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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Wonders of Disasters and
Blessing.”—Preached at Kansas
City, Missouri.
T*X*i "I will show wanders in the
Keenans and in the earth ."—Joel il., 90.
Sedan, last after the French had surrendered at
I told the good about doctor France; said people to me: laughed “It is just
as you at
me aeause I talked about the seven
bona and the vials, but I forsaw all this from
the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revela¬
tion.” Rot taking any such responsibility in
Interpretation of the passage, I simply
rt that there is in it suggestions of many
fHnga Our in our dilate time. and heart quickens its
pulsations eyes read of our events in the Third
as we
century, the Sixth century, the Eighth cen¬
tury, the Fourteenth century, but there are
more Nineteenth far reaching century events than crowded into into the
and the last quarter bids any fair other, to
eclipse the - preceding three quarters.
We read in the daily newsp pers of
events announced in one paragraph and
without which Herodotus, any special Josephus, emphaste-of Xenophon, events
a a a
a Gibbon would have taken whole chapters
or whole volumes to elaborate. Looking out
of upon our time, “Wonders we must cry out in the words
the text: in the heavens and in
the earth.”
I propose to show you that the time in
which we live is wonderful for disaster and
wonderful for Messing, for there must be
lights others. others. a»d Reed Reed stales I I in this this this day day picture th that as to all
argue argue disaster? our time
is is wonderful wonderful for for disaster? Our Our world has
had a rough time since by the hand of God it
was bowled out into space. It is an epileptic
earth; convulsion after convulsion; frosts
pounding it with sledge hammer of
iceberg, and fires melting it with
furnaces seven hundred times heated. It is a
wonder to me it has lasted so long. Meteors
shooting shooting by on this by side and the grazing it, and
meteors on other tide and
grazing it none of than slowing up for
safety. Whole fleets and navies and argoties
aad flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us.
Our earth like a fishing smack off the banks
Germanic of Newfoundland, and while fee Etruria and
the Arizona and fee City of
New York rush by. Betides that, our
world has by sin been damaged in its inter
nal machinery, buret, and ever tho and a anon fee lur
twees have and walking beams of
fee have mountain shipped have broken, and the islands
a sea, and tho great hulk of fee
world has been jarred with-accidents that
and anon threatened immediate demoli
tion. But it seems to ns as if our century
were especially characterized by disaster,
an eart
volcano hushed up. Vesuvius When Stromboli
ing, Cotopaxi let the and foundations stop fee breath¬
of earfe
beware. Sevan thousand earthquakes in
two centuries recorded to the catalogue ot
the British association. Trajan, the
»°re to ancient Antioch, and amid
of his reception is met by an
earthquake or's life. Lisbon, that nearly fair and destroys beautiful the Emper¬
at one
rfdoeknn minutes 60,000 the 1st have of November, perished, and 175S, In six
Voltaire the
writes of them: “For that region it was
last judgment, nothing wanting but a
trumpet P Europe and America feeling the
dfcrab: 1500 chimneys in Boston parti: i y or
“jKfc&edwaLni of other centuries have
had their to our own. In 1812
Caraceas quake; to was 1832, caught to Chili, in the grip of the earth¬ miles
■of toad by volcanic force 160,0W) upheavsd square to four
and zeven feet of permanent elevation; in
1854 Naples Japan shaken 4b in the 1857; geological Mexico in agony; .1858;
Sfedosa, ftepilbhe, in the 1861: capital Manilla, of terrorized the Argentine iu 1863;
the Hawaiian islands by such force uplifted
and let down in 1871; Nevada shaken to 1871;
Antioch to 1872; California to 1872; Sail
Salvador in 1873; while in 1883 what
subterranean the excitement! Mediterranean, Ischia, beautiful an isl¬
and of e.
