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THE MONROE ADVERTISER : FORSYTH, G A., TU ESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1889? PAGES
AGE.
VnK'S SUN- ‘
v
oy. (A Jnblleo , w.»
r preached by
i s the
yrr e 1)0 at an es
w f
" ji.-***nt communicant
> Brook Ta! < rnu'l'i
a Go n. - • ‘ „ .] " .. '/
’• ■ * ! cad .just
f ■< - .:rc;'at,on
Tii V -w-, u i. ht higher
r t lan ev V, i - and 1 th
,r 11 ' •*
observed in the
r . .. j • • f. u n all
XpPtiK! HV M ....... n 18
-
■ > in.-nag* too ; his
fre •Bring l.ith-r th«
J o : .day over
; .-' ip a cm
prn ►i iu> f- i iv!ty
the ^i.«t n
p<ii ho iirnag, How
* year < ur ta
I *§e iU 'ii J J isgiv
ing ing bounteous.
A i h O' Christen
fill -rated joyful
and f
the old home
a ur.vt hat has evei
•rite son whom ths
: oiue a ftcrabond
ittJS got tired of night
iu I to his father’s house.
ver ould come back.
I iid his son would come.
‘ him day aft-r day
in He knew he would
iin< i'if hi*
i • uu ms celo
■at ion.
Th i - is /» on If in the v.dlock that hns
be ! • up and fed to utmost capacity so
to 9011 •Ah! joy that
SK there never w,11 be
fl gl e old in .most cud than this
dav IA tellers do tlieir work,
Ui n* bring into th* table
th' Tne tuusicia is will
1 ad the pay groups
1 io-ii tii* floor. ifV il
1 gathered in,
out to til*
1 > fnt ti r presides at
I thanks G al that
• di:
f; ■’* “ ‘V ii i ) to
>Mi indeed -oamls
' an I says: ‘
h ng; this b wv >y
/ chastened fftthi too. A Icead good
nothin w says
i ! good
oiin-jr \ ;lad at
V f brr if sor
at ■ remem
** n ■\ll ready
: ►vers bft. Music.
vr a: ain I He ] H« was
r vr ig list
such bold and
he ngcryj I oi thc
im: j when a
to God.
there is th now convert a
•nr <“t tremendous thing to uceo io a Ohris
j ITomi-nt in n
i-urn ru lers htmso!f to
! h - ^Tt on tto father’s
l >y eomei back
c throng who in the i arlors
•ofessed Chi irt tii gilt Vlft'
m ,, 1 ■xt rnorning rang my
“Sir, 1 cannot contain
r v f I fool; I came here this
Ilia ve ! oun i more
rv in .; God than in
ji mv ty, and I came
m m running .
y nn l t ' 1 t,ll!
„ a l >:1 „ 01
'
, rvt pan lone 1
'
the |
l do ■■ i
r>. v “
• r v ” . ’ ' ’ '
in
t Ui; li .', •icy eternal
sunr.)
1 d a strtr'gl tv
wi iV i v was inforni-id
i is lies, and tlfiM
ton wi’il nnent; Am'
ai c Lwith thq ox
a tho pvt in his hands
nd ho raptures, the
i n tru y say;
JO. 'es are
mine! ’
th ng t t •• a Chris
A T a tho k 11
zA iliil c. You
to a fu
» nothing
ired ton
ompared finehiu
■ri'Ss ill-.
*d morn
1 d iv ta
iu
rod Al*
i t convert!
.
in a re
ex peri
xperience:
-poor, yet
tiv •t PCS
f t 1 this
>f the
pass
OT in of God tho
col Sandeman was
hint said : “Have
if * replied, had “ since
n er him: anv "Would ]>ain
e\ ii to
to S<?a % a»«ae ^ >. M .4 W
er s enough ; stop,
I x: the Joys of tnis Chris
tf.
rom th s* tame joys in
vs of this world
►el. The world
found that out —
< fui'ids to con *
own bottle;
around
v. own
s wore
T' Thoiuas oonsuiamg
a
the fact this
1>V. The ver\
n who l the pommel of the saddle
on I li. nlvth rode, shouted iu
the stn 1 ms* tie queen/ One
. ai'i-R . - a.ul he n«t
er - V\r
s. oh, and there were
u: on i ,inTr re:-., C an,/the
■ " a- i ~ “ d " 1 .....
-
it beg
is a
to next lino there
f V s unit
^ was ■ ■ ire al ti. rough th*
’• ’Mt was wid
r ■ it h i n n- .nff wounded
nsr the 1
th
r«:
r tiv '.ties
ours,”
... ,, t* e , by. and it is
. - r» K omv qua
I iV*• ip
vmr * >ni
tune an
heaven is v ... , .s >oura Some of
\ .-a ; toe'--xt, naveg.-ne
far astray, i.SI35S
know it, vc
went fort' its!
guardian .nee: -;.t 1 M-tli with him. and
ge.i . mt , 1. .4 guardian
I.g n..-. :1 tue angel
a circle dear around where the young
man stood. It was a circle cf rjrttie and
nonor, and he must not step beyond that eir
cl*. Armed fora came down, but were
i?, *d to halt at the circle—they
‘Ojld not pass. But one day a
temptress forth and with diamonded hand sire' hei
crossed that circle with toe hand,
®nd fell grip the tempted brought soul took beyond it,and by that on*
died was the circle and
Circle; Home Wood of yon nave stepped beyond that
you not like this dav by the
to step back? This, I fliy to
to , mt at salvation. There w' aS in
the '■ailed closing the clock hours of Queen Anile what is
scene. Flat down on the
pillow in helpless head sickness she eould not
move her or move her hand.
