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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1889)
*3T Hf> .f; yi « a vi :~ vi V '* - .; imi GEORGIA § TIMES jpHffl&at ffwwM-***- m y . m. fmm& 0 • THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN . SAY SERMON. ’ Subject : “ Dark Sayings on a ltiuji.’’ **l?* - L iOW _ J& _ ... 1 °g t***ttfe* . . laying* . <m J|he. World is full of the inexplicable, > the impassable, tho unfathomable, the insur mountable. We cannot go dhihing three steps In any direction without myStery, up against a hard profundities, wall of rhb . dies, paradoxes, labyrinths, ■•‘preblemk that ,-Hl .cannot " solva hieroglyphics that We CMlnftt decipher, ana-’ grams not speak. we cannot For spell out, sphinxes that will that reason J)svid j n my text proposed to take Wphwme of these somber and dark thingsamf "try to'sat them tojiweet ’harp,"*. music: “I will open •* my d«k sajbngi on a fi ;? So I look off upon society and find pepple, in unhappy conjunction of circumstances and they do wot know -what it means and they have that/ a right WudiTttbfnk tp ask; why is this! and why is ilwwitt egilaiu be ioipg- a. •good these strange-wings'-Oncf vffirk brtrylhff f# makei jjumore *s<Hne of 1 content with your lot. and I sban oflly be , asked answering .questions that have often been me, • Or that we have alt asked our selves, while 1 try. to set these mysteries to mrftic and open -my dark sayings on a harp. Interrogation Why the .first; does God take out of this world those Who are Useful and whom we cannot spare and leave aUv« and in good health sb many injury who are only a nuisnniti? or a positive to the world! I thought I would begin with tha vr-ry toughest Manv of all the seeming inscrutables, anti .of tho most forty-years useful men women die at thirty or of age, while von often find useless people alive at sixty and eeventy and eighty. John Careless wrote to Bradford, who was soon to be put to death saying: other “MlhvAoth God sufTtr me and such criwrpi 11 «-s ’ ‘*tolfre that ean do and nothing but AfNaVse-ihany cqnsumertfie alms of the church, take worthy, workmen in the Lord’s vinevari?” Similar questions are often asked. 'Here are two men. The one is a noble character and a Christian anan; panion he chooses for lifetime cbm one who has been tenderly is reared, and she is worthy of him arid ho worthy of her; as merchant, or farmer, or toi!* professional <b man, or mechanic, or artist, tie he educate and rear his children; is his succeeding, but he has not yet established for absolutely family indispwisAJe a full competency; he seems to that off household, las paid the moft m ;a; strb«g northeast coming home chili through him wind and a strikes «nd through and four days of pneumonia his earthly career and the wife and *ndfood. children go into a struggle for stieltor Hi* nexfdonv neighbor is a man *H%, ttiowgh strong and well, lets his wife eupport him; he is round at the grocery store ors apme general loafing place in the his erebings- boys while tiis wife sews; ’are imitating his ex-* Is torave because the coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutting things about his wife’s looks when he furnish es that nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing could happen to that family would be that man’s funeral- but he declines to die; V be lives on and on and on. So we have all noticed that many of tho useful are aarly out off while the parasites of society have great vital tenacity. -I take up this dark saying on my harp and the give three or four thrums on the string in way of surmising and hopeful guess, Perhaps world, because the useful man was taken out of the he and his family were so constructed that they could not have endured been some great just ahead prosperity that might have and they altogethei (might of have worldliness gone which down in the -vortex every yearswal low* up while ten thousand households. And so he went he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severities of life kept close to Christ and fitted for usefulness here and high seats in heaven; and when they meat at last before tho Throne, they will acknowl- tiot, edge that though the. furnace was it purified them, and prepared them for an. eternal career of glory and reward for which them, Xio other ttie kind of life could have fitted On the other hand, the useless man lived on to fifty or sixty, or seventy Rave wears, because all the' ease he ever can he must have in this world, and you his