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% MAUNA LOA.
fHE GREATEST VOLCANO IN
THE WORLD IN ERUPTION.
Description of the Giant Mountain
Whose Lava Streams are Pour
ins Toward the Sea—The
Fright at Hilo.
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A LAVA STREAM LEAVING THE CRATER.
It is almost in the centre of Hawaii, the
largest island in tte Hawaiian archipela¬
go. The greatest elevations of the big
island are all active volcanoes, and their
onormous craters are now and then full
of boiling lava.
The other islands are also pitted with
craters, but piutonic phenomena are very
feebly displayed in them, and are chiefly
revealed only by the appearance at the
surface of hot springs. The volcanoes
of these lesser islands have lost their prim¬
itive force, and most of their craters
And lava streams have become indistinct
and arc covered with dense vegetation.
It is evident that volcanic fires in the
•western part of the archipelago became
extinct many centuries ago.
Mauna Loa means “the great moun¬
tain.” It rises by long and very gentle
ilopes to a height of about 14,000 feet.
The fact that its slopes are so long and
gentle shows that its lava streams have
always been what they are to-day, so
completely liquefied that they flow easily
for a great distance and spread over Ihe
country many miles away from their out¬
let. If they were of a more solid char¬
acter they would not travel so far from
their vent, and the mountain would have
far steeper slopes.
The mountain rises 3000 feet above
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by a group of craters, specially
by the natives under the
name of Mokuaveoveo. It is an immense
symmetrical abyss, with its longer axis
in a north and south direction. At the
centre of this immense cavity is the
primitive crater, which has a diameter
of about a mile and a half and a depth
of over 1000 feet. It is still the most
active of Mauna Loa’s craters, and lofty
buttes of scoria, some of them volcanic
▼ents and others extinct, are lifted high
above the bottom of this tearful abyss.
To the north and south of this greater
crater are terraces on which are many
volcanic vents, and others are scattered
along the sides of the great depression.
"When Mauna Loa becomes fairly
active there is little rest for the people
of the island. The sight at night is one
of the most magnificent spectacles that
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A STREET IN HILO.
can bl . _ eu, as <ie great mountain
belches , columns of flame and
smoke, while streams of redhot lava flow
down the sides. The lava streams some¬
times pour down one side of the moun¬
tain and sometimes another. In 1843 a
great lava river flowed far to the north¬
east and divided into two streams at the
base of Mauna Kea, which they partly
surrounded.
In 1880 another stream, escaping
from the same part of the big crater,
spread its burning flood for six days in
the same direction, until it had deposited
on the surface of the island 700,000,
000 cubic metres of material. In
1852 a stream flowed down the eastern
flank of tbe mountain to the cultivated
coast regions and destroyed a number of
villages.
The great craters of the summit, how¬
ever, are not the sources of the largest
volumes of lava that are carried seaward.
Most of the lava comes from orifices that
are far below tbe great dome of the vol¬
cano. It was thus that in 1855 a flood
of lava, pouring out of ao onAce that
opened on the northeast side of the
mountain, swept toward the sea until it
reachsd the outskirts of Hilo, stopping
at a time when all the people in that lit¬
tle town believed tbat theii homes were
doomed. This lava stream covered 200
square miles of territory. It had an
average depth of 100 feet, and its vol¬
ume would nearly have built Vesuvius.
Three vear3 later a great orifice opened
six miles to the north of the big craters
of the summit, and the stream that
poured out of it flowed to the sea, and
balf filled the Bay of Kiholo
When Mauna Loa is in a quiescent
state it is a favorite resort for tourists,
Everybody who visits Hilo takes the reg¬
ular tourist stage line or a mule or
private conveyance for the top of Mauna
Loa. It is a lovely journey. The richness
of vegetation is seen along the route, and
as the road winds to the upper slopes of
the mountains a grand view is presented
of the country and the sea beyond. A
comfortable house on the road up the
mountain, known as the Volcano House,
has long been maintained for the accom¬
modation of travelers. The slope of the
mountain is so gradual that it takes,
along the usual route up the mountain,
twenty miles of travel to gain an altitude
of ‘J500 feet. The sight the tourist wit¬
nesses when he reaches the top and looks
down into the enormous abyss of Mauna
Loa with its bubbling lava, its rising
smoke and fumes, and the hissing of
steam as it escapes from a hundred
vents, is one never to be forgotten.
