HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-3, Page 7THE IVORY PALACES
Rev., Dr. Talmage Depicts the Glories of the
World to Come.
The Attraotiveness of Christ, Who Opens the Way for His Faith -
fu l Followers --The Christian's Guid-
ing Star to Heaven.
Washiegthri, July 30.—In thdieemerse
Talmage sets forth the glories of the
world to come aid the attraceiveness of
the Christ, who open?, the way; text,
Palms riv, S, "All thy garments smell
of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the
ivory palaces."
Among the grand adornments of tee
City of Paris is the Church of Notre
Dame. with its great towers and debate
ate rose winclosire and sculpturing of the
eha last judgmerta with the trumpeting
e angels and ruing dead; Its battleznente
ot quatre foil; its sacristy, with ribbed
ceiling wee statues of mints. But there
was nothing in all thee building whim
more vividly appealed to my plebe re-
publican taste$ then the costly vestmerme
which lay in oaten presses—robes that
bad been embroidered With gold and
been worn by popes and archbishops on
great oileaSione. There was a robe that
bad beeo worn by Pius VII. at the
OrOwning a the first Napoleon, There
t was also a VeStinent that litid been wore.
at the baptism of Na,poleou IL As our
guide opened the oaken presses and
brought out them) vestmeete of fateelous
cost and lifted them up the fregrenee of
the pungenearoruaties in witieli they had
been preserved filled the place 'with a
sweetness that was almost oppreseive.
Nothing that bad been done in stone
more Tirialy impressed zue than themi
things that had been done in cloth and
embroidery and perfume. But to -day I
open the drawer of this text, and I look
upou the kingly robes a Christ, and as I
lift ehein, flashing with eternal jewels,
the whole) houth is filled with the aroma
of these garments, wbich "smell of myrrh
and aloes mid cassia out of the ivory
palaces."
In ray text tbe King stems forth. leis
robes rustle alai blaze as he advances.
His pomp and power and glory over-
master the spectator. :Vont brilliant is he
than Queen Vasitti. inovirig amid zhe
Perelau primes; than Yarie Antoinette
on the day when Louis XVI. put upon
her the neeklatai of 800 diamonds; than
Anne Boleyn the day when Henry VIIL
welcomed her to hie palace --all beauty
and all pomp forgoteen evhile we stand
in the onetime of this imperial glory.
Ring of Zion, Kiug of earth, King of
heaven, Xing forever: His garments not
worn out, not dust bedraggled, but radi-
ant and jewelled and redolent. It seems
us If they must bare been pressed a
hundred years amid the flowers of
heaven. The wardrobes from which they
have been taken most have been sweet
*With clusters ef camphira and frankie.
cense, and all manner of preelous wood.
Do you not inbale the Mims? Aye. are.
"They smell et myrrh and aloes and
cassia out of the ivory palaces,"
Your first curiosity la to know why the
robes of Christ are odorous with myrrh.
This was a bright leafed Abyssinian
plant. It was trifoliated. Tne Greeks,
Egyptians, Romans and Jews bought and
sold it at a high price. The first present
that was ever given to Christ was a *prig
of myrrh thrown on his infantile bed in
Bethlehem, and the last gift that Christ
ever had was myrrh mamma into the cup
of bis 01110IIIX1011. The natives would
take a stone and bruise the tree, and then
It would exude a ,guzn that would satu-
rate all the ground beneath. This gum
was used for purposes of merchandise.
One piece of it no larger than a chestnut
would whelm a whole room with odors.
It •was put in closets, in chests, in draw-
ers, in rooms. and its perfume adhered
almost interminably to anything that
was anywhere near it. So when in iny
text I read that Christ's garmente smell
of myrrh I immediately conclude the ex-
'quisite sweetness of Jesus.
I know that to many he is only like
any historical person—another John
lloward, another philanthropic Oberlin,
another Confucius, a grand subject for a
painting. a heroic theme for a poem, a
beautiful form for a statue, but to those
who have heard his voice and felt his
pardon and received his benediction he is
music and light and warmth and thrill
and eternal fragrance, sweet as a friend
sticking to you when all else betray, lin-
ing you up while others try to push you
down, not so much like inorning glories
that bloom only when the sun is coming
up, nor like "four o'olooks," that bloom
aly when the sun is going down, but
Vire myrrh, perpetually aromatic, the
same morning, noon and night, yester•
day, to -day, forever. It seerns as if we
cannot wear him out. We nut •on him all
our burdens and afflict Min with all our
griefs and set him foremost in all our
battles, and yet he is ready to lift and to
sympathize and to help. We have so im-
posed upon him that one would think in
eternal affront he would quit our soul,
and yet to -day he addresses us with the
same tenderness, dawns upon us with the
same smile, pities us with the same com-
paesion.
