HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-7-19, Page 7liiSSI01\ OF DORCAS.
Lessons Drawn From the Story
of Her Life.
ALLEVIATING HUMAN DISTRESS,
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Washington, ' July 15,—Dr. Tal-
mage,. who is:, still ,traveling in north-
ern .Europe, . has forwarded the . fol-
lowing report of a. sermon in . Which
he utters helpful words to . all who
-nee • - migaged' in alleviating human
distresses .and show's. how such Work
.will becrowned at the.. last; text,
• .Acts . ix, 39, "And all the widows
stoocl'hy him:.weeping and showing
'hint thecoats and garments .whieh
Dorcas made while she was with
,them.'' . ' .. ' •• •• .
Joppa is a most absorbing city .of
the Orient, • Into , her .harbor once
floatedthe rafts.. of Lebanon . cedar
from which. the temples. of Jerusalem •
'were sbeilts• Solomon's 'oxen drawing
.the logs through the town.. ' Here
NaPoleon. had 500 prisoner* mass-
acred. One. of the. Most .magnificent
charities Of the centuries :was starts,
ed in this seaport by Dorcas, a .woe
:than with her needle etabroidering
her imam ineffaceably into the benee
ficience. of the world. .T see .her sit -
tines in yonder home: In the :door-
-Way and around about the building,
and in the .reoM. where She sits are
the pale faces of the poor. She lis-
tens to their plaint, she pities their
woe, she makes garments for them,
she adhiets" the manufactured ar-
ticles to suit the bentform of this
invalid woman and to the cripple
that comes crawling on his hands
and lames. She gives a coat to this
one, she gives sandals to that, one.
, With ,the gifts she mingles prayers
and tears and Christian encourage-
ment. Then she goes out to be
greeted on the street corners by
those whom she has blessed, and all
through the street the cry is heard,
"Dorcas is coming!" The sick look
up gratefully . into her face as she
puts her hand On the burning brow;
and the lost and the abandoned start
up with hope as they hear her gen-
tle voice, as though an angel had
addressed them,. and as she: goes out
the. larieeyes half put out with sin
think they see a halo of light about
her brow and a trail of glory in her
pathway. • That night a half -paid
shipwright climbs the hill and reach-
es home and Sees his little boy well
clad and says, "Where did these
clothes come from?" And they tell
, hies, 'Dorcas has been here." In an-
other place a woman is trimming a
, lamp. Dorcas bought the: oil. In
another place 'a faintly that ha,d'not
been at table for many weeks are.
. gathered now,. for Dorcas has .
brought bread.
But there is a sudden pause in that
e, woman's ,ministry.. . They . say:
, 'Where is Dorcas? Why, we haven't
seen her for many a •day. Where is
, Dorcas?" ,And one of these poor peo-
Ple goes up and knocks at the door
and finds the mystery solved. All
through the haunts of wretchedness
the news comes, "Dorcas is sick!"
No bulletin flashing from the palace
gate telling the stages of a king's
disease is 21101'0 anxiously waited for
than the news from this benefactress.
Alas, for Joppa there is wailing,
wailing! That .voice which has ht-
etered- so many cheerful words , is
hushed; that hand which :has made
,
so many garments forthe poor is
cold and still; the star which had
poured lightinto the midnight ,of
wretchedness is (limited by the blind-
ing mists that go: up from the river
Of. death. In every forsaken place in
that totwra, whereverathere is a Sick
child. and no; balm; 'wherever there .
hunger and. no bread, wherever there
is guilt and no. ' commisseration;
„wherever there is a broken hearts and
no comfort, there are despairing
looks and streaming - eyes and frantic,
gesticulations as they cry, "Dorcas
is dead!'''.
