HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-9-13, Page 3CHRIST IS THE,CHIEF
TALMAGE ON THE LOFTIEST FIG-
URE IN HISTORY.
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laestsuree in Heaven.
New York, Sept 1. —For his sermon
for this forenoon, Rev. Dr. Talmage
selects a topic which must prove full of
inspiration to Christians • everywhere.
"The title of his discourse is, "The
Chieftain," and the text, "The (Alienist
among ten thousand," Canticles v, 10.
The most conspicuous character of his-
tory steps out upon the platform. The
linger wbich,diamonded with lighapoint-
ed down to him from the Bethleheas sky,
Was only a ratification of:the finger ot pro-
phecy, the finger of genealogy, the Anger
of chronology, the linger of events—all
live fingers pointing in one direction.
Christ is the overtopping figure of all
time. He is the "vox bumana" in all
music, the graoefulest line in all equip -
turn the most exquisite mingling of
lights and shades in all painting, the
acme of all climaxes, the dome of all
cathedraled grandeur and the peroration
of all language.
The Greek alphabet is made up (124
letters, and when Christ compared him-
self to the first letter and the last letter,
the Alpha and the Omega, he appropri-
ated to himself all the splendors that you
can spell out either with those two letters
or all the letters betsveen them, "I am
the Apha and the Omega, the beginning
and the end."
What does the Scripture mean which
gays of Christ, "He that cometh from
above is above all?" It tneans after
you have piled up all Alpine and Himalee
yan altitudes the glory of Christ would
have to spread its wings and descend a
thousand leagues to touch those sum-
mits. Pollan, a high mountain of Thes-
say; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olym-
pus, a high mountain, but mythology
tells us when the giants warred against
the gods they piled up these three moun-
tains, and from the top of them proposed
to scale the heavens, but the height was
not great enough, and there was a corn -
pieta failure. And after all the giants—
Isaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic
giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo,
artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim
and archangel, celestial giants—have fail-
ed to climb to the top of Christ's glory
that, might all well unite in the words
of Paul and cry out, "Above all!"
"Above all!" But Solomon in my text
prefers to oall Christ "The Chieftain,"
and so to -day I bail him. .
First, Christ must be chief in our
preaching. There are so many books on
homiletios scattered through the country
that all laymen, as well as all clergy-
men, have made up their Ininds what
sermons ought to be. That sermon is the
most effeetual which most pointedly
puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin
and the correetion of all evil—individual,
social, political, national. There is no
reason why we should ring the endless
changes on a few phrases. There are
those who think that if an exhortation or
a discourse have frequent mention of jus-
tification, sanctification, covenant of
works and covenant of grace, therefore it
must be profoundly evangelical, while
they are auspicious of a discourse which
presents the same truth, but under differ-
ent phraseology. Now, I say there is
nothing in all the opulent realm of
Anglo-Saxonisni, of all the word treas-
ures that, we inherited from the Latin
and the Greek and the:Indo-European,
but we have a right to marshal it in re-
ligious discussion. Christ sets the ex-
ample. His illustrations were from the
grass, the flowers, the barnyard fowl,
the crystals of salt, as well as from the
seas and the st ars, and we do not propose
in our Sunday School teaohin,g and in
our pulpit address to be put on the
limits.
I know that there is a great deal said
in our day against words, as though they
were nothing. They may be misused,
but they have an imperial power. They
are the bridge between soul and soul,
between Almighty God and the human
race. What did Christ write upon the
tables of stone? Words. What did Christ
utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of
what did Christ strike the spark for the
illumination of the universe? Out of
words. "Let there be light," and light
was. Of course, thought is the cargo,
and words are only the ship; but how
far would your cargo get on without the
ship? What you need, my friends, in all
your work, in your Sabbath school class,
in your reformatory institutions, and
what we all need is to enlarge our vocab-
ulary when we coine to speak about
God and Christ and heaven. We ride a
few old words to death. when there is
such illimitable resource. Shakespeare
employed 15,000 different words for dram-
atic purposes; Milton employed 8,00a
different words for poetic purposes; Ru-
fus Choate employed over 11,000 different
werds for legal purposes, but the most of
us have less than 1,000 words that we can
manage, and that makes us so stupid.