Bl.e was wa ting for the hour when
the Ministers of State should
gather In angry contest, and, worried and
wom out by the coming hoar, and in mo
mentary absence of the nurse, in the power,
th* strange power which delirium sometimes
K, lv '“ i OM ' *he a rose an 1 stood in front of the
d clr, and atood there watching the clock
when the nurse returned. The burse said:
“Do you sec anything peculiar about
that clocks Bhe made no answer,
but soon died. There is a clock
s<en* in every history. lied If some of you
would ris* from the of lethargy ancf and
come out from your delirium of sin look
'-a the clock of your d.-stiny this morning,
you wouM s** and hear something you have
not-ienof h'-ard before, and every tick of
» '• minute, and every stroke of the hour,
....... every swing of th* pendulum would
say: “J?nw, now, now, now!'* Oh, com© home
'oyour Father** house. Com© home, oh,
orofH^al from the wilderness. Come home,
•omehome!
ii. But I notice that when the prodigal
came there was the father’s joy. He did not
■' !t him with any formal “How do you dot”
H* did not come out an l say: “You are un
fit. to enter; go out and wash in the trough
by the well, and then you can come In; we
‘ :lVa w?' , e ^ u * h tl :°, ub ' 0 ^‘th you.” Ah!
no. r.l aimed ^, h festival, , I n , f X h proprietor it waa of an that outbu-r esUte of pro- a
a t her s love and a fair’s joy. Gotlisyour
11tttln-r. I have not much sympathy with
though ! ; ,af description He of G°d I sometimes hear, as
were a Turkish Sultan, hard and
unsympathetic, lb- subjects. and listening not to the cry of
A man told me he saw in one
'•! th* eastern lands a King riding along, and
Hi* • wo other m*n were with in having altercation,and one charged
eaten his rice; and the
ngsnd: Then slav the man and by post
ar .'in examination find whether he has
1 t«m the rice. And he was slain. Ah! the
•run i ty of n scene like that. Our God is not
h ‘,, u _' an n °t a Gzar, not a despot, but a
-
1 1 kinrl, , Iovmg, forgiving,
, and He
nj^'f 1 ,pav ;^ nn " again when a prodigal
y £ the h« death ck - °f /have him that no dieth.” pleasure,” he says,
If a man doids not get to heaven it is be
’“’ N ’ he will.not go there. No diff-renct*
h-color, no ditftjrence the history, no differ
■niv the ttiiteoedeihts, no difference the sur
ii'undings, white horses no diffeV'nce the sin. When the
of t'Virlst's victory are brought
at to celebrateethe eternal triumph you may
rule on* of that u, and us God is greater than
<11 Ills joy‘is greater, and when a soul comes
1 'i; k tlier* is in his heart the surging of an
mfimt* ocean of gladness, and to express that
m*ss it takes all tho rivers of pleasure,
aivI all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages
oi ; ternlty. ,! than It is all a joy deeper jjrtan all denth.
l ill H w^Ul .'K IOC and vaster height, t.fcan ™i wider than
all immensity. It
■ uicted ■ >rtop* splendor it undergirds. it outweighs all the
b'll what God’s and joy joy of the universe. Who
an is ?
X on remember reading the story of a
kmg. who on some great day of festivity
liut mothinks when a soul comes hack God
ik so glad that to express His joy He flings
"« s »""• worlds into space, and kindles up
ntnv suns and rolls among the white robed
the mountains of frankin'-enso anil is
echo. 1 tinek from tho everlasting gates, He
cries': “This, my son, was dead, and lie is
ullvo agnin.”
At. the oireuing of th* Exposition in New
Orleans, I sav a Mexican flutist, and he
played the solo, and then afterward the eight
or ten bands of music, accompanied by the
great organ, came in; but the sound or that
one flute as compared with all the orchestra
g rea t* r than all the combined joy of th*
iie uni irtof verso, Almighty when compai tiod. cd with \ the resounding
~
For ten years a father went three times agjr*. a
to the depot. His son; wont off in
iu " circumstances, but the lather said:
Hg* Mill and come his mind back.” parted, 'ino and strain was t^ry
thre* tiums
tho father wont. In tho early morning;
he watched the train, its arrival, the step;
iv.ng out of tho passengers, and then 1
the departure there of the train. At noon
no was of tho train, again watching watching the depart¬ ad,
vance the
ure. As night, there again; watching thd
coming, lo watching his the going for ten years.
i was sure son would come back. God
has been watching and waiting for some of
you, my brothers, ten j’ears, twenty years,
thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years
-—waiting, waiting, watching, watching; and
if this morning the prodigal should come
homo, what a scene of gladness and festivity,
and how the great Father’s heart would re¬
joice at your coming home. You will come,
some of you, will you not? You will, you
will!
LIT. I notice also that when a prodigal
>mes home there is the joy of the ministers
of religion. Oh, it is a grand thing to preach
t is Gospel. at I know there has been a great
deal said out the trials and the harushi s
of woul the 1 Christian to good, ministry. rousing I book wish somebody
wr a about the
oys of the Christian ministry. Since I en
'cie 1 tiie profession I have seen more of the
U'l'odne.'S ot God than l will be able to
n i i rate in all eternity. I know some boast
about their equilibrium, and they d > not rise
into enthusiasm, and they do not break down
with emotion; but I confess to you plainly
that wh 'U I see a man coming to God. and
giving up bis sin I feel in body,mind,and bound soul
“transport. When I see a man who is
freioieeovS^k'Vthouchit When* tcTday
mnuiou mancipation. service such in our com- and
throngs and of young
i Iff stand at these altars, in the presence
f heaven and earth and hell attest their al
'akin tcT that* which theatre'dt
•vribes when hesiys: “Whether in the body
1 e.avnofc tel), or out of the body I cannot
: i Goil knoweth.”
when ^nrXal'eoS horned Thev^tw
; trumpet, and ought they not to be glad
>f the a-ftthering of the host! They pointed
;o the full supply, and ought thernot tvfn- to re
°-r Lro,As^''Tho P r
wai liini v come forth “An
a:* now readvh’ ought Ui.y not to
v .M V When the prodigal sits down at the
w Mt!
