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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-9-2, Page 7ITIIE "MISSING LINK." Dr. Talmage Disproves Darwin's Absurd and Erroneous Theory. At Every Stage of Human Life There Is Direct Evidence of Divine Will—Unbridgeable Guff Between Man and Beast —Portrait of a Revolutionist, A 4 Wa4linotOn Aug 28.—Dr. Talmage la , this discourse advocates a Christian IWO- Ilution in contradiction to au infidel evo- ilution and, deolares that the only radically limproving force In the world is Chris- gtitsuity; text, Romans I, 22, 23, "Profess- thamselees to be wise, they became !fools and changed the glory of the tumor- !ruptiole God into an image made like to ecorrapeible roan, and to birds and our I footed beasts and creeping things." "Iles is a full length portrait et an eve- , lutiottist who sithstitutes the bestial snarigin for the divine origin. I showed Sion :ast week that evolution was contra - watered by the Bible, ineicience, by Miser- leratiota and by common sense; thAt the Bible Account of the omelets of man awl def. brute arid of the world, and ehe *vein- ttiouiet's account collided with each other . ".Sts °."ertainly ae Ora express trains going Ale opposite directions at 60 miles the hour. their locomotives meeting on the *nue traok, I Owed that all the evolu 'tion eolentists, 'without an exception, were pronounced infidels; that evolution was a heathenism 040118411de Of years old: thet elle-o Ulell es Agatelz and Hugh Miller , She Fernelee and Dawson and Dana had for thIet doctrine of evolution unlisnitea et:antennae I showed you that their favor- .ite theory of the "survival of the fittest" 'ewes au absurdity aud an untruth, and i that natural evolution was always dawn- ' ware and Paver upward, and that there 1 , .isate never been any Improvement fern= r tweet or world except through the direor indirect ineneure of our glarleus Clirietiartite. And in the °losing part at eth it eermen I told you I was not a pose!. nitst hut an optimist, that instead of it being 11 oesloek at night it is bell -past 5 In the morning., . NOW, I go on to tell ems, it seems to nie that evolutioniete are trying to lin• genie- the great mases of the people with the ;dee that there is an aneettral line leedrig from the primal germ on up threugh the serpent and, on up through tio el:la:rimed and on up through the get;I:t to man. They admit that there is s "mewing link," as they call it, but there is not a mieeinp, link—it is a whole cheln gone. Between the phyeical cote a/rue:ion of the highest animal anti the pleveteal construetion of the lowest 'Man there is ft elitism as wide as the Atlentio smut, Evolutionist,: tell us that some- where in Central Africa or in Borneo there hi a creature half way between the 'brute and the man, and that that ma. tuns Is the bighest step in the online' -mem and the lowest stop in the human creation. But whet aro the facts? The brain of the largest gorilla that was ever found is 30 enbic inches, while the bra= of the most ignorant man that was aver • found is 70. Vtiet difference between BO and 70. It needs a bridge of 40 arches to span thot gulf. . Besides that there is a difference be- 4-tveen the gorilla mid the man—a differ- ence of blooa globule, a =armee of larva a difference of musole, a difference -of bone, a difference of sinew. The horse h more like man in intelligence, the bird 'Is more like him in musical eapacity, the =twill is more like him in affection 'That eulogized beast of which WO hear se womb, represented on the walls of cities thousands of years ago, is just as com- plete as it is now, showing that there has mot been a particle of change. Besides that, if a pair of apes had a man for descendant, why would not all the apes have the same kind of detcondants? Can It be that -diet one favored pair only was Ilionored with human progeny? Besides that, evolution says that as one Species trises to another species the old type dies (off. Then how is it that there are whole kingdoms of chhupanzee and gorilla and baboon? . 'i The evolutionists have come together land have tried to explain a bird's wing. Their theory has always been that a fao 'ulty of an animal while beim, developed must always be useful and always bene Adel, but the wing of a bird, in the thousands of years it was being devel *aped, so far from being any help must have been a hindrance until it could be brought into practical use away on down in the ages. Must there not have been an Intelligent will somewhere that formed that wonderful flying instrument, so that a bird 500 times heavier than the air can mount it and put gravitation under claw and beak? That wonderful mechanical instrument, the wing, with between 20 'and 30 different apparatus curiously coia- struoted, does it not imply a divine in- telligence? Does it not imply a direct act sof SOMe outside being? All the evolution- ists in the world cannot explain a bird's wing or an insect's wing. So they are confounded by the rattle ,of the rattlesnake. Ages before that rep :tile had any enemies this warning weapon was created. Why was it created? 