HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-7-8, Page 7E stood and gathered
watched them, •a the soldiers
111E VEILED Qlong march they had taken and of the
who were garound them were uo.
doubt talking of their homes and of the
• IJEN
battles they were to fight, bet after
awhile I saw these ca nepares begin to
Practical Lessons From the Story of a Beauti- lower, and they continued to lower until
jrAiw ful Queen %AL1 , Was Dethroned.
they g
Driven Forth in Poverty Because She Refused to Obey the
date of a Drunken. King --Modesty in Women Corte-
mended --Sonne Heroic Women.
were all one out and the army
slept. It was in:eosina when I saw the
campfires, It was imposing in the darit-
ness when l thought of that great host
mans asleeep. Well, Gad looks down from heaven
and he sees the firesides of Christendom
and the loved ones gathered around these
amides. These are the campfires where
we warm ourselves at the close of day
and talk over the battles of life we have
Dntered according to Aet of tbe ',ornament of Canada. in the year one thousand fought and the battlea that are yet to
eight hundred and nlnety-eight, by nee Central Press Agency of Oauada, conte, God grant that when at last these
(Limited), at the Department of Agriculture. All rights reserved, fires begin to go out and continuo to
hospital and in almshouse corridor and lower until finally they are elttinguished
os
P and the ashes of consumed hopes strew
by prison gate? Thera may be no royal thehearth of the old homestead it may
robe. '.'here may be no palatial surround- be because we hero—
ines. She does not need them, for ail Gone to sleep that sleep
charitable mon will unite with the creolne From which none ever wane to weep,
fug lips of fever struck hospital and Now sve aro an army on the march of
plague tllotcllud lazaretto A greeting her life, Then the shall be an army bivouaoked
as she passes: ".Flail: Ilan! Queens in the tent of the grave.
Vashti i„ The Silent Martyr.
Agveil d want you to consider Veforeashtl Once more, I want you to look at
the veiled. Had she appeared before
You not bearn
she he silent, Y u do a
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ty
e s r a
t
baso ru is mere that da
A and h to on y
Washington, July 3 —Dr. Talmage in
this dis<uss.on tolls the story of a benutf-
iul spleen dethroned and draws practical
lessons Tet• all conditions and .all times;
We snaud' amid the palaces of Shusban.
The pinnaeles.' re aflame with the morn-
ing light. The ceiunlns rise festooned and
wreathed. the wealth of empires, ffasbing
Vont the grooves, the eeiiing q adorned
with inaa; es of bird and beast and scone
of prowess and conquest. The walls are
bung with shields and emblazoned until
it seems that the whole round et splen.
dors le exhausted. Each arch is a mighty
leaf of arebiteetural achievement. Golden
Stan shining down on glowing arabesque.
Hangings of embroidered work In which
mingle the blueuess of the sir'y, the green-
ness of the grass and the whiteness of the
sea foam. Tapestries hung on silvorrings,
Wedding together the pillars of marble,
Pavilions. reaching oast in every direction.
These for repose, billed with luxuriant
with her face uncovered she would have outcry froth this woman as she goes forth
shea.ked all the delicacies of arioutal soci- from the palace gate, Front. the very dig
ety, and the very men who itt their in- ratty of her nature you know there will
tasieation demanded that she come in be no vociferation. Sometimes in life ib
their sober moments would have despised is necessary to make a retort; sometimes
her, As some Heavers seem to thrive hest in life it is necessary to resist; but there
in the dark lane and in the sbadaw and ore crises when Ileo most triumphant
where the sate does not seem to reaob thing to do is to keep silence. The pietles-
theen, so Qod appoints to most womanly ember, confident in his newly discovered
natures a retiring and unobtrusive spirit. Prinelplo, waiting for tbe coining;at more
God once in awhile does call an Isabella lntellieent generations, willing that mon
eonebes, lo Willett weary 1lTnbssin& until to a throne, or a Miriamto strike the , should fangh at the lightning roil and
all fatigue is submerged. 'Thane for earou- timbrel at the front of a host, or a Marie! cotton gin and stettnbeet and telegraph,
szd whrre kings drink down a kingdom Antoinette to quell a French mot, or watting for long years through the Scoff.
