami which the fisherman
made habilablo by flooring and other
accessories. He claimed that he was
merely following the example of his
remote ancestors, who dwell in caves.
The majority of folks would doubtless
consider such a residence far too damp
and gloomy for daily and nightly occu
pancy. Not very long ago an Ameri
can millionaire bllill a submarine boat,
titled in the most luxurious manner.
Here he was accustomed to spend
several weeks, oallllg, drinking, and
smoking to his heart's content while
journeying beneath the sea level. Air
was conveyed by elaborate machinery
on board the vessel, ami the qiioro
residence was often visited by parties
who dined with the owner in his sub
marine house.
Exactly as Advkhtiskd.?-An in
dignant working farmer returned lo a
horse dealer's about an hour afLer pur*
chasing a horse.
Look here, sirl" he exelaimcd,
" 1 don't want this horse you sold moi
He shies. L can't get him to cross Ihe
I bridge"
" That's the reason i sold him," said
the dealer, calmly. " Why did you
come lo me for Ihe horse?"
"1 saw your advertisement in tho
paper."
11 i thought so. i gave my reasons
for selling him."
u Yes; to he sold, you stated, for no
other reason than that Ihe owner want
ed to i^o out of town."
" Well, if you can get out of this
town with him," said the dealer, u it
will he. more than 1 can do."
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Signature of
A FI,AO OF THIS LOST CAUSE.
A Dying Confederate Gave it to ;i
Chief in the Samonn islands.
Soon nftcr Judge Chambers, who is
now a member of Ihe Spanish war
claims commission, was sen', lo Samoa
hy President Cleveland he attended
one of the great gala festivities and
ica-is so Cam on-) among the natives <d
ihese I'act lie islands, say- the Wash
ington Star. These feasts arc never
In he forgotten by those who once at
tend. The natives come from many
miles around the island-. Most ol
Iheni reach Apia, where the feasts
lake place, in boats, Sometime- there
are over 000 boats with from two lo
eighty-dour oars each, and containing
persons enough b> till them. The scene
is one of Ihe most piclUrU8QU0 to be
found in any part ol the world. lie
fore the feasts boat races and aquatic
sports lake place la the harbor of Apia,
ami Up to ihe time the islands WolC
partitioned, the representatives ol the
foreign governments \. re interested
specla'ois, and the natives considered
the presence of the loieigncr- a great
and important honor.
The leasts might be called pic-nlcs,
lor they are held in the open an, Inn
instead of pies, pickles, cakes, sand
wiches ami lemonade, ihe CUStomary
refreshments at pic-nics, the natives
kill ami roast hundreds of pigs, geeso,
chickens and other fowls, besides hav
ing many varieties ol lish. Some beau
tiful grove is ihe only table, ami the
.round where tin: food is spread is
covered with the rich green loaves
of ihe banana tree. The i/reatosi bos
pilalily is al way s evidenced, tho natives
paying especial attention lo I heir
guests. Ai Hie conclusion of the least
it is (he custom to divide the remain
ing food among Hie people, it being
proportioned according lo position (be
higher a man stands the larger Lhe
I amount of left-over food lie has sent to
In- house. In tili-, as during lhe
course of the feast, Micro 1- (be great
est precision in the inuiiugciucnl. At
no lime is there a scramble. The oc
casion is ii delightful one to people un
accustomed to it.
'?All the native chiefs bring lings of
some kind when coming lo the feasts
ami lake the greatest care of lliein.*'
said Judge Chambers in describing a
Sainoau least to a group of friends ihe
' oilierv day. "They are fond of any
kind of Hag. Those chiefs who cannot
obtain tho Hag <>i nations use fancy
picci s of cloth ami tailored garments.
Ifo is a poor man and unimportant
chief who docs nol own a llag. Look
ing out on the beautiful scene in (he
harbor of Samoa on this gala day that
I have spoken of, I noticed a bout Hy
ing a llag that I could not make out.
