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Smith’s Experiment.
The Church Temporal.
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“Bmith,” said a well known Chi
cago merchant to his caBhier, “you
are going to the devil.”
“Sir— 1 ”
“Now, there’s no uso denying it. I
ee it in your face. You were drunk
last night and night before Iasi, and
you are bracing up on whisky to
day. It won’t do, sir, it won’t do
You can’t stand it, and if you could—
why I can’t.”
“Well, sir,” replied Smith, “I ad
mit I ha\e been going it a little too
strong lately.—”
“A little I Well I should think you
had a little. Look here, Smith ; you're
a good cashier and an honest one, I
believe, and I don’t want to lose you.
Now, tell me, why do you drink ?”
“I am sorry to say, sir, that it seems
to be a genuine love for 1‘quor. I am
always thirsty for liquor.”
‘That’s bad, very bad, but not in
curable. I was one of the boys myBelf
once, and I got over it. You try nay
plan, and I think it will work with
you.”
“What is your plan, sir?”
“I’ll tell you. When I was a sales
man, about fifteen years ago, I got to
running around nights and drinking
and carousing until I began to look
jast as you do now. My employer
ime to ine one day and remonstrated.
Fhis thing has got to stop,’ said he.
LYou must eitner let somebody else
your drinking for you, or bave
lebody else do your work.’ That
Ive me an idea, and I acted upon it.
pepping into the nearest saloon, J in-
ted all hands up to drink. They
Tponded with alacrity.
pioked out the toughest customer
'the lot and asked him what he did
‘a living. “Nothing,” he replied,
tow much will you charge a week
to do my drinking for me ?” “Wot
£’ye mean ?” he asked. I explained
him that I had a perpetual thirst,
id that whisky unfitted me for busi-
iess, so I wanted him to do my driuk-
lg for me. “I’ll do it for $5 a week
found,” he replied, “That is,
found in whisky?” “Yea that’s it,
“Well, it’s a bargain,” said I,
we shook hanks on it. I took
to tne store with me and sat him
ra in a corner out of sight. Wheu
to feel thirsty I took him out,
ITadehim drink a good, big glasi
lisky. Somehow, I felt better
|eeing him drink. Well, I had
im out several times that day
re night he was pretty full,
'time he was helplessly drunk.
We are n r t laborers onlv. L‘fe D
more than work and drudgery. Tbe
world contains, besides bodies and
braiue, preciou 1 souls, capable of joy,
love, peace, sympathy and a sense o
the beautiful.
The laws of nature are not, as mod
ern naturalists seem to suppose, iron
chains, by which the living Cl id, so to
sav.is bound hand and foot, but ela tic
chords rather, which he can lengthen
or shorten at his sovereign will.
It is an admitted fact that men who
use their brains live longer, other
things being equal, than the men who
do not.
When you give, take to yourself no
credit for generosity unless you have
denied yourself something to enable
you to bestow the gift.
A man of true moral integrity ia
uniformly just, in thiDgs both small
and great. He makes it a matter of
conscience to attend faithfully to the
smallest things, and by cultivating
this principle it grows into a habit, so
that in things of greater importance,
he acts with fidelity. A man who is
unfaithful in little things, cannot be
trusted In that which is of greater
moment. A straw tells which way
the wind blows. So the little acts
which a man almost instinctively per
forms, afford a true index to his char
acter, and reveal the principle which
governs his life.
The oldest of the Protestant missions
in China dates from the year 1842.
with the boys and
They kicked at
Ich a measly looking
when I explained
;ood joke. My ap-
wa^too strong for
F&rSnothtr drinker, and he
me three weeks. Then I
Jim throwing a glass of whis-
lis shoulder, and I discharged
fell, I used up nine able bodied
Lrds before I absolutely quench-
THB DECLINK OP FAITH.
\b In some half-burned forest, one by one,
We o Ucti far eoboeaoa the dreary breeze,
Born of the downfall of Its ruined trees—
While even through those that stand slow
sliudderlugs ruu,
A.s II fate’s hand were sternly laid tfiereoo :
Thus, In a world smitten by foul disease—
that pest called Doubt—we mark by sad de
grees
The f ill ol lordliest faiths that wooed the sun:
Some, with low sigh of parted bough and
leaf.
Strain, quivering downward to the abhorred
ground;
Home totter feebly, groaning, toward their
doom ;
While some, broad-centnried growths cf old
Belief,
Sapped as by Are, deteatnred, charred, dis
crowned,
Fall with loud crash and long, reverbant
boom 1
Thus, fated hour by hoar, more gaunt and
• hare,
G oom the wan spaces, whence—a power to
bless—
Unbourgeoned once, in grace or stateliness,
Some creed divine, offspring of light and air
What then ? An ! must we yield to bleak de
spair,
Beholding God himself wax less and less.
