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REV. DR. TA IMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON. SuDjeet: “Satan on Ilis Travels.” Text; “And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence contest thou t Then Satan answered the Lord , and said: From M>ing to and fro in the earth , and from walking up und down in it. 1 ' —Job i., 7. In 1672 was printed, the largest book eve T published, namely, two huge volumes ot nea r 1 five thousand pages in small type, the autho r Joseph Caryl. It was a commentary on thi s Book of .lob. When it took a year for th® journey from England to India, the son the author of this commentary started for India, leaving his father writ ing on his book, and was gone for years, and when he came back to England still found liis father writing on it. I never saw the commentary, Lut Iflo not wonder at its size because there is no end to the interest of the Book of Job. I am not surprised that Goethe, the unbeliever, took from this wonderful book the opening of hi drama “Faust,” and the Mephistopheles of ! the great German was only the Satan of j Job. It seems that one day in heaven God ' was on His throne and angels and mes- | sengers came to report their different j missions. I suppose one p.ngel said: “I was out j among the stars and I saw one of them burn ; down.” Another angel, I imagine, said: “I was off on a stellar excursion and was pres- j ent at the birth of a new world.” At/other angel, 1 think, said: “I was journeying five j hundred million miles in the wilderness of immensity and I saw a meteor run down a ! planet.” Another angel: “I was off and * helped at the inauguration of a new race of beings amid the mountains and valleys of that mighty world in the southeast part of the heavens.” But while these good and great spirits were making their reports a ghastly, grizzly, hideous monster from some miry, sulphurous, filthy world, came into the palace without wiping his feet, and Cod asked him where and how he had been occupying himself, and this greatest scoundrel of the universe made re ply with blazing effontery, and instead of acknowledging any of the mischief he had been doing sai 1 he had been an earthly pe destrian and had-lived a sortof cireumam bulatory, peripatetic life. And the Lord said unto Satan: “Whence comest thou:” Then Satan answered the Lord, and said: “From going to and fro iu the earth and I from walking up And down in it.” This monster of my text has a great varie ty of names. You know that notorious villains are apt to take a variety of names. Arraigned in Paris for burglary a man will give one name, arrested iu San Francisco for arson be will give another name, imprisoned in Montreal for burglary he will give another name.- So this creature of my text lias many names. Ke is called in sacred and pro ane literature Abaddon, Apollyon. Ahrananes, Zaniel, Asmodeus the revenging devil, Beelzebub the sovereign of devils. Lucifer the brilliant devil, Diabolus the despairing i devil, Mammon the money devil, Pluto the fiery devil, jbaal the military devil, Moresin the plaguing devil. He is called the father of lies, and has for his children and grand children and great-grandchildren all false hoods, deceptions, frauds, swindles, | slanders, back-bitmgs and subter fuges. All men of good sense, whether enlightened by the Bible or in heath endom. have noticed that there are baleful and maleficent influences abroad that have not their origin it) the human race, and de monology is as certain as angelology. The sword of Paracelus was thought to have had a demon in the hilt and there is now a demon in every sword hilt. The ancients supposed the air was filled with sylphs and satyrs and sirens and gnomes and vampires and salamanders and undines and hobgoblins. The Talmud says that Adam’s first wife was Lillis and that their children were all devils. Two or three hundred years ago a demonographer gave the names of ambassadors of evil which he thought Satan sent to different countries: Mammon, ambassador to England; Belphegor, ambassador to France: Martinet, ambassador to Switzerland; Rimmon, am bassador to Russia; Thannia, ambassador to Spain; Hutgin, ambassador to Italy, and that there was a Princess of devils by the name of Proserpine. But what was mere guess work of mythology or superstition has been mads clear ’oy divine revela tion. We find that there is somewhere a monarch of all wickedness. He has a throne of power, and courtiers and armies and navies and machinery of evil vast as the round world. He is the supervisor of all mischief, and what he cannot do himself he dolegates others to do. and as each one of our race is supposed to have a guardian good angel. I have no doubt that every human be ing has a besieging malignant spirit nagging his footsteps and trying to make him think wrong and act wrong, an especial devil, a devil of fraud or a devil of avarice or a devil of uncleanness or a devil of poor health, and as in my text the spirits are rep resented as reporting to the Lord so I have no doubt the evil spirits report to Satan, who is the enemy of the whole human race, arrd who has a celerity that makes flight around the world a matter of a second, an l who marshals on his side the forces volcanic, atmospheric, epidemic, geo logic, oceanic and cyclonic. “And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord and said; From going to and fro in the earth and from walk ing up and down in it.” Satan began his