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REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Does Reiigion Pay L’
things, Text: “Godliness is profitable, unto all
having promise of the life that vow
I.Tl»oU,y
’’
A happy New Year ^ to one and all!
There is a gloomy and passive way of
waiting for the events of the opening year
to come upon us. and there is a heroic way
of going out to meet them, strong in God and
fearing nothing. When the body of Catiline
was found on the battle-field it was found far
in advance of all his troops and among the
enemy; and the best way is not for us to lie
down and let the events of life trample spirit over de
us, but to go forth in a Christian
termined to conquer.
The papers were made out, and some of
you have just entered into business partner
ships, and others of you take higher positions
in the commercial establishment where you
were engaged, and others haie entered upon
new enterprises, and there were last week in
these cities ten thousand business changes.
Y ou are expecting prosperity, i nd I am de
termined. so far as I have anything to do
with it, that you shall notl God e disappointed, heip
and therefore 1 propose, as may me
this morning, to project upon your atten
tion anew element of success. You will have
in dustry, the business firm, frugality, patience, in
perseverance, economy-a very
strong business ,irm, but there needs to be
one member'added, mightier than them ail,
and not a silent partner either the one m
troducedby my text: “Goalmess which is
profitable unto all things, having the proin
lseof the life that, now is as well as ot that
which is to come.”
I all willing to admit . tnat , ,
suppose you are
Godliness is important in its eternal rela
tions; but per haps some of you say; All I
want is an opportunity to say a prayer be
fore I die. and all will he well.” there are a
gi-eat many people who suppose that it they
can finally get safely out of this world into a
better world, they will have exhausted the
entire advantage of our holy religion. They
talk as though religion were a mere nod of
recognition which we are to give to the Lord
Jesus on our way up to a heavenly mansion;
as though it were an admission ticket, ot no
me except to give inat the door of heaven,
And there are thousands of people who have
stssr-riySK: s uvsssra factory,
the bank, for the farm, for the for
the warehouse 'office for the ieweler s shoo
for the broker’s anvrftr Now ‘on while I would
not throw mm/tt.il momtas.Snd a Dost mortem
notion. I on tl»
SSSSSS SftrnSMSSS while “
no use to you you live, will be of no
use to vou when vou die “Godliness is
profitable unto all things, having the prom
lse of the life that now is as well as of that
which is to come.” And 1 have always
noticed that when the grace is very low in a
man’s heart he talks a great deal in prayer
meetings about deaths, and about coffins, and
about churchyards. I have noticed that the
healthy God, Christian, and the man straight who is road living
near to is on the to
Heaven, is full of jubilant satisfaction, under- and
talks about tbe duties of this life,
standing well that if God helps him to live
right He will help him to die right.
Now, in the first place, 1 remark that God
liness is good for a man's physical health I
do not mean to say that it will restore a
broken down constitution, or drive rheuma
tism from the limbs, or neuralgia from the
temples, or pleurisy from the side; but I do
mean tosay that it gives one such habits and
puts one in such condition as is most favor
able lor physical health. That I believe,
and that I avow. Everybody knows that
buoyanev of spirit is good physical advan
tage. Gloom, unrest, dejection are at war
with every pulsation of the heart, and with
every respiration of the lungs. It lowers
the vitality, it s ackens tbe circulation, while
exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm of
heaven through all the currents of life. The
scene of insecurity which sometimes hovers
over an unregenerate man, thousand or pounces upon
him with the blast of ten trumpets
of terror, is most depleting and most ex
hausting, while the feeling that all things are
working together for my good now, and for
my everlasting welfare,is conducive to phys
ical health.
You will observe that Godliness induces
industry, which is the foundation of g od
health. There is no law of hygiene that wifi
keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab
bim, erysipelas will burn him, jaundice will
discolor him, gout will cripple him. and
intelligent physician will not prescril*) auti
septic, or febrifuge, yardsticks,”and or anodyne, but saws,
and hammers, and crowbars,
and pickaxes. There is no such thing as good of
physical condition without positive work
some kind, although you should sleep on
down of swan, or ride in carriage of
upholstery, or have on your table all the
dries that were poured from the wine-vats
Ispahan and Shiraz. Our religion
"Away to the bank! away to the field! a wav
to the shop! away to the factory! do some
thing that will enlist all the energies of
body, mind and soul.” “Diligent in
ness, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;”
while upon the bare hack of the idler and
drone comes down the sharp lash of the apos
tie as he says: “If any man will not work,
neither shall be eat.”
