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There lms boon n tendency In nil lands and
ftgos to sot apart certain days, places and oo-
casions for especial religious service, and to
think that they formed the realm In which
ligion was ehielly to net. Now* While holy
(lavs ntvd holy places have their use, they can
hoveY he a substitute for continuous exorcise
Of faith and prayer.
In other words, a man cannot be so Rood a
Christian on Sabbath that he can afford to ho
a worldling all the week. If a steamer start
for Southampton and sail one day In that di
rection and the other six days sail in oilier
directions, how long before iho steamer will
get to Southampton? Just ns soon as the
man will get to heaven who sails on the Sab
bath day toward that which is good, and the
other six days of the week sails toward the
world, the flesh and the devil. You cannot
eat so much at the Sabbath banquet that you
(‘an afford religious abstinence all the 1‘ost of
the weolc k
Genuine religion Is not spasmodic, docs
hot go by fits and starts, is not nit attack of
chills and fever—now cold Until your teeth
oliutter, now hot Until your bones ache.
Genuine religion marches oil steadily up
steep Mils and along dangerous declivities,
Its eye ever on the everlasting hills crowned
With the castles of the blessod.
I propose, so tar as God may help mo, to
show you how we may bring our religion in
to ordinary life and practice it in common
things—yesterday, to-day, to-morrow.
And, in the first plaoo, l remark, w° ought
lo bring religion into our ordinary conversa
tion. A clam breaks, and two or throe vil
lages are submerged, a South Amorloun
oarthquako swallows a oily, and people be
gin to talk about the uncertainty of human
life, ami in that conversation think they are
engaging In religious service when there
may bo no religion at all. I have noticed
Hint in proportion as Christian experience is
shallow nun talk about funerals and death-
bods and bourses and tombstones and epi
taphs*
If a man have the religion of the gospol in
Its full power in his soul, he will talk chiefly
about this world and the eternal world and
Very little comparatively about the inslgnfl-
cant pass botweon this and that. Yot how
seldom it Is that the religion of Christ is a
welcome thomo ! If a man full of the gospol
of Christ goes into a religious circle and be
gins to talk about sacred things, nil the con
versation is hushed, and things become ex
ceedingly awkward, As on a summer day,
the forest full of song and chirp and carol,
mighty chorus of bird harmonies, every
branch an orchestra, If a hawk appears in
the sky, all the voices are hushed, no I. have
sometimes seen a social circle that professed
to be Christian silenced by the appearance of
tho groat theme of Go l and religion.
Now, my friends, if wo have the religion ot
Christ in our soul, we will talk about it in
an exhilarimt mood. Jt is more refreshing
than the waters, it is brighter than tho sun
shine, it gives a man Joy hero and prepares
him for everlasting happiness before the
throne of God. Ami yet, if the thomo oT
religion bo Introduced into a olrclo, every
thing isoilenoed—silenced unless perhaps an
agod Christian man in the cornor of tho
room, feeling that something ought to bo
said, puts one foot over the other and sighs
heavily and says, “Oh, yes ; that's so 1 ’
My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ is
not something to bo groaned about, but
something to talk about and sing about, your
face irradiated. The trouble Is that men pro
fessing the faith of tho gospel nro often bo
inconsistent that they are afraid their con
versation will not harmonize with their life.
Wo cannot talk tho gospel unless we 11 vo tho
gospol. You will often find a man whoso en
tire life Is full of inconsistencies lining his
conversation with such expressions as, “Wo
are miserable sinners,” “The Lord help n
“Tho Lord bless you,” interlarding their
conversation with such phrases, which are
more canting, and canting is tho worst kind
of hypocrisy.
If a man have tho grace of God in his heart
dominant, he can talk religion, and it will
soom natural, and men, instead of being re
pulsed by it, will bo attracted by it. Do you
not know that when two Christian people
talk as they ought about tho things of Christ
and heaven God gives special attention, and
He writes it all down. Malaohi ill., 10,
“Then they that feared the Lord talked one
to the other, and tho Lord hearkened and
heard, and a book of remembrance was writ
ten.”