attack on this world long before Adam and Eve were created. While I believe the Bible record that the world was fitted up for man’s residence in one week. I believe also the geological record that the world was previously for hundreds of thou sands of years going through great changes. The lumber f6r the house that was to be built in a week for our first parents may have been hauled to the spot a million years before. This Prince of the Power of the Air has been trying for all that million years to demolish and use up this world. The record is on the rocks. He tried to drown it with universal waters. He tried to burn it up with universal fires. Then he tried to freeze it into ruin, and covered it with universal glaciers. And for ages he kept this world,before our first parents occu pied it, in paroxysms and convulsions, and the remains of those struggles I have seen and you have seen in museums, or if with geologist's hammer you have gone down into the stone libraries of the mountains. Yea. after the famous Bible week the world had been fitted into a Paradise for the home of our sinless ancestors. Satan comes into the Garden of Eden, not through the gate of foiiage and upright in posture, but crawls in under the busbes a snake, and hav ing despoiled our first parents goes to work to ruin Paradise, and does the work so thoroughly that one who recently visite 1 the site of the ancient farden between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, says the place is a desert; not a flower, and the ground so poor that nothing but some dale trees grow there, and the miserable villagers from near by are not so well covered up with their rags as Adam and Eve were covered up with tbeir innocence. So you see the Father of lies for once told the truth when the Lord said unto him: “Whence comest thou?” and Satan answered the Lord and said: “From going to and fro in the earth,' and from walking up and down in it.” Tn my text we have Satan on his travels, and I am going to tell you some of the routes he is apt to take. On his journey down from the palace where he reported himself in answer to the question: Whence comest thou? the first range of mischief he may be expected to take is the air. It was not a witticism or a slip of the pen when Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, called Satan the “Prince of the Power of the Air.” I think it means that Satan works through conditions of the at mosphere. The West wind is fun °t angels, the East wind is full of devils. Satan spreads abroad his black wings and hurricanes and eurociydons and Caribbean whirlwinds and equinoctials are hatched out. He takes the miasmas that float “P _* r ° a * swamps and batches them into typhoid fe vers. Ho takes the cold b’asts and hatches them in to pneumonias and rheumatisms and consumptions. Mot only lias he power in the upper air where highest clouds float, but power over the air which we breathe, and as we breathe nineteen times a minute and take in tlireo hundred and fifty cubic feet of air in every twenty-four hou#s and much of this air affects the arterial circulation, vou see what opportunities the Prince of the Air has of contaminating and despoiling and demoral izing a man. Through atmospheric influence he e’ojjds the disposition and the nerves and covers the best of people \v ith religious despondency, as in the case of Edward Pay son nnd \\ illiam Cowper and That heloved apostle of Evangelism, James W. Alexander, fbs great delight is to have the air of churches vitiated and in that. way .dulls the preacher and stupifies the people and sees to It that the atmospharepf not more than one cut of a hundred churches is fit to breathe, ami whole congregations Sabbath hy Sab bath are asphyxiated. Yes, he : s worthy of the title St. Paul gave him: “Prince of the Power of the Air.” Another route he is apt to take is through domestic life. There is no greater sport for him than conjugal quarrel. It does not make any difference how long the marriage ring lias been on the finger of the right hand, he will try to pull off the signet. Ho savs to the husband: “What a plain, wife you have compared with what she once was? Don’t you see that the co’or has gone out of her cheek and there are several wrinkles about her temples and a sprinkling of frost on her locks? Besides that, you have advanced in intelligence while she'has stood still or gone back. How hard it is that you should be chained to Such dullness and imbecility!” Then he turns and says to the wife: “That man neglects you, you have a right to be jealous, He likes his cigar and his club and anything and everything better than you. Why not get a divorce? Marriage is only a civil contract, anyhow, and not a divine alliance. Let me have that ring. It means nothing and you might as well give it to me.” The ring is handed over to Satan and he tosses it up and down like a plaything over the mouth of perdition and says: “I will hand it hack, only let me have it a little while," And he keeps tossing that ring with all its sacred memories higher up and further out tossing and catching, tossing and catching it until one dav you clutch for it, saying: “Give me hack my ring!” but 10, it has dropped into the yawning gulf and you sud den'y find who has been pitching and catch ing the ring, and you cry out: “From whence comest thou?” and he answers: “From going to and fro in the domestic life of the city and from walking up and down in it; that is all.” There are