Several years ago Captain C. E. Dutton,
ot the Ordnance Corps of our army,
made a careful study of the Hawaiian
volcanoes. He said that a moderate
eruption of Mauna Loa represented more
material than Vesuvius had emitted
since the destruction of Pompeii. After
the big eruptions there is generally per¬
fect quiescence for some years in all parts
the mountain.
One of the pictures shows a street in
the pretty town of Hilo, on ihe northeast
coast. The telephone is a great institu¬
tion in this town, and, as the picture
shows, the underground system of dis-
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THE VOLCANO HOUSE.
posing of the wires has not yet been in¬
troduced. The news from Hawaii is
that Hilo is again threatened by the
outpourings from Mauna Loa. When
the great eruption of 1880 threatened
Hilo the inhabitants concluded that
there was no hope of saving their
ll+Me village. The stream was making
straight for Hilo.
Iu the last days of its flow, however,
its progress was much less rapid. Still
it kept pushing on at the rate of 300
yards a day. All the portable property
in the town was packed up, and the
people prepared to move at a moment's
notice. The lava stream split into two
large branches and seemed to be about
to encircle the town. The two arms
had reached the outskirts of the village
when suddenly, without any pre¬
monition, the flow stopped aud the
movement was not renewed.
Yegretablc Malformations.
Passing below ground, there are more
abnormities to be found than most per¬
sons are aware ot. The peculiar con¬
ditions that attend the subterranean
habit favor monstrous growths. Not
long ago a cluster of sweet potatoes was
brought to me. Some were all red upon
the surface, others were all yellow, and
some were one-naif red and the other
side yellow. The Irish potato is fertile
in its Ireaks. Seemingly not content
with the underground situation, pota¬
toes sometimes appear upon the branches
among the leaves. Occasionally a potato
when planted whole will develop other
new and small potatoes beueath the skin
and out of sight, which only calls to
mind how a hollow turnip may have its
cavity filled with an after-growth of
foliage, only to be discovered when the
root is cut in two.
Sometimes the abnormal growths bear
a strong resemblance to some other ob¬
ject very far from the one really shown.
Thus the illustration shows what might
well for the human hand, but it is
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A HAND-LIKE EAR OF CORN.
nothing more or less than an ear of corn
with the grain removed. Instead of
ending in the usual way, it has become
branched, thus giving rise to the
“fingers,” while the lower portion of the
cob makes a fair-shaped “wrist.” The
engraving is made from a photograph
recently sent from Missouri.—Popular
Science Monthly.
Weight ol the Soil.
The weight of a cubic foot of dry
loamy soil is estimated to*be about ICO
pounds. The more sand and gravel tbe
heavier the soil; the more vegetable
matter the lighter it will be. Some peat
soils weigh as low as thirty pounds per
cubic foot. Few soils ordinarily culti¬
vated will weigh less than seveny-tive
pounds per cubic foot, The soil on au
acre (43,500 square feet), to the depth
of one foot, will weigh about 3,000,000
pounds or 1500 wagon-loads of one ton
each.—New York Voice.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A new belt of natural gas has been
struck in Ohio.
In Europe there are rather more than
100 women to 100 men.
The death rate in this couutry from
tuberculosis, or consumption, is on the
decrease.
The apple contains a larger percent¬
age of phosphorus than any other fruit
or vegetable.
Out of a total of 513 known species
of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to
be found in no other country.
A 2000 horse-power electric locomo¬
tive has just been finished at Baden,
Turich. It is the largest in the world.
Over the whole world the proportion
of the sexes is about equal, but in sepa¬
rate parts of the world it varies greatly.
An Englishman has invented a new
system of electric mains whereby one
wire of the present three-wire system can
be saved.