Hut I remark again, wo ought to bring tb
religion of Jesus Christ into our ordinary
employments. “Oh,” you say, “that’s a
good theory for a man who manages a large
business, who has groat traffic, who holds a
gweat estate—it is a grand thing for bankers
and for shippers—but in my thread and nee
dle store, In my trimming establishment, In
my insignificant work of life, you cannot
apply those grand gosplo principles.” Who
told you that? Do you not know that a
faded leaf on a brook’s surface attracts God’s
attention as certainly as the path of a blaz
ing sun, and that the moss that creeps up the
side of tho rock attracts God’s attention as
certainly as the waving tops or Oregon pine
and Lebanon cedar, and that the crackling
alder under a cow’s hoof sounds as
loudly In God's ear as the snap of a world s
conflagration, and that the most insignifi
cant thing in your life is of enough impor
tance to attract the attention of the Lord
God Almighty?
My brother, yon cannot bo called to do any-
thing so insignificant but God will help you
in it. If you are a fisherman, Christ will
stand by you as Ho did by Simon when lie
dragged Gennesarct. Are you a drawer of
water? He will bo with you as at the well
curb when talking with the Hamaritan
woman. Are you a custom house officer?
Christ will call you as Ho did Matthew at tho
receipt of custom. Tho man who has only a
day’s wages in his pocket as certainly needs
religion as he who rattles tho keys of a bank
and could abscond with a hundred thousand
hard dollars. And yet there are men who
profess tho religion of Jesus Christ who do
not bring the religion of tho gospel into
their ordinary occupations and employ
ments.
There are in tho churches of this day men
who seem very devout on the Sabbath who
far from that during the week. A coun
try merehunt arrives in tills city, and he goes
into tho store to buy goods of a man who
professes religion, but has no grace in his
heart. Tho country merchant is swindled.
He is too exhausted to go home that week ;
he tarries in town. On Sabbath he goes to
Borne church for consolation, and what is his
amazement to find that tho man who carries
around tho poor box is the very one who
swindled him. Hut never mind. The deacon
has his black cout on now and looks solemn
and goes home talking about that blessed
sermon I Christians on Sunday. Worldings
during tho week.
That man does not realize that God knows
evsry dishonest dollar he has in his pocket,
that God is looking right through tho iron
wall of his money safe, and that tho day of
judgment is coming, and that “as tho par
tridge sittotb on eggs and hateheth them not,
so he that getteth riches and not by right
shall leave them in tho midst of his days, and
at his end shall be a fool.” Hut how many
there are who do not bring the religion of
Christ into their everyday occupation. They
think religion is for Sundays.
Suppose you were to go out to fight for
your country in some great contest, would
you go to do tho battling nt Troy or at
Springfield? No, you would go there to get
your swords and muskets. Then you would
go out in tho face of the enemy and contend
for your country. Now, I take the Sabbnth
day and the church to be only tho armory
Where we are to get equipped for the great
battle of life, and that battlefield is Monday.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
JJaturday, “Antioch,” and “at. Martin’s”
( much If
JFVmm Is of
behind
Tho Sab-
only 24
1. a great
Ipuld have
if I could
niton, if l
'ork to do,
all that
romance
it of life,
the world.
Ohungod
m at Ash
ing sticks,
ro tho omi-
nnd a Ver-
il tho
an Oread
pany
and “Old Hundred” are
wo do not sihg all the wool
little account if we online
the counteratvd behind tb'
bath day is of no value
hours* .
‘‘Ghf’ says pome one.
sphere, I would do tbntfei
lived in the time of Martin**!
have boon Paul’s travolijT
had some great and rosotil
thou I should put into up
you say.” I must admit
nml knight errantry lia
Thoro is but very litt le of
Tho temples of Rouen hi
into smithies, Tile olasslJji
land 1mA been out up i"*
Tho musos Have retreat,
grant's ax and £ho truppei
monter might go ovor tile,
Hooky monutnius and s6o.
nor a Sylph.
The groves \Vhoro tho
have boon out up for flie„
who is looking for great
scones for notion will
yot, there are Alps to .
