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REV. Dll. rALM AGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUK
DAY SERMOK.
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itrokf m wy%rit, /l!Ud * rtf* r irdom; and (m
grar* •/ God ru po* fi tm Late* H. 4ft
A boas Ctan* os a JMt*- ted ! *****
There u for t&* nv*t par* a Ai—r M* tfaa*
etwfcuwn Jon* *t ChnM kit*w
huacT and maftboud Fbat hind of a b'j
woe H© Wa* Hip: rv* t*>y at all ordv:
there rtt> opoa Hitn f <n tte •tart aii the
rntmaaT** ftt swny&f* ■ bar* <* tte
aih)net otjy a uttte fir tef. • fo w mirmm*K
add bar- an i (ban a * *prr.
bap* " Coacerouif wt. t hrmndm d that boy-
Ivmd <a cxte w t ivt vb/b bl>rn** orf
boot* and wbote ga**eiv of canvae and
■Mn
Bt pm and pconJ and rhiiai tevt with
faw rxr+p ty,u- f nmr*i by Chriflft lb* rutejf
lad Yrt by torw a)ooii ndiaw I
thin* *t ran cmu* ?*> as aorurate an xfca >f ,
wba? Chrttt u a* a boy a* w# ran of whax
Ckn*t ra* at a man
Plnrt. w© have the bnd Bible aeOMSt
Than w# bare th* pnAoognA nccimuX of what
Cferwt wa at thirty jean of a£ Vow yew
bav only to minif y that normal *rn*wbat
and you find wbat He *i at ten ytan f 4
mg* Twnprranjmt* newer j* ear
gume nt never bervcpea a j*hkf
matte tenxparaiaeot A nervooa Lf-tu j*r
xnen: never baooom a lyaij/hatte tmnpm*-
mar.T charier* *n" * affecttew* and j
aaabt)Oß but It w fo* fame '44 terapera-
RMrot in a differmt direction A* ]
Cfcmr find no r*hgiom < nange. He mMii
lad what He wa* a* a man. catty on nr* a
ter re a rate When a;i tradition and ail art
and ali hints*? r*prmtat Him at a bteaade ;
with mMw hair 1 know He war m boyhood j
a Unair-
Wa bare, betede an umneptred book that
wu lor tbe firat three or four oenturkai after
Cbrlrtf appearance raomved by many
ai and wkkfe p® tr>
longed a &*mnl of Clarifct'ft boy- j
bond. Some oi it may be true, moat of it may j
ba tne. none of it may be true It may be
parti j h’siit o© tart*. or by tbe of tbt <
age* aomr r-aJ Jtecta may Lave been natortad. j
But be£au~r a t ook lb not divinely iziptr*ri |
weares.*. Kscmfor* to o*k that ten
are not tr*e tbmgi in it. Franc** •
‘Tlnuiii 1 >7 -f Beiwo’ m nr* but j
we lebev> it ct may cootalß our
taken Macaulay f ‘History of tcgland” wa*
nr* bfct we bebeve xt a.*:, agh it
may rare beeci marred wish many error*.
Tbe apot rypbal ua tne
boybrjrwi of < *bn* m uwelt upon I do n'* be
bewe to be .y ;r.-par*d. and yet it may '
prw r/t fart* * Ttercf - aoifartita. Bectoai
it fupvuKsta toe txiy (.Inst a
■tel >i 1 wyna* Lat- *orertar/fni mat wbob '
apooiypbai Bat what ngbt haw*- yra :
lo aay that Gbrtet r t peiarm ljh at
tea rears of &# w£ a* at thirty 5 Ht wa*
ia ooyhcod a certaialy divine a# in mau>
koi Then while a teri He mwft hav* ,
bad tbe power to work cltar W. wbetber
He dH V hr* work them. Vn, hu
tag reathevl utßbwd. Cfcns* tar' *-i
water mo wue that w&f -eu i to . -
tfee begir.^./ g f usiradei. Bat that may
we of manhood mirwina In a w ,<rd. I
tbmx that the New Tessam-*! i* <ai]w
a snail tri— I Tjfif of what Jesue did nod saei. '
laled rise B.bse p>3Ureiy that if aL'
Chria mdand sa-d ware wrnttea the world
would nr* oocta :. the booka Ho we are at
liberty to behe • - or reyer* thrae parti of the
apccryphai Go?-l which wrt that whea the
boy Cairwt urnr. Ih- motbar pawed a bar 1 of
tharrea H*- told H * mother tank tw : tneo,
Duma . ao-: T;ta* hy nar/.-. would 1* tbe
two tbie ve* wbr> afterward wouirl expire '-n
besvio Him Wa* that more w^inder
fol than arsine of Chingß manhood pr^e
phev.- Or the rminrptred story
that the b/.v Cbrtit made a
wring from toe of a tree tr>
that His mother washed His rvat in
—was that more unbelievable than the man
hood miracle that changed water
into a marriage beverage 5 Or the uninspired
story that two sick children were recovered
by bate mg in tb*- water wrhere Christ had
washed* Was that more wonderful than the
manhood miracle bv which the woman twelve
years a complete invalid should have been
mad straight by touching the fringe of
Christ s coat*
In other wor*Ls. while I do not believe that
any of the vxadled apocryphal New Teta
ment is inspired, I believe mnah of it i* true;
just as I believ e a thousand books, none of
which are divinely inspired. Much of it was
just like Christ. Just a- certain as the man
Christ was the most of the time getting men
out of trouble. I think that the boy Christ
was the mo*t of the tune getting hoTB out of
trouble I have declared to too tnis day a
boys’ Christ. And the world wants such
a one He did not sit around moping
over what was to be. or what was. From
the wav in which natural objects cn wreathed
them-*-]', es into his sermons after He had be
come a man I ormclude there was not a rock
or a hill or a cavern or a tree for miles
•round H wa xk> t familiar with in
He had cauUotaiy felt His way
down mto the caves and had 'with lithe and
agiia limb cain -*i a poise on many a high
tree top. Hi* b qrhood was rstsse.! among
grand scenery a- most ail the great
natures have early life among
the mountain* They may b v now on
the flat*, but thev passed the receptive
days of lad hood among the hills.
Among mountains of New Hampshire,
or the rornnitarns of Virginia. or the moun
tains of Kentucky,or the mountains of Swit
zerian 1 or Italy, or Austria, or Scotland, or
mountain:- a> high and rugged as they, many
of the w' r is thrilling biographies Ijegan.
Our Lord s boyhood wa- ijnssed in a
borhood tv. hundred feet above the level
of the sea and *nirrouiide.i by mountains five
or six hundred feet still higher. Before it
could shine on the village where this boy
slept the eon had to climb far enough up to
look over hill-, that held their head# far aloft.