'When ,Itbe reptile, far back in the ages, had no 'enemies, why this warning weapon? There !must have been a divine intelligence fore - ;seeing and knowing that in ages to eon= ‚that reptile would have enemies, and ethen this warning weapon would be 'brought into use. You see evolution at esvery step is a oontradiotion or a mon- strosity. At every stage of animal life as -well as at every stage of human life there is evidence of direct action of divine will. Besides that, it is very eviaent from another faot that we are an entirely differ - ant creation and that there is no kinship. T.he animal in a few hours or months soaves to full strength and oan take care , again that the lizard on theleweet ferma- tion of rocks was just as conaplete as the lizard uow. It is shown that the gnold, the first fish, was just as complete as the sturgeon, another name for the same flsh now. Darwin's entire system is a guess, and Huxley and Jelin Stuart Mill and Tyndall and especially Professor Haeokel come to help him in the guess, and guess about the britte, And guess about man, and guess about worlds, butes to having one solid foot of ground to stand en they never have had it and never will have it. I Put in oPPositien to these evolutionist theories the inward consciousness that wo have no consenguinity with the dog that fawns at our feet, or the spicier that (mewls on the wall. Or tile Ash OM 40133 in the frying pan, or the orotv that esthepe on the field carcass, or the wlne that wallowe in the mire. Everybedy etete the outrage it would be to put aside the Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, end Isaac begat Jacob, and JAN= begat .111(1411, for the reeord that the enieroscapic animalcule liege; the tadpole, and the tadpoie begat the pomwog,and the polli- wog beget the serpent, aud the meant begat the quedruped, ani the quatletmeel begat thebaboon. and the baboon begat man. The evolutionists tell us that the apes Were originally fond of climbieg the trees, but after iswhile they lost their prehensile power And therefore could not eThub with any facility, and hence they surrendered monkeydom and set up in businesa as men. Ihelures as ape% sun - cases tie men. According to the evolu- tioniste, a man is a bankrupt monkey, I pity the person who in every nerve and musele and bone and mental faculty And stual experienee does not realize that he 1i higher in origin and has had a standee ancettry than the beasts which perith, littevever degraded men ane wo• men may be, and though they may have foundered on the rorks of erime and sin. and though we sluideer as we pee them, nevertheiees there le something within us that toile ue they belongtu tho einie great brotherhood and she:whew of our race. and mu' sympathies are mowed in regard to them. But gazing upon the swiftest wale, or upon the tropieal bird of most ilainbayant wing, or upon the curve of grandest eoureer's nook, we feel there is no consauguinite. It is not that we aro stronger than they, for the Tien with one stroke of his paw could put us lute the dust. It is not that wo have bet- ter eyesight, for the eagle can descry a mole a mile away. It is not that we are fleeter ot foot, for a roebuck ILI a flash is out of sight, just seeming to touoh the earth as he gees. Many of the animal creation surpassing us in neatness of foot and in keenness of nostril and in strength of limb, but notwithstanding all that there is something within us that tent us we are of celestial pedigree. Not of the mollusk., not of tho Helped, nob of the primal germ, but of the living and omni- potent God. Lineage of the sties. Gene elegy of heaven. speoiee will depend upon their staying in She speoies where they were created. Once upon, a time there was in a natural amphitheatre of the forest a con- venzion at animals, and a gorilla from Western Africa came in with his club and pounded "Order!" Then he sat down in a ohair of twisted. forestroot. The delega tion of birds came in and took their posi tion in the gallerses of the hiUs and. the tree tops. And a delegation of reptiles came in, and they took their position in the pit ot the alley. And the tiers of roots were occupied by the delegation of lietermediete animals, and there was a great aquarium, and a canal leadiag into it, through whit= came the monsters ot tho deep to join the great conveution. And on one table of rock there were four or five primal germs under a glass cage, and in a oup on Another table of reek tbere was a quantity of protoplasm. Then this gorilla of the African forest with nis club pounded again, "Order, order!" and Shen he cried out; "Oh, you great throng of boasts and birds and reptiles and in- sects, I