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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-8-15, Page 3i tankird 9. recog- one 011 a. devel. e range e most 3covery .„ 1 . )il, but . 1, it was ying it xi, and. 1 Soda, 3 agent ats. truf $1. , rEfi Chronic r Cured• rts had stration Thank - for bar, deoidea I better r dose& ine, she a faint - at life ppy lot ct is an ,ervous S been * et that - Solid estion, ration,, Lan ot ierioan &limn ; is a , Itb11317: of the roved. es are •althy.' liposte THE EXETER TIMES IN SATAN'S SERVICE. JONAH OF OLD SQON TIRED OF THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS. But It Took Heroic Treatmeot to Bring Rim to His Seoses—Taa, Talmage Inerwe Instruetive aroral X,essone From Jonah's Misadventure in the atediterranean, New Yerlt, Aug. 4.—At this Season Of the year When a large portio u of. the connpunity is journeying either by land or sea, Rev, Dr. Talmage, who is still abaerat en his midsummer Preach- ing 8,nd leeturing tour, has ehosen as the• strI4ect of his sermon for to-ClaY, "Man Overboard," the text being Jonah I, 6: "So the abliarzaster came to him and said unto him r "What meanest thou, 0 sleeper? Arise, call upon thy Ood if so be that God will think up011 us, that we perish not." God tola Jonah to a o to Nineveh on 115 unpleasant errand. He would not go. He thought to get away from his duty by putting to sea. With pack under his arm, 1 find him on his way to Oppa, a seep Ort, He goes down among the shipping, and says to the rnen lying around on the rooks, "Which oS these vessels aails -to-day?" The sallois answer, "Yonder is a vessel go- ing teTarshIsh, I think, if you hurTY, you may get on board her Jonah titeps on board the rough craft, asks how much the tare is, and pays it. An- • chor is weighed, sails axe hoisted and the •rigging- begins to rattle in the • strong breeze of the Mediterranean. joppa is an exposed harbor, and it does not take long for the vessel to get out ou the broad sea. The sailors like what -they call a. "spanking breeze," and the plunge of the vessel from the crest or a tall wave is exhilarating- to those at home on the deep. • But the strong breeze becomes a gale, the gale a hurricane, The affrighted passengers ask the captain if he ever saw anything Ike this aefore. "Oh, yes," he says, "tido is nothing." •Mariners are slow to admit danger to landsmen. But after awhile crash goes the mast, and the vessel pitches so far "abeam's end" there is a fear she will not be righted. The captain answers few questions and orders •the throwing out of boxes and bundles and of so much of the cargo as they can get at The captain at last confesses there is but little hope and tells the passen- gers that they had better go to pray- ing. It is seldom that a sea captain is an atheist. He knows that there is a God, for he has seen Him at every point of latitude between Sandy Hook and Queenstown. Captain Moody, commanding the Cuba of the Cunard line, at Sunday srvIce led the music and sang like a Method!st. The cap- tain of this Mediterranean craft, hav- ing set the passengers to praying, goes aroundataarnining the vessel at every po1ni fe desoends into the cabin 10 see whether in the strong wresting of the waves the vessel had spiung a leak, and he finds Jonah asleep. Jonah has •had a wearisome tramp and had spent many sleepless nights about ques• tionS or duty, and he is so sound asleep that .Q1 the thunder of the storm and theaaaaeaating of the passengers dees • --not disturb hint. The captain lays field of him and begins to shake him out of his unconsciousness, with- the cry: "Don't you see that we are all going 4 to the bottom? Wake up and go to praying, if you have any God to go to. What meanest thou, 0 s'eeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God wil thihk upon is, that we perish not." The rest of the story I will not t, rehearse, for you know it well. To ap- pease the sea they threw Jonah over- board. Learn that the devil takes a man's money and then sets him down in a poor landing place. The Bible says he paid his fare to Tarshish. But see him get out. The sailors bring him to the aide of the ship, lift him over. "the guards," and let him drop with a loud splash into the waves. He paid his tare all thb way to Tarshish, but did not get the worth f_d his moneY. Neither does any one who turns his back on his duty and does that which Is not right. • There is a young man who, during the past year, has spent a large part of his salary in carousal. W•hat has • he gained by it? A soiled reputation, a half-starved purse, a dissipated look, a petulant temper, a disturbed con- science. The manacles of one or two boa habits that are pressing tighter and tighter will keep on until they wear to the bone. You paid your fare to Tarshisa, but yeu have been set 'down in the midst of a sea of dis- quietude and perplexity. One hundred dollars for Sunday horse hire! • One hundred dollars for wine sup- pers! ' One hundred dollars for cigars! One hundred dollars for frolics that • shAlaabe nameless! .a4liag $400 for his damnation! a Of being in Tarshish now, he v‘vaaaras, middle of the Mediterranean. •lardiae is a literary raan, tired of the faith of his fathers, vitiate resolves to launch out into what is called free thinking. He buys Theodore Parker's works for $12, Renan's "Life of Christ" fer 4,50, Andrew Jackson Davis' works t for O. Goes to hear infidels talk at s the clubs and to see spiritualism at the table rapping. Talks glibly o Davb, t the paalmiste—as