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CR, TALMAGE’S SERMON.
THE CHEAP SPARROW.
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farthings, ail i not 1 lie the.:) is forgottas j
before Gudr—l.u e xii., (>. belimite 1 in the |
You see the Bible will not j |
choice of symbol There is l ardly a beast,
or bird or i'us ctwhi h has not been . ailed to ;
illustrate some divine truth—the ox's j>a
tien e, the ant's industry, the spider's skill, j ’
the bind s sure oo:;due<s. the eagle’s s e.-d,
the dove's gentleness, and even the sparrow's
meanness and insignia ance. In Oriental
countries none but the poorest people buy the ,
sparrow and eat it. so very little meat is :
there on lhe banes, aud so very poor is it. '
what there is of it. The comfortable popula
tion would not think of touching it auy more
than you would think o. eating a bat or a
lamprel. Now, says Jesus, if God takes ■
such good care of a poor bird that is not ■
worth a cent, won’t he care for you, an im- :
mortal? We
We associate God with revolutions.
can see a divine purpose m the discovery of
America, the in the invent'on of Gunpowder the art of print
ing. in exposure of the Plot,
in the contrie an: o of the needle-gun. in the
ruin of an Austrian or Na ooleonie God the despotism; minute
'but how hard it is to see in
personal affairs of our lives! We think of
God as making a rerord of the starry host,
but cannot reali-.e the Bible truth that Ha
knows how ... ny hairs are on our head. It
seems a grand thing that God provided food
for hundreds of thousandi of Israelites m the
desert; but wq cannot: appreciate the truth
that, when a sparrow mouth is hungry, God stoops seed
down and opens its and puts the
in. We are struck with the idea that Goa
fills the universe with His presence; but can
not understand how Ho encamps in the
crystal palace of the dewdrop, or finds
room to stand, without being crowded, be
tween the alabaster pillars of a pond lily.
We can see God in the clouds. Can we see
God in these flower: at our leet ’ We are apt
to place Got! on some great stage—or try to
do it—expecting Him there to act out His
stupendous projects; but we forget that the
life of a Cromwell, an Alexander, ora Wash
ington. or an archangel, is not more under
divine inspection than your life or mine.
Pompey thought there must be a mist favored over
the Caesar eyes of But qod there because is such He so mist much .He sees
no
everything, Me 1 say Gods path but is in tae
great waters. rue enough! no mo:e
certanly than He is in the water in the glass
-on the table. U e say God guides the stars in
their courses. truth Magnificent truth: He but no
more certain than that decides
which road or street you shall take m coming
to church. Understand that 1 tod does not sit
upon an lndiilerent or unsympithetic throne;
but that He sits down beside yon to-day, and
•stands be-;ide me to-day, and no affair of our
lives is so insignificant but that it is of im¬
portance to God.
In the first place, God chooses for us our
people Cccupation. there I a::i dissatisfied amazed to with see how the many
are work
they have to do. I think other threefourths wish
they uhey spend were in some d'al of .occupation; aud
a great time in regretting
•that they got in the wrong fca e or profes
sion. I want to tell you that God put into
operation all the influen -es which led you to
that particular choice. Many of you are not
in the business that you expected to be in.
You started for the ministry, aud learned
merchandise; you started for the law, and
you are a physician; you preferred agricul¬
ture, and you are a mechanic. You thought
one way; God thought another. But you
ought not to sit down and mourn over the
past, ton are to remember that God—a
beneficent God, a kind God. a loving God—
arranged all these circumstances by which
you were made what you are.
Hugh Miller says: ' 1 will be a stone
mason. Davtd Godsaysu “You will bo a geologist. sheep.
goes out to tend his lathers
God calls him to govern a nation. Saul goes
out to hunt his father s asses, and before he
gets back finds the crown of mighty domin
ion. How touch happier would we be if we
were content with the p laces God gave us!
an<iaU til9<il -
TrufiTSTances by which you were surrounded,
and I believe nine-tenths of you are in tho
■work you are best fitted for.
I bear a great racket in my wat h, and I
find that the hands and the wheels and the
springs down are getting out of their places. I
send it to the jewelers and say: “Over
haul that watch, and teach the wheels and
the spring aud the hands to mind their own
business,’
You know a man having a large estate.
