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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-7-22, Page 7ONE LIFEIS NOUG.11 A SeQond Journey Would be Almost Certainly a Failure. A $ermon Which Shows the Importance of Present Opportunities --Lessons Drawn From Different Kinds a Lives - Buoys to Mark the Right Channel. Washington, ,Thly 17, -This discours .of Dr. 'Talmage extols mix- present oppor tonities so thee more opportunities the we enjoy in chi; life do eot seeni desir able; the rext, Job ii, 4, "All thot man hath will be give for Is We." That is untrue. The Lord did not sa le, but Felton gild it to tee Lord whet the evil 0110 wanted Job still more menet ed. 'rho record is, "So wene satan tont and smote Job with sore bane," Au &emu bile been the author of all ernPtiv eliseaect since them anti be elopes by poi sorting the bleed to pelson the Soul. lin the result of the diabolical experimen which lefe .lob letor proved, the false* ef the satellite remark, "AU that a wan hath will J3e .iVe for his Wen' Nany a I 0 have their life corrected. for some ot yen are suffering from bad hereditary indite - n ences evbicle sterlee Ifee years ago Well, _ if your grandfatherlived his life over a again, and your her lived his life over again, an you lived eeenr life over again, y what a cluttered up place this world 1 would be -z& place filled tvith miserable _ attempts at repairs. I begin to think that , it is better for each generation to have d only one chanceand then for them te 0 pass off and Rive another generatton a . chance. liesides thee, if We were permitted t, to live life over again, Ss would be a Stale 4 and stupid experience. The zest and spur • and entletislasm of life come from the fact that we leave never been along this road before, and everything is new, and we Captain wlio hat: stood on the bridge the steamer till bitpaisengers. got oft iink he drowned, melee' an engineer who ha kept Ids hand oe the throttle valve or hi foot con the brae° until tho none of the train was saved W14110 he wept down to ninth througb the open drawbridge enanyn firemen whe plunged intea blaz Ing house to get a sleeping eliild out, the fireman sacriticing his lite in the attempt and the thew -midi etmartyrs who sub =Med to fiery set ko anti knife et male:Imre did and neaclegan's go an4 a guillotinerathar than surrender prineiplo, proving that In Malty a ease my text, eras not true wino) it says, "All that a man bath will he givo for bis life." But satin's led ebood was built, on truth. Lite Is eery tererioue, and it' w would not give up all thero are nteny things we would surrender rether than surrender It. We see how prevent*: life is from the fact that wo do everything to proloug it Hence all etinititry regula- tions. all study of hygiene, all fele of draft, all waterproafs. alt durtore, all Medicinee, all eteeggle in eriele Wei - dent. An 141.11111f.11 ut th Itritielt navy woe tourtmeattialed for turneng hie ship around in time of danger; and ee damn ing the ship. It vete pravea tteetinet hint, nut when his time ealiar to 1.3.o heard he said; "(teatime .n. I did turn the ship around and etatilt that it wee dam- oged, but do you want to know why I turned it There wee a 133311 OVILT11.1A111. and I wanted to save him, and I ditt eave biro, mut I consider the life of line sailor worth all the west/silt the Britieh Davy." No wonder he wtse vitulleated. Life I indeed very preeione. Yea. there aro those who deem life so preeious they ots, • would like to repeitt it. They would like o to try It over again. They would like to go back from ie to Cie from 60 to e0. from tie to 40, from 40 to tei and from eo to 20. I propmei for very preetleal and tasetul purpose, as will appear before I get through, to aiseuse the question we lave all asked of cohere and others have again and again wilted. ef no Would etim like to live your life over egolue are alert for whet neteyaPpeer at tbe next tern of the road. Sappoee you, a men Of s InIfIlite 04` old age. wore wieh your Kee - sent feelings and large attairouente put back into the tlairtiee or the twenties or in the teens, what a nuisance) you wooln , lee to others aod what an Unheppiness to yourseff! Your contemeoraries would net went you. and you woold not want them. Tbings thet in your previous our. • toy of life stirred your heolthful turible don or gave you plakureble eurprise or led yoU into happy imerrogetion would only call forth train you o disgusted "Oh, peewee you wonld to blese at IA and a Misanthrope at 40. and unendurable at 50. The meet Inene and stupid thing imaginable would be a serond journey of , lite. It is arnueine, t beer people Fay, "1 wand like to live my' life over aeitin if I could take my pretent eeperienee and knawleilge of thinge holt with me and teitin under theets