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All breeding farm* In thin country pnlr
fa MBpariwm with ftenxtor Htnnford’n
4t Palo Allo, < •!. Tw . hundred and
forty nine brood marex are in the trot
ting ntud and twenty nine in the thor
oughbred department. At tne head ot
the trotters is Electioneer, and Monday
wr upiea the arm'* p'»st among the run -
■ere. __________
The Chinese in California must be ac
cumulating wraith, howerer deficient
thrv may be ,n influence. A Chinese
syndicate recently offered |2,000,000 for
th< Palace Hotel in Sen Francisco, and
were prepared to pay |2,500,000, but
finally concluded that the investment
would be an unwise one at the present
time. ___________
The combined capital of the firm of
the Hothschilds is now .'placed by ]>er'
•one who pretend to know at the sum of
<1,000,000,900, one half of it gained
Within the last twenty-five years, and the
whole of it in scarcely more than a
century. Ihe founder of the family and
Sts fortunes, Mayer Anselm, »u a poor
clerk in a Hanover banking house.
| The preeent Congress contains ninety
Awo former Federal soldiers and sixty
six Confederates. Those who receive a
eollegiate education number 138. There
are three graduates of West Point. <*ue
flenntor and forty four Itcpresentatives
•re not over forty years of age. The
two oldest men in Congress are Senators
Morrill ami Payne, bom in 1110. Mr.
Wait, Os Connecticut, was born in 1811,
and is the oldest lloprostmtativc. The
youngest Senator i< Mr. Konna, of West
Virginia, who is thirty seven. The
youngest Representative is Mr. I.a Fol
lette, of Wisconsin, who is twenty-
A leading publishing house states that
when n manuscript is received it is turned
over to a "reader,’' who, after examin
ng it carefully, returns It with his
opinion as to its merit or lack of merit.
Jf a reader returns ajnanuscript with a
strong endorsement, the merits of the
work are considered from a commercial
point of view whether it is likely to
sell, how much it will cost for pro
duction, etc. Frequently the uiunii
script Is turned over to a second reader,
sometimes to a third. If all say, "This
is a strong work; think it will pay you
to publish it,” or words to tint effect,
of course tueir recommendation goes a
long way in the question of publication.
A man was seized with an epileptic tit
in the street In New York the other day,
whereupon a kindly disposed policeman
darted into a neighboring grocery and
asked for u handful of salt, which he
forced into the poor fellow’s mouth.
The operation was approved by some of
the qiectators, who complimented the
police man upon his knowledge of "just
what to do” in such eases. “Os all pop
«lar remedies,” says a physician who was
on the subject, "that of
•linking a man with salt just becau-o he
has a lit is the inoat senseless ami burbar
•us In some cases it would do acri >us in
jury, an>l might cause death. Ilystera
epileptics are troubled with a choking
ten-atlonand spa-modic contractions in
the throat, which interfere greatly with
brv thing and swallowing. To crowd
•alt into it is a foolish and ignorant pro
ceeding.''
A Boston .(drsrtiwr correspondent as
■rrts that "the citizen ot the I nited
States ia surprised and disappointed to
tn-i h>w small a ]mrt hia great country
b r'M >8 ln ’be life of the eastern coast
of South America from t ape St. Roque
to Cape Horn The Yankee colony in
the various cities consi«t- almost exclus
ively of those connected with the legs
tions and consulates a mere handful of
Individuals. There arc some few en
gaged in business of various kinds, with
now and then a clergyman, ship char.d
mt, naturalist, professor, or dentist, and
the officers of the initial States ships in
the different harliora are an important
element. The triumphs of American eti
terpriee are more of the past than the
present. You will still see Baldwin
locomotives and old fashioned cars on
soma of tho railroads, though the loco
motives are fast being supplanted bv
those im|>orted from England snd tier
many, and the cars are made in the
country itself. Stephens.vi horse cars
hold their own, and some of the com
ponies are managed by Americans, who
have made considerable money out of
them In Rio the New York ferry boats
ply across th,- bay. The Bell telephone
is generally us»d, but the management
is now principally m the control of local
org»ni.'atioas. Agricultural implements
and sewing machines fr >m the I nited
(states have a very go- d sale and Wai
tham watches aa > find purchasers. The
great life insurance Companies f New
York have their advertisements over the
country, and as their officers are in large
and elaborate buildings it is to bi sup
posed they are living a profitable bust
nesa”
Several very severe cases of trichinosis
have occurred recently —all traceable to
eating raw pork ham. This, it appears,
ia a favorite dish with Hermans, and whole
families snd their guests have been
severely affected by this disgusting dis
ease. Some of the patients are expected
to die, but most of them are likely to
recover. The warning to cook thor
oughly all kinds of pork before eating
is very obvious. So much diseased pork
comes into the Chicago market that
there is danger of its being cured as
haina or bacon and scattered over the
country. All diseased pork should be
sent to the soap factories.