He gathers his working hands in the morn
ing, and says to one: “You go aud trim that
vine;” to another: “You go and weed those
flowers;” to another: “You plow that tough
glebe; ’ and The each one of goes the to his particular
work. owner e-tato points the
man to what he knows he can do best, and so
it is with the Lord. He calls usupand points
us to that field for vh oh we are best fitted.
So that the lesson for to-day, coming from
this subject, you.” is: “Stay cheerfully where God
puts I remark further: That God
has arranged
the place of our dwelling. What particular
city or town, be street or house of you shall ii . e iu,
seems to a mere matter accidcn'. You
go out to hunt for a ho 'se, and you happen
to pass up a certain street, and happen to see
a sign, and you select that house. Was it till
happening so? He foresaw O, no! tho God guided you in
every step. circumstances, future. He know
all your and he selected just
thit one house as better for you than any
■one of the ten thousand habitations in tho
city. Our house, however humble the roof
.and however lowly the portals, is as near
God's heart as an Alhambra or a Kremlin.
Prove it, you say? Proverbs iii., 3d: “Ho
blessed the habitation of the just.”
I remark further, that God arranges all
our friendships. You were driven to the
•wall. You found a man just at that crisis
who sympathised wit i you aud helped you.
You say: “How lucky I wagi” There was
no luck about it. God sent that f iend just
as certain as He sent the angel to strengthen busi
Christ. Your domestic fr.euds, your
friends, vour Christian friends, God
.
sent them to bless you. and if anv of them
have proved traitorous it is only to bring die, out
the value of those who rema n. If som •
it is onlv that they may stand at tho out
postof Heaven to greet you at friends—warm- your coming,
You always will have
hearted friends, magnanimous friends; anl
when sickness "omen to your dwelling there
will be watchers: wh n trouble eomestoyour
hea t there will be sympathizers; gentle fingers when
•death comes there will be to
close the eyes and fold the h inds, and gentle
lips to tell of a resurrection. Oh, we are com
pa-sed by a body-guard of friends! Every
man, if he has 1 ehaved faimsel. well, is sur
ro;i nded by three circles of friends—those of
the outer circle wishing him well; t.iose in
the next circle willing to help him; while
close up to his heart are a few who would die
for him. God pitv the wret h who has not
any friends! He ba no behaved well.
I remark, again, that God puts down the
lim t of our te nporal prosper tv. The world
of finance seems to have no Go 1 in it. You
ran not tell where a man will land. The af
fluent fall: the poor ri e: the ingenious fail.
the ignorant succeed. An enterpri-e open
ing grandly huts in bankruptcy, while out
of the peat dug up from some New England
marsh the millionaire budds his fortune,
Tne poor man thinks it is chance that keeps
hint down: the ri h mm thinks it is chance
which hoists him: and they are both wrong,
It is so hard to realize that God rules the
money market, and has a honk in the nose of
the stock gambler, and that all the cominer
■cial revolutions of the world shall re-ult in
the very best for God’s dear children. My
brethren, do not kick against the divine ai
lotments. God knows just how much money
itisbe;t for you to lo e. You nwer gain
unless it is b-st for you to gain. You go up
when WLSeU it it XV it be-t Ov Z W for you to rs'"' go up, and go
down when ....... it is best f r ......‘ you to go — down. ’ wn.
Prove it, vou sav? I will: Romans viii., 2S:
“All tilings' work"t gether for good to them and
that love God.” Yo i go to a factory,
you see twe-.tv or thirtv whe -Is as they are is
going in different dire tion3. This hand
rolling off this way. and an ther hand an
other way: one down, another up. You say.
‘■What confusion in a factory?’Oh, no! all
1
t ie e difTeren' hands ar.‘ only different parts
of the ma-'lino v. So I go into yoar life and
see stmnge thin rs. Here is one providence
polling y m one wav, a id another in another
w v. duf these nrj Li Torent paits of one
eveiiast-ing ma'-hiuerv, bv which He will well-being. advance vour Now
an 1 present second mortgage, nnd
you know that a a
third an.I fourth mortgage, is oft.m worth
nothing. It is the first mortgage that is a
g 00l j investment. I have ti tell you that
9Vor y Chrisfcsan man ha^ a first mortgage on
every trial and on every ilirvt- r. a ul it ..uisr
mik-L a payment ‘ f eternal advantage to h'.s ;
'
soul.
