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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “A Poisoned Dinner.”
Text: "So' they poured out for the men
to eat. And it came to pass, as they were
eating of the pottage, that they erted out,
and said: O thou man of God, there is
death in {> pot. And they could not eat
thereof —II Kings iv.. 40 .
Elisha had gone down to lecture to the sta¬
tute in the theological seminary lit Gilgal.
He found the students very hungry, as stu¬
dents are apt to be. It is very seldom the
world mates targe provisions for those who
give themselves to intellectual toil. In order
that tiioso students may be prepared to hear
He what Elisha says, he first feeds then* hunger.
knew very well it Is useless to talk, to
jprea'oh. So Elisha, to lecture with hungry men.
principle which recognizing Christian tins common sonso
cognize, sends every out to get ought food to re¬
servants for
these hungry students. They pick np some
good, healthful herbs, but they liappon to
pick up deathful also some coloquintida, a bitter poi¬
sonous, herb. They bring a’d those
herbs, stir they put them into the boiling pot,
they of this food them up, and then a portion
dents and their is professors. brought to Seated tho stu¬
the table, at
one of the hungry students begins
immediately hold of of to eat, and he happens to get
some the coloquintida. He knew
it by the taste. He cries out: “Poison,
poison tho I ” Q thou man of God, there is death to
whole pot! Consternation is thrown over tho
group. What a fortunate thingit was
that this student so early found tho colo
qmntida will by in the mixture at the table! You
reference find this story Is precisely as
I have mentioned it.
of Well, and to our day there are great caldrons
sin death. Coloquintida of mighty
temptation and is pressed into it. Some dip it
dip out, it out, taste, and reject it and live. Others
the taste it, keep on and die. Audit
is business of every minister of religion,
and every man who wishes well to tho
human race, and who wants to keep the
world back from its follies and its sufferings,
to cry out: “Beware! poison, poison! Look
out for this caldron! Stand back! Beware!”
Km has done an awful work in our world.
It has gone out through all the ages, it has
to 1 *™ Up a groat caldron of trouble and
suffering; poisoned—poisoned and pain, and the whole race is
intod, in body, poisoned to
poisoned in soul. But blessed be God
that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the
antidote, be and where there was siu there shall
there pardon, shall and where there was suffering
be comfort, and where there wae
death there shall be life.
Sometime ago, you will remember, I per¬
suaded you of the importance of being chari¬
table in judgment of others. At the same
tune I said to you briefly what this morning
I wish to say with great emphasis, that while
we sympathize the with tho sinner wo must de¬
nounce sin, that be while we pity tho unfor
”"«ust vehement against trans
fcmfe a jagged tiling that needs to ;
garland !\ I gwy it handled. You have no right to
with fine phrases or lustrous
rhetoric. You-cannot catch a buffalo with a
silken lasso.
A group of emigrants settle to a wild region,
The next day a wild boast comes down from
the mountain and carries off 0110 of tho chil
• oren. The next day a wild beast comes down
from the mountain and carries off another
child. Forthwith all the neighbors band to
gethor, hand and they go out with torch in one
and gun to the other to hunt theso mon
store light down, to find their hiding ptaco, to
up and ransack the caverns, and
to destroy tho invaders of their houses.
So we want now not merely to talk about the
sins and follies of the world, we want to go
behind them, back of them. Down into the
caverns where they hide we need to go with
the torch of G od’s Word to one hand and the
word of God’s eternal Spirit in tho other to
hunt out and stay these iniquities in their
Muing places. Ur, to como back to tho fig¬
ure what suggested the by my text, wo want to find
are caldrons of sin and death from
which the iniquities of society are dipped
out.
I. In tho first place, I remark: that un¬
•caldrons happy and undisciplined homes are the
ot great iniquity.