There is no name like his for us. It is
more imperial than Caesar's, more MUSit,.
al than Beethoven's, more conquering
than Charlemagne's, more eloquent than
Cicero's. It throbs with all life. It weeps
4 • with all pathos. It groans with all pain.
It stoops with all condescension. It
breathes with all perfume. Who like
Jesus to set a broken bone, to pity a
homeless orphan, to nurse a sick man,
to take a prodigal back 'without any
molding, to illumine a cemetery all
plowed with graves. to make a queen
unto God out of the lost woman, to (latch
ithe tears of littlest* sorrow in a laohryroa.
tory that shall never be broken? Who has
such an eye to see our need, such a lip to
kiss away our sonovr, suoh a hand to
snatch us out of the fire, such a foot to
trample our enemies, such a heart to em-
brace all our nsecessities2 I struggle for
some metaphor with which to express
him—he is not like the bursting forth of
a full orchestra; that is too loud. He is
not like the sea, when lashed to rage by
the temnest; that is too boisterous. He is
not like the mountain, its brow wreath-
ed with the lightnings; that is too mili-
tary. Give us a softer type, a gentler
comparison. We have seemed to see him
with our eyes and to hoar him with our
ears and to touch hint with our hands.
Oh, that to -day he might appear to some
other one of our five sensesl Aye, the
nostril shall discover his presence. He
MIRO aPen UN hie Wee gales deetei
heaven. Yea„ hie garments emelt of last-
ing and all pervasivenayrrh.
Would that you all knew his sweetness!
BOW soon you would turn from all other
attractions! If the Philosopher leaped out
et tie bath in a frenzy of joy and clap-
ped bis hands and rushed through the
streets because he had fouad the solution
of a mathematical problera, bow will
yoa feel leaping frora the fountain of a
Saelour's mere,' and pardon „ washed
clean and made white as snow, when the
question has been solved, "How can my
soul. be saved?" Naked, frostbitten, storm
lashed soul, let Jesus this hour throw
around thee the "garments thee smelt of
myrrh and aloes aud cassia eue of the
ivory pal:toes,"
Your second curiosity is to know why
the robes of Jesus are edemas with aloes.
There is sone difference of opinion abont
where these aloes grow, what Is the tailor
of the flower, What is the per thselar ap-
pearance et the herb, SUMO it for you
and me to know Wit ales mean Otter -
MSS the worki over, and when Christ
coulee with garments bearing time parte,
eviler odor they suggest to am the bitter.
ness of a Saviour's sufferings, Were there
ever moil nights as Jesus lived throegh
—nights on the Mountains, -nighte on the
sea, nights in the detiert? Who over had
such a hard reception os Jesus had? A
hostelry the first, an 'unjust trial in oyer
and torminer another, a foul mouthed,
yellieg mob tbe last Was there a spave
on his Meek as wide as your TWO fingers
where he was not Whipped? Was there A
space on his brow an inch equate where
be was not cue of the briers? When the
spike stench at the instep. did it not go
clear through tC1 the hollow of the foot?
Oh, longs deep, hitter pilgrimage! Aloe%
aloes!
John leaned Ida head on Christ. hut
who did Christ lean On? VIVO thousand
men fed by the Saviour. Who fed Jams?
The sympathy of a Saviour's heart going
ow to the leper and the adulteress; but
\elm soothed Chriee? He bad a fit place
neither to be born nor to die. A, poor
lethal A poor lad! A poor young maul
Not so muck as a taper to cheer his dying
Ileum, Been the candle of the sun snuffed
out, Was it not all aloes? Our SIDS, sor-
rows, bereavements, teems and all the
agonies of earth and hell pieked up as in
ono cluster and equeezed into one chp
and that premed to his lips until the
:tend, nauseimieg, bitter dreft Wag Ma.