have called you together to pro- pose that we move up into the human race and be beasts no longer! Too long already has= we been bunted and caged and harnessed. We Shall Stand it no longer." At that speech the whole convention broke out into roars of enthusiasm like as though there were many menageries being fed, by their keepers, and it did emu as if the 'whole convention would march right up and teke possession et the earth and the human race, but an old lion arose, his mane white with many years, and he uttered his voice, and when She old bon uttered bis voice all the other beasts of the forest were still, and he ealti, "Peace, brothers and sisal= of the forest. I think we Wive been pliwed in the snlieree for which we were intended. I think our Creator knew the plawe that was good for us." Ile male proceed no further. for the whole conveetioa broke out in an uproar like the Howie of Cone MOUS when tne Irish question conies up or the American Vongress she night of adjournment, and the reptiles hiesod with bullguation at the leonine Oa -mit - ;a, and the frogs croaked their contempt. end the bears growled their contempt, and the pauthers snorted their disgust, and the InSeets buzzed and buzzed with exciteuienw and, though the gorilla in tatt Aimee, forret with his club pounded "Order! Order!" there was nu order, and there was a thrusting out of atiderine sting and a Swingingot tdelebantine rusk and a tarok° of beak and a Wing et claw until it *wound as if the convention would be masswered. tot itself. The human race for the first , sine, two, three, five, ten years is in eons- I, plete belpiessiness. The chick just come I out of its shell begins to pick up its own , 1 food. The dog, the wolf, the lien, soon earntheir own livelihood and aot for their own defense. The human race does inot come to development; until 20 or 30 years of age, and by that time the tni- intals that were born the same year the man was , born, the vast majority of ;them, have died of old ago. This shows ethere is no kieship, there is no similarity. , If we had been, bore of the beast, we would have bad the boast's etrength at ; the sbart or it would have had our weak - Ines. Not only different, but opposite. 1 Darwin admitted that the dovecote 1 toll you plainly that, if your father was a muskrat and your mother an op. poem and your groat aunt a kangaroo and the toads and the snapping turtles were your illustrious predecessors, my father was God, I know it, I feel it. It thrills through ine with an emphasis and an costaey which all your arguments drawn from anthropology and biology and zoology and =otology and paleontology and all the other elegies can never shako. Evolution is one great mystery. It hatches out 50 mysteries, and the 50 hatch out 1,000, and the 1,000 hatch out 1.000,- 000. Why, nay brother, not admit the ene great mystery of God and have that settle all the other mysteries? I can more easily appreciate the fact, that God, by one stroke of his omnipotence, could make man than I could realize how out of 5,000000 ages be could have evolved one, putting on a little hero and a Mae there. It would have.been just as great a mir- acle for God to have tweed an orang on - tang into a man as to make a man out and out, the one job just as hie as the other. It seems to me we had better let God have a little place in our world some- where. It seems to me if we cannot have him make all creatures we had better have him make two or three. There ought to be some place where he oould stay without interfering with tbe evolution- ists. "No," says Darwin, and so for years he is trying to raise fantailed pigeons and to turn these =Mailed pigeons into some other kind of pigeons or to Lave the= go into something that is nee a pigeon—turning them into quail or barn- yard fowl or brown thrasher. But pigeon it is. And others bave tried with the ox and the dog and the horse, but they staid in their species. If they attempt to cross over, it is a hybrid, and a hybrid is al. ways sterile and goes into extinction. There bas been only one successful at tempt to pass over from speeobless ani- mal to the aftioulation of man, and that was the attempt which Bala= witnessed in the beast that he rode. but an angel of She Lord with drawn sword soon stopped that long-eared evolutionist. But says some one, "If we cannot have God make a man, let us have him make a horse." "Oh, no!" says Huxley in his great lectutes in New York years ago. No, he does not want any God around the premises. God did not make the horse. The horse came of the pliohippus, and She pliohippus aame of the protohippus, and the protohippus came a the miohip. pus, and the miceeppus came from the raeshohippus, and the meshohippus eau= from the orohippus, and so away back, all the living creatures, we trace it in a line untii we get to the moneron, and no evidence of divine intermeddling with the creation until