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REV. DR. TARMAC E.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “ Shall America be Reserved
for Americans 1”
Text: "And hath made of ona blooi all
nations —Acts xvii.> -6.
That is. if for some reason general phle¬
botomy were ordered, and standing in a row
were an American, an Englishman, a Scotch¬
man and an Irishman, a Frenchman, a Ger¬
man, a Norweigan, an Icelander, a Spaniard,
an Italian, a Russian and representatives their right
of ad other nationalitities bared
arm and a lancet were struck into
it, the blood let out would have the same
characteristics, for it would be red,complex,
fibrine, globuline, chlorine and containing
sulphuric acid, potassium, phosphate of mag¬
nesia and so on, and Harvey and Sir Astlev
Cooper and Richardson and Zimmerman and
Brown-Sequard and all the scientific doctors,
allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic, would agree with Paul as, standing
on Mars Hill, his pulpit a ridge of limestone
rock fifty feet high and among the proudest people
and most exclusive and undemocratic
Of the earth, he crashed into all their
prejudices by declaring in the words
of my text that God had made “of
one blood all nations.” The countenance
of the five races of the human family educa¬ may
be different as a result of climate or
tion or habits, and the Malay will have the
projecting upper jaw, and the Caucasian the
oval face and small mouth, and the Ethiopian
the retreating forehead and large lip, and the
Mongolion the flat face of olive hue, and the
American Indian the copper-colored aud com¬ indi¬
plexion. but the blood is the same
cates that they all had one origin and that
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and an¬
cestress.
I think God built this American continent
and organized this United States Republic the
to demonstrate the stupendous idea of
text. A man in Persia will always remain
a Persian, a man in Switzerland will always
remain a Swiss, a man in Austria will
always remain an Austrian, but all
foreign nationalties coming to Amer¬
ica were intended to be Americans
This land'is the chemical laboratory where
foreign bloods are to be inextricably mixed
up and race prejudices * and race is antipathies by
are to perish, and this sermon an hard ax for
which I hope to kill them. It is not
me to preach such a sermon, because, al¬
though my ancestors came to this
country about two hundred aud fifty
years ago, some of them came from Wales
and some from Scotland and some from
Holland and some from other lauds, and I
am a mixture of so many nationalities that
I feel at home with people from under
every sky and have a right to call
them blood relations. There are mad¬
caps and patriotic lunatics in this country
who are ever and anon crying out: “Amer¬
ica for Americans.” Down with the Ger¬
mans ! Down with the Irish! Down with the
Jews! Down -with the Chinese! are in some
directions the popular cries, all of which
vociferations 1 would drown out by
the full organ of my text, while I pull out
the stops and put my foot on the pedal that
will open the loudest pipes, and run my
fingers over all the four banks of ivory keys,
playing the chant: “God hath made of one
blood all nations.”
There are not five men in this audience,
nor five men in any audience to-day in
America except it be bn an Indian reserva¬
tion, who were not descended from foreigners
if you go far enough back. The only native
Americans are the Modocs, the Shawnees
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chicka
saws, the Seminoles and such like. If the
principle America only for Americans be
carried out, then you and I have no right to
be here and we had better charter all the
steamers and clippers and man-of-war and
yachts and sloops and get out ot this country
as quick as possible. The Pilgrim Fathers
were all immigrants, the Huguenots all im¬
migrants. The cradle of most every one of
our families was rocked on the bank of the
Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon
or the Seine or the Tiber. Had the
watchword “America for Americans”
been an early and successful cry.
where now-stand our cities would have stood
Indian wigwams, and canoes instead of
steamers would have tracked the Hudson
and the Connecticut; and instead of the
Mississippi being the main artery of the
continent, it would have been only a trough
for deer aud antelope and wild pigeons to
drink out of. What makes the cry of
“America for Americans” the more absurd
and the more inhuman is that some in this
-country who themselves arrived here in their
boyhood or arrived here only one or two
generations back are joining in the cry.
