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REV. DR. TALSAGE.
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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
my 8 KI.MO.Y,
Subject: “Qnoor Chrlsilnns'’—T»r*Iiv
cvetl at the Piedmont (Ca.
C'hniiiaui|iin.
T*xt: "A iid he icas nn.ru "iid would
not go in.—Luke xv., T 1 .
Is the elder son of the parahlo so nn-
sympathetic) and so cold that he is not
worthy of recognition i The fact is, that we
minsters pursue the youngor son. You can
hour the flapping of li s rags in many a
srrmonic breeze, and the mulching ol tlie
pods for which |tt*| ho was an unsuccessful Mr '-’ con¬
testant, 1 eonle that fora ; long time i
s was
unable to train the camera obscura upon the
elder negative son of the parable. photograph. I never could get
n for a 't ie re
was not enough light in the gallery,
or the chemicals were poor, or tlio
sitter moved in the picture. Hut now i
think 1 have him. Not a sldt lace, or a
threo-quarlers, or the mere bust, but a full-
length portrait as ho appears to mo. The
father in the parable of the prodigal h:t l
nothing to brag of in hie two sons lhe one
wasarake and the other a churl. 1 lind
nothing admirable nothing in the dissoluteness attractive ot the
one, and 1 find m the
acrid sobriety of the other. The one goes
down over the larboard side, and the otiu-i-
goes down over tho starboard side; but they
both go down.
From the window of the old homestead
bursts he minstrelsy. The floor quakes with
the leet of the rustics, whose dam e is al ways
vigorous and resounding lhe neighbors
have heard of the return of the younger sou
from h.8 wanderings, and they have gath-
ered together, lhe house is full of congrat-
U with f o°i' luxur.es. S ' V suppose Not only the tsb.ei lhe arc kind loaded of
one
w®? 1 i™ en Vw Bed ’ b Ut ’e 8 C(,n ™ mit ‘inls-
Clap, go the cymbals, , chalices, , ,i thrum, go tho
go the feet , c , lc ^ inside, Y; 0 while outside up is and a dos\ most n
sorry Tho spectacle. stands at the
senior son corner of the
house, a trig <1 phlegmatic, lie has just
come in from the fields in very substantial
apparel. around the Seeing old some he wild aslcs exhilarations
mansion ot a servant
j»s>mg by with a goals fuss ,m of wme on his
shoulder, what all the is about One
would have thought thutou hearing that his
younger brother hail got back lie would have
gone mto the house and rejoiced, and
if he were not conscientiously op-
i!° S !I ia ' U 'i 1 Ii’’ Mr"', .c'°k !
Lave Joined i in the i Oriyn.nl i scliottische.
No. Yhere he stands. His brow lowers.
His Iqis curl with contempt; He stamps
nothing th L*r. at , ?‘ all 1 „? to th attract, *. l,i ^ 1 6 n d i he ,on odors - Ho of t he
feast coining out on tiie air do not sharpen
wSlnt! «* his slea ,t‘*0 He'is in i tarfb"e
P” u ‘' «‘ til ’ ises «xi>ense the i
justice, o and the m ral o the entertainment
ihe father rushes out barehiadod, mid
coaitw him to conic m. He will not go in.
