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3** 'Jjfi GEORGIA
NORTH TIMES.
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REV.. Mi. TALIAGE
XHE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SEBMON.
Subject: “Bounding Up the Century.’
jkr
Vfc-w 5?^“‘Sttonth century , is departing. Af
year be a stop^nt rk ”?. a will few be more into steps, the H eterni-. each
gone to f*”* 1
ra^etfttocentuiy, which fact makes the *?*
soiemnest book outside* toe Bible the al
awg&sSMffist-'S ttl6 c! 2 t ‘, ; Tee last decuae of this
century upon which we shall soon enter will
Ei+iS&ggiisWi&S Z&t£SS3i£g£L3£ ?%
prepare for it. That last ten years of the
Nineteenth eentury, may we all live to see
theml Does any one say that this division
of time is arbitrary? Oh, no; in other ages
toe divisions of time may have been arbi¬
trary, but our years date from Christ. Does
any one say that the grouping 6 f ton together
is an arrangement arbitrary? Oh, no; next
to the figure seven, ten is with God a favorite
number, Abraham dwelt ten years to
Caanan, Ten righteous men would have
Saved Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle were
ten curtains, their pillars ten and their sock¬
ets ten. In the ancient temple were ten lav
ers and ten candlesticks and ten tables and a
molten seaof ten cubits. And the command¬
ments written on the granite of Mount
Smai were fen, and the kingdom of God was
likened to ten virgins, and ten men should lay
1201 a of him thafc was a Jew, and the reward
of the greatly faithful is that they shall reign
over ten cities and to the effort to take toe
eensus of the New Jerusalem the number ten
swings thousands around tjmes Jho thousands, crying “ten
to look ten thousands.” So I come
toward the closing ten years of the
Nineteenth century with an intensity of in¬
terest I can hardly describe.
I have also noticed that toe favorite time
in many of the centuries for great events was
toe closing fragment of toe century. Is
America to be discovered, it must be to toe
last derade of toe Fifteenth century, namely,
1493. Was free constitutional government to
be well established in America, the last years
of the Eighteenth century must achieve it.
Were three cities to be submerged by. one
Pitehof and Pompeii scori®, Herculaneum and Strahise
to the latter part of the First
cen tury t-ury closed must with go the under. most The agitating Fourth ecclesi¬ cen
astical war of history, Urban the Sixth
against Clement the Seventh. Alfred toe
Great closes the Ninth century and Edward
sounding With the deeds. establishment The Sixteenth century closed
dependence Of religious in¬
to tho United Netherlands. Aye,
almost every century has had its peroration
of oyertowering achievements. As the clos
mg years of the centuries teem a favorite
time for great scenes of emancipation or dis
aster, ite and as toe number ten seems a favor¬
number to toe Scriptures, written By di¬
vine vine direction, direction, and and as as we we are are soon soon to te ster enter
the 8s=2mw«3?5«?V?~v presence of this consecrated assembly I
popose tbat. wo make ready, get all our bat
tones platted and all our plans well laid to
what remains of this decade, and thfen to tho
last decade of the Nineteenth eentury march
np.and When take this round world for God.
