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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-7-12, Page 3991,61.9.4.9.99,.9.4.9• • 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. 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