Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE HOMES OF PRIVATION^ HARD STRUOOLE OF THE IMPOV ERISHED ARRAN ISLANDERS. Girls Who Carry Sanded Seaweed to Make a Poor Soil, in Which to Grow a Scanty Crop ot Potatoes. Perhaps in no quarter of the globe is agriculture carried on under more dis heartening conditions than in the Arran Islands. These islands, three in number, lie about ten miles off the west coast of Ireland, in the mouth of the Bay of Gal way. They are simply three limestone rocks thrown up by some convulsion of nature long before the memory of man. Biffing the ages a light deposit of soil has accumulated on the bare rocks in spots, particularly in the valleys, and peculiarly nutritious grass has sprung up. The blades of this grass are not flat, such as is the grass of this country,] but perfectly round. The finest beef in the British isles is raised upon the scanty product of these sea-girt islands. But very little of this beef is eaten by the men who cultivate the juicy tenderloins nnd sirloins. It all goes to pay the rent, that gaunt spectre, ever feeding, yet ever hungry and gTecdy, which has stalked over the beautiful island of Erin for 800 years, drinking the milk of the cows, de vouring the sheep and lambs, and leav ing only thejiotatoes as a feeble barrier between existence and starvation. But raising potatoes on the islands of Arran is quite a different thing from raising thetft in the State of New York. A large proportion of the arable land is reserved from necessity for grazing pur poses. The soil in which the potatoes lire cultivated is all artificial. It is made of a queer compost of sand and seaweed. The sand is carried from the seashore on the backs of donkeys and Irish girls to the spots selected for a garden. It is a common occurrence for a young woman of sixteen or eighteen years to carry bas ket loads of sand weighing 100 pounds from one to three miles all day long and then come home and do the household work before going to bed. It will read ily be seen that the soil thus made must be very light. Whatever fructifying properties it possesses comes from the seaweed. In this manner every foot of tillable soil on the Arran Islands has been made for centuries. As only a very small portion of the surface of the islands is sufficiently smooth to permit of the de posit, the area under cultivation is neces sarily very small. When the seed pota toes have been planted the Arraner be gins to pray for rain. He prays that water may come down in bucketfuls, so that his little plot will be soaked all the time. For the limestone rock beneath his artifieial garden contains at all times n frightful amount of latent heat stored in it from the sun's fiery rays, and, unless there is a wet season, such as prevails in the tropics, the seed potatoes will be fried into Saratoga chip, in the earth. If the season has been a good one from an Arran Island standpoint, the product would excite smiles on the part of a New Yorker, were it not so pitiful. The yield is a veritable example of the old saying, “small potatoes, and a few in a hill.” A potato as big as a hen’s egg would be the exception. The majority would be no bigger than an old fashioned “dodo,” such as the boys used to play marbles with. One crop exhausts the strength of the soil, and the same process must be resorted to each year as far as the sea weed is concerned, in order that another crop may be raised. And so, during the centuries, the people have learned by bit ter cxpejicnce the value of seaweed as a fertilizer, and they consequently look upon it with the same jealousy as a New York farmer views his expensive guano. 1“. flits way rude customs which have "growu into laws have sprung up with re gard to the division of the precious fer tilizer. No landowner can go down to the beach and gather seaweed whenever the notion atr.kes him to do so. He must go down to the sea in the spring of the year, when a certain weed which grows at the bottom of the sea begins to lose its hold, and join in the harvest of the sea weed. He must get into his little cockle shell boat, called a cunagh, made of ash ribs covered with canvas, and go at low tide to gather the weed. This is torn from the bottom by the aid of a rake six teen feet long and carried ashore in the frail boat. It is then piled upon the beach in a heap. When the harvest is over two of the most important men on the island are selected to divide the weed. AU the inhabitants, men, women nnd children are present on this occa sion, to the number of between 3000 and 4000. The heap of seaweed is usually about 300 feet long, fifteen feet wide and ten feet high. The two men look the heap carefully over and agree on the place where it is to be divided. A nar row lane is then cut crosswise through the heap, dividing it into two piles. These heaps arc in turn subdivided, un til a hundred little heaps scattered over the beach indicate that each landowner has been allotted his share. The weed is then taken away at the leisure of the owner. The Arraner, like the peasantry in other portions of Ireland, is as primitive to-day in his cooking of the potato as ho 400 years ago. He knows of only one way to cook his favorite vegetable, and will listen to the explanation of no other mode. He simply washes the potato and boils it just as it co-nes from the earth, with its jacket on. After c*ooking the potatoes are turned out into an oval shaped wicker contrivance, closely re sembling the lid of a champagne basket. After all the water has been strained off the potatoes are dumped from the “skib,” as it is called, upon the middle of the table. The family then gather around the table and eat potatoes, with a little salt, until hunger is satisfied. The Ar ran Island child who cannot eat from fifteen to twenty-five potatoes at a single sitting is considered to be ailing. Some times if the cow has recently “come in,” the children are allowed the indulgence of the “dip.” Fresh milk or buttermilk is placed in the bottom of a bowl. The child seizes the potato around the mid dle