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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-8-30, Page 3USE'S OF AFFLICTION, PR. TALMAGE FINDS CONSOLATION IN GOD'S WORDS. A Sermon From the 'Very Appropriate Text, "And God shall Wipe Away Au Team etrom Their eleyes"-asche comforte o Now York, Aug. la —Rev. Dr. Tal- mage could not hove se tested a more appropriate subject; then tho olio of eo- day, coneidering the bereavement that has come upon hini and his household. He had already prepared his sermon for to -clay, selecting as a topic) "Comfort" aud taking as his text "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes," Revelation vii., 17. Riding across a western prairie, wild flowers up to the bub a the carriage wheel and while a long distance from any shelter, there came a sudden shower, and :while the ram was falling in tor - ?tants the sun was shining as brightly as 4fitt ' over saw it shine, and I thought, What a . beautiful spectacle this is! So the tears of the Bible are not midnight storm, but rain on pansie(1 prairies in God's, sweet and golden sunlight. Yon rememberthat bottle which David label- ed as containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paul's team, and Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy that is to spring from the sowing of tears. God mixes them. God rounds them. God shows them where to fall. God enhales them. A census is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they are born and as to the place of their , grave. Tears of bad men are not kept. . Alex- ander in his sorrow had the hair elipped from his horses and mules, and made a great ado about his grief, bat in all the vases of heaven there is not one of Alex- ander's tears. I speak of the tears of God's children. Alas, me, they are fall- ing all the time! In slimmer you some- times hear the growling thunder and yO11 see there is a storm miles away, but Y01) know from the drift of the clouds that it will not oome anywhere near you. So, though it may be all brighaaround about you, there is a shower of trouble somewhere at the time. Tears I Tears I What is the use of them, anybove? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all the people are well, and eternal strangers to pain and aches? What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor'wester? Why, when a family is put togetha, 1101 have them all stay, or if they must be tramp anted to make other honets, then have them all live the family rowed telling a story of marriages and births, but of no deaths? 'Why not have the harvests chase each other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It is easy enough to explain a smile or a success, or a congratulation; but, °erne now, and bring all your dictionaries and all yotfr philosophies and all your religions, and help ine explain a tear. A chemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and .lime and•other component parts; but he misses the chief ingredients—the acid of a soured life, the viperine sting of a bit- ter tnemory, the fregmonts of a broken heart. I will tell you what a tear is; it . is agony in solution. liar, then, while I discourse of the uses of trouble. First, it is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too attrac- tive. Something must be done to make us willing to quit this existene. If it were aot for trouble this world would be , a good enough heaven for Ine. You and I would be willing to take a lease of this life for a hundred million years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholsteroa and pilared and chandel- iered with such expense, no story of other worlds could enchent us. We would say "Lot well enough alone. If you want to die and have your body disintegrated in the deist and your soul go out on a celestial 'adventure, teen you can go, but 'this world is good enough for reel" You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at Paris and tell him to hasten off to the picture galleries of Venice or Florence. "Why," be would say, "what is the use of my . going there? There are Rembrandts and Rubenses and Raphaels hero that I hav- en't looked at yet." No man wants to go out of his world or out of any house until be has a bettet • house. To cure this wish to stay hero, God nmst somehow create a disgust for our surroundings. How shall ho do it? He cannot afford to deface his horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel from the sun- set, or to subtract an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wmn 10 11101 his own St Paul's Cathedral, or a Mich - Angelo to dash out his oven"Last Judgment," or a Handel to