How many worriments it woul l take out
of your heart if vou believed that fully,
You buy goo Is and hope the pri -e will go up;
but you are in a fret and a frown for fear the
price will go down. You do not buy the
go ins. usi g vour Pas: d serene i in the
mutter, aud thou say "Oil. Lord! I have
don - the l cst I co-i’d■ l commit tbit whole
transaction into The hinds ’’ That is what
religion is good for. or it is gool for nothing,
There are two things, says an old proverb, things
you ought not to fret a’out: First,
that you can help: and, se -oud, things
which you caa not help. If you '.an help
them, why do you not ap ly the remedy i If , '
you can no? helo them, you might as well
surrender first as las'. 11 v dear brethren,
do no sit any longer moping about y u .r
ledger. Do not sit looking so desponding
upon vour stock of uusalab’e goods. Do you
think that God is goingto allow vou, a Chris
tian man, to do business alone? God is the
controlling partner debtors in every firm: and
although vour may abscond, although
your securities miy fail, although your store
may burn, God will, out of an infinity of ra
su its, choose for you the very best remits
p,, 1K ,t have any idea, that you cau overstep
the limit that God has laid down for your
prosperity. *. You will never get one inch be
oud it . God has decided how much pros
peril v you can stand honorably, and employ
v.acfulh . and control righteously; and at the
elK i 0 f 1S8G you will have lust so many dollars
lind oen t Si j us t so much wardrobe, ju-t, so
much furniture, iusfc so more." many bonds and
,nor;gages, and nothing beyond 1 that. will give God
vou ¥1” for every j enny
j, a , looked over vour ’nd life. He knows what
is best for V01K a He is going to bless you
m ti ro and bless you for eternity; and Ho
w ju do it in the best way.
Your little child says: -‘Papa, I wish you
, voultl j et me have that knife <” “No,” you
say -it is a sharp knife, and vou will cut
yourself.” He says: it,” “I must have it.” “But
you can not have you reply. Ho gels
“/ and re d in the face, and' says he wffl
ha it; but you say he shall not have it.
Are you not kind in keeping it from him? So
G od treats His children. I say: God "I wish,
Heavenly Father, to get that.” says:
“No, my J child.” I say: “I must have it.”
’ "You not have it.” I get
Go(l sa ’ s . can God
^ , y a ad say . ..j wi n have it.” says:
■ ' have it. ” And 1 do not get
.. shall no t
fathenrt 6 D?you'tdl'm^thereds'nonfie things ? Tell that to and the
regulation in those
Tell it not to me.
A man of large business concludes to go
out Of his store, leaving much of his invest
ments iu tlie business; and he says this to busi- his
sons . " Now j am going to leave
ness j n y0 ' ur bauds. while, Perhaps and lierhaps I may come not.
ba k iu a little
AVhile j am „ olle you will please to look
after affairs. ” After awhilo the father comes
back aud finds everything at loose ends, and
the whole business seems to be goiug wrong
no says: “1 am going; to lake posse won ol
this business—you know I never fully sur¬
rendered it; aud henceforth consider your¬
selves subordinates.” Is he uot right The in doing Lord
j(- ( Ho save; the business.
seems to let us go d on iii make life guided miserable by
our own sk m an we
work of it. God comes down to our
shop or our store and says: “Things lain are go
ing wrong; I come to take change, mas
ter, and I know what is best, and I proclaim
my authority.” like We boy are merely school subordi- with
nates. it is a at a
long sum that ho cannot do. He has been
working at it for hours, making figures aud hero all
and rubbing out figures there, it is
mixed up; and the teacher, looking over tho I
boy’s shoulder, i knows that he cannot get out j
0 f p an( clean ing the slate, u's. savs: “Begin
again.” .Turt so God does to Our aflhirs
gfet into an inextricable entanglement, “Begin and
Ha rubs eyervthing is Re out wise and and says: loving in
again I” not so
Join"?