1! Amazing loherell to eland at the front of an ing of philosophical wheels in grand and
at onoswa ow. ngi.- rg; .ht
at silver dripping down over stairs. of ivory armed battalion, cuing out: of pt 141 • lnagnitcontsilence.
Ualtleo, condemned by mathematicians
and monks and cardniais, caricatured
everywhere, yet waiting and watching
With his telescapn to see the coming up
of stellar rc•otaforcements. when the stars
in their courses Would light for the
Copernican system, then sitting dawn
complete blindness and deafness to wait
for the coming on of tbo generations who
would build bis monument and bow Fit
bis grave, The reformer, execrated by bis
contempararies, feetened In as pillory, the
slow fires of pubiio contempt burning
under him, ground under the cylinders
of the prfutin ; press, yet calmly waiting
for the day when purity et soul and hero-
ism of eh;araeter will get the saanotion of
earth and the plaudits of heaven. Aliliu-
tion enduring without any complaint
the sharpness of the pang, and the vio-
lence of the aerie, and the heft of the
ohain, and the darkness of the night,
wilting until a divine hand shall be put
forth to soothe the pang, and hush the
storm, and release the captive. A wife
abused, persecuted and a perpetual exile
from every earthly comfort, waiting.
wafting until the Lord shall gather up
his dear children in a heavenly' home and
no poor Vashti will over be thr=ust out
from the palaoe gate. Jesus, in silence
and answering not a word, drinking the
Bali, bearing the uross, in prospect 0f the
on shields of gold. hissers of seamed mar -
tile await red and night blank and in -
This is the day in which the Lord will
deliver SIsera into thy hands." And
teed with gleaming pearl, to connection when the women are called to such out -
1 k d t si1
with tie=s palate there Is a garden wbere c our Ivor au o tct a toxoi a politip
ns
the tailgate men of foreign lands are seenGod prepares them for it, and they have
ed at a hauquec. Under the spread of colt iron in their soul, and lightnings in their'
and tendon ;and acacia the tables ere ar. eye, and whirlwinds in their breath, and
the borrowed strength of the Lorci omen
patent in their right arae. They walk
through furnaces as though they were
bodges at wildflowers and cross seas as
thaugh they were shimmering stapPbire,
and all the harpies of hell down to their
damson at the stamp of wonumly indig-
nation. But those aro the exceptions.
ranged- ¶'he breath of honeysuokle and
irankineensa fills the air. Fountains leap
up into .the light, the spray struck through
with rainbows falling into crystalin+
baptism inion flowering shrubs, then roll-
ing down through channels of marble mut
widening out here and there into peels,
swirling with the finny tribes of faro+g n 1 Generally Dorm would rather make a
aquariums, laarda:ed with c4 arlat aatho• garment for the poor bov, Rebeeea would
h
mange. xperiounrs nod many colored
ranunculi. wither :911 the trough of the catuels, Hans
bleats et rarest ldrd and beast smoking nab would rather matte a coat for Same
'tip amid wreaths of aratnatles. The vast s nel, tbo Hebrew maid would rather give
a prescription for b;aautau's leprosy, the
filled with :apricots and almonds, Tim
baskets piled up with apricots and age
woman of ,9arepta would rather gather a
and oranges es and ponnegrangates. Melons few sticks to cook a meal for famished
tastefttl ,y twined, with leaves of erecta, li lijah, 1 hobo would rather carry a letter
for the inspired apetle,
The bii:tht waters of Eulaetls filling; the to `le Slather Itoie'
urns and dropping outside the rim in would rather statuette in the
flasking beads amid the traceries. Wino Scriptures. When I see a woman going
from the royal vats of Ispahan and about her daily duty, With cheerful dig -
Shiraz, in battles of tinged shell, and lily nity Presiding at the table, with kind and
shaped cups of silver and flagons and tank -the
but firm d selpline presiding in
arils of solid gold. The music rises higher iho nursery, aout into the world
and the revelry breaks out into wilder without any bllasstt of trumpets, following
transport, and the wino has flushed the
cheek and touched the brain, and louder
than all other voices are the hiccough of
tho inebriates, the gabble of fools and the
song of tbo drunkards.
In another part of the palace Quoon
Vashti is entertaining the Princess of
' Persia at a banquet. Drunken. Ahasuerus
Rays to his servants, "You go and forth
Vashti from that banquet with the wo-
men and bring her to this banquet with
the man and let me display her beauty."
