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THE ROYAL GARDEN.
.flEV. DR. TALMAGE TALKS OF THa
FLOWERS OF THE CHURCH.
Wrens a Far Lana. the Great Brooklyn
Divine Sessile His Conception of the work
of the oreat oardener—An Oasis I» a
Desert of Sin.
Buomerer, July 1. —Rev, Dr. Telmage,
who is now nearing Australia on his round
'the world journey, hae seleeted as the sub-
ject for his sermon through the press to.
day, "The Ruyal Garden," the text being
'taken from aolomon's Song v, 1, "I am
come into my garden."
The world has had a great many Wanti.
ul gardens. Charlemague added to the
glory of his reign by decreeing that they
be established all through the realm—de-
creeing even the names of the fiowers to be
planted there. Henry 117, at Montpellier,
astablished gardeus ue bewitching beauty
and luxuriance. One of the sweetest spots
on earth was the garden of Shenstone, the
.poet. His writiugs have made but little
impression on the world, but his garden,
"The Leasowes," will be immortal. Arbor
and terrace and slope and rustic temple
,and reservoir ad urn and fountain here
•had their crowning. Oak and yew and
'hazel put forth them richest foliage. There
was no life more deligent, no soul more
ingenious than that of Shenstone, and all
that diligence and genius were brought to
the adornment of that oue treasured spot
He gave £800 for it. He sold it for £17,-
4000.
And yet I am to tell you of a richer
garden than any I have mentioned. It is
tbe garden spoken of iu my text, the gar-
den of the (March, which belongs to
Christ, for my text says so. He bought it,
he planted it, he owns it, and he shall have
it. Walter Scott, in his outlay at Abbots-
ford, ruined his fortune. And now in the
crimson flowers of those gardens you can
.almost think or imagine that you see the
blood of that old men's broken heare The
payment of that last £100,000 sacrificed
him. But I have to tell you that Christ's
life and Olerist's death were the outlay of
this beautiful garden of the church of
'which nay text speaks. Oh, how many
sighs and tears and pangs and agonies!
Tell me, ye women who saw him hang!
'Tell me, ye ezeoutioners who lifted him
and let him down! Tell me, them sun
•that didst hide ye rooks that fell! "Christ
loved the church aud gave himself for it."
If, then, the garden of the church belongs
• to Chrise certainly he has a right to walk
In it. Come, then, 0 blessed Jesus, this
morning, walk up and down these aisles
sand pluck what thou wilt of sweetness for
sthyself.
The church, in my text, is appropriately
compared to a garden. because it is a place
• of choice flowers, of select fruits and of
.thorough irrigation.
.. That would be a strange garden in which
there were no flowers. If nowhere else,
they will be along the borders or at the
,gateway, The homeliest taste will dictate
something, if it be the old fashioned holly-
hock or dahlia or daffodil or coreopsis' but
Af there be larger meads then you willfind
the Mexican cactus and dark veined arbu-
aelion and blazing azalea and clustering
,oleander. Well, now, Christ comes to his
garden, and he plants there some of the
brightest spirits that ever flowered upon
the world. Some of them are violets un-
sonspiouous, but sweet in heaven. You
have to search for such spirits to find them.
You. do not see them very often perhaps,
but you find where they have been by the
ebrightening face of the invalid, and the
aprig of geranium on the stand, and the
'window curtains keeping out the glare of
•the sunlight. These Christians in Christ's
garden are not like the sunflower, gaudy
In the light, but whenever darkness hovers
eiver a soul that needs to be comforted
'there they stand, night 'blooming cereuses.
But in Christ's garden there are plants
that may be better compared to the Mexi-
ean cactus thorns 'without, loveliness
within—meu with sharp points of chafed.
ter. They wound almost everyone that
touches them. They are hard to handle.
,Men pronounce them nothing but thorns,
but Christ loves them, notwithstanding all
their sharpmesses, Many a man has had
Tery hard ground to culture, and it has
only been through severe toil he has raised
.orven the smallest crop of grace.
