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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-7-29, Page 7GOOD TIMES COMING. REV. OR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON RETURNING PROSPERITY. He Gives There Prerorl ptions for the Core of Business Depression and Eloquently Urges Their Claims to ConfIcience--Tbe Voyage of I.ife. "Washington, July 25,—This discourre of Dr. Telinage shosvs how all may help in the restoration of good times and is most appropriate. Text Laanezdations iii, 80, "Wherefore doth a living man complain?" A cheerful interrogatory in the most melimeholy book of the Bible! jereraiah Wrote so many sad things that we have a word named 'after hint, aud when any- thing Is turoharged with grief and com- plaint we call it a jeremiad. But in )ny text Jereiolab, as by a sudden jolt, wakens os to a thankful spirit. Our blessings are so much more nu - menus than our deserts that he is sur prised that anybody should ever find fault. Having life, and with it a thou- sand blesaings, it ought to hush into perpetual silence everything like criticism lir of the dealings of God. "Wherefore doth a living man complain?" While everything in our national finances is brightening, for the last fesv years the land has been set to the tune of "Naomi." There has been here and there a cheerful soloist, but the grand chorus has been one of lamentation ac- companied by dirges over prostrated consinerce, silent manufactories, unem- ployed meohanisna and all those disorders described by the two short words, "hard times." The feet is that we have been paying for the bloody luxury of a war more then 30 years ago, 1.1.here were great national differences, and we had not enough Chrtstiau ciamacter to settle them by arbitration and treaty, and so we went into battle, expending life and treasure and well nigh swamping the national finances, and north and south, east and west have ever since been pay- ing for those our years' indulgence in barbarism. But the time has come when this de- pression ought to end—yea, when it will end if the people are willing to do two or three thiugs by way of financial medicament, for the people as well as congress must join in the work of recu- peration. The best political economists tell us that there is no good reason for continued prostration. Plenty of money awaiting investment. The national healtn with never so stroog an arias or so clear a brain. Yet we go on groaning, groaning. groaning, as though •God had put this nation upon gruel and allowed us but one decent breakfast in six mouths. The fact is the habit of com- plaining has become chronic in this coun- try, mid after all these years of whimper and wailing and objurgation we are un- der such a momentum of snivel that we cannot stop. Titre° Preseriptions. There are three'presctiptions by which I believe that our individual and national ilnances nuty be cured of their present depreation. The iirst.is cheerful conver- sation mei behavior. I have noticed that the people who are most vociferous against the day in which we live are those who are in comfortable circum- stances. I have made inquiry of these persons who are violent in their jeremiads agaiost these times and I have asked thens, "Now, after all, are you not mek- ing a living?" After some hesitation and coughing and clearing their throat three or four times they say stammerIngly, So that with a great multitude of people it is not a question of getting a livelihood, but they an dissatisfied be- cause they cannot make as much money as they would like to make. They have only $2,000 in the bank, where they would like to have $4000. They can clear in a year only $5,000, when they would like to clear $10,000, or things come out just even. Or in their trade they get a3 a day when they tvish they could make $4 or $5. "Oh," says some one, "are you not aware of the foot that there is a great population out of em- ployment, and there are hundreds of the good families of this country who axe M their wits' end, not knowing which way to turn?" Yea, I know it better than any man in private life can know that sad faot, for it comes constantly to my eye and ear, but who le responsible for this state of things? Much of that responsibility I put upon men in comfortable circumstances who by an everlasting growling keep public confidence depressed and. new enterprises trona starting out and new housesfrom being built. You know very well that one despondent man can talk 50 men iota despondency, while one cheerful physician can wake up into exhilaration a whole asylum of hypochondriacs. It is no kinduess to the poor or the unem- ployed for you to join in this deploration. It you have not the wit and the count:ion sense to think of something cheerful to say, then keep silent There is no man that oan be independent of depressed con- / versation. The medical journals are ever Illustrating it I was reading of Jive men who resolved that they would make an experiment and see what they could do In the way of depressing a stout, healthy man, and they resolved to meet film at different points in his journey, and as he stepped out from his house in the morning in robust health one of the five men nuit him and said: "Why,,• you look very sick to -day. What is the matterS" Be said: "I axn in excellent health There is nothing the matter." But, pass- ing down the street, he began to examine his symptoms, and the second of the five mein met him and said, "Why, how bad' you do look!" "Well," he replied, "I don't feelvery well." 