an old libertine, ofa Paul as a wild enthusiast, and of n eihrist as a decent kin& of nian—a little t weak in some respects, but almost sat g'ood as himself, Talks smilingly of T Sunday as a good day to put a little n extra, Waking on one's boot, and of d Christians as, for the moat part, hYP- g ooriteS, and of eternity as "the great d to be," the "everlasting now." or "the d infinite what is it." Some day he gets p his feet very Wet and finds himself that h • night chilly. The next morning has a f libt mouth and is headachy. Sonde 1word over to the Store that he will s aot be tbere to clay Ba,thr.s hi, feet, y 1146 istard Piasters', Call the deetor. ea, Tho-inedical ratan aaWasicle, "This' i g/VinaS to be a bad case 61!eOngestion of t the Maga." Voice faila. Children must s be kept downatairs or tient to the neigh- o • bore to IzeOp the house quiet. Yeti Say, "Semi for the Minister," But no; he 1-1 ^. does not belleVe in ministers. Ton c say, "Ilerad the Bible to hiln." No; he a does not believe in the Ilibla A lawyes Conies in, and eittleg by his bedside, a writes. a document that begins, "In the I name of God. Amen, I, bingof Mira h Mind, do Make thie mv last will Ft: d estarrient." It le certain where the siele maree bodyr will be In less than a eveek, It la quite certein Who Will get Ws property, But what will become ot hie soul? It will go into "the gre.t to be," or "the everlasting now, or His "the infinite what is it." s sotil is ill deep waters, ana the walla is "blow- ing great guna" Death cries, "Over- board with the unbeliever!" A. splash! He goes to the bottom. He paid $5 for his ticket to Tarshish when be botteht the infidel book% He landed in perdi- tion! Every farthing you spend in elm satan will swindle you out (V. He prom.'uises s u shall have 30 per cent, or a great dividend,. Ile lies. He will in all the capital, You play pay full. fare to some sinful success, but you will never get to Tarsliieh. Learn how soundly Men will sleep in the mi&st of danger. The worst sinner on shipboard, coasidering the light he had, was- Jonah. He was Et, member •of. the Church. while they were heathen. The sailors were engaged in their law- ful calling, following the sea. " The merchants on board, I suppose, were goirag down to Tarshish to barter, but Jonah, notwithstanding his Christian profession, was flying from duty. He was sound asleep in the cabin. He has been motionless for hours—his arms and feet in :the same posture as when he lay down—his breast heaving with deep respiration. Oh, . how could he. sleep!. What if the Ship strook a rock! What If it sprang h leak! What if the clumsy oriental craft „should caps'zel What would become of Jonah? So men sleep soundly now and amid perils infinite, In alnuast every place I -suppose, the Mediterranean might be sounded, but no line is long enough to fathom the profound depth beneath every impenitent man. Plunging a thousand fathoms down, you cannot touch, bottom. Eternity beneath him, 'before him, around him! Rocks close b and whirlpools and hot breathed Le - venters; yet sound asleep! We try to wake him up, but fail. The 'great surges of warning break over the hur- ricane deck—the gong of warning sounds through the cabin—the bell rings. ."Awake!" cry a hundred voices; yet sound asleep in the cabin. In the year' 1776 the captain of a Greenland whaling vessel found him- self at night surrounded by icebergs and "lay to" until morning, expecting every moment to be ground toapieces. In the morning he looked about and saw a, shop near by. He hailed it. No answer. Getting into a boat with some of the crew, he pushed out for themys- terious craft. Getting near by, he saw through the porthole a man at a stand, as though keeping a • log book. 'He hailed him. No answer. He went on board the vessel and found the mRii. sitting at the log book frozen to death. The log book was dated 1762, showing • that the vessel had been wandefing for 13 years among the 'lee. The sailors • were found frozen among the ham- mocks and others in the cabin. For 13 years this ship had been carrying its burden of corpses. So from this gospel craft to -day descry voyagers for eternity. I cry: "Ship ahoy!" No answer. They float about, :tossed and ground by the ice- bergs of sin, hoisting no sail-- for heaven. I go on board. find all asleep. It is a frozen sleep. Oh, that my Lord Jesus would come aboard and lay hold of the wheel, and steer the craft down into the ,w,arm gulf stream of his mercy! Awake thou that sleep - est! Arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life. Again, notice that men are aroused by the most unexpected means. If Jonah had been told one year before that a heathen sea captain would ever awaken him to a'sense of danger, he would have scoffed at the idea, but here it is done. So now men in strang- est ways are aroused from sp'ritual stupor. A profane man is brought to conviction by .the shocking blasphemy of a comrade. A rna.n Attending; church and hearing a sermon from the text, "The ox knoweth his owner," etc., goes home unimpressed; but, crossing his barnyard, an ox comes -up and licks his hand, and he says, "There it ienow— 'the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib,' but I do not know God." The careless remark of a team- ster has led a man to thoughtfulness arid heaven. The child's remark, "Fa- ther, they have prayers at uncle's hcause— why don't we have them?" has brought salvation to the dwelling. By strangest way and in the mcst unexpected manner men are