The Exeter Advocate, 1897-4-29, Page 7UNFAILING FRIEND
A SERMON FULL OF THE BREAT
OF THE FIELDS.
showing Row the Attachment of Boaz f
It131,13 WI'S Pull of Undying Interest
the Church of God In Al) Ages-Darkne
and Daylight.
Washington, • April 25.—Thi sermon
Dr. Talmage could not have been prepare
by any onenot born in the country. It
tull of the breatn of the fields. The text
Ruth ii, 8, "And she went and mane a
gleaned in the field after the reapers, a
her bap was to light on • a part of tl
geld belonging unto Boaz, who was
the kindred of Elimelech."
The Mine tbat Ruthand Naomi arri
at Bethlehem is hal:vest time. It was t
custom when a sheaf fell from a load i
the harvest field for the reapers to refu
to gather it up. That was to be left f
the poor who might happen to oomn
along that way. If there were handfu
of grain scattered across the field aft
the main narvest had been reaped, i
stead of raking it, as farmers do now,
was by the custom of the land left i
Its place, so that the poor coming alon
that way might glean it and get the
bread. But you say: "What is the use
all these harvest fields to Ruth an
Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to
out and toil in the sun, and, can you e
pect that Ruth, the young and the beat
tiful, should tan her cheeks and blist
her hands in the harvest field?"
Boaz owns a largo farm, and he go
out to see the reapers gather in th
grain. Coming there right behind th
swarthy, sun -browned reapers, he b
holds a beautiful woman gleaning—
woman more fit to bend to a harp or s
upon a tinono than to stoop among th
sheaves. .Ah, that was an eventful day!
It was love at first sight Boaz form
an attachment for the womanly gleane
—an attachment fall of undying inters
to the church of God in all ages, whil
Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly a bush
of barley, goes home to Naomi to tell he
the successes and adventures of the da
Tbat Ruth who left her native land o
Moab in darknoes and traveled, throug
an undying affection for her mother -in
law, is in the harvest field of Boaz, 1
affianced to one of the best families i
Judah and becomes in aftertime the a
cestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord o
glory. Out of so dark a night did ther
ever aawn so bright a morning?
The Cso or Trouble.
I learn, in the first place, from thi
subject how trouble develops oharacte
It was bereavement, poverty and call
that developed, illustrated and announce
to all pae•s the leablimity of Ruth's char
atter. That is a very unfortunate ma
who has no trouble. It was sorrow tha
made John Bunyan the better dreamer
and Dr. Young the better poet, an
O'Connell the better orator, and Bisho
Hall the better preacher, and Haveloc
the better soldier, and Kitto the bette
eneychie list, and Rath the bette
dit ugh 1A 4n -law.
I once asked au aged man in regard t
his pastor, who was a very brillian
man, "Why is it that your pastor, s
very brilliant, seems to have so littl
heart, and tenderness 111 his sermons?'
"Well," he replied, "the reason is oum
• pastor has never had any trouble. Whet
misfortu.no comes upon him, his styl
will be different" After awhile the Lor
took a child out of that pastor's house
and, though the preacher was just a
brilliant as he was before, oh, th
warmth, the tenderness of his discourse
The fact is that trouble is a great edu
cater. Yon see sometimes a musician sit
down at an instrument, and his execu
tion is 0010 and formal. and. unfeeling
The reason is that all his life he has
been prospered. But let misfortune ox
bereavement come to that man, and h
sits down at the instrument, and yos
discover the pathos in the first sweep o
the keys.
Misfortune and trials are great ecluca
tors. A young doctor comes into a sick
room where there is a, dying child. Per
haps he is very rough in hie prescription,
and very rough in his manner, and rough
in•the feeling of the pulse, and rough
In his answer to the mother's anxious
question. But years roll on, and there
has been one dead in his own house, and
now he comes into the sickroom, an
with tearful eye he looks at the dyin
child, and be says, "Oh, how this re-
minds one of sny Charlie!" Trouble, th
great educator. Sorrow—I see its touch
in the grandest painting; I hear its
tremor in the sweetest song; I feel its
power in the mightiest arectunent.