lie insurance men will all tell you that
nin sters of religion as a class live longer
fist ics of aP^liose who MJculsffteuwm human
longevity. Why is it ? There is more draft
rm the nervous system than in any other
rofession, and their toil is more exhausting, stl
have seen ministers kept on miserable
mds bv parsimonious congregations who
»vt. vred at the dullness of the sermons, when
'■. • men of God were perplextxl almoet to
.he r temperament No fuel, no fire. I have
mmetimes s*m the inside of the life of many
ef the American clergyman—never accept
nig ufth^iL their hospitadty. because they cannot
of SdJSd^oH«
& year—the average less than that
-t’-eir struggle well depicted by
ta n v; until it came we had not any meat in
our house for one year; and all last winter,
“’though it was a severe winter, our children
wore their summer clothes-’’ And these men
Dons Enumerable; some of them week after
week entertaining agent* who have maps
to sell, and submitting themselves to all
Su^ind 1 chffi TJ£
account for the fact that these life insunheu
men ten os that ministers as a class live
we can be merry with the merriest; but
those of us who have toiled in the service are
Holy eighteen Ghost, of them. and I Thank thank God 1 have God! seen
God, thank
sSISSevRSTSH
hurricane at sea, and it was blowing into toward
the shore, and a vessel crashed the rocks
»ud you saw people jret ashore in the life-
ooats and the very last man got on tha rock*
n safery, Is you could not control Church your joy. of
And it a gsai time when the
God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of
he:r sins plant their feet on the rock Const
! Jesus.
Oh, when prodigals come home just hear
! those Christians smg. Just hear those Chris
Alans pray, it is not a stereotyped and supplca- for
lion we have heard over over again
i the twenty hands years, of Co but i with a putting importunate of the case plead- in
an
mg- No long prayers. Men never pray at
great and length their hearts unless they hard have and nothing cold. All to
ny are answered
the prayers in the Bible that were
were short prayers: “God be merciful to me
* sinner." 'Lord, that 1 may receive my
ght." “Lord, save, me or I perish." The
■ longest prayer, bolomons prayer at the
indication of the Temple, less than eight
minutes in length, according to the ordinary
rate of enunciation.
And just hear them pray now that the
pro<i.ga,i are coming home. Just see them
diake hands. No putting forth of the four
of the fingers in a formal way, but a
hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart
* em to clench tn-fingers of one hand around
the other. Aud then see those Christian
faces, hew illumined they are. And see that
old man get up and with the same voice that
he sang fifty years ago in tne old country
Thy ueetmg-house,say: “Now, Lord, lettestThou
servant Thy depart salvation. in j --ace, There for mine eye.t
uave seen ’ was a man
of Keith who was hurled into prison in time
of persecution, and one day h - got off hi
ihackies and he came and stood by the prison
ioor, and when the jailer was opening the
ioor, with one stroke lie struck down the
man who had incarcerated him. Facing
along the streets of London, he wondered
wnere his family was. He did not dare
to ask lest he excite suspicion, but,
passing he along a Keith little way from the
prison, saw a tankard, a cup that
belonged generation—he to the family from generation His to
saw it in a window.
family, hoping and that lived some day he would get
sl.-ar, came prison house, and as they near as they Keith could
to the set that
tankard in the window, hoping he would see
it; aud lie came along and saw it, and
knocked at the door, and went in,
and the long-absent family would were al
together again. Ob, if you start
for the kingdom of God to-day, I think some
of you would find narly all your friends arid
and nearly all your families around the holy
tankard of the lioly communion—fathers,
mothers, brothers, sisters around that sacred
tankard which commemorates the love of
Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh, it will be a great
communion day when your whole family sits
aroun 1 Cue sacred tankard. One on earth,
one in heaven.
\. Once more I remark, that when the
o<ligal gets back the inhabitants of heaven
ep festival. 1 am very certain of it.
you have never seen a telegraphio
chart, you have no idea how many cities are
connected Nearly all together the neighborhoods and how many of the lands, earth
seem articulated, and news flies from city to
c ty, and from continent to continent.
But more rapidly go the tidings from
e.rth to heaven, and when a prodigal
returns it is announced before the throne of
-od. And if these souls tins morning should
enter the kingdom there would be some ono
in the heavenly kingdom tosav: “That ray’s
father,” “that's my mother,” “that's my
-ion,’ that’s my daughter,” “that's my
riend,” “that the one I used to pray for,”
*--G'at s the one for whom I wept so many
tears,” and one soul would say, “Hosanna!”
and another soul would say, “Hallelujah!”
“Pleased with the news the saints below
Awd h e ftY 'a « kiled with Joy.
“Vor Liuttindle anceis can their 1ov fiTef contain ’
whh new
The sinner io6i is found, they sing,
And iirtkii rhr sounding lyre.”
At the banquet Macedonian of Lucullus festal sat Cicero Philip the
orator, at the sat
the conqueror, at Fee Grecian banquet sat
Socrates the philosopner; but at our Father’s
table sit ail the returned The prodigals, more
than conquerors. table is so wide its
leaves reach across seas and across lands,
Its guests are the redeemed of earth and
asIviouFrrighteousne,sadroap (WS ^w^ness 0 on ^ry handle fromeve^ S of
shouMvrj S the wineftliat glows in th^cups
s from the bow is of ten thousand sacraments,
Let all the redeemed of earth and i
progfgelv. Sin.-l sing! Bin*! receiptTrsSss u
;he Lamb that was slain to vtg
uid riches and honor and glory and power,
world without end.
AN OCEAN WAVE MOTOR.
The Unique Invention of a San Fran¬
cisco Man AVho is Not a Keely.
wondered Many a visitor to the Cliff House lias
what the spidery-looking con
trivance is for that they have seen a few
hundred yards up the beach at Point
Lobos, says the San I’raueisco Examiner,
If they will go up to it now aud make
inquiries, for it is at least in working
order, they will find that it is a machine
for turning the rythmical beating of the
waves against the rocks into power that
can be utilized for working mills and
manufactories and driving cable cars and
putting salt-water baths into city houses,
and sprinkling tho streets and flushing
tlie sewers.
Though the result of supplying a pow
er that can take the place of high-prioed
coal is so important, the machinery by
which it is accomplished is simple
enough. One wonders as soon a3 he
sees it why somebody ‘ didn’t think of it
ages ago.