Hollesponts to swim, am
mon life. It is absuru fo
would serve God if you
lr you do not serve Him
would not on a large sc
stand t he bite of A mldgo,
dilro tho breath o f n hMj “
Our national governV
belittling to put a tax or.
buckles and a. tax oil shtfj
taxes do not amount
aggregate to millions ant 1
Ami } would have you, oj:
a high tariff on every on
t ion that comes through y.
not amount to much iu si
the aggregate it would hi
spiritual strength and sr
A hoe can suck honey
and if you have the gnu
heart you can get su
which would otherwise
A returned missionary t<
pany of adventurers, rp
were stung to death by 1
region at certain season 1
earth strewn with tho ca
by insect annoyances,
prepared for the groat trj
conquer these small tto
Suppose a sold lor s ho
a skirmish, and there a
—l won't load my gun \
some groat general ej
man is a coward and w<
any sphere. If a mail
country iu a skirmish
Waterloo. And If you _
out against tho Binglo-hdridod misfortunes
this life you would npT.be faithful when
great disasters wJthJgflhol* thundering
artillery camo rolling down over Iho soul.
Tills brings mo to another point. Wo
ought to bring tho rollgRm of Jesus Christ
Into our (rials. If we have a bereavement, If
we lose our fortune, it some great trouble
blast liko tho tempest, t)ton wo go to God for
comfort, but yestordav^u tho little annoy
ances of your store or tjnfoe. or shop or fac
tory, orbanking house, did you go to God
inort? You dld itOt.
ied to dwell
nd tho man
xs and groat
them. And
id there are
are in oom-
saythat you
rent sphere,
all scale, you
f you onunot
could you on
es not think it
tax on
'he individual
but in the
of dollars,
itlan man, put
ice ami vexa-
This might
oases, but ia
revenue of
ition.
of a nettle,
God In your
s out of that
s and nnuoy.
e that a oom-
ip tho Ganges,
hat infest that
C have seen tho
»s of men slain
way to get
of life ia to
fray, “This Is only
bly U few enemiea
JUt Until I got; into
jngomont.” That
gl bd a coward in
not servo Ills
bo will not in a
fuot faithful going
Bio ns (
rout <
fonly
bios
My friends, you
of tho Lord Jesus
nary trials of you? ..>
fortunes, you have yf
your voxations. “Ol
shape my character.
to take the religion
I into the most ordl-
u havo your mis-
xioties, you have
say, “they don’t
I lost my child,
since 1 have lost my properly, I have been a
very different man troin what I was.” My
brother, '.t is tho little.'nano^ >.nco3 of your
life that are souring £our disposition, clip
ping your moral chara-otor and making you
less and less of a man,.
You go into an artist’s studio. You see
him making a piece of -eoulpturo. You say,
“Why dou’c you strike harder?” With ills
mallet and his ohlseY he goes click, click,
click I and you can hardly boo from stroke to
stroke that there laany^mprossion made upon
the stone, and yot IhoDvork is going on. You
say, “Why don’t youetrlko harder?” “Oil 1 ’
he replies, “that Would shatter the statue. I
must make Jt in this way, stroke by stroke.”
And ho continues on by week and month
until after awhile every man that ontors the
studio is fascinated.
Well, I find God donling with somo man.
He 1h shaping him for t ime and shaping him
for eternity. I sny, “0 Lord, why not with
one tremendous blow of calamity shape that
man for the next world?” God says, “That’s
not the \yay I deal with this man ; it ia stroke
after stroke, annoyance after annoyance, ir
ritation after irritation. and after awhile ho
will be done and a glad spectacle for angois
and men.”
Not by ono great stroke, but by ton thou
sand little strokes of misfortune are men
fitted for heaven. You know that large for
tunes can soon bo scattered by being paid out
In small sums of money, and the largest estate
of Christian character is sometimes cntlroly
lost by these small depletions.
We must bring tho religion of Jesus
Christ to help us in those little annoy
ances. Do not say that anything is too
insignificant to affect your character.
Jills may sink a ship. One luolfer
match may destroy a temple. A queen
got hor death by srnolllng of a poisoned
rose. The scratch of a sixpenny mill
may give you tho lockjaw. Columbus, by
asking for a piece of bread and a drink of
water at a Franciscan convont, came to the
discovery of a now world. And there is a
great connection between trifles and im
mensities, between nothings and every-
thlngs.