Grecian mythology saidthat the foun-
tain of Hippocrene was struck out by the
foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I have
often noticed in life that the brightest
and most beautiful fountains of Chris-
tian comfort and spiritual life have been
struck out by the iron shod hoof of dis-
aster and calamity. I see Daniel's courage
best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzar's
furnace. I see Paul's prowess best when
I find him on the foundering ship linden
the glare of the lightaing in the breakers
of Melita. God crowns his children amid
ithe howling of wild beasts and the chop-
ping of blood splashed guillotine and the
cracking fires of ruartyrcione It took the
persecutions of Marcus Aurelius to de-
velop Polycarp and Justin Martyr. It took
all the hostilities against the Scotch
Covenantors and the fury of Lord Clever-
bouse to develop James Renwick and
Andrew Melville and Hugh McKail, the
glorious martyrs of Scotch history. It
took the stormy sea, and the December
blast, and the desolate New England
coast, and the warwhoop of savages, to
show forth the prowess of the pilgrim
fathers— .
, When ainid the storms they sang,
And the stens heard, and the sea,
And the sounding aisles of the dim wood
Rang to the anthems of the free.
It took all our past national distresses,
and it takes all our present national sor-
rows to lift up our nation on that high
career where it will march long after tho
foreign axistooracies that have Mocked
and tyrannies that have jeered shall be
swept down under the omnipotent wrath
of God, who hates despotism, and who,
by the strougth of his own red right arm,
will melte all men free. And so it is in-
dividually, and in the family, and in the
cl•urch, and in the world, that, through
darkness and storm and trouble, Men.
women, churobes, nations, are developed.
Tfte Beauty or Pri e d ship.
Again, I see in iny- text • the beauty of
unfaltering friendship. I suppose there
were plenty of friends for Naomi while
she was in prosperity, but of all her
acquaintances how many were willing to
trudge off with her toward Judah when
she had to meke that lonely journey?
One, the heroine of my text. One, abso-
a
lately one. I suppose when Naomi's bus.•
). band was living, and they had. plenty of
money, and all things went well, they
had a great many callers, but I suppose
H that after her husband died, and her
property went, and she got old and poor
she ,was not troubled very Muwith
th
callers. All the birds that sang in the
)1. bower while the sun shone have gone to
• their nests, now the night has fallen.
Oh, these beautiful sunflowers that
55 spread out their color in the morning
hour! But they are always asleep when
the sun is going down! job bad plenty
if of friends when he was the richest 3111113
A in 17z, but when his property went and
is the trials castle, then there were none so
is much that pestered as. Eliphaz the Te-
d rnanite and Misled the Shuhite and zo.
d phar the Naamathite. '
te Life often seems to be a mere game,
if where the successful player pulls down
all the other men into his own lap. Let
lO suspicion anise about a man's cheat -niter
Le and he becomes like a bank in a panto,
n and all tbe imputations rush on hiin and
e break down in a day that character
1r , which in due time wonld have had
•e strength to defend itself. There are repu-
Ls tations that have been half a century in
T building which go down under one push,
a as a vast temple is consumed by the
[t touch of a sulphurous match. A hog cau
n uproot a century plant.
g In this world, so full of heartlessness
.r and hypocrisy, how thrilline it is to find
pf some friend as faithful in (Pays of adver-
d sity as in days of prosperity! David had
o such a friend in Husban the Jews had
:- such a friend in Mordecai, who never
:- forgot their cause; Paul had such a
n friend in Onesiphorus, who visited, him
in jail; Christ had snch in the Marys,
S who adhered to him on the oross;
e Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who
e cried out; "Entreat me not to leave thee
- or to return from following after thee,
O for whither thou goest I will go, and
t whither thou longest I will lodge. Thy
e people shall be my people, and thy God
my God. Where thou diest will I dienued
s there will I be buried, The Lord do so
r to me, and mare also, if aught but death
t part thee and me."
B
Prom Darkness to Light.
I
Again, I learn from this subject that
rchmond
. paths which open in hardship and dark-
f ness 01 ten come out in places of joy.
1 When Ruth started froni Moab toward
_ Jerusalem, to go along with her mother-
s in-law, I suppose the people said; "Oh,
1 what a foolish creature to go away from
her father's house, to go off with a poor
f old woman toward the land of Judah!
They won't live to get across the desert.