inipreved anepleee." \S h, whet an unintereeting bey you would he with you rreient artainniente in a child's mini! No one wireld went imeh a by around tne howstoeot obi:lotto Wier81tea.11eeiteititt et Z, cet arm1e.. ologist ite Ill ant a (*.meant 8D1 181'' tee time. An oak evawcleil into an ceetrn. leneee, efounriin gone thruet Leek inIa the eettehell from weileh twag tetteheil. Taro% eitileees. lieetilei then if you oink Weever egein • you would Woe to t trio itetleopeediateon • ova itgein. Wituld eel Wall& to Ity moan tee. grief, and ties beerternike, and tho bermiseinente tbrouoli which yuu have goatee Wbat a :nervy ''Lat We shall novvr lie called to suffer tn r 11 aiun 1 Wee GOV hiail other, had enough. LUG thires old ones never titetin. Woeiti you Wahl to ;V) threll4h the ill'Oef.;S 06' ;41tit111; y'our father al.,3111, yOltr 111.1.0!-1' *mein, or your itempenion in Igo aae.st, or your ehild menu:. 11 you wee. 1 ermItttel to stop at the entrieth he fiftieth seine, or the fortieth mitt -mew and re. trace vier steps to the twentieth, your ',neer:Qum Would be e imethineUko mem me- November day in Italy. I weiktel thtough a great tity with a friend and two gulifee, atta Moe W.T4 in all the city , linty four persons, and they were those ot (ter met group. We t, 81 up and dowia ties streets. We enterea the hauls, the moseume, the temples, the theatree. We mutinied the wonilernti pleturee On tbe walk and the meet exquisite mosme on the Door. en the streets were the deep worn ruts of wagone. Ina not a wagon in the eke,. Oti the frost :dope of mausions the word "Welcome" in Latin, but no human being to greet us, The only bodies of any of the citizens that we saw were petrified and in the museum at the gates. Of tha 35,000 people who once lived in those homes and worshiped in those temples and clapped in those theatres not Due left! For 1,800 years that city of Pompen had been burled before modern exploration scooped out of it he Java of Vesuvius. Well, he who should be per. initted to return on the pathway of his earthly life and live it over again would fine as lonely and sad a pilgrimage. It would be an exploration of the dead past. The old schoolhouse, the oId church, the old home, the old playground aitber gone or occupied by others, and for you more depressing than was our Pompeilan visit that November day. Besides that, would you want to risk the temptations ot life over again? From t the feet that you are here 1 conclude that, though in many respects your life I may have been unfortunate and unconse- crated, you have got on so far tolerably well, if nothing more than tolerable. As for myself, though nay life has been far t from being as oonsocrated to God as X 'would like to have bad it I would not d want to try it over again. lest next time p I would do worse. a Why, juse look at the temptations we have all passed through and just look at a the multitudes who have gone completely 1 under! Just call over the roll of your 0 sohoalmates and college mates, the clerks d who were with you in' the same store or t be- 1: or the mieratives in the same Inc. t wird zia good prospects as you, t .io lett u come to coinplete mishap. Some 0 limn that told you that he was go- 8ing telea miltionaixe, and own the fast- a est trot ere on the turnpike, and retire t by the thee he was 85 years of age, you A ort from hitt for many years and y lonse 1. liming ebout him until some day a he comes into your store and asks for 5 e cents to get a naug of beer. Another Lire molt be woes°. n You, the good mother of a household, 3 and all your children rising up to call you 3 blessed, can remember when you were te quite jealeus of the belle of the village, y who was so transcendently fair and point. a lar. But while you have these two hence:. a able and queenly names et wife and mo. s thth er e beeame a poor waif of the street P and watt into the blackness' of darkness ro forever. Live life over aga,in? Why. if o many of those who are respeotable were 21.1 permitted to experiment, the next journey 9 vvould be demolition. You get through, 11:as Job says, by the sale of your teeth. w Next time you iteight not get through at sa all. Satan would say, "I know him now bt better than I did before and have for 50 n years been studying his vveaknesses, and I will weave a stronger web of oirOuro- n stances' to catcb Wm next time." And fo satan would concentrate is forces on this sa one man, and tbe last state of that man re Would be wore than the first. My friends, In our faoes are in the right direction. Bet- To ter go forward than backward, even if we W ad Ohs &aloe, The greatest disaster I Wbat is sliceeto° Thu fact is that no intieligent and eiglit feeling Man satielied with his past life. Ilowevee sueeeeefill tem life twee have been, you an, /meet:netted with it. Wiest