Escaped from foreign “Shut despotisms the
themselves they others.” say: Getting them¬
door of escape for
selves. on our shores in a life boat from the
shipwreck saying: Haul the boat on the
beach and let the rest of the passengers go to
the bottom! Men who have yet on them a
Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue
eryingout,America.for Americans! Whatif
the native inhabitants of Heaven, I mean the
angels, the cherubim, the seraphim born
there, should stand in the gate and when
they see us coming up at the last should say:
“Go baek! Heaven for the Heavoniam!"
Of course we do well not to allow foreign
nations to make this country a convict colony.
We would have a wall built as high as heaven
and as deep as hell against foreign thieves,
pickpockets and anarchists. We would not
(et them wipe their feet oil the mat of tha
outside door of Castle Garden. If England or
Russia or Germany or France send here
their desperadoes to get clear of
them. we would have these des
eradoes sent back in chains
the places where they came from.
We will not have America, become the
dumping place for foreign vagabond¬
ism. But you build up a wall at the
Narrows before New York harbor, or at
the Golden Gate before San Francisco, and
forbid the coming of the industrious and
hard working and honest populations of
other lands who waut to breathe the
air of our free institutions and get op ¬
portunity for better livelihood, aud
ft is only a question wall of ‘time flat when oSr
God will tumble that on
own heads with the red hot thunder¬
bolts of His omnipotent indignation,
voo ere a father nndyou have five children,
me perior is tne best room in your nousi.
Your son Philip ‘John, says to toe lire other four ehil -
dren: “Now, you iu the smalt
room in the end of the hall and stay there:
George, you live in the garret and
stav there"; Mary, you live in the cellar and
stay there: Fannie, you live in the kitchen
and stay there. I. Philip, will tak9 the par¬
lor. It suits me exactly. I like the pictures
on the wall. I like the lambrequins at
the windows. I like the Axminster od
the floor. Now, I, Philip, propose to occupy
this parlor and 1 command you to stay
out. The parlor only for Philippians. ” You,
the father, hear of this arrangement and
what will you do? You will get red in the face
and say: “John, come out of that small
room at the end of the hall: George, come
down out of the garret; Mary, come up from
the cellar; Fannie, come oat of the kitchen,
ann go into the parlor or anywhere you
choose: and, Philip, for your I greediness for and
onbrotherly in~ behavior, put you two
hours the dark closet under the
stairs.” God is tfcp Father of the human
race. He has at least five sons, a North
American, a (South American, a European,
an Asiatic and an African. The North
American sniffs the breeze and he says to his
four brothers and sisters: “Let the South
American stay in South America, let the
European stay in Europe, let the Asiatic stay
in Asia, let the African stay in Africa; but
America is for me. I think it is the parlor
of the whole earth. I like its carpets of
grass and its npholstery ot the front
window, namely the .American sunrise,
n a the upholstery of the back window,
namely the American sunset. Now 1 want
you all to stay out and keep to your places.”
I am sure the Father of the whole human race
would hear of it and chastisement would
come, drought and, whether by earthquake or flood
locust or aud or heaven darkening swarms angel of
grasshopper or destroying
of pestilence, God would rebuke our selfish¬
ness as a nation and say to the four winds
of heaven: “This world is my house and the
North American is no more my child than is
the South American and the European
and the Asiatic and the African, And I
built this world for all the children, and
the parlor is theirs and all is theirs.” For,
let me say, whether we will or not, the
population of other lands will come
here. There are harbors all the way from
Baffin's Bay to Galveston, aud if you shut
fifty gates there will be other gates un¬
guarded. And if you forbid for¬
eigners from coming on the steamers
they will take sailing vessels. And
if "you forbid them coming in boats. on sailing And
vessels they will come
if you will not let them come in boats they
will come on rafts. And if you will not al¬
low wharfage to the raft they will leave it
outside Sandy Hook aud swim for free
America. Stop them? You might as well pass
a law forbidding a swarm of summer bees
from lighting on the clover top, or pass a law
forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to rise
when the moon puts under it silver grap¬
pling hooks, or a law that the noonday sun
should not irradiate the atmosphere. They
have come. They are coming now. They
will come. And if 1 had a voice loud
enough to be heard across the seas 1
would put it to the UGmost tension and cry:
Let them come' You stingy, selfish,shriveled
up, blasted souls who sit before your silver
dinner plate piled up with breast of roast
turkey incarnadined with cranberry, cramming your
fork full and your mouth full and
down the superabundance terrorized, let till millions your digestive of
organs are the your
fellow-men have at least the wishing bone.