0
They will be drowned in the sea or the
jackals of the wilderness will destroy
them." Is was a very dark morning
5 when Ruth started off with Naomi, but
. behold her in my text in the harvest field
s of Boaz, to be affianced to one of the
1 lords of the land and become one of the
- grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord
1 of glory. And so it often is that a patb
G which often starts very darkly ends very
, brightly.
i When you started out for heaven, oh,
) how dank was the hour of conviction!
: How Sinai thundered, and devils tor-
r /misted, and darkness thickened! All the
sins of your life pounced,
rupon youand
it was the darkest hour you ever saw
when you first found out your
) eins,
G After awhile you went into the harvt
es
1 field of God's mercy. You began to gl •en
?• in the fields of divine promise, and you
' had more sheaves than you (.0010 esrry.
ae the voice of God addressed you, say-
I bog, "Blessed is the 3111111 whose flan,-
t 81111.1 .
gression are forgiven and whose ..1'.
I covered." A very dark startling in e m
viction, a very bright ending in th
, e pur•
; don and the hope and the triumph ot
• the gospel.
! So very often in our ltOl'hilY 13115111?E1:,
• or in our spiritual career we start ein on
a very dark path. We insist go. The flesh
• may shrink back, but there is a voice.
within, or a voice from above, saying,
: "You must go,'" and we have to drink
• the gall, and we have to carry the cross
; and we have to traayerse the desert. and
[ we are pounded and flailed of misrepre-
! sentation and abuse, and We have to arge
our way through 10,000 obstacles that
• have been slain by our own right ann.
We have to ford. the river, we have to
climb the mountain, we have to storm
the castle; but, blessed be God, the day
of rest and reward will come. On the
tiptop of the captured battlements we
[ Will shout the victory, if not in this
world, then in that world where there is
no gall to drink, no burdens to carry, no
battles to fight. How do I know it?
Know it! I know it because God says so,
"They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sari
light on thein, nor any heat, for the
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains of
water, and God shall wipe all tears from
their eyes."
It was very hard for Noah to endure
the scoffing of the people in his day,
while he was trying to build the ark,
and was every morning quizzed 'about
his old boat that would never be of any
practical use. But svhen the deluge came
and the tops of the inountains disap-
poared like the backs of sea monsters,
and the elements, lashed up in furn
clapped their hands over a drowned
world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in
his own safety and in the safety of his
family, and looked out on the wreck of
a ruined earth.
Christ, hounded of persecutors, denied
a pillow, worse maltreated than the
thieves on either side of the cross, hunian
hate smacking 'its lips in satisfaction
after it had been draining his last drop
of blood, the sheeted dead bursting from
the sepulchres at his crucifixion. Tell
me, 0 Gethsemane and Golgotha, were
there ever darker times than those? Like
the booming of the midnight sea against
the rock. the surges of Christ's anguish
beat against the gates of eternity, to be
eohoed back by all the thrones cif heaven
and all the dungeons of hell. But the
day of reward mines for (thirst. All the
pomp and dominion of this world are to
be hung on his throne, crowned heads
are to bow before him on whose head are
many crowns, and all the celestial wor-
ship is to come un at his feet, like the
humming of the forest, like the rushing
of the waters, like the thundering of the
seas, while all heaven, rising on their
thrones, beat time with their scepters/
"Halleluiah, for the Lord God omnipo-
tent reigneth." •
That song of love, now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light, the breaking day whicla dps
The golden spired Apocalypse. .
illomentrinua Inc* den te.
Again, I learn from my subject that
events which seem to be inostinsignificant
may be momentous. Can you imagine
anything more unimportant than the
coming of a poor woman from Moab to
Judah? Can you imagine anything snore
trivial than the Met that this Ruth juet
happened to alight—as they say—just
happened to alight on that field of Boaz?
Yet all ages, all generations, have an in,
terest in the fact that she was to become
an anoestress of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and all nations and kingdoms must look
at that One little incident with a thrill
of unspeakable and eternal eatisfantion.
So it is in your history and in mine,
events that you thought of no import-
once at all have been of very great inos
went. That casual conversation; that
accidental meeting—you did not think
of it again for a long while. But how it
cliataged all the phases of your life!