Tho servants immediately start to obey
the king's command, but there was a rule
In oriental soolety that no woman might
appear In public) without having her face
Veiled. Yet bare was a mandate that no
r - one dare dispute, demanding that Vashti.
tome in unveiled before tbo multitude.
1 However, there was in Vashti's soul a
principle more regal. than Ahasuerus.
more brilliant than the gold of Shushan,
of mare wealth than the reales of Persia,
which commanded her to disobey this
order of the king, and so all the rigbto-
onsness and holiness and modesty of ber
nature rise up into one sublime refuse].
She says, "I will not go into the banquet
unveiled." Ahasuerus was infuriate, and
Vashti, robbed of .her position and her
estate, is driven forth in poverty and
ruin to suffer the scorn of a nation, and
,yet to receive the applause of after goner
+tions, who shall rise up to admire this
martyr to kingly insolence. Well, the last
vestige of that feast is gone, the last gar-
land has faded, the last arch has fallen,
the last tankard has been destroyed, and
Shushan Is a ruin, but as long as the
world stands there will be multitudes
of men and women familiar with the
Bible who will come into this picture
gallery of God and admire the divine
portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti the
veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the
silent.
In the first plaoe, I want you to look
upon Vashti the queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with wbite, drawn around her fore-
head, indicated hor queenly position. It
was no small honor to be queen in suoh
a realm ,ss that. Hark to the rustle of her
robes1 See the blaze of her jewels, and
yet it is not necessary to have place and
rugal robe in order to be queenly. 'When
I see a woman with stout faith in God
putting her foot upon all meanness and
selfishness and godless display, going
right forward to serve Christ and the
rano by a grand and glorious service, I
say, "That woman is a queen," and the
ranks of heaven look over the battlements
upon the coronation, and whether she
Domes up from the shanty on the com-
mons or the mansion of the fashionable
'spare T greet her with the shout, "All
bail, Queen Vashti I"
Things to Consider.
What glory was there on the brow of
Mary of Scotland, or Elizabeth of Eng-
land, or Margaret of France, or Catherine
of Russia compared with the worth of
emne of our Christian mothers, many of
them gone into glory; or of that woman
mentioned in tbe Scriptures who put her
all into the Lord's treasury; or of .Teaeh-
thah's daughter, who made a demonstra-
1 tion of unselfish patriotism;. or of Abi-
t gait, who rescued the herds and flocks of
1 her husband; or of Ruth. who toiled
under a tropical sun for poor, old, help-
less Naomi; or of Florence Nightingale,
a h the bat -
midnight fust n
who went at
tie . wounds o1 the Crimea; or of Mrs.
Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights
me o1B
ur-
e. da k ss
of 1 +tion a
m d th
ear i
ma; or of Mrs. Hemane, who poured out
her holy soul in words which will forever
be associated with hunter's horn, and
S captive's chain, and bridal hour, and
lute's throb, and curfew's knell at the
I dying day, and • snores and hundreds of
women unknown on earth who have given
water to the thirsty, and ' bread to the
hungry, and medicine to the sick, and
' smilesto the discouraged.' their footsteps
heard along datnlaue and in government
in the footsteps of hien who want about torous consummation when--
doing good, I say, This is Vashti with rap
a roll en," Angola througed his eharlot wheel
But when I see a woman of unblush- And bore hint to his throne,
ing boldness. loud voiced, with a tongue
of infinite glitter clatter, with arrogant
look, passing through the streets with
the step of a walking beam, gayly array-
ed in a very hurricane of millinery, I cry
out, "Yashti bas lost her veil." When 1
see a woman struggling for political pre-
ferment, trying to force her way on up
to eonspiouity amid the masouline dema-
gogues, who stand with swollen fists and
bloodshot eyes and pestiferous breath to
guard the polls, wanting to go through
the loaforism and defilement of popular
sovereigns, who drawl up from the saloons
greasy and foul and vermin oovered to
decide questions of justice and order and
civilization—when I see a woman, I say,
'who wants to press through all that hor-
rible scum to get to public place and
power, 1 say: "Ala, what a pity! Yashti
has lost her veil!"