He scolds the father. He goes into
a pasquinade f'l against "Vr, the younger
ho 1 Un "
coine.y s; ene. lie sajs. i ath-r, you „
L uniT "!, 1 ”” vagnbonilism, I <-toyed
at home and worked ™ on the farm You never
r'n f p [ ial t T or you didn t so much as
kiil a kid, that , wouhint have cost half no
™ bu l he 8Mpe S™<» went off
m fine cioties, and be comes back not fit to
at “ t, m ° r" l” 1 " 6 ° V ° r
£ K* ™ L e u 1 l 1 J^, r ca y0 , ! t , ' t0 ( h , whlc T t \ |f and w « lluve . vou he< P a ? y 11
t nU ,U , ; r S6ek '! ,f \. a 1 ,«r! * hadknqwn 1
UJ tnV° ^ ^‘‘ L ‘ g ow 1 fi ded f" instead .' 1 l lil of S
T "t'ivsnir.o'! n hi i *^1 th8 t0 y ° ,° Un ^ <X f" " 80,1 C °‘ m l 1 ! 1 V,
o »° U a £ , U aJv !? tUreS and i ? Sk ‘
i had occune ' 1 ° u ;n P lace
H - t . Se '.\‘,° r r0t rf F 0eS
S , tllad i rafter Uuu -
“v anfdav r V o?- V ^
Wm S mdav y the U k ' At At
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^° n V, " 10 1S tba f e - (!er
i ™ iS" yesterday M J he "’T A nd 1 i ,' Wben 1 K thi n , 0 Z ' V
insisted upon knowing whom n , he meant Y he
d ;.ni y ‘^j ^ b6n ,Lf aW i he ao count °i
wws'hritabsL’ o & Ul °* t a i * JU0I10U3 „ man 1
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br , ,° ,, th T of ...... the taxt at n 1 , S
*T i" t, f v‘ 8 r .,^"lf-i-oagratu.atory lth th ? se.f V a -“® satwlie. b,Vath c ,
,’, tu P e,ates against 1 his younger
wn.,.i- ns?. 1 8 a panegyric for himself.
fiw° US man 0f niy taxMikeevery
SKSSCftS?fc®ftf4Wft& the home blessings which he had ail those
years. He was disobedient, for wh n
the father told him to come in, he
stayed he said out. He was a liar, for
that the recreant son had devoured
his father’s living, when the father, so far
from being reduced to penury, had a home¬
stead left, had instruments of music, had
a mansion, and instead of being a pauper,
was a prince. This senior brother, with so
many faults of his own, was merciless in his
criticism of the younger brother. The only
perfect people that I have ever known were
utterly obnoxious. I was never so badly
cheated in all my life os by
a in perfect man. He got so far
up his devotions that he was clear up
above all the rules of common honesty.
These men that go about prowling among
telling prayer how meetings, and in places of business,
keep good they are, look out for them;
your hand on your poeketbook i 1 have
noticed that just in proportion as a man gets
good he gets humble. The deep Mississippi
does not make as much noise as the brawling
mountain rivulet. There has been many a
store that had more goods in the show win¬
dow than inside ou the shelves. •
This self-rigbteou3 man of the text stood at
the corner of the house hugging himself in
admiration. We hear a great deal in our
day about the higher life. Now, there arc
two kinds of higher-life men. The one are
admirable, and the other are most repulsive.
The one kind of higher-life man is very
lenient in his criticism of others, does not
bore prayer meetings to death with long har-
rangues, does not ta k a great deal about hi m-
self hut much about Christ and heaven, gets
kindlier, and more gentle and more useful
until one day his soul spreads a wing and he
flies away to eternal rest, an 1 everybody
mourns his departure. The other higher life
man goes around with a Bible conspicuously
under his arm, goes from church to church,a
sort of general evangelist; is a nuisance to his
own pastor when heisat home,and a nuisance
toother pastors when he is away from home:
runs up to some man who is counting out a
roil of bank bills, or running up a difficult
line of figures, and asks him how his soul
is; makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha:
address, standing he in a religious meeting making an
ha- a patronizing way, as though
ordinary Christians were dear away down
below him, so he had to talk at the top of his
voice in order to make them hear, but at the
same time encouraging them to hope on; that
by climbing many years they may after
awhile come up within sight of tlie place
where he now stands! I tell you plainly that
a roaring, roystering, bouncing sinner is not
BO repulsive to me as that higher-life malfor¬
mation. The former may repent;
the latter never gets over his
oharisaism. The younger brother of
the parable came back, but the senior
br.,ther stands outside entirely oblivious of
his own delinquencies and deficits, pronounc¬
ing it his own eulogium. Oh, how much easier
is to blame others than to blame ourselves!
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent,
the serpent blamed the devil, the senior broth¬
er blamed the younger brother, and none of
them blamed themselves.
Again, the senior brother of my text stands
for all those who are faithless about tlie re¬
formation of the dissipated and the dissolute,
in tho very tones of his voice you can bear
the fact that he has no faith that the reform¬
ation of the younger son is genuine. His
entire manner seems to say: “That
boy He has coma third back for more money.
got a back of the property: third. now
he has come for another He
will never be contented to stay on the farm.