discord his "Israel in Egypt," and you cannot ex- pect God to spoil the architecture and musk) of his own world. How, then, are we to be made willing to leave? Here is where trouble conies in. After a man has had a good deal of trouble, he says "Well, I am ready to go. If there is 0 house somewhere whose roof doesn't; leak, I would like to live there. If there is an atmosphere somewhere that does not distress the lungs, I would like to breatne it. , If there is a society somewhere where there is no tittle tat- tle, I would like to live there, If there is a home circle somewhere whore I can find my lost friends, 1 Wouldl like to go there." lie used to read the Rest part of the bible chiefly. Why has he chang- ed Genesis for Revelations? Ah, he used to be anxious ohiefly to know how thio world was uusdo and all about its golo- gioal censtruetion. Now ho is chiefly anxious to know how the next world was made, and how it looks, and who lives there, and how they dtoss. He reads Revelation ten times now where he reads Genesis once. Tim old story, "In the beginning God °rented the heavens and the oath," does not thrill him half as anuch as the other story, "I savv a new heaven and a now earth," The old man's hand trembles as he turns over this apo- . • calyptic leaf, and he, bas to take out his handkerchief to wipe his spectates. Tbat book of Revelation is a prospectue now of the country- into which he is soon to iintnigrato, the country in Which he has lots already laid out and avenues opened and maneions built. Vet there are people here to whom this world is brighter than heaveza Well, dear souls, I do not blanie you. It is natural. But after awhile you will ' be ready to go. It Was not Until Job had been worn out with bereavements that he wanted to see God, It Was not until the prodigal got tired of living among the •hogstbeit Xie ' wanted 10 go 10 his ;ether's bouse. It Is the Inhalant' 0t trouele 10 melee Ibis world worth lea and maven worth more, Again it is the use of trouble to make us feel our deponiience up= God. Men think, thitO they oan do anything until God shows them they' can do nothing at all. We lay our great plans, mut we like to exeouto theine It leeks big. God wines and takes us down. As Prome- theus was essaulted by his enemy', when the lance struck lain, it ()pencil a great swelling that Mai threateetel his death, and he got well. So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of Pride, We never feel our dependence upon (.4od until we gat trouble. I was riding with any little child along the read, and she asked if she might drive. I said, Catainly." I handed over the mitts to her, and I had to admire tho glee with evhich she drove, But after a while we met a Main, anti we had to turn -out. The road was narrow and it was sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins over to am and said , "I think you had better take caarge of the horse." So we are all children, and on this road of life wa like to clriee. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power. It looks big. But after awhile we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides, and then we are willing that God sbould take the reins and drive. Ale my friends, we get upset so often beoause wo do not hand over the reins soon enough. After a man has had troubla prayer is with him a taking hold of the arm of God and crying ont for help. I have heard earnest prayers on two or three, cm - melons that I remember. Once on the Cincinnati exaress train going at • 40 miles an hour, the train jumped the track, and we even near a chasm 80 feet deep, and the men who, a few minutes, before, had been swearing and blasphem- ing God, began to pull and jerk at the bell rope, and got up on the backs of the seats, and cried out, 10, God, save us!" There was another time, about 800 miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last lifeboat had been split finer than kindling wood. They prayed then. Why Is it you so often hear people, iet reciting the • last experience of some friend, say, "Ho made the most beautiful prayer I ever beard 1" What makes. it beautiful ? It is the earnestness of it. 011, I tell you, it man is in earnest w hen his strip- ped and ntiked soul wades out in the soundless, shoreeess, bottomless ocean of eternity. • It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependence upon God. We do not know our own weakness or God's trength until the last plank breaks. It is oontemptible in us when there is noth- ing else to take hold of that we catch hold of God only. Why, you do not know who the Lord is! Ho is not an autocrat seated far up in a