It seemed to be of no importance .that
Jabal Invented rude instruments of
niuSic, calling them harp and organ, but
they were •the introduaton of all the
world's ininStrelsn, and as you hear the
vibration of a stringed instrument, even
after the fingers have been taken away
from it, so ell music now of lute and
drum and cornet is only the long con -
tinned strains of Jubal's harp and Ju-
'bars organ. It seemed to be a natter of
very little importance that Tubal Cain
learned the uses of copper and iron, but
' that rude foundry of ancient days has
its echo in the rattle of Birmingham
machinery and the roar and bang of fao-
tories on the Merrimac.
It seemed to be a matter of no import-
ance that Luther found a Bible M. a
monastery, but as he opened that Bible
and the brass bound lids fell back they
jarred everything, and the rustilng of
the wormed leaves Was the sound of the
Wings of the angel of the refcagnation. It
seemed to be a matter of no importance
that a woman whose name has been for-
gotten dropped a tract in the waY 01 :0
very bad man by the name of Richard
Baxter. He picked up the tract and road
it, and it was the means os his salvation.
In after days that man wrote a book
called "The Call to the Unconverted,"
that was the means of bringing a mul-
titude to God, among others Philip Dodd-
ridge. Philip Doddridge wrote a book
called "The Rise and Progress of Re-
ligionnl which has brought thousands
and tens of thousands into the kingdom
of God, and ainong others the great
Wilberforce. 'Wilberforce wrote a book
called "A Practical View of Christian-
ity," which was the means of bringing
a great xnultitude to Christ, among
others Le li Richmond. Legh Ri '
wrote a tfact called "The '
DanYman' s
Daughter " which has been the means
the ' • ' •y
of salvation of unconverted multi-
tudes. And that tide of influence started
from "
the feat that one christen woman
dropped aChristian tract in the way at
Richard Baxter, the title of influence roll-
ing on through Richard Baxter, g h
pldit D di •
o (ridge, through the great
WilbePrforc through Legh Richmond,
on on on, forevea So the in-
si,:niileane events' of this world seem.
n
after all, to be most momentous.
Beauty of Female Industry.
Again, I see in my subject an illu;tra-
tion of the beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth telling In the harvest
field under the hot sun, or at noon tak.
ing plain breed with the reapers or eat-
ing the parched corn which Boaz handed
to her. The customs of society, of course,
have changed, and without tbe hardships
and exposure to which Ruth was sub-
jected every intelligent woman will find
something to do.
I know there is a sickly sentimentality
on this subject. In some families there
are persons of no real service to the
household or community. and though
there are so many woes all around about
them in the world, they spend their time
languishing over a now pattern, or burst-
Ing into tears at midnight over the story
of seine lover who shot himself. They
would not deign to look at Ruth carry-
ing back the barley on her way home to
her mother-in-law, Naomi. All this pas-
tidiousness may seem to do very well
while they are under the shelter of their
father's house; but when the sharp win-
ter of misfortune comes, What of these
butterflies? Persons under indulgent par-
entage may get upon themselves habits
of indolence, but when the'? come out
into practical life their soul will recoil
with disgust and chagrin. They will feel
in their hearts what the poet so severely
satirized when he said:—
Folks are so awkward, things so impolite,
They're elegantly pained from morning
until night.
Through that gate of indolence how
many men and women have marched,
useless on earth, to a destroyed eternity.
spinola, said to Sir Horace Vere, "Of
what did your brother die?" "Of having
nothing to do," was the answer. "Ah 1"
said Spinelli, "that's enough to kill any
general of us." Oh, can it be possible in
this world, where there is so much suffer-
ing to be alleviated, so much darkness to
be enlightened and so many burdens to
be carried, that there 18 any pesron who
cannot find anything to do?
Mme. de Steel aid a world of work in
her time, and one day, while she was
seated amid instruments of music, all of
which she had mastered, and amid man-
uscript books which she had written,
some one said to her, "How do you find
tirne to attend to all these things?"
"Oh," she replied, "these are not the
things 1 am proud of. My chief boast is
in the fact that I have 17 trades, by any
one of which I could make a livelihood
if necessary." And if in secular spheres
there is so much to be done, in spiritual
work how vast the field! How many dy-
ing all around about us without one word
of comfort! We want more Abigails,
more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, ',more
Marys, more Debora,hs consecrated -.-body,
mind, soul —to th Lordbought
sou — o ewhosome
them.
Value of Gleaning.
Once more I learn from msubject
y
the value of gleaning..