10Weti with a distorted co intentinee and
a sinuider from head to foot and a gurg-
ling strangulation. Aloes! Aloof! Nothing
but aloes! All this for himself? All this
to get the fume In the world of being a
martyr? All this in a spirit of stuboorn.
noes, becauee he did nor like CaesarNo.
no! All this because he wanted to pluck
me and you from hell. Because he want-
ed to raise me and you to heaven. Be-
cause we were lost, and he wanted us
found. Because we were blind, and he
wined us to see, Became we were serfs,
and he wanted u$ manumitted. 0 ye In
whose cup of life the saccharine has pre-
dominated; 0 ye who have had bright
and sparkling beverages, how do you feel
toward him who in your stead and to
purchase your disinthrallment took the
aloes, the unsavory aloes, the bitter aloes?
Your third curiosity is to know why
these garments of Christ are odorous
with cassia. This was a plant Which
grew in India and the adjoining islands.
'You do not care to hear what kind of a
flower it had or what kind of a stalk. It
is enough for me to tell you than it was
used medicinally. In that land and in
that age, whore they knew but little
about pharmacy, cassia was used to arrest
many forins of disease. So. when in my
text we find Christ coming with garments
that smell of cassia, it suggests to Ine
the healing and curative power of the
Son of God. "Oh." you say, "now you
halve a superfluous idea! We are nos sick.
Why do we want cassia.? We are athletic.
Our respiration is perfect. Our limbs are
lithe, and on bright cool days we feel we
could bound like a roe." I beg to differ,
my brother, from you. None of you can
be better in physical health than I am,
and yee I must say we are all sick. I
have taken the diagnosis of your ease and
have examined all tbe best authorities
on the subject, and I have to tell you
that you are "full of wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores, which have not
been bound. up or mollified with oint-
ment." The mummifies of sin is on us,
the palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy. The
inan that is expiring to -night in the next
street—the allopittrile and homeopathic)
doctors have given him up and his
friends now standing around to take bis
last words—is no more certainly dying as
to his body than you and I are dying
unless we have taken the medicine from
God's apothecary. All the leaves of this
Bible are only so many prescriptions
from the Divine Physican, written, not
in Latin, like the prescriptions of earthly
physicians, but written in plain English
so that a "man. though a fool, need not
err therein." Thank God that the Say-
iour's garments smell of cassia!
Suppose a man were siok, and there
was a peial on his mantelpiece with
medicine he knew would euro him, and
he refused to take it, what would you
say of him? He is a salcide. And what
do you say of that man who, sick In sin,
has the beeline medicine of God's grace
offered him and refuses to take it? If
he dies, be is a suioide. People talk as
though God took a roan and led him
out to darknese and death, as though. he
brought him up to the Oben; and then
pushed him off. Oh, no! When a man is
lost, it is not because Goel pushes him
off; hes because he jumps off.In olden
times a suicide was buried at the cross-
roads, and the people wore accustomed to
throw stones epee his grave. So it seeros
to me there may be at this time a maxi
who is destroying his soul, and as though
the angels of God werehere to bury bine
at the point where the roads of life and
death mese etioh other, throwing upon
the grave the broken law and a great pile
of misimproved privileges, so that those
going by may iook at the fearful mound
and learn what a suoide it is when an
immortal soul for which Jesus died putsi
ltsalf .out of the way.
When Christ trod thins planet with foot
In every' willion of people in
of flesh, the people rushed after hint - J. —
world there are 800 who are blind,
Peelele Who were sick and those who,
being so siok they could not walk, were
broughe by their friends. Here I see a,
member holding ip ber hitsje child, cry-
ing: "Cure this croup, Lord Je$11SE Cure
this scarlet fever:" And others: "Cure
this ophthalmia- Give ease and reet 50
this spinal distress! Straighten this club
foot!" Christ made every house where
he stopped a dispensaiy. I do not believe
thet in the 19 centuries whieh have gone
by since, his heart bas got hard. I feel
thet we can come now with all ow
wounds of soul ;tail gee his benediction.
o Jesus, here we are We wane healing.
We want sight. We want health, We
want life, "The whole need not a phYsi-
Man, but they thee are siek," Blessed be
God that Jesus Chien comes though this
axial:theme A -tow, his "garments smelling
of myrrh"—that means fraerance--"and
aloes"—they mean bitter seerfficial
memories—"end eessia"—that means
medicine aud <lure.