awakened_ The gardener of the Countess of Hunt- ington was convicted of sin by hear- ing the countess on the •oppoalte side of the wall talk about Se.sus. John Hardoak was aroused by a &earn in which he saw the last day, and the judge sitting, and heard his own name called /with terrible emphasis, "John Hardoak, come to judgment!" The Lord has a thousand ways of waking up Jonah.. Would that the messengers of mercy might now find their way down into the sides of the ship, and that many who are unconsciously rock- ing in the awful terniest of their sin might hear the warning: "What meanest thou, 0 sleeper, Arise and call upon thy God!" - Again, learn that a m• an may wake up too late. If, instead of sleeping, Jonah lied been on his knees confessing his sins from the time he went on board he craft, I think God would have aved him from being thrown. over- board. _But he woke up too late. The empest is in fall blast, and the sea, n convulsion, is lashing• itself, and othieg will stop it now that the over- hroar of Jonah. . ' • So men sometimes wake up too late. he last holm has come. The man has a more idea of dying than I have of roPping down this moment. The.ria- ing is all white with the foam of eatb. How chill the night is! "X must le," he says, "yet not rea,dy. I must ush out upon this awful sea, but aVe nothing with which to pay my are. The white caps! The darkness!! Me hurricane! How long have I been leePing? Whole days and months and ears. 1 arra quite awake now I see te,rything, hut it, is too la.te," InVis- bfe hands Eaffe him TO, He struggles 0 get looae, In vain. . They biling his oul to the verge. They; let it down vcr the stile. The wireis howl. The ea. opens its frothing Jaws to swallqw. e has gone for ever. And while the ariVas cracked and the yard a rattled nd the ropes thumped' the tea took le the funeral dirge, playing with. *pea lawmen of midnight storm: "Because have 'called and ye have refused, I ave stretched Out my hand and ho Lan regarded. but ye have set at naught all My counsel and would none of my reproof, I also svil lomat at your ealamity, I will meek when your fear corned]." Now, lest any Of you shoul4 make this mistake, I address you In tbe words of the Mediterranean sea cap- tain: "What meanest thou, 0 steeper? Attlee, call upon thy God, if so be that Ged will think upon us, that we perish not." If you have a God, you had better call umen him. Do you. say, "I have no God." Then sem hen; better call upon your father's God, When your gather was in trouble, whom did he fly to? Ton heard hine in his old days, tell about some terrible exposure in a snowstorm, or at Sea, or in battle, Or among midnight garroters, and how he escaped. Perhaps 20 years hefOre you were born your father made sweet acquaintance with Gad, There is some thing in the worn pages of the Bible he used to read wbich makes you think your father had a God. In the old re- ligious books lying 'aiound the house there are passages marked with a lead pencil--passagas that make you th nk your father was not godless man, but that, on that dark day when he lay in the back roern dying, he was m adY --an ready, But perhaps your -father Was a bad rnan.—prayerless and a. blas- phemer, and you never taink of him now without a shudder, He worship- ped the world or his own appetites. Do not, then, I beg of you, call upon your father's God, but call on your mother's God. I think she was good. 'You remember when your father game home drunk late on a cold night, how patient your mother was. You often heard hex. pray. She used to sit by the hour meditating, as though she were thinking of some good, warm place, where it never gets cold and where the bread does not fail and staggering steps never come, You re- member her now, as she sat, in cap and spectacles, reading her Bible Sunday afternoons. What good advice -she used to give you! How bla.ck ana terrible the hole in the ground looked to you • when, with two ropes they let her down to rest in the graveyard! Ate I think from your looks that I am on the right track. Awake, 0 sleeper and call upon thy rnother's God. But perhaps both your 'father and mother were depraved. Perhaps your cradle was rocked by sin and shame, and it is a wonder that from such a starting mon have come to respectabil- ity. Then don't call upon the God of your parents, I beg of you. • But you have children. You know God Windled those bright eyes and rounded those healthy limbs and set beating within their breast an im- mortality. Perhaps in the belief that somehow it would be for the best you have taught them to say an evening prayer, and when they kneel beside you, and fold their little hands, and look up, their faces all innocence and love, you know that there is a God somevvhere about In the room. I think I am on the right track at b last. Awake, 0 sleeper, and call upen P the God of thy children! May he set 11 those' little ones to pulling at thy heart until they charm thee to the same Goa to whom to -night they yid say their little prayers! But alas1 alas! some of these men and women are un- moved by the fact that their father ha.d a God, that their mother had a God, and their children have a God, but they ba,ve no God. All pious ex- ample to them for nothing. All the divine goodness for nothing. All warn- ing for nothing. They are sound asleep in the side of the ship, though the sea and sky are in mad wrestle. Many years ago a man, 'leaving his family in Massachusetts, sailed from Boston to China to trade there. On the coast of