Referring to an announcement that at
a recent exhumation in a Was tern ceme
tery the body of a woman was found
turned to stone, the Louisville
A'ewi ssys: "Petrification of the body ol
a warm blooded animal never has been
known, and it is quite safe to say never
has takeu place The condition of the
body which leads to such a misconcep
tion is not that of petrification, but of
sajionification. It is explained that
nitrogenous tissues give off ammonia,
and this, attacking the fats in the body,
produces adipocere, a hard form of soap,
The writer, when at the New Oilcans
fair, saw a barrel of [Kirk labeled, ‘Found
floating in the Mississippi in an advanced
state of petrification." lining skeptical
as to the capacity of rock to float, he
chipped off a piece and found that the
hog, like the human bein'.’ under like
circumstances, Ind merely turned to adi
pocere. ”
The wild horse of the plains and
Rocky mountains is pretty much a thing
of the past. Nevertheless, a few isso
latcd herds arc said to be occasionally
found. A Montana writer says, in sub
stance, of th'-se isolated bands, that,
with the wild horses a stallion is at the
head, and is the lender ol every herd, 1
having such full control over them that I
no band of cowboys are able to drive a
band of horses so fast or so well as a
stallton can. All in the band are so
thoroughly afraid of him they keep in a
bunch, and their speed is guaged by his
own, he running behind with his heal
low, scarcely above the ground. He ad
vances quickly on the hindermost one-,
giving them a sharp bite on the lump, I
thereby giving them to understand they
must keep up. Should one turn out he
follows him, much after the fashion of |
a shepherd dog, and runs him back. '
Until his band arc out of sight in the I
mountains be keeps this up. Here they
scatter in all directions, in ravines, can- ;
one and inaccessible places, so that when j
the rider arrives at the place he last saw
them he Is mortified to find his own
horse almost axhausted and the herd so
scattered that he must give up the chase
in disgust.
It has often l.ecu remarked that dogs j
in the country, though they abound in
every larui yafd, do not get mad aud i
kill people by their bite, as is sometimes I
the case in cities. "The only reason wc
can imagine for sue'.: a difference,” re
marks the llii/uw, “is that country dogs
ire petted, while city dogs, when allowed
to go loose, are often pelted. The na- i
tural depravity of num shows itself in .
mauy boys in tormenting and torturing 1
dogs and cats. If kindness to animals
were inculated ofteuer in churches and
schools the average of the people would )
be greatly improved, as is already the ,
rase in many places where Bands of
Mercy have been formed. But it may
be said, If cruelty to dogs causes hydro
phobia, why should not cruelty to
cats do the some? and the answer
is that it does. The bite of a
mad cat is probably as dangerous as
that of a mad dog, and the same may
be said of the bites of other animals
when in a state of furious excitement. It
was the bite of a chained fox, excited
by punishment, that killed one of
Canada s first governors, the Duke of
Richmond, if dogs cannot be protected
from persecution in cities they should
either be banished or confined, and th c
fewer of them the better. Pasteur’s
success in curing hydrophobia by inocu
lation, if fully establisho.l. will be an t
important point gained by patient in
vestigation; but whether or no, so long
as bitten persons believe themselves
to bi- cured there will be much fewer
.leatlis. it is the constant apprehen
sion ot a dreadful death which aggra
vates, if it docs not in many instances
cau-o. the diseased called hydrophobia,
or something that cannot be distiu
gui'hed from it.”
Thc Spider ('tire.
S iders were formerly considered to
l>e a cure in rural districts tor agues.
Some years ago a lady in lieland was
famous for her success in curing people
thus affected. it appears that the only
n:e in i e she employed wa, a large
spider rolled up in treacle. I'he patients
were ignorant of ihe contents of this
novel bolus, to that*imagination had
nothing to do with the matter. In Eng
land. also, the sp-.der bas been called in
»s an ague doctor. in l.ineo’nshire tlio
creature was treated very much after the
sbo e mentioned Irish fashion, being
rolled up in paste and swa lowed; but
eLewhere theaniinil is put into a bag
and worn round the neck.
A half eagle of the year 1815 has just
been added to the exce lent collection of
American coins at the mint in Philadel- \
phis ; SSOO isthe value of eacliof the three
S|-eeimer.» known to be in this country
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DK TILIAGE’S SERMON.