I say we, I mean the five hundred
miUipn of them Christians will not have now enough alive. But, as many
work let heart for toe
two thousand us copy Gideon, in his and as he had thirty
Midianifes but men of them army to flight made the
of toe right stuff many and were not
- he promulgated a mili
toj and afraid order let saying; him return “Whosoeveris and depart fearful early
from Gilead,” and twenty-two thousand
were afraid of getting hurt and went
home and only ten thousand, were left and
God told them that even this reduced number
they was too had large a number, for they might think;
help, and triumphed toe number independent of divine
reduced so must be still further
and only those should be should kept to toe
ranks who to passing the river be so
to haste for victory over their enemies, that
though stopping very second thirsty, just they would the without
to toe a scoop up water
palm of their right hand and
scoop up toe water in the palm of their
left that hand, and and three only three hundred hundred men did
those men with the
battle shout: “The sword of the Lord and of
Gideon,” to scattered the Midianites like toaves
lion an nqtqinal equinox,so Christians out of toe five hundred mil¬
of to-day let all un¬
believers of aiid cowards go home and get out
the way. And suppose we hate only fouV
hjindred fired rpillion left, left, suppose only one' two hun
million suppose pnly hundred
million left, vea, suppose we pnly have fifty
million left, with them we will undertake the
divine crusade, and each one Just scooping up
a hand pahp and full of the river full of God’s mercy to one
Itrength in a palm toe other, of toe river of God’s
Lord let us with the cry,
“The sword of the aiid Gideqn,” toe
*word of the Lord and of John Knox, the
sword of the Lprd and of Matthew Simpson,
the sword of toe Lord, and of Bishop Mcll
yatoa, the sword of the Lord and of Adoriitiun
Judson, the sword of the Lord and of Martin
Luther, teenth eentury, gototothe last decade Of the Nine¬
Is it audacious fo* me to propwe it? Oh,
no; Naaman awcaptive told the servant to the jmchief kitchen of
could commander where
he get rid of-the blotches of his awful
leprosy and his complexion became as fair as
a babe’s. And didn’t Christ in order to take
the ophthalmia out of the eyes of the blind
man use a mixture of spittle and dust ? And
who showed Blucher a short cut for his army,
so that instead of the regular road by which
he would have come up too late, he came up
to. time to save Waterloo and Europe?
Was it not an unknown lad, who perhaps
could not write his own name? And so I,
“who am less than the least of all saints,”
propose a short cut to victory and am willing
to he the expectoration on some blind eye
and Lord tell of some host how of the this brigadier leprosied generals world of toe to
■■ the final decade of tho Nineteenth century may
have its flesh come again as the flesh of a
little child.
Is there anything in prophecy to hinder
this speedy consummation? No. Some one
begins times to quote half time,” from Daniel and takes about from “time, Re¬
and a
velation tho seven trumpets blowing them all
at-once in my ear. But with ntmogt rever
“ l ‘‘ “ all tlia prophecies and hold
em tow heaven and say God never
has and never will stop consecrated
effort magrificent ■ and resolve, holy determination and that and if
toe church of God will rise DanM’s up to its
full work it can make half •fen time
Neither twenty years Isaiah,' and’ his Ezekiel, time '''not' Micah, years.
nor
dor Maiacbi, nay Jr--- : ---
t*.”SS£°'SK Bounced the millennium to begin the year er
8889, that would bn no hindrance. In
being 0 »e sense toe Gpd yosterdqy, iRvey changes torday HJg and mind, for
same He does
ever. But in and another seuse c
gis mind times without number
SPRING PLAGE. GA.. THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1889.
every Didn’t day, He change and mat Is when His people pray,
By His mind about Nineveh?
voice, mand Jonah, at tile top of hi.
while standing on the steps of the mer
chants’ exchange and thepalatial residence*
of that city, cried out; “Yet forty days and
Nineveh shall be overthrown.” Was it-over*
thrown in forty days? No. The people gave
up their sins and cried for mercy, and though
Jonah got mad because his whole course of
sermons had been spoiled and Went into adis
ts®
nei-vous chiU running through me. “God
saw their works that they turned from their
evil way and God repented of the evil that
He had saidHe wouBdo unto them, and He
did it not.” Hod is a father, and some of us
know what that means, and some time when
we hare promised chastisement and the child !
sorrow and such promises of doing better
that her tears landed on the lips of our i
knee kiss, and we held her a half hour after on our i
and would as soon think of slapping an
js^^ss.vssvaffi thousand years or five thousand years, He
would, if the world repented, substitute bene
diction and divine caress. God changed
His mind about Sodom six times. He imd
determined on its destruction. Abraham
asked Him if Ho would not spar© it if fifty
righteous people the were found there; and, nar
rowmg down number, if forty-five people
were found there; if forty people; if thirty
people; If twenty Aid people; if ten beopie were
found there. each of the six tunes the
Lord answered yes. Oh, why didn’t Abra
ham go on jngt two steps further and say if
fivebefoundmere and if one be found there,
for then for the sake of Lot, its one good
citizen, been spared. I think Eight Sodom would have
God times does the Bible say
that repented when He had promised
punishments It and withheld the stroke. Was
a slip of Paul’spen ass- when he spoke of God’s
agg ’ses safe
in the way of prophecy to hinder the crusade
I have proposed for the last decade of the
Nineteenth century.