Do
you not suppose that Go 1 cares for
your insignificant sorrows? Why, ray friends,
there is nothing Insignificant in your life.
How dare you take the responsibility of say
ing that there is? Do you not know that
tho wholo universe is not ashamed to take
care of one violet? Isay; “What arc you
doing down thoro in tho grass, poor little
violet? Nobody knows you are here. Are
you not afraid nights? You will dlo with
thirst. Nobody cares for you. You will
suffer; you will perish.” “No.” says a star,
•‘I’ll watch over it to-night. ,{ “No,” says
the cloud, “I’ll give It drink,” ‘No.” says
tho sun, “I’ll warm it in my bosom.” And
then the wind rises and comes bending
lown the grain and Bounding its
psalm through the forest, and 1. say,
‘Whither away, O wind, on such swift
ing?” and it answers, “I am going to cool
io cheek of that violet.” Ami then I see
pulleys at work in the sky, nn I tho clouds
i drawing water, and I say, “What are you
ing there, O clouds?” They say, “Wo are
awhig water for that violet.” And then I
look down into the grass, and I say, “Can it
be that God takes care of a poor thing liko
1 the answer comes up, “Yes, yes.
God clothes the grass of the field, and He 1ms |
forgotten me, a poor violet. Oh, my
friends, if the heavons bend down to such in
significant ministry as that, I toll you God is
willing to bond down to your care, since He
is jusl as careful about tho construction of a
spider’s eye as Ho is in the conformation of
flaming galaxies.
Plato had a fable which I have now nearly
forgotten, but it ran something like this : lie
said spirits of tho other world camo back to
this world to find a body and find a sphere of
Work. Ono spirit came and took the body of
a king and did his work. Anothcrsplrit camo
and took the body of a poet and did his work.
After awhile Ulysses came, nml ho said:
“Wiiy, all tho fine bodies are taken, and all
tho grand work is taken. There is nothing
left for me.” And some one replied, “Ah,
the best ono has boon left for you.” Ulysses
said, “What’s that?” And tho reply was,
“The body of a common man, doing a com
mon work and for a common reward.” A
good fable for the world and just as good
fable for the church.
Hut, I remark again, wo ought to bring tho
religion of Jesus Christ into our ordinary
blessings. Every autumn the President of
tho United States and tho governors make
proclamation, and we are called together in
our churches to givo thanks to God for His
goodness. Hut every day ought to bo thanks
giving day. Wo take most of'tho blessings
of life as a matter of. course. Wo have had
ton thousand bleedings tnis morning for
which wo have not ihanke 1 God. Before the
night comes we will have a thousand more
fliesstng^ you will nover think or mentioning
before God.
We must see n blind man led along by his
ddg before yr& leant what a grand thing it is
Id lmvo ttno‘8 eyesight* We must see a man
With at. Vitils’S dance before We leant wlmt it
grand thing it Istd havo tho tiso of our physD
cal energies. We must see sonio soldier
crippled, limping along on hid crutch Or his
empty contsleevo pinned up. before we learn'
what a grand thing it Is to have tho uso of
all our physical faculties. In other words.
wo are so stupid that nothing but tho misfor
tunes of others can wake us up to an appre
ciation of our common blessings.
We get on board a train and start for Bos
ton ami come to Norwalk bridge, and the
draw’ is off and crash! goes the train.
Fifty lives dashed out; Wo escape. Wo
come homo in great oxcJtrimorlt and call oul*
friends around us, and they congratulate us
and we all knell down and thank God fur our
escape while so many perishod. Hut to
morrow morning you get on a unin of cars
for Boston. You cross that bridge at Nor
walk ; you cross all the other bridge ,; you
got to Boston in safety. Then you return
homo. Not an accident, not an alarm, No
thanks.
In other words, you scorn to he morograte
ful when CO people lose their lives and you
get off than you are grateful to God when
you all get off and you have no alarm at all.
