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SATTL'S FATAL ERROR
HE WON A FLOCK, BUT HE LOST
A KINGDOM.
Rev. Dr. Talmage on the Dancers of
Hypocrisy—Tie Says It Is Always Ex-
posed, Either in This World or in the
World to Come.
Washington, July 11.—This discourse
of Dr. Talmage, founded on a str:.nge
scene of olden time,shows that fraud will
Dome to exposure, if not in this world.
then in the next. Text, I Samuel xv;
14, "And Samuel said, What meaneth
then this bleating of the sheep in mine
ears and the lowing of the oxen which I
hear?"
The Amalekites thought they had con-
quered God and that he would not carry
into execution his threats against them.
They had murdered the Israelites in bat-
tle and out of battle and left no outrage
untried. For 400 years this had been go-
ing on, and they say, "God either dare
not punish us, or he has forgotten to do
so." Let us see. Samuel, God's prophet,
tells Saul to go clown and slay all the
Amalekites; not leaving one of them
alive; also to destroy all the beasts in
their possession—ox, sheep, camel and
ass. Hark! I hear the tread of 210,000
men, with mnonstrous. Saul at their head,
ablaze with armor, his shield dangling
at his side, holding in his hand a spear,
at the waving of whioh the great host
marched or halted. I see smoke curling
against the sky. Now there is a thick
cloud of it, and now I see the whole pity
rising in a chariot of smoke behind
steeds of fire. It is Saul that set the pity
ablaze. The Amalekites and Israelites
meet; the trumpets of battle blow peal
on peal, and there is a death hush. Then
there is a signal waved; swords cut and
hack; javelins ring on shields; arms fall
from trunks and heads roll into the dust.
Gash after gash, the frenzied yell, the
gurgling of throttled throats, the cry of
pain, the laugh of revenge, the curse
hissed between clinched teeth—an army's
death groan. Stacks of dead on all sides,
with eyes unshut and mouths yet grin-
ning vengeance. Huzza for the Israelites!
Two hundred and ten thousand men
wave their plumes and clap their
shields, for the Lord God hath given
them the viotory.
Saul's Mistake.
Yet that victorious army of Israel is
conquered by sheep and oxen. God,
through the prophet Samuel, told Saul
to slay all the Amalekites and to slay all
the beasts in their possession. but Saul,
thinking that ho know more than God,
saves Agag, the Aralokitish king, and
five drove of sheep .and a herd of oxen
that he cannot bear to kill. Saul drives
the sheep and oxen down toward home.
He has no idea that Samuel, the prophet,
will find out that Ile has saved these
sheep and oxen for himself. Samuel
comes and asks Saul the news from the
battle. Saul puts on a solemn face, for
their is no one who can look more solemn
than your genuine hypocrite, and he
says, "I have iulfllled the command of
the Lord." Sainuel listens, and he hears
the drove of sheep a little way off. Saul
had no idea that the prophet's ear would
bo so acute. Sainuel says to Saul, "If
you have done as God told you and slain
all the Amalekites and all tho beasts in
'Weir possession, what meaneth the bleat-
ing of the sheep in inine ears and the
lowing of the oxen that I hear?" Ah,
one would have though that blushes
would have consumed the cheek of Sault
No, no!- Ho says the army—not himself,
of course, but the army—had saved the
sheep and oxen for sacrifice, and then
they thought it would be too bad any-
how to kill Agag, the Amalekitish king.
Samuel takes the sword and ho slashes
Agag to pieces, and then he takes the
skirt of his coat in true oriental style
and rends it in twain, as much as to
say, "You, Saul, just like that, shall be
torn away from your empire and torn
away from your throne." In other words,
let all the nations of the earth hear the
story that Saul by disobeying God won
a flock of sheep, but lost a kingdom.
I learn from this subject that God will
expose hypocrisy. Here Saul pretends he
has fulfilled the divine commission by
slaying all the beasts belonging to the
Amalekites, and yet at the very moment
he is telling the story and practicing the
delusion the secret comes out, and the
sheep bleat and the oxen bellow.
A hypocrite is one who pretends to be
what he is not or to do what he does
not. Saul was only a typo of a class. The
modern hypocrite looks awfully solemn,
whines when he prays and during his
public devotion shows a great deal of
the whites of his eyes He never laughs,
or, if he does laugh, he seems sorry for
it afterward, as though he had commit-
ted some great indiscretion. The first
time he gets a chance he prays 20 min-
utes in public, and when he exhorts he
seems to imply that all the race are
sinners, with one exception, his modesty
forbidding the stating who that one is.