is sumosse Attie that question et a hundred iliffereut men, and they will give a hundred cliffetent ausitere, One *83*) will say, "Succese is $1,000,000." Another will say, "Suceese is worldwide publieity." Atiother will say, "tetzeeessIs gaining tbat, withal you started for." But as it is a eree country I give my own definition and say, "Ouccess is fullilling the partioular mission upon which you ! were sent, whether to write a constitu- tion or invett a new style of wheeIbar. row or take care of a s•Iek child." Do what God calls you to do, and you are a , success, whether you leave $1,000,000 at death or are buried at public expense, , whether it takes'. le pages of an encyclo- s redid to tell the wonderful things you ) have done or your name is never printed but once, and that in the death (solemn. But, whatever your success bee been, you I are not satiefied with your life. We have all inade so many mistakes, I stumbled into so many blunders, said so many things that ought not to have been 'said and done so many things that ought I • not to have boon done that we can suggest t at least 95 per cenof improvement. ' Now, would it not be grand if tbe good ILord would say to you: "You can go back and try it over again. I will by a word turn your hair to black or brown , or golden, and smooth all the wrinkles lout of your temple or cheek, and take ! the bend out of your shoulders, and ex- tirpate the stiffness 2100] the joint, and the rheumatic twinge from the foot, and you shall be 21 years of age and just what you were when you reached that .; point before." If the proposition were made, I think many thousands would accept it , That feeling caused the ancient search for weat was called the fountain of youth, the waters of whioh, taken, would turn the hair of the octogenarian itito the calmly looks 01.5 boy, and, bowever old a person who drank at that fountain, he would be young again. The island was said to belong to the group of Bahamas, but lay far out in the ocean. The great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow' voyager of Colueabus, I have no doubt felt that if he could discover that ! fountain of youth he would do as much V as his friend bad done in discovering America. So be put out in 1512 from Forteeltiee and. cruised about among the litanaas in search of that fountain. T ant glad he did not And it There is no mob fountain. But if then 6 were, and its waters were bottled up and sent abroad at $1,000 a bottle, the demand would be greater than the supply, and many a man • Who has come through a life of useless- ness and perhaps sin to old age would be shaking up the potent liquid, and if he were directed to take only a teaspoonful after each meal would be so anxious to make sure work he would take a tablo. spoonful. and If directed to take a table- ! spoonfueyould take a glassful. Generations Back. ut some of you would have to go back forther than to 21 years of age to make a fair start, for there are many wile man- age to get all wrong before that period. Ya, in order to get a fair start some would have to go baok to the father and ,mother and get them corrected -yea, to e the grandfather and grandmother and " can think of woulti be for you to rei kir . to boyhood in Deal. Oh. if life wer • t; snaooth Luzerne or Cayuga lake. I wotti . like to get into a yacht and sail one jr, not 011CO3 but tWief.--yva, a tt.911,utl tinaes. Rue life is an uncertitia see, one genie of the ships emelt au tho icebergs ot void indifference, and sameat rake tiro ot evil Pessions, and some loiter their beam. e reel; and n into the oo.lwth eztoes. ay. Some are never heard of. Surely on sue,11 .ae•ntornegachirrous sea as that ono voyage is iiesides all this. do you know, if you could have your •with to live iite over ag.1 it would pue you so nuteet fitrthee fro-, reunien with your friends in hettveut It you are in tbe noon g life, or the evening of life, you are noe very far from the golden gate et which you aro te meet your transperted and emparaolesel nice i ones. You ire now, tee tie sety, ee-tre or ten ye= or one yeer MI from ced leete conjunction. Now, enimeee you went !nick. 1 in your earthly lite ;,u :veers or le yeate, or 60 years, wbee an iityful posepone-nent of the time of reanien! It would lei ite though you were going to lean n'roneie.