earthly ought not, longevity. therefore, begrude him In all the ages there has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place for him there to hang around. Not in the -rigorous, .temples, for they are full of the most lOlikp. alert and rapturous wor Not on tho river bank, for that i( gh« place, where the conquerors recline, Not in the gates, because there are -multitudes entering, and we are told that at each of the twelve gates, there is an allow angel, and that celestial guard would nol the C place to be bldeked up with Idlers. I the good and useful gc Slave -early, rejoice for them through that they _____ Swinan life, so soon got . with which at best is a struggle. And if (ttie useless rind the bad stay, rejoice thai ^bey may be out in the world’s thatr fresh air s yearS bef0re fiDalinCarCera f anknmtcV Seciitton the three bwi b la?,vf- v.fj ISre Ni JSflSWKSs/StafiiS t n - now of a good fnend t“once antlder" hath Hi *vas a consecrated Chrtetiatf aChr^tlangen toam *tbe church and as polished |SSSi .around a 8 n e eItth W gi^ old at forty, on a cane, an man After [x while paralysis struck compelled him. Having toy poor health been sud *3 denly to quit business, he lost what propers* Me had. Then his beautiful daughter died, Then a son became splendid hopelessly mind demented. and Another son. of commanding of presence, resolved that h« would take care of his father’s household, but under tb a swoop of yellow level at Fernandina, Fla., he suddenly ex* twtio pired. have So ydu know good men and women had enough troubles, vyuMdly you think, M •camjtfh fifty people. trouble No aria set it Philosophy music, « 0 ui 4 take such a to ior ©lay it on violigi Or flute or dulcimer 01 aackbut, hut T. dare to oped WlT that dark saying on You a gospel wonder JiSfp. that trouble? very consecrated people b«v» Did you ever know any very consecrated trouble? man or woman who had not had great Never. It was through theii troubles sanctified that they were rriadf very good. If you find anywhere iir thi! city bp* had’ a man perfect who health, has now and and always m lost a child, and- has always been pop .'And never hmtanstness str^ggle^ « ae, who is distinguished for goodness, 1 wire word for a telegraph'messenger and I will drop everything and a me go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that, and . never will be. Who are those arrogant, eelf-conceited creatures who move about without sympathy for others and wtid think mere of a St Bernard dog, or an Ai deraey cow, or a Soutttdbwn sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They never SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 21, 1889. • had any trouble, or the trouble was never sanctified. Who are those men who listen ■With moist eye as you tell them of suffering and who have a pathos in their voice and a kindness in their manner and an ex¬ cuse or an alleviation for those gone astray! They Royal are Academy the men who have graduated at the of Trouble and they have the diploma written in wrinkles on their own countenances. they had! What My! my! What heartaches tears they have wept ’ What injustice they have suffered. The mightiest influence for purification and salvation is trouble. No diamond fit for a crown un til it is out. No wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There off are only three things that can break a chain—a hammer, a file nr a fire; and trouble is all three of them. The greatest of writei-s. orators and reforme rs set much their force from trouble, What exquisite pave to tenderness Washington Irving that and pathos which will make his books favorites while the English language An early continiies.to heartbreak he written aiid spoken? that he never once mentioned; and when, thirty years after the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been his bride, her father picked said: “That up a piece of embroidery and is a piece of poor Matilda’s workmanship,” from Washington Irving sank Out hilarity into silence and walked away, of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his Institutes pen’s mightiest Religion.” re-enforcement, of than which a more wonderful book was never by.human hand, was begun by the author at twenty-five years of age. because of the persecution by Francis. King of France. Faraday toiled for all time on a salary of brick 80 pounds a year and candles. As BveI T of the wall of B melon was stamped with the letter N, standing for Ne buchadnexear, so every part of the temple of Christian achievement