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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1891)
REV. DR. TALMAGE. IKE BROOKLYN Um\E’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Stab.ff-CT: “Other Sheep I Ha ve.” Text: ''Other sheep I have which arc not of this fold .”—John x., 10. There is no monopoly in religion. The grace ot God is not a nice little property fenced oflE all for ourselves. It is uot a king's park, gateway, at which wishing we look through a barred the flowers and Joolt wo might the go deer m and and pluck at the statuary. It is a father’s orchard, aud (here are bars to let down and gates to swingopen. In my boyhood d ys, next to the country schoolhonsa where I want, there was an apple orchard lame of great who luxuriance, did gather owned the by a very man not apples, and they went to waste by scores ot bushels. Sometimes the lads of the school, in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from oor first parents, who fell through the same temptation, would climb over the fence and S’snstjassfsswa take after these lads and shout, “Boys, drop guard over the Church of God. They have God sa^ssrsssaasrssi would like to have all the people come and take the richest and the ripest fruit, a ud the more they take the better He likes it. But there are those who stand with a hard and severe nature guarding the Church of God, and all apples the time afraid that some will get these when they really ought not tohave them. Have you any idea that because you were baptized at eight months of age. and because you have all your life been surrounded by hallowed influences, you have a right to one whole side of tho Lord’s table, spreading yourself will out have so nobody haul else can sit there? for You to in your elbows, there will cornea great multitude to sit at the table and on both sides of you. You are M.erssaE ( Scotch °McDonKW, hills the Scotohmao, flock of has McDonald en the has four a five great thousand sheep. held sheep, or of Some are browsing on the heather, some are on the hills, some are in the vaUeys, a few are in the yard. One day Cameron comes hive over to McDonald and says: “McDonald, you thirty sheep. I have been counting them.” “Oh, thousand.” no!” says McDonald. “Ah!” “I Came- have fouror five says ron, “you are mistaken. I have just counted them. There are thirty.” “Why,” is all the says sheep Me Donald, “do you suppose that So Christ comes. Here is a group hlrf of SnsfhTre ST*. Melodist Is^a Presbyterian fold, here is aBa-itist fold, here is a Lutheran fold, and we make our annual EfeeSHe EHEfffSyiSs says-^ 3 'You 0 have not Ss ev£s±s£ valleys. Do think and in all the you Ke^cnThavT? 5 a mL 'ThereTa^fnml- numbS Other mode no cm fold.” Aesp have I whichareno^oi* -: 11 V taxi talks T tho toav sion ^»“r»He *rfo^ the idea that His people will come from all ^stances parts of the earth, from all cnajlttans ages, from all cir from aU “Other ^lu^he 1 Bh^hM&many"Hi^heepamonl fiist nlace I remark the Heavenly Miose who are at present non-churchgoers. wdUin'da h gEC”'Kwul;“i™?£S7' reminds of church those made skeleton up only plants r rh1 of church you from which by chemical pi eparation all tie white and delicate ^nd beautiful and finished. All that is wanted is agJasscaseput over thcin. The minister on SShrash eff th^dust^hat has 1 ai“ cumulated in the last six days of business, and then they are as cold and beautiful and dencatoas before. Every ing is ’ ^cWtectme ^Another- 1 finished m-erything^ ainarinory, ' the church is fika rrhV^rrwmv^Wo^yTth^Ft git ‘Tlome in and yonc equipment Is Here is the bath in which you are to €ro^ y'ouv t^hf t e Ts heart, ttm here b^^ato is the ^ou are to put over your sword vou are to take in your right hand and fight dis battle with. Quit yourselves like ^Th'ere arc those here, perhaps, who say, 2&S3Zi£2iSaZ2t»£$ liSI&g S HI'Z' tU thft isthat aregoinf to the firstand you “Oh,” become E the Lord’s sheep. iftXiSJ you say, ♦hfnlr^rfthafc a Vfu!Sn« kind ” I know all about your case I have been up and down the world, I know why some of you do not attend upon C /“ tortS. make another ■ ud announce ment n regard to you, and that is, you are not hour° only 1U God°is to become^he f^rffs dieep^but gracioiiy you going to call you by Thif°Sf-^°S„S t t fold of Christ. This seimon snail not_be bc so so preached to tlfem^bundrchs and thousands of tones. The sermon that I preach now is go ing to bechiefly for those who consider toetnc fn^tlie fAivist-Sn °hous^ r a n^the chief employment of fray foTth^wfo nponle here to-dav accustomed will be to are not to attend upon rSsL Christiansanctuari^t to minister ieces oftheGospe^ofwhom^ehaveaUraad.