adifferenoebetweentheDivineandthelmman J think the trouble is that there is so large
estimate as to what is enough. I have heard
c f people striving for that which is enough,
but I never heard of anyone who ha 1 enough,
What God calls enough for man, man calls
too little. What man calls enough, God says
is too much. The difference between a poor
man and a rich mm is only the differed e in
bunks. The rich man puts his money in the
Nassau Bank, or the Park Bank, or Milton
Bank, or some other bank of that eh imotor,
while the poor man comes up aud makes his
investments in the bank of Him who runs a i
the quarries, all the mines, all the gol J, all
the earth, all heaven. Do you think a man
can fail when he is backed up like that;
1 want to bring this truth close up to the
heart of those people in this audience who
have to calculate rigid economy, who are
perplexed how they will make tho old gar
ment hold out a little longer, with whom the
groat question is not which is the best inve t
ment or the most lucrative security, but h >w
shall I made tho two ends meet; To such
people I bring the con lolenee of this Chris
tian truth,
You may have seen a map on which Is de
scribed, with red ink, the travels of the chil
dren of Israel through the desert to the
Promised Land. You see how they tool; this
au l that dire tion, i ro.-s d the river and
went through tho sea. Do you know God
ha; ma le a map of your life, with paths lead
jug up to this bitterness aud that success,
through this river and aeros that .sea? But,
blessed be Goi! tho path always conies out
at tho Promise J Laud. Mark that! Murk
that!
I remark, again, that ail those things that
se mii to be but accidents n our life are under
the Divine supervision, \Ve sometimes seem
to be going helmli ss and am horless. You
say: “If If I I hai h" 1 some " other trade; if I had
not gone there this summer: if I had lived in
some other house.” You have no right to
say that. Every tear burden you wept, every have step
you have taken, every you rar
riel, i.s under Divine inspection, and that
event which startled your whole household
with horror, God met with perfe -t pla -idity,
because he knew it was for your good. It
was part of a great plan projected long
ago. In eternity, when you will come point to
r> kon up your mercies, you to
thal affliction as one of your greatest blo-s
tags. Go l has a strange wav W’itii us. Joseph
found his way to the Prime Minister’s chair
nv being pusned into a pit: and to many a
Christian down is up. The wheat must be
flailed; the quary must be blasted; the dia
mond must be ground; the Christian must lie
afflicted; and that single event, which you
viprs>- e 1 stood entirely alone, was a connect
fng link between two great chains, one and chain
reaching through all eternity past tin
jther other chain reaching through all eter-
3 ff y future, so small an event fastening two
eternities together. the
A missionary, coining from India to
United States, stopped at St. Helena while
the vessel was taking water. H^jtad his little
child with him. They walked along by an
embankm-nt. and a rock at that moment be
loosened, and fabi g instantly killed
child. Was it an accident; Was it n
surprise to Ged? Had He allowed His servant,
after a life of eonse ra’ion, to come to such a
trial? Not such is my Go L Th re are no
a .■ idents in the divine mind, though and they by
seem single so incident to us. God of is life, good, whe her it
our
he adverse or otherwise, before ear .hand
Heaven God w.ll demon-trate His iner v.
“I hear a man sa c: "That idea belittles
God. You bring Him down to -uch little
things” Oh: I have a mor- thorough have ap
pre }n iat ion of God in little things than 1
great things. The mother does uot wa t
... mashed its foot broken
until the child has or
its arm before she administers bruise, sympathy and
child comes in with the least
mother kisses it. Gol does net wait for
tremendous crisis in our life, but comes
to as iu our most insignificant trials,
anl throws over us the arms of His mer y.
Going tip the Whits Mountains so me years
I thought God of that pas-m re in mountains the Bible
that speaks of as weighing
in a balance. As 1 looked at th sc great
mountains l thought, can it be possible that
Go l < an put th s * great mountains in scales;
It was an idea ton great for me to grasp: but
when 1 saw a blue-b 11 dow n bv the mule’s
foot, on mv war up Mount Washington, thdn
1 muler-'tood the kindness aud goodnO'S of
God. I: is not so much of God in great
things I can understand, but of God in little
th ugs.