Italian watering-place, vineyard clod, sur¬
rounded by all natural charm" and historical
reminiscence; of the yonder, Homan Capri, Emperors; fee summer yonder, re¬
sort
Naples, the paradise of art—this beautiful
Island suddenly toppled into the perishing, trough of
fee earth, them 8000 merry-makers and
some of so far down beneath the reach
of human obsequies that it may be said of
many a one of them as it was said of Mcses;
'“The Lord buried him.” Italy weeping, all
Europe where there weeping, hearts all Christendom to sympathize weeping
were ana
Christians to pray. feat But while the nations
were measuring it with magnitude golden md of like disaster, that
measuring not
with which the angel measured heaven,
bat wife Indian fee archipelago, black rule of fee death, fertile Java,
of the & most
island of all the earfe, caught in ti ip
mountain of the earthquake, down, and and mountain city after city,
goes which produces the
iirt until beverage that island, all fee world, has produced health
of
the hundred ghastliest thousand accident people of dying, the country dying, . dead, One
deed.
But lode at fee disasters cyclonic. At the
month ot fee Ganges are three islands—the
Hattiah, the fee Sundeep midnight and of the October, Dakin 1877, Shsbaz
nore. In on
all those three islands the cry was: ‘“The
waters, the waters!” A cyclone arose and
-rolled and of the population S6& over those of 840,000, three islands, 215,000
a
were climbed drowned. Only those the Highest ..saved trees. who
bad to the top of
Did you ever see a cyclone? No? Then 1
pray God you may never see one. I saw one
on fee back ocean, wd it swept us and eight for hundred thirty
miles from our fee course, -
six hours during cyclone and after
it we expected every moment to go
to fee bottom. retire d at They 9 o’clock told that us fee be
ton w» had fallen, but at 11 o’clock
barometer shock
:*4s night we were awakened with the of
cne waves. AO fee lights out! Urash! through went
all fee life boots. Waters rushing
the toylights down into the cabin and and down
on fee furnaces until they hissed smoked
in sp*V tog, fee sr’osrgs.m, of a mount
fire, and
sys'sr’gtTK.w&s; wtosr® there was one o£ tho® cyclones on
land fert swept the city of Rochester from
it* foundations, «»d took Children, dwelltog horses,, houses,
barns, men, • women, cat¬
tle and tossed tiiem into" indiscriminate
ruin, and lifted a rail train and d ed it
en.
„
SPRING PLACE. GA., THURSDAY. APRIL 25, 1889.
one of the characteristics of the time th
which we look live at is disaster cyclonic?
But the disasters oceanic. Shall 1
call the roll of the dead shipping ? Ye mon¬
sters of the deep, answer when I call your
names. Boston, the Vilie Melville, de Havre, the the President, Schiller, the City of
Cim
bria. But why should I go on calling
the roll when none of them answer,
and the roll is as long as the white
scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Haiteras
breakers? If the oceanic cables could report
all the scattered life and all the bleached
bones that they what rub against in of the depths of
the ocean a message pathos and
tragedy for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermen perished off the coast of
Newfoundland, and whole fleets of
them the off fellows the coast at of and England. give high God help
poor sea, seats
in heaven to the Grace Darlings and the Ida
Lewises Lewises and and the the lifeboat lifeboat men men hoveririga! hoveringarovmd
Goodwin’s Goodwin’s Sands Sands and and the the Sherries. Sherries. Tho The sea, sea,
owning three-fourths the other fourth, of the earth, proposes
to capture and is bombard¬
ing The the moving land all ot around hotels the earth.
our at
yards Brighton Beach where they backward one hundred
from once stood, a type of
what is going on all around the world and on
every coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day
wnere anaent cities stood, rulers of tem¬
ples that stood on hills geologists now find
three-quarters submerged. The under the having water or wrecked altogether
merchantmen sea, and flotillas, wants so to
many wrack the continents, and hence disasters
Look at the disasters in tho Fourth epidemic, i speak that
not of the plague century
ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and the
Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrought
such terror in the Eighteenth century, but I
look at the diphtherias yellow fevers, and fee and scarlet scarlet the ohol fevers, fe eras,
a»d told fee typhoids at time. Hear fee
ton our and own Shreveport, and New
wailing of and Memphis, JackeonviUe of the last few de¬
Orleans
cades. From Hurd war, India, where every
twautti year taree million devotees congre¬
gate, feat the caravans disease slew brought eighteen the cholera, thousand and in
one
eighteen in days la slain Bossorah. by it in Twelve India aqd thousand twau
one summer
ty-flva thousand to I »t. Disasters, epi
demic..Borne Greenwood and of Laurel the Hill est and monuments Mount Au¬ to
burn are to doctors who lost their life bat¬
tling with Southern epidemic.
