The Exeter Advocate, 1895-8-9, Page 7WONDERS OF THE EYE
REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON
ITS MARVELOUS CONSTRUCTION.
afe .Also Shows Row ldruch more Over-
eebehniug IG the Indescribably Search-
ing Ivo of Gioa-arlie Ram of tie Resur-
rection—Sight Restored,
New Tork,July 29.—Bev. Dr Talmage
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who is still absent on his summer preaoh•
in tour in the West and Southwest, pee-
parecl for yesterday a sermon on "The
All Seeing," the text seleeted beiug
Psalm xolv, 9, "He that formed the eye,
•ellen he not see?" •
The imperial organ of the human Ws -
tem is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God boners it, extols it, illustrates
It, or arroigns it. Five hundred and'
thirtayaur times it is mentionoo in the
Omnipresence—"the eyes of tbe
Lord are in every place." Divine care—
"as the apple of the eye." The cloads—
" the eyelids of the morniug." 'never-
euce—"the eye that mocketui at its
father." Pride—"Ob, how lofty are their
eyes!" Inattention—"the fool's eye in
the ends of tile earth." I51vine inspeo-
tion—"wheels full of eyes," Suddenness
—"in the twinkling of an eye at the last
trump." Olivetio sermon— 'the light of
the body is the eye." This text—"He
that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
The surgeons, the dootors, the anatomists
and the physiologists understand onuoh of
the glories of the two great lights of the
human facie, but the vast multitudes go
on from cradle to grave without any ap-
preciation of the two great masterpieces
of the Lord God Ahnighty. If God had
lacked anything of infinite wisdom, he
would hate failed in 'creating the human
eye. We wander through the earth trying
to see wonderful sights, but the naost
wonderful sight that we ever' see is not
so wonderful as the instrument" through
which we see it.
It hes been a strange thing to xne for
forty years that scene scientist, with
enough eloquence and magnetism, did
not go through the eountry with illustrat-
ed Jecrures on canvas thirty feet sqoare
to startle and thrill and overwhelm
Christendom with the marvels of the hu-
man eye. We want the eye taken from
all its technicalities and some one who
shall ley aside all talk about the ptery-
gomaxi ilary fissures, and the sclerotica,
and tho °blame of the optic nerve, and
in common parlance, veleich you and I
and everybody clan understand, present
the subject. We have learned, men who
have been telling as what our origin is
and what we were. Oh I if some one
should come forth from the dissecting
table and from the classroom of the uni-
versity and take the platform, and, ask-
ing tbe help of the Creator, demonstrate
tbe wonders of what we are!
• If I refer to the physioloigcal facts sug-
gested by the former part of my text, it is
only to bring out in a plainer way the
theological lessons of the latter part of
nay text "He tloat formed the aye, shall
he not see?" I suppose my text referred
to the 'moan eye, since it excels all
others in structure and in adaptation.
• The eyes of fish and reptiles and orioles
and bats are very simple things, because
they have not much to do. There are
in-
ots with a hundred eyes, but the hun-
dred eyes have less faculty than the hu-
man eyes. The black battle swiraraing
the summer pond has two eyes under
water and two eyes above the water, but
the foue inseotile are not equal to the two
human. Man, placed at the bead of all
living oreatuyes, must have supreme
equipment, while the blind fish in the
Mammoth cave of Kentucky have only an
undeveloped organ of sight, an apology.
for the eye, which, if through some crevice
of the mountain they should 'get into
the sunlightmight be developed into pos-
itive eyesight. In the arst chapter of
Genesis we find that God, without any
consultation, created the light, created
the trees. created the fish, oreated the
fowl, but when he was about to make
man he called a convention' of divinity,
as though to imply that all the powers of
Godhead were to be enlisted in the
achievement. "Let us make man." Put
a ton of emphasis on that -word "us."
"Let us make man." And if God called
a convention of divinity to oreate man I
think the two great questions in that
conference were how to create a soul and
how to make an appropriate window for
that emperor to look Out of.
See how God honored the eye before he
created it He cried, until chaos was
irradiated with the utierance. "Let there
be light!" In other words, before be in-
troduced mao into this temple of the
world he illuaninated it prepared it for
the eyesight. And so .after the last hu-
man eye has been destroyed in thefinal
demolition of the world stars are Metall
and tho sun is to cease its shining and
She moon is to turn into blood. In other
words after the human eyes are no more
to be profited by their shining, the chan-
deliers of heaven are to be turned out.