• A very harsh minister was talking with
a very plaid elder, and the placid elder
said to the very harsh minister, "Doctor,
I do wish that you would control
your temper." "Ala," said the
minister to the elder, "I control more
temper in five minutes than you do in five
years." It is harder for some men to do
eight than for others to do right. The
.grace that would elevate you to the seventh
'heaven might not keep your brother from
knocking a man down. I had a friend
:who came to me and said, dare not join
the church." I said, "Why?" "Oh," he
said, "I have such a violent temper. Yes-
terday morning I was crossing very early
at the Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milk-
man pour a large amount of water into the
milk can, and I said to him, think that
will do,' and he insulted me, and I knocked
him down. Du you think I ought to join
4he church?" Nevertheless that very same
Imam who was so harsh in his behaviour,
loved Christ and could not speak without
tears of emotion and affection. Thorns
without, but sweetness within—the best
specimen of Mexican cactus I ever saw.
• There are other plants in Christ's garden
'who are alwaye ardent, always radiant,
always impressive—more like the roses of
deep hue that we occasionally find called
"giants of battle." You find a great
many roses in the gardens, but only a few
"giants of battle." Men say, "Why don't,
you have more of them in the church.?" I
say, "Why don't you have in the world
move Napoleons and Humboldts and Well-
engtons?" God gives to 801310 ten talents,
to another one.
In the garden of the church, which
Christ has planted, I also find the snow-
drops, beautiful but cold looking, seem-
ly another phase of the winter. I
an those Christians who are precise in
eir tastes unirapassioned, pure as
owdrops and as cold. They never shed
y tears; they never get exalted; they
ver say anything rashly; they never do
ything precipitately. Their pulses neyd
tier; their nerves never twitch; their
'petition never boils over. They live
'er than most people, but their life is
minor key. • They never run up to
above the staff. In the musics of their
they they have no staccato passages,
it planted them in the Miura, and
must be of some service, or they
tot be there. Snowdrops, always
rope.
, I have hot told you of the most
ful flower in all this garden spoken
he text. If you see a "ceetury
" your (mottoes are started. You
Why this flower has been a Mildred,
tethering up for one bloom, and it
a hundred yeah( snore before other
ill come out." But I have to tell
you a a pleat that Was gathering up frolei
all eteruity, and that 1,900 years ago put
forth its bloom neve]: to wither; It is the
passion fiewer of the cross! Prophets fore-
told it: Batineliem shepherds looked upon
it in Jud; the recite shools at its burst-
ing, fer.the dead got tip in their wiuding
Bheetejesewits full bloom, It ia a crimson
floweeLblneid at the roots, blood on the
branches, blood on all the leaves. Its per-
fume is to fill all the stations. Its touch
is life, Its breath is heaven. Come 0
winds ft= the north, and winds from the
south, and winds from the east, and winds
from the west, and bear to all the earth
the sweet smelling savor of Christ, my
Lord,
Again, the char& may be appropriate-
ly compared to a garden, because it ie a
plaee of select fruits. That would be a
strange garden which had in it no berries,
no plums, no peaches, no apricots. The
coarser truits are planted in the orchard
or they are set out on the sunny hilleide,
but the choicest fruits are kept in the gar-
den.
So in the world outside of the ehuroh
Christ has planted a great many beautiful
.things—patience, oharity, generosity, in-
tegrity—but he intends the choicest fruits
to bo in the garden, and if they are not
there then shame on the church. Religion
is not a mere flowering, sentimentality. It
is a practical, life giving, healthful fruit—
not posies, but apples. "Oh," says some-
body, "1 don't see what your garden of
the church has yielded." Where did your
asylums come from, and your hospitals,
and your institutions of mercy? Christ
Planted every one of then. He planted
them in his garden. When Christ gave
sight to Barduseus, he laid the cornerstone
of every blind asylum. that has ever been
built. SWIaen Christ suotbed the deraoniao
of Gelilee, he laid the cornerstone of every
lunatic asylum that has ever been estab-
lished. When Christ said to the sick man,
"Take up thy bed and walk," he laid the
cornerstone of every hospital the world
has ever seen. When Christ said, "I was
in prison, and ye visited me," he laid the
cornerstone of every prison reform associa-
tion that has ever been formed. The
church of Christ is a glorious garden, and
it is full of fruit. I know there is some
poor fruit in it. I know there are some
weeds that cught to have been thrown
over the fence. I know there are some
wild grapes that ought to be uprooted, but
are you going to destroy a whole garden
because of a little gnarled fruit? I admit
there are men and women in the church
who ought not to be there, but let us be
just as frank and admit the fact that there
hundreds and thousands and tens of thou-
sands of glorious Christian men and women
holy, blessed, useful, conseorated and tri-
umphant. There is no grander collection
in all the earth, Man the collection of
Christians.
