The Exeter Times, 1895-8-1, Page 7.r
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THE 00111110N PHU
REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES
UPON A POPULAR SUBJECT.
Those Ordinary People, Who Move In Or.
(Hoary Spbereas-einte DIttesalerantage or
Doing Conspicuous—The , liel or Con-
tent—A Heavenly Elixir. \
erew vOnec, July 21.—Rev, Dr, Talmage,
Who is still absent on his annual micleum-
mer tour, preaching• and lecturing, has
prepored for to -day a sermon on "Plain
People," a topic which will apparel to a
very large majority of reader e anywhere.
The text selected was Romans xvi, 14, 15,
" Salute Asynoritue, Phlegon, Hermes,
Potrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia."
Matehew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam
Clark, Thomas,Scotb and all the comment.
store pass by thee e verses without any
especial remark. The other 20 people
mentioned in thechapter were distinguished
for something and were therefore discussed
by the illustrious expositors, but nothing
i$ said about Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia. Where were they born? No one
knows. Where did they die? There is
no record of their decease. For what were
hey distinguished? Absolutely for
nothing, or the trait of character would
have been brought out by the apostle. If
they had been very intrepid or opulent, or
hirsute or musical of cadence or erase of
style, or in anywise anomalous, that feature
would have been caught by the apostolic
camera. But they were good people
because Paul sent to them his high
Christian regards. They were ordinary
people, moving in ordinary sphere, attend'
ing to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary
responsibilities.
What the world wants is a religion for
ordinary people. If there be in the United
States 65,000,000 people,there are certainly
not more than 1,000,000 extraordinarenand
then there are 64.000,000 ordinary and
we do well to turn our backs for a little
while upon the distinguished and conspicu-
ous people pf the Bible and consider in our
text the seven ordinary. We spend too
much of our time in twisting garlande for
theee conspietions women of the Bittle be
given to Julie a the text, an ordinary
woman amid ordinary circumstances, at-
tending to ordinary duties and meeting
ordinary responsibilities.
Then there are all the ordinary buctinees
men. TheY need divine and Christian
help. When eve begin to talk about Wei.
nese life, they shoot right off and talk about
men who did business on a large soale, and
who sold millions of dollars, wor th of goods et
year, but the vast majority of bosinees
men do nob call a million dollars, worth of
goods, nor half a million, nor a quarter of a
million, nor the eighth part of a million.
Put all the business men of our oities,
towns, villageand neighborhoods side by
side, and you will find that they sell less
than $50,000 worth c:f goods. All these
men in ordinary business life want divine
help, You see how the wrinkles are print-
ing on the countemenue the story of vvorri-
menb and ()are. You cannot tell how
old a lankness man is by looking ab him.
Gray hairs at 30. A man at 45 with the
stoop oTa monogenarian. No time toattend
to improved dentistry; the grinders oease
because they are few. Actually dying of
old age at 40 or 50, when they ought to be
ab the meridian. Many of these business
men have bodies like a neglected clock to
whioh you come, and you wind it up, and
it begins to buzz and roer, and then the
hands start around very rapidly, and then
the olock strikes 5 or 10 or 40, and strikes
without any sense, and then suddenly
stops. So is [the body of that wornoat,
business man. It is a neglected clock, and
though by some summei recreation it may
be wound up, still the machinery is all
out of gear. The hands turn around with
o velocity that exoites the astonishment of
the world.
Men cannot understand the wonderful
activity, and there is a roar; and a buzz,
and a rattle about these disordered lives,
and they strike 10 when they ought to
strike 5, and they strike 12 when they
ought to strike 6, and they strike 40 when
they ought to strike nothing, and suddenly
they stop. Post-mortem examination reveals
the fact that all the springs and pivots and
weights and balance wheels of health are
completely deranged. The human clock
has simply run down. And at the time
when the steady hand ought to be pointing
to the industrious hours on a clear and sun-
lit dial, the whole machinery of body, mind
and earthly capacity stops forever, The
cemeteries have thousands of basiness men
who died of old age at 30, 35, 40, 45.
Now what. a wanted is grace—divine
grace for ordinary business men, men who
are harnessed from morn till night and all
the days of their life—harneseed in busi-
ness. Not grace to lose $100,000, but
grace to lose $10. Not grace to supervise
250 employes in a. factory, but grace to
aupervise the bookkeeper and two salesmen
and the small boy that sweeps out the store.
Grace to invest not the $80,000 of net pro-
fit, but the $2,500 of clear gain. Grace not
to endure the loss of a whole shipload of
spices from India, but grace to endure the
loss of a paper of collars from the leakage
of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. Gracie
not to endure the tardiness of the American
Congress in pressiug a necessary law, but
grace to endure the tardiness of an errand
boy stopping to play marbles when he ought
to deliver the goods. Such a grace as
thousands of business men have to•day —
keeping them tranquil whether goods sell
or do not sell, whether customers pay or do
not pay, whether tariff hi up or tariff is
down, whether the crops are luxuriant or a
dead failure—calm in all circumstances and
amid all vicissitudes. That is the kind of
grace we want. Millions of men want it,
and they may have it for the asking.