I took a glass and saw what 1 thought
was a Confederate Hug. I could not
behove it possible, howovor, and wait
ed until the boat came m ar. Then I
Haw plainly that it was a genuine llag
of tho Confederacy, I naturally was
greatly interested, and scut one of my
servants to ask the chief to como to SCO
me.
When he came I began question
ing him about Ihe ling, but he would
giVO nie no iiiloruiation. He was a
man of good features and was appar
ently a child' of consequence in his
neighborhood. I, of course, wanted
lo gel possession of Die tlaur, and did
not suppose that I would have the
least trouble in doing so, particularly
as the aativcs we:e fond of exchang
ing ilags, and thai tho United states
was a favorite with thorn, tho llag of
fCnglnud being next and of Uormany
next.
?? I ottered tho chiof ti Hag of tho
United states for his Confederate Hag.
He said quietly thai he, OOUld not make,
the exchange. 1 then offend him a
new ling of England or of (Jcrmnny.
He. refused these also, and I suspected
that he was trying to drive a shrewd
bargain with me. I next offered him ?
holt of cloth worth considerable money,
and when he refused that 1 olVercd
him a barrel of meat, the, most tempt
ing and costly Illing in the mind of a
native. As nothing could induce him
to make the exchange, 1 asked him his.
reasons for refusing.
" In reply he said that one day long
ago a white, man came to his hut. lie
supposed the man had come from Apia.
He had several bundles in his posses
sion and preserve t them with the ut
most care. The sinniger, Ihe chief
told mo, was a man of great dignity
and of an amiable disposition. The
natives soon came t( love him much
and look plcasuro in providing him
with every delicacy they could Obtain.
The Chiof himself became, deeply at
tached to him : ii.I whoi. the whin
man's health began to rail tb ire was
uiiivorsal rogrot among lh< nativos.
When the Blrangor how that his end
waft near hfl eaded lhe chlOf tO him
and directed that one of the bundlos in
bin possession be opened. Thon thoro
was displayed a boauliful silken llag,
but worn by handling.
M ?800 that flag?' said the stranger;
well, it was tho flag of my nation?a
great people. Li went down in defeat,
hui I decided Um! ii -In uld never ??<'
BlUTCIldOVod. 5>0 I It'll homo, ki'is.
men ami friends und enino hoie with
ii. I am going t? giv ? it t" you.
Nover h i .' while man have u in Ids
hands.'
" That was Iho dying Injunction of
ihe stranger and the rim I had ?Woru
Unit the llau should alwaxs lemulii \\ ith
him. He had mad' his Iribe swear lo
keep i" ami never pun with it : that
when he died ihe guccccdtug eh i i
.should lake it a'd hur\ it win re no Inn
man being would ev? r lind it.
?> The chief's story was told in sim
ple hui itiTei ting words. I made ninny
other offers 11 secure tho llag, hut ho
Wa- Hi in I" ihe ' ltd and wont away
thai alter noon with tin liny in his boat.
1 instituted son i) inquiries later and j
sein several trusted na ives n> tho
chiel's honii lo-mala otters, hut they
Weie Unsuccessful. I
" W in ii I uimtc bin k b> lliis u iiinti'v
I ami t??l?l ilie - ory t" suhl?! Confederate
I friends i luv agreed In lake si ein In
recover the ilii: ii possible. Soino
years lutoi lliey begun a systematic
effort, bni i Ii?- old ebiel bml passed
it way, (lie llnj bail disappeared and
(be members <>i Hie tribe would give no
information as lo its w Inn on bouts."