Parents harsh and eruel on the one hand,
or on the other hand loose to their govern¬
ment, raising wickedly loose to their government,
■are home where up scolding a generation of vipers. A
and fretful ness are
•dominant is blood relation to the gallows and
the penitentiary 1 Petulance is a serpent
that crawls np into the family nursery
somotimes and crushes everything. Why,
there are parents who even' make religion
disgusting them for to their children. They scold
exasperating not loving of Christ. their They have an
house is full of way the doing duty. The
and war whoop of contention,
from such a place husband and sons go
out to die.
into Oh, the is there a Hagar leading away Ishmael
desort to be smitten of the tliirst and
parched fell of the sand? In the solemn birth hour
a voice to thee from the throne of God,
say tag: “Take this child and nurse It for me,
and I will give tfceo thy wages.” At even even
angels , of . God hover _ that
do over
a, ot Jesus? they hear the children lisping tho
name O traveler for eternity, your
Htae ones gathered under vour robes, are you
leading taking them theux on the right the road, or are you
out on dangerous wind
experienced tog t>ridle feet path, off Which their in¬
the howling may of slip, the wolf and up and which
comes the
sound of loosened ledge and tumbling
avalanche? Blessed Is the family altar at
which the children kneel. Blessed is the
cradle m which the Christian mother rock*
the Christian child. Blessed is the song the
little ones sing at nightfall when sleep is
closing the toy tho the oyes pillow. and loosening Blessed tho is that hand mother from
on
Whose evory heart-throb is a prayer for her
children’s welfare.
The world grows old, and the stars wiT.
cease to illuminate it, end tho waters to re¬
fresh it,and the mountains to guard it, and the
heavens to overspan it, and its long story of
siu and shame and glory and triumph will
soon turn to ashes; but influences that started
all in the eternity—blooming early home roll on nnd all the roll up waving through
all tho triumph, exulting to to all joy, the in
song, or
shrinking back into all the darkness. Fath¬
er, children mother, t which way are you leading your
A houso took fire and the owner was very
careful to get all his furniture out. Ho got
all his books out and he got all liis
pictures out, and he lie got all ms valuable
papers out, but forgot to ask, until it was
too late: “Are my children safe?” Oh,
when the earth shall melt with fervent heat,
and the mountains shall blaze, and the sens
shall children blaze, and the earth Will shall blaze, children will
vour your ctn: be safe? your
be be safe? safe? Unhappy and undisciplined homes
are are the the source source or much of the wretchedness
and sin of the world.
I know bright bright there and and are exceptions beautiful beautiful Christian Christian to it sometimes. home homo
From From a a
a a husband husband or or a a son son will will go go out out to to die. die. Oh, Oh,
how long you had that boy to your prayers !
He dees not know how many sleepless nights
JSSSWIS? his waywardness. Oh, SS. it i* hard, after K
you
SPRING PLACE, GA„ THURSD JUNE 6, 1889.
have toiled for a child, and given him ever,
advantage and every in kindness, ingratitude) to have him
pay yon back As
one Sabbath taOKjtog a father came
to the foot of the pulpit as I stepped out of it.,
and said: “0 in son, my son, son!”
There is many a young man pro bis
mother, who would strike into the dust any
man who kithself, would insult her, who is at this mo¬
ment by his evil doing and his bad
habits, that) mother’s sharpening heart. a dagger A to plunge through
htox from ai Ho went bloated telegram and brought scarred
ar.
into the room and he stood by' the lifeless
form of his mother.
Her hair gray; it had turned gray in sor¬
row. Those eyes had wept floods of tears
over had dolie his wandering. him That kindness still white hand
many a and had writ¬
ten many a loving invitation and good coun¬
sel. He had broken her old heart. Ho. came
into the room and threw himself on the casket
and he sobbed outright: “Mother, mother 1 ”
but those lips that had kissed him in infancy
and uttered so many kind words spoke not;
they were sealed, Rather than have such a
memory conic on my sou), I would prefer to
have roil over on me the Alps and the Hima¬
layas. But, while sometimes there who
are sons
turn out very badly, coming from good
homes, it I is want to tell exception. you for your encourage¬
ment a great Yet an unhap¬
py and undisciplined homo is the poisonous
caldron from which a vast multitude drinl:
their death.
