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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-25, Page 2AN ORPHAN CHRISTIAN, A IIEAUTIPUL JEWESS. 'Rev: Ar. Talma e's Superb Word Mo- tive from the text;a And he brought up Hadassah." — What Anyone a1uy Become Under Ohristian, Tatel:age. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his round -the -world tour; has selected as the subject of this week's sermon, through the press, "Hadassah," the text chosen being Esther 2 : 7 : " And he brought up Hadassah," A beautiful child a as born in the capi- tal of Persia. She was an orphan and a captive, her parents having been stolen from their Israelitishhome and earriedto Shushan, and had died, leaving their daughter poor and in a strange land. But an Israelite who had been carried into the same captivity was attracted by the ease of the orphan. He educated her in his holy religion, and under the roof of that good man this adopted child be- gan to develop a sweetness and excel- lency of character if ever equalled, cer- tainly never surpassed. Beautiful Ha- dassah ! Could that adopted father ever spare her from his household? Her art- lessness; her girlish sports; her inno- cence; her orphanage had wound them- selves thoroughly around his heart, just as around each parent's heart among us there are tendrils climbing., and fastening and blossoming and growing stronger. expect he was like others who have loved ones at home—wondering sometimes if sickness will Dome, and death, and be- reavement. Alas ! Worse than anything that the father expects happens to his adopted child. Ahasuerus, a princely scoundrel, demanded that Hadassah, the fairest one in all the kingdom., become his wife. Worse than death was mar- riage to such a monster of iniquity ! How great the change when this young wo- man left the home where God was wor- shipped and religion honored, to enter a palace devoted to pride, idolatry and sen- suality ! "As a lamb to the slaughter !" Ahasuerus knew not that his wife was a Jewess. At the instigation of the in- famous nfamous prime minister the king decreed that all the Jews in the land be slain. Hadassah pleads the cause of her people, breaking through all the rules of the court, and presenting herself in the very face of death, crying, "If I perish, I perish." Oh, it was a sad time among that enslaved people ! They had all heard the decree concerning their death. Sor- row, gaunt and ghastly, sat in. thousands of households, and mothers wildly pressed their infants to their breasts as the days of massacre hastened on, praying that the same sword -stroke which slew the mother might also slay the child, rose- bud and bud perishing in the same blast. But Hadassah is busy at court. The hard heart of the king is touched by her story. and although he could not reverse his decree for the slaying of the Jews, he sent forth an order that they should arm themselves for defense. On horseback, on mules, on dromedaries, messengers sped through the land bearing; the king's dispatches, and a shout of joy went up from that enslaved people at the faint hope of success. I doubt not many a rusty blade was taken down and sharp- ened. Unbearded youths grew stout as giants at the thought of defending mo- thers and sisters. Desperation strung up cowards into heroes, and fragile women, grasping their weapons, swung them about the cradles, impatient for the time to strike the blow in behalf of household and country. The day of execution dawned. Gov- ernment officials., armed and drilled, co wed before the battle shout of the op- pressed. people. The cry of defeat rang back to the palaces, but above the moun- tains of dead, above 75,000 crushed and mangled corpses sounded the triumph of the delivered Jews, and their enthusiasm was as when the Highlanders came to the relief of Lucknow, and the English army, which stood. in the very jaws of death, at the sudden hope of assistance and rescue, lifted the shout above belch- ing cannon and the death -groan of hosts, crying, "We are saved! We are saved!" My subjeet affords me opportunity of illustrating what Christian character may be under the greatest disadvantages. There is no Christian now exactly what he wants to be. Your standard is much higher than anything you have attained unto. If there be any man so puffed up as to be thoroughly satisfied with the amount of excellence he has already at- tained, I have nothing to say to such a one. But to those who are dissatisfied with past attainments, who are •toiling under disadvantages which are keeping them from being what they ought to be, I have a message from God. You eaeh ofyou labor under difficulties. There is something in. your temperament; in your worldly circumstances ; in your calling that acts powerfully against you. Admitting all this, I introduce to you Hadassah of the text, a noble Christian, notwithstanding the most gigantic diffi- culties. She whom you might have ek- pected to be one of the worst of women, is one of the