When we come to set forth the love of
Christ we aro going to take the tender-
est phraseology wherever we find it, and
if it has never been used ib that direc-
tion before all the more shall we use it.
When we come to speak of the glory of
Christ the conqueror vve are going to
draw our similes from triumphal area
and oratorio and everything grand and
stupendous. Tho French navy have 18
flags by antich they give signals,but those
18 flags they can put into 66,000 different
combinations, And I have to tell you
that these standards of the cross may be
lifted into combinations infinite and
varieties everlasting. And let me say to
these young men who come from the ;he.
°logical seminaries into our services, and
are, after awhile, going to preach Jesus
Gimlet: You will have the largest liberty
and unlimited resource. You only have
to present Christ in your own way,
Brighter than the light, fresher than
the fountains, deeper thap the seas, are
all these gospel themes. Song has no
melody, flowers no sweetness, sunset sky
no celor compared with these glorious
themes'. These harvests of grace spring
tip quIcker than we can sickle them.
Middling pulpits with their fire and pro-
ducing revolutions with their powee,
lighting up dying beds with theftglory,
they are the sweetest thought for the poet,
atid they are the most thrilling illestras
tion for the orator, and they offer the
most intense seems for the artist, and
they are to the embassadot of the sky all
. enthusiasm. CoMpIeto pardon for direst
guilt. Sweetest coMtfort for ghastliest of
agony. Brigtheet hope for grimmest death.
Geandest restirrection for darkest all pul-
corm Oh, what a gospel to preaell I
Christ the chief, Hie birth, his suffer,
/Met his miracles, his Parables, his sweat,
his tears, his blood, his atonement, his
interceesion—what glorious, themes I
Deese worms, faith? Christ is Ito object.
Do we have love? It fastens an jesa4.
Have we a fondness for the church? It is
because Christ died for it. Rave we a
hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went
there, the herald and the forerunner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was so cost -
80 beautiful, that after he had put it
off no oee ever dared to put it an, but
this robe of Christ, richer than that, the
poorest and the weakest and the worst
may wear. "Where sin abounded grace
may tnuch more abound."
my sins, my sins," sans Matin
Luther to Staupitz, "my sins, my sins!"
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found a Latin Bible that
made htrn quake and nouhing else ever
did make hiin quake, and when he found
how through Christ, be was pardoned
and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying:
"Come over and join us great and irith1l
sinners saved by the grace of God. You
seein to be only a slender sinner, and
you don't nitioli extol the mercy of God;
but we that have been such very awful
sinners praise his grace the more now
that we have ' been redeemed." Can it
be that you are so desperately egotistical
Shat you feel yourself in first-rate spirit-
ual trim, and that from the root of the
hair to the tip of the toe you are star-
less and immaculate? What you need is
a looking -glass, and here it is in the
bible. Poor and vvretehed and miser-
able and blind and naked from the crown
of the head to the sole of the foot, full of
wounds and putrefying sores. No health
in us. And then take the fact that Christ
gathered up all the notes against us and
paid them, and then offered us the re-
ceipt! And how much we need hiin in
our sorrows. We are independent of cir-
cumstances if we have his grace. Why,
he made Paul sing in the dungeon, and
under that grace St. John from desolate
Patine* heard the blast of the aporialyptic
trumpets, After all other candles have
been snuffed out, this is the light that
gets brighter and brighter unto the per-
fect day; and after, under the hard hoofs
of calamity, all the pools of worldly en-
joyment have been trampled into deep
mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the
Christian, from cups of granite, ly rim-
med, puts out the thirst of his soul.
Again. I remark that Christ is chief in
dying alleviations. I have not any sym-
pathy with the morbidity abroad about
our demise. The Emperor of Con-
stantinople arranged that on the day of
his coronation the stonemason should
come and consult him about the tomb-
stone that after awhile he would need.
And there are men who are monomaniac-
al on the subject of departure from this
life by death, and the more they think
of it the less they are prepared to go.
