HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-6-10, Page 7DEATH OF A PLOTTE
Haman Died on the Gallows Which He Had
Prepared for Another.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Takes This incident to Illustrate a Useful Les.,
son --Wrongs We Would Do Others Return Upon
Ourselves --Wealth and Happiness.
Wasbington, ,Tune b.—The doom et
arrogance and the reward of ,fidelity are
lessons which Dr. Talmage bore draws
from elordeoat on horseback and Haman
afoot; text, Esther vii, 10, "So they
hanged Haman on the gallows that he
bad prepared for Mordecai."
Here is an oriental courtier, about the
most offensive maxi in Hebrew history,
Haman by name. lie plotted for the
destruction of the Israelitish nation, and
T wonder not that in some of the Hebrew
synagogues to this day when Hammes
statue is mentioned the congregation
clinch their fists and stamp their feet
end ery, "Let his name be blotted out!"
Haman was prime minister in the magni-
ficent court of Persia. Thoro:.ghly appre-
ciative of the honor conferred, be expects
everybody that
he paSSOS to be obsequi-
ous.
•
ous.
Conning, In one acv at the gate of
the palace, the servants drop their heads
boner s c
in 1 It of his Wilco, but Hebrew
, a
named Mordecai gazes upon the passing
dignitary without bonding his bead or
taking off his het ell was a good man
and would not bave been negligent of
the ordinary courtesies of life, but he felt
no respeet either for Raman or the nation
from wbicb he bad canto, So he could
not be bypooriticai, .and while others
made oriental salaam, getting clear down
before this prime minister when be
Missed, Mordecai, the Hebrew, roilizod
zaot a inuselo of his neck and kept his
chin olear up. Because of that affront
- Raman gets a deeree from .A.basuerus,
tbe dastardly king. for the massacre of
*lithe Israelites, and Haat, et comae, will
include Mordecai.
To inake a tang story short, through
Queen !':;cher this whole plot was •evealed
to her husband, Ahasuerus. One night
'Ahasuerus, who was afflicted with
lamellate:, in his sleepless hours nails for
his sea'retary to read hint a few passages
of Persian buster,-, and so while away
the nigh=,•, in the book read that night to
the king an account was raven of a
conspira.'y, from which Mordecai, the
Belem. had saved the king's life and for
lehlch kindness Mordecai had never
received any reward. Raman, who had
been fixing up a nice gallows to hang
Morde'..,ai on, was walking outside the
door of the king's sleeptug apartment
and was called in. The king told him
that he had just bad read to him the
account of some one who bad saved his
(the king's) life, and he asked what
reward ought to be given to such a one,
Self conceited Haman, supposing that he
himself was to got the honor and not
imagining for a moment that the
deliverer of the king's life was Mordecai,
says, "Why, your majesty ought to make
a triumph for him and put a orown on
him and sot him on a splendid horse,
high stepping and full blooded, andthen
bave one of your princes load the horse
through the streets crying: 'Bow the
kneel Here Domes a man who bas saved
the king's life,' " Then said Ahasuerus
in severe tones to Haman: "I know all
about your seoundrelism. Now You go
out and make a triumph for Mordecai,
the Hebrew, whom you bate. Put the
best saddle an the finest horse, and you,
the prince', bold the stirrup while
Mordecai gets on and then lead his horse
throuelt the street. Make haste!"
What is spectacle! A comedy and
tragedy at one and the same time. There
they go! Mordecai, who had boon
despised, now starred and robed in the
stirrups. Haman, the chancellor, afoot,
bolding tho prancing, rearing, champing
stallion, Mordecai bends his neck at last,
but it is to look down at the degraded
prime minister walking beneath him.
Huzza for Mordecai! Alas for Haman!
But what a pity to have the gallows,
recently built, entirely wasted! It is 50
cubits high and built with care, and
Haman had erected it for Mordecai, by
whose stirrups he now walks as groom.
Stranger and more startling than any
romance, there go up the stops of the
scaffolding, side by side, the bangman
and Raman, the ex -chancellor. "So they
banged Haman on the gallows that be
had prepared for Mordecai."