Ruth going inso that harvest fieldout
might h"TI '
ave said: tem is a straw, and
there is a straw, but what is a straw? I
can't t barleyf myself get any or myse or my
mother-in-law out of these separate
straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth.
She gathered two strains, and she put
them together, and more straws until
she got enough to make a sheaf. Putting
that down, she went and gathered more
straws until she had another sheaf, and
another and another, and another, and
then she brought them altogether, and
she thrashed them oak and she had an
ephah a barley, nigh a bushel. Oh that ''
, .
we might all no gleaners!
Elihu I3urritt learned many things
w e in a LIO SIM shop.
hil toiling bl k "th"Ai
Abercromloie, the world renowned philos
sopher was a philosopher in Scotland,
and he got his philosophy, or the chief
part of it, while as a physician he was
waiting for the door of the sickroom to
open. Yet how many there are in this
day who say they are so busy they have
no time for mental or spiritual improve-
raenta• The great duties of life cross the
field. like strong reapers and carry off an 'unknown,
the hours, and there is only here and.
tisere a fragment left that is not worth
gleaning. Ah, my friends, you could go
into the busiest day and. busiest week of
3' our life and find golden opportunities
whieh, gathered, might at last make
whole sheaf for the Lord's garner. It is
the stray opportunities and the Stray
privileges 'which, taken up and bound to-
gether and beaten out, will at last fill
you with much joy. •
There are a few momeats left worth
the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field!
May each one have measure full and ran-
ning over! On, you gleaners, to the field!
And if there be in your household an
aged one or a sick relative . that is not
stropg enough to come forth and toil in
this field, then let Ruth take home to
feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning:
"He that goeth forth and annals, bear-
ing Precious seed, shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him." May the Lord God
of Ruth and Naomi be our portion for-
ever!
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Hez•e is a short story that it has taken
history : 0 years to write:—
A i the begianin 4; of the great oiyil war
in 1861 Saintiel W, Kenney, a Pennsyn,
vaplau lpy birth, was engaged in business
in Inilaski, Teun. He owned a farm of
231 acres near that place, and had $3,000
worth of cotton stored there. He was a
strong Union man, and, the southerners
burned his cotton and made it impossible
lot him to live among them. A mob
attacked his house, and he and his fam-
ily, after hiding several days in the
woods, made their way northward a,nd
went to their old home in 'Pennsylvania.
In September, 1862, Kenney joined the
command of General .Jaxnes S. Negley at
Pittsburg, ad entered active service as
a spy. He went to Louisville, and thence
entered the Confederate lines. He was
recognized and betrayed by one of his old
Tennessee neighbors and was arrested by
Bragg's forces at Lyncliburg. '
From this point Samuel W. Kenney
disappeared, His family knew that he
had been captured and believed that be
had bt en executed, but proof of the fact
was unobtainable. In 1867 Mrs. Kenney
left Pennsylvania and removed to
Dwight, Ills., where she has resided ever
since. Two sons; now grown to stunlY
ina,nhood, live in this city—Alexander at
. i
648 11,loaroe street and John at 3401
Parnell avenue.
Twenty years ago they made an at -
tempt to obtain a pension for their
motherbut failed, because the depart-
went inerds at Washington , did not
show that the missing spy of 1862 had
been regularly enlisted, and there was no
proof .of his death. Quite recently, how -
ever, Oongreasman Woodman of this city
found in the war deportment an un-
ofileial reference to the execution of a
northern spy named Kenney at Tulla
home Tenn., Feb. 18, 1868. This proof
,
was regarded as sufficient, and a pension
had just been granted. to the aged widow
in Dwight.
Ld h
ust week Alexander Kenney an is
brother Jo} in went to Tennessee to dis-
any further facts about
cover, if possible, .,
the fate of their fatber. They visited
Tullahoma, and were most hospitably re-
ceived by the town officials. It was sug-
gested by the mayor that an aged woman
who had lived in the place ever since the
war might know something about the
death of the northern spy, and she was
visited.
"There were only four men killed in
urine the war." she said
Tullahoma d „,With
Positively. "Three of them were Confed-
erates, and they were buried in the town
cemetery. The other one was a spy, who
had been caught by Bragg's men. I saw
them take him out of the jail and put
him into a wagon and saw him sitting
on a coffin. They drove away with him,
and I heard that he had been hanged,
but I doint know where."
th
"Can you remember the name of that
spy?" asked. one of the Cllicagoans.