When I sea a woman of comely features
and of adroitness of intellect and endowed
with all that the schools can do for her
hsocial osition, et
moving
In society with superciliousness and hau-
teur, as though she would have people.
know their place and with an undefined
combination of giggle and strut and rho-
domontado, endowed with allopatbio in-
lnitesimals of sense, the terror of dry
goods clerks and railroad concluders, dis-
coverers of significant meanings in plain
conversation, prodigies1
es of badinage and
innuendo, I say, "Vashti has lost her
veil."
Man's Cruelty.
Again, I want you tbls morning to
consider Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this
that I see coming out of that palace gate
of Shushan? It seems to me that I have
seen ber before. She Domes homeless,
houseloss, friendless, trudging along with
a broken heart. Who is she? It is Vashti
the eaorifi ite Ob, what a obange it was
from regal position to a wayfarer's crust!
A little while ago approved and sought
for, Now, none so poor as to acknowledge
her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice.
Ah, you and I have seen it many a
timel Here is a home ompalaoed with
beauty. All that refinement and books
and wealth oan do for that home has
been done; but Ahasuerus, the husband
and the father,is taking hold on paths
of sin. He is gradually going down. After
awhile he will flounder and struggle like
a wild beset in the hunter's net—farther
away from God, farther away from the
right. Soon the bright apparel of the
children will turn to rags; soon' the
household song will become the sobbing
of a broken heart. The old story over
again. Brutal centaurs breaking up the
marriage feast of Lapithao. The house
full of outrage and cruelty and abomina-
tion, while trudging forth from the palaoe
t and her :Andrei:. There
re Vashti oto a
g
are homes in all parts of this land that
are in danger of such breaking up. Oh,
Ahasuerus, that you should stand in a
home by a dissipated life destroying the
pease and comfort of that home! God for-
bid thatyour ohildren should ever have
people
to wringhave .theft hands and
point their finger at them as they pass
down the street and say, "There goes a
drunkard's ohildl" Goa forbid that the
little feet should ever have to trudge the
path of poverty and wretchedness_ ! God
forbid that any evil spirit born of the
wine cup or the brandy glass should come
garden, and with a
uproot that e
hand
fortg ,
lasting, blistering, all consuming curse
shut foreverthe palace
gate against
Vashti and the children.
Life's Campfires.
One night during our civil war 1 weal
to Hagerstown to look at the army and I
stood on a hilltop and looked down upon
them. I saw the campfires all through
the valleys and all over the bine. It was
a weird spectacle, those campfires, and I
Then swept their golden harps and sung,
"'The glorious work is done!"
Ob, woman, does not this story of.
Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled,
Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the stlont,
move your soul? My sermon converges
into the one absorbiug hope that none of
you may be shut out of the palace gate of
heaven. You can endure the hardships,
and the privations, and the oruelties, and
the misfortunes of this life if you can
only gain admission there. Through the
blood of the everlasting covenant you go
through those gates or never go through
at all. God forbid that you should at last
lei -banished from the society of angels,
and banished from tho companionship of
your glorified kindred, and banished for-
ever. Through the rioh grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ may you be enabied to imi-
tate the example of Rachel and Hannah
and Abigail and Deborah and Mary and
Esther and Vashti.
Eugene Sue's l'ather's Wines.
The father of Eugene Sue was a physi-
elan with exalted patients all over Eur-
ope, who sent him the choicest wines.
The Emperor of Austria, for instance,
had contributed Tokay, the King of
Prussia rare book, Queen Christina of
Spain priceless Alicante, Prince Metter-
nich genuine cachet d'or, and so on. The
whole was kept in a largo iron cupboard
in the study of the learned physician,
known as the Elzevir library. Eugene
was then a college freshman, and, having
procured a skeleton key to the closet,
with his friends, Adolpbe, Adam, Veron
and others, proceeded every night to in-
vestigate the contents of the bottles. Not
wishing to have their explorations pre-
maturely stopped, they took the precau-
tion to fill up the partially exhausted
flasks with water, and tben to reseal
them. When, for a long time afterward,
the dootor brought forth samples of his
precious stook for the delectation of guests
worthy of it, and the company tasted it
with a due sense of awe, it was private.
ly felt that the celebrity of these great
brands was all moonshine; that ordinary
table d'hote Bordeaux was preferable to
them. But nobody dared to say so, and it
was only after the death of his dreaded
parent that the novelist confessed the
sacrilege.