palace froalt which lie emerges once a year, preceded by heralds swinging, swords to clear the way. No. But a lather willing at our call to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. I tell you what some of you busi- ness men make me think of. A young man goes off from home to earn hls for- tune. Ho goes with his mother's con- sent and benedietion. She has large wealth, but he wants to make his own fortune. He goes • far away, falls sick, gets out of money. He sends for the hotel -keeper where he is staying, asking for lenience, and the answer he gets is, "If you don't pay up Saturday night, you'll be removed to the hospital," The young man sends to a comrade in the same building. No help. He writes to a bauleer who was a friend of his de- ceased father. No relief. He writes to an old schoolmate, but gets no help. Saturday night COMOS, and he is moved. to the hospital. Getting here he is frenzied with grief, and he borrows a sheet of paper and a postage stamo, and he sits down a,nd he writes home, saying: "Dear mother, I an sick to death. Coine." It is ten minutes of 10 o'clock when she gets the letter. At ton o'clock the train stmts. She is five minutes from e the depot. She gets there in tune to have five nunutes to spare. She wondets why a train that can go 30 miles an hour cannot go 60 miles an hour. She rushee into the hos- pital. She says, "My son, what does all tbis mean? Why didn't you send for mo? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could and would help you. Is this the reward I get for my kindness to you always?" She bundles him up. takes him hoane and gets him well very soon, Now, some of you treat God just as that young man treated his mother. When you got into a financial perplexity, you call on tho banker, you call on the brok- er, you call on your creditors, you call on your lawyer for legal counsel, you call on everybody, and ‘,v hen you cennot get any help, then you go to God. You say "0 Lord, I come to thoel Help me now out of my perplexity." And the Lord comes; though it is the eleventh hour. He says "Why did you not send for me before? As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." It is to throw us back upon God that we have this miuistry of tears. Again, it is the use of trouble to cap- acitate us for the office of syntpathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by having water sprinkled upon their hands, feet and head, and by the sprinkling of tears people are now set apart to tho office of sympathy. When we are' in prosperity, we like to have a great many young people around us, and we laugh when they laugh and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing, butsvehen we have trouble wo like plenty of old folks around Why? They know how to talk. Take en aged mother 70 years of age, and she is alanost omnipotent in conefort. Why? She bas been through it all. At 7 o'clock in the morning she goes over to the row of soars along the line of the hair'will keep all heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper is ;lost the one to silence all earthly trouble, wipe out all the stains ot earthly grief. Gentle I Wily, his 'step is softer than tho step of the 'dew. It 'will not be a tyrant bidding w you to hush up your crying. It ill be a father who will take you on his loft arm his face beaming into yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right band he shall wipe away ali tears frozen your eyes. Friends, if We could get any apprecia- tion of what God has in reserve for us, it would make 118 so homesick we would be 'unfit for our everyday work. Profes- sor Leonard, formerly of 'Owls 'University, put in rny hands a meteetrio stone, a stone thrown off from Some other world to this. How suggestive it was to nee! And I have to toll you the best repreiont- aticins we have of Maya are only eeroli- tes flung off from that world whieh tolls on, bearing the multitudes of the te- deemed. We analyze the tieerolites, and find them crystallizations of tears, „i'NTo wonder, flung oft floth heaven 1 "God shall wipe away ail tears trona their Oyes." Rave you any el/Predation of the goose and glorious Gana your friends are Mat- ing in heaveit? How different Is Is when they get ueves there of a Cbristian's death from what it is herii! 11 is the difference betwom embarkation and corn - leg into pert, IF)) e77t1.11 e • upon whits)) side uf the 2 i,•er 0 stud when you hoar of a Christian's . 