best. In the first place, our subject rs an ill- ustration of what Christian character may be under orphanage. This Bible line tells a long story about Hadassah. "She had neither father nor mother," .A. nobleman had become her guardian, but there is no one who can take the place of a parent. Who is able at night to hear a child's prayer; or at twilight to chide youthful wanderings( or to soothe youth- ful sorrows? An individual will go through life bearing the marks of or- phanage. It will require more strength, more persistance, more grace, to make such an one the right kind of a Chris- tian. He who at forty years loses a parent must reel under the blow. Even down to old age men are accustomed to rely upon the counsel, or be powerfully influenced by the advice of parents, if they are still alive. But how much greater the bereavement when it comes in early life, before the character is self- reliant, elfreliant, and when naturally the heart is unsophisticated and easily tempted. And yet behold what a nobility of dis- position Hadassah exhibited ! Though father and mother were gone, grace had triumphed over all disadvantages. Her willingness to self-sacrifice ; her control over the king; her humility; her faith- ful worship of God, show her to have been of the best of the world's Chris- tians. There are those who did not enjoy rea markable early privileges. Perhaps, like the beautiful captive of the text, you were an oramhan. You had huge sorrows in your little heart. You sometimes wept in, the night when you knew not what was the matter. You felt sad some- times even on the playground. Your father or mother did not stand in the door to welcome you when you came home from a long journey. You still feel the effect of early disadvantages, and you have sometimes offered thein as a reason .for your not being as thoroughly relig- ious as you would like to be, But those excuses are not sufficient, God's grape will triumph if you seek it. He knows what obstacles you have fought against,. and the more trial the more help. After all, there are no orphans in the world, for the great God is the Father of us all. Again( our subject is an illustration of what religion may be under the pressure of poverty.. The captivity and crushed condition of this orphan girl, and of the. kind man who adopted her, suggest a condition of poverty. Yet from the very first acquaintance we had with Hadassah we find her the same happy and content- ed Christian. It was only by compulsion she was afterwards taken into a sphere of honor and affluence. In the: humble home of Mordecai, her adopted father, she was a light that illumined every priva- tion. In some period in almost every man's life there comes a season of strained circumstances, when the sever- est calculation and most scraping econo- my are necessary in order to subsist- ence and respectability. At the com- mencement of business, at the entrance of a profession, when friends are few and the world is afraid of you because there is a possibility of failure, many of the noblest hearts have struggled against poverty, and aro now struggling. To such I bear a messenger of good cheer. You say it is a hard thing for you to be a Christian. This constant anxiety, this unrosting calculation, wear out the buoyancy of your spirit, and although you have' told. perhaps no one about it, eaunot I tell that this is the very- trouble which keeps you from being what you ought to be ? You have no time to think about laying up treasures in heaven when it is a matter of great doubt whether you will be enabled to pay your next quarter's rent. You cannot think of striving after a robe of right- eousness until you can get meansenough to buy an overcoat to keep out the cold. You want the Bread of Life, but you think you must get along without that until you can buy another barrel of flour for your wife and children. Sometimes you sit down discouraged and almost wish you were dead. Christians in satin slippers, with their feet on damask otto- man, may scout at such a class of tempta- tions, but those who themselves have been in the struggle and grip of hard misfortune can appreciate the power of these evils to dissuade the soul away from religious duties. We admit the strength of the tempation, but then we point to Hadassah, her poverty equalled by her piety. Courage, down there in the battle ! Hurl away your disappoint- ment! Men of half your heart have, through Christ; been more than conquer- ors. In the name of God, come out of that ! The religion of Christ is just what you want out there among the empty flour barrels and beside the cold hearths. You have never told anyone of what a hard time you have had, but God knows it as well as you know it. Your easy times will come after awhile. Do not let your spirits break down in mid-life. What if your coat is thin? Run fast enough to keep warm.