He wfH Tifil away. I would go in too and re¬
joice with the others if 1 thought this thing
Was genuine; but it is a sham. That boy is
a confirmed inebriate and debauchee.” Ala-1
my friends, for the incredulity in the Church
of Christ in regard to the reelama-
tion of the recreant. You say a man has
been a strong drinker. Isay: “Yes, but he
has reformed.’’ “Oh,” you Bay, with a lugu¬
brious face, “I hope you are not mistaken, I
hope “Don you are not mistaken.” You say;
for t rejoice too much over his conversion,
soon he will be uncouvertej, I four.
Don’t mike too big a party for that returned
prodigal, U kill or strike the timbrel too loud; and
you a calf, kill the one that is
on the commons, and not the one
that has been luxuriating in t he
paddock.” That is the reason why more
4 pr'Kligals do not com.- hom : to their futher’s
i bouse, it is the rank infidelity in the Church
f of God this subject. There is not a houss
on has not it
on the street* of heaven that m n
i prodiial that ha* returned amt strayed
homo. Thai's could l*» unrolled before you
a scroll of a hundred thousand namoj— tb a
, •xa’^XftTRfta^rs-
I turned prodigal. Wlio was Hu-hard Baxter;
1 A returned prodigal. Who was George
YVliiWIold, tuo tfmndorer? A r
i prodigal. And 1 could go out in all Airec,-
! tions in this audience and lind on either side
I those who, once far astray for many years,
| have been faithful, though and their they eternal had been salya- ten
I j tion is as sure as °f
years in heaven. And yet S** 1110 y° u
J iiqt You enough do not fa.tli know in tbeir how to iortirji. shake bands with
a prodigal, don do not know how to pray
tor him. You do not know how to greet
| m . He wants tp sail You In tho gulf the stream Iceberg of
i Chr.stltu sympathy. are You
against which lie strikes and shivers.
say he Imslieena prodi;nl. ft— 1 know it. But
j _y,,u u are the UM , sour, ru „, unresponsive, censorious, ______„,...,
iaturntno, saturnine, cranky iranky, older Brother, would and if
you are going to heaven one think
j 1 ^ome people would t>*' from tempted to 'J he go hunters to p-r-
dition to get away you.
; say that if a deer ho shot tho other deer
. s | lova him out of their company, und the
i general ruin is awav with tho man that has
been wound 'd with sin. Now, 1 say,
ttl „ mw# p 011 ,, s „ man has broken,
t |, 0 , ll0 ,. fl j,e has of a hos-
pital, and tlmt the more a man lias been
i ruised and cut with sin the more need he
j 1HS l0 p e cavriw | ; n to human and divine
S y nlpa thy. Hut for sin-h men there is not
much room In this world—the men who want
to come back aftor wandering. Plenty of
room for elegant sinners, sinners in velvet
alll i sa tin and lace, for sinners high-salaried,
f , >r kid gloviwl - nn 1 patent |, leather sinners
flx0ll up y B hair dresser, colognei iioma-
tunwd and lavendeied und and
fri ^ M allllcr i mpP d and ‘'bangeil” sinners-
plenty of room! churches, Such we meet elegantly at
t j ie dooroi our and we invite them
j nto t,ho best seals with Chewterfleldian gal-
i antries; weusherthem into tho hmiseofCftKi,
an ,j put soft ottomans under their feet,
atll j put a gilt edged prayer-book in their
i, anf ) ’ and pass ',. tho contribution before them
with an a of ap o!ogy, while they, the
generous f.ortomcmmia, souls! take out. the exquisite
and open it, and with
diamonded-finger gold push pieces down and beyond deii-
tl ten-doilar
catoly itudo pi ,, k offering aB expression tie Lord, of of
grat tbeir to
one cent. For such sinners, plenty / of room,
1 k . n , fl{ „ ut for the mal who has
n his ili inkin-r faefservsi^lased, „ n til lrs coat is threadbare t
and his wife’s
wo Idiu’-dress is in the pawnbroker’s sIiod.