Ob, how important in this day. when so
much is said about anatomy and i hysiology
and therapeutics and some new style
medicine is ever and anon understand springing that
the world, that you should
the highest school of medicine is the school of
Christ, which declares that “Godliness
profitable unto all things, well having that the promise which
of tiie life that now is as as
O’ssi" shall the
then one of them get religion of
Lord Jesus Christ in his heart, and the
thee' My'salvation.” ‘ 7 ’ “
Again I remark that Godliness is good for
the intellect. I know some have supposed
that just as soon as a mai. enters into the
Christian process^ life his intellect "oes into a
dwarfing go far from that, religion
sTren S 4h ™ th^&nation^ fho new force tii.w to
the will, and wider swing to all the intel
lectualfaculties. Christianity is the great
centra! fire at which Philosophy has lighted
Jesus'chrhst is^the flu ah out wb h
The Helicon poured forth no .ech
Cowpers ‘Task, flaming n» Charles W es
- " hymns, and rushing «itn
ton s ^Paradi^ fl?” The and'in felMon of
Jesus Christ has hung in studio gal
lery of art and in Vatican, the best pictures
-Titians “A^umption. ’Raphaels from “irans^
figuration, Rebenss De cent ,.e
^“S judmenr”%ehVionh“ ^W-fiaydnJ mtde
the best music of the “Crea
Is R ^oeabiTthat a reS
I builds such indestructible monuments, and
! which lifts its ensign on the highest promon
! torics of worldly power, can have any elect
I upon a man’s intellect but elevation and en¬
largement? Now, I commend Godliness as
the best mental discipline—better than bedes
lettres to purify the taste, better than mathe¬
matics to harness the mind to all intricacy
and elaboration, better than logic to marshal
the intellectual forces for onset and victory.
It wdl go with Hugh Miller and show him the
footprints U of the 1 Creator in the red and sand
f. one - ^ S» Wlth the botanist show
, S
shepherds astronomer the on the great heights worlds, where God
Sills great flock of that
wander on the of heaven answering His
voice as He calls them all by their names,
Again 1 remark that Godliness is proSt
able tor one’s disposition. Lord Ashley, be
fore he went into a great battle, was heard
to oiler this prayer: “O Lord, I shall be very
busy With to-day; if 1 forget Thee, :orget me not.”
such a Christian disposition as that, a
man is independent of all circumstances,
Our piety will have a tinge of our natural
temperament. If a man be cross and sour.
and fretful naturally, after he becomes a
Christian he will always have to he armed
against the rebellion of those evil incliua
tions; but religion has tamed the wildest
nature; it has turned fretfulness into grati
tude, despondency into good cheer, and and those
who were hard and ungovernable un
compromising have been made pliable and
conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory
effort, will not effect the change. It takes a
mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend
ev jj habits than the hand that bent the bow
o£ x;; vs3e a and it takes a stronger lasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A man
caunot „ 0 forth wit h any human weapons
and contend successfully against these Titans
armed with uptorn mountain. Butyou have
| known men into whose spirit the mtluen ’e of
the Gospel o£ Christ came, until their dis
position was entirely changed. So it was
with tw0 merc ijants in New York. They
were very antagonistic. They had done ad
j be y cou j d to injure each other. They were
in the same - ine or -business. One or the
merchants was converted to God. Having
been converted he asked the Lord to
teaph him how to bear himself toward
that business antagonist, and he
was im / prossed with the fact that it was his
d ^ he n a customer aske i for certain
k of „ 6 oods which ho ha t not , but which
he knew his opponent had, to recommend
hjm t * to that store. I sunnosMhat is
hardest thing a man could do; ’ but
^ng thoroughly converted to God, h he re- ro
solved to Jo t e y K> * “
. t
so sent, and he found a so that m rchant
number one had been brought to God, and
sought the same religion. Now they are
E°od friends and good neighbors, the grace
do ted, anything for me. nau„ £ Do. .,a j-oni relgono^, know that
Martin Luther and Robert Newton and Rich
an patures, * Bax !*L yet the grace 1*1!. ^af'c of God 'od turned turned
into the mightiest usefulness?