is stamped with the letter T. standing for trouble, When in olden time a man was to be hon nr ®d with knighthood, he was struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to the honor of knighthood in the kingdom flat of God were first struck not with the of the sword but with the keen wiRo of the crimeter. To build his magni licence of character, FruI could not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What is true of individuals is true of nations. Thehorrors of th e American revolution gave this country side of the Mississippi River to inde pendence. land and and France the gave conflict the between most of Eng- this Country west of the Mississippi to tho United States. France owned would it, but take Napoleon, ft., fearing that England United States— prac ticallv made a present to the for tie received only 815,000,000—of Louis iana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, No braska, Iowa. Minnesota. Colorado, Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and the IndianTerri - tory. Out.of the fire of the American revolu tion came this country east of the Misslssppi. out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi River. /The British Em pi re rose to Us present overtowering, and gran- Guy deur Fa#kes’s through conspiracy, gunpowder and Northampton plot, in • siirrection, and Walter and Raliegh’s Cromwell’s beheading, disso and Bacon’s bribery, lution of parliament, and the battles of Edge Hill, and Grantham, and Newberry, and Mars ton Moor, and and Naseb.v, and of Duribar, Charles and Sedgemoor, execution s» rectiou, and Ryehouse plot, and the vicissi tudes of centuries. ’So the earth itself, be fore it could become appropriate and beauti¬ ful residence for the human family had, according to geology, scorched to be washed by uni- iu candescent versal deluge, and universal and and made pounded by fires, by sledge-hammer of icebergs, and wrenched by earthquakes by volcanoes that that split tossed continents, mountains. and shaken and passed through the catastrophes of thousands of years before Paradise became possible banners and the groves and the could first shake garden out their green between the Gihon pour its carnage of color and the Hiddekel. Trouble a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for for in nations, dividuals. as Bo well when as a good "push thing against you Why me with a sharp interrogation point, do the good suffer? I open the dark saying on a harp and. though I can neither play an organ, clarionet, or I cornet, have or hautboy, or bugle, 01 taken some lessons on the £°spel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless after ward it yieldeth all possible fruits ol righteousness unto them which are exer eised thereby.” ‘‘Weeping may en dure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.” What a sweet thing is a harp, and I wonder not that in Wales, the country of my ancestors, the harp has be come the national instrument, and that they have festivals where great prizes are offered in the competition between harp an 1 harp: or that weird Sebastian Iirard was most of h's time bent over this chorded satisfied and vibrating until he triangle, hod and was not of six given it a corn P as s octaves from E to E with all the semi-tones, or that when KingSanlwas de mented the son of Jesso came before him and-putting of ttie his fingers among tho charmed strings the harp played the devil out of crazed monarch, or that in heaven there be harpers harping with their harps. So you will not bla<u e me for opening the dark saying on the gospel harp, “ ' ' Yonr „ harps, ye. trembling , ealnts, tc P uHo B the"prabfe'oMove dlvine let Interrogation third: Why did world a good God * in “nd trouble come into the when He might have kept them out? My reply is, S e a gooi \ roa * on - bad reasons ge has never given us. He bad reasons which Ho could no more make us understand !"J?? »‘ ate fat h r elaborate „ nH enterprise could mako the twm hena year-old it. child in its armed demonstrate chair compre- whar yne was to grandeur earth of character rnay Had be achieved there been on evil by conquering and evil. trouble console, rio .re conquer no to this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua or an. Ezekiel ora Paul or, a Christ or a Howard, Washington and or million a John victories Milton which or a John a have been gained by the consecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had there been no battle there would have been no victory. Nine-tenths