Paled in the skeptical flame-cloud's whirl
and stress,
TUI lost to love and reverence, hope and
prayer ?
O Man ! When trust Is blind and reason reels
Before some flery, fierce Iconoclast,
Turn to thy Heart that reasons not, but feels ;
Cree ls fall, shrines perish ! “Btlll” (her In
stinct salth)—
‘Still the Soul lives; the Soul mast oonquer
Death!
Hold fast to Gol, and God shall hold thee
last
iy thirst; bu
I never tiiil
quenched it at
flieve I’ll
)o,” said
fce it will woj
It
“I am
may take a long
year perhaps—but you stick
> you’ll down your appetite to
r certainty. If you And it is
Tng you more than you can stand
jfil increase your salary.”
People who are not Intimately ac
jualnted with Smith think he is go
the dogs at lightning express
They judge so beoause he is
6ys seen in the oompany of a
STuken bummer of the worst possi-
description. But Smith’s friends
iw he has not drank a drip since
lad that talk with his employer,
las already used up three drunk-
and is looking around for a
irth.
The Cock-Tails Did It.
lvisible lemon : A man recently
m on Warren street. He was
individual, and took up lots
the sidewalk, and a bystander
it it the proper time to be fun-
;uie to fall ?” he
kof lemon—
^replied
no
Then only six converts could be found
in all China. To-day there are 29
missionary societies at work at 91 cen-
ral stations and 511 out-stations, 250
ordained missionaries and 73 < r
d lined native ohrgy, 63 unmarried
women teachers, 511 licensed preach
ers, 71 colporteurs, 90“ Bible women,”
400 churches, 18,000 enrolled com
municants, about 75,000 adherents, 20
theological schools, with 231 students,
30 higher boarding-schools for boys,
with 611 scholars, 3S for girls, with 777
scholars, 177 day-schools for boys with
4500 students, 82 for girls with 1300
students, 16 missionary hospitals and
24 dispensaries. At the Mildmay Con
ference in London, Dr. Legge stated
that at the present rate of progress, in
forty years more Protestant missions
ought to report 26,000,000 communi
cants and 100,000,000 adherents in the
middle kingdom, The (American)
Presbyterian Publishing House at
Shanghai printed in 1880, 314,000 Bi
bles and Testaments, 4,672,500 pages of
tracts, and 226,763 volumes of miEcel-
laneous books.
Protestant Relics.— The London
Eoho speaks thus of relics and relic-
mongers: “The left hand of 8'. James
the Apostle is in the market, and can
be purchased for a consideration, as
the strait laced brotherhood who com
pose the committee of the Museum
now forming at Reading turn up their
pious noses at such “superstitous
abominations” and “remnants of the
scarlet Jady’—the quotations are from
a letter we have seen. According to
ing a drink^ &Q 0 ; ( j manuscript in the writer’s pos-
“ session, and purchased at the sale of
the great Stowe collection, the Abb* y
of Reading in the reign of Henry II.
was uiuch favored I y n y*l y, and its
principal attraction was one of the
reputed hands of Ht. James, which
had been brought over from Germany
by the Empress Matilda,and presented
with great state to the Abb* y. It was
incased in solid gold, which Richard
the First stole, and gave the Abb* y an
additional charter in compensation
for the theft. At the Reformation the
hand was buried in the choir, but in
October, 1786, it w&h found, carefully
preserved, i y the workmen engaged
in excavation. The relic oonslsts of
tne left hand of a human being, partly
closed, and the flesh is dried on the
bones. Whether it be the hand of
St. James or not, it is certain that
from 1100 up to 1500 the Goffers ot the
Abb*y received veiy substantial as
sistance from its exhibition; and,
apart from superstition, it might be
cartful y preserved as a memento of
the past m the museum at the new
Town- Hall of Reading. We may
mention that the committee have
already made themselves exceedingly
obnoxious; for not only have tiny
issued an edict forbidding the valuable
collection of pictures lent by Mr.
Hargreaves to be inspected on Bun-
da yi, but nearly all of them were
against having the exhibition at all,
though the expense is being borne
t y private Individuals. How the
puted hand of Bt. James will fare
be pretty well guessed. We
b of Holy Russia; Thaok
tthls pen slip, and
Bagging a Bull Elephant.
said
A correspondent of the Cape Timet
gives the following acconnt of an ele
phant shooting expedition undertaken
by four Europeans from the neigh
borhood of Kuysna: “The party en
tered the iorest aDd after crossing
numerous epx-rs finally came upon
that of a veritable patriarch, which
they followed for about an hour ; but
the old gentleman’s wanderings be
coming too toituou9 and intricate the
party decided on taking a straight
course through the forest toward the
sea. Finding traces of a numerous
herd, the spoor of these was followed
until about twelve of our canine as
sistants in the proceedings lifted np
their voices and announced the vicin
ity of the mighty game. As a warning
of approaching danger, such an ex
pression of feeling on their part waB
hardly necessary, as the noise of
falling trees, the crackling of brush
wood and the shrill and peculiar
trumpetings of these huge creatures
was quite sufflrient to cause every
one who had not already raised him
self to a safe elevation to wish that %e
bad devoted some of his idle hours to
practicing the art of climbing. Buch
a serious view of the case was hardly
necessary this time, however, as the
i er 1 scampered oil, leaving one of
their number, a fine bull, to square
matters with his tormentor*.