and his children, instead of being in school,
are out begging broken bread at the base-
meat and doors of the city—the man, body, mind
soul on lire with the Haines that have
ieapo.1 from the scathing, scorching,blasting,
consuming cup which the drunkard takes,
trembling and agonized, ami affrighted, and
presses to his parched lip, and immortal his cracked
“Shrieking yet spirit
oh j{u ; js ;f, son oE the para ble had
nofc g 0ne so f ar 0 jf he had not dropped so
j been ovv , j u wassail, the but protest going would clear not have the
so severe; over
precipice ^011 as and the will younger son d i, the elder
is angry not go in.
‘lh, be notsohard in your criticism of the
fallen, ’ lest thou thyself also l>e tempted. A
stran er th om Sullday straggered up and
down e aisles of my church, disturbing
t!le serv i ce lm til the service had to stop until
he was taken from the room. He
wa8 a mmister of tha Gospel of
Je8U8 Christ of a sister denomination:
that T int man had had broken preached the bread the of the Gospel, tfely
man
Communion for the people. From what a
height to what a depth I Oh, I was glad there
was taken no smiling his in the room when that man
was with hatin out, poor wife following him
his her hand, and his coat on her
arm. It vvasas solemn to me ns two funerals
—the funeral of tho bo lv and tne funeral of
the soul. Beware lost thou also be tempte.1.
An invalid went to South America for his
health, and one .lay sat sunning himself on
the beach, when He saw something crawling
"P tllu higgling to war i him. and be
was affrighted, llo thought it was a wild
from or his a pocket. reptile, and Then he he took his it pistol
saw was
not a wild beast. It was a man, an immortal
man, a man made in God’s own image; and
the poor wretch CI . aw!e d up to the feetof th ■
invalid and asked for strong drink, and the
invalid touk his wine flask from his pocket
drink! and gave tho poor wretch something to
and then under the stimulus he rose
and gave his history. He had been a
merchant in Glasgow. Scotland. He had gone
down under the power of strong drink until
was so reduced in poverty that he was ly-
in inaboat iusto ff the bem-h. “Whv,”said
i "™“* ................ •-«- gow
once,” a merchant by such and such a name,
ami the poor wretch straightened himself
and said: “I am that man.’’ “Let him that
thinkethhestindeth take lined lest he fail.”
Again, 1 remark that the senior brother of
my text stands for tlie spirit of euvy ami
Jealousy. The senior brother thought that
all tiie honor they did to tire returned brother
was a wrong to him. He said: “I have
stayed at homy and 1 ought to have had the
ring, and 1 ought to have had tlie bauquet.anii
1 ought to have had the garlands.” Alas for
this spirit of envy and jealousy coming
down through tho ages! Cain and Abel,
FIs iu and Jacob, Saul and David, Hainan
and Mordecni, Othello and l ago, Orlando
and Angelica, Caligula and Torquatus,
C esar and Pompey, Columbus and the
brother Spanish courtiers, Cainbyses and the
ho slew because he was a better
marksman. Dionysius and Philoxenius,
v' bom he slew because he was a better singer.
Jealousy teoffrey, among painters. Clostcrman and
< Francis, Kneller, Hudson and Reynolds.
anxious to see a picture of Raphael,
Raphael falls sends him a picture. Francis, see-
ng it, in a fit of jealousy from which
he dies. Jadousy among authors. How
seldom contemporaries speak of each other.
Xeiiopfipnand Plato living at the same time,
but from their writings you never would
suppose jealousies. they The heard Mahomme of each other. Religious
Ians praying for
rain Then during tlie a drought, no rain coming
Christians begin to pray
for Mahommednns ruin, anil the rain comes. Then
tlie met together to ac¬
count for this, and they resolved that God
was so well pleased with their prayers
He k,-pt the drought on so as to keep them
praying; hut tint the Christ aos bogan to
pr.iy, and the Lord was so disgusted with
i.’ieir prayers that He sent rain right away so
He would not hear any mon>of their suppli¬
cations. Oh, this accursed spirit of envy and
ealousyl Let us stump it out from all our
i -a» ts.