^ on Mara why did-that brave SeT P for plenty and preparing wkjtoj^done them food? There Ah™hit was jat k^w on 0 braTO niib that there were fad, pill a-y: . Yonder t isa nian. toe, y - a to"” g in the -wav oar bia’es brad ™u of the oarsmen. Then they come Sdw“h^otttosea. m dfiwu.mm But thSTldr. hw-inr Ancient to the ?fc|i : T ^ vef ng FuUnway, my lads! puff away !" Tbly «® e «P. and ho HoH now Stodri'stesdri Kow-dvems Thank vour hand, God. Wp- Thank God, he is saved! saved!” / ««"While - . „ •: Ko there ^ £ TOm7OT“toWtoem, ^me^re.fwept raaclx them -and off _swept off before we can toere toere are ^ ypeiT ty** ®}*?* ^ace^o; - ^ ^ among -^ to 5“j* «me of torfl Wtahfc^re i ^-T nStrf t^s - fold” ' the DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVIlsLE, GEORGIA. lilliiBI OhWstian sympathizers aud de vnnml#»d hv vout men will carry you to your burial when your work is done, and these words will ba chiseled for your epitaph: ‘-Precious in the smht of the Lord is the death of His saints-” And all that history is going to begin to- of I day “Other sheep have I which are not this fold ” I A oain r remark- th- Hsaveniv Shepherd is L, to find many of His sheep among i I th who are now rei-eters of Christianity Chris , donot know how vou know-' can etoreject ti Hy i do not whether it was tbi-ough hearing Theodore Parker preach, or w u e *w it was reading Renan’s “Life of septic T „ n whether it was throiwh some in the store or factory. Or it may be _prabablyis ‘ 4.. the case-that you were dis , ,.„u c j nn distrusted with (’•i-ristianitv becau-e some man who pro t d to be a Christian defrauded you, and v,iv heinn-a member of the church, and you taking him as a representative of the Chris ,■ relie-ion you said “Well if that’s re want miy of it.’’ 1 do not know how you came to reject 5fc,2'«s. , aas^r5. divine being although , s.aa that Christ was a ssJs&i you be true—I nevertheless think the earlier part J tell ^tsx: mein regard Uoy Nevertheless they to vo ” „ that vou are an accommodating, you an obliging person. If I should come to £fe vou an a ask of vou a favor you would grant it were naiwibfe It would be a joy for / to grant me a favor. If any of vour riends ca me to you and wanted an accom modation and you could accommodate them, how clad you would lie! N t eo j ne to ask ot you a favor. I wan t J vou to oblige me. The accom mo la tion w iU cost you nothing, and you will give — eat happiness. Of course yon will not deny me I want you as an expei iment to stfndthetest .ho Christian diseardlt; relieion If it does not if it does, receive •, fod I tkt a bottle et mehuhne tram nj pocket and said, Here ' ,^5 sure will help you’.ithas cared fifty people J ou w ? ul c J st ^ o?i V h?»L denceAn it; . they toll me these edt will fail me. Well, hav^io as °. £ .vveii ^7 lt J ^ “I ‘ objection to trying; it, if It wifi K K any sat- . fraction to'jou I wUl^try it. You*«*>*• Now you ara sick tu ’ - ■ • It ou are not happy. You laugh^sometimes when you are nnscratii.e Ihereco.nesni es »r t , avnI1 -f anv faith in it ” of aceommodaUon let me in fa-oduce vmt to the Lord Jesus Cn 1 st, the m/Sth in Him WeU iw’will r i iwsa KdicodTSaVwo's^kiu| ssffisras i ;zsss,z ss ™ham iffszjgqx Newton, philosopher 1, ke, the aph; the as - m u I,' a> - ^ v ni-e-iched—tbev , i V .v r ! * d t » re ach—but they oomt* out arid ^“^fi^ris^as^ramfort the electrician’s wne, and mother^the pm- j to all the veo- I ' ask to take the advice of clergy io " ot you I '->■ J l ^ ^« thH y u yo said against the Bible: it does not make any difference to me are ^ p ronfinent hi seraiar affairs, as these men dom i have