H. X remark that another caldron of in¬
iquity is an indolent lifo, Ail the rail trains
down the Hudson River yesterday, all the
rail trains on the Pennsylvania route, all tuo
trains on the Long Island road brought to
these cities young men to begin com¬
mercial life. Some of them are hero
this morning, 1 doubt not. Do you know
what one of your great temptations is
going people to to be? It is the example of indolent
our cities. They are to all our
cities. They dress better than some who are
industrious. They have access to oil places
of amusement—plenty of money, and yet
idle. They lmng around our great hotels—
the Fifth Avenue, tho Windsor, the
Brunswick, House—all the Stay vesant, hotels, tha Giisey
our beautiful you find
them around there any day—men who do
nothing, dressed, having never oam anything, should yet well
Why should plenty, work? Why why drudge I walk?
you and toil
in bank and shop and office, or on the scaf¬
folding, along or well by and the do anvil, Hot work? when these men get
so
Some of them hang toothpick around In the city halls of
our waiting great for cities, crumb to fall their from mouth, tho
some
office holder’s table. Some of them hang
around the city hall for tho city van bring¬
ing criminals from the station houses. They
the stand disgrace there and and gloat suffering over it—really of these enjoy
they get out of the city poor and
creatures as van
go into tho courts.
Where do they get their money? That is
what you ask. That is Whitt; I ask; Only
four ways of getting money—only four: by
stealing inheritance, by earning it, by vast begging multitude it, by
it; and there them are living a by in¬
among us who get not
heritance, it. I do not or like by earning to take the it, responsibility nor by begging of
saying Now, how these they men get areij it! constant temptation.
A young man, through the intercession of
metropolitan friends, gets a place in a bank
or store. He is going to leave his country
home, That morning they are tip (early to
the old homestead. The trunk is on the
wagon. Mother says: “My son, I put a
Bible to the trunk, I hope you will-read it
often,” She wipes tie the tears away with her
aprea. “Oh,” says, “come, don’t you tie
worried, self. Don’t I know how to take me.” care of my¬
be worried about The fa¬
ther says: “My son, be a good boy and
write home often, your mother will be anx¬
ious to hear from' you.” Crack! goes the
whip, Five and over have the passed lulls goes and the dissipated wagon.
life has years done its for on, that a
work young man.
There is a hearse coming up to front of tho
old homestead. The young men of the neigh¬
borhood who have stayed on the farm
come to and say: “ Is it possible ? Why, he
doesn’t look natural, does ho ? Is that the
fair brow we used to know ? Is that the
healthy cheek we Used to know ? It can’t be
looking possible that is him.” The parents stand
at the gash in the forehead from
which tho life oozed out, and they lift their
hands and say: “ Oh, my son, Absalom, my
son, my son Absalom; would God that I had
died for thee, oh Absalom, my son, my son!”
I .orenzo de Medici was very sick, and some
of his superstitious friends thought if they
could dissolve a certain number of pearls to a
cup and then he would drink them it would
euro around him and of they the gathered disease. So all tho they beauti¬ went
ful pearls they coulil find, up and they dis¬
solved them In a cup, and the sick
pensive man drank draught. tjjom. But I Oh,' tell it was of an ex¬
you a more ex¬
pensive draught than that. Drunkenness puts
mto pearl its of cup domestic the pearl happiness, of physical the pearl health, of
re¬
spectability, the pearl of Christian hope,
pearl tho of hot an everlasting lips. hear an, and
it to
I toll vou the djam shop is the gate
boll, liio trouble is they do not put up the
strong drink is sold. One is
the “restaurant,” and another is
the “saloon” and another is railed
J’iW ” a^ another'is
room” Whataname to give r ono of
places! A “sample room r I saw a man on
the steps of one of those ‘‘sample ropms”
other day, dead drunk. I said to myself:
BamP y0 “
respects, indKtTmy'toSuy,’ I and I have
am very generous,
grand and generous a moral nature to
overthrown to that way.” Let me say
har.e P t“g ^ 0
tion, the the fattest brightest lambs prospects. for its This
ehooscs sacrifice.
brightest hand of dnmkonness garlands are torn by off this the brow of
fish *CWs^H^od^'er^Shfri^thf orator, Edgar A. Poe,
answer!
