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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE.
Text: '■‘Co hoi: e to thy frwyts and tell
■them how gr. nt thing- the Lord hath done
for thee.”—Mark v., 19. Folliiwiug is the
M>rnioo in full:
There are a great many people longing for
■some grand sphere in which to serve God.
They admire Luther at the Diet of Worms
HU d only wish that they had some
such great opportunity in which to display
their Christian prowess. They admire I’aul
making Felix tremble and they only wisli
that they had some such grand occasion in
which to preach righteousness, temperance
aad judgment to come. Allthey want is an
opportunity to exhibit t itir Christian hen>-
ism. Now the Christ comes to us and he
practically say s:“l will show you a place where
you can exhibit all that is grand and beauti
ful and glorious in Christian character, and
that is the domestic circle."
If one is not faithful in an insignificant
sphere he will not be faithful in a resounding
sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at
the gate of the temple he will never be able to
preach three thousand souls into the kingdom
at Pentacost: If Paul will not take trains to
instruct in the way of salvation the jailer
of the Philippian dungeon, he will never
make Felix tremble. Ho who is not faithful
in a skirmish would not be faithful in an
artnageddon. The fact is we are
all placed in just the position in which wo
can most grandly serve God; and we ought
uotto be chiefly thoughtful about some sphere
of usefulness which we may after a while
gain,but the all-absorbing question with you
aud with me ought to be: “Lord, what wilt
thou have me now and here to do'”
Then is one word in my text arouud which
the most of our thought w ill this morning re
volve. That word is “home.” Ask ten dif
ferent men the meaning of that word and
they will give you teu different definitions.
To one it means love at the hearth, it means
plenty at the table, industry at the work
stand, intelligence at the books, devotion at
the altar. To him it means a greeting at the
door and a smile at the chair. Peace hover
ing like wings. Joy clapping its hands with
laughter. Lase a tranquil lake. Pillowed on
the ripples sleep the shadows.
Ask another man what home is and
he will tell you it is want looking
out of a cheerless firegrate, kneading
hunger in an empty bread tray, the damp ait
shivering with curses, no Bible on the shelf,
children, robbers and murderers in embryo,
obscene -ongs, their lullaby, every face a Pic
ture of ruin, want in the background and sin
staring, from the front. No Sabbath wave
rolling over that doorsill, vestibule of the
pit, shadow of infernal walls, furnace for
forging everlasting chains, faggots for an
unending funeral pile. Awful word! It is
spelled with curses, it weeps with ruin, it
chokes with woe, it sweats with the death
agony of despair.
The word “home” in the one case means
everything bright. The word “home 1 ’ in the
other case means everything terrific.
I shall speak to you this morning of home
as a test of character, home as a refuge,
home as a political safeguard, home as a
school and home as a type of heaven.
And in the first place I remark thal home
is a powerful test of character. The disposi
tion in public may be in gay costume, while
in private it is in dishabille. As play
actors may appear in one way on the stage
and may appear in another behind the scenes,
so pre rate character maybe very different
from public character. Private character is
often public character turned wrong side out.
A mac may receive you into his parlor as
though he were a distillation of smiles, and
yet ms heart may be a swamp of nettles.
There are business men who all clay long are
mild and courteous and genial and good-na
tured in commercial life,damming back their
irritability and their petulance anil their dis
content. but at nighttail the dam breaks aud
scolding pours forth in floods and freshets.
Reputation is the only shadow of character,
and a very small house sometimes will cast a
very long shadow. The lips may seem to drop
w ith myrrh and cassia, and the disposition to
lie a> : igbt and warm as a sheaf of sunbeams,
and yet they may only be a magnificent show
window to awret -hed stock of goods. There
is many a man who is affable in public life
and amid commercial spheres who, in a cow
ardly way, takes his anger and his petulance
home and drops them on the domestic cir
cle.
The reason men do not display their bad
temper in public is because they do not want
to be knocked down. There are men who
hide their petulance and their irritability
juet for the same reason that they do not le’t
their notes go to protest; it does not pay: or
for tin same reason they do not want a man
in their stock company' to sell his stock at
less than the right price lest it depreciate the
value As at sometimes the mind rises, so
at'tei a sunshiny day there may be a
temp- t .ious night. There are people who in
pubbi act the philanthropist, who at home
act toe Nero,with respeettotheirslippers aud
their gown.