Some hero or neroine comes to town and
as the procession passea through the street
the business men come out and stand on
tiptoe on their steps to look at some one
who in arotie clime, or in ocean storm, or
in day of battle or in hospital agonies, did
the brave thing, not realizing that they,
the enthuiiastio spectators, have gone
through trials in business life ehat are jest
as great before God. There are men who
have gone through freezing (erotica
and burning torrids and awfu
Marengoe of experiences without moving
five miles from their doorateps. Now,
what ordinary business men need is to
realize that they have the friendship of
that Christ who looked after the religious
interests of Matthew, the custom house
clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira to
remarkables and building thrones for
magnates ond sculpturing warriors and
apotheosizing philanthropists. The rank
and file of the Lord's soldiery need eapeoial
help.
The vast majority of people to whom
this sermon comes will never lead an army,
will never write a state conatitution, will
never electrify a senate, will never make
an importantinvention,will never introduce
a new philosophy, will never decide the
fate of a nation. You do net expect to.
Yon. do no want to. You will not he a
irreltna to lead a nation out of bondage.
You will not be a Joshua to prolong the
daylight until you can,shut five kings in a
cavern. You will not be a St. John to
unroll an Apocalypse: You will not be a
Paul to preside over an Aposeolic College.
You will not be a Mary to mother a Christ.
You will more probably be Asyncritus or
relegon or Hermes or Patrobas, or Hermes
or Phflologus or Julia.
Many of you are women at bile head o
households. This morning you launched
the family for Sabbath observance. Your
brain decides the apparel and. your judg•
meut was final on all questions of personal
attire Every morning you plan for the
day. The culinary department of your
household is in your dominion. You decide
all questions of diet. All the sanitary
regulations of your house ore under your
supervision. • To regulate the food, and
the apparel, and the habits, and decide
the thousand questions of home life is a
tax upon brain and nerve and general
health absolutely appalling if there be no
divine rellevation.
It does not help you much to be told
that• Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things sell the dry goods, and who opened a
amid the criminals of Newgate. It doe'll. bakery and fish market in the wildernesa
uot help you muoh to be told that Mrs.
Judson was v ery brave among the Borne,.
Man cannibals. It does not help you much
to be told that Florence Nightingale was
very kind to the wounded in the crimea.
It would be better for me totell you thatthe
divine friend of Mary and Martha is your
friend; and that He sees all the annoyances
and diesappointmente and abrasions and
exasperations of an ordinary housekeeper
from morn till night, and from the first
day of the year to the last day of the year
aid at your call he is ready with help and
reinforcement.
They who provide the food of the world
, decide the health of the world. One of the
' greatest battles of this century was lost
because the commander that morning had
a fit of indigestion. You have only to go
on some errand amid the taverns and the
hotels of the United States and Great
Britain to appreciate the fact that a vast
multitude of the human race are alaugh ter -
ed by incompetent cookery. Though a
young woman may have taken lessons in
music and may have takenlessons in paint-
ing and lessons in astronomy, she is not
well educated unlese she has taken lessons
in dough. They who decide the apparel of
the world and the food of the world decide
the endurance of the world.
An unthinking man may consider it a
matter of little importance—the cares
of the household and the economies of
domestic life—but I tell you the earth is
atrewn with the martyrs of kitchen and
nursery. The health -shattered womanhood
of America ()Hee out to God who can help
ordinary women in the ordinary duties of
housekeeping. The wearing, grinding, un-
appreciated world goes on, but the same
ehrist who stood on the bank of Galilee in
ehe early morning and kindled the fire and
had the fish already cleaned and broiling
when the sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled
and hungry, will help every woman to
prepare breakfast, whether by her own
hand or the hand of her hired help.
The God who made indestructible
eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat for
Samuel, her son, and oarried it to the
temple every year, will help every woman
in preparing the family wardrobe. The
God who opens the .Bible with the story of
Abraham's entertainment of the three
angels on the plaits of Mamre will help
every woman to provide hospitality, how-
evee rare and embarrassing. It is high
time that some -of the attention we have
been giving to the remarkable women of
the.Bible—remarkable for their virtue or
their want of it, or remarkable for their
deeds—Debotali Jezebel and Herodias and
Athaliah and Dorcas and the Marys, ex.
°ellen:: or abandonech—it, is high time some
of the attention we have beer giving to
of Asia Minor to feed the 7,000 who had
come out on a religious picnic, and who
counts the hairs of your head with as
much particularity as though they were
the plumes af a coronation, and who took
the trouble to stoop down with hie finger
writing on the ground, although the first
shuffle of feet obliterated the divine cali-
graphy, and who knows just how many
locusts there were in the Egyptian plague
and knows just how many ravens were
necessary to supply Elijah's pantry by the
brook Cherith and who,as floral command-
er, leads forth all the regiments of prim.