China, in the midst of a night of storm, he made shipwreck. The adventurer was washed up on the beach senseless—all his monsy gone. iHe had to beg in the streets of Can- ton to keep from starving. For two years there was no communication be- tween himself and family. They sup- posed him dead. He knew not but that his family were dead. He had gone out aa a ca.ptain. He was too proud to come back as a private sailor. But after awhile he choked down his pride and sailed for Boston. Arriving there he took an evening train for the cen- ter of the state, where he had • left his family. Taking the stage from 'the depot and riding a score of miles,he got home. He says that, going up in front of the cottage in the bright moonlight, the place looked to him like heaven. He rapped on the window, and the af- frighted seavant let him in. He went to the room where' his wife and child were sleeping. He did not dare to wake thern for fear of the shock. Bend- ing over to kiss his child's cheek, a tear fell upon the wife's face and she wakened, and he said "Mary!" and she knew his voice, and there was a.n in- describable scene of welcome and Joy and thanksgiving to God. To -day I know that many of you are at sea, Moiled and driven by sin in a worse storm than that which came down on the coast of China, and yet I pray God that you may, like the sailor, like to get home. In the house of many mansions your friends are waiting for you. They are wondering why you do not come. Escaped from the ship- wrecks of earth may you at last go int It will be a bright night— a very bright night as you put your thumb on the latch of that door. Once in, you will Lind the old family faces sweeter than when you lag Saw them, and there it Will be found that he who Was your father's God and your mother's God and your children's God is your own most blessed Redeemer, to whom be glory and dominion throughout all ages, world without end. Anaen. A Duel Fought by Schoolboys. • A despatch from Leavenworth,Inci.maye —W, Welton and a. Stiingoul, aohool boys, thirteen and eleven years old respectively, ought a deadly duel with knives on Saturday night. The boys have always been good, 'deride and school tnates, and has borne good reputationte They quarrelled over some trivial matter. and urged Oil by their aseociatea, agreed to fight it out with knives. They fought, for tWenty minutes.„ When the crowd of small boysaround them found they could not separate them, the alarm Wee given end their tweets *ere sent for. They arrived just as the younger lad sank to alb ground with a deep wouad1i his left side. He ie in a dangerous oentlition, and the other boy is painfully wounded. TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL tecture and A InIebandry beyond their O power to originate had Gum* the in'eziAltl grounds of their forefethere \ate a outer — of civilizetion ; and fortificat L10 orownin almoet every hill left only ono' unsatletle desire in the Hebrew beart-eto be ineide them. That that desire would, be soon 6. gratified was realionably Imre ; they trumed Jehoveb, they had. good confidence in their Own prowess, and toes before this they' he.l found that the Palestiniens were palm,- atrielten'and no wall is strong when a coward defends it. • When thou shalt have eaten and be full. For the hardships of the warrior were soon to be exchanged the luxuries of the eonqueror. Wealth thus atquired would bring exceptional dangers, 12, Then beware. In a true sense we are ourselves in the position which Moses described as awaiting Israel ou their en trance into Calmat), and to us, too, comes the injunction, "Then beware I" The poor. eat of us inherits the luxuries of a civilize, - tion eomparecl with whioh the rieheet corner of the "goodliest city," of Palestine was poor. Ever let us hear this word of caution, "Beware 1" Ae many men have been ruined by proeperity as by advers- ity, 1345. Fear the Lord. To do this is "the beginning of wisdom." It is not timidity whith is commanded, but that reverent awe whioh is akio to love. Without such fear there can be no sincere worship or real obedience. Swear by his name. The oath in the name of Jehovah was equivalent to a aolernn aoknotvledgment of belief in him. This command is not to be considered inconsistent with what the Saviour enjoins in Matt s 5, 34. Other gods. There were plenty of them—ouch as they were. The whole universe of human needs had been farmed oat by the fancy of the ancients to innumerable little gods and goddesses, each of whioh had a limited eesponsibility. One of the epode' tempta- dons which, met the Israelites when settling in the goodly cities which they had not builded was the presence everywhere of the symbols of idolatry. A jeaIoue God. One who claims the whole heart. THIS MANNEVER WEARS HATS. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Aug. It .