Although so nanny years have passed
since cowardly Ahasuerus reigned and
the beautiful Esther answered to his
whims and Persia perished, yet from the
life and death of Haman we may draw
living lessons of warning and lnstruo-
tion. And first we come to the practical
suggestion that when the heart is wrong
things very insignifihaut will destroy our
comfort. Who would have thought that
a groat prime minister, admired and
applauded by millions of Persians, would
have leen so nettled and harassed by
anything. trivial? What more ooulcl the
great dignitary have wanted than his
chariots and attendants and palaces and
bar.tluets. If affluence of circumstances
can make a man contented and happy,
surely Haman should have been con-
tented and happy. No. Mordecai's retusai
of a bow takes the glitter from the gold
and the richness from the purple and the
speed from the chariots. With a heart
puffed up with every inflation of vanity
and revenge, it was impossible for him
to be happy. The silence of Mordecai at
tbe gate was louder than the braying of
trumpets in the palace. Thus shall it
always be if the heart is not right.
Circumstances the most trivial will
disturb the spirit.
It is not the great calamities of lite
that oreate the most worriment. I have
seen men, felled by repeated blows of
misfortune, arising from the dust, never
desponding. But the most of the disquiet
which men suffer is from insignificant
causes, as a lion attacked by some beast
of prey turns easily around and slays
him. yet runs roaring through the forests
at the alighting on his brawny neck of a
few insects. You meet some great loss
in business with comparative composure,
but you can think of petty trickeries
inflicted upon you which: arouse all your
capacity for wrath and remain in your
heart an unbearable annoyance.. If you
look back upon your life, you will find
that the most of the vexations and dis-
turbances of spirit which you felt 'were
produced by circumstances that were not
worthy of notice. If you want to , be
happy, you moat not pare for trifles. Do
not be toe minute in your inspootion of
the treatment you receive from others.
Who cares whether Mordecai bows when
you pass or stands erect and sot as a
cedar? That woodman would not make
luuoh clearing in the forest who sbonld
stop to bind up every tittles bruise and
serateb he received in the tbicket, nor'
will that man acoomplish much for the ,
world or the church wbo is too watchful ,
and appreciative of petty annoyances,
There are multitudes of people in the
world constantly harrowed because they
pass their lives not in soarobing out these
things which are attractive and deserv-
ing, but in spying out with all their z
powers of vision to see whether they
cannot find a eloraecel,
Again, I learn from the Iife of the man
under our notico that worldly vaulty and
sin are very anxious to have piety bow
before them. Haman was a fair emblem
of entire warldliuess and Mordecai the
renreentative of unflinching godliness.
Snell were the usages of sooioty, in ancient
tithes that bad this Israelite bowed to
the prince minister it would have beau
an acknowledgment of resjaeet for his
character and nation. elordecai would
therefore have shelled against his religion
had ho made any obeisance or dropped I
his thin hail an inoh before !lemma,
Whoa, therefore, printl Kaman attempted .t
to compel a homage wbloh was not fain,
he only dill what the world ever since
bad tried to do when it would force our
holy religion in any way to yield to its 1
dictates. Daniel, if he had been a roan of
religious oompramiecq, would never have
been thrown into the deu of lions. He
might have mads some arrangements i
with ging Darius whereby be could have
retained part of his form of religion with.
out making himself so Completely
obnoxious to the idolaters, maul might
have retained the favor of his rulers and
escaped niartyrtiotn if he had only been
willing to mix up his Christian faith
with a few errors. Ille unbending Christ- ,
Ian character was taken as an insult.
I?agot and rack and halter in all ages
have been only the diff=erent ways in
Which the world has demanded et:Mettler), •
It was once, away up an the top of the
temple, that Satan commanded the holy'
one of Nazareth to kucrl before him, but
it is not now so much on the top of
ohurehes as down in the aisle and the
pow and the ',pipit that satan tempts
tbo espousers or the Cbrlstian faith to
kneel before him. Why was it that the
Platonic philosophers of eaarly blocs as
wall as Toland, Spinoza and Bolingbroke
of Inter days were so madly opposed to
Christianity? Certainly not because it
favored immoralities or arrested civiliza-
tion or dwarfed the intellect, The
genuine reason, whether admitted or not,
was because the religion of Christ paid
no respect to their intolleotual vanities.
Blount and Boyle and the host of infidels
batched out by the vile reign of Charles
11., as reptiles .crawl out of a marsh of
slime, could not keep their petionoe
because, as they passed along, there were
sitting in the gate of the cburch such
men as Matthew and Tdark and Lake
and John7ewho would not bend an inch
in respect to their philo:opbios.
Satan told our iirst parents that they
would become as gods if they would only
reach up and tato a taste of the fruit.