thousands of marriage relations strained almost to the breaking, and I com mend to all men and women who aro rest less in the present marriage state that they resume the old time courtship, and take as much pains to make themselves agreeable as they did five, or ten. or twenty years ago, before the wedding march announced to the flushed and fluttering crowd that the hride and groom were coming. According to the statistics of Professor Dikes, in one year in moral New Hampshire there were 241 divorces; in temperate Maine, 478 divorces; in good old Massachu setts, GOO divorces, and in the New England of “steady habits,” 2113. In one county of Illinois 830 divorce suits were begun In one year, and in many places it seems as if a new arrangement had beea made of the Commandment®, and instead of ten there were only nine, the seventh com mandment having been left out. When you see how many husbands and wives are parted by law, and know of so many who would like to dissolve conjugal partnership, do you not come to the conclusion that Satan is engaged in mighty industries? Another route that Satan is apt to take in his active travels is the factories and other establishments where capital sits in the office or counting room and a good many hands’of laborers are busy among wheels and spin dles and fabrics. On this visit he will first step into the manufacturer’s office and finding the owner and proprietor of the great establishment all alone with his correspondence and his account books, says to him: “You are not making as much money as you ought. You furnish all the brains. Were it not for your enterprise this establishment would not be in ex istence. These men and women in your employ are of very com mon "mold. Their .appetite is coarser and they do not need the luxuries you require. " Their comfort happiness are of very little importance. Put tnem down on the very verge of starvation and take all the profits into your own possession, and if they do not like it tell them to go where they can do better.” Having done his work in the counting room Satan steps right out among the workmen. Hi says: “You work too many hours and you do your work better than it needs to be dona You are serving a bloated bondholder anyhow. He has no right to have any more than you have. Why should he ride and you walk? Why should he have tenderloin steak and you salt pork? Capital is the enemy of labor. Let labor be the sworn foe of capital. Why don’t you strike and bring him to terms? Wait until he has a large order to fill by contract and then he cannot help him self. Go ail together, without a moment’s warning, and tell him you are going to stop. If he has more resources than you know of and persists in going on and getting new men, give them a i volley of brickbats or put a little dynamite in his office and blow him and his factory all up with the same explosion.” Look out there on the night sky! Great fire somewhere. What is it? The night is cold and Satan has made a big bonfire of that factory to warm himself by. The capitalist has lost heavily and the workmen and their families are without bread ami clothing. “Whence comest thou, Satan?” “From going to and fro among employers and employes, and from walking up and down among them. Ha! ha! I was the only one who made anything out of that strike. What a splendid fire and lots of smoke. Ha! ha! I like smoke.” Another route Satan is apt to take in his active travels is through the mercantile es tablishments: He steps in and says to the clerks, “How much salary do yon get? Is that all? Why, you can’t live on that! You have a right to enough for a livelihood, A few quarters out of the money drawer will never be missed, or here and there is a remnant of goods you could take home without being found out. Or you could change those account books a little and you could make that figure eight a naught and that figure five a three, and if you do not feel exactly right about doing that you can some day pay it back, which you can do perfectly easy. Don’t feel like running the risk? Well then you can’t go to the theater and you can’t go on that round with the boys and you will have to wear that plain foat, whereas you could have your overcoat fur lined, and take boar 1 at a tip top place md walk amid nlush and tapestries positive ly Oriental. While you are making up your mind I will just go through the different parts Df this great commercial establishment and try every one from the wealthy firm down to the errand boys.” The result of that Satanic visit is that one of the partners has drawn so much out of the concern that the whole business is crippled and a bright and promising boy is sent home to his mother in disgrace and a young m m is in jail for embezzlement. Three lives ruined and three - eternities. Whence comest thou, Satan? “From going to and fro among mercantile houses, and from walking uo and down among them. I like to ruin splendid fellows and blast parent’s hopes,and of all the liquors that I ever tasted fill my glass with a brewing of agonizing tears. Come! let us click together the rims of our glasses and drink to the overthrow of the fifty thousand young men I ruined last year. Huzza. Satan would rather have one young man than twenty old ones. If he would win t..e septuagenarians and the octogenarians he could do but little harm with them. But he says: “Give me a young man, especially if he be bright and generous and social.” He sees that, young; men have for good or bad been the mightiest influence in tnis world. Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico at thirty-two. Gustavus Adolphus became immortal in history so early that he djed at thirty-eight. Raphael, the most famous of painters, died at thirty-seven. William Pitt was Prime Min ister of England at twenty four. Jesus Christ completed bis earthly life at thirty-three. Five years in a young man s life are of more power for good or evil than the last fifteen of an old man’s life. So Satan is especially greedy for young men, and in go ng to and fro in the earth he has especial temptation for them. Another route that Satan on his active travels is apt to take is for the despoilimr of the people’s souls: It does not pay him merely to destroy the bodies of men and women. Those bodies would soon be gone anyhow; but great treasures are involved in this Satanic excursion. On this route he meets a man who is aroused bv something he has seen in the Bib e and Satan says: “Now I can settle all that; the Bible, is an imposi tion; it has been deluding the world for centuries: do not let it delude you. It has no more authority than the Eoran of the Mohammedan or the Shaster of the Hindoo, or the Zenda-Vesta of the Persian 1 ” He meets another man who is hastening towards the kingdom of God and says: “Why all this precipita tion? Religion is right, but any time within the next ten years will be soon enough for you. A man with a stout chest like yours and such -muscular development need not be bothering him mself about the next world.” But Satan says nothing to him about the fact that the professor who gave his wl*>le life to the study of health and could lift more pounds than any American died at about forty, and that another learned man who proved conclusively that if we observed all the laws of health we need never die, expired before he got his book on that sub ject published. Satan meets another man who has gone through a long course or prof ligacy and is beginning to pray God for forgiveness, and Satan says to the man: “You are too late; the Lord will not help such a wretch as you; you might as well brace up and fight vour own way through.” And so with a spite and an acuteness and a velocity that have been gaining for six thou sand years, he ranges up and down baffling, disappointing, defeating, afflicting, de stroying the human race. Through his . own hand or delegated infernalism he has pur sued and hurt us all, and cursed every heart and cursed every home and cursed every na tion and cursed every continent. He has in stiga'ed every war. Ha has rejoiced in every pestilence. He has started every groan. He has pressed out every sigh. He has hurled every shipwreck. Lazarettos, insane asylums, commercial panics, plagues, destroying angels, continental earthquakes, and world wide disasters are to him a perfect glee. Can tou look upon the Communism and the Mormonism and the Mohammedanism and the wide sweep <->f drunkenness and fraud and libertinism, the Franco-German war and Cri mean war,the North and South United States war and rivers of blood flowing across con tinents of miserv into oceans of wretch»d ness without realizing the power of the Evil One, who reported to the Lord Almighty, and when asked: Whence comest thou? an swered: “From going to an i fro in the earth and from going up and down in it.” But. blessed be God! f may substitute anthem for requiem and Hallelujah Chorus for the Dead March in Saul. The New Testament says: “The Son of God was mani fested that he might destroy the works of t he devil.” It prophes’ed that an angel would come down from heaven with key and chain and incarcerate and shut up the old dragon. It says that Christ came to “destroy him that had the power of death—that is the devil.” And from the way Christ drove the devil out of those possessed by him until he was glad to hide under the bristles of the swine of Ga dara, and from other violent ejectments we know that there is in existence a power a million-fold mightier than the diabolic. The old lion of death shall go down under the stroke and roar of the “Lion of Judah’s tribe.” Yea, my text shows that Satan was compelled to report to the Almighiv and give account of himself. When God said to him: “Whence comest thou?” he was forced to answer. What means that srioture which says that Christ shall bruis“ the serpent’s head? If you have ever killed a snake the passage ought to be plain to you. You see this old serpent, the devil, " has crawled across the nations, poisoning whole generations and leaving his trail on everything: but after a while it’will be cor nered, and hissing and writhing in rage and with crest lifted and forked tongue shot out it will make final attack on Christ, and Christ will advance upon it, and lifting his omnipotent foot, that loot strong enough to crush a world, lifting that foot right over the head of the reptile, will put down his heel with a crushing power that shall leave the monster bleeding and mashed, never to hiss or bite or shake his <dd rattle again. Thank God he has al ready received a stunn.ng blow. Hear you not the rumbling of the Christian printing presses and the whirling of the Gospel chariot wheel? As many souls have been added to the Christian Church in the last eighty years as in the previous eighteen centuries and that is a ratio of increase acclamatory with gladness. The liigdom is coming, and I am so sure of it that 1 do not propose to fret and »or’ry because it has not