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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THZ MIDNIGHT REVEL,
[Preached at Monona* Wk)
'Text: “In that night was Ee'.snnz ar, the
King oi the Chaldeans, slain. ’’ Daniel v.,
30.
Fea ting has Le?n known in all ages It
wasoaem tbein.* tvctaig times >u Eng
dish history when Queen rlhan th visited
Lord Lei« ester at Kcnhwort’i < astle. The
moment of h r arrival wa*<otisid*re<l ao im
portant that a!i the < locks of the castl * were
stopped, ao th hands point to
that one moment as be ng th* most signifi
cant of al. She wa* greeted to the gate
with floating islam s and torches and the
thunder of cannon and fireworks that set the
night abla: o, and a grtat bur.-t of music that
lifted the wh »le scan? into j erfeet enchant
ment. Then she was iutio lucod in a dining
ball, Ih> luxuries.of wh ch astonished the
world; 40(Hervant« wui ed upon the g< e.*ta;
the entertainment cost *5,(00 each day.
Lord Leicester mad • that great supper in
Kenilworth Cadle.
Cardinal W olsey entertained the French
ambav-adors at Hampton Court. The best
cooks in all the land prepared lor the ban
quet; pi.rveyois wur out and traveled all
the kingdom over to find s oils for the table.
The time cam *. The gusts were kept during
the day hunting in the King’s pare, so that
their appetites might be ko<n: and then, in
th • evenin;, to the sound of the trumpet *rs,
they were introduced into a hall hung with
silk* and cloth of gold, and there were tabl s
a glitter with imp erial plate and laden with
the rarest of meats and a blush with the cost
liest of wines; and when the second course
of the f< ast came it was found that the arti
cles of food lai been fashioned into the
shape of men, birds and beasts, and groups
dancing and jousting | arties ridiu r against
ea h other with lan es. Lords and Priuces
and Ambassadors, out of cups filled to
the brim, drank tha health, first of the
King of England and next to the
King of Franc?. Cardinal Wolsey pre
pared that great supper in Hampton Court.
But my text takes us to a moi e exciting
banquet. Night was about to come down
ujK-n Babylon. The shadows of her 250 tow
ers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled
on, touched by the fiery splendors of the set
ting sun; and gates of brass, burn shed and
glittering, opened and shut like doors of
flame. The hanging gardens of B ibylon, wet
with heavy dew, began to pour from starlit
flowers and dripping leaf a fragran e for
manj miles around. The streets and s [Wires
were lighted for dan e and frolic and prom
enade. The theatres and galleries of art in
vited the w ealth, and pomp, and grandt ur of
the city to rare entertainments Scenes of
riot an 1 was ail were mingled in every
street, and godless mirth and outrageous ex
cess and splendid wickedness came to the
King’s palace to do their mightiest deeds of
darkness. A royal feast to-night at tlie
King’s | alace! Rushing up to the gates
are chariots upholstered with pre
cious cloths from Dedan aid drawn
by fire eyed horses from Togarmah,
that rear and neigh in the grasp of the
chariote. rs, while a th* usand Lords dismount,
and women dressed in all the splendor of
Syrian emerald, an I the color blending of
agate, and the cnasteness of coral, and the
sombre glory of Tyrian purple, and princely
embroideries brought from afar by camels
across the desert and by ships of Tarshish
across the sea. Open w ide the gates and let
the guests come in! The chamberlains and
cup-bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle
of the silks and to the carol of the music!
Seethe blaze of the jewe’s! Lift the ban
ners! Fill the cups ! Clap the cymbals!
Blow the trumpets! let the night go by
with song and dance and ovation, and let
that Babylonish tongue be palsied, that will
not say: “O King Belshazzar, live for ever!”
Ab, my friends! it was not any common
banquet to which these great people came.
All parts of the earth bad sent their richest
viands to that table. Brackets an 1 chande
liers flashed their light upon tankards of bur
nished gold. Fruits, ripe and luscious, in
baskets of silver, entwined with leaves,
plucked fronQ royal conservatories. Vases
inlaid with emerald and ridged with exquis
ite traceries, fillel with nuts that were
threshed from fore ds of distant lands. Wine
brought from the royal vats, foaming in the
decanters and bubbling in the chalices. Tufts
of cassia and frankincense wafting their
sweetness from wall and table. Gorgeous
banners unfolding in the bree e that camo
through the opened window, bewitch d with
the perfume of hanging gardens. Fountains
rising up from inclosures of ivory in jets of
crystal, to fall in clattering rain of diamonds
and pearls. Statues of mighty men looking
down from niches iu the wall upon crowns
and shields brought from subdue 1 empires.