DUTIES OF HUSBANDS TO
WIVES.
Tbs theme of Dr Talmage « fifth sermon in
J>« eerie. upon the Mar riage King’ was
‘Duties ot Hu-stiands to Wive..'* The text
was: . ..
“Alai ban- went cut to meditate in the
field at eventide, an I he lifted up bis ey<w.
and saw. and bell'll:!, the cani’-l* aracoming.
—Gen<-si> xxiv. >*J.
A tiridal ]uig»-ant ->n the back of drome
daries The camel has often been called til
shipof thedew-rt. It'- -naying motion iu the
dietan « reminds one of a veasel rising un i
falling with th- billow* Though awkward.
ho.v imposing these creatures as they move
. along through ancient or modern timer,
carrying 4<X) or 4,000 passengers from
Bagdad to Aleppo, or from Basara to Dam
aw-us. In my text there is a caravan. A’ou
notice the noiselew tread of th- broad feet of
the csmel and the velocity of the motion, and
the gay comparison of saddle and girth, and
the green awning that shelters the travelers
from the hot sun, and the hilarity of the
mounted raunengers. and you cry out, “W ho
are theyr Isaac has been praying for a
wife, and it is time he had one. for he isforty
vearsofage. His servant ha-Been sent out
■ind ha. lieen divinely <iir <-ted und has se
lected Rebekah, and with her companions
and her maidens she is on the way toner new
home, carrying the blessing of all her friends.
Isaac is out in the field meditating on the pro
posed passage from celibacy to monogamy,
and be looks up ami he sees a sjieck against
the sky. and then he sees a group of js-ople
advancing, and then he finds out that the
greatest earthly blessing that ever conies tea
man is coining in that gay caravan. The
drivers shout to the camels, ‘ ‘Kneel 1” and the
camels kneel, and the bride puts her foot on
the neck of the stooiied lieast and dismounts
and greets Isaac, who was as worthy of her
as shy was worthy of him. "And Isaac went
out to meditate in the field at eventide, and
he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold,the
l camels were coining.”
In this fifth discourse on The Marriage
Ring having spoken to you among other
things about the divorce of a lifetime com
panion, I shall this morning take it for
granted, oh, man, that your marriage was di
vinely ai-ranged, and that the camels came
from the right direction and that they ar
rived at the right time, and have brought to
vou your intended consort, the one intended
for you as a consort, a Rebekah and not a
Jezebel And I shall proceed to give you advice
as to how you ought to treat your wife, and
my ambition is to tell you more plain truth
that you ever heard in any previous three
! quarters of an hour in all your life. First of
all, I charge you, realize the responsibility in
having taken her from the custody, the care,
the homestead in which -he was sheltered.
How n.ii"h ‘‘onrage you must have had, how
mu< h ( onfklenee in Voutsi If. to have practi
cally said to her: “I will L>e to you mon', than
your sash-.-r or mother, more than all the
iriends you ever had or ever can
have. I feel mynelf comjietent to
a 1 you through • life. I know
vou arc an immortal being. I feel myself
ompetent to defend you and to make you
happy. Come with me. Though your
prrspnt home is bright and comfortable, and
though in one room is the arm-chair in which
you were rocked, and in the garret the cra
dle in which you were hushed, and the trun
dle bed in which you slept, and in the sitting
room are the father and mother who got
wrinkled-faced and stooped-shouldered and
dim sighted in taking can* of you, come with
me. I will be to you more than all the world
lieride. You can trust me.” It is annoying
that any of us had the sublimity of impudence
to ask such u transfer from a home estab
lished to one con jectured and unbuilt. Would
not 1 be considered a daring and haz
ardous adventurer if I should go
to one of the piers in the North river, and
without any knowledge of navigation, and at
a time when there was a lack of shipcapt&ins
and offer my services and propose to take a
vetsel across the ocean to Havre or Glasgow,
saying; “All aboard I haul in the plank,
swing out now into the darkness aud the
tennh'st.” With no knowledge of navigation
that ship would never be heard of. Butthat
is the boldness of every man who proffers
marriage. He practically say’s, “all aboard
now for a lifetime voyage. 1 will take you
through all the cyclones and the tempests
and the hurri aues of life in safety. I
will run clear of all the rocks anil icebergs.
1 have no exjicrieuce. I have no s?a chart, but
1 will see you through all the voyage of this
life. I know there have been ten thousand
shipwrecks on this very r route, but don't hesi
tate. Tut, tut, now, no crying; brides mustn't
Cry at weddings.” In response to all that,
the woman practically says. “I have but one
life to live, and I entrust it all with you. My
arm Is weak, but I rely on the superior
strength of yours. I have but little knowl
edge of the world, I depend on your wisdom.