They tried it and failed, but their
descendants are not vet satisfied with the
experiment. We have now many desiring
to be as gods, reaoldng up after yet
another apple. Reason, scornful of Clod's
Word, may foam and strut with the
proud wrath of a Haman and attempt to
compel the homage of the good. but in
the presence of men and angels it shall
be confounded. "God shall smite thee,
thou whited wall!" When science began
to make its brilliaut discoveries there
were great facts brought to light that
seemed to overthrow the truth of the
Bible. The archaeologist with his crow-
bar and the geologist with his hammer
and the chemist with his batteries
charged upon the Bible. Mosas' account
of the creation seemed denied by the very
structures of the earth. The astronomer
wheeled around his telescope until the
heavenly bodies seemed to marshal
themselves against the Bible as the star:;
in tbeir Courses fought against Sisera.
Observatories and universities rejoined at
what they considered the extinction of
Christianity. They gathered now courage
at what they considered past victory
and pressed on their conquest into the
kingdom of nature until, alas for them,
they discovered too inuoh! God's Word
had only been lying in ambush that, in
some unguarded moment, with a sudden
bound, it might tear infidelity to pieces.
15 was as when Joshua attacked the
pity of Ai. He selected 80,000 men and
concealed most of them; then, with a few
men. hs assailed the city, which poured
out its numbers and strength upon
J.oshua's little band. According to previ-
ous plan, they fell back in seeming
defeat, but after all the proud inhabitants
of the city had been brought out of their
homes and bad joined in the pursuit of
Joshua suddenly that brave man halted
in his flight, and, with his spear pointing
toward the city, 30,000 mon bounded
from the thickets as panthers spring to
their prey, and the pursuers were dashed
to pieces, while the hosts of Joshua
pressed up to the city and, with their
lighted torches, tossed it into flame. Thus
it was that the discoveriesof science
seemed to give temporary victory against
God and the Bible, and for awhile the
church acted as if she;were on a retreat,
but when all the opposers of God and
truth had joined in the pursuit and were
sure of the field Christ gave the signal
to bis oburch, and, turning, they drove
back their foes in shame. There was
found to be no antagonism between
nature and revelation. The universe and
the Bible were found to be the work of
the same hand, two strokes of the same
pen, their authorship the same God.
Again, learn the lesson that pride
goeth before a fall. Was any roan ever so
far up as Haman, who tumbled so .far
down? Yes, on a smaller scale every day
theworld sees the same thing. Against
their very advantages men trip into
destruction. When God humbles proud
men, it is usually at the moment of their
greatest arrogantly. If there be a man in
your community greatly puffed up ,with
worldly enemies, you bavo but to stand a
little while and you will see him dome
down. You say, "I wonder that God
allows that meta to go on riding oyer
others' heads and making groat assump-
tions of vetiver. There is no wonder
about it. Haman has not yet got to the
top, Pride is a commander, well, plumed.
and caparisoned, bus It leads forth a dark
and frowning host. We have the best
authority for saying that "pride goeth
before destruction and a, haughty spirit
before a fall," The arrows from the
Almighty's quiver are apt to strike a
man when on the wing. Goliath shakes
his spear In defiance, but the small
stones front the brook Elah make him
etagrire and fall like an ox under the
butcher's bludgeon. Ile who is clown
cannot fall. Vesselsscudding under bare
poles do not feel tho force of the storm,
but those with all sails set capsize at the
sudden descent of the tempest.
Again, this oriental tale reminds us .of
the fact that wrongs we prepare cur others
return upon ourselves. The gallows that
Haman built for Mordecai became the
prince minister's strangulation. Robespi-
erre, who sent so many to the guillotine,
had bis own head chopped off by the
horrid instrument, `ihe evil you practice
on others will recoil upon your own pate,
Slanders come borne. Oppressions come
hone, Cruelties coxae home.
You will yet be a lackey walking
beside the very charger on which you,
expected to ride others down. When
Charles I., who had cicstr_tyed Stratford,
was about to be beheaded, he said, "I
basely ratified an unjust sentence, and
the similar injustice I am now to
undergo is a sensible retribution for the
punishment I indicted on an innocent.