Godliness.
Godliness has the promise of this life
as well as of that which is to Dome. A
criticism was onoe made on the floor of
an important ohuroh body that there
seemed to be little room in the churches
for the poor. To this a Iayman wittily
replied: "It is not the church's fault if
its members are not poor. When the poor
join our ranks they begin to outgrow
their poverty; they cease to be poor." It
was applauded as good wit, but back of
it lies a deal of truth. Church member-
ship in its only true sense means trans-
formation of character, and that, as we
all know, tends
to prosperity, despite a
prevailing notion that only unprincipled
people really prosper.
VEGETARIAN ANIMALS.
reline and Canine Champions of the
No.)lcat Diet.
Visitors to the vegetarian exposition at
the Memorial Hall found nothing to try
their faith so severely as the vegetarian
cat. It was not present in person, for the
snf]icfout reason that, it hats been dead
these two years; but its portrait in oils
shows it to have been a more than usu-
ally comely specimen of its kind. Miss
Whitfield, its owner during the fourteen
years of its earthly career, asserts that
the likeness does nu more than Pieties:.
Queen Mab was a tabby, long -furred and
finely marked. Her infancy was spent
under the best auspices. her another being
a Persian and ber birthplace n clergy-
man's house iu Shropshire. She came
into the care of Miss Whitfield at the age
of three weeks, and since then till her
lamented death remeined ander that
lady's roof, not even proving inconstant,
as some flesh -eating breeds do, when the
household removed from Shropshire to
Thornton Beath.
Queen blab was a vegetarian, not by
education, but by instinct. From the
time when she deserted nature's susten-
ante she developed an extraordinary pas•
Mon for vegetables of all kinds. Tier fav-
orites were peas, beans, and Brussels
:sprouts, but nothing came alufsg, She
would go out into the garden and eat
strawberries off their beds. Beetroot tend
dates she reveled in, though those are not
uncommon feline tastes. In the ease of
potatoes she made a dietinetion. She
would devour them with avidity so long
as they were net boiled. With that exe
rection, she had no particular views
about conking. For beverages she pre-
ferred mill: and coeoaa. Her singular diet
did not affect her health, tor she lived to
her mature age in the hest condition and
temper.
Lin coming to the tiokilsh point of
Queen dab's vegetarian principles, it is
neees=:iry to make as qualineation. Verso.
'Minati% ani we know, consist of more thea
one Beet. Qom blab may be called ti
vegeterien of the second degree. She was
not averse to washing :lows a eaulitt wer
with ereern, and she w MAI eat meat nit a
pinch, but her predilections were manifest
from the lirst. When she could ger vette-
tables she would um as t meat. send so til)
animal element was gradually dropped
out of her hill of fare. Most of her peon -
liar taster were ueiiulretl during bur cowl -
try life when a large garden ministered
to her every desire, and after coining to
tosrn her mistress made a point of Feeing
that the daily eabbago was not dihniu-
ishad.
Bid Queen mall r=etch mice? The truth
'trill out; now and again, but rarely, she
Nisei i to that extent Bus not in malice.
"She would not play with them," said
Nses Whitfield. Ono last word, and it is
a saddening one. Queen Mule's slaughter
and telly dcsceudnt,t has succeeded to her
place in the household, She Is a voracious
rneat•eator.
As a type of a vegetarian dog may be
moutianed Lord Bute Bruno—a magnifi-
cent specimen of a smooth St, Bernard,
standing thirty•four inches high at the
shoulder, with the famous Plinlianmon
blood on both sides. He Is by Colonel
Bute, out of Lady 1411, and was born on
March 23, 1893. His owner, Herbert S.
Want, iirat showed him at Cruft's In
1895, where he was "highly commended,"
Since then Lord Bute Bruno bas lived
the life of ease and luxury of a household
pet, but he will at any time turn from
the tempting steak or chop—even from
young ducklings, plump partridges, and
the savory grouse—Lind oboose, instead,
apples, oranges, melons, nuts (which
must be cracked and peeled for him by
his human friends)—in fact, every hind
of fruit and vegetable. --London Sketoh.
Speak to Them..