1 put my body, my my soul, my time,
my eternity in your ke ?ping. I
make no reserve. Even my name I
surrender for yours though my name is
suggestive of all that was honorable in my
father nn.l all that was gcxul in my moth r.
and all that was pleasant iu my brothers :url
sisters. I join you in a journey which shall
not end except at the edge of your grave or
mine. Ruth, the Moabite, was not more
thorough iu her self abnegation than I am
when I take her tremendous words the nathos
of which centuries have not cooled: ‘Entreat
me not to leave thee, or to return from fol
lowing thee, for* where thou guest I will go,
where thou lodgest 1 will lodge, thy people
shall l»e my people and thy God iny God.
\\ here thou diest will I die, and there will
1 be buried. The Ijord du so to me
and more also If aught but
death part thee and me Side by side in life,
side by side in the burying ground, side bv
side in heaven. Before G<xi and man. and
putting my immortal soul into my oath, I
swear to you eternal fidelity.” Now, how,
my brother, ought you taeat her? You ought
to treat her well. You ought to treat her
better than any being in the universe except
your God. Her name ought to be to you
sweeter music than anything that Chopin, or
Bach, or Schumann ever composed. Her
eves, though swollen with three weeks 1 of
night watching over a child in tsarlet fever,
ought to be to you more attractive than a
morning. After the last rose petal has
iade.l from her cheek, after the
last feather has dropped from the
raven's wing in her hair, after h t fa<-e is
crowed and re n oised with as many wrinkles
as there a:v giave-i over which she’ has wept,
you ought to lx* able truthfully to say to her
m the words of Soloman's song! “Behold, thou
art fair, mv love, behold, thou art fair,' and
perhaps she may answer in the words of
matchless Robert Burns, the only man who
•ver had pen or ink or head or heart thefr
could write it:
John Anderson, my Jo John,
We climb the hill together,
And many a canty day we had with one an
other.
Now we mu.t totter down John,
Rut hand iu hand we'll go.
And sleep together at the fort,
John And«*!-sun, my Jo.
If anv.nv' assiiil her name you will have
Lan I work to control your teiiqx'r, and if vou
sti ike hen down the sin will not be unp&rdou
able. Wuh as much surrender as the uni
verse has ever seen, except that of the Son of
God for your salvation and mine, she has a
first mortgage on your bodv, mind and soul
and the mortgage is foreclosed, and vou no
more certainly own your two hands and
Jpur two eyes th-in she owns vou.
The longer the journey Rebekah makesand
the greaterthenskof the expedition on the
back ot the camels the more certainly is Isaac
found to so loyal aud sympathetic and true.
>ow gentlemen, pay your debts. You so»
Move in fcroe of a contra 't.and you are readv
to meet a contract after vou have made ft. II
vou pledged kindness and attention and faith-
Tulnws and have not fulfilled those promises
those pledges inducing one into conjugal
iMutm i'ship and failing in your promise, vou
deserve to have suit brought arainst
you for obtaining goods under
false pretences, and you deserve
to be mulcted in a large amount of damages.
Review all the fair and beautiful and splen
did and glorious things you promised liefore
marriage awl refle t to-day whether you have
kept your faith. “ Oh." you say, “ that was
all romance and »entim< ntalism and a joke;
that's the way they all talk.” My brother,
how would you like the plan tried upon you!
Suppose I am interested in We.teru land, and
I fill your mind with roseate speculation. 1
tell you that the farm I want to sell you is
already laid out for a city, and that there is
a depot near by, so that all the crop# may be
easily transported, and that eight or ten capi
talists are about to put up splendid buildings
near the spot.and that the climate is delicious,
and that the land is so high thei e is no room
for malaria, and that every dollar you plant
will grow up into a bush containing ten or
twelve dollars, and my speech glows with
enthusiasm until you rush out with me to an
attorney, and wo have the papers written,
and we have the cash i>aid down and the
whole thing finished. Yon bid good bye to
your friends at the I just; you leave your at
tractive home hero; you take a railtrain aud
ride many days; you get out at a quiet de
pot and then T>y wagon you go thirty miles
through a wilderness aud you arrive at your
new pin -o. You see a man seated on a wet
log in a swamp, shaking with his fif
teenth attack of chills and fever. You ask
huu who he is and he tells you he is the real
estate agent for that region. You say,
“Where is the new depot!" He says, “It
will be built out here if the company secure
their right of a tract in next winter's legisla
ture.” A'ou :ay, "Where are the ten or
twenty capitalists who are going to build
splendid houses! Whore are they going to
put those houses " He says, “They are going
to put them in the low land next to the woods
after the water is drained off.” You say to
that real estate agent, “Where is the city
laid out in this quarter!” and with chat
tering teeth he says, “If you’ll wait
till this chill’s off I’ll show it to you
on a map in my pocket” You lodge
that night in the hut of the real estate man
and you pray for everybody except for me.