roses foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths and
lillies, which pitch their tents of beauty
and kindle their campfires of color all
around the hemisphere; that that
Christ and that God knows the most
minute affairs of your business life, and,
however inconsiderable, understanding all
the affaira of that woman who keeps a
thread and needle store as well as all the
affairs of a Rothschild and a Stewart.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life, and we
immediately shoot off to talk about Oin-
cinnat us, the patrician, who went from the
plow to a high position,and after he got
through the dictatorship 21 days went back
again to the plow. What encouragement
is that to ordinary farmers? The vast
majority of them, none of them, will be
patricians. Perhaps none of them will be
senators. If any of them have dictatorships,
it will beover 40 or 50 or 100 acres of theold
homestead. What those men want is grace
to keep their patience while plowing with
balky oxen, and to keep cheerful amid the
drought that destroys the corn crop, and
that enables them to restore the garden the
day after the neighbor's cattle have broken
In and trampled out, the strawberry bed
and gone through the linea bean patch and
eaten up the sweet corn in such large
quantities that they must be kept from the
water last they swell up and die I grace in
catchingweather that enables them,
withoutimprecation, to spread out the hay
the third time, although again and again
and again 11 has been almoet ready
for the mow ; a grace to dootor the cow
with a hollow horn and the sheep with the
foot rot, and the horse with the dietelnper
and to oompel the unwilling acres to yield
% livelihood for the family, and schooling
for the ohildren, and little extra to help
the older boy lu businese and something for
the daughter's wedding outfit, and a little
surplus for the time when the ankles will
get :stiff with age, and the breath will be a
little short, and the swinging of the cradle
through the hot harvest field will bring on
the old man's vertigo. Better olose up
about, Cinointiatus, I knoW 500 farmers
just ae noble aa he WAS,
TIMES
What they want is Oa know thot bhe keeps away from us go in what ne MOS ne.
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hove the friendship of that Chriet, who often Even a knot moy be iniefiel if it is at the end
drew hut emiles from the fermer's life, as
when he soid, "A sower weub forth to
sow,"as when he built hie beat parable out
of the scene of a fermer'e boy coming book
from hie wanderings, and bhe old farmhouse
shook that night with rural jubilee, and
who oompared himself to a lamb in the
posture field, and who, odd the eternal God
is a farmer, declaring My Father is the
hushandrnau."
Those stonemasons do not want to hear
about Chrietopher Wren,the architeot,who
built St. Paul's cathedral. It would be
better to tell them how to carry the hod of
brinks up to the ladder without slipping
and how on a gold morning with the trowel
to smooth off the mortar end keep cheerful
and how to be thankful to God for the
plain food taken from the pail by the road-
side. Carpenters standing amid the adz,
and the bit, and the plane and the broadax
need to be told that Christ war: a carpenter,
with his own hands wielding saw and
hammer. Oh,this is a tired world,and it is
an overworked world, and it is an under.
fed world, and ie is a wrungout world end
men and women need to know that there is
rest and reourrection in God and in that
religion whichwas not so much intended
for extraordinary people as for ordinary
people, because there are more of them.
The healing profession has had its Aber.
crombies and its Abernethys, and its Val-
eneine Motts, aud its Willard Porkers, but
the ordinary physicians do the most of the
world's medioining and they need to under•
stand that while toking diagnosis or prog-
nosis, or writing prescription, or com-
pounding medicament, or -holding the
delicate pulse of a dying child, they may
have the presence and the dictation of the
Almighty Doctor, who took the case of the
madman, and after he had torn off, his
garments in foaming dementia clothed him
again, body and mind, and who lifted up
the woman, who for 18 years had been bent
almost double with the rheumatism, into
graceful stature, and who turned the scabs
of leprosy into rubicund complexion, and
who rubbed the numbness out of paralysis'
and who swung wide open the closed
windows of hereditary or accidental blind-
ness, until the morning light oame streaming
through the fleshly casements and who
knows all the diseases,and all tne remedies,
and all the herbs, and all the catholicons
and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeu.
tice, and who has sent out 10,000 doctors
of whom the world makes no record, but
to prove that they are angels of mercy I
invoke the thousands of men whose ailments
have been assuaged and the thousands of
women to whom in oriels of pain they have
been next to God in benefaction.
Come, now, let us have a religion for
ordinary people in professions'in oceen
potions, in agriculture, in the household,
merchandise—in everything. I sainti
across the centuries Asynoritus, Phlegon,
Hermes; Patrobas, Hermes, Philologue and
Julia.
First of all, if you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. I am tired and sick and
bored almose to death with extraordinary
people. They take all their time to tell us
how very extraordinary they really are.
You know as well as 1 do my brother and
sister, that the most of the useful work of
the world is done by unpretentious people
who toil right on—by people who do not
get much approval, and no one seems to
say, "That Is well done 1"
Phenomena are of but little use. Things
that are exceptional cannot be depended
on. Better trust the smallest planet that
swings on its orbit than ten comets shoot-
ing this way and that, imperiling the lon-
gevity of words attending to their own
business. For steady illumination better
is a lamp than a rocket. Then, you feel
that yon are ordinary, remember that your
position invites the less attack.
Conspicuours people—how they nave to
take it ! How they are misrepresented and
abused and shot at ! The higher the horns
of a roebuck the easier to track them down.