Idols of wonderful work standing on
pedestals of precious stones. Embroid
eries drooping about the windows and
wrapping pillai s of cedar, and drift
ing on no rs inlaid with ivory and agare.
Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and the
clash of cymba s, and the blast of trumpets
in one wave of transport that went rippling
along the wall and breathing among the gar
lands, and i ouring down the co ridors, and
thrilling the souls of a thousand banquet-rs.
The signal is given, and the lords and ladies,
the mighty men and women of the land,come
around the table. Pour out the wine! Let
foam and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist ev»>ry
one his cup, and drink to the sentiment: “Oh,
King Belshazzar, live forever!” Pestarred
headband and carcauet of royal beauty
gleam to the uplifted chalices, as again and
again and again they are emptied. Away
with ca r e from the pa la e! Tear royal dig
nity to tatters! Pour out more wine! Give
us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume!
Lord shouts to lord, c aptain ogles to cap
ain. goblets clash, decanters rattle. There
omes in the obs eno song and the drunken
iccough and the slave ring lip and the e ilfaw
of idiotic laughter bursting from the lips of
Princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot; while
mingling with it all I hear: “Huzza, huzza,
for great l elsha zar!”
What is that on the plastering of the wall?
Is it a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it God?
The music stops. The goblets fall from the
nerveless grasp. There is a thrill. Thera is
a start. There is ath >usand-voiced shriek of
honor. Let Daniel be brought in to read
that writing. He comes in. He reads it:
“Weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.” Mem while the Assyrians, who
for two years had been laying a siege to that
city, took advantage of that carousal, and
came in. I hear ihe feet of the conquerors
on the palace stall’s. Massacre rushes in
with a thousand gleaming knives. Death
bursts upon the s ene; and I shut the door of
that banqueting hall, for I do not want to
look. There is nothing there but torn banners
and broken wraths, and ihe slush of upset
tankards, and th blood of murdered women,
and the kicke land tumbled carcass of a dead
King. For in that night was Belshazzar
slain.
I. I learn from this, that, when God writes
anything on the wall, a man had better read
it as it is. Daniel d d not misinterpret or
modify tie handwriting on the wall. It is
ail foolishness to expe ta minister of the gos
pel to prea/h always things that the people
like or the people c hoose. What shall I
preach to y m to-day? Shall I tell you of tho
dignity ol human native? Shall 1 tell you of
the wonders that our lace has accomplished?
‘ Oh, no!” you say, “tell me the me csage that
came from God.” I will. If there is any
handwriting on the wa : l, it is this lesson:
“Repent, ac ept of Christ and be saved.” I
•might talk of a great ma iy other things, but
that is the menage, and so I de dare it. Jesus
never flattered those to whom he preached.
He said to those who did wrong and who
Mere offensive in his sight: “Ye generation
of vipers! y f e whited sepulchres! how can
ye escape the damnation of hell I ’ Paul the
Apostle preached before a inan who was not
ready to hear him preach. What subject did
hetaxe? Did he say: “Oh, you a ea good
ttau, a very fine man, a very nob e man?'*
he preached of righteousness, tj a man
who was unrighteous; of temperance, to a
man who was the victim.of bad a petites; of
the judgment to come, to a man who was
unfit for it So we must always deciare the
message that happens to come to us. Daniel
mast read it as it is. A minister preached
before Jamo* JL of England, who wa> James
VI. of Sc >tland. What snbje tdi Ihe take?
Tue itiug aus noted au over the world lor
being iiu.k-i Jed an i wavering in his ideas.