"Yes," she replied slowly; "his name
was Kenney."
But this seemed to be as far as the
search could be carried. There were no
town records which would throw light
upon the matter, and no additional facts
could be learned. Returning to the rail-
way station, the two Chicagoans fell
into conversation with the railway agent,
Archibald Smith, and incidentally mon-
tioned their mission while waiting for a
train.
"Well, boys, Inn sorry for you," he
said, "but I guess I can help you some,
I saw your father banged. I was only
la years old then, and the sight was
stamped upon. my neind indelibly, for 1
was scared nearly to death. Besides, the
body was buried on my father's farm,
and for many years after I used to shud-
der and run as fast as I could whenever
I had to pass the spot"
The trio, led by 'the southerner, quick-
ly passed through the little town, and
just outside the suburbs, on the north-
western side, a halt was made.
"They hanged your father to that
sycamore tree there by the spring," said
the guide. "His body was buried about
half way up that hill over there, and the
grave wasn't marked. You'll never find
it now."
But the two Chicagoans went over
every foot of the hillside. A recent freshet
had washed away part of the bank and
undermined the hill so that part of the
ragged edge gave way beneath the feet
of Alexander Kenney, and he saw pro-
trading from the bank the two lower
leg bones of a skeleton. The spy who dis-
appeared 84 years ago had been found,
T ' , • •
he remains were !nought to Chicago
and interred in the family lot in Dwiesht.
—Chicago Times -Herald.
to Annear
isad ins Level
one knows that ta
great, wide world
of the fact that
do notliketto put
before °inter large
This peculiarity,
to killing ducks,
my becoming
States. However,
lady and myself
amusement
are nice people
and go out somewhere
when youwauld
burnieg the soles
own gvats fire.
bashfulness I
on such occasions.
the little lady.
wonder how
a perfect fool as
made me promise
to pretend I was
she made me
I was asked to
festivities. She
But I did the best
was a fair, pale
city at the Blakes'
received her education
the piano with both
French without
ever and anon
I was sitting
look as, graceful as
when
swung herself around
piano stool and
sing. Now, I can't
tune from another,
of "Old. Hundredth,"
because it is so
just going to
of my promise to the
break a promise
UN world
. -
pleasure," I answered
girl, and stepped
told me afterward
when I did
.
mows when to faint.
read at sight?"
girl.
by sight," I
there were people
so glad," she lisped.
that I brought
It is for a baritone
it will please you.
she began playing.
enough to begin
that the •
re is
one inight say, on
begins. I
up or down according
up or down on
which they print
that the
pianist commences
thuenp, thump
eta. So when
of a way I began,
to the end.
yet if she
for I got so tangled
telegraph
no idea where I
applause. And
went out of the
riglit alongside
rest of the women
and the men looked
Blake did his
He said I had
And I think
they beard it up
was an alarm of
010 Recl No. 1 and
put the fire out.
out and joined
Hall in Truth.
'X'he Two Clean Utica
The two cleanest cities on the =tin.
ent to -day are Toronto and New York,
and they are both cleaned by direct labor.
New York not only esnploys and thus
directs all its street cleaning and garbage
dispatcb forces, but it has an organized
department, with an adequate and prop_
•erly adjusted equipment of horses, carts,
brooms, stables and stations, and it pays
its rnen $2 a day and upward for eight
hours' work. To be sure, it has had a
Colonel Waring, but had tenet Waring
been a contractor or a contractor's super-
intendeat the metropolis would not have
been the clean eiV it 's to -day. It is by
i
the method of direct labor, under model
conditions of employment, that this first
worthy result of the kind in a large
American city has been achieved.
Toronto, the other of these two.exem.
plary cities, has gone even further than
New York in eliminating the contractor.