They send fOr, the apostle •Peter,•
.
who ,happens to :be in the -suburbs of:
the place; 'stopping with .a tanner Of
...the name of 'Simon .Peter.: urges his
Way through the crowd around the
.door and stands inthe presence of
the. dead. :1Vhdt demonstration . of
• grief all about ;him! Here, stand
some of . the • Poor Peoples: Who show
the garments which this poor woe
man ..had made for them. Their
grief .cannot be appeased. The apos-
tle Peter 'wants.' to perform a mire
..*
axle. He will not do it, .amid : .the
• ', excited crowd, -so 'he orders that .the
. whole room be Cleared,. ''The door is
shut against the populace: • The i
that 7011 attend to the fh.st,, last
and grenteSt cluitsy of yen'
seeking for Clod and being at peaee
with him, .
'Further, WO 500 Dorcas the bone-
feetress. History has told the story
of the crown; epic poet has sung of
the sword; the pastoral poet, with
his yerses full of the redolence of
clover tops and a rustle with a silk
Of the corn, has sung the 'praises of
the plow. tell yon. the praises
of the needle. From the fig leaf rope
prepared in the garden of Eden to
the last stitch taken on the garment
for the poor the needle has wrought
wonders of kindness, generosdty and
benefe,ction. It adorned the girdle
of the high priest, it fashioeedthe,
curtains in the ancient tabernatle,'11
cushioned the chariots of King Solo -
Mon, it ' provided the robes of Queen
Elizabeth ; apd in high placesahdin
low places, by the Bre of the pion-
eer's back -log and under the fineb of
.the chandelier; everywhere, it has
clothed nakedness, it has preached.,
the gospel, it has overcome hosts of
penury ancl want with the warcry01
''Stitch, stitch, ,stitch!'The oper-
atives have found a livelihood by it.
and through it the mansions of the
employer are stinstructed.,
Amid the greatest ' triumphs in an
ages and lands, I set down' the con -
(theses of the needle. I admit its
crimes; I admit it's cruelties. It has
had more martyrs than the fire; it
has punctured the eye; it has pierced
the side; it has struck weakness into
the lungs; it has sent madness, in to
the brain; it has filled the, potter's
field it has pitched whole armies of
the suffering- into crime tind wretch-
edness and woe. But now., that I an
talking of Dorcas and her ministries
to the poor, I shall speak only of the
charities of the needle., Th is woman
was a representative of all those who
make gasp:mats, for the destitute, svho
knit socks for the bare-footed, who
prepare bandages for the lacerated,
who fix up boxes of clothing for nds-
sionaries, who go info the asylums
of the suffering and destitute, bear-
ing that gospel which is Sight 'for the
blind and hearing for the deaf, and
svhich makes the lame man leap like
a hart and brings the 'dead to life,
immortal health bounding in their
pulses. What a contrast between the
practical benevolence of thie woman
and a great deal of the eharity of
this clay! This woman did. not spead
her time idly plahning., how the poor
of the city of Joppa was to be re-
lieved; she took her needle and, re-
lieved them. She was not like those
persons who sympathize with iniapan-
ary sorrows, and go out in the street
and laugh at the boy who has upset
his basket of cold victuals, or like.
that charity which makes as. rousing
speech on the benevolent platform
and goes out to kick the beggar from
the step, crying, "Hush your miser-
able howling!" Sufferers of the world
wa,nt not so much theory as practice;
,not so much tears as dollars; not so
much kind wishes as IC,aves of bread;
not so much smiles as shoes:- not so
much "God bless yous!" as jackets
and frocks. I will put oue earnest
Christian man; hard working, against
five thousand mere theorists on the
subject of charity. There are a great
many :Who have fine ideas aboot
chuhch architecture who never in their
life helped to build a church. There
are men who can give You the his-
tory of Buddhism and. M.ohammedan-
ism who /lever sent a farthing for
evangelization. . There are women
who talk beautifully about the, suf-
fering of the world, who never be d
the courage, like Dorcas, to take the
needle and assault it.
