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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1889)
NORTH GEORGIA TIMES. G. N. KING, !■ Proprietors. S. B. CART! SB. t REV. DR. TALMAGE THE BBOOKLYH MVIHE’S SUN BAY SERMON. Subject: “The Baptism of Fire.” Test: “Hone of these things move me.”— Acta xx., 24. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, V. D., preached fle, his first at the Brooklyn Academy of Mu. the Brooklyn sermon after the destruction of Thbanaute by firs. Mia au¬ dience was of vast size, and public interest was extraordinary. The opening hymn was: God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform. He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Dr. Talmage’s subject was “The Baptism of Fire," and he said: But, Paul, have you not enough affliction to move you? • Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most genial nod loving free for nature; have you not, in order to lie to celibacy? missionary Have journeys, given yourself you not turned away Jrom would the have magnificent crowned worldly illustrious successes genius? that Have endured your you not the sharp and stinging ' neuralgias, been like a thorn in the flesh? Have you not mobbed on the land, and ship¬ wrecked on the sea; the sanhedrim against you, the Roman Government against you, all the world and all hell against vou? “What of that?” says Paul. “None erf these things move me!” It was not because lie was a hard nature. Gentlest woman was could nevermore not easily bear dissolved into'tears. Ho even to see anybody cry, for in the midst of liis sermon when he saw some one to weeping and her break sobs aloud, “What mean ye weep to mine heart? for I am ready Jerusalem not to be bound onlv, but fclso to die at for the name of the Lord Jesus.” What then did Paul mean when he said, “None of these things move me?” He meant, “I will not be diverted from tho work to which I have been called by any and all tho adversities and calamities.” I think this morning I express not only my own and little feelings child but belonging that of every man, woman to the Brooklyn Tabernacle, comforted or that was converted there, or toward the there, or blessed there, when I look blackened ruins of tho dear and consecrated spot and with an aroused faith things in a loving God, me.” cry out: ' None pf these When move I say that, I do not mean that wo have no feeling about it. Instead of stand¬ ing here to-day m this brilliant auditorium, it would be more consonant with my feelings to sit down among the ruins and weep at tho words of David: “If I forget thee, O Jerusa¬ lem, Why, let let my right hand forget her cunning.” me say to the strangers here to-day in explanation of the deep emotion of my flock, we of religious had there in that building sixteen years revival. I believe that a hundred thousand souls were born there. They shall came from all parts of the earth and we never see them again until the books are there opened. baptized, Why, and at sire those t our'children were altars our young men and maidens took the marriage vow, and out of those gates we carried our dead. When from the roof of my house last Sun¬ flames, day morning I said: at “That 8 o’clock I saw our church in is the last of the Witt build¬ ing from which we buried our De on that cold December day when it seemed all And Brooklyn it wept just with hard my for household.” was as you to give up your Why, loved like ones as for us to give up ours. the beautiful vines that still cover some of the fallen walls, our affections are clambering all over the ruins, and I could kiss the ashes that mark the place where it it, once I stood. Why, think now that I think of pile, cannot of it as an inanimate but os a soul, a mighty soul, an indestructible had soul, soul. I am sure that majestic organ a for we have often heard it speak soul and of sing and shout and wail, and when the that organ entered heaven I think Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart, and Mon delssohn, welcome it. and Beethoven were at the gates to So I do not use the words of my text in a heartless way, but in the sense that we must not and will not bo diverted from our work by the appalling disasters whioli have befallen us. We will not turn aside one inch from our determination to do all we can for the present and everlasting happiness of all the people whom we may be able to meet. “None of these things move me. None of these When things I move you." looked out through the dismal rain from the roof of my house and saw tho church crumbling brick by brick and timber by that timber, work I said in to Brooklyn myself: “Does this mean my is ended? Does this terminate my association with this city, where I have been more than twenty years misfortunes?’ glad in all its prosperities, And still and sad in all its a small voice came to me, a voice that is no longer still or small but most emphatic and commanding, through pressure telegram of hand, and newspaper column, and and letter, and contributions say. ing: "Go forward?’ 