turer cares but very little tor ^ a strea
sl °wly runs through the meadow but a s.i
torrent that leaps from rock through to rock, the
and rushes with mad energy
valley and out toward the sea. Along that
river you vvill find fluttering shuttles and
grinding mill and flashing water wheel. And
a nature, the swiftest, the most rugged God and
the most tremendous, that is the nature
turns into greatest usefulness. Oh, how many
who have been pugnacious, and hard to
please, and irascible, and neighbor’s more bothered than
about the mote in their eye
about the beam like ship timber in their owu
eye, who have been entirely changed by the
grace of God, and have found out that God
I liness is profitable for the life that now is as
well a3 for tbe life which is to come,
Again I remark that religion is good for a
man’s worldly business. I know the general
theory is, the nioro business the less religion,
the more religion the less business. Not so,
thought Dr. Hans, in h;s “Biography he of “He a
l Christian Merchant,” when says:
: grew m grace the last six years or his life
i more than at any time in his life; during
i *ose six yeare he had more business crowd
| Ini; him than at any other time.” In other
1 words, the more worldly business a man has,
‘ the more opportunity to serve God. Doe?
religion exhilarate or retard worldly busi
ness? discuss. is the Does the practical hang question for you to
it like a mortgage over
the farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger? crowd Is
it a lien against the estate? Does it
the door through which customers come for
broadcloths and silks? Now, religion will
hinder your business if it be a bad business,
or if it be a good business wrongfully con
ducted. If you tell lies behind the counter,
if you use false weights and measures, if you
put sand in sugar, and beet-juice in vinegar,
and lard in butter, and sell for one thing that
which is another thing, then religion will in
terfere with that business; but a lawful
business, lawfully conducted, will find the
: religion of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightiest
j auxiliary. Religion will give of spirit, , it
j an equipoise of temper—and
j will keep you from ebullitions
you know a great many fine businesses have
j been blown to atoms by bad temper—it will
; keep you from worriment about frequent loss,
; it will keep you industrious and prompt, it
will keep you back from squandering and
dissipation, it will give you a kindness
of spirit which will be easily distinguished
from that mere store courtesy which
shakes hands violently with you, ask
ing about the health of your family when
there is no anxiety to know whether your
child is well or sick! But the anxiety is to
know how many dozen cambric pocket cash
handkerchiefs you will take and pay
down. It will prepare vou I for do the practical to
duties of every-day life. not mean
say that religion wiil make us financially
rich, but Ido say that it will give us, it
assure us. of a comfortable sustenance
the bank, to manage the traffic, to conduct
& R ou r business matters, and to make tne
rn New York city there was a merchant
hard in his dealings with his fellows, who had
written over his banking house, or his count
mg-house room: .>o compromist. Then
when some merchant got in a crisis and went
down-no fault of bis, but a conjunction of
e v ‘l circumstances—and all the other mer
chants were willing to compromise-they
o^’fift^M^or’twentrcente^-commg “No to
t ui s m an last of all he said: compro
. rd ^-g ona hundred cents on the dol
htr. ’and I can afford to wait ” Well, the
g* % ££SSi.*£l1hf«e»“
the man who UTote the inscription over bis
coun ting-hou.se ^nt died in destitution. Oh,
more of the kindness of
.
S
^. b found^iT enterprise^ How manvyoung
have the religion of JesM
Christ a practical help? How many there
ar6 j Q this house to-day who could testify out is
of their own experience that Godlineas
^^iue^in ^eiV^usme^^r wi!Ii“ telp
toe T here for heI P’ and toere tor ’
and yonder for help, and got no help untiT
they knelt before the Lord crying for His
deliverance, and the Lord rescued them.
In a bank not far from our great metropo- bal- j
lis—a village bank—an officer could not
ance his accounts. He had worked at them
day after day, night after night, and he was j
sick nigh unto death as a result. He knew
he had not .taken one farthing from that
bank, but somehow, for some wouldn’t reason balance. inscru- !
table then, the accounts of
The time rolled on, and the morning
the day when the books should pass
under the inspection of the other officers
arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril,
conscious of his own integrity but unable to
prove that integrity. That morning he went j !
to the bank early, and ho knelt down before
God and told the whole story of his mental
anguish, and lie said: "0 I.ord, I have done |
right: I have preserved my integrity, but
here I am about to bo overthrown unless
l hou should come to my res:-ue. Lord.de- j
liver me.” And for one hour he continued ;
sgBSfta'wwzss
all about. Ha opened it and there lay a sheet
of figures which he only needed to add to
another lino of figures—some line of figures
he had forgotten, and knew not where he
had laid them—and the accounts were
b danced,and the Lord delivered aim. Youare
an infidel if you do not believe it. The Lord
delivered him. God answered his prayer as
He will answer your prayer, O man of busi¬
ness, in every crisis when you coma to Hun.