I am glad that there is not, a page
of the world's history which is not a
record of female , benevolence. God
says to all lands and people, Come
now and hear the widow's mite 'rat-
tle down into the poor box. The
Princess of Conti sold all her jewels
that she might .help the famine
stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife
of Louis VIII of France, hearing that
there were some persons unjustly in-
carcerated in the prisons, went out
amid the rabble and took a, stick and
struck the door as a signal that they
raig•ht'. all strike it, and down went
the prison door, and out eame the
prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife 'of
Henry I, Went down amid the poor
and washed their sores and adminis-
tered to them cordials. Mrs.. lietson,
at Matagorda, appeared on the, bat-
tlefield while the missiles of death
were flying around and cared' for the
Wounded. Is there a man or woman
-who has ever heard of the civil war
in America who has not heard of the
women of the sanitary and Christian
commissions or the fact ihat before
the sinoke had ,gone up from Gettys-
burg and South Mountain the svonu*
of the north met the women of the
south on thebattlefield, forgetting
all their animosities while they bound
up the wounded and closed the eyes,
tolfestshe slain? Dorcas, the benefac-
r come now to speak of Dorcas, the
amehtecl. When death struck down
hat good woman oh how much sor-
•ow,there was in the town of Joppa!
suppose, these were women there
with. larger fortunes, women, per-
haps, with handsomer faces,' but there
was no grief at their, departure like
this at the death of Dorcas. There
was not ,more turmoil and uTiturni ng
in the Mediterranean sea, clashing
against the wharfs al 'that mt.-port,
than there were surgings to andfro
of, grief because • Dorcas was dead.
There .are a great many who go out
of life and are umnissed. '1here may
be a very large funeral, there inay be'
a great many carriages and a plum-
ed -hearse, there may be high sk)und-'
ing eulogiums, the bell may toll at
the cemetery gate, there may be' a
very flud marble, shaft reared over the
resting place, but the yd.) °le' thing
may be a, falsehohd and a aham. The
church of God. has , lost nothing, the
world 'hasnothing. It is only
Msisance abated.. It is only 'a, grum-
bler ceasing to find fault. :1-t is c-eily
an Idler stopped yawning. It is only
a,' dissipaCed fashionable por Led from
the wine cellar', while cm the ,other
hand 0.0 ueeful Christian leaves this
NVorld -w.i (lout belt) g
,The church of God cries out like the
prophet, Ili' .tree, for the
eeder hes fellenl" Widowlmod eowes
rid eh owe the garments width the
denerted had thadc. Otphans are
lifted up to look into tho sal -in face
of the Sleisplog benefactress. Reclailn-
d gagregtcy comps; and Iiisses thef
1
1
apostle stands now with the 'dead.
Oh, it is a serious moment, you,
know, when yet are alone with .a
lifeless body! The apostle gets
,
down on his knees and prays, and
then he comes to the lifelesit form
of this one already for the sepulcher,
ancl in the strength, of him as -ho is
ithe resurrection he cries, "Tabitha.;
arise!" There is a stir in the fcrung
talus of life; the heart flutters; the
'nerves thrill; the cheek flushes; the
,
aye opens; she sits up!
We see in ,this subject Dorcas the
disciple,. 'Dorcas the benefactress,
Dorcas the lamented, ,Dorcas the re-
surrected:.
If I had not seen that worci dis-
ciple in my text, I. Would lease known
this Woman was a Christian, Slieh
music, as that neves came from a
heart, which is not chortled and
strung by • divine grace, Before, I
show you the, needle work of this
woman I want to sinew you her re-
generated heart, the souree of a -pure
life and ef ell Christien cherities;
wish that the w 1 ves ' and'o
daughters tted sistsrs of all the rth
Would imitate Dorcas le her dissiT',I.c-
,ship.,. Before yoti ceds,s the thresig
old of the hosp itt I he 10 0, yett enter
upon the Jesup te, tsiels "; 01
;to-nlorra\v T C110 yon in the nee,
Of God and by tho tuiensh ees
*tilt of the judgment Caty, 0 socamen e
cold brew or her who charmed it
away freng sin, and all through the
streets of Joplia there 1 no:nulling—
wouriiing because Dorcas is dead.When
3osephine of Viand° \sole carried out,
to her grave, these were a great
many men and vomen of oonip and
pride and position that went out af-
ter her, but 1 am most affected by
the story of history that on that day
there were ten thousand of the poor
of France who followed her coffin,
'Weeping and wailing until the air
rang again, because when they. 'lost
Xosephine, they lost their last earthly
friend, Qh, who would not rather
have sucll ob,sequies than all the tears
that weeeever poured ip he lachry-
mals that !wee been exhumed from
ancient cities? There, may be 00
mass for thc dead; there may be na
costly sareophagus; there may be no
elaborate mausoleum, but in the
damp cellars of the city and through
the lonely huts of the mountain glen
there svill be mourning, Inourning
a,
mourhing, because Dorcas is dead.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord; they rest from their labors,
and their works do follow them."