All that there is of it is a sort of cl e
sloped suction pump, m which the
power is supplied by the waves, a res
ervoir and water wheels. Suspended
from big iron uprights is a framework,
across the lower, part of which is fastened
tie.ivv planking. lliis planking pre
sents a surface to the waves about six
feet by twelve, and its framework is so
arrangedthat it canbe lowered or raised
tlie tine rises and labs, ihe waves
clashing against this move it in iron
grooves backward aud forward, and its
other ^tion machinery is.communicated to a twelve-inch through some pis
ton so that a movement of thirty-two
feet by the framework causes a nine-foot
movement of the piston. This pump
connects with along section pipe the
p tber of which is under water,
H/s r . fitted with to keep
pipe is a screen
out sand aud debris.. An air chamber,
fourteen feet high, keeps the pressure
ln the stream pump steady and forces a con
fitant of water through the ..Y big
“er l! llo^E r beSld „ , lri of f
but the force is sufficient to pump the
fitter a height of 500 feet above the I sea
w e l * The remaimler of the and u i
ffe reservoir at-that whifh I lei e-'r B a rvs
tem of water wheels would sup
P l T power limited only ^ by the number
of motors in ‘
use.
After the water had passed over the
’water wheels it is the idea of the eompa
nv that it could be brouerht into thecitv
and used for ori rate baths, street sprink
^ Sl’r^thrmSfr^yf^oLfea; sewer finshintr and’other tl “’os
and the water pumped up is allowed to
run off in the ground.
The force, of course, increases as the
tide rises and as the wind sets in toward
the land. Ordinarily low the motor does
not work at tide, but wul run usual
ago, but unfortunate circumstances have
delaved «;> its c 4 mpletion. Several storms
T T ™.«•' T \
it was being built was split in two. It
has onlv just B en completed but has
The valu t. n of the Mexican silver dollar
asset in the sks-reurv of th- United Statei
Treasury forth vear 18 .1 is 75.9 cents
ELAX CULTURE
RAISING „ _ _ _ „ AN IMPORTANT PLANT
IN IRELAND.
“
Plowing and Seed in <r—Great labor
anil for** ‘ Ro i n w " ee<1 *ng
1,10 bleep Pond and
the Search Mill.
_
The land iced for flax 6 "Towin" in Ire
l an <j j 3 p ] 0WC( ] j n ^ f ,
- ; ‘ V r
^; ls , 1 ^ preferred and , is
td , in the spring to a mold with
harrows, usually crosswise and dia«r
ouaiiy but the soil is only pulverized
on top, as, curious the’surfare v c .> fi« T
grows " as far from e into “ lbt
&'*■■■*■ i a as , it does out oi it, . with . ,
. a
mode ate <o:l res-t .nee to a downward
growth, T semis to ro-.-ss a tendency of
ncr , - .. in lc i-'’h ,'T ol Y sto-k The '
18 : >*i ,, Ajun bioadcast, .> from a pouch
mateb txnu'ton i nor two corners of a
linen sheet, ThP in .-Ling over the
right sh older, the left arm holding °o\vn the
seed-pouch open_p r euise'v sow** as our
good | fathers u-< d to wheat "heat, oats
and n l-ai.ey ......r from r ,, the -h » strip d, t brown.two
bu-liel ha^. j he entire skill required
in r’a -sowing is in ^ecurir <<* a uniform
distribution of the those‘two d u i d a ^ufi cientlv
H bera l am0U n t .’i, ; for essentials f
• 1(1 length of rf
8 1%e ‘' tn . stalk Qt and , least
branching at the top, largely increasing
the value to both the spinner and the
farmer. I
n 1 , ° tli18 . P oln . t , the J tenant has retired ,
no ily more could help than perhaps his own fam
<nve him- but now that
“u ,' ppdinrr.tim<>“ Im* u auciil on.jf ,
"
J . f 01 be ii red. It
m‘s. conies trooping
down from the mountain districts in the
form of buxom, shap and'AtienStb ly Irhh lapses
Amazons in frame tw N
i t |■ » ’
‘V „ a ’ ^ ana sunny mood
who can exist on , less food, work harder
in the field for twelve hours of every day,
and dance longer and with more vi"or
ous l evolutions ! ' -B nio-bt T ” th-m tba n nnv any nfher other
’ 1 , ’ , ino , '} ‘ ‘,y . e - or are these
picturesque ioik ah. W omen and
girls from near vi,luges also hire to the
Irish farmer ill summer. The mountain
eers en"Vi- ‘n ’ ” from tan In J 0 1 °‘ ,-i 1 lu ls .
r ‘ e ,rls ‘he , day week,
. u -^ B - 1 N or
i oth do men s labor, or more, and re
ceive about one sinking per day. Their
food is of th* mnmeat and plainest- r' 3
character j * Oaten 1 1 W-.ni ' ,l rnude . l liom
‘ -tarse oatmeal, witn , only j ’ salt and water
added, occasionally a portion of the
commonest fb vilest vegetables, with a little of
e numli-icable ! ‘ \ te* and fora a
. ’
mxuiy, a uiop ot milk, all. ..
are
I hey scarcely know th taste of butter,
meat or 1 owl. A nd yet these girls have
eyes liquid with light, teeth white and
o-leamins? 5® f as new «! frost ^ comiT'e- f f inns that
f tin,s t °j th. tlie rose, and 1 forms of
lovely , symmetry.
The weeding of fiax in Ireland neees
si,: seed r used seems i:bo . to r engender **?■ The a multiple ^
city oi weeds. A acre field -would
reqtnre about 200 days of one hand for
thorough work, or ten (lavs abmrAiy per single
acre. When the flax id inches
high, chosen, treedui" is begun, unmp days be
ing so that the weeds may be
more easily extracted, and the tender
sboots of 11ax bruised as littIe as p 1 OS si- ‘
ble - Trl ln 1)o -Belgium . ,, the weeders, with .
coarse cloths . around their knees, creep
along on all-fours, and among the thou
sa «/ 18 tba t l;c reen in a duy’a journey,
not one rs onto; xsgroveling position.