God to, educate mid to bless and to help
the Marian eye sot in the mantel of
heaven two lamps—a gold lamp and a
silver iamp—the ono for the day and the
other for the night To show bow God.
boners the eye, • look at the two halls
built for tbe residence of the eyes, seven
bones making the wall for each eye, the
seven bones curiously wrought together.
Kingly palace of ivory is considered rich,
hut the halls for the residence of the hu-
man eye are richer by so much as human
bone 18 more sacred than elephentine
., lm, . so that
,- tusk, See how God 'honored the eyes
ien he made a roof for the
the sweat of toil should not smart them
• and the rein dashing against the fore-
head should not drip into Omni, the eye-
brows not bending over the eye, but
reachleg to the right mid to the loft, so
that the rain and the sweat should be
compelled to deep upon the cheek, instead
of falling into this divinely protected hu-
man ceosight See haw God honored the
• eye in the fact presented by anatomists
.and physiologists thee there are 800 con-
trivantes in every eye. For window
.shuttors, the eyelids opening and closing
.80,000 times a day. The eyelashes so con-
strued that they have their selection as
to What shall be admitted., saying to the
lefa dest, "Stay out," and saying to the'
•lig a, "Conn in," Vet inside contains
the iris, ot pupil of the eye, according as
the light is greater or less, contracting
or dilating.
Tloo eye of the owl is blind in the da -
time, the eyes of soon(' oreatures are blind
at nigat, bat the human eye, so marvel-
ously consteuoted, can see both by day
' and by bight. Many of the other ma-
•, turee of God ean mate the eye only nom
•eide to eide, but the !lumen °peso marvel -
Orley constructed, has one miasele to lift
the eyeand another muscle • to lower the
eye, and another muscle to rell it to the
right and another muscles to roll it to the
Mat taid another ninsele pustule themigh
Op pulley to turn it roaaa dround—an minieteriug spirits sem forth tO inalleter
elaborate aortas ef fax =macs fe/peafeee to those who shall be heirs Of ;salvation?
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But human imputation, and angello 111
s (4could make them, There also
is the retina, gathering the raye of light ePeetienaind seellar inspection, and lunar
Inspection and solar inspection tire tone
ataVol;tsithingetrhve% ViaSallott tSb8iielnoaoslosnegf compared with the thought of divine
the lampwica—passing the visual impres- insaeati°0* ""Zini converted inetwenty
Sion an to the sensorium aud on into the Yc.ars ago," said a black nianit°
soul. What a delicate lens, what au ex- father. "How so?" saki my father.
quisito soreeu, what soft eushiona waat "Twenty years ago," said the other, "in
wonderful chemistra of the huff= eye! the old schocelhouse prayer meeting at
Tnhoeisteiree wwlai es thheedr wb•ya s7eesPl oowr wake,streamr 011! tia73°11"Taiel, j3Gr000dk, eoeusaid s t ' nandY" 117:"ItY1 enro'
ing Inmerooptibit over the pebble of the Peace under the eye of God until I be -
eye and emptying into a bone of the •°anist Christian," Hear it- "The eyes
nostril. A. ountrieame so wonderful that of the Lord are In every place."
eyelids try the children of men." "His
it van see the sun 96 000,000 miles away
and the point of a pin. Telescope and eYes were as a name of fire." "/ will
guide the with opine eye," Oh, tbe eye
xnicrosoope in the same contrivance. The
astronomea swings and moves this way of God, so full of pity, so full of power,
and that and adjusts and readjusts the so full of love, so full of indignation, 00
telescope until he gets it to the eight full of compassion, so full of mercy
How it Deers throtigh the darkness! How
recoils. The inierosoopist moves this way
it
and that and adjusts and readjusts the outshines the day 1 How it glares upon
the offender 1 How it beams on the peni-
magnifying glass until it is prepared to
tent; soul! Talk ebout the buman eye
do its work, but the human eye, without
A beiug indeseribably wonderful—how
a touch, beholds the star and the smallest
much more wondeiful the greatsearobing.
hDpent. The traveler among the Alps
with one gleam takes in Mont Blano lm
overwheing eye of God! All eternity
past and all eternity to 001110 on that re-
hO
the face ot his watch to see whether
time
has time to climb it.