An Austrian engineer proposes to carry
passengers from Vienna to Pesth, Hun¬
gary, by an electric locomotive at the
rate of 123 miles an hour.
The Victoria Railroad Bridge over the
St. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is
two miles long, cost over $5,000,000,
and contains 10,500 tons of iron and
3,000,000 cubic feet of masonry.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp 30,000 let¬
ters iu an hour is one of the interesting
inventions that has been adopted in the
United States Postoffice Department.
' Th united capacity of all the plants
now in operation in the world for re¬
fining copper by electrolysis amounts to
nearly one hundred tons of copper de¬
posited per day of twenty-four hours.
Many years since, apples were packed
in barrels from which lime had just been
emptied. On opening them in spring,
they were nearly all sound, while the
game variety not thus packed was badly
rotted.
H. Devaux has been making experi¬
ments with the sense of taste in ants, in
course of which he found that while
fond of sugar they dislike saccharin, and
even refused sugar when mixed with
saccharin.
Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, estimates the mean, height
of the laud of the globe to be 1900 feet
above sea level. Humboldt’s estimate
placed the same level at only 1000 feet
above high water mark.
By the transfusion of artificial or chem
ical blood in her veins the life of Mrs.
Louise Christian, of Lyon Mountain, N.
Y., has been saved. She had been very
ill for a long while and was apparently
about to breathe her last.
What is claimed to be the largest wire
nail machine ever built in the United
States was finished recently by a Green
point (N. Y.) firm, and shipped to a nail
concern at Everett, State of Washington.
The total weight of the machine was 12^
tons, and it is capable of making nails
weighing a half-pound each at the rate
of one a second. Nails of any desired
length can, however, be manufactured
by simply adjusting the feed.
A comparative estimate, made by an
English engineer, as to the cost of train
lighting by gas, oil and electricity, in¬
dicates that oil varies from one to two
cents per lamp per hour, compressed gas
costs one cent per lamp per hour and
electricity one-half cent per lamp per
hour, while the cost of plant was about
five per cent, less for electricity than for
gas. This will be a welcome piece of
news to railroad companies. The su¬
periority of the electric light in giving
more uniform illumination and not foul¬
ing the air commends it, irrespective of
any question of expense.
The Stormy Petrel’s Endurance.
During a recent trip across the At¬
lantic the passengers on one steamer had
a vivid illustration of the endurance of
the stormy petrel. Shortly after the
ship left the Irish coast two or three of
these birds were sighted at the stern of
the ship. One had been caught at some
previous time, and its captor tied a bit
of red flannel or ribbon round its neck
and let it go. The bit of red made the
bird very conspicuous, and it could be
easily identified. That bird, with others
that could not be so easily distinguished,
followed the ship clear across the ocean.
Rarely, during the day time at least,
was it out of sight, and if for an hour or
two it was lost to view while feeding on
the refuse cast overboard, it soon reap¬
peared, and the last seen of it was with¬
in a few miles of Sandy Hook, when it
disappeared, perhaps to follow some
outward-bound steamer back to Ireland.
When the fact is considered that the
ibip, day and night, went at an average
ipeed of nearly twenty miles an hour,
the feat performed by the daring traveler
can be better appreciated. Wnen or how
it rested is inexplicable.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A Strange Canyon.
George W. Dunn, the veteran natur¬
alist of California, has returned to San
Francisco from a strange canyon in the
Tactillas Mountains. Lower California,
where he went recently to secure some
rare plants, nolauas and seeds of the blue
palm. He says that the canyon has never
to his knowledge before been explored
by white meu, and that its declivities are
altogether more rough and frightful than
any he has seen on the Pacific coast,
though he has traveled much. About
two thousand Cocopah Indians were
there gathering the fruit of the palms
and pine nuts. They reached it, as did
Mr. Dunn, by going down the almost
perpendicular sides of the Tantillas
Range. The drop is 5240 feet in three
miles. Dead Indian ponies and horse
skeletons lined the way. The formation
from the bottom of the terrible canyon
to the saw-toothed backbone is dean and
pure granite. Along the canyon is a
tumbling cascade of pure mountain water,
and on either side for miles are groves of
tbe pretty blue palm.—Boston Transcript.