V»’uu oi<i cue minister predL h about to Ims
nitu w.iu wa» va.nes L oi England and
! J.i ..e« » i. o. Scot and? He too < io. ins text,
vu.ac.;i.. i.: •Hj t at wavvreth is like a
wuveol the sea u.**ea with th wind aud
t »>ed Hugh Latimer o..ended the n.ng
I b, a serin n ue pr a *a_\i, and the Kia; >a it:
• *-i gh ai ner co uu and apolog.u.” ’1
I wi.i. u«i H .gu La.imcr, So the day was
j appoint *u, and in» King’s caapei was
full of Lord* and Dukes, and the
mighty m n am! women o. tae country, lor
Hugh Latimer to apologize, he uegan
7i IS , l *y “Hugn katimer, be-
! think thee, ihou art in the presence of thine
1 y, King, who can destroy thy body! ;
I But oethiuk thee, Hugh Latimer, t. at thou
; art in tue presea. eui th? King of Heaven
and earth, wh > can destroy both bo ly and
soul in nod ure. uh. King, cursed be thy
1 crimes:”
I 2. Another lesson that comes to us: There
!is a great diife. eave between the opening of
. the banquet ol sin and its dose. Young man,
if you had looked i i upon t.ie banquet in the
nrst tew hours, you would have wished
you had been invited there and could sit at
the feast. “Uh, ih? grandeur of Belshazzar's
least, • you would have said; but you
look in at tho close of the banquet
and your bloo l curdles with horror.
Ihe King of Terrors has the.ea ghastlier
banquet: i.umnn blood is the wine and dying
groans are the music. Sin his made itself a
iving in the ea th. It has crowned itself. It
has spread a banquet. It invites all the
world to come to it! It has hung in its ban
, quoting hall the spoils of all kingdoms and
the banners of all nations. It has strewn
from its wealth the tables and floors and
arches. And ytt how often is that banquet
broken up and how horrible is its end! Ever
and anon there is a handwriting on tue wall.
A King falls. A great culprit is arrested.
Ihe knees of wickedness Knock together. I
God’s judgment, like an armed host, breaks?
in upon the ban piet, and that night is Bel-’
sha<zar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain.
Here is a young man who says: “lean-’
njt see why they make such a fuss about the
intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating.
It makes me feel well. 1 can talk better,
think better, feel better. I cannot see why
people have such a prejudice against it.” A
lew years pass on and he wakes up and finds
hmiself in the clutches of an evil habit which
he tries to break, but cannot; and ho cries
out: “Oh Lord God, help me!” It see ms as
though God would not hear his prayer, and
in an agony of body and soul he cries out:
“It biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like
an adder.” How bright it was at the start!
How black it was at the last!
Here is a man who begins to read French '
novels. “They are so charming,” he says; “I
xvi 11 go out and see for my r self whether all
these things are so.’’ He ojiens the gate of a
sinful life. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets
him with her wand. She waves her wand,
and it is all enchantment. Why, it seems as
if the angels of God had poured out phials
of pei fume in the atmosphere. As he walks j
on he finds the hills becoming more radi- 1
ant with foliage, and th? ravines more
resonant with tho falling water. Ob, what
a charming landscaoe he sees! But that
sinful sprito with her wand meets him
again: and now she reverses the wand
and all the enchantment is gone. The cup
is full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes.
Ail the leaves of the bower are forked
tongues of hissing serpents. The flowing
i<>; m ains fall back in a dead pool stenchful
with corruption. The luring songs become
curses and screams of demoniac laughter.
Ijost spirits gather about him and feel for
his heart, and beckon him on with: “Hail,
brother! Hail, blasted spirit, hail!” He
tries to get out. He comes to the front door
where he entered and tries to push it back,
but tho door turns against him; and in the
jar of that shutting door he heirs these
words: “This night is Belshazzar, tho King
of the Chaldeans, slain!” Sin may open
bright as the morning; it closes dark as tho
night.
3. I learn further from this subject that
death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet.
Why did ho not go down to tho prisons in
Babylon.' There were people there that
would like to have died. I suppose there
were men and women in torture in that city
who would have welcomed death. But ho
comes to the palace, and just at the time
when the mirth is dashing to tho tiptop
gitch, death breaks in at tho banquet. Wo
ave often seen tho same thing illustrated.
Here is a young man just come from col
lege. Ho is kind. He is loving. Ho is en
thusiastic. Ho is 010 iuent. By one spring
ho may bound to heights toward which many
men have been struggling for years. A pro
session opens before him. He is established
in the law. His friends cheer him. Eminent
men encourage him. After awhile you may
see him standing in the American Senate, or
moving a popular assemblage by his o!o
quence, as trees are moved iu a whirlwind. 1
Some night he retires early. A fever is on
him. Delirium, like are kle-s charioteer,
seizes the reins of his intellect. Father and
mother stand by and see the tides of life
going out to tho great ocean. Tho 1 anquet
is coining to.an end. The lights of thought
and mirth and eloquence are being extin
gui-hed. Tho garlands aro snatched from
the brow. The vision is gone.