But now I turn fee leaf in my subject, and
I plant fee white lilies and 'toe palm tree
amid the night characterized shade and the by wonders myrtle. of This dis¬
age no than more by wonders of blessing. Blessing
aster
- of idly longevity; increasing. the Forty average of human worth life four rap¬
luy increasing. Forty years now
hundred years once, Now I can travel from
Manitoba to New York io three days and
three nights. In other times it would have
taken three months. In other words, three
days and three nights now are worth three
months of other days. The average of human
life lived practically his MB greater and now Mpthusaleh than when lived Noah his
wears
965) years. Blessings of intelligence: The
Salmon P. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns
and the Henry Wilsons of the coming time
will not-be required to learn to read by pine
bench, knot lights, or will seated the Fergusons on shoemaker’s have
nor
to study astronomy white watching the oat
tie. Knowledge man’s door, rolls and its his tides children Mong every
down poor and bathe in them. If the philosophers may go
Of the last century were called up to fecit*
in a class with our boys at the Polytechnic,
or our girls at the Packer, those old philoso
phers class wopld be they sent failed down to the foot the of the
because to answer ques
tions! ! Free libraries in all the important
towns and citfeaof the land. Historical alcoves
and poetical shelves and magazine tables for all
that desire to walk through them or sit down
a* them. Blessings of quick information:
Newspapers falling September all around ns thick News as
leaves in a equinoctial.
three days world old, rancid and stale. We see toe
whole twice a day—through the news
paper at the breakfast table, told through
^ 811 “ ex -
BlessmanfS^roctoation- “Dovou
In
A secretary of one of the denominations
saM to mo the othpr day in Dakota:
denomination y^r. ley Siish^ntae S
day week, of the
one so you are far within the truth”
A clergyman of our own denomination said:
“I have just been out establishing five mis
sion stations.” 1 tell you Christianity is on
the maren while infideUty is dwindling into
imbecility. dltog While infidelity is thus dwin
and drooping down into im
booility Christianity . and jg indecency, Making about the wheel thou- of
uaSSSnSm a
copies l-flcli and of ten of the id TeS^u popular and Dte
any most writ
want Hw Bible day, less in number than the copies
of the going out from our printing
presses. A fewyeto'S ftgp, In six weeks, more
than two million copies of the New Testa
ment chased purchased, because the not world given away, but pur
will have it.
More Christian men In high official posi
States tion tc-clay than in Great before. Britain and In the United
going through ever the newspapers—I Stop that have falsehood
twenty—that eeenlt
in Couri the Judges of the Supreme
w the Byfeal United States are all infidels ex
iept one. acquaintance I
Snow three of them to be old,fashioned
svangelicfll Holy Sacrament Christians, of sitting Lord at fee
and I our Jesus
Christ, them stanch’believers suppose feat fee majority of
religion. are And then hear the ip dying oar Christian words of
been Btronger Secretary lawyer of of fee the United century States, than no
Judge ing by Black—dying, his aged wife towel¬
his tide, and he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: “O
Lord God, from whom I derived my existence,
to whom I have always trusted, take my spirit
to Thyself and lot Mary.” Thy richest blessing come
down upon my The most popular
toatitution book to-day is is fee fee church, Bible, and and the the mightiest greatest
name among the nations, and more honored
than any other, is the name of Jesus.
Wonders of self sacrifice: A clergyman
told me to the Northwest that for six years
living he was 400 a missionary miles from at the postoffice, extreme and North,
a some¬
times he slept cut of doors in the winter, the
thermometer sixty and. sixty-five degrees
below zero, wrapped to rabbit skins
woven You together. do X said: sixty “Is and it sixty-five possi¬
ble? not mean said:
degrees bphi«' ifiyo'i" He “Ido, and I
was happy,” AH top Christ. Where is there
any other Mothers being sewing that wifi their rally fingers spoil enthus¬ off
iasm? to
educate For nine their boys luxury for the Gospel the table ministry. 'until
the years through no on school and col¬ -
course grammar
lege and theological seminary be com¬
pleted. Poor widow putting her mite into
the Lord’s impressed treasury, the face the coin of Emperor not or
President upon so con¬
spicuous as the blood with which she earned
it. Millions of good men and wqmen, but
more women tlmn men, to whom Christ Christ is
everything. Christ first and last and
ver.