The party then rushed fo-ward,
each anxious to secure for himself the
best chance of a shat, but their ardor
was homewhat chilled by a sudden
and angry trumpeting on the part of
the elei hint, which always indicates
that he is in the aot of charging.
Then followed a succession of extra
ordinary m&nce uvres on his part, the
huge brute tearing up trees, some ol
them actually nine inches in diame
ter. Two of the party just gained a
friendly branch for the purpose of
reconnoltering, when the elephant,
persecuted by the dogs, oharged
straight up to the tree and stood right
under the branch where they were
standing. In this position it was con
sidtred inadvisable to fire, as if death
had not been instantaneous the ele
phant might have easily caught
them. Almost Immediately the ele
phant was seen coming straight to
ward the party. Oahe came in good
style and alter a fashion that left little
doubt as to his Intentions. There was
no cover of any kind, so the party
stood their ground. The elephant
was now within less than 20yatd* dis
tance, and one of tbe party fired, but
the shot failed to stop him. The mat
ter was getting rather serious; he was
now within eight yardB, making
straight for the paity. Another gen
tleman, who was armed with a double
gun of powerful calibre, now fired but
having only a very imperfect footing
on the stump the recoil pushed him
off and he fell right in tbe enemy’s
way.
His shot, though splendidly aimed,
passed, as was afterwards ascertained,
through the elephant’s trunk, and
glanoing oil under the ear, did him
little actual damage. He was now
In a stride of the stump upon
e
who seemed to he reserving their fire
too long, now let him have it, and six
bullets were put into him; these
told, he turned outside of the tree and
stubbornly retreated. Bo close did he
pass that almost every one of the party
could have touched him with their
rifles. As he retreated, the geutleman
who fell had recovered himself, and
gave him a parting shot in the side,
the result of which was a very percepti
ble stagger on the part of the elephant,
and was the first t y Jiptorn he had y t
shown of getting the worst of it. He
now charged at the dogs, and having
covered a distance of about thiri y
yards was again brought to bi y ; this
time he received a voll< y of bullets » nd
displayed as much indifference about
tbe matter a* il he only received a
shower of mealies. Up to this he
showed great coolness a..d command
of temper. Another volhy at about
fifteen yards distance effected a won
derful change.
Then commenced such terrific
screams and yells of rage—the brute
knocking over everything he oame in
cantact with—as surpass description
He was now thoroughly aroased ; the
firing became general, and it was
every man for himself. Right and
left he charged, the thick bush giving
way before him like bulrushes before
the wind. His course could be easily
seen by the swinging motion of the
trees as he pushed by them or smashed
them beneath his feet. This, the fir^t
really serious exhibition of temper on
his part, caused the entire party to
draw together. They took up a posi
tion between two small trees, and
upon an old stump about eighteen
inches high. It took ten more shots
to finish him. He made his last stand
at the foot of a large yellowwood tree,
against which the sagacious brute
leaned for support. Three times he
charged from this tree, and as many
times returned. He was now showing
signs of weakness and his trumpeting
became less frequent. Collecting all
his strength he made another rush for
his enemies. This time he wa9 hit
hard; he staggered, trumpeted ones
more, and with a tremendous yell
sank heavily to the ground and died
in a few seconds. He had twenty
seven bullets buried in him.
A Human Monster.
The Yellowstone Park.
Mr. Paul Bert has lately sent to the
editor of La Nature from Geneva, two
photographs of a human monster ex
hibited there, living and aged five
years, having been born at Turin in
1877. It ha9 two heads, four arms,
and two ohests, but one abdomen and
pelvis, and two legs; that is, it is dou
ble above the middle of the body.
The fusion of tbe two bodies begins at
the sixth rib. From due examination
and from what has been observed in
previous monsters of the kind, they
were named Xiphodyme by Isodore
Geoflroy, St, Hilaire. It may be af
firmed that there are four lungs, two
hearts, and two stomachB ; the small
intestine is double at its commence
ment, but is in greater part simple.
• They are really two individuals.