Now, if this be so, then I the am persuaded, as of
you are, of the fact that vast majority
Christians do not fully test the value of their
religion. They are like a farmer in Cali¬
fornia, with fifteen thousand acres of good
wheat land and culturing only a quarter of
an acre. Why do you not go forth and
make the religion of Jesus Christ a pra.-ticai and
affair every day of yoar business life
all this year, beginning now, and to-morrow
morning putting into practical effect this
holy religion anil demonstrating In your life
that Godliuess is profitable here as well as
hereafter ?
How can you get along without this re¬
ligion? Is your physical health so good you
do not want this divine tonic? Is your mind
so clear, so vast, so comprehensive inspiration? that Is you
do not want this divine your
worldly business so thoroughly established
that you have no use for that religion which
has been the help and deliverance of tens of
thousands of men in crises of worldiy
trouble? And if what I have said this morn¬
ing is true, then you see what a fatal blunder
it is when a man adjourns to life’s expira¬
tion the uses of religion. A man who post¬
pones religion to sixty years of age gets re¬
ligion fifty years too late. He may get into
the kingdom of God by final repentance, but
what can compensate him for a
whole lifetime unalleviated and un¬
comforted? You waut reiigion to-day
in tho training of that child. You
will want religion to-morrow in dealing with
that Western customer. You wanted re¬
ligion yesterday to curb your temper. Is
your arm strong enough to beat your way
through the floods? Can you without l>eing
encased in the mail of God's eternal help go
forth amid tho assault of all hell’s sharp¬
shooters? Can you walk alone across these
crumbling graves and amid these gaping
earthquakes? Can you, waterlogged and mast
shivered, outlive the gale? Oh,how many there
have been who, postponing the religion of
Jesus Christ, have plunged into mistakes eighty they
nevercouldcorrect although they lived
vears after, and like serpents crushed under
cart-wheels, dragging their mauled bodies
under the rocks to die; so these men have
fallen under the wheel of awful while calamity,
crushed here, destroyed forever, religion a vast
multitude of others have taken the
of Jesus Christ into every-day life, and first,
in practical business affairs, and secondly,
on the throne of heavenly looked triumph, l have uni¬ il¬
lustrated, while sngeis glorious on iruth an a that
verse approve!, the
“Godliness is profitable unto efi things, hav¬
ing tho promise of the life which now is as
wed as of that which is to come.”
Only Billing Their Time.
While we were camped on the edge
of a little Nebraska town a man
came over and sat down on the wagon
tongue and began to praise up the
place, mentioning among other improve¬
ments a new steeple that was going up
on a church near at hand.
“Isn’t that steeple just a little high
for the size of the church ?” suggested
Briar.
“There, struck it the first whack ! I
told ’em that was the way it would go !
Now I’ll tell yon,” he went on confident¬
ially, “ ’bout that steeple. It’s a ’Pisco
pal church; they put it up ’bout stickin’ a yoar
ago and jes’ an ord’narv steeple
upon it. Then what did the Baptists
do but up an’ build a church over here
an r’ar up a steeple on theirs ten feet
higher 1 It run along till July, an’all the
time the Baptists was gittin’ hotter V
hotter an’ one day jes’ after the Fourth
what should they do but put some car¬
penters to work on their steeple and
shove her up ’notlier ten feet! Then
they went round town steppin’ high, an’
the ’Piscopals begun to sweat yesterday, again. It
run along till day before
when they seen the Baptists An’ an’ are know, go
in’ ’em ten better ! do you
I’ll be snaked if I don’t b’lieve the Bap¬
tists ’ll raise ’em ’fore winter ? O, we’re
game in this town ev’ry time !”
“Er—well, which one do you belong
to ?” Briar inquired.
“Neither; I’m a Meth’dist. That’s
our church over there on tho hill."
“Well, you’re getting left entirely,
“S-8-h ! That ^ 8 all right—we know
our p] a y f \y e let on we don’t b’lieve in
».■?' the side of M the buililin’. “rs’i^r next
’Bout
June j you’ll see these Baptists’ and Tis- jes’
CO p a 8 ’ steeples blow over, an’ then
wapen . , us Meth’diste mein tusre shack snacit to to ine the front iruxu,
an rar along slim steeple up into the
air build so ^in high they 11 be too sick to be ever
! Us Meth’dists may a
la Rg ia ’. a little jes’ at present, but you
wait till the proper time comes, an
we’ll denominations make some o’ these the light-weight
think brick coirrt
^
** «^9 something for royalty to
make a tour of diplomacy among neigh
boring \ powers, the Austria expense of Emperor Maly b«
Vi lW 3 trip to and
ir ‘K not less than $200,000. He took
with him enough rich gifts to start a
jewelry Btore, among them being dia
mond rings « and bracelets, gold watches,
Ecarf . pin presentation swords, and
^ of the orders of the Black and Bed
NEEDLES*AND PINS.