Why, this agg is not so characterized by
invention and scientific exploration US «
to by idea Gospel of proclamation. unlees You ring cm get all
no it you can
• •
the church bells in one chime, 3 j
sound all the organs in one ‘S’saz ‘
gather in all the congregations
dean one Gloria in Excaltia
Mighty Groves. camp Mighty meetings. Chautauquas. Might Mighty Ocean
con
ventionsof Christian works. Mighty gen
eral assemblies of the Presbyterian church.
Mighty Mighty conferences associations of of the the Methodist Baptist church. church.
Mighty I think before conventions long the of the best Episcopal church. will
investments
not be in railroad stock or Western Unio 10IL
but in trumpets and cymbals and
festal decorations, for we are on
the eve of victories wide and world
uplifting. hard work There before may bo consummation, many years
or the signs yet the that
blit are to me so encouraging
£ would not he unbelieving If I saw the wii
of the apocalyptic angel spread for its last _
triumphal flight in this day’s sunset; should or if
to-morrow morning the oegan cables
thrill us with the news that Christ the Lord
had alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Cal¬
vary On, to proclaim dead churches, universal wake dominion. up! Throw
back the you shutters of still ecclesiasticism and
let the light oLthe^sq>rin| morning come in.
_ the
or sea.
Morning and love of and emancipation. Morning Morning of of day light in
which thero shall peace. be chains to break, a
no no
sorrows to to assuage, compassionate. no despotism O Christ, to descend! shatter,
no woes
Scarred tempfe, take the crown! Bruised
hand, the throne take the “Thine scepter is ! the Wounded kingdom.” foot, step
!
These things Isay because I want you to
be alert. I want you to be watching all these
wonders unrolling from the heavens and the
earth. God has classified them, whether
calamitous hafnessed or pleasing. The divine purposes
are in traces that cannot
break, and and buckles in girths that that cannot slip, and
in cannot loosen,
are driven by reins they must answer. I
preach no fatalism. A swarthy engineer at
one of the depots in Dakota said: “When will
you get on the locomotive and take a ride
with us?” “Wei],” I said, “now, if that
suits you?” So I got on one side the loco¬
motive, and a Methodist other minister, side,
who was also invited, got op the
and between us were the engineer and the
stoker. The train started. The engineer had
hiajiand on The the stoker agitated shoveled pulse in of the the coal great and
enpne. shut the door with loud clang. A vast plain
a
slipped under us and the Mils swept by,
and that great monster on which we
rode trembled and bounded and snorted
and raged as it hurled us on< i
said to the Methodist minister on the other
side tho locomotive: “My brother, why
should Presbyterians and Methodists quarrel
about the decrees and free agency? You see
that track, that firm track, that iron track;
thfct ig tho decree. You see this engineer s
arm? That is free agency, Mow beautifmly
th0 y w ork together They wr coSd
mg to . take us through, conld
npf do Without the track, mid So I we day tot by
do wflhont Work too for engineer. a# to do, ^ nndwemay rejoice tarn
the d»y. wwnk of the Christian us machinery this way
«r w »t, tor we we nee agents; but mere is
the teack toid so lops, ago uo onc remembors
it, laid by the hand ef Almighty God la sock
*** 1®*® n ° terrestrial or satanic toe pressure can
ever atlect. And along that track car of
world s redemption wifl roll and. roll to the
Grand Central Depot of the Millennium. I
have no anxiety about.the track I am only
^raid that for our indolence God will elis¬
charge us and get _ some other stoker and some
other enginw. Tue tram is going brethren through
’wth us or without us. So, my
aU toe events that are going by. If
things seem « to th turn out right, give wmgs to
mgs seem to turn out wrong,
throw out the anchor of faith and hold fast,
.There is a houso in London where Peter
the Great of Russia lived awhile when he
wa andin f moving workman's through dress, the that land he incognito might
learn the wante of the people. A stranger
was visiting at that house recently, and
s thflt box?” The spy? owner Wit said, “I don’t
£now; that box was there when I got the
..f ? ttee f there’s nothing in it.” “Well,”
f 41 * 1 10 l ’}} KH® ? ou tw0 P° unds
StoA'and 3d toS?&f«fi%th^ re^eAtlvthe contents' ot°that tax
In jt the lathing machine of
Peter the Groat, liis private letters andflocu
ments of value beyond all momentary coin
sideratlon. And here are the events that
seem very msigmflcant and Divine unimportant, but
th ey mcrease treasures of Providence
and eternities of meaning which after awhile
God will demonstrate before the ages as being
il* stupendous value. As near as I can tell
toom what r see, there must be a God some
Wh f Tit 5 ns P U Y quoite they pitch mount
- , but who
ams; owns these gigantic forces you
h A7® b^ 11 reading aboutthe last twomonths?
