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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1889)
--- ■ ■ — -=i - - ...... NORTH I 1 J uilUlil ORfiTA T- 1 1 I V ES s. to? I | Proprietors. 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.