According to Inv text. be comes "out
or the ivory ?Owes." You know, or, if
you da not know. I will tell you new
Chet seine of the palaces of olden times
were edernea with ivory. Ahab arid
Solomou had their homes furnished
witle la The tneks of African and Asia-
tic elephants were twtseed IMO all man-
ners of shapes, and there were stairs of
ivory and ebairs of ivorr and tables of
ivory and floors of ivory awl pillars of
ivory anti windows of ivory end foonte
eine thee (replied into baelits et ihorY
and moos that bad ceilings of ivory, Oh,'
white and overmastering beauty: Green
tree brunches sweeping the white ourbs,
Tapestry trailing She snowy floors. Brack-
ets of lighe flashing on the lusrrous sur-
roundiegs. Silvery musky rippliug on the
beach of the erohee. The mere thouget
of it lamest nuns iny lerein, 4741 you
soy: "Oh, if I could only have walked
over such floors! if I could bevel thrown
myeelf in such a cheer! If I could have
Laird tee drip and dash or those fount-
ains!" You shall have something better
Shan. that if you only let Christ introduce
you. From thet place he came, and. to
that place he proposes to transport ypu.
for his "garments mine of Inyrrle and
aloes and cassia out of the ivory Nieces."
What a piece Maxon must be! The Tull -
velem of the French, the Windsor Castle
of the thiglish, the Spanish Alliembra,
the Russian Kremlin, are mere dungeons
compared with it! Not so many' castles
an either side the Rhine as on both eldes
of the river of God—the ivory palaces!
One for the angels, insufferably bright,
'winged, fire eyed, tempest ehariated; one
for the martyrs, with blood red robee
from tinder the altar: ono for the ging,
the some of his palace the crown of the
church militant; 0110 for the eingers,
who lead the one bemired and forty and
four thousand; one for you, ransomed
from sin; one for me, plucked from the
burning. Ob, the ivory 1i:detail
To -clay it seems to me as if the win-
dows or those palaces were illumined for
some greet vietory, and 1 look and see
climbing the snare of ivory end walking
ou the floors of ivory and looking from
the windows of ivory some whom wo
knew and loved on earth. Yes, 1 leneen
them. There are hither and mother, not
yeere and 79 years as when they loft
us, but blithe and young as wben on
their wedding day. Anil there are
brothers and sisters, merrier than when
we used to romp acroes the meadoWs te
gether. The cough :MID. The eaneer
cured. The erysipelas healed. The heart-
break over. Oh, bow fair they are in the
ivory palaces: And your dear little child-
ren that went out from you—Christ did
not lot ono of them drop as he lifted
them. He did not wrench one of them
from you. No. They went as from one
Shay loved well to one whom they loved
better. If I should take your little child
anti press its soft face ;Against zny rough
cheek, I might keep it a little while; but
when you. the inother, came along it
would struggle to go with you. when.Ahdso
you stood holding your dying h
Jesus passed by in the room and the lit-
tle one sprang out to greet him. That Is
all. Your Christian dead did not go
down into the dust and the gravel and
the roud. Though it rained all that
funeral day and the water came up to
the wheel's hub as you drove out to the
cemetery. It made no difference to them,
for they stepped irom the home here to
the home there, right into the ivory
palaces. All is well with them. All is
well.
SUBT le.E' POWER OF HAPPINES$.
reirtnee creei Achievements. Iteptesent
„Those Whose Hearts Sang Over Them.
"Next to the Art of living justly and
kinely with .our fellows emnes the art of
mallaainiug a life of happiness and tran-
quility," writes Rev. Dr Newell Dwight
Willa or "ebe Secrets of a Happy Life,"
115 Timehatles' Jioms Journal. "For the
toot was road e for joy alai goad cheer.
Life IS a salmi.; iabor and sorrow,
tory end defeat toll together as teachers,
but harminese is life's aim and graduat-
ing point. Next to the duty ef self-denial
comes. :the duty of delight. Whee ripeness:
ie to an mange, what song is to the lark,
what eultore and refinement are to the
iatelleee, thee happieese is re the eciul,
As eulgeritv eine ignorance beeoleen a
neglected mincle ree unbeppiuess and
inisery proeleini the neglected /mere
The 'norinel.nature 'will keep strong and
fresh the eherds that vibrate joy. Deeres-
Sion end worry rake tho nerve ant .of
mares erne. tete the keen edge from his
mind, rob life of its vietery. For wimp -
pieces wins no bettlea, gloom invenes no
tool, wretchedness writes no draine.