But some of this cry, America for Ameri¬
cans, may arise from au honest fear lest this
land be overcrowded. Such persons had better
take the Northern Pacific or Onion Pacific
or Southern Pacific or Atlantic aud Char¬
lotte air line or Texas and Santa Fe,
and go a loag journey and find out that nc
more than a tenth part of this continent ’
fully cultivated. If a man with a hundred
acres of farm land should put all his cultiva¬
tion on ana acre he would be cultivating a
larger ratio of his farm than our na¬
tion is now occupying of the national farm.
Pour the whole human race, Europe. Asia,
Africa and all the islands of the sea, into
America and there would be room to spare.
AU the Rocky Mountain barrennesses and
all the other American deserts are to be fer¬
tilized, and as Salt Lake City and much o!
Utah once yielded not a blade of grass, now
by artificial irrigation have become gardens, that
so * large part of this continent
now is too poor to grow even thistle, a
mullein stalk or a Canada
will through artificial irrigation like an
Iltinois prairie wave with wheat or like a
Wisconsin firm rustle with corn
tassels. Beside that, after perhaps continent a
century or two mere, when this
is quite well occupied, the tides of im¬
migration will tarn the other
way. Politics and governmental affairs be
ing corrected on the ‘Other side of the waters,
Ireland under diff erent regulation turned intc
a garden will invite back another generation
of Irishmen, and the wide wastes ol
Russia brought from under despotism
will with her own green fields invite
baek another generation of Russians, And
there will be hundreds of thousands of
Americans every year settling on the other
continents. And after a number of cen¬
turies, all the earth full and crowded, what
then? Well, at that tim3 some night a
panther meteor wandering through the
heavens will put its paw on our world
and stop It, and putting its panther tooth in
to the neck of its mountain range will shake
it lifeless as the rat terrier a rat. So I have
no more fear of America being overcrowded
than that the porpoises-in the Atlantic Ocean
will become so numerous as to stop shipping
It is through mighty addition of foreign
pooulation to our native population that I
think God is going to fill this land with a
race of people 95 per cent, superior to any¬
thing the world has ever seen. Inter¬
marriage of families and intermarriage of
nations is depressing and crippling. Marriage
.outside of one’s own nationality and witn
another Wnat style of nationality Scotch-Irish is a mighty gain.
makes the second to no
pedigree for brain and stamina of character,
so that blood goes right up to supreme
court bench and to the front Tank in juris¬
prudence and merchandise and art? Because
nothing under heaven can be more unlike
than a Scotchman and an Irishman and the
descendants of these two conjoined nation¬
alities, unless rum flings them, All go right to
the tip tap in everything. nationalities
coining to this land the opposites will
all the while be affianced, aud French
and German will unite and that will stop all
the quarrel between them, aud one child they
will .call Alsaes and the other Lorraine.
Aud hot-blooded Spaniard will unite witn
cool-blooded Polander and romantic Italian
with matter of fact Norwegian, and a
hundred and fifey years from now the race
occupying this’ land will in be liquidity in stature of
in purity of complexion, in like
eye, in gracefulness intelligence of poise, dome morals
brow, in taste, in and in
so far ahead of anything now known oa either
side the seas that this last quarter of the
nineteenth century will seem to them
like the Dark Ages. Oh. then how
they will legislate and bargain aud pray and
preach and govern! This is the land where
by the mingling of raees the race prejudice feels
is to get its death blow. How Heaven
abouD it we may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the .Jew, and descended from a
Jewess, nevertheless provided a religion for
all races, and that Paul, though' a Jew, be¬
came the chief apost.e of the Gentiles, an l
tjpat recently God has allowed to burst iu
splendor upon the attention of th9 world
Hirsca. the Jew, who after giving ten million
dollars to Christian churches and hospitals,
has called a committee of nations and fur
-ushed them with iorty million dollars for
sehools to elevate his race in France and Ger¬
many and Russia to higner intelligence and
abolish, as he says, fifty the prejudices against
tueir race, these million dollars not
given in a last will and testament and at a
time when a man must leave his money
anyhow, but by donation at fifty-five years
of age and^in good health, utterly eclipsing
all benevolence since the world was created.