a4ready come. I may jump to get on a boat that is going off, but I do not pro pose to jump for a boat that is coming in. The sharp attacks of infidelity and sin are a good sign that especial blessing is coining in showers over all the earth. Flies bite sharp just before rain. If we do not see the full consummation our children will see it. in the time of the French Revolution a great procession of boys carried through the streets a banner with the in scription: “Tremble, tyrants; we shall grow up!” Though we may fail to do our duty there is a rising generation being gospelized and coming by hundreds of thousands from our Sabbath-schools and Christian homes who might properly have on their banners: “Tremble, ye powers of darkness and sin; for we are growing up!” We may not amount bo much in ourselves, but if we put our selves in the right place we can tio great exploits. Two put under two only make four; but plated beside two make twenty two. Yet what you and 1 most need -s power to drive back this Apollyon, this As tnodeus, this Ahrimanes from our hearts and lives. And we can do it not by our own strength butby divinepower afforded.ior here is apas sage emblazoned with encouragemet which says: “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Remember it is no sin at all to be tempted, the best and the mightiest have been tempted. Milton describes a toad squat at the ear of eve. The sin is in sur rendering. Do not feel so secure in yourself ns to think you cannot be overthrown. How do you account for the fact that there are so many o!d men in Sing Sing and Auburn and the other penitentiaries, serving Out their protracted sentences for frauds committed in mid-life or advanced ages, al though their early life had been good, and nothing had been suspected of them until at fiftv or sixty years* of age the land was struck dumb at their forgery or embezzle ment? The clock in the steeple of old Trinity Church striking the hours did not remind the recreant Wall-streeter of the passage of time that would soon bring to him exposure and doom. The explanation is that Mephistopheles, Apollvon, Satan got in his work at that time. The man was not naturally bad. He was as good as any of you are, but Satan with whole battalions of infernals swooped upon him unawares. Look out for the wiles of the devil, not only those of you who are young but the middle aged and the old. Outside of God you are not safe a moment. But yield not to dis heartenment. If we put our trust in God our best days are yet to come—days of vic tory, days of song, *lays of heaven, and the best days of the cause of righteousness in all the earth are yet to come. As the ten thousand men of Xenophon’s army when they came to the top of Mount Theches and saw the waters on which they were to sail to their homes, the soidiers with clapping hands and waving banners altogether shouted: “The sea: the sea!” So we to-day in our march toward our heavenly home come up to the top of the mountain of holy anticipation and look off upon oceans of light and oceans of glory and oceans of joy; and thrilled as we have never been thrilled before we clap our hands and wave our gospel ensigns and cry one to an other and shout up to the responding and echoing heavens: “The sea: the sea!” SILK CULTURE. AN INDUSTRY BEING INTRO DUCED IN THIS COUNTRY. Something About the Silk Fields of Europe—Experimental Sta tions In the United States — Hints Upon Sericulture. Silk raising and silk reeling, says .Mrs. C. E. Bamford in the Independent, are being gradually introduced into the United States, and both east and west of the Rocky Mountains farmers’ wives and daughters are here and there experiment ing in silk culture. American women nave long dressed in garments of silk, but they have taken little interest in the queer little worm which can so neatly manufacture silk from the mulberry tree. The women of France and Italy have brought many comforts to their homes, and have contributed many millions of dollars tovyard the prosperity of their respective countries because ot their perseverance in silk raising. Iu the milder portions of our own country the mulberry readily grows, and in two or three years it is suitable food for the silkworm. The worm is an interesting study from tne time it leaves its tiny egg until it spins its silken cradle and lies down to a peaceful sleep. On awak ing it finds a way out of its cradle and lies forth as a yellowish moth. It lias been estimated that between twenty and thirty million dollars are re quired each year to supply the United States manufacturers with raw silk, and this silk is almost wholly produced by foreign countries. But perhaps a change in this respect is not far distant. In the “Report of the Department of Agriculture for 183?” it is stated that “Altogether the interest m the industry (silk cu ture) seems to be much more active throughout the country than it was a year ago, and we may safely say that a very material progress has been made during the past y ear toward the establishment of silk culture in the United States.” In the “Report” there is also an interesting account of some of the silk fields of Europe which have been visited the past year, with the com missioners’ authority, by Mr. P. Walker. Among other establishments he visited some of the egg-producing stations in Italy and France. The station of Signor Susani at Milan, Italy, employs UOOO hands during the busiest season, 750 of them being employed in making micro