Reath's greet 'achievements represene
those whose heart, smog over the tasks.
To- uteee storm with calm, eefeae wieh
faith, ingratittele wiele eharity, is nos an
easy thing. Nothing reclaims so much.
wisdom, practice end still as learaing
how to livelethitnelly above the die-
teMperetures- of life."
ARTIFICIAL OYSTERS,
T er Are, able in Large
Enrollee* elt4co.
A gentleman who has just returnee
from Paris aeys that the meet wonderful
thing ha saw while in ehae Ow was
artiflelal oysters. Not meek oysters—
meet done up in a patty—hum 15 eivalve
ro he eerved raw. In looks they appear to
be genuine Americen mutters, but when
one is eaten the differetice is at owe per-
eptible The usual price paid for them
Is three cents each, or 30 cents per dozen.
At cheep restaurants they may be pro-
cured for two come meth, but are apt not
to be fresh ae that price. When brought
on the balf shell they look as IliCe as
any oyster, and one 'who is not a eudge
of oyeters would eat thent 'without ques-
tion. The only genuine thing about them
Is the steins. The nianufacturers buy
second -band shells at a small cost and
fasten the spurious oysters in place with
ate. Only buff a shell is used. In that
shape they are packed in tiers and
played In window. Others to be served
withoun shells zwe put up in jars of eei to
100. The imitations are coueunied in
such quituties that dealers urge keepers
of hotels and restaurants to destroy their
shells anti even pay cooks and waiters
liberally to poend them in pietas.
THE PRAIRIE GIRL'S WEDDING,
She Seldom Token II Trip, Ant G000
Direct to Hoc New Horne.
"As the prairie girl has grown up
with her trainlea, along paietical lines,
so she asks only of her lover that he shall
be manly and true," writes Charles
Moreau Barger, of "A Girl's Life on the
Prairie," in The Ladies' Home Journal.
"Thousaude or acres of land do not make
- a fortune, and social *Trees are practic-
ally eaenown. The well:ire; is nearly
always at the bride's home. Not one In
threescore times Is at the chureh, Tho
near relatives and a few dear friends are
She guests. The bride's white wedding
gown is simply made. Bunches of golden-
rod or roses deck the little parlor or sit-
ting -room, and from the organ comes the
wedding. march. Seldom does a grooms-
man or .a bride's attendant take part in
the ceremony, and more seldom is there
a reception afterward, Fortunate indeed
are the bride arid groom if they can
escape a vociferous serenade, for the chari-
vari and the bombardment of rice and
old shoes are well-established customs on
the plains. The papers usually add to the
story of the marriage: 'After the wedding
supper and eongratulation the happy
couple drove to their own home, which
had already been fitted up for their own.
parley."
It Is not a dead weight that you lift
when you carry a Christian out. Jesus
makes the bed up soft with velvet
promises. and be says: "Put her down
here very gently. Put that head which
will never aehe again on this pillow of
halleluiahs. Send up word that the pro-
cession Is coming. Ring the bells. Ring!
Open your gates, ye ivory palaces!" And
so your loved ones are there. They are
just as certainly there, having died in
Christ, as that you are here. There is
only one thing more they want. Indeed,
there is one thing in heaven they have
not got. They want it. What is it? Your
company! But, oh, my brother, unless
you change your traok you cannot reach
that harbor! You might as well take the
Southern Pacific Railroad, expecting in
Shat direction to reaoh Toronto, as to go
on in the way some of you are going and
yet expect to reach the ivory palaces.
Your kited ones are looking out of the
windows of heaven now, and yet you
seem th turn your back upon them. You
do not seem to know the sound of their
voices as well as you used to or to be
reeved by the sigbt of their dear faces.
Call Muder, ye departed ones! Call louder
from the ivory palaces!
And here I ask you to solve a mystery
that has been oppressing me for 80 years.