I must confess there was a time when
1 entertained race prejudice, but thanks
to Go l, tnat prejudice has gone, and if I sa:
in church and on one side of me there was a
black man and on the other side of me was
an Indian and before me was a Chinaman
and behind me a Turk, I would be as happy as
I am now standing in the presence of this
brilliant audience.and I am as happy now as
1 can be and live. The sooner we gat this
corpse of race prejudice buried, the healthier
will be our American atmosphere. L^t eacn
one fetch a spade and let U3 dig its grave clear
on down deeper and deeper till we get as far
down as the center of the earth and half way
to China, but no further le3t it poison those
firing on the other side the earth. Then into
.his grave let down the accursed carcass ot
race prejudice and throw on it all the mean
things that have ever bean said and written
between Jew and Gentile, between Turk
and Russian, between Mongolian English and
.French, between and anti
Mongolian, between black and white, and
put up over that grave for tombstone soma
scorched and volcanic jagged chunk ot scoria spit
out for'epitaph: by some "Here eruption lies and chisel on
it the carcass of one
who cursed the world. Aged, near sis
thousand years. Departed this life for the
oerdition from whence it came. No peace to
i f « ashes!”
Now, iu view of this subject, I have two
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought to do for us, and the
other what we ought Lay to do for foreigners.
First, to foreigners. aside all apologetic
air and realize you have as much right as any
man who was father not only himself grandfather born
hero but his and his
and great-grandfather Englishman? before Though him. during Are
you Revolutionary an fathers treated
the war your
our atoned fathers for roughly. by England to has this more
than that giving coun¬
try at least two denominations of Chris¬
tians, the Churcii Witness of England magnificent and the
Methodist Church. the
liturgy of the one and the Wesleyan hallelu¬
jahs of the other. And who shall ever pay
England for what Shakespeare and John
Milton and Woodsworth and a thousand
other authors have done for America?
Are you a Scotchman! Thanks for
John Knox’s Bresbyterianisrn; the bal¬
ance wheel of all other denominations.
And how shall Americans ever pay your na¬
tive land for what Thomas Chalmers and
Macintosh and Robert Burns and Christo¬
pher North and Robert McCheyne and
Candlish and Guthrie have done for
Americans! Are you a Frenchman? We
cannot forget your Lafayette, who in the
most desperate time of our American revolu¬
tion, New York surrendered and our armies
flying in retreat, Monmouth espoused our and cause Fork and at
Brandywine and under eternal obliga¬ town
put all America
tion. And we cannot forget the coming to
the rescue o” our fathers Rochambeau and
his French fleet with six thousand armed
men. Are you a German? We have not
forgotton the eleven wounds through which
your Baron De Kalb poured out his life blood
at the head of the Maryland battle and Delaware
troops in the disastrous at Camden, and
after we have named our streets and our cities
and counties after him we have not paid a
tithe of what we owe Germany for his valor
and self sacrifice. And what about Martin
Luther, the giant German who made way for
religious liberty for all lands and ages ? Are
you Polaader ? How can we forget bones your
brilliant Count PulasKi, whose
were laid in Savannah River after a
mortal wound gotten while in the
stirrups of one of the fiercest cavalry
charges of the American revolution? But
with no time to particularize I say: “All
hail to the men and women of other lands
who come here with honest purpose!’ Re
lounce all obligation to foreign despots. Get
Take the oath of American allegiance. Don’t talk
out your naturalization papers. fact
against our institutions, for the
that you came here and stay shows
that you like ours better than any other. If
you don’t like them there are steamers going
out of our ports almost every day, aud the
tare is cheap and,lest you snould be detainee
for parting civilties, I bid you good-by
HOW. Bat if you like it here, then 1 charge
you, at the ballot box, ill legislative
hall, in churches aud everywhere lie
out and out Americans. Do not try
to establish here the loose foreign Sab¬
baths or transcendentalism spun into a re¬
ligion of mush and moonshine, or all foreign thiev¬
libertinism or that condensation of
ery, scoundrelism, lust, murder and perdi¬
tion which in Russia is called Nihilism and
in France called Comiiiunism and in America
jailed Anarchism. Unite with us in making
by the grace of God the fifteen million square
miles of America on both sides the Isthmus
of Panama the paradise of virtue and re¬
ligion. *
My other word suggests what Americans
ought to do for foreigners. By all possi¬
ble' means explain to them our institutions.