• to a greaP banquet. and you got to lend, four or live miles this flOO of it. ami then came .:klieleimore to get a Pot- ter etort,as theineh you Were to England let Le. enamel, eht inne In Sigof ;be monomial; of Witleo you pui beek to:lamer Hoek to order co make a teeter voyaett. Would yon like for many year"; tee Lotto -urn sones of heaven, to adj.mrn the tlevones , of heitven, teedjourn eommentonehip of iteeven, to aileourn the rest. a 414 .lo teljourn the lne oE Chalet in Mei- , vette No, the wheel et time terns'ni right direettelh arid it leweU it turns ••tt feet. Three hentirtel anti $eri.vo inflone ill a Feu end fortverd tem) revolutions In a yon• n31t liettward. , ilut hoer ye, liver ye, while I tell Fiat how you may pritetieelly you L&•over ;mein end he all the hotter (r Yell 1114,y put into the rem:ming yeert of pate life all you hate leernee ot iefenn in Team paet life. lem arty Inane the coming. ten yeere 'werth the pooeilitlet or to ;moo. When a .in w,n1111 like to live life kiver :mein heeatese he woula do se mut% betel' end eet gees right on living a; no bee altreye lived, do Foe 801sea be ettatiliee honeelir Ile Ronne tbat if he motet nee; let weal do Willett the seine ite lie leo .letne. If e man green a:4)1,, a eente Weal needier in chelett temeaust t:trawn lute feeeftil erinuoii and -.eye oil leuretitto; mei* i Leon mere merlon! in my diet. (Ih, if I grille Iwo Weditteeley eeor :tooter' anti then on Veittly este applee Pitt kle green, let prow,: te e it .4,411;14 have hem no mite:inane fee Win ee Weditee fey (Wee c1.33513. 1134 if we, atekleir Ing oar toot lift, met with Me Woo of im- provement, lin. tar ,Tittartnnity to Hy It (wet, again, ;et go can tatking, the sane tuistele e end eentutitting the eine. sills. WO 0111F 0. nanwrittr, that t130 role -Intel of our exittenve would afford 119 interne., liaint,It was :Vein 411111-'41 -fore,',il ;mit wintlii la. green alf4^113,1 RICK` agent. Mono to mark the night As soon 11i a ship captain straw.;a rork In tho 1.117,01.117,0 or net he remote It. and a 'buoy is ewung OVer tint reef, end, wn en ere henet.ferth 'rand iiir Iona th:tt roek. Red :di one tie/et:deo in the met imeht to he littera W.lenina, 05 GO to 0)1 111 hi *leer i•ltanuel. litere it no teem te if W0 stLIG 011 1110 st.nlii W1094.1 Wo split benne. theme along the sielevitelk at night whereei extvialtin( are being made Wo fregneetty on* hewn a fount, - well:. tine we cure kith.. ter that lantern oleo Item) out *11ten hell.. And all illong 41) 111140,7 tf ; ate .ot 1(1Warnitigs.. and 1.7 filo till... WO come ti 181(11110 W' await r'* know where it is ea to NValk and Whi re it is 1111-dil. II LIPS tho yel t s been learning bow te he 0-1401, and In dm next iletnitle we ought to amoutplish more for ilea and the einuott awe tho Nv.olil then in any previoue four deetules. The best way to atone for post indolorice or past transgreselon is by future assidu- ity. Yet we often Rini Christian men who were not converoef until they were 40 Or 50, as old ago coulee on, saying, "Wein my work is about clone and it is time for me to rest" They gave 40 years of their life to senile acid the world, a little frag- ment of their life to Goa. and now they want rest Whether that belongs to com- edy or tragedy I say not The man wile gave oue-half of his early. existence to the world and of the remain- ing two quarters one to Christian work and the other to rest would not, I sup- pose, get a very brilliant reception in heaven. If there aro any dried leaves in heaven, they would beetppropriate for his garland, or if there is any throne with broken steps, it would be appropriate for Os coronation, or any harp with relaxed string, it would bo appropriate for bis fingeririg. My brother, yon give nine- enths of your life to sin and sumo and hen get converted, and then rest awhile n sanctified laziness, and then go 11D to get your beavenly reward, and I warrant t will not tato the cashier of the royal banking house a greats while tonount out O you all your dues. He will not ask .you Whether you will have it in bills of large onornination or small. I would like to ut one sentence of nky sermon in italics nd bavo it underscored and *be excla- mation points at the mad of the sentence, nd that sentence is this: As we cannot eve our lives over again, the nearest we an come to atone for the past is by re- oubled holiness anti industry In the 10 - ere. If this rail train of life has been de- aineci and switched off and is far behind he time table, the engineer for the rest f the way must put on move pressure of team and go a mile a minute in order to rrive at the right time and plaoe under he approval of conductor and directors. s I supposed it would be, there ars oung people on wbom this subject has cited with the throe of a galvanic battery. Vithout my saying a word to them, they aye soliloquized, saying: "As one can- ot live his life over again and 1 ean nako only ono trip I must look out and mike no mistakes. I have but one chance, tad I must make the most of it," My oung friends, I am glad F013 inade this pplication of tbe sermon yourself. When minister towarcl the close of his sermon ays, "Now, a few words by way of ap lication," people begin to look around r their hats and got their arm through DS sleeve of their