mentioned and others who ™«edl“ 4 S''a i naturafskeotte » 1 ^"scoffed. * k ®P r have i d t kno w what the first word was that I uttered after entering the world, but I ““ whenl'doubted times doubted the exit the divinity of Christ, when I doubted the immortality of the soul, when I doubted my own existence, when I doubted everything. I have been ouclu Wl’ma nothing new abmR it I have come out from a great Sahara desert mto the cam, warm, sunshiny land of the haTbeenthera Yo°n c^teU me nothing new other about condition it. of A,jd wh.ch I know you all do about not know the anything—the peace, the comfort the joy, IS scoffing in regard to it. . . . fifty “.V~“ links, and when i ™.‘72 they ."?SSt had out runi t h eu there was nothing to touch tlie depth X j ot deor ^ he vvould bunt, amid the bushes and the brakes ionger tor the lost j had'thfddlrlnm tremens twice be cannot be cured. They s ny if a wu.nan has fallen from integrity ^^nnot bejeda^ned.^ A^ of rt«r. an own"^^ “ “'SlitafeLa man fa]Jen? Well, I cannot give you the exact figures, but I can toll you at what P" 1 ?®? and ninety Hmts. times? Whvdo’ /suv tour luiudred and ninety Because the Bible says seventy timw seven. Now fig ur e that out, you who do not think a man ^fal^tour f Zr'tt 3red times, and yet be Why saved. Four hundred and ninety tim^s! there is a great ^ ^of^toquTty thev'irar? wiisheii'^ot ^ bjdy 1 and°w^hed > of mind and washed of soul, and they are be there is no chance for him. perance pledge thing will to^do not save No you, but although God it is a grant one can ! SSSf oStC aprithecaryca:. mix. Put you trust in God! After the church has cast you off. and toe bank has eutyM off. and social cirries have , J} . faU off, at ^you off, and mother has east yon your first cry for ! help God will bead clean down to toat ditch ! h?n“ime^hr^e I a TteT Ly to ?n this ib^ trembles so w.th dissipation they could harfiy hold a hymn boo ,. 1 say to such if ! ye? ^Youw'iil ommuaioti yeT mwJ'of “ymL Tarry'toe bo vril? j C acceptable through every!,Hy ths aisles, an t you rSSSt be S' ^JT&S%TVtSt to bjeaj* ; eruxvi man. wholly c-onsecrated. Your buti- Rlllgfl: know what the tvo^pel is. It ea,i scale any height, it can fathom any depth, it can com- why pass any infinity. I think one reason there are not more people saved is we do not^ swing the door wide enough open. Now there is only one class of persons in , this house about whom I have any despond- i ( eney, and that is those wno have been hear ing the Gospel for perhaps outward twenty, life thirty, moral, ; forty years Their is . but they tell Christ, you frankly have .not they trusted do not Him. lovetlie have j I not been born again by the spirit of (Jod. They are Gospal hardened. 1 lie Gospel has no more effect upon them than the shining of the moon on the city pavement. the publicans and the harlots go into the king- . dom of God before they. They went through, ! some of them, the revival of 3857, when 500,- I 000 souls were brought, to God. Some ot them went through great revivals in individual churcUos. Stilt unpardouel. unblessed, Gospel uu saved. They were merely spectators. will hear that hardened! After awhile we they are sick,.and then that they ore dead, and then that they died without any hope. 'isrtsszs,**.*-****** five sermons in five years. 1 his whole sab are not Gospel hardened. The whole subject past! Oh, the graves I stumbled over Whither shall I fly? The tuture isso dark, so dark, so very dark! God help me! Oh, I am so gl id tor that last utterance I That was a prayer, mid as soon as you be gin to pray that turns all heaven tats way, and God steps in, and He beatsmektho hounds of temptation to the.r kennels and He throws all around the pursued *out tne covert of His pardoning mercy, i beam something fall. What was it? It was the bars around around the the rfuwpfold, sbeepfoid. the Ihe bars Heave of the nl y fence fall, and the hunted sheep Shepherd let them of the mountain come brambles, bounding and m, others some with fleece torn of the bounding with feet lame from the dogs, but f ■*" 1 wb ©very *11, ^^tftionof-ttoy.who opportunity of salvation, but rejected