I have been asking it of doctors of
divinity who have been studying theology
half a century, and they. have given me
no satisfactory answer. I have turned
over all the books in my library, but
got no solution to the question, and to-
day I come and ask you for an explana-
tion. By what logic: was Christ induced
to exchange the ivory palaces of heaven
for the cruoifi elan agonies of earth? I
shall take the first thousand million years
in heaven to study out the problem,
meanwhile and now, taking it as the
tenderest, mightiest of all facts that
Christ did come, that he mane with
spikes in his feet, came with thorns in
his brow, cantle with spears in his heart,
to save you and to save ne 'God 90
loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have ever-
lasting life." Oh, Christ, vvhelm all our
souls with thy compassion! Mow them
down like summer grain with the harvest-
ing sickle of thy gracel Ride through
to -day the oongureror, thy garnzents
smelling "of myrrh and aloes and cassia
out of the ivory palaces!"
PO re.Cti Z:if,r0 of Blind People.
Janke Mere and More.
A good thing to do this year Is to
make more of our friends and to make
more friends. There are limits to our
charity, our helpfulness, our deeds of
thoughtful kindness, but there is scarcely
any limit to the love vve may cherish for
those around us and for all the world,
And if the good feeling be kept large and
living in the beart it will show itself in
a thousand ways and every day. Cherish
your friend and your father's friend. and
opeu the door of your heart to the one
who comes knocking. Both will be bless-
ed, and life will be larger and happier
for the sweetness of friendship.
The Importune. of nutter.
It is not generally known that sugar,
usually considered as a sort of luxury by
those not informed, plays a very /report -
ant part on our physical organism. Some
have gone so far as to claim that sugar is
the only source of physical strength in
man, and thae other substances, such as
fats, are formed into sugar before assimi-
lation is possible. Sugar promotes diges-
tion and bodily strength, and it has been
found in Russian factories that the men
work more willingly when they receive
a daily allowance of sugar, tvhioh. when
issued to them, is first combined with
fruit pulp.
Bine :•ttiTer alost.
It has been observed that gray and
blue eyes are more likely to be seriously
affected by intense electric light than
brawn eyes. In SUMO of these cases total
blindness has melted. Oculirts ascribe
the tronble to two muses, tbe intensity
of the light and the action of the ultra-
violet raysit is recommended that
uranium p.:laes, which is yellow. Or some
other transparent snlattance that will in-
tetoept ultra -violet rays, be interposed
between the eye and any powerful light.
Char:zed 0 11 h
Chatham. Ont.. July 26.— George Or.
range 8,nd Rufus Milner-, two young
men, are held by the polies, with a
charge of arson hanging over them. They
will be givezi a heariog on Thursday.
Five, All Told, Were Killed.
Bownsville, Pa., July 26.-- Another
body was found ID the Grindstone (Mal
Mille by the searchers yesterday, making
five killed aad two injured in yesterday's
explosion. The Injured will recover.
Superstitious.
"What in creation did you call an
aibbillance for, Chumpley?"
116. "Didn't you see that fellow walk under
the leader there. Be won't go three
'Kooks Wore something happens 50
REVIVAL IN OKLAHOMA
Camp Meeting Scenes on Hell
Roaring Creek,
SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN SAI,OONS.
homer Saloon lieeepers Xlected Sunday
School Superintendents and Women Out.
JAWS Point the Pathway to Better Things.
Tough Tale From the Triangle.
The great religious wave which has been
weeping over tem Triangle, or Flat Iron
country, is still going an, writes an Okla-
homa correspondent Of the New York
Herald, In iaet, a great camp meeting is
50 session on Heil Roaring creek, and
huedreds are being converted by the Rev.
J. C. 'hulls med. a'. R. Johnson. The Tri-
angle is 40 or 50 miles wide and lies be-
tween the Arkanses and Cimarron rivers.
Balt *dozen small teems are scattered
over the tract. htunuing through the een-
sf tbie triangle is Hell Rearing creek,
which gets its name front the vicious acts
of the lawless People who once lived along
its banks.
In the old day* it was impossible to OPti
out anything concerning the lawless hands
from the people, mai Is was unsafe for offi-
cers to traverse the land. Tor the ioluthie-
ants kept the desperadoes' secrets. United
States malls were robbed almost weekly.
c,rhis was the stave or *Mitre when Reward
D. Nix wais appointed United States mar -
04 50 1$193 by President Clevelaud. Misr -
;Mel Nix irnmedietely devieml plans te run
the highwaymen from the territory or eap-
here them. Several raids were planned
and made leto this hati land, but without
'greet If illings Svourrecl In this country
almost daily, and it was not a safe piece
Cor travelers.