The whole trouble is that we put off the
completion long and of the world’s redemption to such
SS^-«ssrsfea6 indefinite distances. The old pro
the be gospel made business triitHRil$ of to all say what to
the gospel business the acres
is of no age. We
are so constituted we cannot get up
ems£S from We g?rraa£f3s
range. now That are fighting called at the too long a
Angel ” nuisance. gun It shot “Swamp
was a six miles,
butit hardly ever hit anything. It did its
chief destructive work when it burst andkilled
those who were setting it off. Short rangeis
or
SAasia.-stfisusis asone dayd’ tiiat is, ten centuries
long for the Lord. But are not
quote tho sentence, why which do you not
(to.is previous with says that
one the Lord as a thousand
mfghS ......... obsS^to Ctofe “'is
work
we strain our vision and guess what they are,
and we call great conventions to guess what
logical they are, works and and we get balance down our heaviest theo¬
lid and look and look and our finally telescope on the
that they conclude
y are are two two beasts beasts that thafc we we see see, and tho the
one has hair and the other has wool and we
guess it must be the lion and the lamb
lying of down together. In that great cradle
church postponement though and somnolence we rock the
as it were an impatient child
and say: “Hush, my dear, don’t be impa¬
tient I Don’t get excited by revivals I Don’t
cry! Your Father’s coming I Don’t get un¬
easy! He will be here in two-or three or ten
though or twenty thousand toought years.” And we act a*
wt^ that when Macaulays
famous New Zeautnden in toe far distance is
seated on a broken arch of London
bridge Paul's stretching the ruins of St.
his grandchild might break to
and jolt his pencil by him if he
Men thought the milleniuin 4 ever ____ God!*
and women of the eternal
and daughters of the Lord Almighty 1 We
may have it start in the decade that is soon
to commence and : it will be done if we can
persuade the people between ... and
get ready for the now then to
work.
' rrnat makes me think it caii be done?
Yirst, long persuasion because God is ready. He needs no
to an^ do His work, for if He is
not willing willing that that should risiL He ~ is ' not
decade any of
shall sh; and the whole Btoteisa
chime of b ringing out “Come, come,
come,’? and r need not round
the earth to you find out how go much
He wants the world tq come, but just to walk
around tree with one two sfripped branches, and bare and leafless hori¬
zontal. But He is waiting, not arched, He but He
would, for toe co-operation as of the said church;
When we are-ready God is ready. And He
ture certainly th»s has world all the for weaponry toe truth, ready aU to cap¬ toe
wea On pons toe of kinfiness or devastation.
one hand toe Gosnel ana
sunshine and power to orchardize and gard¬
rainbow, en i/.o toe earth, and fountains swinging to
and Ohatswprthian verdure and
aromqs whfle poured toe other out hand of toe vials has toe of heavens,
of ? devastation, on thunderbolt fie weaponry
tion and conflagra¬ solar,
and stellar, forces planetary,
lunar, loose thrown or meteoric, that with
rein cm the neck for a
second would leave constellations and
galaxies so many split and shivered wheels
on the boulevards of heaven. And that God
is on our side, all on our side. Blessed be
Bis glorious name 1 Blessed was the hour
when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul
made peace with Him 1
If you continue to ask me whyYtolhk that
. the world can be saved in the filial decade of
her of workers that will go at it, if once
persuaded it can be done. We have
sifted the five hundred million of work¬
ers down to four -hundred million and
three hundred million and two hun¬
dred million and one hundred million and to
fifty million. I went to work to cipher out c
how many souls that number could bring to
God in ten years, if each one brought a soft!