What a delicious thing it must be to be a
candidate for President of the 'United
States 1 ft- must be soothing to the nerves I
It must our into the soul of a candidate
such a sense of serenity when he reads
blessed newspapers 1
I came into the possession of the abusive
cartoons in the time ofasl'apoleon I., printed
while he was yes alive. The retreat of the
army from Moscow, that army buried in
the snows of Russia, one of the most awful
tragedies of the centuries, represented
under the figure of a monster called Gen.
Frost shaving the French Emperor with a
hub he is represented, page after page,page
after page England cursing him, Russia
cursing him, Europe cursing him, North
and South America cursing him, the most
remarkable man of his day, and the most
abused. All those men in hietory who now
have a halo around their name on earth
wore a orown of thorns. Take the few
extraordinary railroad men of our time and
see what abuse cornea upon them, while
thousands of stockholders escape. All the
world took after Thomas Scott, president
of the Pennsylvania railroad, abused him
until he got under the ground. Thousands
of stockholders in that company. All the
blame on one man ! The Central Pacific
Railroad—two or three men get all the
blame if anything goes wrong. There are
10,000 in that company.,
I mention these things to prove it is ex-
traordinary people wno get abused while
the ordinary escape. The weather of life
is not so severe on the plain as it is on the
man who knows or gains or does more than
it can know or gain or do. Parents some-
times give confectionery to their children
as an inducement to take bitter medicine,
and the world's sugar plum precedes the
world's aqua fortis. The mob otied in
regard to Christ: "Crucify him I Crucify
him I" And they had to say it twice to
be understood for they were so hoarse, and
they got their hoarseness by crying a little
while before at the top of their voice,
" Hosanna I" The river Rhone is foul
when it crosses Lake Leman, but °mita.
line when it comes out on the other side.
But there are those who have entered bhe
bright lake of wealthy proaperity orystalbee
and came out terribly riled. If, therefore,
you feel uhab you are ordinary, thank God
for the defenses and the tranquillity of
your position.
Then remember, if you have only what is
called an ordinary home, that the great
deliverere of the world have all oome from
such a house. And there may bb seated,
reading at your evening stand, a child who
shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll
the well of men mighty in ohurch and
stete, and you will find they nearly all
came from log cabins or poor heroes. Geniue
almost runs out in the third or fourth gen-
eration, You cannot find in all history
an instance where the fourth generation of
extraordinary people amount to anything.
Columbus from a weaver's hut, Denme-
thenes froin a cutler's eellar,l3loomfield and
Mitsaienary Carey from a shoemaker's
bench. Arkwright from a barber's shop,
and he whose made is high over All in earth
and air and shy from a manger.
Let ur: all be content with such thingis as
we have. God is just as good in- whet he
of a thread.
,At ananniversory of a deaf and•durnb
asylum a child wrote liver' the blackboard
words os eublime as the "Iliad," the'
Odessey," and the "Divine Coramedia"
alloompreersed in one paragraph. The
examiner, in the signs of the mute lan-
guage, nixed her, "Who made the world ? "
The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the
blackboard, "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth." The examiner
aeked her, "For vehat purpoee did Christ
come into the world?' The deaf end
dumb .girl wrote upon the blackboard.
"This ie a faithful saying and worthy of all
acoeptanoe, that Cheist Jeeus came into the
world to save six:Mere," The examiner Bead
to her, "Why were you born deaf ad
dumb, while I hear and speak ?" She
wrote upon the blackboard, 'Even so,
Pother, for so it seemeth good in thy
sight." Oh, that we might be baptized
with a contented spirit. The spider draws
poison out of a flower, the bee gets honey
out of a thistle, but, happiness is a heavenly
elixirsand the contented spirit extracts it
not from the rhododendren of the hills, but
from the lily of the valley.
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Aug. 4.
"The Report of tbe Spies." Nam, 13. 17-
20, 20-31 Goldea Text, Num, 14. 0,
GENERAL STATEMENT.
In our last lesson we watched the Is-
raelites as, following the pillar of cloud
and of fire, they marched from the eacied
mountain. Their route was northward,
and after three months of journeying they
came to Kadesh.barnea, " the holy place,'
on tlie southern border of the promised
land, Across a ridge of hills lay the
Negeb, or South Country, and farther on
were the walled and towered cities of
Canaan. It was the desire of Moses to
enter the land at once, fearing neither the
Amoritea of the mountain region nor the
Conaanites of the seacoast plain. But the
people were notaa courageous and faithful
as their leader. They clamored for scouts or
spies who should be sena to examine the
land and its inhabitants, and bring a
report of its attractions and dangers.
Moses aecepted the suggestion, and twelve
men, one from each tribe, were appointed.
They set forth, probably in pairs, and
traveled as far north as the sources of the
Jordan. The fertility of Canaan, its
mountains everywhere, the variety of its
products, and the abundance of ite brooke
and streams, excited their wonder.
They brought home as a token of
its greae resources one gigantic cluster of
grapes out in Eehool. But they presented
the most alarming picture of the inhabi-
tants. They found fortified cities, inhabi-
ted by clans of warriors, some of whom
were of gigantic size, and their cowardly
hearts shrank and sank. The people were
smitten with terror as they listened to the
frightened scouts, and were ready to
return to Egypt rather than to face such
difficulties. Two of the spies, Caleb of
Judah and Joshua of Ephraim, vainly
endeavored to stem the tide of popular
feeling by calling to the people's mind
their God, his presence, and his promise.