of tha anthems of heaven would never have been sung, Heaven could heaven never have been a thousandth part of the that it is. I will not say that I but am I glad do that that sin I and sorrow glad that did enter, say all His am after God has given He reasons be to an assembled universe wifi more honored than if sin and sorrow had never entered, and that the unfallen celestials will be outdone and will put down their trumpets to listen and it will be in heaven when those who have conquered be sin in and sorrow small sing- shall enter, as it would a ing school on Wagner earth and it Beethoven Thaiberg and and , Gottschalk and Rheinberger and Schumann should all at onre enter. The immortals that have been chanting ten thousand years before the throne will gay, as they close their librettos: “Oh, if we could only sing like that!” But God will say to those whp have never fallen and consequently have not been re deemed: “You must be silent now; you have not the qualification for this anthem," so they sit with closed lipg and folded hands end sinners saved by grace take up the harmony, for the Bible says “no man could learn that song but which the hundred and forty and four thousand were redeemed from the earth.” A great prima donna, who can now do anything with her voice, told tier me that when she first, started in musio teacher in Berlin told her she could be a good singer, but a certain note she could never reach. “And then,” she said, “I went to work and studied and practiced for years until I did reach it.” But the song of the sinner redeemed, the Bible says, the exalted harmonists who have never sinned could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only 0110 bar of the music on this goroel and washed harp:"“Unto from Him that bath in Kis loved us us our sins own blood and hath made ns kings and priests Him be \mto God and the Iamb, to glory ami dominion forever and ever, Amen.” But before leaving this the interrogatory. Why God let sin come into world i let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffering and outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they have been a long while past we can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely, belln, Salamis, Inkerman. Trafalgar, Toulouse, Ar~ Agiocourt, t BiSI? that heim, the Izexington. battles Sedan., againsbaSSa _ So now great ang¬ ering are going on we Can s„ which is deplorable. But ti”‘ years from now, standing in _ ill. appreciate that heaven is bet /ring if the battle of this world's sin J had never been projected. But now I come nearer hon ,r *“ l * Tout a dark saying on the gospel liaha JU^fflo of . question SSBWK&SKE.S’S that is asked a million .*p, . why do I have so much difficulty ii. ..i-W _i a livelihood while others go aroundff with a full portemonnaie? or, why must I wear .three- plain clothes while iant att ire: or. why should 1 have to work so hard wiiilo ol hers have three hundred and sixty-five holidays every year? They are all, practically one question. I answer US them pline 8. T5&& SJTffVr JSS? upon you*, and trial, be* cause he has for you extra glory, extra on thronemeut and extra felicities. That is no tho guess Lord of mine, loveth but He a divine say-ro: .“Whom “Well.” olmsteneth.” savs some one, “I would rather hare a little teis in heaven and a little more here. Discount my neaveniy bn, rone ten per cent., and Jet me now in n less put gorgeous it a fur room lined of the overcoat; house of put tunny me marisions and let mo have a house here in a going better neighborhood.” No, no; God is not to rob heaven, which is going to be your residence for nine hundred quadrillion of years, to wi ^ ! fix ,°beupy up’ your earthly for l«?sLtian tiMp, at most rf.v’nW. one" °y£r, t3 or ha^ moreL Go^hato Now ybh better theerfully let His way, for, yon 3*6,; fi*, bas bee.n take* care Of foltaf for nealj sovqnJhqusand wrtM .• U U?