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to be unconstitutional.
Before a Chinaman can quit Australia
£e ...
is compelled to register his departure
•nd leave his photograph.
' ’ The New Orleans Delta says there has
as yet arisen no great novelist to truly
and adequately depict the characteristic
life of the Southern people. It declares
that in that work lies a fruitful oppor¬
tunity for some instinctive author.
* The Boston Herald admits that Mayor
Gilroys ssems to be justified in pointing
with pride to the financial credit of New
York City. The two and a half per
cent, bonds of that municipality, which
now sell at a premium in the open mar¬
ket, have become the highest standard ol
security in the civilized world.
The public schools of this country em¬
ploy 352,231 teachers. Of these 227,200
are women, who earn annually $02,697,*
600, or an average of $34 per month.
The men teachers only number 125,000,
but they average $42 per month, or a
total of $63,000,000. With a grand
yearly expenditure of $lo5,69<,(»00 for
public instruction there is no excuse for
illiteracy in this country.
The British force in Egypt numbered,
at the beginning of this year, 3400 men.
Major-Geneial Forcstier Walker is in
command. The whole Evyptian army,
however, is indirectly under British con¬
trol, about sixty English officers holding
commands among the 19,000 active
troops, and General F. W. Kitchener
having control, as Sirdar, of the army or¬
ganization, The native troops have
reached a high degree of efficiency under
their English drill masters.
Sonoma Couaty, California, will send
a unique exhibit to the World’s Fair.
It will be a representation of the geysers,
one of tbe great natural curiosities of the
State. The model will be thirty-two
feet long, twenty-eight feet wide and
eighteen feet high. One of the great
spouting caldrons of steam will be rep¬
resented by real rock and imitation in
staff, while a background will be painted
to represent the most picturesque view
of the canon, from which scores of
geysers arise. Artificial lights in various
colors will reproduce the peculiar play
of color seen in the gorge. The sem¬
blance of the hot springs is fo bd made
by use of steam pipes. In thg»Jore
ground will Ue placed a huge allegorical
figure o tie Geyserls,”
iffocfelecr by R(Wrt Schmid.
In New Zealaud great progress lias
been made in dairying, although no
bonuses are granted there and the
transportation of products is not
assisted by Government subsidies. In
the season of 1891-2 the quantity of
butter exported was 3,010,672 pounds.
There are now in the colony seventy
eight butter and cheese factories, The
farmers receive about six cents a gallon
for their milk, and the butter is for¬
warded to market ones a fortnight. The
freight charges for the entire distance
of 12,000 miles are about three cents a
pound. In the last two years the market
value of dairy cattle in New Zealand has
increased more than fifty per cent.
Here, as in Victoria, the Government
has undertaken to educate the farmers
by the use of expert lectures. The ami
of the exporters in Australia and New
Zealand has been to meet and overcome
tbe competition ol Den™* in prices,
and ’ with this purpose in view, the
. of , the . best brands ol
wholesale . price
rolomal butter have been lower than
of the , _ Danish . , product , by
the prices
about $2.50 per hundred pounds.
Says J the New York Post; “The ti d e
...... this set , .
®f immigration to country iu so
-troni? during the early part ot 1892 as
» 0
flood _ for . the twelve
to promise a larger
.b„ d«™ B 1891, -bich latter
year had never been exceeded save in the
phenomenal , , period , of . 1SS L 81, | 1 nnd
1883 During the first six months of
last tbe arrivals . , at our ports aggre
year
gated 353,961, against 325,307 in the
game period of 1891, and the last six
months , seemed likely to show • a corre- ..nyr-i,
unondin? '*7 8 gain. But the cholera scare
and the , embargo policy adopted a o w it
weeks weeks later inter changed cnau^c the situation com
pletely. During September the arrivals
« *<• p°" ■r bOTl °° ly
against 41,964 in September of loyl,
and . though there there has has been been a a nartial partial re- re
coverv during the last qusrter, the total
for . .. the second half of the t k. year ws! was
nearly a third less than in the second
half of 1891. For the whole year 1892
the immigrants numbered 543,487, while
during 1891 there were 500,666. There
was a falling off of about a tenth from
the United Kingdom and Italy, a still
greater oi^s in the case of Russia (from
73,177 to 52,267) and Poland (from 31,-
285 to 26,889), a slight gain from Swe¬
den and Norway, a trifling reduction in
the German contingent, and unimportant
Change* in most other countries.”