But the masses had lost heart, and their
craven spirit showed that they were not
fit to inherit the land by eonquering it. A
generation must die in the desert before
Israel shall be ready for its high destiny.
The worst of it all was that the terrors
which the spies saw and the people heard
were almost entirely imaginary. Canaan
was at this time a decayed nation. Its
people were more afraid of the Hebrews
than the Hebrews were of them.
EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 17. And Moses sent them. From
this account in Numbers we might suppose
that the scheme of sending out the spies
came from 'Moses. But from Deut. 1. 19-
23 we learn that the suggestion was made
by the people, and that Moses wished to
go up at once and possess the land. (1)
How much' Israel lose and how much we
lose by lack of faith 4 To spy out the land.
The names of the twelve spies, one from
each oribe, are given in this chapter ; but
we renew nothiug about any except Caleb
from Judah and Joshua from Ephraim. ,2)
Brave men who are ready to do and to dare
are the men who are remembered. It is
noticeable that the two tribes which became
the rival centers of the future king -
'dome thus early showed their domin.
ance. The land of Canaan. The word
means "lowland," and it was so, named
fromits best known people, the Canalenites,
who lived by the sea. Physically, it
consists of four seotions extending north
and south: (1) A plain by the sea, the
home of the Canaanites and Philistines;
(2) A range of mountains, then inhabited
by Amorites, Jebusites, and Hittites ; (3)
The Jordan valley, also occupied by the
Canaemites ; (4) The eastern table land,
where dwelt the Moabites, Ammonites,
and Amorites. Between the Jordan and
the Mediterranean it is nearly as large ..a
Massaohusetts, containing a little more
than six thousand square miles. Get you
up this way southward. Rather, by the
Negeb, or South Country, a definite section
of country between Hebron, the Dead Sea,
Ke.desh, and the Mediterranean. Into
the mountain. The mountain region, the
backbone of the country, between the
Jordan valley and the seacoast plain.
18, 19. See the land. The word here
used implies a close inspection of the land.
The people. The inhabitants of Palestine
at this time; were of Hamitic origin, and
were mainly of two racee—the Amorites,
" mounteeneere," and the Canaanites,
" lowlanders," though both of these were
subdivided into various clans. Good or
bad. Productive or unproductive. Tents
or in strongholds. Whether nomadic tribea
like the Bedouin Arabs of to -day, or settled
or civilized peoples in walled towns.
nO. rat or len. Whether productive
or barren. Wood therein. Anciently
Palestine was well wooded, though the
forests have long ago been out down. Be
ye of good courage. The service ended
courage, for the spies would be in danger
of death from the Canaanitee if they
should be token. Bring of the fruit. As
tokens of its fertility to encourage the
Israelites. The time of the first ripe grapes
Thiel was the end of July or the beginning
of August, three niontha after. the depart.
ure from Mount Sinai.
23, 24. The brook (Revised Vereion,
valley") of Esheol. A valley north of
Hebron, which still produoes the finest
fruit in Palestine. One oluster of grapes.
Such Clusters are found weighing ten afid
twelve pounds each, Bare it betWeea
Not On 0.0cottrat of it weight, hut in order
to preteee the grapes. Luther has a fine
thought to the effect that these two men
were emblems of those living under the
tWo diepensations. The fires woe in ad.
vane° of the blessinga of the Gospel; the
see.end followed them, could look upon
them and taste them ea he walked, Coiled
• • Eshool, Meaning "olnetere"
25, 26.'Returned from searching. From
the Egyptian monuments it eppeara thet
travel between Egypt and tlyrie through
Palestine wae common, so that the journey
of ehe spies might not attract much atten.
tion The wilderness of Parma. This is
the great central track in the Sinaibio
peuinsula in which the Israelites spent
most of the forty years of the wandering.
To Kodesh. Where the Israelites then
were enoamped, on the border of Palestine.
Its precise location has long been questiou-
ed, but we strongly fever the identification
at Ain Qaiees or Gadis, southwest of the
Dead Sea and south of Beersheba. Unto
all the congregation. Their report was
pubnoly rendered. Showed them the fruit.
eVhich was in iteelf a good report of the
land.
27. Floweth wit4, milk and honey. A
proverbial expression for great fertility.
Such a land was Palestine once,as compared
with most of the countries around it, and
such it might be under good government
end cultivation.
28. The people be strong. Strong in
body, in their courage,a,nd in their fortified
position. Cities are walled. To a people
like the Israelites the difficulties in captur-
ing a walled oiey seemed insuperable, for
they possessed no battering rame and were
not skilled in the science of war.
29. The .Amalekites. A fierce people who
had already attacked the Israelites and
Nyere greatly hated and dreaded by them.
The Hitbites. A race often named on the
ancient monuments as enemies of Egypt,
extending from Palestine to Asia Minor.
Jebusites. A small but vigorous tribe
located at what was afterward Jerusalem,
who had their independence until the days
of David. Amorites. The meet poveerful of
THEY ARE AFTER HOLIES,
PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, TORUN,
TO, EACH WANTS am.