with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand. Then, with the flat of his right hand he knocks the skin off the top of the potato, and. squeezing it with his left hand, he forces the mealy contents of *he vegetable out upon the table. This he picks up and squeezes together like -new-fallen snow, dips it into the milk and transfers it to his mouth. Whatever may be said by scientists about the po tato being ninety per cent, water, there is certainly some unknown quality about them which conserves in a most remarka ble manner tbe health and strength of these rugged islanders. They will go out in their frail boats fishing all day, get wet to the skin, and sleep all night in the wet garments without any appar ent ill effects. Even the little children frequently walk ten miles to procure a quart of milk for the visiting stranger, and return with as little concern as if they had juat been around the corner to the grocery. Given plenty of potatoes, the Arraner has good health and is hap py. Give him a chunk of boiled ling or codfish and he is delirious with delight. But he will cling to bis old-fashioned style of cooking bis potatoes. One of the chief difficulties of the dwellers on tbeae sea-girt isles lathe pro curing ot turf with which to cook the potatoes. There is not a sod of turf in Armutr T* ut across the yarrow styait ol ten. miles of water on the Irish mainland, there are thousands of acres of it. liafi turf is brought to the islands in liffla sloop-rigged vessels called “bookows.” These vessels cany about the equivalent of a cord of wood. A load costs $35. Very few Arrancrs have that much money at one time, and so they club to gether sometimes as many as twenty-five of them being interested in a boat load. Some of them are so miserably poor that twelve cents will represent their interest in the fuel. It is all thrown out upon the wharf and carefully divided pro rata into heaps according to the amount in vested. Then the young girls, wearing shoes made of the green hide of a cow, with the hair on the outside, come down like pack horses, with their wicker baskets strapped on their backs, and carry the turf away. In this manner, when nature has been so kindly in those sea-girt isles as to permit the potatoes to grow as large as egg, the pot is kept boiling.—Airis York Sun. SCIENTIFIC AN1) INDUSTRIAL. A great hydraulic canal is proposed to convey a portion of the water of Niagara River, and thus utilize this enormous power for manufacturing purposes. Of the 4200 species of flowers now cultivated in Europe, only ten per cent, give forth any ordor. Therefore, it cannot be said "that most flowers arc fra grant. The latest invention is clothing made of a fabric in which fine threads of cork are interwoven with wool or silk, which renders it impossible for the wearer to sink in water. One of the latest inventions in the bicycle line in a whistle that is operated by the automatic application of a small wheel upon the revolving tire of the steering wheel. Professor Cohen, of Breslau, Germany, has found by careful experiment that the heating of damp hay to a temperaturo sufficient to cause spoutaueous combus tion is due to a fungus. The distance from which a lighthouse becomes visible on board an ocean vessel depends upon the state of the weather and the ocean. In clear, calm weather It powerful light can be seen thirty miles. A New York inventor has completed jin air-pressing machine whereby car* {■empress the air which moves them, and ( illowing for friction this can continue ong enough to be the next thing to per petual motion. Professor Orton, while urging the im perative necessity of taking action to re strict the wasteful use of natural gas, ad mits that even the strictest regulations cannot prevent the exhnnstiou of the supply in a few years. It has been suggested that the study of the influence of diet and habit upon the color of hair in different nations of men may cause discoveries by which tha color of the hair in the human race may be modified by judicious treatment. Bricks boiled in coal tar are rendered hard and durable, and machine-made brick, if boiled for a long period, say twenty-four hours, become waterproof. Bricks thus treated are well adapted for sewers, cesspools, and the foundations of buildiogs. A curious farinaceous substance is re ported by M. Rene de Champagne to have fallen in Asiatic Turkey duriug a hail storm, and to have been sold by the kurds under tbe name of “celestial grain.” It is described as resembling tha mulberry in shape and size. One cause assigned by several physi cians nnd druggists for the increasing number of victims to the opium habit is the use of antipyrcnc. A great number of young women, especially female clerks, take antipyrene in such quantities that it finally loses its restorative power. They then resort to morphine. Baron James Rothschild, of London, has adorned his drawing-room with the most superb electrolier ever made. It is composed of gilt bronze and rock crystal in a design of the time of Louis XVI., sixty-eight electric lights being skillfully arranged among the bronze leaves. This unique illuminator is about five feet high by twenty-eight inches in diameter, and cost $6000. To end the long dispute which has been waged with reference to the right designation of the metal which is now assuming such importance, it is urged that the largest producers in the world favor the form aluminum, which also has the advantage of greater brevity, and that therefore foreign acientifie journals and scientific men should follow the ex ample of American journals and call it once for all aluminum, instead of alum inium. Gypsy Jewelry. Like their more favored and better civilized sisters, gypsy women are repre sented by the best authorities to lie pas sionately fond of jewelry, notwithstand ing the fact that their extreme poverty renders it impossible for many of them to gratify this taste. Trinkets of greater or less value, according to circumstances, are worn by them, being limited in num ber only by the means of the wearer. If the gitana is unable to have iier orna ments of gold, silver jewelry will do; and if silver trinkets are beyond her means brass will suffice. As brilliancy of color is the first con sideration in a gypsy's attire, size is the chief merit of her jewels. Among the wealthier gypsies, if there is such a thing as wealth Connected witli the race, the Moorish, Egyptian and Oriental find most favor. The poorer content them selves with strings of coins or cheap medals, without regard to the event or personage they are intended to com memorate, and even with rudely designed ornaments of brass made by the male ar tisans of their tribes. Large earrings are preferred to any other articles, and the comparatively opulent gitana indulges in bangles, beads and necklaces.