Junius Brutus Booth, answer!
Oh, como and look ovor it whito I draw
ranT^teftog, 8 ^ “^
d^&%^’m^ P eII 0
passions. of
appetites and There are
—might I not say thousands?—-of young
to 8 KTS this house this lEWriSUS morning-young ‘ 5 men
tempted. Perhaps you may this
moot be addressed on the first
of your coming to the great city, and I
you this brotherly counsel. I spoak not to
perfunctory nay. I speak as an older
talks to a younger brother. I put my
on your shoulder this day and commend
to Jesus Christ, who himself was a young
rnd died while yet a young man, and
sym pathy for all God, young men. Oh, appetites bo
by the grace of of your
passions I 4. . . .
eptakevs and are they vo-y^pt generally to close rollup with a
tlon, to what they have some to say.
imagery doso witli express peroration miglitier than
a
SKTi 1 ' £7 bath
woo? who hath babbling? who
without cause? They titottarf^ to^ a^^toe
not upon ^tho mne when it is red. when the it
movoth itself aright S in the cup, for at
last it biteth Uke serpent and sttogeth like
an adder.” This is the other quotation.
Make up your mind as to which is th e more
impressive. I think the last is tho
mightier: “Rejoice, O young man, in thy
youth, and let thv heart cheer thee In tl»
days of thy youth, and walk thou to the
sight of thiue own eyes; God but know thou that
for all these things will bring thee into
judgment.”
the Why bank, should I tho toil ofle&or and wear the myself store, out or the In
or
shop, or the factory? These men have noth¬
ing to do. They get along a great deal bet¬
which ter. And that is the temptation fall. under They
begin to a great many with young these men these idlers,
consort men,
an:l Tho number they go down the to same cities awful who steeps.
of men our are
trying to get their living by their wits and
K y sleight of hand is all the time increasing.
A New York merchant saw a young man,
we of his clerks, in half disguise, going into
1 very low place of amusement. Tho mer¬
chant said to himself : “ I must look out for
that clerk; he is going in bad company and
going A few to months bad placas; passed I on,and must look out morning for him.” the
one
merchant entered his store, and this clerk of
whom I have been speaking came up
in assumed consternation and said: “Oh.
sir, the store has beou on firs; I have put out
the fire, out there are a great many goods
t:rt: we liavo had a trreat crowd of neocle
coming and going." Then tne merenans
took tho clerk by the collar and said: “I
have had enough of this; you cannot deceive
me; where are those goods you stole?” The
young man instantly confessed his villainy.
O tho numbers of people in these great cities
who are trying to get their living not honestly!
And they are a mighty temptation to the in¬
dustrious young man who cannot understand
it. While those others have it so easy they
have it so hard. Horatius of olden time was
told that he could have just as much ground as
*»e could plow around with a yoke of oxen in
one day, He hooked Up the oxen to plowed the pi ow
and he cut a very large circle and 1 un
til tie camotothesamo point where liostartod,
and all that property was his. Butlhavototell
you to-day that just so much financial, just
so much moral,' just so much spiritual pos¬
session you will have as you compass with
your from the own morptog industries, of and lire just the so much as
your to evening
of your life you can plow wound with your
own hard work. “Go to the ant, thou slug¬
gard; consider her caldrons ways and be wise.” Onu
of the most awful of death to-day is
on indolent life. Thank God that you have
to work.