every year, and if each soul so brought should
bring out, aided another by each professor succeeding in mathematics, year. Ifodfifi that
a
we did not need anything like suoh a number of
workers enlisted. You see it is simply a ques¬
tion of mathematics and in geometrical pro¬
gression. Then I gave to the learned pro¬
fessor this require problem: How with many if each persons
would it to start one
brought a soul into the kingdom each year for
ten years and each one brought another each
ot the earth at present? His answer Was two
miBldn seven hundred arid seventy-five and fifty-four workers, thousand go
three hundred %9
you see that wheilT sifted yh° hundred
million fifty nominal million and Christians stopped oi there, torth I retained dawn
to
for this work forty-seven it is glorious million mathematics* people tog
many. There demonstrandum. in Do tell
quod erat you ms
ttet.God does not care for mathematics?
^ba’a S™* have never seen the Giant’s Cause
way where God,shows His regard far the
with hexagonal six sides in whole and six ranges angles. of Then rocky columns
not studied the geometry of bee’s youhave houey
a
comb with six sides and six: angles. Then
you have not noticed what regard God has
for the square; the altar of the ancient
tabernacle four square, the breastplate four
square, the court of the temple in Ezekiel’s
his regard for the circle by making it his
throne, “ sitting on the circle of the earth,”
and in fashioning circle and Sun sending and moon and
stars a our planetary
svstem around other systems in a circle and
whole universe sweeping around the
throne of God in a circle. And as to His
Numbers, and numbers the hosts of Israel,
“»* numbers the troops of Sennache
rib, and numbers Solomon's hewers in the
forest fpd S ? 5 ®** 8 Hie 6 pear$inen,and num
fg&^issssisrJVi demonstration of the easy possibility
of bringing the whole world to God in
the comW decade bv simple process
of solicitation, each one only havmg to bring
one thousand a year and ; although I know I want to take in who, forty
men now alive i
wmlt, by pen or voice, or both, directly or
Indirectly, each- So will take hundreds of thousands
you see that that will discharge
some of the 2,754,875 from the necessity of
taking -Another any. why I know
reason it can be done
we may divide the work up among the
denominations. God does not ask any one
denomination to do the work or any dosen
denominations. The work can be divided
ondis being divided up, not geographically,
but according to the temperaments of the
human family. We cannot say to one denomi
nation. You take Persia, and another. You
m all nations. Amdsome denominations are
especially sanguine adapted to work plegmatic with people of
choleric temperament or tempera,
went or temperament or biltoustem.
porament phatic or nervous temperament, The Episcopal or Church lym
temperament.
*stic. The Methodist church will
work among the etno
and demonstrative. , % The Presby
church , will doits best work among
denomination will bays certain kinds of wx>
pie whom divided it vOl especially There affect. So let the
work be. up. are the seven bun
deed and fifty thousand Christians oftha Pros
bytenan Church, North, and other hundreds
of thousands in the Presbyterian Church,
Sas®s?iMs!rsi^ peciaiy Scotch ^h^gUsh^n^brfsln'makiug
of England on both sides tho sen still larger;
and many other denominations as much, if
not more, consecrated than any I have men
tioned. Divide up the world’s evahgelixation
issjxjKsassaw
can last 1 African .. • will Euroixan’thblast the salvation Asiatic,the of God be
. see
fore he sees the opening gate of the Twentieth
century -|s f ee! t!l wholo world bo saved
ai, M. 1 e can
in • the time specified, because we have all
manner of machinery requisite. It is not as
though we bad to build the printing presses;
they those are printing ail built religious and running day and ofthose mght,
pSng .mi «"». papers (935
S ttS
printing religious books. And thou
to
culaxs ESTKfflfc of patent medicines and tell tile
three news
which in weeks will be of no importance ?
Prom to the the old-time Lord Stanhope’s .Franklin printing and press the on
up Washmgton and Victory press
press the press to
Hoe’s perfecting printing press that machine
has been improving for fts best work and its
final work, namely, the publication of the
people. glad tidings of have great the joy which shall be to have all
We presses, or can
them decade before is the begin, first of January Bible when in the the
new to to put a
hand of every son and daughter of Adam and
Eve now living, and if such person cannot
read missionary we can have to read a colporteur, it to him an evangelist her.
or or
namely, But thisbringsmetotUeadjoiningthought; have the to do the Work,
we money
I mean the fifty million of Christians have it.