you got to the moneron, and that, Huxley sayses of so low a form of life that the probability is It just made Itself or was the result of spontaneons generation, etbat a narrow escape from' She necessity of having a Godl As near as I oan tell, these evolution - Jets seem to think thee God at the start had, not made up Inc mind as to exactly what he would matte, and having nsade tip his mind partially he has been cluing. bag it all theough the ages; I believe heaven and a new earth in which to dwell righteousness, Oh, the thought overwhelms mei I have not the physical endurance to consider it. Monarobs on earth a all lower order' of creation and then sifted, to be hier- webs in beriven. Masterpiece of God's wisdom end gootIness,our huraanity; mast terplece of divine grace, our enthrone merit. I put omit foottenparwin's "Origin of tbe Species," and I put the other foot on Spencer's "Biology," and then, hold- ing in one baud the book of Moses, I see our Genesis, and, holding in the other hand the book of Revelation, I see our celestial arrival. on all wars I pre. scribe the 13ethlehent chant of the angels, for all sepukhers I prescribe the amiss angel's trumpet, for all the earthly grjefs preseriba the band that wipes away all tears from all eyes. 'Sot an evolution from beast to maa, bat SD evolution erom contestanb so conqueror, and from the struggle with wild beasts in the arena of the amphitheatre to a soft, high blissful seat in th King's galleries. Jus e a's that momenta as the door at this natural ampliitheeter of the =reit, the curtain tof the litivee lilted, aud the bolts Slid NIA at the tree ignieliet: were shoved back., anti there eppeared Agae- bie and Audubon and stilliman and Moses, and Agastie cried out: "Oh. you baists of the foresee have studied your ancestral records and found you always have been beasts, yen always will be Waste! Be coins -at to be beats!" And Autiuben aimed his gun at a baldheaded wigle which drupped from the gallery and as it dropped stmt.': a serpent that was winding around one of the pillars to get up higher, and Sillitutin threw a rook of the tertiary formation at the mammals, and Moses thundered, "le'very beast utter its kind, every bird after its kind, every fish after its kind!" And, lo, the perils snout of wild beasts was proroaued and went home to their constituents, and the bat flew out into the night, and the liz- ard slunk under the rook, and the gorilla went back to the jungle, and u hungry wolf passing out ate up the primal germs and a clumsy buffalo upset the prate plasm, anti the lion wont to his lair, and the eagle went to his eyrioand the whale went to his palace of crystal and coral, and there was pence—peace in the air, peace in the Waters, peace in the ileitis! Man in his place; the beasts of the earth in their places. But, iny frionde, evolu- tion is not only inUdei end die atheistic anti absurd. It is brutalizing in its ten- dencies, If there is anything lu the world that will snake a man bestial in his hab its, it is the idea that he wee descended from tba beast. Wily, according to the idea of these evolutionists, we aro only a superior kind of cattle, a sort of Alderney among other herds. To be sure, we browse on better accommodation% but then we are only S.outhdowns among the groat flocks of sheep. Bern of a beeet, to die like a beast, for the evolutionists have no idea of a future world. They say the mind is only a superior part of the body. They say our thoughts are only moleoular formation. They say when the body dies She whole nature dies. The -slab of the sepulcher is not a milestone on the jeer. ney upward. but a wall shutting us into eternal nothingness. We aft the urn:a—the cow, the horse, the sheen the man, the reptile. Annihilation is the heaven of the evolutionist. From such a stenchful anc damnable dootrine turn away. Compare that idea of your origin—an idea iillee with the chatter of apes and hisses oi serpents and the croak of frogs—co an idea in one or two stanzas which I quae from an old book or more than Demos thenio or Homeric or Dantesque power: "Whae is man that thou art mindful oi him? And son of man that thou visitesi hina? Thou bast made 'him a little lowen than the angels and hest crowned him with glory and honor. Thou snadeet to have dominion over the works of ths hand. Thou hest put all things uncle; his feet. All sheep and oxen—yea, am.' the beasts of the acid the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whets° ever passetls through the paths of the seas. 0 Lord., our Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth." THE GIRL'S ALLOWANCE. SHAKESPEARE'S C HU RC Some Interesting Relics Found During Work of Restoration, An unusual amount of public =tenet le just now being shown in the restora- tion York at Holy Trinity Church, Stret• fora -on -Avon. Worknien are engaged in taking up the floor of the nave, side aisles an