The first famous raid into thin bad lard
ecearred Sept. 1, 1$03. Teri deputy mar-
shals, led by John Bijou, attaeked the
towel et legal's. Tbe officers were secreted
in a prairie schooner, a large, four boree,
covered WagOil.. A than dressed as a rough
old farmer drays the wegoa aud stopped in
the center of Iagalls. The mursbals
jumped out from under tbe wagon cover
and had hardly bit tbe ground before they
was fired 011 by a dozen outlaws wbo were
JENNIE STEPHENS.
rerouting In Murphy's saloon. A general
fight took place, Miring which Deputy
Marshals Lope Shadley, Tom Houston and
Dick Speed and two citizens of tbe town
were killed. One outlaw, "Arkansas
Tont," was wounded and arrested. Tim
remaimier of the band escaped. This raid
was not a successful one. Time breve
men were killed to get one oetlaw. After
Shat Marshals Bill Tighinien, Beek
Thomas, Frink Canton and other oftlears
led raids, but with little success. Thou-
sands of dollarswere offered for the arrest
of Bill Doolan, Bill Dalton, Bill Cook,
Bill Raidler, " Dynai»ite Dick, " Zip Wyatt
stud other leaders of the gang. The secret
hiding places of the outlaws could not be
found by the officers, and hence but little
headway was made.
Man alone 110 not occupy the whele field
of outlawry. The neve and advanced wom-
an had reached Oklahoma. and following
in the steps of the male lawbreakers were
half a dozen noted women outlawswho
actually engaged with the Dultons in rob-
bing banks, stealing horses, selling whiskey
to Indians and doing every kind of crime
known. Among the women were Belie
Sharp, Nellie Rneelaed, or "Buckskin
Nell;" Jennie Stephens. a 14 -year-old girl;
Annie McDoolet, and others. Bele Sharp
Is dead, "Buckskin Nell" has left the coen -
try, and the officers arrested .7ennie
Stephens and Annie MeDoolet, bot"nder
1? years. Two years ago they were sent to
the Boston Reform school. Both were re-
leased more than a year ago. Coming
back to Oklahoma, they a/lime/iced that
they were about to avenge the killing of
Bill Daltoe and Bill Doolan.
But they breve not clone so, for at the
time Bill Doolan was killed a band of re-
vivalists bad entered into this bad land
and begun a religious ovusade against sin,
so that six months ago the whole town of
Ingalls was converted. The saloons were
tureed into Sunday schools and religimie
roeeting houses. Former saloon keepers
have been elected Sunday echoer superine
tendents. A brother-in-law of Bill Doolan,
who was really the most noted of all the
highwaymen, was converted and has been
elected superintendent of a union Sunday
tiehool and will enter the ministry, and
tenting the converted are Jennie Stephens
and Annie McDoolet, who have given up
all thought of murder and have abandoned
their male highwayman attire.
Messrs. Tulle and Johnson for six
,montbs have been holding protracted
,meetings in Ingalls, Lawson and Jennings.
and 1191V they are ooncluoting an old fash-
ioned camp meeting on Tien Roaring
emir. Tboumude of People meet in the
erores and hear these pzeachere. Ait113-^
dreda are being converted, flart7 Coons,
Is well knowe Pawnee Indian, is assisting
*he Messrs, Tulls and ;Johnsen in their
work of saving the Triangle outlaws.
A along the coneerts kIXO a number of Chage,
Pawnee and Creek Incliaas, TheTriangle,
which a few years ago was given up to ev-
ery shade of vice, is aow the beret) of
God fearing people,
GOOTInt ,GUarded ly TOOPIF WontaM
Two young women called upon Govern,
or Mount at Indianepolle and asked that
bp parole ..loaeph Reseal,a conviet in the
le'erthern prison, for 10 days, that be
moot visit his dying fatbee, ,aed offered,
to be responsible for Ruseelles tattle)) *9
prism at the expiration of his parole, T11e.
order was ISS11.04 and Russell went innate
When Paw Wax a Bor„
wisht 'at rd of been here when
My paw he was a boy.