Now, you ought to be thankful when you cs*
••ape ft-om accident, but moro thankful when
they all escape* In (he one case your grati
tude is somewhat selfish; iu tho other it is
more like What it ought to lu\
Oh, these common moreies, these common
blessings, how little we appreciato them and
how soon we forget them! Like tho ot
grazing, with the clover up to its eyes, like
the bird picking the worm out of tho furrow
— never thinking to thank God, who makes
the grass grow and who gives life to every
living thing from the animalcule) in tho sod
to the seraph on tho throne. Thanksgiving
on the 27tli of November, in the autumn of
the year, but blessings hour by hour and day
by day and no thanks at all.
I compared our indifference io the brute,
but perhaps I wronged the brute. I do not
know but that among its other instincts it
may have an instinct by which it recognizes
tho divine hand that foods it. I do not knovr
but that God is through it holding commu
nication with what wo (’all “Irrational crea
tion.’ The cow that stands under the wil
low by tho water course chewing its cud
looks very thankful, and who can toll how
much a bird moans by its song? The aroma
of the flowers smell liko inoonso, and tho
mist arising from tho river looks like tho
smoko oT a morning sacrifice, On, that wo
Were as responsive!
If you were thristy and asked me i'or a
lrlnk and l gave you this glass of water, your
common instinct would reply, “Thank you.”
And yet, how many chalices of mercy wo get
hour by hour from the hand of tho Lord, our
Father and our King, and we do not even
think to say, “Thank you.” Moro just lo
inon t han wo aro just to God,
Who thinks of thanking God for the water
gushing up in tho well, learning in Gm
ondo, laughing over the rocks, pattering in
the shower, clapping its hands in tho sea?
Who thinks to tlmnlc God for that? Who
thinks to thank God for the air, tho fountain
of life, tho bridge of sunbeams, the path of
sound, the great fan on a hot summer day?
Who thinks to tlmnlc Clod for this wonderful
physical organism, this sweep of vision, tills
chime of harmony struck into tho ear,
this crimson tide rollingthrough arteries and
veins, this drumming of the heart on the
march of Immortality?
I convict myself and I convict overyone
of you while I say these things, that wo
are unappreciative of tho common mercies
of life. And yot If they were withdrawn, the
heavens would withhold their rain and tho
earth would crack open under our fcot, and
do3olftllon and sickness and woo would f,t:fi!c
across the earth, and the wholo earth would
become a placo of skulls.
Oil, my friends, let us wnlco up to an ap
preciation of tiio common mercies of life. Let
overy day be a Habbath, every meal a sacra
ment, every room a holy of holies. Wo all
havo burdens to boar; Jot us cheerfully boar
thorn. We all havo battles to light; let us
courageously fight thorn.
if we want to die right, wo must live right.
You go homo and attend to your little sphere
of duties. I will go homo and attend to my
little sphere of duties. You cannot do my
work ; 1 cannot do your work. Negligence
and indolence will win the hiss of everlast
ing scorn, while faithfulness will gather its
garlands and wave its sceptre and sit upon !
Us throne long after tho world lms put on j
ashes and eternal ages Iuiyo begun their i
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
The Si1ng Makes One Forget All Ollier
Troubles for (be While.
TIioio is one good t hi
bv a boo. It mule s yot
IT h for a litllo while. I I
thcHu bumblcbt oh for 'I
renew. <1 my youth. Ti
it k big thing lo fight
take mv cuftfli
The bra’
ig about getting slung
forget nil o her trou-
iiv-■ bad lots of fun wilh
e last few dnya and it
no hum when I thought
“'idler jackem” and
lth the other
till
march.
Mummies ns Hrlc-a-brac.
Ji; is estimated that tho number of
bodies embalmed in Egypt from B. O.
2000, when mummification is supposed
to havo been first practised, to A. D.
700, when it ceased, amounts to '120,•
000,000. Homo Egyptologists, who
extend the beginning of tho art to a
much earlier date, estimate the num
ber of mummies at 711,000,000. These
mummies nro very productive to tho
Egyptians.
The modern traveler tint content
to collect merely beads ftiul funeral
statues and such small game. Ho must
bring homo nn ancient Egyptian. Tho
amount of business dono of late years
in this grim kind of bric-a-brac has
been very considerable.