More fortunate than most jrnople who go out
on such expedition you have money enough
to get back. You come np to me all out of
breath with indignation and say: “You —you
swindled me out of everything. Whatdoyou
mean by deceiving me about that Western
propertv!” “Oh,” I say, "that’s all romance,
that's all sentimentalism, that’s a joke, that's
the way they all talk 1” I would be more
excusable in decreiving you than the
man is who takes a woman from
comfortable surroundings and puts her amid
surroundings which he has never taken any
care to make attractive, giving up her father's
house for n dismal swamp of married experi
ence, treeless, flowerless, shelterless, comfort
less, godless. It would not tie so bad in me to
cheat you out of a farm as it would be for
you to cheat a woman out of the happiness of
a lifetime. Have you fulfilled your contract?
Men of business have in their fire proof safes
a pack of contracts. Sometimes they take j
this pack of contracts out and read over what
the party of the first part and the party of the
second part bound themselves to do. .Have vou
forgotten your contract! Thou you had bet
ter buy or borrow an Episcosal prayer book, :
for though all denominations of Christians j
have different forms of marriave ceremony, I
the marriage ceremony in the Episcopal i
prayer l ook is the essence of all intelligent ;
ceremonies when it says: “I take thee to be
my wedded wife, to have and to hold from I
this day forward for better or for worse, for
richer or for poorer, mi sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish until death us do part, I
accord ing to God's holy ordnance, and thereto [
I pledge thee my troth.” Have you !
kept the contract! Gentlemen, fulfil
your contra-ts. Think of what you promised ;
before marriage, and whether or not you have ;
fulfilled your promise. Do not get mad, but 1
just make comparison in your own mind j
now. Before marriage perhaps you spent
your evenings with your betrothed. Since i
marriage perhaps you spend all the evenings I
away, except when you have the influenza j
or some othe r sickness, and the doctor tolls !
you it is not safe to go out. Before marriage !
you were full of interjections of adulation, ,
and since marriage you think it is silly to say
anything in praise of her, though she j
ought to be more attactive to you now ;
than ever, since the struggle of lite has lie- 1
come more severe and your relation is the
more sacred by the baptism of tears—tears '
over losses, tears over graves. Compare the '
way you used to go into the house before i
marriage with the way you go into the house
after marriage. In the former state when ;
you went into the ho use you were a dstilla
tion of smiles, you were all politeness, you ,
were as pleasant as a peach orchard in
bloom week. Now some of you go into the !
and you put your hat on the rack and :
with a scowl you say: “Lost money to-day.” j
You sit down at the tea table and begin
to criticize the way the food is cooked, and
you shove back from the table before the rest
are done and snatch up the evening news
paper oblivious of all that has been going on
during the day. The little children are in
awe at the domestic autocrat. Bubbling
over with I tin they are, but they must bequiet,
or with healthful curiosity, but they must
ask no questions. The wife has had annoy
ances in the nursery, in the parlor, in the
kitchen until her nerves are full of nettles
and spikes. You provided the money for the
food and wardrobe and you feel you have
discharged your obligation, doing not ling
for the good cheer, for the intellect
ual improvement, for the moral
ente.'i.iin.nfnt of your home, although
at the longest it will lost only a little while.