There are a great many churches that
have two or three ecclesiastical Uriah
Beeps.
The Exposure.
When the fox begins to pray, look out
',ler your. chickens. The more genuine
religion 0 man leas the more comfortable
he will he, but you may know a religi-
ous impostor by the fact that he prides
himself on being uncomfortable. A man
of that kind is of immense damage to
the church of Christ. A ship may outride
a bundred storms, and yet a handful of
worms in the planks may sink it to the
bottom. The church of God is not so
"'+' much in danger of the cyclones of trou-
ble and persecution that conte upon it as
of the vermin of hypocrisy that infest It.
Wolves are of no danger to the fold of
God unless they looklike sheep. Arnold
was of more damage to the army than
Cornwallis and Lis hosts. Oh, we cannot
deceive God with a church certificate!
He sees behind the curtain as well as
before the curtain;' he "sees everything
inside out. A Ivan may, through policy,
hicle his real character, but God will
after awhile tear open the whited sepul-
cher and expose the putrefaction. Sunday
faces cannot save bine; long prayers can-
not save him; psalm singing and church-
going cannot save him. God will expose
him just as thoroughly as though he
branded upon his forehead the .word
"Hypocrite." He ivay think ho has been
successful in the deception, ' but at the
most unfortunate moment the sheep will
bleat and the oxen will bellow.
One of the cruel bishops bf olden time
was going to excommunicate one of the
martyrs, and he began in the usual
form, "In the name of God, amen."
"Stop I" says the martyr. "Don't say
'in the name of God! Yet how many
outrages are praoticedunder.the garb o
religion and sanctity. When; in 'synods
are about to say something unbrotherly
and unkind about a "weather, they al-
most always begin by being tremendous-
ly pious, the vermin of their assault
corresponding to the heavenly flavor of
the prelude. Standing there, you would
think they were ready to go right up
into glory, and that nothing kept them
down but the weight of their boots and
overcoats, when suddenly the sheep bleat,
and the oxen bellow.
Oh, my dear friends, let us , cultivate
simplicity of Christian character! Jesus
Christ said, "Unless youbecome as this
little ohild, you cannot enter the king-
dom of God." We may play hypocrite
successfully now, but the Lord God will
after awhile expose our true character,
You must know the incident mentioned
in the history of Ottaoas, who was asked
to kneel in the presence of Randolphus
I, and when before him he refused to
do it, but after awhile he agreed to come
in private when there was nobody in the
king's tent, and then he would kneel
down before him and worship, but the
servants of the king had arranged it so
that by drawing a cord the tent would
suddenly drop. Ottaoas after awhile came
in, and, supposing he was in entire pri-
vacy, knelt before Randolphus. The
servants pulled the cord, the tent dropped
and two armies surrounding looked down
on Ottacas kneeling before Randolphus.
If we aro really kneeling to the world
while we profess to be lowly snbjeots of
Jesus Christ, the tent has already
dropped, and all the hosts of heaven are
gazing upon our hypocrisy. God's uni-
verse is a very public place, and you
oannot hide hypocrisy in it.
The Futility of Sham.
Going out into a world of delusion
and sharer pretend to be no more than
you really are. Ifgyou have tho grace of
God, profess it. Profess no more than
you have. But 1 want the world to know
that where there is one hypocrite in the
church there are 500 outside of it, for
the reason that the field is larger. There
are mon in all circles who will bow be-
fore you, and who are obsequious in
your presenoe and talk flatteringly, but
who all the while in your conversation
aro digging for bait and angling for im-
perfections. In your presence they imply
that they are everything friendly, but
after awhile you find they have the fierce-
ness of a catamount, the syhness of a
snake and the spite of a devil. God will
expose such. The gun they load will
burst in their own hands. The lies they
tell will break their own teeth, and at
the very moment they think they have
been successful in deceiving you and de-
ceiving the world the sheep will bleat
and the oxen will bellow.