Mummies, however, aro expensive
hobbies, only to be indulged in by the
wealthy. From $000 to $500 was at
one time the average price of a full-
sized specimen, while from $50 to $00
was asked for n baby,—Hew York
World.
China’s Literary Prodigy.
The marvelous child mentioned in
the Chinese classics who, nt four years
old, was able to recite tho 000 verses
of tho Thing poetry as well ns the
Ancient Book of Odes, has boon eclipsed
by nn infant prodigy of tho same age,
who lias presented himself at tborecout
licentiate examinations in Hong Kong
as a candidate for literary honors.
Tho P’unyu Chehsien personally ex
amined this tiny candidate, and found
that tho child could write a conciso
essay on the subject that had been
given him, although, ot* course in an
infantile scrawl, it is observed by a
local commentator that it now remains
only for tho Literary Chancellor to
“pass” tho prodigy ere ho can be
styled as “having entered tho portals
of the Dragon’s gates”—that is, ob
tained the degree of “.Siu-ts’al,” or
licentiuto.—London News.
t b.»y wan tiio lijggofit fool
would Htuv al llio lioln tiio kmjy-t mid
thresh nil tho leaven . IT of his brmh and got
HtmiK before ho hut. adored. I him not that
hrnvn now, and I fight with exceeding cau
tion, hut J Inivc killed over iwohumlrul in two
dnvH and fought fair and Kqimro. My woapon
i* a cruni pan an I 1 tie •■ ’t in com ngandiRoimr,
hut they crowd mo Beiru timo8 and my nntici
attrac cd attention urn ng t o neighbors, for
they can bo • mo iu the upstairs piazza and ono
good lady inquired it - Mnj >r Aip wm subj. t?:
mills. Tho boos uoillO out when the weatlu r-
I oarding j iiiH the fi or and my repeated a«-
!'’au 1*h havo Hindu them mad generally. Up lo
thb time they have slung < v ry number of
tlm family, even to tho lit.do grandchild who
lives with us, and I am going to exterminate
them if it takes all summer. We tried hot water
ter,but it will m t reach Ihom. Just think of that
poor , it Me child g ing round with one eye closed
and afraid sho will lose tho othor one; and Mrs.
Arp’s head is all Bwellod up with two bumps
'hat a jdm liologifl! couldn't diagnose. Wo can’t
eit in (lie downstairs piazza wilh any security.
It is a biegor thing right now than bimetal-
I sm or fruo coinage nr tlm tabernacle mooting.
In fact, it is a relief from politics to fight bees
and study them ill the books. I wish tho odi-
to»N would hold tip awhile and go to tho woods
and fight yeller jack, ts or wasps or hornets
and got stung a f w times. It would bo a ro-
bef to tho country and I have heard that snolt
alin h are good for rheumatism or any nervous
affection and I knew that it takes tho conceit
• nit of a man for awhile.
My hook bh\h that Iho proper namois “bum
blebee," bill there is no humility about these at
my house. 'I hero are from 70 to 800 in a colony
and bo I know 1 have nearly whipped iho fight.
They live only olio HUimnor and never lobuild
iu 'ho same place. Tho books say thero aro
three kinds -the nut-oils nml tho carpenters
and the diggers, but what they aro good for I
•bulk know unless it i'n to mako a man more
willing to quit this world and prepare himself
for another If there wero no snakos and tar-
iiiitulns and stinging things and deadly conta
gions and demagogues and thievos and fusses
wo wouldn’t want nnolh r world.
Tho little honey boo is a trump and a wonder
from stem to Htei n. it is good to ruminate
about their wisdom and mall and their govern
ment Just th.nk of ono queen being tho
mother of 20,000 and controlling thorn all moro
absolutely than any human mother controls
hor children. Ju t. think of 10,500 wo kers
and only 50 > drones in a colony. Those drones
aro tho gem lemon, and remind you "f our g- n-
1 lemon loafers and swells who ret about on tho
niazzos < f 1,ho hotels and watch the girls goby.