11 you stand on this side of the river, you mourn thsst they go, If you stand on the other side of the river, you rejoice that they come. Oh the difference between a funeral on eari and a jubilee in beaven —between requiem Imre and triumph there—paetiag bore peal reunion there! Together ! Have you thought of it? Thoy are together. Not one of your departed friends in 0210 land and another in an- other land, but together in different rooms of the same house—the house of many mansions. Together! never 11010 appreciated that that:telt than whoa eve laid away in ber last slumber any sister Sareh. Standing tbeee in the village cemetery, I looked mooed, and said, "There is father, there is mother, there is'gratalfather, there is grandmoth- er, there are whole circles of kindred," and I thought to myself,. "together in the grave—together in glory." I am so impressed with the thought that I do imt think, it is any 'fanaticism when some one is going from this world to the next if you make them the bearer of dispatches to your friends who are gone, saying, "Give my lovo to my paeans, give my love to my children, give my love to my old comrades who are in glory, and tell them I am trying to fight the good fight of faith, and I will join them after a while." r believe the message mall be de- livered, and I believe it will increase the glasboess of those who are before the throne. Together are they, all theie tears gone. My friends, take this good cheer home with you. These tears of bereavement that course your cheek, and of persecu- tion, and of trial, aro not always to be there, The motherly hand of God will wipe them all away. What is the use, on the way to such a consummation— what is the use of 'fretting about any- thing? 011, what an exhilaration it ought to be in Christian evork I See you the pinnacles against the sky? It is the city of our God, anil wo aro approach- ing it. Oh, let us be busy in the days that remain foe us I I put 'this balsam on the wounds of your heart Rejoice at the thought of what your dopartea friends have got ria of and that you haee a prapect a so soon making your own mono. • Boar cheerfully the ministry of team and exult at the thought that goon it is to be ended There we shall march up the heavenly street, And ground our arms at kJesus' feet. The Last Rose. Moore's greatest song, now associate ed inseparably with the name of the most noted lyric songstress of our an- tury,was set by the poet to an. old Irish air.. called the "Groves of Blarney," whieh he altered materially to adapt it to its new use. The words were sug- gested by an Irish tradition, well told by Charlse Wolfe, the author of the "Burial of Sir John Moore." In the olden days, when every petty Irish chieftain's court contained a minstrel. one of these influential characters had the misfortune to offend his lord a,nd was driven out of the • domain. For years nothing was heard of him, but one day, when his name had become little more than a memory, he suddenly reappeared. in the village, to the aston- ishment of the old and:the delight of the young. He was urged to play and at- tempted to comply with the request,but it was soon discovered that he could play and sing but one song about a rose that was left blooming alone on the parent stem long after allits companion fio-vvers had faded and scattered their leaves on, the grass beneath. The con- stant repetition, of the pathetic melody with its equally sad. -words depressed. the spirits of the whole village, and, demente(1 as he was, the old barb per- ceived the effect of his singing, ancl, quietly withdrew to the church yard in the immediate vicinity, where he shel- tered himself in a recess h1 the wall of the church and sang his one song to all who approached and desired to hear him. ile coulcl never be prevailed on to enter a dwelling., so the kindly vil- lagers inclosed the nook he ha.cl chosen for a home with a wall and roof, so that he had shelter from the inclemencies of the seasons. Food was re,„,e.ularly brought and. placed where he could reach it,and there he lived many years alone. One day a young girl who had lost her lover came to the churchyard to visit his grave, and, while there ask- ed old. Dermincl to sing. He took his harp and tried to do so, but as his fin- gers swept -the familiar strings, his feelings evercame him and he laid down the harp, "1 shall never sing again," he said, and truly spoke, for the next day he was found dead. He was the last of his race, but the song he inspired is destined to live as long as English is spoken. The Jumpin g Coin. A very pretty experiment may be made with a two -cent copper coin noth- ing -less than taking it up in your hand from a table without touching either the coin. or thetable, at a little distance from the edge and place your half -open hand beyond. it. Then