I learn further from this subject how
natural it is to try to put off our sins on
other people. Saul was charged with
disobeying God. The man says it was not
he; ho did not save the sheep; the army
did it—trying to throw it off on the
shoulders of other people. Human nature
is the same in all ages. Adam, con-
fronted with, his sin, said, "The woman
tempted me, and I did eat." And the
woman charged it upon the serpent, and
if the serpent could have spoken it
would have charged it upon the devil. I i
suppose that the real state of the case
was that Eve was eating the apple and;
that ?clam saw it and begged and coaxed
until he got a piece of it. I suppose that
Adaiii was just as much to blame as Eve
was. You cannot throw off the responsi-
bility of any sin upon the shoulders of
other people.
Here is a young man who says: "I
know I am doing wrong, but I have not
had any ohance. I had a father who de-
spised God and a mother who was a dis-
ciple of godless fashion. I am not to
blame for my sins. It is my bringing
up." Ah, no, that young man has been
out in the world long enough to see what
is right, and to see what is wrong, and
in the great day of eternity he cannot
throw his sins upon his father or mother,
but will have to stand for himself and
answer before God. You have had a con-
science, you have had a Bible and the
influence of the Holy Spirit. Stand for
yourself or fall for yourself.
Here is a business man. He says, 'I
know I don't do exactly right in trade,
but all the dry goods men do it and all
the hardware men do this, and I am not
responsible." You cannot throw off your
sin upon the shoulders of other mer-
chants. God will hold you responsible
for what you do, and them responsible
for what they do. I want to quote one
passage of Scripture for you—I think it
is in Proverbs—"If thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thyself, but if thou
scornest thou alone shalt bear it."
An Old Sin.
I learn further from this subject what
God meant by extermination. Saul was
told to slay all the Amalekites and the
beasts in their possession. He saves
Agag, the Amalekite king, and some of
the sheep and oxen. God ,chastises him
for it. God likes nothing done by halves.
God will not stay in the soul that is half
his and half the devil's. There may be
more sins in our soul than there were
Amalekites. We must kill them: Woe
unto us if we spare Agag 1 Here is a
Christian. He says: "I will drive out all
the Amalekites of sin from my heart.
Here is jealousy—down goes that Amale-
kite. Here is backbiting—down goes
that Amalekite." And what slaughter
he makes among our sins, striking right
and left. Who is that out yonder lifting
up his head? It is Agag. .It is v3orldli-
ness. It is an old sin he cannot bear to
strike down. It is a darling transgression
he cannot afford to sacrifice. Oh, my
brethren, I appeal for entire conseorae
tion! Some of the Presbyterians call it
the "higher life." The Methodists, I
believe call it "perfection." 'I do not
care what you call it, "Without holiness
no man shall see the Lord." I know men
who are living with their soul in perpet-
ual communion with Christ, and day by
day are walking within sight of heaven:
How do I know? They tell me so. I
believe them. They would not lie about
it. Why cannot we all have this consecra-
tion? Why. slay some of the sins in our
soul and leave others to bleat and bellow
for our exposure and condemnation?
Christ will not stay in the same house
with Agag. You must give up Agag or.
give up Christ. Jesus sans, "All of thin
heart or none." Saul slew the poorest of
--the sheep and the meanest of the oxen
and kept spino of the finest. and the fat-
test, and there are Christians who have
slain the most unpopular of their trans-
gressions and saved those which are most
respectable. It will not do. : Eternal war
against all the ;'Amalekites. Noinercy
for Agag:
I learn further from this subject that.
it is vain to 'try to defraud God. Here
Saul thought he had cheated God out of
these sheep and oxen, but belost his
crown, he lost his 'empire.. You cannot
cheat God out of a single, cent. Here is a
man who had made $10,000 in fraud.
Before he dies every dollar of it will be
gotie, or it will give him violent unrest.
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prospered.N
MININOAND
COLD
benevolences. God comes to the reckon-
ing and he takes it all away from you.
How often it has been that Christian
men have had a large estate, and it is
gone. The Lord God came into the i
counting room and saki "I have al-.
lowed you to have all this property for
10, 15 or 20 years and you have not done
justice to my poor children. When the
beggar called upon you, you hounded
him off your steps; when my suffering
children appealed to you for help, you
had no mercy. I only asked for so much,
or so much, but you did . not give it to
me and now I will take it all."
Sundae Observance.
Here is a Christian• who has been largely THE Fr , p
He has given to God the
proportion
that, is due in charities and
God• asks of us one-seventh of our
time in the way of Sabbath. Do you sup -1 we can get an hour of that time
successfully away from its true object?