DR.
J HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN¬
DAY SERMON,
Subject—“A Protecting Wing.”
Text: “As a hen gathereth her ehiclcens
under her wings, and ye would, not."—
Matthew xxiii., 37.
Jerusalem was in sicht as Christ came to
the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of TOO
feet. The splendors of the religious eanitat
of the whole earth irradiated the landscape.
Thera is the temple. Yonder is the king’s
palace. Spread out before His eyes are the
porno, the wealth, the wickedness and tbe
coming destruction of Jerusalem, and He
hurst into fears at the thought of the ob¬
duracy of a place that He would gladly have
saved, and apostrophizes, saying. “Ob.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I
have gathered thv children together, even
as a hen gatberetli her chickens under her
wines, and ye would not.”
Wb v did » hrist select hen and chicken as
a simile'' Next to the opposit.enesfi of the
comparison 1 think it was to help all public
teacher* in the matter of illustration to get
do- ■>" tlicir stilts and use comparisons
tin an understand. The plainest bird
f.' v * the barnyard fowl. Its only
ao j s are the rod comb in its head¬
line? and the wattles under the throat. It
has no grandeur of genealogy. All we know
is that its ancestors came from India, some
of them from a height of 4000 feet on the
sides of the Himalaya. It has no pretention
of nest like the eagle’s eyrie. It has no lnster
of plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing
anatomy that allows flight, yet about the
last thing that it wants to do is to fly, and
in retreat uses foot almost as much as wing.
Musicians have written out in musical
6cale the song of lark and robin red breast
and nightingale, yet the hen of niy text
hath nothing that could be taken for a song,
but only cluck and cackle. Yet Chirst in
the text uttered, while looking upon doomed
Jerusalem, declares that what He had
wished for that city was like what the hen
does for her chickens. Christ was thus sim¬
ple in His teachings, and yet how hard it is
for us, who are Sunday-school instructors
and editors and preachers and reformers,
and those who would gain the ears of audi¬
ences, to attain that heavenly and divine
art of simplicity.
We have to run a course of literary dis¬
orders as children a course of physical dis¬
orders, We come out of school and college
loaded down with Greek mythologies and
out of tbe theological seminary weighed
down with what the learned fathers said,
and we and fly with wings and of eagles and flamin¬
goes albatrosses, it takes a good
while before we can come down to Christ’s
similitudes, the candle under the bushel, the
salt that has lost its savor, the net thrown
Into the sea, the spittle on the eves of the
blind man and the hen and chickens.
There is not much poetry about this
winged creature of God mentioned in my
text, but she is more practical and more
motherly and more suggestive of good
things than many that fly higher and wear
brighter colors. She is not a prima donna
of the skies nor a strut of beauty in the
aisle of the forest. She does not cut a circle
under the sun like the Rocky Mountain
eagle, but stays at home to look after family
affaire. She does not swoop like the condor
of the Cordilleras to transport a rabbit from
the valley to the top of tho crags, but just
scratches for a living. How vigorously
with her claws she hidden pulls away the ground When
to bring up what is lieneath!
the breakfast or dining hour arrives, she
begins to prepare the repast and calls all her
young to partake. with
I am fashioned In sympathy hen, because, the like unpretentious
old roost of us,
she has to scratch for a living. She knows
at the start the lesson which most people of
good sense are slow to learn —that the gain¬
ing of a livelihood imolies work, and that
successes do not lie on the surface, but are to
be effort. upturned The by positive that society, and continuous and the
reason
church, and the world are so full of failures,
go full of loafers, so full of dead beats, is be¬
cause people are not wise enough to take the
lesson on which any hen would teach them—
that it they would‘find for themselves and
for those having dependent upon them anything
worth they must scratch for it.