- What if you have no luxuries on your table? High expec- tations will make your blood tingle bet- ter than the best Maderia. If you can- not afford to smoke, you can afford to whistle. But merely animal spirits are not sufficient ; the power of the Gospel—. that is what you want to wrench despair out of the soul and put you forward into the front of the hosts incased in impene- trable armour. It does not require ex- travagant wardrobe, and palatial resi- dence, and dashing equipage to make a man rich. The heart right the estate is right. A new heart is worth the world's wealth in one roll of bank bills ; worth all sceptres of earthly power bound in one sheaf; worth all crowns expressed in one coronet. Many a man without a farth- ing in his pocket has been rich enough to buy the world out and have stock left for larger investment. It is not often that men of good habits come to positive beggary, but among those who live in comfortable houses all about you, among honest mechanics and professional men who never say a word. about it, there are exhibitions of heroism and endurance such as you may never have imagined. Those men who ask no aid ; who demand no sympathy ; who with strong arm and skilful brain push their own way through, are Hannibals scaling the Alps ; are Hercules slaying the lion; are. Moses in God's name driving back the seas. Hadassah with her needle has done braver things than. Caesar with a sword. Again, our subject illustrates what re- ligion may be when in a strange land, or far from home. Hadassah was a stranger in Shushan. Perhaps brought up in the quiet of rural scenes, she was now sur- rounded by the dazzle of a city. Heads as strong as hers had been turned by the transit from country to city. More than that, she was in a strange land. Yet in that loneliness she kept the Christianin- tegrity, and was as consistent among the allurements of Shushan as among the kindred of her father's house. Perhaps I address some who are now far away from the home of their fathers, You come ocross the seas. The sepulchres of your dead are far away. Whatever may be the comfort and adornment of your present home, you cannotforget the place of your birth, though it may have been lowly and unhonored. You often dream of your youthful days, and in silent twilight run off to the distant land and seem to see your forsaken home, just as it was when your people were all alive. Though you may have hundreds of friends around you, you often feel that you are strangers in a strange land. God saw the bitter partings when your families were scattered. He watched you in the ship's cabin floundering the stormy seas. He knew the bewilderment of your disembarkation on a strange shore, and your wanderings up and down this land have been under an eye that never sleeps, and felt by a heart that always pities. Stranger far from home, you have a companion in the beautiful Hadassah, as good in Shushan as in her native Jerusalerir. Indeed, very many of you are distant from the place of your nativity, Some of you may be pilgrims from the warm south, or from hardier climes than ours, from latitudes of deep- er snows and. sharper frosts, You have come down in these regions for purposes of thrift and gain. You. have brought your tents and pitched themhere, and you seldom now go baek again( except to visit the old building with wide streets and plenty of trees en some holiday. This is not the climate in which many of you were born. These mothers are not the neighbors who came to the oldhomestead to greet you into life. These churches are not those under the shadow of which your grandfather was buried. These are not the ministers of Christ who out of the baptismal font sprinkled your baby brow, Far away the kirk ! Far away the homestead ! Far away the town ! Have you formed habits which would not have seemed right in the placesand times of which we speak? Have you built an altar in your present abode ? Is the religion of olden time, once planted. in your heart, come up in glorious har- vest? Is your present home an eulogy upon that from which you were trans- planted? Then are ye worthy compan- ions of Hadassah, the stranger as holy in Shushan as in Jerusalem, Again, our subject illustrates what re- ligion may be under the temptation of personal attractiveness. The inspired record says of the heroine of my text, ;;She was fair and beautiful." Her very name signified, "A myrtle." Yet the ad- miration, and praise, and flattery of the world did not blight her humility. The simplicity of her manners and behavior equalled her extraordinary attractions. It is the same divine goodness which puts the tinge on the rose's cheek, and the whiteness into the lily, and the gleam on the wave, and that puts color in the cheek and sparkle in the eye, and majesty in the forehead, and symmetry into the form, and gracefulness into the gait. Bat many through the very charm of their personal appearance have been de- stroyed. What simperings, and affecta- tions, and impertinences have often been the result of that which God sent as a blessing. Japonicas, anemones and helio- tropes never swagger at the