The eyes with which we look 'oat°
Oh, tale wonderful camera obscure,
each other's face to -day suggest it. It
which you and I carry about vvith us, so stands written twice on your face and
to -day we can take in our friends, so from twitie on mine, unless through casualty
the top of Mount Washington we can one or both have been obliterated. "He
take in New England, so at night we can that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
sweep het° our vision the constellations Oh, the eye of God! It sees our sorrows
from horizon to horizon, So delicate, so
to assuage thexu, sees our peplexities to
semi -infinite, and yet the nett coming
disentangle thane sees our wants to sym-
95,000,000 of miles at the rate of e0e000
pathize with them. If we figlat him back,
miles a second is obliged to halt au the
gate of the eye, waiting for admission until the eye of an antagonist. If we ask his
grace, the eye of an everlasting friend.
the portcullis be lifted. Sometbing hurl- You often find in a book or ruanuscript
ed 95,000,000 of miles and striking an in -
a star calling your attention to a footnote
strument watch has not the agitation of
even winking under the power of the or explanation. That star the printer
oalls an asterisk. But all the stars of
stroke. There, also, is the Ineroiful ar-
the night are asterisks calling your atten-
rangement of the tear gland, by which
tion to God, an all -observing God. Our
the eye is washed And from which rolls the
every nerve a divine handwriting. Our
tide waich brings the relief that comes in
every muscle a pulley divinely swung.
tears when SODA° bereavement or great
Our every bone sculptured with divine
loss strikes us. The tear is not an tong -
suggestion. Our every eye a reflection of
mentation of sorrow, but the breaking up
of the erode of frozen grief in the warm the divine eye. God above us, and God
gulf stream of consolation. Incapacity beneath us, and God before us, and God
to weep is madness or death. Thank God behind us, and God within us. What a
for the tear glands, and that the crystal stupeudous thing to live 1 What a stu-
pendous thing to die! No such thing as
gates are so easily opened! Oh, the
wonderful hydraulic apparatus of the hidden transgression.
A dramatics advocate in olden times, at
human eye. Divinely constructed vision! night in a courtroom, persuaded of the
Two lighthouses at the harbor of the innocence of bis client °barged with
immortal soul, under the shining of
whioh the world sails in and drops anchormurder and of the guilt of the witness
What an anthem of praise to God is the. who was trying to swear the poor man's
human eye The tongue is speechless and life away—that advocate took up two
bright lamps and thrust them close up to
a clumsy instrument of expression as
the face of the witness and cried, May
compared with it Have you not seen it
flash with indignation, or kindle with it please the court and gentlemen of the
enthusiasm or expand with devotion, or jury, behold the neurderee I" and the mart,
melt with sympathy, or stare with fright, practically under tbat awful glare, con.
or leer with villiany, or droop with sad- fessed that be was the criminal instead
ness, or pale with envy, or fire with re- of the man arraigned at the bar. Oh,
venge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam nay friends, our most htdden sin is under
with love. at is tragedy and comedy and a brighter light than that. It is under
pastoral and lyric in turn. Have .you the burning eye of God. He is not a
not seen its uplifted brow of surprise. or blind giant stumbling through the
its frown of wrath, or its contraction' of heavens. He is not a blind monarch fool -
path? If the eye say one thing and the hog for the step of his chariot. Are you
lips say another thing, you believe the wronged? He sees it. Are you poor? He
eye rather than the lips. sees it. Haveyou domestic perturbation
The eyes of Achibald Alexander and onfnws it "Oh " you say, "my affairs are bath the world knows nothing? He
,
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest "a'"
so insignificant I can't realize that God
part of their sermon. George Whitefield aee and sees tofpd, Can you
enthralled great assembla,ges with his
oyes, though they were crippled witn see the point of a pin? Can you see the
strabismus. Many a military chieftain eye of a needle? Can you see a mote in
bas with a look hurled a reigment to Vie- the sunbeam? And has God given you
tory or to death. Martin Luther turned that pewee of minute observation and does
his great eye on an assassin who came to he not possess it himself? "He that
take his life, and the villain fled. • 'Under formed the eye, shall he not see. ?"
the glance of the human eye the tiger, But you say: "God is in one world,
witb five times a man's strength, snarls aud I one in another world. He seems so
back into the African jungle. But those far off from me, I don't really think he
best appreciate the value of the eye who sees what iagoing on in my life." Can
have lost it. The Emperor Adrian by you see ahe sun 95,000,000 miles away,
accident put out the eye of his servant, and do you not think that God bas a pro -
and he said to his servant: "What shall I longed vision? But you say, "There are
pay you in, money or in lands? Anything
you ask me. I am so sotry I put your
eye out." But the servant refused to put
any linanoial estimate on the value of the
eye, and when the emperor urged and
urged again the matter he said, Oh, em-
peror, I want nothing but my lost eye."