1 “Solomon said. "Go to the ant, thou slug¬
gard.” I say, “Go to the hen, thon slug¬
gard.” In the Old Testament God compares
Himself to an eagle stirring up her nest, and
in the New Testament the Holy Spirit is
compared to a descending begins dove, but Christ,
in a sermon that with cutting sar¬
casm for hypocrites in and ends with the
paroxysm of pathos the text, compares
Himself to a hen,
One day in the country we saw sudden
consternation in the behavior of old Dom¬
inick. Why the hen should be so disturbed
we could not understand. We looked about
to see if a neighbor’s dog were invading the
farm. We looked up to see if a stormcloud
were hovering. We could see nothing on
the ground that could terrorize, and we
could see nothing in the air to ruffls the
feathers of the hen. but the loud, wild, af¬
frighted cluck which brought all her brood
at full run under her feathers made us look
again around us and above us, when we saw
that high up and far away there was a ra¬
pacious bird wheeling and round and round, and
down and down, not seeing us as we
stood in the shadow it came nearer and
lower until we saw its beak was curved from
^ " n d “ “ tw ° flames of flra for
a s t
brood .'feSSt bundled under ‘Sl’SS.I’SK
the clouds. Bo Christ wing darted back
into the calls with great
earnes mess to the young. Why, what, is the
matter? It is bright sunlight, und there can
beno danger. , Health is there. A good
fconje is theirs. life Plenty of food is theirs.
Prospect of long is theirs. But Christ
continues to call, calls ,with more em¬
phasis and urges haste and savs not a
second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what
is the matter 1 Ah, now I see. There are
hawks vultures of wheeling temptation for their in the air; there there are
prey; are
beaks of death ready to plunge: there are
claws of allurement read v to clutch. Now
that Christ might His this day take our sons an i
daughters into shelter, “as a hen gatb
ereth her chickens under her wing.”
Tbe fact is that the most of them will
never find the shelter unless while they are
chickens. It is a simple matter of inexor
able statistics that most of those who do not
come to Christ in youth never come at all.
What ehaDce is there for the young without
fliviuo ^ There protection? There are the grog
are the gambling hells. There
are the infidelities and immoralities of
spiritualism. There are bad books. Thera
are impurities. There are the business ras
calities. And so numerous are these assail
that it is a wonder that aud
virtU3 are no t | os t art?.
o
They are the assassins of thaslij. TLieybave
varieties of taste. The eagle prefers the
of the JivjQS aninia) The V(iiture pre .
fers the carcass. The falcon kills with one
stroke, ’ while other styles of beaks give pro
l at ion of torture. And so the tempta
tiODS of this life are various. Some make
nrick work of death, and others agonize the
mind and body for manv years, an i some
like the living blood of great soul?, and
others prefer those already gangrened. But
for every stvle of youth there is a swooping
wing and a sharp beak and a cruet ciaw,
and what the rising generation needs is a
wing of protection.
Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sis
tevs and Sabbath-sc 100 I teachers, be quick
and earnest and prayerful aud inioortunate
and get tbs chickens under the wmg. Great May
the Babbath-schools of America and
Britain within tbe next three months sweep
all their scholars into the kingdom. Whom
they have now under charge is uncertain,
Concerning that scrawny, puny child that
lay m toe eradte many years ago, the father
dead, many remarked, “What a mercy if
the Lord would take the child!’’ and the
mother really thought so too. But what a
good thing that God spared that child, for
it became world renowned in Christian
literature and one o’ God’s most illustrious
servants—John Todd.
Kemember. your children will remain
children only a litcle while. What you do for
them as children you must do quietly or
never do at all. “Why have you never
written a book?” said »ne one to a talented
and woman. have She been replied: “I am writing two
engaged on one work ten
years end on the other five years—my two
children. They are my life work.” ‘When
the house of Johu Wesley’s father burned,
and they got the eight children out, John
Wesley the last bsfor 3 the roof felt m, the
father said: “Let us kneel down and
God. The children are ail saved; let the rest
of the place go.”
My hearers, if we se-ure the present and
everlasting welfare of our children, most
comparative other things belonging to us are of but little
importance. Alexander tbe
Groat allowed his soldiers to take their fami¬
lies with them to war, and he accounted for
the bra very of his men by the fact that
many of them were boru in camp and were
used to warlike scenes from the start,
Would God that all the children of our day
might be born into the army of the Lord !