Often a young person is waiting for
just a word or two, just one question, be-
fore deciding fully to beoome an open and
professing Christian. Hereis the oppor-
tunity
or-
tunity for an earnest companion, for a
thoughtful Sunday
nda school teacher for a
the member oft o Christian Endeavor
Society. Friends, look around, and think
of your aogaintances who need to "dross
over the line." Speak to them. They are
likely, to be far more responsive than you
expect. Just this appeal of yours to, their
higher purposes may be all that is needed
to influence them for life.
What Becomes of the Corks.
Corks are thrown away in great quan-
tities, and very few reoplo think there Is
any value attached to them after they
baro served their purpose once as stop-
pers. Nevertheless groat quantities of old
corks are now used again in the manu-
facture of insulating covers of steampipes
and boilers, of ice -boxes and ice -houses,
and other apparatus to be protected from
the influence of heat. Powdered cork is
also useful for filling in horse collars; and
the very latest application of this mater-
ial is the filling in of pneumatic tires
with cork shavings. Mats for bath rooms
are made of cork, and it enters into the
composition of linoleum. Cheap life pre-
servers are now also filled with bottle
corks cut into little pieces.
Two Colucideaces.
Two coincidences in the lives of Dis-
raeli and Gladstone are pointed oat. In
boyhood they wore both educated under
Unitarian ministers, viz., Disraeli under
the Rev. Eliezer Cogan, whose Greek
scholarship Dr. Parr acknowledged, and
Gladstone under the Rev. William Lame
port, of Liverpool (or of Lancaster?).
Disraeli died on Easter Tuesday, when
the first morning lesson has Elisba's la-
ment over Elijah, "0 my father, my
father, the chariot of Israel and the keret:-
men thereof." Gladstone died on Ascen-
sion Day, when the first evening lesson
has Elisha's lament over Elijah, "O my
father, my father, the chariot of Israel
and the horsemen thereof."
Banana Petticoats.
The secret of the much -talked -about
paper petticoat is out. While the material
with whicb it is to be built is not like
anything in the world which ever has
been used before for the purpose, it can
hardly be called paper. The fabric is
made of banana fiber. That's as far as
the 50 •cent petticoat makers will go until
they' obtain all their patents. However,
there's no doubt about the deceptive
qualities of the banana petticoat. It will
bring the taffeta frou•frou within reach
of all.
Hope in Childhood.
What a golden, glorious day hope paints
for usin ohildhood! What glorious prom-
ises
om-
ises
to be fulfilled; what wonders to be
accomplished; what realms to be ex-
plored; what sweetness to be extracted
from life! And is all this false hope? Not
if that glorious to -morrow is God's great
tomorrow of infinite time. -Rev. Ernest
Evans.
Helping Bach Other.
Such help as we can give each other in
this world is a debt to each other, and
the man who perceives a superiority or
capacity In a subordinate, and neither
confesses it nor assists it, is not merely
of kindness
the withholder a but She
wi,
oommitter of an injury: -Ruskin.
An Apron as a Banner.
An apron is the royal standard of Per-
sia. Gos, a Persian, who was a black•
smith by trade, raised a revolt which
proved successful, and his loather apron,
covered with jewels, is still borne in the
van of Persian armies.
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miffed to prison ouly by the civil an- Iieieie ii,e.rst .the university court try and
thority. In Oxford, it is true, the vie„ lute r. utehe e. the civil reel? Liking
chancellor deals With undergraduate uninrtherteneern with the oat use. The
naug latiueee, principally iu the form of
debt and inunbordiuntiona, for which he
may impose a momentary penalty, but
he does uot deprive the defaulter of lib-
erty. There is, or was, a legend that a
certain apartment under the old Claren-
don building was really the university
"quod," but for its authenticity it is
impossible to vouch.
Cambridge has its spinning house for
female offenders—not lady students, but
ladies who might prove a delusion and
a snare to the mere male undergrad.
There, if we except the irksome penalty
of "gating*' (confinement to college or
lodgings after a stated hoar), our ama-
demio efforts at incarceration may be
said, to end,
In Germany, however, the academie
dungeon is a very stern fact. The Hei-
delberg"career" is famous. Every -read-
er of .black Twain will recall his enter-
taining description of the place and
how he contrived to visit it, even unwit-
tingly enlisting as his guide a "Herr
Professor." His pretext was to see a
young friend who had "got" 24 hours
and had conveniently arranged the day
to suit Mark for the German student
convict goes to prison on the first suit-
able day after conviction and sentence.