Whose hand is on the throttle valve of the
volcanoes? W hose foot suddenly planted on
the footstool makes the continents quiver?
God.'Godl Helooketh upon the mountains
and they tremble. Hetoueheth toe hills and
the y Vr- God! w ^ st bo at
peacw with Him. Through ^ the Lord Jesus
Christ tins God is mine and Ha Is yours. I
P“ 6 the wthquake that shook Palestine at
the crucifixion against all the down roekings
of the centuries. This God on our side, we
STthe^of “ nd
Those of us who are in mid-life may well
thank God that we have seen so many won
drous things; but there are people here to
of The toe ^wjmtjeth Nmefeentb> century toe will Nineteenth P bo to abend ah^d
of catuve toe toe Eighteenth, habits and and ns yon enrir
customs and ig
and the skimmermg the spiritual veil world between Magnetism, the material
with lifted. a
word which we cover up our ignorance,
sm
Franklin la^oed and Morse and Boil and
Edison have tried to control. wiJl be
come locomotion completely will manageable, swiftened, and
pe . and
century, wonderful or whether we see toe will open gates of
a things. more It does not century, make we much difference see these
point where the we larger stand, the but prospect. the higher We the will stand¬
see
them 'from heaven if we do not see
them from earth, I was at Fire Island,
from Lob g which Island, they and telegraph I went to up Now in the Yqrk cupola the
into approach port. of There vessels is bourn opening before in they the come
and fee ah hit telescope through wall,
opening operator put®
feat and looks out and sees vessels
far out at sea. While I was talking with
him he went up, and looked out. He said:
I said: are; “Is expecting it possible fee Arizona know to-night.” all
those vessels? Do know yon them
know man’s face ?” yon He said: “ Yes, as I you
a never
make a mistake; before I see the hulks, I
often know them by the mast®; I know them
all, I have watched feem®o long.” Oh, what
a gvnpbed grand and thing Tieraldpd it is to have ships toie
friehfls long before they
come to port, that may come
dowh to loved fee wharf And welcome their long
absent ones. So today We take our
stand i» the watch tower and we look off
and ferougn uie glass ot inspiration or
Providence we look off and see a whole flee*
of ships coming in. That is the ship of
Srwi Peace, ting flag above with one star of Bethlehem
the top gallants. That is the
ship high of the church, mark of salt wave
up on the smoke stack, showing
the has had rough weather, but the Captain
of salvation commands her and all is well
with her. The ship of heaven, mightiest
craft ever launched, millions of passengers
waiting Spostles for and millions more, prophets and
martvrs in the cabin, con
qnerers at the foot "of the mast, while
from the rigging hands arc waving this
hay hack again, as they for know us, and we wave
f households. they are ours; they went out
„ rom our own Ours! Hi ail! Hail!