MU." I.serd Jeffreys after incarcerating
many innocent and gold peapio is Lav'
don 'Power eras himself imprisoned in tbe
same place. c0, whore tbo shades at those
whom he had maltreated seemed to haunt
hien. so that he kept crylug to his attend-
ants, "Beep theca off, gentlemen, f'er
God's salve, Imp thein oily' Tile chickens
had come bonze to roost. The body of
Braciehaw, the English judge who had
been ruthless and cruel in his decisions,
was taken from hie splendid tomb in
Weetnzinster Abbey. and at Tyburn hung
on a gallows from moiling until night
in the presence of jeering multitude!.
Human's gallows mime a little lata, but
it cache. Opportunities fly in a straight i
line and just touch u. ue they puss from
eternily to eternity but the wrongs we
do others fly in a viola and however the
circle may widen out, they are sure to
germ Mede to the point from which they
started. There aro guns that kick,
Furthermore, let the story of Hainan
teach us bow quit'lcly turns the wheel of
tortoni). (hire day. excerpting the icing,
Haman was the:nigtaeic'st man in Persia,
but the next day a taw•iza:y. So wa go up,
and ea we sortie down, You seldom and
any roan 20 ye:ar.t iu the wine cira'um- i
stances. Of those who in petit*eal life ea
years ago were the hilt prominent. how
few retrain in eonllaeuity! Pal'st.ieal i
parries halo certain men da their hard
worir dud then, after using them as
hacks, turn them out on the commons to
oh,. !,very four ye.us there is a complete
revolution. and Aleut 5,000 mon who
ought certainly to be the next president
aro shamefully disappolnted, while some
who this day aro obscure and poverty
striaaon will ride upon; the shoulders of
the people and take their turn at admira-
tion and the spoils of office. Oh, how
quickly the wheel turns! Ballot boxes
are the stops on which men come down as
often as they go up. Of those who wore
long ago successful in the accumulation
of property how few have not mat with
reversesl 'While many of these who then
Were straitened in circumstances now
hold the bonds and the bank keys of the
nation. Or all fickle things in the world
fortune is tho most nettle. Every day she
changes her mind, and woe to the man
who puts any confidence in what she
promises or proposes! She cheers when
you go up, and she laughs when you
come down, Oh, trust not a moment
your heart's affections to this changeful
world 1 Anchor your soul in God. h'rom
Christ's companionship gather your satis-
faction. Then, conte sorrow or gladness,
success or defeat, xiehes or poverty. honor
or dim:mice, be.dih or sickness, life or
death, time or eternity, all is yours, and '
ye are Christ's, and Christ Is Clod's.
Again, this llaman's hhitory shows us
that outward possessions and circum•
stances cannot make a man happy.
While yet fully .vested in authority and
the chief adviser of the Persian monarch
and everything that equipage and pomp
and splendor of residence could do was
his, be is an object lesson of wretched -
nesse There are to day more aching
sorrows under crowns of royalty than
under the ragged caps of tbo boneless.
Much of the world's affluence and gayety
is only misery in colors. Many a woman
seated in the street at her apple stand
1s happier tban the great bankers. The
mountains of worldly honor are covered
with perpetual snow. Tamerlane eon•
quered half the world, but could not
subdue bis own fears. Abab goes to bed
sink because Naboth will not sell him his
vineyard. Herod is in agony because a
little child is born down in Bethlehem.
Great Felix trembles because a poor
minister will preach righteousness,
temperance and judgment to come. From
the time of Louis XII. to Louis XVIII.
was there a straw bottomed chair in
France that did not sit more solidly
than the groat throne on which the
French kings reigned?
Were I galled to sketch misery in its
worst form I would not go up to the
dark alley of the poor, but up the high-
way over which pranoing Bucephali
strike the sparks with their hoofs and
between statuary and parks of stalking
deer. Wretchedness is more bitter when
swallowed from gemmed goblets than
from earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If
there are young people here who are
looking for this position and that circum-
stance, thinking that worldly success
will bring peace of tbe soul, let them
shatter the delusion. It is not what we
get; it is what we are. Daniel among the
lions is bappier than Ring Darius on bis
throne, and when life is closing brilliancy
of worldly surroundings will be no
solace. Death is blind and sees no differ-
ence between a king: •and his clown,
between the Nazarene and the Athenian,
between a bookloss hue and a national
library. The frivolities of life cannot,
with their giddy laugh, echoing from
heart to heart, entirely drown the voice
of a tremendous conscience which says:
"I are immortal. The stars shall die, but
I am iaum.ortal. One wave of eternity
shall drown time in its depths, but I am
Immortal. The earth shall have a shroud
of Sautes, and the heavens ilea at the
glance of the Lord, but I am immortal.