No need of letting them go a long way on
the wrong road before they turn around and
go on the right road. The only time to get
chickens under wmg is while they are
chickens.
Hannah Wbitall Smith, the evangelist,
took her little child at two years of age
when ill out of the crib and told her plainly
of Christ, and the child believed and gave
evidence of joyful trust, which grew with
her growth to womanhood. Two years are
not too young. The time will come when
into by tbe faith of parents born children will be born
this world and into the bosom of
Christ at the same time. Boon we parents
will have to go and leave our children. vVe
fight their battles now, and we stand be¬
tween them and harm, but our arm will af¬
ter a while get weak; and we cannot fight
for them, and our tongue will be palsied,
and we cannot speak for them. Are we go¬
ing take to leave them out iu the cold world all to
their chances, or are we doing we
can to get them under the wing of eternal
safety?
But we all need the protecting wing. If
you had known when you entered upon
manhood and womanhood what was ahead
of you. would you have dared to undertake
life? How much you have been through!
With most life has been a disappointment;
they tell me so. They have not attained
that which they physical expected and to attain. They
have not had the mental vigor
thav expected, or they have met with re¬
buffs which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or 50 or 60 «r 70 or 80 years of
age where you thought you myself would be. whom I do
not know anyone excapt to
life has been a happy surprise. I never ex¬
pected anything, and human w> when favor anything
came in the shape of or com¬
fortable position or widening field of work it
was 1 to me a surprise. theological seminary
was tola in the 1 by
some of my fellow students that never
would get anybody to hear me preach unless
I changed my style, so that wheu I found
that some people did come to hear me it was
a happy surprise. But most people, accord¬
ing to their own statement, have found life
a disappointment. Indeed we all need shel¬
ter from its tempests. About 3 o’clock on a
hot August afternoon you have heard a rum¬
ble that you first took for a wagon crossing
a bridge, but afterward there was a louder
rumbling, and you said, “Way. that is thun¬
der!” And sure enough the clouds were be¬
ing convoked for a full diapason. A whole
park of artillery went rolling down tho
heavens, and the blinds of the windows in
tbe sky were closed. But the sounds above
were not more certain than the sounds be¬
neath.
The cattle came to the bars and moaned
for them to be let down that they might
come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether
dark Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn its or
Dominick, began to call to young,
“Cluck!” “Cluck!” “Cluckl” and take them
under the wagon house or shed, and had
them all hid uader the soft feathers by the
time that the first plash of raia struck the
roof.
Bo there are sudden temptests for our
souls, and, oh! how dark it gets, and threat¬
ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or
persecution or bereavment gather shel¬ and
thicken and blacken, and some run for
ter to a bank, but it is poor shelter, and
others ruu to friendly advisers, and they fail
to help, and others fly nowhere simply be¬
cause they know not where to go, and they
perish in the blast, but others hear a divlue
call saying, “Come, for all things the bride are now
ready.” ‘The spirit and say
come.” Aud while the heavens are thunder¬
ing terror tbe divine voice proffers brooding mercy,
and the sonl comes under the e ira
of the Almighty “as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wing.” warmth,
The wings of my text suggest
and that is what, most folks want. The tact
is that this is a cold world whether you take
it literally or figuratively. We have a big
fireplace called the sun, and it has a very
hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well
stirred up, but much of the year we cannot
get near endugb to this fireplace to cold get
warmed. The world’s extremities are
all the time. Forget not that it is colder at
the south pole than at the north pole, and
that the Arctic is not so destructive as the
Ant irtic. Once in awhile the Arctic will
let explorers come bacs, but the Autartic
hardly ever. When at. the south pole a ship
sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be
snut against its return.
So life to many millions of people at
south and many millions of people at the
north is a prolonged shiver, but when I say
this is a cold world I chiefly mean figura¬ the
tively. If you want to know what is
meaning of the ordinary term of receiving
tho “cold shoulder,” get out of money and
try to borrow. The conversation may have
tern almost tropical for luxuriance of
thought and speech, but sxxzgest your neces¬
sities and sea the thermometer diop to 50
degrees below zero, aud in that which till a
moment before had been a warm room.