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with
gun aud pencil, went through the forests of
Ameuea to bring down and to
sketci the beautiful, birds, and af
ter years of toil and expense
completed his manuscript and put it in a
trunk in Philadelphia and went off for a few
days < ■ re reation aud rest, nnd came la-.-k
and found that the rats had utterly destroyed
the manuscript, but without any discompos
ure and without any fret or bad temper, he
•gam picked up his gun and pencil and vis
ited again all the great forests of America
* ♦ / ef ' roducefl his immortal work. And
yet there are people with the ten thousand th
wart of that loss who are utterly irreeon- ila-
Ue. who, at the loss of a pencil or an article
of raiment will blow as long and loud and
shaj] as a northeast storm.
Now. that man who is affable in public and
who is irritable in private is making a
fraudulent overissue of stork and he is as bad
as a ban’; that might have four or five hun
dred thousand dollars of bills in circulation
with i.< -pecie in the vault. Let us learn to
show piety at home. If we have it not
there we have it not anywhere.
If we nave it not there, we have it not any
where. If we have not genuine grace in the
family i ir-le all our outward and public
plan‘ii ..ity merely springs from a fear of the
worlc or from the slimy, putrid pool of our
own selfishness. I tell you the home is a
might test of character. What you are at
home you are everywhere, whether you de
monstrate it or not.'
Ar I’,” 1 ’,” T rf ' ,nar k that home is a refuge. Life
*'■ ' i ’ States army on the national
lua “ Mexico, a long march with ever anil
anon : skirmish aud a battle. At eventide
we i ’• j,l our tent and stack the arms; we
Hang up the war cap aud, our head on the
cnap-a we sleep until the morning bugle
calls u- to marching and action. How pleas
ant is to rehearse the victories and the sur
prises and the attacks of the day, seated by
tue ~ t,.| . !(r np fj rc o f home circle.
xea, hfe is a stormy sea. With shivered
," d ''ails and hulk aleak wo put in at the
a: be. ~f home! Blessed harbor! There we go
kyoire in the dry dock of quiet life. The
handle m tne window Is to th toiling man
*Abtho U .e guiding him into port. Chil
*o forth to meettheir fathers as pilots
dL’.’,“ ar ™'Y s ” to kethe hand of ships. The
t le I lolll ® is the wharf where
Oe ®vy hie is unladen.
w tbe P, lace where we may talk of
with seir si° ue without being charged
we nj, ’ 1 > a< * u atlon : There is the place where
eranifni ‘°a^ ge without being thought un
is the l ,la, e where we may
Thera VVk H OO wit hout being thought silly,
pla , ce where we may forget our
Forlore. n ' xa ' SDerations autl troubles.
That is b'JsTim, no home! Then die.
grander an^ r ‘ The Stave is brighter and
e B l,jrio ' ls ‘han this world,
from the r ™ “arching, with no harbor
•Kfe’ 7 ith ?° A*ceof r «*from
God Pitv thl ™ eed and ? ou K e ’ loss ““<1 gain.
Further r man or woman who has no home,
safeguard’ I J? mar k that home is a political
buirt on the . “tety of the State must be
Dot Fra no fety of the home. Why can-
a£.n “st placid re ? ublk? Ever
twa “ a threat of national capsize
■ Frinre ns a nation has not ths rEllt\ 'i n[ i ft a
: Cluist.au home. The Cbrist.au hew, thstoue
‘is the only c .rue.-.-tone for a republic, The
I virtues cultured in tue family circle area 1 ab
solute n 1 ess.ty for the State. If ti»e\ he
n t enough moral priucipl - to make tlw fa »•
ily adb re, there will u>t be enough ptditiux '
principle to make the State adhere. 2k '
home means the Goths and Vandals, meure'
the Nomads of Asia, means the Nuinidiaus id' j
Africa changing from place according as the
pasture happens to change. Confounded bo i
all those Balxds of iniquity which would over-
j tower anil destroy tile home. The same
, storm that upsets tue ship iu which the tarn
| ily sails w.lt s,nk th ■ frigate of the Constitu
tion. Jailsand penitentiaries, and armies and
; navies are not our best de'e.i.-o. Tile do »rof
t.'ie ho is the Ims; tor..co. Hoasehol lutm-
I •_ -0.5.1 lr,an 1 to? •niran? ~s of j
our dwolling-Inxises are the grandest monu-
i men;. taiety aud triumph. No home, no I
rep:...lie.
| i'ur,.i-r. 1 remark, that home is a school.