scopical examination of silk-worm eggs after the method discovered by Pasteur. The building is described as 120 feet in height by 100 feet in width, the center being occupied by the hibernating room, where 60,000 ounces of eggs Susani can hibernate yearly. The rooms on either side are occupied by the miscroscopists and their helpers, who destroy all eggs which show any vestige of pebrine or other disease to which silkworms are subjected. The examination seems to be very thorough, as the eggs pass through the hands of three operatives before reaching the microscopist. Twenty small boxes are placed upon a tray, each box having two compartments, one with crushed moths aud the other containing the cor responding cells of eggs; then the microscopist examines the twenty moths one by one, and placing tin tags on the boxes bearing his name, he passes the | eggs and moths along to the first and second “comptroller” for further ex amination. When the second comp troller has carefully inspected the eggs, they are sent to a person who separates the pure from the impure; then the dis eased eggs are destroyed by fire, while the healthy ones ai for hatch ing. The French silkworm eggs from 31. Deydier’s station have been largely used by silk-growers in the United States with satislactory*results. At this station Mr. Walker reports the production of eggs as about 15,000 ounces per year. The microscopists are divided into small groups, one operative being employed in supervising the accuracy of the work of the others. 31. Deydier informed 3lr. Walker that coccoons raised in the United States from eggs from his estab lishment were larger and a,so better than those originally produced in France, this being no unusual result of trans planting to a new climate. Experimental stations have been estab lished iu other European countries, the Austrian Government first opening a station for this purpose at Goritz. These stations are all in charge of scientific men. The Italian Government has also established over sixty observatories in different portions of the country, which co-operate with the central station and gather statistics, disseminate informa tion and make microscopical examination of eggs. All these stations, attended with so much expense, could not remain open if silk-growers did not furnish the eggs and moths, and did not get pay for tneir labor. The worms are seldom grown in very large numbers; but, as in the raising of fowls, many agricultural families raise as many worms as possible each season without interfering with other labor. There are several experimental stations in the United States, where eggs may be | purchased, cocoons sold, and general in- j formation upon the subject gained, j Washington, D. C\, Philadelphia, Pea- I body in Kansas, and San Francisco have j each one such station, and filatures for ' reeling silk are found in each of these j stations. The purchases of dry cocoons east of the Rocky Mountains for the year so far as reported have been 6174 pounds, while for the same area in lssb only 5115 pounds were purchased. One of the best lots of cocoons received at AVash ington were from Missouri, lhe lady who raised them with the help of her mother and her four children, said that the expense of her two years’ raising was about S2O (excluding labon, for which the Department had paid her $77. 90. This result may seem small, but if every agricultural family in Missouri and other States were doing as much this couutry could soon supply its own raw silk. The first step in sericulture is to select the kind of mulberry desired, and plant it near the home. It is easily propa gated from the seed or from cuttings. Instruction books giving all necessary information in regard to planting, prun ing and also for the care of silkworms, may be purchased cheaply; and although no fortune is to be gained by silk culture, vet another new source of income, al though small, should never be despised by those who have lime for greater labotf than they are already performing. In three months from the hatching from the egg the silkworm grower has no more to do until the following year. Near Oakland, in California, there is a plantation containing 6000 mulberry trees, from one to three years old, and as. many cuttings. The station-is located upon fifteen acres of land,'and a build ing has been erected for experimental purposes, called a cocoonery. Many people have experimented with the worms, and the cocoons and the silk woven from them have proved equal to that produced elsewhere. Through ex periments it has been found that the Multicaulis mulberry is best for feeding to the young worms, and the Alba Rozea Nagasaki for the older ones. Silkworms can be raised in all portions of the State, and with sufficient encouragement from Government and the State, silk culture bids fair to prove a success. Growing Rocks. The American Analyst says it is tru» that many rocks actually do grow. The limestones have beeu formed by living organisms, like the coral polypes, and it may even be said of many limestone deposits that every particle has at some time formed a part of a living animal. Sandstones, slates, and probably some varieties of granite have all been de posited underneath large bodies of water, and in this sense have grown to their present dimensions. Only the igneous or volcanic rocks enpnot strictly be said to have “grown,” and those of this class which are highly crystaline may be in directly so considered, as