Coming here, the vast majority of them know
about as much concerning Republican or in
Democratic form of government politics as you of
the United States know about
Denmark or Franco or Italy or Swit¬
zerland, namely nothing. Explain to them
that liberty in this country means liberty to
do right, but not liberty to do wrong.
Never in their presence say anything against
cneir native land, for, no matter how much
they may have been oppressed there, in
that native land there are sacred places,
cabins or mansions around whose doors they
played, and perhaps somewhere there is a
grave into which they would like, when life’*
toils are over, to be let, down, for it is
mother’s grave, aud it would be like
going again into, the loving arms
that first held them, and against
the bosom that first pillowed them, My!
my! how low down a man must have
scended to have no regard for Don’t the mock place
where his cradle was rocked.
their brogue or their stumbling ate all
tempts at the hardest of
languages to learn. namely the
English language. I warrant that they talk
speak English as well as you could
Scandinavian. Treat them in America as
you would like to be treated if for the sake
of your honest principles or a better liveli¬
hood for yourself or your family you bad
moved under the shadow of Jungfrau,
»r the Rigi, or the Giant’s Causeway,
or the Bohemian Forest, or the Fran¬
conian Jura. If they get homesick, as some
of them are, suggest to them that God is as
near to help them here as He was near them
before they crossed the Atlantic, and that the
soul’s final flight is less than a second whether
from the beach of the Caspian Sea or the
banks of Lake Erie. Evangelize their adults
through the churches and their chil¬
dren through the schools and let home
missions and tract sqcietie3 and the Bible
translated in all the languages of these for¬
eign people have full swing. instead
Rejoice as Christian patriots that
joeing an element of weakness the foreign
people thoroughly evangelized will be our
mightiest defence against all the world. The
Congress of the United States recently ordered
built new forts all up and down our Ameri¬
can coasts, and a new navy is about to be
projected. But let me say that three hun¬
dred million dollars expended in coast foreign de¬
fense will not be so mighty as a vast
copulation living in America. With hun
Ireds of thousanls of Germans in New
York, Germany would as soon think of
oombshelling Berlin as attacking us. With
Hundreds of thousan is of Frenchmen in New
York, France would as soon think of firing
on Paris. With hundrels of thousands of
Englishmen in New York, England would
as soon think of destroying London.
The mightiest defence against Euro¬
pean nations is a wall of Europeans
reaching all uo and down the American con¬
tinent, a wall of heads and hearts conse¬
crate! to free government. A bulwark of
foreign humanity heave 1 up Atlantic all along Ocean, our
shores, re-enforced by the
armed as it is with temptests and Caribbean
whirlwinds and giant billows ready to fling
mountains from their catapault, we need as a
nation fear no one in the universe but God,
and if found in His service we need not fear
Him. As six hundred million people will yet
sit down at our national table, let God
preside. To Him be dedicated the metal of
our mine3, the sheaves of our harvest fields,
the fruits of oar orchards, the fabrics of our
manufactories, the telescopes of observa¬
tories, the volumes of our libraries, the songs
ot our churches, the affections ot our hearts.
ami fonts and all all our lakes become altars baptismal praise
our mountains of
and all and our valleys amphitheatres become of wor¬ fifty
ship, our country, having
nations consolidated into one, may its every
heart throb be a pulsation blood of gratitude to
Him who made “or one all nations”
and ransomed that blood by the payment of
the last dron of His own._
OLD GOLD AND SILYEP
How the Melting-Pot is Supplied
Fine Heirloom in Danger.