—Jeiceleri Weekly. A Sand Storm in Utah. William H. Ballou, the author of “The Upper Ten,” “The Bachelor Girl,” etc., ■ elated this story at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to a group of interested gentlemen: “When I was in Salt Lake City recently I followed the fashion there and went every afternoon with long train loads of people out to Great Salt Lake, twenty miles distant to float on the surface and enjoy the salt bath. One afternoon as the train drew near to the station at Garfield, one of those extraordinary sand storms, prevalent there, came whirling down through the mountain ravines. It is these storms, I think, that will one day fill up the lake bed and leave a small imitation of Sahara. This particular storm was terrific aud terrified the |tleaa- ure seekers. It passed directly in the path of tbe train, and in less time than I can tell it the engine and cars were cov ered with a deep bank of sand from which there gemmed no hope of getting out with our lives. The atmosphere within was hot and stifling; we were literally buried alive.” “How did you finally get oat?” asked a gentleman. “Why, the train had scarcely stopped before the storm changed in direction and blow every grain of sand back up tbe mountain aides. Then we got on our bathing suits and enjoyed ourselves.”— New York freu. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. CARAMEL CUSTARDS. - . Dissolve two ounces of sugar with the juice of half a lemrfn and a little water; stir it over the fire till quite brown, then pour in about a wincglassful of boiling water; beat up the yolks of four and the whites of two eggs, add them to a pint of new milk and a few drops of essence of vanilla, and to this strain the caramel when cool. Pour the mixture in a de licately clean pan, nnd stir in the bain- marie till it thickens; pour it into little china cups, and strew the top with grated chocolate and pink sugar.— Brooklyn Citizen. HOW TO FOLD A SHIRT. Few things put a man in a temper more than a badly folded shirt, uo mat ter how well it is laundricd. There is a certain art iu the method of “folding” that if carefully followed insures stiff cuffs and an unruffled front. Spread the shirt on a table or bed, fold over the two sides lengthways, so that they lie one over the other upon the bosom. Turn the sleeves hack half way from the shoul ders, doubling the sleeve gussets in half and allowing them to lio straight down on the folded body. Then take the whole and give it a cross-fold upward, so that the lower part of the shirt which is turned over shall cover the upper part of the sleeves and bosom. *— Yankee Blade. SAVE OLD FLANNELS. Mrs. M. H. Lamb writes in Orange Judo, Farmer: It is a common practice to de stroy old cast-off flannels, or tear them into carpet rags. Don't do it! Have a basket for storing them after they are washed. Put it iu a convenient place where any one of the family can find it and you can place your tiands on it in the dark. Then when si child wakes in the night with a sore throat or a croupy cough you can quickly get and heat a flannel around the lamp chimney, and after greasing the afflicted parts with oint ment or oil, apply flannel piping hot. This will quiet pain and give almost in stant relief. If you were obliged to get up and build a fire to heat bran sacks or other appli ances, you would be more apt to ueglect it until too late and cause much suffering to yourself and child. If the worn and feeble mother would heat a large flannel ami lay it on her tired side, or any part of her body where there are aches and pains, she would be very agreeably re lieved and save herself much suffering if the flannel could be secured in a moment. In some cases of sick and nervous head aches relief may lie obtained by apply ing hot flannels to the stomach and head, especially if the patii ut is lacking in vi tality. Try it, feeble mothers, and you will never more consider a flannel gar ment valueless, even if worn past useful ness as a garment. FOT-riES WITH SODA CRUST. The old-fashioned pot-pie, which was cooked by the gentle heat of a moderate fire of wood or charcoal, was made in a round-bottomed dinner-pot, sometimes with a soda-biscuit crust, which was sub stantially like baking-powder crust given for the lamb pot-pie, and sometimes with a suet crust, far which a recipe is given below; the meat, if at all tough, was first partly cooked in only water enough to prevent burning, all its gravy being carefully preserved; the dinner-pot was greased, and lined with an unbroken piece of crust, the meat placed in it, with abundant seasoning aud very little gravy, or a few spoonfuls of cold water if the meat was uncooked; then the upper edges of the crust were slightly wet with cold water and drawn together aud pressed in such a way as to prevent the escape of gravy; the cover of the pot was greased on the inside and put over the pot-pie, and it then was cooked by a very moderate fire three or four hours, or until the crust was browned; great care was taken not to burn the crust, and in dish ing the pot-pie all the gravy was pre served. With our modern cooking apparatus it would he difficult to cook a pot-pie of this kind without danger of burning, but it might 1)0 done with care, using a gas or oil stove where the heat cau be exactly moderated. It certainly is a very de licious dish and very nourishing, because all the goodness of the meat is preserved. Usually no potatoes were added to it while cooking.