'After awhile the Ithirciananmet him, and the fourth man met him, apci the fifth man came up and said: ." Why, you look as if you had had the typhoid fever for six weeks. What is the matter with you?" And the map against whom the stratagem •had been laid went home and died. .And if you meet a mous with perpetual talk about hard times and bankruptcy and dreadful winters that are to come you break down his courage. A. few autumns ago, as win- ter was coming on, poopia said . We shall have a terrible winter. The poor will be frozen oot this winter." There was something In the large store of wasps that the squMreis had gathered and some thing in the . phases of the moon and something in 'other portents that made you certain We, were going to have a hard winter. Winter came. It was the ,anildost one within my memory and within yours. All that winter long I do not think there Was iin icicle thati hung through the day from the 'eaves of the house. So you prophesied falsely. Last winter was com- ingx, and the people said: "We shall have It will •be a dreadful winter." Sure enough it wag a oold winter, but there were more large hearted charities than ever before poured out on the country; better provision made for the poor, so that there have been scores cif winters when the poor bad a harder time than they did last winter. Weather prophets my we will have frosts this suramer which will kill the harvests. Now, let me tell you, you have lied twice about the weather, and I believe you are lying this thne. Sense people are so overborne with the dolorousness of the times that they say we shall have consmunistio outrages in this couotrysuch as they bad in Fraoce. I do not believe it. The parallel does not run. They have no Sabbath, no Bible, no God in Franoe. We have all these de. fenses for our American people, and pub - 110 opinion is suoh that if the people of this country attempt a out -throat expedi- tion they will land in Sing Sing or from the gallows go up on tight rope. I do not believe the people of this country will ever commit outrages and riot and mur- der for the sake of getting bread, hut all Ibis lugubrosity of tone and face, keep people down. Now I will make a con- tract. If the people of the -United States for one week will talk cheerfully, I will open all the manufactories; I will give employment to all the unoccupied men and women; I will make a lively market for your real estate that is eating you up with taxes; X will stop the long prooes- siou on the way to the poorhouse and the penitentiary, and I will spread a plentiful table from Maine to California and from Oregon to Sandy Hook, and the whole land shall oarol and thunder with national jubilee. But says some one, "I will take that contract, but we can't affect the whole nation." My hear- ers and readers, representing as you do all professions, all trades and all =tope - Mons, if you should resolve never again to utter a dolorous word about the money markets, but by manner, and by voice, and by wit and caricature, and, above all, by faith in God, to try to scatter this national gloom, do you not believe the influence would be instantaneous and widespread? The effect would be felt around the world. For God's sake and for the sake of the poor and for the sake of the unemployed, quit growling. De- pend upon it, if you men in comfortable circumstances do not stop complaining, God will blast your harvests, and see how you will get along without a corn orop, and he will sweep you with floods, and he will devour you with grasshop- pers, and be will burn your city. If you men in comfortable circumstances keep on complaining, God will give you some- thing to complain about. Mark that! Christian In vestmen t. The second prescription for the allevi- ation of financial distresses is proper Christian investment God demands of every individual state and nation a cer- tain proportion of their incense. We are parsimonious I We keep back from God that which belongs to him, and when we keep back anything from God be takes what we keep back, and he takes snore. Ho takes it by storm, by sickness, by bankruptcy, by any one of the ten thousand ways which he can. employ. The reason many of you are cramped in busioess is because you have never learned the lesson of Christian generosity. You employ an agent You give him a reasoretble salary, and, lo, you find out that he is appropriating your funds, beeides the salary. What do you do? Dis- charge him. Well, we are God's agents. He puts in our hands certain. moneys. Part is to