had mulwho wrote or dictated these words: “Before you receive this my final state will be determined. Iain thro wing my last stake eternity, and tremble ana shudder for the important issue. Oh, my friend, with what, horror do I recall tho hours of vanity ^ bav0 wasted together; but I have a splen- and d id passage to the grave. I die in state, languish under a gilded canopy. I am ex pIr f ng ousoft and downy pillows, servants and and am fegpeetfuUy attended by my himalf And which of these will bail.me from at°Z“ntem^TI bearing my just condemnation at a supreme tribunal. Adieu!” Revolutionary Widows. The last Revolutionary soldier died years and years ago. But the Revolu tiouary widows are still with us. Twenty venerable women whose husbands “fit for American independence are carried r£jsr« rolls. It is amazing «*«» « «. At the pretent time Uncle Sam is disbars | ing §38,847 a year to the old soldiers of I the w in-- K1.v n,. old .soldiers of the war of 1813 an? iw ing in pensions the snug sum of $1 M »3, annually. When we get .town to the Mexican war we find the survivors a little the best of it . They draw §1,728 , 027 « year. The Mexican War widows creeptng „ ot $695,054. But the widows arc up on the survivors. It will he only a few years until the Mexican War widows will be drawing more pension way «?*•••»*» the pension laws work out At ;> if the Pension Office this is well understood. lt is cx P ,aincd ia a feW W ° rdS ' Thc ° W pensioners marry young wires and leave them their blessings and pensions. The pensioners of thc Civil War will reach their maximum in numbers eight or ten years from now if 'there arc no more pen siob laws enacted. But thc widows’list will keep on growing for a quarter of a century. Fifty years from now there will not be a Grand Army man living. Seventy-five years from now a grateful Republic will still be reimbursing widows for what their husbands suffered at Gettysburg and Chickamauga. Women are yet to be born who will beoo e w - f lows of old soldiers and draw pensions for their husbands’services in the war of 1861-5. , , £*,1 p*«,«,»'»• "XXJXtSS n*. n» figures will bo reversed in twenty years, §13 Xfincty-eic-ht thousand widows draw a month. Last year the Civil War pen sioners drew §71,877,619. 1 lie Civil \y ar widows drew §19,006,857, total. more than one-fourth of the magnificent - Washington Letter. \ „ Old Fable Bent Asunder. storIcS of n ‘? theM thair children into the , Ganges is all a says a returned missionary. “I never saw it done, or any one who claimed to have seen it done, or, in .’to., ever heard there of its being done. It is only in England and America that i evcr heard of it. Children arc loved there just as much as they a.c here. Motherhood is honored more. u The story 0 f men throwing them selves into the Ganges in fits of religious aldy^^originaUrd 5 CI frcmi^the fact^that at t!lt; „ rea t festival held where the Ganges emerges from the mountains into the plain, called the‘Gate of God, in tho were pushed^ and crowded into the IheGov- stream by accident swept precautions away. i ernment n0 w takes to pre fiuch ^ualties. That such things might easily happen you can see for vourself when I tell you that I saw at ' 2,000,000 ‘ ia 1864 hf . fc8tival over 1 people there, according to the Govern meat estimate, at one time. When you remember that this festival was to cele brate the completed course of the con stellations of the zodiac through the heavens, and tiiat the ceremonial of batbl j ns , \ u th : river was to be per formed at a sign from the priests tiiat the course of the constellations was completed) you *-,11 wonder that such «»»• tent.”— Chicago Seat. HUNTING ( i „.. BUFFALO. ,„L.. American . _ DcSCf t. ail Twib Small Herds of Buffalo k Sighted in Wyoming. T'to miserable mouths on a dreary so gi Sent of Sahara, two bnllitJo hides, DS ° d AOs , W = till Hie f , mioi i ort j, nun. orus 0 f the w j]d L. i)W of the prairies. Till's in bnei fe the history ot the . cxpljits , .. .< nn e edition of great hopes organ jze ’ Liunarie, A\ yonimy. last , Ail- , ’ 111 UH . t . r j s !nber to November. The party inolu odd. C. Bobbin*. Jack nin Hill, je r ai 4 K e n cv Willis Woodruff and ™ ». ^ j< t my capture the "'": hand or pro was o >.