This is an unmanliness not worthy of you,
not worthy of inc.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his
day, while dying, ordered that the tunic
he had on him be carried after his death
on his spear at the head of bis ariny, and
that then the soldier, ever and anon,
should stop and say: "Behold all tbat is
left of Saladin, the emperor and conquer-
or 1 Of all the states he conquered, of all
the wealth he accumulated, nothing did
he retain but this shroud." I have no
sympathy with such behaviour, or such
absurd demonstration, or with much
that we hear uttered in regard to depar-
ture from this life to the next. There is
a common sensical idea on this subject
that you need to consider—there are only
two styles of departure. A thousand feet
underground, by light of torch, toiling
in a miner's shaft, a ledge of rook may
a
all upon us, and we may die a miner'
eath. Far out at sea, falling from the
lippery ratlineand broken on the halli
rds, we may die a sailor's death. On
mission of mercy in hospital, amid
broken bones and reeking leprosies and
raging fevers, we may die a philanthro-
pist's death. On the field of battle serv-
ing God and our country, slugs through
the heart, the gun carriage may roll over
us, and we may die a patriot's death.
But, after all, there are only two styles
of departure—the death of the righteous
and the death of the wicked—and we all
want to die the fernier. •
God grant that when that hour comes
you may be at home. You want the
hand of your kindred in your hand. You
want your children to surround you. You
want the light on your pillow from eyes
that have long reflected your love. You
want your room still. You do not want
any curious stranger standing around
watching you. You want your kindred
from afar to hear your last prayer. I
think that is the wish of all of us. But
Is that all? Can earthly friends hold us
up when the billows of death come up to
the girdle? Can huinan voice charm
open heaven's gates? Can huinan hand
pilot us through the narrows of death
into heaven's harbor? Can any earthly
friendship shield us from the arrows of
death, and in the hour when eaten shall
practise upon us his infernal archery ?No,
no, no, no! Alas, poor soul, if that is
all. Better die in the wilderness, far
from tree shadow and from fountain,
alone, vultures circling through the air
waiting for our body, unknown to men,
and to have no burial, if only Christ could
say through the solitudes "I will tiever
leave thee, I will never forsake thee."
From that pillow of stone a ladder
would soar heavenward, angels coming
and going, and across the solitude and
the barrenness would come the sweet
notes of heavenly minstrelsy.
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying
Indoor of a heathen temple, said, "Glory
to thee, 0 God !" What did dying Wil-
berforce say to his wife? "Come and sit
beside me, and let us talk of heaven. I
never knew what happiness was until
I found Christ." What did dying Hannah
More say? "To go to heaven, think what
that is! hte go to Christ, who died that
I might live! Oh, glorioes grave! Oh,
what a glorious thing it is to die! Oh,
the love of Christ, the love of Christ 1"
What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymn
maker, say in his lak hour? "Who can
measure the depths of tho third heaven?
Ob the sunshine that fine my soul! I
shrill soon he gone, for surely no one can
live in this world after such glories as
God has manifested to my
What did the dying Janeway say? "I
can as easily die as close my eyes or turn
my head in sleep. Before a few holies have
passed 1 shall stand on Mount Zion with
the one hundred and tarty and four
thoueand, and with the just men made
perfect, and we shall aseribe riches and
honor and glory and majesty and domin-
ion Mao God and the Larnb, Dr. Tay-
lor, condeinned to Mira at the stake, on
his way thither broke itway from the
guardsinen and went bounding and leap-
ing and jumping toward the fire, glad to
go to 'Testis and to die for itins Sir
Charles Hare, in his lag moments, had
stud) rapturous vision that he cried,
"Upward, upward, upward!'' Ancl so
great Was the peace of oho of Christ's tits.
*lee that he put hs anger tipon the
poise 10 his wrist and eounted it and
observed inand so great Was MS Placidity
that after awhile he said, "Stopped 1" and
his life had ended bore to begin in
heaven. But grander than that was the,
testimony of the worn out first missionary
when in the Matnertine dungeon he
cried "I am now ready to be offered and
the time of my departure ie at hand. I
have fought the good fight,I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith; 1101104' -
forth there is laid up for nie 4 croWn of
righteousness which the Lord the right-
eous judge, wilt give me in that clay and
not to me only but to all them that love
his appearing!" Do you uot see that
Christ is thief in dying alleviatione ;
Toward the last hour of our earthly
residence we are speeding. When I see the
sn 51805 I say, "One day less to live."