be ours; part is to be his. Soppose we take it all, whet then? He will discharge us; he will turo us over to financial disasters and take the Utast away from us. Use reason that great omititudes are not prospered in business is simply because they have been with- holding from God that which belongs to him. The rule is, give and you will re- ceive; administer liberally and you shall have more to administer. X am in .full sympathy with the man who was to be baptized by immersion and sense one said, "You had better Lave your pocket- book out; it will get wet" "No," said he, "I want to go down under the wave with everything. I want to consecrate tut' property and all to God." .And so he was baptized. What we want in this country is more baptized pocketbooks. I had a relative whose business seemed to be failing. Here a loss and there a loss and everything was bothering, per- plexing and annoying him. He sat down one day and said: "God must have a controversy with me about something. I believe I haven't given enough to the cause of Christ." And there and then he took out his checkbook and wrote a large cheek for a tnissionary society. He told me: "That was the turning point in ray business. Ever since then I have been prosperous. From that very day, aye, from that very hour, I saw the change." .And, sure enough, he went on, and he gathered a fortune. The only safe itsvestment that a man can make in this world is in the cause of Christ If a man give from a super- abundance, God may or he may not re- spond with a blessing, but if a man give until he feels It, if a man gives until 11 fetches the blood, if a man gives until his selfishness cringes and twists and cowers under it, he will get not only spiritual profit,.but he will get paid back In hard cash or in convertible securities. We often see men who are tight fisted who seem to get along s with their in- vestments very profitably, notwithstand- ing all their parsimony. But wait. Sud- denly in that man's history everything goes wrong. His health fails or his rea- son is dethroned, or a domestic curse smites him, or a midnight shadow of some kind drops upon his soul and upon his business. What is the znattert God is punishing him for his small hearted - nese. He tried to cheat God, and God worsted him. So that one of the recipes for the oure of individual and national finances is more generosity. Where you bestowed $1 on the cause of Christ give $2. God loves to be trusted, and he is very apt to trust beek again. He says: "That man knows how to handle money. He shall have snore money to handle," .And very soon the property that was on the market for a great while gets a pur- chaser, and the bond that was not worth more than 50 oents on a dollar goes to par, and the opening of a now street doubles the value of his house, or in any way of a million God blesses hirm Once the man' finds out that seoret and he goes on to fortune. There are men whona I have known who for ten years have been trying to pay God $1,000. They have never bee0 able to get it paid, for just as they were taking out from one folkt of their pocketbook a bill, 'nye. tetiously somehow in scene other fold of their pocketbook there mole a larger bill. You tell me that Christian generosity pays in the world to come. X tell you it pays new, pays in hard cash, pays in unparalleled suffering among the poor. aovernment securities. You do not be - neve it? Ah, that is what keepa you back. I knew you tlid not believe it The whole world anti Cbristendorn is to be reconstructed on this subject,' and as you are a part of Christendom, leb the work begin in your own soul. "But," says some one, "I don't believe that theory, beottuse I have been generous and I have been losing -money for ten years." The Geld prepaid you, that is all. What b Caine of the money that you, made i other days? Yon say to .your son, "Now I will gly you $500 every year as long ilS you live. Atter awhile you say, "Well, my son you prove yourself so worthy of my can lidence I will just give you $20,000 in single lump," And you give it to him and he starts off. In two or three gem he does not complain against you "Father is not taking care of me. ought to have $500 a year." You prepai your son and be does not complaba There are thousands of as now who ca this year get lust enough to supply ou wants, but did not God provide for us 1 the past, and has be rot again and agal and again paid us in advance --in othe word ta trusted you all along, trusted yo nsore than you bad a right 'to ask Strike, them a balance for God. Econ omize in anything rather than in your Christian charities. There is not more than one Out of BOO of you who ever give enough to do you any good, and when SOMO clause of Christianity, some mis- sionary sooiety or Bible society or church organization, comes along and gets any- thing from you what do you saay? You say, "I base been bled," and there never was a more simallicant figure of speech than that used in common parlance. Yes, you have been bled, and you are, spiritu- ally