* «-**... ««■ |r ,j| no ,- t {, ,,, the Union Pacific ill the -...... ‘ - on t |, e Raraillie plains 1 a bui ranch similar to the preserve Ot < ’ Bes ,lcal Hunhn l, “ U1U1 CilV ' J has. , , 0 iecl has been abandoned after • a t full ot incident. ounlc oiLlight storms made trav (> 1 u.-u-ult, and , thoy , were two weeks . | tho desert was yeaclnld. They skirted the northern edge if v tho waste by , of , ICC III way ....... tel .j u ,, then plunged into the ex pause 1 " St adventure tvns the meet.ng 0 f tel. lodges of Arapahoe Indians, who had come out into the desert to hold •feme sort of a powwow, The reds ere friendly and told the hunt¬ ers otlake where they could camp and b, r c ionably certain of sighting the . , biflalo i . . hi y sought. so r i . Tile I be hliulers linn 11 travelit- directed and readied tho ey crossed seventy miles <f veritable ba 1 land—a broken Count.- without vegetation and with scarcelt any water. They remained j here ei^ht days, hunting all the time, j Dui iig breakfast the first morning Hill sig ned a herd of buffalo with his fu ld glasses. The bunch numbered fifteen iim tl,. y were grazing quietly, Before i he hunters could get into action tlie gnu > had disappeared and was not found o aii A few dav- later they cany* magnificent hull, four r - The In chm g them. They shot to frighten him off! and were altogether too suc¬ cessful' in this direction. Hill roped one of the cow's. The animal w.-rieil herself so that she died after being “hog tied.” A buffalo will struggle till completely exhausted ami rarely recovers. The only other capture was that of another cow, which soon suc¬ cumbed to the necessitated choking. Bobbins satisfied himself that this herd was not from the National Park, as has been so often reported of late. The Indians told him that in 1884 the herd numbered 300. Three years later it contained hut 100 and is now not over 2' The reds killed many and , the veu offer ffied during the severe { " inter 1889-90. , Dm i ; their desert travels tlie bun j ters . countered several herds of wil(l l)tll , es . They were the regular ; Illllgl SfH|Iiall nlld 8p j rIt0ll aiul i ook . unkempt . then . . wmtci . . - mg in i.ntt s. R„bl,i n-. manager of thc expedition, snvs ho has had enough buffalo hunt. - ... ..... . ll ;« ..... ......"■ -rs... »«»«•■«> ......... Mntjc Cannon for Washington. A histone property known as the , Warwick farm, near St. Peter’s, Flies, ter county, Penn., was sold the other week. The old Warwick furnace which .vas one of Hie chief attractions of the iarm is conceded to have been the firsi L in tl»c United States find was 1 ” a , t about the year 1766. At ... t tills . furinace weie east , in . t j cannon used in the revolutionary war bv the |, jcoiltiiicnlal army, Although u j 1 t b( ,,. tl j M operation 1 for some i . ,, bmid.ntrs ... of the , principal . years, many about Urn f uijmtRo ; art: kt|H sllcpdiiig j,, ;1 gooiUtatc'of ’.ntifc’ pi e» i va?ion. j lh? Va^ows -by. many | pi .dc.horh-A having j |>een se- iTled in that way by Hie man a „ ers of thp fubtmee.in o’rilor to p re t faffing into tlie hands of the in 1 777. AtWUW < ’™«> *' » “ “ ington retreated witti’hls ti oops noi til ir(l 0,,-ougli Chester fiounty, thus ^ MjtorUnl if0li furnace expose}* j t oJlllc A* , n ercy Of the ienerny. | tl 1876 several of th- se cannons were , Jag np ;a..d sent to Philadelphia a, ex , j i{g in ■ the centennial exposition. Others Dave fieeussfiriflo Pao'i, Valley Forge ! eipnwhcre'-as -kBA The, ; ; ,j -.fhr-'faraace’ iti 1777 aml tis* W’ ;1frv for he r:v veur ** i* now kept ’*i ‘tWvh*..tri ljidcpi ii de • JLJl Philadelphia. — A-h ‘-igo u id J The Most ltojietifnl Picture. “ITliat impressed you most of all that you saw in Europe?” I recently asked a friend who had j«-t returned from a year of trnvol extending from Amsterdam to Naples, and taking in tlie chief points of interest, in ling land, Holland, Belgium. 