overcoats, and the sem onto application is a failure. X ant glad ou have made your own application, and at you are resolved, like a Quaker of hona I reaa years ago, who in suostance Id, "I shall be along this path of life et once. and so X must do all the kind- ess 1 elan and all the good I can." My hearers, the mistakes of youth can ever be corrected. Time gone is gone rover. An opportunity passed the thoe. ndth part of a second bas by one leap aehed the other side of a great eternity. the autumn when the birds migrate u look up and see the sky black with ings and the flocks stretching out into naany leagues of air, and so to -day I look up and see two large wings 18 full sweep. They are the wings of the flyieg year. That is followed by a flock of 365. and they are the flying, tlays. Each, of the fly- ing days is renewed Jav ee, And they are the !lying hours, and each of these is fol- lowed by CO, and these are dee flying nainutes. Where did this great deek start from?Eternity past. Where are they bound? Eternity to come, Yeti migat as well go togunning for the quells thet whistled last year in the meadows er the robins elan last year caroled in ehe sky tie to try to fetch down and bag one or the Past opportunities of your life. Do Pot say, "I will lounge now aud make it up afterwarti. 'Young illenand boys, yon can't make it up, 31y observation is time those Who in youth *towed wild oats to oats, and that thoot who start sowing Genesee wbeet elways sow Genesee wheat the end oitf4.::::: ceube5rtn1.41:0 sowed Wild. Awl then the reeping of the harvest is so different, MeV is graudfather *ow. Ine leas lived to ell age because...hie hebits have been good Bis eyeeighe tor this world hat got somewhat dim, but his eye- sight for beet -en is radiant, Ilia hearing Le not se aeute as it once was, and be Illust bend olear over to lieu vitae his /tette grendehild sayi when she aSkS him what be het brought fur bet But he easlly eittelies the norele rained fronz. supernal spheree. Um passing In the streets take off their hats iu reverence and women say. "What a good old men aanedisif; mieezeivnateerhoiriesOvoyrelitirshaapiply!orsiptonl did* ellerleuel idtignilleenti Ile will have hare work gettine into heaven, beranse those Wren he helped to gee there will fill op wee erowd the gates to ten him how glad they are et his eetning, until be says, "Plvase to stand hack a little till i X pose thrterele orid east toy crown 41 the ' feoe Of Wm whom, having not seen, I I leve," I do not blow wriat you cell that. i year* of age at a time when he ought to 1 I eell It th•• hervest of GI uesee wheat. , Out pottier is a man verei old at 40 i be Moron tie the moreing. Ile gee bed i habits on him very carte, and those hab- 1 ita havo lotetne waren Re is a wan on 1 1 t Oro, on foe with tacoholieno on lire with all evil tethite. nut with the world and tho wor1.1 eat with him. Down and fall- ing deteter. lite. swelter; hands lo his threadieir. trieete. end his eyes fixed on 1 the ground, he pl„,..i tareagh the Street, ined the rieleit ..''p of an innocent child ,, 0,e the etemie one; of 4 Fianna Mall 01' the I roll tlf a 1( 251'1I9 eatTiag0 maddens 1 bine and he mart; 4 oteiety and he eerie% •Geet, ranee* sese, with no reseureen he Is carreel to the almetemen A loathsome sperteele. be Lee :ill aley long waittang for diseelnatioli :' in tbo mob& rieee on bis coe aud ligine ipperitione of wbee he might !Ave been etiet whet he will Inn Ho start. ed life with :le eteel a timeline on MIT Man an tho Alum -item continent, and there he le a lettered eareess, waiting for tho shovel.; of melte (teeny to put him nee feet melee. Ile halt only reaped what ese sowed. ilarveet ef wild mast "There a a tvey tha,e seenterh rietht to a man, but the viol thereof k death." O. etaeopteracte. To others Ines is a masquerade ball, and ne at sueh ikietertainmente gentlemen and ladiee put on the :tate) of kings aud queens or mounteleetke or elowns and at roe eimie put ell' the illeaulee, so a great many pee their weole life In a Meek, taltino off rho meek at death. While the renegue:Me tall of life goes on they trill merrily over tho noon gemmed band ii tang thed to gemmed hand, gleaming brow lienrie to geeteting brew. On with the dance! Flueh and rustle end laughter of Immo:Nur:Alt. merreenalting. But after awhile the languor ef theith mine; on tho limbs and blurt the eyesight. Lights lower. Floor hoilnw with eepulehral (who. nettele saddened into a wail. Lights 1019. er. Now the inaskere arts oniy seen in the dim light Now the freer:nice of the flowers is like tho eiekening odor that comes from pothook that nave lain long In the vaults of eemeteties. Lights lower. Mists gather in the mum. Glasses shake as though (Malted by sudden thunder. Sigh caught iv the- curtain. Sear! drops erom the shoulder