emaciated, when if you had been courageous enough to go through your property and say, "That belongs to God, and this beings to God, and the other things belongs to God," and no more dared to appropriate it to your own use than something that belonged to your neighbor, instead of being -bled to death by charities you would have been rein- vigorated and recuperated and built up for time and for eternity. God will keep many of you cramped in money inatters until the day of your death unless you swing out into larger generosities. A Divine Prom ise. People quote as a joke what is a divine prom , ise, 'Oast thy bread upon the wa- ters and it will return to thee after many days." What did Gad mean by that? There is an allusion there. In Egpyt when they sow the corn it is at a time when the Nile is overflowing its banks, and they sow the seed corn on the wa- ters, and as the Nile begins to recede this seed corn strikes in the earth and conies up a harvest, and that is the allusion. It seems as if they are throwing the corn away on the waters, but after atvhile they gather it up in a harvest. Now says God in his word, "Cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee after many days." It may seem t� you that you are throwing it away on chari- ties. hut it will yield a harvest of green and gold—a harvest on earth and a har- vest in heaven. If men could appreciate that and act on that, we would have no more trouble about individual or national finances. Prescription the third, for the cure of all our individual and national financial distresses—a great spiritual awakening. It is no mere theory. The merchants of this country were positively demented with the monetary excitement in 1857. There never before or since has been sucb a state of financial depression as there was at that time. A reyival came, and 500,000 people were born into the king - dont of God. What came after the re- vival? The graildess financial prosperity we have ever had in this country. The finest fortunes, the largest fortunes in the United States, have been made since 1857. "Well," you say, "whathas spirit- ual improvement and revival to do with mouetary improvement and revival?" Much to do. The religion of Jesus Christ has a direct tendency to snake men hon- est and sober and truth telling, and an not honesty and sobriety and truth tell- ing auxiliaries of material prosperity? If we could have an awakening in this country as in the days of Jonathan Ed- wards of Northampton, as in the days of Dr. Finley of Basking Ridge, as in the days of Dr. Griffin of Boston, the whole land would rouse to a higher moral tone. and with that moral tone the honest business enterprise of the conotry would come up. You say a great awakening has an influence upon the future world. I tell you it has e direct influence upon the financial welfare of this world. The religion of Christ Is no foe to successful business. It is its best friend. And if there should come a great awakening in this country, and all the banks and in- surance companies and stores and offices sbould close up for ' two weeks and do nothing but attend to the public worship of Almighty God, after such a spiritual vacation the land would wake up to such financial prosperity as we have never dreamed of. Godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for that which is to oome; but, my friends, do not put so much emphasis on worldly success as to let your eternal affairs go at loose ends. I have nothing to say against money. The more money you get the better, if it comes honestly and goes use- fully. For the laok of it sickness dies without medicine, and hunger finds its coffin in an empty bread tray, and naked- ness shivers for clothes and fire. Ail this cutting tirade against money as though it had no practical use, when I hear a man indulge in it, Makes nie think the best heaven for him • would be an ever- lasting poorhouse. No, there is a practi- cal use in money, but while we adniit that, We must also admit that it cannot satisfy the soul; that it cannot pay for our ferriage across tlse Jordon of death; that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven for our immortal soul. A Word of Warning - Yet there are men who act as though packs- of bonds and mortgages could be traded Cif for a mansion in heaven and as though, gold were a legal tender in that land where, it is so common'that they make pavements out of it. Salva- tion by Christ is , the only salvation. Treasons in heaven are the only incor- ruptible treasures. Have you ever cipher- ed:out that sum in loss aod gain, "What shall it profit a nsa,n if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?" You may wear fine apparel now, but the; winds of death will flutter it like rags. ' Homespun and a threadbare coat hard sometimes been the shadow of robes white in the blood .of the Lamb. All the mines of .Australia and Brazil, strung in one oarcanet, are not svorth to you as muoh as the pearl of great price. You remember, I suppose, some years ago, the 'shipwreck • of the Central America? A storm came on that vessel. The surges tramped the desk and swept down through the hatches, and Ghere went up a hundred voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw of ' the wave. The pitching of the steamer, as though it would leap a Mountain. The gl,..e of the signal rockets. 