Take what is au unpopular position ou fly some
public question, and see your friends as
chaff before a windmill.
As far as myself is concerned, off I have day by no
word of complaint, but I look
dav and see communities freezing world out men
and women of whom tha is not
worthy. Now it takes after one and now
after another. It becomes popular to de¬ lie
preciate and defame and execrate and
about some people. This is the best world I
ever got into, but it is the meanest world
that some people ever got mto. 1 he wont
thing teat ever happened to toem was their
cradle, an 1 the best thing that win ever
happen to them will be their grave. What
people want is warmth.
on the ice of the Merrimac^ and great efforts
were made torescue lorn. 1 .vice'he twice got hold
of a plank thrown to him and he
slipped away trom it, because that end ot the
the pl«nk this time,, and this »lone be WAS
hauled to shore, dhe trouble is that m our
effort-- to save the soul there is too rauen
coldness ani icy formality, and so the 1 m
periled one slips off and floats down. Give
it the other end of the plank-warmth of
sympathy, warmth of kindly association,
warmth of genial surroundings. _
The world declines to give it, and in rainy
cases has no power to give xt, ana here is
where Christ comes in, and, as on a cold day,
the rain bee ting aud the atmosphere full oi
sleet, the hen clucss her chickens uader her
wings, and the warmth ot her own breast
puts warmth into the wet feathers ai.d the
chilled feet of the infan t group of the barn
yard, so Christ says to those sic» and frosted
and disgusted and frozen ot the world. Come
in out ot tbe March winds of tbe worl ’*’
criticism; come in out ot the sleet of th..
world’s assault; come in ou ^
does not understandjyou and does not want
to understand you; I will *
will soothe anfl I will be y our warmth,
a ben gathereth her chicken -- under h»e
wing.'’ Ob, the warm heart of God i < r-ady
for all those to whom the world has given
the cold shoulder.
But notice that some one must take the
storm for the chickens. Ah! the hen takes
the storm. 1 have watched her uader the
pelting rain. I have seen her in the pinch
ing frosts almost frozen to death or almost
strangled in the waters, and w’hat a tight
she makes for the young under wing if a
dog or hawk or a man comes too near ! Anl
so the What brooding Hood Christ of takes the storm for
did dash His anguish and tears r hat
not upon holy soul! What
t*-nk of torture did not oieree His vitals!
Want barking Cerberus of hell was not let
out unon Him from the kennels!
wi,at He endured, oh, who can tell,
To rare our souls from death and hell!
Yes, the hen took the storm for the chick¬
ens, and Christ takes the storm for us. Once
the tempest with rose her so suddenly the hen could
not get young back from the new
ground to the baro, dead. and there she is under
the fence half And now the rain turns
to snow, and it is an awful night, and in the
morning the whiteness about the gills and
the beak down in the mud show that the
mother is dead, and the young ones come
out and cannot understand why the mother
does not scratch for them something to eat,
and they walk over her wings and call with
their tiny voices, but there is no answering
cluck. She took the storm lor others and
perished. Poor thing 1 Self sacrificing even
unto death!
And does it not make vou think of Him
who endured all for us? So the wings uuder
which we come for spiritual safety are olood
spattered tempest wings, are wings. night shattered In the Isle wings,
are torn of
Wight I saw the grave of Princess Eliza¬
beth, who died while a prisoner at Caris
brook castle, her huger on an open Bible
and pointing to the words, “Come unto Me
all ye that labor rest.” and are Oh, heavy laden, and I
will give you come under the
wings! is
But now the summer day almost passed,
and the shadows of the house and barn and
wagon shed have lengthened. The farmer,
with scythe fields. or hoe The on shoulder, is returning
from The the crunching oxea are ’.unyoked. full
horses are the oats at tne
bin. The air is bewitched of honeysuckle
and wild brier. The milkman, pail in hand,
is approaching the barnyard. The fowls,
keeping early hours, “Cluckl” are collecting “Cluck!” their
young, “Cluck!” and
soon all the eyes of that feathered nursery
are dosed.
The bachelors of the winged tribe have
ascended to their perch, but the hens, in a
motherhood divinely appointed, take all the all
l-isk of a slumber on the ground, and
night long the wings will slay outspread,
and the little ones will not utter a sound.
Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, com¬ if
pletely, the Lord’s, hen broods evening her young. So, life
we are the the of our
will come. The heats of the day will have
passed. There will be shadows, and we can¬
not see far. The work of life will be about
ended.
The hawks of temptation that hovered in
the sky will have gone to tbe woods and
folded their wings. Sweet silences will come
down- The air will be redolent with the
breath of whole arbors of promises sweeter
than jasmine or evening primrose. The air
may ue a little chill, but Carist will call us,
ana we will know the voice and heed the
call, and we will conxe uader the wings for
the night—the strong wings, the fear soft and wings, in
full the warm of wings—and safety, and without then will rest
sense we
from sundown to sunrise, “as a hen gather
eth her chickens under her wing.” Dear
me, how many souls the Lord hath thus
brooded'
Mothers, after watching over sick cradles
and then watching afterward over wayward
sons and daughters, at last themselves takea
care of by a motherly God. Business men,
after a lifetime struggling with and the the uncer¬
tainties of money markets, change
of tariffs, end the dishonesties underselling of afford men who to
because of their can
undersell, and years of disappointment and
struggle, at last under wings where nothing of
can perturb them any more than a bird
prey which is ten miles off disturbs a chick
at midnight brooded in a barnyard application for
My text has its strongest
peppie who were born in the country,
wherever you may now live, and that is the
majority of you. You cannot hear my text
without having all the rustic scenes of the
old farmhouse come back to you. Good old
days they were. You knew nothing much
of the world, for you had not seen the
world.
By law of association yon cannot recall
the brooding hen and her chickens without
seeing also the barn, and the haymow, and
the wagon shed, and the house, and the
room where you played, and the fireside
with the big backlog before which you sat,
and the neighbors, and the burial, and the
weuding, and the deep snowbanks, and hear
the village bell that called you to worship,
and seeing the horses around which, after old pulling clap
you to church, stood the
boarded meeting bouse, and those who sat at
either end of the church pew, and indeed all
the scenes of the first 14 years, and you
think of what you were then and of what
you are now, and all these thoughts are
aroused by the sight of the old hencoop.
Same of you had better go back and start
again. In thought return outspread to that place feath- and
hear the cluck and see the .
ers and come under the wing and make the
Lord your portion and shelter and warmth,
preparing for everything that may come,
and so avoid being classed among those de¬
scribed by the closing words of my text, “as
a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wing, and ye would not.” Ah, that throws
the responsibility upon us! “Ye would
not.” Alas, for the “would nots!” If the
wandering broods of the farm heed not their
mother’s call and risk tbe hawk and dare the
freshet and expose themselves to the frost
and storm, surely their calamities are not
tneir mother’s fault. “Ye would not!” God
would, but how many would not!
When a abandoned good man asked home a young and who woman
who had her was
deploring her wretchedness why she did not
return, the reply was: “X dare not go home.
My father is so provoked he would not re¬
ceive me home.” “Then,” said the Christain
man, “I will test this.” And so he wrote to
tho father, and the reply cams back and in a
letter marked outside “Immediate,” and in¬
side saying, “Let her come at once; all is
forgiven.” So God’s invitation for you is
marked “Immediate" ou tbe outside, and
inside it is written, “He will abundantly
pardon.” wanderers from Go l and happi¬
Gb, ye and heaven, under the
ness and home come I
sheltering wing. Under this call see you
turning from your old way to the new way,
the living way, the gospel way. A vessel in
the Bristol charnel was nearing the rocks
called the “Steep Holmes.” Under the tem¬
pest the vessel was unmanageable, and tae
oaly hope was that the tide would change
before she struck the rocks and went down,
and so the captain stood on the deck, watch
in band. Captain and crew and passengers
were pallid with terror. Taking another
look at his watc 1 and another look at the
sea he shouted: ‘Thank God, we are sav 'd!
The tide has turned! (Lie minute more and
w » would have struck the rocks."