When I see the spring blossoms sca,tter-
ed.I say, "Another season gone forever, "
When I close the bible on Sabbath night
I say, "Another Sabbath departed."
When I bury a friencnI say, "Another
earthly attraction gone forever." What
nimble feet the years have I The roes
becks and the lightning's run noes° fast.
From decade to decade, from sky to sky:
they go ata bound. There is a place for
us, whether marked or not, whore you
tn1 I will sleep the last sleep, and the
inue are now living who will, with
snob= tread, carry us to our resting
pieces Aye, it is known in heaven
-whether our de.parture will be a corona-
tion or a banishment. Brighter than a
banquetiug hall, through which the light
feet of the dancers go up and down to
the sound oathe trumpeters will be the
sepulchre through whose rifts the holy
light of heaven streameth. God will
watch you. He will send hi angels to
guard your slumbering dust, until, at
Christ's behest, they shall roll away the
stone.
So, also, Christ is chief in heaven.
The fiible distinctly says that Christ is
the chief theme of the celestial ascrip-
tion, all the thrones facing his throne,
all the palms waved before his face, all
thearowns down at his feet. Cherubim
to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, re-
deemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall
recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice.
Stand -on some high. hill of heaven, and
in all the radiant sweep the most glorious
object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on
the scars of his suffering, in silence first,
afterward breaking forth into acclama-
tion. The martyrs, all the purer for the
fire through which they passed, will say,
"This is the Jesus for whom we died."
The apostles, all the happier for the
shipwreck and the ecourging through
which they went, will say, "This is the
Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and
at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at
Jerusalem." Little children clad in
white will say, "This is the, Jesus who
took us in his arms and blessed us, and,
when the StOTDIS of the world were too
cold and loud, brought us into this beau-
tiful place." The multitude of the be-
reft will say "This is the Jesus who
comforted us when our hearts broke."
Many who wandered clear off from God
and plunged into vagabondism, but were
saved by grace will say "This is the
Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost on
the mountains and he brought Us home.
We were guilty and he has inade us
white as snow." Mer cy boundless, grace
unparalleled. And then after each one
has recited his peculiar deliverances and
peculiar mercies, recited them at by solo,
all the voices will come together into a
great chorus which will make the arches
echo and re-echo with the eternal rever-
beration ot triumph.
Edward I was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed $160,000 to have his
s heart after his decease taken to the Holy
Land in Asia Minor, and his request was
complied with. But there are hundreds
to -day whose hearts are already in the
Holy Land of heaven. Where your treas-
ures are, there are your hearts rasa
Quaint John Bunyan caught a glimpse
of that place, and in his quaint way he
said, And I heard in my dream and,
lo! the bells of the city rang again for joy
and as they opened the gates to let in the
men I looked in after them and, lo! the
city shone like the sun, and there were
streets of gold, and men walked on them,
harps in their hands, to ring paises with-
al, and after that they shut up the gates,
which when I had seen I wished myself
among them!"
MR. MAXIM'S LATEST.
Re Declares That a Unit of Sound Should
be Established. *
Hiram S. Maxim, who, independent of
his comprehensive knotvledge of guns and
flying machines, has a wide grasp of
scientific subjects, proposes that there shall
be established a unit of sound. During
the last twenty years units have been
agreed upon relating to every sort of en-
gineering and scientific question except
that of sound, and Mr. Maxim is trying to
induce the English scientific bodies to
move in the matter. All owners of elec-
trical plants are liable ti be complained of
for making a noise. Sometimes it is said
that their machinery causes vibrations to
the surrounding buildings or grounds;
then, again, that they disturb telephonic
communications. Manufacturers are con•
stantly having injunctions served on them
for making too much noise when, perhaps,
as a matter of fact, the noise is not even
audible to those who make the complaints.