REV. DR TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject;- “The Sunshine of Religion.’
Text: “Her ways are ways of pleasant¬
ness''— Proverbs iii., 17.
You have all heard of God’s only begotten
Son. Have you heard of God’s daughter?
She was tiorn in heaven. She came down
over the hills of our world. She had queenly
step. On her brow was celestial radiance.
Her voice was music. Her name is Religion.
My text introduces her. “Her ways are
ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are
peace.” But what is religion?
The fact is that
theological study has had a different effect
upon me from the effect sometimes pro¬
duced. Every year I tear I out another leaf
from four leaves my theology left—in until other words, have only three brief or
a very
and plain statement of Christain belief.
An aged Christian minister said: “When
I was a young man, I knew everything;
when I got to be thirty-five years of age, in
my religion; ministry I had only a hundred doctrines
of when I got to be forty years of
age, I had only fifty doctrines of religion;
when I got to be sixty years of age, I had
only ten doctrines of religion, and now I am
dying at seventy-five thing years of age.and there
is only Jesus one I know, and that is that
Christ came into the world to save
sinners.” Aud so I have noticed in the study
of God’s word and in my contemplation of
the character of God and of the eternal
world that it is necessary for me to drop this
,iart of my belief and that part of my belief
as being nonessential, while I cling to the
one great doctrine that man is a sinner, and
Christ is his Almighty and Divine Saviour.
Now I take these three or four leaves of
my theology, and I find that, in‘ the first
place, and of dominant religion. above all others, is the
sunshine W hen I go into a room
I have a passion for throwing open all the
shutters. That is what I want to do this
morning. We are apt to throw so much of
the sepulchral into our religion and to close
the shutters and to pull down the blinds
that it is only through here and there a cre¬
vice that the light streams. The religion of
the Lord Jesus Christ is a religion of joy in¬
describable and unutterable. Wherever 1
can find a bell I mean to ring it.
If there are any in this house this morn
ing who are disposed to-hold on to their
melancholy service and gloom, let them now depart
this aefore the fairest and the bright¬
est and the most radiant being of all the
universe conies in. God’s Son has left our
world, but God’s daugher is here. Give her
room. daughter Hail, princess of heaven! Hail,
of the Lord God Almighty 1 Come
in and make this house thy throneroom.
In setting forth this idea the dominant
theory of know religion is one of sunshine. I
hardly where to begin, for there are
so many thoughts that rush upon my soul.
A mother saw her little child seated on the
floor in the sunshine and with a spoon in her
hand. She said. “My darling, what are
you “I’m doing getting there?’ “Oh ” replied the child,
W ould God that a spoonful of this sunshine.”
with gleaming to-day I might present you
a chalice of this glorious
everlasting First Gospel sunshine!
of all, I find a great deal of sunshine
in Christian society.
I do not know of anything more doleful
than the companionship of the mere fun
makers of the world—the Thomas Hoods,
the Charles Lambs, the Charles Matthews
of the world—the men whose entire business
it is to make sport. They make others
laugh, but if you will examine their autobi¬
ography down in their or biography soul you will find that
there was a terrific dis¬
quietude. he Laughter is no sign of happiness.
3 manaic laughs. The hyena laughs. The
loon among the Adirondacks laugn. The
drunkard, dashing his decanter against the
wall, laughs.
There is a terrible reaction from all sinful
amusement and sinful merriment. Such
men are cross the next day. They snap at
you recognizing on exchange, or they pass you, not
worldly society you. Long ago 1 quit mere
for the reason it was so dull,
so inane and so stupid. My nature is
voracious of joy. I must have it.
I always walk on the sunny side of the
street, and for that reason I have crossed
over into Christian society. 1 like their mode
of repartee better; I like their style of
amusement better. They live longer.