From yonder height His eve at one sweep took
in the mighty aonop of the valleys ana with
another-■ p took in 1 ■ Mediterranean Sea.
and you bear the grand ir of tha cliff* and
the surge <-t the great waters in Hls match
\em aermonology One day I see that divine
boy. the wind hurrying His hair over Hi.** sun
browned forehead, standing on a hill top
looking off upon Lake Tiberias, on which at
one time according to profane history are,
not four hundred, four thousand ships. Au
thors nave taken pains to say that Christ was
not affected by tl.* -> -rurroundings. and that
He from within lived outward and independ
ent of circumstances. Ho far from that be
ing true. He was th** most sensitive
being that ever walk'd the earth,
and if a pale invalid’s v eak
finger could not touch His robe without
strength going out from Him. these mountains
and seas frtuld not ha retouched His eye with
out irradiating His entire nature with their
magnificence. I warn -.t He had mounted
and explored all the tUieen hills around Naza
reth, among them Hermon with its crystal
coronet of perpetual now, and Carmel’ and
Tabor and (ilrx>a. and they all had their
sublime echo in after time from the Oiivetic
pulpit
And then it was n< uncultivated grandeur.
These hills carried in their arms or on their
backs gardens, groves, orchards, terraces,
vineyards, cactus, sycamores. These out
branching foliages aid not have to wait for
the floods before the’.r silence wns broken, for
through them and over them and in circles
round them and under them were pelicans,
were thrushes, wer sorrows, were night
ingales. were lar es, were quails, were
blackbirds, were j tridges. were bulbuls.
Yonder the white flocks of sheep snowed
down over the pasture lands. And
yonder the brook rehearses to the peb
bles its adventures down the rocky shelving.
Yonder are the oriental homes, the housewife
with pitcher on the shoulder entering the
door, and down the lawn in front children
reveling among the flaming flora. And all
this spring and song and grass and sunshine
and shadow woyen into the most exquisite
nature that ever breathed or wept or sung or
suffered. Through studying the sky between
the hills Christ had noticed the weather
signs, and that a crimson sky at night meant
dry weather next day, and that a crimson sky
in the morning meant wet weather before
nisht. And how beautifully He made use of
it in after years as He drove down upon the
pestiferous Pharisee and Kadducee by crying
out: “ When it is evening ye say it will be
fair weather, for the sky is red, and in the
morning it will be foul 'weather to-day, for
the sky is red and lowering. 0, ye Hypo
crites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but
can ye not discern the signs of the times ”
by day, as every boy ha- done, He watched the
barnyard fowl at sight of over-swinging hawk
cluck her chickens under wing and in after
years He said : “O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem !
How often would I have gath
ered thee a hen gather*th her chickens
under her wing ?’ By night He had noticed
His mother by the plain candle light which,
as ever and anon it was snuffed and the re
mover] wick put down on the candlestick,
beamed brightly through all the family
sitting room as His mother was mending His
garments that liad been torn during the day's
wanderings among the rocks or bushes, and
years afterward it all came out in the
simile of the greatest sermon ever preached:
*'‘Neither do men light a candle and put it
under a bushel but in a candlestick and it
giveth light to all who are in the house.
I>il your light so shine.” Some time when
His mother in the autumn took out the clothes
that had been put away for the summer He
ooticed how the moth miller flew out and the
dropped apart ruined and useless, and so
twenty years after He enjoined: “Lay up for
yourselves treasures in heave** where neither
y4n nnr mat tan rmpl ' Hu boyb **A
usa( a ßs-bg Unb sul fl- w#r* tbnj
ail carUsd an: Uoonwd again ftft*uc
% r*n afts-r u He trim out hteud te
fowls c 4 the air ** **Cncsudsr the Him* ~ A
rrwU storm - -oe day during CV*f h rb .#J
UaHmkl the teavuia an! angsrud Um
river* f*vtetp tnndinr ■ the £** <4 the
earn—ter > sh*>p He airbed it gathering
bw and wilder mstkl two crcfc—. —e
ftweeyang dow* fn— M uat Tate* and the
other frea M -unt CursMi rose is the eaitey
. g Bedrael and two boa— are —oght ta the
fury aol craeh gam the raw and tnum|*aat
stands tie - *
shifttng •! fur a foeidsba and the cghar
ar etna r*i t—es and tw—ty
year* after H. beuit the wbede erooe kaV a
termeu-e. of 6oel aad Wbiriwmd that euej
Hu auib—or ai l Lfted them tatothe belgkte
of subiimitv with the two greet arms 4 m
u*n and terror, waach mbbto* *Ms I
render asking reel as far as pc—Ue to for
get that you ever heard ums& kef * bo
m*T*r oeareth tneee •aytag* and
<fe*th m I will ukeu him an*. a
wia man whkii built ta h—e
Gpoe a rock, and the rate tasp—4-1 and
the ftoods came, ami the New and
b—t ape© that house. and it fall n* for it
founded op* a rock And •**?? <**
tbaus sayings of M. -
them not etail be uk—ed unto a f** -al
wfckh built bis hoow upon the m*A aui
the hll (hsetdej and the look ome.
and the wirels Urw. axsd beat ap<a u-at
bA. aM it fesl and gr—t was the fall
of it*
Ya from the Laiurs >p— . the
the frvshixw of His parahiw aM nsailm and
metaiV*! m manb tod dtsoourw I teee that
He had be— a boy of th t Wkh and had batnwi
in the stream* and beard the tught2nga> •
call, and brvA— through the i—ry hedge
u>l teokwl out of the embrasures of the 1 nr*
I’esi and drank from the writs an*l <.ha—3
the buiterft— wtscfc hravajm ay hare al*
war. t-*u ( tie Slttang b— of That
iar>le—pe. talked with the strange \n*~
\*z from lamaacta axed Eg?fA and ftapjds *ru
and Hma. who te arm van* ce *
tae d-*i barkteg at thr ap
• rwi a: wan*!' so As afterward h* wee
perfect wen us the time *4 which I st—k
was a perfw t boy, with the pnng of a boy *
f the fparkle '4 a boy’s eye. the rsbsexnd
.fa boy's Ufe and j&et :he - of ti>w
juv—lias who tet arrand cmftH and un*
eAasor. old men at tea. I warrmn? He was
a: - v tai> H vm part at>l to take th* tart
of ■ -thers In taat village of Naiaretb fam
osrtam there was, what f in ail TJ>"
—lahbialiii ib of thaanrth. that terror <d
children, tbr bdly.wbo born U> strike
to punch, u* brume. U* overpower the k*e
m—cater a>i robual The Chnri who after
ward m no limited term# dtoorawi hyp>
criS* ahd Pbariaee. I warrant, never let each
juvsniitf vilteic impse up less rifcrocs
ehi. lisood sol yet go unscathed and mvlr
fes*d. At ten' ?*ar He was ns sympathy
witti tb? uoderimgs as He e*- at thirty and
mua 1 ant no further tespirud or
anmspired mf*Armate sto persuade me tk at
He ww a sfA—dsd a rad-ant !*>▼. the
gruwftast. b- ;*est. Bsigdßtast by of aC the age*.
Huuaa I t-< Him a* a boy § Christ.
What muitiu-da* between ten and fifth's
year* hire fbund Hiu t-*at a- the one Just
sorted by Hi* own p- - esal experience b; help
any boy.