There are Christian men in the churoh
whose religion is not a matter of Psalm
singing and church going. To -morrow
morning that religion will keen them just
as consistent and consecrated ou "ex-
change" as it ever kept them at the com-
munion table. There are women in the
church of a higher type of character than
Mary of Bethany. They not only sit at
the feet of Christ, but they go out into the
kitchen to help Martha in her work, that
she may sit there too. There is a woman
who has a drunken husband, who has ex-
hibited more faith and patience and cour-
age than Hugh Latimer in the fire. He
was consumed in twenty minutes. Hers
has been a twenty years' martyrdom.
Yonder is a man who has lain fifteen
years on hie back, unable even to feed him-
self, yet calm and. peaceful as though he
lay on one of the green banks of heaven,
watching the oarsmen dip their paddles in
the crystal river! Why, it seems to me
this moment as if Paul threw to us a pom-
ologist's catalogue of the fruits growing in
this great garden of Christ—love, joy,
peace, patience, charity, brotherly kind-
ness, gentleness, mercy—glorious fruit,
enough to fill all the baskets of earth and
heaven.
I have not told you of the better tree in
this garden and of the better fruit. It
was planted just outside Jerusalem a good
while ago. When that tree was planted,
it was so split and bruised and barked
men said nothing would ever grow upon
it, but no sooner had that tree been plant-
ed than it budded and blossoneed and
fruited, and the soldiers' spears were only
the clubs that struck down that fruit, and
it fell into the lap of the nations, and men
began to pick it up and eat it, and they
found in it an antidote to all thirst, to all
poison, to all sin, to all death—the small-
est cluster larger than the famous one of
Eshool, which two men carried on a staff
between them. If the one apple in Eden
killed the race, this one cluster of mercy
shall restore it.
Again,;the church in my text is appro-
priately called a garden because it is thor-
oughly irrigated: No garden could prosper
long without plenty of water. I have seen
& garden in the midst of a desert, yet
blooming and luxuriant. All around was
dearth and barrenness, but there were
pipes, aqueducts reaching from this gar-
den up to the mountains, and through
those aqueducts the water came streaming
down and tossing up into beautiful faun.
tains until every root and leaf and flower
was saturated. That is like the chureh.
The church is a garden in the midst of a
great desert of sin and suffering. It is
well irrigated, for "our eyes are unto the
hills, from whence cometh our help."
You know the beauty of Versailles and
Chatsworth depends very much upon the
great supply of water. I came to the lat-
ter place one day when strangers are not to
be admitted, but by an inducement. which
always seemed as applicable to an English-
man as an American, I got in, and then
the gardener went far up above the stairs
of atone and turned on the water. I saw
it gleaming on the dry pavement, coming
down from step to step, until it came so
near I could hear the musical rush, and all
over the high, broad stairsit came foam-
ing, fleshing, roaring down until sunlight
and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at
my feet So it is with the church of God.
Everything comes from above—pardon
from above, joy from above, adoption from
above, santkeation from above. Oh, that
now God would turn on the waters of
salvation that they might flow down
through this heritage, and that this day we
might each fiud our places to be "Elias,"
With twelve wells of water and threasore
and ten palm trees.
Hark, I hear the Well at the garden
gate, and X look to see who is coining!
hear the voice of Christ, "I am come into
my garden." I say: Coins in, 0 Jesus;
we have been waiting for thee. Walk all
through these paths. Look at the flowers;
look at the fruit Pluok that which thou
wilt for thyself." Jesus comes into the
garden ad up to that old man and
toilettes him and says: "Almost home, fa
-
then Not many more aches or thee, I
will never leave the. I will never forsake
thee. Take courage a little longer, and
will steady thy tottering steps, and I will
eoothe thy tronblea and glee thee rest,
Courage, old man Then Christ goes up
another garden path, arid he comes to a
soul in trouble and says; "Peace; all is
well! I have seen thy tears; X have heard
thy Prayer. The sun shell not mate thee
by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord
shall preserve thee from all evil, /le Will
preserve thy soul, Courage, 0 troubled
spirit!" Then 1800 Jesus going up au.
other garden petit, and I see great excite.
theta alrlOng the leaves, and I hasten up
that garden path to see what Jee0e,i8 do-
ing there, and, lo, he is breaking off flow-
ers, sharp and, clean, from the stein, and I
say, "Stop, Jesus; don't kill those beauti-
ful flowers," He turns to me and says:
"I have come into my garden to gather
lilies, and I mean to take these up to a high-
er terrace and for the garden around my
palace, and there I will plant them and in
better soil and in better air. They shall
put forth brighter leaves and sweeter redo-
lence, and no frost shall touch them for-
ever," And I looked into his face and
said, "Well, it is his garden, and he has
a right to do what he will with it. Thy
will be done" --the hardest prayer a men
ever made.