My brother, you have no appreciation of the
fact that your children will soon be grown
up,or in their sepulchres.and you willhaveno
more opportunity to influence them, aud the
wife will soon bo through with her earthly
mission and the home in which you live will
go into other hands, and you yourself will be i
gone. Do you realize that what we do for our I
homes we must do in a very short space of j
time! Marriage is an affectional bargain. )
In some lands people purchase their wives j
with dollars, or cattle, or sheep. In one land :
a man mounts n horse and rides
swiftly d >wn to where th*r- is a group of
worn - i a:i! !i ■ seize ; o.i ■ by th? h.iira'i l lifts
her struggling an 1 resisting to the horse's i
back, and if he gets to the jungle before her I
brothers come up she is bls lawful wife. In
another land the man is beaten by the pro
posed bride with a club, and if he resists the
floating and if he cries out he is rejected, but
if he endures the pounding and clubbing with
out any resistance, or without any complaint
she is his lawful wife. By courage, by skill,
by absurdity, marriage is decided in some
lands; but here in this Christian load
marriage is an affectional bargain in
which the man promises pro
tection. support. companionship and
love. Are you fulfilling your bargain! I tell
you what you all know that some men seem
more interested in the wives of others than
in their own. How many a man there is who
will allow his wife to carry upstairs a heavy
scuttle of coal and then clear the width of the
parlor with one bound to pick up some other
lady's pocket handkerchief. There is an evil
I have seen under the sun and it is common
among men, namely, husbands iu flirtation, f
The care and attentions and kindness they ;
ought to put upon their wives they put upon
the wives of others. They smile, they are
coy anl are arch, and with a manner that
se ms to say.“( )h.if 1 was only free from that
old drudge at home. What an improveueat ycu
would be on my present surroundings'. ’ And
la* ■ at night th > man goes to his prosaic home
whistling and hilarious and finds his wife is
' *a’o:i- There are thouseudsof men whoare
not positively immoral who need correction
in *aat direction. Oh. it is meanness im
measurable for the husband by his behavior
Vj practically say: “Y'ou can't help yourself.
I will admire whom I wish to admire and I
will go where I wish to go, and I will stay
as long as I wish to stay and I defy
your critfeistn.” That is devilish. Whv did
you not put it in the bond, you domestic Shy
lo k* Why did you not have it understood
before you wore p‘. uu cd husband and wife
that she should only have a i?art of the divi
dend of your affection? And when timeerased
some of the bright lines, from her face, and
erased some of the lithenass from her form
you would have the reserved right to pav
obeisence to cheeks more rubicund and fi'nire
lither or more agile, and when you demanded
the last pound of her patience and her endur
ance. you could then have tapped with the ,
on the eccentric marital cxi.i .w -i
bi,nilW L ‘tto“m.Xnr Iteb- kn'li had under
stoivl where she was alighting sh- would ha vo
or lore I the camel drivers totunithe ‘“la'an
bn. k towanls— Flirtation is always the
f. ini lation either of dishonesty or
ii.--. A married man who indulges in it is
1 either a fraud or a rake. I care not how high
■ up such an one may be in society, or
much sought after, I would not gn ea three
cent piece, though it had been three tunes
clipped, for the virtue of a masculine or a
feminine flirt. The best thing for a multitude
of men in all parts of the United States is to
go home and apologize for past neglects and
Bright- nup their old love. Take out the <dd
family Bible and read the record of the mar
riage day Go to the drawer of the bureau
containing the relics aud take out the box
.-ontaining the trinkets of your dead child.
Take the yellow letters that were written be
fore vou were one, review the joys and the
sorrows in which you have mingled, and then
put ail these on the alter for fuel, and with
a sacral coal from heaven, rekindle the ex
tinct light. It was a blast from hell that blew
it out. It will be a gale from heaven that
fans it into a blaze.
Oh you broken marriage vows, speak out.
Mv brother, take her whom you have prom
‘ ised to love and protect, take her into all
your hopes, your plans, your successes, your
defeats, your ambitions. Tell her every
thing. Go arm in arm into places of arnuse
' ment and over the piazza of summer water
’ ing pla-.-e, and up the ruggod path of life, and
' down into the ‘lark caverns of trouble, and
when ill- one tremble: on the way let the
other be reinforcement. Do not pass your
self off as a single man practising gal
lantries. After fifty years of age
do not in women’s society try
to appear young mannish. Interfere not
with your wife's religious nature, and put
her not In the awful dilemma in which hun
dreds of Christian wives are put by their hus
bands when asked to g* v* placi-s or to do
thin-.-- which t:i-v cairn -t co m-ientio isi v do.
i -in I c.i -m-’e fli te ‘idol c .v.-.-n 1.-.ah.,' co
and ■ 'i..*.l - h i-'o-m I. Tha is a’.
1 a a fi, I dih- uulu. W tail on ■ - v o':< 1 iriy-it
| I ,'i» « "VV.! I ! •'.llll i
I umifti- sa-h cirr i •- Sn.t:! 1 i>e i .al
Ihi Cji <>r i >va! t» mv h’.isba iu.' J saiu.