From all the heights and depths of my
nature sings down and rings pp and
rings ` ont the word `immortal.' " A
good conscience ana assurance of life
eternal through the Lord Jesus Christ
are the only seouritios.
The soul's happiness is too large a
craft to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. As ship carpenters say, it draws
too mush water. This earth is a bubble,
and It will burst. This life is a vision,
and it will soon pass away. Time! It le
only a ripple, and it breaketb against the
throne of judgment. Our days! They fly
swifter than a shuttle, weaving for us a,
robe of triumph or a garment of shame.
Begin your life with religion, and for its
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
day will be a triumph, and death will
be only a king's servant calling you to a
royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to
receive the honors of knighthood was
required to spend the previous night fully
armed and, with shield and lance, to
walk up and clown among the tombs of
the dead. Through all the hours of that
night his steady step was heard, and
when morning dawned amid grand
parade and the sound of cornets the
honors of knighthood were bestowed. .
Thus it shall be with the good man's
soul in the night before heaven. Fully
armed with shield and sword and
beintet, be shall watch and wait until the
darkness fly and the morning break, ana
could the sound of celestial barpings the
soul shall take the honors of heaven amid
rhe innumerable throng with robes
snowy white streaming, over seas of
sapphire.
Mordecai will Duly have to wait for his
day of triumph. It took all the preceding
trial, to matte a proper background far
his after successes. The scaffold built for
ham makes all the more imposing and
pii•; tureeque the horse into whose long
white mane he twisted bis Angers at the
amounting. You want at least two misfor-
tune.. bard as flint, to strike fire. heavy
and .,
continued snows in the winter
are ague of goad (Tope next summer. So
mane have yielded wonderful harvests of
1tnC 1 e
o and energy lie ause they
were for along while snowed under. We
menet have a gond many hard fails
Lcf+.ra we learn to walk straight, Ie is
on the black anvil of trouble that mon
hammer out their fortunes. Sorrows take
up teen on their s!:oalders and enthrone
theta. '.4onies aro' nearly always pitta,
glen. like -fruit triee, are barren unless
trn':send with sharp kills s. 'thew aro
like wheet.-all the Letter for the flailing.
It required the prion darkness and chill
to make John Ilutmen dream. It took
Ilehtware Me and told feet at Valley
Form, os and the whiz of bullets to make a
'1 , h.ngton. Pani. when ho climbed upon
the l.a;zt•h at dellt:a, shivering in his wet
cb"be.', was more of a Christian than
when the ship struck the breakers.
Fret ant, the Metorian, saw better with.
out hie eye.' than he mile aver bale
seen with theun. M' r'lcoai despised at the
gat.i is only i,re.ie t'ssor of Mord:mai
grandly sea>untee,.
THE UTILITY OF WHISKER$
Sonaecteees Those vi ho :titch. Them Mose
Can't ltaiso Them.
"I would give cavy years of my life,'
said a young attorney who is heardless,
"to have your wbielters," '.phis was said
to a friend wbo was supplied with
abend:am whiskers. "Now, you as a
olere: have no use for time bair on your
face. It might be better if you did not
have it at all. While here ata I wbo
need it in my bus bies-a and yet cannot
raise a board to save my life. It seems to
nue that the per capita circulation of hair
is inadequate to the needs of the nation.
I have paver had the slightest use for a
razor in all my life, and yet such a beard
as yours would be worth at least $5,000 a
year to me as a lawyer. Strangers
hesitate to employ an attorney in an
important vaso if he has not a beard. Of
course, there are exeoptions to this rule,
but It generally holds good just the same.
If a man is portly and has a good
address it does not so m matter; Mut
taking the average lawyer or professional
man, the beard cuts considerable figure.
"I have a brother who is in business
whore abeard i o t a
s f t o 'macular benefit
and yet he is bearded like a pard. He is
taken for a doctor every day. One day
last summer when he was walking on
the west side a woman rushael out of a
house and insisted on bis coming in to
see her husband, whom she thougbt
dying. The other morning he was
coming down t..wn on a North State
street oar, when a woman asked the
conductor how she should go to St.
Luke's hospital. Tho conductor could
nos tell her, but he looked around the car
and piaked out my brother, and said to
him: 'Doctor, what street is St. Luke's
hospital on?' Whenever bo goes to a drug
store the clerks call hitn `Doc.' and give
him a professional discount. I went in
with him one day and the clerk was
talking to a real doctor about some new
and powerful medicine. Ho turned to my
brother and said: 'Doctor, what bas been
your experience with thrtyjkidlpeke?'