Mr. Maxim cites many cases, when (dee-
trical engineers and.' those interested in
electrical plants have visited the houses of
parties who have lodged complaints against
eleotric light stations. It hap often been
Sound that the persons making these
complaints were willing to swear nein-
selves, and to bring any number of wit-
nesses to prove that the noise and jar pro.
armed were wholly caused by the ordinary
street traffic, and at the very moment the
reputed nuisance has been in force, the
&weal() light plant has not been running
at all.
In fact, the making of claims of this
sort has grown into a regular business, and
Mr.Maxim holds that some reliable means
of determining just how innels noise,
and how much vibration is caused by a
giVen pima, should be made available.
Pending the appearance of further inven-
tions for the purpose, he suggests that a
kiml of phonograph should be employed,
and that a record should be Made on smok-
ed glass, which could be put la .a magio
lantern and greatly magnified. The am-
plitude and frequency of the waves Would
indicate the intensity of the noise produc-
ed. For example, supposing a certain re-
cord should be made of the ordinaty street
traffic, and then another record ot both the
street traffic and the disturbance of noise
eoreplained of, the two, mounted side by
side,dgrtos
a ir rga5oe.110
steil°111"illd
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noise was increased by the inaohinery and
how much those was for complaint,
Above ell, gentle eonaidenation and
thoUghtfni kinds are be tee than zneny
drugs and retieli dosing.
" QUEER LITTLE, DWARF MEN,
°tales of Cairitli:entu
ola:tkry.PAgmlei Ue.
In. th
Dwarfs have furnished themes for
coUntless romances. They divide with
giants the interest of a thousand nursery
talo. To no small eXtent the domain of
superstition is invaded hy ,them. All
countries more or less, but Germany in
partieular are infested by gnomes and
goblins, and Palmer Cox's .Brownies have
not ceased to delight grown people as well
45 thildren in the United States. But
She man who knew most about real dwarfs
was M. de Quatrefages, who died only a
new months ago. Tlils emitient seientifie
alan devoted, much of his life to a study of
sigmies, as lie called them, and a post-
humous work on the sribjeet has just been
published by D. Appleton Slr Co.
The ancients quite generally were ac-
quainted with the pignsies, Homer speaks
of them, and they figure • in many of the
legends of antiquity, Aristotle described
them as dwelling in Africa towards the
sources of the Nile and it was in this very
region that a modern explorer, Schwein-
furth, discovered a race of dwarfs. Says
Aristotle: "This is the district which the
pigmies inhabit, whose existence is not a
fable. There is really, as men say, a
species of men of little stature, and their
horses a"e little also, They pass their time
in cavorhs."
Soliweinfurth found no horses among
his dwarfs, but neighboring tribes had
cows and sheep of such small size as to be
truly liliputians. Two pigmies wore
brought to Europe and adopted by Count
Miniscalchi, who brought them up and
educated them. They proved intelligent
and did quite well in their studies.
The pigmies of Schweinfurth, whose real
existence has given rise to mauy fables,
call themselves Akkas The territory ma
=pied by thein is of considearble extent,
in the neighborhood of 8 degrees north
latitude and 25 degrees east longitude. At
the time of the explorer's visit they num-
bered nine distinct tribes, each having its
own chief. Sohweinturth passed through
the country of the Niain-Niarns, and pene-
trated to that of the MOD IMMO& It was
at the court of a native king named Mun-
za that he discovere,i the dwarf race.
Munza maintained a littlo. dwarf colony
of the dwarfs, net r hieroyal residence.
At that time the variods tribes of Akkas
had submitted to Mounameri, one of Mims
za's vassals who had come to render hom-
age to his sovereign at the head of several
hundreds of the pigmies. Thus Schwein-
furth had a good opportimiey for stuclyi g
them. In exchange for one of his dogs,
be obtained from Munza a young male
Akka, who died subsequently of dysen-
try.
Most of the data gathered by; Schwein-
furth were lost in a fire, including meas-
urements and notes ev'hieh could not be
replaced. Subsequent travellers; how-
ever, encountered some of the dwarfs.
Munza having learned their value as ob-
jects of curiosity, gave some of them from
time to time to buyers of ivory who visit-
ed him. Thus an individual of the race
reached Khaetoum, sent as a present to
the Govermes of the Soudan by Enlist Bey.