Christian people, I sometimes notice, live on
when bv all natural law they ought to have
died, 1 have known persons who have con¬
tinued in their existence when the doctor
said they ought to have been dead ten years.
of Every day of their existence was a defiance
the laws of anatomy and physiology, but
they had this supernatural vivacity of the
Gospel in their soul, and that kept them
alive.
Put ten or twelve Christian people in a
room for Christian conversation, and you
will from 8 to 10 o’clock hear more resound¬
ing glee, see more bright strokes of wit, and
find more thought and profound satisfac¬
tion than in any merely worldly party.
Now, when I say a “worldly party” I mean
that to which you are invited, because un¬
der all the circumstances of the case it is
the best for you to be invited, aud to which
you go because under all circumstances of
the case it is better that you go, and leaving
the shawls on the sacond floor you go to the
parlor the to give formal salutation to the host
and hostess, and then move around
spending of the the weather, whole evening and iu in apology the discus¬ for
sion
treading on long trails, and in effort to keep
the corners of the mouth up to the sign
of pleasure, and going around with an
idiotic lie-he about nothing, until the colla¬
tion is served, and then after the collation
is served going back again into the parlor
to resume the weather, and then at the close
going hostess at and a very late hour to the host and
had delightful assuring evening,and them that you have
a most then pass
ing down off the front steps, the slam of the
door the only satisfaction of the evening.
Oh, young man, come from the country
to spend your days in city life, where are
you tell going to spend your evenings? Let me
you, while there are many places of in¬
nocent worldly amusement, it is most wise
for you to throw your body, mind aud soul
into Christian society. Come to me at the
close of five years and tell me what has been
the result of this advice. Bring with you
the T7 oung man who refused to take the ad¬
vice and who went into sinful amusement.
He will come dissipated, shabby in apparel,
indisposed to look any one in the eyes, moral
character eighty-five per cent. off. You will
come with principle settled, countenance
frank, habits good, soul saved and all the
inhabitants of heaven, from the lowest angel
up to the archangel and clear past him to
the Lord God Almighty, your coadjutors.
This is not the advice of a misanthrope.
There is no man in the house to whom the
world is brighter than it is to me. It is not
the advice of a dyspeptic—my digestion is
perfect; it is not the advice of a man who
cannot understand a joke or who prefers a
funeral; ft is not the advice of who a wornout
man, but the advice of a man can see
this world in all its brightness, and. consid¬
ering myself competent in judging what is
good cheer, I tell the multitudes of young
men in ibis house this morning that there is
nothing in worldly associations so grand
and so beautiful and so exhilarant as in
Christian society. talk about
I know there is a great deal of
the self denials of the Christian. I have to
tell you that where the Christian has one
self denial the man of the world has a thou¬
sand self denials. The Christian is not com¬
manded to surrender anything that deny is worth him¬
keeping. But what does a man of
self who denies himself the religion sin;
Christ He denies himself pardon of he de¬
he denies himself peace of conscience;
nies himself the joy of the Holy Ghost; he
denies himself a comfortable death pillow; Do
he denies himself the glories of heaven.
not talk to me about the self denials of the
Christian life 1 W Here there Is one in the
Christian life there are a thousand in the
life of tie world. “Her ways are ways of
pleasantness." Agai*l
find a great deal o* religious sun¬
shine inCTwristian and divine explanation.
To a great rniruv people life is an inexplica¬
ble tangle. Things turn out differently from
what was supposed. There is <v.iseiess wo¬
man in perfect health. There ishomindus
trious and consecrated woman a complete
with invalid. $30,000 Explain that. There is a bad man
of income. There is a good man
with $800 of income. Why Is that? There is
a foe of society who lives on. doing all the
the damage he can, to seventy-five years of
age, and department) here is a Christian father,'faithful
in every of life, at thirty-five
rears taken away by death, his family left
helpless. Explain that. Oh, there is no
sentence that oftener drops from your lips
than this: “1 cannot understand it. I cau
not understand it.”