'The long oough or the steam pipes. The biss of extinguia.led turnoes. Te walking of God on 1la wave. Oh, it was a stupendous speotaole. But that ship dia not go down with., to A struggle. 'the passengers stood in loua n lines trying to bail it out and men on- e. used to toil tugged until their hands were bilateral and their tonsoles were strainea. After awhile a sail came in sight. A few o passengers got eff, but the most went o down. The ship gave ane lurch and was , lost. thsre ire men who go in life—a fine a voyage tbey are making out of is. All is , well, till seine eutoolyclon of business diStiStOf conies upon them, and they go r down. The bottom of this commercial I sea is strewn with the shattered hulks, d but lacause your property goes shall your soul got Oh, no! There is coming a more D stupendous shipwreek after awhile. This ✓ world, God launehed it 0,000 years ago, e nod it is sailing on, but one day it will a stagger at the cry of "Fire!" and the r tigubers of the rocks will burn, and the o mountains flame like masts, and the t clouds late sails in the judgment hurri- - cane, God will take a good many off the deck, and others out of the berths, where they are now sleeping in Jesus. How many shall go down? No one will know until it is announced in heaven one day: "Shipwreck of a world! So many mil- lions saved l So many millions drowned! l3ectause your fortunes go, because your house gees, because all your earthly posseesions go, do not let your soul go! Imlay the Lord A hnighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save your souls!" Bow to Carr for Gnus. Many people go to unnecessary labor in caring for their guns, and than per. haps have thetn spoiled after all. Guns get rusty inside, and a fine gun—either shotgun or rifle.is spoiled when it be. oomes rustel and rough insi le. It is a very easy and simple matter to prevent a gun front rusting inside if the proper oourse is taken. Never wet or dampen the gun inside after firing the last shot, but in place of a damp or wet rag use a rag or bristle brush with plenty of good oil, 1.1he brush or rag should not fit too tightly to the bore, Run through two or three times, put the gun away a day or two to give the oil dine to loosen what dirt may be in the gun, and then wipe the dirt out with a dry rag and put in a new rag with a little oil on it, Many people wash a gun ont with much labor and care and think they have dried it perfectly, only to see after all their labor that the gun is rusty inside and much damaged. Of course it is expected that water s.m11 be used when shooting at targ- r from the trap, but put no water or (limpness in the gun after the last shot. As to the kind of oil to use in a gun, almost any kind of animal oil will do. Vegetable oils or fluids are good for nothing to preserve iron or steel. Many times one can procure good oils from coons. chucks or bears, if one knows how to get it out in the proper way so as not to have it gummy and sticky. Oils should never be heated and tried out. Take the fat frons the animal, place it on a board and with a sharp knife cut it op fine; then warm it a little and place it in a strong cloth and force it out by pressure. A shot bag is a goo i thing to use, and a couple of pieces of narrow boards with leather nailed on one end to hold them together. Put the strainer between the boards and squeeze the oil out. You will thus have some liumid oil that will preserve guns nicely. Indifference to Truth. The indifferenoe of most persons to all that relates to their spiritual welfare is the most uuaccouotable thing in the history of humanity. We should suppose, if eXperience did not teach us to the con- trary, that the slig•otest hint that man is immortal, and that the Ineffable blessed- ness of heaven, of an eternal life of joy were before him and within his reaoh, would be sufficient to rouse his attention and to excite every faculty to the most intense exertion to learn what that blessedness is, and how it is to be ob- tained. We should suppose that bis at- tention would never weary, that he would explore books, consult living teachers, keep his mind ever open and active to receive, and turn himself con- tinually towards the light, and train and discipline every faculty to the utmost vigor. If truths wrought into the soul are the receptacles of the Divine life, and the influx of the Divine life in true or- der is heaven and eternal blessedness, what motive can be wanting to the most dlligent active and persistent study of the truth? And when we add that now, in this life, is the "day" to learn truths. and that all we learn hereafter 11 18 to be based upon and in an intimate way to be connected with and to grow out of the truths we learn 'here, every rational judgment must declare that there can be no folly and no madness so great as the indifference to truth.