Alas for those for whom a thick and im-
penetrable vail is drawn across the face
of the heavens and the face of one's own
kindred! That was a pathetic scene when
a blind man lighted a torch at night and
was found passing along the highway,
and some one said, Way do you carry that
torch When you can't see?" "Ah 1" said
he, I can't see but I carry this torch
that others may see me and pity my belp-
iessness and not run um down." Samson,
the giant, with his eyes put out by the
Pailistines, is more helpless than the
smallest dwarf with vision undamaged.
All the sympathies of Christ were stirred
when he saw Bartinieus with darkened
retina, ancl the only salve he Over made
that we read of was a mixture of dust
and saliva and a prayer, with winch he through this world under perpetual ob-
oared the eyes of a man blind from his somation, or were dependent on the hand
of a friend, or with an uncertain staff
felt their way, and for the aged of dim
sight about vebom it may be said that
"they which look, out of the windows
are darkened" when eternal • daybreak
comes In! What a beautiful epitaph that
was for a toxnbstonein a European cem-
etery, "Here reposes. in God, Katrina, a
saint, 85 years of age and blind. The
light was restored to her May 10, 1840."
THE OQEAN'S WONDERS
Bin Nye peseribee Ills Trip Thrones a
Sea Gardet,.
One Of the xnest charming trips abont
Nassau or the Bahamas is a sail over the
sea garaens,where all below you there is
a wilderuess of coral and submarine
growth three to ten fathoms, but with a
water glass perfectly •visible. It is a per-
fect marvel.of raiabove coloring of ani-
mal, vegetable and mineral growth.
You sail out a few miles from Nesse%
Ansi then anehor your catboat, get into a
glass-bottoon rowboat and slowly drift in
• aelightfal indolence over the wist marine
oonservatory, while in and out among the
Meal eaves the beautiful angel fish, the
hunaning bird fish or the miaow fish
softly floats like a healthy dream.
Sixteen shillings will pay for the trip,
and you may take the clay for it if you
Want to do so.
We sailed over to Rog Island, went
ashoee and gathered all the oranges, qua-
eard apples, mcoauuts, sapodillas, eto.,
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that we could eat during the day; then
we sailed on forth° sea gardens, where we
anchored and took to the glass -bottom
boat.
We had a colored diver, and whenever
we saw a bouquet growing on the bottom
of the sea that pleased us he would go
down and pluck it for us so that we would
not get our feet wet. You cannot, gentle
reader, imagine how funny he looked
under the glass bottom of our boat, strol-
ling about in the vasty deep gathering sea
fans aud all sorts of things for us.
, Once he got hold of a sea fan nearly a
yard in diameter and a soft heliotrope in
color, but it was grown to the bottom of
the ocean so thinly that, though he braced
himself and lifted till he was black in
the face, he could not get it. He moved
the huge coral boulder on which it grew,
but looking up at us shook his head, and
I motioned for him to leave it, for I fear-
ed that he might mar the bottom of the
sea and let the water out mayhap.
After a half hour I thought I would
note the bouquet and fragrance of our
ocean plants. I shall always regret it.
The son fan after a half hear in the air
smells like—everything! It smells like
Lazarus when his sister objected to the
opening of his tomb.
If you pluck the fuana of the sea, do
not carry it in your trunk, for you will be
stopped at quarantine and subjected to
honeying delays.
• One of the queer sights here in the
tropics is the jewiish. I do not knpw why
he is called the jevelish. No one SeeMS to
know unless it be that wherever you find
him you will note that he seems to own
that block and the adjoining one also.