blow suddenly andharcl upon the table about two in- ches from the coin. The result will be that the coin will jump from the table into your hancl,and a little practice will enable you to Sacceed at every trial. The principle is that the coinpressecl air from your luno gets under the coin, and has eneugh elastic force to lilt it and earey it to your hand. A !Young Traveler. . r red Funston,son of ex -Congressman Funsten of Kansas, has slept out of doors in every state, province and ter- ritory aveSt of the Mississippi between the 0)01)0 circle and. the Rio Grand riv- er, with the exception , of two. Mr. Punston is yet well on th.e sunny side of 80, and if he keepseep the present lick until 'he is ready to retire, lee will see about all the world. which is vvorth look- ing at. A Goad Likeness. A conceited individual out west got an itinerant portrait painter to paint ahe portrait et himself holding a favor 310 sae, and when the jeb wae flnished he invited a, Mend to inspect it. After earefully examining it, the friend said; "11 is a capital pertrait. But who is that holding you by the bridle 2" The friends do not speak now, and the portrait is consigned to oblivion. ALASKA'S GOLD FIELDS RICH' STORES OF ThIE YELLOW METAL YET TO BE MINED, -miners fleet; bog to Uie Yukon—Garde Sallu'it (sold Experts to Vkit the ItIstriet This, Summer. and meim a iteport—Greet D ise 0 veri es. Of all the weela the autheralogleal terra incognita Is Alaska. That 'entele Sani'S big .Aretic peovince coutains immense wealth in metals, if not in yet more pre- cious stones, has long ban known, says the Now York World. But up to date these alches have reanaiaed unminecl and not definitely' located. Nov' prospectors aro flookiag alto that country, iu search of treasures of silver and gold, and exact information on the subject is to be ob- tained by a Government expedition that is on the point of starting from Wasbing- ton, headed by Drs, Becker and Dail. Thousands of miners have gone this spring into the interior of Alaska for the purpose of workinolie rich placers found along the Yukon river. In many locali- ties the surface gravel is rich in grains of gold. In fact, there is plenty of the yel- low metal, the only diffioulty being to reach the diggings and get away with the stuff. The warm season in that lati- tude is so brief timbale enterprising gold - seeker must take aclvanage of its first Opening to strike for 1118 base of operas dons. He =1st bays) a definite objective point, for there will be no time to fool areund and meditate, inasmuch as with- in a few molts Jtscle Frost will arrive suddenly and perhaps unexpectedly, cut- ting off retreat with barriers of ice and snow. Tho yield of the placers must be re- markably rich in order to pay at all, taking into view the shortnees 'of the working season and the difficulty of ob- taining provisions and other supplies in so remote 0 region. • The miners carry their own gold to Viotoria, Portland and San Francisco, Sonia of the most hardy of:them have spent the last throe or four winters with the Alaskan natives. Along the Yukon eiver there is plenty of timber for building sluices, and such apparatus as may be needed is conveyed by water. Itho Schwatka expedition of 1891 was joined at Fort Selkirk by a prospector named Bowker, who loft tho paety at White river. On his return to Fort Sel- kirk he examined all the streams and found gola in every one of them. Profit- able placer mining is carried on at Cook's inlet ancl elsewhere along the coast. Ono of the richest gold melees in the world is at Junean, on Douglas island. This is the Tread:well. Though the Me is of low grade, averaging only about 810 a ton, it is so situated as to be easily and cheaply worked. The mass of ore is 400 feet thick and is worked as an open (litany. Tho mechanical plant is the largest in the world, including a gigantic battery of 240 stamps and ninety-six'con- anteaters under one roof. Twenty thou- sand tons of ore are crushed every month. There is nothing equal to it even in South Africa Tho mine has made its owners Millionaires. The Treadwell is on a inetal-beariug belt which runs along the shore of Southeast Alaska, following the coast of the mainland for mere than one hundred miles. It is an inunensee system of lodes containing gold, silver, copper, zinc and iron. While much of the gold. Is in a free state, it is commonly found associated with sulphur. The limits of this'great metaliferous traceare now be- coming definitely knowa through the discoveries of prospectors. ' The 'belt varies in width from one to seven miles, having the gratest breadth at