°rer J'uWkf’tSl yourself. to liriMiv&Rly -Do«<- think 1ST It tniPsS! cant- cared that Diana, the goddess, could not be pres Ing Tttcause'she'was 1 (UtendFne llpotf the^birth of him who was to be Alexander the Great But I tell you that your God and my God is so great in small things as well as large things babe and that He the could attend the cradle of a world. at same time the burning of a And God will make it all right with you, and there is one song that you will sing every hour your first ten years in heaven, and the refrain of that song will he: "I am so way.” glad God Ydiir did not let me have it my own case will be all fixed up in heaven and there will be such a reversal of conditions that we can hardly Und each other for some time. Some of us who have lived in first rate housos here and In first rate neighborhoods will ba found, be¬ cause of our lukewarmness of earthly service, living on one of the back streets of the celestial citv, and clear down at the end of it at No. 808, or 000, or 1505, whilij lome abodes, who and had unattractive cramped earthly that, a one at will, in the heavenly city, be in a house Imperial fronting the Royal plaza, right by the looking fountain, River or on the heights over¬ the of Life, the chariots of salvation halting at your door while those visit yori who are more than conquerors, and those who are Kings and Queens unto God forever. You. my brother, here and yon, my sister, who have it so there hard will have it so fine and grand that you will hardly know yourself and will feel disposed the first time to. dispute I your there own identity, and see you I will cry out: “Didn’t T" tell you so when you sat down there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked incredulous because you thought it too good to be true?” And you will answer: “You were right, the half was not told me!” So this morning I open your dark saying of despondency and com¬ plaint on my gospel harp and give you just one bar of music, for I do not pretend to bo much of a player. “The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water and God shall wipo away all tears from their eyes.” But I must confess I am a . little perplexed how some of you good Christians are going to get throu-tithe gate, because there will be so many there to greet yog and they will all want to shake hands at once and Will all want the first kiss. They will have heard around that you are welcome coming, and and they will will all press to you want you to say whether you know them after being so long parted. I *■ Amid the tussle and. romp of reunion tell you whose hand of welcome you had better first clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the first kiss. It is the band and the cheek of Him without whom you would never have got there at all, the .Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as He eras out: “I have loved thee with an ever¬ lasting love and the fires cop Id hot burn it and the floods could not drown it.” Then for vou, my dear people, harp having which no more I use'd use my poor dark on sayings and whose to open your chords sometimes snapped, despoiling the symphony, from you the will take down your, by own eternal harps willows that gro,w the celestial water courses and play together those airs, some of the names of which are entitled: “The King In' His Beauty,” “Jerusalem, “The Land That Was Far Off*" the Golden,” “Home Again,” “The Grand March of God ’the ” ’ “The Life Everlasting.” And as last, dark curtain of rnysterv is forever lifted it will be as though all the ora, torios that were ever heard' had been rolled into one and “Israel in Egpyt” and “Jeph tha’s Daughter” and Beethoven’s “Overture in C” arid Ritter’s first sonata in D minor arid the “Creation” and the “Messiah” had been blown from the lips of one trumpet or been invoked by the sweep of one bow or bad been dropped from the vibrating chords of one harp. But here I must slow up lest in tryirig to solve mysteries I add to the mystery that we have already wondered at; namrily: Why preachers should keep on after all the hear ers are tired? 80 I gather up into one great armful all ttie whys, and hows, mine! and wherefores of your fife and which we have not had time or the ability to answer, and write on them the words “adjourned to eternity." I rejoice that we do not understand all things uow, tor if we did, what would we learn in heaven? If we knew it all down l ere in the freshman and sophomore class, what would be the use of our going up to stand amid the juniors and the seniors! If we could put down one leg of the compass and with the other sweep a circle clqpr around all the inscrutables, if we could lift our little steelyards and weigh the throne of the Om¬ nipotent, if we could with our seven day clock measure eternity, what would be left tor heavenly revelation? So I move that we cheerfully adjourn wbat is now be¬ yond- according ’our . comprehension, tho and historian, to Rollin, Alexander the Great, having obtained the gold casket !n which Darius had kept his thereafter rare perfume, keep used his favorite that aromatic of Ilomer casket to copy In,and called the book, therefore, the “edi¬ basket tion of the and casket," .his and at night he put the sword under his pillow, so I put this day into the perfum d casket of your richest affections and hopes this prom¬ ise, worth more than anything Homer ever Wrote or sword ever conquered: “What I »Jer thou knowest not now, but thou slialt hereafter." and that,Mad, the “edition celestial.” 