of beauty a shroud. Lights lower. Over the slippery boards in detect of death glide jealonsies, envies, revenges, lust, deepeir and death. Stench of lamp retake almost extinguished. Torn garlands will not half eover the ulcerated feet. Choking damps, chilliness. Feet still. Hands closed. Voices hushed. Eyes shut, Lights out. Young man, as you cannot live life over again, however you roay lotig to do so, be sure to have yonr one life right. There is some young man who bas gone away from home, perhaps under some little spite or evil persuasion of another, and his parents know not where he is My son, go home! Do not go to seal Don't go to -tight where you may be tempted to ao. Go home! Your father will be glad to see you, and your mother -I need not toll yon how she feels. How I would like to make your parents a pres- ent of their wayward boy, repeutant and in his right mind. I would like to write them a letter, and you carry the letter, saying, "By the blessing of God on nay sermon I Introduce to you one whorn you have never seen before, for he has become a new creature in Christ .Tesus." My boy, go home and pub your tired head on the bosom that nursed you eo tenderly in your childhood years. A valuable Postcard. Tbe most rapid advance in the value of any article in philately -the collection of stamps -has been in tbe Vrenclt postcards issued in commemoration of the Ozar's visit to Paris. If they happen to base been through the post on the day of His Majesty's arrival in the "city of light," an(1 are therefore cancelled with the stamp of that date, the fact is suilieleut to enable them to change hands at something like es each. Had anybody aad the idea that there would have been such an advatice, he might have made a snug little sum by addressing a few hundred postcards to himself that day, and have made a profit of about es each. Five tomered could have easily been addressed in ehe course of thi•ee hours. and they would now be worth 1*500, by no means bad return for that time. A tioadly Venom. This gneetion hae been netted which is the most powerful poison. So far as is known, snake poison consists 01 a peptone whith producee local ulceratioia, an unknown virulent substance, veniele causes thilltration of blood Treat injected into the tissues, and an albumen which is not apparently poisonous. Whee snake V0130133 is concentrated by removing the third substance and retain- ing the other twe, what is left oonstitutes the ixiost powerful poison kuown to toxicology. It is forty times more povver- ful than the original snake venom. It has been reolconed that a single thimble- ful of it suitably applied would be enough to kill 25,000 people. - ONE RED Re+SE RENTAL. OF TUE BEST OF- SPAIN A Single Flower Vays the 11.ipt of the I Site Of a 1'eal...siva:4a 1hovel.. "On the second Ounday af eaeh Jun there is paid to the ol,ast lineal de,ceed aut. ot the founder of etaubeiin. itaro Jienrv William Stiegel. the ;Anneal. not 1 ft 'bralithe aelleln"tuorfygarnutitlilegegtiluvretuerbyegilothilorD' t0hr building of a church," write,: Ciffoid ; floward in the Latihtee home Journal " I his rent, the; yeerly trit ole, iS 011.:.. red rose; and It is the reyotent of this ilowe ni the leer of the 13A301i that fefli.S the 00 CaslOa 01 MU L0LULiful tnd novel eelehra tion, the 'remit of itotteee es Manitene Peralsylvanie The day preceding th forme) ceremoniee le observed ciS. a gen erai Letelite. tievotee 1.2 leetivities anti atioteeittents, Mal to trek011lillg the heir. 1 Ibis town Fe early tilled with people iron the surroneding couture, and by tb g time set for the centime of the distitig nished guest the streets are througed with an expeetarit multitude. As the ! train drawe into the stecion the thauider -Zug h•lom or a eannen announces'1t ar rite), and in a few moments the honored ' descendant of rho Berton appears in an open care:Age preceded by a heed o niu"5.-ek;:companted with approeriate relizi oite exereiseee with /nee:- and addretsee, 3j the simple yet evetizetii and tonehing eeremeny of paying the mor ie performed In the ri. ehat911 'he f91.10Wing. *eq. Every spoete ever,y neck Within need:urea with ne e lir ent metes of zed rotten and threireh ries open wintlewe ' Pelt ldo --tette '.1' tho t%60 vitae; thot elintb and elliet.e• en rho condole well. In the mime end al 'a11eht. *108, tbe the 1.7.3111 r;434 from its *4101'eite1tee the rete me; has been epeeially 544121011 for the puree 1,41030.0 of t1q e01P/I5 -teitty told preeente tO the 1111...n etit eel in cliseherge of the • tielimitiott t y the demi. Tbe re. eietent take, the tote. end 18* few minute • aekn ovleettee tee' tt tree-nt of the debt." e ADMIRAL- CERVERA, OAPTUREP COM- MANDER OF SANTIAOO FLEET, a 1. e A. Seaman of Great 4:Xtkerieoce Who O Anew wbae lie Was hihntlt-G oPts 1 (1eneral