But having eLamn vjo the divine iad in the j
&-rk I mast uov j.jq Him fbtf t-an. s i
sitop Joseph. His father, died very aariv
unmevhateiv after the fatn's-is trip to the
Tecnple.azrt this lad rt.t only to Kiptrirl H.—’ -
Ktf {sat caplet Hi? unChsx and what that :
„ ti>. -A too k urn There is a rorai rare of
Sfni oa 'earth row drsnt the <st)S tfc’.r.*
Tber —r &. ctowil Toe-v hare do purp.-
robe adnnp from tivetr sheened***. The {/lair, j
r*.s ir r, a tn they at <• as much unlike a
trj- <te at anvtnjig you ran imagine But
I- and t't.w- Lat titer an* d*-ing and through
vnat sa/.T.ik co they go. sr.l thr-ugn so
etermtv fed will hep parity Item f e thru
filial behavior. They shall gtd full measur
ed rrtirt the measure [rf-estee*! town, shaket
together and running over. They hare their
example in lhit bow r-f*—- care of Hi
motor He ha.l been taught the car
lerjter'is trade by His father The boy
fad done the plainer work at the sb p
while Hi. father had pint on the finish*
ini: tourhea of the work. The boy also
cleared awav the chips and blocks and
shavings He helped hold the different
piece* of work while th" father joined them
In oar day we have all kinds of mechanics
and the work is divvied up among them
Bui to be a carpenter in Christs boyhood
day* meant V* make plows, yoke*, sbovela.
wagons, talJe* ’ hair* sofas, boose? and al
most everything that was made. Fortunate
was it that tbe boy had learned the trade,
for. when the head of the family dies,
it u a grand thing to have the child
able to take 'are of himself and help take
are of other*. Sow that Joseph. Hi* father,
is dead and the responsibility of family wipe
port come* down on this boy, I hear from
morning to night Hi* hammer pounding. His
saw vacillating. His axe descending. His gim
let* boring, and standing amid the dust and
debris of the shop X find the pierspiration
gathering on His temples and notice the fa
tigue of His arm. and as He stop* a moment to
rest I see Him panting. His hand on His side,
from the exhaustion Xow He goes forth
in the morning loaded with implement*?
of work heavier than any modern kit of
tools Under the tropical sun He swelters.
Lifting, pulling, ad justing, cleaving, splitting
all day long At nightfall He goes home
to the plain supiper provided by His mother
and sits down too tired to talk Work!
work! work! You cannot tell Christ any
thing now about blistered hands or aching
ankles or bruised fingers or stiff joints or
rising in the morning as tired as when you
laid down. While yet a boy He knew
it alb He felt it all, He suffered it all.
The boy carpenter! The boy wagon
maker! The boy house builder! O Christ,
we have seen Thee when full grown in Pilate's
police court room, we have seen Thee when full
grow n Thou w ert assassinated on Golgotha,
but, O Christ, let all the weary artisans and
mechanicsuf the earth see Thee w hile yet un
dersized and arms not yet muscularized ari l
with the undevelopied strength of juvenes
cence trying to take Thy father's place in
gaining the livelihood for the family.
But. having seen Christ the bov of the
fields and the boy in the mechanic's shop. I
show you a more marvelous scene, Christ
the smooth-browed lad among the long
tr-arded. white-haired, high forheaded eccle
siastics of the Temple Hundreds of thou
sands of stranger- had come to Jerusalem to
keep* a great religious festival. After the
hospital nooies were crowded with visitors,
the tent* were spread all around the city to
shelter immense !hr rigs of .strangers. It was
very easy among the vast throng coming
and going to lose a child. More than
two million people have been know-n to gather
at Jerusalem for that national feast. You
must not think of those regions as spiarsely
-ettled. The air-ient historian Joeephua tavt
there were in Galilee two hundred cities. th
smallest of them containing fifteen thousand
people. No wonder that amid the crowds at
the time spoken ftf Jesus the boy was lost.
His parents, knowing that He was mature
enough and agile unOugh to take care of
Himself, are on their way home without any
anxiety, supposing that their boy Is coming
with some of the groups. But after a while
then rasped He u lost and with flusfed cheek
and a terrorized l<xik they rush this way and
that, saying: “Have you seen anything of
my boy? He is twelve years of age, of fair
complexion and has blue eyes and auburn hair.
Have you seen Him since* we left the city I '*’
Back they go in hot haste, in and out the pri
vate houses and among the surrounding hills.
For three days they search .and inquire, won
dering if H<* has lyeen trampled underfoot of
M>me of the throngs or lias ventured on the
cliffs or faiien off a precipice. Send through
all the streets and lanes of the city
and among all the surrounding hills that most
dismal sound: “A lost child! A lost child!”
Andlo, after three flays they discover Him in
the great Temple, seated among the mightest
religionists of all the world. The walls of no
other building ever looked down on such a
scene. A child twelve years old surrounded
by septuagenarians, He asking His own ques
tions and answering theirs. Let me introduce
you to some of these ecclesiastics. This is the
great Rabbin Himeon ! This is the venerable
Hillel! Thi* is the famous Sbammal. These ar*
the sons of the distinguished Retirah. What
can this twelve year lad teach them or what
questions can He ask worthy their cogitation?
Ah, the first time in all their lives these re
ligionists have found their match and more
than their match Though so young. He
knew all about the famous Temple under
whose roof they held that most wonderful
discussion of all history. He knew
the meaning of every altar, of every
sacrifice, of every golden candlestick,
of every embroidered curtain, of every
crumb of shew bread, of every drop of
oil in that sacred edifice. He Knew all anout
God. He knew all about man. He knew all
about heaven, for He came from it. He knew
all about this world, for He made it. He knew’
all woflds. for they were only the sparkling
morning dewdrops on the lawn in front of His
heavenly palace. Put thee seven Bible words
in a wreath of emphasis: “ Both hearing
them and asking them questions.”
I am not so nfuch interested in the questions
they asked Him as in the questions He asked
them. He asked the questions not to get in
formation from the doctors, for He knew it
already, but to humble them bv showing
them the height and depth and length and
breadth of their own ignorance. While the
radiant boy thrusts these self-conceited phil
osophers with the interrogation point, thev
puf the forefinger of the right hand to the
temple as though to start their thoughts into
more vigor, and then they would look upward
ana then they would wrinkle their brows and
then by absolute silence or in positive words
confess their incapacity to answer the inter
rogatory. With any one of a hundred ques
tions about theology, about philosophy, about
astronomy, about time, atsiut eteraitv. He
may have balked them, discobcerted them.
oung them flat hteH the buy Cbr— asking
a* and i—s iu ? child wti
gt—He has the right ** ask th—s Tbt
u> ce be asks tfor ieCSer Alas for the sta
tedrty of the Hate! without umumutw *
It is Ckf uOik* to ask que—ss Aa*ww
iMs if T'* as U> ■* ur -| rua \be tr*h
rsdw w itasywr place u>b bxMri with
qu—ti a* if you are taut able w azsw*r.
•amaW aadoafsaw m—pacit* a* I
ba* *bo alt did Katdkn Hum* . ol
Hillri and Sha-muai and the ac— of BeCirah
wh— that gkbN boy. wtuw <
there withs garm—t r—rtung fn*a n** to
ankle. ari gird—! at the waat. pet tresn to
XUmr very wit' —d It a a disgrace to uy.