.'lit off the black and put on the white. Stop
tolling the funeral bell and ring the wedding
anthem. Shut up the hearse and take the
'chariot. Now, the ship comes around the
(Teat headland. Soon she will strike the
Ahair and we will go aboard her. Tears for
ships in. Now going out. Laughter for ships coming
she touches the wharf, Throw on the
planks. bmcing Block not up that gangway with will
to long lost friends, for you
have eternity of reunion. Stand back and
give, way until other millions oome on. Fare¬
well to sin. Farewell to struggle. Farewell
to sickness. Farewell to death. All aboard
tor hcaveul
“They Never Would Bo Missed.”
The dog next door who has a grudge
against the moon.
The ruau who tells “chestnuts” aud
laughs at them himself.
The cats in the back yard who have
grudges The against each other.
soulful young lady who recites
’‘Curfew shall not ring to-night.”
, Tho youth who at tho opera hums
ihe air and beats time with his cane.
- The man who buttonholes yon when
you’re on the way to i ateli a train.
The man who invites you to dinner
in order that he *
may read you his
verses.
Tho theator parties who talk whilo
the curtain is np and kocp quiet while
it is down.
The small brother who, when you
are se’f calling upon his sister, amuse8 liim
with your new silk hat.
The man who cal's and leaves his
rubbers in the vestibule, creating the
Impression that they belong to the belle
of the household .—Chicajo Rambler.
Bluebirds.
Mrs. Treat, in her “Home Studies in
Nature,” bluebirds says or bluebirds: When a
pair three of broods succeed in rearing
in a season, in tho autumn
these broods unite nnd stay with the
parents, making a little flock of about
fourteen. All the autumn through they
k -ep together, feeding from tin; same
brtshes—poke, atapelopsis, and other
wild berries—and upon stray insects.
The first cold days of December send
thorn to the cedar swamps, where great
numbers flocks of congregate. robins keep them Hero, too, Targe
But each mild day brings the company. bluebirds
from their retreat back to their unfor
gotton home, and there is nothing more
fascinating frolics in bird life than to see the
of the yoitng birds aiul tbo
grave demeanor of the parents. The
young visit tho various bouses in which
they three were reared, sometimes two or
entering at the sumo time, and
a!l tho while keeping up their low,
tweet twittering, as if conversing.
A Lawyer’s Opinion.
One in the long roll of celebrities
who have lived and died in tho good
pld | town of Wmthvop was a country
awver ’Squire *» T ls Hco of tho peace,
«■'< Howe, who flourished
three-quarters of » century ago. Law
ycJ'S of ins class w those days took
their pay in work. So, when a man
came to him one day and said, “’Squire,
r I want want yon von to to tell tell n-.o me bow how email small an -n
amount a man can sue for?’ llowo
told him to work half a day in liis field
and be would answer the question.
The man performed a half-day’s ivoyk,
“tasked the lawyer for liis answer,
xou want to know how small aq
amount you can sue for, do you?” re-,
peated Howe,
«y„. u
Well, sir, yon can sue for . nothing .
at all, and recover the same amount.—
hewiston {Me.) Journal.
-— -—
Burmese unrmese Superstition snpersmion.
There are among the Burmans and
also the Shans many fervent believers
?nd Europe adopts in during the alchemical the middle art. As
there be found ages,
may now in Burmah
men of better education than their fel
lows wasting time, health, and fortune
ia these visionary aud absorbing pur
suits. They may be laughed at by
their neighbors for their individual
want of success, but there is no Bur
possibility of the philosopher's ot obtaining stone; the gi though, and secret in¬
deed, be only limself believes what Sir Hum
P h /7 Davy said was possible.
stantly ^ J oouise taken this aavantago credulous ot spa by it i,s clever een
rogues, and the courts afford frequent
instances of the most surprising sim
Siam.
A librarian says that ministers like
to write their opinions on the margins
of books. “I found a book so marked
one day, and, recognizing of the hand¬
writing as that a prominent divine,
sent a note to him asking to see him at
my office. He came, acknowledged
that ho had written in the book, but
said that his writing made it more val¬
uable. ‘Others do not think so,’ said
I, “so if you will give us a new book
you may keep the more valuable one.’ ’*
Satire is followed by standing ire.