— Chicago Newt. RECIPES. Meat Croquettes—Take one pint of cold potatoes, well mashed, one pint of cooked rice,oue pint of cold meat chopped tiiH;. mix thoroughly; make into balls the size of an egg, roll in meal or flour md fry until they are a light brown color. Any kind of meat or fish will answer. Pumpkin Pie Without Eggs—Take half a gallon of stewed pumpkin, one a half cups of sugar, one cup of butter, throe fourths cup of sweet milk, aud half a teacup of Hour; season to taste. Add the butter, aud sugar and milk while tbe pumpkin is hot, and the flour just before baking. Beat together well, aud bake with oue crust. Baked Tomatoes—Take large smooth tomatoes. Out a slice from the end next to the stem, and take out the core and most of the seeds. Now make a rich dressing of bread crumbs, aud a little finely minced cold ham or beef. Salt and pepper to taste, aud butter enough to make it about the consistency of stiff dough. Fill the tomatoes with this, and bake until they arc well done. A Bread Omelette—One cup of fine bread crumbs moistened with half a cup of milk, three eggs, white and yolk beaten separately, adding the whites last to the crumbs. .Season with salt and pepper. Put in the skillet or omelette pan a good bit of butter, and when it begins to “sizzle" pour in the omelette. Shake the pan all the time, and turn in the frothing aud browning edges over into the middle constantly. Fold one-half over, put a hot plate upon the pan, turn tills over, and your omelette is dished. Potato Croquettes—Pare and boil three potatoes, mash aud beat until light; add the yolk of one egg, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, silt ami pepper. Form into six cylinder shaped croquettes. Now you have two whites of eggs, one from the oyster cutlets and one from the potato croquettes. Put them together, add a tablespoonful of water, and beat until well mixed, but not light. Dip the cutlets aud croquettes, first in this and then in bread crumbs, and fry them in smoking hot lard. Put the lard in a small saucepan, so that there will bo a sufficient quantity to immerse the arti cles. A Sensible Wedding. I Out in Keokuk, Iowa, a couple were married recently after the homely fashion of our ancestors and with no cui of fun. They were well-to-do people, but tbe bride wore a calico dress, tho groom a suit of jeans,the decorations werenutumn leaves and the guests were requested to come in calico and jeans nnd without presents. Mr. Ward McAllister might not approve such primitive simplicity, hut there is nothing like calico to set oil (| the native beauty of a pretty girl,—Nev York Mercury, KEY. DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN< DAY SERMON. us kind)v Je 4 . , K U8a, ? ni * amI n11 of n® Kindiy ti entod ft s though we had beon thaTwav' “*1 ^ ^dinat,^" tefbcSd Last even “!" tl,e genial sis- brieh?ive,l ArT' 6 .' 1 , 0nler . ei1 a h,,u,lre ' 1 ®y e d Arab children brought out to . for T me t an d it was glorious* This ^3i < T eo " to ? tlle ste i ,s °f the coil- lace of in >k p U ! X,1 .‘ t u ‘. most beautiful vil- l?mLfoL 1 nf«! St . lne ’ Its housss °f " hits limestone. Guess its name! Nazareth his- thaf e «n ote of the tr.nity of places t mt th„ U i nStlaU trar e!ers must see or feel p-hu L 7 laV T® not M ‘ ea Palestine—namely Jerusalem, Nazareth. BabV- hood, boyhood, manhood of Him for whom" I would e n ?w r 1f R p mj mllli0 “ I-pie who ^l 1 r ° were required, march out ’ " hti] r' > mder ax down iu the floods or straight through the tire. ° ld V i 1,age « Gareth,even putting aside its sacred associations. First of all. it that Cft T n be sai(l few Of the onentnl villages. Its neighboring town o." Nab.ouf is the filthiest town l ever saw. although its chief industry is the amnufac- ture of soap. They export all of it. Naza reth has been the scene of battles passing r from Israelite to Mohammedan him from Mohammedan to Christian, tiu- most wonderful of the battles be- 1Dg j Ip at . wb * c h twenty-five thou sand Turks were beaten by twenty-ono hundred French, Napoleon Bonaparte commanding, the greatest of Frenchmen walkme these very streets through which Jesus walked for nearly thirty years the morals of the two, the antipodes the snows of Russia nnd the plagues of Egypt appropriately following the one, the doxolo- gies of earth nnd tho hallelujahs of heaven appropriately following the other. And then this town is so beautifully situated in a great gieen bowl, the sides of tho bowl surround ing fifteen hills. Tho God of nature who is the God of tho Bible evidently scooped out this valley for privacy and separation from all the world during three most important de cades, the thirty years of Christ’s boyhood ft ,, .y ou ^ b ’ the thirty-three years of Christ’s s tay on earth ho spent thirty of them in this town in getting ready—a start ling rebuke to those who have no patience with the long years of preparation necessary when they enter on any special mission for tho church or the world. The trouble is with most young men that they want to launch their ship from the drydock before it is ready, and hence so manv sink in the first cyclone. All Christ’s boyhood wai spent in this vil lage and its surroundings. There is the very well called “The Fountain of the Virgin,” to which by His mother s side He trotted along holding her hand No doubt about it; it is the only well in the village, and it has been the only well for three thousand years. This morning we visit it, and the mothers have their children with them now as then. The work of drawing water in all ages in those countries has been wo men's work Scores of them are waiting for their turn at it, three great and everlasting springs rolling out into that well their barrels, their hogsheads of water in floods, gloriously abundant. The well is sur rounded by olive groves and wide spaces in which people talked and children, wearing charms on their heads as protection against the “evil