There is a man who says: “That doctrine
cannot be true, because things do go so very
wrong.” 1 renly, it is no inconsistency on
the part of God, but a lack of understanding
on our part. 1 hear that men are making
very fine shawls in some fa -tory. I go in on
the first floor and see only the raw materials,
an! I r.sk: “Are these the shawls 1 have
heard about:” the “No,’’says floor,” the manufacturer: l and
"go pp to next aud go up,
then I "Do begin to see the hire: design. But the the man
says: nit stop go up to top
flour of the factory, an l you will see the idee
fully carried out.” l do so, amt having conn:
exquisite to thy top. shawl. see the^complete So in our pattern lite, standing of an
down on a low level of Christian experience,
we do not understand God’s dealings. He
tells us to go up higher, until we begin to
understand the divine meaning with respect
to us and we advance until we stand at the
very gate of Heaven, aud there see God's
id a all wroughtout—a perfect idea of mercy,
of love, of kindne-s. Aud we say: ‘‘Just and
true are all Thy ways.” It is all right at the
bottom. Kemeuiber there is no inconsistency
on the part of God, but it is only out lnenl*.
an So:he 1 spiritual incapacity. have been diappointed _ this
of you
summer-va ations are apt to be disappoint
ments,but whatever have been your perplex- “Man’s
ities and worriments, know that
heart devissth his way. but the Lord di
recteth his steps.” Ask these aged men in
tb s church if this is not so. It
has been I so started in my for own the life. Adiron- .One,
summer changed
darks, but my plans were so
that I landed in Liverpool. I studied law,
and I got into the ministry. I ro olved to go
as a missionary to China, and I stayed in the
United States. I thought I would liko to be
in tho East, and I went to the West—all the
circumstances of life, all my work, different
from that which I expected. “A man’s heart
deviseth his way, but tho Lord direetoth his
steps.” dear friends, this day take , home
So, subject my Bo content with such things
this at
you have. From every grass blade under
your feet learn the lesson of Divine care, and
never let tho smallest bird flit Across your
path without thinking of the truth that “five
sparrows are sold for two farthings, and not
one of them is forgotten before God.” Blessed
bo His glorious name forever. Amen.
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French Fun.
Paris at night. Two rogues while
waiting on a dark corner for a belated
pedestrian pass the time in conveisa
tion.
“The newspapers are right,” remarks
one, “when they say there is no longer
any security that?” in the streets at night.”
•‘How is
“Why, o last evening two police¬
men were after me and I barely escaped
being captured.”
At the dentist’s:
“Well, doctor, what do you think of
my teeth?”
“.My dear sir, they are simply magnifi¬
cent. ”
“Well, then, what do you propose to
do about them?”
“Ob, very little. It will only be nec
es-ary to extract about ten of them, and
the rest I can fill.”— Graphic TrrnuU
tion.
THE WILY MUSKRAT.
How the Little Animal is
Trapped by Night.
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Jhe Muskrat/s TT'mnts nnd Habits, and
Use to Which His Skin is Put
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Many a young lady who moves around
hi tho proiind possession of a presumed
sealskin cap or muff is very grievously
mistaken. Tho articles in question, in
nine cases out of ten, never saw Alaska
in any form. New Jersey or ’Maryland
furnished the material to make them, for
the hide of the despised and humble
mttsktat, when dressed by skillful hands,
nKVktfc the best imitation of sealskins, an
iffutafton so close, that the true is only
separated from the false after the most
careful examination. It is an equally
egregious error to imagine that the New
Jersey fisherman becomes dormant in
winter time. On the contrary, ho is
wideawake and occupies his timetvap
I ’» mskrats. 1 he salt mai sites on
lino of the Jersey coast are full of musk
, . , to i,
rjcs > ,lna 1110 SU P1”7 sc - m3 to lie e mi x
haustilhle. Muskrats are naturally herb
morons, • ri.i l licy p Icctl i on , lanU , anatt.iui i . .
plants alike, in some instances using j
roott . ana , Hunt. , 1 hoy arc noted ,
>,
enemies of the “bottom "round" farmer,
‘
fo - it .. . . lus , . fields .» ,, that , most -
> is in corn grows x
plentiful, and on that cereal muskrats
.