•••••
lielmee' Chicago House Full or Ifrap 000r8
—Further Developments in the VarioU4
Tragedies VrLtIs wheels Iffis Name Has
neeonne .04ot:elated.
A despateli from Philadelphia saysfe-
District Attorney Graham has not as yet
formulated a definite plan for the pro:leen-
Sour laborers duo all da 234 She esil_ar
of tho house formerly 000Upted by iit.
ilohnos at 03rd and lArgitkee 10000 0011
found little eneouragement for their te
The bnildieg is '7.19V7 cloised tie eVarlho4
including reporter, the merdh*ti
occupying it being very inOsnetent iftleont
the sensational stories which have lseete
eent out, few of urbioli lietl any foundatta%
In filet. Net a ewe has yet been cliegovereiel
whioh is eoncluaive. Arbhur 14daniOr of
413 State street, took out a WOrfOnt thie
afternoon for the arreet of Bolting fOr
murder. Monier seri he believes his aunt,
MrS. Julia Commie was murdered by
Holmes between August 1 and November
1, 1892.
tion of H. H. Holmes, the life insuronoe
F 0
conspirator end alleged multiennurderer, in THE FIELD O0111111E1101
this city or elsewhere, That Holmes will II
t d i d on the
be at no remo e at
e arra gne up
charge of killing one or more of his alleged
victims is without a doubt, and the only
hitch in the preceedinge is the uncertainty
of the Districit Attorney and special coun-
sel for the prosecution, Barlow, in deter.
mining whether he oar, be tried here or at
Toronto or Chicago with the safest possibil..
ity of securing a conviction. Tuesdayle
developments indicate that Holmes will
not be turned over to the Chicago authori.
ties on the charges of killing the Williams
and Conner women,but the ease, as viewed
from its present asPect, is now safe in the
hands of the legal authorities in Canada,
and it is fair to presume that his conviction
there can be secured.
District Attorney Graham states that he
had heard from Detective Geyer in Detroit,
and that officer informed him there were
slim hopes of finding the missing Howard
Pietzel in that city, although the search
would be continued until further orders
had been issued.
The District Attorney denied that the
the mountain tribes on both sides of the Chicago authorities had made a requisi.
Jordan. Canoanites. The people on the
tion for Holmes on the charge of killing the
seacoast plain and in the Jordan valley, Williams and Conner women. He did not
who, being a marithne and commercial think the C&86 there was asgood a one against
people, were better known than the others. him as it would be at Toronto.
it 3Ch°uagihebtthat‘Frrah e wastheaaforeignerllusionstowhoCaleb"If a requisition for Holmes is made
isth o
I by the Chicago authorities will you agree
had attached himself to the Israelites ; one to allow Holmes to be taken therefor trial?"
of the earliest of Gentiles among God's Was asked.
people. Stilled tho people. Quieted their "I hardly expectthat a requisitionwill be
alarm by encouraging words. Let us go made," replied Mr. Graham, " but in the
up. Nothing daunts the heart that trusts ! event of a request we will take steps to
in God. Caleb had his reward forty years prevent him going there, at least until the
after in a possession in the land (Josh. 140 cases here and in Canada against him are
For we are well able. The ground of Caleb's I disposed of. New developments may crop
confidence is stated in Num. 14. 8, 9. "This ' out of Detroit,and it may be that Michigan
report is a marvel of condensation, tem. . will want the man."
nese, and vigor—just what we should , It has been suggested that Holmes can
expect from a epeaker who is permitted to ' be seved from the service of requisition
utter but one sentence amid the uproar of e.apers by the authorities here, and on any
o mob."—Steele. The mention of Caleb day can be safely lodged in prison to serve
does not exclude Joshua ; the account in a sentence for conspiracy, to whigh he has
the next chapter expressly names him. pleaded guilty, but if the Distriot Attorney
32, 33. An evil report. Evil because thinks that a conviction can be secured at
they drew the dangers in strong colors any place upon a graver charge he will con.
and failed to recognize God's help for his sent t'o have the man sent elsewhere for
people. Ea.teth up the inhabitants. Some tr ial, with the understanding that, in case
think that this refers to a fact which is
of acquittal, Holmes will be returned here
hinted at elsewhere in Scripture—that a to be sentenced for his self-confessed
plague was destroying the native tribes. conspiracy.