-? ? ? -?
fill (iiiowino Tin st. Tin growth
of business eonsolidatioii during 11n?
present year eclipses all previous re
cords. Trusts have been ofi?aui/.ed s<>
swiltly thai on In those commanding
ovoi' $nO,000,tM?? uro deemed worthy
of altt litioii. Tho bigsb ol stru?-!, with
its caplttil of ?1,100,000,000, stands
at tin lira.I ul ill business transactions
of the win ill, ami even l litt < eollossnl
;il"_'icualion may le eclipsed il Hi
rumor ol a coilon combine should ma
leriuli/.e. Tin' grand t"'al of hum
nrguui/.cd dm ing llio lir-i live months
? ?I the year runs up to ?*2,000,0(10J100.
The New Y? rk Sun gives a- the re
cord of ihe pusl week the shovel lrus(,
with $10,000,000 capital; tho cotton
duck mi-;, with an authorized capital
ol $00,0(MUK 10; n !?"20,000,000 trust to
Uliii/.e lhe WUtelS of the IMltttO lor
power; a S<5?,000,0(IO C nn; any to as
sume chuiire of the slreel car s\stem
of Pennsylvania5 iho complete knock
in? oui "i I lie opposition t<> (lie Stand
aid Oil h um in Ohio, und the organi
sation into one body of all the paper
makers of the Doininion of Canada,
This list, according 1 > The ludiatuipn.
Iis News, can he ro-enforcod ny com*
hiuatious in all lines of business, ouch
as rriut, paporinakers, 1 in can interests,
carpel combinations, dry goods and
machinery trusts, shipbuilding com
binations, locomotives and salmon
lishoricfl nothing seems to he omitted.
Now combinations that uro promised
an- thr publishers of popular music, to
r<>riu the American Music Publishing
Association, with a eapilal id sl.uuu,
11 ii, and tin- eoinhiualion id' several ol
the big watch companies into a watch
11 list with a capital of S-7?">,000,000.
Tuic Oi.I)-Fasiiuini;|) Hoy. a1 a
little dinner of a n a o d-liii.crs in ibis
city lhe other night, -tvs tho Philadel
phia Times, one of I ho speakers s:iid:
"What liatj Ihm oinii?I il.Id fashioned
boy?" Tho oiii who looked like his
I'ntl.cr when Iii- latin r curried lhe soil
??I p mposit\ which was like the divinity
thai hedged a km.: in tin- tum when
kiughood wan in i! break o'-day. The
boy who won n lud which Ibronleiicd
lo coiiio down over Iiis cm s. Tho lioj
whoso Iroiiscis wore made over from
bis father's, by his mother, or uiiiil,
or grandmother. The l?>v who c hair
hoi a row ink in it, before, Und was
sheared off the Hume length behind.
The hoy who walked with both hands
in the pockets of his trousers, and who
expectorated botweon bis loeth when
his teeth wi re clamped together. The
hoy who Wore hoots, tun down at the
heels. The hoy who never won1
knickerbockers or a round-about coat.
The boy whoso chirograph} was shaped
by tho gymnastics ol his longue. Tho
hoy who believed his lather was the
irreales) man in the world, ami thai he
could have been I'resident ii lie lud
wauled 1,1 bo. The boy who was his
molhcr'8 man when the man was away
I rom home."
A SknKMW.I: .Ii i |)( if., The coiirl
room is a place where a good many
amusing things occur. The examina
tion of witnesses is often the occasion
of a good laugh for the visitors t<> I lie
temple of justice, In iimnv instances
the joke is on the witness; but some*
limes the table is turned und the ex
aminer is lhe one who i~ bit, All in
stance of lhe latter kind occurred m
the court room Ibis week, t >n Ihe
-land as a witness was n prominent
rartnci of lhe w tslorn section of the
county, who i- u little deaf. The at
torney asked him a question; bill re
ceived no answer. The question, was
repeated; bill -lill there was no an
swer. The examining attorney then
threatened:
"I will appeal lo the j'ldgo and lie
will make you answer Ihe question."
"Thai, Ik; won't," was IllO I'oply of
llie witness who was I.Ol loo deaf lo
caicli the attorney's rcinaiks. "He's
go! loo much sense in a--k any such
fool questions as that."