iovu to leul. 1 hey eat com at any time
after it is planted, ! tukiii" ° tile seed from
tile ground or the young plant , from the ,
furrow. Tho greatest damage ”, is done
alter the well formod. - . 1 heir . looil , .
car is
} s , 10 t entirely J vegetable forinwintcr
°
and eaily spring they subsist .. to a great .
extent on the flesh of river mussels. The
muskrat does not out ....... of his lair
come in
the daytime, ’ save on rare occasions,
Sometimes on very dark cloudy days lie
may be seen swimming across the pond
or down the stream with his hood just
above water. It is an ugly vicious look
ln ff animal with white claws and long
white teeth. lie is a fair swimmer and
his capacity for staying under water is
extraordinary, llis homo, if the stream
or pond has a high bank, is a little hol¬
low place under ground, five or six feet
from the water’s edge, and the entrance
is under water. The hallway, after it
has penetrated the bank, curves gradual¬
ly upward, and at its end, in his snug
little subterranean chamber, the muskrat
spends his day sleeping or in storing away
food for winter. It makes the trapper
happy when he finds tho entrances to
these houses. When ho finds one lie
places his trap just in the entrance. If
the rat is caught he will probably drown,
as tho weight of the trap and his efforts
to escape will tiro him, and ho will sink
water, A favorite method of
catching the n_ at in his own house is
fco cut off the top of his domicile and
bury the trap in tho centre of his mossy
bod. The box trap is the favorite one'
for streams, as it is easily made, and sev¬
eral rats are often captured in a single
night. It consists of a long straight box,
made with entrances at both ends large
enough to admit a muskrat easily. In
tho ends are fixed gates made of stout
wire, slanting toward tho inside of tho
box which can bo lifted up easily by tho
rat going in but cannot be opened out¬
wardly. The box is sunk in the middle
of a stream and securely anchored by big
stones being placed on its top. Then
stakes are driven from the box to each
side of the stream. The muskrat finds
his way barred by the stakes, swims into
the trap, discovers lie cannot get out,
and drowns. The muskrat is no coward.
1T he is taken on dry ground and tho
jaws of the trap have caught his log pret
t.y well flown near the toe, the rat not
being able to pull away will gnaw oil his
leg just above where the trap holds it.
When found alive he lights desperately
and requires many a blow on the head to
silence him. When there is no other
wav of escape, he makes a dash at the
trapper’s leg, and if he once catches hold,
his sharp white teeth sink into tins hone
and his strong jaws cling to tho unfortu¬
nate hunter with the tenacity of a bull¬
dog. The great trapping grounds for the
muskrat, however, are along the lovv
lands of Dorchester county, Maryland,
bordering Fishing Bay and its numerous
tributaries, especially the Black water and
Nausqunkin rivers. These marshes em¬
brace portions of Lakes, Strait-, Draw¬
bridge and Bucktown districts, and in
area cover thousands of acres. The fur
of the muskrat, which is of two kinds,
brown and black, the black being the
most valuable, is sold to traveling deal¬
ers for twelve to eighteen cents per skin.
About 75,000 skins have been sold in
Dorchester county this season, and the
trappers are still busy. But no stripling
can hope to embark in the muskrat-trap¬
ping business for it is one of hardship
and exposure, and the returns are small
indeed. —New York Mail aul Erpre.nn.
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lie Wauled a Remnant.
“I understand you are offering some
remnants for sale,” said an Arkansaw
man to a dry goods clerk.
“Yes, sir, wc have some choice rent
r.ants, which we ars offering very
cheap.” for dog.”
“Wal, I want a remnant my
“For your dog?”
“Y:is, you see, some feller’s cut my
dog’s tail off, an’ I thought eff yer had a
rem nantof a yaller bull dog I mout find
ap 1 j ecc ’ a t’d fit ."—GoodaWn Han.
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Cattle Stampedes.
“It la surprising,” says Mr. John T\.
Sullivan, “what a trilling thing will
start a stampede that may cost many
lives and the loss of hundreds of cattle
before it can bo controlled. 1 was com¬
ing up the Texas trail once with a party
of other cowboys. We had 4,000 cattle
in the, bunch. One of the boys opened
his tobacco-pouch to get a chew. The
wind blew a shred or two of the line cut
out of his fingers. The tobacco floated
away and lodged in a steer’s eye. In a
moment the eye began to smart, and the
steer got wild. Its antics started others,
and in ten seconds the whole herd was
surging and dashing about, out of all
control. It was two days before we got
the herd working quietly again. Two
of our best boys were trampled to death,
and 4,000 cattle were lost.