1
Origin _ , . and . Manuiacture . T t . of e rp, Iliese
Useful Little Articles.
Needles Once Made of Bone,
and Pins of Thorns.
From tho earliest times of which we
have record, variety ... ol neealo
any some
h beoa in us0 am ong all people who
clothed thomsclvcs with fabriC3 •
fMd “ Rarmeat s from the skins of
beasts. Originally . . thev were made
>»»•« -* •< ^
tribes still rudely form them; and thoy
probably lacked the cya altogether.
Tho next needles wore of bronzr, made
after . tho , discovery ,. of ,,, that
soon once
useful metal. Towards the end of
fourteenth contury, steel wa3 used
their manufacture at Nuremberg, and
somewhat lator those of Spanish make
were widely celebrated.
More than two centuries ago tho Ger
raaus began to make thorn in England;
Redditch ..... in ... vvorccstcrshiro . . . and
small town3 in Warwickshire being
centres of this induitry. For a
time tho work was puroly domostic
character, but with the introduction
machinery it was transferred with
other household arts to manufactories.
Redditch still supplies most of
needles U3ed in Europe, tho
Colonios and tho Uuited States,
though tho French make thorn by
simple methods. The E lglish article
of far better quality, however,
easily leads in all markets.
Though a very small thing, tho
is a product of nearly 100 different
workmen. Coils of wire nro first
clipped into pieces by largo shears fast¬
ened to tho wall. Each of thoso is tho
length of two needles. They nro
straightenod, then pointed on small,
revolving grindstones at both ends.
Tho centres are flattened and a groove
mado on cither side with a small inden¬
tation where tho eye is to ho placed.
This i3 done by a stamping machino for
which each pieca must bo separately ad¬
justed, Lut a skilful operator can stamp
2000 wires or 4000 needles in an hour.
Smivll band presses, worked by hoys,
aro used for making tho eyes. The
lengths aro separated by bonding
backward and forward after which
the heads aro properly shaped by filing.
A hardening procoss ensues, which con¬
sists in placing them on iron plutes,
bringing them to a rod heat, then
plunging them into cold oil, after which
they are heated again, but to a less de¬
gree, and raoro slowly cooled. Thoy
must then be scoured in a machine with
soft soap, emery and oil. In this they
are rolled back and forth for fifty or
sixty hours; tho process continuing
seven or eight days lor thoso of best
quality. Imperfect onos must bo
removed, all tha heads placed
in one way, brought near
enough to a red-hot iron pinto
to produce a blue film upon them,
which indicates proper temper, and then
carefully drilled to smooth the iatorior
of tho eye. A small, rotating stone
serves to finish tho points which aro
then polished on a wheel. This con¬
cludes the making, but counting, fold¬
ing into papers, and labelling follow
before they aro ready for exportation.
There are many kinds of needles, somo
of which for coarser upholstery and
leather work demand much less caro in
their manufacture.
Some needles wore mado in this coun¬
try during tho Revolution by Jeremiah
Wilkinson, of Cumberland, Rhode Is¬
land, who used for this purpose wire
drawn by himself. Tho high price
thon charged for thoso articlos was his
incentive for tho work, which has never
been carried on to any extent in tho
Uuited States, although somo time prior
to 18C0 Chauncy O. Crosby of New
Haven invented a machine that could
convert raw wiro into noodles at the
rate of 150 per minute.
Pins of some kind have also been in
use from earliest times, Long thorns
once served this useful purpose, and
probably suggested the painted splints
which were made by many people and
used even in England to the middle of
tho sixteenth century, Others were
made of gold, silver, or brass, but most
of the better kinds w'ero brought from
tho continent.
In 1626 pin making was introduced
in Gloucester, ten years later in London
and afterward in Birmingham, which
has since become ths centre of this and
similar industries.