I notice that the ftne gardens sometimes%
have high fenaes around. them, and I cats -
not get ia. It is so with the king's garden.
The only glimpees you ever get ot such a
garden is when the king rides out in his
splendid carriage. It is not so with this
garden—the king's garden, I throw wide
open the gate and tell you all to come in.
No monopoly in religion. Whosoever will
may.
Oh, ye weary souls, come iuto Christ's
garden to -day and pluck a little beartseasel
Christ is the only rest and the
only pardon for a perturbed spirit.
Do you not think your chalice has almost
come? You men and women who have
been waiting year after year for some good
opportunity in which to accept Christ, but
have postponed it 5, 10, 20, 80 years, do
yon not feel as if now your hour of deliver-
ance and pardou and salvation had come?
Oh, man, what grudge haat thou against
thy poor soul that thou wilt not let it be
saved? I feel as if salvation must come
now to some of your hearts.
Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In
that lifeboat the passengers and crew were
getting ashore. The vessel had foundered
and was sinking deeper and deeper, and
that orie boat could not take the passengers
very swiftly. A little girl stood on the
deck waiting for her turn to get into the
boat. The boat came and went—canie
and went—but her turn did not seem to
come. After awhile she could wait no
longer, and she leaped on taffrail and then
sprang into the sea, crying to the boatman:
"Save me next! Saveme next!" Oh, how
many have gone ashore into God's mercy,
and yet you are clinging to the wreck of
sin! Others have accepted the pardon of
Christ, but you are in peril. Why not
this morning make a rush for your im-
mortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall hear
you and heaven and earth ring with the
cry: "Save me next! Save me next!"
A NEGLECTED GRAVE.
it Contains the Dust of a Man to Whom
Napoleon Bowed.
An exchange calls attention to the con-
dition of the tomb of William H. Craw-
ford, which is in an old field near Lexing-
ton, Ga., and is unmarked by any sort of
monument to call attention of passers-by
to the great Georgian who came very neass
being the President of the United Statess,
and was the only man to whom Napoleon
1. felt constrained to bow. Mr. Crawford
was at one time Minister to the Court of
Napoleon, apd the impression that he made
there is described as simply tremendous.
Wiaen he entered the Court, with his lofty
bearing and his tall, impressive figure,
decorated for the first time with the ap-
parel of his high commission as the Amer-
ican Minister to the Court, he was received
with the utmost demonstration.
The Emperor was deeply impressed. He
avowed that Mr. Crawford was the only
man to whom he had ever been constrained
to bow, and on that occasion he over-
stepped the custom and made a repetition
of his courtesy. Fasbioned in a gigantic
mold, Mr. Crawford was one of the hand-
somest men that ever lived. He was a man
of great talent and of intellectual super-
iority. He was recognized as the equal of
any of his adversaries in the highest coun-
cils of the laud, and as a caudidate for the
highest office in the nation's gift he wail
defeated by only a small majority. And
yet Georgians have such little veneration
for the dead as to ignore the ashes of this
great man and to leave them unrecorded
in an old field.—New Orleans Picayune.
A Crank Indeed.
An extraordinary bicycle record has re.
candy been made in England, Where a man
pedaled from the Land's End to Jehn
O'Groat's in eighty-six hours and fifteen
minutes. He is said to have experieneed
little fatigue, and to have seemed little the
worse for his remarkable exertions, al-
though he was three days, fourteen hours
and fifteen minutes without sleep, and
without rest except for a few brief pauses.
By his rapid riding he cut nine hours and
forty minutes from the previous record.—
that is all. To some minds this will, of
course, seem a feat worth accomplishing,
though not the slightest practical advan-
tage will result from it, any more than
from a voyage in a boat through the Whirl-
pool Rapids. If a man should drive a
horse that distance in that length of time
he would be liable to arrest for cruelty to
animals. It is a queation how far a man haa
a right to be cruel to himself and shorten
his life, as one must who indulges haviolent
and prolonged exertions. That excellent
authority, The Lancet, thinks there is no
doubt that such rapid riding is extremely
injurious in its effect on the heart.—New
York Tribune.