••v_,ii tPII y<>ur Irulwil that tint tha
j nn»l if h b« the right
I sort of a man von sav he is, he
I will sir. ‘be ky.J tof'cul and thm you will
!i c !<>• a! to me?’ : Do ”- A '’ ask your v. if •to
i comp» o;ni'i* !?"'■-cH b’- to auj mace
! whit h»h » cannot cons ’irntioiisly £uto. You
4o not want to make your wife less ot a
Christian. My brother, there will be a time
when you will want the help of all her
i Christian resources. When you rememl>er
what influence your mother had over you,
' certainly you do not want the mother of
i your children to set a less godly example.
Oh, it pleases me bevond my capacity
to state it when I hear an un-
converted, worldly man say of his
wife, not thinking it would ever come
to her ears, ‘’that is the mo<t godly woman
alive; her .?»»In s. i;a p u n tual rel.uke to
my nuholhi s : you ctHil'.ln‘i aether t» do a
wrong thing; I hop ■ t'i** children all take
after her an 1 not after me; if there is any
heaven at all she will g » there- sure.” Ah!
that Ls a eulogy worth i dling of on ‘'arth
and in h. a ven, and there are more men
brought to God by just such faith
fulness than by almost any other
influence. It is not the dingdong
ing about the subject of religion that brings
a man to the kingdom of God. It is the fact
that he knows in his own soul that his wife is
inspired by higher motives and consoled
by higher consolation, and moved by
higher principle than those that console aud
help and move him. There is no arguing
that down, there is no scoffing that down,
there is no caricaturing that down. You
need not tell that man there is nothing in re
ligion. He has it at his own table, he has it
in every room in the house, the reality of the
Christian religion. It has lived there as well
as professed there. Oh. my brethren—for we
are having a plain talk this morning—l am
not speaking perfunctorily, but as a
brother to a brother; you are here for an
h jreit purpose aud I am here for an honest
purpose—do you not really think it would be
better for you to join your wife on the road
to heaven f You have a happy home you tell
me. How'much happier it would l>e it' you
were both religious, in sickness what a com
fort. In reverses of fortune, what a wealth.
In death, what a triumph. God intended you, i
my brother,to be the high priest of your home.
Go to your home to-day aud take the family
Bible, and gather all the family that are liv
ing around you, and those who are not living
w ill hear of it in a flash, and as ministering
spirits will hover, father and mother de
parted, child, all your celestial kindred will
nover, and then having read a chapter of the
Bible, kneel down and m ay. If you cannoG
think of any prayer I will give vou ouo:
Lord G\xl. I surrender myself to Thee and
this beloved wife, and the. e dear children; for
Christ’s sake forgive all the past and help us
for all the future. We have lived on earth
together, may we live forever together.
Amen, and amen!” Dear rne, what a stir
that would make among your best friends on
earth and your best friends in heaven. Joseph
11., the emperor, won the unbounded love of
his subjects by his kindness and his philan
thropic behavior. He abolished serfdom. He
established toleration and he lived in the
happiness of his subjects. One day, he was
going to Ostend to declare it a free port. He
was at the head of a great procession. He
saw a woman at a college door in
great dejectment. He dismounted and he
w’ent to her and asked the cause of her grief.
She told him that her husband had gone to
Ostend to see the emperor and hid declined
to take her, he being an alien and not under
standing her loyal enthusiasm and how that it
was the great desire of her life to s *e the ruler
whose goodness and greatness had won her
unspeakable admiration. She said; “The
disappointment is simply to me unbearable
that! can't seethe emperor.” The emperor
took from his pocket a box set with diamonds
around his own picture and he gave it to
her. and when she saw the picture it revealed
to her to whom she was speaking. She
dropped on her knees in reve.-enoe and clappad
her hands with joy, for that she had seen the
em’ t )eror. Then the emperor incmired the
name of her husband and where ne would
probiblv be in Oxten I, and that man was im
prisoned for the three days of the emperor’s
visit at Ostend. So when the man got back
to his cottage he found that his wife
had seen the emperor and he had not
seen him at all. Oh; my
friends, in many of the homes of Christen
dom through the converting grace of God the
wife has seen the king in His beauty and He
has bestowed upon her the pearl of great
pri *e, while the husband is an alien from the
covenant of promise, without God, without
hope iu tb? wort I ami imprisoned ia worldli
ne san 1 sin. ()h that this day they would
arm in arm go and visit th? king—the one
not only higher and greater than any Joseph
ot earthly dominion, but high over all in
earth :ind air and sky. His touch is life. His
voice is music. His smile is heaven.