1 have made and I now make appeal to all Christendom to help us. We want ail Chris¬ tendom to help, and I will acknowledge the receipt with of every contribution, hand. We great or small, my own want to build larger church, and in which better. We want it a national nations find people home. of The all creeds contributions and ait already may in make a hearted church sent a small forever spectacle impossible. for angels and Would not if, I in be a church sorry men a built by Israelites and Catholics, us well as all the styles of people commonly called evan , gelicah I should, instead of the banner of the Lord God Almighty, raise a fluttering rag of small sectarianism? If we had three hundred thousand dollars we would put them all in one great monument to the mercy of God. build. People ask I on all it sides all depends about what we shall answer, on the contri¬ butions sent in from here and from the pf the earth. I say now to ail the Baptists, that wp shall have in it a baptistery. I say to nil Episcopalians, heretofore at we shall communion have in our table services as opr por¬ tions of the Liturgy. I spy to the Catholics we shall have » cross oyer the pulpit pud probably dists, on the tower. sing there I say dike to the Metho¬ we mean to the voices of nations, mighty thunderings, to preach I say to ail denomi¬ wide heaven we mean and a religion as as said as good as God. We have we had a total loss. But there was one exception. The only things we save were the silver communion chances, for they happened to be in another building, and I take that fact as typical that wo are to be lu communion with all Christendom. “I be¬ lieve in the communion of saints!" Insurance I think, if companies all the Brooklyn should firemen and all search among those ruins on Schermerhom street, they would not And a splinter large as the tip end of the little finger marked with bigotry.. And PS it is sail} that the exhumed bricks of the standing wails 9f Bpbylon for Nebuchadnezzar, have on them the letter N, I declare to you that if we ever get a new church the let¬ ter we should like to hav8 on every stone and every timber would be the letter C, for that would stand both *or Christ and the Catholicity. old church The last Friday two night, words I uttered of in on some you may The remember, two words were that I “Hallelujah! utter Amen!” most . now as expressive after of the my Baptism feelings in this Fire, our first Hell* aar Vtoe of are SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1889. Amen! “* onoot thes6thiugs move V \ e aro kept i» this mood by two or three considerations. , The firstfs, that God rules. know. Ip. what It way has tho church took fire I do not nmgs. Weli, the' beeiv'charged Lotd controls on the the light- light . ky SSPr He before managed oul^electricians them several thousands JE The years Bible indicates that, though were they born. flash down the sky recklessly, God builds for them a road to travel. Xu the Psalms it is said: “He made a way for the lightning and thunder.’’ Ever since the tirno of Benjamin Franklin the world has been trying to tame the lightnings, and they seem to be quite well harnessed, but they occasionally kick over the traces. But T6tce<W»d though we cannot- master great natural Can and does, and that God is our Father and best Friend, and this thought gives Wo ns confidence.' are also reinforced by the increased consolation that conies from fraternity of sorrow. The people who, during the last six¬ teen years, sat on the other side of the aisle, whose faces were familiar to you, but to whom you had never spoken—you greeted them this week with smiles and tears as vou said: “Well, the old place is gone.” You did not want to seem to cry, and so you swept the sloeve near the corner of the eye, and pretended it was the sharp wind made four eyes weak. Ah! there was noth¬ ing the matter with your eyes; it it was is your impossible soul bubbling sit for over. I tell you that to years around the same church fireside and not have sympa¬ thies iu common. Somehow you feel that you would like those people oa the other side of the aisle, about whom you know but little, prospered saved. You and feel pardoned and blessed and as if you were in the same boat, and you want to glide up the samehar bor and want to disembark at the same wharf. If you put gold and iron and lead and zinc in sufficient heat, they will melt into a conglomerate mass; and X really feel that last Sabbath’s lira has fused us all, grosser and finer natures, into one. It seems as if we all had our hands on a wire connected with an electric battery; and when this church sorrow started it thrilled through the whole circle, aud we all folt the shock. The oldest man anil the youngest child could join hands in this