For eindert in the Eye.
When traveling you should always carry
a tiny box of flaxseed for possible cinders.
The instant that you feel a foreign sub-
stance in the eye throw your head back and
drop two or three flaxseeds on the ball of
tee eye, and lift the upper lid and draw it
down over them so as to hold them in.
Then go about your business, There is ab-
solutely no disagreeable sensation attaohed
to putting the seed in, and the relief will
come blatantly. The theory is that the
moisten of the eye dampens the seed and
it gives out a mucus sabstance which
spreads over the eye and covers the grit.
After awhile the seeds will begin to work
oat, and will bring the offending partible
with them.
At the Circus.
"Well," reniarked the royal Bengal tiger
trout his cage as he observed the elephant
reach up to the top of a wagon and get an
apple, "if I had to put hp my trunk for
my board, I don't think I'd let everybody
know it."
"Don't you worry about me," retorted
the elephant with eharacteristie bonhomie;
"ra a blamed eight rather put my trunk
up for it than have no trunk, and get it
by wearing stripes," and the royal Ben-
gali withdrew to the farthest corner of his
«ill where he might not her the elephant
TlIE GREAT STRIKE.
Ominous Isoesi lininors‘
It was WhiSPored around an1014 the
employes of the Grand TrllIlk •on TtleS-
day thee the switehmea Were to be or-
diVed d°IitiptonWielidlinneindgaY2infiltrahearmeaPraan
in
a -
The switchmen, when asked if such
was the case, would not say that such
was the case; they gave it to be plamly
understood that it was only a question of
time till they would be called. upon to
take a hand in the great fight. • The sec-
retary of the Switchmen's Matual Aid
Assomation said that the men had been
talking about striking, bat he added that
they eould not strike without forfeiting
their charter. They do not belong to the
American Railway Union.
It is greatly feared, however, that it
will not be long before a strike will be
ordered all along the line elf the Grand
Trunk.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is not
affected by the strike in any way, as they
own all their own sleeping ears.
FAtaroiDES CLOSING,
A number of 'factories in Chicago have
been obleged. to close fonthe want of goal
and several breweries have (dosed for the
same reason. Hard coal is also getting
very scarce, and unless the trouble.is
soon over the street pars and elevated
railway cars 'will. have to be steamed.
Tnesday, for the first day in the history
of the live see.* trade in Chicago, not a
single carload of animals reached the
'Union. Stock Yards by rail. Not one
steer, sheep or hog erriv,ed. by men e of
steam transportation. The thousands of
packing house employes and other work-
men who go to make up the population
of packing town were made idle as thor-
oughly and suddenly as though all had
quit at a given signal. The Michigan
Central tried to make up and start a
train load of dressed beef Tuesday night.
The trainmen abandoned the ears With
scant notice, and the beef was left to rot
on the tracks in the yards.
UNITED STATES AID.
U. S. Distriet-Attorney Mitchrist, At-
torney Edward Walker and U. S. Judge
Grosscup decided Monday to call forFed-
eral aid. A telegram ' was acaordingly
eent at once to Attorney -General Olney
asking for regular troops for Blue Island
road.
A NEW DIFFICULTY.
A new diffioulty is presented by the re-
fusal of the engineers and firemen to risk
their lives by working with green hands,
and it is also doubtless true that the rail-
road managers themselves are not very
anxious to mime thefighting. They also
say that a suspension of business at this
time is not an unmitigated event. "We
are taking things very easy," said one
of them. "We know very well that the
freight is in the coantry and must be
moved sooner or later, and, as all the
roads are involved in this thing, itinvekes
no difference to us when the freight is
moved, as we shall ultimately get our
share of it. If any one or more of the
roads was free from disturbance it might
to' the sest of us of one share, but we
are all acting together, and this question
has got to be settled sooner or later, and
we feel it might as well be now as ever.
We are perfectly willing that the public
shall suffer enough inconvenience to en-
able it to fully realize what the strike
means. It will not be long before the
inconvenience resulting from this sus-
pension will be felt very keenly every-
where, and then we believe public senti-
ment will be a great factor in the extine-
don of Debs and his people. We believe
this is a much wiser way to settle these
troubles than would be an attempt to
force the thing and endanger the lives of
a large number of faithful men."