eye,” are playing, nnd women with their stings of coin on either side of their face, and in skirts of blue aud scar let and w'hifce and green move on with water jars on their heads. Mary, I suppose, almost always took Jesus the bov with her, for she had no one she could leave Him with, being in humble cir cumstances and having no attendants. I do not believe there was one of the surrounding fifteen hills that the boy Christ did not range from bottom to top, or one cavern in their sides He did not explore, or one species of bird flying across the tops that Ho could not call by name, or one of all tho species of fauna browsing on those steeps that He had not recognized. You see it all through His sermons. If a man becomes a public speaker, in his ora tions or discourses you discover his early whereabouts. VV hat a boy sees between seven and seventeen always sticks to him. When the apostle Peter preaches you see the fishing nets with which he had from his earliest days been familiac And when Amos delivers his prophecy you hear in it the bleating of the lienls which he had in boy hood attended. And in our D ‘I'd’s sermons and conversations you see all the phases of village life and tho mountainous lifo sur rounding it. He had in boyhood seen the shepherds get their flocks mixed up, and tooue not familiar with t he habits of shepherds and their flocks, hoplessly mixed up. And a sheopstealor ap pears on the scene and dishonestly demands some of those sheep, when he owns not one of them. “Well,” says the two honest shep herds, “we will soon settle this matter,” and one shepherd goes out in one direction and the other shepherd goes out in the other direction, and the sheepstealer in another direction, and each one calls, and the flocks of each of the honest shepherds rush to their owner, while the sheepstealer calls and calls again, but gets not one of the flock. No wonder that Christ, years after, preaching on a great occasion and illustrating His own shepherd qualities, says: “When He putteth forth His own sheep H* goetk before them, and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice, and the stranger they will not follow, for they know not the voice of the stranger.” The sides of theso hills are terraced for grapes. The boy Christ had often stood with great round eyes watching the trimming of the grapevines. ( lip! goes tho knife and off falls a branch. The child Christ says to tho farmer. “What do you do that for?” “Oh/’ says tho farmer, “that is a ?Iead branch and it is doing nothing and is only in tho way, so I cut it off.” Then the farmer with his sharp knife prunes from a living branch this and that tendril and the other tendril. “But,” says the child Christ, “these twigs that you cut oil now are not dead; what do you do that for? “Oh,” says tho farmer, wo prune off theso that the main branch may have more of the sap and so be more fruitful.” No wonder in alter years Christ Mi I in His sermon: “1 am the true vine and My Father j» the husbandman; every branch in Me that beareth not iruit He takelh away, and every branch that beareth fruit : • purgeth it. tnat it may bring forth more 1 unit.” Capital' * ° w'ho had not been a country boy would have said that. Oh,this country lR»y of Nazareth, come forth to atone for tho sins of the world, aud to correct the follies of tho world, and to stamp out the cruelties of the world, and to illumine tho darkness of the world, and to transfigure the hemispheres! So it has been the mission of the country boys in all ages to transform and inspire and rescue. Hiey come into our merchandise and our court rooms and our healing art and our studios and our theology. They lived in Nazareth before they entered Jeru salem. And but for that annual influx our eities would have enervated and sickened and slain the race. Late hours and hurtful ap parel and overtaxed digestive organs and crowding environments of city life would have hailed the world; but tin? valley.- and mountains of Nazareth have given Iresh supply of health and moral invigora- tion to Jerusalem and the country saves the town. From the hills of New Hamp shire and the hills of A irgiuia and the hills of Georgia come in our national eloquence the Wehsters and the Clays and the Henry W. Gradys. From tho plain homes of Massachusetts and Maryland come into our national charities the George Peabodys and the William Corcorans. From the cabins of the lonely country regions come into our national destinies the Andrew Jacksons and the Abraham Lincolns. From plow boy’s furrow and village counter aud blacksmith’s forge come most of our city giants. Nearly all tho Mes siahs in all departments dwelt in Naz areth before they came to Jerusalem. I send this day thanks from theso cities, most ly made prosperous by country boys, to the iarrahouse and the prairies nnd the moun tain cabins, and the obscure homesteads of north and south and east and west, to the fathers and mothers in plain homespun if they be still alive or the hillocks under which they sleep the long sleep. Thanks from Jerusa lem to Nazareth. But alas! that the city should so often treat the country boys as of old the one from Nazareth was treated at Jerusalem 1 Klain not by hammers and spikes, but by instru ments just as cruel. On every street of every city the crucifixion goes on. Every year shows its ten thousand of the slain. Oh, how we grind them up! Under w'hat wheels, in what mills, aud for what an awful grist! Let the city take better care of these l>oys and young men arriving from the country. They are w’orth saving. They are now’ only the preface of what they will lie if, instead of sacrificing, you help them. Boys as grand as the one who with his elder brother climbed into a church tower, and not knowing their danger went outaide on some timbers, when one of those timbers broke and the boys fell, and the older boy caught on a beam and the younger clutched the loot of tho older. The older could not climb up with the younger hanging to his feet, so the younger said: “John, 1 am going to let go; you cun climb out into safety, but you