transepts preparatory to the hying down et new 'block floors and pavements, says a writer in St. James' Gazette. Bening to excavate some depth for the purpese of dlling in, with concrete and cement, game curious old vaults, quaint epitaphs and tombs are being disclosed, and are being treated with the greatest care. A portion of the present church chutes back nearly 790 years, aud all au- thor/dee agree that upon the Sallee site stood a much older church of the Saxon period. As a place of sepulture the site het, no doubt, heen in use for 1,000 Years ,in theme of the nave, and particularly the transept% are honeycombed with vaults. and it will he neeessary to lower the crown of the arch of many so as to exeavate to the proper depth. As inter- niente inside churches are pot now per. mitred. all the vaults will most likely be filled in. They are not being entered. but in the course of ehe work coltins, most ly le.sd, are seen, and skulle and bones are being turned up occasionally. These are treated with the utmost revereuee, and will he reinterreci in the churchyard. A group of =tete in the south tran- sept has been exposed. They contein the botitee at the Maeon family, the into meets eAnne from The tunile Is uo.v extinct. but obi Stratfordians tell of 3 rOliVtItablO, yet horrible acv of son- de-err:mon committed by one of the Meant family some sixty or sevepuryears age. Going into hovel in the pritidocz t the welt of the house, he put top.ether a greet quantity at strew, and, leiug down on the top of it, he set the heap on tire, end was literally roasted alive. tenaitit interiptions are being brought So light In retneving the wooden floors Shat covered the old stone paving at the teanseets, anti it is satisfactory to know that all will be carefully preserved and sheave in the "random pavement" whith will border the pews. t Jeer neght, and It, Teaches leer the Proper Use of Money. "Fnery self respecting woman, be the maid or wife, has a natural and intense dislike to ask her father or husband for every penny she reeds," says Edtvard Bok, writing in the Ladies' Henna Jour- nal, an "Gliving Allowances to Girls," "Ner is the feeling hemmed by the fact Shat the money can be hail for the asking and is always given ungrudgingly. It Is She asking which women dislike. They. justly recoil frons it. and Men ought to understand it better than they do. It should be Mid that the husbend who re fuses to give bis wife a regular Allowance is =PRIV hecnining the exception. But there are *till too mini fathers who withhold au allowance trout their deugh- tem If it be true 'that the average girl has no idea ot the value of money, how will she ever gain a better knowledge of its worth unless she is given the Meer- tunity? our girls mien be educated in money matters, and there is no surer method then ey giving them meney ot their own to vend; a regular weekly or monthly ;dement.° given them to tenter certAin regulated. expeneee, It Is °nil naturat TIM at the start it girl will epend foolishly. 10 meet this tnevitable expert - encs the amount of the Allowanee he accordingly regulated. After a %visite, however. when she gets Aceustomed to the handling of money, sbe lee= its value better and be more in *pending it To give a girl an ;Allowance Is not a rrivileae. but heringht To with- hold is Is to do her a Redoes wrong, and likewise le an initetiee t3 tile man whom she will marry anti what.° money she will intrueteti with to spend wisely. She should neve expettenee before elle restebes that voila. anti that ,sxperionce can only emu° to her from her father in an allow. auce of her own while C4ho is his daughter In his borne." How do you like that origin? The lion the monarch f the field, the eagle the monarch of the alwbeheinoth the monarub owthe deep, but man monarch of alit Ab my triends, I have to say to you that I am not so anxious to know what was my origin as to know what will be my destiny, I do not euro so much where came from as wber el am going to. I am not so interested in who was any ancestry 10,000,000 years ago as ream to know where 1 will be 10,000,000 years from now. am not so much interested in the preface to iny oradie as Tam interested 1n tbe appendix to my grave. I do not care so much about protoplasm as 1 do about eternasra. The `was" is overwhelmed with the "to be." A.ncl here comes in the evolution I believe in—not natural evolu- tion, but gracious and Myna aud heaven- ly evolution—evolution out ot Sln into holiness, out of grief into gladness, out of mortality into hinnortelity, out of earth into heaven. That is the evolution I believe in. Evolution from evolvere, unrollingi Unrolliug attributes mirolling. of rewards, unrolling of expert:moo, un- rolliug of , angelic; companimiship, un- rolling of melee glory, unrolling of providential obscurities,metalling of pigeon has not °banged in thoesands of that God made the world as he wanted. to doxologies, unrolling of rainbow to 0.101•••••••••••44.1,........