’mt the lt.sh r ,ders do their work
barefooted an<> < ,d in a half-sitting
posture. A -• - f about this
-i ' ' 'XS^^Wir-tSe W-fS ilio breezes
-
maj e- - ! or
shoots •;gam, y d a r i- belief pre
vails fh,t th,s mavoidabje treading and
breaking ot the fiax in its early period of
growth, has a stimulating effect upon the
c r °P
The Irikh sleep-poad i, tte eame rudo
afT-.nitnat. it was centuries ago. Or
dmarny a hole or excavation of from 1
to o feet in depth, : to 10 yards wide,
and 1 > to 15 yards long, it will be found
m some meadow--swail or hillside liol
tow, w-here it is allowed to fill with the
surface wrater, or where the w r ater from
some tiny stream may he admitted; tor
the water rsed in Lax-steeping must be
soft, or at least free from lime and iron.
Flax-sheave^ are laid in the Irish steep
poml butt to band, weighed down
vvith sod and stone, and allowed
to remain from eight ten days. Millions
of dollars have been wasted in efforts to
steep fiax artificially in vats; but nature
alone can properly attend to that. The
steep-water, invaluable for enriching
soils, but wholly wasted here, can be
used but once. From it the sheaves are
carted to the “spread-ground” of graz
rush ing or bands mnwn-meadow removed land. and dried, Here the
are and
the now sticky, dirty fiax, held on the
left arm, and spread from left to right,
the loaded carts following oust outside
the rows. When th -teeped flax is thus
drying, whole fiax regions are given the
appearance of being laid with mammoth
carpeting in gray-brown rows woven
upon a ground of emera d green. Wet
weather en Jaeger.- a ruinous secondarv
fermenm.tion: "but a “drying wind”
gives superb file-. The tax is now
“lifted, with the tame rush bands tied
again into “beats” or sheaves; and is
then “stooked” and “capped” precisely
as grain is “shocked” in American
fields It is allowed to stand i. the
“stook” a few days for further “curing*
and is finally stored in thc cabin lofr;
stacked with wonderful precision
symmetry: or carted direct t' the roar
ing “scutch mill.”
j t j s an i n ;erestin*f nhee around a
scutch ‘ diminutive mill < 'ne tv>PN?v7vith v w 3 fr m • >po
4 ., .f fi metUlv l/ettiiy
,v. t . J 'r, 1 ** 6 r clatte , F a nd rush
v -“ ;1 he hymg sm .es, remind , of l
‘ one
the B' e ” ' nt oM-f-.sbiontd American
th i al. .....ced between the
docks, / aCKS - or cv r owlB numbers g lnt0 L ear pad
are great of caits,
dragged i ere by ragged donkeys or rag
f waitin S tbftir “ tar f at
m.d o. .oi mior storing ana stack
mg their loans, i he mil. icmoves from
***1™ .‘.V% f aS , bra Jf bIe “ ches ,ced f. 18 d
1 i!11 d , t..e woody neartand
tl + , ^ eatb 1 ’wenty-four
' e i “ c /* cr s /’ *
c '- a t ‘ s 1 er ' ne 'fourteen pound- of
^i V et .-,‘fi 1 bIe C i'.;i‘,‘ J 1 j ;J f ? r , themillin J?’
'
°’ L d a ’ aL r rc r ;~’ - 1 “ e 'Cutci.er deftly
E V n -~ e = tr.,usf< :m fiaif of the farm
" rr 111 j i ' wast€ ' For this the
.
fi ‘',7^ e “ t3
! ; 1 ' 1 •*-- **.e rest of the
t
tu -T h
: w ^ es ’, *',* un aL, 3 one-haif pounds
. tied
^eigat: ar.a these are with a twist
;Sis z*&
car ’ ’ ” a e ° to the market, where
iftvr K- A . vieg by the flax-factor, or
:™V s is
these «i, farm .bor, and scutching are
paGi f r, fate has been mo-t kind to him
»f he kts enough remaining to pay his
rent and keep tin* emergency-men, the
battering-ram of and the horrible actuality
eviction from his ever comfortless
d00r Star. ~
* •»«««! .gton
Startling Fire-blig Industry. '
ai),. nouses anfi stores , to , order ,
t * of L
P ur P ose securing insurance
money is . a novel and startling industry,”
said Inspector MeDevitt of the Insurance
Patrol t.? to 1115 a Philadelphia Jf, Y-o 5 °
f" t is estimated that .fully t, 150 of the
, W fcres tbat on an average occur an
nuaily in this city are the work of pro
fessional fire-bu<r* circles’ or as ^reworks thev-ire stvlcd
in their own circles, meworks men- men.
T Ibe . A quarters of the gang has been
locat , * d in New \ ork city, and its mem
bers ate supposed to operate through
agencies in Philadelphia, Boston, Haiti
more, ' Washington J J efij,„ and U nil aU the t!u P urine riuc ‘Pal ! i ol
C1 ’2®f °. f tbe th East.
I he business guise of these agents and
tlluir employes is generally that of a
^..7 glazier. ’ „nnfiLnf The nol'ce authorities li, of f rbi« 1
1 contident fh„r .hat there are several
■ this
" l!l z .' ers m c.ty, and that they
c ? n8tltute , a regu4:r agency for a New'
X ( irk concern. “These ‘glaziers’nomi
nally go about to put glass in windows ”
!“ id the ^' Inspector “and aaa l they “ e y make ™ a K ? a n
P ’ stoppmgai the retail clothing ,
stores ; anc M with a knowing wink at the
P ro P rl Gtor f ask if there is any buxines*
hand for them. Fires made to order
by these agents generally hamien ^ amonw among
+ v,„ ■ ‘ re tail c.Oiliing L stores.