In this enterprising Canadian town, with
its 190,000 people, Street Commissioner
Jones has during the last seven years
entirely revolutionized the care of the
streets of the city. He has not only
organized the execution of this work
under 11, distinct department, but out of
the margin thus saved from the annual
appropriations for caring for the streets
he has actually •
s built and equipped a
modest but co 1 1
h n p ete set of workshops,
where the n n•
e ti e construction and repair
work of the department is executed
- '
Not only are the sprinklers, rotary
sweepers, automatic loading carts and
snow scrapers, each after a special pat-
terns devised by the commissioner or
under his direction, built in these shops,
but even the harnesses are made there,
-
the horsos
es are shod there, and it is the
truthful boast of the commissioner that
artiale of
every manufacture used by the
department is produced from the raw
material in these shops. It is exceedingly
r 4' i.pghill..; to find tbere inventive genius
C011Slitutly brought to bear to produce
applitinees not for sale in the general
market, and nonce of that crude adjust-
inent which can be used anywhere, but
appliances precisely adapted to the par-
ticular needs of Toronto, with its own
climate, soil, street mileage and
'and pave-
inents.—Review of Reviews.
Magnetic Sentinel.
Lieutenant F. B. Badt has patented an
eleetro magnetic sentinel, which is de-
signed to give warning at a distant post
of the aPproaeli of a hostile warship to a
submarine mine, or to explode the mine
automatically, says the Pittsburg Dis-
Patch. Such a device was badly needed.
The usual method employed for coast
protection by means of explosive mines
has been to sink them in the waterways
to be protected, ordinarily In a narrow
channel, and form two observatories on
shorty connected by telephone and tele-
graph, the officers on duty following, by
means of range finders, the movements
of any hostile vessel. When the instru-
ments indicate that the vessel is direct19
above the hidden mine, a switch is
thrown whiob sets free an electric cur-
rent and explodes the mine. This me-
thod is expensive, as it entails keeping
uP two observatories, two sets of instru-
moats and two or more operators. More-
over, the apparatus cannot always he TO-
lied upon. It may get out of order just
at the moment it is needed. It can follow
the movements of only one vessel at a
time, and at night, in fogs or storms, it
is of little or no use .
Lis•utenant 13adt's device is automatic
lin its action and gives warning by night
as well as by day. It is simple and direct
in its operations, and requires but one
observatory, one set of instruments and
one attendant. When arrangements are
rnade to explode the mine autornaticall Y,
the attendant can be dispense with. An
induction coil, suitably connected, is
secured to the mine or torpedo, the fuse
of which is fired b apowerful electric]
y
current—switched on either automatic-
ally or at the observatory. When the
inodern war vessel, heavily protected by
• t I
iron or s eis armor, approaches the in-
duction coil, there will be a magnetic
disturbance, which is instantly indicated
to the officer on duty at the observatory.
He watches the vessel, and at the proper
mome t
n closes the fuse circuit and ex-
plodes the mine. In case an automatic
device is employed, the arm of an indi-
cater is deflected until contact is made,
which causes the explosion
- '
A. Good lady.
Girl (entertaining, visito
comes in) --My mamas
(interested)—yes my dea
• ? '
say so now
when you to
And wbat did s
Girl—Dood Lord delivex
Cruel Injustice.
against you, prn
magistrate, "is that yol
the act of purloining hale
so, y'r honor," snivel
"an do cop knows it,
WUZ stealin neckties."—C
Blisnamed.
see. That play of you
Cup of 'Ian' WZ1S11'11 it?"
admitted the returned
it ought to have been 01)
At any rate, a fel
Enquirer.
A Lurnin nus Li re Line.
In spite of the magnificieut work of
the life saving corps of the government,
and regardless of the apparatus for the
rendering of aid to the shipwrecked
which is at their command, many a life
has been lost by the inability of the per-
sons who are clinging to a wreck to see
the line shot at them from the shore,
or, if it reaches the rigging, to tell just
where it might be seized upon. As in
alleh cases minutes mean lives,th '
a In-
ability to see and grasp the life line with-
out the delay of 0 second has lessened
the ' fh
population o the earth by several in
many instances.
The idea which Mr. Plass has success-
frilly evolved is to provide a life line
which emits a phosphorescent light of
sufficient luminosity to be visible for a
long distance immediately it leaves the
mortar's mouth and is shot through the
gale and across the waves to the wreck.
In the past, if it basmened to be daylight
—
the life savers were at work, they
could, by means of their t, -,lasses, tell
w hother or not the had landed
y . a life
line aboard the wreck. It unfortunately
happens though that the ina'ority of
' ' ' 3
wrecks occur at night, and therefore a
luminous life line becomes an invention
of the first importance. By its use the
life savers can tell exactly what has hap-
limed to the line. There need be no more
-
uncertaints.