. B. the R, champion Park, of wood-chopper Upper Cystic, Conn.,
is of tho
Btete. For a wager of $5 he recently
felled, cut and split into marketable
, wood four cords of chestnut wood with¬
in six hours aud fiTe minutes—an aver
age-ofacordiaanhoataad
Vol. IX. New Series. NO. 12.
LIGHTHOUSES.
Origin and Ancient History of
Famous Beacons.
Some of the Earliest Known
Lighthouses.
The earliest lighthouse of which more
than a mention is known is the Pharos,
at Alexandria, whose name has entered
into a number of languages with the
meaning lighthouse, whether or not the
word meant originally a structure of the
kind. It was square and built in stories,
each smaller than the other, the top one
supporting a brazier in which wood was
burned, An inner stair gave access to a
platform at about half the height of the
tower, whence further upward progress
appears to have been by an extremely un¬
comfortable method, the stairway being
mere projections from the inner
walls. Apparently confusing • the
lighthouse with the obelisks brought
down th% Nile to Alexandria, a re
port was current that tho builder had
placed tliis tower on four great crabs of
stone, as wo now know that the obelisk
in Central Park, New York City, was
onbe poised on four crabs of bronze.
Another more likely legend is to the
effect that Sostratus, the architect, caused
the name of thd Ptolemy, who ordered
toe work to bo carved in bold letters on
the .. front, , , . but first „ took the precaution
to have his own name carved in thestone
at the same spot. Then filling up his
own name and preparing the ground, the
Kings inscription was cut iu the soft
coating. Naturally m the course of
years the weather wore off the soft ma
tcnal and brought the name of the ongi
nator of the design to the light of
famo. The tower at Ostia is said to have
been a copy of the Pharos of Alexandria,
A lighthouse showni , in . a Latin medal
shows four stones but is round
of square. Another medal Tound ill
Bithynia on the Euxino Sea lias two,
rapidly diminishing, standing on a main
tower with a large doorway, all three
parts being round. These on medals
are apparently designed for very high
cliffs far beyond, the reach of waves, for
while their circular form would be favor
ablo to withstanding the shock of water,
their lower courses are not fit to struggle
long with that clement.
In Northern Europe the earliest light¬
house was on the cliff np which the
town of Boulogne has crept, but the
spot has disappeared owing to the
crumbling of the roek. It was octa¬
gonal and built in stories, but perhaps
square or round above, if one can dis¬
tinguish so much from the* little sketch
made by Claude Chatilloa in the seven¬
teenth century. One of the handsomest
lighthouses stands at the entrance
to Bordeaux, called the Tower
of Cordouan, begun in 1584 by
Louis de Foix and restored
about 30 yeara ago. The vari¬
ous lights on Eddy stone furnish the
most interesting and instructive history
of this kind of structure, from the build¬
ing by Winstanley, which was able to
withstand the onslaught of remarkable
storms, to the present structure, recently
rebuilt, enlarged and provided with the
best illuminating appliances. Smeaton’s
tower on Eddystone is the pattern on
which this and most successful light
homes are constructed which have to
support enormous weights of
water. Smeaton’s tower was
begun in 1756 and finished in 1759.
It stood until partially taken down when
the new structure was built 120 yards
off. The latter was begun in 1878, the
foundation stone placed by the Prince of
Wales in August, 1879, and the last
stone put in place by the Duke of Edin
burgh in June, 1831. The upper part
of Smeaton’s tower has been erected as a
monument to his fame by the people
Plymouth on a granite base like that of
the original.
Tho earliest known lighthouse in the
United Slates is that which once stood
on Little Brewster Island, Mass., on the
north side of the main entrance to Bos¬
ton Harbor. It was built in 1716 and re¬
built in 1859. Beaver Tail, the light
so well known to visitors of Narragansett
Pier and Newport was established In
1740. In 1718 the keeper of the Bos¬
ton light, with wife and daughter, was
drowned, and Benjamin Franklin pub¬
lished a ballad on the incident and
sold it in the streets. But it would
take too long to enumerate the bea¬
con towers on the Atlantic and Pacific
coast which Major Heap has thought
worthy of mention. His work will be
found sensible and instructive, in no re¬
spcct pedantic, but well calculated ta
give a good general notion of the diffi¬
culties in establishing lighthouses at the
points where they are most needed, and
well supplied with pictures of the most
important buildings of the kind now ex¬
isting, or once famous.