No, no, God has demanded one-seventh
of your time. If you take one hour of
that time that is to • be devoted to God's
service, and instead of keeping his Sab-
bath use it for the purpose of writing up
your accounts or making worldly gains,
God will get that hour from you in some
unexpected way. God says to Jonah,
"You go to Nineveh." He says: "No, I
won't. I'll go to Tarshish." He starts
for Tarshish. The sea raves, the winds
blow and the ship rooks. Come, ye
whales, and take this passenger for Tar -
shish! No man ever gets to Tarshish
whom God tells to go to- Nineveh. The
sea would not carry him; it is God's sea.
The winds would not waft him; they are
God's winds. Let a Irian attempt to do
that which God forbids hila to do, or to
go into a place where God tells him not
to go, the natural world as well as God
is against him. The lightnings are ready
to strike him, the fires to burn him, the
sun to smite him, the waters to drown
him, and the earth to swallow him.
Those whose princely robes are woven
out of heartstrings;, those whose fine
houses are built out of skulls; those
whose springing fountains are the tears of
oppressed nations—have they successfully
cheated God?
Tho last day will demonstrate. It will
be found out on that day that God vin-
dicated not only his goodness and his
mercy, but his power to take care of his
own rights, and the rights of his church,
and the rights of his oppressed children.
Come, ye martyred dead, awake, and
come up from the dungeons where folded
darkness hearsed you and the chains like
cankers peeled loose the skin and wore
off the flesh and rattle on the marrow -
less bones. Come, ye martyred dead,
from the stakes where you were burned,
where the arm uplifted for mercy fell
into the ashes, and the cry of pain was
drowned in the snapping of the flame
and the howling of the mob; from
valleys of Piedmont and Smithfield mar-
ket, and London Tower, and the high-
lands of Scotland. Gather in great pro-
cession and together clap your bony
hands, and together stamp your moldy
feet, and let the chains that bound you
to dungeons all clank at once and gather
all the flames that burned you in one
uplifted arni of fire and plead for a judg-
ment. Gather all the tears ye ever wept
into a lake and gather aa1l the sighs ye
ever breathed into a tempest, until the
heaven piercing chain clank, and the
tempest sigh, and the thunder groan
announce to earth and hell and heaven
a judgment! Oh, on that day God will
vindicate his own cause, and vindicate
the cause of the troubled and the op-
pressed! It will be seen in that day that,
though we may have robbed our fellows,
we never have successfully robbed God.
My Christian friends, as you go out
into the world, exhibit an open hearted
Christian frankness. Do not be hypo-
critical in anything. You are never safe
if you are. At the most inopportune
moment the sheep will bleat and the
oxen bellow. Drive out the last Amale-
kite of sin from your soul. Have no
mercy on Agag. Down with your sins.
Down with your pride. Down with your
worldliness. I know you cannot achieve
this work by your own arm, but al-
mighty grace is sufficient—that which
saved Joseph in the pit; that which de-
livered Daniel in the den; that which
shielded Shadrach in the fire; that which
cheered Paul in the shipwreck.
and conferences, ministers of . the, gospel.
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Athletics in English Schools.
Of all the sports cultivated cricket bas
the fewest characteristic features at the
public schools. This is not because it is
the least popular of the sports, but be-
cause it is the most popular. There is no
cricket but cricket, and all England is
its prophet. It is played in fields and
parks and by -ways, As you whiz through
England on the hysterical little railway
trains the wayside swarms with men,
boys and children in white trousers. It
is played in the morning, in the after-
noon and in the long summer evenings
it is often almost 10 o'clock before the
stumps are drawn. It is played, I had
almost said, from the cradle to the
grave. And it is recorded that a famous
cricketer once excused a younger brother's
lack of skill by saying: "He never had a
chance to learn the game. He was so ill
that he couldn't begin playing until he
was 6 years old." If a boy isn't a past
master at cricket before he goes to school
there is little hope for him.
How much most schoolboys do play
cricket is evident in the time and space
given to the game. At Eton, for instance,
there are seven separate grounds, each
with a name of its own. The most ex-
alted of these is Upper club, where the
best 22 players in the school hold their
matches, and the school 11 plays its home
games. Then tbere is a Middle club, a
Lower club, an Upper Sixpenny, a
hower Sixpenny . and a lot more, the
names and offices of which no traveler's
pride could have induced me to learn.
Every "house," in fact, has its eleven
and, for all I know, its separate field.