■ 011 gro.m I must be turned up with subsoil
plow and it must be harrowed and re-har
rowed, and then the crop will not be as
; large as that of the new ground with less cul
ture. Now, youth and childhood are new
ground and idi the iufluenees thrown over
! their h’ irt and life will come up in after
life luxuriantly. Every time you base given
a sin.l.' of approbation-all the good eheer of
your life will come up again the geniality of
: your children, and everv ebullition, of anger
and every uncontrollable display of indigna
tion «ill oe fuel to their disposition twenty
■ or thirty or forty yeans from now—
j fuel for a bud lire a quarter of a
■ century from this. You praise
‘he intelligence of your child too much some
times when you think he is not aware of it, '
aud you will <■• lhe result of it before teu
vears of age in hi- annoying affectations.
i You praise his beauty, supposing ho is not
; large enough to understand what you say,
and you will find him standing on n high
chair before a flattering mirror. Words aiid
deeds and example are the seed of character,
andyhildren are very apt to bo the second
i edition of th ir parents. Abraham begat •
Isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the an
cestral line; but Her. d begat Archelaus, so
iniquity is transmitted. What vast respon
{ sßiility comes upon parents in view of this
j subject!
Oh. make your home the brightest place on
earth if you would charm your children to
the high path of virtue and rectitude and re
ligion. Do not always turn the blinds the
wrong way. Let the light which puts gold
on the gentian and spots the pansy pour
into your dwellings. Do * not
ex)>ect the little feet to keep step to a dead
! march. Do not cover up your walls with such
pictures as West’s “Death on a Pale Horse”
or Tintorettos “Massacre of the Innocents."
Rather cover them, if yon have pictures,with
“The Hawking Party.” and “The Mill bv the
Mountain Stream,” and “The Fox Hunt,’’and
“The Children Amid Flowers,” and “The
Harvest Scene,” aud “The Saturday Night
( Marketing.”
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grass
hopjw's leap, and lamb's frisk, and quail’s
whistle and garrulous streamlet which from
, the rock at the mountain top clear down to the
meadow ferns under The shadow of the steep,
comes looking for the steepest place to leap
off at, and talking just to hear itself talk. If
all the skies hurtled with tempestand everlast
ing storm wandered over the sea, and every
mountain stream wen o raving mad, frothing
at th • mouth with mud foam and there were
nothing but simoons blowing among the
hills, and there were neither larks’ carol nor
humming-birds' trill, nor waterfall’s dash,
but only a bear s bark and panther’s scream
and wolf’s howl, then you might well gather
! into your homes only the shadows. But
' when God has strewn the earth and heavens
with beauty and with gladness, let us take
into our home circles all innocent hilarity,
all brightness aud all good cheer. A datk
home makes bad boys and bad girls in prep
aration for bad men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into your homos
Christian principle. Can it be that in any of
the comfortable homes of my congregation
the voice of prayer is never lifted? What!
No supplication at night for protection?
What' no thanksgiving in the morning for
care? How, my brother, my sister, will you
answer God in the day of judgment with
reference to your children? It is a
plain question, and therefore I
ask it. In the tenth chapter
of Jeremiah God says He will pour out, His
fury ujion the families that call not upon His
name. Oh, parents, when you are dead and
gone, and the moss is covering the inscription
of your tombstone will your children look
back and think of father and mother at fam
i ily prayer! Will they take the old family
Bible and open it and see the mark of tears
of contrition aud tears of consoling promise
wept by eyes long before gone out into dark
ness? Oh, if you do not inculcate Christian
principle into the hearts of your children,aud
you do not warn them against evil, and you
do not invite them to holiness and to God,
and they wander off into dissipation and in
fidelity, and at last make shipwreck of their
immortal soul on their death-bed, and in
their day of judgment they will curse you!