A wrestler was so envious of Theogenes^
consoled the prince of wrestlers, that he could not be
in any way, and after Tbeogenes
died, anti a statue was lifted to him in a pub-
lie place his envious antagonist went out
©very night and wrestled with the statue
until one night he threw it, and it fell on him
aud crushed him to death. So jealousy is n t
only absurd, but it is killing to the body
and it is killing to the soul. How seldom it
is yon find one merchant speaking well of a
merchant in the same line ot’ business. How
seldom it is you hear of a physician speaking
well of a physician on the same block. Oh.
my friends, tlio world is large enough for all
Let us rojo.ee at the success of
* over°the n
garden admire ourselves is to look fen<»
and the dowers. The next best thing
to riding in fine equqnge is to stand on the
fjfr* t* 18 |P ran 9* n S ‘gYven span. ^t^our The
ourselves is
prodigal father’s house. brother that has come home to his
Besides that, if we do not get as much
ougH ?oc 'n K ratuL ou, ^H-es S onwhat we
escape in the way of assault. Tiie French
Oeueral, riding on horseback at the head of
tes troops, heard a soldier complain and
: “„i 8 , V6, TheSctoneraldismounted r easy for the General
aud we walk"
and compelled the complaining soldier to get
on the horsx Covnins through a ravine, a
bull t from a Sharpshooter struck the rider,
“Howmuah OnVmtWe f ater it i 1 ' ‘to toil w'afk Vou han that" to ri,^
to this
senior brother of my text stands for the
pouting Christian. While there is so much
'congratulationwithin doors, the hero of my
text stands outside, the corners of his mouth
drawn down, looking as he felt-
miserable. I am glad his lugn-
brious phvsioinomv did not spoil the fes-
inr at th„church, poutint at the govern-
^
tbeir.digestion is broken down. There are
two cruets in their castor always sure to be
wall supplied-vinegarand red pepfjer! Ob,
otm away from that mood, Sttir a UtWs
BUS radiant forcrivim? father.
th,® and fa<*e of tlio
Contrasts nr* mighty. The artist in skstch-
lug the field of Waterloo, years after llis
ssk’iAs- AS?f atppy ft ar. ‘fnn&t’EJff ""Vz
K&. And the of and this irascible and
so sour I are
disgusted elder brother is brought out in or-
tier that in (ho contrast wo may better under-
stand the forgiving and the radiant face of
find Tlmt is the meaning of it—that God is
ready take him to take clear back back, anybody that is him sorry, Imck to
to take
forever, and forever, and forever, to take
him back with a loving hug, to put a kiss on
his parched lip, a ring on his bloated hand,
an easy shoo on his chafed foot, a garland on
his Weedin’temples, I fall Mat and heaven in his soul.
Oh. on that merry! Come, my
brotber, and lotus get down into the dust,
resolved never to rise until the Father’s for-
giving hand shall lift u,
Oh, what a God we have! Hrlng yourdox-
ologics. Come, earth and heaven, and pklm join
in the worship. Cry aloud. Lift the
branches! Do you not feel the Father’s arm
around your neck? Do you not feel the warm
breath of your Father against your cheek)
Surrender, younger son! Surrender,
elder son’ Surrender, all! Oil, go into-
dnv and sit down at the call buquet
Take a slice Of the fatted and
afterward when you are seated, with one
hand In the hand of tho returned brother,
and the other hand in the hand of the rejoic-
ing father, let your heart beat time to the
clapping of the flute. of the “It cymbal is and the that mellow should voice
meet we
make merry and be glad: for this thy brother
was dead and is alive again; and was lost
and is lound.”
Tenderness of Mr. Corliss.
Mr. Corliss, tho famous engine builder
of Providence, not very long before his
deatli, lmd occasion to build an addition
to his manufactory—a big “L,” for addi¬
tional machinery. To prepare tlie found¬
ation for this L it was necessary to re¬
move a do ledge of rock by blasting. addition The had
men to the work on the
been employed and put on the payrull;
brought the materials had been purchased and
to the building, and the work
of blasting had begun. The next morn¬
ing Mr. Corliss passed by the place
where work was proceeding, when the
foreman in charge, knowing liis interest
in pretty things, called him.