They must of been excitement then-.
When my paw vres a boy.
In eehool he always took the prize;
He used to Uek boys twice his size;
1 bet folks all had Magee, eyes --
Ween MY paw was a boy.
They was a lot of wonders done
When my paw was a boy.
How grandpa must of loved tits son
When my paw was a boy!
Heat git the coal and chop the wood
and teina up every way he could
To always elm be street and geode -
When ray paw 'Was a boy.
Then everything was In Us place,
Wben my paw was q boy.
How he could euren arm mgt.
When My paw was a. bah!
Ile never, never disobeyed;
lie beat in every game he
(it*' What What a record they was made—
When ray paw was a ben!
—Chicago Times -Herald,
SLAIN BY A BUG.
Tke ratheue Story Told by the Sol.
eMA Mn.
A thiu, solemn looking limn, with an
enormous black crape band around his
hat. sat in the corridor of the St, Charles
yesterday doing nothing in particular.
Presently a talkative drummer dropped
into the next chair and made an earnest
effort to engage him in conversation. The
Pall man answered in monosyllables:
"I notice you're in mourning," hazarded
the drummer after several frosts.
"Yes; for my brother," replied the tall
man, thawing a trifle.
"Alt: indeed:" said the drumzner, en-
couraged, "die recently, may I ask?"
"YeR, sir. last mouth: from the bite of
n electric light bug."
The drummer was greatly interested,
"You don't say eel" he exclaimed.
d no idea they were so poisonoust
How did it occur?"
a sail story," replied the tali'
man. "Yon see, I live near Toledo, and
about a— But perhaps this would bone
you?"
"No. no! Go on! I'd love to bear it:"
"Well, there was a young lady in our
neighborhooe of the name of hliss Pinkie
hIcPberson, and she was being courted
by a young gentleman of the name of
Boggs. One evening about a year ago an
electric light bug got on Miss Pinkie's.
neck, and Boggs, being afraid of bugs,
simply hollered. Before she could get it
off it bit her"—
"But I thought you said your broth.
em"— interrupted the drummer,
"I'm coming to that," said the tall
man. "Ifiss Pinkie got mad and gave
Boggs the mitten, and my poor brother,
seeing a chance, went to =art her him-
self. She encouraged him to pique Boggs,
but when he proposed she said 'No'—flat
`Noe said she believed he was just as
timid as the other chap,
"To prove he wasn't he went like a fool
and enlisted, end u month ago yesterday
he ivas killed leading his company in the
charge on Googoobo. Since then this
woman has gone and married Boggs, and
they both have the ebeek to wear mourn-
ing."
"But why do you say your brother was
killed by a bug?" protested the drummer,
was killed by a bullet, like a hero."
"The bullet was merely an 'wicket,"
said the tall man, waving his hand. "a
mere incident. The cause eves, of course,
the electric light bug which started the
chain of circumstances by biting Miss
Pinkie on the neck. I fear the affair has
prejudiced me against electric light bug*
for life. But I must be going. Good day
to you, sir."
"Who was that fellow, anyhow?" ask-
ed the drummer at the ,desk.
"I don't remember his name," replied
the clerk, "but they say lie is the cham-
pion amateur liar of the middle states."—
New Orleans Times -Democrat,
Barbed Wire toe Italian "Vineyards.
The use of barbed wire is increasing
largely in southern Italy. It is used for
trailing vines and is found of great serv-
ice in keeping thieves out of the vineyards
after dark. The vines being in many cases
only a few feet apart, it is a matter of
considerable difficulty to avoid the barbs,
even in the daytime, and at night it is
practically impossible. The wire need be
only of the lightest kind, as the lengths
used are comparatively short and no cat-
tle have to be contended with.
Protection Prom snow.
Smoke tinted spectacles are worn by
the cattle which range, the snow-covered
plains of Russia. It was discovered that
the glare caused by the sunlight on the
snow made thein blind, and spectacles
were fitted to them to protect their sight
as they plucked the grass which sprouted
th.nugh the earth's white mantle.
The Oldest Lighthouse.
The lighthouse at °ermine, Spain, is
believed to be the oldest one now in use.
It was erected during the reign of Trojan
and rebuilt in 1684.
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