III. Once more I remark: that the dram
shop is a great caldron of iniquity in our
time. Anachavsis said that the vtoa boro
three grapes: the first was Pleasure, <the next
large revenue to the government, >...
support your schools and your great institu¬
tions of mercy.” And then I think of what
William E. Gladstone said—I think it was
the first time he xvas chancellor of tlie ex¬
chequer—'when traffic came to men htos engaged and said to theii*' tho/X’utoous business
ought to have more consideration from the
fact that it paid sneh a largo revenue to the
English “Gentlemen, government, Mr. Gladstone said:
the don’t‘worry yourselves millions about
SA revenue; ad give me thirty 10USb c£ sober
' v 8 reY0UWi “
.” — 1 -
Wo might in this country—this traffic pm-
ished—have lass revenue, but wo would have
mo re happy homes, would and have wo would fewer have people more to
peace, and we
the penitentiary, and there would be tens of
thousands of men who are now on the road
to hell who would start on tho road to heaven.
But tho financial ruin is a very small
part of it. This iniquity of which I speak
takes overythtog that is sacred out of
the family, everything that is holy
-soul in religion, and tramples everything it that under is infinite foot, in Tho tho
marriage day has come. Tho twain
ire at the Gay altar. feet Lights flash. and Music down
tlie muncs. drawing-room. Did go up vessel launch
ever a on
changes, such a bright Dingy and beautiful No sea? firo. The On scene
broken chair sorrowful garret. wife. Last hope a
a
gone. 810 Poor, forsaken, trodden of being under drunkards foot,
knows all tho sorrow a
was Drunkenness, and the next Misery.
Every saloon above ground or under ground
is a fountain of iniquity. It may nave a
license for while, and it but may after go along while quite the respectably cover will
a a
fall off and the color of the iniquity will be
displayed. “Ob,” “you ought to be
easier says such some traflto one, when it such
on a oavs a
wife. “Oh,” she' says, "ho waS tho kindest
man that over lived, ho made was no noble, he was
p-vgecd! God never did n eranoev the drink m.-rn
than he was, but the ditok she it, will
.lid it l” Some day press
her hands against her temples and cry: “Oh,
my brain, my brain!” or she will go out 011
tho abutment of the bridge tho some glassy moonlight
night and look down on surface
and wonder if under that glassy surface there
is not some rostfor a broken heart.
Tho Gills of the*Fish.
__
Lift up thegill covers and under them
will bo seen a soft, dark-red mass, not
unlike a slice of raw liver. This is a
p8r fc 0 f the gills. Leavo them for the
P resent ani °P. en mouth To all
appearances it is rat-lier a smaii mouth
m proportion to tho size of the fish.
Nothing worthy of notice will be seen
at first, the only objects within the
mou ' h b f “8 tongue which is quite
projections arranged in “successive rows
and teeth. looking this like time long the and water very will slender have
By much discolored and bo
Looome must
clran^ed, tiuuully a slight dark-red beneath stream the eon- gill
oozing from
covers. Before placing the fish in fresh
water take it to a lap and allow a
3 tream of water to flow into its mouth
an d out at t{«® S d \ covers. How is this?
puling, The , scarlet lino of the head is disappears rapidly
and in a few minutes
altogether. It does not belong to tho
Cl. th™ °norm“i
color of tho herring’s head. The living
fish is of a pure silvery white, ns I linve
often had the opportunity of seeing,
The red hue only B \, ows ltse lf after the
«* •■■■'»“ r™* 9 ~S*S
au “. 18 ^ UQ extrayasated blood,
Again look under the gill covers. The
gil]s j to axe be there, blit so altered dark, as scarce- red
y which recognized as the
masses were seen before. They
j, ! ,ave lost 1085 all a1 ' their * n ® ir color °° lor ’ the ln ® water ater hav- na
washed the blood out , of ,, them, and .
mg pale they
are now gray. Moreover,
are composed evidently of several not solid layers, masses, eaoh but layer are
being formed of a vast numlier of deli
cate^ plates, leaflets, or laminae. Long
man s Magaiine.
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' ' '
RUflAN ■W- ' POLICE.