Juneau. It crops out on various islands adjoining the mainland. All along the coast from Lynn canal to tho Straits of Fuca the geological conditions are similar and give promise of "finds" similar to the ore mass of Treadwell. Another gold district of great promise is the neighborhood of Sumbum, sixty miles southeast of Juneau. The yellow metal was first discovered there by placer miners in 1879. It was not until 1890 that quartz mining was undertaken, several important deposits being struck at about that time. Ore containing sulphurets to the value of 8270 a ton and free gold as' high as 810 0 ton have been taken out. At Silver Bow basin, on Gold creek, three miles east of Juneau, many hun- dreds of thousands of dollars worth of the yellow stuff has been taken from the hill- sides by hydraulic operations. The washing away of the faces of the hills has exposed immense masses of rook seamed with a net work of gold -bearing veins. There is no doubt that enormous- ly rich deposits remain to be uncovered. Many valuable claims have been located on the line of the lode. The district is advantageously situated for the develop- ment of its mineral eesources. Water power and fuel are abundant, and freights are low over the inland water- ways of Alaska, which are better adapted for cheap navigation than those of any other part of the world. Together with the gold in the system of lodes described is found much silver, especially in the neighborhood of Juneau. Mines are being worked for the white metal on Douglas island. The Sunnyside lode, at Sumbuin bay, is producing ore that yields several hundred ounces of silver to the ton. At Glacier bay there are lead ores rich in silver. At Golevin bay, just beneath the Arctic circle, is a lead mine. It is turther north than any other exploited metal deposit. It can only bo worked in summer, the miners leaving their tools behind them in the autumn and returning in the spring. The natives are so honest that they never touch either tools or ore. So far as precious stoues are concerned, Alaska is a country of unknown possibil- ities. The recent alleged discovery of diamonds near Sitka was a fake pure and simple. Geological conditions, however, are such as promise wolI fot the discovery of gems of MO kind or another. Garnets have been found near Fort Wrangell, at the mouth of the Stickeen river. They are very 'Jorge and remarkably perfect crystals, ooeurring in black schist. They are dark red ana :not transpareet, Nosing small market valeta owing to their lack of proper color and clearness. . REFIJaED TO PAY lila rase. The Bad Kan Toldtat Matte the journey Eittsea-A Chleagoan's Story, West," said a Chicago merchant. "I as "1 had an eaperienee once in the fax at that thne traveling for tne bona In whin 1 am now a partner, and my busi- ness took me to the Rooky mennatina There were two or tbree storm up in Oleo mountaius at the twin:inns of a branch road they were building to some mines and I had to take them in, There was a tremendous grade—I presume as lamas as 100 feet to the nate for twenty-five miles and the two trains a day that paesed over the road with passengers Woro not the finest en the eontinent. Rovvever, they were good enough and beat a mule train all to Mace. There were not more than a like Vert Watleworth and Fore Lafayette dozen passengers in the single coaoh,a very.!are not now forts at all. Under the fire primitive affair, when ‚we started, and by the time We bad gone a dozen ranee there were two of 114, an d one of them had oonee 0811 etthet ho te h leers cti oszt ear, et 0. u e, 1w01a, she ewqausal3utsot would crumble Wee stueco. STEEL CLAD FORTS, HOW 'THE LOWER BAY OF NEW YORK MAY BE MADE IMPREGNABLE. Romer Shoal Utilized—Eight• renewal]. Rifles to Ite mounted In tteavue arm tired Revolving Steel Terrets—Otner (saw lsetween T)iem. Veterans of the late AmeriCan 011(11 war who saw the efinet of shells bursting in ela fashioned masonry walls at Von Pul- aski and au various other points in the south do not need to be told that defences of old fashioned Daelgren and Parrott guns even, they would not be forts, but slaughter peas; and before the devilish energy of modern high power rifles they drunk enough to be ugly andwa a 'tors roe besides. Ho had two big guns in his 'belt and a knife to keep them company, and when the mandator asked him for his fare he simply gave him a,cursing. When On bandy Hook Mere already exist mod - the anduotor insisted on his paying, he told him if he dideat got out he would fill their ern earthworks of great value for both resisting and attacking powers, and Mm full of lead and tap him with