Well, now, religion comes in just at that
point with its illumination and its explana¬
tion. There is a business man who has lost
his ent re fortune. The week before he lost
his fortune there werr twenty carriages that
stopped at the door of his mansion. The
week after be lost his fortune all the car¬
riages you count on one finger. The week
before financial trouble began pjople all took
off their hats to him as he passed down the
street. The week his financial prospects
were under discussion people just touched
their hats without anywise bending the rim.
The week that he was pronounced insovlent
people just jolted their heads as they passed,
not tipping their hats at all, and the week
the sheriff sold him out all his friends were
looking in the store windows as they went
down past him.
Now, while the world goes away from a
man when he is in financial distress, the re¬
ligion of Christ comes to him and savs:
“You are sick and your sickness is to be
moral purification; you are bereaved; God
wanted in some way to take your family to
heaven, and He must begin somewhere, and
so He took the one that was most beautiful
and was most ready to go.” I do not say
that I religion explains everything in this life,
but do say it lays down certain principles
which are grandly consolatory. You know
business men often telegraph in ciphers.
The merchant in San Francisco telegraphs
to the merchant in New York certain infor¬
mation in ciphers which no other man in
that line of business can understand, but
the merchant in San Francisco has the key
to the cipher, and the merchant in New York
has the kev to the cipher, and on that in¬
formation transmitted there are enterprises
involving Now hundreds of thousands of dollars.
the providences of life sometimes
seem cipher, to be a senseless God rigmarole, that a mysteri¬ cipher,
ous but has a key to
and the Christian a key to that cipher, and,
though he may hardly be able to spell out the
meaning, he gets enough of the meaning to
understand that it is for the best. Now is
there not sunshine in that? Is there not
pleasure in that? Far beyond laughter, it
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?“! for hfr^ JOJ ? There ’Taer? are are tSt-I teai s whieh wmcn arl are eternat eternal
m distillation.
There are hundreds of people in this bouse
who are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all things
working together for good for their soul.
How a man can explanation get along is through mystery. this life
without the to me a
What! is that child gone forever? Are you
never to get it back? Is your property gone
forever? Is your soul to be bruised and to
be tried forever? Have you no explanation,
no Christian explanation, have and the yet religion not of a
maniac? But when you
Jesus Christ in your soul, it explains every- under¬
thing so far as it is best for you to
stand. You look off iu life, and your soul
is full of thanksgiving to God tnat you are
so much better off than you might be.
A man passed down the street without
any shoes and said “I have no shoes. Isn’t
it a hardship that I have no shoes? Other peo
pie have shoes; no shoes, no shoes,” until he
saw a man who had no feet. Then he
learned a lesson. You ought to thank God
for what He does, instead of grumbling for
what He does not, God arranges all the
weather in this weather world—the well spiritual the
weather, the moral as a-,
natural weather. “What kind of weather
as I like.” “What do you mean by that,”
asked the other. “Well,” said the farmer, Lord,
“it will be such weather as pleases the
’"“ohTthe suMhfne^t^suusm^ of'Chris
tian explanation! Here is some What one bending
over the grave of the dead. is going
sLwupo e n?h n e S °tom°b" ? oTnof^e ler- The
vices read at the grave? On, no. falls
chief consolation on that grave is what
from the throne of God. Sunshine, glori
of This Bible and of our religion iu the
climacteric joys that are to come. A man
who gets up and goes out from a con
cert rieht after the ooening ‘before voluntary
has been played, and the prima
donua sings, or before the orchestra
begins, has a better idea of that concert
here have only tue first note of the eternal
orchestra. We shall in tnat world have the
joy of discovery. W e will in five minutes
catch up with the astronomers, the geolo¬
gists, the scientists, the ptiilosophers ot all
age= who so far surpassed us in this world,
We can afford to adjourn astronomy ana
‘wLllUherna^rbeUerap
paratus and better opportunity. sciences far to
I must study these so as
and saving the souls of others,knowing that
in one flash of eternity we will eaten it all.