the formation of a crystal, either from fusion or so lution, presents in many xvays a wonder ful resemblance to the growth of a liv ing organism. It is, however, the decay of the rocks that is of the most importance, and with which we have most to do. The “eternal hills” are not only often “shaken,” but are very far from being eternal. They arc constantly decreasing in size and being washed down into the valleys. Even the lofty Alps are considered to be but the “stubs” or remains of a much loftier range existing in past geological epochs. It is to this constant degra dation and decay that the farmer owes his fertile fields, as the soil from which he raises his crops was at one time in the condition ot hard and barren rock. The agencies which cause the decay of the rocks are very numerous and varied. Cold, heat, frost, rain, wind, vegetation, running streams and standing water all do their part; and chemical decom position is an important factor, espe cially with granites and other rocks con taining felspar. Ext.ernes of heat and cold cause th« surface of the rock to crack, and the cracks become filled with water, which freezes and expands, breaking it up still further. Every stream of water, from the trickling raindrops to the rushing torrent, does its part in wearing away and pulverizing the rocks in its course: and the finely divided material is carried along by them, and deposited along iti banks or in the sea at the mouth. Human Voices in the Phonograph Now that the phonograph has becomi an assured commercial success, observes the Detroit Free Press, it may be well to point out one great advantage it pos sesses and that has heretofore escaped the notice of newspaper men. It is a curious fact that no person recognizes his own voice when it is given back by the phonograph. His friends recognize it *®Lmt it sounds strange and weird to the speaker. The new machine, there fore, establishes this curious and hitherto unknown triith, that no man has yet heard his own voice as others hear it. there is in this and all other coun tries a cla-s of individuals who persist, every time they get a chance, in speak ing iu public, or in reciting or singing, n 3 the case may be. No one has the courage to tell a person of this kind that his efforts are atrocious, and even if a man bold enough to do so existed, the chances are that the amateur performer would not believe him. He would i merely get angry and say that it was the other fellow’s jealousy. Now this can all be remedied, to the great relief of a suffering public. Let every amateur speaker, reciter or singer be persuaded to speak, recite or sing to the phono graph and then listen to the result. It # will be a frightful disillusion to him, but he will never offend again. The Curious Manistee Fish. One of the leading restaurants had a novelty on its bdl of fare last week, it being the first time that Manistee beef was ever placed before Aie C hicago ' public. Though called beef, it is in fact the fiesh of a fish extremely rare in these parts. The Manistee is a fish of the size !of the sturgeon, found only in the ; Manistee River, in Florida. It is sight less, but acute of hearing, so that it can discern the approach of an enemv at a | distance of a mile or more and seek ! safety in the reeds or shoals along the j banks. It is speared by the negroes, by ! whom it is highly prized as food, and ’ occasionally is to be found in the markets of New Orleans and Mobile, but is seldom I found in this locality. The fiesh is ' coarse and much resembles beef, though i retaining the fishy flavor. Scientists have never been able to discover the origin of the fish, but incline to the belief that it rises from some subterranean stream or lake and has increased and | multiplied m the Manistee River, but, owiDg to its lack of sight, it has not 1 been able to make it 3 way into other j bodies of water, where it might be prop agated.— Chicago Journal. How a “Mob” Robs Banks . “A ‘mob”' said a New York detective to a World reporter, “consists usually of two men. One of them is known as the ‘stall’ and the other the ‘sneak.’ The cashier of the bank who usually faces the inclosure behind whidi the clerks are at work, can be made to turn in his chair by the ‘stall,’ who will pretend to be deaf, and while talking about open ing an account will lean over so as to get the cashier’s eyes away from the front of the building. In an instant the ‘sneak,’ with a pen behind his ear and ink on his fingers, perhaps wearing an inky office coat, is behind the railing, having entered through the cashier’s room. He is skilful in turning rapidly so that his face is not seen, and know ing exactly where the money is located that he covets, he has it under his coat and is out of the inclosure and out of the building before any one knows even that he was there.” A BURIED FOREST. MINING FOR LOGS IN A NEW JERSEY SWAMP. Novel Industry at Dennisville in for Valuable Trees Covered up Many Ages Ago. A letter from Dennisville, N. J., to the New York Times says: An industry the like of which docs not exist any where else in the world furnishes scores of people in this part of .New Jersey with remunerative employment, and has made comfortable fortunes for many citizens. It is the novel business of min ing cedar trees—digging from far be neath tine surface immense logs of sound and aromatic cedar. The fallen and mbmerged cedar forests of Southern New Jersey were discovered first beneath the Dennisville