-
The Despotic Peace Guardians
of the White Czar. *
Under Surveillance from the
Cradle to the Grave.
From GcOrge Keqnan’s article in the
Century we%uote the following.; “There
is probably no country in the world
where the public power occupies a wider
field, plays a more important part, or
touches th^private personal life of ihe
citizen at mbre points than it does in
Russia. In a country like England
or the Uaifckl States*! where the people
are the governing pdwer, the functions
of tho police are simple and clearly de¬
fined, and lire limited, for the most part,
to tho prevention dr the detection of
crime, and the maintenance of ordor in
public places. In Russia, however,
where the poo pie are not the governing
•power, but hold to that power the rela¬
tion of an infant ward to a guardian,
the police occupy a very different and
much more Important position.
“The theory upon which the Govern¬
ment of Russia proceeds is, that tho cit¬
izen not^only is incapable of taking part
in the manarremant of the affairs of his
country, hifproyiaco, or his district, but
is incompetent to manage even th 3 af¬
fairs of his-own household; and that,
from the time #hea ho leaves his cradle
and begins the struggle of life down to
the time wltap Ms weary gray head is
finally laid under tho seal, he must be
guided, directed, instructed, restrained,
repressed, regulated, fenced in, fenced
out, braced up, kept down, and made to
do generally what somebody else thinks
is best far hffu. The nat ural outcome of
this paternal theory of government
the concentration of ai linisti
authority in. the hands
‘
officials, lufes an eaormt
the Matters
o! to ‘the
of
Russia by . 1 ! ir of the Interior
through tho imperial police, If
you ate a Russian, and wish to
establish a newspaper, you must ask the
permission of tho Minister of tho Inte¬
rior. If you wish to open a Sunday
school, or any other sort of school,
whether in a neglected slum of St.
Petersburg or in a native village in
Kamchatka, you mifet ask the permis¬
sion of the Minister of Public Instruc
tion. If you wish to give a concert of
to get up tableaux for the benefit of an
orphan asylum, you must ask permission
of tho nearest representative of the
Minister of the Interior, then submit
your programme of exercises to a censor
for approval or revision, and finally
hand over the proceeds of the entertain¬
ment to the police, (0 be embezzled or
given to the orphan asylum, as
jt may liappon. If you wish
to sell newspapers on the street, you
must get 0 permission, 1 ’ be registered ° in the
books of the police, and wear a num
bered brasi plate as big as a saucer
around your neck. If you wish to open
a drug store, a printing office, a photo¬
graph gallery, or a book store, you must
1 gel permission. If plioto
you are a
ra P , her and , desire , . to , change , the ,, loca
&
tion of your place of business, you must
get permission. If you are a student
, to public ... ^.horary to consult
ana go a
! Lyell’s “Principles of Geology’’ orSpen
'
cer , g . Social StatioJ| » you wiu fiad that
you cannot even look at such dangerous
_ arid incendiary volumes, without special
,
pl rwrm lesion \ if y° u are a physic.an, you
must get permission , before ydu can prac
txce, and then, if you do not wish to re
spond to calls in the night, you mu3t
have permission to refuse to go; fur
thermore if you wish to prescribe what
aro known in Russia as “pawer
fully acting medicines, you must have
^ ^are V™™™' to flU your 0r prescriptions. the wil1 If
’ y° u are a peasant and wish to build a
bath-house on your premise3, you mud
U „ you „„„ wish • . to . tUre.h ...
out your grain in the evening by candle¬
light, you must get permission or bribe
the police. If you wish to go more than
fifteen miles away from your home, you
must get permission. If you are n
foreign traveller you must get permis¬
sion to come into the Empire, permis¬
sion to go out of it, permission to stay
in it longer than six months, and must
notify the police every time you change
your boarding-place. In short, you
cannot live, move, or have your being
in the Russian Empire without permis¬
sion.
Vol. IX. New Series. NO. 18.
• ‘ The Law as to Party Walls. •-.