Seated by the register or the stove, what if
on the wall should come out the history
lof your children. What a history—
the mortal and immortal life of
your loved ones. Every parent
is writing the history of his child. He is
writing it, composing it into a song or turn
ing it into a groan.
My mind runs back to one of the best of
early homes. Prayer, like a roof over it.
Peace, like an atmosphere in it. Parents,
personifications of faith in trials and comfort
in darkness. The two pillars of the earthly
home long ago crumbled to dust. But shall
I ever forget that early home? Yes, when
the flower forgets the sun that warms it.
Yes. when the mariner forgets the star that
guide I him. Yes, when love has gone outon
the h 'arfs altar and memory has emptied its
j urn into forgetfulness. Then, the home of
' my childhood, I will forget thee: the family
altar of a father’s importunity and a mother's
■ tenderness, the voices of affection, the fun-
erals of our dead father and mother with
interlocked arms like intertwining branches
of trees making a perpetual arbor of
love and peace and kindness—then
I will forget thee—then and i
only then, you know, my brother, that a
hundred times you have been kept out of sin
I by the memory of such ascene as I have been
I describing. You have often hail raging
temptations, but you know what has held
you with supernatural grasp. 1 tell you a
I man who has had such a good home as that
never gets over it, and u man who has had a
bad early home never gets over it.
Again I remark that home is a type of
heaven. To bring us to that home Christ left
his home. Far up and far back in the history
of heaven there came a period when its most
illustrious citizen was about to absent him
self. He was not going to sail from beach to
beach; we have often done that. He was not
going to put out from one hemisphere to an
other hemisphere; many of us have done that.
But h ■ was to sail from world to world, the
place- unexplored and the immensities un
traveled. Noworld had ever hailed heaven and
heaven never had hailed any other world. I
think that the windows and the lialconies were
thronged and that the p-arline beach was
crowded with those who had come to see Him
sail out the harlxir of light into the o“eans be
yond. Out and out and out and on and on
and on and down and down and down He
sped until one night with only one to greet
Him He arrived. His disembarkation so un
pretending, so quiet that it was not known
on earth until the excitement in the cloud
gave intimati >n that something grand and
glorious had hap > no 1. Who comes there?
From what port did he sail? Why was this :
the place of his destination! I question the ,
shepherds, I question the camel drivers, I
questi:on the angels. I have found out. He
was an exile. But the world has had plenty I
of exiles. Abraham an exile from Ur of
Chaldee, John an exile from Ephesus, |
Koscinsco an exile from Poland, Mazzini an I
exile from Rome, Emmett an exile from Ire- i
land,Victor H.ig > an exile from France, Kos- I
1 sutb an exile from Hungary. Bit this one of
whom I speak to-day had such resounding (
farewell, and came into such chilling yecep- i
tion. for not even a hostler went out with hb >
1 lantern to help him in; that he is more to lx ;
r celebrated than any other ex patriated one ol :
earth or heaven. 1
It is niroty-flve million miles from here to ,
' the sun, and all astronomers agree in saying
that our solar system Is only one of ths small
1 ivhoels of the great machinery of the universe
turning around some one great center, the
: cent. ■ so far distant it is beyond all imagina-
I tion and calculation, and if, us some think,
the groat center in the distance is heaven,
Christ came far from home when He came
; here. Have you ever thought of the home
sickneis of Christ? Some of you know what
homesickness is wdion you have lieen only a
. few w-ceks absimt from the domestic circle.
.Mirist was thirty-three years away from
Jx 'm>. Some of you feel homesickness when
yix nro a hundred or a thousand miles away
jrc.’A th® domestic circle. Christ was more
mill.ix "'s of miles away from home than you
cnnilf calculate all your life if you
did notlK but calculate. You know what
it is lo be.homesick even amid pleasurable
snrrnnnriiT\Ts. but Christ slept in huts, and he
was athirst, .and ho was ahungered and he
was on the w.a V from living born in another
man’s barn to L'Oing buried in another man's
grave. I hsvoreai,’ how the Swiss, when they are
far away from tltoir native country, at the
sound of thnfr notional air get so homesick
that thev fall into miNarr'hnly and sometime I
they die under the homesickness. But '
oh, the homesickness of Christ! Poverty I
homesick for celestial riches. Persecution ■
homesick for hosanna. Wearinasss home- :
s'ck for rest. Homesick for angelic and
arehangelie companionship. Homesick to get
out of the night and the storm and the
world’s execration and all that homesickness
j suffered to get us home!