, ^ r , X ork tire
controls ie large clothing furnishing from which firm
and stores,
new second-hand ^ ifoods are sunnlied ^
to tho . roprie . or who wants to ha ° X 1S
< estabUshment,burned .*tahlishmenrv.nr«oH out. tk These goods
are sent in trunks to the business man,
-who expectu to pay a certain price foi
them if irncvilrp thevf shall be consumed bv fire ^
il If tlu> T* g ° *?# nnk- Y invti.,11,- par tiaily ,1 destroyed
or damaged f,>y water a nonnmd sum is
paid for thefiiire of them. The methods
0 f Hrin g houses pursued by these lire
bll fr S are yaried and Ihev J baffie many J
ottemnt* attempts to to solve snlv* ti, them Pm t. It is an er- r
ron ® ous mapression that the incendiaries
p er f 0 rm tlieir work by some kind oi
machinery, for that would disclose theii
business
The authorities feel X confident thal !
many of the t i, w mysterious fires are started ,
from chemical combinations. Chemicals
are combined by these “<dnziers” in pro
portions I; that will exolode at almost anv J
tl ™ m e „ ,i desired. 0 e; rn ,i A a common way of r starting i
a bre employed by the fire-bugs is by
filling a lamp w’ith combined coal oil
ant i benzine. In almost all of the in
cen n«tl7' diar V fires the lamp P methods ttliods am are
mostl m y uB*d used -
— — -- --
Fixinsr the Rosnnn«ihiiifv
Blundering men, instead of admitting , .
their responsibility, try to excuse them
selves Singhalese by thro win tr the blame SKp! on others tS
A A ^ storv T J Elustrates tfus
tendency of , human nature, . and also the
-french proverb: “He accuses who ex
rr“zf-” " ° a rlc 'y 1 8 house ni « ht and •“r«. earned b r- o.l k «
a 113 valuables. n being arrested,
Jey excused were blameless, their crime as the by walls saying of that the
ho^e^ere roak so through. badly built The as mason to tempt was
therefore to blame for the robbery. The
mason was “The brought before the magis
trate. fault is not mine,” said he,
<ihnt that nf tb* .^° onnlls olie ™ meHo “ a .® e f be
taortar badly. i lie coolie laid the
blame upon the potter who had sold
hil f a cracked vessel in which he could
n °* e&TT ? sufiicientwaterto mix the
tar properly. The potter explained
*-ha.. -fie blame could not belaid upon
b ’ m but upon a pretty woman, who,
8i :g»^to»u r ekmgfhev„ ! .el
eg cntiou that lit farxM
his 1 he woman protested
falled rargoldMitn send! was at fault. lie had
to home her ear-rings ^ and
f e P assed ^ Peter’s shop on her way
t ? get the S 1 ’ 1 be goldsmith not being
able 1 to . f er an th°e ildge f °r ?o°Iua,-e his neglect,
stek Um
as he was and ill-favored and would
"body t make a nrettv spectacle “But
must be handed vvas* ’’said the
■ udo . e ij.-g atf on tion thereunnn
k a iig d <- 0 a f a f Moor in a «hon onmsitc
and the iudee ordered him to be hano-eJ 0
the ° o-old smith's stead —Annnani
1,n ImnrAvjll P 10Vln - on^tlie ” _ *1, ''ii„ attanner ______ iBa ’ rfo s r»* Compass, a.
»
If appears incredible that any im
provements could be made aud patented
on that ancient and phenomenal instru
ment the mariner’s compas-y but such is
fbe case, as was proved recently in an
English court of iaw. It has been shown
beyond doubt that when the compass is
used on steel-built vessels or is placed in
the vicinity of huge steel ordnance the
needlff vibrates in such a rapid and
erratic manner as to perplex and mislead
tb <3 most experien ed steersman and
pd°E If wa s also found that at the
bombardment of Alexandria the com
passes Sf the warships were useless
through the tremendous vibrations,
’while instruments invented by that
eminent scientist, Sir William Thomson,
in order to meet these perplexities, be
haved in a true and admirable manner.
Tlie mer. s oi tins improved compass
were reacniy recognized by the members
of makers the honorable The^r guild speedily of compass- availed
? mbers
t;,en - % e-> . v lese valuab.e improie
ments but the ufzentor has succeeded in
obtaining and an injunction against them
other .ke - unless they paid a
royalty. a ^ s to think that thia
useful r * ut* that is said to have
been Known t tne Chinese twelve
csatur ^ es befo Christ and was intro
duced to Euflrp by Marco Polo in 12**0,
should owner-hip be th^ou.-.se luWh nineteenth of a lawsuit century.— as to its
& atl Franciacof'h. >niclt\
---—-
„ , Povered Graven \ i n nthe the So Kmirtan " dan
The tombs on the hill opposite As
souam, Egypt, opened in l-«5 by Sii
o. the Egypt.an troops, are being rapid, j
hidden again and covered With sand.
General Grenfell observed a stone step
at the edge of the river, and concluded
* bat murt b c a part <ff an ancient
stairway. his Diggings revealed the truth
of conclusion, and the stairway, with
steps, was found tole-dup
*°_ a °? mber of to ® bs > which the sand
from the desert had been completely
hiding from view for centur.es. Tire
chambers are capacious one measures
lb 1 * by 50 feet , and richly painted. The
encroach ® d a ^ aia 80 ra P idl 5
that entrance can be , had through only
two of the portals except on hands and
knees. The hi.l is thought to be honey
combed with tombs still unopened.
One of the spots near Assouam re
underside h to the native rock. A mud
wall, whitewashed, encompasses it.
Uliheel
wooden cross or stone slab, inscribed
rsi'MsrtrEsr;;: with name, age, birthplace and regi
mounds, in tasteful designs, fragments
of variegated granite.— Mail cud Ex
pmt.
EMIN PASHA.
A MAN WHO HAS ATTRACTED
WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION.
The Remarkable Career of an
Austrian Who Devoted His Life
to African Civilization —
Stanley Sent to His Relief!
„ Referring r to . the report that Emin
"nsha, the courageous Governor Ol
Egvpt’s equatorial provinces, was a cap
t ive in *', the hands * ot of Rbalita Khalifa Abdullan, Abdullah
, be bouc.anese o insurgent * leader, bettei
r Known the Mahdi, Harpers weekly
as
!a ? :
-
I min . Pasha is in many ways a most
remarkable ‘ ® d interestin'^ man and
1 a P a ™ lro ™ ‘he exciting circum
Buncos winch have lately concentrated
attention upon him, he would deserve
to bo mentioned ainonir the foremost of
, , , - 'Btul their lives to
& ue
Airman civilization. , According to the
publications, accounts given his in German geographical Edward
name is
h'clinitzer, and he was born at Oppeln,
i n Silesia \' * March 2^ Kin Two veara
\ ' \ xr-.