“See here, Mr. Corliss,” said he,
“here’s a bird’s nest that we’ve found,
and that’s got to go.”
He showed the manufacturer a robin
sitting upon a nest that had been built,
fast and snug, in a crevice of the rock,
among some bushes that grew there.
The bird flew off her nest as the men
came near, and showed five blue eggs
that looked as if they had just been laid.
“Can we move that nest somewhero
else?” asked Mr. Corliss.
“I’m afraid not, sir. We’d tear it to
pieces getting it out, and it isn’t at all
likely that you could get the bird to go
to sitting again anywhere else. rip We’ve it
got to go on, so we may as well out
and throw the eggs away.”
“No,” sai l Corliss, “we won’t disturb
her. Let her bring out her brood right
- here.”
“But we’ll have to Ltop the work ou
the building.” it
“Let stop, then.”
And so orders were given that opera¬
tions on the addition should be sus¬
pended. hands They were suspended; and
the stood still, drawing their pay
for doing the nothing, or next to nothing,
while robin sat on her nest with her
air of great consequence and zealous at¬
tention to business, and had her food
brought by her mate, and at last hatched
her brood. And then there were three
weeks more to go by, at the least, before
the young ones could fly. Corliss vis¬
ited tlie nest frequently, not with any
unensiness or impatience to have the
robin and the young ones out of the way,
but with a genuine interest in their
growth. The old birds had all the time
they wanted; and when at last they had
sternly helped the clumsy, reluctant
youngsters over the edge of the nest,
and they showed themselves able to get
about on tbeir own hook, orders were
given the to resume the building operations; gunpowder
and dull boom of the
tearing the rocks apart was heard where
the birds had peeped.— Boston Tran~
scribt.
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Retribution.
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Married While llyillg.
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Miss Mary Stauffer, an attractive
young woman, 18 years of age, was mar-
xied, at Schuykill Haven, to Luke
Fisher. In less than five minutes after
the ceremony died, lmd been performed weeping the
bride surrounded by her
husband and family. An hour or two
previous the she house, had and been her walking dr, in caught a field
near ss
hre from a heap of burning brush. blie
ran screaming, and her cries brought to
her aid a party of farm laborers, among
them Luke Fisher, to whom she was to
llava bo ™ l ' 10 n ” xt ™»k. There
was not hing at hand with which to put
out the fire, and Fisher picked her up
and d earned her to ^ a hogshead He of water him-
“ n it. was
sell , scorched and the young woman
sustained frightful injuries.
Miss Stauffer was carried into the
house, and though suffering the most
! excruciatin'' 'ji, min she ° ^Prtssed exivr, ssod a a wish wish
i ^ be mamed before sl.e died. The
! Lev. oil. 1 t;.'er was called in, and ^ had
Where the te-,1. Reetrf.
j; n —“i was -o moriifled that you
Ifaudie, but I can a; mre you that the
f uu t ro-tol entirely on the bicycle.”
“Yes, for a moment Mr. e.-lip, and
, the bicycle retted entirely on the
fault.”-—Aidi£ York S<n,
and Contented—Isolated anil
Kartt to Fiml
^ -‘K’arr^’ssirsrsa , , l ^ . to . tb T kdftn .
^ i8lalld ° ° °
b 1 ’ , • ■ , , deserted
1 ,. or m many years no isiauu lay aeseriea
of human inhabitants. If thecocou
pal ms had bean destroyed Whatever by a hurricane
they grew again. its eon-
dition at the time of its abandonment
the nroliHc I forms ce of tronioal i nature hsd
restored , it . or prese rved it, ■. ou as the the case c ase
may bo—just as typical a ‘gem of the
sea” as it was when the ancient
ft L mtor LchlV Ouiro saw it and fell in love with
uc h it was whe w.mlerinff £ ‘
knglander, , 1 11 Jennings by name, see-
ing its capabilities and noting its unoc-
cupied condition, conceived the idea of
setting up a kingdom in tho sea all on
his own account
Seeimr n that the island was going ” a beg-
fi' • n K for e an owner, that it was , a goodly i,
place, and family just the right iu all size South to main-
tain a upon sea
abundance ™ and ? luxury, brouX Jennings took
P”* 8 ® slon • 11 aml an 11 o there his
wife, native of of the islands . that ,
a one
lie to the south of his new abode, his
children, and one or two serviceable
CT'se to work for him There he set-
tied, seldom dom leaving leavin* tne the islet islet, there mere he ue
reared his family and laid up a reason-
able amount of wealth, and there he
died.