misfortune. Grandfather said: “I expected from those altars to be buried-,” and one of the children last Sabbath cried: house.” “Grandpa, Yea, that place was next to our own fident in this time we by are the supported of Christ. and con¬ cross That is used to the fire. On the dark day when Jesus died, the lightning struck It from against above, and the flames of hell dashed up it from beneath. That tearful, pain¬ ful, hang tender, blessed cross still stands. On it we all our hopes; beneath it we put down all our sins; in the light of it we ex¬ pect Within to sight mako of the rest of our pilgrimage. such a sacrifice, who can feel he has it hard? In the sight of such a sym¬ bol, darkness wlio can be discouraged, however great the that may comedown upon him? Jesus lives! The loving, patient, sympathiz¬ ing, earth, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on or in hell, or in heaven, that three He¬ brew children had the Son of God beside them in the fire, and that a whole ehuroh was forsaken by the Lord' when they wen* through wide. a furnace about two hundred feet O Lord Jesus! shall we take out of Thy hand tho flowers and the fruits, and tho because brightness and the joys, and then turn away Thou dost give us one cup of bitter¬ ness to drink? Oh, no, Jesus! we will drink it dry. But how it is changed! Blessed Je¬ sus, what has Thou put into the cup to sweeten it? Why, it has become the wine of heaven, and our souls grow strong. I come now, and place both of my feet deep down into the blackened ashes of our consumed that church, I and felt I cry out with an exhilaration naver since the day of mv soul’s emancipation, Lord Jesus Christ!” “Victory! victory 1 through our . Your harps, yetremblingsaints, Loinl to the praise of love divine Bid every string awake. We are also re-enforced by the Cath¬ olicity that the I Academy have already to-day, referred to. because We aro in not we have no other place to go. Lost Sab bath morning at 9 o’clock we had but one church; disposal. now we have about thirty, all at our Their pastors and their trustees say: "You may take our main audience rooms, you may take our lecture rooms, you may take our church parlors,you may baptize in our baptisteries, and sit on our anxious seats.” On! if there be any larger hearted ministers or larger hearted churches anywhere than in Brooklyn, tell mo where they are, that I may gc and see them before I dje. The miUeuium has come. Rec¬ ite keep wondering when it is ooming, It has oome. The lion and tho lamb lie down together^ and^thetiger eats straw like an ox. old time bigots, with their swords, fight¬ ing through that great fire on Scher¬ merhom. the street last Sabbath. I am sure swords would have melted, and they who wielded them have learned war no more. I can never say a word against any other de¬ nomination of Christians. I thank God I never have been tempted to do it. I cannot bo a sectarian. I have been told I ought to be, and I have tried to be, but I have not enough material in me to make such a structure. Every time I get the thing most and done, all there is comes a fire, or something else, gono. The angels of God shake out on this air, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” I do not know but I see on the horizon the first all denominations gleam of the morning organization, which shall unite in one dis¬ tinguished times. It only then by tho the locality Church as of in Tnyatira, apostolic was and the Church of Thessalonica. Church and the Church of Antioch, and the of Laodi cea. So I do not know but that in the future ply* history, distinction and not far locality, off either, and it maybe of creed, sim¬ the of York, not as Church of New the Church of Brooklyn, of Charleston, the Church the Church of Boston, of Madras, the Church the Church of Constantinople, the Church of America. My dear brethren, we cannot afford to be great severely foes divided. Standing Christianity, in front of the of ow common we want to nqt on the whole armor of God and march down in sdlid column, triumph! Shoulder to shoulder lone commander! erne ’’o'thought! combat maintain; Arise, the to Arise, nnd pat thy foes to flight. We also feel reinforced by the thought that we are on the way to a heaven that can never burn down. Fires may sweep through other cities—but I am glad to know that the New Jerusalem is fireproof. There will be jio engines be rushing temples through those streets; there will no consumed in that city. Coming to the doors of that Church, we will find them open, resonent with songs, and not cries ot fire. Oh, my dear brother and sister! if this short lane of life comes up so soon to that blessed place, what is the use of our worrying? 