* 5. eatit. Nvilove• igueranee WW1 Mist. "One et the saddett incidents conneet. ad with my services hero 111 1118117 years," said an old twenty prison inePector, "was In connection with the banging of a mur- :lever. 1 believed at the tines of the exe. cutlets, and I still believe, that he was insane when he committed the crime for whites he buffered death. He was supposed to be an unmarried man, and no one suspected that in reality he had a legiti- mate child whose mother had lived but a short period after its birth. Dens on the third day preceding the execution that the prisoner sent for me. I had been do- ing what I could to prepare him for the end, and be said he wanted to tell me a Beard and ask a favor. Then he revealed the fact that he bad a daughter grown to womauhood, that she did not know he was ber father, and that be would like to see her before be suffered the penalty imposed by law. "I argued. with him that it was better that she remain its ignorance of her par• outage, but be pleaded so hard that I made a half promise that I would see her and have her come to him. I found the young woman at the address he gave me —a girl who was fair to look Ivan and of apparently good education. My heart revolted against the shame that would be hers if I told her of her history, and I came away without explaining the orig- inal intent of my call. I told the con. denined man in bis cell right before the hanging of how I could not grant his last request, and though be cried bitterly for a time, he said before I left him that it was for the best." pears It is demonstrated twee and o'er have it and teat the happinese of t • he canopy the throne, unrolling of a nein THE GIRL AND HER BROTHER, Slut Can Easily Gain a mut Wholesonts Influence Over Him, "Gain your brother's confidence), no, dear girl, else you Will have Ito influence Over him." Writea Ruth ,Ashmore, of "A Sister's Influence Over lier Brother," in the Ladies' Heine Journal. "Bone your- self to be interested in whatever be tells, you. Let no escort be as charming to you. as he is. Make hint find pleasure in tbe same society that you do, ansi if for some meson he 'finds it tiresome, then arrange to go in another set. but alwaye a good. one, which be will appreciate and in vthich be will be appreciated. If yotv hare any accomplishment, urge your brother to be it student with you. If you are a good pianiet never refuse to play the tune be likes, and if you can induce hina te take up the violin or mandolin, or even the banjo, so mach the better for then you two may be companions in melody as in life. Never forget how much a man 921d especially a young man, likes to la; remembered. The tiny token on his birth- day, the remembrance on theholiday, the little letter of eougratalatious soot when be bas succeeded either in big studies or in the business world—none ot the small pleasures of life are wasted on a 'brother. A brother is very often the reproduction of his sister. It is ati if be were a mirror into which when the sister looked else Sound reflected all her faults end most of her virtues." Diphtheria, in "Holy ‘Vskter. Prefeeeor Vincenzt of the lelnivereite ot Sweet% has investleated the holy water from -one of the most popular ehurehes" of :lust city, with the following results: A single drop taken a few house:after the weir W3S renewed and epreae term gela- tin yieeied in forty eight hours Werth twenty -throe tinnarell one fifty !metered 0 i 1 11 lr: vs ibn 3eel sn terragi et! u itht0,33743 tr 1 apnr ya .1'1.111 AIM" his drop was Wien on a Satertlay evenina, when the water bad lawn little uwel. The next evening, after nnumeate and crowded services, eaele drop at the water retell yieltlei intstreer. :Ode colonies. Among these wore runner - due seeeiniene of the becillus con, and ethers which Professor Vincenzi Wend - lied with the bacillus mucosus of Abel, believel by ennui to be the exciting cause of eoryzo.. But the most important die - stovers was that of bat1l1 which in micro- scopes appearanee, result of cultivation, and action on animals were, according to our author, undoubtedly identical with leaner's baeillus diphtheria°. Four eases of diphtheria were notified at Sassari while these investigations were premeding, and, it being; the custom there for pereons to tenth their lips as well as other parts with holy water, the possi- bility of infeetion is obvious. "The nota- ble number of colonies 05 baolllus =w- ens perhaps stands in relation to the fact that contact betweeu fingers and nose is frequent, whenee it is not improbable that the bacilli are directly carried into the holy water." The bacillus colt, though possibly directly introduced, was, accord- ing to Professor Vincenzi, probably pres exit in the clench dust, which, be re- marks, was copious.