The sheriffs "Order in Court" was
not sufllcioul lo restore quiet in the
COlirt room.
A good anecdote is lold by the
Bishop of Minnesota ol tho sarcastic
powers of ihe Indian. " I was hold
ing," says Bishop Whipple, 41 a service
near an Indian village camp. My
tilings were scattered nbotlt in a lodgO,
and when I was going oul I asked tho
chief if it was sale lo leave Ihom there
while 1 we.nl to the village, to hold a
service 1 VTcs,' he said, 'perfectly
safe. There, is not a white man Wilhill
a hundred miles!''
-i am ? ? ? ? ?i
Paul ItoVOro, the revolutionary hero,
was an inventor, though nol many
people are aware of Ihe fact. He was
Ihe Ihsl. man to rrlitic ami roll copper,
in 1801 he founded ihe |{< voro Copper
Company, ami the concern is still do?
g blHiness, under the same name, in
Canton, Mass.
OASTOniA,
? Ii ea
~ Absolutely h?be
Mokes the food more delicious and wholesome
THE HYGIENE OF Till?; BIBLE
Scientific Sanitary Regulations
Anticipated in the Mosaic I,aw.
The religion taught hy Moses, tiiat
gnat law-giver, lays greatest klruss
Upon proper life-conduct a> tie- means
of prolonging life and ihe enjoyment
of it. "You shall observe these laws,'*
Moses taught, "that you may live
long." He did not command to be
lieve this or that, nor did he point (<>
reward ami punishment in (he life lo
coine. hut he laid down rules for eon
duct in his life and ordained punish
ment tor (ho violation ol tin so laws.
Nor musl we overlook the fuel that re
ligion as defined by tho laws ol Moses
involved all laws for the government
of man as individual and as nii?inl?i.i?
ami Integral part of lhe Stuf?. Mi
laws wore lUUllgiltcd in lhe ii.mil' >l
(iod, thO law- of da - . r VO.i ami
' festivity as w? ll as sanitary rcgulu
t Inns.
fin' greater knowledge we huvi
gained through our ability nf btetphur.
ing the libraries of cuneiform tablets
and hieroglyphic medicine books con
vinces us thai many <?! the sanitary
laws contained in lhe I'cnlnlcuch have
been observed by tho Kgyptinus, I la by*
Inilinns, Assyrians und other Semitic
nations pn vious 10 thu oxistencc of
ihe Israclitish nation, but no nation
bis lived in BUcll close COIlforUlil)
with these laws as the .lews, and by
lhe overwhelming majority of them
mo strictly observed lo this day.
Whenever we lind in tho Mosaic code
a law prohibiting llio drinking or cat*
111_c (liu blood of animals because blood
i- llie iiophcsh, tho lifo, wo may us
Stlino thai tho law givor kl)0W tin: in
trin.sic essence and properties of hlood,
tin; rap.tl chemical chatigu which lakes
pillCO thcr in arterdcall), the ptomaine
poisoning of which it is the cause, the
poison which it gathers from the do
ceaued hodily organs and which are
transferred lo the human body when
lak-.ii as animal rood. Wo may safely
assume, Iherefore, thai ihe ritual mode
of slaughtering practiced l>.y the .lews
since limo immemorial has been found
the best safe-guard against the trans
fer ol disease from tho meat, of ani
mals used for food, and which also ac
counts for their greater immunilj from
epidemics which decimated large popu
lations among whom they lived.
Tho lue! i> well established (hm lu
bcrcolosis, which is the grculcsl scour
_:<? of modern times, i- largely due lo
I lie Iransiorcucc of (he germ from llio
meal ami milk of diseased animals.