1 have felt a Taylor, good many times sailor this preacher. last week He like Father the got in a long sentence while be was preaching one day, and lost himself, and oould not find bis way out of the sentence. He stopped and said: “Brethren, I have lost the nominative of this sentence, and things are gene-ally mixed up, but I am bound for the kingdom anyhow." And daring this lost week, when I saw the rushing myself: to and “I fro and the excitement, I said to do not know just where we shall start again, but I am bound for the kingdom anyhow.” I do not want to go just yet I want to bo pastor of this people until I am about eighty- nine years of age, but I have sometimes thought that there are such glories ahead that I may be persuaded to go a little earlier—for instance, at eighty two could or have three; but I really think that it we in for an appreciation of what God has reserve us, wo would want to go into stepping the glories right out of the Academy of Musie of the skies; Ah! that is a good land. Why, they tell me that in that land they never nave a heart ache. They tell me that a man might walk five hundred years in that land and never our 888 ^^ friends ar , or who 1 I ea r have a ^gb- left They and tell me that their feet are radiant ns the gone and there, that they take ns sun, nold of the hand of Jesus familiar ly, and that they open that hand aud see in the palm of it a healed wound that must have been very cruel before it was healed. And they toll me that there is no winter there, cold, and that they never get hungrv or and that the sewing girl never wades through the snow bank to her daily toil, and that he clock never strikes twelve for the night, See but only twelve for the day. that light in the window. I wondnw who set it there. “Oh!” you say: “My father that went into glory must nave set that in the window.” No; guess • “My mother, again. who died fifteen years ago there.” in Jesus, No; I think must have set that light darling little child, guess that again. last You say: “llv for the summer I tut away resurrection, I think sho m ist have set that light there in the window.” fo will guess again. Jesus set it there: anil He day keep it burning until She the latch of we the put door our finger on home and go in to be at forever. Oh! when my sight gets b ick went. in i^th, When put on in mv the eyelids lest weariness that sweet I < innt nt take another step, just ca that doorsill. When help me put my oot on my ear catchd no more the voices of wife and child, let n i go right stroke in, to have my deafness cured by the the strings of the with harpers the authems whose of fingers the free fly *ver Heaven never burns down! The fins of the last day, that are already kindled in the heart of the earth, but are hidden because God keeps down the hatches—those internal fires will after a while break through the crust, and the plains, and the mountains,and the seas will be consumed, and the flatties will fling their long arms into the skies; hut all the terrors of a burning world will do! no more harm to that heavenly temple than tho fires of the setting sun which kindle up the window glass of the house on yonder hill wp. Oh, blessed land! But I do not want to go there until I see the Brooklyn Tabernacle re¬ built. You say, “Will it bo?’ You might ns well ask me if the sun will rise to-morrow morning, lands or its if bead. the next spring will put gar¬ op You and I may not tlo it—you and I may not live to see it; but the Church of thousand God does legs. not stand on / two legs nor on a / ia? How I did the Israelites somebody get through havs ths Red and said: suppose “There may come is no need pf trying; you will get you*" wet; eU—M'iil spoil V our 1 2^Sr drown - ty a n yourselves. ho eve i , *Es?" s?s tea it? Did they go back? No. Did they go to the right? No. Did they go to the left? No. They went forward in the strength of the Lord Almighty; and that is the way wo mean to get through the Red Sea. By going forward. But says some one: "If wo should build a larger ehuroh, would you be able with your voico to fill it?’ Why, I have been wearing myself out for the last sixteen years in trying to keep my voice In. Give me room where loan preach the glories of Christ and the grandeurs of heaven. Forward! We have to march on, breaking down all bridges Throw behind us, making retreat impossible. impedes away your knapsack if it your march. Keep your sword arm free. Strike for Christ and His kingdom while you may. No people ever had a bettor mission than you are sent on. Prove your¬ selves worthy. It I am not fit to be your leader, set me aside. The bright¬ est goal on earth that I can think of is a country parsonage amidst tho mount-, ains. But I am not afraid to load you, V have I have some dollars; physical they aro at your dispori!. long good I health; it ia your,''as *aoul; as it lasts. have enthusiasm of I will not keep it back from vour service. I have some faith in God, and I shall direct it toward tho rebuilding of our new leril spiritual house. Come on, then. I will you. Come an,, ye aged men, not^yet passed over ^ middle into life, the harness