It is estimated that the luminous line
of Mr. Plass will be visible with as much
distinctness as if the light were emitted
from a 56 candle power electric bulb. In
that way, unless the storm were too
dense, the' liue would be visible its entire
length from. shore to wreck and die
Watcher on the beach could tell just
less owar sa e y was eing
what prog• t d f t b '
iinade by those whose lives they were
striving 60 save.—Washington Letter in
Austin Statesman.
Pars Anxiety.
Pat. I'll mire
take the medicine I pres
eland, son Oitin thot a
'* th O''
ag in at 1 0 take yei
if 01 k-nowed 'twould kill
•
Record.
A Peculiar Case of the Pacca Edict.
An arr •
angmement has been finally
b •
come to between the impecunious Prince
SO32111•14 and tlae Italian government in
regard to the masterpieces of art in his
gain y p • s •
rince (sierra wanted to sell
- r- ' •
of his pictures, but under an Italian
law known as the Paces edict, he could
not dispose of them to any one living
outside of Italy. Some time ago, however,
he succeeded in sniuegling certain can-
1 th'''''
vases.o e country, among these
being Raphael's "Violinist," which he
sold to Baron Alphonsed Rothschild
ewhen
for 750,000 francs; Titian's "Belle," sold
to the same for 600,000 franos• Leonardo
da Vinci's "Vanity" and "'Modesty,"
also purchased by Baron Alphonse for
600,000 francs. a Peru ino sold to the
Louvre' g
for 150,000 francs, and Caravag-
' ' "G• bl "
gee s am ers, for which M. &Amen
der a'
id 60,000 francs, Now the Italian
wi permit Prince Soiarra to
,govePrnrnent '11
dispose as he 1 ses of 11 th worksf
pea. ati e o
art in his o the follow-
15whichi?ssesslon excel) .ng
ing , become the property of the
government: Guido Reni's "Madeleine,"
Giotto's "Life of Jesus," Schedone's
d• I
vs Ian "asters," Andrea del Santo's
"Virgin." "St. Joseph" and "St. Peter;"
De Carpi's "Pico Transformed," the
same painter's Vestal, with the statue of
Cybele; the painting, "Church of the
Gesu at the Canonization of St. Igna-
tius," by Gagliardi and Andrea Sacchi;
Bellini's "Virgin and Sleeping Child,"
BronzinP portrait of Stephen. Colonna,
the "Visis 1, of Friar Thomas," artist
ad five pieces of statuary.—
Collector.
She Looked Xt.
Miss Passee's great -
over in the Mayflower.
she coine with him ?—
Useful Compliment.
pay a compliment whexe
. You may want to 1
day.—Sonserville Jour
Legerdemain.
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conturin chap
disappear.—Pick
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sonny. Just
make a old gent's
Me Up.
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If there is any word more disagreeable
than another, it is the word "genteel,"
It is a word that suggests patented pavers
ty and old ohina dishes with netting in
them It is a word that women Hite, but
that men aboininate.--Seattle Post
/ ,
been a
gold
For headache, bathing behind the Gans
with hot water often proves of immense'
benefit.
ant and
est, Per-
t aware,
0813101 as
forward
mall an-
er with
ventual-
t of the
at pass.
vited to
Blan-es',
ake you
00 oold,
uob pre-
ur socks
count of
ually an
hifi does
says it
came to
At any
e a stab
sot, and
ise to do
ke part
•y after -
as you
ng girl
vening.
oad mad
s. She
ting the
s an all
auteuil,
le under
ir, pale
be orbit
e if
I don't
the ex -
d I only
finnan
when I
lady. I
oa anYs
he fair,
y to her
the lit-
woraan
be Pair,
d, wen-
d with
ye here
e from
, and I
egin at
Now I
g right
a little
Lao be-
ew that
as the
egraph
sic. I
begins
ep play
snap —
played
I sang
d have
stopped
In that
d wires
I did
ir'pale
ncl had
ainting
to take
um. I
a host,
dously
int be
stoince,
turned
non of
I heard
ve fire -
until
a is a
r. But
ne she
he say?
us.—
oner,"
were
dash-
ed the
All
hicago
Was
come -
lied 'A
eggs
you if
cribe.
nxious
medi-
grand-
rook-.
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lpin
watch