The right leg obeys only the right in
dividual, »uo alone feels any one
pinching it; and similarly with the
left. The sensibility of half the body
is in exclusive rapport with the head
of the same side. The two individuals
were baptized doubly under the names
of Jean and Jacques. They £re equally
developed from physical points of
view, except a slight club foot on
Jacques’ leg, and intellectually they
are much alike. Their intelligence is
normal; they reply the questions of
visitors in French, Italian and Ger
man, They seem to be gentle and
amiable, also lively, often playing to
gether while lying on cushions, or on
the knees of their reputed father. It
iBsaid tbat they have never been ill.
It has been shown in the case of
other double monsters, that one may
have an Inflammatory fever, while the
other continued well; but the like
could not occur with infectious dis
ease or poisoning. Beveral cases of
these Xiphodyme monsters have been
recorded in history, but very few of
them have lived.—Irith Timet.
The Yellowstone Park is Bimp/y a
land of wonders and sur; rises. Such
photographs as I have seen totally fail
to give the slightest conception of it.
There is nothing like it in' the world.
The Bwiss Alps appear small and in
different to me after seeing these mam
moth sulphur springs and geysers.
They are literally indescribable. Their
extent, their variety, their infinite ir
regularity must be seen to be realized.
Their incrusted forms seem t*' have a
law of their own constri ctlon. Imag
ine a series of huge basins, formed as
regularly as the fountains in the Eu
ropean city, leaning over each other
hundreds of feet in height, and each
varying in color from a dull lake-red
to enow white.
There are high hill# of beautifg
crystallized sulphur, countless gey!
of hot sulphur water, that thrower
jets and columns from 20 to 200 feet.
As a great sanitarium it seems to me
the park will some day be a national'
resort. It is bountifully watered by
clear streams that abound in fish, and
game is plentiful.
Except the Marshall House, a rude ]
frame structure, there is no place of
accommodation there as yet, and
while the trails and roadways obvioc
enough and fairly passable for vel
cies, there has been a strange omission
on the part of the government custo
dians to erect signboards at the cross
ings giving the distances and the
dir9CtioDs to the various points.
A government police is sadly need
ed to prevent wanton and careless
conflagrations, which have already
destroyed vast bodies of valuable tina;
berf and disfigures the face of the
country. There can be no dc
the abundance of game in th»
I saw a herd of elk on three dii
occasions, scattered antelope every
few days, and bear tracks were plenty
in the snow. We had no diffl ruity in
procuring elk meat, and what was
far better, the meat of the wild moun
tain sheep. It was the best mutton I
ever tasted ; in flavor and delicacy 1
think it was superior to the famous
Welsh mutton. Capt. Gorringe count
ed more than three hundred signt-
seers; they came principally from
the Pacific coast. We also came
across companies of men engaged in
fishing and sheeting and drying and
salting the trout o: winter use.
The Detained Juror.
A novelty in lace curtains is an
nounced, which consists in the pecu
liarity of the design rather than in
anything special in the fabric itself.
It represents, within a border of floral
»design, a window with dranei y and a
view in perspective bt yand. The idea
msy be new, but Is certainly not ar
tistlo.
Many stateemer
look upon a morn-
itutfonal amend -
We remember an amusing little
circumstance occurring during a pro
tracted trial for felony in one of the
midland counties a few years ago. A
boy, entering the court, and quaking
his way to the jury-box, banded to
the (filler in attendance, a note ad
dressed to one of the jury, the effieer
handed it, as in duty bound, to “bis
lordship on the bench. The J udge—
first asking permission—opened and
read the, communication. After a
solemn pause, he remarked: “I think,
sir, I will not hand you this at pres
ent. You could not now comply with,
its suggestion, and it might distract
your attention from the very seJ^ms
case we era trying.”*-,^he juryman
bowed, and th^judge carefully pla
the letter between the pages of
notebook. When the case eoncluded,’
about eight or nine o’clock at nigh^
the fudge said, “There is your noie,
sir. I am afraid it will giye you litt
pleasure now.” The juror opern
and read it, smiled, hewed, and hast-~
ily left the box, leaving the note be-'
hind, which, we trust, we were gui]
of no great indiscretion in re
it was in a female hand :
Dearest Jim :—Mr. and Mrs. Brown ;
have just come, and have brought
such a lovely pair of ducks, you oan’t
think ! And the onions and things for
the stuffing, and we will have the pud
ding we had left from Christmas. I’ll
put them down to be ready at on^
sharp, because the B’s must lea^f
early—by five o’clock train. Do leave
that nasty court. Bay you are poorly,
or anything. Mind, at one! We
shan’t wait I Yours, Kitty.
A practical mendicant Is one morn
ing missid by one of his regular bene
factors. But on drawing near to the
poor man’s usual stand the benevolent
man sees hla chair, upon it hia hat,
and on the hat the foilowini
“Kind gentlemen and^
on thf poor blind
‘ 5ft".
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