promised all land. Yon men faculties in this entorurise. Young your busjrioas put tho fire to of Into man, Let your soul this work. women conse¬ crate this their persuasiveness will and preparing persistence to cause) and they be bene¬ dictions wr their dying hour and everlasting rewards; ; and if Satan really did burn that Taberr ale down, as some people sa!y he did, he will fnid it the poorest job he ever under took. o)ii to Good-by lips v throw Tabernacle. kiss I put my departed fingers my a«d a to the church. In the lost day, may we be able to meet the songs there sung, and the prayers there offered, and the sermons there preached. felt Good-by, the Gospel old place, where and some of us Orel peace, others heard ths last message ere they fled away into the skies) Good-by, welcome Brooklyn Tabernacle erf 18TS! But though our new church. (I see It as plainly as it were already built!) Your gates wider, your songs mere triumphant of your the ingatherings ashes more glorious. waiting Rise out and greet our vision) Burst on our souls, oh day of our church's resurrection! pared for tho B/ hour your altars may we be pre¬ when the fire shall tnr every man’s work of what sort it is. Wel¬ come, Br ooklyn Tabernacl e of 18901 General John B. Bowman says in the Kansas City Times: “It is my opinion of that doubling irrigation tho population will be the of means State coming every and Territory within the ten years. I further believe that in the East, where the rainfall is heavy, but uncertain, irrigation will ultimately be* resorted to in older to insure greater regularity of crops. Four-tenths of the area of the United States, not including Alaska, require irrigation. This terri¬ tory includes parts of California, Texas, Knnsas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, all of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyom¬ ing, Montana, and portions of Dakota and Washington. Through this vast territory there flow a number of streams with narrow valleys capable of cultiva¬ tion. In these valleys settlers have taken up their %bode, cities have been built, and now the ory is for more room. The room is there, and the sunburned only thing needed to make the broad plains vie with valleys is irrigation. method The sentiment in favor of this of reclaiming lands is growing strong, nnd I predict that ten years will w itness a revoluti on.” _ It will pay you to advertise with us. PECULIAR FISH. Different Species Capable of Fly¬ ing, Walking and Climbing. which Leave Their Native Element to Lay Their, Eggs. waasomething like two years ago,” “*hys a writer in,the New York Herald, while sitting on the dock of one of our European steamers and looking quietly into the water of the Gulf Stream, 1 suddenly saw a creature of some sort with wings. It came, apparently, ou l of the ocean and immediately took a complacent attitude in mid-air. It was a fish beyond dispute and I accounted for its conduct from the fact that a huge fish of a much larger kingdom darted to tho surface of the water in eagei pursuit of this frightened creature. At first I thought the tmy fish was safe from the chase, but in less than two minutes it dropped back into the sea. Hardly had it touched the water when it again bounded in another direction, and it was soon evident that it was again followed. When this aggravated pursuer came to tho surfaca I saw it was none other than a huge dolphin. I watched the sport very attentively for some time, but as our steamer was los ing sight of it j saw an albatross com¬ ing toward the fleeing fish. The acute eye of the b'ird had espied the tiny fish and ha 1 come to rob the dolphin of its prey. ‘‘The litt'e creature was not aware of its double danger, and by its frantic movements kept sailing along,endeavor¬ ing to escape finny enemy, Death beset it in all directions, ‘when at last the albatross was «pon it, and the fish conscious of only the danger behind, fell right into the claws of the bird. ‘‘Naturalists claim that the fish does not fly, sail^; But simply leaps from tho, water *nd aiong caiaBdir?hBTOve' ^n its membAiioas. wings, 'I , ?S5s' ' for' I have seen the fish on many occasions leave the water and fly along further thau it could possibly do if it did not fly. And, too, I have seen them flap their winglike fins, change their course, and fly against a strong wind. This evidence, it seems to me, is far more reliable than that of hundreds of natur¬ alists. A man may not be sharp- sight¬ ed enough to see the flying fish flap its wings; nevertheless, I have often seen it done, and nothing can change my mind. ” That keen observer, Grant Allen, forcibly declares that tho flying fish does actually fly. Of tho flying fish there are at least twenty species and in appear¬ ance gjrcatly resembles the horring, with large, bat-like wings. They will not leave the water unless threatened by an enemy. Their speed is not rapid, although