How the natives found Quiros island
at first or returned to it after wandering of
away is a mystery. Navigators Eu¬
ropean race have been known to run for
it and fail to find it. As you approach
it nothing appears at first but the tops
of the cocoannt trees, like a little cloud
against the horizon—sea to the right,
sea to the left, and just these palm leaves
Bleeping in quite the sun. to the laud before
You are close
you discern whence these trees spring.
Not only is there no mountain peak, but
there is not so much as a little hill.
Prol ably no part of the land is ten feet
above lhe high tide level, and the differ¬
ence between high tide and low tide is
not worth speaking about. Insignificaut
as is the height, so is the extent of the
island. Y'ou go ashore and boldly
plinge into the “interior of the coun¬
try.” You pass by the side of a sma’l
lagoon, suddenly push on through bright the groves gleams and
something
through the trees.
It is the ocean. Y’ou have traversed
the whole island; it is not a mile across.
Y ou turn to the right or left along the
beach and presently you find yourself
where you started from, in front of the
Jennings domicile and beside tho (Jag-
stall from which, in honor of your visit,
floats the flag of the l nited States.
Length and breadth there are just is about the
same; that is ail of Quiros
Island.
This . veritable speck . tne
in ocean IS
considerably more than 100 miles from
even any similar speck and much more
than that from land of any considerable
extent. No isolation could be more per¬
fect. Out of the ordinary track of
tiading vessels, it is scarcely ever visited
except by the craft which its present
owners annually charter to carry their
copra to market at Apia and bring back
theyear’s supplies for the little settlement.
Just once iu many years a man-of-war of
some nation calls at the island, tempted
probably out of the ordinary course of its
cruise by the rumor that poultry there is
abundant and cheap. Tiading ships,
especially labor vessels, Island are by no meaus
welcome at Quiros unbidden.
The presumption is that they do not
come there for any good the purpose. of Be¬
sides they unsettle minds the
younger members of the little cominun-
fly-
Not a dozen years ago a wandering
labor vessel lay of the island for a clay
and a night. Her people were hospitably
entertained, and the provisions they
wanted were suppl ed to them, When
she was gone it was found that no less
than three of the islanders had disap¬
peared quently with protested her. that The they traders had subse- hand
no
in the matter and would have returned
the stowaways, only it was too much of
an undertaking to beat back against
wind aud current when their voyage had
already of been unprotitably protracted. returned
None the runaways ever to
lhe island. Perhaps they were not so
much enamored of ocean solitudes as old
Eli Jennings.
However, if there have been truant
spirits in this little community the
majority dependants of the Jennings patriotically family and
their are fond
of their island home, and though those
of them that get the chance enjoy to the
full an occasional jaunt to Apia, which
for them represents the great busy world
from which they live secluded, they
would none of them change Quiros
Island for the finest domain elsewhere.
Tho old Jennings died some years ago.
liis eldest son, as has already been
hinted, rules in his stead. He is a white
man, and has inherited the shrewdness
of his father. There was little of senti-
mentalism about Jennings’ choice of his
solitary islaod He had made money be-
lore he went there, and he turned his
sea-girt follows dominion in his to profit. Now his
son footsteps,
The bounties of which nature in this
enchanting , .. clime so prolific turned
is are
to good account. It may in all be doubted
whether there is a farm California
that for the same scant acreage returns
so much much m as Onirna tjuiros Island Lionel does aoes to to the the
Jennings family. 1 he whole community
probably does not exceed thirty souls,
but they to hire no more and labor, nature
does so much for them, what is made
is saved. Here are no attractive stores
to lure the dollars out of one’s pockets;
; no saloon swallow or his corner grocery Nor to is help there a man
i to money. a
i stock market to lead the years savings
! into uncerta n and leaky chanuels whence
j they are not recovered.