S ftxty waH*ta tear iFthe wall divld
ing lands of different' proprietors, used
' a for the support of structures
on t«t^ sides. At common law an
owner who erects for his own
buildings which ^OOipie of being used
by an adjoining proprietor, cannot com¬
pel such proprietor, when he shall build
next to it, to pay for any portion of the
cost of sixth wall. .On the other land,
the adjoi^tg proprictoiyhas no right to
make any use of such wnH without con¬
stant of tiie owner, and. this consequence
maybe the erection of two walls side by
side, when-one * oultT-answer all pur¬
poses. jgj § XC^us
' 1 W - Often Wburad by
an a .o^h« v ' f:/p-«ach credji' J irniWor laid, coin
mon use, 1 other’s
the parties to fixvxae the expense. If
only one is to Mira At the time, he gets
a return frbjn .-'tiio other party of half
what it -coste-> him. Under such an
agreement each has Sn easement in the
land and this of the aimligalSSijesYt'hp o^i^iyehite the title walls in stand, sales
and descent. if, the wall is de
stioyed by deeay dr accident, the ease¬
ment is such eontingeofey is
provided for by a deed. mt
equally; Repairs butf id ^ ' |iilisareto lias occasion bo horns*' to
strengthen or improve them for a more
extensive bul 7 J at’ffrst pontem
plated, he cat "del thfftolher to
divide the cxi HU. In some
tho
rights iu paity waU Wk uni one By' may un
doubtedly acquire, - prescrip
tion, on a WatraHw % another, which :
he has loqg.been allowed to use for the
support of his own stj-ucturo. —Building
Newt.
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Happy Poverty of th esc.
It is a question lS »t whether
te Japanese pr are- not tlul on
less .. < s| t^a :
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winter the
poor cold, hnag.ry. aad dir
in theiri I Sta poor of this coun
can be nsttaalv clean in their
jflopr jrad a few dish
dn|^n. use. Plain,
charcoal brazier,.iaT^Ra
them and much cheaper n the real
articles in England. Instead of splash¬
ing through raiu and mud to their la¬
bors barefooted or in leather shoes and
suffering from cold and wet without
fire, the Japanese walks on
wooden sandals, removed from
the ground several inches by
slats on the solos, and is able to eater
the house with dry feet, and never hav¬
ing known any other way than the art of
sitting on them to keep warm, is soon
comfortable. The rice straw and oiled
paper make rain cloaks and Umbrellas,
and a Japanese must be very poor indeed
who cannot avail himself of the luxury
of an occasional hot bath.
Every street corner has a bath house,
where every evening the water in the
great tubs is heated to nenrly boiling
heat, and for loss than a cent nn indi¬
vidual can avail himself of it,as the same
water does for the evening, bo there
dozens or scores of bathers .—Mail and
Express.
A Country of Small Things.
Japan, says Mr. Frank G. Carpenter,
is a country of the little. “Tho men
here are from five feet to five feet five
inches high, and the women aro smaller.
Notwithstanding the fact that they raise
themselves three inches off the ground
on their wooden sandals, I am continu¬
ally looking down at them, and a fair
sized American girl towers above them
like au Amazon. Japanese trees are
dwarfed, and, in fact, all nature seems
to bo made on tho six by nine plan.
The chickens are nearly all bantams, and
the cats, with thoir bobtails, look like
kittens compared with our American
tommies, and the horses aro ponies. The
houses of the common people are but
one story, and the rooms look like chil¬
dren’s play houses. The couutry,
though as big as several states, is full of
picturesque scenery, but it is the pretty
rather than the grand, and you have
beautiful bit* rather than sublime land¬
scapes. It is the same with everything.
If I ask for a cup of tea at a little way¬
side tea house, it is handed to me in a
little piece of 8hell-like china, no bigger
than an egg-cup, and the little Japanese
beauty goes down on her knees when
she brings it.”
Barkeeper—Look here, you, I say,
otop working that lunch counter.