••••••••• "The New . Monte iu Canaan," Dent, 1ts18. illoiden Text, levet- a, let Olateliaa laaaraMater. We ars now approonbing the oloae of the fortieth year of the troubleeorne travels of Israel front Egypt to Pelestine. It Is B. 0, 1451. Tim tribeare encamped on the east side of the river Jordan, almost oppo- site the fortified end popnloua city. of Jericho. Behind thein are the mountains of Moab. They epread out with the regular- ity of a modern military encampment, and their flookb, under gafe guard, epread over a tract four or Ave miles wide. The oaa is iu which they are encamped is a perallelo. gram, or nearly se, and it must have seemed to them, ite they entered it after their wearisome tramp over sand and atones, to be a very garden of the Lord. Moses was now one hundred and twenty years old. He had guided them from the neighborhood in which we left them in our Tat lesson, northward, on the eastern side of Blom, until they came to their present tenting piece on the plains of Moab. He had essidoously watched the career ca Balaitm, that strange prophet, whom Balak, Ring of Moab, hired to came Israel, and whose curse was turned into blessing. „He had taken a new oenaus of the people, to reorganizethem for conquest. Re had utterly destroyed the kingdom of Bashan. Two tribes and a half had seleeteu tlaeir territory east of the ,Tordau, and now Moses, facing a death which he knows will soon come, makes certain farewell ad- dresses to the people, from which our les- son of to -day has been selected. EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES. 3. Hear and observe. Listening without obedience is of little good ; to learn the truths of the Bible and nob practice its prineiples does not make anyone's morale better. That it may be well with thee. Thia isnot bribery; it is a simple statement of what results when God's laws are kept. It is simply theBible maxim that we are to seek first the kingdom of God and bis rightousness and all things shall be added to us, • That • we may enorease mightily. Dr. Joseph Parker wisely says that no man can do right in order that it may be well with him; no man can do right without its being well with himmnd of no man who does not aim to do right can it be said that all things are well, Next everybody who is good Is rich,butGod him given apeoial providenoes of seoule.r guidance to all who seek him in spirit. As the Lord God of thy fathers bath promised thee. Over and over again the promise was made to Abraham, to Issate,to Jacob, toMoses. Milk and honey. Emblems of delicious fertility. The milk, representing he herds and flocks, and the succulent asturage which tended to their increase, nd the honey representing the bees and owers, were emblems of use and beauty, (1) If we are true of God, h will take us to a better country than ol Canaan. 4. The Lord our God is one Lord. It i nfortunate that the phrase " the Lord' as been substituted for the •nam 'Jehovah" throughout the Old Testament. ehovah our God is one Jehovah ; he fill he whole universe. But there were many male. Even where gods were not multi lied it became the fashion to multiply heir shrines, and the superstition arose fiat Baal worshiped in one place might rove more favorable to the petitioner's equest than Baal worahiped in another lace. Very much like this is the super- tition of the modern Roman Catbolies, ho will come to Our Lady of Guadeloupe r Our Lady of Lourdes, believing that the iegin Mary will favour them more if they ray in a favorite place. The old worship ultielied Beals as the modern worship ultiplies Marys. Bat Jehovah was al. eady proclaiming himself as a Spirit, that as to be worshiped in spirit and in truth. here were "gods many and lords many," at only one Jehovah. 5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God. Without love God himself becorces but a iatant and infinite idol."—Parker. Com - are Matt, 22. 37'Mark 12. 33 ; Luke 10. '7 ; Rom. 12. 1. Tbis was Christ's first nd greatest commandment, The h'eart is he intellectual man, the center of under - ending, passion, anection ; thesoul is the 1f -consciousness, the personality ; the ight is the sum of all the energies. We ray daily that God's kingdom my come n earth ; it "will " come when all men all obey this command. (2) There is ery reason to love God ; he is supremely ood and lovable. 6. These words . . . shell be in thine art. The heart has a memory of its own. tellectual memory is hardly caned into eration in the communion of the soul ith God, and, "aa s man thinketh in his art so is he." But this verse shows how reful we all should be to memorize the uths that have come to us from God. (3) e best help to heart memory is head emery. Let us diligently learn the Iden Text, memory verses, and other oice passages of Scripture, and the best mue. 7. Teach them diligently unto thy Will - en. The text is literally. Thou shalt arpen them to shy children; send them o them like a needle; teach children ritual truth at home, in Sabbath school, d by every other available influenee and vironment. Talk of them when thou cast in thine house. The best way to ep this commandment is to SR the heart 1 of " these words." What a axon thinks out he will talk about. What a talker divine things was our blessed Master 1 test . . walkest . . . at, is, in every possible action and et- ude of daily life. . A sign upon thine hand . . . front - a between thine eyes. There shall be no ret ho stealthy piety. You 11 carry your principlee as much in the ht of everybody as if they were borne ween `your eyebrowa or on your arm. Jew, who were slow to appreciate spiritual trath of this injuhetion, ap- d it literally, and made little hottest al oh were put scriptural pampa (Evict 0) written on parchment. Ontario make; ebout $8,000,000 worth of cheese yearly. 411 11 2 a st se eh ev he In op he ea tr Th Go oh by dr eh int spi an en sit ke ful ab on Sit Th tit 8 let see she sig bet The the plie whi 13. 9. Write them upqn the posts of thy fume, This also wee taken literally by the Jews, and8o another Bette box with holy Writings! WAS placed on the doorpota. The parchment mule attached to the person was called '0. phylaetery ;" the ease attached to the door Was called " mezuzah." The mezuzah cottained beak 6. 