Oh. what an observatory in which to study
tefescope^but 4 by supernatural viion ; and
if there’ be something stroke doubtful of the 10,000,000
miles away, by one wing you
you ^cu£' catching "andaTnn it all in le* time flash Tan of
l tell you, one
Aud geology 1 What a place that will be
to study geology, when the world is being
botanical ^nfpX ^ U froS the
corolla! What a place to study architecture,
amid the thrones and the St. palaces Paul’s and the
cathedrals—St. Mark’s and roox
“'Krt'Z.^irt.yoaeould earth, going around U»
tour of the whole as
others have gone, but you have not the time;
you b&ve not the means, You will make
that tour yet during one musical pause in
the eternal anthem. I say these things for
the comfort of those people who are abridged
in their opportunities—those people work, to
whom life is a humdrum, who toil and
pie have; how I would fill my mind and soul
myteSs 4 'You ? ^goin?toLe^>«sRy matriculate into
vet Death will only you
the royal college of the universe.
What a sublime thing it was that Dr.
Sr dTm'g 0 moments ( ! ftr0 A "e l^ked up he
said, “It opens; it expands; it expands."
Or as Mr. Topiady, the author of “Rock of
something fsffiatrasffsssass supernatural, “Light?’ and then
as he came on nearer the dying moment,
his countenance more luminous, he cried,
“Light!” and at the very moment of his de¬
parture lifted both hands, something super¬ cried,
natural in his countenance as he
“Light?’ Only another name for sunshine.
Besides that we shat! have all the pleasures
of association. We wdl go right up in th«
front of God without any fright. All our
sins gone, there will be nothing to be fright
eued about. There our old Christian friends
will troop around us. Just as now one of
your sick friends goes away to Florida, the
land of flowers, or to the south of France,
and you do not see him for a long while, anil
after a while you meet him, and the hollows
under the eyes are all filled, and the appetite
has come back, and the crutch bis br-ei
thrown away, and he is so changed you hard
ly know him. You sav, “Whv, I never saw
you look go well.” He says: “I couldn't
help but be well. I have been sailing these
rivers and climbing these mountains, and
that's how I got this elasticity. I never was
so well.”
Oh, my friends, your departed loved ones
climate, are only away for their health in a better
and wheu you meet them they will
Hie so changed you will hardly know them—
they will he so very much changed, and
afy-r awhile, when you are assured that,
they will are your friends, “Why, your where departed friends,
you say: is that cough?
Where is ‘tnat paralysis? Wtiers is that
pneumonia? Where is that consumption?”
And he will say: “Oh, I am entirely well!
There are no sick ones in this country. I
have been ranging these hills, and hence
this elasticity. I have been here now twenty
years, and not one sick one have 1 seen—we
are all well in this climate.”
And then I stand at the gate of the celes¬
tial city to see the procession come out. and
I see a long procession of little children
with their arms full of flowers, arjd then I
see a procession of kings and priests moving
in celestial pageantry—a long procession,
but no black tasseled vehicle, nt) mourning
group, and I say “How strange it is 1
Where is your Greenwood? where is your
Laurel Hill? where is your Westminster
Abbey?” And they shall cry, “There are
no graves here.”
belfries And then of listen for the tolling belfries of the old
heaven, the old of
eternity. I listen to hear them toll for the
dead, but they toll not for the dead. They
only strike up a silvery chime, tower ring to
tower, east gate to west gate, as they
out, “They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun light'
on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead them
to living fountains of water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
Ob, unglove your hand and give it to me
in congratulation on that scene’ I feel as if
I would shout. 1 will shout halleluiahf
Dear Lord, forgive me that I ever com¬
plained about anything. If all this is be¬
fore us, who cares for anything but God and
heaven and eternal brotherhood? Take the
crape off the doorbell. Your loved ones are
only away for their health in a land am¬
brosial. Coma Lowell Mason; come, Isaac
Watts, and give us your best hymn about
joy celestial.