In all the Eton cricket grounds cover 2
acres and afford room for almost 500 boys
to play cricket at one time.-Harper's
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topics but one.
He was an inmate of an asylum, the
dootor said, and had demanded to be
examined, asserting that he was sane.
When the physician reached the asylum
he was shown into an handsomely -fur-
nished room, and presented to a tall,
good-looking young fellow, apparently in
robust health.
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The young man, speaking with per-
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and to avoid unpleasant discoveries, had
prevailed upon his friends to place him
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The doctor made notes, and when the
patient concluded, told hila that he
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"Now," said the doctor, "won't you
walk out into the hall with ire?"
"I can't," said the young man sorrow-
fully.
"Why not?" asked the doctor.
"Because if I do I shall break," was
the rather surprising reply.
"What do you mean?" asked the phy-
sician.
"Why, don't you know," said the pa-
tient, "that from nay thighs down I'm
made of glass, and that I'm only safe in
this room?"
The doctor left him. His disease was
incurable.
Made the Most of His Oiiportunities.
Major Ginter, the Richmond tobacco
king, has resigned his position as direc-
tor of the American Tobacco company
and will soon retire from active business,
worth 53,000,000. When he laid down his
musket 'at Appomattox, he did not have
a dollar or the prospect of one. He
walked to Richmond and rolled a truck
for six months at a salary of $1 a day.
His career is one of the most remarkable
in'the business history of the country.
:He is a man of great liberality. He has
given a great deal of money to charity
and worthy public enterprises. Ho built
the Jefferson, the finest hotel in the
south, and one not surpassed in the
whole country for beauty of architecture
and general completeness.— Atlanta
Journal
The wolf is from 2% to 8 feet in
leugth, and stands about 18 inches high.
these reports and accounts are fair or
"cooked," whether the officers wear
"smoked glasses," and the like. Now, it
is plain that the so oalled "lambs" are
at a disadvantage in this businese or
game. In faro the "splits" give the
dealer a small percentage of advantage,
but this the player understands and may
calculate on. The contingencies and
rascalities in the stock dealing game,
however, are inoaloulable.—Hon. W. P.
Fishhook in Arena.
How Baby Wont Home.
The door of Henig's saloon was pushed
open by a little hand, and a child ran
in, looked eagerly about. "Papal papa!
Where is my papa?" she cried.
A Ivan standing at the counter with a
glass raised halfway to his lips started
at the sound of the plaintive voice, and
set down the untested beer.
"What do you want, Bessie?" he
asked.
"011, papa, come home!" she ex-
claimed; "Baby's dying!"
"Baby's dying!" he repeated mechan-
ically, snatched his hat, and taking the
hand of the trembling child, they left
the saloon together.
Down the street they went, the father
and child, he with bared head and lip
trembling with emotion, she clingink to
his hand, and sobbing out her grief in a
helpless, hopeless manner.
They stopped at a tenement house and
ascended the stairs, till they reached the
fourth story, where they paused at room
No. 8. On a wretched bed, covered by a
ragged quilt, lay the tiny form of
"baby," so still, so pure, in the midst
of the surrounding dirt and distress.
One glance, and a loud, agonizing
groan burst from the father's lips. "My
God! isour little darling to leave us?"
"Oh, George!" sobbed his wife, creep-
ing to his side,and laying ber hand
timidly on his shoulder. "She called for
'papa' up to a few minutes ago. Our lit-
tle baby will soon be with the angels."
Reverently the husband and wife knelt
beside the little form. The father took
one tiny hand in his large one. The
mother took the other little hand, and
covered it with tears and kisses.
"George," sobbed the mother. "God
is going to take our darling. Don't you
think that—to be—the parents—of a baby
angel—that we ought—to be good?"
"Yes, Mary, I do, and from this time
on, God helping me, I intend to be a
different man."
"Amen!" exclaimed Mary..
The baby stirred just then and smiled
into the fades of her parents.
"All right, papa," she murmured,
then closing her eyes forever. Baby had
fulfilled her mission.—Helen Somerville.
Playing a Funny (manse.