4.9 ; 11. 13.21. The command wee Intended, like the other, to emphasize spiritual life—the public aV°07ll.Great nd aiof 1irtehillaGod, 1goodly cities, etc, he spleadid eitlea of ancient Paleatiat awaited thee favored people, An areht. A citizen or Itradford, Pa.. Believes in Nature's Wend covering. Clinton Miller, of Bradford, Pa., a florist gardener and quite an intelligent man, has estrange hobby. Be does not and will not wear a hat. Not since a boy has Miller worn any head -covering other than a short, thick growth of natural hair. In the summer, With the hot sun pouring down upon his uncovered head, Miller may be seen walking around the town or at his work, with the utmost serenity of manner as if he never minded it a little bit. In the winter it is the same. Tile mercury may descend clear to the bulb in the thermom- eter, the winds may blow and the snow may fly, bus Miller never minds it and stalks about bare -headed and without an overcoat. The ram doesn't feaze him, either. Nothing bothers this man with the hobby, as tar as the elements are con- cerned. Miller attended the New York State Fair last year, and was an object of great interest. ' It was ver' hot during the days on which the fair was held, and the swel- tering crowds' tried to keep cool with broad -brimmed hats, parasols, umbrellas, eta, and Miller with his bare bead seemed to be the only person on the grounds who did not au.ffer from the heat. he gives as his reason for not wearing a hat that nature Provided us with a head -covering, and he says that it is foolish for a person to wear a hat or any other artificial head -covering. "You say you don't see how I stand it ? Look at the North American Indian. How does he stand it, or how did he stand it be. fore the entrance of civilization, which re- sulted in some of them adopting hate? See the natives of far-off Africa and other far-off countries, who do not wear hats. Why,you can even see the foolishness of wearing a big, heavy, cumbersome hat by looking at women on the streets with 1. onnets as big am O saver half dime. They don't need any hat. Another reason that I do not wear a hat is that it produces baldness. If the people of the civilized world never wore hats there would never be such a thing as a bald head, unless brought on by disease. I wouldn't wear a hat, and should be glad to Bee every other MOM abandon its use. It might be hard at first, but they would get used to it soon,and would be pleased with the resit' ae LOFTY HEROISM. Men 'Went Down to heath One by One to Save ethers. On Monday a laborer, namee Arthur Rutter, had occasiou to go down a well connected with a sewerage-punmiug station at East Ham, London, Eng., to carry out certain cleanaing operations. The descent was accomplished by an iron ladder. He had barely reached the bottom when it was noticed that he disappeared into the water, A man named Digby, whu was on the spot. at once came to the rescue and went down the ladder. He also succumbed to the gee and diaappeared. Mr. Mills, the chief engineer, apprised of what had happened, then went through this inevitable gate of death. His fate was tbat of the others. A fourth man, Durant, followed in his foot- steps and died also. A fifth man, Jones, then faced a risk which the bravest man might have refused as useless. Though he was not actually suffocated, the gas hav- ing presumably become less deadly in its nature, he was unable either to help the others or to get back him- self. Jt was then that a work- man named Herbert Worman offered to go down, though he was well aware of what was before him. Four times he tried to descend, and on thefourth was able to get Jones to the surface olive, thauglivio so terrible a state of prostration that he died the same evening. Later, Worman suc- ceeded in bringing to the miriade three of the bodies. We shall not try to put into words what we feel of the five men who hus one by one and alone, faced death In la most appalling form. The malt to carry breach is oblides play to such heroism, for hen men fight a maible enemy shoulder to boulder oft a. splendid theatre and with much to gain, says the London. spectator. Here there wee nothing bat duty in its &met, grimmest form. We trust that the ubscription which is being raised will nob nly provide enough for the families of the earl men, but give Worman no grudging ewttrd. Ib ia to be noted that he was a rivate individual, and riot a fellow work - tau of the five Men he v;(itit down to save. Ruinility is to have a right estimate of • self.—Spnageon, TRAVELLING TO EUROPE. HINTS FOR THOSE WHO P11.01,0SE TO TAKE A TRIP. in 00 nYen ICU t and lexPensive 19 Carrlr a • Creat Aniennt Baggage—PrOper Clothing te be Worn ea *he Voyage. ler:rezeian sseriateidtpolraistenatit. te JOliritey COM- • It la a mistake to take much baggage on o short pleaeure trip in Europe. Tide is the more true if one is to travel alone or in anistil party, adventurously. At the out- set the question of the pertionally conducted • party arises, on the point of baggage. To iguore the personally conducted tour is a mere preteneion. A marine and many bene- fit thereby. ,And even for well -travelled people 10 to speak slightingly of such 'excur- sion troups shows an unpleasing selasuffis o ADVANTAGES er CONDUCTED TOURS. If you should suppose an ideel party bound for !Europe, say, four ladies, three 'little girls, two boys of from fourteen to sixteen, and two or three husbands or brothers of