Blamed if my brother did not put on a
professional voice and talk for five
minutes about the medicine, and he
didn't know whether it was taken in
capsules or to be robbed on the scalp."
Chicago Chronicle.
Work and Worry.
Where work wears out one, worry
wears out thousands. There is less happi-
ness among the great than among the
humble, among tho rich than among the
poor. "But it these limitations could
only be removed!" "It I did not have to
work so hard!" "If I could be my best
sell I" "If I could have that for which I
know I am fitted!" Ah, greatness of gift
always implies greatness of responsibility;
if one limitation goes, another comes;
that whioh seems to give freedom only
increases slavery. Almost all men, like
birds, boat themselves against their
cages, longing to get into some differeut
world, to soar beneath some more
splendid skies, ignorant of the abysses in
that larger world • and of the storms
which sweep those skies. Of the Master
it was said: "Who for the joy that was
set before Him endured the cross." The
gross preceded the joy, as the mountain
climb is before the vision of the earth
and sky. The stoic said: "The way to be
happy is to pease to desire or aspire;" in
other words, deny yourself. Christ's
message is: "Tba way to be happy is the
way of the Dross. Sacrifice yourself. Make
all you possibly can: give every faculty
its fullest development; be as beautiful,
as cultured, as wise as circumstances will
'permit, not that you may be happy, but
that you may use powers, faoulties, gifts,
as I have used mine—for bumanity. In
that way, and ,that alone, lies happiness."
—Amory 11. Bradford, D.D.
This Winter in Russia.
Not within living memory has there
been .knownso abnormally snowless a
winter in European Russia as the past
season. Throughout .the whole of these
southern latitudes (says an Odessa corres-
pondent), : and for astretch of nearly
2,000 mills northward, there !s only here
and there the merest sprinkling oe snow,
while the temperature alternates between
a few degrees of frost and crisp spring
weather.
owe (Do
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CUTTING THE GRASS. forehead is broad and high and bnlgvs
with brain; his mem Is the pronounced
pug variety and Ms eyes mirror a spirit
Of mischief ant playfulness that made
him so dear to the woman who reared
biro and so -valued by the one who made
hire her by purchase.
Mr. Landon spent considerable time in
Japan, and received a great deal of
attentiou. Lie -Malted the palace of Moto,
by invitation, and there saw the kennel
of sacred spaniels. /its admiration won
for biro a gift--Fu,ii, graudfratber of the
mite who is now in Cincinnati. The
mother of Fuji, the younger, Is lFinki,
beautiful creature, wbo is about half a
dozen times the size of bar midget sin.
Fuji wee until a few dans ago, the
property of UIrs. ,Tames M. Tower, who
also owns his mother and two of hie
brothers, with whore he romped and was
bappy, at No. the West eventy.fiftle
street. 'There Mrs. Sattler saw hires
admired, and soon purt•based Men for
Mr. Toggletou's 1:slier:once With the
Sickle and tate Lawn Mower.
"'Phis is the time of year," said Mr.
Tottgleton, "when you see outside of the
stores that sell such things rakes and hoes
and spades and so on, and various grass
cutting tools, including sickles. 1 owned
a sickle once. I lived then in a smeller
town in a detaehed house anditad a grass
plot in front of It, and I thought I'd cut
the grass myself. So I bought a sickle
and carried it home, and Booked it over
a beans In the cellar, wbich Is the correct
and proper place to hang a sickle. I was
going to get out in the morning botoro
breakfast and cut the grana, making a
, gilt-edged lawn of it, and get some
exorcise and an appetite for breakfast.
"11011, in the morning I went down
Dollar and took the :;lckltc off the helatn as
thsugh I'd been accustomed to using it
all my life, and went out to the front
yard and began to cut the grass. I never
c made more discoveries in a short time
!than 1 did that incmning. I found in the
first place that to eat grass well with a
sickle one must have the art, or knaarlc,
which can he acquired only by praetice;
that the novice with a sickle is in
constant clanger of cutting off his own
legs, and that cutting; grass with a sickle
was bank -breaking work. They say there's
only one thing more back -breaking, and
that is cutting grass teeth a scythe. I
never swung a scythe myself, but I no
longer wonder why old Father Time looks
so tired and worn.