At our best estate we arc only pilgrims
and strangers here “Heaven is dur Home.”
Death will never kno -k at the door of that
mansion, and in all that country there is not
1 single grave. How glad parents nre in
holiday times to gather their children home
again. But I have noticed that there is al
most always a son or a daughter absent—ab
sent from home, perhaps absent from the
country, perhaps absent from the world. Oh,
how glad our heavenly Father will be when
he gets all his children home with him in
heaven. And how delightful it will bo for
brothers nnd sisters to meet after long sepa
ration. Once they are parted at the door of
the tomb; now theymeet at the door of im
mortality. Once they saw only through a
glass darkly; now it Is face to face; corrup
tion, incorruption: mortality, immortality.
Where are now all their sins and sorrows
and troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red Sea
of Death while they passed through dry
shod.
Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst,
thrones of dominion do not stir my soul so
much as the thought of home. Once there
let earthly sorrows howl like storms
and roll like seas. Home I Let thrones
rot and empires wither. Home! Let the
world die in earthquake struggle nnd be
buried amid procession of planets and dirge
of spheres. Home! everlasting ages roll
in irresistible sweep. Home! No sorrow,
no crying, no tears, no death. But home.
<weet home,beautiful homo,everlasting home,
mine with each other, jhome with angels,
gome with God.
One night Iving on my (lounge when very
tired, my childr m all around about me iii
full romp and hilarity and laughter—on the
lounge, half awake nnd half asleep, I dreame.l
this dream: I was in a far country. It was
not Persia, although more than oriental luxu
riance crowned the cities. It was not th
tropics although more than tropical frivtfu'-
aess filled the gardens. It was not Ttelv. »l
though more than Italian softness filled the
air. And I wandered around looking for
thorns and nettles, but I foun I that none of
them grew there and' Isaw the sun rise and 1
watched to see it set but it sank
not. And I saw the people iu holiday attire
and I said: “When will thev put off this and
put on workmen's garb and again delve in
the mine oi swelter at the forge?” But they
never put off the li diday attire. And I
wandered in the suburbs of the city to find
the place where the dead sleep, and I looked
all along the lin" of the beautiful h'lls. the
place where the dead might most blissfully
sleep, and I saw towers aud castles, but not a
mausoleum or a mo iiiment or a white, slab
■onld I see. Aud I went into the chapel of
the great town and I said: “Where do the
ooor worship.and where are the hard benches
an which thev sit?” And the answer was
made me, “We have no poor in this coun
try.” And then I wandered out to find the
hovels of the dostitut •. and I found mansions
of amber and ivory and gold, but not a
tear could I see, not a sigh could
I hear, and I was bewildered, aud
I sat down* 1 under the branches
of a great tree and said: “ Where am I? And
whence comes all this sc .me?" And then out
from among the leaves awl up the flowery
paths and across the bright streams there
came a beautiful group thronging all alxiut
toe, and as Isaw them come I thought I know
their step, and as they shouted I thought I
knew their voices, but then they were so
gloriously arraiTOd in apparel such as I never
before witnessed, that I bowed as stranger to
stranger. But. when again, they clapped
their hands and shouted “welcome! welcome!’’
the mystery ml vanished, and I found that
time had gone aud eternity had come, and we
were all together again in our new home in
heaven, andll looked around, and I said:
“Are wo all lere?” And the voices of many
generationssß-esponded: “all hero!” And
while tearwiof gladness were raining down
our ch:eks»jtnd the branches of the Izdianon
cedars wi»-« clapping their hands, and the
towers of/th e great city were chiming their
welcome, we all together began to leap and
shout arfU sing: “Home! home! home! home!’
The Wonders of Phrenology.
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“Enormous power of concentration.
Creative faculties abnormally developed.
Great fondness for science and the arts,
together with unusual force of ”
Cries from the rear of hall.—“Oh,
come off!”— Life.
An Event in High Life.
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—Judge.
; CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
< When I’m a Man.