—Rev. Chauncey Giles. Prompted by the Heat. The electric fan is putting on airs.— Philadelphia Record. How we shall miss this warm wave next winter.—Philadelphia Ledger. Keep cool if any cheerful imbecile asks you if you are.—Chicago Times -Herald. The man who makes thermometers ought to be induced to clip the wings of inercury.—Chicago Tribune. The 'weather man is doing his best to make the public bear up bravely under the coal famine.—Chicago Record. The drowning man is not the only fel- low who catches at a straw these days.— Galveston News, What? No prospect of a rise in the price of ice? .And the mercury In the nineties! Forecasts of the millennium are certainly in order.—New York Tribune. Another hot wave is cooling. Will the brethern please rise and join in singing "Frons Greenland's Icy Mountains"?—. Chicago Times -Herald. The humble citizen of to -day is the inan who complained of the cold spring. —Chicago Tribune. The Pennsylvania farmer who com- Mated suicide because 11 was "too hob to live" must have been pretty certain of where he was going.—Buffalo Express. Old Sol gazed down on the sweltering earth. "Too thickly populated," he com- mented. "There are people to burn down there."—Philadelphia Record. To EXtermina,te Buffalo Moths. Buffalo moths may be exterminated by the use of lavender or musk or cans- phor—in fact anything with a deoided odor will drive them away. Put a little gun camphor in the oorners and around the edges of your floors. Keep the rooms open and as light as possible. Put cam- phor among your clothing, use papers for for wrapping, and the mothwlfl soon leave you.—Ladies' Home Journal. SIGNS OF LONG V TY. the Physical Conditions Which Prorable , Great Age. • 'Every ise Is interested in the question of lout It e as applied to himself, andull facts bear ng on is are noted wth b awn- ing feelit ge Of self-congratulation or otherwise. It Is the staying power that is in demotes, backed by an inherited and reserved vitality of resietanoe again o- the usual evila to whiela all flesh and other perisliable tangs are subject, The law of heredity, witloh our life losuranee coin - proles understand so well, is at the bot - tem oi all calculations as to whether a particular man or woman is wound up for seventy years or will run down ,at twenty or forty years. Aside from this testimony, there are =Mixt physical qualities which han great weight in deteflItilling the result of the struggle agabast a conspiring en- vironment. An oak has one configure - Mon, and a cedar, pine or mullein stalk another. It is the proper recognition of such distinctions that aids physicians in their prognosis and turns the balance against apparently desperate chances. At a recent meeting of the _Academy of Science, Mr. F. W. Warner, in speak- ing upon the subjeet of biometry, offered some very ipteresting data, which are io the main true. "Every person," said he, "carries about with biro the physical indications of his loogerity. A long-lived person may be distinguished front a short-lived person at sight. In many instances a physician nifty look at the hand of a pa- tient and tell whether be will live or die. "In the vegetable as well as in the aohnal kingdom, each life takes its characteristics frora the life from which it sprung. Among these imberited char- acteristics we find the caapoity for oon taining it lite for a given length of time, This capacity for living we call tbe inherent or potential longevity. "Under favorable conditions and environment the individual should live out the potential longevity. With unfav orable cooditions this longevity may be greatly decreased, but with a favorable environment the longevity of the person, the family or the race may be increased." Herein are presented the two leading considerations, always present and al- ways Intardependeot—the inherited po- tentiality and the reactionary influences of environment. "The primary conditions of lortgevity," he cootinues, "are that the heart, lungs and digestive organs, as 'well as the brain, should be large. If these organs are large, the trunk will be long and the limbs comparatively short. The per- son will appear tall in sitting and short In standing. The hand will have a long and somewhat heavy palm and short lin- gers. The brain ail be deeply seated, as shown by the orifice of the ear being low. The blue hazel or brown hazel eye, as showing an intermission of temperament, is a favorable indication. The nostrila being large, open and free indicates large lungs. A pinched and half-closed nostril indicates small or weak lungs." These are general points of distinc- tion froin those of short-lived tendencies, but, of course, subject to the usual indi- vidual exceptions. Still, it is well ae- knowledged that the characteristics noted are expressions of inherent potentiality, whiab have been proved on the basis of abundant statistical evideoce. Again, he