But iho drones don’t enjoy thomsolvos but a
month or two. The queen gels tired of them
and gives her orders and then Iho masaacro of j
Hi. Bartholomew begins. In an hffTJrs time ‘
overy ono is slain—stung to death by tho
workers, and their puffy, bloated caroasRos
dragged out and tumbled on tho ground. i
Then) is no litt)<- tiling in nature moro won
derful than the honovcomb that those little
workers make. Its mathematical construction
giv. s the most space wv\\ tho least enclosure,
tho a roll i d lop and bottom of overy coll, tho i
(xact and uniform thickness of every division
an.I tho wisdom shown in shaping tho who'o
storehouse lo suit tho shape of iho hive, is,
hid. cd, marvelous. Then there is tiio division
of iho workers into brigades and regiments and 1
companies, vomo to gat hor honey, sonic to
Hiftlco wax, roino to build tho cells, some to
stand guard, sumo to wait on iho queen and
bo her escort as she moves around, and a wholo
regiment to keep their wings going liko revolv
ing fans and supply fr< ah air in tho hivo,
'That fan business makes tho humming that is
heard in tho liivo day and nigLt. Jt is Iho
flutter of 11m wings of tho fanners. How in
tiio world thoy do ovorything in tho dark is a
wonder to mo. J was talking to my friend,
Mr. Hussey, about it on the train Homo time
ago, and bo told mo oonlkb niially that ho was
experimenting io pen if ho couldont cross honey
I.- es with lightning bugs and get up a boo that
o mid hi o how to work at night or in tho dark.
Ho hns applied for a patent on the idea, but
" bother no lms sucei cdo i or not in his experi
ment I have not heard. Ho was v. ry sanguine, 1
j and tho only trouble, ho sai l, was about tho
| cross finding room in the tail for iho fireworks
: and tho sting too. But Mr. Bussey is an ongi-
| neor on tho Btu to road and knows what ho is
I about,
I ho sling of a beo is said to bo the most per- !
f< ot war weapon over invented. It is exquisite ’
in ilH mechanism. It is u hollow tube, and yet
iho point, of tho finest cambric needle is im
mense when compared with if. Under tho
microscope the sting is perfect in its shape and
MoothneHs. ho much so that tho point is al-
m st invisible, whereas tho point of tho nee
dle under tho same glass looks liko a great
rough crowbar wilh roams and ruts and ridges
all over it. This is tho differouco between tho
works of God and man. And yot tho Humo Al
mighty hand that made tho little beo with his
wonderful instincts and attachments mado the
uni verso—tho boundless, limitless universe ,
where there aro stars to bo soon bv tho Lord j
Hobs tolescopo, whoso light takes 00,000 years 1
to reach us. Oontemplato that for a moment, I
yo litllo conceited minds who think it smart to
ray, “I don’t belli vo m Go I. J uni an agnos- |
tic.” Hixly thousand years for tho light to j
reach us, and Lord Boss said that tho star was
in the near edge of the uni verso. Light travels I
through spaco about 100,>00 miles in a second
of time, which is moro than ten billions of
miles in a day. Then count it for a year and
tin n for 60,000 years and give it up. Wo may
well exclaim, “Lord, what is man that Thou
art mindful of h m.” It i swell for us all to stop
little while now and then and ponder upon
Queen Victoria leads a busy alfe, do-
spito the number of ministers and ser
vants she lias. During the summer
sho drives down from Windsor Castle
about 9 o’clock and breakfasts at Frog-
more, usually in a tent on tho lawn.
After breakfast the Queen does her
morning’s work in another tent, all
dispatches, letters and boxes coming
down to her from the castle. During
tho morning two mounted grooms are
kept riding between Frogrnore and
the castle with messages and letters,
and about 1.30 tho Queen drives back
in time for kmclmon.
tho works of i
to tho confines of that
spirits unfettered by tho
But L must up and fight son;
ho* h, for ono has just stung th
lolling over in Iho gi
nor. Bill A in*, .u A
more lmmblo-
dog, and he i»
in a tumultuous man
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scruples against their letters being de
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to tear off the tag containing the order
and place the upper portion of the sta » p
upon the envelope. It is the intention
of the Belgian government to get out n
series of these Sunday stamps.
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