Soon after tho war of 1812 tho man
u r ac ture of pins was undertaken in this
t ^ b ^ some Esglishmcn at tho old
State prison of New York, At that
time a paper of pins, owing to inter
rupttd trade, could not be bought for
-U_
less than a dollar and/ they were by no
means so good as those we get now fo«
a few cents. The enterprise failed,
however, as it did in 1820 when tried
again with tho same tools. In 1824 «
Yankee invention, by Lemuel W,
Wright, was patented in Englaud for
mnking solid-headod pins; but a fail,
ure of tho company resulted in it3 sab
to a London firm who sold the
first pins with solid heads in 183;) O.io
year earlier John I. Howe of New York
patented his new machines in this coun¬
try, but thoy were not set in operation
until 1836. Most of theso machines
mado what wero called “spun heads,’’
but one was changed to make solid
headed pins, which wore sold ia Now
Y^ork at a dollar a pack. In a few
years similar changes wero mado in tho
remaining machines and only solid
heads manufactured. —[Chicago Satur¬
day Herald.
Why tho Primrose Blooms at Night.
Our evening primrose doos not bloom
in tho dark hours for mero sentiment
and moonshine, but from a motive that
lies much nearer her heart. From the
first moment of her wooing welcome sho
listens lor murmuring wings, and
awaits that supremo fulfilment anticipa¬
ted from her infant bud. For it will
almost invariably bo found that thoso
blossoms which open iu tho twilight
have adapted themselves to tho crepus¬
cular moths and other nocturnal insects.
This finds a striking illustration in tho
instances of many long tubular-shaped
night-blooming flowers, like the honey¬
suckle and various orchids, whoso nec¬
tar i3 beyond tho reach of any insect
except tho night-flying hawkmoth. It
is truo that in othor less deep nocturnal
flowors tho sweets could bo reached by
butterflies or bees during the day if the
blossoms remained open, but tho night
murmurers rccoivo the first fresh invita¬
tion, which, if met, will leave but a
wilted, half-hearted blossom to greet
tho sipper of tho sunshine. This beau¬
tiful expectancy of tho flower deter¬
mines the limit of its bloom. Thus, ia
tho ovent of rain or other causes pre¬
ventive of insect visits, the evening
primrose will remain open for tho but¬
terflies during tho following day, when
otherwise it would have drooped per¬
ceptibly, ar,d extended but a listless
welcome. I havo seen this fact strik¬
ingly illustrated in a spray of mountain
laurel, whoso blossoms lingered in ex¬
pectancy nearly a waok in my parlor,
when the flowers on tho parent shrub
in tho woods had fallen several days
before, their mission having been ful¬
filled. In tho hou e specimens the
radiating stamons remaine I i:i their
pockets in tho sido of tho blossom cup,
and seemed to brace the corolla upon
its receptacle. Theso stamens arc
naturally dependent upon insect agency
for their release, and tho consequent
discharge of pollon, and I noticed that
when this operation was artificially con¬
summated the flowor cup soon dropped
off or withered.—[IErpcrs Magazine.
A Bank With a Culinary Department.
Down in tho basomont at tho north¬
west corner of the First National Bank
Building is a small kitchen and dining¬
room. These rooms ara right in the
midst of tho groat vaults, and any one
who passes through the alley any time
during, the morning can see white
capped cooks laying tho foundation for
pies and more substantial drihes. Such
a sight through the heavily-grated
windows which protect tho treasure ol
the institution is rather astonishing tc
the passer -by, but this kitchen and the
dining-room adjoining arc importanr
parts of tho bank’s machinery. There
are 150 clerks at work in tho various
department* up-st,oir3, and. beginning
at 11.80 a. m. f they go, in squads ol
ten, to the dining-room below fofr their
lunch. Thri is kept up until 1.30 p.
m. Tho arrangement is a saving all
around. It pave3 the clerks the money
they would otherwiso bo obliged to pay
out in restaurants, es the bank serve
the lunch, and it saves the bank much
of the time of its clerks, which would
otherwise be fooled away on tho out¬
side.—[Chicago Herald.
A Reporter’s Stenography.
Mr. Tuppor, a Now Y T ork reporter,
has a queer way of taking notes. The
fact is, ho does not take any—he simply
makes rough sketches of the faces oi
the speakers at a meeting or the per
sons he interview*. Then ho gees to the
office, looks at his pictures, and every
word that was spoken at the meeting;
or in the interview at once comes intc
his mind and he proceeds to write it
out. Tupper has no memory, fn the
ordinary sense of tho word. ILs pic¬
tures are his notes and without them
he can do nothing. —[Atlanta Consti¬
tution.