The price of provisions is advancing
very rapidly, and the hotels, restaurants
and. private lamilies are feeling it very
keenly. Fruit, ice and all perishable
provisions are commanding very high
prices, and, indeed, are now regarded as
a itiziirDNYAR. BORN STATION MEN OUT.
All railroad employes in the Dearborn
station, Chicago, have quit work, and the
oie-up es complete on six roads entering
that station.. These are the Grand Trank,
Erie'Wabash, Eastern Illinois, Santa Fe
e,nd Monne. A mob sweeping order was
telegraphed over the entire Northwestern
system Monday. It will throw one of
employment 10,000 men. It is intended
to strike from the pay -roll during the
continuation of the strike every man
who is not absolutely necessary for the
dispatch of what business the company
would be able to handle.
mere TRAMS MUST MOVE.
Assistant United States District At-
torney Wilkins, of Detroit, received a
telegram from United States Attorney -
General Olney telling him to see that the
United States mail trains stalled at
Battle Greek, owing to the strike of the
railroad mon, are moved. The order is
a very strong one, and orders the trains
muved if it takes all the power of the
United Stases to do it. The order will be
put in execution by means of legal pro-
cessee. All who attempt to obstruct the
lineage of the trains carrying the United
States snail will be arrested on warrants.
THE DEFECT AT WDIDSOR.1
The effect of the Pallman sbrike has
reached Windsor, and, although the
Canadian trainmen have not struck, nor
are thoy likely to strike, yet over =o-
beli of them iind themselves thrown out
of work. A visit to the different railroad
stations in. Windsor Tuesday morning
showed that at two of them there was
little or no bueineves being done. Those
were the Grand Trunk and the Canadian
Pacsia e.
DETROIT SWITCHMEN OUT.
• All the switchmett ern eloyed in the
Un ton. Station yards, Detroit, have
struek, The Detroit, Lensing Se North-
ern. and Flint & Pere Marquede trains
are being operated nearly on eircte, how-
ever, being intadled by train men. The
Webasile is tied up. Canadian Pacifio
peseengere are tont, direeb to the car feta
ries and taken across the river. Miceli-
gan Central oraing up to noon were run-
ning as tuna]; also the Grand Trunk and
D., Cf. & ete.
A LEADER ARRESTED.
Edward F. Phelan, leader of the strike
at Clucinuati, was arrested Tuesday
morning upon a warrant issued by the
U. S. (kart u.pou the complaint of the
Oineinnani Sonhhern Reilroad receiver,
Samuel Felton..
MORE SERIOUS AT WINNIPEG,.
The Norehern Nellie strike Situation
at Winnipea la growing more seriotis,
Triesday night a Northern Pacifte train
was brought in by non -anion men, who,
having been threatened with violenee,
were guarded by police and by theist es-
corted safely to their hotel. Non-union
men also took otit Wednesday's south
trein, wheels was sareountled ley a orowd
a hooting ma jeering Strikers, but so
strongly gmarded by polices that no vio-
Immo was resorted to. Sapeeintendent
Vanderslice, alarmed at the threatening
aspect, has called on the authorities for
proteetion, •and. a number of special
policemen were sworn in at Government
buildings to protect Northern Pecific,
property,
COAL AND IEAT FAMINE.
Dubuque, Iowa, is threatened with a
eoal and meat fernine. There is less than
a week's supply on hand, and unless coal
is received soon factories will have to
suspend, thus adding thousands to the
idle men now there.
• STRIKERS ARRESTED.
Robert O'Kelf and J. B. Rogers, both
leaders among the strikerswere arrested
Wednesday at Jalue island, for 'making
threats, O'Keif resisted and severely
pounded Deputy Marshal Kohl, but was
overpowered and locked up. A large
number of arrests were made and the
strikers were much ineensed at the whole-
sale locking up of their leaders.
TRAINS ON TUE 1M0VID.
Trains began to move at Blue Island
on Wednesday afternoon under the pro-
teotion of United States troops and were
not molested, though carrying Pullraan
cars and sleepers.
Homing Powers of the Cat.
. That a oat can come home in the face
of the most incredible difficulties its per-
fectly certain. Thas, to take a recent
instance, a, cat was taken from Toronto
to London, by way of Hamilton and St.