"1 don't tea * The kanirikcici wt •
—nroned • "brut that day an the Temple
did w* knew (f they w—Jd t> < hav m**M
Him any , The emir being in the
ansvwae wbf never t.', *v *1 d>
w* kW u the IswC Ateugfeit* The
fart u-at they Ud uc* m . M ; Orppmr
nmi (kmcaari 04uahasand Humbwlt and
Heramri ac. l Mune and Air W Uhans ham 11 -
and ail tne <*her of the workfs uugbt— t
nature* into us r iffa-kng xpw>,rataocHi
Tries and nucroacope and stert c*.pe
ani wxnr attery axsd all the arscutifi
;araxa* cf al* the age* are onlv —ati-
atewi at the door of memory B— hi this
Nasarvc* ted asnng qxmaucxn. girtng evr
-setiug k urw* tntem%*mte-u.
But w kite I tee the old tterirfua* Uhsnrtiug
ar the te>y Hunt I ana impr>wed a*
never Nfore with the fart that wu..t tW-kcy
n> c wants is umm of childish *cnupl>t*v
Tbe world and the charvh nave Milt up im
meae* •* deem of IftnegT Half of Them
try to Trii wnat Ooi wbat God
pitesnad. wbatCKaidid fire hundred a.
year* bef re the amaii itar on wh*ck we itv*
was ct—ted. I haw tel ns ur a sound
-nder <rrmoos abut the devrv*- of God and
the rierus 1 ganaruttnu of the S-a and dm i
coursea shewing who MeerLuwvv-s wain t. and
I give a fair arcing that if any minster
ever iegms a ermoo a ro -b a subject mmy ;
pr—re I will pet my bead down on the jew
m frvut and f mto the daeyest wiuc uer 1 <.ao
reach Wvrfced waste of tone, this trying to
sente tbe uiar-ateble and 1 atb- m the on
faxhomabte v cl- the catenae want tbe bread
of life and to be told bow they can get nd rf
their an* and their sorrow*! Why should
yv*3 and I perptei ouneirm about the d-creeai
of G- d’ Mmd jour os— Uisuu-w and God
will take care of His In the ouodort of the
univerw I think He will somehow
manage U get a. ag without u* If
you want to love and serve God. and be good
and useful and p* to he*v— I warrant
that nothing whteb ocrurre.l rtjht hundred
of years ago will hinder you a mixv
-.ite It i* tv* the decree* of God that do ns
anr harm, it is our own decrees of cn ai~l
foiiy You need n* go any ferth-r back in
history than about IBS6 years Yea ***- this
i* the *y—r l*€b Christ died ab ut thirty
three j>*rs of age. You subtract thirty-three
from 1 *teS and that make* it only
INVS year*. That is as far took
a- y*u nerd to go. Botnethia? v
-jrred co that day under an eclipsed
tun that set.* us all f'jrever free if with our
whole heart and life we accept the treev-n
--4ou pr ffer Do not let the Pkeabytenaa
(.*bureh or the Methodist Cbarcb or the
L.: ran * 'horcb or the Baptist Church or
nnr of The other evangelical churche*
*pjesxi time in trying to fix up id
ail ? Them imperfect. a& ererythinz
r:iar - - imperfect. I move anew 'veed
f>r a. the evugefical churches of Chns
ooiv three artcte in the
r*w<l and no* need of anv more If I had
all the .nweerated people of ml de&omina
n* of The -arth on one gr—t plain, and I
nad vo/- A enough to jt it to a vote that
creed * 4 thrr artkie* would be adopted with
?rArii;n jdf, vole and a thu&den'ug aye that
would cuaxe tbe earth quake and tbe heavens
nng with h '•anna. Tuis iw the cve-d I pro*
poae for aii Christ—domi
Artxcte First—" God so lowed the world
that He gavr His only beg*ten Bob that
whow>- er Iviteveth In Him should not jar
*h but have ev**rlajrting life.’’
Article Second— This is a faithful saving
and w rthy of all acceptation that Christ
Jesus came into this world to save sinners,
even the chtef .**
Arr /\st Th ini—“Worthy is the Lamb that
sv *tein Isj receive blearing and riches and
boaor and gk*ry and power, world without
end. Amen.”
But y xi go to tinkering op your old creeds
and patcbtng and s-p'K-lng and in ter lining and
annexing and subtracting and adding snd ex
plaining and you will lose time and make
yoswfl a target I'* earth and hell to shoot
at Let us have creeds Dot fashioned out of
hturAii mgenuitie* but out of scriptuai phraiie
oii.gv end all the guns of bombardment
blazing f n n all tbe port holes of infidelity
and perdition will not in a thousand
years knocked rdf the Church of God a splin
ter as big as a cambric needle. What is most
needed now is that we gather all our theolo
gies around the boy in the Temple, tbe elabo
rate m- ar .und the simplicities, and the pro
fund-tie- around the dai-ietjes the octogena
rian of scholastic research around the
unwrinkled cheek of twelve year juven
i-scence - Except you become as a lit
tle child you can In no wise enter
tbe kingdomand except you become as a
little child vou cannot understand the
Christian religion. The bast thing that
Rabbin Simeon and Hillel and Shornmai and
the son* of B-tirah ever did was in the Temple,
to bend over tbe lad, who first made ruddy
of cheek bv the breath of the Judean hills
and on Hi- way to the mechanics shop
where He was soon to be the support
of His bereaved mother, shopped king enough
to grapple with the venerable dialecticians of
the Orient “both hearing them and asking
them questions " Some referring to Christ
have exclaimed Ecce Ileus! BehoTd tbe God.
Others have exclaimed Ecce homo! Behold
the man But to-day in conclusion of my
subject I cry. Ecce adolescens! Behold the
Boy.
HOW WASHINGTON LOOKED.
His Personal Appearance as De
scribed by Ackerson in 1811.
Washington had a large thick nose,
and it was very rial tliut <lav, giving me
the iinpri- sion that he was not so mode
rate in tin- use of liquors as he was
supposed to he. I found afterward
that this was a peculiarity. His nose
was apt to turn scarlet in a cold wind.
He was standing near a small camp fire,
evidently lost in thought and making
no effort to keep warm. He seemed six
feet and a half m height, was as erect as
an Indian, and did not for a moment
relax from a military attitude.
Washington’s exact height was six
feet two inches in his boots. He was
then a little lame from striking his knee
against a tree. His eye was so gray
that it looked almost white, and he had
a troubled look on his colorless face.
He had a piece of woollen tied around
his throa‘ and was quite hoarse. Per
haps the throat trouble from which lia
finally died had its origin about then.
Washington’s boots were enormous.
They were No. 13. His ordinary walk
ing shoes were No. 11. His hands were
large in proportion, and he could not
buy a glove to fit him, and had to have
his gloves made to order. His mouth
was his strong feature, the lips being
always tightly compressed. That day
they w ere compressed so tightly as to la*
painful to look at.
At that time lie weighed 200 pounds,
and there was no surplus Hesli alxjut
him. He was tremendously muscled,
and the fame of his great strength was
everywhere. His large tent, when
wrapped up with poles, was so heavy
that it required two men to place it in
the camp wagon. Washington would
lift it with one hand and throw it in the
wagon as easily as if it were a pair of
saddlebags. He could hold a musket
with one hand and shoot with precision
as easily as other men did with a horse
pistol. His lungs were his weak point
and his voice was never strong.