We saw the same thing on a larger scale
illustrated at the last war in this country.
Our whole nation had been sitting at a na
tional 1 anquet—North, South, East and
.West. What grain was there but wo crew
it on our hills? What invention was there
but our rivers must turn the new wheel and
rattle tho strange shutt'e.' What warm furs
but our traders must bring the n from
the Arctic? What fish but that our
nets must sweep them for the markets?
What music but it must sing in our 1
halls? What eloquence but it must
speak in cur Senates? Ho! to :the national
banquet, reaching from mountain to m nn
tain and from sea to sea! To prepare that
banquet the sheepfolds and tho aviaries of
tho country sent their best treasures. The
orchards piled up on the table their swe test
fruits. '1 ho presses burst oat with now wines.
Te >it at teat table camo the yeomanry of
New Hampshire, and the lumbermen of
Maine, and the tanned Carolinian from the
rice swamps, and the harvesters of Wisconsin,
and the West rn emigrant from the pirn s of
Oregon; and we were all brothres—br< thers
at a banquet. Suddenly the feast ended
What meant those mounds thrown up at
Chickahominy, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg,
South Mountain? What meant those golden
grain fields turned into a pasturing ground
for cavalry hor-es? What meant th * corn
fields gull io 1 with ihe wheels of tho heavy
supply train? Why those rivers of tears,
those lakes of blood? God was angry. Jus
tice must come. A handwriting on the wall!
Tho nation had been weighed and found
wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe to
the North! Woe to tho South! Woe to tho
East! Woo to the West! Death at the ban
quet!
4. I have also to learn from the sub je* t
that tho destruction of the viciojs and of
those who despise God will bo very sudden.
The wave of mirth ha 1 dashed to th i highest
point when that Assyrian army broke
through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, al
most always, comes tho doom of those who
despise God and defy tho 1 iw? (J men. How
was it at tho Deluge. Do you suppose it ;a
through a long northwestern storm, so that
people for days before were sure it was co n
mgf No: I suppose the morning was bright;
that calmness brooded on the waters; that
beauty sat enthrone 1 on the h its, when sud
denly the heavens burst and the mountains
sank like ant hors into the sea, that da Led
clear over the Amies and the Hi i.alaya<
The Red Sea was divi led. The Egy tians
tried to cross it. There could be no tian er.
The Israelites had ust gone through; -a here
jhey had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh,
it was such a beautiful walking place! A
pavement of timed sheila and pearls, and on
either side a great wall of water, solid.
There can bi no danger. Forward, great
host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals
and blow the trumpets of victory! After
them! We will tat h them yet and they shall
be destroyed. But the walls of solidified
vi ater begin to tremble. They rock. They ,
fall. The rushing waters! The shriek of I
drowning men! The.swimming of the war
horses in va n for the shore! The strewing
of the great host on the bottom of tho sea, or
pit bed by the angry wave on the b a h—a
nattered, bruised and loathsome wre'k! Bud
dcnly destruction came. Ono half hour ba
fo o they could not ha\ e believed it.
1 am just setting forth a fa t which you
have noticed a* well a< I. Ananias come* to
tho apo tie. Tho np<»st !o says: “Did you
soil th** lan I former much?” He says: “Yes.”
It was a lie. Dead! As qui ka* that!
Snnnhira, his wife, com sin “ i 1 you s*U
the lan I tor so in ich ” •• Yes.” It was a lie,
and quick as that >u? wasdea I! Gods judg
ments a e upon th »>o who despise and doty
Ejm. Th-y come suddenlv.
The des:roving angel went through Egypt.
Do yo i sup[M)se that any of the p<*op!i’ knew
that n? was coming.’ Did they hear th » flap
M h s great wings? No! No! Suddenly,
unoxpect<> Uy. he came.
Skilled s ortstnen do not like to shoot a
bird standing on a sprig nearby. It'they
Are sk lied, they pride themselves on taking
it on the wing, and they wait till it starts.
Death is an old sportsman, and ho loves to
take men flying under the very sun. He
loves to take them on the wing.
Ara there any hero who are unprepared
for the eternal world? Aro there any here
who I ave been living without God and with
out Hope? Let, me say to you that you had bet
ter accept of tho Lord Jesus Christ, lest snd
dnl v your last chance be gone. Tho lungs
will cease to breathe, tho lieart will stop.