Detecting Counterfeits.
Samuel Sneed, of the SuU Treasury,
Says in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a
man only becomes an expert at detecting
counterfeit money by long experience.
Like the grain handler in sorting wheat,
he cannot explain how he dectects the
different qualities, but is satisfied that
he is right. However, there are numer¬
ous ways in which a man accustomed to
handling large amounts of money can de¬
tect the counterfeit bill. The quality o!
the paper and the engravings are the
principal marks that attract the attention.
The long experience in handling the
money accustoms the -handler to the
sense of feeling and to the appearance of
the bill, and he will guard against ac¬
cepting counterfeits. There are also
numerous private marks put upon bills
by the Government which are seldom
copied by counterfeiters. •
For instance, take a $10 legal tender
note, which has the picture of George
Washington printed on alongside. Over
this name there is what would seem to
be a blur, caused by some one dipping
one’s finger into ink and drawing it
across the name, and the counterfeiter
rare ly devines the reason for this. On
the $10 national ^ wWl the picture
of Franklia flying his kit0) there p, a
picture of a hou8e supportcd by a i ong
post) and in this post thero is depicted
a sma n nick , as if so ino one had struck
the post with an xhia is a Govera .
ment ffiark that j have never seon on
couuterfeit . m other bills the color and
, ,, * eBahar .. ak .. ed , , „
™
Government, serve as safeguards f bi/there against
countcrfeits . On almost every
* a ^ eeal . with iak
w hi C h penetrates the paper. Although
many counterfeiters have attempted to
imitate this seal( yet it ^ never bcen
accomplished,
A Madman’s Ingenuity.
John B. Leoni, a young sculptor,
whose parents are supposed to reside in
Jersey City, N. J., who for some time
has been an inmate of an asylum, escaped
from his keepers some time ago aud wan¬
dered to Burlington, N. J., where a live¬
ly interest was taken in him. He was
found roaming aimlessly around the
streets, and, pending the result of in¬
quiries as to his identity, was placed in
the city jail.
Shortly after his incarceration Leoni
obtained possession of a piece of soap
and proceeded to astonish the jailers.
With his finger nails ho dexterously be¬
gan carving the soap, and gradually it
assumed human shape. When through
his labor Leoni had produced a model of
the Alpine huntsman. The figure, which
is now in possession of Mayor SHpath,
is about seven inches in height. The
right arm is outstretched, the hand en
cirling the neck of a duck, which is as
carefully reproduced as the figure of the
hunter. The left hand hangs by the
side, holding a shot gun. At the feet
of the hunter lies the figure of a re¬
triever, wistfully gazing at the game his
master holds aloft. —New York Press.
Outlawry In the Desolate Pamir.
The Pamir, of Asia, is a desolate re¬
gion generally, but it is doubtful wheth¬
er its loneliest parts are not preferable
to those which are inhabited; for, ac¬
cording to M. Bonvalot, it is a kind of
Asiatic Alsatia, or No-Man’s Land,
where all the desperadoes and fugitive
criminals from Afghanistan, Bokhara,
Eashgaria, China, the Talaik and else¬
where, are in the habit of resorting, as
to a country where no sheriff’s writ or
king’s or emir’s mandate runs. Thgso
tough characters have a regular scale of
treatment for travellers. If the latter
arc weak, they are murdered. If they
are strong, they are (if possible) black¬
mailed. The staple recourse is to pre¬
tend that some neighboring ruler puts a
veto upon the advance of tho travellers;
or that they must halt until instructions
are received from the said ruler.— New
York Tribune.
Easily Won.
Fond Mother (proudly). “Yes, John¬
nie won the reading prize in school.
Come here Johnnie, and tell Mrs. Brown
how you won the prize."
Johnnie. ‘ ‘Oh I took it hands down.
Billy Waffles got it for leadin’ good, but
I played marbles for it an’ won it.—
Bazar.