Aye, the two million seven hundred and fifty*
four thousand Christians have it; and the
dam which is beginning to leak will soon
break and there will be rushing
floods of hundred and millions and
billions of dollars in holy contribution
when you persuade the wealthy men
of the kingdom of God that the speedy con
version of the world it a Daniel possibility and flit. that
Isaiah and Ezekfel and and John
will not stand in the way of ft but help it on.
I have ph sympathy with this bombardment
of rich million men. We would if each one be worth hard
five dollars we could, and bv
persuasion million, ndght perhaps be induced to I take
fifteen Almost every paper take
up tolls of gome wealthy man who Iris endo wed
a college or built a ofeuroh or a hospital
or multiply a free library, until the and that thing is all going de¬ to
nominations and reformatory treasury of organisation* our
will be overwhelmed with mnnifioenee if we
MB persuade opr man of wealth that the
wor Id’s evangelisation is possible and that
they may always live to see it with their own eyes.
I have cherished the idea that when
the world is converted we would be allowed
to come out the on the battlements of heaven
and see bannered procession and
the bonfires of victory. But I would like to
mitted bonfires. myself And to throw If on persuade a fagot for a big¬
ger of wealth that there you our men
is a possibility for them
to deemed join on planet, earth instead in the universal of laborious glee of. a re¬
funds beseech¬
ing for and contribution arguing and flattering in
objects order, to get a of for Christian
our men wealth will
S d oid tieketofflen charit^M
for their turn to tobke §9pk Tha
SSK.tt'SijSflSft w ho W just forty xnifflon dollars for
iSfe?to£t toe wo^Tth
coming into the possession ot Christian men
and church women. Ana although and its members the original
was very poor, of: Galilee, tasd were l^ad
Osh dealers on toe banks
Sr*oron^
port missionaries under God in ten years cq
3 Tgata,7totak
tion can to achieved tliat to toe toe world's tima specified avanpliza- be
totiMi?neeessary^ d ^ti wwfc l0 ^donot
are
and there will be three sets of stodents
who will graduate into the ministry hnvo
before toe close of this osntury, and onoe
inern understand that instead of preaching t
to&rty dom of or God forty years and taking into Hie king¬
a few hundred souls, right before
them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, an d
tori life Smid David La who ^tt^otogetic* 8 ^ just wu
t came up as
n armies were set in array and
bv left his carriage and shouted I
tor the battle and cried: “Who is this this un- J
_ '
*&*-.**&**; gravel the bragging stones ten skillfullv footer, flues' his u : ith e L Ji-awlinw into the
dsu* his .
aim heels into the air.
tion tty could friends, what but such a consumma
be a fit climax to this century?
Vou notice a tendency in history and aU ;
about us to a climax. The creation week ris
Wg from herbs to fish and from fish to bird
.1 aitament rising Matthew from quiet genealo
P*1 table in to whaTcau apocalyptic |
^appropriate dotology in Revelation. Now, be
M Ewsasssasssssas.’s climax to this century, which <
steam electric plow,and light and the revolution of the first !
arlthe the law of storms was AmericaS written,
American Bible society and
Tibet audience society laughing were bom: and instead of an
down Dr. Carey for advo
cafcng foreign missions, as was done at North
witoton in England in the last century, now
aK,denominations vying with each other as to
who shall go the furtherest and the soonest
Auto the darkest of the New Hebrides;
and three hundred thousand souls have
be«t» Hltads, ^ bom and to God in the South Sea
%Talayan Micronesia mid Melanesia and
crotvn of Christ, Polynesia and have David been Livingstone set in the
unyeiled Africa and the has 1
barbaric last bolted gate of
nations has swung wide open to let
thfGospelin. interrogation points What, uplifted, I ask, with a thousand
can be a tit, an
*S Anpropriate , stei'o»b.do and sufficient climax except it be
pared for it, m i,„ s , l p,
because the whole air and the
tfejsy whole not heaven oil la full of willing help. “Are
W* ministering spirits sent forth!'’'
make an awful mistake if we calculate
vtofthtiest only on the forces we can see The
army Is in the air My breth
into our work here that we are hindered.