Borne of you have been a long while drift¬
ing in the tempest of sin and sorrow ani
have been making for t .110 breakers. Thank
Gjd, the tide has turned. Do you not feel
the lift of the billow? The grace of God
that bringeth salvation has B appeared to to Ruth year I
soul, and in the words of mz
commend you to ‘“he Lord God of Israel,
under whose wings thou hast come to
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, of a New York
sanitarium, claims that she has fed fifty
students at the rate of nine cents a meal,
and furthermore avers that the meals
were good and the students grew fat on
them.
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The plan of using separate tires for
carriage wheels is regarded by many rail¬
road men as representing the correct
principle of construction.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Truth dwells in shadow.
Disintegration is nature’s second law.
Affectation, like melancholy, magnifies
trifles.
Dsstruction is the first step towards
progress. flower
What is flesh to-day may be
tomorrow.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced
with vanity.
Put out your hand before you put up
your prayer.
True valor lies in the middle, between
cowardice and rashness.
To laugh well one should have wept;
to feast well one must hunger.
Peculiarities should not be yoked to¬
gether; they pull better alone.
The sick man’s promises are best not
left for the well man to fulfill.
Let your right hand know what your
left is doing and pull together.
The same vices which are huge and
insupportable in others we do not feel
in ourselves.
How many more of us sorrow for what
we have not done than rejoice for what
we have done.
Trust lies at the basis of every 3 chotuj
of human life, and is the corner stone of
the temple of human happiness.
A Swordsman’s Cruel Trick.
During the Turko-Unssian War, a cor¬
respondent was among the loungers who
had stood in a Constantinople street to
watch the march past of a regiment of
Zeibecks. When they were all gone,
there came Dv an old hoja (a holy man),
dressed id green robe and caftan, and
wearing yellow slippers—self-proclaimed pilgrimage
as one who had made the to
Mecca. He wa 3 followed by a very
small donkey, laden with small panniers.
On the foot-walk stood a Circassian,
who had been flourishing in the air,
while the troops went by, a formidable
looking yataghan. This man was now
standing, with an admiring crowd about
him, licking the back of his wrist and
shaving off the hair that grew there by
way of showing the edge and temper of
his weapon. It must have been set a 3
finely as a razor, and, like a razor, it
was bioad-backed and finely beveled.
Just as the old hoja went by, and tbe
placid little donkey followed at his heels,
the Circassian stepped iuto the horse
road, gave the weapon a braggadocio
swing, and at a single blow cleanly
divided the head of the poor little ass
from the body. The head fell plump;
but for a second or two the body stood,
spouting a vivid streak of scarlet from
the neck, and then toppled over, The
old green-clad hoja turned at the noise
made by tbe crowd, saw the blood¬
stained sword waving behind him, un¬
derstood at a glance what had happened,
and fled a 3 fast a 3 his yellow pantofles
would carry Him.—San Francisco Argo¬
naut.
Speed Indicator lor Travelers.
Arthur G. Leonard, Private Secretary
to H. Walter Webb, Third Vice-Presi¬
dent of the New York Central Railroad,
has invented a watch which enables the
holder to measure the rate of speed at
which he or she may be traveling on a
railroad tram, a steamboat, or auy other
conveyance, This indicator was de
signed especially to mark the rate of
speed per hour at widen a railroad train
moves. Mr. Webb had a few of the
watches made and they have been prac¬
tically tested with perfect satisfaction.
They resemble the ordinary open-faced
watches and the works are the same as
those in a good chronometer watch, A
series of figures, with sixty us a basis,
encircle the rim of tbe face, la the
hands of a person on a swiftly moving
train the watch may, by pressing a tiny
(evet, be started at a given point, say a
mile post, and when the next mile post,
is reacned a quick pressure on the lever
will stop the hands of the watch oa a
figure which accurately indicates the
rate of speed per hour at which the train
is moving. The watch is provided with
i split second hand which enables
the holder to take the record of t wo
consecutive miles separately. With tnis
indicator a person can ascertain the rate
of speed at which he is traveling up to
100 miles per hour. The minimum reg¬
ister is 37 0-10 miles per hour, This
invention of Mr. Leonard would be an
tdmirable timepiece to-gauge the rate of
speed at a boat race or a horse race. —
New York Times.
A Novelty in Railroad Equipment.