swarjips 75 years ago, and have been a source of constant interest to geologists and scientists generally ever since. There are standing at the present day no such enormous specimens of the cedar anywhere on the face of the globe m are found imbedded in the deep muck of the Dennisville swamps. Some of the trees have been uncovered measur ing six feet in diameter, and trees four feet through are common. Although ages must have passed since these great forests fell and became cov ered many feet beneath the surface, such trees as fell, according to the scientific theory, while they were yet living trees are as sound to-day as they were the day of their uprooting. Such trees are called “windfalls” in the nomenclature of the cedar mines, as it is thought they were torn up by the roots during some terrible gale of an unknown past. Others are found in the wreck that were evi dently dead trees when they fell, and to these the miners have given the name of “break-downs.” The peculiar action of the wind and water m the swamp has kept these break-downs in the same stage of decay they were in when they fell,as the same agency has preserved in taetthe soundness of the living trees. The buried forest lies at various depths in the swamp, and the uncovering of the trees or working the. “cedar mine” is done in a very simple and easy maimer. The log miner enters the swamp and prods in the soft soil with a long, sharp iron rod. The trees lie so thickiy beneath the surface that the rod cannot be pushed down amiss on its testing er rand, for the prodding is not so mtich in search of a tree as it is to test whether the tree is a “windfall” or a “break down.” When the prod strikes the iog the miner chips off a piece with the sharp point of the tool, which brings the chip or splinter to the surface when draw n out of the muck. By the appear ance and odor of this chip the miner can tell at once whether the tree he has tested is a sound or a dead one. If the former, he quickly ascertains the length of the trunk by prodding along from one end of it to the other. That ascertained, he proceeds at once to raise the log from its hidden bed. He works down through the mud a saw similar to. those used in sawing out ice in filling an icehouse. With this he saws the log in two as near the roots as he cares to. The top of the tree is next sawed off in the same way, and then the big cedar stick is ready to be released from its resting place. A ditch is dug down to the log, the ti>nk is loosened by cant hooks, and it rises with the water to the surface of the ditch. A curious thing is noticed about these logs when they come to the surface, and that is that they invariably turn over with their bottom sides up. After mining the log is easily “snaked out” of the swamp and is ready for the mill or factory. * These ancient trees are of a white variety of cedar, and when cut have the same aromatic flavor, intensified many degree-, that the common red cedar of the present day has. The wood is of a delicate flesh color. One of the mys terious characteristics of these long suukeu trees is that not one has ever been found to be waterlogged in the slightest, it is impossible to tell how many layers deep these cedars lie in the swamps, but it is certain that there are several layers, and that with all the work that has been done in constantly mining them during three quarters of a century the first layer has not yet been removed from the depths. At some places in the Dennisville swamp the soil lias sunk in for several feet and become dry, and there the fallen cedars may be seen lying in great heaps, one upon the other. No tree has ever been removed from the Dennisville swamp from a greater depth than five feet, but outside the limits of the swamp they have been found at a great depth, which shows the correctness of the deep-layer theory. The uses to which the cedar logs are put are many. The principal use is the making of shingles and staves. The longevity of articles made from the wood in shingles, tubs, pails and casks made from it over seventy years ago, and which have yet to show the slightest indication of decay. The shingles and staves are worked into shape entirely by hand, the only machine work that is permitted in manipulating the cedar logs being the sawing of them into proper lengths for the uses to which the lumber is to be put. The Dennisville cedar shingles command a® price much higher than the best pine or chestnut shingles. Egyptian Temples. Neither the boldest imagination nor the most exact study can enable us to learn an adequate conception of the splendor of an Egyptian temple in its perfect state. The vast space is oc cupied; its lofty.gateways; the long avenues of sphinxes; the glittering obelisks and the lifelike expression of the monstrous statues, form a combina tion of most imposing architectural grandeur. The icsthetic qualities of these structures cannot be brie 'y summed up. As we ponder them we shall be willing to acknowledge, for we shall discover, the exceptional constructive power of the ancient architects; we shall see how closely they followed Nature, and at times drew as well upon foreign art, though always preserving their own principles of form. We shall also ob serve how fancy and “feeling” are dis played in their temple-decorations. Besides, there is always one grand im aginative vein running through all their work —which expresses the principal idea of their faith im< erishability. —Scribner's Magazine.