But the mighty souls that have gone leftP ut> to
the flying armies of the sky have aU
imperfection behind: and these souls are
make me believe that after toiling
here for long years for the redtsmp
tion of the world until from exhaustion soma
of them fell intotkeir graves they have ceased
their interest in tho stupendous conflict now
r iging, or that they are going to decline 1 their
ssts?sss^ss^^ but no w gtorifledTn h«iven,°have you forgot
loving Then voice down and and your help. matchless pen? Not
Have come Alexander Duff 1
whose you salvation forgotten the millions Hindoo of India for
you suffered in jun
S&, prayed l until you wuld delirious preach
of the Swamp? yin g down Not Then, amid the miasmas
come down and
help. Have Mouerieff forgotten and Freeman and Campbell! dawn
you Lucknow and
pore? No! Then come down and help. I
rub out of my eyes the stupidity and unbe
fief, in the and Gospel, I, the servant the of these great Elishas
see mountains all round
about are full of horses of fire and chariots of
ers j clouds of apostles in the air led
^ iLphen'i^CtoulT^ete 6 if thl
cient warriors in the air led on by Joshua,
and tbat Bible warrior at whose prayei*s as
tronomy once halted over Ajalon ana Gibeon
seemsnowtoliftonehandtowardthedescend
ing sun of this century, and the other hand
toward the moon of the last decade, saying:
“ Stand thou still till the church of gate
the Thenlet final victory!”
us take what remains of this do
Nineteenth cade to get ready for the You final and decade I of the
that century. decade may to not
live, t<> see that slppl or tony Kinder not live see
its elose, put not possibility. me from
declaring that the tfie mistake niqgmttwi'.t of has Icon
fess did my life could' not
that I not work hard—for I not
have worked harder and lived, as God
knows worked and my under family the realization know—but that that the I have sal-.
not
vation But whether of this world sea it, was the a nearby beginning possibility, or the
we
closing if only that of that decade decade, w get of the no importance, coronation,
can
mid this them enthroned all decades shall kneel before
centuries decade, and even the
gray grown will oast their,
it and it trill be the most bon*
wed decade between the time when the
morning stars sang together as the libretto
of worlds was opened and the time when the
nughty angei, Khali, roteed hl cloud mid garlanded the
to and rainbow, the other the with land, one foot by on Hun that sea
on swear
Uvefn forever and ever, that time shall be no
tottiHT. Aafeh uial Amen I .„-.-_5*,--
Secret Hiding Places.
One of the most interesting features
2 g °” P srvr^ii* y *= l £i
contrived with much architectural skill,
and in days gone by baffled discovery
from the most observant and expen
enced eye. In certain cases it wbuld
appear hiding that, for some reason or other,
the place has been specially kept
mentioned Thn‘r*s»M£ Neijherall, Mary port, fl £
Cnmberland, spat pear
ol the old family
known to two persons—the P^tirCng lieir-xn-law only
the “ , Ac»^ secret of l the to"h hidden C . i ‘^p*kr taction.
room has never
revealed to more than two liv
■ mg persons at a time. This, my steri
ous room has no_wyidow> and, despite
every pffoyt |q ditajovor it, has, it is said,
defied the ingenuity of every visitor
. rtfyihS % the hon«e. With thia secret
, tyd Which has ***&** not Jed to room.-£*W tho identifica
’ J ml
•___j__
Ӵbmdft has to his workshopat Orange, N.
mind may be practical aud mathematical, it
ilso has its sentimental side. There are few
men who grow flowers to their workshops.
Vol. IX. New Series. NO. 14 .
THE MAORIS.
Garb and Customes of the New
Zeland Aborigines.
Primitive Abodes, Military
Equipments, Etc.