The latest novelty in the rolling equip¬
ment of the Pennsylvania Riiiroad is a
“clearance car.” It was constructed for
tbe purpose of assisting the chief engi¬
neer and his assistants to make accurate
measurements of tunnel dimensions in
order to determine what the clearance
distances are for cars and merchandise.
One of the reasons for this car being
built was the constant inquiries that
cime to the company from shippers of
World’s Fair merchandise or so many
shapes and sizes that it was impossible
to tell whether it could safely oe sent
through the tunnels. The clearance car
is virtually a flat car with a raised plat¬
form on one end, with an arch stretching
above it and measuring rods surrounding
it. The train of which the clearance car
is part is made up of two other ears, one
lor the engineer to live and sleep in and
another equipped with an electric light
system to assist in inspecting dark
tunnels.—New York Telegram.
Histi ry of Lace.
Lace was brought into Spain by the
Moors. From Spain it was taken to
France, where it figured conspicuously
upon the costumes of the royal family
lor years before it was worn by the peo¬
ple. From France the Huguenots took
specimens of the lacs to Germany and
England. And so, in time, it became a
much treasured article of orqament and
attire all over the world__New York
Telegram.
For Rent.
Plantation nine miles below Statesboro,
uood dwelling and barn. Enough land
for one or two horse farm. Apply Ga. to
tf S. L. Moore, Jr. Statesboro,
IflSUKH lOliR STOCK.
Parries dcriring to have their live stock
rnsuicd c:ui ilo bo by applying to the un
dersigned, as he is the representative of
the Southern Live Stock Insurance Com
pany of Atlanta, Ga., for this section
This company has a capital stock of
|50,000. Act wisely and insure your
horse as you would your house.
A. J. BRINSON,
if Rocky Ford, Ga.
JToi o31t>
I have on band a large lot <4 cypress
shingles for ~fle cheap f.<r < ash
\V S. PuEE-roTU*'.*
J. C. WHITE, M. D.
8TATESBORO. OEOROIA.
W. T. SMITH,
Livery, Feed & Sale Sties,
Statestooro, Gra.
STATESBORO, GA.
HALL’S HOTEL,
Statesboro, Ca.
Come and enjoy yourselves, Rooms
comfortable, porters polit- anti table well
furnished.
W. N. HALL. Proprietor.
L. J. McLEAN,
IDIEIsr TI ST,
STATESBORO, GA
D. L. WATERS,
Pliotograplier.
171 Congress St. Savannah, Ga.
La'ge Assortment of Frames and
Moultungs. I guarantee the best work
for the least money. When in need of
anything in my line oall on me.
Here and Mules lot Sain.
I have a fine lot of horses and mules
just arrived, for sale. Come at once and
take your choice before they are picked
over, It is the best lot ever brought to
this market.
W. T. SMITH.
tf
W. W. WATERS,
DOVEB, GEORGIA.
Dealers in Cigars id Titaco’s
and Refreshment Generally.
The Public is invited to
call and see me when at
Dover. ‘-7 *A
GUANO BUYERS,
TAKE NOTICE! ,
I am Agent for the following
standard Brands of Guano and
would he pleased to furnish same
either at Statesboro or anywhere
else desired. I can sell you Bald'
win’s Dissolved Bone at $25.00
a Ton. I also have for sale
Chatham Guano, Eclipse Guano,
and Kainit Salt.
HIRAM FRANKLIN,
Statesboro, Ga.
NANCY HANKS ROUTE.
M. s. div.
N .?' I' ^ a n c * ^anks, arrive... 8 44
, , am
“ *• mail train » arrive.,.. ***li 55
ht “......... 3 00 pm
ni £ passenger........« 25 pm
tl 4 “
3 00 am
SOUTH CAROLINA D1Y,
No. 14, mail, arrives.......... 8 37 am
‘ “ 6 35
„ f> ni P^ train, arrives.... .......... 11 pm
„ ,1’ 20 pm
.. 13, mail ... tram, . i leaves... eave8 ..... 6 8 40 50 am
3, night train, leaves,.. .. 3 40 pm
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*** 1 *° Atlaata 6 hour » and 45
minutes ’
Try “Nancy Hanks” Route.
H. M. COMER. Receiver.