He was at that time in the prime of
life. His hair was a chestnut brown, his
cheeks were prominent, and his head
was not large in contrast to every other
part of his body, which seemed large
and bony at all points. His finger joints
and wrists were so lnrge as to be genu
ine curiosities. As to habits at that
period, I found out much that might be
interesting. He was an enormous eater,
hut was content with bread and meat, if
he had plenty of it. Hut hunger seemed
to put him in a rage. It was his cus
tom to take a drink of rum or whiskey
on awakening in the morning.
Of course all this was changed when
he grew old. I saw him iu Alexandria
a year before he died. His hair was
very gray and his form was slightly
bent. His chest was very thin. He had
Crist* teeth which did not lit, and pushed
his under lip outward.
NOBLE GAME.
Gladys—l do wish Evauder had
more courage.
Grace—You ought to have my Clar
ence. I don’t think lie feais anything.
He even told me once he liad been buck
ing the tiger.— JJotton Herald,
AGRIGILTIKAL
tuHl>inJ INTI K>T RKI.NTIVIS
TO I AKM AND GAKUEK.
i*ooo ro rocxrmT.
Brui m i rj good article of food for
fkjohrr, but tbe *-me food without Ten*,
uoo ikouki Dot be given for toy coo
■denble thnr. And it i* iodiepesMble
tht til kio<U of poultry be fre-ioesUy,
if not eeeo daily, euppiied with green
food, tocb an cabbage, cauliflower, turnip
uxl lettuce. When they baee no op|.>r
:unity for teeking worm* aod iaeecta tor
xemieicn, aeinu! food tbould be given
’■beat, and tbe refute of tbe kitchen can
•-.'.be r re pr Stably cmp. than by
feeding it to poultry It is potsibie at
tome teaauot. to giee too much food,
tuning tbe poultry too fat. and diminish
tng the production of eggs, but st other
hmes. food cannot be given too plenti
fully. Water should at all tin:cl be
abundantly supplied.
gncrjrs or cork.
Better two vigorous stalks than four
weak ones because crowded aod sparing
ly fed.
For cut worms, try a mixture of one
part of salt to two parts of land plaster,
dropping a little at each hill.
One warm day dorn not make the proper
season for planting any more than one
swallow makes a summer.
Tbe man who waited to begin cultiva
tion until be could see the plants found
that the weeds were earlier than he.
Select seed carefully, and keep select
ing. Build up. Pedigree in com is just
as vauaK. u pedigree in the Shorthorn or
Poland-China.
A study of the methods by which three
times the average yield of corn was made
shows that ia all there was an unusual
amount of work expended is preparing
the seed bed.
Don't plant before the ground is thor
oughly warm. By gaining a week in the
time of planting you are apt to lose two
weeks in the time of harvesting and twenty
per cent, of the crop.
Drilling produces tbe larger yield and
p: St. except on Terr fold ground. If you
have purchased such grounds you will be
ev ssed f r ffh: tin. in lu.ts mtil you can
cleanse the land.
There cannot be a good crop without
s good stand: and there cannot be a good
stand without zood seed—seed that will
do more than germinate: that will pro
duce inh-rently v igorous plants as well.
Corn may do well on hilly land (though
the crop must be uneven), but nearly
slways the land will lose heavily by the
denuding action of rain—often so heavily
ss to make grass or small grain a mere
profitable crop.
If the l&fcs com crop were loaded on
rwo-horee wagons, thirty-three bushels
; :o the load, and the wagons were placed
:wenty-six feet apart, or as nearly as
oosxible in a string, tin string of wagons
would reach twelve times around the
jlobe—3oo.ooo miles!
Nothing promises to so revolutionize
die present waste of corn fodder in the
West as the new but growing practice of
jutting the field com close to the ground
j is soon as the kernels are well glazed
ind putting the whole crop directly into
-he silo, either whole or cut into half-inch
engths, ears and all.— America n Agri
; ruUuritt.
SCAB Di SHEEP.
What is called ‘ ‘scab" in sheep is a cu
laneous disease, closely allied to mange
in horses and itch in men, for in all three
the soreness and inflammation of the skin
are due to the presence of a minute para
' -itu. mite, usually called an acarus,which
burrows in the skin, loosening the hairs
or wool. If one of the female acari is
placed on the wool of a healthy sheep she
will quickly crawl down to the root of it
and bury herself in the skin. These fe
male acari bring forth from eight to fif
teen young at a litter, and these spread
aver the animal, and wherever they find
odgment make small sores and cause the
wool to drop out. Old and unhealthy
iheep are first attacked and suffer most,
jut if the disease is neglected it will
ipread to the most healthy and vigorous,
ind even young lambs will sooner or la
;er become affected. The best and
! cheapest treatment for this disease is to
:lip the entire flock, lambs as well as the
! old and fully grown, in some kind of
liquid that will soften the scab and poi
*on the mites. The dipping should be
lone as soon as the sheep are sheared in
spring, for at this time the liquid will
1 readily reach every part and destroy the
mites. The most common and
perhaps best sheep dip in use consists
jf tobacco and sulphur in the
proportions of four ounces of tobacco and
me of sulphur to one gallon of water. If
\ large flock of sheep are to be dipped,
then kettles of sufficient capacity must be
provided to heat the liquid, and
| also a tank or box large enough to admit
' the entire body of the largest sheep. The
tobacco should be steeped in hot water
until its strength is extracted, and the
sulphur then stirred in. The liquid should
then be poured into the dipping vat and
its temperature reduced to about 120 de
grees, when it is ready for use. Each ani
-1 mal should be entirely immersed except
i the eyes and mouth, then lifted out care
fully and held on the platform for a few
! minutes for the liquid to drain off and
run back into the tank. By using to
| bacco stems the cost of the dipping will
be greatly reduced, and still be equally as
| affective as one made of a better quality
; :if tobacco. The cost of dipping a large
j flock will not exceed five cents per head,
: and the gain iu the growth of wool.
! health, and comfort of the sheep will far
exceed the cost of this operation. Sheep
ticks and other vermin infesting sheep
will also be destroyed by the tobacco and
sulphur. Iu Europe arsenic, spirits of
‘urpentine, and other poisons are used in
j making what are called “sheep dips;” but
: lobacco and sulphur are equally effica
cious. and harmless to those who are
' jbliged to handle it as well as to the
iheep.— -Xcic York Sun.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
“Keep the surface of the corn-field
mellow, let the season be wet or dry.” ad
vises Rural New Yorker.
“Well-rotted manure and wood ashes
are the best manure for an orchard,” ac
cording to a Michigan fruit-grower.
The stump-rooted kinds of carrots are
considered best by the Rural New Yorker ,
because easiest to handle, dig and store.
Avoid having your hens too fat, as eggs
iwn such are less apt to be fertile. They
should be kept with appetites moderately
ih&rp.
Shrubs that bloom early in the spring
should be pruned immediately after
dowering if you wish a vigorous bloom
next year.
Bread and butter is good, but if you
had to make three meals a day from it for
six months, you would like a change. The
fowls like a variety as well as you.
Don’t let the currant worm scare pre
vent you from planting some currant
bushes. Currants are one of the healthi
est fruits grown. A little helleboro will
fix the worms.
L B. Pierce tells in Ohio Farmer that
he thinks one day devoted to weeding
3lraw’berries just as the ground .ceases to
be sticky, after settling, is worth a week’s
work Ute in May. * >
Woß!*n F WINDoX.