He attains a weight of 600 pounds somepaases of nay life and there are colors— times and is good for food. He does not
shades of color—in my annoyances and riso to the fly, however, and is not a game
fish. In fact, when the fisherman wants
nay vexations that I don't think God can
understand." Does not God gather up
all the colors and all the shades of color
In the rainbow? And do you suppose
him, he goes clown and. gently puts the
hook in: his mouth while the partner in
the boat laauls away. It is very exciting.
Shore is any phase or any shade 50 your It is about as sportsmanlike as it is to
life he has not gathered up in his own move a county seat by putting a bent pin
heart? Besides tbat, I want to tell you it under the county when it sits down.
will soon all be over, this struggle. That •Sharks are very plentiful all the way
eye of yours, so exquisitely fashioned and from here up to Long Branoh and even
strung and hinged and roofed, will before to Nantucket. The leopard shark is a
long be closed in the last slumber. Loa_ mean, low coyote of the seceand will eat a
ing bands will smooth down the silken, little child that never did a wrong to any
fringes. So he giveth his beloved sleep. one quicker than he will a lovely lady old
A legend of St. Fortobert is that his with black hose. The leopard shark bas
mother was blind, and he was so sorely slow, retreating forehead, like that of the
pitiful for the misfortune that one day • codfish ball, and will often set up till a
brder to eat a
late hour of the night in
in sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by
miracle she saw everything. But it was Welsh rarebit from Swansea. The simile
not a legend when I tell you that all the
blind eyes of the Christian dead under
the kiss of the resurrection morn shall
gloriously open. Oh, what a day that
will be for those who • went growling
nativity. The value of the eye is shown
as much by its catastrophe as by its
healthful action. Ask the man who for
twenty years 509 1105 seen • the sun rise.
And the man who for half a century has
net seen the face of a friend. Ask in the
aospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask
the man whose eyesight perished in a
powder blast. • Ask the Bartimeus who
never met a Christ or the man born
blind who is to aie blind. Ask him.
• This morning, in ray imperfect way, I
have only hinted at the splendors, the
glories, the wonders, the divine revela-
tions, the apocalypses of the human eye,
and I stagger back from the awful portals
of the physiological miracle which must
bay° taxed the ingenuity of a God to cry
out in your ears the words of isay text,
"He that formed the eye, shall he not
see?" Shall Herschel not know as much
as his telescope? bhall Eraunhoferr not
know as much as bis spectroscope? Shell
Sevainmerdan not know as enuch as his
microscope? Shall Dr. Hooke not know that of Secretes I can not.
as much as his micrometer? Shall the The characteristic of Chaucer is inton-
;
thing formed know more than its master2 sleY; of Spenser. remotenessof Milton,
elevatiou ; of Shakspoare, everything.
He was one Of those men, moreover,
who possess almost every gift except the
gift of the power to use thein.
A hian's nature rubs either to herbs or
weeds; therefore, lot him seasonably
water the ono and destroy the other.
MULTUM IN PARVO.
God governs the world, and we have
only to do our duty wisely and leave the
iesue to him.
The head has the most beautiful ap-
pearance, as well as the highest station,
in a human figure. a •
The future does not come from before
to meet us, but comes streaming up froin
behind over our heeds.
I oan easily conceive Socrates in tile
piece of Aloxandea bat Alexander in
"He that forxned the eye, shall he not
see?"
•
The recoil of this question is tremend-
ous. We stand at the centre of a Vast cir-
cumference of observation. No privacy,
On us,eyes of cherubim, eyes of seraphim,
twee of archangel, eyes of God. We may
uot be able to see the inhabitants of other
worlds, but perhaps they may be able to
see us. We have tot optical instruments
stroog enough to descry thorn, Perhaps
they have optical instruments strong
'Omagh to dewy us. The mole mullet
600 the eagle inielsky, bue the eagle mid,
sky eat see Moo mole midgrass. We are
able to see mountains and caverns of an-
other worla, but perhaps the inhabitants
oa other evorlds can see the toeVers of our
cities, the flash of OUr Seas, the marching
of our ptoceseions, the white robes of our
Weddings, the black sixes ot out obeequ-
It passes mit from the guess into the
posithe when we ate told in the Bible
that the inbabitants of other Worlds (lc)
SWEEDISH PROVERBS.
• "When the oat is away, the rats dein°
on the table, "
"A new beceon sweeps well but an old
one is the best for the corners,"
"One bird in the hand is better than
ten On the roof."