says truly:— "In the case of persons who have short-lived parentage on one side and long-lived on the other side, the question becomes more involved. It is shown in grafting and hybridizing that nature makes a „supreme effort to pass the period of the shorter longevity and ex- tend the life to the greater longevity, Any one who understands these weak and dangerous peeiods of life is fore- warned and forearmed. It has been ob- served that the children .of long-lived parents mature numb lacer and are usually backward in their studies." Such observations are of the highest importance, especially to the physioicuo and it is on this ground we commend them to his thoughtful consideration. France an isolated Power. In the face of the triple alliance France had one of two courses open— either to be self reliant and independent falling back upon her own resources to brave every peril and prepared for a su- preme and heroic effort to defend her territory and maintain her national exist- ence or to seek to make an alliance with Russia, the only power accessible to her. No nation could be called upon to decide a more momentous question. Exhausted by a disastrous war aod agitated by a fratricidal strife, it was natural that the French people should yearn for a peace that promised to them public security and exemption from tha wetowing and terrible anxiety which is the fate of a power situated like France. One who has witnessed the gradual de- velopment of that sentiment in favor of the Franoo-Russlan alliance should be the last person to criticise the Frencb peo- ple for having sought self preservation in that only refuge Within their reach. When niers returned from the European capi- tals which he had visited to secure the friendly aid of some foreign powers to mitigate the harsh terms of the treaty of peace between Germany and France, and announced to the French people that his appeals for sympathy had been un- availing, he revealed the fact that France was a completely isolated power, and from that time until the period of the Franco-Russian alliance the situation of France has been extremely perilous and the public anxiety has been intense. But this alliance has its dangers and its com- plications. A liberal, enlightened Euro- pean power like France cannot make an alliance with autocratic Russia, a semi - Asiatic nation, without sacrifices which may affect prejudicially her interests and national dignity.—Hon. B. Eustis, Late United States Embassador to France, io North American Review. How the Golden Gate Obtained Its Name. The Golden Gate Is the name given to the strait connecting the harbor of San Francisco with the ocean and was so called because through that gate flowed nearly the whole of the immense tido of seekers for the precious metals, PS NVGlias the rich product of their labor. It would be difficult to estimate the immeose number of adventurers sato during the gold fever passed through the Golden Gate into the "land of gold" or to evert approximate the value of the gold which issued forth through this gate so happily named. It is . rather strange that the boundleas naiiseral wealth of California should not have been ascertained till about the nineteenth century. 'Hadn't ICept An ythi ng Back. Lawyer (investigating client's stery)— Now, you must keep nothing from me. Client—I 'haven't. Paid you every cent I had in the world for your fee. THE POISONOUS PRIMULA. A. Pretty Greenhotwe Plant That WtII Have to be Discarded. Within the past few years a dainty and delicitte traitor hat been brotagitt to light in the shape of the greenhouse Primula. This plant, in virtue of its, easy cultiva. tion, the delicate tint and clarity of its blossoms, and the beauty of its long- stemmed, crisp leaves, has of /ate become the pet of•every 'window gardenerhit what I have heard called a "thankful little paint," blooming on and on wIth the simple demands of sun and water, Ten or twelve years ago a mientifie lours nal published a paper on the poisonous properties of the Primulasbut the 'warn- ing was not widely opreacl, as probablv the plant was not so generally known at the time. Lately I find that the more conscieittious florists have desisted from its culture, owing to the disfiguring, oot to say, painful, rc earring eruptions it causes on the bodies of those susceptible persous who yen tore upon familiarities with it. Its true character was first brought to my notice by an artist friend, who, after sketching the plant in blossom, mire a leaf from it to crtioh and smoli ti r the sake of the pleasant teraninat-like odor it exhaled. Soon aftet her face anti arms were covered with an erupti..n litte that caused by poison ivy. The pink ao i deli - mite little plant was inunediately sus. pected, and was, after it struggle, con- signed, pat and all, to the dark waters of the river. I know of many capes of serious poisoning which may be traced to the Primula, enough and more to fully justify the evil reputation it has gabled. Though the fact is well established that all