Ignorance is the mother of all evil.
That alone belongs to you which you
have be-towed
Jfo gift can make rich those who Are
poor in wisdom
Twenty yean in tbe life of ■ man is
sometimes a severe lesson.
The sureat wsy to please is to forget
one's self and to think only of others.
Tbe more you practice wbat you know
tbe more shall you know what to prac
tice.
We attract hearts by tbe qualities we
display: we retain them by the qualities
we ponses*
Laughter does not always indicate
good nature; tbe laughing hyena is tbe
fiercest of animals.
Time will discover everything to pos
terity; it is a babbler, and speak* when
no question is put.
One of the greatest causes of trouble
in this world is the habit people have of
talking faster than they think.
It is not putting things in the right
place that bothers a man so much as
finding tbe right place after he has put
things in it.
Pay your bill twice mther than go to
law. There are as many lawyers clamoring
for tbe wrong as there are lawyers
lamoring for the right.
The prejudices of men emanate from
the mind and may be overcome; the pre
judices of women emanate from the
heart, and are impregnable.
The man who does good, and the man
who does evil, are alike expected to hide
their deeds: it is only the man who does
neither who is allowed to boast.
Most of the troubles of life originate
from the habit of talking too much. The
tongue is useful in its way, but it should
be handled with as much care as gun
powder.
We have heard a great many people
sdmit that they were peculiar, but we
believe we have never heard a man ad
mit a peculiarity that he thought was to
his dircrcdit.
The I.ogwood Industry.
The trim little Yankee brig.-intir?"
Edith, of Boston, Captain W. G. i'oster
master, was lying discharging lottwood
from Jamaica at Providence, K. 1.,
when the Jouraar marine reporter
strolled on board in search of an item.
The mate gave hun this information:
•This brig is a res'lar West Indian;an;
that's what she was built for. She has
carried many cargoes of sugar, molasses
and melado—melado. yes: inelado is a
combination of sugar aDd molasses much
like that we call molasses sugar.’’
Melado, when refined produces various
zrades of sugars and sirups.
Logwood, the sap or juice of which is
extracted very largely for purposes of
dyeing in different colors, grows in
swampy places on low lands and is the
other branch of the business. The trees
are shaped somewhat like elm trees,
with large branches, but these are more
tortuous and kinky—much more clumsy
looking, in fact. The leaves of the foli
age do not grow with any luxuriance,
but are dwarfed and grow close to the
limb; they are slimmer and longer.
The natives, in securing the wood, cut
down the trees with huge, heavy-headed
axes, like beetles, and cut off the bark
and sapwood with these and with
machetes, long deleter or cutlass-like
knives. The heavy heads of the axes
asgist them in breaking off the limbs
when nearly severed, and they proceed
to cut these into convenient length-.
The heartwood, which is red (the sap
wood is yellow), is used for dyeing, and
is piled up and carted down to the
shore or quay, where it is piled up by
the natives. The carts are of very rude
construction, with clumsy, ungainly
wheels made by the natives. If the ship
is to be loaded lying off in the harbor,
the logwood is loaded in canoes carrying
two natives, who handle the wood from
the canoes to the ship. The canoes are
“dugouts,” cut from the trunk of the
cottonwood tree. The natives have cut
down all the trees near the shore, and
now have to go from three to four, to
even ten miles inland to find good wood.
The older growth is the best.
The Haytians are said to be a lazy,
shiftless set, and addicted to drinking
cana or sugarcane rum (pronounced
eanya), aad fond of vondoo worship.
Human saarifiees of infants even are
said to be a part of their weird wor
ship.
Jackson’s llnel With Sevier.
The duel between Andrew Jackson
ud Sevier seems to have escaped history
ud biography. Sevier was Jackson's
equal as a soldier, and during his Indian
tights of over a quarter century he never
lost a battle, because he always charged
into the natives when in a body, and the
Indian could only fight with it tree in
front of him. In 1796 Sevier was the
first Governor of Tennessee, and for
twelve years. During this first term
Jackson was on the Supreme Bench of
the State. The two men had difficulty
about a military election, both being
candidates. On the day when Jackson
arrived at Knoxville to hold court Sevier
came also, mounted a block in the square
and denounced Jackson in unmeasured
terms, calling him all the names in the
■arly vocabulary. There could be but
>ne result, and that evening Jackson
challenged him. Sevier accepted, and
then came a question as to where the
light should take place. Jackson wanted
o fight on the Cherokee Reservation and
•erier in Virginia. Asa result letters
mssed between, in which the word cow
ird had the most frequent use. Fnally,
lackson started for Virginia and notified
■levier. He reached Virginia first and
-mained several days awaiting the arrival
if his opponent. Sevier not appearing
oe started for home, meeting his rival on
he way. They met in the road, ex
hanged several shots, neither one being
iurt, when friends interfered.— l Yew York
lerald.
The Most Prolific of Authors.
The most pretentious example of
: i terary fecundity that the world lias ever
known is to be iound in the Spanish
dramatist, Lope de Vega. His known
works are almost beyond computation,
lie thought nothing of writing a play in
two days, that even a copyist could not
translate in that time. He dictated verses
more rapidly than an amanuensis could
take it down. A light farce he could
write in a couple of hours, and in the
course of his life he wrote more than two
thousand original dramas. Hallam cal
lated that De Vega was the author of
21,300,000 lines. But even arithmetic
fails to convey to the mind the immense
production of this remarkable writer.
Some of his plays still hold the stage in
Spain, though it is nearly three cen
turies since they were written.
Defia- and Southey - were the most
voluminous of English writers, but their
works are now nearly forgotten. Defoe's
fame is enshrined in “Robinson Crusoe,”
while Southey’s rests ou his “Life of
Nelson” and “Life of Wesley,” and their
popularity is somewhat on the decline.—
Ckuag; Herald.
An oil company has organized in
Wyoming with a capital of $2,500,000.
| WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATra* FOB
E MI.NINE READER*-
woman’s stroro U>v* for wrrr
l’poo • nteriag tbe world it u her firet
i robe In a white gown she i* brought to
baptism She says her prayer* in white
and kneel* for <onfirmti >n in *potle
robe* She is married in white, and
after that *he lives over the white gar
ment days of her youth in the robes shi
makes for her children, and when her
task is ended she folds her white hamis
and lie* down to sleep in a shroud a*
white a* her soul. —Atlanta C***t*if*on.
LOVES THE BLACK SiUJKF
An old-fashioned housewife in a
Clifton iPenn.) farm-house will never
permit her husband to be without at
least one black sheep in his flock. !*he
na* got a notion that it is not healthy to
wear stockings with any kind of dye in
the wool, and as she dislikes to wear
white hosiery, all her stockings are
made out of natural black wool. She
cards the wool into rolls by hand, just as
people did three or four generations ago,
spins the rolls herself and knits her own
stockings. Once a tree fell on her only
black sheep and killed it. and her hus
band had to hustle around and find an
other. I took him three days and mile*
of travel, but he finally came across a
black ewe lamb fifteen miles away and
bought it. —Chicago Her 'hi.
sew fabrics.
In silks there are several specialties,
one being the sole Royale. which is to
be had plain or serving as a groundwork
to brocaded or satin stripes and tracery
designs. It has a minute pattern over it,
which gives it a dull but rich look, and
It is in black, white and every shade ol
gray. It is the material par excellence
of the season for rich mourning costumes
and mantles.