Granted the annual surplus, which is
the real miracle, there is no wonder that
the lord of (, uiros Island should grow
rich. Whether he hides his accumula¬
tions in a stocking or buries them in the
Boil, converting his little island into k
s ii ve r mine, nu one has found out. 1. Hu-
mor, that most unreliable historian has
it that Jennings can put by a good
couple , ivi ‘ of thousand dollars a year after
g in the lap „ f the South Sea Island
luxury, and paying for all the little
! wants of his own household, and those
of other members of the family. lie
will before ore 1 Inna " D S'.“6 be «s nendev.d perplextd -in, with
w big “surplus” as is the Treasurer of th#
! nited states. Some fine morning he
will think his island too small, will bs
isar | Sh^oeTiemSlt he ^ pre,ertobor
in .Wg, Congress ««ee»,
at twenty-nine, and Judge
Court of the United
btatos at thirty-two. .
In ths eighty year.-l*08-88-no less
than 417 earthquake shocks hav# besn
fecordsdat gaa Francisco.
auperiora among he players $t>00 either white for or
black I think Betts a year
, 1W M.-rvier-s while if ho had a white
i. lo reed
to hold him. although J the players of tho I
°V ‘T ^ ‘d keenly f,, having Fust to '
play . with ft .nn,, tho J
Qraut th the^ oth« members . of .
goe *iw
the olub, stops at the same hotel , eat.
at the lams table While and poBSibW this occupies he
the same room. in city
j g registered Jv at the Gulf House, but is
roomed t wit i. *i, t e 0O l ore a help \ and takes
meals With them. . In this . dub . .
his is
found two of the oldest ball-tonars b«-
fore tile public. { Nelson, who lias been
• jj y or thirty whUe^Jack years, is Hem.mf holding
field
. °“i, .- ,1 n?New centre fielder of
the old Mutuals lUntnnla of New York York, (if of which which
Bobby Matthews was the star pitcher,
is J playing L&uuville the same position for the Buf-
Pott
Kino Ja-Ja, T . t. of n„„u Opobo, ,t, the n donnsed p
West African sovereign Whom EugUnd
exuviw exiled to the ux . West Indies, is being some- d
what/e , parties • and 1 • i
to lawn tennis various , socit
functions, where he dresses m an adtnl-
ral’s uniform and kid gloves, c bearing
himself witn kingly dignity.
The Aaonie- of Lumbago.
Fast Kiveb York, Natioxai. Bank, I
Ntw Ma; ch 10,1880. I
It gives me great pleasure to add m> testi¬
mony la favor of Alloock’s Porous Plas-
teks. Last October I had a very severe attack
oflumbagiaml suffered untold agony: could
not turn in le.l or get in any position with mt
as8 ; stunce, and with pains almost u bear¬
able; the f dks suggested Allcock’s Porous
Plssti rs. As soon as possible 1 had one ap¬
plied to the small of my bgck.and to mv great
mrprise I ext erienced almost instant relief; I
continued wearing it until entirely ( ured, and
um hap y to say that I have not had the
slightest symptoms of Lumbago since, 'they
are a wonderful and vulunblo Plaster f- r
Lumbago, and I take muchplea-ure in reconi-
mending them W. S. Phillips.
Mormons are flocking into Wyoming elections. in great
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A Voting (ilrl’s fti’lef
At seeing her ch rms of face and form tie-
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years.
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Three hundred charitable institutions in
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Messrs. Brown & Kin" will move into their
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Blue-mass for torpid liver, castor oil for con¬
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use
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If afflicted with ore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
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William II is the first Russian-speaking king
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Don’t hawk, and blow, and spit, but use Dr.
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Mrs. Stowe still receives $1,500 a year from
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A Fair Trial
Of Hood’s Sarsaparilla will convince any reasonable
person that it does possess great medicinal merit
We do not claim that every bottle will accomplish a
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taken according- to directions, does produce positive
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