caret climb up with me holding fast; I am going to let go, kiss mothfr for me, and tell her not to feel badlv; good-by!” And he let go and was so hard dashed upon the ground tie was not recognizable. Plenty of such brave boys coming up from Naza reth! Let Jerusalem bo careful how it treats them! A gentleman Ion" ago en tered a school in Germany and ho bowed Very low before the boys, and the teacher said, “Why do you do that?” “Oh,” said the visitor, “I do not know what mighty man may yet be developed among them.” At that instant the eyes of one of the boys flashed fire. Who was it? Martin Luther. A lad on his way to school passed a door step on w'hich sat a lame and invalid child. Tlie passing boy said to him; “Why don’t you go to school!” “Oh, I am larne and l can’t walk to school.” “Get on my back,” said the well boy, “and I will carry you to sciiool.” And so be did that day and for tuanv dovs until tho invalid was fairly Itarted on the road to an education. Who was the well boy that did that kindness? I don’t know . Who was the invalid he car ried? It was Robert Hall, the rapt pupil orator of all Christendom. Better give to the boys who come up from Nazareth to Je rusalem a crown instead of a cross. On this December morning in Palestine on our way out from Nazareth we saw just such a carpenter’s shop as Jesus worked in, supporting His widowed mother after He w as old enough to do so. I looked in, aud there were hammer and saw and plane and auger and vise aud measuring rule and chisel aud drill and adze aud wrench and bit. aud all the tools of carpentry. Think of it! He who smoothed the surface of the earth shoving a plane; He who cleft the mountains by earthquake pounding a ciiisel; He w ho opened the mammoth caves of the earth turning an auger; He who wields the thunderbolt striking with a hammer; He who scooped out the bed for the ocean hollowing a ladle; He who flashes the morning on the earth and makes the midnight heavens quiver with aurora con structing- a window. I cannot understand it, but I believe it. A skeptic said to au old clergyman: ‘Twill not believe anythiug I cannot explain. ’ “indeed,” said the clergy man, “you will not believe anything you cannot explain. Please to explain to me why some cows have horns and others have no horns. “No,” said the skeptic, “I did not mean exactly that. I mean that I will not believe an} tiling J have not seen.” “Indeed," said the clergyman,” “you will not believe anything you have not seen. Have you a backbone?” “Yes," said the skeptic. “How do you know?” said the clergyman. “Have you ever seen it?” This mystery of Godhood and humanity inter- joined 1 cannot understand and I cunuot ex plain, but I believe it. I am glad there are so many things we cannot understand, for that leaves something for heaven. In about two hours we pass through Cana, the village of Palestine, where the mother of Christ and our Lord attended the wedding of a poor relative, having come over from Nazareth for that purpose. The mother of Christ—for women are first to notice such things—found that the provisions had fallen short and she told Christ, and He to relievo the embarrassment of the housekeeper, who had invited more guests than the pantry warranted, became the butler of the occasion, and out of a cluster of a few sympathetic words squeezed a beverage of a few huZaire l and twenty-six gallons of wine in which was not one drop of intoxicant, or it would have left that party as maudiiu and drunk as the great centennial banquet in New York, two years ago, left senators, ami governors, and generals, ami merchant princes, tho difference between the wine at the wedding in Cana and the wine at the ban quet in New York being, that the Lord made the one aud the devil made the other. We got off our horses and examined some of these water iars at Cana said to be the very ones that held the plain water that Christ turned into the purple bloom of an especial vintage. I measured them aud found them eighteen inches from edge to edge and nine teen inches deep. and declined to accept their identity But we realized the immensity of a supply of a hundred aud twenty-six gal Ions of wine. Among the arts and inventions of the fu ture I hope there may l>e some oue that can press the juices from the grape aud so mingle them aud without one drop of damning alco holism that it will keep for years. Aud the more of it you take tho clearer will be the brain aud the healthier the stomach. And here is a remarkable fact in my recent jour ney—I traveled through Italy and Greece and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Tur key, and how many intoxicated people do you think I saw in all those five great realms? Not one. We must in our Christianized lands have got hold of some kind of beverage that Christ did not make. Oh, I am glad that Jesus was present at that wedding, and last December, standing at Cana, that wedding came back! Night had fallen on the village and its surround ings. The bridegroom had nut on his head a bright turban ami a garland of flowers, and his garments had been made fragrant with frankincense and camphor, an odor which the oriental especially likes w^niod Dy groomsmen, and preceded t>v a band or musicians with flutes and drums aud horns, and by torches in full blaze, he starts for the bride's home. This river of fire is met by another river of fire, the torches of the bride and brides maids, flambeau answering flambeau. The bride is in white robe and her veil not only covers her face but envelopes her body. Her trousseau is as elaborate as the resources of her father's house permit. Her attendants are decked with all the ornaments they own or can borrow; but their own personal charms make tame the jewels, for those oriental wo men eclipse in attractiveness all others except those of our own land. The damson rose is in their cheek, and tho diamond in the luster of their eyes, and tho black ness of the night in their Jong locks, and in their step is the gracefulness of tbe morning. At the first sight of the torches of the bridegroom and his attendants coming over the hill the cry rings through the home of the brido: “They are iu sight l Get ready! Behold the bridegroom comethl Go ye out to meet him !