Tramp (reproachfully)—I ain’t work
,ng; it’s a pleasure .—NeviYork Bun.
Dearer Every Day.
They say I would cease to love her
When her freshness showed deoayj
They were wrong, for as the rive* Asp!*;
Wears its channel more away, <34
De per grew my lovo, and clearer
Seemed her beauties in display.
She grew older, she grow dearer—
Dearer every day.
Had I loved her for her beauty,
Had her heart been simply clay,
Then might mine have ceased its worship
But her truth’s resplendent ray
Eille-i iuy smfl and draw ma nearer
To the fount where sweetness lay.
Still the older, still the dearer—
Dearer every day.
Age has laid its hand§ Na^. upon heiv* *v
Do I realize it?
Her youth’s bloom niy heart remembers—
Years her faithfulness portray,
And It shall be’mine to cheer her,
s ° har ^ nter Ma V
Deakr everyday,
. HUMOROUS.
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Tho sforst form of writer’s cramp is
being pramped for funds.
The real estate man is aolgpwt of
words,, ho is a man of deeds. >
A dentist refers to litefe Collection of
. (g|rscfed teeth as •P 3 -
’Death is like ation; it never
takes without JEM |g a mark.
What thej jfct yonag man who has in¬
herited mj^p heeds is an heir brake.
PerhapsqUihe potato didn’t have any
eyes. nld not be so ofteu mashed.
•’Nltot ^|P®imals “reigning had cats kings, and we dogs” would meant. know
When a man . is Jost-'in thought he
really doesn’t cafe to have anyone look
for him. • ■
-The laws .Regulating the copyright
system,mejely provide for a form^of pat
cot right. . n
Molt Sabies are given to’
•gum; cbewing-gum is ran
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seute f
fail ” hardly 1 %m-" a
as can as
!<«*»?’. phrase.
The barber may not have fought and
for
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painted. ft * ft-;
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croeks among them.
“See how dusty these chair* are,
Mary!” “Shure, mum, it’s because no¬
body’s sot into ’em tho day.”
Fine Distinction—Western Tourist—
“Got much stock on hand! ” Ranch¬
man—“Nope, got a right smart bunch
on foot, though.”
One of the latest fads of the fashiona¬
ble world is the wearing of watches In
umbrella and parasol knobs. Keeping a
watch on an umbrella is an old fashion,
however. It’s owner would lose it, if
he didn’t.
Miss Britely: “Do you liko pork
chops for breakfast, Mr. Nevergo?” Mr
Ncvergo: “Pork chops? Oh, ah, ye*,
much indeed.” Miss Britely: “If you’ll
excuse me a moment, I’ll tell mamma to
get some. I think I hear her starting to
market.”
Wife (reading from paper): “Thi*
paper says that peanuts are injurious to
the voice.” Husband: “Is that so? I
never thought there was so much virtue
in a peanut. I wonder what they cost a
hundred-weight?” Wife; “I'm sure I
don’t know. Why?” Husband: “I
was thinking of laying in a stock of
them. Do you like peanuts, my deart*
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Rabblt Brains for Teething Infinite,
The natives of Arkansas have many
curious customs and remedies for the ill*
that man is heir to that few people out¬
side of the State would ever think of
adopting. Among others is their relief
for the painful teething through which
every baby has to go. When their
children become frosful on account of
prospective teeth the parents hie them¬
selves to the woods, and, if possible,
catch a rabbit alive. If they are unable
to do this they shoot one, and then they
remove its brains. Taking a large
quantity of the brains, still warm with
the blood of the animal, they put it in a
piece of cheese cloth, which they then
rub over tho babies’ gumi. This pos¬
sibly would not appear to those who
have not been educated up to it to be a
very desirable method of bringing relief
to the baby, hut it is a very effective one,
and has never been known to fail; Gen¬
erally six or seven mothers who ere
blessed with teething infants, get to¬
gether and go through in unison. Till*
is supposed to hasten the attainment of
the desired result. I