I'm lor ? modern hygienic regulation over
insisted upon the introduction of any
mode i r inspection meal of animals
previous lo its offer in the public mar
ket for consumpliou lhe .Iowa bad made
ii obligatory upon lb ose who wOlo au
thorized to perform lhe slutighlcring of
animals to examine closi Iv and earn*
fully 'ho carcass, lo sec whether ihr
lungs were sound, whotber ihr vital
organs wore free from disease, so thai
health was not endangered by lite con
sumpliou, The slaughtering and in
specting of animals was not in trusted
to the lira! comer, li was pot formed
by persons trained and educated for
the oilier ; thoy had lo pass ai. exami
nation as to their knowledge of anato
my of animals und of the ritual law
pii sei ibed for ihr performance of iheir
duty, 'l he Talmud, a work the reduc
tion of which has been completed some
sixteen hundred years ago, COtltuillS
extensive treaties Oil lhe subject a id
discloses a wonderful knowledge of tho
anatomy of the animal.
As much siics- is laid in modern
days upon lhe proper observance of a
proper diei for the preservation of
health as upon the use of drugs. The
.lews who lived strictly in compliance
with the dietary laws found in llicin
protection against infection by many of
the microbes and bacletia which gen
erate disease, Thus was not only a
thorough inspection of the carcass of
the bovine killed lor the use of man re
quired by the religious law, but even
lords were examined and it any inter
nal injury was found of a charactor
thai would have produced their natu
ral death, the animal was declared unlit
tor food. As a protection against dele
terious i Meet of microbes ami bacteria,
though not known by their technical
names, ii was commanded lo thorough
ly rinse lu rries ami all fruits, Icglimill.
ous ami other vegetables, iu water lo
purity thoio from all parasites ami the
du>t paria h s which made them dati
goroilS lo health bofoi'O eating them
VVltOU raw. It is only in modern days
thai we. have discovered tho irlchinou
in hog meal, w hich at least proves that
some good reason existed in those an
cient days tor forbidding the use of
swine llcsh.
Another rule, probably of Simple
cleanliness, required tho washing of
hulids before partaking Of any meal
ami the rinsing of the mouth after ris
ing from the table. The legislators
evidently had a shadowy idea of the
infinitesimal cocci, nnimnleuho, spir
illa; and bnccili, which llont around
ami give the pnlhologists and biolo
gists so much trouble. However, the
rule was part of the hygienic system
and served well its purpose.
It may refcrentially be remarked
lu re that '-discussion" was the great
Characteristic feature, of the .lews. The
Talmud, which records tho disputes
among (he various schools of learning
from the time of the great Sanhedrim
to the. year 000 of the present era, fur
nishes evidence of the constant Mow
of discussion on the mos' vital ques
tions of life, of health and sickness, of
religion and practices during that early
period, and the "discussion" has ever
Mowed on to this day, so that opinions
among the .lews as fo tho binding
character of ceremonies and ritual
practices differ and varicgato more
than over.?Af. Ellinycr in Menorah.
IN A HUMOROUS \IyIN.
1 ? ??
l-rcddic What's n novel idea, dad?
Cohwiggcr One Hint never gets in
i"' a no vol. Judge.
u Wlml was your lirsl impression of
t Nt w Vol k?"
; ''Thill I was loo sioal! lo express
j it.-' < ?Iii?) Slalo .lourual.
Prisoner -IPs dilllcult to boo how I
fan lie a forger, your lordship. Why,
! I ean'l sign my own iiutnu!
Judge You arc liol chni'god with
??inning your own name. Til-Hits.
Son (al Iiis studies) I'apa, 1 wish I
had been born in the limo of Chnrlo
magno.
Kailior Wiiy?
Son Then 1 wouldn't iinvo bad to
learn everything that lias happened
since. Inliegende 111.tetter.
Ii was in a II neon Mill parlor. Ho
?ai l: ?? I have long searched for the
li ue, the beautiful, the good, the- -,"
and - in1 interrupted, ,i I comprehend,
dear Cecil, whuI you would convoy.
My r? ply is in Ihe allirmalivo." Phil
inh Iphiti Press.
?? I >id hu prove io 1)0 ii friend In
need?"