*’ As the two proces sions approach each other the timbrels strike and the songs commingle, and then the two processions become one and march toward the bridegroom's house, and meet a third procession which is made up of the friends of both bride and bridegroom. Then all eater the house and the dance begins and the door is shut. And all this Christ uses to illustrate the joy with which the ransomed of earth shall meet Him when H* nrtmac arai'lnnda.l , «»»wl in une ri»uYmii£ unu w umpemi ny iiie litun tiers of tho last day. 1. >ok' There He comes down off tho hills of heaven, the Bridegroom! And let us start, out to hail Him, for 1 hear the voices of the judgment day sounding. '‘Behold < tha Bridegroom comath! Uo ye out to meet Him!” Anil the disappointment of those who have declined tho invitation to the gospel wedding is pi t sented under I he figure of a door heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too late. The door is shut t But we must hasten on, for 1 do not mea-> to close my eyes to-night till 1 see from a mountain top Lake Galilee, on whoso banks next Bahbath we will worship, aud on whose waters the following morning we will take a sail. On anti up wo go in the severest climb of all Palestine, tho ascent of the Mount of Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ preached that famous sermon on the blesseds —biassed this and blessed that. Up to their knees the horses plunge iu molehills and n surface that gives way at the first touch rf the hoof, anil ugain and again the tired beasts hah, ns mucli ns to say to the riders, “It is unjust for you to make us climb these steeps.” On and up over mountain sides, where in tir- later season hyacinths and dasics and phloxc and anemones kindle their beauty. On an up until on tbe rocks of black basalt we de mount, ami climbing to the highest peak loo! out ou an enchantment of scenery that seem tie the beatitudes themselves arched into skies and roumled into valleys and silvered into waves. The view is like that of Tennessee and Nortli Carolina from the top of Look out Mountain, or like that of Vermont and New Hampshire from the top of MouUi Washington. Hail hills of Gallilee! Hai iaike Gennesaret, only four miles awav Yonder, clear up and most conspicuous, V Bated, the very city to which Christ pointed for illustration in the sermon preached here, saying: “A city set on a hill cannot be hid.” There are rocks around me on this Mount ot Beatitudes enough to build tho highest pulpil tlie world ever saw. Ay, it is the highrsi pulpit. Itnverlooks all time and all eternity The valley of Hattin, lietweeu here aii l Lake Galilee, is an amphitheatre, as though the natural contour of the earth hail invite all nations to coino and sit down and lie,-, Christ preach a sermon in which there wv-i • more startling novelties than were ever an nounced in all the sermons that were ever preached. To those win. heard Him o. this very spot His word must have seemed tho contradiction of everything that they had ever heard or read or experienced. Tir. world’s theory had been: Bless-1 ar. tlie arrogant; blessed are tho super cilioue; blessed are tlie tearless; blessed are they that have everything their own way, blessed are the war Sagles; blessed are the iwrsecutors; blessed are the popular blessed are the Herods and tile Ctcsars on 'i the Ahabs. “No! no! no!” says Christ with a voice that rings over these rocks am through yonder valley of Hattin, and do,mi to tho opnlino lake on one side, and the sa.i plnro Mediterranean on the other, and across Europe iu one way, and across Asia iu the other way, and around tha earth both ways till tho gfobe shall yet lie girdled with tin' nine beatitudes: Bliws d are tho poor; bln- Bit are the mdUrnful; blessed are the me blessed are tlie hungry; blessed are the m ciful; hlc.-se,| are the pure; blessed are th peaiTHiukers; blessed are llnj persecuted blessed are the talsejv reviled Tito Finest of Shawl*. Tho finest shawls that aro used ia thia or any other market, said a well-informed representative of the shawl trade to the Siuutercr, arc those made in India and known as the India shawl. There is an imitation India shawl made in France, but while it isnn excellent product of tho loom, it does not in any way compare with tho gctuv.ne article. The real India shawl is made from the wool of the Cash mere goat Vy the natives of that land. Tlie India shawl is made in strips or pieces by hand and colored nnd then sewed together, aud the greatest care is observed in its manufacture. In the imi tation India the wool of a Species of the same animal is used, but it iu of na in ferior quality, and the goats that furnish the French market with the material are raised in Australia. England produces the camel’s hair shawl, the velvet aud tho beaver shawls. The camel’s hair shawl is not made from the hair of a camel, as a good many people suppose, but from the combings of tho wool of a certain kind of sheep. These combings aro woven loosely so as to secure the peculiar effect that is a characteristic of this make. Besides the imitation India, France manu factures a great quantity of broche shawls in singles and doubles. The material used iu them is all pure wool. Another kind of shawl imported from France is a pattern like the real Paisley. Formerly these Paisleys were made in Scotland only, but tho French shawl manufacturer pilfered the design from the Scotch, and as a result very few ot the Paisley shawls come from the land of the plaid ahd the bagpipe. Those that are made are to fill special orders, as they are an expen sive luxury. In tlie real Paisley the wool is the purest and finest selected, and no chemicals of any kind arc used in itl preparation.