"When the stoek Is satisfied, the food
Is bitter." ,
"To read and not to know' is to plough
and eat to sovv."
"That which is eaten from the pot
never conles to the platter."
You ghotildtvt sitotince yout
tome as sahao haa Are they not ha, HY $Sthe Sheltie of feehieti.
swims with great indolence until he hears
the gong for dinner, and then the eye can-
not follow Ms motions. He darts like a
streak 62 delayed lightning that is trying
So make up time.
Sometiones a leopard sbark will spring
full length into the air and land on the
deck of a low sailboat. Our pilot had a
visit of Coat klad Once off Ocean Grove.
Ho says he would rather go boating with
a total stranger than be joined that way
by a leopard shark.
The iirst thing to do with a shark is to
cut off his tail; ''tlien he will die. But he
does not rely on his head so much. Re
places no mere dependence on his brains
than a national financier. But if you out
off his tail he soon dies. '
N.33.—While cutting off the shark's tail
it is always a good plan to see that he
does not bite you.
When a shark gets a man in his mouth
he cannot reconsider even if ho would
like to do so, for the teeth point inward,
• aaid, like a boat constrictor,he necty choke
to death, but he comet even by joint re-
solution move to reconsider.
I have an uncle who was last seen en-
tering a shark off Now Zealand twenty-
seven years ago, coal we all fear the worst
regarding him. He was a man who al-
ways tried to got home for the holidays,
and it has been so long now we felt al-
most certain diet he has been delayed by
something he had not calculated on.
Twenty-seven times we have waited by
the yuleticle for hint and twenty-seven
times he has not came.
BIte, Nva.
• Remy to Guess the Correct size,
• "I Went to git a collar fer my hus
band," said the harataced woman, and I
declare I have plumb forgot the size.
gineray buy all his Milers and ties fet
too.'1
"Ah 1" said the estate olerk. "Then
you probably want about is thirteen and
a half or fourteen."
"Yes, Shoat's riglit but 1 don't see hole
you guessed it so easy."
I have noticed Shat a Man Who
lets his Wife buy all his haberdashery foe
him usually has a neele of aboub that
size,' Tribilue.
A Clever One.
Daisa—Ifid the Count say he laved you?
Madge—Oh, fiddlestickel no. Theta!
Telly 1 atcepted him. ale Was sel honed
about 15.
THe BLUE PaNala.
OW Nye Slakes a Few eteaiarke About Os
• Use on the Mg IniGies,
There was a time it few years ago wheu
would prostitute ray great gift ot word
painting to almost anything at a price.
I fell in the summer of 1.876, • when a
sad aoOkiug man came in and laid On my
desk the stetemeiet that "Brignoli, Jr.,
will be along here in about a week and
remain alittie over is fortnight."
In a moment he had g000, haviag
thoughtlessly left a sqaare package con-
taining a box of cigars, I was glad tet
get the cigars and tickled that Brignoli,
Jr., thought enougli of no to send cigars
to me, probably on his father's account,
for I had been one of his father's 'dead-
ing-room-only" at ono time,
A Fleate Fat_ _ I viN,S.
A . ol; itzetleg 1 acevery hu •
Part of Paris.
Ennle WOrklnen in Paris receotly idle -
:covered a greae collection Of Immantonee
burled in a vacant lot Walla the Lion e
Ile 'Bolfort monument. There is much a.
doubt and speculation as to the occasion e
of their burial. • It
Tao bones were so numereue 'that it was
not convenient to wont them. Tiley made '
a pile of the height of a man and many a,
yards in exteue. They were carried in
eartloaas to the catacomb, the entrance of a
whieli is not far away from the place of
their discovery.
• The skeletons were not arranged with a,
any attempt at orderliness such as is
USUal in almost all wholesale burials. an
In the flash of the eye the foreman had They had been thrOWIA in pell-mell, met..
the little note out in the composing room
and the printers—the foreman and a
small. soiled boy—took several of the
cigars, and we were quite merry, yet I
felt that I was doing a wrong, for the
roan who owned the paper was away for
much needed rest aud change of mene
eatiog wild Meat up the canyon and cor-
on top of the other.
It was evident that the ground had been
used as a burial place during some period
of groat mortality, probably a war or an•
epidemic.