An explorer named .Miani, following in
Schweinfurth's footsteps,finally arrived
among the Monbuttos. Succcumbing to
the fatigues of the journey, he died, be-
queathing to the Geographical Soliety of
Italy two young Akkas, whom he had got
in exchange tor a dog and a calf. These
dwarfs, Tebo and Chairallah, were the
ones adopted by Count Miniscalchi.
Sonae anthropologists were inclined to
believe that the Akkas were fakes, so to
speak, and that Tebo and Chairallah
would grow to a good size some day.
Chairallah died, but grew to manhood, and
did not pass the stature of the average pig-
my as reported. His height was four feet
seven inches. The mean statute of these
dwarfs appears to be but four feet four
and one-half inches. Ti ig reckoning
makes them the smallest people in the
world, the Bushmen, perhaps, but not cer-
tainly, excepted. The color of the Akkas,
according to Scheweinfurth,is like that of
coffee slightly roasted. Count Miniscalchi
noticed that it was darker in summer and
paler in winter.
.A. marked characteristic of the Akkas
Is an enormous development of abdomen,
which causes the adults to resemble the
children of negroes. In the photographs
of Tebo and Chairallah this feature is
most proneunced. The chest, compara-
tively narrow atiove, dilated below in order
to contain the huge paunch. But it is evi-
ent that this peculiarity is not a true race
characteristic, being largely due to the
manner in which the pigmies live and to
She quality of their food.
After some weeks of wholesome diet,
Tebo and Chairallah lost their big stom-
achs. The Akkas have short legs and very
small hands. Their senses are very acute,
and Schweinfurth speaks af their extraor-
dinary agility. The Monbuttos say that
the little men leap about in the high her-
bage like grasshoppers.
These pigmies are very .courageous.
"They are men, and men who know
how to fight," said Moummeri, in speak-
ing to Schweinfurth of those who accom-
panied him. They are great elephant hunt-
ers, attacking the gigantic beasts with
short bows and with lances hardly longer
than themselves. It is said that the wo-
men are as warlike as the men. As for the
habit of skipping about, Sehweinfurth's
purchased dwarf, who afterwards died of
dysentery, never got over tine inclination,
so that he could not carry a plate without
,spilling more or less 'of its contents.
A. Vint to Baldheaded Men.
There is a cigar maker out in Boxbor-
ough who has invented a little deviee
which will doubtless be hailed with joy by
other inen who are constructed upon lines
similar to those of She clever oigarmaker.
The cigarmaker is very bald, and during
the present hot spell thellies have bother-
ed him very greatly. They gathered from
far and near to gamble upon the shiny
cuticle on top of their viable's head. The
fly that first diecovered this pleasure
ground seems to have gone away and
brought back his family and all his friends
and. their families. However this may be,
the number of visitors to the shiny pate
af the eigarmaker increased tremendous-
ly. It finally drove the old man almost
frantie, but, while the delighted flies were
capering about on the topside of that old
head, a clover brain was working just as
energetically inside, The result of this
brain work Was the ingenious invention
heretofore mentioned. The old man stop-
ped making eigars just long enough to
construct or himself, mit of fly paper,
with the stioky side outside, a large cap to
fit smigly over his head, NoNv he sits at
his woe!: in peace, and the files that ven-
ture to take liberties with him stick upon
his head as monuments to that head's
'greatness.
Itarci to Taelfeve.
The story that a girl In Oakland, Cal.,
jumped 511500511 a plate glass Window to
avoid being kissed by a young man at a
°Minh festival, lacks verisimilitude for
reasons other than the thiekness of plate
glass.
THE MOTHER'S OUTING.
Tie Lily's sash; and have you.brought the bag?
And did You close the windows? Dome here,
W
Dear inelli
Your handkerchief looks like a rag—
How warm you are! I wish you could keel)
ti
Don'tstelciiii about the boat. Yes; by-and-by
We'11-13ridget, pleese don't let the baby ery.
That le the Battery, and that's the --Jess,
Come oft that railing, and sit here by me;
Or, stay svith Bridget, if you like. I guess
You'd better put your coat on. That's the
sea
Ott there—you can't be hungry Ad, my son!