they can easily keep ahead of a steamer going at the rate of twelve knots Wei fan hour. are told there are fish that walk, which; are more numerous and more variable. Many of them leave the water from choice rather than necessity. Oae kind ia particular leaves its native ele¬ ment whichjto iji search build of nest. leaves and It lays twigs its with a eggs and wjatches with great care until they are seeing hatched. There is another when on there is danger of its pond dry¬ ing up and leaving it to die takes in a supply of water and embarks on a tour of inspection. In a body they start through a forest with as much boldness as a, body of men. Their bodies are coveted with sharp spines, so they are not desirable eating for the animals of the fdrest, and consequently are allowed to past unmolested. Some unmistaka¬ ble idptinct tells them where to find water, sand their march always results in reachirp a much larger body than that which ^hey have just left. Ther: is abundant proof to convince the moi; sceptical that a fish can actual¬ ly run. There is a species in South Amend that have large and prominent eyes, w iich they have the power of rolling 1 ack and forth at will, As you thrust y bu hand down toward one it turns its great eye with a rather comical •xpressi in, and just as you are about to pick it tip away it runs out of your reach. Rut unless disturbed they march slowly along until a pond is reached, when they jump in and stay. Another interesting kind of fish is called thp climbing perch. They ac¬ tually leave the water at intervals and by means of two spines ascend into the treetop. i What their object i» in so do¬ ing cannit be accounted for, unless it ia to search for insects. Vol. IX. Hew Series. NO. 41 These are but a few of. the fish vshioh leave tho water for a time. The coin njon eel often travels considerable dis¬ tance in searching for more and deeper water. Eels have been found under stones that have been dry for weeks, yet when plaosd in water signs of life are immediately made manifest. Those eols are very interesting fish and ‘no ono has been able to distinguish between the male and the female, hud but little, ip '■ known about their mode of reproduc¬ tion; yet each springtime Bwarms ..of tiny eels arc seen to swim up the fresh brooks, showing that they have bten born. How Egyptians Water their Crops. The summers in Egypt, in Syria and in Asia Minor are almost rainless. In such climatcs'the necessity of irrigation is obvious, and the loss of the ancient means of furnishing it helps to explain tho diminished fertility of most of the countries in question. In Egypt evapor¬ ation and absorbtion by the earth are so rapid that all aununl crops Require irri¬ gation during the whole period of their growth. As fast as the water retires by the subsidence of tho annual inundation the seed is sown upon tho still moist, uncovered soil, and irrigation begins at once. Upon the Nile to-day, just as it was thousands of years ago, one still hears the creaking of tho water-wheels through the whole night, while the poorer cultivators occasionally ply tho simple “shadoof,’ 1 or bucket and sweep, laboriously raising the water from trough to trough by as many as six or seven stages when the water is low. The bucket is of flexible leather, with a stiff rim, and is empted into the trough, not by inverting it like a wooden bucket, but by putting the hand beneath and pushing the bottom up till the water all runs out over the brim, or in other words, by turning the vessel inside out. Tho quantity of water thus withdrawn from tho Nile is |6®or»ois. directly from Most the of thj^is evaporated surface or tfiA super ficial strata, but some moisture perco¬ lates down and oozes through the banks into the river again while a larger quantity sinks till it joins the slow cur¬ rent of infiltration by which the Nil* water pervades the earth of the valley to the distance, at some points, of not less than fifty miles. A Remarkable Fight, The cliy of Constantino in Algeria has been making a remarkable fight against the crickets, which threatened to strip the town of every bit of foliage. These pests, which have boon trying for two years to turn Algeria into a desert, invaded the town in a cloud, and in a few hours they were devouring all the gardens, and even the interior of the houses, tho hospital and the prison swarmed with them. It is well known that the particular insect which is afflicting Algeria does not fly high. In order to keep out fresh arrivals the citizens lost no time in surrounding the entire town with a fenco of cotton cloth about six feet high and over 36,000 feet long. As soon as they had cut of! the sources of re-enforcements, every man, woman and child began to devote exclusive at¬ tention to the enemy within the walls. Business was almost entirely suspended, and lawyers, merchants, magistrates, Jew bankers, laborers, Mohammedans and