Thomas. It went in a basket by trann.to
Hamilton, where it was changed to the
St. Thomas train by way of Harrisburg,
and at St. Thomas was changed again
for Landon, arriving there about 7 o'clock
in the evening. Next morning the cat
was seen to run down the avenue of its
new home with a purposeful air. On the
fourth day it appeared at its old home on
D'Arcy street, Toronto. Now the ques-
tion is, How aid that catachieve its jour-
ney? Did it take a bee -line across the
country, and if SO, how did it know its
direction? How did it cross the various
streams? The perils of a eat on the road
are innumerable. Every dog chases it,
and nearly every boy is ready with a
stone. Indeed, we never see a cat on its
travels. No doubt it runs at night.
There is the hypothesis that the cat re-
turned by train. If so, did it return by
the same route that was taken iri going
to London, changing at St. Thomas and
Hamilton? This route, which moms
reason in man, may not be beyond ahe
power and intelligence of a cat.
But all ways, _Mom the bee -line across
the country an. over revere and streams
or by train, are full of perplexities. That
the cat simply rode on. a broomstick be-
hind a witch is one hypothesis which
brings us into unfriendly contact 'With
modern ideas of progress. Somehow the
thing was done, and done in a very short
time. The cat was as well and sound as
usual on its return.. We may speak of
instinct and inherited aptitude, but to
find its own home is of no use to a cat in
a struggle for existence. Cats, much
more than dogs, are independent of a
home. They can take to the forest or
the green. Thus the cats which forten-
tously developed the power of "homing"
would. be no better off than other cats,
and not more fitted to survive and be-
queath their accomplishment to their
progeny. In face of these facts, our
boasted science is dumb. We know very
little about eats, but cats know a great
deal about us. Faculties of this kind
made the cat a mysterious power itt the
middle ages. He was roasted alive that
his unknown protector might come and
rescue him byuttering words of prophecy.
This very fact proves the existence of a
feline secret society which nobody stud-
ies, for we are all apt to neglect the facts
which underlie and inspire the truths
called superstitions. Cats have very
probably " an underground. railway."
-Viola's Applied Mathematics.
"Father, I would like to see you in the
library on a matter of business."
"Very well, Viola—come along. Now,
wh, ,art aisthietr?"
, you are aware that Henry
Noodenhammer has been paying me his
attentions for the last year ?'
"Yes, and I've felt like kicking him!
The idea of a Noodenhammer aspiring to
the hand of a Grafton I"
"He has asked. me to be his wife."
"The scoundrel! Why, I'll manl. tar
out of him."
I've almost promised," she pla-
cidly continued..
" What ! What! My daughter marry
a Noodenhammer working for $15 a week?
Never ! Go to your room while I seek
this base adven—"
"Father, I want to talk straight busi-
ness with you!" she interrupted. "As
you are aware, this is the State of Massa -
"Have you seen the vital statisticssof
this State for the last year?"
"No; oi course not. The idea of that
Jim Noodenhammer skulking around
here after my—"
"Wait! According to the statistics
this State has 871,240 more females than
males. There are 226,890 more marriage-
able girls than can find husbands, to say
nothing of 182,321 widows anxious for a
No. 2. The number of young men in the
State earning over $15 a week and in the
raarket is only 22,107. There are camped
on the trail of those young mon exactly
220,000 young women and 150,000 wid-
ows. Three out of every five born are
girls. Death removes two young men to
one married man or old baehelor."
The old inan turned pale and grasped a
chair for support, as the statistics filtered
into his mind.
After a pause she continued:
"From June to October over 80,000
marriageable young. women visit our
watering -places, and it is estimated that
31,412 of thorn catch husbands, thus fur-
ther reducing the ehances of it resident.
Father)take this pencil and figure out
your Viola's dunce of catching ;mother
Marl if she lets James IsTOOdenhammer
canter away."
"Groat Scott !" he gasped, figuring for
a moment. "Why1 your chances are
only one in 21,875,947."
"Just as T figured it out myself. What
shall I say to him this evening?'
" StLy ! Say! Why, tell him you'll
have him and be mighty glad of the
chance, and donle let him draw a long
breath before you add that the ceremony
Can take place right after breakfast to-
morrow morning and that I'm to give
you a wedding present of $5,000in cash."
A 'married woman is always wiser than
an unmarried woman ; but it is ofteri the
wisdom that comes from disappointment,
sorrow and disoontent.
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