persons are not susceptible to its poison,there will probably be acme mem- ber of the family who will suffer by own. Ing in contact with the leaves or stem oi the Primula. The effects of the -poison of this plant are positive, and are of too serious a iudure to wfugazit its presence in the home, 11 wIll be noticed that the plant is coy - end with translucent hairs. Other thats these visible structures are a set of small. er one scarcely discernible limier a pow- erful pocket glass, and bearing about the same relation to the larger set as do the alder and spice bushes in an opeu grove to tbe tall oaks anti tolips above therm 'Coder a Mei magnification the glandu- lar structure of the hairs is apparent, the short set of these segments, the long set of ten or so, each tipped with a drop 01 viscid amber colored secretion. In pass. ing the section through stain, alcohol oil of cloves, this ternsinal viscid globule is dissolved away and leaves a shallow cup distinctly visible after staining. It is easy to see how this secretion be- ing held at the tip of the bristles might cling, when fresh, to mu y skin that came in contact with it, and be absorbed into the circulation of those with especially thin and susceptible epidermis.—Ladies Home Jourual„ Thr Garden of Eden. While Wisconsin may not be generally recognized as a veritable garden of Eden, still there are plausible 'seasons fox believing that the first home of Adam and Eve was located within the confines of this State, says the Chicago Chronicle. Various writers in different ages have indulged io a vast amount of speculation as to the exact portion of the globe in othiels Eve was tempted end Adam coins mitted the ungallant. cowardly and un- pardonable crime of becoming the alsousel of his weaker companion, and this cradle of original sin has been variously located In all parts of the globe, from the nor- thern part of Sweden to the South Sea Islands, and one learned biblical stu. dent has written entertainingly in sup- port of the theory that the famous gar- den of the land of Eden was In the vicin- ity of the north pole None of the places generally credited with having been the home of Adorn and Eve (luring the days of their blissful innocence answers to the description of the garden as giveo in the 13onk L e Gen- esis so closely as does a portion of Wes- tern Wisconsin, embracing Trenmeauleau and parts of the surrounding counties. The Bible ascribes four rivers to the gar- den, but eVell in the vicinity of the Eu- phrates the description of that Book does not find confirmation in the number of rivers Bowing ahrough or adjacent to the portion of the globe most generally associated with the abiding -place of Adam and Eve before they partook of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Western Wisconsin furnishes what has been lacking in all other spots ascribed as the Ant home of man, and in support of such a claim the good people of the virgin forests of Trempeaulegin County point to their three rivers flawing into the Mississippi, or the Euphrates of the Bible; the high, massive walls surorund- ing the historic land of bliss; the re- mains of its hanging gardens; a rook - formed pulpit and even the possession of the same old serpent that beguiled Mother Eve. Dwelling in a land having these attributes, the logical people of Trenspealeau solemnly proclalin they Inust be in possession of the cradle of mankind and that no one can prove the contrary. How Snails Make Love. A scientist has been patiently watch- ing the snails in one of the large London gardens, and has discovered the means by which they show their affection for each other. "The snail," says this scientist, "car- ries its eyes In telescopic watch towers. They are in the extreme tips 01 118 borns, and as soon as another snail approaches these horns are drawn in, and the little animal awaits for his lady love to get close by before surprising her. "The emotional natures of snails, so* far as love and affection are concerned, seem to be highly developed, and. they show plainly by their actions when court- ing the tenderness they feel for one an- other. If another snail comes along, the' immediately retire to the shelter of a dead leaf or hide behind a paling. I have noticed, too, a lovesick snail fetch- ing dainty bits of green for his sweet- heart from different parts of the gar- den." This scientist also declares that snails have a manner of putting their heads to- gether that is not 'unlike the• general mode of kissing.—London Answers. Up Hill. .An old farmer, after a night "out," was considerably hilarious, and, for a lark, the mischief -lovers reversed the wheeis on Isis wazon. putting the fore wheels behind and the hind wheels in front, thus raising the fore part of the wagon to an untironted eminence. When he reaohed home, near looming, his wife naturally wanted to anew where he bad been all night. Ho ex- plained by saying in uncertain tones:— "Maria, Itve been to Maytree, started early, but it was ten miles. and uphill all the way."