2 ~ “ • « 717T BEFORE PETERSBURG. einarkable Displays of Personal Courage in the Civil War, ««. . . • ino fight . . before , _ Petersburg, , , writes .. ‘ General Horatio C. Ring, brought out soual several remarkable Two displays confront- ofper courage. armies ed «sV»«vift .«* b*MM? the Confederate bravery. lines On Burnsides less tliau front 150 tvero yards distant. A stone might be thrown from the Union parapet into tho rebel ssr patnotio k moles - ,»* had been burrowing « in *tno ground, carrying out the earth in cracker enemy’s boxes, concealing it from tlio view with underbrush and tz*r. suspecting foe. Night ft* <»” and -< day *"• »»• tho Work goes on, and all hearts aro centered - on the project if successful will insure the capture of Petersburg and, in nil nrnhahiiitv probaDUity, the the fall toll of of Richmond, Richmond Tho ilie evening of July 2.1 is at band, and under the doomed fort 8,000 pounds of powder lie with dradly destruction embodied in its inert mass. The fuse is laid, and at corlv ***?. morn “ or n on on 11m qrn-.b nf Tnlv tlm *“ a teb W to , , be applied. But daylight ' ub ts • past, inquiring and the troops their rest’impatient The and upon arms. sus penso is painful. Minutes seem hours, ftn< 3yet 110 unusual sound disturbs the peace of ^that July morning. At last two hegoio spirits, a commissioned and a non-commissioned officer of tho Forty eight mine Pennsylvania, volunteer to enter and learii thn cause of the do ‘Vreffi failure. It seemed almost certain lor "thorn t 6 enter the tmirnd. The explosion M is liable to occur at any mo f Ud ° W tUem t0 at ° mSl bU ‘ the3r " enI ln n ’ The fuse was found defective, and was speedily replaced, and ere the sun had risen high over the old bills of Virginia, the earth shook with the tremor of an thrown earthquake, high in and through exploding the earth air the powder blazed like lightning, easting a lurid glare upon the confused mass of dis¬ mantled guns, shattered caissons, smok¬ ing camp equipage Simultaneously and mangled human bodies. the order to charge rang out, and tho third division of ttie Ninth Corps advanced to ttie slaughter. The enemy, stunned, almost paralyzed scattered in with all fear directions:. and pujiic The stricken, con¬ centrated fire from a half hundred guns m\do a pandemonium indescribable. Into the vast crater into which tile ex¬ plosion huddled. had converted There the fort the troops were and inexplicable delay, which was a strange rally their gives ttie enemy time to flying forces. The Mstile, angry guns enfiladed the crater with fatal effect. The attempt to advance is met with a courage born of despair. ordered. A general advance of the corps was The Fifty-first lias reached the breastworks. In the fore¬ front behold an intrepid spirit urging his men forward. Waving his sword and calling to his brave boys to follow, he reaches the enemy’s retrenchments, and gallantly falls in a hand-to-liand encounter with his face to the foe. Such was the fate of the heroic Capt. Samuel H. Sims, of tha Fifty-first New York Volunteers. Gcneral Harrison’s Capture. Whitehall, Ex-Congressman tells H. G. Burleigh, of Harrison. Several a very good story of years ago a dinner party which was given at Washington, at Senators Harrison, Palmer of Michigan, Warner Miller, Congressman Burleigh and several other public men were present, nearly all of whom were accompanied by their wives. Mr. Churchill, of Gloversville, and his daughter—a young woman of engaging personal manners, beauty—were mental brightness also and rare among tho guests. It so happened that Miss Churchill was tho only unmarried person present; and toward the close of the re ipast she became the subject of an¬ imated conversation, each statesman humorously while she claiming her as his own, choice. deftly General declined Harrison to expressed manifest any determination a to have a hand in the matter, and said he felt sure ofliis preced¬ ence in Miss Churchill’s affections. In the center of the table there was a very rich, large,and elaborate fruit cake, quartered, and in each quarter a pea¬ cock feather was inserted. Suddenly General Harrison jumped up,pulled the feathers from the cake, ran around the table to Miss Churchill's seat, and, sticking his the feathers in her hair, threw arms around • her, and cried out, ‘‘I’ve got the girl any way; she’s mine.” There was an outburst of laughter, and the whole company good-humoredly acknowledged fairly the that the General liaa Press. won prize.