“Best prices paid for old gold and sil¬
ver," is a sign which can be seen from
the windows of the Third Avenve ele¬
vated oars, painted over the door of a
gloomy-lookiug shop not far from the
entranoe to the East River Bridge. A
reporter entered this place one day' Inst
week, and as he did so, a crack-voiced
bell over the door made such a jaggling
that it woke up a rod-headed parrot on
a perch behind the counter, and made
him screech in sympathy. A little, el¬
derly man, the proprietor of the shop,
then came forward to inquire explained the vis
itor’s errand. The reporter
that he wished to find out what sort of
people sold old gold and silver, and that
kind of articles they had for sale.
“There are so muuy kinds shopkeeper, of people
who deal with me,” said the
that I have never attempted to classify
them. My customers are rarely would from
the wealthier classes. You nat¬
urally reply , ‘Of course not,’ but wealthy
people become pressed do for their money jewelry at
times, and when they
or plate generally goes first. The pawn¬
shops get more of this class of trade
than w e do, for pawnbrokers will pay
more as a rule. There is one character¬
istic of my patrons which is very not¬
iceable, aud that is that all of them in
variably believe they should get twice as
much for their articles as they sell, but are
worth. They almost always
generally look as if they thought they
were being cheated. We sometimes get
hold of articles the workmanship of
which is exquisite, costing originally
many times more than the metal it elf.
Unless, however, wo are pretty confident
that we can sell them at a good price on
account of their beauty and antiquity,
they go into the melting pot with the
rest. Once in a while X keep an article
which it seems almost a pity to melt.
Such a one is the scabbard of a sword
which a gentleman brought in here one
day. It is solid silver snd most beauti¬
fully engraved aud chased. He told me
that it was a family heirloom,winch hftd
descended to him from his great great¬
grandfather. Absolute necessity added, com¬
pelled him to part with it, ho
but he begged mo to keep it aw hile, ns
he hoped to be able to redeem it. He
seemed to feel so strongly about it that
I promised, but he has never been after
it, although it was five years ago that he
brought it here. I paid him about
$80 for it, its value as old silver, al¬
though it must have cost between $400
and $500. I suppose I shall melt it up
before long now. ”
“Do you keep intact much of the stuff
you buy ?”
“Not much 1 Sometimes a friend asks
ns to save a set of spoons or forks for
him; but usually everything goes into
the melting pot. Sometimes, in buying
a lot of old silver, real, plated but articles not are
mixed in among the we are
often deceived that way. I can tell
you, though, that some grandmothers of the plated used
spoons that our
would almost take iu an expert, so thick¬
ly are they coated with silver. They
made things to Inst in those days, you
know.”
“How can you tell whether an article
is silver?”
“By its weight, principally, When and h«s by
its general appearance, one
handled gold and silver for any length
of time, it is pretty hard to deceive
him. Gold articles are tested with acids.
Most af our customers are men—that is
to say, they are the ones who bring us
any considerable quantities. jewelry; but, Women
naturally bring more that dispose of, even they
when send they have with to it nine
will a man in cases
out of ten.”— N. Y. Post.
A Remarkable Volcano.
The city of San Salvador, the capital
or the smallest and most populous founded Cen¬ in
tral American Republic, was almost
1528. It has been three times
entirely and.eleven times partially volcanic de¬
stroyed by earthquakes and
eruptions. It is eighteen miles from
the sea coast, has an elevation of 2,800
feet, and is surrounded by a group of
volcanoes, two of which are active, San
Niguel and Jzal o, and present a magni¬
ficent display to the passengers of steam¬
HI’S i-ailing along the coast, constantly
discharging masses of Java which flow
down their sides in blazing torrents.
Izaioo is regular as a clock, the erup¬
tion oocuriiig like the beating of a
mighty pulse, every seven minutes. It
is impossible to conceive of a grander
spectacle timn this monster, rising 7,«
000 leet almost directly from tlxe sea, an
immense volume of smoke like a plume
continually pouring out of its summit
and broken with such regularity by
masses of flame rising 1,000 feet, that it
has been named El Faro del Salvador—
the Lighthouse of Salvador. It is in
many respects the most remarkable vol
eano in this world, because its dis¬
charges have continued so long and witti
such regularity, and because the tumult
in the earth’s bowels is always to be
heard. Its explosions are constant, and
arc audible a hundred miles off. It is
the oniy ' oh-auo that has originated on by
this continent since the discovery plain in
Columbus. It arose from the
the spring of 1770 in the midst of what
had been for nearly a hundred years a
magnificent coffee and indigo planta
tion .—Guatemala Slur.