Regence is another silken novelty, with
a ribbed satin face, resembling faille
Francaise, making up handsomely as
dresses.
Soie eclat comes next as a rich looking
silk at a moderate price.
Cachemire Royale is a grenadine silk,
with a little wool introduced to give it a
cashmere touch. It looks like extremely
rich cashmere and has a silk back.
In thinner fabrics there are silk-warp
armures with broche designs, suitable fot
evening or fete dresses, embroidered crepe
de chine, with a concentrated design at
the base forming a deep border, rising
upward and softening into scattered
sprays; Balzerine, a sort of narrow-striped
grenadine with broad silk crepe -tripes:
erc-paline with a broad border of simulated
crape and pongee silks with a pointed
design, overshadowed with a delicate
tracing of silk work.
The broche or figured nun’s veiling
and thicker nun s cloth, the light camel's
hair and a fine French twill serge are all
to be fashionable, and in nearly ail cast*
the designs culminate as what is intended
to be the base of the front skirt drap>ery
and lose themselves in small detached
groups. Plain material is generally sup
plied with the figured to make up into s
costume.
A specialty is nun's veiling, with aI
many as ten rows of inch-wide ribbor
woven in. at their own distance apart.
Another specialty is snowflake crepe nun'f
veiling in light gray with squares traced
out as large as • -muffler” handkerchiefs,
in white fancy woven design, with twe
corners ornamented These are intended
to form panels, and are both uncommon
and stylish.—A’eic Tori Telegram.
DAILY I.lrtK OF A GIRL IN INDIA.
The following document has been
translated into English from the vernacu
lar language in which it was written by a
young lady of about sixteen. At the ex
amination of a girl's school by the local
committee of managers, the pupils were
requested to write the story of their daily
life and avocations. The exercises which
they produced were very similar in many
points, but this was one of the best:
••After getting leave from school on Sat
urday, I went home and put away my
slate and books. I next took off my
school-dress, and, having put on other
clothes, I attended to household work.
When evening came I lit the light in the
house, and taking my beads I went to
worship our god Jugonath. Having
prostrated myself before the great Lord,
Jugonath, I went into the house, and
taking my book, sat down to read.
When the night was somewhat advanced
I put away my book. Then having
taken my food and washed my face and
hands, I spread my bed on the ground and
sat down. Then I gave praise to the
great Father and supreme Lord, and I
went to sleep. Iu the early morning 1
got up and having performed my house
hold duties I took my hook and sat down
to read. When the sun was well up 1
anointed myself with oil, and went out
to bathe. Then I came home and
changed my wet clothes and put them in
the sun to dry. Then having made my
reverence to our spiritual teacher, I made
my prostrations to the sun, and having
received spiritul comfort, returned to the
house. I then took food, and having
washed my face and hands I ate some
betel-nut. and sat down to write. When
the day was spent I returned to my
household work. aud again worshiped the
god Jugonath. Now I have come again
to school, and if there are any faults oi
mistakes in this exercise I hope that they
will be forgiven.” —leisure Hour.
FASHION NOTES.
The Hading veil is disappearing.
They are wearing hat crowns muck
lower just now.
Colored tulle bonnets are being made
for midsummer wear.
The newest fabric for little girls' cloth
mg is plaided mohair. It is light in
: texture and its color combinations are
generally artistic.
There are now three distinct styles ol
tailor-made costumes which seem to be
equally favored, viz., the Empire, Eng
lish and Directoire.
It is just as well to remember that
j blouse waists of washing silk must be
! entirely uulined if they are ever to be
| successfully washed.
It is announced upon authority that
\ the fashionable shade of hair just now is
! light brown, so full of warm tints as tc
! seem red in sunlight,
i Among Worth's latest inventions is a
! train that falls over half a yard or so at
! the top, and does away with the ne
eessity of further ornament.
Honors are easy be-tween plaids and
tripes. Plaids are in high favor with
the select; fine stripes are moderately
worn by the mas* of womankind.
An evening costume recently seen at a
Paris reception was of shot velvet, appar
: ently of vieux rose and green, the com
bination making a dull heliotrope.
A full frill of lace which turns over at
j the neck and falls into a jabot down the
j front of the corsage is one of the finish
’ ing touches given to a dinner dress.
A combination much worn this season
is that of black and yellow. Black straw
hats take yellow ribbons and flowers, and
j yellow straws have black ribbons and
black feathers.
the gorilla. .
A Fifhtet from Way Back, *nd •
Tough Customer to Hsndls.
• •Th* r-rilU !• th* priM> °l
Afn • " **l tterl Htwlilaiii, ho hmx
JL.d.l km -ledge-f Dio Dark i j-ntn
Lent H had been -i-oking of • loop-
Lrd skin on etlubitum .n hi* w.n.low,
countered in fighting w.h the original
•fiSiSrSasirtU-s-as*
rrmut eutfW in mating the conlU Ite
.1 •• iho gorill* in found iu only a
comparatively —H ?*****£*£
Klri'w He lurks in the wood* along th
lasts for several hundred miles north
of the mouth of the Congo. I have
n v. r g..rills in the open country,
and, bv th way, I think that th. fact
that he st-vs in the *r.>Ja accounts for
. . - 'liedmst csd
of a quadra I** L Yon -- the gorilla n
] waxing thruo-di tin forest.
With hi* long arms, snd seizing tl e
branches of the tree*., rises on his hind
Ices and walks <n them, supporting
himself with his hold on the branches.
H:bit has thus almost made an upngnl
creature of him.
-The g 'rill, is as brave ws brave can
lie The male gorilla does all the fight
ing for the f.'idly. If you approach .
,Jfr of gorillas the female will run
■creaming through the- wood. <* will
climb th. highest tree, uttering all th.
while cries not unlike a w oman in great
fright. Hut the male gorilla will come
straight at von. He does not know
what leer is. He will tight ant number
of men." . ,
-How do von fight them I"
“With pistols. It is very unsafe to
trr.s* to a gun or to a poor weapon of any
kind. The gorilla Ua > fierce and js . •
. . .... . . t
him at the be-1. The woods where lie
is found are so thick that it is impossi
ble to see him accurately at any dis
tance. If vou tire at hun as he comes
at VOU down th - tree a limb may turn
the count- of the bullet. Before you
can lire a second time he w ill be upon
vou. He droj>s from limb to limb aud
comes at a ra-id, swinging pace. The
safest way is to hold vour tire until he
is at am. - length and then tire steadily
into him with a pistol.
•■The gorilla is easily killed. An
ordinary pistol shot will have the same
effect upon him as it lias upon a man.
The hunter’s dang -r is iu not making
tne sli.it tell. Once I was passing
through the forest with a bodyguard of
natives. The natives are furnished by
the Dutch traders with a miserable gun,
the barrel of which is made of gas pipe.
The natives had learned to be suspicious
of their guns. When they tire at any
thing they point iu the general direc
tion, pull the trigger, and fling the gun
at the object. They throw the gun be
cause tliev are afraid it will explode in
their hands, a.-, it very frequently does.