Wear* are tae biscuits? And give Lily ene.
Bridget, why is the baby crying? Hush,
han see those little steam tugs, how they
frodi,..,ti,silix_e, sees! You mustn't romp like that;
And wateh the waves. Good gracious! Mind
your hat,
You'll lose it overboard- ole oh, oh, oh!
You reglei ikoleks; s, careless boy. I told You so!
Your lithe new hat! Didn't you hear me call?
You'll be tanned black—run after Lily,
The boat°eke sesshe's sure to get a fall.
Jess, what's the matter? Are you feeling
You look so pale, lean down your little head;
Get her some ice -water, and hutry, Ted.
Oh, don't eat peanuts! You want lemonade?
'Why cloes the baby cry so? I'm afraid
lel have to take him. Bridget, fetch him
we:11,01:1e, re's a dime; but, Mind Mi. (1,011q. go
near—
And see what those young mischiefs ere about.
I wonder why I ever bring them out?
—Madeline 5. Bridges, in Judge.
TOOTH FILLING.
A Great Economical Improvement About
to ade.
One of the most important improve-
ments in modern dental practice is on the
point of being accommished. It will con-
sist in the substitution of porcelain for
gold in the filling of teeth, especially in
pieces where repairs are likely to show.
For this purpose a piece of thin platinum
foil is introduced into the "cavity," and
so manipulated as to take the exact form
of the hole, as if it were intended as a
ruling. Then it is carefully withdrawn,
so as not to disturb its shape. Thus is
obtained a mould, from which a porcelain
cast may be made to fill the cavity exact-
ly. This is secured in place by cement.
The trouble is that no cement as yet in-
vented is proof against the dissolving
power of the finids in the mouth.
By the use of an electric light in con-
nection with the little mirror introduced
Otto the month, the teeth and alveolar pro-
cesses are brilliantly illuminated and ren-
dered translucent. Thus anything wrong
about the teeth may be quickly discover-
ed. Perhaps the dead tooth may be hid-
den in the jaw, never having been erupt-
ed. and may have been the obscure cause
of trouble for years. The light revean it
at once.—Providence Journal.
Seed Thoughts.
Obedience to God's command is your
highest duty. There is nothing that makes
life so glorious as "Thy will be done"
wrought into daily life.—Anthony Com -
stook.
The solemn, and blessed truth is that
God calls every man to be a minister, as-
signing each his own parish in the great
diocese of Christ's one chnrch.—Dr. Board.
man.
The life you live now is all the more
worth living because it opens into a life
that will never end, anti the last letter of
She word "time" is the first letter of the
word "eternity."—T. De Witt Talmage.
Do you tell me that there are many.good
men who are not Christians'? That's true.
But they manifestly borrow from the reli-
gion which they refuse to embrace the
very morality of which they boast. --Car-
los Martyn.
Don't be wheelbarrow Christians, that
go only when pushed. Don't be Christians
like the Arctic rivers—frozen at the mouth.
—J. T. Beckley, D. D.
Carpet 'trade With 59,000,000 Stitches.
Those vslio have recently raised the
qnestion of the import of prison -made
goods from abroad will, perhaps, read
with surprise that the queen will shortly
be the possessor of One of the most re-
markable articles ever made in a prison.
The superintendent of Agra jail some
months back received an order to weave a
carpet of special design for her Majesty.
This is tame complete. On it twenty-eight
of the deftest convicts of the establish.
ment have been engaged, and the texture
measures seventy-seven feet by forty feet,
and is estimated to canteen no fewer than
59,000,000 stitches. The pattern, known
as the Poona, is rarely met wit. It has a
dark ground, upon which the device and
border are executed in delicate shades of
vegetable -dyed bluee, yellows, browns
and greens. The carpet, which is of great
value, will be used in her Majesty's Indian
room at Osborne. The Agra jail convicts
are also making a carpet for the German
emperon—alanchester Examiner.
The Soul and the Beard.
In Russia it was the common belief up
to the titue of Peter the Great that beard-
less men were also soulless and that a man
who purposely Admitted of having his
beard marred could never enter heaven.