The state of preservation of the skele-
tons showed that they had been buried at
e somewhat recent date. This fact makes
responding with the sheriff regarding a it all the more strange that there should
be any doubt as to their history. One
would hardly think it possible that
thousands of people could die at once and
be buried together in the oapital of civilis-
ation and that no one should remember
She occurrence a few years later.
Tidulee.tnstreet,
is the Rue du Champ d'Asile,
near the forth:Mations. The actual limits
of Paris paesed near this point up to the
year 1800, when they were moved to their
Praelsrinyt plolealelee; a that the bones are them
of Communists who were slain wholesale
by the soldiers and treated with no re-
spect after death. The Communists them-
selves killed freely, but their work was
trifling compared to that of the repro-
sentativos of authority. The skeletons
fouudby the Rue du Champ d'Asile
m
susityithere.etare circumstances which cast
doubt on this history. No arms and no
trace of garments were found among the
bones. Besides, the Communards were as
a rule burled in the Cemetery of Pere -la -
Chaise, although there were numerous
exctis13
ePtite
°11Sr
Iefore considered more probable
that the bones are those of victims of the .
great cholera epideraie of 1882. Out of
seven hundred thousancapersons who Dom- ,
posed the population of Paris at that
time, one hundred thoasand perished. 1
The mortality was so rapid and so great
that the corpses were piled half naked
on wagons and driven away as quickly i
as possilbe to the city limits,
mammal act on the part of the editor by
means of which he bad thoughtlessly re-
duced the Democratic majority and then
"flew as a bird to his mountains."
But it was the beginning ef my fall. I
had also turned when trodden ttpon
some weeks before by being sent to board
out a bad account, which sowed the seeds
ot gastritis and things. So I began to be
less technical about wedding cake and
other little mite of kindness which any
cbild may show.
But, oh, how meanly I felt when those
cigars were all gone and:Brignoli,
°area and turned out to be a great big
THE GIFT OF CIGAR'S.
coarse horse with a hoarse voice and no
expression to it. Then we printed some
full sheet colored work for him and got
$6 for it, and through our literary influ-
ence the horse was sold for $2001nore than
he was worth.
Since that time I have fallen over and
over,again. My life has been a complete
somersault.
But lately I see on the municipal press
a gross being with a blue pencil, and he
marks out beautiful word pictures regard-
ing hotels and railroads that pass in the
night. Does the business manager see in
my work a paragraph that clevells with
tender sentiment on the beauties of the
Christian life, he pulls out a big blue
ship carpenter's pencil, and marking out
my noble paragraph be calls up the tube
to the editor's room, and says:
"Is Eccema there, the man that did our
soap work last year?"
e"Yesebe's here, reading a paper."
"Well, send him down here. I want
to see if he can't go to the Throne of
Grace for a two column ad. Nye speaks
highly of it."
That shows that the business manager
suspects me. I paid a visit to the Presi-
dent a few weeks ago and spoke kindly
of bim and his fanilly. It was out out,
and in a week the position which I had
thought some of taking was given to the
business manager's niece.
It is said that kind words can never die,
but if in ale business manager's office
on a warm day you will notice something
that is not a dead hotter. It will generally
be some kind word that I have said about
a "scenic route," or the toothsome viands
at 802110 betel whore I have tarried.
There is more "dead matter" and proud
faith in the waste paper basket of the av-
erage great metropolitan paper than along
She tail of a trolley car.
BILL NYE.
That Was Too Much.
He load soldiered in the army
hele had sailored on the sea,
,clefougat a dozen duels, more or
'ears and tigers*,
a 141 ovor` hn to flee •
vager ar arealefamine or dist NS.
escstwoflreaeTinner me: 'dread;
idindpottn.er deal,
•31fhoeersook ,him, and he
her wheel,
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311
Be less,
And
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At a a
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But
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"Prone
Everett
"Valet
On 2,1A,
•bloomee
erveate
ee,
d •
this tie
,
Trost, "r
In thunder is. Patter"
asked Mr' Disxnal Dawson.
"Argonieee," explained Everett, with 'a
pitying sill, "is derived from argon,
which this p, per I am now perusing says
Is a new simper() in the air which its
name wean si 'no work.' "—Cincinnati
Tribune. •,
• (jot Her There
"This emencapated woolen," saidaahol-
ly Cadlettis, ")ee,y go wound in bloomers,
you k11o, but:}TOTOIS one wespett 111
which she eawn't emitate us fellows."