—Troy (N. Y.) Oregon ~ contains ^ 94,560 square mfles; , was Bettle< ? m toll at Astoria, and was admitted into the Union February 12,1859. VoLIX. New Series. NO. 7. HOG KILLING. Swift Process of Preparing Them •^for the Tabl6. Porkers Made Ready for the , Spit in Ten Minutes. The hogs are brought in cars, a dozen or tw’cnty at a time, chiefly from Ohio, Illiuois, and Indiana, or even further West. They arc turned into a large hall together, hundreds and hundreds of them and they stand or lie so closely to¬ gether that,-, it is impossible to find any vacant islands o’f floor. From time to lime a hundred' or more are driven uj> an inclined p ane iuti-i. the pen where their death-watch is kept. An aid to the ex¬ . ecutioner degtywisly swings a chain around one of the hindlegs of theVihl mal which be selqeis, and when lie touches a lever*, the much surprised and expostulating hog swings up into tlic air head downward over a partition be¬ hind which stands the red-liauded ex icrt, who by a- -dextrous twist of the knife, severs the principal bloorl-vcssel, rom which flows the life-blood in a rushing torrent. This man’s features ire completely obscured by splashes of hlooj}—ids' clothes are soaked with it, and lie stjup^f in a pool of it over his -hoc tojis. "Oyc cannot but admire the unfailing precision .with which his knife reaches the blood-vessel —110 never strikes a second time. About 25 sec¬ onds suffice for each pig, and each one us it receives its death-blow is pushed on down a horizontal bar, so thht there are always hanging here eight or 10 pigs in different stages of the death-agony. The heart-rending squeal of the just stabbed animal dies down to a gurgle in the throat of the-.-furthest one on tho i>ar. This <t hist ± j. is immediately . caught and hurled down a shaft into a vat of boiling water, from which, after a moment's "stay, it is again grasped by the machinery, whirled upward through a straight shrift, in the sides of which knives are playing by which the lmir is scraped from the body. Tho same pro¬ cess is gone through with as it descends on the other side, and the body slips out upon a tablo and is completely shaven. Here the tendons of tho hind legs arc quickly slit, a cross-tree is inserted and the hog again suspended. A single sweep of the knife serves to disembowel, and a blow from a broad-axe cleaves the spinal column longitudinally. All parts have now been removed from the carcass which are not sold as meat, and it is quickly whisked into the store¬ room where thousands of hogs hang side by side, like tobacco-plants in a to bacco barn. The whole progress from the pen to the store-room consumes about two and a half minutes, and a hog comes along about every twenty-five or.-thirty seconds. At the same lime a large force of men is employed in disentangling the liver, tongue, heart and other edible spe¬ cial parts, some of which are chopped up for sausages. Others’ * aro engaged in cleaning tho entrails, in a room the steaming odor and noxious . moisture of which are intolerable to any but those who have undergone ac¬ climatization. Huge machines chop away incessantly at hundreds of pounds of meat which is stuffed by other parts of the same machine into the sausage-skins.. .The stomachs are reserved for submis don to a chemical process by which the pepsin is extracted for medicinal pur¬ poses. The most remarkablo aspect of the vast abattoir is the perfect mechani¬ cal routine by -which tho pig is separated into its parts and reduced into the form of merchandise. The animal is driven into the receiving pen at one side of the building and ten minutes afterward the delivery wagon is at tho door on tho other side to cart away the same pig in the form of sausage, spare ribs and roast meat.— New York Tribune. A Frank Confession. Collector: I have called six times, sir, for the amount of this bill already. Citizen: Wha-nt, six times? Is it possible you liavc been put- to all that annoyance? Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do: when I feel like paying tho, amount I will call on you’myself. It’s outrage¬ ous to give a man the trouble I have un¬ consciously given you.