The great Peter above referred to ordered
his heathens to "shave up" so as to appear
inure mvilized, and when they refused to
comply with bis edict he fined the wealthy
and middle classes 100 rubles for ' each
beard that was permitted to grow and eaoh
peasant kind laborer a copeck for the same
privilege. Finally the priests were appeal.
ed to and they informed their parithionets
that unless they stalemated to having their
b-ards shaved they need not expect that
St. Nicholas, the gatekeeper of hettven,
would be able to distinguish them from the
bearded Turks, That had the desired ef.
feet. --St. Loafs Republic.
missing Linke.
Two centuries have increased England's
wealth forty fold.
There are about 1,500 theatres in Europe.
Italy pessesses most.
A. sister of the hite Mr. Spergeoe. recent-.
1y preached in London,
.A. certain forest plent in Japan geows to
be about six feet high in three weeks,
Female bootblacks are reported to be
Multiplying in Paris and other Freneh
cities. ,
jerusalens has 135 places where liquor is
wia, the liceteie fees going to Ccaistanti, I
aerie,
GOWNS FOR SERVICE,
Cooturnea in Gray and tuatik for the Busy
Mee&
The business woman has a weakeess for
pretty dress and no galaxy of lovelier
gOVves is to be found than those worn by
the independent little ladies who rale
the business world with their smiles and
blushes.
It is true they eannot storm the strong-
holds of nian's heart with gowns that are
beruflied and beribboned, as a woman is
consistent at least in dress. These littae
ladies wear plain waists, of some bright
colored silk and orepon or cheviot skirts.
The all-pervading sailor collar adds
GRAY AND B .ACK.
touch of fernininity ora r bbon neckband
gives an opportunity for a bewitching
bow to nestle at the nape o alae neck.
Business is taken in earnest by the lit-
tle woman pictured. Bows and lace
sad fussy things she abhors, for who
ever saw a business man wear anything
that was fancy?
Her skirt is perfectly plain, of a gray
and black striped material. A gray
waist has handsome black silk sleeves.
There my lady intended to stop, but
woman's weakness for furbelows got the
better of her. A couple of large loops of
gray were fastencel with a rosette just in
front of each sleeve. lt was a pretty idea,
and added a touch of character to the
gown.
Embroidered Collars.
The collars on bodices are the most dis-
tinctive features and there is hardly a
gown made without some sort of a fancy
collar. These collars are embroidered or
made of lace in every imaginable shape
and size,and are also made in small turn. -
down muslin and lace collars. The pret-
tiest are of fine muslin with insertion and
edge of fine yellow lace. There never
was a time when dress -was carried to such
a point of perfeotion as now. Every
detail of the toilet has to be studied wish
attention. Every little point must be in
harmony. At one time to be well gloved
and well shod was to be well dressed,
but now skirts, veils, bats, sunshades,
and silken hose must all blend. It is
now correct to wear veils very wide so
that they form several folds under the
chin. The latest novelty is in fine tulle
with tiny silk blossoms on it, such as
forget-me-nots or roses or pansies, which
shot ld be chosen to match the flowers
in the hat The black pr white chiffon
veils or black, with white dots or white
with black do ts are first favorites for sum-
mer wear. It is a season of white goods,
and a woman ought to possess a number
of such dresses in all kinds of materials,
from duck and lawn to silk and satin..
One cannot have too many. Let dresses ,
of color be lim ted, if need be, but let
the white gowns fid the trunks for the
suminor's otating. Of course, with these
must go the parasol. hats and shoes and
stookilias aud spotless pettheats of white.
A. woman in such a costume has the per-
fect satisfaction of being well dressed.
In case of insomnia a frequent change
of pillows will sometimes induce sleep.
Excellent results almost invariably follow'
a gentle bathing of the head, neck, arms
and hands. The water must be of a0
agreeable temperature, neither hot nor
cold.
A simple way to treat a burn is to cover
all portions of it and the surrounding flesh
with oil—sweet or castor oil answers very
well—sprinkle heavily with dry flour, and
bandage at once with linen. The first ob-
ject is to exclude the air and relieve the
pain.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Caetoria,
When she became Sliss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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