beauty which God planted in their very leaf, sepal, axil and stamen. There are many flow- ers that bow down so modestly you can- not see the color in their cheek until you lift up their head, putting your hand under their round. chin. Indeed, any kind of personal attractions, whether they be those of the body, the mind, or the heart, may become tempta- tions to pride, and arbitrariness, and foolish assumption. ' For the mythologi- cal story of a man who seeing himself mirrored, in a stream became so enamored of his appearance that he died of the ef- fects, illustrates the fatalities under which thousands of both sexes have fallen• by the view or their own superority. Ex- traordinary capacities causes extrordi- nary temptations. Men who have good moral health clown in the valley, on the top of the mountain are seized of con- sumption. Monimia, the wife of Mithri- dates,was strangled with her own diadem. While the most of us will have the same kind of temptation which Hadassah must have felt from her attractiveness of per- sonal appearance, there may be some to whom it will be an advantage to hold up the character of the beautiful captive who sacrificed not her humility and earnestness of disposition to the world's admiration and flattery. The chief secret of the beauty of the violet, is that away down in the grass from one week's end to another it never mistrusts that it is a violet. Again, our subject exhibits what re- ligion may be under bad domestic in- fluences. Hadassah was snatched from the godly home into which she had been adopted, and introduced into the abomin- able associations of wicked Ahasuerus was the centre. What a whirl of blas- phemy, and drunkenness, and licentious- ness ! No altar, no prayer, no Sabbath, no God ! If this captive girl can be a Christian there, then it is possible to be a Christian anywhere. There are many of the best people of the world who are obliged to contend with the most adverse domestic influences, children who have grown up into the love of God under the frown of parents, and under the discour- agement of bad example. Some sister of the family having professed the faith of Jesus is the subject of unbounded satire inflicted by brothers and sisters. Yea, Hadassah was not the onlyChristian who had a queer husband. It is no easy mat- ter to maintain correct Christian princi- ples when there is a companion disposed to scoff at them, and to ascribe every imperfection of ckaracter to hypocrisy. What a hard thing for one member of the family to rightly keep the Sabbath when others are disposed to inake it a day of revelry ; or to inculcate propriety of speech in the minds of children when there are others to ofset the instructions by loose and profane utterances ; or to be regularly in attendance upon church when there is more houshold work de- manded on the Lord's Day than for any secular day. Do I speak to any laboring under the blighting circumstances ? My subject is full of encouragement. Vast responsibilities rest upon you. Be faith- ful, as though you stand asruch alone as did Lot in Sodom, or Jeremiah in Jerusalem, or Jonah in Ninevan, or Ha- dassah in the court of Ahasuerus. There are trees which grow the best when their. roots clutch among the jagged rocks, and you verily have but poor soil in which to develop, but Grace is a thorough hus- bandman. and can raise a crop anywhere. Glassware is moulded over the fire, and in the same way you are to be flitted in a vessel of mercy. The best timber must have on it saw, and gouge, and beetle. The foundation -stone of yours and every house came out only under crowbar and blast. Files, and wrenches, and ham- mers belong to the Church. The Chris- tian viciory will be bright just in pro- portion as the battle is hot. Never despair in being a thorough Christian in any household which is not worse than the court of Ahasuerus. Finally, our subject illustrates what religion may be in high worldly position. The last we see in the Bible of Hadassah is that she has become the Queen of Per- sia. Prepare now to see the departure of her humility, and self-sacrifice, and re- ligious principle. As she goes up you may expect Grace to gown. It is easier to be humble in the obscure house of her adopted father than on a thorne of do- minion. But you misjudge this noble woman. What she was before, she is now—the myrtle. Applauded for her beauty and her crown, she forgets not the cause of her suffering, and with all simplicity of heart, still remains a wor- shipper of the God of heaven. Noble :examples followed only by a very few. T address some who, through the goodness of God, have risen to positions of influence in the community where you. live. In law, in merchandise, in medi- cine, in mechanics and in other useful occupations and professions you bold an influence for good, or for evil, Let us see whether, like Hadassah, you can stand elevation. Have you as much simplicity of character as once you evi- denced? Do you feel as much depend- ence upon God ; as much your own weak- ness ; as much your accountability for talents entrusted ? Or are you proud, and over -demanding, and ungrateful, and un- sympathetic, and worldly, and sensual, and devilish? Then you have boon spoiled by your sautes, and you shall not sit on this throne with the heroine of my text. In the day when Hadassah shall comp to the grander coronation, in the presence of Christ and the bannered hosts of the redeemed, you will bo poor indeed. Oh, there are thousands of men who can easily endure tobe knocked down of mis- fortune, who are utterly destroyed if lifted up of success. Satan takes them to the top of the pinnacle of the temple and shoves them off. Their head begins to whirl and they lose thou balance and down they go. While last autumn all through the forests there were luxuriant trees with moderate outbranch, and moderate height, pretending but little, there were foliage shafts that shot far up, looking down with contempt on the whole forest, clapping their hands in the breeze and shouting, "Aha ! Do you not wish you were as high up as we are ?" But last week a blast, let loose from the north, came rushing along and grappling the boasting oaks hurled them to the ground, and, as they went down, an old tree that had been singing psalms with the thunder one hundred summers, cried out, "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before 'a fall." And humble hiokory, and pine and chestnut that had never said their prayers before, bowed their heads as much as to say, "Amen !" My friends, "God r'esisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." Take from my subject encouragement. At- tempt the service of God, whatever your disadvantages, and whatever our lot, let us seek that grace which outshone all the splendors of the palaces of Shushan. THE LION'S FEAST. A Locomotive Held Up and Robbed by a Beast of the Forest. Last winter when the snowstorms .were so fearful throughout the mountains in Utah and the earth was covered with snow to the depth of five to ten feet and remained hidden so long the wild ani- mals were forced to desperation. The wolves were starved and weak, and what is known as the mountain lion almost perished from starvation. Its great strength failed it and a man with a knife could soon take the life of an animal that a short time before could hold a powerful ox or horse and make a meal of his flesh. The hungry animals after a while dis- covered that food was to be had along the railroad track where passengers threw bones and scraps of vituals from passing trains. Often two starving coyotes would engage in deadly combat over a chicken bone that had a short time before been ridden of its last vestige of nourishment by some economical person who did not care to pay 75 cents for a meal. This was the condition of things. Engineer Gast had charge of engine No. 151, which was known as"the help- er," from the fact that it helped trains up the mountain and when at the sum- mit cut off and dropped back clown to the bottom ready to help another. One night when business on the road was slack Gast noticed something wrong with the gearing under the tender and re- marked to the fireman that they would get off and repair it. When half way down the mountain side he brought, the engine to a standstill and the two men went to work at what proved to be a twenty minutes' job packing a hot box on the tender. The tallow pot was left at the boiler's head. After completing the repairs the men were mounting the engine again, only to see a huge moun- tain lion devouring the tallow and hold- ing full possession of the engine cab. It was a cold night and the snow drifting. The men had already remained outside until they were very cold, and the chances of dispossessing Mr. Lion were very meagre, as he snapped his teeth and flashed his eyes and fast stored the tal- low ailow out of sight. The only consolation the men had was that the tallow would not last long at that rate, and even this thought was not entirely satisfying, as they had no way of determining that one of them would not go the same way at the conclusion of the tallow feast. Fin- ally, after fifteen minutes' further delay the tallow -pot was empty, and giving a 'growl, as much as to say, "I am very thankful, gentlemen, and you ought to be," the animal leaped from the cab and disappeared in the hills. It is not necessary to say that Gast al- ways repaired his engine at the end of his run after that. The Way of It. Snow is sometimes of a red color, be- cause of the presence of a minute veget- able cell, the Protocous nivalis, which se- cretes a red coloring matter. A match ignites because of the heat generated by friction. Matches are tip- ped with phosphorus and sulphur, both highly inflamable substances. A plumb line by the side of a very large building inclines a little from the perpendicular because the weight is at- tracted by the mass of the edifice. Flies can walk on the ceiling because their feet are natural air pumps, and form a