In our own sight as grasshoppers. They Lawyer Thor:erre Fahey, who represents
felt as if they were grasshoppers in com. the interests of Mrs. Pietzel in this city,
parison with them. received a letter from the father of his
client, who, in strong longuage, motes that
LEATHER TIRES FOR BICYCLES.
there are others in connectIon with the my-
aterious case who should be arrested. He
states that he thought all the conspirators
Many Advantages Claimed over Rubber were not yet known, and hints that Lawyer
for Thematic:Tire Tubes. Howe of St. Louis,played a more important
Two Frenchmen of Rheims have recently part in the affair than has yet been etated.
completed an invention which they claim GEYER IN INDIANAHOL/S.
will in a measure revolutionize the present A despatch from Detroit says :—Detect
pneumatic tire. They build their wheels ive Geyer of Philadelphia., gave up the
by substituting an outer pheumatio tub -le search for the missing Howard Pietzel in
Detroit on Tuesdayafternoon and left in
made of leather for the rubber tubes now response to telegrams received about noon
in use. Their invention has been taken up calling him to Indianapolis, where it is said
by the Ministry of War, who are now certain developments have been made in
perfecting the idea with a view to supply tc1::tn617.1f ilfeo Pietzel"There everisone camething
o
all the military cycles with tires that wit) Detroit he was destroyed.in the furnace at
not give out eaeily.
the Forest avenue house,and the indestruct-
The reaiatance of leather is considerably ible portions of his clothing were carried
away by Holmes,"
greater than that of rubber, and it will
better stand the pressure from within and
the exterior agents of destruction, such as
nails, hoops, roots, or sharp pebbles. It is
not absolutely imperforable, but it is at forming the floor to the basement to the
least aa good as the fine steel band which HolmesbuildinginEngliwood wasdiscover.
was experimentally placed ,between the ed last evening a blood-stained undergar-
outer and inner tubes, and which was ment supposed to have belonged to Minnie
pierced by needles and tacks. Leather Williams before her disappegartence. It
offers the greatest impenetrability in rela. was dug up by Detectives 'Norton and
tion to its thickness without imparing the Fitzpatrick a few minutes after the regu-
necessary elasteorty. It is further improved lar force of workmen employed in exca vat -
by a preparation which renders it imper- ing had abandoned their task for the day.
meable to water. The leather tire is Detectives Norton and Fitzpatrick from
easily repaired in case of perforation—any the start, have believed that the search of
cobbler oan sew it up—and this repair is the Englewood basement would bring
permanent and not likely to getout of forth startling developments. Last even -
order. ing when the workmen loft the. building
Other advantages claimed for the leather the detectives remained and began digging
tire are: Greater lightness ; it will not get in a corner which had not been touched.
out of shape as does rubber, and it will not After digging some time a piece of stained
slip on asphalt pavement or wet roads. muslin cloth, evidently the half of a suit of
The new material for the tire seems to underwear made for a woman, was found.
meet with great encouragement on the It was taken to Inspector Fitzpatrick, who
part -of the military authorities of France. made a careful examination and expressed
the opi iou that the stains upon the gar-
. ment were blood. A physician was asked
Filters and Pure Water. to make an examination of the garment.
The comforting notion popularly encer. He cut away a portion where the stain was
deepest and put the piece he a solution of
tained that water which has been boiled salt and water, the stain was washed out
and filtered is absolutely safe for drinkiug and discolored the solution. "It ie blood
purposes, has been rudely assailed by without a doubt," said he, Pend I will
A
Professor Ray Lankester at the Royal rnak e a microscopic examination."
Institution. That brilliant scientist makes
woman who had been washing for Minnie
IIiama said the missing woman wore
the startling statement that such water underclothing like that found by the
as good old Father Thames supplies is officers. It is said Holmes will be brought
actually safer to drink, though teeming to Chicago to stand trial on the charge of
murder.
with microbes, that pure spring or lake
water A domestic filter, it appears, is HOLMES' TRAP DOORS.
worse than useless, unless it is boiled and The Police Inspector in charge of the
sterilized every twenty-four hours. We search of the Holmes residence subsequently
have been accustomed to boil our water, found a rope with a running noose. He
but to boil our filter will be a new depart. says he is not yet ready with an opinion
ure in domestic economy. The explanation ' as to what use Holmes or any of his a000m-
of the professor's astonishing statements is plices had for the rope found in the
that the harmless bacteria which abound in cellar. The theory that the former drugged
ordinary drinking water are the sworn and then strangled Minnie Williams and
foes of the typhoid and cholera germs, and Howard Pietzel with it by hanging them
promptly kill them off whenever they ; down the elevator shoat, the inspector
intrude themselves into their society, but admits as being poseibly correct, but be.
both these microbes can live and flourish yond that he will not commit himself.
in pure distilled water, from which their From the knowledge already possessed of
inveterate enemies have been banished, the wily Holmes and his schemes, the
"People have been adding something like a ' theory is ecaroely tenable. More secret
hundredfold," said the tho professor gen. rooms and passage ways were discovered
Jelly, "to the bacteria in their water by ; in the house to -day by newspaper mon. A
filtering it." Thoroughly sterilized water, trap-door in tho floor of one of the upper
after passing through a new filter only in rooms when opened disclosed steps leading
use a week, has been found to contain two to e, noret door entering Holmes ofTioe. A
hundred thousand bacteria to the cubic( j letter directed to Holme' and marked
centimetre. The moral of Profaner Lan- "personal" was found in 0 rubbish pile on
kester's lectures is that a little knowledge ! the second floor. It is from the mother of
is a dangerous tend unreliable thing. I Mrs. Conner, expreesing anxiety as to the
me ; Whereabouts of hor daughter. Mrs. Pietzel
A man mast ask for a woman's hand, bull had ati ageht in the hottee looking for a
her heart goes without milting. vault that has not yet been discovered.