1-Yanoe, tier many, Switzerland and Italy, lie hes¬ itated a moment, and theu he said: “The thing that really affected me most, I think, was r. picture I saw in Home. it wasn’t by liaphael or Michael Angelo or Titian or Murillo; in fact, it wasn’t a painted, but a liv¬ ing picture. Nor was it in a palace, surrounded by luxurious accessories. “It was just a simple little composi¬ tion in a homely cottage doorway—a humble mother, sitting upon the top step, winding into a ball a skein of yarn that her boy, a sturdy little curly haired fellow of seven or eight years, held out over his two hands stretched apart. There was a tender look in the mother’s eyes and a contented, happy expression in the face of tho child that took me back forty years to a pretty little home in a Massachusetts village, where, in n doorway not unlike that one, I sometimes sat with the*skein of yarn over my outstretched arms, and my dear old mother wound it into a hall. “I could not quite see my mother and myself in these Italian faces, so far as physical resemblance was con¬ cerned, in*' the content, the freedom from cor old of that beautiful time in life th\ never is half appreciated until it is past. That picture, my friend, of all that i saw. was what impressed me most, None of the royal pageantry 1 witnessed, none of the miles of glowing canvasses 1 looked upon, none of the interesting historical scenes 1 visited, presented anything to compare with it.”—[New York fxtar. Perpetual Fire. There exist still n few—-a very few contrivances for this perpetual tire in our churches; they go hy the naiuo of cresset stones. The earliest I know is not in England but in tlie atrium outside tin- remarkable church of Si Ainbrogio at Milan, It is a block of white marble on a moulded base, now broken, hut handed logo ter with iron. It stands three feet ten inches high and i two feet six inche in di ter at top It consists i f ii Hid. sui m r *. ■*<•** depressed , eiij.-iiicc . wiiien are nine hollows. These were originally tilled with oil and wicks were pi» ed in them and ignited. In England one is still in situ, in the church of Lcwannik, in Cornwall. There it is not far from the door. It consists of a circular block containing on its fiat upper surface, which is twenty-two inches across, seven enp like hollows lour and a half inches deep. The stone stands on a rudely moulded base, octagonal, and is in all about two feet six inches high, in Furness Abbey, among the ruins, 1ms been found another, with five cups in it; at Calder Abbey another, with six teen such cups for oil and wicks. At York is another with six such lire cups, and at Stockholm another with the same number, in a square stone table. At Wool Church, Dorset, is again another example lmilt into the south wall of a small chapel on the north side of the chancel, it. is a block of Furbcek marble, and has in the top live cup-shaped cavities quite blackened with the oil and smoke. In some of the examples there arc traces of a metal pin around which the wick was twisted.— fCornhill Magazine A Poisonous Liquid. The New York Telegram says: f ( , w , r . p.rown-Scquard, w hose ,. . ()f , jfl . callH ,.q HW H i,ort-Iived a sensation, is reported to have lately nfonned the French Academy of’ 8ci ence tiiat hy condensing the watery vapor corning from the human lungs he obtained a poisonous liquid capable of producing aim' t immediate death. ‘The poison is an alkaloid (organic), and not a microbe or series of mi ,. 1 . 1)i „. u . He, injected this liquid under th(J hki „ fl rabbit, and the effort was m . ir , a 1 without convulsions.’ |f this alari(lill g discovery doe, not ,| ihroura!f( , ,| 1(! prie fi.-e of kissing, it ou( , llt at lend, to emphasize the ne,,--. %;t fol . vcijkuing the upartmciifs ifi -he public halls, theatres and ehnrches (q,ei frequent. Eyes Reveal the Horse's Temper. The horse has no eyebrows The appearance of much white in the eye of a horse indicates a vicious nature, boi :ause a high-tempered horse looks constantly about, apprehensive of danger or desiring to do mischief. The quick motion of the eyeball in op posite directions exposes an unusuuily J 'if i surface of white, which thus be s an evidence of tlie temper of the animal.