I speak to you of Dorcas the resur-
rected. The apostle came to where
she was and said, "Arise, and she sat
up!'' In what a short compass the
great writer put that ''She sat up!"
What a time there must have been
around that town when the apostle
brought her out among her old
friends! .1. -low the tears 01 joy must
have started! What a clapping of
hands there must have been! What
singing! What laughter! Sound it
all through that lane! ;4hout it
down that dark alley! Let all Jop-
pa hear it! Dorcas is resurrected!
You and I have seen the same thing
many a time; not a dead body re-
suscitated, but the deceased coming
up again after death in the good ac-
complished. If a man labors up to
50 years of age, serving sloth and
then dies we are apt to think that
his earthly work is done. No. His
influence on earth will continue till
the world ceases. ' Service rendered
for Christ never stops. A Christian
woman toils for the upbuilding of a
church throngh many anxietiee,
through many self -denials with pray-
ers and tears, and then_ she dies. It
is 15 years since she went away.
Now the spirit of God descends .upon
that church, hundreds of souls stand
up and confess the faith of Christ.
Has that Christian woman, who
went away 15 years ago, nothing to
do With these things'? I see the
flowering out of her noble heart. I
hear the echo of her footsteps in all
the songs over sins forgiven, in ail
the prosperity of the churchi The
good that seemed to be buried has
come up again. Dorcas is resurrect-
ed!
After awhile all these womanly
friends of Christ will put down their
needle forever. After making gar-
ments for others, some ()lie will make
a garment Inc them; the last robe we
eve i• wear—the robe for the grave.
You will have heard the last cry of
pain. You will have witnessed the
last orphanage. You will have come
In worn out from your last round of
mercy. 1 do not know where you will
sleep, nor what your epitaph will be,
but there will be a lamp burning at
that tomb, and an angel of God
guarding it, and through all the long
night no rude foot will disturb the
dust. Sleep on, sleep on! sat bed,
pleasant shadows, undisturbed re-
pose! Sleep on!
Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep!
Then one day there will be a sky
rendering and a whir of wheels and
the flash of a pageant, armies welch-
ing, chains clanking, banners -wav-
ing, thunders booming, and that
Christian woman will rise from the
dust, and she will be suddenly sur-
rounded—surrounded by the wander-
ers of the street whom she reclaihied,
surrounded by the wounded seals to
whom she had administered. Daught-
er of God, so strangely surrounded,
what means this'? If means that re-
ward has come, that the vieto.y i
won, that the crown is ready, that
the banquet is spread. s>hout it
through all the crumbling earth. Sing
it throtish all the Eying heatens.
Dorcas is resurrected!
In 1355, when some of tlie soldiers
came back from. the Crimean war to
London, the Queen of England dis-
tributed among them beautiful medals
called Crimean. medals. Galleries were
erected for the two houses of Parlia-
ment and the royal family to sit in.
There was a great audience to witness
the distribution of the medals. A
colonel who had•lost both feet in the
battle of Inkermann was pulled in on
a wheel chair; others came in limp-
ing on' their crutches. Then the
Queen of England arose before 'them
in the name of her government and
uttered words of commendation to
the officers and men and distributed
those medals, ins'cribed with the four
great battlefields—Alma, Balaklava,
Inkermann and Sebastopol. As the
Queen gave these to the 'wounded
men and the wounded officers the
bands of music struck up the nation-
al ail., and the people, svith stream- T
ing :eyes, joined in the song:
Cocl save oer gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
And then they shouted, "Huzza, huz-
za,1" Oh, it was a proud day for
those returned warriors! But a
brighter, better acid gladder day will
come 'when Christ shall gather those
Who have toiled in his service, good
soldiers of Jesus, Christ. 'Ile shall
rise before them, and in the presence
of all the glorified of heaven he will
say, "Well clone, good and faithful
servant," and then he will distribute
the medals of eternal victory, not in-
scribed with works of i•ighteousness
which we have cloise,-.1)ut with those
four great; battlefields dear to earth
and dear to liectven—Bethlelieni, Na-
zareth, Cletheeruane, Calvary!