If Thursday is not convenient, he tells
the officer sent to hale him to jail that
he will come on Friday or Saturday or
Sunday, as the ease may be. The officer
never doubts his word, and it is never
broken.
The prison is up three flights of stairs,
and is approached by a "zugang" as
richly decorated with the art work of
convicts as the cell itself. The apart-
ment is not roomy, but bigger than an
ordinary prison cell. It has an iron
grated window, a small stove, two
wooden chairs, two old oak tables and
a narrow wooden bedstead.
The furniture is profusely ornament-
ed with carving, the work of languish-
ing captives, who have placed on record
their names, armorial bearings, their
crimes and the dates of their imprison-
ment, together with quaint warnings
and denunciations. Walls and ceilings
are covered with portraits and legends
executed in colored chalk and in soot,
the prison caudle forming a handy pen -
oil. Some of the inscriptions are pa-
thetic. One runs, "E. Glinicke, four
days for being too eager a spectator of
a row." If four days were meted out to
a mere spectator, what, one wonders,
had been the sentence of the participa-
tors? It must have been a moving spec-
tacle.
Another record (also quoted by Mr.
Clemens) has the savor of a great name
to it. Of course it is the son that is
meant, not the father. The legend is,
"F. Graf Bismarck, 27-29. II. '74."
This Mark Twain interprets as a record
oftwo days'durance a vilefor Count Bis-
marck in 1874. Had 1874 been leap
year one might have been inclined to
interpret the numeral "II" as February.
But the "29" makes this difficult. So
perhaps the humorist is right.
A third specimen is too tragic for
Comment. It simply says, "R. Diergandt
—Inc Love --four days." Ungenerous
successors to that sad chamber have
dealt harshly with their forerunners'
reputations by ingenious substitution of
heinous crimes, so that certain prison-
ers go down to posterity as having been
punished for theft and murder.
The prisoner must supply his own
bedding u
b g and is subject' to various
charges. On entering he pays about ten -
pence, and on leaving a similar sum.
Every day in prison costs sixpence; fire
o a:d light sixpence extra. The ` jailer
supplies coffee for a trifle. Meals may
be ordered from outside. Every prison -
trial is'veree f,c'nettutlui ttel itt the psis-
onetes abtrnet-, and hes, pier wight, may
hilus' furgottt'n +ail about his poeeaclille
uritis the university constable appt;ars
to eonalurt him to pritem. But thither,
seeing; he into, elumee his day, he always
repairs cheerfully.—.London Sketch.
Mow We tree Our Lives.
If you are fond of such statistics, a
read this table, drawn up by Gabriel Pei -
gnat: A man of 50 years, of ordinary
health, of active life, of regular habit,
comfortable in all circumstances of
money, should give out of 18,250 days
6,082 days to sleep, 550 to sickness,
1,522 to his meals, 5,532 to work, 671
to exercise, to sports, the hunt, travel
3,803 days, and he should have con-
sumed 27.060 pounds of bread, 0,080 of'
meat, 4,675 of vegetables, eggs and
fruit, 31,180 liters of wine, spirits and
water. --Boston Journal.
"Close Quarters" With Modern Guns.
" 'Then. they engaged the enemy at
Close quarters,' " she read. "Think of it,
John I" she commented. "At close quar-
ters 1 Think of the expression of hatred,
the bloodshot eye of your opponent.
Think of the look of terrible earnestness
plainly apparent as they— What do
you suppose 'close quarters' means in a
naval battle, John?"
"About two miles," he answered.
Thus it happened that she had to
paint her meatal picture all over again.
Work For the Muscles.
"How is the beefsteak?" asked the
landlady.
"It is excellent exercise," replied the
new boarder.
"Exercise! What do you mean?"
"Didn't I tell you that I am the iron
jawed man. down at the museum?"-
13rooklyn Life.
Motherly Pride.
"Oh, did you hear about Mrs, War-
ble's baby ahnost getting burned alive
in the fire at their house?"
"Good gracious 1 No 1 Is it possible?"
"Yes. She only had time to get his
best dress on him and curl his sweet,
little hair before the firemen carried ,
them out."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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fishermen go out of L ,-w Turk every
Sunday alicl that they spend on ar
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