?? W? II. yes; ho was usually. Hut ho
? <Mein needed moro than 1 wo dollars."'
Harper's lla/.ar.
o slio comes of a giand old fntuily, I
behove."
o Y<<, very! An ancestor of here
was liohoadcil in the lower during the
reign of the fourth tidwurd!"
?? How perfectly lovely!"- Detroit
lournnl.
?' No, thanks, i iloii'l euro .?> know
Iho ladv."
? HliV Wiry not?"
" llecauso u is my rule t<> give my
m in a street-ear only lo Indios I
know ami 1 know loo many now."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Husband I wonder what ive shall
v\ car hi heaven.
Wife Well, if you gel I hero, John,
I Imagine mosl of us will wear sur
pi ised look-. Smart Set.
?? Lawn-mowers are not so had."
>? Why nol ?"
?? Why. when my wife wants mo to
hang pictures, I Uli her I have lo cut
the grass." Chicago Ifccord-llcrald,
" Why i- Justice pictured as a wo
man holding a pair of apothecary's
scales'.'"
?? I ?I< >11*i know, hid ii would he
manifestly absurd to represent her as
an iceman with an iceman's scales."?
I 'hlladolphia Times.
I'.lhel -Voll know, I want a husband
who is easily pleased.
Maud Dou'l worry, dear. That's
the kind you'll gel. Tit-Hits.
What a hound less dehl wo owe to
medical science."
"Oh, I don'l know; the doctor who
invented Ihe nervous system did a
horrible thing for humanity."- Chica
go llceord-llerald.
?' Wind's tho matter, pet?'
" That big ugly man you BCUl to
look at poor l ido says ho has distem
per, ami I lold him it wasn't true ami
1 wanted him to go away. There's
nothing at all the matter with Pido's
temper. It's his poor little stomach."
(Ihicngo Tribune.
The wife of a momhur ol Ihe House
of Itcprcsciihitivcs toward morning
not long ago was awakened by unusual
noises In-low stairs, and tried to rouse
Itci husband.
? Wake up! Wake up!" she said,
in a low voice. ? Volt must wake up
and go d wii'Stnirs; tin re are thieves
ill the lloUSC."
"Oh, no, my dear," rejoined the
hall-awake husband, reassuringly.
u Thoro are no thieves in the House;
they are all intheSenulo." Baltimore
Sun.
'?When I l.i-t hoard of him they used
lo say she COllld twist him around her
linger like a String."
?It was evidentlv true, she has
sillCC tied a knot w Ith him."
Small Man: ?? Yes, sir; he's a con
temptible scoundrel, and I told him
so!"
liig man ?? Did ho knock you
down'.'"
Small man: " No; I told him? er
through the telephone'1
" What nice Illings you said about
Hint man in Iiis obituary notice. Don't
suppose you'd s;iy such nice things
about mo?" said the cili/on,
"(Hi, yes, I would with pleasure,11
replied the polite newspaper man.
l'npa (severely) Did you ask
mamma if you could have that apple?"
Pive-Yoar-Old Yes, papa." I'apa
" lie careful now. I'll ask mamma, and
if she says you didn't ask her I'll whip
you for telling a story. Did you ask
mamma?" I-'I/o-Year-Old 11 Papa, I
a ked her. (A pause.) She said I
Couldn't have it."
" .lohn Thompson, of Ottawa, had a
llngor amputated tin other day as thu
result oi pulling chemicals on a wart,"
says the Kansas City Journal. "And
there will he but little public sympa
thy with Mr. Thompson. The idea of
pulling chemicals on a vail, when
everybody knows that the scientific
way to remove warts is to touch them
with the gizzard Of a chicken and then
bury the gi/,/,ard at the left hand cor
ner of the grave of a politician, say*
lllg : ' lake loves liko;comc like, take
like !' "
OABTOTIIA.
Boa?? the. Ihe Kind You Haw Www Bought