John T. Hunter, a Philadelphian,
claims to have been the first man to en
ist in 1861. He telegraphed Goveuor
Curtin offering his services April 16.
The Old Home.
In the quiet shadow of twilight
I stand by the garden door.
And gaze on the old, old homestead,
So cherished and loved o yore.
But the ivy now is twining
Untrained o’er window and wall;
And no more the voice of the oh 1 Iren
Is echoing through the halt.
Through years of pain and so r >w,
Since first I had to p rt,
The thought of the dear old homestead
Has lingered around my he ut;
The porch embowered with roses
The gables’ drooping eaves
And the song of the birds at twilight
Amid the orchard leaves.
And the forms of those who loved mo
In the happy childhood years
Appear at the dusky windows,
Through vision dimmed with tears.
I hear their voices colling
From the shadowy far away,
And I stretch my arms towar 1 them
In the gloom cf the twilight gray.
But only the night winds answer,
As I cry through the di-mal air;
And only the bat comes swooping
From the darkness of its liar.
Yet still the voice of my childh j d
Is calling from far away,
And the faces of those who loved mo
Smile through the shadows gray.
HUMOROUS.
The National Game—Politics.
Seldom on fire—Smoking jackets.
A large snowdrop—An avalanch.
Committee on the whole—Well dig
gers.
The best way to kill a falsehood is to
let it lie.
The elements are angry when the
waterspout.
The guillotine block is one, of the
French polling places.
Some men are always willing to stand
up for the ladies, excepting perhaps in a
horse car.
The muskrat may be considered a
lucky animal, because he is never with¬
out a scent to his name.
A philosopher once remarked that he
helped elect a certain man to Congress
because he was so lazy he couldn’t do any
harm.
The man with the glass eye has the
great consolation that he is putting on
more style than his neighbor; he has a
stained glass window to his soul.
Smith (to Robinson, cigar dealer)—I
gee you have changed your storp again.
Burnt out? Robinson (whose last store
was seized by Sheriff)—No; fired out.
Adding insult to injury.—First Shop
ping Fiend—Madam, that’s my muff!
Second Shopping Fiend—Why, how
inexcusably stupid of me to pick up an
imitation monkey-skin!
“I suppose,” said the visitor, “you
get used to lift in Sing Sing?” “Oh,
indeed, yes,” replied the prisoner. “We
get very much attached to the old place.
That is why we don’t leave it soouer.”
“My dear young lady,” said a gushing
artist to her, “you are positively lovely?
Wouldn’t you like me to do you in oil!”
“Sir,” exclaimed her father’s pride, in¬
dignantly, “do you take me for a sar¬
dine?”
The Duke of Soggcrvath—“ Do you
know, me dear young lady that Ini
tempted to carry home one of you
American gyrls myself?”
Miss Crisp—“ You’d have to curry
her, your grace.”— Judge.
“No,” s,-ud Mrs Shoddie, “we have to
pay our fare nowadays, ns the railroad
companies will not give Charles passes
on account of this nasty real estate com¬
merce law,” and then she sighed and
made faces at the railroad corporation.
Tourist (to stage driver-in the Yellow¬
stone region)—Are there any wonderful
.curiosities to he seen in this region, dri¬
ver? Stage jltivct —Wonderful curiosi¬
ties! Well, I should say there were!
Why, you drop a rock down that gorge,
come back in three days and you cau
hear the echo.
It seems that the Esquimaux name
their children after the expressions they
hear used by English sailors. If a Sun¬
day school should ever be established
among those blubber eaters, it would not
seem at all sweet and edifying to hear
the youngsters pipe up such names as
“Go-to-JIalifax.”
A Blind Young Colored Prodigy.
Oscar Moore, a blind negro boy not
quite four years of age, is the latest
you thful prodigy * *, Little .M ore has a
memory that ... Macaulay might .... have envied. . ,
He can recite poems and sing songs in
English, ♦ German, and Danish. Ilia
parents are very ordinary negroes, and
the wonder is where he learned all that
he knows.— liar per'$ Bazar.