ripe age, the whole unueled to Continental ways and speaking the various languages indifferently wan, nothing would be more prudent or becoming for them thatt to examine attentively the advantages of the personally conducted trips. The bus - bands are relieved of reeponsibility, the wives are furnished with company when th husbands are personally conducting them selves, and the baggage gives no care. I Ibis way rn nob more baggage may be carrie than would be found convenient in a Ltd party travelling alone. HINTS ABOUT BAGGAGE. For those who wish to take as little baggage as is possible, there are a few plain hints to add to their good sense. Many people prefer to nee their money for the journey instead of for clothes which they will have small opportunity to wear. Baggage in Europe is an expensive luxury; but the expense is a minor ooesideration even in comparison with the time and trouble lost in looking after trunks. The system of checkine-, is not in vogue; or, to be more correcethe check system is clumsy and the express system is not in common use. I have known tourists, therefore,after the first tew weeks of struggle,to leave two trmaks stored, say, in London or in Paris, and to travel thenceforth with a grip and steamer trunk. QUEER JUNIN IA. arreat Orl,lobn Leona, 'Who Weir 3/04 easeeo ettisaitiese � Breaktng lithe windows. John .11„ Leoni, who has bedded 0111,0040 police for three meuthri, during whieh tirne he has emeehecl $15,000 worth of plate glee: windows, is the queerese orazy man ever turned up in this city. Whim arreated Thursday eight, he gave a bet of .200 busanees houses whose show windows he has wrecked since May 1. He says he cannot belp it. He is a Cordon by birth and is 32' years of age. He la a well-educated man, speak- ing French, Mallen and English, Imola is Well aware of hie peouliar mania for ameehing windows, and he freely talked with the police,telling them many incidents that had occurred while engaged in ilia work of destruction, He stated that he halt been engaged in breaking wiedowit for the past nine years, and during this time has been sent to as many different asylum. "They do not keep me long," he mad, because ae soon as I get there I begin to be good and fool them alL The Superintend. ent of the Board of Charities decided to let me go, and they pay my fare to another state. You see, e am only a pauper and they do not want me. I know X am a nuisance to the community and to myself and I tell you the beat thing you can do is to send me to jail, aa I do not want to go to Dunning, 1 heve been there, and the jail is good enough for me." Leoni showed the police his right hand and wrist, which is covered with large scare as tbe remit of cuts coined by windows he has broken. He said that was the fault of the glass, which broke too quickly, and did not give way gradually, as good glass e shonld. When asked how it was he never got caught, he eaid: "Oh, it is easy enough. u I go up to the window, hit it with a atone, d and walk slowly away, whistling all the e time. Then if it is in the day time, whea the people run out they never think it Is me. 1 never steal anything, because if X did I should be caught. You people think that the breaking of a window rnakee a loud noise, but it does not if you know hbw 10 do it. I always try and break the window high up, because no one can then come along and steal anything unless they make a noise by pulling out the glass." Asked how he lived, he said thathe visey often got clay from some Italian and then made a statue and sold it. Other times he would go to the hotels and get into conver- sation with the French and Italian cooks, and then they gave him food. He was unable to explain why he broke the windows, saying that he knew how he felt, but could not tell any ooe. "They would nothave caught me last night had I not been wrong with the 'power,' " he Raid- " You see the weather was bad end I had to stand around until I felt right to break a window. Then the officer came up and I told him who I Leoni is an expert sculptor in soap, and made the model of the Brooklyn Bridge in soap, which was exhibited at the World's Fair. He has worked for all the prominent soap factories in the country, doing sons - mental soap work, but says he was dis- charged because he would suddenly Fstart in and break all the windows. He will be sent to the Detention Hospital. IDEAL TRAVELLING TIMM The ideal trunk is certainly the steamer trunk—flat, small and strong. On the boat it is kept in the stateroom, slipped under the berth, Where it may be consulted hourly without inconvenience. , Ladies will undoubtedly require a second and a larger trunk down in the hold. Therefore the steamer trunk should be prepared to carry everthing one needs in crossing. Until the boat has mentally sailed the ladies wear their handsome cheviot travelliug gowns, but on the morning of the seeond day a change will be seen to have come over the raiment of the well-advised. The fresh and handsome travelling gown, is packed into the steamer trunk, to stay there, fresh and unspoiled, till the boat has reached Southampton, England, or the porta of Havre, Bremen, Cherbourg or Hamburg. GOWN FOR THB VOYAGE. Out of the steamer trunk, to take its place, there comes a heavy blue storm serge dress, made with plainness. If it has already seen a season's service it will be none the worse for that. A black dinner dress which also ought not to be new; s. dark flannel wrapper, a warm cloth ulster with a cape, a mackiiitosh and rubber