Arh Alike.
De Caverly--I'rodigal sons all iap-
pear to have ona trait n common.
Van ClOve—What'S that*?
De Caverly—They like fatted
calves.
nose veegeentie.
heard aboht the elopement.
Ilo s her zn o ther rorgi:von them'?
not. I understarid
he has goat: to live with thena,
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ECLECTIC FASHIONS.
fiedivIdetall erteste Is the /Present Ital.
Ing Influence.
Pashielt has :lever been so eclectic as
et present. Anything which is becom-
ing and chic is permissible. Alany
women design their own costumes and
hats, using the prevailing mode only as
en inspiration, not as a model. Hats
both large and email are worn—turbans,
toques and tiny headdresses Which are
hardly more than a bow of ribbon arid
a ohou of tulle. Whatever best suits the
individual Is correct.
Narrow, high crowns are the newest.
Th.ere are also large, bulging crowns,
,ERIDAL GOWN.
but these were first seen a year ago and
so lack novelty, although they are pic-
turesque for country, shade hats.
Among new trimmings for millinery
ere ostrich plumes which are double,
the midribs being fastened together so
that one plume forms a siert of lining
for the other.
The cut shows a bridal gown of ivory
satin. It is made on a princess founda-
tion of ivory taffeta and is laid in length-
wise plaits, which follow the lines of the
figure in the bodice and on the hips, but
below that are allowed to fall free. In
front there is a yoke of guipure de
venise, which is coutinued down the
front to form a plastron and tablier. The
plain sleeves have a plaited cap, and the
top of the bodice is trimmed with little
ruches of white mousseline de sole,
which are carried around the base of the
sleeve cap. The collar is covered with
ihe same kind of little ruches. A bou-
quet of orange blossoms is placed at the
left side of the bodice. •
JUDIC CIIOLLET.
SUMMER WRAPS.
Pretty Caves and Scarfs For Warm
'Weather.
One of the prettiest of light wraps is a
mantle of changeable plaited taffeta trim-
med with pinked ruffles and old fashioned
blond lace. It has long ends in front.
Many little capuchon pelerines are seen,
the ornamentation of which varies great-
ly. Deep applications of guipure, open
embroidery and long fringes, ruffles of
lace and, mousseline de soie, floating
scarfs and fluttering ribbons are all em-
ployed, and every device of daintiness is
used. These little wraps are extremely
Pleasing, as they do not conceal the
waist, simply covering the shoulders and
top of the arms.
Another summer accessory is the short
triple cape. The Josephine scarf is a
tiovelty, and there are all sorts a bone
NEW CAPE.
and neck ruches of mousseline de sole
mixed with loops of nareolv satin or vel-
vet ribbon. nese boas are often of light
or bright colors.
An illustration is given which shows
one of the neweet models of thin Wrape.
It is a cape of black spangled tulle with
applications of foliage hi pearly spangles.
The lower edge of the, cape is cut in
large points, which fall over a deep
flonnee of aecerdion plaited molisseline
de sole, hise tinted end berdered with a
melte of the sathe materiel. The yoke
and high collar are of finely puffed bise
mousseline de sole. Around the shoulders
is a scare of mousseline de sole, secured at
the back by a pearl buckle and falling,
With th
i in f 1
oneends ron . „..
STORIES OF WEBSTER
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ODD ADVICE THAT MADE A YOUNG
LAVaYER FAMOUS.