his sites for similar gun emplacements have knife, and the emulator retired, but in no eeen selected on Coney Island and its vi- cinity. But while these batteries would do muoh to resist the approach of a hostile fleet toward this eity, it has been deeneed daststioxanbsi.e to design even -stronger fertthe e • On a line running about east-northeast and west-southwest, across Roma Shoal, four steel turrets are to be set up. Tho old method of building a foundation in shallow water by 'throwing down loose rock and then placing concrete blocks on top of this rip -rap work will probably not now be adopted. It is expected that steel piling will be sunk to take the weight of the forts, and these piles will then be con- nected by steel plates until the water eon be plunpod Out. Ample space below the machinery, auagazines and quarters. Upon solid foundations will then be erected sloping barbettes, above which will bo revolving turrets. The booking of both barbettes and turrets will be much more solid than that which can be given to similar defences on board ship, and there is every probability that the forts will be absolutely invulnerable to the heaviest ordnance mounted on any ship of war. As the barbettes must extend sev- aernaal testa belowseveral h feelootw easbtoivoew water h i rrhrekst, high water mark., it is proposed to face them with cement so applied as to protect the metal from the corrosive action of the salt watett Each turret will have its own revolving neachinery. The thickness of the manor Fort Hamilton baviug oonstaerable amount of earthwork, would. tot be (Mite as bad, but it tem au longer be regarded as a serious peorection for New York. good humor. As he sat down in the cor- ner where I was,by the stove, I asked. him who the passenger was, and he told meshe was the worst man in the mountains, mid had killed a man for every finger he had 011 his hands: He had at one time shot a hole through the conductor's hat, but the difficulty had been patched up temporar- ily. '1 could see the conductor was feeling sore, and, when I stopped asking ques- tion she shut up like a clam, and devoted himself to profound thought, every 11017and then looking over his shoulders to- ward his unaimiable passenger. Some time later when we might have been ab- out five miles from our destination, the conductor asked me if I would please take nice °enure. It is not perhaps generally known under what hurtful conditions the culture of rice is carried oil It necessitates, in faete the inundation of the tract of country where it is eultivated. and obliges the laborer to carry on his work during a portion of the year with his legs submerged in stagnant water, A Large Chess% Library. , . John G,Wh ins, of Clevelatals has a note - Worthy eelloetion Of books relating to chess. It is known te chess players till Over the world. It was originated by his father. the late Bushnell White, and an- sists ofabotit 5,000 Waimea. my bag and step into the caboose that lowest tide level will thus be secured for served as a bagagge oar. I did so, and took my seat on ono of the sample oases, the conductor shutting the door of the oar behind me, and leaving me there. A min- ute or two later I felt the train start for - as if part of its load were gone,and in a minute or so more the conductor came in. I asked him what the matter was, and he pointed to the door. I got up and open- ed. it, and,instead of finding the passenger car where I had left it, 11) 1706 flying back down the track at break neck speed. In another rninute it had, whirled. around a curve and was out of sight. "How did that happen?" I asked the conductor in horror. " 'Got loose some way,' he answered. " 'Where's the passenger we left there?" 'He's there yet, I guess.' • " 'Well, aren't you going baok to do plate will be determined by the relative whet you can? The whole thing will be status of tumor and the gun at the time sm"asheod.'when the forts are ready for their eteel ldn't be surprised.' protection, and—to a =thin extent—the ,viru calibre and length of gun will be depend- ent upon that relative status. It is to be expected,however, that the four forts will contain eight of the most powerful pieces that can be made. The alignment of the forts is such as to enable all of them to command the ap- proach to the main ship channel and to sweep the whole front of the bay entrance. With such a battery in place the ocean bottom from Navesiuk lights to Rocka- way Beach could be made a great mine acid, and a hostile fleet could bave littbe ance with the facts and gave the revolvers hope of clearing a evay throughethe torpe- to the conductors