What is the use of postponing our heaven
any longer? harp Let let it begin thrum now, and and whoso¬ who¬
ever hath a her it,
soever hath a trumpet let him blow it, and
whosoever hath an organ let him give us a
full diapason. blessed, moving They crowd in cavalcade down the of air, tri¬
spirits Their chariot wheels whirl in the'
umph. Sabbath sunlight. They Halt,
come. ar¬
mies of God! Halt until wears ready to
join the battalion of pleasures that never
die. i
° h - friends, it would take a sermon a*
Io »<? ^ « eternity to tell the jovs that are,
to us. I just set yedisciple>bf open the sunshiny
door. Come in, all the
world who have found the world a mockery,
Come in, all ve disciples of the dance, and
se e the bounding feet of this heavenly worldly glad¬
ness. Come iu, ye disciples of
amusement, and see the stage where kings
are the actors, and burning worlds the foot
lights, and thrones the spectacular
Arise, ye dead in sin, for this is the morn
j n g 0 f resurrection. The joys of heaven
submerge our soul. I pull out the trumpet
stop. In thy presence there is a fullness of
j Q y. at thy right hand there are pleasures
forevermore,
Blessed are the saints beloved of God;
Washed are their robes Io Jesus's blood;
Brighter than angels, lo! they shine,
Their glories splendid and sublime.
My soul anticipates the day.
Would stretch her wing and soar away
To aid the song, the p aim to bear.
And bow the chief 011 Burners there.
Qh, the sunshine, the glorious sunshine,
the everlasting sunshine!
Trades That Effect the Teeth.
Quicksilver miners follow the most
unhealthy trade in the world. The fumes
tion <>< and ***** the system ^ becomes «=»••« permeated
w ith the metal, the teeth of the untortu
nate meQ d r0 p ou t, they lose their appe
tite, become emaciated, and, as a rule,
seldom live longer than two years,
Chloride’of lime, employed by bleachers,.
frequently destroyslthe enamel and dem
tine of the teeth. But phosphorus, used
80 largely in the manufacture of lucifer
ma tches, affects a verv large number of
persons, wmnen, girts snd child,™
greatly preponderating. People affected who by
wor k i n soda factories are
th e teeth becoming soft and tfanslucaatj
they break off close to the gums. Doctor
Hesse, of Leipsic, states that bakers are
mjelv to suffer from carious teeth ou ac
"«»«or thsftor entering the month
during work, collecting on and around
the teeth, where it decomposes and gen
erate9 an ac jd destructive to the dentine.
—Yankee Blade.
|{ a( j a Beard and Hated Doctors.
Matthew Robinson (Lord Rokebyj, a
prominent but eccentric Englishman of
i a gt centurv, became famous for his
l° n ff beard and bis proaouncM kMrt
medical practitioners. In regard to the
former it is said that upon one occasion
when j to aa election be stopped at
an inn where the country people, who had
assembled from miles around, took him
f()r a fufV an d through this mistaken
idea almost worried “me Lord” to death,
His dislike for physicians was carried
to such an extreme that he left a codicil
to his will which was to the effect that
a f avor ite nephew was to be disinherited
should be (the nephew) in the last illness'
of the lord let his sympathies cause been him
t Q gen d for a doctor. This having
mjw j e known to the nephew when his
o»cte, needless th. to tart, add he. allowed to go*J»M., that person It <* 8
gp i r it; to take its flight without calling in
any tlie gurgical fraternity.—St. Louil
Republic. «*
The Peculiar Death of a Workman.
James Bordley, of Chester, lost his
has an appliance lor loading coal into
cars through chutes. Bordley was oa
top of a 400-ton pile of coal, and when
the chute was opened be was sucked coalcov- into
the chute and seventy tons of
ered him over. Twenty men worked for
an hour to move the coal pile, but when
fjord ley’s body was recovered Lite was
The Age of Turtles.
The age of turtles, like the age of
some excellent women, will never be
known. In many parts of the country
boys cut their initials on the shell of the
tortoise, with the date, and then, watch
for them in later years. At Hatboro, iff
Pennsylvania, one was found with L.'
W., 1833, cut on the shell. Mr. Levi
Walton, wbo cut tbe lettering, is still
living, but the slow going turtle will
probably outdo him in tbe race of life
—Meehans’s Monthly. j