—[New York Journal An Essay on Vo me* I read a brilliant essay On Fame tin 1 other day; Tim scrim attacked the subject In a most decisive way. She said (for 'twao a woman) That glory was a snare, An ignis fatmis leading through deadly swamps of care. She likened it to bubbles That tempt the childish eye, Hut shatter soon as captured, And into nothing tly. The love of praise, she added, Betokened silly pride. And throve in natures little And impudent beside. And when this witty woman Had quite demolished lame, She closed iter brilliant essay, And—signed in full her name I J George Horton in Chicago Herald HUMOROUS. “lie was generous to a fault” when the fault was his own. When aerial ships come in wo shah have tly time nil tho year round. The wills of strong minded men cannot ho broken until thoy die. He—What, makes the dining roo o so cold, dear? She—I think, love, it must he the frieze on the wall. Citizen—Did the amputation do the man any good? Doctor—Oh, no, but it was a beautiful operation. Hearts with a Single Thought. When a girl is in love she always . thinks the young man is perfect, and tie agrees with her. Customer (entering hook store) Have you “Thoughts of Women?’’ Clerk (absent-mindedly)—Yes, ma’in, I’ve been engaged a week. Father—“Is that stranger who calls to see yon a mail of regular habitsV” Daughter “Yes, indeed, pa. Ho «»■ rives every night promptly at 8.” Sarah Bernhardt has tho reputation of being very thin, indeed, but even she cannot compare with tho excuses some men limko when they stay oit* late at night. “This is a dollar store, isn’t it?” asked Rustieus, as he presented him¬ self. “No, sir,” replied the toller so vorely,“tiffs isabauk ” “Well, what’s I he difference ?” A story at hand, dese.ra love seen, hetty. th< and heroine, says: Gl¬ wooei with a will.” That’s a good \V <> v e*i»“,dully it jjoer w dm ami uie win is m t«w i favor. An Amazon River Phenomenon Shortly after the tide had stopped running out, they saw something corn¬ ing toward them from the ocean in i long white line, which grew biggei and whiter as it approached. Then Ulur( , w . )8 a HOnnd lik() the rumbling of distant thunder, which grow loudei and louder as the white lino cairn nearer, until it seemed as if the whole ocean had risen up and was coming, charging and thundering down upon them, boiling over the edge of ties pile of water like an endless cataract, fi . om four to MVen iucl res high, that i I spread out across the whole eastern j horizon. This was tho pororocai I ' When they saw it corning, tho crew I ! became utterly demoralized, and fell J to weeping and praying In the bottom ot’ tin boat, expecting (hat it would i certainly he dashed to pieces, nn<4 they themselves drowned, Tlie pilot, however, had the presence of mind to : heave anchor before the wall of \Vn | ters struck them; and whim it did strike, they were first pitched violent¬ 1 left ly forward, and then lifted, and rolling and lo-xing like a cork on the foaming sea it left behind, the tKif-t. : nearly tilled with water. Bu( their trouble was i.ot ended; for, before they had emptied the boat two othei such seas came down ou them ul short intervals, tossing the.to in the same manner, and finally leav¬ ing Diem within a stone’s-throw of tb« river-hank, where another such wave’ would have, lushed them upon the sli ire. They had been anchored, be fore Die waves struck them, near the middle of the stream, which at lids place is several iniies wide. Oysters Grown Ready Packed. Mr. .foe King, the oysterman, has small keg of full-grown oysters which is a curiosity, tinder favorable condi¬ tions oysters will attach themselves to any convenient surface which is hard and smooth. Samples of such growths have been sent to the Sun office in end¬ less variety, and they have included old hoots anil shoes fully encrusted and * tilled with line xysters, bottles covered with bivalves, crocks and pots of them, utensils of all sorts full of thorn, and even a clay pipe burthened with three or four heavy shells; but it is not often that oysters take the trouble to pa< k themselves so closely amt eo cleverly in a keg, handy for transpor¬ tation, as in the Joe King specimen — fBaltimore Hun.