, . 111 nts . removed f to JNeisse,
. P ar ^ .
wil cre liis father died in 1845, and his
m ® th « r r e j Ra r / ied - At the Catholic
school in . that f town he was taught from
oiirhtecnth and
develoned * eo [ ,,,,r * ove ^ or na ^ r ^J -
j. 1 ‘ ura 8 '
I° r y m many of itforms. 1 hence ho
went to the l niversity of Breslau, where
“i 8 scientific apt tudes and love of mak
in<>-collections “f ^ of birds s ’ 1 insect* " sects ’ and a “? so so
as ’ „ . s ee profession, ^°-teied. and He from chose Breslau medicine went .
to Berlin, Eager for new scenes and ex*
^ periences, he established himself ioefnr in fn 1.-H4
as a a TurKish lurkisli go\eminent government doctor mAU A1
ban la, and six years later was medical
°' Arabia. :cer ’ a an expedition 1o Fyria and
Other e peditions carried him
to various “ ,E“, parts of „,; the ne Ottoman Enin re
. (1 ;
‘ n( n a wa8 , ln '
trusted by the Khedive B with the charge
^'t?ypt’s provinces in the upper Nile
region, it w-as not strange to find Dr.
Emin assigned as a member of his staff;
aIu l w hen Gordon was as called ca ea away awav to to
Ehaitoum, Emin . Bey, as his rank was at
that time, had already shown himself so
capable* as an administrator that Gordon
placed J? in his charo-e cnai to c, w.tn wuh entile entire con con-
1 ‘ c » province lying near the
equator,
(! * the progress of events in Central
Africa during the last six years we need
not SDeak speas in in detail detail, it It is is sufficient sumcient to to
sa y tbaf w ^ cn Mohammed Ahmed, the
so-called , Mahdi.underwhomthesuc
cessful Soudan insurrection was carried
ont beo-an },/ to extend his sway down the
vjip Y a ] so nre ' ssed Emin Pev ' y. in the
equatorial • , province. • , I r , he defeat - of ,.. Hicks .
p a sha aud the massacre of his command,
Gordon’s return up the Nile to l har
* <2.^™.« mim . inf i i nr ,i Wol«elev’s r-nmnniem in
tis ]r isir operations around Suakin, for a
i 0D g “ time diverted general attention
fr0 Emin . indeed he was for about
three ,htle Years shut w°rld off from ’At rom le„g™llu, muni ration
wi outer
s ian traveler. Dr. William Junker, brought
through to Zanzibar the news that Emin
had ' ‘ldin" been station °raduaHv forced un the Nile
J' , lclulIJ a station after airer station station, and ana was was
established at Wadelai, not far from
j ak e Albert Nyanz.a, where he was
threatened bv ^he hostile natives on the
sout h and by Mad Id’s forces on the
north . Thig news came in the latter
part ot thc Aear 188(:> and as S00 n as
practicable a relief expedition was
K'^leVo. oro-anized under ~ Tlenrv «pL£ M wi“ Stanlev e£
pressed as to the route .e be taken,
many persons urging that the start
should be made from Zanzibar. Stan
, however, was strongly f in favor of
the Cong(v routej and hat was thc one
adop ' t e d. Early in June, 1887, Stanley
star te d up the Aruwimi /, an important
,» f the ‘.'“V- 'T'>
at . Eimbuga was established, , and then
11 a picked force lie plunged Wadelai into the
Wilderness to make his way to
aiK ^ ^ be re be ^. Emin. From the mid
summer of . ! *8i to the close of 1888
nothing authentic has been heard from
him, although there lias been many dis
quieting rumors. His reserve force,
under Ma or Barttelot, followed on his
much trail during the past year, but before
progress had been made Barttelot
was killed by one of the natives in his
command, and the expedition was seat
tered; and soon afterward Jameson, the
second in command, returning to the
Congo for aid, died of fever.
Mean while Emin had been repeatedly
heard from. One letter gave the wel
corao news that the King of Uganda,
the south, was less hostile to him than
had been feared; other letters showed
that fi halifa Abdullah, the new Alahdi,
was not pressing him, so that he was no
longer between two fires. Still another
letter indicated that King Mwanga had
allowed the Arab Mahomet Bin to carry
goods showed and provisions to Emin. Odo
letter that the negroes, by care
!e=sncss, l ad burned the town of
Wadelai, but Emin was undaunted in
3pirit ann. rebuilt it. Indeed, when he
learned that Stanley was about to sue
^or him. he expressed the greatest de
termination not to quit his post. Pres
snt.y it was learned that he was about
to be absent from his station to explore
the Kakibbi River.
It is said that the Mahdi has conquered
all tne equatorial province; and there is
no Lado, reason why, if Fmin was raptured at
the Mahdi’s forces should not
march up the Nile and take Wadelai—
unless, indeed, Stanley was left behind
by Emin to hold it. But even if the
success of Arab fanaticism is complete,
the Soudanese negroes will not wholly
forget what Emin has done for them.
TIie Box-El(ler r-iuer.
Th'g . tree some years since had a great
* ts aIu ® for making sirup, the
being . rich . saccharine A
Jap m matter.
ibout correspondent in Southern Dakota ask.
lts value for general planting
s ? eds be obta: ° ed: wha!
0 enera1 character.sties : . of the tree are
bke ’ and wnere !t ; 3 hardy
J*™*'?™ Jf®® “® re ^ld vahiable say for we P ,antl know “S- of nc 1
‘ .• ; s,m ® and not generator •
"“h . insects. It grows fast, makes a
broad > dense shade, is perfectly hardy |
-onh. The
other atber tre tree^that /~, t i& to «av from the Gulf l
lme t0 th e boundary , of Canada v East, ac
indiip to Lake Winnipeg m the North- ;
^The real native region of the tree it 1 i
i-rirn-les of the Misalseinni
which •’ • tb the - early >
ripen in summer and
S ^=“4
P‘ rt “P'»* ^ he seeds should
be piante-i , , uo^ deeper than inch,
one in
growth ma -’ transplanted after two seasons
wheie they are to stand.—
rraine Farmer.
3
foitlah science.