Well, we came upon a gorilla. A native
saw him dropping from a tree coming
at us. Aiming at the descending form,
he fired and missed. He had not
turned before the grim monster was
upon him. Standing and throwing his
arms around the negro’s neck the
gorilla seized his throat in his manlike
jaws and was crushing the life out of
him when w e came np and fired a pistol
ball into him at close range. But the
wounds inflicted were mortal, and the
native died in great agony. ”
“Are the gorillas numerous in the
strip of country where they are found f”
“They are scarce. In making a trip
once I saw two in one day, but that was
unusual. They are the fiercest and
bravest of animals. Tlie male gorilla in
going into l attle sounds a fearful warn
ing by beating its breast and giving
forth sounds that make the dense for
est resound. He is a dangerous antag
onist, and you are all the time reminded
by his appearance that you are contest
ing with a creature that has a man’s
faculties aud appearance, a giant's
strength, and a monkey’s agility.”—
IxdianapolU Ar*.
Badly In Debt
The thirteen Southern states, includ
ing Kentucky and Mi-souri, have funded
debts aggregating $95,8-78.643, be-ides
an unfunded debt amounting to $20,000,-
000 more. Of the Southern states. Ken
tucky alone has a sinking fund, nnd iu
her case it nearly covers the small debt
of the state. Three-quarters of the debt
of Texas and about the whole of Missis
sippi’! are due to the school funds of
those states, so that the debt is insig
nificant in each case. Iu round fig
ures, $119,000,000 is the aggregate of
the debts of the Southern state*, includ
ing the unfunded debt. The remaining
twenty-five states, comprising ail those
of the North, the Northwe-t and the
Pacific slope, owe less than $48,000,000,
funded and unfunded, if the amounts in
the several sinking funds are subtracted
from the nominal aggregate. It appears
that ten Southern sfates are loaded with
more than two-thirds of all the state
debts of the Union.
National Cemeteries.
Distributed among the 85 national
cemeterits of the Uuited States are 325,-
280 soldiers’ graves, of which 148,832
are mnrked “Unknown. ” At Vicks
burg are 16,615 grave*, at Nashville 16,-
533 aud at Arlington 16,254, the oiher
cemeteries containing less numbers. The
cost of the cemeteries his been from
$250,000 down. At Arlington a single
monument covers the bones of 2,111 un
known soldiers, gathered after the war
from the fields of Bull Hun aDd therouic
to the Rappahannock. The grave of
Gen. Sheridan is at Arlington. Near
Salisbury, N. C., intrenches occupying a
space not more than four hundred feet
square, arethe bodies of 11,700 Union
prisoners.
The Misses Chattaway, for many years
the custodians of Shakespeare's birth
place, and the collection of relics at
Stratford-on-Avon, are soon to resign
their port. The number of visitors to
Stratford has grown steadily, until last
year it reached 17.000, and the sis'ers do
not feel strong enough to continue their
duties. They have been custodians 17
years.
What will Brown's Iron Bitters cure? It
will cure dyspepsia, indigestion, weakness,
inu.*tia. rheumatism and all similar diseases.
Its wonderful curative power is simply be
cause it purifies the blood, thus be inning at
the foundation, and by building up the system
drives out all disease. For the peculiar
troubles to which ladies are subject it is inval
uable. it is the only preparation of iron that
does not color the teeth or cause headache.
Chicago, 111., working women have nn or
ganization for nintil.il help and improvement.
Happy Homes.
Here's a health to the wives and the mothers
Who ait in our households to-day;
Who are giad when they brighten for others
lhe hours that go drifting away,
rtay their eyes keep the light of the gladness.
T *-eir heart* hold the fullness of bliss
That banish shadows and sadness,
And what need we ask more -ban this?
But—how can this happine sbe kept? V ?l
shall protect thiec we love i hose who maLp a
Heaven of the Home—from the rava.-ee of ais
euse that is often worse than death -that is, in
fact, a Ivyjtring death? The question is easily
answered: Dr. Pierce s Favorite l*rescrtption
—the standard remedy for all thoso peculiar
diseases to which women are subject—is what
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wives and mothers. It prevent* those diseases,
and it cure* them. It is a blessing to women
and t ere'orea national blerfeiug. because it
gi yes heal lit to those about wi.om iliehap i
neas of horns' centers, and the strength of a na
tion is in its happy homes.
■ (’iecce'-i Pellets, or Anti-billons Granules;
In vials. 26 cents; one a dose. Druggists.
That France 1* prospering is shown by the
fact that JOJO.UtW.OOO is in savings banks.
If afflicted with sore eyed use Dr. Isaac Thomi*-
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A H*r lll*** Hfm.s
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ftv scrofula, bks dpoiion, .km A<-.- a ,
mstisni, alters, h. uiucs, rmpucu, '
w-sk kidneys, atsrrt, tsmsl* ,^ lw ,
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humor., ..pin, lie pmsna, e.U rh-nm, ...JIT
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widen* epelU, .- .iwtipstloii. blnWhr* ' 111 N*
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lioftsl eruptm- tend item, hut kill,
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lw hixredteu , -r sny
that will i-sita. rrttptt.su, but .. **
pr •cni.lion of an eminent Atls.its w,, ""I
snd will give satisfaction frwn th. w‘““A
Ixeftle l* ken. Trr li. ,r t t*
Ueorob L. Dott, the contul .■
Society I-lands, who is to msrrT JJ
Process Pot ns, wssspsge in th, [.,/!
Ststis Senate from the age of 13 a*o- a
was 10. lie WAV a great f.vota, Jf
> list r BiiyanL When the lsiiwv
came secretary of state he mad. lw
consul st Tahiti.
The religious order of the Kit. I
Daughters, which ha* put held its mtr I
in- in New York city, has crown to ml
idly during the four tears of Its exiiUsa I
thut it now hav nearly 100,000 ntentbea 1
mostly young women, who are devotetl I
to the works of charity and rel gion.
As I*valhl. Travel, u. t .mr.,1,,^
No pere.i. rfiould travel without .W,r a
liau. ur( > i(s te Lb hi* e*u Lt-., for tLr wir
be found iuFßiumbie when chance of tot&uA
Skater La brou(bt on atUu-k uf coimC
tioii, ludigestion. or torpidity of the liver a
Lntb. tea* one ii(. Mock Drug to., N. \
Jttet th nk of It! $l4O made in one wetkb?
n u(at ruitre-entintf B. F. Joh -u&• iK j
It chmond,V*. and they have had nunrmon
piirt'.fM trvelina for them who d;d eqa!!y
wel.*omeß (ooddeal better. If younwdwn.
pif.wne.t ii would be • go*d thing Lout down
and wr te them a line at once.
Otrron, (he I'nri4i<r ©f Farmer*.
Mild, equable c' 1 mate, (artainaudabondnt
crop*. rot*? fruit, grain, grit*.* and stock
• • ntry in the wo: 11 Fail inform*: on fnt.
Addrtw Oreg. Im'igrVn Board. Portltud.Or*.
The Mother’s Friend.'u*ed before confln*.
meut, lessens pain and macee labor
tire! V ®ay. .Sld by all druir^iwt*.
A (food Appetite ia etstaiitJ to ;ood ue*itt.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is a wonderful medioa* for
creatiug an appetite, toring the dlgertlon sudfß
U.g strength to the whole s>stem.
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