The time will come when you shall go no
more to the office, or to the* store, <»• to the
shop. Nothing will l>e left but death, and
judgment, and eternity. (>h, flee to God this
hour! If there be one in this presence who
has wandered faraway from Christ, though
he may not have heard tho call of tho gospel
for many a year, I invite him now to come
and be saved. Flee from thy sits! Flee to
the stronghold of the gospel!
To- lay I invite you to a grander banquet
than any I have mentioned. My Lord, the
King, is the banqueter. Angels are tho cup
bear rs. All the redeemed are the guest*.
The halls of eternal love, frescoed with light,
and | avtsl with joy. and curtained with un
fadin ; beauty, are tho ban [noting place. Tho
harmonies of eternity are the mu<i *. Tho
chalices of heaven are the [ late; and I am
one of tho servants coming out with both
hands filled with invitations, scattering them
everywhere; and of that, for yourselves, you
might break the seal of the invitation and
read the words written in red ink of blood
by the tremulous hand of a dying Christ:
“Come now, for all things are ready.”
After this day has rolled by and the night
has come, may you have rosy sleep guarded
by Him who never slumbers! May you
awake in the morning strong and well! But.
oh, art thou a despiser of God? Is the coni
ing night tho last night on earth? Shouldest
thou be awakened in the night by some
thing, thou knowest not what, and there be
shadows floating in the room, and a hand
writing on the wall, and you feel that your
last hour is come, and there be fainting at
the heart, and a tremor in tho limb, and a
catching of the breath—then thy doom
would be but an echo of the words of my
text: “In that night was Belshazzar, the
King of tho Chaldeans, slain.”
THE HAWAIIAN VOLCANO.
An Immense Flow of I.ova—A Brilliant
Spectacle.
“The day we celebrate,” was duly
honored by Madame Peele, she pouring
out great volumes of liquid lava in her
favorite home—Halemaumau. A party
of us went down to the edge of the lake in
the crater of Halemaumau, and were much
struck with the increase in its size since
June 29. Then the surface of the lake
was about 435 feet in diameter from
north to south and 225 feet from east to
west.. These measurements were made
by counting the steps of the guide, who
ran across the thin black crust of the
lake in two directions noted, and calcu
lated that he covered three feet at each
step. We found that this comparatively
smooth surface had been raised about
ssventy-five feet above the former level,
its original dimensions and form being
preserved intact, while all around its
edge numerous flows of lava had filled in
the space between it and the surrounding
slopes of the crater.
The central position was still some
twenty-five feet above the edge on which
we stood, and from the under surface of
this smooth, black table-like crater there
poured out two grand rivers of lava.
The liquid matter flowed down in a mag
nificent stream, about forty feet in width,
into the low portion of the basin filling
it to near the level of the middle portion.
The vent from which the lava poured out
was formed by an immense slab being
lifted up bodily, and forming a gaping
mouth out of which gushed the bright
red lava like a torrent of water. This
stream as it flowed down was cooled at a
short distance from its visible source, so
as to appear in the bright noonday sun of
a glistening satiny blackness. At the
same time the cooling of the surface re
tarded its flow, so that it “gartered” it
self, as it were, in narrow, smooth folds
arranged in parallel curved lines across
tkc surface of the flow. As the stream
widened in its course this cooled surface
thickened ami was forced into contorted
folds and wrinkles. These would be
come enlarged by the pressure of the li
quid lava beneath, which finally burst
through the lower edge or face of the
told, and then rolled out again in slow
moving streams of a rich red color.
The heat was very great from the mov
ing masses, and it was with some diffi
culty that wc approached near enough to
get out, on long poles, lumps es the
partly cooled lava, and the imbedded
loins in them. The display of light and
illumination of the clouds at night over
the west pit has been very fine at times
during the last week.— CunHtitution.
Appreciating the Occasion.
The other evening a patrolman found a
well diessed woman sitting in an open
ballway next door to a marble shop, and
thinking she might be a stranger iu
troubl ■, he accostci her with:
“Anything wrong, madam?”
She came out to him and replied:
“No, sir—netting wrong. I’m wait
for my husband.”
“And he—?”
“He is in the marble shop figuring on
a tomb tone.”
“And you don't want to go in on ac
count of the gloomy surroundings?”