.#1. quaint Incident 'I'hat Illutetrates
Hort, Broad 1,Vats e Great States.
snares Sense of Humor and Raw
ileekH
less e Was With His isIoneee
It was one or the noblest traits of Dan-
iel Webster's eharaeter that he never
treated' the men wlio woelsed for him as
menials. For Poeter Wright lie always
enteetaihed the highest- regale', and
Whight was 0constant companion in
limitingfirs
and fishing excursions. Proba-
bly no other man was better acquainted
with the ihner life of' Webster, with his
hehifst customs and disposition, than Mr.
Wright. From him I learned more of
Webster's home life and of his character
as a man than from all the histories and
biographies that have ever been written.
He assured me that a man of more sim-
ple habits never lived. For style he
cared absolutely nothing. In his dress
about home he could not be distinguished
from any of his farmer or fisherraen
neighbors. Rarely did he wear a collar.
An old slouch hat covered his head, and
his trousers were always tucked inside of
his boots.
It was only when he removed his hat,
showing the massive proportions of his
brain, that you realized that you were
standing in the presence ot a mighty
genius. When Thorwaldsen, the great
Danish sculptor, saw his btist in the
studio of Powers at Rome he exclaimed,
"Ah, a new design of Jupiter, I see!" Ho
could hardly be persuaded that it was
the actual head of a living American.
Every man, woman and child in the
neighborhood had a full run of Webster's
house from cellar to garret. Whenever
O rnan came in the first thing he did was
to open the sideboard, take down the old
decanter and pour out a glass of brandy.
If the visitor drank, he was doubly wel-
come. If he refused, it immediately low-
ered him in Webster's estimation.
Of children he was particularly fond.
Strange children would nestle in his
arms as readily as those who were fa-
miliar with his features. Mr. Wright
said:
"No human being could induce him to
say a word about politics here. It was a
tabooed subject. If any one mentioned
pcfflties, his brow darkened in an in-
stant."
Farming, fishing, horses, cattle, pigs
and hens—these were his favorite themes.
He knew every one of his cattle by nanie
as well as he knew the names of his
brother senators. Of his garden he was
very proud, and here he would spend a
portion of each day pulling weeds and
hoeing vegetables.
A young lawyer of the village once
came and asked him what he had better
study to build himself up in his profes-
sion.
"`Turnip seeds," was the laconic reply.
The disciple of Blackstone followed his
advice. He studied up everything that
bore upon the subject of turnips until
he became a master of the principles of
that vegetqle. A year or two afterward
a neighboring Punnet. originated a new
turnip, from the sale of whose seed he
expected to make a fortune. Another
neighbor began to raise and sell the same
seed, and a lawsuit resulted. The origi-
nator of the seed came to ietain Webster
to prosecute the case. Webster replied:
ans not as well booked up on turnips
as I ought to be, but there is a young
fellow over at the. village who knows all
about them. Go and get hins. He edll
win your case."
The farmer posted off and engaged the
other man. When the trial came off, the
lawyer astonished judge, jury and audi-
ence by his profound learning on the sub-
ject of turnips. The case was triumphant-
ly won, and the young lawyer started on
the road to fame and fortune.
Webster's sense of humor was infinite.
On one occasion a man presented a bill
to him for payment.
"Why," said Webster, "I have paid
that bill before."
The neighbor assured him that he was
mistaken.
"All right, then. Call again In the
morning, and I will settle with you."
As soon as the man ems gone Webster
called his son, Fletcher, and told him to
look over his papers and see if he could
not fiud a receipted bill. To the surprise
of both 'two receipted bills were found,
showing that the bill had been paid
twice. Webster put the receipts in his
pocket and said nothing.
In the morning the neighbor returned
for the money. Webster took his seat un-
der the old elm and ordered Wright to
bring out the decanter. Filling the glass
to the brim, he handed it to the man aud
told hins to drink. Webster then began:
"air. Blank, do you keep books?"
The mau assured him that he did not.
"Then I would advise you to do so,"
said Webster, aud, pulling oue of the re-
ceipts from his pocket. handed it to him.