Christians all went eagerly to work to kill crickets and save th* gardens. The insects were killed by the hundreds of thousands, and the bodies of the slain were swept into the river and carried out of the city. The town had no other thought oi business as long as there were any crickets to be killed. At last the bnemy was completely vanquished, and the half-destroyed gardens were saved from further injury. The war kept the towu busy for nearly a week. Died as He Wished, Fishing. Colonel John Walker, of London, Canada, who died while on a salmon fishing trip at Gaspe, Quebec, Canada, recently had fulfilled in a remarkable manner the wish he uttered when his friend, Sir John Rose, of London, Eng¬ land, dropped dead in the act of firing at a stag in Scotland a few years ago. Colonel Walker then said at his club: “When my time comes Ihope I may be catching a 28-pound salmon.” A letter received from Gaspe with details of hi* illness, says he was stricken with paraly¬ sis just after catching a 24-pound fish. He never rallied. Colonel Walker was well known throughout Canada.— New York World. The Stage Coach. Tarnished and battered and old. Heartlessly hidden away, Left to the math and the mold, Darkness and dust and decay. This was the pride of its day. Now all its glory is o er— Faded and vanished for ays; Gone are the driver and fourl How shall its story be to'd? What shftll a song of it say? Once it was brilliant ps gold, Once it was gilded and gay. Fine in their festal array, - Many the bride that it bora Now are thoy wrinkled aud gray; Gone are the driver nnd fourl ’Long through the heat and the cold, Ever from May until May, Over the highways it rolled. Time has now made it his prey. Never a stately display, Never a dash as of yore, Never a swing or a sway; Gone are the driver and four! Oyer Rush new roads with that rattle men aud lay we roar. Only sweet memories stay; Gone are the driver and fourl —fiissell Clinton in Harper's. HUMOROUS. A police court might well be called a fine institution. A horse may pull with ail his might, but never with his mane, A knotty problem—The highest pos¬ sible speed for ocean vessels. The electrician is a good soldier. He knows how to charge a battery. When tlio barber talks too much, his stories are generaly illustrated with cuts. Visitor—Why do you call your dairy “India Rubber? ’ Farmer—Because it ha3 such a good spring. Beggar—A thousand thanks, my good sir, for the splendid coat you have given me; but I cannot wear it. It would ruin my business—not a soul would give me a farthing 1 The nrohln sadly now puts by * u, u Takes up his hooka A floating newspaper paragraph says that a lady, aged 80. has just been tak¬ ing piano lessons. Even the old and feeble can get square with their neigh¬ bors when they go about it right The dentist’s daughter hears her father approaching: “Oh dear, Edward, here comes my father. If he should find us together hero we are lost. Oh, ho is coming! You will have either to ask for my hand—or let him pull out a tooth for you. ” Scene, tho garden of a country villa. —Passerby (at the gate): “Gardener, what is the matter up at tho house— that terrible screeching?” Gardener putting his hand to his ear to listen): “I can’t make out exactly. Either the lady is practising singing, or some vile animal has got into the hen-house.” Do Cats Count After reading a!l the accounts of tho interesting experiments lately performed on the famous “Sally,” I am persuaded the following incident may not be with¬ out a certain interest to some readers of Nature: About two weeks ago the cat of a dairyman in this neighborhood gave birth to throe kittens. Next day ono of them was removed, during the moth¬ er’s absence, and drowned. On return¬ ing from a. foraging expedition, and discovering her losi, puss immediately set out in search, presumably, of the missing one. All her efforts in this di¬ rection, of course, proved fruitless; but evidently determined to at least make up the right number, she did so, curi¬ ously enough, by carrying off, from its nest close by, a young hare, not more than a week old. This sho is at present suckling side by side with her own kit¬ tens. In new of these facts the above question very naturally suggests itself. — Nature. His Heart on His Right Side. Frank Havens, aged 38 years, dropped dead recently at Council Bluffs, Iowa. A post mortem examination disclosed an abnormal arrangement of the vital organs. The heart was on the right side, the apex lying against the second rib. About two quarts of blood sur¬ rounded the heart. The liver was on the left side of the abdomen and the stomach on the right. His lungs were only one-third the normal size, aud were pressed upward. How the man could have lived any length of time after birth seems a mystery to the sur* geons. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict that death resulted from a rup¬ ture of the heart-