“The gloomy surroundings wouldn't
affect me at all, sir, but I hope I know
whit belongs to the proprieties. lb’s
in there figuring on a tombsone for his
first wife, who's b en dead three y-ars,
but I presume you can appreciate the oc
casion?'’
“Certainly, ma’am. Sit right down
?u the stairs and if any of the boys
bother you 111 raise lumps on their
heads.”— Detroit Free Drees.
H’s Future Assured.
“I gue.s Im p ’etty s ife abo it going t°
Heaven,” remarked Bobby to young .Ur
Fcatherly.
Mr. I eatherly replie 1 that h ■ earnes ly
hoped so, and then inquired why Bobby
felt so confident a’>out the matter.
“B cause,” evpl linrd Bobby, “ma says
that it ain’t safe t > trust me where
there's a fire.”— N u> York Hun.
CLIPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS.
Tho cost of running a locomotive is
said to be a little more than twenty cents
a mile.
It is thought that a dozen shots from
the new German bomb, charged with
dynamite shells, would destroy tho
strongest fortifications in the world.
The Chinaman is very fond of dross,
and, though sometimes dirty in his hab
its, is scrupulously clean in his person.
His religion enjoins vegetarianism and
cleanliness.
In the National Museum at Washing
ton there is a pipe that belonged to John
Brown and the rifle taken from Jefferson
Davis when he was captured. They aro
labelled “the beginning and the end of
the war.”
Cultivation has so affected tho tomato
that the seeds are fast disappearing and
bid fair to pass out of existence entirely,
as in the case of the banana, leaving the
propagation of the plant dependent on
cuttings.
A dweller on the banks of the Codorus
in Pennsylvania ties short lines with
baited fishhooks to the legs of his geese
and drives them into the water. The
fish bite and jerk tho lines, and then
the frightened geese hurry to shore,drag
ging the fish after them.
A moonlight mirage was lately wit
nessed in Illinois. The moon was shin
ing brightly, but a dense fog hung over
the flat lands near St. Joseph, and the
passengers iu a railroad train saw a phan
tom train suspended in the air under the
fog bank. The apparition was visible
for several minutes.
Fifty years ago the boys had a very
hard time of it. There were no furnaces
in the house and few stoves, bedrooms as
cold and colder than barns nowadays;
warming pans for bed at night in con
stant use, as the bed clothes were like
two cakes of ice. Washing was done by
first breaking through tho ice found in
the pitchers over night. All cooking
was done by wood fires, and tho wood
had to cut by the boys.
Fats mid Frauds.
Some persons have assumed that be
cause butter-substitutes have been pre
pared so skilfully that persons could not
tell the real from the false butter when
placed side by side, therefore the false is
as wholesome as the true. The real
point is the question of relative digesta
bility of the animal fats, tallow and
lard, as compared with milk-fats or but
ter. The digestibility is to be consid
ered not from the standpoint of robust
and vigorous men like miners and lum
bermen, but from the standpoint of
those who consume but little fat except
butter, namely, women and children.
A Russian may make a light supper of
half-a-dozen tallow candles, and an Es
quimaux may swallow pound after
pound of train blubber, but these facts
would give little assistance in arranging
a dietary for the refined and delicate.
Milk-fats tire the most easily digested of
all known fatly bodies, with the possi
ble exception of fresh olive oil.
If tallow and lard separately are dif
ficult of digestion by delicate persons,
will a mixture of these, to constitute 60
to 75 per eent. of a compound, no matter
how thoroughly disguised, acquire such
an increase of digestibility as to place
them on a par with the milk-fats? If
not, then their sale as butter is a fraud,
and a damage to the public health.
The question does not lie between clean
animal fats and rotten butter. No one
advocates the use of the latter; tho
point is between good butter and good
biitterine. If the latter is as good as
butter, why is it palmed off on an unsus
pecting public as “choice creamery?”
At present prices, and selling under
fraud, the bogus butter butchers can
afford to use clean tallow and lard for
this manufacture. But when competi
tion has brought down these substitutes,
how are the public to know how much
cholera-hog and diseased-steer rnay en
ter into this “choice creamery” process?
—Dr. 11. C. Kelzie.
A Diff-rence of Opinion.
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“No, madam, I do not, he replied
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“Oh, I beg your pardon, I thought
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A Gi eai Composer.
“No, doctor,” said ti.c musical critic,
who had been discussing the develop
ment of the divine art in America,
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country.”
“I beg pardon, sir but I believe we
have one great composer."
“The name, please?”
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