vacuum so that the body is sup- ported by atmospheric pressure. Sea shells murmur because the vibra- tions of the air, not otherwise observable, are collected in the shell and by its shape are brought to a focus. A spoon in a glass filled with hot water prevents the breaking of the glass because the metal readily absorbs a large part of the heat of the water. Many springs are intermittent, pro- bably because the channels leading from the reservoirs to the surface are crooked and constitute natural siphons. Iron rusts more readily when wet than when dry, because it has, or seems to have, a greater affinity for oxygen when the latter is combined with hydrogen. .A. black down grows under the feathers of many birds at the approach of winter because down is the bust non-conductor and black the warmest color. What the Boy Wanted. He was a sharp, foxy -looking boy, and he hadn't talked to the boss more than two minutes when he had quite won over that important functionary, "So," said the great man, "you wan't a job, do you?" "That's what I'm here for," responded the boy promptly. "Suppose you don't get it?" "There are other places. All the work in the world ain't been done, 1 guess." "That's so, my lad. What can you do?" "Most anything." "Well, we dont like the ' most any- thing n - thing' kind of boys who are after work." "That's all right," grinned the boy ; "I can do most nothing a heap sight bet- ter," "Oh, you can ?" laughed the bogs, and the next morning the boy was taking his first lesson in how to rise from store boy to proprietor, as the story books put it. UNCLE SAM'S BROAD ACRES FURNISH US MANY ITEMS Of More or Leos Importance, but All of General Interest to Our Readers.. The bank at Elliston, Ind,, was robbed of $5,. Pho3be000Couzino is advocating Populism P in Colorado, E. M. Byers, of Pittsburg, a wealthy iron manufacturer, has been pronounced insane. Mrs. Betsy Carroll, 85 years of age, living at Willimantic, Conn„ has 'been having measles. New York has a store where a song will be set to music for 50 cents or a $ while you wait. Methodists of Iowa have declared against the mulct law and favor total prohibitory legislation. Chief Arthurs, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is opposing the Government ownership of railroads. David Ritchie, the ex -Chicago detec- tive, confessed at Cincinnati that he was forced to steal to keep from starving. Captain Howgate, thedefaulting ex - chief of the signal service, now occupies Guiteau's old cell in the Washington jail. Mr. Louis Gethmann, the Chicago as- tronomer, rcaffrms his discovery of what seems to be a sign of vegetation in the moon. A man in Franklin, Me., pays $14 a month to his divorced wife, and for this sum she acts as his housekeeper. The teachers of Junction City, Kan., have been forbidden by the local educa- tional board to attend more than one dance per week. The cloakmakers' strike at New York is spreading. Reports received by the strikers' committee are to the.effect that the operators in all the big shops are out. Philadelphia has 2,000 miles of regular laid out streets and 300 miles of street car lines. It -produces every year$500,000,000, of goods. The daily reports from all parts of the Adirondacks give the same statement, that deer have not been so plentiful in twenty years. The amount paid for pensions an the United States during the year ending June 80 was $139,804 561.05, leaving a balanance of $25,205,712.65 of the appro- priation. Ex -Senator Warren's ranch in Wyom- ing covers au area of 75 by 100 miles and is stocked. with 2,000 horses, 15,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. At Fall River, Mass., it is stated the operatives will accept the manufacturers' proposition to go to work on Monday morning uuder a temporary 5 per cent. reduction in wages. At Lancaster, Pa., are three sisters 283 years old—that is, Mrs. Margaret Ewing is 92, Mrs. Elizabeth Zell 94 and Mrs. Martha Morrison 97. F Four state prisons, those of Connecti- cut, Michigan, Montana and Washing- ton, use deprivation of religious privil- eges as a punishment. At New Bedford= Mass., the long silent mills are in operation, and at both north and south ends of the city the cheerful hum of the machinery announces that the long strike is over. Two Galveston, Tex., typesetting ma- chine operators will compete against two Denver operators. The pair showing the greater speed wins $200. The city'council of Richmond, Va., has passed an ordinance to punish young men who loiter about the female college and flirt with the students. Convicts tried to escape from the jail in Cumberland County, N.C., but the matron locked the door that they were using and thwarted their plan. Mrs. W. B. Vanderbilt sometimes wears a "hawser of solitaires," which, fastened on one shoulder, is bound round and round the bodice of her gown. Miss Elizabeth Fleming has been ap- pointed crier of the United States circuit and district courts atPortland. She was previously the court