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while l'Venssei. ('0010)'!:"Anil kviiHt, yen me iihoot it you had
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"N'ow," said NV ebster, "1 am going le
pay this bill just onee more, but 1 nssure
O11 upon my WOrti of honor that 1 will
not pay it the fourth time,"
The one great pastime that Webster
enjoyed in elarshfield was fishing. For
hour's( wopld wander 090. a nd down the
etreame and across the IneadoWs. As a
tale, however, he enjoyed: "fisherinan'S
fuck." "ft W118 rarely that he caught a
fish, unless by its own careleseness it be -
dame entangled on the hoofs and douldn't
,eectipe. The fish Would nibble all the
liait'frorn the book withOut his ever pull -
Mg the line fienn the water.
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When a little wv ahead or behind, be
was always muttering to himself, and
ninny ef his grandest speeches were com-
posed while on these excursions. On his
return he would always throw himsele
under the old elm tree in the dooryard
and, enjoy a shnrt Win while reetiee from
-
his fatigue.
TURKISH BOYS AT SCHOOL
Tricks They Play Ution liodl'C'
Some Astonirilllpg Things Taught.
The beginning of a Mohammedan boy's
school life is always made an occasioe
Lor a festiyal. ft °emirs on his seventh
birthday. The entire school goes to the
IICW scholar's home, leading a richly ca-
parisoned and flosver bedecked donkey.
The new pupil is placed on this little
beast, and, with the hodja, or teaclame.
leading, the children 'form a double file -
and escort him to the schoolhouse, sing-
ing joyous songs.
To a stranger the common Turkish,
school presents a singular scene. The
pupils are seated cross legged on the bare
marble pavement in the porch of the
mosque, forming,a semicircle about the
hodja, who is, as a rule, an old, fat man.
He holds in his hand a stiek long enough
to reach every student. By means of
this rod he is enabled not only to pre-
serve order',aniong the mischievous, but
to urge on the boy whose recitation is not
satisfactory. But, as a rule, bodies are
lazy and often fall asleep. Then it is
that the pupils enjoy what the American
boy would style a "picnic." A trick they
specially like to play on their sleeping
teacher is to anoidt his hair and long
gray beard with wax, which is, of course,
-very difficult to be rid of. You may be
sure when the hodja. wakes he makes
good use of his lengthy weapon.
Some of the answers these little Turlss
receive to their questions would make an
Anaerican child open his eyes in amaze -
merit. A half grown boy, in the presence
of a missionary, who tells the story, ask-
ed the hodja:
"What makes it rain?"
"Up in the clouds," answered this wise
teacher, "our prophet, Afoharnmed, and
the one who belongs to Christians went
Into business together. the profits to be
divided. One night 'Mohammed stole all
the profits and ran away. In the morn-
ing, when the Christian God discovered
his loss, he pursned Mohammed in his
golden chariot, the rumbling of whose
wheels makes the thunder. The light-
ning is the bullets of fire whieh the God
shot after his fleeing partner. Moham-
med, finding he could not escape in mid-
air, plunged into the sea; the Christian
God followed him, and the shock splash-
ed the water out and it fell to the earth
in rain."
And the young Turks, believing the
teachings" of their hodja, grow up with-
out further investigating the causes of
rain, the true source of which is taught
an American child in the kindergarten,—
Boston Herald.
Why He Didn't Call.
A gay and festive youth who is em-
ployed as a clerk in the Pennsylvania
railroad office had occasion to go down
to Wilmington, Del., one evening, and
svhile there he met a girl who impressed
him as being worthy 02 cultivation. He
asked if he might call and was assured
that he would be welcome. "I live in
New Castle," she said.
"But where is New Castle?" he in-
sisted.
"Oh, anybody can direct you," she re-
plied. "We Hee, in a great big stone
house, the largest house in the town."
He was forced to be satisfied with that.
On Sunday he took run down to New
Castle, and when he inquired where the
young woman lived the big jail was
pointed out to him. "That's where she
lives," said one of the town boys. "Her
father's one of the jailers." The young
man took the next train back. --Philadel-
phia Record.
Blinks—Just heard of the stingiest
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Jinks — That's nothing,. Squeezem,
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