"1 never had a dream fade more
rapidly than my sickle dream did. I out
the grass that morning, after a fashion,
and then 1 took the siekle back into the
cellar and hooked it over the beam and
left it there.
"Later in life I lived in a house in the
suburbs: There we had a regular lawn,
and I bought a lawn mower and a pair
of grass shears to trim around the edges
with, where you couldn't got in with
the mower, For a time I did out this
grass, but after a while, as I had done
once before, I gave this up and hired a
roan to come and cut it. and that was
the last of my grass cutting experience,
for I live now in the city and far above
the grass line."—New York Sun.
The Smallest i)og.
Fuji challenges the world to prove
that he is not the smallest dog in it, and
is proud of the feet that he is worth just
$88.98 1-3 an ounce on the present price
list in the canine market. He weighs
only fifteen ounces and is of the royal
dog blood of Japan, where those who
believe that tbe seven days of the world's
construction were in reality seven ages
say that his ancestors were snared and
pampered beasts in the Mikado's palace
8,000 years ago.
Melville D. Landon who brought Fuji's
grandfather, of the same name, to this
country several years ago, tells tbis story
on the authority of the daimio, who Is
master of the kenueis in the Mikado's
palace in Kioto.
Whether it be true to a day or a year
or a few oenturios Mr. Landon will not
solemnly aver, but Fuji needs no record
to prove that when his mistress, Mrs.
E. E. Sattler of Garfield place, Cincin-
pati, 0., puts bine sitting in her joined
palms, fingers pointing upward, his head
is the only part of his tiny, furry body
that reaches above her Huger tips,
Fuji stopped growing a month ago,
and nothing artifiolal was resorted to to
make him a high priced midget. He is
ten months o1d now and as happy a
canine gamboller; as ever chased a ball
of yarn around a house or worried a
doting mistress' millinery to shreds. He
gained only an ounce and a half in the
last two months of his preparation for
his struggle with the world:
Fuji is a Japanese spaniel. Iris mark-
ings are bleak and wbite. They are
beautiful, but it is in kis head that the
dog fancier: finds most to admire: His
eau.,
Chico. a blue tan elexe an, who weighs
10 outlive, might train tt:cwn to rivalry
with Fuji. Be was on e n icer pruirc:rty of
a French ammo:. tont now lives in
Chicago.—New York limeald,
Spurgeon', Tabernacle.
Those who prophesied that moth the
death of Mr. oputrtnn would st't in the
decline of the organization at the Matzo.
politan Tabernacle seem to bass' been
sadly mistaken. Not only do the balance
sheets of every branch of the church work
! and the institutions connected show
something in hand, but despite a very
careful revision of the names on the roll
there aro now no fewer than 4,212
members in fellowship at the tabernacle.
There are twenty missions connected
with the church, and there are in all
twenty Sunday schools, with 8,847
scholars and 894 teachers. .At the
Pastors' college there are at present sixty-
five students in training and at the
Stockwell orphanage there are nearly 500
children being oared for. Altogether
"Pastor Tom" seems to be keeping
things "humming" pretty much as his
famous father did.—Westminster Gazette.
Photographing the Stomach.
A new invention is expected to assist
in diagnosis of ailments of the stomach,
rendering laparotonoany unnecessary. A
camera is introduced into the stomach
and exposed for a few seconds. A email
incandescent lamp attached to it supplies
the necessary light for photographing.
No pain is experienced. When the camera
is introduced the patient easily bolds his
breath, preventing movement of the
membrane until a picture is obtained.
A treat o00 Carrier.
A 8,000,000 -gallon tank steamer, built
for the oil -carrying track, has just been
launched at Sunderland, Eneland. This
vessel, which was built for the Standard
011 Company, is said to be the largest
and best equipped tank steamer afloat.
Philadelphia will be one of the home
ports,
Tolstuatifted.
A condemned murderer wrote to the
governor of his state:
"if you will let me out of jail, I will err•
ganize a company and fight for nay COMP.
try ,,
The governor was impressed with hie
patriotism, but replied:
"Sorry, but we want only sound men in
the army, and you are threatened' with a
eriok in your neck."—Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
Reasenriug izatormation.
"Oh, George," sold a nervous lady to
her husband, "do you think we shall have
a safe voyage?"
"Perfectly safe, my dear," replied
George. "I have been talking with the
captain, and he tells me he bas never beast
drowned yet, though ho has been crossing
continually stnco he was a cabin boy,' tm