"What' E1 that?"
"She Can't woll ilea bloomers up at the
ankles whoa ie mina in London, don't
you know."—Toledof Commercial.
ettaiitd.
'Mate,"
How It IV14 A pranged.,
"Remember, Mcead, ton no more
• Plain Charlie ea TO*P1 ant
Unless you will coneeta to be
My wife and not my "
And Maud mosented thee and thero
And Caarlie Browa then Kr.
Sae 'Was No ,irool,
"We need no ring to pliaht OM troth,"
he suggested, as he kiesed bee impetuous -
la. •
"Yes, We do," ilateeted‘ the maiden,
"None 02.y011r eleiglit-ofehane tricks' With
Me." •
* Misleading eatinese
"Some geogeaPhisiaa Mama aka *eta
mieleaditg," observed Nortbside.
"For lastatice?" asked
"Well, you don't find the floteet of tha
huttiith &Mile* et Heathy Bay,"
ANIMALS TRIED FOR CRIMES -
In Olden Timms the Lower Animals were
Punished Just Like Dien.
In these days of enliglitened equity it
is hard to realize that there was a dm*
when the lower animals were ero-ecuted
by law. As late as the sixteenth century
hogs, rats. flies, bees and insta te of yari-
ous kinds were solemnly tried for depre-
dations of which it was said they were
guilty. It is recorded that a loe of rats
tried to eat up the barley of obe south of
France. In the trial the rats were defend-
ed by Cbassenous, a great lawyer of the
day, who actually won the case for the
animals. In Sardinia the ass was the
only animal exempt from capital punish-
ment. Why it shquld have beim exeonpt
more than ether animals is a naysiery.
Sometimes an anional would be executed.
Again it would be anathematized.
• Mules have had their eaes lopped off for
wrongdoing. If the mule was very bad
be ran the chance of being deolared for-
feit to the king, wherefrom it can be sus-
pected that there was just a trifle of
method in the governmental madness. It
is stateci that a horde of small flies which
had become a pest in Mayence escaped,
punishment because of theirlextreme youth
and small size. Once in France a num-
ber of hogs were tried for devouring an
infant. The verdict was that they should
be hanged, drawn and quartered. The
sentence was carried alit
Procedures of this nature were com-
mon as late as the time of Shakespeare.
Towards the latter end of the sixteenth
century the authorities awoke to a sense
of the utter silliness of the whole affair,
and by the year 1700 the practice had be-
oome very uncommon%
Ireary Di. Stanley 'Under ray.
According to the Belgian blue book oa
tbe subject of the purchase of the Congo
Free State it appeals that Henri M.
Stanley receives from the King of Bel -
g.= tftski thousand pounds sterling a year
whenaon duty in Africa, aim one thou.
mood pounds sterling when In Europe.
While in the service he must aelther pub-
lish a book nor deliver a lecture without
.the aing's permission.
alien Racy was SLGIC, NVG gave her Castor's,
Men sae VMS a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Mies, she clung to Castoria,„
When oho had Children, Bile gave them oaateria.
THE
NOV- succEssna Reir5DY
FOR MAN OR BEAST.
Certain in its seeds all( mwer blisters.
Read Droofs below :
KENDALL'S SPAM CURE.
llox152,bartaan,Ilen dorm 'Coq 111., Feb, 25,
Dr. IL .T.11Chanaht Co.
Dear sev—Flense tend 1110 tna oh your Horse
Booka and oblike,,Ihavoused 1251012) deal of yank.
Kendall% Spann 011ra-with toe alma; it is a
Wonderfill niedleind. 0000 111211 a nutra that had
an Ocimilt Snarl,, and flV0 bottles mired her, 1
keep a Mtge hand an the time. •
• Tenni truly, Onat. 1'e5raGra
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
eixtoe, Ite., aer. 1,
Dr.
0,—I r-14
17h4rittv,300Use1 several betties et year
"Maiden's StuvVic (kite With. Watch tunreas.
think it this bete eintheent 1 °Vol. Weil. Hand re-
ran/Mane Darla one Inned 8eavla dad ladled
two Inine toreralet friehda who are ehildh pleatedlilth
and keep it, Respectfully,
Mar see' by an Draggists, or address
Ar. 23. tr. VE,...Y.6.1.Z.t C'O?41*A2f1',
trioseurfan FALLS, Vi',
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