The useof chips and counters is a
great convenience in such games as
poker, faro, and the like. The business,
so called, of the Stock Exchange in Wall
street and elsewhere is carried .on by the
use of tokens or bits of paper designated
as bonds and stook certificates, which
are supposed to entitle the holders of
them to certain dividends to be declared
by managers of railway and other cor-
porations or to certain interest install-
ments payable at stated times. The crou-
pier at faro guarantees prompt payment
in cash to the chip holders at the end of
the game. The seller of stocks and bonds
in the game in "the street" guarantees
Nothing except the title and the genuine-
ness of the chips: The purchaser buys
under the rule caveat emptor as to price
and value.
The value of his purchase depends
upon , the volume of railway traffic,
transportation rates, the - state of the
money market, the ' ability; the honesty
or dishonesty of corporation managers,
the manner in which corporation reports
and accounts are made and kept, whether
Blown From a Train.
"I do not suppose that once in a hun-
dred times we ever learn the real cause
of a railroad accident," said a man who
is always well posted on such matters,
"when any one of the principals con-
cerned is killed. In individual cases,
where a man is lost from a train, and
his body is found later beside the track,
suicide is the first thing suggested, but
you can never tell. A peculiar accident
happened to a friend of mine. He was
travelling eastward with some friends.
He left them for a few moments to go to
the smoking oar. As he crossed from one
car to the other—that was before the
time of the vestibule trains—a strong
wind that was blowing struck him and
blow him to the ground. He was wear-
ing a large circular coat, which acted as
a balloon inflated with wind and it was
responsible for his being• blown off the
train, as well as for the fact that he
landed on his feet unhurt. He walked
some distance to the nearest station and
telegraphed ahead to his friends that he
was all right, and would come on by the
next train. If he had been killed every
one would have said 'suicide,' for the
possibility of a man being blown from a
train world seem to be an absurd idea."
FROGS IN ICELAND.
Moreover, if a lady on the state ball or
concert invitation list has been so indis-
creet as to make an undesirable presen-
tation, her name is struck off forever. It
is only in very aggravated oases that pre-
sentations are publicly canceled in The
Gazette, The usual course 1s for the lord
chamberlain to inform the offender that
her presentation took place "by mistake"
and that she is to consider it as canceled.
Episodes of this description are of fre-
quent occurrence, but they are kept as
seoret as possible for obvious reasons.—
London Truth.
A Lot of Them Sent to Savo the People
From Mosquitoes.
There is a country which until recently
was without frost, and consequently the
inhabitants suffered from mosquitoes
more than those of New Jersey.
Dr. Ehlers, whom the Danish Govern-
ment sent out in the summer of 1895,
along with an English, a French and a
German colleague, to study the pauses of
leprosy in Iceland, has writton a series
of very interesting articles about Iceland
in one of the Danish papers, says the
New York Journal. He says that in some
parts of Iceland, especially round the
larger lakes, Thingvallavatn,Myvatn and
Svinavatn, the mosquitoes and flies have
become so much of a plague that people
living around Myvatn (Mosquito Water)
are obliged, while working in the fields,
to protect their hands and faces by
gloves, veils or masks. Iceland has
neither reptiles nor toads to destroy these
small tormentors. The English physi-
cian, therefore, devised a very clever
plan, and his German colleague and Dr.
'Ehlers carried it out, to import frogs to
Iceland. The German took along with
him a hundred vigorous frogs from
Kopenick, and Dr. Ehlers took a supply
of forty frogs, which he had captured
with great difficulty at Charlottenlund,
the summer residence of the Crown
Prince of Denmark. While the frogs from
Germany—in a packing case riddled with
holes and lined with rushes, and drench-
ed with fresh water several times a day
—endured the long voyage capitally,
thirty-eight of the Danish frogs died the
very first night they spent on board' of a
contagious disease, the nature and cause
of which baffled the understanding of
the learned doctors, though it was pro-
nounced by the first mate to bo home-
sickness.
At any rate, the frogs were let loose
on July 19, 1895, in a bog north of the
hot springs by Reikiavik, the capital of
Iceland, the doctorshoping that kind
folks would introduce them later on to
the mosquitoes and flies at Thingval-
lavatn. Croaking merrily the 102 frogs
disappeared in the bog.
Presentation at Court.
A morning journal much given to ro-
mancing announces that "the precautions
taken by the lord chamberlain to pre-
elude the possibility of any one appear-
ing at a drawing room whose past will
not bear the closest scrutiny are yearly
becoming more rigorous." This is a far
rago of the purest fiction. As a matter of
fact, the lord chamberlain takes no "pre-
cautions" whatever; and it is difficult to
conceive how this o.11ioial could possibly
investigate the antecedents of the hordes
of nonentities who now go to court un-
lesshe were provided with a largo staff
of detectives. All the responsibility of a
presentation is .now thrown upon the
(presumably) "unimpeachable female"
who undertakes it.