—Chicago Post. Honoring Anthracite’s Discoverer. The proposition to erret a monument toPhilip Gindcr, who discovered {inthra* cite coal on Summit Hill, Carbon County, in.1791, has given rise to a number of claims for the honor w discovering coal in Pennsylvania. The Wyomftg valley people claim that anthracite was known in that section of the State as early W 1756. There is a tradition that hard coal was burned in Valley Forge about the time of the French and Indian /war. nevertheless, the Sfauch Chunk pro moters refuse to be turned aside from their plans. They point with pride t» the fad that the Lehigh Valley Coal and Mining Company began practical mining in Carbon County in 1792 in immediate consequence of Gindcr’s discovery, and it was only then that the possible impor tance of coal as a fuel began to be ap preciated.—Picayune, Germany is the largest coal producing country of continental Europe, the amount of tbe production for 1887 being 81.863.611 tons. Beecham’s Pills act like magic on a weak stomach. Buffalo Herds a Half Century Ago. I think I cau truly say, writes General John Bid well in tho November Century, that I saw in that region in one day more buffaloes than I have seen of cattle in all my life. I have seen the plain black with them for several days’ journey as far as the eye could reach. They seemed to be coming northward con tinually from the distant plains to the Platte to get water, and would plunge iu aud swim across by thousands—so numerous were they that they changed not only the color of the water, but its taste, until it was unfit to drink;but we had to use it. One night when we were encamped on tlie South Fork of the Platte they came in such droves that we had to sit up and fire gnus aud make what Gres we could to keep them from run ning over us aud trampling us into tho dust. We could hear them thundering all night long; the ground fairly trembled with vast approaching bands; and if they had not been diverted, wagons, animals and emigrants would have been trodden under their feet. The hoitest day of the year IrTNevi Zealand usually comes at Christmas.* -Wi A man who ha* practiced medicine for 40 years ought to know halt from su^ar; read what lie says: Toledo, O., Jan. 10, Ihst. Messrs. F. J. Cheney Co. (Jenilemen: 1 have been in the tpmeVal practice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in nil my practice and experience h ive never seen a preparation that 1 could prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hall’s Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre scribed it a "real many times and itscffeci is wonderful, and would say in conclusion that J have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not < ure, if they would take it aceoid- ing to directions. Yours truly, L. L. GoKsrcn, M. D., Office, L'l * Summit St. We will Rive $100 for anvease of Catarrh that cannot he cured witli Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Taken in'ernally. F. J. Cheney A- t o.. Props., Toledo, O. |®‘" Sold by DriiKK'bts, i5c. FITS stopped free by Dm Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $3 trial bjttlo fn5e. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch SL, i’hila.. Pa. That Tickling In your throat arises from catarrh, nnfas catarrh is a constitutional disease tho ordinary cough medi cines all fall to hit tho spot. What you need Is a constitutional remedy like Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which, by building up tho general health, and ex pelling tbe scrofulous taint which is tho cause of catarrh and consumption has restored to perfect health many persons ou whom these d soase seemed to h .ve a Arm hold. Many unsolicited testimonials I rove b yond question that catarrh is cui\d by Hood’s Sarsaparilla rold by all druggists. £1; six for 1'repared only • y C. 1. ROOD ic CO., Izowcll, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar A Plenain* Sense Of health and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follow's the use of Syrup of Fiji, as it acts In harmony with nature to effectual ly cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by all leading druggist®. He deserves not tho sweet who will not t slo tho sour. Many persons are broken down from over work or household cares. Brown’s Iron Bit ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re moves « , xce.--s of bile, and cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. He fests enough whose wife scolds at din- o r tiuie. OklahointtGuideBook and Man sent any where ~ d., Kansas City, Mo. on receipt of 5dcts.Tyler & Co., Lee Wa’s Chinese Headache Cure. Harm less in effect, quick and ]>ositive in action. Sent prepaid on receipt of jtl per bottle. Adder & Co.,522 Wyandotte st.,Kansas City,Mo Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo. “Woman, hor disease* and their treatment.” \ vuluitblo illu-tr.it ■ l book of scve itv-two pa -cs tree, on receipt of Mcts. for cost of m.ul- msr, etc. Address. P.O. Box 1083, Phila., Pa* Do You Ever Speculate# Any person sending us their name and ad dress will receive information that will lead to a fortune. Benj. Lewis & Oo^ Security Building, Kansas City, Mo. A lazy a}•petit* bothers the rich man n great deal more than an active one does the poor man. Ladies needing a tonic, or children who want building up, should take Brown’s Iron Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cXires Malaria, Indigestion,Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes tho Blood rich and pure. A Poverty-stricken Millionaire! Tills seems a paradox, but It is ex. plained by one of New York's ricbcsC ! men. "I don't count my wealth in 1 dollars.” lie said. “ What are all my ] possessions to me, since I am a victim j of consumption '{ My doctor tells me" that I have but a few mouths to live, for the disease is incurable. I am poor- 1 cr than that beggar yonder.” ‘“But,” luteruptcd tho friend to whom be spoke, “consumption can be cured. If taken in time, Dr. I’ieree's Golden Medical Discovery will eradicate every vestige of the disease from your system.” “I’ll try it,” said the iniliioiiuire, and he did; and to-day there is not a healthier, happier man to be found anywhere. The “Diseovery” strikes at the seat ot the complaint. 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