“Hail-storms are greatly dreaded by
cowboys on the trail, especially if they
come at night when the cattle are sleep¬
ing. If a hailstone happens to strike a
steer in the eye a stampede is sure to
follow, lie springs to his feet, and in
thrashing around tramps on the tails of
others. They jump in paiu. The herd
is alarmed, and before anything can be
done the whole herd are oil like a flash.
The bark of a coyote, when everything
is still at night, is sufficient to stampede
a herd. A blade of grass, blown along
by the wind, frequently strikes u steer in
the eye. The pain that follows will set
him wild, and he can soon have the herd
on the run across country at a twenty
mile an hour gate.
“it is during stampedes the cowboy
lias work to do. llis one great object is
to keep the flying herd together. He
urges iiis mustang dead against the ad¬
vancing column of frantic cattle at the
constant risk of his life, and works the
cattle gradually in a circle. The cow¬
boys all vide to the right around a stam¬
peding herd. If they can get the cattle
to running in a circle, the flrst impor¬
tant step in controlling them is accom¬
plished. I have been with a party in a
stampede when we were obliged to l ido
around a herd for a distance of over 200
miles before we got it under control,and
then it was only twenty-live miles from
where the stampede started. In all that
time not one of us took a moment’s rest
or a bite to eat. Such things can’t be
thought of during a stampede.”
Ear-tore.
Cutting off the ears was among the
Homans the common punishment of
thieves, pillagers of temples, fugitives
and slaves, a survival of which was to be
traced in the English mode of lopping
off the cars of public offenders whilst
standing in the pillory down to compara¬
tively recent times. Another Homan
practice was the pulling of witnesses’
ears in a court of law as a reminder of
the gravity of their situation when vacil¬
lating or hesitating in their evidence.
Children’s ears were likewise wont to bo
pulled or soundly “boxed” by their mas¬
ters. Another custom was the wholesale
stuffing up of the ears of offending gen¬
tlewomen in time of war. This was es¬
sentially of Homan origin, first brought
under British notice by the followers of
Julius Cicser; and thenceforth frequently
perpetrated by the soldiery, particularly
during the English subjugation of Wales,
until it in line time gave way to less
sportive and infinitely more barbaric
practices. Time-honored though these
several observances may appear, they
must nevertheless be regarded as modern
side by side with one that carries us
back to the primitive periods of Jewish
history. This was the boring of the car
of every slave who, his term of servitude
having expired (six years), yet declined
to claim his freedom, preferring * ^ to re
main with ids lord and family for an
indefinite . , ,, .. period. -ii In such i a case his i •
master was bound to take him to the
door-post, and there bore his ear with
an awl, as a sign of his voluntary at¬
tachment to that house.-— Ronton Budget.
A llcsperule More.
“John,” she said to the young man
who had been courting her for five long
years; “John, I sat for my
photograph to-day. I suppose yon want
one?”
"On, yes, indeed.
“Iiy the way, John, I had them taken
espeeial'y for some friend* in California,
and they want my authograph on Hie
cards. , Now, , John, , , I , don’t , ,, know , wheth- ...
cr to sign my maiden name, or wait a
few months until after I am mar
ried. I suppose you do intend to
get married in a few months; don’t you
John.”
It was a desperate move, but she
won, and in two months both will
be made one.— Philadelphia Herald.
Mot High Enough for That.
“Oh, papa,” exclaimed a little boy pas¬
senger with bis face to the window, “what
a great high hill that is!”
“Yes, my son, said the man, with a
weary look in his face and crape on his
hat, “it is very high. That is a moun¬
tain, Arthur.”
“Shall we get off the cars and go and
climb up the high mountain, papa?”
“Oh. no; why should we do that, Ar¬
thur.”
“’Cause, pa, I didn’t know but maybe
we might climb to the top and then look
up and see mamma. Do you think we
could ?”—Chicago LluaUL
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