-
A . " aon salutation , .. consists .. the .. rub- .
in
bing or pressing of noses, which is the
etiquette ..... of welcome , in . that island. , The
^ ■»». —ml
consists of one large room, destitute of
furnitur lurnlturo . px exce „ pnt I )t mats « nlthn] although . ~ Euro- rn
P eaas sometimes make a gift of a table
»■**. T i»
of ldols . sometimes carved in the wood
of the house lumse itself itself, ami and starimr stanug hidem,s hideous
lj at the people or at each other in a
^ a y^° give the impression . . of , a set . of ,
occupants besides the human ones. The
■ houses usually „ little than , huts
are more
or hovels, made of rushes, or
perhaps of stalks of the toi, bound
tightly with fibres, and roofed with
grasses. This roof, carried out in
front of the hut, give, a sheltered en¬
trance. The door is low, often with a
small window at the side. Th*e fire is
»-a •»*%. ** »■<
the plaintof infants go on together; but
n,„ the more luxurious 1 , houses have a separ
ate cooking hut. The mats are import- \
ant . features, since much , sleeping , . . done
is
ture * The men, usually stout, are tat
tiinod td0ed nil ntror ° u„f but xv thc ir . _. womtn A1 . 1n „ onl y m •
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the lower part of the face. The Maori
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fashion, ’ but in the towui some have nc
quned . , tbo improvements . of their ^ Euro
pean ’ sisters tel ’ with H kid Kid gloves cloves and and boots boots
and , gowns that trail. Those who goto
church arc especially startling in their
o, "“™
ng3. _ The v Maoris arc, on thc whole, a
race with many J fine qualities, 1 ’ bright. ®
affectionate, ~ .. . good-humored, , , grateful,
rr- lte -
*n
dustry or persistency. Of course with their
proverbial I ,roverblaI lmnestv honesty tw they vetW yet have some »e,„e
thieves, and with their‘usual gentleness
ttic y , nave the ,. insolent and . menacing,
These need to be met with perfect 11 cour- cour
and imperturbability, . for they
age con
siderauger a sign of a weak character.
They are not an ill-looking race beneath
their tattoo, the women usually having
f rr. and a 1>rofU3ion of tangled
black hair,
The Maoris navigate their canoes by
paddling instead of rowing. They use
a paddle with a long diamond-shaped
blade. The banks of the rivers ate often
girt with acacias and willows, and
canoes abound on them. One part of
the military equipment of a Maori war¬
rior which formerly struck strangers was
tho war trumpet, fully six feet long, and
so skilfully constructed as to be heard
for miles.
In tho Maori mythology tho gods are
children of Rangi and Papa (Heaven and
Earth), who created all things. Of
course there are malignant gods who
must be appeased. The great religious
power is tapu, or that of making things
sacred by the touch of the chief; aud as
records of what has thu3 been made sa¬
cred are not kept, the consequences are
sometimes serious for unintentional vio¬
lators of it. Miss Butler, the author of
a volume on the Maoris, says that when
the story of the Prodigal Bon was told
to Some Maori girls the part which
touched them most was that when the
p- “ “ ■— ■»««*
tea® gave unto him. “Sev
eral of the girls cried, and there
_ were dee j P 8, . ® , bs snd - note3 . of , dlsa ,. P
probation, ” truly characteristic of the
hospitablo Maori nature. The Maoris
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and illustration, and an old woman crit
icising the length of a sermon said:
„ My calaba8h is full . Why give me
«y u 7? nly ru n 7 er ”
Yet, with all their . affection and . frank- fc
Mjo,i ckilto. UW
Butler to no idea of obedience.
Tho habies are carried slung on the
backs of the mothers in shawls, like t8e
pappeeaos ___ °f , our T Indians. Tho women
have their ears pierced for wearing or
naments, of which the shark’s tooth is a
ness not found among their civilized
sisters, have been known to utilize the
hole in the ear by sticking into it a to
tacco P*l“* *» 89 t0 it ready for
Twenty-five per cent, of those who
rob and steal are detected.