J An eager youth with beaming «yw
■ ‘ Locdod out into the nxirld,
And i ried, “My skip's in harbor ynfc
My banners still ora furled,
, But I will do the tiling I can
i When I’m a man 1
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' “There nre sueli wrongs to bo redremad.
Such rights that need defense,
I give my heart to all that's good.
My scorn to all pretense;
' | I’ll work out many a noble plu
When I’m a num I
“I liave so much to see and do,
So much that I may say,
. Wlien childhood’s happy days have gone,
W ith lessons and with play,
Then I shall try the best I can
■ • To be a men."
—Mary A. Barr.
Nrnnoole,
If wc did not know it to-be so, it would
be hard to believe that any animal could
make its home in the midst ®f the almost
perpetual snow and ice of the far north.
And yet many more animate than are
generally supposed to do so live in that
intense cold, and have accommodated
themselves to their surroundings. For
example, the mosquito has been found as
far north as man has ever gone.
The white bear deserves attention for
the manner in which it has adapted itself
to its strange ihode of life.
It is not called an amphibious animal,
but might probably be so called, for it is
perfectly at home in the water—indeed it
has been known to pursue and capture so
nimble a fish as the salmon.
The polar bear’s foot is unusually long
and broad even for a bear’s foot, and this
peculiarity aids in enabling it to swim so
rapidly. But the great foot is of most
use in crossing the slippery ico or crusted
snow. The under part of the foot is
covered with long, soft fur, which
answers the double purpose of keeping
the foot warm in spite of constant con
tact with the cold ice, and of preventing
the awkward slipping which would cer
tainly occur if the sole of the foot were
hard and smooth.
As a rule, the white bear avoids man and
exerts all its strength and cunning in
capturing its prey. It prefers some mem
ber of the seal family, probably because
the seals are usually so plump and tender.
Apparently a baby walrus is a choice mor
sel for it, for it never neglects an oppor
tunity of pouncing on one.
In the water, the walrus would be
more than a match even for the polar
bear, its huge tusks and terrible strength
making it the most formidable of sea
mammals; but on the ice, despite the
fierce courage with which both parents
fight fortheir offspring, the battle is too
unequal, and the unlucky little walrus,
caught napping, usually falls a victim to
the big bear. And it frequently happens
that one or both of the parent-walruses
are killed in the vain attempt to rescue
their baby.
Nennook, as the white boar is called
by the Esquimaux, frequently displays
great cunning in capturing the wary seal,
which, fearing its enemy, takes its nap
on the ice close by the edge, ready to roll
into the water at the first alarm. The
bear slips quietly into the water a long
distance from the sleeping seal, and then
swims under water, stopping occasionally
to put out his head and breathe, until
he is in such a position that the seal can
not get into the water without fulling
into his clutches.— St. Nicholat.
The Seal.
We all know that the seal is a mam
mal just as much as a bear or a wolf, and
that it breathes the air and is warm
blooded. Its skull is that of a mammal,
not a fish, and its whole skeleton is, from
an anatomical point of view, identical
with its cousins on the land. Its flip
pers and its tail are but modified hand*
and feet, and in them all the bones of
the leg and foot, as well as the arm and
hand, can be plainly seen. It is a step
between the whale and the otter, and
■hows us how surrounding circumstances
can change the external structure. In
deed, it is one of the chief and important
steps in evolution so well marked thal
there can be no doubt of its significance.
However important this may be to man,
it is the most unfortunate thing that
could happen to the seal. The very fact
of its being warm blooded is the cause of
its persecution. We need the skins and
we need the fat that the poor seals are
obliged to have to protect themselves
from the cold. If they were cold blooded,
like fishes, the temperature of their body
could be made to change to suit sue
rounding circumstances without incon
venience to themselves. But this is nol
possible to warm blooded animals; the;
must keep their blood up to a certair
temperature, and to do this in the cole
regions of the Arctic they have to b
clothed in layers of fur and fat, the tw
best possible heat retainers. A noth',
thing to their disadvantage is that thej
have to come to the surface to breathe
and have to bring forth their young 01
the ice or on land. Thus, while the;
high position in the animal scale serve
as a protection against their lower ene
rales, it brings them within the reach o
! that dread foe of all animals, man, wh
has made such destructive inroads o
some creatures, and now threatens thi
most tender and harmless animal wit
j the same fate.—Arto York Sun.
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