ALoon STAINED CLOTHING.
A despatch from Chicago says :—Eigh-
teen inches beneath the uneven surface
Some Items of Interest for the Busy
Business Man.
Money on Jail at Toronto is unoblinged
at 4i per cent.
A good deal of Scotch capital is being
loaned on real estate in Toronto,
The butter market is firmer owing to
Milted xeoeipte and hot weather.
Crop damage reports for wheat in the
Western Staten are said to be serious,
The French orop of wheatit is estimated,
will be 42,000,000 bushels leas than in
1894.
The world's visible supply of wheat
decreased oyer 3,000,000 bushels the past
week.
Dealers in Toronto are paying 23 cents
per pound for fleece wool, the highest price
for many years.
The moneymarkets are unchanged.
Brokers experienced no difficulty in getting
call loans at 4i per cent.
The total stooks of wheat at Toronto are
now only 24,200 bushels as compared with
85,400 bushels a year ago.
Wheat on paean° to Europe aggregates
40,320,000 bushels as compared with 33,680.
000 at the oorreeponding period of laat
year.
The net exports of gold at New York
since 3 an , lab are 813,177,154 as against
359,705,552 during (same period of last year
and 360,609,072 in 1893.
The imports of general merchandise at
New York since January 1, amount in
value to $280,659,000, ea against $231,558,-
000 during the same period of last year.
The visible supply of wheat in the
United States and Canada decreased 2,122,
000 bushels the past week. The total is
!
41,237,000 bushels as against 53,154,000 a
year ago and 59,325,000 two years ago.
Business at Toronto is quiet, with no
particular change since last week. The
late rains have improved harvest prospects,
but there still exists some uncertainty as
to the outcome. Merchants are in con-
sequence inclined to be cautious. The
business in wholesale oircles is of a sorting -
up character, and it will be e,feweeks
before any activity is expected. Prices
el
however, remain firm for all the taplee,
and remittances are said to be fairly satis-
factory. Crop prospects in Manitoba are
excellent, so say despatches from Canadian
Pacific officials and if expectations are
realized, Toronto merchants are likely to
do a large trade with the Western prey -
ince. There is a further advance in the
price of wool, dealers now paying 23o. to
23e. The export demand from the states
is the basis of this advence. The cattle
export trade us demoralized this week in
eonsequenoe of the glut in British markets
and lower cables. Choice cattle in Toron-
to are now quoted at 40 to 4ie., as against
50 to 5? c. per lb. only a few weeks ago.
The general trade situation of Montreal
does not show any material alteration since
a week ago, and a feeling of seasonable
quiet, more or loss pronounced, prevails in
most lines. In grooeries there is perhaps
a little more doing ; jobbers report a freer
demand for sugars, but refieers are not yet
busy, owing to speculative lots of granula-
ted, bought before the rise, not being yet
wholly exhausted. Japan teas are being
enquired for, and som e mod era te transactions
have been put through, but the quality of
the new crop is not proving altogether
satisfactory. The bulk of the orders for
certain lines of fall dry goods is now book-
ed, and with retailers there is not much
doing, while collections are not so good as a
fortnight ago. Shoe manufacturers report
good orders, much ahead of lest year,
and we hear of a leading house having re-
called its travellers, having all the orders
they could well fill. Leather,however, has
not begun to move any mora briekly,
and (he high values are steadily
maintained. Green hides are coming in a
little better, but are by no meane in liberal
supply, an d there hasbeen no moditication of
prices. Oils, paints,and glass are dull,also
pig iron and heavy metals generally. Dairy
products have not improved in price, but
some considerable sales of old hay, of which
there are considerable stooks, are reported
at advanced prices, and the new crop, it
good one, is being got in in good order.
Fortunes in Small Inventions.
Some one has said that more money has
been made out of ingenious trifles than out
of some of the most important inventions
of the age. A great and expensive machine
or article can be purchased by only the
wealthy few, but the 5c and 100 novelties,
the little trifles, the needles and pins and
things, everybody wants, is able to buy,
and must have. Even such an insignificant
article as a toothpick suggests the invest-
ment of enormous suma, and the employ-
ment of a vast army of laborers. Some
exceedingly fine inventions are used in the
manufacture of these little splinters, and
the money invested rues well up into mil-
lions. Toothpicks are used for many pur.
poses besides the one that gives them their
name. They are invaluable to the florist,
and have their place in a great many house-
hold preforrnanoes. Ae little skewers for
boiled and etuffed eggs and as splints to tie
up broken plants they are useful, indeed,
indispensable, nothing seeming to answer
so well. The day of small things is far from
being despised, and there are compaties
repreeenting large capital that are constant-
ly on the lookout for taifling inventione
from which they may reoeive large sums
either by purchase mud manufaoture or by
putting them on the market; and paying
royalty. The latter item, however small,
foots up a very considerable aggregate to
the inventor, and there are hundreds of
people who are living handsomely on the
regular inoome derived from some of these
children of their brains.
Practical Aid..
Frau Mookel, why de you alwaye play
the piano when your husband le busy
writing? •
There is no help for it. Ho ie at work
on a tragedy, and I have to Melte hint
image.
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