If an "improper person" is presented,
the immediate result is the arrival of a
shoal of anonymous letters at the lord
chamberlain's office. The lady who has
made the presentation is then communi-
cated with, and if the ultimate result is
unsatisfactory, she is punished by being
herself exoluded from court for a year
or two, or if it is a bad case she receives
sentence of permanent banishment.
The Proper Fees on Shipboard. i
Fees are too indefinite to be regulated
by rule, but certain amounts are custom-
ary at sea. The voyager, if be is not sea-
sick, is dependent for comfort first on
the table steward. To this man it seems
to be the rule to give 22.50 for one, or
$5 for two or three persons in party,
whether one is served in regular courses
or orders what he pleases from the bill.
Late suppers might increase the fee.
One's next best friend is the deck stew-
ard, if he is attentive and has followed.
out suggestions about the steamer -chair
and rugs. Sometimes one can eat on
deck when it is fatal to go below, and
then, if the deck steward is obliging, he
deserves the larger part of what would
go to the table steward in regular course.
If the weather is at all fair it is most
agreeable to find one's chair well placed,
and the rugs dry every morning, espeol-
ally if one is inclined to sea -sickness.
Moreover, this steward is the one who
continuously brings sandwiches and
broth on deck, and, as he is obliged
himself toffee the cook's assistant to get
these articles prepared, it is clear that he
should be well remembered at parting,
if any one is. On many lines his pay,
like that of most of the stewards, is not
higher than 522 a month, and the com-
pany, on general principles, keeps back
one-third to pay for breakage. Another
third goes to the cooks in fees. Where,
therefore, would he be without his tips?
—From "The Art of Travel—Ocean
Crosssings," by Lewis Morris Iddings,
in Scribner's.
How to Dress a Wound.
Three useful things to have fn tree-
house as a provision in case of wounds•
are a spool of adhesive plaster, some
iodoform gauze and a package of car
belated absorbent cotton- Cleanse and
dry as nearly as may be the cut surface
with a wad of the cotton, using moder-
ate pressure and elevating the part if
necessary to check the flow of blood. Do
not apply any water. Bring the out sur-
face together as accurately as possible
and retain them there witn as few and
as narrow strips of the plaster as will
suffice, cuttin g them of a good length.
Then cover the wound with a dozen or
so thicknesses of the iodoform gauze,
which should extend an inch beyond the •
wound. Over the gauze apply a liberal
layer of the absorbent cotton, allowing
it to extend beyond the gauze. The cot-
ton may be kept in plane by a bandage
of cheesecloth, or a part of a leg of a
stocking may be drawn over it. Moder-
ate pressure, if evenly distributed, is.
helpful. The pressure of a string is hurt-
ful.
Of Course He Couldn't.
Chicago Visitor—Well, the feeling was
getting so strong up our way that I had
to promise to stop trading at the big de..
partment stores.
"Really? And bow about your wife?"
"Oh, well, you see my wife is the only
one in the family who does any trading
--and I couldn't promise for her."
The Craving for Drink.
When a man experiences the craving
for drink, he finds it very difficult to
describe it himself. It is in no sense like
the craving for food, because a hungry
man eats with avidity, but it is no un-
common thing for a drunkard in taking
his first drink in the morning to find
difficulty in keeping it upon his stomach.
The sight of whisky, its odor and every-
thing connected with it is repugnant
and produces a nauseating effect. The
man does not drink it, therefore, because
he likes it, but because the organ that
controls all the movements of his body
requires alcohol for the purpose of doing
its work, and there is no way it can get
it except by compelling the introduction
of aloohol into the stomach.—Banner of
Gold.
The. Bet t -i Fighters.
Abstinence from all alcoholic drinks
does not seem to interfere at all with the
ability of the Mohammedan Turks to
cope in battle with the liquor drinking
Greeks. A point like this may not be
vital, but it would not have been missed
had it pointed an argument in favor of
dram drinking.—Voice.
Wrote With His Mouth.
John Siinous, a native of Berkshire,
born without arms: or hands, could
write with his mouth, . thread a needle,
tie a knot and shuffle, cut and deal a
pack of cards.