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Subject : “ Dark Sayings on a ltiuji.’’
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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BEFORE PETERSBURG.
einarkable Displays of Personal
Courage in the Civil War,
««. . . •
ino fight . . before , _ Petersburg, , , writes ..
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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."