—Archivio per le Schnee Mediche. His Busy Day. Different people have different esti- of the value of time, Abraham Bean, a resident of some small village on the coast of Maine, did not think it day of any °spot:dal value when he was on shore, but if he was getting ready to "go Sitshin' "an hour or two were altuost be- yond appraisal. "What you pin' to do to -day, Uncle A.be?" asked his niece, seeing him lean- ing against his boat looking down She harbor. "Don't bother me; time's money to- day," he answered sharply. "I've got to keep my eye on the wind. Look's to me as if 'fore noon I might get a fair wind San Eastport." "Bub it isn't nine o'clock yet, and you'll have time to pick the peas for din. ner'" argued the girl. "Well, anyway, Uncle Abe, yo hadn't ought to go fishin' with your new coat en," said the girl, pointing to his reefer. "This, why this didn't cost me noth- in'," he replied in a scornful manner. "Why, I paid fer this diggin' Squire Mason's cistern last week. You jest run into the house; Ien busy now, and can't bother with you." And Abrabam leaned bade in a roore comfortable position and resumed his Wait. A Valuable Dog. Sir Edwin Landseer is accredited with the following: The sagaeity of several re- triever dogs was being discussed in his presence). "Not one yet mentioned has eon= up to mine," said he. "Upon a cer- tain occasion, shovved bim a five -pound note of a well-known oountry town bank near White] I was =skiing. I put the note in my pocket and, walking into the woods, led it in a tree, then strolled on for a mile or so with the dog at my heels. " 'Back, find and bring, Troyer,' I maid, and the dog was off like a shoe I Waited and waited, and presently he 09140, but without the note. He came close to me and dropped from his mouth one after the other, live gold sovereigns. He had not only found the note, sirs, but be had gone to the bank and ehanged it The intolligenee of tbis remarkable clog eolipsed even that ot the celebratea point or, once possessed by tbe renowned Mr. Jingle, of Ploiewicklan fame. Fsefal Alligators. Any considerable interference with the order of nature is likely to Produce unex- period results. In =me parts of the West 15 is said, it is now impossible to raise apples, although formerly there Was ee Such difileulty. The removal of the forfeits bas altered etie climatic conditions. In other words, the cutting down of the for- est trees hue killed the apple trees. 4 different illustration of the sante general law is reported by a Neer Orleans paper. The bayous of Louisiana were formerly the homes of alligators without number. They did no particular harm, except by eatebing a stray pig or dog now mid then; nor were they known to be any particu- lar nee. The people for the roost part 1*5 them alone. Than there sprang up at the North demand for alligator skins ear the mak- ing of setchels, poekethooks and the like, aud the natural relater followed. The alll- gators were killed in great numbers, till presently they were alinoet destroyed. No barns was dono. people thought; but by and in' it bestan to be uotieed that =nein snischievoth quadrupeds were multiplying. In the Hee fields the musk, rats hwreasee la such numbers thee 15 became hard work re keep up the back levees, which heti been built to keep the water on the rice during the growing season. What perhaps was more seriotte, the same burrowing rodents infested the front levees, and nothing but constant watchfulness averted disastrous coshes quences. Thou market gardeners began to com- plain of an alarming increase in the number of rabbits. racoons and other animals which preyed upon the cauli- flower, cabbage. and other vegetables. Some ot the gardeners were compelled to enclose their gardens 'with close wire faeces, or else abandon the cultivation of some of their most profitable crops. The alligator had ram been useless, and the people had learned anew that it is dangerous to go too fast and too far in disturbing the order of nature. Progerringqtrawberries by the Sun's nays "While the sun -preserved trtilte reptile time and patience, they are, without don't, much to be preferred to those ecolese over the lire," writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer. on "Strawberries in Thirty Ways," In the Ladies' Home journal. "In the coming, where a hot -bed is at command, the work is eaeily done. Stem strawber ries carefully without bruising; put them inte a wire basket, which plunge down inta a pan of cold water and drain thor- oughly. Weigh the strawberries, and to each tiound allow one pound of granulat- ed sugar. Select large stoneware plate, make them very hot either on top of the stove or in the oven; sprinkle over a layer of rhe granulated sugar and cover this closely with the berries. Cover with glass and stand in the sun's hottest rays. Move the dish as the sun changes its position. At four:o'clock bring them in and stand aside in a closet or cool place. Next