— Life. Ho Left. “Do you like poetry, Nellie?” “Yes, George,” “What kind do you like best?” “Well, whenever I see you walking I edmirc the poetry of motion.” Famous Canine Shepherds. A description is given in an Edinburgh paper of f6ur different breeds of dogs that are very valuable for the protection pf flocks of sheep. Probably the most ancient and widely diffused is the Spanish .sheep dog, tha largest, most savago and powerful of the race.- In appearance ho somewhat resembles the Alpine or Mount St. Ber¬ nard dog. So strong and ferocious are they that one of them can always mas¬ ter a wolf,, and dogs of any other race rash enough to attact alio flocks under their charge are certain of defeat and deatl\.’ ! The Mexican sheep dog is doubtless a descendant of the Spanish, and so no doubt are the various strains found among tlic South America states. In¬ troduced at the time of the conquest, or shortly thereafter, llieso have differ¬ entiated considerable from tho parent stock, while still retaining its chief cKffe-act eristics—unsociability, ferocity great strength and tierce fidelity in pro¬ tecting the flocks in their charge. In educating the Mexican pups a few of tho strongest, healticst and finest looking aro selected from tho litter and put to suck a ewe which has first.been deprived of her own lamb. She soon becomes accustomed to the appearance of tho intruders and learns to look upon them with maternal affection. For tho first few days they are kept in a hut, the ewe suckling them morning and evening only. Then they run with her for some time in a small inclosure, and finally they are folded with the whole flock for a fortnight or so, and then run permanently with the sheep, which, after a time become s'o accustomed to them, as to be able to distinguish theirffrom other dogs, even from those of the game litter which have been nurtured elsewhere. After tho pups are weaned they never leave tho drove ■ among which they were reared and in protecting which they aro at all times ready to dio. The Hungarian shoe]) dog is common¬ ly white, thnugbj soimtimes inclined to ■■ a reddish brown; and is almost tho sizo of Newfoundland dog. Their slirirp ' a noses, erect ears, shaggy coats, and bushy tail give them tho appearance of a wolf, and except towards their masters titty are extremely savage. The French shepherd dog is of a me¬ dium sizo has straight ears, hair of a dark color, thickset and longest on tho tail, which is carried horizontally. They are very indifferent to careesses, but aro vigilant, active and faithful in the caro of their flocks. Corea’s Royal Family. The royal family of Corea consists of the King and Queen and tho Crown Prince, aged respectively 39, 40 and 17 years. They are in perfect harmony with each other, and form a very intelli¬ gent, progressive family. Tho present dynasty of Ye has been in power for 498 years. The King is a very seclusivo monarch, and is not easily seen. His own officers address him in a language so honorific as to be unintelligible to the masses, and it is often the case that a newly-appointed official has to address him through tlic eunuchs for some time, before he can acquire tho necessary fluency in tho court language. No foreign' man has ever seen the Queen, though some of tlic ladies have enjoyed that privilege. Ttio common people only see tlic King on tho occasion of his going forth in state to worship at the tomb of his ancestors. At these times the little straw-thatched booths arc all removed from the street, together with all other rubbish. The streets are then swept and cleaned and fvesh yellow earth is spread over the sur¬ face. It is a great holiday and all the people turn out. Rooms along the street are in great demand and even the house¬ tops are covered with sightseers. To de¬ scribe the procession would demand a lengthy article. In wild, Oriental splen¬ dor it beggars description. Tho troops of ancient and modern soldiers with their gay uniforms and coats of mail, the armies 6f banners, the great qbair of the king and prince, and tho peculiar music, all form a scene which modem innova¬ tion will fast do away with, and which one should by all means see if the oppor¬ tunity offers .—San Francisco Chronicle. Information. Her grandmother was so sick that the report got put that she was dead. K sympathetic old gentleman met the child on the street. ‘‘And when is ypur grandmother to be buried, my dear?" he asked her. “Not till she’s dead, sir."