Blanco W9S.111 Cuban Waters, ▪ Ris Superlor °Meer and Sent Him. to 1 �i rote. . An interesting 'personality is elle cape tttred Spenistx Admiral, (:ervera, He is 0". sprung of the proudeet blood ;at Spain tend all the qualities of breeding, brabes, patriotism, courage, pride anti polish contribute to his we've 'career. Cerverahl i geoereuit" net in sending. out word of the t %Anne of Rebsou and his come:glee WAS thoroughly eberacteristic of the brave and !high-toried• soldier 1)181 he is, end. al. .1 though be may petrrioneally and earnestly .1 believe, in all the iniquities of which his , r government age keen be 18 a type et the courteous. considerate gentle,' 6131312, tie whose xraining a dozen genera- ; .1 df .0[15 O..c prom. eperneli riblike. have 40/4. tributed. , Cervere, the- man of wealth, the man of -seeker, the man or ;inertial history, being a vereren of met or three ware, and havtng hent the high pest et set -re- , Wry of the. Spanish ty, is not the accce, dene of the /mum lite wee eneineetly eho neon in the :tartish eavy for tee post Me ' was sent aerene tee Atientie till- • Wben lte eleverty zivoidel the Kenning , erineitte etethet V. S. vete' and slipped • into Sentiage baiter 11 wee teeither luels • nor gmetework [bar guided him Uu ktiew ; where he was ge,:134-, for he was •moving • over waters ae teenier to Lire as the - Wattles ef Ifentpain Howls are tie Sehley. It is an Intent:ging eoincidence ebat he eereed in (eaten Weeere in crimmend at the gunboat retutteltuela througheut the greater pert- of tee war of Pole4e:3114 that Reer-Menir;t1 elenterola, his brotber • _oflitter, sari wait at thee time in coroneend of tbe Tommie;iset pecient tae port ad- miral of Hagena. 'the Ternado Is tne . warship whielt euretted aud took the Viz.- ' ginine prieoners, 5212 eeerit wttieh eearly plungeenthe Unteeil Slates luto war with termite ite thee tilom ' atereer4 ie.; tie. ranking eetereending Yearaiineret Speinee ereeent neva , oreratione. net utile he ie within the feneen jurtstPetlen he is direttle miner . the ordere. Cant...itien„ Blatieti. who by virtue of • hie ante44eenineineer.tineltiet • *1*. VC% I -Dear menote little I know about plente and /Jaime.' eald 51r. el:hen...et a well neer whore 1 lite thet is euvered with ivy. leverv spring 1 wateh it grow green, tee eilent web 'AI vane .04121 tinetmeoulitte eratimilly netil tin - ; lily ic teetered all r with 3, eie e of green leeivee eientiele ;not wove in 1110 -1143test "Leery year 1 4181 1101i(4.11, when rbe vino W)rgai 10 g C.4.0 thVre, arFoT 110: a very etrenely nettle- tt lon 7-; eutirly deantet tee.119: 10t eider vetoes/no 61121t tem te 41,1128 0110 ,•1k" of Ithe tont of title well, tin 1 until the well was wheeler f0Vere1 ete entel ite prominenee. And tine ever 1 diotieett•ti the faltsr. or the greeter lerwereutee thee .trip of *me, it wee due 19 ea+ w.11'.14111 ff031.1 41 03/11311;,1 te taa up throlleh the well et that penit, extend ing h10 up Wenn the renf. '"Why, lee the elisniney that male.; tint grip of greet* in tee ivy.' 1 ,:fal to 3Ire. t ityman 013 the siey I utieek the greet dee-everJ3. eerzeinne° elle odd. "nisi* hett kn iwn it alweee."--New . lurk onto los.tailtis the tamp... Ingo is tho tegintiety iif carrell Wright, Infirm, :teems Veneta leeenier Leiter, who ean emetic, ou tee TOMO egni?Sra.411: ••1 hAve luzkkol Into a teeetenti helmet of the wereing people ef Itenteet I tien't knew hew 2.1„407 jjj this ....1114517. 1 11.110 teLsI tO GIIIIG t110 .11111 1110 woret. Anti while, as I Rey. 1 aut aware that rho woret exists, and as bad ae ander env alStelll or tie hal as in age, I have never had to look leyond the Inmates to find the eauee; and in every ease, so far 115 niy own obeerwition goel, drunken- neee Nettie at the bottom of the misery, and not the ineltietrial 'tenons or the !lulu:oriel condition.; surrounding the mon and Muir familiee." convite Otteree wreeked. The ease with welch ship tumuli may be rendered useless in time of war has always been brought forward as an argu- ment against dependence bring placed on these water ways for stuttegicalpurpoees. An illustration to the point has just happened in conneetion with the North Sea -Baltic canal, the alumnae fleet which is to take part in the coming naval manoeuvers being unable to pass through it, tie ordered, on account of a Danish voesel wbich was sunk at the south end of the canal some time ago blocking up the entrance to the water nay. TraDic on the Suez Canal has been often stopped for several days as a time from at even slighter cause. Gladstone and the Astrologer. Mr. Gladstone was asked a few years since by an astrologer to state at wbat beim on December es he was boro. The G. 0. M. answered politely that he did. not know, but had feared that it teas "about breakfaet time." This lofortuto