The Luscious Banana*
Ordinarily in this country bananas are
eaten raw, but in the tropical countries,
while the natives eat them in like
fashion, a more delicate, and, it is said,
a more healthful mode of eating them is
in vogue. The soft, ripe fruit, beaten
to a cream, with a sufficiency of Amon¬
tillado sherry, forms a very delightful
appetizer and is the favorite way of eat¬
ing the banana in certain parts of the
West Indies and on the Africau coast.
Taken in moderation on first rising in
the morning bananas are said to be pre¬
servative of health, and in this respect
are in marked contrast with other tropi¬
cal fruits which are detrimental, rather
than otherwise, to continued good
health. An intoxicating drink is made
from the banana, and on account of its
astringent properties is of considerable
medicinal value. In Africa, and proba¬
bly in other places also, the banana, and
the kindred tree, the plantain, are in a
very large measure the sole dependence
for tho food supply of the natives.
Thc banana, when ripe, contains 74
per cent, water; of the twenty-six re¬
maining parts twenty are sugar and two
glutton, or flesh-forming substanoe. It
is not in itself a perfect food, \mt re¬
quires the addition of some more nitro¬
genous material, as lean meat.
Thc pulp of the. banana, but more
often of the plantain, is oftimes gqueedIR
through a sieve and formed into loaves,
which, when ripe, will keep a very long
time. In the dried state it has a resem¬
blance to bread, both in taste and com¬
position, but the ripened pulp is saccha¬
rine, and not farinaceous.
The fruit, however, of the banana, is
the least valuable part of the tree. The
fiber, which in some countries is permit¬
ted to go to waste, is of value. Through¬
out Central America and the continent
0 f Africa it is used, with only the prop
fishing nets. The threads are of silky
fineness, and it was thought ..... that as an
article of commerce it would TZZ nav to im
® ot v-v
S ion of tome of the fiber,.wove a quanti
t J „ of handkerchiefs “anakcrchiefs from Lom il it that that for for del del
icacy of finish and strength were unex¬
celled. With a silky sheen and remark¬
ably fine web, such articles would have
obtained a ready market, but it was
found that the mode of obtaining the fiber
by the natives was too slow, and untif
some machine was invented to strip the
fiber quickly the small quantity would
bo of no use.
At Panama the rarest and most delio
ious of the banana species has its home.
Small and ruddy in color, it is known
vulgarly as the thumb banana, and on
account of its delicate flavor is much
prized even there. It does not bear
transportation well, although it may
often be found in the markets of Chica¬
go and New York. Crossing the Isth¬
mus by the lino that connects Panama
with Aspinwall, the natives at the vil¬
lages along the route make a habit ol
coming to the train decked in primitive
fashion, with garlnnds of flowers around
their necks and flowers in their hair, and
disposing of fruit. Here the thumb
banana may be eaten in its perfection.—
Alta Californian .
Market Value of Some Reptiles.
A Bt. Louis dealer fn curiosities says
that such things as tarantulas, centi¬
pedes, and Gila monsters have a market
value and are quoted regularly by curi¬
osity dealers. People collect everything,
and there is always a demand for these
reptiles. A good specimen of the taran¬
tula or centipede, alive or mounted,
brings $1. Live specimens are sent in
boxes only by express, as they are not
allowed to go by mail. What is more
surprising is the sole that exists for Gila
monsters. Zoological gardens want
them, of course, but there are private
parties who alsd order them. Pine
specimens bring from |5 to $10. They
come from Arizona, where the Indiana
collect them for thc dealers. This is the
most repulsive-looking reptile to be
found in any part of the world."
Cheering a Precocious Invalid.
“Charles Egbert Craddock V' early
invalidism compelled her to lead a quiet
indoor life. “I couldn’t engage in the
sports of the other children,” says the
distinguished novelist, “and sometimes
I was so disappointed and uneasy that
my mother used to find it neces ary to
comfort mo. One of her favorite meth¬
ods was to say, ‘Never mind, my dear,
if you can’t do as the others do, you can
do one'thing which they can’t .do; you
can spell Popocatepetl; and they can’t.’ ”