stenographer. William E. Moultrie, of Saratoga, Santa Clara County, Cal., claims the dis- tion of having been the first child born of American parents in that State. Mrs. J. E. Butler, widow of a Confeder- ate general, committed suicide in New York after reading a letter from a way- ward son which deeply affected her. Eugene V. Debs and the directors of the A. R. U., will make an effort to re- vive their organization, and to form a universal organization of all railwayem- ployes. William B. Smith, of New Jersey, em- ployed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is charged with stealing 50.000 two -cent postage stamps from the Gov- ernment. There are 68,000 postoffices in the Unit- ed States ; about 67,000 of them do not pay their running expenses. The profit of the New York city postoflice is $4,000,- 000 a year. Mrs, A. G. Wallihau, of Colorado, went off camping not long ago, and took with her a rifle and a camera. One of her feats was to photograph a deer and. then to shoot him. Warden Charles Durston, of Sing Sing prison, is dead. He was the man who executed Kemmler at Auburn prison, the first murderer to suffer death by electro- cution in New York State. Brooklyn is the only city in 'the United States which can boast of a female deputy collector of internal revenue. Miss Lucy E. Ball has just been promoted to that position in the city of churches. A resolution was offered at the Chamber of Commerce in New York recommend- ing a reorganization of the police force en a military basis. It was referred to the committee on municipal govern- ment. The express car on a Southern Pacific train was robbed of $50,000 by two men Saturday near Sacramento, Cal. The robbers mounted the engine and rode off after securing the "swag," leaving the engineer and firemen behind. It appears that ex -Vice -President Mor- ton of the United States, on his return from England recently, brought with him a young man to met as assistant coachman. The authorities got after the coachman, and, it is said, he will be sent back to England. In England householders have to pay a tax on eaeh male servant in their em- ploy. IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL, LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR. A Little Fun Now and Then is Relished by the Best of Men, A (hire for the Dyspepsia and the Blues. Very True.. The single eyeglass, says a philosopher, is worn by the masher, The theory is that he can see more with one eye than he can comprehend. Used To. Be. Caller—"Your son is twenty-one and your daughter is older, is she not?" Mother—' Oh, no; I guess you've got it confused with thefact that she used to be,". At the Suminer Resort. He (the only man there)—I'm glad I'm not a summer girl. She (one of many, profoundly)—So am Good Advice. Clara—"I'm afraid I should get tired of married. life. I should like to be mar- ried one year and single the next, year and year about." Jack -"Why don't you go on the stage then ?" You Mean Thing. Harry—"Do you believe in the old superstition that May is an unlucky month for marriages ?" Uncle Dick— "Yes, decidedly—but why do you speak of May any more than any other month?" The Usual Way. He stopped at a small and elegant place, Down by the sounding sea ; And later he said, As he rubbed his head : "You can hardly tell" by the size of the house, What the size of the bills will be." A Bad Break. "Charlie," said Katharine to her new- ly -betrothed in an excess of trust and generosity,�"do go and talk to that Miss Heighleiffe. She's awfully fascinating and brilliant." "As if I cared for fascination and bril- liancy now," answered Charlie, adoring- ly. And he was unable to see why Katharine grew so suddenly icy. Her Idea Of It. He—clow much did you give for that hat ? She—Twenty-five dollars. He—Great Caesar; •I only pay five for mine. She -That may be, my dear; but I'm sure I should not object if you gave twenty-five. A Letterlfor the Doctor. Many curiously addressed letters come to the mail carrier. One of the queerest that was recently received to Buffalo is from the pen of Carl Smith, editor of the World -Herald, of Omaha.- It reads as follows This is for Doctor Ira Brown, A man of bloody work, He saws off heads and legs and arms, In Buffalo, New York, But if he has been hung or shot By process of the law, Which God forbid—return this quick To Carl Smith, Omaha. Broad Hint. Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lucknow, a well-known Scotch baronet, was long pestered by an insolent sort of person, who insisted on being constantly "un- derfoot."' Finally, however, he dropped off, and Sir Andrew was asked how he got rid of him. "Oh," said he, "I gave him a broad hint." • "A broadhint?" repeated the enquirer. "I thought he was one of those who could never be induced to take one." "By ma saul," said Sir Andrew, " he was obleeged to tak' it ! For as the chiel wadne, gang oot at the door, I just threw him oot of the window !" 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