day eut them out again in the sun; by this time they .will no doubt have become clear, almost transparent, and thoroughly soft, but perfectly whole. Lift each berry carefully with a fork and put into a tum bier or bottle. Boil the syrup over the fire for a few minutes until it thickens; strain, cool, and pour it over the fruit." The Millionaire and His Clerk. Girard, the infidel millionaire of Phila- delphia, one Saturday ordered all his clerks to come on the morrow to bis wharf and help unload a newly arrived ship. One young man replied, quietly: "Mr. Girard, I can't work on Sunday." "You know the rules?" "Yes, I know. I have a mother to sup- port, but I can't work on Sundays," "Well, step up to the desk and the cashier will settle with .you." For three weeks the young man could find no work, =At one day a banker (Jame to Girard to ask if be oould recommend a man for cashier in a bank. This dis- charged young man was at once named as a suitable person. "But," said the banker, "you dismiss- ed him." "Yes, because he would not work on Sundays. A man who would lose his place for conscience's sake would make a trustworthy oasbier." And he was ap- pointed.—Pearl of Days. Bow Long Does It Take to Think? Prof. Richet says that it takes a man about one -eleventh of a second to think out each note of it musical sola. He ex - Plains the praotice that people will often follow of bending their heads in order to catch each minute sound, by the feet that the smalleet intervals of mound can be much better distinguished with one ear than with both. Thus the separateness of She clicks of a revolving toothed wheel were noted by one observer when they did not exceed sixty to the second, but using both ears be could not distinguish Sham when they occurred oftener than fifteen times a second. Among the earl.- oas ways nit which Prof. Bichet tried to arrive at conclusions as to the amount of time necessary for realizing any physical sensations or mental impression was the touching of the skin repeatedly with light blows from aessmall hammer. The facet that the blovre are separate and not con- tinuous pressure can be distinguished when they follow one another as frequent- ly as 1,000 a second. The sharp sound of the °laetrile spark from an induotion coil wan distinguished with one ear when the rate was as high as 500 to the second. The sight is much less keen. When re- volved at a speed no faster than twenty's four times a second, a disk, half white and half black, will appear gray. We also hear more rapidly than we can count. If a olook-olioking movement runs quioker • than ten to the second we can count four °licks, while with twenty to the second, we oan count only two of them. Reflections of a Bachelor. The devil succeeds because he never knows when he's been snubbed. A woman's lint thought whets she sees oompeny °taming is her canned fruit, No healthy girl who is over 17 years old has any business believing that love is caused by vibrations. .After a girl has had a quarrel with an- other she always inakes up her nsind what see won't say when Ishii meets her and then says it. The first thing the average woman thiuks when she hers that some aotroes is very siek ie to vvontier what will be - wine of aU the dresses she bas.—New Tgeac Fitemn. ma4 avent...4 Unfeeling. A certain drill sergeant, whose severity had made him unpopular with his troops, was putting a party of recruits through the funeral exercise. Opening the ranks so as to admit the passage of the supposed cortege between them, the instruotor, by way of praotical explanation, walked slowly down the lane formed by the two ranks, saying as he did so: "Now I'm the corpse, pay attention." Having reaohed the end of tbe party, be turned round, regarded them steadily with a scrutinizing eye for a moment or two, then remarked: "Your 'ands is "right, and your 'cads is right, but you 'avert'. got that look of regret you ought to The Age of Chivalry. Some say that the age of chivalry is past. The age of chivalry is never past as long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth, and a man or woman left ta say, "I will redress that wrong, or spend nay life in the attempt." The age of chiv- alry is never past as long as MOD have 1. faith enough in God to say, "God will help me to redress that wrong; if not me, surely He will blep those that 00E40 after me. For His eternal will is to overcome evil with good."—Oharles Kingsley. A Novel Light. The lighthouse on Armish Rook, In the Hebrides, is about 500 feet from the shore. To avoid having au attendant on the rook, the light is produced on the shore and projected across the water upon a mirror in the lighthouse, the mirror reflecting the light in the desire -I dires- tion. Tapestry Weaving Slow Work. The manufacture of some of the eines* Frenoh tapestry is so slow that an artist; oseenot peoduce more than a quartet at a scene= yard a year. '