for future reference." "Did the conductor out the car loose?", inquired the reporter. "That's what the coroner asked me," 6 -inch rapid. fire guns, with, perhaps, also replied the narsator."but how did Iknove? a body and he couldn't be compelled to testi- few 8 -inch: The conductor hadn't award to say to any- A lighthouse caps the suanniit of one Oahe 'turrets, though in war time, of fy undenhe circumstances." "Then he stopped to the forward door of the caboose and told the enigaeer tore. verso the engine and go book. Five miles down the track was found the ramshackle old passinger coach in a million pieces at the bottom of a gorge a 100 feet blow the track. We couldn't get to it then, so we went on to our destination, where the ao- oident was reported and the coroner notifi- ed. He went down next day, but couldn't find enough of the 'terror' to hold an in- quest on, and returned a verdict in accord - does commanded by such guns. In the wing c.ounections between the turrets will be mounted a number of Where Do Children Lettaul Lying? A Chicago kindergarten teacher says that mothers come to her so often, asking how they shall breale their claildrea from telling untruths, that she has almost come course, there wouiti be no light, and pro- bably the structure itself would be taken down. New ‘I el- 11 od of Extracting Gold. The new method of extractieg gold from ore, an improvement on the cyanide to think that lying is a national evil. racess in thorouglaness and saving of Humiliating as is this conclusion, its time, was discovered by Mr. H. L. Sul - truth cannot be gainsaid. man. He has obtained the bromide of "I am so distressted," said a mother to cyanogen, which, when added to the weak her boy's teacher "that Freddie could de- cyanide solution now in use, produces ceive you so. I can't imagine why he is so the compound now obtained slowly by untruthful; his father is truth itself and the addition of oxygen. The compound I'm sure no one ever heard me tell a lie. is then treated with Zinn fulness, instead Call him in," she added, turning to her of zinc thavings, and the geld falls at little daughter. "He won't oome if he knows Miss--" is here," said the °bile.. "Say it's graudama wants him," sug- gested her mother; "that will fetch him. And yet she wondered at her boy's un- truthfulness I "Have you a dog?" asked a tax -collect or at another honed. "Not a dog of any description," was the prompt reply. "What about Speck, mamma?" asked the little son, appearing in the doorway with a tiny dog in his arms. "Cost me two aoelars," laughed. the father, relating the incident. "Capital joke on his mother, though." Rather a costly joke, involving the loss of a boy's respect for his mother's vera- city, and by reflex influence lowering his own standard of truth. "Your're half an hour late,Willie, "said another another, "but here's an excuse; give it to the teacher, and she won't say a word." The child, who couldn't read writing, confidently delivered the note; it was an urgent request to have him pun- ished, a mean revenge for some trouble he had given while being bathed and dress- ed. If mean, little lies and petty deceptions on the mother's part are the child's early object lessons, what wonder that be soon outstrips his toacher, and. even shooks her by his proficiency in the art Tree Trunks as Filters on Shiva A well-known Australian engineer, M. Pfister, is stated to have discovered a re- markable property of the trunks of trees, namely, that of retaining the salt of sea- water that has filtered throug the trunk in the direction of the fibers. He has con- sequently constructed an apparatus de- signed to utilize this property in obtain- ing portable water for the Use of ships' crews. This eppavatus consists of a pump, which sucks up the sea water into a teser- voir and then forces it into a inter farmed by the tree of the trunk, As soon as the pressure readies 1.6 to 2.6 atheosphered the water is se= at the end of from one to three minutes, according to the kind of wood usod-4o make He exit from the other extremity of the trunk, at first in drops and then in fire streams, the water thus filtered being potable, freed, in fact from every particle of the usual saline taste which is such a drawback to water ob- tained In the ordinary manner. IHOdest ;Indee(1. Uri Gusher (.4 vvouldhe stiltoe)—Whet lovely tooth Miss Smilethateeld niab Foreeps—)11'ne or—reallyeatnedeetY forbids my expressing an opinien, you latest. once in a thick powder. This process does in forty-eight hours work that required previously a fortnight. 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