North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891, May 09, 1889, Image 1
3** 'Jjfi GEORGIA NORTH TIMES. «. a uIrTKB, ! ftoprutve*. 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__ ”¥bmdft 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 • ’ the lower part of the face. The Maori «»«* —»»»««■!» *™»..«» 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 «***, «*■ <» ^ 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.’ ”