. Hard-working than Parisians average less
in stature their idle neighbors.
The sounds of the heart have been re¬
corded and reproduced by the phono¬
graph.
To remove rust from steel, take one
half ounce of emery powder mixed with
one ounce of soap aud rub well.
A Trench subterranean river has been
explored for a mile or more by M. Martel,
who derives from his investigations a
theory of the origin of canons.
The progress of the science of making
perfumes is so rapid in America that the
manufacturer will soon bc independent
of flowers for his sweet-smelling essences.
Professor Ayrton estimates that the
power wasted at Niagara Falls exceeds
that which could be produced by tho
annual consumption of 150,000,00(3 tons
of coal.
The microscope often reveals impuri¬
ties in diamonds, particles of organic
matter and bubbles of gas being common.
Quartz, clilori:e, pyrite, hematite and
topaz have also been seen.
Hydrogen Richardson is shown by experiments of
Dr. B. W. to be neither an
anaesthetic nor hypnotic, but if inhaled
so as to be taken up by the blood it
quickly kills warm-blooded animals, but
suspends life in cold-blooded animals for
a long time before actually destroying it.
that Al. the Spring, the French physicist, finds
preservation of rails in use is
not the result of vibratory motion, or of
an electric action produced by the pas¬
sage of the trains, but is due to tho
formation ol a coating of magnetic oxide
by the compression of the rest on the
metal.
of Eungley the finds that hardly one fourth
solar energy, as we receive it, is
visible; while tiertz astonishes the Ger¬
man physicists by showing that, although
the visible violet rays of the spectrum
have no influence on e’ectric. discharges,
tne disruptive effects ot such discharges
are increased by the dark ultra vioiet
l’ova.
The British Me lical Journal mentions
a report made to the Central Board of
Health at Melbourne, Australia, describ¬
ing an outbreak of diphtheria in which
the cases occurred almost simultaneously
in the neighborhood of Daylesford. Tho
local health officer's report presents
strong prima facie evidence that the
children contracted the the disease from
cats, numbers of which unimals were
dying in the neighborhood.
A variation of I)r. O. J. Lodge’s ex¬
periments on the electric deposition of
dust has been tried by M. Soret, of
Geneva Bteam submitted to electric
discharges and when the was instantly precipitated,
pole of the electric ma¬
chine was su ciently near the surface of
the xvater—the other pole being attached
to the platinum cup used for the boiling
—the steam was condensed as rapidly
as formed, presenting the anomaly of
steamless boiling water.
The wave motor, which was begun at
Point Lobos, Gal..about three years ago,
is nearly completed. As described by a
San Francisco paper “it is a machine
for utilizing the dashing in of the waves
by turning their power into practical uso,
such as furnishing water for sprinkling
the streets, flushing the sewers, and even
driving cable cars. Only one piston has
been put in as yet. This pumps at tho
rate of three barrels a minute. The
motor will run from eighteen to twenty
hours per day, and if the wind and tide
ire favorable can be worked throughout
the whole twenty-four.”
Tile Capital of Haytf.
Port-au-Prince detained’ Havti in whose har
bor was the confiscated Boston
BteameE fhSTmeriS Ilavtian Renub ic and where
war shins Galena and
Yantie went is the seat of the Havtian
Government and a town of .iM 40 0U0 in
«
the foot of a-chain of hillocks. Tho
principal stores and workhouses are lo
cated on the “Bord de mer,” or street
facing the harbor. Brick and stone enter
into the construction of these buildings,
Port-au-Prince is the only town in
Hayti through which one can travel in
a carriage, but as nothin-' "itself of any par
ticular interest presents to the
visitor in the town he drives up hill and
out of the city, pausing to admire the
stately palace of the President, etio’uville, theu
driving on to Turgeau and I
two picturesque localities, where are
situated the magnificent country seats of
the President, his ministers, the Ameri
can consul and tnose of the wealthy
German and Haytian merchants, port¬
au-t'rince is the Haytian’s Paris, and
v.-*n may they consider it as such, for in
that city is found the educated Haytian,
whose language, manners and courtesy
differ not from those of the Parisian. It
j a a eraV e error to suonose that des
potimn, cruelty and uncouth manners people
characterize the Haytian. The
of the interior are ignorant, ’ it is true,
and possess bad passions which are
easily aroused ’ but the educated 1 ■ ayti—
ans seem endowed with more talent,
6how better breeding, use better Ian—
g U a<ze than a "riat majority of their
class in some towns world/The of the more civi
lizecl parts of the active
bar of Port-au-Prince is composed of very
superior men. and the judges who are
appointed by the Government and'hilh are al
ways men of erudition . har
a cter. French precedents govern in
Haytian courts.— Washington Mar.
Hagaitn'ie of the Potato Crop.
The importance . of , the , potato crop can
hardl.y be estimated. I rom tne HUcill,
insignificant tuber of from the tlie mountains, Indus*
bas g r o wa u i J one greatest
tries of the age. One hundred years ago
they j were hardly known as an article of
this'eountry now there is scarcely a tanl« in
all or j urove that is not
c i ou8 esculent. It is a staple in every
household, and forms the main laboring portion
the food for the poor and b
, es
In ermany, the crop for 1888, amounts
t0 the enoimous sum total of 92 .0I4 1>)4
bushels, valued at $.*2,1:58,548 that’eountry while
the entire wheat crop of is
only one hundred and four million bush
els. With its immense population what
cou i d Germany do without the rb/w potato?
4^ i n bwe den b& the latest S renorts ^nd on^ --’n
M
3 * 4r06 »' 717 buauelsof wheat. The potato
crop F in that country { is combined euual in value J?
ftU th oth EnSandaidIreland oats
c ep te d. i n Scotland
the ratio is grater.
In the Un.ted States the crop for tha
r (i ir^a 1 88 ’ 051 '?s ub,,>h “ is whU9
i 8M '
,
trv of nearlv all I of of th* the Southern b
J • States. c + »
e ® 19 e ^ ual m \ a u / to
ne-half , the , entire cotton production.
law and cems in the market, than tha
P? 1 ^ 0 cr /P of our country, /arm,
tteld and Stockman.