ton wee slightly indefinite, but the seer leferred that the time must be about 8.30, and cast the then Prone elinieter's aoroscope accordingly. The learned I astrologer discovered that the "oriental ; position of the sun" at the hour referred to "WaS very signilloatt, showing great success and advancement in life." Most Valitable ressebsioll. "There are buglers trying to get into the cellar!" she exelaitned. In an instant he bad leaped into his clothes and started down stairs. "My diamonds!" she exclaimed, "Shall I hide thereat" "You might hide them if you want to," he answered, pausing at the doer. "But I don 1 think diamonds woulki be much inducement to them. /sly theory is that they've somt.how found out about that ton of anthracite coal we bought yesterday." -Washington Star. . How Nervous Ile:al:Lena 11fay Ite rteiteved eiany persons find speedy relief for nervous headaches by washing the head thoroughly in a weak solution of soda and water. Some cases are almost wholly oured in ten minutes by this simple remedy. Others find it of the greatest benefit in the case of "rose aolct," the (told leaving the eyes after the first wash- ing of the hair. All drafts of air should be avoided till the bead is thoroughly dried. Ber Kind of Fowder. The largest living lady, from the neighborieg dime inuseunt, looked into the druggist's show case. "You don't seem to have the kind of face wash Piet used to buying," she said, turning away. "We've got some gliatt "powder in the back room, ma'am, replied the neve clerk, fearful he was about to lose a eel% of all rho St euieh f, tee:, herb riovel and nitinaree in the A:124101. wlaten seineerise Catia and Intern Inea. emieeetieenelv, be bite to oh. y 11141 ere= r of the t et en Cap. tein-flenerel whiva tent hina wad hie -lupe mite of the Satalega harbor to eare 11e- etruet0071. Rear -Admiral eetvere was been 7e11. 12157 le. 11-4-i, eenteenently 15 e9 yeere tif ago. 111. le he mutt yeanger, 1011 pinseeeed, of a tine phytilitne anti great energy. THE STAfie ANC; $TR1PES; • The Genesis of the Preeent Flag of thll. rflitire. "Ohl Miry," ae the potpie of the tni. ted State, jovo time:retie their nem le n evolution. Loen at the telt herewith, ilIZST IT. S. NATIONAL eneereet. and you win eee the iiret idea of the flag wineh WaS 10 liOat over the British Col. oniale who rebelled against the mothee country and succestfully carried it out. The idea even in the original nag. is Brit- ish, and in the pretent one the legacy is from the arms of the (British, Washing- ton family, whieh consiettd of a white shield with two horizontal red hats and above thea* three red stars. The abolition of the eros was eine to the comnientious objections of the Puritans, as they deemed it idolatrous. Court Fools Who Owned Whole Tonal& Hitard, who was attacbed to Edmond Ironsides, is the first eourt jester ot whom we have record. Ile owned the to of Walsworth, a gift from the King. He held it through four succeeding reigns; and before leaving England tor Rome, where he spent his last clays, he presented it to the churoll, placing the deed upon the altar of the cathedral of Canterbury Galiete Galet. or Gollet, a native of Bayeux, as one of William the Conquer- or's jesters. He was attached to William 'when only Duke of Normandy, and saved his master's life by diseleting a plot for his assassination. Berdie was another; he is enrolled In Domesday nook as jooula- tor regis. and lord of three towns, all rent free, and lave earucates in Gloucester- shire. Rahere was jester to Beery I., and William Piculph, or Pinoce, jester to King John. "Master Henry," who, it is thought, may be identical with Henry • Avranehes, the poet laureate or versi. floater, was jester to Henry 11I. -"The Court Jesters of ;England," by Amelia Wofford, in the St. Nicholas. Drunken :tuts. Sir John Lubbock has gone to the ant again, and, 11 110 'keens up his visits and others imitate bim, that ittereetine in- sect will become useless for Sunday school purposes. Sir John succeeded it getting fifty ants helplessly drunk, and then plaited thetat outside an ant -hill. The sober ants canto out, pioked up their friends, and put them to bed to sleep off the effects of Sir John's liquor; the strangers, bowever, they steruly rolled over into the clitelo-liew York Sun. What Made BCer. One oratorioal candidate for a Mel- bourne constituency, in a fine burst of eloquence, asked the question, "What is it that has made England. 'What she ie. -- mighty, revered, feared, and respected?" "Oireland," was the prompt and unex- Peeked reply, in a racy bro' gue from the rear of the hall. -London St. James' Ga- zette. •••••••egaftsIVITI Greenland Expocution. The Danisa Scientific Society has put aside 150,000 crowns for an expedition to the partly unexplored east coast of Green. Lind.