A Valued Confidential Cleek.—l
' heard of a clerk once in a dry goods store
who was smart and quick and a splen
did manager, and all that, but he got up
pity and bigoty, and put on corseq uential
airs until he was very disagreeable, and
he took occasion to say to his associates
that the concern couldn’t possibly get
along without him. So the old gentle
man, who was the senior partner, called
him in the office one day, and says lie •
! “Mr. Jenkins, you have been very effi
i cient, and we appreciate your services
but I hear that you have repeatedly aa
-erted that if you were to die the con
cern couldn’t possibly survive it, and thi«
has worried me no little, for you, like all
men, are liable to die very unexpectedly
and so we have concluded to experiment
! while we are all in health, and see if the
i concern will survive. So you will please
eons ide r yourself dead for a vear, and we
; will try it”— Constitution. '
CLIPPINGS FOK THE CURIOUS.
A.i Indian and a Chinaman are part
ners in the stationery business in (
Nebraska town.
A foot-pound is a force which will
raise a pound one foot, and 33.000 9 f
these foot-pounds make one horse
power.
A new industry has sprung up M
New Orleans. Heads of large fish are
dried and sold for table and mantel
ornaments.
A pearl as large as a pigeon-egg Wil ,
shown in Paris recently. There we r ,
114 others in the bivalve from which
it was taken.
Prof. Binz finds that coffee is an at
solute antidote to alcohol, if it betaken
in a sufficient quantity. Dogs satur.
ated with caffeine could not be made
drunk.
The divining rod is still believed in,
and used in some parts of England
It is said to have been successfully
used a short time ago in finding water
on the premises of a brewer, where
digging and boring had failed.
An Italian astronomer declares that
the planet Mars is peopled by intelt
gent beings, who are trying to attract
attention from dwellers on this planet.
He is now engaged in making experi
ments with a view to discover what
the messages mean.
Statistics show that dogs go n»». no
oftener in dog days than at any other
time. If anything, the number of cases
is somewhat greater in spring. The
bite of a rabid cat is more surely fatal
than that of a rabid dog. It is a mis
take to suppose that a rabid dog fears
or shuns water. In the early stages of
the disease it drinks freely. Later it
delights to seek the water and plunge
its nose in, but is unable to swallow a
drop.
A joint or gimmal ring was ancient
ly a common token among lovers. It
was generally made of two or three
hoops, so chased and engraved that,
when fastened together by a single
rivet, the whole three formed one de
sign; the usual device being a ring.
When an engagement was contracted,
the ring was taken apart, each spouse
taking one, and the third one being
presented to the principal witness of
the contract.
Cattle on the Track.
“Do we try to avoid killing animals
We do when it is possible,” said an old
engineer. "But if it is impossible tn
stop the train before reaching them it
is dangerous to lessen the speed, for
when a train is moving slowly a big,
Healthy steer is sometimes enabled to
derail it. If I see 1 can’t stop before
leaching the animal I pull the throttle
wide open and let her go. In going
around a curve one night eight miles
from Davenport, on the Rock Island.
I saw a steer standing on the track.
He did not move, but looked straight
at the headlight. I opened the throttle
and the next moment hit him. I felt
the jar. He was literally chopped to
pieces and the particles of flesh cov
ered the headlight, so that I could not
see until the next station was reached.
The engine was covered from the pilot
to the tender with blood and pieces of
flesh."
"The worst animal to encounter on
a railroad track," continued the engi
neer, “is sheep. Even if they are on
the outside of the fence they will vent
ure on the track when the first opening
is reached. And the one that takes the
lead is followed by all the rest. Hogs
make a bad mess. I hit a drove one
day while running fifty miles an hour.
Realizing I could not stop before
reaching them I let the engine have all
she could take. There was a slight
jar and a moment later the porkers
were flying in every direction to the
sides of the track and over the engine.
As the animals began falling the fire
man sarcastically remarked, ‘Pork is
coming down.’ That engine was the
bloodiest and dirtiest ever taken to a
shop. They were two days cleaning
it”— Davenport (la.') Gazette.
Cotion’s Mauy Uses.
Nothing about cotton need be wast
ed. The libre having been separated,
the seeds are again “linted,” all the
cotton adhering to them being removed
and sold to the cotton men. Then the
husks are removed and used for fuel
in the furnaces on the premises.
After the seed is ground, cooked, and
pressed, the oil being extracted, the
refuse forms an oil cake, which L’
shipped in large quantities to Great
Britain for food for cattle. Last of
all, the ashes have a virtue of their
own, and are sold at a high price.
The oil goes to Chicago to make but
ter and lard; to Cincinnati, where an
illuminating oil is made from it, and
to an Eastern city to be made into
pure olive oil for salads. It is already
taking the place of lard in cooking,
greatly to the advantage of every
body. Inferior grades serve as the ba
sis for the best seaps.— York