shoes, flannel and merino underclothing, felt slippers, walking shoes, thick gloves, a few medicines, a hot water bag and a bottle of ammonia, and a bag of sewing and mending implements and toilet articles will go well toward filling the steamer trunk. WARM UNDERCLOTHES ESSENTIAL. Sufficient warm underclothing is essential on the sea. Nearly the whole of dm contents of the steamer trunk, with the trunk itself, may be stored in London or Southampton, to await for the return trip. Certainly it is not pleasing for a lady to wear land clothes et sea or sea clothes on land., For European travelling gowns the lightest weight warm wool is indickted. Most ladies also have an extra gown, say, of -obiaange. eksilk, with several bodices, for h SOME NECESSARY COMFORTS. A last suggestion for the ladies is a small alcohol stove for boiling ergs, mak- ing tea, furnishing hot water and the like in European hotels. In these benighted lands it is the custom to take breakfast in one's bedroom as often as not. In Paris boarding houses it is a regulation practice. Now, es the maenad breakfast consists in. variably of coffee and a roll, with a small dab of butter the untutored stomach cries aloud for soft-boiled eggs at. least. And it is cheaper to buy your own eggs and boil them. A Good Year for Canada. A London (Ont.) gid has won the prize offered by a Washington paper for the beat essay on the late lamented George after whom the capital of the United States is named. Canadian (Hall) was the beat member of the Cornell crew at Henley, a Canadian (Hackett) was the fastest, oarsman at Saratoga, a Canadian (Hayhurst) won the Queen's prize at Bisley, and now a Canadian school girl beats the whole United States in writing an essay on the rather of the Arnerioan Republic. Old Memories. Little Girl—Gran'pa says be remembers Wet the snow was ea deep it was up to hie waist. Little Boy—When ? • Oh, ever so long ago. •tlebby it was Wain he was 4 little baby. • Tracing a Thief, First Tramp—I'm lookie fer me brother who is a burglar. He robbed 5house last night, an' forgot to tell me where to meet him to -day. sommt Tramp—Which way did the de. teetivea go Out that direetion. • Then you go the othe way an' you'll find him, WOMAN'S WORK. The Idea That Women Are Replacing Men is net norne Out sty Figures. It will be the general impression that more women are at work to -day in Am- erica outside of the homes, which used to be considered their only legitimate sphere, than there were, say, ten years ago. The number of women whom we see in stores and offices certainly seems to 'warrant this assumption, yet it is possible that it is only a matter of seeming and not of reality. The same idea prevails in Eng- land, and much was heard there of the "revolt of the daughters' " end similar phrases. A recentlyassuedImperial blue- book furnishes figures on the subject which do not support the general idea. This document shows that in 1881 out of every 1,000 women 340 were returned in the census as "occupied," and that this per- centage had only increased 'to 344 when the 1891 census was taken. Miss Collet, who is the compiler of the blue -book in question, says that " the current view that women's employment is rapidly extending, and that women are replacing men to a considerable extent," is not comtirmed by She FIGURES OF TFIE CENSUS. The fact is that the increased employ- ment of young women seems to be to a large extent offset by a decreased employ- ment of women in industrial callings, such as cotton -spinning, etc. The decrease is among married women, and this is consid- ered as a distinct soeial gain. Another psint that Miss Collet's investi- gations have been extended to is.: Has the competition of women in the labor market been seriously detrimental to the employ- ment of men? Her reply is most decidedly in the negative. In the last few years the rivalry of women hat made practically no difference. Alike in 1881 and in 1891 the percentage of males returned en occupied was 83, and of females 34. In 1881 "there were only 17 males in every hundred who • could possibly be added to the ranks of the occupied, whereas there were 66 females in every 100 upon which to draw for an increase in wage-earners; and yet in 1891 this avade.ble surplus had not been diminished by one in the 66." It has been found to be a general rule that wherever women have been calledupon to undertake work previously done by men this demand for womeo's labor has been preceded or accompanied by a rapid and ABNORMAL DEMAND in the same trade for mem The number of women employed as clerks in England, for instance, bas increased coesiderably within the last ten years, but in those ten years the increase in the number of male clerks has been enormous. In the akal service, again, the nutnber of women em- ployed hoe risen largely; hut the timber of men employed has risen even more, And in the printing trades, while the num- ber of female employees lute increased 17 per 100,000, the number of melts employees hes increased 140 per 100,000, in the same time. Thoers Who have been inclined to take the glocmy view that the time was approaching when men would be of no further use in the world may therefore chat off' despondeecy, as Miss! Collet's statietice seem to iadicate that that period le Mill far removed. There is 5 virthe In oetintry helms, ill gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and greves, hi rustic recreation and plain Meaner's, that neither 'cities nor ttniVersittes enjoy, --A. H. Alcoa,•